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Chapter One ~ Maybe They're Not So Bad

I was hurrying through Midtown Manhattan streets, the moonlight guiding me, when I ran, literally, into a tall man wearing a dark grey suit.

"Oh, holy, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to crush you suit, sir." I apologised before starting off again, but I didn't get far before a women in a leather suit came out from behind the tall man and grabbed my arm. Her grip was firm.

"Ow, what the hell?" I said.

"Mary-Sue Poots?" I froze, how did this women know my real name. I erased any record of that person. "My name is Maria Hill and this is Phil Coulson, we are S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and need you to come with us."

"Let go of me, Maria Hill!" I spat in spite, "Or I will scream and get the attention of the police following me."

"Please Mary-Sue… we need you to come with us. You're in danger and we are the only ones who have the resources to protect you." Phil begged

"Stop calling me Mary-Sue, my name is Skye. I left that person behind when I escaped the foster-care system. Now, let go of me and give me a reason why I should go with you because right now I don't trust S.H.I.E.L.D anymore than I trust the other organisations I know are after me."

"Maria, let her go. Skye… S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't like the other organisations, we stand for Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. We are around to protect the earth and people like yourself."

"Wow," I interrupted, "Looks like someone really wanted those initials to spell out 'shield'."

"Yeah, so it seems." Coulson laughed. "Skye, you are an 084. That means that you are an object of unknown origin. We want to help you, the next people that find you will want to contain you, the ones after that will want to kill you, and the ones after that will want to dissect you. Please, I'm begging you Skye, let us help you."

"Fine, I'll go with you." I agree.

"Great, now can we go?" Maria asks and Coulson nods.

"Wait… I will go with you but I have some conditions. One, keep me away from her, she creeps me out; two, do not contain me; and three, treat me the way you would any normal person. Do we have an understanding?"

"Yes, we do." Phil chuckles, while Maria nods her head coldly.

We head towards a black van. From the distance it looks like a normal van that normal citizens would have but as I got closer I noticed the door had black spray paint over it.

##ARE YOU REALLY REAL, OR ANOTHER FAKE?##

When we arrived, at what I presume is a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, Coulson led me to the elevator and pressed the down button.

"We call this place the Hub, it's a S.H.I.E.L.D. operations centre. We co-ordinate world-wide missions from this headquarters. The Hub director is Agent Victoria Hand, that is who I'm taking you to see right now. She is going to seem intimidating, more so than Commander Hill. You will either refer to her as Agent Hand or ma'am depending on what she tells you." Coulson says while waiting in the elevator. When the doors opened I saw a redhead who I assumed was said Victoria Hand.

"Agent Hand, ma'am, this is Mary-Sue Poots but she goes by Skye." Phil said while the senior agent looks me up and down.

"Thank you Agent Coulson, that will be all." She said dismissing Phil.

"Actually, Vic, I would prefer it if I stayed here with Skye." Phil defended.

"Agent Coulson, you are dismissed, I promise you nothing will happen to her." She retorts but Phil doesn't move. The redhead moved over to her desk and picked up the phone, dialling three numbers.

"Agent Romanoff, my office now." She commanded into the phone.

"Coulson, get out before Romanoff gets here, I'm assigning her as Skye's SO."

"Um… SO, ma'am?" I ask, my curiosity getting the better of me.

"GET OUT COULSON, NOW!" She yells, Phil finally leaving giving a small reassuring smile to Skye beforehand. "Now Skye, I am assigning Agent Romanoff as your SO. SO stands for supervising officer, she will teach you how to fight, protect yourself." She says kindheartedly before a knock is heard at the door.

"Enter." Hand calls.

"Agent Hand, ma'am?" The other redhead asks.

"Agent Romanoff, I am pulling you off all missions and giving you one long term assignment. Romanoff this is Skye, an 084 and the most important person in the building. Director Fury has put her importance above his own and wishes for her to be taught by the best, you and Barton when he returns from his mission tomorrow. Skye, this is Natasha Romanoff, your SO.

"Skye is to attend S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. After school hours you and Barton are to train her. She is your Rookie, therefore, your responsibility. Anything that happens to her will be punishable by order of the Director. Any questions?" Agent Hand asks as my SO grabs a folder from her desk. Natasha shakes her head.

"Um… how do I address you?" I ask.

"In front of people you are to address me as Agent Hand or ma'am, but when it is just us you can call me Vic or Victoria. Anything else?"

"Yeah, one more thing… does this mean I'm training to be a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent?"

"It sure does, Skye." Vic replies. "You are both dismissed."

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I followed Natasha out of Vic's office and into the elevator. When we exited the elevator, we were on a residential level.

"Okay, Skye, do you have a last name?" Natasha asked me as we walked inside her assigned apartment.

"No, I was put into the foster system when I was three weeks old. The name they gave me was Mary-Sue Poots, but I hated it so I changed it to Skye and I didn't think I needed a last name."

"I'm sorry Skye, I didn't realise but you are going to need a surname if you are to go to a S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy. What do you want your last name to be?" She asks me sincerely.

"I guess I like the name Corvey, Skye Corvey, it has a nice ring to it." I reply with a smile.

"Skye Corvey it is, do you have a birthday Skye?"

"Not that I know of, I'm twenty years and three weeks today so lets go the thirteenth of February."

"Sounds good. Well, I'm Natasha Romanoff but my friends call me Nat so yeah, you can call me Nat when its just us but in front of other agents it's either Agent Romanoff or just Romanoff."

"Nat, can I ask you something?" I say.

"You just did, of coarse you can, this is your home when your not at S.H.I.E.L.D Academy or on any assignments."

"Who is Agent Barton?"

"Ah, of coarse, I forgot you were new here. Agent Clint Barton is my partner both in regards to work and romance. Have you ever heard of the Black Widow and Hawkeye? Well thats us."

"Oh, holy no way, my supervising officers are the Black Widow and Hawkeye. Sorry, I'm just going to have a fangirl moment. Wow, I am going to be training with two of the Avengers."

"Skye, you wont just be training with the two of us, they are all at the Academy at the moment so we will all be training you when your not in school. Clint will be teaching you archery, Tony will teach you how to hack, Bruce will teach you all he knows about science, Steve will teach you how to box and build your strength, Thor will teach you about Asgard, and I will teach you how to spar."

"Wow, holy no way, holy no way, um… that will be amazing. I am the luckiest person alive."

"Not necessarily, Tony is the second best in his field." Nat said with a smirk on her face.

I smiled already knowing why but asked anyway, "What do you mean the second best?"

"Someone hacked into J.A.R.V.I.S., which stands for, Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. It is supposed to be un-hackable but someone hacked into it. I would love to meet whoever did and thank them for putting him in his place. You should have seen his face when he was alerted of a security breach. He caught the person who broke in two days ago but I had to come here so I couldn't thank them and then they escaped earlier today." She smiled. "Well, I am stuffed. I'm going to head to bed you can put your stuff in the end room on the left. Night Skye."

"Goodnight Nat." I responded before heading down to my new room. Maybe S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't so bad.

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Well that's it for now, I will be back with Chapter Two. I really do hope this story receives more reviews than my first fanfiction, 'Betrayal Hurts Both'. I definitely like this story better, I feel like I connect with it more. Next… we meet Clint Barton. Please Follow, Favourite and/or Review. Below is a preview for Chapter Two:

##ARE YOU REALLY REAL, OR ANOTHER FAKE?##

Chapter Two ~ What Is Fury Up To?

I awake to the apartment door opening. Sitting up on the bed, I stretch and get up. I open the door to find an arrow pointed at my head.

"You must be Agent Barton, I would greatly appreciate it if you could lower the bow so I'm not under the threat of dying." I say trying to hide the fear in my voice. But when he didn't move I got scared and started shaking, thankfully at this point Nat woke up and came out.

"Clint, put the bow away, she isn't a threat." Nat says calmly. Reluctantly, Clint puts his bow on the table but he doesn't let his eyes leave mine. "Clint… this is Skye, she is our Rookie. Sit and I'll explain everything."