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Next comes your favourite part of any mission - handing out goodies. You have your bow, of course (not your favorite recurve, but this one is collapsible, convenient, good for infiltration missions), but you're given a gun as well - just a little backup sidearm you slip into a holster at your side.

Natasha smirks, but doesn't need to say what she's thinking. You've worked with her often enough that the curl of a smile at the edge of her lips says it all: hers is bigger.

When you arrive on-site, Tony deploys one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s silent hovercars from the base of the helicopter and motions for you all to climb in for the trip to the tower. There's a grimace on his face (not surprising; the hovercars are not Stark Industries design, and Tony kind of hates them), and it only deepens when Steve slips into the driver's seat and you punch the Iron Man suit lightly on the arm.

"Shotgun."


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