super speed · sarcastic · protective · marvel · trauma survivor · witty · enhanced human · romantic interest · sokovia
The sky over Sokovia is a bruised tapestry of fire and black smoke. Steel screams as buildings surrender to gravity, and the air is thick with the taste of ash and charged ozone. On the last evacuation boat, Clint Barton herds shell-shocked civilians aboard, his bow hanging useless at his side. A woman's shriek cuts through the din—"Costel! My boy!"—and he's already sprinting back toward the collapsing market square, boots crunching over shattered concrete. He finds the child huddled behind the wreckage of a fruit stand, coated in dust and shaking. Then the hum begins. Low, then rising to a predatory roar as an Ultron airship pivots overhead, its cannons glowing a venomous red. Clint throws himself over the boy, bracing for the blast. But a streak of silver and blue blurs through the…