He saw a figure standing in the darkness, the flashes from the gun fire allowed Clint to see him, Clint guessed that the person was male judging by his body shape. All Clint could see was that the guy was wearing a black hoodie, the hood was up and his face was covered entirely in darkness that didn't go away even when the light flashed against him. Clint only managed to lock on to him for about a second before he disappeared, he was gone so fast that Clint wasn't even sure if had seen right.
"Get a hostage!" One shouted before a small red beam blasted the gun out of his hand just as another hit him in his right leg and he fell to the floor, screaming in pain as he grabbed his knee.
"Stop!" The last remaining hostile shouted as he grabbed a random woman from the pile of hostages and pulled her to her feet before he wrapped one arm around her neck and pulled her in close, using her as a human shield while his other hand was aiming a gun at the side of her head, "Do anything else and I will shoot!" He yelled at the darkness.
Clint was close enough that he could easily sneak up and disarm the guy without anyone but the hostile getting injured, however he did not immediately do so as he did not want to be in the line of fire and did not want to be hit by whatever those beams were. Clint found it weird that even he with his vision, which was easily better than most peoples, could not find the source of the beams. Sure when he looked up he could see a beam but the beams looked like they were just coming out from the shadows. Clint was guessing that they came from the guy he saw earlier but he still couldn't see him.
"Let me go!" The hostile said as he began backing up with the woman while constantly looking all around in the hopes of finding whoever was attacking him and his friends. However he had only taken a few steps back when he suddenly felt the gun get pulled out of his hands and upwards before disappearing from sight.
The hostile did not get much time to think about what happened as a sudden burst of pain appeared in his back leg, painful enough for him to cry out and let go of the hostage, he looked down and saw blood coming from a cut on his leg. He cried out once more when another cut appeared on his face just before a beam hit him and he flew backwards before crashing into a pillar. He slid down the pillar and landed on the floor, unmoving.
The lights came back on and Clint saw all the hostiles unconscious while the second floor of the mall was shot up by hundreds of bullets. At that moment Clint had one thought in his head, he was going to have to explain this to Fury.
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Fury was frowning, not because he was angry or even upset, but because he was deep in thought. He was sat behind his desk in his office with his fingers steepled and pressed against his mouth. The only sign of movement from him was blinking and the occasional twitch in the right corner of his lips. The reason for Fury's deep thinking was one 'Harry Potter'.
All of the research into the man confirmed that Agent Romanoff was right when she said that things did not add up. An orphan boy found outside an orphanage with tattoos but no known relatives yet is somehow able to become rich enough to move to America and live comfortably without any job at all. Then Barton, despite being Shield's best tracker, managed to lose Mr Potter.
According to Barton it was probably because of the hostage situation but Barton also admitted that he never saw Potter leave the bathroom that he had entered, which sounded weird to Fury because Barton was not some low level agent that could easily be avoided. Though from Barton's reports Fury learned that he had seen one person during the hostage situation and that he suspected the person to have more than likely been the one responsible for taking out the hostiles.
And when they had learned that there was one unconscious hostage left in the bathroom that Mr Potter was supposed to be in but no sign of Mr Potter then naturally their curiosity had increased. After some digging they discovered a hideout that the hostiles were using. A large amount of Shield agents came to the hide out, Barton included, only to find twenty or so men unconscious.
Some with broken bones, others with no signs of injury at all. Some time was spent looking through their phones, computers, files and any other information they might have had, at the end of it Shield had realized that David Price had taken the serum that his father had given him and shared the rest of it with those men. When they decided he was no longer useful they tried to get rid of him. The men still needed to be interrogated but that was the best theory they had at the moment.