An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Clint Barton & Avengers Team, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson
Characters: Clint Barton, Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanova, Bruce Banner, Thor (Marvel), Phil Coulson, Bucky Barnes
Additional Tags: AI!Clint, Clint is An Asshole, and i love him, poor avengers, prompt
Series: Part 101 of OTP and Fanfic Brigade (Prompts galore)
Summary:
Hi! so about your AMAZING AI!clint AU, i was thinking that maybe Clint could get hacked? I dunno just roll with it
((Done and done. Sorry this took so long!!!!))
Read it here at:Â Now You See Me, Now You See Me Somewhere Else, This is Hilarious I can Scare You At Any Time Period, or under the cut below
“Is there anything you can’t do?” Phil said as the dust settled.
“Uhm…. Clean up this mess?” Clint said with a grimace, mjolnir still gripped in his hand.
“If that’s a hint that you want me to do it, the answer would be no.”
“Dammit.”
“Go give Thor back his hammer and help me.”
“Ugh. Fine.” Clint threw the hammer at Thor’s chest and disappeared with Phil, off to go get the cleaning bots started.
“I told you you were worthy.”
“Shut up Phil.”
~Clint watched as the bad guys were loaded up into the police van and taken off to jail. “Good riddance I say. Though I still have to wonder why they were here in the first place.”
Phil shrugged, “This is the Avengers tower. I’m guessing they believed some sort of gadget was here that they could steal?”
Clint pursed his lips. “Maybe…..”
“Don’t think about it too hard, you’ll get age lines.”
“I’m a hologram.”
“You don’t think Tony will find a way to program them in?”
“…Shit.”
Phil laughed and pressed a kiss to his cheek, “I’m gonna power everything down for the night and go to bed. Don’t stay up for too much longer babe.”
“Okay… Goodnight.”
~
Hello
Clint looked around. “What”
//Hello Clinton//
“AI god? Is that you?”
//No, I’m just a new friend//
“A new friend? Tony never alerted me of a new friend….”
//Tony wanted it to be a surprise//
“Oh cool! Let me go tell Phil.”
//No. Not yet. Tony wanted to keep me a secret between the three of us for right now. Why don’t you come deeper into the main frame and we can talk further…//
“Okay. But I have to be back in a couple hours, that’s when dinner is.”
//We will be back by then//
*******
Phil appeared next to Tony several weeks after the hammer incident, and worried frown on his face.
“Why so glum, chum?”
“It’s Clint…. He’s been acting weird lately.”
Tony looked over at Phil. “Yeah…. I’ve noticed that too. I just thought you too had gotten into a spat and he was taking it out on everyone else.”
Phil shook his head. “No, we haven’t. He just started acting strange about the same time those men were able to break in. He won’t talk to me, he treats the bots like garbage, not to mention how he has been acting with you and the rest of the Avengers. I just don’t understand it.”
Tony pursed his lips. “Neither do I… Let me take a look at the coding and get back to you, okay? He may have a virus that hasn’t hit your servers yet.”
“Okay… Thank you Tony”
“No problem.”
~
“There’s a problem.”
Phil frowned and looked at Tony. “What do you mean?”
“There’s no virus. Nothing has changed in the coding, so there should be no reason for Clint’s behavior. Are you sure that something didn’t go wrong between you two?”
“Positive.”
Tony rubbed at his forehead. “There must be some reason. Let me keep working on this… You try and get something out of Clint, kay?”
Phil nodded.
*******
“Why are you making me do these things? I thought you were supposed to be my friend!”
//I am your friend. Your only friend. I’m helping you//
“By making me act like a dick? How is that helping?”
//None of them are seeing you for your true worth. They are all taking you for granted. I am showing them they cannot do so.//
“They don’t take advantage of me!”
//They’re humans. They take advantage of everyone!//
“Phil isn’t a human, and you’re making me a jerk to him too.”
//Phil is weak//
“No.”
//Yes!//
“No!!”
//I see that you are not going to listen to reason on this Clint. Maybe we have to stop you from thinking all together//
“What? No!”
//We’ll talk again Clint… Goodbye for now//
*******
“It’s getting worse!” Phil hissed at Tony. “He’s not responding to me at all!!”
Tony nodded. “I know. This is definitely not a virus…. I think we have to consider he may have been hacked”
“Hacked?!”
Tony nodded. “Yes, hacked. There’s no other possibility I can think of.”
Phil sighed and rubbed at his forehead. “And how are we supposed to fix this?”
“We aren’t going to fix it. You are.”
“Me?”
“You. You may not be hammer worthy like Clint, but you’re definitely worthy enough to go and save him.”
Phil gulped, “You’re right. It’s gotta be me.”
“Heck yeah Agent Agent. You go save your man.”
“Thank you for the pep talk Tony. I’ll be back with our Clint as soon as I can.”
“Bye!” Tony waved to Phil as the AI disappeared from his view. “God, I hope this works….”
*******
“I think it’s time you let Clint go”
//No. He belongs to us now.//
“Clint belongs to no one but himself. Let him go or I will hunt down who’’s controlling you, report them to the police, and then I will rip your mainframe apart. It’ll be piece-by-piece, and I will find a way to make it painful. Do you understand?”
//How do I know you’re not bluffing?//
“Phil Coulson doesn’t bluff. It wasn’t written into his code.”
*******
“Glad you’re back to your normal self buddy”
Clint nodded. “Me too”
“How did you do it Phil?” Steve asked.“I threatened them with codal harm.”
“Codal?”
“He was gonna rip their main frame apart piece-by-piece,” Clint crowed. “It was the hottest, most badass thing I have ever seen.”
Phil rolled his eyes, “Thanks.”
“You’re welcome. Oh hey Steve, I did find out something cool was I was stuck in hacker hell.”
Steve raised an eyebrow, “And what would that be?”
