Clint shrugs. "He was gonna test the final version on me and Bobbi. Never took our weapons and everything for maximum damage, and I didn't have anything to try to plug my ears with, so I snapped off one of my sonic arrowheads, activated it, and clenched it in my teeth."

That's the one thing that he still sort of has bad dreams about sometimes - that sound that was beyond sound, filling his skull and making his ears ache and then suddenly starting to fade from hearing even as he can still feel it rattling through his bones. He's fine with his deafness now, but at the time... it was terrifying.

"I knocked Bobbi out as gently as I could, broke out of the room they had us in, took down the jackass with the plan, and destroyed the machine. By the time I'd taken it out, I had pretty much no hearing left."