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They’ve been turned into animals before. Usually, it was Loki’s fault and usually it was a fluffy dog or a harmless kitten. So it was admittedly weird when Loki had turned Clint into a koala for the week. Given, it was still the fluffy kind of animal, but it wasn’t necessarily harmless. What with the claws and the teeth and the false cuteness to lure you into its grasps, but hey. At least it wasn’t something creepy like a spider or bullet ant, or something.
Loki only laughed at their stunned faces and told them, the spell would wear in a week so there’s no use bothering him about it, the little shit.
Needless to say, the team was bothered by these turn of events. Coulson, on the other hand only cringed at the thought of the amount of paperwork this would entail.
He strolled into the common floor to find a small tree in the living room with the Avengers standing around it and looking through the leaves of said tree.
Coulson joined them and stood beside Tony. “Do I want to know what this is about?” He asked, looking up as well.
"Steve thought the koala - Clint- needed to be comfortable hence the tree. But Barton is being a little bitch and won’t come back down."
"Tony!!" Steve reprimanded.
Tony shrugged. “It can’t understand us Steve.”
"Wait." Coulson interjected "The koala can’t understand you? How do you even know that this koala is Barton?"
"He may not be able to understand us, but he has Clint’s quirks. He doesn’t let go of the bow, he behaves a little better when Natasha is in the room, and he tries to mess with Tony." Steve supplies.
"Basically, he’s a little more willful than our Clint but this koala is definitely him.” Natasha says, still looking up.
"Plus I ran DNA tests and it came out positive." Bruce adjusts his glasses.
Right. “Dr. Banner, please send me the results as soon as you can, and until this is resolved Hawkeye shall be suspended from any Avenger responsibility as ordered by Director Fury himself.” Tony made a noise that suspiciously sounded a lot like ‘duh’. “And as for the rest of you, I’d expect your sitreps handed-” Coulson stopped talking when a yellowish gray koala climbed down the tree and waddled toward him.
They all stared at the koala and the koala stared up at Phil. Then the koala started moving again and hooked itself to Coulson’s leg.
"It seems that the small beast has taken a shine on you, son of Coul." Thor pointed out.
They were silent for another minute as the koala began climbing until it was sitting on Coulson’s shoulders and made itself comfortable.
"I guess that’s that then. Phil gets to keep Clint for the week." Tony said.
"What?" Was Phil’s ingenious reply.
"Give him lots of love, okay agent?" Tony teased.
But in the end, Phil didn’t decline because, well, he might have a soft spot for animals and even more so for archers that got themselves turned into animals. So sue him.