History
Hawkeye shared a similar history to her Earth-616 counterpart until after Project Communion were kidnapped and she and Clint split as partners over a disagreement on rescuing them. While Clint fell out of heroing duties over the next 30 years leaving Kate to fully take up the Hawkeye mantle. She started an organization of The Hawkeyes who assisted her as a hero. 30 years later, Project Communion resurfaced, and killed thousands in an explosion in China and made it seem as though the Mandarin was to blame. Kate recruited Clint to help fix their mistake from the past and the pair traveled to China but were captured by the Mandarin and brought to his castle.
While imprisoned Kate realized that S.H.I.E.L.D. set them up to be killed for being the only two people that would know that it was S.H.I.E.L.D. that unleashed Project Communion on China. During a meeting with the Mandarin he revealed he had one of Project Communion captured and wanted the pair to show him how to use it to exact his revenge. Kate, however, called in Marvel Boy who helped them escape. The pair returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters to take down the organization, where they met and attacked Maria Hill and traveled into the facility where they discovered the rest of Project Communion being experimented on. Hill showed up and killed Project Communion. As Project Communion lay dying Kate and Clint agreed they should have done something 30 years ago.[1]