Arrive.
[1] To reach a destination in one's journey.
[2] To come to be present in time.
Synonyms inc. Enter, Appear, Approach
To say that any of the avengers arrive, at anything, ever, would be incorrect.
Avengers do not simply /Arrive/. - Tony Stark probably said that once. Tony Stark probably said that a million times trying to cohere any of the others into whatever he's planned this time. ("Jesus Tony the thing's in your basement for heaven's sake. We do not need fireworks going off from your elevator!")
It's true though, and he knows it. Tony Stark is ostentatious. Flashy. Conspicuous. Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist. Subtle just isn't his style. It isn't his nature. With Tony you get the full deal. The whole shebang. Before, when he was just a weapons developer lacking an inch or two of purpose, it was dancing girls and flashing lights, with screaming crowds, media and as much alcohol as you need. Now it's a there's less girls and more red paint, rocket boots and saving the world. But it can never be said that Iron man 'arrives'. He kind of erupts onto a situation with a blare of AC/DC and a 'hell yeah I'm Ironman, that one the one that stopped his mate's wayward brother levelling New York with a bunch of Aliens. Yeah. That one.' attitude. Everyone knows then Tony Stark's in town.
Tony's not the only one who's entrance isn't exactly what you'd call quite though. Thor's pretty spectacular too. He'll plummet in with a low grumble of thunder shuddering around mountains, the bitten off growl of a large animal, and hot white flashes of lightning. Someone, probably Clint this time, calls him out on it occasionally but he swears it isn't deliberate. Just something that comes with the whole Norse God-of-all-things-Stormy package. Anyway, Thor comes and goes between Asgard a lot less these days, and Tony can't say he's too sorry about the reduction of electric charge related problems that that caused. (That one time Jarvis got fucked and ended up as an uber-realistic hologram was, well, an experience to say the least…).
It's fair to say the rest a bit, well a lot, more low key. Prime examples being Natasha and Clint who both possess the the ability to be in your house for, like, a month before you even realise they're there. And even then that's probably because they want you to know who's about to kill you. (The amount of heart palpitations Falcon swear's they've caused him since he started hanging around with the avengers isn't even worth counting). Even Bruce can remain comfortably unnoticed in the background for ridiculous lengths of time - that is when he's not turning green and smashing things….
And Steve Rodgers? Well, Steve's Steve. Captain America. Mr Muscles. He's always just there. When you need him, getting the job done with minimal killing - well… mostly- and a bucket full of patriotic duty. You'd imagine that, maybe, what with him being such an icon and his super serum body it'd be obvious when Captain America turned up, but in fact Steve's arrival is the most understated of them all. The closed to being just an arrival. He's not got the sculpted death stealth of Clint or Natasha, or the egotistical eruptions of Tony Stark, he's just a kid from Brooklyn who doesn't like bullies.
And James Barnes? Well, he's also a little complicated...
So that was the prologue of what will be a multi-chaptered story focusing on events after CATWS and Bucky's introduction into life as The Avengers know it. And, of course, there will be flashbacks...Thanks for reading! I've already got the next chapter written (it's pretty long I think) so I'll get that up once I've got someway into the next. This is kind of my project for the next while so I'll try and keep updates as regular as possible. *You can come and find me on tumblr btw :)*