Chapter 01: Movie Night
Danny tapped his foot nervously as he looked at his watch.
It was almost time for everyone to come into the Main Room that they had set up for the Movies.
The room was set up with a large couch that could fit everyone, along with a chair or two and a table with a group of movies of every genre.
As it turned out, Ray was quite the movie buff and had his own movie library back in Oregon, a lot of classics like Caddyshack to modern movies like The Hobbit.
Since it was their first official Movie night, and their first chance to rest after the incident with the Vampires and Paulina, the latter actually disappeared when the Halfa went to confront her by himself to his surprise and worry, but considering everything that happened the first movie choice would go to Nyx.
Checking his watch again, Danny sighed as he walked to the kitchen to prep the Popcorn.
Truthfully, he wants this to be perfect.
Not only would this help Nyx get over with nearly being sacrificed, but it would help with everyone bond and feel like a family… Well they were a family to him.
'Funny, two months ago I was just offering safe haven.' Danny thought with a nostalgic smile. 'Now all five of them became family to me.'
He didn't know what they thought of the team though.
Especially Taz, the latest 'possible' member.
Sure Taz helped out with saving Nyx, but Danny wasn't sure if he was staying or not.
Hearing footsteps, Danny looked to see John entering. "Hey, how did it go?" He asked remembering how the Technopath spent the day looking for clues on his parents.
"The lead is in San Diego now." John said surprising Danny. "That's all I got."
"So when do you want to go?" Danny asked wanting to help him out.
"I'll go whenever we have time." John said with a grateful smile before a rush of wind came as Ray came back with a few more movies.
"Alright, I brought the Lord of the Ring's Trilogy and Paranormal Activities." Ray began causing Danny to snort. "What?"
"Paranormal Activities, really?" Danny asked shaking his head. "That's a corny movie."
"No it isn't." Ray said sounding a bit insulted. "I think it's cool."
"When you live real Paranormal Activity for a year, the movie is corny." Danny told him and Ray grudgingly gave him that one.
"Yeah, yeah." Ray deposited the movies. "I also brought a few modern ones to help John here catch up on what he missed over the years."
John picked one out from the pile with a raised eyebrow. "Fifty First Dates?" He asked in disbelief.
"Comedy." Ray explained to him. "It's this guy trying to date a girl with Short-Term Memory."
"What's this about Short-Term Memory?" Taz asked coming in with a yawn.
"Just discussing movies." Danny explained as Ray smirked.
"Sorry I couldn't get Twilight for you."
That comment caused Taz to glare. "I fucking hate that movie." He muttered shaking his head. "Hell, the quickest way to piss off a vampire is asking if they sparkle."
"Speaking from experience?" John asked causing Taz to chuckle.
"Yeah, that's the only time I use a joke about the movie." Taz said causing the guys to chuckle before grinning at seeing a certain movie. "Here's a Movie John would like."
Looking confused, John read the title. "Terminator?"
"Perfect." Danny agreed with a nod.
Barking caught their attention as they all turned to see Nyx holding Cujo while Laura was behind them.
"Just in time." Danny said waving at them before gesturing to the pile of movies. "Nyx, you have first pick."
"So these are movies?" Nyx asked in surprise as there were no movies in her years in Asgard.
Danny rubbed the back of his neck as he realized it. "Yeah, so what do you want to see, Comedy? Action?"
"Are there movies centered around Chaos?" Nyx asked causing a small chuckle to escape from John while Ray sighed.
"I should've known." Ray muttered as he grabbed one. "How about Jurassic Park? It's pretty chaotic."
"What's it about?" Laura asked as this would be her first movie.
"People bringing Dinosaurs back to life as part of a theme park." Danny explained. "Let's just say all hell breaks loose in it."
"Sounds very chaotic." Nyx said looking forward to it.
They were about to sit down before Danny groaned.
"Damn it, I didn't start the Popcorn." He muttered as the others sat down. "Go ahead and start the movie, I'll be right back."
"You sure?" Ray asked as he sat on the floor next to Nyx who had Cujo sleeping in her lap.
John sat in one of the chairs while Taz was laid out on the couch and Laura was on the other side with her legs crossed.
"Yeah, I've seen the movie quite a few times." Danny said flying to the kitchen where he put in the time.
After waiting a bit as he watched it pop, Danny decided to speed things up by using his ecto energy.
Hearing no more pops, Danny opened it only to yelp and slam the door shut as snarls escaped from the microwave.
'Great I just brought Popcorn to life.' Danny thought sardonically.
"What's wrong?"
Danny spun around to see Laura coming in with a raised eyebrow.
"What makes you think something's wrong?" Danny asked shaking his head.
"You yelped." Laura deadpanned, opening the fridge to grab a soda.
"No reason." Danny tried to say before the microwave trembled as snarls escaped.
"... Did the microwave just snarl?" Laura asked with a raised brow.
"Nooooo." Danny said chuckling nervously as Laura gave him a look. "... I tried to speed up the cooking of the Popcorn with my ecto energy and accidently brought it back to life."
Laura did a face palm on hearing that. "You're joking."
Danny's response was to turn the microwave door invisible showing the popcorn with red eyes and sharp teeth as they tried to escape. "Does that look like a joke to you?"
"Hey what's taking so lon-?" Ray zoomed in only to stare. "... I think you just ruined Popcorn for me."
"Uh yeah, can you get the Thermos?" Danny asked sheepishly.
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"Sorry for the wait." Danny said coming out with a few bowls of Popcorn for everyone as he sat on the couch in between Taz and Laura to watch the movie.
Ray just looked at his bowl, remembering the Ghost Popcorn before passing it to a surprised Nyx. "I'm not hungry." Ray muttered.
To Be Continued…
Not much for the first One-Shot, but I hope you enjoyed how I had the characters interact.
Review and tell me what you think, oh and tell me what you want to see and with what character? I'll be sure to work it in to help with the story.
They all will be at random points in the Renegades Timeline, starting with the movie night mentioned in Chapter 26: Healing Scars.
Alright, Spidey Signing Out!