Okay... let's see if this works now.

Apologies, I have no idea what happened!

Erin dared me to post this story response to a previous dare.

The Dare

I dare you to write about an odd dream of one of the Avengers and throw in a

twist ending (e.g., it was a different Avenger than the reader was led to

believe, it wasn't a dream at all, etc.) while still in character. Bonus points

for including the words "heliotrope," "firebombed," and "jet stream" and the

phrase "Wait, what? Natasha's really a squirrel?!" or for dying Tony's beard and

hair purple.

Erin

The Story

Natasha Romanov hated rainbows. She hated unicorns, and whales, and happy

smiling furry creatures.

So of course it seemed only right that in the dark of the night, on the rare

nights she could actually sleep, she was being chased through a rainbow by a

flock of bunnies riding a whale.

"Fight the unhappy lady!" the bunnies would shout, and then a turtle that rode

on the whale's tale would puck up a fireball of sorts, and the fireball bounced

after Natasha.

"This is utter nonsense!" Natasha shouted, and she whipped out her pistol, turned

around, pulled the trigger, and watched in dismay as the entire gun turned into

a snickers candy bar. She growled and threw it on the ground, and continued

running.

"Hello, Natty!" Tony Stark said happily as he flew up beside her.

"Stark! what are you doing here?" Natasha demanded, and she ducked under a

bouncing fireball. "This is MY dream."

"Sorry to tell you this Red," Stark remarked, and he shot a heliotrope at the

bunnies, "but this isn't a dream."

Natasha turned to yell at him, but stopped mid shout.

"If it isn't, then why is your beard Purple?"

"Banner!" Stark roared, and he promptly turned into big green rage monster,

completely ruining his new Iron Man suit.

The End