HELLO AND WELCOME TO THE SEQUEL OF AVENGERS AND VIDEOGAMES:
RETURN OF THE GAME-VENGERS!
This chapter, the gang will try Singstar, but...Thor will be singing every single song THOR STYLE!
Doth mother know, you weareth her drapes? Ehehehehehehe *Hiddles laugh*
I AM SO HAPPY TO BE WRITING THIS I LOVED WRITING AVENGERS AND VIDEOGAMES SO EFFIN' MUCH! :D
This is set a couple of weeks before The Harry Potter Olympics :')
Other fanfics currently on-going:
Prince of Atlantis
The Harry Potter Olympics
ANYWAYS, HOPE THIS CHAPTER AMUSES YOU! :D
It was a quiet, Saturday night, and the Avengers, pyjama-clad, were gathered in the lounge, bored, having no idea of how to entertain themselves. Tony started brainstorming, until he leapt to his feet with a cry of victory, making Loki choke on his drink.
"SINGSTAR!" Tony cheered, turning on the PS3.
Steve groaned.
"Come on, spandex sparkles, it'll be fun!" Tony taunted.
"I agree with friend Stark! We have not played this game for some time!" Thor agreed with Tony.
"I suppose we could sing." Loki shrugged.
"Why the hell not?" Clint nodded, grinning.
Tony grabbed the red microphone as the game started up. He held out the blue one.
"Any takers?" he asked.
"I SHALL SING!" Thor jumped up.
"Which song, big guy?" Tony smirked.
"DO YOU HEAR THE PEOPLE SING!"
"Uh...interesting choice."
Reluctantly, Tony selected the song, wondering why Thor wanted to sing a Les Miserables song, out of all the songs he had on the system. In fact, Tony wondered why he even had the song. Shrugging, Tony faced the screen with Thor, and they began to sing.
"Do you hear the people sing?" Tony grinned.
"DOTH THOU HEAR THINE PEOPLE SING!?" Thor bellowed.
Bruce promptly choked on his drink as everyone burst out laughing.
"Singing a song of angry men?" Tony was red in the face from surpressing his laughter.
"SINGING THE SONG OF ANGERED MEN!" Thor almost shouted.
"It is the music of a people..." Tony laughed at the end, anticipating Thor's next line.
Thor had caught on to the amusement of his teammates, and beamed.
"IT BE THE MUSIC OF A PEOPLE!" Thor shouted.
"Who will not be slaves again!" Loki took over for Tony, who could control his laughter no more. The trickster was used to Thor.
"WHO SHALL NOT BE SLAVES AGAIN!" Thor grinned.
"When the beating of your heart..." Loki actually liked the song.
"WHENCE THE BEATING OF THINE HEART!" Thor bellowed.
"Echoes the beating of the drums..." Loki grinned.
"DOTH ECHOE THE BEATING OF THINE DRUMS!" Thor cried.
The game had to be turned off due to the immense amount of laughter, the team taking a full half an hour to calm down an acceptable amount. Tony then suggested a contest. Whoever won got $1000. In cash. Straight away. (Tony had a bank ATM installed in the lobby of the Avengers Tower). JARVIS would record and live stream the contest, whoever got the most votes in the attached pole was declared the winner. Downing Vodka shots, the team smirked at each other, ready for a game.
-CUE MONTAGE-
For the fun of it, Clint, Bruce, Steve, and Natasha decided to do a quartet. After much deliberation, they picked: Thrift Shop, by Macklemore. They originally agreed to split the money if they won, but Tony had said they won $1000 each- it would come out of Stark Industries' surplus, and that amount of money was peanuts to the billionaire anyways. Grinning, the four seized a microphone each, JARVIS turned on the recording, and they began.
"I'm gonna pop some tags." Clint grinned.
"Only got twenty dollars in my pocket!" Bruce grooved.
"I - I - I'm hunting, looking for a come-up." Steve blushed.
"This is fucking awesome!" Natasha sang.
"Nah, walk up to the club like, "What up? I got a big cock!" Clint cackled after he sang that line, amused at Steve's shocked face.
"I'm so pumped about some shit from the thrift shop!" Bruce did a little dance.
The remainder of the team were slightly impressed- they had the tune down pretty well, and weren't that bad at singing.
"Not too shabby." Loki commented. "Passable."
Thor nodded his agreement. The quartet continued singing, getting super pumped, and readied themselves for the concluding verse of Thrift Shop.
"I wear your granddad's clothes- I look incredible!" Clint had a boasting tone, and he was smirking.
"I'm in this big ass coat, from that thrift shop down the road." Bruce was really into it, doing a little step-shuffle dance as he sang.
"I wear your granddad's clothes." Natasha sang, getting pretty into it as well.
"DAMN RIGHT!" Clint bellowed.
"I look incredible." Steve followed Bruce's lead in an identical step-shuffle dance, deciding to just go for it.
"NOW COME ON MAN!" Clint shouted.
"I'm in this big ass coat." Bruce and Clint sang in unison.
"From that thrift shop down the road." Steve and Natasha did a line as a duet.
The group joined together, in a line of Bruce's step-shuffling dance, grooving along to the beat, before belting out the final line of the song.
"IS THAT YOUR GRANDMA'S COAT?!"
As the quartet sat down, the others clapped in a show of good sportsmanship. They allowed five minutes for the poll before they decided who was to go next.
Pepper and Jane had shied away from singing, and had retreated to Pepper's private bar, where they planned to gossip and watch chick flicks. Thus, Tony stepped up to do a song with Thor. The two of them chose: Like a Virgin, by Madonna, just to annoy Steve. Seizing microphones, the two stepped up as the music started.
"I made it through the wilderness. Somehow I made it through. Didn't know how lost I was until I found you." Tony sang, turning on the charm. "I was beat incomplete. I'd been had, I was sad and blue. But you made me feel. Yeah, you made me feel shiny and new."
Tony turned to Thor.
"TAKE IT AWAY THOR!" The billionaire shouted.
"LIKE A VIRGINNNNN!" Thor bellowed. "TOUCHED FOR THE VERY FIRST TIMEEEEEEE!"
Loki and Clint lost it. They fell off of the sofa, rolling around on the floor as they laughed uproariously. Steve was red, a combination of shock, embarassment, and genuine laughter. Bruce and Natasha bit their lips, shaking as they tried to hold in and control the laughter that threatened to spill out from the hilariosity of Thor singing 'Like a Virgin'
"LIKE A VIIIIIRGIN!" Thor proclaimed dramatically. "WHEN THINE HEART BEAAAATSSSS!"
"After first time, with your heartbeat." Tony sang the back-up, nearly purple in the face from lack of breath- a combination of laughter and the effort he was putting into his singing.
"NEXT TO MINE!" the duo bellowed in unison.
Five minutes after Thor and Tony's duo had completed, and the poll had a chance to run, it was finally Loki's turn. The trickster had scrolled through the seemingly endless list of songs, making sure to choose his song carefully. He went for one that would not overpower, but would compliment his tone of voice and singing capability- Music of the Night from the famed Phantom of the Opera.
The graceful tune of the song began to play. Loki seized a microphone, and rose to his feet, taking a deep breath.
"Night time sharpens, heightens each sensation." Loki began to sing.
The room fell silent.
"Darkness stirs and wakes imagination." he continued. "Silently the senses...abandon their defennnnsesss."
The Norse god's voice perfectly fit the song, and even Tony felt he could not interrupt it.
"Slowly, gently, night unfurls it's splendour. Grasp it, sense it." Loki's voice was hushed. "Tremulous and tender..." he inhaled. "Turn your face away...from the garish light of day. Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light, and listen to the music of the night."
Steve especially appreciated the song- he adored Phantom of the Opera, considering it the best of Andrew Lloyd Webber's works.
"Close your eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams. Purge your thoughts of the life you knew before." the emerald eyed god's voice deepened slightly at the appropriate moment. "Close your eyes, let your your spirit start...to soar." Loki's voice was soft and gentle. "And you'll live as you've never lived before."
Tumblr was going crazy during Loki's song, gifs and stills flooding the site, along with clips of his song.
"Softly, deftly, music shall caress you. Hear it, feel it...secretly possess you. Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind..." Loki took a deep breath. "In this darkness that you know you cannot fight...the darkness of the music of the night."
"Damn." Tony muttered quietly.
Pepper and Jane had snuck into the room.
"Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the life you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to...be!" the trickster's voice got louder on the final note of that line. "Only then can you belong to me..."
Steve, Pepper, and Jane had to reach for tissues.
"Floating, falling...sweet intoxication. Touch me, trust me. Savour each sensation. Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in..." Loki sang. "...to the power of the music that I write. The power of the music of the night."
Making gestures with his hands and arms, Loki almost looked exactly like he was personifying the phantom of the opera himself, save for his clothing.
"You alone can make my song taaaaake flight." Loki prepared himself for the final note. "Help me make the music of...the...night."
On the final 'night', Loki's voice got gracefully higher until it was barely above a whisper.
It was beautiful.
It had been a silent five minutes as Loki's poll ran, the others gaping at the trickster frequently, although everyone complimented Loki. Smiling, Loki thanked them all and returned the compliments, going through the other's songs and picking out his favourite parts. Once the final poll was done, they waited a few minutes before bringing up the poll on the screen, courtesy of JARVIS.
Clint, Bruce, Steve, and Natasha had gathered a respectable 2,000,197 votes.
Higher still in the voting system were Thor and Tony, with an incredible 3,001,198 votes.
Loki grinned when he saw the amount of votes he held: 3,500,000 votes.
Everyone was disapointed that they didn't win, but congratulated Loki nonetheless. The trickster had nodded and smiled, high fiving Tony and Clint, and doing a little victory dance with his brother, but asked for the money to be placed in his account.
The group got together for one final song to conclude the live stream: Dolores Umbridge- a Harry Potter parody song of 'Cruella de Vil'. Grabbing microphones, they all rose to their feet, as the parody music began.
"Dolores Umbridge." Tony and Pepper began.
"Dolores Umbridge!" Clint grinned as he sang in unison with Natasha.
"The terror of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade village!" Loki sang in unison with Steve and Bruce.
"SHE'S MORE IRRITATING THAN A MIDGE!" Thor bellowed.
"Dolores Dolores.." the team sang in unison, laughing as they went.
"You can clearly see she raided the fridge!" Steve actually chuckled.
"Look out for Dolores Umbridge!" Jane sang.
"At first you think Umbridge is a sweetie!" Loki sang.
"But after time has taken its toll." Tony snickered.
"At first, you ll realise..." Natasha sang.
The whole of the internet was going wild, all the Harry Potter fans, fanatics, fanboys, and fangirls in particular. Even the news had caught on to the growing phenomena, and were broadcasting it worldwide, including comments from the grinning presenters.
"She s never sympathised, and she should be put on the dole!" Loki continued.
"She bullies students." Pepper and Jane smiled in unison, giggling.
"THAT INHUMAN TOAD!" Thor more shouted than sung.
"We need to really kick that really wide load!" Tony and Clint grinned in unison.
They all took a deep breath, preparing to belt out the final line.
"Hogwarts was such a great place until...Dolores, Dolores Umbridge!"