Young Avengers: The Heroes of Tomorrow- The Fansite
A/N: I had this thought last night so I grabbed a pen and paper in the dark and scribbled some words. In the morning I had to decipher it, but here it is. So be sure to leave your questions for them at the end.
"Kate, you're never going to believe this." Tommy said as he looked at his laptop in disbelief. "We actually have fans. Like people who don't hate us or think we're complete asses."
Kate was skeptical. "Really? How do you know?" she asked as she the final touch to her cupcakes in the kitchen. Billy and Teddy were out getting groceries, Cassie was somewhere cleaning the mess Tommy had made when a science project went wrong, Eli was training upstairs, which he never really stopped doing, and Vision was helping Cassie because some of the chemicals that Tommy had accidentally put together were now radioactive.
"There's this fansite that raves on about how awesome we are."
Kate was suddenly interested. "Okay, that's news to me." she said as she made her way over to Tommy, leaving her prettily decorated cupcakes. "This should be interesting. How would make a fansite about us?"
"You forget how cool we are Kate. Someones bound to notice us sooner or later." he shook his head and turned the laptop to her direction. "See?"
On the screen was a picture of their team, posing for the press. It was back when they had all started. Tommy was obviously not present. And this was clearly upsetting news to him.
"I'm not even on the front page!" he exclaimed. "I'm like your most valued member!"
The title read: 'The Young Avengers- The Heroes of Tomorrow'
"I'm liking the title." joked Kate. "And don't worry Tommy, you can't be on the front page of Juvenile Weekly and our fansite." she patted him on the back grinning.
Tommy poked out his tongue and went back to the computer. Quickly he pressed the enter button and they were greeted with an overwhelming page, about them, their lives and history.
"Okay, I'm a little weirded out." Kate breathed. "Oh look- there's a 'Most Popular Young Avenger' list." she said excitedly as she sat down next to Tommy and pointed at it. "Come on I want to see where I placed."
Tommy sighed, "Fine." he selected the results button.
Quickly they looked at the results. And then at each other. "Teddy and Billy tied first place?" they said in unison. This was no surprise. It be no doubt that those two would become fan favorites.
"- And I came third." Tommy said. "That sucks."
"Well," said Kate, eyeing the list, she had come second, "At least your not Eli."
Eli came last. Apparently according to some comments that people had posted, Patriot was too bossy and needed to cut his team some slack. "True." he agreed.
Cassie had come 2nd last. Commenters were saying something about betrayal since pretty much everyone knew what had happened in the Superhuman Registration act that her best bud Tony Stark had supported. That meant that Iron Lad was placed 4th and Vision 5th. But they were pretty much the same person, but not everyone knew that.
Kate stood up and returned to her cupcakes, "Tell me if you find anything interesting." she called out from across the room. "Want a cupcake?" she asked.
She made all the cakes to the teams specific specifications. It was a hassle but they really seemed to appreciate it. Tommy wanted a silver iced, chocolate one, Billy didn't care what flavor he just wanted one with an 'A' for Avengers on it. Eli never wanted one, saying it messed with his training, Teddy like his strawberry flavored and lemon iced which was a really weird combination, but Kate made it anyway, and Cassie liked hers vanilla with caramel icing.
Tommy raised his hand in the air, his eyes still on the screen. "Throw it here." he said.
Kate put a hand on her hip. "It'll take you less than a second. Literally. You can come and get it."
"Nope."
Kate sighed and threw the cupcake across the room. Tommy caught it at super speed at brought it to his mouth. "Thanks Kate." he mumbled as he took another bite and started browsing the site.
"No problem." she replied as she started to clean up her mess. She placed the 3 different bowls in the sink.. Turning the sink on, she looked to Tommy. "Why don't you go and help Cassie and Vision with the radioactive substance you created this morning?"
"I'm good thanks. I don't feel like it."
Kate crossed her arms. "You're extremely lazy Tommy."
"Really? I hadn't noticed."
She sighed, giving up. "How long to Teddy and Billy take to go shopping? They left an hour ago."
"They're probably preoccupied doing something." suggested Tommy. Suddenly he laughed. "Oh poor Cassie. I actually feel sorry for her."
"Why?" Kate put on a pair of rubber gloves and started to wash up. She grabbed a bowl and started to rinse it.
Tommy shrugged, "There's just a whole message board where everyone raves on about how much they all hate her."
"That bad?"
Tommy didn't reply.
"Tommy?"
"Do you guys all hate me?" he suddenly asked, not looking up from the laptop
Kate was shocked at his statement. "You act like a child sometimes- no scratch that- all the time. But no, we don't hate you. Why?"
Tommy super-speeded to Kate with the laptop. "Look." he said, pointing.
Kate looked at the screen, looking at all the comments. Most of them were people saying how he was their favourite Young Avengers and blah blah, blah...and then Kate saw the comment that she assumed Tommy was upset about.
I think Speed is a try-hard wanna be Quicksilver, arrogant, stuck up bitch. I don't see the point of him on the team. What use is superspeed to anyone? Quicksilver was just as hopeless.
Kate looked at Tommy who was biting his lip hard. "That's bitchy."
Tommy shut the laptop and picked another cupcake from the rack. Kate made at least 5 of each of her team mates flavors. "Yeah." he said distant.
Kate had never seen him like this. "Tommy, pass the laptop."
Tommy reluctantly passed it over. "Nothing you're going to find is going to make any difference."
Kate took off her gloves and scrolled down to the comment again. Smiling she noticed that particular one had over 30 comments. "Hey look at this."
Tommy sighed, "What?"
Kate just pointed. "That got a few people angry."
The comments were mostly all people backing up Tommy saying how superspeed is awesome and they should go die in a hole and some other pretty awfully stuff.
"Oh." he breathed. "That changes things."
Kate passed the laptop back and returned to washing. "Don't be too hard on yourself Tommy." she said. "We value your place on the team."
"Thanks Kate." he said as he walked back over to the couch. "Look," he said after a few seconds. "There are all these messages for us."
"Like fan mail?"
"Or hate mail, if you're Cassie." piped in Tommy. "But yeah, these people are hoping that one day we'll read these things."
He opened one of them labelled to him. "When the others get here, it's going to be our fans lucky day."
I should really stop making new stories. But anyway... Okay, so this means you guys. So be sure to leave your messages here!
