The next morning is quite different than what they're all used too. In Stark Tower, everyone has their own bathroom to use at their leisure, and inside they are really spacious and comfortable.

But not here.

There's a men's bathroom and a women's, each have two showers and three toilet cubicles, two sinks.

Thor, Steve, Clint and Tony end up in there at the same time, and alas, conflict ensues.

"Clint you look faboulous, now move away from the damn sink, I need to shave."

"I was here first, wait your turn."

"Well we haven't got all day so move it!"

"Kiss my fabulous ass."

Tony attempts to push him but Clint doesn't budge.

"MOVE!"

"STOP PUSHING ME BEFORE I FLUSH YOUR HEAD DOWN ONE OF THE TOILETS!"

Steve stops shaving at the other sink, rinsing his razor under the tap.

"Guys, can you please just act like adults for once, it's too early in the morning for this."

Tony growls at him, still attempting to push Clint.

"Once again, no one asked for your input spangles."

The sound of humming can be heard from one of the showers, and Thor peeks his head around the shower curtain, his wet hair sprawled across his face.

"Would you like another musical rendition to lighten the mood?"

Tony puts his hands in the air with a shake of his head, but Thor seemingly ignores him, disappearing back behind the shower curtain and singing at full pelt.

"Baby baby baby ooohhh!"

Shrieking, Tony slaps his hands over his ears.

"THOR WHERE DID YOU HEAR THAT FILTH!"

Thor's delighted face reappears around the curtain.

"Friend Clint played it for me when we last spent time together, it is very catchy indeed!"

A delighted Clint beams at Tony, who cringes and puts his head in his hands.

"You both disappoint me."


After everyone manages to get washed and dressed, they head downstairs for breakfast, which is toast, various cereals, and scrambled eggs.

As they all tuck in, Phil fills them in on what they'll be doing today.

"So, I've got two activities lined up for you all today."

Tony almost chokes on a piece of toast, if it wasn't for the quick thinking Thor who whacks him on the back.

"OUCH THOR! And two? Why is one not enough?"

"Because you have to learn to push yourselves. Now, this morning we'll be hiking up a small mountain, then later on we'll be gill scrambling."

Finishing off his cereal, Steve raise's his eyebrows.

"What's gill scrambling?"

"It's basically climbing up a river and waterfall."

Groaning loudly, Tony begins buttering another piece of toast.

"Seriously? How is this even team building?"

"Because you'll all have to work together to get up it, and everyone is getting up it. If people lag behind, you go back and help them."

Tony's eyes wander over to Bruce.

"You gonna be okay with that? Or should I say is the other guy gonna be okay with that?"

Sipping his cup of coffee, Bruce nods.

"I'll be fine, I'm not scared of falling over a few times Tony."

Wiping at his mouth, Phil get's to his feet.

"Right, then eat up, put on some warm clothing and meet me at the mini bus."


A short drive in the mini bus, and they pull up along a gravel path, everyone clambering out.

The chilly air already nipping at his skin, Tony huddles further into his coat.

Phil quickly locks the mini bus and gathers them in all in a circle.

"Right, now for this we're all going to be sticking together, not going off into separate groups like yesterday. See over there?"

He points at the highest of the surrounding mountains.

"That's what we'll be hiking on."

Snorting, Tony pulls his hood up.

"The hell we will."

Frowning over at him, Steve shoves his own hands into his pockets.

"Tony, it's not that big of a deal."

"Maybe not for a freaking super soldier but a normal guy like me? What if I end up tripping and rolling all the way down like Jack did, eh?"

Chuckling, Thor clasps his shoulder.

"I will catch you if you fall, I assure you."

"That's not really reassuring."

Taking out his earphones, Clint smirks at Tony.

"It'd make for some great entertainment on youtube though."

"Shut your cakehole Barton."

Phil rubs his cold hands together and blows on them.

"Right lets get going, the faster we walk the warmer we'll get. Let's go!"


Panting, Tony leans back against one of the bigger boulders next to the pathway, wiping his sleeve across his face.

Steve comes around the side of the boulder, his hands on his hips.

"Come on Tony, you're gonna start lagging behind, Phil, Natasha and Bruce are already nearly out of sight."

Tony lets his eyelids flutter close and breathes in deeply.

"Then leave me, leave me alone to die."

A cheery Clint appears behind Steve, his phone held out in front of him.

"Aww come on drama queen, say hello to the camera!"

"BARTON ARE YOU FILMING?"

"You betcha!"

Tony forgets all about his aching feet and lunges for the phone, but Barton easily dodges him.

Steve grabs the back of Tony's collar to stop him face planting into the grassy terrain below.

"Tony, calm down, and Clint, put the phone away and stop riling him up."

Pouting, Clint shoves his phone back into his coat pocket.

"BAAA!"

The three of them walk around the other side of the boulder, to see a flock of sheep gathering around a bewildered looking Thor.

Tony chuckles, roving a hand through his damp hair.

"I did tell you to put him on a leash, did I not?"

Thor notices them all staring, and waves his hands over his head.

"My friends, I require your assistance! These animals are gathering around me and I know not why!"

Steve lets go of Tony and turns his attention to Thor.

"Thor, do you by any chance have food in your pockets?"

Thor slips a hand into his coat pocket and pulls out several pieces of buttered toast.

"Why yes! But why-"

He's cut off as the sheep start to baa loudly in unison and descend on him, and he yelps as he gets tackled to the floor.

Clint instantly whips his phone back out, as he and Tony record the scene and try not to wet themselves.

Steve is the only one who rushes to Thor's aid, shifting the sheep out of the way and dragging Thor to his feet and back to the boulder.

As Steve brushes Thor off, Thor looks down right traumatized.

Tony snaps his fingers in front of the thunder God's dazed face.

"Damn, maybe your brother should have used sheep instead of the Chiatauri."

Bruce comes into view over the hill, edging himself past the sheep and his eyes curiously scanning Thor up and down.

"Um, Phil sent me back to make sure you guy's hadn't got lost...what happened?"

Steve shakes his head and unzips his backpack, retrieving his water bottle.

"Bruce, you don't want to know."

Bruce just nods, and points back over his shoulder.

"Come on, we need to catch them back up or we'll be here until nightfall."

They all gather themselves and head off, Thor having to be dragged past the now disbanding sheep by Steve and Tony.


As they spot Phil and Natasha up ahead now, Tony and Barton start to overtake Thor, Steve and Bruce, as Thor is constantly glancing around, or stopping when he spots a grazing sheep nearby.

Steve has to continuously stop and grip his arm and drag him along.

Bruce waits for them once again as Steve sighs and drags Thor.

"Thor, I can't keep doing this all day, they're not going to come near you now you don't have any more food on you."

Bruce rolls up his sleeve and taps at his digital watch.

"If we don't pick up some speed, we're not going to have time to do gill scrambling later on."


The trickster gazes from on top of a large cluster of boulders in the near distance, humming quietly to himself.

Now the avengers are climbing mountains?

He is more than delighted to see that his brother is still such an oath, being afraid of some lowly earth animals, how pathetic indeed.

But this scene is becoming rather boring.

It is time for some more entertainment.

Oh yes.


Rolling his sleeve back down, Bruce starts to walk ahead again, the rising sun in the sky now starting to make him sweat inside his jacket.

SMACK!

Bruce jumps back and lands on his backside harshly as a small rock whacks the side of his head, and he curses, rubbing at the sore spot.

It's only then he realizes that someone must have thrown it at him, and the familair surge of anger starts to bubble inside him.

He gets to his feet and whips around, pointing a trembling finger at Thor and Steve.

"OKAY WHICH ONE OF YOU THREW THAT AT ME! YOU THINK IT'S FUNNY! YOU-"

Steve swallows as Bruce cuts off mid sentence, collapsing to the ground.

"Uh oh."

Steve steps back a few paces, while Thor just stares wide eyed as Bruce transforms into the green guy.

"ROARRRR!"

The hulk growls and bangs his fists on the rocky terrain, staring at Thor.

"HULK HATE WHINY GOD!"

Stuttering, Thor shakes his hands in the air.

"What! Friend Bruce, no!"

The hulk charges at Thor, and both of them tumble down the side of the mountain, Steve peering over the edge, not knowing what to do.

Barton and Tony rush back and come to his side, watching the rolling hulk and thunder god.

Tony scratches his head, gnawing on his bottom lip

"Damn spangles, what the hell did you do to Bruce?"

"We didn't do anything, he just hulked out! Although he did mention that we threw something at him, but we didn't!"

Barton angles his phone down at the unfolding chaos below.

"Shouldn't really poke the bear you know, Cap."

Huffing, Steve tugs at his hair.

"We didn't! I don't know why Bruce reacted like that!"

"ROARRRRRR! HULK SMASH WHINY GOD!"

"BRUCE IT WAS NOT I OR STEVE! PLEASE CALM YOURSELF! PUT THAT BOULDER DOWN! AHHHH!"

Tony cringes as the ground starts to shake from the impact.

"Yeah, Barton go get Natasha so she can do that calming stuff she does, before the other guy decides to make Thor into a part of the damn scenery!"


After managing to change Bruce back, Phil wraps him up in his coat and leads him back down the mountain, but makes the others carry on the trek to the top, handing them a map.

Thor insists he is fine, just merely scraped and bruised, and also wants to make it to the top.

Tony makes a huge fuss, but Steve, obviously having had enough of his constant whining, drags him by the collar until he stops protesting.

Tony readjusts his collar, eyeing Steve nervously.

"Steve, what's up with you all of a sudden? I mean I know you're cranky, but you don't usually try to strangle me."

Glancing around, Steve keeps his eyes set on the map in his hand.

"Something's not right around here, I can just feel it."

Tony shoves his hands into his pockets, watching his breath come out in front of him.

"I think you're over thinking things."

Steve stops, and Tony almost collides with the back of him.

"Am I?"

He turns around, his face set into a scowl.

"First, you nearly sink in that bog when I'd just walked over that patch, then you all nearly get heart attacks because of some ghoul you say you all saw, then Bruce happens to hulk out all the way up here, these things aren't normal, surely you can see that?"

Tony gnaws on his lip, tapping his chin.

"Well, they do seem kind of off, but the bog thing could've happened to anyone, we are in the countryside, after all. And the ghost thing, well, maybe there was some kind of mould in there or containment and it made us all hallucinate. And as for the hulk, that's kind of unpredictable anyway, and Bruce has accidentally hulked out before. I don't really get why you think something's going on. What could possibly be going on?"

Steve glances around, before dragging Tony off to the side while the others carry on, talking amongst themselves and obviously not realizing the other two have strayed from the path.

"I think someone might be messing with us."

Tony pulls his arm from his tight grip.

"Ouch! Come on Steve, who would even want to-"

Tony's eyes widen as the unwelcome name pops into his head.

"You don't think..."

"It's Loki?"

Tony chuckles nervously, tugging on the ends of his sleeves.

"Yeah right, you know that Thor told us Loki died, didn't he?"

"But Loki is a trickster, what if he didn't?"

Tony nods, his dark brows furrowing.

"Good point, but surely he'd have better stuff to do then coming to mess up our little field trip?"

Steve takes another good look around them, before nodding in agreement.

"Probably, but we should keep an eye out, just in case. Something just really doesn't feel right here."


Uh oh...Loki's been found out? Damn that Captain America and Iron man! XD Well, I guess we'll see what happens in the next chapter, thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed it ^_^