Outside Ire's House
The Avengers stood in the bushes at the end of the house's drive way and sidewalk. Tony was crouching behind a large cotoneaster hedge. He moved a stick drawing a diagram in the dirt. Bruce was sitting on the ground knees pulled up to his chest and arms wrapped around them. Steve bent down at the waist pointing out flaws in Tony's plans for entrance, rescue, capture, and exit. Clint leaned against the car he drove Natasha, Bruce, and himself in. The car was a dark blue convertible. It was parked behind the hedge at the end of the driveway right behind Steve's WWII motorcycle. Natasha sat in the front passenger seat covered in blankets, holding a tissue box, and half asleep so only keeping only half an ear on the plan. Thor ignoring the fact they were trying to hid their presence in the neighborhood stood at full height peering at the house in question. Peter was still not shown up yet even though he had been closer than anyone else.
"Sir Nick Fury just e-mailed you the house schematics." JARVAS informed Tony sounding quite bored of the actions of his creator.
"Thank you, JARVAS" Tony thanked half heatedly with a slight tone of sarcasm as he continues planning the entrance now with the use of the blueprints.
"We can't enter through a window! That is just absurd." Steve stated as he wanted to cause as little damage to the property as humanly possible. He crossed his arms. Steve glared at Tony.
Tony rebuked him with an instant response "Well we can't just go through the front door, now can we Captain? It's not like we are dealing with a god with absurd amount of powers, now are we?"
The two of them glared back and forth neither willing to back down on this issue. Bruce was really getting agitated over this and Peter being late, and started verbally counting back from one hundred "100, 99, 98, 97 …" Bruce started and when he got to zero he started all over again.
Tension was rising among the Avengers as the bickering and arguing. That Thor finally intervened "Why are your houses so puny? Are they not meant to be as large as the tower in the city?"
Natasha sighed in exasperation thinking 'Does Thor not read the books that we send him to read at all. S.H.E.I.L.D. does not just send them to be thrown away or not read.' But her response out loud is "This is a suburb of the city. A suburb is a less populated, outer part of a city which means buildings aren't as big, some have just one family living in them, with a yard and space, and sometimes are given different name. For example Haarlem is a suburb of New York City."
Thor nodded his head in understanding which in all honesty Natasha didn't think he truly got what they were talking about. Thor shifted to turn back toward the house. Which as far as he knew nothing about it looked different.
"The curtain just moved." Clint informed his fellow Avengers. "Also Loki has seen Thor."
This caused all the Avengers to glare at Thor. It was Tony who lost it. Tony gave a harsh, quiet yell at Thor "Why are you standing? We are all crouching so we wouldn't be spotted. Were you trying to get us spotted? Now Loki knows we are here. We don't even have a plan of action yet!"
"It is not the way of the warrior to behave. We do not hide from our enemies." Thor both informed and argued with Tony. This continued on and on. The others went back to formulating a plan as fast as possible as they now needed to strike before Loki did.
Inside Ire's House
Loki stood in the front living room. He walked around closing every curtain in the room. Out of pure boredom he turned on the TV to the news. The head anchorman started to talk "It is now five minutes past the hour. The temperature is ninety-five degrees Fahrenheit. Well there has been an accident in Times Square. Now over to …"
Ire came in and as if on cue turned off the television. Ire crossed his arms as he flopped down on the couch. Loki looked at the blank TV screen to the remote in Ire's right hand opened his mouth giving an undignified "Hey I was watching that! I wanted to know what happened at Times Square."
Ire whose eyes had been closed cracked open one eye. He gave a huff and turned to face the back of the couch. Then he mumbled out to Loki "The news is boring. What happened was a bicyclist hit a statue and got a ticket. I'm tired. You woke me up early. You are supposed to be keeping an eye out for your 'guests'. Now let me sleep."
"But that's not fait! I was trying to watch that. The Avengers won't be here for a while and I'm bored." Loki pouted as Ire blatantly ignored him. Loki stared at the remote contemplating if there was any possible way he could acquire it without destroying it. Deciding that it was an impossibility he turned to look about the room. On one side there was a wall filled with books, but he had already read them all.
"Hey Ire do you have any new books" Loki tried to coxes from the safety of the arm chair.
A tired mumble came from Ire as a response "No."
So Loki turned back to his choices of what to do. Well he did have to write the runes around the inside of the house that would hold the Avengers inside it. Loki summoned some of the rune books from Asgaurd. Had anyone been in Loki's room on Asgaurd they would of seen the books disappearing right of their shelves and gone "Oh Shit". Luckily no one had been in it.
Loki moved through the house writing runes for the spell in hidden spots, which included but not exclusive to behind the refrigerator and in the walls. Loki smiled at his handy work when he heard a motorcycle pull up. Not ten seconds later a car could be heard also pulling up. Then there was the unmistakable sound of Iron man arriving.
Then silence descended upon the house. Loki waited and waited. Then to Ire, Loki posed the question "Ire, they have arrived but they aren't coming in, why?"
Ire just mumbled in his sleep and shifted a little so his black bangs fell into his eyes. Loki not happy with the response poked him only to get slapped. So he waited and waited. Finally he opened the curtains just enough to look out with one eye. Loki could only see Thor over the hedge. Thor's silver hat stuck out like a lighthouse light stood out against a dark stormy night.
Loki withdrew when he saw Thor turn around. He shut the curtain and prepared to say the enchantment that would bind the Avengers to the house. He reached over to Ire saying "They will be coming in soon so wake up."
Ire opened his eyes, shifted slightly to be leaning up against the couch, and yawned. Ire raised his arms just slightly above his head in a stretch. The rubbing his blurry eyes giving a tired "Ok I'm up."
Loki ran and sat down halfway up the stairs to wait for the Avengers. He raised his hands to create small green light. The cloak in the kitchen slowly ticked the seconds as they passed. He smiled thinking of how this tea party was going to happen. Then it dawned on him the dresses. Loki knew exactly what he would do for that.
Outside Ire's House
"Why don't we just charge through the front door weapons ready?" Bruce asked finally tired of doing absolutely nothing for the past five minutes. He looked to Clint and Natasha to back him up on this.
Clint finally tired of just checking his bow nodded his head in agreement. Natasha was a little out of it but gave a sniffle before barely getting out "I agree."
Tony turned red in the face and said "But that will be both expected and boring."
Steve shook his head realizing that this would get tem nowhere. So taking the head of decisions said "Let's just take a vote on this. All in favor of just going through the front door raise your hands."
Natasha didn't even raise her hand she just waved one of her clean, white tissues in the air. Clint looked at his bow then nodded his head. After that he raised his hand. Bruce raised his hand timidly. Thor raised his hammer to show his agreement. Steve nodded his head and also raised his hand.
"Alright it looks like we will be going through the front door." Steve said calmly.
"Hey wait a minute. JARVAS, Nick Fury, our handlers, and I disagree to this. And Peter isn't here to give his opinion." Tony said getting off his phone.
Clint pointed out "JARVAS is only an AI and doesn't count."
Bruce finally lost it and the Hulk came out. The Hulk stood over Tony and said "Hulk says door Now."
Not waiting for a response he ran right at the door. The rest followed as fast as they could. The Hulk slammed into the door causing it to break. The door fell flat in two pieces, the hinges ripped from the wall due to the force used to knock it down.
As soon as they entered the house, the Avengers heard chanting. Then a green wave spread threw out the whole house than came back in. The Hulk shrunk back down to Banner.
"Ah, so good of you join me at last. Now the party can begin. But my oh my you aren't dressed for the occasion. I'll fix that in a jiffy." Loki said from his spot in the middle of the stair case. The Avengers prepared for a fight when Loki snapped his thumb on his middle finger to the pointer finger.
It took the Avengers a minute to process what Loki had said then look at each other trying to figure out what he did. It dawned on them that they were all in dresses exactly like their uniforms in color designs only minus all masks.
Natasha dress was black leather, skin fitting dress, with a deep V neck. The dress flared out at the bottom. There was even a holster for her guns. But unfortunately her weapons had disappeared like everyone else's.
Steve's dress was a only down to his knees and puffed out with a white undercoat. The over coat and top of the dress was blue. There was a white star over the chest area. White and red strips went down the midsection of the outfit. The sleeves also puffed up.
Bruce's dress was the same color as the Hulk's skin color. It went down to just barely past his knees. There were no sleeves but straps of green covering his shoulders. It was a button up dress. The end of the bottom was ripped.
Thor's dress was cut just before his knees. It had red shoulder straps, dark blue all over, and the upper half center was silver with buttons running along the outside. His hat turned into a stylish ribbons pulling his hair back and up in brads.
Tony's dress turned into a full ball gown with a split running up his thigh ending at his hips. It was kind of puffed out. It was skin tight in the top with no straps relying on the chest to hold it up. The gold accented the chest, sides, and split of the dress. The rest of the dress was red. There was no back to the dress. The front dipped just enough that the arc reactor wasn't covered at all.
Clint's dress was a very normal dress. It was mostly black with purple accenting parts of the bottom half of the dress, the straps holding the dress up, and the buckles in the front. It was tight at the top and loose at the bottom. Other than the straps there were no sleeves.
Suddenly Spiderman swung in saying "Sorry I'm late there was a small incident that happened. Hey, what are you wearing?"
Then Loki snapped his fingers again. Peter Parker stood in Spiderman's spot in a plan Jane style dress. That has no figure lines at all, went to his knees, and had small sleeves. The main feature of the dress was the black spider and webs all over it.
Loki smiled happy at the turn out for the dresses on the Avengers. They looked absolutely perfect on each one of them. His plan worked out perfectly. Also thank "God" for runes that were created to keep beasts calm. So there is no Hulk to ruin his perfect day. Also thanks to magic none of the Avengers had any weapons on them what so ever.
"Well now that all the party guests are here we can begin. Let's start with moving out of the entry hall and into the dining room." Loki cheerfully directed as he moved off the stairs with an elegant jump. Landing in the hallway Loki clapped his hands as he moved both to fix the door and to hurry them all along.
The Avengers all shared a confused look. They were all thinking ' Where was the captive and what party.' Tony finally had enough and screeched "What the hell is going on here, Loki? We did not come for a party! And where is the captive?"
