Words: 1,316
Rating: T+
Warnings: Minor humor, hurt/comfort, light angst, and minor fluff.
Summary: The Avengers take a little field trip on Lionel's request, but nothing ever goes their way. (Field Trip)
"Why don't we ever just get to do anything without there being anyone in danger?!" Clint complained, an arrow whizzing trough the air and lodging itself into a walking terracotta statue, smashing it into pieces. "I mean seriously! When do we ever just get to go something without something like this happening?"
There was a very tiny pause in the mic when everyone on the link heard the rather annoyed, very gruff answer from Tony, "Never."
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"A... museum?" Mark questioned, slow, like this was some sort of riddle that puzzled him to no end. "You want all of us," he motioned around the room to everyone that was sitting in the living room, and Bruce, who was munching on a sandwich in the kitchen, "to go on a... a field trip to a museum...?"
"Yes," Lionel purred and grinned at his little family. "I don't see what the problem is, I think it'd be fun!" he amended when he received looks of confusion and disbelief and disinterest from the others.
"Well, I suppose it wouldn't hurt," Steve started, shrugging, "we could all use the break anyway."
"Yeah sure," Clint scoffed, "a bunch of supers going to a museum... what could possibly go wrong?"
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"This is all your fault, Hawkeye!" Mark bit out, so close to shifting, but everyone knew he wouldn't, not with this many kids around.
"Just shut up and focus on getting everyone out of the building! We need to turn off this stupid thing and stop the exhibits from coming back to life completely!" Tony snapped out and Steve sighed as Clint spoke up.
"Man, why do I feel like we're apart of that one movie, uh... what was it called? With the exhibits coming to life and shit?"
"Night at the Museum?" Lionel supplied and he barely kept a smile off his face when he heard Clint's agreeing remark, shifting into a mammoth to take on the stuffed mastodon that was currently trying to attack the staff of the museum.
"Yeah! That's the one!" There was a confused noise from Clint when Natasha spoke up, growling at him, "What?"
"Shut up," she hissed and he finally fell silent, much to the relief of Mark and Tony.
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"Amazing!" Lionel exclaimed, twirling about in the center of the museum, underneath a giant globe of the world that had the museum's name spinning around it.
"Yeah yeah, come on, you act like you've never been to a museum before," when Lionel only stared blankly at Clint, he frowned and then choked on his laughter. "Oh that's just precious! Fluffy's first museum! Quick, someone take a picture!"
Lionel was saved from hitting Clint on his own when Loki did it for him. Sending a grateful smile to the god, he turned and began marching in a random direction.
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"Loki, hurry up and destroy that infernal thing!" Thor bellowed out, hitting a giant dinosaur skeleton with his hammer, only mildly surprised when the thing shattered and then reassembled itself.
"I'm trying, Thor," Loki shouted back, glaring at the strange device in front of him. Lionel could only barely pay attention as he was overthrown by the mastodon. He was saved from being stomped on when Bruce, hulked out, crashed into the creature and sent it back against the wall, part of it collapsing and falling onto the stuffed beast.
Nodding his thanks to Bruce, Lionel got up and shifted into a bear then, roaring at the stuffed creatures chasing after the kids. "Someone get these kids out of here!" he growled out. "Why haven't they been taken to safety yet!?"
"I'm on it!" Steve said, jumping down from wherever the hell he'd been and he began leading the kids to safety, out and away from the building.
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"Great... kids..." Mark pouted and Lionel smiled, giggling a little as he watched the little kids run around, teachers trying to rally them into behaving.
"Looks like we're not the only ones on a field trip, huh?" he asked and he only received a smile from his family as they continued to explore the museum. They had only just gotten to the grand dinosaur exhibit when everything had suddenly gotten dark. "W-what's going on!?" Lionel panicked and that panic sank deeper when he noticed how on edge the others were.
"Welcome my children," a dark cackle sounded over the intercom, "thank you for visiting this fine museum today. Oh I do hope you all have so much fun!" another laugh and then suddenly Lionel stiffened. "I know I will..." and then the voice was gone and panic ensued through out all the people as suddenly, the dinosaurs, both fossilized and not, had come to life.
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"Thor, help Loki destroy that thing, I'm going to go find this joker and make him pay for this," Tony's voice hissed through the intercom and suddenly he was flying through the building, disappearing down a hall somewhere on the third floor.
But then something was happening and everything had only gotten worse from there. "Loki!?" Lionel shouted as the entire building shook when a sharp electric pulse was sent through the air, the darkness consuming everything once more.
"We must leave the building now!" Loki's voice floated through the mic, "I've disconnected the device, but the entire area has become unstable!"
And then they were suddenly rushing to save the rest of the people as the exhibits around them collapsed. Lionel shifted sharply into a dragon and flew up to the very top of the building, the large cement dome over the top of the shattered globe as the rest of the civilians ran out of the entrance doors below him and he tried holding it up as long as he possibly could, the strain pushing him down.
"Lionel!" Steve shouted, "Get out of there!"
"N-not yet... T-tony and a few others haven't... haven't... f-fuck...!" he gave up talking, his voice strained and he concentrated on holding the roof up.
"I'm on my way! I've got the joker and two stray kids that were near the bathrooms," Tony said and Lionel heard him fly past the globe down below. "Come on Shadow, let's go before the entire thing collapses!"
Letting out a sigh of relief, he finally decided to drop down when he heard several cracks and creaks. But the moment that he let the weight drop from his shoulders, he was taken by surprise when the roof finally collapsed, caving in completely and Lionel had no time to react. He didn't even have any time to get out of the way as the cement collapsed onto his large scaled body.
"Lionel!" Loki shouted, his frightened and panicked voice the last thing the Mute heard before he blacked out.
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When he came to, his entire body was sore, and he heard the sound of rubble and stone being moved. He didn't know how long he was under the rubble, but it was long enough that he knew people must think he was dead. Finally, the largest of the pieces was removed and light came into view, nearly blinding him and he hissed when he felt a sharp pain jolt through him.
He was barely even conscious when his friends dragged him from where he'd been. But the moment that they all registered he was in deed alive, everything had gone by in a blur of rushed comments, angered shouts, and crying laughter.
And then Clint spoke, "So... one hell of a first trip to the museum, huh?" and suddenly all of the tension lifted and Lionel choked on laughter.
"Yeah... you could say that..." he hummed weakly before collapsing again. This time Thor had caught him, and he was being fussed over by Loki again.
"Alright Fluffy..." Tony said, soft and smooth, "let's get ya home." and Lionel honestly couldn't have been happier to go back home.