An hour later they where all working in the kitchen. Tony, Steve, and Clint where peeling, and cutting potatoes. While Natasha, Bloom, Flora, Stella, and Tecna where cutting fruit, as everyone else was split between peeling eggs and mashing the yokes.
As they worked in a comfortable silence with some old country music about kicking ass and soldiers serving there country played in the background. When the warm summer day suddenly turned stormy as lightning flashed across the sky.
"Are the trix attacking? Asked the five winx at once prepared to transform at a moments notice.
Before anyone can respond the tower shook when a beam of light landed on the balcony. All the avenger headed out there before the light whirl wind is gone. "THOR!" cried Bloom running up to him letting him pull her into a bone crushing hug.
"My Shield sister. How be thee this fine day."
"Good." she chocked out, "Can you put me down big guy. Your kind of hurting me."
"My apologize fair Madden. I mean not to harm my shield sister." looking at the winx and specialist he put a arm around her, "She of fire dragon whom are these people. Are they are allay."
"Thor these are my friends." pointing to each one and introducing them. "Guys this is the god of thunder, Thor. Don't worry he might not look like it but hes just a big cuddly puppy."
"Its nice to meet you Thor." said each girl one by one. Followed by each guy saying something very similar to it.
Looking up at the sky becoming clearer. "See guys don't worry." turning to Thor, "Wait how are you hear? The last time you where on Earth you said that the bifrost had been destroyed. And that the all father had to use dark energy to conger you here."
"Indeed. We hath used the tesseract to rebuild the bifrost, I have returned to Midgard to return Loki scepter to the rightful place. It belongs on Asgard. Where it can be protected. And no longer be used for evil. Tell me what has happened to it."
"I think Fury has it." said Bloom looking over at Natasha, "You where the last one who saw it. Do you know what happened to it."
"When the SHIELD team came up to asses and detain Loki until Thor could take him back to Asgard, I handed over the scepter. They said it was evidence. I can look into where it might be and give it to you, but I don't think the Director or the council would be to happy about that."
"Sorry buddy."
"Tis fine. Great thanks lady spider."
"Before you head back to . . . candy land, you should stay and drink." said Tony, "What do you say point break."
"Himdal said my friends where preparing for a celebration. What are you celebrating."
"Its the forth of July. The day we celebrate our freedom. And Captains birthday." explained Bloom.
"WHAT!?" exclaimed Clint, "The good Captain America was born on the fourth of July." turning to Steve.
"Clint." warned Bloom and Natasha in equal irritated tones.
"What theres no way he could be more American. Even if he was made of amber waves of grain and hot apple pie."
"I never got the appeal of apple pie." said Steve, "What?" looking at all the confused looks he was getting from the group.
"Of all the things I thought I would never hear that was on top of the list." said Tony at the same time Bloom said, "I'm so glad I went with cherry, and lemon marainge."
Turning to Thor, "Are you staying. Please say yes."
"I would greatly enjoy celebrating the birth of our captain. Song shale be sung of our merry making. Do you have any mead."
"NO." declares Bloom, "I am not letting this group of people get drunk together. That is like asking for trouble."
"Why would you say that?" asked Tony.
"Because I have been drinking with you, I drank with Thor, Sif, Clint, that one night with the winx and the guy, and worst of all Nat. I know how this story will play out and it won't be pretty."
"I promise you niece that we will be good drunks and not get into any trouble."
"Should I remind you of the last time you had a birthday party. Right after the events in Monaco. Do I need to remind you about the fight you had with your best friend."
"Not really. Those house repairs set me back almost two million. But if you let us drink I promise that the suits will be on lock down."
"And Steve shield, and all, and I mean ALL of Clint and Natasha's weapons, and Thor must hand over Mow mew." at this everyone stared at her each with I different look on there face, "What?"
Thor was the first one to speck, "Did you just refer to the mighty Mojiner as Mow mew."
"Yes I did. Is that not how its pronounced." giving him a smirk, "Even still all weapons must be locked down."
"What about your magic?" asked Steve
"I will not be drinking so I don't have to worry about it. . ."
"Plus fairys can't use there magic to its fullest level when intoxicated." said Flora,
"Yeah thats why in the magical dimension we only drink on special occasions." said Musa, "I think this is one."
"So that covers everyone." said Bloom, "But I still will hold back on the drinking because someone has to."
"No you don't have too. I can't get drunk as it is so no point in you missing out."
"Steve its hard for me to get drunk. So it doesn't really matter that much. Plus you haven't seen what my Unca has in the way of alcohol. Trust me even with my own super fast metabolism I get drunk very easily when I raid his stash."
"I knew it was you who raided my booze. Nice job. How did you get JARVIS to delete the video and not tell me who it was."
"Just the right combination of please, hes holding back on updates for you, I help make you I can end you, and if you don't help me I will reprogram you to make you sound like a bad episode of Beverly hill billies."
"What is Beverly hill billies?" asked Steve at the same to as tony was saying, "You are an evil genius."
"Unca Tony your right I can be. Steve it was a show in the late fifties early sixties about a family of red necks who discovered oil and moved to Beverly Hills. It was pretty funny even by todays standers. Its right up there with full house."
"And that is?"
"A really good show about a widower who has his brother in law and best friend move in after his wife dies to help him raise his three daughters." said Natasha.
Tony looked at her bewildered, "How do you know what full house is. It was off the air years before you defected to America."
"She went on missions with me. I used to watch it almost every night." explained Bloom, "Clint would watch it too. We used it to explain some of the American cutler to her."
"Wait she learned about our cutler threw full house? What else did you show her Sweet Valley high."
"Only when it was on. We also showed her some magnum PI. And Hawaii 5- O."
"Come on guys we have to get ready soon were gonna need to get the grills fired up or will be ordering in for dinner tonight." said Clint.
A few hours later after they had demolished ten pounds of potato salad, baked beans, and pasta salad. Forty burgers, five dozen hot dogs, two watermelons, and a ice- cream cake (With Steve's shield on it.) they where all up on the roof talking and some where dancing. Waiting for the fire works to start up.
"So this is how you celebrate on earth?" asked Sky as he and Bloom swayed to the music holding her close.
"More or less. Most of the time there isn't as much food involved, but thats what happens when you have twelve magical beings, one being a super soldier, two more super soldiers, the director and assistant director of a top secret spy organization, a Norse god, two guys that eat like pigs and the CEO of a international corporation."
"hard to believe we demolished all that food. . . . I always wondered how you could eat so much and still be that small."
"What can I say, my metabolism burns three times faster then the average person. Plus I get a good amount of exercise." giving him a gentle smile.
Kissing her forehead, "I love you."
"I love you too. I'm sorry about the last couple of months. I know you weren't to keen about me coming into this mix."
"I wasn't thrilled about it."
"I figured. The past two months we've hardly spoken."
"You have been running all over trying to keep weapons out of the wrong hands. You where trying to do the right thing."
"No. after Loki took control of my mind I got a lot of red in my ledger. I've been trying to wipe it out." looking up at him, "A lot of people died because of me, some where friends of mine."
"It wasn't your fault. You had no control of your actions. Just like me when Diaspro spelled me, or when Stella's father ordered his guards to arrest us. When someone else has control of your mind theres not much you can do."
"I know this. But it doesn't change the fact that I feel guilty. It would be one thing if people had blamed me, but with everyone saying its not your fault . . . it's worse then someone saying it is your fault."
"I don't know what to say."
"Just hold me. I'll be alright." she said allowing him to pull her closer as they danced to the rest of the song.
It was about three songs later before they went and sat down next to Tony who was talking to Tecna and Timmy about self aware computers, and Riven who was talking to Natasha about her fighting style. Over at another on of the tables Pepper was talking to Stella and Musa about fashion and breathable fabrics she could wear on stage.
"We have some strange friends." said Bloom.
"We sure do."
Bloom started to take a drink of her beer, they finely convinced her to drink, when Natasha took the bottle from her hands.
"No. You go back to your old training regiment tomorrow and I don't fancy the thought of a hung over student."
"Alright first, Its only my second beer, second I drank four bottles of vodka with you before I even started to get tipsy. And third our scheduled training doesn't start until eleven thirty which means I need to be in the gym by ten, more then enough time for me to recuperate." taking the bottle back, and taking a drink from it, "Besides your the one who told me to drink anyway."
"Just remember your going to have to get back into fighting shape. Your reaction time has slowed greatly, and you have lost muscle tone in your abdomen and legs. In that last fight it should not have taken you as long as it did to sap that mans neck."
"I know I've let myself go. But I did go into retirement for three years. I was just a normal girl."
"True but it is still no excuse."
"I take it shes a tough teacher." said Riven
"Please shes brutal. When she first started to train me, it was four hours a day, nine times a week. She regulated what I was allowed to eat."
"After two months of what you refer to as torture you where permitted back in the field." Clint pointed out having come back from talking to Fury and Aisha.
"I would like to say that even in my unfit state I can still wipe the floor with Clint."
"Any one with descent training could do that."
"Even in this wheel chair I could still take him." commented Coulson
"HEY! I take offense to that. I faired pretty good ageists you on the ship."
"If that was your best you need some serious work." looking at Bloom, "Both of you need a lot of work."
"Your right I do need a lot of work. But trust me on this I could easily still kick every person in this towers ass. Not counting you." she said switching from beer to vodka.
"And how would you do that?" asked Tony obviously curious.
She snorted into her drink, "You honestly think I don't have a contingency plan for all of you. You Uncle Tony would be put in a anti matter containment bubble that you could not break out of even with the suit, Clint, Fury and Steve I can easily defeat in hand to hand before creating a containment system. Phil would be a bit of a challenge but the same plan still applys."
"Why would Agent be a challenge?"
"He kick the asses of two armed robbers with a bag of flour. . . Maria I would use the new Stark industry tazer on. Thor I would separate him from the hammer, and place them both in magic containment fields."
"What about me dear?" asked Peggy.
"I would put you in a containment sphear. I don't want to have to fight you."
"Don't want to fight an old lady."
"I don't want to fight my Nana."
"You have a plan for us?" asked Sky impressed with her plans such far.
"Simple, you guy mainly fight with weapons so separate them from you followed by using your attacks against me on you guys before creating a cage to keep you in. the Winx aren't as simple, I would have to transform to properly fight them but in the end I know there weaknesses as well as anyones. Nabu would use invisibility spells to fight me giving him a advantage, so I would relay on my training for fighting in the dark to handle him."
"Do you have a plan to deal with me?" asked Natasha, "You have successfully handled everyone but me. What would you do to me."
"You will probably always best me in hand to hand. So I would use Magic to fight but the problem would be that your small and quick. To tell you the truth I don't know how that fight would end. It would be interesting at least. A real to the death match."
"And thats why where no longer enemy." clinking there drinks together, "Between me you and Pepper we could probably take over the world." she said after draining her drink.
"You would be the one with blood lust, Pepper would instill order, and I would be good until it was necessary to be bad." contemplating this for a moment, "Works for me."
"Agents are you plotting to take over the world. . . again" said Fury walking over to the group.
"Director why would we ever do that." asked Natasha sweetly
"It would be wrong." giving him a little puppy dog pout.
"You know I don't believe either of you for a minute." looking between the two, "Your both evil geniuses."
"No Nat is Evil I'm the genius."
"My greatest fear come to pass." said Tony shaking his fist to the sky, "WHY ODIN WHY!"
"Why doth friend Stark ask my father why?"
Patting his shoulder, "Just a expression, big guy." said Bloom, "don't worry about it."
"Just ignore Stark. How do you think I handled being undercover with him. Half the time I didn't know whether I was gonna strangle him or myself." said Natasha
"I would have preferred you just beat him senseless. I like having both of you alive. . . . Well there have been times where I would not have argued about you ending up unconscious in a hospital for a few days back when you where first training me but now no so much."
"What about me kid?" asked Clint, "How do you feel about me."
"Most of the time I've known you I didn't know which of the two K's I was gonna do to you."
"Thats really sweet of you."
This confesses Fury, (he wasn't that good at understanding Bloom and Clints flirty banter.) "What are the two K's?"
"Don't worry about it boss man." said the three spies in unison.
After that theres about a minute of silence where people are just drinking and enjoying the night. The fireworks weren't starting till after nine. When Tony looks up from his phone, "Hey Murder triplet."
Clint and Natasha's "What do you want Stark?" over laps with Blooms, "Where not the murder Triplets."
"Well I was just gonna tell you guy that your all trending on line. Especially Bloom and the red menses."
Jumping up and grabbing the Phone from Tony Bloom stairs at the screen in disbelief. After a minute of staring she mutters under her breath, "Holy shit. This is fucking horrible." before looking up at the group staring at her, "Well I nor Nat will ever be able to work in counter intelligence with our faces ever again."
Thats when Maria specks up, "You know that sense you two are trending that means the PR department is going to try to schedule you for TV interviews. And you are going to do them whether you want to or not."
Natasha looks like she wants to claw her face off and throw it at Maria, but goes with the whole do as your told thing and just say, "Yes Ma'am." specking threw clenched teeth.
"I'll do it but just know that I will not under any circumstances go to PR for training on press me relations. I've spent the past year hearing the advanced version of that crap. I didn't listen to it then and I won't listen to it now."
"Its fine I know She won't either. Just . . . don't kill someone on national T.V and we really won't be to embarrassed. No one knows much about you two. Someone has to tell the press."
Its at that moment that the fireworks start and Thor summons his hammer, "Are we under attack yet again?"
"NO. NO Thor, those are the fireworks." says Tony
"Its how we celebrate our freedom." explains Bloom.
Thats when Clint has to pop up and say, "We eat, Drink, and then blow shit up."
"Where American. Its what we do."
They enjoy the fireworks echoing OHs and AHs throughout the whole thing. By the time its over Fury, Phil and Hill where ready to leave. After they had gone the drinking games began and got serious quick because by the time they called it a night even Steve was drunk, done a keg stand compeating with Bloom and Natasha on who could drain theres first.