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IX. Rhody and the Avengers and the Movie

Pietro got to light the menorah tonight. He carefully lit the shammus candle and let the flame bring life to the the four candles, completely lighting one side of the menorah. The Avengers bowed their heads in respect as Pietro said the blessings.

The minute the ceremony was over "Alright! Movie time!" Rhody bounced off and slipped a DVD in the machine. The rest of the Avengers, Bucky, Magnito, Lorna and the girls gathered around or on the couch. "What are we watching?" Asked Sam.

"It's a secret," said Rhody. "Man, you guys are gonna love it!"

"Does it have a lot of sexy girls?" Tony asked eagerly as Ultron brought the popcorn over. Pepper let out a low growl. "I mean-uh-you know- uh- does it have women because women are a big part of our community-uh-heh heh."

"Yeah. Most of the movie centers around girls."

"Woo-Hoo!" Another Pepper stare. "Ummm...heh...popcorn sweetie?"

The movie started and the Avengers watched as Rhody craftily skipped all the ads beforehand. "Jarvis, dim the lights," he said. Jarvis did so.

"Hark! Where doth the light of artificial go?" Thor shouted.

"It disappeared," Bucky muttered. Then an evil grin swept over his face. "And it will never come back, Thor. We'll be left in eternal darkness forever! There might be monsters that lurk under the furniture, waiting for the right time to strike and grab their prey, no matter what size. Then they'll tear you up until your just bones. No one will know you have wasted away so when people find your corpse thousands of billions of years later, you'll just be a rotting skeleton with select bones remaining."

Thor was paralyzed. "Bucky! That's not very nice!" Snapped Steve. Bucky just gave a childish giggle. Jane had to calm Thor down.

The TV screen changed, revealing the name of the movie. "Black Christmas?" Asked Natasha. "What is that?"

"A movie I watched when I was younger," Rhody answered. "It's really good."

"How come I've never heard of it before?" Asked Tony.

"I dunno," Rhody answered back. "I thought for sure you'd know every movie that came out."

The screen switched open to a college campus having a Christmas party. "This looks good already," Pietro said happily.

The scene switched to a man lurking around the building. "He must be the main character," Ultron commented.

Steve didn't like the sound of the man's breathing. It sounded like a sniper who was going to blow out all the troops in a squadron He glanced down at the case for Black Christmas. Even though it was dark in the room the light from the screen revealed the rating of the movie. R.

"Um, Rhody?" Steve whispered nervously just loud enough for only Rhody to hear. "Why did you get an R rated movie?"

"It's rated R cause it's a little intense. Kind of like Jaws."

"But I didn't like Jaws. And that was R."

"You know, for a guy who was in a war, I'm surprised you didn't like Jaws. And it's now rated PG-13."

The movie continued. For a while the Avengers just sat still, occasionally one of them reaching into their popcorn bucket. Yet the room got a little tenser when one of the characters named Barb got a call and the caller said "I'm going to kill you."

"Tony why did you let Rhody win?" Whispered Bucky.

"What, are you scared? Does Wittul Bwuckey want hwis mwommwy?" Tony said in a sappy voice, the sappiest he'd ever do in his life.

"Shhhh…" said Bruce. Bucky ground his teeth, wishing Tony wasn't such a nuisance. Suddenly he reached down and took a handful of popcorn from Tony's bucket.

"Hey!"

Then the Avengers watched another girl named Clare suffocate to death by the killer dude. Lorna cried out and buried her face into her dad's chest. Thor and Steve were wide eyed while Natasha just sat there and only Clint could see her surprise behind the stone expression.

Phone calls creeped the Avengers out more than anything. So when the killer kept calling another victim, one more Avenger was added to the fearful group. The someone would get killed and the Avengers all would freak out. Except for War Machine.

One by one, each of the characters were picked off by this killer. One by one, an Avenger would freak out and stay that way until the end of the movie. Soon all the Avengers except Ultron, Rhody and Pietro were shaking. Ultron was afraid about what was going to happen next but he didn't want to show it. Pietro was on the brink of loosing it. So when the next murder happened he dashed around to his father and half-hid behind him with Lorna and Wanda.

"Seriously?" Said Magnito.

Ultron became fully fearful when someone was killed with a fire prodder. That just left Rhody, who was enjoying himself.

"I wanna go home!" Whimpered Lorna.

"Me too," said Thor.

"Shhhh…" said hissed Rhody.

"I wanna be frozen in an ice block for seventy years," said Bucky.

"And I'd like to be cryogenically frozen until this is over," added Steve.

The Avengers sat through the entire thing. Finally it ended with some guy speaking to the camera after killing yet another person. The Avengers and girls (and Bucky and the Maximoffs) let out a yell and the movie, being content about scaring them, started rolling the credits.

Rhody turned off the TV on the rolling credits. "So! What d'ya guys think?" He took out the disc and placed it back in its case. Then he turned around and looked at the Avengers, girls, Maximoffs, Bucky and Ultron. Everyone was clinging on to one another, eyes wide and bodies shaking vigorously. "Yay!" Said Rhody. "You guys liked it! Aren't horror movies the best? Alright I'm off to bed!" Rhody skipped off. The others followed soon after, each checking their room twice before entering and checking again before they turned out the lights.

Only Rhody slept like a log that night.


Once upon a time Jaws was an R rated movie. Why? Because PG-13 didn't exist. It didn't appear until around 1984 when parents complained that "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and "Gremlins" (which were rated PG at the time) caused lots of complaints from parents because they brought their young children to these movies with not-so-young-children-like content. So Steven Spielburg came up with PG-13. The end.

Unfortunately I don't have the guts to actually watch Black Christmas. So if you have watched it and I got a detail wrong, please let me know! Also all copyright rights for Black Christmas and Jaws.

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