Maria took the Avengers out of the hospital and ordered them into the mini bus, grabbing Steve's arm as an indication he should wait.
"How are you feeling, Steve?"
"Fine. It's a dislocated shoulder, Maria. I'll live." He gave a small smile. "I've been shot, stabbed, blown up, drowned and beaten into a coma by my best friend. This," he gestured to his right arm, which was now resting in a sling, "is nothing compared to any of that.
"You cried out in pain in the E.R." Maria raised an eyebrow.
"That was Bucky actually, and it was because he saw them forcing my shoulder into its socket.
"Have you ever dislocated your shoulder before?" She sighed.
"Ah... I haven't." He admitted.
"I have." Maria said. "And so has most other SHIELD agent. I mean, Clint hasn't, but he's been put in a body cast a few times. And he's been deafened. Broken arms, collar bones, femurs, ribs, fractured skulls, shattered pelvises, vertebrae and compound fractures, child abuse-mind control..."
"What are you getting at, Maria?" Steve asked, quirking an eyebrow.
"So… He's had it worse. Worse than anyone." She shrugged. Steve looked over at the archer, who was laughing exaggeratedly at the back of the mini bus with Natasha, who was blushing.
"You wouldn't think it, looking at him." Steve muttered. "Get in." Maria said. "We're going back to the hotel now." Steve struggled into the mini bus before Sam helped him in. Maria got in afterwards.
Back in their hotel room, Bucky was helping Steve get dressed into his pajamas and apologizing profusely for hurting him, while Sam was rearranging Steve's bed to make it easier for him to sleep with the sling on. There was a knock at the front door and Sam went to answer it. It was Clint.
"Hey, it's just me." Clint smiled. "I come bearing food." He said, waving a boxed pizza in front of the three army veterans.
"Let him in." Steve shouted across the room. "Clint, hey."
"Today went well." Clint said, throwing the pizza onto the table. "Apart from where Bucky pulled your arm out of its socket. How long will it take to heal, by the way?"
"Maria thinks that because of the super soldier serum that it should only take around 5 or 6 days for me."
"Better than 3 months." Clint rolled his eyes and threw himself onto Steve's bed.
"Hey, watch it!" Sam said. "I spent 20 minutes arranging those pillows for Cap."
"Sorry, Sam." Clint sat up at the foot of the bed. "I didn't notice."
"That's fine, Clint. Don't worry." Sam sighed, not quite forgiving Clint.
Steve broke away from Bucky with his pajama top not quite on properly. "What kind of pizza is this?" He asked.
"Uh... Just plain cheese." Clint shrugged, opening the box. Steve's eyes widened as he grabbed two slices with his good hand, sandwiched them together and took a bite.
"Wow." Clint looked horrified as he watched the other super-soldier do the same and also grab a slice with his prosthetic hand to eat later.
"I know, right." Sam laughed. "There's only three slices left for us." Steve quickly nabbed another slice of pizza and shoved it in his mouth.
"Make that one slice each." Clint said, quickly claiming his slice. Sam narrowed his eyes at the others and pounced on the final slice.
Over in Maria's hotel room, the atmosphere wasn't quite as welcoming, as she and Natasha were punishing Tony.
"Why do I have to room with Thor?" Tony asked. "Why can't Bucky? You know, since he's the one that actually pulled Spangles' joint from its socket."
"Because you were the one that provoked Steve by mocking Thor." Maria said.
"Steve was standing up for his teammate and Bucky was just making sure that he didn't murder you." Natasha folded her arms.
"And don't call him 'Spangles', he doesn't like it." Maria growled.
"Does the same...?" Tony began.
"Yes, the same also goes for 'Capsicle', now am I clear?"
"Who's gonna make sure Banner doesn't Hulk-out?" Tony asked. "I mean, that's an important job..."
"That would be me." Natasha said, sternly. "And Sam is looking after Steve for the time being."
"I thought he only looked after veterans' mental health?"
"Don't push it, Stark." Maria growled.
"I really wouldn't push it, Tony." Natasha said. "Maria can be worse than Bruce when she's angry."
"What, so she's She-Hulk?"
"Tony. Seriously." Natasha spat. "Shut the fuck up before you say or do something you sincerely regret, something that isn't just a black eye."
"Get to Thor's, NOW!" Maria barked and frightened Tony out of the room. Next chance he got, he was testing out his Hulkbuster armor on Maria.
Thor was in his hotel room alone, eating popcorn and watching Pirates of the Caribbean on the Disney Channel. He was on his phone to his girlfriend Jane.
"This type of entertainment should be introduced to Asgard." He said as he shoveled popcorn into his mouth. "My friends shall be most delighted to watch these little people doing such extraordinary feats inside such a tiny box."
"Thor, nobody's doing anything inside the TV." Jane laughed.
"But this Captain Jack Sparrow man is on a pirate ship in this little box." Thor insisted. "Just a few short minutes ago he was on land."
"Remind me to tell you how movies work when you get back."
"I shall, Jane, for I would very much enjoy to learn about these 'movies' and what they are."
"What they are?" Jane asked. "Thor, you're watching one. And you're in four." She added.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing." Jane said quickly. "How do you understand cell phones but not movies?" She asked. Before Thor could answer, he was interrupted by a knock at the door.
"Jane, we shall have to continue this conversation on another day as one of my fellow Avengers is at the door of my hotel room."
"Which one?" Jane asked. Thor pulled the curtain back slightly.
"It appears to be the Man of Iron." Thor said with a puzzled look on his face.
"Alright, I'll see you in two weeks."
"You too, Jane." Thor said, hanging up the phone. He opened the door and held his arms out. "Man of Iron!" His voice boomed as his arms wrapped around Tony's body. "How joyous it is to see you once more!"
"Thor, you saw me earlier." Tony said, trying to push himself away from Thor's intense grip.
"It is most wonderful that you chose to join me at this time." Thor pulled away from the hug and Tony closed the door with his foot.
"Why?" He asked skeptically.
"I was watching these tiny people in this box do impossible things." Thor pointed at the TV. "But they clearly aren't impossible to Midgardians. Maybe only us Asgardians." Thor mused.
"Thor, most of what you're seeing is CGI." Tony rolled his eyes.
"CGI?" Thor asked, confused.
"Computer generated imagery."
"This is a computer?" Thor asked, tapping the TV screen.
"No, it's a TV." Tony replied. "But most of the movie was made by computers."
"Fascinating." Thor said. "I had no idea computers were so intelligent."
"They aren't." Tony laughed. "Well, you've met JARVIS."
"Indeed I have." Thor smiled. "He is the ghost man that operates Avengers Tower."
"Uh, 'ghost man' isn't the word you'd use to describe him." Tony said, taking his Stark Phone from his pocket and tapped the screen. "Hello JARVIS. Where am I?"
"Hello, sir. You are in the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando Florida." The phone said.
"Your phone speaks like the ghost man."
"That's because he's an AI-that's artificial intelligence."
"So computers do have intelligence?" Thor asked.
"Kind of." Tony said and proceeded to explain (in basic terms) to Thor how computers work. Thor didn't seem to quite grasp it.
Back in Steve's room, Sam had just helped Steve out in the bathroom.
"It's not that I don't appreciate the help, Sam, it's just... Well I feel that I'm capable of brushing my teeth on my own.
"I know, Cap." Sam said. "You're a quick healer."
Steve rubbed his shoulder. "But my shoulder's still sore, damn it."
Sam laughed. "So the great Captain America does swear then!"
"Course I do!" Steve said. "I'm not nearly as clean and perfect as everyone makes me out to be." Steve sat down on his bed. "And..." He began. "I'm not a virgin either, no matter what Clint or Tony try to convince you to believe."
"WHAT?!" Sam laughs in disbelief.
"Yeah, I had sex in 1940...4. 1944."
"Wow." Sam sat down on Bucky's-and temporarily his-bed. "To who?"
"Peggy Carter." Steve smiled blissfully.
"Whoa-Peggy Carter as in founding member of S.H.I.E.L.D Peggy Carter?"
"Yup. That's the one." Steve said. "She was my first girlfriend." Steve began telling Sam stories of the 40s until they both fell asleep.
Phil Coulson entered his hotel room with his two tired children. He managed to put them down to bed immediately before he checked (and struggled with) his email. When he eventually got into his email account, he found one sitting in there from FitzSimmons. He opened it up to read it and was initially shocked by what he read and then amused. Melinda May had told them both that Phil was going. What she had neglected to tell them, however, was that he was only going for a fortnight. Being Melinda May, Phil figured out that it was on purpose. The email was basically Leo Fitz and Jemma Simmons begging him to come back to SHIELD. Some of Phil's favorite parts included the lines "We're like leaves and you're the sunlight for us to photosynthesize-we cannot function without you." "If it's the GH drug, we can work out some sort of antidote." And "PS, it's Fitz-Hunter keeps farting in my cereal.
Phil thought it would be funny to drag this out until either he returned off his-much needed-vacation or until May was kind enough to tell the two scientists the truth-the former being most likely-so he didn't reply to the email, instead smirking as he closed the tab on his SHIELD issue tablet.
The next morning, the Avengers gathered for breakfast at the Pepper Market. Feeling adventurous, Steve decided to brave it and try the Froot Loops, while Bucky and Sam stuck to bagels. Maria and Natasha had fruit cups, Tony had toast, Bruce had Corn Flakes with no sugar, Clint had grits (again) and Thor had the everything.
They each brought out the souvenir cups and had coffee in them-Bruce's was decaf, while everyone else's were not. Once again, everyone marveled at how Thor could eat so much, so quickly.
"So have either you or Clint made plans for today?" Maria asked to Natasha. "I mean, we were going to Animal Kingdom, but that's out of the question due to Cap's injury."
"Yeah." Clint said. "We're going to Epcot."
"Epcot, huh?" Tony smirked. "Yeah, Stark Industries sponsors an exhibit there."
"Really?" Sam asked. "Which one?"
"You'll find out when we get there." Tony said.
"Lady Maria." Thor began with food in his mouth. "These things are delectable." He waved a hash brown in front of Maria's face. "I must know what you call them."
"Hash browns." Maria said coolly. "They're made from shredded potato."
"I like them." Thor smiled. "I want more!"
"No, Thor." Maria said firmly. "Steve and Bucky's metabolisms are 4 times that of an average human and yet together they eat less than you do."
"What is a metabolism?" Thor asked, now chewing on a bagel.
"Metabolism is when you eat food and digest... Uh... Bruce, why don't you explain this one." Maria asked. She took a swig from her coffee, carefully looking at a nervous looking Bruce.
"Well... When you eat food there's calories." Bruce said carefully. "And basically, calories are where you get your energy from in food." He said quickly, before Thor could ask any questions. "Metabolism is how quickly your body converts these calories into energy." Bruce picked up his coffee.
"So why do Friend Captain and Friend Bucky have high metabolism?" Thor frowned.
"Because they're super-soldiers."
"Lady Natasha is also a super-soldier."
"I'm a different kind of super-soldier, Thor." Natasha explained. "I didn't take the serum developed by Dr Erksine. It probably has a different effect than those developed by the Red Room for the Black Widow project."
"You know, I didn't take Erksine's serum either." Bucky scratched his head. "I took one developed by Hydra..."
"I'm ending this conversation." Maria said loudly, before turning to Thor. "No more breakfast." She stood up and started walking away. "Come on, we're going." The Avengers all stood up and walked after Maria.
"Hey, there's Phil Coulson's twin again." Steve said to Bruce.
"I saw him yesterday, right after the accident." Sam mused. "His little boy was the one who shouted out at you guys to behave."
"That looks uncannily like Coulson." Bruce shook his head.
"He might have had a twin brother." Tony suggested.
"Maybe." Steve agreed. "Kept him secret because of the spy thing." Natasha and Clint shared a look and giggled.
"What's so funny?" Steve asked.
"Coulson was an only child." Clint said. "As in, just like you three, Cap, Tony and Bruce-no siblings."
"So who is that then?" Tony asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Natasha smirked.
"Coulson's a Walker?" Bruce asked nervously. "Do we have to get Rick Grimes and Daryl Dixon over here?"
"No. That guy was not a zombie." Natasha rolled her eyes. "He was just a guy who looked like our old dear departed buddy-Agent Phillip Coulson."
"Dude, you watch way too much Walking Dead, pal." Tony laughed.
"Do you have any siblings, Bucky?" Clint asked.
"Uh yeah." Bucky rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "I did. I had a younger sister-Becky."
"Becky?" Clint raised an eyebrow. "Bucky and Becky?" The corners of his mouth curled up into a smirk. "You don't know how happy that's just made me."
"Donny, do we have to go through this again?" Maria growled. The Avengers were all standing at the gates of Epcot. Thor borrowed shorts from Steve and was wearing a Buzz Lightyear t-shirt purchased from Panchito's Gifts and Sundries, the gift shop of the Coronado Springs Resort. He was looking a lot less Asgardian today.
"It is fascinating." Thor examined the Mickey Head orb.
"Donny, please." Maria hissed. If you're gonna get enchanted by that damn ball every time we go to a theme park, then I might as well have left you in New York."
"Donny, just put your MagicBand against the damn glowing orb." Tony said. "And hold it there until the orb goes green." Thor followed Tony's instructions.
"It is green!" Thor shouted. "I have gained entrance to this realm!" The Cast Member manning the entrance looked at Maria quizzically.
"He's foreign." Maria shrugged. "Come on, Donald." She grabbed Thor's arm and pulled him into the park. Tony grabbed some park maps from another Cast Member and Thor wandered over to the old Leave a Legacy walls to look at the people etched onto the tiles.
"Tho-Donny, come on, buddy." Steve said, pulling at Thor's t-shirt.
"But I must look at these Midgardians carved into this metal." Thor whined. "Have they fallen in any Midgardian battles?"
"What?" Tony asked. "No, Thor, this is Leave a Legacy." He explained. "At the start of the new millennium-or rather, just before it-people put their likenesses on these metal sheets basically to commemorate that they'd been to Disney World."
"Is that it?" Thor's face screwed up in thought. "They did not fall for the cause of Midgard?"
"I'm pretty sure that some small percentage did, but not all of them."
"I managed to get FastPasses for Soarin' last night and they're at 12:15." Clint interrupted.
"We have a good two hours before then." Maria confirmed, looking at her phone.
"Wanna do Spaceship Earth to pass the time until then?" Natasha asked.
"What is it like?" Bruce asked.
"Slow moving, buddy." Tony said, clapping Bruce's shoulder.
"Good." Bruce smiled. "Let's do it."
Everyone then walked over to the line-though Sam and Bucky had to drag Thor away from the Leave a Legacy walls-and began to queue up for the attraction.
"That's Spaceship Earth?" Bucky said in awe. "Wow." He looked up at the massive 180 foot ball and its triangular panels above him and smiled goofily.
"Indeed it is, Bucky Boy." Tony said.
"Tony..." Steve growled.
"Steve! Tony!" Maria hissed. "Stop it!"
"They're not going to, Maria." Bruce shook his head.
"I damn well hope they do." Maria folded her arms. "Cap's shoulder's already been dislocated-he's in a sling. What has to happen next? Stark's nose gets broken?" Bruce shrugged.
"Probably."
"Well, I don't wanna take that chance." Maria pulled out her phone.
"Who are you texting?" Tony asked Maria, leaning into her.
in Epcot today. what abot you?
"I see it's Phil." Tony smirked.
"Go the fuck away, Stark." Maria hissed. "This is my private business. I don't interfere when you're off texting Pepper."
"I haven't texted her in three days!" Tony laughed.
"No wonder she's pissed at you, bro."* Clint rolled his eyes.
"How do you know she's pissed at me, Legolas?" Tony's eyes narrowed.
"Stop this fucking Civil War that you're trying to create now, Tony, or I'll have you kicked the fuck out of the Avengers. No More Iron Man." Maria glared at Tony.
"Civil War... What Civil War? Jesus whatever." Tony muttered to himself.
"Stark, no sulking either." Natasha added. "This is the Happiest Place on Earth and I'd like for you to keep it that way."
"Hell yeah." Clint said. "No sulking."
"I do not sulk." Tony grunted.
"Yes. You do." Clint chuckled.
"Tony, you do." Sam agreed. "You sulk so hard that sometimes I swear you're more diva than Paris Hilton."
"Oh gee, you're one to talk." Tony scoffed. "You've been on the team how long?"
"Exactly!" Sam said loudly. "And I know your habits!"
While everyone squabbled and Natasha and Clint tried to reign them in, Maria checked her phone.
Hollywood studios. thank god. stressing me out that i might see the avnegers.
Maria felt relief wash over her. She could just concentrate on the Avengers for today, without having to worry about bumping into Phil or his kids-even though Sam had unknowingly done just that yesterday. They entered the Spaceship Earth building.
"No more arguing. Just shut the hell up." Maria hissed.
"And how many are in your party?" A Cast Member asked, looking on concerned.
"Nine."
"Uh... Two in each row. One in the last." The Cast Member replied as she took out her phone. "Mr. Stark!" She called out.
"Yeah?" Tony asked, turning around to see her. She held her phone out and snapped a picture of him and some of the Avengers in the background.
"I am putting this on Tumblr as soon as possible." She smiled to herself.
A/N: So it was Steve that got hurt-bet you didn't see that one coming! Just because he's a super soldier, doesn't mean he doesn't get hurt! He just heals quicker.
The next few chapters will NOT have much Coulson (sorry, Coulson fans-including me). The next time we see our beloved Avengers, they will be wandering around Epcot. And some of them will have no choice but to stay off some of the rides *ahem* Tony, Cap and Bruce *ahem* so how will they react to that? Will Epcot prove to be a turning point in the relationship of Tony and Cap? Will Bucky stop being in awe of everything Disney World has to offer? Will Thor ever understand Midgardian technology? Find out in the rest of the story. And also, do you have anything special that you do in Epcot and would like to see the Avengers do? Or anything you just wanna see the Avengers do anyway?
*Check out my profile for the t-shirt Thor's wearing. If anyone needs any clarification on any attractions, places or things the Avengers do, then let me know. I'm more than happy to show you.
** Yes, this is a reference to Matt Fraction's Hawkeye. Bro.
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