Happy Easter

The Wards ENE, sans Shadow Stalker, Cuddlebug, and Weaver, were assembled in the common room of their HQ one moderate spring Sunday.

It was Easter. Some of them wanted to be with the families(Though, not all of them *cough Vista* *cough, Gallant*) but there were a group of Fallen affiliated church groups in town and some violent crimes that fit the MO of Fallen affiliated criminals had been reported. There was no sign of Fallen Capes in town yet, but after what one particular group of Fallen had done to a Wards team who had yet to be rescued, the PRT had wanted all of the Wards accounted for and on-base until after it had been terminated that the Fallen didn't have any of their Masters in town or until the local authorities found evidence linking the Fallen activists to the crimes that had occurred(Giving them the right to arrest the activists, as so far all they'd proveably done was be annoying and rude and that wasn't technically a crime.)

"Five minutes left," Aegis said as he checked the clock. There was a deadline-they all had to be in by Noon today, and three wards werren't in yet.

Four minutes later, the masks on alarm came on. Shortly after, Weaver came in.

Behind her, Cuddlebug walked in. Holding a basket of Chocolate that was bigger than she was.

"Happy Easter!" Cuddlebug shouted up at the rest of the room. "Or whatever else you celebrate if you don't celebrate Easter. You can still have chocolate if you don't." She set the basket down in the middle of the room and then chucked a chocolate egg the size of a goose egg to Vista.

"That raises an interesting question," Browbeat said from his place by the couch. "Easter is a Christian Holiday. You, Cuddlebug, have previously stated that you are a worshiper of the ancient Norse god Thor, which is to say, a Pagan. Are you saying you observe Easter?"

"Modern Thorites acknowledge the existence of the Gods of other faiths," Cuddlebug said as she further distributed the chocolate. "It'd be silly not too after Hercules, Hercules human friend Amadeus Cho, Thor, Venus, Snow Bird, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, and Atum teamed up with Galactus, the Silver Surfer, and Sersi of the Eternals and went into space in a wooden ship that some Australian Gods made to go kill the Skrull Gods when a bunch of Skrull religious fanatics tried to take over the Earth becuase their Gods said to."

There was a moment of silence.

"Also, Mister Fantastic proved the existence of the Judeo-Christian God when he made a mathematical proof of the existence of souls and the afterlife and used it to physically go there to bring the Thing back to life. Said that God took the form of a Comic Book artists when they talked to him. As far as I can tell, all Religions are simultaneously true back where I'm from."

"...You're just fucking with us at this point, aren't you?" Clockblocker asked after a moment.

"Don't swear," Cuddlebug said, "and no. I promise I'm not making any of that up. Anyway, I figured that if we had to be cooped up in here for Thor knows how long, we might as well have some chocolate, so weaver and I stopped and bought some."

"This is high-quality chocolate," Gallant observed. "How could you afford this much?"

"Do you have any idea how much they're paying us?" Weaver asked. "You'd be surprised how much people are willing to pay for exclusive access to an entire universe of Cape culture."

Simultaneously to Weaver's explanation, Cuddlebug pulled back the gold foil from a chocolate egg, contorted her face into an impossibly wide jawed, horribly fanged nightmare image, set the chocolate egg onto her far too long, forked tongue, and used it to pull the egg into her mouth and bit down. she spent the next few moments chewing.

"You can be terrifying sometimes, you know that right?" Vista commented.

"Yep!" Cuddlebug replied cheerfully. "Now, Mister Snuggles got chocolate so he's happy now."

"He likes chocolate?" Kid Win commented?

"Yeah. He says that the chemicals that make brains so yummy to klyntar symbiotes are also in chocolate."

Clockblocker, who was just about to take a bite of chocolate, stopped, held the chocolate egg back, and stared at it. After a minute, he shrugged and took a bite anyway.

A few minutes later, the masks on buzzer went off again, and a little bit after that, Shadow Stalker was escorted into the room by an agent.

It was clear that she wanted to be anywhere but locked up in here right now.

After the agent left, Cuddlebug grabbed a chocolate egg from the basket with an ocktacle and moved to offer it to Shadow Stalker.

Shadow Stalker stared at it for a solid minute before grudgingly accepting the chocolate.

"So," Cuddlebug asked, "what is it that these fallen people do that's got us all cooped up in here instead of out there doing stuff?"

Everyone looked away awkwardly.

"So," Vista said quickly to change the subject, "What's your favorite movie?"

"Oh," Cuddlebug said, falling for it, "I really like the Princess Bride, but the version here is a little different, and..."