ASTONISHING AVENGERS #14
By:Stephen Kelley
Meanwhile on the other side of town cap went to the one Bar that he knew he would find Eric O'Grady in, while Antman tried to be presentable and heroic deep down Steve knew that he went for dumpster dive bars like this for a "quick lay".
Sure enough Steve called it almost to a T as Eric was sitting in the middle most stool hitting on the female bartender and intoxicated like no tomorrow which deep down in places he didn't discuss with other people really disgusted and angered Steve, it wasn't the drinking part that bothered him it was the fact that Eric would get "wasted"that did "Eric"Steve said taking a seat two stools down to which O'Grady then perked up like somebody had stuck ice cubes in the back of his pants "what do you want"Eric slurred "do you need me to shrink down and see if you're "patriot act" can still filibuster the ladies" Eric drunkenly giggled to which Steve then retorted "no but I am interested to see if the Pym particles can shrink individual parts of your body so that way you can literally have your own head buried up your ass like now".
To which almost everyone in the bar turned around and a drunken Eric even had his jaw drop "you, you just swore your Capt. America you can't swear"Eric said turning white "children look up to you, mothers name their kids after you, you even got to choke the vice president and get away with it" "that was a tabloid reading although there was that one time with the punisher" "exactly wait what"Eric stammered now confused, "Eric listen to me very carefully I need you to go back to your apartment and I need you to sleep and after your hangover is gone I want you to come to the tower do you understand me"Steve said firmly putting his hands on Eric shoulders "oh okay"Eric said looking like a little kid who just had his toys taken away from him.
Steve went to address everyone on the bar and even after he calmly and politely said good night and apologize for the interruption people were still staring at him with their mouths agape to which Steve retorted "oh come on, now you're all just being ridiculous I may be from the 30s and 40s but even back then we swore"before pinching his nose in frustration and walking out the bar.
Toward Midtown Angelica caught up with and helped Darkhawk disable a Maggia transport truck that was reinforced with tech from A.I.M., "thanks for the assist Angie"Chris said graciously as he tried to quickly fly off but Angelica flew right in front of him "look Chris I know you don't want to talk about it but we do need your help" "why has Ironman run out of ideas"Chris sarcastically spat before seeing the look on Angelica's face and decided to give her a chance as they flew to a nearby rooftop and Firestar explained to Chris everything that went down after everyone abruptly left, "so the Kal'thraky Queen implanted some nano bugs on Tony and Cap, I vaguely remember when I actually stumbled across their multidimensional invasion plans that they were going to try to control some very important people but I didn't know how" "look I realize you're not an official avenger but you're the only one Chris who knows partly how these people work inside and out and even then I know that Tony would actually appreciate your help" "well when you butter me up like that how can I say no"Chris jested to which Angelica chuckled in the two flew off to regroup with the other Avengers.