Hi everyone how are you?
I remember when Steve asked if anyone wanted to get out of the elevator before he duked it out with his opponents. Recently a parodic idea came to me in which multiple yet unexpected individuals take advantage of that opportunity to do just that in silly moments. And now I've decided to use it and I hope you'll all enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own "The Winter Solider", its characters, or any other character you might recognize.
Setting: The Triskellion-Washington D.C.
Location: Elevator
Steve observed as a number of fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. agents entered the elevator with him, members of the S.T.R.I.K.E. force included, and sensed something was up. As they continued to fill up the elevator and surrounded him it didn't take long for him to ascertain they were positioning themselves to apprehend him or worse.
He even began to feel a growing suspicion that this might be connected to Fury's murder though he couldn't be sure. But he knew whatever was about to transpire and whatever it was connected to couldn't be anything good.
Once the flow of fellow agents into the elevator had ceased and its doors closed, trapping him inside with them, Steve spoke up.
"Before we get started, does anyone wanna get out?" he questioned them seriously in case someone genuinely wasn't in the elevator to fight and perhaps also to give one of his potential opponents the chance to withdraw before he kicked their butts.
Before anyone could respond and anything could commence, there was a bit of shuffling heard below them and bending their head downwards they saw a lean grey cat below them. That particular cat happened to be Tom himself from "Tom and Jerry".
"Um yeah, excuse me guys? Not tryin to be a botha or anything but I'd like to get out of here and IIIIIYEEEEEEEEE!," he began before howling loudly and rocketed upwards as his butt was poked quite painfully and turned bright crimson red while his round eyeballs literally bounced from his sockets. He collapsed back onto the floor and immediately whirled around to find his highly irritating small orange mouse nemesis Jerry holding a fencing sword and sporting a cheshire grin before quickly skedaddling with the cat in hot pursuit.
The chase sped around Cap's legs and the legs of the other agents with the two creatures popping behind said legs during certain intervals, the mischievous mouse giggling and poking his tongue out at his pursuer while Tom had his paws outstretched and kept trying to grab ahold of him.
Soon Jerry leapt upwards and pressed the elevator button, allowing its doors to open and him to skyrocket out of there. Tom sped after him but the elevator doors rapidly slammed shut afterwards resulting in him crashing face forward and arms outstretched into them with a THUD. Reorienting himself he followed Jerry's example and repeatedly leaping up kept jabbing the elevator button until the doors finally opened once more and he dashed out the door and after Tom before the doors closed behind them.
The human occupants within the elevator all exchanged bewildered looks.
"What on Earth was that?" one of the burly agents questioned with a befuddled expression upon his face. As for Steve, he couldn't even find the words. As they all exchanged looks the tension between Steve and the others began to increase once more and they all began to ready themselves. Before they could get started however, a swirl of sparkling golden magic appeared behind them and emerging from it was a gorgeous looking red head dressed in a sky blue gown and wearing a tiara upon her head.
To Steve and the others she reminded them of some kind of fairy tale princess.
Suddenly she began singing a melodic sounding tune.
Afterwards she opened her eyes and saw she was inside of an elevator with a bunch of buff looking fellas.
"Oh, um, wow um, this is most certainly awkward. Shall I assume this is not where I'd intended to be?" the princess looking woman questioned them with an awkward smile while taking in her surroundings.
Steve shook his head in amusement.
"No, probably not ma'am. You're actually in Washington D.C. and as you can see but on an elevator," he chuckled.
The woman blushed.
"Whoopsie. Well my name is Princess Giselle and I'd actually gone back to my realm known as Andalasia to pick up some of its most delicious fruit for my one true love and his precious daughter as part of a yummy picnic we'll be having and it looks like I took a wrong turn. Oh well. Sigh," She explained with a shrug and a bemused smile. "I guess I'd better be off then," she finally said before dissipating in another swirl of golden magic.
Everyone stood in silence following this, well, whatever that was.
"That was weird. But she is kinda hot," Brock stated with an impressed expression before smirking to which some of his fellow S.T.R.I.K.E. agents agreed with approving grunts. Steve on his part only shook his head and rolled his eyes.
"So we gonna do this or what?" one of the burly agents questioned, ready to get this show on the road, to which everyone tensed once more and another one of the S.T.R.I.K.E team readied himself to turn and jab his electric baton into Steve's abdomen. Before he could they all suddenly heard a loud beep beep emanating around them and followed by the emergence of first the head and then the rest of the body of a tall, blue, feathery, long necked roadrunner with a yellow beak. He popped up from behind their legs before racing around them at tremendous speeds while chased by a scruffy looking brown coyote.
The chase continued around their legs, upon the elevator walls, and over their heads and this continued for quite some time until a new swirling portal opened up and they exited through it before said portal closed behind them.
"Hey. Wasn't that coyote creature Wile E. from that cartoon series? I think it's called "Looney Birds" or "Hootey Tunes" or something like that? And that birdie was I think Roadrunner?" another S.T.R.I.K.E. member spoke up with wide eyes.
"Um, yeah. I think it was them. What are the odds?" another agent confirmed and shook his head in wonderment.
"Ya know, and I get we're supposed to cheer for Roadrunner and all but sometimes I can't help but feel sorry for Wile E. I mean all that effort to catch that bird and he keeps evading his grasp? A part of me just wishes that poor coyote would catch a break," yet another agent stated with a thoughtful expression to which some of the other occupants either nodded in response or grunted in agreement.
For Steve however, he was Team Roadrunner all the way.
Following this latest respite the tension within the elevator began to emerge once again and they all began to ready themselves for their long overdo fight but before they could recommence a smooth cheery voice was suddenly heard behind them.
"Oh hey there fellas. How's it going?" he voiced out enthusiastically causing their heads to whip around as a highly familiar individual dressed in a red spandex suit with katanas strapped to his back greeted them.
"Deadpool?!" an agent gasped out in shock.
"Wade?" Steve also voiced in surprise, having crossed paths with the energetic and sometimes trash talking vigilante a number of times.
"Yeah buddy I mean I haven't seen you in quite some time I mean wow," Deadpool continued on.
"I'm sorry but how in the world did you get in here?" Steve then questioned, neither he nor the other agents present having noticed his presence.
"Oh wouldn't you like to know," the other man voiced mischievously. "I'll just say that it's a trade secret. After all a magician can't reveal all of his secrets," he added as if that were the most obvious thing in the world. He then looked around and noticed that everyone around him seemed to be in a borderline fight mode.
"Wait a second. Did I just stumble into a knock down drag out? Or maybe you guys were about to engage in a bit of rumble tumble? Man I always have the worst timing," he wondered and then smacked his forehead at the last statement. "I mean I always really have the absolute worst motherfu-"
"LANGUAGE!" Steve quickly and abruptly spoke up causing Deadpool to groan.
"Ahh dang man. You're really no fun are you? Just like that son of a bi-"
"LANGUAGE!" Steve sharply spoke up again, not in any mood to listen to another of the other man's latest cuss filled rants.
"Ugggh. You're killing me here," Deadpool groaned before letting out an overly dramatic sigh. His voice then turned cheerful again.
"You know I'd love to stay and chat with you all but I've got an appointment with this hot gal and you know what they say. Don't leave a woman waiting and especially if she's a tigress in bed. So toddles y'all," he said to them all while grinning salaciously underneath his mask. And then as quickly as he'd appeared he'd suddenly disappeared and leaving everyone flummoxed except for Steve who was used to the vigilante's antics. Though even he couldn't help always wonder how he conducted his appearing and disappearing acts like this one.
With this latest interruption now over, Steve geared himself up for the long awaited battle yet again and the other agents began to position themselves closer to him with hostile intent though that was already a given all things considered. But then at that particular moment they heard what sounded like another portal opening then closing before shortly thereafter followed by bickering.
"Well this certainly isn't the Pridelands or the African savanna at all. I mean really Pumbaa why did you have to fumble things up?" a voice was heard animatedly giving the business to someone named Pumbaa and upon looking downwards Steve and the others saw that the voice belonged to a tan looking meerkat who was standing atop a burgundy looking warthog.
"Whaddaya mean I fumbled things up Timon?!" the warthog, presumably Pumbaa, countered indignantly. "You're the one with the portal watch and if you had punched in the right coordinates we would be at Pride Rock right now instead of in the middle of a dogonne elevator. At this rate we're gonna miss Kion's presentation."
"Well maybe I would've properly punched in the right coordinates if someone hadn't felt he needed to belch in the middle of it which royally messed up my concentration. And now I'll have to try again," the meerkat now known as Timon fussed back while looking over his watch.
"You guys lost?" Steve questioned them with a bemused smile, causing both creatures to look up at him.
"Well no. Not exactly lost. More like took a wrong turn and because my moronic buddy here had to distract me with his loud belch before I could get us to where we were meant to be going," Timon answered and explained while giving his close friend a pointed look to which Pumbaa rolled his eyes. "I just need to punch in the correct numbers and we should be in the correct location," he added then punctuated by putting in the proper coordinates.
"And that," he stated while punching in the first number, "should," he added then punched in two more numbers, "do it," he finally finished and after which yet another portal reopened and the two animals were sucked into it while howling all of the way before it dissipated.
In response everyone either shrugged, chuckled, or shook their heads in amusement.
"Well hopefully they'll finally get to where they intended to be," an agent commented with everyone else in agreement Steve included. Afterwards they once more prepared themselves to begin their continuously delayed battle with the heroic captain when they found themselves interrupted yet again by yet another pair of visitors. This time from a galaxy far, far away.
"Oh my poor circuits. I believe we have somehow stumbled into the wrong location and this is most certainly not Naboo," a tall humanoid looking and golden colored droid commented to his significantly shorter and rounded companion, also a droid and with a dome shaped head while his body was white with blue stripes and equipped with four legs which reached the floor.
The shorter droid responded with a series of beeps and whistles.
"Yes R2 I'm perfectly aware we're going to be very late for the ceremonies for young Ben Solo, young Jaina Skywalker, and her twin Jacen. Oh their poor parents will be most displeased we missed such a momentous occasion for their offspring," the golden droid snapped back and then added bemoaned.
R-2 then let out another series of beeps and whistles.
"You're quite right R2. We most certainly should not have tampered with that triangular shaped hologram or we wouldn't be in this position," he admitted to which R2 let out some very pointed beeps towards his friend.
"Don't you dare put all of the blame on me considering you were just as much a part of this as I was," he shot back indignantly and then sighed. "But enough of that. What matters is somehow getting us back to our own galaxy."
The golden droid then looked up and suddenly noticed everyone surrounding them.
"Oh I'm terribly sorry everyone. I'm C-3PO. Human Cyborg Relations and this is my companion R2-D2," C-3PO introduced himself to everyone. "We were supposed to be headed towards the planet Naboo for a special ceremony and well let's just say that messing with something we should have not has transported us to this strange lift and now neither of us know how we're supposed to return home. Dear me."
Steve grimaced in response. Feeling sorry for the two droids who he and the others happened to recognize due to having watched the "Star Wars" original trilogy, the prequel, and the Mandoverse in addition to the other agents having lived life even if they hadn't watched the pertaining franchise.
"So the "Star Wars" galaxy is real after all. Who knew?" one of the agents quietly muttered to himself though his words were overhead by those closest to him plus Steve.
"I'm sorry to hear that you guys. But you know what? I actually have a good friend of mine who can help you return to where you need to be. In fact I can contact him right now if you'd like," Steve replied sympathetically and then offered them.
"Really? You can do that for us? Oh yes that would most certainly be wonderful," C-3PO responded joyfully while R2 released delighted whistles to which Steve chuckled. Afterwards the hero extracted his cell from his pocket and dialed his friend Dr. Strange informing him of the present situation with the droids. In response Strange created a portal where he was and transported himself to the elevator where his friend was and after introducing himself to the droids he created another portal to their own galaxy and Naboo to be exact which C-3PO and R2-D2 utilized and profusely thanked both Strange and Steve for their assistance as they exited said elevator.
Strange then created another portal and after ascertaining whether or not Steve was alright and getting reassurances from his friend, used said portal to return to where he'd originally been.
For a while there was silence, everyone still absorbing the apparent fact that the galaxy far far away was indeed a real galaxy and that they'd just been visited by a couple of its residents.
Eventually they all began returning to battle mode during which Steve repeated his earlier question before all of the unexpected and preceding visitations.
"I'll ask you all again. Before we get started. Would anyone like to get out?" he questioned them once more and they all looked at each other. All of a sudden they heard a voice from behind that clearly belonged to an elderly individual.
"Um me lads. I'd like to get out please," he was saying to them while gesturing with his hand raised and turning around they saw it was a short elderly man with whitening hair, a grayish white mustache, and a wrinkled face while wearing shades over his eyes.
"Sorry about this lads. But my name is Stan Lee though none of you have probably met me before," he introduced himself. "You see but I'm the janitor within this building though I do have a litany of other jobs here and there throughout the city. I've been trying to get off of this darn elevator for some time but with all those other folks getting off I wasn't getting the chance to do so as well. But now that they're gone I can finally get off now if none of you mind," he then explained further and with a hopeful smile.
Steve in response waved his hand forward.
"By all means," he smiled back and nodded congenitally to which Stan Lee with a grateful nod reached over and pressed the appropriate button and a moment later the elevator doors opened and allowed him to exit before the doors closed behind him. Leaving Steve and the other agents back inside.
With this mysterious Stan Lee person having been the latest one to appear among them, everyone decided to wait for a while in case they received any more random visits from anyone else. And they waited. And waited. And waited. And waited. And waited some more until they were finally satisfied no one else was going to, well, um, pop up so to speak.
With that settled the burly agent in front of Steve whirled around towards him once more and finally managed to jab his electric baton into Steve's abdomen and the fight finally began in earnest.
End Of This Chapter
Alternate Ending Within The Next Chapter
A/N This was originally intended to be the only ending but then as I was writing the part with Dr. Strange a thought occurred to me in regards to two different endings and didn't know which one to choose. Therefore I've decided to go with both endings and the first one being this chapter's ending. And so you'll all see the alternate ending next chapter.
Anyway but what did you guys think and did you all have a good laugh?
Regarding Stan Lee I personally think the elevator scene would've been a good place for him to have cameoed in as I think pointed out by someone else. And so I included him.
For those who don't know of two certain characters I'd mentioned, Giselle is the magical princess from the live action/animated Disney movie entitled "Enchanted" while the lion cub Kion is the third and youngest cup of the reigning lion Simba from "The Lion King" franchise and the latter's queen Nala after their first two offspring Kopa and Kiara. Kion was also the main protagonist within the pertaining franchise spinoff entitled "The Lion Guard".
Have a blessed day.