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"...is Living Scenery. Rogers and Romanoff for this game, with two members from the audience." Fury stands, roving mic once more in hand, and starts moving towards the rows of people. He passes by the front row where he knew the Asguardians to be sitting, seeing as how he'd already included Thor in a game - he was actually kinda looking for Bruce now - but wait. Pausing, Fury turned back to see if his eye had been correct; the Asguardians had multiplied, plus one!
Thor was still seated at the isle seat, grinning like a loon, Loki bound next to him. To Loki's other side, however, there were three young-looking men in Asguardian attire; one with a red bushy beard, another with kinda sticky-up dark hair, and the third was a somewhat more well-groomed blonde.
"Who the heck are these guys?" Fury inquired of Thor, but the other blonde quickly spoke up.
"We are the Warriors Three! I am-"
"Hush! I didn't ask you!" Fury cut him off, glaring, before again looking to Thor with an eyebrow raised.
"They are some of my dear companions from Asguard, called the Warriors Three, for they fight together. I brought them here to partake of these joyous Midguardian games! "
"That's nice," Fury began to say, losing interest, when someone down the row caught his eye. Aha, exactly who he'd been looking for! "You!" Fury bellowed, pointing at the figure, the person of whom visibly jumped. "And you," Fury went on, pointing now to Thor. "because I need two. Get a move on."
Bruce sighed, talking quietly to the brunette woman next to him, she smiling warmly and patting his hand, before he reluctantly stood and started to make his way towards the stage. Thor, encouraged on by his companions, passed care of Loki on to them and joyously made the journey, though short, back up onto the stage once again. They were greeted by their teammates, mainly Steve and Natasha, seeing as how they were also standing center-stage by this point, as well. Fury was now back, seated at his desk.
"Right, game is called Living Scenery. You two," pointing to Rogers and Romanoff, "Have to act out a scene using a number of props; however, seein' as how I can't be bothered t'spring for any props, you'll have to use those two," he now pointed to Thor and Bruce, "as the props. The scene is: You're newly weds honeymooning on a tropical island when some natives come and try to kidnap the new Mrs - that's you, Natasha - and offer her up to the angry volcano. Go."
"Look!" Steve suddenly spoke up after a beat of silence, pointing to Thor, and, in a deadpan tone followed up with, "A coconut tree."
"...And a banana tree." Natasha quickly joined in, smirking a bit smartly towards Bruce. She folded her arms, looking over Bruce for a moment before turning to glance at Thor. "Neither of them are terribly tall for trees, are they?" Natasha inquired as the two living props attempted to stretch their arms out over their heads at strange angles, trying to replicate a tree of some sort.
"Oh, well there - now they're a little taller." Steve amended upon seeing their attempts, crossing his arms over his chest and smiling at Tasha. She blinked, slowly nodded, then sniffed and moved off to the side a few steps. She lifted her head and breathed deeply, her hands now at her sides. A small smile graced her lips.
"What a beautiful beach scene it is here - don't you hear the ocean waves crashing? Or the seagulls?" Natasha asked, smiling much too innocently at Steve, then turning to raise her brow towards the two living props.
Bruce hesitated a moment, glancing at Thor from the corner of his eye, then went on to make wind-like noises. He stood to Tasha's side and waved his hands to and fro, attempting to imitate the tides rolling in and out. It still sounded more like a tornado imitation rather than crashing waves, but...
"Caw!"
...It was still slightly better than Thor's seagull imitation.
"Cah! Caugh!" The large blonde was putting his hands round his mouth and making any bird-like noises he thought might suit. "Caaaw!"
"Is that a black bird?" Steve questioned, looking rather confused, head tilted to the side.
"I do believe it is." Natasha agreed, using one hand to shield her eyes as she looked off to the horizon. "And it's coming this way!" Without missing a beat, Thor stepped forward, arms out and flapping as if he were a bird.
"Wow, it's huge!" Steve commented, then squinted at Thor and said, "Hey, it looks like its carrying a message!" Thor pretended to land in front of them by doing a little hop, then reached into his pocket and pretended to pull out a note and handed it off to Steve.
Steve then proceeded to pretend at unrolling the message and said, "'You are about to be attacked by natives seeking to appease a volcano.'" He blinked, furrowed his brow, then looked from Thor to Natasha and said, "What kind of a message is this?" Thor simply shrugged, while Natasha looked very concerned over something.
"An accurate one I fear - I can hear footsteps coming this way!"
Again sharing a side-glance, Thor and Bruce started to stomp their feet.
"It was nice of them to warn us, I guess." Steve quietly observed, pretending to look down a path to try and spot the natives.
"How're we gonna call this one, Captain?" Natasha asked, also looking down the 'path.' "They're almost here." Steve looked to her, then slowly looked about the stage, then seemed to come to an idea.
"The jetpacks!" He rushed over to Thor, then stopped and turned to Nat. "You packed yours too, didn't you?"
"Of course," Natasha said with a smile, slowly ambling over to Bruce. "Never leave home without it."
"Good. Now, let's hurry and get out of here." Steve said, a concentrated frown upon his face as he 'buckled' himself onto the jetpack by having Thor's arms encircle his torso. Thor was trying not to laugh, very focused on doing his part properly and as well as was possible. Bruce wasn't fairing quite as well, his face a beat red and Natasha had to try twice to get herself 'buckled' in with Bruce's arms around her.
"Three, two, one - blastoff!" Steve quickly counted down, then blanched and let out an indignified squeak-sort of noise as Thor actually bodily lifted Steve up off the ground. Thor walked across the platform, holding fast as Steve squirmed and kicked against his grip, and finally set him down on the other side. As soon as his feet touched down, Steve not-so-subtly stepped away from Thor. Bruce and Natasha, on the other hand had, much more sedately, simply walked across the platform.
But then, on the last step, Bruce tripped. And fell right off the platform.
Natasha had, of course, been able to disentagle herself from him before he'd even started to trip; however, another problem was very quickly becoming quite evident...
"Oh dear, we seem to have landed closer to the volcano." Natasha steadily observed, watching Bruce. He had apparently hurt himself in some way, as, well...he was starting to transform. The Hulk's bellow suddenly reverbeated throughout the set.
"Yep, that's quite a roar." Steve said, as Natasha began taking a few steps back.
The scene sort of developed into choas after that, what with the Hulk jumping 'round and the audeince being fearful for their lives and all...
"Thor!" Fury bellowed above it all, "Take Hulk outside, and see if you can get him to calm down!" Thor nodded; and somehow, this actually proved to be accomplished with minimal damage. A few railings would have to be replaced, and several audeince members would have to re-find their seats, but all in all it really wasn't bad.
"And, that's one way to end to that game." Fury mumbled, shuffling the papers on his desk to see what was up next.
"I told Bruce, he should always make sure his laces are tied..." Tony commented, sagely shaking his head as Steve and Natasha went back to their seats.
"Enough with that," Fury commanded attention from all four of them, then when he had it, went on. "Next game is..."
At first I wasn't gonna be puttin' the Hulk in yet...and he really didn't get much airtime at all, but...Sorry! Could not help myself. xD He just kinda, naturally wrote himself into that, there. I hope you guys enjoyed! I am sorry it's been such a wait. Hopefully will not be quite so long before the next update!