I actually kind of took almost complete control of this chapter... eheheh... to be fair Frosted was really tired, and then she just went to bed, leaving this chapter in my COMPLETE control, mwahahahaha! So that is how that last section happened }:) I'm not sure she would have been up for that had she been helping me... I don't believe she was too into the song... and it's late and I feel RANDOM!
And without further ado, enjoy the chapter! :D
Clint's feet walked. And they walked. And they walked.
"Yo Clint, where are you going?" Steve asked, as the archer walked (nearly ran) by.
"Wherever my feet are taking me!" Clint answered, grinning.
"And where might that be?" Steve called after him curiously.
"Don't ask me," Clint shrugged, as he continued down the hallway, apparently at a loss to control his single-minded feet.
Steve rolled his eyes, deciding to follow the purple-vested Barton to make sure his feet didn't carry him out a window or something.
So Clint's feet walked. And they walked (ran.) Until they stopped.
"Aha!" Clint said, stopping in front of his freezer. "My feet are clearly telling me that I need to eat some ice cream!"
Steve face-palmed.
"I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!" Clint said happily as he opened up the freezer and took out three containers of ice cream, setting them on the counter and grabbing a spoon. "You want some too, soldier?" He asked Steve. "We have Phish Food, and we have Grasshopper -"
"Fish food and grasshopper?" Steve asked, confused. "Those are flavors now?"
"Yep!" Clint grinned. "But I'm guessing you want plain old honest Vanilla, huh."
"Yes, please," Steve said with relief.
Clint made a face at the super soldier's uninventfulness but handed him a quart of vanilla ice cream. Steve looked at the container with slight confusion.
"You're going to eat it out of the box?" he asked the archer. "Do you even know what bowls are? How about spoons?"
"Oh I know what bowls are, but why use them? And I'm definitely using a spoon," he waved it in Steve's face. "I'm not going to eat it with my hands! But ice cream always tastes better directly out of the carton! What, you didn't know that?"
Steve glared at Barton. "We didn't exactly have a surplus of ice cream when I was growing up. We could hardly afford enough food as it was."
Clint looked slightly sympathetic. "Well, welcome to living with a billionaire in the twenty-first century!" He said, forcing a spoon and the container of ice cream into the soldier's hands. "I'm going to have some Phish Food myself."
He snickered at Steve's revolted face.
There should be a saying: When you want to find Thor, back your car up.
Jane was just backing into her driveway when BAM! Something went flying into her shrubbery.
"What the hell?!" she cried in alarm, throwing her door open and running over.
Only to find Thor lying in her bushes and grinning up at her.
"Greetings, Lady Jane!" Thor said, getting to his feet.
"Oh gosh, I'm so sorry!" Jane apologized hurriedly. "I didn't see you there!"
Thor chuckled. "Do not worry, I am unharmed."
"I swear you do that on purpose!" Jane accused, crossing her arms and glaring up at him. It wasn't very intimidating when her lips were twitching upwards, though.
"I assure you, it was not my intention," Thor said, shaking his head. "However I should probably start looking where I am going more. I am not used to your metal beasts being everywhere."
"Cars, Thor," Jane corrected, smiling at him.
"Of course," Thor said, pulling her into a kiss. "How have you been faring?"
"Oh, I've been well," Jane said brightly. "Even better now that you're here."
And she pulled him into another kiss.
"And you?" She asked. "Last time we talked you were worried for Loki, I believe."
"Aye," Thor nodded. "But he seems to be getting along better with everyone. Though I am still unnerved by his lack of pranks."
Jane suddenly blushed. "Oh my gods, I'm being so rude! We should talk inside!" she said, grabbing the god's arm and tugging him into her house. "Now," she said, eyes shining, once they were both comfortable. "Tell me everything."
Thor opened his mouth to say something, before he stopped, listening. "What is this song that is playing?" He asked curiously.
"Get Back Up by Toby Mac," Darcy supplied, popping up from behind the counter.
Thor yelped, jumping to his feet in surprise.
"Darcy," Jane sighed.
"What?" Darcy said, pushing her glasses back up her nose, and smiling at the couple innocently. "I was just answering his question."
Jane gave her an exasperated look.
"But don't let me interrupt your little chat," Darcy said, putting her hands up placidly. She then reached down and pulled a box out of a paper bag by her feet. "Poptart, anyone?"
Tony stormed into Loki's room, face red from anger, fully intending to yell the god of mischief to death for taking apart Silver Centurion, who lay in pieces on the table.
Only to find Loki with earbuds in his ears and singing to himself.
"Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
Maybe someday you'll look up,
And, barely conscious, you'll say to no one:
'Isn't something missing?'" Loki sang, his angelic voice filling the chamber.
Tony and Bruce stopped.
"You won't cry for my absence, I know -
You forgot me long ago.
Am I that unimportant...?
Am I so insignificant...?
Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?"
"Well damn," Tony breathed. "How am I supposed to be angry at him now?"
Loki seemed completely oblivious to their presence, as he played with the wires of the Iron Man suit and began piecing it back together, singing almost absentmindedly.
"Even though I'm the sacrifice,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?
Please, please forgive me,
But I won't be home again.
I know what you do to yourself,
I breathe deep and cry out,
'Isn't something missing?
Isn't someone missing me?'"
"Isn't that a girl's song?" Bruce asked.
"Yeah, so?" Tony said. He shook his head as if trying to clear it. He should never have put such a sentimental band on his iPod...
"Even though I'm the sacrifice,
You won't try for me, not now.
Though I'd die to know you love me,
I'm all alone.
Isn't someone missing me?
And if I bleed, I'll bleed,
Knowing you don't care.
And if I sleep just to dream of you
I'll wake without you there,
Isn't something missing?
Isn't something..." Loki trailed off, finally seeming to register their presence. He widened his eyes and quickly paused 'his' iPod.
"Explain yourself," Tony demanded.
"I happen to like Evanescence," Loki said haughtily.
"No, I meant about MY Iron Man suit," Tony said, trying to glare. "And no Puss-In-Boots face!"
Loki looked confused at what that meant, but he shrugged. "I just wanted to see how the most advanced mortal technology worked. You are indeed leagues above the rest of your species when it comes to intelligence."
"Yeah, tell me something I didn't know," Tony snarked.
"Do not take a god's compliments lightly," Loki said, tilting his head to the side.
Bruce groaned. "Seriously Loki, you don't need to feed his ego anymore. It's already at Hulk-sized proportions."
"Egotistical jerk, yes?" Loki smirked, a knowing glint in his eyes. "The narcissist with a heart of gold titanium alloy?"
"Ouch," Tony said, lifting his eyebrows and crossing his arms.
"I've been called similar, albeit in Asgardian terms," Loki said casually. "The general populace are never that welcoming of geniuses. And if you've got no one else, you have to at least appear like you have yourself, yes?"
"Alright, what's your play Reindeer Games?" Tony asked, biting his lip.
Bruce glanced between the two of them curiously.
Loki rolled his shoulders, a smile playing at his lips. "That since you ultimately won't trust me to repiece your Iron Man suit, that you let me assist you in doing so."
"You have one maze of a mind, you know that right?" Tony said, shaking his head and chuckling.
Loki tilted his his chin down in acknowledgment.
"Well, since you and Brucie have are Monster Buddies, and he and I are Science Buddies, I only see it fair that we become Genius Buddies," Tony concluded.
Loki accepted his offered hand with an amused twitch of his lips.
"Hey!" Bruce protested, crossing his arms. "Aren't I a genius too?"
"Okay, all three of us are Genius Buddles. But Loki and I are Genius Egotistical Jerk Buddies," Tony corrected. He paused a moment before adding "With Daddy Problems too."
Bruce shrugged. "Fair enough."
Loki rolled his eyes and walked over to the speakers, plugging in his iPod. He scrolled for a few moments before clicking on a song, before heading back over to the table where the three of them began piecing Silver Centurion back together, Tony mumbling "Stupid gods and their robot autopsies."
The song began playing, and Tony whooped.
Loki started singing.
"I am the mastermind
Leaving you all behind
And that ain't no fucking lie
I am the mastermind
It's just a problem of mine
It's like columbine
Co-lum-bine!" Loki screamed, smirking as the mortals flinched.
Tony couldn't help himself and joined in.
"Your time has come
Kiss it all..."
"Good-bye!"
"Your time has come
Kiss it all good-bye"
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
Coming through the night
Thats right
Thats right
Thats right!"
"This message cannot be denied!" Loki continued providing the screaming while Tony sange most of the chorus. Bruce actually mouthed the lyrics as well, though he didn't sing.
"What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
Coming through the night
Thats right
Thats right
Thats right!"
"I am the mastermind
Underline mastermind
Until your pencil breaks
I am the mastermind
Just like a suicide
Your Credit has been denied
De-nied!"
Your time has come
Kiss it all..."
"Good-bye!"
"Your time has come
Kiss it all good-bye"
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
Coming through the night
Thats right
Thats right
Thats right
This shit gonna turn your mamma white!
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
Coming through the night
Thats right
Thats right
Thats right
Oh Pennsylvania
Oh Pennsylvania
Oh Pennsylvania
Oh Pennsylvania..." Tony continued singing, headbanging to the song and working on reconnecting wires at the same time. Bruce had to reach out and steady his hand.
"I am the mastermind
Intelligent by design
It makes me wanna cry"
Tony prodded Bruce with smirk and a nod, but Bruce shook his head, refusing to make the sobbing noises.
"I am the mastermind
And now that I'm satisfied
It's time to say goodbye
Good-bye!"
Natasha suddenly walked into the room, raising one of her eyebrows slightly, just as Loki sang "I will not apologize!"
"What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
What's that ruckus
Coming through the night
Thats right
Thats right
Thats right!" Tony finished with a flourish, taking a water gun out of seemingly nowhere and pointing it at Natasha.
"Bang!" he added. "What are you doing here? Can't you see we evil conniving geniuses are at work?"
Natasha didn't even blink. "I was simply the one appointed to let you three know that we are throwing an ice cream party two floors up."
Tony lowered the water gun. "Well why didn't you just say so?!"
"I just did."
The first song is Missing by Evanescence, and the second one is Mastermind by Mindless Self Indulgence :)
Please review and let us know what you think!