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Warning: Language
"For your own sake, you'd better have something behind that guitar." Tony glares at Steve.
Steve smiles, "Just relax (Tony)!" Then to Tony's horror, he lifts his guitar. The billionaire averts his eyes but it's a few microseconds too late. He realizes then there was nothing to worry about. Steve actually is wearing his boxers.
"What did you think you were doing? Playing guitar like that in public. Where are Natasha and Clint?"
Pepper finally comes out of her trance. "Tony? Since when did you come over?"
"Long enough to see you fawn over Mr. I-like-to-be-naked-around-here, do you even remember I exist?"
"Of course I do with your constant tweeting you're a little hard to ignore. And don't pretend that you don't fawn over sexy girls yourselves. I have eyes."
"I can see that!" Tony hasn't felt this jealous for a long time but again who could compete with physiques like Captain America and Thor, now that he is thinking about it. He loves his teammates, he really does but sometime he feels a little insecure.
Pepper huffs and folds her arms. "Well if you're done being childish, I can answer your questions. I'd think that you would remember that I was coming over to have you sign some paperwork. I had called ahead, and Natasha requested my presence even though you weren't at the tower. When I arrived, she gave me a brief summary of what's going on with Steve, then ran off to spar with Clint. I'm assuming she was having a hard time handling Steve, as he was already undressed and playing guitar long before I showed up." She winks at Steve's direction when she says the last sentence but Steve is nowhere in sight. Tony wonders how he could run off so fast but again he is a super soldier with or without his memory.
Tony is too tongue tied to reply. Thankfully, as if summoned by his thoughts, Steve appears, and is fully clothed, thank God. Or is it thank Thor or Odin now? He asks, "Why did you playing guitar nearly naked? Where did you even get the guitar?"
Steve shrugs. "I feel more natural and in tune with my surrounding without my clothes on. Besides, I wasn't completely naked. I somehow thought that was the best thing to do with the memory I have. As for the guitar, I purchased it online. I wanted to go out to buy one but Natasha and Clint wouldn't let me. So I did the next best thing."
"How could they deliver so quickly?"
"I just got it from the store in the next block. You have a great location here in the center of the city."
Tony rolls his eyes. "I know. That's why I chose it."
Pepper clicks her tongue impatiently. "If you two have bickered enough, I would like to go back to Stark Industries to work. Unlike some people," she glares at Tony, before continuing, "I need to do actual works. Please sign these, Tony!" She then smiles at Steve. "Nice to meet you, Steve. Cool music by the way. You just need to work more on B Minor Chords in G Major."
"Likewise, Ms Potts, always a pleasure to meet someone who appreciates music."
Tony had just finished signing the documents. He chimes in. "I like music too."
Pepper stares at him. "Sure, if you call the loud noise you play in your workshop 'music'. Ciao, I really must go now."
After Pepper closes the door, Tony turns to Steve and asks, "Have you found Loki yet?"
Steve quickly powers up his StarkPad. "I thought you would never ask. Do you know that Loki has an army?"
Tony rolls his eyes. "That was so May 2012 news. Of course I know. But I think you need to use past tense here as he does not have the Chitauri army anymore."
Steve bursts out laughing. "No, I meant an army of fangirls. I just googled him and he has a lot of fangirls, well, I guess some fanboys too. Equal opportunity and all that jazz. He is very popular."
Tony waves Steve's off. "Please! That mass murderer has fangirls!? You know today is not April's Fool Day, right?"
"If you don't believe me, just have a look at this."
Tony's eyes widen in surprise. Loki does indeed have a lot of fangirls. There are numerous Facebook, PInterest, Tumblr, Twitter, Livejournal and all other social media entries about Loki. "I can't believe it. I need to invent cool things and screw around, let's not be modest here, to be famous. Meanwhile, Reindeer Games here just needs to try to conquer our world to be famous. This is so unfair."
Steve snaps his fingers at Tony. "Tony, focus! You asked me to find where Loki is. I can just track it by the Twitter trend #LokiSighting and see where the latest one is."
Tony remembers the task at hand. "Did you tell Natasha and Clint about this?"
"Clint seemed a little wary at first, and Natasha said she thinks it's something the whole team should deal with. Though I'm not sure if that's because she's attempting to protect Clint, which would be sweet. Or if she genuinely believes that the whole team needs to take part in this. Either way, the last Loki sighting placed him at the zoo, looking at giraffes for some reason. Someone even tweeted a picture, see." There was indeed a picture of Loki smirking up at a giraffe. Tony didn't like it, because an expression like that just screamed mischief. Which, when one is dealing with the God of Mischief, is rarely a good thing.
"JARVIS, please initiate Avengers Assemble."
Steve looks at him hopefully. "Can I go with you? I want to see Iron Man in action. Please, please, please."
As much as Tony likes Steve's fanboying over him, he really needs to be responsible for his teammates' safety. He really hates it when he becomes the responsible one, which should be Steve's job. How the table has turned. "Absolutely not! You don't have your powers or at least you don't remember how to use them. However, I must thank you for locating Loki. I wonder why I didn't think of using the Internet but then again, this whole you not being you thing is a little distracting. I guess that was his plan all along - distracting us. Now stay here and do whatever you do with your new personality. Play music naked or half naked, whatever, Darcy is going to be watching you while we're gone. So maybe on second thought, keep your clothes on while she's here. We'll be back soon, until then don't go out and stay safe."
Soon turns out to be thirteen hours later. The Avengers minus Steve come back with their clothes torn and their whole bodies caked with mud. Loki knew they were coming. He released every single animal in the zoo resulting in mass hysteria. It was not pretty. A lot of SHIELD field agents were called in to cover up for the fact that Loki was free. It was really unnecessary given #LokiSigthing was trending. Tony really needs to inform Fury about SHIELD checking social networking sites for info.
In the end, they have managed to save all the people although some sustain minor injuries. Tony was not sure whether the animals were back to the original habitats or they might have misplaced one or two or three hundred, but he couldn't care less at this stage. Tony thought pettily that at least Loki must have lost some fangirls for causing all that chaos.
Darcy glares at him when she approaches. "Where the hell have you been? I've been trying to ring you for the past two hours. Even JARVIS said you were busy."
"Well, we were busy saving the world, or at least the zoo, so excuse me that I didn't answer your call. What happened anyway? Did Steve get naked? I thought you would be glad if he did."
"No, worse, well, not really worse, but he kept flirting with me which is not like the original Steve or Steve 2.0. I think that must have been Steve 3.0 emerging. He has run off with your sport car!"
Author's Note:
-Happy Thanksgiving for people who celebrate it.
-I'm sorry for the late update. I was distracted by a lot of other things. Just ignore what we learned from Captain America:The Winter Soldier and just pretended that SHIELD is still operational
-OK, the answer about who Steve 2.0 was. He was based on Colin Shea from "What's Your Number?" I'm not really into romantic comedy but I recommend this movie because it's not the typical romcom and it's really funny. Anna Faris and Chris Evans were willing to make fools of themselves.
-Can you guess who Steve 3.0 is? The first person who guessed right would get virtual cookies.
-I think my style of writing has changed and from this chapter onward it would be less outrageously silly but I hope it's still funny. As usual, please tell me what you think.
