For placement, this chapter takes place at least after the events of 'Ant-Man and the Wasp', but it's up to you whether the Infinity War has happened (and then been fixed) or not. 'Civil War' did not happen, though.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own the Marvel Cinematic Universe or any of the characters contained therein.
WORD COUNT: 875
"You really have to stop being kidnapped."
Darcy shook her head, only to stop when the rest of the room started shaking with it. Or at least that's how it felt to her. "I'm trying," she whined at Natasha's remark, "Maybe HYDRA really has to stop kidnapping me. I mean, you'd think they'd figure out it's a dummy-headed idea."
"Actually, it was A.I.M. this time."
"Ohhh… But aren't they supposed to be the science bad guys? Shouldn't they be even smarter, or something?"
Tony, who was helping keep the captured A.I.M. goons contained, snorted. The few goons who were still conscious looked offended.
Darcy waved at Scott in his Ant-Man suit, gasping as if she'd only just spotted him, even though he'd actually been standing there for almost five minutes. "Thank you so much for helping, Scotty!"
Since A.I.M. had taken Darcy to a base not far from San Francisco after kidnapping her, the Avengers had asked Scott and Hope to help with the rescue mission, along with the three 'Wombats', as Hank Pym irritably called them.
"You're welcome!" Scott grinned back at her, though he looked a bit confused as to her behaviour.
He wasn't the only one. "Doll, are you alright?"
Darcy hummed and giggled a bit before answering Bucky's question. "They did give some kinda shot they said was a truth serum, and one guy gave me an aspirin 'cause I had a headache… are you spinning? Or am I spinning?"
Luis, one of the 'Wombats', winced. "Oh, I know how a truth serum feels," he said, "But I don't think I acted like this."
"It could have been a different recipe," Natasha pointed out, gently stopping Darcy from spinning around in the office chair she was sitting on, "Or perhaps this is the result of the two different drugs interacting. Darcy's right; the 'science bad guys' should have known better." She shot a glare at said bad guys, who went from looking offended to piss-in-their-pants terrified.
"I didn't tell them anything they wanted to know!" Darcy protested, "I solemnly pinky swear! They told me to tell them what I learned working with Jane, but I don't think they wanted to know her favourite Pop-Tart flavors and music and TV shows and stuff! But they didn't say they didn't want to know that, so that's all I told them!" She nearly smacked Bucky in the face as she spread her arms in a 'Ta-da!' pose.
Natasha nodded approvingly. "Good use of a diversion tactic," she complimented, "We'll see about teaching you a few more in the event that you find yourself in such a situation again."
Bucky scowled fiercely. One of the A.I.M. agents may have actually pissed his pants at the sight. "I'd rather make sure she doesn't end up in such a situation again, thank you very much." Forget HYDRA and other nutjobs shooting at him; Darcy's rather distressing tendency to get kidnapped or at least targeted for kidnapping was going to be the death of him.
"Hey, we're just glad you're okay," Hope said, smiling in amusement at Darcy's antics.
Darcy grinned back at her. "And I'm so glad I finally got to meet all of you! I mean, I could already say I know the Avengers, and Ant-Man, but now I can say I know Team Ant-Man And The Wasp And The Wombats!"
"Isn't that a bit of a mouthful?" Tony commented offhandedly.
"Do you really have to call us the 'Wombats'?" Luis complained, "I mean, can't we each get our own codenames?"
"And ones that don't sound so lame?" one of the other two added.
Darcy's grin grew even wider, and she pointed right at Luis. "Ooh! I've got one for you! You can be… KOALA-MAN!" She repeated her 'Ta-da!' pose, this time with the addition of jazz hands.
"What?!" Luis squawked, while his friends snorted.
"'Cause you're cute like a big teddy bear, and Pym called you guys Wombats, so Koala!" She looked very proud with her reasoning.
Now the other two 'Wombats', as well as Scott and several Avengers present, were full-on laughing, while Luis looked torn between being pleased at being called cute and put out at the silly name. "I'm sure you can come up with something better than that, señorita," he told her.
"I come up with great names!" Darcy insisted, "You should hear all the names I call Bucky when we're having- mmph!"
Bucky smirked at his girlfriend, who was now glaring at him for covering her mouth with his metal hand (she was known for her tendency to bite when people did that). "How 'bout we get a doctor to check you out, Doll? Make sure those drugs aren't gonna do anything worse to you?"
"I don't know," Tony called after them as he practically carried her towards the exit, "I might want to hear a few of those- Ow! Romanoff!"
Darcy comparing Luis to a koala is kinda my own feelings about him. Blame Pym for calling him and the other two 'wombats' and making me think about marsupials.