Avengers, ASSEMBLE
Two cars stopped by at a fast food shop. To Tony’s surprise, the owner was Hulk, not angry and definitely NOT smashing things around.
“HULK?!” gasped Tony.
“Hey! Whaddup people! Hi Cap, Hi Natasha! OOHHH, HI TONY!” hooted Hulk cheerily.
“How…” Tony was speechless.
“Of course! You combined the Hulk and your human self by using DNA and Gamma Ray splicing! Absolute GENIUS!”
“Yeah, I know.” said Hulk sheepishly. “I’m actually giving the credit to Shuri. She did all the work.”
Steve sighed. “I hate to break it to you Bruce, but Thanos is alive and running around, and we need everyone all together again to stop him.”
Hulk immediately dropped his cheery smile and looked sad.
“I love this life. I don’t wanna go back.”
“You won’t need to fight.” soothed Natasha. “You just need to take care of the tech.”
“Alright. I’ll come back.” sighed Hulk.
“Hulk.” said Natasha. “Before you go back, I need you and Rocket to do something for us.”
“Steve, Tony, you should go back to Headquarters. Hulk, you call Rocket and go to New Asgard. As for me…”
Rocket and Hulk are in New Asgard in no time. They flew there on the Guardian’s repaired ship. They saw Valkyrie transporting crates.
”How is Thor?” asked Hulk.
”As drunk as ever.”said Valkyrie, smiling a bitter smile.”Just need to go to the house where the beer barrels are as high as Mount Everest. Mind you, everyone in New Asgard drinks.”she laughed.
“Looks like he would need some persuading.” cackled Rocket, marching off.
It was a long walk before they found Thor’s house.Valkyrie was right. Everyone on New Asgard drinks, and their beer barrel piles are all tall and numerous. Fortunately, there was one plie higher and wider than the rest. They found Thor in that house.
The house was dark, damp and absolutely a trash dump. There were beer cans everywhere, chip packets strewn in every inch of the floor and two aliens were playing Assassin’s Creed on a computer, while Thor was watching TV, with a can of beer in his hand and a colossal beer belly.
“Wow, Thor, quite the change you’ve made to yourself, eh?” sneered Rocket, while Hulk looked on with sympathy.
“FRIENDS!” roared Thor. “COME IN! COME IN! WANT A CAN OF BEER?”
“Thor.You’re speaking too loud.” said Hulk.
“Whaddup with you?” said Thor, eyeing Hulk(thankfully he lowered his volume) “You look much less violent.”
“Yeah, I changed too.” smiled Hulk.
“SQEAK SQUEAK HONK HOONK” said an alien.
“Alright, comin’.” grumbled Thor, stomping over.
“ALRIGHT YOU SONS OF BITCHES YOU’D BETTER LET SQUEAKY WIN HIS MATCH OR YOU WILL FACE THE WRATH OF THOR ODINSON!!!!” bellowed Thor into Squeaky’s headset.
“That’s one hell of a voice.” whispered Rocket. “What do we do now?”
“Tell him.” urged Hulk, trying to squeeze into a corner of the house.
“Fine.Why do I get to do all the bad stuff?” grumbled Rocket.
“Hey, Big Guy, we need you to come back.” said Rocket
“What for? Thanos is dead, KILLED BY ME!” roared Thor, laughing.
“Well, apparently he’s not, and is planning to take Earth as revenge.”
Thor’s face turned ash white.
“No, no...” he whispered, collapsing on an armchair.
“Yes, yes now come back, we need you.” groaned Rocket, wondering how long is this gonna take.
“NO! I AM NEVER GOING BACK!” howled Thor, putting his head in his arms.
“What? You afraid of ol’ little Thanos are you Thor?” teased Rocket, using a baby voice.
“Oh no oh no oh no no no no… Rocket what’ve you done?” muttered Hulk
“GODS LIKE ME ARE NOT AFRAID OF ANYTHING!” roared Thor. “I’LL COME BACK WITH YOU JUST TO PROVE IT!”
He stomped off to pack his things and his barrel of beer.
“Jolly good.”said Rocket, rubbing his hands together. “Shall we leave in an hour then?”
The hair-raising glare that Thor gave Rocket was enough.
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Meanwhile in Tokyo
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“柿尾さん、お疲れ様でした。”
“あなたと同じです、サチコさん。”
A black figure is perched on a rooftop, listening in to their conversation. When the bodyguards beside the both men lessened to get the car, the figure swooped in and killed all of the bodyguards and the two businessmen in under 1 minute.
Rain poured down. A figure under an umbrella approached.
“Clint…this is what you do for a job now?”
The black figure whipped around, startled, saw it was Natasha and removed his mask.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier, Nat. After Thanos, I saw that there are still evil people that we thought dead and are still alive. The world got worse. I need to exterminate as many of them as I can, to promise our future child a safe world.”
“Clint…” Natasha stepped forward and hugged him. Clint returned the hug.
“Come back. We need you to prepare against Thanos.”
Clint nodded and set out with Natasha, hugging her close.