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Tweak says, "Don't let the bedbugs bite!"

Steve Rogers (captainhandsome) wrote in snapthread,
@ 2019-02-22 10:54:00

Entry tags:

america chavez (616), clint barton (616), clint barton (mcu), gamewide plot, janet van dyne (avac), kamala khan (avac), kate bishop (616), peter b parker (sv), steve rogers (mcu), tony stark (mcu)

WHO: Everyone and anyone!
WHAT: Something smells like dinner?
WHERE: The square of the unnamed town that is here
WHEN: The second day
RATING: Low

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Steve liked the fresh air, he hadn't got a chance to enjoy it in Wakanda, hadn't got a chance to do much except what had been done. Then like the dust in his hands it had all slipped away, reality and earth did as well. At first he'd been alone, he'd had time to explore everything by himself, had slept and eaten and there had been days of that kind of echoing quiet. It gave him time to think, this hadn't been part of his plan. He'd cleared out a house, put together a tool kit from things he'd found around. The tools had needed some care but worked well for his basic needs.

Once he'd seen to cleaning, washing windows inside and out, then it was building up firewood. Steve must have spent an entire day taking apart dead trees, carrying the stores into the square. It was good, he didn't think too much then, just that it might get cold, there might be more people.

And there were more people, strangers who appeared much the same as he had and Steve tried to give them space, be welcoming and yet not threatening. He wasn't sure how well it was working. But he'd decided that usually the best way to make peace and the like was through someone's stomach. Which is what had lead him to taking a little walk down to where the trees got closer together and twigs cracked under foot.

He never wanted to kill something, but he also understood foodchains and the like. The large boar hadn't stood much chance against the impact of his shield and it was quick at least. The rest of it took longer and Steve didn't have a lot of experience but it wasn't the first time he'd butchered something so he got there. Steve carried it back to the square, where he'd already lit the fire under the metal rack he'd dragged out from behind a shed was scrubbed clean. A spit would be better, but that kind of machinery wasn't his forte. Coals and what looked to be an old metal gate would do fine.

It was practically a barbecue.

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Peter B | Clint Barton

today_sucks
2019-02-23 03:25 am UTC (link)

True enough, if nothing else, there was little better in a catastrophic moment than Captain America and Iron Man, and they had both of those things right here. Well, right over there. Talking amongst themselves.

At this point, Clint may as well have just called this weird nonsense a vacation instead of something that actually worried him.

He wasn't there yet, but eventually. Maybe.

"Yeah," Clint said, but tilted his head slightly to the side in consideration. "He did have a pretty cute face though. Like a puppy. But a shark."

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Peter B | Clint Barton

pbandparker
2019-02-23 03:54 am UTC (link)

"Like a puppy, but a shark." Peter repeated, frowning as he tried to picture what that would look like. "But it was really as shark with legs?" He asked before he shrugged, who was he to judge. He'd just met a pig with spider powers, or was it a spider with pig powers?

It was hard to say, but the thing was there were weirder things in the world than sharks that were like puppies.

"So what do you reckon that we're gonna wake up from this fever dream any time soon?" He asked instead of rambling about pigs and spiders and shark dogs.

This didn't look like the sort of place they were going to have to rely on a goober to plug into a mainframe and get them all home again after they foiled some ultimately misguided plan by some villain, this looked like nothing Peter had ever seen before if he was being honest. And he'd seen a lot. God he was tired.

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today_sucks
2019-02-23 04:18 am UTC (link)

It was actually a shark with legs. Clint nodded and then shrugged like what can you do?. It sounded nuts, maybe, but he figured Peter'd probably seen some pretty crazy shit before too. This was like, the nice pet-able side of the ... iceberg.

Metaphors were hard today.

"Dunno," he admitted, craning his head a bit to see if there was food left, and also if everyone had gotten some before he went over there and hogged it all. Pun intended. "Coz you took a nap right? I totally took a nap, and I'm still here. So are you, apparently."

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Peter B | Clint Barton

pbandparker
2019-02-23 04:39 am UTC (link)

"I do still seem to be here, yes." Peter agreed solemnly.

It had been a nice thought, just take a nap because fuck when was the last time he'd been able to do that and when he woke up he'd realize all of this had just been brought on by ... what? A bad burger? That place had been shut down for a reason, MJ had told him as much time and time again but he'd refused to believe it, and he'd had no one but two! burgers from them and now here he was.

It was just plain rude was what it was.

"Did you talk to them?" He asked nodding toward where Steve was talking with someone who could only be Tony Stark, even if he wasn't quite right, just like everyone else seemed to be not quite right. "Any ideas from them where we are or what the next move is?"

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Peter B | Clint Barton

today_sucks
2019-02-23 11:19 pm UTC (link)

Clint spread his fingers wide as if to say that was Peter's answer then -- they were apparently here and here to stay until someone figured out that wasn't as simple as just having a nap about it. It was a shame, absolutely, but clearly they'd both tried their hardest.

Well, not really. But they could say they had.

"A little," he said. He'd chatted Steve up anyway, a little, and Tony (who, yeah, was a little wrong - certainly a little shorter than he should have been) didn't seem to have any answers yet either. "No plans on the next move angle but they're thinking Thanos. Did you have him in your world?"

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Peter B | Clint Barton

pbandparker
2019-02-24 01:30 am UTC (link)

They'd put in a good effort, it had been a while since Peter had to save the world - well you know forgetting that whole business with Miles. He'd kind of hung up the mask, at least that's what he told himself, and yet here he was now finding himself for the second time in a place that he needed to figure out how to get his way out of and find his way back home.

A nap really would have been the best solution to all of this. He deserved that after everything, didn't he?

Maybe not, but he wished he did.

"Thanos? What? Now?" Peter asked surprised to hear that name again. It had been a while. "I kinda thought he'd been taken care of. Now he's out here ruining perfectly good trips home?"

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Peter B | Clint Barton

today_sucks
2019-02-25 11:00 pm UTC (link)

Naps always felt well deserved, Clint figured. No matter when he took them -- after saving the world or after having achieved the hard task of waking up, showering and having coffee. Didn't matter which, some days. Naps were as good as it got.

But apparently they weren't like -- saving the day good. Not for everyone. Figured.

"Yeah, I dunno," Clint admitted. "We'd dealt with him what feels like forever ago. He had a crappy girlfriend and wanted to show off. It was this whole thing. Not fun. Apparently it's kinda more recent for those dudes." He thumbed over at the Not Quite Stark and Friendly Enough to Feed Everyone Rogers. He wasn't saying so because it wouldn't be very fair or nice, but this was probably somehow their fault. Well, not theirs. Just their universe. Still. "Bad timing," he decided. "Also, the toilet in the house I picked didn't flush very well, so that's gonna be a problem later."

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Peter B | Clint Barton

pbandparker
2019-02-25 11:46 pm UTC (link)

"Yeah, I was more on the sidelines when all of that went down where I'm from, but like... that was ages ago." Peter agreed, he wasn't necessarily right there in the midst of it, but he knew enough to know that he shouldn't have to be dealing with this now.

There was a limit for things like this, wasn't there? You had to deal with a mad man once and then he was finished, it was those lower level villains that you had to deal with again and again, but Thanos - he was something else.

"Pretty sure we don't actually have plumbing here, man." Peter said frowning, he hadn't been able to find any amount of solace in the shower since they arrived, and man that was like his safe space, and here he was being deprived of it. The hits just kept on coming.

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Peter B | Clint Barton

today_sucks
2019-02-26 03:17 am UTC (link)

"I'd like to avoid it again? But. Who knows. I think it's a matter of figuring this place out more than him? Because I'm prettyyyy sure Thanos wasn't like Hey, fuck you guys, go live in little European style cottages!"

Yeah. Seemed pretty unlikely. So this was. What? A mistake, maybe? That seemed about right. Like the exact kind of trouble that Clint would get into.

"...No? That explains a lot, actually." He paused, awkward. "Aw. No. This is gonna be like camping, but with houses, isn't it."

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Peter B | Clint Barton

pbandparker
2019-03-01 03:12 am UTC (link)

"He'd be a lot more petty than I remember him being if that's what his big plan was." And well Peter couldn't imagine any version of Thanos being quite that ridiculous, no that was more the style of one of his run of the mill bad guys and well - he was pretty sure none of them had the ability to pull versions of them from many different dimensions together into one place like this all to see them trying to figure out how to live in a place like this.

Peter nodded at the assessment of their current predicament, "Yeah, that's exactly what this is gonna be like, and let me tell you a city boy like me was not built for that camp life. I need a solid diet of smog inhalation and pizza by the slice and I've got a feeling I'm not going to get any of that here."

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Peter B | Clint Barton

today_sucks
2019-03-03 01:35 am UTC (link)

Clint slouched somewhat and looked around them thoughtfully. Yeah. That was exactly what it was going to be like. A bunch of almost strangers trying their very hardest to live however they could while hoping someone figured out a way to get home. And complaining about not having pizza.

"Okay," he said, vaguely resigned. "When you get too homesick, you come find me and we'll burn weird garbage and inhale the flames. That'll at least take the edge off for a while."

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