5 - water balloon/gun fight, I may have cheated and I'm not sorryagent_hillJuly 6 2012, 09:00:54 UTC
It had been something that Tony had thought up. Tony thought it up and Thor had jumped on board and they both had pestered everyone at SHIELD until Fury had finally given in. They'd achieved the impossible and made SHIELD's first annual agency-wide water balloon and squirt gun fight. Maria wasn't sure how they'd done it, but there was a part of her that was excited. This was like training on steroids. The difference between this and normal training exercises was that everyone knew that no one was going to hold back. It was going to be a bloodbath.
Maria had her weapons of choice and several water "grenades" in her pack. As far as she was concerned, this bitch was hers. She just needed to get herself a strong team. Naturally, she had her first choice.
"Tash," she smirked. She gave the other woman a smirk. "What do you say we wipe the floor with these boys?"
Never ever apologise for awesome.redinmyledgerJuly 6 2012, 09:09:05 UTC
Natasha held up her twin water pistols and smirked back. "I say let's do it." She also had a pack with a handful of "grenades" but it was the pistols with the water tinged with food colouring that she was excited about using. One hit with a visible streak of colour and their opponents were done for.
She crouched with her back to the wall, and peeked her head out around the edge of the wall. "I see Thor fitted out like he's Rambo. Looks to have teamed up with Steve. No sign of Barton yet. There's a group of rookies in front of them. I think they're setting them up to be sacrificed."
Maria poked her head around the other edge to try and survey. The boys were going to underestimate them. A great deal of them, anyway. Especially the ones currently outfitted like Thor. She wasn't even sure that Thor would really know how to use any of those. She supposed they'd find out.
"We'll need to keep an eye out for Barton," she said, stating the obvious. He would likely be up high somewhere, but if anyone had a chance to get Barton with his trousers down, it would be Natasha. She was Maria's ace in the hole. "For that matter, we need to watch out for Coulson, too. If we're not careful, he'll come out of nowhere and take the whole damned thing."
Natasha pulled back, her gaze shifting up towards the ceiling and for a moment she wondered if the ducts were large enough for Clint to comfortably roost in and set up a nest. He'd be able to take people out quickly and quietly. Once a sniper always a sniper.
She made a couple of hand gestures to indicate Maria needed to watch the roof too before she poked her head back out. "We need to go out and around. Take out Thor and Steve without going for their bait. Coulson might be waiting more towards the finish line. I don't know... I'm not sure Tony's prize is something he wants. But he'll pick us out if he needs to."
Maria nodded, following Natasha in her directions. It was a good call. Thor may have been more battle-hardened and seen more fighting than the entirety of SHIELD combined, but he was out of his element. Steve would be a little harder to get, but she had confidence that they'd be able to handle themselves.
"You really think any of us are in it for the prize?" Maria smirked, taking the rear as they started in the path that Natasha had marked out. "I don't know about you, but I want bragging rights."
Natasha took out a couple of agents before they continued down the corridor, the layout of the offices running through her mind as she plotted out the best route for them to get to Thor and Steve.
"And no, of course not. I'm definitely in it for the bragging rights. I really don't see how Stark offering up that excuse of a prize was meant to be a motivator."
Maria gave a small snort, taking out an agent or two of her own from behind. They'd tried to come up behind them. Rookies. The majority of their enemies were going to be easy targets.
"With an ego that big?" she asked, her back to a wall as Nat did her scouting. They worked well this way. "I'm surprised he didn't put a signed pair of his boxers up for prize."
"I'm surprised he didn't put a night in bed with him up for the prize," Natasha added with a wide grin. "Can you imagine the madness if we'd offered a night of watching us?"
Natasha held a finger to her lips and then motioned for Maria to stay before she edged to the other side and then waited for the agents to nearly before right on top of them before giving the signal for them both to fire.
Maria had to stifle a laugh at the image. It wasn't hard to imagine the way many of the boys would be climbing over each other and fighting amongst themselves for a prize like that. It was almost tempting. "Don't joke about that, I almost want to see it."
She quieted on Natasha's signal, an amused glint in her eyes. It was so easy to pick off the little ones like this, taking out her targets without mercy once Tash had given the go. "Sorry, boys."
Natasha smirked once more after giving a little wave to their victims before she and Maria pushed on. "I almost want to see the look on Stark's face if we offered him the pleasure. No involvement, just watching and suffering through the frustration."
Natasha kept low as she made her way through the hallway, her eyes flicking up occasionally to watch the roof in case Barton was hiding up there.
"Why do I feel like we'd have to literally cuff him to a chair if that situation ever became a reality?" Maria asked, snorting.
She ghosted along after Natasha. They were making fast work of the maze of hallways and offices. It was comforting, really, to know that if there was ever a situation where she and Tash would have to fight their way out of one of these buildings, they'd do a pretty good job of it. They made a good team.
"Any sign of the others?" she asked once they had stopped at a corner, their backs to a wall.
8 -- The County Fairhammerstrike_xJuly 7 2012, 03:27:00 UTC
"I still do not understand," Thor said, swallowing down another handful of fluffy pink sugar, "why this candy is called 'cotton'. It is not spun from cotton, of that much I am sure
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Natasha honestly didn't know what to make of Thor sometimes. She did like him. She had respect for him, and there was no doubting his power. But he had ripped her jet open while she was co-piloting it. It was an entrance hard to forget and she knew they were still finding their feet as friends, but sometimes his questions knocked her off balance.
She took the last bite as offered and carefully held it between her fingers before popping it into her mouth. A soft smile appeared as it dissolved on her tongue. That was her favourite part. "Because sometimes we name things after what they're like not what they really are.
She reached up to fix his collar a little before pointing at his fresh bag. "But I've heard it called many things. In the Southern hemisphere it tends to be referred to as fairy floss. And hot dogs aren't dogs. So why call them that? It's about... I don't know. Something that catches your attention. Not being literal."
Thor stood politely still while she fixed his collar, secretly quiet pleased by the casual gesture. He's still trying to figure Natasha out, as much as any of them are capable of figuring out each other; the areas of overlap that spanned their two very different lives feel so small sometimes that he can not imagine ever finding a common spot to stand upon together. But Thor is stubborn -- and sometimes that very bullheadedness can come in handy when dealing with his new fellows. He will not stop trying to find commonality with his team, it is too important to him to set aside. Skill and training, he knows from long experience, are what makes you ready to enter the field of battle, but a brother in arms who keeps a watchful eye on your back out of care as well as duty makes it far more likely you will leave it
( ... )
For now the commonality was the team and the fact that they were both warriors. Though Natasha had never considered herself as much before, but the battle in Manhattan proved otherwise. She was a spy making the shift to soldier and she needed time to come to terms with that. She was used to shadow. Used to doing what she did in secret, without detection. Now she was out there in the open along with her teammates and trying to scramble for some part of her life that still felt the same
( ... )
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Maria had her weapons of choice and several water "grenades" in her pack. As far as she was concerned, this bitch was hers. She just needed to get herself a strong team. Naturally, she had her first choice.
"Tash," she smirked. She gave the other woman a smirk. "What do you say we wipe the floor with these boys?"
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She crouched with her back to the wall, and peeked her head out around the edge of the wall. "I see Thor fitted out like he's Rambo. Looks to have teamed up with Steve. No sign of Barton yet. There's a group of rookies in front of them. I think they're setting them up to be sacrificed."
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"We'll need to keep an eye out for Barton," she said, stating the obvious. He would likely be up high somewhere, but if anyone had a chance to get Barton with his trousers down, it would be Natasha. She was Maria's ace in the hole. "For that matter, we need to watch out for Coulson, too. If we're not careful, he'll come out of nowhere and take the whole damned thing."
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She made a couple of hand gestures to indicate Maria needed to watch the roof too before she poked her head back out. "We need to go out and around. Take out Thor and Steve without going for their bait. Coulson might be waiting more towards the finish line. I don't know... I'm not sure Tony's prize is something he wants. But he'll pick us out if he needs to."
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"You really think any of us are in it for the prize?" Maria smirked, taking the rear as they started in the path that Natasha had marked out. "I don't know about you, but I want bragging rights."
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"And no, of course not. I'm definitely in it for the bragging rights. I really don't see how Stark offering up that excuse of a prize was meant to be a motivator."
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"With an ego that big?" she asked, her back to a wall as Nat did her scouting. They worked well this way. "I'm surprised he didn't put a signed pair of his boxers up for prize."
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Natasha held a finger to her lips and then motioned for Maria to stay before she edged to the other side and then waited for the agents to nearly before right on top of them before giving the signal for them both to fire.
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She quieted on Natasha's signal, an amused glint in her eyes. It was so easy to pick off the little ones like this, taking out her targets without mercy once Tash had given the go. "Sorry, boys."
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Natasha kept low as she made her way through the hallway, her eyes flicking up occasionally to watch the roof in case Barton was hiding up there.
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She ghosted along after Natasha. They were making fast work of the maze of hallways and offices. It was comforting, really, to know that if there was ever a situation where she and Tash would have to fight their way out of one of these buildings, they'd do a pretty good job of it. They made a good team.
"Any sign of the others?" she asked once they had stopped at a corner, their backs to a wall.
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She took the last bite as offered and carefully held it between her fingers before popping it into her mouth. A soft smile appeared as it dissolved on her tongue. That was her favourite part. "Because sometimes we name things after what they're like not what they really are.
She reached up to fix his collar a little before pointing at his fresh bag. "But I've heard it called many things. In the Southern hemisphere it tends to be referred to as fairy floss. And hot dogs aren't dogs. So why call them that? It's about... I don't know. Something that catches your attention. Not being literal."
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