Films and Avengers Stuff
The first part of this post is to report on all the movies Nick and I have seen the past few months. There is a high chance of spoilers.
In no particular order...
Pacific Rim
This movie was fun. It was a brainless popcorn flick - just like I thought it would be. However, it ended up with a little more heart than I was expecting. Actors kept popping up in it that I wasn't expecting. By far my favourite was Ron Perlman's Hannibal Chow. I don't think there was a single piece of scenery left after he was finished chewing up his scenes.
The action was fantastic. It you like giant robots, this is for you. If you like giant monsters, this is for you. If you like giant robots fighting giant monsters, SEE THIS FILM if you haven't yet already. Del Torro's handiwork is all over the monster designs and they're glorious.
I think what I disliked the most about this film were two things: one, the other teams (the Chinese one with their three armed Jeger and the Russian one) we didn't see nearly enough of, nor did we see their Jegers kick the ass they were supposedly famous for kicking. I felt a little let down at how fast they were destroyed. The other thing was the cringe-worthy Australian accents by the so-called Aussie team (who were dicks for no reason, so far as I could tell.) *Sigh* Is really isn't difficult to get Aussie actors, even ones who aren't very famous yet, who have genuine accents. No need to hire Americans or Brits and have them warm their voices into something that made the entire Aussie audience around me flinch.
I give this four out of five. Enjoyable, but not prefect.
The Wolverine
This was another fun action film, and a singular Wolverine film that didn't suck! It follows Logan in Japan, which is something I've been waiting to see on film for a while. I liked the "taking away most his healing powers' aspect, because it made Logan vulnerable, and that's something different we needed. The villain, Viper, was interesting, but painfully one-dimensional. I enjoyed the action scene on the bullet train. (Where the hell are they hiring these Yakuza? These guys are normal humans and they can hang on just as well as Logan!) I also squeed hard-core are the scene during the credits that set up Days of Future Past, which is a movie I'm really looking forward to. XD
I do recommend this if you like the X-Men films. I'd give it 4 out of 5 also.
As a final thought on this film, I think that a good subtitle for it would have been "Things Katanas Cannot Do." I'm no sword expert, but I'm pretty sure that most of those action scenes would have just resulted in a lot of ruined blades.
Monsters University
The biggest criticism I've heard about this film is that it's too realistic. Let me explain: In this, Mike spends the entire movie wanting to become a top scarer. He's spent his whole life, ever since he was a little kid, working towards this goal. Why is this a problem? Because we know having seen Monsters Inc. that Mike isn't a scarer. Sully is. Mike is his assistant. So we know that Mike is going to fail in what he's going to college to learn how to do. But you know what? I really like that message. I'm in a job now that doesn't have anything to do with my uni degrees. A lot of my friends are in jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees, or are having troubles finding jobs that are. Going to Uni doesn't guarantee that you'll get a job in your chosen field of study and I think that that's a message that more people need to learn. Also, Mike and Sully don't even graduate! They have to start at the bottom of the company and work their way up - another good message that is lacking in today's society.
I enjoyed this movie. It brought back a lot of memories from my Uni days. I liked the 80's college movie feel of it (as much as they can get away with in a kids film) and Nick and I also really liked the slasher movie tribute towards the end. I also liked the evolution of Mike and Sully's relationship into the close friendship we're familiar with from Monsters Inc. Additionally, I really liked Randall's evolution too - seeing the rivalry develop between him and Mike and Sully. (An unseen scene I would like to see is Randall meeting them again at the factory, or when he learns that Sully's a professional scarer. Randall graduated university to achieve his goal and these two drop outs still made it?!)
This film also made me like Mike a lot more than in Monsters Inc. However, my favourite character was Art. I love his character design and he made me laugh the most.
I'm gonna give this film 5 out of 5.
Now you See me
I've wanted to see the movie for months. I just love the premise of it: magicians who rob banks. Even better when you add the Robin Hood spin onto it. Add the fact that I like every single actor in it? Hell yes, I'm there!
I'm glad to say that this film was just as good as I hoped it would be. It still isn't the best of the year, but it would be in my top ten for sure. I genuinely didn't see the twist ending coming (and I won't spoil it here) so I really enjoyed being surprised. I loved the fight using the flash paper and throwing the playing cards - that whole scene, including the car chase afterwards, was the best!
I only hope that this movie holds up upon repeated viewings. I give it 4.5 out of 5.
The second part is to post some of the things I've made for avland. Mission 4 has wrapped up and my team won again! XD
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A "Whose Line is it Anyway" Avengers crack fic
Loki grinned at the camera, seated behind his desk. "Hello and welcome back to Whose Line is it Anyway? The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points are just like where the hell S.H.I.E.L.D was when Tony Stark's Malibu house got blown up by the Mandarin. They just. Don't. Matter. Let's move on to our next game, and this game is one of my favourites: two line vocabulary! This is a game for Thor, Steve and Tony."
At Loki's summons, Thor, Steve and Tony got up from their chairs and made their way down to the front as the audience cheered and clapped.
"The aim of this game is Thor and Tony only have two lines they are allowed to say for the whole scene, and that's it. The scene is Thor, Steve and Tony are in an isolated cabin in the woods and are being surrounded by a family of backwoods hillbilly torture-worshipping zombies. Tony, the only two things you are allowed to say are 'that's impossible' and 'have you thought this through?'. Thor, the only things you are allowed to say are 'is this it?' and 'I want to go first'. Steve, you can say anything you like. So whenever you're ready, take it away."
Steve mimed pulling back curtains and looking out a window. "Okay, guys, here come the zombies," he said, sounding concerned. "We need to have a plan. Any ideas?"
"I want to go first!" Thor made to bust through the door. Steve stopped him.
"Wait! Not until we have a plan!"
Tony was looking out through another window. He shook his head in disbelief at the imaginary zombies. "That's impossible."
"I know," Steve agreed, "but there they are, and we've got to fight them or they'll kill us."
"Have you thought this through?" Tony asked him.
"Well, yeah, we fight the zombies and escape."
"I want to go first!" Thor declared again.
"Okay, fine, you can go first, Thor, and clear a path while Tony and I bring up the rear. Let's get some weapons." He mimed giving Thor and Tony some mele weapons. Thor frowned at his.
"Is this it?" he asked, unimpressed.
"Sorry, I know it's not your hammer, but it's the best we've got."
"That's impossible!"
"It's not impossible, Tony, we have limited weapons here!"
"Have you thought this through?"
"Yes, I told you, we'll fight off the zombies and escape out of here."
"I want to go first!"
"And Thor gets to go first."
"That's impossible!"
"It's not! He's the biggest out of the three of us, so it makes sense..."
Thor mimed kicking a door in and whacking a zombie on the head. He frowned at the ease that the zombie went down. "Is this it?"
"That's impossible," Tony chimed in.
"I guess the zombies aren't as big a threat as we thought!"
"Have you thought this through?" Tony asked the dead zombie.
"I don't think he's going to answer you, Tony. Look out! Here come the rest!"
"I want to go first!"
"Alright, Thor, go!"
The three men mimed killing the rest of the zombies. The battle was brief.
"Is this it?"
"Yeah, I guess we've killed them all. Uh..." Steve tried to think of a way to finish the scene. "You guys want a beer?"
Thor's face lit up. "I want to go first!"
Tony looked worried. "Have you thought this through?"
Loki buzzed his buzzer, ending the scene with a chuckle. "That was great! One thousand points!"
Avengers Western AU ficlet with Thor and Loki
It was high noon. Folks in town would say that this is the traditional time when two gunslingers who have argument with each other are gonna fight. It sure was the case this day. Two men faced each other in the main street several yards away from each other - both of them strangers to the town, both wanting to claim it.
The first stranger had rolled into town a few days ago. Claimed he had a spat with his old man and had been kicked out of the house. He had lived in some county or other far away named Asgard. Most folk in town had never heard of it, save a few. Fortunately, those happened to have been the few who had found the stranger, took him into their home, given him food, coffee and clothes. One of them, Miss Jane, had taken quite a shine to the stranger - and rightly so, for he was tall, strong and handsome. He looked like he could knock over a whole building using just his fists. He wasn't too quick on the draw, neither with a gun nor with his mind, big he had a big 'ol heart and tried his best in everything he set him mind to doin'.
The second stranger was the big fella's brother by adoption. He had similar quarrel with their old man, who had lied to the boy about his upbringing all his life. In just about every way, he was the opposite of his brother - lean and mean, with dark hair, sharp smile, a wicked wit and the fastest draw folk had ever seen. He had spun a yarn to the big brother about their father dying and claiming himself head of the house. Now he's come to pay him back for all the childhood bullying and general unfairness he felt had been dealt him in life.
The thing about the big fella though, is he was never too good at turnin' down a fight.
So here they are, under the hot New Mexico sun. Most townsfolk are out of the way, not wanting a stray bullet to find them. The dark stranger's fingers twitch near his gun, like a rattlesnake ready to strike.
The big town bell tolls. The brothers draw and fire.
Fic: "Observations"
Heimdall is doing Thor a favour. Even though he has sworn to protect it, the son of Odin cannot be on Earth all the time. Because he is his friend and fellow Asguardian, Heimdall keeps Thor updated on events in the lives of his Earthy team mates - The Avengers.
Captain America runs through a burning building. Firefighters are on the scene, spraying the building from the outside. They advised the Captain not to go in, but Steve knows he saw a child in there. He yells for the child, wary of the fire leaping up the wall. He finds the child hiding under a table and gets her out before the house explodes. Some of the firefighters think him stupid for entering the building against their advice, but the child will live and recover in hospital because of him.
It's Clint Barton's birthday. This is information he doesn't want going around the S.H.I.E.L.D. offices, but Natasha knows. It's right there in his file, after all. She knows he doesn't want a big party, and will use any unfortunate balloon he sees as a target for his arrows. What she does instead is set him up at home with a bowl of candy, a plate of chocolate biscuits, some beers and Rock Band on the Wii - their own private karaoke party where no one can heckle their less than extraordinary musical skills.
Tony Stark is sitting in a restaurant, looking nervous. He alternates fidgeting with his phone, re-reading Pepper's message that says she's running a little late, and checking his pocket with the little ring box he's intending to give her. He's been carrying around this engagement ring for weeks now, working up the courage, trying to find the right moment. He has no doubt that their wedding would be spectacular. He can picture them having an enormous ceremony with hundreds of guests, yet at the same time he can see them eloping, or having a quiet afternoon with less than ten close friends, at the end of wich he and Pepper are husband and wife. When she finally arrives, looking stunning in sparkling violet, his heart skips a beat. He doesn't end up asking her that night - maybe next week.
Heimdall tells all this and more to Thor, who smiles to himself. He misses his Earth bound friends, and is looking forward to fighting side by side with them again.
Movie Synopsis and Poster for a Possible Avengers 2 Film
Note: In this challenge, everyone was teamed up with someone from a different team. I was paired with mizzy2k from Team Villain.
Movie synopsis by me:
The movie opens with the African jungle several years in the past. A young male teenager (more like an older child, maybe twelve?) is climbing and stalking through the trees - clearly showing cat like super-human abilities. His name is T'Challa Udaku, and he is the prince of Wakanda. The boy is instead himself caught by human hunters. Weapon X and SHIELD are both mentioned and a younger Nick Fury are seen.
Next, we cut to the present day and the completed repairs of Stark Tower in New York - now re-named "Avengers Tower." Tony is showing the other Earth-bound Avengers around, boasting every so often about some high-tech something or other that was designed especially for each specific Avenger in mind. There is a room for Thor, in case he comes back to Earth.
There is an assassination attempt of Nick Fury's life! Though Fury lives, the assassin, no more than a dark, animal like blur, manages to escape. Black Widow and Hawkeye are assigned with the task of tracking the assassin down. There is a night time chase through the city and the assassin manages to give as good as he gets.
An oncoming attack in the African jungle! Alien creatures, not dissimilar to the Chiturari are attacking the former home of the little mutant boy. These are the Skrulls. A village elder manages to send out a desperate message, trying to summon their Prince back home to try to save them.
The assassin, revealed to the audience as the Black Panther, has temporarily lost Widow and Hawkeye and has retreated to his hide-out to lick his wounds and consider his next move. Panther is an animal-like mutant. This is the adult T'Challa Udaku. (Played by Aldis Hodge.) He gets the urgent message from Wakanda, perhaps from the news. He knows he must save them, but he cannot do this alone...
Avengers Tower and the panther has shown up. He claims he does not want to fight the Avengers. He's escorted under guard to talk to them because Steve wants to give him a chance to explain himself. His motivations for trying to kill Fury are due to SHIELD's past connections with Weapon X. Panther had been experimented on in his youth, and was seeking revenge on Fury for his involvement. However, now he is willing to put aside his need for revenge because he needs the Avengers' help. His home is being attacked, and the only people he knows of who can fight monsters like them are the Avengers. Some in the team are, of course, reluctant to help because of the attack on Fury, but in the end, they do decide to help. After all, innocent people are at risk, and the rest of the world as well.
In the course of the battle against the Skrulls, Black Panther saves the Avengers' lives at great risk to his own, thus turning from villain into hero. In the end, he is named an honourary Avenger and all is forgiven.
Link to mizzy2k's poster.
Avengers/Doctor Who Cross Over Fic
No one at the Stark Exbo seemed to notice the strange sound the TARDIS made as it landed. It sounded like an engine cycling through, wheezing and groaning. When it stopped, a tall, blue police box stood in an out of the way corner where there previously was just empty space. No one seemed to notice its arrival either, or if they did, they just chalked it up to one of the many futuristic things of display and quickly forgot about it. A man and a woman stepped out of the box, the man pausing to lock the doors behind them.
“New York City, 1942!” The man announced to the girl. He was thin, with brown hair, a tweed suit and a bow tie. “Clara, this is the Stark Exbo. Worrying about the present was too depressing, you see, so why not distract yourself by dreaming of the future?”
Clara, also with brown hair and wearing a knee-length dark blue dress, looked around at the busy crowd, the fireworks and the displays. She smiled, then noticed some posters showing a flying car, declaring itself to be the future of all automotive machines. “Do you like coming to these things to correct them, Doctor, or to show off?” she asked.
“I like coming to these things because they’re fun,” the Doctor said, a touch defensive, before admitting “I only correct them when they’re way off the mark.”
“Like with flying cars?” Clara gestured to the poster.
The Doctor smiled. “They’re not so far off the mark as you might think. Come see.” He took her hand and led her to a stage with a growing crowd.
”Welcome to the Modern Marvels Pavilion and the World of Tomorrow,” a loudspeaker intoned. ”A greater world. A better world.”
On the stage was a red car that, for its time, was considered very fancy and expensive. A line of girls wearing top hats and tails stood in front of the car, beaming stage actress smiles. “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Howard Stark!” one of the girls announced. A man with black hair and moustache wearing a suit and top hat to match his stage companions ran onto the stage, soaking in the audience’s applause. He gave his top hat to the announcer before kissing her square on the lips. She handed him a microphone and the girls left the stage. Howard, playing up the ladies’ man stereotype to the full, casually took out a handkerchief to wipe the residual lipstick off his lips. All the young ladies in the audience looked absolutely smitten. He oozed charisma from every pore.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Howard said, “what if I told you that in just a few short years, your automobile won’t even have to touch the ground at all?”
The ladies in top hats returned to the stage and lifted off the car’s whitewall tires, which had obviously not been attached to the car at all. The audience gasped. The car seemed to be resting on curved machines that sat under its wheel wells.
“With Stark Gravitic Reversion Technology,” Howard continued to the captivated crowd, “you’ll be able to do just that.” Stark turned a dial on a set of controls near the car and slowly toggled a switch upwards. The car began to hum mechanically and slowly rise into the air, powered by the machines underneath. The audience was stunned, staring wide-eyed in near silence.
“Holy cow,” a man standing near Clara exclaimed. She had to agree - she hadn’t actually expected the flying car to work.
Howard looked at the audience with a smug smirk - a smirk that quickly disappeared when the humming machines started to spark and fizzle. The car jerked, then suddenly dropped to the stage floor with a huge bang! The machines were sparking and smoking. The audience jumped. Fortunately, no one on stage appeared to be hurt. Howard shrugged this off with a casual chuckle. “I did say a few years, didn’t I?”
The audience applauded, impressed nevertheless with the floating car prototype. Clara and the Doctor clapped with everyone else, but then something caught Clara’s eye. She noticed someone in the crowd - a young woman in a white jumper standing slightly ahead of her next to a soldier. Something about this woman made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end, and when she caught the girl in profile, she gasped.
As the crowd dispersed, Clara turned to the Doctor. “Doctor, I just saw something… strange.”
“I suppose you mean other than the floating car?” he joked, but then noticed the mild concern on her face. “What did you see?”
“I saw myself. I mean, I saw another person who looked exactly like me.”
The Doctor clenched his jaw a little. “Are you sure?”
“Yeah, she…” Clara looked around and spotted her doppelganger walking away with a blonde girl and a man in uniform. They were calling to a skinny man who was headed towards a booth recruiting for the U.S. Army. “She’s over there.”
The Doctor studied them for a moment, and then turned on his heel. He was suddenly curt and serious. “We should go.”
“Why? Doctor, what’s wrong?”
He was walking fast now, back to the TARDIS. “We might be crossing your time stream, or mine, and that’s bad,”
“Oh.” Clara had a feeling that, once again, the Doctor wasn’t telling her the whole truth. She glanced around again to see if she could find the strange girl who looked just like her, but she had been lost in the crowd. She had little choice then, but to follow the Doctor back to the TARDIS, jogging to catch up.
Avengers Ponies
Nick Fury * Howard Stark * Ivan Vanko
Emotion Themed Icons
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Artist’s choice of emotion (Anger):
The Hawkeye Fanmix I already posted about HERE.
And lastly...
An Avengers Fic About Coffee
"What is that?"
Clint looked from the tall mug that had been placed down on the table in front of him to Steve, who had just asked him a question.
"It's my coffee." Clint tried not to patronize Steve, but really, it was an obvious answer to an obvious question.
"I've not seen one like that before." Steve leaned in a little closer, inhaling deeply through his nose. "It doesn't smell like coffee."
Clint briefly considered emptying a sugar packet into his giant mug, but decided not to - at least not without tasting it first. "It's a caramel macchiato," he explained, ignoring the smirk that Tony had attempted to hide behind his much smaller mug of espresso.
Steve didn't say anything, but there was still confusion in his eyes and there was a tension to the silence that showed he had no idea what a 'caramel macchiato' was. Clint cut Steve some slack.
"I guess you're used to that black tar army coffee they had in World War Two. This is coffee with vanilla syrup, steamed milk, a hit of espresso and drizzled with caramel," he explained.
"It's a candy bar in a mug," Tony said, clearly unimpressed.
"It is not!" Clint countered.
"It has more sugar than coffee in it and you're just going to as more," Tony argued. "You have a hell of a sweet tooth, Legolas."
"Do not." Clint tasted his drink, then reached for the sugar. "Okay, fine, but we all have our coffee vices, Mr. I-Like-To-Add-Shots-Of-Espresso-To-My-Espresso."
"When was the last time you had an all-night engineering session without caffeine?"
Clint and Steve shrugged. It was hard to argue with that.
In no particular order...
Pacific Rim
This movie was fun. It was a brainless popcorn flick - just like I thought it would be. However, it ended up with a little more heart than I was expecting. Actors kept popping up in it that I wasn't expecting. By far my favourite was Ron Perlman's Hannibal Chow. I don't think there was a single piece of scenery left after he was finished chewing up his scenes.
The action was fantastic. It you like giant robots, this is for you. If you like giant monsters, this is for you. If you like giant robots fighting giant monsters, SEE THIS FILM if you haven't yet already. Del Torro's handiwork is all over the monster designs and they're glorious.
I think what I disliked the most about this film were two things: one, the other teams (the Chinese one with their three armed Jeger and the Russian one) we didn't see nearly enough of, nor did we see their Jegers kick the ass they were supposedly famous for kicking. I felt a little let down at how fast they were destroyed. The other thing was the cringe-worthy Australian accents by the so-called Aussie team (who were dicks for no reason, so far as I could tell.) *Sigh* Is really isn't difficult to get Aussie actors, even ones who aren't very famous yet, who have genuine accents. No need to hire Americans or Brits and have them warm their voices into something that made the entire Aussie audience around me flinch.
I give this four out of five. Enjoyable, but not prefect.
The Wolverine
This was another fun action film, and a singular Wolverine film that didn't suck! It follows Logan in Japan, which is something I've been waiting to see on film for a while. I liked the "taking away most his healing powers' aspect, because it made Logan vulnerable, and that's something different we needed. The villain, Viper, was interesting, but painfully one-dimensional. I enjoyed the action scene on the bullet train. (Where the hell are they hiring these Yakuza? These guys are normal humans and they can hang on just as well as Logan!) I also squeed hard-core are the scene during the credits that set up Days of Future Past, which is a movie I'm really looking forward to. XD
I do recommend this if you like the X-Men films. I'd give it 4 out of 5 also.
As a final thought on this film, I think that a good subtitle for it would have been "Things Katanas Cannot Do." I'm no sword expert, but I'm pretty sure that most of those action scenes would have just resulted in a lot of ruined blades.
Monsters University
The biggest criticism I've heard about this film is that it's too realistic. Let me explain: In this, Mike spends the entire movie wanting to become a top scarer. He's spent his whole life, ever since he was a little kid, working towards this goal. Why is this a problem? Because we know having seen Monsters Inc. that Mike isn't a scarer. Sully is. Mike is his assistant. So we know that Mike is going to fail in what he's going to college to learn how to do. But you know what? I really like that message. I'm in a job now that doesn't have anything to do with my uni degrees. A lot of my friends are in jobs that have nothing to do with their degrees, or are having troubles finding jobs that are. Going to Uni doesn't guarantee that you'll get a job in your chosen field of study and I think that that's a message that more people need to learn. Also, Mike and Sully don't even graduate! They have to start at the bottom of the company and work their way up - another good message that is lacking in today's society.
I enjoyed this movie. It brought back a lot of memories from my Uni days. I liked the 80's college movie feel of it (as much as they can get away with in a kids film) and Nick and I also really liked the slasher movie tribute towards the end. I also liked the evolution of Mike and Sully's relationship into the close friendship we're familiar with from Monsters Inc. Additionally, I really liked Randall's evolution too - seeing the rivalry develop between him and Mike and Sully. (An unseen scene I would like to see is Randall meeting them again at the factory, or when he learns that Sully's a professional scarer. Randall graduated university to achieve his goal and these two drop outs still made it?!)
This film also made me like Mike a lot more than in Monsters Inc. However, my favourite character was Art. I love his character design and he made me laugh the most.
I'm gonna give this film 5 out of 5.
Now you See me
I've wanted to see the movie for months. I just love the premise of it: magicians who rob banks. Even better when you add the Robin Hood spin onto it. Add the fact that I like every single actor in it? Hell yes, I'm there!
I'm glad to say that this film was just as good as I hoped it would be. It still isn't the best of the year, but it would be in my top ten for sure. I genuinely didn't see the twist ending coming (and I won't spoil it here) so I really enjoyed being surprised. I loved the fight using the flash paper and throwing the playing cards - that whole scene, including the car chase afterwards, was the best!
I only hope that this movie holds up upon repeated viewings. I give it 4.5 out of 5.
The second part is to post some of the things I've made for avland. Mission 4 has wrapped up and my team won again! XD
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A "Whose Line is it Anyway" Avengers crack fic
Loki grinned at the camera, seated behind his desk. "Hello and welcome back to Whose Line is it Anyway? The show where everything's made up and the points don't matter. That's right, the points are just like where the hell S.H.I.E.L.D was when Tony Stark's Malibu house got blown up by the Mandarin. They just. Don't. Matter. Let's move on to our next game, and this game is one of my favourites: two line vocabulary! This is a game for Thor, Steve and Tony."
At Loki's summons, Thor, Steve and Tony got up from their chairs and made their way down to the front as the audience cheered and clapped.
"The aim of this game is Thor and Tony only have two lines they are allowed to say for the whole scene, and that's it. The scene is Thor, Steve and Tony are in an isolated cabin in the woods and are being surrounded by a family of backwoods hillbilly torture-worshipping zombies. Tony, the only two things you are allowed to say are 'that's impossible' and 'have you thought this through?'. Thor, the only things you are allowed to say are 'is this it?' and 'I want to go first'. Steve, you can say anything you like. So whenever you're ready, take it away."
Steve mimed pulling back curtains and looking out a window. "Okay, guys, here come the zombies," he said, sounding concerned. "We need to have a plan. Any ideas?"
"I want to go first!" Thor made to bust through the door. Steve stopped him.
"Wait! Not until we have a plan!"
Tony was looking out through another window. He shook his head in disbelief at the imaginary zombies. "That's impossible."
"I know," Steve agreed, "but there they are, and we've got to fight them or they'll kill us."
"Have you thought this through?" Tony asked him.
"Well, yeah, we fight the zombies and escape."
"I want to go first!" Thor declared again.
"Okay, fine, you can go first, Thor, and clear a path while Tony and I bring up the rear. Let's get some weapons." He mimed giving Thor and Tony some mele weapons. Thor frowned at his.
"Is this it?" he asked, unimpressed.
"Sorry, I know it's not your hammer, but it's the best we've got."
"That's impossible!"
"It's not impossible, Tony, we have limited weapons here!"
"Have you thought this through?"
"Yes, I told you, we'll fight off the zombies and escape out of here."
"I want to go first!"
"And Thor gets to go first."
"That's impossible!"
"It's not! He's the biggest out of the three of us, so it makes sense..."
Thor mimed kicking a door in and whacking a zombie on the head. He frowned at the ease that the zombie went down. "Is this it?"
"That's impossible," Tony chimed in.
"I guess the zombies aren't as big a threat as we thought!"
"Have you thought this through?" Tony asked the dead zombie.
"I don't think he's going to answer you, Tony. Look out! Here come the rest!"
"I want to go first!"
"Alright, Thor, go!"
The three men mimed killing the rest of the zombies. The battle was brief.
"Is this it?"
"Yeah, I guess we've killed them all. Uh..." Steve tried to think of a way to finish the scene. "You guys want a beer?"
Thor's face lit up. "I want to go first!"
Tony looked worried. "Have you thought this through?"
Loki buzzed his buzzer, ending the scene with a chuckle. "That was great! One thousand points!"
Avengers Western AU ficlet with Thor and Loki
It was high noon. Folks in town would say that this is the traditional time when two gunslingers who have argument with each other are gonna fight. It sure was the case this day. Two men faced each other in the main street several yards away from each other - both of them strangers to the town, both wanting to claim it.
The first stranger had rolled into town a few days ago. Claimed he had a spat with his old man and had been kicked out of the house. He had lived in some county or other far away named Asgard. Most folk in town had never heard of it, save a few. Fortunately, those happened to have been the few who had found the stranger, took him into their home, given him food, coffee and clothes. One of them, Miss Jane, had taken quite a shine to the stranger - and rightly so, for he was tall, strong and handsome. He looked like he could knock over a whole building using just his fists. He wasn't too quick on the draw, neither with a gun nor with his mind, big he had a big 'ol heart and tried his best in everything he set him mind to doin'.
The second stranger was the big fella's brother by adoption. He had similar quarrel with their old man, who had lied to the boy about his upbringing all his life. In just about every way, he was the opposite of his brother - lean and mean, with dark hair, sharp smile, a wicked wit and the fastest draw folk had ever seen. He had spun a yarn to the big brother about their father dying and claiming himself head of the house. Now he's come to pay him back for all the childhood bullying and general unfairness he felt had been dealt him in life.
The thing about the big fella though, is he was never too good at turnin' down a fight.
So here they are, under the hot New Mexico sun. Most townsfolk are out of the way, not wanting a stray bullet to find them. The dark stranger's fingers twitch near his gun, like a rattlesnake ready to strike.
The big town bell tolls. The brothers draw and fire.
Fic: "Observations"
Heimdall is doing Thor a favour. Even though he has sworn to protect it, the son of Odin cannot be on Earth all the time. Because he is his friend and fellow Asguardian, Heimdall keeps Thor updated on events in the lives of his Earthy team mates - The Avengers.
Captain America runs through a burning building. Firefighters are on the scene, spraying the building from the outside. They advised the Captain not to go in, but Steve knows he saw a child in there. He yells for the child, wary of the fire leaping up the wall. He finds the child hiding under a table and gets her out before the house explodes. Some of the firefighters think him stupid for entering the building against their advice, but the child will live and recover in hospital because of him.
It's Clint Barton's birthday. This is information he doesn't want going around the S.H.I.E.L.D. offices, but Natasha knows. It's right there in his file, after all. She knows he doesn't want a big party, and will use any unfortunate balloon he sees as a target for his arrows. What she does instead is set him up at home with a bowl of candy, a plate of chocolate biscuits, some beers and Rock Band on the Wii - their own private karaoke party where no one can heckle their less than extraordinary musical skills.
Tony Stark is sitting in a restaurant, looking nervous. He alternates fidgeting with his phone, re-reading Pepper's message that says she's running a little late, and checking his pocket with the little ring box he's intending to give her. He's been carrying around this engagement ring for weeks now, working up the courage, trying to find the right moment. He has no doubt that their wedding would be spectacular. He can picture them having an enormous ceremony with hundreds of guests, yet at the same time he can see them eloping, or having a quiet afternoon with less than ten close friends, at the end of wich he and Pepper are husband and wife. When she finally arrives, looking stunning in sparkling violet, his heart skips a beat. He doesn't end up asking her that night - maybe next week.
Heimdall tells all this and more to Thor, who smiles to himself. He misses his Earth bound friends, and is looking forward to fighting side by side with them again.
Movie Synopsis and Poster for a Possible Avengers 2 Film
Note: In this challenge, everyone was teamed up with someone from a different team. I was paired with mizzy2k from Team Villain.
Movie synopsis by me:
The movie opens with the African jungle several years in the past. A young male teenager (more like an older child, maybe twelve?) is climbing and stalking through the trees - clearly showing cat like super-human abilities. His name is T'Challa Udaku, and he is the prince of Wakanda. The boy is instead himself caught by human hunters. Weapon X and SHIELD are both mentioned and a younger Nick Fury are seen.
Next, we cut to the present day and the completed repairs of Stark Tower in New York - now re-named "Avengers Tower." Tony is showing the other Earth-bound Avengers around, boasting every so often about some high-tech something or other that was designed especially for each specific Avenger in mind. There is a room for Thor, in case he comes back to Earth.
There is an assassination attempt of Nick Fury's life! Though Fury lives, the assassin, no more than a dark, animal like blur, manages to escape. Black Widow and Hawkeye are assigned with the task of tracking the assassin down. There is a night time chase through the city and the assassin manages to give as good as he gets.
An oncoming attack in the African jungle! Alien creatures, not dissimilar to the Chiturari are attacking the former home of the little mutant boy. These are the Skrulls. A village elder manages to send out a desperate message, trying to summon their Prince back home to try to save them.
The assassin, revealed to the audience as the Black Panther, has temporarily lost Widow and Hawkeye and has retreated to his hide-out to lick his wounds and consider his next move. Panther is an animal-like mutant. This is the adult T'Challa Udaku. (Played by Aldis Hodge.) He gets the urgent message from Wakanda, perhaps from the news. He knows he must save them, but he cannot do this alone...
Avengers Tower and the panther has shown up. He claims he does not want to fight the Avengers. He's escorted under guard to talk to them because Steve wants to give him a chance to explain himself. His motivations for trying to kill Fury are due to SHIELD's past connections with Weapon X. Panther had been experimented on in his youth, and was seeking revenge on Fury for his involvement. However, now he is willing to put aside his need for revenge because he needs the Avengers' help. His home is being attacked, and the only people he knows of who can fight monsters like them are the Avengers. Some in the team are, of course, reluctant to help because of the attack on Fury, but in the end, they do decide to help. After all, innocent people are at risk, and the rest of the world as well.
In the course of the battle against the Skrulls, Black Panther saves the Avengers' lives at great risk to his own, thus turning from villain into hero. In the end, he is named an honourary Avenger and all is forgiven.
Link to mizzy2k's poster.
Avengers/Doctor Who Cross Over Fic
No one at the Stark Exbo seemed to notice the strange sound the TARDIS made as it landed. It sounded like an engine cycling through, wheezing and groaning. When it stopped, a tall, blue police box stood in an out of the way corner where there previously was just empty space. No one seemed to notice its arrival either, or if they did, they just chalked it up to one of the many futuristic things of display and quickly forgot about it. A man and a woman stepped out of the box, the man pausing to lock the doors behind them.
“New York City, 1942!” The man announced to the girl. He was thin, with brown hair, a tweed suit and a bow tie. “Clara, this is the Stark Exbo. Worrying about the present was too depressing, you see, so why not distract yourself by dreaming of the future?”
Clara, also with brown hair and wearing a knee-length dark blue dress, looked around at the busy crowd, the fireworks and the displays. She smiled, then noticed some posters showing a flying car, declaring itself to be the future of all automotive machines. “Do you like coming to these things to correct them, Doctor, or to show off?” she asked.
“I like coming to these things because they’re fun,” the Doctor said, a touch defensive, before admitting “I only correct them when they’re way off the mark.”
“Like with flying cars?” Clara gestured to the poster.
The Doctor smiled. “They’re not so far off the mark as you might think. Come see.” He took her hand and led her to a stage with a growing crowd.
”Welcome to the Modern Marvels Pavilion and the World of Tomorrow,” a loudspeaker intoned. ”A greater world. A better world.”
On the stage was a red car that, for its time, was considered very fancy and expensive. A line of girls wearing top hats and tails stood in front of the car, beaming stage actress smiles. “Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Howard Stark!” one of the girls announced. A man with black hair and moustache wearing a suit and top hat to match his stage companions ran onto the stage, soaking in the audience’s applause. He gave his top hat to the announcer before kissing her square on the lips. She handed him a microphone and the girls left the stage. Howard, playing up the ladies’ man stereotype to the full, casually took out a handkerchief to wipe the residual lipstick off his lips. All the young ladies in the audience looked absolutely smitten. He oozed charisma from every pore.
“Ladies and gentlemen,” Howard said, “what if I told you that in just a few short years, your automobile won’t even have to touch the ground at all?”
The ladies in top hats returned to the stage and lifted off the car’s whitewall tires, which had obviously not been attached to the car at all. The audience gasped. The car seemed to be resting on curved machines that sat under its wheel wells.
“With Stark Gravitic Reversion Technology,” Howard continued to the captivated crowd, “you’ll be able to do just that.” Stark turned a dial on a set of controls near the car and slowly toggled a switch upwards. The car began to hum mechanically and slowly rise into the air, powered by the machines underneath. The audience was stunned, staring wide-eyed in near silence.
“Holy cow,” a man standing near Clara exclaimed. She had to agree - she hadn’t actually expected the flying car to work.
Howard looked at the audience with a smug smirk - a smirk that quickly disappeared when the humming machines started to spark and fizzle. The car jerked, then suddenly dropped to the stage floor with a huge bang! The machines were sparking and smoking. The audience jumped. Fortunately, no one on stage appeared to be hurt. Howard shrugged this off with a casual chuckle. “I did say a few years, didn’t I?”
The audience applauded, impressed nevertheless with the floating car prototype. Clara and the Doctor clapped with everyone else, but then something caught Clara’s eye. She noticed someone in the crowd - a young woman in a white jumper standing slightly ahead of her next to a soldier. Something about this woman made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end, and when she caught the girl in profile, she gasped.
As the crowd dispersed, Clara turned to the Doctor. “Doctor, I just saw something… strange.”
“I suppose you mean other than the floating car?” he joked, but then noticed the mild concern on her face. “What did you see?”
“I saw myself. I mean, I saw another person who looked exactly like me.”
The Doctor clenched his jaw a little. “Are you sure?”
“Yeah, she…” Clara looked around and spotted her doppelganger walking away with a blonde girl and a man in uniform. They were calling to a skinny man who was headed towards a booth recruiting for the U.S. Army. “She’s over there.”
The Doctor studied them for a moment, and then turned on his heel. He was suddenly curt and serious. “We should go.”
“Why? Doctor, what’s wrong?”
He was walking fast now, back to the TARDIS. “We might be crossing your time stream, or mine, and that’s bad,”
“Oh.” Clara had a feeling that, once again, the Doctor wasn’t telling her the whole truth. She glanced around again to see if she could find the strange girl who looked just like her, but she had been lost in the crowd. She had little choice then, but to follow the Doctor back to the TARDIS, jogging to catch up.
Avengers Ponies
Nick Fury * Howard Stark * Ivan Vanko
Emotion Themed Icons
Happiness:
Surprise:
Sadness:
Fear:
Artist’s choice of emotion (Anger):
The Hawkeye Fanmix I already posted about HERE.
And lastly...
An Avengers Fic About Coffee
"What is that?"
Clint looked from the tall mug that had been placed down on the table in front of him to Steve, who had just asked him a question.
"It's my coffee." Clint tried not to patronize Steve, but really, it was an obvious answer to an obvious question.
"I've not seen one like that before." Steve leaned in a little closer, inhaling deeply through his nose. "It doesn't smell like coffee."
Clint briefly considered emptying a sugar packet into his giant mug, but decided not to - at least not without tasting it first. "It's a caramel macchiato," he explained, ignoring the smirk that Tony had attempted to hide behind his much smaller mug of espresso.
Steve didn't say anything, but there was still confusion in his eyes and there was a tension to the silence that showed he had no idea what a 'caramel macchiato' was. Clint cut Steve some slack.
"I guess you're used to that black tar army coffee they had in World War Two. This is coffee with vanilla syrup, steamed milk, a hit of espresso and drizzled with caramel," he explained.
"It's a candy bar in a mug," Tony said, clearly unimpressed.
"It is not!" Clint countered.
"It has more sugar than coffee in it and you're just going to as more," Tony argued. "You have a hell of a sweet tooth, Legolas."
"Do not." Clint tasted his drink, then reached for the sugar. "Okay, fine, but we all have our coffee vices, Mr. I-Like-To-Add-Shots-Of-Espresso-To-My-Espresso."
"When was the last time you had an all-night engineering session without caffeine?"
Clint and Steve shrugged. It was hard to argue with that.