Forty Days of Flash Fic: Day Forty
Okay, so I'm a teensy bit late posting this...
More with the Avengers vs. LotR.
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Steve settled back in one of the overstuffed leather lounge chair as the lights dimmed and the movie began. The meatball on the end of his fork dropped back onto his plate when the first battle began on the screen.
"It's a bit loud!" he shouted, as the line of orcs charged the elves.
"What?!" Tony shouted back.
"It's a bit loud!"
"Oh! JARVIS! Directional sound please!" The noise level dropped to the point where he could hear himself think, and he watched as the Ring fell from Ilsidur's hand and floated downstream.
"Wait. Sauron's ring is the one that Bilbo picked up in the cave? That wasn't in The Hobbit."
"It was a retcon," Clint said. Steve nodded in agreement and made a note to look up another word in his Kindle's dictionary.
An hour and a half later…
"Gandalf dies?"
"He's not quite dead," Happy quipped, in a bad English accent.
"I feel happy!" Tony added, in an equally awful one.
"Stark, Hogan, I warned you what would happen if you started quoting Holy Grail again when we watched a movie," Natasha said in a dangerous tone. The two men suddenly looked thoroughly quelled.
"Holy Grail?" Steve asked.
"We have got to get you up to speed on pop culture," Tony said. "I'll make you a reading list."
"You mean I will," Pepper said resignedly.
"Well, yes."
The Two Towers
"That's not how you're supposed to treat a prisoner," Steve noted with distaste.
"Trust me, it bites Sam in the ass in the third movie," Clint noted.
A little later
"Oh, I get it. They're like Vikings on horseback!"
"Give the man a prize," Tony said with a yawn.
"And I'm not sure, but I think Wormtongue is a bad guy." There was a general pause as everyone looked at Steve again. "I can make jokes, you know," he noted.
MUCH later
"These trees are boring."
"They're supposed to be boring."
"Did they have to show them being boring?"
"They aren't so bad on the theatrical cut."
"Which we should have watched," Natasha muttered.
TBC
More with the Avengers vs. LotR.
* * *
Steve settled back in one of the overstuffed leather lounge chair as the lights dimmed and the movie began. The meatball on the end of his fork dropped back onto his plate when the first battle began on the screen.
"It's a bit loud!" he shouted, as the line of orcs charged the elves.
"What?!" Tony shouted back.
"It's a bit loud!"
"Oh! JARVIS! Directional sound please!" The noise level dropped to the point where he could hear himself think, and he watched as the Ring fell from Ilsidur's hand and floated downstream.
"Wait. Sauron's ring is the one that Bilbo picked up in the cave? That wasn't in The Hobbit."
"It was a retcon," Clint said. Steve nodded in agreement and made a note to look up another word in his Kindle's dictionary.
An hour and a half later…
"Gandalf dies?"
"He's not quite dead," Happy quipped, in a bad English accent.
"I feel happy!" Tony added, in an equally awful one.
"Stark, Hogan, I warned you what would happen if you started quoting Holy Grail again when we watched a movie," Natasha said in a dangerous tone. The two men suddenly looked thoroughly quelled.
"Holy Grail?" Steve asked.
"We have got to get you up to speed on pop culture," Tony said. "I'll make you a reading list."
"You mean I will," Pepper said resignedly.
"Well, yes."
The Two Towers
"That's not how you're supposed to treat a prisoner," Steve noted with distaste.
"Trust me, it bites Sam in the ass in the third movie," Clint noted.
A little later
"Oh, I get it. They're like Vikings on horseback!"
"Give the man a prize," Tony said with a yawn.
"And I'm not sure, but I think Wormtongue is a bad guy." There was a general pause as everyone looked at Steve again. "I can make jokes, you know," he noted.
MUCH later
"These trees are boring."
"They're supposed to be boring."
"Did they have to show them being boring?"
"They aren't so bad on the theatrical cut."
"Which we should have watched," Natasha muttered.
TBC