Rise of Valhalla, And friends?

Meeting

             Nickole walked into her small apartment, Tony following close behind. She turned on the light and Tony chuckled. 

             Nick stood w“What? It may not be much but it’s all I got. Don’t laugh.”

             “I’m sorry, Nick. It’s just a lot more humble than what I am used to,” Tony said as he sat on the small couch.

             Nick strode toward the small kitchen. “Can I offer you a drink?”

             “Sure. I’d love a whiskey on ice.”

             She laughed. “Sorry Mr. fancy pants, but I am the proud owner of two bottles of Bud Lite. That sound alright?”

             He smiled. “If that’s all you drink, you need to be educated in your drinking.”

            “It’s not all I drink, it’s all I can afford. Living in New York is expensive you know, mister billionaire, that bottle cost more than my entire tuition for college.” She came back out of the kitchen, two bottles in her hands. Tony took one, and she sat on the couch. Tony was about to kiss her, when there was a bang on the door. Nick stood, and went to open the door.She turned the knob and jumped out of the way. Standing in the doorway was a tall, unhappy looking lady about Nick’s age.

“Hi, Dallas. What brings you here?” Nick gave a sarcastic smile.

             Dallas stormed in, a tall, blonde man in tow. “You know perfectly well what’s up, Nick. I was in the middle of something and you had to f*****g call me!”

             Nick followed, her temper flaring. “Well, how was I supposed to know. I’m a science nerd, not a f*****g mind reader!”

             Thor walked in, and sat on the couch next to Tony, their gazes meeting. “Man of Iron,” Thor said simply.

             “Thor,” Tony said in return.

 The girls continued their argument, swear words flying and accusations being made. Just as it seemed the two were going for each other’s throats, the door banged again. Nick sighed in frustration. “Alex, not a good time”

             The door suddenly launched open, another angry girl in the door. She was pulling a man in tow, and the two men on the couch knew him well. “Hey Cap,” Stark said.

             Steve waved, and walked toward the couch. The second girl came running in swearing at Dallas. “You b***h!! I’m in the middle of the Himalayas having just successfully saved my own ass for once, and then you f*****g call me!”

             “Blame Nick, she’s the one that called me!”

             “Well if there hadn’t been an explosion I wouldn’t have needed to call either of you!”

“Well what kind of explosion was it? Was it a friendly explosion or an ‘IMMA KILL YOU’ explosion?” The second girl started rambling, waving her arms as if she had too much coffee that morning.

Dallas looked at her, and sternly replied. “Alexis, who gave you coffee this morning?”

Alexis pointed at Steve, and he shrugged. “I didn’t know. She said she was cold, so I bought her a warm cup of coffee”

Thor decided to pipe in “Is there a difference in the types of explosions on Earth? I thought explosions just killed people.”

Dallas turned to Thor, smiled and said, “No dear. There is no difference, but that’s not the point right now. The point is, WHY WOULD YOU GIVE HER COFFEE!!”

Steve shrugged yet again, and Tony stood up from the couch. “Okay we are done with the coffee. The point is, you are all here, and we need your help. It is time, for the Avengers, to assemble yet again.”

Alexis sat on a chair adjacent to the couch and began to bounce. “Avengers.” she repeated over and over whilst bouncing on the chair.

Dallas looked confused. “But we ain’t Avengers. There is nothing special about me- I mean us.”

Thor looked at Dallas with a smile in his eyes. “You are special, Dallas. You can lift my hammer.”

Nick burst out laughing, turned to Dallas, smiled and asked “Which one?”

At this point, Alexis began to roll on the floor, crying “Both of them!”

The two girls began to die of laughter, Dallas did not look amused. She stood and said “I’m leaving.”

Thor was very confused. “I do not understand your midgardian banter. What is so funny about my hammer.”

Tony then began to join the chuckles. Steve stood, and said to the chortling three, “You all need to grow up a little.”

Dallas then forgot her anger and joined in the fray, Alex's laughter could be quite contagious. Thor, however, was still mildly confused. He stood, banged his hand on the coffee table, which broke, and said “QUIET MORTALS! I MUST UNDERSTAND YOUR JOKE!”

Alexis silenced her laughter enough to say “We’re laughing at a p***s joke Thor.”

Captain piped up and said “Welcome to America.”  Everyone laughed even harder. 

Thor still confused looked at Stark and said ”Explain the difference in explosions please.”

Tony stopped laughing, stood and said “There is no difference, she just isn’t that smart.”

“Hey!”  Alexis stood and shouted “I resent that you barely even know me!” 

“Now Alexis, We all love you but you know what happens when you get around hot guys” Dallas warned.

"You shut the f**k up” Alexis pointed a finger in Dallas’s face.

“What was that?” Dallas stood glaring at Alexis.

“Nothing.....” Alexis trailed off.

“That’s what I thought.” Dallas crossed her arms in victory.

Thor whispers to Captain “ She looks very good when she wins.”

Tony overheard and placed his hand on Thor’s shoulder “Just say hot Thor.”

“Who’s hot?” Dallas walked over to where the guys were standing. 

“No one.” Thor said a little too quickly.

“Alexis.” Steve said suddenly

“Captain!!” Dallas looked surprised.

“Yeah Steve, Get some!” Tony pumped his fist in the air.

By this time Nick and Alexis had wandered over, into the middle of the conversation.

“What about me?” Alexis stood next to Cap’n

“Nothing.” Captain blushed.

“O....K then, Why exactly did you call us Nick?” Alexis turned to her.

“It’s like Tony said we need to reassemble the Avengers.” She looked at Tony.

“On it.” Tony said whipping out his phone. “I’ll call Bruce first.” Tony walked a little away from the group, dialing.

“Do we have to involve Banner?” Nick looked upset.

“Yes, we do, why have a problem?” Tony looked over his shoulder.

“And why are we here?” Dallas asked pointing to her and Alexis.

“Yeah, If all you needed was Captain and Thor why did you call us?” Alexis pointed to the two guys between her. 

Tony looked at Nick, and she nodded. “It’s time we tell them, Tony.”

Stark hung up his phone, nodded, and turned to the two girls. “It is time for a new chapter to open. Everyone knows about us, the Avengers, but they don’t know about you. You all possess the same powers we do, except Alexis,” she glared at Tony. “Don’t worry dear, we can fix that,” She nodded. “And we need a secret weapon. You three, plus Clint and Nat’s daughter will...”

“When the f**k was there a kid involved?!” Dallas yelled, interrupting Stark mid-sentence.

“Yeah!” Someone yelled. “Clint got BIZAY”

“NO! She was adopted by Nat and she lives with Clint and his wife!” Stark yelled. He took a deep breath, and began again. “You three will be our secret weapon. We are facing a new threat, and I fear it may be worse than we have ever seen before.”

Alexis scoffed. “It can’t be as bad as Loki.”

Thor looked hurt. “Loki may be a menace, but he is my brother.”

Dallas looked at him with a questioning look in her eye. “I thought Loki was adopted.”

“And didn’t he kill, like, 800 people in two days?” Nick chimed in.

“That is beside the point!” Thor glared at the two. “He is still family, adopted or not, and he is currently facing his punishment with dignity.”

Stark glared at Thor. “Okay your godliness, we need to get back on task here.” Thor glared back and Stark smiled. “We need to get our s**t together, and get moving. I’ll meet you all at the Avenger’s tower in the morning. Nick, I need you to come with me.”

“Why!” Nick protested. “There are people in my house.”

Alexis smirked. “You need to work on your chemistry.”

“Or biology.” Dallas giggled.

Everyone, except Nick burst into laughter. “Ha ha,” Nick said, sarcastically. “Very funny.”

“It was pretty funny.” Steve said.

“Enough of the science jokes and just go home!” Stark said irritated.

Alexis smiled “What if you don’t have a house?”

Steve chimed in “Oh I can take care of that.”

Dallas giggle “Get some Alex”

Alex glared and followed Steve out the door. Nick had to get one last joke in before they left “Don’t forget to use protection!” Everyone burst out laughing, Even Alex.

One by one the groups dispersed to their homes for the evening. Waiting for more information on what tomorrow would bring

*****

The next morning everyone met up at Avengers tower. Dallas was a little grouchy because she is most definitely not a morning person. Stark trying to joke with her said “Well now who pissed in your cheerios this fine morning?”

Dallas glared “Don’t you need to go play with your dolls.”

“Dolls? You think those highly specialized suits are dolls. NO! I have never heard of a doll saving a human’s life no didn’t think so. Those are not like any doll I have ever seen!”

Thor stepped in “Tony you are enraged.”

Dallas came back at Tony “Dude just calm your t**s! I know you are far from being five again.” As she gets in his face Thor tries to hold her back but not even he can hold back a pissed off woman.

Nick said “Dude don’t even try.”

Alex piped in “No one and I mean no one can hold back Dallas when she is pissed.”

Thor grinned “Oh I bet I have a few ways that you guys don’t have.” Then he kissed Dallas on the cheek.

Nick and Alex were surprised by Dallas’ reaction. She did not smile or even blush she simply just let Tony go and walked away. 

Nick was so surprised “There is no way in hell that just happened.”

“I can’t believe that happened... Oh my sweet Jesus the world is coming to an end!!!” Alexis freaked out.

Thor shrugged, and Nick began to giggle. She turned to Alexis and said “So, Alex, how was your sleepover?”

Alexis smirked. “Great. We watched all the Disney movies he missed while he was in a coma, which is most of them, and I slept on his couch. How was yours?”

“I didn’t do much sleeping. I was...”

Alexis cut her off with a chorus of laughter. Dallas quit moping on the couch and joined in. Thor and Steve smirked at Tony, and he shrugged. Nick glared at him, and turned to her friends. “I was working on building my own suit. AND I found bomb fragments and was running tests, but now you don’t get to know what I found out, JERKS.”

Dallas grinned. “I bet that’s not true. I think you got distracted from your ‘research’ by that nice hunk of man meat over there, and decided that you could take a break from science FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE!”

Thor was confused. “What is man meat? Can you devour it?”

Alexis grinned. “Yes. Yes you can.”

Dallas burst into laughter. Thor’s face became grim. “I still don’t understand.”

Tony was not amused. “I’m sorry if I’m insulting your primitive intelligence, but they are making a p***s joke, again,” He then turned to the girls. “You three need to grow up a little. How old are you anyway, twelve?”

“That’s not what you were telling Nick last night!” Dallas and Alexis said in unison.

Nick let out an exasperated sigh. “I was building my own suit dammit!” When the two other girls continued to laugh, she sighed again, this time in resignation. “I’m done. I’m going home. This is what I get for trying to graduate early.”

She turned, grabbed her tablet off the table, and began to walk out. As soon as she left, Stark turned to Dallas and Alexis. “Do you think she will come back?”

Dallas shook her head. “She’s known to quit things easily.”

Alexis spoke up. “She could have been in the WNBA, but she quit basketball.”

“Why did she quit?” Stark was confused.

Neither of the girls spoke up, so Stark went to Dallas, and did his best at being menacing. “Tell me.”

Dallas stood up straighter, and looked Stark in the eyes. “No.”

“Why won’t you tell me why she quit? I have the right to know know what’s going on with my girlfriend!”

Alex stood up “GIRLFRIEND! What? When the hell did this happen?”

Tony surprised said “She didn’t tell you about us? Whoops.”

“This is not a WHOOPS moment. Her quitting basketball without provocation and proper reason because she wanted to pursue her science is a whoops moment! So when did this happen?”

Tony looked ashamed “Well it was about two years ago...”

Dallas was pissed “Two freaking years ago!!! And no one told us are you kidding me,”

Tony was upset as well, but he explained to the two girls the situation with extreme calmness. “I’m sorry that she never told you, but that's not my fault. I’m not the one that is supposed to be your best friend.”

Alexis was pissed “b***h lied to us. What the hell.”

“Anyway she quit basketball because she went to India and had an amazing science opportunity with Aeroditech and took it..... That is also why she was so sensitive about the entire Bruce situation.” Dallas had calmed down a little.

“Oh.” Tony was silent for quite a while.

Thor chimed in “Babe, I think we should go... and have a drinking contest.”

Dallas laughed “Yeah maybe, but I don’t want it to end up like the last time. Okay maybe I do just a little. Anyway see you guys later.”

Alex giggled “w***e” Dallas glared at her. Alex got frightened “I was kidding I swear. Bye have fuuuun.”

Steve smiled “And then there were three.”

Tony smirked “Well i suppose i should go and find Nick. She can’t be in too good of a mood.”

Alex laughed “Yeah, we should get going too.”

Tony showed Steve and Alex the door, and frowned. “We didn’t get anything done. This may be harder than I thought.”