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Summer Shenanigans, Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Another Wednesday, another insane set-up in the park!

Today there was a new, six part metal obstacle course set up: a tilted cube, a mountain, a loading bay, the ridge, the front line, and The Sisters.

"Welcome to professional tag," Anakin yelled into his megaphone, "which is apparently a sport now. We will divide into two teams: Team Pizza will be the taggers, Team Dread will be the, um, don't get tagged."

He was from a different galaxy, what do you want from him?

"Going in pairs, you will have 20 seconds in the obstacle course to either track down or evade the other person. If you get tagged, the other team gets a point. If you evade getting tagged, your team gets a point It's pretty easy. Listen for your name and then come get your shirt!"

TEAM WANNA PIZZA ME
Rosa
Ignis
Wanda
Stark
Annie
Malia
Sakaki
Troy
Steve M
Amaya
Harry
Rey

TEAM EXISTENTIAL DREAD
Sidon
Summer
Astrid
Belle
Prompto
Clare
Danny
Tisarwat
Din
Shunsui
Travis
Ben

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"Oh yeah, that guy is very upset he keeps getting lapped by my Steve," she said with a laugh, looking over at Steve. "I tried to make him feel better about it, but I don't think it worked."

"I already had to carry a bowling ball up those stairs, I'd rather not do it again."

"Hang on, hang on, Captain America is your Steve?" Annie asked, both curious and envious. Because she, too, had been lapped by Captain America, damn it.

She was pretty sure he was, you know, Tony's Steve, but it didn't seem like Wanda necessarily meant it like that, anyway.

"Yeah--well, no, not in that way, obviously, but it's just how I refer to it in my head to make radio less complicated," she admitted. "But he's my friend-slash-boss."

"So you're on his team with him?" Annie asked curiously. "I've done a little superhero work with him, a couple times. He seems like a good leader."

Annie's boss was significantly not as cool. Though he was, perhaps, even more patriotic.

Wanda nodded. "Yeah, we're Avengers. He really is a good leader. It's almost intimidating how good he is, actually."

"One time," Annie confided, "I blasted a marzipan boulder that was heading for us -- long story -- and he told me my powers were swell."

Annie clasped a hand to her heart, fluttering her lashes. "Highest praise I've ever received, probably." Including all her pageant wins!

"That sounds about right," she said with a laugh. "Good luck doubting yourself when he's around."

"So like, you got a cool superhero name and everything?" Annie had to ask, lifting her brows. "I mean, I will tell you that I have a lot of professional envy over 'Avengers', already. My team's called The Seven."

Which was, like, super elegant in its simplicity, but Annie really liked the idea of avenging stuff. Maybe she should have tried out for --

Huh. So not-Soldier Boy and not-Crimson Countess were totally on what sounded like not-Payback. Interesting.

Edited 2021-06-16 18:58 (UTC)

"Because there's seven of you?" she guessed. "I actually don't have a code name. I mean--recently one came up but I haven't, like, tried it out yet. Steve doesn't even know about it."

"Yep, though there's actually only four right now. One guy's in a coma, one guy's on creepy-dude leave, and we're replacing a chick who turned out to be a Nazi," Annie shared casually. "Code names can be kind of tricky. I've had mine since I was, like, three, but I know at least one guy who decided to change his later on because his original name kind of sucked."

"...that's a whole lot for your team to go through." Understatement. "I mean, I was on the run from the government for a bit, but I got my name cleared."

Only had to save the world to make that happen.

"What's your code name?" That seemed like a safer conversation to have than discussing anything that might be hard to talk about. Like Nazis.

It had been a busy spring!

"Starlight," Annie told her with a little smile. "It's so weird how you call Captain America Steve -- like, on my team, we never use each other's given names. I'm kind of jealous of the...like, informality."

She honestly didn't even know anyone's real name.

"Some of us try." Namely people like Peter Parker, who was underage, and Wanda totally understood the secrecy there. "I was always just Wanda. But recently someone said I was the Scarlet Witch? And I thought that sounded kind of cool for a code name. And extremely accurate."

"Oh my God, that is such a cool code name. And, okay, honestly, I have to tell you -- there's a chick my universe who I think has powers just like yours, and she goes by Crimson Countess," Annie said, unable to hold it back any longer in light of that code name because seriously. "Don't feel too weird about it -- there's a lot of that. There's a guy who's just like Captain America, too."

"That is super weird. Not the weirdest thing I've heard of, but still weird." Man, Crimson Witch would have sounded cooler, but she wasn't the one who named that person/sign of the apocalypse.

"So you think it's cool?" Wanda looked pretty pleased by that. She knew Steve would say he liked it no matter what. "I'm on a team with people named like Thor and Hawkeye and The Incredible Hulk so I have to be on that level with the cool factor."

"I think Hawkeye is Eagle the Archer, where I'm from," Annie shared. So like, huge step down on that one. "But like, totally. Especially like, if the scarlet part is super thematic."

When Countess did her thing, it was red, and Annie had to think that was part of al of it.

"Oh red's definitely a thing. My magic is red, my eyes turn red," she started. "My costume is red and I wasn't even thinking when I created that thing."

"That's kind of awesome," Annie said admiringly. "My everything's gold, so like, totally get it. Do your eyes do anything? I know a guy whose eyes turn red but that's because they're lasers."

"Oh, no--well, not that I know of." Better add that caveat. "Just when I'm using a lot of power. Or I can do it on purpose."

She let her eyes glow some. "See?"

"Oh, neat," Annie told her, pressing down on the instinct to back away since no, these were not Homelander's laser eyes and instead looking closer.

"Mine go all yellow if I use my powers," she contributed, illuminating her own eyes. And also some other times, but there was only one person on the island who knew about that, and it could stay that way. "Just the irises, though. But man, people really take you seriously if you tell them something while your eyes are glowing."

"I noticed that over the years," she said, letting her eyes fade. "Starlight, yellow eyes, yellow powers, it all goes together. I like it."

"You should see my uniform," Annie said with a grin, her own eyes fading. "But -- see, I'm kind of an expert on thematic code names, and you get my stamp of approval on the Scarlet Witch thing. On brand and kind of ominous-sounding."

"Well that settles it. I'm going all in on Scarlet Witch then," she said with a grin. "At some point I would love to see your uniform. You'll probably get a kick out of mine."

And possibly be jealous of how she got in/out of it.

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