fandomhigh | Summer Shenanigans, May 25, 2022

The park today looked like an insane person with a ridiculous love of bunting had been allowed to go absolutely nuts setting up mazes.

(In related news, Beaker had been consulted for ideas.)

There were four main areas ~~of concern~~: a maze with four wheelie recycling bins set before it; a series of folding tables with a variety of fruit and implements on top of them; two large fences with roughly 300 rubber ducks perched on top of them (and a velvet rope 100 feet away from it); and a final maze of bunting with a chair in the center of it.

In the center of all of this mess was a large shed with a closed door.

Anakin looked extremely pleased with himself as he leaned against the Table o' Terrible T-Shirts.

"Welcome back!" he yelled into his bullhorn. "I am pleased to see such enthusiasm for our weekly community building activities."

Sure, let's go with that interpretation. "Today we have several new obstacles for you to master! The specifics of each shall be made clear-" well. Clear-ish. "--as we move to them. The team with the most number of points wins! Listen for your names:"

TEAM NIGHTMARE CLOWNS
Steve R
Steph
Graham
Jo
Scott
Lana
Danny

TEAM 'MERICA
Clare
Tony
Sakaki
Connor
Goose
Vi
Liz

TEAM CHICKEN ON THE BEACH
Libby
Margo
Duke
Cara
Billy
Miguel
Irene

TEAM UNICORN BATTLE CAT
Travis
Sidon
Beaker
Rey
Summer
Stark
Steve M

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"Oh!" Steve said. "Was this the 'sometimes Scott gets really big' thing Wanda mentioned?"

He could see that making for compelling slo-mo.

"Okay, Scott only gets really big sometimes," he agreed, emphasizing the last word, "because getting really big knocks my ass out for days. Mostly I get really small. Or, well, that's also a sometimes thing, but a more frequent sometimes."

He was babbling. Goddamn Captain America.

Steve nodded like he had any idea at all how this worked: maybe something like what Jan did in Tony's world?

"Well, hopefully we won't need either around here," he said earnestly.

"Are you here on vacation, too?" Scott asked, a little curious about what on earth the guy leading the Avengers was doing on a little island like this one. "Ir...Tony mentioned that he was kind of taking a break after some shit happened in his universe."

Which was, as it turned out, not Scott's universe just at a different time? And this Tony was slightly taller or shorter or something?

"Fury sent me here when I woke up from the ice," Steve said with a wry smile, "to teach 20th Century American history to high school kids--" Fury was hysterical, "--and I've stayed here in between crises at home."

It was so much better than his DC depression apartment, Scott.

"That seems like a waste of your...Captain America-ness," Scott said without thinking, then immediately looked abashed. "Sorry! I just mean -- you teaching high school history feels like a punchline. Are you still doing it?"

Scott would so take that class. Not a thing he needed to say aloud.

Steve shook his head. "Tony and I are teaching paintball this summer," he said. "Last semester we did a combination of engineering and baking--Tony took the lead there."

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