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This fills the tentacle square on my bingo card. Challenger @rose-on-the-mountain, who is also responsible for the Tax Evaders.
I’m not sure if this will actually fit into the Happy Lights ‘verse, or if it’s just a fun sort of what-if scenario, but I hope you enjoy it!
“They call themselves The Tax Evaders for Freedom and
Justice,” Steve explained. He rubbed at the center of his forehead. “They’re
registered as a church.”
“That is a joke,” Tony insisted. “There’s no way that is
actually not a joke.”
Steve shrugged helplessly. “That’s what the file says. They’ve
recruited some B-list villains including… The Kangaroo, Asbestos Lady, and…
Flag Smasher?” He was miserable just reading the names and pushed his tablet
away so he could put his face in his palm.
“Wow,” Clint said, “You are a massive troll, Cap, but I don’t
think even you could troll this hard.
Why are we getting called for this
one? Isn’t this something that the cops can handle? Or, you know… the local
biker gang?”
“We don’t really have anything better to do at the moment,”
Steve pointed out, “And it would be a good training exercise for our newest
member.”
The colony didn’t quite understand the point of chairs, but
it was trying to imitate its human colony members. Several of the larger
tentacles were coiled around the empty chair at the briefing table, and the
rest were spread out over and around the table to keep limbs wrapped around
their humans. It was a small subcolony of only forty-seven members who had come
back with ‘Steve Colony’ after their last trip to the colony homeworld, and
looked intent on setting up a permanent colony presence.
“Can’t we just sic the IRS on them? I mean…The Church of the
Tax Evaders for Freedom and Justice. Really,” Clint persisted.
Think of it like a
team building exercise, Tony suggested, and the colony lit up gold at his
mental voice. I have new arrows for you
to try out.
Sold! Clint
agreed.
Sold! the colony repeated,
flickering through a quick rainbow of colors, and then asked, Sold?
The colony did not understand currency, and the last time
Tony had tried to explain the concepts of buying and selling, they’d ended up
in a circular loop of Why? for most
of the night. About the only thing the colony had been attracted to during the
conversation was Tony unleashing financial ‘logic’ into the colony mindspace. It
was a good thing they weren’t interested in using the colony’s understanding of
math to their own benefit, because they could just about take over the world
with only minimal effort and the colony’s help.
Let’s not start that
conversation again, Bruce pleaded. “Asbestos Lady?”
Steve checked the notes. He grimaced, but offered, “Apparently
she’s fire-proof?”
“And dying of asbestos poisoning?” Sam guessed. His chair
was conspicuously tentacle-free, but he had his head propped up on one fist and
was casually petting the magenta tentacle that had wrapped around his water
glass, the end periscoped up to eye level and nuzzling against his fingers. It flickered
gold and the colony was suffused with a definite sense of smugness at the
attention. “Has the colony been cleared to leave the tower?”
“Technically or theoretically?” Tony asked innocently. He
was completely bound to his chair by a dozen thick loops and being towed around
the table at the colony’s leisure.
Sam hastily held up a hand. “I don’t even want to know.
Plausible deniability is a thing.”
Keep reading
“I think he just genuinely hates flags.”
That’s where I lost it :D
This Avengers with a psychic bond via living-day-glow-mood-tentacle teammate… this is a universe that there is more of, yes?
It’s the Happy Lights series! Well worth a read, I found them super enjoyable, though I noticed your “gen” tags and wanted to just warn up front that most of the series is very thoroughly not gen :D It arose out of the Dubious Consentacles tag festival we had a while back, though in general it’s less “dubious” than the tag implies. Really good stuff :)
Ooops! Sorry for mis-tagging, I’ll go back and edit the tags. (To be honest I mainly had it there as an excuse to make a ‘gentacles’ tag.:-D) Adding the series to the huge pile of ‘fic to read’ bookmarks! \o/
Oh, no worries! I wasn’t like OMG YOU MISTAGGED, I just saw you had tagged about gen and was like “If you want gen tentacles, you will get a surprise you may not enjoy” :D Gentacles was a super funny pun actually, I laughed :D
You guys are killing me with this. 😂😂 honestly I need the laugh so much, so thank you!
Spare Parts Man sounds like a character from Medabots. (Think that makes me sound old? I remember the original Thundercats from the first time around. That’s old.)
Spare Parts Man was briefly an alternate identity for Tony:
Iron Man Vol 1, # 196
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