Tony Stark woke up excited. Ok, he woke up a bit hung-over, but still he was excited. "Hey, Pep!" He called as he came downstairs to the kitchen of Avengers Tower where Pepper was reading the latest issue of Money magazine while sipping coffee and eating a blueberry muffin. Across from her sat a five large pancakes stacked on an Iron Man plate.
"Steve fixed pancakes." Pepper said before turning the page of her magazine. She checked her phone beside her and did a double-take at the time before looking into her excited boyfriend's face. "Well, you're up bright and early." She quipped looking at the clock on the knowing Tony usually didn't get up until at least 1pm on Saturdays.
"Yeah, but we have to get ready for the pool party!" Tony said excitedly before plopping himself down in his chair and grabbing three large pancakes. "I haf' my robots cleaning the pool." He explained in between large bites of pancake.
"Man of Iron, why must you spit pancake throughout the room?" Thor asked tiredly as he entered the kitchen in his bathrobe swigning his hammer lazily. "Friend Rogers has once again made breakfast!" He grabbed the Iron man serving platter and sat down with it.
"Hey everyone - Thor Odinson, that's a serving platter!" Steve yelped entering the kitchen as Thor took a large bite of pancakes. He sighed before getting up to grab his spangled kitchen apron. "Batch two coming up for the rest of the team." He sighed. Even though he made a breakfast for the early risers in Avengers Tower before working out, he always found himself back in the kitchen making a meal for everyone else. However, he didn't complain as self sacrifice was part of being a good soldier.
Clint bounded into the kitchen a moment later telling everyone about his new bow and arrows. Bruce and Natasha followed and sleepily joined the others at the table.
"IT'S POOL PARTY DAY!" Tony Stark cheered once everyone finished breakfast." I'm so excited!"
"You just want to show off your rooftop pool we built last week." Pepper muttered.
"Um... well... yeah." Tony admitted sheepishly as everyone chuckled. "Oh c'mon, it's awesome! Meet me at the roof at noon!" As he got up to leave, Pepper cleared her throat loudly.
"Anthony Stark, I will make sure you are lathered down in sunscreen before you step foot in that pool!"
At noon, The Avengers gathered on the roof of Avengers Tower. Tony was in his Iron Man swimming trunks. He and Clint had a cooler filled to the brim with the finest alcoholic beverages that Stark Industries could buy. Thor had a maroon towel wrapped around his waist and he, of course, carried his hammer with him. Bruce had purple swim trunks on, Steve was in a striped bathing suit from the 1940's that was a one piece shorts and tank-top piece. Natasha was in a black bikini and Pepper was in a gold and red bikini. "Ok, everyone, this is the moment we've been waiting for!" Tony called before pushing a button on the wall by the elevator.
"Whoa!" Steve gasped as a metal panel slid away from part of the rooftop to reveal an Olympic sized swimming pool that was 10 feet deep at its deepest point. A diving board was installed at the deepest end. Bamboo lounge chairs with red and gold cushions surrounded the pool. An outdoor kitchen with a grill, sink, and fridge built underneath the bar area was built near the shallow end of the pool close to the elevators. Stark's team of robots carried the cooler of drinks to the kitchen and began mixing the drinks at the bar.
"I shall be the first to explore the depths of Lord Stark's pool!" Thor boomed before discarding his dark red towel and doing a perfect cannon-ball into the deep end. "Friends!" He gasped as he surfaced a short minute later. "The water is pleasantly warm and clear!"
"Yeah - clear enough to see to the - DUDE!" Clint yelped. "OHMYGODMYEYES!" Bruce glanced over before covering Natasha's eyes. "Tony, um - Thor is swimming in your pool. Naked." Clint groaned.
"In Asgard, we do not wear such things as swimming suits or swimming trunks." Thor explained while treading water. Pepper hurried inside and quickly returned with one of Tony's extra Iron Man trunks.
"Would one of you gentlemen acquaint Mr. Odinson with these?" She asked before Bruce sighed. As a medical professional, he was used to nudity and even dressed his fellow Avengers' wounds several times. Taking the trunks from Pepper, he came to the edge of the pool.
"Thor, c'mon, man. We're getting you into these." Bruce said in his best bedside manner voice. Everyone averted their eyes as Thor got out of the pool, dripping in all his glory before he wrapped a towel around himself. "Ok, step into these."
"Friend Banner, these trunks press tight against my -" Thor announced before sticking his hand beneath the elastic band to make some adjustments.
"We can adjust them inside, Thor. Bathroom, c'mon." Bruce said hurriedly. Clint and Natasha looked down at the parking lot to see if the other guests had arrived. Tony reclined on a lounge chair, and Peper was at the outdoor kitchen giving the robot everyone's drink orders.
"Hey, who invited SHIELD?" Clint asked as a black SUV pulled up to Stark Tower.
"Not all of SHIELD. Just Nick and Maria." Pepper said cheerfully. "Phil and his people are busy, but they thought the Directors would like a bit of a break. Maria just texted me fifteen minutes ago.
"You invited -" Tony gasped choking on his pina colada that one of the robots brought to him five minutes earlier.
"Now Tony, they're just as much part of the Avengers team as you boys and Nat are." Pepper said. "Don't you remember me inviting them?"
"We did." Clint and Natasha replied before Natasha and Pepper shared a wink.
"Sir, Director Fury and Agent Hill are approaching the pool." JARVIS said.
"Thanks, J." Tony called from his lounge chair. Soon the Director and Assistant Director of SHIELD entered the pool area. Nick Fury was dressed in black swim trunks and Maria Hill had a black cover up. They both carried rolled up towels under their arms.
"Seriously guys, SHIELD logo towels?" Natasha asked as Maria rolled her eyes before spreading her towel on a lounge chair before shedding her cover up to reveal a navy blue bikini.
"I tried to convince Nick to get beach towels on the way here, but he said these were just sitting in a storeroom on the Helicarrier."
"Well, you were the one who thought the towels needed an upgrade - I dunno why -" Nick protested as his girlfriend rolled her eyes.
"Half of them were looking grungy, Nick!" Maria retorted. "Honestly. We finally replaced his ratty kitchen towels in our quarters -"
"Hey!" Nick Fury yelped scowling. Bruce and Thor entered the pool area putting an end to Fury and Hill's bickering.
"I shall once again enjoy the pool, now with these midgardian garments called swimming trunks!" Thor announced before doing a cannon ball into the deep end of the pool.
"Hey, Thor!" Clint called loading an arrow into his bow. "I tossed my target down there, do you see it?"
"Yes, Friend Barton!" Thor called before wisely moving to the edge of the pool to give Clint a clean shot.
"YEAH!" Clint cheered as he shot an arrow into the water.
"Friend Barton, you have scored a bullseye!" Thor called as he surfaced from the deep end holding a target that was at the bottom of the pool. "I shall cast your target into the pool once more!"
"Aaand that's why none of us are swimming yet." Pepper explained to Maria. "THOR AND BARTON!"
"Yes, Lady Potts?" Thor asked as he tread water before Clint shot another arrow into the water before diving in after it.
"None of us can swim when you two are playing darts in the pool with razor sharp arrows!" Clint and Thor groaned before getting out of the pool and putting Clint's archery things to the side.
"Ladies first." Thor said gallantly as he gestured to the stairs of the pool.
"Who says we all start at the shallow end?" Natasha asked before she climbed the ladder to the diving board and did a flip before she dove into the pool. "Bruce, get over here!" Bruce chuckled before diving off the diving board and into the water. Tony whistled the tune to 'Beauty and the Beast' as the two began making out in the pool.
Maria and Pepper were by the bar chatting and sipping girly drinks while Tony and Clint started the grill and began grilling burgers, brats, and kabobs.
"Ok, on the count of three... one... two... THREE! AAAAAAH!" Tony and Clint yelped as they crushed beer cans on their foreheads.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Tony cheered before dousing the hamburgers with another can of beer before uncorking some wine and taking a pull from the bottle.
"ANTHONY STARK, DID YOU JUST DRINK STRAIGHT FROM THE WINE BOTTLE?" Pepper yelled across the small outdoor kitchen.
"I'll open another one!" Tony said quickly. "Hey guys, food!" He called before Pepper could scold him for something else. Soon everyone was gathered at the long bar eating the barbequed treats and sipping cold drinks of their choice.
"This tastes really good, thanks." Steve said. "Compliments to the chef." Tony and Clint high-fived.
"This is really good. I like it." Natasha said before washing down another bite of hamburger with a shot of vodka. "Babe? Did you want to try my bratwurst?" She asked sweetly to Bruce next to her.
"I'm sure you've already tried his large green bratwurst -" Tony quipped before Bruce jabbed him with his elbow. "OW!"
"Be thankful that wasn't my green elbow." Bruce muttered red-faced.
"The kabobs are excellent" Nick said grateful for a meal that didn't come from the SHIELD cafeteria.
"When we get a home offsite, we should get a grill." Maria said hopefully before Nick sighed.
Once everyone was done with lunch, Tony and Thor were the first ones to hurry to the diving board and do cannon balls into the water. Natasha dived into the water and Maria and Pepper jumped in from the sides of the pool. "Alright, Nicky!" Maria called as Nick Fury walked to the edge of the diving board.
"Maria, did you have to - aw dang it -" Nick Fury sighed before diving into the water. Steve was doing laps and Thor was tossing colorful diving sticks into the water for Clint to find. Tony floated on an inflatable Iron Man raft that had a cupholder for his upteenth beer. Pepper and Maria were giggling and swimming around watching the guys dork around in the deep end.
"Let's play Iron Man!" Tony called before rolling off his raft into the water. "Hey J!" Tony called knowing Jarvis could pick up from the microphones around the pool. "Get my raft out, will ya?"
"Tony, you were right next to the edge!" Steve said exasperatedly as a robot retrieved the raft from the water. However, he raised his eyebrows as another robot adjusted eveyone's towels on their respective lawn chairs so they could wrap up in them later.
"Iron man?" Natasha asked warily as she wrapped herself around Bruce who was standing with his head above water. "Please don't tell me you're wearing your suit in here!"
"No - it's seriously a game I made up like right now!" Tony said excitedly.
"Oh my god, how drunk is he?" Nick muttered to Maria who shrugged as Pepper shook her head at the couple to say, 'don't ask.' They all stared amused at Tony who began to explain the rules of his new game.
"Sooo... someone's 'it' and he or she closes his eyes - or eye if you're Nick, and -" He gasped as Nick splashed him with water. "HEY! Anyway, the person who's it says IRON!" and everyone else is like 'MAN!' and then dude who's it goes 'IRON!'"
"Dude, that's Marco Polo." Clint called.
"No, it's IRON MAN!" Pepper just facepalmed. "C'mon, guys one round! One! Winner gets free shots of - stuff!"
"We're all getting free shots of stuff." Natasha muttered.
"Whoooooo's iiiiiiiiiiit?" Tony called. "Ok, I'll be it!" He grinned as he closed his eyes. "IRON!"
"MAN!" Everyone chorused before swimming away from Tony.
"IRON!"
"MAN!"
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Bruce asked Natasha quietly.
"Tony's a dork?" Natasha muttered.
"IRON!"
"MAN!" Everyone called before Bruce climbed out of the pool.
"Friend Banner, you're -" Clint slapped a hand over Thor's mouth.
"You're a genius!" Clint called before getting out of the pool. One by one people got of the pool and dangled their feet in the water to splash the water like they were swimming.
"IRON!" Tony called swimming. "Aw c'mon guys, I'm swimming myself sober here - IRON!"
"MAN!"
"SERIOUSLY!" Tony called after swimming around for a while. "Where are you guys?" He opened his eyes to find himself the only one in the pool. "Oh c'mon, you all are CHEATERS!"
"No, you're just a giant dork." Pepper said before Tony groaned. "Babe, you seriously are."
"Since we're all out of the pool, who wants to have a diving contest?" Natasha asked.
"How about a diving contest and who can pick up the diving sticks the fastest contest?" Clint asked excitedly.
"Legolas, you'd lap everyone at that game. No to finding stuff in the deep end." Tony said still irritated that everyone didn't take as enthusiastically to his 'Iron Man' game.
"Well, diving contest it is." Steve announced. "Ladies can go first." Natasha, Pepper, and Maria grinned. Natasha grinned as she walked to the edge of the diving board. She jumped high and did some ballet spins in the air before doing flips until she dove perfectly into the water. Thor had to reach over and close Bruce's jaw that had almost hit the floor. Pepper jumped and did a somersault before diving into the water. Maria jumped and did some karate chop moves in the air.
"Interesting use of SHIELD training." Nick muttered pleased.
"C'mon, Banner!" Clint and Tony cheered as Bruce walked to the edge of the diving board. He jumped and somersaulted. As he approached the water, he thought he was far enough away from the water to get another cool move in before - SPLAT!
"AAAAH! BELLY FLOP - HULK ABS HURT!" Natasha groaned as a large green man flailed around in the deep end of the pool. "HULK DO BELLY FLOP!"
"It's getting real late to be swimming, big guy." Natasha said before jumping into the pool to latch onto one of Banner's arms. "C'mon, big guy, let's rest your abs -"
"HULK SMASH DIVING BOARD!" Bruce roared before Thor shook his head at him. He was standing at the edge of the pool with his hammer. "HULK - oh -" The green faced man grimaced as Natasha stared daggers at him. He shrank back to Bruce Banner and handed the shreds of his swim trunks to Natasha. "Um - another suit? You know where they are in my closet." Natasha climbed out of the pool with Bruce's ruined swim trunks and accepted a large bottle of vodka from one of Tony's attendant robots.
"Friend Banner and I have both enjoyed being naked in Lord Stark's pool!" Thor boomed excitedly. Yes, this Avengers pool party was one for the books.