The Many Adventures of the Avengers and Friends

🖤✨🎃 Halloween Special 2019

A/N

Vision is in this because rEaSOnS.

And Shipsrlife2 , there is a certain recurring theme that you might be able to pick up on. Just think carefully! (There just might be a few tiny alterations to our original idea).

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"Two Threes." Maya said.

"One Four." Clint said.

"Three Fives." Carson said.

"BS." Olivia said. No one said anything. Carson just smiled and took the mound of cards.

"Ooh, ouch!" Clint said.

"One Six." Olivia said, starting a new pile.

"Two Sevens." Maya said.

"You guys, I'm done." Olivia said. Sure enough, she put down her last card.

"You should have said so earlier!" Clint complained, tossing his hand onto the table.

"I had to make sure no one called BS. Insurance." Olivia said, smirking.

"That was not even a six, was it?" Carson asked.

"Nope." Olivia replied, popping the 'P' in the word.

"How do you have such a good poker face?" Clint asked.

"Clint..." Carson said.

"Oh right. God of Trickery boyfriend." Clint replied.

"And you are oh for six, Popeye!" Maya said.

"You were just waiting to make that reference, weren't you?" Clint asked. They had played six games. Olivia had won four, Carson won two. Clint was usually a master at card games; it was his deck of cards, after all.

And, of course, the whole team was very much into Stranger Things. There had been a surplus of Eggos in the freezer and quoting in the halls as a direct consequence.

"Yep!" Maya said, collecting the cards. "Another game? Or should we not add another mark into the 'you suck' column?"

"Har dee har har." Clint said, snatching the deck and shuffling them. Then Tony burst in.

"Aaaaand the Halloween Meeting is in session! Head for the debriefing room." He said, before dashing out.

"Finally, I never thought he'd call that." Maya said.

Every few years, Tony spent time coming up with a theme for a group costume thing and assigning costumes/characters for each team member. Some say that gives him too much power, but he tried to be fair. And usually he was, surprisingly.

The four of them went to the meeting room where they had their pre-mission debriefings among other things. It worked best because of the many chairs, long table, and white board. The rest of the team was already there.

"Okay, Tony. Now can you tell us the theme now that the Card Sharks are here?" Bucky said.

"Yes I can. Now, I probably don't need to go over the rules, but this is new for Val over here."

"Trust me, it's super fun." Olivia assured her friend.

"Tonight, you get your characters, then tomorrow, we buy the costumes. You can typically get discounts and fast service because of who we are, but try and stay away from online stuff cause it won't get here in time. Any store in the state is fair game. Get creative! Buy the licensed costume bags that have everything, or buy your costume piece by piece. And NO ILLUSIONS." Tony directed that at Loki, who rolled his eyes in response. "We spend the whole day, then at night, we have a little photo shoot, then run the little Trick or Treat at the gym down the block. Everyone understand?" Everyone nodded.