the food bandit

Fruit Loops

Eating cereal was honestly the only thing she wanted to do. Unfortunately for her, she didn't have cereal to eat or even a kitchen to eat it in. Dani was homeless.

She prowled around the streets of New York, her tattered canvas kicks doing nothing to keep her feet warm.

Lucky Charms would absolutely smack right now.

Her stomach grumbled in agreeance and she sighed. Sure, it would be easy peasy breaking into literally anyone's house and stealing their cereal. She could just as easily rob some kind of store. But where's the fun in that?

No, if Dani was going to commit a crime, well, "go big or go home", and she didn't have a home to go to.

Going big was her only option.

She came to a stop in front of the biggest building she saw, lit up with a sparkling 'A'.

"Fucking perfect," she whispered to herself. Dani walked through the front doors without blinking, ignoring any and all security guards. It's not like they'd see her anyway.

She laughed at their confused faces when the elevator doors opened, yet it seemed no one had pushed any buttons. Dani slipped inside undetected and pushed a series of random buttons, hoping to luck out and find the floor with the kitchen; there had to be one.

For once, Lady Luck was on her side, and she stepped out onto the Avengers' residential floor.

Feeling giddy and excited for cereal, if they even had any, she began to look around for the kitchen. It didn't take her long to find it.

By the lack of noise, Dani assumed the Avengers were asleep or not home, and she let her invisibility drop. She flung open cabinet after cabinet in search of cereal.

God, did that girl love cereal.

When she finally found where they kept it, she was disappointed to see that Lucky Charms was not there. She scowled and muttered profanities under her breath, reaching for the box of Fruit Loops instead. It took her another short moment to find the bowls and silverware, and another to make her midnight snack.

She sat on a leather barstool at the large marble island and sighed at the sight of the beautiful Loops before her.

Dani was halfway through her second bowl when the lights flickered on. She froze, the spoon still in the air.

"Who the fuck are you?" Dani didn't bother turning around.

"You need to get better cereal, dude. Fruit Loops are totally not Gucci," she remarked without hesitation.

"Are you eating my fucking cereal?" Tony Stark asked, staring at the back of the silver-haired girl's head.

"No shit." She hopped off the stool. "I was really hoping for Lucky Charms, but beggars can't be choosers, I suppose." Without looking at the billionaire once, Dani put her bowl in the sink. "I assume you have a garbage disposal? Being that you're filthy rich and all."

"Who the fuck are you?" He asked again.

Dani turned, leaning back against the counter and crossing her arms. "The Cereal Bandit," she said sarcastically.

He scowled at her. "How did you-"

"Get in?" She cut him off. "Easy peasy. I'm not gonna tell you though, that would ruin all the fun."

"I-"

"Don't think too hard on it, old man. I'll see you around. I gotta blast." She ducked down behind the island, out of Tony's view, and brought her made herself invisible.

Holding back laughter, she walked right past Tony Stark and out the same way she came in, vowing to return again for another bowl of Loops.