A year to Remember. Part 2, the Internship

The midtown interns were previously occupied in their own work. Pete sneaking the BB8 plans with him getting Ned's help, MJ looking over some notes from Choi, Abe and Ray making their own portable laser tag set. Previously, as an alarm went off on all their phones directing them to another conference room.

"What is this about?", Ray asks rushing with the group, 2 more people joining them on their way. "Eric? Ginger? What are you two doing here?", Peter asks. The lady answering, "I presume you got the alert too, it's FRIDAY so something important is definitely going on". The now larger group all enter the room, stuck by the presence of every avenger sat inside, dozens of black duffle bags scattered inside. "Welcome". Tony smirks from the centre of the room, smirking at the fear and anxiety of everyone pleasing to the man. "Sit", he points at the exact amount of empty chairs the group needs.

MJ, reliably the most confident and confrontational is the first to ask. "What's this about Stark?", her question laced with unmistakable challenge and threat, though a new found sense of whimsy and curiosity. The adults all mimic Tony's smirk, Loki rolling his chair to his trio of teen friends. "We, the Avengers, have a certain tradition or sorts. Originally just the man-children" he points to Pietro, Scott, Clint and Sam. "But we've all slowly joined in. Today, we're inviting you seven along".

This doesn't satisfy her. "What". Everyone glares at Tony, asking for permission. Opening his arms he grants it; "Nerf War!", everyone shouts excited. Peter's memory flashing of the previous time he joined them, everyone from Eric to Abe stunned by the volume, and by the Avengers dumping Nerf dart blasters all across the room.

"So what are we supposed to do?", Ray asks concerned, confused like most of the interns about the day. FRIDAY starting up a display on the flatscreen. Steve, as if practised, starts his speech. "There'll be five teams, each midtown intern and a mentor heading each. The rest of the Avengers and you two", He points at Eric and Ginger, "will be allocated to a random team".

MJ raises her hand, "Right", Steve snaps his fingers, "As Pepper is on meetings and Helen is on medbay duty, two other Avengers have been paired with you". Now Nat shouts, "MJ", nodding her head, the teen mirroring it in return. "And Ray, hope you don't mind", Scott waves, Ray smiling and waving back.

"The entire tower is fair game but you seven will require these bibs Tony made to have access and keep security off your backs". He throws each brightly coloured bib at the teens. "Since it's a whole tower game, and it includes non avengers, it's a 3 life system. If you get hit, you loose a life which FRIDAY will announce, to come back into the game, first need to return to your selected home base".

The interns all still look confused, all but MJ worried. "Fri, set the teams!", Tony shouts as tables got teams 1 through 5 pop up on the screen. Tony and Peter, Bruce and Ned, Nat and MJ, Ray and Scott, Abe and Sam heading each in that order. Flickering name tags and icons on every empty spot. It may have seen random, but FRIDAY and Tony took bribes or did some friendly sabotage.

Team 5 had Rhodey and Vision added to it, Wanda and Clint paired up with team 4. Team 3 proved controversial, as not only did it have the two scariest ladies in the tower, it also had its two resident super soldiers. Bruce and Ned had Thor and Loki paired with them, Ned happy to be with a friend. Tony and Peter had Pietro added to their team — which costed Pietro an arm and a leg's worth of chores due to getting kid privileges, and ended up with 5 players if however without any more Avengers to it.

All avenger's all slowly pack and load themselves, each mentor pulling their respective interns in as well. Plenty of belts, harnesses, bandoleers and holsters to carry their cartridges, various blasters and loose darts. Surprising them most of all was Eric, strapping himself with a dual bandoleer and belt, half a dozen guns and plenty of easily accessible darts.