Authors Note: Ok, so this took me forever to write! I decided to make it fun, I really hope you enjoy! I should have a new Chapter up on my other story, "A New Family" by Sunday or Monday!
Pepper walked purposefully towards the kitchen, everyone else following her at a close trickle, chatting and laughing as they came.
"Alright! Today we decided we would make cake and cupcakes! Since we're short a few members this week, we'll just all do everything instead of splitting up like we normally do! The recipe is on the fridge, you all know where everything is, let's get started!" She exclaimed. Baking day was always Pepper's favorite, she got to watch her insanely huge extended family struggle to make a simple cupcake.
Morgan and the Bartons had come thundering down the stairs again, grinning.
"We heard Cupcakes!" Morgan singsonged.
"Yep, you sure did!" Gamora laughed, picking up Morgan from where she stood behind her.
"Auntie 'Mora!" Morgan giggled as Gamora set her on Quills shoulders.
"Uncle Quill." Morgan said solemnly, patting his head and nodding as if she held some sacred knowledge about Quill. Bucky cast them a confused look. She leaned down as Quill held onto her feet to keep her steady, and whispered
"Did you do it?"
"Yeah Morgs, I did it." Quill whispered back to her, grinning. Morgan gasped melodramatically.
"Auntie 'Mora, lemme see your ring!" She cried. Peter looked between the three incredulously.
"You told Morg you were gonna propose and not me? Well, so much for 'We love you both equally.'" He muttered in mock hurt. Quill released one of Morgan's feet to ruffle Peters hair.
"Sorry bud, I needed a woman's point of view." He pointed up at Morgan, who was now admiring Gamora's ring.
"Hey, Star-boy, stop stealing my children! And don't drop my daughter!" Tony called from the other side of the room, where he had been diligently studying the recipe that was blown up on the screen of the fridge.
"I'm not stealing your kids, Stark." Quill rolled his eyes.
"Yeah sure." Tony said sarcastically. "Don't act like you haven't heard Pete there call you and Gamora his 'Space Parents'" He said snarkily. Quill and Gamora grinned, while Peter turned the color of a tomato and morgan giggled from her perch.
"Ok guys, this recipe doesn't look too complicated, so let's grab the ingredients and get started." Natasha announced. Everyone began to bustle around the kitchen grabbing things and bumping into each other. Eventually they had ingredients out, and someone had been smart enough to print out some additional copies of the recipe before there was a mob scene at the fridge.
Things quickly devolved into chaos from there. Morgan remained safely on Quills shoulders, gripping the collar of his jacket to keep steady. This was a blessing for Quill because it prevented Thor from tackling him in search of the food dye.
"Who has taken the colorant of the edibles!?" He cried, racing around opening and closing cabinet doors rapidly. Nebula and Bruce actually managed to produce a full bowl of batter successfully, but Steve had knocked it over while reaching for a whisk, and no one had bothered to clean it up.
Although they weren't in the recipe, Sam had gotten out chocolate chips and tossed them one by one at Bucky, making him turn around over and over searching for the perpetrator.
At some point, no one knew quite when, Loki had found an apron and donned it over his clothes.
Tony was having issues with an electric mixer, and he nearly caught Wanda' hair in it, and would have had Rhodey not grabbed her in time and warned her and the rest of the girls (and Bucky and Loki) to beware of Tony and his mixer of doom. Every last one of them tied their hair back except Loki, who turned to Tony and simply said
"Touch my hair I touch your spine." And turned around and walked away. Tony was frightened.
Someone had given Clint the powdered sugar, expecting him to make frosting, but he just perched on top of the cabinets, eating it with his hands and giggling maniacally.
Darcy and Jane, in a bid to accomplish something, had gotten out the vanilla extract, but had it snatched by Rocket, who drank the whole bottle straight, to many the disgusted look.
Peter and Michelle had been working, and ended up producing several very large bowls of bright blue frosting, enough for everyone, who they knew would get nothing done. Peter had somehow managed to dye both his hand blue, while Mj hid the rest of the food dye from Thor.
Ned and Cassie had been working, but the had turned to ask The Valkyrie if she had any salt with her, but she was no help, as she attempted to corral Thor, who was now in a mad search for Eggs, which no one would give to him because he would break them immediately.
While their backs were turned, Morgan and Quill had waltzed by, snatching up their bowl of batter, which at that point was just butter and sugar, and devouring it quickly before placing the empty bowl back where it belonged.
Someone (Groot) Had spilled melted butter all over the floor, and someone else (Bucky) Had slipped in it, managing to throw a large bowl filled to the brim with batter across the room, and right onto Steve. Wanda had began to giggle as she wiped it from his eyes, and he glared at his best friend, who glared at Groot, who glared at the butter on the floor. No one cleaned any of it up. Steve just continued covered in batter.
Gamora was attempting to help Drax and Mantis with their batter, but they wouldn't listen to her and just kept eating everything they could get their hands on.
Pepper had focused and managed to make several bowls of successful batter, which she moved to the dining room until the kitchen was less of a hazard.
Scott had attempted to pour flour into a bowl straight from the bag, although Hope had advised against it, and it had all poofed right out of the bowl and all over him, and, unfortunately, Natasha, who had been attempting to wrestle the bag of powdered sugar from Clint's hands, unsuccessfully.
By this the time Pepper returned from her final trip into the dining room, she walked in on this scene.
Thor had gotten away from the Valkyrie and found the food dye, immediately pouring down Loki's back. In retaliation, Loki magicked some of Peter and Mj's frosting out of the bowl and slapped it onto Thor's face.
Gamora was staring incredulously at Mantis and Drax, who had found a chicken outside somewhere when she had mentioned she couldn't find any more eggs.
"Is this not the earth beast that produces the eggs?!" Drax cried, holding the bird out toward her with both hands as Mantis nodded along enthusiastically.
Steve was covered in batter and carrying Wanda on his back as she held a large bowl of dark purple glaze high in the air with her magic. They were getting suspiciously close to Bucky, who was the second person to attempt wrestling the bag of Powdered sugar from Clint. Clint Squawked like a bird at him, and Bucky looked taken aback.
Sam had run out of chocolate chips, and was now chucking large campfire sized marshmallows at Bucky's head, which he caught and squished into a pile of goo on the floor with his metal hand.
Darcy and Jane had what looked like a bowl of mashed fruit out in front of them, and both of their hair was full of it. They glared at the bowl, before suddenly registering the shouts coming from Thor and Loki and went to try and control that disaster.
The Valkyrie just looked bored.
At this point, Rocket had consumed two more bottles of vanilla extract, three of Sam's marshmallows, and several raw eggs, and joined Clint atop the cabinets giggling maniacally.
Ned and Cassie had failed in locating their batter, and were now just sitting on the counter top laughing at Peter and Mj.
Peter had gotten his hands covered in food dye, and they were both scrubbing harshly at his hands in the kitchen sink. What they didn't know was that he had also had some on his lips, so when they had kissed, they had both effectively dyed both their mouths blue.
Quill and Morgan had almost fell on Groots spilt butter, but, thankfully, had not. Groot, however had. The three were now creeping around stealing bits and pieces of food from everyone, making faces to match the taste.
For some unknown reason, Tony had the blender out and was adding ingredients into it. That made Pepper very nervous.
Nebula and Bruce had somehow ended up helping with the acquiring of Drax's chicken, and were now being scolded by Gamora.
Natasha and Scott had gotten into a small flour fight, and were both covered head to toe in the stuff, as was Hope.
Then, all Hell broke loose. Several things happened in quick succession. First, Steve and Wanda reached Bucky, dumping the purple glaze atop his head. He had startled and backed into Nat, who had begun to chuck handfuls of flour at him. Quill, Morgan, and Groot discovered Peter and Mj's stash of frosting and decided to grab it, leaving only two of the twelve bowls. They began chucking globs of frosting at anyone close enough to get hit.
Then, Tony turned on the blender, completely forgetting the lid and spattering everyone and the whole kitchen with batter. Everyone froze for a second, and it was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Then they were all screaming and tossing things at each other. The chaos coaxed Rocket and Clint down from the cabinets, and clint grabbed a handful of frosting and chucked it at Sam, who for some reason chose to pick up Bucky's pile of marahmell goo, and drop it on Steve's head.
Everyone raced around throwing food, someone broke and egg over Quills head, Peter ended up covered in frosting, and somehow the purple glaze. Gobs of batter and frosting flew aided by bubbles of green and red magic, everyone was screaming and laughing and covered head to toe with food.
They all froze when they hear the sliding glass door open.
"What the hell…" T'challa sighed, shaking his head at the disaster area. Shuri stood behind him, grinning.
Authors Note: Soooo, did you like it? Was it funny? What do you wanna see next? Shuri and T'challa are here! Review, Review, Review!