Same Avenger, New Branding: The Bare Widow

MyNameIsNowSpinel:

"Y-yeah, I guess as long as there aren't any kids on the team, we'll be... oh gosh, when we do the snap, Peter is gonna see me, isn't he? J-just uh, warn me when he shows up, I know this is gonna really confuse him..."

He was a hormonal teenager, so seeing one of the Avengers nude seemed like a surefire way to get him to faint moments after being un-dusted. then again, she'd be happy to see him again even if it meant he'd be perving on her.

abagel:

Tony flared up a little, protective. "Peter's a good kid. He'll be fine."

The rest didn't really have much to say on the matter. The remaining Guardians looked quizzical. "Quill? Yeah, that's true. He's never seen an Earth person like this....not in person." He looked around, defensive. "What? I don't think our kind-of-dead friends care about gossip right now."

Rocket crossed his arms, satisfied with his defense.

Tony shook his head. "We'll explain this to the talking garbage can bandit later."

Bruce and Steve too, moved closer to the bare naked and barefoot female Avenger. "Well....I suppose now is as good a time as any to continue. We've got the stones. Everyone knows what we have to do."

MyNameIsNowSpinel:

...okay, Widow definitely forgot for a second that they had two Peters. Hey, that's no entirely on her, since the first and second Peter she met both vanished on the same day. But still, she knew that they were right- whether it was the spider-guy or the space hero, it shouldn't matter how naked she was if they knew it was what needed to happen to save them.

"S-so, um, who does the snap?" Natasha asked with concern, hoping for once to take attention off of her nude form.

abagel:

Thor stepped forward. "It has to be me, you all would collapse from the sheer energy into babbling puddles of your former selves, at best-" Hulk brushed him out of the way. "No, it's mostly gamma. I was almost....made for this."

Nebula looked around the room pensively. Her eyes landed on naked Nat. "Definitely not her. It won't be pretty."

Tony stopped everyone right there. "No, first me and the angry hamster need to tune our little project a little more. There's no way we want to second guess this, the blue meanie is right."

Everyone sort of mulled about after that, Nebula and Rocket keeping to familiar company in the room when Rocket wasn't needed by Tony- Bruce and Scott having an amicable conversation by the coffee machine about molecular physics- and Clint Barton and Steve Rogers sitting down beside their birthday-suited-companion. It would be the first real extended conversation she had with her super soldier friend now that she was stuck in the buff.

MyNameIsNowSpinel:

"S-sooo, uh... how did you get your stones?" she asked, trying to cover her nude form in front of the quite experienced Avenger, wanting to turn attention away from what had recently been the most popular topic of discussion possible... even more than the fact that they had what was necessary to bring their friends back to life. "Y-you sure do look like you came back alright, at least..."

abagel:

Steve studied her, but not leeringly so. He'd always been a friend, and she knew his heart was taken. Perhaps that was what made him different. Even so, she could tell, like she could with them all, that part of him did appreciate the contours of her body that were now laid bare before him.

"Yes. We almost didn't come back at all. It was....Tony made a decision, a good call. It put us where we needed to be."

Clint laughed. "Grace under pressure. Seems to be our calling card. Eh Nat?" He elbowed her bare side. It felt very different when it was skin-on-skin.

MyNameIsNowSpinel:

"Oh, um, yes of course! Yeah, we really do well in bad situations, don't we? I mean, I thought one of us would come back without the other to get the Soul Stone... and I keep forgetting how grateful I should be that that didn't happen."

It felt hard to speak calmly and concisely while knowing he could be looking anywhere on her body at any time, but she trusted Steve to not go to Thor levels.