Thursday Evening, Kennebunkport, Maine

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Vacation was drawing to a close, and soon the guys would have to be back in Fandom to start another school year. Clearly, there was only one thing to do, and that was eat lobster. Lots of it. With butter.

This had been accomplished, and now they were walking back toward the B&B. It was a nice evening for a walk, Steve thought. And it would probably do Tony some good.

((NFB due to distance. For those guys.))

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"Language," Steve reminded Tyler, aiming a kick at Batroc's knee, followed by a jab to the face.

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"Mon dieu!" Batroc replied because the 'OOF' wasn't enough at the kicks. "Ah weell nev~air be takeen down by zee likes of you!"

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"I'll edit that out for the YouTube upload," Tony promised them both.

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"And what is that in English?" Nathan asked, glancing at Tony with an eyebrow raised.

Because now was absolutely the time to be asking about the world's biggest provider of viral video. Yes.

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It was really a pity Tyler was engaged in trying to kick the Leapair back into that parked car. Otherwise, he would have explained that YouTube was a place for people to post videos of their cats sneezing and clips of Very Special sitcom episodes.

"Thanks for helping, guys," he goaded instead.

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"Nathan has a bye," Steve reminded him, moving back to ready and waiting for Batroc's next move.

He was sure it would be annoying, whatever it was.

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"You're both doing so well on your own," Tony insisted, moving for a better angle.

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Batroc did the unthinkable and leapt up onto his feet to try kicking Tyler this time.

"Ah weel 'ave you know, ah ahm très formidable!"

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"Somehow, you're missing something in the translation," Nathan noted, biting the inside of his cheek and trying not to grin too much. It was a challenge. "I think perhaps the pencil moustache throws off the whole formidable look."

Or all of that purple.

Or possibly the goggles.

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Tyler gave Nathan and Tony a dirty look, bye or no bye, and tried to punch Baltroc away. "Tres, tres, tres formidable," he agreed wearily. "Can you just get lost?"

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Tyler was really new here, huh? "Not really how it works, Tyler," Steve told him. "He robbed a bank." They had to beat him up until the cops got here!

...this town did have cops, right?

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Somewhere...

Tony sighed. "Can't you call your version of SHIELD?"

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Batroc went down like a punk, cursing in something that might have been Polish or badly mangled French. "Ah 'ave cleverly deestracted zem!"

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"He tied eyepatch guy to the railroad tracks," Nathan decided. "That's how that sort of distraction usually goes, isn't it?"

He was being helpful. Honest.

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"Maybe he" -- punch, kick, could Baldroc go try to beat Steve up now please? -- "sent a bunch of kittens up trees for the cops to rescue."

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"Ah would nev~air," Batroc insisted, for some reason choosing to attack Steve instead of Tyler for that comment. It made sense in French!

"A keety cat ez no--'ow do you say--eet eez adorible!"

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"It wouldn't be the most ridiculous thing you've done," Steve said, closing the distance between them for a jab-kick-roundhouse combination. "And you know it."

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Somewhere through that, apparently Nathan saw an opening to assist.

Which, naturally, meant that he had wound up Steve's shirt some, and was going to proceed to snap it at Batroc's rear like a wet towel in a locker room.

There. He'd helped.

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He did! Especially since Tyler managed to grab the shirt by one sleeve and twist it into a rope.

Poor Steve's shirt. It was now being used to lasso around ze leapair's arms in an attempt to restrain him with a firm knot.

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"Zut alors!" Because that was helpful. "Thees eez not zee last time you veel see me!"

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"This is not what I gave you my shirt for," Steve complained.

Then from behind him, he heard someone say, "WE'll take it from here, citizen." He steeled himself for what he would find, because seriously, who called people citizen, and turned.

To find a group of costumed people led by a man dressed as a lobster striking what he was sure they thought were heroic poses. He sighed, resigned. "You're those Initiative guys, aren't you?"

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Tony was filming them now, laughing like he couldn't even hope to stop. "Steve, we're always visiting your place from now on."

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"I'm moving in," Nathan added, not even bothering to try to resist laughing, now. It hurt. God, it hurt like burning and was the best laugh he'd had in his life. "Can we go to Montana, next? I want to battle a man dressed like a gopher and then get bravely rescued by someone in a bad buffalo suit."

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Tyler stepped back to lean against his car, rubbing out a bruise as he laughed. "I say California," he said. "It's sunny and I bet we find crazy evil flower children."

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"California's X-Men territory. And the Pride's kids down in LA," Steve said to Tyler. He dabbed at blood on his lip from a lucky shot Batroc had gotten in and gave the locals his best welcoming and interested and not-at-all-condescending face.

"Yeah," Lobster Man said. "We're the Maine Event!" He struck a new pose.

These people were sorely testing Steve's facade. He dearly wanted to join the others in laughter. "Kind of late, aren't you?"

Lobster Man shifted uncomfortably. "We had to stop for gas." The girl dressed as a pine tree, who couldn't have been over twenty, had been eyeing Steve curiously, with occasional glances at Tony. Suddenly, her eyes widened and she whispered something to the man with swim flippers and a snorkel. Great.