Summary: When a new trampoline park opens up not too far from Yelena and Natasha's place, Clint gets the wonderful idea to take them there. Kate comes along, of course, and before long, Yelena and Kate are wreaking havoc. However, no one would have guessed that the Black Widow herself would join in as well.
Yelena jumped from trampoline to trampoline, doing flips and acting insane as she barely evaded kids with Kate hot on her heels as they took off through the trampoline park.
Clint had the idea to go visit the trampoline park after Yelena had expressed an interest in going to the new one opening up not too far from Yelena and Natasha's place. Kate, of course, had been very enthusiastic about going as well since she loved to go anywhere that Clint was going due to her overly giant crush on him that Yelena honestly thought was some combination of disgusting and hilarious. Of course, there was also the fact that Kate was just a big kid herself and loved doing somewhat child-oriented things like playing in trampoline parks.
And naturally, Natasha had agreed to go as well since Yelena never really wanted to go anywhere without Natasha with her. Yelena did not even really have to beg her too much before Natasha just grinned, kissing her head and agreeing.
They had only been there at the trampoline park for about ten minutes, but Yelena had already covered so much of the area and had performed so many different flips that her heart was pumping as if she was doing one of her usual workouts.
Natasha and Clint had been waiting in an area outside of the trampolines where they were just watching Yelena and Kate as they ran across the trampolines and jumped very enthusiastically and crazily. Natasha had been playing the role of mom, however, which was not fun at all and Yelena honestly wished that the redhead would just come in and mess around with them. Clint, true to his ordinary demeanor, had just been watching them with a slight smile as he quietly talked to Natasha.
"Be careful with the kids!" Natasha yelled suddenly, interrupting Yelena in her fun, and Yelena rolled her eyes, continuing along as she had been doing all along.
"Cool your heels, poser!" Yelena called in response, and she could practically feel Natasha's eyeroll. Yelena swiftly changed direction as she hopped along across the trampolines.
Kate wasted no time in hurrying after her. However, she was not quite as coordinated as Yelena, and she kept almost tripping as she followed Yelena.
Yelena just ignored her clumsiness, jumping off one of the upward-inclined trampolines as she bounced off of it. However, what she definitely did not count on was Kate being right behind her.
"KATE BISHOP!!!" Yelena cried as she realized she was going to collide into Kate.
"YELENA!!!" Kate screeched, her eyes ridiculously wide with fear. Yelena crashed directly into her and they fell down on a trampoline heavily.
Kate immediately grunted hard, gasping for air as Yelena knocked the breath out of her as she landed hard on top of her. Yelena raised up from her a little, opening her mouth to start fussing at the archer underneath her about staying out of the way.
However, she then realized that the two of them with their combined forces had launched a kid over to a trampoline several feet away. Kate had followed her gaze and as they realized the child was mostly unharmed, they shared a quick glance.
A moment passed before they both collapsed into laughter. Yelena rolled over onto her back beside Kate, holding her stomach as she cackled. Kate was goofily laughing in her typical ridiculously awkward manner, and Yelena finally managed to get ahold of herself enough to look over at the brunette.
"Let's do that again!" Yelena declared, and Kate, after just a moment of consideration, quickly nodded with a wide smile. Yelena got up and helped Kate to her feet as well, and they both started jumping along trampolines, attempting to sync themselves up as well as possible as they tried to launch kids into the air. Yelena cackled as they successfully shot a few more kids in the air.
Yelena could feel Kate's trepidation as soon as they started sending more kids into the air, but Yelena was having way too much fun to care.
"You sure this is okay to do?"
"Sure! It's not hurting the rugrats and they're getting a free ride! Plus, it's funny to watch them flying like little chubby-faced birds!" Yelena laughed as they continued to hop along. Kate nervously laughed, but kept going.
"Yelena, stop doing that!" Natasha called loudly, and Yelena just ignored her, flying past the redhead as she pretended not to hear her. Kate Bishop started to falter a little in her jumping, and Yelena raised an eyebrow as she noticed Kate looking over at Clint and seemingly worrying over what he would think.
"Oh, come on, Katie. This is your chance to crack old sourpuss. He's got a sense of humor somewhere in there and if this doesn't bring it out, nothing will!" Yelena assured her, willing to say anything to keep her enjoyment going. Kate looked back at her uncertainly, but her gaze quickly hardened as she joined in with Yelena with a renewed vigor.
"That's the spirit!!! I think this is the first time I've ever really liked you, Kate Bishop!" Yelena cackled gleefully, and she could feel Kate's confused gaze on her as they launched another kid across the trampolines.
"Thank you? I think?" Kate laughed a little, confusion riddling her tone, and Yelena could hear Natasha still yelling in the background.
"You're welcome! You're finally shaping up to be a good accomplice," Yelena declared, and Kate suddenly seemed much less sure of her actions as she seemed to be listening to whatever Natasha was yelling behind them.
"Yelena, if you don't stop, we're not coming back!" Natasha yelled loudly, and Kate stopped altogether as those words. Yelena finally groaned after several long moments, the threats of going home and not coming back managing finally to enter her ears and take hold over her. Yelena slowed down, stopping her mad dash across the trampolines as she turned to look at the redhead.
"Such a mom," Yelena grumbled loud enough for Natasha to hear. Natasha just huffed, rolling her eyes as she raised an eyebrow at Yelena. Yelena then turned around, quickly realizing that there was a ball pit nearby.
"Ooh! That looks insane!" Yelena declared with a maniacal laugh as she realized several kids were inside the ball pit. Yelena wasted no time in jumping in it, realizing there was a trampoline just beneath all the balls. The balls and the kids quickly flew up in the air, and Yelena cackled as everything kept falling back down. Yelena laid back in the ball pit, pretending that she was in water as she looked up at Kate. Kate was standing above her on the trampolines, grinning goofily, and Yelena waved her hand toward the ball pit with a mischievous grin.
"Come in, Katie! The water's fine—"
However, Yelena was quickly interrupted when a soft plastic ball hit her in the face. Yelena winced, wrinkling her nose as she glared in the direction that it came from. Kate snorted hard as Yelena locked onto her target.
It was a ruddy-faced little boy who had the most wicked look on his face. Yelena narrowed her eyes as she glared at him.
"Look, you little carpet-ape—"
Yelena was quickly hit in the face with several more balls, and she growled loudly as she quickly grabbed a ball and threw it at the kid at full-speed, hitting him in the head. He just grew even angrier as he looked to the other kids, and they all started throwing balls at her furiously. Yelena was quickly pelted by all of the plastic balls flying at her, and she brought up her hands to try to shield herself.
However, when Yelena realized that Kate was up there laughing at her, she turned her attentions to the brunette. Kate quickly stopped laughing, looking a little concerned as Yelena made sure to bring out the threatening Russian side of her that always scared Kate into leaving her alone.
But this time, Yelena lunged forward and grabbed Kate's ankles, dragging her in the pit as well. Kate yelped as she fell in the balls, quickly submerging herself in them.
"Start throwing, Katie!" Yelena commanded, and Kate immediately made a muffled noise of protest.
"Don't call me— EWWW!!! I think there's a booger on one of these balls!" Kate cried from underneath the pile, and Yelena rolled her eyes, concentrating on her target as she ignored the younger girl.
"Just wipe it off and throw it anyway!" Yelena shouted as she started chucking the balls at the kids as fast as she could.
"WHERE DO I WIPE IT?!!!" Kate demanded, barely reemerging her head from the pile, and Yelena just kept throwing the balls violently at the little turds all around her that were aiming on creaming her with the balls.
Yelena had been efficiently ignoring Kate as the brunette whined about the booger, but she quickly started paying attention to the other girl as she felt a bony finger poking into her thigh. Yelena's gaze snapped downward, and Kate froze in the middle of her actions, just gaping at Yelena.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing."
"Wait— ARE YOU WIPING THE BOOGER ON ME?!!!" Yelena screamed, and Kate wasted no time in ducking her head back down in the balls as she tried to evade Yelena's wrath and avoid being a target for both the kids and Yelena. Yelena aimed a well-placed kick in Kate's direction before continuing to wade through the balls, pitching them across the pit as Kate groaned as a result of Yelena's hit.
"What is going on in here?! Yelena, you can't throw balls at kids!" Natasha declared suddenly, her voice much closer than it had been before. Yelena looked up at her, gaping up at the redhead in shock. Natasha had taken off her shoes and was now standing at the side of the ball pit.
"He started it!" Yelena declared, pointing at the boy and he stuck his tongue out at her. Yelena quickly responded, sticking her tongue out in return. Natasha rolled her eyes heavily.
"He's seven and you're like twenty-seven," Natasha told her, looking between the two. Kate tentatively raised her head up from the ball pile again, looking around as she realized the war had died down and come to a stalemate for a moment.
"I'm eight!" he grumbled aloud, crossing his arms, and Yelena mimicked the motion, pouting up at her older sister.
"I'm twenty-eight!" Yelena muttered offendedly, and Natasha just sighed deeply.
"Either way, you're way too old to be having some kind of ball-throwing war with a—"
Yelena wasted no time in throwing the ball and smacking Natasha in the nose with it. Natasha froze quickly, her eyes narrowed as she glared down at her baby sister. Kate's eyes went ridiculously wide and she dove back down under the ball pile.
"HIT THE DECK!!!" Kate cried loudly just as Natasha dove into the ball pit after Yelena.
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The girls all piled into Clint's car, sitting there awkwardly and wordlessly as they looked down at their laps. Clint let out a deep sigh that could only be described as that of a father with his misbehaving children.
"I take you out to a trampoline park. I think to myself, 'What could go wrong? What could possibly happen with three adult women in a trampoline park?'" Clint questioned aloud, and Kate kept her eyes firmly locked onto her hands as she avoided Clint's gaze that was looking to each person in the car.
"And what do you guys go and do? You have to start a park-wide ball war!" Clint declared, shaking his head and remaining mostly calm despite the intensely disapproving tone in his voice. Natasha took a breath before looking up at him with a raise of her eyebrow.
"In my defense, Barton, I was stopping them from hitting kids," Natasha somewhat weakly protested, and Clint looked over at her disapprovingly. Natasha pursed her lips, unhappy that she was the one being scolded when she always did the scolding. She usually was the one to keep Clint in line, and she really did not like this role reversal.
"You got them and yourself kicked out because you started aggressively throwing kids out of the ball pit and onto the trampolines because they were throwing balls at you," Clint told her, and Natasha huffed, very much displeased with his words and the fact that he had actually been paying attention that well to what she had been doing.
"That was self-defense and I was trying to protect them from getting ran over!" Natasha informed him, and Clint seemed far from impressed.
"And the kids were having fun!" Natasha tried to defend herself, and Yelena was honestly shocked to see her sister pulling what would normally be Yelena's mode of operation. Natasha was never the person to ever be scolded and she always made the mature decisions.
However, this time, Yelena found it to be extremely entertaining that Natasha was being scolded for doing something immature for once in her entire life. Natasha would probably never let herself do something like that again. And while Yelena knew that the redhead had truly been trying to move the kids out of the way so she would not accidentally run them over when she was chasing Yelena, Yelena was not about to vouch for her with Clint. Especially after Natasha had hypocritically told Yelena that she should be gentle with the kids and be careful with them.
"They were screaming and crying," Clint declared, his mouth drawn in a tight line as he narrowed his eyes at her. Natasha huffed in reply.
"You don't know what you heard, Barton. Your hearing aid was probably off," Natasha replied somewhat grumpily, and Yelena just raised an eyebrow as she leaned toward Kate.
"Y'know, she sure was whistling a different tune when I was the guilty one. And I wasn't even throwing kids," Yelena muttered to Kate, and Kate just kept her gaze down, barely glancing over at Yelena. She definitely did not want Clint turning his disappointment toward her.
"Besides, Yelena started it," Natasha immediately redirected the blame, obviously having heard Yelena and deciding to get her back for her comment. Yelena's eyes widened as she let out a noise in protest. Clint sighed deeply, shaking his head.
"Regardless of who did it, I honestly never saw it coming that I was going to have to be the responsible one here. That's your job, Nat," Clint admitted as he started up the car and decided to leave them all in silence to think about things.
They started down the road, quietly heading home. However, after a few moments, a thought came to Yelena as she turned to glare at Kate. Kate suddenly looked horridly afraid, knowing what Yelena was thinking.
"Wait a minute!!! YOU WIPED A BOOGER ON ME!!!"