the-flightoficarus:

merthurlocked:

So I was watching this new gameshow called “child support” and basically someone tries to answer questions right to win money if they get one wrong a child can save them if they know the answer (it’s a great funny game)

Anyway…one of the questions was ‘At MIT, if a student completes courses in archery, fencing, pistol shooting and sailing they can become a certified what?’

The answer was PIRATE !!!

Now all I can think about is Tony in his MIT days finding out this little fact and thinking hell yeah I wanna be a certified fucking pirate and so he completes all the courses, with the best and highest scores the school has ever seen, and also like of course he knows how to shoot a pistol and sail a boat, he’s a bloody Stark for christ sake!!! But he also wants a pirate buddy and he so he drags Rhodey along with him to each course and Rhodey my man, he beats Tony’s highest score in pistol shooting and his archery skills are on fire but Tony doesn’t mind coming second to his Rhodey bear and then finally!! They get their certificate/award and Rhodey looks down at it and is like

“Tones!! You never said we were training to be pirates, I would have learned the sail boat knots better!! Man I can’t believe you” but Tony just looks at him and shakes his head all with this massive smile on his face and then just whispers to Rhodey “we’re fricken certified pirates buddy” and then he and Rhodey burst into a fit of giggles because whilst it was fun pretending to be Captain America and his howling commandos that stopped being cool when they were five, but pirates? PIRATES?? YOU’RE NEVER TOO OLD TO BE A PIRATE

(also some time later when Tony finally meets Fury he’s a little jealous of the eye patch cause he could never pull it off himself and he always makes jokes about Fury being a pirate until one day the avengers are battling on a massive ship and they eventually win but they’re way out in the ocean and just wanna get home so Steve eventually takes command of the steering but then in their coms Furys voice is loud and clear for all to hear “Rogers this is the one and only time I’ll say this, but Tony Stark is more qualified to get this ship back to homeland…Cap’n Stark take the wheel” everyone’s faces are bewildered especially when Tony answers “Aye aye Sir” and commands the steering like he was born to do it, when the avengers ask why him?

Tony’s already got his pirate certificate out and proudly holding it up whilst getting Jarvis to take a photo of him and sending it to Rhodey with the caption ‘finally our time for pirating has come’

I NEED IT