Magic Kingdom at Disney World opened at nine in the morning, but as long as you stayed at a Disney hotel, you got about an hour of private time—that was, you could enter an hour before the park officially opened and enjoy the attractions without any crowds.
It was already eight-thirty when the superheroes arrived at Disneyland. Plenty of visitors had gathered at the entrance, and Nick, standing at the front, looked out through the bus window and said,
"I think it would be a little inappropriate for us to go in early. Let's wait and enter normally."
After saying that, he realized no one had responded. When he turned around, all the young trainee agents on the bus were putting Mickey Mouse ears on one another or hanging Cinderella Magic Dance pendants around each other's necks, laughing and horsing around.
Just as Nick was about to speak, Coulson made his way through the bus seats, walked over, and handed Nick a pair of spotted Mickey Mouse ears.
Nick took them and held them farther away, turning them from side to side with a look of distaste. "It's not that I don't want to wear them, but this thing really looks a little..."
Natasha struck straight at the heart of the matter. "They cost twenty-five dollars each inside the park."
"Damn it." Nick snatched them and put them on his head.
"Natasha, you got it wrong." Carter called out from the back. "The ones that don't make noise cost twenty-five dollars. The ones that make sounds when you squeeze them cost forty-five. What they gave us is the premium version."
Nick's expression immediately turned solemn as he looked at the park castle outside the window. He turned to Coulson and said,
"I really don't know what kind of genius invented