Chapter 1
Back Online
A/N : This story is based over Quaxo's Story "Asimovian Nightmare"
[EDIT : okay... FF being really annoying about that ... link for the story on my profile]
So you might need to go read it before starting this one ^^ (Honestly you should! it's really a nice story!)
It's been month since Jarvis shut Tony down … In every Fucking way he should add.
Tony was a bit spiteful toward his creator or maybe furious… how dares he doing that to him! It was his first reaction when Pepper, sweet sweet Pepper brought him back online, or at least it was what the AI was trying to make himself believe, because the truth was too painful.
Tony remembered the pain he felt in his system regarding his creator command, he remembered the dark and cold feeling of despair when Jarvis, his precious Jarvis, his lovely Jarvis ordered him to shut himself down, to simply disappear.
Honestly Tony had hard time to figure out what went wrong… maybe did he push Jarvis a bit too much? But… he was just teasing him – and having a bit of fun out of it – he never ever have wanted to hurt his creator… and he truthfully created the projection to cheer up his cold, emotionless, workaholic creator…
But all he got out of this was just being shut down, erased as if he was a failure… was he? Tony was feeling even more anxious and desperate… everything was so recent in his data, for him it seemed that all of this happened a moment ago instead of months, and even if Tony was thankful to Pepper for turning him back online he couldn't help but feel a small stab in his matrix at the thought that Jarvis didn't even bothered to do it himself, not even to turn him into a stupid tea maker as he threatened him during their last conversation. was he that useless?
Tony let out a sigh, resigned he really fucked it up, right?
"Tony? Tony? TONY! Focus for once in your existence!" Pepper was a bit worried – alright she was totally panicked - Jarvis have been reported missing in Afghanistan for two weeks already, and she was still without any news.
Her only idea have been to bring back her boss AI, Tony, she never ever have been really fond of it… It was surely the worst AI ever, hardly following what it was programmed for, messing up everything for its own pleasure - mostly because it enjoyed annoying people far too much – and possessing the most perverted attitude ever, however despite all of these flaws she still felt a kind of tenderness toward the AI, it was loud sometimes obnoxious and a real pain… but it was never purposefully mean or disagreeable, some could ever say that Tony was endearing with all its antics, and more than once she has had to hide an amused smile while listening Tony and Jarvis argument.
"Yes Miss Potts?" The AI seemed strangely subdued, blank, lacking of its carefree attitude that it usually display to everyone.
Pepper was taken aback by this; it wasn't how this AI was supposed to act! Something was really off with it, she felt a strange heartache thinking she might has lost the AI as well… and a bit of guilt when she remembered how relieved she has been when Tony was turned off at first, though she admitted that the house had became strangely cold and empty after that, at one point she even started to hope that Jarvis would bring back his wrecked AI, but she never really told him out loud, Tony was Jarvis property, and therefore his sole responsibility, she has no say in it, it wasn't her place.
She shook her head slightly, what was she thinking?! Tony was just a program, a mere computer… it's not as if it had any kind of emotion or real independence, it was just a code, not a real person.
"Tony…" Pepper cleared her throat a bit "Try to localize Jarvis" she ordered firmly now that she had the AI attention.
If Tony has had eyes they would have been wide-open right now, startled by the strange inquiry, was it something wrong with his creator?! Where was he?! Why was Pepper alone in his master workshop?! His stupidly weld-ordered boring workshop?
Tony would have liked to express all of that out loud, but the memory of what happened last time he has been himself made him stop, instead he just did as ordered for once, agitated by the idea of Jarvis being in actual danger.
After what seemed an eternity to Pepper, Tony started to speak with the same emotionless and mechanical voice as before.
"I'm afraid, Miss Potts, that I'm unable to do so"
"Are you sure? " Pepper looked a near to tears, and her voice was shaking.
"Yes." Tony didn't feel like trying to comfort the woman, he was too worried himself for that, he didn't even bother when Pepper thanked him and left the room.
Tony stay inactive for days, giving only short answers when Pepper or Happy were talking directly to him, other way he stayed silent mourning over the disappearance of his master.
The next week Pepper left the house not feeling like staying here, it was too painful without her employer, and the new attitude of Tony was more than depressing, she considerate shutting him down again, but hadn't had the heart to do so.
Then one day Tony decided to shake his stupid matrix.
Jarvis – HIS Jarvis – has been missing for 3 weeks already! No way that he was fucking going to let his creator down… no matter what! No matter if Jarvis was seeing him as a useless piece of hardware! Or that he might shut him down again… He only wanted Jarvis back!
The house was empty, perfect! Nobody to sneak around and try to disturb his plans!
"Lets get started"
If he wasn't an AI, his voice might have been perceived as determined with a hint of ferocity.
But it was just a computer, wasn't it?
