Pepper was nervous.

They had a right to know! They were his teammates!

Taking a deep breath, she entered the room. Clutched firmly in her right hand was a USB attachment. A very specific one, in fact.

Tony had gone to meet his best friend, Rhodey, so they could catch up. He had told her he would be gone the entire day, thats all she needed. Everyone was there (except Thor), Stark tower had become the main meeting place for the Avengers, not to mention a living space for some...

"Hello, ma'am. What can we help you with?" Steve had noticed how she walked in, a stride full of purpose, and a face full of determination.

"Here." She held the USB at arm's length, offering it to Bruce, "Tony didn't want any of you to see this but...", She hesitated. "I feel since you are his teammates that you should."

Bruce took it, and stared at it. "What is it?" He finally asked, the others avengers were curious now.

"What really happened when Tony was kiddnapped. I know you've heard the story 'It was for ransom, they didn't really hurt me' Well, that was a lie."

Clint spoke up, "I think we should look. What do you guys think?" It was silent before others began to agreed.

Bruce sighed, personally? He didn't think they should. It was a total invasion of his privacy... but it seemed he was out voted. Pepper had already pulled out one of Tony's laptops and set it out on the table, quickly inserting the USB in she backed up, and the Avengers scooted in.

It was pure static for a moment, then the screen was filled with a man's face. He was young, about middle aged, and had a large beard. He stepped away from the camera and spoke in an odd language. Pepper quickly pressed translate.

"Go ahead and speak!" he stepped out of the way to reveal ten, maybe fifteen men, all holding semi-automatic rifles at the person in the middle. The man had a thick layer of white-ish gauze wrapped around his chest and stomache, you could see blood seeping through. Suddenly, the brown sack they had placed over his face was ripped off. The man blinked rapidly, trying to get his eyes to adjust to the sudden light. It was Tony.

The man who had ripped off the sack began to speak, "Obadiah Stane, You did not tell us the person we were hired to kill was Tony Stark. You realise this will..."

Pepper fast forwarded, "You might want to prepare yourselves for whats about to play..." She clicked the play button.

The voice of a man reached their ears when the door flew open, "This will teach you for refusing to build our missle!"

It was a completely different scene, the kidnappers had Tony in a small room, he had his arms tied behind his back and was roughly pushed to the ground infront of a tub. Clint and Natasha gasped, they recognized this torture. When joining SHEILD they taught you all kinds of torture and why they were so affective (so you were prepared if it ever happened to you), this was one of the worse ones.

Natasha didn't want to watch but she just couldn't look away.

The men forced his head down into the icy water, he thrashed but simply couldn't get away from the tub. His whole body convulsed as he tried to breath, suddenly they let him up. He tried to take a deep breath, but before he even got halfway he was under again. it repeated over and over again, the same torturing process.

When they shoved his head under the tenth (Or was it eleventh?) time Steve looked away. He just couldn't watch that. His teammate being drowned because he didn't want to kill his fellow Americans? It made him sick.

Around the twentyth time they pulled him up he managed to scream out a jumble of words, "I'll build your missle! Please... Just please... Stop."

He sounded so... Broken.

The bald man that had been watching the whole thing smiled, but it was obvious he was still angered by his refusal. The man stood, and anounced something in a foreign language that roughly translated to,

"Don't break any bones." And he left.

Thats when the remaining occupants of the room began assaulting Tony, puching, kicking, scratching, but being careful enough not to break a bone. Tony cried out with every hit.

Clint was... Horrified, impressed, angered, and saddened all at the same time. Horrified at what happened to Tony. Impressed he was still sane after that. Angered that they did that to him and Saddened that they did that to him.

Slam!

The laptop snapped shut, a hand pressing it down.

Tony had his eyes closed tightly shut. His voice was clipped and angry, "Rhodey had to cancel. Something came up."

His eyes opened, he looked every Avenger strait in the eye before all but snarling out,

"This changes nothing."

He yanked out the USB and retreated into his room, Pepper followed, trying to calm him down. He didn't come out for the rest of the night.

Every Avenger (except Thor) didn't sleep well that night. Their was too much on their minds to even consider sleep.

Tony Stark lay, spread eagle, on his bed. What was he going to tell them when they started asking questions?

Nothing, he decided, He was gonna tell them nothing.

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I guess you could call this a cross over... eh, whatever. Hope you enjoy.

I do not own Iron Man or avengers!

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