A.N. Someone please tell me to stop writing stories. I have to many. But do you ever get the feeling that you want something to be written, you don't want to write it, but nobody can write it but you or they'll mess it up? I'm in that deep hole right now. I plan to do all of the movies.
Also, if anyone knows if there is a transcript to this movie, that'd be helpful, I cannot seem to find one.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, all belongs to Marvel.
Takes place after the first Avengers movie but before Iron Man 3.
The Avengers were all gathered in Tony Stark's living room. Steve, Natasha and Bruce were all having a civilized conversation about how the damages would be fixed from the recent invasion, Thor sat there confused by what all these 'finances' were, Clint was sharpening one of his arrows, listening absentmindedly, and Tony complained about how much it would all cost.
"You all don't understand the stress of being a billionaire," Tony whined, "Fury's gonna make me pay for everything!"
Natasha sighed, "You're not going to have to pay for everything,"
Tony cocked an eyebrow at her, "He will,"
"Friends, I do not see why we cannot just fix it with seidr!" Thor announced in a loud voice.
"Thor, Midgardians aren't exactly known for their seidr," Clint explained after seeing the blank expressions of the other members of her team.
Amidst all of the arguing going on, nobody noticed the arrival of a strange box.
"What is this?" Thor wondered, walking over to it.
"Thor, no," Steve all-but-screamed, "It could have a bomb in it or something,"
Thor froze, Tony snickered, "Mama-bear Steve once again, saves the life of Goldilocks,"
"JARVIS," Bruce stood up to get a better look, "Scan for anything dangerous,"
The box appears to have no form of weaponry or poison to cause anyone harm. It arrived approximately 15 seconds ago with no sign of any form of entry.
"Well then," Tony tore of the couch, curiosity getting the better of him, unlatching it, he looked inside, "It's just a bunch of DVDs,"
"Why would DVDs appear in the middle of the room?" Steve's eyebrows knit together meeting the confused gazes of the rest of the team.
"Who uses DVDs still?" Tony completely ignored him, "JARVIS, do I still have a DVD player?"
Yes, sir.
"It's labeled in numerical order," Clint commented, putting down an arrow to pick up the disk labeled '1'.
Snatching it out of Clint's hands, Tony ran to where presumably the DVD player was and inserted the disk.
Steve sighed in the I'm-dealing-with-a-five-year-old sort of way, "Tony, what are you doing?"
"What do you think I'm doing?" Tony said, with a coffee-induced craze in his eyes, "Finding out what's on this disk!"
The disk loaded and the movie immediately began to play.
A area of desert filled the screen with a rocky mountain background. A line of military Humvees drove on a dirt road, dust flying as they went along. As they did, a line of text faded from the screen that read Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
"Why's the disk showing us this?" Steve asked.
None of the other Avengers noted the dark expression of Natasha, Clint and Tony who knew what this was.
"How'd they get this," Tony whispered to himself.
The image cut from a soldier manning one of the guns placed on the roof of a Humvee to inside one of them. On screen was a radio, which is he source of the music, and surrounding it is three soldiers. The screen shifts to the soldier sitting in the passenger seat. He nervously is shifting around and glancing back at the seat behind him. A hand appeared then, holding a tumbler of what looks to be scotch, with a younger soldier staring at the holder before looking away.
Tony Stark sat there in an expensive suit and sunglasses
"Tony!" the Avengers who had no clue what was about to happen yelled.
Bruce looked at his newfound friend with slight concern, "What're you doing there?"
Steve, Thor and him all looked at Tony, who gestured towards the screen.
He was looking at the soldiers silently before he started talking.
"I feel like you're driving me to a court-martial," he said, "This is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're going to pull over and snuff me."
"They're American soldiers," Steve noted, "The likelihood of them snuffing you is as minimal as it can be," he sighed, getting used to this Stark's antics.
"What do you mean 'minimal'?" Tony looked a him, vaguely offended.
"You're still yourself, Stark,"
The younger soldier next to him looked to shrug a bit, obviously feeling very uncomfortable.
"What you're not allowed to talk?" Tony looked over at him. "Hey, Forrest!"
Now Steve looked like he was about to give them all a lecture on the proper etiquette that should be used when talking to a soldier.
"Steve," he was interrupted before he could say anything, but sent the 'look' at Tony that this would not be the last of this.
"We can talk, sir," the young soldier Tony called Forrest slowly replied, refusing to make eye contact with him.
"Oh, I see. So it's personal?" Tony asked.
"I do not mean he meant it in that fashion, Man of Iron," Thor said, confused at Tony's intention.
"No, you intimidate them," a woman's voice came from the driver.
"Another shield maiden!" Thor looked ecstatic.
"Good God, you're a woman."
Natasha kicked Tony.
"I honestly...I couldn't have called that. I mean, I'd apologize,
"Which is the right thing to do..." Bruce went on, noting the changes from that Tony and the current Tony.
but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first."
The two other soldiers seemed to be keeping from laughing.
"I'm an airman," she replied.
"Well, you have, actually, excellent bone structure, there," Tony said slowly, awkwardly trying to save the situation. "I'm having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?"
Steve now looked absolutely appalled at what Tony had just said, Thor looked confused, and the rest of them stared at screen, shaking their heads at Tony's 'save'.
The soldiers and airman tried to hold their laughter as grins broke across their faces.
"Yeah! Come on, it's okay, laugh!" Tony loudly encouraged the group.
"I do not understand the purpose of a joke if you instruct them to laugh," Thor was lost yet again.
The soldier up front and made a gesture to get Tony's attention. "Sir, I...I have a question to ask you."
"Yes, please."
"Is it true you went twelve to twelve with last year's Maxim cover models?"
Steve now was looking away from the screen, straight up, as if asking God why this is his team.
"That is an excellent question," he started, taking off his sunglasses, he looed serious as he faced the man, "Yes and no. March and I had a scheduling conflict, but fortunately, the Christmas cover was twins."
"Thank God for that," Clint said sarcastically.
'Forrest' raised his hand tentatively.
"You're kidding me with the hand up, right?" Tony asked.
"Tony..." Steve said in a threateningly manner.
Tony still remained silent, knowing what was coming up.
The other Avengers looked concerned about his odd behavior.
The young man very quickly lowered it before continuing, "Is it cool if I take a picture with you?"
"Yes, it is very cool."
"I mean, who wouldn't want a picture with me?" Tony said, seeing his teammates stares.
They could tell it was falsetto.
Natasha and Clint met eyes, they knew why he was like this.
A happy grin spread on the soldier's face and he shifted in his seat to get them both in the view of a small digital camera. Tony leaned in next to him as the young man quickly threw up a peace sign.
"I don't want to see this on your MySpace page,"
"Who uses MySpace?" Natasha cocked her eyebrows.
Tony said seriously, but joking, "Please, no gang signs."
Steve gave him the exhausted parent look again.
The soldier quickly put his hand down before Tony glanced back and said, "No throw it up. I'm kidding,"
It quickly returned to it's original place.
"Yeah, peace. I love peace. I'd be out of a job with peace."
"Friend Stark, what do you mean by that?"
"Tony used to be a weapon's manufacturer," Natasha jumped in, seeing Tony's helpless expression as he tried to put into words what he did, "When he took over after his father died, they had been giving to the U.S. army. By saying 'I'd be out of a job with peace', he'd be literally unemployed,"
Most of the Avengers already knew that, but Steve sat on the couch silently, wondering what had gotten into his old friend Howard.
"Come on," urged the soldier, "Come on!" the soldier holding the camera was fiddling with it.
"Just click it, don't change any setting, just click it."
As the man was about to take the picture, the Humvee in front of them exploded. There was a yelp from one of the two up front. Tony seemed to be in slight shock at what he had just occurred.
Everyone had jumped at the unexpected explosion.
"What's going on?" Steve looked at the screen.
"Terrorists," Bruce spat out, a dull green settling on his skin already.
"What's going on?" he asked, looking around at the soldiers.
"Contact left!" the woman screamed. She screamed another thing as Tony yelled, "What have we got!"
The woman got out of the Humvee, gun in hand, and unfortunately got shot down.
Everyone sat in silence at what they had just witnessed.
"Jimmy, stay with Stark!" the other soldier said from his seat as he exited the vehicle.
"Stay down!" Jimmy said, pursing Tony down his seat.
"Yeah," Tony agreed moving down further, but he could tell the man was shot.
"He got shot as well?" Steve asked, a slightly desperate undertone in his voice.
"Son of a bitch!" Jimmy cried, loading he weapon, before getting ready to exit as well.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait! Wait!" Tony cried, "Stay here! Or give me a gun!"
"They didn't even give you a gun?" Bruce stared at his friend, "I'd think that'd be at least standard procedure,"
"What do you mean, my friend?" Thor asked.
"He means," Natasha interrupted, "'Welcome to the terrorist infested area, here's your gun' sort of thing,"
But Jimmy had already left, "Stay here!" he yelled from outside the vehicle.
And Tony watched as he too, was gunned down, holes blasting through the side of the Humvee.
All sounds cut out except for the ringing in Tony's ears, before it faded back in as muted gunfire and explosions. Tony looked around himself in shock at what was currently happening around him. Another bomb was dropped, taking out a few soldiers. Tony ran from the Humvee.
"No," Bruce yelled, "Get back in the car!"
Natasha noticed his eyes turning green at the sequence of events, "Actually, if he'd stayed in the car, he would've been a bigger target, and those things can explode, like the one that was in front of him. By exiting the vehicle, he upped his chances of survival,"
Bruce calmed down a bit.
Another explosive flew past Tony as he ducked against the vehicle, landing somewhere behind him. He made a break through the fires and dove at a rock a little bit away. He pulled out his phone and pressed some buttons as bullets rained around him. As he did this, there was a whistling sound of an incoming explosive and the screen angle changed, showing the smoke as it landed next to him. Tony stared at it, freezing when he saw STARK INDUSTRIES painted neatly on the side of it.
"Oh my god," Steve said, looked over at Tony, "Your own weapon?"
"It is severely dishonorable for an opponent to use ones weapon against him," Thor's eyes narrowed in anger.
Scrambling to his feet, Tony attempted to get away,
"MOVE, MOVE FASTER YOU IDIOT!" almost the whole of the Avengers yelled.
Tony wasn't facing the screen anymore.
but wasn't fast enough. The detonation blasted him back, and he slammed to the ground.
Everybody flinched.
He spent a moment gazing around dazed only hearing a loud ringing, before red started appearing on his shirt. He looked at his chest as the stains grew larger. Ripping open the shirt revealed a blood-stained bullet-proof vest.
"From a professional standpoint," Bruce informed the Avengers, "I'd say this is Tony's death,"
Tony slumped back to the ground and laid still.
They all winced, still hearing Bruce's last words.
The screen faded to white before it faded back in to what looked like mesh. Sounds of people speaking in a foreign language appeared before the mesh was yanked from Tony's vision, revealing itself to be a burlap sack. Dazed and bloodied, Tony squinted at the sudden light. His head moved on his neck weakly as he attempted to figure out what was going on around him. Then, he caught sight of a camera and a dark look came to his eyes as he sat up straighter. He was surrounded by men with guns, one big one positioned at his head.
"Dammit," Bruce cursed.
"You were taken hostage?" Steve looked at Tony with alarm.
Clint and Natasha nodded for him, since he had long since stopped paying attention.
The screen turned back and the sound of metal slamming again metal, golden text appear. 'IRON MAN'.
They all stared at the screen, reading the words.
"Where did they even get this," came a broken-up whisper from Tony.
"I have no idea," Steve quickly replied.
A.N. Is this good or bad, guys? I'm sorry if the characters are a little OOC. I wanted to imagine how they'd react in this situation. If anyone can find a transcript of this movie that'd be great guys. I'm going to do all of them.
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