Tony stared at himself in the mirror. He looked horrible. He was paler than usual and thinner as well, he kept on forgetting to eat recently, too busy trying to ignore the dread of today. He knew that he would have to meet with the rogue avengers because of the impending threat of Thanos but that didn't make everything fine and dandy. He was flying to Wakanda in a couple of hours with Strange, Wong, and the Spiderling. Rhodey had already left along with Vision to see about getting the mind gem removed from his head and Bruce who had arrived with Thor, Loki, and a whole lot of Asgardian refugee's. They had all gone to Wakanda except Thor who went to see Jane Foster and make sure she was safe then would meet them in Wakanda. Tony sighed splashing his face with water. He was too tired to attempt to conceal the bags under his eyes well some he just slid on some dark sunglasses. Not that he cared that the rogues knew about his regular regime of sleeping barely 12 hours a week. It was kind of hard to sleep with the nightmares, and the dread, and the mild pain from the arc reactor which didn't bother him that much anymore since he just had to get used to it again it was more his hand that bothered him it was still stiff and painful from frostbite gotten after his 'excursion' to Siberia. He had got a new version of the arc attached to his artificial sternum which had snapped in Siberia, he shuddered thinking of the cold, depressing place he had nearly died in, anyway the new arc had his suit directly attached to it so it could just form over his body, no muss, no fuss. Leaving his room, Tony grabbed an apple from the kitchen and began to walk down to his lab to work on some of the projects for SI he had piling up and to delay the inevitable meeting. Munching on the apple he skimmed through his To Do list he saw that there were lots of projects on there for the rogues from when they were still Avengers. He scrolled the long list for a second before moving all of the projects centred on the rogues into the trash. T'challa probably made them new gear anyway. Tony sighed tossing the apple core into the bin before starting his next project.
"Boss?" came the voice of FRIDAY over the speakers.
"Yeah Fri?" he replied, fingers moving fast over a keyboard.
"You're running late for meeting with Dr Strange to go to Wakanda," the AI said sounding kind of angry as she said is, not at Tony, but at the fact that he had to work with the people that had almost killed him. Tony's lip quirked at the protectiveness of his AI before sighing stood up closing the project he had been working on, pocketing his Sunglasses and heading out of his lab.
"Did Happy call a car?" He asked.
"Mr Hogan is with Ms Potts at a conference in Japan this week."
"Ah, right" Tony sighed leaving the Compound he heard the tiny buzz as FRIDAY turned on his earpiece. He activated the armour and the newest suit immediately began spreading out of the arc and covering his body. Tony blinked as the HUD flickered to life in front of his eyes and took off.
A short while later he landed in front of the Sanctum in New York. Ignoring the gasps and whispers of the people around him as the armour retracted into the arc, Tony put on the sunglasses and entered the building. He had barely entered when the excited voice of Peter confronted him as he practically bounced towards him. Tony couldn't help it he smiled as he saw the kid who idolized him, even after everything he had done.
"Mr Stark! Hi! Dr Strange was planning on teleporting straight to the Compound if you didn't show up soon. Do you think that T'challa will let us use one of the labs in Wakanda? I heard their tech is super awesome. Will he let us use some vibranium? Cause I wanted to-"
"Woah, slow down their kid. I'm sure that T'challa will answer all your questions when we get there and I thought I told you that you can call me Tony? Mr Stark always make me sound older than I am. Besides you're an Avenger now so enough with the formalities." As they walked towards out of the landing to the staircase where Strange was waiting. Peter looked like he was going to faint after hearing himself be proclaimed an Avenger and allowed to call him Tony in the same sentence.
"Thank you so much, Mr S- Tony. I got the new armour by the way and it is so cool" They continued to talk until they reached the stairs and they were greeted by Wong the strict-ish librarian and Strange's friend who.
"Tony." greeted Strange and Wong nodded at them.
"Strange" Tony replied and motioned for Peter to introduce himself.
"I'm Peter," he said looking awed at everything around them.
"Dr Stephen Strange." Strange replied amused by Peter's excitement.
"Wong" came the calm voice of Wong standing next to Strange.
"So are we going to hop into your magical portal or what?" Tony said clapping his hands together. Peter was looking so eager to see magic that his eyes were nearly popping out of his head and he was smiling at Strange and Wong nervously. Strange then raised an eyebrow at Tony and then began making a circling motion with his hands and soon enough a gold sparkly circle was conjured and they could see what was obviously Wakanda on the other side Tony could already see T'challa moving towards them with a couple of people.
"Wow" whispered Peter in awe. They stepped through the portal.