What happened after the world was saved? A debrief? A reunion? Or what? Tony centric! NO SLASH. This story also starts sometime after the scene where all the Avengers are at Stark Tower. I like to write about this scene and this time it won't be a one-shot.
Tony is in his lab and Pepper is in mid-air [on a plane].
"Tony, Fury and the Avengers has been calling you since the battle ended five hours ago. Why didn't you pick up?
"I'm busy, Ms Potts."
"Don't try to be funny at a time like this, Tony. Make sure you get to the meeting Fury needs you to attend."
"What meeting?"
"Oh well if you had been answering the calls you'd know by now."
"Pep, it's not like an SI meeting or anything. I'm not a part if a "super secret boy band anyway!"
"Oh please, Mr Stark, if you do not attend I'll give Phil all your top secret passwords."
Silence dawned between them.
"Tony? You there?"
"I'm fine. Pep, something happened on the Carrier. He's. Gone."
"What? Oh, I didn't know Tony..."
"It's okay. I'll go to the meeting. Promise. I'll see what Fury wants with us."
"Get there on time or I'll ask Hulk to fetch you!""
"Yeah sure. That'll never happen because he is my friend. Bye now, love you dear."
"Love you too and stay out of trouble for me."
Tony walks over to an empty space in his lab and mutters, "Let's dig into SHIELD shall we? Now where do we start? Why is this meeting held?" Tony Stark loves hacking adventures. Especially when it came to SHIELD. Their secrets have secrets in them so it really fun to hack them. He is lost in his big train of thoughts when JARVIS interrupts
"Sir, there is a live feed from the helicarrier you might be interested to see."
"Put it on big screen." The video was of the medical bay.
"Wait is that Coulson and Fury? Now this is getting exciting."
"Yes, Agent Coulson is alive and just woke up an hour ago." Jarvis confirmed that Coulson wasn't just a ghost.
"Turn up the volume. What are they saying?"
~~~~~start of clip~~~~
"I'm sure our little white lie helped the team after all."
"Yes, especially Stark." Coulson smiled.
Fury smiled too, "He deserved it. It is not like he knows the pain of losing someone. After the argument with Steve he also managed to lay down on the wire for once."
"He did?" Coulson stared disbelievingly.
"Yes, I had that kind of reaction too. What do you know? Maybe that boy is becoming more like his father himself. As for your case, I think that it is better if you lay low for a while."
Coulson replied, "It'll be nice to have a break but won't they figure out soon?"
Fury smirked, "Of course, their team has 2 assassins. Let's see how long it actually takes them to find out!
~~~~~end of clip~~~~~
"Ok. Fury get your head straight! Number 1 - I laid down on the wire more than twice during the Chitauri battle! First when the engine blew up. Second when the nuke was released. And before that, I almost blew myself up when Stane attacked me at SI! Are you blind?! Am I self-obsessed? Number Two - I already found out about your secret Fury! And have you told Phil that you bloodied his Captain America cards? And 3 - Don't you Dare compare me to Howard stark!" Tony talked to himself.
An hour later at the helicarrier conference room. Tony is sitting down and doing his work. Then the 2 assassins, a scientist and mystecal person [Thor] come in.
"Stark? You actually came early?" Bruce asked.
"Nope, I'm on time. You're five seconds late." He said nonchalantly. Bruce sat near Tony at the back. Thor sat near the front with a space beside him. The assassins sat together. Clint beside Bruce.
"What brought you here Friend Stark?" Thor asked.
"I wanted to ensure that a few issues are clearly addressed between eye-patch and the team and that's why I came!" Tony said excitedly.
"As if you will actually listen to the meeting." Natasha retorted.
"About that, I'll be repairing my suits while Fury drones on and on."
"I don't see a chunk of red and gold here." Clint commented.
"Nah, my robots will do that for me this once since I really want that Mark VII to be ready soon. Carrying bulky armor around is not 21st century fashion Legolas."
"Where's Fury anyway?" Bruce asked.
"I'm guessing... The med bay." Tony said. They all looked at him confused because why would Fury be in the med bay?
"What?" Tony found himself being stared at.
"Seriously? Med-bay?" Natasha asked.
"Well I guess that's what the meeting is about. Something so urgent that must be told face to face." Tony said vaguely, not wanting to spoil the fun. He spotted Bruce.
"Oh and Bruce, Candy Land. Show up at my tower." Tony winked. Bruce looked away.
"Yeah, Bruce, you should listen to him. It's not like everyday he hands out passes to his lab." Clint continued but Bruce elbowed him.
"What?" He said rubbing himself.
"I won't spy on him unlike you SHIELD agents." Bruce told him flatly, earning a smirk from Tony. "All the more you should come by. We should really be science-bros!"
"Enough chit-chat." Fury said as he entered the room.
"Eye patch! What a sight for sore eyes." Tony commented.
"Cut-it Stark. I came here to brief you all on some matters and formal procedures."
"Sir where is Cap?"
As if in cue, Steve barged in and apologized "Sorry I am late" He took a seat while Fury stood.
"Okay now that the team is here I have to debrief you on the Aftermath. Loki and Thor will be going to Asgard where Loki will face Asgardian justice. Throughout the battle there were many damages to SHIELD equipment and government property. Thankfully there weren't many fatalities among civilians so ... STARK ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?"
"Yes." Tony said obediently. He had 2 phones in his hand. One was containing blueprints of his armour and the other was currently hacking into SHIELD databases for a certain feed.
"Hmm... What did I say?" Fury asked with much annoyance in his voice.
"You said and I quote 'now that the team is here I have to debrief you on the Aftermath. Loki and Thor will be going to Asgard where Loki will face Asgardian justice. Throughout the battle there were many damages to SHIELD equipment and government property. Thankfully there weren't many fatalities among civilians." Tony replied in a singing tone. He now looked up at Fury as if posing a threat.
Then he opened his mouth without letting anyone respond "Allow me to add in that Stark property sustained damages when I tried to get the engine online and for my following sacrificial act I had to use A Prototype. Before I interrupted, you were about to say that the damages are being taken care of and that there had been a number of fatalities within SHIELD itself. Following that you were gonna say 'We regret that one of our top SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson dies in the line of fire.' and you'd talk about all the great things he did in his life won't you?"
Fury stared at him for a second before composing himself before the rest of the team. "Yes. Yes, that was absolutely correct."
Then Clint banged his head on the table and lost control of his emotions. They knew he was stressed up and was guilty over the whole mindcontrol fiasco. Natasha tried to comfort him but he was almost crying. He didn't look at anyone.
"See Stark! Look what you did to him! Can't you be less selfish and be considerate for your teammate? You should know to avoid the " Natasha said and shouted in Russian.
Tony was taken aback by the outburst but he spoke up. "See. This is what Coulson's 'death' did to Legolas. But if you all would kindly turn your attention to here" Tony raised one of his phones and put it on the table.
"Lady and Gentlemen, the 6th and the eldest member of The Team!" He opened a 3D video showing Coulson sleeping in the med bay peacefully. He looked normal except for the bandages on his stomach.
"He's alive?" Clint looked up before exclaiming in victory "HE'S ALIVE!" He and Natasha pulled into a hug. Tony smirked while Thor and Steve were relieved.
"Sorry to interupt your moment, Clint and Tasha, but aren't there 7 members on this team?" Bruce said. The others processed this and nodded in unison. Fury just listened.
"If you'd like..." Tony said, signaling to JARVIS to play another video on his phone. [Movie Verse, Tony and Loki at the Top of stark tower, just before tony lands]
Tony reeled and stabilized himself staring at the machine Dr. Selvig modified.
"That barrier is pure energy, it's unbreachable"
"Ya I got that." Stark said as he looked down to see Loki smirking at him. "Plan B"
"Sir, the Mark VII [7] is not ready for deployment..." Jarvis stated with a hint of alarm.
Tony interrupted him "then skip the spinning rims 'cause we're on the clock." and landed on the balcony that took his armour as he walked into his tower. Loki had reached inside before him and sarcastically said," Please tell me you're going to appeal to my humanity."
"Uh, actually I'm planning to threaten you." Tony corrected, his hands behind his back.
"You should have left your armor on for that" Loki quipped.
"Ya it's seen a bit of mileage and you got the glow stick of destiny," Tony said pausing a bit before asking, "Would you like a drink?" as he moved to the bar.
"Spoiling me won't change anything." Loki pointed out.
Tony interjected, "No, threatening. No drink, you sure? I'm havin' one." he grabbed some drink/juice.
"The Chitauri are coming. Nothing will change that. What have I to fear?" He asked as if he won already.
"The Avengers", Tony burst his bubble of triumph, pouring himself some juice
Loki was confused and turned to look at Stark to elaborate.
"It's what we call ourselves. Sort of like a team, Earth's mightiest heroes kind of thing."
"Yes I've met them." Loki said proudly.
"Yeah, takes us a little bit to get any traction on that one, but let's do a head count here. Your brother, the demigod, a super soldier," Tony quickly slipped on the tracking bracelets " a living legend who kinda lives up to the legend, a man with breathtaking anger management issues, and a couple of master assassins, and YOU, big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of them"
"That was the plan" Loki explained.
"Not a great plan when they come and they will. They'll come for you."
"I have an army." Loki deadpanned drilling the concept of an army into Starks head.
"We have a hulk." Tony said as he closed the distance between them.
"I thought the beast had wandered off..."
"Ya you're missing the point. There's no throne, there's no version of this where you come out on top. Maybe your army comes and maybe it's too much for us, but its all on you. Cause if we can't defend the Earth you can be damn well sure we'll avenge it." He took a drink of his juice.
Loki ominously stalked towards Stark "How will your friends have time for me when they're so busy fighting you."
Charging his spear Loki tapped Tony on the chest where his heart would be and failed. Something was in the way. Loki tried again. "This usually works."
"Well, performance issues are not uncommon, one out of five..." Loki picked Tony up by the throat and threw him to the floor.
"Jarvis anytime now! Tony stood up but was grabbed by Loki.
"You will all fall before me!" Loki shouted.
"Deploy! Deploy!" Tony was thrown through the window. Followed shortly after by a missile deployed Iron Man armor suit, the Mark VII.
The Mark VII tracked Tony's bracelets and began to encase Stark after catching up to him. Fully suited up Stark flew back up.
Loki looked out the window and glared at Tony as the armored playboy taunted "And there's one other person you pissed off. His name, is Phil."
End of video.
"Please tell me you are joking right? I mean you wore a prototype into battle?" Clint asked guiltily.
"Jarvis, I'm gonna reprogram you for playing the extended version of the clip! I only asked you to play the headcount part!" Tony snarled at his phone.
Then Jarvis replied in a written message which only Tony could see. "It is time for the Avengers to see who Tony Stark really is." Tony's anger at his AI receded.
Fury spoke now, "So you are not in the team?"
"Of course not! You and Natashalie kicked me of even before you created it! How am I a team member?"
"You risked your life and went into the portal didn't you? For the team!" Natasha raised her voice.
"Excuse me? That was my fight. I always do stupid sacrificial stuff when I had to clean up others' messes. Stane and Afganistan...Hammer and those drones… Fury letting someone hijack his planes. You know … stuff I'm not trained to do!"
"Stark!" Fury barked.
"What?!"
"You Are part of the team. You and the team minus Thor are gonna live together at Stark tower! No buts no ifs! This is decided by everyone already!"
"WHO DECIDED WHAT!" TONY screamed standing up. His 2 phones dropped onto the floor.
~to be continued~
How is this like? Reviews? Sorry about the caps… updated on 26/8/13