Tesla
Disclaimer: I do not own the movies or the comic books or anything besides my own ideas.
Note: I know this story isn't amazing, but its my first time writing and I promise it will get better as the story goes on.
Tony and Bruce sat down at the bar with some Thai food that JARVIS had ordered. About five little containers were on top of the bar as they both picked out their share. Steve was across from them in the living room sitting more attentive on the couch than most people do. He was watching another Disney movie he had bought. Tony had lost count of how many Disney movies Steve had obtained, as well as other types, but Disney was the most predominate. Tony didn't even know Disney had made so many. Another unknown person walked by and sat on the couch with Steve; she was tall with short brown hair in a pixie cut and full lips. She sat down more casually contrasting Steve, and started to paint her nails.
"Good afternoon Janet," Steve nodded his head to acknowledge her presence, but refused to remove his eyes from what looked to be Ratatouille.
"Afternoon Captain," Janet replied mocking Steve's formality, more interested in her nails than what was on the television. Well, someone knew her which meant that she was another recruit. 'Janet' did not sound familiar to Tony, but Pepper had once mentioned a Jan. Tony made a mental note to background check her and hack into her file with S.H.I.E.L.D. In fact, he needed to read more into all of the new recruits; something he would have normally done a long time ago. At this point he didn't even know how many there were.
"So where is Pepper?" Bruce queried between bites of curry chicken.
"Ommpff," Tony swallowed the glass noodles that he had just shoved in his own mouth, "she's in London right now trying to set up a deal with the MPs on buying my latest version of the Arc Reactor for corporate building use. So far the old model has been working really well for the building, and the new one should be even better."
"How long has the tower been running off of the reactor now?"
"About a year I would say, it's been that long since our last Avengers party right?" Tony leaned over to grab a beer off the bar and nearly fell out of his seat when the Captain's laughter burst through the room. "You realize these movies are for children right?" The Captain waved his hand as if to disperse the comment before it got to him.
"Why does he like these movies so much?" Banner questioned.
"Still a child at heart, probably has never even seen porn." Steve turned around angered and flushed at Tony's comment. Banner and Tony couldn't help but chuckle. "Steve told me a story once when he was drunk about him and my father. He had thought that fondue..."
"Now you bring this to an end Stark, you cannot just live your life to be critical of me. I will not tolerate bullies." Captain had gotten off of the couch and started towards Tony.
"Oh come on. Why would you even think that for a second? You're not that special, everyone gets a piece of my bullshit," Tony said bluntly. Steve had pulled his arm back to prepare for a punch while Tony pulled up his arm to take another swig of his beer. Captain held this position for a second too long and shook his head angrily and left the room.
"You should be nicer," Banner said putting a hand on Tony's shoulder, "I shouldn't be your only friend."
"I don't need friends; I never planned on having any. You're just a very fortunate twist of fate. Who wouldn't want to befriend a super genius with tremendous strength?" arrogance poured out of Tony's words. Bruce eyed him cautiously; he knew how to translate Tony's jokes, but not his lies. "Let's go to the lab, I have a few things that I want your opinion on." Tony threw his bottle and takeout container in the trash and strode towards his lab expecting Banner to do the same. "Come hither my Jolly Green Giant!"
Tony led Bruce into a room scattered with parts and machines, no organization existed whatsoever. Bruce could put a name to most of the contraptions that had to do with molecular science, but was confused by what the other weaponry and machines were. Tony hopped and skipped around many things on the floor and reached over to a metal table. Tony scanned the table quickly determining if anything was of great value and then prompted to brush everything on the floor. He told JARVIS to remind him to clean it later though it was obvious that he may never do so. Tony then placed his hands out in front of himself, fingers pressed as if to pinch something but then spread his fingers and arms in one fluid motion creating a screen in front of him that popped up with various blueprints and notified him of and email.
Tony tapped on the illuminated air where the email icon was. It was an update from Pepper. Tony scrolled to the bottom where red letters read CONDENSED. Underneath it said: They are interested. They want a week to decide. I'll be back next week. Don't do anything stupid. Tony nodded and hummed to himself. He then turned to Bruce, "She knows me too well."
"If she knew that you wouldn't read it then why did she send it all to you?" Bruce had never thought of Tony as a man to scan with that amount of thought Tony put into things.
"For when I'm in my mood." Tony started to locate the plans that he wanted to show Bruce. "I'll read it eventually, and when I'm in my mood I need to read something, my mind likes to do that," Tony made a hand motion around his head. He scrunched up his face forgetting where he had stored the idea. Then came a sigh of relief when he found it on the floating screen in front of him. Bruce put on a pair of glasses and inspected the math presented before him.
"Are these equations for magnetism? I know some basics but no this much." Bruce eyes the fast movement of numbers and symbols in front of him. "Is this research for your arch reactor?"
"Well, my knowledge of magnetism did start with my arch reactor," Tony tapped on the glowing orb on his chest, "but this, this is different. My compact arch reactor was the crafting of my existing knowledge for a very simple concept: an infinitely self sustaining, high powered magnetic energy that would save my life without killing me. But for this, I had to retouch on the basics. I tried to twist the laws of Gauss, Faraday and Coulomb to fit my hypothesis, but I'm not fully complete yet." Bruce nodded his head watching as Tony fiddled through various "pages" of his screen. Bruce understood where he had been but not where he was going.
"So what is this hypothesis that needs to twist the laws of Magnetism?" Bruce knew that to get Tony to get to the point, he had to avoid anything that could send him into a monologue. But this was Tony.
"After the brawl with Steve, Thor and I over Loki, I took part in looking into Thor's file realizing that S.H.I.E.L.D. had known of Thor beforehand there was an interview with a woman named Jane. Jane had said that Thor had mentioned magic as being science." Bruce had scrunched up his face at this and Tony nodded in agreement. "I was baffled by this remark and brushed it off in the side of my as a misunderstanding. But after my ordeal with Loki in this very tower, my mind set began to change. I saw the effects of 'magic' on our comrades but it didn't 'work' on me. And that got me thinking." Tony had gotten relaxed into his monologue, leaning on the table before him and Bruce had unconsciously done the same.
"I went to go meet this Jane, who seemed very opposed to talking to me. Surprising with my charming personality, I know. But when mentioning to be a friend of Thor's she gladly obliged." Tony had scoffed at the idea that someone would like Thor more than himself.
"How did she know him?" Bruce was perplexed that anyone besides S.H.I.E.L.D. would have known of his existence, or at least let it stay that way.
"Close friends, Thor had also asked to keep her safe or they may have erased her mind." Tony seemed to have read Bruce's mind. "She had told me the same thing, that he said magic and science were one in the same. If my arc reactor could prevent his 'magic' staff, this must be true. The Tesseract was energy, we know this, but did we think about how when he used it worked like magic? Magic is an advance science and magnetism can prevent it. And I think this is because magnets can disrupt the flow of electricity." Tony rang out his last word allowing his audience to soak in the realization. Bruce's eyes widened and sparkled. Tony knew that Bruce was pulling together his own theories and tests in his head. The clockwork was visible on Bruce's face. Bruce's eyes then shot up to the ceiling realizing a new layer all together.
"But how could this be possible with magic being the mental manipulation of other intangible things such as thoughts. We have yet to even find a way to translate thoughts. An electrical manipulation of thoughts or other objects would be interesting, but the mechanics behind magic producing machines could work. It worked for them, why not us? But..." Bruce then leaned up off the table and paced frantically like a caged animal waiting for food. His solution was coming. "Purely evolution."
"What?" Tony knew he was evolved enough to create machines and weapons, how hard could these new ones be?
"I'm talking about magic that does not need machines, as far as we know Loki can do that. Thor did not seem to poses magic except for that ridiculously heavy hammer that 'chose' him." Bruce rubbed his jaw as the memory hit him. "Loki's wielding must be different, more precise and controlled. Loki probably has full control where as Thor was just lucky to get a magic hammer. I wish I could test Loki's blood."
"Why would you want to test Loki's blood Dr.? It would be insane to bring him back." Tony had rolled over the mechanics and weaponry that could be explained or made but not the biology of magic; he figured that to attempt to procreate for the evolution of "magic" genes would be fruitless.
"I would like to see if…"
"Sir, Fury has called a meeting for the Avengers and requested that you are present this time." JARVIS sounded interrupting Bruce in his idea. Tony sighed and rubbed his fingers against temple. The fun had just started.
"Tell Fury that Dr. Banner and I are not here." Tony turned to Bruce and gestured for him to continue.
"Sir, he already knows that you are here." After a few beeps, Bruce and Tony heard the door slide open from across the room.
"This meeting is mandatory Stark, and I'm sure you would respect that." Fury stood in the empty doorway, hands grasped in front of him with a usual scowl on his face. He nodded his head expecting an answer from Tony. Tony knew that even if he didn't go, Bruce would, making it pointless to stay. He nodded his head towards Fury indicating that he would be there in a little while. Fury turned and stalked away from the door way.
"We can continue this later." Bruce was trying to lighten the mood.
"Why does One Eyed Willie still call the shots?" Tony scoffed as he closed out the floating screen in front of him.
"You know that I can still hear you." Fury boomed through the hallway.
"But of course!"
To be continued...
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ps: Any characters you would like to see included into my avengers set? I'm trying to complete the cast. Comment your suggestion if you have one.
