When Tony woke up, he was in a room filled with couches and a movie screen. Confused and a little dazed from passing out, he looked around.

Steve, Natasha, Wanda, Vision, Thor, Bruce, Clint, Rhodey, Sam, Coulson, Fury, and Pietro were standing and talking, they looked as though they were trying to figure out what had happened.

Since when is Pietro alive, thought Tony and since when did the others arrive…wherever they are?

They were at least ten feet away from Tony. He really shouldn't have been surprised that they'd just leave him there on the floor and not attempt to wake him.

I'm not important anymore, they all hate me, he thought.

"Who started the party without me?" Tony quipped.

They all turned to look at Tony with varying looks of distaste. All except Banner, Clint, and Coulson, who looked sympathetic, if anything. Vision, though, doesn't look like either, just stands there looking indifferent.

"Shut up and tell us what you did," Fury demanded.

Rolling his eyes Tony replied, "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Zero, zilch, none, zippo!"

Growling, Fury elaborated, "You walk into the new Avengers Facility for the first time in weeks, and just as you're about to leave, everybody passes out and we all end up here. Explain!"

Tony was a little shocked, scratch that, very shocked. He knew they hated him, but really? They thought he did this? Why would he even do such a thing?

Can't believe Rhodey's taking their side in this! He was supposed to me MY best friend. So much for that, Tony thought.

Through gritted teeth, Tony explained himself, "This wasn't me. I didn't bring us all here, I don't even have any reason to!"

Everyone was still glaring at him, but, apparently, his response was sufficient enough.

"How is he alive?" Tony asked, pointing to Quicksilver.

Glaring, the female Maximoff spoke coldly, "We don't know, the last thing he remembers was being shot multiples times by the AI you created."

He flinches back at the reminder of his greatest failure.

"Right," he says, hurt and not wanting to get even more on her bad side then he already was. Which was saying a lot since he was pretty far on her bad side.

Just as Rogers was about to say something, a piece of paper dropped in front of him. He bent down to pick it up just as Coulson asked,

"What does it say?"

Looking puzzled, Captain America read from the paper,

"Hello, Avengers and Co. I have gathered you here today for the screening of a movie that entails the story of one of your fellow Avengers. You all act as though you know everything about this person, when in reality, you really don't. If any of you feel the need to speak the film will automatically pause until everyone quiets down. Now please, take your seats, and the movie shall start. Enjoy the first movie, in a trilogy, that is titled 'Iron Man.'

Yours truly,

A concerned ally."

There was a shocked silence that fell around the group, as Steve finished reading. Tony had a very bad feeling that this was not going to end well for him.

"Shall we sit down to watch this film?" asked Thor.

"I guess, looks we have to," Clint replied.

As everyone went to take there seats, they all kept sparing glances at Tony. Tony, though, only sat down and stared at the screen, not wanting to make eye contact with anyone. He already had an idea as to what this film was going to be about, and he didn't want anyone to witness it.

As they sat down the lights dimmed, and the screen flickered on.

ACDC's Back In Black blared through the speakers, and everyone, bar Tony, startle. A convoy of military vehicles are driving though the desert. The words 'Kunar Province, Afghanistan' flash on the screen, as the vehicles drive along the desert. The screen then shows a vehicle full of airmen, and a man holding a glass of Scotch. The screen pans up to see an airman look at the man holding the drink, then awkwardly look down. The owner of the glass is then revealed to be none other than Tony Stark, as the screen shows him looking at the man beside him.

"That's you?" Steve says to Tony with contempt.

"No," Tony replies with an eye roll, "that's Beyonce."

Clint and Bruce snort, and Coulson hides a smirk, but everyone else took to glaring at the genius.

Great, Tony thought with a grimace, now they hate me even more!

With a small smirk the on screen Tony says,

"I feel like you're driving me to a court-martial, this is crazy. What did I do? I feel like you're going to pull over and snuff me."

The soldier beside him smiles a little, but they all continue to ignore him.

"What, you're not allowed to talk?"

Turning to the person beside him he tries to get the other occupants of the Humvee to talk, again.

"Hey, Forrest!"

Growling a little bit Cap says to Stark, "You should respect soldiers more."

With a glance to Cap, Tony says, "Well sorry for trying to lighten the mood. It was killing me in there."

"You only care about yourself, don't you?"

All he can do is look down in shame, even though a part of him is angered at Steve for twisting his words like that.

With a small glance to Tony out of the corner of his eye, Forrest replies,

"We can talk, sir."

"Oh, I see. So its personal?" Tony mutters.

"No, you intimidate them," the driver speaks up.

"Ah, another female warrior," Thor murmurs, delightedly, "I would like to meet her, someday."

Tony grimaces, knowing why that can't happen, and feels a pang of guilt for being the reason those innocent soldiers died.

"Good God, you're a woman. I honestly...I couldn't have called that. I mean, I'd apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here?"

Clint snorts.

The airmen smile.

"I thought of you as a soldier first."

Bruce smiles a little at his friend trying to get the soldiers to laugh.

"I'm an airman."

"You have, actually, excellent bone structure there…I'm having a hard time not looking at you now…Is that weird?"

Coulson, Clint, and Bruce all chuckle a bit at their colleagues rambling.

Everyone in the Humvee laugh as Tony encourages them,

"Come on, it's okay, laugh!"

The front passenger lifts his hand a bit and says to Tony,

"Sir, I have a question to ask."

"Yes, please."

"Is it true you went 12 for 12 with last year's Maxim cover models?"

"That is an excellent question. Yes and no. March and I had a scheduling conflict, but fortunately, the Christmas cover was twins. Anything else?"

The driver smiles and Forrest raises his hand.

"You're kidding me with the hand up, right?"

Cap growls a bit, "Can't you tell their nervous?"

Natasha tries to calm Steve down, but Bruce was getting a little fed up.

"He's just trying to make them more comfortable by joking, Steve. It's not a big deal."

"Sure, it's not because he's an ass, right?" Steve mutters.

Bruce glares, "Just like you, then."

Everyone stares, shocked, but no one replies. Tony gives Bruce a grateful smile, which he returns.

"Is it cool if I take a picture with you?" asks Forrest.

"Yes, it's very cool," Tony smirks a bit.

Bruce glances at Steve smugly, but Steve just looks away and grumbles about 'still being an ass'.

Forrest takes a camera out from one of his many pockets and hands it to the front passenger, who takes it and aims the lens at Tony and Forrest.

Tony warns, "I don't wanna see this on your MySpace page," as Forrest puts up his hand in a peace sign.

"Please, no gang signs," Forrest puts his hand down looking a tiny bit embarrassed.

"No, throw it up, I'm kidding. Yeah, peace, I love peace. I'd be out of a job with peace."

"Some people would still be living with peace," Wanda comments, hurt, looking disapprovingly at the billionaire.

Steve, Pietro, Natasha, and Sam, all look to Tony in disgust, agreeing with their fellow Avengers.

Since when did it become nitpick every flaw of Tony Starks Day? Tony thinks with a mental eye roll.

"Well, with peace we wouldn't have many of the technological advancements that we have today now would we?" He retorts.

"At least you confirmed my suspicion that technology is more important to you then peoples lives," says Captain America.

Then he utters a phrase that Tony thought to be long ago forgotten, "So stop pretending to be a hero."

There is not a word that could describe the hurt that Tony felt right then, because he knew that he fucked up, he knew that they all hated him, and he knew that every life lost is on his head, but he always thought that the fact that he was trying to help, made everyone tolerate him.

I wasn't pretending on purpose, I was trying to be a real hero…like you, he thinks, because no matter how angry he is at Rogers, he can't deny that Steve Rogers is a self righteous bastard, and a true hero.

Coulson, Banner, and Barton must have seen a look cross his features and something flash in his eyes because they start to look at him in sympathy, which makes him even angrier.

And evidently so, he does the stupidest thing possible, to make matters worse, by quoting himself from that conversation on the Helicarrier, "A hero? Like you?"

He knows he's made a mistake the moment Romanoff stiffens. He definitely knows he's made a mistake when she pounces and punches him in the face, even though he feels like he deserves it.

She's held back by Barton and Coulson as Banner jumps to his feet, but almost immediately regains her composure.

Tony is left to rub his jaw with one hand and hold his shirt to his nose with the other to staunch the blood flow.

"Steve is a hero, Stark. You better get that into your thick skull and not forget it," Romanoff gets out through gritted teeth.

Hard to forget when it's all you've heard throughout your childhood, he thinks.

Well, he hopes he thought it and didn't say that out loud, but judging by the looks being given to him by Barton, Coulson, and Banner, he realizes he must have muttered it out loud.

Great, he thinks, at least only they heard and not Rogers, Romanoff, Fury, and the Newbies.

"That all you got? Damn, you really do hit like a little girl," he knows he really shouldn't be talking anymore but evidently his brain to mouth filter was damaged during the punch.

Romanoff looks about ready to hit Tony again when Rogers stands and mutters, "He's not worth it," to Romanoff.

She looks to be debating whether or not that's true, but ends up sitting down next to Rogers in a matter of seconds, decision made.

Banner then mutters to himself, but loud enough for Tony to hear since he sits right beside him, "Right now Tony's more worth it then the two of you."

The fact that Bruce still thinks he's worth it, after all of that, makes him smile wider, at his Science Bro, then he has in weeks.

The front passenger looks to be confused with how to operate the camera and mutters, "I can't…"

"Come on, hurry up. Just click it, don't change any settings, just click it," Forrest says, annoyed.

Suddenly there's an explosion, as the Humvee in front of them explodes.

Everyone, except Tony, jump at the sudden noise and frown. Even Fury looks a little startled.

The driver yells, "Contact left!"

"What's going on?" Tony says, panicking, as the driver repeats her last phrase.

"What have we got?" he shouts, and as he tries to understand what was happening, more gunshots and explosions are heard.

The woman who was driving steps out of the vehicle, but is immediately shot down.

Everyone in the room, except Fury, cringes, but Tony gasps and has to close his eyes for a moment as to not get lost in the memory. Bruce looks over at him worryingly.

The front passenger then shouts to Forrest,"Jimmy, stay with Stark!" and leaves the Humvee.

Jimmy grabs Tony and pulls him down, "Stay down!"

Murmuring, "Yeah," he looks up to see the other soldier balance his gun on the hood of the vehicle and start shooting, only to be shot.

Everyone, bar Fury, flinches again, Tony though has to take deep breaths to calm himself down and not have a panic attack.

Don't you dare have a panic attack in front of these people, he thinks to himself.

Tony sits up, grunting, and looking around.

"Son of a bitch!" Jimmy yells, readying his gun.

When it clicks Jimmy gets out of the vehicle to fight.

Tony sees him leaving and shouts, "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, give me a gun!"

Jimmy just tells Tony to, "Stay here!" and gets shot right after.

Most take a deep breath, while the spies in the room saw that death coming, but Tony has to clutch his head for a moment, taking deep breaths, in order to calm down. Bruce sees Tony and immediately asks quietly but worriedly if he's okay. Tony answers in affirmative by nodding.

The burst of bullets seem to have damaged Tonys hearing as ringing is heard.

Tony, more scared then ever, looks outside to see flames and everyone in the Humvee next to him collapse.

He opens the door and proceeds to run outside, dodging out of the way of three missiles, before landing behind large rocks.

"Why would you do that!" Barton yells, "You're elevating your chance of getting hurt, or worse!"

Even though that was sort of an insult, Tony is glad that Clint cares about his well being enough to comment.

When everyone looks at him he replies, "Not one of my brightest moments, I'll give you that, but hey at least I'm still here, right?"

He sees Coulson, Clint, and Bruce nod, but also hears Rogers mutter, "Sadly," to Romanoff, who smirks. So that win was very short lived.

Tony pulls out his phone and starts to text, but another missile lands beside him. He reads the writing on the side only to see his company name staring right back at him. He looks away and struggles to get up to move out of the blast radius, the missile explodes and throws him back.

Dazed, Tony looks down to see his chest bleeding. He rips his shirt open to reveal a bullet proof vest that his blood was seeping through.

Head falling back, the screen dims to a white.

Everyone except Tony stare, shocked, at the screen, while Tony himself is nearly on the verge of a full blown panic attack.

Bruce realizes what is happening and murmurs as to not draw attention, "Hey, hey, listen to me Tony. You're not there anymore okay, none of that is your fault, it's okay Tony. It's okay."

Slowly, but surely Tony regains his composure to look back at the screen.

The white turns into a light as Tony has a sack pulled off his head. He drowsily looks around, only for his eyes to widen as he realizes he is surrounded by armed terrorists.

He looks up to see himself being filmed, as a man speaks in an unknown language to the camera.

The screen zooms out to be replaced by a black screen with the words 'IRON MAN' written on top in big, gold letters.

Nobody speaks for a while, until Fury finally breaks the silence, "We're going to see you while you were in captivity, aren't we?"

Tony takes a moment to answer but says steadily, "Yes, yes we are."

"Dear God," whispers Bruce.