Summary/Disclaimer: Time for another chapter of Project Ultimate. Enjoy the 1100-word chapter. I don't own Avengers, Marvel, Disney and a few others do.
(Earth 616- 2009, Washington)
Mason kicked in the thrusters on the Mark 46, he had flown off from California towards Washington right after dealing with his father.
"You still getting nothing from our buddies at S.H.I.E.L.D haven't returned your calls then?" Mason asked as he landed on a building and looked at the Triskelion.
"I have been unable to contact any of their superior officers… Nor locate the object in question…" Jarvis reported as Mason sighed.
"We need a quinjet to get the team together and we got only 2 days or so before I'm talking to day… I don't want to break into SHIELD HQ, Ironman is still new around here." Mason said, he remembered taking up the mantle of his father.
"I would suggest meeting Director Fury, sir, I have a lock on his location." Jarvis stated, Mason blinked and nodded.
"Let's go, we don't have a way off this planet without it and we have to assemble the team without incident. You know what happened to everyone in our dimension." Mason said before he flew off, he'd need to recharge the armor soon… Which meant he needed a way to connect it to a grid.
He did that by having it hooked it to a small substation before he walked on foot, he saw Fury.
It wasn't hard to see the director of SHIELD; Mason had seen the man over a dozen times in his world. He remembered him shooting at Ultron before the murderous machine shot through him to injure Captain America.
"Director Fury." Mason said, taking a seat, he already knew how this would go… He and James had both known when Mason decided to make the trip.
"And you are?" Fury asked, Mason sighed and looked around, he'd sound crazy telling him what he wanted to tell him.
Hell, he didn't even believe himself, he cleared his throat.
"I'm the guy who knows what you want and want to help you… Unless you want me to talk about the Aven…." Mason started to say, Fury glared at him and Mason backpedaled.
"I know you want to protect the world; I also know you have a lot of enemies… I want to help…. I also think you've seen enough to know I'm not some crazy guy who just hacked your tech or something." Masons stated; Fury nodded.
"Tell me who our enemies are then?" Fury said, Mason already knew Fury was questioning him, he was a spy, they could never be secure enough.
"Your Tesseract projects? You have HYDRA in your system…. You also have a lot of more bad guys from the sky coming in…. That's why I need to find a certain superheroine you happen to know about?" Mason said, he whispered, he didn't want anyone around them to know… He couldn't tell how many agents Hydra had, just that they had them.
"Ok then, you have anything else you want to spill, Mr. …." Fury started to say as Mason sighed.
"Mason Stark, I know you won't believe me. I don't care if you do right now… I know the heroes coming to Earth, the ones on that little pet project you're going to make." Mason said, Fury raised an eyebrow, a que to go on.
"Cap, I'll leave it at that, I know you know who I mean. You're going to have a god called Thor pop up, look for a big hammer… Jade Giant, I don't want to spill names." Mason said, Fury was about to ask for more when the Mark 46 surrounded Mason.
"I'm borrowing a Quinjet and your pager, I'll bring it back when I bring back my team…" Mason said, Fury said nothing and tossed the device at him. Mason caught it.
"You better be right, kid…." Fury said, Mason said nothing and jetted away as Phil Coulson walked out from the ally. The SHIELD Agents at the empty café looked at Fury.
"You think he was telling us the truth?" Coulson asked, Fury sighed.
"He had no problem telling me everything and he knew about a hero no sane man would know about… I think we keep an eye on him and see if he's telling the truth… Besides, I saw the Mark 46 on the shoulder, there's no way Stark could have built that many suits by now and not have used a better suit fighting that fight he had yesterday." Fury said, Coulson watched Fury vanish into the sky.
(Triskelion)
Mason settled into the pilot chair and set the coordinates for a distant world… Xandar.
"You realize we may not have enough fuel to get back when we're done, right?" Jarvis asked, Mason tapped the reactor.
"We're have enough, I can power the engines with the last gift James gave me and plus our first 2 recruits can power the engines enough to fly back…" Mason said, he looked at the pager.
"Jarvis, I want the armor ready to go when we get towards Xandar, we're going to have company and you know how hard she hits…" Mason said before he shot the jet into space.
He activated the pager…. He couldn't overpower someone like Captain Marvel… But he could talk her down if he was lucky enough.
All he could do now was wait and hope the ship reached the recruit before it shut down entirely. He looked at the Mark 46 and sighed.
"Jarvis, I think we might have to use plan B. We both know if we have to fight, we aren't going to last long enough with the Mark 46…" Mason said and pulled something out of the suit's flare launcher.
It was the housing unit for the Mark 50 and one of the last things he remembered from his father.
"Mason, are you sure?" Jarvis asked, Mason nodded and looked over the unit.
"Yeah, we're be meeting her in less than an hour… Let's get ready." Mason stated, he turned to look at a few holograms showing the other members of The Ultimate's he was putting together.
He put the Mark 50 on his chest and pressed the button.
Author Note
Phew, another chapter done! Yes, I know it was a bit short and rushed, I am going to get the Ultimates together and then handle the movies. Next chapter will be on Tuesday or so and will show Mason meeting Captain Marvel and going to recruit the rest of the team. Until then, Lighting Wolf out!
