Tony made it back to the base and grabbed the groceries in the back of the car. He looked at Peter's bag one more time before going into the building. When he entered the building, Tony was instantly bombarded with a hug. Tony looked at the person to see green arms and body.
"Bruce, you can stop with the hug." Tony said, trying to break out of the hug.
"Wow, someone's in a bad mood."
Tony looked to the left to see Wanda standing there with her arms crossed.
"I just don't feel great." Tony said, glaring at her.
She put her hands in defensive form took a few steps back. The green and massive Hulk stopped hugging and looked at him. Tony's eyes were bloodshot and had started to have eyesockets.
"Tony, I think something happened to you. Do you want to talk about it?"
"I... I just need a few minutes alone. Something came up and I couldn't handle it." Tony explained, putting his hand on his forehead.
Tony dropped off the groceries in the kitchen and felt sick. Steve noticed him and went to him, putting his hand on the shoulder.
"Hey Tony, something the matter?" Steve questioned the brunette.
"It's... it's not important." Tony blurted out.
"Well, it's made you upset cause your eyes look like you just been shot in the eye. Tell me what's wrong."
"Ah, what can I say? I've been getting on people's nerves lately. So, I'm just bother." Tony joked.
"This is serious, Tony. I don't want you to feel upset when it comes to brunch. If you tell me, you'll feel better."
Tony couldn't handle it anymore and bursts out crying. His crying was so loud that everyone could hear it even the people from the floor above.
"It- It's a-about P-Peter." Tony finally said, hiccuping.
"What about him?" Steve asked, patting his back.
"W-We got in a fight and I i-injured him s-so bad. I c-can't forgive myself for this s-sin I have committed."
"Tony whatever it is you got in a fight about, he'll forgive you at one point or another. Maybe you two need a little bit of cooling down. He'll becoming later right?"
"Th-that's what it makes it worse. He's not coming."
"WHAT?! Ok, I'll have to talk to him about this."
"You can't. He left his stuff in my car."
"Do you know where he is right now?"
"No, he ran away with anger before I could talk to him, calling me a monster." Tony lied.
"Tony, he will come, I promise. How about you wash up and," Steve paused, sniffing him, and said, " shower. You smell gross. Where were you when you had this fight?"
"The dumpster." Tony said, wiping his face.
"Why were you at the dumpster?"
"He said there was a scythe and I wanted to go look at it. When I told him that I needed it for testing, he wouldn't let me have it and started to fight each other. When we finished, I came out unscathed, but Peter had bruises, scars, and blood everywhere. When I was trying to say I was sorry, well you know what happens from there."
"So you fought over the scythe that was reported to me?"
"Yes, I felt guilty that I just left there to rot in the trash it is."
"Tony, this is dire. That weapon is strong as an infinity stone. If someone collected all seven of them, we can be in the same mess we were in when Thanos collect all six of the infinity stones. I know all there names and locations but two of them."
"Do you know what the weapons are called?" Tony asked, pretending not to know.
"Well I would tell you but it's almost time for brunch, so how about you just go clean yourself up and I'll tell you later?"
Tony nodded and went to the shower. He went in the room he slept in last night and took a long, relaxing, hot shower. After he finished showering, Tony looked at the drone on the drawer and the earpiece.
"I guess I forgot to wear that before I left the room." Tony murmured to himself.
He picked it up and put it on his right ear. Instantly when he put it on he heard Queen Rita talking to him.
"20151425, why did you tell that friend of yours the fight you had with that pathetic human insect?" Rita shouted with anger.
"I did it because he would have felt it was a little suspicious if I didn't tell most of the truth."
"You need to get on your next task now. You decide whether you want to go to Wakanda or Asgard."
"Wait a minute, I thought Asgard was destroyed."
"Apparently, I forgot to say New Asgard. It was where they had to go find fat Thor."
"Oh okay. I'll start by going to Asgard first then Wakanda."
"When you go to Wakanda, I'll be joining you there because there are a lot of those insects, guarding those two weapons. They both have a main defender there which are T'challa or Black Panther and Shuri. As for Asgard and since Thor is here, there is a Valkyrie defending the two items. Thor is meant to be there, but the dumb fool is here. I do hope you will not disappoint me, you maggot.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
"Tony, can we talk for a bit? I want to know if everything is alright."
It was Pepper's voice that Tony heard and realize that he had to end the conversation with Rita now.
"Just give me a sec, I need to get some clothes on." He said to Pepper.
Tony opened the drawer and found a white shirt that said 'I am Iron Man,' a pair of boxers, and denim jeans. Tony quickly threw the pants and shirt on and left the underwear in the drawer.
Tony said to Rita in a whisper, "I will get the items quickly and tell no one any information. I must go and talk to someone else."
"Do not fail the task."
The call with Rita ended and Tony looked at the mirror. He fixed his brown hair and went to go open the door. Tony looked at Pepper and thought she was looking might hot as a pepper today.
"C-come on in."
Tony moved out of the way, mouth wide open, staring at Pepper's chest. Being the playboy and pervert he is, he tried to touch her chest but she slapped his hand away.
"Tony, I don't you want to touch me. We're not married anymore remember?"
"Right, right, sorry. It's just been so long since I last saw you."
"A year Tony. You dying to save the world and me meant something a lot. Even when you were a huge asshole back when I was your assistant, you knew how to be the sweetheart you are today."
"Thank you, Pepper. You were the world to me as soon as I married you. I wanted to do a lot of things with you and our child. When I died, the only thing I wanted was to see you again and give you the biggest kiss ever."
"Oh, Tony. You know how to charm a lady, do you?"
"Well what can I say? I'm a ladies man." Tony said grinning.
"Anyways, I wanted to talk to you about Peter."
As soon as Pepper said 'Peter,' Tony's smile went to a frown.
"I've been keeping an eye on him ever since you died and he's not been doing great. Peter's aunt died the day right after from cancer, he couldn't live with anyone after that and went to live in the dumps. You know he rented an apartment after three months of that, but he has been sexually, physically, and emotionally abused by the hotel owners there, and recently he's gone missing. I can't track him anywhere. Do you have a clue where he might be at this very moment?"
Tony looked down with a frown letting a few tears escape and said, "He's... gone. Not dead just gone from this planet."
"What?! I don't quite understand. What are you trying to say? He's not on earth or he's a ghost or what?"
"I can't tell you, Pepper. It's a secret that must be kept."
"Why?! I need to know about him. He's a young man. Your young man. Why can't you tell me what happen to your son?"
"It's too hard to talk about. Maybe when I feel comfortable, I'll tell you. Right now, I think we should just go and eat brunch."
"Tony... If that's what you want. Just promise me you'll tell me what happen to him later."
"I can't make that promise but I can try."
Pepper kissed him on the cheek and they both left the room together. They made it down to see that Steve had cooked several types of dishes for the brunch. Everyone was in their seats, chatting with each other. Tony and Pepper took a seat and Tony observed who was at the table. Tony was sitting next to Pepper and Steve, next to Pepper was Bucky, next to Bucky was the Bruce, next to Bruce was Wanda, next to Wanda was Natasha, next to Natasha was Thor, and next to Thor was Steve.
"Alright everyone you can dig in." Steve announced.
"Wait, there's only eight of us? I thought there would be more people." Tony said, looking at the whole table.
"Everyone is busy. According to what the 'Star-Lord' said they found a castle in our galaxy. They are investigating it with other people. So they're not on Earth."
"Oh I see."
"Now for Peter Parker, he's just gone. No where to be found. He wasn't in his apartment or anywhere on the Earth. He didn't go with the heroes to the castle. I remember seeing him two days ago at the store."
"Oh well you know, the boy's busy with life."
"Peter wasn't busy till next month."
Everyone but Tony and Steve sat there silently eating there food, listening to what they had to say.
"Well I guess he took of his tracker." Tony argued.
"We never put a tracker on him. We just detect where he is on a computer." Steve replies, countering his argumentative statement.
"Uh, well..."
"Tony, you were with him yesterday. What happened to him? Tell me now or things will get ugly."
"Steve, I already told you."
"Then why is it that you injured him so much that he doesn't show on any of the computers?" Steve said raising his voice.
The battle started to heat up. Tony's face had an angry expression and was sweating while Steve glared at Tony having his face being a bright red full of anger.
"It's because I..." Tony started, slamming his fist down on the table.
"You what? Answer me son of a bitch." Steve shouted at him.
"It's because I killed him. There's your answer asshole."
Tony stormed out of the room and went to his car. Rita spoke to him through his ear piece.
"Are you done lover boy? Head to Asgard right now. Thor is knows that someone is coming to take the weapon."
"Alright, how do I get there with out a ship?"
"It's here on Earth. Just go there and get them.
"Fine."
Tony got in the car and sped off to New Asgard.
Meanwhile, Steve still had an angry expression on his face and had tears roll down his face.
"It's alright, Steve. He's been stressed lately just let him be." Pepper said, hugging him and rubbing his back.
"He's hiding something. The Tony I know would not say he would kill his own son."
"You don't know. Tony's been acting differently lately." Natasha said, poking the egg on her plate.
"Did anyone notice the ear piece he had on?" Bruce asked the group.
"Now that you mentioned it, yeah. Do you think he's working with someone?" Steve wondered.
"Us getting that ear piece could possibly be the key on why Tony has been resurrected, acting differently, and the sudden disappearance of Peter." Wanda pointed out.
"Yeah. We need to go after him." Bucky said.
Everyone nodded and went to the computers to figure out where he was located.
End of Part 4