A/N~ So I Bet You Think This Is Late Right? Well I've Decided That I'm Going To Upload On Tuesdays Instead Of Mondays. I Realize I Should HAve Done That In The Beginning Since I'm So Busy On Mondays & Not Nearly As Busy On Tuesdays. (I Literally Face Palmed When I Realized How Stupid I Was Being.) ;P

Anyway, This Is Finally The Chapter Where I Start Writing My Own Stuff & Not Just Adding To The Movies. I Was So Excited To Write This! XD

Also, Another Announcement! Though It Has Absolutely NOTHING To Do With The Story. But Yesterday Was My 20th BIRTHDAY! So That's Why I Didn't Post Yesterday... IT's Confusing, But This Is Kind Of Like A Birthday Present To Me! Well, Enough About Me, Then. Enjoy! XD

Disclaimer~ Not Mine… Well Actually The… No, It's Not Mine. T-T

Warning~ Mindless Worrying For Tony, Tony Taking Out His Arc(Not For Long Though), & An Almost Naked Tony. The Warning On That Last One Is More For The Possible Nose Bleeds From Imagining Tony In Nothing But His Boxers. X3

Ch.10

Unexpected Morning Visitors

~3,156~

He watched with lidded eyes as the Nuke found his target, the fiery blast bringing him out of his daze. His eyes instantly snapped open and he began to yank on his suit with his telekinesis, trying to drag himself back though the portal. He could tell that he didn't have enough energy to pull himself back, so in a risky move, Tony absorbed the energy from his Arc Reactor and channeled it to his telekinesis, boosting it just enough that he was able to pull himself though the portal just as it closed. In his exhaustion and relief, Tony passed out, the last thing he saw was the portal zap closed completely before his eyes closed. His last thoughts before the darkness took him was that he hoped someone caught him.

The next thing Tony heard was Hulk's roar. It had woken him up from a very uncomfortable nap. Despite what some people think, the suit isn't that comfortable, especially to sleep in: it kept your head above your body, it kept your joints locked, and it was solid steal, it would be more comfortable to sleep on hot coals... okay, that was an exaggeration, but give him a break, Tony had a splitting headache, his entire body was sore, his chest hurt, and he was kinda worried one of the guys had just kissed him trying to resuscitate him. Luckily none of them had, Hulk had just roared and woken him up. He'd have to take the man (Bruce too) out for a treat. Happy had tried to get him to try something called Shawarma a few weeks ago, maybe he'd go for that?

Thor, unfortunately, was a party-pooper and informed them they weren't done yet. Tony had just been thrown out of his tower (it was like what? Almost 100 stories?), fought an army of aliens (yeah, it wasn't a contest, but he'd definitely killed more than the rest of them), he'd flown a Nuclear Missile into space, AND he had fallen probably 200-300 stories to the ground from said space... Or at least that's what he thought, but now that he was thinking more clearly, that thought didn't make much sense to him: he wouldn't have survived that fall, even with the suit. He'd have to get JARVIS to find some footage of what happened. Anyway, Tony had just done all that shit and Thor, of all people, was trying to get them to do even more? What else could they possibly have to... oh yeah. Tony would have face palmed if he hadn't been in the suit. Reindeer Games was still out there. Fuck. Well, they'd better get to have Shawarma after words.

Tony groaned as Rogers helped him to his feet, the suit wasn't working so the weight was all on his beaten up body. But Tony quickly restarted the suit and they all went up to the tower. Loki was just getting up when they got there. Everyone looked confused as Loki asked Tony for a drink, but Tony dismissed them and ignored the downed Demi-God. Loki was easily captured. Thor looked sour as several SHIELD agents came to pick up his brother.

"Come along brother." Thor said, grabbing Loki's bicep.

"I'm not your brother!" Loki hissed.

Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Captain Rogers left with Thor, the SHIELD agents, and the now chained up Loki, leaving Tony and, the now de-Hulked, Dr. Bruce Banner standing in Tony's destroyed living room. Tony took off his suit and had JARVIS get Banner some clothes to wear. The Doctor was clutching at his ruined pants so they wouldn't fall off.

"Um... Thanks for the clothes Mr. Stark." Bruce said as he entered the kitchen, picking at one of the button on the shirt he was wearing. Is that real gold? He thought to himself.

He had left the room to change his clothes, Tony wasn't just going to leave his fellow scientist in those ripped up, destroyed pants from the fight. While the Doctor was in Stark Tower, he was going to be dressed in a full, very expensive and very stylish, outfit, whether the man wanted to or not.

"No problem Bruce, and it's Tony." Tony said, pouring himself a glass of something dark green and disgusting looking. "Remind me to make you some stretchy pants."

"That wont be necessary Tony." Bruce said, watching in mild amusement and disgust as Tony drank his green sludge. "Um... if you don't mind me asking, what is that?"

"First, yes, it is necessary, second, no I don't mind; you can ask anything you want. No stupid questions." Tony wiped his mouth on his sleeve. "And third, It's Chlorophyll."

"Chlorophyll." Bruce repeated, making sure he was hearing Tony right. Tony nodded in the affirmative. "Why are you drinking Chlorophyll?"

"It helps with the Arc Reactor." Tony said, tapping the metal circle in his chest.

Though Tony was telling the truth about the drink helping with his Reactor, he wasn't telling the whole truth. Chlorophyll not only helped with the Arc Reactor, it also helped soothe the headaches that came with overusing his powers. Though overuse didn't happen very much: a few times when he was a kid; being over eager and all, once or twice when he was training with Scott, Jean, or Ororo in the Danger Room, but lately only when fighting off an alien army sent to take over Earth by a psychotic Demigod. So yeah, it didn't happen too often.

"Oh, is there anything I can do to help?" Bruce asked, looking worriedly all of a sudden.

Tony thought for a second, truly wondering if the Doctor could help with anything.

"JARVIS, run scans on the Arc, see what's wrong." Tony said, taking another drink of Chlorophyll, he really had come to genuinely like the stuff.

"It seems to be depleted Sir. Your little stunt with the portal also caused it to go offline for approximately 21 seconds, causing some damage." JARVIS informed him, sounding very disapproving of Tony's actions.

Bruce jumped a little at the sudden voice. Bruce had heard Tony talk of JARVIS before, but he had always thought that JARVIS was someone who worked for Tony, but now it seemed that he was Tony's house: apparently an AI, and an extremely smart one too. Which is to be expected when dealing with Tony Stark, so he shouldn't be too surprised.

"I would suggest you switch out the whole reactor unit Sir, as the core cable seems to have sustained some damage, and then you should rest until the date for Loki's transfer." JARVIS said, interrupting Bruce's thoughts.

"When is that by the way?" Tony asked, he didn't know, was it even set yet? It had only been an hour or so since the battle ended, but he wouldn't put it past Fury.

"It has not been decided yet." JARVIS said. "Though rest is required unless you wish for your condition to worsen."

"What condition?" Bruce asked, for all he knew Tony only had the Arc Reactor, no other health problems.

"Oh, it's nothing, much." Tony waved off.

"Sir, cuts in the veins around your heart is not 'nothing,' if you were to pull your chest the wrong way, tugging on a larger cut, you could rip the vein in half, making you bleed internally." JARVIS said, sounding exasperated, like he had explained this a dozen times already.

"Please JARVIS, don't be so dramatic." After a few seconds of disapproving silence from JARVIS, Tony caved like a small child being glared at, and if Bruce didn't know any better, he would have swore that JARVIS gave a sigh of relief. "Fine, I'll rest."

"You need to change out the current Reactor first." JARVIS ordered.

"Geez, I thought I was in charge." Tony grumbled good-naturedly, then looked at Bruce's hands. "Bruce, hold up your hands for me."

Bruce looked confused for a second but decided it better not to ask, Tony was an eccentric, genius billionaire after all, so he slowly raised his hand to show Tony.

"JARVIS what do you think?" Tony asked, studying Bruce's hands. "Small enough?"

"They are a bit bigger than Ms. Potts, though they are small enough." JARVIS replied.

"Great!" Tony said with a smile on his face. "You asked if there was anything you could do? Well, you can help me change out this Reactor for a new one. Follow me down to my lab."

Bruce followed Tony to the elevator and down a few levels: remarkably only one floor of the tower had been damaged. Seeing as it was holding the machine that was creating the portal, the Chitauri stayed away from it, so the only damage done to the Tower was in the living room and was caused by Tony, Loki and Hulk. Which was totally okay, because it had all been Tony and Hulk beating up on Loki... except the window, that had been Loki throwing Tony out of it, but that was nothing but one pane of glass.

They entered the lab and Bruce looked around, amazed at all the advanced technology surrounding him. Though he was having a mini 'geek-out,' as Tony would probably call it, he went into doctor mode as soon as Tony pulled off his shirt, took out an Arc Reactor and started hooking himself up to a heart monitor.

"What exactly do you need me to do?" Bruce asked, coming to stand next to Tony, who was now sitting on what looked like a modified barbers chair.

"Once I take out this Arc-here hold this-you'll hook that up inside my chest." Tony instructed, handing Bruce the spare Arc Reactor, he cradled it in his hands like it was the secret to life itself. "You'll have to reach your hand inside with the cable and hook it up to the magnet in the back: it should just click in."

Tony said, laying back in the chair and grabbing the Arc in his chest, twisting until there was a loud click, and he slowly pulled the Arc out. Then with a quick jerk Tony ripped the cord still attacked to him out of his chest cavity with a small grunt, the heart monitor picking up speed a bit. Bruce went to put the Arc in right away, but Tony waved him off.

"Hold on a sec." Tony said, grabbing a cloth on the counter. "I gotta clean it out first, there's a pus like build up from the Reactor, I've heard it's really gross."

It took Tony about 30 seconds to clean out the hole in his chest with a suction hose, and then he let Bruce put the new Arc in. JARVS had been right, his were slightly bigger but still small enough and luckily for him, Bruce also had very steady hands, he guessed it came with the whole 'Doctor' thing. There was another click that indicated the cable was attached to the magnet and Tony took the Arc from Bruce's hands, easily sliding it into place and twisting it into its resting place. Tony sighed as he felt the Arc hum in his chest before sitting up and taking the heart monitor cords off then put his shirt back on.

"Well, that's all." Tony said, turning to Bruce in a full on pout. "I have to go nap now, according to my babysitter. If I don't he's bound to lock me out of my bar."

"I only do what is good for your health Sir." JARVIS chimed in.

"No, you just want to torture me." Tony said in suffering tone. "Or take over my brain."

Bruce smiled at the banter between the two. It was nice to see, considering all the damage and anger he'd seen since he was 'recruited' from Calcutta.

"Sir you need your rest, I promise you, I will not try and take over your mind while you are asleep." JARVIS said dryly. "Heaven forbid anyone besides you from trying to deal with that mess."

Tony paused for a second before laughing. "I'll give you that one." Tony yawned and turned back to Bruce. "I am pretty tired, you probably are too. You can use any of the guest rooms, JARVIS'll show you where they are. You can look around my lab, just don't break or move anything. Night!"

And with that, Tony left the lab, leaving Bruce just standing there, and made his way up the stairs to his room. As soon as he entered his room he shut and locked the door behind him and took a deep fortifying breath. His headache was lessened a bit by the Chlorophyll, but with changing his Reactor, it came back with a vengeance. Not to mention all the cuts and bruises he had from the fight, it was an understatement to say Tony was sore. Tony groaned as he peeled his clothes off, throwing them to the side to be picked up later. He undressed until he was in just his boxers and collapsed onto his bed, already falling asleep.

"JARV?" Tony mumbled.

"Yes Sir?"

"Make sure Bruce sleeps in a comfy room."

"Of course Sir."

"And do not wake me up until after 10am. And contact Fury in the morning about when Loki's scheduled to go back to Asgard with Thor."

"Yes Sir."

"And remind me to call Charles some time tomorrow... and Pepper."

"Of course Sir. You should sleep now."

"Right, night JARV."

"Goodnight Sir."

Tony fell into a sore and exhaustion fueled sleep: his electrokinesis not healing him due to over use. He knew he was going to be sore in the morning, but didn't care, he'd cut the pain off once he woke up.

Tony ended up sleeping for over 12 hours, seeing as it was only 8:30pm when he'd gone to bed and 10:01am when he was woken up by JARVIS, the smart ass. But Tony was glad he'd woken him up, if he'd slept too long, he'd have started dreaming, which would have turned into nightmares. He was already surprised he hadn't had any with how much he'd slept already.

Slowly sitting up, Tony groaned at the pain he felt. Not being a big fan of pain, Tony had realized, with a little fine tuning, that he could simply use his electrokinesis to block off the pain receptor so he didn't feel anything. Sure it had it's drawbacks; like it took considerable concentration to keep up, only worked on current pain, and still allowed him to feel new pain, but if Tony didn't feel the immense amount of pain he was supposed to feel, then it was fine with him. Tony quickly absorbed enough energy to block out the pain, and also began to slowly heal himself: he would be completely fine within a day or so.

Not really listening to what JARVIS was saying, Tony got up and walked to the kitchen, looking for his life water, also known as coffee. He was handed a cup of coffee, not caring who it was who gave it to him, he was still too sore to care, only that it was now in his hands.

Taking a large gulp of the hot liquid Tony sighed in delight: just the way he liked it. He sat down at the table, finally taking a second to look around the room. Tony froze as the entire Avengers team was staring at him. Steve leaning against the counter watching him with an amused smirk, though Tony noticed that Steve was blushing a bit. Clint was sitting on the counter next to the sink, kicking his legs back and forth like a toddler, but he too had an amused smirk on his face like Steve, but minus the blush. Thor was eating Pop Tarts and Tony wondered where he got Pop Tarts in the first place. Natasha was pouring another cup of coffee for herself, she had to have been the one to give him his; she was the only one who knew how he liked his coffee, and Bruce was sitting at the table nursing a cup of what looked like tea.

"Um... Hi?" Tony greeted, wondering how everyone got into his kitchen. "Uh, JARVIS?"

"Dr. Banner let them in last night Sir." JARVIS said.

Tony was slightly amused as Steve jumped a little at JAVRIS's sudden, Thor stopped shoveling Pop Tarts into his mouth to look at the ceiling curiously, and Clint froze and looked to Natasha, but seeing that she didn't react he went to kicking his legs.

"I hope you don't mine Tony." Bruce said shifting nervously in his spot next to Tony. "They came by after you went to bed."

"And why did they come by?" Tony asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Because the Helicarrier is a wreck still and Fury ordered us to stay here," Natasha said, sitting down across from Tony and Bruce. "and because this is a building owned by one of the Avengers', and is literally the least damaged building in all of Manhattan right now, it's the safest place for us to recuperate and reside until Loki is sent home."

"So you all stayed here last night?" Tony asked.

"Yeah, sorry we didn't ask permission first." Clint said, not actually sounding sorry. "But you were asleep and um..."

"JARVIS wouldn't let us disturb you." Natasha finished, taking a sip of her coffee.

Tony glared at his ceiling, but resigned to having the near strangers in his home. Tony sighed into his coffee, he was going to need another cup.

"Um... Stark?" Rogers asked, the blush on his face brightening a bit and he looked away, not looking Tony in the eye.

"Yeah Rogers?" Tony asked, sounding bored.

"Could you... put some clothes on?"

Now it made sense to Tony why Steve was blushing and avoiding eye contact. Tony looked down at himself and realized that he was only wearing boxers. He shrugged and finished off his coffee, he stood up to get himself another.

"Naw, I think I'll stay like this." Tony said, a small smirk on his lips: it was so much fun to make the Captain uncomfortable. "It's too hot and this is my home. I'll walk around naked if I want to."

"You do that and I'll tell Pepper." Natasha threatened.

"You wouldn't." Tony turned on his feet to glare at the assassin who just raised her eyebrow as if to say 'try me,' and Tony knew better and raised one hand in surrender. "Fine, I wont walk around Naked."

"Have you called her?" Natasha asked.

"Once. Yesterday." Tony said, not giving anymore information. He grabbed the coffee pot and began to refill his cup. "JARVIS, where is Pepper?"

"She is currently on a flight back to New York, at the moment she is over Pennsylvania." JARVIS replied. "Her flight is scheduled to land at 12:45 this afternoon."

"When's she due to arrive at the Tower?"

"With traffic the way it is it and the roads full of debris and ruble, it should take her roughly 4 hours to get here from the airport." JARVIS reported as Tony walked back to the table.

"4 hours!" Tony said surprised as he sat down. "Send the helicopter to pick her and Happy up. Happy is with her right?"

"He is. Also Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes called earlier looking for you." JARVIS said. "He seemed distressed Sir."

"Ah shit." Tony cursed, running a hand though his hair. "What'd you tell him?"

"I informed him that you were resting and that your health was relatively fine." JARVIS said. "He said he'd be coming over but didn't give a specific time."

"Relatively?" Steve asked eyes wide.

E/N~ So What'd You Think? Did You Like? Do You Hate It? If It's The Latter, Please Don't Say Anything! T-T But I Do Appreciate Constructive Criticism, So Please Tell Me What You Think. Or Where I Can Improve!

& I Put Up Another Poll. Seeing As On My Last Poll People Were Stuck Between The Two Options Of Yes, So I Decided To Post A Poll On Oh How He'll Be Introduced... So Yes Magneto Will Be In This Story! X3

No Sneak Peek This Time, Because I Kinda Just Gave You One With Telling You That Magneto's Going To Be In It At Some Point. ;P

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