This might be boring. I tried my best though.
Fury and Clint had gone to the landing pad to welcome the X-Men and bring them to the conference room. Fury is the first to step into the conference room with Clint and the fellow X-Men following right behind him.
The X-Men are all in their suits. Professor is sitting in his usual wheelchair and with a warm smile on his face; he glances at Tony who is sitting by the door.
Anthony! Nice to see you! How have you been?
Never been better.
The professor chuckles and looks around the room registering every single face in the room.
"Tony! What in the world happen to you? who did that?"
Ororo points at Tony's temple where the blood is all dried up.
"Uhm, nothing. I had a tough day, that's all."
"I think Jean should probably look into that."
"No need for that, Ororo. I'm fine."
They stopped talking when they realized everyone's looking at them.
"Ah, the Avengers! I'm Charles Xavier and these are my fellow students. Ororo, or known as Storm."
Storm smiles and waves her hand.
"Scott."
"Just call me Cyclops." Scott smiles too but a bit less friendly.
"Dr. Jean Grey and Logan."
"Hi." Jean smiles. Logan just snorts and crosses his hands giving a lets-skip-all-this-boring-stuff look.
Tony chuckles at Logan's response earning a glare from Logan.
Then the X-Men all settles down around the part of the conference table that is facing the door. The Avengers all sit opposite them besides Tony who sits between Xavier and Steve.
"We mean no harm. We're here to seek for help. There are numerous attacks on the streets made by mutants unidentified by us. They are becoming too much for us to handle." Professor Xavier is the first to speak.
"Attacks? What kind of attacks? We have no records of any mutant attacks these past few months." Fury speaks looking at the X-Men with confusion.
Tony raises his hand like a student who is confessing his wrong doings.
"It's because of me. I hacked into SHIELD's system and deleted every single piece of information about the mutants."
"The hell Stark! Do you know how much danger these are going to get us in? I'll come back to you later on this one. Please continue, Professor." Fury's voice softens for the last sentence.
"I believe these attacks are done by the same group of mutants. They all have this eagle tattoo on the back of their shoulder."
"What else do you know about them, Professor?" Steve finally gets his head into the conversation.
"Not much. We have been trying to look for their base but we failed. There was once when I managed to trace them back to New York but there was as far as I got." This time it's Scott who answers.
"What about their powers. Maybe we can start looking from there."
"Well, their powers are similar to each other. Basically, energy blasts while some have good speed and agility."
The soon they heard Jean's description, all of them stared at Tony.
"What? Wait, those are energy blasts, mines not. Don't stare at me like that." Stark instantly shrinks into his seat.
"The energy blasts are different, bub. I can feel dark energy in it." Logan comments without lifting his head to see face them.
"What Logan said is true. The colours of the blasts are a darker blue too. Tony, can you show them?"
Tony pulls out his phone from his side pocket. He tabs on his phone and places it on the middle of the table. Suddenly light blue projections of pictures and some videos are shown above the table.
"Here, see for yourselves." Tony sits back down on his seat.
The others are fascinated by the projections in font of them. They watch the mutants and the X-Men fight. Their expressions are all in awe.
The videos ended. Tony takes back his phone and fiddles with it under the table.
"As you can see, the mutants are different. I have a feeling that they aren't naturally mutants. They are man-made."
"They sure aren't able to control their powers that well. Just like the Extremis." Fury stated.
"So, would you join forces? We sure need your help."
"Prof..."
Steve is cut off by Fury.
"How do we know whether we can trust you or not?"
"We are the good guys, director. I'm sure you can trust us as much as Tony trusts us." Scott says looking at Tony who's not paying any attention to the conversation.
Fury looks at Tony, his finger rubbing his temples.
"Ok deal. But if anything goes wrong, I can't assure you of your well-being."
"Thank you, director, fellow Avengers. I will be looking forward to our collaboration."
Professor Xavier bring his right hand forward and fury shakes it.
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The X-Men went back to the school while the Avengers went back to the Avengers Tower. They agreed to meet up when there is another attack.
Tony walks towards his bathroom and stands in front of the mirror. He takes off his shirt with his back facing the mirror. He reached for the back of his right shoulder. The tattoo of a eagle is clearly visible. But it wasn't exactly a tattoo, it looks like it was brutally stamped onto him with a piece of hot metal.
Tony stares at his reflection in the mirror. He open the tap and splashes water into his face multiple times before looking into the mirror again. His eyes are red. His face wet from water and maybe tears.
What should I do?
Tony, crying! I'm not sure how this will continue yet. I need ideas and reviews THX!