Chapter 11
By: MysticFantasy
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A/N: Due to requests, another chapter was written and posted as quickly as possible.
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Tony, Thor, Clint and Bruce sat at the glass table located in the bridge of the Helicarrier. Natasha had stayed with Steve in his ICU room in case he woke up again and was able to speak clearly about what happened to him.
"We're no closer to solving this thing then when it first happened." Tony said with a defeated tone.
"Just try to keep a clear head." Fury said as he slowly walked to the front of the table. "It's just going to take a while longer for Rogers to be able to tell us what happened."
"Is there another way to see exactly who it was that injured our captain?" Thor asked.
"The only thing we have is the security video." Bruce answered. "There wasn't much on it to get any ideas of who attacked Steve."
"But, since we've looked at it a hundred times already, why not look at it again?" Tony said as he tapped on his tablet which, after a few seconds, brought up a holographic screen in the middle of the table.
"Remind me to ask you how keep getting into the system." Fury said before the video started playing.
They all watched as Steve crept up to the warehouse and vanish inside. They watched as nothing happened for a few minutes before the fight broke out.
They watched as the building began to break under the fight. The same familiar bulky shadow figure walked by the gaping hole in the wall.
"Why is this not in color like your other monitors?" Thor asked. "It may allowed us to better see who attacked Steven."
"This is how the security camera captured the attack." Clint answered as the video came to an end.
Once more, no other clues surfaced that could be of use to them.
"Agent Romanoff has offered to stay with Rogers over night." Fury said once the holographic screen vanishe. "The rest of you should go back to the tower and try to get some rest."
"I will not leave my friend when he is wounded." Thor stated calmly. "I will stay with Lady Natasha and continue to keep watch over our friend."
"That would actually make a lot of us feel better." Fury said. "But I will have a room set up for you in case you get tired and need to rest for a while."
"Thank you." Thor said before standing and heading down the hall back toward the ICU.
"You three should head back to the tower and rest." Fury advised. "We'll inform you right away if there's any changes."
"Make sure you do." Tony said as he stood. "You know that I don't like being kept out of things this important. We all remember what happened last time that happened."
"Yes and SHIELD is still trying to come up with a better security." Fury replied.
"I'll come up with better hacking codes." Tony said before he led Clint and Bruce out of the bridge.
"Will you really?" Clint asked.
"Clint, you should know me by now." Tony answered with a smirk.
"Of course," Clint muttered with a smirk. "What was I thinking to ask if you really would do it or not?"
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Tony sighed happily as he walked into his bedroom and pracitcally dove onto the bed.
"Is Steve doing better?" Pepper asked as she walked over with a tall glass of ice water.
"He woke up for a while but fell asleep only about a minute after." Tony answered sitting up to drink the water. When he was finished with it, he continued his answer. "I think he's doing better. He wasn't able to give us a straight answer but I think he's going to be ok."
"That's good." Pepper said with a relieved look. "It would be so upsetting to everyone if Steve didn't get better soon."
"Tell me about it." Tony agreed. "I don't think any one would be happy to hear that America's pride and joy would be down for very long."
"Of course not." Pepper said. "I'm just glad that he's going to be ok. Think he'll be able to tell you who did this to him?"
"Hope so." Tony said. "He was only able to say 'red'."
"Red?" Pepper repeated. "You mean, like someone dressed in red attacked him?"
"I don't think..." Tony paused before suddenly standing up and hugging Pepper. "Did I ever mention that you're a genius?"
Pepper wasn't able to answer when Tony suddenly sprinted out of the room.
"Jarvis, can you make sure that Tony doesn't hurt himself?" she asked.
"Of course Ms. Potts."
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"Jarvis, bring up the security feed of Steve at the harbor." Tony instructed as he walked over to his work table.
"Right away, sir." Jarvis replied as the security feed appeared before Tony.
Tony watched the feed once before giving the AI another instruction.
"Jarvis, try to converge this into color feed."
The genius billionare watched as the video before him began to shake and fill with a little static for a few minutes before the screen finally cleared.
"Request complete, sir. Shall I play the feed?"
"Yes."
Tony watched with nearly unblinking eyes as the video played in color. He was a little surprised that the feed had been able to get changed into color.
I have to remember to tell Point Break that he's pretty clever. Tony thought to himself as he watched Steve appear on the screen and duck into the warehouse.
He waited impatiently as he watched the screen until the fight started. Right when the moment came, Tony shouted.
"Freeze the frame!"
The frame stopped right as the once shadow appeared in front of the gaping hole. His eyes went wide when he saw a large spot of red.
