Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
A/N: Sorry this Ch. is a little late, bad case of writer's block and had to skip the first ep of the season sorry for doing that but couldn't think of anything to do with it. Same for USM so IDK when that Ch will be out. Same for the March 27th Ch of YJ got some writer's block on what to do in the 2-week time skip from episode 17-18 so that might be late as well.
Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.
Chapter XXXVI: Alone Against A.I.M.
Last Time.
Iron Man threw the helmet away before the others attacked Gargoyle and flew behind him. Iron Man grabbed Gargoyle's hands having his armor gloves move to cover his. Gargoyle tried to turn Iron Man to stone, only for nothing to happen before the others attacked him at once.
Later, Karnilla sat on her throne as the troll was taken out as the Avengers stood in front of a captured Gargoyle.
"You sure? Our prison is happy to welcome him." Thor said as Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, he might be immortal, but he's still a man," Naruto replied as Iron Man in a new armor looked to him.
"A man that loves crepes."
"Very funny Stark. I do love crepes." Gargoyle said as they left through a portal to take him to prison.
Now.
Avengers Mansion, Morning.
Shinobi leaned against the wall in the living room as the others told him about the recent attack by Doom.
Tony explained that he and Wasp went to visit the Fantastic Four, where Reed was studying Ravonna to talk about her, Hank leaving and saving Asgard.
Janet picked up explaining she and Susan visited Prison 42, where she showed the criminals they've caught since it was finished.
Hawkeye then boasts to Naruto on playing poker with the others with Johnny and Ben before the Hulk and Ben begin to brawl after the latter gets a full house before a Doombot attacked by causing an explosion.
Janet then picked up saying she and Susan were also attacked by Doombots who attacked at the same time. And after a battle with them, the Doombots spontaneously shut down at once before other Doombots have begun attacking New York City.
Tony then explained that he found Janet and Susan on a plane being piloted by Lucia von Bardas, but was unable to rescue them as Mr. Fantastic defuses the explosive Doombots and the others destroy the robots attacking the city.
They then traveled to Latveria and after a battle, was able to rescue the two heroines as to the group's surprise, Doom frees Wasp and Invisible Woman and dismisses the group with a cryptic warning that they don't see what is happening.
A Few Days Later, A.I.M. Headquarters.
A scientist walked with A.I.M. drones in getting a creature into a vehicle.
He's a tall male with broad shoulders. He's wearing a modified standard A.I.M. uniform, his hood is rounder than the standard, with black tubes connected to his head and a small shaped black Y to look through.
The creature's towering over them. It's a computerized A.I. in the form of a large parasitic worm with two red eyes. It has two arms and a mouth with teeth with tentacles in it.
The creature escapes from his pod and starts attacking. "Don't let Technovore escape!"
As Technovore attacked an A.I.M. drone suddenly knocks it out. They get Technovore back in the pod.
"I want it at Stark Industries in one hour."
"Are you sure Supreme? Is it worth the risk?"
"A.I.M. will have its revenge!"
Stark Industries Early Morning.
Tony was working on a device ignoring his board giving him reports.
"Mr. Stark, are you even paying attention?"
"Nope. I'm paying attention to this!" Tony said strapping the device to his arm and had a holographic shield the style of Cap's come up. "Huh? Pretty nice, right? Come on, throw something at me! Come on anything. Does anyone have a pen?"
"Mr. Stark."
Tony looked to see Pepper at the door. "Your seven o'clock is here."
"Pepper! Quick, throw your shoes at me!"
"(Sigh) No Tony," Pepper said walking in as the board members walked out. "You need to take these meetings seriously. The Board is voicing a lot of concerns. Concerns on how much time you're spending with the Avengers."
"Really? So they're concerned that I've helped save the world like seven times now?"
"They're not wrong Tony. You were barely attending them when you were just Iron Man, now that you've formed the Avengers, even less. Plus you're funding them out of your pocket. If Stark Industries goes down, so do they." She replied poking Tony in the chest.
"What do you want me to do Pepper?" Tony asked, raising his arms up in a shrug.
"Your life has become Iron Man 24/7."
"That's not true… I'm in the office now, right?" Tony asked turning to leave. "No Iron Man no Avengers."
"OW! Son of a bitch!"
"… Except for Naruto who's here getting his check up on his arm." Tony said after hearing Naruto yell out down the hall before his card buzzed.
Pulling it out, Captain America came up on the screen explaining their in the armory holding his extra suits.
"And are there Avengers in the building? Moving suits of Iron Man armor? Is that what you mean by 'No Iron Man and no Avengers'?"
"I'm just moving the suits to protect Stark Industries. The armor makes S.I. a target. Remember Ultron? Wonder Man? I'm not gonna put my people at risk anymore. Especially you." Tony finished as they walked and saw Naruto walking out of a room wearing black cargo pants and a red shirt cursing in Japanese.
"I heard that!" A female voice yelled from inside the room.
"(Sigh) You had to get me the one doctor that knows Japanese!" Naruto yelled walking away and past a window showing A.I.M. setting up a dead zone around Stark Industries.
"Your seven o'clock appointment holds more weight than mine."
"Who's my Seven?" Tony asked following Pepper into his office where he saw Maria standing in his office.
"You're late!"
"Hi, Maria! What can I do for the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Tony asked walking in.
"I want Iron Man and the Avengers to join S.H.I.E.L.D.!"
"What's the point? Everyone knows our identities aside from T'Challa and Naruto, and S.H.I.E.L.D. knows them. And if we did work for S.H.I.E.L.D., what then?" Tony asked before sitting at his desk as Maria sat on the edge. "Save the world then punch a time card? What if I save someone crossing the street out of my armor? Does every Good Samaritan have to be registered?"
"Don't give me that! Good Samaritans don't save little old ladies wearing nuclear-powered battle suits."
"It's not nuclear."
"I need the Avengers as an example. More and more superheroes are popping up. The Fantastic Four are public but others like Spider-Man and the X-Men aren't." Maria said standing up and walked in front of the desk before leaning down on it. "There are laws and it's my job to enforce them! If Iron Man steps forward and supports this, the others will fall in line."
"Ha! That's a good one!"
Looking over her shoulder, she saw Naruto at the door. "We all like Tony, but I doubt any of us would do that."
"One of these days, you'll fail. And people will get hurt. And on that day, S.H.I.E.L.D. will come after you."
"Well, not T'Challa, I'm pretty sure he has Diplomatic Immunity… Unless you want to say Doom is more important then he is, and Doom gets away with trying to take over countries." Naruto finished just as the building shook as outside, A.I.M. activates disruptors and causes a blackout.
Supreme Scientist then invades the building and takes Pepper, hostage, they release Technovore sending it after Tony. Supreme Scientist walks to a computer to download all the data of Stark Industries, as other A.I.M. drones are going after Tony's armor in the armory. As they open a hole in the door Captain America and Black Panther start taking care of them through the smoke.
Rhodey then walked out from behind a pillar. "Any idea who these guys are?"
"They are Advanced Idea Mechanics." Panther said as he dropped the man he was holding up. "Scientists who look to use their technology for profit. They've obviously come for Stark's armor and technology."
"You may not want to be a superhero Colonel, but I'd put on that suit," Cap said remembering Rhodey explained a suit was for him when they were moving them.
In Tony's office, the trio found themselves locked in as they heard growling. Naruto had put on a half mask and held his staff and Maria pulled her gun out. The Technovore bursts out from the ceiling, as Tony and Maria try to hold them off with his new shield, and Naruto hits it with his staff.
"What is that thing?!"
"Technovore!"
"From the Vault? I read the file but never saw it." Maria said as Tony blocked strikes with the shield.
"Technovore's a nanotech A.I. it was created to destroy data. But it went out of control and started eating everything!" Tony explained as they circled around following Technovore's moves before it spoke up as it zeroed in on Toy's chest.
"It's after the arc reactor-!"
"In my chest, yes. We should leave now!"
They escaped the office as the Technovore broke the door by throwing the desk at them. As the Technovore chases after them, some A.I.M. drones fire at it and Technovore feeds on them. As Technovore is distracted Tony, Naruto and Maria went after the building's arc reactor. Before getting to the door as the Technovore crashes into Tony.
It then started feeding on the arc reactor in his chest before Naruto hits it with a Rasengan (Spiraling Sphere forcing it into the wall before it broke through an elevator door and started crawling down before they followed.
In the armory, Rhodey walked out of the smoke in his armor.
It has a similar look with some of the early versions of Iron Man's armors, but it is equipped with different kinds of weapons.
He then easily took out the drones by firing his weapons at them, before the Technovore arrives and ambushes War Machine getting through the wall into the arc reactor. As Technovore feeds on War Machine, Iron Man arrives in new armor that's sleeker than his previous one and shot it off.
Maria ran in and threw the shield device to Cap as Naruto ran in and hit a drone with his staff.
"What's the plan?"
"Not enough time to deactivate the bomb." Iron Man said to War Machine who flew up to him. "J.A.R.V.I.S., reactivate the Arc Reactor! Overload it!"
The arc reactor turns back on having Technovore run in as Iron Man follows. Technovore feeds on the arc reactor energy. While Captain America shields the others with his new shield device that enlarged as the energy whirlwind from the reactor starts to cover the room. Technovore feeds on too much energy and explodes along with the bombs.
BOOM!
Outside the building, A.I.M. is trying to leave but gets ambushed by the Avengers. Supreme Scientist aims a gun at Pepper's head, but Pepper knocks him out.
She then gets worried about the data that A.I.M. took, but Captain America shows her the hard drive in his hand.
The Next Day.
"Thanks for what you did, you saved my life."
Maria and Tony were in the office before she looked at him. "This doesn't change anything… Registration's going to happen."
"(Sigh) This was the part where you thank me for saving your life."
"You don't get it! I saved your life because that's my job! But you… You're putting people at risk. The Avengers put people at risk."
"So I'm guessing Dinner's out of the question?"
To Be Continued.
A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.
Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.
OK as I said above, had writer's block that forced me to skip the first episode of the 2nd season and don't know when the USM's or the Ch after tomorrow's YJ upload (Got that chapter done just waiting until tomorrow to upload.)
Nothing else to say.
Talk To You Later,
Lone Wolf Out.
