PART 2

Chapter 2x24: The Aftermath

"Where am I?" - asked Arash confused looking his surrounding there was water on the floor and a red and golden light were shining around the place

"You did it" - said a woman's voice making the Persian boy turn around

"Na- Natasha?" - Stutter Arash while she nodded - "Nat!" - He cried getting close hugging the woman standing in front of him - "oh god...I can't believe this" - he said crying in the arms of the red hair

"Everything is gonna be alright" - said Natasha rubbing the boy's back

"Are you gonna go back...can we...can we bring you back?" - Asked Arash separating enough from the hug to look at the woman who shook her head

"I paid the price for doing the right thing" - said Natasha

"I guess I did as well" - sighed Arash


After the battle with Thanos most of the heroes returned to their places to celebrate the aftermath since everybody was back and the titan was now defeated and gone, some heroes where on an "Emergency Compound" that Tony bought in case something happened to the original one.

Bruce, Tony, Peter, Thor, Farah, Eddie and even Doctor Strange were in that Emergency Compound waiting for a change on the state of the King of Persia who hasn't wake up ever since the battle.

"Tony I hate this as much as you...but I think we should give up" – said Bruce taking off his glasses to rub his tired eyes sighing

"No, there's gotta be something, some way..." – trailed Tony

"It's been 5 days, I know his body is still warm as if he will wake up, but not even FRIDAY could read his vitals...I think we gotta just accept that he is-" – said Bruce

"Don't you dare to say it" – warned Tony mad

"I know is hard Tony, we have lost Nat and now maybe...but we need to say it and accept it" – explained Bruce

"Why don't you go and say it to the kid first if you are so eager to accept it?" – asked Tony pointing at the medical room on

Arash was lying the bed inside the medical room with machines attached to him that didn't show any signals of him being alive, his body was warm but he wasn't breathing at all, Peter was there holding the hand of the Persian boy that had his ring on and it was the arm with the big glowing scar on it, the brown haired boy looked at like he hasn't sleep well and have been crying a lot.

"Maybe he needs to so he can move on and we can too" – said Bruce sighing looking down scratching the back of his neck

"Listen to me, there's gotta be something we can do, maybe his ring is healing him or something, maybe that's the reason his body is still warm" – explained Tony

"His ring..." – said Bruce realizing

"There" – said Tony pointing at him – "you seem to have some kind of idea, what is it?" – He asked with a hopeful look on his face

"Do you remember what he said about how the ring works with him?" – asked Bruce

"Yeah, his ring works along his vital organs and..." – trailed Tony until he realized as well – "the only way that ring falls from his hand is if he is dead" – he said walking to the medical room with the green man behind

"Tony wait" – warned Bruce but Tony had already enter paying not mind to him

"Hey Mr. Stark...sorry but...no changes" – said Peter with a groggy voice

"Yeah, yeah, I know Parker" – said Tony approaching the side of the bed the brown haired teen was making him let go the hand of the Persian boy while the adult took the hand to inspect it – "here it is" – he said showing it to Bruce

"Well there it is but the real test is if you try to take it off him" – said Bruce making the millionaire turn to the ring with hesitation

"Dammit" – sighed Tony

"What's going on?" – asked Peter confused

"We realize that maybe his ring is the reason why his vitals are unreadable to everything and why his body is still warm as if he..." – trailed Bruce unsure of what to say when he saw the sorrow in the eyes of the brown haired teen next to Tony so he just cleared his throat before continuing – "anyway, I remember him explaining how the only way he can lose the ring is if his vitals are not working anymore" – he explained

"Ok, so...do we..." – trailed Peter looking at the ring hesitating

"Big green come on" – said Tony

"Why it has to be me?" – asked Bruce confused

"Because this is more your field than mine and there is no way that the kid is gonna do it, so it has to be you" – explained Tony

"But I...maybe my fingers are too big and...I'm not sure to be honest" – said Bruce nervously and stuttering a little

"No" – said Peter – "I wanna do it" – he stated

"Parker..." – trailed Tony

"No" – interrupted Peter – "Mr. Stark you can't choose for me, I'm not a kid, I'm 16, so just stop treating me like a little kid" – he said standing up – "I'm doing it" – he stated

"I can't let you do it Parker, I know how much he means to you, you mean a lot to him too but if the result is not that we expect-" – tried to explain Tony

"I can handle it" – interrupted Peter – "I have already lost important people in my life, I lost my uncle when I was young and I..." – he started to explain but chocked on his words when he turned to see the Persian boy with his eyes watering

"Parker come on" – said Tony

"Why don't you do it?" – countered Bruce to the millionaire

"Because I can't handle it!" – Yelled Tony making everybody get quiet in the room – "I bring him to this mess with the help of Natasha during the Sokovia Accords when he just wanted to remain in his country doing whatever" – he started to explain – "then when he finally go to his country to do the "whatever" when The Snap happened...he was in grief...but also doing so well...and then she and I bring him back again to..." – he trailed with his voice trembling – "I can't do it" – he stated

"Tony..." – said Bruce seeing the hurt in his friend's voice

"For god's sake" – said Doctor Strange entering the room – "I'll do it" – he stated

"From all the times you choose this one to come into his room and put your 2 cents?" – Asked Tony incredulously to the former doctor – "I know this is kinda your former field, but you are just waiting for him to wake up or something as you haven't even tried to examine him, so you better step out" – ordered Tony

"I remember I told you that I don't take orders from you" – stated Strange – "besides I want to know how this got under my radar, how I didn't see this way of ending things, how he skip any timeline I saw" – he said approaching the boy

"Strange" – warned Tony

But the man didn't listened and grabbed the hand of the Persian boy with one hand while his other move to reach for the ring in the index finger of the King but just when he was about to grabbed an energy expanded from the ring pushing him and everybody on the room to the walls.

"The hell what's that?" – grunted Peter slowly recovering from the hit

"I don't know, but nobody try to do that again" – grunted Tony as he slowly stand up

"Did something changed?" – asked Peter hopefully while Bruce inspected the machines

"Not on the machines" – said Bruce

"Not on him as well, but he still warm though" – said Strange checking the pulse of the boy while he turned to look at the ring – "how did he do that?" – He asked

"I think it wasn't him, it was the ring" – suggested Bruce

"As if the ring has his own consciousness or something?" – Asked Tony to the green man who nodded – "yeah sure" – he said rolling his eyes

"You can't seriously be skeptical about the idea Stark" – said Strange – "do I need to remind you that my cloak has a consciousness on its own and you saw it?" – He asked

"It is true Tony" – said Bruce

"But he still...I mean...is he alive?" – asked Peter hopefully

"We still not sure kid" – said Bruce making the brown haired boy's look down sighing

"I'm sorry Peter" – said Tony putting a hand on the teen's shoulder

"Hey, guys" – called out Farah entering the room – "I just finish talking to Prince Ervin" – she said

"Weapon Girl we told you to wait for us to come out with an idea before telling his family about this" – said Tony

"I know, but it's been 5 days guys, I'm sorry but I had to tell him" – said Farah – "anyway, he asked me to take him back to Persia ASAP" – she added


A/N: I said our King was gone, I just didn't say how, but what do you think it's happening to him? Is he dead? Is he in the verge of it? We see Nat one more time, that could be either bad or good and we did a reference to the early explanation Arash gave about his ring and powers something some of you might know if you are reading this since the start, but I had to put a reminder anyway just in case.

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