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Chapter 8- Reconciliation
Steve groaned as his eyes opened. As his vision cleared itself, he realized he was surrounded by his teammates, all of them in various stages of returning to consciousness.
"Hey Cap."
Steve turned to see Tony sitting there with Barry, Cisco and Kara.
"Oliver." Barry said gently as he helped him up, "You okay?"
"I think I will be." Oliver said.
"Blimey." Constantine said, "What the hell happened?"
"It was some kind of robot." Wanda remembered.
"As Tony says- the copycat." Cisco said.
"Its repulsors were just like yours." Natasha told Tony.
"And it had heat vision like you." Sara told Kara.
"Copycat robot with our powers and abilities. Just what we needed." Clint said dryly.
"I've seen a lot of weird shit, but this takes the cake." Logan said.
"Who is this guy?" Tony asked.
"His name is Logan." Steve said, "He fought with me in World War II."
"Were you on ice too?" Tony asked.
"No. I just have anti-ageing cream." Logan said dryly.
"And you brought Daredevil, Black Sky and Punisher too? I'm so flattered." Tony said.
"Don't be." Clint snarled.
"Well, doesn't really matter." Frank sighed.
"They got us too." Matt said.
"Unfortunately." Elektra agreed.
"How are we going to get out?" Kara said.
"Can you get us out, Wanda?" Sam asked her.
"I can try." She said and fired at the force field but unlike her, it had the properties of two Infinity Stones, so while it budged a little, nothing significant happened.
"Well, looks like we're all stuck together." Tony said, "Yay!"
"Pretty unfortunate." Clint agreed before he suddenly punched Tony on the face, sending him to the floor.
Tony held his face as he got up and Clint snarled, "That was for outing my family to Ross, you son of a bitch!"
"About that-"
"Yeah, if I hear one more excuse, I'm going to bash your head on the force field to open it." Clint snarled.
"That is enough!" Steve said as him and Natasha pulled Clint back, "MODOK is going to repair that portal. And if we keep fighting amongst ourselves, we won't be able to stop him."
"What portal?" Cisco asked.
"Apparently, MODOK is bringing creatures from mythical lands to Earth to make an army." Oliver said and the four looked horrified.
"We already met a Cyclops on the way." Sara said.
"Cyclops? Wow!" Barry said in awe.
"It is not something to be awed by, mate." Constantine said.
"There were a lot of other specimens." Frank said.
"Including a giant white beast." Natasha remembered.
"So we're all in here, and they are repairing the portal that will allow them to make an army of mythical creatures." Tony said dryly, "Boy this keeps getting better and better."
"Tony Stark. Always ruining people's lives and joking about it." Grim Reaper said as he arrived outside.
"You?" Oliver snarled as him and Matt rose up.
"I'm pretty sure you didn't come here to be gutted by my claws." Logan said.
"Who the hell are you?" Tony asked him.
Grim Reaper took off his hood to reveal a young, handsome, but partially scarred face, "My name is Eric Williams."
"Never heard of you." Tony said.
"Of course you haven't." Grim Reaper said, "But I'm sure you're familiar with my brother- Simon Williams."
At that moment, Tony's jaw dropped and he backed off involuntarily, a reaction noticed by everyone else inside the force field with him. Eric Williams smirked at the reaction.
"So you remember him after all." Eric smirked.
"Who is Simon?" Steve asked as he stood up.
"He was my brother." Eric said before pointing at Tony accusingly, "And when you brought his company and business, he grew so angry and frustrated that he took his own life."
The expression of guilt on Tony's face brought a grim (no pun intended) satisfaction to Eric's mind.
"Even if Tony is responsible for your brother taking his life, your way of vengeance isn't very righteous." Matt told him.
"Every villain is the hero of his own story." Barry said as they all looked at Grim Reaper with nothing but contempt and hatred.
"You're just another Hydra pig." Frank told him.
"And I'm going to gut you." Logan snarled at him.
"I wonder if it will be before or after our army has been created." Grim Reaper snarled as he walked off.
Tony slid against the wall and sat down, his head in his hands as guilt overtook him.
"Tony." Kara said gently as she put a hand on his shoulder, "What was he talking about?"
"I didn't buy Simon's company to jeer at him." Tony said in a heavy voice which was rare for him, "He was good with tech and ideas, but not the best with numbers. I bought his company to save it because it was going bankrupt. It wasn't going to survive. I wanted to work with Simon. And not a day goes by when I don't regret what he did to himself."
Matt could hear Tony's heart hammering in his chest due to the guilt and sadness he was feeling.
Steve put a hand on Tony's shoulder and the billionaire looked up at the soldier, "Don't blame yourself for every single thing that goes wrong, Tony. I get that you were trying to help Simon. But sometimes, people cannot be helped."
"Eric was just trying to get under your skin." Natasha told him.
"All of us make mistakes." Oliver said, "But we shouldn't let them define us."
"All they do is hold us back from becoming the best version of us." Elektra agreed as her and Matt shared a smile.
"Speaking of mistakes", Tony said as he looked up, "Seeing how you all came to rescue me, even though none of you owe me a thing, and seeing the trust between these guys from the other Earth and listening to them, I'd like to say something."
Tony was glad Barnes wasn't here. He wasn't ready to face Barnes yet.
With that, Tony began, "I fucked up. Big time. From the moment I knew about Ross and the Accords, I should have been listening and working with all of you, instead of trying to force you to do what I wanted to assuage my guilt and get my girlfriend back."
Tony glanced over at Clint and said, "I should NEVER have exposed your family to Ross."
He turned to face Wanda and said, "I should NEVER have called you a WMD."
Tony glanced at Nat and said, "I should NEVER have made that double agent crack."
Tony nodded to Sam and said, "I should NEVER have shot you when you weren't attacking anyone, even if it was only a knockout shot."
He looked at Steve and said, "I SHOULD have listened to you at the compound when you tried to tell me what was wrong with the Accords. I should have listened to you at the airport when you tried to tell me about the Winter Soldiers."
Tony swallowed and continued, "And I should NEVER have attacked Barnes. I KNOW he's not at fault, but I wanted him to hurt like I was hurting. And I would have killed him."
Steve looked at Tony with sympathy and raised his hands, "You're not the only one who made mistakes. I should have tried to voice my own thoughts on the Accords better too. And I should have told you that I knew about Hydra's involvement in your parents' deaths."
"When did you find out?" Tony asked.
"Just before the fall of SHIELD, the two of us encountered an AI version of Zola, a Hydra scientist." Natasha told Tony.
"And while stalling us, he said that Hydra had killed a lot of people that had been in their way. When he said that, he showed us a picture of your parents." Steve admitted, "That was all I knew. I never looked into the matter at all. I should have. I thought I was protecting you. But in truth, I was protecting myself. I SHOULD have told you, even if it was just suspicions. You deserved to know, Tony."
Tony could hear the sincerity and regret in Steve's voice.
"And I should never have tried to get into your head." Wanda told him, "I didn't control you. But what I did, I had no right to do it. To any of you."
"Admitting you were wrong is the first step." Barry agreed.
"I think in your position, Cap, I'd have probably done the same." Tony said as he got up, "It's not like you would just say to me, "Hey, Tony. My best friend may or may not have something to do with your parents' deaths. Have a good day.""
"And I also might have been too consumed by guilt to think rationally if I was in your place." Steve agreed, "And still, I'm sorry I kept it from you. We have both hurt each other. But I feel it is time to move past that."
"It is." Tony agreed, "I'm sorry for everything that happened between all of us. I know I still need to make it right with a few of you", He glanced at Clint, "But I need to stop blaming everyone else for my own choices."
He then held out his hand, "Do you trust me?"
With a nod, Steve said, "I do."
And then he took Tony's hand and both of them shook it.
"I'm not ready to forgive you." Clint told Tony, "Not yet. But I can promise not to hit you now."
"Fine by me." Tony chuckled.
"Not to say I'm not a fan of this 'reconciliation while locked up and captured'", Cisco said, "But we still need to get out and stop MODOK."
"What're we going to do?" Frank asked.
"I'm pretty sure we don't have any communications with us." Logan said.
"Nope." Tony said, "They took my suit and Friday with it."
"I think I have an idea." Steve suddenly said.
"What is it, mate?" Constantine asked.
Steve then reached into his sock and pulled out some kind of card.
"What is that?" Oliver asked.
"Our ticket out of here." Steve said and swiped it. It suddenly started beeping lowly and Steve said into it, "We're locked up in Strucker's castle by Hydra. And their leader has a robot that can copy anyone's powers and abilities. So be careful."
He then swiped the card again and the low beeping stopped.
"What now?" Oliver asked.
"Now we wait." Steve said.
MODOK looked at the men who were working to repair the portal as some of them examined Vision's head and the Mind Stone in it. Others were making notes on J'onn.
One of the men walked up to MODOK, "Sir, it will take about 4 more hours to fix the thing."
"I know." MODOK agreed, having calculated the estimated time. "But any longer, and you will all be punished for laziness."
Wakanda
A long-haired man, one-armed man with a light beard was feeding goats in his barn when he picked up on some people approaching him.
He looked up to see T'Challa, King of Wakanda, standing on the hill overlooking the barn with a few men. The man, who was none other than Bucky Barnes, began walking towards T'Challa as one of his men put a large, rectangular box on a stack of hay.
As Bucky neared them, the man opened the box and stepped out of the way. Bucky looked down at the Vibranium arm kept in the box before looking over at T'Challa.
"Where's the fight?" He finally asked.
"Strucker's Castle near Novi Grad's ruins." T'Challa said, "Captain Rogers and the others have been captured by Hydra. And they need our help."
And finally, enter Bucky and T'Challa. And I hope I handled the reconciliation between everyone well without rushing it.
Simon Williams is Wonder Man in the comics but I couldn't think of a way to bring him in unfortunately.
Some of Tony's apology lines were taken from "Actions Have Consequences [for Tony Stark]" by Gibbs_yeah.
The card Steve used is inspired by the Avengers ID cards Tony made in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Hope you all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.
