"Look I'm new and I have no idea, how you guys, 'avengers' operate. But this is not how things are supposed to be. Like I was star struck when you asked for my help, but now I see faults in your plan. Why not just tell Tony that Bucky didn't bomb the UN. I don't even like the guy but even I agree that he seems an Ok guy. He would have helped, god he actually helped. Even after I dropped a plane on him, he helped. So why didn't you ask him first? What actually happened? Did you kill Tony?"
Huh, looked like they were finally coming back to their senses. Harley thought, waiting to hear how Captain America, the man with a plan will answer that.
"No. I didn't. He is my friend, yes he is wrong about the accords and all. But at the end he is my friend and I will never ..How can you even think, that I killed him?"
Harley was again shocked by the guilty look on everyone's face. This was not even an answer and they were behaving like..
"That is not a fuc…..full answer.." The new guy shouted again. Harley was starting, to really like the guy.
"Tell us what happened in exact order…..in words. What happened which was so big, that I have to leave my family and run away. What was so bad that a kid thinks that we are cold blooded killer?" By the look of it the guy was never going to stop and Harley didn't have an eternity. So he jumped in.
"Tell them or I will."
"Look kid, I don't think Tony will…"
"Tony died, you monstrous pig. You killed him by his father's shield. Or are you going to say that too didn't happen? That you didn't plummet his father's shield in his chest, till his armour broke? Tell me?"
Harley was completely unaware of the tension in the room.
"Cap, just..what happened there? Is any of the thing this kid said is right?" This time it was Sam asking the questions.
"Sam, Steve did tell us, he told us that Tony showed up in Siberia and attacked Bucky. They had a fight and then we came here. Are you seriously questioning him because of a kid?" Wanda's yelled, her hands burning red.
Harley took a step back, increasing the distance between him and Wanda. Which wasn't actually unnoticeable.
"Wanda, control yourself, you are scaring the kid. Steve.. please just tell us what happened man." This time it was hawk-eye.
Harley could see the groups in the room, suddenly it was captain douche and crazy red vs Sam, new guy and hawk-eye. This was good. They were finally behaving how adults were supposed to behave, asking questions demanding answers, now he would just have to give them the answers.
"You know what, he is not talking, so I will tell you what happened. I hacked in that place to see what happened to Tony, so I know everything. Tony showed up in Siberia, to help this douche and his friend. They accepted his help….you monster…you actually asked his help, to save a guy who killed …No ..No Ok Tony showed up. Then they went looking in the base for other machine soldiers and they found it..them, but all of them were already killed. Turns out that the Zemo guy wanted to .. not have killing soldiers in the world. Am I right till here Douche? Like is it what happened?"
Steve just nodded. Not sure what to do next. How to tell…this was Tony's story..
"So he actually went to help?" Sam.
"What do you mean by Zemo killed the frozen soldiers?" Clint.
"Will you let the kid talk? And you kid, just get to the point." That was the new guy.
Harley took a deep breath, his chest was paining and his throat was burning, he remembered how Tony looked. But he was here for truth, for justice. He had to keep his cool.
"After that, the room got locked and a record started to play. It was the winter soldier, the guy who is friend of captain. I was an old video, there was a car on a road, Haward and Maria Stark were traveling by it. Their car"'
"Stop. That is Tony's story. You have no right to…..Just he would not like." Douche was speaking again.
"Steve, please tell me this isn't what I think. That Tony didn't have to see…please Steve.." Hawkeye suddenly looked like he finally understood what had happened.
"Clint….that ..yes…I tried to…but he..Tony just got angry and started attacking Bucky… he was just not thinking"
"I knew it Stark attacked first, didn't I say that Steve will never.." Wanda started to speak, but the new guy cut her in between
"What exactly do you know Barton? Some of us are still oblivious here."
Hawkeye looked to the new guy, he looked like someone who had just lost his everything. 'That is how I felt, that is how Tony felt, you disgusting creatures' anger whispered in Harley's end, but he had work to do.
"That was the day of Haward and Maria Stark's death. Their car was stopped by the winter soldier, the one which is Steve's friend. He caused the car accident, he stood in the road, making sure that the car will…. When the accident happened, they were alive. He went to them, and killed them with his bare hands. He killed Tony's parent….and he walked away, like nothing had happened. That was the whole tape. After that it turned out that Cap. America knew, he knew that his best friend had killed Tony's parents.. He knew and never told Tony. When Tony…..he was so angry…... he attacked the winter soldier after that. At least tried to, then cap. America and the soldier teamed up on him…." Before he could finish the room erupted again.
"Cap..Steve..did you really? You knew and didn't tell him?" That was Sam, he was the only one who could actually understand what would have been Tony's reaction.
"You…you heart less bastard…" That was Ant-man, He was thinking about his daughter, if something like this ever happened to her and she saw… all he could think was how traumatic that would be, he could not even imagine her going through it, at any age. No one ... no one should have to see that.
Unknown to Scott, Clint was thinking on the same line. He was also picturing his children going through something like that. No….that was not acceptable…
"He..Bucky was mind controlled…he didn't know what he was doing.. he was..think about it Clint, someone was making him do that. Howard was Bucky's friend to….He had to kill his friends…"
"Yes…but Tony ..You should have told him Steve" Sam muttered, still trying to digest that his hero could have been so heartless.
"He tried to kill Bucky, He…would have succeeded if I was not present…"
The room was silent again, Harley just could believe these people..
"can I complete? Or would you guys would like to act or in this case talk based on half information again?"
"What else do you have? Haven't you talked to much already?" Wanda growled
"Oh god… Oh god, Stark attacked Bucky and Steve.. You said he killed Stark.. that's when he did that didn't he?" Scott finally understood.
"No…No I did not. Yes we had a fight and tony was really in bad shape….but I didn't kill him.. he is my friend.."
"Was…..he was your friend, you douchebag. What do you mean by you didn't kill him? You attacked him, just after he saw his parents getting murdered… by a guy who he was trying to save"
"Shut the hell up. HE WAS GOING TO KILL BUCKY. I had no other option" Steve snarled getting in front of Harley, body somehow towering over the suite.
Suddenly there was a loud bang and Steve was thrown to other side of room, smoke was seen coming out of Harley's hands. Everyone else to stunned to do anything
"Off course my bad, when a guy who just saw his parent get killed, attacks the killer; you are supposed to attack him. Even when you didn't give him time to think. Even when it was two against one. Even when he was on the floor beaten, and clearly not able to attack anyone."
With each step, Harley took a step towards Captain, he was noe standing over Steve, who was still on the ground.
"Even when you broke his face plate and then smashed his arc reactor, the thing which powered the suite, you killed him"
"No I did not. I just smashed his arc reactor and we left, he just needed to cool down."
For a moment Harley was not sure, how could anyone be this stupid?
"You bastard, you….left him there with his suite broken? Wasn't it freezing? How the hell was he going to survive? He was in a metal suite, which didn't have power, he.. how was he supposed to get out? Please tell me you called someone to pick him up Steve...Please tell me you didn't actually killed Tony" Clint nearly sobbed at end, this was not how it was supposed to be.
Harley was unaffected by anything, he couldn't see the way Sam's hand was trembling or the way Scott's was looking at Steve. But most of all he did not see the red glow surrounding Wanda's hand. He was more focused on completing what he had started.
"You left him there, with the shield made by his father, with the shield which you used to kill him. w
Harley was going to continue with how the whole world now knew what Captain America really was and then fly away. However before he could do any of that, he was thrown on a wall. The red energy surrounding him was nearly enough to crush his suit.
He could hear some worlds but the world was slowly going black.
Wanda….kid…stop….dont….killer….
Initiating blind the bullies protocall… wait why did it sound like it was coming from his suit?
Before he could understand what was happening he was thrown on ground. Everything was still hazy, but he could see Scot and Wanda who was in some kind of weird wrestling pose..but more importantly he could see the bright blue screen his suit was projecting in the air in front of him. A screen which had Tony on it.
"Hello, bullies, thieves or terrorists. I'm Tony Stark or well Iron man for you. The kid were just trying to hurt is…well we have a connection" There was a wink after that, which Harley would have bet his life, for him.
"So in short, you kill the kid, I kill you. You hurt the kid, I hunt you down and hurt you more, so why don't you just let him go? And P.S. this phone call or well video call will shortly be joined to my house, where me or if I'm dead someone else will answer. So why don't you"
Harley didn't hear what was being said after that. For a moment he had thought that Tony was alive but this was a recorded message. Which now will be answered by some unknown person. Harley wanted to cry again, he was sure that he had crossed denial and was in anger stage. But now more than ever all he wanted was to see Tony, real Tony on that screen. He was even ready to pray for that, when a miracle happened.
Everyone else was staring at the screen, which had shocked Wanda enough to drop the kid. Scott was still trying to stop her from killing a kid. Sam was still dazed at what his hero/his friend had done. Clint was helping Scott in restraining Wanda and dealing with the guilt that he had saved a lunatic, a child killing lunatic. Steve was…well he had got up and was going to tell them to stop and behave like adults, when the screen turned black for second and then showed a lab.
Well not exactly a lab more like, a lab table, on which a very tired looking scientist was sleeping, in front of him were many important looking papers and beside him was sitting a red head who was glaring daggers at the screen.
