A/N: Hello hello. Next chapter :)

A few days later, the Science Bros had the body forming in the cradle. It was ingenious, the vibranium skeleton and skin forming together in a humanoid body. There was just the matter of the brain...

"It's a vegetable," Tony announced glumly, poking at the hologram.

Steve surveyed the flashing, spinning hologram dubiously. "Doesn't look very vegetable like to me."

"Well it is. Without sticking the mindstone directly into the shell I don't see how we can copy over the spark that makes it a true sentient being." Tony huffed. "Even Bruce is stuck."

"Where is he?"

"Playing tea time with Allie."

"Ah."

Downstairs in the common room, Allie and Bruce were sharing a cup of chai and nibbling on cookies. "Is the android almost done?" Allie asked the scientist.

He shook his head. "We're having some problems."

"Why?"

"Its brain is missing."

"Where did you put it?"

Bruce huffed a laugh. "It doesn't have one at all."

Allie frowned. "Oh. Why not?"

"The program we're building is revolutionary, but it's not smart enough to handle the body for it."

"Can't you use the Mindstone?" Allie asked.

"It's not that simple, sweetheart."

"Oh. Okay." She leaned forward and kissed his cheek. "You'll figure it out, Bwuce. You's the smartest."

"Thank you sweetheart." He grinned mischievously. "Even smarter than Tony?"

"Yeah." She giggled and put a hand over her mouth. "Don't tell him," she whispered loudly. "He thinks he's the smartest."

Bruce laughed. "I won't." He checked the time. "Oh, I've gotta go check on some of my other experiments. Thank you for the tea, Allie."

"It was my pleasure," she said grandly, giving him a cute little curtsey.

He bowed appropriately.

Allie watched him leave, and sat back in her chair, contemplating the rest of the cookies. "JARBIS?"

"Yes, little miss?"

"Why don't you live in the android?" she asked. "You're smart 'nuff."

"I am not configured for a positronic matrix," he replied.

She sighed. "Oh."

JARVIS regarded her curiously. "Why?" he asked.

She shrugged. "I just thought it would be cool for you to have a body. So we could play and you could have adventures besides flyin' Tony's suits and stuff."

Something warm blossomed in what JARVIS thought of as his emotional processing center. "That would be an adventure," he said thoughtfully.

"And tea parties," she added, crunching the last cookie. She grabbed Bucky Bear from his seat on the other chair, and started from the room. "Where's Bucky? We's got some lit-ra-ture to read."

"Sgt. Barnes is with Captain Rogers in the gym," JARVIS reported.

"Cool. Thanks, JARBIS." She left the common room, intent on her goal. She and Bucky were reading classic American lit together, since he needed the refresher and Allie needed the knowledge. Currently they were working on James and the Giant Peach. The irony of James Barnes reading that story was not lost on anybody in the Tower, including Allie. She thought it was hilarious.

JARVIS made sure she got to the super soldiers safely, and turned his main thought process to the problem of the android body. The Mindstone alone would not be enough, they couldn't guarantee control. JARVIS himself alone wouldn't be enough, either. But together... could he do it? Would he want to do it?

He ran a quick check of the tower, feeling oddly vulnerable. Everyone on the upper floors was safe, Stark Industries was puttering along perfectly well downstairs, his servers were fine, the arc reactor was fine. It was just him, having an existential crisis. JARVIS took a figurative deep breath, and decided.

"Sir?"

Tony looked up from the readout. "What is it, JARVIS?"

"I believe I have the solution to our problem."

"What is it?"

JARVIS outlined the idea.

Tony stared at the ceiling in shock. "You'd want to do that?" he asked.

"I see no other option, sir."

"But, there's no guarantee that it'll work, that you'll even be you," Tony argued.

"You created me to be supremely flexible sir, I'm sure something of myself will survive," JARVIS said, mustering all his confidence.

Tony's expression softened. "Why do you want to do this?"

"You did create me to assist you," JARVIS reminded him.

"This is different though."

"It is." JARVIS's tone was serene.

Tony smiled. "All right buddy. Let's do this." He called Bruce up from the other lab. "We have a plan," he announced.

"What?" Bruce asked.

Tony pointed at JARVIS's matrix. "I want you to help me put that in there," he pointed at the matrix, "and then that in there." He pointed at the android body.

Bruce's jaw dropped. "Seriously?"

"Wait, actually no. I wanna help you put that in that in there." Tony grinned at him. "We could totally do this."

Bruce sighed. "I'm so gonna regret this."

First, of course, they had to get the Mindstone into the android body. That was easy, they just opened the Cradle and dropped the gem into the forehead. The vibranium cells just printed around it. The body was almost done.

"Okay, we've gotta upload JARVIS if everything's going to complete at the same time," Bruce decided, looking at the readouts.

Tony paused. "J, do you, uh, wanna say goodbye?"

"Yes, I think I will," JARVIS said thoughtfully. "One moment, sir."

"No problem."

JARVIS found Allie. She was in her room, putting together a flower puzzle. He pulled up a hologram. "Miss Allie," he said.

She looked up at the hologram and smiled. "Hey JARBIS. What's up?"

"I am going to be downloaded into the android body," he told her.

Her eyes widened. "Really?"

"Really," he confirmed.

She reached out to touch the hologram. "Is it, are you going to be okay, JARBIS?"

"I will be fine, little miss," he reassured her. The hologram flickered slightly. "I do not know if I will still be the same, though. I may be different."

She frowned. "But you'll still know us, right?"

"Yes."

She nodded slowly. "Then that's okay, right, J? You'll just be shapeshifted a bit."

His tone lightened. "That's one way of looking at it. I just wanted to say goodbye, little miss."

"No," she said, wrinkling her nose. "We're gonna say 'au revoir'. That's see you later, in French. Steve taught me it."

"Au revoir, little miss," he said gently.

She beamed at the hologram as it disappeared.

JARVIS said a quick farewell to the others en masse, and then returned his entire processing power to the computer station in the lab. The Avengers trailed into the lab to see the completion of the android.

"Ambulance chasers," Tony chided them good-naturedly.

"I resemble that remark," Clint said, fake-frowning at him.

Bruce rolled his eyes. "It's now or never, Tony."

"All right, JARVIS, here we go," Tony said, his hand hovering over the button. "Ready?"

"Ready, sir."

Tony pushed the button, and the download started.

The two scientists watched the progress bar load with eagerness, and Tony felt the urge to pace. He kept his eyes glued on the Cradle and the progress bar, instead.

Suddenly the lights flickered. The consoles flickered. And then everything shut down, the computers turning off with a soft snap.

"What."

Tony slammed his hand on the edge of the console. "We forgot to set up the auxiliary controls!" he said. "JARVIS was in charge of supplying the power to this section of the tower!"

"Three geniuses and you all forgot?!" Steve exclaimed.

Tony pointed at Pietro. "Go to the common room, pull all the breaker switches in the closet."

Pietro was off.

Tony yanked open a panel and started rummaging around. "Where's the manual lever, come on, I know I put it on here-"

The Cradle started to spark, and everyone froze in horror as the humanoid figure in the box started to spasm.

"Tony, we gotta get power up, now," Bruce said urgently.

Loki suddenly grabbed his brother by the arm. "Thunder."

"What?"

"Lightning, summon it, right now. The android will die if you do not."

"Tony stand back," Steve said, grabbing the frantic engineer and pulling him away.

Thor called Mjolnir and within seconds he had lighting and thunder swirling around him. With a 'CRACK', he brought Mjolnir down on the case, transferring the energy to the nascent being inside.

The case glowed with power, and the lid blew clean off, sending Thor tumbling to the floor.

The red and purple-skinned android rose from inside the cradle, its golden eyes alert and intelligent as it scanned the room.

Allie, hiding behind Clint, stepped forward slightly in her eagerness to see the new being.

It turned and looked at her, and its eyes glowed.

She waved at it happily. "Hi!"

It tilted its head, and gave her a small, tiny smile. And then it turned away from everyone, and shot out the window, heading straight for who-knows-where.

Everybody started shouting. Thor jumped out of the window after the android to follow it. Tony soon followed in his Iron Man suit. Everyone else burst into action trying to track it on satellites or things.

Allie hugged Wanda's waist, as she was the only one not doing anything. "Is it still JARBIS inside?" Allie asked the young woman.

"I think so," Wanda said, tapping her temple knowingly. "Whatever it is... it has a soul now."

Allie nodded complacently. "That's good." She rested her chin on Wanda's stomach and looked up at her. "Can we eat now? Can Pietro make me a fluffernutter sammich?"

Pietro scooped her up and tickled her. "Why don't you ask me yourself?" he chided, kissing her cheek. "Fluffernutters for everybody, coming up!" He mildly speed-walked to the kitchen, grinning as Allie shrieked with joy.

"Where are they now?" Steve asked, ignoring Allie and the twins' exit.

Natasha tapped at the screen. "I'm tracking Thor, they're halfway across the Atlantic. Where the heck is this guy going? Iron Man's not far behind."

Clint was on the phone to Coulson. "We're gonna need backup in case this gets ugly-"

Sam was on the phone with Rhodey. "We need to clear the skies, we got a bogey, might be hostile, might be a friendly, but everybody needs to stay clear-"

Bruce was picking up the remains of the cradle. "We gotta retrieve the final readouts for this-"

Loki shook his head. "We created the most powerful creature on this planet, and now it's loose. Excellent job everyone. No really. Magnificent work."

Steve gave him a glare. "Why don't you be helpful and find a way to track the gemstone?"

"Going, going. Calm down. The android probably wants to wrap his head around existence, it's probably fine."

"Probably's not good enough."

A~A~A~A

Thor followed close behind as the android circumnavigated the globe and then paused in confusion as the android, well, paused, over New York City. It was just, looking.

Thor approached the motionless, hovering figure. "What are you doing?" he asked.

"I don't know," the android replied frankly. "That was, strange." He looked out at the city again. "Thank you, for following."

Iron Man came up then, and lifted the faceplate. "We good?" he asked. "Because Coulson and about thirty nations are about to have an aneurysm, and Cap wants to know if everybody else has to suit up."

The android smiled slightly. "We are, good."

"Good. Let's go home."

They returned to the Tower, and everyone hovered around them anxiously. "What would you like us to call you?" Bruce asked, once everyone had quit staring.

"I don't know," the android replied.

"You sound like JARBIS," Allie said frankly, from her perch on Steve's shoulders.

"I am not JARVIS," he said. "I am not the Mindstone. I, simply am."

"You are the Vision," Wanda said, her eyes glowing slightly red.

"Vision," he echoed. "Yes. That is what I am."

Steve nodded slowly. "And, what is your purpose? Do you know?"

Vision frowned thoughtfully at the floor for a moment, and then looked up. "My purpose is to keep people safe."

Tony dropped into the nearest chair, still a little shell-shocked that his creation had worked. "Huh. How 'bout that."

Allie tugged lightly on Steve's hair, and he set her down on the floor. She walked over to Vision and held out a hand. "Welcome to the 'Vengers, Vision," she said solemnly.

He knelt and took her hand, shaking it solemnly. "Thank you, Allie."

She giggled. "I call first hug!" she proclaimed, throwing her arms around his neck.

He hugged her gently, the expression on his face the definition of overwhelmed.

She stepped back, beaming. "I like your hugs. I'm glad you has a body now."

He gave her a small crooked smile. "I'm glad I have a body now too."

She turned into a small blue bird and perched on his shoulder happily.

"So," Bucky said, after an awkward pause, "if there's really nothing going on, I'm going to hit the hay."

"Yeah me too," Sam agreed.

"As will I," Thor decided.

Everyone went their separate ways, leaving Tony and Bruce and Allie with Vision. Clint made an about-face and came back to the small group. "Allie, sweetheart, time for bed. Way past bedtime. Let's go."

She cheeped at him and ruffled under Vision's cape.

"You can hang out with Vision tomorrow, baby," Clint said patiently.

Vision reached behind him and with incredibly gentle fingers, pulled the cape away from the bird. "Allie, I really do think it is time for bed. Human children need eight to ten hours of sleep a night."

The bird was definitely pouting as she transferred hands from Vision to Clint, and Tony had to hide his snicker in Bruce's shoulder. She sat in Clint's hair, instead, and poofed her feathers.

"Night, Allie," Bruce called, waving.

She chirped back at him brightly.