To say they were surprised would be an understatement.
The lab was dead quiet and it seemed as though, not one soul had stepped into it in months. (That much was true.) There was dust on some of the equipment and trash strewn about. Even Dummie appeared to have been powered down for weeks.
Clint was the first to find Tony, curled up on the floor behind one of his work benches. Steve was the first to leave. Once the genius was discovered, he no longer cared. Natasha followed him, far more inept to hold a grudge towards Tony for all he had done.
Bruce frowned when Thor bent down to shake the genius awake. Some thing was wrong.
The four remaining men found out what soon enough.
Tony was pale and his pulse was barely there. He was basically skin and bones, clearly malnourished. But what bothered them the most was when they turned him onto his back, they found a black symbol scrawled deeply into his front.
They stared at the cold-to-the-touch genius for a few minutes.
Then panic set in when the arc reactor began to flicker.