Ninety Three
I spent the day slightly giddy. Loki had renewed my hope. He still loved me, I'd been forgiven. It gave me a new push toward the mission at hand. Blow Ultron to smithereens, and we could be together, forever.
The team except for myself went to South Korea to stop him. I, with my technical expertise, went to the Internet hub in Iceland to block Ultron out of the Internet and keep him from finding the nuclear launch codes.
I had no doubt things would go easily, and after finding Jarvis buried in the Internet, things did. Jarvis buried himself to protect those all important codes. I transported him back to the tower for re installation, and maybe a few stolen moments with Loki.
The team had made it back before me. Things had gone sour in Seoul. Ultron had used the stolen vibranium to form a new indestructible body, and was using a 3-D printer called the Cradle to imprint his intelligence into it. Natasha had stolen the Cradle with the half formed body still inside. She had got it to our Quinjet, but was captured in the process. We were down two, with Thor still missing. But plus two as the powered twins Wanda and Pietro Maximoff had come back with us.
I had always hoped to examine the Cradle it was capable of printing new tissue and create new organs for the human body. After realizing the vibranium body was only missing a consciousness, an idea sprang to mind. I would have never bothered before my little tryst with Loki. But that push was there. I started to upload Jarvis into the half formed figure. At least this one would be on our side.
"What are you doing?" Bruce finally wandered in after an hour or so. "Everyone's looking for Nat and you're holed up here in the lab again." He paused. "Is that thing on? You're doing it again! Didn't you notice how horribly it failed last time?" Bruce started yelling. His shouting drew the rest of the group in.
"Shut it down now, Stark." Cap shouted. He pulled the plug when I failed to listen. A cat hissed from under the desk, I knew it to be my Loki, keeping an eye on things. His hissing was more of a warning, as Thor crashed in. He electrified the Cradle, forcing lightning into the machinery. The being inside rose from the fried circuitry. I had been forced to the floor by shock of lightning. A feeling of awe and horror crossed my face as I had done it again. Now we had two living supercomputers. Loki came partially out of his hiding spot, gently licking my hand with a rough tongue, as if to say everything would be alright.
As this new machine spoke, it was Jarvis, but not quite. Thor described that he was brought to life by the infinity stone embedded in his head, something he saw in a vision. Thus, Vision got his name.
"I know where Natasha is. She's in Sovakia." Barton ran in with the news. Vision handed Mjölnir to Thor, much to everyone's surprise.
"Alright, everyone suit up." Cap announced.
We went our separate ways in the tower. I had grabbed Loki and carried him off to our suite, where he shape shifted back. I had started digging through desk drawers, looking for back up files.
"Tony?" Loki whispered into my ear. He was holding me from behind, nuzzling my neck.
"I know I said to wait here, I was hoping to be back before everyone." I started.
"It's okay. You're nervous."
"You're damn right I'm nervous. I don't know if I'm coming back from this one." I turned in his arms.
"You'll come back, and we'll put this behind us and we'll start a family." He smiled softly.
"How do you know? How can you be sure? Ultron has declared war on the entire human race. He means to make us extinct." I protested, turning back to continue my search. I found the chip I needed and pressed it into the computer.
"I know because…" He turned me back to face him. "I know because Malrin's gave me a vision of my own. She said I would one day have my own child. She could never see the other parent clearly. All she kept seeing was blue combined with a shape within a shape."
"And what does this have to do with my coming back safely?" I questioned, rather unconvinced. Loki gently undid the top few buttons of my shirt, caressing the metal ring encasing the Arc Reactor.
"This is what she kept seeing." Loki bent and kissed the glass covering. "The blue with the geometric shape within a shape. She saw it right before we left Alfheim. She kept it to herself."
"And this means?"
"It means, we were destined for each other. Now hurry up and destroy this monster and come home so we can start that family." Loki smiled wide, gently holding my head.
"I will." I reached up to hold bring his face closer, passionately kissing him. Hopefully not for the last time.