The next morning Tony was walking downstairs when he ran into Bruce and Betty leaving their room. Tony gave Bruce a big wink and a thumbs up. Bruce and Betty both blushed while tony just continued his way to the kitchen already catching the scent of Breakfast. When the trio entered the kitchen they saw platters filled with pancakes, eggs, sausage, and bacon. "Grab a plate!" Harry called out to them from the stove top.

Tony was quick to grab himself some coffee, ignoring the food while Betty and Bruce started setting the table. When Harry turned around he thanked them while shooting Tony a pointed look. Tony just ignored him sipping his big mug of black coffee. Finishing up the fried potatoes Harry plated it and sat down with everyone, "You two sleep alright?"

Tony just smirked at Bruce who again blushed while Betty answered, "It was very nice thank you."

Harry saw Tony's look and chuckled, "Well I'm glad. Oh and introductions. Last night was a little hectic. My name is Harry Potter, nice to meet you." Harry smiled at both of them and took a bite of his food while Betty and Bruce reintroduced themselves.

"Nice to meet you Mr. Potter, I'm Bruce Banner and this is Betty Ross." Bruce said.

Harry waved him off, "Call me Harry. By the way, you two are free to leave whenever but I do have something to talk about with you and Tony before that happens. Betty, you are of course welcomed to listen in." All three just nodded while continuing to eat. When they were done Harry just waved his hand causing all the plate to stack in the sink and start washing themselves.

"Now that is a nifty piece of magic." Tony said watching the plates clean themselves. Bruce just nodded along.

Harry just rolled his eyes while prompting them to start moving. He led them across the house to his new game room and bar. They walked into a large and cozy room, lit with floating lights and hardwood floors with large rugs covering them. The stone walls were lined with tapestries and paintings with couches and chairs sitting below them, the floor was dominated by pool tables and a bowling lane was set off to the side. All around the room were a few TVs and Speakers with a jukebox sitting next to the bar along the back wall. Harry gestured to the seats at the bar and went behind it making another pot of coffee. "Why didn't we just stay in the kitchen?" Tony asked.

"Oh for visual aid." Harry said as he brought out a tablet causing the TV to display a series of pictures each with different people, two of which were Bruce and Tony. "This is a sample of all the super powered people or masked heroes running around." Tony and Bruce inspected the collage of people.

"Why are you bringing this up?" Bruce asked.

"Well ever since I came to this world I have noticed a general trend of enhanced people, or supers, appearing." Harry said.

Before Harry could continue Betty spoke up, "Came to this world? Are you an alien?" Bruce looked intrigued as well.

Harry just shook his head, "I forgot to mention that part." Harry then went on to tell Bruce and Betty of his world, magic, and it being destroyed. He told them a simpler version of everything he shared with Tony. "When I came to this world I approached someone who took me under her wing and taught me of this new place I found myself. It was from this person, who is something of a seer, that I learned of the trials about to befall your world. There will be a great enemy coming to Earth soon and I want to be ready. Which is why I am talking to you. Tony already knows of my goals scientifically but I haven't spoken of my other goals."

"So this is why you are bringing up the enhanced? You think that gathering them together will help?" Bruce asked.

Harry tilted his head back and forth, "Yes and no. I come from a world where my entire group of people had powers. If there is one thing I know is that humans, while capable of wonderful things, are easily tempted to selfish endeavors. Now we have a boom of supers appearing, many of them will not be good people. Just look at Blonsky. He was given great power and used it to cause mayhem."

The trio listening all nodded at that, "So you want to start pulling supers into a group to combat people misusing their powers?"

Harry nodded as he sipped his tea, "Essentially yes. Let's look at a group that has been growing in size since the 70's." Harry then pulled up pictures of the X-Men and The Brotherhood, "This is two sides of a group called mutants."

"Ah the X gene. I heard some of my colleagues back before my gamma exposure talk about them." Bruce said.

Harry nodded, "Exactly. Now I don't personally care for the title of mutant but, that's essentially what they are. Humans who unlocked a set of powers, abilities, or mutations based on a dormant gene awakening."

Tony and Bruce nodded along as they studied the rotating profiles for the X-Men and Brotherhood members. "Anyways, back on topic. First I wanted to start setting up to combat what will be an explosion of super powered bad guys. It seems a little pessimistic now, but just like heroes, villains are created not born. We have to be prepared for the level of enemies not seen in over a millennium."

Tony stopped him there, "You mean something like this happened before?"

Bruce disagreed, "That can't be possible. We would have seen some signs of it studying history."

Before Tony could retort Harry spoke up, "It has happened before. The texts are locked away and some so old the the languages have been mostly forgotten or written entirely into pictographs. The most recent time was during the reign of pharaohs. There are dozens of depictions of people with strange powers fighting off waves of creatures from the sky." Harry paused to make himself some more tea. Tony and Bruce were just staring at him blankly. "Now the texts I've read briefly mentioned some type of creature that resembled a bipedal insect of some type during that era but have no concrete details."

"Are you telling us that there was an invasion during the reign of pharaohs in ancient Egypt?" Bruce asked incredulously. Tony just shook his head, reached across the bar and grabbed a bottle of fire whiskey before spiking his coffee. "How did we even survive?"

Harry grinned at that, "That's the beauty of it. Humans drove them off. Something about our race made our species propagate a large number of enhanced or mutants to combat this threat. There were people depicted flying with wings, people shooting flames, and controlling water. It's been covered up a lot and many parts are just speculation but I know of texts written in that era by travelers who watched the events and recorded them."

Tony, Bruce, and Betty just stared at him in disbelief. Harry decided to move on with more reasonings, "Well let's start with what I was doing for the past few days. I was called in by my employer to investigate something that seems to be magical in nature. I show up only to learn that not only does Asgard exist, they are a race of highly advanced aliens with millennium long life spans."

Bruce was still telling while Tony poured Bruce a glass of fire whiskey as well feeling this conversation was only going to get worse. "Wait!" Bruce said, stopping Harry from continuing, "Asgardians, the Norse Pantheon, are real?" Harry just nodded with a smirk sipping his tea, "Are other gods real?"

Harry agreed, "I can make assumptions that the other pantheons may be real. Now they aren't going to be all powerful or omniscient, that I can guarantee, but they are much more powerful than a baseline human."

Bruce and Betty just gaped while Tony was chucking back his spiked coffee, "It is entirely too early to learn that we truly aren't alone, isn't it?" Tony said, looking over at the two speechless scientists.

Betty just nodded and took the shot Tony poured for Bruce and tossed it back, only to start coughing up smoke and flame embers. Bruce started freaking out while Harry and Tony chuckled, "Don't worry it's a magical liquor."

After getting Bruce and Betty calmed down Harry continued, "The entire reason I brought it up is that there are aliens out there who would love to conquer us. We are currently protected by Asgard, which is why Earth hasn't had any actual invasions in recent memory, but that won't last forever. We need to be ready and we can't be fighting a home battle constantly while being completely unprepared for an alien force to attack."

"So you want to make sure we have something on the ground here dealing with super baddies while other people deal with the wider universe?" Tony asked.

"Yes. This isn't something thet will happen over night of course." Harry said as he made more tea, "I just want to get a leg up before we have to tackle it. That's why I'm talking to you two. I know that you, Bruce, aren't exactly comfortable with fighting or unleashing Hulk, but I was hoping your new connection might allow you to be on the frontline of both the fight and scientific expansion. You'd like some of the stuff me and Tony are working on." Harry finished with a grin.

Tony laughed, "Oh Bruce you should see some of the stuff we can do with magic and technology. The other day I built a hoverboard! It's not completely operational, but it's getting there and that's just the beginner stuff."

Tony proceeded to go on a rant about the things he's working on and the issues he's dealing with. It barely took a few moments for Bruce to start brainstorming with him, both going through ideas and concepts at a lightning fast pace. Harry just gave Betty a look who was enjoying watching Bruce geek out.

Tony eventually got himself back under control only to notice Harry just smirking and watching the two of them mumble between each other, "Welcome back! Have a nice chat?"

Tony stuck out his tongue, "You're just jealous. You are right though. If we're as unprepared as you're saying, we could be in serious trouble soon. We need to start thinking of ways to protect the Earth." Harry looked over at Bruce.

"Well part of the reason I wanted to speak with Bruce here is because of Fury's little project." Harry said.

Tony spoke up, "You mean the boy band Fury wants to put together? I don't think it'll cut it but it is a start."

Bruce decided to ask, "Just for clarification, what group would this be?"

"Well Fury, my boss for lack of a better term, has this idea to gather a group of extraordinary people and put them together as a sort of response team that regular military or agencies can't handle. It's called the Avenger's Initiative. Tony and myself are included in the lineup. I'm sure after your fight in Harlem, you'll make the cut as well." Harry explained.

Bruce denied immediately, "You may have allowed me and Hulk to communicate but I don't think we'll be ready for something like that." Evidently Hulk did not agree as he made a partial appearance, "Hulk ready to fight!"

Harry and Tony actually laughed at that and Betty giggled off to the side, "Doesn't look like your alter ego agrees Bruce." Harry said with a teasing smirk, "Either way it's just a plan. It doesn't mean we'll actually team up anytime in the near future."

Bruce nodded reluctantly while Tony took over, "I think we should go for an automated defense. That way we don't have to worry about manpower." But both Bruce and Harry shut that down.

"Tony, you're talking about an AI with weapons to protect the world. Not to mention, if these aliens are as advanced as what Harry said, do you think your firewalls could stop them from turning it against us?" Bruce pointed out.

"Tony, Bruce is right. No defense will be as powerful or as intuitive as a defensive force that's protecting their home." When Tony was about to interrupt Harry put a hand up to stop him, "I am not saying that we can't have automated defenses, but to put all our eggs in one basket is just asking to have the basket stolen." At that Tony grumbled but accepted. "We will need something more permanent. Something to leave behind after we've gone."

At that Harry pulled up the tablet again and showed an Acronym in black on a yellow background. 'S.H.A.D.E.' "This is SHADE or," Harry pressed something on the tablet again causing the acronym to spread out and fill with words, "Super Hero Agency for the Defense of Earth. It's something I've been planning ever since I had that conversation with Fury." Harry said, giving Tony a pointed look that made him nod in understanding. "This will be a global organization run by supers for supers and to combat local and extraterrestrial threats."

Tony grinned, "That is a great idea. Especially if you can get it up and running before some idiot politician decides that superhero military units are on the agenda."

Bruce and Betty agreed, "I have been on the run for years to make sure the military doesn't try and make more Hulks. Unfortunately that failed." Bruce stopped there as they all thought back to last night, "Creating an organization like this would be a big step in helping people who don't know what to do with their powers as well."

Harry smiled, "That's exactly right! If we can pull people who got powers together we might just keep some of them from using their powers inappropriately. This includes working with people like Charles Xavier, who tries to train mutants to understand and control their powers." Looking at Bruce, Harry continued, "Even if you don't want to fight we could use your scientific abilities to help create new technology that would change our world for the better."

Bruce agreed and they moved on to talk about magic and what Harry and Tony were doing with their research. Soon it was late in the morning and Bruce and Betty decided to leave, "Thanks for everything Harry but it's about time for us to head out." Betty nodded next to him holding Bruce's hand.

Harry walked from around the bar, "Anywhere in particular you want to go?"

Betty spoke up, "I have a place in California. Could you take us there?" Harry then asked her if she had a picture and used it to make a portal directly into her house. "Thank you, that's extremely convenient."

"No problem." Grabbing a card from his pocket he handed it to Bruce, "Feel free to call me up if you need a quick vac or just want somewhere to lay low for a while. You shouldn't have too much trouble from General Ross but he can be," Harry stopped giving Betty the side eye, "difficult. So don't be a stranger."

Tony jumped in and gave Bruce his card as well, "Don't forget I got all the best gadgets in my personal lab."

Bruce took both cards and gave them a slight smile, "I'll stay in contact, don't worry." Saying goodbye Harry closed the portal.

Harry and Tony stood there for a moment just thinking about this morning before Tony spoke up, "Want to help me work on the MT Mk. I?" Harry just laughed nodding and opened a new portal to Tony's lab, talking power ups and runes,

AN:

I've seen some people comment on the egg found in Salazar's belongings. Don't worry it'll be addressed later.

-Galaleo