The basic plot summary, which I'm going to share because I'm sad that I'll probably never write it at this point, lol, followed this one, evil!Steve gets thrown into 616 dimension by accident. He needs someone to help get him home, and he stumbles on Stark Tower. Hoping that there's a recognizable Tony there, he goes in, and Tony talks to him. Evil Steve is very frank and upfront and Tony agrees to help him, but something ends up forcing Tony to delay building the machine to get him back home (a meeting or bad guy or the like). Steve nods in understanding, then goes out to the foyer, grabs Pepper and shoots her in the stomach, holds the gun to her head and tells Tony if he doesn't want her head blown off, he'll finish it now. So Tony goes to finish it, alerting the Avengers, there's a fight, but Tony continues making the machine.
ALSO NOTE: in Steve's universe, Tony is dead because THE GOVERNMENT tortured, and then executed him, along with several other innocent citizens. This is what snapped Steve, he's very warped and is basically the Punisher, except Steve will and does kill innocents.
SO when the machine is finished, Steve escapes into the tower, goes into Tony's lab, knocks Tony out, and captures him. He's going to make sure that Tony doesn't die like he did in his universe.
THE HEROES follow behind as fast as they can, but time goes differently between the two universes, and what was a week in 616 was FIVE YEARS in evil!land. Tony's totally broken. Evil!Steve, essentially, killed him with kindness. He never beat him, never hurt him, never punished him for trying to escape or for attacking him, but he'd slowly, slowly work on his resistance.
So, by the time 616!Steve arrives, and ends up killing Evil!Steve (an accident) Tony is so warped, he loses it.
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ALSO NOTE: in Steve's universe, Tony is dead because THE GOVERNMENT tortured, and then executed him, along with several other innocent citizens. This is what snapped Steve, he's very warped and is basically the Punisher, except Steve will and does kill innocents.
SO when the machine is finished, Steve escapes into the tower, goes into Tony's lab, knocks Tony out, and captures him. He's going to make sure that Tony doesn't die like he did in his universe.
THE HEROES follow behind as fast as they can, but time goes differently between the two universes, and what was a week in 616 was FIVE YEARS in evil!land. Tony's totally broken. Evil!Steve, essentially, killed him with kindness. He never beat him, never hurt him, never punished him for trying to escape or for attacking him, but he'd slowly, slowly work on his resistance.
So, by the time 616!Steve arrives, and ends up killing Evil!Steve (an accident) Tony is so warped, he loses it.