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anya_urameshi part two!
Title: Things that will not happen to Steve and Tony in the Movies
Author:dollam
Summary:Steve wakes up slowly while living with Tony. Before the Avengers. Bits by bits.
Universe:Movie-verse
Rating: PG13 for cussing.
Word Count: 10K
Warnings:memes. just memes. incoherence. Stuck out seams.
Prompt: Tony introduces Steve to the internet (and other modern day things) and is amused over his reaction. Also, Steve does not like cellphones.
A/N: It was suppose to be fic with lots of moments. Considered turning into one long fic but that would have been futile. Then I got compromised. There is a bonus piece attached.
Happy Holiday Anya!
Part One Part Two
16.
Tony does not mention to Cap that there is a time machine. In fact, two in the world, as much as Tony knows. One in Latveria. One in New York, New York. Baxter Building, the famed home of the Fantastic Four.
Of course, Fury does not tell Steve either, but that is expected.
It's only a matter of time before the said time machine mysteriously disappears from the Baxter Building, causing a red alert, and a frown over Steve's face.
"Reed Richards aka Mister Fantastic says the time machine can not operate without sufficient power source, howeverÉ."
The reporter goes on in the television but it does not matter anymore. Tony does not know what to say as Steve throws a ring back at him, stands up, walk away from the restaurant Tony reserved eight months ago.
Tony swore he will not make reservation again at a place where there is a television.
Of course, the red alert changes into white that night, when Red Skull gleefully distributes a deadly gas over North America.
17.
"You think you can fool me? I was warned that time travel is dangerous. It does not coexist with the logic of the timeline." At least Steve hopes Tony was telling him the truth.
"Ah, ah. Captain America. You are talking about the past. While I envision the future."
"The future?" Steve is puzzled. It never occurred to him to need a time machine in case you want to go forward. He could always throw himself into icy water.
"Yes. It would genuinely be foolish of me to go to the past. Where there hails no technology, but especially, where another Red Skull exists.
"I am offering you the future."
"Why?"
But Steve knew before the Red Skull even started his evil monologue.
"Why. We can not endure this travesty. Something so close to, yet not home. What we need is a fresh ground. A new start where no century old loose ends are fading to ash in our faces. If we can not have what we used to, then we shall embrace a new one. I refuse to accept an aging false impression of what we had in the past."
Steve understood. It would not have hurt so much if he had woke up in a two hundred years future. Steve narrowly missed everything. Peggy too old to ever be his girlfriend now, but still alive and showing exactly how long he slept.
The grass covering his mother's grave still fresh. The battles were different, but not different enough. The first world war participants were all gone. Steve's generation was dying off, but still alive here and there.
A fresh start could have been easier.
"What do you say, Captain? All your new friends you acquired in the here and now will be spared of the Red Skull. I assure you that my minions will follow me into the future. No harm for your new friends. And, shall I add, no death for Ironman.
"Do you think he is healthy enough to resist all the biological mass I can spray on the continent? This era's humanity might be advanced, but not enough to resist my assault. The future might be enough. Like you, I do not know."
Tony can not survive the biological gas the Skull had developed over the decades. Steve knew the Skull knew he knew that.
Steve saw the footage of Tony boasting he can filter his urine - and he frowned - but Stark Technology couldn't stop Red Skull's assaults back at the War.
But Tony had accomplished what Howard could not. Maybe in the future, the Starks will have acquired security measures to stop the Red Skull altogether. And combined with
"I can not trust you."
"I give you my word." The Skull laughed at Steve's fierce expression. "Good Captain. You see this device?" A watch was strapped in the Skull's wrist.
"It's a device that will send me back here, after I leaped to the future. I jump first," he demonstrated, "you next. With this." He threw Steve another device that looked like a watch. "The triggering word is 'body slide by two.' That device will take the user to where mine is. You come and destroy my device, and then yours. Simple?"
"What if I don't jump after you?"
"I told you. This device sends me back to here after the initial time travel. Towards the main machine." Red skull pointed at the made by Richards hardware that looked alien, in a different way Stark technologies did.
Steve looked up at the monitors displaying the battles outside. Thor was trying to gather the red gas by summoning the winds, but it was not working. A satellite video depicted three huge storms occurring in NYC, centering Westchester. But little regions of gas still escaped and remained in the city.
There were giants, taller than the fog of gases, roaming the streets, spreading something of their own. The Pyms and Langs were doing what the could, but unless they exploded the human population into giants, they needed more time to come up something more efficient.
Ironman was no where to be seen. Steve turned to Red Skull. "Stop the invasion."
"Good captain." As soon as the Skull nodded his henchmen started to press buttons in the control rooms. "Our battle shall continue when nations fall, and history is about to turn."
Steve ignored him.
18.
Earth was returning blue again. Pepper reported to Tony. Steve was right. This particular room he instructed her in was protected from the red fog.
Unfortunately, Ironman could not protect Tony from it. Iron man had carried an unconscious Tony back to the mansion. Pepper had to wait until Jarvis extinguished the 'techno fungus.'
When the house vacuum robots had failed, Jarvis shut down the bullet proof glass between her and Tony.
Pepper was able to make Tony regain consciousness by phoning to his armor through Jarvis. By then, she had also gotten to Agent Coulson through Jarvis.
"I repeat Agent Coulson. War Machine is not safe. Mr. Stark is lying unconscious here. This fog affected him and only Jarvis' emergency program was able to transmit him back here."
"War Machine is safe, Miss Potts. He is currently helping with the evacuation. The gas is dwindling."
"He is - " Pepper stopped. Thank god, Iron man's eyes were blinking back to glow. "What do you mean War Machine is safe? What do you know we do not know, agent Coulson?"
"Mute. Jarvis, download all Shield files from Helicarrier, now." Tony croaked.
"We provided safety means for War Machine when he arrived with your friend Mr. Hogan here." Agent Coulson replied without a glitch.
"Tony, are you alright?" Pepper asked. "Jarvis, get the shutters up."
"Jarvis. No." Tony put up both of his palms to show he was sincere. "Shield Helicarrier?"
"Unable, Mr. Stark. Shield files are currently beyond my reach sir." The voice sounded mildly surprised and offended. Pepper, wide eyed, lurned to Tony at the same time Agent Coulson's voice continued.
"You can put your butler away, Mr. Stark. I have Director Fury on line."
"Wait, how did you block Jarvis?"
"Tony. How are you doing?" The voice was full of adrenaline.
"He still has whatever contacted him in the air." Pepper shushed Tony.
"Where is my boy, Tony?" Fury asked, undaunted.
"Who?" Pepper said.
"Where is Captain America?"
Tony grasped at his heart. Suddenly, the pain was intolerable.
Pepper took charge. "Sir. How do I make Tony better?"
"His heart must be attracting the bugs. Take his heart out and wash it clean with EMP."
"Jarvis."
"Captain America over ridded the armor with authority code. Requesting permission to upload files of Captain's last scene directly to Helicarier."
Pepper could hear Fury shouting order to the background.
"Upload complete.
Fury hook off.
"It appears that the power source of the arc reactor is attracting the fungus into his heart." The transparent shutter which divided Pepper from Tony elevated back up into the ceiling. There were only faint curtains of fog remaining.
Pepper tried to move Tony. Apparently, because Captain America did so did not mean she could suddenly pick up Iron man.
Steve watched the monitors intently as the minions around him busied themselves into heating the time machine.
Pepper pulled the arc reactor out of Tony's chest. Dummy, now bigger and more flexible, had helped Tony under to the basement. She threw the battery in the zone Jarvis had guided several other robots to their position. "Now Jarvis!"
The shock of EMP knocked Pepper off her feet.
19.
When Steve came back, the Red Skull's watch connected to the time machine wrestled into his wrist, War Machine and the empty armor of Iron man were waiting for him, in a room of full of bodies.
"Welcome back Cap." Rhodey said.
"Mr. Stark told me to not come back without you." Jarvis hummed from Ironman.
20.
The empty suit led Steve home.
"Welcome Captain." Jarvis hummed from the house.
"Jarvis. Where is Tony?" As accustomed, Steve stood in front of the giant flat LCD television.
The flat panel blinked into life. Steve's heart dropped as he heard the headline of the news,
The screen showed Tony, protected from the broadcasters by Shield agents, being rolled into an ambulance.
Steve picked up his 'cell phone.'
He waited.
The Tony in the screen pulled out his hand from under the sheets. The camera was angling from the air, Tony's top, showing Tony flat down.
"Jarvis, mute." The crowd noise coming from the television died.
Steve saw the mustached mouth work. "Hello?" came from the piece he was holding close to his cheeks. Steve felt the device was straining from this hand grip.
"Tony?"
Tony did not bother to hide his delight. Steve never left the house with his cell phone. He was home. Away from Tony. But also away from the time machine.
Distance in geography was permitted, unlike time.
The injured man escorted towards the ambulance grinned widely. "Tony, you are on television."
"Am I?" Tony croaked. "Darling, are you using the cell phone and watching the TV?"
"Only lovers are desperate enough to risk eye contact, you said." Steve said.
"What did you see in the future?"
"Funny you ask, Tony. You were waiting for me when Red Skull and I came out of the vortex. You told me to go back and marry you. I promised him I would."
"Was I all wrinkled and creased?"
"You wouldn't life the faceplate. Guess I have to find out with you."
Tony was not going to forgive himself. He was crying on live television.
21.
"He is - " there was a shuffling sound, then, "hey Steve, how do you like California? Is it warm enough?"
There was some muffled sound as Tony's company gave short answer.
"Nope." Tony was back at the phone. "He still wishes to go back to New York. I am pretty sure New York approves same-sex marriage."
"Approves but not issues themselves." Pepper had checked. "All the states right to it issues."
"God. When did California and New York became out fashioned by east coasts? Do we have the Stark Tower in New York proposal we buried back then?"
"Certainly." It's in the folder containing every building plan that stopped due to low enthusiasm, not lack of proper plans.
"Initiate it. Oh and make sure I have cars in my office."
Fin.
Bonus scene:
13 3/4 is a kind of bonus. It did not fit between the rest. But you requested fluffy, and YA. And I wasn't so sure there were any fluffiness in the main fic. The mention of Panther comes from here. It was mostly done from a piece of sketch draft. If you want it, I will produce it.
13 3/4.
Steve tried not to stare hard at the wiggling dolls that were suppose to be Christmas(X-mas, nowadays) decorations. The boxes were delivered to him by stacks, along with a huge pine tree he swore was big as the one they exhibited in New York.
An excavator planted it in the little space the mansion did not dictate. Steve had no idea how Tony was planning to decorate it, so favored the smaller one that was attached along as if tucked in an afterthought. It was only a foot taller than Steve.
The boxes suppose to containing the ornaments to decorate the tree was extravagant, in which Steve had come to associate with Tony Stark.
Although it was not what Steve expected from the Stark's mansion. Sure, there were luxuries, and instigations Steve suspected that were still only capable in the likes of a government sanction, but not much luxuries.
There were a bed. A sofa. That was the list of coziness that went far in Stark's house. Sure, there was an entire club. Steve did not understand why he did not have his own band with the same amount of cash he maintained the 'surrounding system.' There were hologram monitors built in the windows.
Tony said not much people visited him. Steve asked Jarvis where did the women stayed in the morning and Jarvis played a disturbingly friendly voice of Pepper Potts saying, 'here is your clothes. I dry-cleaned them. There is a car outside, that will take you to anyplace you want in the world.'
Steve sat on the only sofa in the house. A little miniature of a slick, black airplane kept bumping into his chest. Steve watched with amazement. Somewhere on through his catch up on the internet Steve read that sufficiently advanced enough technology looked like, or essentially was magic.
Steve gently caught the black plane on between his palms. It felt like watching a real complicated toy train - not those that advanced through by the amounts of strings Steve had pulled - on his palm as the plane took out wheels to stabilize on his palm.
Ms. Marvel screwed down the window, to yell at Captain America. "Steve!! I swear if you don't let us go, I am going to burn you to bits!!!!"
Shocked, Steve threw the miniature plane into the wall. "EFFF!" "ARGH!! "SHIT!" came the various noises.
What the hell was this?
However, at the sound of the moans Steve promptly let himself up and ran to the floor. "Steve, you bastard." "What the hell is wrong with him?" "Someone explain to him - hey that's my ass you are stomping on."
"No casualties in there?" Steve asked, surprising the feeling that he was acting stupid. However, he could not shake off his feeling telling him that there were real people making those noises.
Or maybe technology even surpassed the reflections of Captain America. Steve sighed, carrying the plane into the kitchen. He would need a knife to cut the plane open.
He spoke his plan to the talking toy soldiers inside he plane.
The following noises were even louder than the moans accompanied them, so Steve practically had to silence them. "Is there a way you can break out of the plane? You need to check for injuries."
"And disentangle ourselves." Muttered a female voice poignantly.
"Hang on everyone, I got it good-" Steve dodged a laser beam, the scale of his pinky, and watched as it was followed by a hammering sound against a metal.
Steve waited.
"Why don't we have a teleporter?!" Came an incredibly haughty male voice.
"Shut up Namor."
"Patience, brothers. The magic contained in Mjolnir will charm, if I can just wield it three times …!"
"Wanda. Can't you do something?"
"Sure, if you want her to lose her control again. No overuse in magic, that is what the Doc said."
"Everybody, give him a space to wield Mjolnir." Steve used his commanding voice. He had no idea what Mjolnir was, but the man holding the device sound like he had a solution.
The plane volumed down, except for grunts and rustling noise. Then, "by the enchanted Mjolnir!"
Loads and loads of tiny living fairies pushed over through a glowing circle, that appeared out of nowhere.
It was as Steve suspected. There were too many stuffed in them in the tiny jet. Steve picked the plane up in his palm again to inspect it. He wondered where the toy manufacturers put the animate dolls into the seamless body.
"There is no casualties, Cap!" Reported a blonde girl with a lightening signature on her shirt.
Was she the captan of these modern upgraded version of the tin soldiers?
"He isn't recognizing us." Monica said.
"Cap. It's us." Said a small baby like red and yellow toy. It hanged both arms towards Steve, so Steve let his palm down. The red and yellow soldier hopped onto his palm, and Steve inspected it closely. Then, "Iron man?"
"Gotcha, Cap." The faceplate slid up, revealing a surprisingly deformed, lifelike Tony Stark. "Steve." Tony said, wiggling on his palm.
It was hard to be stubborn with man making himself comfy on his palm. Steve softened. "Tony."
"Why is he only recognizing you!?" Clint shouted.
Out of the boxes came a heliicarrier Steve was real impressed at. It had dozens of motors and propellers. With bunch of tin soldiers contained in it and suddenly waving out of the docks, begging him to save them. Thank god it also contained a Furybot. It yelled at people and locked them up.
Steve was even more impressed when one of the boxes contained a fluffy teary bear. Only it was not a bear. It had a feature of a bloke with long blonde.
"By the beard of Odin!" The tin soldier, similar to this teddy bear, who had 'Mjolnir,' ran to him. "Who are thee?"
"I am Thor Odinson." Said the cute stuffy.
Thankfully, a dingdong distracted him from the following mess. Steve got up, touring through animate ornaments that tug onto his jeans and hands, ripping his presence from them.
"Honey I am home!" Thankfully, Tony had not turn into a tiny decoration. Steve sighed in relief. "Tony."
Tony lit up. "What have I deserve to be on first name basis with you, Cap?" His eyes sparkled hard, and Steve was really sorry for the news. "I…uh…"
"Hey! There is a me in this universe!" Shouted the toy Tony from his shoulder.
Tony called Agent Coulson, and bugged him until Fury arrived.
"Is that the helicarrier?" That was the first words when he arrived. Tony looked back at the wild parting juncture floating midair in his home. He looked back at Fury, then at Steve. Steve was busy staring at a shied the kid Fury had brought had brought.
Recognizing Steve, the kid threw the shield at him. Steve caught it, and exclaimed.
"Where did you get this?" Steve asked the kid. Who were wearing a sort of uniform Tony saw in a film featuring lots of Nazis and super spies.
What he noticed was, the eye now meeting the kid was that of the one facing a trusted ally. Tony bit his lip. This was hardly fair.
"Captain." The kid saluted.
"Kid's from another universe." Fury hijacked, "Codename Patriot, name Eli Bradley. Has the serum in his blood."
While Fury was providing, Patriot went over and started to open the boxes Steve had yet opened.
Fury ignored the rustling sound. "Any questions?"
Steve glanced sideway to see that all the boxes contained lively creatures.
Patriot picked up a snow globe which contained -roughly - six or so figures. The sound of the glass breaking was lost by Fury's repeated briefing.
Steve turned to Tony, sure he would later explain anything Steve did not know. Instead, Tony's face was as blank as him. "Another universe?"
"Reed Richards!" Fury shouted at the toys running amuck. A ornament doll clad in blue uniform, with the number 4 marking his status came forward.
The toy shivered then stretched it's arms, legs, and head in a disturbing order to become the same height as them. "Nick." The stretched out man said. "Or this world's Fury, shall I phrase?" Steve stared at the man's side, which was quite flat.
"Kang the Conquerer is trying to wipe out all Avengers." Patriot said.
"You said you are a super soldier." Steve cut in. "How old are you?"
The teenager boy's body language became defensive. "Cap. I am older than Bucky when he went to the War with you."
"Who is Bucky?" Tony said, greedy to grasp any unknown information about Captain America.
"Whose Bucky?" Nick Fury asked. He was suddenly into his interrogation mode.
"Bucky?" Steve said.
Eli sighed. There was no Bucky in this world. "Nevermind. Do you know Kang?"
Another fierce gaze from five eyes. "There is a villain out there who wants to conquerer all the timeline. He was thwarted by the Avengers for the past decades. He is erasing all the Avengers out there-"
"Where is out there?"
Eli shrugged. "How would I know? You are Nick Fury, you two are Avengers, you find out."
"What is this Avengers you keep mentioning? Does it have to do with the Avengers Initiative?" Fury said, shoving Tony into the corner of the table.
Patriot shrugged. "All I know is that Kang is erasing all the Avengers. This is the one of the few universe where there were no Avengers yet, so Billy conjured up a magic with Stephen Strange and hid us here."
"So you are all partying around in my house…. until when?" Tony said.
Eli shrugged. "Not long. Billy and Tommy's mom is there. Doc Strange is there. They would be able to do something pretty soon."
"Why are you not affected?" Fury said.
"Billy shielded me with his magic." Eli said.
"Take your dounaghts and coffee." The manager said.
"I don't like doughnuts, you pink skinned shame of a nature!" Namor kicked Tony's shin. Tony fell to ground. It damn hurt. "Are you a mutant?"
"So you are the team leader of Young Avengers," back in the kitchen, Fury was making Eli talk. "Tell me more about this Skrulls."
Eli looked nervous. "I can't mess with history, you know."
"We already had them last year. I just want to know the difference."
"That would be fine." Billy said as he healed Tony's ankle. "You should know better than to temper Namor."
"Tony. I need something to wear." Janet demanded to this world's Tony. "I am not spending Christmas in this."
"Scrap it. I am not going to buy Barbie outfits for you." Where was Steve? Tony had to worn him about 'Namor,' 'Hulk,' and 'Wolverine.' The family with a baby called Dani was direct hostile at him. Did he try to steal the 'Jessica Drew' girl?
"Steve is decorating the tree." Someone told him from above. Tony looked up and cursed out loud when he saw the Spider-man family making … web houses all over the corners of his ceiling.
"You better clean that up before I return. I will sure as hell blast you into New York." Tony stomped out of his dining room.
The universe was truly unfair. Steve was decorating the smaller tree in the lab, and while the statue of freedom and human rights decorated living creatures onto the tree, the little Avengers kept still as a real ornaments, and the Marvel family danced around the tree like they were fireflies.
"Oh Tony." Steve said. The tree giggled with the girls's laughter as they saw Cap blush.
Steve felt he had to explain. "They said it was alright when I was upset about any lack of fake ornaments to hang."
"Tis alright." Stuffy Thor appeared from behind the tree. His voice was booming in a stuffy bear sort of way. "We do not want to spoil the good brother's first Christmas on his second life of Midgard."
You are all menaces to that holy Christmas, Tony thought.
He heard the breaking of glasses, and sighed. It was going to be an unforgettable Christmas.
Steve felt numb as the Avengers all became lifeless, real decorations. Even the spider webs Peter and girls left in the corner of the ceilings were replaced by sparkling red paper decorations.
They all treated him as a brother, a family. Except for the little Tony who gnawed away at Steve's shirt and gnawed away at Tony's fingers.
Fury came up, making a satisfied face. "I got all the list of enemies possible in the future. And their plots and ability." He tossed Tony a paper and a record chip. "Duplicate it, and return the original."
Tony scanned it. "Wait, Cap is going to date a villainess with the name of 'Diamondback?!'"
"Relax, son. I said probably." Fury stretched, tapped Steve on the shoulders, and left.
Tony scanned at his own specs, and frowned.
'Responsible for the death of Captain America'
Tony shrugged and crossed that out. 'Bucky' seemed to be mighty important.
Yet he was clearly absent in this universe.
Later.
Tony returned to home with Steve. The mansion was dark, Jarvis not responding.
Already dreadful, Tony turned on the lights.
"Hello Captain America. I am Namora. My cousin, King Namor of Atlantis wishes to speak to you!"
Tony ran away.
Previous
Author:
dollamSummary:Steve wakes up slowly while living with Tony. Before the Avengers. Bits by bits.
Universe:Movie-verse
Rating: PG13 for cussing.
Word Count: 10K
Warnings:memes. just memes. incoherence. Stuck out seams.
Prompt: Tony introduces Steve to the internet (and other modern day things) and is amused over his reaction. Also, Steve does not like cellphones.
A/N: It was suppose to be fic with lots of moments. Considered turning into one long fic but that would have been futile. Then I got compromised. There is a bonus piece attached.
Happy Holiday Anya!
Part One Part Two
16.
Tony does not mention to Cap that there is a time machine. In fact, two in the world, as much as Tony knows. One in Latveria. One in New York, New York. Baxter Building, the famed home of the Fantastic Four.
Of course, Fury does not tell Steve either, but that is expected.
It's only a matter of time before the said time machine mysteriously disappears from the Baxter Building, causing a red alert, and a frown over Steve's face.
"Reed Richards aka Mister Fantastic says the time machine can not operate without sufficient power source, howeverÉ."
The reporter goes on in the television but it does not matter anymore. Tony does not know what to say as Steve throws a ring back at him, stands up, walk away from the restaurant Tony reserved eight months ago.
Tony swore he will not make reservation again at a place where there is a television.
Of course, the red alert changes into white that night, when Red Skull gleefully distributes a deadly gas over North America.
17.
"You think you can fool me? I was warned that time travel is dangerous. It does not coexist with the logic of the timeline." At least Steve hopes Tony was telling him the truth.
"Ah, ah. Captain America. You are talking about the past. While I envision the future."
"The future?" Steve is puzzled. It never occurred to him to need a time machine in case you want to go forward. He could always throw himself into icy water.
"Yes. It would genuinely be foolish of me to go to the past. Where there hails no technology, but especially, where another Red Skull exists.
"I am offering you the future."
"Why?"
But Steve knew before the Red Skull even started his evil monologue.
"Why. We can not endure this travesty. Something so close to, yet not home. What we need is a fresh ground. A new start where no century old loose ends are fading to ash in our faces. If we can not have what we used to, then we shall embrace a new one. I refuse to accept an aging false impression of what we had in the past."
Steve understood. It would not have hurt so much if he had woke up in a two hundred years future. Steve narrowly missed everything. Peggy too old to ever be his girlfriend now, but still alive and showing exactly how long he slept.
The grass covering his mother's grave still fresh. The battles were different, but not different enough. The first world war participants were all gone. Steve's generation was dying off, but still alive here and there.
A fresh start could have been easier.
"What do you say, Captain? All your new friends you acquired in the here and now will be spared of the Red Skull. I assure you that my minions will follow me into the future. No harm for your new friends. And, shall I add, no death for Ironman.
"Do you think he is healthy enough to resist all the biological mass I can spray on the continent? This era's humanity might be advanced, but not enough to resist my assault. The future might be enough. Like you, I do not know."
Tony can not survive the biological gas the Skull had developed over the decades. Steve knew the Skull knew he knew that.
Steve saw the footage of Tony boasting he can filter his urine - and he frowned - but Stark Technology couldn't stop Red Skull's assaults back at the War.
But Tony had accomplished what Howard could not. Maybe in the future, the Starks will have acquired security measures to stop the Red Skull altogether. And combined with
"I can not trust you."
"I give you my word." The Skull laughed at Steve's fierce expression. "Good Captain. You see this device?" A watch was strapped in the Skull's wrist.
"It's a device that will send me back here, after I leaped to the future. I jump first," he demonstrated, "you next. With this." He threw Steve another device that looked like a watch. "The triggering word is 'body slide by two.' That device will take the user to where mine is. You come and destroy my device, and then yours. Simple?"
"What if I don't jump after you?"
"I told you. This device sends me back to here after the initial time travel. Towards the main machine." Red skull pointed at the made by Richards hardware that looked alien, in a different way Stark technologies did.
Steve looked up at the monitors displaying the battles outside. Thor was trying to gather the red gas by summoning the winds, but it was not working. A satellite video depicted three huge storms occurring in NYC, centering Westchester. But little regions of gas still escaped and remained in the city.
There were giants, taller than the fog of gases, roaming the streets, spreading something of their own. The Pyms and Langs were doing what the could, but unless they exploded the human population into giants, they needed more time to come up something more efficient.
Ironman was no where to be seen. Steve turned to Red Skull. "Stop the invasion."
"Good captain." As soon as the Skull nodded his henchmen started to press buttons in the control rooms. "Our battle shall continue when nations fall, and history is about to turn."
Steve ignored him.
18.
Earth was returning blue again. Pepper reported to Tony. Steve was right. This particular room he instructed her in was protected from the red fog.
Unfortunately, Ironman could not protect Tony from it. Iron man had carried an unconscious Tony back to the mansion. Pepper had to wait until Jarvis extinguished the 'techno fungus.'
When the house vacuum robots had failed, Jarvis shut down the bullet proof glass between her and Tony.
Pepper was able to make Tony regain consciousness by phoning to his armor through Jarvis. By then, she had also gotten to Agent Coulson through Jarvis.
"I repeat Agent Coulson. War Machine is not safe. Mr. Stark is lying unconscious here. This fog affected him and only Jarvis' emergency program was able to transmit him back here."
"War Machine is safe, Miss Potts. He is currently helping with the evacuation. The gas is dwindling."
"He is - " Pepper stopped. Thank god, Iron man's eyes were blinking back to glow. "What do you mean War Machine is safe? What do you know we do not know, agent Coulson?"
"Mute. Jarvis, download all Shield files from Helicarrier, now." Tony croaked.
"We provided safety means for War Machine when he arrived with your friend Mr. Hogan here." Agent Coulson replied without a glitch.
"Tony, are you alright?" Pepper asked. "Jarvis, get the shutters up."
"Jarvis. No." Tony put up both of his palms to show he was sincere. "Shield Helicarrier?"
"Unable, Mr. Stark. Shield files are currently beyond my reach sir." The voice sounded mildly surprised and offended. Pepper, wide eyed, lurned to Tony at the same time Agent Coulson's voice continued.
"You can put your butler away, Mr. Stark. I have Director Fury on line."
"Wait, how did you block Jarvis?"
"Tony. How are you doing?" The voice was full of adrenaline.
"He still has whatever contacted him in the air." Pepper shushed Tony.
"Where is my boy, Tony?" Fury asked, undaunted.
"Who?" Pepper said.
"Where is Captain America?"
Tony grasped at his heart. Suddenly, the pain was intolerable.
Pepper took charge. "Sir. How do I make Tony better?"
"His heart must be attracting the bugs. Take his heart out and wash it clean with EMP."
"Jarvis."
"Captain America over ridded the armor with authority code. Requesting permission to upload files of Captain's last scene directly to Helicarier."
Pepper could hear Fury shouting order to the background.
"Upload complete.
Fury hook off.
"It appears that the power source of the arc reactor is attracting the fungus into his heart." The transparent shutter which divided Pepper from Tony elevated back up into the ceiling. There were only faint curtains of fog remaining.
Pepper tried to move Tony. Apparently, because Captain America did so did not mean she could suddenly pick up Iron man.
Steve watched the monitors intently as the minions around him busied themselves into heating the time machine.
Pepper pulled the arc reactor out of Tony's chest. Dummy, now bigger and more flexible, had helped Tony under to the basement. She threw the battery in the zone Jarvis had guided several other robots to their position. "Now Jarvis!"
The shock of EMP knocked Pepper off her feet.
19.
When Steve came back, the Red Skull's watch connected to the time machine wrestled into his wrist, War Machine and the empty armor of Iron man were waiting for him, in a room of full of bodies.
"Welcome back Cap." Rhodey said.
"Mr. Stark told me to not come back without you." Jarvis hummed from Ironman.
20.
The empty suit led Steve home.
"Welcome Captain." Jarvis hummed from the house.
"Jarvis. Where is Tony?" As accustomed, Steve stood in front of the giant flat LCD television.
The flat panel blinked into life. Steve's heart dropped as he heard the headline of the news,
The screen showed Tony, protected from the broadcasters by Shield agents, being rolled into an ambulance.
Steve picked up his 'cell phone.'
He waited.
The Tony in the screen pulled out his hand from under the sheets. The camera was angling from the air, Tony's top, showing Tony flat down.
"Jarvis, mute." The crowd noise coming from the television died.
Steve saw the mustached mouth work. "Hello?" came from the piece he was holding close to his cheeks. Steve felt the device was straining from this hand grip.
"Tony?"
Tony did not bother to hide his delight. Steve never left the house with his cell phone. He was home. Away from Tony. But also away from the time machine.
Distance in geography was permitted, unlike time.
The injured man escorted towards the ambulance grinned widely. "Tony, you are on television."
"Am I?" Tony croaked. "Darling, are you using the cell phone and watching the TV?"
"Only lovers are desperate enough to risk eye contact, you said." Steve said.
"What did you see in the future?"
"Funny you ask, Tony. You were waiting for me when Red Skull and I came out of the vortex. You told me to go back and marry you. I promised him I would."
"Was I all wrinkled and creased?"
"You wouldn't life the faceplate. Guess I have to find out with you."
Tony was not going to forgive himself. He was crying on live television.
21.
"He is - " there was a shuffling sound, then, "hey Steve, how do you like California? Is it warm enough?"
There was some muffled sound as Tony's company gave short answer.
"Nope." Tony was back at the phone. "He still wishes to go back to New York. I am pretty sure New York approves same-sex marriage."
"Approves but not issues themselves." Pepper had checked. "All the states right to it issues."
"God. When did California and New York became out fashioned by east coasts? Do we have the Stark Tower in New York proposal we buried back then?"
"Certainly." It's in the folder containing every building plan that stopped due to low enthusiasm, not lack of proper plans.
"Initiate it. Oh and make sure I have cars in my office."
Fin.
Bonus scene:
13 3/4 is a kind of bonus. It did not fit between the rest. But you requested fluffy, and YA. And I wasn't so sure there were any fluffiness in the main fic. The mention of Panther comes from here. It was mostly done from a piece of sketch draft. If you want it, I will produce it.
13 3/4.
Steve tried not to stare hard at the wiggling dolls that were suppose to be Christmas(X-mas, nowadays) decorations. The boxes were delivered to him by stacks, along with a huge pine tree he swore was big as the one they exhibited in New York.
An excavator planted it in the little space the mansion did not dictate. Steve had no idea how Tony was planning to decorate it, so favored the smaller one that was attached along as if tucked in an afterthought. It was only a foot taller than Steve.
The boxes suppose to containing the ornaments to decorate the tree was extravagant, in which Steve had come to associate with Tony Stark.
Although it was not what Steve expected from the Stark's mansion. Sure, there were luxuries, and instigations Steve suspected that were still only capable in the likes of a government sanction, but not much luxuries.
There were a bed. A sofa. That was the list of coziness that went far in Stark's house. Sure, there was an entire club. Steve did not understand why he did not have his own band with the same amount of cash he maintained the 'surrounding system.' There were hologram monitors built in the windows.
Tony said not much people visited him. Steve asked Jarvis where did the women stayed in the morning and Jarvis played a disturbingly friendly voice of Pepper Potts saying, 'here is your clothes. I dry-cleaned them. There is a car outside, that will take you to anyplace you want in the world.'
Steve sat on the only sofa in the house. A little miniature of a slick, black airplane kept bumping into his chest. Steve watched with amazement. Somewhere on through his catch up on the internet Steve read that sufficiently advanced enough technology looked like, or essentially was magic.
Steve gently caught the black plane on between his palms. It felt like watching a real complicated toy train - not those that advanced through by the amounts of strings Steve had pulled - on his palm as the plane took out wheels to stabilize on his palm.
Ms. Marvel screwed down the window, to yell at Captain America. "Steve!! I swear if you don't let us go, I am going to burn you to bits!!!!"
Shocked, Steve threw the miniature plane into the wall. "EFFF!" "ARGH!! "SHIT!" came the various noises.
What the hell was this?
However, at the sound of the moans Steve promptly let himself up and ran to the floor. "Steve, you bastard." "What the hell is wrong with him?" "Someone explain to him - hey that's my ass you are stomping on."
"No casualties in there?" Steve asked, surprising the feeling that he was acting stupid. However, he could not shake off his feeling telling him that there were real people making those noises.
Or maybe technology even surpassed the reflections of Captain America. Steve sighed, carrying the plane into the kitchen. He would need a knife to cut the plane open.
He spoke his plan to the talking toy soldiers inside he plane.
The following noises were even louder than the moans accompanied them, so Steve practically had to silence them. "Is there a way you can break out of the plane? You need to check for injuries."
"And disentangle ourselves." Muttered a female voice poignantly.
"Hang on everyone, I got it good-" Steve dodged a laser beam, the scale of his pinky, and watched as it was followed by a hammering sound against a metal.
Steve waited.
"Why don't we have a teleporter?!" Came an incredibly haughty male voice.
"Shut up Namor."
"Patience, brothers. The magic contained in Mjolnir will charm, if I can just wield it three times …!"
"Wanda. Can't you do something?"
"Sure, if you want her to lose her control again. No overuse in magic, that is what the Doc said."
"Everybody, give him a space to wield Mjolnir." Steve used his commanding voice. He had no idea what Mjolnir was, but the man holding the device sound like he had a solution.
The plane volumed down, except for grunts and rustling noise. Then, "by the enchanted Mjolnir!"
Loads and loads of tiny living fairies pushed over through a glowing circle, that appeared out of nowhere.
It was as Steve suspected. There were too many stuffed in them in the tiny jet. Steve picked the plane up in his palm again to inspect it. He wondered where the toy manufacturers put the animate dolls into the seamless body.
"There is no casualties, Cap!" Reported a blonde girl with a lightening signature on her shirt.
Was she the captan of these modern upgraded version of the tin soldiers?
"He isn't recognizing us." Monica said.
"Cap. It's us." Said a small baby like red and yellow toy. It hanged both arms towards Steve, so Steve let his palm down. The red and yellow soldier hopped onto his palm, and Steve inspected it closely. Then, "Iron man?"
"Gotcha, Cap." The faceplate slid up, revealing a surprisingly deformed, lifelike Tony Stark. "Steve." Tony said, wiggling on his palm.
It was hard to be stubborn with man making himself comfy on his palm. Steve softened. "Tony."
"Why is he only recognizing you!?" Clint shouted.
Out of the boxes came a heliicarrier Steve was real impressed at. It had dozens of motors and propellers. With bunch of tin soldiers contained in it and suddenly waving out of the docks, begging him to save them. Thank god it also contained a Furybot. It yelled at people and locked them up.
Steve was even more impressed when one of the boxes contained a fluffy teary bear. Only it was not a bear. It had a feature of a bloke with long blonde.
"By the beard of Odin!" The tin soldier, similar to this teddy bear, who had 'Mjolnir,' ran to him. "Who are thee?"
"I am Thor Odinson." Said the cute stuffy.
Thankfully, a dingdong distracted him from the following mess. Steve got up, touring through animate ornaments that tug onto his jeans and hands, ripping his presence from them.
"Honey I am home!" Thankfully, Tony had not turn into a tiny decoration. Steve sighed in relief. "Tony."
Tony lit up. "What have I deserve to be on first name basis with you, Cap?" His eyes sparkled hard, and Steve was really sorry for the news. "I…uh…"
"Hey! There is a me in this universe!" Shouted the toy Tony from his shoulder.
Tony called Agent Coulson, and bugged him until Fury arrived.
"Is that the helicarrier?" That was the first words when he arrived. Tony looked back at the wild parting juncture floating midair in his home. He looked back at Fury, then at Steve. Steve was busy staring at a shied the kid Fury had brought had brought.
Recognizing Steve, the kid threw the shield at him. Steve caught it, and exclaimed.
"Where did you get this?" Steve asked the kid. Who were wearing a sort of uniform Tony saw in a film featuring lots of Nazis and super spies.
What he noticed was, the eye now meeting the kid was that of the one facing a trusted ally. Tony bit his lip. This was hardly fair.
"Captain." The kid saluted.
"Kid's from another universe." Fury hijacked, "Codename Patriot, name Eli Bradley. Has the serum in his blood."
While Fury was providing, Patriot went over and started to open the boxes Steve had yet opened.
Fury ignored the rustling sound. "Any questions?"
Steve glanced sideway to see that all the boxes contained lively creatures.
Patriot picked up a snow globe which contained -roughly - six or so figures. The sound of the glass breaking was lost by Fury's repeated briefing.
Steve turned to Tony, sure he would later explain anything Steve did not know. Instead, Tony's face was as blank as him. "Another universe?"
"Reed Richards!" Fury shouted at the toys running amuck. A ornament doll clad in blue uniform, with the number 4 marking his status came forward.
The toy shivered then stretched it's arms, legs, and head in a disturbing order to become the same height as them. "Nick." The stretched out man said. "Or this world's Fury, shall I phrase?" Steve stared at the man's side, which was quite flat.
"Kang the Conquerer is trying to wipe out all Avengers." Patriot said.
"You said you are a super soldier." Steve cut in. "How old are you?"
The teenager boy's body language became defensive. "Cap. I am older than Bucky when he went to the War with you."
"Who is Bucky?" Tony said, greedy to grasp any unknown information about Captain America.
"Whose Bucky?" Nick Fury asked. He was suddenly into his interrogation mode.
"Bucky?" Steve said.
Eli sighed. There was no Bucky in this world. "Nevermind. Do you know Kang?"
Another fierce gaze from five eyes. "There is a villain out there who wants to conquerer all the timeline. He was thwarted by the Avengers for the past decades. He is erasing all the Avengers out there-"
"Where is out there?"
Eli shrugged. "How would I know? You are Nick Fury, you two are Avengers, you find out."
"What is this Avengers you keep mentioning? Does it have to do with the Avengers Initiative?" Fury said, shoving Tony into the corner of the table.
Patriot shrugged. "All I know is that Kang is erasing all the Avengers. This is the one of the few universe where there were no Avengers yet, so Billy conjured up a magic with Stephen Strange and hid us here."
"So you are all partying around in my house…. until when?" Tony said.
Eli shrugged. "Not long. Billy and Tommy's mom is there. Doc Strange is there. They would be able to do something pretty soon."
"Why are you not affected?" Fury said.
"Billy shielded me with his magic." Eli said.
"Take your dounaghts and coffee." The manager said.
"I don't like doughnuts, you pink skinned shame of a nature!" Namor kicked Tony's shin. Tony fell to ground. It damn hurt. "Are you a mutant?"
"So you are the team leader of Young Avengers," back in the kitchen, Fury was making Eli talk. "Tell me more about this Skrulls."
Eli looked nervous. "I can't mess with history, you know."
"We already had them last year. I just want to know the difference."
"That would be fine." Billy said as he healed Tony's ankle. "You should know better than to temper Namor."
"Tony. I need something to wear." Janet demanded to this world's Tony. "I am not spending Christmas in this."
"Scrap it. I am not going to buy Barbie outfits for you." Where was Steve? Tony had to worn him about 'Namor,' 'Hulk,' and 'Wolverine.' The family with a baby called Dani was direct hostile at him. Did he try to steal the 'Jessica Drew' girl?
"Steve is decorating the tree." Someone told him from above. Tony looked up and cursed out loud when he saw the Spider-man family making … web houses all over the corners of his ceiling.
"You better clean that up before I return. I will sure as hell blast you into New York." Tony stomped out of his dining room.
The universe was truly unfair. Steve was decorating the smaller tree in the lab, and while the statue of freedom and human rights decorated living creatures onto the tree, the little Avengers kept still as a real ornaments, and the Marvel family danced around the tree like they were fireflies.
"Oh Tony." Steve said. The tree giggled with the girls's laughter as they saw Cap blush.
Steve felt he had to explain. "They said it was alright when I was upset about any lack of fake ornaments to hang."
"Tis alright." Stuffy Thor appeared from behind the tree. His voice was booming in a stuffy bear sort of way. "We do not want to spoil the good brother's first Christmas on his second life of Midgard."
You are all menaces to that holy Christmas, Tony thought.
He heard the breaking of glasses, and sighed. It was going to be an unforgettable Christmas.
Steve felt numb as the Avengers all became lifeless, real decorations. Even the spider webs Peter and girls left in the corner of the ceilings were replaced by sparkling red paper decorations.
They all treated him as a brother, a family. Except for the little Tony who gnawed away at Steve's shirt and gnawed away at Tony's fingers.
Fury came up, making a satisfied face. "I got all the list of enemies possible in the future. And their plots and ability." He tossed Tony a paper and a record chip. "Duplicate it, and return the original."
Tony scanned it. "Wait, Cap is going to date a villainess with the name of 'Diamondback?!'"
"Relax, son. I said probably." Fury stretched, tapped Steve on the shoulders, and left.
Tony scanned at his own specs, and frowned.
'Responsible for the death of Captain America'
Tony shrugged and crossed that out. 'Bucky' seemed to be mighty important.
Yet he was clearly absent in this universe.
Later.
Tony returned to home with Steve. The mansion was dark, Jarvis not responding.
Already dreadful, Tony turned on the lights.
"Hello Captain America. I am Namora. My cousin, King Namor of Atlantis wishes to speak to you!"
Tony ran away.
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I did really like it though and I thank you kindly for writing it for me. *hugs*
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I liked this a lot, but it was a little confusing at times.
But like i said i liked it. All the part that is:) So thanks.