I Am Iron-Man

Chapter 46

Tony Stark's POV

"Seriously?"

"I'm not kidding. I heard him myself", the Mind Stone explained.

"So, Rogers thinks that he can manipulate me into giving up my actual teammates and friends, getting rid of the Acts and being his personal slave by setting that witch off on me and messing with my head?"

"Don't forget the witch planning to kill you and planning to manipulate her brother", the Reality Stone added.

I scoffed. "Please, I'm not surprised about that. She always had a personal grudge against me since she always blamed me for her parents' deaths, and that she wants her brother to think the same way. I'm surprised about Rogers because now, I own Jessica and Harley 30 dollars each". All of the Infinity Stones laughed at that.

"Seriously? You three made a bet about Rogers?"

"Yeah, and I lost to a seventeen year old and a fourteen year old"

"What did you guys bet on?", the Space Stone asked.

"Well, Harley said that Rogers would try to do something stupid before the end of the week. Jessica said that the witch will be involved in it. And I said that Rogers would wait until Thanos came"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, but it was my fault. I gave Rogers too much credit and now, it's costing me 60 dollars"

"No, it's his own fault. Do they realize that since you have all of the powers of the Infinity Stones that it can cancel out her mind control?"

"Oh, is that why Ethan didn't fall under her mind control?"

"Exactly, his powers could cancel out her powers, and so can you"

"Oh, well. That's nice to know. And to answer your question, Mind. No, I didn't tell them about the Infinity Stone powers, I didn't even tell them about the Extremis powers, not that I plan to though"

"So, they still think that you're the same Tony Stark?"

"Well, I never changed. I'm still the same Tony Stark, but had a little bit of an upgrade. But if you mean that they still think that I'm the weak, egotistic, selfish billionaire who can't take care of himself and needs to be kept under control, then yeah, they still think that"

"Well, just wait until they see your new powers and suit on the battlefield against Thanos"

"Yeah, then they'll see who's weak"

"True, but chances are that Rogers will pull that "sometimes my teammates don't tell me things" on me again"

"Why? It's none of his business to know about your personal secrets. Besides, he's not the team leader anymore, so it shouldn't matter"

"Well, you know how Rogers is, he likes to make it his business to know everything about my life."

"And he calls you egotistic. I swear that Rogers and Romanov are the two most egotistic people that I have ever since"

"Don't get me started on her. She's not even that good of a spy or hacker. That stupid report of hers was just so inaccurate on so many levels. If anything that report was really about her"

"Well, everyone seemed to think otherwise"

"And by "everyone", you mean those self-entitled jerks who saw about 30 minutes of footage about you and decided that you were the curse on the world"