Running Fearless ( Avengers Fanfiction)

Chapter 39

Katie stood off to the side barely listening to Tony who stood with a look of excitement in his eyes. She'd only just handed Clint his drink before the man barreled back into the room, pulling her out rambling off some excuse about not being able to wait for her any longer. She stood beside Bruce, wondering what Tony was so excited about.

"I've been analyzing the gem." Tony said before scanning the data strip and soon bringing up JARVIS data membrane. "You may recognize—"

"JARVIS." Bruce said taking a step back.

"Started out, Jarvis was just a natural language UI. Now he runs the Iron Legion. He runs more of the business than anyone besides Pepper." Tony said as they looked over to swirling and spinning bright orange collection of data that was JARVIS. Katie took a step forward to look it over, and smiled slightly. "Top of the line."

"I suspect not for long." JARVIS commented.

"Meet the competition." Tony said scanning another data strip and soon appearing beside JARVIS, was a larger, blue swirling streams of data. Katie stared with wide eyes as they all walked over to get a closer look at it, unable to miss to astronomical differences between this and JARVIS. "If you had to guess, what does it look like to you."

"Like it's thinking." Katie said tilting her head as she stared into the program that looked more advanced then anything she'd seen before.

"This is—" Bruce stared in equal amazement. "This could be—" he shook his head as he stared, "It's not a human mind, it...I mean, look at this? They're like neurons firing."

"Down in Strucker's lab I saw some fairly advanced robotics work. They deep-sixed the data, but... ...I gotta guess he was knocking on a very particular door." Tony said looking between Bruce and Katie.

"Artificial intelligence." Katie said turning to Tony who nodded.

"This could be it Kitten. Groundbreaking might not have to take years to achieve."

"You want to use this to push the Ultron program?" Katie asked and Tony nodded once again.

"If we can harness this power, apply it to my Iron Legion protocol." Tony said walking over to the new found program.

"That's a big size 'if'. "Bruce replied with a shake of his head.

"Our jobs is 'If' Bruce." Tony countered and Katie took a step forward.

"No our job is reducing the 'if', the uncertainty is what we want to get away from and that—" she pointed to the big, blue ball of light. "That's a big ass ball of uncertainty."

"Tony she's right, we don't know nearly enough—"

"What if you could be sipping margaritas on a sun drenched beach turning brown instead of green." Tony interrupted. "Not looking over your shoulder for Veronica."

"Hey, don't hate, we built Veronica." Bruce countered, Tony just shook his head before turning to Katie.

"What if you could take my little iron boy to the park and not worry about if the sky is going to open up and suck all of you away?" Tony turned back to the program with that look in his eyes. "What if next time aliens roll up to the club, and they will, they couldn't get past the bouncer?"

"The only people threatening the people would be people." Bruce added at the thought. It was good thought one he could get behind, but there was something about this that he just didn't like.

"It's too simple." Katie said with a shake of her head as both Bruce and Tony turned to her. "I know in your head you see this big answer to the world's problem in this program. But it's simple." she turned back to the light. "And it was created by a crazy person, so my perception of the thing isn't that high."