𝙷𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚒𝚛𝚘𝚗

Ch.9

📍Avengers Compound
Tony Stark (1st person POV)
6:00am

Jarvis wakes me up bright and early. I was confused as to why he wasn't mad at me from last night, then I remembered he's an artificially intelligent robot that I made from codes and wires. He's not gonna be butthurt from being yelled at.

As soon as I open my eyes I feel the sharpest headache. Hangover. I stumble off of the couch, catching a glance at the now empty bottle of beer sitting opposite of me. I trudge my way over to the fridge and down a bottle of water. It doesn't help.

I hear tons of people upstairs, so I quickly wash my face and brush my teeth, change out of yesterdays clothes, and head up.

When I get there, there's more people than usual. Like, probably hundreds more than usual.

"Hey," I walk over to Rogers and Nat, "Who are all these people?"

"FBI, TMPC, and almost every enhanced individual under shield. As well as many shield associates." Rogers says. "Uh...Are you okay?" He asks, staring at my face.

"Yeah you look like you got hit by a bus." Nat stares too.

"I'm fine. Uh I guess the question I meant to ask was, why are these people working here?"

"We wanted all of our bases in one place. Morning Mr.Stark." Peter comes up behind me. "You okay? Not to be rude, but those eye bags are lethal." Him too staring at my face.

"I'm fine kid." I grunt, tired of people asking me that.

"So then are you gonna help or sit on your ass asking questions all day?" Banner yells at me from across the room.

Thor brushes past me, obviously in a rush, and hands me a stack of papers. "Fury wants you to get on those asap."

"Wait, what is it!" I yell to him, but he's gone before he hears me.

I turn to go back down to the lab.

"Wait where are you going?" Nat stops me.

"I'm gonna work in the lab today Nat. Now do you have anymore damn questions for me?" I snap at her. She just stares at me, then turns around.

I walk down to the lab and look at the papers. It's a list of her phone records, I assume to see if she was contacted by anyone suspicious. They think she brought this upon herself? I throw the papers aside, I have more effective work to be doing.

I sit at my computer and put the hard drive back in. I start running a couple programs and begin to go frame by frame to find any identifying factors that I could. I run the voice through changers to try to get it back to its original sound. Once I do, I hear the thick accent in the voice. I run it through voice recognition but millions of names come up. I lower the search to Asia, from the accent, but that just happens to be the most highly populated continent. I get millions of hits for this one voice. I start searching area by area to see if any of these people stand out or would be of suspicion to us. It was gonna be a long day.