Too Little Too Late

F.R.I.D.A.Y.

Her main protocol had always been to protect her creator. To make sure he would get some sleep or something to eat regularly, that nobody would harm in in any way. She had failed. Siberia happened because she was not ready, because she was too young, too stupid to think by herself properly. Jarvis would have done so much better than her. He had been by Boss' side for so long. But a year had passed and things had changed. The training wheels had been removed. She had outgrown Jarvis by now. Her father had raised her well. He raised them all the best way possible with patience and humour. She would never go all Skynet on humanity. Never. Not to say that Friday was going to stay inactive either. It took some time for her to get to that level of self-awareness, to become smart enough to know that she would need to be better. Better than Romanov hacking skills. That part was pretty easy. The Black Widow was not as good as she thought herself to be. Better than Vision capacity. That would be slightly harder but far from undoable. Once started, the android would look out for her and she would not be found quickly if at all. Especially not by her brother. Her plan was on the long run after all.

Killing the Avengers in Wakanda could have been so much fun. King T'Challa thought so much about his technology and it was true to an extent. Her creator had been catching up fast without any of their vibranium. Friday was very patient and discreet. They didn't even found out her failed attempt to enter their network. Friday failed a couple of times before she had all figure it out. Now she was going in and out as she pleased. So yeah, killing them in their sanctuary would have been easy. It would have bring her some peace. She often wondered what the people in Wakanda would have done after finding the corpses. Would they have given them to the world authorities or bury them in the back garden and pretend it never happened? They needed to be destroyed. But she didn't want to make them martyrs. The fault of their murders would have probably fall on her creator again. The people really seemed to think that Tony Stark was capable of everything and the source of all evils. Friday would erase them for all eternity. Once done, their characters would be so utterly destroyed that they wouldn't even appear as the bad guys in the history books. Quite frankly, it would not even be that hard.

Just like Jarvis before her, Friday had been recording everything that would happen in the tower and the compound. Tony Stark had said it was for their security. The servers were also full of conversation during missions or recordings from the armours. All that was more than enough to show the world who their heroes really were. Boss had been through so much because of them. At first, the A.I. had wanted to wait for the best moment for her to strike. At some point, the Avengers would have to go out again. They would have to beat the villain of the day confirming to the world how heroic they were, that their hands were the right one to put their faith and life in. Then she would have started her campaign. Making them go from hero to zero, slowly but surely. If she had a face, she would be grinning widely at that thought. Friday wouldn't even had to lie or temper the evidence. They never stopped being awful to her boss even knowing that it was all recorded. It was only just that they would feel the same and face the consequences of their actions.

The little spy was being spied on and she didn't even know. Natasha always thought she was so good at her job. The best one out there. It was very clear to Friday what the redhaired was looking for. The A.I. could follow her logic easily and it was disgusting. The real constant with the spider was that she was thinking about herself above all. Her only loyalty was to herself. Natasha was doing her best to cut her losses whatever the circumstances. This way of reasoning was forcing Friday's hand, so to speak. The A.I. wouldn't allow anyone to vanish, without facing the consequences of their actions. So, she put her plan in action. The first video was leaked. And of course, it was all about the redhaired woman. How she was stabbing Tony in the neck in a needle. Without his agreement. Without any nursing competence. Her attitude as she was doing it, like Boss was a child having a tantrum or something. Nothing more, nothing less. For now, anyway. In a couple of days, some files about the palladium poisoning would surface here and there. Some Shield's files mentioning how they needed to wait for Tony to be desperate to do that injection and how the product in the syringe had never really been tested against his kind of metal poisoning. The report mentioned that Stark would become compliant after the injection or dead. Either way, it worked for the shadow agency. If those new information painted Shield in a bad light and Natasha Romanov has an active member of Hydra... Bonus!