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09 | ALIENS?

"Alright look, I'm glad you're okay, but we need to figure out why you've got aliens coming after you. Got any ideas?" Tony asked, pacing around the room.

It had been a few days since Iris had been fully healed and Tony had gathered everyone up in one room and shut all the doors and windows to get everyone to focus. They all sat in office chairs at a rectangular glass table. Tony stood at the front, with a hologram screen pulled up behind him.

Iris sighs "They want the stone. That's all I'm getting from this." she shrugs "I don't know what they want it for, or what they'd use it for. But they tried to take it from me, and they clearly wanted it bad. He got himself..or itself killed trying to get it from me."

"Do you think they want to run experiments?" Wanda leans forward in her chair. "Like Strucker?"

"It's a possibility..."Tony said with a nod, still pacing. He flipped a pen in his hand and chewed on the cap end of it. He was nervous.

"If the stones were created and pushed over the entire galaxy..who knows how many they've come into contact with. What if they already knew what it does?" Iris asks looking around the room. "What if they know the full capability?"

"Alright I'd like to ask," Sam speaks up "how do we even know it was an alien?" Steve and Iris both shoot him a look. "What?"

"If you had seen him, you'd agree he was an alien." Steve tells him, turning back to Tony.
"Back to..our important conversation-" Tony starts again.

"What knowing if they're aliens isn't important?" Sam cuts him off.
"Sam-" Bucky puts his hand on Sam's shoulder "Enough about this ok?" Sam sighs and let's everyone continue the conversation.

"Iris, that is true. They may know how the stones work. I mean, Thor knew about them so I don't see why others wouldn't." Tony rests his hands on his hips.

"What does Thor know about them?" Natasha asks running her hands through her hair and leaning back in her chair.

"He didn't give us much detail. He just said he would find them.." Steve says remembering back to their conversation.

"Iris.." Vision speaks up from the back of the room, and everyone turns to face him. "If they're after your stone or the power stone..would they come after mine?" he gently touches the stone in his forehead.

"I didn't think about that." Iris furrows her brows. "What if they do want more than one?"
"If they want to take Vision's stone, they'll have to go through me." Wanda states making everyone turn to her.

"We got that covered then." Tony nods to Vision. "Iris- just keep the stone on you at all times. We don't want to risk them getting their hands on it. And I guess that's everything for now. We need to focus on Damien."

"Iris you're quite the target it seems." Natasha turns to her and she just sighs.
"Seems like it." Iris crosses her arms leaning back in her chair.

"Stopping Damien and keeping Iris safe is the priority right now. We can worry about aliens later, got it?" Tony asks and everyone nods in a response. "Good. Now we don't have any new information since the attack.."

"I think I need some air." Iris stands from her seat. "Continue talking it's fine, I'll be outside." she walks out of the room and down the hall to the back door.

Steve turns to Tony. "Check on her in a few minutes." Tony says to him quietly before continuing their conversation.

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Iris took a deep breath as she walked outside. All this talk of danger- and she was the center of it. She wanted to figure out why these aliens were after her but Tony didn't think it was as important.