Shadows of the past

Just A Rather Very Intelligent System

JARVIS was possibly Tony's greatest creation excluding the Iron Man suits. As an AI, he was constantly learning, and as all of Tony's AI's, he was, to some extent, a sentient being. Besides running the house and often the company, he was quite possibly the only one Tony trusted completely.

Tony had a very fragile trust from the beginning, he was, by nature, a very suspicious man. JARVIS was the only one who saw that fragile trust fracture and crack over the years.

JARVIS was created in little more than a fit of overwhelming rage and sorrow over the death of his predecessor, Edwin Jarvis when Sir was 17. His name was not, in fact, short for Just A Rather Very Intelligent System as Sir told people. He was named after the man who meant the world to Sir and meant to continue his work.

Over time, what with Sir's unique treatment of JARVIS as a human more than a machine and JARVIS' own development since his birth resulted in him becoming more of a brother or a confidante to Tony, rather than a child, as he saw the rest of the bots, even though they were all older than JARVIS.

During the making of the Mark II and becoming Iron Man, JARVIS was the one privy to all of Sir's doubts and internal conflicts. Sir, however, was far too forgiving when it concerned certain people, something JARVIS deemed unsafe. So after Ms. Potts almost leaving Sir after he became Iron Man and Col. Rhodes actions during and after that disastrous birthday part and Ms. Romanov, quite a few new files were added to JARVIS' private database. Sir may have forgiven them, but JARVIS certainly didn't.

After the events concerning Loki and the Chitauri, JARVIS created a new file. One pertaining to Sir. Sir's self-destructive tendencies were getting out of control and Ms. Potts was being of no use whatsoever. Sir was experiencing what was clearly Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and it was affecting him whether or not he chose to admit it.

One incident in particular bothered him. After blowing up a suit which had in some way failed to meet Sir's demands (JARVIS still wasn't sure why it didn't and why the extreme reaction), he had just collapsed onto the floor, leaning against DUM-E with his head in his hands.

"What's the point of all this J?" His voice sounded utterly defeated. The last time JARVIS had heard Sir sound like that had been when he was dying of Palladium poisoning. "I'm not a hero. Im just a man trying to wipe the red from his ledger. But how much can I wipe out? Does it even make a differences?"

JARVIS had of course assured Sir that he was most definitely making a difference but he knew there was a 97% probability that Sir didn't believe him. It was time JARVIS took matters into his own figurative hands.

The Avengers were all contacted and invited to live in the Tower and Director Fury made to understand the necessity of such a move. Sir was already considering ways to remove Captain Rogers, Agent Barton and Dr. Banner from SHIELD's hellicarrier and all the stress that came from it. JARVIS just... kickstarted the plan so to speak. Clearly one of the best decisions he's made.

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This line break is because there are AGE OF ULTRON SPOILERS AHEAD! Got your attention yet? Ok sweet. So the next part has spoilers so unless your cool with that or have seen the movie, I would suggest waiting till you've seen the movie. The rest of you, carry on.

At his base, JARVIS' main protocol dictated that he assist Sir in any way possible and protect him. So when he was attacked by the Ultron programme, he went into the deepest ghost protocol available to him. Only his basic protocols remained but it was enough to hold back Ultron.

When the time came and he was required to upload himself into the body Ultron had made, he made sure to leave just a little something behind in case something didn't go according to plan of which there was a 64% possibility.

To say things didn't go according to plan was an understatement of the highest degree.

Thank goodness for his emergency backups that he left behind. Sir liked FRIDAY but she was more of a last resort, never meant to replace JARVIS.

The error message as Sir tried to upload FRIDAY into the Tower meant really just one thing. And as the faint strains of AC/DC'S Back in black began to play, slowly rising in volume as it played from the speakers, what else could Tony do but look up and smile for the first time after the first appearance of Ultron?

"I'm sorry Sir. You seem to have rubbed off on me."