Avengers Imagines

Tony Stark Not Recommended - ScienceBros

A/N: just a little tony/bruce because i feel cheated of this friendship like frfr

this is PLATONIC bc i do NOT ship them as a couple sorry :/

Description: For all Bruce could tell, Tony Stark was a bombshell and all aspects of Bruce's 'condition' demand he Stay Away. But Bruce loves science, loves a challenge even more, and Stark seems just like what the Doctor ordered.

Warnings/tags: language (obvi), Rude Steve Rogers, sciencebros, tony sNark, avengers compliant, aou compliant, no pain and everything is happy

Word count: 1851

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Had anyone told Bruce a few years ago that he would inevitably join a team of the most dangerous people in the world, he would have laughed in their face. You see, Bruce could never handle that. Not with the Hulk always around the corner, begging to be let out at just a hint of anger or threat.

Bruce was much better off being alone.

When Natasha came to India and pulled him out of the small, disease-filled town to work on finding the Tesseract, Bruce knew he was so screwed. Science he could do; if they wanted him to locate the Tesseract and leave, then that was all good. He could do that. But the Hulk was to stay the hell out of it.

Had someone told him that he'd find a best friend, Bruce would have laughed even harder. Because Bruce didn't do friendships, didn't do intimacy. Not since Betty, not since the Hulk. And that was fine, Bruce could handle that when he was alone and focused on science.

But then he met Tony Stark.

For all Bruce could tell, Tony Stark was a bombshell and all aspects of Bruce's 'condition' demand he Stay Away. Yes, the capital letters were 100% necessary. But Bruce loves science, loves a challenge even more, and Stark had seemed like just what the Doctor ordered.

Stark had a reputation— they all did, Bruce thinks now— and it was anything but satisfactory. But what kind of person would Bruce be if he believed all that surface-level crap? He knows what people say about him, about the monster he is. People say Tony Stark is a monster, too.

Maybe they're wrong about both of them.

So that was how Bruce found himself on a SHIELD Helicarrier with 3/5 of the extremely dangerous people he would be working with. Captain Rogers kept shooting him nervous looks as though the Hulk would show up at any second, the God of Thunder stood with unfairly large arms crossed over his chest and Agent Romanoff was sorting through pictures of some guy with a bow and arrow.

It was all so messed up.

Eventually, the four of them ended up at a medium-sized conference table with Thor briefing them on what he knew of Loki's plan.

"So he's building another portal," Bruce said thoughtfully. "Which is why he needs Erik Selvig. But Iridium? Why does he need Iridium?"

"It's a stabilizing agent."

The owner of the new voice walked in, Agent Coulson at his side seemingly not listening to whatever the guy was saying. He was dressed nice— much nicer than everyone else there, though Rogers was wearing his uniform so Bruce supposes that isn't saying much. A black jacket over a navy dress shirt and patterned tie that should absolutely have been clashing but somehow wasn't at all.

So this, this was Tony Stark. He didn't seem like the Merchant of Death the media liked to coin him as, though Bruce assumed he hadn't looked like the Hulk all too much at that moment either. Stark walked with an air of confidence, like he didn't need to command the room because he already knew the attention was on him.