Fine white dust//Tony

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⚠️TW for anthrax, I'm not sure if anyone on here was effected by this but I don't want to hurt anyone by bringing up unwanted memories⚠️

The mission was going well, the team had arrived at the base and took down the first wave of guards. In fact they were really easy to take down, almost as if they had taken one look at the bunch and said 'nope maybe another time'.

At least they had stayed and fought though, the second wave of soldiers were stationed just in front of the buildings gates. They had hesitated before retreating into humvees, and leaving the scene.

Tony looked to his left at cap and saw he was as confused as tony felt. It made tony feel better if he wasn't the only one who didn't know what was happening.

"Let's keep going?"

"That a question cap?" Tony smirked.

"Well this is different, they've never retreated before. What if it's a trap?"

"Could be but we'll fight our way out of it, come on since Cap.exe has stoped responding...Natasha and Clint you two enter first, take down any solo soldiers. I'll follow and make my way to the control room to shut down the machines. Captain and James you two take the back. Let's go"

"Damn Tony you're giving cap a run for his money" Clint laughed as he and Natasha slowly entered the building.

"You're Damn right Clinton"

"What did I say about calling me Clinton Anthony?" He whispered back.

"Ok ok calm down, Barton focus. And tony nice job" Steve smiled at the back of the mans head.

"Thank you captain" Tony smiled back, facing forwards.

Tony waited for the all clear and flew the suit straight to the control room. He landed with a gentle thud and looked around. The room was empty. He checked the maps and blueprints of the base once owned by shield but now stolen by Hydra. This was the only control room. He just shrugged as much as the Gold-Titanium alloy suit could let him and began hacking their system. Over the comms he could hear silence.

"There's no one here to fight" Bucky sighed, he was looking forwards to kicking hydra ass.

"Weird, I'll be done in here soon just get in the jet and I'll meet you there. The base landing spot that we designated for grouping."

"Alright Tony we'll see you there" tony turned his attention to the devices in front of him. Just as the last fire wall was being bypassed a red alert showed up in the screen. It started counting down from five, there was a bar that you had to swipe across. But tony couldn't get the glove off in time. He had the face plate up so he could see better.

He ducked as if the room were about to explode, instead it sounded like the ac had turned on. Assuming it was safe to stand back up he did. He was met by a massive cloud of fine white dust. He coughed as the brunt of it hit him at once. It tasted like nothing and smelled like nothing.

He took a moment to check himself and felt fine, "J what was that?"

"Bio scans complete, a mutated Anthrax strain, genetically altered to work rapidly and have a more deadly outcome"

"Shit anthrax?" Tony coughed, not out of need but out of paranoia. But was it really paranoia if he's right, if he does have it.

He told Jarvis to do a suit air purge and expelled all air from the suit. Filtering it out and using some sort of wand over the outside of the suit to check for the Anthrax. It tested positive so he had to ditch it, making sure to set it to self implode. He snagged the head set and put it on before jogging out of the base. The suit exploded behind him but it wasn't that big of an explosion, he had been working on explosion containment to minimize the damage. It also had a disintegrator to destroy all parts of the suit.

He was nearly to the jet when he coughed, this time for real. He just shook his head and decided if he was going to die it would be in his own tower. Not outside of some kind of hydra base.

"Hey cap I seem to have run into a little problem..." he said connecting the headset to the comms.

"How little?"

"About micro, but uh that's the problem"

"Spit it out Tones" Bucky said.

"I couldn't get the info because just as it was about to finish bypassing the firewalls it set of an alarm and then the fans turned on and white powder blew in my face and Jarvis did a scan and it said it's an accelerated strain of Anthrax" Tony rambled quickly.

"What!" Bucky yellow down he line. "That is not a small problem, that's a big problem, a big ass problem"

"Yeah I'm sorry I didn't want to freak you guys out. But uh to be on the safe side I left the suit but my faceplate was up and it might have gotten on my clothes so I'm outside the jet. I don't want it get on and hurt y'all"

"Ok well we have the airlock chamber and if we give you and oxygen tank it should be contained enough" Bruce explained, already running trials through his head.

"Okie doke Brucie"

He waited a few minutes while the got it all set up, they sent out a ridiculous hazmat suit for him to put on. Once he was wearing it he headed aboard and straight into the really small airlock chamber.

His ears popped as the door closed. He fought against the tickling in the back of his throat and took off the suit.

He looked around the room, there was a door to the left. Bathroom, and a small bed on the right. He took a seat on the cheap mattress and coughed.

It rattled his breath and soon he was gasping for air.

"Tony! Oxygen tank on the floor to your left" Bruce called through the comms. Tony slid off the bed and onto the floor, crawling towards the metal cylinder. He slipped the mask on his face and turned on the tank. He breathed deeply a few times before finding enough strength to pull himself up onto the cot.

He winced at every movement, his arc hurt terribly and it was difficult not to cry out. He tucked his legs up against himself and rested his masked face on his knees.

"How are you doing Tones?" Asked Bucky though the comm.

"Absolutely-*cough*-wonderful" he wheezed out.

"Hand in there were almost at the tower, we have to coordinate with shield medical to get you cleaned and sanitized so we can bring you into the tower. We mostly have to worry about your clothes, you can't spread it once you have it but particles could be on your clothes and skin"

"Yeah, makes sense" he gasped.

What seemed like an eternity later, but was probably a few minutes there was a knock on the glass wall.

He turned and saw Bruce, Coulson and Fury just outside of it.

None of them seemed in the mood to make jokes because they didn't speak. Two suited shield agents walked through the airlock door and got to work cleaning him. If he wasn't so exhausted and terrified for his life he'd be embarrassed about being scrubbed down by two strangers.

When they finished cleaning him and got him into clean clothes he was allowed to walk out of the room. Coulson and Bruce immediately took an arm each and helped him walk off the jet and into the tower.

They laid him down on one of the med bay beds and hooked him up to a bunch of machines.

"What now Bruce?" Coulson asked.

"Now we treat what we can and wait, it'll be difficult we don't know exactly what strain was used but the shield scientists should be getting back with the results of the test" Bruce explained. They both looked at Tony and Tony looked at them.

"Why's it always me" he whined.

Pt 2?

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