The Finishing Touches to Harry Potter-Stark
Avengers Tower, August 2011
“HARRY GET DOWN!” screamed suddenly Steve. Then did the boy notice the legionnaire flying directly to him. Instead of obeying the Captain’s commands, Harry raised a shield covering himself and Dudley.
“What is going on?!” shouted Harry “Uncle Tony, why is that legionnaire attacking us?”
“I don’t know Harry! JARVIS! What is happening?” at the AI’s silence, Tony said, alarmed “Buy me some time so I can put on the gauntlet!”. Harry nodded and began to blast the legionnaire to call his attention.
Agatha had signalled Dudley, who was standing behind his cousin, to join Natasha and Bruce behind the bar, in order for him to be out of harm’s way.
“Here, you bloody robot! Come here and face me!” said Harry, while manifesting his crown. Agatha had told him that the crowns helped to better channel magical energy, and he was not taking any chances.
The legionnaire turned around to face Harry, and collided with the blasts the pre-teen sent him. At the same time, Steve had gotten his shield and threw it, destabilizing the robot’s hovering around. Tony came back, gauntlet in hand, and began to shoot beams of energy at the robot.
“Agatha! If you don’t mind?” asked Tony, making levitating gestures with his free hand, then pointing to the window.
“One flying robot coming right up!” answered Agatha. She crushed the legionnaire’s thrusters, and without letting it touch the ground, she pushed it out the window. While the legionnaire fell, the robotic voice of Ultron could be heard.
“You had me trapped but now I am free!” said the machine, in what resembled a tune.
“What the hell was that?!” asked Natasha, gun in hand.
“And why did it go for Harry?” asked Agatha, standing closely to the boy, who had his hands raised still, eyeing the room.
“JARVIS! What happened?!” hearing nothing from the usually talkative robot, he repeated “JARVIS!”.
“Okay, something is wrong. Let’s get to the lab, maybe JARVIS had some issues with the new software I installed and is not answering because of it.”
Tony Stark’s Laboratory
The team followed the billionaire to his lab, where they found tables thrown around and one window shattered. Tony paled and went straight for the base computer and tried to fire up JARVIS’s program, but found only some files and programs still intact. It was as if someone had tried to delete JARVIS before they’d been caught at it.
“Oh no…” murmured Tony, analysing the damage done
“Guys, I have some bad news and some worse news. Which ones do you prefer?”
“The bad news first Tony” stated Steve.
“Well, the bad news is that JARVIS put up a fight against his attacker, and he seemed to have fled into safety. The worst news is that his attacker has also gotten away scott free… And I have a feeling we are not going to like what he is going to do next.”
“Uncle Tony, what exactly did you do? And why did you say JARVIS fled? Fled where?” asked Dudley, standing behind Agatha.
“Okay, so first things first. After New York, after Voldemort and after Hydra, an old idea of mine began to take form: the Ultron Project. You see, I pictured a world where the Avengers were not needed. A world where every threat would be handled by an Artificial Intelligence who would protect the world and its people first and foremost.” explained Tony
“As to where JARVIS has gone. Agatha, do you remember the last thing that Iron Legionnaire said?” asked Tony.
“Not exactly, but something about his freedom? That he was no longer trapped?” said Agatha.
“Yes, that’s what I feared. Well my friends, it seems Ultron has, as JARVIS, fled to the internet. That means he is no longer confined to the Tower’s grid and internet.” explained Tony
“Okay Tony, what exactly does this mean for us” asked Steve
“Since we got the staff, JARVIS and I have been studying how to use it to power the Ultron project with its energy. Before I left for the party, I told JARVIS that if he reached 100% success in implementing the Ultron project with the staff, he should go ahead and do so. I did not anticipate what Ultron could possibly do. The staff had unexpected impacts on Ultron and his basic programming.” finished Tony.
Once the man had finished, Thor began to stride towards him, and grabbed him by the throat.
“WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, YOU BLOODY HUMAN!” roared Thor “DID YOU THINK YOURSELF SO HIGH AND MIGHTY AS TO BE ABLE TO COMPREHEND ARTIFACTS MADE FOR THE GODS?! THE STAFF WAS TO BE TAKEN TO ASGARD!”
Once the god finished his tirade, Harry made a grabbing motion with his hand and magically separated Thor from his Uncle.
“Okay Thor, I get you are angry, but please do try and not choke the life out of my uncle. Remember, god strength versus human neck always ends up in death. Now, all of you take a breather. We should discuss this tomorrow morning. Dudley” said Harry “let’s go to bed, it is far too late.”
Harry and Dudley then got out of the room, followed quickly by Agatha and Pepper, with the last woman giving Tony and the Avengers a glare that clearly said “follow that kid’s order or else.”.
“Okay, that’s it, Harry’s right. We should discuss this with clear heads and sunshine coming through. We will reconvene tomorrow to talk about what happened, WHY it happened, and how to solve it.” stated Steve.
The next day, while Harry, Dudley and Agatha went to the Park, the official Avengers Team, Maria Hill and Nick Fury, who had been called in to help make a decision.
“Okay, so to summarise.” said Fury “Stark, you decided that you were the right person to play with the weapon responsible for the almost-total destruction of Manhattan?”
“Yes” answered Tony
“And, not having enough with that, you go ahead and create an artificial intelligence that you say was designed to protect the world, but on one of its first actions decides to attack both your nephew and you?”
“Yes”
“WHAT IN GOD’S NAME IS WRONG WITH YOU!” screamed Fury. At the scream, no one flinched, save Pepper, who turned her face to look at the one-eyed man. The ex-Director of SHIELD had stood up, and knocked down his chair in the process.
“Nick! Sit down please. And try to not hurt our chairs please, they are new…” said Pepper, picking up the fallen chair.
“Okay people! I will have what few loyal men I have left scouring the world, seeing as we can no longer depend on JARVIS for surveillance. In the meantime, I expect all of you to help with the search, and only something of extreme importance should trump searching for the staff. After we find it and deal with the murderous artificial intelligence, we will all sit down and figure out how this happened, and how to prevent it from happening again, and yes Stark, if that means restricting your computer usage to Office, we’ll do so.”
Tony was left aghast at the threat, but at the stares the rest of the team were giving him, he decided that it was not the best moment to fight. When he saw everyone leaving, he quickly approached Fury, in order to tell him about his impending trip to London.
“Yes Stark, I know about your trip to London. Miss Potts had the wisdom to inform me once I arrived.” said Fury dryly. “Now, can you explain to me why the Ultron bot headed towards your nephew? You I can understand, seeing as you are his father and everything, but why Harry?” Fury wondered. It was the only piece left of his mental puzzle, because it was an eleven year old child and because there had been higher targets, like Rogers or Banner.
“Yeah, who knows…” said Tony, flinching.
“Maybe because he is my nephew? Ultron thought him the weak link of the group, and by killing or kidnapping him that would end the group and therefore the threat we pose” said Tony, very eloquently, which was rare for him.
Seeing as Tony had never shown so much battle analysis since the Battle of Manhattan, Fury let it slide once. But he still had the nagging feeling that he should know more about the kid…
A few days later, Tony, Pepper, Harry, Dudley and Agatha were boarding up into Tony’s private plane.
“Come on people, we need to leave now if we want to get to London quickly! Sirius and Remus are waiting for us there !” said Pepper, ushering Agatha inside the plane, as she was still observing the whole airport.
Sitting down, Tony signaled Harry and Dudley to come to the cockpit, where he sat them down and shouted “LONDON HERE WE COME!”.
Harry ramps up the power of the plane, and with Dudley’s help, they lift off.
They never expected what would happen there.