The rogues had returned. The same ones who brutally tortured his boss, who wrote a false statement about his boss, who made his boss and his friends injured. But the most important flaw about these rogues is that their leader expects a hero's welcome, despite covering up crimes of a terrorist group to protect his friend, while hypocritically preaching about his friends not telling him things.
Happy knew that those monsters wouldn't leave his boss alone, especially that egotistical red room operative they call Natasha Romanoff. She audaciously judges Tony for being gaslighted and raised to make weapons, when she herself was raised to seduce, manipulate, and kill innocent victims. The only difference is that his boss/friend made weapons to defend his country against its opposition, while she knowingly killed her targets. If people think it's bad that his boss used to make weapons to protect his country, then they should also consider Steve Rogers a hero for killing Nazis to protect America, just as Tony made weapons to combat terrorist groups that threatened global stability. Both have taken lives. Happy knew it was jealousy; the poor are jealous of the rich, so they find any way to make themselves feel better, regardless of the consequences or the potential for the person they bully to resort to suicide.
His boss spent time stabilizing the East, ending wars, and striving for world peace. But then Howard Stark's loose ends had to ruin it. It seems Howard Stark ruins everything. Not just Howard, but jealous people like Senator Stern, Justin Hammer, and Nick Fury, who all desired what belonged to his boss: Iron Man. They callously disregarded his boss's trauma, failing to recognize that Howard's philosophy of selling weapons was wrong, and that his boss didn't want to give his suit away to be used in the killing of innocents. His boss wanted to control the damage caused by his technology and genuinely save the world.
His boss was naive. Despite being intelligent, he trusted the wrong people. Happy's beliefs were proven when Hydra was exposed as a division of S.H.I.E.L.D. At that moment, Happy knew the Avengers were finished. A foundation built upon deceit and misconduct is bound to crumble, leaving no room for redemption or righteousness. The way the team treated his boss after Ultron was a perfect example of this.
No matter how much his boss showed he was the one trying to save the world, the jealous heroes resented him for being the star of the show in the Chitarui invasion. They revealed their true colors, getting angry at his boss for trying to protect the world while they ignorantly dismissed his concerns of a possible second invasion. Steve Rogers saw this as an opportunity to become the top hero after Iron Man took the spotlight. He berated and guilt-tripped his boss into leaving the Avengers, fully aware that it was Wanda Maximoff, a monster in human form, who manipulated his boss into creating Ultron.
The egotistical Romanoff, wanting to prove she can't be wrong, joined in condemning and abusing his boss. She made remarks about how thousands died because of his boss's mistakes alone and how his ego to replace the Avengers was to blame.
The monster in human clothing, Wanda Maximoff, watched it all. Happy knew she was smiling and enjoying the show. After all, she destroyed the villain of her own story. She had sacrificed her brother, but she achieved her goal. It disgusted Happy that Maximoff hated his boss so much that she wouldn't take accountability for her vengeance, which ultimately led to her brother's death.
But that wasn't all. The people, including those who had supported and loved Iron Man, turned against him. They called him unhinged and demanded laws to restrain him and other superpowered individuals based on one mishap. Even after the God of Thunder, who almost committed murder by strangling his boss
, proved that Ultron was created by the Mind Stone, they still chose to ignore the facts. But hey, anything to make the poor and lesser men feel better about themselves.
The world listened to its people, and laws were enacted after the monster in human skin failed to contain a bomb, resulting in the deaths of thousands. Happy found it ironic that the so-called best tactician in the world, Steve Rogers, brought an untrained individual with enhanced abilities to the battlefield. Best tactician, my foot. Maybe against normal humans, where he didn't have to use his brain but relied solely on his superior strength. But when has anyone seen Rogers make a plan to deal with opponents on his level? Never. His plans are simply to yell and charge at the enemy like a wild animal.
In the end, Rogers refused to abide by the laws, shocking everyone, while Happy's manipulated boss agreed. He wanted accountability and signed the documents, knowing they were not perfect but also recognizing that nothing starts off perfect. His boss would work towards redefining the accords to make them perfect because all the laws we have today aren't flawless. Who was Captain America to oppose the will of hundreds of countries? Did he think that just because he survived being a lab rat, he was better than everyone? This uneducated boy, who thought the U.N. was a government, let his boss take the fall for the mistakes of the monster in human skin.
But forget about what pissed Happy off was that Captain America The so-called hero of truth and justice had lied. His motives weren't to save people; they were to protect one individual. His efforts to undermine his boss were meant to make him leave the team. It worked, until the uneducated fool messed up, and his leadership was exposed as inadequate after the disastrous mission in Lagos. But that wasn't what Happy cared about. What he cared about was how the so-called hero of the Second World War could lie about his boss's parents' death. How could he hide it? How could he act so morally superior, claiming his friends don't tell him things, when he himself had concealed the fact that his best friend, allegedly under mind control, had killed his boss's parents and countless others? He covered up murder and claimed he didn't know it was his friend, but that was even worse because it meant he had protected the terrorist group itself.
Happy had had enough. It was time. He loaded up his gun and walked into the Avengers compound. "Friday, emergency protocol 101," Happy said.
"Confirmed," she responded.
Happy entered and saw Steve Rogers berating his boss for staying away from the team and making Bucky feel unwanted. He witnessed Wanda secretly laughing while pretending to be hurt by the failed attempts to mend tensions between his boss and her. Happy had had enough. He aimed his gun and fired. Wanda slumped to the ground.
"What the hell, Happy? You killed her! You monster!" Happy heard Barton say as he aimed an arrow at him, but the arrow never came. In fact, all the weapons went flying and hit a magnet on the roof.
Happy aimed his gun at Clint and shot him, saying, "Good riddance. In your next life, don't mess with my friend."
Natasha let out a feral scream and rushed at Happy, but a gunshot rang out, and she fell to the floor. Her anger-clouded mind made it easier to end her.
"Perhaps if your ego weren't so big, you would have avenged that bastard," Happy said.
"What the hell, you murdering..." Sam's sentence was interrupted by another gunshot as he fell to the floor.
"What the hell, Tony? You had your bodyguard kill my team. You think you'll get away with this?"
Steve yelled, attempting to put his hand on his boss, who was shivering from the presence of the monster who had nearly beaten him to death while his boss was trying to avenge his mother.
Happy aimed his gun before Steve could touch his boss, and a boom was heard. The super soldier fell, clutching his heart. His enhanced durability allowed him to survive.
"You... You... You shot me. Why?" Steve asked.
"Because, Rogers, I am Tony Stark's friend and bodyguard. I won't allow monsters who pretend to be heroes like you to hurt him, even if it means I'll face the consequences," Happy said, aiming his gun and unloading bullets into Steve's heart and brain to ensure he was dead. He then turned to James Barnes.
"Get out. Tell the Accords Council that I did this of my own free will, if you must, but leave my boss alone," Happy said, turning to his boss.
"I promised you, sir, that I would always protect," Happy said.
"My hero, don't worry. We have enough evidence on the higher-ups to report this as a Hydra attack. Friday, use BARF to fabricate some evidence. After all, Steve Rogers disrespected my parents' deaths by allowing Howard to be labeled a drunk driver. So, we'll disrespect his team and his death and let you be free Happy," Tony said.
Happy smiled. His boss, the merchant of death, was back. Not the weakened, emotionally compromised version that returned from Afghanistan or the one who got emotionally weaker and more compromised after each flight Iron Man took.