First wreath
Holiday= Chapter from one is my fanfiction!!! Enjoy!
Staring at the egoistic tin man in his secret hideout is not a pleasant experience for Byakuran. Then again, it's his fault for halfheartedly programming his firewall system in the first place, so he should not be surprised that one of the greatest minds of this world would crack it so easily.
Not to mention, programming is one of his worse subjects...
"Quite a nice place you've got here. I don't suppose you built this for world domination." Tony commented.
This incited a glint of amusement from Byakuran.
"Sure, why not." Byakuran drawled with a thoughtful face, which caused the billionaire to stiffen visibly.
They stayed in that state for a few moments; Byakuran not willing to say anything, least he gave his intentions away; Tony not saying anything, least he gave in to his mild panic attack.
It was quite an odd scene, really. One big and one small human, who honestly should have their minds switched, were having a tolerance contest. Just that, the one with the upper hand seems to be the younger looking one.
"Pfft... Hahahahahahaha! I can't believe you fell for that!!!"
Scratch that, both were equally childish.
And that was how the two geniuses met...
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Back to the present which is a few months after meeting(Because it seems like the sane thing to do)
"Hey, Byakuran." Tony called out from his working bench. Of which, Byakuran had hummed in response.
It's been a 'few' days since the two have met each other, and although Byakuran does not want anything to do with the egoistic asshole who barged into his hideout, he simply could not resist the temptation of causing distress through the genius mechanic. Not to mention the laugh Byakuran got when he saw how Tony caused a certain director to almost blow up.
He simply have to keep this entertaining creature around, else he would regret it.
So, here they are. A newly assigned intern with his supposedly 'mentor', working on their own separate projects.
"This part seems to not be able to function properly. Any suggestions?"
Byakuran took one glance and said, "The wiring is wrong." And went back to his work.
Tony looked back at his work and introduced his palms to his face, wondering how he missed that.
"You know, you should really take a nap." Byakuran suggested.
Tony looked betrayed.
"Least you blow something up." Byakuran thoughtfully added.
Tony faked gasps, "Me? Blowing things up!? I would never-"
An explosion, which Byakuran thoughtful blocked for Tony with an energy shield, was heard. This caused Tony to shut his mouth with an audible snap.
Silence engulfed the clutter filled workshop, that is until Tony, as always, decides to break that.
"Nap?" Tony probed.
Byakuran raised an eyebrow.
Tony pouted but relented, dragging his unwilling body to the makeshift bed that Byakuran prepared.
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Something's up with Tony, Bruce can just feel it. Not only has Bruce's self-proclaimed science buddy had not asked him to help out in the workshop that often anymore, he also had blocked everybody in the tower from accessing his workshop.
And the firewalls, do not let Bruce get started on the firewalls. It's a nightmare, as you would see from Fury's agent's reactions.
This is because Tony's firewall does not only block intruders. Oh no, for it has an even greater purpose... To prank people!!!
Yes, you have not seen wrong, it is exactly that purpose.
The first time Fury tried to break into the billionaire's security, all that greeted the jump scare.
As we all know, agents are mostly trained to react first, think later. This life saving reaction has now backfired, as the term 'cost saving' was never implemented into the agent's training. Thus, the hacker agent's first reaction when he saw the screaming banshee on the screen was to punch the computer.
"..."
"..."
Fury was livid. He yelled for the next agent to try hacking the billionaire's firewall and make sure to 'Bloody hell, don't destroy anything again'.
They were all ready for a jump scare again the moment the agent started hacking Tony's defence system. What they received was an irritating song that goes Nyan Nyan Nyan.
Fury was about to flip.
That's not all, as the song progressed a few seconds, the banshee came out again screaming which caused those who were paying attention to the screen to stumble backwards, and a few unlucky ones who were sitting, to crash backwards. Some with less control over their reactions even screamed along with the banshee which scared even more agents in the room.
Fury immediately blew his top, subsequently yelling at every single agent in the room.
Even Hawkeye who was just minding his own business, was not spared. The only one who got off scot-free was Bruce, and that was because Fury would not like to have to deal with a big, green and rather destructive mentally three years old right now.
All in all, the attempt was a disaster that will go down in the history of SHIELD.
Fury was so not going live this down.
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On the other side of the spectrum was the harbingers of mischief, who were tumbling in laughter. It was not hard to see why, with the all surveillance cameras on helicarrier hacked by not one, but two geniuses, any event that happens on the helicarrier, does not stay in the helicarrier.
Let us pray for 2 seconds for the past, present, and would be victims of these two devils in angel's clothing, shall we.
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Present
As Bruce was walking down the corridor, he heard an explosion. Being the worrywart he was, he rushed down to the lab (or what Tony called a workshop) only to have Jarvis tell him that Tony was fine.
Which raised many questions in Bruce's heart. How was a person even fine with an explosion of that scale!? The explosion shook almost the whole Avengers tower, how was Tony even fine? It was not logical unless there was a variable, in this case, an enhanced, which helped Tony shield the effect of the explosion. Or someone had hacked into Jarvis. Or Tony developed a new shielding device. Bruce hoped it was the third one, because the first two only makes things more complicated.
Thus, Bruce tried to reason with Jarvis to help him persuade Tony to let him into the lab. He was determined to find answers no matter how long it takes.
Surprisingly, it wasn't long before the door to the lab opened. Bruce was dumbfounded for a moment.
Everything looked normal except for that fact that the whole workshop looked a bit charred (not that it bothered the owner, much to the distress of Bruce) and there is a matress in the workshop! No, a futon would be more accurate to describe it. That's not all, instead of Pepper, Tony was making the bed! Bruce somehow feels that the sun might rise from the west tomorrow...
"What... are you doing?"
Tony raised an eyebrow in annoyance, "What do you think I'm doing?"
"... arranging a mattress?"
Tony proceeded to sulk, "No, I'm taking a nap."
Bruce really thinks that the sun will rise from the west. There is just no way that Stark will take a nap in the middle of his work unless forced.
"Jarvis, send Brucie Bear out. And dim the lights after that."
With that Bruce was hustled out of the lab in record time as Tony pulled the blanket to himself and hugged the 180cm tall Teddy bear that Bruce did not notice was there.
He wonders how he had missed a stuffed toy of that size, right in front of him.
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As Bruce was hustled out, from a blind spot, a silhouette of a kid was seen. He stride towards Tony, and from his petite hand that have been cupped on the billionaire's head, soft glowing white flames reached out, ridding the alcoholic of nightmares and lulling him into a deep sleep before disappearing.
Byakuran smiled in satisfaction. It would not do if his toy was broken after all.
That's all for now folks.The next chapter timeline would be set in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Words count: 1380 words.