SI
The moment SI department heads all over the world received the email from Tony, they all knew that this was the most hardest mission their boss had ever given them. They had handled the backlash of him getting kidnapped and held hostage for three months like it’s nothing. Then he had gone and told the world about being Iron Man, they had hefted their shackles up and got to work. New York battle? Please! those were simple, Aliens? Hello SI here, they don’t get overwhelmed and they trusted their boss to know what he was doing. And if he ever tried to take over the world? They would gladly get on board for the ride. So when they were given instruction to go there and secure the families in the addressed they were given? They divided into teams and got to work.
Legal department was waiting for the call. Some had already taken their phones out to make calls. So when Tony Starks AI made the call, They all got to work. One team made dozen different identities. Hackers in legal, hacked and made them authentic. One team made believable background stories, while another team made proof to make those stories believable. SI employees got new family members in one night. Nieces, nephew, uncles, aunts, cousins, brothers, sisters and even mothers and fathers. It was busy night for the SI Legal. Good thing the extractions were covert or else they would have to make calls to clear the air with different countries about why Iron Legion amours were flying in their skies.
SI HRM department had never been a busy like it was at that moment. All the rescued agents were applying to work in SI. And it was a disaster. Papers were flying around the departments. All over the world phones rang here and there making calls and getting the correct new identities for the agents. Combat trained and field agents got hired to the security department while HR department itself got new employees. Legal department, PR department, Medical research department and all the other departments filled with new employees. Well it was good since SI needed more people to work. Or how else are they going to help their boss when it came to world domination?
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Agent Clara didn’t know what to make of the message that had came from the SHILED communication line. She was on the undercover operation which required her to cease all the communication with SHIELD. So when suddenly a message saying to back out of the mission, she was a little suspicious. But the line was a secure line so she made her way to the extraction point she was given.
She had been there for five minutes when another Agent came there.
“Agent Clara?” New Agent, a male asked her.
“Are you with the extraction team?” She asked and stood up from where she had been sitting on the fallen log.
“No, I was told come here and wait for extraction. I was on a undercover mission.” He said and they both sat down on the log to wait.
After few hours a sound came from the sky and they looked up expecting to see a quinjet. But what they saw surprised them. Two Iron Man amours landed next to them.
“Agent Clara, Agent Bret. I’m here to take you to a secure location.” A mechanical voice came from the suits. Both agents stepped forward but kept their guard up in case. But the Iron Legionnaires didn’t do anything other than holding each of them tightly and flew off.
Clara and Bret held tightly to the amours and let out a breath when they landed. They looked around and saw that they were taken to a SI building. They were escorted in by a flustered young man who wore a SI issued pass around his neck. Clara wondered why SI employees were in SHIELD business. Surely SHIELD wouldn’t disguise them as SI staff?
“Extraction 100 and 101. Success.” The young man said to a ear piece and turned to them. They were standing in a lobby which was a whirlwind of action. People were going here and there shouting at someone or another.
“Please can I know your names?” He asked them once he had gotten their attention back to him.
“Um I’m…” Clara hesitated for a second.
“Real name please.” He interrupted and Clara sighed to the fate.
“Clara Thompson.” Man hummed and looked at the tab he was holding and gave a sad smile after he found what he was looking for.
“Clara Thompson, undercover as Jessy Mar. Compromised. I’m sorry Ms. Thompson but you will have to get a new identity. Don’t worry here at SI we have everything ready. Just go over to that office and see whether any family members you had had been extracted and where they are. After that you can go there and choose a new identity for you with a back story. Please leave note if you have a family so later when everything had calmed down we can make new identities for them too. Then if you want you can apply for a job here at SI or you can leave. But we suggest you wait until everything calm down. If you want to call family or friends, please use a standard SI phone from the box over there. I’m sorry for everything.” He said and turned to Bret leaving Clara a little overwhelmed. Her cover was compromised. How SI knew, she didn’t know but she took a deep breath and went to the office SI employee had shown her.
There she typed her name in the Stark tab she was given by a woman wearing badge that said ‘clean water project’. Her family information popped up and she read through them and found that they were safe in a Stark Safe house in the States. She blew out a breath she didn’t know she was holding and entered the office that was giving new identities. All the people who worked gave her a sad smile and went back to Agents they were helping. Clara looked around and saw that there were many SHIELD Agents getting new identities. She also went to a free desk and the girl behind the desk gave her a list of new names while saying her to sit. Clara sat down and looked through the list and choose Clover Thimsons as it was closer to her real name. She was asked whether she had family and they got to work on a back story for her and her family.
After that she went to the office that hired people to work in Stark Industries. It was also filed with Agents. She was interviewed briefly before being assigned to a department and within minutes she had a job in SI PR department is LA. She was said that she will be sent there in few days. She understood with all they were doing to secure the Agents, waiting a few days were nothing.
Clar-Clover went towards where Agents that had finished getting everything done were waiting. She saw few of the Agents she knew and went towards them.
“Hey” She said softly and sat down next to them.
“Hey, got a new name? I’m Jamie now” Jamie asked her as he shifted to make more space for her.
“Yeah Clover. Does anyone know what’s going on?”
“I know, got to talk to a SI guy.” Bret said as he came closer.
“Names Brian by the way.” He said as he sat on the floor near them.
“New name?” Clover asked and Brian nodded his head.
“So what’s going on then.”Jamie asked and many of the SHIELD agents around them leaned forward. Brain sighed and ran a hand through his hair.
“SHIELD is no more.” He said getting several gasps and outrageous ‘what?’ s.
“Yeah apparently there was some top secret thing going on inside SHIELD and it was found that HYDRA had infiltrated SHIELD. Captain Rogers and Agent Romanoff worked to out HYDRA. Helicarriers were taken down by Captain. Literary down. They crashed to the ground. Then Agent Romanoff dumped the whole SHIELD data base into the internet. Tony Stark somehow found out about this and had hacked our communication lines to send us messages to leave our spots as spies or whatever mission we were on. He’s having all the SI offices and employees working on making sure we are safe while he’s working on encoding the data and removing them from the internet. His AI is piloting the suits and is getting Agents to SI buildings.” He said and everyone was silent after that. SHIELD was HYDRA. Tony Stark, who was supposed to be a man who cared about no one was working alone with his employees while one of their own dragged all of the good agents down with HYDRA. Tony Stark was making sure they were safe. They all silently thanked the man and knew that they were forever in debt to him. And they each vowed to never betray this man who’s doing everything and was going out of his way to make them secure.
They all watched as SI people run around doing everything. Ex-agents were surprised by the efficient way these people worked. They moved around each other seamlessly and it was clear they trusted their boss enough to do these things that was probably not in their job description without questions. They even saw Doctors go about arranging everything. It was like they were used to it. And they probably were, with their boss being Tony Stark.
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It took them five days to complete everything. And during that time Tony didn’t even get a blink of sleep. Two days after the data dump everything started to calm down. Tony and JARVIS had successfully encrypted all the data and now they were in secure Stark servers. All the agents were given new identities with their old ones being destroyed only leaving a ghosts of memories lingering in people minds and no actual proof to prove that someone from that name existed.
On the third day Tony had sent Stark jets to bring the ex-agents in other countries back to US. Families were reunited and they all got comfortable in their new identities. Every single agents were relieved to see their families and colleagues safe. One thing that kept going around was the way Tony Stark saved them all. Even people who had not trusted Tony to be a SHIELD consultant much less a Avenger were changing their opinion on him. No one said a word against Tony. And the ones who did got chewed out by SI staff or ex-agents. It was a surprising change to see agents who had nothing to say any good about Tony Stark suddenly praised him and defended him. But one thing was sure. Tony had gain some people who would never betray him and stay loyal to him for life without even knowing it.
Forth day saw ex-agents, now SI employees making their way towards various SI buildings all the over the States to start on their new life. Many had been employed in Stark Tower since offices in their were short on staff. All the new SI employees had been warmly welcomed to Stark Industries. Both by the staff and Tony. He made sure to personally type a email welcoming them all and sent it them. Since Pepper had left him and SI, he was the CEO again. So that meant he had work to do.
Fifth day, fifth day Tony went to see the new employees in Stark tower to make sure they were settling in nicely. Tony was surprised by the amount of people that came to him and thanked him. Male population shook his hand with a grateful looks while he got a few hugs and tears from female population. One thing that shocked all was to see Maria Hill among the people who thanked him.
And that day ex-agents got to see why SI staff was so loyal to Tony. The way he interacted with his workers was not the way someone would expect a CEO and the owner of a company to do. He was friendly and he knew each and every ones names. Heck he even knew the names of their family members too. He asked about how someone’s mother was doing and how another employee's son was coping with college. It was enlightening to say the least.
Fifth day also saw to Fury- who was apparently not dead- sending people to get the ex-agents back to work, but they were turned down. They had tried to use force only have few of the highly trained ex-agents who now worked as Stark Tower security to drag them out. After that, their message became clear and they left the ex-agents alone. More than half was surprised when Maria had declined to join Fury to continue their work.
Even though everything was calming down, SI Legal department was still brimming with paperwork after months. Even though it was decreasing with the help of JARVIS. Now that SHIELD gone, Avengers were a wild card. So Tony did the thing he had done the first time around and bought the Avengers TM and had his personal lawyers making a set of Accords so when-if- UN decided to bring their own out to play he would be ready. Having a photographic memory helped as he remembered everything that was in the Sokovia Accords. So that made it easy for his lawyers to amend them. They were the best in the law industry and he was sure they would not disappoint him. They also like working with Tony since he let them do their job and gave them resources to do their job- be it legal resources or illegal.
He also had JARVIS compiling dirt on General Ross, and as soon as he had enough to send him to jail, he would use them. Implanting a bug in government servers were easy. No one even noticed it. But it gave him all the information he needed. And it made it easier for him to keep track of the progress of Accords too. He was sure he could convince the UN to agree to use his Accords. And it would be easier to convince Superheroes like Defenders, X-Men, Fantastic Four and any other that’s going to pop up to sign. Only hitch in the plan? Rogers.