Get Er' Done!
“We don’t trade lives on this team,” Steve said self-righteously, his arms across his chest and a superior look aimed at everyone else in the room.
Everyone looked around curiously at the whirring sound of a repulsor charging. And then a bright, blue/white light fired straight at Vision’s head. His head, and the stone within it, shattered into pieces and flew around the room. Everyone stared in shock before Wanda screamed.
Tony stepped out from around the corner where he had taken his shot. He was still holding a strange ray gun.
“How . . . that’s not possible,” Shuri shrieked.
“Kid, I was making weapons while I was still wearing short pants. Judge me all you want, Cap,” Tony sneered, cutting off the rant before it even began. “But it was Howard that forced me to learn and do that. Remember, I inherited SI. My work was the first big move out of weapons and investing in the future.”
“But it was vibranium,” Shuri said, eyes wide.
“And I have a real infinity stone and a mock infinity stone,” Tony held up the gun, which was attached to an arc reactor. In his other hand was the time stone. “With all the time in the world to work through my tests, of course I was going to come up with something.”
When Dr.Strange approached Tony saying that he needed the Avengers to get back together or the universe was doomed, before explaining EXACTLY HOW Thanos was going to destroy everything, Tony had just stared at Strange before simply asking “then why don’t you destroy the time stone?”
Strange had harumphed and puffed up before stating that his entire job was to protect the stone, thank you very much.
And Tony was just done. He could already hear Steve Rogers refusing to destroy Vision’s mind stone (Tony wasn’t really all that torn up because what had Vision ever done since the destruction of Ultron besides steal Jarvis’s identity and then moon over Maximoff—the great pillar of society—like a worthless, lovesick teenager). Maximoff would throw a hissy fit if she had to actually go out and convince a normal guy that she wasn’t a psychotic ex-girlfriend waiting to happen, so, there was no way Steve would be willing to sacrifice Vision (her made-to-order-courtesy-of-the-mind stone boyfriend). Like anyone minded when Jarvis had stepped up to sacrifice himself for them. He and Tony both knew about hard choices. Fuck Vision. And Fuck Strange.
Strange hadn’t been ready when Tony turned and punched him the face, knocking him unconscious. Tony had taken the Stone and skedaddled to a private island that no one knew about, using the time stone to keep repeating the day until he could build something to destroy infinity stones.
Tony set the time stone on the ground before firing a second time and destroying the time stone as well.
“And that takes care of that,” he said. “Maybe you don’t trade lives on this team Captain hypocrite,” Tony drawled with a loaded glance at Bucky Barnes who sat quietly in a corner of the room, “but the rest of the world is sick of you trading on theirs.”
Tony turned, about to walk away, before turning back, cocking his head, and staring at Wanda where she was sobbing on the floor, clutching Vision’s vibranium body. With an odd look he quickly raised his arm and blasted Maximoff as well before anyone even figured out what he was doing.
Steve, Sam, Clint, Scott, and Nat all looked at him in horror.
“Meh, better safe than sorry. Don’t want all that red hoo-doo she’s always tossing around so carelessly to get sucked up by Thanos to destroy the universe,” Tony shrugged. He turned, and quickly walked away with a smile.