The Planning of Fruit Baskets and Robots
Tony Stark had made it his goal to go to a small cute bakery once a week or more when possible. If he had it his way he would go every day however he did have to deal with the Avengers and Stark Industries though it was worth it when he could make it. He had been there so often that he knew all of the employees by name and thought of them as extended family. Because of the small size very few news people or others would be there to Tony was rarely bothered.
Normally he would go with another team mate but all of them were busy. Bruce, his fellow Science Bro, was still somewhere in Africa helping people and taking time out of a chaotic city to have less of a chance to hulk out. Thor has yet to come back from Asgard, Clint was wherever he went when he wasn't needed, and Steve and Nat had completely destroyed SHIELD. Tony is a but offended they hadn't called him to help but judging by the news they were busy.
"Tony! No one with you today?" Rita asked. She was the great-grandaughter of the owner of the bakery. She had curly brown hair, defined cheekbones, and glowing brown eyes.
"Bruce is still somewhere in Africa and Thor's on Asgard plus I'm betting you've seen the news," Tony answered easily.
Rita smiled tightly. "Yean, Nana's been ranting about how stupid Steve was. She's threatening to go DC just to beat some sense into him. Now, is there anything I can get you," Rita said. Toy glanced up at the menu above her head. He was trying to decide between a Danish pastry or the special, chocolate brioche.
"I'll be taking the special today with a latte," Tony decided.
Rita nodded as she wrote the order down on the tablet in front of her. One of the reasons Tony liked this bakery was because they weren't afraid to use technology. He had tried to give them some Stark technology but Nana, as she preferred to be called, was a very intimidating women. "I would love to talk more but we do have other customers to serve. I'll call you up when it's ready!" Rita said as she shooed Tony away with her hands. Tony laughed and sat down at a nearby table to watch the shop.
In one of the corners by the window two teenagers were laughing over something on their phones. A couple people were in a line ordering food. And others were scattered about the bakery, most with some sort of electronic device. Tony had already seen most of them at some point or another so he didn't spend a lot of time watching them. The person who caught his interest was one of the few people Tony hadn't seen before.
The man was sitting in a corner away from the windows and within view of all the entrances. He was wearing a jacket, a red baseball cap on hair reaching towards his shoulder, and had gloves on. He had a half eaten pastry in front of him and was writing in a small journal. Tony had almost forgotten people actually still used journals. He rarely used them being surrounded by so much technology there was nearly no point. Tony continued his evaluation and noticed with worry that the man looked very malnourished. He immiedantly started making a plan to figure out where he lived and send him a fruit basket or something like that.
Tony put on one of his new creations. It wasn't that hard to make, he simply connected Jarvis to a pair of glasses that could act like a less advanced Iron Man HUB. It could do most of the basic functions and he was working on making it show him any files on the glasses themselves but for now he just had Jarvis send things to his phone. "Hey, J, scan the guy sitting alone at the table, I want to see how he's holding up, who he is, and where he lives."
A couple seconds passed before Jarvis responded into an earpiece Tony was wearing as well as sending some files to his phone which he took out to look at. Popping up on Tony's phone were quite a bit of files about the the Winter Soldier. Tony raised an eyebrow as Jarvis explained. "Sir, the man in question has several weapons on him. He is low in blood sugar and my scan shows that he is severely malnourished as well as sustaining injuries. I ran a facial recognition and came up with the Winter Soldier. My scans picked up a metal arm as well which leads me to believe that man is the Winter Soldier. I am afraid I am not able to see where he is currently staying but should you ask I will track him to the best of my ability," Jarvis said. Tonh whistled softly and watched the man with more intensity than before. He must have left DC shortly after the whole SHIELDRA mess. Tony was betting the Winter Soldier wasn't feeling that murderous today seeing as no one was dead. At least Tony was hoping that was the reason.
Rita ringed a small bell and the Winter Soldier's head snapped up to the sound before he relaxed slightly. "We have an order for Sir Starch of the Obnoxiously Gold and Red Suit," Rita announced. Tony chuckled softly as he got up from his seat to get his order. After the employees got to know him better they started messing with his name. Most of the time it was pretty close to his actual name but sometimes he would get something like this.
"I'll be on break in a couple minutes do you want to hang out and chat for a bit?" Rita asked. She loved to hear about the newer things Tony was working on. Normally if Bruce was with her and she could spare the time they would spend nearly an hour talking some new science thing. Sometimes Jarvis would join them although that didn't always happen.
"No I need to get back to the tower today. Brucie and I have actual lab sciencing we have to do. Although when he gets back we should hopefully have more things to talk about," Tony said as he picked up his food and coffee.
"You better or else I will personally sic Nana on you."
Tony gasped in feigned terror, "But how will you get her out of her natural habitats long enough to come and get me and Brucie!" Nana loved to spend her time in the kitchens and rarely came out. However, when you could get her to stop baking for a second she was a force to be reckoned with.
"I'll get her out. Now don't you have to be with your Science Bro pretty soon?" Rita raised her eyebrows.
"Well I was on my way before being rudely interrupted by you," with that Tony stuck his nose in the air and started to walk away.
Rita laughed behind him, "See you next time Sir Starch." Tony shook his head as he walked away.
As Tony passed the Winter Soldier he was reminded of his earlier conversation with Jarvis and the plan to send him a fruit basket. "J, I want to you to keep an eye on Soldier Boy over there, tell me about anything that seems important," he said quietly in hopes of the Soldier himself not hearing him
"Of course, sir."
Tony made his way through traffic occasionally drinking his latte but avoiding eating any of the pastry until he got back at the tower. Soon enough he made it back. He got into one of the elevators and Jarvis took him up to hisab without Tony needing to tell him anything. Tony flopped onto one of the office chairs he had strewn about the place and rolled over to a nearby desk. He pulled out the chocolate brioche and started to eat is as he waited for Bruce to call him.
Two minutes later a call from Bruce popped up in front of Tony. Tony waved his hand to let the call through and grinned. "Brucie Bear! How's Africa going? Have you hulked out yet?"
Bruce smiled at Tony. "Hey, Tony, I'm just finishing a couple more things over here and then I'll be on my way back to the tower. And no I haven't hulked out yet I think being away from the city has helped but I'm ready to go back."
Tony whooped and spun his chair in a circle making Bruce laugh at the childness of the action. "Alright but news," Tony said as soon as he was facing Bruce again. "I'm sure yours aw Nat and Steve taking down SHIELD but it was actually HYDRA? Well, IjIjustsawtheWinterSoldierandwanttosendafruitbasket."
Bruce blinked a couple times as he processed. "Tony, what even?"
"I was at the bakery and I saw the Winter Soldier and has Jarvis run a scan and he's severely malnourished so I want it send him a fruit basket," Tony said at a slower rate.
Bruce was silent for roughly five minutes before he sighed and dragged his hand down his face. "Just wait until I get back so that we can tall about this more," he said with a tired voice.
"Of course! Veronica will be ready for testing when you get back and I have an amazing idea for a global defense system. It's like a self aware Iron Man suit that would be able to protect the world in the event that we would not be able to," Tony said excitedly.
Bruce was nodding along and Tony could see the excitement starting to form on his face before realization struck. "Do we even have the ability to create that?"
"Well yeah, creating the mainframe of it won't be that hard. The hardest part is going to make sure that it doesn't side with the bad guys. So it needs to understand freedom and laws and stuff like that."
Bruce shook his head. "I know that we can create the AI, well you can at least, but you know how long it took Jarvis to reach the level he is at now. Not to mention all things can be hacked at one point or another. Tony I don't think we even have the technology to make this work. At least not now. It kind of feels like you're wanting to create tesseract energy without the tesseract."
Tony sipped some of his coffee as he thought. Bruce was right on many points, except if they could find another object capable of as much power as the tesseract they might be able to use it to help get the technology needed to help make this a reality. "We need a name for it, but if we find Loki's scepter than we might be to create the technology needed to create...Bruce we need a name and fast," Tony said as he snapped his fingers.
"It's like an ultimate....defensive..." Bruce trailed off as he thought.
"Ultron!" Tony said with excitement. "That can be it's name, we can always change it later but I have a feeling that Ultron is it's name."
Bruce shrugged, it wasn't the worst name they could have thought of.
"Great, now that we have a name for it we need to start creating!" Tony declares. He created a new file labeled, 'The Ultimate Plan of the Amazing Science Bros'. The rest of the hour Bruce could spare to talk to Tony was spent building and breaking down Ultron's code, snarking at each other, and drinking what could be considered an unhealthy amount of coffee.