No One Said Anything About Bread
It was the middle of the day and Tony was still in his workshop. He bad been in here since Bruce had to hang up and go do things. Tony worked on Ultron a bit longer before he looked around the empty workshop. "Hey, J?" Tony asked.
"Sir?" Jarvis asked back.
"Can you bring up all the files on the Winter Soldier? Also, have you found him at all or is he living up to his legend?"
Soon a folder of files winked into existence in front of Tony. "I am working on tracking him, sir, but he has yet to exit the bakery," Jarvis responded.
Tony hummed and opened the folder, there were a lot of files but at the same time very little. "Shouldn't there be more files than this?" he said in confusion.
"Some files had been deleted before I could get to them, Sir," Jarvis answered apologetically.
Tony frowned and then realized that Nat must have deleted them before hand. For what reason Tony has yet to find but it might help if he looked at the files he was able to get his hands on. He organized them from oldest to the most recent. The oldest file was about some Russian politician's murdur, nothing about the actual Winter Soldier except that he returned in time for maintenance. In fact, most of the files were about that. Except for one that just said that they went through different tests and the Asset was performing well.
Tony groaned in annoyance and stared at the files that were basically useless. "J, what time is it?" he asked.
"The time is currently 1:38 PM," Jarvis said. Tony hummed and figured he had enough time to call Nat and see what she's been up to as well as convince her to give him more files on the Winter Soldier.
"J can you call Nat for me?" Tony asked as stretched a bit. No matter how often he spends sitting in a chair at his lab at some point he always gets sore, it was getting really annoying to be honest.
"Of course, Sir," Jarvis said as a small screen opened. When and if Natasha answered Tony would be able to see her on that screen. It only took a minute before Natasha answered. Her face looked tired. Probably because she had been dealing with politicians since the fall of SHIELD.
"Hey, Nat, how's it going for you?" Tony asked.
Natasha sighed and rolled her eyes, "Tony I know you know what is going on."
"Of course I know! How's Steve, he seemed to have taken a beating," Tony said.
"He's in the hospital and will stay there until I say he can leave, something he doesn't seem to understand yet," Natasha said kind of angrily.
Tony laughed, "How many times has he tried to escape?"
"Oh, only about a dozen times."
"Oh man, he must be the worst patient in the world," Tony remarked.
"He is, now is that all that you called me for because I have to go deal with more annoying government people," Natasha said raising her eyebrows.
"Caught me," Tony said. "I was actually wondering if you had a more complete set of the files on the Winter Soldier."
Natasha fell silent. "Tony, are you sure you want that," she said quietly. Too quietly.
"Nat, what happened?" Tony said. Something must have happened for her to actually he careful about telling Tony information.
Natasha opened her mouth to explain before someone called from out the screen. Tong could barely hear what the person was saying but it kind of sounded like they were telling Natasha to get off her phone and start moving. "Sorry, Tony, but I have to go, I'll call you as soon as I can," Natasha said.
"Seeya Nat, have fun dealing with the government!" Tony said.
Nat sent him an unamused glance before she ended the call. While she didn't like dealing with the government it was probably going at a much smoother rate than if someone like, let's say Tony, was doing it.
Tony spun in circles as he considered what to do next. Bruce had said that they would talk further about his amazing fruit basket idea so he couldn't go ahead and do that. Well he could but every now anand then he decided to listen to people. He didn't feel like working on Ultron or Veronica.
"J, how's our buddy from the bakery doing?" Tony asked. He needed to know where the Soldier was staying if he ever wanted to send him fruit baskets.
"He is leaving the bakery, would you like me to show you video feed?" Jarvis asked. Tony nodded and then scooted his chair over to a mini fridge he kept in his lab. He opened it and pulled out some blueberries before rolling back to the center of his desk. Jarvis was showing him the feed from the street outside of the bakery so that Tony could watch the Soldier. It occured to Tony that he was basically stalking the man but he shook it off in the excuse that he was making sure that he wasn't attacked or killed anyone.
In fact if the Winter Soldier was anyone other than the Winter Soldier Tony would have stopped watching him a while ago. He basically did anything that a normal person would do. Apart from the fact that he only bought a bag of plums and nothing else. Tony figured that he might like plums and wrote down a note to include plums in his amazing fruit basket idea.
After about about an hour of watching the Winter Soldier basically wander around midtown towards the general direction of Hell's Kitchen. Tony vaguely nee that there were a group of enhanced individuals there but he didn't really take time find them or anything like that.
The Winter Sildier walked into an old apartment building and didn't come back out. Tony watched for 10 minutes just to make sure. He got Jarvis to check for security cameras in the apartment. There were a couple but not inside any of the rooms. Needless to say Tony now knew where the Winter Soldier was living. Tony sighed wishing that he could send the fruit basket but that would have to wait until Bruce got back....
Unless Tony sent a bread basket. Not just any bread basket, a bread basket made out of the different types of bread at his favorite bakery. The second his plan was made Tony shoved his empty blueberry container out of the way and onto the floor.
"J, we need to order some bread," Tony said in one of the most serious voices he could muster for the moment.
"Where would you like this..bread...to be ordered from?" Jarvis asked.
"Order it from that bakery I like, what's its name again?"
"Bread & Co." Jarvis offered.
"Yeah, get a loaf of all their different types of breads and then send it over here, unless, do they make baskets?" Tony wondered.
"I will check, Sir," Jarvis said dutifully. Tony spun aimlessly in his chair as he waited for Jarvis. "It appears that they do make custom baskets that you can order. Do you want your basket to go to the tower?"
"No, send it to our little soldier boy here. Can I have a note with it?" Tony asked.
"It appears you can," Jarvis said.
Tony grinned, "Great. I want a note with this saying, 'eat the dang food I will send double if you throw any of it out'."
"Is there anything else, Sir?" Jarvis asked. Tony thought for a second than decided that he couldn't think of anything else to send the Winter Soldier.
"No, that's all," Tony said with a small nod then looked over at a clock on the wall to check the time. Only 3:42, really? Tony needed to go on an inventing spree ke something to waste away the time before Bruce got back. Tony got out of his chair to get some coffee before spending some time working on his iron man suits.
Having been revived by the glorious creation of coffee Tony sank back into his chair to start working more. He pulled up his latest blueprints on his iron man suits and started working first on how he could make them go faster.
Because of the lab having no windows it was quite hard to tell how much time had passed once Tony started really working on a project. Judging by the soreness of his body he must have been sitting in that chair for a while. "J, time?" Tony asked with a yawn. He needed more coffee.
"It is currently 12:55 AM, I would suggest getting some sleep instead of drinking more coffee and staying up," Jarvis said.
Tony shrugged that away, "I'll sleep later, besides I've almost finished with my update I just need a little bit longer." He was reaching for the coffee maker to make more. Tony heard Jarvis sigh but he didn't try to stop him. Great Tony didn't want to deal with that and he was almost done. Once he finished he would get some sleep, promise.
Tony brought a mug of steaming hot coffee with hum as he sat down again. All he needed to do was figure out how to fix the bio scanners. Something was jamming them slightly, not too much, but he wanted them to be as accurate as he could make them. When Bruce gets back Tony might he able to convince him to update the building scanners. Tony could do them himself but Bruce was much better with all of the living stuff.
Tont hummed softly as he changed a couple things about the material surrounding the scanner before running through more tests to see how this would change it. After that failed to bring the results he wanted he tried to enhance the scan to a higher level. He tested it again and got a much better result. Tony started making the final changes to his suit before he would actually start to crafting of it.
"Sir, you have finished your update. I believe now is a good time to sleep. Dr. Banner will be arriving later this afternoon and it will do you well to he rested before than," Jarvis said.
"If he's coming later than why don't I just stay up?" Tony questioned.
Jarvis sighed, "I will call Ms. Potts, Sir"
Tony shuddered. Pepper Potts was a force to be reckoned with. "Alright I'll take a nap. But if I don't wake up before 7 you need to wake me up, got it?" Tony decided.
"Of course, Sir," Jarvis said. Tony stood up from his chair and walked over to futon couch he kept in the lab so he wouldn't have to go back up to his room when he was tired. He collapsed onto ththe couch and fell asleep almost instantly. Tony guessed he was more tired than he had originally thought.