Chapter 4- Steve POV
Saying Steve was shocked would be an understatement. He had found out that the Spider person, who he beat up in Germany was actually a kid who looked to be around 15 or 16 and this was not what he expected. He felt shame for hitting a kid add to the shame he already felt for the whole civil war fiasco.
“How old are you,” Steve asked positively bewildered.
“I’m almost 17” Peter replied awkwardly.
“Wow, Stark.” drawled Clint, “Great job bringing a kid into a fight against space satan.” Peter reddened.
“For your information Hawkass, Tony didn’t want me to come since it would be too dangerous but I got him to. So it isn’t his fault!” snapped Peter defending his mentor, said mentor’s lip twitched at the remark. Clint raised and eyebrow at Peter. Steve pursed his lips at that unsure who to defend. Luckily before anything else could happen the door opened again and Thor was standing in the doorway. Everyone stared at him for a few seconds.
“Damn, Thor, what happened to your eye?” asked Clint his eyes widening a little. Thor smiled.
“To put it simply, My sister, the goddess of death destroyed Mjolnir and captured Asgard. So we initiated Ragnarok my sister blinded me and we left with Asgard to leave my sister fighting Surtur for the rest of eternity.” everyone gaped at him for a second except for Bruce who smiled grimly, but then Clint suddenly looked very angry.
“What’s he doing here?” he spat looking at the person standing behind Thor. I then noticed it was Loki.
“No need to fear, friend Barton, my brother is joining us to fight against the Mad Titan.” Clint didn’t stop the anger evident on his face. “If he harms us then he will answer for it.” Loki grimaced for a couple of seconds.
“Do not worry Barton, I don’t expect any of you to be nice to me. It would be suspicious if so.” Loki said almost tiredly.
“Is something the matter?” asked Thor confused. “Everyone is really tense and keeps glaring at friend Stark.” Tony sighed at that.
“You missed a lot while gone Point Break. Things happened.” He didn’t explain anymore. Finally, T’challa entered with Shuri, Nakia, and Okoye this ended the silence and meant everyone was there. Dr Strange spoke after everyone was seated.
“We have found that the Mad Titan, Thanos, is speeding up his collection of the infinity stones. Earth will be a prime target since we are in possession of three infinity stones. The Mind stone,” he gestured to Vision, “The Time Stone,” he pointed at an amulet around his neck, “and if I am correct, The Space Stone.” At that, he looked expectantly at Loki and Thor who looked at each other seeming to have a conversation with their eyes before Loki sighed pulling the Tesseract out from under his cloak and placing it on the table. Everyone immediately tensed Steve felt anger and fear bubble in his gut. Why does this damn thing have to be in every problem we have? Those who had been in the Battle of New York also had anger written on their faces, except Natasha, who barely showed emotion anyway, and Tony, who almost seemed to be attempting to move away from it. Dr Strange ignored them all and continued, “I have discussed with Shuri about her plans to remove the Mind Gem from Vision safely and soon this will happen. After that, we should either find a safe place to put them or have certain people look after them.” People were nodding along with this.
“When will the intergalactic space raisin arrive then?” asked Tony sounding almost bored. But then again, he almost always did. Spider-kid snorted at that description of Thanos but managed to mostly pass it off as clearing his throat.
“He will be looking for the other stones first most likely since he is already in space. The Reality Stone I left with the Collector and I have heard that the Power Stone is with the Nova Corps on Xandar. The Soul Stone is lost so he might spend time looking for that.” Thor explained, “We could have anywhere from him arriving in a week to him arriving in a year. Maybe even longer.”
“Last I heard was Thanos’s ship had been spotted near the remains of Asgard. They were probably looking for the Tesseract.” pondered Dr Strange.
“Are we planning on preparing somehow?” asked Rhodey.
“I was thinking that Stark could work with Shuri and Dr Banner on some technology. Their minds together would create some amazing things so we can be more prepared equipment wise.” Said T’challa, the three people in question nodded.
“If you allow me the time then I can create a permanent portal to New York so we can have some quick travel between the two places Thanos is more likely to attack and have a quick response team.” Dr Strange suggested T’challa nodded at this idea.
“Any other ideas?” No one said anything. “The Wakandan army has maybe 15,000 people all well-trained and ready to fight.” T’challa paused as if waiting for someone to continue.
“I have maybe 50 different models of the suit and have a total of around 100 suits all suitable for battle. I would have more but I blew them up,” said Tony. Steve noticed that his fingers were softly tapping a frantic beat on the table.
“You blew them up?” asked Natasha and at the same time Sam asked, “Do you ever sleep?” Before Tony could answer Clint snarled,
“Of course he never sleeps. Sleep is for the weak isn’t it Stark?” Tony’s fingers began tapping a more complex frantic beat.
“On the Contrary,” he replied calmly. “Now if we are done then.” He stood up only to be greeted by Clint who stood up in front of him.
“Not quite Stark.” Uh Oh, Steve thought, “I demand an apology for myself and the other ‘Rogue’ Avengers. For both Germany and the raft and the entire incident in general.” Rhodey stood up too.
“Clint,” he warned but Clint ignored him.
“It’s fine Rhodes. I expected this.” Tony sighed. “I apologize for trying to not get us all arrested and killed and then following the orders of the Government. I also apologize for not knowing about the raft prison they locked you up in until after the arrest and then let you escape from. So if that’s all” Instead of trying to get past Clint, he turned around and Steve saw his suit begin to form on him like liquid metal. He took off his sunglasses and Steve got the briefest glimpse of his eyes. They looked tired, masked by dark shadows, and very panicked which greatly disturbed Steve. He exited the room onto the balcony and flew into the Wakandan sky. Everyone was quiet for a moment before Spider-kid who had been looking terrified and angry throughout the argument stood up.
“Um, Colonel Rhodes? Should I…” He pointed towards where Tony had just taken off. Rhodey sighed, glaring at Clint and nodded. Peter pressed something on his wrist and his suit formed around him too this one looked new, metallic, and shining. He then walked out to the balcony and jumped off the edge after Tony.