At S.H.I.E.L.D’s facility, Ross was astonished to find that Natasha and Rhodes had died, Vision and a guy who could change his size have gone into exile while all the others were taken prisoners by Tony, T’Challa and Peter.
Tony didn’t go into detail about how he single handedly took all of them down and let Ross deal with the paperwork.
Tony then quickly went to Siberia and located Zemo in Hydra’s base where he was killing the rest of the Winter Soldiers and before Zemo could even know what hit him, he melted into plasma.
Stark then retrieved the video evidence of Bucky killing his parents and left a digital footprint of Jarvis before quickly leaving the Hydra’s base and going back to Vienna.
This video was nothing special, as it’s only purpose was to give Tony a reason to kill Bucky without letting people point a finger at him but he had a feeling that Bucky and Steve are going to die soon enough anyway as Tony had infected the Prototype Extremis in their bodies which was used to make the Super-Soldier serum and now their bodies were the same as before they had become super-soldiers.
They also had many enemies in prison and their condition was just getting worse and worse.
“Time to focus on my other work”
Tony then gave T’Challa the idea that Magneto could be involved in that bomb blast and sent the panther after him. Then Tony started to mentor Peter a little as to plant a suggestion in his brain that Tony truly cares about him and is a good guy.
Peter was pretty scared at first because he had seen 2 deaths in one day and to top it off one was done by his own mentor.
“This is life, Peter. If you forgive someone who betrays you then others will think that it’s okay to break your trust. I was far nicer to all of them and that lead to the death of my best friend. I can never forgive myself for this but I can still try to repent for it by helping as much people as I can. So remember Peter, never hesitate to take a ruthless action for the sake of protecting someone.”
After the monologue had ended, Peter was definitely starting to believe that Natasha deserved that and if not for her betrayal, no one would’ve died.
Tony then gave him a new suit made out of carbon nanofiber and titanium alloy which had it’s very own AI known as FRIDAY. Needless to say that this AI was a child-class of Jarvis and Tony could control it just like he could control his own armor.
He then flew to New York to meet Pepper and as soon as he saw her, he embraced her tightly.
“I’ve missed you so much!” Said Tony in a murmur.
Pepper was first angry at him for not contacting her for a month but soon forgave him when he told her that due to him, Rhodes had died and he accidently killed Natasha in rage. She was horrified to find something like this and immediately embraced him in a tight hug and said in a low voice while stroking his hair.
“No Tony….Shhhh…No. It’s not your fault. Don’t let this guilt consume you love. You are the light…a sun for millions of people who sleep with the assurance that Iron Man is guarding them or the homeless students you gave scholarships too. Do you know how many lives you’ve saved just from your philanthropic work? It was their own fault for going rogue, and didn’t you say that General Ross gave you the permission to use lethal force? If he did then no one will blame you. So calm down Tony…..JUST..”
Pepper then gave a sweet peck on Tony’s forehead after which they ate a nice dinner which was made by both of them and then cuddled and sweet talked for a very long time before they started to actually have a passionate sex.
Next Day, Tony made her some breakfast, wrote a note and just left the building while she was still sleeping.
Tony went to some unknown lab of his where he threw Vision and Ant-Man’s dead body in the air for some robot controlled by Jarvis to catch which then opened the suit and flushed a meaty dead body of a small Scott Lang out in some flush and started breaking it down while other machines started to cut the vibranium around Vision’s head with Wakandan vibranium crafting technology.
“How much till the mutation is complete?” Asked Tony while walking in a area which started scanning his entire body.
Actually Tony could’ve come yesterday for the experiment but Jarvis had informed him that his mutation was at its peak and will complete in a day and due to which if he tries to do some experiments, his mutation could release some unintentional electromagnetic waves or energy from his body which could interrupt with the experiment and hence he decided to use this time with Pepper to further engrave his love and trust as he didn’t wanted to let her go from his grasp yet. She was too good at her job and if she goes then Tony will have a headache in finding a new trustworthy CEO who handles all the meetings and board of directors so well.
[Approximate time for the Mutation to complete – 57 Minutes and 12 Seconds]
Replied Jarvis loyally.
Tony then waited patiently for the mentioned time to pass and after it did, He felt a sudden jolt of electricity in his body! His ability to control Vibranium had increased exceptionally while he could now see more energy particles of different colors in the air around him. The ability to breathe plasma which was given to him by the extremis virus also evolved and now he could also weaponize electricity.
“Did the mutation altered the Extremis virus and evolved it into Extremis 3.0?” Thought Tony as he remembered the properties of Extremis 3.0 from the comics.
After he had successfully mutated completely, Tony started to practice around with his new abilities for a long time before finally saying
“Ok, Jarvis! Present me the Body of Apocalypse! I need to go through another mutation!”
At Tony’s command, a very large table started to rise from beneath the ground which had many types of tools and strappings all around it while Apocalypse’s body was lying in between of it all.
Apocalypse was a very Overpowered character in the comics as he was literally comparable to a god! Tony didn’t know if he could benefit much from his movie counterpart who was defeated so easily but he still had to try.
He first drained him of all his blood and commanded Jarvis to run some test on it while he materialized a silvery-black scalpel in his hand which cut into his body like a butter.
“Muscle and organ placement is incredible! Not a single part of his muscle or space in his body is wasted. On top of that the muscle tissues are crystalline in nature. His body is a masterpiece, an epitome of perfection!” Praised Tony as he was studying Apocalypse’s body in detail.
After a very long time when he was done with his body, Tony started to experiment with his blood without any break.
‘Jarvis, if I ingest Apocalypse’s blood in mine, what changes are we looking at?’
[Blood sample is too complex. Host could die.]
“Hmm…Not only die, I have a feeling that Apocalypse’s memories are still in his blood and he could be revived by transmuting this blood in a living body. I think the blood will overpower the original body and revive Apocalypse.
This is a major problem. I don’t have any way of removing those memories yet and I don’t want to remove those precious memories either. But if I don’t remove them then they will surely eat me alive.
Hmmm….What to do, what not to…*Sigh*..Keep running tests on his blood and try to find a way to extract the memories. If there is any reaction from the blood, then alert me immediately!”
[As you wish, Sir]
“Now present me the data collected from the Ant-Man’s suit. Let’s look at it and your suggestions.”
[Presenting the collected Data on Ant-Man Suit and suggestions with simulations]
It had been two days since Tony’s been studying about applications of Quantum Entanglement, Quantum Teleportation and the like while researching the Ant-Man’s suit when suddenly he saw someone come to the Vienna facility of the Stark Industry through a security camera.
There was only one thing of value there, and that was King T’Chaka’s body in induced coma and when the camera zoomed in on the girl who was trying to find a way in, a smile crept upon Tony’s face.
