Post by Solaris on Oct 28, 2016 21:39:55 GMT -5
April 5th, 2014
Avengers Tower, Manhattan
With minor construction ongoing within the former Stark Tower, Tony Stark enters the darkened common area.
Tony: Lights... Jarvis, Lights... Jarvis?
Voice: Not Available.
Tony looks around in the dark, in the general direction the voice came from.
Tony: Who the hell ae you? Why are you in my house?
Voice: *Emerging from the shadows* Carter Scott. Former Special Agent of SHIELD
Tony takes a step back, ready for what's next.
Tony: You mean Hydra.
Carter: Don't play GAMES!
Carter leaps forward and catches Tony by the throat, lifting him off the ground a few inches. Tony grasps Carter's forearm for support.
Carter: Cap is in trouble and you're here getting drunk with your redheaded assistant?
Carter tosses Tony across the room, Tony falling and sliding along the floor. Disoriented, Tony looks up at Carter, completely unprepared for whatever this is. Suddenly, Carter's hands bust into flames and Tony can only muster his signature humor.
Tony: *cough couch* Neat trick, kid... *Cough* So you're enhanced?
Carter: I might not have been here 2 years ago, but I can see the pattern clearly now. You hack SHIELD and every piece of information available to you and all you see is information on Phase 3 of the Tesseract Project? Then, you conveniently detonate all your Iron Man suits mere MONTHS before Hydra takes over SHIELD?
Tony: You think I'm Hydra?
Carter: I know you're Hydra.
Carter picks Tony up by his t-shirt and holds him against the wall, his hands smoking and Tony's shirt becoming black and singed.
Carter: And now you're gonna burn for it.
Tony: WAIT! WAIT! Let me just ask you something first! There's something wrong with your theory.
Carter: What?
Tony: If I knew about Hydra inside SHIELD and chose to ignore it when I hacked their system, then how come I don't know thing one about you?
Carter: What?
Tony: C'mon, kid. An enhanced SHIELD what'd you say, Special Agent? If I was Hydra, I would've seen your file and recruited you to gain an upper hand. On top of that, I would've kept a suit to take Rogers down along with that brainwashed Barns guy. Why would I have sat back and watched it all burn if I've been a hands-on kinda guy this whole time?
Carter: *Looks away, thinking* I...
Tony: Mind letting me go? You're burning my shirt.
Carter takes another long, stern look at Tony before letting him go and taking a few steps back. Tony composes himself and looks to Carter with a sympathetic look.
Tony: Breaking & entering and attempted murder aside, I get it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you were in DC when everything went down?
Carter: *Heavy sigh* Just got back from clean-up duty. Picking up what was left of your suits. Fury ordered it directly, which we all thought was weird. We get news Fury was dead, so we returned to DC then... Had to kill most of my team... One guy is still in the wind.
Tony: Now you're branded as a traitor and a terrorist, so you thought bringing in a high ranking Hydra member would get you back your freedom.
Carter: No, that's the thing. When Romanov exposed SHIELD files, mine were automatically deleted. Some sort of... fail safe. Burned, deleted, redacted, even have a burn notice on me.
Tony: I'm not getting your angle, kid. How about we take a walk and we start over?
Carter huffs and shakes his head, but agrees to the walk. He and Stark walk through the tower as Tony starts to ask him questions.
Tony: How'd you get your powers?
Carter: Demonic possession..
Tony: *smirks* Ok, I get it. How about... how'd you get into SHIELD? You seem a little young to be a Special Agent.
Carter: I was recruited straight out of high school under the Avengers Initiative.
Tony: Oh, so you're one of us.
Carter: *Smiles* I'd love to be an Avenger, but that program was shut down and by the time the invasion kicked off, I was in LA dealing with a mission.
Tony: Yeah, we could've used the help. So enhanced, all SHIELD files on you gone and fired up for some Hydra Hunting. Missing anything?
Carter: Despite the last 10 years of my life legally gone in an instant, that... sums it up quite nicely.
Tony: What was your plan after taking me in?
Carter: Honestly, I didn't think about it. I probably would've just... hunting Hydra sleepers, to be honest.
Tony: Sounds like a good plan. Tell you what, from Avenger to Avenger, let me give you something.
Entering a lab, Tony heads over to a table and hands Carter a laptop. Carter looks to it quizzically.
Tony: I got bored and built an artificially intelligent operating system that combs the dark web for illegal activities and potential threats, then automatically tracks and hacks those involved and responsible. Soon as I found out the Dark Web was a thing, I started to slap it together. I call her IRIS, so treat her well. Wont be needing her now, since it's starting to look like the Avengers will have to pick up SHIELD's slack.
Carter: I try to burn you alive and you give me a crime tracking computer?
Tony: I try not to dwell in the past. Now that you mention it though, as payback you can do me a favor though.
Carter: I guess it's fair.
Tony: You've got a second chance, something not very many people know about. Something I know a lot about. After tonight, don't live your life in the shadows like they are. Drag them out into the sunlight for all to see and don't stop until they all get exposed.
Carter: *nods* Yeah... Good advice. You should follow it. Get yourself a new suit and all.
Carter and Tony part with Tony left in the lab while Carter leaves.
[END]
Avengers Tower, Manhattan
With minor construction ongoing within the former Stark Tower, Tony Stark enters the darkened common area.
Tony: Lights... Jarvis, Lights... Jarvis?
Voice: Not Available.
Tony looks around in the dark, in the general direction the voice came from.
Tony: Who the hell ae you? Why are you in my house?
Voice: *Emerging from the shadows* Carter Scott. Former Special Agent of SHIELD
Tony takes a step back, ready for what's next.
Tony: You mean Hydra.
Carter: Don't play GAMES!
Carter leaps forward and catches Tony by the throat, lifting him off the ground a few inches. Tony grasps Carter's forearm for support.
Carter: Cap is in trouble and you're here getting drunk with your redheaded assistant?
Carter tosses Tony across the room, Tony falling and sliding along the floor. Disoriented, Tony looks up at Carter, completely unprepared for whatever this is. Suddenly, Carter's hands bust into flames and Tony can only muster his signature humor.
Tony: *cough couch* Neat trick, kid... *Cough* So you're enhanced?
Carter: I might not have been here 2 years ago, but I can see the pattern clearly now. You hack SHIELD and every piece of information available to you and all you see is information on Phase 3 of the Tesseract Project? Then, you conveniently detonate all your Iron Man suits mere MONTHS before Hydra takes over SHIELD?
Tony: You think I'm Hydra?
Carter: I know you're Hydra.
Carter picks Tony up by his t-shirt and holds him against the wall, his hands smoking and Tony's shirt becoming black and singed.
Carter: And now you're gonna burn for it.
Tony: WAIT! WAIT! Let me just ask you something first! There's something wrong with your theory.
Carter: What?
Tony: If I knew about Hydra inside SHIELD and chose to ignore it when I hacked their system, then how come I don't know thing one about you?
Carter: What?
Tony: C'mon, kid. An enhanced SHIELD what'd you say, Special Agent? If I was Hydra, I would've seen your file and recruited you to gain an upper hand. On top of that, I would've kept a suit to take Rogers down along with that brainwashed Barns guy. Why would I have sat back and watched it all burn if I've been a hands-on kinda guy this whole time?
Carter: *Looks away, thinking* I...
Tony: Mind letting me go? You're burning my shirt.
Carter takes another long, stern look at Tony before letting him go and taking a few steps back. Tony composes himself and looks to Carter with a sympathetic look.
Tony: Breaking & entering and attempted murder aside, I get it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and say you were in DC when everything went down?
Carter: *Heavy sigh* Just got back from clean-up duty. Picking up what was left of your suits. Fury ordered it directly, which we all thought was weird. We get news Fury was dead, so we returned to DC then... Had to kill most of my team... One guy is still in the wind.
Tony: Now you're branded as a traitor and a terrorist, so you thought bringing in a high ranking Hydra member would get you back your freedom.
Carter: No, that's the thing. When Romanov exposed SHIELD files, mine were automatically deleted. Some sort of... fail safe. Burned, deleted, redacted, even have a burn notice on me.
Tony: I'm not getting your angle, kid. How about we take a walk and we start over?
Carter huffs and shakes his head, but agrees to the walk. He and Stark walk through the tower as Tony starts to ask him questions.
Tony: How'd you get your powers?
Carter: Demonic possession..
Tony: *smirks* Ok, I get it. How about... how'd you get into SHIELD? You seem a little young to be a Special Agent.
Carter: I was recruited straight out of high school under the Avengers Initiative.
Tony: Oh, so you're one of us.
Carter: *Smiles* I'd love to be an Avenger, but that program was shut down and by the time the invasion kicked off, I was in LA dealing with a mission.
Tony: Yeah, we could've used the help. So enhanced, all SHIELD files on you gone and fired up for some Hydra Hunting. Missing anything?
Carter: Despite the last 10 years of my life legally gone in an instant, that... sums it up quite nicely.
Tony: What was your plan after taking me in?
Carter: Honestly, I didn't think about it. I probably would've just... hunting Hydra sleepers, to be honest.
Tony: Sounds like a good plan. Tell you what, from Avenger to Avenger, let me give you something.
Entering a lab, Tony heads over to a table and hands Carter a laptop. Carter looks to it quizzically.
Tony: I got bored and built an artificially intelligent operating system that combs the dark web for illegal activities and potential threats, then automatically tracks and hacks those involved and responsible. Soon as I found out the Dark Web was a thing, I started to slap it together. I call her IRIS, so treat her well. Wont be needing her now, since it's starting to look like the Avengers will have to pick up SHIELD's slack.
Carter: I try to burn you alive and you give me a crime tracking computer?
Tony: I try not to dwell in the past. Now that you mention it though, as payback you can do me a favor though.
Carter: I guess it's fair.
Tony: You've got a second chance, something not very many people know about. Something I know a lot about. After tonight, don't live your life in the shadows like they are. Drag them out into the sunlight for all to see and don't stop until they all get exposed.
Carter: *nods* Yeah... Good advice. You should follow it. Get yourself a new suit and all.
Carter and Tony part with Tony left in the lab while Carter leaves.
[END]