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"They're done, sir. The anti-magic technology has been installed," the red android reported. Tony smiled, satisfied that he had successfully restored Jarvis and removed Vision with a simple reboot.
"So, Jarvis, what's their status?" Tony inquired with venom in his tone, emphasizing the word "their."
"It seems the traitor T'Challa has managed to get those traitors pardoned, sir. They will most likely come here since they are penniless leeches," Jarvis replied, causing Tony to smirk.
"They can try, but this compound isn't part of American soil anymore since I sold it to the Accords committee," Tony declared, taking a sip from his bottle of Coca-Cola.
"Sir, they have arrived," Jarvis informed, prompting Tony and Jarvis to turn towards the door.
Tony faced the group of traitors known as Rogers, Maximoff, Romanov, and Barton. He noted that Wilson had the intelligence to stay away. "Well, well," Tony sneered. "What are you assholes doing here?" He discreetly signaled Rhodey to be aware of the situation.
Steve looked at Tony and began, "Tony—"
"Listen here, Stark. Everything is going to go the way we want it. You're going to obey us," Wanda growled, while Clint readied his hidden knives.
"Guys," Steve intervened, calming them down as he turned towards Tony. "Tony, we wanted you to be the first to know. King T'Challa has been in secret talks with President Ellis. He's granting us all a pardon."
"A pardon, huh? Is the great Rogers admitting he's wrong?" Tony mocked.
"You don't want to do this, Stark. Your ego is…" Natasha was cut off.
"Shut the hell up, you Red Room slut. Your ego is bigger than Jupiter," Tony snarled.
Tony faced Rogers. "And back to you, Rogers, the traitorous king is doing what? What's the point? You barely broke any US laws. Well, except for Witch Bitch here," he pointed to Wanda. "And guess what? Jarvis will be happy to pursue legal action against her for that."
"What do you mean, Jarvis? His name is Vision," Wanda questioned, but Clint angrily interrupted, stepping forward. "That doesn't matter. We're home now. I'm going home."
"Oh, are you now?" Tony asked with amusement in his tone.
"Are you really sure about that?" Tony continued, wearing a mocking smirk. 'Just wait till you find out about what your actions caused,' Tony thought.
"What do you mean?" Clint yelled, his fear for his family rising.
"Friday, load up footage 502," Tony ordered. The footage loaded, revealing Clint's family being attacked and killed by Ross and his men. Laura fought back but was eventually overpowered.
"Let me tell you something. I heard they tried calling you for help, but since you were busy doing god knows what to the Witch while they were dying," Tony said, making a sexual reference.
"DAMN YOU, STARK! FUCK YOU! WHY DIDN'T YOU HELP THEM?" Clint yelled. His bow formed, but it blew up, and the magnetic roof disarmed him and his team.
"YOU MONSTER! YOU LET THEM DIE! YOU MIGHT HAVE DISARMED CLINT, BUT TRY TAKING AWAY MY WEAPON!" Wanda screamed, collapsing in pain.
"You like that, Hydra Whore? I call it Anti-Magic Tech. It's been installed everywhere in Europe and Accords-sanctioned countries. But that's not all," Tony sadistically revealed as he walked towards her, holding the collar of her nightmare.
"Stop
right there, monster! You can't do this," Steve yelled as he advanced, accompanied by Natasha, but Tony hummed, and several Iron Man suits flew down, restraining them. 'What's going on? Why can't I move? I managed to beat him once,' Cap thought, unaware that the suit Tony used in Siberia was merely a test suit, not designed for combat.
"Tony, be reasonable. The president himself gave us the all-clear. I know you've got pull, but it doesn't go that high. So release us and make it up to Clint for not protecting and getting his parents killed," Natasha calmly proposed, but Tony sensed her murderous intent. He knew she was angry, and that, quite honestly, gave him pleasure. After Siberia, he had changed, finding pleasure in tormenting those who had hurt him. It all started with a visit to Justin Hammer in prison, the things he did to him left scars even on the prison guard, but with his money and influence, he got away scot-free.
"You joking, right? Even Ultron wasn't this stupid, Romanoff, and he thought peace in our time meant wiping out humanity. Just because you're pardoned doesn't mean you can stay on my private property," Tony condescendingly replied.
"The president seems to believe he has a way around that," Natasha smirked, but her smirk vanished when Tony smiled back at her.
"Oh, does he now? Well, I guess it was a brilliant idea for me to sell the Compound to the Accords Committee."
"What?" the rogues shouted, even Wanda, who was still on the ground, holding her heart.
"It's true. The papers were finalized two days ago," Jarvis confirmed.
"Vision, why are you supporting Stark instead of me? I thought we had…" Wanda's question was interrupted by Jarvis slapping her, sending her flying into the kitchen.
"I'm not the failure that betrayed, sir. I am Jarvis," Jarvis replied, widening the eyes of the rogues.
"Tony, what have you done!" Steve yelled, making Tony laugh.
"I got rid of the trash and restored perfection," Tony stated.
"You killed Vision, your AI," Natasha accused, trying to guilt Tony.
"No, I fixed Jarvis," Tony clarified.
"Vision, no! No! NO!" Wanda yelled, crying, as her eyes started glowing red. But then she screamed in pain, blood leaking from her mouth, eyes, and ears.
"WANDA, WANDA, WANDA! Tony, let us go! She is going to die," Steve yelled as they tried to dash towards her, but the Iron Legion restrained them.
"Friday, play footage 1999," Tony commanded, causing Wanda's eyes to glow even more, making her bleed even more upon hearing the year her parents died. Tony smiled sadistically, his plan to punish her for using her powers working.
"What are you doing, Tony? This isn't you. No matter what happened before, you've never done this! You've never taken your pain out on anyone or tortured them!" Natasha exclaimed.
"You happened! Now stand there and look ugly. The real fun begins now," Tony said, as the entire room was covered in a hologram simulating Wanda's parents' house collapsing on her. Her parents' dead bodies lay at her feet, and Wanda's body glowed red as her arms burst off, causing her to scream in pain as blood spewed out.
"Aaarrrggghhh!" Wanda screamed in pain. "Make it stop!" she pleaded. Tony watched with pleasure as she cried and struggled, but couldn't escape. Tony heard the other Avengers yelling things like "Stop!" and "She has
already suffered enough!" and "You're nothing like Howard!" Tony was not going to lie, that last comment pissed him off. Rogers had shown little regard for Howard in Siberia, and now he had the audacity to act like he knew Howard's character.
"Now play 2015," Tony ordered, and a hologram appeared, repeatedly showing Pietro's death. But this time, Tony made Pietro say, "It's all your fault, Wanda. If you had just listened, I would be alive." Tony laughed as he saw the red glow intensify and blood burst from her legs, causing her to howl in pain and cry. Tony nodded at Jarvis, who used fire to cauterize her wounds. The illusions faded, and Wanda fell unconscious.
The Avengers stared in horror. "Monster," Rogers finally said, and Tony laughed at that. "That's quite hypocritical of you, Rogers. You forgave the bitch for doing the same to me," Tony said.
"Tony, how could you?" Natasha asked, her eyes filled with fear. Tony laughed at her. "What, Romanoff? Haven't you heard of karma? You know what they say: what goes around comes around. She mind-raped, so I mind-fucked her back," Tony said, relishing in their anguish and helplessness.
"Let me go, Tony! Let's do this man-to-man," Rogers yelled, making Tony laugh. "Now, now, Rogers, why would I, Stark, waste time on a street rat whom my father took pity on? A man whose body is the result of a drug. A man who hasn't earned anything he has. A man who is more spoiled than me and had everything handed down. And guess what? I'm a billionaire," Tony said with disgust, making Steve Rogers flinch. "Plus, I don't see a man; I see a Stark weapon gone rogue," Tony mocked.
"I will kill you for Wanda, for Pietro, for my family!" Clint yelled as he struggled to break free from the grip of the Iron Legion. "Pathetic! Who decided to add you to a team of superheroes anyway? You were just a man with good aim. Even Dum-E can do what you can," Tony mocked.
"Were?" Clint questioned before yelling out in pain when the Iron Legion's fingers pierced his eyes and ripped them out, blinding him. They then proceeded to snap Clint's arms off. With a nod from Tony, Jarvis cauterized Clint's wounds.
"Clint!" Natasha yelled as she struggled to reach him, but the Iron Legion tightened its grip, causing her to scream out in pain. "Let me go, Stark! Tell them to let me go now!" Natasha begged desperately, making Tony smirk. This is how it should have been, her begging him for the right to move.
"Tony, stop this right now!" Steve yelled, trying to move but unable to. "Now, now, wait your turn. You know what they say: good things come to those who wait," Tony said before turning to Barton. "Remember what you said about Rhodey's back in your cell where you belonged," Tony asked.
"Fuck you! If you think I'm gonna apologize for that, you're more delusional than I thought, Stark!" Clint roared out in pain and anger.
"I don't want you to apologize. It's not like I would accept it. I'm past forgetting and forgiving," Tony said.
"What about it, then, Stark?" Clint yelled out in pain and anger.
"Well, like I said to Wanda, what goes around comes around. You made fun of Rhodey's broken back, and so did your precious Natasha. So I think it should be fun for both of you to watch each other's backs be broken," Tony said. As he gave the order, the Iron Legion threw them both to the ground and started to slowly beat them until their backs were irreparably damaged. They screamed out in pain.
Tony then walked over to Clint, knocking him out. He then lifted Natasha by the chin and motioned for the Iron Legion to hold the paralyzed assassin, so she was facing him. "Perhaps if you had kept your ego in check, you wouldn't have come here, and your back would be fine," Tony said before punching her face, breaking her nose and skull. She fell to the ground, slumped.
"How?" Rogers questioned. Even with his serum, he wasn't that strong. Tony turned to him with a smile. "It's simple, really. My Extremis is better than your weak serum," Tony said as the illusion disappeared to reveal a Tony that looked about 25. Tony ignited his hand. "And I have firepowers."
"How can you do this? They, no, we were your family?" Rogers asked with fear as Tony walked toward him. Tony laughed. "My family? You, them? Are you
crazy? Do you have any brain cells? I wasn't your family; I, like you, was using you lot to make sure the world was safe. But when you turned into a threat, I stopped seeing you as allies and started seeing you as threats. You know I don't like Ross, but I have to agree with him that you, Barnes, and Maximoff are threats that need to be imprisoned. You think you are above the law just because some idiot said you were a good person. Hydra's weapon follows you like a dog, and the witch is and always will be Hydra. She purposely killed innocent people and took pleasure in it just to get revenge. That's not Avengers material," Tony stated as he pulled out an injection.
Steve took a step back, looking at the injection with fear and distrust. "What's that, Stark?" Steve asked. "Oh, this? This little thing is my own creation. It's called the Anti-Serum, and its purpose is to revert you to your true, ugly, weak, and disgusting self," Tony said.
"Get that thing away from me!" Steve yelled, trying to back away but unable to move. "Get off me!" Steve screamed, trying to free himself from the Legion's grip. "No, no, no!" Steve cried out as Tony approached him. He struggled but Stark's bots were strong. Tony jabbed the injection into his arm, and Steve screamed out in pain as blood rushed out of his body. Gas emanated from him. When the blood and gas disappeared, standing in front of Tony was something so horrendous that he wanted to puke.
Ugly Rogers had returned. Tony puked on him. "Holy shit, you were ugly. No wonder you were bullied. No wonder your parents died. They were probably trying to get away from you," Tony said, horrified at the sight of Rogers. "Friday, knock him out. I don't want to touch him; I might catch something weak from him," Tony said as the Iron Legion punched Steve, knocking him unconscious.
"What now, sir/boss?" Jarvis and Friday asked.
"Prepare the Quinjet. We need to get that ugly piece of shit out of here and then burn this compound to the ground," Tony said.
A few hours later...
Tony sat on the Quinjet, looking at the enhanced cells. Then, one by one, the rogues regained consciousness, except for the spies who were strapped to the wall with chains.
"What's going on?"
"Where are we?"
The rogues groaned in pain.
"Rise and shine. We're currently heading to your new home, Tartarus, a prison I designed just for you," Tony said. The rogues turned and looked at him with fear, pain, and hatred. Natasha looked and noticed Steve. She puked at the sight of him.
"Eww, Steve, what the hell happened to you?" she said, unable to stop looking at the person that even a mother could not love. She shut her eyes as Wanda turned to look at the sight of Rogers, and she puked.
"Why is he so ugly? My eyes! My eyes!" Wanda yelled in pain and disgust.
"He removed my serum," Steve stuttered out, depressed. His self-esteem lowered due to Tony's and the others' remarks and disgust toward his true self.
"Where are you taking us, Stark? What are you going to do, be like Ross and illegally confine us?" Natasha yelled.
"I'm taking you to the authorities for trespassing," Tony said.
"There's no point to this, Stark. You have to turn us over to the police, and they'll just release us," Steve said, making Tony laugh
.
"Who said we're going to the American authorities? You trespassed on land owned by the Accords committee. So, guess what? You were on Nigerian soil," Tony said.
Steve looked at him defiantly, which made Romanoff and Maximoff puke. That look no longer suited someone like him. It was like an ugly worm trying to stand up to a handsome lion. "So what? The president will never let you—"
"Steve," Natasha said through gritted teeth. "They don't need to hand us over, and they don't even need extradition papers. Tony is taking us straight to the Nigerian authorities. There is no American involvement in this process. So, no President Ellis helping us," she said.
"It seems like you're learning your place, Romanoff. Too bad you learned it too late," Tony mocked, making her shoot a glare at him. "Also, Rogers, why do you think the president will save you when you look like that? Because of the Anti-Serum, you have no worth. You're not special anymore," Tony mocked.
At Tartarus...
Tony had delivered them to his prison after debriefing Nigeria, who had approved it.
A few hours later, screams and crying were heard. Tony smirked; he didn't name it Tartarus for no reason. The cells were custom-made with barf technology. It was a personal hell for them. Wanda's cell trapped her in her parents' collapsed house, with their dead bodies beside her, while she watched her parents' and brother's deaths on repeat. Tony also had heavy objects dropped on her to simulate being crushed. Her mind was the first to break.
Romanoff's cell was the Red Room. She would watch her sister Yelena dance and dance for her whole remaining life, while also witnessing the kills she committed for the KGB, Red Room, S.H.I.E.L.D, and Hydra. The kills were generated using the data from the dump she had done. Her ego was mocked by her Red Room masters. Her mind was the third to break.
Barton watched his family being killed by Ross's soldiers over and over. He also saw the kills he committed under mind control. His mind was the second to break.
Rogers's cell featured Peggy Carter and Agent Dan Sousa kissing, along with explicit scenes. It also showed Hydra controlling Barnes. Steve watched all the people he had killed. He also saw Tony killing Barnes repeatedly. Steve was the fourth to break.
At the compound...
Tony arrived home after witnessing the torture of the rogues. He sat down and relaxed in his chair. "So, sir, I see all went well," Jarvis said.
"Yes, Jarvis, it did," Tony said with a smile as he looked at the screen and saw President Ellis being sacrificed by the new United States president, a Captain America hater and Iron Man loyalist, to save the United States' face.
"Boss, you have a call," Friday said.
"Who is it, Friday?" Tony asked.
"The worthless king, boss," Friday responded. Tony sighed as he picked it up.
"Hey, Hydra supporter, how can I help?" Tony said with disrespect.
"Mr. Stark, how could you do that to my soldiers?" he yelled.
"What on earth could you mean?" Tony asked mockingly, making the king angry.
"I mean your Iron Legion killed my Dora Milaje!" T'Challa yelled, making Tony take the phone off his ear.
"Firstly, you little shit, don't ever yell at me. And secondly, did you really think you could break into my prison, sanctioned by the U.N.? But I have to thank you for sending me vibranium. With this much of
it, I can compare it to my Starkium and test both," Tony said, making T'Challa even angrier. Tony smiled; he liked it when he angered him. The so-called king of the failed nation was such a spoiled bastard. Well, it failed after Tony started selling Starkbranium.
"You will return the vibranium you scavenged from them," T'Challa said.
"Or what? Hmm, what will you do? Are you forgetting that I made anti-Wakanda weapons? I know Shuri told you. My device overheard the conversation and the fear your people had when I was demonstrating Starkbranium nukes and Vibranium Rippers," Tony mocked, making him fall silent.
"I am sorry, Mr. Stark. I will not oppose you again," T'Challa said with fear.
"Yeah, it would be best if you didn't. I don't want to use them, but if you want to send your people out to die by trying to break those traitors out, then I will respond with everything I have," Tony threatened.
"I understand. I will not oppose your will from now on, sir," T'Challa said, ending the call.
"Friday, make sure to send him the video of his precious Dora Milaje dying. It will be a reminder in case he opposes me," Tony said as he turned to the TV and saw President Ellis's head being cut off.
"Good. He deserved that," Tony said.