(MCU) Forged Reality: Chapter 29 – Switching coats

Chapter 29 – Switching coats

Summary: Alliances crumble as betrayals unfold, leaving Tony torn between family and duty.

Wanda broke at that moment. She didn’t care about her cover, or about Rogers. She barley heard Van-Dyne screaming at the top of her voice “SCOTT! STOP! NOW!”

Her hands shot forward as she used her power to halt the foot midair. Causing Lang to grunt in confusion. “Maximoff?” Van-Dyne asked carefully.

Wanda ignored her, the anger fueling more than just her power but her mindset as well. She increased the spread of her powers until it covered Lang’s entire body and she picked him up to the air.

His oddly deep voice calling out in confusion “Wh… What’s going oooon?”

“Maximoff!” Van-Dyne snapped at her from behind, but before she could say anything else she was pushed away from Wanda and her brother stood between the two.

Pietro smirked down at Van-Dyne and asked too casually “You called?”

The sound of a loaded gun filled the air as Sharon’s voice, wasn’t she fighting Romanoff a moment ago?, spoke “Wanda, what are you doing to him? We are on the same team.”

Wanda was about to drop Lang and turn to her when the gun was knocked out of her hands by an arrow. Clint jumped at the CIA agent’s way and said “Sorry blondie, you got the wrong number with this one.”

“Clint?!” Romanoff’s voice cut the air in outrage “What are you doing here, you said you retired!”

So the red-head was still awake, meaning she turned on Tony already and was playing with Steve’s team now, which works just fine for Wanda she was so done with all this acting.

Clint snorted back at her “And look at what happened, you and Steve are going around on killing sprees and refuse to take responsibility.”

Romanoff voice was mock soothing “it’s not like this Clint, whatever Stark told you  is a lie.”

Clint rolled his eyes at her “Tony didn’t tell me anything Nat, I was watching it all happening and made my own mind, and so did Laura, think twice before you make yours.” Clint then turned to Sharon and said “And so do you, are in pretty deep shit already, you should really come in peacefully and make things easier for yourself.”

Sharon shook her head “I can’t let Steve down.” Was all she said as she attacked, Clint blocked her knife with his bow before retaliating.

Meanwhile Van-Dyne was trying to make her way toward Wanda, she tried shrieking to get past Pietro, but her twin was too fast, able to track her movements and swap her back to the ground each time.

Wanda’s entire concentration was immediately back on Lang when she noticed much less strain on her powers. What she saw was the man back in his regular size, his helmet popped off and already making its way to the ground.

He was hanging upside down in the air, his face twisted and he spoke, now with his usual voice “is anyone else taste sour lemon.”

Unable to get past Pietro Van-Dyne shouted in frustration “Maximoff! Put him down.”

A little wicked grin spread on her lips as Wanda shrugged and put down her arms “Don’t say I am not a team player.”

Lang began shirking as he was dropped from the height of the airport building, headfirst toward the ground. Van-Dyne’s eyes as well as Carter’s almost popped out of their sockets and the former screamed “Scott! Maximoff, stop this!”

Wanda shrugged “Hey he was the one who went all giant, he should deal with the consequences of doing it. I find it ironic he was about to step on Tony, and now he will be the one pancaked on the ground.”

Van-Dyne opened her mechanical wings and was about to take off when an orange energy beam hit her jetpack, creating a hole in it and disabling the wings. Before the raven-headed woman got her barring’s Pietro sped around her and tied her up, allowing her to drop to the floor, now immobilized.

Carter was quick to follow her when Clint landed a binding arow past her defenses. The blonde groaned and tried to struggle on the ground against the metal lines binding her.

Van-Dyne after shaking off her daze began struggling against the bonds screaming out a distressed “Scott!!!”

“I got the idiot.” A familiar voice called out.

All of them turned their heads to the source of the sound, to see Tony flying a little over the ground, holding Lang by the back of his belt. The man had tears in his eyes and was shaking.

She could hear the whispered ‘Tony’ from the women on the floor but she kept her focus on the man himself, who gave her a look and said “We will have to talk about its later Wanda, but for…”

Whatever Tony was about to say was cut off when Rhodey’s voice screamed from the comms “Tones. Rogers, Barnes and Wilson made a run for the quinjet me and T’Challa are on pursuit.”

Everyone turned to see Rogers and Barnes running like mad, T’Challa behind them catching up. Meanwhile, in the sky Wilson picking up attitude trying to shake off Rhodey.

It looked like the three of them will be caught soon enough, until out of the hangar came Romanoff, she raised her arms and shot three widow bites at T’Challa, causing the man to halt in place, groan and fall to his knee as electricity went through his body.

Romanoff followed this up by throwing a grandee as high as she could toward the quickly descending Flacon and War-Machine.

She looked down at the kneeling prince and said with a small mock apologetic smile “they were not going to stop, this….”

“Criminals never stop running from their crimes… well the smart ones I have known at least.” T’Challa retorted.

Romanoff took a moment too long to realize what his words meant, she raised her hand for another shot, but the prince was quicker and a kick to her face knocked her our.

Meanwhile, the grandee went off releasing a wave that didn’t impact the falcon equipment, but shut down the War-Machine’s

While Wilson kept flying toward the hangar, Rhodey began panicking as he began dropping to the ground at dangerous speed.

There was a yelp from Lang as Tony dumped him on the ground on his mad dash toward Rhodey.

Just before he caught up to Rhodey Tony noticed Wilson descending toward the ground. Tony growled and let couple of missiles loose.

The missile met their targets just before Wilson could entered a lending position, blowing out his wings and the rest of his systems causing the man to land on the ground face first.

Wilson groaned into the comms before saying firmly “Steve, you and Barnes need to leave, now, the rest of us lost here, you are our only hope.”

Tony managed to grab Rhodey midair and turned so they would crash-land with Tony softening Rhodey’s landing.

Tony quickly laid Rhodey on the ground, tearing the mask of helmet away. Rhodey had a trail of blood coming down his nose and Tony began to desperately shaking him.

Suddenly his eyes flew open, and he coughed a little. Rhodey looked around a little dazed, he opened his mouth to say something when the quinjet broke the hanger it was stored in and took off from the inside.

Wanda cursed internally. Romanoff must stolen her password and used it to take control of the jet.

“What’s going on Tones?” Rhodey asked a little shakily.

Tony shook his head with a little dismay “Rogers and Barnes just got away, we have the rest of them tied up.”

Rhodey nodded and pushed himself to his feet, his suit apparently regained power just after the fall, whatever Romanoff used was obviously temporary, and Tony let out a breath he didn’t realize he was holding seeing Rhodey walking normally. “Are you sure you are okay?” Tony couldn’t help but asking.

Rhodey shrugged casually “This fall is going to leave couple of marks, and I am going to be bruised all over for a week. But I will live. Now lets go and handle the fish we did get.”

Tony and Rhodey walked in to see Wilson, Sharon, Hope, Lang and a knocked out Romanoff all tied up and sited up on the ground. Around them stood Pietro, Wanda, Clint, T’Challa, Vision, Peter and Kate.

Vision looked disapprovingly at Wilson and said dryly “You see Mr. Wilson, as I said, a tragedy.”

Wilson glared back at Vision “The only tragedy here is forcing Steve to face the winter soldiers alone because of Stark’s ego.”

“Oh, don’t worry Wilson we will deal with the winter soldiers soon enough.” Rhodey spoke as he made his presence known. Tony noticed Wilson’s shoulders sunk a little when he saw Rhodey walking in. His brother than looked down at five captured people and said flatly “You can all consider yourselves arrested. You will have your day in court, but until then due to your special circumstances all of you will be held in a special facility.”

There was a whimper everyone ignored as Sharon tried to protest “We were following Captain America! And Maximoff was on our team for most of the fight, she fought without signing the accords either.”

Wanda glared back at the blonde “Some of us are not star struck worshipers who will betray Tony in a drop of a hat.”

Sharon and Hope both flinched violently, and did so once again when Tony spoke “I will have you know Agent Carter, Ms. Maximoff have signed the accords alongside me, and was my spy on Steve’s team since day one. She is safe, you on the other hand.”

Hope looked at Tony with the same wide and pleading eyes, he remembered she did all those years ago when she wanted him to teach her how to be a businesswoman. Even her voice was somehow the same “Tony…”

Tony looked at her with an equally sad expression “What do you want from me Hope?”

Hope tried to shift a little in her bonds but when that failed she pleaded with her voice “I love him Tony, I only wanted to help him and be a hero, like you were to me.”

Tony sighed heavily “I’m glad you found someone who made you happy Hope but helping him a letting the idiot drag you into this fiasco it’s two different things. You should have known better or at least spoken with me first. You wanted to be a hero like me, but I believe in taking responsibility while you stood next to a man who was willing to dismiss countless deaths because he was the one causing them. I’m sure old Hank has his hand in this too somehow, but you should have known better.”

Tony then turned to Sharon, who looked away from him “As should have you, Sharon. I know you fed Steve info about Barnes, and gave him his equipment back during the breakout, but I hoped you will have more sense than follow him into this fiasco of a battle. You endangered civilians, Sharon!”

Sharon snapped her wide and shining eyes to him “He is Captain America he was suppose to have a plan! Aunt Peggy always told us he has a plan. What was I supposed to do?!”

“Talk with me!” Tony screamed at her “Aunt Peggy told us that the most important thing in the world is for you and me to watch each other’s backs. I love you Sharon, you are my baby cousin and I would move the Earth to help you if you would have asked. Instead you made both of us to break this promise to Aunt Peggy.”

“W…What will happen to us now?” Came the whimpering voice of Lang.

Tony shrugged “Just like Rhodey said, you will be held until your day in court and from there it will deepen on your sentence. Though in your case I wouldn’t expect much good news Mr. Dang.”

Hope turned to see teas leaking out of her boyfriend’s eyes before she turned to Tony and tried to plead again “Tony, he has a kid, please.”

Tony shook his head “And what you want me to do hope? None of us are above the law, not even me. We all have to pay the price for our actions this is what all of this is about. I want to help, believe me it hurts me to see you and Sharon like this, but the moment you showed up in this airport you combined your fates with Steve’s.” He turned away from them and said with finality “You tied my hands. There is nothing I can do.”

He walked away the voices of his childhood friend and baby cousin calling to him echoing behind.