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  Triskelion

  –Jack Sullivan–

  “So, let me get this straight,” Tony Stark’s insufferable voice was starting to grate on his nerves now.

  “Yes, Mr.Stark?”

  “You were initially OK with essentially massag thousands of people in cold blood and Jarvis was going to carry it out as well. But suddenly, you had a ge of heart and were somehow able to shut down Jarvis. The same Jarvis that was capable of evading everything I threw at him without much difficulty,” The disbelief in Tony’s voice was easily identifiable.

  “Yes, Tony, I was able to shut him down but not for long. Think of it like this, I hit his core ters with a file with unknown parameters and forced him to open it, not giving him the option to ig at all. Now, if it were just a normal puter program, it would just shut down but si was an awakened Artificial Intelligence like Jarvis–”

  “He would just learn how to read the file and e back all the more stronger for it. What did you do anyway? For him to just shut dowhing,” Tony’s intense curiosity about the topic gave him a pause as he pted if telling Tony would be the right thing to do or not.

  A, he told him all the same, “Uh, so, I just transmitted my thoughts, my feelings oter,”

  “Your…feelings? About killing thousands of people? So you essentially transmitted your moral code to an AI?” Tony Stark asked him slowly, clearly not believing it but having no other choice than to accept the expnation since he was just as mu the dark as everyone else.

  “And what a thing it was to see. It even mao dent Cap’s shield. I thought that was supposed to be impossible,” t’s voice reached them as all three of them stood on a ptform made up of his barriers, watg as rows after rows of HYDRA prisoners were offloaded into a prototype prison. If his knowledge was to be believed, the version of the prison would be the Raft, a prison specially for the super powered people.

  The remaining SHIELD loyalists were the ones who were making sure that all HYDRA personnel were tagged a in cells, while they also made sure to check for the ide pill that most of them had, but were too cowardly to bite. Already, they had lost a dozen people to the pill and while that was still valuable information lost, he didn’t feel anything about it.

  After all, they were still Nazi pieces of shit.

  He could feel everyone's gaze turn to him as t said out loud something that was supposed to be all but impossible.

  Denting Cap’s shield, he really did it. Without Vibranium, just the sheer amount of energy eled through his fists as he pu the shield with all his might somehow leave a dent in it, shog Cap when he saw it for the first time.

  “Vibranium does have its limits, you know. They are absurdly high and I don’t think Little Green here replicate that absurd amount of energy tration anytime soon but just knowing that it be done is s enough. It just goes to show that everything has its own limits. No one khe limits of Vibranium and they do now,” Tony said as he kept on coordinating the efforts to make sure that all the three carriers were safely stowed away in orbit, just as he had pnned.

  “Are the ons all depowered?” He couldn’t help but ask once again as Tony had depowered every single energy on on board using his software but he was still not sure about that. He khat anything digital could not be trusted at all, especially oh.

  “Yeah yeah, I did it the first thing I got my hands on the exquisite interface that Jarvis had built around the ehing. Just goes to show that he ied my talents,”

  Tony’s words raised his eyebrows. He was of the opinion that Tony had been deeply hurt by Jarvis’ departure but it seems that Tony still loved Jarvis like his son.

  Good to know, he smiled to himself as Tony tio work on the carriers, while the military copters hovered all around them, “monit” their work.

  He scoffed at that. As if the gover had any power over him. Stark could just cim that he was just doing as Jack Sullivan, the stro man oh had ordered.

  It had been a day since he revealed himself to the world through that small statement he made to that stupid media house. Holy, it just felt s to him that the stupid stunts they pulled that day, probably resulted in minuscule fines but beed them in the form of vastly increased TRP and views they must have received i 24 hours.

  The gover response was as expected. The same people who were very eager to turn him into the “Ameri Hero” and ask for votes in his name were now very wary and cautious of him. If not for his immense powers, then for the immense political clout he had in the form of the rabid following he had gained from all age groups from almost all tries.

  Of course, his greatest supproup still came from the States and that just turned into his strength. From yesterday, he had received han 6 invitations from various departments of the US gover and also an information invitation from POTUS himself, to have dinner.

  Now, he khat his worth to the politis only came from his immense power and the votes he could turn from his words but the fact remaihat he had this power and it would be remiss on his part to not use that.

  “So, the Army called. And the Navy, and the Air Force, along with the NSA, CIA, DOJ, and almost all the alphabet agencies called for you. What are you going to do about that? For ohey are not going to be happy with three orbital ons ptforms being in the trol of a single individual,” Tony said casually as he came to hover o him, the process to geo lock the Carriers in orbit apparently plete.

  He could see the glow from the repulsines dim as Tony’s algorithm meant that they would just passively maintain orbit. Unless a satellite came deliberately close to the carriers, the onboard ons systems would not activate, even then none of the high powered sers would be activated.

  He sighed, “Well, as you guess, the carriers will be on the agenda but that is not going to be the main topic of discussion. We need something to aggregate Earth's strength into something unified and SHIELD came pretty close to that. There are things out there that–well, I guess, you will find out soon enough anyway,” He replied as the eform they were in, passed through a portal, and arrived on Titan, the home p of Thanos himself.

  “Whoa-What the fuuu-” Tony said, stunned into silence as they all found themselves in the ruins of the ohriviernal civilization.

  He could take a guess and say that hundreds of years had probably passed sihe st Eternal lived here, judging by the various states of disrepair and the crashed satellites along with what looked like highly advanced space stations.

  “This,” He turo the people present in the small bubble that still held a signifit packet of Earth’s atmosphere, especially the pressed air that he kept in a small walled off spa the bad of the barrier, “Is Titan, former home p of the Titans, an immortal, un-aging iergy wielding race of aliens,”

  Tony’s facepte slid off, showing off his stunned and stupefied expression for everyoo witness. Tony’s suit was no doubt sing everything for all its worth.

  Captain Rogers and t looked around the ruins as the barrier pocket flew low and high, taking them through twists and turns while he took care not to disturb anything, showing respect for the dead, something that Thanos would not care for, when he dropped rge pieces of aire moon on Tony’s Mark 85.

  “What happened here?” t asked them as they found themselves high up in space, above one of the smaller moons that littered the space around Titan. He could see simirly ruiructures on the moon as well. Some of it had been clearly crashed from orbit, judging by the crater marks around it, some of it was built into the nd and had just rusted beyond being reisable.

  “Overpopution? Limited Resources? Civil War? Take your pick. It matters not. What matters is that a highly advanced race such as this one found themselves dying without the axy even knowing about them.”

  He said as Tony and the others found themselves increasingly horrified at the state of the ruins they found on the Moon and the surrounding areas as well.

  It was clear that the Titans were an advanced race, sidering they had artificial structures built on every single moon around their home world, ahey had fallen all the same.

  “I show you this not because I want to scare you but to show you what and has happeo races who didn’t take the future and their p the os seriously. The Titans could fly unaided, even through space. And even they fell apart like this. If only they had introduced birth trol measures if only they had expanded outwards to the rest of the os if only they had listeade Mad Titan.”

  He looked at ead every one of them as he tinued, “I don’t want the human race to leave survivors who would ponder on the same questions one day. No, I want humanity to survive, and dare I say, thrive.”

  Slowly, they came back, h above the moon, looking at the ruins of the p. He could feel Tony was about to ask him t along some of the advaech that was lying around, even if most of it was more rust than anything useful.

  Before Tony could get the question in though, “No, Tony. This is the graveyard of the Titans and as much as the teology could be useful, I don’t want to be the oo disrespect the dead. Death doesn’t like that very much. Leave them be, we are about to run out of oxygen anyway,”

  Slowly, they passed through a portal that opened up in front of them, depositing them in the same pce they were in before. Only this time, they found themselves fag a huge fleet proudly bearing the US Fg on it.

  “Think about what I said before taking any huge as, Tony. If you have any more questions, feel free to approach me. You are the one who is going to make the most waves after this, be careful of what you do,” He said to Tony who didn’t say anything but rocketed off towards the coast, no doubt rocked to the core with what he had seen on Titan, something so close to Earth.

  “Well, I safely say that I wished I had something to make it all fet. If you’ll excuse me, I have somewhere to be,” t said with a haunted look on his face. It made sense when you thought of the fact that t was still an average if hoo his maximum potential, a human who ying in leagues way above his weight category.

  “If you will, New York, please,” t said to him and he obliged as a burning e portal maed in front of them.

  He turo the Captain who nodded slightly at him, his slightly dented shield still held in his one hand. He khat only Wakanda had any hope of repairing it and out of the guilt he felt for depriving the man of his signature on, he would ask T’Chal to help repair it.

  I am sure Wakandan researchers will be very ied to find out that someone had just punched a dent in a Vibranium Shield, however, aided by pure energy they might.

  Hell, Shuri might just have stars in her eyes at the information alone.

  “Shall we, captain?” He asked the Captain as they alighted on the Navy ship with helicopters h nearby as s above their head. The overall amount of fathered to wele him was slightly overwhelming.

  Apparently, the gover was very much rattled by his abrupt appearand disappeara.

  Let’s see what they have in store for him, shall we?

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  A/N - Slight political shenaniga chapter. :)