Chapter 82 - Infuriating Mystery (1/2)
(Avengers Tower)
In a dark room, the only sources of light were the numerous screens that lit up the room. Sitting before the big screen in the middle, Tony Stark let out a small groan as he took a peek at the screen before him. 'Nothing new' With bags under his eyes and disheveled hair Tony looked like he was on his last legs, as his head lolled up and down trying to stay awake.
Just as his head touched his folded arms and it looked like he would succ.u.mb to the land of dreams, the voice of his trusted AI spoke up. ”Internal Analysis complete, Sir.” Tony bolted up right brushing the tiredness out of his eyes. ”Results Jarvis”
”Sir, the code that took over the suit and controlled our systems could not be traced and I could not find how it got past our firewalls.” *Bang* ”How is that possible?!” Tony slammed his hands on the desk in front of him as he turned to look at the suit behind him.
The incident at the mall was one of the most humiliating situations he had ever been in. He couldn't gain control of his own suit! How did Spider-Man do it!? Tony couldn't get the thought out of his head! Which was why for the last 2 days, he had been trying to figure just that exact question out.
He was practically ripping his hair out at all the dead ends he had run into now. The suit had been opened up, manually checked for any device that could have bypassed his systems or error that may have occurred, hell the transmission that connected to the suit was one of two clues they had and it lead nowhere!
Tony's mind was exploding with the burning question that raged behind it. Just as he was about to bang his head into the desk Jarvis continued. ”Though comparing the signal code that infiltrated the suit, I have discovered a similarity to the code that hacked our systems that one time you tried to follow, Miss Romanoff.”
Tony stopped all movement for a second as the implications ran through his mind, Spider-Man could be linked to the person Natasha met that one time he followed her! After that exact incident Tony had held to his promise with Clint and set about checking his systems to see what had happened.
Much like this time, he had spent days before finally having to give up, though he had created a file on the mysterious hacker that had made it into his system. Tony really, really, really wanted to find out who Natasha was meeting at the time, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
How do you broach to one of the most dangerous women in the world, ”Yeah, so I was tailing you with a satellite when you went to the park to meet whoever you usually do, and someone hacked my system stopping me from finding out who it was. Could you possible tell me who it is so that I can do a background check, find out everything about them and possible interrogate them about how they did it? Pleeeeeease?”
Tony had done some stupid stuff in his time, but he wasn't that stupid. He would be lucky if they found any body parts after telling Natasha a quarter of that sentence. He was lucky, but he wasn't that lucky. He would give that honor to Cap, after surviving in the ice for an ungodly amount of time, which shouldn't have worked. Or maybe legolas somehow surviving and fighting in an alien invasion with a fricking bow and arrows.
And Natasha could take down both of them as well, given enough time and equipment. Nope, nope, nope. He let that little mystery die, though he would think about it every now and then. And now! He finds out that Spider-Man also had the help of this mysterious hacker?!?!