#sherlockmod

Okay! So I think the usual route for this is kind of survival in the wilderness amongst zombies but I have a different, slightly unconventional idea.

When the outbreak happens, the Avengers along with Tony and Peter are at the compound. It’s one of the most reinforced buildings in the entire world, therefore it’s not hard for them to protect themselves from the outside world. Don’t think for one second that Tony doesn’t fly out and rescue Pepper, Happy, May, and all of Peter’s friends and their families as well. The compound has more than enough resources to support all of them and more. However, all communication to the outside world is cut off. The last thing they saw was the public service announcement urging everybody to stay indoors.

This is the one fight they can not lead with their fists or armor. It’s up to Tony, Bruce and most of the other doctors at the compound to put their heads together and find a cure.

The hours not spent pouring over research is spent with Peter instead. Peter whose only fifteen and watching the world around him succumb to an infectious disease and by monsters only seen in movies. Tony tries to get Peter’s mind occupied on anything else than what’s going on on the outside. He can see the boy itching to go out and do something, to help in the only way he thinks he can, but that’s the last thing that will happen.

The months go by and no cure is found. They start rationing food. That’s when Peter starts to get weak. His metabolism has not yet adapted to these new circumstances. May and Tony are constantly giving him their rations (it’s nothing May hasn’t been used as they have fallen on hard times before and Tony can live off coffee for the rest of his life if need be). The boy's weight starts to drop drastically. His clothes hang off his body, exposing the sharp bones. They all lose some weight, but it’s much worse for the superhero teen. That’s when Tony decides to set up a mission with the rest of the Avengers on a food hunt. He knows it dangerous. He knows that these zombies have practically infested every square inch of this world. He knows they are stronger and faster than they thought of at first. More vicious than any movie or show could have depicted. They’ve never left a fight without a scratch, but in this case, one single scratch could mean the end. But he’d be damned if his kid starves to death.

“You’re coming back, right?” Peter asks, voice weak, as Tony kneels next to his bed. May’s on the other side, never having left her nephew’s side once he was bedridden.

“Of course, kiddo.” Tony retracts his armor from his hand in order to brush his fingers through Peter’s curls, his fingers catching some of the strands that fall. A side effect of the malnutrition. 

“Okay. Promise to be safe?”

Oh my lord, this is such an amazing idea!

So I imagine that Tony’s just about ready to pack up the evidence that he needs and destroy all of this guys’s work (apparently this guy was part ofHydra, but tended to work solo and was rather into building bombs and other weapons) when in a split second he hears a shuffle followed by someone throwing themselves onto his back and he feels a knife to his throat.

It doesn’t take long for Tony to throw the person off their shoulders and only when he turns around, pointing his thruster at them and ready to blow themto pieces does he come face to face with a tiny, scared child. Was Hydra training child soldiers or something? But this kid was scrawny (by the looks ofit a small gust of wind would easily topple him over) and bruises marred his face while rags hung off him small frame. If anything he looked more like acaptive.

“What?”

“You killed him!”

The kid throws himself at Tony once more and tries to stab him through the armor.

Tony easily takes the knife away and throws it back before wrapping his arms around the child. Peter struggles in his arms and Tony tries to calm him down.

“Easy kid. No one’s gonna hurt you.”

“You hurt him! You killed him!”

“Because he was a bad guy!”

“No you’re the bad guy! He said so!”

Tony just huffs, but wraps his arm tighter around the kid, mostly to keep the kid from hurting himself from thrashing around. It doesn’t take long for the kid to start crying and begging Tony not to hurt him. Not to take him away again.

“Did this man take you away from your family?” When Peter nods, Tony’s horrified at the thought of what this child might have endured under this man’scare.

Peter’s has stopped thrashing around at this point and is just limp in Tony’s arms, crying silently. Tony gets a better look at him, seeing the scars, cutsand bruises around his face. He’s positive he’d find the same injuries all over his body too.

Tony doesn’t know why, but he has a sudden need to protect this kid. More so th an any of the other kids he saved. He loosens up his arms, but brings Peterin closer to his chest, trying to convey as much comfort and warmth he can through the suit. It’d be better for him to hold the kid in his actual arms,but he’s still not sure if this is all one elaborate trap.

“Shh, I’m gonna take you, but somewhere safe and then we can find your parents, okay?”

At this point Peter has just accepted the fact that this man now had control over him and whether or not what he was saying was true, it didn’t matterbecause Peter was never going to be strong enough to escape from Iron Man’s hold, similar to how he couldn’t escape from the man who kidnapped him.