Bucky was again thrown away but this time he was bleeding profusely from his shoulder and Tony again charged his arc reactor to shoot at Bucky. Steve was stunned by this sudden action and for a moment couldn't hold onto Tony.
As Tony charged the arc reactor he suddenly saw his armor being dismantled. In a moment's notice all his armor fell off. Tony fell down while Steve seeing Tony had stopped ran to Bucky.
It was John who dismantled his armor as he needed the fight to stop. John walked to Bucky, he was unconscious now due to pain. John hand's caught blue fire as he touched the wound of Bucky. His frowned unconscious face finally relaxed a bit.
Then John put his hands on his pocket and brought out the philosopher's stone. After touching the stone with his left he touched the right shoulder. And miraculously a new arm started to grow out of the shoulder. First came the bones, then the muscle, the veins and lastly the skin. All this happened within seconds and soon there was a bran new arm for Bucky which looked exactly like the previous.
Banner and other were dumbfounded by this but then remembered the power of the philosopher's stone. Bucky gained consciousness and he was the most surprised as he saw that his lost arm had grown back.
"Jarvis. Call Mark 42. It isn't over yet. Call all the suits out." Tony said.
"It's enough. Do you think 42 will accompany you in this path of revenge. Do you think I will allow you to continue the fight? Didn't you fight enough?" John said and it was the first time he had a very serious face. 42 would never come to help Tony as anything made by the cube was at the end under the control of John. John gave Tony the cube so that he could profit off him.
"He killed my parents John. I can't forgive him for this." Tony said.
"Do you think he had control over it? Or did you think Hydra would let your parents go after they decided to murder your father. Are you so naive that you want you let vengeance take your control? What about the thousands of families that your weapons killed? What do you say about that? Huh?" John said with a more greater tone.
"I had no control over the weapons. He did it with his own hands." Tony retorted.
"Hands. You made weapons Tony. Are you so naive to think that it would never fall in wrong hands? You wanted to make profit, you wanted to build an empire greater than your father to satisfy your ego and show the world that you are better than him. It didn't occur to you that what you did was wrong before Yinsen almost sacrificed his life."
"But I am a changed man now." Tony again said.
"Than do you think Bucky will kill everyone again? At least he suffers from nightmares from all the innocents he had killed. You don't even know the faces of the people that your weapons killed." John said.
Tony went silent when John said that. Steve didn't utter a single word in that debate as he was too concerned about Bucky. He was relieved to see that Bucky was all and well. Even though he lost his metal arm but that was easily replaceable by technology.
Steve finally lifted Bucky to his feet. Even though John had healed all his injuries by the philosopher's stone, both were exhausted.
"I can't forgive him John, I just can't." Tony was adamant.
"I am not asking you to forgive him. But I am asking you to be united when the time demands. Much bigger and dangerous wars are coming Tony. The wars which we all might not even survive, enemies which will make us desperate, weapons that you couldn't even imagine. I need us to be together. Avengers cannot fall." John said with more grave tone.
Tony, Steve and others didn't speak a word against it. Even if they don't know what war is John speaking about but seeing the serious face of John it meant the upcoming times wouldn't be peaceful like now.
"Alright let's go inside, we need to talk." John said.
Everybody went inside. Tony went ahead as he couldn't stand the look of Bucky. He stopped because he knew no matter what he couldn't kill Bucky and even if he did that wouldn't be justice. Hydra was already dead. He just felt more angry thinking he didn't give them a more gruesome death. And Tony also knew with all the members of the team present it wouldn't be good as nobody would allow the fight to continue.
They all sat in a big table. This was officially the first meeting of the Avengers after it was formed. Even though it started with violence, nonetheless everyone was present except for the green lanterns. Even though Emma never joined the Avengers she was already considered one.
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Tony didn't join the meeting. He was too angry and worn out mentally to even attend the meeting. So he just left. John didn't mind that, he was actually little surprised.
He thought Tony would be more adamant in killing Bucky. That was anti-climactic.
"First of all, I am sorry Bucky. I introduced the team in such a way that you all had to almost had a close call of death. But I needed that secret to be out. I can't jeopardize our team for such a secret." John said.
Bucky nodded his head to John but didn't speak. He had always been silent and now after going through such times he had become more like a monk.
"I guess Steve has introduced every one of us to you. So I will skip the formalities. I called everyone here because firstly I will be leaving Earth soon for bringing more members to the team. They have landed in another planet and Earth is too unknown of a planet for them to find us." John said.
"Space travel? We don't even have spaceships." Arthur said.
"We have. It's just that it's landed in Mars for us to use." John said with a smile.
"Spaceships in Mars? Is that the reason why you asked us to make Starscream? So that we can go to Mars and occupy the spaceships?" Wayne asked.
"Yes and also because we have a world engine machine in Mars. We will terraform Mars according to Earth. I want to colonize Mars and have people settle there too." John said.
"The world engine of the Kryptonians. They have arrived too? My God. That is a very powerful weapon. Will the governments even allow us to keep that weapon?" Banner asked.
"Doesn't matter if they don't allow us. I will make sure they follow us and don't disturb us. During wars it's us who take the front lines. And it's not like the weapon is at Earth. Wayne can have access to the world engine and since he is an official of the government he can help us convey our thoughts to the world council when the time comes."John said.
"It still won't be easy. They will come after us." Steve said. He knows how politics works. Politics is dirty and it will be a heavy weight for them.
"I know. I will use countermeasures against it. Don't worry about them. They are just jumping clowns." John said as frankly he never cared about weak people who just know how to sway public opinion. He had more than one way to deal with them.
"So you will take a Kryptonian ship and fly with one to bring new comrades?" Mera asked.
"Yes. That's the plan. It will be long journey and there would be enemies too." John said.
"Enemies? Will they be powerful. Do you need our help?" Diana asked.
"No. I will be fine and new comrades will join in too. So it will be easy." John replied.
"John I have a request. Can you take Bucky with you. I guess the planets in the universe will be more advanced than us. I wish to cure Bucky completely. I am not sure if their physiology is same as us but I want him to be at least checked. Plus you have seen how Tony is with him. Bucky needs to be out of picture for sometime." Steve asked.
"Are you sure about that? He will still have to go to Mars and I am pretty much sure Tony will join in our first adventure to Mars." John asked.
"It's ok. If it's not much trouble I will join in this adventure and try to keep Tony out and help Bucky."
"OK fine. It's not like we are going now to Mars. Will still take a couple of months for us to go. I hope Tony will calm down by then." John said.
"Another thing about us is that there might be a new member among us. It's Geralt. I guess all of you have seen his character from the game I made. He is in New York and currently completing a witcher contract of mine. After he completes that he will join the team." John said.
"Wow I played that game. He knows a bit of magic. Does magic really exist?" Banner asked.
"Yes. It exists. But there are different forms of magic." John said.
"Good a new member. Even though I didn't play the game I went through the character. Doesn't he play solo always." Steve asked.
"He will do anything for coins. Don't bother with that. It's a pity that Natasha and Clint didn't join the meeting. I heard Fury was able to convince Oliver to join." John asked Wayne.
"Yes. I have known him from my universe. Seeing me sitting as the Secretary he decided to join. They went on a mission to search for Strucker." Wayne replied.
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