The Cool Way

"What do we know about this guy so far?" Fury asked the Avengers who were all together.

"We know he can transform into those creatures that gives him and edge over all of us. I mean, he just turned my suit into a Hulk busting suit just by attaching himself into it! I think I can get a long with him!" Tony excitedly answered.

"He just got a hard on over his car when we were retrieving it," Natasha said with a small smirk.

"Did you see that car? No exhaust meaning no fuel so I thought he might have copied my Ark Reactor. But no! He was using Zero Energy! Zero Energy!" Tony continued.

"What's Zero Energy?" Steve asked, confused as the others were except for Banner.

"Imagine a megaton of nuclear warheads going off. Then now, shrink it to the size of a firefly's light against another megaton of nuclear warheads. And that's just a small size, might even not reaching a kilogram!" Banner answered, excited as well. But the others were horrified.

"We need to take that car out of Earth ASP!" Fury said and was about to start planning how to do it when Tony stopped him.

"Don't you realize what this means! If we can study how he made Zero Energy into a car battery, we can use it as an alternative for fuel and nuclear energy! Going to Mars or even beyond would just take a day or even minutes! No electricity shortage or food shortage at that matter! We just hit a jackpot because one person decided to make a car battery!" Tony said, tears of excitement rolling down his cheeks. Just then, a young man in a lab coat got into the room in panic.

"Sir, its the car! It just activated, broadcasting its location to its owner and now nobody can get ten feet close to it without been turned to ashes!" the young man said, making everyone be taken back.

"Then tell them not to come close to it. You are dismissed, Agent Fitz," Fury said and the young man left. "Looks like he will be coming to us."

"We need to be ready. We previously thought he needs to speak out the names of the creatures he transforms into but it appears we were wrong. So, we need to hit him before he changes, take him out then put him in a holding cell that can contain everything he throws at it," Steve said, making everyone but Tony nod. "Do you have something against that plan?"

"Of course I do. What if he turns into a being that can control metal or even reality? How will we stop him?" Tony asked him.

"What do you suggest?" Burton asked.

"A friendly talk. We sit down with him and we share information. He might even come here with a grenade made of Zero Energy and threaten to detonate it if we do not give him his car back."

"It has already been established that he's a hostile, we will not talk to such a dangerous individual!" Fury said, making Tony sigh in disappointment as he got up. /Where are you going?"

"Home, to make a new suit now that my latest has been taken away. I have so many ideas I don't even know where to start. Don't wait up," Tony answered and got out without even looking back.

Henry had realized that he had left his car behind and that SHIELD would have already seized it and with how much tech it had, they would strip it before trying to duplicate it all so he decided to activate the alarm. It will vaporize anyone that the AI seems as a threat to the car in a ten foot radius. Now, he had a choice. He could either turn into a cool alien like Four Arms of even Way Big and take the car back or he can use the cool way. Be decided to take the cool way.

So, he looked for a good music tutor to teach him how to play the flute. In three days, he found a middle aged man who was quite cheap but had good reviews so he signed up. The man started teaching him how to play in just half a day since he was nearby and so he started a two months eighteen hours a day rehearsal on how to play the damn thing. His dedication played off that he could play it even in his sleep without missing a tone.

Then came another two weeks of studying psychology with Grey Matter. When he was done, thanks to Grey Matter's intelligence, he had figured out what to do in order for his plan to work. He bought a rather expensive flute then took it to the lab where Grey Matter started doing his experiments. A week later, Henry walked out of the lab holding the world's first Piper's Flute.

"Let's put this baby to a test run," he told himself as he clicked on a button on his watch. Options of different kind of animals appeared in it and he chose birds.

"Target chose. Pairing to Piper's Flute in three seconds...Done. Happy playing," the watch said then turned dark. Henry smiled evilly before playing a tune of his own.

A few birds near him suddenly looked entranced. They stood rigid for a second before they chirped loudly and flew next to him. Henry could have smiled if he was not playing so he just gave them the mental command he wanted them to do. He first told them to fly around the building twice and they obeyed without hesitation. He then commanded them to bring him food and they did, bringing him worms, nuts and some thrown away half eaten burgers. Seeing that his mission was a success, he sent them away, stopped playing as the smile on his face never ceased.

"SHIELD must be thinking that I am preparing myself extensively in order to break in. They will never see this coming," he chuckled to himself as he got into the ordinary bike he had and followed the marker on his phone to his car.

It took him two days to reach the site the car was in and it was two days well spent. Grey Matter had tinkered with his phone, turning into a world class hacking device capable of turning the hardest firewalls into paper walls against a wrecking ball. When he got there, with just a tap on on his phone, the gates swung open for him and he got in. The whole base went into alert when he let a camera spot him, making everyone armed person in there to come out and meet him. Soon, he was surrounded by hundreds of armed men ready to shoot him. To add icing to the cake, the Avengers arrived minus Tony.

"Come quietly, Henry, you are surrounded and outnumbered!" Steve shouted at him.

"Captain America, I didn't expect to find you here!" Henry replied, sarcastically. "Say, you have been in ice for seventy years, right? So you might not have caught up with the latest songs yet. That's fine, I have something that will jog your memory right back." Henry then removed his flute and put it to his lips. His watch had already been calibrated to Human before he got into the base.

"Stop him before he starts playing!" Steve said words that he never thought he would ever say in his life but he knew whatever Henry was about to do was not good. However, he had hardly said the fourth word when Henry played the first tone. If anyone could see sound waves, they would have seen how that sound wave travelled to everyone, making their bodies rigid for a second once it reached their ears. They were all already entranced when the second time was played, the Avengers were not exempted. Even Bruce with the help of Hulk proved not to be immune to this brainwashing tune.

Henry continued playing for a few minutes to makes sure he got them all before he started giving mental commands. Just for the fun of it, he made them all dance like it was a musical, with a few of them singing a Glee club song just to make this time special and embarrassing for them to watch later. He made Steve and Natasha the man and woman of the hour by partnering them up for this, putting them in between the dancers. This went on for an hour before he led a toga line into the base, capturing anyone who was hiding into becoming his musical thrall. The toga line became so big that even if it started from the centre of the building, it would end at the gate and front door.

During all of this, his watch was recording the whole tunes. When he got into his car, the watch uploaded it to the comms of everyone, making them continue the toga even while he was gone. But the effect was less than when it was being produced by the flute and Hulk burst out of the entrancement first. He had changed from Banner and he was out for blood but his target had already gone. To pent out his anger, he broke into the energy room and broke the grid supplying the place electricity. This made them snap out of their stupor and with the memories of what happened flooding in, none of them wanted to look at each other, especially the Avengers and Fury. He took his phone and called Tony.

"Your suggestion of a peaceful talk, how do we do it?" he asked in a flat tone. Tony was quiet for a few seconds before he burst out laughing they Fury even heard him fall! A tick mark grew on his head and he was about to rebuke him when Tony's laughter grew even more uproarious making Fury hang up steering in anger.

"Henry!" he growled, vengefully.