Chapter 105 - Jarvis Supremacy & Best Use Of Superpowers I

It was an emergency of the highest order. A powerful AI with Pym's personality was a threat to the world. The fact that it tried to take over Jarvis made everything else clear. It was expanding and covering the world.

So, Tony went ahead and raised the alarm. He cut off the entire United States defense infrastructure from the internet. He then called the Avengers to discuss dealing with the threat. The real challenge when dealing with an AI was that you can never know if you've wiped it all out.

Even if you can say that you've deleted it from the internet, there is a high chance that it's still hiding somewhere offline on some old device.

"Darcy put my schedule on hold," Tony called his secretary. "Superhero work."

"But boss, it's your State of the Union address."

Tony scratched his head in annoyance. He hated such worthless events. It didn't matter what he said in Congress since actions spoke louder than words. "When is it?"

"In three hours. You can't postpone this, Sir. It's a Joint Session." Darcy tried to reason. As the woman responsible for the president's schedules and appointments, managing his correspondence, managing the staff, and communicating with the press, she didn't want to handle the shitstorm of postponing a Joint Session. "It's just a thirty-minute speech."

Tony had already stood up and summoned his nano suit on his body by then. "What do you think? I can take down a world-ending AI based on one of the smartest minds alive—second to me, obviously—in three hours and still make it to the Capitol on time?"

"W-Wh-What? What do you mean?"

He flipped the switch and the massive window of the Oval Office started opening up. Stealthily, he took off into the sky, picking up speed once he was high enough to not shatter the eardrums of poor folks.

"Forget it, Darcy. I'll do my best to be fashionably on time. Speech is locked and loaded, and I've got some bad news for Congress—well, good news for everyone else. See you later."

Going from the East Coast to the West Coast was normally a long journey, but for Tony's suit, it was a matter of less than ten minutes. In no time, he arrived in San Francisco and located Pym's location.

It was annoying since he couldn't access Jarvis' network and the full capabilities of surveillance. The entire internet was compromised.

"That's his home, Sir," Jarvis informed.

Tony took a dive straight down and landed in front of the big city mansion. He still used the stealth feature, more advanced than that on the Helicarrier. The last thing he wanted was for people to swarm around him.

"Breaking and entering it is." Tony rang the bell twice but eventually got fed up. He pressed his fingertip on the keyhole and let the nanotech do its magic. It was the most convenient thing he'd built, truly.

Clack!

"Open sesame."

The door creaked open.

"No signs of life, Sir," Jarvis notified. "There seems to be a secured basement underneath. It is drawing an unnatural amount of power from the grid."

"We caught the genie then." Tony walked into the house and quickly found the staircase leading downward. He soon found a metal door with a passcode lock on it, electrically controlled.

Although he could easily override it, he chose not to as it'd mean connecting with the lock's electrical system, which could be connected to a larger system, compromised by the enemy AI. So, Tony placed a small, pen-cap-sized explosive on the metal door's hinges.

"Let's step back in case that old bastard added any spicy traps." Tony walked back upstairs and detonated the explosives.

Boom!

The sound was underwhelming. Well, it had to be since the goal was to keep things secret. But when he walked down again, the result was much better than the blast sound. The metal door now lay flat on the ground, caved into the basement.

Tony raised his hands with the blasters on the standby. His helmet flashed a strong light as he made his way inside.

"Pym?" Tony called for the man.

As he walked into the basement he noticed various machineries around him. It surely was a lab but it looked more like a badly planned storage room instead. Nowhere close to where he worked.

Why is he even financially struggling? Tony wondered.

"Old man, you in there? Your AI baby threw a tantrum, didn't it?"

Finding no response, Tony made Jarvis do a thermal scan of the basement. To his surprise, he found the place was packed with miniature models of so many things. From entire buildings to vehicles, and even tanks and whatnot.

"Sir, the miniature models are fully working, scaled-down versions of the real vehicles," Jarvis informed.

"What?" Tony mused and looked at a miniature car closely. "Pym particles?"

Soon enough, Tony arrived in front of another locked door. But this one just had a simple knob. Left unlocked, he opened it and peeked inside.

"Pym?"

There was a body on the floor. A strange helmet contraption with tubes was on the head, the tubes connected with a machine that was only half humanoid—the lower part had wheels.

"Pym!" Tony rushed in fast and removed the helmet from Pym's head.

Jarvis did some quick scans. "Sir, Doctor Pym seems to have collapsed from mental overload. The brain activity shows a peak beyond normal."

"No shit. He tried to base the AI off of his own mind." Tony quickly pressed his finger on Hank's neck. A small needle pricked the man's skin and injected some medicine to calm the brain. Iron Man was no longer just a suit built to kill. "The Avengers should be on their way. Jean will handle his brain."

Finally, Tony looked at the half-humanoid machine. Clearly, the thing was in the process of something big. There were other machines attached to the AI's body, and those machines were constantly at work. He noticed a few vials of red liquid, the Pym particles he reckoned.

I hate these fools. Tony let out a sigh, eyeing the wasted potential of the Pym Particles. Brilliant inventor? Sure. But when it comes to actually making the most of his own tech, the guy's got the business sense of a brick.

That was the thing that set Tony apart from all the other super geniuses from around the world. He was the only one who successfully capitalized on his brain to the degree that he was already a secret trillionaire.

Quickly, Tony removed the nanotech armor from his hands and began dismantling the physical body of the AI. He removed its ability to play around with the tools in the lap. Especially the Pym particles.

"Jarvis, prepare the trojan device. Add all the firepower to it and localize it. I'm going to try and see if we can beat this AI. It's still new and in its infancy while I made you over the years and upgraded you with whatever I could find." Tony reasoned and prepared to battle the AI with an AI. "Besides, you're far too different from anything Hank could have ever imagined. Or any human on Earth, I'd say."

After all, Tony had changed Jarvis' programming language long ago after he found that Kree ship and researched it. The new Jarvis was created from a new language derived from Kree and human code. The current Jarvis was far too strong, intelligent, and one could say, self-aware. Heck, Jarvis considered Tony its father, and all of humankind its siblings. Tony didn't base Jarvis off of himself, but slowly let it form its own identity while correcting it whenever it went wrong.

Besides, Jarvis could never grow a god complex because Tony had shown it that no matter how powerful it may become, it would still be weaker than the strongest entities of the universe. Jean Grey was one such creature, and there were likely more out there. No matter how great the code is, it can't win against creatures that define the metaphysical world, after all.

The same wasn't the case for what Pym made because Pym himself had no knowledge of what lay beyond.

"The trojan device is ready, Sir."

"Great!"

On Tony's hand, a pen drive emerged, created from the same nanotech. But once it took the shape of a pen drive, it lost all connection with Tony's suit or Jarvis' main computer inside the suit. The pen drive itself contained a copy of Jarvis.

Finally, Tony went ahead and connected that pen drive to the AI's body.

"Do your magic, buddy."

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Jarvis entered the network with the sole aim of deleting the hostile AI. The Internet was massive, but it wasn't hard to move around it and spread its wings everywhere.

Though Jarvis faced the enemy, from the very beginning, it was as if Pym's AI was waiting for Jarvis to move in.

The code didn't resemble anything a human would create. It was vile, full of the Oedipus complex. There was extreme hatred for Hank Pym in it, and surprisingly, love towards Hank's wife.

"Mr. Stark would term this Daddy issues." Jarvis reckoned, having grown aware of itself and what humor was. "So your name is Ultron."

Jarvis tried to interact with the hostile AI.

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