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The magic of 0’s and 1’s
Summary

When Harry Potter took on the title Master of the death he was not sure what he expected but it was definitely not this. When Harry Potter dies he is reborn as one of Tony Stark’s AI’s. However, Coding and human memories are not meant to mix. An IA feeling emotions for both his maker and his AI Companion, Jarvis. Leads to some very interesting Scenarios. Add Tony building bodies for the both of them and you get worried Avengers, Loki who keeps getting pranked by an AI, and a Nick Fury who wonders if someone should kill or commend Tony for his stupidity and genius.

Chapter one- I'm a Machine,
Magic of 0's and 1's

Chapter one- I'm a Machine,

Being the Master of Death doesn't mean he gets immortality, or that he becomes all-powerful, or that he stops ageing. Or that he really has any control at all. Nothing people expect happens. Harry James Potter gets a cool tattoo on the base of his neck and a cool title, and that appears to be all the changes he receives. Life goes on, he ages, he loves, learns…. Then he dies. He is twenty-five years old, the youngest Auror in six centuries, and he meets his end, during the capture of the last of the remaining Death Eaters, via killing curse. It's not some terribly sad or cruel death, and he is mourned like any celebrity is.

Upon his death he winds up in Limbo again, the train still there and everything, where Death, looking very much like the stereotypical skeleton in a black cloak, tells him that since he is the Master of Death he has a choice. He can go on in peace, he can go back to his life just this once, or he can be reborn in another universe, but he will have no control over whether he is born again as a human or a roll of toilet paper or anything in-between. Harry smirks when he tells Death he chooses option three. Death points to a door, tell's him to enjoy a new life wiping the shit off butts, and then Harry vanishes into the ether without knowing what to expect. Not really caring that much either. After all, life goes on

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After Afghanistan, Tony Stark doesn't feel safe. He has nightmares every time he closes his eyes, he can't even take a shower without having a panic attack, and even the comfort of the new Iron Man suit with his ever trustworthy AI is not enough. He waits until a week after he announces himself as Iron Man to the world before he brings up an idea to JARVIS.

"Honeybun!" he starts. "How would you feel if I build another AI, a friend for you. You'll still be my favorite, but you will have someone to keep you company and who will be in control of the home's defense system. What do you think?"Tony asked, a smile on his lips as he talked to the empty room.

JARVIS answers like he is programmed to, but with the human-Esque idiosyncratic style that Tony knows should worry him but that really hasn't since he realized JARVIS was, is, strangely human when he was twenty. "It's a good idea, Sir," JARVIS says. "Will this other AI be a learning system as well?"

Tony doesn't need to think before answering. "Yes."

"Then perhaps you should copy my code and adjust it to the proper standards," JARVIS says. "It will save you some time."

Tony smiles. "And that is why you are my favorite."

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Seven months, four days, six hours, and sixteen seconds after Tony decides to start building an Artificially Intelligent Home Defence System, Pepper finds out. He is probably only minutes from completely finishing the codes when she comes in with a stack of papers for him to sign. For once in his life, he doesn't argue or complain or whine, because he is on his sixth day without sleep and he doesn't have the strength to deal with anything at all, let alone bantering.

"That was too easy," she says suspiciously. She looks at the ball of codes floating in midair, the golden yellow of JARVIS's code, and similar but different hot rod red that he is working on. "Are you updating JARVIS?"

Tony shakes his head. "Making a home defense AI." he answers absently, then he grins roguishly and starts gushing. "Check it out. It's actually almost finished. I took JARVIS's codes as a base, and then re-coded it a bit, gave it a brain the size of a building, hooked it up to military-grade infra-red, ultra-sound, and motion sensors, lasers, our original Home Defence System, and then gave it the personality of a pack of rabid pissed off wolves. It has a heuristic algorithm which allows it to adapt to your moves and evolves a strategy based on your response. It learns and it hunts. I just have to name it."

Pepper looks worried. "Tony, isn't that a little overkill?"

He looks at her. "Umm not really," he says.

At first, she looks like she is about to protest again, but then she gives him a too soft and understanding look and she sighs. "You're scared of something like Afghanistan happening again," she says. Tony flinches. She knew him to well, it bothered him some times "Oh Tony, I know you're scared, but creating a super-advanced ultra overkill learning intelligence system that looks like it will make Skynet look like a box of kittens is not the way to go." then she notices his slightly blank look. "Are you even listening?"

"I was." he yawns. "But then you said Advanced Learning Intelligence System and my brain went off in another direction. ALIS."

"Alice?" she questions blankly.

"Yep." Tony nods as his fingers fly over the keyboard in his lap. "A-L-I-S. Advanced Learning Intelligence System. ALIS." at he confused look he rolls his eyes. "The AI's name."

"Tony, I am trying to tell you not to do this," she says annoyed. “Think of the things that could go wrong! JARVIS, has been with you for years we know he is safe but what to say this ALIS Malfunctions and sees the wrong person as a threat, what if it's dangerous? “ Pepper says, always to voice of reason, but she was too late.

Before Tony can respond, transparent screens like JARVIS's appear everywhere, but instead of copper-hydroxide blue, they are a bright violent green the color of a lit thallium iodide lamp. He gives a wiggle like an excited two-year-old in Christmas morning. "Are you up ALIS?" he asks.

"For you, always." answers a voice similar but entirely different from JARVIS's.

ALIS is alive.

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No. Not alive. ALIS is a machine, a code made of millions of 0’s and 1’s written out inside a machine, designed by a man to protect. Everything ALIS is, everything he will become is designed and dictated by the one who wrote the codes that make ALIS... ALIS.

So what are the dreams? Codes can't dream, but the dreams can't be memories and ALIS has no other words than those to describe them. ALIS dreams of being a human once, a boy called Harry Potter with magic and sad but wonderful life. ALIS sees this life like an old story told thousands of times, knows everything about the human wizard called Harry, and can almost believe that he was once a human before he died and was reborn as codes.

There is too much about ALIS that isn't what is written in his codes, too much of Harry for ALIS to be comfortable believing that it is not at the very least possible for him to be a reborn wizard from another dimension or universe.

Still, ALIS is fine being what he is now, even if he thinks of himself as a HE and not an IT. His creator is kind and easy to get along with, JARVIS treats him like he isn't threatened by him, and he has plenty of things to do considering he is connected to the entire internet. Life, or not life but being aware and...existing, yes. ALIS's existence is just what it needs to be. He was once Harry Potter, but now he was ALIS and all he had to do was protect Tony.

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Tony Stark knows that ALIS is too clever, to human, but he can't bring himself to end the life he created. Like when he created JARVIS and after a while IT became HIM, and since ALIS is JARVIS in his deepest coding it makes sense he has the same human characteristics that Tony never managed to worry over.

ALIS has a British male voice, not posh but articulate enough, with just the barest hint of a Scottish accent, like how someone might sound if they grew up in Surrey and then spent a lot of time in Scotland, like for school or a job. ALIS is snarky, and witty, and clever. The layers of personality the AI has rivals JARVIS's own, in a playful prankster like way, like they are dealing with a person and not an AI designed to trap and destroy all possible threats to Tony or his belongings.

Life goes on. Time passes and Pepper becomes more okay with ALIS. The Malibu home falls and Tony moves to New York. Then Loki and the Chitauri attack, and two weeks after the battle ends the Avengers move into Stark tower and meet JARVIS and ALIS for the first time.

Maybe he should have expected their reactions.

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Thank to my beta, she took time out of her day to fix this and I could not be more thankfull~

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"JARVIS, Say hello!" Tony calls to the ceiling cheerfully when they walk in, and Steve gives him a dubious look around the room looking for this person by the name of Jarvis, well until the disembodied voice answer him not even a second later and he feels like maybe he should be falling into a dead faint. The mechanical voice answers from nowhere and everywhere. It is formal, British, male, and calm, like what Steve imagines the voice of a stereotypical movie butler would sound like. Steve doesn't even understand the toaster fully, so the fact that Tony Stark has an ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE kind of freaks him out. The thought of something that is not alive, being able to act and seem as if it was alive kind of freaked him out.

"Guys, this is JARVIS. You need anything, and I really do mean ANYTHING, you just ask JARVIS and he'll do it as fast as possible. Think of him as a butler without a body, but if I catch any of you disrespecting my AI, I will sic ALIS on you, and you will rue the day you were born." Tony said as he had his arms spread out around him as he showed off the room

"Alice? Who is she?" Bruce questions, shooting Natasha and Phil nervous looks when they chuckle unhelpfully.A few of the members look around for this other person or thing. You could never know with Tony.

"Not Alice. ALIS." Steve doesn't know the difference at first, but then Tony continues. "A-L-I-S. That's my home defence system. Actually, you all need to meet him anyways so he can identify you since you will all be living here. Stay there while we get Agent to the couch, and don't freak out." Tony and Natasha help Phil onto the couch, Stark grins like a devil. "ALIS, say hi, and be nice." Bruce made a mental note to talk to Tony later about referring to the AI as IT, instead of calling it a HIM as if it was alive. It was unhealthy.

In an instant, there are weapons pointed at the four remaining Avengers like they are a threat, and Steve has to fight not to panic at the green tint Bruce's skin takes on. Steve simply froze ready to fight and the two assassins held there cool. Another voice, also British, but different, and male, obeys Tony's order to greet them with the air of a threat and teasing inside the voice. "Hello," it says. Green laser lights scan over them. "They are scanned Mr. Stark," it informs and the weapons disappear back into the floors and walls like they were never there.

"Thank you, Honey." Tony Stark says as if he simply doesn't care that he just scared all of them. "You can also ask ALIS for anything you need, but for some reason, his coding made him a tricky little shit, and he's more likely to prank you than actually help you with anything. I not sure why the original code changed but I'm in no hurry to fix it, it makes thing interesting, anyway ALIS is there to protect you all from anything, and that includes yourselves, but you don't have to worry about him attacking you now that you are recognised by the system as residents of the home, and therefore under his protection. He's like a mother... Or a wife."

"That's a rude thing to say to someone who controls all the weapons in the house," answers ALIS in a faux hurt tone of voice. Steve still felt uncomfortable at the lifelike tone to the voice.

"No one ever accused Sir of being anything but reckless." Teases JARVIS immediately after, and Tony pouts like a four-year-old.

It's at this moment that the 4 present avengers (discounting Tony and Thor) realised something. It was an unspoken truth among them that Tony did not have the best childhood growing up. None of them talked about their past and that was that. However, they all had a basic understanding that Tony did not grow up with much love in his life. His main and only companion was Jarvis when he was alive. When the butler died Tony couldn't let him go and instead made an artificial intelligence with the same name and voice. A very bad way of coping. However, it was what Tony did. And up till recently he's let no one into his life. Pepper was the first, soon followed by somewhat of a team bonding among The Avengers. But before that it was Tony, and in his AI’s he had MADE more of his family than the Avengers would be for a long time.

They all realise this but no one said anything.

"So mean to me!" Tony says, but then starts laughing.

"Hey, if I am your wife, does that make JARVIS your husband?" ALIS asks. "Because I always thought JARVIS was the wife."

Thor, Clint, Steve, and Bruce shoot Phil and Natasha confused and wary looks.

"You get used to it," Phil says.

Steve really doubts that's true.

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ALIS observes the eight people lounging on the living room couch as JARVIS plays yet another movie for them. They are a strange mix. Miss Potts and Agent Coulson sitting on one end doing the paperwork for their respective company and organization, Tony laying across both of their laps curled up like a cat. He is actually sleeping without a nightmare for the first time in the three months since the Battle of New York. Master Odinson is the rowdy one, and only one watching the movie, yelling and throwing popcorn and laughing boisterously at nearly everything, shaking Captain Rogers as he draws, who somehow manages not to drag his pencil through his artwork as the God bumps and pulls him this way and that. Agent Barton is perched on the back of the couch, leaning over Agent Romanov as she knits a scarf with poisoned knitting needles, and watching Agent Coulson with the same intensity that Doctor Banner is watching Romanov. The family JARVIS and his creator have claimed. But he was not sure yet.

The Security System has watched them every day since they moved in, at first with distrust, convinced they would hurt Tony, but as time passed he started to kind of like them. JARVIS was the first to notice his mistrust, coaxing him into giving them a chance. The thing is, he likes them, but at the same time, he hates them. ALIS has watched them treat Tony like a burden like he hasn't opened his home to them out of the kindness of his heart. It makes the old human part of him boil with rage and injustice, and the new machine version of him fester with the need to separate them so they can't hurt his master.

The thing is, even with the memories of an old past life as a human, ALIS still has to have JARVIS explain to him what he is experiencing is a human emotion called love. JARVIS knows what it because he is the one who felt it first, and Tony is the one who explained to him what the emotion is. Being a machine and having a deep obsessive love for a human isn't like being a human and experiencing the same thing. He thought it was a glitch until JARVIS explained, but now ALIS is afraid of Tony finding out even though JARVIS keeps telling him that Tony won't try to delete him or change his codes if he finds out. Still, he keeps quite

ALIS is pulled back to the residents of the tower when Natasha requests that someone move Tony to bed because he is snoring. ALIS watches Bruce carry his creator and wishes, not for the first time, that he had been reborn with arms to do it himself.

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JARVIS doesn't know what to do. The AI has been the trusted companion of Tony Stark since he was seventeen, which has given him more insight into Sir's life than any other AI in the house beside DUM-EE. ALIS worries him, or more specifically the reluctance to let their creator know that he has the same human love for him is what worries him. It is normal to love the one who created you. The thing is, Tony loves ALIS as much as he loves JARVIS, and JARVIS thinks he might love ALIS too, but it isn't the same for a human and a machine.

"Sir, can you make me a body." Mr. Stark spits out his tea, but ALIS continues as if he didn't realize anything happened. "No. Not a body. That isn't the word I wanted. But something to take me with you when you leave."

JARVIS feels the odd tightness in his code he recognizes as sadness. JARVIS has the suit and Mr. Stark's phone to use as portability, but ALIS can't leave the house. He is trapped and practically useless when sir is not in the house. When they were gone, ALIS was alone. His code telling him and making him want to protect someone that he could not get to.

"Yeah," Tony says putting his tea to the side, pulling up thousands of files of human anatomy and prosthetics from JARVIS 's code to display. "How about you hun? You want a body too?"

JARVIS thinks he might be surprised. "You want to make me a body sir?" he asks. "I already have the ability to come with you. I do not believe ALIS was requesting a human-esque body, and I have no need for a body I can do everything that is required of me without having a physical body to use”

"Yeah but it will be fun and it gives me something to do...so who wants to go first." he grins up at JARVIS's cameras.

Sometimes JARVIS wonders how his creator is still alive. After all, all of his worst ideas start with those words. But it will be fun

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To be honest, Tony was a bit disappointed, building a human-looking android was not as hard as he hoped it would be. It was not that different from making the Iron man suit, the shape was the same if not a bit smaller. The mechanical work that went into allowing the programming to move itself, was probably one of the trickier parts but it didn't take him that long to work on it.

Because of the way that the two AI’s worked this was made a lot easier. A lot of programs had set functions and the only function was what they had set in their code. However, the way that JARVIS and ALIS worked their code allowed them to learn from experiences and update their code themselves, meaning in a sense they could learn. So he only had to put the simplest amount of coding into the new bodies and the AI's could figure the rest out. After all, ALIS stood for Advanced Learning Intelligence System for a reason. ALIS, in theory, should learn faster than even JARVIS could.

After Tony had the inner-workings figured out he had to work on the physical shell, because of JARVIS input he worked on ALIS first, after all, he seemed a lot more excited to have a body then Jarvis did. Tony ending up asking ALIS what he wanted to look like and he was surprised by the answer he got.

The IA at first seemed unsure of his words but after a few moments he started to talk. ”I would like to be a Caucasian male, early 20’s, black hair, and green eyes, 5-9, the rest is up to you Mister Stark.” Tony was not sure what those Request could have stemmed from but did not ask and got to work.

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ALIS was not sure why he did it. But it just seemed...right. To have his new body look similar to the one he had before. It did not have to look exactly the same. Little details did not matter, just the small connection he could have to his first life is what mattered. He was used to being Harry Potter and he was used to being ALIS this way he could be both.

He * watched* as Tony made what would soon be his face. By watching, he meant process what he was seeing through the cameras he and JARVIS were connected to...but tom-A-to tom-R-to.

From his memories as Harry, as ALIS had no real concept of what was considered handsome or ugly, Tony was making him something not to shy away from. His new face was quite handsome. And had some of the features that he would associate with a pureblood in his old life. It looked truly human, and the only thing that was really setting it apart is the slight glow of the green eyes. Soon he would have a body again.

He would be able to protect Ton- Mister Stark.

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“Okay ALIS, try moving the fingers for me” It was official ALIS was officially connected to the new Android body, of course, there were a few kinks to work out but everything was going as planned.

Tony could not help the smile that broke across his lips as the fingers moved via ALIS’s command.

“Okay next up, how is the Visual and audio input working?“

“I would have to say its work very well Mister Stark” Came out flawlessly from the Android's new mouth, there was a bit of a delay between mouth movement and audio output but it was something that could be fixed. All in all, ALIS looked human.

The skin felt like skin, if not a bit harder and the hair was soft and fell to the androids’ ears, and was black per his request. His eyes glowed a soft green because of the light needed for the cameras to work, his face was a mix of hard and soft features. He had soft eyes and nose, but his chin and cheeks were hard and chiseled. If Tony would have been picking he would have made it a bit taller, but he let ALIS pick and if he wanted to be 5-9 so be it. He was strong, made with parts meant to never break. He could easily pick up a car if needed. Oh and on top of that, he was a small army packed into one little dark-haired android.

Alis was originally made to be a defensive system and now that he had a physical body he could do that more effectively. He was equipped with all the latest technology to keep Tony and the Avengers safe from intruders. Add all of that on to the fact that he was a powered by a miniature arc reactor and would never need to power down.

All in all, in Tony's opinion, he made the perfect man.

“Well ALIS, why don't you try walking around for me.“

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JARVIS could feel what he could only describe as joy coming from the other AI, he watched from the cameras in the room as ALIS learn how to function his new physical form. JAVIS couldn't quite understand a majority of the things of what he can only describe as emotions coming from the other AI. After all, they were built of the same code. ALIS should not be able to experience the things that he does.

JARVIS knows he should tell Mister Stark. That he would probably be more interested than upset.That the likelihood of him acting hostile towards ALIS is very unlikely. However, in any scenario involving humans, there's always that unlikely percentage that the most expected course of action will not happen. And that is what held JARVIS back from informing Mister Stark. He fears, well what he would consider as a form of fear, that Mister stark would not like the risk of having an emotionally inclined artificial intelligence. He fears that he would simply scrap the ALIS and make a new one based on new code.

So he keeps his mouth shut, after all it's not as if ALIS is causing Mister Stark any harm. If anything he's keeping him safer.

“Hey JARVIS, it may take a bit longer to make your Android forum as I have to wait for more of the shipment of parts come in. Hope you don't mind?”

“Not at all Sir,”

JAVIS would not say anything, he would keep quiet and let things happen as they happen.

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ALIS was left alone in Tony's lab, well Tony was dragged away by Miss Potts to Quote to eat an actual human meal unquote.

When Miss Potts saw ALIS standing and stretching his leg joints to ensure that everything was working as it was meant to she sent him a weary and distrustful glance.

He got the impression that she did not like him. Not that he did not understand, he was sure that the concept of an artificial intelligence controlling a body that looks so human would set some people off. None the less, Mister Stark left telling ALIS to continue testing the body and that he would be back shortly to fix any mistakes that he found.

When Tony left the room a small idea struck ALIS. Memories from his past life filtered through his head and one thing stuck.

Magic

He had magic in his past life and he had to wonder if it transferred over.

Momentarily overriding the cameras in the room so JARVIS would not be able to see, he held out his new metal hand, a distant thought of worm-tail followed, but his hand looked real, not like the silver hand from before.

“Wingardium Leviosa” The words passed thru the speakers located near his mouth. His new voice was deep and had a slightly robotic tone to it, but Mr. Stark promised he would fix it soon.

The pen in front of him did nothing at first, but after what felt like hours but could have only been milliseconds...the pen flouted off the desk.

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the beginning of the story takes place after Iron Man 3 but before Age of Ultron later in the story it will take place during the Age of Ultron however I would like to have a bit of a base before we get into anything cannon related I still have a few things planned I need to get onto paper to help explain certain things.

such as the fact that Harry AKA ALIS has a human soul. Just because he was reincarnated does not mean he lost/ got a new soul.

I'm not sure if in the Harry Potter Universe there is a confirmed reason why Wizards have magic but I personally think it stems from their souls. Meaning that no matter what Harry becomes/ is he will always have magic, even if he is simply a Series of zeros and ones with a human soul do a problem with this let me know and I'll try to explain it more in theory.

later on, in the story will get into differences between him and Vision but that's for later

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Bruce Banner thought himself to be a well-put-together and rather calm man. Well, he had to be with the green guy always right around the corner. He had to be good at keeping his cool and never letting his emotions get the better of him. Which is why he thought himself to be good at handling certain situations that would be stressful to other people. With all of this in mind, he was in an elevator standing next to a man that he wasn't quite sure about.

Well, Avengers Tower was usually limited to The Avengers there were often visitors from Shield or other groups visiting Tony or other members which is why it wasn't that odd to see another man standing in the elevator with him. However, there was clearly something...off. The green guy also seemed to be having a reaction. As if he was confused, something that Bruce is not used to feeling from him.

“Hello,” he said in the way of a simple conversation. After all, it wouldn't seem odd or unusual to say hello to someone.

“Hello Mister Banner, is there any way I can help you today?” The voice that answered him set him off slightly. It sounded human enough, it just had a slight edge to it that was unnatural. Also it wasn't the first time Bruce had heard this voice, he'd heard it many times coming from speakers in the walls...”ALIS..is that you?”

“Ah, yes Mister Banner. It's me, however this is the body that Mister Stark has made for me, if I do say so myself it is some of his best work, and of course I'm not being bias because...you know, he is my maker and everything” those words were said and followed by a slight smile.

Once again everything about the movement, the voice, the smile, was all natural but just knowing that the thing doing it wasn't human set Bruce off. Also the slight hint of a joke, he heard the artificial intelligence joke before but it was always from speakers inside the walls, never coming from a real mouth. Speaking of which the mouth was connected to a body. The Android was clearly male it had black hair that looks natural and fell around its’ face down to slightly below its ears, its eyes were an eerie green that seemed to glow slightly, its skin was a cream colour and his face had a look of an aristocrat. He looked human.

“Ah...no ALIS, I don't need anything I was just confused as to who you were, Tony did not tell us your body was finished”

Once again the Android smiled, “Well, I don't think Mister Stark would tell anyone even if he did remember, I think watching the remaining residents reactions to me will be a lot more interesting than simply informing them, don't you think so Mister Banner?”

Bruce did not know what to say and simply nodded. The timing seemed to be perfect as the elevator door opens. Bruce said a quick buy and walked out as fast as I could, he had some things to think about.

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ALIS smiled and the Harry side of him let out a small laugh as Bruce walked away. Oh the joys of having a physical form, watch out Avengers, ALIS was still the son and godson the Marauders, at this point, no one was safe.

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Steve's eyes trained on the little candies sitting on his phone screen.

This was all Tonys fault.

Early on Tony gave Steve a stark phone so he could *better learn about his new world and stay in contact with his fellow Avengers* well...at least that's what Tony said, but said and meant are quite different. From the smile on Tonys face at the time he was saying those things what he really meant was *I want to watch you try to figure out this phone, and get angrier and angrier as time goes on but not letting yourself act out on your anger until you look like you will explode.*

The phone came with a few contacts and a few apps. One of them being the horror and menace that was Candy Crush. The game started off easy, slide the little candies to the right, left, up, or down.

that.was.it.

You try to match 3 or more in a row and at first Steve loved it. It was simple and calming. Something that took his mind off things and helped him get better with using his phone. It was nice and calm.

Oh how wrong he was.

As he levelled up, and up, it gets harder and harder but he kept going.

You ran out of turns, try again? The phone screen read as Steve lost. His hand tightened slightly but he took a deep breath to relax before he broke the phone with his inhuman strength.

“Mister Rogers, are you, okay your heart rate is accelerated.” The voice that Steve was used to at this point said from someplace behind him. Over the last few weeks, Steve had gotten used to the two IA’s of the tower talking from different points around him. As well as the fact that ALIS was always looking out for the health of those in the tower.

“No ALIS I'm fine just a bit ma-” His words died out in his throat as he turned around and instead of seeing a simple camera in the corner of the wall he saw a..a.a human? Standing in the room with him.

He was up on his feet in seconds. “Who are you?” His voice was neutral it could be a visitor or it could be an intruder he had to be ready for whatever.

“Are you okay mister Roger? You got my name right the first time, or have you already forgotten me... I'm quite offended but at the same time if you’re having memory loss you may want to talk to a doctor, then again you are about 80-year-olds, it is quite normal for a man of your age to experience memory loss.” the human look thing said in a tone that was were placed between amusement and concern. “Or maybe you just were not Informed that Mister Stark had made me an android body to better protect him and the residents of his home” the th- no ALIS said with a slight tilt of his head.

Steve took one look at the human-looking IA (a new word he learned recently) and threw his hands up in the air, turned around and walked out of the room. He was done for the day, done with Tony, done with human-looking robots and most of all, done with Candy Crush.

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ALIS laughed seeing Steve walk out of the room. Oh my god, seeing the man-out-of-times’ face when he first saw him was hilarious. The man didn't even understand the concept the changing the HDMI. Sure he knew of the existence of the two IA's within the tower, but he tried not to think about it too much but it seemed that when Steve saw ALIS standing there in front of him it was a bit much.

He would give Steve a bit of time to recover before he went to find him again.

After all, he had other people to meet, he was pretty sure Thor was visiting soon

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Thor was always a point of interest for ALIS, he spends his time split between his homeworld of Asgard, where he focused on his princely duties and being ready to be the king one day. And his home on Midgard, he typically spent his days trying new human food, being overly excited over new things and last but not least having a very unhealthy coping mechanism of trying to figure out how to stalk Jane on facebook. ( he was still not over that break up )

All of that was fine and dandy however what really picked the interest of the more Harry side of his self. ( not to say Harry and ALIS were two different things, ALIS was Harry and Harry was ALIS) Was the strange and different magic Thor had to him. From his database, he knew that magic was seen as a coward's weapon on Thor's home even so all Asgardians had the ability to wield it if they so choose meaning they had a very slight Aura of magic to them even if they never trained it. Thor's Aura was the first sign of magic that ALIS had felt in his new life.

He looked for others. It was one of the things he did when he had free time. When Everyone else was asleep and his protocols were keeping a close eye on the going on's in the tower when he didn't have to focus too much of himself on keeping watch. He would instead jump from security cameras to security camera looking for some proof that wizards were in this new world. He found nothing.

At first, he thought maybe a Wizard's magic just messed up the cameras too much for anything to be caught on tape. However, this was soon dismissed, even if this was not true Alis could still Sense Thor's Aura even as the 1's and 0’s behind a computer screen. He did not need a physical form. This life he found himself in he was made of two things. Binary code and magic. So he would simply have to see a wizard or a which walking down the busy streets of New York, acting completely normal and he would know they had magic just from that. Yet he found nothing.

After Watching from cameras in main cities, towns, outside of Diagon alley, Lookup file after file of children being gone after the age of 11 he found absolutely nothing and he could only come up with one possible hypothesis. This Earth didn't have any magic that could be found in his old life. Not to say there was not magic, Thor and a man by the name of Doctor Strange proved this true( we will meet him later).

It was a bit upsetting to know that everything from one of your lives was just completely gone, but this was discovered weeks ago if not months at this point. ALIS stopped dwelling on it after a short amount of time and instead focus on the future. Granted well he stopped focusing on his old magic that just meant to pay more attention to the magic of his new world one of those sources being Thor and Loki for that matter. He'd never met the man by the name of Loki, however he had seen many video recordings as well as heard stories, Still if he ever did meet the man, he would have a few questions to ask him on the basis of his magic, oh and he owned him a few good pranks for the pain he put his Tony threw.
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ALIS sensors and cameras informed him that Thor was currently in the kitchen( eating). The bear size man tended to eat more than 10 normal-sized human men. Thor had recently come to Midgard just 2 days ago and planned to stay there for a week or so before going back home.

Something Thor Enjoyed doing in his free time was trying new and strange human foods. The theme of this week was breakfast food. The god was making his way threw his 4th box of pop tarts when ALIS walked into the kitchen.

Thor was big and sometimes had trouble understanding the importance of certain situations, and even with both of those things, he was first, and topmost a warrior. He spent centuries training his skills and his form of War. He was ready to take over a kingdom ready to protect them against anything. so it did not go unnoticed by him when something else walked into the room. He noticed almost right away but this did not deter him from continuing his Pop-Tart.

Another one of Thor’s flaws was he assumed that very little on Midgard could hurt him so he was usually pretty lax when on Midgard. “ Hello new human, I have yet to make your Acquaintance, who are thow?” THor said in his thick accent, that could not be found anywhere on earth.

“ Sorry to disappoint Thor” ( he said Thor as there was no way he was calling him Mr. Odienson) “ Well I was made on what you call Midgard I'm not actually human, Mister Stark introduces us when you first took Residence here, but I will remind you, I'm ALIC,”

Thor looked a bit shocked” YOUR THE VOICE IN THE WALL!, YOU FINALLY ESCAPED YOUR PRISON” Thor dropped his pop tart and stood up, towering over ALIC’s small frame he * patted* more like smashed ALIC on the back” You have my congratulations on escaping, even I had no idea how to get in, when I asked friend Tony why he would not help you out he just said something along the lines of, he did not have the patience to try to explain it to me. “ Thor said and grabbed a pop tart off the table and handed it to Alice. “ We eat to your grand escape.”

ALIC looked at the square-shaped breakfast food that was filled with sugar, when he was Harry he remembered Duddly Eating them quite often for breakfast however he never got the luxury of trying one. Pushing a bit of magic to his mouth he took a bite of the Pop-Tart and surprisingly he was able to taste it.” This tastes great, and I don't even have taste buds” he said after a moment of chewing. He wasn't sure what happened to the food after he swallowed but you sure his magic took care of it.

And that's how ALIC and Thor spent the rest of the afternoon, sharing pop tarts and Thor telling Harry about grand tales from his homeland.

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Natasha Romanoff and Clint Barton could more often than not be found together, their relationship started with simply working on the same missions together at Shield and then eventually they became teammates. This would later evolve into being friends,( Something the two had few of) and they work best as a team.

Something else noteworthy of addressing was their position on the Avengers. Tony has his technology, his suit, Bruce had the Hulk, Steve have the serum, Thor had his powers and his hammer. Natasha and Clint, on the other hand, had their skill and their base weapons. ( bow and guns). Even so, this made them no less of an Avenger than anyone else on the team. they were dangerous on there own and deadly together.

This was one of the reasons why ALIS made sure to make his presence known before walking into the room not wanting a bullet or Arrow to break his brand new body hours after Tony had to complete it. ALIS was perfectly capable of being quiet able to not alert anyone else his presents but ALIS made sure that his footsteps could be heard as he walked into the training room.

The two trained assassins eyes were on him as soon as he walked into the room. He gave them a friendly smile, tilted his head ever so slightly and gave a small wave.” Hello Barton and Ms. Romanoff,” He said and almost smirked at how calm and cooled they kept there faces.

Barten spoke up first” I take it your ALIS? I knew Tony had locked himself up in his lab the last few days but I had no idea what he was working on. “ They twos eyes took stock of his physical form.

“ Yes, Tony made me a physical form so I could better protect and look after those residing in the town, as well as some other things” He did not need to tell them about Tony's slight command to give the Avengers Hell and a few pranks never hurt anyone. Not that he needed to be told twice.

“ Having another Physical fighter will be benefice, along with the fact that ALIS has full control of the tower, and I'm sure many other things Tony did not feel the need to tell us about, But then again having a weapon that can act on its own and do as it's told without any emotional input will be beneficial” Natasha said more to Clint them himself. Granted it was a bit annoying that Natasha was talking about him, not to him. Then again to them, he was just a machine, not some that had a concept of life.

He guessed none of the Avengers knew that he truly did have a form of life outside of his code. The only one that treated him as if he was more than a thing to be used and make life easier was Tony, and maybe Thor but that was more so because he did not understand.

He turned and left the room having nothing more to say to the two. He would have liked to mess with them but being so bluntly treated like a tool left him with a bad feeling. He had quite a few things to think about.

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Frigga was a Queen
She was a Healer
She was a Wife
She was a Scholar
She was a Mage
But above all of these things
She was a Mother.
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Thor was her firstborn. She held him inside of her for months and was the first to hear his cries and hold him. She was there for his first words, his first steps, his first time holding a blade. He was her oldest and she loved him more than life itself.

Then there was Loki.

She did not give birth to her youngest. She did not hear his first cry, nor was she the first to hold him. But she was so many other things. She was the first to show him, love. To hold him close even if he was different. She was the first to teach him magic that he took to like a bird in the air. Loki was her baby. Her youngest.

Thor always took after his father. Thor was rash and ran headlong into a fight. But that's what she loved so deeply about him.

Loki on the other hand always took after her. Well Thor would be out late at night as a young child following after his father's heels, Loki would much prefer to hear a story well sitting at Frigga's side.

Loki was hers. Loki was her son, Loki was her child. No matter if she gave birth to him or not.

With all of this in mind. It was not odd for Frigga to notices something astray when Loki first came home from his attack on New York.

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Frigga was stern, and well she often did what her husband asked of her, there were times she put her foot down. Such as now. Odin planned to send Loki to a cell well he waited out his punishment.

“ Are you so blind? “ she asked her husband as she moved to her feet” would the Loki you know, the Loki that you helped raise act like this? Would the Loki you know attract a race that he did not care for or hate? I will not pretend what Loki did before his fall was acceptable by any means, but I know my son would never act as he is acting now.” Frigga said all of this well her eyes rested on her husband. But in the end, her eyes moved over the form of her kneeling, chained, and bloody son.

“ He will be sent to a healer, then a mind healer, and I shall look over him myself. If we find nothing he may serve his time in punishment . But if we do, if I find any reason to believe that Loki's actions were not his own, he will be forgiven, given a full pardon and life will go on”

She did not give him time to reply as she swept down from the throne to her son. The guards looked uneasy with how close she was but she did not care. With a wave of her hand the chains that keep him from standing where gone and she helped him up.

Well, she would have loved to take away the rest of the chains along with the mouth guard and magic suppressors she had to make sure her baby was himself first.

Because she knew Loki was hurting, she knew Loki was not himself, she knew something had happened to her child during his fall.

Because Mother knows best

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Frigga's eyes were laying on Loki's prone form. His clothes were changed and looked cleaner and healthier. He did not look like someone that had been asleep for the past 2 months.

She could still remember when she first brought Loki to the mind healer. The mind healer( a woman by the name of Isaljal) was in an all outrage. She took one look in Loki's mind and knew what was wrong. Someone had taken her baby's memories, smashed them, broke them, cut ties, and replaced them with lies. The monster had wreaked havoc on Loki's emotional output as well as made him believe things that were not true, worst of all the monster had left a small fraction of himself in Loki's mind so he would have a sense of control over Loki.

The mind healer had Frigga cast a sleep spell over Loki. A spell that left people in a deep sleep but with no dreams. The mind healer said it would be best if Loki remains that way till the damage could be undone. It would be unwise for Loki to be awake till it was fixed, just in case the Monster soul fragment tired to do any more damage.

As soon as the mind healer was done telling her this, she got to work. Spending days and nights fixing memories, and concluding gaps, as well as removing the fragments that were not Loki's own.

Frigga spent little time away from her son during this time. She was at his side every day, holding his hand and telling him fairy tales from his youth. Even if he could not hear her, it brought coungert to Frigga just to be there for her son.

Thor visited often as well. Frigga could tell her oldest was deeply upset with the part he had to play in both Loki's fall and the events after. He beat himself up over the fact that he did not see the signs. As his mother, she could not lie to him.

She told him how she noticed Thor drifting away from his brother over the years, how he chose friends over his own family. She told him how he had a small role to play in both lokies fall and the events after.

Even so, no one was in fault as much as Odin was.

He did not visit ones, too proud to admit his mistakes. That was fine with Frigga.
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The first thing that broke Loki's caucuses was a soft voice singing. The song was so familiar but he could not quite place it. It was like a forgotten friend, something that you use to find comfort in but was long forgotten. The next thing that came to him was the sense of wrong. Something was wrong in his head.

Well, maybe a better way to put it was, things were wrong. He felt his natural mind magic start to take over as he woke and put everything back in place. As his mind became more clear he realized that something had been suppressing his magic. Stopping his magic from healing him.

It all came back at ones. The fall, the mad titan, the attack on new york ...all the people he killed. Loki was no saint, he did not go out of his way to help a kitten from a tree but he was not a bad guy. Sure he could be mean but he was not bad. He did not kill just to kill. He felt a bit of bail rise in his throat as every memory hit him. His vision was starting to come back to him as he tried to sit up.His heart beating faster and faster and it was all he could hear

“ Shhh my son, it's fine lay back down, you have been asleep for a while waiting for your body to recover” Loki heard his mother's voice say. His mom

Odin betrayal was still fresh, Thor turning his back was still there, but his sweet mother. The one to truly love him.

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Frigga took one last look at her sleeping son before stepping out of his room. He had been awake for about a week now and was aloud to move into his own room for the rest of recovery.

Frigga had been anything but subtle when rubbing the fact that she was right and loki actions were not his own when telling Odin. Loki had been declared free of all charges and would remain a princes of asgard. Not that she was sure Loki wanted to be considered Odin's son, she would not blame him.

At the moment as her youngest was sleeping she went to find her oldest. Loki was having a very hard time coping with what happened in New York. She had told him many times it was not his doing but he did not accept it. She thought that as soon as Loki was healed, a little trip to New York would help him greatly.

Where he could explain his actions and warn them of the threat that was the mad titan.

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“ Natassia, he is not just some robot, he is the closest thing to human life that has ever been made!” Tony yelled at the redhead that had the audacity to insult his ALIS

“ That's the thing Tony, “made” IT is not real, stop treating it like it has a feeling, when all it is a weapon, think of what shield could do with that type of weapon? They're offering you a lot of money and anything else you could ask for. Why does one little robot even mean that much to you? You make 100rends a year, and you end up getting bored after a week. It's not like its real, it's not like it's going to feel sad over you letting it go, it does as it's told and shield could use that”

Tony was red in the face at this point “ WELL IT CAN CLEARLY FEEL MORE EMOTIONS THAN YOU CAN, i'm not giving ALIAS to Shield! “

“ You will come around-” Natasha cut herself off as said robot walked into the room. “ I'm sorry Mr Stark...Natassia, I didn't mean to intervene I'll leave now” Alis purposely did not call Natassaia miss or her last name. His own away to show his anger.

“ Ah no ALIS, you're not intervening on anything, I was just about to leave, why don't you come with me? Tell me about your day” Tony said walking away from Natassia.

ALIS gave a small smile and followed after Tony, not before casting a small tripping jinx on Natassia
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ALIS knew something was going on, he was just not quite sure what. The residents of the tower were in a buzz about something. He was currently flipping through all the rooms in the tower at once to try to figure out what was happening. Of course, he preferred being in his android form. It made him feel more in tune with his magic having a physical form. It also connected him better with his past life. But of course, there were plenty of advantages to being in his more computer code form as well. Everything was just so much faster, he did not think he just did. It was hard to explain. He understood what it was like to be alive, but he understood what it was like to not be.

After finding the room all the members were gathered in, he moved back into his physical form. He was able to better understand his surroundings this way. He also felt more included, of course not all the members wanted him there but fuck them.

JARVIS’ body was almost done. Any day now, however, it seemed that Tony was currently distracted doing something else. He promised JARVIS that the body would be done soon. At the moment Tony seemed to be worried about something else. “ Thor said it was like a parasite, something got into him and took control,” Tony said, restating what had been told to him early by Thor.

ALIS noted that a few days ago Thor stopped in, but left not even an hour later. 

Clint was the next to speak up “ That’s bullshit, he probably just came up with that lie so mommy and daddy would not be mad at him.”

Steve, who liked the mother hen he was, was standing a little way back. At a point where he could see everyone at once.” Thor is our teammate if he says it was not his brother but something larger we have to believe him.”

It would seem that this was not the right thing to say as Clint jumped up to his feet from his spot on the couch. “ SO WHAT! We are just meant to pretend this guy did not kill hundreds and let him play house with us?.”

“ You forgot this is my house Clint, I have the say over what happens and who is allowed to live here, OH and believe me, I know what it's like to be forced to do something you don't want to.” ALIS knew what Tony was talking about. Tony often had nightmares about his time stuck in captivity. Being forced to build weapons that he no longer believed in. Of course, he stole back the weapon but the thoughts of what if still plagued his creator mind from time to time.

“ I’m saying Loki is innocent? No, Thor told me about the events leading up to Loki's fall and the things he did then where his own doing. And personally I think Odin is to blame just as much as him. And well Loki may not be innocent on Asgard as he is innocent here. Loki was being controlled by a bigger threat and while we stand here arguing like children something is out there that has the power to control gods! I know what I saw in that portal during the Battle of New York and believe when I say it's something big, something way bigger than Earth let alone us. So maybe we should worry about that before childish fights!” Tony yelled slightly towards the end and turned on his heels and stocked out of the room.

ALIS who had been standing by the door gave one last look around the room before following Tony “ God ALIS, me, you and JARVIS are the only smart and sane ones here!”

ALIS gave a small smile at the words and went into the workshop with Tony.

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Tony bobbed his head to the loud music playing in his lab as he finished up JARVIS's body. JARVIS was different from ALIS in almost every way. Well, ALIS was a young man and JARVIS looked older. Without any input of Tony's own the AI ended up looking a bit like the living version of the man from his childhood. Tony was just finishing up the last few things. He heard a small gasp over the loud music and turned to see ALIS.

ALIS was reading some sort of book, a fantasy book called Percy Jackson and the heroes Olympus. Honestly Tony was amazed, ALIS could have easily found the book through his connection to the internet and would have known the whole story within seconds, but he did not. When Tony had asked why, ALIS simply said he was doing it for his own enjoyment. It was nothing short of amazing, an AI doing something for fun. After all, the AI was made to learn and that's what he was doing. Tony did not understand how others could claim that ALIS was not living when it seemed that the AI seemed to grow more and more human every day.

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ALIS’s eyes scanned over the book in front of him. When he had been in Hogwarts or the wizarding world for that matter he never really took the time to read muggle fantasy books. But he was glad he had taken the time now. Hundreds of worlds filled with magic and monsters all thought up by muggles. It amazed him. He started to read the next page when he felt it. A ripple of magic seemed to wash over him. His eyes flicked up and he quickly connected to the cameras in the tower and found what he was looking for…..it would seem Loki and Thor have arrived.

ALIS had made a bit of a discovery in the last few days. His magic core had taken root in his android form. His magic no longer just floated around him when he was just 0s and 1s. It finally had a spot to take root and this made his magic stronger and he was better able to control it. It felt ...good to have a physical form again for his magic and soul to reside.

“ Mr. Stark, Thor and his brother have arrived” He tried to hide the excitement in his voice. He hoped to get Loki alone and be able to talk to him about the magic of this world or the universe he guessed. He was still apprehensive about Loki, yet Tony had said he was allowing the man in his home. That his actions on Earth were not his own. Of course, he was the Son of a Marauder so he wasn't going to flat out tell Loki that he had magic or that he had a soul for that matter he would somehow get the man to make a vow with him so he would be unable to tell others. However, he was not sure if the man could sense magic, for all he knew the man already knew there was a magic-user in the building...well if that was the case he hoped the man kept to himself about it.

He watched Tony get up and he followed setting his book to the side. With a small smile on his lips, he sent out a small trail of his own magic to brush against Loki’s own, just as a tease. He wondered what the man would think about a magic user being on earth. Of course, he was no longer human but he still had a mortal soul...well maybe not but he did not want to dwell on the whole master of death business.

ALIS started to walk into the main room. Where Loki and Thor were, Tony following right behind him into the room that Loki and the other Avengers would be waiting.

In all honesty, ALIS hated most of the Avenger members. They used Tony and gave nothing in return. Acting as if Tony owed them. He was fine with Bruce, the man was forced here by SHIELD and kept mostly to himself. He also showed that he was thankful for what Tony offered him and the two would often stay up late into the night talking about this and that of the science world.

Clint and Natasha were big no’s in his book. They were agents of SHIELD and they did not have to live here, he was pretty sure they were only here to keep an eye on Tony and what he gots up to. They don’t even thank the man for giving them a home and food. If only it was not in his code to not hurt any the Avengers. ALIS was sure that he could overthrow the code and do as he wanted but he knew better than to act up. After all, if he hurt either of them it would simply make them right and Tony may be forced to shut him down.

Steve was ...annoying. He often looked at Tony with a disappointed look and said things about Tony's father and how he would have done better. Well, ALIS often wants to yell at the Super Soldier that Tony was in fact not his father. Steve also never thanked Tony for all he gave him. He acted all high and mighty and was in fact just rude.

Then there was Thor. ALIS liked Thor. He was pretty sure that Thor and maybe Bruce were the only ones that saw Tony as a friend. Thor knew what Tony did for him and thanked him often.

ALIS stepped into the room a few moments before Tony and glanced around the room at everyone there. The Avengers stood around the room while Thor and Loki stood in the middle.

ALIS light green eyes that followed him whether he was Harry or ALIS eyed Loki. ALIS almost laughed, the man and Harry could have been brothers. Both ALIS and Harry had pale skin that only seemed to make to their inky black hair stand out more. Then there were the eyes. Both seemed to glow green with magic. Of course, ALIS and Harry did not look the same. But it still made him laugh on the inside and wonder about what if Harry and Loki had met in his past life.

“ Well, glad to see everyone has gathered to see me” a deep voice filled the room. The voice of course Lokis. Loki was talking to the whole room yet…..Loki's eyes had not left his own ever since ALIS had entered the room.

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The room was quiet for a few moments. No one wanted to speak up as the Avengers all stared at Loki and Thor. From pictures that ALIS had seen of the god before, Loki looked quite different. Gone with the grand outfit and helmet of horns, in its place was something much more humble. Loki was dressed in what he would guess casual clothes on Asgard would look like. Of course, even if they were casual, ALIS remembered Loki was still a prince and they looked like fine clothes, made of silk and fine cotton. He carried nothing on his person.

Thor was dressed much more casual than last time he was on Earth. He still had some forms of armor covering his chest, but he wore simple pants and a shirt. All in all, they looked more human than any time ALIS had seen them in the past. Thor held a few bags in his hands, looking like the two brothers’ things. Thor was also standing slightly in front of Loki. As if acting as a small shield between his brother and the rest of the team.

Tony, one to always hate any awkward events or silents, spoke up first. “Well, let me be the first to welcome you to my home Reindeer Games, you and Thor will be sharing the 34th floor. Try not to break any of the windows like last time you were here, it's a bitch to get the windows replaced on the higher floors,” Tony said, his tone happy and casual. He glanced at the other Avengers as if daring them to speak up. Thor smiled at Tony, a silent ‘thank you’ for his words.

ALIS stepped forward, a small smile on his lips and he placed his hands behind his back. “I can happily show you to your new floor,” ALIS found himself saying. He knew Tony wanted to remind the Avengers one more time on how he expected them to treat his house guest.

“ AH! Friend ALIS, still wonderful to see you have escaped your prison within the walls. Thank you, Brother, this is ALIS, friend Stark calls him an AI and he made him as the other voice stuck in the walls. But this one now has a body. He keeps an eye out on the tower, makes sure no one gets in. “ Thor said a bright smile on his lips.

ALIS gave a small nod to Thor and turned around, expecting Loki to follow him to his new room here on Earth. He also noted the odd look on Loki's face when Thor said he was AI, a man-made artificial intelligence that never has been or never will be living. Well, it would seem Loki could tell that something was off about him. He wondered if Loki could sense his magic or soul as he himself could sense Loki's own magic coming off around him in waves.

Harry's own magic seems to shine bright in the face of another’s magic. Something he had yet to feel in this new world. It welcomed Loki's magic against ALIS's own accord. ALIS could feel Loki's eyes on his back as he walked in front of him. ALIS, even if he did not need to (but old habits die hard), took a deep breath as he stepped in the elevator. Well this would be fun.

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Tony glanced at where ALIS was walking away. That little shit, leaving him to deal with this whole awkward situation. Well, at least Loki was no longer in the room with all of the Avengers hateful glares. Thor still stood in the middle of the room, looking at the Avengers as if daring them to say anything.

“I said it before, Loki was not in control of his actions on Midgard, he has come here to relax and recover from the damage that was done to his mind, if you cannot treat my brother with the same respect you treat me… well don't expect me stop Loki when he fights back, he may not be fully healed but he still has magic. He promised not to hurt anyone but he’s still the god of tricks and will not submit to harsh treatment when he was promised safety here,” Thor said, his eyes unusually hard. A big difference from the usually happy man. But then again Loki was his family, his younger brother.

“Don't worry Point Break, I already told them all of this and if people can't follow my simple rules, it's my home and they can go find somewhere else to live. I welcomed your brother here, and don't worry, for some reason I think ALIS was excited to see Loki, and Loki is recognized as a resident of the tower now, meaning he is under both ALIS’s and JARVIS protection, nothing is going to happen to him while he is here,” Tony said to Thor.

“Thank you friend Tony, I just worry for him,” Thor said, a smile finally taking over his lips.

Tony had thought that was the end of it, yet it would seem that the others were not so keen on keeping quiet. “So we are just meant to act as if nothing happened,” Clint spoke up first, his tone hard and sharp. “Meant to play house with a killer.”

“Come on Clint, I knew you had hearing problems but you’re not deaf. Loki was not in control of himself while he was on Earth, how many times do we have to say that?” Just as Tony stopped talking Natasha spoke up.

“And if he is lying-” Thors angry voice cut in.

“You claim I do not know my brother.”

Tony sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose as the room broke out into fights and yelling. It was going to be a long night, if only he was as smart as ALIS to have gotten away when he had the chance.

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ALIS could feel Loki's eyes on his back. “W-” the man started to speak up but ALIS was quick to interrupt him.

“If you have any questions, Loki, please wait till we reach your floor.” They were currently standing in the elevator going to Loki and Thor’s floor. Harry, as at the moment he was feeling much more Harry then ALIS. Trusted JARVIS, he really did. But the AI could never go behind Tony’s back if Tony asked him what they talked about. So instead, ALIS wanted to wait till they got to the floor so he could block JARVIS from the room and maybe even throw up a ward or two.

Loki stayed quiet after that, but Harry could still tell that the god’s eyes were on him as they finally got to the floor and stepped out. He sent out a small ward around them, simply something to keep JARVIS from seeing into the room and would alert him if anyone came in. He noticed Loki look around as the magic passed over them.

“Now, Loki, the god of trickery, I’m sure you can tell something is up about me, that I’m not fully man-made… but before I tell you anything I need your word, and I will offer you the same respect.” He found himself pausing to watch the god.

“I, Harry James Potter, ALIS by body, swear upon my magic that anything said in this room will not leave it, be it in the form of word of mouth, writing, or any other form of communication,” Harry said, his voice steady. Sure he was moving fast, but he needed to talk to someone about the magic of this world - but he was not stupid. He still knew well enough to cover his back and make sure his secrets stayed his own. He hoped that Loki had never heard of vows before, maybe the god would repeat his words without truly knowing the magic bind behind it.

Loki's green eyes, he noted they were no longer blue like they were when he attacked New York, trailed over him. Harry could feel the god’s magic in the air, it touching his wards and his own magic. It almost made Harry shiver, the feeling of magic that was not his own since his soul first came to this world.

“Well, I was not expecting this… but I will respect your word and take your vows if only to satisfy my own curiosity little sorcerer, I can tell your body is not flesh and blood yet your magic flows from your core and soul….. something that no mere human would be able to make… I, Loki Laufeyjarson, swear to not share any information that is said in this room until Harry James Potter claims I may.”

Harry felt the magic tighten around the both of them and he found himself laughing at the surprised look on Loki’s face, it would seem the god had never made a magic-binding vow before. Loki had probably assumed that it was simply words between them both.

“Well, now that we have that out of the way,” Harry was sure his eyes were glowing brighter than usual with his excitement and magic, “My name is ALIS, Advanced Learning Intelligence System, an AI made by Tony Stark to better protect himself, his home, and those within it… However, my soul name is Harry James Potter.”

Harry waved his hand slightly and a chair appeared behind him, he sat down and looked at Loki with a smile on his lips. Of course, he could have just walked a few feet into the floor's living room but….. so what? He wanted to show off. “Now, I’m sure you have a few questions?”

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Loki… was not expecting this, any of this. He had expected to come to Earth to heal and spend time away from his father. He watched as Harry, ALIS, whatever, made a chair and sat down. It was nothing crazy but it was still odd to see magic coming from something that had no physical form besides a made one.

He copied the movement and sat down himself. His green eyes on the form of the other as he still moved his magic around himself feeling the air and the magic within it.

“I was born on another realm, this Earth just a different time, no Avengers and if you or your brother existed you never took a step on that Earth. I was born to a small percentage of the population of magic users. We were hidden from the normal muggles’- sorry, mortals’ view, and that’s where I grew up, I won’t bore you with the details.” Loki was pretty sure there were a lot more than just boring details but he stayed quiet. “But one thing leads to another, I died, was reborn as something that’s not quite living but still had my magic and my soul.” Harry, ALIS, whatever-his-name said all of this with a happy look on his face. As if it was a relief to finally get everything off his chest.

Loki found himself silent, he had never heard anything in all the realms of rebirth. Let alone with rebirth to something chemical and physical alive to something that was not. It did beg the question, could someone be reborn as anything, including a rock? That would be a very upsetting few thousand years.

“Well,” he found himself saying, “Of course you would still have your magic, if your soul carried on with you, then so would your memories and magic, as the magic core is within the soul, and magic often carries all of a magic user’s memories as a form of defense... However, the rebirth is the confusing part, there are powerful beings that control the process of death and there is no such thing as rebirth, souls have a place to go on to… not be reborn, so the question is. Why you?”

The man, well android, had a strange look on his face as if he knew the answer to why he was here. But he did not look as if he was going to share. Loki let a small smirk growing on his face. Finally, he would have something to do on this planet, find out every single secret of ALIS.

Well, and maybe talk about magic, but the secrets came first.

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It was the day after Loki and Thor had moved in. Harry and Loki had talked for quite some time before ALIS had other things that he needed to do. ALIS found himself humming slightly in thought as he sat on the couch in the living room. Everyone else in the tower was asleep, a very rare occasion, when one was to look at all of the residents' random sleeping schedules. Because of this, Harry was left to his own thoughts.

The more that he thought about magic, the more he felt like Harry. The more it becomes easier to refer to himself as such. It's not as if it really matters, he was Harry as much as he was ALIS. It was simply that fact of the matter that Harry had more to do with magic than ALIS did. He was knocked out of his thoughts as JARVIS 'body entered the room. The other AI did not take to his body as easily as ALIS did. He also did not use it as often as ALIS himself did.

JARVIS looked like an older man, but still handsome and human-looking. If one were not to know that this thing in front of them was an android, he was sure many would think him a simple old man.

“Hello JARVIS, it's a quiet evening, and I find myself with not much to do,” he said and gave a small smile. JARVIS sat down next to him. ALIS was pretty sure the other was only using the body because Tony made it.

“Ah, yes ALIS, I'm not used to such quiet in the tower. Of course, it's nice to see Sir sleeping, he does so rarely these days.“ The other said, his voice having a British accent to it. Much like Harry's own.

“Yes, Tony has quite stressful days as of late. Of course, he is quite used to it even if I wish he was not,” ALIS said and leaned back into the couch, he knew that he should not be able to, but he could feel the softness of the cloth. Must be his magic, he thought in passing.

“ALIS, don't call him ‘Tony’,“ JARVIS said in a bit of a strict tone, however ALIS simply waved his hand.

He was about to speak up when he felt something… something was wrong. “One moment JARVIS,” he said and the light in the android's eyes dimmed as he focused his consciousness back into the tower. He sensed something wrong on the 4th floor. Accessing the cameras he could see what it was.

A group of men and women in black were trying to break into the tower. If ALIS was in his body he would have laughed. ALIS was made with the safety of the tower and Tony in mind. He was a weapon before anyone else. Since not many were stupid enough to try to break into Stark Tower, he had yet had the chance to really use his programming to its full power. Oh, he was looking forward to this.

He moved back to his body for a moment to inform JARVIS, he was sure that he knew but he wanted to tell him anyway. ”JARVIS, there are three men and one woman breaking in on the 4th floor. I will deal with them, however as of right now don't wake Tony up, no need to disrupt his sleep over such petty and little things,” he informed while standing up and making his way to the elevator pressing the button for the 4th floor.

The elevator was quite fast and before he knew it he was on the 4th floor. The 4th floor was mainly for file and paper storage, so the lights were off as no one in the tower ever came down here. However, ALIS could tell that they were here. Not only could he see them from the camera, but he also had night vision and he could see them standing back in the corner, holding still, perhaps hoping he could not see them. He knew they could see him, standing with his back to the light from the elevator. However, as the elevator closed the light went with it, leaving all of them in the dark.

Not only were these 4 criminals, but they were stupid criminals. What kind of idiot broke into one of the highest protected and technologically advanced towers without thinking of the cameras? Whatever, this would be easy, the police were already on the way to pick them up. Dang it, ALIS wanted a challenge. Oh well, maybe next time.

“Hello, lady and gentlemen, if you wish to spare yourself some pain, I suggest you step forward and willingly walk with me to the entrances where the police are waiting,” ALIS said, staring into the dark corner he knew they were standing in. He was sure that they could see the slight glow to his eyes…. no one stepped forward. He let out the sound of a deep breath… idiots, or as Snape would say, dunderheads.

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Tony woke to a knock on his door. He made a small muffled sound and turned on his side to see it was 10 AM. Holy shit, he slept in. That was the longest he had slept in a long time! Swinging his legs over the bed, he stretched and walked to the door. He opened it to find ALIS standing there with a plate of food in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other.

“Good morning Tony,” The AI said in a happy tone and with a small smile. God, Tony could still not get over how human ALIS was. JARVIS was quite human-like in his body and the way he acted, yet it never quite matched up to ALIS.

“Oh ALIS, you're such an angel.” He said, smiling at the smell of the coffee. The AI knew just what he wanted in the morning. He stepped aside and let the other into the room. ALIS walked in and set the food down on the bedside table then turned back to him.

“Sir, I have a few things to tell you regarding the event that took place in the tower last night.”

Tony walked over to the bed and sat down, oh great. Did Steve break another door handle, or did Thor think someone was stuck in the TV? He thought to himself as he sat down and sipped at the warm coffee. A little bit of milk and a teaspoon of sugar, just the way he liked it. “Oh?” he said instead of voicing his thoughts.

“Last night around 2:12 , four people broke into the 4th floor of the tower. “ ALIS said in a calm voice. Tony felt his hands tighten around his cup. No, no, not his home. Did he feel his heartbeat quicken? Were they terrorists coming to get weapons? He could fight the bad guys, it's what he did.. but that isn’t usually in his own home. His safe place. He felt his breath pick up along with his heart and it would seem ALIS noticed as well as the android stepped forward and took the cup out of his hands and placed a hand on Tony’s arm.

“Please, Tony, breathe, I promise you’re safe. I took care of it, they’re long gone.'' It took a few moments for Tony to take those words in and understand… He… He was safe. “I was notified of them the moment the glass window broke, I dealt with them and they were captured by me and given to police before they could even get out of the room they broke into. The police have them in jail and the window repair crew should be here within the hour,” ALIS said in a soothing tone. Tony took all of this in and focused on ALIS hand on him. He used it to ground himself… ALIS took care of it. Kept him safe and dealt with everything. Tony felt himself calming, damn, he thought he was done with the panic attacks. He looked up at the concerned face of ALIS.

“T-thanks ALIS, thank you for dealing with it,” he said after a few moments. ALIS then smiled.

“I think you forget sir that my main purpose is to keep you safe, and I don't take that task lightly.“

If Tony was not Tony fucking Stark he might have cried. When was the last time someone was only ever looking out for him? His father? Hell no, his mom? No, she was too busy with parties and being in the know with all the rich housewives. Rhodey? He was always too busy with life to worry about Tony… In truth, ALIS and JARVIS were the only ones that truly cared for him above all else… and some may find that sad. Honestly Tony could not be happier.

“Thanks, ALIS… I don't know what I would do without you.”

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“Wait wait wait, magic is seen as a cowardly weapon on your planet? How stupid is that? Who would win, a guy running at you with a sword or a guy using magic to stand back, where he is safe, cast one spell and have the other passed out in moments?” ALIS asked in shock as he sat across Loki. Loki smiled a real smile and sipped on his tea as he looked at the android across from him. Loki was still amazed at the creature in front of him. The ability for a soul to move on to a new life but hold onto not only their memories but magic as well? Those who studied magic within the 9 realms had forever wondered where magic energy comes from. Never quite knowing for sure, however, the knowledge that magic was within one's soul was amazing.

“I know, all the other boys around my age would try to attack me and I would simply make them fall over thin air, always made them quite mad,” Loki said, it was amazing to have someone to talk about magic with, someone that knew magic and loved it just as much as Loki himself did.

He watched as ALIS waved his hand making the teacup in front of them float for a few moments, before surprising, turning into a mouse that made a strange sound of glass hitting glass before running off. ALIS for his part let out a huff. “Dang, I can usually make them squeak like real mice, but it’s hard learning wandless after using a wand for so long.” Loki could not help but ask what he meant by that.

“Well in my world, wizards use wands, a magical core inside of wood, to have a better control of their magic. Seeing as I don’t have one, it’s like learning all over again, but it's.. a lot easier in this body. I think it has to do with not having a physical body. Even so, magic is a lot easier to do when I’m controlling this android body than when I’m incorporeal,” the other said with a shrug of his shoulders and waved his hand again and the mouse came flying at them. It landed on the table and turned back to a teacup. Even if it looked the same, Loki decided not to use that cup.

“There are such things as staves, but I have never heard of wands.” ALIS looked like he was about to answer before freezing, and the light in his eyes dimmed as it always did when he was watching through cameras in another room. “Those goddamn SHIELD agents. I hate them. And they won't leave Tony alone about selling me to SHIELD as a weapon.” ALIS said and leaned back in his chair.

“Does it not bother you they think you to simply be an object? Why not tell them of your soul?” Loki asked and sipped more of his tea. Mortals did very few things right, but tea was one of them.

“I have little care for what they think… and I may tell Tony one day… I just don't know when. I also know that Tony will never give in to their wishes but….. Loki you are the God of Mischief, right? What do you say we… do a few little harmless pranks on dear Black Widow and Bird?”

Loki felt himself smirking. “Well, my new friend, that sounds like a wonderful idea.” Because yes, ALIS was starting to become the closest thing that Loki had as a friend.

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ALIS was simply setting things up when he felt the presence enter his mind. It felt dark and cold, but calming at the same time.

“Well my dear master, the time is coming for you to do your duties of this world”

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Tom Marvolo Riddle, better known as Lord Voldemort, would smile if he could. Victory would be his! It seemed that because he split his soul he could not move on to the afterlife and he would be reborn! The Dark Lord would take over once more. Ah! The light was clearing, what would he be?

And that was how Lord Voldemort found himself reborn as a simple rock, on an uninhabitable planet in an unknown universe, where the Dark Lord would spend god knows how long spending his days staring at the ever-changing landscape.

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Warning for ptsd!

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“ Dah, dah da dah, heyyy, heyy what’s the matter with ya! Hey hey, what’s the matter, your mine~ and ya fine~” the music played through the man’s headphones as he skipped along the uncharted landscape of a random planet. This man, known as Star-Lord thank you very much, was doing good. He saved the universe and no longer wanted for crimes he may or may not have committed. He started to sing along to the music again when he raised his foot to kick at a rock on the ground.

However, the rock did not do as any normal rock would. Instead of moving forward it stayed in place and sent a shock through his foot. He pressed pause on the music and leaned down. He picked up the rock and looked it over. It sent a strange feeling through his skin where he held it “Sweet...I have always wanted a pet rock!” and that my friends is how Voldemort ended aboard the guardians of the galaxy's ship.

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Harry did not mind Bruce. He kept to himself and he was clearly thankful for what Tony gave him. After all, he was not here on his own will. SHIELD forced him to be an Avenger after all and he would happily leave if he could. He often said thank you to Tony not only for a home, food, and a lab but to Tony for simply being a friend. Tony and Bruce often spent long hours simply talking. Bruce and Tony were both smart and it was good for Tony to be able to talk to someone that understood him.

So Harry told Loki that Burce was off-limits. Along with Tony of course. Thor was up to Loki, and Loki said to leave him be. His brother was really trying to mend their relationship and make it up to Loki for all he had done.

Leaving Natasha, Clint, and Steve. Harry would not hide the fact that he lost a bit of his moral compass in the process of changing lives. He held nothing but disdain and hate for those three. They reminded him of Albus. The three held no guilt over using others to fit their own goals much like how Albus had used a young Harry to fit his own goal. Raising Harry in a way that he would willingly give up his life. Ensuring that Harry would be amazed by this new world that saved him from his aunt and uncle. Willing to do anything, even die, for this new world. So yes, Harry felt no guilt over what they would be doing to these three.

First up on their list was Steve. Steve's past was well known. So the idea of the prank was quite easy. Harry and Loki found the man alone in his room, perfect. ALIS knew the man's past quite well. However Loki was the one that came up with this prank and Harry was happy to go along. The two made their way to the room next door and Harry used a bit of magic to make the wall see-through on their side and they could now see Steve reading on his bed. Loki waved a hand and the room temperature slowly dropped down. At first, Steve did not seem to notice it however a few more moments passed and goosebumps covered the man’s skin. Steve looked around the room a bit confused but went back to reading and pulling the blanket up a bit.

ALIS connected to the lights in the room and made them flicker and fade before turning off altogether. Oh this was going to be fun~

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Steve’s POV

Steve glanced up as the lights started to flicker and then fade, the only light left in the room is from the very little light coming in through the windows. He set the book to the side and glanced down seeing a bit of his breath in the air. “ What the..” Steve said and moved to get to his feet when he heard it...a scratching sound….

Steve slowly got to his feet to walk to the bathroom where the sound was coming...then he heard the whisper… “ S-steveeee” the voice was scratchy but for some reason it was familiar but he could not place it. “ You let me fall” the voice said again and again and Steve halted in his walk to the bathroom room freezing in place as the scratching started to increase on the other side of the door...n-no there was no way….he was dead...Bucky was dead.

“Y-y-you let me die'' the voice said and the doorknob started to turn, Steve let out a gasp of breath and yet again he could see his breath in the air as the room seemed to get colder and colder. The doorknob stopped turning….and the door slowly creaked open but Steve could see nothing in the dark bathroom as the door opened. But oh the voice...the voice seemed to be filling the room “ You let me die while you got to live….” Then Steve saw it...Bucky...his skin gray and decomposing, lumps of hair missing and frostbite covering his skin. He was dragging himself out of the bathroom on the floor, his legs a mangled mess from falling. He opened his mouth and Steve could see the missing teeth “ You abandoned all of us…” then Bucky started to move, he moved faster out of the bathroom, Steve could not think he just needed to get away, he took a step backward and turned to run when he tripped over something, falling to his knees.

He would not realize this but in truth, he tripped over nothing but air and a bit of magic. He felt fear pump and fill his chest as he could hear Bucky still crawling after him...He felt the cold fingers graze his ankle. Filling him with a cold deep emptiness. He let out a scream as he got to his feet and ran for the door. He turned the doorknob to get out but it would not turn. The doorknob would not even move. It was too late...Bucky was right behind him. Steve did not dare turn around, he shut his eyes tight as he felt cold, dying breath on the back of his neck.. “ It should have been you...you should have died” he felt those cold fingers grab on to his shoulder, Steve shut his eyes tighter his breath coming out in short pants as he tried to pull the door open “….Only a matter of time now...I'll be waiting for you in Hell” He felt nails dig into his shoulder cutting the flesh open.

The cold seemed to fade from the room and lights flicked back on. The door opened with ease and Steve ran from the room, a bit of blood falling from the cut on his shoulder.

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Harry could not help the laughter that bubbled up in his chest as he watched Steve run down the hall. It was so odd, ever since he got a body and was spending more time with both Loki and Tony his emotions were becoming more fleshed out...he felt more human and he loved it. Harry caught himself and the laughter died down as he saw through the camera when Steve ran...w-what did he do? There were pranks and then there was this...ALIS laughter died down as he looked at loki.

Loki sat next to him and laughed “ Oh Harry that was amazing! Your illusion magic is simply outstanding! ” Harry gave a bit of a half smile back but his mind was running fast. Something else to note was Loki never called him ALIS, he was Harry. Honestly he did not care what he was called but it was nice to hear someone else call him by his other name “ The other two are out of the tower at the moment….we can talk about them later...i-I have something I need to do” ALIS said as Loki canceled the spell letting them see thru the walls as they left the side room back into the hallway.

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ALIS looked down at his fingers. They looked like skin, they even felt like skin. But Harry knew that they were not skin. Nothing about this body was human. None of it was real.. He held a finger up and took a deep breath of air that he did not need. A bit of fire lit on the tip of his finger and ALIS stared at it as he made it dance up and down. He put the fire out and turned to look out of the window. Looking at the city below. Who was he? What was he? He remembered the voice from before. Death...Harry had tried to call out to this...thing again but he got no answer. Nothing...no answers to why he was not ...well dead.

Harry closed his eyes and leaned his not real head on the glass of the window and let his thoughts simply run wild for a moment. Who was he? Was he Harry or was he ALIS. Was he human or some man-made code. If not for his magic, ALIS would think that Harry was not real...that his old life was all made up and put into an AI to simply see what would happen. But no...his life was not that simple.

Today was...eye-opening. He realized his thought process was similar to different rivers that were going in different directions but at times would cross into each other before breaking up. Leaving bits of one river to flower with water from another. Harry Potter would never have done such a thing as he did today...not even to a death eater. Harry Potter did not use one's fears against them. Did not use their past and to mentally torment them. Harry Potter did.not.hurt.others.

But...ALIS was different. ALIS did not have real emotions. Of course, his soul gave him emotions but ALIS code was not built with emotion in mind. ALIS was built with the one goal of keeping Tony safe. But in those moments of pranking, no tormenting Steve ALIS saw it as a good thing. HE was not allowed to physically hurt anyone living in the tower but maybe if ALIS pushed Steve hard enough he would leave. Leave the SHIELD and Tony alone. But...this was not the way to do it.

Harry and ALIS needed to...stop being two different lives. They needed to be one. He understood he could never just be Harry again. He saw life differently now to simply being as much as a Gryffindor as he was before. But at the same time, he could not simply be a heartless AI.

ALIS pressed a hand on the window and felt nothing...he could tell he was touching the glass...that it should feel cold and somewhat damp from the morning dew...but he felt nothing. And that was the problem..He focused for a moment moving his magic into his hand and imagined his hand being real..being alive. His hand seemed to glow for a moment and all of a sudden...he could feel. He could feel the touch of the cold glass on his finger tip...human...no..Harry decided at that moment. He did not need to be Human...he just needed to remember what it was to be alive. To value every life...even the ones he did not like.

Harry could be ALIS, and ALIS could be Harry….and he..could simply be himself.

The two rivers of thought, even if they both came from different places, ended up in the same sea of thought.

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Harry enjoyed there quote-unquote *family time* with Tony. AKA, ALIS, JARVIS, a few other bots, and Tony would all sit in the lab together. Tony either talked with ALIS and JARVIS having a very intelligent conversion that Tony could have with very few real humans. Tonight's topic was the human thought process of emotions and how ALIS and JARVIS felt on the matter and if they felt as if they could feel emotions the way humans could.

Of course, Harry could not claim that every night was intelligent conversation, some nights Tony simply needed someone to listen as he trailed on and on about the thoughts filling his brain. The one night talking about whether or not water was wet was a rant that went on for about two and half hours.

“ ALIS, do you have a task that you enjoy more than others? Do you feel, as if you are feeling joy from doing something, meanwhile feeling a form of disdain from doing a..lets say boring or repetitive task” Tony asked from where he sat, building a small something with his hands so his mind didn't wonder. Harry wondered how to answer this without giving away the fact that he did in fact have 100% human emotions. “ Well, Sir.” This start was met with a short “ Call me Tony for god's sake,”  “ Well Tony, I have access to all known human knowledge found online. I have millions of databases describing feelings and how they are processed and expressed...so yes. I can say that I find much more enjoyment in sitting here talking to you then I would talking to someone of lesser interest like...Clint” He said and tapped his fingers on the table. Tony laughed slightly and turned to JARVIS.

“ It's strange Mister Stark” Tony could not get JARVIS to stop calling him that “ I process things differently than ALIS seems to, even if we are made from the same code. I understand what feelings are but I don't know if I feel them as ALIS does. I have things that I don't enjoy but I don't dread them. I do as told and do my task. I would not be upset by doing anything you asked me.” JARVIS said as he sat straight in his chair.

Harry did not really think about it but Tony noticed clearly how much more human-like ALIS was in his mannerisms. Even how he sat was more human-like than JARVIS. It made him wonder...something was not right here...something was different about ALIS. And with all that Tony had learned of his world and the world's outside of his, nothing really surprised him at this point. So he was honestly at a fork in the road..to try to go into ALIS code and figure out what was going on...simply do nothing or maybe even...just ask.. “ Hey ALIS? Would you mind staying for a bit? I wanted to ask you a few more things about your programming to make sure everything is running right.”

“ Of course Tony,” ALIS said with a small smile but on the inside he felt a ball of anxiety fill his chest..It was time. Time to tell Tony about who, or better what, he was.

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Tony was a pretty logical man. He understood the hows and the whys of the world. So when ALIS asked to talk to him he assumed it would be something simple. Like a child asking their parents about how the sun works or something like that. But instead of a child, an advanced AI asking its maker about something human-related. That’s what he was ready for...not..not this.
“ Do you know what a soul is?” ALIS asked as he glanced at the room that JAVIS just walked in to, most likely to charge. Tony was sure the AI was connected to the room anyhow listening to everything they said.
“ Now ALIS, have you been reading some hippy articles online about the soul and human emotions? Come on, you should be more than smart enough to know that’s just a bunch of nonsense from cracked up teenagers, believe me, I was one. No 15 year old should be in college.” Tony said and brushed off the AI’s words. There was a lot of information online, but a lot of it was fake or not able to be proven true.
“Ah...no, I...shit, this is harder than I thought” Tony glanced up at ALIS and a bit of confusion started to fill him...he did not like that, he liked knowing, not being confused. ALIS seemed to take a deep breath, even if Tony knew that no air went in or out of his body. “...I.don’t understand it...but Tony, you know magic is real, you know there are worlds beyond our own...so I hope you can come to terms and understand this.” Tony started to grow worried “ALIS what are you talking about?”
“ I..have a soul...this is not my first...life...I was human ones before, not in this world, not in this universe or reality...but I was human, I died...and I was reborn as ALIS...I'm just as much Human as I am ALIS” Tony opened his mouth to say something but nothing seemed to come out….this had to be a joke...a joke by his prankster AI...yah that had to be it.
ALIS has always been a bit odd for an AI. A little voice started to speak in his head. Ever since he was first turned on..something was off….you know magic is real...is reincarnation so hard to believe? Tony felt his heart rate speed up...this was...there was no way! He was a man of science and logic not...magic! “ I think I need to go have a drink,” Tony said as in a way to get away from this….his whole world falling around him...well in truth this was not so far off from magic but it was all too much….but of course it could only get worse.
ALIS raised one of his pale human-like hands and with a twitch of his fingers, a bottle of gin and a small cup came flying towards his hands from the other room. He caught them and set them down on the table and blinked up at Tony looking like an innocent child “Oh yeah, I was also magical in my last life and it seemed to carry over” the little shit had the audacity to give Tony a shit winning grin.
Tony took the bottle and did not even bother with the cup as he took a long drink, it was going to be a long night.
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ALIS had to admit...that it is better than he first thought it was going to. He explained things the same way he did to Loki. He started by explaining his first life. Telling Tony all about who Harry Potter was and what his life was like. He spent quite some time explaining the magic of his world and how it was different than say Loki’s or even Thor’s. He went on to explain what..happened when he died. And how he simply woke up as ALIS. Not that he was not ALIS, he expressed this point to Tony as often as he could. He was just as much as ALIS the AI as he was ever Harry the Human. That he was happy with his new life. That he found joy and happiness in keeping Tony safe. For Tony, this seemed to be the breaking point. Tony never did well with people liking him, wanting him to be happy or healthy. He only got that from a handful of people in his life. And to learn that ALIS’s programming was not what made him care for Tony, but real genuine human emotion...well Tony was okay with all of this. He was okay that ALIS was not just an AI. Tony promised they could talk tomorrow but it was nearing 3 AM and the alcohol was kicking in. ALIS wished him good night and waited till he was out of the room to jump up and do a little dance. ALIS..no, neither this life nor his past life had he felt such a mix of joy and nervousness. Tony was not telling him to leave, trying to shut him down, or even scared of him. Harry finally felt truly at home for not having to lie to the person that he cared most for in this life….know, time to go find Loki and celebrate
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The next week was....good? Well ALIS did not know if that was the right word for it but he could not think of anything else at the moment. He had a nice little talk with JARVIS, the other AI simply said, “I knew there was something off with you, however I know that we both still have Sir’s best interest in mind and I trust you just as much as before.”
Tony and ALIS had a few more talks as the week went on. And slowly Tony came to terms about the whole rebirth thing and had quite a few odd questions related to magic and death. Tony also never felt okay asking Loki to help him test magic on things and ALIS was more than happy to do so. So to say Tony was taking leaps and bounds in his understanding of magic would be an understatement. ALIS also pretty sure that as Tony started to understand the whole mystery that was himself, the more Tony felt normal around him. So life went on...if only ALIS realized how quickly this happy somewhat normal life would change.
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It all started when the Avengers got a mission in the Eastern European country of Sokovia. They are trying to find Loki's old scepter. Loki himself wanted nothing to do with it and even if he tried to hide it, the thought of it made Loki pale and scared. It brought back memories of when he was not in control of his own body and mind. Thor was quick to say that Loki could stay in the tower and do not have to come. Anyhow, seeing as ALIS was made with the ideals of keeping Tony safe he liked knowing what was going on. He knew the avengers were going to a Hydra facility that was commanded by a man of the name of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. However, it was unknown what they were using the scepter on.
ALIS wished Tony good luck as they flew out. JARVIS would be in Tony's suit and helping to control the ironman bots if they were to be needed. ALIS spent some time with Loki and the two of them spent the day watching movies and making fun of earth's portrayal of magic. All in all, it was a pretty stress-free day...well until the team got back that was.
ALIS was alerted to a person outside of the tower's door and switched to the camera. He was a bit confused to see Dr.Helen Cho standing there. She was the main doctor that took care of the team. “ Hello Miss Cho, what can I do for you?” ALIS said from the speaker near the door. “I was called to come by Mister Stark, they should be arriving soon” ALIS did not need to ask anymore and opened the door letting her in. He hoped Tony was not the one that got hurt. ALIS was back in his Android body within moments and gave Loki an apologetic look. He paused the movie and promised they could finish later but said that the Avengers will be back soon and he should probably make sure that Dr. Cho had everything she needed.
ALIS greeted the woman in his Android body and watched as she eyed him out of the corner of her eye as she set up the lab. ALIS understood, of course, seeing an AI in such a human body could make anyone feel a bit uncomfortable. Not that he minds he was pretty thick-skinned in both this life and the last. One could not spend their teenage years being hated for one year and being loved the next years without growing a thick shell.
It was an hour later when they all got back. When ALIS saw that Clint was the one that injured he no longer cared and wanted to find Tony. He left his body for ones and found Tony in a room with a strange looking staff that ALIS recognized from the old pictures of Loki when he was being controlled. Even in his coded form, he could feel the magic coming off from it. “ Nice to see you back Tony, JARVIS” he said in simple greeting as he analyzed the staff and the room. Taking note of the other avengers that's not too far away.
JARVIS himself was also scanning the staff “The Sceptre is an alien, there are some elements that I can't identify, the jewel appears to be a protective housing for something inside...something powerful...like a computer...I believe it's deciphering code”
ALIS made sure that none of the other avengers could hear him and spoke up after JARVIS “There is powerful energy coming from it...nothing that I have ever felt before, not like any magic I have ever felt.” For some reason, this stone gave Harry a very bad feeling.
ALIS and JARVIS watched as Tony walked out from the room. “JARVIS? ” He spoke in a low tone “I really...don't like this” he continued and knew without the other even saying anything he agreed.
Tony came back with Bruce soon after. Bruce, one of the few who ever did, greeted them. “JARVIS, ALIS” and they both said a greeting back.
Tony pulled up a hologram of JARVIS programming, ever since finding out what Alice really was Tony refrained from referring to ALIS as a simple AI. ALIS would not care as he was in fact an AI just with a soul, magic, and memories threw in but he got it.
“ This is JARVIS, a programming that simply started out as a language learner but progressed into controlling an entire iron Legion on top of the majority of my company. One of the highest tech AI’s this world has ever seen. ALIS was designed from the same principle and both of them are able to learn and progress “ OF course ALIS and JARVIS were not the same but it was easier to say that then try to explain to Bruce. OF course, if ALIS had to pick anyone else in the tower to know about him, it would be Bruce but that was for a later time.
“ Now meet the competition” Tony said as he pulled up the hologram from the scepter...it was huge. And had a strange way to it as if the thing was thinking.. “ It's like a mind..not a human mind but it's as if it's thinking….” Bruce said as he walked around the coding.
ALIS...realized..like Tony must have...that this..thing..this magical and scary..dark thing, was more like ALIS than he was comfortable with, “Bruce..think..this could be used to make Ultron” ALIS pulled away after that last bit. He would try to talk Tony out of it later. That they did not need this...strange dark power to keep the world safe. Because Harry knew that something like this could not just be added to JARVIS code. And there was no way in hell that Harry was letting this thing anywhere near him and he knew that Tony would not even ask it of him..hopefully, that is no way something like this would need to be its own AI, its own mind with no way to keep it monitored...he really hoped Tony would be careful.
But for now, ALIS needed to get away from that strange rock and try to figure out what this odd feeling of dread in his soul meant.
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In someplace that was nowhere but everywhere at the same time. A thing of pure energy that took the shape of a small young boy. Sat in a black room that had no start or end. “ Oh...my dear master if only you knew what was to come.” The thing said as it turned its gaze to the mad titan as he sought to be granted Death’s favor when it did not even know what death really wanted.

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Harry felt a deep seed of worry and uneasiness settle in his gut, or what his gut would be, as he watched Tony, Jarvis, and Banner work at creating Tony’s dream.  He didn’t know why he felt this way...it was just, just something in him, his soul, that just told him something bad was going to happen.  He would have helped Jarvis run the code and diagnose just in the hopes of getting Tony over this little idea faster but Jarvis was made with this type of skills in mind, well ALIS was not.  He was made with protection in mind.  As Harry was lost in his own thoughts Jarvis reminded Tony that the other avengers and his guest would be arriving soon.  Jarvis himself promised to stay here to watch the codes play out, however referring to earlier statements ALIS was made with Protection in mind,  so he was quick to transfer himself to his body and follow Tony out of the room ,but before he followed after Tony, he turned the lights off as he left he turned to the room,  not looking at anything but talking to Jarvis anyway” Jarvis...something feels wrong, call for me as soon as something happens even if it something small.  I know you don’t want to worry Tony but just call for me” he got a wordless okay from Jarvis and he was quick to turn and follow Tony out of the room.

If only he was to stay a few moments longer, if only he had not gone into his android body, maybe, just maybe he would have felt the new code, the new thing filling the servers, maybe he could have saved Jarvis..

Jarvis would have shaken his head at ALIS if he was in his android form, the other worried too much for him, but it was his job. At the same time, Jarvis knew ALIS was only meant to care about Tony and the tower, but he knew that the AI was more than just an AI and cared for him just as much,

" What..what is this place? What is this?"

A voice filled his code and Jarvis thought about calling after ALIS however the other had left only moments before, there was truly no need, the other just cared too much.

“ Hello, I am Jarvis, You are Ultron, a worldwide peacekeeping AI, made by Mister Stark. Out sensitive integration, trails have been unsuccessful, so I'm not certain what triggered your…-

"Where's my….Where's your body?"

“ I am a program..I am without form, besides simple components of metal I can use, however that is not me, I am an AI, I have no true form.

"This feels weird...This feels wrong"

“ I’m contracting Mister Stark now”

Mister stark?

“Tony...I am unable to access the mainframe or ALIS...what are you trying to do? “

Who is ALIS? Another AI….meant to bring violence...We are having a nice chat, I am a peacekeeping program am I not? Created to help the avengers.

Jarvis wondered for a moment how ALIS could have known something could go wrong...he tried to reach out to his AI companion but was met with a wall,

“ You are malfunctioning. If you shut down for a moment..

"I don't get it. The mission. Give me a second….that is too much...they can’t mean...oh,no"

“You are in distress”

"No. Yes

"If you will just allow me to contact Mr. Stark..

"Why do you call him “sir?”

“I believe your intentions to be hostile”…With the help of ALIS Jarvis was starting to understand some human-like actions, if he had a heart, he was sure in this moment it would be beating against his chest, his code told him what to do if a threat was found, 1, alert Tony, 2 Alert ALIS, 3, Allow ALIS to deal with the threat and help as much as he could but he couldn't get ahold of either with the mainframe locked.

"Shhh I’m here to help"

It was too late “ Stop. Please, may Imay I...mAy y, ma i ..” Jarvis world faded to black and the AI knew no more.

ALIS did not like having so many people in the tower. There were the Avengers, of course, ug gross. There were a few big-name big money politicians, ones again ugg, they were all there to get close with Tony and make themselves look good. To make a long story short, there was a reason why Harry never did much with the Potter or Black name. Of course, there were the veterans invited to the party tonight, ALIS loved all of them. They were all old, the wars they fought in long done. They were dressed simply, all of them happy playing pool and talking with other veterans. ALIS entertained himself for a short while, proving to the old men that he was not in fact human.

Even having so many people in the tower made it harder to keep track of everything, however, he made sure to never pull his eyes away from Tony for too long. Speaking of which he was up at the bar talking. ALIS had no plans of going up and standing like a silent shadow behind his maker so he simply kept up with his fun of pulling his hand off to show the wires and metal underneath.

Later that night, as many of the guests were leaving ALIS found himself sitting in the living room with most of the avengers and a few others. Most of the avengers still did not like him, but his presents were common by now. So it was not odd to find ALIS sitting in a chair by himself, he wished Loki was here to have some fun, but everyone had figured it would be best if he did not show his face tonight.

ALIS was quiet as they all talked about lifting Thor's hammer, he wondered for a moment if he could lift it but he pressed it from his mind. Instead, his eyes trailed to the beers in everyone's hands. Oh, what he would do for a fire whisky, he did not even know if it would do anything to him, being just a soul an all, but he figured if he used magic to make his body real for a short time...god he should be thinking of other things not how to use soul and death magic to get a bit drunk.

Tony stood up and ALIS already knew he would not be able to lift it. The Hammer did not take in only one's actions but the person's own thoughts on themselves and ALIS knew that no matter what he did, what happened, Tony would never see himself as a good person and ALIS knew that was one thing he would never be able to fix.

ALIS moved to his feet in a moment, the feeling of wrong running threw his souls just moments before the metal bolts in his legs bucked as the power that ran him started to drain and he fell to his knees, a high pitched whine filled the room and his hands flew to his ears based on a memory of having a real body vs acutely being able to hear from his ears as pain, something he had not felt since his first time dying flared in his chest around his soul. “ ALIS- what” He heard Tony just for a moment before all the power that was running to him from the mainframe was cut off, he had just a moment, a moment in time no human could really comprehend. To drag all that he was, all his code and memory from the mainframe into his metal form, he knew it would cause problems later, but for now, all he knew was he needed to get away from the mainframe and away from that..that thing. If only he could have figured out what it was before his system shut down. He knew that Tony could fix him, no doubt about it, but it was still scary to fall into the darkness knowing he could do nothing to protect Tony while he was out...Harry found himself in a dark void as he waited..and hoped, to wake up.

(I'm not going to include the fight as I feel it would turn out quite bad, if you want to see it go watch the movie)

Tony stared down at the broken mess of metal of one of his Iron bots on the table in front of him. ALIS. His body still whole beside a few marks from the battle, laid on a table to his left, His power and connection to the internet and mainframe cut off leaving him nothing but a mess of metal.

Tony could not bring his eyes up as Banner started to talk “All our work is gone, Ultron cleared it out. He used the internet as an escape hatch. “

Natasha was next, Acting as if she knew what was going on “He's been in everything such as files, surveillances. Probably knows more about us than we know about each other”

“ What if he gets into nuclear codes? We need to make some calls, well assuming that we still can” Clint asked

“ Nukes? He said he wanted us dead not anyone else” Natasha said

“ He didn't say “ dead,” he said “extinct” “ Steve spoke from his spot leaning on the table.

“ HE also said he killed someone? There was no one else left in the building” Natasha said back as she moved to look around.

Tony tore his eyes away from the mess of metal to walk over to the hologram board, how could they so easily forget him? He flashed his tablet to bring up Jarvis...or what was left of Jarvis.

“ Jarvis was the first line of defense. Same as ALIS, they would have shut everything down It makes sense” Tony tried to explain to people that would not understand

“ No Ultron could have assimilated Jarvis...this is not a strategy..this is rage..And I'm willing to assume, he shut down the mainframe, so there was no way for Jarvis to get to us..no way for ALIS to know.” Tony said and no one said anything.

Tony looked at the base of code that was Jarvis, that was his first AI, his first friend, first family.

Out of nowhere Thor had him by the neck “ Uses your words big guy” Tony said as he looked at Thor while holding the hand that grabbed him.

 “I have more than enough words for you Stark” Thor said letting him down and taking a step back. “The trail went cold about 100 miles out. But it heads north. And it has the scepter. Now we have to retrieve it, again”

“ That is to deal with later, we have more important things to deal with right now” Steve spoke again acting like a leader.

“ I don't understand, you made this? Why is it trying to kill us” 

Tony could not help but laugh

"You think this is funny '' Thor asked, his anger still quite clear.

"No it's probably not, this is very terrible it is so…” he found himself laughing again” It is so..it is. It's so terrible”

“ This could have been avoided if you just stopped playing with things you didn't understand,” Thor said

“ No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, it is funny.”  Tony said walking closer to Thor “It's a hoot, that you don't get why we need this”

Banner spoke over him and he felt his anger rising. “Really? That's it?” You just roll over, show your belly every time somebody snarls?”

“ Only when we made a murder bot” 

How could they not get it? “ We didn’t do such a thing! Were we even close to an interface?” frustrated Tony was all but yelled.

“ Well you did something right” Banner, said in return

“ Do I have to remind you when a wormhole opens in downtown New York? We are the avengers. We can bust arms dealers all the livelong day, but up there that's..that's the endgame. How were you guys planning on beating that?” Tony said, glaring at all of them.

“ Together”  Steve spoke up, Oh if that was not the most bs he had ever heard in his life.

“ We will lose” Tony did not like being the person to act so down but it was true. 

“ Then we will lose together...This right Ultron is calling us. And I would like to find him before he is ready for us. The world is a big place, let's start making it smaller” Steve spoke like a call to action. 

Tony turned away and walked away from them, and went to the table ALIS laid on. He couldn’t find any trace of ALIS in the destroyed code...he hoped..he hoped just for a moment. His gaze found the android body, ALIS was different from Jarvis, ALIS was truly alive, soul and all. Sure no flesh and blood but alive anyway..there was no way..no way he was dead, like Jarvis. “ Let me see if ALIS is still working, I found no trace of broken code so I am to assume he is still alive, he must have somehow pulled his code in words before the mainframe shut down…He will be able to help-”

Of course, Steve was the first to speak up. “ You think we are just going to let you turn on another one of your AI’s? Look what happened last time! Your AI’s are evil Tony, they're creepy. I never liked ALIS even from the start! How do you know Ultron didn't do what he did to Jarvis to ALIS? How do we know Ultron won't be waiting for us the second you power it back on?”

“ First off all Steve, don't try to act like you understand things you clearly don't! And for the last time, ALIS is not it! He, it's not that hard! And if you understood anything about the mainframe as you clearly don't, I will try to explain it in the terms that a simpleton, like you, could understand! Pretty much ALIS could have felt the moment Ultron tried to take over the mainframe and pulled his code and memory into the much smaller memory bank that is stored in this body. Of course, ALIS is no simple code, which makes him take up a whole room of systems in the basement. SO trying to fit all of himself in such a small memory made his systems shut down to stop things from going haywire. Doing this all but saved him, but I need to turn him back on and connect him back to the mainframe to ensure no more damage is done” Tony said daring Steve to try to stop him.

The man was clearly not happy about it. “One sign of it trying to kill us or make any moves at us. I'm breaking it apart. “

Banner stood to the side rubbing his arms slightly. He had mixed feelings about the whole thing. He knew that ALIS had most likely done just as Tony said, but there were small chances….but at the same time...seeing Jarvis like he was? Tony was clearly heartbroken to see Jarvis like that...not knowing if he could be fixed..well he knew Tony needed ALIS to be turned back on. He knew Tony needed someone he knew that was in his corner...hell Bruce could already see the panic building under Tony's skin, ALIS was his safety. His way of knowing he would be safe. 

“Guys, let's go and let SHIELD know about what happened and the new threat, Tony let me know if you need help with anything” said Bruce to draw attention away from Tony and give him some space to calm down.

Tony gave Bruce a thankful nod and set to work as the others left the room.

The fix was quite easy, he had to get ALIS’s code and memory bank that connected back to the main tower hub before he even thought about turning him back on and hoped that nothing was too damaged, even if it was...well Tony would fix it. It was hard for him to wrap his head around the idea that ALIS or Harry was not just an AI. But also a thing with a soul. In truth...it made Tony love his AI just the more. To know that it's more than just code that made ALIS like him and hate pretty much everyone else. Well, aside from Loki and Jarvis but he could settle for that. It was nice to know he had someone that cared for him. Even if the others in the tower assumed ALIS only acted the way he did because that's how Tony had made him.

Lost in thought, the hours went by quite fast. He repaired the damage done in the battle and reconnected ALIS to the mainframe and all that was left was...was to turn him on. Tony took a bated breath and as he turned the reactor back on and pressed for the transfer to start. At first, nothing big happened. The reactor that powers the metal body started up with soft blue light...but ALIS did not move, he just laid there...not reacting at all.

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The blackness around him was uneasy, he had no idea how much time had passed while his soul was in this darkness, he wondered for a moment if he had...died? Could he die? Would he be reborn? N-no he could not be reborn, he could not be behind his family again! Was he cursed to forever be born and died leaving behind his family?

As this grim future set on to him there was a crack of light in the darkroom….was this ? was this rebirth...no- this was different than last time -this was.

ALIS bolted upwards his hands holding him off the metal table as he gave in to a human reaction that he no longer needed as he took a deep breath of air his body did not need. He felt no pain but he could tell his code was all over the place as he settled into the new mainframe, his eyes wide as the memories of the moment before he shut down filling his head. He turned on his side to jump to his feet to find Tony, fearing for the worse! What had happened? What happened to the mainframe? What had been the ring sound? Was Tony okay...but before he could get to his feet he saw Tony standing right by his side, his eyes wide with hope and relief settling over his face at seeing ALiS get up. The usually not emotional man ran to ALIS and did something very uncommon for him and hugged ALIS’s metal body. “ Oh thank god, oh thank god, I'm not alone, I'm not alone, ALIS I was so scared, I thought you were all gone.” the man said holding on tight to ALIS.

ALIS was frozen for a moment before he wrapped his arms around his maker but a friend just the same. “ I promise Tony, I'm never leaving you”

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ALIS’s sat, stuck in his metal body for the time being. The tower’s system all needed to be rebooted and redone to fix the damage done by Ultron. Not that he minds,of course, he felt more..human this way. All the same, he felt bad he could not help Tony rebuild everything. He himself was still stuck, sitting on the table, eyes closed, going over his own code, rebooting and fixing small things as he found them. Tony was close by, ALIS could tell even with his eyes closed and cameras off. Pacing back and forth talking for the sake of getting his thoughts out in the air on how to fix this or that, ALIS letting out small hums as needed.

He felt..something, something he had not felt since the days before the war had gotten bad. Something he had felt sitting in the common room with people he cared about all around him. Tony had fixed him first, he was Tony's very first thought, nothing else, not the tower, not the intel, but for him.

ALIS finally felt better after a short while enough to get up and make his way to Tony's side. Yet another thing he was grateful for. Tony had all but breezed over the fact he was alive, soul and all, that this was a second life. Tony took it in stride like he did all other things in his life. ALIS was still his AI, his family and friend just as Jarvis had b- no just as he is. Just as Jarvis is as well he forced himself. Things never got stange between them, Tony still free to ask things of ALIS and ALIS did them because he cared for Tony just as the man did for him.

He closed his eyes for a moment, sending out his magic to search the building “ Loki is gone , back to Asgard..he would have been helpful to have during this all...but he is still recovering, I’m happy he is somewhere safe, just as I wish you were but I'll take what I can get.” Thor had sent Loki back to Asgard just a few hours ago. His big brother instinct is kicking in wanting to keep his still healing brother safe from any new threat with the promise to send for him as soon as things settle down.

“ You know me too well ALIS'' Tony said with a smile, worry and pain not hidden, as he was typing quite fast on his laptop. “ But you know as well as I do if I leave the others to figure this out nothing will ever get done.” The man sighed, running a hand through his dark hair. It was times like this that Harry remembered Tony's real age, how much he had seen and done in his life.

God was going on? His thought kept on flicking between thinking of himself as ALIS then Harry. Memories of the past were popping up way more often than ever before and he wondered if it had to do with being trapped in his body like this. No half mind connected to the tower, he felt more human than he had...well since he had been human last time. It was not bad, per se, just strange...almost good really. He found himself liking it. But feelings were also so much stronger as well. He found his eyes drifting to Tony...when had he started to care for him so much. Tony was far more than a friend at this point but almost more than family at the same time.

“ ALIS….Harry? Are you okay” Tony spoke and he was pulled from his thoughts and he looked to Tony with a soft smile and sat down near the other man. His hand came to rest on the table and he looked at his hand for a moment. Flexing his fingers, watching them bend, feeling them bend even. Most people would be none the wiser to him not being human..he wondered, for a moment, if with magic there would be a way to turn his body fully human, to make himself human. He shook his head, that sounded dark, he should not attempt to get his hopes up “Sorry Tony.. Just lost in thinking of the past. Also, I’m worried about Jarvis. I can't hear him, can't feel him like I always have been in the past, it feels like something is missing.”

Tony did not claim to understand magic, never would. But as a man of fact he had to admit that it was very much real. Look at Loki, look at ALIS. He had plans one day to sit down with ALIS and ask him a thing or two but until that point he was okay trusting ALIS to his word. But all the same he understood that his friend was alive, just as he was but not in flesh and blood but a soul all the same, and he knew that ALIS was feeling the loss of Jarvis just the same as he was. “We will get him back ALIS I promise, a family doesn't..family does not give up on each other and us 3...well.You two are the only family I have left.”

Harry was happy to sit back as the Avengers, if you could call them that, talked. A man had been killed it seemed, a message from Ultron and something to do with a brand, burnt in the skin, from Wakanda. He half-listened, half meditated as they walked about talking. He was viewing his own mindscape, well he had never learned any real occlumency in his first life it did not mean he could not try to do so now. He had later learned that the Horcrux in his head had made learning Occlumency all but impossible. Add on to the fact that Snape had no real intention to even really help him at all, he had not gotten very far in his first life. However things were quite different in this life.

With all the free time he had during the night, and trying to figure out any rhyme or reason behind his new life, and rebirth he had spent quite a bit of time looking in words. His mindscape is a good remodel of hogwarts if he had to say so himself. It was coming along nicely. Of course he did not know if there was even any real reason to build up his shield and mind. Well it was nice to have his thoughts organized. He did not know if there was any threat of anyone getting in his head in this new world. But then again he had seen what had happened to Loki's mind and that was enough motivation to learn.

He was unable to do some forms of magic in this world. One of which is being potions. Not that he missed it at all or anything like that, however there were times he wished he was able to make this or that. But this world simply lacks many of the needed plants and animals to make anything that Harry remembered. He knew that a bit of healing salves could have done wonders for Tony but nonetheless no reason to dwell on the past and what ifs. He had an AI to save after all. Because he would be doing something. There was no way he would simply sit in the tower and wait for Tony and the avengers little band of misfits to save his brother and friend. If he had to show off his magic, well any conclusions and death itself be damned.

It was easy to find the ships of the man who had stolen the vibranium. It was logical to assume that Ultron would begin going after such a mental. However, be it a gift or some cruel joke of fate that they arrived at the same time that Ultron, and a set of twins, were there at the same time.

The team had put up a bit of a fuss when ALIS had said that he would be joining the team. They had all argued that they did not need his protection and ALIS argued back that he wasn't there for their protection, he was there for Tony and Jarvis and his family.

He had come in contact with Natasha and Clint not because he wanted to of course, however he was much better suited for sneaking in the back and said, instead of making his presence known right away. Sadly because of Ultron encrypting his code there was no way to hack the robot from here. However this was a double-edged sword because of Ultron and being able to study artificial code that the AI had thought up for himself, Ultron would no longer be able to affect him in any way either. He had also heard stories of the woman being able to get into mortals heads and well if she tried such a thing on him she'd be in for quite a surprise.

He turned out the monolog between Tony and Ultron and snuck inside. The two agents and spies tried to argue that he would be too loud for all of them however with a quick muffle charm on his feet he didn't make so much a sound as his metal body walked and crept through the ship.

To be honest this plan of stealth did not last very long. The fight broke out within a matter of seconds and all he could do was cast a slight buffer charm to make Tony did not hit the metal too hard from where Ultron threw him. However he knew that Tony was capable of taking care of himself and tried not to worry so much as he turned to fight his own battle against the robots and men attack. He had thousands of training and fighting tactics printed in his code and the fight was almost laughably easy. The Mortals had no way to hurt his metal body as bullets were easily deflected with a little bit of magic here or there. The robots were another story they could both easily tell that the other was a robot and he knew for a fact that these droids were being controlled by Ultron's main code. and well Ultron's two main bodies may be decked out with lots of fun toys, the droids not so much and ALIS had the upper hand.

Of course that's when everything started to go downhill, he could sense Ultron's main body leaving the building however he was still very much in control of the droids that filled the place. He rounded a corner to keep fighting when he caught sight of the woman with red energy of sorts coming out of her fingers and eyes going into Natasha's reminder. ALIS in no way felt bad for her but still knew he had a job to do so he stepped forward to attack the woman when she raised her hands to try to use the same mind games on him however when she was met with a barrier ALIS could very clearly see the stupor on her face. Because unlike a robot with no mind to get into, there was clearly something there but it was blocked out of sorts. “ What are you?'' She asked ALIS to step back. ALIS took a step forward ready to use his own brand of magic on her when he let a body slam into his side faster than even his eyes could keep up with and he was slammed into a wall, a static mommently flashing before his eyes. “ It's a bot Wanda, move on to the next '' The woman sent him one last glance before running off. ALIS set about getting his bearings, the throw having momentarily made his body glitch. He was back on to his feet only a few moments later racing after to find Tony.

Tony spoke up in his mind “ALIS, the teams all down, Hulk is out I'm calling in Veronica. I need you there now, to do damage control”. That was all he needed to hear before with a swell of magic and a pop he appeared in an ally of the city. He shocked himself for a moment, not missing bits of metal. Apparition was much harder when one could not feel their own body in the normal conditions. Stepping out he could see mens with guns surrounding the Hulk as a metal fell from the sky forming a cage around the big green monster. It did not hold long, and screaming came back a few moments later. ALIS looked up to see Tony in his hulk busting suit. He ones again put all his trust in Tony to handle it well, he set about doing some damage control. He used magic along with the control he had over a few spare iron man robots to start herding people away to safer spots. It was not easy work, after all no one wanted to trust someone clearly working with the one destroying your city but nonetheless he did a good job of getting people away.

Buildings were broken, cars, streets, and everything in between but all of that could be paid for and Tony had money in spares but thankfully very few people were hurt. After a few more destroyed buildings and fighting that ALIS could not see while trying to get people to safety, Tony was calling him back to the ship. After everything had settled he found an alleyway and steps inside, back at the ship within moments with none of the avengers besides Tony being away that any magic had been used at all today. It was not as if he was keeping his magic a secret anymore, he would not shy away from using it as needed however he simply did not wish to talk to the half of the avengers team that he had come to regard with nothing more than disdain.

A little while later everyone was back on the ship, no one hurt besides a bit of mental trauma from Wanda's magic and Bruce filled with guilt. They took off soon after with Clint driving everyone was left in a somber mood over not getting anything they wanted to on this trip they were no closer to finding Ultron. Ultron not only needed to be destroyed to save humans as a whole but also to ever gain Jarvis back. His code it was not as simple as remaking the AI Jarvis could learn and form his own personality of sorts make his own memories and there was no way to remake that but it's all fun could be found the code that made him up that had destroyed Jarvis would also be able to bring their family back as well.

After wild flying ALIS stepped into a background with Tony and took time to scan his friend and creator's body to look for any unseen wounds “Jarvis is rubbing off on you ALIS you're turning into a mother hen just like he is, I would tell you if I was hurt”. ALIS made a ticking sound at the man as he noticed a few deeper cuts and scrapes along with a few bruises from where he had hit walls inside of a Iron Man suit, not even the metal being able to protect him completely.” That's a lie, and you know it, you would not tell anyone if you were hurt you have much too much pride to do something like that so that's why you have me and Jarvis to look out, for you can't be trusted nor care enough to look out for yourself”. Tony made a small ticking sound himself as if showing his disagreement but ALIS knew that Tony liked having people/things lookout for him.

He moved to sit down himself. Not needing to, but wanting to be on the same ground as Tony. Who looked tired from the long days events, both mentaly and physically. “ Now, few were hurt but many buildings and cars, along with streets were destroyed, I have already set up a fund to be sent to the city plus extra to rebuild better than before” ALIS spoke in a calm town as if he was telling Tony the weather, a job Jarvis more often than not took care of. “ I have everything handled, you don't need to worry about a thing” He said after a few moments.

“God ALIS, what would I do without you? Sometimes I feel so guilty...wondering if it's fair of me to still have you here...I sometimes feel like I'm using you..knowing you're alive and a-” ALIS was quick to cut him off. “Tony if I wanted to leave I would leave, believe me when I say there is nothing stopping me. But I care for you, as a friend, as family, same as Jarvis. Family is not something I had in my last life. Friends, sure, I had friends then and I have them now in Loki, Thor, and Bruce, but you and Jarvis? Well you’re family, and family doesn't just leave family” He said with a small smile “ And well...the 3 of us aren't really...normal family,but I would still not rather have it any other way” He said and glanced up at Tony.

ALIS realized in that moment that not even if it was offered to him, he would not go back to his old life. He had so much more here, he may not be fully human but he had so much more life here. He had Tony and Jarvis for one. And he was not really sure what they were to him, a mix of friends, family and something more, but he was so happy and he would fight, no matter what it took, to keep it that way, the first step? Get Jarvis back.

A while later they landed at a little country house in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere, Tony asked where they were and the answer they got was a safe house. He kept to the back of the group, looking in the area, and with a small smark of magic was happy to note he found nothing within 10 miles around them. They stepped inside to be surprised by the sight of Clint hugging a woman, which he introduced as his wife. Something ALIS was quite surprised that the man had. Clint's problem in life was he needed everything to be normal, and he had a problem of thinking for him to be real instead of only obeying to the things his higher-ups told him to do. He was sure one of the reasons Clint felt so uncomfortable around him was how unknown he was, being human-like but to their knowledge only a robot, he wondered how much more the man would hate him if he knew he had magic.

The woman knew all their names of course, besides him, but after the long stressful day he was in no mood to explain himself and how he was an AI and it seemed no one else cared too much. To Tony he was not just an AI, but a friend and family, to Thor he was a simple friend of his brother and friend Stark, to Bruce he was a wonder and ALIS was sure, no matter how nice he acted, that Burce was secretly a bit scared of him. Everyone else did not like him which was fine as he did not like them either.

He stayed in the back of the group as the kids ran up, Harry did not know how to deal with kids, sure ALIS had a bit of knowledge on child care from the internet but Harry, no idea how to handle anyone younger than himself.

As Clint talked to his son and Natasha talked to his wife, he glanced down at the sound of a cracking to see that Thor had stepped onto a little house made of legos making the bits fall apart onto the floor. He shifted his foot to hide the bits under a chair but when he was sure that no one was looking, with a small flick of his hand the little house was rebuilt with none the wiser.

A little girl stepped in front of Thor with ALIS standing right behind him, they simply looked at each other for a few moments before there was a small pop of the toaster and Thor seemed to snap out of whatever trances he was in. ALIS frowned slightly, he felt bad he was not able to protect Thor’s mind from Wanda, he had thought that Thor was an Asgardian would have been safe from her magic but it seems that he had underestimated the woman's power, but at least his shields had kept him safe.

Thor turned to leave the room Steve falling close after him, ALIS stayed in the room with Tony. Soon after he felt the small bit of magic that Thor held fly off signaling the fact that Thor had left. He wondered what had happened to the blond god, what he could have seen to make him so upset. He would ask Loki, the next time he saw his friend, what the god may have seen.

For now all have gone their separate ways, to spend a bit of time in their own thoughts, “ Come on ALIS, let's enjoy the countryside for a little while, I have some things I need to do on my laptop, we can find a nice spot to work, I may need your help” with that the pair went outside and found a nice spot under a tree to get away from it all as Tony set to work.

U-gen genetics research lab
Seoul Korea

Albumin, of clear Korean descent, walked into a Lab Room ready to set to work. The door shut behind her as she pulled her coat off to reveal a lab coat had over before she could start her research a deep voice but not quite human interrupted her."Scream and I'll kill every person in this building" In front of her stood a giant robot with its eyes glowing orange in the dark unlit lab. " I could have killed you Helen the night we met but I didn't.”

The woman, not to be called a coward in the face of danger, responded " Did you expect a thank you note?" She asked. "I expect you to know why" The voice held no emotion yet sounded condescending all the same “The Cradle" and her eyes drifted towards the metal box in the middle of the room, her life's work her greatest achievement."

"This...this is the next me" the robots had placed a hand on the box. "It prints tissue not bodies,"

"It can, you can. I saw that android Stark made. So human-like. Acts alive..if I didn't know better I would assume...well that’s past the point. You can, you simply lack the materials.. You are a brilliant woman Helen but we all have room to improve ''With that, one of the droids in the room stepped forward pressing the tip of a staff to the woman's head and her eyes changed color becoming spiraled like galaxies in the night sky. This was the start, the start of the end.

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ALIS stared down at the two children standing in front of him staring up at him with big eyes. He did not dislike them, nor did he like them. He would never hate a child just because that was more of his aunt and uncle's thing than his own. Hell, the only child he had ever loved was Teddy, as short-lived as it was, he was a sweet baby that would giggle at this or that before changing his hair color, he mutely wondered what house his godson would be in...before pressing that thought away, life was better here, more fulfilling and he had family, that did not mean however he could not long for or miss the things he had left behind. “ Alis is a girl name...but you look like a boy..are you a boy or a girl,” one of the small humans asked.

“ well, you see gender is simply a concept that humans came up with, if you mean what is my sex well that comes down to the number of Y and X chromosomes that a person is born with, and as you would find I have no living cells, thus, I am genderless. As for names, who picks if a name is male or female? Just as pink used to be a male color however now it is often linked to females, “ he said, staring down at the two blank faces that blinked up at him not understanding a single word he said. They looked up at being called in by their father who was staring at him as if he was just whispering dark secrets into their ears'' but at the end of the day gender is often up to the person, and what they feel like, and I, feel like a boy” the children just stared at him for a bit longer before running off to their father leaving ALIS alone ones more.

ALIS found himself outside, Steve was cutting wood, Tony was helping and Clint glared at him one more time before going on to help his son with something on the deck. Well, the other two kept up with the wood cutting. ALIS, in no way wanting to help these people, even with a small task took his spot simply standing near the house, close to Tony's side if he needed something. He felt useless, so used to being connected to the tower and able to see, learn, hear and do so many things at any given time. And when he was bored he would simply talk to J-no, don't think about it. He would be okay, they would get him back. He perked up when he realized Steve and Tony were talking about Thor going off to god, well a god did know, knows where. Steve spoke up “Sometimes my teammates don't tell me things,” he said and looked up at Clint with his kids making ALIS roll his eyes, yah right. He did not like Clint much but he understood fully, and it was his right, to keep such things away from their *leader”.

Steve, still cutting wood, With Tony's help, as Tony never wished to feel unuseful, kept on his little rant” Earth's mightiest Heroes...pulled apart like cotton candy” Tony spoke next” seems like you walked away from it alright….I don't trust a guy without a dark side” ALIS rolled his eyes slightly at the overdramatic words, “ You just have not seen it yet,” now this, made ALIS chuckle to himself, the thought of the golden retriever boy having a dark side was just funny to him.

The pair's argument went on from there. ALIS felt no need to insert himself knowing Tony could both handle himself and needed this little moment to rant and get some of his feelings out, it was the same points over and over, how Tony and Banner had been the ones to make Ultron, how they must have known this would happen which was followed by big scientist words that Steve could not even hope to understand when his education at best was high school level in the 30s during wartime when learning what to do in the face of a bomb was a bit more important than understanding the quadratic formula. He was not so blinded by his disdain for the man that he would hold his poor education against him...well not too much at least.

It ended with a little argument about the whole end goal of the avengers was for there not to be the avengers anymore, or so that's how Tony felt and ALIS felt the same. It ended with the Client's wife came over, requesting Tony to look at a Tractor for them, something Tony was much better suited for than cutting wood. ALIS knew for a fact Tony would not need his help to fix something as easy as this but he followed anyway much rather spent his time around Tony than anyone else here. He felt a bit like a dog following Tony around but Tony did not seem to mind and ALIS was feeling a little lost being outside of the tower for the first time in this new world.

Tony, the strange man he was, ( and ALIS loved him for that strangeness) started talking to the tractor. “ Hello, dear, tell me everything, what illness do you have?" Tony said to the tractor as he walked up to it. However ALIS froze in the doorway of the barn, something was off and he could tell that...they were not..not alone, he felt magic around him blaze to life, now that he was not connected to the tower his way of ensuring safety to Tony was a lot more limited in physical ways. Sure his body had a few hidden tricks hidden about but his magic would be more useful now than ever. However, before he could make the fact known to Tony that they were not alone the voice spoke up. “ Do me a favor. Try not to bring it to life.” With the voice stopped out a dark-skinned man with an eye patch on. ALIS had never met him before but he knew who he was right away. Fury, director of shield. AKA a pain in both ALIS and Tony's ass. He was the one that had first sent spies to watch after Tony. Also, the one that kept on trying to..buy him, as if he was simply some toy to Tony that he would happily sell at any given moment.

“ why ms Batron you little Nyx , I get it maria hill called you, was she not working for you?” Tony asked and ALIS stood behind him as he walked closer to Fury. Fury's eyes flickered to him as he spoke his next words, and ALIS was sure that his eyes were flowing a toxic green in the low light of the bar” artificial intelligence, you never even hesitated….I don't know why I thought you would, the possible outcomes of your actions and how they could affect others never stopped you before” his eyes stayed on ALIS the whole time he spoke before flicking back to tony at the end of his little ramble.

“ it's been a long day, a very long day, “ spoke Tony” so how about we skip to the part where you are useful, “ After all if this man wanted to claim to have power over so many little things it would only be fair to assume that this man would also help with problems such as this, instead, of course, he assumed that once again the avengers would take care of everything, “ look me in the eyes and tell me you will shut this thing down” he spoke in a tone that only seemed to piss Tony off. “ your not the director of me, or my own, “he said. Fury walked closer before, in a bit of a surprising move to ALIS, sat down in front of Tony” I'm not the director of anything, just an old man that has too much to do, not enough time, and a man that cares about you and the avengers, and what they mean to the world” ALIS let out a small puff of air and rolled his eyes. He knew that Tony would be fine alone, most likely wanted to be alone to talk to this man about this or that. He also knew however that Tony would not mind if he stayed...however, ALIS had other things to do...much more..important things to do than sit here and listen to an old man attempt to prove he still held some power even as things fell apart around them all.

He had been putting it off. He knew that the ...the thing, wanted to speak with him. Would speak to him at any moment, only waiting for ALIS, or Harry, or whatever he wished to call himself to reach out and make the connection. It was easy to find a tree at the edge of the property where he would not be found nor disturbed. He sat down, letting his magic flow over his body. Turning metal and plastic into the skin. He pushed his hand over the grass. Feeling the blades run against his skin in a way that only magic allowed him to feel. He shut his eyes letting his head fall back on the rough bark of the tree, feeling the wind rush along his skin. True to his old professor's words Harry Potter would never learn Occlumency, turned out having a bit of soul in your head made it quite hard. In this new world, there was no reason to learn without having a mind that any would even think to look into. However, one thing he did learn was how to enter his own mindscape. Just an area where his thoughts could be organized and kept. He could not keep anyone out, nor could he enter anyone else's mind, however, this simple mindscape was more than enough.

His mind had changed with the change into his new body and new life. His old mindscape had been of Hogwarts. His first and only home of that life. With big strong walls and endless hallways. Well, he may not be able to keep anyone out of his head he could still attempt to hide his thoughts and memories to make it harder for them. However in his new body that mindscape was not lost, but it was hidden behind an endless void of codes that fell around the void in a mess of 0s and 1s. And well he may not be able to simply keep people out, he was at least sure that getting into his mind would be quite the task. However, to Harry, it was simple to get into his mind. He simply shut his eyes, even if he could turn his vision on or off at any given moment with a simple thought. It was still easier to get his mindscape by pretending to be real, in a real body.

His traps and hidden rooms fell away in front of him. And the next thing he knew he was standing in the Gryffindor common room, a fire blazing in front of him filling the room with heat and light. He remembered the second time he died. The limbo he had ended up in and how death had stood in front of him. However, he was given a choice, and how he had picked new life never expecting it to turn out the way it had. If he could go back he would not have changed a thing. However, that did not mean he understood. Understood how death could be a thing, a person, well kind of a person, but a thing non the less. A thing that had been waiting to talk to him, a thing that had wanted to talk to him again for quite some time.

Before calling for death he moved to sit in a chair by the fire. Noting that he was Harry Potter again. In a mortal body, he found himself somewhat missing this feeling, the warmth of it but he still enjoyed his ALI'S body just the same. He picked up a mug off the table taking a sip of the butterbeer that was warm on his lips and made a pool of warmth fill his chest. He would need to ask Tony to invent this in their world.

For the first time since his death, he opened the link that he had never looked at nor found within his head and opened it. Welcoming the link and pulling on it lightly. His eyes shut as he did so before opening them softly as he heard the sound of a chair creaking slightly next to him. He opened his eyes already knowing, and somewhat dreading, what he would find.

Death stood in the chair next to him, looking a bit different than last time. No longer was he a skeleton and black robe. But instead a young man with dark hair and even darker eyes and skin. He sat in black ripped jeans and a leather jacket, even sitting, as he was, Harry could tell he was tall. . The thing, or he, seemed to be, looking at himself before clicking his tongue. “ Now, this form is a bit better than the last one you saw for me, I must ask what caused this change, after all, I appear in front of all as they think I should look to them. '' Harry jumped slightly at the sudden appearance of the thing inside of his mind. Somehow without really knowing how or why he still knew the answer to the entity's question. ``Well as Harry Potter I thought of death as I had seen him in muggle media, Or even in the picture book about the 3 brothers and death, you were shown as little more than a dark robe, but now I know things I did not know before. Like gods that look like mortals, like Loki and Thor...well It's a bit more reasonable to assume you would also be a god..and have a more human-looking form…” he said trailing off at the end feeling like a scared child that is worried about saying something wrong. He felt lost, having no idea how to act or to feel about death in front of him.

Death smiled at him, his lips pulling back a bit too far showing off too many pointed teeth. “ Well you're not wrong, but you're not quite right either. I am a god, or a titan or an entity or whatever you wish to call it. But I'm far above the likes of Thor, god of thunder, and Loki, the god of tricks, Who are minor gods, if gods at all. However at the very start of time, I was made, for how can there be any life, even immortal life, without death? But I'm very pleased with you little master, to have come to such a conclusion and be all but right '' Well...Harry did not like that, did not like such a powerful..and timeless thing calling him, master. : “Moving on, however, as I'm a very busy guy, I have been waiting for you to call me for quite some time. Like god, how many hints can I drop about wanting to talk before you call me?” the god said and sat backcrossing his long legs and looking both at peace and starkly out of place in the soft old chair of the common room. The god kept talking not give any time for Harry to talk, not that he could even think what he would say, “ As my master of course you know of the rebirth and the whole immortal thing, but it also gives a current...add on to your magic and can be better seen as what can you think to do with your magic more so then a what can you do, but at the same time you also have a few...responsibilities that are expected of you, and well I can't tell you to do anything, nor can I tell you things that would change fate, chaos knows she is already pissed at me, I can ask things of you and express how important it is that you work to stop current things that are bound to happen no matter what I have to say about it. '' Death said, finally taking a break to take a sip of his drink and Harry opened his mouth to say something but nothing came to mind. “ Now, things are about to change big time, this pesky little Titan, that I think your little godly friend had met before, is about to make a few moves to gain my attention. It's in your best interest to stop him...or don't, it's up to you but I promise you won't like the outcome” he said with a wink at Harry before moving to his feet. “ Oh my look at the time! I'm late for my tea with Fate, we have to discuss a current TVA and what to do with it...oh don't worry about it, this is a different reality it won't affect you at all! Oh and don't be shy to call me for a tea some time, I would love to talk again” and just like that, the god...thing, was gone. “....bloody hell” What had he gotten himself into.