AU after the events of "Avengers: Endgame". Events in the Marvel cinematic universe, but there is a personality from the comics
First there is a panning of Latveria views. A small, calm country, where the environment is clean, there are no wars and crime. Dangerous, hard work is performed by mechanisms, and people are engaged in all those activities where there is no risk of injury or death.
The frame darkens for a moment, and the next moment we realize that a beautiful, prosperous country is just a flashback, and now there are scorched ruins, the result of the impact of plasma weapons. No one survived, except the Latverians working at the embassy in New York. However, there is another survivor…
The frame darkens again for a second, and then we see the reanimation chamber in one of the hospitals of some European country (for example, Hungary or Romania). Victor von Doom was lucky - he survived. If, of course, it can be called luck that he received terrible burns - even his super armor could not withstand the direct hit of plasma volleys; in places the metal melted into the skin. He is in a deep coma and connected to a life support device, but the doctors' forecasts are positive - in a couple of weeks, a transfer to the intensive care unit is possible.
It's night in the country, and the patients in the hospital are fast asleep. Panning shows an empty corridor and doors leading to different departments. Surveillance cameras are fixed on the ceiling between the lamps - patient safety and the absence of violations are above all. However, there are technologies that allow you to deceive the most sensitive cameras…
Someone wrapped in a force field that makes him invisible, silently follows the corridors. He uses the scanner until he finds his target. The door of the reanimation chamber opens for a moment and closes again. An invisible person stands in the room, looking at the life support device, and thinks: "What a tenacious asshole! The power of plasma incinerated his country, but he managed to survive. Just think! However, what is there to be surprised about - Victor always knew how to get out of it. But not this time! It was his time to face his fate. If he had ruled his Latveria, no one would have said a word. But no - he had to periodically try to take over the world. Ha! It's necessary to think of it - to want to unite different countries into a single planetary state and stand at the head! Fucking dictator. What makes him think that the world will be happy about this? Create a utopia… Well, well. People will always fight, kill, starve. It is part of human nature, and it is pointless to change it, like the world. People can't be changed, and wanting to rule the world is completely stupid and abnormal. So the hour of reckoning has come. I destroyed his miserable country, and now I will finish what I started by killing him and ridding the world of the slightest threat of capture once and for all. Goodbye, Doom."
Nanoparticles hidden under the force field penetrate into the life support device and disable it - so that the doctors do not receive a signal. So when they come to check on Victor's condition, they will find only a stiff corpse. Having done the job, he smiles with satisfaction, quietly leaves the reanimation chamber, then the hospital, and then quickly flies out of the country.
…Sitting by the window at home in a thin T-shirt and jeans, he thoughtfully turns a glass of wine in his hands. Sunlight falls on his face, mercilessly illuminating the scars-burns on the right side of his face, neck and right arm, left by a surge of energy from powerful artifacts that could have killed him - and would have killed him if not for the magic of Strange and the wonders of Wakanda medicine. However, even their doctors could not rid him of these scars, but he was not upset and eventually made them part of his image - a symbol of victory and salvation of the universe. And now he has saved his world by rain down the power of plasma on Latveria and turning off the life support device with an unwavering hand.
"I wonder who and why took Victor to the hospital at all? Wouldn't it have been better to let him die in the ruins? However, he's finished, and that's the main thing. No one dares to rule the world! There should be many states and their leaders! And it is useless to seek peace without wars and hunger - people cannot be changed. The fact that Doom turned Latveria into a paradise is an accident, a statistical error. And this will not work with the planet. Yes, people tend to fight and kill… But I will always stand up for them".
-Dad? Will you show me my armor? You promised to finish them yesterday. - A ten-year-old girl looks into her father's office.
-Of course, dear. They are ready and you will like them. - Putting aside the unfinished glass, he gets up with a smile and goes to his daughter.
Probably, if someone found out the truth, they would shudder with horror. How is it possible, after destroying an entire nation and killing a helpless, wounded ruler, to communicate with an innocent child so carelessly, as if nothing had happened? But he doesn't care, because no one will ever know. He knows how to be secretive, and five years after saving the universe, his armor, after another improvement, has become a real technological perfection. And, if necessary, for the sake of protecting humanity, he will repeat something similar more than once. He may be accused of inhumanity, but it doesn't matter. Only fools do not understand that for the sake of saving the world, you can sometimes be a monster. But like no one else, he understands it - he, Anthony Howard Stark, Iron Man.
