Hello everyone and welcome to my second story on fanfiction. No I haven't forgotten about my Dark knight Rises story I have just reached a block. This came to mind watching Iron man, and will eventually link into the Avengers. This is kind of a following movie type story with an OC inserted but some things will be different and a separate story line will occur soon.

Autumn POV

I awoke to Pepper screaming at me and Tony to get ready to go to the airport. I groan and roll over, my bedroom door slams open "get up autumn, you slept through JARVIS's wake up and now we are late" Pepper says as she walks into my room. "Quitter Pepper please, I have a hangover" I whisper. "And whose fault is that?" "Tony's" I answered. Pepper just gives me a look as she walks out of my room, "ok, ok it's my fault as well"

The night before:

Me and Tony are in Caesars Palace – hotel and casino in Las Vegas, why because tony felt like gambling away some of his life savings [not that he needed to worry about that]. It is our last night here and we are in the downstairs casino playing roulette. We had been playing and drinking for about an hour when someone pops up behind me and tony, "They said you would be honoured if I presented you with your award" Rhodey says. "We're here for an awards ceremony?" I asked giving tony the 'why- didn't- you -tell- me- I'll- kill- you- look'. He ignored me as per usual and said "I am, when do you we do this thing?" "Right now" Rhodey says as he hands tony the small glass statue. "Oh…" I decide to interject "I'm so sorry Rhodey, if I had known that we were here for that then I would have dragged him along, I thought we were here for a gambling weekend" "it's fine, but how about we go for drinks to make it up o me." "Sounds good. Bye Tony see you back at home." He just waves his hand and goes back to fondling the woman next to him.

After a few more drinks with Colonel Rhodes, me and him go back out to the strip and call a cab to take us to the airport, "thank you for the drinks" I smile up at him. "No sweat, you made it up for missing the award ceremony" I just give him a guilty look. "Flight nine nine three, to Los Angeles international airport* now boarding" "That's our flight" I say to Rhodey. As we board the jet Rhodey asks "why did we not take the private jet again?" "Because tony was more than likely bringing a whore back from Vegas" I didn't know how right I was.

I take an hour to shower, get dressed and then I make my way down to the kitchen, when I hear "you're not authorised to access this area" from JARVIS. Then a "That's JARVIS he runs the house" I round the corner to see pepper talking to a women wandering around in the red/purple shirt I had bought tony for his last birthday "who are you?" she asks me in a bitchy tone when she spots me standing behind her "no one important" I says as I walk past her to the fridge. She turns back around "and you must be the famous Miss Potts" I sit on the counter and watch this exchange I know exactly how it is going to end. "You're clothes have been washed and pressed and there is a car outside waiting to take you wherever it is you want to go" Pepper says as she holds the dry cleaning out to the woman. "even after all these years tony still has you picking up his dry cleaning" the woman says with a snide tone 'here it comes' I think. "I do everything and anything Mr stark and Miss James require, including occasionally taking out the trash. Will that be all?" Pepper replies in an equally snide tone, I snort. Christine turns and glares at me as she grabs her clothes and heads towards the nearest bathroom. Me and pepper then make our way down to the garage where tony is working on one of his cars "please don't turn down my music" he says as we step in. "you're two hours late to the airport" Pepper says in response "You are supposed to be halfway around the world by now." Pepper says "How'd she take it?" Tony asks completely ignoring the first part. "Like a champ." She answers a little annoyed. "Why are you trying to hustle us out of here?" "Your flight was scheduled to leave an hour and a half ago." "It's funny; I though with it being our plane and all that it would just wait for us" "Tony, I need to speak to you about a couple of things before I get you out..." pepper try to explain, I really feel sorry her; working for me and tony isn't easy. " I mean, doesn't it kind of defeat the whole purpose of having your own plane if it departs before you arrive?" Tony looks up at me and pepper and gives her a look. I gave Pepper the he-has-a-point look. She glared at me and I backed down with my hands raised.

Tony's car went screaming around the corner. I see happy driving behind us trying to keep up. I scream in happiness as we go round another corner at 150mph, I see tony look at me out of the corner of his eye "enjoying yourself?" he questions me flirtatiously. I lean forward so my lips are nearly touching his cheek "of course I am, I always do when I'm with you" I smile as I lean away. Just as I get comfortable again we pull into the airport. As we get out of the car, Rhodey comes out from the plane "two hours, two hours I have been waiting" I give him an apologetic look and point to tony "his fault" I say. "Fuck you, I was up before you were." Tony declares as he walks past me, up the stairs and onto the plane. Rhodey gives me 'the look' and I pick up my suitcase and walk up the stairs to join him and tony.

Halfway through the flight, Rhodey and tony are drunk and I'm on my way. Tony and Rhodey are talking about something; I'm more interested in the air hostesses dancing on the pole. Don't get me wrong I'm not a lesbian – I just appreciate a beautiful woman when I see one, I suppose if anything I'm bisexual [which has earned me some strange requests from Tony].

After our fourteen and half hour flight we finally made it to Afghanistan. We are taken to a tent, where we can freshen up and sleep for a little while they set up the Jericho for demonstration. I slept for about an hour when a soldier comes and escorts us to the armored vehicles that will take us to the area we are demonstrating from. "You ready?" I say to Tony as we stand in front of the platoon of soldiers. "You bet" he whispers back, I put on a smile as Tony explains the weapon. We were talking for about an hour and answering any questions the soldiers may have had about our weapon when, we came to the part of the demonstration where we actually see what the missile can do. "The weapon has a heat seeking function which can be turned off so that the missile can be aimed manually" He says as he flicks a switch on "here I have turned it on so it will aim for that red flare." He winks at me which is my queue to reach over and push the button after the next part of his speech. "They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the Jericho." He throws his arms wide as the missile explodes around us. "And with any purchase over 75 million I'll personally throw in one of these" I say as I reach over and grab a drink from the ice box.

A few hours later and we are on our way back to the little landing strip we arrived on. Tony, being the arsehole that he is, decided we would listen to ACDC on the way back. "I feel like you're driving us to court martial. This is crazy." I exclaim. "What did we do? I feel like you're gonna pull over and snuff us. What, you're not allowed to talk? Hey, Forrest!" Tony carries on the tirade. A soldier to the left of us replies "We can talk, sir, ma'am" " Oh, I see. So it's personal." Tony questions. Officer Ramirez replies with "No, you intimidate them." Tony looks shocked "Good God, you're a woman!" which earned a slap from me and a chuckle from the soldiers we are sharing the Humvee with. "I honestly, I couldn't have called that. I mean, I would apologize, but isn't that what we're going for here? I thought of you as a soldier first." "I'm an airman." She states. "Well, you have actually excellent bone structure there. I'm kind of having a hard time not looking at you now. Is that weird?" Tony looks at me "yes it's a little weird Tony" I say and we all share a little laugh. Then there was an explosion.

Ramirez jumps first from the front and is promptly shot down, Keller is next out managing to shout at Jimmy "protect Stark and James" before he too was shot down. "Stay here" Jimmy says as he opens the door ad runs out weapon drawn. He too was shot down, his body hitting the side of the Humvee. Me and Tony panic, and run from the Humvee and into the desert. We hide behind a rock and attempt to contact Rhodey when something hits the ground next to me; I look over and see a Stark Industries missile. I try to jump up and run before it explodes but I don't have a chance. I feel immense pain then nothing as I fade into black…

Tony's Pov

I look over and see a Stark Industries missile, my missile. I try to run and grab Autumn at the same time but I couldn't before the bomb went off, I feel pain in my chest. I look down, rip open my shirt and see the blood seeping out through the bullet proof vest; I mentally cursed myself on designing my weapon so well as the black begins to seep into my vision.

I wake when I feel the light hitting my eyes, I open them to see nothing but white, which slowly fades into a man holding a video camera. I squint in confusing then the terror hits me, I'm being held hostage by terrorists. I panic 'where's Autumn' then I hear the screams, I turn my head to the right and see the mangled body that is my best friend, her spine is bent awkwardly and her left arm is missing entirely. A man with glasses is attempting to fit metal rods to her spine to keep it straight. She is awake while he does this and I feel tears stream down my face as I watch her get 'tortured'. I can still feel the blood dripping down my chest as I watch her be 'fixed'. Then I'm hit over the head with something and once again everything is black.

Thanks for reading, please review if you have a comment, no flaming only constructive criticism please. I hope you enjoy and you are looking forward to the next chapter.