Well this is my Fic... in case any of you were unaware... and it's my first one.... ummm.... and I hope you enjoy!


The cyborgs were right behind him. Their red eyes glowed maliciously against the dark gloom. Yet while their thoughts willed their half-mechanical bodies to attack, they simply chased after their prey silently. It was how they attacked quickly and quietly so their victim would only have a seconds warning before they brought down their wrath.

He knew this all to well. He had fought the cyborgs to many times to count and he knew that the horrible reality of the matter was that he had no chance against them. He was simply to weak and the energy that charged his weapons was to low. He had to run, and so run he did.

Listening while he ran, he lifted his weapon when he heard a terrible shriek pierce the desolate silence. Out of the shadows the creature jumped, talon like fingers grabbing at his form. Dodging to the side he skidded around the corner and spotted a door with white light streaming out of it.

He could almost cry. There it was. If he could just get to that light he'd be safe. Running like their was no tomorrow he paid no heed to the sounds of the cyborgs getting ready to attack. He was almost there...

.

"NO!" Rhodey cried. The PSP flashed it's GAME OVER sign proudly as laughter emitted from the back ground. He eyed the game suspiciously before tossing on the table.

"What happened this time?" Tony asked looking up from his work.

"I was this close to getting to the safehouse on level 13," he sighed with defeat. "Man, if I didn't know better I'd say that game was rigged."

Tony laughed, "Aw, come on Rhodey that game is just like any other, and honestly it's not that challenging."

"Yea say's the guy whose beaten it 50 times."

Tony shrugged innocently, "What can I say, no game can stand up to the awesome might... of TONY STARK!" he flexed his thumbs.

"Uh huh..." Rhodey looked at him skeptically.

He glared once more at the game before walking over to the bench Tony stood by. He looked over the red and gold suit of armor his friend was fiddling with. "Anyway, what are you working on now you've been over that armor half the day and I still have no idea what your doing."

Tony became excited. "Well I'll tell you this, it's going to be awesome, but you'll have to wait. Pepper said she'd be here at 2:00" Tony glanced down at his watch. " she should be here in a any minute now."

"Ta Da!" Pepper said announcing her presence from the door way just seconds after Tony finished his sentence.

"See?"

"That was kinda freaky." Rhodey commented.

"I know! Talk about me and I'll instantly show up. I'm magic! What are the odds? Well actually I'm not; I was listening at the door for a while." Pepper said with extreme speed and energy. "Tony once you've finished telling us about the stuff you did to the armor I have some super-important-news that I just got this morning from my dad's computer!"

She thought about it for a sec. "On second thought, I'll tell you now!"

"And I take it your Dad knows that you have this information and approves of your sharing it with us?" Rhodey said. He couldn't help but poke fun at Pepper a little.

Pepper looked at Rhodey like he had just popped her bubble. She straitened up and looked down at her nails with dignity. "I'm sorry but if I told you anything more on the matter I'd have to imprison you for life."

"Right." Rhodey rolled his eyes

Motioning Tony and Rhodey towards the Iron man armor they trio huddled close together as if some unseen force were trying to listen in on there conversation.

"Apparently A.I.M. is making a weapons deal with Stark Industry's!" she whispered furiously.

Tony's face turned into a grim mask. His father's company being used to make weapons. What Obadiah Stain was doing defiled his father values. A cold anger stirred up in him.

"Nothing's been made official yet they're going to have a meeting tomorrow to seal the deal. But here's the good news. We know where the meeting is happening.

"Where?"

"Stark Industrys itself! On the 28th floor, in conference room 17. The place is so obvious no one would suspect it! And high-tech gear coming and going is nothing new for the building, so no one would be suspicious."

She inhaled deeply and continued, " I even know the exact time. If we could get in there we would be one step ahead of A.I.M. There's just one tiny problem. It's obvious that this dealing is illegal so the room is going to be guarded and any security footage of the meeting is inevitably going to get erased, we'll have no way of knowing what happened."

Pepper and Rhodey looked over to Rhodey.

"What are you thinking Tony?" Rhodey asked.

Tony looked up confused. "Thinking? That makes you think I'm thinking?"

"You totally have that look on your face. The 'I'm coming up with a great idea that's probably going to end in disaster' look." Pepper put forward.

"I don't have a look like that."

"Yeah man, you do." Rhodey said. Pepper nodded in acknowledgment. "So what are you thinking?"

Tony was quiet. His brain was running calculations over in his head and his eye's went back and forth over the invisible data. "I'm thinking that the upgrades I made to the armor were made at just the right time."

"What are you talking about?"

"I modified the iron man suit so that I can go to any given location undetected."

"Isn't that what your inviso armor does though?" Pepper pointed out.

"Yes but this new armor can't be heard, can't be detected by radar, it can't even be touched."

"How?

Tony grinned.

"Essentially what happens is the Iron man suit will go through an opening it creates to a alternate reality where everything is the same except no one is there. Call it a ghost or pocket dimension if you will."he paused before continuing.

"I'll end up in the same place I was. So if i was standing in Rhodey's house and went to the pocket dimension. I'd be at Rhodey's house in the pocket dimension. Then if I went to the park in the pocket dimension and came back to our reality I'd be at the park in our dimension. The reason no one would be able to detect me because i wouldn't be there, I'd be in another reality." Tony looked expectantly at his friends.

Pepper and Rhodey stared at him blankly for a moment.

"I'll be able to go from one place to another by using alternate reality's to do so."

"Oh" Rhodey stated simply.

"Thank you" Pepper sighed with relief, "No offense Tony, but I'm a future shield agent, not a scientist."

"Sorry." Tony said sheepishly scratching the back of his head."But don't you guy's see? With this I could sneak into the conference room set up a microphone and we could hear exactly what's going on!"

"Whoa, back up Tony," Rhodey held up his hands, "You're not even finished making this thing and you want to test it Today?"

"Why not? I'll have to test it some time and I'm almost done with it."

Rhodey shooked his head. "I don't like it..."

"You never like dangerous things Rhodey." Pepper stated accusingly, " I say go for it!"

Tony sighed with relief and then smiled it felt good to have support.

He spent the next hour or so finishing up the upgrades with Rhodey looking over his shoulder urging him to slow down so he wouldn't make mistakes and Pepper looking over the other shoulder urging him to hurry up.

If he every had little people on his shoulders giving him advise they would probably look like Rhodey and Pepper.

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Finally the armor was finished and Tony had all the supplies he needed. At that very moment he was flying toward Stark Industry's.

"OK you guy's I'm going to try it now. The communications probably aren't going to work so I'll get back to you when I'm there." Tony informed his friends.

"You'd better."

"See ya Tony!"

With that he shut down the radio and powered up the machinery.

White light pulsed from the palm of his armored hand. It wasn't brilliant or attention calling in fact it was kinda pretty. The pulsations grew out in rings like ripples in a pond until a big round door of milky white stood before him.

"Portal stable" the armor chirped.

"Alright, here goes nothing"

Stepping (err.. hovering?) through the door of light Tony was temporarily blinded. When he could see again he saw the city but no one was in it. Cars populated the streets in suspended animation and the wind was the only sound to break the silence. The city had become a ghost town.

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Hurrying toward Stark Industrys Tony kept looking forward. He didn't look down. He didn't want to see the empty streets. A city devoid of people wasn't right.

The massive building came into view. Once he was at the right level looking into the conference room he slid the glass window open and hovered in.

It was ironic. This was the same room his Dad always held meetings in. He pushed the memory to the back of his mind and focused on what he was going to do.

Charging up the portal again and the light formed into a doorway.

"Armor, relay visual and audio of all recording devises in a 20 foot radius for ten minutes." Tony said. There would be no evidence he was ever there.

"Processing...success."The armor responded.

He hovered once again though the oval portal, and appeared in his reality.

"What's that!?" An unnamed voice shrieked.

Tony cursed his bad luck. No one should have been in the room!

He turned around and found himself starring at a room full of middle aged men and women in business attire. They all silently gaped to stunned to talk. Sitting at the large mahogany table they gazed wide-eyed at him.

Tony scanned the faces; most of them were familiar. They were all owners or representatives of some large company or other, and they had commonly come to Stark Industry's when his Dad was still alive.

The man at the end of the table stood up, and Tony suddenly felt shaken.

That man was Howard Stark.

"Dad?"


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