"Twenty nine minutes late, come on..." Rhodey muttered to himself as he checked the watch on his wrist. It was 6:59 and Tony was suppose to be here at at 6:30. Folding his arms, Rhodey became inpatient. He knew he could run the business much more professional than Tony but maybe not as successful. With Iron-man defending evil at it's worst, it increased the time he was late. Using the war machine he knew how difficult it was just for one day. Rhodey worried he wouldn't come at all.
He decided not to worry too much and focus on the presentations. There is an award for the invention that gets the most votes during the event and many scientists showed their inventions and told speeches on them to try to get the most votes. Tony Stark was one of them, and he wouldn't be if he didn't come on time. They would have to skip his turn and go on with the event.
Rhodey pushed though the crowd to see the presentations on stage. "Here is Steve Robertson with his robot and it's awesome A.I!" A man standing on the front stage announced at a podium. The crowd applauded as a nine foot mechanical man stomped and Steve Robertson, a man with a brown beard and a blue suit walked on stage. "Thank you...thank you very much" Steve pushed the announcer aside as he grabbed the microphone so he could walk around freely. "Thank you" He slowly paced back and forth as the crowd calmed down.
Placing the microphone back and began his speech. "As you know, I have been working on a project that could revolutionize the world as we know it. Mail men, janitors, taxi drivers, maybe even whole a restaurant could be replaced with my A.I Droids called brio. You see these robots have a mind of their own and can react to humans and obey their orders or even answer the most complex questions. Ask him a question. Not too strange ones they...tent to confuse him. It takes a little bit when there is no logical answer" Steve gestured to brio as he straitened up his pose from relaxed to attention. "Who created you?!" A man asked from the crowd. "Well it wasn't just-" "I did of course, I just told them...no need say that again" Steve smiled but his eyes didn't show joy. "Who many are there of you?" Another asked. "Two, the first one is a older rendition called Life" brio was painted white and green, had innocent eyes and acted like a human. "Where is he?" a new reporter asked. "Um, he's in storage for...later usage" Steve answered nervously.
"I hope this wins the award. It did take a lot of work to build, I do-" Steve stopped as Iron-man lowered down above everyone. "Yeah right!" Iron-man said furiously as he dropped a piece of technology onto the stage. The Iron-man suit was very trashed. It had bullet holes and scratch marks all over it. "That's Stark tech! Your robot tried to kill me!" Iron-man landed down. "By the way, lame name and you only have one now" Iron-man pulled Steve up by the caller of his shirt. "Sorry guys, party's over. Why did you-" "Put him down Iron-man" brio said in a dangerous tone. Iron-man dropped him to the ground. "Don't tell me this one wants to kill me too right?" Iron-man slowly made his way to the robot. "Stand down or I will shoot" brio commanded holding repulser rays aiming for Iron-man's chest. After that everyone started screaming and running out.
"Repulser rays?! My tech too I see! What part did you make?" Iron-man asked harshly. He looked around him. Steve wasn't there. "Dammit" Iron-man turned to face brio. That instant brio punched him in the face. "Ugh! Jarvis, revert all power to repulser rays!" brio's shot at him with his repulser rays and shot him through the back of the stage where the inventions were. "Agh! He's too fast" Iron-man shot repulser rays at brio, who had just jumped through the hole in the shape of Iron-man. "Come on!...repulser rays don't budge him..." Iron-man thought for a second as he dodged all the incoming bullets. "Jarvis, get me a scan on brio and revert all power to uni-beam" "You just used Uni-beam, it will take some time to power up again" On his screen he saw the progress on both things on the left corner.
"You may have my repulser rays but can you fly?" Iron-man lifted above the ground. "Bet you can't get me from here scrap heap!" brio looked up at Iron-man for a second. Then his hands started glowing as he lifted off the ground. "You had to ask..." Jarvis complained. "How are those scans going?" Iron-man asked as brio slowly lifted into the air. "Uni-beam 78% complete and brio has a huge firewall...just like yours" Once brio was higher in the air, he picked up speed and Iron-man was ready for anything. "He can fly, but he's not Iron-man" "We'll have to see about that once the scan is complete" Jarvis warned him. Below them was the park where the event was happening. Luckily it was clear of people, so no one got hurt.
Iron-man blasted towards the city and brio tailed right behind him. He swerved close to the buildings trying to get brio to hit into them. brio didn't hit any and kept on track, swerving just like Iron-man Iron-man rolled over on his back and shot repulser rays at brio but none hurt or slowed him down. "Dammit, how does his armor take so much damage" Iron-man turned back around and picked up speed. "Scan complete" A schematic of brio popped up on the screen. "What did he make in this thing? Almost all of it's mine!" Iron-man took a sharp turn and brio slammed through a wall. "Nice!" Iron-man watched as brio climbed out. "Uni-beam full power" Jarvis told him as the progress screen disappeared and brio's schematic moved over to the left corner.
brio headed towards him, but Iron-man stood still aiming the uni-beam. "Incoming object" Jarvis warned as a missile shot from brio's shoulder. "No, no, no, Ugh!" Iron-man fell down and slammed into a fountain. brio flew right down for him. Iron-man quickly rolled over on his back and yelled "UNI-BEAM!" as the uni-beam shot out and all he could see was bright blue ammunition. Once uni-beam shut off, he saw melted pieces of brio fall to the ground. "Dam, that was close" Iron-man climbed out of the fountain and wiped the rocks and broken up metal off his armor. "Jarvis look up Steve Robertson. We have to find him before he builds an army of these guys" He then flew off heading for Stark tower with the remains of Brio left in the fountain.