Iron Man Avatar Adventures
Chapter 1: Old-Fashioned
In Queens, New York...
Teenage billionare inventor Anthony "Tony" Stark, also know as Iron Man, was down in his newly rebuilt Armory working on his latest update, a special computer system designed to be like a butler that would follow his every order and possess a personality so it could interact with others. He called it J.A.R.V.I.S. which he defined it as Just A Rather Very Intelligent System. After connecting the last two wires, he powered up the computer and was greeted by a voice that sounded like that of a British gentleman.
"Greetings, Mr. Stark. I am Jarvis at your service."
"Good to meet you, JARVIS. Now that I got you up and running, I can start making modifications to the rest of the Armory."
"What kind of modications do you wish to make, sir?" JARVIS asked.
"Hmm," Tony said with his hand under his chin. "Well, for one thing, the security system. The way Xin Zhang and his goons broke in and blew up the place tells me that I should install better defense protocols. Also I want to modify the scanners so that they can detect any unauthorized person trying to come near the Armory."
"A brilliant idea, sir. Let's get started." JARVIS replied.
Suddenly the doors opened and in came Tony's two best friends; Pepper Potts, an independent, free-spirited and very talkative high-school student with short red hair who was the daughter of an F.B.I. agent, and James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes, an African-American kid who had been Tony's friend for years and was almost as intelligent as he is.
"Hey, Tony. I see you got the Armory all fixed up." Rhodey greeted him.
"Just about, I still got a few things to take care of and I should be done. Guys, say hello to JARVIS."
"Greetings, Mr. Rhodes, Ms. Potts." JARVIS greeted them.
The two were a little surprised by the talking computer.
"Uh, hello?" Rhodey replied.
"Um, Tony, what is JARVIS?" Pepper asked.
"Just a rather very intelligent system." Tony replied.
"Wow, how original." Pepper said sarcastically.
"Basically he's an updated artificial intelligence designed to follow mostly my orders but is also allowed to serve others like a butler and he has a built-in personality so he can be good to talk to." Tony explained to his friends.
"That's cool and all, Tony, but if JARVIS is as advanced as you say he is, wouldn't that make it easier for him to turn on you?" Rhodey asked.
"Not neccessarily, Mr. Rhodes. It is my duty to serve Mr. Stark to the best of my abilities and I would never under any circumstances compromise my loyalty to him."
"Oh, well, that's good to hear."
"So what are you gonna do now? Invent a flashy new armor?" Pepper asked.
"Actually I was about to..." Tony was cut off when something came up on the moniter.
"Sir, scanners are detecting an energy signature in an isolated area in China. Attempting to identify..." JARVIS announced.
"Tony, what's going on?" Rhodey asked.
"I uploaded JARVIS with all the data I've collected from all the villians I've faced and modified the sensors to detect anything that we haven't encountered before so JARVIS can inform us when something big is going down."
"Energy signature identified. Signature is that of a Makluan Ring currently in possession of the Mandarin a.k.a. Gene Kahn."
This piece of information made everyone's eyes fire up with anger. Two weeks ago when Tony, Pepper and their supposed friend Gene Kahn were captured by Gene's step-father Xin Zhang and forced to retrieve the fifth Makluan Ring from the fierce dragon Fin Fang Foom.
When Rhodey showed up in the War Machine Armor along Tony's Iron Man Armor, Xin Zhang, who they thought to be the Mandarin, and his goons fled, dropping his gauntlet holding four Makluan Rings in the process.
When Pepper threw the rings in the dragon's mouth, Gene seemingly sacrificed himself the save her but ended up retrieving the four rings as well as the fifth. When he emerged he revealed himself to be the true Mandarin and turned his back on them. Just as Tony was about to defeat him, he told him that his father, Howard Stark, was still alive and in Gene's possession.
"I'm going." Tony said as he started walking toward his Iron Man Armor.
X X X
Meanwhile, in the Four Nations Earth Kingdom capital city Ba Sing Se...
Twelve year-old Aang, the last of the Airbenders and the Avatar, was pacing around in the private residence which him and his friends were allowed to stay in with Momo on his shoulder while trying to figure out a way to talk to the Earth King about the Solar Eclipse that will render the Fire Nation powerless as well as figure out where his missing Sky Bison Appa was.
They had just come back from asking around and no one was helpful and once they were dropped off at the residence, a political figure who lived across the street named Pong said that no one in Ba Sing Se likes to talk about the war and to stay away from the Dai Li. This had everyone slightly spooked.
"I can't believe this, we've asked around and no one knows anything about Appa." Aang said aloud.
"And even worse, no one here talks about the war. What kind crazy city is this?" Sokka exclaimed.
"A prison kind." Toph said flatly.
"Come on you guys, we just got here. I'm sure something will turn up." Katara said optimistically.
"Katara, we can't a whole month just to see the Earth King" Sokka stated.
"He's right, we need to keep looking." Aang said as he made his way to the front door with his staff in hand.
"Where are you going, Aang?"
"To see if I can find Appa."
"But we just asked around and no one said they've seen him." Katara stated.
"I'm not asking around. I'm going to actually look for him. Who knows, maybe I'll get lucky."
"Well then wait for us, Aang, we're coming with you." Katara said with concern as everyone followed him.
"Thanks." He replied before they all took off to search for Appa a second time.
X X X
Iron Man was soaring through the skies at full throttle making his way toward China to intercept the Mandarin.
Inside the Armor Tony bared a look of determination.
"Sir, Mr. Rhodes and Ms. Potts are attempting to contact you." JARVIS informed Tony.
"Patch them through, JARVIS."
"Tony, are you sure this is a good idea?" Rhodey asked.
"I have to stop him and I need to find out where he's holding my dad."
"I understand, man. Just make sure you don't do something you might regret."
"Tony, please don't hurt Gene." Pepper pleaded.
"I'll try not to." Tony replied.
At an ancient temple in China, the Mandarin was currently fighting off a small army of stone warriors that were attempting to overwhelm him.
"I don't understand! The test stated that 'mercy is the key to great power'! I keep trying to show these things that I can be merciful and yet they still attack me!" Mandarin said angrily in his deep synthesized voice.
After using one ring to freeze the stone warriors and then another to blow them to pieces, the Mandarin heard a crash from behind. He turned and saw none other than his rival Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man.
As the two stared at each other Iron Man said, "What are you doing here, Gene?"
"Wouldn't you like to know, Stark. By the way, your father sends his regards."
"Where is he?" Iron Man demanded.
"Stay out of my way or you'll never see him again."
Suddenly the two armored clad teens found themselves being approached by a large group of stone warriors that were surrounding them.
"What are you playing at, Gene?" Iron Man asked.
"If you must know, the first Mandarin had ten rings, not five, and I intend to claim them all." Mandarin explained as found himself standing beside Iron Man.
"And let me guess, you've activated the test and you can't figure out how to solve it." Iron Man taunted.
"Shut up!"
The two then stood close as they fought off the stone warriors. Iron Man used his repulsors to blast them to pieces while the Mandarin varied from freezing and smashing them to sending heat blast to blow them up.
"Gene... what... did... the test... say?" Iron Man said as he started fighting some off with his fists.
After a few seconds the Mandarin replied, "Mercy is the key to great power. I've tried showing these things mercy but they just keep attacking."
After taking down two more, Iron Man took a moment to think and said, "Wait, maybe we're not the ones that should be showing mercy?"
"What?" Mandarin inquired.
"Think about it, they outnumber us. Maybe we're supposed to beg them for mercy."
"Are you out of your mind?"
"Its the only explaination. What's the chinese word for 'mercy'?"
The Mandarin looked at the enclosing stone warriors and said, "Tsyr bey!"
Suddenly all the warriors stopped in the their tracks and a small opened up in the middle of the floor and a orange-ish white light shot up from it and produced the sixth Makluan Ring that had an orange gem.
The Mandarin started approach but when he saw Iron Man look at him the two raced toward it and the Mandarin managed to grab it but Iron Man tried to rip it out of his hands. The Mandarin used his right hand and sent an energy blast to knock Iron Man to the ground and the placed the sixth ring on his left index finger.
"Yes, six down and only four left." The Mandarin gloated.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." Iron Man stated as he attempt to take down the Mandarin.
The Mandarin attempted to use his newly acquired ring but as Iron Man neared him he had to quickly change his mind and use his purple ring to teleport away only something happened that the Mandarin hadn't expected.
An energy field surrounded him and Iron Man and the two vanished from the ancient temple.
X X X
Aang and Momo were flying side-by-side around Ba Sing Se while their friends were on the ground attempting to find Appa. Aang hoped that if the bison was out in the open he would spot him easily. As he was flying, he saw a bright light to his left in the middle of a street where his friends were walking on. He turned toward it and once he was close enough he saw a orange sphere form in the middle of the street which the local townspeople were startled by. Sokka, Katara and Toph got through the crowd and gazed in awe, Toph on the other hand could sense the energy of the sphere touching the ground and could understand everyone's shock.
After a moment the the sphere disappeared and everyone saw a tall person clad in strange black armor covering his whole body who wore six rings standing over a person clad in strange red and yellow armor covering his entire body.
Aang landed in the street behind the red-yellow clad person. He saw his friends standing behind the man clad in black so if there was any trouble, they could box them in. The man in red and yellow looked up and took in his surroundings before saying, "Where are we, how did we get here?"
The man clad in black armor said, "I don't know, but it matters not. You will not stop me from achieving my goal!"
Aang and his friends watched as the man clad in black armor held out his right hand and shot out a fire ball from the red ring on his right hand which the man in red and yellow rolled out of the way of. Aang instinctively twirled his staff to extinguise the fire ball. Judging by the behavior of the strange armored warriors, Aang strongly guessed that the one in black with the rings was anything but good and decided to send an air wave at him which made the black armored warrior take a few steps back.
"You dare to oppose me, child?" The man in black armor yelled.
Aang took a fighting stance and replied, "I don't know who you are or what you are doing here, but you're putting innocent lives in danger."
"Their lives are not my concern. You on the the other hand are making a big mistake in challenging me!"
"That's why he's got us!" Katara said which drew his attention.
He saw Katara bended the water from her canteen and formed it into a whip while Sokka drew both his boomerang and his Water Tribe Club Sword and Toph put her hands on the ground to bend two overgrown rock fists around her hands.
Though no one could tell, the man clad in black armor was surprised by what these people were capable of. He could probably take on Iron Man and an army of Dreadknights but by the looks of it these people seemed to be more than mere children.
"The Mandarin does not cower to the likes of you." The black armored warrior said before he turned and shot out a an ice beam from the blue ring toward Aang. The young Avatar bended the ice in mid-air into water and sent it back at him, knocking him back a few more steps. Katara then bended it in an attempt to freeze the Mandarin in a block of ice.
After a few seconds being frozen stiff, the Mandarin broke free and shattered the ice into pieces. Sokka then threw his boomerang at the guy's head in an attempt to stun him, however the Mandarin used his purple ring to teleport out of the path of the boomerang before it hit him.
The Mandarin reappeared a few feet in front of Sokka and young warrior attempted to strike him down. After a few missed swings, the Mandarin grabbed the club sword and pulled it out of his hands before tossing it aside and saying, "Pathetic." The Mandarin then teleported away as the boomerang came back and hit Sokka on the head, making him see stars.
"Now I know how it feels to be on the recieving end." Sokka said goofy-like before falling to the ground.
Toph immediately started shooting earth rocks at the Mandarin which he attempted to evade with his teleportation but because she shot so many at once, he got hit before he could and got a few smacks to the gut and his head.
As his friends were keeping the Mandarin busy, Aang turned and saw the man in red and yellow stand up and shoot out a beam from his chest that sent the Mandarin off his feet and through a building down an alleyway. Aang and his friends were completely baffled by what had just transpired.
The Mandarin was sent flying through the alley which resulted in him crashing through a cabbage stand and the owner cried out, "My cabbages!"
The man in red and yellow looked at Aang and his friends and said, "Thanks for the assist."
The man in red and yellow took off down the alley and Aang followed closely behind while Katara and Toph tried to help Sokka to his feet.
The Mandarin had came to a stop at a rock hard wall that was cracked by the forced impact. After shaking the cobwebs from his head, The Mandarin then looked up to see the man in red and yellow armor as well as the bald kid running toward him. He stood up and said, "We'll continue this another time." A bright purple-ish white light surrounded the man in black armor and then he disappeared.
The man in red and yellow looked at everyone around him before said to himself, "Oookay, I've been all around the world and I've never seen this place before." He then looked at Aang as Katara, Toph and Sokka caught up to them and asked, "Excuse me, could you please tell me where I am?"
Aang replied, "You're in Ba Sing Se, my name's Aang."
"The name's Iron Man."
X X X
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X X X
Tony Stark looked at the bald kid named Aang from within the Iron Man Armor. He wore orange and yellow clothes and had arrow tatoos on his head and hands and carried a strange furry animal on his shoulder. He then looked at his friends, an older boy with tan skin along with a pony-tail with shaved sides dressed in blue clothing who was still dazed from the battle, girl almost as old as him with tan skin and hair loopies who also wore blue clothing, and a younger girl who appeared to be blind with her raven black hair tied back that dressed in green and yellow.
He guessed that these strange kids were different from everyone else. He had heard rumors about mutants who look like normal people and yet they possessed extraordinary abilities. Tony wondered if these kids could be mutants but he would have to look into that later.
Everyone else in the city around him wore green clothes in different shades. The houses and buildings, most of them at least, were made out of wood and tatami paper. In Tony's mind, everything and everyone here seemed so... old-fashioned.
"Uh, I don't suppose one has a world map, do you?" Iron Man asked.
"Sure thing." Aang said as he reached in his back pocket and pulled the world map out.
Iron Man opened it up and was surprised at what he saw. The world map was completely unlike any map he had seen before.
"Is everything okay, Iron Man?" Katara asked.
"Uh, are you absolutely sure that this map is accurate?" Iron Man asked.
"Yeah, we try to be as accurate as possible so we don't get lost or off course." Aang stated.
"Oh man, this isn't good."
"What's the problem?" Toph asked.
"There's an implant on my chest that's connected to my heart in order to keep me alive, but it requires power and the only place that can supply me with it is back home and I don't know how to get back before the power runs out." Iron Man explained. "However, I should be able to build a power charger if I have the right tools."
Some of what he said was a bit over their head but Aang and his friends got the point.
"What do you need exactly?" Aang asked.
"I need some tools, as much scrap metal as you can find that's made of palladium, maybe even some spare pieces of wood; and quickly." Iron Man explained.
"Alright, we'll start looking." Aang said.
"By the way, do you guys have a place I can stay for a while?" Iron Man asked.
"Sure thing, Katara, can you take him back to the house while we get the stuff he needs?"
"Not a problem, we'll wait for you there."
Aang, Momo, Toph and Sokka, who was still a bit dizzy, went looking for the supplies Iron Man asked for while Katara led Iron Man back toward the residence in which they were staying, not knowing that they were being watched by a man hiding in the shadows of the alley who wore dark green clothes and a hat.
Iron Man put his right hand to his earpiece and said, "Rhodey, Pepper, are you guys still there?"
Katara looked at Iron Man and asked, "Is something wrong, Iron Man?"
"No problem, its just that my armor has a way of allowing me to talk to people from a distance so I'm trying to see if I can still contact my friends back home."
"Wow, that's neat."
Iron Man continued, "Rhodey, Pepper, can either of you hear me?"
"Sir, I'm afraid we've lost contact with Mr. Rhodes and Ms. Potts." JARVIS said from inside the suit.
"JARVIS," Tony sighed with relief. "Well, I'm glad I can at least talk to you. Why can't we reach Rhodey and Pepper?"
"This new world is unknown to ours and thus communications are inoperative however being that my program is within the suit and the Armory, I might be able to send messages back to the Armory to update Mr. Rhodes and Ms. Potts on the situation."
"Okay, begin message. Rhodey, Pepper, this is Tony. During my fight with the Mandarin, I learned that there are ten Makluan Rings, not five. I tried to stop him from getting his hands on the sixth one but I was too late. We both got teleported to another world that's similar to Earth and yet so different. Communications are down so I'm relaying this through JARVIS. Right now I'm following a group of kids to hold up somewhere until I can figure out more. I'll be in touch. Take care... End message and send."
"Message sent, sir."
Meanwhile Aang, Toph and Sokka, who had regained his senses, were looking for the supplies Iron Man needed when Sokka said, "Why are we even helping this guy? Didn't you see his red and yellow armor? He has to be a spy for the Fire Nation."
"He's not a spy, Sokka." Aang said to him.
"How can you tell?"
"Because if he was a spy, I don't think he would be walking around Ba Sing Se wearing strange red and yellow armor."
Sokka held up his right index finger with his mouth open about ready to say something. After three seconds he put his hand down and said, "Okay, he's got a point."
"And besides I can tell that he had no indication to attack anyone. His heart was calm once we chased away that heavy-set guy." Toph explained.
"If you guys say so, but there's something about him that I just don't trust."
X X X
Five minutes later, the three kids returned to the residence with the supplies and Iron Man got started building the power recharger. The children sat back and watched in amazement at how he was building something that none of them thought was possible. It took a few hours for Iron Man to completely build it before he plugged it into his chest piece, causing him to sigh with relief. It was a small device about the size of a car battery that would recharge itself as well as his chestpiece. Fortunately he could unplug it and be able to carry it with him.
After listening to Iron Man explain his side of the story as he recharged, everyone had their own reaction toward him. Katara was shocked and amazed that he came from a different world. Toph was very interested in his armor and who he was underneath it and Sokka was his usual paranoid self, not trusting Iron Man especially given that he won't tell them who he really was under the armor but he had to admit that the guy was a genious for what he had just built. Momo was currently crawling on top of his armor attempting to get a feel for it.
"Uh, what is this thing crawling all over me?" Iron Man asked.
"Oh, that's just Momo, our flying Lemur. Don't mind him, he's just curious about your armor." Aang explained.
"Tell us, why do you where this suit of armor?" Toph asked as she knocked her hand on the arm of Iron Man's armor which sounded like CLUNK, CLUNK, CLUNK.
"I built it to allow me to fight bad guys and protect the innocent where ever I go." Iron Man replied.
"Riiiight." Sokka said.
"Hey, Iron Man, who is this Mandarin guy we were fighting?" Aang asked.
"The Mandarin is a guy I thought I knew, a kid by the name of Gene Kahn. Apparently he abducted my father and had me believe he was dead and then posed as my friend so that I could help him find the Makluan Rings."
"What are Makluan Rings?" Katara asked.
"They're powerful rings that once belonged to the first Mandarin centuries ago. Since the first Mandarin couldn't trust his many heirs with them, he scattered them throughout the world so that one day his one true heir would claim them all. So far Gene only has six out of the ten rings. It was while I was trying to stop him from getting the sixth that we ended up being teleported here."
"What happens if the Mandarin gets his hands on all ten rings?" Sokka asked.
"He'll have limitless power and I don't know what he intends to do with it."
"Wait a second, you said that while you were fighting the Mandarin as he got his hands on the sixth ring when you two showed up here, do you think the sixth ring is what brought you two here?" Aang asked.
"If so, then he's bound to figure that out for himself in which case he'll return home and leave me stranded here." Iron Man pointed out. "Unless... I can somehow build a portal that can connect back to the Armory in which case I could then return home, but it'll take a while and a lot of supplies to build it, not to mention that my friends will have to build one back home too in order to make it work."
Katara then said warmly, "Hmm, well then, you should stick with us until you fully build it."
"Yeah, the more the merrier." Aang said with enthusiasm.
"Wait, we're just gonna let him join? We don't even know who he really is!" Sokka protested.
"We know he's human, he's not with the Fire Nation and he's not out to kill us so I say that's good enough for me." Toph voiced her opinion.
Momo jumped off Iron Man as he stood up while unplugging the charger and said, "Thanks guys, I appreciate the help and all but to put it simply Iron Man doesn't have a sidekick, or sidekicks. I'll see if I can find the neccessary stuff to build the portal on my own."
With that said, Iron Man walked toward the front door and left. As soon as he was outside, he engaged his repulsor rockets and flew away.
Sokka stretched his limbs and said, "Now that he's gone we can get back to more important matters like trying to find a way to see the Earth King."
Katara turned to her brother in disbelief and said, "Sokka, we can't just let him leave. He doesn't know what's going on, he could get hurt or worse."
Sokka turned to her and replied, "Katara, he said it himself, he's a solo act. Besides we don't know anything about him, we don't even know who he really is."
"That's not the point, Sokka, he doesn't know what our world is like. What if he accidently waltzes into a Fire Nation town?"
"Relax, you saw how he blasted that Mandarin guy earlier. I'm sure he can handle an army of Firebenders."
Katara was now getting furious. "Speaking of which, what if we run into the Mandarin again? We had a hard time trying to stop him. Iron Man knows him better than we do so we might need his help."
"And how do we even know if he's any different from the Mandarin, huh? Both Iron Man and the Mandarin possess powers and abilities that make all your bending abilities look like child's play. What makes him any better than the Mandarin?"
"The fact that he's trying to do the right thing by helping people, something that you seem to be lacking." Katara then stormed out the front door in an attempt be somewhere away from her thick-headed older brother.
X X X
It was now sunset as Iron Man was currently flying around Ba Sing Se trying to figure out where to find the right stuff to build a portal to take him back to the Armory in his world should the Mandarin decide to strand him here. A part of him felt bad for leaving his new friends behind despite their hospitality but when he saw how primitive this world was he feared that his presence here might push people into attempting to build advanced weapons to bring him down or maybe even attempt to steal his armor in an attempt to replicate it, something that could very well tear this strange new world he was on apart.
As he was flying around, JARVIS spoke to him, "Sir, I'm detecting five heat signatures attempting to follow you."
"Its probably Aang and his friends trying to get me to reconsider." Tony said aloud.
"Unfortunately sir, these heat signatures are different from that of the children and their Lemur."
"Then who would want to follow me?" Tony asked.
Suddenly a huge rock was sent flying at him. It had hit him hard and knocked him out of the sky.
Iron Man hit the ground hard and left a slight crater where he landed. He reached out his right hand and grabbed the edge of the crater and pulled himself up.
"Sir, armor intensity has dropped to 75%." JARVIS informed Tony.
"Ugh, where did that come from?" He asked rhetorically.
"That came from us." A voice said from the shadows.
Iron Man looked up and saw five men dressed in dark green clothing with hats walk out of the shadows. They were standing tall and straight with strange gloves on their hands.
Iron Man demanded an explanation. "Who are you and why did you attack me?"
"We are are the Dai Li and you are under arrest for disturbing the peace." The head figure stated.
"Disturbing the peace?"
"Your actions earlier along with that of the four children have spurred the community into talking about the war. There is no war in Ba Sing Se." The Dai Li agent said before he held his hands up and shot his strange gloves at Iron Man's hands which locked them tightly behind his back.
As he tried to break free, Tony looked at the gloves on the other Dai Li agents and said, "JARVIS, analyse their gloves."
"Analyzing, sir. Analysis complete. The gloves seem to be made of some sort of rock."
"Rock gloves? JARVIS divert power to the hydralics." Tony issued.
"Diverting power, sir."
Iron Man pulled as hard as he could and successfully managed to break free. This surprised the Dai Li agents but they kept their shock hidden.
"You shouldn't use gloves made of rock against someone calling himself Iron Man." Tony quipped.
The head Dai Li agent stepped forward and said, "You will come with us, now."
"Sorry, pal, not happening." Iron Man said as he took a battle stance as did the Dai Li.
X X X
Katara was currently walking the streets of Ba Sing Se trying to cool off after her argument with Sokka. She swore that sometimes she was embarrassed to be related to him.
As she was walking, she started to hear people talking and she saw the couple Than and Ying and her sister along with their newborn baby named Hope that she and the others escorted to Ba Sing Se.
"...I saw someone shoot down the strange flying man dressed in metal..." The sister said to the couple as they were holding their newborn.
This caught Katara's attention and she went to them.
"Katara, is something wrong?" Ying asked out of concern.
"Where did you see the man in metal get shot down?"
The sister pointed toward the west and said, "A few miles that way."
With that said, Katara took off as fast as she could in that direction hoping she wasn't too late.
X X X
Iron Man held out both his hands and fired his repulsor blasts at the Dai Li agents but they all scattered before he could hit any of them.
The Dai Li retaliated by sending more rock gloves to beat him down. Iron Man dodged a few but ended up taking a few hard hits to the chest and the head.
"Sir, armor intensity is down to 68%." JARVIS stated.
Before he could get hit by more rock gloves, Iron Man activated his protective force field which surrounded his entire body.
"You cannot resist the Dai Li, you will come with us." The head Dai Li agent said as they continued shooting rock gloves at him.
"No, I need to get home and I won't let you stop me!" Iron Man shouted as he quickly expanded the force field to initiate a surge blast which knocked the Dai Li back. "I didn't come here to cause trouble but if you keep attacking me then I will defend myself."
The Dai Li got back to their feet and started to change their tactics by raising earth spikes to try and puncture his armor, figuring that without it he would be at their mercy. The spikes shot up and smacked Iron Man around, though not puncturing his armor, it did put some dents into it.
Iron Man engaged his repulsor rockets and managed to get off the ground only for two of the Dai Li agents to shoot several chunks of rocks at him which started to do some real damage to the armor as they knocked back down to the ground.
"Sir, armor intensity is now down to 52..." JARVIS informed as Tony interrupted.
"JARVIS, just leave it on the screen and stop telling me!"
Iron Man struggled to get up as the Dai Li closed in on him. "You will come with us now."
"No, you won't take me." Iron Man declared as he got on one knee.
"You are coming with us, dead or alive." The head Dai Li agent said just before a torrent of water knocked him off his feet. Everyone turned and saw Katara with her water she bended from her canteen hovering between her hands.
"Leave him alone!" She shouted as she sent more water at the Dai Li.
One Dai Li agent brought up an rock wall to block the the attack and another sent a pair of rock gloves at her which she evaded before she got hit. Katara looked around and saw that next to the crater that Iron Man made when he crashed was a river. She bended a large amount of water from it toward the Dai Li agent who had shot at her and froze him in a block of ice.
The Dai Li agent who put up the rock wall was about ready to send a chunk of rock at Katara when he got blasted off his feet by Iron Man's repulsor ray. Iron Man got to his feet and stood next to Katara ready to fight.
One Dai Li agent was frozen in ice, another was incompacitated while the remaining two stood ready as the head agent who had first recieved a bath from Katara's first attack got up and said, "Get them!"
Katara bended more water from the water and formed two water whips extending from her hands and whipped at one of the Dai Li agents who blocked by forming rock walls where ever she tried to attack while Iron Man shot repulsor rays at the other one who multi-tasked with forming rock walls and shooting rock chunks at him while trying to evade the repulsor rays.
The head Dai Li agent got to his feet and helped his fellow agents by jumping into the air and landing on the ground which sent an earth quake which the two Dai Li braced themselves for as it knock Iron Man and Katara off their feet.
The head Dai Li agent walked toward the two as the two incapicated agents broke free from the ice and shoot off the repulsor blast.
"Even with your combined efforts, you two are still outnumbered five-to-two. You don't stand a chance against the Dai Li." The head agent said right before he was hit on the head by what appeared to be a boomerang which flew back into the hand of Sokka.
"Then what do you say we even the odds?" The young warrior stated as he pulled out his club sword and took a fighting stance.
The Dai Li agent who had been fending off Katara was about to send a chunk of rock at the Water Tribesman when he felt a strong gust of wind hit him in the back and knocked him to the ground. The agents turned and saw Aang flying in on his glider and land neatly on the ground as Momo circled around them overhead.
The Dai Li agent who had been frozen held out his hands to launch his rock gloves when suddenly his hands started to hit chest and his face. The other agents turned and saw that Toph was apparently bended the rock gloves on his hands as she said with a grin on her face, "Why're you hittin' yourself?"
Iron Man and Katara got back to their feet and the five Dai Li agents found themselves surrounded by the four kids and Iron Man. The Dai Li never backed down from anything but they knew that the five of them alone didn't stand a chance.
"Quick, we must retreat." The had agent said before the Dai Li bended themselves into the ground and vanished.
"Where'd they go?" Iron Man asked.
"They knew they didn't stand a chance against us. They're attempting to escape underground." Toph said as she felt the earth for vibrations.
"That's right, we won! Run you cowards!" Sokka exclaimed enthusiastically.
"How did you guys find us?" Katara asked.
Aang replied, "We went looking for you after you left and Than, Ying and her sister told us you came here looking for Iron Man."
"Those five guys shot me out of the sky while I was flying around. They were trying to arrest me for 'disturbing the peace'." Iron Man explained.
Katara approached him and said, "Iron Man, I understand that you may like working alone but you don't know what this world is like. There's a war going on here and everyone isn't safe until Aang puts an end to it, and we could really use your help."
Tony took a moment to think about his options. The fact that there was a war going on didn't make matters any easier for him and given that he didn't know much about this new world he would undoubtedly get hurt or killed if he tried to do it on his own.
"I guess you're right, I'm better off sticking with you guys until I can find a way back home."
"Okay, now that that's all settled I just gotta ask... who are you behind that armor?" Sokka demanded.
Tony figured this guy wasn't going to accept him unless they knew and given what they did, he felt he could trust them so it couldn't hurt to tell them.
Iron Man's yellow face piece shifted and everyone saw a young man around Sokka's age with short dark hair and a sheepish expression.
"Uh, were you expecting Anakin Skywalker?" Tony quipped.
X X X
Meanwhile in a forest a short distance away from the walls of Ba Sing Se, Fire Princess Azula and her friends Mai and Ty-Lee as well as a few Fire Nation Soldiers were currently leading the defeated Kyoshi Warriors to the nearest Fire Nation port to ship them off to a Fire Nation Prison. Just before the their battle with the Kyoshi Warriors they she had seen them aiding the Avatar's Sky Bison. During the ensuing battle, the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors, Suki, had chased the Sky Bison off before she could capture it and use it to capture the Avatar.
Her plan to use it as bait to capture the Avatar may have been foiled but she had another plan in mind at the moment. As soon as they got the prisoners to a Fire Nation Port, she was planning to take their uniforms and enter Ba Sing Se impersonating as Kyoshi Warriors and slowly take over the city from the inside. Maybe while she's inside, she'll find the Avatar and then capture him.
As they continued walking, a sphere of light shined right in front of them. Once it disappated, both the Kyoshi Warriors and the Fire Nation were amazed by the sight of a man standing tall in a black suit of armor that showed no inch of skin. His very presence sent shivers down the spine of everyone except Azula.
"Who are you?" Azula asked calmly.
"Call me the Mandarin." The man replied in a deep menacing voice.
"I am Azula, Crown Princess of the Fire Nation, and as such I demand to know what you are doing here."
"I watched your confrontation with these warriors earlier. I understand your looking for someone known as the Avatar, if I may ask, who is this Avatar that you seek?" The Mandarin asked.
"He a young bald airbender with arrow-head tatoos on his body. Have you seen him?"
"As a matter of fact, I have. He and his friends gave me a bit of trouble when I first arrived in this strange world of yours and it just so happens that they've allied themselves with my enemy, a person known as Iron Man." The Mandarin explained.
"Hmm, who is this Iron Man." Azula asked with intrigue.
"He is scientific genious named Tony Stark who wears a suit of armor that can challenge my own power. He seeks to stop me from achieving my goal to claim the ten Makluan Rings which rightfully belong to me. The sixth ring I've acquired I believe is what brought me and Iron Man here and I need Tony Stark alive to help me figure out how to get back to my own world. I'm here to offer you a deal, you help me defeat and capture Iron Man and in return I'll help you defeat and capture the Avatar."
Azula was intrigued by this new development before her. She finds a man claiming to be from a differnet world with more power than she thought possible and he is offering to help her capture the Avatar. As much as she wanted to capture the Avatar herself, her past failures suggested that she accepted his offer.
"How about a counter offer, I help you defeat and capture this Iron Man person and in return you help defeat and capture the Avatar and you take me to this world of yours."
"You wish to leave your world for another? It is likely you will not return." The Mandarin stated.
"Yeah, Azula," Ty-Lee said with concern for friend. "What if you can't return?"
"I've always been more curious than cautious." Azula responded.
"Let her do what she wants, Ty-Lee," Mai said in a dull tone. "We're not her parents."
The Mandarin extended his hand and said, "Then we have a deal?"
"Deal." Azula said as she took it.
{Cue Avatar Ending Theme}
Author's Note: Two great Nicktoon shows put together in one. You're all probably wondering how Iron Man is going to be in one world and not be able to help his own, I'll get to that in the next chapter. Also Iron Man and Mandarin's presence in the Four Nations will slightly alter events from the original series. Just so you all know, this first chapter took me a while to put up so it'll take time for the next but rest assured that I will update and not let it go without finishing it.
Next Chapter: A City of Walls and Secrets