Transformers Prime: Armored Adventures
Tony Stark is a teenage prodigy. His father, Howard Stark, was the CEO of Stark International, a company whose sole purpose was to create more advanced and beneficial technology. At first, Stark International started out as the world's leading supplier of weapons, but Howard shut the weapons division down the day his son was born (much to the displeasure of Howard's vice president, Obadiah Stane). Sixteen years later, Howard discovered an ancient Chinese temple in New Jersey, and one of the five Makluan Rings, which he believed was an ancient form of technology more advanced than what we have today. At the same time, his son Tony had built a high-tech suit of armor. Tony kept the armor a secret from everyone except his best friend Rhodey. On the day that Tony was going to show his father the armor, tragedy struck. The plane that was carrying Tony and his father in crashed. Tony miraculously survived, but his father was presumed dead, even though his body was never found. Despite surviving the crash, Tony's heart was severely damaged, forcing Tony to wear a heart monitor that needed to be recharged routinely. Stark International was given over to Obadiah Stane, who restarted the weapons division and turned many of Tony's and his father's inventions into weapons. Angered by this, Tony donned his suit of armor and decided to spy on Stane. However, during his stake out, a runaway train was heading for Stark Tower. Tony switched the tracks and stopped the train from crashing into the building, but it went onto an unfinished track that lead into the heart of New York City. Thanks to his armor, Tony was able to stop the train and save thousands of people. The city commended their new armored hero and gave him the name Iron Man, a name that Tony decided to use in his new mission to protect the city and save Stark International from itself. Days later, Iron Man saved the city from the Earth Mover, a machine invented by Tony that was designed to help people, but was turned into a weapon by Stane. Moments after the battle, Iron Man encountered the Mandarin, an armored figure that wore the Makluan Ring found by Tony's father. The Mandarin also had another ring that allowed him to conjure lightning and teleport. Tony knew that if he was going to discover the mystery surrounding the plane crash and his father's supposed death, he had to find the other Makluan Rings. In addition to that, he had to deal with Stane even more because, due to the technological advancements of the Iron Man armor, Stane wanted it to reverse engineer it and make his own Iron Man for profit, but Tony and his friends Rhodey and Pepper are not going to let that happen. Now Tony and his friends must not only face the Mandarin and other enemies, but soon they will be swept into a war that will determine the entire fate of Human Kind.
Chapter 1: A Break In At Stark International
Tony, Rhodey, and Pepper walk into the Armory that Tony built. Pepper's mouth drops, since it's the first time she's seen the Armory.
"Wow!" Pepper said with astonishment, "this is the Armory? This is too cool! Is this where you guys go to after school? How come you guys have never told me about this place? Or that you were really Iron Man, Tony?"
"Like I said before, Pepper," Tony started, "I wanted to tell you, but you never stopped talking long enough for me to tell you!"
"Well I never," Pepper said, "Wait! Really?!"
It has been two weeks after his fight with Whiplash, but Tony's double life has not gotten any easier. Tony had to tell Pepper that he was really Iron Man, but she never left him alone about it after that.
All of a sudden, the alarm sounded.
"Alert," the Armory's AI computer stated, "robbery in progress. Location: Stark International Headquarters."
"What!" Tony shouted as he rushed over to the computer screen, "Computer, show me the security footage in the vault!"
"Error," The computer said, "cannot comply. External source tampering with the security system of Stark Tower."
"It can only be Mr. Fix," Tony said.
"Do you think he knows you're Iron Man?" Rhodey asked.
"I don't know," Tony said, "but there's no one else I know of who can do that."
"I think I know what this means," Pepper said gleefully.
With that, Tony suited up as Iron Man and flew off to Stark Tower to see what the problem was. Moments later, Iron Man arrived at Stark International. The police were already there, but the building security wouldn't let anyone in during the evacuation.
"What's going on here?" Iron Man asked through his voice disguiser.
"None of your business, Iron Man," said O'Brian, the head of security.
"It's my business if people are hurt," Iron Man stated, "now let me through."
"Iron Man!" said a voice from the crowd of people being evacuated, that came from none other than Obadiah Stane, "I can let you in, on one condition. Give me that armor you're wearing."
Behind his helmet's mask, Tony gave a look of absolute disgust.
"No!" he said, "I'll never give you this armor, Stane! Not even if…"
Before Tony could continue his sentence, an explosion occurred about a hundred feet from where they were standing. Luckily, no one was hurt. All of a sudden, two identical purple sports cars zoomed out of the hole in the wall. They both bore a sinister-looking symbol on their front bumpers.
"Hey, Stop!" Iron Man shouted as the cars sped off, "I gotta go, Stane, but don't worry, we're not done here."
Iron Man activated his armor's roller-skates and sped off at full speed, while Stane stood there thinking to himself 'where did those cars come from?'
Iron Man caught up to the cars, trying to see who was driving them, but the windows and windshields were so dark that he couldn't see into them.
"Hey!" he shouted, "Pull over!"
One of the cars tried to ram him off the road, but Iron Man got out of the way in time. He then contacted the Armory.
"Are you guys seeing this?!" Tony asked.
"Yeah, man. We're seeing it," said Rhodey, "What is with those cars?"
"Maybe the robbers stole them from Stark International," Pepper said.
"I don't know Pepper," Tony said, "I cross-referenced the word car with the Stark International database, and there is no reference of them ever receiving or even building any kind of cars."
"Radio communication detected," said the Armory's computer, which was linked to the Iron Man Armor, "Source, unknown."
"Wait a minute," Tony said, "my onboard screen says the radio communication is being received, by the cars? Computer, try to hack into the cars' radios and play everything going on between the cars and the external source."
"Hacking successful," the computer said, "now playing live radio communication."
Tony heard two voices over the radio.
"Commander Starscream, package secure," said the first voice, "But we are being pursued by the one known as Iron Man."
"Well! What are you waiting for?!" said the second voice, which sounded both evil and irritated, "Destroy him! And do I really need to remind you that it's Lord Starscream!"
"Sorry, sir," said the first voice again, "won't happen again."
All of a sudden, the two cars slowed down until they were behind Iron Man. Two advanced looking guns extended from the hoods of each car, each gun above the headlights. The guns were aimed right at Iron Man.
"WHAT?!" Tony said, "GUNS?!"
The barrels of the guns began to glow purple until red plasma began to shoot out of them. Iron Man used his skates and began to dodge each shot. He began to skate backwards and fired his repulsors at the cars, but they didn't even leave a scratch.
"I don't believe this!" Tony said, "What kind of cars are these?!"
"Tony," Rhodey said from the Armory, "You've got get out of there! Your heart needs a recharge in a few minutes!"
"I can't, Rhodey," Tony said, "I've got to lure these cars away from the city. There are too many people in danger."
As Iron Man sped down the road, the two cars still shooting at him, something unexpected happened. A flash of near-blinding green light occurred in one of the alleyways. Tony looked back and saw a large, red and blue, long nosed semi-trailer truck (without the trailer) zoom out of the alley where the flash of light appeared. It sped up to the cars and knocked them onto their backs. It then sped up to Iron Man and got next to him. Tony thought it was going to knock him off the road too, but instead the truck's driver's seat door opened, and much to Tony's surprise, there was no one driving it. It was driving itself!
"Are you guys seeing this?" Tony said.
"Yeah, we see it," Rhodey said, "but we don't believe it."
Then Tony thought he heard a voice come from the truck.
"Get in," the voice said, "Hurry!"
"What do you think I should do, Guys?" Tony asked his friends over the COM link.
"GET IN THE TRUCK!" Pepper shouted, "If it saved you from those cars then it might be friendly!"
"Okay," Tony said as he jumped into the passenger's seat of the truck.
"Put your hands on the steering wheel," The voice said again, "Your armor will sync up to me."
"Okay," Iron Man said hesitantly.
The truck then displayed everything from the armor's hub on its windshield.
"If you can see this, then I would like to go here" Iron Man said as he gave the truck a GPS guide to Rhodey's house.
The truck then began to follow the directions indicated. Tony knew that whoever or whatever those cars were, he knew that the truck had something to do with them. He also knew that it wasn't over yet.
End of Chapter 1. Next Update: Chapter 2: Robots in Disguise
Me: Well, here's my first story. Not much fighting in this chapter, but there will be in the next chapter. Please R&R, but please don't be mean to me. I will take suggestions from my readers on how I can write this story.