Hey everyone! Thank you so much for the amazing response! This chapter isn't too long but I wanted to get something up for you guys! Please enjoy and sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes!
"Good morning sir, its 7am. The weather in New York is 27 degrees with scattered clouds," JARVIS's voice rang throughout the dark room.
"Go away JARVIS. Not in the mood," Tony groaned in annoyance and buried his head deeper into his pillow.
"Sir you have a meeting with Miss Potts at 8am," the artificial Intelligence computer program replied.
"Screw the meeting," he muttered in irritation as he pulled himself out of bed. His bedroom door suddenly opened and his personal assistant, Virginia Potts, walked in.
"Screw the meeting? Wasn't it you that begged me to come?" Pepper teased, "Might it be because someone had a late night?".
"Woman you are way too loud," Tony ran his fingers through his tangled hair before he stood up and made his way out of the room.
"What are you doing?" Pepper followed after him.
"To take a shower. I need something to wake me up," he muttered, clearly still half asleep.
"Okay Tony. Don't fall asleep," Pepper laughed.
Tony stopped and looked over his shoulder, "Evil woman!".
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" Pepper sat down on Tony's white leather lounge.
"Oh yes. Picture this, the world's very first self-sustaining clean energy building created by Stark industries," Tony strolled across the titled floor towards the bar. He pulled out a bottle of wine and poured himself a glass.
"Really Tony? So early," Pepper shook her head in disbelief, "8:30 in the morning and your already drinking".
"Nothing wrong with a drink," Tony defended himself.
"Not when you're drinking every minute of when you're awake," Pepper stood up and walked over to him, taking his free hand in hers, "Tony you can talk to me. I'm here for you. What happened between us shouldn't have affected our friendship".
"Pepper, there's nothing to talk about. I'm fine. Extremely busy but fine. There's no reason to be concerned," Tony shook her hands off him, "So I'm thinking about creating a prototype and putting it in maybe...Las Vegas, no...somewhere in Texas, they like big things, no...maybe New York...yeah. I'll build the prototype in New York and we'll expand from there".
Pepper managed to conceal how much Tony's lack of response to their personal issues hurt her, "New York? Why there?".
"Because it's big and everyone will see it," Tony stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
Pepper chuckled, "Should have known that one".
Tony and Pepper had spent a long time discussing possible designs and ways to build Stark's newest creation. Eventually, they both settled on a structure that they both liked and Tony started working on how the building would work.
"Okay JARVIS, what's on today?" Tony asked as he continued to scribble down calculations.
"At 10:30am you have a meeting with Stark's board of directors. At 1pm you have a court appearance," Tony stopped his work.
"Again? I thought I told them already that I wasn't going to hand the suit over to the government. It's like I'm dealing with children…stupid children. This is why I don't like children," Tony sighed before taking a long sip of rum.
"Sir, they're not children".
"They may as well be," Tony finished off his rum, "Continue".
"At 2:45pm you have a press conference about your court appearance and at 3:30pm you are required to attend the annual Save the Innocence Charity Ball".
"Okay. So what's on the unofficial schedule?" Tony asked. A see-through blue screen appeared in front of him.
"Well sir, the meeting ends at 11:30am so you have 1 hour and 10 minutes to work on the new building before your court appearance. You won't be able to work on Project White Galaxy until after the charity ball," JARVIS explained. Tony stood up and walked over to his specially designed safe before putting a binder book out and placed everything related to his newest project in there. He locked the safe up and started flipping through the binder book labelled White Galaxy. There were pages and pages of mathematic equations and detailed writings of the project.
He stopped on the last page of his work, "Damn. I've almost cracked the secret to," Tony trailed off as he looked at the calculations in front of him.
"Oh well. There's a few hours I can use to work on this," Tony closed the book and started getting ready for the company's meeting.
"A few hours sir? You only have the time after the charity ball," JARVIS explained.
Tony chuckled, "And a boring meeting; a court hearing where I just sit there and listen to a bunch of idiots tell me what to do and whenever else I feel like it. Bye JARVIS".
"Good bye sir".
10:30am – Meeting with the Board of Directors
"Our overall profit has increased by 22% and the China, Russia and Germany markets have expressed interest in forming a contract with us over specialised weapons," a man in his late 50's read out from the paper he was holding, "I think we should. The companies interested are offering us millions of dollars. What's your view on this Mr Stark?".
"I'm not interested in any contracts or deals. Case closed," Tony replied without looking up from his notebook in front of him. The book contained several algebra calculations as well as various other complex equations. He almost had everything but he was missing something. What he was missing he wasn't quite sure yet.
"But Mr Stark, these countries are offering millions of dollars!" the man tried again.
"Who's the head of his company?" Tony asked.
"W-Well, you sir," the man stuttered.
"Exactly. I said no, it means no. Next," he went over his calculations again. What was he missing?
11:30pm – Working on the World's First Self-sustaining Clean Energy Building
"Why do I have to attend those meetings again?" Tony groaned as he finished drawing up the layout for the building.
"Because it's excepted of the CEO," Pepper retorted as she opened the safe, "You said to bring everything out right?".
"Yeah…anyway, but there so…boring and dull and did I mention boring?" He stood up and fed the drawing into the computer and a 3D model appeared in the middle of the room. Pepper walked over to the desk with a pile of papers and set them down.
"They may be boring but you have to go and pay attention. It's your business Tony. You need to know what's going on," Pepper walked over to the model and began examining it.
"I'm making a profit aren't I? That means I'm doing something right," Tony held out his hands, "Zoom into the energy layout". The model suddenly enlarged itself and a glowing cylinder appeared in its place. Tony moved his hands in all direction, pulling the tube apart bit by bit and readjusted sections.
"How long do you think I'll take to build?" Pepper asked as she looked over the blue prints, "There's a lot of work needing to be done".
Tony looked at her, "With me being involved, about a year". Pepper nodded in understanding and started shuffling through some documents on his desk when something caught her eye.
"Project White Galaxy?" she asked in confusion, "I wasn't aware we had more projects".
"We don't. It's a personal task," Tony replied.
Pepper stared reading the document, "What is it?".
"Project White Galaxy. Attempting to create a portal where we can communicate with species in far space," JARVIS explained.
"Communicate with aliens?" Pepper's eyes widened in shock, "Are you crazy? What if their hostile?".
"It doesn't matter because it doesn't work. I've tried everything I know and nothing works so it don't worry," Tony quickly calmed her.
Pepper sighed and ran a hand through her hair, "Well don't try to make it work. Tony, you are seriously crossing a boundary with this".
"Yes, yes. I told you already that it doesn't work," Tony muttered as he continued to look at the layout of the new building.
"Promise me," Pepper begged, "I know things went sour between us and yes that is partly my fault but I still care about you".
"I promise".
It was just after 9pm when Tony made it home.
"What a day! Those government morons and a function which would never end. I swear those charity balls keep getting longer each year," he groaned. Pouring himself some rum, he made his way to his work station. He still couldn't figure out the final piece to Project White Galaxy and it was started to really get on his nerves.
"What am I missing," he asked himself. Despite what Pepper said, Tony was determined to finish this. He had already spent months designing a machine capable of cutting through space to bring an image of another place and he didn't want all that hard work to go to waste. The calculations he was trying to do were the coordinates he would type into the machine. It had to be perfect otherwise who knows what would happen. Tony spent another 4 hours trying to figure out what to do when he finally gave in.
Tony stood up and made his way down the stairs to the basement, "Screw this! JARVIS, prepare the machine. We'll try these coordinates and see what happens".
"Yes sir," JARVIS replied. As Tony entered the basement, several lights turned on to reveal a large metal machine with thousands of wires and a long stick pointing out the front sitting in the middle of the room.
"The machine is ready to go once the coordinates have been put in," JARVIS said.
"Right, this shouldn't take long".
It was well pasted four in the morning when Tony finished making the adjustments to the machine.
"Well that was long then excepted…okay JARVIS, fire it up!" Tony ordered.
"Yes sir. Powering up commencing," JARVIS replied. The machine hummed to life and began to glow bright red before changing to orange than yellow. The yellow suddenly changed into green followed by blue and purple before changing back to red and repeated the colour change several times.
"What the hell?" Tony muttered. He was just able to tell JARVIS to shut it down when the machine turned white and started shaking.
"JARVIS cut the power supply!" Tony shouted.
"I've tried sir but the machine appears to be stealing energy from the main power supply," JARVIS explained. Suddenly, the machine turned back to normal and stopped shaking. Tony waited silently for a few moments, waiting for something to happen.
He sighed in exhaustion, "Looks like it back to the drawing board".
Abruptly, the machine hummed back to life and shot a black beam out. Tony jumped out of the way, causing the beam to hit a nearby mirror that was hanging on the wall. The black beam expanded and covered the mirror's glass before it disappeared. Tony watched in amusement as the glass started bubbling and the blackness reappeared again but this time, it appeared as a human figure.
"Oh crap. It worked," he whispered in disbelief as he stared at the man in the mirror. The man had slick black hair and pale white skin. He was wearing some form of dark coloured leather with green and black armour and his green eyes felt like they were piercing through Tony's soul.
The man glared at Tony, "Who are you? Why did you summon me?".
"He talks too," Tony muttered.
"Of course I talk you idiot. Now tell me who you are?" the man demanded.
A smirk appeared on Tony's face, "Mirror mirror on the wall, whose the most handsomest of them all?".
The man stared at him with a blank face, "What?".
Tony sighed, "You must be from another world if you don't know Snow White…or just incredibility stupid".
"I am not stupid you piece of trash. Now tell me who you are!" the man hissed.
"Fine, fine. Tony Stark," Tony sighed, "Who are you?".
"My name is Loki, son of Laufey and rightful king to Asgard".
Okay, so this takes place a year before the Avengers movie. I really wanted Loki and Tony to have a connection when the movie takes place so they have a year. Anyway, the next chapter should be up by Wednesday at the very latest.
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Ironfrost Question: Tony and Loki are out on a date, what would they be doing? (My friend and I were talking about this and we came up with some very, very interesting ideas).
