Ok First of all thank you for the reviews! I've never had so many for one chapter in two days! So thank you!
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Just a warning. Im going on holiday tomorrow so I may not be able to update this that often for the next week. Sorry.
After his parents death Tony had made a new plan. He was going to save people from other idiots.
And so came the Red Eagle.
His costume was basically a bullet proof vest, strong trousers and a red helmet with metal feathers sticking up and a eagles face, including a beak, to conceal his identity. No one knew of his late night exploits, for that is the only time the Red Eagle would appear, except for him himself. Not even Pepper knew who the Red Eagle was. Only Tony.
He would fly around, looking for people to save, from old people in the road to stopping assassination attempts. It never seemed to end.
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Ten years after he met Pepper found Tony in his workshop, finishing a old Hot-Rod for vanity fair when Pepper came walking in.
She was on the phone and had turnt the genius' music down to his utter disappointment.
"You are supposed to be half-way around the world right now." She said putting the mobile back into her pocket.
"Funny, I thought that it being my plane, it would wait for me." He snarked back, turning so that his wings (for he was not wearing his trench coat) were facing the expensive car.
They carried on the banter for a few minutes, before Pepper shooed him upstairs to get changed.
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Once Tony had finally got to the plane, flew over to Afghanistan shown off and called Obi he was back in the 'Funvee' as he had said to Rhodes, who had gone in the 'Humdrumvee'.
He was easily conversating with the soldiers in the 'funvee' when it happened. The explosion of the other vehicle rocked the 'not-so-fun-anymorevee' as the front two soldiers leapt out the vehicle and started shooting at the opposition.
When they were suddenly shot down the one to his left, Jimmy, yelled at him to stay where he was before trampsing out from the safety off the Humvee, and getting suddenly shot.
Feeling like there was no hope left, Tony nearly fell out the door and ran over to a nearby boulder, where he quickly brought out his Stark phone and began to quickly text Pepper. He was only halfway through texting her, when a bomb, which his name literally on it, flew down and half buried itself in the sand before him.
He scrambled away, but the bomb nearly blew up in his face as he was thrown backward.
Feeling a pain in his chest he tore his shirt and cursed, the blood wasn't good.
Not good at all.
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When he next fully awoke, all he could see was a rocky ceiling. There was a slight tingling in his nose as he reached up and pulled a breathing tube out.
His throat was as dry as the Sahara Desert, or that was what it felt like anyway, so he reached over toward a bottle that Tony was sure contained a liquid of some sort. He stopped when he felt a pull at his chest and a odd squeaking sound behind him.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you."
He had forgotten about the man, who was casually shaving in a small mirror. Turning around Tony saw a old car battery, the wires travelling toward his chest area. Panicking now, he tore at the bandages, trying to work out what it was that terrified him so much.
Ten minutes later Tony and the man (for he still didn't know his name) who were talking about the electro magnet in his chest keeping the shrapnel away from his heart. Tony was sat on the bed, if that's what you would call it, his wings billowing over the opposite side so he didn't sit on them.
He jumped up when a loud knocking and shouting sounded, and did as the man did, placing his hands behind his head in a sure sign of surrender.
The men who walked in carried guns, Stark guns Tony realized, save from the one at the front who told him he had to build the missile, or else there would be consequences.
Tony said no.
They tortured him to say yes. They water boarded him, whipped him though the worst was yet to come. It was more of a precaution so that he couldn't escape.
They cut off his wings.
With a blow-torch.
The pain was immense, the sheer agony flowing through him like waves on a beach. There was no blood, the blow-torch cauterized the wounds, but the pain was still there.
He would fly no more.
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But now Tony was mad.
He, and his friend would escape and Tony knew just how to do it. It took time but he created the minitureised Arc Reactor, that would both keep his heart going and save both him and Yinsen (as he had found out).
Beginning the work on the suit that Tony had planned, they worked efficiently and if the Rings never noticed their work was not a Jericho missile, then they were in for a surprise.
Their deadline for escape bumped up when the obvious leader marched in and almost killed Yinsen to get the information out of him. That was the first time Tony saved him.
That day and night they worked their asses off as they worked to escape. Then the moment came the next morning when Tony was put into the suit and booted up, whist Yinsen (against the plan) tried to make time for the Stark.
Tony was waiting impatiently for the armor to boot up. It seemed to be taking forever, and that was a problem. All he could hear was gun fire, and he hoped Yinsen was ok.
Finally it booted up and the lights went out dramatically. The suit had taken all the power in the caves.
He fought his way toward the entrance as Yinsen had taught him with how many steps. Finally as he neared the opening to the outside world, he saw him.
There was Yinsen, lead on a load of bags, that held God knows what, and bleeding to death.
"D-dont waste y-your life Stark." Were his last words and after that what heppened next came in a blur. He burnt down his own weapons, and consequently the men inside, but Tony didn't care. He had to get away.
He activated the rocket boosters, though they didn't take him as far as he wanted, but he had gotten away.
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After Rhodey found him, the press conference,talking with Obadiah Stane and getting Pepper to place the new Arc Reactor, Tony began working on the suit.
This one would be less chunky and more high-tech than the mark I. Though the first time he took it out he was excited to be flying again but it just didn't feel the same.
He couldn't feel the air swishing past him, he couldn't hear it either. He was utterly grounded now. The Red Eagle was dead.
He flew higher, wondering if the suit could fly as high as he used to be able to, but it froze up before he reached the height. He landed through the roof, and told Jarvis to create a new one out of the Gold-Titanium alloy and to render it with hot-rod red. The colors were a reminder of his once glorious wings.
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Three days later found him fighting Obadiah Stane, in his Iron Monger suit. The armor was huge and bulky and when Tony had took off the helmet and one of the repulsors(which he now felt quite stupid for), he had no choice but to tell Pepper to overload the big Arc Reactor below and use his claws, which had manifested in his rage when his parents had died, to cling on to Stanes suit and rip out the wires that looked important.
The fight was over after the Iron Monger fell to his death in the Arc Reactor which exploded in fiery colors.
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"I am Iron Man"
Maybe he shouldn't of told everyone his identity but people couldn't moan about how he had stopped making weapons anymore, so that was a good side to this dark time.
But now Tony was being poisoned by the very device keeping him alive. He had a small healing factor and that probably gave him more time than he should of had, but he was still dying and, after giving the company over to Pepper, almost being killed in Monaco and getting so drunk that he blew up most of his house, he finally felt ready to give up.
But Fury just had to jump in.
So now he was fighting Vanko, along side Rhodey in the War Machine armor and he was fine. The Palladium had been replaced by a new element that his father had found years ago but kept secret, as if he knew it would save his sons life in years to come.
But they beat Vanko, saved everyone and Tony managed to get Pepper to finally be his girlfriend.
And now Tony was a consultant for Shields Avengers.
Great. Just great.