Pepper: Hey awesome people! I'm here to sa—
Me: OH, NO you are NOT. That would be MY job.
Pepper: Aawww….party pooper. *pouts*
Me: Thank you, I know I am. Anyways, I kinda forgot what my summary was, so it's gonna go better with it now if it didn't before. (:
Tony landed at Gene's "house", bursting through a wall, carelessly.
"OK, I'm here. Let's get this over with. What do you want?" Tony demanded, wanting to leave as soon as possible.
Don't do this Gene…..he's your friend. Stop using him. A voice in Gene's head tried to convince him.
"NO….no….no way….I won't stop…" Gene murmured to himself.
"Excuse me?" Tony responded, confused.
"N-nothing. Let's just get on with it." Gene lead Tony into a dark room, to make the deal. The room instantly lit up when the two walked in. Gene stopped Tony at a table with 5 rings on it.
"Here's the deal. Don't get any ideas, leave the rings on the table. See, after our little journey to The Temple of Fing Fang Foom, (A/N: I don't know what the temple is called, so for now I call it that.) I came back here, and got mad. When I tossed my rings across the floor, they formed a map. I set up the rings just the way they landed, leaving one little piece out, so I could show you." Gene reached to put the last ring in place. They formed a line, and the last one hit the floor. The map of earth popped up, and the locations of five more rings popped up on the map. Tony was amazed. He stood there with wide eyes and a gaping mouth. He closed it, even though he knew he was wearing a mask. He opened the mask.
"There's 10 rings?" Tony asked, shocked. Suddenly, a voice came on his intercom.
"Tony, man, what are you doing?" Rhodey piped in.
"Nothing, Rhodey, get off the com systems." Rhodey simply did as he was told, because he did not want to get on Tony's bad side right now.
"Well, what do you want me to do now?" Tony asked, getting to the point.
"I want you to duplicate this hologram for me. After all, you're the genius, not me." Gene commanded, almost politely. Tony stopped to think about the task. He certainly didn't want Gene to find all ten rings, but he wanted his dad back. He didn't really want to fight, either. Tony turned his armor I back to a backpack, and answered.
"Fine, I'll do it. But you have to swear you'll give me my dad back." Tony demanded, accepting such a simple task.
"Fine, whatever, he's no use to me now." Gene accepted terms.
"Well, assuming you're not lying, I'll need those rings set up exactly the way they are, but in a laboratory. And since you blew mine up, that means you'll have to help me get a new one. Or one I can use temporarily." Tony demanded once again. Gene got an idea.
"Well is demanding use of Stark International's lab good enough for you?" Gene asked, smiling.
"Fine, whatever." Then Gene nodded, put his rings back on, and told Tony to go to Stark International. Tony got back into Iron Man, and flew there, behind Gene. When they got there, Gene demanded use of their lab by Tony Stark. Tony appeared in the building as Tony, not Iron Man. He explained that he was doing something for the Mandarin, and under pressure, Stane let him. Tony walked into his old lab, and asked for the rings.
"Put them the way they just were, and then leave me to my work." Tony spoke another demand. Gene did as told quietly. Tony went to work on a hologram. About a half an hour later, Tony was done. He handed Gene a small round contraption, and showed him how to use it. He thanked Tony, and the two went back to Gene's little temple (thing….don't know what it's called….) and Gene showed Tony the cell with his father in it. Tony dared himself to look in. When he saw who was sitting there, he was shocked.
"Dad?" Tony asked, flatly. Gene unlocked the caged door, and allowed Howard to walk out. Gene walked away and told Tony to leave anytime.
"Son!" Howard shouted back. The two stared for a minute, and then hugged. Tony offered to bring his father to his room, and the two walked out.
As Tony was walking down the cold December street, he thought he saw someone following him from the other side of the street. He could only see the person between passing cars, so he wasn't sure who it was. He decided to ignore it and keep walking. Tony lead Howard to the door, but as he was reaching to open it, someone else managed to beat him to it…..
"Tony, where have you be--..." Mrs. Rhodes started, but never finished, because of who she noticed was with him.
"Well, it's kind of a long story…you might want to sit down first." Tony agreed to explain the day's events. The three went to go sit down, joined by Rhodey.
"Well, it all started yesterday, when…" Tony started off. About ten minutes later, he finally finished.
"….And here we are." Tony finished.
"So you mean to tell me that your friend, Gene, is evil. And that he kidnapped your father, making you believe he died. And that you built a suit of super powered armor?" Roberta asked. Tony confirmed with a nod of his head. Roberta nodded. The room fell silent, and Tony got up and walked over to his room. Howard was sitting on Tony's bed, looking at the extra charger Tony installed to his room.
"Tony, why do you have this big of a charger?" Howard asked, confused.
"Oh, that. Well, when the plane crashed…………
Flashbackkkk!!! Wheoo (:
Tony walked over to a steel door, and entered the password for it. Before the door even had a chance to open, Tony saw a bright flash of light. He held his arms up in front of him, and backed up. He tried to run, but he was too late. The plane then exploded. When all the smoke cleared, Tony was laying on the ground, hurt. He reached towards a red metal arm, and slipped it over his own arm. He pushed himself towards that same detached door, and opened it. He reached inside it to find a matching red helmet, and put it on, with the rest of the armor.
"St-stark 02." Tony weakly stated into his armor.
"Detects damage to user's heart. Treatment in progress.
"Comp—computer….ta-" Tony squeezed his eyes for a moment.
"Take me to Rhodey." He completed, then the armor flew off.
About 2 hours later, Tony was in a room made of all Iron steel. Multiple robot arms are jabbing and drilling at a metal disk on Tony's chest.
Flashback endddd! Whoooottt(:
"Oh, so you're ok?" Howard commented.
"Yeah, totally normal. I just have to charge my implant when the battery runs low." Tony responded calmly.
"Well, as long as you remember. I guess it's ok with you." Howard accepted.
"Yeah, totally fine."
Later, Howard went to talk to Roberta while Tony went to hang out. Ever since Tony found Gene, he had forgotten about Christmas. Which was ok with him, because he hated Christmas. He walked into a cozy little café and met with Pepper there. They were still waiting for Rhodey to come.
"So, what happened after you left?" Pepper questioned, curiously.
"Well, I went to Gene's temple..place..and told him to give me my dad back. So after doing one little task for him, I now have my dad back." Tony explained.
"OH MY GOSH! Really?! That's awesome! Wait…then why aren't you like, I don't know, doing anything with him now?" Pepper responded, half yelling.
"Calm down, Pepper! I already did that. I told him the whole story, and now he's talking to Rhodey's mom for a while. Besides, just because I get my dad back doesn't mean I want to spend all my time with him. I still like to see you too." Tony smiled.
"Well I'm glad you're not crazy obsessed like you usually are. I still want to see your face too…" Pepper smiled. They sat in silence for a moment.
"Uhh, Tony…..wh-what…or, well I-I kinda…did you, or…" Pepper choked. She wanted to say it, but she didn't know how.
"What?" Tony responded, confused.\
"Well I kinda….uhh……wanted to talk about that, uhh, the whole mistletoe thing from the other day….." Pepper managed to get that out. Her face went red, as did Tony's.
"Oh…th-that….well, uhh, talk I guess?" Tony answered, nervous.
"W-well……..did you really want to or….was it, you know, just because it's a Christmas thing?" Pepper asked, intensely nervous.
"Oh….that…well, uhh…well you know i hate Christmas, so, you know…." Tony answered, yet without answering.
"Yah, hehe, uhh, me too……." They both seemed to kiss just because they wanted to.
"So, you wanted to kiss me?" Tony asked, wondering.
"Well, I think you wanted to kiss me too. So, doesn't that mean we…" Pepper responded, cleverly.
"That we like eachother?" Tony managed to say it perfectly.
"Yeah…that…well, I do…." Pepper responded, shyly.
"W-well, I do too…" Tony said, nervous. They both decided to smile. Then, Rhodey walked in the doors of the café and joined his friends.
"Hey guys, what did I miss?" Rhodey asked, joining.
"Oh, uhh, nothing, just, you know, talking, and stuff." Tony answered, sort of nervously. He blushed, as did Pepper. They then decided to proceed with the day.
*stands up and throws popcorn at my computer screen* Aahhh!! *spits out drink* What a chapterrrr. So awesomeee (: well I noticed that my summary said a mysterious person is following, so that will go more in-depth next chapter (: k reviewwsss!
