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[TONY]

Finally JARVIS was back online.

"JARVIS how are we?" I asked. I needed status reports, I needed something to hold onto right now.

"It's totally fine sire. I seem to do quite well for a streth and then at the end of the sentence I say the wrong cranberry." OH dear Lord.

"And sir you were right. Once I factored in available AIM dowlink facilities I was able to pinpoint the Mandarin's broadcast signal."

"Ok ok that's good. What are we talking? Far East, Europe. North Afric, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, where is it?" I asked. Fiddling with the phone was doing something but in my head I was going over what I would nee. Most especially the suit. I started speeding the car faster.

"Actually sir, its in Miami." I stopped the car.

"Ok. Kid!" At least I had Harley to help me. But he made me miss Addy even more.

"Kid. I'm gonna have to walk you through rebooting JARVIS' speech drive, but not right now. Harley, where is he really? Just look on the screen and tell me where it is." I said.

I heard him shuffle over.

"Uh…it does say Miami, Florida." Well I'll be damned.

Okay, first things first, I need the armor. Where are we at with it?" I asked.

"Uh…its not charging." WHAT?!

"Actually sir" JARVIS began to correct. "It is charging, but the power source is questionable. It may not succeed in revitalizing the Mark 42."

"What is questionable about electricity? Ok. Ok. I'm calm. Give me status reports of Addy and Pepper."

"Miss Pepper's blood pressure is slightly elevated." Figures. I'll treat her like a queen after what I put her through.

"Miss Addy's heart rate is dangerously high sir. Her blood level has dropped significantly and her levels are dangerous. I believe she has been gravely injured."

W-What…I felt my chest tighten and I suddenly couldn't breathe. I struggled to open the car and fell out, trying to gasp for breath as tears filled my vision.

"Addy…" I whimpered. I was a mess to say the least.

"Tony? Tony are you having another attack?" I heard Harley ask.

"No…Maybe…But its worse kid." I began to curl in a ball, gasping for air.

"My baby… what – what am I gonna do?"

"Just breathe. Really, just breathe. You're a mechanic, right? You said so." Harley asked

"Yeah I did" I managed to get out, slowly starting to calm down.

"Why don't you build something?"

And in that moment a sense of calm came over me before the anger set in. Someone had hurt my Addy. I will kill them all.

[ADRIAN]

When I woke, it was slow. Slower than any point in my life. And I felt like I was pulsing. Something was crusted on my right eye. But I didn't want to open them anyway. My head hurt so much and I felt so sleepy.

Where am I? What happened?

"dy…Addy!" Who was that? Couldn't be Aunt Petunia.

Did Uncle punish me for being bad again? That must be it.

Oh it hurt so bad. My mind was…blank.

I felt like I should remember something. What is it?

"…dy!...wake up…baby…Papa…coming…" there was the woman again. Papa? Coming?

My parents are dead. I don't have a Papa.

I tried sensing what was around me. I wasn't in my cupboard, I was on something metal. And I felt something wrapped around me head.

I smelled blood. My blood?

"wish…didn't…this…Pepper" this was a man. This wasn't Uncle either.

Who was Pepper?

"…monster" the woman said.

"I…innovation" the man replied.

I tried to hear more words but it was so hard. I was going in and out. What did Uncle do?

"You shot her!" the woman said. That I heard.

Shot. Gun. The person shot someone. Was it me?

"Don't…personally…incentive" the man said.

Another wave of pain hit me and I felt a groan make its way from me.

"Addy!" the woman cried. The man laughed.

"Let's see…Stark…both of you…" what?

Then the woman began to scream. And I couldn't do anything about it.

[TONY]

Coming into this place, guns blazing but no suit might not have been my best idea. Although I can't say this is the first time I have been ziptied to a bed. Although I would really like to slap some sense into Maya right now.

"You know what my old man used to say to me? One of his favorite of many sayings, 'The earl bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." I heard Killian enter from behind. I could hear the squeaky wheels of a cart being pushed.

"You're not still pissed about the Switzerland thing, are you?" I snarked. He came into my vision with his hands in his pockets. Cocky son of a bitch.

"How can I be pissed at you Tony? I'm here to thank you. You gave me the greatest gift that anybody's ever given me. Desperation. Now I give the same to you." He said, with a smirk on his face.

He walked back and pulled the cart forward.

"NO!" I screamed, trying to claw the zip ties off of me. Tears pooled my eyes.

For there was my little Addy on that metal table. With bloody bandages wrapped around her head. Her little body so broken. They shot my baby.

"Oh calm down, I didn't 'shoot her' shoot her. She's only grazed…ish." He mused.

"If you think back to Switzerland, you said you'd meet me on the rooftop, right?" He continued, watching me struggle and claw. Maya only looked on sadly. Why not help me?!

"Well for the first twenty minutes, I actually thought you'd show up. And the next hour, I…well I considered taking that one step shortcut to the lobby, if you know what I mean." He explained.

"I'll kill you, you son of a bitch!" I shouted, cuts on my wrists forming from the zip ties.

"As I looked out over that city, nobody knew I was there, nobody could see me, no one was even looking. I had a thought that would guide me for years to come. Anonymity, Tony. Thanks to you, it's been my mantra ever since, right? You simply rule from behind the scenes. Because the second you give evil a face, a Bin Laden, a Gaddafi, The Mandarin, you hand the people a target." He finished. Then he gestured to Addy.

"And this little thing? She packs a solid punch. I didn't realize you had a mutant kid too! Way to pick the best of the gene pools." He mockingly praised. I was panting, glaring at him and wanting to claw his eyes out.

"I have a second desperate gift to give you." He said, pulling out these three balls and throwing them on the floor.

Oh God. Pepper. Strapped to a table and she was crying.

"Now, this is live. I'm not sure if you can tell, but at this moment the body is trying to decide whether to accept Extremis or just give up." Killian mocked.

She was glowing orange and she was in such pain. The tears were streaming and I did not care if I looked like a fool or desperate, I was.

[ADDY]

The man took me somewhere. Somewhere with another woman and another man. I liked the second man's voice.

It reminded me that there was something that I should remember.

Then the gunshot came.

Papa. Mama. The Mandarin. The Avengers. Uncle Loki. Uncle Bruce. Uncle Thor. The gunshot.

Oh God. I got shot. I felt my magic so dim inside of me, but I couldn't reach it. It made my head pulse which wasn't a good idea.

"You're a maniac." Papa said.

"No…visionary…own a maniac…the stage tonight." Killian finished before I felt my table be pulled away.

"Papa…"