50 Shades of Tony
By Rey

Chapter 22
Tony stark and the Collective Attempts to Douse the Proverbial Fire

Warning for:
General: Heavy Teens: Canon-Typical Violence

Isla Nublar, Costa Rica, End of October 2015

532. Survey
Encased in his toughest, fastest Iron Man suit, if rather lacking in spiffy firepower, Tony surveys the carnage of the island-park below him, wide-eyed. The zoo combo has been open for only 6 months and it's a kill-zone now. Then, JARVIS points him out to the culprit of it all….

533. Impoverished
"Dennis Nedry," Tony growls, as he dangles the fat slob by one forearm and the neck, tens of feet above the road the slob sped along in an – unfortunately for Nedry – an open-top jeep. "What did you have in your impoverished mind when you thought of this 'bright' idea, huh?"

534. Touch
Tony drops Nedry in Tasha's care, saying, "Give this one your bestest touch, will ya? Highest priority." Then he's back in the kill-zone, helping herd the hapless visitors and park employees away from the dinosaurs and vice versa. "J, some help here. Break out the Iron Legion. Herding-and-guarding mode."

535. Select
The veloceraptors seem to target select people, Tony notes, as he does his damnedest best to guard the latters and shoo the formers to the dino-fall-back jungle. `If only Voðen's here. The animal whisperer.` But Fié'll kill him if he dared bring Voðen here, damn the enmity; he knows that.

536. Simple
There's a simple, preferable solution for the catastrophe, the military – as shareholder – says: nuke the island and its inhabitants, "to prevent the dinosaurs from reaching mainland." Tony can't believe it! `This again! Since when does nuking things become the prefered method? Since when do warheads become so simple and cheap?``

537. Furnace
The island-park is powered by geothermal energy, and the plant there's the first sabotaged thing among so many. "Nedry's been doing this for a long time," Tony grumbles as he steels himself and dives close to the river of magma to repair the intake pipes. "Damn. It's a furnace here!"

538. Slice
A precise slice on one of the sturdy intake pipes is all the evidence that Tony needs to prove the sabotage. He gets JARVIS to photograph it through the HUD, repairs it, then skedaddles back to blessedly cooler air, if no less dangerous. "Now, where shall we go, J?"

539. All In All
Half of the island-park's employees and visitors are dead or injured from the sabotage, all in all. Mostly those who are too in-the-open to dive into the nearest bunker, too 'confident' or 'dedicated' to do so, or directly in the path of a stampeed or a dino's claws and/or teeth.

540. Carve
Dennis Nedry turns out to have been bought by BioSyn, InGen's rival and one of HYDRA's front companies. "We can carve out HYDRA once and for all with this momentum, with the right strategy," Tasha proclaims, supremely satisfied. Tony stares, disturbed by how blasé she is with all the deaths.

541. Rush
Tasha rushes to implement the plan she's cooked up before Tony can ask about her apparent callousness. But that's maybe for the best, because he's just remembered that she was made by a branch of HYDRA, once, and total personal detachment is one of the atributes left from that time.

Wakanda, November 2015

542. Supply
Dennis Nedry goes to court, and all data about HYDRA is released to the world, supplied by Nedry himself, Tony, and the Avengers. Governments quake. SHIELD shatters. Earth goes into pieces, figuratively… but nearly literally. If JARVIS hadn't been quick enough, stopping various mass weapons from being launched….

543. Protect
"It's supposed to protect us all." It's the most remorseful feel that Tony ever gets from Tasha, as she sees the fruition of her plan, cooked up in what feels like forever ago. And indeed, now they're doing HYDRA's work, accidentally or not, he thinks, as the reports keep coming.

544. Visual
Tony's PR team, which has morphed into a PR media company some time ago, does their best in battling bad press on the Avengers, aided by the visual evidence of the latters' relief efforts. It feels fake, though, however true the footages and all are. Earth needs peace, not PR.

545. Alone
"You are not alone in trying to do good, you know, Mister Stark," T'Challa, the young King of Wakanda, succeeding his father who was killed in the Vienna bombing forever ago, says gently as his path crosses Tony's in the palace's main garden. "Wakanda can do more than shelter you."

546. Map
"It may be time for Wakanda to make itself known in the world," T'Challa declared. And so maps are spread, plans are laid out, resources are pooled and organised, and many Wakandans join the relief efforts. Not everyone like the King's decisions, though. Unrest threatens to blow into uprising.

Ýmirheim, Beginning of December 2015

547. Quiet
Tony steals a quiet moment to nest with his whole family in-between the planning, implementing, figurative and literal fire-dousing, and on-the-spot scrambling to battle unexpected problems. To achieve that, he bulldozes over the protocol and Fié's awkward distance, by snatching them right out of their throne in the audience chamber.

Stark Tower, Middle of December 2015

548. Interview
"That's not an interview but an interrogation, Nat," Tony remarks in resigned amusement when Tasha's finished 'interviewing' the new batch of the Avengers' relief-effort helps, after watching half of it through a security camera. But Clint's the one replying instead of her, huffing tiredly, half-heartedly, "Y'wanna labels or results, stark?"