Back at the Malibu Mansion, Tony's work on Moar 48 seems to be wrapping up very quickly then expected due to discovering that Stane had find out about Lucy's powers and is planned on using its power to power up his own suit. By the time the suit was ready, Tony then suits up. It starts up by a couple of detachable housing unit of nanoparticles that or place above both his feet's, his hands, one on his chest and one over his head. Once ready, the units deploys the nanotech particles that covers up Stark's body into his new Mark 48. The ones on his feet covered his entire feet and worked over his legs as the ones on both his hands covered both his arms along with his his chestpiece that covers around his body as the one over his head assembles his helmet. Once finished, he checks the status on Mark 48.
Tony: All right, how's the suit's holding up?
Jarvis: All systems is running at 92%. Chestpiece is holding up the suit well enough. However, the new installment for ice defensive is at 68%. The armor will be able to take up a certain amount of ice magic, however if taken too much force from the ice powers, the suit will lose certain amount of control and some systems could potentially go offline. So please stay on alert when facing alongside the girl with her powers.
Tony: I got it all now Jarvis. Let's kickstart the thrusters and get Royal Woods quick! Gotta get to the kid before Obadiah or her family discovers her secret!
Tony starts up the repulsers on both his palms, and his feet as he flies out of his mansion and flies to the direction to where Royal Woods is.
Jarvis: Sir, should I try to come into contact to Ms. Potts?
Tony: Might as well.
As Jarvis, begins to call up Pepper, he starts worrying about Lucy as he wonders what's going on now in the Loud House. He only hopes that nothing has gone up. Back at Royal Woods, around the backyard of the Loud House, Lucy stealthily made her way back as she carefully tried not to be seen by anyone or be heard by. Once she came across her home, she hops over the fence and walks towards the back door. She remembers how she felt when see quickly ran through the kitchen after her entire family had seen her in her Blade form. Remembering it made her feel scared of how she'll bring herself up to explaining everything to them all. Upon placing her hand on the doorknob, she pauses for a brief moment before turning the knob. She almost expected the knob to come off as it's one of the typical things that happens around their house. But upon turning the knob to the full 90, she pulls the door open slowly, as she peeks into the open crack to see if anybody was in the kitchen. There was no one around the kitchen, so she open the door further as she walks inside. She remembers to close the door and locks it as her father made a big outgoing of her siblings not locking the door beforehand.
Lucy: Mom? Dad?
She called out her parents to see if they're here, but only to not hear anything.
Lucy: Lori? Leni? Luna? Lisa?
She walks passed the grownup table.
Lucy: Luan? Lincoln? Lana? Lynn?
She then arrives at the living room, she spots the stage where Luan was performing her magic tricks earlier with her. It made her remember that Lola had set up the entire act to get her secret out to everyone in the family. She walks up in front of the stage and steps on the shattered glass from the mirror she destroyed from one of the acts. She looks at the shattered glasses she her reflection. She takes a short sigh as she turns her head up.
Lucy: Sigh, I guess they must've gone out to look for me. Well, they have to come back at some point, might as well just wait for them to get back. It might as well give me time to think of a good explanation for all of this.
She then hears a vibration noise somewhere close to her. She investigates the noise to find her phone on the floor where she fell off the stage earlier before. She looks at the screen on phone to see the caller ID labeled to be her mother. She knew her mother must be trying to get to her by any means. She was a bit nervous about deciding whether to answer her mother's call or not. She knows that if she answers it, she would tell her that she's back home and will wait for everyone to come back and she be willing to explain everything that had happened to her before. But if she choose not to answer her call, her family would still be out there very long and late to the fact that they would all be very exhausted by the time they get back. Lucy knows that she doesn't want her entire family out in the streets looking for her as they're all unaware that she's back home. She had to answer her mother's call. She makes her way back to the couch as she thought to herself that when she answers her mother, she'll inform her that she's okay and that she is now back home, and she'll wait for everyone else to come back. And she promises that she'll explain everything. For the time as she waits for them to come back, she'll use the time she has to think of how to explain her new powers to her entire family well told of. She sits onto the as she still looks at her phone as her mom's caller ID is still displayed on her screen. She pauses for a short moment before accepting the call. Once she accepted the call, she places her phone close to her right ear as she was about to speak to her mother on the phone. But before she could say anything, a loud piercing noise buzzes around her as it makes her unable to move or speak. Her eyes widen as she hears the piercing noise. Thankful Rita, on the other side of the line, wasn't able to hear the noise but was trying to get an answer on the phone.
Rita: Hello? Lucy?... Lucy?
As Rita knew that the call went through but as she tried to get any answers from Lucy, a hand appears behind Lucy as it grabs her phone and hangs up on Rita. Turns out it appears to be Obadiah behind her as he is using his sonic taser to paralyze Lucy and hangs up on her mom's call to prevent anyone from knowing anything further. He has both his hands behind Lucy head as he gently leans her head back.
Obadiah: Breath. Easy, easy.
Once Lucy's head was laid on the couch cushions, her head is leaned towards Stane's left hand as she sees the the sonic taser he's holding.
Obadiah: You're probably wondering what this is? It one of Stark Industry's old toys. Has the ability to keep those who hear it immobile and unable to speak for a short amount time. Too bad it the government didn't approve if this, so many applications, you know the whole short time paralysis.
Once Stane shuts off the taser, he walks around the couch and grabs Lucy by the chin and turns her to face him.
Obadiah: Oh, Lucy.
He then takes off his earsets.
Obadiah: You're probably wondering what I'm doing here? I can answer you that, but I believe it better to tell you more about Tony's past. I can believe, he told much of, what he knew from his past. Being a selfish billionaire, getting captured and becoming the tin can hero today. But you probably would ever wonder, why did they attack the army that was escorting Tony back from Afghanistan? Well, I can fill out the remaining pieces of the puzzle. In real truth, I was the one who step up the hit on him that day.
Though she was unable move or speak, Lucy eyes widen in shock from Stane just told her.
Obadiah: But it turns out things went unexpectedly well after the event. Though he shut down all our weapons production, he continues to create his own weapons to put up on his suits he creates. For a long time, I have tried to get hands on his new weapons he's been developing, but he wise on keeping them away from me. But in time I was able to recover an older version of his suit. Though it's an older version, a little modifications should improve it. And it's not just him escaping that day wasn't the only good thing to come out from this, you coming around was one of them too.
While he was explaining Lucy everything, he grabs a device that was shaped much like Lucy's crystal and pulls back the crank begin it. He then places it onto Lucy's crystal and begins to drill into her chest as he's attempting to remove her crystal out from her chest. Lucy feels the tool drilling deep into her chest as she groans from the pain of the driller drilling into her chest. Once the drilling reached deeply into her crystal, she gacks from feeling the driller reached deeply into her chest. Stane then pulls out her crystal from her chest as Lucy watches in horror as she still is unable to move her body or stop him from taking it.
Obadiah: You happened to have the one and only golden egg.
Stane then looks directly at Lucy.
Obadiah: Do you think that if someone had an amazing idea, it's should belong to them? Or you having this incredible power, you believe that it should be kept hidden? Tony's dad, he helped give us the atomic bomb, on what kind of world it would be today if he was selfish as Tony is.
Stane turns the device around to face directly at the crystal.
Obadiah: Look at it. It's beautiful. Oh Lucy, this is your own legacy.
Stane sits down on the couch next to Lucy still holding her crystal admiring it with her.
Obadiah: Your own masterpiece. Look at it. This bring about a new legacy of weapons. I heard lots of different powers sources like a cube that can bring aliens to an entire city, a staff that can toy with people's mind, or a small reactor that can power up a suit to make himself all mighty. But with this, it will lead to new production of weapons of mass destruction. In the right hands.
Stane then grabs a suitcase that had a placeholder for Lucy's crystal inside that he could put in. He places it inside it as he closes up his case.
Obadiah: I'd really like for you to see my prototype of my own version of Tony's suit. Although it's much like his first made suit, with some modifications and your crystal, it should be able to outmatch all of his suit together. I'd like to thank your little pink sister for helping me get the last item I need. Suggesting the idea of getting your little secret out to your entire family to then cause you to run away in fear and have them all go out looking for you to then later have you come back when no one's around to give me the chance to take what's rightfully mine.
Lucy heard what Stane just then said as she expresses it by a shock reaction with eyes slightly widen.
Obadiah: Although it was part of the plan to get them to discover your secret, I afraid I can't let any of them live, knowing this secret. But don't worry, you all will be together as family real soon. Too bad Tony had to involve his girl into this, I really would've preferred she'd live.
Stane then gets up from the couch and walks out the loud house with the suitcase that has Lucy's crystal He closes the door and heads away. Meanwhile, Tony still was flying over many counties trying to get to Royal Woods and warn the Loud family about Stane. As he was flying to Royal Woods, he happens to be on contact with Pepper.
Tony: Pepper, is the facility at Royal Woods all clear out?
Pepper: Yes, Tony. I called out the head securities there and they managed to get everyone out on time. We're on our way to facility where I can bet that's where Obadiah is keeping his belongings at.
We now she Pepper walking with a couple of agents.
Tony: No, Pepper, don't go anywhere around there! You could get killed if he has own suit ready or something!
Pepper: I'll be fine, you just worry about the kid and her family. I gotta go.
Pepper enters a limousine with the other agents as she then hangs up on Tony before Tony could say anything back, leaving Tony angered.
Tony: Pepper listen me-, Pepper?! Ugh! Jarvis, how far are we from Royal Woods?
Jarvis: We are only about 2 states away Royal Woods, Michigan. Be length distance we may be there around to 8-10 minutes more.
Tony: Keep the thruster boosting.
Jarvis: Very well. And shall I try to get ahold of Ms. Loud?
Tony: Might as well.
Meanwhile, Lynn Sr. and the other third of his daughters' were now at the McBride's residence resting up as they were not able to spot any trace of where Lucy had ran of to. While the Loud family were in the living quarters of the McBride's, the McBride's walk in with snacks and beverages.
Harold: We're sorry that we weren't helpful into your search for one of your daughters, Mr. Loud.
Howard: But we can be assured that we and Clyde will do our best to help you on your search.
Clyde: You know it! Lincoln's my best friend so help out in any way I can!
Lynn Sr.: Thanks McBrides'.
Everyone began to settle down in the living room as a family movie goes on at the tv.
Howard: If you any of you won't mind, why did Lucy ran away from home.
Lynn Sr., Lori, Luna, Lana Lisa all looked at each other with unsureness on all of their faces. They all can tell that they weren't sure if they should let the McBride's know about Lucy's 'secret' or not. However, they knew the McBride's long enough to believe that they could trusted enough to know what really went on to Lucy. Lori first started the explanation.
Lori: Well, it's literally went like this...
Lori first went on to tell the earlier events that happened. She then gets a little tired from the beginning part so she then passes the story onto Luna, who question why she wants her to carry of the story, only for Lori to claim that she doesn't want Clyde to get unconscious from looking at her as they try to explain the situation. After hearing her, Luna decides to go on with telling the other part of the story. It follows to Lana, then Lisa continuing the story as Lynn Sr. finishes the story. The McBride's were all completely shocked to hear everything that happened.
Howard: Oh my, that is really terrible.
Harold: Indeed, the poor girl must've been very terrified to have that exposed to all of you.
Clyde: Yeah, I can see that in point view. But I never thought Lucy would actually get superpowers. I always believe Lincoln would been the one getting superpowers but this really a twist. Also, it's really surprising that she's actually the Ice Princess. But still, we'll do our best to help find Lucy.
Luna: Thanks Clyde.
Lana: Man, poor Lucy. We shouldn't have pressured her so much by asking her about what she is.
Lori: True, but you know how anyone is when they discover a suspenseful secret that someone was trying hide from.
Lisa: Indeed. It was very intriguing to me to discover this possibility of our shallow sibling having inability strength. I myself has the belief of not believing into them. But this is a new discovery.
Luna: I hope that the little Luce Change is okay?
Lynn Sr.: I'm sure she is girls. We just need to remain optimistic. We will find her.
Harold: Your father's right. Don't lose hope. How about some snacks, kids?
Everyone takes up on the meals given to the McBride's. Lynn Sr. walks away from the living room and pulls out his phone to make a call. He call up his wife to ask about if she and the other rest of their children's got the police station and managed to fill out a missing child case.
Lynn Sr.: Hello, Rita? Did you and the other kids' got to the station a reported Lucy missing?
Rita: Yes Lynn. I can only hope Lucy would either just come back home on her own. But I won't mind if the police find her and bring her back.
Lynn Sr.: I'm sure everything will be fine.
Rita: Hopefully. By the way, did you and our other kids got any clues on where she could be?
Lynn Sr.: Unfortunately, no. The girls got tried so we head to the McBride's and decide to stay and rest up before we try one more time before calling it a night. The McBride's promised that they'll help us the best they can.
Rita: Okay, we could us the much help. Also Lynn, I have to tell you something. It involve the events that happened during Luan's magic show.
This drew Lynn Sr. attention a lot.
Lynn Sr.: What is it?
Rita braces herself to tell her husband this.
Rita: You see, Lola knew all this time that Lucy had her powers and was hiding it from us, and she had Luan perform the magic show with Lucy as her volunteer as her tricks had her use fire and water to get her powers exposed to us all.
Lynn Sr. was baffled by what his wife was telling him.
Lynn Sr.: She what?!
Rita: And it's not just that. Remember when Tony Stark came to our house to tell Lucy that he approved Lucy of becoming one of the internship of Stark Industry?
Lynn Sr.: Yeah. Why?
Rita: Lynn, he too knows!
Lynn Sr. had a mixture of shock and confusion.
Lynn: Wha- what do you mean?!
Rita: Lynn, Tony knows about Lucy's powers! Lincoln told me that he's not just the head of Stark Industry. He's also known for being the leader of the Avengers and the superhero that he calls Iron Man. I believe that he must've found out that Lucy had superpowers and didn't tells us this and played up the excuse of Lucy signing up for his company only to get closer to her and probably have get into his mixture of 'hero' business.
Lynn Sr. couldn't believe everything that his wife just told him. But he starts believing that it might be true.
Lynn Sr.: Rita, you might be right. How could that son of a gun do this to our daughter behind our backs!
Rita: Lynn, after me and kids finish our business here at the station, I'm going straight to his factory around here and give him a piece of my mind! Anyhow, just make sure the kids rest up before it's gets anywhere late.
Lynn Sr.: I will.
Rita: Thank you. I'll see you soon.
Once there conversation ends, Lynn Sr. heads to tell his daughters and the McBride's everything Rita had just told him. They all we too surprised to hear it all.
Lori: I literally can believe what I just heard.
Luna: This is so bogus!
Lana: I can't believe Lola would gone and tattle on Lucy. Even though she swore to never do it again!
Lisa: It is a surprise. But I cannot comprehend of how a genius, billionaire man such as Stark could actually develop a suit of a titanium alloy, along with varies gadgets to actually defend dangerous threats the world offered. But him hiding his intentions of see Lucy's powers is very sudden.
Lynn Sr.: Whatever that Stark guy is planning to do with Lucy, I don't trust. He might be thinking of using her to get closer to her powers.
Clyde: Umm, Mr. Loud, I don't think you should really be that consider if Mr. Stark is hanging around Lucy. He's actually a nice guy.
Howard: Clyde's not wrong. That Tony Stark is a great person. Saved many lives, and fought back an alien army and saved the entire New York City. Though he couldn't of done it alone, he is part a fighting team that protect our planet.
Harold: It's all true, around the year when that invasion happened, we were planning on going upstate for our year trip, but when we overheard the news of the invasion, we decided to cancel it. But we heard enough to know that Tony's own Iron Man and a group called, The Avengers saved the entire city. I don't believe he's doing anything bad to Lucy, maybe he might be wanted to teach her much about being a superhero.
Howard: Yeah, like hadn't it been months since that the video of Lucy being the new Ice Princess popped up and everyone starting knowing it? Even Tony's Iron Man came and helped her out.
Clyde: Also, didn't it said on the news weeks ago that he and Lucy saved a village in Afghanistan from a killing group called, The 10 Rings? Maybe he really wants her to learn much about becoming a hero. She probably wants to learn all this so she could protect our town from danger.
Harold: We know it is dangerous for Lucy to do this, but probably her powers and Tony mentoring her could actually turn out better then you think.
Lynn Sr. thought more about it, if Tony does seem like a good person, maybe he won't be doing anything bad to Lucy if he knows her powers. And not just the fact that he never knew about Tony, Iron Man, The Avengers or anything about the New York invasion.
Lynn Sr.: Well, since all that may be true, I guess it be fine as long as he promises not to do anything "off" with Lucy. But I can probably guess Rita wouldn't think so.
Harold: It hard to trust someone like him, but you'll see how he really is.
Lynn Sr.: I try to see it when the next time I hear from him.
Clyde: Okay, now that this has been resolved, can I ask something Mr. Loud?
Lynn Sr.: Sure Clyde. What is it?
Clyde: You sounded like you never knew that Tony was Iron Man or you know about any of the events that had him and the Avengers involved. Did you and your entire family besides Lincoln never heard any of those events?
Lynn and the rest of his kids looked in utter stun from Clyde's question. Meanwhile at the Royal Woods Police Station, Rita and her children's are now leaving the station as they just finished filling out their report on Lucy's disappearances. Now that it was done, Rita now is going to do what's next on her agenda: Look for the man who offered Lucy the opportunity to become the one of the CEO of Stark Industry who happens to know about her powers and calls himself Iron Man. The entire family walks towards Vansilla as everyone goes inside.
Rita: Alright kids, now that we've finished our business here at the police station, we heading straight to the Stark Industry factory here. If I can find someone who can get me to talk to him, I'll teach him not to deceive me and family to get close to Lucy's secret!
All the loud kids never could actually see how angry their mother is. None of them could think of saying anything about calming down or believe that she might be exaggerating. Aside from Lincoln who managed the courage to tell his mom.
Lincoln: Mom, I really think you might be exaggerating. Tony Stark is good guy. He saved a lot of lives.
Rita: Lincoln, do not retort anything to me or think I'm in the wrong! That man played up the act to make me and your father believe Lucy was applying to his company but in reality he was trying to see what her powers is! I don't what to hear anything from all of you until I finish speaking to him! Am I clear!
Everyone nods their heads in fright not wanting to upset their mother. Once everything was done, Rita started up Vansilla and begins to drive off towards the Stark Factory around their town. Back at the Loud House, Lucy, now able to move, is now feeling her energy running out very drastically as her crystal was stolen from Stane. She remembers the spares crystal Shulk and Taylor gave her as if anything happened to her first one, she'd had second one in hand. She struggles to get off the couch and makes her way turns her and Lynn's bedroom. While heading there, she is barely able to breath with her energy draining rapidly out in her body due to not having her crystal to power herself. She barely was able to walk up to the stairs while holding onto the stair handles while moving very slow and feeling very weak, but she does the best she could to get upstairs with her feet. She would fall on the floor a few and pick herself up and continue going upstairs. Once she finally reached upstairs, she weakly walks towards her and Lynn's bedroom door and opens it as she tries she tries to see where the lava lamp that hides her spare crystals inside is. She spots it where it where it typically was, on the shelf between both her and Lynn's bed, upon seeing where it is, she became more weaker that she then falls onto the floor. As she was on the floor, she desperately crawls towards the desk to get to the lava lamp before it would be too late for her. Once she got closer to the shelf, she didn't have enough energy to stand up and grab the lava lamp. She tries to reach up and grab the lamp as she was only able to touch it with the tips of her fingers as it slide a few inches away from where it was before. After failing to reach for the lava lamp, she slid onto her back with her head back onto the shelf feeling herself completely running out of energy and was going breathless as she felt that she was about to go unconscious. Until somehow, she turns her head slightly towards the left as she sees the lava lamp hovering around shoulders. She grabs it as she looks above to see that it was Fangs and her bat colony that grave her the lamp as they looked directly at her concerned. Fangs squeals as Lucy looks up at her pet bat, as she has grip on her lamp.
Lucy: Good boy.
She then smashed the lamp on the ground as the fluid inside the lamp splashes around the ground. She desperately looks around to where the spare crystal is to not long later spots it. She grabs the crystal and not wasting another second, she inserts the crystal to where it directly goes as it snaps in place. Once in place, so was now able to take a deep breath as she then laid back before losing consciousness. Meanwhile at the Stark Industry Factory around Royal Woods in the underground laboratory, Stane is shown standing in front of his new prototype suit the scientists had build for him. Looking to be much like Tony's Mark 1 armor he used to escape the Ten Rings 8 years ago, but with a little more of an improvement. Despite it being completed, it still lacked a power source needed to the suit. But he already had the power in his hands. Stepping up towards the suit directly at the chest, he places Lucy's crystal into the chestpiece that is exactly shaped like the crystal and inserts it deep into the chestplate. As it snaps into place, the suit begins to power up as the the energy from crystal powers up the suit. Stane looks directly at the head of the in pride. Afterward, Tony had finally reached Royal Woods as he flew towards the direction to where the Loud House is.
Jarvis: Sir, we are now reaching the destination.
As he arrives at the Loud House, he lands in front of the house, couple of feet's away. He looks to see that the family's van is not parked in their driveway.
Tony: Their rundown van isn't in the driveway. I hope I'm really not too late.
Jarvis: Sir, I am detecting the aura of ice inside the Loud's residents. The child is indeed here.
Tony: Then let's go.
Tony marches towards the Loud House as he steps up the step-stools as gets closer to the door, but before he could get any closer the floor he was standing on gives way as he fall underneath with his lower half underneath the floor and his top half above the floor.
Tony: Ugh, wha, are you serious?!
Tony fires his thrusters to get out of the hole he was stuck in and carefully lands in front of the door.
Jarvis: Might want think about the structure of the floor here before deciding to proceed.
Tony: Shut it, Jarvis.
Tony then grabs the door knob and tries to twist it, only to have the knob break off the door.
Tony: Dang it! Does her parents ever call for any repairs for stuff like this. Ah, screw this, I let them know I'll pay for all this.
Deciding to risk this, he kicks open the door as steps in.
Tony: Lucy! Kid, you here?
He witnesses a stage in the living room with a bucket, candles, and broken glasses. He wonders what went on around he before Jarvis informed him of something.
Jarvis: Sir, I'm reading the ice aura more strongly.
Tony: Where's the readings strongpoint?
Jarvis: Upstairs, first door straight ahead.
Tony flew over the staircase and lands on front of the bedroom door of Lynn and Lucy's. He pushes the door open to see Lucy laying on the floor with her head pressed on the floor. Concerned, he quickly runs towards her unconscious body and tries to see if she's still alive.
Tony: Lucy! Lucy, you there! Come on, stay with me!
Not long then, Lucy's eyes began to slowly open, with her vision being in blurt for only a few moments before coming clear, she sees Tony with his front mask off, looking directly at her with worriness on his face. His expressions then turned to relief as he sees her eyes open.
Lucy: Uh, M... Mr. Stark?
Tony: Oh thank god! Kid, what happened? Where's your family?
Lucy: Uh, they're... looking for me. They found out my secret, and now... they're probably out in town.., trying to find me. I thought about... staying here and wait for them to... come back, but.., that guy, Obadiah I think that was his name, he snuck here and... stole my crystal. He even said that, he was making a prototype suit and he's using my crystal to power it!
Tony was in full fear as he heard what Lucy told him. He knew that there's no time to waste, he needed to stop Stane from finishing his suit and using Lucy power to power it up.
Tony: Okay kid, I want you stay here and wait for your family to get back and when they do, I want all of you to get out of town before any happens! I'll go and deal with Stane! Go as far from here as you can, and disappear! Got it!
Lucy knows that Stane using her crystal would give him the advantage of using ice energy or defensive abilities. She wouldn't let Tony go and fight Stane himself, even with his new armor. She really believed she needed to help him fight against Stane.
Lucy: N-no. I can't! Mr. Stark, I want to help!
Tony: No! I can't let you or anyone from your family get hurt! If anything happened to you, I could I face your entire family, and I am not gonna have this be on my conscious.
Lucy: I'm sorry Tony, but I can't let you go and take him by yourself. He has my crystal. Who knows what it could do with his suit he's creating! I don't know if you're suit is capable of standing against power from my crystal! I really feel like you need the extra help! Like how you asked me to help you out in the situation of Afghanistan! And also, you really don't need to worry about me! I got my demon guardians to protect me. You won't need to try to keep me safe, that's my demon guardians job. You can still focus on dealing with Stane, with me and the demons by your side. Please Tony, let me help!
Tony ponders about what Lucy says to her. He knows that Mark 48's armor isn't fully functional dealing with ice powers from Lucy's crystal. And it may be possible that the crystal could give Stane any advantages with his armor and her crystal powering it. And thinking that it might be safe for her join as long as her demon friends protect her, nothing could happen to her. Thinking it through, he made
up his mind and decides.
Tony: Okay kid. Let's do this.
Hearing him say that, Lucy now feeling very confident, arms herself for the fight. Throughout this time at the factory, Pepper and the agents that are with her arrives at the factory and exits their vehicles and enters the arc reactor room and goes to the area called sector 16. Once finding the door that leads to the sector, Pepper swipes her card to get inside, but the door doesn't seem to open. She tries again but it still doesn't open. Confused, she turns to face on of the agents close to her.
Pepper: My key's not working, it's not opening the door.
As she says this the agent that is close to her puts out his hand seeming like he's asking one of the agents to hand him something, as one of them hands over a little device.
Pepper: Oh wow, what is that, is it a little device that's gonna pick the lock?
He place the device onto the lock of the door and pushes it on as it beeps.
Agent: Might wanna take a few steps back.
Everyone backs away from the door as Pepper covers her ears. The device denotes as it breaks off the lock of the door, Obadiah hears the noise as he knows they've broke in. He immediately activates the suit as he quickly enters it. Back with Tony Lucy, she takes measurements to see if her powers is strong enough for her battle with Stane. Seeing her lance and ice are at the normal amount of strength, she believes it could be enough to help out Tony.
Tony: You sure you're ready for this?
Lucy: I am. Let's hurry.
Tony: Get on and hang tight.
Lucy climbs onto Tony and hangs onto him as he fires his thrusters and takes off. Back at underground lab, Pepper along with the agents goes down the staircase towards the door that open the laboratory. The agent in front looks through the window to check the surroundings before opening the door. Once entered, each agents draws out their guns and walks into the lab cautiously glancing around the lab in search for Stane. Pepper follows behind them too looking around the lab. The group then comes across Mark 1 armor and looks at it.
Agent: Guess you were right. He was building a suit.
Pepper: I thought it would be bigger?
She turns around to see a couple of wires hanging above the ceiling that looks to be cut off making spark noises. The rest of the agents carefully continued their search for Stane. Walking pass corridors, a computer that displays the prints of Mark 1's armor but with no sigh of Stane. Pepper walks around to look at a bunch of chains hanging down, until turning around to see other chains dangling around in front of a dark corner. As she get close to the corner, two dim light lit on as a mechanical noise goes off. The two lights then stands upwards as Pepper beings to back away as she realizes what's going on. She begins to run out from the lab as Stane's Iron Monger suit powered by Lucy's crystal pursue. All the agents sees the Iron Monger and opens fire. Sadly, their fires proves to be ineffective towards Stane's suit as the gunshots bounces off his suit as he takes out the agents and destroys some part of the lab in process. He continues to chase after Pepper as she makes her way out the lab. Thankful, she makes it out just in time before the Iron Monger attempted to grab her only for him to get stop the gap of the door. Afterwards, Tony and Lucy are still flying over town as they are soon getting closer to the factory.
Lucy: Berkana, how do think this crystal will last up to?
Berkana: The crystal is at 64% and is still recharging. I believe you won't be able to use much of your potentials as possibly.
Lucy: Keep me alerted.
Tony boosts up speed as Lucy continues to held on.