Arthur unplugged the charging cable from the oversized arc reactor that gave the Heartbreaker its name, after that he took the portable arc reactor that Rhodey had given him, and put it to his chest, and it locked into place. It was similar to Tony's, but not advanced enough for the nano-suits. He kept getting doubts in the back of his head, he knew this idea was completely stupid, but he knew it was the right thing. Which is exactly why he wasn't telling anyone but Brianna.

The suit unfolded and he walked into it. Arthur walked to the mainframe computer and plucked Brianna's A.I. chip from it, and putting it in the back of his helmet.

"We all good Bri?" He asked while walking towards the armor exit. Arthur called it the "suit chute" however.

"Yeah, yeah, everything's fine." Brianna said.

Arthur had plans on trying to meet with Deadlock, he wanted to try and reconcile whatever had twisted her into villainy. He saw the mugshot. Arthur had deduced that those charges had to come from a single situation. Arthur figured however, that he would find out either way.

He flew out of the exit and examined around him, he realized he had no idea how to find her, his best hope was maybe trying to let her find him. He flew to New York City where their battle took place, Arthur went to the exact area, and even found pieces of the destroyed Mark XI. He payed it back on the ground.

"Hey Brianna?" Arthur said.

"Yeah what do you need, boss?" She replied.

"Use the suit's advanced optic sensors and scan the area, look for fragments of armor that didn't belong to the Mark XI. Specifically red or white in color." Arthur said.

"On it. Already been scanning the area just to be safe." Brianna said.

"And that's why you're the only partner I need Bri. Your the brains, and, well I'm brains too, just significantly less than you but I still contribute. But I'm also the brawn." Arthur said.

"If your a portion of the brains then I haven't noticed." Brianna remarked.

"I'm sorry what?!" Arthur asked.

"You heard me." Brianna said coyly.

"Whatever, have you found anything?" Arthur said.

"Sure did. Found it a bit ago, I just wanted to swap quips with ya a bit." Brianna said, which evoked an angry roll of the eyes from Arthur.

"I found fragments of a gauntlet or glove, it's some form of hand armor either way." Brianna described.

Arthur walked up to it and found a mangled hunk of metal, looking to have once been the index finger and thumb part of a glove. It was indeed red and white.

"Brianna, scan it, see what it's made of, then trace the origin of the metal, see if we can get a lead." Arthur said.

"Scanning, armor composition is 15% iron, 25% steel, and 60% unknown materials, possibly a man made metal."

"Send it back to base, we'll find out what it is." Arthur said.

"Ain't no need for that, friend." A voice from behind said.

"Show yourself. Or I'm gonna blast anything that moves." Arthur said turning quickly with his Repulsors up and ready to fire.

A woman walked out from cover. She had a long lever-action rifle on her back, and Arthur could see a shotgun handle showing slightly from her back, along with the sixgun in her hand. She had an unthreatening demeanor, she looked like Ashe, but had shorter black hair and blue eyes, and her face was softer than Ashe's.

"I heard you talking about Ashe. I know her, she's my sister, her real name is Elizabeth. I'm her older sister, Carolyne." She said.

"Oh you know her? Yeah she almost killed me, good thing I don't hold grudges easily though. But, tell you what, you put that sixer back in its holster and then we can talk." Arthur said lowering one of his repulsors.

"Alright." Carolyne said as the Remington revolver found its way back into the holster.

"So what were you saying? Ashe is your sister?" Arthur said.

"Listen it's a real long story. Do you have anywhere we could possibly talk?" She tried to explain.

"Tell you what, I'll buy you a drink, but how about we both shed our weaponry first?" Arthur said.

"Alright, that sounds good to me." Carolyne said.

"Name's Arthur. Arthur Abraham. Meet me at the Dead Man's Drink bar, it's downtown on the corner of fourth and Evans street." Arthur said opening his faceplate. "Look for this ugly mug."

"I'll be sure too, Arthur. I'll see you then." Carolyne said with a tip of her hat.

"You too cowgirl." Arthur said.

With that he took off heading back to the Stark cabin. Arthur wasn't quite sure what to think. She was definitely honest about her and Ashe being related. They were near twins. However she seemed honest whereas Ashe seemed malicious. Arthur figured he'd find out enough pretty soon. However, as welcoming as Arthur tried to be, he still didn't fully trust her, so he got a bracelet these could unfold into a repulsor gauntlet up to the elbow. He took one for each hand, grabbed his aviator sunglasses and headed out to the bar, clad in a Chevrolet t-shirt and oddly Hawaiian shirt.

Arthur felt odd walking around normally. He was so used to the suit and keeping himself in the workshop that he hadn't realized how much it affected him, mentally and physically. But that didn't matter to him at the moment. He turned the corner and the bar was right in front of him he walked in and looked around for Carolyne. After a moment of searching he found her, cat napping in a booth, she had on much more casual cloths, but still had that revolver strapped to her side.

Arthur walked up and looked her over with a disappointed smirk. He kicked the booth with his cowboy boots, making a loud bump. She jumped awake, startled.

"I'm here." Arthur said raising his hands.

Carolyne huffed in annoyance and Arthur sat down. A waitress came over and took their drink order, Arthur ordering a London Dry gin, and a small order of French fries. Carolyne ordered a bottle of Kentucky Straight Bourbon.

"Damn, a whole bottle of straight bourbon?" Arthur asked.

"At least I didn't order French fries. I thought you were Iron Man, not a goddamn kid." Carolyne quipped back.

"Sassy lil' thang ain't ya?" Arthur said mockingly.

"When you been through the hell ive been in, then you can start judging me." Carolyne said seemingly upset now.

"Look I was just trying to conversate, I don't know what you've been through but the same goes for you with me. Now I thought we came here to discuss your sister?" Arthur said as the orders arrived.

"I suppose." Carolyne said grabbing the bottle of liquor.

"So what's you and Ashe's story? I know you're sisters, but that's it." Arthur said eating a fry.

Carolyne began with a sigh, "I suppose it started when we were born. As sad as that sounds. We're separated by only the nine months it took momma to have her. Our piece of shit daddy wasn't satisfied with me, as he was wanting a son. So he knocked her up without her wanting another, and without him giving her a chance to recover."

"God. That sounds horrible." Arthur said.

"We ain't even got to the best parts yet, bud. When Ashe was born, my daddy got pretty ill. He started beating on momma. Then one day when we was about 10, he kept beating her, and well... he didn't stop. I tried to shoot him, but that's how I got this," Carolyne paused lifting up her left hand, with two scars on each side in the exact same spot, "he stabbed me through my hand. From then on he started beating us both, even pulling out the brass knuckles on me one time. But then when we turned 14 he... well he..." Carolyne paused for a moment, then she turned the bottle to her mouth and took a large sum of big gulps from it."

"Uh, are you fine to continue?" Arthur said apathetically.

"Yeah. After we were 14 he made us become 'working girls' as he called it. I take it you can figure out what happened?" Carolyne said, Arthur nodding.

"Then when I turned 18, Ashe had enough and she tried to strangle daddy. As you could guess, she couldn't quite get the job done. I ran and grabbed a shotgun from the sheriff's office, when I came back he about had the life squeezed out of her. I got his attention, and when he turned around and was up off of Ashe, I shot him. I shot him right in the gut from barely five feet away. And I sat there and watched as he begged for forgiveness and begged for my help. Then I cut his throat with his own knife. The same knife I still have. And I still keep that shotgun shell on me as a charm, hanging from my lever-action." Carolyne finally finished looking up at Arthur with eyes full of pain.

"Holy shit." Arthur gasped. "I have to say. I'm speechless. I can't even begin to fathom how you two made it."

"Yeah, Ashe's mugshot is from that day. You know that she was convicted of killing him? Not me. She had to spend a few weeks in prison but I busted her out." Carolyne said.

"Alright so, I'm assuming that you want to find her before someone kills her?" Arthur said.

"Or before she does something incredibly stupid." Carolyne added.

"I think we could do that. I don't know what my boss would say about bringing you back to our cabin, but I suppose I'm gonna find out." Arthur said

Before they could get up, they were startled by something big being thrown into the side of the bar. Every window was smashed sending bits of glass everywhere. Arthur looked up and he saw the bent up frame of a Mitsubishi. He looked and saw an injured woman in the driver seat.

Arthur sprung into action, the bracelets unfolding onto his arms, but the didn't stop there an entire suit unfurled around him. Arthur had taken the entire Mark XLVI armor.

"Holy shit, this was not my plan for once!" Arthur said.

"You're welcome Arthur. This arc reactor has the Heartbreaker and this bad boy pre-programmed into it. Also I'm linked to it." Brianna said in his ear.

"Well. Time for a test drive." Arthur said.

He grabbed the car, pulling the door off and apart, as he drug the occupant out. Arthur looked around and saw Carolyne lying on the tile floor, her head was bleeding from an injury and she had a big gash in her left leg. Blood was starting to seep all over the floor. Arthur ran over and crouched next to the wound.

"Can you hear me Carolyne?!" Arthur said. She raised her head up and nodded. Arthur looked around and thought of an idea.

"This is gonna hurt. A whole lo-"

"Just do something!" She said.

Arthur used the laser attached to the suits wrist, he cauterized it, and burned it shut. All while Carolyne bellowed in agony. Then she passed completely out.

"Shit. You, watch her. Make sure she stays breathing, if she stops do something, anything to help." Arthur said grabbing their waitress from earlier who was unscathed.

"Okay, but what are you gonna do Iron Man?" She asked.

"I'm gonna go kick something's ass clean over the moon." Arthur said rising up.