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Chapter 14: Project Mark 2

Tony entered his workshop still stinging from Rhodey's refusal, he was met with a curious look from his Pokémon who could sense his struggle, "Bad news guys uncle Rhodey won't be coming around for a while, we had a little dispute hopefully it'll blow over." Nine looked at Tony in pity over how he has deal with a fight with his best friend on top of everything else, "Anyways moving on from that, it'll just be the five of us working on a little project I like to call Mark 2." Rani shot her head up as she heard the word mark being used for Tony's metal suit.

Tony saw Rani's shocked face and answered, "That's right, were going to Extreme Makeover that bad boy." He gave a wolfish grin before sitting down on his desk.

"Jarvis, you up?"

"For you, sir, always."

"I'd like to open a new project file, index as Mark Two." His Pokémon gathered around his workshop curious over his new project.

"Shall I store this on the Stark Industries Central Database?" Jarvis asked as Tony put up a hologram of the first suit. Rani was amazed at the technology that she was now exposed to along with the fact that Tony is going to make another armor.

"Actually, I don't know who to trust right now. Till further notice, why don't we just keep everything on my private server?" He stood in front of the hologram in front of his Pokémon.

"Working on a secret project, are we, sir?"

"I don't want this winding up in the wrong hands." Tony proceeded to throw the hologram in the "trash", "Maybe in mine, it can actually do some good." His Pokémon looked at each other having a feeling that their lives are about to get a little bit more interesting.


For the past three days, Tony has been down in his shop working on his next suit nonstop. His Pokémon were able to help him with his suit with Nine using her flamethrower to melt the metal into the precise shape Tony wants, Claw does the heavy lifting carrying stuff on his back, Z helps with the screws and coding along with Dummy and Rani helps keep him energized with her tea. It got to the point that at the 70-hour mark of Tony being awake, Nine and Claw dragged him up to bed.

"Hey!" Tony yelled as Nine dragged him upstairs by his shirt collar and Claw by his feet, "I'm this close to configuring the energy from the arc in my chest to an energy blast from the palm of my hand, I can't sleep!"

"Nine!" Nine said angrily wanting her master to get some sleep. Tony's bedroom door automatically opened, and they plopped Tony on his bed before running out the door. Tony got up and tried running after them only to crash at the door as it automatically closed.

Tony knocked on the door furiously, "Jarvis! Open this door!"

"I'm sorry sir but Porygon Z has instructed me to keep your bedroom door closed for the next 12 hours which is the appropriate amount of time for you to catch up on your sleep and have enough energy for the project tomorrow."

Tony rubbed his face and angrily said, "Jarvis, as your creator I am ordering you to open this door!"

"You forget sir that you have designed me to obey your orders when my data sees fit and my data tells me that if you do not sleep within the next three hours your brain will break down and you will experience hallucinations"

"Does your data tell you that some of history's leading scientists have made breakthroughs with just 4 hours of sleep a year?"

"Are you one of those scientist's sir?" Jarvis asked in a humorous tone.

Tony sighed, "No."

"Then I'm afraid you are going to have to sleep like everyone else sir. The next 12 hours will pass if you sleep right now." Tony started regretting programming Jarvis with the human Jarvis' sarcastic humor.

Finally, he surrendered "Fine, if it gets me out of this room I will sleep, but I'm only doing this for you!" He yelled to Jarvis and his Pokémon who grinned triumphantly, as soon as Tony closed his eyes, he was fast asleep.

After successfully getting Tony to sleep, Nine and the others sat in the living room at midnight eating fruit and catching up.

"Tony never told me how he met the two of you." Rani asked Claw and Z as she ate berries, "What's the story behind that?"

Claw answered first as he finished his bowl of screws, "We'll I met Tony when I broke into his apartment and ate one of his failed inventions." Rani was dumbfounded over the strange way the iron leg Pokémon met the man sleeping 10 feet away from them, "I know it sounds weird but at the time I was a homeless Beldum trying to find something to eat and his closet was a buffet compared to the streets. When Tony discovered me, he offered me a chance to live at his house if I keep up my end of the bargain and eat his failed inventions…and there were a lot."

Rani understood, "So he claimed you so he could have more closet space?"

"Pretty much, yes." Claw answered.

Rani turned to Z who was floating above them, "What about you? How did you and Tony meet?"

"We'll it started when I was born." Z explained, "Tony created me in his workshop in 1992, he created my coding, inserted it into my first model and I came to virtual life."

"What do you mean your first model?" Rani asked, Z froze for a moment as numbers appeared in his eyes then the TV turned on showing a picture of a familiar looking figure with flat surfaces.

"This is the model that Tony first made for me; I was Porygon for five years." Rani saw the similarities between the two models based on color and design, the next photo looked like a slimmer version of Porygon with a duck like appearance, "And after five years I evolved into what Tony dubbed as "Porygon 2" and then 7 years later I evolved again into Porygon Z."

Rani was processing this information, "So you're the only Porygon in existence?"

"No, Tony made a few more Porygon's for the military IT specialists so that they can hack into enemy servers. So far there are only four Porygon's in existence including me."

"Huh that's…interesting." Rani said as she continued eating her fruit.

"What about you?" Nine asked

Rani stopped eating, "What about me?"

"How did Tony meet you?" Rani's face felt hot with nervousness as she tried finding the right words to describe their tragic backstory.

"We…we…"

Nine could see she made the girl upset, "I'm sorry if this is a tough subject, we can leave it for another day when you're up to it."

"No, I'm fine I just felt a little uneasy for a moment but I'm good." Rani took a deep breath and told her meeting Tony and the events that followed. When she finished her story, the others looked shocked to say the least even inorganic Pokémon like Claw and Z were taken aback.

"Wow!" Z said in an exasperated tone.

"Yeah, those three months in the cave felt like three years when he entered the picture." Rani said.

"So, you and this Yinsen guy put a machine inside Tony to replace his heart?" Claw asked.

"Not replace it, protect it." Rani clarified, "The shrapnel from the bomb was going to enter his heart in a slow rate killing him painfully, but me and Yinsen figured out a way to keep the shards at bay by using a magnet over his heart. That magnet ran on a car battery until Tony figured out a way to use parts from his weapons to make a miniaturized arc reactor to power the magnet."

"Of course! A car battery only gives a limited amount of energy, but an arc reactor is able to produce an infinite amount of energy with no time limit." Z said amazed, "Tony has one at his company except it's bigger, the fact that he was able to make a smaller version in a cave is fascinating!"

"Yes, fascinating." Nine said sarcastically, unlike Howard, Tony and Z she was never fully enamored with science rather focusing on the well being of those around her.

Rani grinned at Nine's dry tone before turning to Z, "Yep, your creator is quite an impressive man."

"However." Z said worryingly, "My calculations tell me that an arc reactor fueling an average human's functions could lead to dire consequences." They all turned their shocked heads to the virtual Pokémon.

"What are you talking about?" Nine asked anxiously.

"Well the arc reactor is fueled by palladium, right?" Z asked.

"Right" Rani confirmed.

"Well palladium is highly toxic, even a small dosage ingested could prove fatal."

"You forget Z that Tony isn't ingesting the palladium, it's inserted in his chest kept far from the vital organs." Claw countered.

"That is true but overlong exposure to the chemical element could prove to damage the body even in small ways."

"Maybe but- "Claw tried to argue back but the timer indicated to all of them that the 12 hours were up, and the door opened with Tony walking out looking rested.

"Happy now? I got 12 hours of sleep and I am good and ready for work so" Tony clapped, "Chop chop down in the workshop in 20 minutes." He then went into the kitchen for a snack.

"Might as well go downstairs while he eats." Claw said as the others got up and headed down.

Nine stopped Rani halfway down out of hearing distance from Claw and Z, "Is Z right to be worried about the reactor? Is Tony's life in danger if he has that thing in his chest for a while?"

Rani was about to deny it when she thought about Z's words and began to question if they were true as well, "I…I don't know."


For the next six hours Tony was working on the legs along with Z and Dummy, who was no help at all, "Next. Up." Dummy headed towards the foot instead much to Tony and Z's annoyance, "Not in the boot, Dummy. Right here. You got me? Stay put. Nice." Dummy immediately moved, "You're of no benefit at all. Move down to the toe. I got this." The machine slowly moved to the toe, "Okay, I'm sorry, am I in your way? Up." Dummy didn't follow the order, "Screw it. Don't even move, Z take it up." Unlike Dummy, Z can follow orders, "You are a tragedy."

Z nodded, "Pory."

It's day 5 and Tony has completed the boots in his suit, now he needs to test them out. His Pokémon stand behind U who's holding a camera to document the experiment while Dummy is next to Tony holding a fire extinguisher. They were all nervous over the outcome of this except for Rani, "Relax, if he can make a somewhat functional suit in a cave in the middle of nowhere, I'm sure he'll do great with the equipment he has down here." Despite her words Nine was still anxious.

Tony starting walking in the center with the bulky boots, "Okay, let's do this right. Start mark, half a meter, and back and center." He was in position, "Dummy look alive. You're on standby for fire safety. U, roll it. Okay. Activate hand controls." Rani looked on as she sat on Claw's head, while Nine slightly shook, "We're gonna start off nice and easy. We're gonna see if 10% thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one." As soon as he pressed the joysticks, he lifted from the ground only to flip over and hit the slope of the ceiling. The others looked shocked as Dummy doused him on the floor.

After a few seconds Rani and Z laughed at the spectacle that just happened while Nine and Claw helped Tony up. Tony was leaning on Claw looking at Rani, surprised that she can laugh and annoyed at Z joining in. Tony laughed mockingly, "Yeah its funny…until you realize your laughing at the guy who gives you poképuff's and coding." With that comment Rani and Z immediately stopped laughing and followed Tony as he pressed an ice pack to his head.


For the next nine hours Tony was working non-stop fueling himself with coffee and Rani's tea. Tony was putting on the arm blasters with Rani attaching the wires into his chest when Pepper walked in carrying a box and a cup of coffee. Diana slithered behind looking curiously at Tony and his contraption.

"Up two. All right, set that." Tony told Dummy.

"I've been buzzing you. Did you hear the intercom?" Pepper asked.

Tony was too distracted to listen, "Yeah, everything's... What?"

"Obadiah's upstairs."

"Great! Great. I'll be right up."

"What would you like me to tell him?" Pepper asked as Tony lifted his arm and aimed his blaster, Rani cautiously took a step back at the table

"I thought you said you were done making weapons."

"It is. This is a flight stabilizer. It's completely harmless." The stabilizer shot an energy blast that knocked Tony back and into the wall. Pepper looked on shocked while Rani shook her head at yet another failed experiment.

"I didn't expect that." Tony said.

After getting up and putting the blasters away Tony and Rani headed upstairs being greeted by piano music. Rani saw a bald man playing while a Blastoise and Machoke stood beside him. Nine was at the table eating a poképuff, while Claw was eating an identified metal object and Z was hovering over them.

"How'd it go?" Tony was met with silence and saw the pizza on the table, "It went that bad, huh?"

"Just because I brought pizza and poképuff's back from New York doesn't mean it went bad." Obadiah said.

"Uh-huh Sure doesn't. Oh, boy." Tony immediately ate a slice while Rani sat on the table to enjoy the sweets with Nine who was devouring them. While Tony and Obadiah were talking the Pokémon got to eating and talking.

Nine moaned happily as she tasted the puff, "Why are New York poképuff's so much better than California poképuff's?"

"It's the water." Z answers.

"Who is that guy?" Rani asks nodding towards Obadiah.

"That's Obadiah Stane, he's Tony's business partner he was also his dad's partner before Howard died. The Blaistoise and Machoke are his Pokémon." Nine answered.

"I'm Liborio." Blastoise said.

"I'm Angelo" Machoke said.

"Hi" Rani said, "What are you and your master doing here?"

Angelo rolled his eyes, "Were here because your master hasn't come up with anything to save the company he supposedly runs and so Obadiah had to fight his battles in New York with no success."

Liborio agreed, "I'm surprised that Tony hasn't lost the company yet, no weapons means no money."

Nine never liked Angelo or Liborio due to them assuming that without Obadiah, Tony wouldn't have been as successful as he is today, "It's not that bad." Nine defended, "One decision isn't going to leave Tony broke."

"The board is claiming you have post traumatic stress. They're filing an injunction." Obadiah's statement caught Nine's attention.

"A what?" Tony said as he chewed pizza.

"They want to lock you out."

"Why, 'cause the stocks dipped 40 points? We knew that was gonna happen."

"Fifty-six and a half." Pepper corrected.

Liborio gave a smug grin, "You were saying?"

"There are other ways to make the world a better place that don't include guns." Rani said under her breath.

Angelo gave a deathly glare to the Riolu, "We'll that's a very peaceful and naïve view that you have little girl but unfortunately this is the real world, a world where we beat the bad guys with guns with bigger guns."

"And yet those bigger guns ended up in the hands of those bad guys." Rani retorted while Z looked intrigued at the debate.

Liborio stepped in, "We can't control where the guns end up princess."

"No but Tony can control if their made or not." Liborio and Angelo were starting to get angry as well as Obadiah

"Hey, hey! Hey, Tony. Listen. I'm trying to turn this thing around, but you gotta give me something. Something to pitch them. Let me have the engineers analyze that." Obadiah pointed at the glowing reactor on Tony's chest, "You know, draw up some specs."

"No. No, absolutely not." Tony said immediately.

"It'll give me a bone to throw the boys in New York!"

"This one stays with me. That's it, Obie. Forget it."

"All right, well, this stays with me, then." Obie took the pizza box from Tony's hands, "Same with the puffs, Liborio." His Pokémon took the pink box away from Nine and Rani to their sadness, "Go on, here, you can have a piece and your Pokémon too." As Obadiah gave Tony a slice, Liborio opened the box for Nine and Rani to each take a puff.

"Take two. Thank you." Tony and his Pokémon went back to the workshop with what's left of their New York cuisine's

"You mind if I come down there and see what you're doing?" Obadiah asked

"Good night, Obie." Tony said.


Its been 11 days and so far, Tony has done 36 tests of his mark 2 suit, all of which have ended in failure. Rani rubbed her eyes as she and the others stood behind U as Tony stood in position to test out his boots…again.

"Day 11, test 37, configuration 2.0. For lack of a better option, Dummy is still on fire safety. If you douse me again, and I'm not on fire, I'm donating you to a city college." Z smirked at Tony's insult to the dumb machine, "All right, nice and easy. Seriously, just gonna start off with 1% thrust capacity. And three, two, one." Sparks came out of Tony's palms and feet and he was hovering two feet off the ground.

After a few seconds of Tony flying, Z said, "This is the longest that Tony has tested out his invention without crashing."

"Let's not jinx it, okay Z?" Nine said as she and the other Pokémon stood amazed as Tony kept hovering for a good ten seconds before landing back on the ground.

"Okay." Tony said confidently as Dummy was pointing the fire extinguisher at him causing Tony grief, "Please don't follow me around with it, either, 'cause I feel like I'm gonna catch on fire spontaneously. Just stand down! If something happens, then come in." Tony got into position again, "And again, let's bring it up to 2.5. Three, two, one." The energy coming out was stronger and put Tony higher above the ground, but it also made the steering less controllable. Tony was swerving away from the test area and towards his priceless cars, his Pokémon could do nothing but watch.

Tony started worrying as the energy from his boots were on top of his cars, "Okay, this is where I don't want to be! Not the car, not the car!" his attempts to steer away from the vehicles ended with him towards the table, "Table!" His Pokémon started to get worried as papers and pens were flying everywhere and saw Tony flying towards them. Nine pushed Rani behind Claw and Z followed them, Tony saw that he was getting dangerously close and put his repulsors in front of him pushing him away from his Pokémon. Nine popped her head from behind Claw to see Tony flying away as he laughed nervously.

"Could be worse! Could be worse! We're fine! Okay." Finally, Tony put his hands downward and his legs straight, his Pokémon looked on as Tony was flying normal for a few seconds before he stopped, relieving his Pokémon.

Dummy started pointing the extinguisher to Tony who held his hand out, "No! Uh-uh! Uh-uh! Uh!" Dummy finally took the hint as Tony started feeling proud of himself, "Yeah, I can fly." His Pokémon just stood dumbfounded over Tony finally having a successful trial.

The next day flew by as Tony put the finishing touches in his suit and was ready to test it out. As soon as Tony entered the workshop, the robotic welders screwed in different parts of the suit all over his body, his Pokémon stood by as witnesses.

Tony put his helmet on, "Jarvis, are you there?"

"At your service, sir." Jarvis responded

As Tony and Jarvis were working out the kinks Z asked Rani, "Was the first one anything like this?"

"A little, the colors the same but its slimmer and has less of a chance of crash landing." Rani recalled how she and Tony ended up in the desert.

Claw looked at the suit temptingly, "If my master wasn't inside that thing, I'd consider it dessert." Nine sweat dropped at her friend's hungry look, they were interrupted at parts of the suit started flapping and moving around.

"What's happening?" Rani asked.

"Jarvis is doing a check on control surfaces, so that parts don't go flying off." Z answered. Rani stood proud of how Tony was able to make a better version of the armor that he made in Afghanistan, she just hoped that this one would last longer in the skies.

Jarvis spoke as soon as the test was done, "Test complete. Preparing to power down and begin diagnostics."

However, Tony was up for a challenge, "Yeah. Tell you what. Do a weather and ATC check. Start listening in on ground control."

"Oh no." Nine said worryingly.

Rani turned her head, "What?"

Nine sighed, "You'll see." The fox has known Tony since he was a baby and could tell when Tony was going to do something crazy stupid.

Jarvis could sense it too, "Sir, there are still terabytes of calculations needed before an actual flight is- "

"Jarvis! Sometimes you got to run before you can walk." Nine shook her head as Rani started to get the picture, Tony saw the alarmed expressions on his Pokémon's faces, "Oh ye Pokémon of little faith, Ready? In three, two, one." Tony flew towards the tunnel out of view from his Pokémon.

"What do you think?" Claw asked Rani who had experience with the armor before.

"I think I liked him." Rani said half joking, earning a glare from Nine.

Nine focused on the problem at hand, "Z, do you think you can hack into Jarvis? Show us what's happening to Tony?"

"In my sleep." Z said confidently.

"You don't sleep." Claw retorted to the inorganic Pokémon.

"It's an expression, Tony programmed one of us with a sense of humor."

Nine was getting restless, "Just do it!"

"All right all right don't get your tails in a twist." Z started twitching and numbers appeared on his eyes, "I'm in, turn to the TV." They all gathered around the TV and saw through Tony's visors that he was flying fast towards Santa Monica pier, "Now we see what Tony sees."

They saw that the helmet had holographic numbers to tell Tony how high he was and where he was at. He focused on the ferris wheel and zoomed in on two children riding it licking ice cream, the boys ice cream toppled over possibly from shock at seeing a man flying.

"For the record this is the longest he's gone flying without crashing just in case your worried." Rani told Nine who was calming down but she spoke too soon as Tony started flying straight into space.

They heard Tony saying, "All right, let's see what this thing can do. What's SR-71's record?"

"The altitude record for fixed wing flight is 85,000 feet, sir." Jarvis said.

"Records are made to be broken! Come on!" Tony flew faster into the atmosphere.

Rani couldn't believe how much risk Tony was taking right now, "He's insane!"

"but amazing." Z said in defense of his creator, they saw that Tony was getting closer towards the moon.

Jarvis tried to get Tony to stop, "Sir, there is a potentially fatal buildup of ice occurring." Ice starting forming around the edge of the visor alarming the Pokémon.

But Tony was persistent, "Keep going! Higher!" They saw the moon getting closer until the screen went black.

Nine started panicking, "What happened?! Z?!"

Z started twitching again, "The suit stopped working, the ice froze the circuitry and Jarvis is offline."

Rani panicked for her friend as well, "Well get him back online!"

"I'm trying." After 10 long seconds the screen turned back on showing that Tony hasn't hit the ground, shortly after Tony's boots kicked in and he was flying again. Nine and Rani breathed out in relief as Tony was exclaiming in joy over the success of his new armor. They watched in silence as Tony flew back home and was hovering above the ground.

"Kill power." Tony commanded, then they all heard crashing above them and jumped back as Tony crushed the car beneath him. Nine and Rani ran towards him to see if he was okay but then Dummy doused them all despite there being no fire. All three of them had an annoyed face over the dumb robot that was still extinguishing them.


Final Note: Yeah I'm building up for Iron man 2 when Tony was dying, I'd like to give credit to Ian N for giving me the idea of Iron Monger having a Blastoise and Machoke, thank you Ian ;) Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter and I'll post the next one asap.