This'll be the rest of Iron Man 1. Afterwards, it'll be a timeskip two years and go into Iron Man 2.
I don't own any Marvel characters or the oc. OC belongs to sketchywolf.
Tony later returned home with a somewhat shocked look on his face. He said nothing when he came back down to the shop and he sat down as he placed an arm of the newly painted Mark 3 suit on, and began to make adjustments to it and hooked it up to his reactor. He and Max had figured how to make the flight stabilizers into weapons as well, repulsors.
"What happened Dad?," Max finally asked.
"...Stane was the one who filed the injunction," he answered.
This shocked Max as well but his thoughts then turned to the tv which was reporting a group of terrorists known as the Ten Rings were beginning to seize control over a small village called Gulmira. Tony then got up and tested out his repulsor, destroying the glass doors to the lab.
"Little warning next time, please."
Tony didn't say anything really but they both knew what they had to do. Later on, Tony, wearing a special under suit, stepped onto a small platform and then it opened up and soon machines began to place the entire Mark 3 suit on him. It began with his legs, and as it finished and moved on to his lower torso, the machines began to placed the arms on him and then finally got to his chest and then finall placed the helmet and faceplate and he then flew off.
"That's something that's not ever gonna get old," Max commented over coms. "Alright keep heading west and you should be over Gulmira in about an hour consider Big how fast you're going."
"Okay. Let me know when I'm over it," he said.
As he flew, Max's friend messaged him again.
"Hey, haven't heard from you in a while," she said.
"Sorry, I've been busy," he messaged back. "If you want to see what my dad and I have been working on, check out what's happening in a Middle Eastern village called Gulmira, might hear even more about it soon."
"Okay. Hey, when you and your father are done with whatever you're working on, can you come and visit? I miss you."
"I miss you too. I was actually gonna ask if I could, do yeah, absolutely. But are you sure it's alright with your dad with me coming? I mean, your country doesn't try to interact with the rest of the world all that much."
"Baba said it was fine if you are discreet about anything you may see. Besides, he literally could not say no as I have literally been begging him to let you come here for a very long time," she said Max couldn't help but chuckle to himself a little.
"Okay, see you soon then," he said back.
"See you soon."
After a little while, JARVIS and Max detected screaming and gunfire coming from below Tony.
"Heads up Dad, or down in your case. You're directly below Gulmira."
"Okay, I'm going in."
Tony then landed just as a Ten Rings member was about to shoot a civilian. He began to shoot at him but the armor proved its worth and deflected them. Tony punched him in the chest and threw him away into the wall of a collapsed building and used his repulsors on another, shooting him away. Then one charged at him and he used his repulsors on him as well. But when he turned his attention to the final soldiers, they were threatening to kill civilians if he didn't stand down.
"I've got this one Dad," Max said over coms.
Then on his computer back in Malibu, he isolated the soldiers and targeted them. Then backup projectile launchers appeared out of the suit's shoulder pads and killed all but the civilians. Then JARVIS detected someone attempting to make a call from behind a wall and Tony punched through the wall and pulled the man out from behind it and then he flew off.
"He's all yours," he said to the villagers as he flew off.
"Alright let's find those Jericho missiles and-," he began to say and then was knocked out of the sky and made a crater in the ground.
"Dad, you alright?!!," Max asked.
"Ugh...yeah...I'm good. What was that?"
"Turn around."
He did as he said and saw a tank behind him, which fired again at him but he dodged it. He sent his own missile at it and then casually walked away as it explodes behind him. Then he hovers up into the air and destroys the Jericho missiles and flies off.
"Great job Dad!! You did it!! Gulmira is safe!!"
"We did it buddy, all three of us," he said.
'Sirs, Miss Potts has arrived,' JARVIS informed them.
"...Don't worry, I've got this. Think you'll be fine without me?"
"Yeah I should be fine."
Back in Malibu, Max then went upstairs to see his mom walk over to him.
"Hey Mom," he said.
"Hey, oh sweetheart you look exhausted," she said worriedly. "Did you and your father stay up all night?"
"Kind of had to, given the knowledge he received last night. Uncle Obie was the one to file the injunction."
"I'm sorry, what?!"
"Yup."
"Where is your father, anyway?," she asked as they sat down.
"He went out to go jogging out at the canyons," he cleverly lied.
"...Typical. Left his only son all alone."
'Well, not entirely, Miss Potts,' JARVIS said.
"Oh right."
"You okay, Mom?"
"Yeah, why?"
"I can tell when something is bothering you. Does it have something to do with you and Dad dancing at that party last night?"
"Wait, you saw that?!"
"No," he said with a smirk.
She then just a shocked face but then calmed down when she realized that she shouldn't be surprised.
"You're most definitely mine and your father's son," she said and they both chuckled. "Well, I'll go talk to Obadiah about this and maybe the three of us can just have the night for ourselves."
"I'd like that very much."
She smiled and kissed him on the forehead and soon took off. Max then smiled widely afterwards.
'Max, your father seems to caught the attention the United States military,' JARVIS said and Max immediately ran back downstairs.
"Dad, what's going on?!!," he yelled once he got to the computer.
"Max? Is that you?," Rhodey said over the coms. "He brought you into all of this too?"
"Uncle Rhodey? No, I brought myself into this. To make sure he doesn't kill himself. Guess there was a close call just now huh?"
"That's right," Tony said.
"So what am I supposed to tell the press you guys?"
"Uhh...training exercise. Isn't that the usual BS?"
"It's not that simple."
Later on, Rhodey appeared on the news informing the public of a failed training exercise.
"It is," Max said to himself. "It is that simple."
"Hey sweetie," Pepper said coming back in and he began to panic as he Dad just got home.
"Oh...hey Mom!!"
"...What's going on?"
"What? Oh, nothing's going on. W-What's going on with you?"
"I need to see your father," she said beginning to go downstairs.
"Oh, hang on a second!!," he yelled trying to stop her.
"Ow!! Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!!," Tony yelled as they both came in and saw JARVIS still trying to remove the suit.
'Sir, the more you struggle, the more this is going to hurt.'
"Come on, take it easy on me, it's my first time."
"What is going on here?!!," Pepper exclaimed and Max grimaced.
"...Let's face it. This is notthe worst thing you've caught me doing," Tony said trying to lighten the mood.
"...Are those bullet holes?! And you knew about this?!!"
"Well...kind of...," Max said. "I might or might not have helped build it."
"Tony!!!"
"Hey, I tried to keep it a secret from him!!"
"It's true but he just wasn't very quiet about it."
They could tell that they were not helping themselves and so they knew to just stop talking immediately.
"Max...go to your room for the moment," Pepper practicality ordered and he immediately obeyed.
Once he got to his room, he got a message from his friend.
"That's what you've been working on?!!!," she said.
"I'm guessing you saw the news, huh? Yup, it is."
"Incredible. It's powered by the arc reactor, correct?"
"You got it. But right now though, my dad and I are in a lot of trouble."
"Why?"
"My mom found out about it," he answered.
"Ooh...too bad for you. I've gotta go now, see ya."
"See ya. Say hi to your brother for me."
"I will," she said.
A few days later, Pepper found Max and Tony fixing up the suit, repairing the damage it received.
"The suit proved its worth at least, huh?," Max said. "Able to withstand a middle from both a tank and an F-22."
Tony nodded then they saw Pepper.
"Hey. You busy?," he asked and she slowly shook her head. "You mind if I send you on an errand? I need you to go to my office. You're going to hack into the mainframe and you're going to retrieve all of the recent shipping manifests."
He then handed her a small flash drive like device as Max just watched them.
"This is a lock chip, it'll get you in. It'll probably be in under Executive Files. If not, then they put it on a ghost drive, in which case you'll need to look for the lowest numeric number."
"And what do you two plan to do with this information if I bring it back here?," she questioned, knowing the answer.
"Same drill. They've been dealing under the table, and I'm going to stop them. I'm gonna find my weapons, and destroy them."
"Tony...you know that I would help you with anything. But I cannot help you if you're going to start all of this again."
"There is nothing except this," Tony began. "There is no art opening. There is no benefit. There is nothing to sign!!! There is the next mission...and nothing else."
"Is that so?," she asked. "Well then I quit. And I'm taking our son with me."
She then gestured Max to come with her, but he didn't move.
"No, Mom," Max said. "Dad is right. We need to do this."
"Max, you don't understand what it is he's doing."
"I understand just fine. He's doing the right thing."
"You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the the benefits of destruction. And now that I'm trying to protect the people that I have put in harm's way, you're just going to walk out?"
"You're gonna get yourself killed, Tony!!," Pepper argued. "You and our son!! I won't be apart of that. Nor will I allow Max to be apart of it as well. Please, Max, come with me."
"I can't. I love you both very much, but I lost my father once, I won't lose him again."
"I shouldn't be alive, you know?," Tony said as he sat down in a chair, making them both look at him. "Unless it was for a reason. I'm not crazy, you guys. I just...finally know what I was always meant to do. And I know in my heart that it's right."
Pepper just stared at them both as Max placed a hand on Tony's shoulder then looked at his mother.
"Please, Mom, help us with this," he said. "If not for Dad, then do it for me."
After a moment, Pepper grabbed the lock chip and began to walk away. But then, she stopped and looked back at them.
"You're all I have too," she said to Tony then she walked out. After a while, they both got back to work.
Later that night, after they had finished fixing up the suit, they started to watch tv when Tony got a call from Pepper, only when he answered it, a high pitched humming started. Suddenly, Max and Tony were completely paralyzed.
"Breeathe," Stane said, making himself known and helping them both back down into the couch. "Easy, easy. You remember this one, right?"
He lifted up a small device in his hands.
"It was meant to be an interrogation and capture device for the military, Max. It's a shame that the government didn't approve it. There's so many applications for causing short-term paralysis."
He then stood up straight and looked down at Tony.
"You know, when I ordered that hit on you," he began and everything began to make sense. The injunction, his resistance to the change in the company, everything. He has been the one dealing under the table, he tried to have Tony killed so that the company could be his. "I was worried that...I was killing the golden goose."
He grabbed another device Max didn't recognize and placed it over the arc reactor.
"But you see...it was just fate that you survived that," he said pressing something on the device and pulled Max's reactor out of his chest. "You had one last golden egg to give. Do you really think that just because you have an idea, that it belongs to you? ...Your father...he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now, what kind of a world would it be today if he was as selfish as you are?"
He then ripped the reactor from out of his chest.
'No...,' Max thought to himself and he tried to move but he still could not move. Then Stane turned to him.
"I am so sorry that it had to come down to this, my boy," he said. "I always thought of you as my own son, even though I always knew that you hated me."
Then he sat down next Tony and just looked at the reactor.
"Oh, it's beautiful. Tony, this is your Ninth Symphony. Oh, what a masterpiece! Look at that! This is your legacy. A new generation of weapons...with this at its heart. Weapons that will help steer the world back on course and put the balance of power in our hands. The right hands."
He placed the reactor and the device back in his suit case.
"I wish you could've seen...my prototype," he said and Tony and Max once again were shocked.
'He built his own suit,' they both thought.
"It's not as...well, not as conservative as yours."
Then he went over and picked Max up in his arms.
"It's too bad that you had to involve Pepper and your son in all of this. I would have preferred that they lived."
He then walked out and put Max in the back seat, then knocked him out just in case the paralysis wore off on the way. The last thing Max saw was Obadiah looking at him with a slight smirk on his face before everything went dark.
Max soon awoke to the sound of machinery turning on, and saw Stane place his reactor inside the massive suit he had created.
"Impressive isn't it?," Stane asked, knowing that he had awoken.
"...It's a little big," Max commented, seeing that the suit was three times bigger than his father's. "What's your codename for it? Iron Monger?"
"Didn't really have one but Iron Monger's not bad."
"You won't get away with this. You should never underestimate the Stark family."
"What can your father do to me?," he asked, walking up to him with a gun in his hand. "He's likely dead by now, just as you will be."
Then as he was about to kill him, Max kicked him in abdomen and used a sharp piece of metal nearby to cut the restraints he had on and he hen ran out with Stane shooting at him, just as there was a small explosion at the doors and so he retreated back to the suit.
Max was then met by his mom and five agents, including the one who he met at the press conference.
"Mom!!," he yelled.
"Max!!," she yelled back and hugged him tightly. "What happened?"
"It's Stane. He took Dad's reactor and is using it for his suit. It's massive, three times larger than Dad's and it's...based off that."
He then pointed to smaller metal suit, which Max could only guess was the Mark One suit.
"We'll take a look around, Max, stay close to your mother, keep her safe," Agent Coulson said.
They all then spread out and he and Pepper then heard some chains rattle and they went over to investigate it. When they got close, two eyes then lit up and began to tower them.
"Run!!," Max yelled and they both ran as the agents fired at Iron Monger, but he easily squashed them and he continued to try to grab them, but they were able to escape him...for now.
"Pepper!! Max!!," Tony yelled over the phone.
"Tony!! Thank God!!," Pepper yelled then Max took the phone from her.
"Dad listen, Stane's suit, it's massive, hope you've got it in you to beat him. How are you alive by the way?"
"Mark One reactor."
"Are you crazy?!! That's not gonna last-."
He was interrupted by Iron Monger crashing through the ground behind them.
"Where do you think you're going?," he said then readied the gun in his arm. "Your services are no longer required."
"Stane!!!!!!," Tony yelled as he dove towards. He tackled him and they went through the wall and onto the highway, also crashing through a semi trailer.
Then a car stopped in front of Stane and he then picked it up and over his head.
"I love this suit!!!"
"Put them down."
"Collateral damage, Tony."
"Divert all power to chest RT," Tony said and he shot Stane with his chest repulsor, but it did drain much of the power in the reactor he had. The driver then sped off, with Tony still on the hood. Eventually he was pulled under it, but he managed to get out from under it.
Just in time as well since the Iron Monger was speeding towards him and then grabbed a motorcycle and bashed Tony into a nearby bus. He then picked him up over his head.
"For thirty years I've been holding you up!!!," he yelled then forcefully throwing him back down then began to stomp on his chest. "I built this company from nothing!!!"
Then he threw him back into the bus.
"And nothing is going to stand in my way. Least of all...you!"
He backed up and then fired a missile at him, destroying the bus and sending Tony up into the air. But he saved himself by turning on his jet boots.
"Impressive!! You've upgraded your armor. I've made some upgrades of my own!!!"
Part of Stane's armor at the feet began to shift and thrusters on them kicked in and he began to fly up to him.
'Sir, it appears that his suit can fly,' JARVIS said.
"Duly noted, let's get him out of here up into the atmosphere."
'Sir, with only 15% power-.'
"I know the math!!! Do it!!!"
Max and Pepper then saw them both fly up into the sky.
"What's he doing?!," Pepper yelled.
"...He's trying to end this now," Max said.
A few minutes later, they saw Tony slowly fall down into the roof.
"Dad, are you alright?!"
"I'm almost out of power. I need to get out of this suit-."
Then Iron Monger dropped down and the two began to fight once again.
"...Mom, Dad. I've got a plan."
"What?/What?," they both said at the same time.
"We have to overload the reactor and blast the roof."
"Of course. Do it, it might be the only thing that can stop him."
"Well how are we gonna do it?," Pepper asked.
"I'm gonna do it," Max said.
"No, I'll do it. You go and get somewhere safe."
"Do you know how to open up all of the circuits at the central console?"
Pepper did not have answer as she knew that he had a point.
"...Fine. When I get clear of the roof, I'll let you know. Then you'll have to hit the master bypass button. It's gonna fry everything up here."
"Okay, I'm going in now," Max said, walking back inside. "When was the last time this has been done?"
"Never. Now, make sure you wait till I clear the roof. I'll buy you some time."
Max then began to turn everything on, beginning to overload the reactor. As he did so, Tony jumped onto the back of Stane's suit and began to scan for anything important.
"This looks important!!," he said then ripped out a bunch of wires. With that, everything went blind for Stane under the helmet. But he was still able to grab Tony by the head and threw him off and onto the large skylight.
He then opened up his suit so that he could see, still holding Tony's helmet.
"I never had a taste for this sort of thing, but I must admit, I'm deeply enjoying the suit!!," he yelled, then crushed the helmet and threw it back to Tony as he tried to get up. "You finally outdid yourself, Tony!! Youd have made your father proud!!"
Then, Max had finally been able to finish, the reactor was ready to blow.
"It's ready Dad, get off the roof!!," Max yelled then Stane began firing his machine gun, shattering the glass of the skylight. Then one fragment cut Max's face, leaving a cut over his left eye. "Ahhh!!!! Dad!!!!"
"How ironic, Tony!! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever!!"
"Max!!," Tony yelled.
"And now...I'm gonna kill you with it!!," Stane yelled, then fired a missile but missed...by a lot. "You ripped out my targeting system!"
"Time to hit the button!!"
"No!! If I do that, you'll be fried as well!!"
"Hold still you little prick!!"
Then Stane fires another missile that was much closer.
"Just do it!!," he yelled.
"You'll die!!!," Max yelled then another missile nearly makes Tony fall.
"PUSH IT!!!!"
Then Max finally did, but with the console hardly ever been touched, he was electrocuted by it slightly, but enough to stun him long enough for him to feel the full force of the arc reactor's energy overload and it sent him shooting out the doors and into the parking lot.
"MAX!!!!!!!," Pepper screamed and ran over and picked up her son as Stane began to fall down and was killed by the explosion caused by him falling onto the reactor.
As the last of Max's consciousness faded, some blue electricity could be seen flowing through his vein on his face, but Pepper had gotten too emotional to see this.
A few days later, Tony revealed himself as the newly named 'Iron Man.' He was now in a whole lot of trouble.
"What is wrong with you?!!!!," Pepper yelled. "You are such an ego maniac!!"
"Anyway...," Rhodey said. "I checked up on Max recently."
"We haven't been able to see him because of this, how is he?"
"Comatose. Doctor says he might not be waking up anytime soon."
Pepper then hugged Tony, despite being angry with him, beginning to tear up. Then they heard a phone go off.
"That's Max's," Tony said and he saw that there was a password to it. "Any ideas?"
"I do," Rhodey said and he took the phone and put in 'MOMDAD.' "It's from a friend of his. Shuri. Wants to know he hasn't been talking to her for the past few days."
There was a silence for a little while before Tony took the phone.
"Who's this Shuri?"
"Princess Shuri of the African country, Wakanda. The royal family and the Starks are close friends," Pepper explains.
"Hello, Shuri. This is Tony Stark."
"Mr. Stark? Where's Max?," she asked and he sighed before responding.
"There's been an accident...Max is in a coma."
Hope this was good. Next one will be Iron Man 2, and the Thor 1. I'll have the next chapter up as soon as possible. See ya later.