AN: Wow was not expecting this story to take off as much as it as. The last chapter was a bit rushed but that was on my part as it was mostly made to be filler this chapter is going to be where things start to diverge as always I own nothing. Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling and Marvel and its characters are owned by Marvel which in association belongs to disney
After spending all of the previous week with Tony in his lab, Harry was excited to get out and explore the area. Tony, however, had other ideas. "Hey Merlin, come down to the lab. I got something to show you!" Groaning, Harry followed Tony downstairs to the lab. He saw Tony putting on what appeared to be high tech boots. "what are those?" Harry asked gesturing towards the boots. "These are the first step in the 2.0 version of my new suit. I have to perfect the flight before I build the rest of the suit," Harry groaned, "I thought the suit was for escaping, and now your building another one?"
Tony studied him for a moment "You saw what I saw over there… those were my weapons. My name, my reputation is behind those and I intend to put a stop to it. Now, you can help me or leave, but I'm doing this." Tony powered up the boots, immediately flipping upside down and flying into the roof behind him and then falling into the car immediately below him. Harry started laughing before walking over and ensuring Tony wasn't injured.
After helping him up and being able to stop laughing he said, "Tony you might want to recalibrate and possibly add in some kind of balancing mechanism," Harry suggested.
After getting the boots off, Tony raced over to his console bringing up his designs. "If I add in arm bracers, I should be able to stabilize the flight patterns," was all that Harry understood before Tony started getting into numbers he didn't understand. Eventually he stood up telling Jarvis to render them. "Ok while that is going let's head out and grab something to eat."
Guiding Harry up and out of the house, he led him to the car he had parked out front. Stopping for food and for Tony to show Harry the sights, they eventually returned to the house after about an hour. When they returned to the lab, the bracers were complete. Getting them on along with the foot propulsion systems, Tony began his testing,
Harry was quick to caution, "perhaps this time start at one percent power?"
Tony nodded "Good point. Jarvis start at one percent, take off in 3,2,1," Tony started hovering around the room. Slowly increasing the power, he eventually capped out at five percent before landing. "Jarvis, lets incorporate this design into the new armor," after getting the affirmative from Jarvis he turning to Harry and bringing up a hologram schematic of the gauntlets they had designed in the cave.
"I have redesigned your gauntlet system, if you remember in the cave the original designed burned out due to overload from your raw power, I have designed the new system to connect with you and redirect the extra power back into you allowing for less power loss with each concurrent spell and less ambient power in the system." As he talked Tony gestured to the several places that they gauntlets would loop the ambient magic back into the system.
Harry nodded, "I appreciate it Tony," walking over to the console Harry studied the design. "Not a fan of the color though, can we do them in a black and silver something that will go with my outfit a bit better and allow me be to blend in more as well."
Tony nodded "Jarvis did you get that? Also, too much gold on mine lets add some red in there."
"Very good sir I shall begin rendering final render time is around three and half hours."
Tony nodded before turning around as a news broadcast came on talking about the Stark Benefit Gala. "Jarvis did we get an invite to that?"
"We did not sir."
Nodding, Tony turned to Harry. "Let's crash my own Benefit Gala." Leading Harry upstairs, "I don't think I have a tux that will fit you…" Tony trailed off seeing Harry smirk "…and let me guess you can just magic one to fit you" at Harry's nod. Tony stepped into his closet grabbing a tux before handing it to Harry. "Meet downstairs in 15 minutes, magic man," before closing the bedroom door behind him
Heading to his room, Harry put on the tux before using magic to shrink it to fit. Heading downstairs, Harry met Tony by the front door. "So Mister Magic, can you drive?" Tony asked.
Harry nodded, "learned several years ago," he answered evasively not having yet come around to telling Tony how long he'd been alive.
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Tony tossed Harry a set of keys pointing towards a car as they walked outside "race you to the Gala…" climbing inside the car, Harry revved the engine a few times before taking off keeping pace with Tony just barely passing him as they pulled up to the Gala. Climbing out of the car, Harry followed Tony's lead, handing over the keys to the valet.
They began walking inside where they were accosted by Obidiah. "Tony, Harry, I didn't think you were coming."
Ever since Harry had met Obidiah, something about the man had set him on edge, however the way he had greeted them just now seemed to set off every alarm that Harry had from the war.
Tony who was more used to dealing with him by now quickly stepped in. "We were going stir crazy in the house and how can you expect me not to show up at my own Gala…Harry is just here cause he's got nothing better to do then hang out with stuffy rich people."
Harry was quick to jump in. "I may not have anything better to do but I am not afraid to tell one stuffy rich guy where to stuff it," he replied laughing with that Harry and Tony proceeded into the gala.
Inside, they immediately made a stop at the bar getting drinks before proceeding to mingle. Things went south when they were confronted by a reporter. "Mr. Stark care to comment on the latest weapons shipment that was just delivered to the Ten Rings Organization that was recently used for an attack on the city of Guilmera?"
Tony stood there shocked, so Harry quickly stepped in "Mr. Stark has placed a hard stop on sales of all weapons and will be investigating all claims of continued sales internally."
Grabbing Tony, he navigated him outside where Tony proceeded to confront Obidiah. "Tell me you aren't responsible?"
As Harry expected Obidiah played dumb. Getting their cars from the valet, Harry and Tony proceeded back to the estate.
Arriving back at the estate they went down to the lab where Jarvis had finished fabrication on the bracers and the suit. Taking the bracers, Harry started placed them over his wrists letting his magic pulse they activated and secured themselves to his wrists. While Tony got suited up, he walked over to the makeshift target range that Tony had built in the lab, Harry proceeded to test the bracers, firing off a few test spells. He could already tell they improved his casting nearly ten-fold and the pain was nearly non-existent. Turning towards Tony, Harry watched Tony take a test flight in the lab before taking off. Having an idea of what Tony had in mind, Harry summoned his jacket and pants using a switching spell to put them on he stared after the Tony.
Harry, who had only attempted flight without his broom once before, thought for a second before allowing pure magic to flow through the bracers before he directed it to surround him and slowly started to lift off the ground. Allowing his mind to drift to what it was like to fly, Harry took off after Tony, slowly gaining speed and altitude until he caught up to Tony. "Let me guess, your plan is to fly to Guilmera and put a stop to the Ten Ring attacks there?"
"Yes, and don't attempt to stop me." Tony replied. Harry held up his hands. "Not at all, just wanted to make sure we were on the same page." Pulling up the hood on his jacket, he activated the charms in place to shield his identity and conceal his face in darkness. Harry gestured for Tony to lead the way. Taking off, the pair continued flying through the night until they reached Guilmera. Touching down they immediately put a stop to the terrorists who were attacking the locals before they started bringing out the big guns against them.
Quickly raising a shield in front of them, Harry was just able to stop a tank shot from hitting them before Tony launched a missile into the tank and blew it up. Nodding to the villagers, they took off with Harry following Tony's lead. After flying for a bit, Harry noticed that Tony was arcing downwards. Touching down, they came upon an encampment full of weapons. Taking the lead Harry started blowing up the caches as they were attacked, going on the defensive Harry threw up a shield covering himself and Tony.
Seeing that the attacks weren't getting through they started trying to rush them which is exactly what Harry wanted as he let his magic flow down into the ground turning it into quicksand which caused the enemy to start sinking. Seeing the battle was complete they took off again intent on returning to Malibu.
Thankfully Harry had some foresight to cover them in notice-me-not charms as they began their attacks so that the military wouldn't find out until it was too late. Eventually returning to Malibu they landed back in the lab.
"See, sister? Events are already changing. In every single version of events, the military catches on to Tony too early. However, through Harry's intervention they were able to get in and get out unseen." Death pointed out to her sister.
Fate however was quick to intervene. "That may be, but by changing that point other events may not go in their favor. The only thing going for them currently is those who needed to notice their actions did," was her response as she studied the view in front of her. Turning to her sister Fate continued. "I don't know why you thought it smart to send him back to the beginning when we could very well put in him close enough to the first team up…" she trailed off seeing Death laugh.
"Tony Stark is known in his universe as the Merchant of Death. While that may not mean anything in the grand scheme of things, he has been dealt a crap hand while trying to do right by those important to him," here death paused. "I may not be as all-knowing as you are. I do however see everyone's death and there are eight million different ways that he is supposed to die and I intend to make sure his death is from old age." Finishing her rant, Death disappeared from her sisters dimension, leaving her to study her tapestry.