AN: Love all the positive feedback, I am not going to tolerate flames if you don't like it don't read it. As always I own nothing, this is just purely for fun in my down time. JK Rowling owns anything borrowed from the Harry Potter Universe. While Marvel its universe and its characters are owned by Marvel. Anything in Italics is a flashback
Once getting back in the lab Harry had no issue getting off his bracers all he had to was reign his magic back in and the bracers sprang free. Tony however getting out of his suit was a different story. While getting it on was seamless for the most part, taking it off was proving to be a whole other ball game. As they were just starting to make progress in getting the suit off,
Pepper showed up announcing her presence with a shriek.
"Are those bullet holes!?"
After helping Tony get the last piece off Harry stepped back laughing ready to watch the show. Tony groaned "Thanks for the help buddy," he threw over his shoulder to Harry before turning to Pepper.
"They're not, not bullet holes Pepp. come on I was out testing my new invention a little when I happened to piss a few people off and they shot at me. It was nothing I couldn't handle, besides Harry knew what I was doing and he wouldn't let anything happen to me." Tony finished smugly.
Pepper whirled around facing Harry "you knew he was going to do something dangerous and stupid and let him do it anyway I thought you would talk him out of doing things like this!"
Harry studied Pepper for a moment "I figured I would take the path of least resistance. if I tried to stop him he'd find a way to do it anyway so if I let him do it but went with him then I could prevent him from dying…" before he could continue Pepper cut him off, "What could you possibly do against BULLETS!?"
Harry laughed. The only one who knew of his magic so far was Tony, who he looked over towards, mentally asking if Pepper could be trusted.
At his nod, he looked back at Pepper. "I've got a few skills that enable me to keep the both of us safe."
Picking up a random piece of metal on the table next to them, he waved his hand over it for effect letting it float before waving his hand again and turning it into a bird. It flew around the lab before landing on Harry's hand and he turned it back into metal. "I've got magic that allows me to do quite a bit so if Tony had come into any danger, I would've taken care of it."
Pepper stood there not sure how to react before laughing anxiously. "you have magic and he has a robot suit; I have gone insane," waving his hand Harry cast a cheering charm over Pepper to help calm her down.
"Now Tony I believe you had something you needed of Pepper?" Harry inquired, hoping to change the subject.
Laughing, Tony walked over to his desk picking up a flash drive. "Yes, Pepper, I need you to go to my office and hack into Stark servers. I can't do it from here and me showing up would cause to much trouble, but you going in wouldn't turn too many heads." Handing Pepper the flash drive, Tony explained how it worked and how to get what he needed before sending her on her way.
Arriving at Stark Industries, Pepper made her way up to Tony's office. She sat down at his computer and plugged in the flash drive. Panicking at first when the security alert went off, she relaxed when it got into the computer and silenced the alert. Searching through the computer as Tony instructed, she eventually came across the Ghost Drive on the computer. Inside it she found shipping manifests selling weapons to the other side and plans for a suit like Tony's or what she had seen of it. Eventually she came across a video of Tony surrounded by armed men with cables running out of a hole in his heart. At first she couldn't understand what was being said not knowing the language, but running the translate program built into the Stark computers quickly solved that problem.
"You did not tell us the man you wanted us to kidnap was Tony Stark. The price has now doubled."
Gasping Pepper copied that over as well when Obidiah showed up. Pepper had never really liked Obidiah; she felt like he held to many secrets and seeing the things on this drive had proven many of her fears true. "now this doesn't look good does it." Pepper was at a loss words, sure she had been found out. "sitting in the boss's chair… it's ok, I won't tell. we all want to see what its like to feel a bit of power."
Discreetly moving the newspaper on the desk to cover the flash drive, all she could do was nod as she watched him walk over to the whiskey Tony kept in his office. "you know, Tony always did get the good stuff." He poured himself a drink and turned away. Using the opportunity, Pepper looked at the screen and saw the transfer had completed now she just had to get out and she would be safe.
Looking around the desk, she picked up a few papers then using the newspaper for coverage she unplugged the flash drive. "well I really must be going," sliding both into her purse, she went to leave.
Before she could make it out the door, "Oh, Pepper. Is that today's paper? You mind if I take a read?"
Handing over the paper she made her way out of the office. As she hurried her way outside, she ran into Agent Coulson on her way out in the lobby. "Miss Potts! About that meeting?"
Without pausing, "Want a meeting? Come with me, you will get one hell of a meeting." Hurrying out the door, she followed Coulson to his vehicle. Pepper pulled out her phone calling Tony to fill him in on what she had found.
Harry had left to pick up a pizza, leaving Tony home alone when he got a call from Pepper. "Pepper be careful, he's dangerous…" was all he managed to get out before he was paralyzed. "You know, Tony, you really did invent the best devices. When I had you kidnapped and those vandals thought they could demand more money, I thought I had lost my golden goose. Who knew even in the worst conditions on Earth you would lay one more." By this point Obidiah had walked into view. Tony saw him reach into his bag and pull out a device and approach him. "Now, I won't kill you right away, but by the time anyone finds you… that shrapnel in your chest will." Placing the device over the arc reactor in Tony's chest, he flipped the switch and it pulled the arc reactor from Tony's chest. He left Tony to die.
After he was gone, Tony started dragging himself down the stairs to get to the lab. Harry arrived back with the pizza. Walking down to the lab, Harry found Tony halfway down the stairs. "Tony? are you ok?" Rushing over, Harry saw the arc reactor was missing from his chest holding out his hand, "accio arc reactor!" Feeling the original arc reactor that Tony had constructed in the cave appear in his hand, he was confused, but in a hurry so Harry reconnected it to the magnet in Tony's chest.
Gasping, Tony sat up. "That bastard. I am going to get him back for this," heading down into the lab Tony switched Jarvis back on "Jarvis how is the new suit? Is it ready to go?" "Of course, sir," Tony nodded before walking over to the pad. "well then suit up." Seeing Tony suit up, Harry walked over to the bracers picking them up and placing them on his wrists and summoning his jacket and pants from the mannequin setup in the corner of the lab. Swapping them for his clothes he turned towards Tony. He nodded before flipping down the faceplate and flying out of the lab. Harry quickly followed behind him.
Pepper had explained everything to Coulson. He was quick to lead her back to the headquarters for the Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement Logistics Division where he mobilized agents to follow them to Stark Industries and arrest Obidiah. Arriving they ran into the Arc Reactor room, not sure where he would have gone Pepper turned around when she saw the door marked Section 10. Running over to the door she attempted to scan her key card but was unable to get the door to open which she found weird, because as Tony's assistant, she had all-access.
Coulson pulled her away while one of the agents placed a localized explosive on the door. Quickly covering her hears, the door exploded inwards falling to the ground with a bang. Following behind the agents, they swarmed the lower levels looking for Obidiah. The first sign something went pear shaped was the sound of a body hitting the wall followed by loud thumping. The next thing Pepper knew she was running from a giant robot man. Running outside, she tried to find somewhere to go before the ground opened up in front of her and the robot came flying out. "Now, why did you have to go and run like that Pepper? Now I have to kill you."
Watching the machine take aim, she ducked her head and turned away not wanting to watch the beam fly towards her. When it never came, she looked up and saw a blue dome surrounding her before she saw a red and gold blur fly forward and strike Stane.
Coming to land beside her, Harry lowered his hood. "You should probably take cover and leave Stane to us. We may need your help though. This is what I need you to do," Harry leaned down whispering a plan in Pepper's ear.
Replacing the hood on his head, Harry took off after Obidiah and Tony, catching up to them on the freeway just as Obidiah was about to pick up a car and smash Tony with it. He flew up behind Obidiah and blasted him with several bolts of pure magic.
Yelling out at the intruder Obidiah, turned. "Well, well, who do we have here? If my hunch is correct, I would say we have Tony's new friend Harry. Well you don't have a suit and those little repulsor blasts aren't going to do anything to me." Pointing both hands at Harry, Obidiah took aim and released flamethrower blasts at Harry. Intending to charbroil him, he held the blast for several seconds before turning it off. He was expecting to see a pile of ash fall to the ground. What he wasn't expecting was a glowing blue orb to be around Harry protecting him from the flames.
Tony seeing his opportunity quickly fired several shots at the distracted Obidiah. Flying up close Tony attempted to disconnect some of the servos in the suit, however he couldn't get close enough before he was smacked away. Harry flew over and caught him before he could get smacked down leaning down and whispering so only Tony could hear him "We have to contain this. Follow me and lead him back towards the factory."
Both men took off flying back towards the factory. Tony had an idea. "Harry, listen I can guarantee Obidiah didn't know about the icing problem I had with the original suit, so if I can get him to fly high enough, the lines will freeze over like on my first flight. That could be our chance to take him out."
Harry thought for a moment "if you get him high enough I may have a trick that can end this," nodding, they eventually touched down at the factory where Tony proceeded to antagonize Obidiah for quite a bit before taking off making sure that he was being followed.
Turning around Tony faced Obadiah, "Just one question for you, how'd you deal with the icing problem?"
"Icing problem?" Obidiah's suit started to fizzle out and he began a downwards spiral towards the ground.
Before he could get to far, Harry appeared above him and focused his magic towards the heavens he summoned a bolt of lightning from the storm that had been building around them. Thrusting his hand down he directed the bolt of lightning into the suit. Hovering, he watched Stane fall as Tony appeared next to him turning his head questioningly.
"Little trick I picked up on my travels around the world. Apparently Norweigan wizards created it based on interactions with 'Thor'," flying down, the pair touched down on the roof where Obidiah had landed.
The pair smiled upon finding the suit the non-functional "I don't think it was made to handle five billion joules of electricity." Tony joked.
Harry shook his head and apparated them both to the ground.
Earlier while flying towards the factory Tony look towards Harry "I've got a plan but it I only want to use it as a last resort," "I'm listening.." Tony stopped hovering in mid-air "this arc reactor in my chest isn't built for long term fighting so we need to distract him long enough to have someone overload the Arc reactor in the factory if we can disable Stane and his suit on top of the roof of the Arc reactor building then the resultant blast should be enough to take him out." Nodding Harry thought for a second "I may have some skills that can work in our favor at disabling the suit if it comes down to it." With that they resumed their flight towards Stark Industries.
AN: The next chapter will build more on the lightning ability and explain it more asl well. Let me know what you thought of the fight scene. It was my first time writing something like this, so any feedback would be appreciated!