AN: So far I have been making gradual changes, I have the plot line laid out for the next few chapters and there are some things from within the MCU that I needed to happen through the last few chapters. So for those looking for major changes that is going to start here.
The part in bold will be a flashback.
Arriving in Monaco, Harry immediately checked into his hotel before telling Pepper to grab him before they left for the race. Pulling out the laptop he gotten from Tony, he set it up on the desk in the room and turned it on. "Okay Jarvis talk to me. Those elements I provided you, are any of them capable of helping Tony?"
Among the things Harry had with him from his time in his old dimension were minerals and materials that where gifted to him from the goblins after explaining his actions in robbing the bank. Three of the minerals he brought with him were actually magical elements that were able to create and process energy in a pure form. Sneaking down to the lab after Tony had gone to bed, he brought some samples with him.
"Mr. Potter, it is late. what are you doing?" Jarvis, who as a machine never slept, kept watch over the house. Usually late at night he just didn't inquire of the houses inhabitants.
"Jarvis I might have a possible solution to Tony's problem, but I need your help in determining if any of them are plausible." Reaching into his bag, Harry pulled out three ingots and placed them on the table for Jarvis to scan.
"I can't seem to locate these materials in any known database Mr. Potter, could you explain what they are for me."
Picking up the first in the line, which was a blue stone with gem like qualities, "This is mithril it is one of the strongest materials where I am from. It's capable of processing massive amounts of pure energy with no known downsides." Placing it down he picked up the next ingot; "This is known to my people as dragon stone. when a dragon dies, over time its body breaks down. the scales, which possess high amounts of magic, if not harvested and preserved properly cause the scales to melt as the rest of the body decays. That melted form mixes with the Earth creating this, allowing it to store and release energy. my people tend to use this stone as Ward Stones for protecting our homes." Placing it down Harry picked up the third and final ingot, "This one there is no known name for. It was given to me by Norwegian Wizards. Apparently, this stone was changed by the power of the "Bifrost" touching down on pure silver when they visited our planet. This is used in many different healing potions which when used can erase all negative side effects."
"It will take me approximately two weeks to scan the elements and see if any single or combination of will work for Mr. Stark, I will need samples of each you hold on to the rest sir." Nodding, Harry took off a small piece of each, placing them on the sampling tray before replacing them in his bag and heading up stairs.
"Well Mr. Potter I have tested each sample you provided and while no single material will provide the needed power output that Mr. Stark needs to power his Arc Reactor, a combination of the un-named stone and Mithril should, according to my calculations, provide the necessary power needed without the harmful side effects."
Harry froze in place not sure what to say, "will we be able to combine them? Jarvis what do we need to do?"
"According to my tests sir we will have to superheat each element to 3000 Kelvin before we will be able to form a combination of the two, however as they are untested in this way it would be recommended to test the power capabilities of this before we put this in Mr. Stark's chest."
Nodding, Harry was about to respond when there was a knock at the door. Quickly closing the laptop to hide the information, he stood up and walked over to the door opening it to find Pepper on the other side. "Pepper what can I do for you?"
Pepper smiled "the race is about to start. Happy has the car waiting outside to bring us to the restaurant where we will be watching the race from." Harry nodded only vaguely aware of what Pepper had said in his head he was going over the various fire based spells he knew. The hottest of which was a modified version of FiendFyre he had developed with the help of a Native American shaman. It contained all the heat and power of regular FiendFyre, but was much easier to control, he didn't however know how hot it burned he would have to partner with Jarvis when he got back to test that out.
Arriving at the site they would be watching the race from, Tony immediately started acting himself and taking total control of everything. Walking over to a table in the corner he claimed it turning to Natalie, "Is this table us?" Seeing her shake her head in negative reply he continued on, "well make it us then." Before continuing onto the bar, just as he had taken a seat and was enjoying a drink, he heard a voice call out.
"Anthony is that you?" This caused Tony to groan. Justin Hammer.
"IF it isn't my least favorite person in the world, Justin Hammer." Tony laughed while Harry sat in the background sipping his whiskey.
Hammer continued as if he hadn't heard the comment. "I assume you know Miss. Christine Everhart from Vanity Fair, she's doing a spread on me for the magazine."
Before Tony could answer however Pepper was quick to interject "she did quite the spread on Tony last year."
"Well anyway…" Hammer continued, "Anthony, I was just telling Miss Everhart about how I would be presenting at your Expo in a few months."
Tony nodded before standing up and grabbing Harry pulling him out into the hallway where they found an empty alcove. "I need to get away for a little bit, anything you can do to help me?"
Harry contemplated for a second before waving his hand over Tony and then in the empty space next to him an exact duplicate popped up, "I can give you about five minutes to get away before the illusion will fade so whatever you are planning to do, do it fast."
Tony nodded before slipping away and Harry guided the illusion back to the bar where he kept an eye on his watch, at the four and a half minute mark Harry sent the illusion to the bathroom using mental commands where it faded away in one of the stalls. During that time Tony had snuck downstairs, where he got suited up in a racers outfit and out to the track where he kicked out his driver and took over.
Understandably, Pepper freaked out and rounded on Natalie. "Did you have any idea about this!" At her head shake and negative reply, she turned back to the TV taking a big gulp of her wine.
Ever since Tony had hired Natalie, Pepper had been quick to blame a lot of Tony's actions on her and if Harry was reading the situation correctly, he would guess it had something to do with jealousy. Turning to the TV as the race started, he watched intently. The camera started to pan from the race to where a man seemed to be walking out on the track and Harry felt a horrible feeling appear in his stomach. When he pulled out what appeared to be electric whips and started slicing cars apart, Harry sprang into action. Under the table he opened his pocket dimension pulling out his bracers. He pulled them on and feeling them self-secure to his wrists, he pulled out the jacket and pants and using a switching spell to put them on placing his clothes inside the dimension.
Standing up Harry pulled the hood up over his head and apparated down to the track just behind the man where he was able to just save a car with a well-timed protection spell. "I don't remember seeing a performance act on the list of events." Harry quipped before he had to move out of the way as the man turned and tried to slice the spot where he just was. Bringing up his hands, Harry fired off three quick blasting spells and a disarming spell attempting to get the whips away from him. While all the spells struck true, they did very little.
The man turned as another car came racing around the corner Harry looked and saw it was Tony. As he saw the man about to slice Tony's car, Harry was too far away for him to be able to get a shield over the car so he apparated on to the front of the car, wrapped to shield spells around his arms and hands and grabbed the whips throwing them back at the man. Turning to Tony he summoned a stone from the ground turning it into a portkey. He focused on Happy before shoving it in Tony's hand. "get suited up quick," touching the stone to activate it Tony disappeared.
Getting off the car, he turned around just in time as the man took another swing at him. Groaning, he apparated out of the way before deciding to try fighting electricity with electricity.
Focusing on his lightning spell, he summoned two bolts, but instead of having them strike his opponent he channeled one bolt each into his bracers making his arms light up with the crackles of lighting. He started throwing miniature bolts at his enemy aiming for the reactor in his chest but none of them managed to come close being intercepted by his whips.
Just as he was about to give up Tony arrived in the Iron Man suit.
"we have to take out his power source. According to my readings, if we get the arc reactor, the suit will shut down."
"No Shit, I just can't get a clear shot due to those bloody whips of his." Summoning more lightning, this time he directed one blast to the man while wrapping the other around his arm again. "I''ll keep him distracted Iron Man you go for the Reactor."
Getting a nod from Tony, Harry picked up his assault launching mini bolts of lightning from his one hand while using the other to launch blasting hexes at the other man.
Tony slowly made his approach from behind once he had his opening he moved in and reached for the Arc Reactor in the mans chest, he studied it for a moment and then crushed it in his hand.
Tony stayed behind in Monaco to deal with unfinished business, which Harry interpreted as talking to the man and finding out more about him. Harry bowed out, apparating back to Malibu to work with Jarvis to see if they could find a way to superheat the material hot enough to be able to smelt them together to form a new power source for Tony. Arriving in the lab after taking a quick shower, Harry nodded. "Okay Jarvis, I have only one spell in my repertoire which should generate enough heat. I'm going to need you to analyze and tell me if it will work. However, I'm gonna need somewhere to blast so if you could open a window," turning around to face Tony's bots. "Dummy you are on fire extinguisher duty I need you to put out any stray sparks."
Opening the pocket dimension, Harry took out the bracers sliding them onto his wrist. Feeling them secure into place, he walked towards the now open window. Bringing his hand up and taking aim he cast the one of the few spells he couldn't cast non-verbally "Ignis Infernalis" allowing the fire to shoot forth from the bracers out the window and where it dissipated with nothing to burn. Giving Jarvis a few minutes to get a proper analysis before he cut off the supply of magic to the spell causing the flames to slowly die off.
"According to my scans the fire burns at a temperature of approximately 3500 Kelvin which should be more than enough to smelt the materials together to form a core, the issue comes however that at the current time there is no way to contain the fire in a proper conduit to be able to smelt the materials together."
At first Harry was happy to hear that the fire would be hot enough to bring the materials together, but he wasn't as happy however when hearing there would be no way to contain the fire properly to be able smelt the materials together, "We may have to bring Tony in now. If we gave him our findings, I am sure, given enough time he would be able to find a way to be able to contain it long enough for the materials to melt and then be combined together." Sighing Harry took off the bracers and returned them to his pocket dimension before sitting at the computer looking at the calculations.
It was two days later that Tony arrived back from Monaco, where he immediately shut himself in the lab and had Jarvis pull up everything, he had the man who had by now been identified as Ivan Vanko. Apparently, Ivan's father Anton had worked with Tony's father on the original ARC reactor design.
Eventually deciding that Tony had enough time to wallow, Harry went down to the lab to get Tony to work on figuring out a way to contain the fire in a way that would allow them to smelt the materials together for the new core. Entering the lab, he found Tony sitting in one of his car rebuilds that he worked on in his spare time "Tony time to get up and get back to work."
Tony barely even turned around. "what's the point? the arc reactor keeping me alive is killing me with no way to replace it, after telling everyone there was no one close to building a suit this Ivan Vanko shows up with his own…"
However before Tony had a chance to continue Harry cut him off, "Fuck Ivan. according to news reports he got blown up in his cell late last night early this morning. as for your ARC reactor me and Jarvis found a suitable material, but we need your help to make it work." Walking over to the console Harry brought up the calculations and work that him and Jarvis had done, "some of the materials I have with me from my dimension are strong enough to provide you a new core without the side effects, however, there is the matter of needing to heat both materials…I have a spell I can use but it burns too hot… so we either need to find a new way to bring them together or a way to contain the fire from my spell." Harry gestured to the measurements they had taken on the melting point of each element as well as the temperature his fire burned at.
Over the next week and a half Harry and Tony tried all sorts of metals and combinations of metals to be able to build a forge able to withstand the heat given off by his spell however every combination they tried seemed to fail. Finally, Tony seemed ready to give up "this is useless. Every known metal melts well before we reach the point of your flames and any attempts to find a new way to super heat even close to the 3000 Kelvin just causes an explosion."
Harry groaned and then cast a tempus to look at the time and date, "why don't we take a break for the night and tackle this in the morning. It's your birthday tonight and you shouldn't miss out. I am sure we will figure out something." Nodding, him and Tony picked themselves up and went upstairs to shower and change for the party.
Nothing spectacular happened at the party that night unless of course you count Tony sneaking off at some point in the middle of the night without anyone realizing it.
It was mid-day the next day when Tony finally returned telling him about Fury showing up at the diner he was at and giving him his father's research materials. Apparently, he was working on a two part project; one part was some kind of stronger, harder to break down kind of metal; the other was the ARC reactor, which according to Fury he felt he was able to take no further at the time. Leaving Coulson to babysit Tony, Fury left, telling Tony the world needed Iron Man but more importantly the world needed him.
Bringing the box down to the lab Harry and Tony started going over all of its contents. While Tony was watching the videos which mostly just appeared to be blooper reels of his father's introduction the Expo, Harry was looking over some of the documentation that had been kept inside. Looking them over, half appeared to be for some form of excavation project while the other half appeared to be a shipping manifest. Neither form said what was being excavated or shipped however judging by the amounts paid, Howard Stark didn't want anyone talking about what it was.
The following morning Harry awoke and went down to the lab expecting to find Tony up and working only to find he wasn't there, searching the house he wasn't able to find him anywhere. Eventually Tony returned halfway into the later afternoon with the original layout of the Stark Expo from 1942.
After assembling the layout, he had Jarvis digitize it for him, "Harry is it just me or does this look to be pointing to something?" Tony was studying the fact that the Expo design, while round, seemed to have arrows incorporated into the display pointing at something.
Harry walked forward studying the map. "well if those are arrows then this could very well be an X and you know they do say X marks the spot." Harry was pointing at the fact that all four pathways that led to the showcase pavilion in the middle seemed to form an X with the pavilion in the middle. Walking over towards the layout. Harry picked up the model for the Pavilion which was a lot heavier than he would think. Thinking it may be the material, he picked up another which was as light as expected to be.
Holding up the showcase pavilion Harry said, "Jarvis analyze." Waiting for Jarvis to give them results, Harry turned towards Tony, "this feels heavier than the rest of the displays on here something is different."
Eventually Jarvis had results. "the structure appears to be an alloy made out of equal parts Vibranium to equal parts Adamantium."
Tony stared walking over to take the model "Jarvis what is the melting point of the metals?" Tony was studying the model in his hand.
Jarvis was silent for a moment while running tests before answering, "Separately, both have a melting point of approximately 3300 Kelvin, however it appears in their combined form they have a melting point of 7500 Kelvin."
Tony and Harry met eyes before Tony spoke up. "if my thinking is correct then we should be able to make a furnace from this to melt down your materials and make my core…" trailing off Tony turned back to the map "knowing my father he hid the alloy away not able to do anything with it back then and I would say… X marks the spot."
Harry smiled, "be right back," he stood up and apparated out. Harry returned several hours later with a giant lockbox, "I found this buried beneath the showcase pavilion," waving his hand over it the lock clicked open and Tony walked towards it opening it up, revealing it contain every last bit of the alloy his father was able to make.
The next few days were spent reshaping and turning the metal alloy into an appropriate furnace. As they were finishing setting up, Coulson arrived "I heard you broke the perimeter several times."
Tony laughed. "yeah, you here to punish me?" he didn't bother looking up he was too busy inspecting every last inch of the furnace.
Coulson however shook his head in the negative, "actually, no. I am just here to tell you I have been reassigned Director Fury needs me in New Mexico," he turned to face Harry "you as well Potter, something has turned up and we need your expertise on the situation."
Harry nodded, "I can do that as soon as me and Tony are done here."
"Unfortunately, that isn't going to work, we need to be there yesterday, whatever is out there is causing a lot attention and we need to contain it quickly but none of our guys are able to move it."
Harry sighed before standing up, "is the furnace ready Tony?" At Tony's nod Harry gestured both men back before opening his pocked dimension and putting on the bracers, taking aim into the furnace he cast "Ignis Infernalis!" The fire sprang to life. Harry grabbed some of the wood nearby and placed it in the furnace before turning to Tony; "as long as you keep it fed the fire will burn." Turning to Coulson he looked him over "give me a few minutes to pack and we can go."
AN: Whew this is my longest chapter yet, but there were quite a few events that I needed to get through. As you can surmise from this chapter, the changes are going to start getting bigger. Let me know what you think.