Alright, Alright! Another chapter! Woohoo! Super fast on this one huh? Anyways, I is still waiting for you brilliant and imaginative people to send in OCs or yourselves to be in this or other stories. The format is in chapter three.

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Underwater, near New York City

A section of pipe was cut off a group of wires by a laser coming from none other than Iron Man himself. The red and gold armored man smoothly put a curved, electronic object on the line of wires. The device twisted around, attaching to the wires, and lengthened to attach to the two points where the pipe had been cut. In its middle, was a few glowing, blue rings.

As soon as the device was clearly attached, Tony Stark (well known as Iron Man) turned and launched upwards, coming out of the water near a cruise boat with a large splash. He stopped for a moment in the air before rocketing to his left towards the Big Apple. As he flew he spoke, "Good to go on this end. The rest is up to you."

"You disconnected the transmission lines; Are we off the grid?" Pepper Potts spoke to Stark while he watched a live film of her on his display in his suit.

"Stark Tower is about to become a beacon of self-sustaining, clean energy"

"Well, assuming the arc reactor takes over and actually works."

"I assume. Light her up." He watched as Stark Tower gradually lit up from the bottom to the top, finally stopping at the large 'Stark' on the building.

"How does it look?" Pepper asked.

"Like Christmas, but with more… me."

Feeling some excitement Pepper said, "We gotta go wider on the public awareness campaign. You need to do some press. I'm in DC tomorrow, I'm working on the zoning for the next three buildings."

"Pepper," Tony started, "You're killing me at the moment. Remember: Enjoy the moment." He hovered above the balcony of Stark Tower.

"Get in here and I will."

The boosters turned off and he landed. He walked as the machinery disassembled his suit. He didn't get far before Jarvis alerted him, "Sir, Agent Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D is on the line."

"I'm not in," Stark said as the helmet came off, "I'm actually out."

There was a pause up until half the suit was off of Tony's body, revealing the arc reactor, and Jarvis spoke again, "Sir, I'm afraid he's insisting."

"Grow a spine, Jarvis. I've got a date."

He walked inside as the last boot came off and headed in a loop towards where Pepper Potts was sitting looking at a display of the tower. She spoke, "Levels are holding steady," she bit her lip, "I think."

"Of course they are. I was directly involved. Which brings me to my next question: How does it feel to be a genius?" He walked slightly past her.

"Well, ha, I wouldn't really know now, would I?"

"What do you mean?" He said as she turned to face him, "All this… came from you."

"No, all this came from that," she said, tapping the arc reactor in his chest.

"Give yourself some credit. Please. Stark Tower is your baby, give yourself… 12 percent of the credit."

"12 percent?"

"An argument could be made for 15."

"12 percent, my baby?" She said walking to a circular area that had some chairs, a long, brown-cushioned seat, and a table with champagne glasses and bucket holding champagne, wine, or some other spirit.

"Well, I did do all the heavy lifting. Literally, I lifted the heavy things. And, sorry, but the security snafu? That was on you."

"Ohhh," she said, pouring the drink into two glasses.

"My private elevator-"

"You mean our elevator?"

"-it was teeming with sweaty workmen," sitting down and accepting a glass, he added, "I'm going to pay for that comment about percentages in some subtle way later, aren't I?"

"Not gonna be that subtle."

"I'll tell you what. Next building's gonna say 'Potts' on the tower."

"On the lease."

"...Call your mom, can you bunk over?"

Their light banter was interrupted by Jarvis, "Sir, the telephone. I'm afraid my protocols are being overwritten."

From Tony's cell came a voice, "Mr. Stark we need to talk."

Tony picked it up and monotonically said, "You have reached the life model decoy of Tony Stark. Please leave a message."

"This is urgent."

"Then leave it urgently," he stopped when the elevator doors opened revealing Phil Coulson hanging up, "Security breach! That's on you."

The second part was directed to Pepper who turned with a smile, "Phil! Come in"

"'Phil'?"

"I can't stay," Agent Coulson said.

"Uh, his first name is 'Agent,'" Tony claimed standing up along with Pepper.

Feeling more hospitable than Mr. Stark, Pepper said, "Come on in. We're celebrating."

"Which is why he can't stay," Tony hissed while smiling.

Phil pulled a device out from under his arm, "We need you to look this over as soon as possible"

Tony was shaking his head, "I don't like being handed things."

"That's fine, because I love to be handed things. Let's trade," Pepper inserted, taking the device and giving her glass to Coulson before taking Tony's glass and handing him the device, "Thank you."

"Official consulting hours are between eight and five every other Thursday," Tony said, not wanting to deal with a Shield agent.

"This isn't a consultation."

"Is this about the Avengers?" Pepper quickly caught herself by adding, "Which I know nothing about."

"The Avengers Initiative was scrapped, I thought. And I didn't even qualify," Tony said, putting the device together and walking back to where the Tower had been displayed earlier

"I didn't know that either."

"Yeah, apparently I'm volatile, self-obsessed; don't play well with others"

"That I did know."

"This isn't about personality profiles anymore," Phil quipped.

"Whatever. Miss Potts," Stark gestured for her, "Got a sec?"

Pepper looked at Coulson and, holding up her index finger, whispered, "Half a mo." She then turned and walked to Tony as he typed into the device.

"You know, I thought we were having a moment," Tony started when Pepper got there.

"I was having 12 percent of a moment," she told him. 'There's that 12 percent come back to bite me,' Stark thought to himself before Pepper continued, "This seems serious. Phil seems pretty shaken."

"How would you know this? Why is he 'Phil'?"

Pepper ignored him and asked, "What is all this?"

"This is uh, this," he said selecting something on the device before moving his hands up so files on the device were displayed as holograms. His attention was immediately on the video of the Hulk to his left, but Pepper looked in amazement at the other holographic files showing things such as Captain America's shield and the Destroyer.

Exhaling to calm herself, Pepper spoke, "I'm going to take the jet to DC tonight."

"Tomorrow."

"You have homework. You have a lot of homework."

"Well, what if I didn't?"

"If you didn't?"

"Yes"

"You mean when you've finished? Well, um, then," she leaned forward and whispered something that obviously made Tony excited since his mouth dropped open. Coulson looked away in discomfort before Pepper finished and Tony said, "Square deal, flash eight." The two kissed and Pepper walked away talking to Phil, but Tony was distracted upon spotting the tesseract, so he doesn't clearly hear what about and therefore missed Coulson saying it was nice to see he wasn't sick anymore. He grabbed the hologram version of the tesseract and seemed to come to some major realization.

The Streets of New York City

'Step. Step. Step. What is that man wearing? Step. Step. I need to figure out if I have anymore abilities since Kendra never got to help me discover any more abilities. If I have any… Why do so many men look at me so lustfully? It's a bit creepy. Maybe it has to do with the fact that you just came in contact with your soulmate idiot. Why would that- Oh, the bonding factor, okay. I get it now, that must be why Agent Blare had been so forthcoming when I asked my questions. So until I actually seal the bond with my soulmate with a kiss, most other people will be driven to lust by my true form. What is that supposed to achieve? It's just an effect of not bonding with a soulmate to answer my own question. Why am I having a semi-conversation in my head? I guess it's a way of adjusting to the new info. I've received. How else would I know about the bonding factor? Jeez…. I should find a place where I can try to find any abilities I may have or to see what I've gained or lost in my takeup.' Adrian was thinking quietly to himself before he bumped into an elderly man and caused him to lose balance. The man tried to catch his balance, but all that succeeded in doing was turning him and getting him on the street, too far away for Adrian to grab. All Adrian could do was watch as a car came speeding down the road with its driver distracted and hit the elder with a loud crack. Adrian rushed to get to the man and picked him up, he didn't even realize the hitter was driving away until he looked up with the man secure in his arms. It was surprisingly easy, even though the elder man probably weighed over 180 pounds with his 'pot belly'. Looking the elder over he noticed blood coming from his nose and mouth, some of his ribs looked broken, and Adrian realized his leg was at an odd angle, but the man was still breathing. "Hold on, I'll get you to a hospital," he said as he started running, with the man in a position to prevent too much jarring, toward a hospital he had noticed as he walked.

It actually didn't take long since the distance to the hospital wasn't too far, Adrian had only passed around a hundred buildings, and Adrian's running was discovered to be very fast. He got to the hospital within five minutes. As soon as he got into the ER several nurses came forward with a gurney and loaded the elder onto it. They walked quickly away, after asking what had happened and who he was, of course. Adrian left before anyone could come grab him for questioning. He didn't want anyone to look into his mysterious appearance on this world, but he stopped when he remembered that cameras were catching everything in public. He didn't want there to be anything linking him to events of late. Why couldn't something just erase any appearances of him on cameras unless he actually wanted to be caught on film? It'd be so much easier!

He jumped when a nearby street camera made a series of loud clicking noises and its lens fogged over somehow. 'Alright, that indicates my 'cloaking' ability. Wait how do I even know? Wait, that's so stupid! All the things that I know come from the combination of my soul pieces. It makes sense… Now what should I do? I mean, I do have to find shelter of some sort don't I? Well, I'll head for a forest or park if I can… Oooh! I'll go to Central Park! Maybe I can figure stuff out there.' Adrian promptly headed towards where his instincts said Central Park must be. 'Interesting ability to have suddenly manifest itself. That, and the instinctual knowing of places. Unless one of my soul pieces had lived in Central Park? Ah yes, I think one was in New York for about a year and had killer instincts,' Adrian thought to himself as he walked. Sooner or later though, he'd see that man again.

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