IRON MAN #13

THE PAST,THE PRESENT,AND THE FUTURE PART 5

By Nathan Banks

Tony and Andros noticed the Roxxon Armiger was slowly starting to come after them as they were ready to attack.

Tony: "Andros, we need to eliminate the Roxxon Armiger platform. As you can see, it has large legs that will walk around the canyon."

Andros: "So all we need to do is hit it while avoiding their attacks."

Tony: "Yes, but this time hit it with missiles, trust me."

Tony and Andros started to attack the Armiger from a distance while the Armiger fired the missiles at the two Iron Men who were doing their best to avoid it. Andros then thought of something as he used his missiles and other attacks at the Armiger.

Andros: "Hey gramps, I just noticed something."

Tony: "Now may not be a good time Andros."

Andros: "Just listen, it's good. I think I figured out a trick to defeating the Armiger Roxxon."

Tony: "Alright, then what is it?"

Andros: "Fly to the ground."

Tony: "Fly to the ground? And get stomped on like a bug or even worse a cockroach. Is that what you're saying?"

Andros: "No, what I mean is, if we run around the missiles and fire them, along with backing away easily if the tank decides to rush on us."

Tony thought about it for a second as he and Andros continued to fire their attacks against the Armiger.

Tony: "You know what? On second thought, let's try your trick on them right now."

The two of them flew down to the ground, running around the firing missiles that were coming from the Armiger, and backed away easily from the tank when the tank rushed at them. Tony and Andros fired their bullets. At the same time, they deflected the missiles sending them back to the tank damaging the Armiger.

Andros: "Hey gramps, my statistics tell me that the armor only has a little bit of health remaining. Let me take the final shot."

Tony: "It's all yours kid."

Andros smirks as he takes to the skies, flying straight toward the Armiger tank piercing through it, hitting a uni beam. Once he was out of it, the Armiger exploded as it crashed to the ground.

Tony: "You alright kid?"

Andros flew up to Tony and gave his grandfather two thumbs up.

Andros: "Never felt better. What do we do next?"

Tony holds up a finger before he starts to speak.

Tony: "Alright….yes ma'am."

Tony looks at Andros.

Tony: "Commander Cooper has given us the go ahead to resume the strike down the canyon but let's stay close."

Andros nodded his head before the two of them lead the strike force just as Tony said. The enemy tanks were on both sides of the canyon as they shot missiles at the Iron Men. Tony and Andros deflect the missiles back to their source. Once they were destroyed, Tony is contacted by one of the co-pilots about the tunnel up ahead. Tony looks at Andros before pointing at the tunnels.

Tony: "This way!"

The two of them lead the choppers to the tunnel but were stopped by the enemy's turrets. Without any hesitations, Tony and Andros, along with the choppers, eliminate them with missile fire and machine gun blasts. Both of them figured out that the best offense would be deflection.

Andros: "Let's send the shots back at the turrets that way with each shot we'll cause more damage."

They began rerouting the missiles towards the turrets, taking on one turret at a time before they moved on to the tunnel. Once they reached the other side, they immediately saw another Armiger near one of the buildings in the area.

Andros: "Damn it, another one of those things?"

Tony: "It's alright Andros. I got a plan. Me and the others will deal with the Armiger. You see that building?"

Andros: "Yeah, what about it?"

Tony: "Go inside the building, (points to the building), and you will find the generators that you need to destroy."

Andros: "Alright, you got it gramps, I won't let ya down."

Tony went after the Armiger while Andros headed towards the building Tony pointed to. While going inside the building, Andros finds the generators including the shields, and shut them down before destroying the generators. With shutting down the shields, the choppers were able to get to the area.

Tony: "Iron Man to S.H.I.E.L.D., we did it."

Cooper: "Outstanding job gentlemen. Stormbreaker one to all points, Shatalov's forces are disrupted, suspended and outnumbered. We keep the AOI and let's keep it that way!"

Tony and Andros watched the choppers and other SHIELD forces surround the area. Just then, Andros notices something.

Andros: "Hey, not to rain on your parade but, Shatalov, the idiot that started the insurrection? He wasn't here unfortunately so the spotters never found him."

Tony: "Nice to know that you can cut a guy's victory lap short...but I have an idea. Let's head to the Stark Jet."

Tony and Andros leave the area and head back to the jet. Once they get there, the two of them are removed of their armor and Andros follows Tony to a part of the jet. As Tony starts to open up a hologram that had different number of letters on each side, someone came up on the screen and Tony cleared his throat.

Tony: "Um….Commander Cooper what a surprise."

Cooper: "What do you think you are doing Stark?"

Tony: "We need to borrow a couple of your satellites...well hundreds of your satellites."

Cooper: "You don't have that type of clearance."

Tony: "With all due respect ma'am I do"

Rhodey walked up to Tony and Andros so that he can be seen before he spoke.

Rhodey: "Roxxon's Armiger's were remotely powered and we need to find the source….I will keep an eye on these two."

Cooper: "Finem, but don't overstay your welcome."

Tony and Andros smirked before Tony continued to look for what he needed and found something interesting.

Rhodey: "Found something?"

Tony: "Maybe, check it out. Alt-energy large scale power manufacturing facility near the coast of Siberia. It does match the range estimates …."

Andros: "I think we found the contractor...Advanced Idea Mechanics."

Tony: "According to this, they are building some kind of "Crimson Dynamo" suit for General Shatalov. The general has a good remote energy source capable of powering it too."

Rhodey: "AIM is buying the energy off him to power the processor farm the stolen JARVIS code needs to run."

Cooper: "I think I have something you all can look at."

A hologram showed some kind of facility that had certain things that sparked Tony, Andros and Rhodey's interest.

Tony: "What is that and where did you get it from?"

Cooper: "SHIELD has a spy embedded at the facility and slipped us that photo a week ago, but we haven't heard anything from the agent lately."

Rhodey: "A week's a long time. She could even be captured or worse."

Cooper: "The agent is off grid, SHIELD is in a SHAW-scenario until we hear more."

Andros: "SHAW?"

Rhodey: "Sit here and wait."

Tony: "Sorry Rhodey, you AND Cooper should know that it's not my thing to wait. The facility is the target, and if the agent is there, Andros and I will do the rescuing together. JARVIS prep the armor's bay. You ready Andros?"

Andros: "As always, let's do this and be awesome."

TBC In Issue # 14