So, here it is! The chapter you've all been waiting for! It would have been sooner, but i had a sleepover. AND it came sooner, because i was supposed to go out of town today, but my parents decided that i had better things to do at home. So, yay!

Disclaimer: IMAA is not mine, nor will it ever be.

Tony coughed as the dust and rubble fell over them. He almost immediately stopped when he heard Pepper scream. He waved his hands through the air to clear some dust out of the way so he could see. When he did, saw Pepper, no Ghost, curled up away from what looked like a bullet hole in the ground. He couldn't tell if she was hit or not, but he still sighed in relief.

But then, where's Ghost?

He looked around to find Ghost but paused to cough some more.

"Pepper are you alright?" He called.

She coughed. "Yeah, just grazed my arm."

The weight that had settled over his heart lifted. She was okay. He didn't have to worry about her at the moment, so he went back to looking for Ghost. He spotted him laid flat on his back holding his side. Nearby, another figure lay. He narrowed his eyes to see what it was that came crashing in. Whoever it was, just saved their lives. Or at least Pepper's because he wasn't moving anymore. Maybe whoever it was passed out…

"Tony!" Rhodey's voice shouted. It sound happy.

"Yeah?" He responded.

"You did it!" Rhodey cheered.

Tony stared at him confusedly and looked to his dad who had the same look as Rhodey. They both looked happy and excited. What did he do? What did he do that he wasn't aware of? He didn't remember doing anything other than lay there useless.

"What?"

"The armor! You used Extremis right? That's the armor!" Rhodey shouted.

Tony blinked. Could it be? "What?" He repeated.

It couldn't be. Extremis wasn't working. Every time he tried to use it, his mind seemed to blank. How was his armor here? Was there someone in it other than himself? Was someone controlling it? He narrowed his eyes. What if this was a Shield Clone? Hammer? Possible Stane- no that couldn't work, Stane was in a coma. It couldn't be Extremis.

"Didn't you use Extremis?"

Tony shook his aching head. "No…not that I know off…"

He looked over to the second figure, his armor, with shock. It saved him. No, it saved her. Too bad it could get up and fight for them. Unless he could find a way to use Extremis by will that is. He stared at it, willing Extremis to work. And…it did!

It moved towards him. A bit too fast, but still. He controlled it to remove the chains around his feet and as he eyed Ghost worriedly, he started to panic as he saw him getting up. He urged the armor to go faster and soon enough, he was free.

He smiled as he felt the armor wrap itself around him. Though, he groaned in pain as the armor straightened his knee out. He almost couldn't hold in the pain, but he tried his best. No matter how much it hurt, he wasn't about to let pain stop him.

"I see you're fully functional again." Ghost commented once he was recovered.

Tony didn't reply. He just focused on getting his leg used to the pressure of standing on it once he got enough strength to actually stand. It hurt like mad, maybe even worse than a failing heart implant. Though, he just grit his teeth, biting his tongue in the process.

"Armor, lock position of my right leg." Tony said planning on using the armor like a cast. Or at least something to keep his knee sturdy enough to hold him up to fight.

'Locking position.' The female computer voice responded.

He couldn't help but sigh in comfort of the sound. He saw Ghost walking closer and balled his fists. He fired up his boot jets and flew into the air with a jerk. He winced. Even the bottoms of his feet burned from the contact with the boots.

"Flying away won't save your friends, kid." Ghost said pulling out his gun.

"Who said anything about flying away?" Tony questioned.

He shot his repulsors towards Ghost who just went intangible. He fired a few more times before Ghost landed a shot on his shoulder and he went flying back. Using his boot jets, he prevented any crash, but brought great pain to his leg. He groaned a bit too loud.

"Hurts doesn't it?" Ghost laughed. "That's sad. Even with your armor, you're weak, pathetic, and sad."

"I can't imagine what makes you think I'm weak. Normal people probably wouldn't even last this long. You've got to admit, I'm stronger than you think." Tony said firing again.

…

Pepper watched helplessly as captive and victim fought restlessly. It almost looked like Tony didn't even have a bad knee, but she knew better than to think that. She heard his pain each time his leg was hit or moved. She could hardly even imagine what he must be feeling. But then again, she couldn't exactly concentrate with the stab wound in her leg. She felt lightheaded, but she still felt better off than Tony. A broken knee…it just sounded so disturbing to her.

So…painful.

She shook her head. Now wasn't the time to think about that. She paused the instant she felt her ropes slip from her hands from the blood. She grinned as she eyed the spectating Maggia man next to her. She sneakily removed the ropes around her ankles and bit her lip in preparation.

'Better now than never.' She thought to herself and she launched herself at the Maggia man. She punched him directly in the nose and he cried out in pain holding his nose. She quickly swung her unwounded leg under his legs and tripped him. She pushed his head down at the same time, knocking him out cold.

She smiled. "Beat by a girl, now that's pathetic."

She heard two laughs as she straightened herself.

"Pepper! Look out!" Rhodey and Howard called out.

She ducked just in time to miss a punch that was thrown at her head. She laughed. She stood straight up again and delivered her best high kick she could muster with her leg, only reaching the lower chest of one of the two Maggia men. Still, he was thrown back into the other and she used her ropes to tie them up after giving them both strong punches.

She quickly made her way to the other two and untied them both before the last three showed up. She pretty much collapsed out of lightheadedness, leaving Rhodey and Howard to fend them off. She closed her eyes for one moment and the next thing she knew, she was throw over someone's shoulder and was being carried off into a different direction to where Tony was. She would have freaked out if she hadn't recognized Tony's scent in his father.

"H-Howard?" She stuttered.

"It's alright, we're going to go get help for Tony." Howard said.

"Yeah," Rhodey began. "Plus, you're not quite able to walk with that leg."

She didn't really reply, because her mind was already elsewhere. Were they really escaping? Were they really walking out of the freezing mad house alive? She couldn't help but feel relieved. But that didn't last long when there was a crashing sound and a figure flew by their heads.

"TONY!" Pepper screamed out in concern.

"What?" He responded just above them.

Confused, Pepper looked up. Howard had switcher her from over his shoulder to bridal style. Which was definitely awkward for her. There Tony was, flying over their heads. Shocked, she looked over to where the other form lay. It was Ghost who was holding his shoulder in pain.

She smiled. Nothing to be worried about, right?

…

Tony timed it perfectly. That's how he hit him. It was timed just right, and it hit Ghost mid-change to becoming intangible. Sent him flying out of the building too. He flew protectively over his escaping families head. Good, his dad didn't make Pepper walk. Oh how he wished he didn't' have to.

He frowned the moment he started to feel dizzy, but passed it off as nothing but hunger. He looked to Ghost who was standing up, still holding his gun. He raised his arm and fired his repulsors again. Ghost dodged it just in time.

"You have got to do better than that, kid." Ghost said.

With that, he fired in the direction of his friends and he rushed to lift them up away from harm. That was a little too close for him. Ghost was going too far.

"Ghost!" He demanded as he set them back down. "Leave them out of this."

He took a quick sec to look around and noticed they were in what seemed like a construction site that was next to two warehouses. Trying to think quickly, he flew upwards and did a nose dive as he fired his repulsors repeatedly at Ghost. Some of them hit, and some of them missed. Though, he was still thrown back, so Tony quickly made his way to ghost.

Not wasting his time, he lifted Ghost by the front of his shirt. Using the best leverage he could get with his knee, he shoved Ghost into the wall of one of the warehouses. "Ghost, you finished. Now tell me, what are you doing this for? What did they do to you?"

Ghost laughed, causing Tony to tighten his grip. "Kid, I've already told you. Revenge. Have you forgotten, I can't be touched?"

Tony started to feel Ghost slip away from his fingers and acting quickly, he shot his unibeam at Ghost, successfully hitting Ghost against, no through, the wall. He was about to walk through the hole in the wall, when a large beam of light came shooting at him, hitting him directly in the chest. He felt a searing pain in his chest, but when he crashed to the ground, the pain was unbearable in his knee. So he let out another scream.

He forced himself to stop and stand up, though he felt that if he was hit with another one of whatever it was, he wouldn't be standing up.

"You're good, I'll give you that." Ghost said forming himself from the ground. "But, who's the one with all those injuries?"

Tony raised his arms ready to fire, but Ghost turned himself invisible. He listened as Ghosts voice echoed through the area as he circled Tony. At least that's what Tony thought he was doing. It sounded like it.

"You must feel horrible. I can't imagine what you're thinking in that head of yours, but I can guess that you hate that you can't save your own family. Their forced to sit and watch you die. Sit and watch you fight for your pathetic life." There was a pause as Tony heard a ringing sound. "You think you're a hero? Think again. You're not a hero, if you can't save your own family. You're not a hero, if you can't even save yourself."

In a flash, Tony was flying from a hit to the back. He winced from impact. He heard the computer say something about failing systems, but he didn't hear it very well. He stood right back up, glad it wasn't anything too bad. He turned around to see Ghost walking up to him with his gun aimed. He didn't waste time firing it, but Tony turned his shield on.

Tony fired at him a few times, missing. Though, when Ghost got too close he fire his sonic disrupters causing Ghost to stop and hold his ears, giving Tony and opening to fire his unibeam. He then walked over to him and as he was getting up, he fired another sonic disruptor. He held it on him until he noticed Ghost's body go limp.

Once he was sure that Ghost wasn't getting up, he sighed and fell backwards, exhausted. He closed his eyes intending to sleep. Rhodey would know what to do. The last thing his heard, was his name being shouted.

…

Pepper watched as Tony defeated Ghost. She sighed in relief. It was finally over. Though, she stopped when she saw Tony falling down. Ignoring any pain in her leg, she ran towards him along with the others.

"TONY!" She screamed worriedly with the others.

She bent down next to him and opened the face mask. His eyes were closed and his face was pale. Worried, she looked for signs of life, a pulse or breath. She was relieved to find both. But they were faint. Rhodey crouched down next to her and he did something to retract the armor back to a back pack.

"He'll be okay Pepper." He said as he stood up.

"What do we do?" She questioned.

"Well, someone should bring Tony to the hospital and someone should turn Ghost in." Howard said.

Rhodey nodded. "I'll turn ghost in. You two can help Tony."

The two nodded and Howard picked Tony up in his arms. He smiled with a chuckle as they began walking.

"What?" Pepper asked as she heard Rhodey fly off.

"It's nothing, just never thought I'd hold Tony like this again."

Pepper laughed lightly. She limped on her leg until they were able to hail a taxi. Which it took some convincing to get the driver to allow them to ride, because of the blood. Though, with a high tip from Howard, they were quick to get to the hospital.

I admit, i'm not impressed, but how was it? It was especially hard writing the fight scene, because of Ghost's ability and i just suck at it anyways...-.- But, I tried hard and i hope you guys liked it! :)

Fun Fact: I have glasses and i love dying my hair. Simple enough...

Okay, this is sorta off subject, but can you help me? If so, I'm trying to make a superhero for a story, but I cannot figure out a name! I'm horrible with names. So, i thought i'd ask you. So, i've looked things up and they say to use the discription or type of character to help name them, but I cannot for the life of me, figure out a name. So, Here's some backround info:

-18 years old

-Blind

-Has Aura Absorption, Which is the power to see aura's and take the lives and powers of others.

So any ideas? Please can any of you help me with a name?

Well, til next time!