*Sobbing* I'm so sorry I bet you all hate me because I haven't updated in like… forever! But I moved! Woo! That's fun.. for me at least… Also just thought to mention that this will get better when Tony gets back from Afghanistan. Just so you know…

Chapter 12: Stick to the plan

"Just start the damn movie," Fury practically growled, turning to glower at the screen.

Tony was shown hammering a bit of metal into shape near a forge. A scowl pulled at his face as he beat away at it. He glanced over his shoulder for a second before he lowered his work into the barrel of water next to him. After pulling it out he walked over and placed it in front of Yinsen, who was working on a bit of wiring at another table. The doctor looked up to see the still smoking form of a face guard.

"Our friend has come a far way since this form," Thor rumbled, tilting his head slightly to the side as he watched. "And he is a smith!"

Tony taped his hands while Yinsen prepped what must have been he chest piece of the suit. After getting it up to the correct height, he moved away to help Tony with the heavy jacket, gloves and harness. The chest piece was lowered, displaying the glow of the arc reactor before it seemed to snap into place. As Yinsen was securing the suit he glanced up at Tony.

"Okay?" he asked hurriedly. "Can you move?"

He waited for Tony to give a sign before he moved on. "Okay, say it again,"

"41 steps straight ahead," Tony replied gruffly. "Then 16 step, that's rom the door, fork right, then 33 steps, turn right,"

The screen cut to Raza, who walked into the guard room to watch the monitors.

"Where is Stark?" he demanded, not seeing the man on the screen.

"He was here a moment ago," one of the guards said looking from the screen to the leader.

"Go look for him," he ordered and two guards took off for the cell.

Raza moved closer to the monitors, staring at the with a hard gleam in his eyes as he watched Yinsen closely.

The guards reached the door and pulled open the speakeasy latch before yelling for Yinsen and Tony over the noise of a drill.

"Say something," Tony whispered. "Say something back to him,"

"He's speaking Hungarian," Yinsen replied, voice hurried and nervous. "I don't know…"

"Then speak Hungarian," Tony said, trying to be as calming as he could as he watched Yinsen search for something to say.

"Okay I know," Yinsen said with a slight nod.

"What do you know?"

Yinsen yells something to the guards and as the guard starts to reply the camera slides down the door, revealing a bomb strapped to the handles. The guards don't wait for a reply before they try to open the cell doors. The explosive went off, blasting the guards. Raza roared and more guards rush to the cell.

"How'd that work?" Tony asked lightly, as they screen showed the gaping hole where the doors had once stood.

"Oh my goodness," Yinsen breathed. "It worked all right,"

"That's what I do," replied Tony with a slight smirk on his face.

Steve couldn't help rolling his eyes at that no matter how slight that roll was. Only Tony could be that smug in a situation like that… 'Well…', he thought for a moment. 'Maybe…'. But he shook that thought train away before it got to far.

"Let me finish this," Yinsen said, moving to get back to work.

"Initialize the power sequence," Tony said, looking over to the computer one the table.

"Okay," the older man said as he looked over the screen of the computer.

"Now!" Tony said hurriedly.

"Tell me. Tell me," Yinsen demanded.

"Function 11. Tell me when you see a progress bar," Tony said in a quick hushed voice. "It should be up right now. Talk to me. Tell me when you see it,"

"I have it,"

"Press Control I,"

"I got it,"

"I and enter, I and enter," Tony said. "Come over here and button me up,"

Yinsen nodded slightly. "Okay. Alright.,"

"Every other hex bolt," Tony reminded.

"They're coming!" Yinsen said stiffly, glancing at the opening to the cell.

"Nothing pretty, just get it done," Tony said, trying to distract him. "Just get it done,"

"They're coming," Yinsen said again.

"Make sure the checkpoints are clear before you follow me out, okay?" Tony asked, staring the older man down as he moved around him.

Yinsen looked down at the computer screen to check the progress bar. It was only at 50% at the time.

"We need more time," he said to himself before he seemed to come to a decision. He turned to Tony quickly. "I'm going to buy you more time," before he ran from the station to the tunnels.

"Yinsen! Stick to the plan!" Tony yelled after him desperately. "Stick to the plan!"

Yinsen grabbed a gun from one of the dead guards and ran down the tunnels, firing the gun toward the guards, yelling and screaming as he went.

"A brave comrade!" Thor cheered, while the others in the room suddenly had this sinking feeling in the pits of their stomaches.

Bruce looked down and mumbled something in a different language that had some in the room looking at him with astonished looks.

He rounded another corner and is confronted by of squad of guards all loading their weapons.

In the cell, Tony turned numbly to watch the progress bar. As the progress bar hit 100%, the lights turned off, bathing the cell in black.

Guards approached the dar cell room cautiously. Their weapons were at the ready as they entered to search for Tony. There was a flash of a circular blue light before a man yelped. His partner opened fire but was quickly shut down. With the men now out of the way, Tony straightened up giving the first view of the man clad in iron.

Thor let out a battle cry and Clint let out a low whistle.

Steve looked on at the massive suit thoughtfully. It hadn't been what he had imagined when he read the small section about the incident in Tony's file. Fury had told him that everything he needed to know about his comrades was in their files… 'How much am I missing?' he wondered, looking around at the others in the room. The idea was boggling. Tasha's and Clint's files had been so full of blacked out lines that he could only gleam so much from them. Even some of their personality traits had been censored for God's sake! On the other end, Tony's had parts that were so lengthy, and over events that weren't overly important yet things like his capture were gleamed over like it was nothing. Thor's was short, a few pages about New Mexico and a bunch of Mythology reference pages which Steve had ignored. Bruce's had pages full of notes that blended together and didn't make a lick of sense to him at all.

Strange was telling the truth. He needed to learn.

Tony stormed down the halls, taking no prisoners in his search for Yinsen and freedom. They had tried to shut him in, sealing off two with him. They screamed and banged at the thick metal doors hoping to be let through to safety. One the other side of the door, men watched, listening to the screams then there were a few loud bangs and the door was blasted down. Tony plowed them down, and kept moving. The cave was beginning to open up and he saw Yinsen.

"Yinsen!" he called out.

"Watch out!"

Raza had fired at him but missed. Enraged, Tony shot back, causing a small collapse of rock that knocked the man out. Tony rushed over to where Yinsen lay, crouched down and flipped up his mask.

"Stark…" Yinsen breathed.

"Come on," Tony said softly. "We got to go. Move for me, come on. We got a plan. We're gonna stick to it."

"This was always the plan stark," Yinsen said with a weak shake to his head.

"Come on, you're gonna go see your family," Tony said with a bit of desperation painting his tone. "Get up."

"My family is dead." Yinsen whispered, looking up at Tony with a faint smile. "And I am going to see them now, Stark. It's okay," he reassured. "I want this… I want this."

His breaths here growing more shaky and his voice weak as time passed. Tony looked down at the man sadly, eyes glassy. He swallowed thickly.

"Thank you," he said softly. "For saving me.

"Don't waste it," Yinsen looked up his seriously. "Don't waste your life."

Yinsen let out a long breath and his eyes sank closed. Tony stared down at him for a moment before he reached up and pulled the iron mask down over his face.

There were heavy foot falls as the men loaded and aimed their weapons at the cave entrance. The suit of armor appeared and stopped at the mouth as the men opened fire. The hail of bullets connected with the iron with resounding clangs and after a good round, the men ceased fire.

"My turn."