The victory
Iron man was shocked and confused "Now I shall be taking your powers" Mandarin gloated as he walked forward "I couldn't save her" Iron man despaired "Mandarin will win" he continued as rain started pouring down on the iron hero "this is it, the end, will I lived a good and noble life. I guess all that is left to say is goodbye" Iron man farewelled "I wish this could've turned out better, I just hope Sakura will wake up and obtain victory" Iron man said before a pink glow consumed him.
"What trickery is this?" Mandarin shouted noticing the pink glow, Tomoyo was also looking until a beam came towards them hit Sakura and disappeared, then she heard a gasp of air from Sakura who started to cough "see, I told you all I needed was a little nap and the power of the hope card" Sakura said "Er... Sakura all you said was I'm not dying but that's okay" Tomoyo laughed hugging her friend "IRON MAN SAKURA"S AWAKE!" Tomoyo shouted "She's what?" Iron man asked looking up to see an infuriated Mandarin coming to him "Sakura let's do it" Iron man assured her to which he received a nod and Sakura walked over to him.
"Watery, transform into a dragon Watery" Sakura and Iron man ordered creating a dragon like the one Mandarin did at the aquarium "Thunder card use the water dragon as a cannon THUNDER" Iron man said letting loose a lightning bolt into the dragon "mirror card create nine reflection of the water dragon MIRROR" Sakura ordered as nine more dragons appeared "Which one is which?" Iron man taunted as the dragon fired their lightning "I don't know which one to strike down" Mandarin panicked before being hit with a full barrage of lightning bolts and dragon tidal waves "NOOOOOOO!" Mandarin screamed in defeat.
The Mandarin was on his hands and knees covered in water with sparks of lightning coming off him "Wow look a hydroelectric piece of fruit" Kenji joked. "This is not over you little punks!" Mandarin growled getting off the ground which one of his ten rings glowing with power "Now feel the wraith of the Mandarin!" he shouted as a fusion energy ball created from all ten rings pulsated in his hand like a small dark star.
"Eriol Sakura use you master staffs to help me defeat Mandarin once and for all" Iron man ordered as Sakura and Eriol summoned their master staffs and held them out, Iron man placed a hand on both of the staffs "Now Syaoran and Meiling behind Sakura, Tomoyo you and Kenji the same behind Eriol" Iron man ordered again. "Let's hope this works" Sakura said "me too Sakura me too." Iron man said.
The staffs generated a white light which travelled to Iron man being routed to his chest repulsor which went from a technological blue glow to a warm golden glow which spread to his wing "DARK STAR BLAST" Manadrin shouted launching the star at them "GOLDEN DRAGON REPUSLOR!" Iron man said launching a repulsor blast in the form of a beautiful golden Dragon. "It's now or never" Sakura said nervous.
The two attacks were heading for each other. They collided with the gold dragon coming out of the explosion and struck the mandarin in the chest sending him flying into a wall. The blast was so bright that everyone there had to shield their eyes to stop from becoming blind. In the cover of teh bright light the Mandarin got away badly injured with no rings.
"We did it, we did it" Tomoyo cheered jumping up and down "yeah but question is when will here be back?" Syaoran asked with Sakura in his arms nuzzling under her chin "You did well young Cardcaptors" Kai said walking over with Yue supporting an injured Ruby Moon and Keroberos walking next to a limping Spinel Sun "Well that didn't go according to plan did it?" Eriol laughed which caused the group to laugh. What the cardcaptors didn't know was that the sun was rising "Well looks like we have a nice day ahead of us starting off with dawn on the observation platform of the tallest tower in all of Tomoeda" Iron man said as the group turned "Wow this is so cool" Meiling admitted as the guardian turned back into their cover form "Ouch I thought that it wasn't going to hurt in this form" Suppi griped "Loosen up at least you don't have to have crutches" Naruki griped wincing in pain. Iron man placed his hand on the Sakura Card Book and said "Contract terminated" as he was returned to normal armour. "One quick question: how do we get down?" Meiling asked noticing the damaged elevator "SIMAS we require pick up and med supplies ASAP" Iron man said into a wrist-comm. "understood sir ETA seven point five minutes" SIMAS said taking off from hangar.
"In the headlines this morning a terrorist known as the Mandarin engaged in combat with Iron man on top of Tomoeda Tower early this morning as a press release from Stark Industries said as video evidence did see Iron man arrive at the tower" a journalist said. "Bah what no mention of us?" Naruki asked "I wanted to keep you guys out of it" Iron man said as the guys now dressed in casual clothes watched the morning news "Okay, breakfast guys" Yukito said walking in with enough trays from a buffet breakfast. "Wow a buffet breakfast never had one of those before" Sakura admitted "Not to mention we haven't had breakfast as a group like this for a long time" Syaoran said grabbing a piece of toast "Did you know that" "Quiet Takashi" the group laughed as Takashi simply took a bite of his crepe "This seriously good, my complements to the chef" Tomoyo sighed before sinking into Eriol.
In a small country half the world away from Japan, a figure viewed the fight between the Cardcaptors and Mandarin. "Interesting" he said "These mere children brought down a master sorcerer with magical cards; Cards which legend says can bring the destruction of the world, I must form a team of villains, and the I'll go to Tomoeda and then take those card and use them to hold the world hostage" the man said "And then all will bow to the might of Doctor Victor Von Doom!" Outside Doom's throne room a soldiers lifted his wrist to speak into a wrist communicator. "This is Agent Sloan, Get me the director!" Sloan said.
The ending you read here is an alternate ending which will lead to the next part of this; Marvel Clow Alliance. As for the original ending which lead to the sequel I placed up on DeviantArt: The iron card 2.0; I may put it up as a seperate chapter