Whew! This is a pretty long chapter. You better love it... ;) Haha


Chapter Fifteen

Pepper drove quickly to Stark International and used her key card to get in the building. She went through the various hallways and passed a few receptionists, all of which glanced up, and then glanced back down. 'Don't mess with Tony's P.A.' is what everybody told everyone else.

She finally got to the large double doors and opened them quietly. She sat down at the desk where the computer faced away from the door. She inserted the lock chip into the computer and waited for it to gain access to the mainframe. For a few seconds she wasn't sure it would work, but it finally accepted the chip and opened up the computer. She looked through the Executive Files, but didn't find anything, then went for whatever ghost drive there might be and looked for the lowest numeric heading.

There was something labeled that caught her eye, "Sector 16? What are you up to, Obadiah?" She asked herself quietly.

She went through the files, the computer brought up a video, a voice rang out over the speakers, but she couldn't understand the language. She clicked "Translate" and a language she recognized started to chatter through the speakers this time.

"As you can see, Obadiah Stane...Your deception and lies will cost you dearly."

Pepper looked closely at the video, seeing a man rip a bag off of a another man's head who was sitting on a chair, hands tied, "Oh my..." She whispered. It was none other than Tony Stark.

"The price to kill Tony Stark has just gone up." Pepper quickly shut down the video and started copying the files to the chip she had hooked into the computer.

"So what are we going to do about this?" Pepper's eyes snapped from the computer to the door, where Obadiah stood. Her heart was pounding a million miles an hour. He walked into the room with a wary smile on his face.

"I know what you're going through, Pepper..." He said as he walked toward the table. He picked up some alcohol and poured it into a glass. Pepper used a newspaper sitting on the table to hide the flash drive sticking out of the computer.

Pepper had to think of something fast, if he came any closer he would see all of his secret information being copied. She slightly moved the mouse up to the top right corner and clicked Screen Saver. The computer showed a bunch of cool looking cars going across the screen as Obadiah walked behind her, gazing at the computer, and sat down on the edge of the table.

"I was so happy when he came home...It was like we got him back from the dead. Now I realize...well, Tony never really did come home, did he?" He paused, looking Pepper in the eyes.

"He left a part of himself in that cave." He paused, "Breaks my heart."

Liar. That's all Pepper could think.

"Well, he's a complicated person. He's been through a lot. I think he'll be all right." Play it safe, Pepper...was all she could say to herself. She gave a small smile, trying to make it genuine, but it was proving to be difficult.

Obadiah stared at her for a moment. It was making Pepper extremely uncomfortable.

"You are a very rare woman. Tony doesn't know how lucky he is." Obadiah sipped some of his drink.

"Thank you. Thanks." Pepper said, feeling the need to vacate the premises. "Well, I'd better get back there." She said, motioning toward the door. She stood and grabbed the paper as well as the flash drive, heading for the door.

"Is that today's paper?" Obadiah asked. Pepper stopped in her tracks.

"Uh, yes." She said, turning as he approached her. She handed him the paper and then headed out the door.

The second she left the room, Obadiah turned back and sat down at the computer, moving the mouse.

He read, 'Download Complete' on the computer screen. His eyes lit up with anger and pulled out his phone.

Someone picked up quickly, "I need you to pick up someone for me." He said menacingly. "Her car should be parked out back. She'll be heading out there soon."

Obadiah got up from his chair and went to the overlooking balcony, watching Pepper descend the stairs. She was walking quickly.

Obadiah headed down the stairs after Pepper disappeared through a door with an Agent. He turned the other way and went straight for the arc reactor room.

He entered the main room and noticed the scientists he had put to work on miniaturizing the arc reactor, just as the model back in Afghanistan had shown on the sketches Tony had drawn.

"Mr. Stane? Sir, we've explored what you've asked us, and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually..." The scientist stuttered.

"A hiccup?"

"Yes, to power the suit, sir, the technology actually doesn't exist." He said.

"Wait, wait, wait. The technology? William, here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller." Obadiah said, simmering with anger as he motioned to the giant Arc Reactor powering the factory.

"Okay, sir, and that's what we're trying to do, but honestly, it's impossible." William said quickly.

Obadiah turned around, completely frustrated. He whipped back around at the scientist and poked his chest, "Tony Stark was able to build this in a CAVE!" He yelled.

"Well, I'm sorry. I'm not Tony Stark." The scientist said, putting his hands up in surrender.

Obadiah's eyes lit up with an idea. "All of you, leave. I'll figure this out myself." The scientists stood with their mouths open in surprise.


Pepper reached the bottom of the stairs, and she could feel Obadiah's eyes boring into her back. "Miss Potts. We had an appointment." She heard a familiar voice. Agent Coulson...

"Oh, yes. You're right. This way." She said, motioning toward a small conference room. They stepped in and took a seat. In reality, she had no idea what she was going to say to this man.

"Agent Coulson, I'm really sorry, but I have nothing. No information to give you. Tony hasn't talked to me about his escape from Afghanistan. I've been meaning to ask him. Today actually, but I needed to come here to run an errand." Pepper explained before even letting Agent Coulson say anything.

He seemed a little flustered. "Uh, well. Shall we set another date, then?" Agent Coulson asked. "Tomorrow?" He pressed.

Pepper opened her mouth, "Yes. Yes of course. Tomorrow is fine." She pressed her lips together in a tight smile. She had a feeling that Agent Coulson would never leave her and Tony alone.

Boy was she right. Agent Coulson and Pepper shook hands, Pepper offering another apology about her lack of information. Agent Coulson left the conference room, leaving Pepper sitting by herself.

She left the room and looked back up toward Tony's office. The doors were left open and Obadiah was no where in sight. She climbed up the stairs quickly and entered the office. She almost ran to the computer.

The screen saver was off, and the words "Download Complete" were visible on the screen.

"He knows..." She whispered, her eyes widening. She pulled out her phone and dialed the mansion's number.

No answer. She called his cell phone. No answer. She called the mansion again. She heard what sounded like someone picking up the phone, "Tony? Tony, are you there?" The line went dead. She was starting to panic.

So she called Rhodey.

"Hello?" She heard him ask.

"Rhodey! I need you to go to the mansion and check on Tony."

Rhodey frowned, "What? What's going on?"

"Rhodey, Obadiah was the one that paid terrorists to kill Tony!" Pepper blurted out. She headed out of the office room and practically flew down the stairs.

"Please, just go check on him for me?" She pleaded.

"All right, all right. I'll go check on him." Rhodey accepted and got into his car, heading straight for the mansion.

Pepper hung up the phone just as she reached the doors, it was now dark outside. She looked around the office, not even realizing what time it was. No one was here. It must be late.

She opened the doors and briskly walked toward her car, which was just around the corner. She reached the corner expecting to see her car, but instead, found three robust men.

"Uh...Good evening?" Pepper asked, turning in the opposite direction and running away. Too bad she had decided to wear heels that day.

The first man jumped and grabbed her legs. "AH!" She screamed as she hit the ground. She kicked her legs, hitting him in the face with a stiletto heel. Maybe it was good that she had worn heels after all. She got up off the ground and tried to run, but found another man in front of her as she looked up. She flung her purse, hitting him in the face with it. He stumbled backwards for a moment, and Pepper found her chance to get past. Before she could though, she was seized from behind. "Let go of me!" She yelled.

"Leave me alone!" She screamed.

"Oh we can't do that, sweetheart." One of them laughed.

She heard the door of a van open, "NO!" Pepper screamed, "Tony! Someone!" She yelled.

"Tony's not here to help you." He said as he threw Pepper into the back of the van, she slid across the floor of the van and hit the other side. There was a burst of light behind her eyes as her head hit the metal interior of the car. She started to fade, her last thoughts lingering on Tony.


Tony, having heard the mansion phone ring once, and then his cell phone ringing from the living room, stopped his work on the suit and walked up the stairs. He sat down on the white sofa, not even noticing someone standing just down the hallway, waiting in the dark.

Tony looked at the phone, noticing that it was Pepper, answered it, and was just about to say hello when a piercing high-pitched sound rang its way through his eardrums. He felt his limbs lock and he could barely breathe. He felt two hands guide him backward onto the sofa.

"Don't forget to breathe." He heard a familiar voice. Obadiah.

"Easy, easy..." He said as Tony laid back against the sofa.

"You remember this one, right? It's a shame the government didn't approve it. There's so many applications for causing short-term paralysis." He turned off the device and slipped it into his pocket. He walked around and sat down next to Tony on the couch.

"Tony." He looked at him and sighed, "When I ordered that hit on you..."

Time seemed to stop. Obadiah had been the one that tried to get him killed in Afghanistan. No wonder no one had known that he was alive, they had sent the ransom video to Obadiah.

"I was worried that I was killing the golden goose." Tony heard Obadiah say.

"But you see, it was just fate that you survived that. You had one last golden egg to give." Obadiah paused as he picked up a case and opened it, pulling out an interesting device.

A deadly one, in Tony's opinion. He didn't know exactly what it was for, but he wasn't liking how it had three large spikes coming out of the end of it. And this short term paralysis was causing some major pain. Where was Pepper? Wasn't she supposed to be back by now?

"Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?" He asked.

Obadiah reached out and stuck that device into Tony's chest, right where the arc reactor was. There was a drilling sound, and Tony groaned in pain. He felt unbelievably helpless as he watched Obadiah pull the arc reactor out of his body.

"Oh, it's beautiful." He seemed mesmerized by the glow of the reactor. The cord leading to the bottom of the cylinder was still connected, keeping the power going.

"What a masterpiece. This is your legacy. A new generation of weapons with this at its heart." He paused, looking at Tony.

He pulled the cord, unhooking it from the base plate within the cylinder imbedded in Tony's chest. Tony felt a tug as he pulled it out. He let out a strangled cry, trying to breathe.

"I wish you could've seen my prototype. It's not as...well, not as conservative as yours." Obadiah said.

Prototype? Had he made his own suit?

"Too bad you had to involve Pepper in this. I would have preferred that she lived." Obadiah put the arc reactor into the case and stood to leave.

Tony felt his eyes widen. Pepper! He had to get to the basement. His other reactor was down there, sitting on his desk. He watched as Obadiah opened the door and left him there to die. He had to get to the arc reactor, and he had to get to Pepper.

Tony felt that he could move his eyes and shut his eyelids. That was a good start. But not good enough. He had to be able to move in five minutes. He waited in agony, testing each of his fingers, his toes...things weren't working fast enough!

Finally, after waiting an eternity within five minutes, he was finally able to move. He rolled off the couch and crawled to the elevator. There was no way he would make it to the stairs. He mainly had to use his arms, his legs weren't working quite yet.

He reached up and pressed the button for the elevator, he grabbed a hand rail and stood on wobbly legs. The door opened and he fell against the wall of the elevator. As soon as the door opened and he stepped out, he completely collapsed.

Tony crawled across the floor just as he had upstairs, he tried to remember which desk he had left his old arc reactor on. He crawled and crawled, pulling himself across the cement floor with his arms. Pain and a kind of tingling sensation was shooting up and down his torso and legs. He was pretty sure that was a good thing, it meant that he was starting to feel things again. The paralyzation was wearing off.

He finally made it to his desk and propped himself up on a garbage can. He reached over the top of the desk and felt around, feeling the end of the cord with his fingertips. He reached just a bit further and grabbed it, pulling it down to him.

He fell to the floor with it, inserting the end of the cord into the base plate just as he felt his mind grow fuzzy. He needed power to the arc reactor soon, or he'd pass out from the pain. He twisted and locked in the old arc reactor, waiting for it to take effect. Before he could know it was really working, he lost consciousness.


Rhodey drove as fast as he could to get to the mansion, but it was taking longer than it should have. An accident on the freeway kept him up, and so did the nightly traffic in Malibu. He honked his horn impatiently. "Come on!" He yelled.

He finally made it to the mansion, running in and calling Tony's name.

"Tony?" He called throughout the mansion a couple of times.

He ran around the mansion, checking his bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, then he spotted the basement. "That should have been the first place I looked..." He said, angry at himself.

He ran down the stairs and spotted Tony laying face down on the floor.

"Tony!" He yelled, panic surging through him. He turned him over, and saw Tony's eyes slowly open.

A kind of realization seemed to hit him. He grabbed Rhodey's arm, "Where's Pepper?" He asked, his voice hoarse.

"I talked to her about a half an hour ago, she's fine." Rhodey said, helping his friend up off the floor.

"No. She's not. She's not safe anymore." Tony said as Rhodey helped him to a chair. "Get me to the platform. I need to put on the suit." He gulped down deep breaths.

"Tony, are you serious? I'm sure Pepper's fine!" Rhodey said, "I heard her voice!"

Tony shook his head, "A half an hour is a long time. Anything could have happened in that time. She would have been back by now."

Rhodey frowned, "Maybe...I'll call her."

Tony threw his head back, his jaw locking, the pain was unbearable. He was glad the government hadn't approved the short-term paralysis device. He wouldn't wish this on anyone. Well, maybe Obadiah.

"Rhodey! Get me over to the platform, now!" Tony yelled through clenched teeth.

Rhodey sighed, but gave in to Tony's wishes and helped him to the platform.

Tony suited up, feeling the power of the arc reactor rejuvenating him.

"Not bad, huh?" Tony asked Rhodey, who was standing near by.

"Yeah, I guess. Just don't get yourself killed, Tony." He said, looking at his friend sternly, "What do you need me to do? Get into a suit and help you?" He asked.

"Uh...no. Your suit isn't working...I ripped some stuff out of it to fix mine up. Don't use it. Go to the base and keep the skies clear, I'm pretty sure this could get messy, so be ready in case I do fail." He said, then closed his face plate and took off.

"So much for a goodbye. Good luck, Tony!" He called through the opening in the ceiling that mechanically opened and closed.

Rhodey ran out of the mansion and got into his car, heading for the air force base.


Pepper woke up extremely sore, and her head was pounding. She was tied to a chair around the waist, her legs were bound together, and her hands were bound together in front of her. She felt something jabbing against her side and looked down to find her cell phone in her pocket. Her cell phone. What kind of idiots were these people? She didn't care. She was thankful they had forgotten to check her pockets.

She looked around to find no one in the room with her. As she scanned the room, she saw a large form of a giant in the dark corner. "What on earth is that?" She whispered.

Only a moment later, a door opened, letting some light into the room. A tall man stepped in and flipped a light switch. Pepper's eyes watered as she tried to adjust to the brightness of the room. She squinted through her tears and realized that it was Obadiah.

Pepper couldn't think of anything to say, they had had suspicions that it was him, but how was she supposed to confront him? Especially when tied to a chair?

Obadiah walked over to her and she noticed he was carrying some kind of briefcase in one of his hands. He set it down on a lone table in the middle of the room with random boxes of junk.

"Oh Pepper, if you had just stayed out of things, you wouldn't have to be in here like this." He motioned to her and the pitiful state she was in. One of her shoes was missing, her dress pants were torn, she had cuts all over her hands, and a small bruise forming on the side of her face, a cut on her cheek, and a fractured left arm. Not to mention all the bruises and cuts on her legs from trying to fend off her kidnappers.

"Curiosity always kills the cat." Obadiah tisked. He reached for the briefcase, opening it and picking something up. He turned so she could see exactly what it was.

Tony's arc reactor. The new one.

Pepper's eyes widened and her mouth hung open in shock. "Where is he? What did you do to him?" Pepper was panicking. She was moving around in her chair, struggling against the bonds.

"At the state I left him in, he could be dead, for all I know." Obadiah shrugged.

"NO!" Pepper yelled, "No. He has to be alive." She started to cry. These past few months had been the worst ones for Pepper. Hands down.

She struggled against the ties holding her, her hands getting rope burn. Then she remembered the phone in her pocket. She faked giving up and hung her head, crying a little.

"Poor Pepper." Obadiah said, he put a hand under her chin and forced her face upward. "Maybe you'll get to see Tony in some kind of afterlife." He laughed a little.

Pepper only glared at him. Obadiah turned and walked over to his giant prototype. He seemed to be examining it. She took this opportunity and wedged the phone out of her pants pocket, where it clattered to the floor. Obadiah was tinkering with something the moment it hit the floor. She waited, holding her breath, to see if he would turn around.

He never did. He kept working diligently, trying to figure out a way to hook the arc reactor into his own prototype. The phone had fallen further away from the chair, not something she was entirely happy about. Then a thought came to her. She could tip her chair over, and land next to the phone, and hit Tony's speed dial. That would do it.

She rocked back and forth on the chair while Obadiah still tinkered away with the prototype. Finally, after a lot of effort, Pepper fell over with the chair, being very careful not to make any sudden noises. Luckily, she had landed on her right side, not on the same side as her fractured and/or broken arm. All she knew, was that it hurt like hell.

As soon as she hit the floor, pain shot through her chest. Something was wrong. Had she broken a rib? She could barely breathe. 'Well this isn't fun.' She found herself thinking. She reached up with her bonded hands and pressed the number one on her phone, and then Call.

"Pick up, pick up, pick up..." Pepper whispered.

There was a very loud, "Pepper! Where are you?" That came from the other end.

Tony WAS alive! She wanted to cry with happiness and jump for joy, but obviously, that was out of the question.

"I'm in Stark Industries!" She was able to yell before Obadiah swiftly grabbed the phone away from her.

"Hello Tony." Obadiah said into the phone. "I'm sorry you're still alive."

"I'm sorry you're not already in prison." Tony said, distain dripping from his voice. "Don't you DARE do anything to Pepper!"

Obadiah chuckled, "What? Like this?" He leaned over and grabbed Pepper's arm and pulled her and the chair up. Pepper was screaming in pain. He had grabbed her broken arm. After letting go of her, he hit her across the face, where a bruise was already forming.

She panted, "Tony...will find me..." She breathed heavily. Her vision was growing fuzzy from the pain.

"Oh dear. It looks like you're girlfriend is having a hard time staying awake, Tony. You should call back later when she's not sleepy." Obadiah hung up the phone, threw it to the floor and crushed it under his foot.

"I...hate you..." Pepper said bitterly, trying to keep her eyes from drooping. The room was spinning around her.

All Tony had heard was Pepper's screaming. He pooled some more energy into his repulsors and set off even faster for Stark Industries. He would get there within the next five minutes.

Obadiah reached up and grabbed something from the ceiling that hung above Pepper. An industrial sized hook. That didn't look friendly at all. He grabbed her hands and lifted them. He used the rope already around her wrists to fasten it to the hook. Her eyes widened and she tried to struggle, but her energy was completely leaving her. Her arms were stretched up as far as they could go, and she was still tied to the chair. Obadiah reached over and untied the rope that held her to the chair. Her ankles were still tied together. Before Pepper could stand up and free herself from the hook, Obadiah pressed a large button on the wall. She felt herself stretch out and rise off the floor. She was just less than a foot off of the floor, but she couldn't touch the ground even if she pointed her toes. Her arm was killing her, and so were her ribs.

She whimpered in pain, she could hardly breathe. "Please." She gasped. "Let me go." She choked.

Obadiah walked back over to her and took out a knife from his pocket, "The only way to really get to someone, is to break the person they care most for." He said, analyzing the knife.

Pepper was trying to stay awake, but now that she saw what Obadiah wanted to do, she wasn't so sure she wanted to be awake for it. She stared at him, her face completely void of emotion. Tony would be here within a minute, but a lot can happen in only that small amount of time.

Obadiah grabbed her shirt and tore it, revealing her bare stomach, he lifted the knife to her skin and lightly ran over it. Pepper squeezed her eyes shut. This was going to be a living nightmare. Obadiah swiped it across her stomach, drawing blood. Pepper cried out in pain. It felt as though her stomach were on fire. She gulped down air, trying not to suffocate. "Tony." She breathed.

Obadiah started to laugh. "He won't get here in time."

Tears raced down Pepper's cheeks, dripping to the floor.

Obadiah could hear the low noise of what sounded like a small airplane coming closer, but he knew better. It was Tony.

"Good bye, Pepper. It was nice knowing you." Obadiah said, he seemed sincere, but in a twisted way.

Pepper's vision was going fuzzy, she wouldn't be awake for much longer. She could see Obadiah's arm pull back, the knife in his hand ready to break her skin and end her life. He moved his body forward, his arm getting closer. It was like slow motion, then suddenly, there was a loud crunching sound and then a blast that sent Obadiah flying across the room, he landed hard on the floor.

Tony watched as Obadiah flew across the room, then looked at what had been his focus. "Pepper!" He yelled as he flew forward, he went around and faced her, noticing that blood was quickly seeping out of a cut that stretched across her entire stomach.

Tony opened his faceplate and put his head between her arms and lifted up, so that the rope detached from the hook and she was hanging around his neck instead. He touched down to the ground, turning off his repulsors. Pepper was completely unconscious.

Tony sat down with Pepper in his arms, "Pepper? Hey, Pep." Tony traced her facial features for a moment before she started to wake.

"Tony?" She whispered as her eyes fluttered open.

Tony sighed with relief, "I thought I had lost you." Tony said, his heart was still pounding. He looked over Pepper, seeing how beat up she looked made him boil with anger.

"You're going to be all right, okay?" He said quietly. His ears perked up as he heard something move toward the back corner of the room. He turned his head around to see a giant version of his own Iron Man suit lighting up and take its first step in their direction.

Tony's eyes widened, "We have to get out of here, Pepper." Tony said, standing up and holding Pepper against him. She was fading in and out of consciousness.

"No." Pepper whispered.

"What? No?" Tony asked.

"You need to take care of Obadiah. Call Rhodey. He'll come." Pepper said quietly.

"Rhodey's all the way back at the base!" Tony said, getting frustrated. He watched as Obadiah tested the different parts of the suit.

"There's no time to argue! He'll follow where ever we go anyway. Just put me down somewhere and call Rhodey." Pepper said, squeezing her eyes shut in pain.

Tony stood for just a moment before blasting through the hole he had already made when he came into the building. He hid Pepper near the arc reactor, "Pepper, please, please don't do anything stupid." Tony pleaded.

She let out a sharp laugh, "You too." She smiled at Tony, bringing her hand up to his face. Tony looked down at the cut on her abdomen and grimaced.

"I'll be fine." She said, reading Tony's mind. "You need to take care of Obadiah. When Rhodey gets here, he can take care of me."

Tony nodded, but still unsure. "Just apply pressure to it as often as you can." And then, without much thought, he leaned forward and kissed her cheek. He turned away from her and shot into the sky, calling Rhodey.

"Rhodey! It's Tony."

"Ya...I know." Rhodey said, holding his cell phone to his ear.

"Hey, Pepper's hurt, but Obadiah is after me and I couldn't get her to safety. Where are you?" Tony asked.

"I'm at the base, and I told them what's going on. What do you want me to do?" Rhodey asked.

"I need to you get to Pepper. Help her. Something. We're at Stark Industries, near the Arc Reactor." Tony said, he was standing just outside Stark Industries. There was a huge crunching noise as the concrete wall of the building exploded into dust.

Tony turned around just in time. A huge missile launched straight past him, blowing up a concrete barrier. Before he could react, Obadiah hit him right in the chest, sending him flying over the barrier and on to the highway below. He hit the pavement and stood, cars screeched and came to a halt all around him.

"Ah crap." Tony said as Obadiah landed on the highway and threw a car filled with people in his direction.

Tony caught it with some major effort and put it on the ground, the lady and kids in the car screaming like there was no tomorrow. He watched as they drove off, then turned and saw Obadiah running for him.

He ran as fast as he could, straight for Obadiah, sending a jet of blue light right at his head. Obadiah retaliated with a few missiles, headed in Tony's direction. One of the missiles hit Tony in the shoulder, sending him flying backwards.

He hit the ground, and Obadiah stomped down on Tony's chest with his foot. "For YEARS, I've been holding you up!" Obadiah yelled in anger. "I took care of that company. Built it from scratch after your father! Nothing is going to stand in my way." Tony could barely breathe, he was being crushed by Obadiah's powerful suit. Obadiah bent over and grabbed Tony by the arm, lifting him off the ground, "Least of all YOU!" He threw Tony at a bus that had been abandoned only moments ago.

Obadiah aimed a missile at the bus, there was a huge blast, and Tony flew through the air. Before he hit the ground, he opened the repulsor jets on his feet and hovered above the ground.

"Impressive! I've made some upgrades of my own!" Obadiah yelled, he started the repulsors under his feet and started to climb through the air.

"Sir, it appears that his suit can fly." Jarvis said.

"Duly noted. Take me to maximum altitude." Tony said. He watched as the power on his suit depleted. He had to play this perfectly, or he would be completely out of power.

"With only 15% power, the odds of reaching that..." Jarvis quipped.

"I know the math! Do it!" He yelled. He shot through the air, getting higher and higher, and glancing down every now and then to see where Obadiah was.

"Sir, if I may ask, do you have a plan?" Jarvis asked.

"I thought you would figure that out for yourself," Tony smiled, glancing down at the massive giant that was Obadiah Stane. "I'm betting that Obadiah didn't think to ice-proof it. His won't make it past the atmosphere like mine can."

"And what are you going to do if he does get through the atmosphere?" Jarvis asked.

"I'll have to do some improvising." Tony grunted, giving more power to the repulsors.


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