Here it is, as promised… well still short but done at the office between two brochure sooo…

I do apologize for any typo mistake though.

Thanks to all my readers you're awesome.

Chapter 3

The Malibu mansion was dark, you could even say lifeless since Miss Potts left it a week ago, even Obadiah stopped to come there when he realize after various attempt that the genius' AI refused to let him in, with for only excuse "Master Jarvis only gave clearance for miss Potts in the event of his absence" which seemed off coming from the computer, so unlike him… but once again Tony was strange since he was brought back online, not that Obadiah would complain, he always hated the bratty defective unit. If it get some circuits fried when Jarvis shut him down, good riddance!

All the rooms were dark and empty, the fountain turned off… as well as the heating, and if you tried to turn anything on, you would find that there seemed to have no power running inside the house anymore… despite the huge electricity bill that JI will received at the end of this month… not that they will notice … nobody ever checked …

But there was an explanation to that, all the house electrical resources had been transferred the underground part of the house, the most secure part of it: The workshop of the famous Edwin Jarvis.

And inside, gently nested away from prying eyes, Tony was quite… busy.

-"no… don't… no! Not that way! No Dummy!" then a crashing sound and scattering metal piece on the floor. "Arg! Dummy you useless piece of hardware! I should… I should... rah! Give you to a city college! Maybe… not sure they would want you though!"

Tony was cursing and ranting at the ashamed – well as far as a basic AI could feel "ashamed"- robotic arm.

-"we will have to start all over again! Can't you be a bit more careful?!"

Tony was almost regretting the day he decided to program an artificial intelligence into the robotics arms, or in this case into "Dummy".

But, hey! He had a good justification for that okay? A really really good one! He never attempted something as complicated as creating an AI by himself before, even such a primitive one… and after his creation… Jarvis never made an other one… so Tony had to figure it all by himself!

Let's call Dummy a draft... Right? Right!

Anyway he did better with Butterfingers, well even if the unit was awfully clumsy it was still slightly more efficient and reliable, which was a clear improvement compare to Dummy. And if Tony wasn't a mere AI, you could say that he was feeling really proud of his boys! No matter how awful their program was! They were after all his very first creations without Jarvis help or inputs, his own, for the somewhat artificial intelligence part at least.

And … It was nice to not be alone anymore… Tony discovered he despised being alone, especially after his brutal shut down, he was… afraid of it in fact, totally terrified to be all alone, in the dark, only surrounded by silence, he actually never turn down the light in the workshop, and always put music when Dummy and Butterfingers were off charging up their battery.

Tony virtually shook his schematics, "stop being such a pussy Tony! You have work to do!" and then he turned back his attention to the workshop almost cringing when he saw how messy it turned… he will have to find a way to fix that… after all Jarvis wouldn't be happy otherwise once he will be back home - yeah "once", not "if" because Tony wasn't doing all this hard for nothing he was going to get his creator back!- and Tony had to admit that he wasn't really keen on explaining the whole situation to Jarvis … What if the man was disappointed with him, what if he though it was a sufficient reason to shut him down again?! After all the first time he was just shut down for a holographic projection!

Tony shuddered slightly, blinking off and back on because of his anxiety,

He refocused his attention back to his work, to stop thinking about his creator opinion and reaction, after all Jarvis needn't to know what happened here when he was away!

The engineering work had a strange soothing effect on the AI, tinkering with schematics, metal, wire, testing his own personal creation, being innovative, and solving mechanical problems…he really enjoyed it! It was his thing! So much fun, so much possibilities! Tony wasn't sure he would be able to stop himself when Jarvis will be back… oh well, he will just have to figure out something! It shouldn't be too hard after all!

And at the moment … he wasn't even directly "tinkering" with anything… more like ordering Butterfingers and Dummy around.

Indeed, when he first tried to figure out a way to help his creator, The AI was put in front of his greatest limit, he had no hand, no body, no way to physically help Jarvis absolutely nothing, he was totally powerless, stuck into the circuit of the mansion like a prisoner.

This was what pushed the super computer to give a form of AI to Jarvis's old forgotten robotic arms. They hadn't been used for year, Tony wasn't even sure the genius remembered them, but for the AI those two robots had a lot of potential, they were indeed able to move around, something that Tony was in the incapacity to do, maybe not for too long if he managed to finish his project, with it he would be finally able to look out for Edwin!

Dummy and Butterfingers were currently helping him with the prototype of this special project, to Tony great displeasure, even if he was able to build the final product by himself, thanks to the various assembling machines belonging to Jarvis, the creation of a prototype needed much more dexterity and finesse than that, or more exactly as much finesse as the two robotics arms were able to.

Dummy wasn't really good at it … and Butterfinger was maybe overdoing it a bit.

Anyway they still had a lot ahead of them!

-"okay guys let's go back to work! And focus this time!"