"Where have you been!" Alex repetitively asks me as I enter the house and sit down at the dinner table, about five minutes after dinner was over.
"I was out." Was all I would mutter up. I'm not too open about my personal life.
Luckily Mr. And Mrs. Rhodes are in a conference, somewhere...this is happens often so we don't find it a big deal.
"Where is out? Are you breaking rules? Stealing? Dealing D-"
"No! I wasn't doing any of that! I was just doing something that is personal and I rather keep it a secret" I turn off satisfied with my answer...But not everyone is.
"Wait! Do you have a boyfriend! And with out telling me! How could you! I mean I'm like your sister!" Alex starts freaking out yammering in about what would happen.
"Shush!" I whisper. Then James sticks his head out the door to his room.
"Hey, keep it down! I'm trying to-"
"Mikey has a boyfriend!" Alex blurts out then quickly covers her mouth shocked at what she just said.
"She what!" James says surprised then turns to me, "You what! Who is he? What is his name? How old is he? where did you meet him? Is this where you go after school?-"
"I don't have a boyfriend!" I shout and they both become quiet, "you two are so much alike, anyways, Alex I totally trust you enough to tell you if I had a boyfriend, and you know how bad I am at lying! And James seriously? since when do you listen to Alex 24/7? Over protective much?!"
"Then if you trust me so much why don't you tell me where you go?" Alex questions, but demands might be a better word choice.
"It's a secret, doesn't everyone have a secret? you guys keep secrets from me all the time!"
"The last secret I kept from you was what you were getting for your birthday!" James points out.
"And I have never ever ever kept a secret from you! And you know that!" Alex protests.
"this, this is different, there is no reason, why you need to know, it's nothing dangerous, nor does any of it involve any one but me." I turn around and head of my room, " and I need my personal space, I would think you two would have known that already." I sigh and close the door behind me.
'Some day this has been...'
"Wake up Mikaela! Get ready for school!" Mrs. Rhodes shout from outside the door to my bedroom! I sit up groggily and remember the situation from last night. I jump up out of bed, get dressed, brush my teeth and hair, pack my bag and run straight for the door hoping to catch the early bus to school. I know its not my daily routine but I needed to rush otherwise I would be stuck with Alex and James... Let's just say they can get the worlds most advanced minded criminal to confess that he didn't clean his room to his mother.
Finally! At school safe and sound! At least for now!
I've been able to avoid Alex and James all day, I have to give thanks to some masked superhero's to show up at the field during practice today claiming to be fighting The Leaper. I got the school's library to myself and decided to put my time to good use.
The idea came up in my head about history of technology, maybe it can help me with this new project I'm working on, repairing some of my dad's old junk, seeing what it does...if it works that is.
"And then he came out of nowhere- hold on a second! Mikey! Where were you this morning? Mom said you ran out the house! What is that you're reading?" Alex questions as she attempts to peek over my shoulder.
"N-nothing, absolutely nothing!" I hold the book behind my back and slowly walk away.
"Advanced Technology: Through the Ages Up Until Today. Written by Howard Stark. Some book you got there!" I hear James read from behind me.
"Mikey! You have some explaining to do!" Alex demands and grabs my wrist. We are shushed by the librarian as I am dragged out to the hallway and stuck in a lock hug from Alex. They look to make sure no one is witnessing.
"Spill now!" James shouts.
"I'm telling you it's nothing. Okay! Can't you take a hint! My secrets are my secrets wether you like it or not! Now let go of me!" I shout. I gather up enough strength and break free from their grips, that was easier than expected! I take off, but quickly glance behind me, realizing how fast I had just moved and how Alex was on the floor staring in shock with James helping her up from the broken lockers and ashes from the ceiling.
I think it is best to get to the lab! Now! There is something defiantly not right.
On the whole way there questions keep running through my head...surprisingly ones I can't answer.
'How could've I broken both James' and Alex's grips while together they are 5 times stronger than me, then sprint away as if I was top on the track team! Not only that but it's like I exploded or something! This doesn't make any sense! I gotta get to the lab! Get J.A.R.V.I.S to scan me!
I reach the old ware house and reach for the dial pad to enter the code. My hand draws closer and I jump.
'FIZZ' I guess the circuits are fried. No problem. I will just call J.A.R.V.I.S. To open the door. As I pick up my phone, it fizzes out and dies too. I wonder what that is about?
The door opens anyways... All I have to say is '?'.
"J.A.R.V.I.S.? Are you in there?" I shout into the echoing room once I'm down the elevator. "Hello?"
"Miss Stark. I have located a powerful energy you are generation from your inner biological systems, I have been programmed by your father, Tony Stark, to trace any signs of this energy and it's frequencies, I have also been programmed on how to, what you would say, deal with this situation." J.A.R.V.I.S explains. How could he have information that I never knew about? "It is because the information was stores under and invisible fire wall to stop you, but mostly anyone else, from getting into this information until you have developed a higher stage of your condition."
"Wait did you just read my mind?" I ask J.A.R.V.I.S. I am still confused about everything else right now...why on earth do I need this too?
"In a way yes, you can have all the information about the situation after you put on this suit. It is made of special particles that when precisely bonded together, can create the ultimate containing field, preventing any unwanted misfires that could occur at any moment." I nod in agreement...then I realize what I am agreeing to.
"Wait so I will be stuck in a monkey suit all day, every day, for the rest of my life? I don't think so! J.A.R.V.I.S.! Don't you know what Mrs. Rhodes would do if she saw me in that thing!" I shout and point to the white, black, steel, and fluorescent light blue suit rising up from a unknown trap door.
"You need to wear the suit, your father designed it specifically for this reason, he knew that this day would come. Besides, not to scare you but to warn you, if you don't put on the suit in 1.05 minutes you will most likely blow up...if you haven't noticed you're-"
"I'm blue! I'm fudging glowing blue! But how? Why? J.A.R.V.I.S.! What on earth is going on! Wait if I get in the suit will this stuff stop?" I question my now annoying A.I. system.
"Yes Miss Stark" J.A.R.V.I.S. replies. I nod and swiftly step on the platform and multiple arms place the suit, around me. I look down and notice how each little piece locks together on it's own and the blue floating glowing fluorescent streaks around me fade away. Letting me see clearly.
"So what did my dad name it?" We always had a thing for naming each thing we made together, so how could he have come up with this one?
"He called it the STEEL309.73A.R.E.C.U. But Steel Suit for short, sweet and simple."
"Okay, the Steel Suit, I like it! But now I need to know everything! And I mean everything! Starting with how to hide this thing from the Rhodes!"
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