Authoress Note: Welcome to Chapter 18 of Iron Maiden. I want to thank those who have left reviews for this story. I've been working hard on this story and this chapter. I hope that you guys enjoy it. Without further ado Chapter 18. ENJOY!

Chapter 18

Pepper grabbed her phone and dialed Tony's number concerned hoping that he was there. "TONY - ARE YOU THERE?"

"A little busy, Pepper-" Tony called out over the phone.

"The reactor's been it-"

"You and Abs get to the control room. Shut it down-"

"How the hell do I shut it down?"

"Come on Pepper." Abigail said, grabbing the woman's arm trying to get her to the control room. Abigail bit her lip softly. She knew that Tony wanted something to do with shutting down the control room.

Pepper followed Abigail into the control room. "TONY? Where are you-? I'm in the control room. Now what?"

"Central panel. Red button. Press it."

Pepper flips open the panel to find a hundred buttons all red, all flashing. "Thanks, Tony."

"What's the delta rate?"

Abigail quickly looked at the monitor. "1-2-5-0, Tony."

"Damn-"

"Damn?! I don't want to hear "damn." GET UP HERE-"

"Pepper, I'm delegating this to you and Abigail. FIND A WAY!"

Abigail groaned as she moved looking around for the red button that Tony had been talking about even though there were a lot of them there. "Come on… come on." She said as she continued to look for what she needed. "Where the fuck is it." She looked around some more knowing that she needed to find the switch and turn it on.

"Pepper, Abigail, how are we doing?"

Pepper awash in emergency manuals, throws one over her shoulder flipping switches, and turning dials. The whole place thrums with energy. "Thanks for checking in Tony. Delta's at 2300. It's not going down."

"It's too late."

"Too late? What's going to happen?"

"It's going to blow a crater a mile wide. I'm coming to get you and Abigail."

Pepper and Abigail backed away from the monitors, disbelieving.

"I can't believe we're too late on this…" Abigail said softly. She didn't know a damn thing about the arc reactor and she felt useless.

"Pepper, Abigail, wait. Stay put- we're going to overload the reactor."

"IT'S ALREADY OVERLOADING -"

"No, it's compressing energy. We're going to convert the plasma core to electricity and channel it up through the roof. Like a Tesla coil."

Abigail quickly grabbed the phone. "Tony, I don't need a science lesson, just tell me what button to push -"

"See a red submarine hatch? A wheel- a red wheel."

"...no. YES -" Abigail said as she ordered Pepper to go to it.

"Open it all the way, then standby to hit the master. We've only got one shot at this."

"You got it Tony." She said softly into the phone. She told Pepper what to do. "Just be careful up there."

"You know me, I'm careful." Tony replied to his little sister.

"Sometimes I wonder about that Tony."

Tony let out a soft chuckle over the phone. "Hit the switch. Abigail-"

Electromagnetic tentacles arc from the reactor to the control room around Pepper and Abigail.

"TONY? Which Master Switch -" Abigail looked at the phone and it was dead. "Oh fuck…" She groaned as a row of Master switches blinked.

"I am so looking for another job." Pepper stated as the two women hit all of the switches and then dived for cover as the world went steel-blue around them.

An electromagnetic pulse flashed upwards along the reactor.

Abigail covered her head, pursing her lips in worry hoping that Tony would be okay from this and Obadiah paid for what he had done to them.

The two women raised to their feet, staring at the bubbling plasma unsure of who fell in there. The two of them ran out of the room.

Ten minutes later three flashlights cut through the darkness and Tony batted his eyes to see Rhodey, Peppr, and Abigail had made their way towards him.

Abigail let out a soft breath noticing that Tony was still on the roof and he looked even though he was knocked out he was alive. She tangled her hand in her hair knowing that she was going to need to figure something out to try to get away from this world of fighting. She rushed towards her brother and kneeled down next to him. "God Tony." She said softly touching his face softly with her hands knowing that he had been through hell with Obadiah and of course she was concerned of what had happened.

Tony slowly opened his eyes seeing his sister looking down at him. "Hey Abs." He said weakly, taking a few soft breaths.

"You know you scared the hell out of us."

Tony let out a soft chuckle. "I told you I would be alright."

Abigail scoffed and shook her head. "You call this being alright?"

"Yep."

Abigail let out a breath shaking her head again knowing that her brother was insane.

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This is the end of Chapter 18. I hope that you guys enjoyed this chapter. I tried my best with editing and writing it out. I know that it is a bit on the short side. I do apologize for that. Please let me know what you think of this chapter. I hope to update the story with a new chapter soon. Until next time.