Hola!
Anyways, so sorry for the lateness of this chapter. I got caught up doing a re-write of one of my other fics first chapters. That took a bit, amongst other stuff. Still, I feel real bad that I just got this chapter done but I hope you all enjoy it.
Anyways not much to say, I tried my best to do as many comments from our current group that fit certain scene and such. With the best of my abilities and sticking to my game's canon timeline. That and doing a new process when looking over my finished story. From reading it over, looking for as many grammar errors I can. To now the newest process of mine. Reading the WHOLE chapter out loud.
When I say out loud, I mean out loud. Like I mimic the character voices from the people in the film being watched; to the servants reacting. Which if you should know, I'm not much of a talking in general. More of listener. So my throat, actually got so sore at one point. I swore I lost my voice for a bit. Thankfully I didn't, but still even if I had. It's was fun to do. Anyways, enough of my rambling. Once more I hope you all enjoy this next chapter.
P.S: Trying a bit of a new way of separating the movie sections and reaction sections. Tell me what you think of it and be honest. I'm always trying my best to improve on how to do scene transitions. Along with improving my vocabulary so I don't repeat words at a constant. Which for a story like this, can be kind of hard not to do at times. Still give me your feed back, as long as it's honest and constrictive. It can be good or bad, so don't feel shy to PM me or leave a review.
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Chaldea Reacts!- Ch.5- Pt.2: But yet again, another great choice!
It had been thirteen minuets now. The Jeanne sisters, Da-Vinci sisters, Mecha Eli-Chan and Fran all sitting back on the couch. Having just finished a sweet snack that had been stacked in the cupboard above the fridge. Snacks they learned from the boxing were called 'Pop tarts'. Lily Da-Vinci, Lily Jeanne and Fran liked them plenty. Da-Vinci seemed okay with the treats, alongside Mecha Eli-Chan… somehow. The only ones who seemed to not care for the super sweets were Jeanne Alter and Jeanne herself. Though the Jeanne's at least were being nice about it… Jenna more of course. But still the two just thought it was WAY too sweet.
"That was so good!" Lily Jeanne cheered as looked to Lily Da-Vinci "Did you like it Luna?"
"I did Jenny. I not much of a sweets kid, but that was really good. Strawberry was good choice for a flavor." Lily Da-Vinci answered back happily as Da Vinci though agreeing a bit with the two just patted her little sisters head
"Grah. Gao, umf." Fran chimed in, as Mecha Eli-Chan completely agreed with the adorable Berserker
"Indeed. You two just make sure not to eat to many. We maybe servants, we may not gain weight from what we eat. But you can still get sick off of them. So keep in mind with how many you eat." Mecha Eli-Chan explained like an old school P.S.A
"Yes Miss Eli." The Lily's politely replied back as Mecha Eli-Chan in a rare moment couldn't help but smile a bit at how cute the two young one's could be
"Still… way too sweet if you ask me." Jeanne Alter added in, as she took a sip from a water bottle she got from the fridge "Feels like my tongue's about melt off."
"Hm." Jeanne mused in silent agreement, as she patted the top of her baby sisters head knowing the girls would want more in the future "Anyways, we'll see if we can get some later on. BUT, only if you behave and don't eat them all in one day. Okay sweetie?"
"Yes big sister…" Lily Jeanne pouted a bit as Jeanne Alter pulled her ear a bit, much to the youngest Jeanne's irritation as she let go "Ow, what was that for?"
"For being a brat. No pouting or you get none of these sweet monstrosities anymore got it." Jeanne Alter answered, as she was still getting use to the whole big sister thing; but was much better now at it then when she started
"Meanie." Lily Jeanne said back sticking her tongue out as Jeanne Alter did the same, thankfully the eldest of the sisters cut in
"Now, now. Let's all get along. Besides it's about fifteen minutes and I think we all want to see the rest of the movie correct?" Jeanne stated as everyone else nodded in agreement "Good. Then let's do that… speaking of, um whoever's listening. Can you ah…"
Just then the laptop dimmed out, and the movie began to start back up as the countdown that had appeared at start of the movie. Re-appeared before them paused on the 5.
"Oh thank you!" Jeanne thanked, as the movie started once more for the girls
5…..
4….
3…
2..
1.
[Begin]
As the scene showed finally, the girls saw it had changed. Now showing Tony driving in one of his many expensive cars. This a silver sport car, driving down the road at high speeds. Swerving left and right at a constant while passing other cars. It didn't take too long before they saw Tony parking up near what was most likely was the entrance to the party itself.
A valet meanwhile ran up to the driver's side of the door, as Tony exited; before handing the valet the keys to his car. The view panning around to show the front of the entrance as Tony walked towards it. Various men and women in high class attire seeing him, much to their surprised.
Then another quick change in the scene. Showed Obadiah having an interview with a reporter, most likely about the future of Stark Industries.
"The weapons manufacturing is-" Obadiah explained, but stopped as the sounds of women shrieking in glee could be heard. Though as it got louder and louder, Obadiah just ignored it; and continued with the interview "Only a one small part of what Stark Industries is all about…"
Though as Obadiah tried to explain more to the reporter, he became a bit curious himself as the cheering and camera flares went off. The scene changing back to Tony just walking by them all. A blonde woman in a black dress addressing him all of sudden as he got closer.
"Hey Tony, remember me?" The black dressed woman asked, in a flirty manner
"I sure don't." Tony bluntly answered. Walking past the woman, before patting the left shoulder of an old man with two lovely ladies at his side "You look great, Hef."
But as Tony walked past the old man, he turned around and it seemed to hint that this was someone else. Though the name to the older servants sounded important. But they let it be, since if Tony knew the man. It could be this 'Hef' was in a business they may not want to know about or at least use the grail Knowledge to learn of. Though Tony was seen seconds later making his way up Obadiah.
["Jenny, promise me to NEVER looked up anything that involves the name Hef in it."] Jeanne quickly pleaded to her youngest sister as she and Lily Da-Vinci seemed to have been the only one who didn't seem to pay attention to the name
["Why, I kinda want to look it up now."] Lily Jeanne answered back, feeling a bit mischievous right now as Jeanne dreaded dealing with this side of her usually adorable sweet baby sister; thankfully the middle sister knew how to deal with this behavior much better
["If you do, no pop tarts for you. Simply as that."] Jeanne Alter bluntly threatened as Lily Jeanne pouted a bit more as Jeanne Alter did a mental check on how many arguments she won so far against her baby sister; it was a lot just to be clear
["W-Well you wouldn't do anything mean like that to me, right big sis?"] Lily Da-Vinci quickly asked with a sweet smile. Da Vinci only smiled and patted the top of her baby sisters head. Which scared the little one a bit, since that's always meant it would be much worse somehow
["And this is why you should be thankful at times for being an only child Fran."] Mecha Eli-Chan whispered as she truly did loved her own sisters being the other Elizbeth's; but they could be such a hassle to be around at times
["Grah."] Fran only replied back. As she was half-half on that since she had always wanted a sibling of her own. But she and the others went back to watching the scene play out
"What's the world coming to when a guy's gotta crash his own party?" Tony joked, smiling a bit as Obadiah laughed a little himself while the camera flashed went off still
"Look at you." Obadiah mused looking over Tony for a few moments, seeming happy to see the young man back in the public "Hey, what a surprise!"
"I'll see you inside." Tony simply said, making his way past Obadiah; only for the older man to stop him for a moment as the two stare at one another
"Listen, take it slow, alright. I got the Board where I really want them." Obadiah suggested, as he really did and had worked quiet hard to do so ever since Tony's little… stunt
"You got it. Just cabin fever, I'll just be a minute." Tony responded. Making his way off once more before another quick scene changed. Which now showed the inside of the lively fancy party. Tony making his way over to the bar. Though he didn't take notice of the man next to him as he addressed the Bartender "Give me a Scotch, I'm starving."
"Mr. Stark?" The man next to Tony said, Tony looked to see it was Agent… well forgot the last name; but he had feeling this man wanted something from him
"Yeah?" Tony mused, mostly to get the man's name and to make sure that it this wasn't some sort of stunt being pulled to get information out of him for whatever reason
"Agent Coulson." Coulson answered, Tony now remembering Pepper saying something about this guy
"Oh yeah, the guy from the..." Tony quipped, but the name of the organization actually was lost to him since he only remembered how unnecessarily long it sounded
"Strategic Homeland Intervention Enforcement and Logistics Division." Coulson answered, calm as ever as it seemed to Tony this man repeated that line a little too much in daily life
["Still way to freaking long of a name."] Jeanne Alter mused once more
["Totally."] Jeanne and Jeanne Lily added in in total agreement, as the others once more rolled their eyes at the small little complaint there
["We're not going to heard the end of this are we?"] Mecha Eli-Chan asked everyone else in a hushed tone away from the three sisters, sighing a little as to her it wasn't THAT big of a deal to get uppity about
["Nope."] Da-Vinci replied first, even if she found the name redundant too a bit
["Nada."] Lily Da-Vinci chimed in next with a shrug
["Grah..."] Fran answered last. As she agreed mostly with Mech Eli-Chan that this wasn't the end of the little nitpick for the Jeanne sisters
Mecha Eli-Chan could only sigh some more, but let it be as she was going to keep on enjoying the movie. Well in her own way, even if she probably have a few nit picks by the end of it. So with that she and the rest watched on alongside the Jeanne sisters.
"God, you got... you need a new name for that." Tony suggested. Though it was also a bit of a half tease too, sine yeah that name was stupidly long for no reason
"Yeah, I hear that a lot. Listen, I know this must be a trying time for you, but we need to debrief you. There's still a lot of unanswered questions, and time can be a factor with these things." Coulson began to explain, though as Tony was given his drink and took a sip; looking back out at the dance floor. He spotted Pepper in rather nice looking dark blue dress. He also realized he couldn't take his eyes off of her, all the while Coulson kept on just explaining the situation to the man "Let's just put something on the books. How about the 24th, at seven P.M at Stark Industries?"
"Tell you what... you got it." Tony answered. Keeping his eyes on Pepper as he held his hand out to Coulson who was a bit surprised at how easy that was considering the man's reputation. Coulson simply shaking Tony's hand "You're absolutely right. Well... I'm gonna go to my assistant and we'll make it date."
With that, Tony made his way of leaving Coulson who had a good idea what Tony was really paying attention to. But he got the confirmation on that and would hold Tony to it. Meanwhile Tony who'd placed his drink down. Made his way over to Pepper and again he couldn't help but stare at her backside as she seemed to be looking around for something or maybe someone.
"You look fantastic, I didn't recognize you." Tony exclaimed, as Pepper looked back and smile seeing her boss here tonight
"What are you doing here?" Pepper questioned. Surprised, yet happy to see Tony was going out again and that I seemed he was a bit back to his old self. Though she didn't mind the kind compliment he just gave her
Just avoiding government agents." Tony answered simply, since that was basically the truth of it aside from him getting to talk with Pepper
"Are you here by yourself?" Pepper asked. Wondering if Tony brought anyone else with him, most likely other women if she were take a shot in the dark on that guess
"Where'd you get that dress?" Tony asked back suddenly, mainly just to steer to subject on something else aside from himself
"It was a birthday present." Pepper answered. As Tony, muttered 'Looks good' and had to admit that it did look quite good on her. Whoever got it from her must have a good eye. Though it did seem familiar… "From you, actually."
"I have great taste." Tony quickly rebutted as now he remembered getting her that dress a year ago for her birthday, to be honest he just picked it since it had screamed Pepper to him; turns out it was a really good choice
"Yes." Pepper simply mused. As for a few moments an awkward silence filled the gap between the two
["Ship it, SHIP IT!"] Lily Jeanne and Lily Da-Vinci chanted with stary eyes at the cute moment between Tony and Pepper
["Again. You two are going to pay for you little sister infecting mine with this Shipping stuff."] Da-Vinci repeated, ever so sweetly as the older Jeanne's nodded and smiled back nervously much to oddly Da-Vinci's slight amusement ["Ah the smell of fear in the morning, how quaint."]
["Well I still hope they kiss…"] Mech-Eli Chan muttered so the rather scary Da-Vinci didn't hear her. Though Fran had, but kept her mouth shut to keep her friend safe
["SHIP IT LIKE MAIL!"] Once more the Lily's screamed in joy, as they all just kept on watching the movie
"You, uh, wanna dance?" Tony proposed. A quick way to get out of this sudden awkwardness between him and Pepper; who herself was surprised at his question
"Oh, no, thank you. No." Pepper quickly and, by an automatic tendency answered. Only for Tony to just have not have hear her, and pulled her by the arm into the crowd where the slow danced was taking place
It wasn't long before the two found themselves dancing hand to hand, face to face amongst the crowd. Seeming to still be feeling pretty awkward with each other and in this situation, but Pepper seemed to be showing it more than Tony.
"Am I making you uncomfortable?" Tony asked. But felt a bit stupid for asking that question to Pepper, of course he was; well at least that's what his mind concluded
"No, no. I always forget to wear a deodorant, and dance with my boss in front of everyone that I work with… in a dress with no back." Pepper explained. Though it was technically true, she also seemed to just be trying to convince herself that dancing with Tony was making feel… odd in a way she could not say was bad or good
"You look great, you smell great." Tony quickly rebutted, though scolded himself for that second part; he maybe a ladies man. But he knew just saying, 'You smell great' was a bit… creepy and considering who he just said it too made it all the more kind of creepy in his opinion
"Oh, God." Pepper mused, a bit amused by what Tony just said and found it cute if she were to be honest
"But I could fire you, if that'd take the edge off." Tony joked. Noticing the bit of amusement Pepper displayed and felt thankfully less awkward now
"I actually don't think that you could tie your shoes without me." Pepper joked back, if being a bit blunt and honest with her boss since it was pretty true he'd be lose without her when it came to remember anything outside of his own work
"I'd make it a week." Tony argued a little. Feeling a small challenge of his pride rise up with Pepper's little comment, he wasn't that bad… sometimes
"Really?" Pepper exclaimed, amused even more as she smirked; but made it look like sweet smile as she knew what to ask Tony next to prove her point "What's your social security number?"
"…Five." Tony answered. Taking a moment to remember at least the one number that was in his social security; not that the other number weren't there. He was just taking a bit longer to remember exactly what they were
"Five. You're missing just a couple of digits there." Pepper proclaimed. Very amused as she could see Tony was doing his best to seem cool, while trying to remember his full social security number
"The other eight?" Tony replied, Pepper laughing a bit now as the two kept on dancing "That's why I got you, for the other eight."
["Eh don't worry Tony. Personally I barely remember anything unless I need to, that or if I care enough."] Jeanne Alter quipped, as she got into a more relaxed state, resting her head on Jeanne's shoulder. The more saintly of the sisters internally trying to not have a heart attack from how happy she was just now; didn't help when Lily Jeanne did the same as she sat on Jeanne's lap resting a bit
["Same. But that's why we have elder sister here. She's really good at remembering stuff."] Lily Jeanne added in, before snuggling a bit more against Jeanne to watch them movie in a more comfortable manner; Jeanne Alter doing the same on her side
["Y-Y-Yep. Elder sister is a-always here for her little sisters!"] Jeanne declared as she felt like the lord herself just blessed her with this boon of sisterly cuteness; thank the lord Sieg wasn't here or she knew the boy would join in and that would just be the icing for her before she'd pass out in utter glee
["Wait doesn't them being the same person technically, mean they all-"] Lily Da-Vinci began to say, only for Fran to cut her off as she placed her hand gently over the young girls mouth
["Grah. Gruuu, gah, umf."] Fran explained calmly as the older Da-Vinci couldn't help but agree with her
["Yeah. Sorry Luna sweetie. BUT... maybe its best not to question it much kay?"] Da-Vinci explained, smiling a it sheepishly as she hoped her little sister would listen this time
["Hmmm..."] Lily Da-Vinci hummed for a moment or so, before smiling back at her big sister ["OKAY!"]
["Good girl."] Da-Vinci said, patting the top of her sisters head as Lily Da-Vinci was loving the head pats; the head pats were good like Miss Ushiwakamaru said they would be and Luna even now did not doubt the somewhat older girl
["Crisis averted."] Mecha Eli-Chan muttered, as she and the others turned their attention back to the scene at hand
The adorable scene at hand if you were to ask the Lily's on that, the adorable shipping fueled scene before them and the scene that made Mech Eli-Chan realize that this movie was probably going to have more scenes like this. She only hoped she could withstand the future possible squeals of glee from the young Lily's if that was the case. Still, that bridge would be crossed if it came to be for now... back to the scene.
So as the two danced on some more, ignoring some of the quick glanced at them from the other party goers. They looked into each other's eyes, the both of them feeling odd in a good way as they did. But again, Tony was much better at showing his more calm side, the Pepper was at the moment.
"How about a little air?:" Tony suggested as this was getting a little too awkward between the two nervous yet happy friends
"Yes, I need some air." Peppered agreed quickly, as they made their way out to an overlook just outside the ballroom. A quick switch back showing Coulson having watched the two, nothing else but just watched
Meanwhile with scene switched back to Tony and Pepper leading against the overlook. The city below which seemed to help calm Tony enough, while Pepper not as much.
"That was totally weird." Pepper stated, taking a few moment to realize what she'd done even by accident and in front of so many people
"Totally harmless." Tony casually countered, having just accepted what occurred even if he had found it a bit weird too
"It was totally not harmless, by the way." Pepper argued, as to her yeah it was defiantly anything but harmless when came to Tony's reputation
"Nobody was watching us." Tony tried to explain, but Pepper was already too frazzled up to think it through some more
"Everybody who I work with..." Pepper muttered realizing too that half the people in this party, were people she had to either work with on a daily basis or knew of through trade deals she did for Tony when he was too 'busy'
"I think you lost objectivity. I think they... we just danced." Tony yet again tried to explain, even though he was kind of doubting his own claims on how harmless their little dance really was when it came to what everyone saw and assumed probably
"No, it was not just the dance!" Pepper reinstated, a bit more louder and stern as Tony just decided to shut up for the moment, to let Pepper vent out a bit "You don't understand because you're you. And everybody knows exactly who you are, and how you are with girls. And all that, which is completely fine... b-but you know, then me; you're my boss and I'm dancing. Because it makes me look like... the one who's trying to..."
"I just think you're overstating, that's all." Tony finally said, since yeah he could see Peppers point; but even if this had been awkward. He was sure that it wasn't THAT bad, it was just a two friends dancing; at least that's what he kept telling himself
"And we're here, and then I'm... wearing this ridiculous dress... And then we were dancing like that and..." Pepper muttered, as she and Tony looked at each other once more, before leaning in for a kiss and their lips just barely touching one another. Before Pepper stopped and moved back a bit realizing what almost happened. Tony did to, as it was… really awkward again for them "I would like a drink, please."
["COME ON!"] Lily Jeanne screamed in slight anger that Tony and Pepper chickened out of smooching
["SERIOSULY DAMNIT!"] Lily Da-Vinci yelled next, only for her elder sister to pull her ear hard
["What did you just say Luna?"] Da-Vinci scolded as she wasn't one to not swear at times, but ever since becoming a big sister she'd made sure not to swear around her baby sister and did NOT want her adorable sister to start up a habit of swearing ["Because I think you just swore didn't you?"]
["I'm sorry, super sorry big sister please let go!"] Lily Da-Vinci pleaded, as Da-Vinci did so as the younger one sniffled a little ["T-That hurt Lena…"]
["I know. But I don't mean to, I only do it because I'm you big sister and I care."] Da-Vinci assured kissing her little sister on the forehead as Lily Da-Vinci giggled. Meanwhile Lily Jeanne just sheepishly smiled as Jeanne at least gave her a little sister stare that silent said 'Indoor voices please'; which the youngest Jeanne slowly nodded back to understanding her elder sister was being serious on that
["Like I said Fran. Only child, be thankful."] Mecha Eli-Chan whispered once more as Fran just awkwardly smiled back. Then like before everyone kept on watching the movie play out
"Got it." Tony simply replied as he was suddenly realizing what he and Pepper did almost too, the man passing by Pepper who looked at him as made his way off
"I would like a vodka martini, please. Very dry with olives, lot of olives, like at least three olives." Pepper requested as Tony took a moment to hear her out, then he was off and Pepper was left alone with thoughts on what was going on with her
Then a Transtion back to the bar, showed Tony making his way back up to it. As one of the bartenders saw him, and moved closer to take his order
"Two vodka martinis, extra dry, extra olives, extra fast." Tony ordered, taking out a twenty as he put in a tip glass "Make one of them dirty."
With the bartender then made his way to make Tony's order. Tony just taking a moment to think some more on what almost happened between him and Pepper. Until he took notice of someone he'd slept with just a few months ago. Being that blonde bombshell reporter, whose name he was fuzzy on. It started with C, he believed. Though she took notice of him as he looked away and hoped she would just ignore him.
"Well... Tony Stark!" The blonde reporter state, a bit sweetly than Tony liked as the woman moved over to his left; Tony pretending he just noticed her
"Oh, hey! Fancy seeing you here." Tony said, trying to figure out the name as he was for sure now it started with a C. One came moments later and he used was at best, a shot in the dark "…Carrie. "
"Christine." Christine quickly corrected, calmer now yet still sweet
"That's right." Tony replied back, as he could already tell this was not going to be a fun chat with an old one night; barely remembered flame
"You have a lot of nerve showing up here tonight." Christine exclaimed, a bit stern as Tony made a little face trying to be funny. But Christen wasn't having any of it "Can I at least get a reaction from you?"
"Panic. I would say panic is my reaction." Tony answered. Since to be honest, that was truly how he felt, not a severe panic; but one that you get when you really do not want to talk with a certain someone who knows that for a fact
"I was referring to your company's involvement in this latest atrocity." Christine informed, as Tony was a little confused on what she was going on about and believed she meant here at this part; while hopefully not what his gut suddenly was telling him she probably meant
"They just put my name on the invitation, I don't know what to tell you." Tony quipped, again trying to play if off as he really was wondering where in god's name was the bartender so he get his drinks and have an excuse the leave
"I actually almost bought it, hook, line and sinker." Christine calmly chastised, again much to Tony's utter confusion in what in god's name she was going on about by this point
"I was out of town for a couple of months, in case you didn't hear." Tony reminded the woman, since apparently she was acting like he knew what she was going on about; though he didn't take notice of the photos she was taking out of her purse
"Is this what you call accountability?" Christen suddenly said out of the blue, handing Tony the photos as he started to take a gander at them as they seemed to be images of a war torn town "It's a town called Gulmira. Heard of it?"
Tony stared at the woman for a few seconds, before resting his back against the bar to look at more of the photos. Now showing the first of the war tore town square, then next a few men carrying a long metal crate. Then the second to last, being a photo of one of the crates up close. Showing the words in bold white. 'Stark Industries'. Then finally a photo of what looked like his Jericho missiles, which baffled Tony as they weren't even suppose be out yet for military use.
"When were these taken?" Tony asked, as he felt sudden anger start rising in him realizing that something was not right
"Yesterday." Christine simply answered, as she'd wanted to get some dirt on Tony. But to her surprise, he seemed genuinely confused; still it could have been just an act
"I didn't approve any shipment." Tony explained, as again to Christen he seemed serious on this; but she wanted to make sure
"Well, your company did." Christen explained, wondering now if this was man was lying or if he was genuinely confused by the photos
"Well, I'm not my company." Tony stated. Stern and serious, as he and Christine simply stared at each other for a few more moments
Then another quick scene change occurred. Now showing Tony back outside in the front entrance to the party, which seemed to be coming to a close now. Obadiah was with him as it seemed he was trying to shoosh away some photographers.
"Please, do you mind?" Obadiah questioned the current out of a few dozen photographers around them, as Tony meanwhile needed to ask the man he'd known for so long a serious question
"Have you seen these pictures. What's going on?" Tony asked. Very serious by this point, as Obadiah quickly motioned him to come a bit closer so they could speak a bit more privately in such a public area
"Tony, you can't afford to be this naïve." Obadiah began to lecture, only for Tony to cut him
"I was naïve before, when they said 'Here's the line, we don't cross it this is how we do business'. If we're double-dealing under the table... are we?" Tony chastised his longtime friend, as Obadiah seemed a bit hesitant for a few moments before seeming to come to a decision
"Let's take a picture. Come on. Picture time!" Obadiah suggested, as he motioned Tony to turn around alongside him to the photographers. Who began take photos of the two as Obadiah waved for a moment, before leading a bit closer to younger man beside him to tell him a small little truth he knew "Tony... who do you think locked you out I was the one who filed the injunction against you?"
Meanwhile as Tony heard this, he seemed so calm yet on the inside he was shocked. Extremely shocked by this news and by the fact that it seemed his company. Without informing him, was arming terrorist with their very own weapons. Obadiah simply just smiled, as he patted Tony's right shoulder, like a father with a son in twisted way.
"It's the only way I can protect you." Obadiah explained. As that made it even worse for Tony, while the older man made his way off
Meanwhile as this occurred. Tony could only stare at Obadiah making his way to his car and shooshing away photographers without a care in the world it seemed. While photo flashes kept going off, taking pictures of Tony. None of them ever able to show, what the man at the moment was truly feeling.
["I knew it, I KNEW IT. Baldy is a bad guy, HA!"] Jeanne Alter shouted in anger and also glee that she was right on her hunch ["I mean come on. He SCREAMED bad guy!"]
["Well I was kind of onto him too. Besides he's bald, most bald people are prone to evil. Usually because the lack of hair."] Da-Vinci remarked, smirking a bit and such as everyone started at her ["What?"]
["You know like a few of our fellow heroic spirits are bald right?"] Jeanne stated with a raise eyebrow at the odd comment
["Grawh, rawh, umf."] Fran added in as she also found Da-Vinci's little odd, if not a bit mean comment
["Yeah what are you, a baldist?!"] Jeanne Alter quipped, crossing her arms as everyone even Lily Da-Vinci gave her slight scolding gaze
["Grraaawwahhh!"] Fran also in her Berserker way, scolded like a stern mother or well maybe younger sister since Da-Vinci was probably older then Fran
["Totally. That was mean big sister, not all bald people are automatically bad guys."] Lily Da-Vinci scolded too, but it was more with an underlying amusement as well
["Well yeah but… OH you know what I mean girls!"] Da-Vinci argued, as she sat back down pouting a bit; while her little sister giggled some
With that small moment of calling out Da-Vinci on her labeling of bald people everywhere. Everyone went back to watchin the scene before them.
Now a scene change once more. Showing a news woman talking for 'FBX News'. She was standing outside near a rocky and dirt covered hillside. With a line of what looked to be refuges walking behind and down the very same hill.
"The fifteen miles hike to the outskirts of Gulmira can only be described as a 'descent into Hell'. Into a modern day heart of darkness." The news woman said, as the view panned out showing a large TV in a room. Panning out more, it could be seen it was Tony's garage this was being broadcasted from "Simple farmers and herders from peaceful villages have been driven from their homes. Displaced from their lands by warlords, emboldened by a newfound power."
Meanwhile as the view panned out, the back of Tony's head could be seen. That alongside now a hot rod red and hold colored arm piece the man was tinkering with and adjusting as he wore it.
"Villagers have been forced to take shelter in whatever ways that they can find. In the ruins of other villages or here, in the remnants of the old Soviet smelting plant." The report kept on, as the view switched showing Tony in a simple grey sleeved shirt where his arc reactor could be seen glowing under, black pants and seemed to be in a silent rage as he watched the news
Then the scene transitioned back to the TV. Showing a large war torn building. With gun fire going off a moment later in the corner. Before showing the supposed attackers, showing guns, a large gun bolted to the back of a truck and in general just uneasy sights.
"Recent violence has been attributed to a group of foreign fighters, referred to by locals as the Ten Rings." The female reporter continued. Showing someone that Tony knew very well, being the leader of the Ten Rings and it seemed he survived with new scar on his face after their last meeting
But as Tony watched, seeing that his gauntlet was responding well to the quick adjustments to them. He was doing what he could to channel this sudden rage, into something more productive and that wouldn't get him killed.
"As you can see, these men are heavily armed and on a mission. A mission that can prove fatal to anyone who stands in their way." The female reporter still was going on about. Tony getting up as he slowly walked near the sink in this part of his garage. Throwing the screw driver he'd been using on the counter "With no political will or international pressure, there's very little hope for these refugees."
Tony though listening still to the news. Looked ahead, and slowly raised the arm that gauntlet up and aimed straight ahead. His anger seeming to be at an acceptable level that he could still think straight enough.
"Around me, a woman begging for news on her husband who was kidnapped by insurgents. Either forced to join their militia...to anyone who will stop a child's simple question: "Where are my mother and father?" The female report said, Tony firing off suddenly an orange beam of energy from the palm of his gauntlet. One that hit a lamp and made quite a semi deep hole in the wall ahead of him
Smiling, Tony couldn't help but feel like his fruits of labor were paying off. With what he had perfected since his first suit. Would prove useful with what he was about to do. Some would call it suicidal and yes those who would were right. Yet Tony didn't care, with this new suit of his done, tuned up and painted. He was ready for his master plan.
"There's very little hope for these refugees, refugees who can only wonder who, if anyone, will help." The female report finished up, as Tony around the words of the sentence looked at the windows to the garages entrance
Then a second later he fired one beam at the left window, then the right before doing a quick spin firing one last beam as the windows were shattered a bit under ten seconds flat. Tony took a moment to inspect his small extra test. Then he made his was off to the were he'd be putting his new armor. All the while, he could help but smirk just a little
Another quick scene transition and from a upper view. Tony could be seen now wearing black shoes and a black long-sleeved shirt with his pants. Stepping on the platform he'd used to test his prototypes for his suit all these months since he was back. Before it began opening up in sections. Showing a few yellow robotic arms popping out. With his new hot rod red boots appearing first.
Taking a step into them, they locked around his shoes and ankles. Two of the robotic arms moving the lower leg pieces and clicking them together with the boots. Screws being locked in, tightened and made secured to stay together no matter what was thrown at the suit. More and more pieces of red and gold armor began to shown along with under armor. Being put together, tightened and everything else in a repeated process. Even at one part, it showed his chest plate going over his arc reactor as it glowed it usual blue. Then finally his mask was assembled starting with the bottom pieces that clicked together, then the top of it with the face plate. That once clicked together, the face plate slide down covering Tony's face as the eyes glowed white. Signaling that the suit was fully active and operational.
Then a quick scene change later, and it showed Tony in his shinny hot rod red and golden armor. Flying in the air and through the could at high speeds. Heading straight for the Ten Rings currently location.
But like before, yet another quick but grim scene change occurred for the girls. As they could see it was day time and what looked to be the native residence of town running away while military trucks could also be seen. From a quick shot behind, the girls all saw another set of those Jericho missiles fired into a mountain side just a ways. Creating shockwaves and some built up dust.
Then the scene switched to a ground view, various people running away in different directions or being forced to move. The buildings around covered in bullet holes and smoke rising in certain areas. A quick sight of two armed Ten Ring grunts entering into a home could be seen. One of the men kicking open the door before shooting. Followed by a quick shot of another man throwing a grenade in home as woman screams, before it goes off. All in all, the girls could see this was probably one of man Ten Ring attacks on a helpless village.
But once more another scene change showing even more people running away, being forced moved, shot at and all others kind of horrible things going on at once. Then it showed many of the woman and children rounded up on one side, with the Ten Ring grunts moving the men on the other side who all had their arms up as form of surrender.
"Hurry up, put the women in the trucks!" A man who the girls remembered being the Ten Rings second in command ordered, pointing at a spot near him as he yelled some more at his troops "Stack the weapons here, clear all the houses. Faster, FASTER!"
Though as this rather uneasy scene was being viewed, it panned to a mother, father, younger daughter and older son being moved out of their house by an armed Ten Rings grunt. Though as they were being moved, the father who was covering his family was hit in the back; and fell to his knees as he still covered his family. Though they all got back up, but by this point the Ten Rings second in command caught wind of the family.
"Grab that dog!" The Ten Rings second in command ordered, as the family went a bit more before one of the grunts grabbed the man around the head; before dragging him away "Put him with the others!"
Then yet again another quick view changed back at the family showed their worry for the man, as he was being dragged closer and closer to the wall with all the other men ready to be shot down. But the girls saw the son was able to break free and ran right up to his father.
"Father!" The son scream in fear, as he hugged his father who hugged him back
"What the hell is this!?" The Ten Rings second in command chastised as he quickly walked up and pulled the son off, before kicking the man down and kicked him a few times after. Then walked off "You are incompetent!"
Meanwhile one of the Ten Rings grunts picked the father back up onto his knees, before aiming his gun at his head. Ready to take the shot as he kept screaming at him, as the father did his best not to cower before the barrel of the gun.
"PAPA, PAPA!" The son screamed as he and the of his family watched in horror at what was about to happen
["Come on Tony, come on and save the day…"] Lily Jeanne muttered as she was on the edge of her seat, alongside Lily Da-Vinci as they watched the scene
["Umf."] Fran whispered to Mecha Eli-Chan, who gave the girl a look before Fran pointed at the two kids. Both looking at the Lily's as Fran at least found it so cute ["Gao, Gao."]
["Hm yes. It makes sense for youths like them to be more enraptured with the movie like this. I am kind of too, still you are right Fran. They are… cute."] Mecha Eli-Chan exclaimed, smiling a little once more as she really did like the movie; but she wasn't going to show it in front of so many people. Moments later the two got back to watching the scene before them
As all this chaos occurred, suddenly a distant sounds of a loud engine could be heard. Then it got louder and louder, making everyone in the area looking around at what in the world was making that noise. That was until it happened.
Not even seconds after the sound started, to everyone around. A red and gold armored man land right in the middle of this warzone. To the girls, especially Lily Jeanne and Lily Da-Vinci; they saw the super cool landing of Ironman. Then, that's where the fun began.
First as Tony stood back up, the Ten Rings Grunt about to executed the father began to unload his clip into Tony's suit. Which deflected all the bullets like they were nothing. Tony simply moved closer and gut punched the man, who flew up in the air and against a piece broken wall. Tony turning around a second later, firing off a now dubbed by him 'Repulsor Blast' at another of the grunts who crashed through a wall behind. Then another who flew away, but a quick switched showed Tony shooting a third one with his with both hands, into a few crates.
But as Tony aimed both his repulsors near another spot. He stopped when four Ten Ring Grunts were holding some of the women and children hostage, screaming in Arabic at him to stand down or the people die. Tony realizing this, simply lowered his hands as the repulsors powered down. A quick view change to the inside of his mask showed a targeting system, aiming at the heads of each of the grunts who were labeled hostiles in red. While the hostages were labeled civilians as they were targeted in white.
Once more a quick view change and the girls saw two pieces pop out from the shoulders of Tony's suit. Before eight small missiles in total were fired and took out of the grunts just like that. Leaving the civilians a bit stunned at what happened just now. Though it seemed the family who would have seen the father die had been one of the hostages, the son running out of his mother's arms and back at the father screaming 'Papa!' as both hugged in relief.
Though the boy took a moment to look at Tony, in silent awe at this armored hero who passed by them. While a yet another view changed showed the Ten Rings second in command, hiding behind a wall. But had taken a moment to see what had gone on. Ducking back behind the wall, he began to make a call to someone. But before that could occur, Tony's right arm punched through the wall right by his head.
Tony pulling back, grabbed the man's jacket from the right shoulder. Pulling him out through the wall that broke apart. The second in command falling on his back, and sliding a bit before stopping right in front of the civilians. The ones he just not even a few minutes ago were oppressing and executing. Tony starting up his boosters, stopped a few inches above the ground taking one last glance at the place.
"He is all yours." Tony simply stated, before flying off into the air leaving the second in command at the mercy of the civilians who began to circle around him
But before what would be happing to the second in command could be seen, another view change showed Tony reaching the usual height so far with his suit; a small somewhat transparent trail of smoke behind him. A switch back to his scanners inside his helmet, showed him that he was getting closer to where the Jericho Missiles the Ten Rings own were. But before he was about to increase his booster and attack, he was shot out of the sky by a sudden force.
Yet another scene change showed now it was a tank that had hit him, as small crash could be seen with some dust forming for a moment. Tony took a moment to get back up from the crash most would have died from easily. His armor a bit scuffed up too as saw the tank. Though for a moment or so it was a standoff, before the tank now aimed at him took a shot. Tony with the help of his suit dodged the shot and watched it pass by, before looking back at the tank.
Holding up his right arm as he aimed a small missile that popped up from the right gauntlet. He the mini-missile, as it hit and stuck to a small part of the Tank. Tony simply waked away then. But as he did, the small rocket blew up the whole tank; the sight of Tony not looking back just made him look so much cooler. Though it seemed more Ten Ring grunts spotted him and began unloading their clips. Only, nothing seemed to penetrate Tony's armor as he simply took one more glance before lifting back off into the air. It didn't take too long before he spotted the missiles again. Which just so happened to be right where the soldiers shooting at him were. His visor locking on to the missiles, before firing his repulsor beams as they exploded.
From afar, the leader of the Ten Rings in truck driving down with other trucks behind. Stopped as he and his men witness the sudden fiery explosion. Before a quick view changed showed Tony in the sky once more, having completed his mission for today. Though it would not go unnoticed.
As yet another scene changed occurred showing a computer with imagery of the spot where Tony just was. The frantic yells of soldiers occurring in the background as the girls realized this was a military base that must have caught wind of Tony's actions.
"What the hell was that?" One solider asked, confused beyond belief at what in the world just occurred before them
"Were we clear to go in there?" Another solider questioned the first one, who stared at his computer still surprised as the words in bold white 'Edwards Air Force Base. California' showed up for a moment
"No, sir. They were using human shields. We never got the green light." The first solider explained, as he and many others were wondering what just attacked the Ten Rings operation going on there
"Department of State, they're gonna be all over this." Another solider, seeming to be the one in charge of the group stated, staring at the feedback from their drones at what just happened
"We got a bogey." Yet another solider said, as on his screens with the info spotted something having left the area just when the explosion went off; while others were just saying who wasn't there or was involved being most of the Unite States military branches so far
"Is CIA on the line?" The lead solider asked, hoping to get some kind of answer and soon with this
"I got them on line, they wanna know if it's us." Another of the many soldiers answered back as that, was not what the lead solider had wanted to hear
"No, that definitely is not us, sir." A younger solider in the group quickly responded as more and more questions were just building up on; WHO or WHAT exactly did this
"It wasn't navy." One solider answered, getting no luck on his end
"Wasn't marines." Another solider added in as the lead solider by this point seemed troubled a bit by the fact no one was on their side was calming responsibility
"I need answers. Can I please get eyes on target?!" The lead solider ordered, as this becoming frustrating and a possible international incident if was some rouge American associated faction or whatever it could be by this point was responsible. But again no answers came, and looking to one of his men he knew someone else he could ask considering which department he worked at "Get me colonel Rhodes from the Weapons development down here now!"
The girls meanwhile, were worried by this point at what could happen to Tony, who was flying back home in the air unaware that the US military had caught winds of his actions today. Though a switch back, showed Rhodey coming in now having been told the news.
"We ran an ID check and crossed reference with all known databases. We have nothing." The lead solider explained, as Rhodey moved to his left taking notice of what he drones had caught
"Any high-altitude surveillance in the region?" Rhodey asked first, wanting to make sure he had all the angles before he could be clear on who or what it could
"We've got an AWAC and a Global Hawk in the area." One of the many soldier's in the room answered as Rhodey was a bit surprised at that
"So this things just appeared out of nowhere. How come it didn't show up on the Radar?" Rhodey questioned as the AWAC or Global Hawk should have caught something at least
"It's got a minimum Radar cross-section, sir." One of the soldiers still on his computer and trying find more information answered
"Is it stealth?" Rhodey asked yet again, as that would make sense in way and it was better than having no idea on what this thing was
"No, sir. It's tiny. We think it's an unmanned aerial vehicle." The same solider replied, as that also was at least a bit more info Rhodey had now and someone was starting to come to mind because of it
"Colonel, what are we dealing with here?" The lead solider asked in a hushed tone to Rhodey, who took a moment more before taking a leap of faith
"I'm gonna make a call." Rhodey simply answered. As the person he was thinking, would have enough motive to attack the Ten Rings. He just hopped not or his friend would be in a lot of trouble with the US military and the government for that matter
["You know I gotta say, the military seems a little annoying here. I mean seriously, why should they care if someone helped them get their job done. Seems like they're being petty if you ask me."] Jeanne Alter bluntly said, as she found the military at least a bit ungrateful for what Tony just did for them
["Umf, grah, rah. Gao, aft. Uff."] Fran countered argued a bit, as everyone was a little surprised at how much Fran seemed know about international politics of the current century
["Yes… that's right Fran."] Jeanne at least replied back, blinking a few moments before looking back at her little sister and decided to use the nickname her little sister had come up with when being addressed [" Anyways, June. Fran does have a point, even if it was with best of intentions. What Tony did could have possible ramifications if the reginal government in that area accused the US for this. But again I can't say really, just my own thought here."]
["I don't know Jeanne, I gotta agree with you little sis. If you can help out, even if it may get you in trouble or it's going against a good few laws. I mean sometimes you gotta to break the rules to help."] Da-Vinci replied back as Jeanne gave her a 'Really' eyebrow raise ["What, come on Jeanne you know me and June are right. Same with you Fran, you know we're right on this."]
["Either way, both sides of this argument have valid points. It just depends on the situation and who's currently in charge at the time. This time, Tony was at the right place at the wrong time is all. Now can we please pay attention to the movie."] Mecha-Eli chan cut in, making her suggestion the final one as everyone else slowly just nodded and mumbled. The Lily's both smiling at Mecha Eli-Chan's quick fix of the close to being large argument that almost occurred there as they all went back to watching the movie once more
Meanwhile another scene change occurred back to Tony. Still in the air as he was glad and proud of what he did today. The suit also was working better then he'd expected and that just made the day even more better. Though his suit picked up that Rhodey was calling, Tony guessing that it was just his friend checking up on him. Decided to pick it, even if a small worry in the back of his head he worried bit; on the EXACT reason Rhodey maybe calling him right now.
"Hello?" Tony started off, as he hopped he was wrong on his worries
"Tony?" Rhodey asked, though on Tony's side he could barely hear the man and realized that was mistake on his part when making the suit
"Who is this?" Tony asked again, making sure Rhodey could hear him clearly enough on his side at least
"It's Rhodes." Rhodey repeated, though he took notice of what sounded like engines or something in the background where ever Tony was
"Sorry, hello?" Tony quipped, as now he really made a mental note to fix this little issue with the in helmet calls when it comes to flying
"I said it's Rhodes." Rhodey yet again repeated, as he still heard the loud background noise and was getting more suspicious
"Speak up, please." Tony just flat out by now suggested, as he knew what to say to at least make up a lie at where he was and why it was so hard to hear his friend currently
"What the hell is that noise?" Rhodey questioned as by this point that noise getting way too suspicious for him not to ask Tony on
"I'm driving with the top down." Tony lied, as it was the most sensible lie to tell his friend and made since it could get loud when driving a car with the top down at times
"Yeah, well I need your help right now." Rhodey explained, as he bought Tony's lie enough since he and him had gone of a few trips with the man's rather loud cars; some that did let the roof fold down
"It's funny how that works, huh?" Tony joked a little, mainly to keep Rhodey's possible remaining suspicion off from digger any deeper with his questioning
"Yeah, speaking of funny, we got a weapons depot that was just blown up a few cliques from where you've been held captive." Rhodey explained, as again he knew that if ANYONE in these past months had beef with the Ten Rings; it was Tony
"Well, that's a hot spot. Sounds like someone stepped in and did you job for you." Tony mused, acting like it was just not that important to him. Though he didn't take notice he had moved a little bit up in his flight and the air had thinned just a bit that it began to make it harder for the man to breath; something Rhodey took quick notice of
"Why do you sound out of breath, Tony?" Rhodey once more questioned as Tony realized what was going; but decided to just go with it and make another lie
"I was just jogging at the canyon." Tony answered from the top of his head, though Rhodey already knew by this point that was obvious lie
"I thought you were driving?" Rhodey stated, as Tony at that moment realized his blunder
"Right, I was driving to the canyon… where I'm gonna jog." Tony tried to quickly explain with both his lies, but he sounded less convincing than before
"Are you sure you don't have any tech in that area I should know about?" Rhodey carefully asked, making sure Tony heard the suspicion in his tone if only to make him panic a bit with his lies
"Nope." Tony reassured, as Rhodey for a moment kind of thought that maybe his friend was being honest; since the man does have a knack for doing odd rich guy stuff from time to time
"Bogey spotted!" One of the soldiers yelled, as Rhodey looked at the largest monitor in the room showing a somewhat blurred image of Tony's suit viva live feed back
"Okay, good, cause I'm staring at one right now and it's about to be blown to kingdom come" Rhodey's explained as the girls by this point were very worried on what was going to happen now
Meanwhile, a view change back to Tony showed him still flying in the air having hung up on his friend. But it wasn't too long before two F-22 Raptors flew right up and behind Tony. Who took quick notice and realized that this had just gone from a good day, to a somewhat not so good day.
"Ah, that's my exit." Tony quipped, before curving around to his left as the F-22's followed his trail without a moment of hesitation
"War room, this is Whiplash One. I've got the bogey in my sight." Whiplash One radioed back, as he kept his sights on Tony's suit
"Whiplash One, what is it?" Rhodey asked over his headset, hoping that they'd get a more clear idea on what they were dealing with
"I've got no idea." Whiplash One responded as everyone else in the war room, were becoming ever more curious on what they were chasing
"You have radio contact?" The lead solider asked now, as if they didn't then it only meant on thing they could do considering the fact it was an unknown factor in this now botched operation of theirs
"Non-responsive, sir." Whiplash One answered, as all attempts to contact or be contacted; had either failed or not occurred by this point
"Then you are clear to engage." The lead solider ordered as by this point, this unknown was now considered a hostile
["Oh come on. Tony helped you out; you petty punks!"] Jeanne Alter screamed, as this was just getting stupid on the military's part, seriously they seemed SO ungrateful in her opinion
["Wow… elder sister, big sister is really getting into this movie. Like you did a while ago hehe."] Lily Jeanne stated to her big sister, who slumped a bit at the statement while Jeanne Alter gave her baby sister the stink eye for a moment
["I was hoping you'd forget that."] Jeanne quipped as her baby sister chuckled some more
["Umf, umf!"] Fran chimed in, having felt the need to tease Jeanne a bit too followed by a wink
["You can be so cruel…"] Jeanne groaned, as Lily Jeanne and Fran giggled a bit, while they went back to watching the movie
Meanwhile a scene change back to Tony, showing him still a bit away from the F-22's. His scanners picking up that the jets were now considered hostile to him. Though at the same time he'd been able to start up his supersonic subroutine for his boosters.
"Hit it!" Tony ordered as seconds later his boosters were overcharged and Tony launched way ahead of the jets as a small shock wave pushed the clouds around somewhat
"Bogey just went supersonic. I got a lock!" Whiplash One stated over the comm's, before firing off single missile as he was able to keep a lock on Tony's suit
"Inbound missile." Jarvis said, as the sensors picked up the missile coming up and fast behind Tony
"Flairs!" Tony shouted as a small compartment in his armor opened for a few dozen flares to shot out. The missiles hitting the flares, though pushed Tony a bit as he was near the edge of the sudden blast radius
"Wait a second. Bogey deployed flairs!" Whiplash One said, as he and Whiplash Two followed seeing this. Meanwhile Tony was falling for a few seconds, before getting is balance and started flying straight again
Though the F-22's were still close behind him as the targeting screens were doing the best to get a lock on Tony suit again. Whiplash One being closer, decided to use the machine gun. Waiting for a moment or more to steady himself as Tony was in his targeting sights again. He began firing at Tony, who himself started to weave and dodge the sudden incoming bullets. Getting hit a few times, as even if his armor took the hits. The force from them, still caused some pain alone.
"Deploy flaps!" Tony once more ordered, as the flaps of his armor opened and his was able to pull back behind the two F-22's easily and get a moment to not be shot at
"Holly…" Whiplash One said back to the war room, as he and Whiplash Two just witness the bogey pull back; and vanish from sight all of sudden "This thing just drove off the Radar, sir!"
"Satellite image has been lost." One of the soldiers keeping monitor of the situation said out loud for everyone before quick view back to the F-22's happened
"No way that's the U.A.V." Whiplash Two quipped as he looked around with no visual sight
"What is it?" The lead solider asked over his own head set, hoping that what he thought just happened didn't
"I can't see anything." Whiplash One responded back, as everyone in the war room seem rather disappointed in the loss of the asset
"Whatever it was, it just bought the farm." Whiplash Two reassured as this was quiet a blow for their military and it could moral killer for a bit
"I think bogey has been handled, sir." Whiplash One added in, as even if they lost it his guess was that maybe the bogey was taken out and crashed somewhere
Though as everyone in the war room were a bit frustrated and irritated by the fact an unknown bogey had come into an active operation zone. That and even if it had been taken care of, they still let this happen under their noses. Rhodey even seem a bit disappointed here, though he suddenly heard his phone go off. Taking a look, he saw it was… Tony again and answered it.
"Hello?" Rhodey started off, as that sound was STILL going on in the background if not as loud as before
"Hi, Rhodey, it's me." Tony quickly said, as Rhodey by this point had a good idea that whatever that Bogey was involved Tony in its creation
"It's who?" Rhodey sarcastically remarked as Tony on the other side knew Rhodey had caught on at least that he was involved
"I'm sorry, it IS me. You asked what that was, and it was me." Tony tried to explain, though to Rhodey he sounded a bit in pain and real tired
"No, see.. this isn't a game. You do not send civilian equipment into my active war zone. You understand that?" Rhodey scolded over the phone as he could not believe Tony would do something, this-
"It's not a piece of equipment. I am in it." Tony quickly answered as Rhodey himself immediately stopped his assumption and looked to the screen where the F-22's cockpit views still showed "It's a suit. It's me!"
"Rhodey, you got anything for me?" The lead solider asked having noticed Rhodey on his phone as Rhodey was rather conflicted on what he SHOULD say
Then a quick view back to the F-22's, Whiplash One and Two getting ready to head back to the base, to refuel and to be debriefed.
Mark your position and return to base." Whiplash One said over the comm's to his partner
"Roger that." Whiplash Two replied back, turning to his left at towards the base; though as he did. Whiplash one saw from under Whiplash Two's belly something… very odd
"On your belly. It looks like a... man!" Whiplash One yelled over the comm's, as everyone in war room overheard this too. Though right now the F-22's were back in action "Shake him off. Roll, roll!"
Whiplash Two did just that, as he started to do a few barrel rolls at fast speeds. Though for Tony, this was rather hard to fight against. As the speed and G-force of the f-18 was already making him lose his grip. Which moments later he did, though Tony was flung away right into the left wing of Whiplash One as the now damaged F-22 began to descend within seconds of contact.
["Oh no, that's a bad, very bad!"] Lily Jeanne said, as they watched the jet descend down. Jeanne simply patted the top of her little sisters head as the little one really was getting into the movie
["Don't worry Jenny. Iron Man will save the day!"] Lily Da-Vinci reassured, that and she really did want to see Tony do more super cool hero stuff., the others just kept on watching alongside the two
"I'm hit, I'm hit!" Whiplash One yelled over the comm's, as everyone once more in the war room became concerned seeing this happen
"Punch out. PUNCH OUT!" Whiplash Two yelled back
Whiplash did so. Pulling the eject as he the top and then himself were blasted out of the F-22 that exploded seconds later.
"Whiplash One down." Whiplash Two reported over the comm's as everyone back in the war room watched on seeing it too and already tracking Whiplash One in his ejector seat
"Whiplash Two, do you see a chute?" The lead solider asked hoping he did or else this was not going a pretty landing for anyone to witness and hear
"Negative. No chute, no chute!" Whiplash Two answered as he prayed a bit that his partners chute would just spring any moment and it was just a delay
"My chute's jammed!" Whiplash One exclaimed in a slight, yet increasing panic as he tried to get his Chute to pull. Everyone in the war room silent as the listened to what was most likely the last words of Whiplash One
Though as Whiplash One fell faster and faster, already seeing his death coming in mere moments. From above Tony jetted down towards the man to rescue him. Since he had been only his job, that and it was his fault to be honest crashing into the jet in the first place. Even if it was more of being flung off then anything. Back in the war room though, Tony was once more marked on the sensors.
"Sir, I've got a visual on a bogey." Whiplash Two over the comm's said, as he was fling straight down the same path Tony was
"Whiplash Two, reengage. If you get a clear shot, you take it!" The lead solider ordered as he was NOT taking another chance for this bogey to cause anymore issues
"Major, we don't even know what we're shooting at. Call off the Raptors." Rhodey tried to reason, as he did not want to see his friend end up dead by their own military
"That thing just took out an F-22 inside the legal no-fly zone." The lead solider argued back, before speaking once more to Whiplash Two "Whiplash Two, if you have a clear shot, take it."
"You've been reengaged. Execute evasive maneuver." Jarvis notified, as Tony by this point knew he wasn't going to even if it meant getting shot at some more
"Keep going!" Tony ordered, as Jarvis even though against this kept his silence and followed Tony's order
Then a few tense moments happened. Whiplash One still falling ever closer to his death, while Tony was boosting closer and closer to the man. Mere seconds later, Tony grabbed the side of Whiplash One's seat, before punching the trigger for the chute as it blow out and with that. Whiplash One lived to fly another day. Tony though decided himself that now was a good time to book out the area and so he did.
"Good a chute. Good a chute!" Whiplash Two cheered over the comm's, as everyone else in the war room cheered too; the lead solider just relived that one of their own survived; though Rhodey happy too picked up his phone again as he hadn't hung up during that whole time
"Tony, are you still there?" Rhodey asked, hoping his friend could hear him in such a zone and height
"Hey, thanks.' Tony answered, a bit out of breath but happy too that he was able to save the man from meeting a untimely end
"Oh my God, you crazy son of a bitch. You owe me a plane, you know that, right?" Rhodey quipped, as he laughed a little at how insane his best friend could be at times and this took the cake in insanity; Tony himself laugh a little too before answer Rhodey back
"Yeah, well, technically he hit me, so..." Tony joked a bit, as Rhodey on the other side rolled for a moment "Now are you gonna come by and see what I'm working on?"
"No, no. The less I know the better. Now what am I supposed to tell to the press?" Rhodey explained as he would at one point see. But right probably not the best time, and if Tony was caught at least Rhodey couldn't be used against him; still the press news around this incident would happen real quick
"Training exercise. Isn't that the usual BS?" Tony simply suggested, as that always seemed to be the usual answer even if most of the so called 'accidents' weren't that; at least if asked him
"It's not that simple." Rhodey argued a bit back, as really. It honestly, was never; ever that-
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An abrupt scene changed now showed Rhodey in his military blues, all dressed up and standing at a podium as he addressed the new press on what had occurred just a day ago with the Raptors.
"An unfortunate training exercise involving an F-22 Raptor occurred yesterday. I'm pleased to report that the pilot was not injured." Rhodey explained rather calmly, though hated lying to the public about stuff like this; the girls all got a quick laugh though seeing Tony's suggestion was valid
Though a quick change in scenery now showed Obadiah in his pajamas and inside his home watching the news in silence. Though the girls took quick notice that the man looked ever more like a bad guy.
["You all he needs now is a sign that says 'I'm Evil' I mean at least now I can see that they can be more blatant with it."] Da-Vinci exclaimed at the rather obviousness of Obadiah's character now
["True, hey wonder what kind of servant he'd be."] Jeanne Alter brought up
["Probably one of the more evil alignment ones, maybe a caster too. Can't say honestly."] Jeanne added in, as she was kind of curious herself too
["Graw. Raw!"] Fran suggested, as the others nodded a little agreement as that could be a possibility too
["Well be it Caster, Assassin and alignments. Etc. We'll just have to keep watching, besides something to think on before the movie ends."] Mecha Eli-Chan stated, as she and other kept on watching the scene before them
"As for the unexpected turn of events on the ground in Gulmira, it is still unclear who or what intervened, but I can assure you that the U.S. government was not involved." The voice of Rhodey said over the TV to the press
But again, the girls noticed even more that the atmosphere and even the musical score seemed rather malevolent. That and the fact Obadiah seemed angry and contemplating also didn't help the feeling the girls were getting from this scene alone.
Another scene changed occurred just after. Pepper making her way down to Tony's garage to check up on him since she hadn't heard from him most of the day. Which meant either he had a little too much to drink last night or he was just busy with one of his projects again
"Hey. Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!" The voice of Tony shouted just a little, as Pepper heard that and was bit confused as she was nearing the garages entrance
"Well it is a tight fit sir." The voice Jarvis responded back as Pepper was even more confused; though as she reached the bottom of the stairs. She noticed the windows were shot out and broken. Stepping near one she was utterly confused until she saw… it "Sir, the more you struggle, the more this is going to hurt."
"Be gentle, this is my first time." Tony replied as the view change showed him back on the stand that was used to place his armor on. Now used to take it off and looked way less heroic as it seemed a bit of struggle to do so "I designed this to come off. So- OW, hey!"
"Please try not to move." Jarvis suggested as the robotic arms kept on doing the best they could to take Tony's armor off; though by this time a shock Pepper came up
"What's going on here?" Pepper asked as she had seen her boss do some odd things, but this was a whole new level of odd. Tony meanwhile to a moment to register that Pepper was here, knowing what to say he calmly just looked back at her as his armor was still being taken off
"Let's face it, this is not the worst thing you've caught me doing." Tony explained, as to honest this probably wasn't; Pepper just was perplexed at what she was seeing
"Are those bullet holes?" Pepper simply asked back, a bit horrified as Tony then realized he had a LOT of explaining to do now… joy
But before the girls could see what could have occurred, the scene changed to a camp in the desert during the night. But quickly the troopers running to a tent and speaking the usual mixed dialogue showed that this was a Ten rings camp. Though a at least four black SUV's came driving in; as the Ten Rings leader came out. The SUV's stopping near the man, before the doors opened and out came a bunch a black armored mercs alongside Obadiah.
"Welcome." The Ten rings leader greeted as Obadiah and two of his mercs had walked up to him; Obadiah taking a quick gander at the man's face. Irking the Ten rings leader a bit "Compliments of Tony Stark."
"If you killed him when you were supposed to, you'd still have a face." Obadiah joked a bit, as Jeanne Alter by this point felt a bit pride in herself calling that something was off about Obadiah
"You paid us trinkets to kill a prince." The Ten rings leader snapped back, as he could see Obadiah was trying to get a small rise out of him for fun
"Show me the weapon." Obadiah simply asked, shrugging of whatever the Ten rings leader was trying to do back
"Come. Leave your guards outside." The Ten rings leader ordered as he just made his way into his large tent leaving his own guards outside so it would be equal between him and Obadiah. Who himself followed behind. Though once inside the tent, much to the girls surprised it seemed the Ten rings had been able to recover the whole suit of Tony's first armor; even if it was still in pieces and held up by a stand "His escape bore unexpected fruit."
"So this is how he did it." Obadiah mused as he inspected in the suit in awe at the potential it could bring into the future of warfare
"This is only a first crude effort. Stark has perfected his design." The Ten rings leader explained, as Obadiah waked around the suit just admiring it even if it looked like a junker "He has made a masterpiece of death. A man with a dozen of these can rule all of Asia and you dream of Stark's throne."
Obadiah simply gave the Ten rings leader a slight gaze from corner of his left eye, it was true. He did look for the top and to get there, Tony had to be taken out of the way. Though this unexpected turn of events seems to bring even something more wonderous for him. Stark would be dealt with one way or another still.
"We have a common enemy. If we are still in business. I will give you these designs... as a gift." The Ten rings leader explained, as he poured a glass of rum for the man first as Obadiah looked back at him; before moving in closer "And in return... I hope you repay me with a gift of iron soldiers."
Obadiah meanwhile, as he got right up to the Ten rings leader. Smiling kindly, before touching his right shoulder. But a quick view changed showed that Obadiah had device in his hand, that glowed red as it turned on. Before switching backing showing Obadiah with two ear pieces that glowed blue. The Ten Ring leader suddenly feeling pain as his veins on the right of his face thicken and could be seen clearly.
"Tomara tofa sen veahey." Obadiah repeated in an language the girls remembered the grail called 'Urdu'. Though they were a bit unnerved by Obadiah's continued calm nature as back off from the Ten rings leader, before straightening himself out "This is the only gift you will receive. Technology… that's always been your Achilles heel in this part of the world. Don't worry. It will only last for 15 minutes. That's the least of your problems."
Obadiah then made his way out, having taken the ear pieces out as he'd also shut off his little device. To add insult to injury. The man even patted the Ten Ring leaders head. Though once outside the tent, a quick panned view showed the Ten rings soldiers on the ground, arms up at the mercy Obadiah's mercs.
"Crate up the armor and the rest of it." Obadiah ordered as he walked back to one of the SUV's "All right, lets finish this up."
Moments later as Obadiah entered the SUV, the gun flashes could be seen in the back ground and Obadiah casually walking in his SUV. Though a quick view changed showed the man in the car as it was being driven by one his mercs. Obadiah making a call back to someone who worked for him personally in the company.
"Set up Sector 16 underneath the Arc reactor and I want this dead and masked. Recruit our top engineers. I want a prototype right away." Obadiah ordered as he was already thinking up what the future could be with these suits of armor
Then another scene changed happened. Showing Pepper coming into Tony's garage, before showing Tony who was working on the upper half of his Iron Man suit, making some adjustments to it Tony stopping and seeing Pepper coming in.
Hey you busy. Mind if I send you on an errand. In need you go to my office and hack into the mainframe. You're gonna retrieve all the recent shipping manifests. This is a lock chip, this will get you in." Tony explained as he moved over to his desk, Pepper doing the same before he picked up small case and pulled out the device. Handing to Pepper who took it as walked over to one of the monitors in the room "It's probably under Executive Files, if not they put it on a ghost drive. In which case you need to look for the lowest numeric heading."
"And what do you plan to do with this information if I bring it back here?" Pepper simply asked, rather calmly if not a hint of concern in her tone
"Same drill. They've been dealing under the table, I'm gonna stop them. I'm gonna find my weapons and destroy them." Tony explained simply, that was the plan after all and he wouldn't stop until he completed that mission
"Tony... you know that I would help you with anything, but I cannot help you if you're gonna start all of this again." Pepper responded, putting her foot down on all… all of what Tony was doing and was about to start up again
"There is nothing except this. There's no art openings, there's no benefit." Tony began explain in a rare stern tone of his, as he faced Pepper "There's nothing to sign. There's the next mission, and nothing else."
"Is that so… well, then I quit." Pepper said, as she placed the lock chip back down on the desk before starting to make her way out
["Whoa Peps. I didn't think she'd do that."] Jeanne Alter stated, a bit surprised Pepper seemed to want nothing to do with what Tony was doing
["It may seem that way. But if you care about someone. Sometimes you have to be a bit against them to keep them safe."] Mecha Eli-Chan chimed in, as she believed so at least ["That and you can see she likes him, she probably doesn't want to help get him killed if this all goes wrong."]
["Graw…. Umf, umf."] Fran cooed, as she found it SO romantic in a way that someone could care about you so much in that way; though she began to think of Mordred a bit during this; carrying her as her personal knight ["Grah…"]
["Yeah like super romantic!"] Lily Jeanne and Lily Da-Vinci mused, as they also were more of the romantics in this group seven
["Still. I think it makes sense. Pepper just doesn't want to see Tony end up dead. She really has shown to care for the man, even if she's rather subtle about it."] Jeanne added in kindly ["Though. I get why Tony asked her, she is the only person he can trust and I think Pepper should help either way."]
["True that, I mean if she still wants to quiet after; that's on her."] Da-Vinci added in, before they all went back to watching the scene
"You stood by my side all these years while I reaped the benefits of destruction." Tony questioned out anger and hurt. Pepper stopping for a moment and looking back at him "And now that I'm trying to protect the people that I've put in harm's way, you're going to walk out?!"
"You're gonna kill yourself, Tony. I'm not gonna be a part of it." Pepper argued as she knew this could and most likely would get Tony killed, she did not want his blood on her hands. Tony took a moment, before he simply sat back down on his seat
"I shouldn't be alive... unless it was for a reason." Tony suddenly stated, as he really did sound like her believed that. Looking back at Pepper with a tired gaze "I'm not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it's right."
Tony the just looked back at the ahead of him as Pepper herself took a moment. Before sighing just a little and walking back up to the desk before taking the lock chip into her hands. Tony looking back at her as he knew Pepper understood.
"You're all I have too, you know." Pepper exclaimed, before making her way out as Tony watched before she was gone from sight
Then as always, a quick change occurred showing an elevator door open as Pepper was behind it. Making her way out, if not with some caution; she made her way over and into Obadiah's office. Taking a seat at his desk, she plugged the lock chip into the computer as it asked for the password. Looking through files once she was in. She did find the ghost drive. Clicking on that, she was able to pull up a few sub-files; one of them labeled Sector 16.
"Sector 16. What are you up to, Obadiah?" Pepper muttered, accessing the files before it came to a video
One that showed what must have been some sort of hostage situation, only to be shocked when the bag over the hostages head was pulled off showing it was Tony. Listening just a bit more, she pulled up a function and typed in 'Translation'. It wasn't even a second later before the video was now in english.
"You did not tell us that the target you paid us to kill was the great Tony Stark. As you can see, Obadiah Stane, your deception and lies will cost you dearly. The price to kill Tony Stark has just gone up." The man saying the message explained, as Pepper was horrified
So without needing to think about it. She quickly activated the Lock chip to copy the files. Within seconds all the files had been downloaded. But as she was paying attention to the files being copied. Suddenly she realized she wasn't alone.
"So... what are we gonna do about this?" Obadiah suddenly said, Pepper flinging a little as she looked seeing Obadiah had just come in; but was still hanging in between the door way. Then he made his way "Hm…?"
Pepper meanwhile was scared, very scared. Obadiah might be old but he could still kill her if needed to as she knew it. She was just now hoping the files would finishing downloading, thankfully it seem the older man stood near the rum and began to pour himself a glass. Pepper just by this point hoping the file copies were near done.
"I know what you're going through, Pepper… Ah, Tony. He always gets the good stuff, doesn't he?" Obadiah remarked, as it was silent between him and Pepper. Then he grabbed the rum bottle and his glass before making his way over to Pepper. Though during this Pepper had been able to use a newspaper to cover the lock chip and able to minimize the files being copied just as he got over to her
Pepper again was terrified, as she saw the older man stop to her right. She really… really would need to talk to Tony about making his stuff download faster in the future. Because this was actually a bit slow considering the nature of the device he made.
"I was so happy... when he came home. It was like we got him back from the dead." Obadiah said calmly, as he moved behind and around Pepper to the right side of her; taking a seat on the desk "And now I realize... well, Tony never really did come home, did he. He left a part of himself in that cave. Breaks my heart.
"Well... He is a complicated person." Pepper explained as calmly as she could to buy time as Obadiah took a single sip of his rum "He's been through a lot. I think he'll be alright."
"You are a very rare woman. Tony doesn't know how lucky he is." Obadiah complimented, as Pepper pretend to take the compliment in good intent
"Thank you. Thanks. I gotta get back there." Pepper quipped, smiling as best a she could considering the danger she was in; standing up as she took the newspaper and the chip in tow. Before starting to make her was out as quickly and normally as she could muster up
"Is that today's paper?" Obadiah suddenly asked looking out the window, as Pepper stopped seeing she wasn't out of the clear yet
"Yes." Pepper answered as Obadiah came up to her moments later
"Do you mind?" Obadiah asked kindly, Pepper smiling as she hopped this would work
"Not at all." Pepper stated, handing Obadiah the newspaper as she was just then able to slip the lock chip into her right sleeve without the man noticing
"Puzzle." Obadiah mused
"Of course." Pepper responded back, still keeping in how nervous she was feeling
"Take care." Obadiah said. As Pepper gave him one last look before making her way off; taking glance in her right hand now as she had the lock chip in it. Quickly moving away, she turned a corner out of the older man's sights
As this scene occurred. Everyone had felt a little tense too at how close it seemed Obadiah had been to catching Pepper on what she was doing. That and having a good feeling at how unnerving Pepper must have been feeling during all of this. Which was akin to a lion or a tiger staking their prey; before simply messing wit their prey before landing the killing blow.
["Come on... come on Pep's faster. Faster and you can get away from creep-O there."] Jeanne Alter muttered as she was biting the armor around her thumb a bit at how nervous she seemed to be feeling for Pepper in this current situation
["Grah. Umf, umf.] Fran whispered to behind the couch to Jeanne, who looked back at her friend and silently answered back lipping the reply itself
-[I know. It's really cute in a way, but I also don't really like seeing her like this. Gets me worried you know?"]- Jeanne lipped back. As she was glad to see her little sister worried, actually looking she saw her baby sister doing the same as it was cute as can be seeing this play out
["Grrr. Owa"] Fran whispered back with a small smile, but saw Jeanne gently rubbing the backs of her sisters as the two worried on watching the scene before unfold
Everyone else not included in the Jeanne family, aside from Fran were also a bit enraptured with Peppers current situation. Hopping the girl was quick enough to save her hide currently. That and hoping Obadiah didn't catch her before she could leave. Still as usual, the movie scene currently played on.
Obadiah meanwhile having been quiet suspicious during all this, moved back to his computer. Throwing the newspaper on the table in rising anger. He sat down before Clicking off the screen saver. He same a single box notification box that saw 'Download complete'. Obadiah reeled back in anger, as before he started to make his way out of the room to see if he catch Pepper.
Then a quick scenery change showed Pepper making her way down a flight of stairs to the ground floor. To her left without noticing, Agent Coulson stood sat at some seats. Both seeing one another moments later.
"Ms. Potts. We had an appointment. Did you forget about our appointment?" Coulson reminded, though Pepper at this point was SO happy that she forgot to cancel this appointment with the man. The man getting up and moving right next to her
"Nope. Right now come with me. Walk with me." Pepper answered back as Coulson was bit confused but followed the woman
"Okay." Coulson muttered as Pepper looked up behind her, before looking back down and ahead quickly
"I'm going to give you the meeting of your life. You're office." Pepper stated, a bit loudly
Though the reason it seemed to be, was that the screen panned up showing that Obadiah had been standing over one the walk ways on the second floor. Looking down at her, as he knew he couldn't try and stop her at this point of time.
Not even a second later and a new scene appeared, back inside a laboratory were the large proto- arc reactor was; with scientist talking to one another about something. Only for the door to swing open as Obadiah came in.
"We've been working our best. Absolutely, we're… I'm gonna have to call you back." A scientist with glasses said over corded phone, only for him and a few others to see Obadiah come in. The glasses scientist hanging up as he greeted Obadiah who just had made it up to him "Mr. Stane. Sir, we've explored what you've asked us and it seems as though there's a little hiccup, actually..."
"A hiccup?" Obadiah questioned, calm as ever if not internally in a slowly growing rage
"Yes, to power the suit... sir, the technology actually doesn't exist. So it's-" The glasses scientist tried to explain, only to be cut off seconds later
"Wait, wait, the technology. William, here is the technology." Obadiah asked, laughing a little at what he was being told as he wrapped his arm around the scientist and motioned his attention to large arc reactor; before letting go "I've asked you to simply make it smaller."
"Okay, sir, that's what we're trying to do, but honestly, it's impossible." The glasses scientist again tried to explain, but this wasn't at all what Obadiah had wanted to hear
"Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave. With a box of scraps!" Obadiah yelled, as he pushed the glasses scientist against the railing a bit and jabbed his finger a bit against the man
"I'm sorry. I'm not Tony Stark." The glasses scientist simply responded back, as that was all he could really say to Obadiah's rather impossible request
By this points the girls were becoming more worried by the second. As it seemed this was nearing the end of the movie soon. Meanwhile the scene changing yet again, showed it was night tome and it was inside Tony's living room. Tony walking from the right as his cell just started to ring. Taking a moment or so, he his phone under a pillow. Taking a seat, he decided to take the call as he could see it was Pepper.
"Tony?" Pepper asked over the phone, only for a familiar ring to start echoing around his right side as the phone taken away. Then another hand with a similar device appear glowing red, appeared to his left "Tony, are you there?"
Just then the view changed showing Tony who's face by this point looked rather in some pain, while the noise went on. Also was slowly being placed back against the couch. As it seemed Obadiah decided to take the arc reactor he needed from the source itself.
"Breathe. Easy, easy... You remember this one, right. It's a shame the government didn't approve. There are so many applications regarding short-term paralysis." Obadiah calmly said, if not with some hidden sadistic enjoyment as he moved around and in front of Tony; before making grabbing Tony's face so they could look each other eye to eye "Ah, Tony. When I ordered the hit on you, I was worried that I was... killing the golden goose."
As Obadiah explained, this much to Tony's horror. The older man pulled out a device that looked just big enough to go around the arc reactor. Placing it against Tony's chest. Obadiah started the device up as small drilling noise started up.
But, you see... it was just fate that you survived it, leaving one last golden egg to give." Obadiah quipped, as by that point the device had been able to wrap around the arc reactor and with one gently pull. It came out, still with the wires connect to it and Tony's heart. But as the arc reactor shinned, Obadiah moved over Tony just a bit, smiling a little at this point "You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you. Your father, he helped to give us the atomic bomb. Now what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?"
["He's not selfish you… you stupid meanie bald head jerk!"] Lily Jeanne yelled, irritated by this scene and the smugness of Obadiah
["Yeah leave Tony alone bald tyrant!"] Lily Da-Vinci yelled next, as by this point her more childlike side was taking over
["Wow they really are getting into this."] Jeanne said, but found it cute at the younger girls reactions to Tony being harmed
Now Jeanne knew it was a movie, BUT… whoever was playing Obadiah was doing really doing really good at sounding so arrogant currently. Though she did ignore when Mecha-Eli Can muttered 'Pot meet kettle' after how much she got into a movie just a while ago.
["Can you blame em. If this guy was real, I'd kick him in his stones for like an hour if get my drift."] Da-Vinci whispered to Jeanne, who just nodded neither in agreement of disagreement with that statement
["Just to say, without out his arc reactor. Tony most likely will be going into cardiac arrest very quickly."] Mech Eli-Chan chimed in, as the Lily's seemed a little disheartened at that fact while the others gave the Mecha a slight glare as the Mecha shrugged a bit; but seemed apologetic at what she just said before they all began to watch the movie once more
Without a second thought, Obadiah pulled a bit hard on the arc reactor, as it ripped with the wires still attached. Tony letting out a small grunt as he began to feel his chest start to slowly tighten. Obadiah meanwhile eyed the arc reactor like child with a new toy. Taking it out the device moments later, to show Tony the master piece he had created; in way as final mockery to him before he died.
Oh, it's beautiful. Ah, Tony... This is your Ninth Symphony. What a masterpiece! Look at that. This is your legacy. The generation of weapons...with this at its heart. The weapons that will help stir the world back on course. With the balance of power in our hands. In the right hands." Obadiah calmly gloated, seeming more happy by the seconds as he took a seat next to Tony. Though he kept his gaze only on the arc reactor; well until he put it away in small case for safe keeping "I wish you could see my prototype. It's not as... not as conservative as yours."
A quick view changed was on Tony now, his face getting paler and his eyes tearing a bit from the air that was hitting them. His chest getting ever more tighter with each pump. More painful too. All the while he could only scream in silent horror at what was happening.
"Too bad you had to involve Pepper in this. I would've preferred that she lived." Obadiah chimed, as Tony for a moment looked a bit at Obadiah at what he just said, now he had lived with the fact he may have just gotten Pepper killed too
Obadiah then simply got up, without another word leaving. As all that could be seen after a few seconds more. Was Tony sitting on his couch and slowly dying.
The yet another sudden scene changed commenced. A quick panned view over the city at night still alive as ever, before it changed to Rhodey in his civilian attire driving his car. He was on the phone with someone as well.
"What do you mean he paid to have Tony killed. Pepper, slow down. Why would Obadiah..." Rhodey asked as he was confused on this sudden news Pepper gave him, though he believed her too as Pepper was not a liar; at least not a very good one. Though Pepper cut him off seeming in a slight calm panic., as Rhodey decided to just ask her something else important "okay, where is Tony now?
A change of view showed Pepper on the other side of the phone, Coulson and her making their way one of the agencies cars with at least five more agents as back up. As it seemed Pepper had been able to explain to Coulson what was going on.
"I don't know, he's not answering his phone. Please go there and make sure everything's okay. Thank you, Rhodey." Pepper explained before getting off the phone as they neared a silver car. Looking at Coulson a second later "I know a shortcut."
Back to Rhodey, he made a quick sharp turn towards Tony's home. He hoped it wasn't too late to save his best friend. Though at the same time, the scene was back at Tony. Who slammed against a metal wall seeming to be trying to get down stairs by the elevator he had to his garage for emergencies.
It didn't take too long before he made to the garages floor, barley making his way out as he stopped right when he opened the door. Seeing in the workbench the gift Pepper had made for him from his old arc reactor. Trying to take a step forward, he felt over on his stomach. But he wasn't going to give up.
So quickly he began to crawl, and crawl; and crawl some more closer to the displayed arc reactor. All the while a heart beat in the background echoed the whole time. Like it was signaling what was happening on his insides. Finally though he got close enough as he saw the arc reactor on the edge of the workbench.
Using a tool tube for some height to try and grab it. He failed pushing a bit instead; but had felt the magazine it was under and tried to pull that. Only to slip as he fell against his back. Now just laying down, nearing death. He didn't expect to see the Arc reactor a bit above, but next to him. Looking he saw that problematic robot from the test, having grabbed the display case for him as he took it.
"Good boy." Tony simply said, before he smashed the glass case against the ground as the arc rector laid there for him
Then a quick change in the scene showed Obadiah looking at his own suit, it seemed to girls large and such. Smiling, he moved to where the arc reactor as the suit started up. Meanwhile another scene switch and the girls saw Rhodey already in Tony's house.
"Tony, Tony… TONY!" Rhodey yelled, as he didn't see Tony one this floor so he began to make his way down stairs. Only once he was down there, he saw Tony laying on his side with his back face towards him. In a panic, Rhodey ran over to Tony flipping the man over as it he had his arc reactor in him "Tony. Tony are you okay?"
"Where's Pepper?" Tony asked, still getting back his strength from the near death experience and was now very glad Pepper have given him the gift; for it saved his life
"She's fine. She's with five agents that are about to arrest Obadiah." Rhodey explained, as it seemed Tony was okay thankfully
"That's not gonna be enough." Tony stated, as he knew exactly what Obadiah had been building and he'd need to be there. So he forced himself up, Rhodey helping him as he knew he had to get to Pepper quickly
Once more the scene itself changed showing the silver car and three others behind coming into the parking lot of the laboratory of Stark Industries. Parking seconds later, Pepper, then Coulson and the other five agents got out of their cars. Before following Pepper over to the entrance. Pepper able to use her ID to open the entrance as they went in. All the while th large arc reactor glowed and hummed.
Section 16. Section 16... There it is." Pepper mused, as she it took a moment before they found the door. Pepper using her card again, only this time it didn't seem to work. She tried again but nothing "My key's not working, it's not opening the door."
Without saying anything, Coulson simply held his opened right hand behind him. One of the agents handing him a small disc like object. Before moving closer to the locked door to Section 16.
"Wow, what is that. It's like a little device, like a thing that's gonna pick the lock?" Pepper wondered. While Coulson placed the device right on the lock. Before it started beeping a bit with blinking red lights
"You may wanna take few steps back." Coulson suggested. Pepper doing so as she quickly in her heels made her way back a little. The agent all calmly looking away too. Coulson was the last as he looked away also, calm as ever
Pepper covering her ears as she had a feeling it was going to a big explosion. A few moments later. It turned out it wasn't big, but it was an explosive that broke the lock and opened the door.
["Oh my gosh, oh my gosh big sis I just a great idea from this scene!"] Lily Da-Vinci quickly cut in as she was smiling widely, everyone else already feeling a sudden sense of...ahem; dread a they gazed upon the little sister; before the big sister and...oh my she was smiling too
["You mean making miniature explosives' for the twins to beat te... test out after we make sure they work properly?"] Da-Vinci exclaimed, hitting every point she could think of that her little sister MUST be thinking on too. Though she had quickly corrected herself since they were company. Not that the sisters even used their masters as guinea pigs... most of the time. The smiles on both sisters never fading once ["Is that it little sis, huh, huh?"]
["YES. YES WE GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. AND MAYBE WE CAN EVEN SEE IF IT CAN BE USED COMBAT WISE TOO BIG !"] Lily Da-Vinci screamed as her glee was like a leaking barrel of some kind of drink. Like juice, water, whatever strikes ones fancy in this odd metaphor to explain the slightly worrying thought process of this child version of Da-Vinci
["HAHA. YES THINK OF THE POSSIBLITIES!"] Da-Vinci cheered as both she and her little sister seemed REALLY happy now at this sudden idea
None of the others felt scared per-say. But they were a little worried at what possible chaos those possible items could bring if some of the more... well less then moral or easily bored servants got a hold of them. All any of the could do was pray. Pray for the love of god and whoever else could be listening that the sisters would get a better idea later on and forget about this current idea. One could hope at least... yep... yep.
Jeanne, Jeanne Lily and even Jeanne Alter simply did a quick prayer for that small miracle to possibly happen. Fran simply just let it be and Mecha Eli-chan too did the same. If not to pinch her metallic nose bridge for a moment at what a headache she would have been feeling if she were flesh and bones. Without saying another word. They all just went back to watching the scene before them go on; while the Da-Vinci sisters calmed down enough thankfully.
Back with the scene as the explosion echoed, a quick view change show Obadiah having heard it. A view switch, now showed less blurry the armor Obadiah had made as it looked much more like a upgraded version of Tony's first suit. Pressing a startup button, the suit began to turn on. Then all that could be seen was Obadiah running to the suit, ready to put it to a field test.
Back once more to Tony from a scene change. The girls saw his armor being placed back on the man, the view panning as Rhodey was watching this time, mostly in awe at the sight.
"That's the coolest thing I've ever seen." Rhodey exclaimed. As he felt like a kid again seeing his favorite sci-fi TV show or a super cool futuristic movie come to life in front of him
"Not bad, huh…. Let's do it." Tony replied, as he was focused now and ready to save the day; along with saving Pepper
Yet another view change, now showing Tony walking over to the car that he crashed on when he landed for the first time. As he was also glad to have yet to fix the hole, so blasting the car away a bit so he could have room. He readies himself, as Rhodey followed caught with him.
"You need me to do anything else?" Rhodey asked as he hoped he could be of more use to his friends right now, especially considering what was going on
"Keep the skies clear." Tony simply answered. Before his mask slid down, then activating his boosters he launched up and out of through the hole
"Damn." Rhodey said in awe at how freaking awesome that was, then looking to his right he saw the silver first version of the Iron Man suit. Thinking about it, he came up with a quick decision "Next time, baby."
Then it showed Rhodey taking one of Tony's cars as he speed out of the garage, before a scene changed showed Coulson looking through a window in a door, while his other agents and Pepper followed. Before opening it, everyone going in as they walked down a hallway with a few lights on only. It didn't take to longer before they got the main room, where they found Tony's first Iron Man suit displayed.
"Looks like you were right. He was building a suit." Coulson said, as he everyone else looked over the suit
"I thought it'll be bigger." Pepper stated as she found this suit rather… small, which was odd because it looked like it fit Tony's size more than Obadiah's
Then everyone began looking around, Coulson and one of the agents hoping over some railing before landing on the floor on the other side. Guns out as they walked down a corridor to see if they could find Obadiah. The other agents staying with Pepper, who took quick notice that there were a few sparking cables just hanging. Still the agents with her looked around too, one even seeing a display for what looked a bigger suit.
["Elder sister, I'm a little scared…"] Jeanne Lily whispered as she snuggled against Jeanne, who smiled back and pulled in Lily Jeanne; though Jeanne Alter seemed a little jealous for a moment but let it be as she knew her Lily self-had good to still be a bit wary at being quote one quote 'Mushy' with her considering how she behaved when they were first getting use to each other
["How about you. Getting scared?"] Da-Vinci teased her little sister, as she moved her into her lap for the fun of it
["Nope I'm a big girl!"] Lily Da-Vinci answered proudly. Before tapping her index fingers together a but ["But…can I… sit in your lap still. Just in case."]
Da-Vinci only smiled that it was fine, Mecha Eli-Chane seeming to wait for the possible jump scare and Fran was yet again; cooing a bit at how cute she found the Lily's. It made her want a Lily of her own to dote on. But they all like always, kept on watching the scene before them.
Back with the scene, they saw Pepper look around some more herself in the area. Only to hear a few hanging chains rattle. An odd feeling overcame her as she turned around and looked at the darkness behind the chains. But only for two sets of glowing eyes to scare her, then scare her even more as they elevated before looking down right at her. She ran quickly, followed by a view change showing her running past the agents that stayed back with her.
"Take him out!" One of the agents yelled, as they fired their guns. Only for all of them to be swatted away easily by Obadiah in his suit
Obadiah then boosting as he charged Pepper, who thankfully got out of the room as Obadiah was caught in the doorway that was too small, having even stretched his arm out to try grabbing Pepper with no luck.
Then another quick scene change showed Tony flying through the air getting closer to the company, hoping that he got there in time.
"How do you think the Mark One chest piece is gonna hold up?" Tony asked, as he hoped it held up; he made but still
"The suits a 48% power and failing. That chest piece was never designed for sustained flight." Jarvis answered, as Tony had a feeling that would be the answer
"Keep me posted." Tony requested, as he doubled his boost to get to Pepper quicker, though a view changed occurred showing Pepper had made her way out of the building safely; before her ear piece turned on "Pepper."
"Tony. Tony, are you okay?" Pepper replied back, looking around for Tony and didn't see him. So she assumed he was getting close
"I'm fine." Tony answered, as Pepper looked back at the laboratory for Obadiah at all
"Obadiah, he's gone insane." Pepper began to explain, as the view changed a bit showing her yet also oddly the parking lot behind her too
"I know. Listen, you better get outta there!" Tony warned, as he could tell Pepper was in a slight state of panic
"H-He built the suit." Pepper kept on saying, not taking notice of the ground behind her starting to rise up a bit
"Get outta there, right now!" Tony yet again warned, before Pepper freaked out when the ground behind her broke open and Obadiah's suit came out
"Where do you think you're going?" Obadiah asked, clenching his fist as Pepper back up a bit scared for her life. Then he aimed his right arm at her as a chain gun popped out the top of the forearm. Before revving up and ready to shot "Your services are no longer required."
"Stane!" Tony screamed suddenly. Pepper and Obadiah looking to see Tony had arrived, Obadiah firing of his chain gun at Tony
Only Tony was faster and had tackled him back into the ground from the sheer force. Both flinging into the lower levels, before crashing through another thin wall leading to a highway below. The two crashed into the side of a truck, then one side of the street to another.
Both on the ground as they began to get up, though a car ran over Obadiah's suit a bit before getting away. Other car's crashed a bit here and there because of the duel. With one family of a mother in her car with her son, younger son and daughter stopping right next to Obadiah. Before honking the horn. Obadiah was able to get up first, seeing an opportunity as he grabbed the car and lifted it up with the family of four screaming as Obadiah faced back at Tony, who had finally gotten up himself.
"I love this suit!" Obadiah cheered in glee, as he held the car with the family of four over his head ready to use it the smash Tony to death with
"Put them down." Tony demanded
"Collateral damage, Tony." Obadiah simply exclaimed, Tony seeing this needed more strength powered down his palm beams
"Defer the power to chest piece." Tony ordered to Jarvis who did so, a chest blast firing off as Obadiah was pushed back while tony caught the car by the front of it
"Power reduced to 19%." Jarvis stated as Tony was having a bit of trouble holding the weight while the family of four kept screaming
Though as Tony finally was able to let them down, the family especially the mother. In too much of a state of panic, floored the gas as the car began to go with Tony hanging on for dear life. Though he was shocked at what was happening right now.
"Lady!" Tony yelled, as his grip slipped and he ended up right under the car where he got stuck on the back of it. Tony then quickly lifted the car as he was freed, while the family of four drove off from this suddenly turn of events. Tony getting back up as his armor was scuffed up a little
["D-Did she just run over Tony?"] Jeanne asked, a bit surprised at the actions of the woman driving the car; well aside from the fact she was scared and trying to get her family away. Still, a bit much if you asked her
["Imagine in like a few years this is all but a funny little story to tell."] Jeanne Alter mused, as that would be quite the funny tale to tell
["Oh hello, I'm -Insert name here- and do you want to hear a funny story. I ran over Iron Man once. With my car and he came out the back. Funny right .HA."] Mecha Eli-Chan for once joked, though it was a bit odd hearing it from the usually rather monotone robotic girl ["What, that was a joke right?"]
["Grrraa…"] Fran tried to say as nicely as she could, but she was cut off
["Yep totally… a joke. Yep. Right?"] Jeanne Alter quickly answered, looking at her elder sister and Da-Vinci primarily
["Oh ah yeah."] Jeanne answered first
["Totally. Not at all… creepy. At all… yep."] Da-Vinci added in, smiling widely as she hoped Mecha Eli-Chan just went with it. Thankfully two little angels came to the rescue
["Shhh. The fights happening still!"] Lily Da-Vinci reminded
["Yeah come on watch!"] Lily Jeanne stated, as she and Lily Da-Vinci were really focused on the fight
The others quickly did so. Jeanne Alter, Jeanne and Da-Vinci silently thankful for that quick save; Fran only sighed at the fact that the lied to the robotic girl about her rather creepy-ish way of telling a joke. But for now, she continued watching the fight going on currently in the movie.
Meanwhile back I the scene Obadiah seconds later came in, landing next to Tony as he took a motorcycle passing him as the rider was flung off. Then with the motor bike, Obadiah slammed it against Tony who was flung to the other side of the highway in to a car before landing near a bus. Which the people still in it, ran off as soon as they saw what was happening. Obadiah quickly as he could moving right up to Tony.
"For thirty years, I've been holding you up. I built this company from nothing!" Obadiah stated angrily, lifting Tony in the air before slamming him in the ground. But he wasn't done, as the older man stomped his right foot against Tony's chest. Before lifting Tony back up " And nothing is gonna stand in my way. And least of all, you!"
As Obadiah screamed this, he had thrown Tony right into the bus as it dented around him. Then Obadiah active the shoulder missile on his suit. Taking a moment before he fired it off, as the bus exploded into a ball of fire. But it seems Tony's armor could take a blast, as he was simply launched into the air. Flinging a bit before he got his footing and was able to activated his booster mid-air. Staring back at Obadiah.
"Impressive. You upgraded your armor. I've made some upgrades of my own!" Obadiah cheered as it seemed he was having the time of his life, before the legs of his suit changed a bit and then he began to rise in the air by the large rockets on his suits legs.
"Sir, it appears that his suit can fly." Jarvis exclaimed, as Tony was pretty surprised by this
"Duly noted. Take me to the maximum altitude." Tony ordered as thankfully Obadiah's suit rocket boosters were like a mini space ship when launching
"With only 15% power, the odds of reaching that altitude..." Jarvis tried to warn, though Tony already knew this fact
"I know the math, do it!" Tony ordered once more. As he made his way up further into the sky while Jarvis was already making the adjustments. All the while Obadiah was following behind him and Pepper could only watch as the two went further; and further up
Though a quick scene change back to the same war room as before, now spotting Tony and Obadiah's movement was caught by one of the soldiers in there on their monitor.
"Sir, you're not gonna believe this. That thing is back." The solider stated to another lead solider who was inspecting the same monitor as well
"Get me major Allen." The lead solider stated, as he looked back a few others in the room "Scramble the jets!"
Though as the solider near the monitor was starting to make the call. Suddenly someone cut in, but pressing the button that keeps phone off. A pan upwards and it was Rhodey.
"Not necessary, people, just the training exercise." Rhodey simply said, as everyone seemed confused but they could tell there was reason for him saying so; so they listened and let it be
Back with Tony, he was still getting higher in the air by the second. Though behind him was Obadiah who was keeping up with him surprisingly. But he was able to boosters his rockets even more as he started to catch up.
"13% power, sir." Jarvis warned
"Climb!" Tony yelled yet again, was getting closer
"11%." Jarvis yet again warned as from his visor it seemed Tony was right about at the height where his armor started getting effected
"Keep going!" Tony ordered once more as they were so close now, just a bit further while it seemed Obadiah's armor was starting to frost over without his notice
"7% power." Jarvis again warned as it was going to be a close one
"Just leave it on the screen, stop telling me." Tony suggested as Jarvis did so whole the power meter displayed for him. But Obadiah seeing he was close enough reached out and was able to grab Tony by the leg. Pulling him close and with his hands around Tony's neck moments later
"You had a great idea, Tony, but my suit is more advanced in every way!" Obadiah gloated as he kept a hold on Tony, his armor though frost over at a much quicker rate now
"How'd you solve the icing problem?" Tony mused, as he was relieved his plan worked and it seemed Obadiah didn't take into account the armor frosting over; the higher they got in the atmosphere
["HAHA, YES, YES NOW FALL YOU BALD MOTHER… PUNK!"] Jeanne Alter screamed, but quickly corrected herself since the kids were here. Now for the others, they had a feeling she'd do this at one point. But did not except her sister to join in as well…
["AND CRASH AS THE BROKEN BONES IN YOUR BODY SHOW WHAT SINS YOU'VE COMMITED BALDY HAHAHA!"] Jeanne screamed in a rather… suddenly and very out of character fashion; her face even resembling her little sisters crazed gaze like mirror. Which obviously that would be the case, but seeing it on the saintly Jeanne was… something
["FALL, FALL BALD BAD MAN, BURN AND SUFFER LIKE THE PIG YOU ARE. HAHAHAHAHAHA!"] Lily Jeanne screamed last, laughing like an insane little girl as she also donned a face that resembled her older sisters; though it a bit more cuter
Still as the three Jeanne seemed to waiting to reveal seeing if Obadiah would die from this. Everyone else, scooted a little away from them. As it seemed that Jeanne Alter had taught the other two more things then they originally believed. To be honest, if all three Jeanne sisters went fully villain or went fully hero in a three person group. They'd be quite the scary team to face.
["DIE, DIE, DIE!"] The three Jeanne sisters screamed as they waited for the results to come into play after this scene
The others just kept on watching, ignoring the fact they were sitting next to three rather scary girls… yep… yep.
"Icing problem?" Obadiah repeated, as he noticed his armor stiffening and his power shutting down. Once completely shut down though, Tony couldn't help but gloat a bit himself
"Might want to look into it." Tony remarked, before hitting the top of Obadiah's head as he began to fall back down to earth with no way of moving. Though as Tony stayed in the air, he forgot about his power
"2%." Jarvis simply said, as Tony for a moment began to fall as his boosters shorted out before he was able to catch himself for a moment before he fell once more "We are now running on emergency backup power."
"Whoa!" Tony yelled as he stopped himself once more with a hover, doing it over and over again before he finally got near the top of the labs crashing into some rails before the roof itself. Thankfully he wa okay, as he stopped himself and rested on his right knee "Potts."
"Tony. Oh my God, are you okay?!" Pepper replied back, as she was so happy to hear Tony's voice and too know he was okay
"I'm almost dead of power, I gotta get out of this thing. I'll be right there." Tony replied as he threw off his broken left glove, before moving a switch that opened his face plate, only for Obadiah in his own armor still to land right behind him
"Nice try." Obadiah said, as Tony put his face plate back down about to use his left palm beam, only to remember he just took it off and was hit a bit always back on his feet. Tony then ran, using a boost jump, before swinging down his right armored first; though Obadiah caught him and began to crush him in a hold
"Weapons status?" Tony asked, through some sudden pressure he was feeling from the crushing gold
"Repulsors are off line." Jarvis answered as Tony's armor was being crushed more and more; his visor even cracking a little
"Flairs!" Tony yelled before a volley of flares fired off blinding Obadiah who let go of Tony, while he took a moment to recover from the sudden bright lights
"Very clever, Tony." Obadiah quipped, as he was better a few seconds later but more annoyed now then anything as it seemed Tony had found a quick place to hide behind
"Potts." Tony whispered as he hoped Obadiah would take a bit to find him
"Tony!" Pepper replied back
"This isn't working, we're gonna have to overload the reactor and blast the roof." Tony explained, much to Peppers confusion
"How are you gonna do that?" Pepper questioned
"You're gonna do it. Go to the central console, open up bolt of circuits. When I clear the roof I'll let you know and you're gonna hit the master bypass button." Tony answered as Pepper listened, looking out to see Obadiah was starting to look over to where he was "That's gonna fry everything up here."
"Okay, I am going in now." Pepper answered back, slowly taking a moment to get her footing on the glass with her heels before moving closer to the large arc reactor before her
"Make sure you wait till I clear the roof, I'll buy you some time." Tony explained, as he moved away from his spot right as Obadiah got there looking ahead
Pepper then went and began pulling down a few levels to the arc reactor. While on the roof, Obadiah who was still looking suddenly got jumped. As Tony came from behind, leaping on his back. As his visor took a moment to scan and found a component he could grab
"This looks important!" Tony exclaimed, pulling out the component as Obadiah tried to get him off just as his helmets vision went offline
Back with Pepper she was starting up the machine now and hoping for then best. Before a view changed back to Tony still fighting off Pepper. Grabbing him by the helmet and throwing him over his own head. The helmet of Tony's coming off as it Obadiah still had it in his right hand. Tony meanwhile sliding on his stomach right over the arc reactor itself.
"I never had a taste for this sort of thing, but I must admit, I'm deeply enjoying the suit." Obadiah explained, his chest and helmet opening up to revel his own body inside. Before crushing the helmet and throwing it over to Tony "You finally outdid yourself, Tony. It would've made your father proud."
"It's ready, Tony get off the roof!" Pepper warned as jus then as Tony got back up on his feet. Obadiah pulled out his chain gun once more before firing off at him
Tony using his right arm as a small shield came out to deflect the bullets; before Obadiah shot the glass under him as Tony feel through but caught the railing of the roof window hanging on the best he could; while Pepper below covered herself from the falling glass. Obadiah shooting the other parts of the roof window to make sure Tony didn't have any footing to get.
"Tony!" Pepper screamed as she looked back up, seeing Tony in such a position and also hearing the arc reactor starting up
"How ironic, Tony. Trying to free the world of weapons, you gave it the best one ever!" Obadiah mocked at what he though was the biggest irony Tony had ever committed in his life
"Pepper!' Tony screamed from below to get her attention
"And now... I'm gonna kill you with it." Obadiah proclaimed, before firing off a wrist missile at Tony, only for it to miss and hit another part of the roof. Obadiah realizing what Tony must have done "You ripped up my targeting system."
"Time to hit the button!" Tony yelled once more for Pepper
"You told me not to!" Pepper replied back as she did not want Tony to get hit by whatever was going to happen soon
"Hold still, you little prick." Obadiah said with irritation, as he fired off another missile as that one missed too
"Just do it!" Tony screamed as by this point, if he took Obadiah out it was better than the man living to cause havoc while he died
"You'll die!" Pepper screamed back, as she really didn't want to press the button as it would surely kill Tony. Obadiah meanwhile firing another rocket that got closer, as Tony's left hand let go and he was only hanging now by his right
"Push it!" Tony ordered as Pepper did just that
A second later, the arc rector began to act up as electricity sparked everywhere. Pepper running for safety. While the arc reactor shot out from the top of a pure blast of energy. Flinging Tony up and against a vent before he fell flat on his back.
Obadiah though, still alive was hit fully as he screamed in pain while a large blast of energy shot into the night sky. The city around blacking a little, as the sounds of thunder echoed. A few moments later it was silent; but Obadiah was now dead from the shock. His body tittering a bit, before he fell down through the roof window, hitting various pipping and right onto the arc reactor. The whole place exploding on the inside, followed by a brief glimpse of a barley awake Tony moving away slight while an explosion finished on the roof.
Once it was all over, since filled the air. The scene showing a roughed up, slightly ash colored and battle damaged Tony laying on his back. His arc reactor not glowing and he didn't seem to be moving or breathing. It was once more silent, before Pepper's voice echoed on word.
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Tony!
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As the name of Tony echoed, his arc rector began to flicking a bit on and off. On and off, On and off; on and off before the screen went black.
After a few moments of a black screen and silence. The scene suddenly changed to a TV on a wall, showing it was live report by Rhodey. Who was explain the situation at a press conference involving the incident last night between Tony and Obadiah. Of course this was cover story or at least Rhodey's part to play in this.
"We've all received the official statement of what occurred at Stark Industries last night. There have been unconfirmed reports that a robotic prototype malfunctioned and caused damage to the Arc reactor." Rhodey explained, as the view panned out a bit before showing Tony sitting in chair alive and well. Though he did have a small bandages on the bridge of his nose; while Pepper seemed to be putting making over nay bruises he might have. He also was reading a new paper with the headlines 'Who is Iron Man?'
"'Iron Man', that's kinda catchy. It's got a nice ring to it." Tony quipped as Pepper put on a bit more make up over his bruise "I mean it's not technically accurate, since it's a gold-titanium alloy, but it's kind of evocative, the imagery anyways."
"Here is your alibi." Agent Coulson suddenly said, coming in from right as he handed Tony two pieces of blue paper
"Okay." Tony murmured as took the blue papers, looking over them; all the while Pepper was doing the finishing touched on his face
"You were on your yacht. We told Pepper to put you in Avalon all night and sworn statements from 50 of your guests." Agent Coulson began to explain
"I was thinking maybe we should say it was just Pepper and me, alone on the island." Tony joked a little as Pepper pulled of one of last bandages on his brow quick. Tony feeling the slight pained looked at her smiling a bit, Pepper smiling back just a little herself
"That's what happened. Just read it word for word." Coulson simply stated, as that was going to be the story and changes to it. Though as Tony looked through his written statement; he noticed something missing
"There's nothing about Stane here." Tony quipped as he wondered why that was, maybe an error in the cards or something else
"That's been handled. He's on vacation. Small aircraft have such a poor safety record." Coulson explained, as it was true that the cover story for Obadiah Stane's 'sudden' disappearance was pretty much finished by this point and would be released a little later to the public
"What about this whole story that it's a body guard? He's my body…. I mean that's, that's kinda flimsy." Tony complained a little as to him at least from he just read, the bodyguard angel seemed a little… too out there; that and he seemed kind of like a wimp again in his opinion
"This isn't my first rodeo, Mr. Stark. Just stick to the official statement and soon this will all be behind you. You've got 90 seconds." Coulson answered, before making his way off; though Pepper took a moment to remember to thank the man for his help
"Oh, agent Coulson. I just wanted to say thank you very much for all of your help." Pepper thanked as she stopped the man in the doorway and truly she was thankfully for the help last night
"That's what we do. You'll be hearing from us." Coulson replied back, appreciative of the than you
"From the Strategic Homeland..." Pepper started to say, the rather long name once more only for Coulson to cut her off
"Just call us S.H.I.E.L.D." Coulson exclaimed, as it seemed to Pepper he took the advice on the name into consideration to bring up with his higher ups after all
["Grah, umf. Ga, har, umf. Gao!"] Fran cheered, as she clapped her hands little at the name
["Totally. WAY better name then whatever that last one was. GOSH, that was so long and stupid to say over and over again."] Jeanne Alter replied back, as her sisters nodded in agreement with that statement
["That and it sounds cooler in general. Like a lot cooler and more official."] Da-Vinci added in as the others simply agreed; even the one's who'd said it wasn't THAT long of a name to say
["Wasn't that long... seriously."] Mecha Eli-Chan muttered as she grumbled a little at how hooked at least the Jeanne's seemed on the name
With that, the group just went back to watching the scene unfold in this rather calmer near ending then they had expected from this movie. Mecha Eli-Chan at least thought it would be much more of a big story with in this film's story when it came to what just went down the night before. Which if one were to think on it, could even the current pretense of one's own reality's be considered a story within another's concept of fantasy. In fact...
Mecha Eli-Chan stopped for a moment, realizing she was looping her fused mind into a paradox situation. She did NOT want to know if those were a real thing or not. So she just let that sudden train of though be as she continued to watch the scene before she and the girls unfold.
With that small save from a possible literally mind blow from at least one of the servants. The scene before them continued to unfold.
"Right." Pepper quipped, smiling kindly, as the man made his off once more. Pepper walking over to get Tony's coat as it was almost time for Tony to speak about the indecent last night "Let's get the show on the road."
"You know, it's actually ... it's not that bad." Tony said, having gotten up as to let Pepper put his coat on for him "Even I don't think I'm Iron Man."
"You're not Iron Man." Pepper replied, amused a bit
"I am." Tony quipped as he put the blue flashcards in his mouth, while Pepper put his coat on
"You're not." Pepper reinstated, still amused as this always fun to do with Tony
"Suite yourself. If I were Iron Man, I'd have this girlfriend who knew my true identity. She'd be a wreck." Tony just started to say out of the blue, turning around once the coat was on and taking the blue flash cards out his mouth while Pepper fixed up front "She'd always be worrying that I was gonna die, and yet proud of a man I become. She'd be... wildly conflicted, which would only make her more... crazy about me. Ahem, tell me you never think about that night?"
"What night?" Pepper questioned as she finishing up with Tony's coat
"You know." Tony mused, as Pepper took a moment just to tease a little a she knew what he was talking about
"Are you talking about... the night that we danced, and went up to the roof... and then... you went downstairs to get me a drink, and you... left me there by myself? Is that the night you're talking about?" Pepper said, leading Tony on, before bringing up the fact that yeah… he had um… ditched her the rest of the night. Tony just nodded at that realization of what he had forgotten that night after Obadiah spilled the beans. Still she smiled back a bit "I thought so. Will that be all, Mr. Stark?"
"Yes, that'd be all, Ms. Potts." Tony replied back, as made his way off; Pepper following behind as she knew she got this time and found it all the more amusing
But a quick scene change showed Rhodey still up on the Podium, just now nearing the end of his part of the plan for Tony.
"And now Mr. Stark has prepared a statement. He will not be taking any questions, thank you." Rhodey explained, as he go off the Podium as Tony moved up onto it to address the press while Rhodey stood to his right
"Um… it's been a while since I was in front of you, I figure I'll stick to the cards this time." Tony started off as that got a small laugh of the crowd which was already a good sign for the man before he started to read of the cards like he supposed to. Pepper watching from the TV in the room he just been in "There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred on a freeway and the rooftop-"
"I'm sorry Mr. Stark, but do you honestly expect us to believe that that was a bodyguard in a suit, that conveniently appeared, despite the fact that-" Low and behold, Christie questioned as she was in the front row in this press conference; thought Tony already saw her and quickly cut the woman off
"I know that it's confusing... It is one thing to question the official story, and another entirely to make wild accusations or insinuate that I'm a superhero." Tony began to explain, not realizing he was saying more then he needed to and assuming what the press was thinking currently
"I never said you're a superhero." Christine corrected, as she smirking a little catching that slip up
"You didn't… well, good, because that would be outlandish and... fantastic." Tony began saying as he realized that others were starting to notice his behavior. Still Tony tried to keep with the story "I'm just not the hero type, clearly. With this... long list of character defects and all the mistakes I've made, largely in public."
"Just stick to the cards." Rhodey whispered to Tony quickly, as to at least help obviously in need of help best friend right now; before pulling back calm as ever
"Yeah, okay. The truth is..." Tony tried to say, before he began to wonder if he should and the silence wasn't going unnoticed
Taking a moment to think on the Pros and cons, Tony moments later decided what his choice was. Besides, wasn't like this would the worst thing people caught him doing. So taking small breath, he said the words that would change his life here on out..
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" I am Iron Man."
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Not even a second later and the press went wild, flashing photos, spewing out question and wanting to know everything there was to know about their newest hero Iron Man. Tony the whole time, couldn't help but smile.
Then seconds later the credits began to roll. The girls just listening to it and enjoying the cool little animations put into them. To be honest they just wanted to watch the movie till the very end, though they didn't expect to see at the end a new scene suddenly occur.
It showed Tony walking back into his house, most likely from a long day of answering question about Iron Man. But as he came in, seeing happy to be back and even greeting Jarvis who welcomed him back home. He stopped, when he saw a man standing at the end of his living room looking at him.
"I am 'Iron man'… You think you're the only superhero in the world?" The stranger said as he moved a bit closer to Tony "Mr. Stark you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet."
"Who the hell are you?" Tony asked, a bit wary of this stranger
The stranger meanwhile stopped right at the living room lamp showing he was a dark skinned man, while black goatee, bald and a had an eyepatch over his left eye. He wore black pants, shoes, shirt and a black trench coat.
"Nick Fury, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D." Fury answered calmly, if not some sternness as Tony felt like he with dad in way since his old man was usually this stern with him when he still around
"Ah." Tony simply responded back as he really had no idea on what to say to this man who himself seemed like he was here for a reason
"I'm here to tal you about the Avenger initiative." Fury explained, as after that the screen went black once more
Then what followed was just the Marvel Logo showing, along with a few more credits in various languages. After a minuet more, the movie was done, the TV shut off and the laptop turning back on with a message.
"Ah ladies, it seems you've finished the film. We thank you for your participation and you will be allow to leave shortly. But before that, we'd like you to give us feedback on what you thought of the movie. Be as honest as you want. No judgement here that we can assure you. Once you're done, the door will unlock and you will be free to leave."
P.S- Once more, we ask you to not tell anyone else about this. We're serious.
P.S.S- Like exponentially serious here, don't be that person. Do NOT be that person at all.
Thank you and have a relaxing rest of the day
"So I guess we all just have a word or so then?" Jeanne stated, as the others slowly agreed as it seemed to be that way. So being the one to say something first, she decided to go "Alright well. I liked it plenty, sure it could be a bit… crass at times. But I liked it, that and the story of a sinner turning to a better life. Hopefully one that can be touched by the light and warmth of God one day too."
"Right… well I just like the action in it. It was freaking awesome!" Jeanne Alter said next, as she decided to let be what her older sister said alone; since she knew she was like that usually anyways. Then looking at her little sister, she smile "How about you squirt?"
"I just really liked everything, it was like a super cool and awesome movie. That and the romance too, the SHIP WILL BE A THING I KNOW IT WILL!" Lily Jeanne answered now, as she had been in awe of this superhero movie; she felt like she could anything after watching it
"Yes, YES THE SHIP WILL HAPPEN!" Lily Da-Vinci repeated what her friend said, before also being giddy about all the cool possible tech that could be made "The tech too. OH the tech… I can feel my brain vibrate with idea filled pleasure!"
"Same. I've even come up with quite a few prototypes for our master next mystic code. Oh they'll love it." Da- Vinci chimed in glee, as SO many idea's formed in her mind during this whole movie "Also me and little sis her liked the movie well enough."
"Yeppers!" Lily Da-Vinci exclaimed with a big smile and thumbs up
"Agreed. Even if I do question quite amount of the movies logic. I enjoyed it thoroughly. If anything, I hope we can all enjoy this kind of experiences later on the future." Mecha Eli-chan stated, smiling a bit wider then she usually did
"GAR!" Fran cheered in glee at her own thoughts on the movie, before she cleared her throat "I-It was… n-nice. I..li…love..d it."
"And that there is a winning endorsement if Fran forcing herself to talk." Da-Vinci remarked, before deciding now was the time for this little event to end "Anyways. Can you let us out now, I really need to stretch my legs and I'm everyone else too."
Without another word said, the door to the room. Sprung right open, seeing as this was their time to leave. They all made their way out, before the door closed. Though like Mordred, they had not taken notice of the hidden camera watching them the whole time.
Back in the secret room of theirs. Moriarty, Shakespeare and Merlin all high fived one another. Seeing as this movie was yet another big hit. A very big hit actually if the girls reactions to it were another to go by. Especially the Lily's. They're happy energy and cuteness would win extra points there.
"Well men, another job well done. I have to say I was a little worried some wouldn't care for the movie." Moriarty stated, as some of the girls… mainly Jeanne Alter were the most 'hero' type as some would say. To be he was surprised himself he like the movie "Even I liked it. But maybe because the man character was quite an odd one for a hero."
"Ah yes. The story of selfish man who goes through tragedy and re-forges himself into a new man. An old story, but a well-used one. I quite liked the movie myself for that reason alone." Shakespeare remarked, smirking as he found the movie enjoyable enough "What of you dear Merlin hm?"
"It was okay. Though have to say, I'd probably be living it up if I was rich as Tony was in the movie." Merlin answered, before looking into a newly made shelf; while piles of (Possibly stolen…) movies could bee seen "What next?"
"Hm. For now let's us take the rest of the day off. Think on it and think on our next volunteer too. I believe today is cream puff day and you know I love those cream puffs." Moriarty suggested, a bit giddy at the mention of such treats
Shakespeare an Merlin though not much of cream puff fans. Were still a bit wanting to eat something, besides it was unwritten rule that no one skips breakfast, lunch or dinner as it considered rude to the chefs who make SO much food for everyone. Along with that fact their masters had said it too. Which to be honest made it not unwritten rule in way. But you know semantics. Point was, NO one skips a meal in Chaldea unless they have a legit reason too.
So with that, they three made their way out. Besides, none of them had anything to worry about really; wasn't like anyone was into them.
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Elsewhere, one Nero and now Helena were walking around the less know parts of Chaldea. Investigating to see if they could find any kind of clues on something off. They even wore cute handmade detective hats to make it feel more official
"Anything yet Detective Helena?" Nero asked, as she was looking at each wall and wondering if something or anything would seem off for her to use as a clue
"Nothing yet Detective Nero hehe." Helena replied back, as she was enjoying this so far; this was fun very fun for the little miss "Anyways, I'm sure we'll find something soon though. I'm sure of it!"
"True… but I'm still worried we may not. As fun as this is, as much as I hate to admit this. Neither of us are really great at this detective stuff." Nero said, as she had to admit; her skills in being a detective weren't as honed as her skills in a lot of other amazing talents
"Well mine aren't really either." Helena replied as she gave Nero a pat on the shoulder "Wish we had someone more fitted for this to help out though."
"Ahem." A man suddenly said, as both Nero and Helena looked to their right seeing a man
His peach skin, blue eyes and black short hair; accompanied with his attire which looked like a gentlemen's from old England. Along with his white gloves and trench coat that was a bit segmented around the bottom; and the girls new who this was.
"Mister Sherlock!" Helena cheered as she and Nero smiled seeing Chaldea's residence detective appearing before them
"And a hello to you as well ladies." Sherlock answered back with a small smile, as he decided to not comment on the rather well made hats of theirs "I take it you are also investigating the… oddities of those reaction videos?"
"How did you know?" Nero questioned, in slight awe that it seemed she wasn't the only one to have taken notice of odd upload news when she began to browse the internet
"Simple. Like you I suspect you caught a rather interesting notification on your web browser feature our residence Knight Mordred." Sherlock explained as Nero nodded in agreement. Helena meanwhile had already believed Nero on it when she was told, as she gather Nero had no reason to lie about something like this
"Oh yes we are Mister Sherlock!" Helena stated happily as this was going to become much more fun if Sherlock was joining them on this investigation
"Excellent. I was somewhat worried I was the only one who had taken notice of it. Now with that said, I caught you two a while ago snooping around the halls. So I've been following you, mainly to see how your skills are in detective work. I'll admit they aren't the best, but better then you two believe." Sherlock reassured, as that helped a bit with Nero and Helena's moral "Now then. I think we can all agree that somebody or even more then just one person has decided to use a rather unknown room in the facility to host these so called reaction videos. If that's the case, they also must be near the room. Problem is now, to find the room being used. I'll even admit, I have yet to explore most of this facility that wasn't near the operation center. That said, I believe we'll have the location in no time."
"But won't it be a bit hard to find it when we don't know who's being used next for these videos?" Helena wondered as Sherlock slowly nodded in agreement
"That is true. The person who's blocking their reaction videos form showing up on our news feed was smart to do so. But, with that said. We have only a few servants who truly knew how to work technology with ease. That and most of them are friends with one another." Sherlock explained as she smirked "Meaning…"
"Meaning… OH, we have to start questioning those people right!" Nero happily answered as Sherlock nodded "Nice. But wait, what if we can't get them to answer?"
"Simply, we tail them. If anything it's either one of them behind these videos or they're helping someone do the deed. Either way, we now have a solid lead. So ladies shall we?" Sherlock proclaimed as Nero and Helena both gleefully nodded in agreement. With that, Sherlock let them lead the way back to familiar territory, while he followed behind
Though even if he was genuine about helping these two with a rather interesting case, he'll admit. He does enjoy the peace times, but he also still doesn't mind some action here and there. Besides, if they found our who these people or person was behind these videos; and he was sure one particular person was behind it, along with possible two other accomplices of his. He might actually decided to join in on it, if only to have odd fun for a while.
Besides. Not like anything would end going wrong in the future with this harmless fun. Nothing that could possible cause tremendous repercussions either if the nature of the reactors were to be put out into the public somehow. That was preposterous, impossible.
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Well, he hoped at least…
And we're here again at the end. Now like I said, I do hope you enjoyed what I did. To be honest some of the scenes in this movie we're a bit hard too translate. Still, I did my best; I hope I did not disappoint.
Also how'd you like the end, Nero and Helena get some help now. I will say, doing Sherlocks lines were a bit hard for me. But I hope I did his justice with what I wrote. All in all, I'm glad this chapter is finally out. I'm glad you can read it finally and I can't wait for the rest of the chapters ahead.
So until next time, have a great one, a great day and until the next chapter stay safe. Ciao!