A/N: I am so sorry for the late update; I have my reasons, but not like any of you care to know why. So, here is the next chapter. Also, Happy New Year.

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"You're doing well, but your punches are not strong enough. Focus all your power into your arm, lock your wrist, and when you swing the hook, keep your muscles tightened. Make sure you don't loosen up before you make contact unless you want to break your wrist. Also, keep it steady and precise, do not swing wildly."

Damn, this is much harder than Gunhead makes it sound. It has been a week since I joined Gundhead's dojo, and it has been a real struggle. He started me off by asking me to show what I can do; show off my personal strength, and see how I can contest against him. Needless to say, I was easily overpowered without a chance of countering. I actually do qualify to be a yellow belt, which surprises me because I thought I would be a white belt.

For now I am learning how to properly throw a jab, do round kicks, and some reversals and counters before we really kick it up a notch. I am grateful for Gunhead easing me into this first before we take it serious because even though I do love a good challenge, I prefer to be prepared for it first instead of going in blind, not that it's any less fun.

As with Tony, I have been keeping in touch with him. We've gone over a few schematics about my recent babies or previous ones that have potential to be improved significantly, or he has me study forms of engineering science I haven't caught up on or even knew existed. Probably my favorite type of science is the use of high density muon's because this is base formula for repulsor blasts. Tony is as everyone says he is and I can use one word to describe him: Jackass. He really is a jackass, but a fun and charismatic one at that too. I'll deal with his attitude because this an opportunity that will never come again.

But right now, I am at the dojo practicing on a dummy in my martial arts gear. A custom made very saturated dark blue, or in more precise terms the color 'Tolopea' gi with Crusoe wristbands, a very saturated dark cold green. While practicing on my punches and kicks, I am also working on basic combos such as a Jab, Hook, Uppercut or Jab, Cross, Hook, Cross. The physical work is very enduring. The first day I felt as I was going to pass out from exhaustion despite already being in pretty good shape because of how active I am whenever I am busy at the junkyard lifting and moving heavy objects around. The second day was worse because I felt like I was in more pain due to the soreness my body felt. Then came the third, fifth, and sixth day and everything is slowly feeling better, and I feel a little more reinvigorated with energy; not that I needed more fuel in my veins already.

"Hatsume," Gunhead called out to me. I stopped what I was doing and looked to him, trying to control my breath with sweat running down my face from the intensity of my training. "That's enough for today. You have improved in stamina and you can throw faster punches and kicks, but you still are sloppy and imprecise when it comes to delivering your strikes. I want you to practice at home for at most an hour on this if you can. In all though," Gunhead gave me a thumbs up and I could tell he was smiling under that mask of his, "Great work! I'll see you tomorrow!"

I set my body straight, lock my feet together, and bow to him, "Thank you sensei." I say as I walk out of the room and into the changing rooms. I take a quick shower that is provided by the dojo to get rid of the smell and sweat, and change into my school clothes. I don't wear the school uniform as it would get tarnished and ripped very quickly in the workshop, and they are free so I figured I might as well use them for something. I must say, though, I really hate skirts. I'm not much of a girly girl, hell I don't even put on makeup. A tomboy I am, and I love being kickass and free of the stereotypical girl fashion that was supposed to be instilled into my brain ever since I was born.

The journey home isn't really long. I have to walk a few miles, hop onto a train for a thirty minute ride, and get off and walk the rest of the way to home. It takes an hour to get home; 45 minutes by train and 15 minutes by walking combined.

I hopped onto a train and sat down on the nearest seat. I place my backpack in front of me before pulling out a notebook and a pencil. I start to draw down ideas and schematics for new babies I have in my mind. One of my current ideas is for power gloves that gives off an electric shock to stun my foes long enough for me to capture them. Another one was for a device that I can put on my back that can shoot grappling hooks, but instead of me having to climb the rope, the rope pulls me to the hook kinda like how a tape pulls itself back into the little box in a measuring tape.

"Hatsume?"

I blink and look up, to see no one. I look to my right, and Midoriya was sitting next to me. How did I not notice him, and how long has he been there?

"Midoriya!" I say quite loudly, catching the attention of other passengers. Midoriya flustered a bit at my response and the looks we received. "I didn't notice ya! What are you doing on here?!" I ask with a smile on my face and my eyes locked onto him. Midoriya backs into his seat a little with more red appearing on his face as I look at him. Is he nervous or easy to embarrass?

"I um...I stayed after school for reasons I can't say." Midoriya said before perking up and shaking his hands in front of his frantically, "Not that I got into trouble! I'm not like that! I'm not a bad person!" Midoriya said before placing his hand on his chin, "Though I wouldn't blame you if you assumed so because you do not know me, and really I haven't shown a reason as to why I would be a nice person…"

I zoned out a while ago as I stare at him a bit bewildered. Other passengers look at him, and some even look to me. Honestly, I could care less about what people think or see of me, but I think Midoriya does. "Midoriya!" I say to snap him out of his trance. I thought I was weird, but now I think I met my match.

"Yeah?" He asks me like nothing happened.

"You were rambling at a hundred miles per hour." I say calmly. The boy looks down in complete embarrassment with his face now a deep red.

"S-s-s-sorry…" Midoriya apologizes meekly, "I have the tendency to mumble at random times. It just happens, and people have seen it as quite disturbing…" Midoriya says, looking down still.

"Really?" I think of the times when I did something like that, which happens more often than I'd admit, "Well. I do not think it is weird or disturbing. I have those moments too when I am thinking of my babies. I mumble constantly until either someone gets my attention or I finish my thoughts." I reply to him.

Midoriya's eyes widened as his face returns to a normal pale color. I guess he is surprised to see that someone else does that 'mumbling' too. "You do that too?!" He smiles a little, "At least I know I am not alone in that." We share a laugh before he sees my notebook, "What's that?" He points to my notebook.

"The notebook I carry around. Whenever I have the time, I draw and scheme ideas for any new babies that come to mind. Wanna see?" I hand the book over to Midoriya as he takes it and looks through it carefully rather than skimming past everything.

"Wow!" Midoriya says in amazement, his eyes looking as if they are sparkling, "These are amazing! The Wire Arrow is like an upgraded and much more versatile version of the grappling arrow from the old Master Archer Pro Hero: Hawkeye and the Hover Soles can be extremely useful for flight and staying afloat whenever you are airborne! Another one of your designs, the Shock Gloves, could be upgraded to have more than just one setting. If you were to figure out a component that allows you to switch between different elements, you could have an elemental weapon in your hands. And you could…"

Midoriya went into another twittering moment, but I couldn't help but just stare at him. Not in weirdness, but in pure fascination and dare I say attraction. Midoriya wasn't just babbling on how well my babies are, but he also went ahead and compared them to other heroes and their arsenals, as well as point out ways to upgrade my babies potential.

"Hatsume!"

I shake my head and blink, seeing that Midoriya had a face of concern on his face. "You okay?" He asks.

I nod my head and smile brightly with a hint of pink on my cheeks, "Yessiree!"

Midoriya chuckles a bit before handing me my notebook back, "Hatsume, those inventions are incredible. I bet they'll be fantastic once you finish constructing them."

"Wanna see them when I am done building them?!" I blurt out of nowhere with enthusiasm in my voice.

Midoriya blinks a second, rubbing the back of his head, "Uh..." He looks down for a moment as I assume he is pondering with his thoughts. He looks back at me with that infectious smile of his, "Sure!"

I beam in delight and happiness as my teeth show, "Awesome!" I say, jumping up and down slightly. I have no idea why, but Midoriya's face went pure red in a second as he looked down my body and then turned away suddenly. I stop as my body settles and I pull out my phone, "Give me your number so I can text you when I am done building them!" Midoriya seems a bit taken away, but pulls out as his phone as we exchange numbers. Timing was perfect because as we finished sharing numbers, the train came to my stop. "Oh, my stop is here!" I say as I get up. "You can text or call whenever you feel, I'll most likely reply. If I don't, I'm busy!" I wave my hand to him, "Bye Midoriya, it was nice seeing you again!" I say as I walk away.

"Bye Hatsume! It was nice seeing you too!" Midoriya shouts to me as I walk off and head on home.

After some time, I get home. I entered my home to find it void of organic life, but not mechanical life as Sprocket came charging at me like rocket and knocking me flat on my back. After getting Sprocket off of me, I made my way to the kitchen to find a note on the counter.

"Mei, your father and I went out shopping. We will be back soon with takeout."

~ Mother.

I put the note down and look at Sprocket, "So how was your day?" Sprocket wags her tail and sticks her tongue out happily as she is down on her four legs looking up at me. I smile a little, "I guess it went well." I get on my knees and pet her and scratch her ear, "Might have to replace your nose soon girl, this one is getting rusty." I say as Sprocket barks softly and licks my face. "Glad we agree." I get up and make my way to room to go talk to Tony.

"I'm back, Stark." I say as my computer boots up automatically and shows Tony in his virtual form.

"Great, how was everything?" Tony says, making a virtual chair and sitting in it.

I respond without looking, "Fine. Took a few bumps at Gunhead's Dojo, but nothing really special happened today." As I am putting my stuff away and looking around my babies, I hear him chuckling to himself. I look at him confused, "Why the laugh that rings, 'I know something'?"

Tony smirks, "Because I do."

I place my hands on my hips, "Alright then, what?" He couldn't know I talked to Midoriya, could he?

"You know exactly what I am talking about, don't hide it." Tony says, throwing his hands up a bit, "It's not a big deal anyways," He then points to me, "Lest you make one."

I roll my eyes, "Fine. I met Midoriya on the train, and I had a chat with him." I sit on my bed and grab my one of my Hover Soles and work on it.

"See? Was it so hard to tell Uncle Tony that you're talking to a boy?" Tony chuckles at this.

I look up at him, "First off, don't call yourself that. Second, it wasn't hard, but it didn't seem important to tell you anyways."

Tony gets up from his chair, "Was it because you deemed it unimportant, or is it because you have something to hide?"

I sigh with irritation and place my baby aside, "Why are you making this a big deal? I talked to Midoriya, so what? Am I not allowed to talk to others when I get a chance too?"

Tony laughs a bit, "Kid I saw the way you looked at him. I have eyes and ears everywhere because I am connected to everything that is electronical. You don't think I wasn't going to notice that stare you gave him?"

"You and your romances." I reply as I clap my hands together and give him a sarcastic smile, "Ever thought that I looked at him that way is because I have never met another individual who understands and likes my babies other than you and Power Loader?"

Tony smirks a little more, "Denial will get you nowhere."

I grab my baby again, pop the propeller off of it and begin to adjust the wiring inside, "How about we get back on track on our agenda and leave my social life alone? Yes? Thank you."

Tony opens up a tab that shows a blueprint of the Hover Soles, "Whatever then. Oh, right." Tony then closes it, "I almost forgot I was going to tell you something."

I put the Hover Sole down, "What?"

Tony sits back down on his chair, "Do you know how I made my start as Iron Man?"

"As a vigilante at first, but no one knew it was you until after you got your license." I respond.

"Correct. For me, I believed the best way to grab attention to myself and to show the world I am capable of taking on Quirks was by fighting villains no matter who it was. Sure sometimes I would run into actual licensed heroes like Captain America or Nick Fury, but they never stopped me; especially Fury. Cap tried arresting me and failed of course, but Fury just let me be and do whatever I wanted as long as I did it in bounds of the law. Now you want to be a hero, right? Well, training to fight is one thing, being in a fight is another."

Oh I know where this is going, and truth be told, I am not enjoying it. "Tony." I say with seriousness in my voice, "Are you implying that I go out and fight villains now?"

Tony claps his hands together, "Not quite, you are not ready. I know I said I was going to let you use a jetpack and laser shots to help you practice before using my suit, but I decided you don't need to do that. I'm going to put you out there like how I did the first time I used the Iron Man suit."

Oh boy was I glad mommy, and daddy were gone because after that thought processed through my brain, I let out a high pitched fangirlish scream so loud I shook in my seat, and in an instant I was in front of the computer. Tony had a face of annoyance as I looked at him, "I'M GOING TO BE USING THE IRON MAN SUIT?! WHEN?!" I am so full of energy that I begin to jump up and down.

An address is now on displayed on the computer, "Copy and go to this address. It's an abandoned and private area that is owned by me. No one approaches to it, so it is perfect for you to test out the awaiting suit. It should take you no longer than twenty minutes to arrive if you manage to catch the train." Without even turning off the computer nor putting away the Hover Sole, I dash out of my room and out of the front door with Sprocket looking at me confused as she kicks the door closed, and steps on a button on the floor that locks the door automatically.

I made it to the train in time, and the trip was twenty minutes like Tony said. After getting off, I headed towards the location of the address. As I was walking, the once massive and boisterous city was being left behind me as I walked into a sandy, hot, secluded desert that had shrubs and little critters around. I walked for awhile before seeing an old beat up building standing alone. It was a small business building, but most of the windows were shattered, the paint had graffiti and was worn down from overexposure from the sun, and some of the entries were either broken or completely torn off.

"Is this it?" I question myself. This is very unlike Tony; I expected him to keep everything he had owned in tip top shape, not let it become old and rusty. I made it into the building, but I get a feeling of caution before I enter. I poke my head inside and look around. Empty. Nothing but the bare floor and life that had miraculously started growing inside of the floor with the green blades poking out of it. I see the room is much more deeper than usual, so I reach up to my goggles and put them over me. I active my Quirk and use my vision to see deeper into the room. Nothing. Same as before. I keep my goggles on, but deactivate my Quirk.

"Okay," I mumble to myself as I walk around, "If Tony wanted me here than….where is he or the suit?" I ask myself as I look around before spotting a metal door with a device next to it. I walk up to it to see that device was a high technological lock with Stark's business logo written on the top of it. Before I move, a ray of light beams from as it scans me up and down.

"Identity confirmed: Mei Hatsume." A female voice says from a small speaker inside of the lock. The door opens quickly without making a sound. The inside isn't very big as it looks more to be like an elevator. I enter inside as the door closes, locks itself, and I feel the pressure in my stomach rise as I am now lowering under the building. It isn't a long ride as the elevator stops and the door opens to reveal a dark room.

I walk out of the door as Tony's voice echoes in the room, "Hey musa velutina, you made it." What did he call me?

"Uh...what did you just call me?" I ask in confusion.

"Musa velutina is a plant from Assam and the eastern Himalayas that can be referred to as 'Pink Bananas', and your hair reminds me of that."

I roll my eyes and mess with my hair a little, "That's a new one."

"Hey, I have called Spider-Man underoos before, and that is a type of underwear so feel lucky I didn't give you something worse." Tony retorts. "Anyways, I told you to come here so we can start with you practicing how to use a suit. Let's get started then." The room suddenly lights up as it is plastered with a chromium display on the walls, but is still empty besides from one object in the center. A platform stood with a red and golden suit of armor standing on it.

"The Model III armor…" I whisper to myself in pure amazement. It is one thing to be told you will use one, but another to see it in person. I walk up to it slowly as I take in this beautifully crafted and advanced technology wonder. Though it may be the third armor out of the many more superior armors Tony has created in his life, it is still at least fifty to a hundred years ahead of my world's time. I walk around it and examine every inch of it.

"A beauty to new eyes, isn't it?" Tony says as I nod, "Though this isn't the suit you are using." I pause in place and look around the empty room.

Okay, that baffles me. I look around with one of my eyebrows raised, "What?"

"Yeah, I put that there because I needed a model. I forgot to get rid of it." Tony says as the platform suddenly drops into the ground along with the suit. "Before you ask, your suit is coming. Just keep looking at the platform." I keep my eyes on the platform as the hole under it closes, and a new suit is lowered from above. "Here she is, your test suit." The suit is now fully visible and has very distinctive features to it.

It is pure chrome, no color on it whatsoever like the Model II armor. The body of the suit was redone to fit a feminine body as it held a curve for a woman's body and the breastplate was bigger, the suit's height was shorter, the thighs on the legs were slightly larger, but the most distinct and perplexing feature to it was that the helmet was gone.

"This is the Model II, but redesigned to fit your body type. The helmet is not there because nanites will be attached to your head and they will fit a helmet to the size of that noggin' of yours." Tony explains to me as the suit opens up from behind. "Get in."

I walk to the back of the suit and just stare at it. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect that I would meet Tony Stark, be honored to be called his pupil or even be privileged for him to build me a suit to use. A suit for me. My suit of armor. Without wasting any time, I carefully climb inside as the suit starts to close, wrapping itself around my body. I feel the suit tightly secure itself on me as I feel the nanites start to-

'Wait!" I yell out, my hands reaching up to my face, "I forgot to take off my goggles!" I say, but am too late as the nanites finish doing their job and create a helmet around my head.

"It's alright Mei, they just wrapped around it. No harm done." Tony reassured me, "Besides, your goggles, and the nanites are merging together from what it seems. This is interesting, and an unexpected development." Tony admits.

The helmet activates and the HUD lights up. A blue light lights up in my face before many controls and information pop up such as the suit's battery, options, a targeting system, my choices of weapons, and much more. Suddenly, a red light flashes as most of the abilities are now filing away and words pop up that says, 'Child Lock.'

"...Really?!" I say with an exasperated tone. "Child Lock?!"

"Hey, you are new to this, and handling an Iron Man suit is much more difficult than it looks. Just because I handle it with ease doesn't mean that you can use it like me in a second. It takes a long while to properly use the suit." Tony explains to me.

I sign in defeat, "Fine." I perk up a second later, "Though I won't complain, not many can say they are inside of an Iron Man suit." I say as I move around a bit in the suit as it creates a 'whirring' noise with every movement.

"You should feel honored." Tony's ego rears its head once again, "Once you learn how to properly fly and shoot lasers, the Child Lock will release. This is just the first model, so don't expect much from it."

"Are you saying you'll build me more models?!" I ask excitedly.

"Don't get ahead of yourself Pinky Dinky Doo; you still have more to prove to me." Tony reminds me. Though I have proven to Tony that my heart is in the right place, there are many other aspects I have yet to prove. "Now, let's test out flight. The way to activate flight is to say it; usually, I just mumble it."

My thoughts start to think of flying, but Tony suddenly speaks out, "Wait you have to-!" Both repulsors on my boots activate as I suddenly launch into the air and smack face first into the ceiling above before hitting the ground. Tony starts laughing uncontrollably as I groan and get up, the face mask disappearing.

"Seriously?!" I yell out, "Did you expect that?!"

"Yes! And oh was it hilarious to watch!" Tony says through his laughs as I stomp a foot on the ground, huffing a bit. "Oh come on, lighten up." Tony says as his laughter ends. "I did that too when I first used the flight functions. I forgot to tell you that if you are trying to fly in a stable condition, you have to also say how much power you want to put into the boots. You just said flight, so it did one hundred percent of power. Try doing, one percent."

I take a breath and do it again while instinctively facing my palms towards the floor and this time, I am barely flying off the ground. "H-Hey!" I say with a big smile on my face, "I'm doing it!"

"I can see that. Now, try moving around."

I think for a second as I slowly move my feet to the left and move left. I put my palms up and in front of me to keep myself stable, but then I start to move back pretty fast. I think swiftly and move my right hand behind me, so I stop moving in general. "I think I got the hang of this. It's aerodynamics." I say as I place my hands behind me as I pick up speed before twirling my feet around and managing to face the other way.

"Hey, you picked up quick. You're pretty adaptable." Tony praised, "Now, land on the platform." I move towards the platform until it is under me. Thinking the same standard applies, I disable the flight ability by mumbling the word 'deactivate'. I land on the platform and tumble a bit before regaining my balance. "Okay. Look to your left." I do as told as many holes in the ground open and targets appear. "Armor; activate Repulsor Blasts."

On my HUD, I see a lock unlock itself as the words 'Repulsor Blast' appears. "Now," Tony says, "To use Repulsor Blasts is different. You have one touch pad under your index finger, which allows the blast to fire. Now to charge the blast, you must raise your hand and keep it open. It's a failsafe I applied in case I wanted to do hand to hand combat or make a fist in general that way I don't injure myself whenever I touch the pads. Now, shoot the targets."

I do as told and raise up my left hand. The HUD tells me that the repulsors are charged, so I use my index finger to touch the pad underneath my finger and let one rip. The blast had an unexpected amount of recoil as I jump back a bit while missing all of the targets. Never have I felt so alive. Feeling more confident than ever, I lift my hand again and aim it better as I hit a target. I raise up my right hand and hit another before twirling around and hitting one more target.

"Enough." Tony says as I stand down. "Activate Phase two." The remaining targets begin to move around as another ability is unlocked. "The targeting system is a viable tool I use to hit my targets. However; I will tell you one thing most people tend to not perform. When aiming, target where they will be instead of where they are that way you have a chance of hitting your mark instead of missing it all the time. You can have a targeting mechanism all you want, but if you fail to grasp that concept, you will never hit anything."

I take in what Tony says and let the targeting system analyze the targets before it gives me coordinates. Once they are complete, I fire my blasts and hit all of my targets. New targets come out, but they are much more faster and move in unpredictable directions. Yet, it is not enough to derail the targeting system as it gives me new angles to fire in. I fire where I am told to and hit all of the targets. This is very easy.

"Phase three."

The ground opens up once more, but this time, they are not targets. As they rise, they look more like…"Missile launchers?!" I say as I backup a bit. Two of them, each of them having five holes in them.

"Relax, they aren't lethal. They have a stun device that will shut down the suit entirely if it touches you. Now, the suit is going to work at its fullest capacity; however, it is your job to react superficially. The objective is to avoid the missiles in anyway you can, but you must destroy those launchers." Tony says as I laugh weakly.

"Hey uh...I know you what you said about me having to learn how to use the suit, but I am not sure if I can-"

"Hastume." Tony interrupts me before I could finish, "Sometimes you have to run before you can walk. I have full faith in you, but you have to prove my theory right. If I want to invest into you, you must give me every reason too. I need to test your limits, and to see where you are. I know this is all new to you, but if you want to be a hero, you must overcome every obstacle that comes your way whether or not you are prepared for it."

I didn't have anything to reply with. Tony has full faith in my abilities, and he wants me to prove him right. I need to do this. I need to do more than just prove it to him, I need to show him that I am everything he sees in me and more. He's right about being a hero too. I won't be ready for everything; I will never be able to predict what I will face next so I have to work with what I got and use that to win.

I take a deep breath and get ready. "Okay." I get into a fighting pose with one of my arms up and my palm open, pointing at the missile launchers. "I'm ready."

The missiles launch one at a time from each launcher. Ten missiles in total. I take flight, but manage to blast two of them down before I am forced to fly away from them. The missiles tail me. "Heat signatures, of course." I say as I fly around, turning my head and firing the repulsor blasts, missing a few times, but managing to strike one missile. Seven more. I fly towards a wall, timing my movements just right. Right before I am about to hit a wall, I twirl around in the suit and make myself turn left at a sharp 90 degree angle, making three of the missiles hit the wall. Four more missiles left. I look at the launchers and remember I have to take them out. I fire repulsor blasts at them, but nothing happens.

"If the repulsor blasts won't work on them, then the missiles most likely will They'll shut down upon impact!" I think to myself as I aim myself at the launchers and fly towards them. I perform the same action I did with the wall, but instead I shoot myself upright as two of the missiles hit one of the launchers. The launcher releases sparks of electricity from itself before exploding. "Theory correct! Let's finish this!" Once again, I perform the same action with the other two missiles, but only one of them falls for my trick. The last one tails me, but this is just easy pickings now. I stop in midair, and it flies right by me. I hold up one of my hands before blasting it to bits.

"Impressive." Tony says as I land and take off my helmet, sweating and panting from the action. "Though you could've done better. If those launchers had more ammo in them, you would have had to face more missiles. When it comes to these types of situations, take out the source if you can find it. But in all, good job. You passed." Tony explained to me as I smile greatly and fall onto my butt.

"Yes! Thank you Tony!" I say with excitement as the ceiling suddenly opens up, revealing the building above us.

"Want to take this baby for a spin in free air? Don't worry, no one will notice, I made sure your suit won't grab the attention of air control." Tony speaks.

I jump up onto my feet with a smile that I never felt like I could have before, "YES! YES I WANNA FLY AROUND IN THIS GLORIOUS PIECE OF WORK! THIS LIGHT AND STRONG CHROMED TITANIUM STEEL ALLOY IS JUST BEGGING TO BE FREE LIKE A BIRD!" I yell out as the nanites place the helmet back on.

"Alright Hatsume, alright. You are too happy right now, sheesh. Drink a whole gallon of coffee today?" Tony remarks. "Well. If you want to fly, what do you think you have to do first?"

"CHECK DIAGNOSTICS!" I yell out as the HUD shows me the suit, and that the system is running checks over the suit.

"Great. What next?"

"APPLY STABILIZERS!" I feel and hear the suit readjusting the flaps to fit into my level of comfort, and for its real purpose of helping me in flight. Some of the feeling that made me uncomfortable in the suit at first were now gone, making me question why I didn't do this earlier.

"Great, now give me a second to upload myself into your HUD." Tony says to me as I see an 'Uploading' bar on my HUD. It says complete in about five seconds before a new screen appears that shows a sound wave and a name tag above it that reads, 'Tony.'

"Alright kid, I am in. I'm here to make sure you don't do anything stupid. If you do, I'll take over." Tony clarifies as I am thinking about how today is the 'official' best day ever now.

"OKAY!"

"Kid I'm right here! No need to yell!"

"Sorry! Just so excited!"

"I know. Trust me, I know the feeling." Tony pauses for a second before speaking once more, "Well, what are you waiting for? Go!"

The suits boots and hands repulsors active once more as I shoot up into the sky and through the roof of the building.

"Hey don't break my stuff!" Tony tells me.

"Sorry!" I reply without losing my smile as I am flying everywhere across the sunny skies now. I zoom pass through the clouds; I see Musutafu and the tips of the buildings. I have to use up all of my willpower to not fly in the direction of the city. I twirl around a lot in the suit and making ridiculous movements in the sky. I never felt so free before. This is a feeling that could never be replaced.

"WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

I then aim the boots and palms down so I shoot up high into the sky without stopping.

"Hatsume, when I said I redesigned the suit, I didn't mean I made upgrades to it either!" Tony yells at me as I see a red light flash that warns me of the increasing ice levels and something about an emergency lever on my left leg, "Turn back before you get too high! The ice will freeze the suit, and it will force it to shut off!"

"Oh come on Tony! Don't ruin the fun now!" I say, my personal feelings dominating over my common sense. I can feel the air in the suit becoming more chill by the second, and the metal plating outside the suit being covered in frost.

"Hatsume do as I say now!" Tony raises his voice once more, "Hatsume I am not kidding around stop this-"

There was a loud bang in my left boot, and suddenly everything powered off. The HUD disappeared. I don't feel like I am moving in the sky anymore. I see only black besides the two little rectangular gaps where the eyes are located. "Uh oh." I say as I am now free falling out of the sky. "CRAP!" I yell out as I am doing flips in the sky, unable to control myself. "Oh crap! Tony! TONY!" I yell out in desperation as I am in panic mode right now. I am falling out of the sky with no way to stop myself, and Tony and the suit have gone dead! What am I going to do?! "I uh…" I think fast about how I could stop myself, so with every bit of strength I have, I start to smack the suit to get the ice off. It does little effect as I am still falling, and every time I see the ground, it is inching closer to me.

"No no no no no no!" I start to scream now as I am running out of time. I think quickly before I remember about the emergency lever on my left leg. I feel around my leg before feeling a bump. I grab onto it and pull it. All of my flaps shoot up as a majority of the ice breaks off. I see the HUD reappear as everything reboots, and the boots and palm repulsor reactive themselves. Before I could crash into the ground, I pull up and manage to barely escape death as I fly up into the sky.

"YES!" I yell out as Tony's screen pops up.

"Get into the lab and land the suit." Tony demands me in a serious voice that I have not heard before.

"But-"

"GET INTO THE LAB AND LAND THE SUIT, NOW!" Tony roars at me. I feel my heart jump as I eep and obey. I fly into the lab and land the suit on the platform.

"Get out."

The suit opens up as I get out of the suit frantically whilst the helmet disappears. I hold my hands together out of pure instinct. Right now, I am left in an uncomfortable silence as I wait for Tony to say something.

"Hastume." Tony speaks, "That was stupid! I told you to stop flying higher into the sky because I did not redesign the suit! I made it exactly like the Model II because I didn't believe that you would disobey me! When I tell you stop doing something, you stop doing it!" I put my head down in shame, not being able to look up anymore, "You could have died Hatsume!" I wince at that as I know I could have. I would be dead now had I not remembered about the lever.

"I….I know….I'm sorry…" I barely squeak out as I hear Tony sigh heavily.

"Hatsume. Don't do that again. I know how that feeling is, I know it. I did the same thing as you, and I almost died as well. When I saw you making the same mistake that I had done before, I knew I had to stop you. I was about to take over the suit, but it shut off before I could." Tony said to me with a soft but stern voice. I didn't bother to speak or look up as I couldn't feel anything but shame. "Hatsume. Pick your head up, stop pitying yourself." Tony instructed me as I did so slowly, some tears in my eyes. "Wipe those tears away too, I'm not going to recall my verdict on mentoring you."

I do so and wipe them away, but still not in the mood to speak.

"Well?" Tony waits, "Nothing to say?"

I take a moment to think about what to say to Tony, "I'm sorry. It was ridiculous, and I should have listened to your commands instead of continuing to follow my ignorant antics that put me in a situation that nearly cost me my life…" I apologize to Tony with a clear, but upset tone.

Tony stays silent for a moment, but I hear him taking a breath. "Hatsume. I know you are excited; this is a huge step for you, but think rationally too. It is very ironic to hear those words coming from me because I know I have done deeds that are questionable and surely some of them were outright atrocious. Many people want to be like me, and that is one of my biggest fears. I want no one to be like me because my life was one filled with many regrets, pain, misery, and nightmares that haunt me till this day."

I sit down and listen to Tony's monologue, knowing that this is a lesson for me to learn and take in. "There are more reasons behind why I want you to be my successor. I believe you have a free spirit, that you understand that some of the choices I have made were not right, and on the contrary some should have landed me in prison. Like I said, there are many people I could have chosen instead of you, but some of the biggest factors were morals and judgment. You have terrific morals and an admirable sense of judgment, and you don't oversight material that many do not take into consideration: My faults, my omissions, my failures. You recognize my missteps and do not wish to make those same blunders whereas some conclude that they could have made the same situation better by changing some aspects, when in reality, nothing would have made those conditions better. Hatsume, I don't just want you to uphold the Iron Man name, I want you to make it better than what I made it."

Whatever sad feelings I had before had all just washed away after hearing Tony's words. How much value he holds in me; how much trust he is putting into me, and all of the confidence he has for me. I stand up with a smile on my face. I hear Tony chuckling, "There is that signature smile of yours. The one that rings resilience, strength, and growth. Now get out of here kid. I'm tired of being all sentimental."

The elevator door opens as I walk to it. I enter it and giggle a little, "Tony. I will be better than you."

"No, I said to make the Iron Man name better. You'll never be better than me."

I laugh a little as the door shuts and takes me up. I look at the time and see that is 5pm; most likely my parents are already home. Once the door opens, I walk out of the elevator and away from the building back towards the train station. It takes me the same amount of time to get home, and sure enough my parents were home. We chatted about my whereabouts; I lied and said I did extra time at the dojo. I ate the takeout they brought, I changed Sprockets nose, took a real shower, and worked myself until I passed out with one thing on my mind.

I will become Iron Man. I will be a hero, and nothing will stop me.