No-One But You (The Zephyr Endeavor)
Chapter 72:The Beautiful People (Part 2)
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"Sir, an energy input has been detected in all five of the Iron Mongers, but the source of it is still unknown.."
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"Thanks Jarv. Try and capture how that energy is being transferred for me. I need a pattern of it mapped out, if you can snag it.."
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Energy was such a tricky thing. Tony Stark was on the move as soon as he heard the sound of "Rae-Ann's" gentle voice. She told the entire crew to get moving, and Tony was happy to oblige.
He let Hoggoth simply breathe out some of his protective energy, and all the straps securing him to the table melted down to dust.
Tony sat up and ditched the table, then his eyes started scanning around for Steve. Blondie was focused on the people being held against their will on the ground level, naturally, so the brunette started looking up.
His sights were set on the Iron Mongers as well, and he was surprised to see them all taking off in a different direction.
They were heading up, not down, and it seemed like they were ignoring the "Purifier's" need for additional defense.
They were going up against an angry Steve Rogers, so… huh, good luck with that. Tony's eyes kept following the Mongers, then he put his armor over his skin for the first time in a long while…
He patched over a message to Steve, cuz he had to hit the road. Tony planned to follow Obadiah Stane's bulky toys pronto, so he took off in their direction.
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"TONY, hold up…"
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Steve's yummy voice suddenly filled the helmet, so Tony took a moment to look back in his direction. "Cap" was busy clearing the room and getting ready for company. The X-Men were officially moving in, but Steve stopped his progress and looked up toward the "Iron Man"….
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"What's up, Blondie.."
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"You know what's up…"
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LOL. Tony knew exactly what Steve's comment meant. He loved him too, so he let out a quick laugh, then he took off after Mongers 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5…
The inventor asked Jarvis if he picked up on any sort of communication link, and the answer was no. Okay, was there any sort of Morse friggen Code being sent to any of the damn machines?
NO. Not even Morse Code was being used? So, how the fuck were the machines even flying up and out? Did they run on gasoline? Crude corn oil? Are they battery powered? The Mongers were traveling at an incredibly fast pace too, so Tony was beyond perplexed.
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"Patch me through a secured comm link to Zephyr. I gotta pick his brain a wee bit…"
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"Right away sir.."
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Jarvis got to work and tried to track down the coordinates to Ezekiel's bleach white armor. Tony was beyond shocked to hear that Obadiah's baby boy was nowhere near the state of Texas.
Ezekiel was actually flying as far south as south could get. Jarvis informed Tony that he was heading toward…. Antarctica? No shit?
The Jackal could only manage defense for the moment, and he was hoping the bitter cold would slow the Mongers down. He had… twenty of them on his tail whenever Tony Stark patched into his communication system..
The other inventor asked him how he was doing, and he made a sarcastic comment about checking out the snow.
Ezekiel smirked beneath his armor, then he determined how close Tony Stark was to his location. The Iron Man was catching up to him, and Zephyr was keeping his distance from his father's machine.
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"The Mongers have been altered, and they are trying to fuse together with my technology. I can't risk going near them, until I know why.."
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Allowing any additional contact was a pretty stupid plan, so Ezekiel was counting on the bitter cold to freeze out the movement of the tech.
He knew there was a flaw in the Iron Monger's design after his father insisted on having a bigger machine.
Ezekiel kept that flaw intact, hoping that the suit would work against his father at some point in time…
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The Jackal stopped fleeing the Mongers when his suit finally reached a giant patch of ice. The current temperature where he landed was just around ohhhh, -50 degrees celsius.
He turned around and faced the music, in a sense, because Zephyr calculated that there were 25 Mongers and one Stark heading in his direction.
His system was scanning for information as well, but Zephyr kept coming back empty handed…
Chapter: END
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