A few hours later
Ace was laying on the bar as Natalie stood behind it watching Tony in a suit making a speech "People often ask, 'How do you go to the bathroom in the suit?' Well…" he closed his eyes for a second before continuing "Just like that." and laughing.
Pepper walked up and grabbed the mic, saying "Does this guy know how to throw a party or what! Haha…"
Ace turned to Natalie, who was watching silently. She looked at him and smiled, rubbing his head softly. Ace shook his head and there was a loud glass shattering sound, making both him and Natalie turn their heads to a huge glass panel.
Tony laughed as he accidentally blasted the glass. Not even a second later, he was shooting champagne bottles.
Ace looked around and noticed 'Rhodey' going down stairs. He frowned and chased after him.
Ace ran down the stairs and bit on Rhodey's pant leg, hissing slightly as Rhodey shook him off, saying "Not now, Mr. Snuffles! I gotta stop Tony." Ace hissed and pulled back as Rhodey grabbed him, saying "Honestly! I hate cats…" before tossing Ace off him and walking into the workshop.
Ace clawed the glass wall as Rhodey suited up in an Ironman suit. Ace turned and ran up the stairs, knocking into Tony's leg, grabbing his attention.
Ace meowed but Tony pulled him up and said "Everyone! This is my cat! Mr. Snuffles. He's also a hero!" Ace was hanging from the scruff of his neck as he meowed and Tony laughed "You sure are! Hahaha!"
Before he could say anything, Rhodey appeared with another suit, saying "I'm only gonna say this once!" everyone stopped and turned to look as Rhodey continued "Get out."
The people started scrambling out of the mansion and Tony dropped Ace, looking at Rhodey, who walked over saying "You don't deserve to wear one of these. Shut it down!"
Tony ignored him and turned to the DJ table, saying into the mic "Goldstein." a man popped up from behind the booth, saying "Yes, Mr. Stark?" Tony responded "Give me a phat beat to beat my buddy's ass to." as he burst out laughing.
Rhodey grabbed Tony from behind, saying "I told you to shut it down!" as the music started playing.
Tony didn't say anything and flew backwards, smashing through the wall!
Ace ran around the house, looking for anyone still inside, thankfully. Almost everyone left as Tony and Rhodey started fighting!
Luckily, it was only a fist fight for now!
Ace followed after the duo until they smashed into the kitchen.
Ace was next to Pepper and Natalie on the counter when Tony and Rhodey smashed through the ceiling into the floor. Ace turned to Pepper and Natalie, to see Pepper cower with her hands in front of her face, but Natalie instantly got into a fighting pose!
Ace narrowed his eyes and hissed at her. She looked at the situation and Ace before turning around and leaving the house quickly. Pepper stood there shocked and Ace bit on her skirt, pulling her slightly as Happy ran in, shouting "Pepper! Let's go." Pepper scooped up Ace and ran out of the house, getting away from Tony and Rhodey.
Ace turned to the people and meowed.
Pepper looked at him and then turned to Happy saying quickly "Get these people out of here!"
Happy pulled her along, saying "I think we should just get you out, right now." Ace struggled out of Pepper's arms, but she held him tightly, saying "Not now, Mr. Snuffles!" leaving with Happy.
Not long after, all the people ran away from the house and a minute later there was a huge explosion!
Ace jumped from Pepper's arms and ran towards the house. He passed through a pitch black shadow and seemed to melt into it, suddenly appearing inside the house instantly!
Ace froze and looked behind him at the rubble, shocked. He shook his head and turned to Tony laying on the ground in his suit.
He jumped on his chest, tapping on the glowing reactor while meowing.
The lights flickered on and Tony turned his head.
Ace turned to see Rhodes looking at Tony, Ace hissed at him, raising a paw. Rhodes stayed silent before shooting into the sky, taking the suit with him as he disappeared into the night.
Ace turned back to Tony, who laid there silently, staring at the sky before leaning his head on the rubble behind him. Ace laid down on his chest and curled his tail around himself, keeping watch.
Slowly, Ace fell asleep.
The next thing he knew, he woke up, flying through the air in Tony's arms. Before he could process what was happening, he was sitting inside a giant doughnut on top of a doughnut shop with a bowl of milk in front of him.
Tony was eating doughnuts and looked at Ace, who was in a daze, saying "Drink your milk, I didn't buy it for nothing." Ace turned to the bowl of milk then looked at the doughnuts as Tony muttered "I don't know if Doughnuts are good for cats."
The duo looked at each other before Tony put a doughnut in front of Ace's face. Ace bit the doughnut and started eating, occasionally drinking from the bowl of milk.
By this time, Ace had been in his cat form for a while and was already used to it. This was the longest he had been in this form without changing. He didn't think it was weird, but he wondered if it would feel uncomfortable when he changed back.
That being said, Ace suddenly thought of something much more important.
Last night he seemed to have teleported into the house.
He licked the milk as he thought to himself, it couldn't have been that he suddenly has teleportation powers so what was the difference before and now.
The only thing he could think of was the cloak…
Eitris did say that he used the box of darkness for the cloak which gave him the ability to hide his identity in darkness, but maybe there was something else? Ace wasn't sure and it would require more testing but for now, his only lead was that he teleported in the shadows to more shadows, or rather moved through the shadows…
Just as he started analyzing it, a man shouted at Tony "Sir! I'm gonna have to ask you to exit the doughnut!" Tony looked down and pulled his sunglasses to see the man. He picked up Ace and flew down, walking into the Doughnut shop, sitting across from the black man.