The next morning when I was in my workshop working on Peppers suit I got a suprise visit. I heard the door open and everything on the suit instantly disappeared so I already knew who it was.
"I wasn't expecting a visit from you already. I've only been back for one day and I already see you two days in a row."
Rhodey: "I wanted to see how You are doing and when they gave me something to ask you, I jumped on it." - "Let's get Business out-of-the-way first. What you got?" - "When you got captured your three escorts somehow survived and they claimed it was like a blue shield was surrounding them. we found nothing indicating that there was such a thing so we thought it was just hallucinations from surviving the gunfight. After your announcement yesterday, it's making us think that you actually had somehow placed a shield on them before anything happened." - "I did. It was a prototype, but worked well enough to save them." - "Why didn't you use one on yourself?" - "I did. That's why I'm not dead. I'm guessing asking me if they are real is the only reason to bring them up." - "No. They want to know when you are going to sell them?" - "When they are ready. You know this. I just got back, give me a break. I haven't had time to work on them. Right now anything higher then a pistol round will knock a person back and the fall damage can harm them, and it only last for 30 minutes before its life runs out and falls apart. So, it can be tomorrow I got it fixed, or it can be next month. We will see." - "I will inform them. This can save many lives if you can fix those small problems." - "That's the plan.. Now that is out-of-the-way, Want to see a project I'm working on? It's not for the government it's a personal project." - "What do you have now?"
I hit a button and a full size colored hologram of my Mark 52 appeared.
"I made a very crude and hideous one to get free. But this is what I can do when I have time and money.
Rhodey: "I see it's some type of suit. But what can it do?" - "What can't it do. I'll be a walking Arsenal. You think it, I have it in the suit. Before I.. went on leave. I cracked the code to Nanites so I'm going to try and make it out of them. It should make it more durable, and more adaptable." - "Every time I come over here, you somehow suprise me with something new that I thought was Just science fiction." - "I see fiction as just a template for something to make." - "I believe that..
You know the Government won't like you owning a walking Arsenal. They can deal with it. I'm not giving it to them. I'm making it to get rid of a few weapons that somehow got in the enemy's hands. It's not for mass production. Can you imagine what would happen if our enemy got a hold of this. World war three would just be a Pipe dream. The apocalypse would be upon us." - "I can see where you're coming from. I'll keep it a secret for now."
I pulled out a night-inducer gun. "Want to test this out. It's the gun I'm making mostly for the police. One shot directly to the skin should almost instantly knock a person out." - "Let's see how well it works."
I waved my hand and the Wall on the other side of the stairway opened up into a shooting range, as a blue mist passed over it.
Rhodey: "You Have a shooting range in your house?" - "I'm a Weapons manufacture. It's a lot easier to test them out in my house, then go somewhere else."
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Days later as I was finishing up Pepper's suit. Said person came down to my workshop. "You have a visitor upstairs."
I sat down a bracelet and looked up. "Who is it?" - "Obadiah. What are you working on?" - "Your suit. Well actually currently the housing units for your suit." - "A suit can fit in those bracelets?" - "Interesting right. If you don't mind. Tell Obie I'll be up in a minute." I went back to working hoping I finally figured out the leakage problem. I used magic to expand the inside to fit more in a smaller form and it wants to release them with a single shake of the units.
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"How was the meeting?" He continued playing my piano without saying a word. "I see. What did I do wrong?" - "Just because I brought pizza back from New York doesn't mean it went bad." - "Sure it does. Thanks for the pizza." - "Would've gone better if you were there." - "I'm busy. I informed everyone on that. I have projects I'm working on that'll blow everyone's mind."
Stane got up and sat next to me. "Some of the board members are making a case that your new direction isn't in the company's best interest." - "Come on. I didn't stop making weapons, I'm just moving my line of sight elsewhere." - "They are trying to lock you out. They are trying to claim you have post traumatic stress."
I got up and grabbed the pizza. "I'm out of here. I have things to work on." - "Tony. Tony. Give me something. A bone to throw at them, and maybe it will shut them up." He pointed at the reactor on my chest. "Let me have the engineers Analyze that. You know, drop some specs." - "Not going to happen. This stays with me sorry." - "It'll give me." - "No! It stays."
He took the pizza box from me. "Then this stays with me." - "Fine. I'll see you later Pep. Night Obie." - "Can I see what you're." - "Night Obie."
When the door shut and I was next to my desk Jarvis materialized next to me.
Jarvis: "Is everything going how you planned?"
A smile appeared in my face. "Exactly how I wished. Contact the board and let them know I thank them for everything and there bonus will come to them shortly." - "I still don't get going through all this trouble to take down one man." - "At this point. I'm almost done so I'm going to finish it." - "I see, sir. Is there anything else I can do for you?" - "No. well I want you to inform me when Obie leaves my house. Besides that no. I'll be tinkering with Peps suit if I'm needed."