As I made it to the ship I saw Iron Patriot armor leave Air Force One.
I hesitated but decided to save the people on the plane since The President should be safe for a while.
I flew close to the plane to catch Eric's attention and like I can read minds I saw him look out a window, so wanting to finish this quick I stuck my hand through the window and pulled him outside by his neck.
"Hello, Eric." I looked down at the ocean. "I don't think you'll survive this one."
He started to glow orange. "I wouldn't advise that."
He grabbed my wrist to try and get me to let go. Which, I wouldn't advise but if he wishes. I tossed him slightly up before I fired. My Uni-beam through his chest and watched him plummet to the ocean. "Survive that."
I made my way onto the plane and to the back.
I can hear everyone on here screaming for their life. I ripped off the door due to it being melted shut.
They all looked scared until they saw it was me. They all came up to me to thank me but, I'm in a bit of a hurry. "Can anyone fly this plane?" All of them are useless, as none of them can.
We kept throwing around ideas until Jarvis had a great one. "Sir. Leave me here in hard light form and I can pilot them to safety." - "Why didn't I think of that? What would I do without you." I retracted the armored hand when I realized. I'm not in the suit. "Jarvis. Slight problem. The only disks I have are in my watch. And I'm not in the suit." - "That's okay. I thought of this already." A small disk flew out from the open arm. "I made sure a hard light disk was left in the suit before you got out." - "I love the initiative. Safe flight."
I disconnected while routing the suit back to my location.
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I opened the door and stepped out of the cabin.
Rhodey: "You get the President?" - "No. He left moments before I arrived. I could have gone after him, but everyone else on the plane would've died." - "Not good. How are we going to save Pepper and Jessi without the suit when we couldn't save the President with the suit." - "Just keep driving." I smiled. "We'll save them." - "What's with the smile? We always have something planned when you smile like that." - "You'll see."
"Are we ready?" - "House party? Sir?" - "Yes. Send them all. All the ones at the house."
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I and Rhodey docked and snuck on the docks. But we stopped when we saw the President and his suit.
Rhodey: "He's strung up Over the oil tanker. They are going to light him up, man." - "Biking funeral. Old fashion, public execution." - "Death by oil." - "Yeah, let's move."
We continue to move in closer to the president. We made our way to higher ground without being spotted.
Unfortunately, we Didn't make it much further before we got Spotted by a soldier, so I put two in his chest, and one in his head, as we moved behind a container.
"You see that." - "Yeah, not bad." - "Like you can do better." - "I can." - "Sure."
I checked my mag and unfortunately, I'm low. "I'm low. You're going to have to lead." - "Not good." - "No. I thought this was exactly where I wanted to be." - "You don't have to be so sarcastic."
We can hear some thudding noises behind us.
"I'm going to look." I raised my head just enough to see four coming closer. "Three guys, one girl, all armed."
We both stood up ready to fight to see if more was there than I had seen.
Rhodey: "I'd kill for some armor right now." - "You're right. Backup would be nice." - "Yeah, a bunch." - "Good thing I called for some." I nodded to the white spec getting brighter and closer.
Rhodey: "Is, that?" - "Yep." - "Are those?" - "Yes."
From a single dot multiple suits spread out and surrounded the area.
"Like my Christmas gift. Took me a bit but man, isn't it pretty." - "How many are there?" - "Only 48. Most of my Nanite suits are in storage."
"Jarvis, Target Extremis heat signatures. Disabled with extreme prejudice."
All of the suits: "Yes, sir."
"What are we waiting for, it's Christmas. Let's give them their gifts."
They took off and did as commanded. We watched them work until one missing its head came dangerously close to taking our heads off and blew up at the base of our platform. "Hey, get Igor 1 to steady this thing….. Thank you."
Rhodey: "So this is how you've been managing your downtime?" - "Well, I've been working on this for years. Trust me. These aren't even half of them. They are the Disposable ones." - "That's hard to believe." - "I know, maybe I'll show you after." "Get me a suit, J."
A suit flew down and immediately formed around me. "Finally. A nano suit again feels like home."
{Suit.}
Rhodey stood up excited. "Oh, yeah. That's awesome. Give me a suit, okay?" - "Sorry buddy. They are only coded to my family." - "What does that mean?" - "I'll give you a lift. Don't worry."
Then I took off. "Jarvis. Where's my girls?"
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"Sir, I've located Young Miss. but Mrs. Stark isn't there." - "Damit. I'll get her first. Then worry about Pep. Show me."
I landed in the already huge hole and saw Jessi trapped under Debris.
"Jess. Jess, are you okay?"
I can hear a weak Obviously, fake laugh. "Yeah, I'm peachy. How are you." - "Better now that I found you."
I reached out my hand and barely touched her fingertips. "Come on. Just a little more." Right before I was about to grab her hand Killian's arm came through the floor and pulled out the reactor.
I fell backward in shock.
Jarvis: "Nanite reserve severely reduced. "No. Really. Hold off on rebuilding the reactor for a moment."
Killian bursted through the floor. "Is this guy bothering you?"
Jessi: "Go to hell!" normally I wouldn't have liked that type of language coming from her mouth, but this one time I liked it.
I went to move when Killian sat on me. "Don't get up." His finger glowed orange and he pressed it against the suit. "Oh, Is it getting hot in there?"
Jarvis: "Nanites being damaged."
Killian: "Stuck. Feel. Little stuck? Like a little turtle, Cook it in his little turtle Suit.
Oh, Tony. She's watching. I think you should close your eyes. Close your eyes. Closure eyes you don't wanna see this."
He pulled back ready to strike when my suit fixed itself made a Nano Katar, and cut off his hand. He fell back grabbing into his arm. "Yeah. You enjoy that."
I went to get up to grab Jessi when she fell through the floor and started to move.
I ran out the door and took off right towards her. I got close and a damn glow-in-the-dark soldier jumped on me, pushing me against a boardwalk.
Rhodey: "The President is secure. I'm taking him to safety."
Good. I took off again and this time grabbed her and went straight upwards to the sky.
"Thank god you're safe." - "Where's mom? Is she safe? What about Mia? They took her too." - "One thing at a time. You're not going to like this. But I'm going to send you away." - "No. I can help." - "You are helping."
I ripped off the main reactor and put it on Jessi and the suit was Transferred from me to her.
"Jarvis, bring her to safety." I looked down at the fastly incoming metal. "And give me a suit."
I cross my arms over my face to hopefully lessen the pain, but to my luck, I got surrounded by armor.
{Suit.}
I opened my eyes very thankful it didn't hurt.
"Any luck finding Pep, or Mia." - "I'll add Mia to my search. But unfortunately, I haven't located Mrs. Stark."
Killian: "Hey!"
I looked below me to see Killian standing there.
A missile popped out of my arm, 'I so want to use it.'
Jarvis: "I wouldn't recommend this action. You'll cause immense damage and we don't currently know where Mrs. Stark and Mia are located. It could negatively affect their location."
I retracted it back into my arm and dropped right in front of them.
We went back and forth a few times, but I need to think of something else as I'm losing due to this not being a nano armor, every hit makes me lose the price of the suit.
I grabbed his shoulder and released a immense amount of liquid nitrogen, to try and freeze him. He screamed as he pushed my hands off and then went to cut my suit in half.
"Eject."
I got thrown out the back and started the descent to the ground. I was fully surrounded by a suit moments before I touched it.
{Suit.}
I shot up, grabbed him, and then flew him through many different structures until we made it to the highest point and he kicked himself away.
I landed and immediately fired rounds at him from my wrist, which I barely got hit by.
He quickly got close and scrapped some of the armor off as he tried to cut through my waist.
"Ha. This one has shielding."
I grabbed his arm, spun him to face a gear, then kicked his chest. His shoulder left his body as he flew into the gear.
He groans and I throw his arm down. "Come on. I'm not done."
Now angry he came at me again. Be he's off his rhythm with an arm missing.
I dodged and used the missing arm to my advantage to get out of the way and hit him with a few Repulsers shots.
I finally got a good hit in on his chest and sent him flying off the platform but he grabbed me, pulling me with him.
During the short trip in the air, he pulled himself up to my chest and ripped out the reactor.
So when I landed I rolled out of the suit. I stopped myself on the edge and I looked up ready to continue.
I can hear a faint thruster so I look behind me.
Jarvis: "Mark 46 inbound." - "Hey. Finally."
I ran at Killian while the suit passed me and went around Killian, trapping him up against the wall.
I stopped right in front of him and stared up at him with the helmet down.
"Any last words?" - "I wished I killed you." - "Feelings Mutual. Jarvis. Blow Mark 46."
I turned and jumped off the platform as my suit exploded.
A suit tried to catch me, but the debris flying from the explosion messed it up, it did slow my descent down enough to not harm me upon impact.
I got up ready to fight because I knew he wasn't dead, plus I still had people to find.
Out of the fire, Killian limped out with a burnt body. I stood my ground as he limped to me. "No more false faces. You wanted me. You wanted the Mandarin. It was me, Tony. It was always me, I AM THE MANDARIAN!"
Ready to change my watch and fire at him I got a surprise when a yellow pole came out of nowhere and hit Killian.
I looked to my left to Mia.
Mia: "Man, that felt good."
Killian got up so I hit my watch ready to fire when a missile came out of nowhere blowing him up then a blue suit landed next to me and disappeared before I got a hug from Pepper.
"Thank god you're safe. I was trying to find you." - "I wasn't here. I was two buildings down. They left when you attacked. Gave me a chance to escape. They stupidly brought my suit with them. And Jarvis fixed it." - "Yeah. Why didn't the suits save you the first time?" - "I permitted Jessi to tinker with them so we could control them without the AIs. We wanted to help you." - "So it's my fault still. If I didn't show Jessi how to build a suit, she wouldn't know how to even start." - "No, No, No. It was ours."
I hugged her tight not wanting to let her go when I saw Mia standing there alone and sad.
I slightly pulled away from Pepper and nodded to Mia. I stepped away from Pepper and pulled Mia into a hug. "I'm so sorry. I tried to save Maya. But. I." - "It's okay. She put herself in that situation." - "It's still no excuse."
A suit landed not too far away and Jessi ran out of it and hugged Pepper.
Jessi: "I'm so glad you are all safe and this is over with." She pulled away from Pepper and joined our hug. "And I'm sorry for hacking into your suits."
All I could do was chuckle. "It's okay. I'm just glad my family is safe."
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Days later. After everyone was arrested. Including the Vice President. I'm standing on the hillside with my daughters where my house used to stand.
Mia: "Beautiful view."
Jessi: "I loved waking up every morning to this view."
"I did pick a good view didn't I?"
Jessi smacked me. "Dad. Always making it about you." - "What? I picked the land. I had the hose built." - "Okay. I'll give you that." - "Are You going to rebuild the house? Are things going to change?"
I looked down at Mia. "Of course, things are going to change. You have Competition now. I've been told Mia is just as smart as you. She's even been going to Ilvermorny and following in her dad's footsteps."
Jessi: "You have?" - "Of course. The courses are too easy." - "Right. I can't wait to get them over with already."
"Hey. I enjoyed my time there. I learned later in life is not all about rushing. Maybe you should try it."
Jessi: "We'll see. I want my suit. So I have to finish quickly."
Mia: "When do I get one?"
"Great. Now I have two hounding me."
Jessi and Mia: "Hey!"
I pulled them into my side. "I'm joking. I'll take all the hounding You can give me. As long as you guys are safe. Let's leave."
We got into a truck hooked to a trailer with Dum-e on it.
Jessi: "I think you should rebuild the house." - "You paying for it?"