Chapter 56: The whiplash (2)
In the mean time following the events in Monaco, Justin Hammer managed to free Ivan from prison. And cut a deal with him for making suits while Justin would provide the necessary equipment and arrangements. Ivan said that he could help him making drones instead of suits. As that would be more safe.
Hammer accepted this proposal instantly and finally decided on showing his creation in the Stark Expo with that help of Ivan. But Ivan had other plans, he had a thirst for revenge against Tony. So he installed a remote inside the drone suit to control them. The only difference in this world was that there were larger number of drones than in than in the original world. Tony's powers in Monaco scared him a bit and he wanted to have a proper protection this time.
The next day in the Stark Expo Hammer presented the drone suits. Even Rhodes joined in the presentation. At the moment of presentation Tony got a call from Ivan saying that he would take revenge for all the bad things that happened to him due to Tony's family.
"Bruce we need to go. Time to suit up." Tony said.
"Are you sure you want to use the new core? We didn't even have a test run" Bruce said.
"Doesn't matter. Pepper is in the Expo." Tony said while suiting up. "Drift you drive towards the expo for damage control. Bruce you need to find the location of Ivan. We need to shut him down." Tony said.
"Yes, Batwing let's go we have work to do" Bruce said after he sat on the pilot seat. Like Drift, Batwing too was a transformer, thanks to the Cube. They both flew away after that. Bruce had a new suit which was made as a combination of metal and Kevlar.
Tony landed in the event and said to Rhodes " We need to get these people out of here. It's not safe"
"What? Why? What happened" Rhodes said with guilt as he felt he had betrayed Tony after letting Justin modify his suit.
"Ivan is alive. He is behind the drones here and he is coming after us. Justin where is Ivan?". Justin who was still giving presentations was shocked about hearing this. Justin had made sure that nobody knew of Ivan but now Tony knew. Justin was sweating inside.
"Tony I don't know what you are talking about." Justin denied on the spot.
"Tony we have target locked." Rhodes said from behind.
"Who is the target?" Tony asked.
"It's you. Run Tony" Rhodes shouted as all the drones had missiles and guns pointing on him. Tony had to fly away because there were people around the event and he didn't want people to die in crossfire.
The firing of bullets caused people to panic and run away. As Tony flew away, Bruce came and confronted Justin.
"Where's Ivan. I will give to 10 seconds to answer. After that your fingers will start coming off." Batman asked him.
"Hey I told already I don't have any clue. We need to control the drones somebody might have hacked it. It might be even you who wants me to be in bad press." Justin said.
"9..8.."
"I need my lawyer." Justin continued.
"6..5.."
"Fine fine. He is in the old warehouse of Hammer Industries" Justin was trembling finally said.
Bruce climbed up to the Batwing who was hovering nearby and flew away to the location given by Justin. He needed to stop Ivan and reboot Rhode's suit. Bruce couldn't hack into the suit as it was on a private server.
He went inside the warehouse after knocking down the security. As he went inside the control room he saw there was no Ivan. Bruce took out his phone and said
"Toolbox hack into the server and shut down all drones and reboot Rhodes' suit". The mobile immediately transformed into a 4 legged robot with 2 hands. Toolbox put his hands on the ports of the CPU and the screen of the main computer changed and showed various command prompts. After few seconds Toolbox finally said
"I have rebooted Rhodes' suit and stopped the drones but these drones are rigged to blow later. We will have to manually go to the scene and disable it." Toolbox said.
"Dammit. Tony did you hear that? You will have to lead the drones away from people. There is no Ivan here. He might be coming after you. I am on the way." Batman said.
Tony who was standing in front of Rhodes as he was been rebooted heard what Bruce said. As Rhodes suit came online they were ready to lead the drones away but as they were about to fly away Ivan wearing a new and improved suit which covered the whole body came flying down.
"It's good to be back." Ivan said as he took out his electrified lashes. These lashes were much longer and thicker than the last ones.
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Chapter 57: Fight
"I have got something for this guy." Rhodes said as he took out the launcher for the missile called "ex-wife" and launched it towards Ivan. But it immediately bounced off after hitting Ivan suit without even exploding.
"Never trust Hammer. I told you." Tony said with sarcasm.
Rhodes started firing bullets but it did nothing to Ivan as he had a strong armor. He used his whip to hit both of them but they dodged.
"I need to be near his suit to do alchemy. The iron content in this place is low and it won't be able to stop his armor nor his whip." Tony said. The fight ensued as it was supposed to in the original world.
With both the whip bounding the bodies of Tony and Rhodes. As Ivan was holding them 5 batarangs stuck near his ground. After seeing this Ivan had a bad premonition. In Monaco too it had happened before a wall was formed.
Before Ivan could react the place where the knives stuck the ground bulged forward fast like huge log and hit his body. Ivan was thrown away a few metres. Tony and Rhodes were freed instantly as Ivan let go of his whips. Tony got an opening and came to Ivan who was lying down. After striking his two fists together he touched the armor of Ivan.
The armor distorted crazily while giving out sparks of blue lightning and the whole armor opened by itself. It was the iron alchemy which made the armor fall apart. Tony pointed his hand thrusters on the face and said
"You don't think my name of Iron Man is just a name. Do you?" Tony said.
"You still loose Stark. I have rigged all the drones. Haha people will die and you won't be able to do anything." Ivan laughed.
"We know that. That's why I let Cinch, Toolbox, Drift and Batwing to take care of it." said a bland and deep voice from behind.
"That's impossible there are so many drones, your friends won't be able to save everyone." Ivan said as his face changed as he saw Batman arriving from the shadows. He knew that he has failed in all his pursuit
"You need to do your homework Ivan. I have more friends then I have shown."
Ivan's suit suddenly made a beeping sound. Tony understood what Ivan wanted to do so he flew away. Bruce and Rhodes too left the next second as Ivan had rigged his own suit too. They didn't want to save Ivan as a lunatic like him who was consumed by revenge was beyond saving.
Tony flew towards Pepper's location. As he saw Pepper standing near his Audi car he knew that Drift had kept her safe. He was relieved after seeing this. Tony really thanked John in his heart as the Cube had saved all of them. Drift and Batwing were able to dismantle the drones which were lying damaged without anyone nearby. While Toolbox and Cinch went to disable the drones which were in open public. They did it sneakily as they didn't want people to know the existence of Transformers yet.
They did all this when Ivan, Tony and Rhodes were fighting. "Thanks Drift. Thank God you are alright Pepper." Tony said.
"I quit from being CEO. This job isn't for me." Pepper said.
Tony was surprised by this but he didn't accept the resignation. He apologized to Pepper saying it's because he was dying that he was acting weird. They had a long conversation while at the end Tony finally ended up with kissing Pepper.
The next day Tony came to a secret base for SHIELD and sat opposite of Nick Fury. "This is the evaluation given by Agent Romanoff and Bruce. Read it." said Fury after handing him a file written Avengers Initiative.
"Uhh.. Personality report. Mr. Stark displays compulsive behavior. That was last week. Prone to self destructive tendency, damn. Bruce is my enemy number one. C'mon I was dying. Text book narcissism. Agreed to that. Recruitment assessment for Avengers Initiative. Iron Man yes. See I am still good." Tony said
"Read on." Fury continued.
"Tony Stark, not recommended." Tony said with puzzled expression " How can you recommend me but not recommend me."
"It means that at this juncture we can't hire you as a consultant" Fury said. Tony got up and did a handshake with Fury saying " You can't afford me."
"By the way I need a small favor. Rhodey and I are being awarded. We need a presenter." Tony said with a smile.
"I will see what I can do." Fury said.
At the award ceremony Rhodes and Tony were both presented the award by the same senate who tried taking away Tony's suit on the basis of national defense and security concerns. Tony really felt happy at this as he never forgets to take revenge when he can.
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