Dented Iron (Hiatus)

Air Force One

Trevor did in fact have a lovely speed boat. "If he's right about the location, we're 20 minutes from where Pepper is." Alex said.

"But we also have to figure out this vice president thing, right?" Rhodey added.

"Right. I wonder who I'm calling right now. Oh! That's the vice president." Alex put the phone on speaker and leaned in close to hear it.

"Hello?"

"Sir, this is Alex Stark."

"Welcome back to the land of the living."

"We believe you're about to be drawn into the Mandarin campaign. We gotta get you somewhere safe as soon as possible."

"Dr. Stark, I'm about to eat honey-roast ham, surrounded by the Agency's finest. The president's safe on Air Force One with Colonel Rhodes. I think we're good, here."

"Sir, this is Colonel Rhodes. They're using the Iron Patriot as a Trojan horse. They're gonna take out the president somehow. We have to immediately alert that plane."

"Okay, I'm on it. I'll have security lock it down. If need be, they can have F-22s in the air in 30 seconds. Thank you, Colonel."

"Rhodes and Stark out."

"We gotta decide. We can either save the president, or Pepper. We can't do both." Alex paused. She didn't want to make that decision.

"Ma'am, I have an update from Malibu. The cranes have finally arrived, and the cellar doors are being cleared as we speak." Jarvis spoke.

"And what about the suit I'm wearing?"

"The armour is now at 92%."

"That's going to have to do." Alex unplugged the suit. She then looks at Rhodes "Rhodey, keep going, find Pepper and I'll, I'll save the president"

"Are you sure?"

Alex nodded "I'll meet you there or back on this boat... whatever. Jarvis I think it's time for a party"

Alex takes one more look at Rhodey and nods before she flies off. This suit would have to work until she could get one of the others suits.

Savin had strapped a parachute to himself and was planning to jump and when Alex crashed in, coming face to face with Savin. "The President. Now."

"He's not here" Savin grabs the arms of the Iron Man suit causing heat to flare up and her arm to burn, both arms were starting to short circuit. "Try the jet stream? Speaking of which, go fish"

A door blasts open from somewhere on the plane, Alex can hear the screams of those on board as they are undoubtedly sucked out of the plane. Alex goes to punch Savin, but he grabs her other arm, causing it to overheat as well. In a second's notice the chest rt fires straight through Savin, killing him.

"Walk away from that, you son of a bitch." Savin falls to the ground Alex flies out of the hole in the plane "How many in the air?"

"Thirteen, ma'am"

"How many can I carry?"

"Four, ma'am" Alex launches herself to the people falling going for the closest person. Jarvis did not believe Alex could save them all, the suit would not be able to carry them nor could she reach them in time. But Alex disagreed, she wasn't going to let them die. "Slow down. Slow down, relax. What's your name? Heather?"

"Oh, God! No! No!"

"Listen to me. See that guy? I'm gonna swing by, you're just gonna grab him. You got it?"

"What? Oh!"

"I'll electrify your arm; you won't be able to open your hand, like superglue okay, you won't fall. We can do this, Heather." Alex told her and they reached the next person. "Easy, see? Eleven more to go. Remember that game called Barrel of Monkeys? That's what we're going to do."

"18,000 feet"

"Come on, people. Everybody, grab your monkey. Nice."

"10,000 feet. 6,000 feet."

"Come on, people. Come on, come on, come on! Yeah!"

"1, 000 feet. 400 feet. 200 feet, ma'am"

"He's a chunky monkey, let's get him. Hello!" Alex slows down just above the water near the harbor and allows each of them to fall safely.

"Nice work, guys! Excellent. Good team effort all around. Go us. All right, Jarvis. But it's only half-done. We've still got to get Pepper" But Alex's armor had been through too much, her suit would need to be prepared if she were to face off any extremis guards.

"Give me some good news, man"

"they all made it" Alex told him as she took off the suit and examined her arms.

"Oh, thank God."

"Yeah, but I missed the president. They got him, so I'm heading back to you."