Avengers - Time Rift: Iron Maiden

Chapter 2 - Second Coming

It was more than a week after their first encounter when Tonya knocked on the door to Stark's beach house fidgeting with her belt as she waited for him to answer. The door swung open and Jarvis greeted her "Welcome Miss Romanov, please come in, Mr. Stark is currently out but I'll inform him of your arrival". Tony's voice projected through Jarvis's interface a few moments later, the sounds of repulsor and gun fire in the background "The genius you have dialed ... OH SHIT, on the left Rhodey ... is not currently available due to a Hammeroid flare up. Jarvis be a pal and show her where we keep the Captain America decoder rings". Tonya followed Jarvis's instructions and entered Stark's home office and took the ear piece off the desk and slipped it on. "There we go" Tony said "Apparently Ultron has decided that eliminating me now makes his job in your time easier. Probably because you can't be you unless I'm still me twenty some years from now. That whole DNA harvesting thing, please tell me they employed lingerie models to get said sample. This is really screwing up my schedule, I have laundry to do. Super villains just don't grasp the importance of clean underwear. Six O'clock Rhodey, high and tight. I'd take you to lunch but I'm a bit tied up right now so make yourself comfy, watch some television, try not to blow my house up and I'll get back as soon ... WHOOOAH, that one touched my butt someone call Chris Hansen ... as soon as I can". Tonya raised an eyebrow "Lunch? You're gonna buy me food? Real food?" she asked. James Rhodes voice came over the communicator "That's usually the routine. Blow up the bad guys, take a bow, Tony buys lunch and drinks and tells us how awesome he is. The steak and crab legs at George's are the best. Tony isn't that the girl that kicked you all over the yard?". The young Romanov scratched her head for a moment "So when all those are trashed Stark's buying food and booze?" she asked to clarify. "Yes Rhody it is, but I extended an olive branch ... that hopefully she won't force into an orifice that I have classified as exit only. I'll just come back to the house though, we'll order a pizza or something. The upside of this of situation is Ultron decided to use Justin Hammer's failbots for the job, downside is they're Hammer Tech so he has a ton in storage that never sold that are being activated" Tony said. Tonya headed out of Stark's office at a swift pace "Once the situation is diffused Stark buys food and drinks, got it. Juliet, I need a party dress at my location, Iron Maiden protocol, authorization Tonya Romanov. Module load; mach two boosters, hot pants, heavy metal chest, depleted uranium rounds for the 7.62 rail guns on that, and rock crushers. ASAP!" she said making her way out to the driveway. "Right away Miss" Juliet replied "Mr. Stark's current location has been triangulated as well". "I'm betting those drones are locked onto the energy signature of his ARC reactor, Hammer's tech always was pathetic" Tonya thought as she moved away from the house toward the portal and turned her back to it "Hit me" she said as the suit with the modifications she requested shot through the portal and secured themselves, the armors extending plates covering her body and locking themselves together and the face plate closed as the ARC reactor in her chest and the eyes of her visor glowing a bright crimson as her boosters fired sending her screaming toward Iron Man and War Machine's location. "Can you get me an autograph?" Rhodes asked chuckling to himself hearing Stark huff loudly over the noise of the fire fight as he replied "I hate you, you know that right?".

The crack of the sound barrier being surpassed caught Stark and Rhodes attention as the suit of black armor blew past them "Scans indicate the Hammer Tech bots are indeed locked onto Mr. Stark's energy signature" Juliet said. Tonya smirked under the visor "Over ride and shut him down, duplicate his energy signature and lets pull them away. I need a location on where all these damn things are coming from too". Tony's eyes widened as his armor powered down at four hundred feet and started a free fall to the ground "I should have known she was going to find some way" he said just before he crashed into the wooded area below him, the fall leaving him laying in an impact crater as a groan came from the armor "I thought we moved past all the ouch". Rob Zombie's 'Demon Speeding' blared over the com system as the drones locked onto the decoy signal and followed Romanov away from Stark's position "Under ground storage facilities located three miles ahead Miss" Juliet announced as the panels in the 'Rock Crusher' gloves opened each firing four missiles that slammed into the ground at the target coordinates. Rhodey laughed as he watched the missiles hit "Looks like Hammer isn't the only one with some duds". The Iron Maiden armor swung around in a wide arc with the Hammerbots in pursuit as she replied "Wait for it...", a few moments later the ground in the area heaved upward before collapsing in on itself leaving two holes where the storage facilities were now buried in rubble. "Well, I was just about to do that" Rhodey said as he touched down next to Stark helping him get to his feet. Tonya rolled her eyes "Whatevs. Juliet, going vertical. Full spread on repulsors, bring up the sevens, full power to boosters after the flip" she said as she led the last of the enemy units in a vertical climb. "Now, Let's rain some pain!" she shouted as she curled into a ball and somersaulted midair, the dual 7.62 rail guns emerging from the housings on the back of the 'heavy metal' chest module and opening fire as started a spiraling dive through the cloud of drones now coming straight at her using repulsor fire to pick off the stragglers. "We DID have most of them down but the girl has some serious moves" Rhodes chuckled as the Iron Man armor's visor slid open revealing a still slightly dazed Tony underneath. Chunks of what was now scrap metal fell from the sky as the young Romanov pulled out of the vertical dive and landed next to Rhodes and Stark. Her visor flipped up and she smiled broadly "Now, about those steaks ..." she said as power was returned to the Iron Man suit and Tony shook his head "Alright you can come to company picnics but you're just a temp so don't expect eye and dental. And keep your grubby little mitts out of my systems. I feel so violated ... and not in a good way" he grumbled as he hobbled off holding his back with one hand and waving the other in the air "TAXI!".