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Addy grinned, happy to be included as Tony held a can of Mountain Dew out to her. "So problem solved then? Your chest nightlight won't make you sick any more?"

Stark chuckled at the snarky word choice, mentally acknowledging sarcasm muses be a hereditary trait. "Yeah, no more palladium poisoning." He nodded, taking a long sip of his own drink. "And you were instrumental in the demo process, the way you swung that hammer.." he teased.

"Oh har har," Addy mocked, trying and failing not to grin in response, "you gave me a hammer as big as me!"

Tony smirked and turned towards his robots, "dummy, you, can we clean up this mess? You're killing me..."

A ringing interrupted, "phone privileges reinstated," he murmured to himself before answering. "Coulson, how's land of enchantment?"

"Tony hey how you doing?" A deep, heavily accented voice, chuckled across the line. "I double cycle."

Addy felt fear crawl up her spine as she watched Tony's expression draw serious. "Tony?" She whispered uncertainly.

Tony swallowed, knowing full well who was calling but wishing he were wrong, "what?"

"You told me double cycles more power. Good advice."

"You sound pretty spritely for a dead guy."

"You too." The voice laughed darkly.

Addy tugged on Stark's robe, her initial fear only growing as she realized who was calling, "Tony? Is that the guy that attacked us?"

Tony pulled his daughter into his side reassuringly with his left arm, reaching out with his right to mute himself. "Trace it," he instructed.

"Sir," Jarvis responded immediately. Data and maps appearing on screen as the AI rapidly cycled through. 

Addy stared transfixed as the map zoomed in, from one of the whole world to the United States and ultimately the east coast. The haunting Russian voice rambling on his threats and reasonings in the background.

"What your father did to my family over forty years I will do to you in forty minutes."

"Sounds good let's get together and hash it out," Tony taunted despite the fact his aggressor wouldn't hear the words.

Addy looked panicked from the screen to her father, "no!" She disagreed in terror, "he nearly tore us all apart last time you do not want to get together and hash anything out with him!"

Tony ignored her aside from an absentminded pat on the shoulder as he continued to bounce from screen to screen.

"I hope you're ready," the voice continued before the line clicked, the call ended.

"Call trace incomplete," Jarvis stated.

Tony glanced between the screens in agitation. Before something seemed to click in his mind and he leapt into action. Addy spun her chair around staring after him in confusion, "what's going on..?"

"You wanna run some tests? Run em." Tony snapped at his AI as he jammed the new reactor into the cavity on his chest. "And assemble the suit while you're at it."

"Were unsure-"

"-I don't wanna hear it Jarvis!" The man interrupted.

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