Iron Heart [1]

Chapter 17

"Potts!" Tony called as he started to stand from his rough landing on the roof of the Stark building.

"Tony! Oh, my God, are you okay?" Pepper questioned.

"I'm almost out of power. I've got to get out of this thing," he lifted his face mask and took his glove off. "I'll be right there."

Ada had rushed up on top of the building to see her dad. She started to run towards him, but stopped when she heard Obi's suit come towards them. She took a few staggered steps back and hid behind an air unit on the ceiling.

"Nice try!" Obadiah lifted his fist as he landed behind Tony.

Tony put his face mask back down. Obi swung his armoured fist at Tony, but Tony dodged. He lifted his hand to fire at him, however, he lifted the one he took the glove off of. He started at his fist for a second, before he was punched backwards by Obi.

He caught himself and ran back towards Obi. He flew up for a second and punched Obi on the face plate. Obi then grabbed Tony by his midsection and started to crush the suit. Sparks were sent flying.

"Weapons status?" Tony asked.

"Repulsors offline," JARVIS informed. "Missiles offline."

Ada's eyes grew wide as she saw the pressure breach warning light up her headset's virtual reality.

"Flares!" Tony gasped.

Ada clicked a button, and the flares went off.

Obi was temporarily blinded, and Tony had enough time to hide.

"Very clever, Tony," Obadiah tutted.

Ada grimaced as she saw Obi look around for her dad.

"Potts?" Tony whispered

"Tony!" Pepper yelled.

"This isn't working. We're going to have to overload the reactor and blast the roof," Tony explained.

"Well, how are you going to do that?"

"You're going to do it. Go to the central console, open up all the circuits. When I get clear of the roof, I'll let you know. You're going to hit the master bypass button. It's going to fry everything up here," Tony spoke softly.

"Okay. I'm going in now," Pepper informed.

"Make sure you wait till I clear the roof. I'll buy you some time. Also, get Ada out of here and get her safe."

Obi continued to look around the roof.

"This looks important!" Tony leaped on his back and started ripping out parts.

Ada looked through her screen and hacked into Obi suit to see that Tony had caused his suit to malfunction. Obi grabbed Tony and threw him on the glass panels on the roof. He lifted the helmet and revealed himself as he held Tony's own helmet.

"I never had a taste for this sort of thing, but I must admit, I'm deeply enjoying the suit!" he crushed the helmet and tossed it to Tony.

Ada had just lost all connection with her father. Obi then turned and looked around the roof. He saw Ada peer behind the vent and he grabbed her and held her up. He smiled wickedly at her.

"You finally outdid yourself, Tony! You'd have made your father proud!" he spat.

Tony started to stand with determination in his eyes.

"I would kill Ada with you, but I'd rather you die to her screams of terror," he gripped her in his arm.

"It's ready, Tony! Get off the roof!" Pepper informed, but only Ada could hear.

Obi lifted his other arm and shot at the glass on the roof, causing it to shatter. Tony fell and gripped onto the metal beams.

"Tony!" Pepper yelled.

"How ironic, Tony! Trying to rid the world of weapons, you gave it its best one ever!" Obadiah screamed

"Pepper!" Tony called.

"And now I'm going to kill you with it!" Obadiah smirked.

He tossed Ada to the other arm while he aimed his arm at Tony. Ada, however, pushed his arm and cause him to miss. He growled at Ada, and carelessly threw her to the side. She rolled and hit her head on the roof. She felt blood begin to trickle down, but she was more interested in her father's welfare.

"You ripped out my targeting system!" Obi frowned as he tried again.

"Time to hit the button!" Tony looked down.

"You told me not to!"  Pepper responded.

"Hold still, you little prick!" Obadiah threatened.

"Just do it!" Tony shouted.

"You'll die!" Pepper pleaded.

"Push it!" Tony yelled as he fell and hung on with one arm.

Ada crawled behind another one of the air vents. She heard the big reactor powering up. Tony was blasted from his place in the middle of the glass roof and hit the concrete roof out of the way.

"Dad!" she stepped out from behind the vent as Obadiah was blasted and fell into the reactor.

Debris from the blast flew wildly around, and the blast caused her to fall down on her back. She was pretty sure she had a concussion. Black dots began to cloud her vision as she turned to look at Tony, who was unconscious.

"Tony?! Ada?!" Pepper yelled.

Ada felt her headset ripped off of her head. She was picked up. She looked up to see Agent Coulson. He smiled down at her. She passed out in his arms as he carried her away from the building. Away from the chaos.