Date: 23/12/2008
Location: Malibu mansion, garage
The suit was officially finished, well based components anyway. Tony and Matthew were in the middle of the floor, one standing like a doll and the other clicking the pieces of sensors onto his body.
"You know, now that you put it on, you look like a Robo-cop," Matthew commented as the bots suited Tony into the Mark II .
Tony snorted at that, the memory of the old movie playing in his head.
"That two-beat cyborg has nothing on me" his pride in his invention was evident as he puffed out his chest and struck a pose.
" Alright, we get it, you're 'cool'." Matthew made quotes with his fingers and moved to the computer set up, he was already done with this peacocks flaunting. He then starts all recording and tracking systems, a digital ironman suit appearing on screen.
"Jarvis, you there?" Tony asked as he attached the final piece to the armor.
Matthew stared at the readings ,green markers lighting up at each component, as Tony went through the HUID and virtual assimilation.
" Test complete . preparing to power down and begin diagnostics" Jarvis informed them both.
Matthew had only just sighed in content when Tony suddenly engaged his thrusters and blasted out the garage door. His immediate action was to check for malfunctions only to shake his head when he realized Tony did it himself.
'Air control initiated' blared on the screen followed by an intermediate warning as the suit gained altitude.
"What are you doing?" Matthew muttered to himself as he followed a blinking dot on the digital interface. At the same time he was alerted to the movement of a different target. From what shield had dubbed the guy? Creature really, the Hulk was currently on the move again, his location was at Maynard university.
Pondering why he would go there of all places, Matthew started digging with a bit of help from Jarvis but was interrupted by the blaring sound of the emergency alert for Tony's tracker.
Upon checking , he saw the temperature plummeting the higher the dot went , a notice of system shutting down appearing at 27,000 ft.
" Jarvis, are you still synced to the suit?" Matthew asked in a panic , trying and failing to access the emergency flight controls on the suit.
"Apologize ,master Matty, but the suit is currently out of range." the AI responded only causing him to panic more. The dot from his view was now slowly free falling back to the earth gaining momentum as passes different aerial markers.
" At what altitude can you resync?" Matthew asked, hands already typing away activating parts of "just in case" spare parts Tony made for if this suit just randomly combusted.
" Around 15,000 ft as long as the icing is resolved ,sir."
"What's the possibility that he isn't able to release the ice?" he stared at the screen , digging at his cuticles.
" 14% sir."
He watched with baited breath as Tony passed the 15,000 ft mark already.
10,000ft
8,000ft
5,000ft
3,000ft
And finally around 1,800 ft, Jarvis synced and Tony's dot made an Exponential growth curve through the digital stream , Jarvis confirming his safety was the final push Matthew needed to release all the tension that built up in him.
His left hand was already dripping blood from the abuse of his anxiety, only noticing it after Tony sent a voice memo filled with excitement as he flew back.
"Shit." he whispered, squeezing his hand to stop the bleeding and finally feeling the pain that he was distracted by.
Above, he heard a loud crack that could only have been a concert, his head whipping in the direction with a confused expression, but the sound continued as it came down to the garage and landed on top of one of the cars, the Shelby Cobra to be exact. Dum-E helpfully puts out a non-existent fire before it starts.
Tony lifted his helmeted head, deadpan radiating off of him before he leaned back in defeat.
Matthew chuckled both exasperated of how he managed to end up there and amused at the entire situation.
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Later , Tony walked into the workshop, closely followed by Matthew who was telling him about a few upgrades they could make based on the recent data.
Tony grabbed a cup on the table , a coffee that pepper must have left for him, then noticed a sticky note marked 'from pepper'
He unwrapped it to see the first reactor he had given Pepper earlier encased in a glass pedestal.
"How about we re-configure using the gold-titanium alloy from the Seraphim Tactical Satellite?" Matthew asked, noticing Tony's small smirk at the object in his hand he frowned and prompted," what?"
" Pepper" he replied showing the inscription on the reactor
Proof that Tony Stark has a heart.
Matthew snorted as Tony set it on his work desk and sat by the computer set up.
Matthew walks over to the corner lounge of the room and flops onto one of the chairs as Tony goes back and forth with Jarvis. He gives falls to the now on television as a blonde reporter starts speaking.
"-the man whose name graces the gold-lettered invitations hasn't been seen in public since his highly controversial press conference, and rumours abound. But we'd like to know what's happening over there ,Zorianna?" someone prompted the blonde reporter on screen , her smile bright .
"Right here on the red hot red carpet, at the Disney concert hall. Where the third annual benefit for the firefighters family fund has become the key place to be for the elite of high society. -" she continues on but both tony and Matthew stare at the screen then at each other
"Did you know?"
"No one told me"
" Render is complete" Jarvis interrupted , Matthew now sitting up as he attempted to call pepper but she didn't answer.
" Add a bit of hot rod red in there," Tony suggested as Matthew made his way to the door first. "Oh ,I like that. Paint it" he instructed Jarvis before following his brother out to the party they were supposed to host but weren't invited to.