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Chapter .2.

Tony looked over all the information. What was he going to do? SHIELD actually wanted his help. But he didn't know if he was ready to see Rhodes and Strange again. After all Strange broke his heart and nearly made him kill himself.

And Rhodes had betrayed him after promising to be his friend. Friends don't steal from someone and they notice when something was wrong and Rhodes didn't do any of that he just stole his suit and gave it to the army.

Could he really fight besides them? He wondered what his therapist would say if he told her his position at the moment. His thoughts were interrupted by JARVIS.

"A call for you sir", JARVIS tells him
"Put it through", Tony says

"Daddy?" a little girls voice asks

"Hey Baby. What are you doing up so late Topaz?" Tony asks lightly

"I couldn't sleep. When can we see you Daddy?" Topaz asks

"Soon sweetheart. Daddy just has work to finish and you and your siblings will be joining me in a few days", Tony promises

"Promise Daddy?" Topaz asks

"I promise", Tony vows

"Will you be careful Daddy?" Topaz asks

"Always am. I won't do anything that makes me not able to come home to all off you. Unless it is for the good of many people", Tony tells her

"Love you Daddy", Topaz says

"I love you too Sweetheart. Go to bed", Tony says gently

"Yes Daddy. Goodnight", Topaz replies

"Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite", Tony replies lightly

He rungs up feeling lighter now having talked with one of his many kids.

"Sir we have a location on Loki", JARVIS tells him

"Where?" Tony asks already going for his armour

"Germany"

Rhodey hadn't gone with Romanoff and Rogers to get Loki. He had been busy helping Fury out. But he had just learned that Fury had called Tony in. Tony was probably going to be here soon.

What was he going to do? He had betrayed Tony in a deep personal way. He had promised never to betray Tony and he did it anyway. He had tried talking to Tony but JARVIS wouldn't let him in his house and Tony had wiped his security clearance. At Stark Industries Pepper had Happy throw him out of the building saying 'Mr Stark is no longer available to help with your needs Colonel Rhodes'. It hurt being address by two friends as Colonel. But he knew he deserved it and that they were protecting Tony.

But it hurt that they had to protect Tony from him. That wasn't how it was meant to be. Rhodey had lost a lot of sleep over all of this. Trying to think of a way to fix things and see Tony. But coming up blank. And now the time was approaching he would see Tony and maybe he could finally talk things out with Tony now. Or when this crisis was over.

He wondered if Tony had been taking care of himself. He knew Tony had a habit of ignoring his health. Rhodey also wondered what Tony did learning that he was here.

"Sir Ironman is on seen", a tech says to Fury

Rhodey's eyes widen. Tony was now officially in the game…

Stephen had been given the documents on the current situation. He just didn't know if he would act on them. Seeing that Tony's file was in the documents. He hadn't seen Tony in nearly four years. When he had gotten scared about losing Tony and decided to take matters into his own hands. And break it off before he got hurt.

He did regret his decision but by the time he admitted it too long had past and he knew Tony won't listen to him now. And he knew if he tried to go to Stark Industries Tony's new CEO Pepper would have him kicked out faster then a second.

He had tried keeping up with news about Tony. But Stephen did have duties too other dimensions. But he learnt Tony had been reckless a couple of years ago which lead to his best friend Rhodes taking a suit and them having a fallen out. He learnt of Pepper being made CEO. But that was about it. Tony had been a ghost with only occasion articles in the News about Ironman and Tony doing charity dinners or Ironman defeating some terrorists.

He also learnt Tony was moving here to New York in his new tower called Stark Tower. So Stephen did have an opportunity to go and see him. But he didn't know if he had the guts too do so.

But now this possible situation he could see Tony a lot sooner. But could he do it? What if Tony completely ignored him? Would they be able to put the past behind them just too this crisis past then talk it out?

Stephen thought it was worth a try…

Tony stood in the plane with his Childhood Hero Captain Rogers, Agent Romanoff and the prisoner Loki. Could it get anymore uncomfortable? He didn't like Rogers because his father kept telling him how much Tony should be like the good old American Hero. And how much better Captain America was then Tony. So after his childhood his hero worth ship turned to hate.

With Agent Romanoff that was easy. She was spying on him. And could have put his big family in danger. It was only luck that she didn't find out. He would have never forgiven her if she had exposed his family.

And the prisoner Loki who started this whole mess. He didn't know what to think. But Loki DID give up too easily in the fight. He had watched Cap's fight with Loki and it didn't seem Loki's style to give up so easily.

"I don't like it", Rogers says bringing Tony out of his thoughts

"What, Rock of Ages giving up so easily?" Tony asks

"I don't remember it being that easy", Rogers replies, "This guy packs a wallop"

"Still, you are pretty spry for an older fellow. What's your thing, Pilates?" Tony asks trying to get over his stress at all of this

"What?" Rogers asks confused

"It's like calisthenics", Tony replies, "You might have missed a couple of things, oh doing time as a Capsicle"

"Fury didn't tell me he was calling you in", Rogers says to Tony

"Yeh there are a lot of things Fury doesn't tell you", Tony replies

Suddenly thunder and lightning starts to happen all over the plane.

"Where's this coming from?" Natasha asks looking at the sudden storm

Loki suddenly looked really nervous. Which did peck Tony's curiosity.

"What's the matter? You scared of a little lightning?" Steve asks

"I'm not overly fond of what follows", Loki replies wearily

Suddenly something hits the outside of the plane. Tony quickly puts back on his helmet ready for whatever was going to happen.

Tony opens the hatch wanting to see what was going on.

"What are you doing?" Rogers asks him

Before Tony could reply a man in a cap lands on the hatch and walks in, punches Tony out of the way and pulls Loki out of his sit and flings them into the air.

"And now there's that guy", Tony says through his helmet

"Another Asgardian?" Natasha yells

"That guy's a friendly", Rogers states

"Doesn't matter. If he frees Loki or kills him the Tesseract's lost", Tony says through his helmet walking to the open hatch.

"Stark we need a plan of attack", Roger calls to him

"I have a plan. Attack", Tony says through his helmet as he flies away.

Tony has JARVIS run a scan on the woods looking for heat signatures and JARVIS quickly comes up with two not far away.

He flies in the direction of the signatures. He sees the man in a cap close to Loki looking like they were talking. Well Tony wasn't in that mood to try and play things nice.

So he flied straight into the guy smashing them both into the ground.

"Do not touch me again", the man says warningly

"Then don't take my stuff", Tony replies

"You have no idea what you're dealing with", the man warns

"Ah Shakespeare in the park. Doth mother know you wear-eth her drapes?" Tony asks dramatically

"This is beyond you metal man", the man tells him, "Loki will face Asgardian justice"

"He gives up the Cube, he's all yours, Until then, stay out of the way", Tony warns moving to leave, "Tourist"

Suddenly he was hit with the guys hammer and knocked through several trees.

"Okay", Tony mutters in his suit

That is when their fight started. Tony had too admit it did kind of get out of hand. He really should have acted like a grown up and adult he was.

He just wasn't thinking with all the stress that was on his plate at the moment. Maybe he should have left this stuff to 'War Machine'. But Tony could admit they would probably need his help on locating the Tesseract.

They also needed all hands on deck with Loki's army coming. So unfortunately he would need to stay and help. He just hoped he could keep his promise to his daughter and other children…

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