< IRON-MAN: The New Beginning >

Hi, this is my summative fanfic. i wrote the story for the following up of the movie 'Iron-man'. I hope you can enjoy~ *^^*

‘TONY STARK OR IRON-MAN’
‘WHO IS HE - TONY STRAK’
‘IS HE A REAL SUPERHERO’
‘WHAT IS THE TRUTH’
‘WHO IS THE IRON-MAN’

“Hey..Tony…are you ok?”
“Yeah- I’m better than ever!...What’s up?”
“Better than ever?!?......If you say so – but you know, you’ve been down here for three days… without sleeping. …you think that’s normal? Huh?”
“Three days? Really? I thought it’s… still Tuesday.”
“Nop, it’s Friday.”
“Friday….! Oh, good…- you want some shots?”
“……….all right”

Tony and Pepper have been drinking about half an hour in his living room without saying anything, but only looking and smiling at each other.

“Tony, are you….are you all right? I mean…..I’m pretty serious here-”
“Yeah, I’m fine- Why not? ”
“How… how could you be so comfortable like that? I really don’t understand. You really make me so confuse.”
“Think simply Miss Potts- I did nothing wrong, I think I’ve just done what I have to do – my father said never lie to anybody. I just said the truth- which… maybe people really wanna know.”
“Maybe….you know, every media has been talking about you! All the time- All over the world! Some of them think you got crazy because you said the TRUTH- ‘I’m Iron-man’- Have you ever thought about what could happen because of your saying?....I’m… I’m really lost-”
“Pepper, don’t worry- and please just be happy- everything will be fine tomorrow- everything will go back where they are.”
“Yeah…it’s easy for you to say so…”

It’s been three horrible days after Tony announced that he is ‘Iron-man’. Some people said he’s got crazy because of the thing, which they don’t know, happened to him in Afghanistan and some people….kind of believed him….because he is Tony Stark- As Pepper is his only assistant she had to get rid of her phone right after the nightmare and had to stay in Tony’s house.

“Hey, Pepper- I’m thinking to go on holiday for few weeks. Where shell we go?”
“Holiday? With me? Hmm…..it sounds nice sir, but I doubt you’ve got things to sort it out first?!”
“Yeah, I know of course- I’m the man of Stark Industries. Bring the things that I have to sign in.”
“………..it’ not just…”
“Pepper, hurry up- I’m, no- we’re leaving in half an hour- “
“Tony-…..wait a second………Ok, I think it will be very nice for you to have some holiday. I think you definitely have to, but not me- I’d love to go…but next time…oh… really hate to say this…but, I’m sorry.”
“I thought so….this time I’ll go by myself, but you promise me to go together next time. I’ll take you wherever you want!”
“Appreciate, Tony.”

After this simple and pointless conversation he really left. He said he will be somewhere in Europe. Pepper started thinking about what she has to do from now on as sitting alone in Tony’s marvelous private lab.
Few hours later, she got a bit strange e-mail from the person called Charles Stane. It’s for Tony but anyway he wasn’t there so Pepper opened it.

"I KNOW WHAT YOU DID.
CONTACT ME ASAP.
OR YOU DIE.”

Suddenly, Pepper felt really nervous and alarmed instantly as somehow sensed that it’s not just blackmail because it’s from ‘Charles Stane’ – the only son of Obadiah Stane. She remembered when she met Charles Stane last year. He is the most powerful weapon entrepreneurs in Asia who influenced a lot by his furious father. He’s been in Japan more than 10 years because of his business. But why did he send this kind of email to Tony? Does he know what really happened to his father? Then what? What is he thinking about? Revenge….or something else? What’s the point?... She wasn’t sure what she has to do so she called Agent Colson who can only trust.

“Hello, Agent Colson”
“Hello, Miss. Potts. You are calling because of the mail. Right?”
“How did you know?”
“We, S.H.I.E.L.D, also got one as well.”
“Oh my god, what is he thinking? What do we have to do? “
“Has Tony seen this mail?”
“Not yet. He’s away. I can send him this but…I don’t want to. He doesn’t say anything but I can feel he’s bit lost nowadays. And also I’m sure he will meet Charles if he sees this….but I don’t want him to meet Charles. He’s exactly the same as his father, Obadiah. He could be planning something bad. ”
“I understand your feeling Miss. Potts. We also think this is not that simple. We think it is a kind of formal threat to ‘Iron-man’ not Tony. We’re investigation this mail and we think he knows the truth about his father’s death.”
“I thought so....”
“Sorry to say this but please give us little bit more time. I will contact you shortly.”
“Ok….please.”

Tony has arrived one of the small towns in Italy. It was so quiet and beautiful. He was wandering around the garden. This was a kind of place where he could clear up his mind. He was quite exhausted, not because of the jet lag but because of the irritation from the media and public. He did expect some attentions but actually it was sort of much worse than he thought even though he thinks it is ok- it could be just a beginning of the new life for ‘Iron-man’. There is no regret at all for a new life but only feels sad about not being able to be a Mr. Big for Pepper.

After he came back to his villa he turned on the TV. “What the hell is going on?” He was in shock. It was one of his main factories of Stark Industry and it got attacked by a monstrous machine – it looked like a robot. “Robot?!? Where is it come from? What is it doing over there??! Ok-ok-- nobody or even no-robot wants me to have some rest-.” He called Jarvis straight away and asked for figuring out what that robot is and warned to be ready for changing to his power-suit as soon as he gets back home. In his private plane, he called Pepper.

“Hey, are you ok?”
“Oh, Tony. How are you?”
“How am I? I’ve seen the news already. What’s going on in there?”
“……….It’s Charles Stane. The son of Obadiah. He sent an email to you 2days ago and I replied without asking. I’m sorry.”
“What did you say to him?”
“He said he will revenge for his father, so I said…...it was Obadiah’s fault and…I think he got mad from what I said. He said he will come to kill you, Iron-man. And there he is….I’m so sorry. It’s all my fault.”
“Pepper, listen to me- It’s nobody’s fault. I’m on my way back home. Where are you?”
“I’m at your……….”
Tony suddenly heard very short scream of Pepper and then only a sound of beep...
" Hello??Hello? Pepper??!”
The phone was cut off. He called her again but she didn’t answer the phone. Around 10 minutes later he got a call – It was Pepper.

“Hello~, Tony~ no, no, I should call you Iron-man-. I’ve just come to see you but you are not here- so I’ve just played with some other things. Wow, it’s quite fun-That’s why my father really liked to be Sector 16. But you killed my father and there is no such a Sector 16~ but here I am-. Finally the time has come-”
“Who are you? Where’s Pepper?”
“Oh, she’s with me, she’s fine- Don’t worry- She’s very sexy~ huh? I reckon that’s why she’s your precious--- Ah, one thing- I’m sorry to say this but she’s got something on her. Something looks like a bomb….it is hanging in front of her chest- Why don’t you come and join us?!? Time is clicking~~”
The man hung up. Tony was sure that it was Charles- and everything was destroyed by him. He knew what he has to do but there weren’t enough time.
Finally he got to his lab and wore his suit – Here’s Iron-man -“Ready Jarvis?” “Whenever you want!” “Ok, let’s go to see Pepper. I miss her so much-.”

Iron-man went to his office where he thought Pepper might be and there she was. – With the Jericho missile tied her up in the corner. ‘How could it be….’ he thought. He felt very sorry and miserable. “Pepper, sorry for being late and… I’m sorry.” “No, I’m fine…- you know, the time…9 minutes left.” “Don’t worry, let me handle this.”

“Hey, Here you are! - Before you handle with Pepper, please handle with me first~~~”There was Charles. He was a robot. It looked quite similar with Sector 16 but got more modernised and looked much powerful.

It fired some kind of gas which make Iron-man can’t see properly. Iron-man had lost his balance and vision for few seconds but he got back quite shortly. Suddenly bombs exploded everywhere and some of them were fired to him. Luckily, Iron-man blocked all of them. “You! You think you can keep this one as well?!”

The cluster bombs with electric power transmission were fired and attacked one of Iron-man’s legs. It almost went through his leg and Iron-man fell with a thud. Charles came up to Iron-man and stepped on his arc reactor. “Ah…..” “You did kill my innocent father. Now, it’s the time for you. I’m going to do it very slowly- You must learn the pain of the death. Here’s the electric beam that you invented. It will kill you little by little. Don’t be afraid-” Iron-man couldn’t move and start getting hard to breathe.

“Tony! Tony!” Pepper was yelling at him. “Pepper…..I can’t…” He was trying to push up Charles. It was tough for Iron-man because of the beam. He felt like his limbs are getting paralyzed. “Tony- Tony- Please, don’t…” Suddenly Iron-man was making a huge growling sound and he gave off Charles. Iron-man holds up Charles as twisting his body and he got dumped out of the building as breaking the entire window around Tony’s office. Charles’ flying buttons, which were at his both side, got broken when Iron-man twisted his suit so he directly drove into the ground. It was the end of Charles’s Sector 16.

Both Obadiah’s and Charles’ couldn’t defeat Iron-man. Iron-man ran straight to Pepper and destroyed the Jericho missile just a second before it blows up. Pepper got really scared and she was trembling with fear.. “Are you ok, Pepper?” Iron-man took off his mask.

There was Tony, not Iron-man. Pepper was really glad to see him again. “Tony….” She was crying like a baby. “It’s ok now. It’s all right.” Tony hugged Pepper very tightly. “Pepper, don’t worry- and please just be happy- everything will be fine tomorrow-