Trick 32: In front of Millions, Animal vs. Human action, live!

Just as they came down the home stretch, Tony and Ace saw wreckage behind a man, who was standing in the middle of the track with electric whips of some sort.

Tony kept driving but the man slashed down with his whips, cutting the front of the car off! Tony said "Oh shit." as Ace's eyes widened and the car flipped in the air, smashing into the ground before ramming into the wreckage ahead and flipping over.

Ace was thrown out of the car and rolled on the ground, slamming into the side of the track before getting back up and shaking his head. Luckily for him, he was still wearing his cloak.

It was a good thing that the cloak was an excellent defense, otherwise he would most likely be dead!

Ace turned his head and saw Tony getting out of the car as the man slashed down with his whips, cutting the driver's seat in half!

The man turned around and looked at Tony, who jumped out of the way from a few more slashes.

Ace's hair stood on end and he ran over, jumping in front of Tony. He turned to the man with electrical gizmos all over his body, similar to an exoskeleton that Ace had seen in a comic book once.

He hissed at the man, who sneered and readied his whip, swinging it in the air before slashing down.

Ace jumped to the side and ran towards the man, rolling forward and dodging another slash before jumping at the man's face, swiping his claws as he hissed.

Tony got up and caught his breath as Ace clawed three streaks into the man's cheek before getting torn off and thrown on the ground.

Ace curled up and the man kicked him back at Tony.

Tony caught Ace and looked at him, "You okay?" Ace flipped out of his arms and landed in front of him, meowing. Tony was a bit shocked and muttered "Tough cat." Ace froze and hissed at the man again, this time a bit weaker.

The man glared at the cat and slashed with his whips. Tony picked up Ace and jumped out of the way as the car behind him exploded from the whips!

The man curled his lips and swung his whips by his sides, cutting the asphalt like it was clay as he walked towards Ace and Tony.

Tony frowned and Ace hissed at the man, his teeth slowly growing unnoticeably. Before he could transform, a car sped towards them and Tony jumped onto the fence as Happy rammed the car into the man, pinning him to the side of the track!

Tony climbed down and said "Finally! Were you trying to hit me or him?! Because I can't tell!" Pepper shouted at him "Are you insane!?" Tony retorted "This is MY fault!?" Pepper shouted angrily "Get in the car!"

Meanwhile, Happy stayed silent as Tony walked to the other side of the car muttering "First vacation in 2 years…" he opened the door but it was cut in half! He paused and turned to the man, who had blood dribbling from his lips as he slashed with his whips.

Ace jumped onto the hood and lunged at the man, clawing at him while meowing threateningly.

Tony turned to Pepper and shouted "The football!" Pepper was holding a briefcase and trying to pass it to Tony but failing as the man was whipping wildly! He cut the car in half, missing Pepper by a hair.

Tony ran to the other side as Ace jumped back, his tail growing shorter as he was about to turn back into his human self.

But before he could do it, Tony got the briefcase and kicked the car away. Ace rolled on the hood and clawed the car, holding on for dear life as he reverted to normal cat form.

Tony started fighting the man and was on the ropes for a bit before wrapping himself in the whips, getting close to the man and slamming him onto his back. He leaned over and ripped the glowing gadget from his chest.

Ace ran over and jumped onto Tony's shoulder, looking at the thing. Tony analyzed it with his suit before crushing it silently as the police took the man away while he laughed "You lose! Hahahah!"

Tony stared at him before turning around and leaving. Ace watched the man get dragged away, thinking to himself.

A while later

Tony had visited the man in prison and the entire group was on a plane back from Monaco.

Ace was laying on a table, watching the news as Senator Stern said "It's just unbelievable. It proves the Genie is out of the bottle and this man has no idea what he's doing. He thinks of the Ironman weapon as a toy! I was at a hearing where Mr Stark, in fact, was adamant that these suits can't exist anywhere else, don't exist anywhere else, never will exist anywhere else for at least 5 to ten years and here we are in Monaco realizing, 'Uhoh. These suits exist now!'"

Tony walked in and said "Mute." before sitting down. Ace turned to him before turning back to the television.

Tony started talking to Pepper and Ace laid his head down on his paws, slowly falling asleep as he thought about the man with the whips on the track.

To him, the man with the whips wasn't as scary as some of the things he had seen at Hogwarts. Ace didn't think that there were bad people whose sole purpose was to kill Superheroes.

After all, he had only seen Voldemort's memory and the Basilisk. Not to mention, Harry was no hero, so the situation was more of a revenge scenario for Voldemort.

Ace tilted his head, looking out the window wondering what the reasons were. Of course there would always be bad people, he wasn't an idiot. But people who cause mass destruction and chaos for a single goal, innocents be damned…

Ace couldn't wrap his head around it. It didn't make sense to him. This wasn't a comic book or a movie, this was real life! Needless to say, Ace wasn't very accustomed to the world he was living in, despite the magic and the revelations of life outside the Earth, he still believed that people were generally good!

He couldn't comprehend someone doing something out of pure evil.

However, Ace thought about himself and his dreams. Not only to be a Magic Historian, but a Hero! He had a task from the Ancient One to protect Tony Stark, but that didn't mean he should ignore the innocents.

Ace swayed his tail slightly, dreaming of himself defeating robbers and bad guys. Still only limiting his view to common criminals, not understanding that it was never so simple.