Iron man vs Iron Monger! And I make a cameo, I guess!

It took me a week to get back on track. The experience had changed me a lot and I won't be recovering anytime soon, unfortunately. But the time I spent in life-death battles did help me grow a lot. Experience really is the key. All my powers have increased a bit. The increase may not be much percent-wise, then it isn't easy to grow more from here. I only use hellfire through dark moon though, still can't control the corruption.

Apparently high school had already started, but Alfred got me a leave saying I was going to India on an emergency. Shield being Shield tried to investigate and got nothing. The Enigma matter was being handled by Oracle's bots or one of the Dark Knights sometime. So no disappearances for him. Tony had gotten captured, and I wanted to rescue him but it seems he had completed his suit today somehow. Must be due to the project we were working on. I instructed a Oracle to rescue Ho Yinsen and try to find his family as well. Hope it's not too late.

Right now, I'm going to Midtown high. The introduction fiasco happened again, but I was surprised to see two people. One was Felecia Hardy, aka, Black cat. She seemed to have a playful nature. Who surprised me was Harry Osborn himself. He gave me a smile like his prank was successful. We gathered in lunch with everyone asking where I was and if I was alright.

Weird? I thought Alfred told them I went to India. Though considering I never replied to any messages, and I probably had a change in my aura as well, they found something was wrong. I told them I was fine, and they indeed didn't believe me but didn't ponder.

Felicia was apparently in our gang because Flash had tried to hit on her, And bully peter as well. But we had taught him to get out of situation himself, so he wasn't a coward like he used to be. Harry apparently came back last month, and when he found out I was going with Peter to Midtown High, he requested Norman, to which he agreed. Their relationship was still not good it seems, but Norman had caught-up Harry had somehow been cured. We had fun and decided to visit the Captain America museum this weekend. Jean, Wanda and Laura still gave me worried glances from time to time.

Once in a lunch break, I felt some hostility and entered battle mode but suppressed myself. Tch, my instincts kick in on just a little hostility. The glare was apparently from Flash. He will probably try to mess with me, I will deal with him when the time comes. Though, it is sometimes stated he his like this because of his abusive father. I will have to ask Oracle about it.

What Alex didn't notice was that his change in stance and glare were noticed by Laura, and surprisingly Felicia, who narrowed at her eyes at it, but said nothing.

After school, me and Peter were greeted by Norman. Harry looked at Peter with a little jealousy. I decided to deal with this now, so asked Uncle Norman to talk a bit in private.

"What's the matter Alex?", he asked confused.

"It's about the board of directors in Oscorp. I noticed they were putting pressure, so decided to sell my shares to you. Alfred would arrange everything." his eyes widened hearing me.

"Are you sure about this?", he asked, to which he nodded. "You have no idea how much that means to me Alex. If you have any problems in the future, tell me. I will try my best to help." he said with a smile.

"Actually there is something I wanted.", I said and his smile toned down and got into business mode. "What is it?", he asked with curiosity as well as caution." It's about Harry. I noticed you don't pay much attention and he really needs it. Please think about it, after all not all of us have the privilege of having parents.", I said and walked away. He was surprised at my request and showed a guilty expression at my last statement. At least he was thinking about it.

I sold the shares to him for two reasons. First getting him in-debt and making him make up with Harry. And second was because after becoming the Goblin, he had killed the remaining board of directors, so I wanted no hand in it.

From there, I changed myself and went to Tony's home, which was apparently not in California but here near New York. I just didn't mention it before. He had done his speech and seeing it I just laughed. Stane's reaction was precious.

I saw him sitting and talking with Pepper and said " Your vacation idea was terrible, you do know that right?" I said in a bit of anger and relief. He still had marks on his face.

"Great, now you are here for a lecture too?"

"Deal with it, Alfred's next on the list." I said with a smile at which he paled. He was really scary when angry. Both me and Tony had been victims of it. "You better have had a checkup, or it will probably double", and his face went completely white hearing that, while Pepper was happy I could talk some sense in him.

After some time talking she went away, I changed my expression serious and looked at him and asked "Tell me what happened there." He was surprised by my change and just observed me for some seconds, then just sighed and asked me to follow him to the basement. After that he explained me everything including the suit he made, surprisingly.

"First keep the suit under wraps for now. Second, the news of you presentation was 100% leaked. Third, those weapons could only be there if a high rank, like someone from the board of Directors sold them off." His expression turned angry at that. After some talk and redesigning his new reactor and suit, I left. I actually told him about the icing problem as well. Oracle and Jarvis were tasked to collect data. One of my clones already did, but it will be use later.

I had taken a long enough break, and Oracle had collected a lot of data on gangs in New York. It was time for a hunt.

* One month later*

Things went smoothly. There were a few mishaps because of some innocents nearby the warehouses, but nothing too serious. I actually dropped by to say sorry in their ward, to which they were really shocked.

Tony had attacked Gulmira last week. I had already rescued Yinsen as well as his family. They were keeping them hostage for making him work for them. I decided to let them meet later, to which he agreed and stayed with his family for now. I already got him the details and went to his home, only to see a car rushing out with Stane in it.

SHIT! I quickly rushed in to find him paralyzed on sofa. He was relived to see me. I already had him develop a spare, on the basis of trying to make a bike like Enigma, to which he had immediately agreed. Putting it in he finally breathed in a sigh of relief. Rhodes came rushing in to see me with Tony and calmed down. Tony rushed in to get the suit to fly off. Rhodey asked me if I'll go with him, only to find I had already disappeared. Batman's trick no. 101.

I wore the Enigma suit carrying the daggers and teleported to the place Oracle told me Pepper was. After reaching there, I turned invisible and used telekinesis to increase drag on Stane's suit, slowing it from following Pepper. Before he could take aim, he was shot by Tony landing in front of him. They had a fight taking it to a highway. Stane tried to pick up a car, but a batarang on his face, exploding into a flashbang, damaging his visual and audio system's to some extent. The car driver used the time to drive away.

Both him and Tony looked to see where it came from, and were stunned to see me standing on a fire lit bus. As Enigma of course.

"Enigmaaa", Stane roared an he tried to fire at me but I avoided it throwing paint bombs at his mask covering it black. He couldn't take it off and Tony used the chance to get behind him and pull out the wires behind his head. Stane caught him and threw him on the ground opening his helmet. Big mistake. Before he could say anything, my grappler wrapped around his neck and tased him. After that I got behind his head and knocked him out. After he fell down, I took the reactor out of his chest. Tony wanted to say something but I just threw it to him and said, "Nice suit, Robo-cop."

After that I got on the bike and went away. There were people recording, so I made sure only he heard it. If got called Robo-cop everywhere he went, he would have just quit. I could tell he was cringing behind his mask when I called him that.

I had inserted nano-bots inside Obadiah. He should have an heart attack on his way to prison. In the cannon Obadiah dies, and I do not have any interest to change that.

After that, everything went like cannon it should be. Tony announced he was Iron Man, giving a middle finger to Shield. After that he got home, and came face to face with the one-eyed Fury himself.

"...You think you are the only hero Mr. Stark?"

"Who the hell are you?"

"Nick Fury, director of Shield. I'm here to talk about the avenger's initiative." But before he could continue...

"Damn it Tony, at least help me carrying these." I said carrying a stack of pizza boxes. Then silence. They watched me and I watched them. After some seconds, I said to Fury "... is that supposed to be a pirate cosplay?"

He literally had black lines over his head hearing me while Tony fell on the sofa laughing like a madman.

*Stay tuned for more...*