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"Don't take it personally Stark, you don't have enough experience right now after all it's only your second fight with someone on your level, you will grow if you keep doing what you do." Reaper said

"You bastard" shouted Vanko and swung his whips towards Reaper who swayed his body to dodge both the whips and dashed towards Vanko before he could initiate the second attack and slammed a kick on his head.

*BANG* A loud noise came as Vanko's head snapped back, the helmet saved his life but there was a small dent visibly seen.

"Well I have a good punching bag" Reaper said seeing that Ivan's armour could take a beating.

He parried both of his hands aside and started punching Ivan slowly he started adding Ki in his punches making them much stronger than before and the dents in the armour became much more visible.

"Aahh!" shouted Ivan in anger and tried to hit Reaper with the whips but there was no way he could do that now that Reaper was so close to him, he parried his arms away and the whips changed the directions not being able to do anything to Reaper.

Seeing that Ivan was losing it he gathered ki in his hand strengthening them and stabbed in his stomach, the hands broke through the Armour and stabbed Ivan in the gut.

"Aaaahhh!" Ivan cried in pain as Reaper took his hand out of him and stepped back.

Blood started to leak out from his stomach into his armour and out from it. Ivan fell on his knees as he tried to cover it with one arm but the hole was big as Reaper's hand went in it.

Ivan removes his faceplate as he looks at Tony with blood leaking out of his mouth he says "You lose Stark"

All the destroyed drones and Ivan's armour start to beeping with red light the trio understand that something bad is going to happen

"All these drones are rigged to blow. We gotta get out of here man." Rhodes said

"Pepper?" Tony said as he takes off. Reaper also doesn't stay there and Rhodes also Takes off. Pepper is by a drone. Tony grabs her just as it explodes. They land on a roof and Tony takes off his helmet.

"Oh my God. I can't take this anymore." Pepper said

"You can't?" Tony asks

"I can't take this."

"Look at me."

"My body, literally, cannot handle the stress. I never know if you're gonna kill yourself or wreak the whole company."

"I think I did okay." Tony said with Everything being on fire having been covered by exploding drones behind him. One more explosion. Just as he finishes speaking.

" I quit. I'm resigning. That's it."

"What did you just say? You're done? That's surprising. No, it's not surprising. I get it. You don't have to make excuses."

" I'm… I'm… I'm not making any excuses."

" You actually were just making excuses. But you don't have to."

" No, I wasn't making an excuse. I'm actually very justified."

"Listen. Hey, hey. You deserve better."

" Well…"

" You've taken such good care of me. I've been in a tough spot, but you got me through it, so… Right?"

"Thank you."

"Yeah."

"Thank you for understanding."

"Yeah, yeah. Let's talk clean-up."

" I'll handle the transition. It'll be smooth."

"Okay. What about the press? Because you only had the job for a week. That's gonna seem…"

" Well, with you it's like dog years."

" I know."

"I mean, it's like the Presidency." Pepper sias as They kiss.

"Weird." Tony asks

"No, it's not weird." Pepper replied

" It's okay, right?"

" Yeah."

" Run that by me again." Tony said and they started to kiss again.

All of this was seen by Rhodes who couldn't take it anymore and decided to intervene "I think it was weird. You guys look like two seals fighting over a grape."

While the three of them were talking with each other Reaper went back to the place where he stabbed Vanko to make sure that he was dead.

At first Kenichi wanted to save Ivan that's why he was going to find his father and save him so that he will forget about his grudge and take care of his father but he couldn't find them and he thought he didn't have that much contacts in Russia but when he found out that his father is dead Kenichi knew there was no way to save Ivan as he had already sensed the hatred he has for Tony when he read his memories, Ivan's plan to destroy Stark's legacy by causing as much destruction as possible with these Drones clearly showed his insanity. Thankfully he brought the masters and others here and together they were able to stop any casualty of course there were some injured people but it wasn't life threatening and Stark will be able to pay them some compensation or make Hammer Industries for it.

Thinking about what happened even though he tried to change it, Kenichi couldn't help but think that it was a Cannon event and he couldn't affect it. Something that pissed him off, and wanted to see how much he could derail the Cannon event from now on.

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Next Day, Inside Some Building, Tony is sitting on a table. SHIELD logo is there.

Picks up file. AVENGERS INITIATIVE PREMLIMIARY REPORT

Nick Fury enters while looking and stops him opening it.

"I don't think I want you looking at that. I'm not sure it pertains to you anymore. Now this on the other hand, is Agent Romanoff's assessment of you. Read it." Fury said as he Hands Tony the file.

""Personality overview. Mr Stark displays compulsive behaviour." In my own defence, that was last week. "Prone to self-destructive tendencies." I was dying. I mean, please. Aren't we all? "Textbook narcissism"? Agreed. Okay, here it is. "Recruitment assessment for Avenger Initiative. Iron Man? Yes." I am sure I rejected you the last time right." Tony stated

"Read on." Fury said

" "Tony Stark not… Not recommended"? That doesn't make any sense. How can you approve me but not approve me? I got a new ticker. I'm trying to do right by Pepper. I'm in a stable-ish relationship." Tony said, "That's also the reason I didn't fire Mary even though I knew she was a SHIELD Agent"

"You knew?" asked Fury while raising his single eyebrow.

"Of course who do you think I am? I am Tony Stark how can I not find about your agent"

"Kenichi Shirahama told you about her didn't he"

"What? Kenichi told me about it! No way you think I won't be able to find out about her" Tony said but his expression clearly gave him away.

"Yes, he did. And he also told me about the fact that you knew about the palladium poisoning and still kept my father's belongings away from me so that I would be thankful to you when you gave it to me as my last hope for survival" Tony said as he stood up, "I don't like being manipulated Fury, Kenichi knows that hence he didn't speak anymore of this matter but even I know that you wanted me and this way it would be easier to handle me. Next time come through proper channel if you want something"

As Tony decided to walk away Fury spoke "You and Colonel Rhodes are being honoured in Washington and need a presenter right."

"Yes"

"I will make sure that you will enjoy it"

"I am looking forward to it then."