Chapter 25 Gulmira and The President's decision

At this time a suit of armour was being on Tony.

Piece by piece, the armour assembled itself around him: the arms, legs, chest plate, and finally, the mask.

The suit's systems hummed to life, and the glow of the arc reactor intensified as Tony felt the power surging through him.

The repulsors activated, lifting him gently off the ground, and he floated in place, testing his control

The balcony doors slid open in front of him, revealing the vast ocean beyond.

Without hesitation, Tony leaned forward, shooting out into the open sky.

"Jarvis speed it up to Mach 1" Tony said as he flew over the ocean.

A sonic boom appeared as Tony flew.

A wide smile prominent on his face as his heart raced like he had flew foe the first time.

The map to Gulmira glowed on his heads-up display, and he adjusted his trajectory.

Meanwhile, David, who was en route to meet Tony, saw him take off. Watching the streak of red and gold rocket toward the desert, David muttered, "This is it… Tony's about to show himself to the world."

An era of chaos about to unfold onto the world, David thought to himself.

Keeping his distance, David followed Tony's path as he landed in a village in Gulmira, a small village off many others plagued by militants.

The terrorists turned their guns on Tony, the harsh sound of gunfire ripping through the air. But the bullets bounced harmlessly off his armour.

His repulsors aiming at these terrorist and blasting them away.

David watched as Tony made quick work of these terrorists, taking off he began to land in many different places, clearing the villages in minutes.

When the last of the terrorists fell, Tony looked to the sky, preparing to head home.

Once he flew to the sky and wanted to get back home, but suddenly two F-18 jets appeared in the distance, locking onto him.

Inside a military bases.

Inside a bustling military command center, tension filled the air. Officers manned their stations, eyes glued to the large screen displaying the jets' POV.

"Sir, we've identified an unidentified flying individual—appears to be moving at Mach 1," reported the commander in charge speaking into a red phone.

"Try to establish contact, if unsuccessfully, monitor from a distance but leave it alone" The voice on the other end came to the commander.

"Yes Mr. President" he replied and cut the call.

Stepping onto the center of the command room with many people on computers and a large screen in front of him showing a pov of the fighter jet trailing Tony.

Grabbing a walkie talky, the commander spoke.

"Establish contact" he said and got a confirmation by the pilots.

The commander stood there watching as the fighter attempted contact many time but Tony was not answering, so he picked up the walkie talky again.

"Maintain distance and observe" The commander said.

"Affirmative" The pilot responded.

Tony was worried as he kept glancing back, and his heart felt relieved when he saw the two F-18 turned away and stopped chasing him.

Breathing a sigh of relief, Tony began heading back to his mansion.

Meanwhile at a distance David appeared in front of the path of the two fighter jets blocking it from keeping an eye on Tony.

Whitehouse, America.

The president was on a video call after receiving the news of what happened.

"We have to have a meeting with Superman and try to come to an understanding" The President said.

Several cabinet officials and branch leaders of the government including Shield were present at this time as well as Alexander Pierce.

"If I may speak, that is highly risky" One of the cabinet members said.

"Yes, it is, that is why we will be meeting on a barren field, we will broadcast a favourable version of this meeting to the world"

"Sir, what about the leaders of the rest of the world, Superman is an International issue now" The secretary of state questioned.

"I have held a meeting with them, they do not wish to meet Superman, So I will be leading this, if I am in danger, I want you to launch the most powerful bomb we have to take Superman out" The president announced looking seriously at everybody.

Silence remained in the meeting filled with a large amount of people when he said this, some wanted to applaud the bravery shown, some called the president a fool while some thought about there own interests would be affected.

Collectively leading into simple silence.

About an hour of flying Tony finally arrived at his mansion.

Stepping onto his balcony, the glass door slid open in front of him.

"That was impressive" David said as he. Landed besides Tony causing him to get startled.

Pointing his repulser at David, he shot, the attack hit him but it didn't even leave a scratch on David.

"Where'd you come from" Tony said when he realized that it was David, as he lowered his arm, scowling.

"Classy" David muttered a little annoyed at getting shot at.

"I was coming to meet you when I saw you fly of in this suit and wanted to see what was happening" David said even though he had already had known what Tony was planning on doing last night, when he had visited and saw him completely concentrated on fixing and upgrading his armour.

"Oh... so your a stalker" Tony said with his arms crossed.

"Trust me, it'd be a shame if you got yourself killed." David said with a chuckle.

Tony scoffed at him.

Tony scoffed. "Those F-18s wouldn't have stood a chance against me."

David gave him a sceptical look, patting his shoulder as he walked inside. "Sure, Tony. Whatever you say."

David sat on the couch, relaxing.

"Would you like coffee, tea or perhaps some water" Tony said, sarcasm dripping form his tone as he stepped towards David who was sitting on his couch like he owned it.

"Coffee would be great, thanks," David smirked, watching Tony roll his eyes.

"You know my body has still not healed form our battle last time" Tony said as he sat on the couch, feeling the fatigue from repairing and upgrading his suit finally catching up to him.

Hey, I didn't force you to fight," David replied, leaning back. "Anyway, I came here for a reason. I need information on advanced A.I. systems."

Tony arched a brow. "What's this about?"

"It's connected to those people who tried to take me down. They have an extremely advanced A.I., and I need to stop it from escaping when it sees me and destroying the files I need" David said.

Tony leaned forward, interest piqued. "I might be able to help with that."

But David shook his head. "I've got this handled. But I need you to work on something else—some kind of recovery equipment. For Captain America."

"Captain America?" Tony blinked "What now?"

"Yes," David replied. "He's been frozen since World War II, still barely alive thanks to a Super Soldier Serum."

Tony's eyes widened as David explained, leaving him speechless.

Finally, Tony stood. "Alright, I'll see what I can do. Jarvis, download everything David might need onto a USB."