26. I can never get rid of a problem

I left my Iron Legion out so Jarvis can help with saving the few that we couldn't get to during the fight.

While that was being finished, me and Bruce with slight help from Jessi, we managed to make a device capable of harnessing the Tesseract to use it to bring Thor and Loki home.

After seeing them off I invited Bruce to stay in the tower, as long as he didn't care that it'd need some remodeling.

Luckily for me, I knew this would happen so I slightly had that in mind while building my tower.

While the remodeling is being done. The three of us went back to Malibu, to continue our lives.

But continuing your life is hard when you get a reminder of what happened every time you close your eyes.

Months later. December.

Dream.

Pepper: "Don't! Don't say something like that."

"But I have to. If I don't make it back, tell her I love her. I love you."

Silence, then boom.

I barley made it back through the portal, while holding my breath.

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Fury: "Agent Coulson is dead."

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Cards got thrown on the table.

Fury: "I guess he didn't get you to sign them."

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I sat up with slight sweat on my forehead, and looked to my side to see Pepper sleeping.

I got up and made my way down to my lab like I have for a while now.

When I entered I see Jessi hugging one of my helmets.

"How's that comfortable?" - "Dad. Can't sleep either?" - "Nope. Bad dreams?" - "Yeah. Like always. You going through the portal. I knew You'd come back. You did last time and you promised. But it just brought back all the fears I had when I got sent back here." - "Hey. I'm not gonna leave you. You know that. All this advancement all this struggle to get stronger make sure I can never leave you and your mother." - "I know. That's also why I need to get strong myself. So I can help you and mom." - "Speaking of, getting stronger. Want to finish what we started. I have a feeling we're really close to finishing My new suit prototype." - "When can I make my own?" - "Let's talk when you Graduate from Hogwarts and college." - "Not far. I got excited for a moment. I thought you were going to say just Hogwarts. I should be able to get that done in a year." - "If you can do that with high marks and knowing what I knew when I graduated, we'll talk then." - "Deal."

We shook on it which made her smile.

Jessi: "You hear that Jarvis. I want a Witness."

Jarvis Materialized next to us. "Yes Young Miss. I heard it all." - "Good. I'm keeping you to it. Now let's finish this suit."

I smiled at the now energized and happy Jessi. No one likes a down and sad Jessi.

After hours of work, Which let us into the next day I think we finally got it.

"Dummy. Start tight then Work your way out as I expand.

Jarvis. Drop the mic."

Christmas Music started to play and I danced a little bit, Getting into the jam.

Jessi: "Dad. Any time now."

I stopped dancing and act like I didn't do a thing. "Yeah. Right. You ready?"

She made an exaggerated nod.

I pointed at the table where my reactor layed and gave to come to me and form the suit.

Reactor flew off the table and spun to perfectly align with my chest and started to form the chest plate before it attached to me.

When it landed on me, then the rest of the miniature Arc Reactor housing units lit up and helped form the suit.

"Cool right!"- "Come on. Do the best part."

Slightly disappointed I didn't get the reaction I want. I went onto the part that took me so long to make.

I put my hands together, then four sets of hands wrong out from my back that immediately got surrounded by armor, As four whole bodies came out and separated from my body they quickly got surrounded by the exact set of armor I'm wearing.

After all these years, this spell still tricky for me.

With extremis in my body and linked to nanites in my bloodstream, I can control technology, But I have the problem of my brain, not to control more than one suit at a time.

So I came up with this idea. I can make clones myself. Well in casing them with armor and this way, I have two separate ways to control them, but if I don't want to operate by themselves.

I hi-fived the clone to my left as I laughed, "Worked as expected."

Jessi: "Of course it did. I was directly involved."

I raised my eyebrows and smiled. "You're definitely a Stark." - "Is that a Bad thing?" - "I'm a Stark. Of course not. Let's go test how well these guys can operate by themselves."

The wall to my room of requirements and walked into a humongous blank square.

My arm opened up and I pulled out a feather and put it on the ground, then transfigured it into a chair.

"Sit here and keep a close eye."

Jarvis appeared next to The chair sitting in a holographic chair. "I'll help judge."

"You do that."

With a through guns came out of the floor and walls.

I looked at myselves. And one of them spoke. "Let's have some fun."

After hours of testing and pushing off bar, I can expand which is six suits I finally got tired and decided to stop when my main suit didn't have enough nanites to fully form.

The Six clones landed behind me with there suits not fully formed as well. The clones disappeared leaving just the suits in There place. I put what's left of my suit away and stepped back into my workshop with Jessi behind me.

Jessi: "What about the suits?" - "I want to make sure they can stay for an extended amount of time." - "Got it. TV then?" - "Sure."

I took off the reactor and put on the reactor for the suit I used during the battle.

We made our way upstairs and turned on the TV and I saw something I fully wasn't expecting to see.

Tv: "Some call me a terrorist, I consider myself a teacher…

America.. Ready for another lesson?

in 1864, In Sand Creek Colorado, The US military waited Until the friendly Cheyenne Braves had all gun hunting, To attack and slaughter the families left behind, and claim their land.

39 hours ago, the AI AI Salem Air Force Base in Kuwait was attacked.

I… I… I did that.

A quaint military church filled with wives and children, of course.. the soldiers were out on maneuvers. The Braves were away.

President Ellis. You continue to resist my attempts to educate you, sir. And now you've missed me again.

You know who I am. You don't know where I am and you'll never see me coming."

When the news came on after the high jack, I had to close my eyes.

Think about what this meant. I thought by not even giving Killian hope I hoped this wouldn't happen. The Mandarin wouldn't be a thing. I guess I was wrong.

I opened my eyes with determination. Looks like I have my next target.

Jessi: "You okay dad?" - "Yeah. I just have something to focus on now." - "The Mandarin?" - "Yes." - "Be safe." - "Me. Always. Can you go find your mother. I need to call Rhodey."