Iron Man - Part 1

3rd Person POV.

In the middle of a desert, a man can be seen staggering, on his chest there was a blue glow, that man is Tony Stark.

Tony Stark POV.

Escaping the kidnappers to die of heatstroke, what a fate, but what hurts me is the fact that if I die, there will be no one to stop my weapons from being sold to these terrorists.

Maybe the heat was starting to affect my mind as I could see a starry being wearing a turban and desert clothes riding a camel, I'm definitely hallucinating.

"hey, looks like you need some water" the being said to me and threw me a bottle of water.

Looks like I'm not hallucinating, I thought and drank the water, the feeling of the liquid running down my dry throat tells me I'm not really hallucinating.

Am I not hallucinating? Same? Not even a bit? So who is the constellation mister on the camel?

"thank you so much for the water sir?" I thank you and ask.

"Eric, my name is Eric" the constellation mister now Eric answers me.

"oh yes, thank you so much for the water Eric, it's not to be ungrateful, but what are you?" I ask dubiously, this man doesn't seem like the type you meet around every corner or else I wouldn't have confused him with hallucinations so often.

"Spaceman, you know, Alien, what about you?"

"-"

"i mean, you have a light in your chest and you are in the middle of the desert"

"-"

"you traveled back in time and here wasn't a desert? Or rather, here is no longer a desert where you came from?".

1st Person POV.

He passed out, better take him somewhere else.

I nod and teleport us to a hotel near the desert, let's see how he's doing.

Signs of heat stroke, broken arm, some superficial wounds, oh my god bless that liver, meh better heal it all, so I nod and his wounds heal, he starts to wake up and looks at me.

"good morning sleeping beauty, are you feeling better?". I tell him

"How long have I been gone?" he asks me, 5 minutes, but I better say it was days.

"you've been gone for 5 days" I reply.

"Damn, you wouldn't have a phone with you would you?" he asks me and I materialize one behind my back and hand it to him.

James Rhodes POV.

Damn, Tony has been missing for over 3 months, I have to think of some way to find him, so I hear my phone ring and see it's an unknown number.

"who are you? How did I get this number?" I answer and ask.

"Damn Rhodes, what a way to greet a friend." A familiar voice says into the phone.

"Tony?" I ask anxiously.

"Who do you think? Can you send a plane here? I'm in a hotel in the middle of the middle east." Damn, I need to make some calls.

5 hours later and I'm on a plane about to land on the runway that told Tony to go, and sure enough, I didn't expect to see what a man looks like, but the skin sure isn't normal, wait, is that racist? Better ask Tony who this man is.

"next time, you go in my car". I tell him.

"sure, but before we have things to sort out". He laughs and says.

"So Tony, who's your new friend?" I ask as I look at the starry-skinned man.

"oh, this is Eric, he took me out of the desert, I agreed to give him a ride to the united states." So he's the one who saved Tony, I should be sure of his intentions, but I'll let it go in retribution for what he did.

Later that day.

1st Person POV.

Damn, this C-17 is awesome, the plane ramp goes down and there's Happy and Pepper waiting for Tony, I can see the joy in their eyes, oh so she's already in love with him.

We approach and Tony says.

"Your eyes are red. A few tears for your long-lost boss?".

Then Pepper responds.

"Tears of joy. I hate job hunting."

"what a cute scene". I say and they look at me.

"and who would you be?" She looks at me and says, not looking all that surprised at my appearance, I may have changed reality a little bit so they don't freak out my appearance so much, I could have disguised myself as a human, but hey, why change your appearance when you can change reality.

"oh, how disrespectful of me, my name is Eric, Eric Matarazzo" I say.

"Did you save Tony? I must thank you, I'm used to this job, I would hate to have to find a new one". She answers.

"don't worry, I'm very interested in how things will develop from now on." I say.

"Oh? What do you mean?". She asks.

"I'm sure you'll understand when you see it."