The Boy Who Fell From The Sky

Chapter Nineteen

Winn still hadn't closed his mouth. Kara was a little bit worried that she had maybe broken his brain. Waving a hand in front of his face she tried to get his attention. A sigh of relief left her when he blinked rapidly for a minute before the babbling started.

Kara shook her head and took out her S-Phone to text Daphne, it looked like she was going to be a little while.

"So, with the icing problem solved," said Clark as he perused the Mark 3 specs. "We still have to improve the assembly system."

"I'm thinking autonomous?" said Tony, thinking out loud as he clunked around with the boots on. "It would be useful to not have to rely on equipment to get the thing on and off."

Clark stared at Tony with wide eyes. "That's..."

'Perfectly doable, sir,' chipped in JARVIS. 'There are some experimental projects in Research and Development that might be helpful.'

And Tony was completely distracted as JARVIS filled his vision with multiple holographic screens.

It was just as well as Clark's phone rang. Pulling the S-Phone out he grinned as he saw who was calling.

Waving to Tony, who was not paying attention, he zipped upstairs to the empty living room to take the call.

"Hey, Ted!" he greeted his sort of psuedo cousin slash uncle but definitely close friend Teddy Lupin. "What's going on?"

Teds excited voice drifted through the speaker. "Hey Clark!" replied the slightly older teen enthusiastically. "I was just on my way to work when I saw one of the international papers. How come you never called to tell me about Tony going missing? You guys have a falling out or something?"

Clark sighed as he sat down on the sofa and ran a hand through his hair. "No, nothing like that. I'm sorry man, but when Tony went missing I was barely handling it. Mom and Dad tried to help but we just didn't know where he was, or if he was alive or not? I guess in the panic and grief it just slipped my mind to call."

"Hey listen, Kid," came Ted's placating but also slightly joking voice. "I get it, just don't let it happen again," he chided mockingly. "I read that he's back and already making waves, huh?"

Clark bristled at the Kid comment, which the MetaMorphWolf had picked up from Tony, but didn't comment on it. Instead he thought about the 'waves' Tony was making and smirked. "You have no idea bro," he replied latching the bro in the end to tease him since he always tried to lord it over him that technically he was Clark's uncle.

Ted, like Clark, chose not to take the bait but changed the subject, or he thought he did. "So you guys heard about that robot attacking those terrorists down in Afghanistan?"

"Gulmira," corrected Clark unconsciously. "And yeah, Tony said that when he was kidnapped he was kept with a guy from there, he said they killed his family."

Clark didn't question why Ted was reading about international terrorism. Ted was notorious for being outspoken about the revealing of the Wizarding World's existence to the rest of the world. It was an unpopular opinion with the rest of his family including Clark's. But because Ted was so interested in integrating their two worlds, he usually kept up with muggle news.

Which was why Clark was wondering how it took him this long to find out about Tony.

"Man that sucks," replied Ted about Yinsen. "I missed so much with my internship."

Clark's eyebrows rose, he denied firmly that he was jealous about Ted graduating a year before him but he hadn't known about any internship that his friend had applied for.

"Internship?" asked Clark curiously.

"Yeah!" came the excited reply from the wizard. "I got into a last minute internship program at, get this... " he paused dramatically making Clark roll his eyes but the next minute he was blown away. "...Hogwarts!"

"Wait, what?!" Clark exclaimed loudly. "You're joking right?"

He could hear Ted's delighted laugh on the other end as he gasped into the phone. "No I'm not, and in telling you Clark, it's even better than we imagined!"

Clark swore violently. "I can't believe you got to go to Hogwarts before me!" he complained in a near whine.

Ted snorted. "And pray tell how exactly would a muggle such as yourself even manage to get to Hogwarts?"

Clark checked the walls with his vision before answering. "Well I'm not just any muggle, am I?" Ted knew his secret, if his parents knew that he had told his friend then there would be hell to pay but it had been nice confiding in someone not as close knit as his family was.

"Last I checked magic still worked on you," Ted shot back. "So how would you avoid the Notice Me Not charms and the aversion wards? Besides you can't tell me you can actually run across the ocean to get to Scotland, can you? You can't be that fast?!"

Clark sighed conceding the point. "No, I'm not that fast. Yet. But I'm getting faster everyday. Last week I ran from Smallville to LA in about two hours, man."

"Wow... " said Ted appropriately before. "... Is that fast?"

Clark huffed at his friends ignorance. "Ted thats faster than a plane and definitely faster than a broom," he taunted recalling their previous races that they held, out of sight of the family, whenever the Lupin-Tonks brood visited.

Ted scoffed. "You say that now, but you haven't seen the speeds my new Thunderbolt SS can hit."

"Is that out already?" he asked in wonder already cursing the fact that they were so detached from some of the best parts of the Wizarding World. He loved Quidditch and tracked the league almost as obsessively as he had heard his parents old friend Ron used to. God did Clark sometimes wish he could fly. Brooms needed inherent magic to power it, just like a wand so he had only experienced flying while sitting behind his dad, and nowadays he was too big to do that anymore.

"Yup, and I'm gonna smoke you farmboy!"

Clark rolled his eyes. Ted's attempt at American trash talk always fell flat what with his little English mostly French accent.

"Yeah, yeah," he said with a laugh. "You're all talk Lupin, let's see you back it up."

His returning volley was lost to him as the sound of Tony struggling came up to his enhanced ears and he hurriedly hung up and zipped back down to the workshop only to stop with a laugh at Tony making DUM-E apply the salve his mom had sent over, to his shoulder blades. The robot, as usual was being more of a nuisance then help, making Tony irate.

Stifling his laughter Clark moved forward to take the jar of salve from the excitable robot and help Tony out before he pulled out DUM-E's circuitry.

Finally after a lot of deliberations and explanations and at least one more demonstration Kara managed to convince Winn that he was not hallucinating and convey to him what she needed his help for. Of course Winn was over the moon with the request and very humbled by the fact that she immediately thought of him being one of the few people she could trust with her secret.

However her trip to National City was cut short when her cell went off with Tony requesting her assistance pronto. Leaving the distracted man on the roof of CatCo muttering to himself about his best friend being an alien and making sure he knew that she would call soon, Kara shot into the sky and rose above the clouds to return to LA.

Her show of reluctance at Tony's request to help hack Obidaiah Stane's computer was just that; a show. Truth be told she had always been suspicious of Tony's godfathers general demeanor. Stane was always a bit too eager to please the board and also a bit too anxious to get the weapons delivered. He took a special interest in a majorly automated process and needlessly scrutinized the delivery staff.

His heart rate was always up when he was around Tony but the man did take blood pressure medication so Kara chalked that up to his condition. Scanning his computer though while she was downloading the files Kara superspeed read through the secret documents that detailed the nefarious plan that Tony's business partner and mentor had concocted in order to take over the company.

It was fortunate that the office was empty because when she finally put all the pieces together her eyes lit up blue and she barely managed to avoid roasting the monitor in front of her.

The ding of the elevator on the far side of the floor reached her enhanced ears before she managed to do any actual damage to Stane's office and as she heard the familiar but unwelcome click of Stane's expensive shoes on the hardwood floor, she quickly closed the previously opened windows and locked the computer back up just as the files completed downloading.

Grabbing the drive off the hub it was plugged into, Kara opened the back window and jumped out of the fifteenth floor and flew quickly up to the roof.

Catching her breath she scanned the building with her vision and saw Stane settle in his chair and log in to his computer, completely unaware of who had been in his office minutes ago.

Kara stared at the drive, Tony needed the evidence on this drive to stop Stane but she had also seen Stane's plan to build a suit similar to Tony's, but larger and more deadly. She needed to contact the authorities on this matter as well, but the police wasn't going to cut it.

Fortunately someone had been hanging around SI for the last few days, demanding a debrief from Tony. Someone who she knew. Someone who also knew her secret and someone who she trusted to not betray her. Thankfully she had his number on speed dial as well.

Whipping out her S-Phone she called him. "Hi Phil!" she greeted cheerfully, even though she wasn't feeling very happy right now. "I think it's time for that debrief you were asking for."

Clark was frowning at Tony. He had been staring at those plans for the last ten minutes and doing nothing with them. It was so completely unlike him that he hadn't failed to notice. Normally Tony's mouth and hands ran at alternating speeds but they were usually both way above overdrive. A quiet Tony was so unusual that Clark had to ask.

"Tony what's going on?" he asked turning away from his own blueprints and focusing on the inventor. "What's wrong?"

Tony snapped out of his melancholy but his eyes were still downcast. "Oh, it's nothing."

Clark frowned. He didn't need to hear his heartbeat to catch the lie, besides his heart now sounded strange with that reactor so close to it.

"Tony..." he prodded hoping the older man would be honest with him.

He sighed but relented. "I sent Kara to Stane's office with a mission."

His interest piqued with Kara's name in there, he nodded for Tony to continue. "I think he's involved in this somehow, maybe some side hustle, I don't know. I'm thinking those Ten Ring fuckers have got something on Obi and he's agreed to supply them with my weapons to keep them quiet."

Clark's eyes widened at the suggestion. Granted he didn't really know Mr Stane but he had known the man for as long he knew Tony, he couldn't believe that Stane would do anything like that, no matter the leverage anyone had on him.

Tony shrugged listlessly as he tried to think up excuses for his godfathers actions. "Jay's uncovered some damning evidence but if Kara finds out what they have on him, I can help get him out before he realizes who exactly he's dealing with."

Clark frowned at Tony's conclusions but couldn't offer anything but another sympathetic nod to the man. Clark knew Tony cared for Stane, he knew that Tony would do anything to help his old mentor.

Tony huffed out another breath. "I just wish he had trusted me more, I could have helped him..." Tony trailed off getting lost in his thoughts.

"So where's Kara now?" he asked gently. "Is she back from Mr Stane's office."

Tony shook his head. "I told her to bring the files straight back to me. She's due back around fiveish?" he asked more than answered.

Clark blinked. "Tony it's almost eight!" he exclaimed leaping off his bench and almost toppling it over.

Tony shook his head and looked around frantically at the clockless room. "What?" he searched hurriedly for his phone spotting it next to U and hurrying over to it even as Clark whipped his own out and dialed the PAs number.

Tony muttered to himself as he unlocked the phone and showed the screen to Clark. "No missed calls!" he said now positively panicking.

Clark shook his head as well as Kara's phone went to voice mail. "She's not picking up either." He said trying again but getting the same result.

The two men looked helplessly at each other before Tony straightened up.

"Clark I need your help."

Minutes later Clark was zipping across the highway. Tony had asked him to run to SI and check on Kara at Stane's office while he closed the workshop and met him there in his car.

The superspeeding Alien had no idea that as he was running from the mansion another car was pulling up the drive. Obidiah Stane's car.

He arrived outside Stark Industries and slowed down incase the night staff spotted his abilities.

Walking up to the gates he buzzed the intercom and showed his VIP pass to get the night watchman to let him in. Explaining that Mr Stark had sent him to fetch Ms Danvers, Clark was escorted inside the building and after entering the security code, was given access to the administration floor.

Feeling grateful that the guard didn't follow him up Clark trudged into Kara's work place and scanned the entire floor with his vision for any sign of life. Finding none he frowned and pulled out his phone to call Tony.

He didn't pick up. After the third failed attempt he tried the land-line and sagged in relief as he got through.

'Hello?' came the familiar English accented voice.

"JARVIS?"

'Master Clark,' replied JARVIS and did he detect a hint of relief in his voice? 'It is fortuitous for you to call, Mr Stark requires assistance, Mr Stane has removed his arc reactor. If he doesn't get an alternate power source, I'm afraid...' The AI trailed off uncertainty but he didn't have to finish the thought.

Clark was already on the move. There was no time for the elevator, he zipped through to Stane's office and didn't even bother opening the window, just jumped through leaving a mess of glass, wood and metal in his wake as he fell througn the air.

Closing his eyes Clark braced for impact as he saw the tarmac down below rush up towards him. Surprisingly it took a little longer than he expected and even as he hit the ground he realized that he barely made a dent in the tarmac. But he didn't have time to ponder that peculiarity as Clark shot forwards at twice his fastest clocked speed arriving at Tony's mansion mere ten seconds after JARVIS had hung up.

Shooting through the house he searched for his brother only to find him in his workshop lying on the ground with a mess of glass litttered around him. He was gasping for breath and the gaping hole in his chest gave Clark pause.

Completely out of his element and with one of his closest friends dying in front of him Clark felt the vestiges of the old panic surfacing but he ruthlessly shoved the instinct down. Tony needed him. Shooting over to the prone man he took Tony in his arms and held him close.

"Tony!" he gasped. "Tony stay with me!"

His eyelids fluttered as Tony opened his eyes and managed a small smile. "C-Clark... Hey..."

Clark shook his head. "Where's your back up Tony? Where is it?!" he asked frantically even as he felt Tony's heart slow down. No, he would not, could not, lose Tony!

Tony attempted to point behind him "... fell..." he managed before his breath stuttered.

Clark glanced around hastily not even bothering to use his vision as he looked for another arc reactor. He was just losing hope before a soft whirring noise interrupted his thoughts and DUM-E came into view. The robotic arm retracted down and in its claws, set in a square presentation box was the Gen 1 arc reactor with the words 'Proof That Tony Stark Has A Heart' written around it.

Clark nearly cried with joy as he took the box from the robot and crushed the glass in his hands to get the power source out. Without preamble he shoved the reactor in and twisted it, locking it in place even as Tony's chest lit up and he sat forward with a huge gasp of air.

He gripped Clark's arm and gasped out. "Where's Kara?"

Clark shook his head tear of relief and despair finally falling. "I don't know," he replied. "She wasn't at the office."

Just then James Rhodes voice echoed down the stairs and seconds later he came running down to them. Yelling Tony's name over and over.

His relief just like Clark's and Tony's were short lived, though he did manage to alleviate the worry about Kara out of their minds. Apparently she had found damning evidence on Stane and was already handing them over to the authorities. Said authorities were on their way, with Kara going to arrest Stane.

"That's not going to be enough," Tony spoke in horror at the trap Kara and the Agents were walking into.

Tony was a flurry of actions as he quickly donned the suit, rebuffing Rhodey's request of one and very strongly rejecting Clark's offer to help. The look he gave the teen was clear. As soon as Rhodey left he was to make his way over to the Arc Reactor facility.

Clark had nodded his understanding of the look and didn't put up the token protest at being left behind again. Because for the first time, he wasn't being left behind, and it was time for the alien from Krypton and the farmboy from Smallville, to prove himself.

Susan Bones had been more than surprised when Daphne had come to her with this proposal. She had been looking for a job in LA, which had proven to be very difficult. Daughter of the first female Head of The Department of Magical Law Enforcement and a honor graduate from Hogwarts with four Outstanding OWLS might sound impressive in the Wizarding World but in the Muggle world, it meant all of hippogriff shite. Even coffee shops require at least some proof of formal education and so she had been very shamefully leeching off of her well paid girlfriend for the last few months.

She had had mixed feelings about Daphs request that she take up an internship position at the offices situated in the facility on the outskirts of LA that was dedicated to the upkeep and maintenance of the giant Arc Reactor that Tony had finished building in honor of his father.

This had seemed to be a very strange request until Daph revealed her ulterior motive for Sue taking up this unpaid position. She wanted magical surveillance on Obidiah Stane. Apparently he had been making frequent trips to the site and a surface reading of his thoughts by a very competent Legilimens in Daphne, had revealed some alarming levels of anger and hatred towards Tony.

So she had had the priveledge to be a glorified gofer for the entire science and administerial staff. The benefit was that when Stane came visiting and her well dressed buxom self presented him with his morning coffee, he was none the wiser. Especially about the few drops of delayed reaction Veritaserum into his coffee.

What she found out was both revealing and revolting, she had personally witnessed Stane and Tony's relationship and to think that this man, who already had money, power and influence would conspire to have Tony, who trusted him, assassinated made Susan's blood boil and it was all she could do not to hex the life out of the man right then and there. A quick memory modification later she reported her findings to Daphne who was equally incensed. Unfortunately, because their findings were derived through magical means they couldn't really confide in Tony but they both resolved to keep an eye on Stane just incase he tried something.

So it was no surprise to her when in the middle of the night the monitoring charm she had set around Arc Reactor facility keyed to Stane, went off. Waking Daphne the two got dressed in form fitting black jeans and jackets, cast Disillusion charms on themselves and Apparated to the breakroom Susan had become familiar with during her brief internship.

Silencing their shoes they hurried out of the breakroom and made their way to the labs. At the same time a door opened to the side and six men in suits one with a shorter stature and a slightly receding hairline walked in with Kara Danvers on their heels.

The two witches shared touched hands calling back to their training during the war and flattened themselves against the wall lest they be bumped into.

As they listened to the Agents and their boss talk they picked up on the fact that they were now all aware of Stane's treachery. Their elation was short lived though as two bright lights lit up in the darker section of the lab and Kara stumbled back as a giant behemoth of a robot stomped out of the shadows.

Susan watched Kara duck as one of its arms came down to swipe at her, the Agent next to her wasn't so lucky as he flew back from the hit and only Daphne's silent cushioning charm saved him from splattering on the wall.

There was an exclamation of surprise as Iron Mongers other arm came up revealing a recessed gattling gun that started spinning giving them only a second to react. Most dived for the floor but Susan had the wherewithal to cast a massively arcing invisible shield charm to stop the large caliber bullets from huritng anyone. Unfortunately Kara was way too close to the giant machine for her to protect and her eyes widened in fear as the hail of bullets came her way.

What she saw next took a second to sink in. She saw the stream of fire erupt from the guns muzzle. She saw at least five bullets rain towards her boss and then she saw her stand unflinchingly as the bullets hit her. And nothing. She was still standing! Kara Danvers was still standing after being hit with five large caliber bullets!

The gasp next to her told Sue that Daphne had seen it as well.

Even the machine gave pause as with small clinks five bits of crumpled metal fell to the floor as Kara brushed her clothes down.

"What are you?!" came a heavy metallic voice from inside the ginormous suit. Only then did the witches realize that Stane was inside the machine.

Kara only smirked as she checked around herself to confirm that she was now the only one standing as the other Agents had dove for cover.

"My turn!" she said with a smile as she pulled back a fist and punched Iron Monger straight through lab wall and into the lawn behind the facility.

Sue's jaw hung open for a minute as Kara looked around her and rushed over to help the shorter Agent to his feet. The man looked from Kara to the hole in the wall, then back to Kara. "Good work," he muttered approvingly showing that he knew about Kara's abilities.

"He's still alive," she replied. "I can hear him breathing," so super senses as well, thought Susan unconsciously cataloging all the new abilities mentally. "He's about to get up." Kara made to rush out but the Agent stopped her.

He nodded off to the distant horizon. "I don't think you need to reveal yourself, right now," he said just as a gold and red speck came into view.

Their was huge rush of noise as the red and gold robotic suit circled the area and dropped down onto the lawn unconsciously putting itself between the giant suit and Kara and the Agents.

Clark sped through the streets of LA as fast as he could while avoiding the public eye. It wasn't long before he arrived at the facility but because of his dodging into alleyways he arrived a little bit later than Tony and watched as a hulking grey suit of armor punched Tony in the stomach sending him flying through a wall.

Clark didn't waste time. He couldn't really slow down in case someone recognized him but he also couldn't risk being focused on as a third party player helping Tony. If tomorrow's news read a superspeeding humanoid helps defend Stark Industries his mom would flay him alive and his dad would be close behind.

So as much as he wanted to attack this huge behemoth of a robot suit, he instead sped of to where Tony had disappeared.

He came just in time to see the red and gold suit pull himself out of a mess of debris and a tangle of cables. His reactors whizzed as he nodded to Clark.

"Tony!" he yelled as a loud explosion rocked the building, Iron Monger had fired a missile into the hole he had sent Tony through. "What should I do?" he asked panicking, this was his very first high pressure situation since The Man with the Metal Arm. Tony took his panic in stride though and his metallic voice came out of the speakers like a command.

"Protect the innocents Kid," he said as he stomped back towards Stane. "There's a chance this might spill onto the streets, don't let them get hurt." He nodded eagerly and went to speed away but Tony stopped him. "Clark!" he said sharply. Clark waited. "Don't get seen!" he said finally as he turned and shot out of the hole he had come through launching an array of heat seeking missiles at Iron Mongers extremities.

Clark took a deep breath and let it out. Appreciating the pep talk and the trust that Tony was putting in him, he shot off out the side of the building and used his x-ray vision to monitor the fight, waiting in the wings to see if he was needed.

Kara was also waiting but she was also on the move as she made her way over to the exit and told the Agents remaining in the building to take the fire exit and leave, somehow miraculously they had all survived Stane's rampage, but she could see it in there eyes that they were not equipped to deal with something like Iron Monger, but Phil wasn't having it.

"I'm not leaving, Kara!" he repeated adamantly.

Kara shook her head and pulled him to the side, keeping an x-ray eye on the fight, which by now had spilled onto the street.

"Phil do you think I can't take care of myself?"

He shook his head. "You know I don't think that," he replied quickly.

"Or maybe you don't trust me enough to handle this."

Now was on the back foot. "Now Kara... You know that's not it."

"Or maybe you're under orders to watch over the alien girl, incase she goes crazy?" she asked viciously, feeling bad but not bad enough to stop. Phil needed to realize that she was no longer they young girl he had found, who had clutched his hand in fear and had broke down crying when she had fractured two of his fingers. And yet he still had comforted her and looked after her. She would be eternally grateful to Phil Coulson but she didn't want to be coddled. She had the power to do some good. And if Tony Stark could do it, then so could she.

At Phil's defiant look she sighed and nodded to the fighting suits of armor. "What exactly do you think can hurt me?" she asked, changing tact. "Their guns and missiles can't do anything to me. And if you stay here, you might get hurt. And I don't need that on my conscience."

His eyes softened and the man teetered back on his heels for a moment before looking back at his men all of whom looked terrified at facing Iron Monger again.

"They need you," she whispered, as his eyes connected back with hers. "I don't."

Phil shook his head before giving a rueful smile. "No you don't anymore, do you?" he asked softly. And she shook her head. No she didn't need him or SHIELD anymore. "But that doesn't mean I won't come if you call," he finally relented. "Fury won't like this, but you're right, I need to get these men out of here. But I'm not leaving, I'm coming back with back up that can actually handle this sort of thing."

"I'll talk to Fury for you," she replied cheekily. "And tell Romanoff and Barton to not bother, I'll have this wrapped up before they get back from wherever they are right now."

Phil only scowled before he herded his men out of the building and Kara watched as both armored suits started to rise into the air.

Clark let out a breath of relief as he set down the SUV safely on the other side of the road, away from the fighting men in armored suits, and nodded to the family in the car as they breathed a sigh of relief at their good fortune.

Of course they couldn't really see Clark's face since he had commandeered a fallen motorcycle helmet as a make shift mask, left with no alternative he gave them a thumbs up before he flashed past the car to go see what was going on with Tony and Stane.

Not spotting them on the ground he glanced around until his keen eyes spied them hurtling through the air rising further and further up.

Clark groaned as he looked around uselessly for something to do before rushing off knowing he would be of no help to Tony in the air. He sped up the wall of SI, a skill he had been practicing with Tony for the past week. Running up the side of the building he jumped atop the roof and scanned the skies once more in vain; Tony and Stane were now out of the range of even his keen eyes.

Clark shook his head and decided to wait and use the vantage point to his advantage to scout out Tony's eventual return to Earth.

Susan and Daphne were sticking close to Kara and were thanking Merlin for their foresight with silencing their shoes because it had proven useful when Kara has somehow heard a plastic cup drop in the next room and had proceeded to melt the entire wall of the room with some sort of fire vision from her eyes.

The closest Daphne had ever seen such form of fire was in Fiendfyre which burned pretty much as hot as Kara's vision blast since it was also capable of melting walls in matter of seconds.

Watching Kara chastise herself for losing control at a time like this, was quite endearing but it did little to alleviate their apprehension at the fact that their cute and considerate friend/boss was so dangerously powerful.

They also caught her looking fixated at random walls and the ceiling for a couple of minutes at a time. Once she threw her hands up and muttered, "Oh gosh, now they're in the air, and of course I can't follow..." she said as she punched in the code to start the reactor overload as Tony had asked her to. "... Of all the things he wants me to do...".she continued to mutter. "That man..."

Daph and Sue touched hands again to make sure they were still next to each other before they settled behind their mysterious friend to wait for what ever happened next.

"Oh!" Kara exclaimed suddenly. "If Stane stole Tony's reactor then what happened to Clark?!" she asked herself in a slight panic. "Did he get hurt? He just a kid!"

Kara pulled out her phone and started calling Clark, frowning when he didn't pick up. Just as she was making the call for the fourth time, there was an almighty crash up on top of the building. The Iron Suits had come back down, only this time Stane was the one worse for wear.

Tony was gasping for breath as he landed on the roof of the Arc Reactor. Despite his smugness when talking to Stane he did definitely feel the pressure of space as the atmosphere thinned the further they went. Thankfully the hubris of Stane that he had been counting on paid off and his suit iced over allowing Tony some breathing room.

Tony stumbled down toward the skylight that showed the pulsing even as the suit sparked and Kara yelled in his ear asking what was happening.

All he had was time to say that he needed to get his suit off before a large shadow fell before him and he had barely enough time to scramble as Iron Monger started to attack him again.

Stane was relentless as he punched Tony across the roof and he felt bits of the armor fall of as it became too damaged to keep him protected.

Stane threw a punch at him that he had to roll under, only for the bigger suits arm to reach down and scoop him up into a bear hug.

His vision swam as the huge arms dented his armor and short circuited his system. He tried to deploy flares to distract Stane but it was useless as the command didn't go through. Tony was on the verge of blacking out before Stane was forcibly pulled off him and tossed across the roof like a child's toy.

Tony stared as he saw the back of the Kid as he stood there, closed motorcycle helmet on, clashing horribly with his plaid shirt, his fists clenched, he stood like a sentinal in front of Tony saying without talking that Stane would have to go through him to get lt Tony.

Stane stumbled back to his feet and smiled as the outer shell of his suit popped open to reveal its pilot smirking at Clark.

"Who are you supposed to be?" he asked arrogantly as Iron Monger stomped back towards them.

Tony could almost see Clark smirk inside the helmet and there was a bright red light on the visor of the helmet before two red beams of light shone through, shattering the helmet apart and sweeping down to cut off Iron Monger's legs at the knees.

Stane stared in abject terror at the momentary red eyed Clark before the fire left them and he toppled over onto the skylight.

Tony pressed his comm and told Kara to overload the reactor and Clark shielded him as the entire thing blew up releasing a ton of energy straight up into the sky.

Kara pressed the button hoping against hope that she would get to Tony in time to be able to protect him from the explosion. But just as the arc reactor pulsed she saw a pane of glass fall from the skylight and straight on top of her. She would have easily dodged it with her speed if she wasn't distracted for that second as something grabbed a hold of her and the next second she felt an immense squeezing sensation and she was falling to her knees in the parking lot watching the white blue light, that she had triggered shoot up into the sky.

Panicked at her predicament and fearing that she was too late to save Tony she spun around to confront her teleporter and paused as she caught sight of the red hair.

"Susan?" she asked hesitantly, still a little out of breath.

"Hey, Kara," she replied awkwardly. "So I'm guessing we need to talk?" She asked pointedly looking down at Kara's shoes.

When the Kryptonian followed her gaze, she realized that in her indignation and fear, she had lost control again and she was now floating a foot above ground.

Sighing she dropped back down but didn't answer Susan. "I need to get back!" she said frantically. "Tony, he's still up there."

Susan shook her head, no. "Daphne got Tony out," she said quickly. "I was supposed to get you out and she him."

Kara frowned. "Well did she?" Kara asked, still anxious.

Susan glanced around behind them then nodded. There was shower of green sparks that rose above the buildings blocks down.

"Yes," she finally answered pointing at the sparks. "Green means he's okay."

Kara didn't know how she knew but she felt Susan's honesty in her words. However that did mean that Susan was right.

"So I guess you're right," she said folding her arms and trying to stare down the first person she had met aside from herself with extraordinary powers. "We do need to talk.

Hello! Long time no write! How are you guys doing? I tell you I've never been more happy not being an American. And that is just about all the politics I'll discuss on this platform.

So new chapter bitches! I hope you enjoyed. Basically this is the ending of Iron Man 1. I hope the changes to suit the invasion of two separate universes came off as naturally as I thought it did.

Won't put a longer note here, just enjoy the new chapter and review if ya like! Cheers.