Chapter 12: Discovery

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Tony grabbed the nearest taxi and loaded his friends into the car. "Stark International building… Get me there fast and I'll let you keep the change." Tony said showing the man a 20-dollar bill. That speedometer never dipped below 70 miles.

"Tony looks angry." Pepper whispered to Rhodey.

"No kidding." Rhodey whispered back. Tony looked at his friends and groaned.

"I can hear you. But I can't believe Tricia would do this. EVER! She was part of the Stark towers for such a long time. I trusted her! I even told her that I would do anything for her! I don't know what happened. She… she…" He gulped and sighed. "She needs to pay for what she did."

(LATER)

"TONY!" But he was off storming into the building. Tony looked so dark and angry that the remaining light outside seemed to be pulling around him.

"WHERE IS TRICIA?!" Tony screamed at the front receptionist.

"Anthony? What…"

"I'm NOT going to repeat myself Mary! WHERE IS SHE?!" The receptionist, out of fear, told him that she was near Howard Stark's office like usual. Tony took off like a cheetah after its prey.

He jabbed the last floor button, and waited as elevator music boomed on top of him. Once the doors opened he jogged down the hallway to see Tricia typing on the computer.

"Tony? Oh Tony! It's so good to see you!" She said having a puzzled look on her face. She stood up, but before she could walk towards him, Tony pushed her sown onto the chair.

"Tony?"

"Don't say a WORD! I know what you did! WHY?! WE took you in as family, gave you everything you wanted!" Tricia suddenly laughed.

"I was wondering Tony, I was wondering how long it would take you to realize my secret." She suddenly grabbed Tony's arm, twisted it, and pushed him against the nearest wall. Tony yelped and struggled, but Tricia's grip was pure steel. "You see Tony, you were the only person left that I had to get rid of. Only person."

"WHAT?!" Tony said in a whisper.

"Yes, you figured it out. Your father died because of…me." She said whispering it into Tony's ear. His eyes widened.

"Wonderful. Then tell me who the heck the people are at the warehouse and the SHIELD ship are…" Tony blacked out after something hard hit his head.

"Where the heck is Tony?" Rhodey said looking around Tricia's desk. Pepper leaned in and looked on the ground.

"What are you looking for Pep?"

"Clues. If Tony is right, then there should be clues that Tricia took him away. And what do you know, I'm right!" Pepper said happily holding up a bobby-pin.

"What are we supposed to do with that? Open a door? Break into a bank?"

Pepper rolled her eyes, "How about track down Tricia in Tony's lab using her DNA that she probably left on this strand of hair?" But before the two could walk out they heard a muffled sound.

"Did you hear that Pepper?"

"No duh." She hesitantly walked towards a closet with the sounds and nodded to Rhodey. One… Two… THREE! She threw open the door only to grown pale and faint.

"No way." Rhodey slowly took out the bonds on the person and helped him up. "Hello Mr. Stark. Welcome back."

"TRICIA!" Tony said as he struggled against the ropes around his hands. Here we go again! Good job Stark, not even being careful around a dangerous psycho helper. Not even suspecting it until now. Oh wait… How did you find out Stark?

Oh I don't know Stark, I saw her fingerprints on many things and scanned them to make sure as well.

Wow Stark you are a genius… NOT! Tony said speaking to himself. STUPID STUPID STUPID!

"I hope you're not beating yourself to much over a stupid backstab Tony. You really are stupid. I've been scanning all your father's documents and blueprints, and those villains you say at the warehouse? Yes, they are robots created using your father's blueprints. The SHIELD jail cell has the real villains though. That's probably how you figured it out. It wasn't hard really. I hope you know that your father is alive."

"What? You said he was dead!" Tony said giving her a shocked look.

"Only to make you weak Tony." Tricia said giving him a loving look, a look of that from a mother. Tony looked away in disgust.

"Why did you do this? Why are you doing this?"

"I want the company. I want power, money, and most of all I want slaves. I hated working for your father Tony. I only did it so that I could learn more from his talents and get more money. But then I struck out at the right moment when Obbadiah was talking to Howard. He was distracted and you were gone. I was piloting the jet at that time and took away your father from the help from the Mandarin. But you? I took some pity and made sure that you were too weak to help out. Everything worked out according to plan. I of course forced Obbadiah to take over the company even though he didn't want to."

"What? What do you mean he didn't want to?"

"Obbadiah loved your father dearly. He knew Stark trusted him, but when I told Obbadiah that I would kill his daughter if he didn't, he changed his mind. You should have seen his face every time he treated you harshly." Tony screamed.

"YOU… YOU… YOU! AGH!" Then suddenly, there was a bang.

"WHAT?! Stay here Stark." Tricia said pulling out a gun.

"Do I have a choice?" Tony murmured. Tony watched Tricia walk away before smiling to himself. He imagined pieces of armor coming together on his body. Tony closed his eyes and when he opened them, he became Iron Man. "Alright! Computer find Tricia." The computer responded within seconds and Tony flew off into the air.

"Where is my son Tricia?" Howard said pulling Rhodey and Pepper behind him. HE wasn't about to let them get hurt the way his son did. "Where is he?"

"Like you would like to know Howard." Tricia loaded the gun and held it out in front of her pointing it directly at Howard. "Once you are gone, Tony will be mine forever, and I can do whatever I want with him too. As well as sell him you know." Howards face went red with rage, but he maintained his composure.

"Where is he?" Suddenly there was a whooshing sound.

"I'm right here!" Iron man landed on the floor and stood up to face Tricia who turned white.

"Iron Man?! How? No that's not possible!" She backed away as Tony took steps towards her. He turned towards his dad and said, "Get out of here, I will deal with her." Howard nodded and pulled the teens away thinking to himself.

That suit is really advanced. And there can be only one person who could build such a thing. Howard smiled.

"Get away from me!" Tricia fired her gun but it failed to hit Tony, all it did was bounce back right at her head. It skimmed the side of her head as she fell to the ground screaming, then she fainted.

"Well that was easy enough, better get her to the hospital then." (Okay that was really fast indeed. Didn't really see that coming!) Tony picked Tricia up bridal style and flew out of the building.

"Where is Tony?" Howard asked pacing outside. Pepper and Rhodey exchanged looks.

"Tony's fine! I mean… He was probably…"

"Saved by Iron Man!" Pepper finished. Howard turned to the teens and smiled.

"I know Iron Man is Tony. That's my son in the suit." Pepper and Rhodey's eyes widened, until Rhodey's phone rang.

"Hello? Hey Man! Yeah… Okay… Uh-huh… Really? Oh and Tony, your dad's knows." There was a scream across the phone. Rhodey grinned and hung up. "Tony's at the hospital with Tricia, he said to go meet him there."

(At the hospital)

Tony paced back and forth. How could he know?! I made sure not to make a scene, but wait… MY DAD'S ALIVE!

"Tony?" He turned around only to get a lump in his throat. "Tony… look how big you've gotten!" Howard outstretched his arms only to have Tony plow right into him.

"Dad! I thought you… you… you were dead. That accident was years ago, but…" Howard stopped his son.

"I'm so proud of you. I'm guessing that this was the surprise you wanted to show me on the plane. But I can only say that it was an ingenious design." Tony beamed. But from behind him a scream erupted. He whipped around to see Tracy, the news crew lady standing right behind him.

"Oh no." Tony hid his face in his hands.

"YOU ARE IRON MAN?! Oh this is fantastic! Brilliant! Oh we need to talk Mr. Stark!" She pulled on Tony's arm and dragged him into a room with a cameraman right behind them.

"Well, I doubt we didn't see that coming." Rhodey said with a shrug. "All well, that ends well!" Howard walked towards Tricia's room and talked to the doctor that came out.

"Hey Tony." Tony stretched his back and smiled. "I can see the interview went well."

"Yeah well… I didn't want to hide the secret anymore. Things are so much better this way. Don't have to worry about hiding anything and worry about having my secret identity forced out. Life's good." Tony said wrapping an arm around Pepper. "And I hope this gives you a message Pep." Pepper blushed and gave Tony a kiss.

"I had a feeling you two lovebirds would get together!" Tony punched Rhodey's arm. As the teen's laughed Howard walked back to them.

"Well I have some good news, and some bad news. Good news is that I was able to stop the robots and they self destructed Yada Yada. Bad news is, Tricia lost her memory. The bullet she fired retracted and hit her causing her brain to fly all over her head that also caused her to loose her memory. I guess it can be a good thing, but I doubt Tricia deserves this. At least when she gets better she can still work for me and not worry about taking over the world." Howard said smiling warily. "But I am glad that we are all together again."

"HOWARD STARK!" A woman's voice boomed. Howard flinched and looked around the room.

"Please tell me that the voice didn't belong to…"

"Roberta Rhodes? Oh it did!" Roberta started crying as she gave her long lost friend a hug. "Oh my gosh! I am so happy to see you again!" The adults talked away as the teen friends looked at each other.

"Well… Everything is over. No more worries or regrets. Saved the world from a robot attack, got a girlfriend, and got my dad back, what's not to love?"

(3 months later)

Tony, Pepper, Rhodey, Howard, and Roberta decided to have a dinner celebration. Howard finally got his company back and was back to producing helpful items for the world. Tony made a couple more suits and even created a new lab since he trashed his old one. Pepper was getting some time to work with SHIELD since Tony saved the world and Nick Fury owed a favor. Rhodey, well let's just say that he found a special someone in his life as well.

All well, that ends well.

All done! I didn't think this would be the last chapter. But it is. Oh well. I really liked this story but it was a story that went all over the place. The summary was about Extremis but it ended up being something different. Well I thnak y'all for reading my story!

And just a heads up I have another story idea and hopefully it will be uploaded soon!

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