I looked at Riri, the girl looked like she was getting increasingly more and more frightened by the second. I sighed, "enough!" I shouted making everyone flinch, "Tony, Maya, deal with your shit later," I patted Riri's shoulder, "for now, focus on saving your daughter's life. Is that understood?"
Tony looked at Riri, for the first time making eye contact with the girl who would be his child. He nodded, "right...yeah, sorry. Come on kid," he waved her over as he walked away to the stairs, all of us following him.
We entered the lab just as the last of Tony's many many suits exited the lab setting up a perimeter around his hour, both in air and on land. From the monitors I could see the Mandarin's men being pulled out of the ocean by the suit's and delivered to the SHIELD agents outside Tony's gates that had come for his 'protection'.
"JARVIS, scan and compile," Tony inserted the drive into her terminal.
"At once sir," JARVIS replied.
Tony sighed and looked over, silence falling over us. Pepper and I took a back seat, obviously feeling like intruders in this obviously private family esque moment. We waited, but for the longest moment no one said anything, each simply observing each other, Riri at her supposed father, Tony at his daughter and Maya at her child.
I cleared my throat, "so it seems awkward silence is a father-daughter thing huh?"
"You shut up," Tony pointed a finger at me.
"Mom...is he really my dad?" Riri asked her mother, finally breaking her silence.
Maya sighed, "yes Riri...he is."
"That….is so cool!" Riri cried out, "hey, did you really like remove your own heart and use that reactor thing instead? Hey, what do you think about wormholes? My mom don't think they're possible, but she's more of a biology pearson. Also, why does your home security suck so much? Also, do you think I can have my own suit?!"
Tony smiled, he looked at Maya, "you don't believe in wormholes?"
Maya sighed, rolling her eyes, "here we go."
Pepper smiled, though slowly it became worried. I could feel her sadness, she was worried she was being replaced….I knew how that felt. I reached out and held her hand, surprising her, "he still loves you Ms. Potts, don't forget that."
She looked back at Tony and Riri, father and daughter, both currently accusing Maya of being short sighted and stupid. Pepper sighed, "maybe...but….I don't know," she removed her hand from my grapes, "thanks..."
I sighed, "he still loves you, never forget that."
"Sir," JARVIS called out, "there seems to be something happening outside."
We all turned to see the monitor show the SHIELD container parked outside where all the terrorists were being processed. Only to have one of them throw off all his capturs before breathing out fire from his mouth, burning people before him.
"Woah!" Riri gasped before turning to her mother, "can I do that?"
"No...not yet," Maya replied. The man turned his attention towards the house, lapping over the gate before rushing towards the front door.
"I'll handle it," I replied as I rushed out the lab, "JARVIS, bring me some back up will you?"
"At once sir," the AI replied.
I rushed up and out the main door just as the Extremis infected soldier came to the glass door. I threw out both my hands and charge the repulsor in the palm of my hands.
CRASH!
He charged in thru the glass door shattering it.
PEW!
I fired out twin repulsor blast, blasting him out into the lawn. I jumped out, following behind him just as a few of Tony's suits came flying down to help.
"Fire everything and keep him down!" I cried out launching a unibeam at the man, preventing him from getting up again.
"At once sir," JARVIS acknowledged as the suits fires their own repulsor and weaponry. One was even equipped with a machine gun that fired missiles. Needless to say Tony would need to redo his law.
BOOM!
There was a sudden explosion forming a decent sized crater where the man once stood. The smoke slowly rose up and in the crater were now nothing remained.
"Kind going on overkill there JARVIS," I said, blinking at the sight before me.
"He was a walking bomb capable of blowing upto 3,000 degrees celsius, I hardly think he fits the definition of overkill."
"Okay, sassy AI," I snorted, walking back inside to the lab.
Riri was now on a table with wires and monitors attached to her person. Tony stood over her working on a few holographic readings while Maya was by her child's side, holding her hand so tight it looked like it hurt. And Pepper stood afar, still looking conflicted on even being here in the first place.
I looked down at Riri, "how you doing kid? Need a juice box?"
"Funny," Riri rolled her eyes, "what's next? Going to call me shorty and lecture me on the good old days?"
"Wasn't I like your idol or something?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Don't worry, you still are," Riri grinned.
"She's sassy," Maya chuckled, "she gets that from his side of the family," Maya motioned at Tony.
"Oh sure, blame everything on the dad, that's what I did anyway," Tony snorted as he moved to a machine near the edge of the lab to make something, Pepper approaching him and whispering something into his ear. Using my advanced hearing I was dropped.
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