Chapter 1
The shadow portal opened up in the center of a large warehouse. Douxie and Archie stepped through and crouched down behind a piece of equipment, listening for signs of movement. "This is it Arch, right over there is where the temporal anomalies start" douxie points to a massive platform made of Stark Tech.
"Ok, let's do this quickly and get out of here," Arch says. He flies overhead and shoots fire at the ring of technology, douxie presses a few buttons on his arm cuff and the blue magic shoots from the cuff, directing the dragon fire into a tight circle and melting the time portal tech to a puddle.
An alarm sounds, piercing the silence. The lights shut off, leaving them in total darkness aside from pulsing red warning beacons throughout the warehouse. Douxie fumbles around in the darkness, casting an illumination spell a moment later to come face to face with a metal suit of armor. He startles and falls backward, tripping over a table and smacking his head as he goes down. Blood pulsed from the wound and his vision blurred .
"Douxie!" Archie calls out. He swoops down and crouches over the injured wizard, raising his wings, flattening his ears, and hissing at the iron suit.
"Who sent you! Are you one of thanos lackies?" Iron man asks, pointing one of his hand blasters at the pair.
"You don't understand!" Douxie shouts, disoriented as the room spins around him. He raises his arm and shoots a stream of blue magic at iron man sending him backward into a cement wall. Tony extracts himself from the wall, leaving a crumbling dent in his wake.
"Oh yeah? Understand this!" Tony shouts angrily. He raises the blaster and shoots just as Archie releases a golden wave of dragon fire. The two forces connect and explode between them, sending everyone flying backward.
"F.R.I.D.A.Y. send a little magic my way. Set it from scarlet witch to the blue-haired freak on my floor instead" tony requests his A.I replacement for J.A.R.V.I.S.
"Right away Mr. Stark" the A.I system replies in a sexy female Irish accent.
A moment later, a ring of metal zooms through the air at lightning speed and wraps around douxies neck, locking into place. His hands fly to the collar and he tries to yank it off but it's secured snugly to his neck, made of the strongest metal in the world, vibranium.
"Ohh fuzzbuckets!" Douxie shouts, he summons his magic again just as a blinding pain shoots through him. "Aaaaghh!!!" He screams, shrinking to the floor. Every nerve feels like it's on fire, pain coursing through his body. He bucks wildly, his hands still tugging uselessly at the collar where the pain is the worst.
"Hurts, don't it," Tony says, his metal mask retracting to show his face. He paces closer to the young wizard on the ground. "It's a magic deterrent collar I designed it in case of emergencies just like this one"
Just then, their escape portal emerges out of the darkness on the other end of the warehouse.
"Arch get out of here!" Douxie cries out through the pain.
"I'm not leaving you doux, not again!" The familiar calls out, panicking at the sight of douxie writhing around on the floor in agony.
"Just go, ill be fine, LEAVE!!!" He screams desperately at the dragon.
Archie whips his head between his friend and the portal. Tony shoots another blaster beam at him and he dodges it, flying through the air. He looks back once more to his friend and calls out "I'll come back for you!" Then flies through the portal. It closes behind him with a pop, leaving the warehouse still once again save for the grunts and cries of pain as douxie struggles with the collar on the floor.
"why don't we move this talk somewhere more comfortable..." Tony says. He points a metal finger at the boy on the floor and a tranquilizer dart shoots out, hitting doux in the leg.
Moments later his struggling stops and he goes limp.