Tony? Are you still there?
Chapter 12
“Tony? Are you still there?”
As Steve swerved into the Stark Industries driveway, he noticed the petrified look that was plastered on Phil’s face and could not help but to allow a tiny smirk to form on his face. For Steve, he didn’t even bother to park his car in the designated park bay as he headed straight towards the entrance and parked a few feet away from the entrance and began to speed walk toward to companies front doors.
Steve swiped his access card as he led the agents to the lab area, passing the gigantic prototype Arc Reactor, that Howard Stark built.
“Section 16… Section 16” Steve kept repeating as he searched for the lab, “Ah, there it is.”
Once they were in front of the yellow door that read ‘Authorised Technicians Only ’, Steve held out the card that would have given him access the lab and swiped, however, he started to become frustrated as the door kept denying him.
He turned towards Phil who stood behind him and stated, “ My cards not working… it's- it's not opening the door as it should.”
Steve frowned as he noticed Phil reach his right arm out from the side of his body as another agent reached out to drop something in Phil’s hand.
With wide eyes, Steve began to babble “Oh, wow… what is that? Is it like a little device? Like some sort of super technology that has the ability to read and then tell you the pin or pick locks?”
Steve attempted to lean over Phil as he saw the device being planted on the yellow door, “ You might want to step back,” came Phil's voice as he turned swiftly to face Steve.
Confused Steve did as Phil said. As he jogged slightly away from the door, he began to worry as he heard the excessive beeping noises that the minuscule device made.
As Steve heard the beeping noise becoming louder, he closed his ears with his hands and shut his eyes close. Steve turned slightly as he thought nothing was going to happen when he heard that untimely, ‘BOOM!’
“Let us go,” he heard as he noticed Phil and his team slowly moving into the doors, with their hands armed.
Steve could not help but notice how eerie the place looked... all dark and gloomy. As they made their journey past the steel bridge towards the main lab, Steve walked down the few steps that were required and then turned to his left.
What he saw stopped him to the very air in his lungs.
What he saw was- no, it looked like a prototype for the suit that Tony had, however, this one screamed horror.
“Looks like you were right”, Phil said as he crossed his arms, “he was building a suit”
“Honestly, I thought it would be bigger,” Steve replied nonchalantly as he heard the soft sound of chains rattling behind him. He turned around slowly as he began to ‘explore’ his surroundings.
As he walked towards an elevated working area, Steve could not help but notice that there were sparks of electricity shooting out of the thick wires that were having from the roof.
As Steve stared at the roof that had the wires falling out of it, he became startled as he heard that loud sound of chains again, however this time instead of just rattling, they were full-on moving. Steve walked towards the large hanging chain links and came to stand right in front of it.
Steve peering into the chained links darkness and was about to turn when he saw the unmistakable bright eye lights.
‘Shit!’ Steve thought as he noticed the eyes began to move higher and higher, and that when he realized, ‘Obadiah… Obadiah was in the fucken suit.’
“AHHHHHH!!”, Steve screamed as he noticed the suit began to target him. He ran into the main area where he knew the rest of the agents were waiting for him. As he turned around the corner, he noticed the agents looking around however when they saw him they began to point in his direction once they saw the giant monster that was chasing him.
Steve honestly had never felt more frightened in his life than the moment when he had heard the agent's bullets ricochet of the massive metal suit. Steve ran for his life like he never had done before, he never was one who shied away from the fact that he hated exercising but god as his witness, his daily runs was a fucken blessing as it was coming into use.
As Steve ran, he headed into the direction of the entrance as he grabbed his phone and Bluetooth device from his pocket, he began to slow down as he entered his password, as he placed his Bluetooth device in his ear as he began to dial Tony’s number.
“ Tony! Are you okay?” Steve shouted in fear, his right hand that held his phone was visibly shaking as Steve tried to calm himself as he continued to talk to Tony
“I'm fine Steve,” Tony replied.
Stuttering Steve said, “Oba… Obadiah, Tony! He’s… he’s gone insane”
"I know Steve- Steve you have to listen to me now, you have to get out of there. Run to your car and just get the hell out of there,” Tony voiced over the phone.
“He’s got this suit… its-”
“Get out of there now Steve,” Tony interrupted him.
“And his… Tony, is there perhaps an earthquake happening right now?” Steve asked as he looked down to the tar paved ground as he noticed the large crakes forming, slowly rising from the ground was Obadiah.
“Where do you think you going?” Came the sick metallic voice.
Steve looked up in fear as he noticed the vast metal suit that began to clench its fist.
“Your services are no longer required” Steve’s eyes widened as he felt his heart dropped, he knew that if some sort of miracle did not happen within the next few seconds, he would die.
“HEYYYY!!!!!!!!!”
“Thank god!” Steve murmured in relief, as he looked into the sky, where he could make out what look liked… Tony’s suit.
However, whatever relief that Steve felt soon left his body as he saw Tony nosedive in the direction of Obadiah suit. Steve moved back as he saw Tony plummet into Obadiah and subsequently into the ground.
Steve turned as he made his way back into the building to look for Phil but stopped when he looked to the right as he observed the two metal suits soaring into the sky.
“ Please Tony, be careful.” Steve softly spoke.
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Steve stood near Phil, by the Stark Industries Arc Reactor as he was informed that Phil would be making a call to his superior.
As Phil hung up on his phone call he turned to face Steve and questioned, “ when we left the offices, did you take the lock chip with you?”
Nodding Steve said “Yes, it in the car. We can quickly retrieve it if you need it.”
“Lead the way,” came Phil's response.
Walking back outside Steve could not help but look at the sky, to see if anything new had occurred. As he saw nothing he went to retrieve the lock chip, placed it into Phil's hand when he heard, “Rogers!”
“Tony!,” Steve cried out, “ oh my god… are you okay?
“I'm almost out of power,” was the answer he got, “I gotta get out of this thing… ill be right there”
“Tony? Are you still there?” Asked Steve as he heard a complete radio silence coming from the other side of the phone.
“Rogers,” Steve heard the whisper.
“Tony?” Steve asked
In a hushed tone, Tony said “This isn’t working, were going to have to overload the reactor and blast the roof”
“But… but how are we going to do that?” Steve stammered.
“You're going to do that,” was the short reply he got before Tony sighed as he exhaled air, “Go to the central console and open up both the circuits and when I get clear to the roof I want you to hit the master pass button, it going to fry everything up here.”
"I hope you know what you doing Tony,” Steve said gently as he walked back into the building, where glass shards pooled around him.
“Okay… I'm going in now”
“Make sure you wait till I tell you that I cleared the roof up and I say time”
Doing as he was told, Steve ran to the main power station, where he began to push all the controls downwards in a hurry as he waited for Tony's clearance.
Walking towards the central console began to follow the instruction he was given to a 'T’. As he made sure that all the controls were on, and that he had the master pass button waiting and ready, all he needed was Tony to say ‘go’.
“It’s ready Tony get off the roof,” Steve shouted, as he looked up to see Tony standing on said roof.
“AHHH” Steve screamed as he heard and saw the glass from the roof smashing into pieces as it began to fall, Steve bent down to allow the impact of the glass to fall onto his back.
After he noticed the glass stopped falling, Steve took that as a sign that it was okay to leave the position he was in, until he looked up and was met with Tony, hanging for his life on the roof.“Tony !” Steve cried out.
“Steve!” Tony shouted, “time to hit the button”
“You told me not to!”
“Just do it!"
“You’ll die!” Steve screamed in agony, “You’ll die, Tony! I can’t go through what I went through a few months ago, again Tony! I refuse to go through that!”
“PUSH IT!” Screeched Tony.
Looking up to Tony, Steve felt a tear fall from his eyes. He looked back down to open the case that held the red button, opened it and for a final time he looked back up at the roof, this time searching for Tony's eyes. As he finally made eye contact Steve mouthed, ‘I'm sorry’ as he pressed down on the button.
Live electrically was the only thing that surrounds Steve but all he could think of was Tony. Steve ran away from the console as he knew that if he did not run away he would die.
Steve ran like never before, like a made person until he ran into Phil who still stood outside as, “ Get as far away from here now!” Steve wailed as he was able to get Phil and his team far away from the building before, BOOM!!!!
Steve turned around before staring in complete and utter horror. What stood in front of him used to be a magnificent place for intellects to express themselves, as Steve stood there all he saw was nothing other than a gigantic furnace, burning all the memories, good and bad that were made there.
As Steve looked at the building reminiscing, his eyes expanded as he looked at while and shouted, “Tony!”
“Phil!” Steve said as he looked at the agent, “The roof… Tonys still on the roof, while you have to get him off from there. Bring an EMT or maybe a dozen.”
“Steve,” Phil replied, “relax, we’ll handle it. I have already notified authorities to come to here A.S.A.P and they should be arriving within the next few minutes. He’ll be okay, trust me.”