A trip back home had been on the agenda in order to check in with the Rhodes family and their... bombed out house. And, because Tony could not be trusted to do anything on his own without being placed in grave peril, he'd brought along a friend from school ( Read more... )

( No, seriously. New Jersey. )

It was all over the news that the world was apparently being held hostage by an insane, super powered man up on a satellite. And the one thing he wanted was Iron Man. Tony lived a charmed life these days. Truly charmed.

( In which Nick Fury is not a fan of Iron Man. Shocking. )

( Because he doesn't have enough guilt issues, guys. )

( And thus, the fortunes are reversed! )

( Action Combat Beekeepers. WORD. )

After finding out the deal to sell his earthmovers was to go down today after a demonstration for the military, Tony did the mature, responsible thing like Ender and then Rhodey suggested.

...and then he used the suit to fly out there and try to stop it. Look, his teenage angst knew no bounds.

( Getting your ass handed to you by a robot isn't fun. )

There was really only so much Tony could accomplish in the school's science lab without giving into the urge to make it just for him and boot everyone else out. Which would be rude, Rhodey had informed him over the phone. He might have sighed, but that was a bit lost on Tony ( Read more... )