Chapter 6- Return of the Iron Monger
Tony pulled up what was the image of an inter-dimensional portal. The goal that he and Megaman wanted was to find out exactly where the portal was located. This was important so as to find out where someone was to end up when they went through.
Tony clicked on a couple things that would scan Megaman's dimension for that exact portal. It didn't take long before coming up with the portal. Then something was going wrong though. Locations of portals were appearing then disappearing all over the map of Terra.
"What the heck is this?" Tony said to himself astonished at what he was seeing. "It looks like something is opening and closing them at will letting the reaverbots get through."
"Wait a minute. These are the ruins in which these portals are appearing in. It's the reaverbots themselves. Somehow they acquired a device that allows them to create these portals and travel from my dimension to your's." Megaman explained.
"This is impressive. These machines don't have minds of their own but are somehow able to connect two dimensions. Someone has to be behind this though."
After Tony's statement, both of the men heard a large rumble in the distance. "A thunderstorm Tony?" Megaman asked.
"No. I fear it's something much worse. Quick, get your armor, use the blue kind, and I'll get into Iron Man as soon as I save this data." Tony told Megaman.
"Right away." Megaman rushed off and switched into his classic blue armor and by the time he got back, Tony was all ready inside Iron Man.
"Hide under the desk Megaman." Iron Man told the digger. Iron Man went to his own spot and ordered the lights on low. The rumbling got louder and louder. Something was coming along and neither of them knew what it was or what it could be. The rumbling stopped so sudden. The wall was then blasted off revealing the night sky.
A huge robot started to walk into Tony's lab searching for what it thought was important. It's head moved from side to side scanning the room before settling on the computer. It lumbered over to the piece of machinery.
Tony ordered the lights back on and went to fight the giant robot. Megaman got out from underneath the desk and got around back before the robot smashed the desk into two. Iron Man jumped in front of the robot and blasted it back outside with his repulsor blasts.
Iron Man followed right away and started for the robot but stopped when he realized who it was. "Obadiah!" Tony said through the speakers.
"It's good to see you too Tony. I've been waiting for this opportunity to come again. This time you'll be the one to die." Obadiah said to Tony.
The Iron Monger hit Iron Man with it's huge fists and sent him into the wall. Iron Man tried to get out of there but he couldn't move anything. His palms were at his sides which rendered him unable to fire without hitting himself. "How did you come back Obadiah?" Tony said trying to get the Iron Man armor out of the wall. "I saw you fall into the arc reactor. There's no way you could have survived that!"
"I almost thought that I was dead too. Until I looked around and saw that the armor and I were located in the desert. I made my way back to the city and found a shack large enough to store the Iron Monger. In fact, that arc reactor thing of your's gave me some time to plan my revenge. It sent me back in time about a month."
Iron Man was still struggling to get out of the wall when he saw a huge machine gun pointed towards his direction. "This time, I'll finish what I had started Tony." The weapon warmed up but slowly whined back down as Megaman jumped in the way.
"Don't you dare harm Tony!" Megaman shouted throwing his arms out to his sides. Whatever happened Megaman wouldn't give up without a fight.
"How cute. A kid trying to defend an elder." Obadiah said to himself. Obadiah then brought the speaker mechanism back towards his mouth to speak out to Megaman. "Listen kid, step out of the way so I won't have to kill you while killing Tony."
"Did you just call me kid!?" Megaman shouted angered by the term. No one really called him kid except for people that were his friends or people he knew he could trust but didn't know his name yet, and this guy didn't fall under either category. "No one calls me a kid. I'm sixteen years old and I'm not a kid anymore."
"Step out of the way!!!" Obadiah shouted giving his final warning.
"Never." Megaman uttered. Obadiah aimed the huge machine gun at Megaman and shot at him. Megaman immediately jumped out of the way and shot back not having to wait for his weapon to warm up. Megaman then remembered that he had the homing missile still equipped since his time on Elysium.
Megaman paused the game and switched over from the lifter to the homing missile. Megaman went back to fighting the overgrown robot and was able to land in a direct hit to the head region with the homing missiles.
While the Iron Monger was stunned, Megaman rushed over to Iron Man and shot out the wall that was holding him in place. Both of them had just barely gotten out of the way before a large energy blast hit the spot where Iron Man had been just seconds before.
Obadiah was in for it with two people to concentrate on, one in the air and the other on the ground. He tried shooting at one just to have the other get in the line of fire. Obadiah was furious with this then just went with the old method of swatting at them with the Iron Monger's fists.
This worked better than what he had been doing. The arms swung faster than gun fire could go off. In a few seconds, both Megaman and Iron Man were stunned and on the ground trying to get back up to fight.
The cockpit to the Iron Monger opened up revealing Obadiah Stane sitting at the controls. "It's time Tony. I've waited an entire month just to get my revenge on you." The cockpit closed back up and the large energy cannon charged up.
Megaman and Tony shut their eyes waiting for the blast to go off but it never did. They looked back up at the Iron Monger. It was trying to swat at something on it's back. The back of the Iron Monger was facing towards Megaman and Iron Man and what they saw was a suit of black and silver armor on the back.
Tony recognized the armor right away and uttered a single name so that only he could hear it, "Rhodes."
"What are you doing here Rhodes?" Obadiah said trying to get the armor off of the Iron Monger's back. "Stop interfering with my business or I'll kill you along with them."
"I guess you'll just have to kill me then." Rhodes said. A small sized cannon appeared from the armor's right shoulder and fired a repulsor blast at the wires connected to the weapons and arms. "Try to kill us now!"
"I'll return and when I do, I'll annihilate all three of you." Obadiah said. The Iron Monger's jets fired up and took the huge armor away from the fight scene.
The black and silver armor walked over to Megaman and Iron Man extending a hand out to both of them. They gabbed the hand and were pulled up off of the ground.
The visor on the Iron Man armor went up as Tony turned towards Megaman. "Megaman, I'd like to introduce you to James Rhodes with the alias War Machine." Tony then turned his attention to the armor and introduced Megaman to Rhodes.
The visor on the War Machine armor lifted up revealing the face of a fit African-American with what seemed to be an army style haircut. "Nice to meet you Megaman, but really you shouldn't be out here trying to play hero. There are dangers in this world. If you give me your phone number I'll call your parents to come pick you up."
"I'm from another dimension." Megaman said.
"Oh I'm so sorry I didn't know. Are you some sort of hero back in your dimension?"
"You can say that. I saved my entire world and all the people are after me wanting autographs and such."
"So Tony, have you found out how to get him home yet?"
"That's what we had just been looking into when Obadiah showed up. Come inside guys and we'll get that computer back on and look at those portals again."
Tony walked on ahead as Megaman and Rhodes shook hands making their greeting official. By the time they walked through the destroyed wall, Tony had the desk reassembled and the computer put back on top. Tony took out what he called a flash drive and plugged it into the computer and brought up everything about the portal that he had saved. It was time to get cracking.
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I hope everyone caught my little inside joke.