Chapter 3: 3: The Escape [1]
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"Urghh."
Tony groaned as he felt a migraine at the back of his head, his eyes flickered open, his eyes took a moment to adjust to the light and when he did, he found himself under a familiar rock ceiling.
'Fuck, of course my origin was here.' He cursed internally at the sight of the black rock layer above his head.
How could he forget this place, the same place he was held prisoner for months, the place he forged Mark 1, the place that started his superhero legacy, the birthplace of Iron-Man.
Tony tilted his head towards the presence he felt on his right, a man was standing with his back facing against Tony, he was cooking something with the fire in the center of the cave.
'Yinsen.' The good old professor that kicked the bucket when he escaped from the cave, the first time.
Tony tried to get up but he felt a weight upon his chest, he didn't need to even look down to know what it was, the electromagnet, it was installed into his chest once again and he for fuck sake hated it.
"Hey." Tony said, Yinsen immediately turned around and looked at Stark with his eyes widened, the old man didn't stare at Tony for long and immediately moved closer.
"Huh, you woke up sooner than I thought." Yinsen said and he took a jug from below the cot Tony was sleeping in and passed it to him. "Drink it, you must be thirsty."
Tony didn't reply as he took the jug and gulped the water down his throat, he let out a breath as he slowly stood up. He looked around at the cave, there were machinery, tools and everything was just as he remembered them, including the thick metallic door.
"Do you remember what happened before you got here? You were attacked by a gro-."
"I know." Tony interrupted Yinsen's words with his reply, he stood up from the bed and moved towards the tools at the far end of the cave.
"No idea why they shifted all this in here?" Yinsen stated.
"To build a weapon." Tony groaned as he took a screwdriver out of its panel.
"They want me to build a weapon." Right as He said that, the metal door slowly opened.
Tony didn't know how but he felt the presence of 8 people behind the door, when the door fully opened 5 people walked in, 4 of them held machine guns in their hands with a fat bastard walking in front of them.
Tony narrowed his eyes as he saw a faint layer of black smoke radiating from their body, it was so faint that he couldn't see it for a moment, he blinked multiple times to confirm whether he was really seeing it.
["That's their death wave."]
Tony blinked in surprise as he heard Death's voice in his head. 'What the fuck? Do we have a telepathic connection?'
["Not exactly, As you are my champion, I can give you a message but I won't be connected with you all the time as I have my cosmic duties."]
'Great, care to explain what a death wave is?' Tony sarcastically remarked.
["The death wave is a form of energy that only you and I can see, it is an energy that radiates in a mortal by their encounter with anything related to death, the energy increases as they take away the life of some people."]
'Their waves are faint as fuck.'
["You can barely call that a wave, killing these insects won't increase your soul strength by one bit."]
'Wait a freaking minute! I can get stronger by killing people?' Tony yelled in his mind.
["Yes, it's an ability of Aura of Death, by killing mortals, you will absorb a part of their soul into yours, it will increase your soul strength, which would increase your powers"]
'Honey, you have no idea how excited I'm right now.'
["I will take my leave now, do enjoy your hunting."] With that Tony felt Death's presence leave his mind.
"Tony Stark! The biggest mass murderer on America's history." The fat bastard shouted loud enough for an echo to call it back. Tony smiled as he finished his conversation with Death.
"Welcome to my humble abode." The pig bowed slightly.
"What do you want from me?" Tony asked even though he knew very well what these idiots wanted, if he could he would have ripped them apart right now and made his way back to America but no, he didn't have his best weapon or to be exact it was not created yet, in which case he would just have to make it again.
"Straight to the point. Good." The pig nodded with a smile. "My name is Wong-Chu, a humble admirer of your work."
Tony smirked as he glanced down at the hole in his chest.
"Not just an admirer anymore." He muttered as his eyes turned cold. "State your demands."
"My master wants you to make a powerful missile, strong enough to wipe out entire towns, make us those."
"And why would I do that?" Stark asked, playing his part perfectly, he didn't need unnecessary drama right now, he lacked materials to create an armor and these idiots needed to give it to him without getting suspicious about it.
"When you were attacked, a bunch of sharpels from the missile penetrated into your heart." Chu pointed at Yinsen. "Yinsen here made an electromagnet, preventing those little metal pieces from slicing your heart into bits."
"You must have taken a look at that, you are an engineer, do the math, the magnet is only going to last for 3 months and then you are going to die." Chu went silent before his voice resurfaced with a smile. "But if you take our offer, I have doctors here, who will take out those metals once you finish the missiles."
"I won't." Tony said with a smirk.
Chu shook his head and said something in chinese to his lackey behind him, the goon rushed towards Tony and tried to hit him in the stomach with the hilt of the gun and Tony let him.
True to be told, Tony could fight all these idiots and walk out right away, he was someone that trained martial arts to beat fucking Steve Rogers himself, these bunch of fat asses are nothing compared to that but the real problem was what after that? He was in a mountain range and why go through all the hiking, when he could just build a suit and fly high.
Tony faked a pain-filled grunt and kneeled at the impact of the gun, Chu walked towards him and pulled Tony up by clutching his head.
"Listen well Stark, the Americans won't ever find you in this territory, you can give up on the idea of escaping, you have two choices, either you live by making the missile or die right now, what do you choose?"
Tony mused as his eyes looked over the group.
'Just you wait you fucking pig, I will butcher you into pieces.'
"Choose Stark."
"Fine, I will do it."