[1] Taeyong Lee-Stark and the League of Superheroes

23 - Iron Man, War Machine and Ivan Vanko

PREVIOUSLY ON: League of Superheroes

Agent Coulson leaves and with him gone, it seems like all sense of peace also leaves with him. It turned out to the surprise of Tony and Taeyong, Ivan Vanko, supposedly dead Russian dude who has a 'killing-you' agenda against Tony is very much alive. With this new information, Tony leaves for the Expo, expecting a fight against Ivan, but heading into a trap.

Because, now Rhodey and all of Justin Hammer's drones are compromised.

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Tony was in a bit of predicament. For one, whatever Ivan Vanko did to Hammer's suits meant that he had full control. What was worse is that the only plausible way to stop the drones and Rhodey's suit from attacking him was to shut the entire protocol down from the source. Except he couldn't do that, there was only one Tony Stark and he was currently being attacked.

"Really, should have brought another suit," he groaned, taking a hit from Rhodey and falling to the ground. By now, the crowd had started to disperse but still managed to run around a lot, screaming in terror.

"Times like these, you probably wished you made me a suit huh?" Taeyong quipped from his in-ear.

"Right, quiet Taeyong."

"But-"

"Nope."

"Do you two always talk like this?" Rhodey called, his voice strained from trying to take back control of his own suit.

"Why of course Uncle Rhodes," Taeyong's voice bubbled from the speakers. Tony didn't stop himself from rolling his eyes. Taeyong was fine, sitting down in his chair, by his desk, just watching everything take place. Meanwhile, Tony was getting his ass beat.

In the stands and watching from afar where Pepper, Happy and Agent Romanoff. Pepper took charge quickly and stormed over to Hammer, pulling him along the internal corridors of the Stark Expo. The Expo's main technician and the one that worked for Hammer scrambled up to the group of people. "The software's been overridden, Sir."

"What? What do you mean it's been overridden? What does that mean?" Justin demanded.

"It means," Pepper glared in his direction, "someone slaved the drones."

"That's impossible, call the guards-"

"All the phones are down," Pepper claimed.

"Well then..." Justin looked away from Pepper, unable to meet her eyes in his panicked state. "Call their cells."

"Cell phones won't work either, Sir," the technician stuttered, looking between Pepper and Justin, sensing the obvious power imbalance.

"Who's locked you out of the mainframe?" Pepper demanded, looking at the technician and then at Justin.

"Look, can you please just go away-" and from the frazzled sort of posture Justin put himself in, it looked like he was seconds away from having a breakdown. "I can sort this out."

Pepper arched his brow, "oh really?"

"Yes, really," Justin spat. "You know what? If it wasn't for the fact that your guy showed up, this wouldn't have happened. So, please, now go away. Thank you-" he turned back to his technician. "Listen we gotta get these bitches outta here. What?"

Natasha strode in front of Pepper, grabbed the back of Justin's neck and smashed him down on the nearest desk. Pepper shouted and took a step back into Happy, both watching as Natasha held Justin down.

"Tell me who's behind this. Who's behind this?"

"I-Ivan. Ivan Vanko."

"Where is he?" she pushed her elbow further into his neck.