Riri giggled, "sorry, I have that thing set to automatically try and access every machine it comes to contact with."
"Well that doesn't make it less of a dick move," I snorted as I disabled her program, "also, don't tell Tony, he'll probably break down into manly tears or lecture you about ripping off his stuff."
"Did he give you one?" Riri asked looking at the arc reactor in my suit, "for stealing his design?"
"Well first off, I didn't steal it, I reinvented it," I told her, "It took me a few months, but I worked hard and managed to rebuild parts of his suit," I showed her the repulsors on the palm of my hands, "I worked hard and presto. Also I did kind of help him save the world from an alien army, so he let me off with a warning."
"Cool!" Riri grinned, "hey, do you think I can build my own suit?"
I groaned, "hm, probably, I mean, you are his kid, it's kind of your birthright. But," I held her finger, pushing away her excitement, "you have to understand one thing. The title of Iron man was earned, not given. Meaning, even if you build a suit, you have to earn the right to use it. Do you understand?"
Riri nodded, "totally….do you think you could help me?"
"No way Riri," I smirked at her disappointment, "like I said. You have to earn you suit. If you can prove that you are smart enough to build it on your own, only then will people not question your skills. Got that?"
Riri nodded, "right! Got it!"
"Good," I gave her thumbs up and just then Tony and her mother walked over to us with a vial of yellow liquid in hand. I walked over to them, "is that it?"
Tony nodded, "it'll stabilize the Extremis virus in her blood and make it more compact. She'll have above normal regenerative abilities, but she won't explode or anything."
"How long will this take?" Pepper asked.
"A few hours at most to stabilize," Maya replied before going to her daughter's side, "hey baby, we did it. We found a cure."
"Are you going to put me to sleep?" Riri asked.
Maya nodded, "yeah, and when you wake up this nightmare will finally be over, I promise." Riri smiled and nodded, hugging her mother's midriff tightly, the woman kissing her head as she did.
"Alright kid, lay down," Tony walked up, putting the vial into a machine that had a tube flowing into Riri's arm, "don't worry, it'll be over in a sec. JARVIS, put her under and then feed her the EXT cure will you?"
"Yes sir," the AI replied as he did just that.
Immediately Riri began to look sleep, I noticed clear liquid being pumped into her arm from one of the tubes attached to her.
"H-hey Tony," Riri called out.
"Yeah kid?" Tony asked, hesistateing as he still didn't know what to properly call his would be daughter.
"I don't want to call you dad," Riri replied closing her eyes, "it's kind of lame. Can I just call you Tony?"
Tony chuckled, "you can call me whatever you want kid."
"Cool" Riri smiled as she fell asleep, the EXT cure entering her bloodstream. We turned to see her vitals displayed via hologram, they were stable and slowly her core temperature was coming down.
"Now then, what about AIM?" I asked.
"Where are they operating out of?" Tony asked Maya.
"Malibu California," Maya replied, "I'll text you the details."
"Right then," Tony snapped his fingers, the Mark 42 armour separated before flying to Tony and suiting him up.
"Why are you suiting up?" Pepper asked.
"These people tried to kill us, and blew up Happy. Why do you think?" Tony asked as he walked to the exit.
"What about Riri?" Pepper asked.
"The procedure will take care of itself," Maya spoke up, "all we have to do is wait."
"And I don't like to wait," Tony replied, "so I'm going after Aldrich and the Mandarin."
"You mean we are going after the Mandarin and Aldrich," I replied walking behind him.
"Think you can keep up?" Tony asked.
"I have a ride," I said as just then my car came flying through the underground garage way Tony had used for his car.
"A flying time machine, nice," Tony nodded.
"Are we taking the suits?" I asked getting into my car as Tony took off, flying out and into the open air, my car right behind him.
"Should we?" he asked, "if AIM or the Mandarin attacks again they will be needed."
"Can we at least take twenty of them?" I asked, "I mean, you did build like 40 suits right?"
"Alright, JARVIS, have marks 20 to 35 follow behind us and have the rest here," Tony instructured.
"At once sir," JARVIS replied as soon we gained an entourage of fifteen flying suits.
I whistled, "this is so freaking badass."
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