Ironman
Alternative Universe – Fix It

A Few Little Changes

March 2010: Malibu California: Stark Manor: Tony Stark’s personal lab: 3 am:
“It’s done sir.” JARVIS told Tony and the injection needle moved away from Tony’s jaw. Tony moving his jaw around.
“I won’t ask for a signal check here as we’re too close, but in the morning when I leave, we’ll try then.” Tony replied, still moving his jaw around.
“Sir, speaking of….”
Tony sighed, “yeah, yeah, big meeting with Obie in the morning. I’m going. Make sure to wake me at eight with some strong coffee J.” And he headed off to bed, hoping the combination of the tracker, mic, and receiver worked out. He was getting tired of J not being able to be in contact with him when he needed him.
It didn’t help that he’d been having hangovers without the fun parties to go with them either.

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“I told you already Obie, those who can afford our gear can come to us for demonstrations. So why am I going out to Saudi to do a demo?”

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The missiles streaked through the desert air and hit their target, destroying it. “Gentlemen, Stark Industries will take your orders now.” And he walked off the stage. “How did I get talked into doing the demo?”
From his implanted earpiece, came JARVIS’ reply of, “Stane got you to agree by getting you drunk and with another pretty woman, sir.”

Tony got into the car to take him to his hotel. Tomorrow there was to be another demo and then home. So, he waited till he was alone in his room, and pulled out his pad, “This is too convenient, and Obie was way too insistent I did this. Do me a favor and contact the IRS to give them the go ahead to do a thorough forensic audit of the company and the board. Including myself.
And schedule me for time at a hospital on the way home. This hangover symptom when I haven’t partied is getting out of hand.”

“Yes sir. The auditors will be on site in a week, and I told them to come no matter what. And you have an appointment in Paris next week as well.”
“Thanks J.”

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Tony awoke to the panicked sounds of J in his ear and a firefight surrounding him. A man’s hand in his chest and one hand holding him down, while telling him not to move if he wanted to live.
Suddenly, several men burst in screaming and between the pain in his chest from the impromptu surgery going on, his ongoing headache exploded, and he passed out temporarily. Waking up as allied troops were patching him up and prepping him to move quick. Dead or unconscious enemy terrorists all around the camp they were in. And Tony passed out from the emotional input he was being given by everyone.
Never noticing the Sentinel patches on each of the soldiers doing his rescue.

A Few Little Changes
Chapter Two:

Tony woke up in a sterile room that screamed hospital, an IV in his arm, canula in and his chest wrapped up like a mummy. A machine next to him let off no noise, so he expected it to be always monitored at the nurse’s station. And he had an arm cuff on to take periodic, automatic, readings.

“Sir?”
“J? What happened? And where am I?” Tony croaked out.
“You are in the French Sentinel and Guide Center ICU Suite. In seclusion as you came online as a Guide during your kidnapping by the terrorist organization Ten Rings. You were in the middle of surgery for shrapnel near your heart when the nearby US forces came in to rescue you. You came online at that point and the strength of that took everyone in the area out of commission. Area Sentinels came in to evacuate you and the US forces out and take over the camp.”
“The shrapnel?”
“Has been taken care of by the doctors here at the center sir. Though you will be in rehab for quite a while. And in training while doing that for your Guide abilities.”

Tony was fuzzy for a bit as the nurse came in to check on him, and saw to it he had water to drink, then left. He fell asleep soon after.

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Getting strange dreams as though from another him, an alternate time where he hadn’t put in the implant in his jaw. And was stuck in the camp. And the full years afterwards till that one’s death.

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When he fully re-awoke and was aware, he asked what was going on with the audit. And found out that Obie and most of the board members had skipped to non-extradition countries upon both his rescue and the forensic auditors arriving. The auditors found massive corruption and theft of materials sold on the black market.
The stocks in the company were bottoming out.

Tony thought about that and ordered JARVIS to “buy back the stocks using his personal funds and cancel the severance package parachutes from those who fled, while severing them from the company. And have an outside law…. No, have the AG department go through everything along with JAG to make sure it is clear there. And I want you to personally do complete background checks on every employee. Start with those who Stane brought in. Put us on hold till everything is taken care of one way or another. No new contracts and the contracts we have go on hold for now.”

“As soon as you can set up an online appointment with Interpol to have the escapees hunted down on Accessory to International Terrorism charges and see if the World Court won’t see to hearing their cases on those charges. If nothing else, get the court to put out a warrant to shut down their access to their international bank accounts. Add in the S&G World Courts while you’re at it and see if they can’t be put in as Sanctioned for their actions.
“Hunt through our own software systems to find any leaks in the systems including money going out that shouldn’t be.”

And from there the world changed.