What’s written of the next chapter for The Man in the Sketch
The Man in the Sketch (Snippet of chapter 10)
I’m writing again possibly, but my memory is getting worse so it might be a slow process and I have absolutely no focusing ability (please save my brain, the nonverbal/speech problems are getting worse)
Accepting commissions
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Tony Stark survives an explosion created by his own hands a few feet away from him with only shrapnel in his chest, survives chest surgery with no drugs to numb the pain, survives torture and waterboarding while having a car battery attached to his chest, survives the walk through the desert with no water, survives the climatic ending explosion, survives palladium poisoning, survives race car crash with only scrapes and bruises, survives god nearly strangling him, survives flying a nuke into space with no oxygen, survives multiple panic attacks, survives house exploding around him, survives snow and freezing temperatures in a shirt and pants, survives experimented human torches attacking him, survives climatic ending battle, survives battle against multiple buggy iron suits, survives thunder god nearly strangling him, and survives direct hit from the winter soldier.
All without his suit.
Tell me again are we really sure Tony is just a normal very intelligent citizen and doesn’t secretly carry some form of recreated supersoldier serum that Howard probably experimented on him with. Because otherwise Tony Stark is a helluva tough guy.
@naferty I don’t know if this is what you meant, but this just came out :P
Failure was never an option.Howard Stark has always hated failure. He was a prideful man, and while many of his fellow inventors and scientists hated him, they could never begrudge his results. Howard had always expected the very best out of himself, and never settled for less.
So when Howard snuck a few samples out of the lab, not even Dr. Erskine was the wiser.
No one ever saw him inject himself in anticipation, only to be disappointed when none of the projected effects seemed to take place. So when Steve Rogers was the very first success, Howard pushed down all feelings of inadequacy, and pushed his scientific curiosity forward.
And, with all the enhancements that Steve gained, maybe it was better that it didn’t work for Howard. Storming HYDRA bases was all good and dandy, but Howard was never one for jumping into the mud and getting dirty.
It didn’t occur to him that the serum did work, just not in the way that he expected.
Tony was a bright child, a constant fireball of energy, and soaked everything in like a sponge. It was only once Tony started taking apart circuit boards, and fixing complex equations that Howard started to consider the effects of the serum.Howard was excited; how exactly did the serum affect Tony’s mind? Would it affect the body just as much? As the scientific curiosity burned to the forefront of his mind, Howard continued to push, and push and push…
Tony was no ordinary child, and Howard would not treat him as such. There would be plenty of time for Tony later on to play and do things like have fun. Tony would become better. Tony would become more. And if that meant making some sacrifices, then Howard would make them all.
Failure was never an option.@summerpipedream Hi, yes, I like this very much thank you!!
Tony growing up with the pressure of doing better, solve the impossible, understand the improbable, to keep pushing and pushing until failure never became an option. And because of the serum his mind continues to grow, to expand insight and provide outcomes that are not failures.
His body also grows in strength, able to withstand a lot and keep going. Probably why he could go for hours on end working on a project and never take breaks or experience fatigue until well into the third day.
He’s able to lift heavy equipment, break down walls, drag a 200 pound alloy suit across snow without breaking a sweat, and because no one is there to watch him work or do any of these things he’s never told regular citizens aren’t able to push so hard without at least training for it. To him it’s normal. He’s always been able to do it all and keep going.
So when the Avengers witness him doing something a regular person wouldn’t be able to do they are left with their mouths open and with Tony realizing that perhaps there really was something different about him.
“So he lives,” Natasha said when Tony walked into the room where a portion of the team were gathered.
Tony paid them no mind, looking at his tablet and reading over the schematics of his latest design again. He was close to cracking the barrier he found himself stump by. He could feel the answer coming he just needed to push it forward. One final push.
In his free arm he carried Dum-e’s new plating that the dummy somehow managed to crack weeks ago. That robot has escaped his maintenance long enough. No amount of begging was going to spare him this time.
“Coffee, Tones?” Rhodey offered, holding two steaming cups with a delicious aroma. Now that he mentioned it…
“Don’t mind if I do.” He handed over the plating to the nearest body. “Here, hold this for me will you?”
There was a loud ‘clank’ followed by a very painful ‘oof’ and a groan and now suddenly everyone in the room, including him, were staring at Clint on the ground pinned by Dum-e’s plating.
Everyone’s gaze turned to him afterwards, eyes wide with shock and confusion.
“Get this thing off me!” Clint managed with his chest apparently crushed on.
Tony reached down automatically to take the plating back and lifted it without trouble. He honestly didn’t understand why Clint struggled to do the same.
“What the hell! How much does that thing weight?”
Tony rattled a number without thinking about it. It was an easy answer he had known for years now, but it only caused their mouths to accompany their wide eyes.
Now he was lost. “Is there something wrong?”
This next chapter might be really long so take a sneak peak (The Man in the Sketch)
