"That's a lie!" It's a lie that cuts deeply, but he knows it for what it is. He knows it because he still has that echo of one of Gene's memories tucked away in his mind, buried deeply where he doesn't have to think about it, because he'd felt the truth of it when Gene showed it to him and it scared him - still scares him, even now.
[[ He feels love for the first time since he was six. It takes months for him to realize that's what it is, and by then it's too late. ]]
Tony prepares to fire the unibeam to shut Malicant up - for once, it's not Gene's monologuing he's hoping to interrupt - when the acid cloud envelops his armor.
That's not enough to take Tony out of play, though. Gene tried to pull that trick when they were fighting in the alley just before the eighth temple, and Tony does the same thing he did then: pours all his power into his shields, surrounding himself in a forcefield bubble that disrupts and disperses the acid cloud as it expands.
And as soon as the cloud is dispersed enough to no longer be a threat, he does what he'd been about to do before the acid cloud distracted him, and fires the unibeam.
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[[ He feels love for the first time since he was six. It takes months for him to realize that's what it is, and by then it's too late. ]]
Tony prepares to fire the unibeam to shut Malicant up - for once, it's not Gene's monologuing he's hoping to interrupt - when the acid cloud envelops his armor.
That's not enough to take Tony out of play, though. Gene tried to pull that trick when they were fighting in the alley just before the eighth temple, and Tony does the same thing he did then: pours all his power into his shields, surrounding himself in a forcefield bubble that disrupts and disperses the acid cloud as it expands.
And as soon as the cloud is dispersed enough to no longer be a threat, he does what he'd been about to do before the acid cloud distracted him, and fires the unibeam.