Other Tony stands, and Tony tenses. The older face smiles at him again, and then abruptly snaps his hand up. The other him isn't even wearing armor yet, but Tony instinctively activates his shield - just in time to send Solomon's bullet ricocheting harmlessly into the cavern wall.
Other Tony's smile becomes a smirk. "Psych."
Tony scowls, and is a fraction of a second away from firing again when Akito and Gene appear on the other side of the hole in the wall.
"Gene?" Tony sounds startled and relieved and apprehensive all at once, and he hesitates. He's not about to fire off another repulsor when Gene and Akito are standing right behind Malicant's illusion of his older self.
"Oh, company," Other Tony observes casually. "Fun. Guess I'd better put on something a little fancier." He pauses, raises his eyebrows, and spreads his hands in a 'get it?' gesture. "...Fancy like a three-piece suit, except the suit is the armor? You know, suit, suit of armor...? Okay, yeah, that was a stretch." Excuse you, Malicant, his jokes aren't that bad. Jeez.
As Other Tony is talking, something is happening to his skin and clothes. It's hard to describe - almost like a dark haze rising from his skin and coalescing, oozing and shimmering and solidifying as it surrounds him. And before Tony's eyes, the armor appears around his older self, building itself from the inside out in a matter of seconds.
...Whoah. That's the kind of nanotech Tony's been fantasizing about ever since Korra told him about her Tony's armor (too many Tonys, he's going to have to start assigning numerical codes), and it would be way cool to see it in action, if it weren't getting ready to kick his ass.
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Other Tony's smile becomes a smirk. "Psych."
Tony scowls, and is a fraction of a second away from firing again when Akito and Gene appear on the other side of the hole in the wall.
"Gene?" Tony sounds startled and relieved and apprehensive all at once, and he hesitates. He's not about to fire off another repulsor when Gene and Akito are standing right behind Malicant's illusion of his older self.
"Oh, company," Other Tony observes casually. "Fun. Guess I'd better put on something a little fancier." He pauses, raises his eyebrows, and spreads his hands in a 'get it?' gesture. "...Fancy like a three-piece suit, except the suit is the armor? You know, suit, suit of armor...? Okay, yeah, that was a stretch." Excuse you, Malicant, his jokes aren't that bad. Jeez.
As Other Tony is talking, something is happening to his skin and clothes. It's hard to describe - almost like a dark haze rising from his skin and coalescing, oozing and shimmering and solidifying as it surrounds him. And before Tony's eyes, the armor appears around his older self, building itself from the inside out in a matter of seconds.
...Whoah. That's the kind of nanotech Tony's been fantasizing about ever since Korra told him about her Tony's armor (too many Tonys, he's going to have to start assigning numerical codes), and it would be way cool to see it in action, if it weren't getting ready to kick his ass.
"Gene! Akito! Get out of the way!"