The air was thick with smoke and the scent of burning tal. The corridor leading to Dreykov's office was eerily silent, save for the distant hum of flickering lights and the low hiss of sparking wires. Bodies of elite guards lay scattered across the floor, their weapons still clutched in lifeless fingers.
At the far end of the hallway, a grand staircase spiraled upward to the command center. Tony moved forward. His systems had already mapped out the layout of the top floor—Dreykov was cornered.
'No escape, you bastard.'
But as he neared the stairs, his HUD flickered with an urgent warning.
[WARNING: UNKNOWN ENERGY SIGNATURE DETECTED]
[HIGHLY VOLATILE – EXTRE CAUTION ADVISED]
Tony stopped in his tracks. The temperature around him suddenly dropped, his breath fogging up inside his helt. A deep, guttural chanical growl rumbled from the shadows above. Then, heavy, tallic footsteps echoed down the staircase.
A figure erged.
Seven feet of towering, muscle-bound monstrosity encased in pale, cybernetic enhancents. His chalk-white skin was lined with deep, vein-like circuits pulsing with red energy. His long, unkempt blond hair swayed slightly as he exhaled, and his eyes glowed like one of those freaks from the Terminator movie.
Two thick, segnted tal tendrils unfurled from his back with a sickening clank, twitching like the fangs of a serpent.
Tony's HUD identified him instantly.
[SUBJECT IDENTIFIED: ARKADY GREGORIVICH ROSSOVICH]
[CODE NA: OGA RED]
[STATUS: ACTIVE – EXTRELY HOSTILE]
"Intruder," Oga Red rumbled, his voice carrying a chanical distortion. He stepped forward, the floor beneath him groaning under his weight. His eyes narrowed. "You are not Widow. Not soldier. Who are you?"
Tony tilted his head. "Wouldn't you like to know, Frostbite?"
Oga Red's tendrils lashed forward.
Tony dodged, just barely. The steel whips slamd into the wall behind him, shattering it like paper. The entire hallway trembled as debris rained from above.
'Those things hit like a damn wrecking ball.'
Before he could retaliate, Oga Red lunged. His speed was unnatural for his size, thanks to his enhancents. Tony barely had ti to raise his arms before a massive fist slamd into his chest.
BOOM!
He rocketed backward, smashing through several walls before tumbling across the floor, his suit's impact dampeners struggling to absorb the force.
[ARMOR INTEGRITY: 89%]
"Okay," Tony muttered, shaking off the hit. "That sucked."
Oga Red stalked forward, slow and deliberate. His tendrils scraped against the floor, leaving deep gashes in the steel. "Your suit… advanced technology. Not governnt. Not S.H.I.E.L.D. Not Red Room." He grinned, sharp teeth glinting under the red ergency lights. "I will tear it apart and upgrade myself even further."
Tony's gauntlets shifted. Twin repulsors flared to life, crackling with unstable energy.
"Co try, Tin Man."
Oga Red moved.
Tony fired.
A blinding blue-white repulsor beam lanced forward, slamming into Oga Red's chest—only for it to dissipate against his reinforced plating. The massive mutant barely flinched before one of his tendrils snapped forward, wrapping around Tony's wrist.
WARNING: FOREIGN ENERGY SURGE DETECTED
A sickly red glow pulsed through the tendril. Tony's systems scread in warning.
That freak was siphoning power straight from his Arc Reactor.
"Shit!" Tony tried to yank free, but Oga Red tightened his grip.
"You feel it, yes?" Oga Red sneered, his voice thick with sadistic amusent. "My Carbonadium tendrils leech life. Power. Strength. Soon, you will be nothing."
Tony's vision flickered. His power levels were dropping at an alarming rate. If he didn't break free now...
He had no choice.
With a snarl, Tony deployed a concentrated pulse burst from his gauntlet. A concussive shockwave erupted from his suit, sending Oga Red staggering back. Tony stumbled, his systems struggling to reboot.
[POWER LEVELS: 61%]
'Jesus, he drained almost half my damn juice in seconds.'
Oga Red recovered instantly, grinning like a predator who had just found the perfect prey. "Interesting. Your power… unlike anything I have ever seen." He extended his tendrils again. "I will take it all."
Tony clenched his fists. His suit was already adapting, recalibrating energy shields to resist the Carbonadium effect. But it wouldn't hold up forever.
'Gotta end this fast.'
[ACTIVATING ADVANCED WEAPONRY]
The nanites on his shoulders shifted, forming two multi-barrel plasma launchers.
Tony raised them.
"Eat this, Snow White."
He fired.
Twin streams of high-energy plasma tore through the air, searing toward Oga Red. The massive mutant crossed his arms, his cybernetic enhancents absorbing most of the impact but the sheer force sent him skidding backward.
Before he could counter, Tony followed through.
He rushed forward, boosters in his boots igniting as he closed the gap in an instant. His gauntlet morphed into a blade, vibranium-tipped, and slashed...
SLICE!
Oga Red roared as a deep gash opened across his chest. Cybernetic fluid and blood spilled onto the floor. But instead of retreating, he grinned.
"You bleed," Tony taunted.
"So do you."
Oga Red's fist slamd into Tony's ribs. The impact was devastating.
Tony felt the shock reverberate through his entire body. The nanites absorbed and released the kinetic energy out, to minimize the damage. Suddenly, the floor collapsed. Tony fell, slamming into the level below. His HUD flickered violently.
'Dang! Kinetic dampers really need work,' He noticed the flaw in his design. The nanites in charge of kinetic energy dispersion weren't working properly and the excess energy within the nanites was causing internal collision, resulting in his suit damage. Thus, the nanites in charge of fixing were working overti, drawing more power than he calculated. 'And gotta optimize Legion further. Well, got enough data thanks to this fight.'
[CRITICAL DAMAGE: INTERNAL STRUCTURE COMPROMISED]
[ARMOR INTEGRITY: 42%]
Tony groaned. His nanites were already working overti to repair the damage, but Oga Red wasn't giving him a chance. He wanted to use the nanite swarm, but he used too much already while healing the Widows and fighting this long. He couldn't afford to waste anymore.
The mutant descended through the hole, landing like a war machine. He lifted Tony by the throat, his tendrils coiling around his limbs, locking him in place.
"You are strong," Oga Red admitted, his grip tightening. "But not strong enough."
The Carbonadium tendrils pulsed again. Tony's suit scread in warning.
His vision blurred. His power levels dropped.
'I can't take any more damage. Well, got enough data. Now, ti to amp it up a bit.'
[POWER LEVELS: 15%]
He had seconds before Oga Red drained him dry.
There was only one option left.
A last resort.
His fingers twitched over the ergency override.
[ENGAGING OVERDRIVE MODE]
Overdrive Mode: Activated
The nanites in Tony's suit shifted violently, surging like liquid tal. The Arc Reactor in his chest pulsed, drawing five tis more energy than before. The nanites inside his body began to fuse with the outer suit and the Arc Reactor's energy was replenished almost instantly. His idea of creating a secondary power source back then ca in handy now.
His suit transford.
The black armor expanded, its design becoming sharper and more aggressive. Red, glowing lines etched across the plating, pulsating with raw energy. His gauntlets expanded, repulsor cores burning hotter than ever before. His helt's HUD adjusted, adapting to the new surge of power.
His strength was multiplied.
His speed was enhanced.
His weapon systems were recalibrated for maximum lethality.
Oga Red's tendrils tightened.
Tony grinned.
"Fun's over, asshole."
With a massive shockwave, Tony released a concentrated energy beam from his Arc Reactor, blasting Oga Red away in a violent explosion. The mutant slamd through multiple walls, his body embedding into reinforced steel.
Tony stood, his Overdrive mode fully engaged, red energy crackling like lightning around his body.
He flexed his fingers.
His suit humd like a goddamn supernova.
Oga Red growled, pulling himself from the wreckage, eyes burning with fury.
Tony smirked. "Round two, motherfucker?"
Oga Red snarled, blood and cybernetic fluid dripping from the deep wounds Tony had inflicted. His chanical tendrils lashed violently, carving trenches into the steel floor as he prepared to strike again.
But Tony was done playing gas.
His Overdrive-enhanced systems were pulling an insane amount of power from his Arc Reactor, but he got more than enough juice to run them. Every servo, every repulsor, every ounce of nanite-infused energy had been pushed to the limit. Oga Red wanted a monster?
Tony Stark would give him one.
He launched forward with explosive speed.
BOOM!
Before Oga Red could react, Tony's fist slamd into his gut with the force of a wrecking ball. The impact folded the mutant in half, sending a shockwave rippling through his entire fra.
CRACK!
The sound of cybernetics snapping filled the room. Oga Red coughed, spitting out a mix of blood and hydraulic fluid.
Tony didn't stop.
He grabbed Oga Red's head and drove his knee into his face. Once. Twice. A third ti.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The reinforced cartilage in Oga Red's nose shattered. Blood gushed down his face as he reeled back, stunned. But Tony wasn't finished.
He reached out, grabbed one of Oga Red's infamous Carbonadium tendrils mid-swing, and ripped it out with a brutal yank.
"AAAGGHHH!" Oga Red howled in agony as sparks erupted from the severed appendage, his entire body convulsing. His nerves were directly linked to those tendrils, aning Tony had just delivered searing, unimaginable pain.
"Hurts, doesn't it?" Tony growled. "Good."
Before Oga Red could recover, Tony twisted the torn tendril around his gauntlet, superheating it with a focused repulsor blast. Then, without hesitation, he plunged the red-hot tal straight through Oga Red's shoulder.
SHUNK!
The mutant scread as the molten tal impaled him, pinning him to the reinforced wall behind him. His remaining tendril flailed wildly, but Tony was already moving.
He grabbed the second tendril and ripped it out just like the first.
Oga Red howled again, his body jerking violently from the intense pain.
His pride was gone now.
"You like draining people?" Tony spat, his voice a mixture of anger and disgust. "Let's see how you like it."
He raised his gauntlet and activated a powerful reverse energy siphon, targeting Oga Red's failing cybernetics. The mutant convulsed as his own life force was yanked away, his body spasming as his enhancents flickered in and out.
His strength—gone.
His speed—gone.
His invincibility—gone.
Oga Red, the infamous terror of the Soviet Union, the Red Room's ultimate weapon, now lay slumped against the wall, barely clinging to consciousness.
Tony knelt down, his helt retracting to reveal his face. His expression was cold. Unforgiving.
"I could kill you," Tony said softly, tilting his head. "Snap your neck. Vaporize your body. Leave you as a pile of ash."
Oga Red wheezed, barely able to keep his eyes open.
"But that's too easy," Tony continued. "You don't deserve easy."
He reached down, grabbing Oga Red by his ruined cybernetic throat. Sparks flickered from the damaged implants.
"I want to kill you slowly and painfully," Tony whispered. "But sadly, I don't have ti to waste on a failure like you. So, you gotta go." He yanked out the implant and then punched his fist into Red's chest, crushing the mutant's heart, and then to stop his healing factor, Tony, fried his nervous system and incenerated his body to ashes after taking his blood sample.
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