*Russian, Moscow*
Voices...Voices

A Russian TV news channel currently playing as Ivan and two other people are watching it together.

*Stark Mansion*

*Inside:Foyer*
Door Open

Tony walk into the dark house, clearly exhausted from the recent events that happened the past few days.

Footsteps...Footsteps

He walk over to the stairs and made his way up them to the upper floor.

*Bedroom*
Door Open

Tony opened the door to see his older daughter Katherine fast asleep in her bed before...

*Bedroom*
Door Open

doing the same and see his younger daughter fast asleep in bed, holding her teddy bear close to her chest and the family cat nearby.

Door Close

*Garage*

All of the lights turned on, revealing the workshop

Tony sitting down at his desk as the computer screens around him all turn on as well.

"Welcome home, Sir. Congratulations on the opening ceremonies, sir. They were such a success, as was Senator hearing. And may I say how refreshing it is to finally see you in a video with your clothing on, sir"

Chuckle

One of the robots over in the kitchen area, by the fridge trying to make a drink using a smoother.
Without a blender lid as it went off, causing the liquid to splash everywhere.

Splash!

Making Tony turn around and look at the robot, "You!" he yelled.
The robot accidentally knocks over the blender, Crash!
"I swear to God I'll dismante you. I'll soak your motherboard. I'll turn you into a wine rack" Tony threatened him.

Whine!

"Really? You threatened machines now?"

Tony turn to see, "Only the ones who annoyed me" he told his younger brother Christopher as he enter the room.
"You're okay, buddy?" Christopher ask the robot as he walk up to it and kneel down.

Noise...Noise.

"I won't let him hurt you" Christopher assured the robot.

Noise!

"See you made it" Tony said as the robot leaves the scene.
"Of course I would, Tony. We're brother and family" Christopher answered as he and used a towel to clean up the mess.

Hmm...

Tony walk over to the counter and started to pour himself a drink of the bright green liquid.
"How many ounce a day of this gobblegook am I supposed to drink?" Tony asked.
"We are up to up to 80 ounces a day to counteract the symptoms" Christopher answered and place the towel on the side.

Swallow...Swallow...Gulp!

"We need to check your palladium levels" Christopher stated.
"Jarvis, you know what to do" Tony said as Christopher went and brought out a familiar silver device.
Christopher handed his brother it to him and Tony accept the device.
Tony presses his thumb against the circle on the device, Wince!

...... ...... ......

The result came up, "Blood toxicity 24%"
Tony opens an alcohol wipe as Christopher puts the device away.
He wipe his thumb, "The continued use of the Iron Man suit is accelerating your condition" Christopher

"Another core has been depleted"

"God, they're running out quick" Tony whispered, looking down at the smoking arc reactor.
He removed and takes out the slightly smoking burnt out arc reactor from the chest.

"I have run simulations on every known element, and none can serve"
Tony opened the small rectangular wooden box and take out another new one.
"as a visible replacement for the palladium core"
Tony slides in a silver inputs and new core replaces, placing the replaces arc reactor into his chest.

Breathing...Breathing

*Image Christopher in this image*

"You are running out both time and options"

Completely reveal dark blue veins surrounding his chest, all around the Arc Reactor.
"The device that's keeping you alive is also killing you" Christopher inform him.
"It's not bad" Tony tried to assure his brother lightheartedly.
"I'm not dead" he stated with a chuckle
"Yet" Christopher retorted.
"But you will be, there's nothing I can do about it" Christopher said back.

"Well"

"sometimes things are out of our control" Tony responded.

"...."

"Mute" Tony told Jarvis and quickly put his shirt down as the computer screens switched to the screen saver.

Door Open

"Is this a joke?" Bethany shriked in fury and angry as she approached Tony.
"What?" Tony asked, feigned innocent.
"What were you thinking?!" Bethany yelled, losing her patience.
"Hey, I'm thinking I'm busy" Tony answered as he turns and started to walk away.
"Hello" Bethany greeted Christopher before she went and walk past him before heading towards Tony.
"And you're angry about something" he said as Tony step onto an platform.
"Did you just donate our entire modern art collection to the..." Bethany said as she walk around the room.
"Boy Scout of America" Tony finishes her sentence as Christopher leaves the room without the two knowing.
"Boy Scout of America" Bethany repeate in bewildered, couldn't believe her ears.

"Hey guys, I'm home!"

Katherine enter the garage with her backpack, "Oh..."
"Sorry, am I interrupting something?" Katherine asked, seeing the body language of her father and Bethany.
"No. You're okay, Kat" Tony assured her and Katherine nod her head as she sat down.
"Anyway it is a worthwhile organisation" Tony told Bethany.
"I didn't physically check the crates but, basically, yes" he continued.
"And it's not our collection, it's my collection. No offerense" Tony corrected.

Gasp!

"You sold so the art collection?!" Katherine exclaimed in shock and disbelief.

"You know what..."

"I think I'm actually entitled to say our collection considering the time that I put in, over 10 years, curating that" Bethany told Tony.
Then Tony turned to face her, "It was a tax write-off. I needed that" he mutter back, making Bethany glare at him.

"You know..."

"there's only about 8,011 things that I really need to talk about..." Bethany said

as Tony tossed a hologram basketball into a hologram hoop.

Buzz!...Chuckle

"Dummy. Hey, stop spacing out. The Bridgeport's already matching that part" Tony tells a robot mechanically arm.
Then Tony turned around on his heels, finding Bethany arms crossed.
An eyebrow raised, "The expo is a gigantic waste of time" Bethany stated as Katherine had sat down at Tony desk.
"There's nothing more important to me than th Expo. It's my primary point of concern. I don't know..." Tony try to explain to her.

But...

"The Expo is your ego gone crazy" Bethany states, rolled her eyes at him as the woman continue to walk with a folder in her hand.

"Wow!"

Tony stop walking as something has caught his eye.
Leaning against a table is a framed image of Iron Man.
"Look at that" Tony said as he went and pick up the painting, taking a closer look at it.
"That's modern art" he told Bethany as he held the painting up, showing the woman.
"That's going up" Tony decided as he got out his phone and took a picture of the painting.

Snap!

He smiled at the photo before putting away his phone and walk away, leaving Bethany just to stare at him in disbelief.
"You've got to be kidding" a annoyed Bethany mumbled in a sigh as she followed after her boss who's looking for a place to put up the painting.
"I'm gonna put this..." Tony started to say as he walk over to the counter.
"up here right now" he declared as the man place the painting down.
"This is vital" Tony tells her and turned his head.
"Katherine, help me up with this painting!" Tony called, waved his hand and his daughter came on over.
"Starks is in complete disarray!" Bethany exclaimed as Tony use Katherine shoulder to help him to stand onto the counter, ignoring the woman completely.
"You understand that?" she ask Tony as Katherine handed him the painting.
The man looked back at Bethany, "What are you talking about? Our stocks have never been higher" Tony stated.
Tony turned back around and try to put the painting up as Bethany throws up her hands.
"Yes, from a managercial stand" Bethany argued and Tony waves his fingers before getting off the counter.
"You are...Well..." Tony began to say as he turns to look at her.
"it's messy then let's double back" he argued.
"Let me give you an example" Bethany said.
"Let's move onto another subject" Tony decided, ending the conversation and move onto another subject.
Tony looked around the garage with his eyes and noticed something, making him smile.
He made a run for it, "No, no, no, no..."
Bethany went and followed after him, "You're not taking down the Barnett New Man and hanging that up!" she protested.
"I'm not taking it down" Tony denied as he rest the painting up against the wall.
"I'm just replacing it with this" he states and removes the piece of art that was just on the wall.

Sigh

"Okay, fine" Bethany answered in defeat as Tony smiles and hang the painting up.
"My point is we have already awarded contracts to the wind farm" Bethany continues to talk, but Tony dismisses it.
"Yeah. Don't say wind farm" Tony tells her.
"I'm already feeling gassy" he stated, making Katherine roll her eyes.
"And to the plastic plantation tree, which was your idea by the way" Bethany said as Tony looks at the painting.
"Those people are on payroll" she reminded him as Tony went and straightens out the painting.
"Everything was my idea" Tony inputted.
"and you won't make a decision" Bethany tells him back, waving her hands around impatiently and raising her voice.
"I don't care about the liberal agenda anymore. It's boring. I'm giving you a boring alert" Tony said as Katherine watched the two in amusement.

Then...

Tony suddenly thought of something and smile as a lighbulb goes off in his head, "You do it" he tells her.
Bethany looks confusion, "I do what?" she asks him.
"I just figured this out" Tony stated.
"You run the company!" he exclaimed in excitement, making Katherine stop what she was doing and eyes widened.
Bethany however scoffs, Sigh
"Yeah, I'm trying to run the company" she replied, not getting what Tony is saying.
"Bethany, I need you, well, stop trying to do it and do it" Tony said to her and the woman tilts her head, avoiding eye contact.
"You will not give me the information..." Bethany ranted on.
"I'm not asking you to try..." Tony try to explain to Bethany.
"...in order to..." Bethany continue as she disregards Tony words.
"I'm asking you to physically do it. I need you to do it" Tony told Bethany.
Looks of disbelief crossed her face, "I'm trying to do it!" Bethany retorted.
"Beth, you're not listening to me!" Tony shouts in frustration, raising her voice.
"No, you're not listening to me!" Bethany snapped back, still clueless.
"Dad trying to make you CEO!" Katherine shouted loudly, having enough of the two.

"....." "....."

Bethany looks at Tony in confusion for a moment...before she leaned forward and smelled him.

*This is Tony and Bethany, no Pepper*

"Have you been drinking?"

Making Tony furrows his brows, "Chlophyll" he answered.
"Tony, can I have a private word with you?" Bethany said and Katherine nod her head.
Katherine gathered her things before leaving the garage.
"What?" Tony ask Bethany.
"I thought Katherine was gonna be CEO of Stark Industries" she said to the man.
"Yeah once she's older. I was going to let you be CEO until Katherine old enough, and if she wants to. Then if she doesn't, you can contiune to be CEO" Tony explained.

"I here by irreyo cably appoint you chairman and CEO of Stark Industries, effective immediately" Tony said.
"Yeah, done deal. Okay?" he brushed aside as Bethany just stares at him with mouth open wife in shock.
"I've actually given this a fair amount of thought" Tony stated as
Dum-E came on over to the two, carrying a tray of two glasses and bottle of champagne.
"Trying to figure out who a worthy successor" Tony said as he turned around, walking over to Dum-E.
"My first thought was my daughters, but they are not old enough to run the company" he said as he picked up the bottle.
"And then I realised..." Tony started to say.

Pop!

Tony pops the cork, quickly glancing over at Bethany.
"It's you" Tony tells her as champagne sprays from the bottle.
"It's always been you" he stated as he pours the champagne into two glasses.
"My successor" Tony said as Bethany sits down still in confused.

"Congratulations" Tony tells her as he held out a glass of champagne.
"I don't what to think" Bethany replied as she takes the glass and Tony takes a seat next to her.

Tap!

Laughing

Footsteps...Footsteps

Tony watches as Bethany leaves the Garage, "She needs a second"
"This is probably the biggest moment of her life" Christopher stated.
"She's happy, Tony. Trust me, I can hear her voice all the way from down here" Christopher tells him, tapping his head with his finger.
"I thought you have left" Tony admitted.
"You not getting rid of me that easy, Tony I'm worried about your health" Christopher tells him.

*Living Room*
Door Open

Tony entered seeing his older daughter, younger daughter and the family cat sitting down together watching T.V.
"What are you guys doing?" Tony asked as he came on over to them, making Maya immediately turn around and smile.
"Daddy!" Maya happily exclaimed as she got off the couch and run on over to him.
"Hey pumpkin!" Tony greeted with a smile as he pick her up and held Maya in his arms.
"Daddy, how was the...the...?" Maya try to ask her father, but Tony smiled and ask back.
"Expo?" Tony said and Maya nod her head.

Uh-huh

"It was incredible" Tony answered.
"I wasn't allow to stay up to watch it. But Jarvis tap it for me to watch" Maya stated.
"You know how great I was?" Tony said to Maya.
"How long have the government been trying to take the suits away, dad?" Katherine questioned, interputing her dad.
"They've always wanted them" Tony stated.
"But why? Katherine asked.
"Because every country wants the biggest stick, and the US government want other countries to know they have complete control over the biggest stick" Tony explain to Katherine.
"Stick?" Maya asked innconelty with her big eyes looking up at her dad.