//------------------------------// // Chapter1 The Broken Portal // Story: The Ironman : Garden of Millennium // by worst day with sunny sky //------------------------------// Author's note.... I am a foreigner so, please forgive me if I got my grammar wrong, and please write comments about them. The darkness was colossal..... upon the vast night sky that was filled with darkness, he could see a relatively big silver crescent moon shining brightly. The night sky was beautiful. He was standing on a balcony quietly and having himself a cocktail. Then he turned back to his quiet and trustworthy assistant. With the tiny bit of smile on his face, he asked, "Is it ready to launch, JARVIS?" Then a voice of the masculine robotic voice with slight bit of British accent spoke back. " Yes Mr. Stark. All tests are complete and very successful. It's ready to go,sir" Then there was a deep silence between them. Then finally, he broke the silence. " I think it's time. Don't you think?" Then his faithful A.I. assistance responded, “If that is what you want sir, we can initiate the portal right now.” Then he dressed himself a normal grey polo shirt that he used to wear, and his dark blue jean. He signed as he looked himself in the mirror. He could see his mini arc-reactor glowing blue through his polo shirt. then he murmured himself. “Alright, then. I don’t want any mistakes this time.” Then he saw his own life sized figure of Princess Celestia standing behind him, which was his favorite character from ‘My Little Pony Friendship is Magic’. He had to admitted it. he seemed to be serious, but he was rather excited inside. He calm him self down, and walked to his personal elevator that is only operational when he access it. He tapped on a holographic floating blue button and the elevator started to go down in a great speed. It was going so fast that he almost felt that he was floating in a zero-gravity. In less than 10 seconds, the door opened and Jarvis said, “Sir, I am looking forward for your great vacation. Since this is a first time you are going on vacation in to another universe.” As he stepped out from the elevator, he was now in a huge hall,and there was a metal door on the other side. He walked to the robotic metal door, and it opened automatically, as it recognized it’s own master or creator. Inside it reviled a huge place with huge metal grey colored space shuttle appeared. Jarvis has copied his own data to the shuttle and it was complete. The shuttle was hooked up with huge thick cables and wires on a dock. And at the front side, there was a huge portal that was slowly powering up. Continuous whirling sound from the cooling fan could be heard form faraway. Honestly to him, it was his first time to build something that big. He have built various type of portals and ships but, they were small. And because of the size of the new portal, he was concerned that something could go wrong. but, he was eager to use it, and he was to use it right away.Inside of his ship there were all of his creation placed on a wall. The suits, and his servant robots. starting from Mark 1 to Mark Infinity. Also including his emergency armor and his prototype armor.He has been using these armors for 10 years and he had no more use of them because there were no great enemy left in his universe or other universes around him. he has defeated numerous monsters and cyber-freaks for decade. Everything was too weak against to his Mark Infinity, his ultimate creation. Because there are nothing to do with them, he decided to take a big vacation for a month. he really liked to go to the space because he loved to watch astronomical objects floating in a pit black space. but this time, it was different universe that he have never been before.It could look different or matters might not exist because of power of the dark matter is too great. He didn’t care about that because his shuttle and his suits were all prepared for this. “May I initiate the portal and the shuttle, sir?” Jarvis asked. “Do it, Jarvis!!!” he shouted with excitements. “Initiating the portal sequence and the anti-matter engine sequence......” said Jarvis. He could hear engine and portal powering up slowly, gaining it’s full power. soon, the entire base was filled with whirling sound so he could barely hear himself speaking. The engines ignited. As Jarvis said, these engines were not the same engine that NASA was using. They were powered by anti-matter, by annihilating matter to anti-matter.The portal started to light up, and the space has ripped. The shuttle started to enter the portal, and suddenly, there was an alarm. it was too late to get out of there. The cooling fan started to fail, and portal’s mainframe started to burn. “Jarvis?! what is happening?” “Sir, I believe that one of the fan failed it’s function and the mainframe of the portal is fusing! There aren’t much thing that I can do without sending repair drones, but they will not function until the portal is destroyed!” “What’s happening now?!” “I’m not sure, but we could be send off to a random place!” “Turn the shuttle back!!! Turn it !!!” “I’m trying, sir!” But as Jarvis operated the front engine to go back, the portal was closed, and there were send off to the random place. There was a huge ‘boom’ sound and by that, he was knocked off to the wall and hit his head. He was started to go faint and everything turned black..... BLACK He slowly opened his eyes and he found himself on his bed. He rubbed his head and sat up straight. then he said, “how did I ended here?” Then a gentle British voice spoke “sir, I ordered your servants to carry you to your bed and operate the emergency health care. I asked them to make sure you fell comfortable.” He could feel a bandage on his head. then he moaned.Then he got out from his bed and looked outside thorough his window wall. At the first time he thought he was only seeing an illusion. He slapped on his face leaving red mark. “I think I hit my face too hard....” Then he looked the window, and it was same. He asked himself. ’Is this some kind of joke?’ He ran to his main control room, but it was not joking. Even Jarvis did not believe what he was seeing with his robotic eyes.Then slowly, Jarvis said, “s...sir??” What they were looking at was not earth, and everything seemed to be cartoonish. Then Jarvis mumbled, “s..sir, I..I think we are in....” Then he snapped and said “Don’t tell me....”