Chapter 66: Security

Chapter 66: Security

Tony and I spent the next few days planning and building a massive overhaul to his home. It started with me taking one of my BB's and modifying it, layering on concepts of building improvements rather than just building. It was a struggle to keep from adding the concept of cheapness as the construction industry is riddled with things that are strapped over older buildings to cover up problems, and a lot of them are cheap crap. Eventually though I was able to shift it into a building improvement system, something that could modify and enhance a structure. It was limited to what already existed, I couldn't build an addition at the click of a button, or turn one room into two different rooms, but it still served its purpose.

We set the building improver up to completely revamp the materials the mansion was built from. Concrete was strengthened into a quintuple stacked enhanced concrete, the rebar woven into the concrete was replaced with my ultra metal, the Asgardian alloy and vibranium enhanced version of my super metal. The glass was thickened and replaced by my ultra metal laced diamond glass. While the building improver enhanced the structure itself, Tony and I enhanced the mansion's security.

Every door, window and point of egress was strengthened and enhanced to ridiculous levels. They were tuned to Tony, Pepper and Jarvis, with the system capable of adding new people. Tony whipped up a mounted non lethal air gun that Jarvis could control and deploy, or that Tony and Pepper could use with voice commands. I took that creation, copied it with the UCM's and then enhanced them by stacking them. We installed them all over the house and stuffed them with a payload that simultaneously put the target to sleep and bound them with an ultra metal enhanced cable.

The final touch, which took an entire day by itself and several failed attempts, was an honest to god wardstone. It took a massive amount of materials, including a hundred and twelve magic rods, a safe and low powered energy field projector that Tony made, almost thirty books, all the protection meta materials I could get my hands on and an intent detector I used to make my armor follow mental commands as well as a pile of other things, all worked down into a two foot circle of stone about eight inches thick, mounted on a pillar of stone, all made from granite. The circle of stone itself was carved with symbols and runes, carried over from the various meta materials we had used.

The wardstone projected a field that encompassed Tony's entire property, a bubble about two thousand feet in all directions. On its default low setting it prevented anyone with murderous or violent intent from enterinng the bubble, knocking them out without harming them. If anyone entered who had malicious but non violent intent it would simply notified Tony, Pepper and Jarvis. If activated to its second level it would knock out anyone who wasn't neutral or there to help, and its third would knock out everyone who isn't on its protection list. Its final ability, which took the longest to develop, was attached to a separate creation, but one that was controlled by the wardstone and by Jarvis.

With the samples of energy shields that I had gotten from the Dora Milaje, a couple different movie projectors and the energy field projector that Tony put together, I conceptually crafted a basic shield generator, one that could be tuned to various sizes. I copied it with a UCM and stacked it a dozen times, powering it up with a few energy cells in the process while enhancing it with meta materials that revolved around protection and defense. I then took that creation and increased the size of the project shield to encompass the mansion itself. Tony and I both tested the resulting shield, firing a barrage of weapons at it. When it absorbed both the fully empowered beams of energy that my revolvers produced on their highest setting, as well as a full barrage of blasts from my combo cannon we installed it in Tony's basement, connecting it to Jarvis and the wardstone.

Then, when that was done and Tony decided to tempt fate by commenting that it was basically impenetrable we installed a second ward stone and shield generator that would kick on if the first one failed.

"Not bad for a few days of work." Tony said with a grin, dusting off his hands despite the fact that neither of us had really lifted a finger in the past hour, using a combination of the building improver and the Deck to get most things done easily. "You want a drink? I think it's time for a drink."

"Alright," I said with a chuckle, following the inventor up the workshop stairs into his house proper. "But I can't stay too long. I want to get a set of these shields set up around my warehouse. Plus there's a dozen other applications for them that I want to try. I've been trying to come up with a way to make some sort of projected shield system for months."

"Glad me getting attacked in my own home solved one of your problems."

I rolled my eyes as we made it to the kitchen, Tony pouring himself some whiskey and me some brandy. We both walked back to his living room area and sat down, enjoying our drinks.

"So have you finished your plans to expand your base?" Tony asked, rolling the ice cubes around in his glass.

"The general plans, yeah." I explained. "The warehouse is all of the space I need for my own smaller projects. My first step is to build somewhere I can work on bigger things."

"Like the walkers?" Tony asked, raising an eyebrow.

"No, the walkers are just for fun," I answered with a shrug. "I have plans, but it's too early to really start talking about them."

"And you still want to link up with the tower once it's done?"

"Yeah, as long as you put a wardstone in there too," I answered.

"God do we really have to call it that?" Tony asked with an exaggerated pout. "No one is going to take you seriously if you keep giving things magic names."

"I just called it what fit Tony. Hard to argue when you still have no idea how anything that I make works."

"Stupid reality breaking bullshit," He responded without any heat in his voice. Before he could continue Jarvis walked into the room.

"Sir, Pepper is on her way home, she will be arriving shortly."

"Thanks Jarvis," He responded before looking at me. "Time for you to go."

"What? I mean sure, alright."

"Pepper was very emphatic about rewarding me if I worked hard to make this house safe again," Tony said, standing up and shoo-ing me away.

Ema snorted and laughed, nodding her head in agreement.

"You have something in mind?" She asked, still facing the wall.

"Yeah. I'm going to give Natasha a call."

Ema turned to look at me, her eyebrow raised.

"Why?"

"Well I want to see how she is doing," I asked. "I feel like just healing her and not checking up on her is negligent."

"Yeah, sure, alright. Well, good luck," Ema said before turning back to her painting. "Say hello for me."

"Alright."

I watched her paint for a minute before pulling out my phone and making my way to my living space. I dropped down to the couch and stared at my phone for a moment before dialing in her name and pressing send. Her name shifted to a number, my bullshit super phone connecting despite the fact that I was at least two hundred thousand miles away.

"Hello? Maker, is that you?" Natashas voice came through as she answered. "How did you get this number, and how did my phone know it was you?"

"My super secure phones are weird," I answered. "Their concept of communication is so strong all I really need is a name and it goes through."

"Oh Well what is it?"

"I wanted to check in on you, see how you were doing." I admitted, beginning to think that this might be a bad idea. "Also, I-

"Who is that?" A distant voice said from somewhere on Natasha's end, sounding vaguely like Clint. "Is that Maker?"

"Hold on Maker," Natasha said with a sigh, clearly covering the phone. Unfortunately for her between my enhanced hearing and the enhanced quality of my phone, I could still hear them pretty clearly.

"Yeah, it's Maker."

"Tell him to come over for dinner. We have plenty of food for one more."

"...are you serious? But what about"

"Nat, after what he did for you, twice now, the least we could do is treat him to a home cooked meal," Another voice said, this time a woman who I didn't recognize. "Unless you don't want to see him or you don't trust him?"

"No, that's not it," Natasha responded. "I would like to see him. If you're okay with him coming here."

"Yeah, just tell him to use the stealth cloaks that Steve said he has," Clint added in.

There was a slight scratching as Natasha pulled her hand off of the phone and continued talking.

"Maker how long would it take you to fly to Iowa?"

Just to make it clear, Inhuman's are not on the moon in this world. It seemed silly to include lore from a show that existed for a single season that nobody really watched.