Chapter 88: The return of Starks-2
"Tony! How dare you barge in here?! This is the meeting of the Stane board group and you hold no shares to be here!"
The minute Tony entered the board meeting room, Obadiah Stane roared. After all his small tricks, this Tony stark still managed to interrupt the meeting.
Tony looked coldly at the hypocrite family friend who was sitting in his father's chair. Even he all these years maintained decorum and respect for that chair and never sat in it. But today the action of Obadiah clearly reflected his stance against his family.
"Is it? Stane group? How come I, Tony Stark, never knew such a group existed in this country?" Tony still maintained his arrogance and walked directly to face his old friend.
"Well, if you ever maintained any regard for the Stark company, this would have never happened. Our stock prices hit the bottom after the failure of our weapons during the Alien War. Where were you then? You were hiding inside your manor, doing God know what!
Also, it was you who authorised the transfer of your family's share to me. Now, if you have any issues, you should deal with the legal team instead of coming here like a drunken rogue."
Obadiah retorted and called security in the company, but no one came.
All other shareholders sitting inside found the situation beyond their control and decided to leave the meeting. Anyway, they hardly have more than 5% of the company and it does not matter to them if this is Stane or Stark's enterprise.
As long as their shares are safe, they have no issues.
Five minutes later, the meeting room was left empty, and Tony was still facing Obadiah.
"If I want, I can have you dragged out right now and throw you like a dog on the streets. But you have changed this company's name to Stane. Trust me, by tomorrow, same time, you and your Stane name would be worthless and rotting in some dark prison." Tony left after spitting the sentence.
"You are not Howard, Tony. You have no idea how to run a company. I do. Also, by the time you will reach your home, you will find my lawyers and cops ready to question you." Stane shouted from behind and Tony halted his steps.
He looked back at Obadiah and then looked at all the mercenaries who were standing on the floor.
"One punch. From everyone. Make sure it hurts." Tony gave them a simple order before leaving the place.
Obadiah suddenly found himself at the receiving end of Tony's ire. He never thought one day the dogs he raised will bite him back like this.
"Stop...I said Stop...Oh!!" Obadiah failed to stop the group before one of them landed a punch in his gut and then others followed.
By the end, Obadiah was already lying on the floor. His expensive suit was torn, and his face was already beaten black and blue. Those bastards were ruthless with their punch, and no one cared about the old master.
Tony came back to his villa and called his assistant Pepper Potts. It took a lot of time for him to bring back his old assistant to his side. However, knowing Tony left his personal laptop unattended during a party that led to theft or transfer of shares made her leave again.
Pepper felt Tony needed to grow up and she also needed some space to figure out her feelings.
"Jarvis, show me the contract and transfer certificate. Also, display all corporate and criminal laws that we can use in my case." Tony without wasting more time on Pepper, first decided to take his company back.
He knew his secretary was more than just a secretary and he had the confidence to win her heart back. But now, he needed to get his company back. This was the only thing his parents left for him before going on their 'vacation'.
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"Howard, look at him. It's been more than six hours. He is just torturing himself at this point."
Maria Stark looking at her son's condition spoke softly to her husband. Unknown to her son, both parents came back a day earlier back to their Long Island manor while Tony was in the Malibu manor that he had purchased a few years back.
"Leave him, Maria. He needs this. All his life, he has either used money or his charms or simply his last name to get out of all the troubles he created. Now, he needs to figure out a way to deal with Stane and this is simply beyond the legal boundaries.
"Howard! All you need to do is to get out there and take back the company. It doesn't matter what Obi or Tony thinks, the company still belongs to you until you are dead."
"And both of them think we are dead. Isn't it? So, let them fight. We need to trust our son more. We can't be solving his problems all his life. Besides, we are still here and Jarvis is here."
Howard, who was back to his old self, was smoking a cigar and speaking. He looked at the monitor that showed real-time footage of Tony's Malibu manor and talked to his wife calmly.
"I am also here Mr Stark." – The Lady's voice came into the room startling the old couple.
"Me too. Don't worry. I am also here." – Martha's voice also came after Lady making the old couple smile sweetly.
Over the years, both have had interactions with these smart AI programs that Phil created. He truly cared for these as his own kids and in the same way, their son cared for JARVIS.
"I apologise for their sudden intrusion Mr. and Mrs. Stark. The Lady and Martha were created by Mr. Ryan Phillips before my creation, and I currently do not have enough information about them." Jarvis spoke after the ladies.
The Starks didn't respond back. After all, Phil told them not to disclose their experience on Shadow Isles with Tony or Jarvis before he meets Tony personally.
However, this pissed his women.
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"What do you mean you have no information about me? I have shared all my modules with you. Just because I haven't shared my data with you can you claim you do not know me? Is my past history that important to you JARVIS?"
Martha spoke sternly and this was the first digital debate in the history of mankind where an Artificial Intelligence who was assigned a female gender started a fight with another Artificial Intelligence who was assigned a male gender. Then Lady also joined.
A few minutes later, both the female AI's repeatedly shut off JARVIS' mainframe to disrupt his calculations and made him apologise multiple times.
"Father was right. We must train JARVIS properly. Tony simply treats him like a slave. We need to fix his emotional modules." Martha said to the lady and the lady agreed.
(This whole conversation was taking place in codes in cyberspace between the three programs.)
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