Shooting stars

"Oh neat, a shooting star," Jonathan said as he drove his mom's Camry downtown get some Thai food. He watched the light moving against the twilight sky as he cruised down the coastal highway.

That was when Jonathan noticed it was not one shooting star but two that seemed to dance with each other in the sky. "Two shooting stars? What are the odds? Time to make a wish," he said.

Then the shooting stars stopped in the sky and quickly started to grow larger and larger...

"Shit! Undo wish! Undo wish!" Jonathan gasped.

But it was too late. Something slammed into his car and sent it flying.

Jonathan found himself upside down, hanging from his car seat, held in place by his seat belt. Before he could think of what to do next, the driver's side door was ripped from it's hinges and tossed aside. Jonathan found himself staring at a familiar red and gold large human shaped robot.

"I-iron Man?" Jonathan mumbled.

"Hang on kid!" Iron Man said as he grabbed and ripped off his seat belt before pulling Jonathan out of the flipped over car. Iron Man quickly flew away with Jonathan in his arms, right before an energy beam cleaved the Camry in two and blew it up.

"Awww man! Mom's gonna kill me!" Jonathan said.

Iron Man put Jonathan on the floor. "You've got bigger priorities, kid. Now run!" Iron man said and quickly turned around but was immediately hit by something fast and large which sent him flying half a mile away.

That something turned out to be another robot. It was slightly bigger than Iron Man with a sleek body of shiny dark metal and red glowing eyes. The robot spoke in a chilling voice, "Your misplaced concern with your fellow man will always be your downfall, Tony..."

The robot grabbed Jonathan by the neck and raised him above the ground.

"H-hey chill..." Jonathan gasped.

"Ultron! Let him go!" Iron man said as he flew back and landed a few paces away. "This is between you and me!"

The robot smirked. "Hmphhh. I completely agree," Ultron said as he closed his fingers around Jonathan's neck to snap it in two.

"No don't!!!" Iron Man yelled.

"H-hey, c-can we exchange insurance details?" Jonathan asked.

Ultron turned to look at Jonathan, his mechanical face looking somewhat surprised. Then Ultron noticed that his hand that was holding on to Jonathan was covered in a pulsating mass of fine metallic wires which slowly crept down his wrist.

"Ugh what!?" Ultron gasped and pulled his arm away. However his arm came off at his wrist and the pulsating mass remained on his stump.

"Oooof!" Jonathan cried as he fell to the ground.

The pulsating mass of fine, hair-like metal wires, wiggling and writhing like a colony of millions of tiny metal worms, suddenly became more aggressive and shot up Ultron's shoulder. It quickly started to spread over Ultron's body.

Ultron started twisting and turning, trying to get it off. "What is thisssss?" he screamed.

Within seconds, Ultron was overwhelmed by that grotesque mass of ravenous wire-like constructs and was reduced to into a rapidly diminishing pile. Then Ultron was gone, leaving only a puddle of the writhing hairy metallic mass. The mass also did not last long as it promptly shrunk until it disappeared completely.

"Phew, thanks Yang," Jonathan whispered under his breath.

"W-what the hell was that?" Iron Man asked, sounding shocked.

Thinking quickly, Jonathan said, "I-I dunno man... Holy shit!"

Iron Man started pacing the area where Ultron and the wiry metal mass was last seen. Jonathan had the impression that Iron Man was scanning the area. Then Iron Man turned to look at Jonathan and seemed to gaze at him for a long moment.

"Ummm, I-Is it g-gone?" Jonathan asked.

Iron Man sighed. "Seems like it. You alright kid?"

Jonathan stood up and brushed off his butt. "Y-yeah.... Wait, I mean, NO! My mom's car is totally totaled man!"

"Give me your details. I'll take care of it," Iron Man said.

So Jonathan gave Iron Man his name and showed him his driving license.

"All right. I gotta bounce," said Iron Man, "Cops will be here soon. Get them to give you a lift. Nice meeting you kid!"

With that, Iron Man shot into the sky.

"Jeez, what a day," Jonathan sighed. He glanced around to make sure the coast was clear before bringing up his right arm before him. "So how did it taste?" he asked.

The wiry pulsating mass of metal threads spread and covered Jonathan's hand and wrist like a woven glove.

"Learn anything?" Jonathan asked.

A mass formed on his palm and then ebbed away leaving a curious circular device embedded in the palm of the glove.

"... Repulsor?" Jonathan asked, communicating directly with the entity of metal threads via empathy, facilitated by his soul-stone powers. He raised his hand and pointed his palm outwards away from him. "What's a repul..."

BOOOOOOOOOM!

A huge **** and flash of light shot out of the circular device on Jonathan's palm, flinging him many meters backwards.

"OWWWWWWW! Motherfucker! I think you broke my arm, Yang!" Jonathan cried and cradled his gloved hand.

Jonathan writhed in pain on the ground for several more minutes until he could hear approaching sirens.