IRON MAN
Redemption Affirmation
The throbbing pain remains, the images spiral again as I wince hard. Aware full well
that I have again driven away all those who I care and love. Pepper topping that list by far and the underlying fact I should know better by now.
My ego again over powering my heart, with Jarvis along with my every other invention stripped from me and at this precise moment I could not be further from Iron Man. The enemy knowing me better than all those who have gone before something somehow surprising considering recent exploits and one long ago face from way back.
As my thoughts divert for a second aware that I am well of the top of there list of priorities, with having come to there aid twice, the latter coming of just after meeting that old foe. The Avengers and one certain captain owes Tony Stark twice over not that either of us had been counting.
With the throbbing pain finding a new crevice, the images coming to a dead halt and the stark realisation I am about to slip into unconsciousness with the odds of waking up being pretty minimal.
As I slowly with grit determination force my brown eyes open trying to find any small faint ray of hope and in true Stark style I have outdid myself this time. My whereabouts even if anyone were looking is of the map and where least expected.
This causing a groan, my eyes unwilling to stay open for a moment more as I try to hang on feeling life itself begin to ebb away, as I try to figure when last in this bad a scenario coming to the conclusion either someone or something has always intervened or helped.
The thought doing no good though the enemy having twigged on that and what crime there about to commit after taking Tony Stark out the equation might only then be enough to awaken the team. I sometimes on occasion help as my thoughts now turn only to Pepper.
Feeling my fading heart begin to give in to the fight, my playboy showman years catching up in a whole new way and the underlying fact those who have trusted me, those I have helped even if just a little and it has come down to this...
TO BE CONTINUED