Disclaimer: I don't own Iron Man: Armored Adventures or it's characters. Wish I did but. ;P
"A vibrator!"
Tony looked up from his workbench as the X-51 aka 'Rescue' armour descended through the launcher portal. The face shield flipped open revealing it's pilot and Tony's best friend Pepper Potts.
"You added a fucking vibrator in the last upgrade you pervert."
Tony lowered the new Mk-3 helmet he had been working on and devoted his entire attention to Pepper. He waited for her high speed ramblings to make sense or for her to slow down. A rare occurrence to be sure.
Pepper on the other hand hovered about three feet off the ground, arms crossed watching Tony look at her with a completely confused expression. Sighing and counting to fifty, faster than any mortal should be able, she cut the repulsors.
With practiced ease she spun mid fall, the armour opening and jettisoning her. Landing on her feet as graceful as a Olympic level gymnast she made her way over to Tony. The armour resealed itself and remained hovering next to the launch bay waiting to be returned to the dock.
Tony smiled at her approach, her temper turning her ears a cute shade of purple and the pout she wore on her face almost made him want to laugh out loud.
"Ok Pep what's the matter with the armour now?"
Pepper rolled her eyes at the pet name he had taken to calling her of late, getting up close to him she grabbed the front of his t-shirt and pulled him down to her eye level.
"I was at 62000 feet doing about Mach 5 and about to go hypersonic when all of a sudden my groin plate began to vibrate intensely at exactly the point of where my panties would have been."
She let him go and Tonk rebounded slightly. Blinking and blinking again.
"And you think I installed a sexual device into your armour?" He stated incredulously.
"YES!" She shouted at him "I know you did because my armour is different since last week."
Pepper grabbed him by the shirt again and marched/dragged him over to her suit. Sensing her approach the suit lowered to the ground and popped open.
"Look!" She said pointing at the groin plate "On yours and Rhodey's it curves outwards but on mine the armour curves inwards and all this padding in new since last week as well."
It was Tony's turn to roll his eyes "Pep, the only reason your suit is the only one to curve inwards is because you don't have something me and Rhodey do."
"And what may that be." She snapped.
"A dick." Tony couldn't help but smirk as Peppers mouth dropped "As for the new padding, who was the one that was yelling all last mouth about how it's was chafing you with only the flight suit on."
Pepper drew on her last reserves of anger "That still doesn't explain why…"
Tony hand snapped out and caught her tongue stopping her before her tirade could start up again.
"I can only assume it was a transferred vibration from the air running over your suit as you attempted to go hypersonic. Which if I may remind you your suit is not rated for safe flight over Mach 4.5."
He let go and Pepper blushed vehemently as all the pieces began to fit together.
Tony chuckled and walked over to the X-51. He had never expect it to go over Mach 4.9 and judging by the fact that it was still all in one piece he figured he had outdone himself again. Not thinking much of it, he reached inside and patted the padded groin section.
Pepper watched as he quickly jerked his arm away.
Lifting up his hand to the light Tony noted that his hand was covered in a semi-sticky residue. Not sure what it could be he sniffed his hand slightly and turned to Pepper who was blushing profusely.
"What did you spill in your suit?"
Pepper's blush deepened by several shades, going from a light pink to a luminous red.
"Um, nothing Tony." Pepper made to leave.
"Pepper, what did you do?" Tony said depending his scowl.
"Well I, um, remember those vibrations I mentioned before. Well they kind of got me off. He-he."
It took a few moments for Tony to realise what she meant. When he did he instantly paled and began rubbing his 'soiled' hand on a rag.
"Well now that I have made a complete mess of myself I guess I should get going." Pepper about faced but only got to the door or the armoury.
"Oh no you don't" Tony shouted in his best scolding voice "You are going to clean your suit and put it away properly."
Pepper sight and trudged back over to the X-51. Meticulously she began pulling the limbs off the suit and retracting the connectors. Each piece was carefully inspected and wiped with machine oil before being loaded into the armoury launcher.
When she finally came to the soiled groin section she stripped the padding off and rinsed it thoroughly in water. Replacing the padding she wiped the exterior with oil and placed the section into the launcher.
Tony meanwhile was trying to solve the new issues that had arisen.
First was the vibration at Mach 5. He had looked over the flight recorder and discovered a ripple effect was occurring as the air streamed over the leg sections which caused a minor vibration that travelled but up the legs and culminated intensely in the crotch area where both legs section met.
He figured that he could place aerofoils at the knees that would both stabilise the suit and nullify the ripple effect. A quick strengthening of all the joints plus a few pop out ailerons would take the safe operating flight speed from Mach 4.5 to Mach 5.7 thus allowing hypersonic flight.
The last problem was the waste drainage system. He had never thought of such fluids when designing the armors, but now it gave him ideas and a challenge to boot.
Currently the suits could absorb urine, sweat and normal water. It could also remove saliva build up in the face plate and blood from any penetrative trauma. The suit would store this waste in disposable compartments that would automatically be replaced when the suit was in ammo reload/recharge mode whilst in the armoury launcher.
Pepper's new 'fluid' waste was giving him trouble. If he increased the absorptive quality of the armour lining he ran the risk of sucking the pilot's skin off. Not a pleasant thought.
His quick fix solution he came up with was to alter the membrane over the crotch area specifically and decrease the density of the absorptive membrane thus allowing larger more heavier fluids to be absorbed.
Hopefully he would never have a need to test it out, he began typing the new upgrades into the automatic construction and repair system.
As Tony was finishing his upgrades, Pepper had finished cleaning her suit and was now stripping out of her flight skin suit in the locker room of the armoury.