Author: MoiraShipper

Summary: Avengers. How Tony got the strength to escape through the hole.

Savin' me

Show me what it's like to be the last one standing

And teach me wrong from right

And I'll show you what I can be.

Say it to me

Savin 'me-Nickelback

Tony felt everything dark around him, inside that black hole from where the Chitauris had passed through it and also he felt the battery of his armro running out, which would make it impossible for him to return to Earth. To Pepper.

"I'm sorry, my love... But I don't think I'll be able to save myself this time." Tony murmured tiredly, seeing the hole closing, farther away from him and he knew there was nothing to save him.

He felt sad. He wouldn't see the great love of his life again. He was going to die there and he wouldn't even be able to say goodbye to her.

But then, even with the lights of his armor turing on and off with the battery in the end, a video appeared, on his cam with Pepper in it and Tonny's eyes widened, seeing the redhead seated in the couch, hands folded on her lap and with a shy smile, looking ahead.

"Hi Tony... I hate to think about it, but I've decided to record this video, just in case something happens and we can't say goodbye." She said and her blue eyes shone intensely. "Tony, whatever happens, I love you, I love you more than anything in this world and it have been like this for the past 10 years, the last one where we've started dating."

And then she lifted a hand, stretching it forward as if she wanted to touch Tony, and then, feeling his eyes shine, he held out his mechanical hand in front of him as well, as if they could touch their ahnds and he murmured in a hoarse voice:

"Tell me what I should do Pepper... I don't want to make you suffer my love and I'm not even ready to say goodbye..."

"You're the Iron Man and you never give up so I want you to fight Tony, save yourself from the situation that you are in and come back to me, understand? Don't give up and know that I'll be waiting for you, ready to be in your arms."

And then Pepper opened a beautiful smile to the screen, her hand still stretched ahear toward Tony's hand, before the video ended.

"Thank you my love."

And then, using what was left of the battery of hir armor, which was almost nothing, Tony began to swim toward the closing hole.