If You Can't Stand The Heat
Awwwwright, here's chapter 2. Not much to say, but this is where the real fun begins!
Chapter 2
Pepper raised her fists in a battle-ready stance as the orange glow transferred from her hands to her abdomen. And still, Iron Man didn't move an inch. Pepper dashed up to him at inhuman speed and threw a spinning kick at his cranium. Iron Man ducked with equal speed. It must be the machine doing most of the work! thought Pepper as her next few kicks were evaded at extreme speed.
Iron Man grabbed Pepper's leg while in midkick and twisted it. Hard. Pepper yelped as her whole body reflexively twisted with her leg. Pepper backed away to build some distance while nursing her leg and trying to formulate a plan. It's the suit that's doing all the work, Pepper told herself. I need to somehow stop that thing from giving Tony strength.
Iron Man was quickly gaining on Pepper. As they collided, Pepper flipped Iron Man over her back, smashing him into the ground where he lay, sprawled on his back. After a short pause, Pepper grasped onto his neck and chest, and swung him toward the mansion and released. Iron Man was sent flying, bound to crash right through the front doors of his own mansion, before activating his thruster engines, steadying himself in midair.
Pepper, who saw this coming, was already leaping high into the air. Iron Man barely activated his thrusters when Pepper came smashing into him from above. The force of Pepper's landing sent them both soaring downwards, right through the roof of the Stark Mansion.
The once-happy couple fell through several floors of the mansion before landing with a deafening thud in what used to be the Hall of Armors. Tony was on the bottom and got the worst of the fall. Pepper straightened up to a sitting position on top of Iron Man and charged the Extremis heat from her abdomen to her fists. After the heat settled into her knuckles, Pepper proceeded to punch Iron Man's face repeatedly.
The arc reactor! Pepper realized. That was the source of Tony's power, how could she have forgotten? Pepper slammed a flaming fist one last time onto the now severely dented and charred helmet, and averted her gaze to the glowing light in Iron Man's chest, ready to end her conflicts with Tony Stark.