Words: 529
Rating: T
Warnings: Humor, minor fluff.
Summary: It's Lionel's first time going down to the lab and he is terrified. Tony isn't helping much either but luckily Jarvis is always there to save the day. Figuratively speaking, of course. (Accident)
Lionel made a small noise, partly in curiosity, partly in fear, red eyes wide as he looked at the doors to the lab in front of him. His ears lowered and he curled his tail around his leg, gripping the sides of the plate in his hands tightly as he hesitantly spoke up. "J-Jarvis, may I please come inside the lab?" He barely got out in something that wasn't necessarily a squeak.
"Of course Master Lionel," he said and the Mute frowned when he heard the 'Master' part. I'm not anyone's master... I'm more like the pet... he thought dejectedly.
The glass door slid open with a hiss and Lionel's fear returned, anxious to go into the lab. Tony always told him he was welcome, of course, like Steve was too, but... he became too scared to go down here after he heard Tony nearly explode when Mark went into the lab once without permission. Tony's frightening when furious. "U-uh... T-tony?" Lionel called out, cautiously going into the 'lair' and he blinked, surprised, jaw dropping when he saw all the incredible gadgets all around. Many suits were also lying around or put onto pedestals for later use.
"W'vat?" The Mute heard the muffled voice and he almost giggled, walking over to a desk and he set the plate onto the surface. He was about to answer when he heard a small whirring behind him and he gasped, startled, turning around only to be met with the strangest of little bots.
"Oh? Well aren't you just the cutest little thing?" Lionel cooed, ears twitching and his tail flicked out from side to side. He reached out to touch the bot but jumped, letting out a frightened yelp when something exploded behind him. "Tony!?" he shouted, eyes wide, whirling around immediately, only to watch as a soot covered brunette emerge from beneath a machine of some sort.
"Yeah, yeah..." he coughed and waved away some smoke that surrounded him, coughing again. "I'm fine," he then smirked as he sat up, wiping his face with an already dirty cloth, and he looked up at the frightened Mute. "So... your first time down in the lab, how do you like it?" Lionel looked at the machine and then back at Tony.
"Do uh... does that happen... a lot?"
"What? Oh that? Nah... it just-"
"Master Lionel, if I may," Jarvis interrupted the brunette, much to Tony's aggravation, "there are constant explosions within the lab almost every night. The rate of accidents that follow the explosions are few in percentage." He supplied and somehow this calmed Lionel down a bit more than anything Tony could've said would, he was sure.
"Thanks, Jarvis," Lionel said, sighing softly before nodding to the desk. "Steve made you a sandwich and he told me to tell you to come back up before midnight, so you don't end up sleeping down here again." And with that, Lionel turned, pet the robot, and then promptly left, leaving behind a very stunned Anthony Stark.
It was a few moments before Tony huffed and he looked at the bot, "Traitor," to which the bot only made a small whirring noise in response.