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Chapter 4
Returning from the flashback, the needles embedded themselves through her dermis at 10 points, my sternum, my shoulders, my hands, my pelvis, my knees and my feet. She held her breath to prevent her screaming. The needles were originally for bone taps and were the not tiny by any means. If I scream she thought, Tony might not allow me to finish the procedure now or ever again.
Flashback
5 months into relationship
They were sitting on the porch of a cabin in the Rockies that Tony had rented. He had brought them there for 2 reasons. One was to make mad passionate love to his girlfriend. Two was because they were both in desperate need for a relaxing vacation.
After nearly five straight hours of fucking, collapsing, and fucking some more, the lovers sat on opposite side of a round outdoor dining table. The aforementioned table was currently covered with several blue prints and two plates with turkey sandwiches and some chips.
"The one thing I can't figure out is how you're going to keep your suit with you at all times and not get caught. I mean seeing as it's not a mechanized suit I can't just give you self-dressing back pack like Rhodey and I have," Tony inquired.
"Yeah, I know what you mean, if I constantly wear it there is the rather high possibility that I'll be found out somehow. Damn why can't superhero suits just melt into your body until you needs them," Pepper replied with a chuckle at her own little joke.
"He he, yeah if only th….PEPPER YOU'RE A GENIUS."
Without explaining further he picks up pencil and a new blue print paper and began scribbling randomly.
"Um, while I know I'm a genius can I ask what it was that I said," Pepper asked confusedly.
Instead of answering Tony pulled out his phone and began doing research and what looked like algorithms very, very quickly, Pff and he calls me a genius, yeah right more like his muse.
Knowing that when he got this way he wasn't going to be recovering for a while she stood up and reentered the cabin opting instead to relax on the couch watching Jumanji for the millionth time.
Approximately 3 hours later
"Pepper, Pepper where'd you g- oh there you are. Ok, I finished the designs for your suit come on," Tony said grabbing her hand and bodily pulling her from the couch towards the porch like an overexcited puppy.
It took me a moment to realize that the drawing was upside down. Ah that's better.
"WOW, Tony it's beautiful, did you figure out how I could wear it and not get caught," she asked tracing the lines of her future suit lovingly.
"Uh, Yeah but you see it would require some sacrifice on your part and it will probably be rather painful," Tony answered sheepishly rubbing the back of his head. Pff, he's probably still trying to get me to reconsider this whole thing.
"What kind of pain and sacrifice," she asks.
"Well I would be injecting portions of the suit into different sections of your body, and the injections would be rather painful," Tony replied.
"I don't care, I'll take the pain. I'm tired of being left behind. Now can you explain to me how I will be putting on the suit if it's inside of me," Pepper retorts without hesitation.
"The suit will consist of Nano metal and will painlessly ooze out and cover you weapons, accessories and all. I'm going to convert the mask into Nano metal so that it will form on you along with the rest."
End Flashback.
Clenching the mouth guard between her teeth she blinked rapidly as tiny rivers of tears welled and trickle from her eyes.
The precision robotic arm had broken through the periosteum and she could feel the cool preparation gel push against the marrow, coating the nerves, bone and muscle. It was almost like having vinegar and salt poured over her nerves. She couldn't take it anymore.
"MMMmmmmMMMMMMMmmmmm," came her muffled screams of pain.
"Pepper, Pepper listen to me I need to nod if you want to stop," Tony pleaded.
FUCK NO she had come too far and wasn't about to let her pain be in vain.
Her head frantically shook back and forth. She spit the mouth guard out.
"If you even fucking think – eh- of turning this off I'll –hih- JUST DON'T-" was all she could make out before she started choking from the pain.
"Stage one Complete Stage two Commencing," an automatic voice announced.
The robotic arms removed themselves from her body cauterizing and sticking her skin back in place.
"Neural interface installation needs authorization, Mr. Stark would you like to continue."
Tony closed his eyes as the message repeated; he opened them and looked at my exhausted angry face.
"Are you sure, it only gets worse from here," he almost seemed to be imploring me to stop.
"I knew the consequences going into this, continue," I replied as the computer's message repeated for a third time, "Oh and Tony I love you."
I mentally wish that I could have used pain relievers for the first part but they wouldn't have worn off in time for the neural interface to be put in place. For that I had be awake and able to feel everything.
Tony leans over and kisses me gently before replacing my mouth guard.
"Interface installation commencing."
The machines arms descend once more this time headed with thousands of tiny needle heads. Essentially it's going to be giving me a tattoo but instead of injecting me thousands of times all over my body with ink it will be injecting neural communication points all over my body. At least this is less painful than the last part…knock on wood.
It's ironic that I would even think that seeing as how I know the plans and what's going to happen next.
My full body neural tattoo is done leaving my skin read and irritable from my neck down. Next might be the worst part. The arms return this time with a new very thin almost hair like needle attached to it. It is hair like the needle is flexible and attached to a long nano filament that will act as the circuit once it is connected to the major neural point just tattoo onto my body. I want to scream but restrain myself for Tony's sake as the needles begins to thread the filament through my skin and begins creating a spider web of circuits from the ten different points the original bone taps left.
I thank god when the needles retreat half an hour later. At least I can be knocked out for the next few parts that Tony needs to do.
As Pepper is knocked out by the anesthesia, he leans over her inspecting the damage and correcting any blemishes left or scars left on her skin with a melting laser and a rubber flesh imprint to make it look like a normal patch of skin. Once done with that he clamps her eye open with an ocular stirrup and begins permanently attaching the infrared/night vision/zoom/x-ray contact he spent the last two weeks devising to her cornea. Depending on which function she was using her iris color would change. Red for infrared, glowing green for night vision oscillating blue for zoom and silver for x-ray. The contact for the left eye would be for data gathering. It was a camera, a photographic facial and body identifier and a fluorescent light skinner that could also become any eye for a retina scan.
In her ear he permanently implanted a special hearing aid that amplified and recorded any conversation within 500 feet. It also used echolocation in case of loss of vision for whatever reason.
Next he sprayed her entire body with a special polymer that protected her skin from temperatures, pressures and any shrapnel that might harm her.
Finally he attached anti-gravitational repulsion gyros to her heels and palms right beneath the skin.
Once finished he figured he might as well just bring her to her anniversary present instead of making her fly in her condition. He knew before the procedure even started that there was no way in hell Pepper would be in any condition to do more than test a few things on her suit, let alone have sex.
Placing his sleeping girlfriend in a pod he strapped her to his back and began the 4 hour flight towards her surprise.
Arriving at their destination he opened the pod and removed Pepper, carrying her over and placing her in a porcelain inset Jacuzzi filled with a opaque white liquid. Positioning her so that she would not slip under and drown, he took the pod he had brought her in and pressed a button causing it to fold up into a small cylinder, which Tony placed into a hole in the wall which obediently sucked it up.
"Jarvis, I want you to make sure she doesn't drown and if she wakes up keep her calm and alert me," Tony ordered as he left the room.
"Of course, Mr. Stark," replied a hologram and immediately a ceiling tile moved sideways and a metal arm with padded rubber tips reached down and assisted Pepper in floating.
Tony smiled at the picture it created in his mind. The woman he loved the most floating serenely in a Jacuzzi set in the floor of a luxurious Tuscan style bathroom.