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After finally remembering what had happened to her and the drug's effect finally wearing off, Pepper realized she had to get out of the room she was in. From a distance she could hear Stane working on something, the "Iron Monger" suit she guessed, but she wasn't certain. The ties that bound her were not too hard to get out of. Whoever had tied her up had done so in a hurry and that gave her the advantage of escape.
The knot was tied firmly but not too hard, and it was within her grasp. She quickly began to work on untying it. She strained her ears in order to try to hear of any signs that Obadiah may enter the room, but she heard nothing but the sounds of the armor's completion. She had untied the knot, thinking she was safe, when Stane stepped in the room. Without any time to hardly think Pepper instinctively dropped her head and pretended the drugs effects hadn't worn off yet. He was on the other side of the room, looking for something but what she didn't know. He stayed only for a few minutes and left, but not before glancing over in her direction.
When he was out of the room she slid the ropes off of herself. She kept low to the ground so maybe he wouldn't notice her if he came back in. She looked as far ahead in the other rooms as she dared, hoping to find a way out. She saw where Stane was at. Right where she needed to be. She'd have to go through the room he was in, in order to escape from his grasp. There was no way on Earth she could get past him without him knowing about it. But maybe, just maybe, he could know about it and she could escape too. It was a hope against hope. Almost impossible. But it wasn't like she had anything better to do. Then she saw her chance. Stane was getting into the suit. If she ran as fast as she could she might make her way out. Not giving it a second thought she made the dash to the finish line. Her heart beat faster, mostly from fear, as she passed Stane's suit and rushed into the main room where the doors to the outside were at. She could hear a terrible noise behind her as she pushed the door open. She ran outside into the open free air but found herself trapped again, for there was no real exit from this area of the building. All the while, the horrific sounds of metal filled her ears. She began to panic, for she was sure Stane was determined to kill her and wouldn't take no for answer. She saw the hulking metal behemoth coming right at her. It was similar is design to Tony's suit but so much more powerful.
Tony. How she wished he could be here to stop this killing machine and save her from certain death, but that was stuff that generally happened in fairly tales. And reality looks so much bleaker with a gun pointed at your head. She heard the clicking noises of the machine gun on the Iron Monger as it prepared to fire it's devastating blow…