"Oh! Come on! Seriously? Why can't you just fly away? I was getting somewhere emotionally!" Pepper told Iron Man.
"What? Your on a rooftop with an assassin, how can you get somewhere emotionally?" Iron Man asked.
"Cut the crap! I'm gonna defeat you, then I'm gonna take Pepper back to her team." The Ghost said.
"I don't think so! How do I know that your not gonna kill her?" Iron Man said.
"I don't kill kids." The Ghost stated.
"Bullshit." Iron Man raised his laser. (A/N: I don't know what to call it.) "What about Tony Stark?"
"That's different!" The Ghost yelled.
"This is different too." Iron Man said, before he shooted The Ghost, causing him to fly backwards, because he lacked the protection he needed to bloack this attack.
"Hey!" Pepper yelled.
"What?" Iron Man yelled.
"That wasn't necessary!" Pepper retorted.
"...Fine..." Iron Man flew to the fallen Ghost, and put his hand out for him. Instead of taking it, Ghost took out his gun, and shot Iron Man, close to his arc reactor. (A/N: That's what's called right?)
Inside the suit.
"System, malfunction. Losing Power."
"What? Fix it!" Tony said.
"Wound too close to power source, can't be fixed automatically."
"Call Rhodey!" Tony ordered.
"L-Losing power, E-E-Emergency S-Shut down."
"What? No!" Tony yelled. Everything then went black. The suit became to heavy, and the air was constricted. Not to mention the shot got pretty close to injuring him. So, he was having trouble breathing...
Outside the suit.
"Iron Man!" Pepper yelled. There wasn't an answer coming, He was stumbling backwards, towards the edge of the building.
"That's your hero, Pepper. See? He's just as venerable like everyone else. There's nothing special about him." The Ghost said, panting.
"No...He can't..." Pepper muttered.
"Yes. He's dying." The Ghost said, and disappeared.
"Ghost! Get back here!" Pepper yelled to the air, but no one came.
"Iron Man!" Pepper yelled.
Tony heard Pepper yelling at him, not to leave her, to get up and help her. That he shouldn't be so weak, that he can get through this. Tony didn't have the strength, he was dying and was well aware of that, but he didn't care surprisingly. He been put through this type of situations many times, so it wouldn't be a shock, but then he thought of Pepper, stuck up here because he failed to do the one thing he promised to do with technology, save lives. He found the strength to bring his hand up so his mask would be out of the way.
"Iron Man, please!" Pepper yelled. She wasn't paying attention to what he was doing, she was looking around. By the time she looked back to Iron Man, he was standing facing his back to her. "Are you alright?" She whispered. No answer came. Instead he stumbled, forward, and turned around. His mask wasn't in his face so, Pepper saw for the first time, that Tony was Iron Man. She gasped and said, "...Tony...?" He smiled, and reached out, before he lost his balance for lack of strength. He fell, simple he fell. Accept that he didn't fall on the ground of the roof, he fell 10 stories down to the ground.
"Tony!" Pepper yelled, even though with her injury, she ran/fell/stumbled to the door of the roof. She pulled at the door, and it came of its hinges. She knew that couldn't get down the stairs fast enough. So, she looked for an elevator, which she found pretty quickly. She made it down to the first floor, where people we gathered around something. She ran through the crowd, limping through she made it to the door, pushed it open and saw Tony laying on the ground.
"Iron Man!" Pepper yelled, making sure to keep his identity a secret. His mask was on his face now, but showed no movement. Pepper got nervous, reached inside her pockets, she dropped her cellphone at the broken building. She had nothing to contact them. Pepper then heard a pained groan, she reacted to the sound to see that he was moving. He stood up shakily, impossibly weak. The suit had broken his fall. The suit had saved him. Like it had million other times, but this time it was also killing him slowly.
"Are you alright?" Pepper asked again.
"Honest? No. Come on lets go someplace so I can get out of this suit." Tony said, limping to a nearby alleyway. Pepper followed, wondering how that was possible. Tony walked to the far part, so no one can see him. He didn't think the suit would be able to go back to the case, but it did. So he had to take a heavy, red and yellow case around New York City. Pepper gasped, when she saw him.
"What's wrong?" Tony asked, worriedly because he thought that she was hurt.
"Your bleeding!" Pepper exclaimed. Tony looked down to see if that was true. It was. He was bleeding way too close to his implant. He wasn't paying attention to himself, he always did that.
"We should take you to the hospital." Pepper said, in a rush.
"No! Take me to my lab." Tony said.
"This isn't time to worry about the suit!" Pepper yelled.
"Sshh! It's just a flesh wound. It didn't get deep!" Tony stated.
"Really? This isn't time to argue either. Come on!" Pepper said.
"The doctors don't know how to treat my state!" Tony said.
"What are you talking about? Yes, they do, you said it was just a flesh wound." Pepper argued. Tony sighed, put down the case, and started to rise his shirt up. "Tony, what are you doing?" Tony said nothing, and took his entire shirt off. (A/N: That's exactly what Jacob did in New Moon. Ha ha...) Then, Tony pointed to a circle in his chest.
"This is why the doctors can't fix me." Tony said.
"What is that?" Pepper looked at it, tempted to poke it.
"My implant, I don't have time to explain, we have to get to my lab!" Tony said, putting his shirt back on.
"How? We're both injured." Pepper said, looking down at her ankle, which was swelling because she put wieght on it.
"Come on, lets go." Tony said, picking up the case, and started limping forwards. Pepper sighed and followed. Catching up with him, and taking his arm and putting around her shoulder, and Tony put his arm around her waist.
"Why are we like this?" Tony asked.
"Either way you look at it, we need some type of support." Pepper responded.
"Tony's been gone for 2 hours already!" Rhodey said.
"I've called him 10 times already." Howard said.
"What if something happened?" Rhodey asked.
"Well, lets just hope nothing has..." Howard said.
Tony and Pepper limped into the warehouse.
"This is your lab?" Pepper asked.
"Well, yes and no." Tony said, and continued all they way to the real lab.
"This is my lab." Tony said, reaching the door to it and unlocking it. Opening it, Pepper saw one of the nicest labs shes ever seen. (She's only seen one, and thats the FBI one, this one was 10 times better)
"Wow." Was all Pepper said.
"Thanks." Tony said, getting her expression. They entered, Tony told Pepper to sit down, while he started to take his shirt off. Pepper was about to ask when she saw that he took something, connected it to his implant. He then, reached into a drawer, and got out some gauze.
"Why do you have gauze in here?" Pepper asked.
"You never know." Tony responded, scooting closer to Peppper.
"What are you doing?" Pepper asked.
"Trying to help you." Tony replied,putting some around her ankle.
"I think your hurt more Tony." Pepper said.
"Mine can wait." Tony said, finishing up what he was doing.
"Thanks, Tony." Pepper said.
"Yeah. No problem it's what friends do." Tony said, not looking at her.
'IS IT WRONG TO LOVE HER!'
"What?" Tony said out loud.
"Tony? Something wrong?" Pepper asked.
"No. It's just I thought of something." Tony said.
"What?" Pepper asked.
"Nothing. It's nothing." Tony said.
"Tony, you're still bleeding." Pepper said.
"Oh. Right I forgot." Tony said, so he started to wrap the gauze around his wound.
"Tony..." Pepper said, while fidgeting with the hem of her shirt.
"Yes...?" Tony said.
"Why do you need an implant?" Pepper asked.
"Um, next question." Tony said.
"Tony." Pepper growled.
"Fine. When I was born, I couldn't breathe very well, but the doctors and nurses didn't notice. So, my heart began to fail. My dad noticed though, and he built the arc reactor. (A/N: Still don't know.) Even though, my dad had to hear my cries of pain he put the implant to help my heart, and now I'm a healthy teenage boy." Tony explained.
"Oh. That's a lot to come through..." Pepper said.
"Not really. There's still a lot of other sad stories out there." Tony said.
"But that's pretty sad." Pepper said.
"But other than that, my life has been fine, execpt that my mom died." Tony said.
"Yeah, but not everybody had that in their life. Whatever, what are we gonna do now?" Pepper asked.
"Well, we have to stay here until I finish charging, then we'll leave to the FBI headquarters." Tony said.
"Okay..."
Morgan, Reid, Emily, JJ, Hotch, and Rossi came back to their office. Tired from walking all over the city, looking for Pepper.
"I'm guessing you didn't find her?" Rhodey asked.
"No. We didn't. Wheres Tony?" Morgan said.
"He left. 2 and half hours ago." Howard said.
"So, we have another missing person." Reid said.
"Yeah. I guess." Rhodey said, leaning on the palm of his hand.
"You should go home, we'll call you if we get anything." JJ told Rhodey.
"Yeah, both of you, lack of sleep not just ruins your day, but causes so many other things to go wrong, like depression and-"
"We got it, Reid." Morgan said, rubbing his eyes.
"Okay, remember to call me please." Rhodey said, and got up from his seat, when he heard; "Rhodey!"
"What?" Rhodey turned to see Tony and Pepper limping inside the office.
"Tony!" Rhodey ran up to them, to see him alright, just slightly hurt.
"Oh my God. Tony!" Howard said, and went to go hug his son.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Tony said.
"Come on, lets go to the conference room." JJ said, helping them over to the room.
"So, what happened?" Morgan asked, while Garcia was typing what they say in a document. So, they explained everything, from getting hurt, to Tony coming on the roof (Not as Iron Man), then they said that Iron Man had saved them, to them walking here. At the end of the questioning Pepper whispered to Tony;
"Hey, do you think you can make an Iron Woman?" Tony laughed.