A/N: This story takes place between the two movies...
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"Tony what are you doing?" Pepper asked as she strolled into the workshop to find Tony squatting next to some shower capsule thingy that reminded her of the device on that old horror film 'The Fly'; she shuddered as the image of Tony turning into a Flyman crossed her mind.
"What does it look like I'm doing?" he asked as he stood back up and wiped his greasy hands on an old oily rag.
"It looks like your wrecking you best T-shirt." Pepper replied, indicating to the now stained Hugo Boss T he wore. She only considered it his best shirt because it was her favourite; it showed of the muscles in his chest so very nicely indeed, Tony didn't know this of course...
"Well that's where you're wrong; I'm building a time machine." He said with the biggest grin he could muster.
"..." She looked at him blankly; did he just say what I thought he said?
"Aren't you going to ask me why?" he whined, upset that she wasn't giving him the ego boost he so desperately craved.
"Tony, why are you building a time machine?" she asked in a dead pan tone, not at all interesting in his time machine, but more focused on how to get grease out of a cotton shirt.
"To go back in time, duh!" She did not look impressed, insulted was more like it.
"Tony!" she said in an exasperated tone.
"To see you naked...?" He watched as her nostrils flared and knew that he had given a definite wrong answer, he cowered slightly.
"Ugh! Right that's it, I've had enough, I'm leaving. Goodbye Tony." She yelled as she stormed out of workshop, he could hear her car as it receded down the drive, the tires screeching along the asphalt.
"Meh! I'll go back in time and fix that later...but now for more important things." He said rubbing his hands together, much like all the mad scientists before him. He pulled a switch and watched as electricity surged down the sides of the machine, he stepped into capsule without a second thought. He punched in the year and day he wanted to go back too, 2008, the day of the fire fighters benefit, and this time he would not leave Pepper standing alone on the balcony.
A/N: I'm sure Tony would do some cazier stuff if he did have a time machine, but between the movies, I think this would be a priority; 'If I were Iron Man, I'd have this girlfriend...' and so on...
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