A/N: Right before The Avengers.
Chapter 12- Thor Odinson
Pepper Potts was currently on one of Stark Industries private planes flying from LAX, California to LaGuardia in New York City for the grand opening of Stark Tower. Pepper was the only passenger on the plane. There were two stewardesses and a pilot with a co-pilot up in the cockpit.
Her laptop was out on the table in front of her and the television screen on the far wall was tuned to business news. Nothing yet about Stark's Green project of Stark Tower that was going to be operational tomorrow night, which concerned her. She started contacting her acquaintances in the media to try to get the story more coverage.
The seatbelt sign became yellow again as the pilot came over the plane's loudspeakers, "Please fasten your seatbelts, there has been some unexpected weather and the plane will begin to experience some heavy turbulence."
Looking down at herself, her seatbelt was already on, but knowing that it was Tony's plane, it didn't surprise her if he never wore his. Then, the plane began to shake. At first it was little tremors, then bigger ones until things inside the cabin began to fall off tables.
Pepper wasn't fast enough to stop the can of Coke that she had on the table from spilling onto her newly ironed business suit. Pepper sighed and tawsed the now empty can of Coke in the trash, and began to mop of the wetness with napkins when the whole plane shook.
That was when Pepper gave a gasp and latched onto the seat elbow rests on the chair as the plane took a steep dive then leveled out. Obviously the storm was worse than the pilot let on. She opened the circular window shade and saw that they were flying in the middle of a thunder and lightning storm. Pepper winced, flying in a metal box in the middle of a lightning storm…. Not a good combo.
Then what Pepper Potts experienced next she later convinced herself was a hallucination. The plane spluttered and dropped, Pepper screaming along with it. Out of the corner of her eye, outside the plane, a flurry of red shot down from above, moving underneath the plane and suddenly, they weren't' falling anymore.
The storm died down within minutes and evaporated all together. To Pepper's astonishment, they weren't falling anymore, they were back to their original altitude. Pepper breathed in and out, letting the nerves settle down.
She looked out the window again and saw a really, really buff man hovering in the sky, a red cape flowing behind him and in his right hand was a hammer. Pepper could have sworn that the guy winked at her and he flew off.
The pilot came over the loudspeaker in a pleading tone, "Miss. Potts, please, please never tell Mr. Stark about this… ever."
A bubbling laugh that escaped Pepper was her only response.
