Pepper woke up and when she rolled over to reach for Tony and she remembered that he had to leave and she was sad. She looked at the clock and it was seven a.m.
She reached for her phone and there was a text message from Tony.
Still here. Love you lots my little sex nymph. I can't wait for the encore.
Pepper smiled to herself and squeezed her eyes shut and all she could see were images of her and Tony's lovemaking. It made her feel so warm inside. Pepper relished in the memories for a few more minutes before getting up and going downstairs to make coffee where she met Happy in the kitchen.
"Morning" she said happily as she turned on the coffee pot not being able to contain her smile.
"What's got you so happy this morning?" Happy asked
Pepper smiled again and she was biting her lip.
"Tony didn't tell you?" she asked.
"Tony didn't tell me what? Oh OHHHHH you and him…." Happy said.
Pepper smiled and nodded.
"What about you Happy? How's the love life?" Pepper asked.
"It's going ok. I have a date on Sunday as long as Tony doesn't need me" he said.
"I'll make sure he doesn't need you" Pepper assured him.
"Jarvis can you put on the news?" she asked as she was walking into the living room.
The TV came on and what Pepper saw on the screen caused her to gasp and drop her coffee to the floor. She felt white hot fear wash over her. There on the screen was her and Tony making love last night. And the words Pepper Potts is a WHORE across the screen. She turned the channels and it was on every channel. She fell to her knees and tried to control her breathing. Her private intimate moments with Tony were now broadcast worldwide.
"Pepper what happened?" Happy said coming inside quickly.
Pepper could hear Happy's voice but she couldn't speak. She just kept clicking the channels and it was everywhere. She felt herself turning bright red when she realized Happy could see all of this.
"Jarvis how did this get recorded?" Pepper asked feeling faint.
"I do not have the answer," Jarvis said.
" Happy put Tony on the line please as a 911 call" Pepper said collapsing to the floor.
Tony was busy moving more smashed up cars out of the way to get more people out of the tunnel. The tunnel collapse was much worse than they thought and there were a lot more people than just the kids trapped. He was blasting away some rock when Jarvis informed him of a 911 call from Pepper.
Tony felt panic wash over him and quickly pulled himself out of the tunnel.
"Rhodey I need to take this. I have a 911 call from Pepper" he said.
"Go ahead man. I hope she's alright"
"Pepper what is it ? Are you ok?" he asked suddenly.
"Tony it's Happy-
"What happened to Pepper? Is she ok?" he asked frantically.
His heart was beating in his chest so rapidly and his mind went over the worse scenarios.
He could hear her sobbing and trying to get herself together on the other end.
"Tony someone made a video of you and Pepper making love last night and it's on every channel. And the words Pepper Potts is a whore is written across the screen on the bottom" Happy said trying to break it to him gently.
Tony took a deep breath and tried to remain calm.
"Jarvis bring up the video please" Tony asked.
Jarvis displayed it across the screen and Tony who never cared before when videos of him naked or in sexual situations had leaked in the internet but this was different. This was him and Pepper. They shared their feelings and established their relationship and every private moment was now on display for the world to see. He was angry that someone had violated Pepper that way.
"How many countries are seeing this?" Tony asked.
"All 195 sir" the A.I. responded.
"Happy put Pepper on please" Tony asked.
"Tony" she said in between tears.
"Pepper I know this is a terrible thing but I need you to remain calm. I'm going to fix this. I need a minute to think" he said trying to keep her calm.
"Please Tony. I can never show my face again at work, let alone leave the house again. No one even knows we're together. I wasn't ready to go public and now everyone knows. Everyone has seen my vagina" she yelled starting to sound hysterical.
"I know Pep. Believe me you have no idea how enraged I get knowing all the men in the world have seen you naked. I told Jarvis to stop recording before we did anything so I don't know how this happened. Jarvis how did this recording happen? Especially if you weren't recording" Tony said.
"I don't know sir because I was not recording when the incident happened"
"I'm going to upload you into one of the news vans live feed. I need you to search and destroy every copy of this video everywhere" Tony said to Jarvis.
"How will you get passed the mob of reporters heading this way?" Jarvis asked.
"Tony? Are you there?" Pepper asked.
"Yes babe"
"They have the whole thing on tape. You with your face between my legs, me on top, everything you said to me about being in the cave and hearing my voice. They played back everything. Those were our private moments. There are news vans pulling up outside waiting for me to leave the house" Pepper said hysterically
"I know honey. I'm trying to get them off the air as soon as possible and finish up with these kids so I can get home to you. I'm so sorry this happened but I promise I will figure it out and I will take care of the backlash"
A chill went down Pepper's spine as a creepy thought popped into her mind.
"Tony what if it was one of those spider camera things?"
It hadn't occurred to Tony until just now.
"That's it. That has to be it. I'm going to kill this guy when I catch him. Pepper just stay inside and lay low and I'll be home as soon as I can"
"I love you. Be safe" she said.
"I love you Pep. Goodbye" he said as he clicked off the phone.
Tony pushed his way through the mob of reporters and opened up the news van door and shut and locked it behind him.
"Excuse me sir but you can't be in here" one of the technicians said.
Tony flipped his mask open.
"Just get out of my way" he said angrily.
Tony rearranged some wires that could put Jarvis into the news feed.
"Jarvis I need you to search and destroy all copies of that video on all channels" Tony said.
"You may want to keep one copy for yourself to shop it around. You have nothing to be ashamed of. I watched the film. It was raw and real. Smoking hot chick and she was so into it. You did her proper. I bet you get offers for a sex tape deal" one of the technicians said.
Tony lost his patience immediately.
"Do I look like I'm playing games here? The woman I love is home crying her eyes out because our first time making love was recorded without our knowledge and broadcast to the entire world. I want it destroyed" he said.
"Wait you actually meant all that love stuff and stuff about the cave? I thought you were just pulling a line to get her in bed" one of them said.
"You're really starting to irritate me," Tony said.
"Sir I've only completed one channel. The other stations are not allowing me access" Jarvis said interrupting.
"I'm going to give you access now" Tony said typing furiously on his Stark tablet.
Tony popped up to the front seat of the van where there was no mob of reporters and slipped out the front window and onto the roof of the van where he took off into the air.
Daniel put his suit on stealth mode and walked through the crowd of reporters and security at the Stark Mansion with the ease of invisibility. He got to the guard shack and to his surprise the guard was doing his lap of his section of the perimeter. Daniel took his chip and uploaded a special present for Jarvis into the security clearance section of Tony's files and walked around to the back of the Stark Mansion that was free of reporters and used Tony's code to get access inside the garage which lead to the workshop.
Tony was pulling out the last person from the tunnel when Jarvis alerted him that there was a security breach and that part of Tony's protocols were being overridden. Tony felt the panic again.
"Rhodes I have to go. There's a security breach at home. Pepper and Happy are alone there" he said taking off and clicking the line off.
"I won't be too far behind you," Rhodes said.
Pepper and Happy were in the living room when they heard movement downstairs.
"It can't be Tony. He wouldn't be back from Texas that quickly" Pepper said.
"It's probably a raccoon or something. Maybe one snuck in when Tony left last night. I'll check it out. You wait here and I mean it Pepper" Happy said.
Daniel heard what was going on and positioned himself near the garage wall and Tony's back door. He was going to take care of him first and then he'd be all alone with an unsuspecting Pepper.
Happy used his code to get into Tony's workshop and he looked around cautiously and quietly and then Daniel appeared by the door and Happy caught his eye.
"You're not supposed to be here" he said heading towards Daniel who opened the backdoor and took off running.
Happy chased after him and then all of a sudden he lost sight of him. Happy looked at the thick brush around him and he couldn't see anybody. He took a few more steps towards the end of the cliff to see if he was hiding anywhere and that's when Daniel slipped out of his hiding spot in stealth mode and pushed Happy hard off the cliff and watched him tumble a pretty far way down. He waited a minute to be sure he wasn't getting up and then turned to get back into the house.
"Well that was easy. Now to get Pepper" he said as he continued to roll out his plan.