SUIT UP

"Jarvis, are you there?"

"At your service, sir."

Tony fixed the mask over his face and was now completely decked out in the whole suit of armor. It was different from the first one. While the first one was bulkier and made in a cave with very little supplies, this one was more form-fitting and done in his own workspace.

"Engage heads-up display."

"Check."

"Import all preferences from home interface."

"Will do, sir."

Tony stared around the room and spotted Abel at the computers. She looked up from the screen, smiled at him before waving. She then promptly when back to work.

"All right, what do you say?" Tony asked.

"I have indeed been uploaded, sir. We're online and ready."

"Can we start the virtual walk-around?"

"Importing preferences and calibrating virtual environment."

"Do a check on control surfaces."

"As you wish."

Abel looked down at the screen after all the date from the suit testing has been transferred to her computer. "Test is complete, Tony." She called out. "You can power down and begin diagnostics."

"Uh, yeah, Sweetheart?" Tony suddenly cut in. "Tell you what. Can you do a weather and ATC check?"

That caused Abel to snap her head up with shock. "Tony, there are still terabytes of calculations needed before an actual flight..." She said grimly.

"Abel..." He spoke again more forcefully. "Sometimes you got to run before you can walk."

Abel frowned and spun around in her chair. "Oh, God. I can't watch." She said nervously, closed her eyes with her hands.

Tony straightened his body up and held the palm of his hands flat. "Ready? In three, two, one."

The thrusters kicked in and he began to hover. Tony leaned forward and he started to fly through the tunnel, his feet scraping the ground as he picked up speed before he burst through the tunnel right into the open air. He wobbled in the air for a moment with his eyes bugging out of his head and his heart pounding like a gong in his chest.

"Handles like a dream, Abel," Tony called back.

He flew around and could see everything. Up to Abel looking out the window back at his house. To the kid licking his ice-cream off his cone on the farris wheel. It was all a sight he had never seen before and never thought he would.

Tony then took a sharp turn and flew straight up into the sky. "All right, let's see what this thing can do. What's SR-71's record?"

Abel called back almost instantly. "The altitude record for Blackbird is 85,000 feet."

Tony was a bit taken back that she actually knew that off the bat but shook it off. "Records are made to be broken! Come on!"

He continued to climb into the sky till the lights down below were nothing but small dots, but we found his vision began to frost up.

"Sir," Jarvis called in. "There is a potentially fatal buildup of ice occurring."

That caught Abel's attention and panic was heard in her voice. "Tony, you need to be careful!"

Tony didn't listen and continued his record. "Keep going!" A thick layer of ice started to build up all over his suit.

The power then began to go in and out when suddenly the whole suit went dead and his thrusters ceased to work. He suddenly stopped flying in the sky and began to thrash around as he descended at a high pace back down to the Earth.

He screamed out as he tumbled around in the air. "We iced up, Jarvis! Deploy flaps! Jarvis?" There was no answer, all was silent. "Come on, we got to break the ice!"

Tony moved his hand down to a switch on his leg and turned it. The flaps popped out and the ice shattered at last. Power turned back on in his suit and he engaged as quickly as he can. He skinned by the road and was barely able to get back up. He grinned like mad and laugh his head off, his heart pounding in his ears.

He flew back to his house and slowly tried to land himself on the roof. He cut the power and his whole body broken through the roof and feel through his house all the way down to the basement, right on the roof of his car. About scared the hell out of Abel, judging by her scream.

Abel held an ice pack to Tony's head as he walked around his workspace. "You scared me to death when I couldn't get back into contact with you," Abel said with a frown.

Adrenaline was still pumping in his veins and all he did was a grin. "You gotta check out that icing problem when you get the chance." He pointed with his bruised finger.

Abel forced him to sit in his chair while she grabbed a small light. She turned it on and flash it in his eyes. "Maybe you should go to the hospital. You might have a concussion."

Tony squinted his eyes as they were flash by the light. "I don't need a doctor when I have you." He moved her hand away so she could stop blinding him.

Abel eyed him with a slight smirk. "What? Am I your personal doctor?" She said in a joking manner.

"I like to think your my partner and doctor." He grinned at her and that caught Abel off guard a bit as her smirk fell.

She started with an almost shocked look while her heart suddenly skipped a beat. She took a sharp breath but placed it off with a warm grin.

Tony then noticed a small box behind her. "What's that?" He pointed.

Abel looked behind her and saw it. "I believe Pepper brought it in." She picked it up and handed it to Tony.

Tony began to tear the wrapping and saw what was inside. It was his first arc reactor held in a glass box with the words printed on it saying 'Proof that Tony Stark has a heart.'

Tony smiled and Abel looked over his shoulder down at it. It made her laugh a bit. To most people, it might be hard to see that he did, but for her, she could easily see it, especially back in Afghanistan.

Author's Note:

Okay, so I noticed that this chapter was way to short for my liking, which is why I'm just going to post a second one after this. Stay Tuned!