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On The Move
Skye awoke to her phone going off. Taking a few moments, she recognized the interior of her van, in all it's updated glam. The sun hasn't even started to show its face yet. 'Who would call me this early?" Skye thought. Yawning, she reached over to grab her Stark Industries phone.
"How'd ya enjoy the Expo kick-off?" Tony too chipper too early voice.
"It looked alright on tv," Skye responded, still half asleep, "There was a great speech that really seemed to got the party started."
"Thank you." Tony said, "It was a piece of cake."
"Oh, I wasn't talking about you. I meant Howard." Skye said sarcastically, getting up and walking down the mini hallway to the mini living room.
"Very funny." Tony said, "Why didn't you go?"
"I have a whole year to visit, that's plenty of time. Besides, I need to be awake, and not hung over for today." Skye said, looking out of the small skylight.
"Yeah, alright. It's probably a good thing anyway," Tony said, "I'm gonna need your help today."
"I would but I'm suppose to head out for my vacation break. You know, the one you insisted I go on."
"I know, I know. I'll give you an extra week off if you move it back a day." Tony offered, then, "And I wont make you attend my birthday party."
"Deal." Skye said immediately, relieved she wouldn't have to be in the center of all that, "What are you gonna need?"
"Remember those videos of people trying to recreate my suit from North Korea and such?" Tony asked, "I'm gonna need you to have those on hand, also be ready to hack into the Senate Armed Services Committee. I'll use my phone as a connection point, since I'll be in the room anyway."
"They want the suit." Skye stated.
"You can probably watch the hearing on the news in a few hours when it starts."
"When does it start?"
"Nine. You might want to get ready."
"It's only eight."
"That gives you an hour to get ready."
"I'll be ready."
"There you go," Tony said approvingly, " See ya."
"Bye." Skye hung up the phone and fell back onto her bed.
Letting out a sigh, Skye stretched and walked a few steps over to the computers. She started up the desktop clicking through tv stations. With the laptop she readied herself to begin hacking. At nine she changed the channel to the hearing.
Skye watched as Senator Stern tried to call the suit a weapon and gain access to it, while Tony upended every argument with logical sass. She chuckled at Tony's jokes. When Skye heard the senator call out Rhodey, she was a little surprised. She didn't know that he was going to be there. Skye really could see that the senator was really trying to turn this against Tony, like making Rhody read only a part of his report. When they pulled up images of aerial views of attempts of making Tony's suits, Tony sent Skye a text telling her it's time.
Skye, with a little help from Jarvis, connected to the screens quickly. She first sent the North Korean video, followed by the Iran video. While connected to the Senate, she found another video. Sending it up, she laughed at the second screen as Justin Hammer tried to turn it off while a video of Hammer Industries was on screen. By the end it was clear that Tony won by a long shot.
The next day Skye was driving to the Grand Canyon when Jarvis informed Skye that Tony was back at his mansion. Skye told Jarvis to video call him.
"What's up, buttercup?" Tony asked as he came on screen.
"Oh, hacking servers, what else?" Skye responded, keeping her eyes mostly on the road, "How are you doing?"
"Fine," He said, taking a drink of some dark blue drink.
"Jarvis." Skye asked, knowing that Tony was lying.
"We are up to 80 ounces a day to counteract the symptoms, miss." Jarvis responded.
Skye gave him a glare through the screen.
"So not as fine as I could be." Tony said, then pulled out a small device, "Check palladium levels."
"Blood toxicity, 24 percent." Jarvis said. "It appears that the continued use of the Iron Man suit is accelerating your condition. Another core has been depleted."
"Already?" Skye asked.
"God, they're running out quick." Tony said.
"I have run simulations on every known element. None can serve as a viable replacement for the palladium core. You are running out of both time and options. Unfortunately, the device that's keeping you alive is also killing you." Jarvis said. "Miss Potts is approaching."
"Tony, tell Pepper abou-" Skye began before Tony interrupted with "Mute!"
Skye sighed before turning off the call and turning the radio back up.
"So I've found the most interesting thing on the news today." Skye said to Tony when he answered her call.
"Right, remind me to have Jarvis block your internet and tv access." Tony said.
"Tony," Skye said seriously.
"Look, you're on vacation, relax." Tony said, with a beeping in the background.
"What are you doing?"
"Cooking a breakfast for Pepper."
"Cooking? You can't cook." Skye said worriedly into the phone.
"Sure I can."
"Please tell me this means you're gonna tell her."
"Possible." Tony said, "We'll talk more when you get back."
"I get back on your birthday, you really wanna talk then?"
"Fine, We'll talk after my birthday. For now, just turn off the tv and enjoy the Grand Canyon."
"Actually, I'm in New Mexico. There have been some reports of northern lights and I wanted to see them. They're really cool."
"Alright. Enjoy that then, I'll talk to you later." Tony said hanging up.
"Tony, I'm back. I believe we were supposed to talk along the lines of Monaco, but I think it would be better to talk about your party last night." Skye said when she called Tony,"Or maybe we can talk about the fact Rhody has the Mark II."
"Skye, I would love to but I am currently enjoying a delicious donut, and the sunrise." Tony responded. "And I thought you were on vacation, how do you know Rhody has the suit?"
"The use of any of your suits by anyone but you is reported to me, remember, for extra protection." Skye said, "Are you hungover?"
"Possible," Suddenly Skye heard a voice yelling in the background, "Gotta go."
"What was that?" She asked.
"Eyepatch" Tony said, "Will talk more later."
"Fine," Skye sighed, "I'm gonna go talk to Pepper. Also, did you tell her about-"
"Yeah, see ya." Tony said, hanging up.
Skye threw her phone in the passenger seat with a huff, and continued to drive to Pepper's office.
Skye and Pepper walked into Pepper's office at around one, after they had lunch. They had talked about all of the things that had happened. After Pepper walked in the door the phone started ringing. Saying goodbye to each other, Skye meandered her way through the halls, heading toward the exit. When she turned a corner she nearly ran into a woman who was wearing a black dress with high heels, while her hair flowing just below her shoulders.
"Sorry,""I'm sorry," they both said at the same time.
"I'm sorry," Skye said, "I wasn't looking."
"It's alright, Miss...?" Said the redhead.
"Skye. Just call me Skye."
"Natalie. What are you doing here?"
"I went to lunch with Pepper. Now I'm gonna head out to Los Angeles."
"Ah, and how do you know Pepper, if you don't mind me asking."
"We meet through a mutual friend a while ago," Skye said, "Been friends ever since."
"Really?" Natasha muttered, wondering who the mutual friends was, "Well, I must get to work. It was nice meeting you."
"Nice meeting you too." Skye said before taking off.
That was chapter three.
First off, I am so sorry that I have been away for so long. Between school, homework, being grounded, and the start of softball, I've just been very busy. I am sorry. I am also sorry that its kinda rushed.
Second off, the songs. The first chapter was 'Remember Me' from the Doctor Who Series 7 soundtrack, the second chapter was 'I Choose You' from The Judge soundtrack, and this chapter is 'On The Move' from the Sherlock soundtrack for the first season.
I also have been having ideas for many different types of stories, all of the ideas are being written down in my little fanfic book I keep with me while I'm at school. I'm thinking that I may write them at a latter date, possible.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter, and I'll see you next time.