Pepper looked around and saw a strange red dot on Tony's chest. "Tony!" she shouted and glass shattered. A bullet flew through the air and everything seemed to slow down. Tony looked at Pepper and shouted and everything went black.
Her chest hurt so much. It felt like it was crushed by a truck, Pepper heard whispering but she couldn't hear what they were saying. She drifted in and out of consciousness, when her eyes felt less heavy Pepper opened her eyes a fraction to see Tony pacing back and forth and Rhodey trying to comfort him and calm him down. "Tony! Man! She's going to be just fine! Calm down!" Rhodey said grabbing Tony's arm making him stop pacing back and forth. Pepper opened her eyes the rest of the way, she looked around herself and realized that she was in the armory.
Pepper grabbed hold the back of the couch and slowly pulled herself up into a sitting position. She closed her eyes as pain coursed through her chest as she moved, Oh Ow! Ok slowly move Pepper…she thought to herself as she moved off of the couch. Tony and Rhodey stopped arguing and looked at Pepper in shock, "Pep…!" Tony said quickly walking towards her. Pepper closed her eyes for a second as nausea shot through her; she opened her eyes again only to see the room spinning around her. As the ground suddenly moved up to meet her it stopped when a pair of arms wrapped around her. Pepper gasped at the sudden pressure on her chest.
She was soon lying back down on the couch with a worried boy sitting next to her. "Hey…" Tony whispered brushing her hair out of the way cupping her cheek. Pepper gave him a small smile "hey…what happened?" she asked confused on why she hurt so much. Anger flashed in Tony's eyes and his jaw locked, "W-whoever is after you…or was after you. Shot you in the chest. But lucky for you that this was there." He said and held up Pepper's necklace. The small version of Tony's heart monitor swung lazily on the silver chain it was on, imbedded in the center of the pendent was a bullet the size of a nickel.
"After I did CPR on you I got in the armor and tried to catch him…but there was no one in sight. I found the shell casing on the roof of a building. The window slowed it down and the necklace stopped it in its tracks." Tony said and Pepper smiled, "You saved me twice in one day…" she said. Tony shook his head and Pepper gave his hand a gentle squeeze. "You gave me the necklace that saved me from getting shot…then you performed CPR on me…" she said laughing. Tony sighed and kissed the redhead gently on the forehead "Right now…I'm just happy you're ok…" he said whispering.
They sat in silence for a long time when the computer suddenly dinged. Tony looked up and narrowed his eyes; he stood up and went to the computer. Typing a few things a message popped up on the big computer screen. The message was a video; whoever had the camera came close to the Makluan temple and wandered through it to the very back of the armory. Pepper and Tony were too stunned to speak, a package type of object came into frame and the video turned off replacing it with a clock that was ticking down.
Tony's heart was in his throat. The clock counted down, 5…4...Tony ran over to Pepper grabbing her and flipped the couch over so it was covering them…3…2…1. A deafening boom shook the entire temple sending rock down on them and everything went dark once more.
(A/N Very Short Chapter! You will see the last of it tomorrow! HAHAHAH CLIFFHANGER!)