I just saw Ironman again and looking back to the last chapter, I now know that he built the Ironman suit later on the movie. Oops. I'm not going to rewrite the last chapter since I liked how it went so it's going to be AU, but from now on the timeline is right again!
After being back to the conscious world, I was shocked with the sight of a new suit that had the colors I accidentally smeared in the first one. It also looked thinner and better than the last one.
Inside, I felt a sort of giddiness I hadn't felt in years, maybe even my whole life. There in front of me was something I had influenced, something I had touched. Sure, it was only the coloring, but it was something. I had always daydreamed of making something that would be known to someone other than me or the odd Borrower but this… This was progress.
I hacked into Jarvis long enough to set my favorite tracks, but also short enough to not be noticed. After checking that Tony was out of the mansion and that there was no one inside, I used the workplace for whatever the heck I wanted.
Soon, I was dancing to the beat of some Imagine Dragons track and eating some kind of cake I had borrowed before. I felt like I was on top of the world.
I was in the middle of singing at the top of my lungs the lyrics of 'Emma', when I heard someone coming. I quickly told Jarvis to stop the music (Hehe I also rigged him to obey me, at least in the workroom) and climbed up the vent when Tony entered.
He then sat on a chair that was connected to some screens and took off his shirt. His arc-reactor was still there like the last time he took his shirt. I was a bit more used to it, but it still amazed me when I saw it again. He plugged himself to some machines and was checking his screens. From what little I understood from his notes, they showed that it was malfunctioning. He started tweaking his Arc Reactor and must have realized that he wouldn't be able to fix it on his own because he called Mrs. Potts down to the lab.
The moment she came downstairs, he proceeded to instruct her on how to repair his Reactor step by step. While I followed what he was saying most of the time, Mrs. Potts seemed very nervous about touching her boss' chest (and no, not in THAT way). All she had to do was replace the Reactor but her hands were trembling so bad that even I felt her reluctance.
Finally she took out the wire (with some difficulty and taking in count the gross factor of the substance that was in there) and placed in the new Reactor. Her hands seemed to be covered by the Reactor substance, which looked a lot like slug.
"Never ask me to do that again."
"You're the only one around to do it." Well except for me but like I said before, I never count.
She wanted him to keep his past reactor but Tony wanted it thrown to the trash or incinerated. She walked away with it and I followed her. On her way out, she left the Reactor on the desk and asked Jarvis to keep it safe. She left the mansion and after I made sure that she was really gone, I went to the desk and took it with me.
Once I was safely in the vents that were my room, I began to take it apart. After it was dismantled, I studied its parts one by one. I could tell that it worked because of an electromagnetic field that kept regenerating itself. It seemed to cover only a certain area, approximately 6 to 8 square inches. The energy in which it ran was very similar to a project Stark Industries had made a few years ago to appease the press and some activists that started accusing the company of contaminating.
I couldn't understand why he threw it away. I mean, apart from a few fixes here and there, it was in good condition. Because of my better eyesight in comparison to humans, I could tell it was handmade. It intrigued me so much, I took it to myself to fix it and make it work.
After I went borrowing for more pieces of metal and wires, I started reassembling it using the notes that Tony had uploaded to Jarvis' database. It was easier for me to build it again since I could piece it without the need of using any kind of magnifying lenses. Tiny wires and pieces were polished and manipulated so they were reformed. Scraps of new metal began replacing the parts that were obviously going to fall out or rust, and new wires were put in place. I had to study, learn and memorize the structure of the Reactor like the back of my hand in order to rebuild it and replicate it almost to perfection.
Finally, after days without sleeping and living out of a not-so-healthy diet of Coke and what was left in my reserve, I finished it. I walked around it, surveying the Arc Reactor in all its glory and it looked magnificent. I was really pleased by how it looked. I quickly discovered that it ran with the same energy that made out the electromagnetic field, and that it would never run out of it since it was constantly renovating itself. It lit my whole room and seemed prettier every time I looked at it. After making sure it wouldn't break to pieces, I fell asleep feeling better than ever before.
I don't know much about physics and engineering so it's not all that accurate.