Finally, the chapter I couldn't wait to write. This chapter is actually the reason for which I'm writing this whole fic.
I ran all the way to my room in the vents. I wasted no time in searching for the Arc Reactor I had repaired, and was stuck with how to take it all the way down to the living room. Luckily, there were some wheels in my room (borrowed from car models) and I used them to cart the Reactor through the vents. I went to the living room, but Tony was no longer there.
I started panicking when I heard something in the elevator. I wheeled the Reactor near it, and saw that it was going down to the lab.
I ran as fast as I could with the Reactor to the vents in the lab. In there, I watched as Tony fell unconscious on the lab's floor. He must have tried to look for a replacement for his Reactor. He was sweating and looking paler by the minute.
Quickly, I tied the cord to connect the Reactor and the vents. I lowered myself to the floor, using the Reactor as a platform. The second my feet touched solid ground again, I began rolling the Reactor all the way to Tony's unconscious form.
As I grew closer, the size difference became a lot more noticeable. Soon, I was near his arm and gave no thought of how much bigger than me the arm was and just started climbing. I tied the Reactor to myself and used the fabric of his torn shirt to have something to hold into.
Finally, I was in his shoulder. Each step that I took was wobbly because of the meaty ground in which I was walking in. I pushed the Reactor all the way to the center of his chest and once I was there, I started organizing the wires in the right sequence.
I lowered myself into the hole in his chest and connected the main wire. This would give me a few more seconds to reconnect all the other wires. I wasted no time in getting all the wires properly in place and crawled out. I then pushed the Reactor's main frame into position and was satisfied to hear it click.
Slowly but surely, his heartbeat steadied and his breath increased. I could feel the slowly rising of the chest, the intake of air in his lungs, the pounding of his heart… I had to get out of there before he woke up.
I tried moving but something was making my leg be unable to walk. I turned confused and was horrified to find it stuck in the crevices of the Arc Reactor. Crap, crap, crap…. This was not supposed to happen. I twisted my leg in all possible ways without breaking it, but it wouldn't come out. I was getting desperate, Tony was gaining consciousness soon. I was panicking and jerking my leg, when suddenly I was being shaken up and down rather violently. I heard thundering above me, and twisted my head to see what was happening. Oh God, Tony was coughing.
I couldn't hold still and was thrown against his chest repeatedly. Finally, when I was in the brink of going unconscious, it stopped. I was too tired to keep trying to set my leg free and knew it was useless anyway. I was in his line of view and couldn't possibly get away or hide.
With my back on his chest and facing his enormous face, I tried to keep calm. He was rubbing his eyes and I cringed when his arms went above me. One false move and I would be crushed. He was more awake than before and his face showed his confusion. Oh crap, he was going to look down at any moment…
Even if I knew that he would eventually see me, I still froze when his eyes looked down to my trapped form. He widened his eyes almost comically and I would have laughed if I wasn't scared to death in that moment.
"What the.."
His hand started reaching for me and I was freaked out by the sheer size of it.
"Stop!"
I threw my hands in front of my face and wasn't expecting him to actually stop. But he did. He looked shocked that I could talk and I seized this opportunity as best as I could.
"Plea-Please, my leg is stuck."
I was ashamed of my stuttering, but I was more scared than ashamed. I could see him glance towards my stuck leg and frown.
"How exactly did you get stuck in there?"
My mind went blank. I mean, I couldn't tell him that it was because I had saved his life by replacing his Arc Reactor. That would bring a lot more awkward questions that I really didn't want to answer.
He noticed that I wasn't going to answer and instead reached for his Arc Reactor. I scooted as far away as possible from his approaching fingers and watched as he twisted his Reactor clockwise and it moved so I could free my leg.
It was barely out when I felt his fingers wrapped around my tiny form. I yelped out of surprise. Even if they weren't grabbing me excessively hard, it was still an invasion to my personal space and gave off uncomfortable warmth. It was like being trapped in a sweaty but strong cage.
They started lifting me off his chest and my stomach stayed behind. It was really weird being completely still but also moving. No sooner was I in the air when his face filled my line of vision. His brown eyes seemed to be inspecting my face and it took all my strength not to start trembling. It was truly horrifying.
He started turning me around until I got dizzy. It suddenly stopped but I was later put roughly in a jar. A jar. This was any Borrower's worst nightmare of being trapped in. He closed the lid on top of me and for a second I was afraid of suffocation but luckily he remembered that I had to breathe and opened holes on it. I was again in front of his face, but this time there was a glass separating us.
"Don't try to escape, I'll be back soon."
He put the jar with me on it on top of the table, with a good distance between the jar and the edge of the table.
"Jarvis, watch that she doesn't move or try to escape."
"Yes sir."
He then walked away, but not before glancing back to see me again as if reassuring himself that I was real and not some drunken hallucination. When he was gone, I curled up and started crying.
