Lab Accidents

Chapter 2

"I'm going out, do you and Bruce need anything else before I leave? I can send Happy to get you some take-out after he drops me off the at the conference." Pepper said, following Tony around through the tower as he typed things onto his StarkPhone, searched for his pen in his pocket, and attempted to appear to be listening to his girlfriend all at the same time.

"Humans can survive weeks without food." Was Tony's response as his fingers finally slipped around his pen.

"Tony!" Pepper scolded.

"Kidding. There's stuff in the fridge. We'll be fine, go." Tony responded quickly, making pushing motions with his hands as he handed her her briefcase and shut the door behind her.

"Freedom." Tony whispered to himself, flying down the stairs to the lab to find Bruce already working.

"Whatcha doin'?" Tony asked, getting up on his tiptoes to see over the tables and machines to the other side of the lab where Bruce was.

"I've actually found a chemical mixture that when moved suddenly-" Bruce began, but was cut off by Tony sliding his work aside and onto the floor.

The test-tubes Bruce had been using evaporated when the liquid seeped out, a smoky substance left behind.

"-does that." Bruce finished his sentence, then turned annoyedly to his friend. "What do you want?"

"Pepper's out... So I thought we could look back into... The toy chest." Tony said mischievously.

"The toy chest?" Bruce asked unconvinced, his focus still surrounding his smoking experiment on the floor.

"Basically a file, hidden from Pepper, where I keep the fun projects." Tony's grin widened.

"Well, that deserves a look." Bruce said excitedly, strolling casually over to the computer where Tony had begun typing in access codes to get to his file.

"Are Natasha, Steve, and Clint... All out as well?" Bruce asked, warily looking over to the doorway.

"Nah, training room, but they'll be down there all day." Tony waved off his concern. "Besides, we could be building a Nuke and the good old captain would never know even if he was a foot away from it."

"True." Bruce shrugged.

Then, they chose a project and began working.

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"We shouldn't be worried, right?" Clint said, dodging a kick from Natasha.

"About what?" Steve asked, taking a break from his assault on the punching bag.

"Well... Pepper's leaving for a conference... That leaves the science morons all alone... With all their toys." Clint explained, pinning Natasha down against the mat with his leg.

She swiftly escaped his hold and flipped the situation around, now holding him underneath her leg while her arms kept his hands at bay.

"Okay, I give up. Stop- stop." Clint said after a minute of struggling to get up.

"Weak." Natasha deduced.

Clint smirked at that. "I remember a time when I could take you easy."

"Unless you see a time machine that I don't, I wouldn't keep reminiscing." Natasha laughed, taking a gulp from her water-bottle.

"Bruce will make sure Tony doesn't blow up the building. He can get into a project, but no one's as mad a scientist as Tony." Steve finished their earlier conversation, then drank from his own water-bottle.

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"So if we connect this wire... to this port... And down this tube..." Tony mumbled quietly to himself as Butterfingers followed him around carrying his tool box.

"Are you sure this isn't gonna... Implode in on itself?" Bruce questioned, carefully wiring a complicated panel together.

"Nope! Stark's honor." Tony gave him a sarcastic salute and plugged up a tube to stop it from filling up and spilling all over the place later on.

"Ready?" Bruce asked, grabbing the remote.

"Go for it." Tony rolled away from the tubing on a metal stool with wheels.

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A loud shatter of glass and the clanking of metal was heard coming from the lab.

"You owe me five dollars." Clint yelled at Steve as they rushed out of the training room and up the stairwell(Because seriously, what if they had blown a hole in the elevator?).

Reaching the fiftieth floor in record time, they found Tony and Bruce standing in the middle of the lab covered in a film of smoke and rubble from head to toe.

"It's not as terrible as it looks!" Tony turned to find the other three avengers watching them in shock.

"Yes, it is." Bruce said, staring out the giant hole in the wall that now overlooked New York.

"Yeah, you're probably right." Tony shrugged, grabbing Butterfingers and dragging him out of a pile of metal tools and out of the lab to safety.

"Who's gonna tell Pepper?" Natasha tried to suppress her grin but just couldn't wait to see the woman's face when, after a mere hour of being out of the tower, she found that Tony had blown a hole in it.

Not me, Tony thought to himself, I'll be on the other side of the world by the time she gets home.

It was at that moment that Pepper stepped out of the elevator, scanned the room, and went straight for the billionaire at fault.

"ANTHONY! EDWARD! STARK!"

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