About a few days after Pepper fixed up the old armory her armor parts were delivered to her home. She was already on her way home holding a few books from the library. "Man these are heavy" she said trying to get a better grip on the books. Once she got to the door she kicked it and yelled for her father to open the door.
"Dad open up please!" She yelled. Virgil opened the door and saw the books towering over her daughter. "Whoa whoa there" he said grabbing a few books. "What's all this?" He asked walking into the living room to set them on the coffee table. "Oh just some research" she said. "For what?" He asked. "Nothing special" she said setting down her books in her room.
She walked over to the coffee table and grabbed the other set of books. "Oh did my package come?" She asked anxiously. "Yeah I put it in your room" he said. She let out a squeal then shut the door behind her with her foot. She dropped the books then grabbed the first of the many boxes and placed it on her bed. She opened to see just what she ordered. "Perfect" she said. Pepper got to work on cracking the books. She wasn't a genius like Tony so she had a lot to learn.
She spent at least three hours reading technology books based on specific computer parts and engineering. Once she had enough information for now she grabbed her boxes and placed them in a cart so she can lug them to the old armory.
She took a few books just in case she forgot something and needed to look back. She walked over to the armory lugging her boxes and books. Once she got to the entrance she punched in the code numbers. She had fixed the broken key pad and sliding door.
Pepper walked inside and placed her boxes on the cleared counter and her books right next to them. "Alright where to start" she said. She thought for a moment. "Lets start with the repulsors" she said.
She opened a few boxes to find metal parts. She measured her arm and shaped the metal to her size. This metal was exactly the metal that Tony used because it was able to adjust to any size. She spent all night just making the metal layer.
She fell asleep around seven AM.
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It was about twelve in the afternoon and Tony was hanging out with Rhodey in the armory. "Have you seen Pepper at all these past few days?" Rhodey asked.
"No and I'm kinda worried" Tony said. He was working on his mark 42. "She really is serious about this armor building thing" Rhodey said. "I wonder how far she got" Tony said. "Maybe you should go visit her?" Rhodey suggested. "I think I will" Tony said setting down his blow torch. He removed his mask and stretched.
"See you later Rhodes" He said walking out the door. He pulled out his phone and dialed Pepper. After three times she still didn't pick up which made him worry. He walked up to the door and knocked. "Who is it?" Virgil asked. "It's Tony sir" Tony said.
He opened the door. "Peppers not here if your looking for her" He said. "I haven't seen her in days is she alright?" Tony asked. "She's been acting weird lately and she left somewhere in the middle of the night I don't know where though and she hasn't come back" Virgil said.
"I'll go find her"Tony said. He left doing all sorts of things on his phone. He called her friends while his phone was searching the through satellite. "Pepper Potts located" his phone said. When he read the address he couldn't believe it, she was in the old armory?
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Pepper slept for only four hours then started working again. "Then we just tighten this little bolt here..." She said trying to tighten the bolt as tight as it gets just so it stays.
She heard the door slide up open. It was Tony he looked up at the door like if he had never seen that before. Then he looked around to see one half of the place looking awesome and the other half looking like garbage. She turned around. "Hey how did you find me?!" She asked grabbing a blanket to cover the armor.
"I got worried so I...started looking for you" he said. "Great you found me! Go away please!" She said trying to shoo him. She tried pushing his chest to make him move but he wouldn't because he was still in amazed about the place. "You fixed this place up all by yourself?" He asked. "Yes, yes I did" she said.
"Ma'am your scans have been completed" said the computer. "Whoa and you fixed the computer too?" He asked. "Yeah I did but I managed to make it more human like and much smarter" she said. "Oh and thank you" she said.
"When did you have secret smarts?" He asked. "I wasn't really this smart I just did a lot of studying" she said. "Now I'm afraid...wow Pepper I think you really can build the armor" he said. "You ruined the surprise now the least you could do is go away!" She said. "Oh I will and I'm gonna work extra hard on my armor!" He said as Pepper pushed him out the door. "Great you do that" she said waving then went back to work.
After the internal metal and padding was done she started working on the external metal which took about two days since she was working non stop. "Almost done here" she said. She grabbed a special spray and sprayed it onto the internal parts.
"This should give the ability of intangibility" she said. "Oh this is gonna be so awesome wait until he sees this!" She said excitedly. She worked on installing everything she wanted this took about a day to do. Once that was done she left the armory happily at ten in the morning. She walked home to finally take a much needed shower until she bumped into Tony and Rhodey.
"Hey fellas" she said. "Whoa Pepped I'm sorry but when was the last time-" "I took a shower? I know I'm going to right now" she finished. "So Tony how's your armor going?" She asked. "Just fine thank you very much" he said.
"Looks like your putting a lot of effort" she said sarcastically. "I'm on my break" he said. "Real hard workers don't take breaks" she said patting his chest then walked passed him. His jaw dropped and he made that preppy girl "UH" sound.
"I'm still that man!" He yelled. "Sure buddy" she said waving behind her as she walked.
(Wow Pepper look at you! XD sorry this one was pretty short I'm working on "I'm out to get you" right now)