Tony lay stretched out on the sun lounger, eyes half closed sleepily watching the sunlight sparkling on the pool water. He had managed to sneak outside whilst Steve was distracted by a call from Agent who had rung to inform them that Thor was on his way to Asgard to try and find a reversal spell, if that was not possible then he would ask Heimdall for help in trying to locate Loki.
If he was honest with himself, not something he like being as he hated dealing with emotions and feelings, he was sulking. Tony had hoped Thor would come back to the tower first so they could use the All speak, he was fed up with not being able to talk or make himself understood, physically he was a cat but his mind was still human even though the odd cat impulse snuck out at times. He had also wanted to let Thor know that Loki had really been looking for Thor.
"Tony! Tony! Where are you, come on its time for lunch, Bruce will be here with the results of the tests he ran on you."
Tony had not finished sulking he leapt off the lounger and ran to hide under the rolled up pool cover. It was cool and dark under it, but he still had a good view of the glass doors to penthouse and the pool area. He watched as Steve and then Bruce became more and more frantic as they searched first the lounge area and then the adjoining rooms.
"Steve, do you think he could have got out onto the roof?"
"I do not see how as I have been with him all morning."
"Well we need to find him Phil will be here soon, he texted me to say that he wanted to be here to go over Tony's test results and make sure he ate some food as Tony left most of the Tuna he had for breakfast ."
Steve thought it strange that Agent Coulson was spending so much time looking after Tony. He could understand it was his job to supervise him as Iron Man and as an Avenger, but surely he must have, more important things to deal with at Shield than making sure Tony ate his lunch.
Bruce and Steve moved out onto the decking, Steve with his enhanced eye sight soon spotted the blue glow of the arc reactor from under the pool cover.
"Tony come on get out from under there, we've been searching all over for you."
Kneeling down Steve peered at Tony who was crouched in the corner frustrated that even as a cat Tony did still did not listen to him Steve reach out to grab him. Tony seeing his large hand reaching towards him lashed out with his front claws, whilst backing further under the pool cover, not realising how close to the edge of the pool he was getting.
Bruce who was standing the other side of roller saw Tony's tail and back legs appear, he shouted out a warning but this just panicked Tony even more. Suddenly Tony's back legs went from out under him, he tried to find purchase with his front paws but the marble pool surround was too slippery.
Tony let out a frantic yowl as he felt his body sliding off the edge of the pool into the water. As the water closed over his head he looked upwards.
Huh! I thought the sky was blue not green.