𝐀𝐈𝐑 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐃𝐄 » avengers x reader

9. How Ironic

Pepper, Agent Coulson, and I were in the silver Audi while the other five agents were divided between 2 other black cars. Coulson was driving while Pepper was in the passenger giving directions and I was sitting in the back.

My knee wouldn't stop shaking and I couldn't steady my breathing, the seatbelt felt as if it was restricting my airwaves so I had removed it.

"Coulson, what's the plan?" I asked, hoping that hearing someone speak could calm me down. I kept looking down at my phone to see if Rhodes had replied or called me back saying Tony is okay but the screen was blank.

Coulson was concentrating on getting the directions right so Pepper turned around to me and replied instead, "He goes to jail, right?" She turns to Coulson, "You guys have the authority to do that, arrest Obadiah?"

Coulson nodded as Pepper pointed out the building we parked up outside of. The other agents and the 3 of us raced out of the cars as Pepper leads the way to the entrance of the Stark Industries building.

We entered and the first thing we saw was the huge reactor that Tony and Stane were working on. It was shaped like a doughnut and had blue streaks, of what looked like energy, flowing around it at high speed.

The group turned left and began looking for Section 16. Pepper muttered, "Section 16" under her breath multiple times before eventually stumbling upon a closed-door labeled Section 16 in yellow, "There it is!"

Pepper found her keycard and swiped the door twice, however, it refused to let her in. Coulson pushed past her with a small device no bigger nickel and placed it on the door.

"Oh my god, is that gonna pick the lock?" I asked intrigued as to how it worked but also hopeful that we weren't going to fail again. However, the device started flashing red and Coulson just simply replied with, "You might want to take a few steps back."

We did as we were told and took several steps back before turning our bodies around so that our backs were facing the door. I looked over a Pepper who put her hands over her ears anticipating that the device was going to blow the door open. I was about to do the same when the device blew up, making the smallest bang and opening the door up 2 inches.

I turned to Coulson chuckling, "That wasn't as badass as I thought it was going to be." Before we made our way through the open door.

The agents pulled their guns out as we began staking out the room. Feeling left out I pulled a pistol from my belt too and Pepper turned to me surprised, "Why didn't you tell me you bought a gun?" She asked.

"To be honest, I didn't think I would need it." I gulped as we crept around the room slowly. We came across an iron metal suit, similar to Tony's that was propped up so it stood around 6 feet tall. This one, however, was rusty and worn out as if it was used before.

"Looks like you were right. He was building a suit." Coulson said looking up at the armor. "I thought it would be bigger," Pepper exclaimed, looking at the suit confused. She wasn't wrong, it seemed by the diagrams we saw in Stane's office the suit would be a lot bulkier.

I turned around after taking in the suit and saw above us there was a metal frame hanging from the ceiling that had broken wires entangled in it. Sparks came from these wires indicating that whatever was plugged in was ripped out quickly.

Behind me I heard a quiet jingling noise that frightened me, turning around I saw chains hanging from the ceiling and Pepper standing near them.

I walked over to join her as she kept staring at them, "Pepper?" I asked her wondering what was among the chains, only for 2 white lights to flick on from behind them in the shape of eyes. I screamed when a huge figure around 8 feet rose and shooting at us.