(Book 2) Cyber Pack (A Percy Jackson and Avengers Crossover)

Chapter 20: A Comfort to a Wounded Soul

I do not own Iron Man or Percy Jackson.

Takes place during Iron Man 1

Time: 1:26:10-1:36:35

Tony's Age: 26 years old

Percy's Age: 40 mentally, wolf body 4 (thought by others to be 7 and a half years old--aging)

When Tony did come back to the house, this time through the garage instead of the roof of the house, I could tell he wasn't quite the same man that had left.

It was one thing to speculate that your weapons were being sold and possibly see them in a terrorist's cave. But it's another thing to see them in action, to see them out in the open in the hands of people that would use and abuse them against innocent civilians.

While I couldn't know what had fully happened when Tony had been held against his will, I knew that it was bad enough that he had created a way of escape just using scrap metals and whatever else was around.

He tried to play it off with J.A.R.V.I.S as the A.I tried to take off the bullet-ridden and slightly bent armor that was the Iron Man suit. Tony not quite helping as he was being pulled and slightly poked by various arms that J.A.R.V.I.S was hooked up to.

Watching from the stairs as Tony joked for J.A.R.V.I.S to be careful since it was his first time, I perked as Pepper made her way down, slightly careful as she noted the glass shards at the bottom and the fact I was fully laying on the last step and not inside the lab with Tony.

"What's going on here?" Pepper asked in shock as she entered the lab.

I almost wished she went through the door instead of the windows that were broken, I would love to get back in there and stay with Tony.

Tony paused in talking as he slowly looked over to Pepper, seemingly slightly shocked that she entered his lab without him noticing. Not that it was very hard.

"Let's face it. This is not the worst thing you've caught me doing," Tony told her. I was sure that if Tony wasn't being hung up like some Christmas lights by J.A.R.V.I.S that he would've shrugged and waved his hand away from her comment.

"Are those bullet holes?" Pepper asked in horror as she stared at Tony.

Tony himself looked down, as much as the armor on his chest allowed him to, and really did shrug as J.A.R.V.I.S moved with the action.

"Hey, could you do me the favor and clean up the glass?" Tony asked with his dazzling smile that usually stole the attention of reporters and female whores he seemed to enjoy.

I couldn't see Pepper's eyes, but the way she flung her arms in the air and turned her back to Tony said a lot. Especially as her eyes held exasperation as they met mine as she walked determinedly toward the exit of the lab.

"You can deal with him," she muttered slightly angrily as she walked past me, nearly stepping on my tail that was draped over the stairs in her rush to get up the stairs.

Huffing in amusement, I got off the stairs and carefully made my way inside, weary of the glass that littered the floor and withheld the wince when one particularly small shard pierced my paw while another clung to the fur.

"Hey, no, Percy, off of that shit," Tony yelped, both because of my actions and because J.A.R.V.I.S gave a particular tug that finally got the chest away from Tony.

Picking up the paw that now held the two shards, I walked calmly toward Tony and carefully sat in front of him, my tail slightly wagging as J.A.R.V.I.S finally made headway on the armor as he got one of the legs off as the other mechanical arm started unscrewing some of the bolts in the opposite leg.