Dented Iron (Hiatus)

Rhodey's back

Suddenly the suit powered down and Alex managed to throw him off.

"Reboot complete" Romanoff's voice filtered through the headset "You got your best friend back"

"thank you very much Agent Romanoff"

"Well done on the new chest piece. I am reading significant higher output, and your vitals all look promising," Romanoff said.

"Yes, for the moment, I'm not dying. Thank you." Alex agreed.

A fourth person entered the comms. "What do you mean you're not dying? Did you just say you're dying?!" Pepper was shouting with concern.

"Pep? that you?" Alex fumbled "oh no, I'm not, not anymore"

"what's, what's going on?"

"I was going to tell you. I didn't want to-"

"you're gonna tell me you were really dying?"

"You didn't let me"

"Why didn't you tell me that?"

"I was gonna make you an omelet and tell you!"

"Hey, hey, Save it for the honeymoon," Romanoff said. "You got incoming Alex. Looks like the fight's coming to you."

"Great. Pepper?"

"Are you okay now?"

"I'm fine. Don't be mad I will formally apologize"

"I am mad"

"-apologize when I'm not fending off a Hammeroid attack!"

"fine"

"We could've been in Europe"

"Oh please"

Alex turned to Rhodey, whose system was still restarting and tapped his helmet. "Rhodes? Snap out of it buddy. I need you. They're coming. Come on, let's roll. Get up."

Rhodey's helmet popped open, "Oh, man. You can have your suit back."

Alex smirked and helped Rhodey back up. "You okay?"

"Yeah thanks" Rhodey said "Alex, look, I'm sorry, okay?"

"forget it"

"No. I should have trusted you more, and I should have tried harder to support you," Rhodey said. "So, I'm sorry."

"they're coming in hot.. ready to make it up to me?"

"Well, we want to take the high ground, okay? So let's put the biggest gun up on that ridge," Rhodey pointed up. Rhodey and Alex both started heading to the ridge. "I meant me," Rhodey said.

"You have a big gun. You are not the big gun," Alex said, putting her hands on her hips.

"Alex, don't be jealous," Rhodey said. Alex scoffed and rolled her eyes.

"No, It's subtle all the bells and whistles," She replied.

"It's called being a badass," Rhodey said.

"Alright, you go up there, I'll draw them in down here," Alex said.

"Don't stay down here. This is the worst place to be." Rhodey shook his head.

"Okay, you got a spot, where's mine?" Alex asked.

"It's the kill box, Alex. Okay? This is where you go to die," Rhodey explained.

"Great, where do I go?" Alex asked.

The drones overhead crashed through the biosphere. It was too late for them to exit the kill box. The Marines had arrived.