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"Hey, what did I miss?" Cheryl arrived.

"Oh my God Cherry! This will be the last time you separate from me, you understand. Look at you, you are hurt." Pepper saw her head. Cheryl touched it slowly and her fingers had blood on them.

"I'm fine, it doesn't even hurt." She tried to calm her down, actually it did hurt, a lot.

"Each set of drone is communicating in its own unique language." The technician spoke.

"Well, choose one and focus on that." Pepper hugged Cheryl this time.

"Have you tried Russian? Why don't you try Russian?" Hammer said.

Wow, that was the first smart thing Hammer had said.

...

"You got your best friend back." Natasha reboots the system.

"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."

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

Oh shit.

"What do you mean you're not dying? Did you just say you're dying?" Pepper ask next to her.

"Is that you? No, I'm not. Not anymore." Tony tried to explain.

"What's going on?"

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

"You were gonna tell me? You really were dying? Cherry, you knew about this?" She looks at the girl. "What I even saying? Of course you knew."

"Sorry."

"You didn't let me." Tony said.

"Why didn't you tell me that?"

"I was gonna make you an omelette and tell you."

"Hey, hey. Save it for the honeymoon. You got incoming Tony. Looks like the fight's coming to you." Cheryl interrupted.

"Great. Pepper? Cherry you're okay?"

"Are you okay now?" Pepper ask.

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

"I am mad!"

"...when I'm not fending off a Hammeroid attack."

"Fine."

"We could have been in Venice." Cheryl started talking.

"I agree with her." Tony said.

"Oh please." Pepper was so done with the two of them.

...

"I told you that five minutes ago." Hammer said.

The police enter.

"That's your guy here." Pepper said to them.

"Excuse me?"

"You're being placed under arrest." A police officer told him.

"Are you fucking kidding me?"

"Hands behind your back sir."

"I'm trying to help here. I get it. I see what you're doing. You're trying to pin this on me, huh? That's good. That's good. You're starting to think like a CEO, taking out the competition. I like that. You think you're making a problem for me?" Being led away. "I'm gonna make a problem for you. I'm gonna be seeing you again real soon and you too Cheryl."

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