Beacon.

Make it work

Tony is working on a boot for a new suit in the workshop with DUM-E assisting him with the soldering.

"Next. Up. Not in the boot, Dummy. Right here. You got me? Stay put. Nice. You're of no benefit at all. Move down to the toe. I got this. Okay, I'm sorry, am I in your way? Up. Screw it. Don't even move. You are a tragedy." He declares in exasperation as he puts the iron down and starts to run a check on the boot.

"Quit being mean to DUM-E" Kindle tells him as she walks in the workshop with breakfast bagels and his morning shake. She is wearing a pair of very short pajama shorts and one of his ACDC t-shirts and he has to remind himself that they are not at all ready for him to pack her back up the stairs and strip her naked.

"Wow! Whoever your new designer is, I approve." He smiles at her.

"Well when I woke up in your bed I took that as a invitation to raid the closet for something to wear. Maybe if I hadn't woken up alone." She hints.

"Not the first time you've taken over my bed, doubt it will be the last." Tony comments as he takes a drink of the chlorophyll smoothie and she wraps her arms around his shoulders. "I couldn't stand to put you anywhere else, you belong there." He admits.

Kindle strokes her fingers through his hair as Tony allows his hands to wander to her hip then down to palm the curve of her ass. "I like you in my clothes." He tells her and she can't help but smile.

She nods at the robotic boots. "If your going to use those to fly your gonna need flight stabilization."

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Tony is wearing the mechanical boots and standing in the center of the workshop for a test flight. U is next to the line of expensive cars filming while DUM-E is in charge of the fire extinguisher.

"Okay, let's do this right. Start mark, half a meter, and back and center. DUM-E, look alive. You're on standby for fire safety. U, roll it."

Kindle is at the holographic display and is already starting designs on stabilizers based on Tony's repulser technology.

"Okay. Activate hand controls. We're gonna start off nice and easy. We're gonna see if 10% thrust capacity achieves lift. And three, two, one."

Tony lifts off so hard he immediately flings back and hits the upper wall of the shop then falls to the floor. DUM-E uses the fire extinguisher on him liberally.

Tony is at the work bench working on the flight stabilizers Kindle designed for his hands and arms when Pepper comes in with a box wrapped in brown paper and a cup of cappuccino that she hands to Kindle.

"Up two. All right, set that." Tony directs DUM-E so he can wire the frame.

"I've been buzzing you. Didn't either of you hear the intercom?" Pepper asks.

"Yeah, everything's... What?" Tony is still distracted with the flight stabilizer.

"I heard you. But I'm not going up there." Kindle responds.

"What? Why?" Tony asks.

"Obadiah's upstairs." Pepper explains.

"Great!" Tony looks up to see both of the women glaring at him. "Is it not great? What's going on?"

"Obadiah and Kindle may have gotten into a little... tif. While you were gone." Pepper tells him.

"You and Obi? About what?" Tony asks.

"He wanted me to stop looking for you and fall in line as the controlling shareholder." Kindle explains.

Pepper looks back and forth between them. "What would you like me to tell him?"