Take A Chance On Me

Prologue

"I have to do this." Tony Stark said as he flew after the missile, grabbing hold of it and flew into the weird alien hole that so far no one had questioned. But then again an Asgardian God was standing next to him fighting an alien.
"Tony! If you do that you might not come back." Steve tried to reason with the hard headed billionaire.

"I know Captain, save me a dance will you?" Tony sounded like he was smiling even though this situation was a pile of crap. Steve had said that once, to the only other person that had loved him for him and not some weird sex god.
"Tony don't you dare." It was too late. Tony was gone, racing into the portal holding the missile. Loki was going to pay for this.

All of a sudden the portal lit up with a blinding white light as debris and... Tony? Tony was falling back to earth, his suit not working, that or the man inside. Steve watched the person he might love falls hopelessly down, back to the earth he had saved, the earth he had tried to get away from and it was approaching him fast, his destiny seemed intertwined with the ground. He had no way to help Tony, there was nothing Steve Rogers could do but watch as the other man fell down and down.

Tony had always been out of his league, the genius always had a girl by his side, honestly he wish Tony a good life even though Steve wanted the man to be his. Stupid thoughts now, but Steve had a million thoughts going through his head and they just happened to be the ones to reach the surface of his mind.

"Someone should catch the Man Of Iron." The Asgardian said beside him. Steve felt like giving the god a dumbfound look, but what would that help?
"I just hope if we do, he will be alright." Steve agreed as Thor began to swing his hammer, as the Hulk came from nowhere jumping from what looked like a building to where Tony's limp body was falling. A breath caught in the Captain's chest as the Hulk ungracefully hurtled down to where he and Thor stood watching what had just happened.

"Shit." Steve cursed "Is he okay!?"
"Captain Rogers you are the best accustomed to medical activities." Thor nodded to Steve, "But in my eyes he seems unresponsive." Steve bit back a snarky remark, that was Tony's job, he just hoped they wouldn't need to change that and things could just go back to normal.

***

Tony Stark lay in the rubble that was once a building, a painful pounded in his head as if something was kicking at his frontal cortex. This is what he gets for trying to put together the incohesive experience of what had just happened? He could recall an explosion of light and debris, felling his armour becoming heavy and gravity drag him back to the earth he had just escaped from in a futile effort to save it.

That was it, and by the ringing in his ears he might as well be dead. Sadness clouded the parts of his mind that worked as a face flashed through his head, as face he missed ever so much. Could you feel sadness in Heaven? What was he kidding he will never go to heaven, not with all the shit he's done, so this was probably hell.

His brain was however still a painful maze. Tony was good at mazes, just like he was good at maths, science, technology, satisfying a woman. Anthony Edward Stark was good at everything he did, but this. It took so much effort see past the pain so thinking was un-imaginably difficult, yet he did the impossible everyday, or he used, did he die doing it? It was no use Tony's train of thought was constantly interrupted by the pain of thudding in his brain he felt when he tried to think and his mind was beginning to not be worth the effort.

The ringing in Tony's ears didn't cease, maybe this was real and he was still on earth or Midgard as Thor called it, maybe he wasn't doomed to the fire pits of hell's inferno yet. Maybe he could go back and see the man he never got to tell he was sorry for being an asshole.

Yet this might not be the after life because Tony could almost hear the faint sound of the Hulk and Thor's shouting but he drowned them out, the only voice he could hear, the only voice he wanted to hear was Steve's. Tony's eyes snaped open and his vision slowly cleared to show that Steve, Thor and the Hulk were standing around him.

"I wasn't kissed was I?" Tony smiled or the closest to a smile he could manage.
"That's what you say!?" Steve said sounding pissed, but the Captain couldn't fake a smile, Tony, his tony was alright and his trademark snarky comment was conformation to it, maybe things could be alright now.