It's been a long couple of days. I've been beaten, electrified, drowned, cut and I honestly can't remember everything else they've done to me. It was harsh...and I'm so disappointed in my self for caving in. Even if it was just a little. Obadiah came in like he does everyday and asks me to build him a suit or the cycle of torture would start up again. In my mind building him a suit seemed harmless, it would just end up being a hollow armor, without the arc reactor to power it. And I was a hundred and ten percent decided that I would not build him the arc reactor and since only me and Tony know how it's built there is no way Obadiah could ever get the means to power up the suit. Cause I'm pretty sure Tony won't just hand over the blueprints to him like a nice little gift.
But I guess I was wrong, for the first time in a very long time, I made a mistake. I didn't think about all the possible out comes. I was out smarted... Ofcourse Tony wouldn't help Obadiah make an arc reactor, that was certain, but that didn't mean Obadiah wouldn't just take the already made arc reactor from Tony. God I'm so stupid. I mean I've worked with these type of guys my entire life. I know how they work, how they do things and what they're capable of doing. I've seen all of this first hand. Yet I let it all slip away from my mind when I so foolishly agreed to build the armor. Now because of me Obadiah had a very upgraded version of the suit Tony had built in the cave. And now somehow he managed to steal Tony's miniature arc reactor, so he had everything he needed to bring to life the suit.
He demanded multiple times for me to connect the reactor to the suit but I would not cave in. Not this time. I stayed strong throughout the multiple beatings given to me to try and make me cooperate, but this is what I was trained for my entire life, to stay quite and just take the pain. So that's what I did. Never once did I let them see me cry or hear in just how much pain I was in. I would not give them the satisfaction of thinking they were breaking me, 'You can't break what's already broken' isn't that what people say?
Either way, my strength was to no prevail. Soon enough the scientists there were able to figure out how to connect the arc to the suit. And I was left tide up to a railing sitting on the floor. If only I wasn't tide up. Oh the things I would do to them. It would make there little torture tactics go to shame.
I was tide up for quite some time. I was starting to drift of. I haven't slept or eaten in days, and I am exhausted. But before letting the tiredness consume me I heard voices close by, sparking my interest.
"Looks like you were right. He was building a suit." I heard a man's voice say. I was tide up next to a bunch of metal chains.
"I thought it'd be bigger." I heard a female voice say. I tried to warn them to leave but I was gagged. I kept trying to yell and finally one of them heard me. It was the male.
"Potts! There's a girl here, she's all tied up." The man started to make his way towards me, as the woman, Potts, came into view and looked at me. A gasp leaving her mouth at the sight of me. How rude, I know I probably don't look the prettiest at the moment, covered in bruises and blood but hey atleats act.
"Oh my God! Are you ok?!" The women came towards me and started helping the man untie me. The man finally took of my gag when he finished untying me.
"Run! Now! We have to get out of here!" I yell as soon as the gag came off and grab onto the woman's hand pulling her away with me just as Obadiah jumped out in the new suit I had sadly built for him.
I ran with Potts through the lab as other agents shot at Obadahia behind us but bullets wouldn't do them any good. Damn it why did I have to do such an excellent job!
Potts and me finally make it out of the lab and out of the building when her phone starts ringing. She answers it frantically.
"Tony! Tony, are you okay?" Tony? He's here?
"Obadiah, he's gone insane! He built a suit. And has this little girl all tied up and bruised. And ahh!"
The pavement infront of us exploded creating an opening on the ground where Obadiah climbed out.
"Where do you think you're going?" He tried to reah for Potts but I pushed her away.
"Your services are no longer required little girl" He aimed the weapon at me and I knew there was no point in trying to avoid it. I was going to be killed by my own weapon. How poetic. I close my eyes and wait for the pain but it never comes.
"Stane!" A red and gold suit flies down and takes Stane away from me and Potts. I look back and see the bloned woman, who looked like she was about to pass out.
"Potts are you ok?" I ask her calmly moving closer to her.
"Me?! Are you ok? You're all bruised up sweetheart. We need to get you to a hospital-"
"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. Miss Potts, was that Tony Stark? The one in the red suit?" Potts eyes widen in realization.
"You're the kid! The kid Tony was looking for, right? Nadia?"
"Yes...and no. My real name's Isabel."
"No wonder we couldn't find any records of you. We were all starting to belive he was just imagining you the whole time, as like a coping mechanism or something-"
"-Tony looked for me?" I had to interrupt her nervous ramble. Baffled by the notion that Tony actually looked for me. I had thought he'd forgotten about me and just left me for dead or that he probably thought I was dead since I free fell from the sky to the ground.
"Yes. He spent all of his days down in his basement, obsessed in making a better suit so he could go save you. But after a while of searching, he started to think you were dead."
"Oh my god-" our conversation was cut short by Tony crashing on the rooftop above us closely followed by Obadiah.
"Tony! Oh, my God, are you okay?" Potts said putting a hand over her ear. She must have an earpiece on.
"What's going on? What's he saying!?" I ask looking between Potts and the fight going on, on the rooftop
"He's running out of power!" She informes me.
"Tony! Well, how are you going to do that? I don't understand- what? O-ok um Nadia- or Isabel,Tony needs to tell you something." She hands me the earpiece so I put it on.
"Tony?" I ask once I put the earpiece.
"Hey killer, I need you to do a little favor for me is that cool?" I heard his voice say.
"Yeah, what is it?"
"Go to the central console, open up all the circuits. When I get clear of the roof, I'll let you know. You're going to hit the master bypass button. It's going to fry everything up here."
"Okay. I got it, I'm going in now"
"Make sure you wait till I clear the roof. I'll buy you some time. Oo, this looks important!-"
I take off the earpiece and hand it to Potts .
"Come on we gotta go." I tell her and we both run inside.
"Ok what are we doing?!"
"We're going to overload the reactor and blast the roof."
"Blast the roof?!" She asks thinking she misheard me.
"Blast the roof straight off."
"What about Tony!"
"He's gonna get off it and when he does we make Obadiah go bye bye." I start working on the panels.
"Bye bye- Yeah that sounds much nicer than saying we're gonna blow him up." She says sarcastically, still freaking out.
"It does,doesn't it?" I smirk while pulling all the levers and getting everything ready to blow. "Ok Potts can you hand me the earpiece?"
"Yeah, here" She hands it to me and I put it on.
"It's ready, Tony! Get off the roof!" I tell him.
I get anxious as I see him still on the roof fighting with Stane.
"Killer! It's time to press the button."
"You told me not to!"
"What? What is it? What's going on?!" Potts asks.
"He wants me to press the button." I tell her.
"No Tony! You'll die!" She yells up at him.
"Just do it!" He yells in my ear.
"Tony I can't-"
"Push it!"
Damn you Tony Stark! I close my eyes and without thinking I hit the button. A huge beem of light shoots up towards the roof.
"C'mon Potts, we gotta go" I grab her arm and run out the building with her just in time before the whole thing exploded pushing us both to the floor. Potts threw her self-over me to try and cover me. Why would she do that? She doesn't even know me.
Once the explosion was over we get up and try to look up at the roof to see if we can spot Tony.
But we see nothing.
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