[ Pre-shatterverse - warning for spoilers for Iron Man]It starts in the sky, several hundred feet up. There's a light and a bang, and something appears
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The wind blowing against his metal shell turns strange for a moment, and then there's a woman there, floating quite impossibly underneath him and trying to hold him up with arms made of directed air.
It doesn't work very well. He slows, but not enough.
Damn bloody quirky mortals and their damn bloody quirky armour.
"What the hell," says Sky, all in one breath because air spirits don't need your paltry mortal lungs, "are you hi I'm Sky and if I can get through that damn helmet I can stop you going splat."
On one hand, he may have been struck upon the head, and this is all part of the subsequent hallucination. Which would mean he'd be opening his helmet for no reason, except maybe to go unconscious from lack of proper oxygen before hitting the ground. (Which could be a good thing.)
On the other, this is real, and he should - no, no, this is definitely an insane hallucination.
...But just in case, maybe he should open up anyway. He's kind of low on other options. And he could just close the helmet again anyway. (Also, she's cute.)
"Okay," he says, hesitantly. "I'll let you in. But for the record, if you're not real, I'm going right back to trying to get the stabilizers to work properly."
There's a brief hiss - carried away by the rushing wind - and the suit's faceplate slides back.
There's someone there to catch him, sweeping in at the last moment to catch Tony in a cradle hold.
The bad?
He's nowhere near as attractive as the other two rescuers. On the young side, male, dressed only in a pair of jeans, his bear chest bearing a scar that looks remarkably like a super heros emblem.
"Maybe you should leave flying to those who are naturals at it."
It takes a moment or two before Tony has recovered enough from the shock to respond to respond.
"I didn't realize there were people who were naturals at flying." There's a pause before he adds, "You are kidding me with this, right? Carrying me around like some damsel in distress?"
"You prefer I sling you over my shoulder? Or maybe I should've-" No, a hero doesn't threaten people with dropping them. You're a hero Clark, no matter what they've done to you.
"Oh, I'm grateful, don't get me wrong, I'm grateful. I'm also very acutely aware how this must look to impressionable youths or... young ladies who might otherwise look up to me. You know. Gotta maintain a good image for the people."
Tony will put this thought into practice at his next press conference, where he will do his best not to sit on the floor, eating cheeseburgers.
Giant metal things (of whatever construction) plummeting from the sky are the sort of things which draw Mai's attention. Also... that looks painful.
She checks the blades in her sleeves and then ensures that her sleeves are pulled down to cover them before approaching. Being heavily armed while appearing to be a harmless teenager has been useful a few times in this world already, after all.
After the noise and dust start to settle down, a long furrow in the Earth becomes visible. The trail of overturned grass and soil stretches for about a hundred metres from where it begins, to where it ends in a large mound of dirt and metal man.
"Well," Mai says to herself (though might just happen to be loud enough to be heard from the mound), "That looked like one of the most intelligent th ings I've seen anyone do around here."
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She is contemplating saving him.
Or seeing how big a hole in the ground he makes.
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That was an angel, he is thinking, So I'm about to die, and incidentally lose Pascal's Wager.
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Beat.
Be-
She snaps out a hand, magic to freeze him mid-air.
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- Oh. Not dying anymore.
Not flying, either. Running on automatic, the suit's boot-rockets fire a couple more times (pfft! pfft!), utterly useless.
As the metal man attempts to twist about: "Okay. What caught me?"
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That is majorly unusual.
The wind blowing against his metal shell turns strange for a moment, and then there's a woman there, floating quite impossibly underneath him and trying to hold him up with arms made of directed air.
It doesn't work very well. He slows, but not enough.
Damn bloody quirky mortals and their damn bloody quirky armour.
"What the hell," says Sky, all in one breath because air spirits don't need your paltry mortal lungs, "are you hi I'm Sky and if I can get through that damn helmet I can stop you going splat."
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"You're not an F-22," he tells her, voice made to echo and growl by the suit.
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For the record: translucent, no. Intangible, yes. And all right, a little blurry at the edges. It's the speed.
[ooc: unless the suit isn't airtight. She'd know; I wouldn't. XD]
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On one hand, he may have been struck upon the head, and this is all part of the subsequent hallucination. Which would mean he'd be opening his helmet for no reason, except maybe to go unconscious from lack of proper oxygen before hitting the ground. (Which could be a good thing.)
On the other, this is real, and he should - no, no, this is definitely an insane hallucination.
...But just in case, maybe he should open up anyway. He's kind of low on other options. And he could just close the helmet again anyway. (Also, she's cute.)
"Okay," he says, hesitantly. "I'll let you in. But for the record, if you're not real, I'm going right back to trying to get the stabilizers to work properly."
There's a brief hiss - carried away by the rushing wind - and the suit's faceplate slides back.
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There's someone there to catch him, sweeping in at the last moment to catch Tony in a cradle hold.
The bad?
He's nowhere near as attractive as the other two rescuers. On the young side, male, dressed only in a pair of jeans, his bear chest bearing a scar that looks remarkably like a super heros emblem.
"Maybe you should leave flying to those who are naturals at it."
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"I didn't realize there were people who were naturals at flying." There's a pause before he adds, "You are kidding me with this, right? Carrying me around like some damsel in distress?"
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"You should be grateful I saw you fall."
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Tony will put this thought into practice at his next press conference, where he will do his best not to sit on the floor, eating cheeseburgers.
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She checks the blades in her sleeves and then ensures that her sleeves are pulled down to cover them before approaching. Being heavily armed while appearing to be a harmless teenager has been useful a few times in this world already, after all.
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The mound is groaning.
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"I don't know who or where you are, but you are very funny."
A helmeted head slowly stretches up, and eventually cranes towards Mai. Dazedly, "Oh. There you are."
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