Who: Tony and Pepper NPCs: Sochi Puppies, JARVIS When: 4/13 Where: Stark Tower, garage level What: Tony's in trouble of his own making. Again. Time for a Rescue. Rating: Low
The dogs were barking at him, but as they were rather far beneath him, Tony could ignore them and focus on the problem at hand. "What we have here," he announced to JARVIS - and the dogs, if they were inclined to listen and help with the math - "is not a failure." Sure, he was stuck on the ceiling, most of the way upside down, and getting down would probably involve twisting his arms half out of his sockets to get at the malfunctioning tech, but technically speaking, it had worked.
He just couldn't get the anti-gravity platform to stop working until it landed him halfway through the ceiling. He was tempted to just undo the magnetic boots that he'd thought would be a safety measure - and technically, they were, because the alternative would have been falling from this height instead of stuck up here. But they weren't jet-boots, which meant he'd be falling again...unless...
"I do wonder if you are acquainted with a standard dictionary, Mr. Stark," JARVIS told him.
"I find the definitions change too fast," he said. Twisting, he clawed his way through a sit-up to get a better look at the ceiling. "JARVIS, calculate the weight capacities of these boots and the magnetic potential of the wall.
"I've contacted Ms Potts," JARVIS announced with just a hint of long-suffering.
"Aw, man, you really didn't have to," Tony said. "I've got this."
"Sir, you are upside-down on the ceiling."
"Well, yeah, for now. I bet I can get myself out of this. Calculate and cancel Pepper." There was a long, ominous silence from JARVIS, which meant he was pretending he hadn't heard any of those orders. Tony grumbled to himself, and reached out to flick a fingernail against what he could reach of the wall: the boots probably would hold him to the ceiling, but working his way down the wall without splattering on the floor would take either military training (unlikely) or an interesting application of gravity (slightly more unlikely).
He ran his mind through the armors, trying to figure which one he could get to deploy up here, open up, let him in, without losing repulsor integrity. He wondered if JARVIS would buy that plan.