Tony had not had the best day or so, although there were probably some people happy to point out they'd had it worse.
Pepper had vanished, right in front of him. He had, in the immediate moment, been prepared to tear the island apart. Literally, if he had to, and he'd been in the early stages of assessing the possibility of building something that could put a hole in reality out of what he had on the island when he'd gone out and found out about the other disappearances, and what that could mean.
From there, there was only one course of action conceivable.
From up in the sky, dinosaur territory wasn't so big. But it was dense, and filled with movement, and even with Jarvis excluding anything bigger than a human, he'd dipped below the treeline several times only to spook some average-sized herbivores.
When he got Pepper back to the house, he was fitting her with some kind of tracking chip.
In the meantime, all he could do was search, and hope that he got to her before-
"I can detect screaming." Jarvis, in his ear.
Tony snapped an impatient, "Which way?" and as soon as it came up on the display, accelerated, staying above the treeline for maximum effect until he could hear it, too.
He'd made the Redirects for this, to be able to set off a dinosaur's collar whenever he needed.
When he saw the thing menacing Pepper, he didn't even consider it. He opened up the repulsors to full and cannoned into the dinosaur's neck at full throttle. It was heavy, heavy enough that he didn't take it off its feet, just swung it around, vioently twisting by the neck before tumbling off, cushioning his landing with one repulsor thrown backwards.
The other one he kept raised, pausing just fractionally to see which way the dinosaur reacted.
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Pepper had vanished, right in front of him. He had, in the immediate moment, been prepared to tear the island apart. Literally, if he had to, and he'd been in the early stages of assessing the possibility of building something that could put a hole in reality out of what he had on the island when he'd gone out and found out about the other disappearances, and what that could mean.
From there, there was only one course of action conceivable.
From up in the sky, dinosaur territory wasn't so big. But it was dense, and filled with movement, and even with Jarvis excluding anything bigger than a human, he'd dipped below the treeline several times only to spook some average-sized herbivores.
When he got Pepper back to the house, he was fitting her with some kind of tracking chip.
In the meantime, all he could do was search, and hope that he got to her before-
"I can detect screaming." Jarvis, in his ear.
Tony snapped an impatient, "Which way?" and as soon as it came up on the display, accelerated, staying above the treeline for maximum effect until he could hear it, too.
He'd made the Redirects for this, to be able to set off a dinosaur's collar whenever he needed.
When he saw the thing menacing Pepper, he didn't even consider it. He opened up the repulsors to full and cannoned into the dinosaur's neck at full throttle. It was heavy, heavy enough that he didn't take it off its feet, just swung it around, vioently twisting by the neck before tumbling off, cushioning his landing with one repulsor thrown backwards.
The other one he kept raised, pausing just fractionally to see which way the dinosaur reacted.