My Little Guardian Angel Ch. 2

“So, found your replacement yet?”
I was on Pepper’s shoulder and was currently helping her choose who would be Tony’s new P.A. It was almost impossible to find someone who was as good as Pepper since Tony was complicated to work with, to say the least.
“I’ve narrowed it to four potential candidates. These are the ones who would least present charges or end up as one night stands.”
I sighed. “Even if I’m happy for your promotion, I can’t imagine someone else doing what you do.”
She smiled at me. “I know sweetie but Tony still needs someone to look after him to make sure he eats.”
I was about to reply when I heard footsteps that weren’t from Tony. I didn’t have the suit on, but Pepper acted too fast for my likening. She grabbed me and put me inside her breast pocket.  
“I’m sorry, did I come at a wrong time?”
“No it’s ok, I just hung up. Tony is currently available so you can have your interview now.”
Pepper started walking and I had to cling into the fabric of her shirt to not bounce out of the pocket. Light flooded from the opening above me and I could only see Pepper’s neck and chin. In all this time I have avoided as much as I could to be in the pocket of either Tony or Pepper so I wasn’t used to be inside one.
We finally arrived and I enjoyed being still for the time being. As I suspected, Tony started hitting on the unknown woman. She turned out to be one of the candidates. When Tony got off of his boxing practice with Happy, Pepper warned him not to sexually harass the woman. He ignored her and instead stalked Natalie Rushman on the Internet. She was quite a woman from what I heard when suddenly I heard bodies hit the floor. I froze in panic and I could hear Pepper and Tony gasping above me. Apparently, Natalie had just K.O. Happy in the ring. I decided to never be discovered by that woman.
She soon left and Pepper did too. When we were finally alone, Pepper reached inside her pocket and I held on tight to one of her fingers so she could take me out. She held me right in front of her face and her great big eyes were scanning me.
“Are you feeling well? You don’t look so well.”
I didn’t feel well. I was nauseous and dizzy from the pocket ride. “Just promise to not ever do that again.”
“I’m so sorry! It was on impulse and there wasn’t anywhere else to hide you in...”
I just nodded and shut my eyes. I felt her gently extend her palm and was grateful for lying on my back on a soft flat surface.
“So how is Natalie Rushman?”
“Young, pretty, perfect… she might just be the one for the job.”
“Considering she can kick his ass if he so much as touches hers may be a point in her favor.”
I was feeling better so I stood up. “Guess you don’t have to keep searching. But doesn’t it seem a little… off?”
“Off?”
“Yeah, I mean she could get any other job she wants and well…”
She lifted an eyebrow. “Well what?”
“Nothing.” It was still very suspicious.
“Well I’ve got to go to the Monaco’s race in France and set up everything for a meeting there and…”
“Can I come?”
She stopped listing off everything she needed to get done and looked down at me. “You want to come?”
I shrugged. “Yeah, I mean I always wanted to travel to other countries.”
“I guess you can come but you have to stay hidden and with Tony or me at all times.”
I rolled my eyes. “Of course.” Inside I was feeling giddy. Even if I had seen all types of places with my mom before, the rush of discovering a new place came to me.
“When are we leaving?”
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I barely felt the flight or maybe I was just so used to the rocking since it was a lot like when I was in the shoulder of Pepper or Tony. When we arrived, Natalie greeted us. From the confines of Pepper’s pocket, I could hear and sometimes see what was happening around me. I heard the conversations going above me and felt a little uneasy. One false move and all this humans would notice me. I shuddered and turned my attention back to gather info about my surroundings.
Pepper had finally stopped in the bar and was talking to Tony. A new human joined the conversation and I quietly groaned. It was that asshole of Justin Hammer.
Hammer went on and on trying to show off in front of the reporter slut, who was slightly familiar, and she was clearly not interested on him. Even I felt the awkwardness and tension in the air. Thankfully Pepper walked away. She went to the bathroom and took me out to stretch a bit. The moment I was out I felt better for the increase of space.
“Is that guy Justin Hammer stalking Tony or what?” Seriously, he appeared at the worst moments.
“I don’t know, but what are the odds that we would run into him?” The door of the bathroom started to open again and Pepper quickly put me in her pocket again. She was more careful this time but that didn’t mean that I had to like it. From the voice, I could tell it was Natalie. How could a woman have such an accurate sense of timing to enter the room when I was out in the open?
When we came back Tony was nowhere to be seen. Hint number one that Tony was going to do something incredibly stupid.
“Where could Tony have gone to?” I whisper shouted to Pepper. Then I noticed the oxymoron I just created and ignored it.
From the screens, live footage came from the Monaco race that was about to start. Out of nowhere, Tony appeared. Hint number two that Tony was about to do something incredibly stupid.
While Pepper called for Natalie, my eyes were glued to the screen. The original racer was kicked out because of Tony and he took his place. What the heck? Was Tony going all YOLO on us now?
I shook out of sheer anger for his reckless behavior. If he got himself killed, I would revive him myself so I could kill him myself.
The race had barely started when a guy started walking in the middle of the race tracks without a care in the world. What was this, international day of the imbecile?
Suddenly, his shirt turned to ashes and showed underneath a sort of machine appeared strapped to his chest. The front looked like a bastardized version of the Ironman suit but two metal tendrils stuck out of his wrists. As a car got closer, the tendrils sparked with electricity and its owner lashed at it. The tendrils cut cleaned through the car and the man was unfazed by what he just did. People started to panic around us and my preoccupation grew.
Pepper suddenly stood and her quick movements made me lose my balance. I could no longer watch what was happening but I guessed that Happy had come with the Ironman suitcase. We rushed to the car and raced to the track. As Happy pressed the accelerator, I couldn’t help but wonder how Tony got stuck with the psycho killers.