[ Tony's spent enough time hunched over and gasping for his own panicked breaths to know that this isn't a simple case of being winded.
He knows exactly what this is.
Courser's presence is a boon and a solid nugget of information all on its own — the bahari would be attacking if there were an immediate threat, and if he's with her, she must not be too far from camp, or medical. It only takes him a moment or two to decide how to proceed; he has the armor out of his pacdisc in no time flat, and by the time it's curled itself around him, the critically low power warning is already flashing in one corner of the HUD.
Yeah, tell him something he doesn't know.
Knowing his time is limited, he has JARVIS scan for Courser's heat signature - unique and alien as it is, it's not hard to pin him down, even from a potentially great distance - and as soon as he has a lock, he's off. Flight is a risky business when the armor's this low on power, but who's gonna lecture him right now? Well, besides JARVIS. That's right, nobody.
He lands and drops the armor a healthy distance from where Elena is huddled, lest he spook her by approaching her in a giant metal suit. She probably doesn't even notice her approach until he's crouched in front of her, both hands on her shoulders. ]
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He knows exactly what this is.
Courser's presence is a boon and a solid nugget of information all on its own — the bahari would be attacking if there were an immediate threat, and if he's with her, she must not be too far from camp, or medical. It only takes him a moment or two to decide how to proceed; he has the armor out of his pacdisc in no time flat, and by the time it's curled itself around him, the critically low power warning is already flashing in one corner of the HUD.
Yeah, tell him something he doesn't know.
Knowing his time is limited, he has JARVIS scan for Courser's heat signature - unique and alien as it is, it's not hard to pin him down, even from a potentially great distance - and as soon as he has a lock, he's off. Flight is a risky business when the armor's this low on power, but who's gonna lecture him right now? Well, besides JARVIS. That's right, nobody.
He lands and drops the armor a healthy distance from where Elena is huddled, lest he spook her by approaching her in a giant metal suit. She probably doesn't even notice her approach until he's crouched in front of her, both hands on her shoulders. ]
Hey. Deep breaths, in and out.