Iron Man: Teen Novelization by Dan Jolley

Author:Dan Jolley [Jolley, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Days began to pass with startling speed for Tony Stark. He spent so much time in his workshop and was so distracted when he was outside the workshop, that he completely lost track of the date and often the hour. He only spoke to Pepper on the phone; he hadn’t spoken to Rhodey at all in . .. how long? He didn’t know.

But none of that mattered, because things were starting to come together.

If Tony had to guess, he would have said it was a Sunday morning when he first assembled the belt, the boots, and the gauntlets. Tony stood in the middle of the workshop, the sculpted metal propulsion boots on his feet, the armored gauntlets on his hands, and a stabilizer belt buckled around his waist. All of the pieces were connected by an explosion of wires and tubing, bunching and coiling around Tony’s body so that he looked like a walking science experiment.

“Ready, Jarvis?” he called out.

“Still rejecting my suggestion of a crash helmet, I see,” the computer said, dry as dust.

“Still not needing one,” Tony replied. “Begin recording.”

“Recording, sir. Whenever you’re ready.”

Tony activated a switch on the stabilizer belt. Slowly, the propulsion boots glowed brighter and brighter blue and Tony lifted off the ground. He hovered in the air, tentative, feeling his way, and when he began to tilt forward he fired the gloves to compensate.

They worked perfectly.

Not that his balance was perfect; Tony tilted and weaved, firing judicious bursts of Repulsor energy from the gloves, trying hard not to overcompensate. For a minute, maybe two, he seemed to surf in midair, working to find his balance.

Gradually it came to him. Once he had steadied himself, Tony carefully tilted forward, just enough to provide some lateral motion. Before he realized it, Tony was gliding along the floor of the lab, as if slipping down a perfectly frictionless slide.

Tony torqued his body, fired a burst from the right glove, and dodged around the chair Pepper had set his surprise package on. The chair flipped over as he passed, knocked sideways by the Repulsor burst, but he considered that part of the learning curve.

Stabilizing with the right glove sent him skidding to the left, but he corrected his course, shifted his balance, and fired a burst from the left gauntlet. All of the tools and schematics went flying off a workbench, but Tony stayed upright and in control.

Describing a perfect arc, Tony skirted around the CNC Combo machine—missing it by less than an inch—and headed back toward the center of the workshop.

“Nothing to it,” he whispered, his eyes twinkling.

Tony cut the propulsion and landed, relatively softly, on the workshop floor. He looked around until he saw Jarvis’s camera-equipped robotic arm, which had taken cover behind the stock metal bin. The arm saw Tony looking at it and straightened up.

“All right,” Tony said. “Let’s get to work.”

"Very good, sir. And if I may so, sir, I had every faith in your abilities.”

Nevertheless, the robotic arm waited until Tony had

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