Adrenaline is his best friend and fuels his unobtrusively dazzling dance high above Loki. He zips up much too high, a trick he’d learned long ago. There’s just one problem.

As much as Loki says that their limit of being apart is five miles, by the time Tony hits two, he’s really suffering. In distress, he mangles a loop and one of the missiles following him explodes too close and shorts out the reactor.

He blacks out after that, heart stopping.