"Huh," Tony said, because that was not a direction he'd ever have considered taking repulsor technology. He wasn't even sure...
He bent down to pick up one of the repulsors that hadn't integrated itself into the growing tangle of flying carpet to be, his fingers exploring the edges like he'd forgotten the shape of something so familiar.
"Forcefields...?" He brought the repulsor to rest next to his chest, where his arc reactor was difficult to see under his heavy shirt, and stared somewhere just beyond Bruce.
And suddenly he was having fun after all.
"It's not really a question of power, power is easy--" At least, when you have arc reactors to spare, it is. "It's what the repulsors do with the energy, and how small can you make them, and how many of them can you array together... I mean, what is a force field, anyway?" Rhetorical question: he hurried on. "And some specialized circuits to control it all, because when I say speed and absolute precision would be vital, I'm totally underestimating what it would take..."
He shook his head abruptly, remembering his challenge. "But oops, I couldn't do all that with just five repulsors. Can't be done. Please try again."
But though his words dismissed it, his gaze stayed slightly abstracted; he was still thinking about the technical details of Bruce's first suggestion while he was waiting to see if Bruce could -- or would -- come up with something else.
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He bent down to pick up one of the repulsors that hadn't integrated itself into the growing tangle of flying carpet to be, his fingers exploring the edges like he'd forgotten the shape of something so familiar.
"Forcefields...?" He brought the repulsor to rest next to his chest, where his arc reactor was difficult to see under his heavy shirt, and stared somewhere just beyond Bruce.
And suddenly he was having fun after all.
"It's not really a question of power, power is easy--" At least, when you have arc reactors to spare, it is. "It's what the repulsors do with the energy, and how small can you make them, and how many of them can you array together... I mean, what is a force field, anyway?" Rhetorical question: he hurried on. "And some specialized circuits to control it all, because when I say speed and absolute precision would be vital, I'm totally underestimating what it would take..."
He shook his head abruptly, remembering his challenge. "But oops, I couldn't do all that with just five repulsors. Can't be done. Please try again."
But though his words dismissed it, his gaze stayed slightly abstracted; he was still thinking about the technical details of Bruce's first suggestion while he was waiting to see if Bruce could -- or would -- come up with something else.