"What is it?" Maeve asked. "Here, let me get it, it'll be easier if you're not trying to cut the ropes without cutting your hands off."

Tony handed it over to her carefully. "That button turns it off and on, don't have it aimed towards yourself, and don't touch anything but the handle."

Maeve nodded. She could handle that. Carefully, she pushed the button and, even more carefully, she cut the bonds on Tony's wrists. Then she hit the button again and handed the tool back to him.

Tony took the tool and grinned, dropping the rope off to the sides. Much better.

"Alright, hold still and I'll have these right off." He turned the tool on again to free her, slicing through the ropes.

Maeve nodded and then held still, holding out her hands a bit. Once the ropes were cut, she rubbed her wrists a bit and flexed her fingers.

"Thanks."

"My pleasure. Now, let's see if I can get this to help with the lock..." Tony walked over to the door and started working on the lock, muttering to himself.

"Alright," Maeve said, nodding. Already, she was looking around the cell for anything she could use as a makeshift weapon until she could get her hands on her real weapon again.

Tony worked on the lock for a few minutes. He was good, but he had one tool and a complicated lock and a thick door.

But he finally got the door open and he checked around outside, listening for anything outside.

Maeve hadn't found anything to make into a good enough weapon, so she was hoping she wouldn't have to use any hand-to-hand. She wasn't physically the strongest agent out there, and she preferred ranged weapons when she had the choice. When Tony got the door open, she cautiously peeked out into the hall. It seemed clear, for the moment.

Tony moved out into the hall and started down the hall in one direction. He just picked a direction, because both ways looked the same.

"Now, if I were an evil villain... well, I wouldn't have kidnapped me, but clearly they're not as smart as I am, so where would they put my suit?" Tony muttered as he walked.

"We don't even know where we are, let alone where our pokemon and our stuff got put," Maeve pointed out quietly as she peered around corners cautiously.

"So we just have to check everywhere," Tony said quietly, peeking into the next room. That room had some computer equipment and tools and things, and he grinned before he slipped into the room.

Instead of going for the computers, Maeve went to look at the tools. At least she could use some of those as weapons if she had to, and she grabbed some.

Tony managed to get the computers to work well enough to send a general message to Jarvis and SHIELD, getting the computer set to emit a beacon before he grabbed a tool as well and moved back into the hallway.

Maeve was getting more and more paranoid as they walked. The place was far too empty for her comfort.

"We should have run into someone by now," she murmured.

"Yeah," Tony muttered in agreement. He heard a few people walking towards them and talking and he moved into the nearest room, grabbing Maeve and pulling her with. He wanted to avoid detection for as long as possible.

At least until he found his armor.

Tony didn't have to pull her much. Maeve followed quickly, ducking into the side room. She listened carefully, waiting for the coast to be clear again so they could keep looking for their pokemon and their things.

Tony waited a few moments after everything went quiet to move back into the hallway and keep looking around.

"Let me go first," Maeve murmured as they left the room again.

"Why?" Tony asked just as quietly, not quite letting her go out first. He was Iron Man, after all, not someone that needed protecting.

"Because I'm the trained agent and you're more valuable than I am," Maeve replied, looking at him. "Until you get your armor back, I think it's best that I go first."

Tony thought about arguing for a few moments and then shrugged. He'd let her go first for now, if only because he didn't want her to get in trouble with Coulson.

Maeve knew he wanted to argue, she could see it on his face. But she quickly took point when the argument never materialized, and she kept going down the deserted hall.

Tony didn't even hear them this time. The two just rounded a corner and there were half a dozen grunts. For a moment everyone was silent, and then the grunts pulled guns, and Tony tried to grab Maeve to pull her back around the corner.

Maeve was already scrambling for cover around the corner again, but she wasn't quite quick enough: she ended up catching a bullet in her right shoulder, putting her on the ground with a painful thud. She gave a muffled shriek and managed to get behind the wall, leaning against it and breathing heavily.