“Go on this mission, it’ll be easy he said. My ass there’s nothing easy about going to Syberia in the middle of god damn winter.” Morgan mumbled as she adjusted her position to circle around the abandoned hydra base.
“Would you like me to turn up the heat?”
“No FRIDAY I’m fine just remember to remind me to tell Peter next time I’m going somewhere warmer.”
“I can do that.” FRIDAY was silent for a second “Compleeted scan, there is only one life form in the base.”
“Well here goes nothing, I just hope this Skrull is a friendly.” Morgan said as she landed inside the base.
Walking through the halls she had to resist the urge to ask FRIDAY about specific details of what had happened here 20 years ago. As much as Morgan would have liked another warmer mission she was glad Peter had picked this one for her. Peter knew more than she wanted to admit to herself how much she missed her father. So much so that she ended up biulding her first suit at 11 to look just like his first suit. That was 5 years ago, she ended up biulding a couple more replicas before she biult her own suit. Her own suit looked a lot like the mark 42, but Morgan had added some weapons, more accurate scanners, and of course used nano technology to make suit removal quick and painless. Morgan had also found a way to make the arc into nano technology so that the suit could fit inside the simple ‘smart watch’ she always wore.
Walking further down the halls she came upon a lab with cryo tubes in it.
“FRIDAY is this where Uncle Bucky was held captive?”
“Uncle Bucky?” A voice behind Morgan said “Woah what the hell?”
Morgan froze for a second the sight of who was in front of her made her think twice about having the repulsars at the ready. How cruel of course the first skrull I run into looks like my father.
“Hands up greenie.” She said as calmly as she could.
The being opposite of her opened his eyes wide “What do you want kid?” The Skrull had gotten the details amazingly correct suprusingly it looked like it had aged the way a human would.
“I said hands up greenie.”
“Oh I heard what you said. I see you’re a big fan, kinda jealous you made a suit almost as well as I did...”
Starting the firing sequence of the repulsers Morgan interupted “Hands up or I will shoot.”
“I’d rather not have to drop my freeze dried blueberries thank you very much.” The man tilted his head “Blueberry?”
“Is this some sort of game?”
“I don’t know is it? If you’re trying to get me to come back it’s not going to work.”
“Come back? Only if you’re with Talos, if not your pathetic green ass dies here.”
“Are you color blind? Or have you failed to notice that I am not wearing green.” Morgan sighedfrustratedly “Aw does the little kid need a juice box?”
“What I need to know is which side of the Skrull war you’re on.”
“Are you sure I can’t interest you in some water? I could even squeeze some of the dead bugs in it to make it look like juice.”
“Who the fuck are you?”
“You of all people should know who I am considering I designed that suit, you got some things wrong, like that bump along your right wrist. Also the blue on the left side is stupid. The blue the red just pick a color.”
“Who are you?” Morgan asked again fearing the answer, knowing she was shaking slightly.
“Tony Stark Playboy, Genius, billionaire....” Tony looked at Morgan as she seemingly froze. He walked up to her and waved his hand in front of the mask, “Hey kid you alright?” He pressed the button on the side of the mask to reveal Morgan’s face. “You...”
“FRIDAY call Mom.” She said as she turned down a hallway to avoid the man standing in the large open room. She started to run as FRIDAY tried to reach her mother.
“The signal is too weak would you like to try and reach Peter Parker?”
“Yes FRIDAY.”
“I cannot reach him either it is possible that the signal is too weak to reach anybody.” Morgan didn’t respond, How could she? She had no idea what was happening.
She remembered Carol telling her that the Skrulls could be tricky and would mess with her. But this seemed on another level too elaborate in a way, how could the Skrull predicted her arrival to get to her on a personal level. She had to consider that the man somewhere else in the base was indeed the real Tony Stark.
Breaking down she pressed a button on her wrist and sank to the ground. She could feel the panic seeping in. Just like the last solo mission she thought. Tears fell down her face as she shook, she started to take some deep breaths noticing each point where her back touched the frozen wall and where she could feel the frosty breeze from cracks in the foundation of the old building.
Tony found her on the floor eyes closed, walking over he sat down and joined her. “You alright kid?”
“I dunno.” Morgan replied trying to keep her mind open to the conversation.
“I’m sorry I took your mask off, I know how safe the suit can feel. By the way where is the suit?”
“Sometimes it makes me feel like I’m gonna run out of breath.”
“Heh all that responsibility really does weigh on your shoulders, you’re so young too. What made you take up the mantle?”
“Things here and there, in some ways to honor my fathers memory.”
“Your father.” Tony smilied “I had my own complicated relationship with my father.”
“It wasn’t complicated he died when I was 4 almost 5. And I thought I knew him but sometimes I wonder if I really ever did.”
“Was I his favorite superhero?”
“Uh he uh he was a lot like you, loved to build stuff.”
“Oh you he teach you anything?”
“Yeah some stuff.”
“You want to help me on a project I’ve been working on?”
“Sure.” Morgan shrugged as she got up to follow Tony. He lead her into a large room with tools and bits of scrap metal lying on the floor. She gasped with delight at the misshapen thing in front of her. Circling the contraption she noted each and every nut and bolt. “What is it?”
“It’s an apocalyptic event stopping machine, hopefully it’ll work to stop what I saw in a vision last year.”
“Thanos.” Morgan said absentmindedly.
“Yeah how’d you know?”
Morgan looked at her father his face was hopeful for something and she couldn’t tell what that might be, “I meant to say Thanatos Greek god bringer of death. But it is interesting that Thanos would be the guys name.”
“Makes sense, I’m essentially trying to build a container for all 6 of the...”
“Infinity stones.” Morgan cringed as something slipped out again.
“Yeah.” Tony said suspiciously “I am having a lot of problems actually getting the frequencies right without my suit and the help of FRIDAY I’ve managed to get rough calculations out but that was only for the one infinity stone I’ve come in contact with.”
“And you assume they each run on their own frequency and couldn’t be contained by one single entity.”
“Hit it right on the head kid.”
“Why is it so big?”
“One infinity stone has a lot of power to contain it I calculated it still needs some space to atract to or repel other stones otherwise...”
“Something worse than this guy Thanos could happen.”
“Bingo.” Tony smiled “FRIDAY scan for weak points in the equation. You should be able to find them in the data banks for the base.”
“Already finished boss.” FRIDAY’s voice came out of Morgan’s watch.
“What made you think to put FRIDAY’s software in a watch?”
“Easier to transport, I can have her right next to me when I need her.” Morgan wanted to say FRIDAY was left for her but saying it was just as hard as the reality she was facing right now.
“Makes sense.” Tony said “Let’s get to work.”
Morgan set to work glad to be doing something with her hands. As much as she wanted to tell him that Thanos had happened years ago before she was even born. She wanted to tell him that she was his kid and that she had a little sister. Her little sister Edna Antonia Stark named after him.
“Red Robin Yum!” Tony hummed “Man can’t wait to get Red Robin. My favorite is...”
“...A cheeseburger with onion rings and a chocolate milkshake.” Morgan joined in.
“That your fathers favorite too?”
“No mine I haven’t had that in a long time.”
“Why do you sound mournful? Tell ya what I’ll take you to Red Robin after we get out of here.”
“You can’t.”
“Sure I can.”
“No you can’t they shut down when I was 8.”
“That makes no sense... unless. Your from the future?” Morgan shook her head lump forming in her throat. “What.... What year is it?” Tony asked trying to process what was happening.
“2036” FRIDAY replied leaving the room in silence.
Morgan looked at Tony and it was like a mirror, sadness guilt and confusion all mixed into one. Their eyes met and for a brief moment it was like they knew each other and could read the others mind.
“Hey Morgan what’s up?” A voice came out of the watch.
“...Pe-pe-pe...”
“Take your time kid. Breath.”
“Peter uh where are you?” Morgan asked feeling it hard to speak.
“Just landed in Moscow to help Shuri with the tech summit. You back in New York?”
“No, I’m still here at the hydra base, I know Shuri needs your help but is there any way you could come and see this?”
“Yeah I think I have time, it’ll take me a couple hours to get there. Are you having trouble with the Skrull?”
“Not exactly.”
“What is it then kid?”
“Look I just need you to come here and not not to freak out when you see what I’m talking about okay?”
“Yeah sure.”
“Promise me.”
“Yeah I promise you I won’t freak out. See you in a bit.”
“Yeah.” Morgan sighed pressing a button on her watch.
“You’re my kid???” Tony asked out of the blue.
“Yeah... or at least someone who looked and acted like you.” Morgan shrugged “Was it that obvious?”
“No, not at all. You just look so much like your mother.” Tony chuckled “And you sound just like me. Should we start on a new project? I was thinking a suit.”
“Yeah I would like that .” Morgan said barely trying to hold the grin on her face back.
Two hours later and the suit was finished, not with nanotechnology but it would work until they could get back to the house in the woods.
Morgan whipped around at a sound behind her firing up the nanotech watch to cover her right hand with a glove. “Woah, might work better if you had one on the other side too.”
“My suit my rules, be quiet.” Morgan hissed. A spider web flew through the air and attached itself to Tony’s shirt. A second later Peter came flying in, kicked Tony and activated the fake spider legs to pin Tony down.
“It’s over greenie!”
“Peter! Remember what I said about freaking out?”
Peter looked over the man he had pinned on frozen concrete. After a second he retracted his legs and extended his hand down to Tony who took it, “Sorry Mr. Stark.” He said timidly still unsure if this was a trick.
“Pete...” Tony smiled and pulled Peter in a hug “ You don’t have to call me Mr. Stark.”
Morgan walked out of the room to awnser the text on her watch Morgan are you okay? Yeah Peter came. You want to talk about it? Yes when we get home Isn’t Peter staying there? Yeah he is Friendly? Something like that yeah Be careful. You know me Mom always careful. I know but I worry. Love you 3000. Love you 3000 too.
The flight back to the small cabin by the lake was ruff to say the least. The suit was clucks and would malfunction every fifteen minutes. Not to mention Tony was malnourished and by the end of the flight he almost crashed into a pine tree trying to land.
“Why aren’t we going right up to the house?” Tony asked.
“Edna can’t see me in the suit, and would you really want to have ended up in the lake?”
“Edna who’s Edna?”
“My sister.” Tony’s heart skipped a beat, he wondered how long it had taken her to move on.
“Does your mother know about you doing this?”
“Yeah I wouldn’t if she didn’t know.” Morgan turned her attention to her watch leaving Tony sitting on the rock in the clearing struggling to get his armor off.
Hey can you tell mom to get the med supplies Why? You get shot with another arrow? That was one time Edna mode. Then what the hell did you do mourge. Mourge what the fuck is that supposed mean. It means you’re gonna send mom to one one of these days. Just get the fucking supplies. I’m gonna tell mom you were swearing at me. Fine can you please ask her to get the supplies and meet me outside the house? Yeah what’d ya do? It’s not for me it’s for someone else. Are you cheating on Kate? And on Christmas no less. No I’m not cheating on Kate do as I say and next time I’m out of the country at a tech thing or some other shit I’ll get you some chocolate from there. Deal but it can’t be from Canada. I know. How long? 20 I think, not sure he’s really beat up. Uncle Pete? No you’ll see who when we get there. Fine
Morgan sighed as she took the watch she wore off. Walking to the clearing and finding her father she put the watch around his wrist pressing a button to activate a coat that had a built in heater.
“You built this? It’s so warm.”
“Yeah also less of a hassle to put on”
“Who were you texting?”
“Edna”
“She give you sass?”
“Yeah she’s probably worrying and thinking I got shot with an arrow again.”
“Why would you do that?”
“She thinks that me and my girlfriend hunt out here rather than train.”
The pair walked in scilence Morgan supporting Tony and focusing on leading him through the woods. When they came up on the cabin Edna was sitting on the steps watching the flock of chickens peck at the scratch she had thrown down. Seeing her sister she stood up opened the door and called into the house staring at the man who was with her sister.
Pepper walked out of the door took a look at the pair and dropped the medical kit. She walked through the snow slowly cautious of who he was. Stopping right before her daughter she asked “Is he...”
“No he’s him.” Morgan could feel the tears in her eyes.
“Hey Pep.” Tony tried to reach for a hug but almost fell over, Pepper saving him from falling in the snow. “Saved me once again.”
“Come on we can talk inside.”
Hours later everyone sat inside the living room in front of the fire and tree. Morgan was focused on her phone texting Kate about what exactly was happening. Edna was listening to some sort of music leaving Pepper and Tony to talk.
“Why didn’t you tell any of us?”
“I had hit rock bottom, I thought about telling them but things sorta fell apart. You were gone focusing on the company I didn’t want to get in your way, there was nothing to go back to so I stayed.”
“Do you remember the Skrull?”
“No I remember blacking out and waking up with my armor gone.” Tony sat and thought “Did he uh...”
“Tony hun he became you.”
“So like a clone?”
“Yeah pretty much.”
“Who’s Edna’s father.”
“You really don’t see it?” Pepper asked, and then Tony realized, she looked just like him except for the hair which was the same color as Peppers.
“Now I do.”
“Good.” Pepper smiled “Girls.” She said getting the attention of them “Come here.” Pepper pulled them as well as Tony “I love you all 3000.”
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