Destined Leader

Chapter 1: Tarsus IV

Summary: Tony Stark had lived a full life, but his soul was destined to live another life. He had been a friend, a superhero, an inventor, a scientist, and a general all in one life. What would he get up to in another life. Another life where he is James T. Kirk, but things never go smooth for this soul and Tarsus IV awakes memories of his past life as Tony Stark causing great changes in his path, yet Tony could never resist answering the call of an adventure.

Jim and his ragtag group had just barely escaped from the security that came after them after they had stolen the food and water they needed to continue to survive on this hellhole of a planet. After eating their rations, they huddled together for warmth after setting up their traps and warning systems. That night was not peaceful for Jim though as his mind was hit by the memories of another life, his life as Tony Stark. He remembered growing up with a distant father and his mother dieing early on in his life. He remembered rising his company to the top, becoming a player, and getting kidnapped. He also remembered what turned his life around, becoming Iron Man.

He also remembered getting curious about the vastness that is space and altering his suit to allow him the go explore it. He remembered meeting the Cardassians, the Gorns, the Klingons, the Orions, Romulans, and the Vulcans. He found out a lot about himself that this aliens already understood, but humans had no idea about. The most shocking thing he found out was while he was physically human his spirit/katra was that of a Vulcan's. This while rare did happen and it was actually expected that the race of said beings spirit took care of them. Jim in his last life totally shot that idea down and developed quite the skill in avoiding all, but a choose few. He also recalled testing into the Intergalactic Academy which had been set up once upon a time by the Q to gather the most intelligent beings together to deal with problems and to share knowledge and research. To begin with there was only one branch, that of intelligence and this branch was broken up into four basic levels. From lowest to highest intelligence purple, blue, green, and finally black. These defined your intelligence color which was one a range from 0-200. 0 means you do not get a color and are not intelligent enough to be apart of the Intergalactic Academy, which most beings fall under. From there 1-50 is purple, 51-100 is blue, 101-150 is green, and 151-200 is black. Most Q, being the super beings they are, were off this chart. Though they were greatly impressed by black level intelligence as it was a lot of intelligence to fit into such fragile beings. Jim in his past life and scored a 196, the first to to score higher than 175 in 6,000 thousand years.

All was going great until the Plant Eaters came, they were from another dimension which had run out of planets for them to eat. The problem was is that they did not care if the planets were inhabited. As such a war had to be started and the Intergalactic Academy quickly realized that pure intelligence would not cut it, so Tony welding his power as the current most intelligent known being started a second branch in the Intergalactic Academy, a military branch. You still had to be of a level 1 intelligence to join this branch and be able to fight. Many Cardassians, Gorns, Klingons, Orions, and Romulans joined with a handful of Vulcans joining as well. Tony himself took up the title of General Ironman and lead them into battle and after about four years of nonstop war the Intergalactic Military won, but General Ironman ended the war with a suicidal mission that was his end and that sacrifice was the last thing Jim remembered of his last life.

After Jim remembered his past the situation on Tarsus IV changed drastically. Jim now had a lot more knowledge at his disposal and he knew just how to use it. Before those in charge knew it all their luxuries had been destroyed and their food, water, and clothing supplies were disappearing at a rapid rate and they started to panic. This lead to someone really stupid in their panic to contact the Intergalactic Academy since they knew Starfleet was going to take many more months before they came to the aid of the colony. Unfortunately for those in charge the military branch was mainly sent with a few of the intelligence branch who volunteered to go along.

When they arrived the military branch was not at all impressed with what those in charge had tried to do and many of the veterans from the Planet Eaters' war had a big sense of deja vu. They soon guessed why when they saw Jim leading his group of rebels towards them with a smirk on his face. Shaking off their shock they quickly gathered up the survivors and sent them to the academy to be taken care of while they dealt with the supposed leaders of this colony.

Jim on the other hand was smiling the whole way to the Academy as he could not wait to find out what had happened, because the veterans he had just encountered looked the same age as they did right before he died. The rebels were in awe of the Academy and Jim made a buzz line for the main office where he knew, with any luck, Rilga, who was apparently from a nearly extinct species except for her, would be. Rilga was a dear friend to Jim in his past life and while see never joined the military branch instead taking over the intelligence branch as the next in line after Jim with a score of 174. Her species, which she very rarely ever talked about had been pretty much wiped out due to the fact the 80% ended up being of black level intelligence and the other 20% ended up in the green level intelligence, was very long lived and as such barring anything having ended up killing her, she should still be alive.

Jim threw open the doors to the main office and shouted, "Rilga!" He of coursed followed that with a jumping hug. Rilga was of coursed shock at was going on at first until Jim started to explain it all, which caused her to shake her head as it was so Tony to get into trouble so early on in his new life. The first thing Rilga had Jim do is retake the Academy test and he scored 197, one higher than his score last life. Rilga and Jim decided that was because he had not drunk a lot of alcohol or had head trauma in this life, yet.

He was then set through a series of licensed mind healers, some he knew last life others he did not. They all confirmed, to the shock of quite of few, that he was indeed in possession of a past life and that that life he was General Iron Man. Now after this was processed and by then all the rebels except Jim had been sent back to their parents/guardians or relatives that would take proper care of them. Jim as such now faced a few choices, go back home, go to the Vulcans, or stay at the Academy. Jim had a very easy choose to make. There was no reason to go back to a step father and a brother who could barely stand him or the reminder he brought and a mother who usually completely ignored him, and like hell he was going to be under constant watch by over protective, anally logical Vulcans, and so he was staying at the Academy.

Unknown to them at the time the Universe had felt this massive shift going on and was already looking at a way to get back on track. James T. Kirk was and always had been destined to be the Captain of the Enterprise in every parallel dimension and it was correcting so that this James T. Kirk would be the Captain of the Enterprise.