Chapter 1

AN: So I thought, what if Tony Stark went through a terrible catastrophe and committed suicide? And then suddenly came back to life in the past?

Future Tony POV

This was not the way how this was supposed to turn out. Not at all. He wasn't supposed to destroy us. He was supposed to help us, and protect us. JARVIS, the others, all gone. He had nothing to live for.

Height = 24 yards off the ground

Possible yards that a human being could survive? 17 meters

17 meters = 18.5914 yards

He would die…

And with these last thoughts of his life, the once great Tony Stark walked backward and fell off a ledge.

Tony Stark opened his eyes. He seemed to be in a bag of some sort, and he got curious. This was the same bag that he was held captive while shot with a tranquillizer in Afghanistan. He could never not remember this, could he? Nobody, not even the so-called great Tony Stark could delete this from his eidetic memory. (Sometimes he wished that the memories could wash away, but no, he had to be cursed with the so-called gift…)And forget this, why was he living? He did all the calculations, he should have died when he…he… he couldn't bring himself to mention it.

A sudden voice penetrated the rhythimic noise of a jeep driving of a bumpy surface with – what? cactuses, sand dunes, human bodies… (don't think about that, don't think about that)

"qad khataf tuni sutark. sawf Obidiah Stane tadfae lana 500 milyun lhdha alghard"

Tony Stark has been kidnapped. Obadiah Stane will pay us 500 million for this.

That was what they were saying. But that was impossible. There was no way that this could happen. No way…Just like there was no way that it… happened? Shut up, mind, he thought to himself.

Tony Stark had gone back in time.

I always had a penchant to get into trouble. He laughed. It was not a pretty sound, rather a self-deprecating one.

And then, he was dumped out of the bag.