The story line and most of the characters belong to me, and the Avengers and all characters associated with Marvel obviously belong to Marvel. I don't know much about the Marvel universe other than what I see in the movie adaptations of the comics, so all inaccuracies and mistakes are my fault. This chapter is short, and contains many grammatical and spelling mistakes, which I apologise for. I use Australian English so there may be some variation in spelling. Other than that I would also like to mention that any suggestions and corrections are much appreciated, and I will try to correct what I can. Thank you and I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 1

There was a knock on the top floor door of Stark towers, the in which Tony Stark and his long-time girlfriend Pepper Potts resided. Tony was woken by this, immediately on alert as this floor was inaccessible to anyone other than himself, Pepper and other authorised personal-which were few in number. Quickly he got out of the bed he shared with Pepper and made towards the door.

Awaiting him was a young girl, whose beauty was refined and classical. Her dark red hair, tanned skin and big hazel eyes were among the first things that he noticed. Of course that was seconded by the realisation that a teenager was standing in the doorway of his bedroom, on an impenetrable floor. Shocked and on guard Tony quickly took a defensive stance, placing himself between the girl and his room.

"How did you get up here? This floor is supposed to be unreachable." Tony stated with an air of wonder and hostility. The girl only looked on, staring at his face as though she were attempting to memorise each of his features. Slowly he took a step towards her, leading her away from his sleeping companion. For each step he took towards her, she took one back until they were in what was essentially the living room.

After a moment, wherein Tony's temper began to rise did the girl finally speak. "My name is Teyadarma Midnight Starsovich. I am your daughter." Silence permeated the room. Tony just stared at the girl, shocked and for one of the first times completely speechless.

"My mother's name was Alexandria Starsovich. She died fifteen years ago when I was five. I was born on the twenty-fifth of August nineteen-ninety-six. I'm not here to ask for money or anything, quite frankly I don't want any of your money or any further contact with you other than your cooperation with my request." Teyadarma said, her voice dripping with barely contained anger. She continued, ignoring Tony's motionless stance.

"I want you to assemble the Avengers and meet me at the park down town, each in your respective suits- except for Mr Banner, at dusk today. I promise you no ill-will or harm. I would appreciate it if you made the call now so that I can prepare." She concluded. Waiting a moment, still with Tony not making any moves to send out a message, she added impatiently "Now, if you would be so kind."

Finally Tony broke out of his paralysis, blinking and shouted back "What?! You mean to tell me that you are my daughter, and that you want me to assemble the Avengers?! What is this, some sick joke?". Teyadarma merely looked back at him patiently. He was breathing hard and glaring at her. She sighed and reached into her pocket pulling out an envelope. She reached it out to him and he snatched it from her. Ripping it open he looked at the letter from the hospital, a paternity result stating that he was in fact the father of one Teyadarma Sartsovich.

Growling he glared back at her, throwing the letter at her feet and exclaiming "You expect me to believe this? Do you think that I would just accept this letter blindly? You probably faked it, copied it off the internet and changed it to say what you wanted!" Tony's face was slowly turning red, veins in his neck throbbing violently. In his rage he didn't realise that his shouting had woken Pepper, who had been silently standing by the bedroom door. Teyadarma appeared unfazed by his reaction. Instead she slowly turned to Pepper and greeted her. "Hello Ms Potts. Sorry to have woken you. Mr Stark and I were simply discussing an urgent matter." Turing back to Tony, who had only succeeded in becoming more enraged by her indifference, she continued. "Look Tony, I don't care if you believe me or not. Like I said after this encounter I don't want to have anything to do with you. I just need you to assemble the Avengers and have them meet me at the park. You went there when I was growing up, you never had to deal with me as a child. I just want you to do one fatherly thing for me. You owe me that much." She ended with a cold finality.

Just as he was about to respond, Pepper stepped in "Tony do it. Do what she wants." The look of bewilderment on his face was almost comical. He looked at her in disbelief and said in almost a whisper "You believe her?". Pepper stared into his eyes and said with such authority he was tempted to stand up straighter and check his clothes "It doesn't matter if I believe her or not. she obviously has something very important to do that requires your, and the Avengers help. Otherwise she wouldn't have gone through all this trouble. You are helping her."

Still in a semi state of shock he started at her a slowly nodded. That voice was rarely ever used with him, and whenever it was he knew that he had to comply otherwise the consequences would be catastrophic. Walking over to his phone he group dialed the team, who were all temporarily staying in Stark building. Relaying to them the details of the meeting he turned back to his girlfriend and supposed daughter.

"All done, we will meet you at the park at dusk." He said slowly, still reeling with anger at the girl. She nodded and turned to leave out the way she came in. turning back she said with such a tone of malice the adults in the room were momentarily startled "If you and your team are not there, I will make sure that you regret it for the rest of your lives." With those parting words she stepped into the elevator.

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