Oops I accidently married your father.
Let's just says time can be re-written
The year is 1945, inside a chapel in England a wedding is being performed, unknown to the bride and groom the Nazi's bombs are on the way. But they know they must hurry because what they do know is Hydra is coming. As such these two very unlikely lovers pray to a god that neither of them believe in, that their wedding would go ahead.
"Do you Natasha Romanoff take Howard Stark to be your lawfully wedded husband?"
2015
'Agent Romanoff, Mr Stark is requesting your presence in his lab and asks that you bring your feather butt friend with you.' The ever polite voice of JARVIS informs Natasha.
"Thankyou Jarvis, tell him I'm on my way." She replies.
"Of course ma'am." He responds. And so she heads down to her team mates lab wondering what the hell he's done this time.
"Ahh, Natashalie you came! I have something to show you it's this knew super cool invention that I think for once I won't regret making!" Tony said a few minutes later when she enters the lab, little does he know how wrong he really is.
"What is it?" Natasha asks impatiently not even bothering to reprimand him for what he called her.
"A Time Machine, just don't step on that bit of floor there, I haven't quite got the safety mechanism worked out so if you do it will send you back to whatever time it's programmed to immediately." He responds while pointing at a bit of floor.
"You can't be serious? A time machine, you don't honestly expect me to believe that do you?" she says to him while rolling her eyes.
"It's true, I'm planning on going to see Steve before he took the super soldier serum, what do you think?" Tony asks.
"I think your insane if you think she's gonna fall for that Stark, hell even Steve wouldn't fall for that, no offense Steve." Clint says as he walks in and Steve runs past him into the lab.
"Guys, we have a problem, I think Banners about to, you know, lose it. As in the other guy is coming through." Steve explains flustered.
"That's not good, that's not good." Stark says. Thor comes running in the room from the other door which unfortunately Natasha was standing in front of, he knocked her onto the very bit of floor Tony told her not to step on.
"Um Stark?" She says when a glass cylinder comes up around her from the ground.
"Shit, Natasha I can't shut it off, you're going to be sent back to 1943!" Stark yells.
"WHAT?!" everyone else yells at Tony.
"Two metres by two metres, that's all. Just a small square of floor you weren't to touch and that's where you get pushed!" Tony mumbles while playing with the controls.
"Well, how the hell do I get back?" Natasha asks.
"There isn't a way! I hadn't made that part yet!" he says, "Natasha, you are going to have to find my dad and explain the situation, hopefully he will be able to build a machine to bring you home again! Nat I'm so, so sorry this wasn't meant to happen." Tony says getting hysterical. Steve just looks at her, she nods to him.
"I guess I'll probably be seeing you soon." Natasha says before light seems to swirl around her, a loud rumbling fills the room and then she's gone.
"STARK BRING HER BACK!" Barton screams at him, grabbing his shirt and pushing him against the wall.
"I can't Clint, I'm sorry." Tony says calmly to him.
"Clint, there's nothing he can do and this, this isn't helping. It's up to Natasha and Howard now." Steve says.
"Friends, I apologise for knocking lady Natasha, but there is another problem Banner's lost control. I was able to trick the Hulk into the cage but he isn't calming down." Thor says apologetically but urgently.
"I'll go try and calm him down." Tony says after removing Barton's hands from his shirt.
1943
A bright blinding light later and Natasha has no idea where she is. Or even quite possibly when. Only now is she beginning to believe it is a possibility that Stark was telling the truth. She looks around when all of a sudden she gets knocked over, when she turns around she sees a tall brunette man and a very short and skinny man. The big man is on the ground as he was the one who shoved her over.
"Oh, I am so sorry ma'am, my friend, he isn't very aware of his surroundings." The skinny man says, it takes her a second before she recognises Steve, and realises that the man who bulldozed her must be Bucky Barnes.
"Oh, it's alright, no harm done. I wasn't exactly watching where I was going either so it's half my fault." Natasha says after getting to her feet. It's then that she realises how daft she must look, it's the forties and she's wearing leather pants and a skin tight top, thankfully long sleeved. That and high heeled black boots. From what she had heard about Bucky she isn't surprised by what he said next.
"Nice outfit." He commented, Steve hit him.
"Uh, I'm Steve Rogers, this is Bucky Barnes." Steve says. It occurs to her that while with Bucky and Howard and everyone else knowing her real name won't matter, but Steve it will.
"Nice to meet you, I'm Natalie Moore." Natasha says instead.
"Uh, here let me make it up to you Miss, we were just about to go to the Stark Expo, would you care to join us?" Bucky asks, ahh men from the forties, even the Bucky's of the time are polite, she thinks.
"Umm, sure." Natasha says, it means she'll have a chance to speak to Howard Stark and then she should be able to get home.
"Well, then let me lead the way." Steve says. Natasha takes one final look around to memorise where she is so she can come back here when she gets sent home, that way she'll be in the right place. It's funny, she thinks, that in seventy years Stark tower will be in this exact spot. Nat then follows Steve and Bucky to the expo. When they get there Bucky informs Steve that he got them both dates, they both look at Tasha awkwardly for the moment.
"Oh don't worry about me really, go have fun. And thanks for you know walking with me." Natasha says a little awkwardly. Steve still doesn't look very comfortable with leaving her though. "Actually, I'm really sorry but I've just remembered I have to do something um I got to go but nice meeting you." She says, Steve seems mollified.
"Sorry for running in to you." Bucky says.
"No biggie, see ya." She says not realising that it was unlikely anyone said no biggie in 1943. She walked away to behind a building where she waited for the end of the expo. Afterwards when Howard walked by she had had time to think of what she would say to get him to help her.
"Mr Stark?" she asked to check she had the right man, he looked nothing like the photo's she had seen.
"Yes doll face?" he asks.
"Hi, my names Natasha Romanoff and I need you help with a problem of mine." She says, it surprises her that he doesn't make some sassy comment but she notices that her voice is anything but flirtatious at the moment and he has picked up on that.
"Oh, and why would I help you?" he asks instead.
"Because I have something I know you'll want to see." She says flirtatiously before chucking him her Stark phone, which luckily doesn't actually say Stark on it anywhere. He presses the button and it turns on.
"What is this?" he asks curiously.
"My Mobile Phone. It's from the future." She says feeling completely ridiculous.
"I'm sorry what?" he asks incredulously like he couldn't believe his ears.
"It was made in 2013. I'm from 2015. I got sent back in time by a friend of mine by accident, but the machine was incomplete and I need your help to get me back, and you're not believing any of this are you?" she says he shakes his head.
"Ok look I've got a few things on me that aren't from the forties, that should be proof, for god's sake that phone is advanced where I come from it should look alien to you." She says getting a little frustrated.
"This still doesn't tell me why I should help you." He says, though he's looking quizzically at the phone.
"Well, it's your family's fault I'm here anyway so I would say because you owe me, it was your design of a machine that sent me back and your son that did it, isn't it a fathers job to clean up his sons messes." She yells at him.
"I have a son?" he says.
"Oh crap, I said to much." She says.
"You have a foul mouth, I like it. I'll help you. But that means you have to be with me and I'm about to go to an army base to help with something, which means you have to come with me. Which means you have to have a reason for being there, so tell me, how much do you know about this time period?" he asks.
"You're going to help Dr Erskine create super soldiers. I know everything to do with that project and everyone involved. Except anything to do with how that serum was created, no one but Dr Erskine knows how that was made, or will be made." She says doubtfully.
"Alright, what about the machine what do you know of that?" he asks.
"Well I've seen the photos so I know what it looks like, and a very detailed drawing of the inside." She says. He nods.
"Ok, I can work with that, you'll help with building the machine, you'll be able to direct people and tell them when they're wrong so it will make it look like you really are my apprentice. Well Ms Romanoff, please hop into the car. We have something's to discuss." Howard tells me. A lengthy conversation with Colonel Phillips, which Natasha was not allowed to be in the room for, later and Howard and her are in the SSR base lab waiting for Dr Erskine to get there. So they took the opportunity to look over some of his old blueprints to see if the one Tony had used had been drawn up yet.
"Well, I can't read blueprints but it doesn't look like the right shape." She says while looking at the blueprint Howard had given her.
"Natasha dear, remind me, are you the scientist of the two of us?" he asks.
"No, I'm the assassin so watch it with the Starkasm." She says seriously.
"You're a what now? No doesn't matter look, this is the only one that showed any promise of working." He explains to her.
"Well, this isn't the one Tony used, so show me the one that you drew up because you were kind of drunk and thought would be awesome but never buildable, because your son has a habit of building those to prove you wrong." She says.
"This one, but it's not buildable for a reason no matter what time it is." He says handing over the blueprints, Tasha looks at them for a second.
"Because it needs an arc reactor to power it, just great. I don't know how to build one." She says exasperatedly.
"How do you know what an arc reactor is?" Howard asks.
"But you can." She says continuing her sentence, "You can build one, Tony built one in a cave in Afghanistan in a month while he was being held hostage. Surely you can build one, you haven't made the element yet but since it's not in your chest you won't get poisoned so you should be able to use palladium, if it's around that is." She says then turns to him looking hopeful.
"Am I that hard to keep up with when I talk?" he asks. She sighs.
"Look Stark, the Arc reactor is buildable. You're about to re write history and build it first which means you have to destroy it once it's built and never tell anyone you made it." She says.
"Alright, I can't promise anything, and it has to be in my spare time so it will take a while, but I'm Howard Stark, if anyone can it's me, and obviously my boy." He says, it was hard for Natasha to keep reminding herself that he was a shit father to Tony when he seemed so excited about having a son in the future, he kept talking about all the things he was going to do with Tony. But she knew that none of it would happen. Still she thought maybe just maybe, if we're all very lucky, maybe time can be rewritten after all.
"Ahh, Mr Stark I presume." Dr Erskine says when he walked into the room.
"Yes, you're Dr Erskine?" Howard asks.
"Yes, and who's this?" Erskine asks gesturing to Natasha.
"This is my Apprentice Natasha Romanoff, she's going to help me build the machine." Howard explained.
"Well, welcome aboard Fraulein." Dr Erskine says.