Chapter 1. Iron daughter.
It was another gloomy day in Wycombe Abbey School, where a certain red haired daughter of the so called iron man is hiding behind a nearby wall. She was panting heavily, beads of sweat collected on her forehead making her red hair damp and stick to her face. She had been running for hours and her legs were starting to hurt.
But seriously, if her father hadn't sent her to such a dull and ancient place she wouldn't be in the current situation. So she decided to blame everything on tony. If he had let her stay in new york she wouldn't be hiding behind a wall. A loud tapping of shoes coming towards her direction interrupted tory's train of thought. She strained her ears to hear what they were conversing about.
"Wait till i find her, that little brat is so gonna regret ever messing with me!" Tory immediately knew who the girl was talking about and why she was so mad. But it wasn't her fault that she accidentally spilled cranberry juice all over her skirt! After all it was her who tripped her during lunch. And tory wasn't planning on apologising, after all it wasn't her fault.
"Are sure about what your going to do Amanda? After all her father is very famous, you might get into trouble if you continue" Another girl said. Tory noticed her from french class she's one of Amanda van hall's friends. Her name is Vanessa Redwood and her father is a very wealthy man that owns a trading company in japan.
Amanda scoffed at what her friend said. "Of course I'm sure, her father may be iron man but that doesn't mean she can mess with me" Amanda van hall is snotty little wench from London, her father owns half the school and other various businesses like hotels and casinos.
This was one of the reasons why i hated private schools, everybody is so snobby and mean, even the teachers here are mean. Sure i may have spilled cranberry juice on her skirt and sure maybe she was a little humiliated, but a little humiliation doesn't kill anybody cause if it did id be dead already so why does she have to be such a bitch about it?
"Anyway, i was snooping around my fathers office the other day and you wouldn't believe the dirt i was able to dig up about that little hag" tory perked up as she listened more closely to what gossip Amanda has found out about her now. This girl was always making stuff up about her. she even once told everybody that i was once a prostitute. Can you believe that sick woman?!
"Really? What did you find out"
Amanda smirked like a mad woman. "I read on her student profile that she isn't really tony Starks daughter, she was adopted by him ten years ago. Can you believe it?! And she even had the nerve to think herself better than us when obviously her parents didn't even want her and now her foster father probably sent her here because he grew tired of her!" Tory felt fresh tears sting the back of her eyes as she swallowed heavily. Who does this bitch think she is? Talking about her and her family like she knew everything! How dare she talk about tony like that?!
Tory felt the anger boil deep in her veins as she stomped towards the gossiping girls her nostrils flared and her entire body felt hot with anger!
"Well, if it isn't little miss pretender! So you finally showed your ugly fac-" Amanda was cut off mid sentence as Tory's fist connected with her nose. A sickening sound of bone cracking beneath her fist made tory's eyes flare with anger and violence. Vanessa stood there mouth agape as she watched the scene before her. Amanda fell on the concrete floor of the ancient corridor with a heavy thud, tears starting to form in her eyes as she held her visibly swollen and bleeding nose, surely with the weight of the impact of tory's fist her nose is gonna need some serious repair or maybe she should just get a brand new nose because if you look at it and how its sticking out in a very odd angle it is far beyond normal and even farther from pretty.
"If you ever talk about me or my dad like that ever again is swear your nose isn't going to be the only thing thats broken" she then walked away.
Its been two weeks since she broke Amanda van halls nose and was suspended for three damned weeks. And now she's sitting on her fathers private plane heading towards new york. Oh god, she's in for quite a lecture from her dad. Lets just hope aunt pepper wont take it too seriously.
After an hour the plane soon descended on the platform, and soon enough i got off the plane and the minute my foot touched the ground tony stark appeared from the heavy metal doors of the hellicarrier with a look on his face that said 'oh you're in big trouble young lady' and all i wanted to do was run back inside the plane and go back to England! For the first time in my entire life i truly feared my father.
"H-hey dad, long time no see.." She said nervously. Okay Tory just calm down, I'm sure he's not that mad. Just play it cool and smooth and everything will be oka-
"VICTORIA ELIZABETH STARK!"
Great! So he is 'mad' just my luck!
"YOU PUNCHED AMANDA VAN HALL?!" He yelled as soon as he was right in front of her
"D-dad le-let me explai-" tony cut her off with a full blown lecture.
"What in the world were you thinking?! This is the second time you've been suspended, what do you have to say for yourself huh young lady?" His nostrils flared while he pinched the bridge of his nose.
"It wasn't even my fault!" Tory yelled "she was the one who asked for it so.." She turned her gaze to the ground.
"So, so what? You gave it to her? Is that what you're trying to tell me?" Tony said with both his hands on his hips. "No dad, thats not what i meant! Come on just hear me out"
"I did hear you out Victoria! I listened to you when you said you wanted to switch schools and i agreed if you could go this whole year with out getting into trouble, but what do you do? You punch your classmate then get suspended!" Tony's eyes were so big they looked like they were gonna fall out of their sockets "why do you have to be so stubborn all the time young lady?!"
"She gets it from you you know!" A female voice said behind tony. Both father and daughter turned their heads and saw pepper walking towards them, her heels making clicking noises as they touched the ground.
"Aunt pepper!" Tory said with a big smile as the older woman came to hug her.
"I missed you so much kiddo" she smiled at tory.
"I missed you too" thank god for pepper if not my dad would've dragged me back to England in his iron man suit by now.
"Pepper i know you love her but please don't take her side on this one" tony said while rubbing his temple. Pepper squeezed her shoulder comfortingly.
"And why shouldn't i?" She asked in a daring tone. "Because you'll spoil her and then she'll never learn her lesson" pepper shrugged and said "well whatever crime she did she must've done for a reason and maybe its not entirely her fault so don't be so hard on her tony"
"Fine, i give up you win lets just get inside and um... Introduce you to the gang" he said while making weird hand gestures.
Pepper and i walked away from my dad and headed towards the door but not before hearing tony mumble 'crazy woman'
"I heard that!" Pepper yelled over her shoulder making tony sigh with frustration.
This was the first time I've ever been on board the hellicarrier and trust me it looked nothing like the magical HQ of super heroes that I've always imagined it would be. To me it looked just like a normal office HQ except with all the latest technology and super buff body guards and a boss wearing all black leather and an eye patch. Whats so special about that?
"Where are we going?" I asked pepper.
"Well, since its your first time on board i thought you should at least meet the whole gang before i let you go back to the house."
"Oh yeah i heard you guys remodelled both the house and the stark tower." Tory said nonchalantly.
"Yeah, but don't worry we also made sure that your room was made to perfection!" Pepper smiled brightly and i smiled back. "Thanks peps"
We stood in front of a set of heavy double doors. I took a deep breath to calm my nerves i always feel anxious while meeting new people what more a group of super heroes. I took another deep breath and smoothed out my school uniform.
I looked at pepper "how do i look?" I said nervously. Pepper turned to me and smoothed out my naturally wavy red hair. "You look perfect" she said and then smiled at me.
"You ready?" She asked me. I just nodded in response and pepper opened the doors and revealed a room full of people that i recognise only from the TV.
Every one looked at her expectantly as if waiting for her to say something but suddenly her mouth felt as dry as sandpaper and it became hard to breathe.
Ok calm down tory. They are just ordinary people who just so happened to have extraordinary powers so what's there to be anxious about? Right? Just play it cool and smooth. Okay here it goes I'm going to say something.
"Hi" and that was all that came out of my mouth. smooth. real smooth stark...