Shadowmaster

by Eragonshadowblade

Harlyn Stark died when Tony was only five. Or did she? Harlyn didn't die, she faked her death. She was never buried. She became an untraceable hacker at ten and became the Shadowmaster. A hero whom saved lives without being recognized. A shadow warrior to protect the world.

1. Chapter 1

Chapter 1

Here is something I just had the idea for about ten minutes ago. I don't own anything. Hope you enjoy!

The day had finally come. She could escape this house of horror. All she had to do was get to the door. She had spent the past two years preparing for the death of herself. She planted the suicide note and took one last chance to look her work over, and then she left. Harlyn slipped out to her new life, a life of freedom. She flew down the street cloaked in the shadows of night. She wished she could have saved Anthony, but knew it would have been too suspicious. He would have to find his own way out.

She was only ten, but had an IQ of 197 and growing. Harlyn Stark was no idiot, and knew she had to abandon the name as anyone would recognize it. Harlyn had decided she would be Hailey Smith, as it wasn't hard to remember and didn't sound made up.

She fled to her secret lab, where she put her last plans in motion. She was now in hiding, and would remain in hiding until her face no longer resembled ten year old Harlyn Stark. She checked her bunker, which held everything she would need for the next five years, to make sure everything was in order, and then she went to sleep, as faking your own suicide is normally very tiring.

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Five year old Tony looked at his now dead sister's body. She was really gone. Harlyn, the one person in the house that cared about Tony was dead. He vowed that he would never be the cause of his children's suicide, if he ever had children, that moment, as in Harlyn's note it claimed Howard the reason she killed herself.

The days passed by and poor Tony slipped into depression. His father hadn't batted an eye at Harlyn's death, only stating that "; Harlyn was a coward who couldn't deal with her own failure." Tony knew this was wrong though. He knew she had succeeded in the thing that they both had wanted for so long, to get out of the Stark house. Tony, however, was not brave enough to take her way out. He would deal with his father's beatings, insults, abuse, and neglect for years to come.