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Prologue

"Congratulations Mr. and Ms. Stark you have a baby girl"! Howard smiled as he was given his new baby daughter wrapped in a small pink blanket, even the rotten storm outside could not bring down his spirit, he was holding the new light of his life. "Let me see my baby girl" his wife urged unable to contain her excitement, Howard smiled and handed her their daughter. The glow of a mother and father holding their first child is something that cannot be removed, they were parents of a beautiful baby girl they thought they could never be happier than in this moment. "Alright. Mr. and Ms. Stark do you have a name for your child" Howard looked at his wife and nodded, she smiled brighter then what could be possible and said "her name is Autumn Rose Stark". The man wrote on his clip board 'Autumn Rose Stark: 5lbs 4ounces, born on August 5 1966 2:30 am to a Maria and Howard Stark'.

"Autumn, Autumn, Where are you sweet heart" her mother's soft voice rang though the air. "Right here mummy" a child of no more than two ran from around a corner. Her Vibrant green eyes shone brightly of happiness and joy, her dark brown hair bounced around her shoulders. She ran into her mother's loving arms hugging her lovingly. "what did you need mum" she asked curiosity in her eyes, her mother smiled at her "can you go get your father from the study for me, I want to ask him if he can take us to the zoo Today" Autumn jumped up and down, she loved the zoo she believed that she could talk with the animals and they would speak back to her, her mother and father found this quite silly, but allowed her to do so it because it made her happy. "I will get daddy and bring him back, I love the zoo" she squealed and ran off to find her father, "try not to get to distracted' her mother called after her with a small laugh. Autumn ran to her father's study and opened the door to see him staring at his book shelf lost in thought, she walked up to the book case her father was so intently staring at and stared at it to, zoo long forgotten. Her father had not noticed her yet and continued to look for the book he needed to finish his project. Autumn's eye caught a certain book that on the binder said 'Animals and their ******'she could not read that word yet but it sounded like one of her animal books she likes to read so she was curious. Autumn pushed a chair up to the book shelf and climbed on top of it and managed to reach the book she desired. That's when her father finally noticed her climbing down from the chair with a book. He smiled and looked at the book title, she had found his book! "Autumn you found my book" he smiled at her, autumn's eyes lit up with pure joy "I did?" "yes my dear you did" "can I read it with you?" she asked with a small smile. He nodded and sat on his chair next to a cluttered desk he took the book from her hands and placed it on his desk. He picked her up and put her on his lap and together they searched for what he was looking for not noticing his wife and her mother standing in the door way with a smile on her face.

Another year had passed and Autumn had grown smarter than the average three year old, her father could not be more proud of her and always claims it's a Stark thing but her mother just laughs. Her mother became pregnant again to Autumn's joy and they were now sitting outside. Autumn was playing in the wind and her mother was sitting out there watching her she had almost fallen asleep when Autumn's voice awoke her "mummy come look I have a flower growing from my hand". Her mother smiled at the girls imagine she may be very smart but she has a feeling that Autumn will never lose her imagination. "Mummy look" but to her mother's surprise there actually was a beautiful flower growing from her hand! Her mother almost fell out of her chair, she recomposed herself and slapped the flower out of her hand and grabbed her daughters shoulders "don't you ever show what you have shown me to anyone, do you hear me Autumn, Show or tell no one what you just did" "but I thought…" "Promise me Autumn, please" the girl dropped her head "yes mummy", "can you promise me?" "I promise".

Ten months passed and in that time another baby was born, Autumn had a new baby brother to call family. His name was Antony Edward Stark and she loved him, but with this new joy came a tragedy, the mother of these two children was diagnosed with a small brain defect, small enough not to kill but big enough to notice a difference, their father began to drink and while their mother tried to hide that fact it was difficult and her children saw right though.

Although life was tough Tony and his sister became more brilliant then anyone could have imagined, after Autumn graduated from elementary school she moved to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters by her request when she learned there were other people just like her, of course her father never knew about the little secret that it was a school for mutants not many people did. After a while her mother thought that what she had seen from her daughter was all a dream and forgot all about it, but instead of growing out of it, it grew she now had more power than she ever did as a child, Autumn had many new abilities now such as growing plants from her hands and shooting vines, she could also manipulate the wind around her to fly at high speeds, she also learned that she can speak with animals and they with her, Autumn could also use the nature around her to bend to her will making her either invisible or earthreal (cannot be harmed). Thanks to her professors she learned how to control it and her now could use it whenever she needed it. She never told anyone about her powers nor did she ever show anyone (except her teachers but her mother also told her she had to work hard and well at her school and showing them what she could do was kind of a part of her school that she had to do).

So while she was there her brother was shipped off to boarding school, they both wrote to each other all the time and they grew closer. Tony grew to be quite the ladies' man and loved the camera, while Autumn preferred to be in the background of things.

When Tony turned twenty-one his mother, father, and older sister where in an car "accident" only Autumn survived and Tony hated her for it, he became distant and cold to her. After their parent's death Stark industries was split into two, Autumn received fifty-five percent of the company because she was the oldest and Tony received forty-five percent of the company.

So much had happened and when their parents fell out of the picture they saw no one to mentor the until Obadiah Stane came in and mentored them on how to run a company, he became a father figure to them and they appreciated him so much. Autumn hired an assistant to help her when she found she could not run it on her own, she Hired a Virginia "Pepper" Potts and they became the best of friends and she helped both Autumn and Tony in more ways than they could ever know or thank her for. Tony Also had made some friends in the Military Department, James Rupert "Rhodey" Rhodes who has helped Autumn keep an eye on Tony.

Life has been moving on and Tony's birthday is now two weeks away, Autumn is now sitting in an Airplane being taken to New York City to pick up his gift. This is the start of her story.

Hi thanks for reading my prologue for my story. This is the first Avengers Fanfic I've done I would love to hear how I am doing, This is going to be taking place in the Iron Man movies from one to two then Avengers and so forth if you guys want to see more of this story. there are going to be some changes into the Iron Man Story hopefully just a few, just a quick warning, writing criticism is accepted I'd love to hear how I can improve my writing, and please let me know if I should continue with this story. TTFN