p class="MsoNormal"A/N: So this was a quick update but because I'm currently in grad school at the moment I have a feeling that this won't be updated as often as I'd like it to be due to my busy schedule and sometimes lack of muse. Either way I hope you enjoy this chapter and let me know what you think! My tumblr is tedddylupin if you wanna catch me over there./p
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p class="MsoNormal""So I'm to believe that you had emno/em idea that these weapons were getting out to the terrorists?" Toni asked in a scarily calm voice./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Ma'am, we have records of all of our sales, but once they reach our buyer's hands we no longer keep track of them." A man replied a little hesitantly. The entire board of trustees were sitting across from Toni looking either a little scared or bored./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Don't you think we probably should keep track of them?" She narrowed her eyes a little and said in a slow voice./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"That would be unethical ma'am." A different man spoke up and Toni's steely eyes landed on him and he quickly seemed to shy away./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I don't care about ethics when it comes to weapons being put into the wrong hands, we need to keep a better track record." She responded and leaned back in her chair. The room grew quiet as her mind was thinking things over before coming to a conclusion. She was in charge of this company and she knew that while this would probably set her back millions she knew what she had to do./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Listen closely and listen good." She said in a low voice as she leaned forward once again. "I am the major shareholder of Stark Industries. It is my name on these weapons that are killing innocent people so I'm making a decision that might make me more enemies but I don't care. Stark Industries is ceasing all weapons development and we will no longer be selling weapons to anyone. Period." She seethed./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanIt was silent for a moment before chaos reigned. All of the stuffy businessmen and a couple of businesswomen erupted into an uproar. All Toni did was sit back and take it. She didn't care if this would mean that these people wouldn't get their fourth vacation home or that new pool. This was about human life and that was more important than any money that she could ever make./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It's been a pleasure as usual." She said calmly as she rose from the table and walked toward the door without looking back. It wasn't until she was in the car that she finally relaxed and let out a shaky laugh. "Well that was something wasn't it?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It was the right thing to do." Pepper replied and gave her a sympathetic smile. "I might have had to turn in my resignation if you had done anything differently."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Peps don't even joke about that I don't know what I would do without you." Toni laughed. "You already called the production people right?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Done and done. But ma'am, what about the people that work at the plants? Won't they be out of a job?" Pepper asked hesitantly./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Please, I've been wanting to move into the energy industry for ages. I just never got around to it. I've got enough patents to keep those plants in business for the next century." She scoffed with a little wave of her hand. Stock markets were a bit of a concern about keeping those plants alive but that was a worry for another day. "Now we've still got that high school speech right?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Yes ma'am. Jefferson High. I think they want you to talk about STEM and how it shaped your life." Pepper frowned as he looked down at the memo on his tablet./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanToni raised her eyebrows and gave a little smile. "Back in my day it was just called Man's Club." She chuckled as she looked out the window. Soon the high school was in her view and the car came to a stop./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"We really should have prepared a speech." Pepper muttered as Happy came around to open the door./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Oh please I can do speeches in my sleep and in fact I'm pretty sure I have." Toni shrugged as she got out of the car and made her way up the steps of the high school./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You definitely have." Pepper muttered again and Toni turned back with a laugh on her lips./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Pepper have you watched me sleep?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"JARVIS gives me updates if you start talking just in case it's an emergency." Pepper shrugs./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanToni's eyes narrowed slightly and her lips formed into a pout. "Did I write that into his code?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Believe me, I wouldn't. He updates me far too much. You really should see a sleep specialist."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Hmm…oh well." Toni gave a quick shrug of her shoulders. "Anything to make your life more difficult." She grinned up at Pepper who grumbled slightly. "Oh come on you love me." She poked him in the bicep which was sneakily bigger than the suit gave him credit for. Interesting./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Ms. Stark?" A voice interrupted them and Toni looked up to the top of the stairs to find a teacher waiting for her./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"That's me." She smiled and climbed the last few steps./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Thank you so much for coming to speak to the kids. It means a lot to them. I'm Principal Jones by the way." The man gushed and stuck out of a hand. Toni took it quickly and shook it./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It means a lot for me too. I like speaking to the younger generations, keeps me young." She laughed and the principal chuckled as well./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Did your assistant let you know the topic?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Of course! Pepper would never let me down." Toni looked back at Pepper was standing a few feet away at a respectable distance./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Excellent. Now if you'll just follow me." The principal waved his hand and Toni followed obediently though she was getting a bit of a déjà vu moment from her own time at high school when she was a giant trouble maker. A quick flash back to the principal's office made her smile in fondness though at the moment she was sure she was just annoyed that she wasn't allowed to just make robots all day in the science labs though she had blown up a few in her day before moving onto MIT when she was 15./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanSoon she was backstage as the principal announced her to the crowd. She grabbed a microphone from the theater teacher who seemed a little too excited to be handing it to her./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"And without further ado, Toni Stark!" The crowd went wild and she walked onto the stage. The theater was filled to the brim with high school students and her face lit up./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Wow thank you for that warm welcome Jefferson High though I think you might need to check on that one guy in the front row. I think he's frothing at the mouth." She laughed along with the crowd. "So your principal told me to talk to you guys about STEM though that's a new term for me. When I was younger they liked to call it the man's club of the college degrees. I started getting interested in science and technology when I was very young thanks to my father. I think you guys have probably heard of him? I remember being in his office while he worked on all his different inventions. He's the one that first gave me my first chemistry set though I ended up blowing up things that probably would have never been able to blow up yet somehow I managed to do it." She shrugged./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe crowd watched her with interest and she had a feeling for a lot kids this was the first time they paid attention all week./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I was encouraged to try new things and fail by teachers who are probably a lot like the teachers you have here. The key word there is fail though. In order to succeed you have to fail first, I don't care what anyone tells you. I've failed at a lot of things. I think some of you remember that Stark app right?" She asked and she got a smattering of laughs in the crowd. "But the point is that I tried. Obviously Stark Industries is not destined to be a social media tycoon. You're going to hear a lot of people out there telling you that you're not good enough or that you're too young to make change. If that was true then I wouldn't have gone to MIT at the age of 15 making me the youngest woman to ever start and graduate. I let all those men telling me no that I deserved to be there. I showed all those young girls out there that you can be just as smart as they are and smarter."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanToni took a breath and gave a little half smile. Memories were coming to her in quick flashes of those stuffy professors who saw a young girl and instantly wrote her off as stupid. Even when they saw her last name they assumed she got in with her daddy's money./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"For those of you out there that are interested in science or math or technology and….whatever that E stands for, you can make a difference. The future is here in this room. Oh wait engineering right? Yes engineering is important." She said in a serious tone, pointing to the crowd who laughed. "I use engineering every day I don't know why I couldn't remember that. See, brand new to me." She shrugged./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I wish I had had someone to look up to when I was your age but I'm so glad that women are making strides in industries that used to be dominated by men. For those girls out there, be powerful in what you do even if it's in the little things. For those men out there, raise each other up and don't throw each other off the ledge. Stronger together is better than being individualistic and I mean it." She raised an eyebrow, staring down the audience. "I would be nowhere without the people around me who decided they want to be my friend." She looked over to the wings of the stage where Pepper stood and gave him a little smile./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanWhen she looked back to the crowd and opened her mouth to speak again she heard a giant bang and the doors to the back of the theater burst open. She frowned in confusion but was quick to understand what was going on when gunshots rang up to the rafters. Her eyes widened. "Run!" She screamed and the kids scattered to the exits on the side. She dropped the microphone and began running back to the stage when her word exploded. A grenade blew up the stage in front of her and she was thrown back, away from Pepper who had started running toward her. She saw him being thrown back as well./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanShe was now on the aisle in front of the stage and thanked all the gods in the world that all the kids in the front rows had already escaped to the side exits. She staggered to her feet and saw that all of the children were gone from the theater and she let out a sigh of relief./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Pepper?!" She called out in a slightly manic voice and tried to make her way towards where she saw him being blown back but she staggered and her hands went to her front. Her hand came away bloody and for a moment she was confused and took a couple steps back and ran into a solid body. She tried to whirl around but the body grabbed her roughly and a black bag was slipped over her head./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You're coming with us Ms. Stark." The accented voice said in a cruel tone that sent chills throughout her body./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You didn't kill or hurt anyone did you?" She asked in a small voice./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What does it matter to you? You've already killed thousands." The voice laughed and she could hear the smile that made that ice thicken in her heart./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What do you want with me?" She asked, her voice becoming faint as her head became lightheaded and her limited vision she got through the bad began to blur./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Oh don't worry. You'll find out." The voice hissed in her ear and with that she slumped in the arms of a foreign man instead of the arms of the man she wanted./p
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p class="MsoNormal""So I'm to believe that you had emno/em idea that these weapons were getting out to the terrorists?" Toni asked in a scarily calm voice./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Ma'am, we have records of all of our sales, but once they reach our buyer's hands we no longer keep track of them." A man replied a little hesitantly. The entire board of trustees were sitting across from Toni looking either a little scared or bored./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Don't you think we probably should keep track of them?" She narrowed her eyes a little and said in a slow voice./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"That would be unethical ma'am." A different man spoke up and Toni's steely eyes landed on him and he quickly seemed to shy away./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I don't care about ethics when it comes to weapons being put into the wrong hands, we need to keep a better track record." She responded and leaned back in her chair. The room grew quiet as her mind was thinking things over before coming to a conclusion. She was in charge of this company and she knew that while this would probably set her back millions she knew what she had to do./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Listen closely and listen good." She said in a low voice as she leaned forward once again. "I am the major shareholder of Stark Industries. It is my name on these weapons that are killing innocent people so I'm making a decision that might make me more enemies but I don't care. Stark Industries is ceasing all weapons development and we will no longer be selling weapons to anyone. Period." She seethed./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanIt was silent for a moment before chaos reigned. All of the stuffy businessmen and a couple of businesswomen erupted into an uproar. All Toni did was sit back and take it. She didn't care if this would mean that these people wouldn't get their fourth vacation home or that new pool. This was about human life and that was more important than any money that she could ever make./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It's been a pleasure as usual." She said calmly as she rose from the table and walked toward the door without looking back. It wasn't until she was in the car that she finally relaxed and let out a shaky laugh. "Well that was something wasn't it?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It was the right thing to do." Pepper replied and gave her a sympathetic smile. "I might have had to turn in my resignation if you had done anything differently."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Peps don't even joke about that I don't know what I would do without you." Toni laughed. "You already called the production people right?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Done and done. But ma'am, what about the people that work at the plants? Won't they be out of a job?" Pepper asked hesitantly./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Please, I've been wanting to move into the energy industry for ages. I just never got around to it. I've got enough patents to keep those plants in business for the next century." She scoffed with a little wave of her hand. Stock markets were a bit of a concern about keeping those plants alive but that was a worry for another day. "Now we've still got that high school speech right?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Yes ma'am. Jefferson High. I think they want you to talk about STEM and how it shaped your life." Pepper frowned as he looked down at the memo on his tablet./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanToni raised her eyebrows and gave a little smile. "Back in my day it was just called Man's Club." She chuckled as she looked out the window. Soon the high school was in her view and the car came to a stop./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"We really should have prepared a speech." Pepper muttered as Happy came around to open the door./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Oh please I can do speeches in my sleep and in fact I'm pretty sure I have." Toni shrugged as she got out of the car and made her way up the steps of the high school./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You definitely have." Pepper muttered again and Toni turned back with a laugh on her lips./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Pepper have you watched me sleep?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"JARVIS gives me updates if you start talking just in case it's an emergency." Pepper shrugs./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanToni's eyes narrowed slightly and her lips formed into a pout. "Did I write that into his code?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Believe me, I wouldn't. He updates me far too much. You really should see a sleep specialist."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Hmm…oh well." Toni gave a quick shrug of her shoulders. "Anything to make your life more difficult." She grinned up at Pepper who grumbled slightly. "Oh come on you love me." She poked him in the bicep which was sneakily bigger than the suit gave him credit for. Interesting./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Ms. Stark?" A voice interrupted them and Toni looked up to the top of the stairs to find a teacher waiting for her./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"That's me." She smiled and climbed the last few steps./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Thank you so much for coming to speak to the kids. It means a lot to them. I'm Principal Jones by the way." The man gushed and stuck out of a hand. Toni took it quickly and shook it./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"It means a lot for me too. I like speaking to the younger generations, keeps me young." She laughed and the principal chuckled as well./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Did your assistant let you know the topic?"/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Of course! Pepper would never let me down." Toni looked back at Pepper was standing a few feet away at a respectable distance./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Excellent. Now if you'll just follow me." The principal waved his hand and Toni followed obediently though she was getting a bit of a déjà vu moment from her own time at high school when she was a giant trouble maker. A quick flash back to the principal's office made her smile in fondness though at the moment she was sure she was just annoyed that she wasn't allowed to just make robots all day in the science labs though she had blown up a few in her day before moving onto MIT when she was 15./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanSoon she was backstage as the principal announced her to the crowd. She grabbed a microphone from the theater teacher who seemed a little too excited to be handing it to her./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"And without further ado, Toni Stark!" The crowd went wild and she walked onto the stage. The theater was filled to the brim with high school students and her face lit up./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Wow thank you for that warm welcome Jefferson High though I think you might need to check on that one guy in the front row. I think he's frothing at the mouth." She laughed along with the crowd. "So your principal told me to talk to you guys about STEM though that's a new term for me. When I was younger they liked to call it the man's club of the college degrees. I started getting interested in science and technology when I was very young thanks to my father. I think you guys have probably heard of him? I remember being in his office while he worked on all his different inventions. He's the one that first gave me my first chemistry set though I ended up blowing up things that probably would have never been able to blow up yet somehow I managed to do it." She shrugged./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanThe crowd watched her with interest and she had a feeling for a lot kids this was the first time they paid attention all week./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I was encouraged to try new things and fail by teachers who are probably a lot like the teachers you have here. The key word there is fail though. In order to succeed you have to fail first, I don't care what anyone tells you. I've failed at a lot of things. I think some of you remember that Stark app right?" She asked and she got a smattering of laughs in the crowd. "But the point is that I tried. Obviously Stark Industries is not destined to be a social media tycoon. You're going to hear a lot of people out there telling you that you're not good enough or that you're too young to make change. If that was true then I wouldn't have gone to MIT at the age of 15 making me the youngest woman to ever start and graduate. I let all those men telling me no that I deserved to be there. I showed all those young girls out there that you can be just as smart as they are and smarter."/p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanToni took a breath and gave a little half smile. Memories were coming to her in quick flashes of those stuffy professors who saw a young girl and instantly wrote her off as stupid. Even when they saw her last name they assumed she got in with her daddy's money./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"For those of you out there that are interested in science or math or technology and….whatever that E stands for, you can make a difference. The future is here in this room. Oh wait engineering right? Yes engineering is important." She said in a serious tone, pointing to the crowd who laughed. "I use engineering every day I don't know why I couldn't remember that. See, brand new to me." She shrugged./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"I wish I had had someone to look up to when I was your age but I'm so glad that women are making strides in industries that used to be dominated by men. For those girls out there, be powerful in what you do even if it's in the little things. For those men out there, raise each other up and don't throw each other off the ledge. Stronger together is better than being individualistic and I mean it." She raised an eyebrow, staring down the audience. "I would be nowhere without the people around me who decided they want to be my friend." She looked over to the wings of the stage where Pepper stood and gave him a little smile./p
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p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanWhen she looked back to the crowd and opened her mouth to speak again she heard a giant bang and the doors to the back of the theater burst open. She frowned in confusion but was quick to understand what was going on when gunshots rang up to the rafters. Her eyes widened. "Run!" She screamed and the kids scattered to the exits on the side. She dropped the microphone and began running back to the stage when her word exploded. A grenade blew up the stage in front of her and she was thrown back, away from Pepper who had started running toward her. She saw him being thrown back as well./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /spanShe was now on the aisle in front of the stage and thanked all the gods in the world that all the kids in the front rows had already escaped to the side exits. She staggered to her feet and saw that all of the children were gone from the theater and she let out a sigh of relief./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Pepper?!" She called out in a slightly manic voice and tried to make her way towards where she saw him being blown back but she staggered and her hands went to her front. Her hand came away bloody and for a moment she was confused and took a couple steps back and ran into a solid body. She tried to whirl around but the body grabbed her roughly and a black bag was slipped over her head./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You're coming with us Ms. Stark." The accented voice said in a cruel tone that sent chills throughout her body./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"You didn't kill or hurt anyone did you?" She asked in a small voice./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What does it matter to you? You've already killed thousands." The voice laughed and she could hear the smile that made that ice thicken in her heart./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"What do you want with me?" She asked, her voice becoming faint as her head became lightheaded and her limited vision she got through the bad began to blur./p
p class="MsoNormal" /p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="mso-tab-count: 1;" /span"Oh don't worry. You'll find out." The voice hissed in her ear and with that she slumped in the arms of a foreign man instead of the arms of the man she wanted./p
