This is Malibu. A very nice mansion, near the coast, is the residence of a certain orphaned prince.
Still a minor, Tony Stark sleeps near-naked on a futon. He's not alone. A hot girl's in the bed with him. No stress; by the time the sun rises, she will still be a virgin.
Tony is too. But JARVIS, the AI who runs the mansion, isn't sure for how much longer...
Vlora is from an Albanian family. They have no idea where she is. They THINK they do... But naturally, if they did, they'd both be in some really deep shit right now.
Not that she doesn't know what that's like... But even so, all the more need for secrecy.
Her underdressed body's got at least one Muslim tattoo on it. Tony sure hopes that one isn't her favorite...
Vlora's a brunette. When it comes to Albanians, Tony prefers them that way.
They lie next to each other throughout the night. Tony's too smart to make her pregnant. He'll have a MAJOR mood swing, though, when she leaves. And she will...
Tony lies awake. His father's dead. Stane is in charge of his father's company. The company's name is Stark International. It should have a Stark working for it. Stane is not a Stark. A friend of a late one, yes, but... Tony's never had secure hunches about Stane.
The world is in trouble. It needs a better place to live in. Stark International won't enhance it under Stane's rule. Tony just knows it...
As much as Tony hates to, he slithers off the futon, and leaves Vlora alone in it. He'll be back. Or rather, he plans to. JARVIS, on the other hand, is less likely to assure her of his prompt return...
In the hall, there's a closet. Tony shuts himself in. He presses a pad on the wall. The pad takes him down, in an elevator, beneath the mansion...
This is his lab. The accommodations are hardly his dream come true...but this is just temporary, until he can finally experiment freely in his own home as an adult...if he ever becomes one.
He's working on an exosuit prototype, which he calls Mark I. After many field tests, he's made it out of a gold-titanium alloy. One day, he's going to fly in it. One day, he's going to become the firefighter who puts out Stane's fires, once Stane takes his greed for iron and weapons too far, in a way that'll surely make Stark International infamous.
Tony admits that his father's legacy probably doesn't deserve to be protected, as much as his father probably abused it in life. But if anyone asked Tony if he wants to be poor when he grows up, the answer would be no...so this is what Tony must do, until it's safe for him to share his vast knowledge with Stark International.