Aaaand we're back in the "now".
Still don't own Marvel.
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Of course, as soon as he was out the room, Stark had gone to help his children out - anyone might have guessed as much. Back when the Avengers beat Loki and exposed that guy Thanos in time for some weird magician only referred to as "The Ancient One" to defeat him, Stark had proven himself to be both brave, and a hands-on kinda guy. He had proved it again since.
It was a favoured - and highly lucky - reporter who got the winning shot. Standing just outside Stark Tower, which was gleaming in an almost overpowering sunset, was a whole line of Starks.
The newspaper clipping which got put on walls everywhere - and you know something is important when people resort to physical papers - showed them all off, standing there smiling next to one another, names printed out beneath the picture.
At the far left stood the woman from Stark's pool, her hip-long raven hair now spread around her as she was wearing a black and dark blue Ironman suit. Apparently, her name was Jasmin Yasmine, if the reporter was to be believed. Next to her was a green-eyed girl in a suit in black and red, with aggressively red-dyed hair, named as "Amanda Stark". Beside her stood a blonde with brown eyes, named as "Nicole Stark", wearing a gold and black suit. She had her arm around a blue-eyed brunette in a red and gold suit, tagged in the article as "Anna Stevenson Stark".
Next to Anna, vaguely in the centre of the picture and in a suit that matched hers, stood Tony Stark, with his arm around his younger copy, who had a small girl with the same black hair on his shoulders. The newspaper called the trio "Tony Stark with his son Anthony Michael Jr Stark, and on his shoulders Simone Stark, age 11." Neither of the two latter had a suit on.
Nor had the brunette next to them, named as Jeanette, or the younger girl she had her arm around. The younger teenager looked different than the girls around her, something about her jawline, perhaps. It was just obvious to look at "Jeanette Stark and her little sister Josefina" that differently from Anthony and his little sister, this connection was likely not paternal. Stark seemingly hadn't minded giving his name to an extra child. It only highlighted just how much Stark's children - that nobody had known he had - all looked like him.
Next to the two maternal sisters stood a darkhaired, brown-eyed girl looking quite alike the late Maria Stark, curiously also named as "Maria Stark", in a suit of blue and gold. Next to her the last two girls - looking approximately the same age - were named as Patricia Johnson and Isabelle Stark Johnson. They both had on suits in bronze and green. Last in the line, stood a platinum blonde girl the same age as most of the others, without a suit and looking decidedly like she wasn't related to the rest of them. Her name read "Stella McCartney". Together they were all smiling at the camera, as the sunset painted the unmistakable building behind them in a fitting gold.