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- Again? What do you mean again? - Anthony yelled, making grown up Peter look like a scared child that broke a vase.
- Eee... I thought about Chronopolis, right? You know... King Arthur, Mummies, Faraones, old west? - Peter tried to lie, but you didn't have to be Loki to see that was a poor lie.
- We will talk about this later, kid. - Anthony said with dangerous voice. Peter rubbed his head awkwardly. Ehh... He believed Tony would even ground him in his late sixties
- Wait, what? Who the hell are you? - Clint asked, confused with all that time traveling stuff. King Arthur? Stark calling that man a kid? What? What and what? Peter wanted to introduce himself, but as always, Anthony wanted to say something first.
- Little respect, please? This man will pay your bills after I'm gone, so be nice to him. - Anthony reprimanded past Avengers. Tony used that line quite often, that he was paying the Avengers' bills from the money of Stark Industries.
- Just... call me Peter. - Spiderman shrugged and looked at younger Tony. It was kinda strange, well… this Tony was closer with the age to the man that he met when he first became Spiderman. It was fun to see him again, but he preferred to stick with his dad.
- Okay, kid, we are going to Sanctum and you can pray that Ancient One will find a way to send us back. - Anthony said, and left the room with their Asgardians fellows. Surprisingly, nobody stopped them on the way. Loki just changed his look, so he looked like typical John Doe. Valky returned to her "human" clothes, and Peter pulled his mask on.
- Well... I say let's go after them before we lose them. - Bruce said, breaking the silence that was in the room after leaving the "future party". The other Avengers only nodded and rushed toward the exit, trying to find them in the crowd under the Avengers Tower. They didn't use any flying stuff, so they had to be close.
- Tony... Hi... What are you doing here? I just saw you... - Pepper greeted Tony with a kiss on his cheek. Wait, she saw him?
- Where did you see me? - He asked and gathered everybody's attention.
- Eee... at Bleecker Street? You were kinda in a rush. So what are you doing here? - Pepper asked with suspicion in her voice.
- That was not me... not exactly anyway. We have to hurry. - Tony looked at his team. Thor decided to fly there on his hammer, and the others would be able catch him later. Tony called his suit, and he went after Thor. The others had to find another way to get there.
- Hey! I'm going with you! What is going on? - Pepper started to walk after the Avengers. What did Tony mean by "he was not me"? There are two Tonies? She had to know if he had some impostor! They just put her into a car, saying that they would explain on the way. Thor and Tony landed before 177A Bleecker Street.
- Why here? - Tony asked.
- I sense Lo... my brother's magic here. - Thor was confused. How should he call him? Was that really his brother? Was all of that true? The man in the Asgardian's cell was innocent?
- Soo... I guess this should be it. I always thought that there was something strange about this building. - Stark commented and looked at Thor. - Should we knock? - he added.
Did they even want to knock there? There was a man who claimed to be the heir of Stark Industries, that his future self called "kid"... but from what he understood, he wasn't Tony's by blood. But then again, Loki talked about treating children as shit. Which suggested that Anthony had more than one child. Besides, that man knew his darkest, deepest secrets that he wanted to bury so badly. His future self didn't have that problem, he talked about it freely! How! He mentioned just like this that his father was treating him like crap, that he was never as good as Rogers... and he used it against past himself. How could he?
Thor wasn't sure either. There was a woman claiming to be his fiance, and she was definitely not Jane. She was everything that Jane was not. She was tough, rude, impolite, disrespectful! And there was Loki... his brother. When he called Loki from this time his brother, he was furious, but Loki seemed to be over it. Did he finally make peace with his brother? There was so much bad blood between then now... can they truly be over it?
They were Avengers, and this time traveling stuff can be dangerous. They had to knock. Tony took off only his mask, and Thor was about to knock when the doors opened.
- I thought that you two are going to stand there till midnight. - some sorcerer said and allowed them to enter the building. - Your future self and your future brother are in the main room, talking with Ancient One. I can't bring you there, but you can wait with Valkyrie and Spider-Man. - he announced like dealing with stuff like this was a typical Friday.
- Sure... lead the way. - Tony said with an awkward voice.
They followed him to the room where Valkyrie was eating something and Peter was drinking tea. The sorcerer who lead them here, left the room, leaving guests alone to talk.
- Uhu... this will be interesting. - Valkyrie said with a full mouth.
- You tell me. - Peter rolled his eyes.
- So... why aren't you in there? - Tony asked, staring at Peter.
- Well... Valky is not interested with more "blah blah blah Magic" so she quit, and Dad won't allow me to deal with this. - Peter answered. Valky only nodded, still eating.
- It's kinda funny. He is not an Avenger anymore, but when shit happens like this... - Valky said and looked at Peter.
- Well, you know him. Overprotective is his middle name. - Peter smiled and took a sip of the tea. It had been many years since the infinity war, but his father couldn't forget when Peter turned into dust in his arms. Not that Peter blamed him, but Tony always felt like it was his fault. Sometimes Peter wonders how much guilt can fit into his father's head. At least now he learned to talk about it.
- What do you mean... I'm not an Avenger anymore? - Tony asked.
- Well... how long you want to be a hero, playboy? You decided to retire, like most of the old Avengers squad. - Valky answered and put the empty bowl on the table. - Thor is King of the Asgard. He has his own issues. You and Clint and some others decided to retire because of families, because you just wanted to rest, or because you decided that there is a new generation that needs a place. - Valkyrie explained and started to play with her hair.
That was something.
At least he didn't die playing a superhero.
- Am I... a good king? - Thor asked. That was always his biggest fear since the whole mess. That we wouldn't be a good king.
- Why should I spoil whole fun? - Valkyrie smiled, but when Thor didn't answer in some cocky way, she rolled her eyes. - Boy, I'm glad that I meet him after he changed. - Valky just shook her head.
- Well... I didn't know Thor before Infinity war very well, I'd just seen him on tv, so I can't help you there. - Peter answered with a smile. He saw Thor as part of the Avenger team and he knew that he was a god from Asgard, but not much more. He was just another superhero icon. Well, his whole attention was focused on Tony Stark.
- Soo... you are my child? - Tony asked with a nervous voice, which made Peter chuckle.
- Not by blood. But I was a teenager when I became Spiderman. You took me under your wings. At the beginning it was only business matter, but later... - Spiderman sighed.
- You became IronDad and SpiderSon! - Valky exclaimed, remembering how much that was pissing them off. Peter rolled his eyes and looked at Valky like he was trying to say "et tu brute contra me?".
- Yeah, that was the way the Team was teasing us when you were far too overprotective over me or I was looking for your approval. We were the last people that wanted to admit that we behave like father and son, but we had to after some time. - Peter shrugged. He didn't even remember when he first called Anthony 'Dad'. Anthony had told him, but he didn't even remember it. It happened when Spiderman delivered some thugs with alien tech to Ironman. After whole Vulture thing, he decided that he will listen to that. Just a quick talk over the thugs, and Anthony told him to be careful. Peter said, "Got it, Dad". He didn't even remember that it was what he said that day, but Anthony remembered it well.
- Well especially since Maria prefers to be a famous photographer and Morgan prefers whole medicine thing. - Anthony said when he and Loki entered the room. He just overheard some.
- Dad, I told you. If Maria or Morgan will want to take Stark Industries, I will give it to them willingly. It is their heritage. - Peter said with a kinda bored voice like they had this talk too many times.
- Bullshit. It's yours too. - Anthony answered in the same manner.
- We got news. - Loki changed the subject of the conversation. - Good news is that we have a way to come back. - Loki began.
- And the bad news? - Thor asked.
- That this artifact that Anthony stole from Strange, was found by Strange. It is not here at this time and we need it. - Loki added.
- Soo... do we know where Strange found it in our time? - Peter asked.
- We have no idea...
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