Time warp.

Chapter 4

Summary: if the fall back to earth in the end of the avengers sent Tony Stark back in time to his father's era. Where he meets a young Howard Stark and Captain Rogers the dancing monkey. How the hell was he supposed to survive and return home to his precious Pepper Potts? Pepperony.

Disclaimer: I do not own The Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America or Marvel and have not profited in any way from this story.

AN: All the italic's in this chapter are Tony's.

A warning to everyone that there will be swearing in this chapter. Tony and his potty mouth. :P

I wanted to thank everyone who pressed favourite, followed and just plain read this story so far.


Previously.

"You know what I think…"Steve growled.

Fuck here we go.

"I think that you are a spy for the Germans." Steve finished.

A Spy, as if my life could get any worse.

"And I'm going to have to turn you in to the authorities." Steve said advancing towards Tony.

I just had to jinx it didn't I.


Tony laughed nervously jarring his injured rib as Steve kept advancing towards him threateningly. His father just back away from him trying to keep safe of any violence that might erupt due to where Steve was heading with this. If Tony was a How the hell am I supposed to get out of this, maybe I should tell them the truth and fuck the time line? Weighing up his options he decided that he should just say….

"I'm an alien." Tony blurted out causing Steve to falter in his advance. What the fuck was wrong with me, out of all the things that I could have said and I came out with that!

"You're a what?" Howard interrupted.

"You know an alien, from out of space." Tony said internally cringing at his decision for say it.

"If you're an alien then how do you know how to speak English?" Steve pointed out. Ah fuck! Damn you Steve, why did you have to think of that.

"Errr I've been studying your species from orbit and I crashed landed here." Tony said hopefully.

"Then why do you look like us?" Howard inquired standing by the door. Crap. I forgot he was here.

"Have you considered that you looked like us?" Tony shrugged. Come on I need to get out of here so I can think of a way to go home.

As Tony stood there watching Steve's face change from surprised to confused back to surprised again. Maybe I could talk my way out after all, I really need to get out of this suit and deal with my injuries. I can't believe that I said that, they can't be buying this bullshit. Looking over at his father he saw that he was deep in thought so he went back to watching the ever changing facial features of Steve. He wished that they would make up their minds soon as he was starting to get dizzy again and was going to end up back on the floor which might damage his ribs some more. Sighing Tony leaned backwards on to the wall.

"You realize that I'm no threat at the moment so please just come to a conclusion already so I can get this armour off."

"Oh I forgot that you were injured." Steve said snapping out of his thoughts.

"Nothing gets by you cap." Tony said trying not to crack a smile.

"You're not really an alien are you?" Howard spoke up.

"Nah just seeing if you were paying attention and I didn't particularly wish to meet anyone that will though me in jail for just being here." Tony shrugged causing the rib to shift uncomfortably.

The dizziness was getting the best of Tony so he slid down the wall sitting on the ground and shut his eyes to try and stop the world spinning. He must have zoned out because the next thing he felt was a finger in his neck checking for a pulse, of cause Tony didn't realize that he was not in his tower with Pepper and Rodey. In fact he thought that he must have fallen asleep at his table in his lab again and it was his friends checking up on him so he swatted the hand away saying. "Not now Pepper check back later."

"Mr Edwards please, I need your help getting this suit of yours off before we can help you, but first you need to wake up again." Steve said way too loud in Tony's opinion as his head was pounding as if he had the hulk jumping on it.

"Five more minutes." Tony wined. WAIT! Why would Steve be in my lab I only just met him?

Snapping his eyes open he waited for the blurriness to clear up before he realized that he was not in his lab but back in the apartment with his young father and Steve so he closed his eyes again. Fuck! I thought that this was all a hallucination hell why count it be a really weird dream then he could wake up from this hell hole. Opening up his eyes again Tony struggled to get up to a standing position but failed when his head spun again sending back to the floor with a clang of metal. It took both Steve and Howard, one on each arm to get him sitting back on the couch with his head leaning back.

Knowing that he couldn't put it off any more Tony reached for the release mechanism that would allow him to take the armour of without the aid of Jarvis and his machines. He knew that one of the first things that they were going to question is the ark reactor sitting in the middle of his chest. Hey maybe this is where my father thought of it in the first place, wouldn't that be something. Reaching with his good arm he slowly took of his suit surrounding his broken one, it was slow going but after a good ten minutes they finally managed to remove most of the suit all that was left was the chest plate. Considering the condition of his ribs this was going to hurt quite a bit.

Grinding his teeth together Tony braced as the chest plate was lifted up; unfortunately thanks to the battle with the chuitari some of the armour is dented and damaged the majority to the chest plate so when they lifted it up Tony didn't realise that there was a piece from the suit had actually imbedded in the skin. So when the armour was lifted up the piece of metal was ripped out of Tony causing him to cry out in pain. Reaching down with his good hand he held his hand down trying to stop the blood from gushing out of the wound. Lucky both Howard and Steve saw what was wrong and within a minute the bandaged the wound up to try and stop the blood.

Tony once again zoned out after getting all the armour off and the wound seen too but once again Howard roused him from his light slumber by trying to examine his ark reactor. Slapping Howard's hands away he struggled to get upright again. Oh I need a nice hot bath to soak in before I hug my dear Pepper.

"Mr Edwards I really think that you need to go to hospital to get your injuries seen to, there is only so much that we can do for you." Howard said concerned.

"No hospitals." Tony groaned.

"You need to get seen too." Howard argued.

"I'm fine." Tony said trying to get up and failing again.

"Yes we can see that." Steve said wearily.

"If you don't want to go to a hospital, how about I find a nurse to at least look at that head wound of yours?" Howard pleaded.

"It's fine, I've been though worse." Tony said.

"What's Black Sabbath?" Steve asked reading Tony's shirt.

"It's my alien leader." Tony said straight faced.

"It not is it?" Howard frowned.

"No not really. I just wanted to see your reaction to it." Tony said laughing.

"Is everything a joke to you?" Steve demanded sending Tony into a laughing fit.

"As I have said before the funny things are and your face is priceless." Tony smiled.

"I still think that you're not telling us the truth." Steve muttered.

"You would be right of cause, but just because I'm not telling you everything doesn't mean that I'm a threat." Tony shrugged leaning back and closing his eyes again trying to think of a way back to his right time.

He must have dozed off again because when he awoke his head ache had almost gone with the occasional twinge of pain. Opening his eyes he saw that he was not in the apartment any more, it looked like he was in a hospital room hell it smelled like a hospital. Damn them they tricked me. Frowning he moved to stand up and found that they had bound his ribs and his broken arm was now in a cast, his arc reactor was still in its casing so that was one thing that he didn't have to. How long have I been asleep for and where the hell is everyone? Looking around the room he noted that all the beds in here were empty except for his. Finding the only window in the room he looked out and saw that he was in a type of army base. Going to the door he tried the handle to find that it was locked.

Tony was getting a really bad feeling about this so he searched the room looking for anything that he could use for defending himself. With his search of the room complete the only useful thing that Tony found was a broom all he had to do now was break the head of and use the rest as a staff. Tony heard footprints coming towards him from behind the door so he repositioned himself next to the door with the broom handle at the ready. As the door was unlocked someone stepped in as Tony sprang into action swinging the broom handle towards the person's stomach. The broom handle connected hard causing the person to collapse in on it holding their hands on it to try and stop the pain. Getting ready for the next swing he was stopped by Howard grabbing the broom and shouted. "STOP!"

"You do realize that you just hit the colonel!" Steve gaped.

Fuck.


AN: Hello to all first I have to say the Dawn service was amazing. I want to post this chapter in commemoration for the ANZAC's, the old and the new, thank you for everything you have sacrificed for us. The second thing is that I will not be able to post a new chapter in for the next two weeks as I shall be going on a camping holiday. The third thing is that all I can say about Iron Man 3 is WOW! No spoilers till it is out in America I promise, anyway I shall see you in a couple of weeks don't forget to review the good or the bad.