warlocktoungue: I'm not much of Brutasha fan, so not really. But about the father, there will be mentioned in this chapter and maybe in a few more.
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Sam1727: I'm happy that you love her, Lol :)
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Anna walked down the stairs to Tony's workshop. She walked inside to see him sitting on the floor, with the silver box that Fury had brought over earlier, opened.
The billionaire didn't look up from the box when he heard her footsteps and continued to look inside it. He pulled two small round silver boxes and put them a side before he continued on.
Anna tilted her head. "Are those belong to your father?"
The small redheaded girl walked closer as Tony looked at her. "Yep," He answered.
Anna stopped next to the two small round boxes and picked them up before opening them to see a tape inside. "It a tape. You don't want to look what's in there?"
"Nope," Tony answered.
"Why not?" Anna asked.
Tony sighed. "What's with the questions?"
"What's with the attitude?" Anna replied. Tony gave her a look, opening his mouth to speak back, but she cut him off. "You don't want to see your Dad?"
Tony scoffed. "Of course not."
Anna frowned. "Why not?"
The billionaire looked away, sighing. "Let's just say, I didn't have a good relationship." Anna nodded slowly. Tony looked at her. "Speaking of fathers, where's yours? Haven't met him."
Anna shook her head. "I haven't met him either."
"Doesn't know about you, huh?" Tony asked.
"He knew," the redheaded child answered. "I didn't get to know him 'cause he died when I was a few weeks old."
Tony nodded slowly. "Right..." He cleared his throat. "Uh, sorry about that."
Anna shrugged. "It's okay. Mom told me he died as a hero. For the both of us. I only know his name."
"Which is?" Tony asked.
"James," Anna replied. "That's all." Tony nodded. Anna tilted her head. "I know my Mom still loves him."
"How'd you know?" the billionaire asked with a frown.
"'Cause the way she talks about him with me," Anna answered, shrugging. "I guess." She tilted her head. "What about your Mom? Do you miss her?"
Tony looked away, nodding slowly. "Everyday."
"Then, you two had a good relationship," Anna pointed out.
"Yeah," Tony answered, sighing. "Just like you and your mother." Anna looked down at the tape in her hands and slowly hold it forward toward Tony. The billionaire looked at the tape and then at the small girl. "What?"
"Watch it," Anna told him. "Didn't all that things left for you? Maybe you need to watch it."
Tony gave her a look. "Kid -"
"I get it, you don't want to," Anna told him, rolling her blue eyes. "I know, but maybe, just maybe, little things in there can help you. Just... give it a chance."
Tony rolled his eyes, sighing. He grabbed the tape and stood up. He shock his head. "I can't believe I'm listening to a seven years old girl."
Anna gave him a look. "I'm nine."
Tony rolled his eyes, putting the tape on. "Whatever."
Anna raised an eyebrow before turning around and leaving.
Anna was sitting on the couch of the half destroyed living room, while it slowly have been repaired.
Tony rushed inside with a model of four pieces, with three agents helping him. "Kid!" the billionaire called.
Anna frowned in confusion and looked behind the couch to see him. "What?"
"Come on, let's go," Tony told her. "We have work to do."
Anna stood and followed the billionaire and the three agents. "What?"
Anna and Tony put the pieces of the model together. Tony blew the dust off the model as Anna looked confused. "So, what is it?" the small girl asked.
"Apparently, you were right," Tony told her. "This is call 'the City of Tomorrow'. Jarvis, could you kindly Vac-U-Form a digital wire frame? We need a manipulatable projection."
Jarvis did as told, making a hologram of the City of Tomorrow in front of them.
Jarvis: "1974 Stark Expo model scan complete, sir."
Tony lifted the hologram, pulling it away from the table, spreading it out in front of them.
"Wow," Anna said.
"How many buildings are there?" Tony asked.
Jarvis: "Am I to include the Belgian waffle stands?"
"That was rhetorical," Tony told him. "Just show us."
Tony spread it out in front of them, snapping his fingers.
The hologram spun around.
Anna saw something on the map. "What's that?"
Tony followed her gaze and tilted his head. "What does that look like to you? Not unlike an atom. In which case the nucleus would be here." He put his finger on the map. "Highlight the unisphere."
Tony enlarged the atom-like sphere and Anna tilted her head curiously. "What's that?" the redheaded girl asked.
"We're about to find out," Tony answered before speaking to Jarvis. "Lose the footpaths, Jarvis. Get rid of them."
Jarvis: "What is it exactly you're trying to achieve?"
"We're discovering... Correction," Tony told him. "We're rediscovering a new element, I believe."
"So, I'm part of it?" Anna asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well..." Tony trailed off. "For now."
Anna tilted her head. "Jarvis, you can do anything with this hologram, right?"
Jarvis: "Yes, ma'am."
"Lose the landscaping, the shrubbery, the trees," Anna told him. "Parking lots, exits, entrances."
All of the said things disappeared as Tony tilted his head, "Structure the protons and the neutrons using the pavilions as a framework." He glanced at the small girl beside him, "Not bad, kid."
Anna smirked. "It's Anna."
"That's good too," Tony told her before he enlarged the hologram a bit bigger. He sighed. "Dad." Tony enlarged the hologram so that it surrounded the two of them.
Anna looked around in shock and surprise. "Wow."
"Mmm," the billionaire hummed. "Dead for almost 20 years, and still taking me to school."
Tony clapped his hands and the enlarged hologram disappeared into a small ball on his hand.
Jarvis: "The proposed element should serve as a viable replacement for palladium."
"Thanks, Dad," Tony muttered.
Jarvis: "Unfortunately, it is impossible to synthesize."
Tony looked down at Anna, raising an eyebrow. "Mmm..." He looked around. "Get ready for a major remodel, fellas. We're back in hardware mode. And you -" He turned around and pointed at Anna. "Go upstairs, play dolls or whatever you like."
"But, I want to help you," Anna told him before giving him a look. "And I don't play with dolls or any girly things like that."
"What I'm gonna do isn't for someone in your age to see," Tony told her. "Go upstairs."
"I'm helping," the small girl told him, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Kid, I appreciate you want to help me, but no," Tony told her. One of his robots rolled over, making noises. Tony glared at it. "Hey, Dummy, shut it. Don't take her side."
Anna looked up at Tony. "I can help. I really can."
Tony groaned, placing a hand on his hip. He sighed. "Okay, tell you what. I'll do some of this by myself, and when I'll be done with the drilling and all, I'll get you, deal?"
Anna tilted her head as he held his hand out for her to shake. She shook his hand, "Deal."
Anna was standing outside with Phil. "New Mexico?" the small girl asked.
"Yes," Phil answered. "There was appearance of a wormhole over there, and I asked Director Fury to go there and he agreed. You seem like you can handle Mr. Stark by yourself."
Anna shrugged. "Yeah... I guess I could."
An agent walked toward them. "Sir."
Anna and Phil looked toward him.
In Tony's workshop, Tony was standing in front of his metal elements that connected them into the holes in the wall that he had made.
Anna and Phil walked inside. "Tony?" the redheaded girl asked.
Tony looked toward them and spoke to Anna, "Huh, there you are. I was about to ask Jarvis to call you."
"We heard you broke the perimeter," Phil told him as Dummy looked toward them.
"Yeah," Tony answered. "That was, like, three years ago. Where you been?"
"We were doing some stuff," Phil said as he and Anna walked closer.
"Yeah, well, me too," Tony told them. "And it worked." Phil looked into a crate. "Hey, I'm playing for the home team, guys, you and all your Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Now, Coulson, are you gonna let me work or break my balls?"
Anna made a face. "Dude, I'm right here."
Tony smirked slightly before Phil picked up from the crate a shield. "What's this doing here?" Phil asked.
Anna gasped. "Is that Captain America's shield?"
Tony ignored the redheaded girl and looked at the shield. "That's it. Bring that to me."
"You know what this is?" Phil asked as he walked closer.
"Kid just said, and it's exactly what I need to make this work," Tony told him as he took the shield. "Lift the coil. Go, go. Put your knees into it."
Phil lifted the coil of a pipe and Tony put the shield underneath. "There you go. And... Drop it," Tony told him.
Phil let it go, sighing. Tony balanced it, "Perfectly level. Kid, you and me going back to work." He looked at Phil, "We're busy. What do you want?"
"Nothing," Phil answered. "Goodbye. I've been reassigned. I'm heading to New Mexico."
"Fantastic," the billionaire said. "Land of Enchantment."
"So I'm told," Phil replied.
"Secret stuff?" Tony asked.
"Something like that," Anna answered and Phil nodded.
Tony chuckled a little, nodding. "Good luck," Phil told him as they shook hands.
"Bye," Tony told him.
"We need you," Phil told him.
"Yeah, more than you know," Tony said.
Phil tilted his head. "Not that much." He placed a hand on Anna's shoulder. "I'll see you soon, Ann."
"Good luck there," Anna told him.
"Thanks," Phil told her before walking away.
Tony sighed as Phil left. The billionaire shook his head. "Well, kid." Anna looked at him. "Looks like it's just you and me, now."
Anna tilted her head, shrugging.
