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Well, I said I wanted this to be pure 5D's - and my muses took that as a challenge. We have Marvel now. It fits too goddamn well, and I think I've just started a new monster… And, yup. Concurrently-running story will likely start at some point down the road. Well, there's goes my hopes of keeping this bunny tame. (Please don't grow tentacles… One story turned eldritch horror is enough, thank you! I fear what horror this will become since it's so dark already.)

It took awhile to figure out how to start this chapter - and my muses tossed Professor X at me as a solution. So now Martha's awesome includes being old friends with Charles, and being one of the few non-mutants not in the government who knows about mutants. (She just doesn't care if someone's different, hence why she's takes being a mom to all these Altered kids in stride.)

...Don't be surprised if Judai shows up. My muses like tossing him at Yusei as a bro when they're not tossing him at Yusei as a romantic interest (this is Faithshipping as well, but there's a plunny with Starshipping). If he shows up, it'll likely be as an X-man with powers similar to a Psychic Duelist. (Dimensional Summoner, Psychic Projection, it's difficult to tell the difference for a layman.) And he's a bit more than he was at first because of his soul-fusion with Yubel. (At least Logan's not alone with the Immortality in this verse. They'll be bros. And the spars. Oh god, they're forbidden from sparring anywhere within 10 miles of a town. Once Yusei is old enough to spar with... )

"I just don't know what to do, Charles. At this rate we won't be able to have a roof over our heads anymore. I don't blame the kids. It isn't their fault they're different, but… It's difficult with just Dr. Schmidt and myself. I still haven't found anyone else I can trust around Yusei. That law still exists," Martha spat, disgusted by people idiocy. Charles sat at the - very battered - kitchen table with her, for once thankful he needed a wheelchair since Martha's "chair" was nothing more than an upturned crate pulled out of the trash piling up within the Satellite. The Professor had use some of his societal pull to be granted permission to enter the Satellite to visit his old friend.

"I may have a solution," Charles began, and Martha's head shot up, begging for relief. She was at her limit. Security was pushing to have officers stay over for her and Dr. Schimdt's protection because of how destruction the children were. If there was a way to reduce the destructiveness to keep that Officer Ushio from being stationed here…

Charles smiled. "You know how I'm planning on starting up a school for certain gifted students. I've had another associate of mine work out some ways to cheaply make more durable furniture and the like for it. Tony has stress tested things, but a field test is always a good proof. And if it survives being stress-tested by Altered children, it will become a very marketable venture in a way it wouldn't with my school."

Because the mutants need to stay hidden for their own safety was left unsaid. Martha could cry with relief at the solution Charles offered. Charles gave her another one of his kind, benign smiles that made her feel so safe. (She didn't doubt he was partly helping to soothe her frazzled mind with his telepathy, but she didn't mind - it was part of why she had so much of his trust. She knew that sometimes, he couldn't stop himself from instinctively reaching out to soothe a hurting mind, and she accepted that. It just showed his first instinct was to help, and she would never fault that.)

"I will inform Mr. Stark of the agreed upon field test when I return to New York."

~Altered~

"Wow, Charles wasn't kidding, was he?" Stark declared as he walked in the front wall. Not the front door - they didn't have one anymore. "You know what, I've been meaning to test a material that can contain explosions that's a bit cheaper than what's on the market right now, how about these little disasters stress test that too. You have little firestarters from what I understand, that sort of equals explosions sometimes doesn't it?"

This time Martha did cry from relief. Stark looked uncomfortable. Well, hopefully the tears wouldn't stain the Armani too badly. Now how did he get someone to stop hugging him without upsetting her. He knew better than to upset a woman with many, many superpowered (and likely overprotective) kids. That one with that slate hair was already glaring and growling and were those claws coming out?

"Don't, Kiryu. Mama's just stressed, and the tin man is helping her," a boy with black hair (that had odd golden streaks in it) intervened. Stark pouted.

"It's Iron Man, not tin man. Actually, technically it's-"

"Gold-titanum alloy, I know," the solemn-sounding three-year-old cut in, making Tony start. Martha had pulled herself together and was watching the interaction.

"A tiny genius. Martha, why did Charles never mention this little wonder?" Tony asked.

"Because I need to be kept out of the spotlight. People want me dead. I'm the only survivor of the Purge," the boy replied.

"Yusei…" Martha began, but stopped. She still didn't know how Yusei found out about why there are no other Altereds like him, but given how intelligent he was, he likely just put the fact he's vampiric together with the fact that he needs to keep it a secret, added two and two, and came up with four.

"He's…" Tony asked, looking to Martha. She nodded, hoping Stark was as trustworthy as Charles. Tony looked to the boy - Yusei - again. "Well, damn. No way am I letting that potential go to waste. How do you feel about a tutor? I can excuse things as staying for the field tests."

Martha decided Tony was more than welcome to stay if he could accept Yusei so easily.

~Altered~

"Thank you for coming, Miss Potts," Martha said. She had made a call to Mr. Stark's secretary yesterday, asking her to please come pick him up. Yes, she's very grateful to all he's done for not just Yusei, but the orphanage as a whole… but, there's just no room to have a third person helping out when that third person is Tony Stark. He's just… What's the word teens use now? Extra.

"Yes, Tony can take some getting used to, and you have enough to handle already. However, if you need assistance, the Maria Stark Foundation will help however it can," Miss Potts replied. "TONY! Pack your things, you've skipped out on enough board meetings, it's clear this is ready for the market, let's go!"

"Crap! The Devil Herself! She's come to get me!"

"NOW, Tony!"

"Yes, ma'am."

Another short chapter, but like I've said. Zero Reverse Aftermath Arc is to lay the foundations for later, so likely all of the chapters in this Arc are going to be super-short. Sorry if it seems choppy, but honestly, Tony's not likely to play any more of a role until much, much later. (He's just a plot device for now, but I'll do him justice later, I do love him. He's so human, and he tries. He may screw up, but he tries so hard.)