Alright another chapter done! Yes! Once again, I would like to thank all of my new and old followers and favoritees (sounds better than favoriters or people who have favorited, lol). And fanfiction decided I can see my reviews once again so thank you, Sam0728, arthemys, and Teamleo316 for reviewing. The feedback is always welcome and much appreciated! This chapter finishes up the events of Iron Man. I hope you guys like it!

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"-hic…daddy I missed you. I missed you so much."

"Would you stop watching that?"

Pepper jumped at Tony's voice behind her, she had been sitting in one of the stools at the kitchen counter waiting for Elli to recover from the sugar crash she had had an hour or so before. The little girl was sprawled on the couch, practically comatose from all the excitement and ice cream of the past few days. After their touching reunion (which Jarvis had saved and sent to her and Rhodey despite Tony's objections), the father-daughter pair had spent every minute together, enjoying a Disney movie marathon and mint chocolate chip ice cream for a week until the day the press believed Tony to be returning.

Knowing he couldn't ignore the world forever, he had Pepper call a press conference where he dropped the (figurative) bomb that he would no longer be making (literal) bombs—or guns, or missiles, or any other type of artillery and/or military based weapon. Obie hadn't been very happy with him, but the billionaire could live with that. It amazed Tony that even when the man was supposed to be mad at him—he could still be thinking about the money they could make with the arc reactor stuck in Tony's chest.

"What are you talking about? I wasn't watching anything."

The woman hid her phone very poorly behind her back. She couldn't help it—it was just too cute! And even though Tony was not a soldier, the video gave her the same heartwarming feeling as the YouTube soldier reunion videos she was currently addicted to. If only Elli wasn't a secret, it could have had so many views if she was able to post it.

"Right," Tony let it go, it wasn't what he came up here for, "Pepper, how big are your hands?"

"What?"

"Let's see them," Tony grabs one of Pepper's wrists and inspects her hand before dragging her towards the stairs leading down to the lab, "Oh, wow. They are small. Very petite, indeed. I just need your help for a sec."

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"You okay?" Pepper had a hand on her chest, she felt like she was going to faint. He felt kind of bad, but at the same time he felt a lot better without a faulty reactor in his chest.

"Don't ever, ever, ever, ever ask me to do anything like that ever again."

"I could get Elli to do it, but she is a little young don't you think?" Pepper only glared at the man, she didn't get paid enough for this.

"Daddy? Peppa?" Jarvis opens the door to the lab for the toddler, she was always allowed in when it was safe for tots.

"Over here, sweetie. How was your nap?" The little girl climbs into her daddy's lap and pushes her face into his chest in response to his question.

"Head and tummy huwts," Tony laughs as he tries to console his daughter.

"I think she is experiencing her first hangover." Pepper smacks him lightly on the arm.

"What's a hangova?" Pepper smacks him again.

"Nothing important munchkin." Elii scrunches up her face in annoyance at her daddy but decides to let it go when she spots the reactor in her daddy's chest.

"What's this?" She traces the edges of the reactor causing Tony to shiver slightly. The light flickers a greeting at her and she giggles in reply.

"it's called an arc reactor. It is helping me from getting sick." Sick was the best way to explain it to a three-year-old that had no concept of death. Elli brings her face closer to the light.

"Awc weacta?" Tony snorts as he nods, they really needed to work on her r's.

A flickering on the table behind her daddy catches Elli's attention. Another light? Sliding off her daddy's lap, she switches her bracelet to its off mode so she can make herself float and sit on the metal table. Tony and Pepper watch her inspect the device.

"Will that be all Mr. Stark?" Pepper had a ton of paper work to back at SI.

"That'll be all, Ms. Potts." Kissing the toddler goodbye and giving Tony a small smile, Pepper goes up the stairs leaving the two alone.

"Awc weacta?" Elli held up the device in question.

"Yup. That's my old one, this one is more reliable." Tony taps the metal piece in his chest. Nodding, Elli goes back to inspecting the light. It flickered a greeting, much slower than the arc reactor in her daddy's chest. Elli shook her head; this wouldn't do at all. Tony got up from his seat and walked over to his daughter.

"Whatcha up to, munchkin?" Tony cocked his head to look at the failing arc reactor just at Elli's hand lit up with blue energy. His eyes widened as she pushed the blue light into the old reactor, causing a wave of energy to throw him back into the wall.

Groaning, Tony look up to see the lab practically destroyed. Papers were blown everywhere, tables overturned, and Dummy was racing around the lab in a panic.

"Pewfect," his daughter was still in the same spot on the table, the arc reactor in her hand lighting up her face—its glow much brighter than before. Tony could only stare slack jawed as a lamp crashed to the floor and Elli looked at him with a proud grin on her face.

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Since the incident, Pepper had taken the old reactor to be engraved. After having Jarvis analyze the device, it was revealed that the palladium content level had dropped and been replaced by a foreign element. When her daddy questioned her, Elli just said that the light was sad, so she made it happy. Rather than dwelling on it, Tony had just moved on and added the event to the list of his daughter's weirdness that he hoped to one day understand.

"What colors should we have Jarvis paint it? I like gold, personally."

They had been working on the suit for weeks, with only a few hiccups. Making the arms and legs were a walk in the park—he had plenty of practice making Elli's. It was the flight repulsion system that had had him stuck for so long. The first few flight tests hadn't gone as well as he hoped. Elli had got a kick out of it though, she couldn't stop laughing for an hour when he smacked the wall. Surprisingly, Elli had been extremely helpful after that. It had been kind of weird being taught by a toddler how to fly.

"I like red!" The little girl wiggled the bright red painted toenails she was sporting that week. It had become a tradition that every time Elli decided a new favorite color, Pepper would repaint her prosthetic toe nails. When she had finally mastered her r's, everything that started with an 'r' instantly became her favorite. Ranch was her new favorite food, if that made any sense.

"Red it is then."

Tony grinned at his daughter as Jarvis changed the color of the suit on the screen. He turned it so she could see from the beanbag she was sitting on in the corner of the garage. Since Jarvis was doing all the building, her daddy had said Deedee could come down too. The dog was currently trying to retrieve a tennis ball from under one of her daddy's convertibles that hadn't been destroyed the day before.

"No, not red." Elli had a serious thinking face on that caused Tony to raise his eyebrows at his daughter.

"Change your mind?"

"Red and gold!" Jarvis changed the colors on the screen causing both Elli and Tony to nod in approval, Tony whistling low in appreciation.

"You've got style munchkin."

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"Breathe." Tony choked on air as he tried desperately to move, "Easy, easy. You remember this one, right?"

Tony wanted to roar at Obadiah. What the fuck did he think he was doing? He knew the man was the one selling the weapons under the table, but he never thought he would stoop this low.

"It's a shame the government didn't approve it. There's so many applications for causing short-term paralysis."

Tony's eyes flickered back and forth frantically. Where was Elli? God, he hoped she stayed in her bed, she had been having nightmares lately.

"Tony," Obadiah dragged him back out of his thoughts, "When I ordered the hit on you, I worried that I was killing the golden goose."

If Tony could move right now, he would spit in the man's face. He would orphan his daughter just to take control of the company?

"But, you see, it was just fate that you survived that," the man brought out a device that looked like some type of torture device, "You had one last golden egg to give."

Tony convulsed as pain erupted from his chest as Obadiah ripped the reactor out.

"Do you really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now, what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you?"

A glare was Obadiah's only reply. Shrugging the man turned his attention to the blue glowing device in his hands.

"Oh, it's beautiful. Tony, this is your Ninth Symphony. What a masterpiece. Look at that," pushing the stolen reactor into his face, Obadiah grinned as Tony refused to look at it, "This is your legacy. A new generation of weapon with this at its heart. Weapons that will help steer the world back on course, put the balance of power in our hands. The right hands."

Obadiah sighed as he ended his monologue, not noticing Tony's fingers beginning to twitch.

"I wish you could've seen my prototype. It's not as...Well, not as conservative as yours," Obadiah laughed to himself before looking back at Tony, "Too bad you had to involve Pepper in this. I would have preferred that she lived."

Obadiah got up and began to walk away leaving a frantic Tony on the couch.

"Oh, and don't worry about Elli. I'll take good care of her." Tony was internally screaming as he looked to see Obadiah carrying his unconscious daughter away.

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Elli woke up in a strange building with no one around to tell her what was going on. She was about to call Jarvis when she remembered her daddy saying Jarvis only lived in the house. Getting up, Elli began to look around until she heard crashing and loud noises. Going to investigate, Elli looked up to see a sign with an arrow pointing up some stairs and the word roof written underneath it. After reaching the top of the stairs, Elli used her powers to push the door open.

"Daddy?"

A man she did not know and Pepper were standing over the suit she and her daddy had made. Seeing tufts of brown hair, Elli began to run towards the body only to be scooped up Pepper.

"Daddy?" The toddler looked over the red head's shoulder. Why wasn't her daddy responding? "Daddy wake up. Daddy!"

"Elli, baby. Your daddy isn't going to wake up." Elli turned at Pepper's soft, quivering voice. Tears were flowing out of the older woman's eyes.

"No! Daddy! Daddy," Elli pushed out of Pepper's arms with a force her mechanical limbs allowed her to have, "daddy wake up."

Agent Coulson's widened a fraction as he looked at the white haired toddler with golden eyes hang on Stark's unmoving body. Stark had a daughter? Why didn't they know about this? How had the girl even gotten here?

"Elli, you have to stop. He isn't going to wake up." Ms. Potts tried to pull the girl away, but the girl struggled against her.

"NO!"

Coulson couldn't stop the gasp that escaped his mouth as the little girl burst with a blue glow causing Ms. Potts to drop the child's arm. He watched as her features dissolved into what looked to be the same blue energy that came from Stark's reactor. It had only taken a few seconds but the change was drastic. The being that stood before him now was toddler shaped, but flickered with an ethereal glow. Her hair flowed around her head in the form of white flames and her eyes shined a more intense electric blue. When she began reaching for the arc reactor in Stark's chest, Coulson went for his gun in alarm but stopped when Ms. Potts put a hand on his wrist to stop him.

The woman shook her head at the agent before turning back to watch as Elli pushed some of her energy into the reactor. A blue glow extended over Tony's body, making cuts and bruises disappear before the energy disappeared from both the father and daughter. A normal toddler now sat on Iron Man's chest as his eyes began to flicker open.

"Daddy!" The little girl threw her arms around her daddy—she knew he would wake up!

"Elli?"

Tony felt relief flow through him as he hugged the toddler back. He wasn't sure how she got here, but he was glad that he didn't have to worry about finding her anymore. Tony looked around to see he was still on the roof, Pepper and that government agent staring at him with their mouths opened.

"What? Is there something on my face?"

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Tony looked back stage to see his daughter watching him from Coulson's arms. He refused to let her leave his sight and so the little girl was wearing her park get-up of a beanie and sunglasses. The man had grown fond of her in the past few days, but Tony was hardly surprised, Elli stole the heart of everyone she met. He smiled as she waved and then turned to look down at the cards the agent had given him.

"The truth is," Tony felt his arc reactor pulse suddenly and he remembered the words Pepper had had engraved, Proof that Tony Stark has a Heart. He had found it ironic that Elli's energy was what was powering the reactor now, it made the statement somewhat true, because Elli was his everything. She was his heart. Tony looked up at the cameras and reporters with a smirk on his face, "I am Iron Man."

So Elli saved the day. YAY ELLI! The whole Elli bursting into energy is a new thing in case anyone is wondering. It is different than when she just glows. The energy becomes her body in a way. Anyways, the main story is supposed to be taking place after the events of the Avengers but I just can't seem to get there, lol. I'm still deciding if I am doing to add a pairing—I'm definitely open to suggestions and I might put a poll on my profile eventually if I can't decide.

Before I post this, here is a fun little tidbit, Eleanor means shining light. It seemed very fancy for a toddler though, which is why her nickname is Elli! I love double meanings with character names :D

Till next time!