Unknown Dimension

Stark Tower

Tony Stark was in his lab with his AC/DC music blaring all throughout the lab, he was working on updating his Iron-Man armor suit when his music stopped playing. "JARVIS. What did I say about stopping my music." he said as he put a tool down and looked up at the ceiling.

"I am sorry Sir, but my scans had detected an energy signature above the tower." JARVIS replied giving his master what he wanted. Tony was confused, and energy signature? "Pull up the feed from the tower's roof." he ordered and a second later a hologram popped up showing the night sky above the tower and watched as something big and blue opened up for a few minutes only to close again and saw something falling. "Zoom in." he ordered as the video zoomed in and was stunned that it was a person that came through the energy and was falling.

"JARVIS get me a suit now." he yelled scared for the person who was falling, as soon as he had a suit he took off and flew up towards the sky getting closer to the person. He held out his arms and caught the person, he looked at the face and was stunned, it was a kid. Why was a kid falling from the sky? He thought to himself as he turned around and flew back towards the Tower.

Once he landed on the patio of the tower, he let his machines take off his suit while he's walking into the living room. As soon as all of his suit was off he walked over and gently laid the kid down on the couch with a blanket covering him. "JARVIS? What do your scanners say about that energy surge that was above the tower 5 minutes ago?" Tony asked as he got up and went to the kitchen to get water, he wanted to know what he was dealing with before he could move to the child.

"Scanners indicate that it's a door to an alternate dimension." Jarvis replied as a hologram popped up in the kitchen showing scans of the portal going from one Earth to another. "So you're saying that this kid came through a portal, from another dimension?" Tony asked, stunned as to what he was seeing.

It was a few minutes before Jarvis answered, "Correct Sir, the child is indeed from an alternate dimension." the AI confirmed, making Tony blow out a big breath, he grabbed a glass and filled it with water and brought it to the living room, setting it on the coffee table for the kid.

He sat down in a chair across from the couch, "JARVIS get me information about the kid. I want to know who I am gonna be dealing with." he said, being cautious about this kid because he doesn't know if this was a villain or something else. He took his Stark Pad as Jarvis relayed the information onto it as Tony looked through it.

Peter Parker. Technically he's 17 but actually he's 23. Son of Richard and Mary Parker who died in a plane crash when Peter was 4 years old. Lived with an Aunt and Uncle until the kid witnessed his Uncle get shot in a robbery. Goes to Midtown High.

Tony was confused, "JARVIS? What do you mean he's 17 but he's actually 23? Explain." he ordered trying to piece together how the kids' age came to be. "According to my scans, Peter's body scan indicates that he's 17 but he's really 23. I think this is something you should ask Mr. Parker when he wakes up." Jarvis told him about getting a nod from the billionaire.

He then started thinking about how the kid's parents died when the kid was 4 years old, damn that's too young to lose your parents. He felt sorry for Peter, the kid lost so much it makes him wonder what kind of boy or man he is now. He was also impressed when he found out that the kid goes to a STEM school which means he must be really smart to get into a school like Midtown.

He was brought out by his thoughts when the boy groaned, he looked up to see the kid was waking up, Tony got up and got on his knees beside the couch, "Hey Kid? You with me?" He asked the kid wondering if Peter could hear him.

The kid opened his eyes, "M..Mr. Stark? But...how...how are you...You Died!" the boy whispered with teary eyes, making Tony stare at the kid in shock, He died? He then thought to what JARVIS said, the kid coming from an alternate dimension. Maybe in his world Tony Stark was dead and apparently his kid knew him.

"Peter? What do you mean?" he asked the kid trying to get Peter to tell him what happened, even though deep down he's scared about what happened to him in the kids world.

Peter's eyes widened as he gasped and sat up, "Where am I?" The kid asked in a panic looking around until his eyes landed on Tony. The kid jumped over the couch and backed up a little as he got teary eyes, "M….Mr. Stark? How...I...I saw you….I saw you die." the kid whispered in a voice that made Tony's heartache, he swallowed the lump in his throat, "Peter? You...I am not dead. You feel through a portal and end up here." he said to the kid ignoring the bit of him being dead for a minute. He saw the kid look away, trying to remember how he got here.

Peter felt his heart beating fast against his chest as he thought about how he ended up here. He was fighting the Lizard and then was hit with a strange gun causing a blinding flash of light and then he woke up here….with a very much alive Tony Stark. He looked up and saw the billionaire looking at him with concern that made Peter's heart break as he thought back to the day that he watched Tony die.

He hadn't realized he was hyperventilating and was getting ready to go into a panic attack until he saw Tony infront of him trying to speak to him but he can't hear a thing, only ringing. He then felt himself falling as someone caught him and wrapped their arms around him as he broke down and cried on this guys shoulders.

Then all of a sudden he heard a voice, a voice he thought he would never hear again. "Breathe for me kid. Come on, follow me. In….and…...Out. That's right. Keep going." he said as Peter did what he was asked and was starting to calm down and that's when he remembered it all. Waking up on the couch. Seeing Tony alive. Remember him saying that the kid fell through a portal. He's in an alternate dimension.

Peter let go as Tony let the kid out of his grip, "Where….Where am I?" Peter asked in a raspy voice as he wiped away the tears. "Well according to Jarvis. You are in an alternate world. I guess, you world didn't have a Tony Stark huh?" he asked the kid as Peter shook his head. "No." answered the kid.

Tony takes a deep breath, "You hungry? We can go grab something from the kitchen if you feel up to it." he asked the kid to get him calm down and settled until he started asking his questions. He smiled when the kid nodded and helped let Tony help him up as they both walked up to the counter as Tony walked around it into the kitchen and tried to cook something for the both of them, but then he can't think of anything so he just settled for Pizza.

After Tony ordered the pizza he saw the kid look out the huge windows with his arms crossed. Tony wondered what he was thinking, so he decided to take a deep breath and walked over as he stood beside the kid looking out the window as well, "You, okay?" Tony asked after a few minutes of silence, he doesn't do good with feelings so he's just winging it.

Peter sniffed, "I...I Don't know. S...So I am really in an alternate dimension?" the kid asked as Tony nodded, "Yep. By...your little panic attack earlier, I'm guessing something bad, happened to me?" Tony hesitantly asked not knowing if it will send a kid through another panic attack.

He saw the kid shake his head, "No." he whispers as he saw tears in the kids eyes, meaning something bad happened to him and this kid...watched as he died. "W…...were you there when I….." He can't even say it, but he doesn't need to by the way the kid was nodding his head, "Yeah. I...I was." the kid said in a sad tone.

Tony nodded and felt his heartstrings being pulled, he can't believe a kid had to watch him die and by his reaction earlier they were close, "Were you guys….close?" he asked the kid wanting to know how close he was to the kid.

He let out a shaky breath and looked at him with those sad brown eyes, "Yeah. We were…..you were like a father to me." the kid admitted as he looked down and then back out the window. Tony felt his heart ache again, He was like a father to the kid? For some reason he felt a warm feeling inside him as she let out a small smile, if he was like a father to this kid then that means he wasn't gonna be a bad father.

"Sir, Pizza has arrived." Jarvis informed him as Tony gave the kid a gentle squeeze on the shoulder before walking away to get the pizza. Peter felt panic when he sense Mr. Stark leaves, he's afraid that if he leaves then he will never come back and all this will be a dream Peter will wake up from. But he took a deep breath trying to keep his panic down.

He didn't know how long it had been until he felt a tap on his shoulder and flinched at the touch as he looked to see Tony holding his hands up with a pizza box in one hand, "Sorry. You just zoned out for a minute." he said as the kid let out a sigh of relief and shook his head, "No. It's okay. Just…..still getting used to all this." he admitted as Tony nodded understanding.

"Come one Let's sit over on the couch and have some pizza okay?" he asked the kid who gave him a nod and walked towards the couch as Tony set the pizza box on the coffee table and sat down across from Peter who was sitting on the couch.

For the past twenty minutes they ate in silence until Peter was the one who broke it, "I know what you're trying to do and I appreciate it, but What do you want to know?" the kid asked him as Tony looked up stunned, how did the kid know. He sighs and nodded, "Yeah, sorry just didn't want to bring it up, i figured I would ease you into it. But if you don't want too…" he was gonna say but then Peter shook his head, "No. It's okay. I just…..it's gonna take time to get used to seeing…..you alive." Peter told him as he set his plate down.

Tony sighs and nodded, "Yeah, tonight has been a bit much for you I bet." he said as he set his own plate down, earning a nod of agreement from the kid, "Yeah, but it's okay. What do you want to know?" Peter asked, he didn't want to relive his most traumatized event but for some reason he owes Tony the explanation.

The Billionaire got up and made his way over to Peter and sat down next to the kid, "How about from the beginning?" he suggested as he saw the kid nod in agreement.

Peter sniffed, "Uh...it all started 5 years ago, in my world. There's this mad Titan named….." Peter took a deep breath and closed his eyes. He never wanted to say the name but he has too, "T….Thanos." he finished as he took a few deep breaths to keep the panic from rising but didn't seem to be doing a good job because he felt a hand on his shoulder and looked at Tony, "Hey...hey, it's okay you don't have to say hi name anymore okay?" he said as the kid calmed down and nodded.

"Uh….he was after these stones. The Infinity Stones. It actually started when this big donut shaped ship came to earth, these aliens came for Doctor Strange because he had one of these stones. You...or the you in my world fought the aliens. I was coming back from a field trip when I saw the ship so I webbed my way to help." he said as he played with his hands.

Peter takes a deep breath and continues, "But, we didn't do a good job because they succeeded in grabbing Strange, you told me to go after the wizard so I did. Fast forward a little, we snuck onto the ship just as it was taking off. Y..you got mad because you found out I snuck on as well when you told your AI to take me home. As always I ignored you and snuck onto the ship. Anyways, we...we were so...so far out into space there was nothing. No planets. That's until we...we crashed and landed on Titan. The home planet of...of...him." Peter said not wanting to say his name.

He waited until Tony nodded to finish, so Peter took a deep breath, "When we made it, he...he came through a portal after we landed. Us and a few other aliens were fighting him, he had already got all of the stones, our main goal was trying keep him from snapping his fingers. We...we managed to almost have the gauntlet off of him but…...something went wrong, it was all a blur and then the next thing we know,…..most of us were turning into dust." he said as he held up his hand and moved it around.

He puts his hand down as Peter takes another deep breath, "I...I was the last to go and I...I...I…..from what I was told I...died in your...your arms." he managed to get out as tears fell and he wiped them.

Tony was stunned, How can Peter go through something like that and the thought of having this kid die in his arms, he doesn't even want to think about it as he sighs, "Oh Kid. I am so sorry you had to go through that." he said as he placed a hand on the kids back, getting a nod from the teenager. "Do you want to continue?" he asked the kids as Peter nodded. "Okay. You just tell when you're ready okay? Wait, you know how about we get some snacks and then you can finish okay?" he asked, getting a nod, "Yeah I would like that." Peter told him as they both got up they made their way towards the kitchen.

After getting themselves a snack they sat back down on the couch with blankets enjoying the silence, "You…in my world we would always do this whenever I came over on the weekends." Peter said breaking the silence. Tony perked up at the new information, "Really?" he asked, getting a nod from the kid.

Peter let out a smile, "Yeah. Me and you would sit here and watch movies, eat, and most of the time tinger in the lab." he said getting a chuckle from the Iron Avenger. "He sounded like he was a good man." he said knowing that even though he meant Peter's Tony it still referred to him.

"Yeah. He is." he heard Peter say and then it took a few minutes before he knew what the kid meant. He felt a warm feeling as he wrapped an arm around the boy. "D...Do you wanna finish or do you want to wait till tomorrow, or in our case later today." he asked, noticing that it was 3am.

He watched as Peter thought about it and then nodded his head, "Yeah. I...you need to know." he admitted as Tony nodded and waited for Peter to start talking.

"I...I don't really know much as to what happened after I….I just know what people told me." he said as Tony nodded. He takes a deep breath, "Five...Five years has past and the Avengers who were not dusted have moved on. Y...you had a daughter and a wife." he said as Tony looked at him stunned, he had a kid and wife? He couldn't believe it. But he knew that it would never happen to him because Pepper left as she gave him back the company.

"Anyways, you found and invented time travel. So you and the avengers went back in time to the past to get all of the stones before he can get them. But once you guys made it back to the present time, uh….Natasha she...she didn't make it." he said as Tony felt saddened but that won't happen here, it's another universe it could happen it could not.

He realized that Peter started talking and listening to every word, "You built a gauntlet that will hold the stones. Bruse tried to wield the stones but it was too much for him but he was able to snap all of us back. But then he found out what we were doing and then another battle started. Some of the avengers call it Endgame. Anyways, we did our best against Thanos and his army." He stopped so he could take a few deep breaths to push his panic down.

Tony seeme to know what was happening because he laid a hand on the kids shoulders, "But...it wasn't enough. You….you slipped on the gauntlet and…...and you...you snapped your fingers erasing Thanos and his...his army." he said as fresh tears made their way down his face as he was breathing heavily again going into a panic attack, "Y...YOU….I saw you...I saw you die." Peter cried out while gasping for breath as he grabbed his chest and bent over.

Tony managed to catch him, "Shhh, it's okay Peter. Breath for me." He said as he felt Peter trying but couldn't, "Come on. You're gonna make yourself sick. Come on bud." he encouraged the kid as he wrapped his arms around Peter tightly rubbing his hands up and down his back coaching him through this panic attack.

When Peter was finally able to breathe, he hugged Tony and cried on his shoulder, "Shhh, it's okay Peter." he whispers as he rocked them back and forth. He couldn't believe the horror and the trauma the kid has been through. That's why JARVIS told him that he's 17 but he's actually 23, because he...he has been dead for five years. Just thinking about it brought tears into his own eyes.

"Promise me that nothing bad will happen to you." he heard the kid whisper as he lifted his head to look into the kids eyes that are red and puffy that makes Tony's heartache again. "I...I don't know Peter. We heroes...it's part of the job. But I can tell you this. I will be extra careful. How's that?" he asked the kid as Peter nodded and hugged Tony again.

Tony hugged the kid tightly before he hesitantly put a kiss on the kids head, "Now, will you be able to sleep now?" he quietly asked as Peter shrugged, "Maybe." he replied as he let out a yawn making Tony smile, "Come on. Let's go to bed. Tomorrow, you can show me what your suit can do because it looks like a Stark made it." he declared as they both got up and made it back to Peter's room.

"That's because it was made by a Stark. You." Peter told him as they stopped, Tony looked at the kid, "I...I made your suit?" he asked, earning a nod from the kid. "Yeah. It's Nan-tech, you've been trying for years how to manipulate it." Peter told him as his mask covered his suit and his Iron legs popped out of the back and then put them back in removing his mask looking at a starstruck Tony.

Peter smiled at his reaction, "It also has an AI you also created." he told the Iron Avenger who takes a deep breath and let out a smile, "I just can't believe I made the suit. How do you retract it like when you're not out doing you...spider duties?" Tony asked the kid

He saw the kid smile as he watched Peter double tap the top of his wrist then made a beeping sound, he watched in stunned as the Nano-suit retracts into the kids wrist, but not in his wrist but inside a small wrist band that looked like a watch. "Whoa! That is some suit Kid." he said as he looked up to see the kid in a t-shirt and jeans with converses. Peter nodded, "Yeah. It…..It was the last thing you made before…." Peter takes a deep breath, "before you died." he added in a whisper.

Tony sighs as he places a hand on his shoulder, "I'm sorry for what happened Peter." he said as the kid shook his head with a smile, "Yeah. But at least you're here. Alive." Peter said as he let out a watery laugh.

"We can talk more tomorrow or later today. Right now you need rest." he said as Peter nodded. After they made it to Tony's private floor, he showed Peter to a room, "If you need me my room is right across the hall. Come get me at any time okay?" Tony asked, getting a nod from the boy.

Peter saw Tony walking away and felt a little of panic, "Tony?" he asked the billionaire to turn around, "Goodnight." he said as Tony let out a smile, "Goodnight Kid." he replied as he made his way towards the lab.