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They had an intruder in the Tower. INTRUDER IN THE TOWER! HIS TOWER! He had worked on the tower security himself! How the hell it was possible at all?! JARVIS hadn't even detected his presence! It was good fortune that Thor had been wandering around and caught him... and he fought back, against Thor! And he almost kicked Thor's sorry ass. He would have if the sound of the fight hadn't brought the other Avengers.

They had him captured and unconscious, but he was quickly waking up. JARVIS was already scanning him.

"Who are you?" Widow asked when their prisoner opened his eyes. He looked around, confused. Then his eyes met Tony's and he was visibly stunned. He gulped after a few seconds.

Everybody looked at Tony, who only shrugged.

"Who are you?" Tony asked this time.

The young man didn't answer, and it was like he didn't know what to say. It was strange. A Hydra spy wouldn't be so troubled at being captured. They asked, but he was just silent.

Then, Wanda stepped in questioningly, and Steve nodded his approval.

"No," the prisoner said, shaking his head like he knew what Wanda planned to do.

"I think I can show you what I'm seeing, too," Wanda said as she looked at the team. They all looked kind of curious, except for Tony, who looked at the terrified man.

"Are you going to talk, or not? Last chance," Tony said.

"I... can't," he said, not taking eyes from Tony.

Wanda came closer and put a hand on the young man's forehead.

"I'm... sorry," the boy said, and allowed the power of Scarlet Witch to do its job. He didn't resist, for he knew from the experience that it was a stupid thing to do. Wanda waved her hand at empty space next to them, and amid the mist of red, her magic shaped some image.

"Wow. Magical projector," Tony said, rolling his eyes. But then, in the mist, they saw their prisoner, but he was younger and he was sleeping... and he seemed to have a nightmare.

"If you even cared, you'd actually be here," a boyish voice said, before a man stepped from the Iron Man suit-Tony Stark. While the mist version of him was obviously angry, Tony could see the worry deep within his eyes. They were talking about something, but whatever it was was blurred.

Tony raised his brow and looked at the boy.

"That never happened," Tony said, and realized that armor in the background was not his... it was his tech, but none of his armor suits looked that way. And he seemed to be a little bit older in this vision.

"The boy seems to be from the future," Thor said casually.

"You are shitting me, right? There is no such thing as time travel," Tony answered, but then vision moved.

"I just wanted to be like you," the boy said, looking at Tony, who snorted.

" And I wanted you to be better," he said, not impressed.

Tony looked troubled at what the vision had shown. He thought for a moment that Wanda might be manipulating the vision just to make him look awkward or something, but-the way that boy looked at him. . .

Then, they saw the boy, who was shifting uncomfortably in his bed.

The boy was in the middle of the terrible fight. Chitauri were fighting with everybody, but then he heard something, something that he shouldn't have been able to hear in this noise.

" I am inevitable."

The boy looked at the side where the voice came from and he swung in that way.

"What the hell is that?!" Clint cursed, looking at the battlefield that was shown. Tony shifted. He saw this already once. He looked at Wanda, who was still connected to the boy's mind.

"And what the kid is doing there? He can't be older than seventeen!" Steve looked horrified.

"I. Am. Iron Man."

They all heard Tony's voice... then they saw Iron Man, kneeling on the ground. Some strange energy was pulsing from his gauntlet to the rest of his body before he snapped his fingers.

The entire Chitauri army was turned to dust as the boy, Pepper, Rhodey, Steve, and Thor stood by Tony's side.

"Mr. Stark? Hey... Mr. Stark? Can you hear me? It's Peter. We won. Mr. Stark... We won, Mr. Stark. We won and you did it, sir. You did it. I'm sorry... Tony..."

Peter. They got a name.

Peter.

"What the hell!" Tony shouted, terrified of what he had just seen.

They all knew a dying person when they saw one, and the Tony from the vision was definitely dying. Pepper grabbed his hand with tears in her eyes. Whatever his vision was, she didn't want it to become true.

"I wanted you to be better."

They heard that again. It was the mantra for this man... for Peter. Those words had dug their way into his brain. Tony could almost see the younger version ofhimself when the mantra he repeated was that he had to be as good as Captain America.

"Mr. Staaark... you are holding this wrong," Peter said with a grimace, trying to put the frame correctly in Tony's hands. But he didn't manage to do to it, because Tony grabbed him and hugged him to the picture that Happy was taking. It was a certificate of ending internship in the Stark Industries.

They smiled like idiots and they were doing bunny ears to each other.

Nobody spoke. They were still thinking about that battlefield that they just saw and Tony's death that the boy had witnessed. He can be a young man now, but in those vision, he was definitely a kid.

"Mr. Stark? I don't feel so good..." Peter said, and he had trouble walking toward Tony. Tony looked at him, terrified. He tried to be calm, but he couldn't.

"You're all right," Tony tried to convince himself.

"I don't know what's- I don't know what's happening. I don't-" he fell into Tony's arms. " I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go, Mr. Stark, please. Please, I don't wanna go. I don't wanna go..." he was repeating himself. "I'm sorry".

Then he just turned into the ash in Tony's arms. Stark looked like his whole world turned into ash in that moment.

Whatever happened to that boy... he seemed to have a long history with Tony.

"Is... no. This can't be real. What the hell... how he could just turn into ash? He was there," Tony tried to rationalize, but he just couldn't. That was too bizarre and he didn't have enough data.

Avengers seemed to be in shock. They didn't know what to say.

"Tony! You have a meeting!" They heard Pepper yell, then they saw Tony's lab. He was working with Peter on something... he had a hat with a propeller on his head.

"Yeah, I lost a bet to the underoos," he answered and spun the propeller on his head. "I'm going wear this the whole day." He rolled his eyes and Peter couldn't help himself as he started laughing.

" I swear that was not my idea. The kid has a bad influence on me." Tony put a hand on his heart. Pepper looked angry but she kinda loved that. When Tony came closer, she just kissed him for the greeting and swung the propeller on his head.

They laughed.

"Kid, don't blow up my lab when I'm gone," Tony said and left with Pepper.

Despite all the things that they watched, this one made all of them smile a little bit. They really looked like family. Avengers found it hard to image Tony in the family way, but when they looked at him in this vision, it seemed to be natural to him.

Tony was shocked... not only at that whole family thing that was shouting at him from this memory, but he left that kid alone in his lab. He trusted that kid with his tech, with his everything.

"Are you ok, Queens?" Steve asked they stood next to the lake next to Tony's home. Both Spiderman and Captain America wore black suits and ties.

"It's a stupid question to ask after the funeral," Peter murmured.

Steve didn't know how to answer that.

"The kid is right," Pepper said, looking at Captain, who looked uncomfortable in response. Yeah, it seemed to be a faux pas. Pepper was still in pain because it was finally reaching her mind that it was Tony's funeral they were talking about.

"I was dead for five years. There was a war when I died. I came back; we won. Everybody was talking about what we gained... no one will talk about what we lost," Peter answered in an angry tone.

Steve chuckled grimly

"I... said something similar to Director Fury when he asked me to join Avengers," the captain said, looking at the kid. He knew what it was like. The kid seemed to have lost less time than himself, but still.. for some reason the kid that his future-self was calling 'Queens', was believed to be dead for five years. Maybe after this ash thing?

"It seems that you have something in common," Natasha shrugged.

"I know how it feels," Steve answered. "He loved you like son, you know? When he returned from Titan... he was broken. He returned after a month in space, and his first words on Earth to me-to everybody-were 'I lost the kid.'"

"It sucks that I have to learn that from you, not from Tony himself," Peter murmured. He was just too tired to react emotionally to all of it. He was just depressed. There was too much grief inside him right now. He felt numb.

Steve smiled.

"I think that his actions spoke louder than any word he could say to you," Cap answered, and looked at Peter, who seemed to be thinking about Steve's words. His lips cracked into a single sad smile.

"I guess you're right," he answered. "So... what are you planning to do now?" Peter asked, not wanting to talk about Tony anymore.

"I have to return Infinity Stones and Thor's hammer to their right places in time. After that... I think I'm going to listen to Tony's advice for once," Steve answered sincerely, looking at the lake.

Peter raised his brow.

"He was always saying that I should go and try normal life... and I am late on one date in the past," Rogers answered.

"You know that you can mess with a lot of things?" Peter asked, just to be sure.

"I know... but I guess it is time for the first Avengers to go retire. Tony was right. We're just a bunch of old men. The Avengers needs new blood. I'm glad to see that the fate of the universe is in good hands," Steve said to Peter.

Peter seemed to not understand it; it was kinda obvious that Captain was talking about him, but Peter didn't understand this.

"Well, good luck," Peter answered.

"Good luck to you too, Queens." They shake their hands and Captain picked up a suitcase and... Thor's hammer and left.

"DID YOU SEE WHAT I SAW OR IS MY MIND JUST..."Tony didn't finish his thought.

"DID STEVE JUST PICK UP THOR'S HAMMER?!" Clint was next for the loud reaction.

"HA! I KNEW YOU WOULD BE WORTHY." Thor smiled and patted Steve's arm.

Steve seemed to be too shocked to say anything.

"I wanted you to be better."

"I. Am. Iron Man."

"I'm sorry."

"I wanted you to be better."

"I. Am. Iron Man."

"I'm sorry."

"I wanted you to be better."

"I. Am. Iron Man."

"I'm sorry."

The scenes seemed to flash.

Then Peter woke up and he jumped onto the ceiling. Literally.

Viewers looked surprised when they saw how Peter was... glued to the ceiling.

"How did he..." Banner asked.

"There had to be a reason that he was even allowed to fight," Natasha rationalized.

"Pete... are you ok?" some woman said from the other room.

"Yes May, I'm fine," Peter answered automatically. It was a Stark mannerism to say that he was fine when he wasn't just to gain some peace. He jumped back on the floor when May entered the room.

"Pete..." she looked at him with compassion. "Please... you have nightmares for weeks now. Please talk to me." She was worried.

"I... can't," he answered with a sigh. "You wouldn't understand," he added.

"So talk to somebody who will understand. To Pepper, to Happy, to Rhodey... I'm begging you, Peter," she pleaded. It seemed that this thing with nightmares and waking up on the ceiling was happening for a while.

"I'm going on patrol," Peter murmured and his nano-iron-spider suit covered his body in a second. Then, he just jumped from the window and swung away, leaving a worried May behind.

And now their thoughts returned to the point where they all were thinking about Tony's future death. Pepper was in tears now and held Tony's hand strongly. He just put an arm around her for support. He still couldn't wrap his mind around everything that they were learning from the boy's mind.

"Maybe... we should stop it right now," Tony suggested.

"What?!" some of the Avengers asked.

"I... this is future right? Maybe we shouldn't know this all..." Tony said.

"But we can save you!" Pepper said with tears in her eyes.

"... And maybe you can't. We are not getting enough data. Just scraps that are only confusing!" Tony sighed.

Peter swung around the city. He passed very low next to the bookshop and stopped for a while to look at the exposition. Some books and of course there had to be at least a few with Tony's face.

"ANTHONY STARK: FROM MERCHANT OF DEATH TO THE HERO OF THE UNIVERSE" Biography.

"IRON MAN & BLACK WIDOW: HEART AND SOUL OF THE AVENGERS" Kinda biography.

He looked briefly on the covers and swung away.

"Merchant of Death?" Thor asked and looked at Tony, surprised.

"Long story," he murmured.

"Heart and soul of the Avengers? Why would they make a book about Natasha AND Tony?" Clint asked. Stark was thinking the same thing as Natasha Natasha glanced at Tony with a knowing look.

"The only logical reason is that I died in the same battle that Tony died," Black Widow answered with a sigh.

Then Peter sat on some rooftop and looked at the big mural of Iron Man. His mask was off, showing red eyes and tears. Then scene blurred and in the next one, there was Happy and Peter, sitting in Avengers compound.

"Everywhere I go, I see his face," Peter said, looking at Happy. "I just really miss him," he added. He had been crying some time ago, and his eyes were still red.

"Yeah, I miss him too."

Tony gulped. Sometimes he believed that when he would die... nobody would mourn him. Maybe Peps and Rhodey a little bit. Happy maybe too a little. But they would move on quickly. It seemed that Peter couldn't move on so easily.

"I don't think Tony would've done what he did if he didn't know you were gonna be here after he was gone," Happy said.

Peter's face became blank.

Tony scowled.

"Not putting pressure on the kid, not at all," Tony murmured.

Others only nodded.

"You are a very difficult person to contact, Spiderman," Fury said.

"What he does he want from the kid," Tony growled.

The scene seemed to be different, but there was still Nick Fury and Peter.

"The world needs someone to fill Tony's place. Are you gonna step in, or not?" Fury asked.

The next scene appeared.

"The world needs another Iron Man," Peter admitted, before he faded and the scene was replaced by Fury.

"Peter, let me tell you something I learned hard way. There is no secret boy-band without a Stark," he said, and looked at Peter, whose brows rose in surprise.

Natasha and Tony again looked at each other; they understood what Fury was referring too. Tony was kinda touched by the sentiment.

"I'm not a Stark," Peter answered casually.

Nick looked at him, then he realized something and only smiled, as much as Fury could smile.

"Just think about my offer." Then Fury left.

"Bastard. He is just using the fact that Peter admires Tony," Pepper said. As much as Clint and Natasha wanted to disagree, they couldn't. It was too obvious.

Tony just looked at kid with compassion. Damn kid... you choose poor mentor material, he thought. Tony realized how serious the future relationship between him and Peter was and it freaked him out a bit.

Peter was standing in some living room in Tony's house at the lake. He was looking at pictures in frames. There was a picture from Pepper's and Tony's wedding, which he missed, there was a picture of Tony holding a little Morgan. A picture of Pepper, Tony and Morgan... and a picture of Peter and Tony. He smiled.

"Peter, I'm sorry. I heard about your trip," Pepper said with a worried voice and handed Peter some tea.

"Well... that is a part of the superhero life, I guess," he answered. "Funny thing happened. Fury said to me that there is no secret boy-band without a Stark... when I told him that I'm not a Stark, he looked at me in a funny way... today I learned why." Peter sighed.

Pepper looked at him, realizing something.

"I tried to delay this... give you time to grieve," Pepper said.

"I know... Thank you." He said with a sad voice. "People my age usually worry what they will do after school ends... and I need to think about how I'm going to rule the biggest company in the world," he chuckled, trying to light some mood.

"You don't have to worry about anything, for now, Pete, you are not even at the age..." Pepper answered.

"Technically I am, Mrs. Stark. I was dead by 5 years of my life, but when you look at my birthdate... I'm of age. Regulations about the snapped half came later. Fury will try to use that to give my inheritance now. He wants me to support the New Avengers Program," Peter answered with a sigh.

Pepper murmured some curses, probably about Nick.

"Even if he manages to do it. You don't have to worry about anything. I will be still there as CEO. I will help you with this mess," Pepper said with a smile. "You can go to MIT, do whatever you want. Stark Industries will be waiting for you," she added.

"Thank you, Mrs. Stark"

"Just call me Pepper"

"Ok, Mrs. Stark."

Hello! Like always, I'm starting new fic few days before premiere of the movie that will totally destroy my concept probably, but who cares!

I hope you enjoyed it.

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