Chapter 1

A New Iron Man

Hello there everyone, I am Andrew Stark the adopted son of one Tony Stark aka Iron Man. I am currently 19 years old, with short black hair, deep blue eyes and pale skin. My story is not a happy one let's get that straight, my father was a solider that was killed in battle years ago. As for my mom she died giving birth to me, so I was literally an orphan at birth, so once I was born I placed into an orphanage in Queens, Manhattan and I lived there for most of my life. Luckily it wasn't bad the orphanage was actually nice with plenty of kids to be friends with, but as time went on the kids were adopted one by one … all expecting me. As time passed I began to lose my interest in making friends and kept to myself, but as I got older I began to realize I was smarter then I appeared in fact I was practically a child genius. When I was 10 years old I was already learning quantum physics and Advanced Robotics and when I turned 15 I actually accidently hacked the Pentagon and they were none the wiser, expect for one person.

You see when I turned 16 I was considered a child prodigy, in all these science, and it was on this day my life changed forever. I was chilling in my room one day, solving my 100 by 100 Rubik Cube for like the fifth time this week until I got a knock on my room catching me by surprise. Once I told the person to come in and I was shocked to see none other but Tony Stark himself. I will admit I admire Tony so much not just because he was Iron Man but also the fact he was by far one of the most intelligent people on the planet, and it turned out Tony found out about my little hack into Pentagon. At first I thought Tony was going to arrest me here and now, but instead he said he was impressed with me, he even said that I reminded me of himself in his younger years. After talking for a bit, mostly about science and his time as Iron Man, he decided he wanted to take me under his wing and give me the one thing I never had… a home. So after the paperwork was finalized I was official adopted by Tony Stark himself, and boy was I ecstatic.

Once I moved in with Tony I couldn't help but enjoy my new life, being rich had it perks but the really fun was actually working with Tony in his lab. Although I have to admit the first year with Tony was hard due to his party life and his busy schedule being owner of Stark Industries, but over time him and I really started to connect even to the point where I helped him design the Mark 42 armor for him. Once I turned 18 me and Tony started feel like son and father and made many new inventions together, but that all changed when … he came.

Thanos, the mad titan and his crazy quest for the Infinity Stones, when dad went into space I have to admit I was scared for him but I knew deep down he would win…how wrong I was. One day while I was tinkering in our lab until suddenly I felt this tingling feeling in my body and before I knew it I actually became one off the victims of the Snap as people called it. Then as soon as it happened I was back or so I thought because when I came back 2 years had passed. Then I got an alert on my phone telling me about the attack on Avengers HQ. Seeing the battle unfold on the news I knew I couldn't just stand by and do nothing, luckily I wouldn't be. As I watched the news on the battle a glowing portal appeared in my house where one Doctor Strange asked me join the fight which I accepted in a heartbeat. So I donned my dad's old Mark 42 armor, which I repaired, and joined the fight with the Avengers, despite my parents' wishes. We all fought hard to save world, hoping to stop Thanos but as the battle went on I couldn't help but notice Thanos getting his hands on the Nano-gauntlet that my dad made, with all six infinity stones, ready to snap only to my shock I saw dad grab the gauntlet thinking he was trying to remove it but Thanos just swatted him away. He then raised his hand fingers ready to snap, I then shut my eyes tight waiting for it to happen…but nothing came. When I looked I saw something even more devastating … my dad had the Stones. I yelled at him trying to tell him not to do it but in the end he did … he snapped.

As you know Tony died that day protecting the world, no the universe, from Thanos and now he was gone. After the funeral Mom became the new owner of Stark Industries, while I kept to myself mostly and spent most of my time tinkering in our…my lab. One day I sat in front of the T.V. watching the news seeing as how I almost have nothing better to do, but then I saw it terrorists, buildings on fire and people losing their hope. Seeing this I realized something, the world needed more heroes, ones who will stop at nothing to save the world like my dad did. With thought in my head I decided to become the new Iron Man, a better Iron Man, one that my father could be proud of, so I spent countless days in my lab researching and planning so that I can create a new Iron Man suit, one that exceeds my dad's expectations.

Then after so long, after many sleepless nights and tiring mornings I did it, I made my new armor. This armor was a combination of all my father's amours into one, with shapeshifting abilities so that it can form any weapon that I can think of, a self-repair system so that come back even from total destruction and even can change color and size to adapt for any mission. With an armor this strong I could only think of one name to give it, Mark 90 aka Prime. From that day forward I began my days as the new Iron Man and protected the world like he would, and over time I built other armors as well to use which I dubbed the Ninety's due to them being labeled Mark 90 to 96. After a year a began to be recognized as the new Iron Man and even became a member of the Avengers, well what's left of them anyway, but my true test as Iron Man would soon begin.

One day I was browsing through my dad's old files and found something interesting. A blueprint for an Inter-dimensional gateway, weirdly enough it was scraped and placed in the folder labeled Bad Ideas. So against my better judgment I decided to build the gateway, hoping to achieve something that even my dad couldn't do. So after many days the Gateway was complete, I did all the calculations and knew my math was right. So without further delay I flipped the switch and powered the Gateway up. At first everything was going well but then something went wrong, the portal began to destabilize and started sucking almost everything into the event horizon. I tried to fight back as hard as I could but in the end I couldn't escape the vortex and I was sucked in and those began my true journey as Iron Man.