The Stark Of Legend

by BlackDragonDevilGod

What if Tony Stark had a son? What if that said son was not only a genius like him but had a certain deck of heroes? What if they met before the events of Loki's invasion and the birth of the Avengers? Before Peter Parker donned on the mask of Spider Man? Before they found Steven Rogers? His name is Xero Stark and this is his legend.

8. Until Dawn Arc 3

Hello my ever lovely peeps!

The fifth chapter is up, yay!

First order of business is i really appreciate all the support i got for my grandma's passing. I'd like you all to know, is she went in her sleep and peacefully. It's been rough but can't say i'm too sad, she's buried next to grandpa like she wanted and as an unexpected surprise, in her will she left me her old house. Yeah it needs some work, but the place is solid, no draft and the roof doesn't leak at all. Never the less, the place needs work, both the house and the land but i can be done and it's something me and my dad can do ourselves, so some light at the end of the tunnel.

So moving on, as you may have noticed, i disable the ability to vote as i'm pretty damn sure i know who's going to win. So don't be to surprised about that fact, as if you want to see a female Gil's, just check out my new story:

Hunter Of Fate(Reboot)

Anyway the final poll count was this:

80 all together.

52 for male.

28 female.

So male wins.

Because of this, i created HOF, as a spin off of this story. But it's more or less based around humor then seriousness of this story and it's crossovered with Rwby rather then Marvel. But after some talking with my beta-reader, i decide to do something a little more...different then what i originally planned. But i may change my mind again. So i'll stop with my rant and let you all read this new chapter, as always i don't own Marvel or Fate-verse.

So please, read, review and "What the fuc-BOOM"

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Chapter 5: Return To The Nightmare Part 3 And The Mother's Love

"Had enough?"

On a broken and dead world, two figures stood across form one another. Both were bleeding, their clothing(armor) was torn and both were clearly tried form a long fight but still determined to win. One was a massively tall purple humaniod. He wore a simple black sleeveless shirt and gray pants. He was bald, with black pupils eyes and had a golden gauntlet on his right hand, with three glowing stones in it.

The other, was of a young man with long black hair and sliver streaks in his hair. He had amethyst colored eyes with an small gold ring around his pupils. He had lightly tanned skin and signs of a beard growing on his face. He wore slick, black armor with red lines and a red wolf, howling within a spiked circle painted over his arc reactor. He had a black and purple Death Scythe, with a purple stone in the base of the weapon.

It was glowing and pulsing with power.

So much in fact, it was spreading throughout both the armor and skin, making his veins viable and making his eyes glow with power as well.

The one who spoke was the armored one, while the purple skinned one merely chuckled and whipped the blood form his chin.

"Not even close. I must admit, you are stronger then you're father, Xero Mazoku/Stark."

The known now Xero stiffed and narrowed his eyes,"You know me?"

"I do. You're not the only one that is a harbinger of death, Grimm Reaper."

The giant said, as Xero stayed silent, wondering how the Mad Titan, Thanos knew this. Seeing as Xero wasn't going to speak, Thanos continued,"What i don't understand is why you try to stop me. We are both killers, we kill to save lives."

"I don't kill indiscriminately."

Xero growled, his eyes narrowing into silts,"I don't commit genocide. I kill to save lives."

"As do i. Come now, me and you're father aren't the only ones cursed with knowledge. What's the worth of a few lives, compared to many more?"

"It doesn't matter."

Xero growled out, looking Thanos in the eye,"Genocide is wrong. Just because something could happen, doesn't mean it will and i will stop you."

Thanos just gave Xero a smile,"You will try and fail, just like you're father."

Something snapped in Xero, as his magic exploded around him and swirled around him, like a tornado of power.

"RRRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAARRRRRR"

Xero roared and launched forward, raising Shin, while Thanos charged forward to met his attack with his own.

Line Break

Inside a hidden Sanctum, in Hong Kong, sat a bald woman.

She wore plain yellow robes and had her eyes closed, as if sleeping. She sat cross legged, in a meditation position. A green light showered the woman, as a golden necklace with a green gem in the middle of it. She flinched a bit and her eyes slowly opened up to reveal brown eyes. She sighed and got up, as the necklace's 'eye' closed and the green glow vanished.

"Teacher, is everything okay?"

A dark skinned, tall man asked the woman. He wore black combat robes, with a staff on his back. The woman looked at him and merely,"I do not know. Once again i try to see into the future and it's muddled, unclear. All the paths i use to see are still blurry, as they have been for the past five years."

The man stayed silent, thinking over the info he got when his teacher spoke again.

"However one image still remains the same."

The man perked up and asked,"The one with the Grimm Reaper fighting-"

"The purple titan? Yes, it's still the same."

The bald woman said, cutting off her student. She pressed her lips and said,"Only now it's changed again. The boy is wearing a suit of armor, similar to that of Stark's."

"Stark? As in Iron Man, Tony Stark?"

The man asked, as the woman nodded. She silently moved her hand around, creating a portal like mirror to appear before the two. It showed an older Xero, with a five o'clock shadow on his face. His eyes were still amethyst but had an amber ring around his pupils, while his pitch black hair now had six sliver streaks going through his hair, like lightening bolts. His skin remained the same but it was now pulsing with power, his veins having a purple hue to them, as his upgraded scythe had a purple stone in the base of it.

The armor he wore, was like Tony's Iron man suit, only his was black with red lines on the arms and legs. It had Xero's personal symbol of a wolf howling, painted red and over the arc reactor. His mask was broken off, so one could see the glare he had on his face. He roared out and charged at a large humaniod like creature with light purple skin, a bald head and wore a simple sleeveless shirt and black pants. His most prominent feature was the golden gauntlet on his right hand. What stood out about it, was the colorful stones in the gauntlet.

To anyone else, they may appear to be nothing more then just that, stones.

But the duo knew better however.

Those weren't normal stones, they were four of the six infinity stones. Why and how the large humaniod man gained them was worrying enough. But now seeing the young man fighting him, with his own infinity stone, only made the two feel like there was FAR more going on, then just him making it impossible to see into the future.

"This does not bode well for us. What does it mean, teacher?"

The man asked, as his teacher merely stayed silent. She stared at the image of the boy and spoke, mostly to herself,"Perhaps...you'll be the one to save us all, Xero Mazoku/Stark."

A storm was coming.

A large one and this young man will be in the center of it all.

Elsewhere In Upstate New York

Inside a mansion, that was located on the upper west side of New York, that acted as school and home for many lost mutant of all kinds form kids to adults. Inside the mansion, on the second floor hallway was a tall, well muscled man, with brown/black hair, brown eyes and sideburns going down to his chin, making it look like a beard with no mustache. He was staring out the window. He wore a simple white t-shirt with blue jeans and boots. The man's mind was in turmoil, as he absentmindedly starched behind Fou's ear.

This man was known as Logan aka Wolverine of the X-men and a personal friend of the Grimm Reaper, Xero.

"I don't need to be a mind reader to see something bothering you."

Logan blinked and looked behind him, as Fou 'fou'd' and jumped into the lap of an older man. He was completely bald with, with sky blue eyes and an aura of friendliness around him. He wore a simple black suit and was confined to a wheelchair. Said man merely chuckled and starched Fou behind his ear and said,"Hello to you too Fou. If you're here, i'm guessing our old friend has gotten himself into trouble again?"

"Fou, fou."

"Ah i see, so he's on a rescue mission with his newly found father?"

The white squirrel nodded and curled up into a ball, deciding to take a nap on the older man's lap. Logan merely smirked,"Guess Fou's found himself a new sleeping place, eh professor?"

This man was none other then Charles Xavier aka Professor X and leader/founder of the X-men. Xavier nodded his head with a smile on his face,"I do believe you're right."

Then gained a serious look and said,"You know Xero will be fine. This is something we helped train him for and he's more then proven he can handle himself."

Logan nodded and sighed, as he put his hand under his chin.

"Oh trust me, i know. I helped train the kid and spent six mouths with him, i know full well what's he capable of."

"But?"

The professor asked with a raised eyebrow, as Logan's frown deepen.

"I can't help but feel like something bad is going to happen there. My instincts are screaming at me that something is going to go down and it will either make or break the kid."

"And you've always trusted them."

A chuckle followed,"It's keep me alive this long hasn't it?"

"Yes it has. I have no doubt you're instincts would steer you wrong now Logan. But we should have some faith in our young friend."

Logan shook his head,"I do Chuck. I just hate leaving him alone when we could do something to help."

The older man nodded his head, petting Fou's sleeping form.

"I understand and i do feel the same, but at the moment we would be of very little help. If nothing else, we probably only get in the way. The best we can do is wait and help him back up, when he falls."

Logan saw no reason to disagree with that. Looking back out the window, Logan could only wish his young friend good luck.

He had a nagging feeling Xero was going to need it, to weather the incoming storm.

"Besides"

Xavier continued with a smirk on his face,"he put up with you for six mouths after all."

Logan merely laughed at that.

Can't deny that.

Location Unknown, Eight Hours Before Departure Towards Blackwood Mountain

"Alright Kotomine, why did you bring us here?"

A white/sliver haired, tan skinned, golden eyed young man clad in red looked at the assassin class servant with his usual smile. If Jeanne D'Arc, a Ruler class servant was leader of the female fraction of his dear master's servants then it would make sense that he, Shiro Amkusa/Kotomine, a Ruler class servant, was the leader of the male fraction of Xero's servants.

Despite them being outnumber ten to one by the females.

Looking around at his brother's in arms, Shirou look upon some of the greatest men to ever walk the earth. Two were his look alike, an Assassin and Archer class servant respectively:

Shirou EMYIA or Namless and his father the Magi killer, Kiritsuga EMYIA. The two men really looked alike and like him, with tan skin and white/sliver hair, though the father and son had steel gray eyes as opposed to his golden ones. Nameless hair was slicked back a bit and Kiritsug hair was spiky like his own, only Shirou's hair was longer and went past his shoulders.

Moving form the two EMYIA'S, the Ruler class servant looked to the smiling blond boy known as King Arthur Pendragon, the first(And only) male version of Artoria that their master summoned. Like Artoria he had short blonde hair, green eyes and fair skin. He wears the standard armor of a knight. The armor parts are silver in color. While the tunics part are blue. He also has a black and white hood attached to the back of the armor part of his neck.

Besides himself, Arthur was one of the closet to their shared master and Xero considered him as his best friend. This was mostly due to the fact, Arthur was one of the first male servants summoned and the fact there both complete dorks.

Or maybe because Xero often threw Arthur at Irisviel when neither EMYIA'S were willing to do it.(Ergo, run away form there master when she got like that) This happened when the woman had a...episode, so to speak and tried to force Xero to marry her.

Much to the angry of MANY of the female servants.

Really Shirou failed to see why his master just didn't throw Lancelot or Hercules at her.

"Oh right."

The man thought to himself, his eyebrows twitching a bit despite his ever present smile staying in place,"Cause when she gets like that, she'd mop the floor with both of them."

Four star caster or not, that damn woman was damn bloody scary when she wanted to be. He didn't even know why Irisviel started pursuing their master, only that Kiritsugu and Irsviel parted on good terms. Working better as friends, rather then lovers as while they did love each other, they weren't IN love with one another. This lead to the woman turning her sights on Xero.

Something the Assassin class servant said, quite openly and loudly:

"I pity you."

Irisviel was a wonderful woman and wonderful mother to boot, but the woman had a few screws loose in her head, to say the least. Which would explain why Chloe was the way she was, when it came to perving on their master.

Never the less, the man looked at the rest of the assembled servants and Shirou had to admit, his master gained one hell of a fighting force:

Karna the five star Lancer, his rival and the five star Archer class, Arjuna.

The two can be one hell of a deadly force when working together...when they're not trying to kill each other or show the other one up in front of their master. Rivals in life and to death, the two will fight until the end of time itself.

Well Arjuna would, Karna kinda just doesn't even try to stop him.

Arjuna was a perfectionist. He was always careful with his pursuits and did his absolute best for his master, no matter what it was. Even if that meant he had to work with his rival, Karna and he was very reluctant to do so.

But he would put up with it, for Xero's sake if nothing else.

As for Karna the Lancer class servant was passive by nature and humble. Because he was such a desirable servant, the man enjoyed peace and quite when he could. He wasn't the type to start a fight but he wasn't willing to let his master get hurt and would fight the entire goddamn world if he needed to do so, in order to protect his master.

And unlike Arjuna, he was more then willing to work with his eternal rival.

Next was a self proclaimed 'Newbie servant' a saber, five star class servant by the name of Charlemagne or Charlie for short. Energetic and enthusiastic in every thing he does, the saber class servant lights up whatever room he walked in with his cheery attitude and since Xero is his very first master, he considered there bond to be very special and unique. Another was Astolfo a four star rider class servant, one of Charlemagne's twelve paladins and a bit of an airhead.

Though Shirou wouldn't say it out load, he honestly believe the pink haired rider just simply had no common sense.

Something Xero was inclined to believe himself.

But he was a loyal little guy and since there master had put so much trust into a "Weak servant like me" Astolfo often tries to go above and beyond to fulfill his master's orders. Despite his cheerfulness, the pink haired boy has some severe low self esteem issues and quite a few of them were caused by his former master's treatment of him.

It in fact made it much more worse.

Xero spent a great deal of time(Along with Jeanne, Charlie, Chevalier and Mash) building the Rider's self esteem back up, Astolfo has grown stronger then he thought possible and it showed, as he did everything he could to help Xero.

Often enlisting(COUGHDRAGGINGCOUGH) his king, Charlie and his best friend, Chevalier d'eon into it.

Chaos often follows.

It didn't help that both Astolfo and Chevalier were the most sexually confusing servants in Xero's entire deck of heroes. Speaking of Chevalier, the french Saber man, woman? Had often helped out his master in both his swordsman ship, keeping a cool head and even learning how to speak and act like royalty. It let Xero slip in and out of many incidents involving other country's custom's, since the Saber had been all over the world.

The lessons had keep needless blood form being shed.

Even Shirou himself had taught his master, how to use his natural charisma to get in and out of countries customs and import. Something the Ruler class servant prided himself on, being able to help his master reach his full potential.

Looking at the rest of the male servants, the Ruler class servant saw Iskandar a five star Rider, Gawain a four star Saber, Robin Hood a three star Archer, Lancelot a four star Berserker, Darius the Third a three star Berserker, Heracles a four star Berserker, Cu Chulainn a three star Lancer, Charles-Herni Sanson a two star assassin and a five star Archer Gilgamesh.

So altogether that makes himself, Shirou, Arthur, Karna, Arjuna, Shirou/Namless EMYIA, Kiritsugu, Charlie, Astolfo, Sanson, Chevalier, Iskandar, Gawain, Robin, Lancelot, Gilgamesh, Darius and finally Cu. So yeah the male's were very much outnumbered by all the female servants.

Seeing no reason to beat around the bush, the Ruler class servant decide to be blunt,"As i'm sure you are all aware, our fellow female servants are going to soon be pinning for our master's heart."

They all nodded, even the crazed Berserker's, as Cu voiced his own thoughts,"Yeah were aware. Damn master's bloody damn lucky to have mistress pinning for him, but they're kill him for certain with all that love they'll give him."

He joked the last part, only for the only Ruler class servant to gain a hard steel to his eyes.

"Joking or not, Lancer of Blue that is a very for real possibility. Master, despite how far he has come, is still a human being and as a human, he is breakable."

"But aren't we all breakable, Shirou?"

The pink haired rider asked, titling his head cutely as the white haired man sighed,"Yes we are Astolfo, but we die, we merely go back to the throne and wait for master to re-summon us. Meaning-"

"If master dies, it's game over for us all."

Arthur finished for him, making the red clad Ruler nod. Servants needed a master to exist in the world and if the master dies, they will simple go back to the Throne Of Heroes. Never the less, the male servants all could agree, if there fellow servants weren't careful, they could end up killing him!

A fact no one liked.

While they knew the female servants wouldn't do it on purpose, love makes you do crazy things.

"So what do we do?"

Asked D'eon, as Ruler gave the french saber a hard look,"We do what we have to do, in order to ensure their fighting doesn't get too out of control and make sure our master doesn't get killed in the process. They are maidens with incredible power and all but blinded by their desire for our master's heart. Some aren't above using dirty means to obtain said heart and may end up killing him in the process. So we must protect our master and to do so, we must learn how they plan on getting his heart."

"How?"

Charlie asked with a strained and guilty look on his face. He really hated the idea of sneaking around and going behind the female servants backs. It was so NOT COOL,"I mean big sis Tamamo won't reveal anything on how she plans to win our master's heart, let alone any of the other females."

He then shivered and rubbed his arms, as if cold, while sweat dropped down his forehead,"Plus Gorgon scares me."

Everyone shivered at the mention of the Avenger class servant and one of the WORST monsters in all of Greek mythology. Never the less, Shirou shook of his fear and said,"Simple"

The Ruler class servant said with a smile. This sent even more shivers up D'eon's spine and not because of Gorgon either. It was then the dark skinned man sent him a smile, one that didn't bode well for him,"We send in a spy."

Back To The Present

"Poor Chevalier."

Cu thought to himself, his mind going back to the meeting the males had on how they plan to keep there favored master alive form the coming civil war for his heart. It was decided(More like ordered really) that the blonde saber would infiltrate one of the alliances made by the girls and keep tabs on them and report back to the others, so they can plan and act accordingly.

This was mostly because of his, her's? own experience in blending into enemy territory and because of the fact, they're very girly. It was either him or Astolfo and since the latter was well okay, a moron, the guys decide Chevalier was the best choice. The saber agreed rather quickly, as long as it helped his master, he had no problem with putting on a dress and doing what he needed to do.

Though he did blush bright red, when he learned that in order to infiltrate he had to help them try to win the master's heart. It made all the guys very suspicious of his TRUE intentions. But with little options they had and the fact there only other choice was the pink haired Rider, it was a no brainer.

Gorgon, Jean and BB would cause chaos on there own. However with them all working together and teaming up for ANY reason what so ever...

It'll be the end of days as we known it.

Oh.

Right, it was funny enough, Chevalier who found out the girls had made alliances with one by pure chance. Being the loving and loyal saber he is, he told the other male servants after he overheard Elizabeth Bathory(The Lancer one) talking with her older self, the Blood Countess Carmilla. The younger version was complaining(Which is nothing new) about having to share "Puppy" with the other girls. She also expressed concern about how some of the Avenger servants, like Medusa Gorgon and Jean teaming up with BB of all people, with her alter egos, Passionlip and Meltlilith.

It's a wonder why the sky hasn't started raining hell fire yet.

The alliances were formed to help each girl better there chances at getting there master's heart and quite possible to wad up some of there rivals, so Chevalier would need to be careful to not got caught by any of them. But Cu still couldn't help but pity the blonde,"While i agree with Shirou, Mistress would just kill anyone who got in her way and those damned female Berserker's weren't afraid to try and rape master too. Especially Raikou and even Penthesilea. Hell i'm sure that snake woman would try it, if she got the chance and Jean."

He mentally sighed,"D'eon probably get himself killed if he's caught but hell far, better him then me."

"Man this place is as creeper as ever."

Cu was knocked out of his thoughts, as Emily spoke up. Walking through the dark tunnel, with Atalanta walking closely beside her. No one saw fit to disagree with her, as Tony used his arc reactor to light the way. Mike had a flare in his hand and Sam had a torch, while Nero had a small flame in her hand. So far, everything was going good.

Olga had yelled at her master for a good ten minutes, before calming down. But only because Xero hugged her tight, which made her face redder then a tomato and whispered some sweet things into her ear, promise to never do that again. Telling her that he would never let anything hurt her and if it did, they'd be hell to pay. Olga wanted to refute that statement, she was the servant and Xero the master.

Their roles were suppose to be reversed, but she couldn't find it in herself to say otherwise. And despite how mad he made her, Olga could never stay mad at him for long.

She just simply loved the idiot too much for such things.

Was Xero a bonehead and idiot?

Yes.

But he was her idiot.

But that didn't mean Olga thought he was stupid, it's been proven time and time again, he is a genius. Just when it comes to things like love and other normal things, he's a dummy at it. He's never lived a normal life and because of his past he wasn't all that well adjusted to being normal. His mother's abuse didn't help either and it severely fucked him up. Although he doesn't show it or even realize it himself, he actually DID care for his mother despite what she had done to him.

He had, on a subconscious level, pushed away all the love/pain he felt for Lilith deep within his own mind and threw away the key. Many of the servants feared one day those gates, holding back the resentment/love he felt for the woman will one day break and hit him.

Hard.

As much as they wanted to help him, they could only help when he asked for it. Till then they would be there for him, when he needed it. It didn't help he was stubborn as a damned bull and wouldn't do something if he didn't want to do it. Personally Artoria believed he spent too much time around Fran and Penthesilea. It also didn't help that he believed it showed weakness and as a master, he couldn't afford to show weakness.

Something many of the past Kings/leaders understood all too well.

If a king/leader showed any type of weakness, could effect those who follow them. A leader needed to remain unmovable, not phased by anything. A heavy burden to be a leader, as all it takes is one wrong choice and you're people die.

All it takes is one wrong choice and thousands die or worse.

Back to the present, after making sure everything was good, they all processed into the mine and for the past forty-three minutes there was no sign of trouble. Or anything else for that matter.

No sign of any Wendigo, either old or the newly mutant'd ones. But sadly, so sign or hair of any survivor's either.

Never the less, everyone was tense, most of all the survivors. The silence was killing them, they would rather have sound of things crawling up the wall or screehing. Just ANYTHING other then this bloody fucking silence.

"Something's wrong."

Xero thought to himself, looking around the, for what it was, clean cave. There wasn't a hint nor sign of Wendigo's or humans. Now that sounds like a good thing, but it's really not. As there SHOULD have been signs of a battle.

Bullet casings.

Pools of blood.

Bodies torn to pieces.

Marks on the walls.

That should have been some signs, anything, yet there is nothing. That is what was worrying Xero more then anything. Perhaps they simply ended up in a different tunnel and section of the mine, where the battle didn't take place?

Was there EVEN a battle to began with?

Or was it something more, something far more darker happening here?

"Master."

Xero was knocked out of his thoughts, when the King Of Knights placed her hand on his shoulder,"Are you okay?"

Xero sighed, running a hand down his mask,"No i am not. This place...there's something just not right about it. First came the disappearances without warning and then there's the warning that Saber servant gave me. Next their is dark mana in the air, one that is so potent that it nearly made me kneel over. Adding into this, we found Wendigo when they're should be NONE LEFT. Not only are they very much alive but have more number's and somehow mutant'd as well. Making them stronger then ever. Everything about this situation stinks to high heaven."

He turned his head to met Artoria's gaze through his lens,"Can't you see something is wrong!"

"Whoa, clam down kid."

Rhodey said, trying to keep the group form getting anymore tense. But he was failing as Xero's words made everyone(Himself included) even more tense and more trigger finger happy.

Though to be honest, he can't blame him.

"Well find them master."

Jeanne said, putting a comforting hand on Xero's shoulder,"Well find them and they'll be find. They'll just have to wait a little longer."

"Never the less"

Cu said, as his red eyes scanned the cave looking for anything that dare to make a move, acting every bit of the attack dog he was trained to be,"Form what master told us and these three, we should have been hearing scarping against the wall at least. Master's right, this entire situation stinks and there is something more going on here."

"Aye, this entire thing screams of a trap. Oh master, if only you had enough mana to summon ME. Then i'd blow those Scallywag's away! Hahah"

Xero sighed internally,"Drake...not everything needs to be blown away. The arena is unstable enough as it is. We don't need anything making it worse."

He didn't need to see her face, to see the pout on her scared face.

"BOO! You never let me have any fun!"

"Blowing things up, isn't my idea of fun."

"It's mine. Really master, you need to lighten up!"

Xero mentally shook his head, god lord above she just wanted an excuse to use her cannons. He knew it and she knew.

The one who spoke this, was the five star female rider servant, Sir Francis Drake aka The King Of Ghost. While a pirate, she is a generous woman. Easy going and loved a good drink. But she was all business when it came to her master though. She was the kind of servant that was loyal upon something, like Medusa, and very easy to get along with.

Being a pirate in her past life, the woman loved to take the "Riches and booty they plunder form the enemy" so to speak. She was a heavy drinker and adored get rich, quick schemes. She didn't care if they failed or not, they were simply fun to do. That and Xero had to keep his eye on his wallet, otherwise he might find himself short of cash.

When Xero goes raiding places, he leaves Drake in charge of what goes and what doesn't. He often had the money and stolen good returned to the people who either lost it or needed it and Drake was the best person to figure out where goes where. Despite being a greedy woman, she couldn't stand to see those who rob and stolen of their personal possessions for something they couldn't control.

A pirate she may be, but she wasn't a monster.

"Indeed something is wrong here."

A normally happy and boosting voice spoke up with a underline of concern in it. Then a monotone tone of voice spoke after that.

"I...agree. Something is very off."

After Drake spoke, two more female pirates agreed with the legendary sailor, Anne Bonny and Mary Read. The two pirates were a pair, when Xero first summoned them and naturally shocked the hell out of him. But upon learning WHO they were, it made a lot more sense to him. The legends depicted the two to be inseparable and were naturally counted as two servants for one.

Anne was the more talkative and full of life, while Mary was quite and focused. The pair of pirates did everything together and were very easy to get along with, like Drake. Though if you did something bad to one, the other one will make you're life a living hell. Naturally as pirates the three are often found talking to one another, telling of tales of their past lives with their beloved master and of course, plundering booty. And unknown to Xero, they had a new target to plunder booty form:

Him.

Despite the pack they all agreed to, the other female servants failed to realize one thing:

They're PIRATES!

Meaning they do and take as they please. Now normally Drake would have just rocked her master's world, as he had wormed his way into her heart, but their were some problems with this plan. Namely the fact there master, while a healthy teenage boy was completely oblivious to the fact, they all loved him. That said heart that had stolen her's, wouldn't date a single servant if he knew it would hurt the rest. While she liked that fact, it put a severe dent in her plans, as she wasn't the only to fall for the master.

The dummy was an unwilling charming man and if ordered, many of his female servants would gladly fuck him in public and without care. It was almost scary at the power he held over them WITHOUT the command seals. But never the less as servants they were swore to follow their master's orders.

No matter what it was.

Another reason why they fell for him is because many servants were very much traumatized by both their past and past master's. Both male and female, Xero helped them work past their issues. He sat down with them, listen to what really happened to them to cause such heartache and pain and did his best to ease the pain. While he wasn't able to erase the pain, he was able to help ease it.

Which earned him quite a few points with them all.

Now back to Drake, she is a five star servant and a pretty damn good one at that, they're were SEVERAL OTHER five star and even Avenger class servant's that would burn the three so badly not even ash would remain. It didn't help that among them were Jeanne D'Arc, her evil counter Jeanne D'Altar(Or Jean as their master called her) that damned Moon Cancer servant BB, her altar ego's and all the Artoria's as well.

That was only naming a few of them too.

Each one was formidable on their own, but working together?

The three pirates might as well dig their own graves at that point.

Oh and another one was Minamoto no Yoshitsune aka Raiko.

Enough said there.

So they would stay their claim.

For now.

Back to the present, Xero simply gripped his hands together and prayed nothing bad would happen. Though his luck was like Emyia's, horrible when it came to things like this. Like how he acquired Chloe Von Einzbern, a four star Archer class servant and for all intents and purposes, a younger female version of Emyia Archer.

Xero shivered at that thought of her.

The moment he laid eyes on her, he knew she was trouble.

He liked to think he was a reasonable and patient man. He had to be, putting up with so many of his servants shenanigans. But everyone had a limit to how much they could take and being trapped in a bloody fucking magical girl world...a guy can only take so much before he wanted to bash his skull into the wall till he bleed out. He barely made it a week, one more day, hell one more second and he would have order Chloe and or Astolfo to kill him.

One man was simply not meant to stomach that much cute and girly stuff. Especially with a bunch of cute and underage girls that made him think he was going to jail for sure, every time he had to talk to them.

Astolfo himself was, surprise surprise, right at home inside what Xero had dubbed,"Magical girl dimension". A place never, EVER wanted to see again. Much to Xero's shame, the entire time he was there he felt like he was going to Hell for certain, form just being around Illya and the others.

Chloe most of all, as that girl had a mischievous streak miles long and he often thought she teamed up with BB to cause mischief for him. When Chloe smiled, it was never a good thing for him and that damnable AI most certainly didn't help. He was pretty sure she became his servant for the soul purpose of causing him trouble and bulling him, in her own way.

When she does help and not play her "Villain" role, victory was all but guaranteed. Despite only being a four star servant she and she alone, holds the title of Moon Cancer servant and was a sadist too. She could destroy the world on a whim and with it being the digital age, she was one of his most deadliest servants and as much as he hated it, he couldn't place his full trust in her.

She was just too dangerous.

He really wanted to as part of his power came form a strong bond between master and servant. It was imperative he build a healthy relationship with each and every single servant he had under his command to ensure victory. That included trust and having full trust in one another could be the deciding factor between life and death.

But sadly BB was one of those servants that Xero couldn't fully place his trust in. Really he shouldn't be putting ANY trust in her at all but he has and that fact has made BB decide to act accordingly.

Even if as of late, she has been going above and beyond to impress her "Senpai", something Xero couldn't fathom why. BB was the little devil type, liking to play the role of the villain and torment Xero whenever she got the chance. But that doesn't mean she would let anything bad happen to him. Plus she knew he had bad days and knew when to back off. It was a mentally of:

"I'm the only one allowed to bully you. Anyone else, will face my wrath."

Way of thinking. Though like all the other servants(And despite his better judgement) he helped BB reach her peak and top form, along with placing a lot of trust in her to have his back, when the time calls for it. So naturally and unknown to Xero was the fact he was willing to trust her despite her history BB had decide to make her Senpai her's. She knew all about the pack and rather the been disgusted and pissed about other servants bidding for HER Senpai, she found the whole thing amusing.

After all, what could these low level, bugs for servants do against a boss-type kouhai like her?

And of course she get her darling underlings, Meltlilith and Passionlip to help her. In case you didn't get the memo, BB does have a bit of a yandere side to her, in wanting HER Senpai and wouldn't hesitate to use any and all methods at her disposal. Even if that meant he would have a harem, BB wouldn't care, as she wanted to be the TOP girl.

If nothing else to prove she was the best.

And often got into fights with Mashu trying to decide who the "Best Kouhai" really was? Something Xero personally found hilarious to watch, as did everyone else. At least they did until spells and Noble Phantasm's started flying.

Best to take cover.

"Are we even going the right way, Umn?"

Once again, Xero was knocked out of his thoughts, as Nero poss the question.

Mike sighed, as he ran a hand through his black hair,"Honestly Miss Saber, i don't know. When me and Sam came down here, we were looking for Josh. We made sure to memorize every detail of the route we went through but i don't recall seeing this part of the mine. Em?"

"I wouldn't know. Was kinda running for my life and all, so i didn't have time to sight see Mike."

Emily said, her tone thick with sarcasm. Mike flinched at that but said nothing, making Nero raise an elegant eyebrow.

Old wounds huh?

Or was it just teenage drama?

She had heard about such things and couldn't fathom why such a thing could exist nor did she care to find out why it existed.

"Well it could be worse. This cave could have been crawling with creepy crawlies, that have a need to scream because of their baldness."

Tony joked, trying to lighten the mood. Which worked as his joke made many snort in laughter. Cu crackled at that and Xero crack a smile under his mask. That was true, Xero had more then once thought the Wendigo scream, simply because they're ugly, balled and blinded. So with that thought in mind and because he was the one who was the sassy one of the group(Next to Artroia alter) he spoke his own joke,"Yeah, maybe it's that or they have terrible diarrhea."

"Psshhh. Ha, good one kid."

Clint laughed, patting Xero on the back, as the others laughed a little. The tension in the air went down a bit at the jokes, but it didn't completely go away, as everyone stayed on guard. However something was bugging Coulson for a while now. Needing answers, otherwise it would drive him insane he looked at Stark Jr. and said,"You said the Wendigo spirit leaves the body upon 'death' right?"

"Yeah..."

Xero said tensely, as he felt something drop into his stomach. Why did he suddenly feel like Coulson was about to say something real bad.

"Then, shouldn't the spirits left those Wendigo you killed earlier. Form the way you described it, we should have seen them leave the bodies."

Silence hung in the air, as no one had an answer to that. Coulson was right, the spirits SHOULD have left the bodies, but they didn't. The fact they didn't, combining that with the dark mana in the air and there sudden mutation did nothing to settle anyone's nerves. None of it fit and it was putting everyone on edge even more. The silence didn't help either.

Why didn't the spirits of the Wendigo come out?

What was with the dark mana in the air?

Why were they monsters mutant'd?

Was it somehow all connected and if it was, why?

Finally breaking the silence, as it would make everyone more stressed out, Xero glanced at his archer.

"Archer, can you smell anything yet?"

Her sense of smell was only second to Logan's and she's used it for far longer then he has. The Neko Archer sniffed the air a bit and soon, had her tail pointing forward,"I can smell group of human scents. It's a few weeks old, but it's getting stronger so we must be getting closer."

"Do you smell any blood?"

Her master asked, as she frowned and took a deeper whiff and soon she confirmed,"Yes."

That made everyone tense and soon they began to move faster. Time was wasting and they had to get to them, NOW!

"Sir, my scanner's detect several heart beats and heat signatures up ahead."

JARVIS said to Tony and everyone else, speaking into there ear pieces. This made them smile, as Xero looked to Atalanta, who's ears twitched a bit for confirmation. Upon getting the silent order, the Archer closed her eye and listen for any heart beats.

"Thump...Thump...Thump"

She smiled and nodded at her master, they were close! The group moved faster and as they moved, they began to see signs of a battle. It was something Xero, as bad as it sounded, was happy to see it. The group soon came upon another tunnel, only unlike the last one, this one had flicking lights and blood stains on the walls. Along with shell rounds and weeks old limbs laying on the ground.

"That's not good."

Artoria said, frowning. Everyone grimaced at the sight, as the teen's nearly gagged at the sight of dismembered body parts. They only reason they didn't is because they had already seen this before and while they were a little rattled at the remains of a deadly battle, they weren't alone this time. Meanwhile Natasha eyed the sight, this was definitely the sight where the recuse workers were jumped and fought the monsters.

It had to be.

The question is, where are the survivors?

"We're getting closer to the Den."

Sam said, as the group turned the corner and saw the old waterwheel and the small pound, between the entrance to the Den and there side. Mike shivered, suddenly hearing Josh's screaming in his head and the feeling of pure fear when Hannah grabbed him form below the water and dragged him under the water. That was one of the worst moments of his life.

Mike can say he's been sacred, hell even terrified before. But nothing and i mean, absolutely NOTHING terrified Mike more then when he was under the water. If only for a few seconds, he could remember ever single, viable second of complete and utter terror.

"Ok, yeah i'm not going in that water."

Emily said, shaking her head and back up a little. Everyone eyed the water wary, as Xero looked at Morgan, who nodded her head in understanding.

Start earning that trust.

Silently Morgan walked towards the pound and with a wave of her hand, the temperature and snow particles came out of her hand and a brigade made out of ice formed with railings. It was a good sized and wide enough that two people can get across no problem.

Everyone looked at it with uneasy eyes. Jeanne merely moved forward and using her flag's end tip, tapped the ice made walkway with a:

Tap, tap, tap.

"It's good and solid."

The holy saint said, making everyone nod at her assessment and some to breath out sigh of relief. An icey walkway was MUCH better then swimming through an icey cold water, with monsters lurking around.

With a smug smile, Morgan waved her hand mocking to Artoria and said,"After you."

The King Of Knights merely snorted, grabbing a hold of her master's shoulder and walked across the ice walkway, with the others following. Morgan didn't think she could be won over, by a simple trick right?

She couldn't have been that stupid.

Could she?

Shaking her head, the King Of Knights disregarded that thought and the group keep moving. through the long tunnels. One could see the decay, wear and tear the site had received over the years. The wooden supports have chips and cracks all over them, making everyone very wary of touching them, fearing it would snap and cause the tunnel to cave in on them. However light soon appeared at the end of the dark tunnel, when the group soon heard muttering:

"No,...no, you're not real, you're not real, you can't tell me what to do. No"

"That's Josh's voice!"

Sam yelled, as more voices were heard.

"Damnit, will someone shut him up!"

"We've tried, he just gets worse and i don't want to give that thing more reason to come back, just because it heard the kid."

"Oh god, what if it comes back?!"

The rescue ops moved faster, as the voices got louder and then, when Xero opened up a steel door.

"OH GOD, IT'S BACK!"

He heard them screaming and a woman crying out,"STAY AWAY!"

"Hey, hey, hey, whoa, whoa, i'm not a Wendigo."

Xero said, as he entered the room, with his arms raised up. The sight of him and not a monster must have been a welcomed sight, as everyone's eyes light up at seeing. Even more so, when everyone started pouring in.

"Oh thank god, were saved!"

"We're getting out of this alive!"

"Oh my god, is that Iron Man?! He's come to save us?"

"No way, it's the Grimm Reaper! Those fucking monsters are so screwed now!"

"Josh!"

Sam ignored all that and rushed to her old friend, who looked worse for wear. His overall's were dirty with dry blood and dirt, his eyes had dark rings under them and he had even grow a bread. A completely wild, untamed beard and he was still muttering, shaking his head. Sam and Mike got up to him, while the SHIELD agents tended to the others.

Jeanne silently slugged the backpack off her back and pulled out the food for everyone. Her master strictly told her, under no circumstances is she to get any type of meat what so ever. This was mostly due to the fact, flesh was meat and it's possible, low as it was but still possible, for the Wendigo spirit to take over if a person ate ANY kind of meat.

A bit extreme but Jeanne agreed wholeheartedly.

Better safe then sorry after all.

All the while Emily was looking up at the ceiling and all around them, along with Iron Man, War Machine, the SHIELD agents and the servants were looking for any sign of the monster that had taken them to the den.

"Looks like were in the clear."

Cu said mostly to himself, as he spoke again,"Think we should go looking for that Wendigo or get everyone out of here, master?"

No response.

"Master?"

Everyone looked to Xero, who was slowly walking towards the wall, examining it.

Xero simple ignored everything as his eyes scanning the arena. It was a wide open, plenty of places for the Wendigo to come and go outside the cave, with many opening in the ceiling allowing snow and the cold air to rip through the cave. But one thing he did notice was the trail of dark energy following into a nearby dead end. He couldn't explain it, but he could feel like it was...calling to him.

Beckoning him to follow.

To find the source of the dark energy.

#$%^ ^*&%$

And apparently another clue to what really happened here.

"Master."

Blinking and realizing he spaced out, as all the victim's(Including a now coherent Josh) who were all looking at him, while Olga waved her hand in his face. Shaking his head and looking at the 'dead end' again, he slowly made his way towards it.

"Uh, kid were you going?"

Tony asked, as he jerked his thumb back to the steel door,"Exits that way. Unless of course, you plan to stick around and become dinner for those Wendigo."

But the magi merely ignored his father, as he got to the wall and started running his hands over the wall. Looking for something, anything. He soon found it, as his hand felt a hollow end on the wall and with a loud:

CLICK

He pushed in a 'rock' and that 'rock' went into the wall and a good amount of the wall moved back and moved upward, like a screen door, revealing a HIDDEN DOOR BEHIND!

"What the hell? That wasn't there before."

One of the hostages of the Wendigo, a volunteer by the looks of him, with a simple T-shirt, blue jeans and brown hair and eyes, spoke up. But before anything else could say anything else, the door suddenly powered up and a red light scanned Xero. This made Xero jump back a bit, as Artoria and Morgan got in front of him, ready for an attack. But when the door was finished with it's scanning, a female computer voice said out loud:

"DNA matched. Welcome Xero Mazoku."

Xero and Jeanne both froze for a moment, feeling like a fog had been lifted form there minds. As if something was preventing them form remembering the name 'Mazoku'. Xero remembered now...Mazoku was his mother's maiden name.

Mazoku was his family's name.

"But why couldn't i remember it?"

Xero questioned himself, as the large, black steel door slowly sled open, making everyone stare wide eyed at that, as Xero and Jeanne shook out of their heads to clear of the fog that clouded their minds.

"Well creepy mountain check. Creepy cave, check. Creepy monsters, check. Creepy and dark past of the land gets a big fat check and now to complete the set of creepness, we've got a creepy secret entrance that knows you're name kid."

Clint commented, earning a smack upside the head form Natasha. Everyone looked at the new opening warily, not sure what to make of it, as Xero squinted his eyes, the feeling of something calling to him getting stronger.

As was the dark energy.

He silently looked at Olga, who wordless nodded. This was the source of where the dark energy was coming form. Thinking it over in his head, Xero turned to Coulson and said,"Alright Coulson, you're part is almost done. You, along with Archer, Lancer, Saber and everyone else besides myself, Olga, Jeanne, Morgan and Artoria. While you get everyone out, we'll follow this path and see where it leads. Iv'e got a feeling this is the reason why the Wendigo have become what they are now."

While everyone nodded, Tony stepped forward and flipped his visor up, revealing his face and worried brown eyes.

"Look kiddo, i don't doubt you could handle it but this looks like it's more of my arena of expertise. As far as we know, this section might have some sort of advanced technological defensive's and technology is my bread and better. Plus you said it you're self, you're not in the best of shape. besides five heads are better then four, right?"

"What are you saying, Stark?"

Morgan asked, with narrowed eyes, as Tony looked his son in the eye and said without missing a beat,"Let me help you. I can help, i wasn't there for you, for the past sixteen years but damnit i'm here now and i swear, i will do everything i can to be there for you now."

Everyone smiled at Tony's declaration and the fact he didn't crack a joke or even smile a little, spoke volumes of how serious he was, to those who knew him best. As for Xero, he felt warmth flood his heart and body, the part of him that had wanted a father figure in his life, wanted to jump at Tony's offer. But another part of him, the paranoid and distrustful Magi part, wanted to keep Tony at arms length.

For now that is.

However, another part of Xero, a dark and twisted part of him, wanted to use Tony for his own means. He was after all, very wealthy and was one of the smartest people on the planet, next to Reed Richards, Charles Xavier, Hank Pym and Bruce Banner. Now one might be surprised to hear Xero have such thoughts, but one must remember:

He was a Magi.

He has been inside the minds of monsters, seeing the worst humanity has to offer and tried to get in their, trying to understand why people do the things they do. To try and find a way to stamp out the corruption in people but a sad fact is this:

Power corrupts.

Power corrupts absolutely.

He had the power, the means and drive to take over the world and or destroy it, if he ever desired. It didn't help he had a number of Anti-Hero servants and those that were lawful/chaotic evil.

But one must also remember, everyone has both light AND dark in them. Xero has learned over the years, how to temper and control his darkness, rather then bury it. You cannot simple bury a side of you, all you're doing is hurting yourself and indirectly stop yourself form reaching you're full potential. To reach that said potential, one must accept both sides of light and dark, to reach their full potential.

It didn't help that the side you tried to keep buried WILL find a way out.

One way or another.

Despite Xero doing this, he couldn't help but think he was missing something, like seeing a picture for the first time but not seeing the WHOLE picture. Just part of it and not the entire thing.

If he were to be honest with himself, it was madding. However this was not the time, nor the place to be thinking of such thoughts, he needed to get back to the task at hand:

Finding the source of the dark mana.

Slowly nodding at getting some extra help, Xero looked at Coulson and said,"Alright, Tony's with us then. You lot get the hell out of here and Saber, if anything comes, i want you too-"

"Burn it to a crisp, got it!"

Nero said cheerfully, as Xero nodded, as he looked at the now open door where lights began to turn on.

"Must be automatic."

Tony said, mostly to himself, as he, his son, Olga, Jeanne, Morgan and Artoria made there way down the steel walkway. The walls were stainless steel, but had a good sheet of dust on it and the lights were dirty too. There was nothing around other then a yellow line, leading them to another door. They happened upon another door and the same thing happened, when the first door opened. A red light scanned Xero, confirming he was him and the next smaller door opened up to reveal-

"The hell?"

Xero blinked rapidly, as everyone looked around and Olga spoke everyone's thoughts,"It looks like a lab."

Indeed, the room they found themselves in, was alight with a clear neon green color at the corner's of the room. There was number of green colored, large glass tubes with bodies of mutant Wendigo in them. The water was still active and beside the tubes, was a large, old fashion chalkboard with a bunch of notes on it. Ones neither Xero, Olga, Morgan or Tony could make heads or tails of.

However the group took note on how the lab, looked like it seen better days. Despite the tubes and lights being fine, it looked like a tornado came by and wrecked the place. Papers were scattered all over the floor, beakers were shattered and computers screens were cracked and smashed. The metal walling had dents and breaks in it and some were torn clean off. Others had claw markings on it and even blood stains on the floor and tables.

"What the hell happened here?"

Tony asked, mostly to himself, as Olga stepped on a broken beaker, making a loud,"CRICK" noise to be heard, as she looked down. Raising her foot a bit, Olga saw some reports, torn up but she could vaguely make out the words:

Wendigo and transformation.

Jeanne looked at the broken green tubes, noting how something bashed there way OUT of them tubes, rather then INSIDE them. She couldn't help but feel a shiver run up her spine. Something happened here.

Something terrible.

"Master, look at this."

Artoria called Xero over and the four made there way to the blonde King Of Knights. She was by a stainless steel table, with the only computer screen that wasn't broken. It was on stand-by, the screen light with a black screen and the words:

Initiate system?

And beside the monitor with a stack of disk's and a note addressing the disk too-

"Me?"

Xero asked in surprise, as he saw his name on the note. He grabbed the disk out of Artoria's hand and looked at it, seeing nothing out of the ordinary with it. Olga merely looked at the screen and the dusty old keyboard. Blowing on it, she began to type on it.

"Y-E-S. Yes."

As the screen started up the white haired woman smirked a little and said in a more guffer voice,"Shall we play a game?"

Jeanne just shot Olga a dry look. Was really now the time to be making movie quotes?

Looking back to the screen, it now read:

Insert disk

Narrowing her eyes, Olga looked at the disks on the desk and the one in her master's hand. Seeing the screen himself, Xero silently handed Olga the disk, who in turn inserted it into the monitor. The screen soon turned to static and came into full view, with a black haired, purple eyed woman on the screen. She had pale skin, a flawless face, a cute button nose and wore a white lab coat. She had a figure that many woman would kill for, with an hourglass, slender built, with long legs and an E-cup bust. It was Xero's mother, Lilith.

"Mom?"

Xero questioned, as the woman on screen adjusted the camera and smiled at it.

"Hello. Ah, okay i don't know how to do this sort of thing, so lets get it out here. I am Lilith Mazoku, last of the Mazoku's, Magi extraordinary, scientist and"

Her grin got wider, as she rubbed her belly,"Soon to be mother of this little one. I must admit, this little one came as quite a surprised, but a delightful one at that. Despite the higher up's believing my darling child getting in the way of my work, but i told them to go suck it. And between you and me"

The woman lend forward, putting her hand up to the side of her face as if to tell a secret,"I think they're just jealous. I know many men have tried to bed me, but the only man to ever do so, will become a daddy to this little one. Though i'm not at liberty WHO the father is, because my baby will be in even MORE danger then he already is being my child alone. So i won't say it here, right now i'm making these videos for my child be they son or daughter to see in the future, so incase something happens to me, they'll understand the nature of my work."

Nodding her head, the woman spun around in her rolling seat and spoke again.

"Right now, i and a group of other Magi/scientist's are in a secret underground lab, in Blackwood mountain. The history of this mountain is long and it's a very bloody one at that. This mountain originally belonged to a Native American tribe but which tribe is unknown. But on this mountain is an evil spirit known as the Makkapitew, otherwise known as a Wendigo. Creature's that thrive in cold environments like here, where it's winter year round and have an uncanny taste for human flesh.

"The Mage's Association, otherwise known as my boss's, have tasked us with finding out the inner working of the Wendigo. You see, when a person commits cannibalism on these mountains, the spirit of the Wendigo takes over and transforms them into monsters. To be more clear, the Wendigo are spirits that posses people and use there bodies to feed there insatiable hunger and need for human flesh. Despite the creature's themselves being uglier then holy hell itself, they are quite fascinating."

Lilith looked around her desk, before she reached out and grabbed a piece of paper, presumable a report.

"So far form what we've learned, the creatures do not require water, any type of vitamins or any of the five basic foods humans need to live healthy and properly. The meat they eat is exclusively meat, as they DO feed off of animals but there main diet is human flesh. Another thing is there bodies."

Lilith gained a look of disgust, looking to something off to the side,"Despite how hideous they look, how their bodies work is just beyond words. They way they look, how they can move, it defy all logic and reasoning. How can a spirit taking over a human body do such a thing like this? How could it change and twist the body to such a degree, it takes out some of it's most basic needs? Not to mention, IF the history of this place is right, these creature's are over eighty years old and they..."

Lilith moved closer to the camera,"Have NOT age a day."

She back up again and swirled in her chair again. Her face split into a smile as she spoke again.

"With enough time and hopeful before my baby gets here, we can not only figure out how the spirit takes over but we can infact find a way to reverse the process. If we can do this, we can apply it to other case's and save those possessed by the Wendigo. Perhaps even find out what makes them tick and allows them to do what they do, in order to survive and use it to help many others."

She nodded and reached over to turn the camera off, while muttering to herself,"And make up for what iv'e done."

CLICK

"That's the end of the first video."

Olga said, taking the disk out, as she looked at her master, who had an unreadable expression on his face. But his mind was in turmoil, his mother worked here?

She tried to find a way to help people possessed by the spirit of the Wendigo? If so, then what happened here?

And what the hell is the Mage's Association? He'd never heard of them, did something happen between them and his mother?

"It doesn't matter."

Xero shook his head, as he looked at Olga and said,"Play the next one."

"Kid, look are you sure it's a good time to do this?"

Tony asked, looking around the destroyed lab,"What if that Wendigo comes back."

"Then Morgan and Jeanne are more then capable of handing it then."

Xero said dismissively, already taking the disk out and putting the next one in,"I need to know what happened here and how my dear old mom is involved."

Tony looked uncertain but understood his son's reasoning. For so long, he's hasn't given a damn about the woman who had abused him and quite possible, hate the woman. So to hear she was somehow connected to this house of horrors and acting like she loved her unborn child(Aka Xero) so much, how, why did it all change? What caused her to go form loving to hating?

Only one way to find out.

Silently, Xero slide the next disk in and the screen turned to static.

CLICK

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Done.

Nope, not revealing anything till next chapter. You'll all just have to wait till then. Now i originally planned on making this already LONG chapter, longer but with the funeral tomorrow and having to go through some of my grandma's stuff she left behind and having to fix her old house's floor and everything else, i decide to stop the chapter here and now.

Not only is it a good stopping point, but the next chapter will be the finale and well get some Stark bonding started!

Yay!

Another thing is, i decide to do some "Future chapter reveals" meaning i jump to a random future chapter scene and give you all an idea of what is to come, so enjoy it.

AVENGERS ARC: YOU'VE GONE AND FUCKED UP BIG THIS TIME

"The Chitauri are coming, nothing will change that."

Loki said, as he slowly walked around the bar. Meanwhile Tony merely poured himself a drink, letting the arrogant god rant on,"What do i have to fear?"

"The Avengers."

Tony said simply, as he finished pouring his drink and taking a swing of it, as Loki looked at him confused. The what now?

Seeing his confusion, Tony elaborate,"It's what we call ourselves, sort of what we call ourselves. Earth's mightiest heroes and what not."

" Yes, iv'e met them."

Loki said simply, as Tony nodded. He grabbed his drink and walked around his bar, approaching the God Of Mischief," Yes well, takes a lot to get some traction that one. Lets do a head count, you're brother the demi-god. TWO super soldier's, both living legend and they do kinda live up to their legends. One being the best soldier in the world and the other, having been trained to be his equal, the one with a metal arm. "

As Tony said this, he silently slipped two braces on his wrist. The braces were invisible to the god's eyes, as he was using a rune his son had given him,"A man with BREATH TAKING anger management issues, a couple of master assassins' and of course my son."

Tony smiled a genuine smile, while Loki's eyes darken with rage and his fist clenched in angry, as Tony began to praise his son.

"You know him, Xero Mazoku/Stark? My boy, my son who is not only has magic like you, but has far superior magic and is the best son in the world, i tell ya."

Tony smirked as he saw how angry Loki was getting, so he put more pressure onto it,"Plus he has this little card deck, that lets him summon some of our world's GREATEST hero's, villains and legends, all loyal to him by the way and i bet, even the weakest can beat you. That is, if my son doesn't take you down himself, first. I could go on and on, about how amazing my son is but this isn't the time nor the place for it. You see, you big man..."

Tony then pointed his finger at Loki and said,"YOU! big fella, you have manged to piss off, every single one of us."

Getting his angry back under control, Loki gave Tony an arrogant smirk,"That was the plan."

"Not a great plan."

Taken a swing of his drink, Tony walked around his bar and walked towards Loki.

"When they come...and they WILL COME, they'll come for you."

Loki just looked at Tony dully,"I have an army."

Tony merely smirked,"Funny. We have our OWN army AND a Hulk."

"Truly? The beast didn't make an appearance before, why would make one now? When you need it the most?"

Tony merely shook his head at Loki's thick headedness. So with a sigh, Tony looked Loki dead in the eye and said,"You're missing the point. There's NO throne. There is no version of this, where you come out on top."

The elder Stark was now only four feet away form Loki.

"Maybe you're army comes and maybe it's too much for the Avengers, hell maybe too much for my son, but it's all on you...Because if we can't protect the Earth, you can be damn sure we'll avenge it."

Loki glared at Tony, but then smirked, as he slowly walked towards Tony, with his glow stick of destiny,"How will you're friends and you're precious son have time for me...when they're soon busy fig-"

BAM

Suddenly Loki was tossed back, as Tony smirked when his son, in his Iron Reaper armor and Morgan appeared out of a portal. His son's left hand was outstretched, after he fired a repulsor blast and a glare was settled on his face, his eyes alight with unholy fury.

"That was for Phil, you son of a bitch."

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Phew.

Don't that get you wondering what's coming next. So next chapter will be dubbed as this:

Return To The Nightmare Finale And A Mother's Devotion

And just to let you know, it might be a bit shorter then the rest of the chapters, due to what i'll be putting in, so don't expect it to be such a long chapter, like this one. So my Grandma will be buried next to grandpa Thursday.

Till then, Devil out.