"Hijo come here!"

I glance up from what I was doing and walked into my mom's room. She was laying on the bed.

I can't make out her face but I can see her smile, "Hey baby, can I see your new sketches?"

I nod. I'm about to show her when the doorbell rings. She sighs and slides off of her bed. She holds out her hand for me, "Care to accompany?"

I nod and we walk to the door. She pulls back the curtain. She turns back to me, "Hey, why don't you go play with your sister?"

I nod and go to leave the room. As I'm turning the corner I catch a glimpse of the woman who's at the door. She's a tall white lady with long shiny black hair. She looks….

The word "Mean" flashes across my mind as I slowly come too. I glance around my surroundings. I'm laying on what looks like a hospital bed. Looking straight ahead of me are bars that look like they belong on a cage. Wait a minute...I look around my surroundings again and come up with one conclusion. I'm in a cell.

I'm about to freak out about being in a cage when the events of the previous night rush towards my memory. I breathe a sigh of relief. It totally makes sense why I'm in a cell now. I was kidnapped.

I stand slowly and make my way to the edge of the cell. There's no one in sight. No guard and no other prisoners. I try to see the lock so I can pick it but there is no manual lock. It's electric. Looks like I'm stuck here.

I groan as I collapse on the bed. There is no way Audrey is going to let me stay with Tony now.


"HE'S WHERE!?" Audrey screeches at me and Pepper, but mostly me.

After waking up a few hours ago we discovered that AJ and Morgan had been kidnapped. After having a full blown panic attack, haven't had one of those years, I set to work tracking them. See what the kidnapper didn't know is after the last time my kids almost got blown up, I put a tracker in Morgan's arm. It is nearly undetectable but it is definitely there. Under any other circumstances, Pepper would have killed me for tracking our daughter but I think this may be the one time she's ok with it. We got a location and Nick Fury should be done getting the information any minute now, which is what I am trying to explain to Audrey but she's not really feeling this whole 'Don't-tell-the-police-thing' and the whole 'Tony-Stark-got-a-foster-kid-kidnapped-thing."

I sighed, "We'll have them back in no time once a very good spy who's name I can not tell you finishes running the data. In the meantime, you can stay here and wait."

Audrey's mouth is opening and closing when Pepper says, "Can I offer you some tea? Or something stronger?"

Audrey closes her mouth and nods as Pepper leads her out of the room.

I collapse back into my work chair and turn to Rhodey, "As soon as we bring them back she's going to take AJ away."

Rhodey tries to give me an optimistic smile, "Maybe not. It's not your fault he was kidnapped and almost blown up."

"Yeah but if he hadn't been living with me he wouldn't have been in those situations."

Rhodey nods, "I'm sorry Tones. I know you just met the kid but you seem to care about him."

"I know. It was almost instant and I don't know why. It usually takes a while for me to warm up to people."

"I have an idea why," a female voice calls from the other side of the room.

I glance over to the entrance to see Nick Fury holding a file and standing next to a woman of hispanic descent. Upon looking closer, I realize she looks almost exactly like her daughter, Carmen.

I raise an eyebrow, "Is that so?"

She nods and Nick says, "Grab Pepper and others. Not the kids. This is vital information."

Rhodey leaves to grab everyone and I stare at Nick and Gabriella. We sit in awkward silence until Rhodey, Pepper, Bruce, Happy, and May walk in. They all sit down in different seats in the lab.

"So Nick, how do you two know each other?"

"Later," he says as he holds up the file, "the warehouse the kids are held in is in the Mojave Desert. The closest land to the edge of the desert where they are located is owned by Abigail Sharpe. Ring in bells, Tony?"

I think about it and then shake my head.

"Geneticist who specializes in gene modification. You screwed her over decades ago when you refused to fund her project. I busted her a few times with SHIELD forcing her to stop her projects."

I nod, "Does she have long black hair and is freakishly pale?"

Nick nods, "That's her. Well it looks like she plotted her revenge. She collected DNA of well known people in agencies and government in order to create children to defeat them one day. She figures that the one person who can beat their parent is their child."

I start to get a sinking feeling in my stomach, "That's why she kidnapped, Morgan? To use her against me?"

Nick nods and before he could continue Audrey asks, "So why did they kidnap AJ?"

Gabriella continues, "I can explain that. About fifteen years ago, my friend Rosie accidentally came across Abigail's lab. She managed to escape and she told myself and my husband of the story in case they came after her. They did and they threatened all three of us. They would kill us or we help them. We agreed to help. They wanted Rosie and I to become incubators for the genetically modified kids they wanted to create. We were to raise them and at a certain age they would be determined if they were good enough or not. We agreed to it."

I think I'm going to puke, "Who's child were you pregnant with?"

She swallows, "Nick's.I was implanted with Nick's DNA. Biologically, Carmen is his daughter. I didn't know who he was until much later. Carmen has juvenile macular degeneration so she wasn't considered a candidate for the program which is why she's still with me, thank goodness."

I'm quiet because I don't want to ask the next question. Luckily, Pepper asks for me, "Who's was Rosie pregnant with?"

"Rosie never told me but she had twins. The boys name is Antonio Jarvis Diaz, whom you know as AJ and the girls name was Daniella Rigida Diaz. In english, rigida means Stark."

I swallow, "She was?"

Gabriella had the decency to look down as she says, "Dani had a congenital heart disease as a result of the modifications made to her genes. She died three years ago."

I had a daughter who died without me ever meeting.

"But why do they still want AJ if he's been ruled useless?" someone asks.

"Because he hasn't been ruled useless. From the time he was little it was obvious that he was smarter than the average person. Rosie hid it from Abigail by giving AJ other things to do and keeping him homeschooled. She didn't want her son to be used as a weapon. But now that she's dead, it couldn't have stayed a secret for long. Especially because AJ had no clue."

In movies there's always the dumb scene where the hero get's told a shocking plot detail and they completey loose it. I always laughed at their stupidity. Now...I think I just went into shock. Actually, I'm pretty sure most people in the room just went into shock.

Except Audrey because she says, "So what is she doing to them?"

Gabriella gave one answer I was hoping she wouldn't give, "I don't know."

Everything went black.


I've been staring at this wall for several hours. No one has appeared and there is no way I can escape. This has to be the most I've sat still in years.

Suddenly I hear footsteps. It sounds like heels. I jump off of the ground and stand up.

A woman comes into my view and she looks familiar but I can't place her. She gives me a smile.

"Jarvis, it's good to see you're awake."

"Um...sorry, have we met? Only my family calls me Jarvis."

Her smile fades a little, "Oh I'm sorry. Would you like me to call you something else?"

"I wouldn't like you to call me anything since you kidnapped me but if you must Antonio's fine."

"You never go by Antonio," she says under her breath even though I catch it.

"How would you know that? What do you know about me?"

Her smile turns creepy and I try my hardest to place her face, "I know that your favorite color is gold. Your sister's name was Daniella and that you were with her when she died. You hate hospitals with a passion and art is the only way you feel you can truly express yourself. I know pretty well Antonio."

I swallow, "How do you know all this stuff?"

She sighs, "That's not really important but all you need to know is that your mother lied to you and your sister your entire lives."

"What?" I ask even though something tells me I don't really want to know. Suddenly I remembered who she was.

"You visited my mom when I was little. She didn't like you."

"I visited all the time but that was the one time I saw you. You look so much like your father. You were suppose to me my great weapon in taking him down. I genetically modified you to be the best bet in destroying him but you're mother messed up my experiments. You're smart but Morgan is his pride and joy. She'll do much better. Well that's if she survives the process but that's why your here. I'll get rid of you later after we make sure she's healthy. In the meantime, hang here Antonio. It was lovely seeing you again."

Before I could respond she was gone.

I sit on the bed. Morgan is my dad's pride and joy? means my dad is….HOLY


"Sh-" I mumble as I wake up, instantly filtering myself even though I know Morgan's not here.

I look up to see Pepper and Rhodey standing over me with concerned looks on their faces.

"You alright Tones?" Rhodey asks the concern clearly in his voice.

I slowly sit up, "Yeah I'm fine. It's just a lot of information for one day."

I look over at Nick, "Do you have a location?"

He nods.

I stand, "Send it to me. Rhodey, you better catch up to me before I do something I might regret."

He gives me a confused look as I tap my chest and my armor encases me. I run towards the balcony window and jump. I'm going to kill this lady.


They all watch Tony leave for a moment before Bruce, Nick, and Rhodey rush to grab the other Avengers in order to join him and help him. Most of the members had become attached to Morgan and were just as desperate as Tony and Pepper to get her back. It was probably best that Peter and Harley were asleep though.

Audrey turns to Pepper, "Did he just jump out of the window to go rescue them? Is this type of behavior normal?"

Pepper raises an eyebrow, "Would you rather he waited until they were killed?"

Audrey stays silent as she watches the quinjet and other flying superheroes take off. She always knew AJ would be her most difficult case.

*Comment or PM if you would read a spinoff series with Carmen and Nick getting to know each other.