Happy New Year you crazy kids!
Alex
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The next few months passed in similar fashion, Alexandra and Jarvis perfected Operation KDS and even had several protocols set in motion for it, during those months Jarvis managed to modify the Jericho missiles so he or Alexandra would be able to pilot them from a distance, like a video game, Alexandra had said.
When December rolled in and Killian met with Pepper, Alexandra was notified immediately, she had been shopping with Rhodey, she had taken a liking to him and called him Uncle Rhodey. Alexandra was not stupid, she knew that Pepper and Tony had been hitting a rogue patch in their relationship as Tony was still suffering from panic attacks from the Invasion, she had voiced her concerns to Rhodey and he seemed to shared them and promised that he'd look after Tony for her.
When she returned home that night, Jarvis had Killian's signature, and she had run a full profile on him, they had even found the location of the Miami house, now they needed to wait and act, in the midst of all she had forgotten about Happy and when she got the notice that he was injured she tried to berate herself for it until Jarvis reminded her that she couldn't have known.
With a definite threat in sight, Jarvis was more compliant; she dispatched three of the suits to serve as surveillance to Killian's Miami house and kept Jarvis monitoring the web. When the video of Tony inviting the Mandarin to the house aired Alexandra enabled the KDS main protocol from her bedroom, her windows once again becoming screens. And Jarvis was monitoring the area with two suits. Alexandra observed as Maya Hansen entered the house, she knew that they needed Hansen to perfect extremis for Tony to use and remove the reactor, so she took a decision.
"Miss I'm detecting three helicopters coming this way" said Jarvis through her bedroom speakers "They have heat signals that match those of Mr. Killian"
"Well J, lets show them why you don't mess with Starks" she said, her screens changed to the missiles and a panel board, she smirked as she pressed her fingers on the panel and pressed the red button.
"They just fired Miss, Sir and Miss Potts are downstairs," Jarvis said, Alexandra nodded.
"Let's keep the, from the house J, code Winter Is Coming" she said feeling giddy, she watched as two of her missiles went out. Fun thing about the Jericho was that one missile was equal to sixteen little missiles, so she had thirty-two menaces controlled by Jarvis and hitting their targets.
"Winter Is Here, Miss," said Jarvis as the missiles started impacting on the nukes that the helicopters had fired.
"Good, lets take down those sons of bitches" she said, she watched as one of the helicopters exploded midair, "J, fire third missile, watch the helicopter on the right, they are firing again"
"Missile fired, target acquired Miss" Jarvis announced, Alexandra grinned.
"Blow it J" she ordered and squealed in joy when missile three and helicopter two became dust. "Just one left J, do me the honors" she said taking manual control of one of the missiles; her hands were running along the panel.
"Target acquired, ready to shoot" Jarvis announced; she nodded.
"Let's roll J," she said and music started blaring from the house speakers, AC/DC's Highway to Hell in full blast as Alexandra exploded the last helicopter.
"Young lady what did you do?" Asked Tony from her door; she turned to see Pepper and Maya behind him, she smiled sheepishly at him.
"Saved your life?" She offered, Tony walked the distance between them and pulled her into a hug, their first hug.
"That was reckless," he said into her hair.
"It was not, in fact I didn't even leave my room, J and I had it covered," she said, Tony let go of her.
"Jarvis?" Tony asked.
"Miss was in no danger of impact, the new surveillance protocols worked as predicted Sir" Jarvis announced proudly.
"And who decided on those?" Tony asked, Alexandra snorted.
"Miss suggested them and I ran probabilities" Jarvis offered, Tony sighed and pinched his nose.
"And the missiles?"
"They were brought in and installed by me, Miss suggested them as primary security wall, they have worked successfully Sir"
"I noticed, but now we don't have information on them, they exploded" Tony said and Alexandra handed him her Stark-Pad.
"Actually we do, since you started taking interest in the Mandarin, Jarvis and I started a little side project, there you will find all things regarding Aldrich Killian's plan regarding AIM, my notes on extremis are limited, but Jarvis managed to get more, his main base is in Miami and the Mandarin is just a front, the guy of the videos is an actor, Killian is the real mandarin, he's kind of pissed at you because of that time in Switzerland" she explained, Tony raised an impressed eyebrow.
"And you know that because?" He asked, she grinned at him.
"The fact that I can't put together an engine or hack the White House does not means that I'm not smart, I just have different smarts" she said proudly, Tony smiled at her.
"I know that kid, and I'm really proud of you, but you shouldn't be doing this, is dangerous" he said; she shrugged.
"I was bored"
"Right, well kid since you're the expert, we have work to do" he said, she lit up and followed him to the workshop, they needed to act fast as Killian was going to be even more pissed now that they had killed several of his enhanced goons.
True to her predictions Killian was indeed enraged and crazy enough to try a direct attack to the house again, now personally, Tony did the first thing that came to mind and that was shove Pepper, Maya and Alexandra into three of his suits and ship them to New York while he and Rhodey took care of the problem. As Alexandra had suggested they led Killian from the house to an abandoned location by having him captured in another suit, there Tony and Rhodey proceeded to bomb him out of existence, several hours later Tony received a message from Alexandra with two locations, Rose Hill, Tennessee and Miami. He and Rhodey decided to take the missions and end AIM, Tony electing to go to Rose Hill while Rhodey took over Miami.
Tony ended up meeting Harley Keener while he saved the kid from Ellen and struck an easy friendship, all because of a tuna sandwich. Alexandra smiled at Tony when he got to the Tower and recounted meeting the kid, she told him that maybe Stark Industries could help the kid and integrate him into one of their programs, Tony agreed with her.
After taking AIM Tony returned them to Malibu, where Bruce Banner joined them, Alexandra decided to hear Tony's story about Killian and told him that with or without the suit he was Iron Man and no one could take that from him, she also pushed him towards fixing extremis with Maya and removing the arc reactor from his chest. They enlisted Helen Cho and Doctor Wu for the surgery.
"Dad" Alexandra said softly from the doorway of the workshop, it had been a week since Tony's surgery and he had been recovering nicely.
"Yes kiddo?" he asked; Alexandra walked into the lab and noticed that Bruce Banner was there too.
"Dad, I think I have visions" she said carefully, she had decided that she was going to prevent the universe from going to shit, no Ultron (if she could prevent it), no civil war, no Ragnarok, no Thanos running to kill them all, she just needed to be smart about it.
"Visions?" Tony asked worriedly, Bruce stopped what he was doing to look at her too.
"Of things that happened and things yet to come, I have weird dreams, I dreamt of New York before it happened, and of Killian, now I'm dreaming of a golden city, I think your friend Thor is there" she explained, Tony walked up to her.
"You dreamt of Killian, the mandarin?" he asked; she nodded "Why didn't you tell me before?"
"I was scared, my first ever dream was about a cave, now I realize that it was you, they had you and they tortured you, I thought it was a nightmare, me eating too much candy before bed" she explained, Tony paled and pulled her into a hug "I know about Shield, and I know that Hydra is a mole sleeping amongst them"
"Hydra?" Tony asked; she nodded.
"I know some names of the Hydra Agents, Garret, Grant Ward, Alexander Pierce, Brock Rumlow, Sitwell, Struker to name a few, there's a Senator too, some dude named Stern" she said, Tony let go of her.
"Jarvis, are you recording this?" he asked.
"Yes Sir, would you like me to send a list to Director Fury?" Jarvis asked, Tony looked at Alexandra then at upwards.
"Not just yet" he said and returned his gaze to Alexandra.
"Do you know anything else?" he asked, she nodded shyly.
"I know quite a lot Dad, I don't want Shield or Hydra to come after me, they would try to use me" she said; Tony frowned.
"No they wouldn't, I wouldn't let them, they will not get to you, this is going to be our little secret, just you, Jarvis, Bruce and I, right?" he asked and turned to look at Bruce who nodded.
"Tony if she's right this can change the world, her knowledge is important" said Bruce, Tony nodded.
"Which is why Jarvis will write it down, we will try to get in contact with Thor, see if we can get you to Asgard so you can warn them too" Tony said, Alexandra nodded at him.
"There's another thing Dad, I've had this recurring one, in which I see my grandparents die, Howard and Maria, it was, it was not an accident like they said, they were murdered" she said slowly, Tony's face shifted as his walls went up.
"How did they die?" he asked, voice cold.
"They were killed by the Winter Soldier, Hydra's top weapon, brainwashed Sergeant James Barnes… I Googled Sergeant Barnes and he was besties with Captain Rogers" she explained, Tony seemed to take all the info in closed his eyes and sighed.
"And he's alive how?" he asked, Alexandra took a deep breath.
"Cryogenically frozen, he survived the fall from the train, but lost an arm, the soviets found him, but apparently passed him over to Hydra, he has a metal arm" she said, Tony opened his eyes and nodded.
"Okay, I was not expecting that, might need a moment, Alex kiddo, go to your room and write everything and I say everything you remember, leave nothing, once you're done come find me, I'll be … somewhere, I need a drink" he said before exiting the workshop hastily, Alexandra exchanged glances with Bruce.
"Do you think he'll be okay Dr. Banner?" she asked, Bruce sighed and placed his glasses on the table closer to him.
"I hope so, Tony is a very strong man but what you have told him, he believed that his father had caused the accident that led to his death, you must understand how that might affect a person" Bruce explained, Alexandra nodded, of course she knew, she was not a kid.
Several hours later and with everything she knew written down on her Stark-Pad she walked down to the Gym, where Tony was hitting one of the bags, she sighed before approaching.
"Dad?" she said softly, Tony stopped so he could look at her. "Dad I'm sorry"
"Kiddo, it was not your fault" he said removing the gloves; she walked closer to him.
"But maybe I could have said those things to you at a different moment, I wasn't thinking straight, I'm and idiot" she tried to argue; Tony gave her a little smile.
"Nonsense kid, you were scared and confused" he said placing his hands on her shoulders "You're not an idiot, you're my daughter and somehow you have visions, however crazy that sounds, but I believe you and I will do my best to try and save the world so you can live a long happy life, you won't have to worry about Shield or Hydra or aliens invading earth"
"I know you will" she said with a small smile, Tony patted her shoulders and she handed him her Stark-Pad "That's all I've seen in my dreams, I don't know how we could stop it from happening but we could allow it to happen under our terms" Tony started reading her annotations while she watched.
"You included Asgard?" he asked; she nodded.
"If Asgard falls completely then we are next on the lines of destruction, it starts with something called the convergence, so you could call Dr. Foster and Dr. Selvig so we could better study it, not here of course, but Stark Tower could be the perfect place" she said, Tony seemed to think about it.
Of course Alexandra hadn't written everything down, just key points, Tony didn't know that Jane Foster was supposed to host the Aether for a brief period of time, and with Alexandra in charge, she wouldn't. The thing was that Alexandra didn't want Tony to feel like he needed to do everything, so she had decided to keep a few things to herself.
"I was thinking about renaming the Tower, how does Avenger Tower sounds?" he asked, Alexandra scrunched her face "No?"
"Definitely not, I think that Stark Tower is the best name" she said; Tony raised an eyebrow "Think about it Dad, those are Stark Industries New York HQ, if you want to house the Avengers that's fine, but I'd like Stark Tower to retain its name, pretty please?"
"You have a plan?" he asked and she knew exactly what he was talking about, she nodded.
"Whereas we want it or not, Shield will fall along with Hydra, many agents are in undercover missions and have families that will need help when that happens, so I was thinking that maybe Stark Industries could privatize security and hire those agents, like a new branch of the company, and there are also the scientists, think about it Dad, we'd have people with certain skills that could help us protect our people" she explained, Tony adopted a pensive expression and led Alexandra towards the chairs in the gym, they both sat down.
"And how would we know that they are not Hydra?" Tony asked; Alexandra shrugged.
"Maybe you and Jarvis can develop an algorithm to make the background checks, you're the genius Dad," she said, Tony nodded.
"So you're saying that we should let things with Shield run their course and then step in and sweep their mess?" he asked; she nodded.
"Not completely of course, but we should not risk Hydra finding out what we know, like I said it would be under our terms and there would be none the wiser, if you go to Director Fury with those names he would do something that could cost us, and then of course he would want to know your source, you hacked Shield once, you can do it again, find Hydra, expand our list, the moment they fall we can have the Iron Legion that you're working on help the true agents and move them to save places, Stark Industries have warehouses all over the globe, check their families and move them too, stop the carnage before it begins, I wrote down how it will go, you'll know which mission is the start of it all, we just need to monitor Shield, you could even bring up FRIDAY to solely monitor them" she said, Tony was impressed by her reasoning.
"Wait a second, how do you know about FRIDAY?" he asked, she shrugged.
"My dreams are very accurate" she said ominously.
"Right" Tony said clapping his hands "I'll start with the algorithm, by the way, if we do bring up Stark Industries security division they will be your problem, not mine nor Pepper's, understood?"
"Yes Dad, I'll make sure to have someone deal with it, I might be in Asgard after all, remember?" she asked, and Tony nodded.
"Good, then pack up, we'll be going to New York in two days so we can meet with Doctor Foster and Eric Selvig as soon as I get a hold on them" Tony said standing, Alexandra looked up at him and smiled.
"Thanks Dad" she said; he smirked.
"Don't thank me just yet, I'll have FRIDAY running in a couple hours for you, she will also be your responsibility," he said.
"A new sibling?" Alexandra asked; Tony nodded before leaving.
Several hours later FRIDAY was uploading all sort of relevant information regarding one Jane Foster to Alexandra's Stark-Pad. Alexandra and FRIDAY had taken to each other like fish to water, to FRIDAY, Alexandra was Little Boss, while Tony was Boss. Jarvis and FRIDAY had also exchanged data, FRIDAY also becoming aware of Operation KDS.