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Summary: Tony's point of view in the whole "The Kerberos team is still missing and now so are three students plus Keith" ordeal.

Also, when he finds them again, to his surprise.

WARNING: LOTS of line breaks! You have been warned XD.

And a bit of angst. LOL.

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Tony Stark glared at Pepper as she stood in front of him, arms crossed. He was busy working on an upgrade to his suit and he did not need any interruptions, thank you very much.

Unfortunately, Pepper didn't seem to be affected as she didn't go away like he clearly wanted her to.

She raised her eyebrow as Tony promptly ignored her and went back to fiddling with the device on the table in front of him. If she wasn't going to say anything, then it'd be fine if he continued to work right?

And before you ask, no, he was not going to ask her why she was here. If he did, she would tell him that it was because he had a meeting or whatever, and then she'd immediately drag him over there.

Pepper seemed to have caught onto the idea though. "Aren't you going to ask why I'm here?"

See what he was talking about? She knew what he was thinking.

Ugh, this is what he got for making her the CEO of Stark Industries. Sure, she's competent, but maybe a little too competent.

He shook his head, still focusing on his project. "Nope." He popped the p at the end like the stubborn, inner child he was.

"Well, it doesn't matter, because I'm going to tell you anyways."

She looked down at the clipboard that had magically appeared in her hands, looking over whatever his schedule supposedly was.

"You have a meeting at 1:00 this afternoon to meet with the president of a semi-major tech company to discuss the possibility of a cooperative project."

"Pass. If they are only semi-major, clearly they aren't good enough to work with me."

"After that, at 3:15 you'll be meeting with-"

Tony groaned. "Pepper, don't I have anything exciting today?! The only things I've been doing lately is just work and meetings. Surely there's something."

Pepper looked unimpressed. "You're an adult, you're supposed to do work, Tony. But there might be one meeting on this list that you'd be interested."

"Oh really? Enlighten me, then, and tell me how, exactly, this meeting would satisfy me more than any other meeting I could possibly go to?"

"You'll be meeting with the Galaxy Garrison to discuss increasing the security of the school."

"...Why?"

Pepper looked at her clipboard again. "It seems that last week, three students were able to leave campus without permission and got involved in a classified event."

"Go on."

"They're missing, Tony. All of them."

Tony stood up a bit straighter. "Missing? How could they go missing? From one of the most technologically advanced places in the world?"

"That's why they wanted to meet with you. The Garrison was hoping that you would be able to shed some light on the situation. After showing you what they captured on their cameras, of course."

"Hmmm…" Tony's mouth quirked up a bit. "When's the meeting?"

"We can leave with your private jet in half an hour."

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get going!"

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Tony buried his head in his hands as he wondered how things had gone so bad so fast.

He was intrigued at first, wondering how the kids had left the Garrison. Seems that one of them was a bit of a techie and they had all taken advantage of the lockdown, because, of course, they hadn't been inside, and so weren't locked in.

And of course they found some kind of alien escape pod that contained Takashi Shirogane of all people.

And then, of course, that's when things started going downhill.

First it was the appearance of Peter, who was somehow outside of the Garrison, who was apparently doing the same thing as the other three students.

Investigating what had happened. Which had then evolved to saving Shiro, because the Garrison, despite their reputation, were idiots and practically manhandled the guy. Peter had knocked the guards out and was somehow fit all of them onto a small speeder, still able to get away despite all of the accidents that could've happened.

Really, the Garrison wasn't really that competent of they couldn't catch up to 4 teenagers.

Well, maybe he couldn't blame them; Peter was sort of a genius.

After that, the Garrison had lost sight of the group, and ever since have been unable to find traces of them anywhere. The only clue they got was a small, run-down, wooden hut out in the middle of the desert, but nobody had been there. Someone was there before, but nobody seemed to be there now.

And then Tony learned that Peter, the epitome of innocence and all that is good, got kicked out of the Garrison.

He had gotten kicked out of the fucking Galaxy Garrison due to some kind of disciplinary issue!

It had also happened a year ago. Why hadn't he been informed of this earlier? The kid could've gone home!

And oh. Oh.

Peter, being the good person he was, probably felt really guilty about the situation. He tended to do that whenever anything happened.

But there had to be a reason why he had lashed out. Right?

He seemed to be asking himself that question often.

And later on, when he finally got home, he didn't even touch his work, going to his couch and just thinking about what he did wrong. Peter would never do anything to endanger anyone on purpose. The kid only wants to do good, after all.

What had happened?

He tried to call him several times over the course of the next week. The calls and voicemails were left unanswered. He tried to investigate the disappearance himself, and he honestly didn't find much else besides a cave carved with old runes.

Not like Tony cared, since Peter wasn't there.

A month soon passed, and he still wasn't any closer to learning what had happened. No one had heard from any of the five that had left that fateful night, and the entire Garrison were starting to believe that the people were gone.

They announced their official "deaths" the next day, and the search operation was shut down.

Tony had been devastated. Even he had been denied access to the files after that, and, despite their idiocy, the Garrison had been barely able to keep him away from the data he needed to conduct any further investigations.

Because he couldn't believe that Peter could be… could be gone. He was Spider-man for god's sake, there was no way the kid could have died.

Of course, the Galaxy Garrison didn't know that. Because, you know. Secret identity.

Tony wished he had reinstalled SILK into the suit (or as Peter had liked to call her, Karen). Peter actually didn't have her with him. He had appreciated the AI, but she had needed some much-needed upgrades that had taken a long while to install, and it had required Tony to remove her.

So now there was no way he could track the kid down, because of course he'd go missing during the time he didn't have a tracker on him.

Even Happy had been down. Despite what he said, Tony knew that the man also cared for Peter. He had gone eerily silent ever since he had heard the news.

Tony graciously sent him on a vacation, hoping it would help. Maybe it wouldn't, but at least Happy seemed to accept the proposal without a fight, meaning that he must have appreciated it.

Tony knew that Peter had bad luck (especially because the kid said it all the time), but he didn't know it was this bad.

Great.

Now what was he supposed to do?

Was there anything he could do?

Tony didn't know. He just didn't know….

Hopefully, New York could survive a little longer without their favorite web-slinging hero.

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A long while later…. Probably several months, if not a year.

Tony groaned as he got off the phone.

Look, Tony had nothing against aliens.

...Ok, maybe a little.

He had little against aliens, but why did he have to contact the Guardians of the Galaxy?

Sure, they were a great asset, especially from any unwanted space visitors, but he had better things to do. Like working on his nanobot suit!

Really, it's not like he hated them. In fact, he kind of liked them. Today though, they just had the important job of getting in the way of his work, and he really didn't appreciate it.

Well, he couldn't really blame them. It wasn't their fault. It was just that Director Fury had demanded that Tony contact them to make sure there weren't any current outside threats.

It was Fury's fault. And here Tony thought he couldn't hate him anymore. Glad he was proven wrong.

Anyways he sat on his sofa, as he was going to use his TV to FaceTime them. Well, it was better than FaceTiming, but it's seriously the best way to explain exactly what he was doing.

Welp. It was time to call.

Let's hope they didn't annoy him as fast this time.

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The Paladins were all hanging out in their rooms when the Castle's intercom turned on, Allura's voice echoing through the speakers. "Paladins, can you all come to the bridge please?"

All of them had obliged to the request, wondering what was going on. It didn't sound serious, as there weren't any alarms blaring. Allura didn't seem particularly panicked either.

When they all arrived, the princess continued. "Coran and I just picked up an odd, live transmission just a minute ago. It might be a distress signal of sorts."

Coran nodded. "It's a high possibility that an underdeveloped planet could have been attacked by the Galra, which could be why the transmission was sent in the first place."

Allura spoke up again. "However, we won't be too sure until we answer their call. Which is why we wanted you all here. They might need Voltron, and they need to know that we are their for them as a symbol of peace and unity in the universe."

Shiro nodded. "We understand, Princess. Now why don't we check out that live transmission?"

She nodded, and she brought it up.

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Tony was busy trying to soothe his growing headache when an odd beep sounded out from this screen. Before he even had a chance to figure out what it was, another screen had popped up to show that another group had joined their conversation.

There were several people in it, all of them looking a little smooshed as they all tried to fit into the camera.

The Guardians of the Galaxy seemed to notice their presence as well, confused and surprised looks visible on their faces.

All sides were silent, none of them sure what to make of the awkward situation.

That is, until a short person wearing green armor pushed through the rest, an excited look on their face. "You're Tony Stark! Oh my gosh!"

The lady with silver hair looked at her curiously. "Who?"

The person pouted, looking slightly offended. Pouted. "Only one of the greatest, if not the greatest mind on Earth! He's made many world-changing advances in both science and technology."

Tony raised his eyebrow. "I'm flattered kid, really, I am, but… what are you doing, interrupting this transmission?"

Realization dawned on the kid's face, and it soon morphed into something that more resembled sheepish guilt. "Sorry about that. Your transmission had made its way to where we are, and, due to its nature, we thought it may have been a distress signal."

"What are you talking about? It was and encrypted transmission, and it wasn't aimed at anyone else except for these guys." He pointed to the Guardians of the Galaxy on the other side of the other screen, who had continued to watch the conversation with interest.

The person in green answered him again, pushing up their glasses. "You see, we have access to technology that surpasses most of Earth's. In fact, most places past the Milky Way Galaxy are pretty advanced. Because of that, most transmissions from Earth aren't actually that effective anymore, unfortunately. Any alien would be able to interrupt and decrypt the message, as our group just did right now. We weren't entirely sure what was being transmitted, but on the off-chance that it was a distress signal, we checked it out anyways." They grinned, their eyes flashing. "Looks like we found something better though."

Tony instinctively stepped back. There was something in that expression that freaked him out a bit. He did his best to rein in the emotion.

A man wearing black armor standing behind her smiled apologetically. "We're sorry for interrupting your conversation, sir, but we just had to be sure."

Tony shook his head. "No, no, it's ok, I get it." And honestly, he did. Though he did feel a little miffed at the fact that, apparently, the entire universe was more advanced than him.

One of the Guardians finally seemed to want to speak up, this one being Quill. "Ok, cool stuff, but who, exactly, are you guys? I mean, you surely can't be as great as the Guardians of the Galaxy," he gestured at his group, "but clearly you think you're important, what with the whole 'trying to save people' thing and the whole 'we all have matching armor' thing."

The woman lit up. "Oh, let us introduce ourselves." She smiled warmly. "I am Princess Allura of Altea, and this is Coran, my advisor." She gestured to the orange-haired man next to her, and he gave an energetic wave.

The one in green armor spoke up. "I'm Pidge. O-or Katie Holt. It's great to meet you!" She looked torn between being nervous and and excited.

"My name's Hunk." He gave a small wave, a soft smile on his face. He seemed like the most friendly of the group.

The one in blue armor jumped in energetically. "I'm Lance, the amazing Bl- Red Paladin!" He shaped his hands into… were those finger guns?!

Yep, they were. Tony didn't know how to feel about that.

The man in black armor smiled softly, somehow the gesture showing that he was apologizing for the group of obvious teenagers. "I'm Takashi Shirogane, but you can just call me Shiro. I'm the leader and the Black Paladin of Voltron."

He pointed to a teen next to him who was wearing red armor. "And this is Keith. Sorry if he seems kind of aloof, he's really a good kid."

The teen barely seemed to notice, his eyes wide. The words Shiro said seemed to stop him out of whatever stupor he was in, and it let something slip out of his lips, his voice soft and light with stunned surprise. "M-Mr. Stark?"

Tony's eyes briefly widened. Wait a minute….

These people… they were all familiar to him. One more than the others, actually. But….

"Peter?"

The teen gave a slight nod, his violet eyes shining. He still looked a bit stunned, and frankly, Tony couldn't blame him. He himself couldn't believe his eyes. It had been a couple years since they had even seen each other, what with Peter going to the Garrison and then disappearing.

This was really the last place he was expecting to find him.

He noticed the confused looks of everyone else as they looked between him and Peter.

Tony didn't feel like explaining. Neither did Peter, apparently, if his silence was anything to go by. Because really, both of them needed a bit of time to let the situation sink in, and who cares if they're doing it in the middle of a conversation? Not him. They could afford to wait.

Also, of course Peter was with the missing teens and Shiro, just as he had been when he had first gone missing. He had been with them all this time? Well, they had implied that they were in space, right?

Wait. They were in space?

"Where are you?"

Peter started for a second before giving a hesitant answer. "Uh, probably millions of light-years away from Earth…?"

Tony blinked. And then he blinked again.

"What."

Because this kid had to be lying. He had to be. There was no possible way to get that far from Earth in a single year. Light was the fastest thing to exist, but he had gone millions of miles further than light could in the same amount of time? It wasn't scientifically possible, if the laws of physics were to be trusted (which they were).

However, the look on Peter's face… he was serious about this. Despite the hesitant answer, it was clear that he was telling the truth.

Tony should know, the kid was a terrible liar. He didn't know how he was able to keep his identity from most of the people he knew, but he somehow did.

Someone was finally brave enough to speak up. "Um, do you two… know each other?"

It was Lance who had said it. He looked pointedly between Peter and Tony, waiting for one of them to answer his question.

Peter still looked unsure, so Tony volunteered to answer. "Yeah, we do."

Pidge (or Katie, whatever her name was) spun around to glare the Peter. "You knew Tony Stark and you didn't tell us?!"

He looked a bit sheepish as he answered. "I didn't think it was that important. And why would I bring it up anyways? There would be no reason to."

Pidge blinked. "Oh. I guess that makes sense." She still looked a bit disappointed though.

Shiro looked through the screen at Tony. "So… how do you two know each other?"

"Oh, the kid used to be an intern at Stark Industries."

Pidge and Hunk looked shocked. Shiro seemed surprised as well. Lance looked pretty confused, waving his hands and demanding answers, but Tony couldn't help but chuckle at it. His way at showing his confusion was kinda funny.

Hunk snapped out of it first. "Hang on." He turned to Keith. "You used to be an intern for Stark Industries?"

"Yeah…"

Pidge butted in. "The Stark Industries? The one in New York? The one that Tony Stark is in charge of?!"

"Didn't he just say that I did?"

Pidge sighed. "Well, yeah but…"

Ok, clearly these kids didn't believe him. "He did work there. The kid's smarter than he looks."

Shiro nodded, smiling warmly. "Yeah, he definitely is."

Pidge and Hunk had now gone together, whispering about something. He took this chance to talk to Peter more before they started bombarding him with demands for juicy info.

"So… what happened?"

Peter sighed. "A lot. A lot happened." A ghost of a smile haunted his face, and Tony knew that it really wasn't as bad as he had implied.

Tony laughed. "Ok, you can tell me later, but I was wondering about one thing… What's Voltron? Is that what you've been doing since you've been gone?"

The kid's eyes lit up a little. "Yeah. You wouldn't believe it. Voltron is a huge robot. I mean, as-tall-as-Avengers-Tower tall. Actually, it was one of the parts of the lion that led us here."

"A part?"

"Yeah, Voltron is split up into five parts, each one resembling a lion. They're all robot ships of their own, actually."

"Wait, does that mean they can go faster than the speed of light?"

"Yep. I couldn't believe it either to be honest…"

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Tony smiled as he finally said goodbye to the Paladins of Voltron and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

To say that he had been surprised would be the understatement of the century.

To see Peter again… to talk to him again… It was more relieving than he thought it would be.

It had been like nothing had happened, as if they hadn't seen each other in over a year.

Peter always seemed to have that effect on him, it seems. The kid sure knew how weave a story.

Heh.

The web-hero has told him some of what had been happening, of the lions and the fight against these Galra alien people.

And Tony had gotten the reason Peter wasn't at the Garrison.

Apparently, Peter had had a feeling that, while something had happened to the Kerberos team, they were still alive. Or at least, he didn't believe the bullshit story the Garrison had told the world.

He felt as if they weren't even going to try to find out what happened. So if they weren't, he would investigate himself.

Which is why he pretended to be an emo kid who finally went aggro against one Iverson.

Tony scoffed. He would have loved to see the the man's face when that had happened.

Either way, no matter what happened, Tony was ultimately relieved to see that Peter was alive and well. He trusted the kid to be able to care for himself, but that didn't mean he didn't worry. Sometimes he was too reckless for his own good.

Well. Since they both had a way to communicate to each other, he was going to get Peter to spill all the beautiful, science-y details.

And he'd release it as his own work, of course. No one else would be there to claim it as their own, after all.

His good mood vanished as he heard Director Fury's voice echo through the building.

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