"Kida" I heard Pepper's voice "Kida can you hear me?"

"Pepper"

There was a bright light shining above me, I heard the constant beep of a heart monitor. Then I saw Pepper's face above me.

"Thank god you're awake"

"What happened?"

"You lost so much blood, when Obadiah hit you with that statue." She explained "You needed twelve stitches"

"Twelve stitches"

The door opened and my dad walked in holding a bouquet of flowers.

"Dad"

He put the flowers on the table next to me and hugged me. I hugged him back and buried my head into his shoulder. We didn't say a word to each other, we were so relieved knowing we where both ok.

"What's going to happen now?" I asked

"I need to go to a press conference and explain what happened last night." He said

"Where's Obadiah?"

"He's gone" my dad said "he's not going to hurt us again"

I knew what he was trying to say, I simply nodded my head. Happy and Rhodey came to visit with get well balloons and flowers. Happy was able to bring in a cheeseburger from my favorite restaurant. Happy and I talked until a nurse walked past the window, the two of them looked at each other until the nurse walked out of sight.

"I got to go to the bathroom I'll be back alright" he said

"It's alright Happy I know you're going to talk to her"

He smiled and walked out, less than a minute after he left two large men in black suits stood in front of my door and Phil Coulson walked in.

"Ms. Stark, it's good to see you've recovered from your wound." He said standing at the foot of my bed

"Agent Coulson why are you here?"

"I need to ask you some questions"

"Shoot"

"Have you experienced anything strange?" He asked

"Strange how?"

"Hallucinations, strange dreams, maybe even seeing strange people"

"No" I lied

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, but why do you and SHIELD want to know?" I asked

"That's classified" He said and grabbed the TV remote "and you should probably see this"

The TV showed the press conference where Pepper, Rhodey, and my dad where at. The room was completely quiet. Until my dad finally ended the silence,

"I am Ironman"

3 years later, 16 years old

I sat in the middle of the Stark Expo watching my dad on stage with dancing girls behind him. I rolled my eyes while the people around me, unaware I was there, cheered and screamed. I was wearing a brunette wig and hazel contacts in. I was wearing a black hooded jacket, torn jeans, and black heeled boots. Ever since my dad became Ironman my whole life has been flipped upside down.

As the people screamed their heads off I made my way out of the crowd. I walked across the Expo and to the parking lot. Since I turned sixteen last month I got my license, I climbed into one of my dad's sports cars and drove to a nearby Chinese restaurant. I ordered a small bowl or white rice covered in vegetables. I sat alone at the table until I saw something move in my peripheral vision, I looked up to see Phil sitting across from me.

"Hello Coulson" I said "what brings you here?"

"Sushi" He said, "my boss wants to know how you're feeling"

"Why does it matter?"

"You did suffer a big blow" Phil said, "twelve stitches can be hard to recover"

"What would you know about hard recoveries?"

"I once took twenty five stitches while on a mission in Libya." I almost chocked on my food

"Twenty five" I said, "What happened?"

He told me the story of his mission on Libya when he was in his twenties. There where a group of dangerous thugs attacking visiting diplomats and politicians. We talked for about two hours before he left. I don't know why but I felt like I knew him. I brushed it off and drove myself home; of course my dad wasn't home. I changed into a white bikini and put my wet suit over it, I walked to the garage where I kept my surfboard and walked to the beach.

I paddled out past the small waves and sat on my board on the calm water. I looked up to see the sky covered in stars with a large bright full moon. I smiled; I always liked looking up at the stars. I would look at the brightest star and I would feel like my real parents where looking at it too. I looked down at the water and moved my hands up and down until I formed the perfect wave. I paddled out as fast as I could and slowly pushed myself up. I got onto my feet as I surfed through the tube, my hand lightly touched the water. I made it out and rode the wave to shore. I laughed and smiled at my good work, it feels like every day my power is getting stronger and more controllable.

"Let's do that again" I said before jumping back in the water

Up on the cliff,

Two men wearing suits both watched Kida from their spot on the cliff above her. The agent with the binoculars turned to Coulson who stood next to him.

"It looks like her powers are getting stronger" The agent said, "we have to call it in."

"She rode a wave"

"That she created, you and I both know her abilities." Coulson quickly turned to him "I read her file, she isn't human."

"She's a child"

"She's a threat" The agent snapped "I will report this to Fury. Why are you so protective of her?"

"I promised her mother to look after her." Coulson said as he walked up behind the agent "and that's exactly what I'm going to do."

Before the agent could react Coulson knocked him unconscious. While he was unconscious he injected the agent with a new drug that erased a person's memory of the past ten minutes. He dragged the agent to the car and put him in the passenger seat. He had to keep his promise to Helena and protect Kida.

Morning,

I woke up with my legs still sore from surfing for hours last night. I pushed myself up and walked downstairs to see my dad cooking breakfast.

"This is new," I said

"Good morning Kida" He said as I sat down on the table and he suddenly put a plateful of food in front of me

"You actually cooked breakfast" I grabbed my fork and took a bite of the eggs "and it's actually good."

"You sound surprised"

"Remember the last time you tried to cook breakfast, the bacon caught on fire." I said "And you burnt the eggs."

"Shut up" He said lightly nudging my arm and I laughed

We ate breakfast and when I finished I looked up and saw something strange on his neck. It looked like black veins that ran up his neck.

"What's on your neck?" I asked

"Oh that's just from guck from the cars, I worked on them this morning."

"Ok" I said even though I had a bad feeling

"Guess what we're going for your sweet sixteen" He said "And technically my birthday too since it's the day after yours."

"What are we doing?"

"We're going to see Circuit de Monaco" He smiled and I spit out a part of my bacon

"Monaco!" I said and he smiled more "Really?"

"We got the tickets all set and ready to go." He said

"Oh my god thank you" I quickly got up and hugged him "thank you thank you thank you"

"Ok, we're leaving in a few days I just have to go to Washington D.C today alright."

"Why? What's in D.C?" I asked sitting down

"Senator Stern wants me to give the Iron man technology to the government."

"He can't do that, the technology has to stay with you and only you."

"I know I'm going to prove them wrong, but there's something we need to talk about." He said sounding serious

"What is it?"

"Kida, when you get older the company along with its technology will go to you." He said "I want you to destroy the Iron man tech when I'm gone. I don't want it to fall into the wrong hands."

"When you're gone" I said "Dad are you sure you ok?"

"I'm fine Kida just promise me"

"I thought we said no more secrets" I said "I've been completely open to you."

"I'm not hiding anything"

"Then how come you sound like a dead man making his will?" I asked, "I lost one dad I can't loose another."

"Hey" He got up and hugged me "you're not going to loose me ok, I'm not going anywhere."

"Do you promise?"

"I promise"