A/n: Utter shock, news gone worldwide...someone is missing...and no one knows where...many don't even care about it either. However, Tony is perfectly fine where he is.

I will admit since the start of this story, this chapter was planned out and mostly written, so that was why I updated this quickly. It is kind of short, but I will have the next one -that was also partly done- up soon enough. Don't you just love Summer vacation? xD That is another reason for this fast update. Anyways, here, go ahead, read. Oh actually, thank you everyone for your reviews ^^~!

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Metallic Heart 07

A Missing but Not Missed Hero

Many people believed Tony Stark not to have a heart. Slowly, he himself began to believe it when he found himself pushing away the other Avengers...just as his father did to him. But is there one man out there that can change his mind? FrosIron.

It was probably the worst thing since No Heart Headline, but this time it was the whole world that was in shock from this article. This article was called Iron Man Is Gone, Billionaire Anthony Edward Stark Missing! Yes, that's right. Tony Stark, Iron Man, was missing...

Rogers slammed down the paper and groaned. Dang it! What had he done to cause this? Just a day before, he had been with Tony, and things had been...alright? Was that how to say it...but now... Agh. He should never had left Tony anywhere near Loki! That had been his first mistake for sure...because now he had no idea where Tony was, and if he was even alive. He had yet to even show the team that he was missing anyways. He wondered how Pepper and Rhodey felt when they saw this article...huh.

"Guys! Everyone! Get in here! You may wanna see this!" Clint was yelling from the living room. There was a thunder of footsteps before Clint yelled. "Rogers!" Rogers got up and sighed, holding the newspaper in his hand and heading into the living room. Natasha was sitting next to Clint, the man's eyes were wide in shock, and he was re-winding something on the TV. Rogers sat down in the armchair, Thor was leaning on it. Banner was sitting on the other couch, in full lab attire.

"So, what is this about eye of hawk?" Thor asked, wondering why he had been woken up for. Rogers bit his lip, having a bad feeling about this. He had good reasons for worrying after all. With what he had in his hands, and what he had learned. Now, he couldn't tell Thor about the Loki thing, or Tony was dead but...

"Just...watch..." Clint murmured as he started the Press Conference from the start. On the top it read Missing Hero...But Not Missed? Pepper Potts stood next to James Rhodes at the podium as another worker from Stark International spoke up.

"My name is Elie Jones Trey. I know many people do not know of me, but I am a worker for Stark Industries. Today, we have come with news. Yes, Anthony "Tony" Edward Stark has gone missing, which means...no more Iron Man until he is found. We have many people on the case, but no one has found him yet I'm afraid. We have another problem though! Many people do not want him back anywhere...and we think this may be why he is gone. I have heard from two sources by now that he is not missed yet by them for something he did...but, as the world knows. We need Iron Man! We need Tony Stark! We will have many hands trying to find him, and we will look everywhere we can like we tried when he was captured a few years ago!" Cheers and cries rose from the people gathered there. The man paused then closed his eyes. "But now, since we fear the worse...I will open his wishes, earlier than I was told, but I must to leave the company in the right hands." He slowly opened the envelope before him. "I shall now read his very words...and if the Avengers are watching this, he wanted me to tell you one thing at the top here... You were the best and only team he could ever imagine to have..." Slowly he began to read it.

"I fear now I am gone, and there are many things that are left undone. I know many things are left unsaid and undone...For now I will tell you what I wish to leave the most precious things to. To start off, I would like to tell who will take over the company for me, well more than one person actually. I will be leaving my company in the hands of the Avengers, well more so to Bruce Banner whom is better at science! Well, anyways. Guys, and Widow, the company is now yours...Pepper will help you out, so don't worry! I promise you that nothing bad will...well no I can't exactly promise that can I? Well anyways, good luck guys, you are about the only people I could say this to. Heh, imagine if I let Fury take over! Hah! Anyways...now onto other things..." Clint paused the TV and looked at the others. Thor was standing there, mouth open. Bruce was shocked, Natasha was taking deep breaths, and Rogers, he was horrified.

Not only did this mean Tony was missing, but people believed he was dead already! Not to mention that...horrid headline. He ran a hand through his hair as Bruce asked. "Rogers, didn't you visit Tony yesterday? What happened? Did something go wrong or what?"

"Ah, kind of, but I have no idea why he would be missing." Rogers replied and sighed some. "He was better than I would have thought; now going missing? I have no idea what happened..." He groaned and showed them the paper. "I saw it too, this was a very bad wakeup call you know." He sighed. "We need to find him."

"Yeah."

"I can't believe you control this whole realm." Tony commented as he walked about the room that was made for a King, literally here. Loki chuckled and looked up at Tony, which was the fifth time he had heard that from the man already, since he woke anyways.

"Yes, I know Stark." Loki replied and stood up. "Are you still in shock as well or what? I don't know, but you are not settling down at a-" A kiss to the lips made him silently. He groaned and pulled Tony close to kiss him, hand grabbing the smaller man's hair in his hand. As they pulled away from the kiss Loki took a breath asked. "Are you happy I brought you here with me Stark?" He murmured.

"Yeah...I highly doubt that anyone cares I'm missing on Earth anyways." Tony sighed softly. He closed his eyes. "I still just...I don't know how to take what happened yesterday still..." He bit his lip than paused. "I wonder if I was never suited for being Iron Man, if I was never supposed to be an Avenger." His eyes closed slowly. "Because right now I think that I was never supposed to be Iron Man..."

"Maybe you weren't meant to be the man of iron, but maybe you were. You chose your fate to be the man of iron, and that is now who you happen to be." Loki replied and sighed softly. "You can't change what you did there, and you know...I do not want you to." He murmured. "I want to tell you something, if you had not been the man of iron, you probably would never have met me...and we would not be here right now. The rest is all in the past Stark, and you are you."

Half of that made no sense, Loki was probably losing track of what he was to really say and began talking. Yeah, that was probably it. But, despite that, Tony smiled and leaned on the taller one. "Yeah, I get it Loki, I chose to be Iron man, and I am...Yeah I probably wouldn't have meet you at all." He laughed some.

"Hmn...Then do you not want to head to your...home?" Loki asked softly. "I want to know if you really want to be here or not..." Tony gave him a look, telling Loki all he needed to know. He smiled softly at the male then and Loki gave a weak smile before he kissed Tony again. "Then, you shall not be heading home any time soon Stark...you can stay here with me as long as you want..."

"No one will miss me anyways."

"Why did he..." Pepper trailed off as she watched S.H.I.E.L.D agents looking around for any clues on Tony's disappearance. Rogers sighed softly, standing next to her. The Avengers were all split up, looking for Tony. There were only five of them, but they split up to Africa, Asia, Europe, North America-South America, and Australia. Rogers was in the America's, Banner was in Africa, Natasha in Europe, Thor in Asia, and Clint in Australia. They were looking all over with agents that Fury had lent them. They needed to find something, anything that would tell them where Tony was. They were worried, more than they probably let on. They were a team, and they had to be there for one another...no matter what.

Rogers looked at Pepper. "We'll find him Pepper..." He promised softly. They had to find Tony; there was no other thing to be said about it. Even if some people wanted him to stay missing, he was a hero in trouble…and that was enough.

"I don't know Rogers." Pepper finally said. She turned and faced him. "I don't know if I want Tony to be found or not." She whispered. "I don't know, I don't miss him…He…he is a hero that is missing, but to me, he is not missed."