14th of October, 2012
3:17 am
Tony woke with a start. He knew he woke to a noise, but he didn't know what the noise was. He glanced at Pepper, who was sleeping silently beside him. He then looked at the clock. His body slouched upon seeing how early it was. He then held his breath, hoping to hear the noise again.
He heard it again. It was a very quiet voice, saying something inaudible. Tony threw the blankets off his body, and shuffled quietly into the hallway. He waited. There it was again, coming from down the hallway. He followed the sound, and he ended up standing outside Sky's room.
"Daddy," the voice mumbled. It was Sky. Tony threw the door open and rushed over to his daughter. Coal was lying beside her, curled up into a little ball, barely seen against the darkness of the room.
"Sky," Tony whispered, sitting on the bed beside her, "Sky, wake up."
She only called for him again, and began sobbing.
"Sky, wake up," Tony said, barely whispering anymore. He placed his hand on her shoulder, and shook her. "Wake up Sky."
She woke with a jump. Her eyes became fixed on Tony's, and she sat up, hugging him tightly. Tony hugged back, comforting her.
"You're alive," she whispered, and began sobbing.
"Shh, it's okay. It was only a dream," Tony said, rubbing her back. The light flickered on, causing Tony to squint in the sudden harsh light. Once his eyes were adjusted, he glanced at the door. Pepper stood there in a robe, hand still on the light switch.
Tony shifted Sky so that she was curled up on his lap, her head laying on his chest and his chin on top of her head, still rubbing her back. Pepper left, and came back with a glass of water. She set it on Sky's bedside table and sat down on the bad with them.
After a long period of silence, Sky spoke. "It was different this time," Sky said quietly. "It started out the same, but instead you were there, and she knocked me out. When I woke up again in the dream, you were on the floor and you wouldn't wake up. I tried but you wouldn't wake up," she explained, and began sobbing again.
Tony turned to Pepper. "Go back to bed," he said, and she nodded tiredly, leaving the room.
He then shifted his attention back to his distraught daughter, who was still crying. Tony shifted, leaning on the back board of the bed, with Sky curled up in his lap. Coal was now awake with all the movement and sat at Tony's legs. Tony ended up rocking slightly to get Sky to calm down.
9:02 am
"If anything happens, JARVIS will notify me. That includes someone coming over, if you go out, if something bad happens here, or if you have another nightmare," Tony explained.
"I know, you told me this already," Sky complained.
"I was just reminding you in case you forgot," Tony quickly said.
"But I didn't forget. Besides, what if I need to go out and get food?" Sky questioned.
"Rhodey's coming over every Saturday with food. Therefore you don't have a reason to go out."
"What if the house blew up?"
"Go hide in your lab. That's the safest place in the house, anyway."
"What if there's fire in there?"
"Then–"
"I'm sorry to interrupt your bickering, but we need to go, Tony," Pepper intervened.
Tony quickly hugged Sky, who hugged back.
"Stay safe," he said, and left, closing the door behind him.
Sky sighed and went back to the couch.
"Hey JARVIS, can you play the most recent TMNT episode?"
"Of course, ma'am," he replied, and the TV burst to life.
The episode, 'Never Say Xever' started. This is the seventh time Sky watched the episode, so she pretty much copied everything her favourite turtle, Leo, said.
Her phone then started playing 'Carry on my Wayward Son'.
"Pause," Sky said, and the episode paused. "I can't watch one episode, can I?" she mumbled. Picking up the phone, she said to whoever it was, "This better be important."
"Gee, Sky," her father's voice rang through the receiver.
"Dad? Why are you calling? You've barely been gone for five minutes," Sky replied.
"I just remembered something. I thought I told you to not put the suit in your room."
"Uh, you said that?"
"Sky."
"Okay, okay. I 'disobeyed' you once. So what?"
"Put it down in your lab immediately."
"But–"
"Now."
"Okay, fine!" Sky said, and hung up. She stormed up to her room and put the suit on.
"Hello, Miss Stark," JARVIS said. "Mr Stark requests that you don't fly around, or–"
"Can it, JARVIS," Sky quickly said, cutting the AI off. She walked downstairs, and as she reached the living room, she heard a muffled bang from the labs.
"JARVIS, what was that?" Sky asked.
"I do not know. Shall I call Mr Stark?"
"No, don't call him. I'll check it out first," Sky said, and silently made her way downstairs. She glanced through the glass and saw nothing in her father's lab. She began typing the code to open the door when–
"OW!"
It came from downstairs, Sky's lab.
Sky quickly stepped on the panel to open the stairs. They appeared quickly, one by one, and Sky turned herself invisible. She quietly walked down the spiral stairs.
"JARVIS, turn off the light in my lab, please," Sky whispered.
"Very well," he said, and all of downstairs went dark. Sky could still see, thanks to the suit. She snuck into her lab and silently waited. Nothing moved. She held out her hands to the middle of the room, and willed a hologram to come out.
At first nothing happened. "Come on," Sky silently whispered, and a hologram of herself in the suit appeared.
"Who's there?" Sky said, and she saw movement behind her desk. She waited, and the hologram of herself went into a fighting stance. Sky was about to repeat herself when she heard someone.
"No!" The person had said, and a figure launched itself at the hologram. Surprising to the figure, they flew straight through and hit the wall. It groaned. Male, Sky guessed. Three other figures went over to the hologram. One stuck his hand through it, while a shorter one helped his pal up. One of them just stood there watching the others. Sky crept up to him and wrapped an arm around his neck.
He yelped in surprise, causing the other three to quickly look over at him. He was clawing at my arm, and the others looked at him weirdly. Right, Sky thought, I'm still invisible.
She made herself visible, and the hologram disappeared. Holding up a hand to the person she had in her grasp in a threatening manner, she spoke.
"Who are you, and how did you get down here?"
"Look, miss," one of them started, taking a step forward. Sky immediately stepped back, and held her hand in a way that the blaster whirred up. He hesitated then continued.
"Let our brother go, we didn't mean to come here. It was Mikey that went over to my invention that brought us here. We'll be leaving once you let go of our brother," he finished.
Sky lowered her guard. "Mikey?" She let go of the person she had in her grasp, and he flung himself away. She held up her hand in the same threatening manner. She could hear the blaster whir. "Drop all your weapons on to the floor," she said. They didn't move. "Now."
She heard a clatter of metal against the floor, and then more clatters. "Now tell me, which one of you is Leo?" Sky asked.
"Me," the one that she had hostage earlier said. Sky nodded.
"My apologies," She said. Turning her head, she said, "JARVIS, turn on the lights please." The lights flickered on, and just as Sky presumed, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were standing there in her lab. She quickly got out of the suit, and jumped up and down in glee.
"This is the most amazing thing ev– oof!"
Sky was cut off and thrown to the floor. Feeling a heavy weight on top of her, she glanced up, seeing electric green eyes above her.
"Not so threatening without your suit, are you?" Raph asked.
"Raph no! She is Iron Man! Or woman!" She heard Mikey say. Raph glanced back at his brother, and Sky seized the opportunity to swing her right arm and punch him in the jaw. He was taken by surprise. Sky lifted her knees and knocked him off her, and she turned around and crawled out of the way. She quickly stood up, and saw that the four had recollected their weapons.
"I have contacted Mr Stark. He wants you to answer to him immediately," JARVIS said.
"Really JARVIS? Now? Can't you see I'm busy?"
"My apologies, Miss Stark."
"Tell him to wait, like, five minutes or something."
Raph charged at her again, and she dodged, kneeing him in the stomach region.
"Try beating an assassin in training. I dare you," she taunted, grinning wildly.
Mikey and Leo than charged at her, weapons at the ready, she dodged, grabbing Mikey's arm and, using his momentum, swung him into Leo, knocking them both down.
"C'mon. At least make it a challenge. I mean, you guys are ninjas," Sky said and Donnie charged. She glanced behind her and saw Raph charging.
As Donnie struck with his staff, Sky grabbed it and jabbed it back at him, and then swinging herself at him, kicking him in the chest. Winded, he fell to the floor. Holding the staff, she swung around to hit Raph who was behind her but he blocked it. Grabbing it, he yanked it out of her grasp and threw it to the side. She began to charge, but hands grabbed her wrists holding her back. Leo holding her right arm and Mikey holding her left, Raph stalked up to her, twisting his sai in his hands.
"Wait!" Sky heard, and they all turned to Donnie. She tried wrenching her hands out of Leo's and Mikey's death grips, but to no avail. Donnie walked over and looked at her right arm as she tried to get it out of Leo's grip.
"S?" He said.
Sky stopped.
"D?"
"You know her?" Donnie's brothers said in unison. Leo and Mikey let go of her arms and she looked at Donnie. And slapped him.
"Why did you not tell me you're a frickin' ninja turtle, huh?" Sky said.
Donnie quickly thought up a response.
"Why didn't you tell me that you know Mr Stark," he said.
"Well," Sky looked around, and spotted the IDP. It was broken. "Why did you break my– shit!" She yelled, and scrambled upstairs, the four brothers watching her confused. She turned around to face them. "Coming?" She quickly said and continued. She made it into the living room and looked around for her phone.
"Is that me?" Mikey said, looking up at the frozen picture of himself and Raph.
Sky nodded and grabbed her phone. She had seven missed calls from her dad. She quickly dialled, and Tony answered on the first ring.
"Skylar Maria Stark!" He yelled through the receiver.
"Look, I totally have nothing to do with this. I found them in my lab and they were just there, I think they came through the IDP."
"The IDP? I thought you said that couldn't transport people!"
"It didn't transport people though, it transported mutants. Turtle mutants."
"You're kidding."
"Nope, I'll put you on the TV so you can see."
Sky then pressed a button on her phone, and a picture of Tony Stark popped up on the television, replacing the frozen image from earlier.
"No way." He simply said.
They awkwardly waved.
"Hi, Mr Stark," Donnie said.
"I'll try to get them home immediately. They managed to break the IDP Pad, so, yeah."
"Okay. I'll be checking in. I'm still not happy. We are going to have a word when I get back," Tony said.
"Bye dad!" Sky chirped quickly, and hung up. The turtles turned to her, and she leaned back on the couch.
"Tony Stark? So we're in the MCU?" Donnie asked.
"I guess so," Sky replied, placing her hands on her head in a relaxing motion.
"'Dad'? So you are the Tony Stark's daughter?" Leo asked.
"Yup. Skylar Maria Stark," Sky replied. "Now, if you don't mind, I would like to finish the episode.
"Episode"?" Raph asked.
"Hush," Sky said, and turned to the television. "Play, start twenty seconds earlier."
The episode went back to the guys hiding while following April. Their faces, except for Mikey, were bewildered, watching themselves on TV was completely new to them. Mikey however was excited and looked as if he was about to explode in excitement.
"Dudes! We're on TV!" he exclaimed.
"Shh!" Sky said to Mikey, placing a finger over her mouth as she did so. "Just shut up and watch it."