It took him a month before he successfully created his new armor. It was unknown if it worked fully, but it was the best they had. The challenge now was finding Loki's children.
"Perhaps Mr. Odinson knows." Jarvis suggested.
"That just might work Jarvis. Is he here?" Tony asked.
"Mr. Odinson is currently in the common room." Jarvis replied.
"Thanks buddy" Tony took the elevator down to the common room to find Thor sitting on the couch watching television.
"Friend Stark, what a pleasure it is to see you." Thor greeted.
"Hey Point Break." Tony waved.
"How are you this fine day?"
"I'm doing fine, you as well I assume."
"Yes, I have just visited my Jane. She is doing very well."
"That's good to hear. Will there be wedding bells in the future?"
"I hope so my friend. However, I do not think my father would approve. He doesn't look kindly on mortals."
"Hey, if you love her you should be with her." Tony said. "Screw the consequences. You're going to be King, you can make your own rules."
Thor smiled.
"I actually needed to talk to you about something." Tony said.
"I shall help to the best of my ability."
"I was reading some Norse Mythology and it talked about Loki having kids. Is that true? I mean it said he gave birth to a horse."
Thor's face darkened, "Aye, he did have children."
"So everything is true? That your father took them away? Even killed two of them?"
Thor nodded.
"Thor! How could you?!"
"It was not my place to go against the Allfather's wishes." Thor responded coldly.
"But Thor, they were your nieces and nephews!"
"And I love them as such and I would do anything to protect them if I had another chance."
Tony sighed, "Fine, but you still could have done more."
Thor merely grunted.
"Do you know where they are? I mean the book said that Odin has one of the children as his horse. That's not true is it?"
"Yes, Sleipnir is the Allfather's personal steed."
"That's just wrong" Tony muttered. "What about the other ones? The legends only said they were imprisoned, not where."
"Hel is the queen of Helheim, the land of the dead. Fenrir is located in a deep cave on Jotunheim where he is chained. Jormungandr is the Midgardian Serpent, he also dwells in a deep cavern."
"That is messed up, it's no wonder Loki went crazy."
"What do you mean Man of Iron?"
"I mean he had his kids taken away from him. He was punished severely, way more than you if the legends are true. Not to mention that he found out he was another race after hearing about how monstrous they are. Come on Thor, Even the strongest man would have broken under that kind of pressure."
Thor looked heart broken, "How can you know this?"
"My childhood wasn't as dark as Loki's was, but there are some similarities. Dad that didn't pay attention to them, Golden child that had way to big a shadow, achievements that were never good enough in the eyes of the public. It's hard."
Thor was silent, "Thank you Friend Stark, you have given me some things to think about." He got up and left the room.
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"Come on Jarvis, Jormungandr has to have a magical signature. If we can find it, we find him." Tony muttered as the scanner in front of him worked. "Find any deep sea caverns or isolated caves."
"Scanning Sir"
A few minutes later the scanner beeped, zooming in on a cave off the coast Norway. "Found him" Tony smirked.
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"Hey you two, do you remember those stories I told you about? The ones about Daddy's other children?" Tony asked.
"Yeah, the cool animals." Galen said.
"Would you be willing to help me find them? It's up to you, I wouldn't want to do anything you don't want."
"Will they be our brothers and sister?" Aurora asked.
"I hope so Princess. That's up to them though."
"Do it, do it!" Galen cheered. "Old man mean, hurt our brothers and sister."
Tony smiled, "You got that right munchkin."
"I wanna help too" Aurora smiled.
"Alright then, we'll start the next time we go to Jotunheim."
The twins nodded excitedly.
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When Tony and the twins arrived on Jotunheim, he handed them off to the mages for their training before speaking with Helblindi.
"Helblindi, I was wondering if you could help me with something."
"Of course Starkson."
"Thor told me that one of Loki's sons was imprisoned here. Do you know where he is?"
"Ah, so what Býleistr told me was correct. You are searching for Loki's children. Yes, I can lead you to the cave where the wolf is chained. I do warn you though, you cannot break the chains, lest Ragnarok is unleashed."
"Okay, good to know."
"I don't see how you can release the wolf without breaking the chains."
"I'm a problem solver, I'm sure I'll figure it out."
"Mommy, are you going to find our new brother?" Aurora and Galen entered the room with the mages.
"Yes Sweetheart, Helblindi is going to take me there."
"Can we come? You said we could help." Galen asked.
"Sorry Mister, this one you're going to have to sit out."
"But Mommy" They whined.
"I need to see what we're dealing with guys. I promise that you will be helping every time after this okay?"
They pouted but didn't argue.
"Have a good lesson and I'll be back later." He kissed each of them and followed Helblindi out of the palace.
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With his suit on, Tony was well protected from the harsher weather of the outside. He followed Helblindi for a few hours before they came to several caves. "He is in the farthest cave down."
Tony nodded and brought up his magic scanner. "I think my scanner found him."
They came to a large cave of ice. In the middle was a large, flat boulder. Lying on top of it was an enormous wolf, chained down with a sword keeping his muzzle shut.
"Woah, I didn't expect him to be that big" Tony said. His voice woke the wolf up. Large amber eyes stared at them curiously. Tony approached the wolf slowly, "Hey Fenrir"
Fenrir growled and tried to break free of his chains.
"Woah, easy there. I'm not here to hurt you. I actually wanted to get you out of here." Tony held his hands up.
Fenrir stopped struggling and eyed Tony curiously again.
"You see, I know your father Loki" Fenrir perked up at the name. "He told me about what Odin did to you and your siblings. I don't agree with Odin so I'm going to try and release you. But I have to ask you something first."
Fenrir tilted his head as best he could.
"You see, Loki and I are lovers. We have two other children and we would really like for you to be a part of our family. You don't have to accept, I mean you barely know me."
"Do you love my father mortal?" A voice said in Tony's head.
"Woah" Tony looked around. "Was that you?" He looked back at Fenrir.
"Answer the question mortal, do you love my father?"
"Yes, of course. I wouldn't be doing this if I didn't." Tony replied.
Fenrir gave Tony a calculating stare, "If you can release me without breaking the chains, I will accept your offer."
"Great, now let's start with that sword in your mouth." Tony cautiously approached Fenrir so not to startle him. "This is probably going to hurt." Tony said. Fenrir nodded. Using his repulsers he lifted the sword out of Fenrir's muzzle causing the wolf to cry out in pain. Tony dropped the heavy sword off to the side. "See, not so bad. One step closer to getting out of here and meeting the rest of the family."
Fenrir grinned slightly, "It has been a long time since I had a family."
Tony nodded, "Then let's get you out of here." He circled the boulder to get the layout of the chains. They seemed to cross over the wolf like a net, keeping him pinned to the boulder. "If we release all of these columns, the chains should come right off." He told Helblindi.
"And how do you suggest we do that? If we cut the columns, the cave could collapse." Helblindi replied.
"Then we just take a small chunk of it out right above the chains and slip then out before replacing that part of the pillar. These things are made of ice so you can just rebuild them."
"It could work"
"Awesome, let's do this."
It was a tedious process. The chains were encased in ice so Tony had to be very careful when melting it so that he didn't destroy them. Once the chains were free they ran into another problem, there were chains around each of Fenrir's paws.
"Aw man, this is a problem." Tony complained. "These guys really didn't want you to get out."
Fenrir huffed.
"Can you shape shift?" Tony asked
"These chains suppress my magic." Fenrir replied.
"Typical" Tony muttered.
"Do you not have a machine that is like shape shifting Starkson?" Helblindi asked.
"Oh yeah!" He opened a pouch in the suit that held his watch. "This should do the trick" He put the watch around Fenrir's paw and turned it on. Fenrir immediately shrunk into a tiny wolf cub, the chains easily slipped from his paws and were left on the boulder. Fenrir yipped and jumped off the boulder. Tony took off the watch and Fenrir reverted to his larger form.
"You have freed me mortal. You have my eternal thanks." Fenrir said.
"You're welcome. Just don't go starting Ragnarok and eating people okay?" Tony smirked.
Fenrir laughed and shifted into a human form. "Your humor amuses me mortal. I like you." The boy looked about ten. He had black hair and amber eyes. His pale skin almost looked white in the glow of the ice surrounding them.
"For someone who is hundreds of years old and the size of a horse, your human form looks like a kid." Tony said.
"I am rather young. My true form may have an accelerated growth, but my human form was the opposite."
"That's weird."
"We should leave here. We don't want anyone to notice Fenrir is no longer imprisoned." Helblindi said.
Tony nodded, "Come on then. Time to meet your new brother and sister."
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When they made it back to the palace, Aurora and Galen were waiting for them with Býleistr.
"Mommy!" The twins ran up to Tony and hugged him.
"We missed you."
"Missed you too minions. But hey, I got your first brother."
The twins looked at the new boy curiously. Aurora was the first to approach him and stuck her hand out. "I'm Aurora Frigg Stark"
Fenrir grinned, "You've got quite the personality don't you little lamb. I'm assuming you get it from your mother." He kissed her hand, "My name is Fenrir Lokason."
"Is Daddy your daddy too?" Galen asked.
"If you mean Loki, then yes. And you are?" Fenrir asked.
"I'm Galen Loptr Stark." Galen greeted shyly.
Fenrir chuckled, "You are a shy thing aren't you rabbit. Shy, but fierce when you want to be I'm sure."
Galen smiled shyly.
"You have a nice family mortal. I shall enjoy becoming a part of it." Fenrir smiled.
"You know, you're going to have to give me another name. Calling me mortal isn't going to cut it." Tony said.
"I apologize Mother." Fenrir bowed.
Tony gaped, "What?"
Fenrir sent him a wolfish grin, "You are their mother. Loki is there father so it only seems right to call you Mother as well."
"Don't you have a mother already?" Tony asked.
"I do, but she wasn't much of a mother. We were closer to Father, our mother didn't really care about us."
"Well, I guess if you want to call me Mother you can."
"Mommy, where is he going to live?" Aurora asked.
"I was thinking of the floor under ours. It's where you will move when you get older. Give you guys some privacy."
"Can I help make his room pretty?" Aurora asked.
"I think that's a question to ask him Darling." Tony said.
Aurora nodded and ran over to Fenrir who was talking to Helblindi and Býleistr. Tony turned to Galen, "How are you feeling munchkin?"
"I like him. He's a lot of fun." Galen smiled.
"I'm sure you two will be getting into bunches of mischief."
After dinner and thank you's, they left for the tower. "I'll show you your room." Tony led Fenrir down a level and to a large bedroom suite. "You can decorate it any way you like. The twins can help you if you want and Jarvis can answer any of your questions. I'm one floor up as are the twins."
"Thank you Mother. I will rest for the night and explore tomorrow." Fenrir said.
Tony nodded, "Goodnight Fen"
Fenrir smiled, "Goodnight Mother."
Okay so Loki's children are going to sound way older than their age, but since they are technically hundreds of years old I can do that.