Summary: In which things are finally, hopefully explained and everyone probably needs a nap.

Author's note -Also at the end of the last chapter during the elevator ride is some plot points I added concerning Petunia's life that plays out in this chapter. Hopefully now it's not as confusing. I'm still learning how to author's notes, etc.

Chapter 11

Tony Stark continued to stare at the owl who stubbornly stared right back while the pigeons couldn't care less. He wasn't going to be defeated by a bird in a staring contest. He owned that bird and all the other ones too. He wouldn't be defeated, dang it.

Tony ignored the reason why he came. At the sight of the silver arm which meant that James 'Bucky' Barnes was really here, all of the memories came to his mind, ones that he thought he made peace with and he just had to get out. Being younger was messing with his brain ugh.

His concentration was interrupted by a loud bang as the door to the roof banged open and a voice that sounded similar to his own yelling at him, "Regulus what the name of Merlin were you thinking…"

Sirius Black trailed off at the unlikely sight of his prime and proper, pure-blood to the core little brother in worn muggle jeans, a black t-shirt with a muggle band, worker's hands, and a I don't know you look in his eyes. Regulus/Tony's eyes flickered up and down his body, dismissing him along with the people behind him that came out onto the roof. Tony turned his eyes back to the owl he was 'working with'.

It oddly hurt. Sirius felt like he lost something. He and Reg clashed so often, he didn't know if they had anything in common, but he was still his brother.

"Oh come on! Come back here you owl!" Regulus/Tony's voice was frustrated as he ran his grubby hands through his dark brown hair as he stared at the empty owl post and ducked as say owl dive bombed him. "That doesn't count!"

"You're not Regulus, goatees are not his style." Sirius said confused, pushing aside the hurt for later, as he noted that his brother's left arm didn't have the dark mark on it. Scars sure, but the dark mark was gone. His brother or whoever was in his brother's body was unarmed so Sirius's wand was lowered.

He wasn't paying attention when his uncle Al or whoever Howard Stark was, explaining how Reg died and after he heard that, Sirius zoned out until his rant to the imposter because his brother couldn't really be dead because Kreacher was still alive. (He was in deep denial.)

"Because what Tony wants, he gets." Regulus's dry voice spoke up over Sirius's shoulder making Sirius turn around and around as Regulus moved towards this Tony who was in his little brother's body.

"Oh do shut it glow rod Reggie." Tony grumbled as he fished out a sandwich from somewhere on the roof.

Sirius's lip twitched upwards at an attempt of a smile at the nickname Reg got. It was oddly fitting. He might get along with this Tony Stark. Somehow it eased some of the hurt as he watched Reg watch Tony with a look that Sirius usually got, exasperated annoyance. It still had to be a trick of some sort. Was his brother really dead?

Reggie would totally pretend to be dead just to make him mad. But there was Lily and Nat and Jamie and James and he was getting a headache. Between Voldemort's defeat, dealing with the traitor and now this, Sirius was surprised he was still standing. It had been only five days.

Nat had to bite back a smile at the sight of the sandwich, if it was really Tony Stark the sandwich was a strong indicate it was him. Tony was always eating. She noted the strawberry blonde, Pip was what one of the little ghosts called her, sighed deeply and shook her head softly, faint lines of hope on her face.

"You're just pissed because you don't have the touch like your dear old daddy." Regulus said smugly as the owls chipped happily at his voice. He always had a way with owls. They could see him and Uncle Alphard and the Evans girl was charming them while Potter was pissing them off. Heh.

"If you can teach me how, I'll have it too. I'm better with machinery then people." Tony then stuck his tongue out at Reggie. Which was covered with food. Howard just sighed. Tony more and more acted like he was back in college, which to be fair, his body was that age. He just hoped some of Tony's companions also slipped into this universe because he could not rein his son in. At least they were in a good relationship.

"Ewww. Chew with your mouth closed, Stark, you'll such a child. Questions brother?" Regulus sounded not happy but a little more relaxed then he was before his death. It was quite strange or was this a trick? He needed sleep.

"Why doesn't he have the dark mark and how are you people so calm about all of this?" Sirius demanded confused as all eff holding back a laugh at Tony's antics. Not as irritated as Remus as he started to bounce slightly which he only did when he started to get pissed off. Reg had to be alive right? The stress was finally getting to him.

"Because he's been dealing with Tony Stark for a while and if these people are who I think they are, they dealt with worse. As for the dark mark that will be explained shortly." Jarvis's slightly amused voice almost made everyone jump, as Kreacher portal in. "I suggest we go back to the London house, it has the accommodations that will be useful. Ms. Lily, your sister needs you. Her lunch date didn't go as well as she had hoped."

Lily cursed and went ahead. She had helped Petunia set up this lunch date with Vernon with Dudley, hoping against hope that he'll be at least somewhat open minded since his son was magical. Guess not. They had left Harry with the Potter elves.

"You have got to tell me how you do that." Remus said in awe as his friends went through it nonchalantly. Sirius just continued to flick his eyes between his blue ghost brother and this Tony Stark person.

"Magic. Duh." Helena 'Lena' Lockhart snarked making Remus laugh, the tension that was building up ease out of him completely.

Nat frowned thoughtfully as she eyed the newcomers that went through the portal first. They didn't seem phased by the portals as the Sirius and Remus were. It was like they saw them before. She signaled to Jamie her thoughts who gave a slight nod. He noticed them as well but he couldn't pinpoint it. Not yet anyway.

***

In the London nursery, after her lunch date, where the house elves were keeping an eye on her son and nephew, Petunia Evans Dursley breathed deeply, pushing down the hurt and pain she felt as well as the tears wanting to fall. Her quick lunch that day with Vernon to tell him that their son had magic did not go well. Or as she had planned.

Her husband denied it and called her a freak. That surprisingly hurt her deeply as she stared at her husband in shock as several things clicked into place. She had driven herself so far into the normal she married a man who couldn't see anything special in the world, even make believe. When Dudley showed his daddy the 'mag' he had, thankfully it was in their kitchen, the look he shot his son made her wonder if he even loved her in the first place. Or he only loved the idea of her 'being normal'.

So when Vernon started to demanded things that she couldn't or wouldn't give and to chose between her son and her husband, it was no contest. She walked back into the portal her head held high. She heard sounds of things breaking as Vernon took his temper out on the house as the portal an invisible Kreacher made, closed. It seemed that she dodge a bullet there.

"Ms. Evans?" Nod's small voice brought her out of her gloomy thoughts. Petunia smiled at the young house elf whose wonder at a non-magical person made her heart ease. It seemed that even the magical world had its hidden surprises. That he took her new name or old name without pause was helpful.

"Yes?" Petunia answered as she noted that the house elves were keeping a sharp eye on her son and nephew along with the young ghosts that reminded of herself long ago. So curious. Lily wasn't the only one who wondered at things in the family. She was just more logical about it. She had to balance Lily in some way.

"They are all in the common room off of the training area. I can show you the way." Nod said as he balanced a snack tray on his ears. It didn't hurt him and he found it fun.

'House elves are very strange.' Petunia thought as she followed Nod to the common room and almost walked through Lily who jerked to the side and fell into step with Petunia, not saying anything. Petunia was grateful for her sister's tact, or at least she recognized the look on Petunia's face which always meant, don't talk to me.

"I'll tell you about it after whatever this Sharp fellow wants." Petunia said grudgingly, if she didn't tell Lily she'll find a way to hound her.

Lily laughed, "I believe it's Stark, but I don't think he'll mind being made fun of, after all he came up with way too many nicknames for his friends and family. Besides if he's going to help us protect Harry from whatever, he'll need to go through the gantlet or at least some version of it."

"Oh and did your precious husband do so? Snape never did passed." Petunia said acidly with a hint of smugness as she remembered how her grandma described how their ancestors put their potential husbands through mental hoops or in her grandfather's words, the test from hell.

"James did finally. Did Vernon?" Lily said quietly already knowing the answer, bypassing the Snape answer.

"I was so desperate to be normal, I didn't even think to try." Petunia said grumpily as they neared the wooden door which to her surprise opened like a motion sensor door.

"Nor did I think to help you or for you. Grandmother would be appalled. I am sorry for that. I didn't speak up because I wanted you to be happy. Mum didn't help any with that." Lily said softly so not to inform the others gathered around a small coffee table in a gathering area instead of the dining room part that had a mini-bar beside it.

Most were already seated, but Nat and Jamie and at least one of the Lockharts woman seem to be scoping out the place from she assumed strategic positions or something since they were still standing. Jamie looked amused at something, and Nat was having a wary, do-I-know-you, staring contest with the Lockhart called Lena, the older one. Or she had the look of an older sibling.

"Well at least I got my son from Vernon." Petunia closed that conversation as she noticed Nat tilt her head her way finally breaking off the staring contest she was having to sit next to Petunia as Jamie sat on Nat's other side. She was oddly comfortable enough with him to let his arm be across her shoulders or that might have been the bodies they were in now. Petunia noted the slight glare Lena was it? gave Jamie as a result of it.

The Black Starks as she dubbed them in her head were both sitting down, the younger one, Tony? was eating something, again, nuts it looked like, while the older one, the one who claimed to be his father, Howie or Howard or something like that looked to be taking a nap or at least his eyes were closed.

Reggie Black and his Uncle Alphard were having a very heated conversation with a grief stricken Sirius (Sirius had to be convinced that yes his brother was dead and the two deceased Blacks were making some headway) at the far end of the room almost into the wide hallway that led to a gym of sorts while Remus sat looking terribly tired and and exasperated as James looked around awed at the muggle place he was at, which to Petunia was terrible amusing.

Tony noted everyone was there shouting to the still low tones of the Black trio, "Ok wrap it up guys!"

When they started coming over, Tony continued saying, "I want to get this over with so I can get back to work. I'm this close," He indicated with his index and thumb fingers a very short distance, "to finding a way to transfer vinyl into digital. Oh I cannot wait until I can just play music on demand. Not that vinyl will go away anytime soon but still. Jarvis you there or did you pass this on to your mini-me?"

Tony had to laugh at how quick the wizards drew their wands, no pun intended, when Vision, sadly just the white outline of his programming came up as a hologram hovering on the sleek wooden varnished table, it looked like magic and according to the quick spell Remus cast it had magic, but most of it wasn't magic, which gave him a headache on how it all worked.

Sirius went to sit down feeling annoyed as he knew Reggie was dead but the details were vague. It was probably hit Sirius when he tried to call Kreacher and couldn't as he his loyalty was to the Starks now. He knew it all along but for some reason he had hope. He needed sleep.

"Hello Tony. Father decided to keep watch over the New York house as there are deliveries scheduled for today among other things. I suggest introductions first before I pull up the theory that you and grandfather have been working on."

Howard opened his eyes and glared at the hologram of Vision, smoothing his hair out from the bedhead it became. "How many times have I told you not to call me grandfather Vision? Don't start the argument again. We don't have time."

He snagged a cookie, he will never call them biscuits biting into it moaning with delight. Kreacher was an excellent cook. Alphard was silently laugh at him again. The Stark family dynamics were as crazy as the Black family but less death involved. Sirius found himself exchanging eye rolls with Reg of all people at Tony's next words.

"Ok, ignoring the sound of my father, Howard Stark, having a food orgasm and the glare that follows, you are all here because someone said one of the code words to see if there was anyone else was here from my old reality, galaxy, whatever. My name is Anthony 'Tony' Stark. I died and ended in June 1979. My dad in 1976. With our blue force ghosts as guides." Reg snorted making Tony amend his statement.

"Or annoying housemates. I'm assuming that all of you here had the same experience, but hopefully unlike me waking up completely naked in a dark cave. I mean honestly." Tony grumbled as he grabbed a glass and filled it with water just for something to do.

Reggie rolled his eyes, Tony has been gripping about that forever. "I said I was sorry. How I know you would show up? I'll explain later. It's something that everyone needed to hear, that is the reason why I died in a cave, not how I died." He corrected at the confused looks. He was not looking forward to explaining to the others on how and why he did what he did, but Tony pointed out that more people know about this the better. Secrets were not good for moral among other things. He learned that the hard way. But just for a certain few as their government was run by morons.

"As long as it's not long winded." Sirius barked back, somehow glad he could see Reggie, he didn't seem as stuck-up, pure blood as he was use to be. They might get along, maybe. Besides it seems that Jamie and Nat knew whoever was in his relatives bodies, so weird to say, and to an extent trust them, so he'll let his bad blood between him and his brother settle for now.

Lena snorted, interrupting whatever Tony was going to say next, leaning back crossing her arms, one hand closer to her hidden knife. Something that Jamie and Nat had noticed before but didn't comment on.

"Lena Lockhart, I came here when I died with Helena was only six. You think adjusting into a different body is hard? Try going through puberty in it. My younger sister Pip was eleven when Ginny died. As for your claim to be Tony Stark? Bullshit. Besides you didn't save the world." A slightly different accent that grew stronger as she spoke interspersing in her high class English accent but not not enough to make out properly but the bitterness was easy to see. "Prove it."

Tony stared in disbelief and just pointed at Vision, while Barnes, darn him, seemed to be holding in a laugh while, he really hoped was Nat, gave a soft grin while the striking strawberry blonde who was named Pip gazed at him thoughtfully. The whole not saving the world thing stung, because he did save the world, but he focused on the unwillingness to believe in his genius first.

"Who else can come up with a working independent A.I? Heck two of them that work together and independently from me and each other. I am the only one who knows their programming back and forth and sideways. Not even dad knows. You want more proof? Bring up the world map, no just the runes and the molecular structure diagram." Tony ordered as his dad just watched, just content to see Tony shine or Howard's excuse was he was old. His showman days were over.

The diagram and runes was halfway up, as the data stream was slow to load since the tech still was being developed for more then one place, when Pip stood up and stared down the man who claimed to be Tony Stark who was rendered speechless at what she said next, in a stance that scream to Tony, I know this woman.

"Or you can just tell me what I said to Tony to get him to do his homework when Phil came to visit after I claimed 12 percent?" Pip's voice said firmly, getting slightly exasperated. "Or shall I list all the women you slept with and I had to take care of?" Tony felt his face slowly getting red.

"That's private information Pep! Ok maybe not to the tabloids, but still I'm a changed man and you know it." Tony almost choked on his water as Pep continued ignoring his sputtering.

"Or how about I tell them how I got my position as your office assistant in the first place? Or how you begged for your pet llama which I usually had to take care of. Or how you almost killed me accidentally."

"I know you have allergy to strawberries." Tony coughed red in the face. Pepper studied her 'husband,' as Tony's grey eyes widen in hope. He wasn't bad looking.

Howard looked horrified as Tony light up in a small hope that turned to dread, if it was Pepper, how old was she? Did she have any other children, get remarried? He wondered if it was Happy she married, he always like her. How is Morgan doing?

He opened his mouth to defend Gerald, when his dad beat him to it.

"Don't sleep with the hired help! It's bad company policy." Howard trailed off at the look the woman gave him. It scarily reminded him of when Maria caught him doing something stupid and it turned out that she was correct. His respect for her grew at her sharp reply.

"I corrected an error in his math Mr. Stark." Pepper corrected very not amused as she reached her husband who if looked different clearly was Tony Stark unless he didn't know the answer she asked.

"So it turns out that you're the lovely Pepper Potts or should I say Stark? I can see why my son turned his company over to you." Howard one-eightieth with a charming grin that was completely lost on her as Pepper or Pip as she was called here, rolled her eyes. He smirked at the flushed face his son made when he whispered something in Pepper's ear, which judging by the heated looks after was quite naughty. Tony sighed and grabbed Pepper's hand and didn't let go.

"Right now we know that Tony Stark is here and has always been a bit of pervert, which he got from his dad. How the hell did we get here and why is it just this group?!" Jamie said, ignoring the hurt looks from the Starks and the laughter from Sirius who was enjoying the show. It turned out that his new 'relatives' was as nuts as the Blacks, but in a different way.

Remus just breathed and slowly sorted out the smells he was scenting. Jamie still had the leader scent that James did, but it was more bitter and sharply cast as if in metal which to his wolf scents meant battle honed, same with this Nat in Lily's body. Remus frown, in fact all of the newcomer's smells but Petunia and to an extent Howard and Pepper had that sharpened battle smell. Who are these people?

Remus looked at the runes and the vibranium which was hard to do since Lily and the rest but for Lena, Nat, Petunia and Jamie crowded around the table. "What is vibranium exactly?"

"Vibranium is a rare metallic ore with energy-manipulating properties. Theorized to have been first deposited on Earth by a meteorite 1,000,000 years ago it translates to magic here. The molecular structure diagram which is displayed here, is present in Sirs and Mr. Stark's blood and other various materials that were tested. That is all the different vibranium properties that we know of in our old universe." Vision interrupted smoothly.

The other vibranium molecular structures were displayed, made the more knowledgeable magical users gasp as they connected the dots between the runes and the muggle stuff. It made Petunia frown as if this vibranium was so wide spread why didn't everyone have it? Did it skip generations?

"Vision enlarge images so no one is bumping heads please." Howard said eyeing the young lady who claimed to be Pepper. He missed his Maria but he was looking forward to meeting his daughter-in-law, Tony could not shut up about her and his grandchild.

The gasps of awe from the non-tech people made Tony laugh and laugh some more at the dirty looks he got. He smirked back smugly. "Wait until I add solid color then that'll really blow your tiny minds."

"Tony stop being an ass. Not everyone is a genius like you or I'll sleeping on the couch tonight." Pepper said, leaving Tony muttering something about getting non-comfy couches and apologized half hardily, which no one paid attention too since the information was more interesting.

"That was not amusing." Nat deadpanned as Petunia nodded firmly. She was beginning to think this Tony Stark was as stuck up as Potter.

"Indeed Agent Romanoff." Vision said, tilting his head in agreement as Remus waved his hand through his projection who had poked the hologram with his wand first as Sirius had dropped his in shock which rolled under the armchair when the steady 'magic' changed to add the different structures. This muggle was on par with wizards, even if he was in his little brother's body. He kind of understood what this Vision was talking about but he usually didn't care about muggle stuff so some of it went over his head.

"It's Nat, Vision as you well know. You don't have to be so proper all the time. If you need any proof I'll gladly give it." Nat said a sense of belonging slowly clicking into to place as some of her team, her family was there with her. For the most part.

"Really?" At that, Lena turned to looked at her with sharp blue eyes whistling in challenge but also in hope as she had her suspicions when the redhead reacted to the Black Widow comment and then there was the screwdriver. As for the man who seemed way too comfortable with…Yelena's thoughts scattered at the answering whistle and she had a hard time breathing.

"We'll talk later little sister." Nat said in Russian as Yelena nodded as she blinked back tears.

"We will you poser bitch." Yelena snipped back in her mother tongue as it clicked in everyone's heads that the accent was Russian.

"I'm not a poser!" Nat protested in English as Yelena threw back her head and laughed. That laugh lightened something in Nat's chest that she didn't know was wound tight. She had missed her little sister so much, but ironically it seemed that she was the younger sister now or something. Freaking reality hopping.

Petunia didn't know what Nat's relationship was with the Lena but the joy they had at finding each other was something she wanted with Lily. Even if she didn't have any 'magic.'

"Poser?" Petunia said lightly as Nat grimaced and shot a look at her little sister who was smirking. "I'll explain later."

It also seemed that they were getting off track and Petunia was going to pull them back on when Vision helpfully pulled up the data that showed Nat's posing just as she dropped from the plane to a catwalk surrounded by people. In a snowy mountain range.

A sharp "Pause" from Nat stopped the video as she exchanged looks with Lena. "How did you get this image?" She inwardly frown, that 'mission' was family related and not for viewing. Nat sighed as she caught Tony's guilty look who looked down at Pepper's reprimanding tsk "Tony."

Jamie grinned, feeling oddly guilty as he devoured Nat in white. She looked real good. Always was a sucker for redheads and she wore the color well.

"Do you have to upload and keep everything you find on your satellites Tony? Somethings are private information Tony. Not everyone wants to be plugged in all the time. " She saw the awed look on Lily's face and even Petunia was leaning forward a little. It was probably magic, so she let it go for now but the looks on her sisters faces was boosting so.

She exchanged a few words in shorthand with Lena. "Fine just play until I say stop." Nat sighed as Jamie just winked at her, even in a different body he was still handsome.

"Glad what I taught you was put to good use." He muttered in Russian as the video resumed playing normally. The group cracked up laughing at it and some of the footage following it showing her fighting moves left them speechless.

Nat made a sharp gesture that Vision recognized, letting the runes and formula enlarge again and ending the video making Nat inwardly frown, not that she was thinking about it, how can Jarvis and Vision share the same network, the internet and data systems are in their early stages. How are they even here?

"Ok back to how all this is related to the magical runes. Also how did you find Merlin's missing rune?!" Remus gestured towards the heart shaped leaf looking rune. He was impressed with the muggle fighting but he was more interested in how this muggle science thing was related to magic. He knew a bit from Lily but that was back in school ages ago. Sirius looked bored out of his mind, but Remus knew he was paying slight attention as he only twitched once or twice.

"Agreed. Vision or Jarvis." What followed was a long phrase that Nat said in at least three different languages. Remus thought one was French. Sirius knew it was French since he spend a summer in France and had delightful 'French' lessons from a well endowed pure blooded witch.

"I knew you put a backdoor in my system when you unlocked Care Bear's suit. I knew it!" Tony exclaimed as he tried to bring up anything that had to do with Nat and couldn't. He was locked out.

"Of course I did, I knew you would try and hack S.H.E.I.L.D.'s databases so I put in a tracking marker so information I didn't want to be access wouldn't be. Or at least would be very scrambled if Jarvis ever got it." Nat shrugged. It was so long ago, she was surprised that she even remembered the code. She made a note to not have as long as a password, more encrypted but shorter.

"Why do you think vibranium is magic? I mean at first I thought it did but now that I think about it the diagram doesn't seem to relate to the runes, they are totally different structures. Besides from what you say, in your universe everyone would have magic." That question was from Lily who was piecing together a little bit more of the puzzle. The rest were listening since it still has not be completely explained to their satisfaction. Petunia could almost see what they were getting at, but it seemed something was missing.

"'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-Arthur C. Clarke. At least in Wakanda's case. I loved that place. I recognize the heart-shaped herb that is Wakanda, the so called 'Mark of Merlin' being the last one." Jamie had a wistful look on his face as he remembered his time in Wakanda.

"Their shielding is pretty sweet. " Nat agreed, enlarging the runes as she spoke, naming them off as she explained as she grilled Tony after he got back from space and he opened up a bit on what Dr. Strange told him as the trip was a long one.

"The rest are magical runes from different magical practices in our old reality. I did a lot of research when Thor touched down and when Dr. Strange popped up, and Loki's magic. This runes here are from Asgardians magic script which is Loki's magic, we already see how the Mind Stone, and if I had to take an educated guess the rest of the Infinity Stones, Eldritch Magic is Dr. Strange and I don't recognize the third to last ones."

"From what I can gleam from my fragmented memories, those ones are Chaos runes and Dark Dimension runes." Vision said as Tony had nodded to agree with Nat's explanation.

He was more like Jarvis then his old self, after all he died more then once and it was like slugging mud at the back and forth he went through aka the yellow computer lettering that blended with Jarvis's green lettering back in 1979 and being snapped back to being alive resulting in the white screen noise. Thankfully Father as he called Jarvis, helped him out once he completely left Wanda's side. He knew White Vision was out there and he hoped Wanda and him got to be happy.

"I still don't know how that magical runes that make up the magical system here is related at all to vibranium, the idea doesn't track even if you have a plant from Wakanda as a rune." Pepper said slightly bitter with a frown as she tried to work through the puzzle. "That also doesn't explain why I and Lena are here and are squibs. If what you say is true then we should be witches right now. Heck everyone would be magical."

"Tony has a few theories on that. One seems to be more workable then the other ones. But it's just a thought, it's not completely confirmed." Howard said not noticing the two little ghosts who had creep through the hallway and were listening to the conversation behind Nat and Bucky's couch. Oddly enough there were two black and white cats who were purring softly as the girls petted them. How the cats got to London from wherever was from Kreacher's portal he made for Petunia.

"Oh, please it's not my fault you haven't gotten any for the past few years." Tony said coughing back a laugh at the look on his dad's face.

"Not that has anything to do with us being in people who are declared dead Tony." Howard said tiredly running his hand down his face. It was an old slightly funny argument between them.

Jamie huffed a laugh as he caught onto what Tony was implying. "Tony, if sex, magic and vibranium had anything to do with this, there would be more people running around in dead bodies." Jamie dryly said as he thought about all what he experienced in his former life.

The two ghost girls hiding made a face. Their mum's growing witch talk was slightly traumatic. Yelena and Pepper thought it was oddly stiff.

"No, that's not what I was trying to say. Ok in simple terms. First who all woke up in another body that had 'magic' attached to it?" There were six all together.

"All of you I'm assuming at one point or another in your former lives had some sort of contact with vibranium/the tesseract aka the annoying mind stone or any other sort of magic. The mind stone is a 'magical' space rock that can influence minds." At that half the group snorted, that was an understatement.

Tony saw everyone start to open their mouths and he waved off their interruptions with his half eaten cheeseburger. Remus wondered where he got a cheeseburger. "Ah, ah, let me finish. Now if everyone who had contact with vibranium or any sort of magical from our world wind up here we would have say, King Ch'alla and his smart sister or Doctor Strange would be running around along with other people. But it seems more and more that my dad's theory is the correct one."

"The people here have unfinished business or had lost time with someone else here or unresolved personal issues or my wife Maria would have showed up by now. You are all lovely ladies but none of you are my wife. When I say lost time, I mean that time that could have been as in untimely deaths and missing out on important stuff. The blip gave people more time so none of those people are here." Howard said. He had hoped that one of the blondes was his wife but he knew it wasn't. His time with her was done and Tony's time.

"You mean I'm here because the universe owned me one?" Natasha said refusing to look at Jamie as Yelena grinned at her. She didn't want to think about it, she did lose time with him but she had lost time with Yelena as well.

"Why isn't Steve here then? He lost time with Jamie." Some of what Howard was saying made sense but Pepper said frowning a slight sinking feeling in her gut as to why she was there. She had hoped her death was a bad dream.

"Ah my best friend always was and is a idiot and we didn't lose time or had any unfinished business. We concluded that before he went off and married Peggy. After he came back we did have a relationship before he died. We're good. I think we'll missing something." Jamie said. He knew why he was there, Nat, but his heart was still grieving, so he'll take what he'll can get.

A sharp whistle almost busted Jamie's ears off. "What the heck man?! Are you trying to kill my eardrums?" He growled at Sirius who had whistled. He noticed that his body was slowly adjusting to what his post-serum body was, but without all the nasty side effects. He wondered if Nat's body was doing the same. He hadn't have a good spar in ages. But he'll asked that later.

"Ok, I'm Sirius Black, that's my little brother, Regulus and the other blue ghost is my Uncle Alphard who helped me get out of my horrid parents house a while back. I get that Nat is in Lily's body, Jamie/Bucky is in James, this Pepper is in Pip's? and Lena in Helena. But who are you people? How in the Merlin's balls does this even work?! What the ass is S.H.E.I.L.D.?! What's the Infinity Stones or even a Tesseract?! What the heck is the Blip?" Sirius was beyond done. It was so darn confusing. Granted he had a rough couple of days, so he was excused. He was smart but dang it he left the high end stuff to Remus and his brother.

Petunia and Remus either knew what all that was or at least got a idea of what it was since they knew the muggle world better or could make educated guesses. The little ghost girls behind the couch grinned. He had no idea what was coming. He was in for a ride. Nat heard small giggles from behind the couch. She had an inking who was behind there, but why was did she hear purring? She had a cat once long ago.

At that, Tony swallowed his last bite of cheeseburger and smiling winning said, "Once again, I am Anthony 'Tony' Stark, genius, billionaire, husband, daddy, philanthropist. The old man is Howard Stark, my father who is also an inventor and badass business man. We were filthy rich, like you wouldn't believe."

"Not at first, I worked hard for that money. My dad was a fruit-seller you know. Since there is no way besides Reggie and Al know our history. It's best that we explain what the heck we are talking about." Howard said seriously as Pepper poked Tony in the side.

With everyone pitching in, Remus, Sirius, the Potters and Petunia got a run down about magic and reality, but not their magic or reality. Petunia grinned to herself, it was just like Lily said, almost like a Bond movie or even Flash Gordon, even those fantasy stories her mum used to read them before bed. Here she thought magic was awesome. But she was really glad that those reality stones didn't exist here or any of the other crazy magic that was explained. Maybe she didn't want to be a witch after all. Someone needed to have common sense.

Petunia had a question when "Oh Tony," Pepper started to cry making the two ghosts and the cats who made a beeline to Jamie and Nat, come out of hiding.

"Pepper! Virginia Potts Stark what ever is the matter?" Lena or as she insisted on calling herself Helena snuggled as close as she could to her 'older younger' sister as Ginny her older sister wandered towards the girl who Lena the one in her body claimed to be her 'older' sister. It was very confusing for the eleven-year-old unlike the six-year-old who just rolled with it. It was magic.

But Pepper wasn't paying attention but had caught Tony's eyes instead who somehow could tell something was wrong even if she was in a different body. "Pep how old are you?"

"There was a car crash about three years after you left. Happy made it, Morgan and I didn't. We never had enough time with her Tony. She, she might be here."

"Well shit."

"Wait, if your daughter is here, she took Cap's shield sledding once or twice and cut her hand right?" Jamie asked as he piece together more of how this all came to be.

"Oh she sledding the heck out of that shield after Tony was gone or at least the smaller one that was made as a Christmas present." Pepper said, her body unused to a male's presence that wasn't Remus since she didn't spend much time around males besides her friends, but her heart was singing slightly. Tony and her had a lot to talk about.

Meanwhile Remus was trying to sort through the new knowledge and company and voiced a question that was nagging him. "Why didn't Kreacher have a wrist band like the rest of us?"

"Kreacher doesn't have a band because he was already exposed to the cave aftereffects." Alphard explained.

"Cave aftereffects?" James said as he was trying to follow along with the whole incredible tale these not-muggles told.

"Ok. so I know how most of you died. I don't know how you died little brother or why you even are still here if you love the 'dark lord' so much. Where is your love tattoo?" Sirius was frowning at his brother's ghost who it seemed still had the dark mark but it was faded, unlike his body which was completely free of any sort of ink.

"Because the dark mark is a soul magic, not just a tattoo. When you become a follower of the dark lord he burns a mark that burns into your soul, which I thought was just burned into my magic. But if it was just regular magic Tony would have one as well. As for Kreacher he was exposed to the mixture of what killed Tony, the gamma radiation which for some reason was harmless to everyone but the locket soul piece. Something to do with intense heat or something that wiped out all the lake and the other nasty bits." Uncle Alphard explained patiently as Reggie had left him there to explain as Reggie did not like Sirius's crack about the dark lord's mark. Reggie was in the corner glaring at his brother.

"Locket soul piece?" Remus didn't want to know anymore, he had information overload, even for him. All the snacks and drinks were gone by now and he was wiped.

"On that note I'm out. What are Lena and Nat doing?" He asked his plan to take a nap derailed as Nat and Lena had gotten up and had gone to the gym mats for some 'sisterly bonding'. At the moment they were stretching in silence so they can still hear.

"It looks like they are going to spar." Jamie said eyes sharp, the only way Remus could tell it wasn't James was James was eyeing Nat as she leaned backwards and Lily had to poke him for his interest.

Sirius interested in what the women were doing got a second wind was now in the gym talking urgently or arguing with his uncle and brother while the James and Jamie looked at the women who had toed off their shoes and now a few minutes later were circling on a mat in defence stances that were not the training that he received. It looked more like what Vision had showed them. Vision had turned off the display and was currently helping Jarvis with the deliveries.

"Why are they sparring?" Petunia's voice asked next to his ear, who only knew because Vernon used to watch wrestling.

"Because their spirits and all their memories are slowly bonding with their new bodies. That means anything that Nat or Jamie or even me knew in our old life will pop up here. That's how I knew that Jamie would have his vibranium arm to protect Nat when my dad shot him. If I didn't have my genius there was no way I could do anything like you saw earlier." Tony commented idly from where he was sitting next to Pepper who was stroking the cats that followed them into the gym. She had calmed down and was now sitting with her eyes closed leaning on Tony.

"All what we are there is here. My dad thinks after a while our blue ghosts will move on after they completed their own unfinished business or at least that's what Al confined in him one day. It seems since Nat and Barnes are in magical bodies it's speed up like with dad and I. As 'non-magicals so to speak', it probably took a few years for you and Yelena."

Sirius Black's enraged yell caught everyone's attention before the spar could officially start. "Voldemort made a what?!"

***

A week after his lunch with Petunia where he discovered that his son had magic, Vernon was not surprised to receive divorce papers at work. He had joint custody if he wanted it, but he signed his rights away once he caught sight of Dudley doing magic the second time when he visited them at a London park by their new place a few days after their 'lunch' in a faint hope he was seeing things the first time.

After he calmed down a bit, he signed the papers, promising child support because Dudley was his son and he wasn't that heartless. That and the law would have hound him otherwise.

Two months later.

Tony sighed as he caught a young man who was dressed as the grim reaper who had held his gaze for a few seconds then suddenly pitched forward in a dead faint, dropping the pizza box he held in the townhouse's entry.

"K. G. please tell me my pizza I order is still edible and why did the grim reaper give it to me? Do I still have to pay for it?" Tony asked horrified as he lowered the greasy haired, needed a bath man on the carpet. Kreacher Gollum snapped his fingers and the pizza was good as new. Harry cheered. It warmed K. G's heart.

"Stark, that's not the grim reaper, that's Severus Snape." Lily gasped as she came into the entry way as Harry had run towards the door when Tony announced pizza time. Harry loved pizza.

"Your former friend became a pizza delivery dude? Well, that's a step down."

After Tony tracked down the real pizza guy and paid him, things got interesting.