❝Are my screams loud enough for you to hear me?❞
↪Tony Stark is known to be many things, but only few people know that being a father is one of those, and sometimes he seems to forget it too.
Being the daughter of a genius, billionaire, playboy and...
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A black sports car pulled up in front of the Stark house, Carina was forced to pick it up as never in the world would she take a taxi and Happy couldn't pick her up.
The girl got out of the car and walked towards the front door. As soon as she entered, one thing did not go unnoticed, there was too much silence in the house and this seemed strange to her since she knew that there she would find Tony.
"Tony I'm back!" She said aloud as she made her way to the living room.
She saw him sitting there on the couch with his back to her.
"Can you explain to me what happened in the afternoon? I had to postpone the flight to prevent you from messing up" she said, going to position herself in front of him.
As soon as she was in front of him, she saw her father with wide eyes, frightened, with his face and not only covered with black veins.
"Tony!" She exclaimed panicked, but before she could do anything, a high-pitched noise reached her ears, causing her to stop. She tried to move, to wriggle, but she was paralyzed.
"Look who we have here, Tony!" Obadiah exclaimed and then turned his attention to the girl "Maybe you would have done better to leave"
Tony tried to talk, he tried to tell his ex friend to leave his daughter alone, to only take it out on him, but all that came out of his mouth were disconnected sounds without any logical sense.
"Aren't family reunions beautiful?" Obadiah asked rhetorically "As much as it breaks my heart to interrupt your first and last meeting, Carina and I really have to go, we have some unfinished business the two of us"
At the sound of those words, Tony's complaints grew even stronger, but the paralyzing effect was not yet gone, thus forcing the billionaire to see his legacies unarmed being taken away.
"Oh, it's beautiful. Ah, Tony... This is your Ninth Symphony. What a masterpiece! Look at that. This is your legacy, the generation of weapons with this at its heart. The weapons that will help stir the world back on course with the balance of power in our hands. In the right hands. I wish you could see my prototype. It's not as... not as conservative as yours" Obadiah said as he dragged Carina's defenceless body with him "Too bad you had to involve Pepper and Carina in this, I would've preferred that they lived"
Stane left and Tony was alone.
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When Carina opened her eyes, she found herself tied with her arms and legs tied to a chair, the knots in her wrists and ankles were so tight that she couldn't break free despite constant attempts. Surrendered at not being able to go anywhere, young Stark looked around, trying to figure out where the madman had taken her. The last thing she remembered was how Stane had knocked her unconscious before taking her to what looked like one of the Stark Industries underground labs.
"I see that someone has finally woken up" she heard Obadiah's voice behind her "You know, you've always been a very smart child, Carina" he said positioning himself in front of her "But you made some bad choices that will lead you to a very bad end" he punched her hard enough to break her lip.
Carina, for her part, did not complain, she just spit the blood that came out of her mouth on the man's shiny shoes.
"Do we want to be brave? Huh?"
"Should I be afraid?" The girl asked ironically.
"If you had a shred of common sense, yes you should," Stane said throwing another punch and then grabbing her by the hair "You shouldn't have challenged me in front of everyone like that, Carina. You should have stayed in the hole you went in years ago and not come back, but as always you Starks always ruin everything"
Carina laughed lightly.
"So it's about your poor wounded ego, isn't it?" She asked, swallowing the blood bile that was about to rise in her throat "I would tell you that I am so sorry and that maybe you are right, I should have continued to live the good life I was leading away from here... but I am sorry to have to tell you a lie"
Carina's laughter broke as a punch hit her stomach.
"You will regret challenging me"
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Dragging himself with the little strength he had left in his body, Tony tried to make his way to his laboratory, where Pepper's gift was present.
With the Arc-Reacter in reach, he collapsed. Then, surprisingly, Dummy with robotic movements came through. The robot handed Tony the reactor that would have saved his life.
"Good boy" Tony whispered before snapping the reactor into his chest.
"Tony? Tony?" Rhodey voice called "Tony! Tony! You okay?" He asked, seeing his best friend sitting on the ground with labored breathing.
"Where's Carina? Where's Pepper?"
"Pepper is fine. She's with five agents. They're about to arrest Obadiah" Rhodey said.
"That's not going to be enough" Tony mumbled "Where's my daughter?" He asked again.
"No, damn it! Obadiah got it!" Tony yelled, almost destroying the lab.
"That's the coolest thing I've ever seen" Rhodey said as the suit attached itself to Tony.
"Not bad huh? Let's do it" Tony said as he walked towards the center of the garage.
"You need me to do anything else?" Rhodey asked.
"Keep the skies clear"
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Pepper and the SHIELD agents made their way into the Stark Industry.
"Section 16. Section 16" Pepper repeated like a mantra "There it is" the woman passed her electronic key several times, but the door would not open "My key's not working.It's not opening the door"
Agent Coulson got another agent to pass a gadget and pin it to the door.
"Oh, wow! What's that? It's, like, a little device? It's, like, a thing that's going to pick the lock?" Pepper asked.
"You might want to take a few steps back" Coulson said.
Pepper and the agents walked away with their backs to the door, when the deal that Agent Coulson had stuck on the door blew it open. The agents entered armed, followed by Pepper. Looking carefully around, they came to the suit made by Stan and his scientists.
"Looks like you were right. He was building a suit" Coulson said.
"I thought it'd be bigger" Pepper said, dazed.
Agent Coulson stepped over the iron railing and, along with another agent, walked down the hall. The two arrived in front of a door that was broken down by Coulson and inside they found Carina Stark covered in blood and unconscious.
"Call for backup and also an ambulance" Coulson said, putting his gun back and walking towards the girl. The agent began to untie her gently and once finished he took her as a bride, taking her away from that torture room.
"Coulson, my hero, did you come here to save me?" Carina whispered, amused as soon as she noticed she was in the agent's arms.
The agent looked at her and almost felt relieved to hear that annoying voice.
