I am a STARK [1]

Second chance

"Ah look who's awake. It's about time."

After free falling from the sky and blacking out, I woke up completely fine back in a tent with the same man from the cave. I don't understand how I survived a fall from that high but I did and I wish I didn't.

Ever since they've been beating me and torturing me to build the armor out of the scrap metals they found in the desert. For a long time I stayed strong and denied it but I broke, I built the armor but left out one key part. The reactor. They asked me why it wasn't working or turning on and I told them I didn't know and that they probably haven't found one of the broken pieces of the suit in the dessert.

They didn't really like that...

So know I'm all bruised and bloody, tide up in a big tent in the middle of no where. With Raza, the man from the cave and some other man. He was tall and bald and they were both looking at me.

"So this is how he did it. And you were able to build it up again all by yourself." He directed the last part at me while looking at the armor.

"This is only a first, crude effort. Stark has perfected his design. He has made a masterpiece of death. A man with a dozen of these can rule all of Asia. And you dream of Stark's throne. We have a common enemy. If we are still in business, I will give you these designs... as a gift. And in turn, I hope you'll repay me with a gift of iron soldiers."

"Technology." The man takes out a device that starts emitting a high pitch frequency making me go stiff and stunning Raza.

" It's always been your Achilles' heel in this part of the world. Don't worry. It'll only last for 15 minutes. That's the least of your problems." He turns to me. "And you... you're coming with me. Grab her" The man left the tent and two others entered blindfolding me and taking me God knows where.

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I was now somewhere in America but I wasn't quite sure where. I've been tide up in a lab since I arrived. Obadiah Stane, the bald guy, keeps visiting me to convince me to help him make the arc reactor that powerd Tony's suit but I kept telling him I had no idea what he was talking about. He didn't belive me, so he started to electrify me everytime I said I didn't know. I've been electrocuted multiple times but still, I've never been able to get used to that sort of pain. It's horrible. You can feel the pain spread all over your body and into your veins until it reaches your head.

I remembered every little thing Tony did to build the mini arc and could most probably recreat it after a couple of tries, but why help him when soon enough my owners will come looking for me to take me back to the base where they'll mind wipe me and I won't even remeber Tony nor Yinsen. So all I gotta do is stay strong until I forget all of this happened.

"Mr. Stane? Sir, we've explored what you've asked us, and it seems as though there's a little hiccup. Actually..." one of the scientists spoke up.

"A hiccup?"

"Yes, to power the suit, sir, the technology actually doesn't exist. So, it's..."

"Wait, wait, wait. The technology? William, here is the technology. I've asked you to simply make it smaller."

"Okay, sir, and that's what we're trying to do, but honestly, it's impossible."

"Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave! With a box of scraps!" He yelled at the poor guy. "It is not impossible! That girl saw him do it with her own eyes! If a ten year old knows how to do it surely you can figure it out!"

"Well, I'm sorry I'm not Tony Stark. And I'm not that little girl either."

Obadiah sighs frustratedly rubbing his hands over his head thinking. "Get out of here. Get out of my sight you incompetent fool!" He yells out at the scientist who quickly follows his orders and walks out.

Obadiah kept pacing back and forth anger clear on his face. He stopped and looked at me with even more anger.

"How do you build the reactor?" He asked but it was not a question more so a demand.

"I told you. I. don't. know." He came up to me and slapped me across the face.

"Bullshit! You're going to help me or you're going to wish you did. I'm gonna hurt you so bad that you're going to be begging for me to put you out of your misery. " He try's to threanten me, getting all up on my face.

"There's just one tiny problem in your plan sir."

"And what is that?"

"I don't beg." A smirk grows on my face as I see the surprised look on Obadiah's face. He wasn't expecting that.

He got up and called his guards and told them to take me away and to get me to talk. Well... this is going to be fun.

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After long hours of torturing the girl Obadiah came up with an idea. If he could not recreate the arc he would simply just steal the one that's alreadymade. And that's how Tony Stark ended up stunned in his couch not able to move listening to frantic Pepper call out for Jim through his phone.

"Tony? Tony, are you there? Hello?" Pepper Pot's voice was heard through Tony's phone while he laid still, stunned by the same machine Obadiah used on Raza.

"Breathe. Easy, easy. You remember this one, right?" Obadiah showed the device to Tony. "It's a shame the government didn't approve it. There's so many applications for causing short-term paralysis. Tony. When I ordered the hit on you, I worried that I was killing the golden goose. But, you see, it was just fate that you survived that."

He pulls out the arc reactor from Tony's chest.

"You had one last golden egg to give. Do you really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you? Your father, he helped give us the atomic bomb. Now, what kind of world would it be today if he was as selfish as you? Oh, it's beautiful. Tony, this is your Ninth Symphony. What a masterpiece. Look at that. This is your legacy. A new generation of weapons with this at its heart. Weapons that will help steer the world back on course, put the balance of power in our hands. The right hands. I wish you could've seen my prototype. It's not as... Well, not as conservative as yours. I had the girl do some upgrading."

Tony's eyes widen at the mention of a girl. It can't be. There is no way Nadia survived and even if somehow she did, he would've found her. He looked everywhere for her, looked through every file trying to find anything about Nadia but all he found was dead ends.

"Ah, so you remeber the girl" he stated once he saw Tony's eyes go wide at the mention of the young girl. Obadiah's eyes seemed to find something that sparked interest in him as he reached out and grabbed a folded piece of paper that was sticking out of one of Tony'spockets. He unfold the piece of paper and saw the drawing Nadia had made of Yinsen and Tony while in the cave.

"Aww, did she draw this for you? What a sweet gesture from such a vile little girl. You know she's very stubborn and has this huge brain, just like you. It took quite alot to get her to build anything for me. And even with all that I did, all she built was a hollow armor with no heart. She keeps denying that she knows how to build the miniature arc reactor, but after seeing how smart she is, there is no way that little mind of hers doesn't remember how to build it." Obadiah stands up and gets ready to leave.

"It's too bad actually, that she's so stubborn. I would've let her live if she wasn't, I'm gonna need another brain when yours is gone. I was hoping it could've been hers."

She's alive. Nadia is alive. All Tony could feel was the need to go get the girl he failed to protect. The girl that because of his failure had to endure God know what types of tortures.

Tony didn't know how but he was going to do everything in his power to save the little killer. This was his second chance and he would not fail her again.