Stark Stange: The Protector

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Reminder
Stark/Tony = dad
Strange/Dr. Strange = father
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As I was walking to the living room area of the tower, I see Strange walking in.

"PAPÁ," I ran to him and gave him a big hug.

"My Nini, you're finally back," he said letting go of the hug and from behind him I can see Christine.

"Oh my god Christine, I've missed you. It feels like forever," I give her a hug.

"Yes really has been, I didn't get to see you leave before your mission," she looks at me with a big smile.

"Yes and now we can go on that GIRLS only shopping trip," I put emphasis on 'girls' and say it while looking back at my father because he always tries to invite himself. As much as I love spending time with him, it's refreshing to spend time with someone who is superhero adjacent.

"Okay I get it, I get it. You're just going to have to tell that boyfriend of yours too, to stay back"

"Yeah, no that wont be a problem," I say quickly and I start walking with them, into the living room. There I see everyone, including T'Challa and Peter. I hug everyone and tell them that it's good to be back.

"T'Challa, really you don't have to keep taking time off to come see little old me" I tell him.

"For my best friend, I'll take all the time I can" he says giving me another hug.

"And Peter, I haven't seen you in forever, how have you been?" Peter and I have been friends for years, before homeschool happened, I was in Peter's class. And he, Ned, and MJ became really good friends. But when I had to leave to do homeschooled, Pepper kept in touch with this Aunt May so I could still be around people my own age. We didn't really get to hang out a lot because of the college courses I was taking at the time but we still spoke to each other, and when he became Spider-Man, he started coming over more, so I could help train him.

"Good good everything's good, MJ and I started dating."

"Oh my god, finally, you know how long Ned and I have been waiting for this. All through your guy's high school years, and college years you finally ask her," I tell him with a little laugh giving him a hug.

"Okay okay, Nia we know you what to catch up with everyone, but we have something to give you first, it's from me and Nat," Clint walked up to me and pulled me to the middle of the room.

Nat walked out with something in her hands, "now Nia you have to promise me you won't work yourself that hard okay?"

I nodded and said okay, then she put a bracelet on my left hand and then explained that this bracelet was a nanotechnology bracelet.

"When you push it twice and quickly run your right hand up your left arm and around to your back, your arrows will come out with the quiver, and the the bow will quickly come out after" Nat explained.

"And you'll never run out of regular arrows and trick arrows because with the nano tech, the arrows you used before will come back in pieced and form back into arrows."

"Wow this is honestly amazing thank you guys, I didn't think I was ready yet for them."

"No I only told you you weren't because you were going on the mission soon, and it have T'Challa and Shuri more time to perfect it" Clint told me.

I tried it out and it fit perfectly, and goes great with my super suit. They told me that all I have to do is to the same motion but in reverse and it goes a way. So I did that and now it's just a bracelet again. Shuri really out did herself with this one.

I hugged all three of them one more time, telling them thank you. Then I walked over to my dad and Pepper.

"Okay so I have something for you," I looked over at Pepper and continued "while I was over in the other reality, I was living with, my now other family, and I had a talk with the woman who was my mother figure over there. She was telling me how you know that I know you are my mother. And that a mother will always help her child when ever and always be there. And I know you adopted me and the same time as dad but I've never been able to give you the full title but I've always wanted too. So I just wanted to say thank you...mom for everything you've done for me and I'm sorry that it took me so long to tell you." I tell her with tears forming in both of our eyes.

"Oh my god Nia, thank you sweetie. This is the best thing you could ever give me. And I just want to remind you if you ever feel like you can't you don't have to call me mom" she says hugging me.

"No I really want to, and being over there allowed me to see I can" I tells her as we let go of the hug.

I look over at my dad and my father and they are both smiling. I looked at my father once again and said "I hope this is okay with you, I know talking about mama is always hard for you. And I don't want this to seem like I'm forgetting about her."

"No my Nini, it's perfectly fine with me. I've been waiting for you to call Pepper mom for the longest. Your mama would be happy that you've made this decision on your own and at your own pace. And she would be happy to know that someone like Pepper has helped raised you to be the power young woman that you are today" he gives me a hug.

"Okay okay, I love how sweet this is but it's our turn to tell you some thing Nia, your surprise we told you about in the letter," Stark gets up and stands next to Pepper as I nodded.

"So I've been thinking of who's going to take over Stark Industries, and I know it's not going to be any time soon. But have to be prepared. And Nia honey, I choose you," my dad looks at me.

"Wait what?" I asked them not confused but I'm shock.

"Yes sweetie you will be taking over Stark Industries." Pepper restated.

"But I've read the ins and outs of Stark Industries, it's supposed to go from generation to generation of Starks. And I'm not a full Star-" I was cut off by the genius that his my dad.

"Nia yes you are a Stark. You might be the brightest Stark to ever live. You've invented a lot of tech used for S.H.I.E.L.D and tech that is used to help save lives around the world. You may not be of Stark blood but you are a true Stark. Remember that," he tells me.

"But you don't want to save the company for someone else like when you two have a kid of your own?" I asked Tony and Pepper.

"Nia, you are our kid. You are as much our kid as you are your father's." My dad tells me.

"So what do you say sweetie?" Pepper asked me.

"I say yes and thank you." I give them both and hug.

"Wow look at my best friend, going to be a CEO" Wanda said, I didn't even see her walk into the room. We laughed and everyone sat on the couches with Tony and Pepper in the middle, Strange and Christine on the right of the couch, Steve, Bucky, Sam, and Peter on the left, and then T'Challa and Wanda and Vision on opposite sides of Tony and Pepper. With Bruce, Thor, Nat, and Clint sitting on the floor. I was walking over to the couch saying "okay so what movie are we watching today?" But as I was about to cross the front of the big monitor, a blue blur zoomed past me.