Rock music starts blaring from the speakers as a scene showing a few vans heading through a deserted land.
Tony's eyes widened as he realised the situation that he was in.
Whatever happened to him, would have happened to a female version of him.
Which means everyone will know what happened to him in Afghanistan.
A hand gripped his hand so he turns to face the person and found Rhodey with a pained expression on his face.
"You don't have to watch this, Tones."
Tony shook his head.
"It's fine. I've already been through this and Penny is from a timeline where her mother has already gone through this."
When Rhodey didn't look convinced, Tony placed his hand on top of the hand that Rhodey had on his arm and reassured his oldest friend, "It's in the past, Honeybear. I'll be fine."
Rhodey still didn't look convinced but nodded his head at hearing the strained tone from Tony.
The caption shows that they are in Afghanistan.
Penny's breath hitched as she realised where they were starting at.
Peter hearing it, turned to her and asked, "What's wrong?"
Harley tilted his head to hear the conversation.
The brunette didn't want to worry her male counterpart but he'd found out anyway so it wouldn't hurt sugar-coating the truth a little.
"Do you know how Tony Stark became Iron Man?"
Peter went to shake his head but his eyes widened at the remembrance of the tears he spilled at the age of 7 after hearing the news talk about how Tony Stark had been kidnapped.
A.N. I'm trying to put the timeline together.
I'M TRYING PEOPLE!!
IRON QUEEN IS SET IN 2008
I'll remind you guys when the years change.
When he faced the female version of himself, he was ashamed to find that his eyes were slowly welling with tears.
He shakily nodded his head when he remembered that she had asked a question.
Penny almost pouts at the adorableness of her alternate version but decided against it and only wipes away his tears that had begun to fall and kissed his forehead, encasing him into a one-sided hug.
"Hey, Tony Stark survived Afghanistan. Yes, it changed him. But it doesn't change the fact that he's alive and sitting like three seats away from you. Ok?"
Peter nodded, grateful for the words but didn't trust his voice lest he start crying.
The scene shifts inside of one of the vans to show a stereo playing the music. AC/DC's Back in Black fills the air in the room.
Peter perks up, "I love Led Zepplin."
Tony clutches at his arc reactor and turns to Peter with a exaggerated gasp and screeches at his kid, "YOU THINK THIS BEAUTIFUL ART PIECE IS LED ZEPPLIN?!!"
Peter was confused at his mentor's reaction and only nodded his head.
Tony downright collapses onto Rhodey's awaiting arms with a hand on his forehead before he dramatically declares to Rhodey, "Strike him off of my will, Honeybear. No-one who thinks that Led Zepplin made this should be on my will."
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Glitter & Gold
Fanfiction"Do you remember what they used to call my mother, Rogers?" Penny's voice is like she's talking about the weather but the harsh tone of her voice puts every reporter in the room on edge. "Merchant of Death. Death's Mistress. They used to believe tha...
