Skye Stark's Daughter (Stark's Daughter 3)

Chapter 16

My phone rings loudly next to me.

"Hmm. Who's that?" Zeke asks next to me, his hand in mine.

"My dad." I mutter as i accept the call.

"I got the results on Hope's clothes. You should come over." He says.

"Okay." I mutter, putting the phone down and climbing out of bed.

"Where are you going?" Zeke asks, looking up at me, a mess.

"My dad got results on Hope's clothes."

"Im surprised its taken him this long, 3 days. Why can't you stay here?" Zeke asks, pouting like a child.

"I know but i have to go see." I reply, kissing him and getting dressed.

I pull up the driveway and climb out of the car and walk into the house.

"Dad?" I shout.

"Come down." He replies.

"Morning Skye." Pepper says from the kitchen.

"Morning." I repeat.

I march downstairs to the basement but i don't see my dad.

"Dad?" I ask, looking around past the cars and weapons.

"You got help." He mutters, stepping out of a dark corner. His eyes pure black.

"No." I whisper.

"Oh, but yes." He teases, a smirk spreading across his face.

"Stop this now!" I shout.

"Skye, what's going on?" Pepper ask as she steps down the stairs.

"Pepper, you need to run. I don't car where, just run." I order.

"What's going on?"

"Its not Tony, someone is controlling him." I explain, not taking my eyes off him.

"Pepper, run." I order and she sprints off.

I place my hands behind my back, trying to remember where i hid my suit when i lived here. I take a step to the left, closer to the Iron Man suits. Hopefully the element is safe without an arc reactor.

I lift my arms straight to the side and one of the suits clings to me as the mask hides my face.

"Jarvis, find his weakness." I order but my dad jumps on me.

His fists pound against the metal as i fall to the floor. I catch one of his fists and project heat through the metal and into his hand. But he leans forward, pushing my hand back and almost snapping my bone.

"Who are you?" I scream in his face as i push him off me. Dad glides across the floor and smashes against the glass behind him, the glass shards explode and rain down on him like snowflakes.

"You fight well." He points out through gritted teeth.

I watch as cuts appear on his face and arms, blood pouring out.

"Thanks. My dad taught me." I tease.

He takes a step forward but i blast him back, the suit making a deafening noise.

"Tell me who you are and this can all stop." I demand.

Dad sprints at me, like a bull attacking but i fly up and he passes under my feet.

"Dad, snap out of it!" I shout, pinning him against the wall under the shelf and taking off my mask. His eyes glow black and he punchs me straight in the nose. I fall back and hit my head on the floor, pain erupting form my nose and blood gushes out, dripping onto the wooden floor.

"His weakness is his arc reactor." Jarvis says.

"That will kill him. I don't want to kill him!" I argue.

"Go on, kill me." He hisses, leaning forward and ripping off my mask, revealing my face in the light.

"No because its not you!" I shout as i stand up, the room spinning around me. I walk up to him, pin him against the wall and i look in his midnight eyes.

"Listen to me, stop this. If your fight is with me, come out and fight me!" I say.

He raises his hand and punches me straight in the mouth, his ring piercing the skin and blood drips down. My head instantly flings back and my palm traces his arc reactor.

Im sorry dad.

He swings at me again, in my leg and i fall back.

"Dad, snap out of it!" I yell.

"Fight it, think about you and Pepper. You're getting married. Maybe you have some kids in the future." I suggest as he bangs my head viciously against the wooden floor, blood splattering everywhere and the pain paralyzing me.

His eyes turn back to brown.

"Skye? Skye, what have done? Kiddo, can you hear me?" Dad questions.

The last thing i see is James sprinting in and pulling dad off me, tears streaming down dads face, my blood covering his t-shirt.