[1] Taeyong Lee-Stark and the League of Heroes

05 - Never trust a 9 year-old to keep your Secrets

PREVIOUSLY ON: League of Superheroes

Tony has returned from his captivity and the first thing that Taeyong notices is that his father is a lot more nicer to him. Taeyong doesn't know what happened over there to make his father start to change but he hopes that it's permanent. Because this Stark is a lot more nicer than the one he knew before. Except not everyone likes this Stark.

Especially when the first thing he does back is cut his weapons program.

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Tony had tried his best in convincing that Arc reactor energy was a good move for the company, but Obadiah was still tense about it. When the billionaire went to go and show Obadiah his chest and the arc reactor that was powering his heart, he had to be careful. His partner on the other hand, was warming up to the idea of new energy, but Obadiah still wanted to go back to weapons. That, Tony could understand, they were a weaponry unit and freezing all stock and wanting to completely get rid of them was crazy.

Many people thought Tony was crazy anyway, so why not the military as well? Rhodey, being a colonel himself, didn't really know how to react to Tony's decision. There was a fine line between trying to make sure his best friend was in the right and then trying to look at his own duty and how badly the army relied on Tony and his creations. Obadiah did take to Rhodey in trying to the old friend to make the genius see light; Rhodey, however, couldn't do much. Once Tony made up his mind that was it, there was really no going back.

The billionaire was currently in his workshop with Taeyong sitting beside him, working on the new arc reactor, a more stable one. Taeyong was doing his school work, before his nine year-old attention was turned away from the boring lesson of science and towards the magical world of engineering. He looked over at his dad who was lying on one of those dentist chair things, but without the cushioning. He walked over to his dad who was staring down at his chest.

The younger jumped on the stool and peered at his chest, "You have a hole in your chest, did you know that?" he looked up at his dad with unblinking eyes.

Tony snorted, "Don't see how I could not notice that Taeyongie."

"Why do you have it?" Taeyong asked.

"I have a piece of shrapnel in my body, it's going to my heart, you see that—" he pointed to a hologram of his body. "If that gets to my heart, I die. So this glowy thing in my chest is going to help keep me alive. But I need a new one," he explained.

Taeyong nodded, "so are you going to replace it now?" he asked.Tony looked down at the new arc reactor in his hand and the other one in his chest, "I need someone to do it for me—"

"I can!" Taeyong excitedly said.

Tony smiled, "can't do kiddo. As much as I think you're capable to do it, we're going to need someone with steady hands," he admitted.

Taeyong pouted, "who then?"

"Call Pepper for me?" he asked.

Taeyong nodded and jumped off the stool, running out of the lab. Pepper was upstairs going through the news channel. Taeyong could only hear parts of headlines; 'Does the Hindenburg ring any bells? Let me show you the new Stark Industries business plan! Look, a weapons company that doesn't make weapons!' The young boy shook his head and raced over to Pepper who was skipping through the channels.

"Pepper, Tony's calling for you," he said.

Pepper looked at him and nodded, turning the T.V. off and walked behind the younger who was skipping happily down the stairs to the lab. Taeyong looked up and typed in the pass code for the lab door and held it open for Pepper. "Thank you," she smiled and walked in, furrowing her brows when she saw Tony lying down and staring at her with a glowy thing in his hands. "Pepper, how big are your hands?" he immediately asked.