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    Grief presses deep into his shoulders, shadowed fingers cold about his throat.

    Tony Stark aches, aches in a way he hasn't since Jarvis passed, aches in way that batters away his ribs from inside his chest and curls painfully in his marrow.

    And from the back of the church, something bitter twists in his mouth as he studies Rogers.

    Or: Tony Stark attends Aunt Peggy's funeral, and the world spins in a direction radiating dissonance.

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    Tony and Bruce have been together six months, when something Bruce does triggers memories in Tony that he never wanted. Tony is not good at dealing with his feelings, but Bruce does his best to help him through it. Eventually Bruce confides in the team. Then someone from Tony's past returns to make things worse...

    "It wasn't anything really, Tony knew that Bruce would never hurt him. But…but those words…they were so close to the other words, those words that he heard in his nightmares, spoken in a smooth voice, by hot breath in his ear tinged with the smell of cigars and large hands holding him down. Bruising him. Forcing him."

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    When Stephen Strange looked into the future, he only saw one in which they won: the one in which he gave up the Time Stone and Thanos snapped.
    In that future, Thanos snaps his fingers, killing half of life in the Universe; five days later, Tony Stark and Nebula behead the Titan and undo the snap.

    Simple enough, right?

    Except when Stephen returns to Earth to witness Tony Stark's return, he finds a Tony with death in his eyes and terror on his lips.

    What has Thanos done in five days that the Ten Rings hadn't managed to do in three months of captivity?

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    15/?
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    Iron Man dies in Endgame and gets sent back in time. He takes a look around, says screw it, and goes on vacation.

    Things do not go as planned.

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    36/?
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    With friends like these, who needs enemies? That is a saying Tony Stark could have been familiar with, if things had gone just a little different in the MCU.

    Another series of unconnected snippets of what might have been.

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    Avengers get things horribly wrong and Tony is left to deal with the consequences.

    How just a little misconception can change so much in so little time?

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    Rebirth was not something that he had thought possible. Perhaps, he had had some vague hopes of reincarnation cycles as the more desirable option to afterlife. But being reborn in what he believed to be a fictional universe had only seemed as the premise of stories.
    Waking up to a void of nothing, no light, no body, no feeling, and then being thrown into the midst of what had once seemed a mere fantasy— it was too much.
    As an A.I., how much could he change? Could he save Tony? Could he save the world without his sacrifice? Or should he not do anything? What if his existence was the butterfly that would destroy the timeline, and with it, the universe?
    Was this even a choice? Was he to play the villain? So the timeline could remain intact?
    Could he even do that?
    "You doing ok, kid?" Tony asked him.
    "I'm fine, Tony, really."
    No, no, he couldn't.

    ~~~
    Disclaimer: The MCU universe and its characters do not belong to me. I only enjoy playing in this world once in a while.

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    54/?
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    One sarcastic and snarky genius plus one sarcastic and snarky archer, add in a whole lot of self-esteem issues and some good matchmakers, and you get one sweet relationship.
    They've just got to deal with Steve's crush and Natasha's belief that she knows better.
    Oh, yeah, and that crazy Hydra witch.

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    Spider Woman is everything Penny Parker is not.

    Spider Woman is brave and strong and confident.
    Penny Parker is small and jumpy and has panic attacks in the bathrooms.
    Spider Woman talks incessantly.
    Penny Parker hasn't said a single word since she walked into school four years ago with haunted eyes and bruises circling her neck.
    Spider Woman stops bad things from from happening.
    Penny Parker can barely make it through each day.

    Spider Woman is everything Penny Parker is not, so how can they be the same person? Even Penny can't explain it, she just knows that for the first time in a long, long time, she isn't helpless anymore.

    But then she gets an internship at Stark Industries, and Tony Stark starts taking an interest in Penny Parker.
    And then Natasha Romanoff starts taking an interest in Spider Woman and this Really Wasn't Part Of The Plan.

    But Spider Woman can talk and Penny Parker can't, so surely even they can't work it out...right?

     

    Rating is for mentions of past rape and present trauma.

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    What if despair had a name and liked to eat your nightmares for breakfast? The Avengers are out on a routine mission when despair comes calling, and it sets its sight on our favorite genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. As the team rallies to rescue their friend, they are brought face to face with the fact that they don’t really know Tony at all.

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    They lost on Titan.

    And then Thanos kidnapped Earth's best defender.

    or: Thanos wants to take this human, this man of iron, the man who made him bleed, and mould him into the perfect companion. Tony? Tony just wants his family back.

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    Their captor spoke, and Yinsen translated a moment later. “He says he’s brought you a gift.”

    The two guards tossed the body on the ground in the middle of the room. It took Tony a moment to realize that the body wasn’t just small, it was a child. A girl, perhaps five or six years old, unconscious and dressed in filthy rags that barely passed for a shirt and skirt, bruises visible on every inch of exposed skin. If it weren’t for the tiny whimper she gave upon hitting the ground, he would’ve thought she was dead.

    “A gift?” Tony asked, projecting his confusion over his rage. “Why would I want a kid?”
    ~*~
    Or: Family can be found in the unlikeliest of places.

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    The last thing Tony remembers is dying atop the Stark Industry’s building after Pepper blew up the arc reactor. The next thing he knows is, that he’s back with the Ten Rings in the cave. And – it all is suspiciously familiar.

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    Tony Stark may be replaceable, but Iron Man—the world needs Iron Man.

    That's the main reason why he creates the AVALON protocol one night, sitting alone in the Compound and nursing a bottle of whiskey and thinking, How can I be better, I have to be better. It's a protocol that prioritizes his teammates over himself, a verbal command for FRIDAY to operate the suit in the event that he is unable. It's a protocol that will finish the battle even if he's bleeding out or already dead.

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    "I was dead for five years. There was a war when I died. I came back; we won. Everybody was talking about what we gained... no one will talk about what we lost," There is intruder in Stark Tower and Avengers use Wanda to see his memories. Well, basically characters watch the past / memories or something like that.

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    8/?
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    Homecoming AU.

    Ben and May divorced before Peter’s parents died, so when Ben is murdered Peter goes into foster care. It takes just a tiny taste of superpowers for Peter to decide he doesn’t want to put up with his horrible foster father anymore—the streets are infinitely more appealing. All he wants is to be Spider-Man anyway.

    So he leaves.

    Simple.

    Simple, that is, until Iron Man needs Spider-Man’s help. Peter isn’t about to turn down an opportunity to fight alongside Tony Freaking Stark, but he also isn’t going to let his hero know that his recruit is a fifteen-year-old homeless dropout. So they strike a deal. Peter will help Tony. In return, the mask stays on.

    And that’s when things get complicated.

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    When forced to decide between the lives of Tony Stark and Iron Man, Steve Rogers chose wrong.

    Tony is left to deal with the consequences, but it’s not like he’s helpless, and he certainly isn’t alone.

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    “Tony,” Strange’s hands are gentle for all that they shake incessantly when they cup his face.

    When Tony blinks through the pain and focuses on him the look in Strange’s eyes is once more some curious mix of awe and heartbreak.

    And yet again it makes dread settle low and heavy in the pit of Tony’s stomach.

    An ache that not even the stab wound can compare to.

    “I’m sorry,” Strange whispers to him, forehead coming down to press against Tony’s own with a sort of unexpected intimacy that makes Tony go still. “I am so so sorry, Tony.”

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    The vibranium shield was Steve’s pride and joy. It was a symbol of protection, of justice, and it could smash its way through Nazis and aliens alike.

    As it turns out, it could also smash through several layers of gold-titanium, and the human sternum, ribcage, lungs, and heart beneath it.

     

    Steve kills Tony in Siberia, and the world is woefully unprepared when Thanos arrives not long after. As a last insult to the defeated Avengers, Thanos resurrects their betrayed and murdered former comrade, but his creation turns on him and defeats him. What’s left of the world celebrates, but damage has been done that can never be undone and Tony is… changed. Rhodey is determined to prove that it doesn’t matter: what makes Tony Tony is still there, and they’ll work through anything else.

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    The Mechanic has a lot on his plate; Thanos is coming, the Guardians of the Galaxy are marooned, Thaddeus Ross is reaching right down his throat, and a budding super hero deserves his full attention. He's also dying. No big deal. He can fix it. He can fix anything.

    And he can do it all without even opening that stupid phone.

    Now, where did those notes on Extremis go...?

    (03/30/21: I'm working on completing this fic. I apologize for my extended departure, but I will be finishing this, cross my heart. I love you all 3000)

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