《Troubled // Irondad》10
Advertisement
When Tony returned to the tower after Peter was taken, he immediately went to work. He went straight past anyone he saw in the building, even if they said something to him.
Tony was angry and determined to find the kid. Once he got down in the lab, he told Friday to pull up all and any files on Louis Bass. Many files came up of his past. Louis has been in jail twice. Once for dealing drugs and weapons and the second time for stabbing a civilian.
And now Peter's with this guy. Tony cursed at himself, banging a fist onto his desk. Tony isn't the type of person to really have any feelings, especially with kids. But for some reason he felt Peter was his responsibility, he needed and wanted to take care of him.
Then something interesting caught his eye. The weapons he was distributing were connected to Toomes. "Damn it!" Tony yelled, tugging at his hair a little bit. If he worked with Toomes, he knew that Peter was the one to end that whole situation of the illegal trades. That was bad, he could be getting revenge.
Tony was extremely stressed and pacing around the lab looking at all the files projected. But then the elevator dinged and he stopped in his place.
"Tony?" Bruce asked stepping out of the lift. "Child protective services are here."
"What? Why?" Tony almost yelled.
"They were told by the hospital Peter was staying with you. They want to talk to you about him being put in an orphanage," Bruce informed.
"This is ridiculous," Tony mumbled to himself frustrated. He made his way to the elevator and Bruce joined him. Friday took them to the lobby, where a women very nicely dressed waited for him.
Advertisement
She shook hands with both Bruce and Tony as she introduced herself then began getting to the important stuff. "I've been informed Mr. Parker has been living here since his aunt's passing under your, Tony Stark, authorization. Since you aren't legally his official guardian or a direct relative, we are going to have to immediately take Peter from your home and set him in an orphanage."
'That's going to be a problem since he's not here,' Tony thought to himself staring at the woman.
"I've got a better idea," he said, clearly in a bad mood. "I'd like to adopt him. Right now."
Bruce turned to him with wide eyes and Tony could practically read what he was thinking. 'YOU, Tony Stark. Adopting a teenager. Wow.'
This caught the woman off guard, "oh um yes of course!" She smiled at the taller man and began digging through her brief case. She finally found what she was looking for and pulled out a large packet. Tony quickly snatched it out of her hands and began filling it out before she gave directions.
"Be sure you sign everything and read through it all thoroughly. There are a lot of factors when it comes to adopting a child and-"
Tony held his free hand up to stop her, "yeah yeah I know."
Within 30 minutes he got the whole thing done and handed it back to the woman. "The files just need to be finalized by a judge and I'm sure there'll be no issues. It should take only about a day. Congratulations, you're a father," she smiled and gave both the men a parting hand shake. Tony didn't really let the words 'you're a father' sink in. How could he when his son got kidnapped and is nowhere to be found.
Advertisement
Right when the woman left, Steve and Bucky came through the doors. "Who was that?" Steve asked pointing at the lady who passed.
"Tony's a dad now," Bruce blurted out.
Steve and Bucky's mouths dropped. "I adopted Peter and you two clearly didn't find him so I've got work to do," Tony said somewhat angry and went straight back into his lab to continue the hunt for his son.
•••
Advertisement
LYNN ELLA WORLD
Armed with only his wits and a few new abilities, Jack889 accepts a quest to rescue a gnome from a hog-goblin slave network inside the prison world he’s locked up in. During this journey, he learns the real reason the Prison Conglomerate took the prison industry virtual—plus the means of escape if only he can get past the shadowy death cult that stands in the way. ~Flesh gardens ~Space balls ~Pocket dimension outhouses ~A naked, rampaging cyclops ~Time loop bubbles ~Thumb candles ~A waterfall induced, pressure washer weapon ~Secret back door encryption codes ~A technology worshiping death cult ~A brutally sarcastic A.I. ~Aaaaaand a lot more weird stuff ... [This is an ongoing LitRPG story that doesn't take itself too seriously. If you're not in the mood for some dumb, dark, and aggressive fun that borders on the absurd, it might not be for you. Just saying.]
8 137The Hogwarts Transfer
It’s a rare occurrence for a student to transfer wizarding schools, especially one from the US to Hogwarts. Rollie Magpie, a mohawk-clad, 5th-year student has made the transfer from Huntshrow. Hoping to escape his troubled past, adversaries creep back up, along with a wretched land curse that has been haunting the Forbidden Forest. Familiar faces still teach at Hogwarts but a new headmaster, Zita Wattle is in charge. Will Rollie help save Hogwarts from the land curse, or will the mystery swallow him whole?
8 205The Protector and the Peacemaker
The secret war between the Slayers and Mythics is secret no longer. Porter the Slayer and Sarah the sphinx have, through their unlikely love, become the bridge between the human and Mythic races, and together they hope they can find a way to end the fighting without one side destroying the other. With incriminating evidence against the Master Slayer, Drake Mortoph, there may be a chance that they can disband the Slayers before the two armies reach each other. Mortoph has more secrets than Porter and Sarah realize, though, and he will stop at nothing to keep them from being revealed.
8 178[PUBLISHED] Substation Seven: Condemnation
You can get your hands on the complete novel at https://mybook.to/substation7book1 Claire Aireneth needs to write her entire thesis in one week. As a student of the prestigious Royal Academy, her work on magitech automatons needs to not only hold sway with her professors, but keep in step with her late mother, who practically wrote the book on humanity's mechanized companions. If she fails, she'll have failed in her only self-given purpose: to become as good an engineer as dear ol' ma. Focusing the other half of her energy on keeping herself from keeling over in an anxiety attack, she does her best to weigh in her options. After hours of thought, she's at the verge of giving up hope on it altogether, until she realizes she has a unique edge on her fellow peers when it comes to doing research in a unique environment; A very unique environment. Her father is the kingdom's only magitech substation rounds officer: an incredibly important job that only requires a single person. It's through him that the magic powering the city's tens of thousands of devices operate smoothly from his small weekly adjustments, for it's industrial automatons that do the rest of the work for him. It's illegal to go down there, but Clare feels as though she has no choice. Going undergound into the substation system, she finds much, much more than a few simple androids busy with their menial tasks. She finds the kingdom's true form, a secret buried so, so deep, that it will stop at nothing to remain concealed. She runs dead center into a vast conspiracy that not only brings her walled off country into question, but her very perception of reality. It just so happens that this new reality doesn't like her one bit. On hiatus until someone asks me for some more! PM or email me and I'll make it happen! Kellinkston.com
8 153Played Out
College is a time to grow while being wild and free. Still living reckless comes with consequences. It's all a part of life's cruel game. The question still remains: who will win and who will lose. Both Pharaoh and Essence have the highest to lose.
8 83Being the God of Hell is a bother [On temporary hiatus]
A group of people dies in a plane crash, but their souls are snatched away by an entity called the Highest One, that wants to make them the gods of a new world in order to guide and control its population. One of the passengers, Viktor, protests this, saying that the people of the new world should be entitled to find their own path in life without immortal beings ruling over them. The Highest One then ask Viktor if he really has that much faith in humanity, and after Viktor answer positively he made him into the God of Hell, tasked with redeeming the souls of the damned, as a way to test Viktor's faith in humanity... EDIT: I'm reworking this novel a bit, changing the first chapters from the "screenplay" form to standard prose. I should be done and start a shedule of one chapter per week at the end of february.
8 139