1 Becoming a Stark
"Ha ha, fine I'll make sure you have a good start there, Just don't die. I'll even give you a gift to make sure you survive there somehow. Good luck out there kid"
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"PLEASE SOMEONE HELP!"
I woke up being hugged by a woman I don't know about while she's screaming from the top of her lungs. I noticed that she's panicking while looking around inside the car. I tried to move and struggle from her embrace but it was no use. I noticed something was wrong when I can't put any strength in my arms. I tried to speak but nothing came out. I looked at my hands and to my surprise it became small, not the hand of a grown adult, but it was a hand of a baby. I panicked, I do not know what is happening, I can't remember anything, and I struggled from the hands of the woman and started to scream.
"UWAAAAAH WAAAH!"
"Shush, shush, don't worry my boy. Everything is going to be alright."
I saw the woman looking at me with her beautiful brown eyes. She was smiling even though her face was pale. I felt warm inside me as I heard her voice then she tried to rock me gently in her arms. As I calmed a bit, I noticed that she was injured and blood was flowing from her head. I coughed and noticed the smell of smoke permeating through the air. Looking around, there was fire coming out of the car and saw that we just had an accident. I felt a tinged of pain in my heart because I know that this woman protected me from harm while causing her to acquire heavier injuries.
"HOWARD!" she screamed as she looked at the driver seat where the door was open.
I heard the sound of a vehicle closing in, I sighed with the breath of relief knowing that someone saw the accident and was trying to help. 'Thud' the sound of the car trunk opening was heard and I tried to see where it came from.
"Someone, Help!" someone outside said. I saw the car door on the side of the driver seat open. I thought that the other person with us from the car saw the other person that just came by.
"Ugh, Sgt. Barnes?" said someone in a low voice.
What I heard next horrified me, three loud impacts could be heard then someone put a person in the driver's seat. I noticed that the man was already dead with a broken face. The man's face was so broken that you can't see any semblance of its former self anymore. Shaking with fear I cried again while noticing that footsteps coming closer to the other side of the car. 'Am I going to die?' I thought to myself as I saw a hand closing in the neck of the woman strangling. The woman looking at me as she tried to struggle from the grasp of the attacker. A snapping sound was heard and the woman lay still, her hold on me was slowly loosening but I can still feel her trying her best to hold me in her arms.
While I resolved my self to have the same ending as the people around me, I heard the footsteps slowly getting further away and the sound of a vehicle driving pass. I became stiff; I cried and cried and cried. I don't know what else to do with this body of mine. I felt helpless looking at this woman who tried her best to save me even in the time of her own demise.
I don't know how much time has passed when I heard a siren going off from the distance. I heard a vehicle coming to stop. Hearing the sound of a car door opening, I heard footsteps quickly coming closer to me. I saw a woman peering through the window of the car looking around.
"Hey, radio paramedics, there's a baby inside," quickly shouted by the woman as she saw me in the arms of the woman.
I cried as I saw her, then I heard his voice saying. "Calm down, boy, help is on the way," as she tries to open the car door and reach out to me carrying me in her arms. "There, there, you're safe now." When I heard her voice I felt safe and fatigue came over me and I fell asleep.
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Anthony Stark was a young man at the age of 21. He was a genius who entered MIT at the age of 15 and on his way to getting his master's degree on engineering and physics. Anthony just got home from school when someone told him the news of his parents death. His parents died in a car crash and they found a baby in the arms of her mother when she died.
He felt emotional hearing the news. He was heart-broken that her mother was gone. Her mother was the only one that cared for Anthony. On the other hand, he doesn't know how to feel about his father, for Anthony his father was an inspiration, his idol however he was abusive, he was always drinking and when he was drunk he would hurt him and his mother, he never really cared about how he does at school. No matter what he does doesn't matter to his father. And his last concern is when he heard about the baby with them. He felt confused as he doesn't know what to do, someone told him to decide whether to adopt the baby as his family or let the baby go to an orphanage. He wanted to see the baby first before deciding on what to do.
He went to the hospital and saw the body of his parents. He felt regret. If only he had talked to his father before they left. If only they tried to reconcile, if only he told his mother he love them.
He went to the hospital daycare to see how the baby was doing. He saw a couple of police officers carrying a baby in their arms while holding a couple of baby toys as they tried to play with the baby. One of the cops saw him and recognized who he was. "Mr. Anthony Stark?" inquired by the cop as he slowly approaches him.
Anthony extended his arm for a handshake and asked "Just call me Tony, Is that the baby?"
"Yes, we found him in the embrace of your mother; we could say that she protected him from all harm as he didn't even have a single scratch on him."
Anthony felt weird and looks at the baby then asked, "Can I hold him?"
"Sure." The cop waves his hand at the other one then told him to let Tony hold the baby.
Tony looked nervous as he stretches his arms out to receive the baby, when he had a firm grasped on him Tony looked at the baby thinking what he should do. Then to his surprise the baby started laughing and he held to his clothes very tightly. 'Ah whatever I think I can let him stay' he thought as he also started smiling.
"Does he have a name? Any identification with him?"
"We didn't see anything at the site of the crash."
"Fine then, from now on your name is Daniel Stark, and I'm your big brother okay?" Tony announced while looking at the baby seriously then felt something warm in his legs.
"Oops looks like we forgot to change his diapers."
'It's probably going to be okay, isn't it?' Tony thought with a serious look on his face
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A few days had passed they brought me to a hospital daycare. I always think to myself if I should act like a normal baby or something. 'Acting like this in the long run is clearly going to get on my nerves' I thought to myself then I heard the door opening and saw the two police officers that helped me that night. They reached out to me and carried me while they try to use the toys on their hands to play with me. 'Ugh this is humiliating'.
Then I saw one of the cops moving away and said "Mr. Anthony Stark?"
I thought the name was familiar but I can't make sense of anything with my memories still missing. I heard the two of them talking and heard that it was his parents that were with me in the car. 'am I his brother or something' thinking about it Tony asked if he could carry me then the other cop signaled the one that was carrying me to give me to Tony. As he tried to carry me carefully, I looked at him.
Tony looks like he was still a teenager or maybe in his early twenties, he has short hair, his eye brows are quite thick, his eyes are dark brown like her mother and the shape of his nose also looks like hers. His name and looks are really quite familiar but I still can't figure out a thing as I still don't remember anything. I saw him making a weird face while looking at me. I couldn't help but chuckle at his face then I grabbed the hem of this shirt to make sure I won't fall easily.
"Does he have a name? Any identification with him?"
"We didn't see anything at the site of the crash."
Now that I think about it I don't even remember my name. The woman didn't call me by anything so I don't really know.
"Fine then, from now on your name is Daniel Stark, and I'm your big brother okay?" Tony said while looking at me seriously. I felt warm then realized I had peed myself and it went out of the diaper. 'Damn I can't control this, sorry brother. I hope he doesn't throw me when he realizes what happened. This is so embarrassing.'
