Chapter 1: Happy Birthday Tony

[Third Person's PoV] 

A woman with long brown hair was seen walking down a long corridor with doors on either side. When she reached the end of the corridor, she ended up in front of a large white door, bigger than the ones she had passed. The door was covered in stickers with caution signs and images related to science.

"Tony," the woman called, knocking on the door, "Tony dear, it's time to wake up."

Hearing no response, the woman sighed before turning the doorknob. When she entered the room, she let out another large sigh. There was a little boy, about four years old, sprawled on the bed, buried in books.

She couldn't help but massage her forehead at the sight, an image that had become all too common. She remembered the first time she saw it; she thought her baby had died.

She went towards the large bed and started brushing all the books away. There was now a single large book over the boy's face as he snored soundly.

The woman moved the book away from his face and shook the boy awake. "Tony, wake up, it's time to wash up and come down for breakfast."

The boy stirred awake and rubbed his eyes. "Morning, Mom. I'll be down in a minute."

The mother nodded and began to leave, but as she was leaving, she turned towards Tony. "Be sure to clean everything up as well."

She saw how Tony put a thumbs up as he was stretching, and so she finally left. Tony let out a sigh as he laid back down on the bed and looked towards the high ceiling.

'It's been four years since I reincarnated as Anthony Stark in this crazy world,' he thought to himself before hearing the door open once more.

"Oh, and Tony… Happy birthday," the mother said with a large smile.

"Thanks, Mom," Tony smiled back as the mother closed the door.

'Even my new parents' names are the same as they were for the original Tony Stark. My mother's name is Maria Stark, while my father's is Howard Stark.'

Tony got up and walked towards the nearest bathroom. When he entered, he saw maids in their regular uniforms waiting for him with towels in hand.

When he saw them, he couldn't help but sigh. "Do you guys stay in here and wait for me to come in every day?"

One of the maids, who had blue hair with pink tips, giggled. "Of course not, young master. We're just already aware of your morning routine."

Tony just smiled as he spread his arms and closed his eyes. "Come on, beautiful maids. Take me!"

He heard them snickering as they took off his clothes before bringing him to the bath and bathing him.

At first, he was a bit apprehensive when they bathed him, but after a while, he got used to it.

"Ms. Lacy, bubbles please," Tony asked the maid with the blue hair.

"Certainly, young master," the maid said before putting her hand on the water. Bubbles started to escape from her hands.

"Are you excited, young master?" the maid asked as bubbles began to fill the bath.

"For what? If you're talking about my birthday, not really, since that means I'll have to go to school."

The maid scoffed playfully at his answer. "No, young master, I'm talking about getting your quirk. You are now four years old, which means your quirk will develop during this time."

"Oh, that. Eh, I don't have big expectations for it," Tony shrugged his shoulders.

The maid was washing his hair as Tony started playing with the bubbles. Afterwards, Tony was pulled out of the bath and dried off. He was then carried back to his room wrapped in a towel.

'You know, at first this was really embarrassing, but now that I've gotten used to it, I don't think I can live without it. I'm living like a king in this world!' Tony happily thought.

When Tony was brought to his room, they started dressing him in a cute little suit with a red bow tie, and his hair was combed back.

'Before my reincarnation, I was just a poor, penniless orphan doing whatever I could to survive. Now that I've had a taste of what wealth truly is, I don't want to give it up,' Tony thought to himself as he instructed the maids to put all of his books back in their library.

When he walked downstairs, he found his father, Howard Stark, with his mother, Maria Stark, waiting for him with a large cake and banners celebrating his birthday.

Howard smirked upon seeing Tony. "Look who it is if it isn't the birthday boy."

"Father dearest," Tony said in a teasing tone.

They all sat down and began to eat a hearty meal, with big smiles on everyone's faces.

"So Tony, tell me, what do you want?" Howard asked as he cleaned his mouth with a napkin.

"You know what I want, Dad," Tony replied.

"You truly want to go and explore Stark Industries that badly, huh?" Howard sighed.

"I've said it once and I'll say it again… Please, please, please, please, please," Tony kept repeating with his hands in a praying position.

"Why do you even want to go there in the first place?" Howard asked.

"Of course, for the Arc Reactor, why else?" Tony said with an excited glint in his eyes.

Howard smiled at Tony's excitement. "Very well, Tony, you win. We'll go to Stark Industries."

"Yes!" Tony shouted and punched the air.

Howard smiled. "Just getting to explore Stark Industries itself doesn't feel like a birthday present on its own, so you can ask for one more thing."

"Really?" Tony asked in surprise.

Howard responded with a nod.

"Then I want my own personal lab."

"For what?" Howard asked in confusion.

"To experiment with things, obviously."

Howard had a straight face as he said, "I'm not letting a four-year-old be in a lab unsupervised."

"You can have Jarvis supervise me if you want."

"I'm not having my butler supervise you 24/7, Tony, just so you can play around—"

"Play around? Who said I was going to be playing around? I need to start getting hands-on with inventions so I can have trials and errors. Otherwise, I can never hope to improve or bring forth ideas I have in my head," Tony said in a serious tone.

Jarvis, who was standing behind Howard with his hands behind his back, smiled at Tony. "I don't mind supervising the young master. In fact, I believe he may have a point. In order to learn, one must get their hands messy," he said as he winked at Tony.

Howard looked at Tony, who was staring at him with expectation, and then at Jarvis. "Very well, but if anything happens to the boy, Jarvis, be prepared to face the consequences."

Jarvis put a hand over his heart. "I'll watch him like a hawk. You have nothing to worry about."

Howard nodded before they all cut the cake and ate a piece of it.

"Jarvis, please go and prepare the car," Howard instructed.

Jarvis nodded and went on his way. Howard then turned towards Tony. "Do you have everything you need, Tony?"

Tony excitedly nodded.

Howard once again cleaned his mouth with a napkin as he stood up. "Very well, come on, let's go."

Maria soon followed and took Tony's hand as she led him to where Jarvis was parked with the car.