1994

New York USA::

Ace POV::

It's been three year's, since saving Howard and Maria from their death. But, they ended up in coma, Howard's injuries were serious, doctors stated that he may lose his memories or the ability to think like before the accident and Maria she'll be better than Howard, she'll also lose memories but not as severe as Howard. Yes, they declared it as an accident, and I'm sure that SHIELD/HYDRA is still looking for clue for the preparator. SHIELD to find preparator of Stark's accident, and HYDRA after shadow soldiers.

After receiving the news about the accident and state of Stark's, grandpa Jacob and grandma Isabella came to our home and from there we traveled to Stark Mansion in New York, where they were.

Flashback::

Today grandpa Jacob and grandma Isabella is coming over, to go with us to the Stark's. As they arrive in front of our apartment in a cab, we were waiting for them in dad's car a BMW 5-Series, dad had this car for 4 year's.

Seeing grandpa and grandma I waved at them, that was returned with a smile and started to walk towards the car. When they entered the car I was in between bot of them, seeing they were inside the car dad started to drive towards Stark's Mansion. I started to talk with grandpa "Hey grandpa, where are we going"

"mmm We're going to see one of my friend from the army days"

"Will he tell stories to me like you did?"

Hearing this grandma spoke to me "No dear, he's not in a condition to tell stories"

Feigning to not understand I asked her "Why?" with a scrunched up face.

Seeing my expression "He and his wife are sleeping. They will be asleep for a long time, so he can't tell you stories alright" grandma spoke.

"Yes" I say in a weak voice.

"You don't have to worry, you know his son, Tony, you have read about him, remember." Mom said to me.

"Ohhh.... that guy. The guy that graduated from MIT at 15?"

"Yes honey, the same guy, and his name is Tony, so if you feel lonely over there, go find him and talk to okay?"

"Okay, mom"

Just as I said to mom we arrived at the mansion entrance.

After arriving at the mansion gates, we were sent through a security search area to ensure that we didn't had any weapons or anything like that. After the security check we were able to enter the mansion grounds, as we got out of the car a man with ash black hair, blue eyes came out. He's standing 5'11" feet tall 2 inches shorter than grandpa.

Seeing the man grandpa smiled and greeted him "Good to see you Edwin"

"Good to see you too, Jacob" Edwin greeted back to grandpa, seeing them on first name basis they should be close friends.

"You know my wife, son and his wife, and they know you so introduction is no needed. The one that you should know is my grandson Arthur Ace Black." showing me to Edwin "Ace this is my army buddy and a close friend, Jarvis. Edwin Jarvis."

"Hello" I said to Jarvis. Who would have thought it would be Jarvis of all the people to greet us.

"Hello to you too, young Arthur."

"You can call me Ace"

"Alright Ace." He pause and turned to face grandfather, "Come in, can't let the guests wait outside."

Saying that he turned back and entered the mansion. It was marvelous actually, the Stark Mansion, lots of arts decorated with simple but elegant floor tiles and wallpapers.

As we reached the master bedroom, we entered it with Jarvis in the front. Inside the room was two people on two different beds, just like in hospitals they had IV drips and all the monitoring devices they are Howard and Maria Stark, and there was a young man in his twenties sitting near Maria Stark, he had a dark brown hair and a piercing blue eyes,this is Tony Stark and he look a lot like RDJ, and a bald man sitting on a couch he's Obadiah Stane, the HYDRA agent planted to take over Stark Industries after Stark couples demise. Seeing us he stood up and walked towards grandpa and hugged him, and started to talk in hushed tone.

"You know, your mother won't be happy if you cried like that" Grandma said to Tony, as she moved towards him.

"Yeah" he say's and wipe the tears in his eye's, looked towards grandma and continued "You're right Aunt but i can't stop it."

Seeing him like that made grandma to be sad, so she turned towards me and spoke to Tony "Why don't you take my grandson with you to see around the mansion, so you can stretch, you've been sitting here what to 2 days without a break. It's not good for your health honey, so go on with him"

Hearing this Tony looked at me, so i waved at him with a small smile. Then he looked between me and grandma for some time repeatedly before sighing and giving up on any resistance to grandmas word's. He stood up and walked towards me and told me to follow him, I looked towards my parents for permission, sensing me looking at them mom turned around and nodded to me to go with Tony.

After that small episode the adult's started to talk about health condition of both the Stark's. As we moved out of sight of the room Tony turned a left and went straight to upper floor and I followed him like a duckling would follow a mother duck. We reached a room, most probably his room, as he entered the room I followed him into the room. Seeing me he started to talk "What are you doing, kid?"

"I don't know?"

"Then why are you following me around?"

"You told me to follow you."

"Did I?"

"Yes you did"

"Ah... whatever. You know my name kid.? "

"Tony right. I read about you in a magazine about being youngest graduate from MIT. And my name's not kid it's Arthur. But you can call me Ace my friends and family call me that."

"You read at this age?"

"Uh uh. If your mother tries to make you read from 1½ years old, you'll be able to."

"That's cool. So anything else I should know about you.... " he was cut off when I hugged him on his legs, since that's the only place I can reach with my height.

Looking down at me he asked "What are you doing?"

"It's okay to cry."

"What? What are you talking about."

Looking upto him I say "I've seen that face before, my mom, after her friend died had a face like this, dad hugged her and told to let it out, after that she was fine, not good but fine. So you can cry if you want, I won't tell anyone."

He was dumbstruck by my answer, I can see that on his face. Coming out of his dumbstruck face and messed up my hair with his hand and chuckled. "I needed that, thanks kid... no Thanks Ace you an call me Tony from now on."

Flashback End;;

A lot happened in these past three years, Nat started her undercover mission, I would go to Tony's place once in a month, I sent the shadow soldier that were with me towards Howard, Maria, Jarvis and Tony. Tony and I became some sort of friends, not best friend but a friend, but also a brother figure. I see Tony as my big brother and Tony see's me as his younger brother, but we don't talk about that bond between us to anyone. The only person that knows is Jarvis.

On Nat's side, from the ten shadow soldiers with her, five of them split from the rest and started to protect Yelena from her shadows. Nat have introduced her to the shadow soldiers saying that they were her friends, and that was their little secret with one of Nat's friend, which is me.

Yelena was three years when they started their mission. At the age of four she met the shadow soldiers, at first she was scared but seeing Nat being comfortable with them made her ease up near the shadow soldiers. When Nat started to tell her about me, first she was upset that her sister have a friend that's unknown to her, but after some bribes, candy's, she came around and started to ask about me. When she knew that i considered her as my friend, she was over the moon, and she started to pester Nat on how to contact me. After getting the information from Nat, Yelena started to talk to me through the shadow soldiers. After couple of months talking and saying funny thing's we became best friends. At some times we'll tease Nat by saying something's that'll make her irritated.

By 1993 February, Nat started to tell her the truth about their family. Hearing this she thought Nat was pranking her, but after me telling her the same thing she started to become downcast saying Nat and I were telling lies, to prank her. But by the start of June she started to realise that we were talking about truth, so she asked us if we were being fake to her. After Nat telling her that family or not they will always be sisters and me telling her whatever her background was or going to be, she was my best friend. After hearing this from us she started to breakdown fast, seeing that Nat started to console her by being near her and me by conversing with Yelena.

Within a mouth Nat and I told her that I'll be saving them from the red room at the end of the mission, and after that they'll live together as real sisters. She then asked what'll happen to her fake parents, and i told her as much as I can, when she heard that she first wanted to save them. Seeing this Nat also asked me if I could save her guardians, and she informed me that they were both good.

So, I asked Nat to first ask her, if she wanted to be rescued from the red room, and it's been three months since then, Nat hasn't gotten any reply from Melina on her taking the choice to live a different life. Nat only asked her that if she get a chance to escape from red room will she take that chance, also asked if bot Nat and Yelena had a chance will she let them take the chance. At that she told them to take that chance as fast as possible, and she started to tell the truth to Nat and Yelena, hearing this from the only person she could call mother was the final nail for understanding that what will happen after this Ohio mission.

Hearing what'll happen to other girls that are not fit to be in the program made Nat uncomfortable. She talked to me about that, and I was devastated because if I don't save them they'll die. Maybe their blood will be on my hand's, but I can't save them, because I haven't unlocked the rest of the shadow soldiers, I only have 50 soldiers with me but Dreykov has so many widows in different part of the world. If I can't save all of them at once and kill Dreykov and the other heads of the red room, I can't guarantee their safety after I saved them from there now, or the future girls that'll be kidnapped or bought by Dreykov. So the best option now is wait, I know some of these girl's that are present now might die, and I can save them at the end of their life but not outright infront of the red room heads.

On my family's side dad quit his job couple of months before, 6 months before my 5th birthday he had started the legal terms for starting his own company, Horizon Studio & Publication. It's mainly for movies and book publication. He didn't had any book that's a bestseller to publish, except books written by mom, but they weren't bestsellers. We moved to 20 Ingram Street, Queens. Our house was great, not luxurious great but cozy great. It's a 4bhk house, with a basement and attic, it's a good neighborhood, not a place for CEO of a publication company but my dad's a low key guy so that's not a problem. And moving from an apartment to a house was like moving from closed room to an open space.

As I was reminiscing past 3 year's, my mom entered the room with a gift box in her hand.

"Hey mom"

"Hi sweetie, how are you?"

"I'm fine, what's the gift box for?"

"Mmmm... actually this came in mail for you as a house warming gift, a friend of yours it say's. So I figured it might be Tony, but it's someone else, so I bought it in."

"A gift, for me from someone other than Tony?"

"I think so, there's no address but it does have a name, here you can see it for yourself, and after that tell us who this friend of yours is to me okay. I'll be downstairs."

"Alright" After saying that I took the gift box from the table in my room where mom placed it.

Looking at the name my eye's almost popped out. On the label it says "Stan Lee".

"!!!!!!!!!"

Seeing the name I figured out, from whom I got this gift, so I closed my room door and windows, shut down the computer which was a gift from Tony on my 5th birthday. After double checking that the room is locked properly, I unwrapped the box.

What greeted me in the box was two gauntlets, "!!!!!!!!!!!" seeing the gauntlets I almost passed out. They were not any kind of gauntlets that's present in the universe, it was a freaking Biomnitrix from Ben Ten series. As I was shocked to see one of the most dangerous weapon in Ben Ten Omniverse, a note was placed under the gauntlets.

"For Ace, this is your second wish. When you put it on your hands it'll adjust to your size, after that all the information will be available for you from the gauntlets. Enjoy your life to the fullest.

-- TOAA"

I was ecstatic, who would have thought that I'll have these with me in this world.

After reading the note I extended my hand to take the gauntlets, but it jumped and attached itself to my arm just like the Omnitrix did to Ben. But I didn't turn into any aliens right away.

Unknown place::

General POV::

"It's been done friend, the gauntlets are with him, his second wish has been fulfilled, and how many more does he have?" TOAA asks the blue black mist.

"Three more I guess"

"You do know that he's in a multiverse that's governed by me right"

"I do know that, if he become so dangerous to your multiverse you can always yeet him out or outright kill him using the Living Tribunal" the being pauses "But you won't have to do that, cause he's not dangerous to your multiverse, and you can't kill him either. And we both know why, right"

"Yeah, yeah, I know I can't kill him outright but can expel him from this multiverse."

POV End;;