Iron Armor - A Tony Stark's daughter story

Stark Towers, After the events of Iron Man 2 Maze’s POV 6 years old I padded down the hallway at Daddy’s tower, my blue little mermaid nightgown with Ariel on it kept hitting my ankles as I walked through the dark moonlight hallways while clutching Ellie, elephant stuffed animal that I’ve had for forever. I followed the unfamiliar but incredibly loud sound of tinkering that had woken me up just minutes earlier. After a minute or two of stumbling down the halls I ran into someone’s legs. Busted. I’m supposed to be in bed right now! “Hey Sparks, what are you doing up?” I snapped my head up towards the voice just for sleepy eyes to see Uncle Rhodey looking down at me. “Can’t sleep!” My groggily voice murmured. Uncle Rhodey, continued to down at me and said “Did your dad wake you up?” I nodded my head up and down at that. Letting out a deep sigh at my answer Uncle Rhodey murmured, “Well if you’re up do you want to go bug him?” At hearing that a toothy smile spread across my face, while nodding my head wildly which woke me up a little bit more. “Yup! It’ll be Karma!” I squealed, making Uncle Rhodey let out a laugh as he grabbed my hand free hand that wasn’t holding Ellie and walked us towards the loud sound that had woken me up. “I knew I wouldn’t regret teaching you that Sparks.” “You won’t!” I said, putting my hands over my ears to try to muffle out the loud sound. Uncle Rhodey swung the door open showing Daddy in his lab working on some weird-looking project. “DADDY!” I yelled over the sound, making him look at me and Uncle Rhodey standing in the doorway. “Rhodey, what is she doing up? because I definitely remember putting her to bed. ” Daddy said looking at me, thankfully making the awful noise stop. “Oh, I’m sorry your royal highness, but I was NOT the one that was blasting that terrible sound at 3 a.m.! I didn’t wake her up!” Uncle Rhodey shot back at dad, I giggled softly at that, when mamma Rhodey came out of the cage you knew you were in trouble. Both men’s eyes shot to me at the sound. “Oh, you think this is funny?” Daddy came over to me and started to tickle me. “Take it bacccckkkk, take it back!” Daddy sang in a funny voice as he continued to tickle me, making me drop Ellie. The worst part of this? Uncle Rhodey joined in! “ALRIGHT! Alright, you guys win! It’s not funny!” They both stopped tickling me as they heard me yell those words. “Uncle Rhodeeeeyyy you were supposed to be on my side!” I said, making Dad gasp, placing a hand over his chest in mock offense, turning to Uncle Rhodey “HoW DaRE yOu!” daddy screeched at him, making me giggle again. Then, Uncle Rhodey asked the cursed question that we all wanted to know “What the hell were you doing down here that was making that noise?” He asked “Language!” I said looking up at him. “I was working on the project we were talking about earlier.” Daddy said, answering him. “You couldn’t of done that quieter? It’s 3 a.m. Tony!” “It would’ve taken longer!” At that excuse me and Uncle Rhodey both gave him death glare’s with our tired eyes. If looks could kill Daddy would’ve been 12-feet under. “Nerd alerttttttttt!” I yawned breaking the intense silence, growing more tired by the second. Daddy chuckled at that then he said, “Alright, kid we’ve got to get you to bed, come on” Scooping me up and grabbing Ellie, who I had previously dropped, he started walking me back to my room. “Wait, no, nope! I didn’t get a goodnight! Spark’s is not allowed to go to sleep without saying goodnight to me!” Uncle Rhodey exclaimed making both me and Daddy let out a chuckle. “Night Uncle Rhodey!” “Alright, good enough. Night Sparks.” He said walking off towards his room in the opposite direction. He has the room furthest away from the lab, which I think times like this is what Uncle Rhodey was thinking about when he chose that room. That and the room he claimed is the closest to the fire escape. After walking past a couple more rooms we finally arrived at the room in the very end of the hallway. My door was swung halfway open, I could’ve sworn that I had closed it. I pushed the thought away, thinking I had just been tired and hadn’t realized I left it open. Daddy put me in bed and got Jarvis to turn my nightlight on again. Pulling the covers up over me he said “Alright, Squirt you gonna go to bed now?” “As long as you don’t blast that terrible sound again.” I shot back, yawning again. “Kid, sass isn’t allowed at 3 a.m.” Daddy said trying to give me a stern look but failing. Being too tired to shoot back a sassy reply to that just responded with, “Night Daddy.” Before laying my head down and already starting to drift off to sleep. “Night kid” I heard Daddy reply to me before walking out of my room and closing the door behind him. I heard the sound going on again but, quiet enough that I could still fall asleep. I started to give into sleep a little bit more, being half asleep when I heard a scary, cold voice that I’ve never heard before in my entire life say, “Truly heartwarming. That’s going to be the first thing we change.” I shot up again, dazed and just wanting to get some sleep. It was pretty dark in the room, but against the soft glow of the nightlight all I could just make out a symbol. Red. An octopus? ′That’s weird’ I thought. I’m probably just dreaming. A real octopus isn’t red! “Who are you?” My scared and tired voice managed to sputter out. “Don’t question me. I’m here to take you home, girl.” His bone-chilling voice ground out. “Back to Malibu?” I asked. The strange man gave me a look that I knew meant ‘I am so done with you.’ Then, from behind me another man I haven’t seen before in my life came up to me. He quickly jumped up to me, holding a syringe. Which he stuck IN. MY. NECK. I really hope that I’m just dreaming. I’m having a nightmare and when I wake up Pepper, Happy, Uncle Rhodey, and Daddy are all going to be there, right? “DADDY!!!” I screamed “DADDY, HELP, SAVE ME!!! I screamed, panicking as I started to feel drowsy. “He won’t be able to hear you over all the noise he’s making. No one will. This really was the perfect night to do this on.” The one who was holding the syringe said, his stupid voice whispered in my ear. Directing the last part to the man standing next to him. “Iron man can’t save you now huh?” The one who wasn’t holding the dumb syringe said. I tried to go down with a sarcastic comment to that, but it was too late. I was already being engulfed in darkness. -----------Time skip to the next morning----------- 3rd person After staying up for most of the night working on his project Tony woke up at noon. He went to the kitchen to see Rhodey standing there eating an apple and doing something on his phone. “Hey look who’s finally up, it’s already noon.” Rhodey teased Tony. “Where’s Pepper?” Tony asked, confused. “She already left.” Rhodey told Tony “Like you should’ve 3 hours ago.” Tony walked over to the coffee machine and poured himself a cup. “What about Maze? Did she go with Pepper?” Tony asked knowing she probably slept in after the events of last night but, he had to make sure she was alright. Strangely enough, His parental instincts were acting up. It might be nothing but Tony had a bad feeling about today. “Sparks hasn’t gotten up yet, she’s still sleeping in. Though, she should’ve been up by now.” Rhodey said, answering Tony’s question and putting down his phone. Tony got up walking towards Maze’s room, earning a weird look from Rhodey. “What? Like you said it’s already noon, I’m waking her up.” Tony shot back at Rhodey, who got up to go and follow him. “I wanna see this, s**t’s gonna go down.” Rhodey muttered under his breath. Little did he know he couldn’t of been more right. Tony opened the closed door to Maze’s room. When he walked in the first thing he noticed? The window was open, it wasn’t when he put Maze to bed. The second thing? His daughter wasn’t there. Instead on her bed was a note. It was a small piece of paper that only had 5 terrible, dooming words on it ‘The girl is ours at last.’ In the corner of the dreaded note was a red marking. A Hydra. Tony’s hand flew to his mouth and he felt sick to his stomach. “No, no, no. Hydra is not keeping my little girl away from me.” Tony said dropping the note, pushing past Rhodey who was standing in the doorway. Oblivious. Then the Stark raced away to do what ever he could do to get his daughter back. After Tony ran out a confused Rhodey went to the bed and picked up the note. He just stood there, staring at the note, dumbfounded. All the man could utter is “no, no.” Just like Tony. His niece was gone. ‘I should’ve known, I should’ve done better, I’m sorry sparks.’ Was all the military man could think. After awhile he shocked out of his trace and grabbed the paper, and marched out of there. The one thought kept crossing his mind knowing it meant impending doom for him. ‘What am I going to tell Happy and Pepper?’ A/N - Rhodey’s nickname for Maze is Sparks, the reason why will be revealed later on. I’d prefer having at least a bit of mystery in my story. (Meaning there's gonna be a TON of mystery and cliffhangers.) If I have any spelling mistakes or things I missed while editing please tell me. I’m new to writing fanfiction, this is my first story and I am going defiantly going to make a LOT of mistakes. Just writing this one chapter took so long. I have a new appreciation for all the authors on here. I’m also sorry that the cover is so bad, I tried. Idk why I’m even trying this hard because I’m pretty sure no one wants to read this. I’ve been working so friggin hard to get the next chapter out, so it'll be out soon.