Notes: At this moment, imagine Toni has always been a woman. This woman is just like the man: a genius, loaded and hyperactive, plus a jerk.

Toni is a confident woman. She will say whatever she wants – a warning for the use of swear words – and do whatever she wants. Important warning: she is bisexual and it is NOT a big deal.

Is there a chance that the rating will go up? Not at this point.

This fanfic is a retelling of the "Avengers" movie and that means many SPOILERS. If you haven't seen the movie, I recommend you do it first. I will not include everything, because Toni is my main focus and everything else is just background story.

More notes like this are very likely to appear before or after a chapter.

I am Brazilian and this is my first work in English. Calbee has been an angel helping me with grammar and stuff, but mistakes are very likely to show up. If they do, sorry about it. I am doing my best. Also, I am quite aware that Brazilian humor is very different from the rest of the world... Let's see how that goes.

This is part of a series. In Portuguese it has two parts and it is going very well. I hope it will go the same here. Fingers crossed.

Prologue

There are some moments in our lives that define us forever: the first kiss, the first deception, loss of someone we love, that one person we hate with all we have in us…

For Toni Stark life started in a cave in Afghanistan.

Not literally. Toni was born with the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth, always had it all and she knew it was what she deserved.

Afghanistan changed it all.

There she saw the consequences of her acts and choices in an all too clear way. It was shocking. Her view of "world" changed abruptly. It was there that she saw how far people would go to get what they wanted, and with Obadiah's betrayal as the ultimate catalyst to her rebirth.

It would be a mistake to say that Toni was the same woman as before. Sure, she hadn't turned into a saint, by making vows of chastity or humility, but this change have given her a bigger clarity on her role as an influential woman and the owner of the biggest weapon ever made: the Iron Lady.

Toni didn't like the name very much, as she couldn't help but picture herself as Margaret Tatcher every time she heard it, but the press chose it, spread it, and the name stuck. Well, what could be done? She had been called worst - and often.

Then came Vanko, exploding her whole life and Pepper almost left her because of that. There was nothing in this world that Toni would not give Pepper to make her happy, but firing her was not on that list. Fortunately that situation was fixed –with kisses, but Toni sure as hell was not complaining.

Until someone decided to throw the Avengers Initiative on her lap…

Where was the alcohol when she needed it?

Notes: So... Here it goes.

I may write more very soon.

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