The Young Stark

A/N: Hello there! So this is my first Iron Man fic and it starts off from the second film. Basically, Tony has a sixteen year-old daughter and no Pepper is not the mother. Please let me know what you think!

Disclaimer: Sadly I do not own Marvel… but I wish I did!

~The Young Stark~

Kaycee did not expect to spend her Saturday morning in a court house all the way in Washington, DC. Late last night, she had been in her father's work shop working on one of their many expensive cars, when Pepper informed her where they were heading to the next day. At least I'm not the one who's in trouble, she thought to herself.

She was currently sitting in the front row besides Pepper, only a few inches away from her father, Tony Stark. Instead of paying attention to those trying to talk to him, he turned his attention towards Pepper and his daughter.

"So how was the Expo?" Kaycee asked.

"Boring," her father answered. "Except for me jumping out of the plane and landing on the stage in full Iron Man suit. The crowd loved it!"

"Mr. Stark, could we please pick up where we left off on? Mr. Stark, please." Spoke Senator Stern. Tony just ignored the older gentleman and continued to talk to Kaycee.

"Tony!" Pepper pointed to where he should be focusing, the annoyed looking Senators.

"Please," Stern repeated, annoyed.

Tony finally turned around. "Yes, dear?" The room laughed, Pepper rolled her eyes.

"Can I have your attention?"

"Absolutely," Tony grinned as he settled back into his seat.

"Do you or do you not possess a specialized weapon?"

Tony shook his head. "I do not."

"You do not?" Stern looked confused.

"Well," Tony began. "it depends on how you define the word weapon."

"The Iron Man weapon."

"My device does not fit that description."

"Well then, how would you describe it?" questioned the Senator, raising an eye brow.

Tony thought for a minute before replying "I would describe it by defining it for what it is, Senator."

Senator Stern pressed on "As…"

"It's a high tech prosthesis." The room, including Kaycee laughed as Tony continued. "That's actually the most apt description I can make of it."

"It's a weapon." claimed Stern. "It is a weapon, Mr. Stark."

Tony scoffed at this. "Please, if your priority was actually the well- being of the American citizen-"

"The priority is to get the Iron Man weapon turned over to the people of the United States of America for their own safety."

"Well then you can forget it." Tony replied, slightly more serious. "I am Iron Man. The suit and I are one. To turn over the Iron Man suit would be to turn over myself, which is tantamount to indentured servitude or prostitution. Depending on what state you're in. You can't have it."

The Senator sighed, getting slightly more annoyed. "Look, I'm no expert-"

"In prostitution? Of course not you're a Senator. Come on!" Tony joked. Kaycee was amused while Pepper was obviously not. Pepper looked like she was deciding whether or not to smack Tony upside the head.

"I'm no expert in weapons." Stern repeated, a little bit louder than before. "We do have somebody here who is an expert on weapons. I'd now like to call Justin Hammer to the stand, our current primary weapons contractor," Stern announced.

Kaycee did not like Justin Hammer. He was so full of himself, it made her sick. Plus anytime he spoke to her (which was only twice) he referred to her as "kido".

Tony leaned into the small mic and spoke again. "Let the record reflect that I observed Mr. Hammer entering the chamber, and I am wondering, if and when any actual expert will also be in attendance."

Kaycee chuckled along with everyone else. Justin Hammer wasn't actually a great weapon expert at all.

Justin just smiled back and spoke. "Absolutely, I'm no expert. I defer from you, Anthony. You're the wonder boy. Senator, if I may? I may well not be an expert, but you know who was an expert?" Justin stood by one of the televisions now. "Your dad, Anthony, Howard Stark. Really a father to us all, and to the military industry age."

Tony and Kaycee both rolled they're eyes as he continued. "let's just be clear. He was no flower child. He was a lion. We all know why we're here. In the last six months, Anthony Stark has created a sword with untold possibilities. And yet, he insists that it is a shield. He asks us to trust him as we cower behind it.

"I wish I were comforted, Anthony, I really do. I'd love to leave my door unlocked when I leave the house, but this isn't Canada. You know we live in a world of grave threats, threats that Mr. Stark will not always be able to foresee. I mean, Anthony, you have a child of your own. Is she any safer than the rest of the kids out there?"

"Hey," Kaycee stood. "I think I 'm just as safe as anybody, maybe even more." Pepper pulled her back down. Kaycee huffed, she seriously was beginning to get annoyed by Justin's speech.

Justin just smiled at her. "I meant no disrespect, Kido." There it goes again she thought bitterly.

"God bless Iron Man. God bless America." Justin finished as people clapped for him.

"Well said, Mr. Hammer." Stern spoke. "The committee would now like to invite Lieutenant Colonel, James Rhodes to the stand."

Kaycee and Tony quickly turned around as Rhodey entered through the chamber doors. Rhodey had been a good friend of Tony's and Kaycee. He was also her godfather.

Tony stood to greet him. "Hey buddy! Didn't expect to see you here."

"Look it's me, I'm here. Deal with it. Let's move on." Rhodey sounded annoyed, but smiled when he saw Kaycee. "Hey, Kay." Kaycee smiled and waved.

As the two took their seats, the Senator continued. "I have before me a complete report on the Iron Man weapon, compiled by Colonel Rhodes. And Colonel, for the record, can you please read page fifty seven, paragraph four?"

"You're requesting that I read specific selections from my report, Senator?" Rhodey questioned.

"Yes," answered Stern.

"It was my understanding that I was going to be testifying in a much more comprehensive and detailed manner." Rhodey spoke confused.

"I understand," Stern said. "A lot of things have changed today. So if you could just-"

"You do understand, that reading a single paragraph out of context does not reflect the summary of my final-"

"Just read it, Colonel. I do. Thank you." replied the irritated Senator.

Rhodey sighed before he began reading. " 'As he does not operate within any definable branch of government, Iron Man presents a potential threat to the security of both the nation and to her interests.' I did, however, go on to summarize that the benefits of Iron Man far out weigh the liabilities. And that it would be in our interests-"

"That's enough Colonel."

"To fold Mr. Stark into the existing chain of command, Senator." Rhodey finished.

Tony saw this as an opportunity to speak again. "I'm not a joiner, but I'll consider Secretary of Defense, if you ask nicely. We can amend the hours a little bit."

As the room erupted in laughter, Pepper pinched the bridge of her nose. "I can't believe he is not taking this seriously."

"It's Dad," Kaycee said. "He never takes anything seriously."

"I would like to go on and show, if I may, the imagery that's connected to your report." Stern pressed on.

Rhodey shook his head. "I believe it is some what premature to reveal these images to the general public at this time."

"With all due respect, Colonel, I understand and if you could just narrate these for us, we'd be very grateful."

Everyone looked towards the televisions that held images of other countries attempting their own Mark IV. Rhodey began to describe the photos as Kaycee wondered to herself if there were actual functional copies of the suit. She turned her attention to her father as he was playing with his Stark phone.

"Hold on a second, buddy." Tony said as he held the Stark phone up to the television. A black box popped on the screen indicating that Tony had just found his way into controlling the system. "Boy, I'm good. I commandeered your screens. I need them. Time fore a little transparency. Now let's see what's really going on."

Senator Stern looked worried and confused. "What- what's he doing?"

"If you direct your attention to said screens," Tony began. "I believe that's North Korea." A video of a giant robot trying to walk appeared on the screen.

"Can someone turn that off?" Stern asked as he began to panic.

"Iran." Tony announced. Another video played, similar to the first. "No grave immediate threat here. Wait, is that Justin Hammer? How did Hammer get into the game?" The last video was similar to the rest but took place in America and showed Justin Hammer testing out a similar suit like the rest.

Justin immediately tried to quickly shut off the video. "Justin your on T.V. Focus up." The television finally shut off, but not before everyone watched his failure of trying to copy the Iron Man suit.

"Wow." Tony said. "Yeah, I'd say most countries, five, ten years away. Hammer industries twenty or…" he was snapping his fingers towards Kaycee.

"Thirty?" Kaycee smirked and Tony nodded.

Justin quickly grabbed the mic. "I would just like to point out that that test pilot survived."

"I think we're done we're done, is the point that he's making. I don't think there's any reason-" the confused and worried Senator tried to reason.

"Point is you're welcome, I guess." Tony said.

"For what?" asked Stern a bit furious with Tony's actions.

"Because I'm you're nuclear detorrent. It's working. We're safe. America's secure. You want my property? You can't have it! But I did you a huge favor. I've successfully privatized world peace!"

The whole chamber stood and cheered him on as he continued. "What more do you want? For now!"

"Court adjourned!" cried the Senator.

Kaycee took her father's side as they were leaving the court house. Happy was waiting for them outside with the car ready. Opening the door to the car, Happy spoke. "How did it go, sir?"

"Good," Tony said sliding into the back seat.

"Hilarious," Kaycee added following her father.

"Don't ask," Pepper answered.

Happy just shrugged and closed the car door before taking his place in the driver's seat.

As they drove off, Kaycee spoke. "Well that was entertaining."

"I agree," Tony replied.

"Nothing was entertaining! I can't believe you didn't take any of that seriously, Tony! They were talking about taking your suit away and all you could do was joke around!" Pepper scolded Tony.

"Pepper, Pepper, Pepper. They weren't going to take my suit away, they can't." Tony said.

"Oh yes they can-"

"Alright calm down, Peps."

~The Young Stark~

A few hours later, they finally arrived back in their spacious Malibu home. When they walked through the doors and entered the house, Tony slung his arm over his daughter's shoulders.

"Why don't we go and work on the mustang?" he asked.

"Nah, I'm going to die if I don't get some sleep." Kaycee replied, heading towards the stairs.

"Suit yourself," Tony said heading off in the direction of his workshop.

Pepper just showed herself to the kitchen to grab a snack before attending to their art collection.

A/N: So yeah that's the first chapter and the second chapter is almost done. I would really appreciate it if you would review? I would like to thank Mac n' Meez for encouraging me to publish this story and for being my beta!

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