Prologue: Famous Stark Family Dead

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"Famous Stark family dead! On the drive home from a party the car of the Stark family crashed from a cliff in a turn. The car literally exploded and four bodies were found which match the DNA of their driver Edwin Jarvis, the famous Howard Stark himself, his wife Maria and their fifteen-year-old son Anthony! The death of such an important …"

The television went black and a teenager with black hair and bandages all over his body muttered: "People are so stupid. Believe the lie they are feed with so easily…"

Well technically it hadn't been a complete lie: Howard and Maria Stark had died that night - together with the kind butler Jarvis - but their genius son had miraculously survived the crash and had been rescued by a guy - in a black suit like the special agents in movies wore them. Tony had lost consciousness a few moments after that and when he had woken up he had been in this incredibly white room and the television had been on displaying the news he had just seen. Right now he was trying to find the missing pieces of the puzzle to why there had been four corpses when he was fine and why would everyone believe that he was dead when he was just sitting here in what seemed to be a hospital – military hospital corrected his brain absently. His brain was going into overdrive when suddenly the door to his room whooshed open and a black man with a leather coat and eye patch over his left eye stepped into the room followed by the man that had pulled Tony out of the car.

"So you're finally awake son."

Tony's eyes narrowed dangerously at the men in the leather coat. No one – and he meant NO ONE - called him 'son', not even Howard had called him that. "Do not call me 'son'!"

The two men raised each an eyebrow and exchanged glances. "Well then I will just call you Anthony."

Right then Tony decided that he didn't like that man – not only did he use the names he detested most but he also had that kind of aura of authority around him that Tony really hated since it reminded him of the now deceased Howard Stark. But instead of arguing with Mr Eye Patch (Tony didn't even knew the guys name yet!) he just asked what was on his mind: "Who are you? What was that crap about me being dead and why am I in a fucking military hospital? I'm sure a normal one would have worked perfectly fine too!"

The mood of Mr eye patch had definitely dropped and he said: "Watch your language boy. And to answer your questions: My name is Nick Fury and this is Agent Coulson. I'm the director of SHIELD and my agent here rescued you out of that car."

"Yeah I know. I remember that part. Thanks by the way." The last part was said to the agent that was now standing on the left side of his bed and Tony got a small smile that said you're-welcome. "So I'm here because he brought me here instead of a normal hospital. Why?"

Fury seemed like he wanted to rip Tony's head off for interrupting him but said instead: "You're officially dead to the world as you already know. We arranged that because it wasn't an incident that the car crashed, someone wanted it to! I knew Howard and since you're his son I decided that the best way to protect you was to let it look like you died too."

Tony starred at Fury. He didn't like where this was going. "And what will happen to me now?"

"Agent Coulson is assigned to be your constant shadow and you will be seen as a member off SHIELD but you won't become an Agent. When you're older you can work for us and since you're a genius with technic you could work in our development apartment in the future. But you won't be allowed to go anywhere without a SHIELD Agent just to be sure."

'My life is totally over…' was Tony's first thought when he heard that. 'I'm going to be a puppet for this SHIELD when I just got free from being one for Howard.' Out loud he said: "What about Stark Industries? What will happen to it?"

"Your fathers partner will take it over since he too thinks that you're dead. But we arranged it that you have a part in Stark Industries just not under the name of Anthony Stark and you will also get your inheritance."

Tony only nodded and his eyes slowly shut while he sank exhausted into the bed. Talking had really drained him of any energy that he had regained and could hear how his bodyguard? watchdog? opened his mouth and said to his superior: "Sir I think it would be best to let him rest now." Tony didn't hear a reply only one person leaving the room and another sitting down into the chair beside his bed. Tony slowly drifted into a deep sleep.

Note: That was just the prologue to let you all have an idea how this AU looks like. The next chapter will set a few years later to speed things up a bit.

Note 2: I opened a poll where you can decide if there should be Slash (Frostiron) in later chapters since I can not really decide myself. If you shouldn't chose Slash then I will maybe write an AU side story of this fic for the ones that chose it.