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POV Tony Stark
Tony Stark wasn't the youngest person when Loki came to Earth. He was 38 when he fell through the portal and back to earth. He was 47 when Ste-Rogers decided to leave him bleeding alone in a cold freezing bunker in Russia. Vision and others almost find him too late. He is freezing, cannot feel his fingers, and his new ribs are smashed to pieces. He has nothing better to do than think.
Nine years. He let them use him, his money, resources, and everything and they left him to die, lied to him, and covered his parents' murder.
Spiderling is the only one of his team who visits him in the hospital. Vision brought him there and went who knows where. ( He tries not to think about losing Jarvis again) . The media doesn't move on from him and the Avengers for some time. He gets bored after a few days watching the crazy and some true articles. First, they try to put it on him but after one online article called,, What Captain America? Steve Rogers didn't even finish basic training!! " Internet looks to be on fire. People dig through the WW2 things and it isn't a pretty picture. Apparently, Rogers decided to enlist even though his mother was contagious and died from tuberculosis. Peter shows him his favorite article on him. Which he felt weird about it because well the author claims that Earth would be a better place if he wasn't in Avengers because he did too many things for society, earth, charity, and everything when he was in charge of Stark Industries. He thinks it's nonsense but the author claims that if he is right and enemies are coming from space his brain would be in better use than his other muscles and if he wants to be a superhero who goes to the field he should get a better team. Which even after a few months gets enough attention because not only do people send him their CV for the new team people also do fan casting for,, Protectors/New Avengers " because someone on the internet calls revenge stupid because why would they need to avenge earth when they should protect it.( He later pays the author of the article, Darcy Lewis, money for the trademark when merch starts to sold out everything in several shops because it was a genius idea)
Tony is also glad when Rodney-bear visits him. He feels guilty and sad but Rodney says that he can get better. Tony has several options for prosthetic leg movements when Rodney tells him several days later that he will move after the swelling goes down. (Tony is still working on prosthetic fingers for himself when the Rogers mobile gets lost in the post office because when you put the wrong name on the parcel you cannot expect it to get to the right owner. /The mobile is found 60 years later in the river and gets recyclable into the statue). Tony's cheaper medical items hit hospitals, clinics, and everyone else like a storm. Since he wanted better things in his hospital and no one else invented it he had to do it himself. The Starks Medical department for next year will earn more money than the whole company without it. Tony is really happy that after two months in the hospital, he can go back to Tower.
Tony is 48 when he proposes to Pepper on the yacht. He wanted to do it at the Press conference after Peter decided to stay as the Local hero of New York but then Rodney decided that he will use the Press conference as a call to the Protectors. A few days later Yelena Belova came to ask for help with black widows. He finds her hilarious and she fits in the group perfectly. The widows get on with people in Stark Industries like a house on fire. It also helps that Stark Industries is getting bigger and bigger. From the medical field to charity to space to food and back to recycling.
He feels older than 49. He has a daughter and his spider kid had faced his enemy for him. The guy was cosplaying someone from the Elemental dimension. Stephen Strange the new "Not a Wizard Stark" says that there are Elements but they are friendly and don't want to get to different dimensions. Who knew that sorcerers were really hmmm.
There is also the problem with Ex-General Ross. Tony is eating popcorn with Pepper and doing Crime Bingo ( how many rules and laws did Ross break...) Hope wins the first Bingo round and Tony is glad that Bruce got justice even if he is not here.
He is 52. His life is getting better. His adopted son Harley Keener ( Is it adoption if the child adopts the parent?) came to study in New York. He and Peter create an amazing duo. He is not sure what exactly is happening with the different aliens (one wants to eat the earth's core? and The others are trying to change humans to stones like Medusa but with fish oil?). But Strange and the Protectors have it covered.
He is 79 and his daughter Megan had a second child when Thanos finally arrives. Bruce looks the same as Tony saw him last time. Bruce was on allien planet fighting like a gladiator Hulk!? And the New Asgardians settle in Norway. some Asgardians stayed hidden when Thanos attacked Asgard but some came with Loki´s sister Hela and Hulk´s girlfriend Brunnhilde(those two are ruling the new Asgard together) Loki stayed behind to rule Asgard (apparently Odin was his biological father and King Laufey his mother.)
Tony doesn't want to leave Maria (his second granddaughter) alone with the babysitter so he doesn't fight. This is a good thing since the fight was a mess . Tony will later find out that Thor hit Thanos in his chest but Tony's second daughter saw it (thought it was stupid since they tried to stop Tanos from using magical gloves) grabbed the axe and chopped off both Thanos's hands while one member of the group of Wasp decided that her second suit will become giant in Thanos butt. So there were body parts everywhere. Tony is quite sure no one had that on the bingo card.