An extended look at how Tony lost his team and found his family.
So help me, I will give all of these characters the happy ending they deserve, in the happiest multi-verse that ever existed (after some Rough Times because that’s just life.)
Featuring - a less problematic Spider-Man recruitment scene - mostly stand-alone chapters - JARVIS mandated Sex-Ed - a Tony Stark Defense Squad worth something - no one dies - a slow but genuine team reconciliation - and the all important answer to the question Tony Stark + Happiness = ?
After Siberia, Tony held it together, but after that awful letter he started drinking. Heavily. And now he's having blackouts. Obviously, he doesn't remember calling Rogers on that cursed phone. And what you can't remember, well, it didn't happen. Obviously.
After the Civil War, the Avengers were back together.
How is everything going, Tony? Pepper had asked in her email. It's fine (Tony had written back). I'm fighting with Steve all the time. Everything is going to hell. I'm okay (you know I'm always okay).
(Or: How Tony and Steve learned to be a bit gentler with each other)
During the Time Heist, Steve and Tony travel back to April 7th, 1970, only to get stuck there when an accident destroys the Pym particles. While they devise a plan to get back home, conversations uncover buried feelings and long-kept secrets that alter their relationship forever.
