I snapped my fingers as a hologram came up detailing Maya's work. I pointed at a genetic sequence, "there. This would cause the subject to overheat upon their own cellular generation. Causing a total cellular collapse meaning they would burn into nothing, in plants. If Aldrich is using them on humans like you suggested, the result would be far more explosive. Tony, they never did find any bomb casing did they?"
Tony blinked for a second before nodding, "they weren't bombs...they were people," he looked at Maya, horror on his face, "what did you do?"
Maya froze, she she looked at me, "h-how did you know?"
I shrugged, "I'm a pretty good detective."
"I'll say," Peper replied looking stunned, "do you want a job?"
"He has one," Tony turned to Maya, "did you know?"
"I-I-"
"-Did you know?!"
Maya looked down in shame, "yes. I did."
Tony got up and walked away, he looked torn, defeated even. He turned around and glared, "why? Why would you do this?! The Maya I knew-"
"-You don't know shit about me Stark!" Maya roared getting on her feet, "you haven't for twelve years! I did what I had to do because you left me no fucking choice!"
"No, no, yo do not get to put this on me! I didn't make you work for Aldrich! And I certainly didn't help you -"
"-Mom?"
We all turned around as a young twelve year old black girl walked in through the front door looking around.
"Riri, what are you doing here?" Maya jumped out of her seat, running to her side.
"JARVIS, how did she get in here?" Tony asked.
"I'm sorry sir, but somehow my systems did not detect the presence of the young girl," JARVIS replied.
"Mom, what's going on?" the girl looked at us, her eyes going wide as she spotted me, "is that Spider-man?! Oh my god! This is so cool!"
I blinked, "Sexy, do a facial recognition search on her."
"Right away Spider," Sexy replied.
"Riri, what are you doing here? I told you to wait in the car," Maya grabbed the girl's hand looking worried.
"Yeah, but I wanted to see Iron Man," she looked over, "and Spiderman! Oh my God this is so cool! I'm totally nerding out right now!"
"Spider, her name is Riri Natasha Williams, her mother is Maya Hazen Williams. She's homeschooled, no records of her other than a birth certificate.'
I blinked, "ah...any chance that birth certificate was issued nine months after Maya Hansen met Tony Stark?"
"Searching…..no sir, she was born six months after that," Sexy replied.
I groaned, "was she premature?"
"Searching...yes, it appears so."
I turned to Tony, "dude, you're a father." And judging from Tony's look of horror and Pepper's matching gaping look, they figured that out.
I turned ot the little black girl, Riri Williams. Wasn't she a superhero in my world? Yeah...in the comic books, she was a 15 year old MIT student that figured out Tony's suit design and made one of her own. But here, in this world, it looks like Riri was Tony's...daughter...oh fuck me.
"How did you get in here?" Maya asked pulling Riri out.
"I just hacked into the system to let me in," Riri shrugged showing a tablet on hand with JARVIS's main frame displayed on it.
"Come, we're leaving."
"But mom! That's Tony Stark! The Iron man! And Spider-man is right there."
"Maya stop right there," Tony called out, the Maya froze, fear oozed out of her, I could smell it, "is-is she...is she..."
"Tony...please," Maya looked afraid, "not now."
"Damn it Maya!" Tony cried out rushing at them, "is she my daughter?!"
"Say what?!" Riri's mouth dropped, "Iron man's my dad?!"
"Is this why you agreed to work for Aldrich?" I asked taking a shot in the dark.
Maya looked at me and sighed, "yes...when Riri was born," she looked to Riri, "they said she wouldn't make it past the week."
"You used Extremis on her didn't you?" I asked, everything clicking into place. In the original timeline Maya Hansen worked for AIM because Tony broke her heart and she needed to prove herself by perfecting Extremis.
But in this world, the preceness of Riri Williams threw that all into the gutter. Maya used Extremis on her own daughter...meaning Riri was on a clock.
"That's why you need me," Tony realised looking at the girl who shared his blood, "because...because she's dying."
"I'm sorry hold the phone," Riri pulled her hand out of her mother's grip, "what the hell is going on here?! Mom! I thought you said we were visiting an old friend?!"
"W-we are," Maya looked away, "and he's going to help you."
"Help me? Help me with...with my fever? Mom I told it, it's just a cold, it'll go away in a few days!" Riri cried out.
"I don't think it's a cold little dude," I walked up behind her and noted the sweat stains on her brow and neck, "I think it's a lot worse."
Riri blinked, "like what?"
"Like a virus your mother injected into your blood to save your life," Tony replied, "JARVIS, get the systems ready," he turned to Maya, "do you have her records?"
"It's all here in these files," she gave Tony a flash drive, "so you'll do it?"
"Yes," tony took the drive before pausing, "why didn't….why didn't you tell me?"
Maya looked at him straight in the eyes, "would you have cared even if I did?"
"Yes!" Tony snapped, "for God's sake! She's my kid!"
"No! You do not get to say that, not after you just left me all those years ago!" Maya snapped back.
"That was a one night stand and you knew that getting into it!" Tony replied, "don't try to pretend that's the same thing as not telling me I had a kid!"
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