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Stanned Tony gets Burned

Summary:

A Tony Stark from a universe that props him up and demonises Steve gets himself and his universe pruned by the TVA. He is unprepared for when he is met by a stranger with the face and voice of his hated rival. Oneshot drabble.

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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Tony Stark didn't know what had happened; everything was going so well. The Sokovia Accords were passed; he mercilessly hunted down Capsicle and his band of rogues, had them locked in the Raft, all set to be the face of the Accords and ready to overwork his lawyers to put away any complaints of 'human rights', the media and PR were putting a campaign to have worship his existence as they rightly should, he was engaged to Pepper and he had adopted Underoos after his aunt had a 'car accident' (she was probably abusive anyway and he should probably have him burn all the photos he had of her and that uncle dude anyway, he wasn't important).

However he was humiliated on live TV when out of these portals; these Starship Troopers arrested him for breaking some sort of 'sacred timeline' and then took him somewhere... Said the place was the TVA in some sort of video and that his universe was to be erased or 'pruned'...

He argued his case to the court like how he argued his case in fornt of the senate when they dragged him there saying that he should turn over his property to the US government...

And he was sentenced and 'pruned'...

Sent to this Void filled of practically nothing; all sorts of junk and hardly anything that he could use to build a new armor. What of his universe; his timeline? They all but killed it when he was making it perfect? How dare they! When he got out...

"Oh a Tony Stark. Been a while since I've seen one of those." said an unwelcome voice and Tony turned around to see the clear imagine of Steve with a beard and baggy dirty clothing.

"So... The TVA sent one of you down here Rogers? At least they had some sense; I bet they had sent a trillion Capiscles down here and you ditched the flag colors and went Mad Max? Let me guess how you were sent down here; you started more needless fights during the War as a scrawny little asshole? You tried to kill politicians who were for the Accords? You faced consequences for the data dump or dumping the Hellicarrier onto Washington?" Tony snarked at him and the stranger then facepalmed.

"Oh goddammit... Another one of those... Shit..." the stranger groaned as Tony cackled.

"Language Rogers." retorted Tony as the stranger looked fed up with him.

"Look... Can you can it and listen to me if you want any hope of surviving in here; there's the Alioth that will eat you or there's the warlords that claimed territory and few heroes still wanting to lead the good fight and..." the stranger said as Tony snorted.

"And I'm supposed to let you lead? They must be in bad shape with you there when they clearly needed me. No need for heroes like you." Tony said as the stranger looked fed up and came up to him.

"Shut your goddamn trap you megalomaniac selfish no patience for anyone not willing to kiss your ass, petty tantrum throwing asshole who never grew up after daddy died." the stranger snapped at Tony who was speechless.

He didn't think that he would fight back verbally like that...

"You know... I know Tony Starks like you... Those from timelines that were clear mistakes and the TVA probably did a good thing in doing away from them... Those somehow designed to bend over backward to appease you and demonise anyone who ever called you out on your shit... You know every single one of those timelines that are allowed to exist... Thanos won... With you leading the charge; Thanos ends up decimating the country before he gets the Stones and makes the snap... You either die or you have a planet filled of betrayed zealots wanting your head..." the stranger snapped at Tony.

"Look here... I have no idea who Thanos is or what you are talking about but you better watch what you say..." Tony snapped as the stranger burped into his face.

"Or else what... No company, no money and certainly not enough stuff laying around to build a suit... Without all that; you are just an ego filled little shithead who can't back up his big talk. You know all Tonys like you... You really are the Merchants of Death..." the stranger then said as Tony furiously went to punch him when...

"FLAME ON!" he said as Tony then punched him when he was in flames and yelled as he his fist was burning and a blast from the stranger's hand burned his face. Tony was screaming in pain as the stranger then went to see an ally in red watching nearby. "Elektra." he said grinning but Elektra shook her head.

She then said "Johnny; one of these days that mouth of yours' is going to get you killed..."

Notes:

Don't ice-skate uphill by Aragorn II Elessar was a little bit of an inspiration for me doing this but I think I had the idea before but it inspired me to put it to text. Not for any Team Iron Man Stans or obsessive Tony stans and as much as they would like to complain... Sorry, I used the wrong word there... whine that Tony has been mistreated by Steve and his team... The truth is even at his most angry with him; Steve has been far more tolerant and polite when dealing with him than he deserves. What he really needed was someone with his face, voice and has no patience for his shit.