Prompt Post - Part Seven [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
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"Yes."
"Great. I can see the headlines now: Captain America and Ironman Adopt Superman's Son. The media is going to have a field day with this, you know. Batman will go all Dark Knight on us, Superman'll throw a hissy fit even though he doesn't care, and we'll forever be in the Justice League's Top Five of their shitlist."
"You ready, then?"
"Hell yes."
Pre!Bereft. The Marvel and DC heroes live in the same universe, but have an agreement not to get involved with each other, don't communicate unless absolutely necessary, and don't join up on a mission unless it's an end of the world scenario.
Somehow, Captain America witnesses Superman's treatment towards Superboy and is shocked - the Avengers and Justice League are by no means on friendly terms, but Steve has always had respect for the Man of Steel. Telling himself it was probably just a bad day for Superman, he nonetheless is intrigued and spies keeps an eye on Superboy. To his disgust and horror, he finds that Superman has no intention of looking after his son, and that said son has anger and severe self-esteem issues. A 16 year old should not be basing the importance of his life on being a weapon and how useful he is in a fight, or stay cooped up like a prisoner because he has no real home to go to. And his teammates are kids themselves; how could they possibly look after Superboy like a guardian could?
Well, Cap has always wanted a son. He works on befriending Superboy, who's stand-offish at first because of obvious reasons, but finds himself basking in the man's sincere attention. The clone feels torn, wondering if being so friendly with a rival group is betrayal. As Steve Rogers, he gains temporary custody of Superboy, who finds out that Steve's Captain America, who starts training him. Yes, I want Steve and Tony to be SB's daddies. I refuse to be ashamed.
Steve and Tony are in a relationship (bottom!Tony)
Tony is a bit distant to SB at first, because he's afraid of being a crappy father like his own dad, but then gets better.
Superboy maybe becoming Captain America's sidekick/partner/whatever?
The other Avengers get involved.
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I can totally see the rest of the Avengers telling Steve to put Conner back where he found him because they don't want to start a war with the Justice League because of Steve's bleeding heart. Mind you, I can also see Tony Stark being in friendly competition with one Bruce Wayne, who he doesn't know is Batman, and totally bragging about adopting Superboy, completely unaware that Bruce is behind the scenes organizing the adopting (he totally would to get back at Clark.)
And Conners conflict between the two teams is awesome!
Do not be ashamed for this prompt. Never ashamed!
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Anyone notice that Superboy would actually look like their son? Steve with his blue eyes and Tony with his black hair?
Would it be narcissistic to fill my own prompt?
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Prologue
Tony Stark found that even as Steve Rogers adapted to the twenty-first century, he still clung onto many of his 1940s values. Steve had a crazy concept about how couples should act and Tony thought he put up with it pretty damn well when they started living together.
When Steve moved into the mansion, Tony found that things were becoming a little domesticated. Steve’s silly old fashion ways, really. Steve started cooking and dinner was set on the table promptly at six pm, Tony learned to be at dinner on time unless he wanted Steve to barge into his workshop and carry him out. Sometimes Tony was late on purpose. Breakfasts with coffee and discussions about the morning paper were mandatory. Nights that might have been spent out at parties were spent at home watching movies, Steve was kind of obsessed with movies and had seventy years worth of cinema to catch up on. When they did go out, they went dancing. Cuddling in bed and pillow talk happened on a regular basis. And they hosted pleasant dinner parties for their friends.
They were basically blissful newlyweds. All they needed were rings. Maybe Tony would have Pepper get started on that.
Tony enjoyed the domestic part. He liked the stability and warmth that Steve brought to his home. He’d never admit it, but he liked it. Until Steve started acting a bit weird, even for him.
It started out one evening during movie night. Steve had come home late, from Captain America business, and they curled up on the couch together. As the movie started Steve made a comment about helping the new mini Justice League and seeing Superman. That made Tony’s eye twitch. No man irked Tony more, including super villains, than Superman and Tony didn’t know why Steve respected him so much. Well, maybe he did, but still, Superman was a jerk. The only person who could pull off the wholesome image without seeming like a complete bastard was Steve Rogers, thank you very much. Ignoring the movie, Tony leaned over and nibbled on Steve’s ear and succeeded in distracting him for the rest of the evening.
After that though, Steve’s behavior began to change. He went out more often, which was fine, Tony wasn’t a jealous and territorial boyfriend, not at all. Steve began to ask Tony about his father Howard. Old family albums were pulled from their dusty shelves. Steve started spending more time in one of the empty guestrooms and looking at paint samples and furniture catalogs. Brochures for schools appeared. And finally, Tony found books about adoption and baby names hidden under Steve’s stack of sketchbooks (he wasn’t snooping, damn it, he was just concerned).
Pepper looked over Tony’s shoulder as he stood in shock, holding a book of baby names, and she smiled. An evil, terrible smile.
“Well, it looks like Steve wants to take domestic life to the next level,” she clicked her tongue and her smile widened.
Tony felt a little lightheaded. A baby. Steve wanted a baby. Steve wanted them to be a family. Picket white fence, flower print curtains over the kitchen windows, Sunday dinners, a dog, summer road trips and children. The American dream, from the 1940s at least. All Tony needed was a dress and a pair of heels.
Later, Tony found himself wishing that was all Steve wanted.
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Captain America immediately recognized the group as being affiliated with the Justice League, he remembered Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad, though the others he had never seen before. Normally Captain America wouldn’t interfere with the Justice League, but these were teenagers up against Solomon Grundy and they weren’t fairing too well. Agreements be damned, Captain America threw his shield and knocked down Grundy before he could attack a struggling Robin. All of the teens looked at him with wide eyes and he could hear Kid Flash gasped, “Holy crap, Captain America!”
And without another word about it, he helped the group take down Grundy. Afterwards though, they seemed a little uneasy by his presence and Robin was the one who spoke up about it.
“Hey Cap, not that we don’t appreciate the help, but aren’t you supposed to not get involved?”
“Dude, who cares? This is Captain America!” Kid Flash hissed at his friend. “Do you think he’ll give me his autograph?”
Captain America just smiled a little and shrugged. “I never consented to the agreement made by Nick Fury and the Justice League.”
“The rumors are true, he has been around Iron Man too much,” Artemis whispered.
Aqualad glared at her and then nodded at Captain America. “Right, this is off the books. Thank you, Captain.”
Kid Flash was at Aqualad’s side instantly and said into his ear, “Ask Cap to give us autographs!”
But their off the books arrangement was suddenly null and void by the appearance of Superman. The Man of Steel had obviously come to clean up the mess that the group of sidekicks were in and lifted an eyebrow at the sight of Captain America. Now there was no doubt that this would be reported to Fury and Steve was never going to hear the end of it. The rules were clear, the Avengers stayed out of Justice League business and the League stayed out of the Avengers’ way. Only a couple of times in recent history had the Avengers and the Justice League combined forces to save the world. For Tony that was far too many interactions with them as he called the League a bunch of pompous asses. Steve rather liked them, but Tony said that Steve liked anyone who wasn’t a Nazi. Still, that didn’t mean they weren’t good people.
And Superman seemed to be one of the best. Not only in strength and abilities, but he was a good man. Or that’s what Captain America thought anyway.
“Captain,” Superman said his name without a hint of hostility. If it had been anyone else from the Avengers there would have been, but there seemed to be special exception for Captain America, apparently being a decorated war hero counted for something.
“Superman,” Captain America said back with a nod. He slung his shield over his back and was prepared to leave when a blur of yellow and red appeared in front of him and Kid Flash held out a pad of paper and a pen to him.
“Could you make one out to Kid Flash, another to Robin and one to Artemis?” Kid Flash glanced over at his team and Aqualad looked at him expectantly. “And one to Aqualad. Actually, include Miss Martian and Superboy too, don’t want them to be left out.”
Captain America smiled politely and took the offered pen and paper, signing the individual sheets and tried to come up with personalized messages. They were all really good kids. As he made out his autographs, Captain America overheard a hushed conversation between Superman and Superboy.
“Superman, I was wondering-”
“Not now, I need to take Grundy into custody.”
“Yeah, but about my powers-”
“Not. Now.”
The words came out so clipped and annoyed that Captain America could hardly believe that they came from Superman himself. Superman hastily made his exit with Grundy, not bothered that he was leaving a team of teenagers with a member of a rival group, even if it was Captain America. Superboy stood there, his hands in fists and his jaw clenched. Then Superboy jumped into the air and disappeared into the night.
“Poor Superboy,” Miss Martian murmured.
“Superman is not aster, not at all,” Robin shook his head.
Steve stood there shocked, not sure what to make of the situation, but filed it away in his mind. He needed to get home anyway, it was movie night with Tony.
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Seriously, though, I adore your characterizations. Tony and Steve are just so perfectly in character, as is everyone else. If Young Justice really was a crossover universe, I could it playing out exactly like this. <3
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I've probably been thinking about this too much, but maybe the Avengers are more of a national organization while the JL is ostentiouly more of an international one? I got the impression that (at least from the DCAU) that leaguers tend to be in other countries way too much for a superhero org associated purely with one country. It could also be an explanation for why they can't really interact a lot to avoid even more bias. (Yeah, SHEILD is supposed to be international too, perhaps they're more low key or not really international)
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thank you for filling this. i dont know how i could have lived without it.
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Steve/Tony is so awesome and I love that you have KF being a fanboy of Caps! And your characterizations are spot on! I am so glad you're filling this author!anon!
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Amazing start Author!Anon!! So excited to see more of this!
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Steve replayed the incident between Superman and Superboy again and again in his mind. It bothered him greatly. Even though Nick Fury told him to stay away, Steve gathered all the information he could on Superboy and Young Justice. He was glad that Tony kept such extensive records on the Justice League and taught him how to use the computer to access them, even if he was still slow at it.
Steve found out that Superboy was the clone of Superman, created by Cadmus. Superman had a son and if Steve had known earlier he would have sent a card. He figured that what he saw was some father and son fight, sometimes kids and parents just didn’t get along. Steve’s own father died when he was still young, so he casually asked Tony about Howard as a father. All that got him was a few grumbles and Tony walking briskly away to his workshop and he didn’t come out until Steve slung him over his shoulder to force him to come upstairs for dinner.
Finally Steve just decided to let the incident go, but to keep his eyes open for anything unusual.
Two weeks after he first met Superboy, Steve and Tony had to go to Metropolis. There was a meeting with Lex Luthor that Tony Stark couldn’t avoid, no matter much he loathed the man. Tony told him he didn’t have to come, but Steve didn’t listen. Tony could take care of himself and Pepper was always ready for action, but that didn’t mean that Steve was going to stay at home keeping dinner warm. Even if Captain America wasn’t allowed inside of LexCorp’s headquarters, he could still keep an eye out for anything unusual.
So Steve went to Metropolis, donned his costume and watched as Tony and Pepper entered LexCorp from a distance. Standing on the rooftop of an adjacent building, Captain America heard the shuffle of feet in the darkness and he spun around, raised his shield, ready to throw it, but stayed his arm. It was the mini Justice League, as Tony liked to call them. All of them were there and Captain America took a discreet look at Superboy, who hung at the back of the group, his arms crossed.
“We really need to stop meeting like this, Cap,” Robin said with an easy grin.
“Aw man, I need to start bringing my comic books with me on missions,” Kid Flash whined.
Aqualad was not so casual. “Captain America, may we ask as to why you are here? It is rare for the Avengers to come into Metropolis.”
Normally he would never discuss the details of a mission with the League, it was protocol, but these were kids and he wasn’t really on a mission. And it wasn’t a secret that Tony Stark was in Metropolis. “I’m just here as a favor to Mr. Stark, it never hurts to have a little extra security.”
“That is a wise decision considering who he is meeting with.” Aqualad’s gaze rested on the LexCorp building.
“And what is your team doing here?”
“Both Mr. Luthor and Mr. Stark are high profile targets, we are here to make sure nothing happens to them.”
There was more to their mission, Captain America knew that much, but he also knew they wouldn’t harm Tony. So he pointed to some of the other buildings. “There are some good vantage points over there, especially for your long range fighters.” Captain America paused and felt his face flush. These weren’t his troops, they weren’t even a part of SHIELD or the Avengers. “Of course, I’m sure you have your own plan.”
“We will take your advice into consideration.” There was a small smirk on Aqualad’s face and Captain America felt better.
The teens dispersed, but the girls hesitated and then approached him. A magazine that had been previously stuffed in Artemis’s quiver was thrust in his direction. It was opened to a picture of him roughed up a bit, uniform torn, with Iron Man supporting his weight, arms protectively around Captain America. Under the photo was a caption that read ‘Teammates or More? - Iron Man saves Captain America and holds him in an intimate embrace.’ Steve was very familiar with that photo, Tony had it framed, even as Tony told to the press that he and Captain America were just friends and teammates. After all, Tony Stark was in a committed relationship with Steve Rogers.
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He didn’t say anything, but he took the magazine and pen, polite smile firmly in place, and signed it. The girls giggled, took the magazine and disappeared. Steve sighed, teenagers these days.
Captain America went back patrolling the parameter of the building and it didn’t take long for him to notice that he was being followed. Stopping suddenly, Superboy almost crashed into his back and looked genuinely surprised that Captain America noticed him. Superboy was less than subtle, but he was a good choice to tail Captain America because if his team felt the need to restrain Captain America for whatever reason, Superboy was their best bet.
“If you’re going to follow me you might as well keep me company.” Captain America gave the teen his best grin and Superboy just shrugged and fell into step with him. “How do you like being a sidekick?” That seemed like an appropriate topic. It was not.
“I’m not a sidekick.” The words were actually growled at him. “I’m part of a team.”
“And it’s a swell team.” Superboy gave Captain America a suspicious look. “I actually like the Justice League,” he explained and Superboy was now looking at him like he had grown a second head. It was the exact same look Tony had given him when he said that out loud for the first time, but Tony had also thrown in a fake heart attack to be funny and ended up freaking Steve out instead. “The League does really good work. I’m disappointed that we don’t work together more often or work under one organization.”
Superboy glared. “Not everyone wants to work with SHEILD or to be at the whims of a playboy billionaire benefactor, even if he is Iron Man.”
Steve was a little insulted. He happened to be in love with that playboy billionaire benefactor. “Mr. Stark is a respectable, honorable man, despite what the press says. And he does not dictate our operations, he is a valued teammate.”
Silence fell between them and Superboy looked away, a scowl on his face. Steve really hoped he didn’t upset the boy, that was the last thing he wanted. But before he could apologize, Superman made an appearance, not surprising considering that Metropolis was his city and Lex Luthor was his arch nemesis.
Superman landed next to Captain America. “I wasn’t expecting to see you here, Captain.”
“I’m here as backup for Mr. Stark, I’ve seen on the TV what can happen here in Metropolis,” Captain America replied. “Did you come to speak with Iron Man?”
Superman made a face and shook his head. While Captain America was friendly towards the League, Iron Man liked to use a lot of four letter words when he was forced to talk to them. “No, not at all. I just wanted to remind both you and Iron Man that Luthor is a Justice League problem, not an Avengers problem.”
It came out a bit coldly, but Captain America didn’t take it personally. “I’m just here for Mr. Stark, I trust that you’ll be more than able to take care of Luthor if he decides to act up.”
Superman visibly relaxed. “I’m glad to hear that, Captain. I’m sure it’ll be a quiet night.” And with that Superman took off into the air.
A minute later Captain America realized that Superman hadn’t said a single word to Superboy. Not even to say hello or to ask what he was doing with an Avenger. And from the expression in Superboy’s eyes, he noticed that he was blatantly ignored as well. There was a terrible sinking feeling in Captain America’s chest, the one he’d get whenever he’d see bullies terrorizing the defenseless in his old neighborhood. He told Tony about it once and Tony said it was his bleeding heart acting up.
“Let’s get back to work,” Captain America said, forcing a cheerfulness he didn’t feel after what he saw, and Superboy blinked at him. “You’re supposed to keep an eye on me for your team, right? So, let’s secure the parameter and find a good place to watch the building.”
The teen nodded in agreement.
“What’s your favorite baseball team?” Captain America suddenly asked. “Mine’s the Dodgers, though I still can’t believe they left Brooklyn.”
Superboy just stared at him like he’d gone mad.
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