No one's POV

"Meow"

Tony looked shocked, seeing a black cat with white highlights appearing before his eyes with cloakie, fluttering around, flustered that his master was gone. As the smoke dissipated, the cat hesitantly approached him and lay on his lap, purring before falling into a slumber. As much as Tony wanted to take his phone out for pictures and relish in this moment, he knew that he was fucked.

... a day beforehand ...

TONYS POV

Stumbling around Kamar Taj, I found myself to be very much ... as much as I'd hate to admit it... lost. I couldn't even get help from F.R.I.D.A.Y, my AI, because my husband and his friends were awfully outdated, and didn't have fast enough internal wifi (as satellites were blocked for some reason) for my devices to work properly. I mean what were they thinking, having a communal wifi router shared by thousands of sorcerers? It was so slow... I'd better add installing better signal here to my list...

Why I was here? Well I wanted to find Stephen but apparently he was off-world and fighting some emergency monster with Wong. So now I'm just doing my own thing, waltzing around.

I watched as many young sorcerers were practicing their spells, and they were amazing. Sparks flew around everywhere, like a flurry of lights, and before I knew it some of them made their orange magic strand things into whips and started combat training. Oh how Ive always wanted to analyse those...

I curiously walked out into the field, a little cautious in my step but who would notice me right?

Well I looked up and noticed how most sorcerers seemed to bow? to me? Well all except for some who whispered amongst themselves but,,, what did I do to make them bow for me? I mean I'm amazing I know, but do these people know 'Stark Industries'? I feel like they're a little... what's the word? Unaware of the world outside their little sorcerer magician lives. (Don't tell Stephen I said that)

"Greetings, Mr Stark" an older sorcerer stepped out, head still down.

I looked around to see others looking at me with respectful eyes, I really didn't know what to do. Which was kind of unbelievable.

"Please... raise your head." I said, although unsure of what exactly was going on.

"It is an honour to meet you Mr stark, we thank you for caring for our master."

Everyone suddenly started clapping, my instinct was to clap along but I stopped myself. Wow this was awkward, it reminded my of my teenage hood.

"Is there anything we could do to help?" The sorcerer asked.

I was about to wave him off but I stopped to think.

Anything? I should use this chance... Stephen normally wouldn't let me handle magic as he says it's 'dangerous' but I really wanted to try one day.

"Can I... try to learn some of your spells?" I asked. Although I didn't plan that he would agree, surprisingly he did. He said something about how everyone who wanted to learn can be taught.

Great! I'll surprise my dear later, I can't wait to see the look on his face. The man led me across some hallways and into a room filled with many ancient artefacts and a giant wall of shelves, all full of the same kind of ring Stephen wears. I tried to reach out to take one but there was some sort of invisible barrier blocking me from doing so.

The man laughed a little and told me that they were protected, then he chanted something and took one ring out, giving it to me. I slipped the ring on my two fingers, I flexed them, and admittedly it was a little uncomfortable. Wait... does this mean that my husband has matching rings with like thousands of others?

Unacceptable.

I guess my emotions shone through too much as the man looked at me and asked if I was okay. I laughed it off and he started teaching me the basic motions to start making those orange magic things.

When I focused real hard, and waved my hands around, I could see flickers of orange sparks. The man looked a little shocked. Oh my god I'm doing magic! I think...

I can't believe I used to hate this, well I guess marrying a wizard really opened my mind a little. I was actually living my childhood dream, believe it or not I used to be a bit of a Harry Potter fan.

After a while, I think I grasped the basics of portal opening.

"Wow, it's been a while since there was someone as naturally gifted at magic like you, Mr Stark! The last time this happened was when I heard that a Filipino boy opened a portal on his first try, even without training."

"Thanks man! Hey, I realise I haven't got your name yet" I casually mentioned and patted him on the shoulder.

The man momentarily thought to himself.

"Ah yes, my apologies. I'm Karl."

I know that it's disrespectful but I kind of snorted of laughter at that. I mean can you blame me-? Imagine a wizard just called Karl. I digress,,, I apologised and he said that it was okay and that he got that a lot.

"Would you like to visit the sorcerer supreme's quarters? Just... don't touch anything that looks dangerous. I remember him telling us that should you come, we would lead you there."

Now, that piqued my interest. Stephen's room?

Sign me up-

I guess my eyes said it all (again) because Karl just started leading me down the winding hallways and I ran after him, trying to keep up.

He opened the door and oh my goodness was the room so... messy. Well what should I have expected? I mean he always makes it a point to make our bedroom neat and tidy, so he's got to have somewhere to let off the steam-

Books were strewn around everywhere and vials of unknown substances littered the floor and a table at the side. I precariously stepped around them and practically gagged when I smelled the most fowl horrendous stench coming from one of the goopy bottles on his desk. What was that?!?

"Well I guess I'll leave you to it then Mr Stark." Karl said, waving, and closing the door behind him.

Karl no-

What was i supposed to do? Trapped in this stinky room, I tried my best to keep my composure, and find joy in anything I could get my hands on. Like... ooh this glow-ey book or that jar... of eyes? Jar of eyes-?!

I stumbled backwards, hitting my head on a bookshelf. Ouch... Just then, a book, fluffy to the touch, fell into my hands.

I opened it and studied the book, well what could go wrong?

Stephen's POV

Damn it-

"Wong! You good?" I yelled across the area, waiting for a response.

The beast had just hurled a massive ball of fire at Wong and I wasn't sure if he was going to be alright.

"I'm fine, Strange." Wong called back, and I nodded.

Seeing as the beast had regained his composure I had to start moving and dodging its attacks. Cloakie swished me over to the side and gave me the time and space to cast a sealing spell on it. The monstrous being shrunk into a ball and was sealed back to where it belonged.

I guess that was the last one then, phew.

Wong portal-ed over and gave me a little 'debrief' of what happened and then we both said our goodbyes and he went back to his sanctum while I portal-ed back to Kamar Taj.

Already exhausted, I wanted to lay down on the floor and sleep. But what I wasn't expecting to see, was my husband sleeping on the ground with one of my spell books at his side. As much as I wanted to ask what was going on, I stopped myself, scared of waking him up.

I stepped over my books and was about to open the door when one of my vials fell, making a loud sound and starling my husband, which woke him up. Oh how I regret not tidying my stuff-

"GAH!" He yelled and shouted something inaudible, then a glow of orange flew towards me and before I could speak or move my aching body, it started to change and I lost consciousness.

Tony's POV

I heard a loud shatter and awoke from my slumber. Sensing another human present, I instinctively shouted a new spell I had read in the fluffy book a few hours ago and prayed that I wasn't going to get harmed.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw a small little black ragdoll cat with white highlights in front of my eyes, and a big red flying cloak was by its side.

Awww...

Then I realised,,, white highlights... Cloakie...oh my god that's Stephen-

Fuck-

Stephen (in cat form) then slowly walked over to my lap and fell asleep. Awww but AHHHH WHAT DO I DO-

Stay calm Tony,,, you're Tony stark, of course you'll have a plan!
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I HAVE NO PLAN. IM A MECHANIC FOR GODS SAKE IM NOT FIT TO DEAL WITH ANIMALS, MUCH LESS CAT STEPHEN-

Oh to hell with it-

I whipped out my phone and attempted to call for help,,,

I waited

And waited

But there was no signal.

Oh Jesus Christ-

Done with the crap, I opened a portal to my workshop and carefully held Stephen in my arms and went through, cloakie following close behind, then closed it. Now, I had the signal to call for help.

No one's POV

Tony, with cat Stephen in his arms, carefully stepped out of the portal and into his workshop. As he pulled out his phone, he realised that Peter was just standing there, with a screwdriver in hand, in shock.

"Dad- did you just... do magic?" Peter questioned, almost lightheaded. He dropped his screwdriver and approached the mechanic. Cloakie then swiftly flew behind Peter, as if it was also scared.

Tony did a shushing movement with his finger and gestured at the feline in his arms, to which Peter acknowledges, but still unsure of what's even happening at this point.

Tony dials a number and a familiar voice comes through.

"What do you need, Stark?" Wong's voice echoed.

After explaining the situation to him, Wong immediately portal-ed over to assess the situation. While Peter was still confused about everything.

"Wow, this... thing... really is Stephen"

"The cat is doctor dad-?! Oh my gosh he's so adorable!" Peter whisper-yelled

Tony nodded in agreement and cloakie, realising that the cat was his master, turned into a mini version of itself and placed itself over the cat's shoulders. Which only made Stephen look even cuter.

Peter and Tony cooed in unison, at the sheer adorable-ness of cat Stephen, with his cloak. This made Wong roll his eyes and sigh.

"Well, Stark since the spell has already taken effect, the duration of it should be around a week."

"What?! A week-?" The father-son duo exclaimed in unison.

TBC

A/N yayyy another post- I am so tired and burnt out from school this is not good. Anyways I hope you liked this part, hopefully cat Stephen will make more appearances soon 👀🐈‍⬛

Also! Karl isn't Mordo he's just some random sorcerer 💀 sorry if that's what u thought no connections there 😭