Tony is a nobleman in a kingdom where Steve is the King, they are best friends with Bucky too who is a noble Knight in the kingdom (He is mostly a knight because of family pressure), in a battle with HYDRA (a group of fanatics who want world domination but are really bad with anyone who isn’t like them) Bucky gets injured and taken by HYDRA making Steve think he is dead but later find out that he is actually a live but is acting for HYDRA because they are threatening his family + some brainwashing.
When Steve found out that Bucky is alive and started to look for him and ignoring Tony at the time of that happening not noticing that Tony is not well at the time because of Howard and hid abuse that is worse now that Maria is dead.
Tony not seeing any help from anyone inside the palace decides that a life on the streets is better than a life with abuse from his father, (I’m thinking Tony is a bit young here but not too young 18 at the youngest 21 at the oldest). He runs away and lives in the outskirts of faraway village where there he becomes the smith outside of town.
In the palace Howard not having his outlet on Tony started to get shunned form the other nobles and finally Steve takes note that Tony is not around anymore, and after many questions asked he finds out that Tony ran away because of Howard and how he was treated, he can’t do anything to Howard without a good excuse and tight clad evidence, so he keep a close eye on him and sends Natasha to find Tony because he can’t leave his throne (which drives him crazy that now Bucky and Tony are both missing and he can’t seem to go and look for them himself like he wants to).
Natasha starts her tracking of Tony and finds him in that faraway village, or outside that village more like, living his life as a smith. Living in a small shack + smithy, and managing the Lava Dragon’s offers from the villagers. It is obvious that he is not living that well, he is skinny, covered in soot, bags under his eyes, clearly exhausted and overworked.
There meeting Tony and seeing him like that Natasha learns that this village just recently started having a Lava Dragon problem and they found out that leaving some offers for the Dragon was the best way to not have the Dragon go near the village, and even the one time that the Dragon was there, it was night and no one had seen the Dragon but the mountains and forests around would have Lava tracks where it didn’t make sense for Lava to be there, so the Villagers decided to leave some offers and see what the Dragons wanted. And from there they found that dragon would only collect trinkets but wouldn’t touch anything organic that was in the offers (not girls, not boy, and not even the offered meats), for the Villagers that was a good sign that this dragon is not going to deplete the population or the food stock so they decided to live and adapt to the Lava Dragon near, and so when Tony rolled around looking for a place to stay and work to do the villagers decided that the new comers is the one who is going to look after the offers at the outskirts sense they just didn’t want to deal with him, he had some royal stuff he wanted to sell and no one was ready to deal with that type of trouble so keeping him outside the village and pointing anyone who came asking to him (and if he ran away he is no longer their problem).
Tony lived there peacefully, it was a hard life but better than getting beaten by his father. He learned to smith and excelled at it to the point where he was selling his work to the villagers, and apparently striking a deal with the dragon to keep the fire in the smithy going for his work.
After Natasha found him living that hard life he is living she convinces him to come back to the palace promising him that he won’t have to live near Howard and can have a suit there only for him, he negotiate to have a tower room away from everyone, and she gives him that just so he could come back, just seeing Steve after losing Bucky was hard but seeing him after finding out that Tony ran away sad and inconsolable, almost like a body with no soul, was downright heartbreaking.
After Tony finally goes back to the palace and given some duty and work to do there, all from Steve so that he would be away from Howard’s reach, making the schedule so that they are as far away from each other as possible.
Tony now lives in one of the towers where there in a stone room he makes a small smithy keeping what he learned as a hoppy and making trinkets and jewelry and even giving them away as gifts. Steve was happy to have his friend back, but it was apparent that Tony is now different, he might talk and act like he used to before running away, but this time he is more guarded and harsh, when one of the nobles tries to be passive aggressive Tony is there with all their secrets ready to out in the open if they keep it up which shut that noble pretty quickly.
If Tony wasn’t working on what Steve gave him he would be at his tower keeping himself busy with other things, he isn’t socializing like he used to, he isn’t even interested in any of his former noble friends like Sunset and Ty, if you didn’t know Tony before he Ran you wouldn’t catch that there is a difference in the way he acted but Steve and Natasha noticed, Tony used to be so open and kind to all, but now it is like he won’t be nice unless he gets something out of it too, or if the other person was nice first, it was strange how Tony could see through someone’s act, many times he would go to Steve and warn him of something just from watching a simple meeting between them. Tony changed but he was at least still there for Steve helping now try to find Bucky.
+Steve made Tony as his advisor but was worried when Tony was not acting as Tony when he was there beside him, but then when it was time for lunch and there was not more people around them during lunch where Steve and Tony were eating Tony was finally acting like the Tony that Steve knew, and this was Tony taking his role as advisor seriously as to not be accused of having that just because he is the King’s Friend.
+Tony forsake the Stark name and starts going by his mother’s family name to distance himself from Howard, and at the same time Just being a dick to his father that way. He starts to even wear the clothes of her country, vibrant colors and over the top, a style that suits Tony so well that Steve starts to fall in love with him.
One day disaster strikes and someone accuses Tony of being of magic and then dies a fiery death (was a set up to scare people form him form someone), so Tony reading what was happening started to plan his escape where no one was getting anything from him, and when all the rumors culminated to people wanting his head Tony disappeared again with no trace of anything of his in the tower, even his smithy was not there, it was after investigating the rooms that Nat and Steve discovered that Tony was preparing his escape the moment that man who accused him died, and that Tony was spending his off time day and night moving his things to better escape.
This Time when Tony escapes he goes in the opposite direction of the last time and ends up in a different town, where there he again opens a smithy at the edge of town away from most people close to the mountains, weirdly enough the town starts having Lava Dragons problems (alluding to Tony being the dragon) but this town doesn’t start with the offers like the first one but goes and tell the two brother dragons about the new lava dragon problem they are having.
It is there in a confrontation between Thor the Lightning Dragon and Loki the Mage Dragon where they find that the Lava and burns didn’t come from a Lava Dragon but from a young Phoenix that is having trouble controlling himself and how to stop burning, it is there we find out that Tony is actually a Phoenix and the first time he ran away Stane Howard’s friend came after him to try and persuade him to come back and when Tony refused he killed him (at the time his memories where jumbled and he doesn’t remember that) and there he got his first fiery awakening which was the place where the first sighting of the Lava Dragon was found and from there Tony made the excuse of making a smithy to excuse the heat and the ongoing fire, and why he wanted to be at the tower where no one can monitor his semi controlled burnings. (a memory about Stane’s face when Tony came back)
Thor and Loki take Tony under their wing and start teaching him how to be a Phoenix and his ancestor’s history, he is a Phoenix from his mother side, which means she is still alive but ran away after her death there (Because Howard was a shit all his life and not just when his wife died). Now Tony is part of Loki and Thor’s hoard not knowing that, he is treasured and treated well, learning about his history and his new self.
Tony send a message to Steve telling him that he is good and well butt won’t comeback until this conspiracy around him and his mother is solved and giving him hints pointing to Stane but not calling him by name. After receiving the message form Tony, Steve starts a secret investigation from people he is 100% sure that are on his side and are good friends of Tony. There they find a faction of HYDRA trying to assert themselves inside the kingdom but thankfully still small and not as spread out as they feared (plus Bucky is kept in the kingdom as a way of throwing Steve off).
While in a flight with Thor and Loki Tony finds a HYDRA Prison where they free everyone and taking any advantage HYDRA had over these people, and among them was Bucky and his family (kept apart), Tony helps Bucking to go back to Steve but he stays with Thor and Loki to learn more about himself and help Steve in the places where Steve can’t reach.
After taking out HYDRA and exposing the people behind Maria’s ‘death’ Tony goes back and there starts the pining after Steve & Bucky, and his friends pushing them together to finally be happy.
Now the Kingdom is peaceful and are good with magical folks and Tony’s close friends know that he is a Phoenix. And Tony still goes by Tony Carbonell.
