Reincarnated As Tony Stark With A Skill

AN: So Symbiote body won't be going independent anytime soon and You can still add suggestions for its name.

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Tony: Well then, what do I do now?

Tony looked at his newly acquired body in the bucket. He was looking at a black slime ball. This was supposed to be a Symbiote but the thing just looks like a slime. Tony tried to let it move like Venom did but what he got was just a little wiggle.

Tony never expected to see a Symbiote in this universe. He just saw Venom movie and it took place in a universe separate from MCU. The movie was successful so he did not expect it to merge with MCU any time soon.

Though it was a very surprising situation, he did want a to have a Symbiote. He was like a child in a toy store who saw a very cool toy of his favourite show. Tony did not think properly and just wanted to have it. Sometime, boys will still be boys. Imm.a.t.u.r.e and impulsive.

Luckily, he had remembered how Symbiotes would switch hosts like the other Venom from another Spiderman movie. Tony wasn't going to take chances that this Symbiote would rebel against him.

Since he could not exactly implement TAIL's on something like those Symbiotes, he would have settled for a transforming sword. He planned on killing All-Black and using the All-Black's corpse and merge it with his nanites. It would have resulted in a weakened version of All-Black. It may not be able to kill celestials and gods at its best condition due to the nanites weakening it but he would still prefer that. He would rather have a dagger that he could control than a missile that could be hacked and be used to attack him.

Luckily, Ancient One mentioned about his clone's soul copy. He did not expect his clones to have a copy of his own soul. He thought that since the clones were created using energy, they operated using psionic energy and powers. That was how Marvel powers were usually explained unexplainable powers. Other than Ghost Rider, he did not remember Marvel having other people that had powers directly affecting the soul. He did not have Marvel comics in his country growing up so he was only familiar with things that were somehow connected to MCU.

Soul transfer was an idea he got from another webnovel he read before reincarnation. Something SciFi created by a tomato person. Since he had copies of his soul, he decided to try doing a soul transfer using that soul.

Though the procedure was never done before and would have more more chances of failing due to never been experienced by anyone before, he was just using a copy of his own soul. If anything ever went wrong, he knew that his soul could handle itself going through something crazy. He was not some speedster that was way too emotional.

Plus he had Ancient One's help, she would have figured out a way to track the soul through some other parallel universe incase something weirder like universe or time travel ever took place.

He was essentially gambling on what would happen to his clone's soul. And his gamble was a success. He got control of a new body. Though control might be an exaggeration. He could barely make his Symbiote body jump a centimeter much less let it jump out of the bucket.

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Tony tried to get up but he felt that his body was exhausted. Tony figured that it was due to the lack of food. He never never used magic to reinforce his body so other than IV, his body had little source of energy. He scratched the back of his head and got his sling ring from his nanites there. He had one miniaturised and stored along with his nanites as a backup sling ring. The other 3 sling rings are stored in other locations.

Tony then got a bunch of food he stored secretly from somewhere around the world. He devoured baskets of fruits freshly harvested that he contracted with some farms in asian countries. He also ate a couple of crates of MRE's he got stored in case of emergencies.

Tony: "Looks like I need to take over food companies as well. At the rate I am consuming food, the funds of Stark Industries might have a big portion allocated for my food expenses. I might as well setup my own company. There are only so much fruits in the world and the taste of MRE's get boring after one crate.

JARVIS, can you set up takeovers for PespsiCo, Nestle, and Coca Cola as well as some rice companies in Asia. Don't bother with the wheat based products since those things contain more fiber than energy in them. The last thing I need is to go to the toilet waiting for all those fiber to get out. Also send a message to ZOLA, some of those owners would be greedy so ask HYDRA to help '' persuade '' the greedy owners to sell to us. Oh, make sure no evidence relating to us will actually be available.

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JARVIS: Right away sir, do you want to to also prepare for separate owner identities or would you like it to be a subsidiary of one of your companies?

Tony: Secret identities.

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Tony: "Secret identities.

You know what, create a plan for a global take over of all kinds of companies. I am happy right now so treat this as a celebration. I'll make a list of companies for you to prioritize and companies to avoid.

Wait, create or buy all banks you can get first, your choice. You can set up loans with them since that's how the big companies usually work. Sooner or later, we can pay them back anyway. (If not through profits, he can release some world changing tech that people would buy, or just hack the banks.)

This way I'll just need to note down the companies that I don't own.

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Tony's businesses were a success that he now had quite a capital. His available capital and the maximum amount of money he could borrow from a bank combined easily exceeded most 3rd world countries GDP.

Tony basically got started in conquering and controlling the world market all because he was hungry.

AN: End of optional part. I was not originally planning for him to take over the world market. Just the tech markets. (Yes I do have a plan and timeline that I follow but I can't post it due to the spoilers in the details) but taking advantage of the world market is getting hard to track down for me with all those companies and I don't have JARVIS IRL sadly

I can just remove this if there is too much opposition anyway but Stark will still be the largest tech conglomerate in the world by Civil War. He is inevitable

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He did not expect that he would consume so much. He ate all those food but he was still a little bit hungry. The problem was that this was just Tony's appetite. His Symbiote body was still in the bucket. If that body is anything like Venom, he would be hungry again.

Tony did not consider feeding the Symbiotes humans just yet. He was sharing consciousness with it so it would still feel like cannibalism.

Tony got a bit more rest as his body got some energy. He waited for his fellow apprentices to visit him(Wang) since Mordo mentioned them passing by after some training.

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Tony got discharged from the clinic after some minor inspections, he immediately went to his room for some privacy.

He got some familiarity with his body that knew that the black slime was also focusing on him even when their connection was not that solid.

Since it was two days that his clones were MIA, Tony created them. When he finished creating 100 clones, he suddenly felt exhausted.

Tony: What, is, happening. Why am I so tired already?

Tony got to a comfortable position and started inspecting his body. All looked well but when he went to his dantian, he saw that it had shrunk back. By his estimates, the maximum chakra it can contain would be able to support only 5 thousand clones. This was the total amount he had at his 2nd year of developing his chakra. That was over 5 years ago.

Tony: Whoa, I know I did not practice and collected chakra for a week but daaaamn that went down fast.

Tony of course did not believe that it was just because he did not train his chakra. He figured out that something like this would happen when Ancient one requested that absurd amount of chakra for a clone.

Taking over another body is supposed to be very taxing to a person. He had it easy before but looks like it was just because his chakra capacity was the offering. At least his dantian just shrunk down and did not receive any damage. He could make it back up again in a few years.

Tony checked for anything else wrong but he noticed nothing. His body still had retained its flexibility from the Wakandan stretching equipment. He still has the eidetic memory as well as his clones. No other part of his body shrunk down. It was only his dantian that got affected.

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Tony then looked at his Symbiote body.

All-Black is supposed to be a weapon that could kill celestials. Though the current Symbiote did not look strong, he wondered if it still retained those capabilities.

Tony wanted to try it on Ego's seedling but cancelled it after a thought. That sample was his only sample so if his Symbiote body was able to kill it, he would only be left with a corpse. He did not go through all that trouble finding that seedling just to use it as target practice.

Tony thought about the Inhumans as well as mutants but disregarded them. They were still basically human bodies with some exceptions. He did not need to use this, it would just be overkill.

Tony: It looks like I could only wait for the Kree to come to C-53 to see how deadly this is.

Since there was no way to test its lethality, Tony decided to test its weaknesses.

Normally, Symbiotes were normally weak to sonic and heat based attacks. Tony first got a lighter with a long neck and tried to poke his Symbiote body with it. His conciousness did not seem to feel the heat.

Tony got facinated and started poking some more due to its squishiness but the Symbiote body synchronized with the human body and shared its annoyance. Tony got startled at first since it was usually the other way around and he had to concentrate to communicate with it.

Tony: Looks like I need to treat you as a second body instead of a clone. Though I am not sure what will happen if I die but you survive. Yikes, I don't think I need to think about that right now.

Tony got his nanites to create a speaker. He covered the bucket with it like a lid so that he does not have to increase the volume. Tony started from low frequencies up to the highest he can create. Symbiote body just felt like it was being massaged with its body showing ripples due to the sound waves.

Tony then tested the Symbiote with a Uni-Beam using his suit. He got it optimized by his nanites to use up all energy he had. When the beam hit the surface of its body, it did not bounce of do anything. The surface of the Symbiote just heated up a bit. Tony also felt that the body was absorbing the energy that hit it.

Tony: "I guess I can't create conditions that can truly affect this body. I could make some better flames but I doubt it would be a weakness since this guy didn't even feel it.

Looks like the wikis back then about All-Black was true. That this specific Symbiote just had a psychosomatic fear. Good thing I wiped out its soul. Otherwise I might have inherited its fears along with its body."

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Tony then checked the Symbiote body for its capabilities.

Tony checked its memorization and analysis capability. He printed a random string of letters and numbers and flashed it to the slime. The Symbiote body was able to remember everything as well. It looks like the clone's memorization ability is inherited.

Tony tried its analysis ability using a game show type problem quiz and JARVIS as the game show host. The two tied in the end but the scores in the individual categories were not balanced. Human Tony got all the score on single complicated questions while Symbiote Tony had all with the simultaneous easier questions.

He felt the sensation of thinking with the Symbiote body. It felt like half of its body was active. Tony felt that it had a different way of thinking. Rather than a single thought that could run fast like how his human body did things, the Symbiote had all of its cells thinking at the exact same time. If he would compare it with something. It was like his human body is the CPU with 32 cores while his symbiote body is the GPU with 4000 cores. They were both strong but in different areas.

Tony tried to create another shadow clone using the Symbiote body. The soul felt like it knew how it works but it had no chakra to draw from. Tony did not have much expectations with that in the first place since Symbiotes work differently from humans. The "cells" worked like a colony with all purpose cells compared to humans who had specialized cells for certain purposes.

Tony then checked his control with the body. The symbiote body seems to only be have accessible. He felt that the other half is still not responding to anything he does. After a few hours of practice, he was able to wrap the working portion around the dormant portion and finally made a jump. Tony who saw this remembered Poring from the Ragnarok game in his past life.

Tony then picked up the body. He thought that the body would automatically merge with him but it had no reaction. Tony also arranged the structure to make contact with the dormant part of his body but still no reaction.

Tony tried to actively bond with his human body. The symbiote stuck to his arm and melted around it. He waited for some time for it to spread but nothing happened. Tony just felt that he became hungrier again.

Tony inspected both bodies he had. He was that the symbiote was absorbing energy from the blood and fats that was flowing around it. Tony tried to consciously stop the energy draw and his symbiote did. Even the dormant part followed his intent.

Tony then tried to actively spread the Symbiotes all across his body. He noticed that it was bonding slowly due to needing to form the structure. Tony used his knowledge of human body to speed up the process by guiding the form. He eventually got to cover his arm and torso. He felt that the other half is just spread out in the same area.

Tony: It looks like being a Symbiote is not as easy as I thought. I still need to picture the form before I can form what I want. It's a good thing I am me and I can do that easily.

Tony then tested the Symbiote's augmentation. He started by getting some weights from his training room. He did things gradually from 1kg up to 15 kgs. Tony did not strain his body much since he is still a kid and 15 kgs was his maximum. When Tony tried each of them, he was disappointed that not much changed.

He was still as strong as he was before. This may be because his Symbiote body is still very weak and he still doesn't have full control of it as well.

Tony: I was too optimistic. Hopefully this can still grow back to its peak performance. Otherwise, I will be stuck with an Indestructible Slime body instead of All-Black Symbiote body.