Heroic Histrionics

In this universe, HYDRA almost got caught out in their infiltration by Howard not too long after Tony was born, and things go rather cockeyed from there.

1917
• March 10th: James Buchanan Barnes is born.
• August 15th: Howard Anthony Stark is Born.
1918
• July 4th, Steven Grant Rogers is born.
1921
• April 9th: Peggy (Margaret) Carter is born.
1943
• June: Stark Expo with Howard’s fail flying car.
• June 14th: Steve picked up for project rebirth.
• October: Bucky picked up at the front as a POW.
• November 24th: Steve to the rescue as Captain America.
1944
• December: Bucky falls off the train and is recovered by Russians in league with HYDRA.
1945
• January: Steve crashes the Valkyrie into the ice.
1950-1952
• SHIELD is founded by Howard Stark, Peggy Carter, and Chester Phillips. Exact date unclear.
1970
• May 29th: Tony (Anthony Edward) Stark is Born.
1971
• January 7th: Clint(on Francis) Barton is born.
• October 20th: HYDRA catches wind of Howard looking into their doings, ends up making arrangements to deal with him.
• November 19th: The Winter Soldier kills the Stark parents. The child ends up going with him instead of being left behind, and he does not return to base.
1975
• The Winter Soldier, now Bucky, stops traveling for the first time to allow Tony to have a year of school. He ends up moving them halfway through the school year, a trend which will continue until High School.
1982
• A teacher finally has Tony long enough to find out how smart he is, gets him skipped up a couple grades, and Tony has the paperwork and tests done to start high school early.
1986
• Tony offered scholarships after his testing to several schools, and ends up picking the one that will let him follow a technological field.
• Bucky tells Tony about what happened to his parents instead of just his name. He thinks on it.
1988
• Tony and Rhodey meet over spring break and immediately become fast friends who stay in touch via letter correspondence.
1991
• March: Finishes design and Dum-E is born as Tony’s thesis project for his Doctorate.
1992
• Tony gets a small business off the ground in the computer engineering field.
1995
• Tony goes after SI to get his rightful inheritance sorted out, things are tied up until his current handprint is compared to the one in the Stark baby files.
1997
• January: Tony builds his impossible house on a cliff, making sure it’s defensible to Bucky’s standards. He finds out how money can affect a housing situation when the house goes up fast.
• April: Uses the money influx to sort out the code to get JARVIS online the first time, he’d been musing on the code piecemeal for years.
• July 12th: JARVIS becomes properly sentient and asks his first emotionally driven question.
1999
• October: Tony meets and hires Pepper Potts as his personal assistant.
2000
• New Years: Killian makes his resolve to be an asshole to Tony someday, though events were more in line with Tony just not having the time to speak to the man, rather than forgetting. Killian never makes the offered appointment.
2001
• September 11: National catastrophe strikes. Tony did not arrive for an intended meeting in the area, and immediately throws more focus into weapons for National Defense.
2002
• Obadiah loses patience with Tony not doing as told and takes out a hit on him, urging the man overseas to ‘better ties’ while selling weapons.
• He’s promptly captured and subjected to months of horror as per Afghanistan.
• Bucky makes sure that Obadiah is permanently taken care of after that.
• Beginning of the stealthy removal of Stark Industries from making weapons, without breaking any military ties. Instead, emphasis on armor and defensive measures begins. Medical technologies become vastly higher on the priority scale, and the computer company Tony previously founded suddenly becomes far more lucrative than the weapons company that should have been.
• Iron Man begins to be seen around the world, though never in conjunction with Tony Stark. Operations are stealthier as he sorts out the mess Obadiah left behind while he was presumed dead. Bucky is far from thrilled that his son is in danger at all.
2003
• Bruce makes a mess with the Hulk coming on the scene.
• Tony realizes he has a little problem with the element options he has for the reactor. He immediately digs deep to try to find out more about his dad, taking time he hadn’t previously had to do so. He figures he should at least have a clue about his birth parents before he dies. He spends extra time with Bucky but is hesitant to inform him of the situation before he notices on his own.
2004
• January: Tony manages to pin down the element situation in the model, which is for an expo that never actually got to be put together beyond that. He’s amazed at the man’s brilliance and sad he never got to meet him. He does tell Bucky he’s all better.
2005
• January: SHIELD finally tracks Iron Man back to Tony and proceeds to try to make contact via Natasha. It does not go well as Bucky recognizes the woman’s training. Tony responds to this with understandable suspicion and immediately sees the woman out. He then turns his attention to investigating SHIELD. Upon finding out about the Steve Hunt, he starts to pay more attention to that, wanting to know about his dad’s best friend.
2007
• Weapons production in Stark Enterprises has come to a near standstill by this point, and all outstanding weapon caches are taken care of to Tony’s satisfaction. Any lingering traces of weapons manufacture in SI are via non-lethal routes.
2008
• Tony decides that it’s a perfect time to out himself when people start getting too close to casting their eye on Bucky and his life, and declares he’s Iron Man on national television. He uses this and the leverage it gets him to further look into ways to expand his companies. He ends up putting Pepper in charge of SI so he can look after Barnes Inc himself without a split in his attention.
2011
• Tony and Bucky end up kidnapping Steve nearly immediately after he’s found, and SHIELD being infiltrated by HYDRA comes to light. This ends up bringing Tony’s gaze on it intently.
• Thor touches down in New Mexico.
2012
• Loki happens and events here are largely unchanged, though Bucky is on site and Steve and Tony have already hashed out most of their differences.