Druid's Marvel Travels

Chapter 60 Oaks and Rhodes
"Oh, nice to meet you... If I'm not mistaken, you are Colonel James Rhodes?"

Before Oakes entered the sea view villa in Malibu, he saw a black man in military uniform preparing to enter with a serious face.

Being able to come to Tony's villa is like coming to your own home, except for Pepper, only Colonel Rhodes, not even Oaks.

"Ok?"

Rhodes, who was immersed in his own thoughts, was taken aback for a moment, stopped, and when he turned his head, he saw a red-haired young man standing behind him.

He couldn't help putting on a defensive posture—even though he was thinking just now, he was [-]% sure that there was no one around him!
"Dr. Oaks Lin?"

But seeing the appearance of the red-haired youth clearly, Rhodes reacted.

He had helped Tony investigate Oakes' information, and there were not many who could be called friends by Tony.

And with his channel, the identity of Oakes SHIELD's environmental consultant is not a secret.

"Sorry, I'm a bit allergic... I've heard of you for a long time, Dr. Lin."

Although it is a bit strange how Oaks appeared, but it was only one day after Tony's accident, and the other party rushed over from New York, which is enough to explain a lot of things.

Rhodes relaxed, smiled and shook hands with Oakes:

"Tony talks about you a lot."

"You can just call me Oakes, but unfortunately, I only heard about you, Colonel, in Tony's complaints."

Oakes' sense of humor was obviously to Rhodes' liking, and the latter pouted exaggeratedly:

"It's not easy being that guy's friend, is it?"

"It's not easy, I even came to his house for the first time."

Oakes grinned:
"If you don't come today, I won't be able to get in the door. I'm ready to climb the window."

Rhodes smiled wryly and shook his head, sighing:

"Even S.H.I.E.L.D. has been alarmed by Tony's matter? How are you going to deal with it?"

He'd be really stupid to think that S.H.I.E.L.D.'s environmental consultants only deal with environmental issues.

"It's not a big deal, S.H.I.E.L.D. isn't ready for anything.

Just yesterday, they needed me to see how Tony was doing.

I read the news, but Mr. Congressmen, the military and public opinion are all focusing on the steel armor. "

"Oh? How do you say that?"

Rhodes secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He knew very well that if Oakes came to receive Tony's armor technology on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D., he would be helpless.

He can still say a few words in the military by virtue of his relationship with Tony.

But for S.H.I.E.L.D., it doesn't work even if a few generals come to talk, let alone a colonel.

"Meaning, they're totally in the throes of the frenzy that somebody did to 'bleed God'—

The incident in Monaco caused Tony, the giant whale in full swing, to bleed.

The smell of blood attracted countless sharks, greedily trying to tear fresh flesh from their former guardians. "

Rhode nodded silently, and saw Oaks pointing at the villa:
"But they have forgotten, or are unwilling to admit at all, that Iron Man is the product of the combination of Tony and Iron Armor.

Without the armor, Tony can still develop something else to replace it.

But without Tony, anyone else who gets the armor won't be Iron Man.

War armor is just a tool, the key lies in the person who controls it——

A drone can never replace a real fighter pilot, can it? "

"..."

Rhodes was stunned for a while, and he let out a long breath:

"I totally agree with the last sentence."

Stepping forward to open the gate of the villa, Rhodes made a gesture of invitation to Oakes:

"Ochs, I am a soldier, and I must carry out orders...

But I am also Tony's friend, if there is only one choice between him and the armor, I will choose to protect him. "

"Children make choices."

Oakes shrugged, showing a smile, and stepped into the door step by step while Rhode was in a daze.

"That old fox, Fury, kept this from me...do you think I don't know?"

When Oakes entered, he saw Pepper and another beautiful woman in formal attire were busy on the phone.

Natasha Romanoff, a seventh-level agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., now aliased as Natalie, worked undercover at Stark Industries as Pepper's personal secretary.

Because in addition to a title, Pepper has now almost replaced Tony's job as CEO.

If he didn't think he could still save it, he would have given this position to Pepper a long time ago.

"Hi ladies, is Tony there?"

"Oh, Oakes!"

Pepper stood up in surprise and put down the phone:
"Why are you here...I mean, I'm glad you're here."

She also knew something about Oakes, not to mention that he had saved her life.

So she stepped forward quickly, welcomed Oakes, and then said with some hesitation:
"Tony, he... Oakes, can you please check his physical condition?
I always feel that something is wrong. His recent mental state seems to be not right. Although he tried his best to pretend that nothing happened, I could feel that he was hiding something from me.

Although he was also conceited and self-centered before, he is not so irresponsible to put himself in danger just to step on someone's face.

I tried to find a doctor for him, but he turned them down. "

"Don't worry, I will."

Just as Oakes finished speaking, Colonel Rhodes also came in:

"Oh Pepper, where's Tony?"

"Are you on a date?"

Seeing Rhodes coming in military uniform, Pepper seemed to realize something.

"We met at the door."

Oakes spread his hands, and saw Natasha walking over, looked at Oakes seemingly unintentionally, and whispered to Pepper:
"Miss Potts, Mr. Stark confessed that he doesn't want to be disturbed..."

"It's okay, he won't mind what these two say."

Pepper smiled and nodded to Oakes and Rhodes:
"He's downstairs."

"Thank you."

When they came to the laboratory downstairs, Rhodes and Oakes looked at each other, stepped forward to enter the password and opened the door.

Walking into the laboratory and seeing Tony staring at the monitor silently, Rhodes felt angry:

"Tony, you need to go upstairs and control the situation - the military wants to confiscate your armor, they don't want to go around in circles!"

"You said nobody would have mastered this technology for 20 years, but yesterday, they found out that not only has it been mastered, it's not just theory—hey, are you listening to me?"

"Colonel Rhodes, his condition is not very good."

Oakes prevented Colonel Rhodes from approaching the somewhat sluggish Tony, snapped his fingers, and a ball of green energy wrapped around Tony, refreshing him.

"Wow! What is this? Magic?"

Ignoring Rhode's exclamation, Oakes stepped forward and patted Tony who started to smile wryly:

"Dude, it's no good holding back your illness, my poor little Acorn is dying of exhaustion - you're looking like Pepper knows something's wrong."

"You are all here..."

Feeling the long-lost sense of relaxation in his body, Tony stood up slowly:
"I think I need to change the battery."

(End of this chapter)