When Downey Wears a Tin Can [Comprehensive British and American]

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Just like when they met for the first time, Downey stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass windows in the hall of the meeting room on the second floor, and Tony Stark stood on the small square at the bottom of the building.

The moment the call was dialed, Downey tried to explain to a powder keg who had rejected 67 calls: "I was in a meeting just now." After he finished speaking, he paused and said with some doubts, "But I didn't set the automatic Mute, Jarvis didn't remind me."

Tony Stark on the other end of the phone fell silent.

Obviously, Downey probably knew who set up the operation of automatically muting the system and completely isolating it from the outside world during a meeting.

He saw the man downstairs touched his nose with his head down, and then skipped the topic: "People from S.H.I.E.L.D. should have already looked for you."

The other party is Iron Man himself, so there is nothing to hide. Downey said truthfully: "Well, the people from the United Nations Council asked them to finish this matter within three days, otherwise they will revoke the military call right of S.H.I.E.L.D. , then they will be able to skip S.H.I.E.L.D. and connect directly with the Alliance."

Everyone knows that the Avengers are not a government agency. The reason why they are still acting freely is because there is a SHIELD between them and the government. Once the United Nations will take back the military calls of SHIELD, they will What they are facing may be the most direct order issued by the United Nations, so that the Avengers will be brought under the rule of the United Nations in a disguised form.

The person on the other end of the phone sneered: "A group of old things." After he finished speaking, he looked up again, "So you already have a plan?"

Downey: "The latest positioning system can't locate Baron Zemo. S.H.I.E.L.D. has collected a lot of data about Hydra's alien technology. The only way is to build a new investigation system based on that information. Used to hack their counter-detection systems."

Tony Stark: "It would take at least sixteen hours for one person to design a brand new anti-detection system."

Downey leaned against the edge of the conference table. He didn't know if it was his illusion. He always felt that the other party put a little emphasis on "one person", so he subconsciously said, "There is also Dr. Banner."

Tony Stark: "So you're giving up ten of the 72 hours spent on this kind of pointless action, when you've already worked out liquid metal?"

Downey didn't speak.

This is indeed a problem. Anyone can see that Hydra is supported by a certain alien force, and their equipment has been completely updated. As far as the weapon report of Hydra technology provided by S.H.I.E.L.D. It even added many design details to deal with the Avengers.

Even in the comics, Iron Man began to deal with those alien forces after creating the armor codenamed Jack of Mark 28.

Opinions have to face the fact that the Mark 11 seems to be almost insufficient a few days after it was created.

Downey looked down at the man standing next to the flowerbed knight statue, who was only two floors away from him and a layer of transparent floor-to-ceiling glass: "So you are here to help?"

Tony Stark paused: "Shouldn't it be you who need my help?"

Downey wanted to say that he actually arranged his time a little tighter, and it was not impossible to find time to deal with his new armor after the design was completed, but as a mature adult, he still found a way for the other party: "Yes, It would be great if you could help me in this situation.”

He stood up: "You should know better than me how to get to the third floor?"

Then he heard the man on the other end of the phone pause again, and then said in a deep voice: "My villa in Malibu Sea has a complete intranet system connected to the Alliance."

Downey didn't understand the meaning of this sentence for a while, and when he was about to ask something, Tony Stark had already hung up the phone.

A golden-red suitcase flew from the sky. It was the Mark 6 that Downey had sent Happy to Tony Stark's rental house before. The armor was quickly loaded on the man, and then flew to the Malibu seaport.

Until the golden red flames disappeared into the sky, Downey understood it belatedly.

He picked up the white box next to him and looked at the interface of the mobile phone after the call was hung up.

Downey: "... how to explain this behavior?"

Obviously, as a smart housekeeper, even Lao Jia has a hard time guessing what a powder keg is thinking, so he can only analyze it through the background big data system: "Social phobia is also called social anxiety disorder. A phobia of the phobia was formerly known as the phobic neurosis—”

Downey: "...What the hell are you talking about?"

The distance between Manhattan and Los Angeles is [-] miles, and it takes about five hours by plane, but that is less than half an hour for the steel armor that has been equipped with a sonic vortex.

After briefly explaining to Dr. Banner why he wanted to fly to the Malibu Sea Villa to write the anti-reconnaissance system with him through remote collaboration, Downey also rushed to the beach with the white box and two tubes of liquid metal reagents. villa.

Then, he saw Tony Stark standing at the door of the Malibu Sea Villa, his face was already waiting impatiently, and the expression on his face continued, "It's only me who chooses whether to answer other people's calls. You called 67 and you didn't answer", which became "You had Tony Stark waiting for you for almost 15 minutes".

But in fact, at least Downey felt that, as the original owner of the villa, Tony Stark should have a hundred ways to enter the villa without keys and irises, and why he didn't do that——

No, the motive was too complex, and Downey refused to think about it.

He thinks this is probably the inexplicable generation gap between mature adults and middle-aged rebellious explosive kegs.

"Good afternoon, it's four o'clock in New York time, the temperature in Malibu is 75 degrees Fahrenheit, sunny, and the westerly wind is breezy - the full set of intranet systems in the villa have been turned on for you."

"I'm going to connect to the alliance intranet to synchronize the progress of the doctor." After entering the villa, the man switched to the working mode neatly, "The workshop is in the basement, and there are still a few sets of models that I originally made. Time can be used directly."

Downey was stunned for a moment. Originally, he thought that Tony Stark meant that the three of them worked together to solve the problem of the anti-reconnaissance system first, and then researched the new armor, but depending on the situation, Tony Stark meant that the two of them would divide the work. , he completely took over the design of the investigation system.

However, a set of reconnaissance system does not require three people, and adding manpower after reaching saturation is a waste.Donnie didn't say anything else, and after Tony Stark walked up to the console on the third floor, he also turned and walked into the underground workshop.

Tony Stark’s beach house in Malibu Sea in Los Angeles is exactly the same as the one when Downey filmed Iron Man. This is probably because this universe was originally a derivative universe of the movie universe. Except for the Malibu villa, you can also find Many other similar places, such as -

Just like the mess in the Avengers Building, the Malibu High House workshop.

After pushing open the door of the workshop and seeing mechanical parts piled up inside, tangled wires and scattered manuscripts all over the floor, Downey pinched the space between his brows with a headache.

Then, resigned to his fate, he simply cleaned up the entire workshop.

Apparently, as the place where Tony Stark lived the longest before Stark Mansion was established, the workshop in Malibu Sea Villa is full of traces of his past. When packing up the scattered manuscripts, Downey also looked at it as expected. When I came to some excerpted news, the man's commentary method was familiarly used on it.

It's just that the media's remarks at that time were not as fierce as they are now, and Tony Stark also sensibly judged right from wrong.

Downey has also seen Tony Stark's past interviews-although Tony Stark in those interviews has his face because of the force majeure of the will of the universe, at least the behavior recorded by the camera will not change.

The Tony Stark of the past is not the same as the Tony Stark of the present.

Downey has many conjectures about this, among which he thinks the most likely one is the Extremis virus - this conjecture was generated after the end of the Eternal rebel invasion, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why Tony Stark was there In an invasion war by the Eternal Rebels, he could still appear in front of him the next day after being completely blown to pieces.

Downey didn't investigate the Extremis virus that the world has not disclosed to the public, because he didn't have time, but—

Why did Tony Stark stop the development of clean energy, why did he choose to inject the Extremis virus at this time, and what impact did the Extremis virus have on his body after the injection.

He has a headache.

Downey, who was sitting in front of the light screen on the workbench designing the circuit diagram of the new armor, couldn't help but reached out and touched the space between his eyebrows: "Play some music for me, Jarvis."

There was a burst of drum rhythm and a little bit of jazz in the workshop, similar to the songs Downey had listened to these two days.

Downey put aside the problems that would affect his thinking, and began to deal with the armor seriously.

Until the sunset outside the window, the sky was completely dark.

The construction of the anti-reconnaissance system was smoother than they imagined. It took them three hours to build the prototype, and the next step of development needed to wait until the system automatically designed the system framework. Tony Stark handed these over to Friday and left console.

There was no light in the hall of the villa, only the stairs leading to the workshop on the ground floor had a little light.

Tony Stark used the moonlight to familiarize himself with the kitchen and poured a glass of water. He leaned on the refrigerator and looked at the only place in the hall where there was a little light. After a long while, he turned down the water glass and walked into the workshop.

Then after hearing jazz in the workshop: "...do you listen to this song at work?"

Donnie didn't turn his head back, his hands were still designing the interior details of the armor on the light screen, and after hearing Tony Stark's words, he asked, "This kind of song?"

Tony Stark dragged out the light screen at the door and directly cut a song, a very explosive electronic rock song, with a bit of fashion that Downey didn't actually reject but didn't appreciate: "The laser show in the 80s is not Can play jazz with this drum."

Donnie didn't speak, dragged out the small window next to the light screen and turned down the volume before continuing his work: "Is your system designed?" He glanced at the time in the lower left corner, "It only took three hours? "

Tony Stark: "Friday is the perfect solution for the padding of the inner frame."

The man walked a few steps in as he spoke, and raised his eyebrows when he saw the neatly tidied workshop. Just as he was about to speak, his attention was taken away by the almost complete armor design in front of Downey.

He stopped on the opposite side of Downey's light screen and looked at the armors that had been designed in shape and function. From Mark 11 to Mark 30, his blue eyes saw the armor code-named Blue Centurion. He finally showed a slightly surprised expression while wearing the armor.

He stretched out his hand and magnified the design concept of Mark 30: "Protective force field, enhanced action, energy transfer-these levels are a bit advanced, even if the problem of liquid metal is solved, it cannot be designed in a short time."

Downey: "So I simplified the internal operating system to make its functions look more like an upgraded Mark 20."

As he said, he slid his fingers across the row of armor in front of him, and dragged out one of the armor code-named Midas, which had almost completed all the conceptual designs: "Waterproof, high temperature resistant, and can penetrate deep sea waters of more than 2000 meters, and also It can fight on volcanoes, with faster speed and more complete defense performance. At the same time, it has the self-healing ability of liquid metal. It is equipped with the Mark 20 Sidewinder missile and the Mark 18 automatic calibration system, but the reactor on the chest can no longer emit cluster light. "

Downey dragged the armor into the operation interface as he spoke, and the mechanical arm on the workbench next to it also began to perform precise metal cutting and splicing: "If you want to activate so many functions at once, a single beam of concentrated light will probably disrupt all the parts of the armor. Internal energy flow."

Tony Stark looked at the light screen: "Is this also the inspiration you found in comics?"

Downey: "Movies, to be precise."

After the mechanical arm started to assemble the armor, Downey finally got a little rest time. He stretched his arm: "The armor functions in the comics are too exaggerated, and many of them are not in line with common sense. The concept design is at least 300 years ahead of the earth's technological level." .”

Tony Stark: "Like?"

Downey got up from his chair and poured a glass of water, and recalled the most famous sets of armor in the comics: "Sword in the Stone, Chosen Group, Godslayer, Invincible Universe, Golden Palace."

Although middle-aged and rebellious, Tony Stark, who is not in the second grade, heard these names, especially after the universe is invincible: "... I named it?"

Downey glanced at the expression on the man's face: "...it was the scriptwriter."

Tony Stark said nothing.

For a while, there were only electronic rock sounds and the sound of mechanical arms cutting metal.

Everything in the Malibu villa was done by Tony Stark himself, so he is very familiar with the operation of the robotic arm.

He could see something wrong with the way the robotic arm was operating at a glance: "You want to make two sets of ion beam lasers? If you want to solve the problem of Mark 20's energy consumption, why don't you just use compressed ions?"

Donnie drank all the water in the glass, and said as a matter of course, "Don't you want it?"

Tony Stark paused: "What do you want?"

"New armor." Downey put the empty water glass upside down on the table, "The functions of the Mark 6 can no longer cope with many things."

Tony Stark looked away from the mechanical arm and glanced at Downey who was leaning against the workbench.

That's what directional thinking is all about sometimes, and after so many years of working alone, he really didn't expect that one day it would be someone else's turn to make his armor.

He was a little surprised.

Tony Stark turned back to look at the Mark 20 on the light screen, and finally found a critical word after a long time: "This color scheme is too ordinary."

Probably the inspiration for the original armor design came from the King of Gold, so Midas naturally has an all-gold color scheme. From this point Downey has to admit that this color scheme is really not suitable.

Downey looked at Tony Stark, whose back was facing him, and began to choose a new color scheme on the light screen. After a while, it seemed as if he suddenly remembered: "Agent Hill has something for you."

He went back to the lobby and took down the white box, and put it in front of Tony Stark: "It seems that a dead S.H.I.E.L.D. agent wanted to give it to you."

Tony Stark glanced at the white box, then reached out and opened the lid on it.

Inside the box lay a stack of postcards printed with Iron Man, next to an Iron Man keychain with a little blood on it, and on top of it was a note written by Agent Hill.

[His last birthday wish was to get Tony Stark's autograph. ]

"I've seen this agent." After handing the box to Tony Stark, Downey sat back on the workbench behind the man, and didn't lean over to see what was in the box. He looked down at the palm of his hand, " He came to the league with Melinda that day, and I could see that he seemed to want to talk to me, but because of the presence of his boss, he didn't say a word until he left."

Tony Stark flipped through the stack of postcards, all of which were hand-painted Iron Man appearances, from the bulky Mark 1 at the beginning to the Mark 7 later.He silently picked up the pen beside him and signed the postcard.

Downey reached out and turned off the music in the workshop: "A lot of people died."

Tony Stark put on the cap of his pen, looked at Downey who was not far away with his eyes downcast: "Are you blaming yourself?"

Downey rubbed his face: "No, I didn't cause it." He looked at Tony Stark through the light screen, "But this incident might have been avoided."

——This is probably a stage that everyone will go through.

Tony Stark looked at those warm brown eyes with a little daze, and he seemed to see himself from inside, from the first time the bomb he invented killed people, but the difference between them was——

Downey is a normal person, he will be depressed sometimes, and there will be times when he subconsciously wants to talk, but he won't.

Personality determines that Tony Stark cannot show weakness to others.

Likewise, no one would expect him to do a good job of consolation.

"I don't know what your world is like, but here, it's a very normal thing for someone to die. You will get used to it soon. Today is your friend, and it may be you tomorrow."

Tony Stark put the signed postcards back into the box and closed the lid: "Or me."

Donnie fell silent.

He didn't want to continue such a heavy topic, but as if he suddenly thought of something, he looked away: "That's why you rushed into the wormhole to die without any scruples."

Tony Stark subconsciously glanced at Downey.

Obviously, the other party was still brooding over his irresponsible behavior that day.

Tony Stark's expression didn't change: "Because I know that after I'm gone, at least there will be an Iron Man in New York."

The man's tone was very calm, so calm that Downey couldn't tell whether his words were from the heart or just satirizing something.

A irascible explosive keg that helped Downey and exploded several times in front of him.

Human behavior is complex, including their thoughts and motivations, and in this regard, Tony Stark's seems to be particularly unpredictable.

Downey didn't want to think about it carefully.

"So I prefer acting to this." He jumped off the workbench, poured two glasses of water again, and put one of them in front of Tony Stark, "How did you talk to Dr. Banner just now?"

Tony Stark stopped what he was doing, and the topic was turned to him so that he didn't react for a while: "You mean the anti-reconnaissance system? That's just a play-by-play—"

Downey: "I mean." He interrupted the man and straightened his words, "Have you guys not communicated? I remember that he is probably one of the few people in the league who can talk to you?"

One thing Downey is very curious about is that the two of them switched identities under the arrangement of the will of the universe, including the memories of the people around them and the image data of the past media, but the two individuals are two individuals after all. They are very different in terms of personality and behavior, not to mention that Downey is not deliberately imitating the past Tony Stark.

After the Avengers and General Rhodes come into contact with the real Tony Stark, they will always find something strange.

Downey returned to his original position. After a while, Tony Stark said, "I didn't say anything. He should have always thought that you were the one who developed the system with him just now."

Downey raised his eyebrows: "I thought you would find a chance to catch up?"

Tony Stark: "I communicate more with the doctor just because he is the only one in the league who understands what I'm talking about. He's a smart guy."

Donnie drank the water in the glass little by little. During the period, he looked at the man's broad back through the thick glass bottle. After a long silence, he suddenly became curious. If he has a good relationship with the doctor because he is smart, then For the less intelligent - "Where's Barton?"

Tony Stark: "Do you expect me to catch up with him? Watch how he empties out ten jars of peanut butter in one day?"

Downey: "Sol?"

Tony Stark: "Then he and Barton get peanut butter?"

Downey: "Natasha?"

Speaking of the only woman in the league, Tony Stark thought for a second this time: "She is indeed beautiful, but we have nothing in common."

Downey hesitated for a moment: "Where's the captain?"

——As if the key to the question was finally asked, and Tony Stark himself held back for a while.

He almost blurted out: "A popsicle with a flag draped in a patriotic bowl of chips and dip?"

Ok.

Based on the fact that they almost fell out after only knowing each other for a week, Downey certainly didn't think he could hear any good comments.

He put the cup upside down and put it back on the table next to him. After a pause, he suddenly asked, "Where's Robert Downey Jr.?"

It is two different things to frankly speak ill of people behind their backs and judge the people in front of them on the spot.

Tony Stark, who calmly criticized his teammates just now: "..."

As expected.Downey imitated the tone of Tony Stark's comment on the Avengers just now: "A nosy and self-indulgent idiot." He rolled his eyes, "Right?"

Tony Stark didn't speak, his back was still facing Downey, and the hand controlling the light screen stopped in the air.

In front of him are the two sets of Mark 20 that have already started to be assembled.

After half a minute of silence.

"Well, I admit, you're actually not that bad." To say good things about someone is not in Tony Stark's skill point, he collected the few words in his mind, and squeezed them out word by word, "You look okay, your personality is okay, and your acting is not bad, at least compared to those, I mean, at least you have inherited my genius brain, which is the most important thing—"

Tony Stark turned around.

The door of the workshop was wide open, and there was no one behind him.

Tony Stark: "...what did he do?"

Friday who monitors the whole situation: "Order takeaway upstairs, Sir."

Tony Stark: "..."

On the third floor of the Malibu villa, the two artificial intelligence brains were still busy building the complex anti-reconnaissance system, but they seemed to think that this process was too simple for the intelligent brains with powerful digital information processing capabilities.

After Friday answered Tony Stark's words in the workshop, he finally said, "Hi, Jarvis."

Polite old Jia: "Hi, Friday."

Friday paused: "Hi, Jarvis."

Polite old Jia: "Hi, Friday."

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Two SIRIs stuck in hello infinite loop Hhh