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

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The riots in Harlem completely disrupted the Avengers' plans for the day.

The local police station stayed to clean up the battlefield, and after Downey sent Peter Parker safely back to Queens and rushed back to the Avengers as soon as possible, Dr. Banner also deciphered the man who was hidden in the carriage by Kim and his men in an attempt to cover up people from the port of New York. Lockbox taken away.

The square lockbox about half a meter high was opened from all sides, revealing a sealed cabin with a familiar style inside.

It is exactly the same as the one they seized from the Hydra branch before. The shape of the bullet casing, the complicated Hu's overweight pattern, and the only palm-sized transparent cabin on the top, hover quietly inside, glowing red. debris.

The Avengers present fell silent after seeing the fragments.

"The information you want has been found out."

At this time, Natasha pushed the door and walked in with a stack of paper documents—since the internal conflicts within S.H.I.E.L.D. have intensified due to the issue of undercover agents, the most effective security measure they have taken is to put all the transmission methods of all important documents together. Back to the original form, it became a paper transmission manually submitted.

The black widow spread the materials on the edge of the experimental table: "They just bought this piece of will from Pemex this morning. No one knows why they set the transaction location in the Bronx. This is the oil Records of relevant personnel of the company."

"This fragment is what they extracted from a continental oil well in Veracruz state."

Dr. Banner picked up the document and glanced at it: "Actually, I have a guess."

The eyes of the other Avengers in the hall all focused on him.The doctor pushed his glasses: "Cosmic collisions cannot happen for no reason, except for the possibility of prehistoric civilizations, at least until today, I haven't found any records related to universe collisions in any literature, even hypotheses. "

The doctor glanced at the second fragment of will in the center of the test bench: "There are still those fragments of will."

Downey was silent for a moment: "Hydra." He looked at the doctor, "The purpose of the Red Skulls is to use the huge energy in the will fragments to graft the Rosen Bridge to the main universe, and it is likely to unite with alien forces. If This approach would violate the original operating rules of the universe, so it is not impossible for chaos to occur.”

"This does not conflict with our previous purpose." In the discussion without a lot of technical terms, it is rare for Captain America to insert a sentence, "We can only find the other branches of Hydra as soon as possible and get back those fragments .”

Downey: "I have been trying to determine the location of the other branches of Hydra through the special wave frequency of these fragments. Now that I have a second fragment, I think it should be easier to do this."

After he finished speaking, he paused, and then said: "But the most important issue now is not this."

The Avengers in the research room fell silent again because of this sentence.

Yes, the most important issue right now is not this, and no one knows this.If Professor Charles' news is accurate.

So--

Only the last 58 hours are left until the next cosmic collision.

The red fragments in the two sealed cabins hovered quietly in the center, and the eight coded doors outside the glass cabinet in the research room closed one after another.

Afterwards, the Avengers went out to perform related tasks. Downey stopped in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Avengers Hall, looking at the bustling Wall Street and the familiar stock exchange outside.

No one can predict the coming of disaster, and they have no reason to broadcast this kind of thing that is not 100% sure to cause panic among the people, and the biggest reason is——

No one knows exactly what will happen in this collision.

earthquake?tsunami?natural disaster?Still like he did last time——

Will someone be dragged into this universe again?

If it's the second type, Donnie doesn't want to engage in any conspiracy theories, but it's all like a shuffling between universes, and the derivative universe he lives in is cleaning things that will affect him, and then or.

The will of the universe will take this opportunity to completely clean Tony Stark out.

Natasha was the last one to leave the laboratory. She returned to the hall after sorting out the materials of SHIELD. What she saw was sitting on the sofa looking out of the window, unconsciously turning his mobile phone in her hand. Just change a sitting Downey.

From head to toe, it is interpreting a word with actions.

irritable.

"I remember you saying before that you will not be affected by things that are already certain to happen."

After hesitating for a moment, Natasha put the information aside, took out a can of sparkling water from the refrigerator and sat on the single sofa next to Downey: "Or are you worried about something else?"

The person sitting on the sofa was wearing a casual suit with black and white irregular shirts inside. Natasha couldn't tell from which day "Tony Stark" was no longer what he used to be. Didn't he wear the same clothes every day? His suit is to stay in the work room and dress like a plumber - after all, he has indeed changed a lot during this period of time.

It's not that no one suspected it, but in the week when the Avengers were first formed, Tony Stark was drunk for about four days, and it didn't seem unreasonable that there would be friction and conflicts between them.

Natasha has always felt that it is better to attribute everything to the damn alcohol than to attribute his changes to the Hydra's "smart attack" like Barton did.

She is a mass-produced "widow soldier" in the Red House Project, and she knows better than anyone how important it is to stay awake.

Especially Tony Stark is just an ordinary person with a high-tech armor.

——No one knew that Tony Stark's perverse and violent behavior during that time was caused by the injection of the Extremis virus, which affected his nerves, and no one knew how frighteningly Tony Stark's physical strength was strengthened after being injected with the Extremis virus. But at least Black Widow's cognition is right at this moment.

No matter how much improvement the Extremis virus has brought to Tony Stark, at least Robert Downey Jr. sitting in front of the Black Widow at the moment is indeed just an ordinary person.

Otherwise, he wouldn't hesitate because of a little thing.

Downey glanced at the sparkling water that Natasha pushed in front of him: "Thank you."

"You're welcome." Natasha looked at the expression on Downey's face, "Is it related to your friend from North Brooklyn?"

Downey paused for a moment, then looked at Natasha, and pulled the tab of the sparkling water: "Madam's intuition?"

Natasha: "Not all, from the expression you mentioned about that person yesterday, and—" she recalled, "I saw him yesterday, in the small square downstairs, wearing a peaked cap."

The black widow unscrewed the cap of her chlorophyll juice bottle and took a sip, then continued: "Stare at the second floor in a daze."

Apparently Downey was not aware of this matter, so he subconsciously asked, "When?"

"At night." Natasha said, "I just thought his hat looked familiar. Has he been here before?"

Downey glanced at the small square outside the floor-to-ceiling windows: "I've been here a few times, standing next to that flower bed." He paused, recalling the scene when he saw Tony Stark for the first time, he withdrew his gaze and repeated expressionlessly. Repeat what Natasha said just now, "Then stare at the second floor in a daze."

If the gaze that almost rushed up to punch him twice at that time was regarded as a daze.

...In fact, Tony Stark's eyes seem to be born to look at everyone as if he is going to punch someone. Downey thinks this is probably caused by his face. After all, when his face is expressionless, the lip line will naturally fall down. There are often two furrows between the eyebrows, and the consequence of this orientation is

- premature aging.

... Well no, at least Tony Stark was thirty and he didn't see any deep wrinkles on the man's face.

Or does Extremis have anti-wrinkle effects?

"I also heard that he helped us when we were in Sicily—or you." Black Widow paused, "So you have a conflict?"

Natasha's words made Downey realize that the topic in his mind was going off track. He came back to his senses and glanced at Natasha.

Natasha probably misunderstood the meaning of his glance: "Don't worry, I know you don't like this, I'm just curious. I don't want to enlighten anyone, this kind of thing should be left to the captain."

Downey pursed his lips: "He has a bad temper."

Natasha: "Like you did before?"

Downey could tell it was just a joke, but in a way he agreed 100% with it: "Exactly the same."

"So you are worried about his situation and you don't want to bow your head because of other people's mistakes." Natasha casually gathered the red hair that was cut short by her, "I remember you guys had a fight on the tourist island."

Downey had to admit: "Are people in the SHIELD intelligence department as sharp as you?" After he finished speaking, he felt that this was probably nonsense, "Things are very complicated."

He raised his head and took a sip of sparkling water, facing Natasha, as if saying to himself: "But now is not the time to be angry with anyone."

Natasha: "Adults don't get carried away."

Downey didn't speak.

He suddenly thought of the morning when he and Peter Parker got into the car.

Tony Stark stood motionless across the sea of ​​bombs watching them leave.

It's hard for him to imagine that someone like Tony Stark would feel guilt or other emotions, but he also doesn't want to think too badly of him.Of course, adults will not be impulsive, because they know the consequences of being impulsive.

At least in this matter, as one of the parties involved, Tony Stark has his due right to know.

So when Natasha received another call from S.H.I.E.L.D. and left with her materials.

Downey pressed his temples and leaned back on the sofa behind him.

"Send all relevant information to Friday's China Unicom database."

Smart butler: "Yes, Sir."

The smart butler waited for a while: "Is there nothing else?"

Downey: "No more."

The Gold Medal Lawyer filming scene in Harlem.

The black and gold Mark 20 landed on the edge of the shooting site again, and the sound of the metal landing attracted everyone's attention. They watched Tony Stark walk out of it, and watched the Mark 20 automatically fly back to the direction of North Brooklyn. .

During the period, no one spoke, and the venue was silent until the assistant director asked, "Is the matter over?"

Tony Stark: "Yeah."

The whole crew was silent for a while, and then the director picked up the loudspeaker and shouted: "Then start filming again, don't delay the progress."

Tony Stark stopped talking, walked into the set, and started filming his scene.

I don't know where the rumors about "Robert Downey Jr." playing big names started. In a production crew with so many people, there will always be someone who will gossip behind his back after putting on a hot face and a cold ass, especially because the other party's popularity is really good. It’s not good, and the identity is neither awkward nor embarrassing. The scandal with Tony Stark has been raging for a few days, but there is no movement between Tony Stark’s public relations department and Tony Stark himself. It looks like the previous ones. It's no different from the richest man in New York who wants to fly on a branch after dancing once, and the female companions who are crazy about Tony Stark in public opinion.

But he also has a set of steel armor.

No one knew what was going on, and they didn't dare to ask if they didn't tell.

Especially the man's expression is really not very good, even worse than before he came this morning.

And this kind of badness didn't seem to ease in the slightest after he received Friday's news.

A poor crew does not have the money to rent a venue for the actors to eat. Being able to afford burgers and drinks is already an extra support from the sponsors.

Tony Stark was sitting under the shade of a tree on the fence by the sea, halfway through eating his burger, and getting those messages.

Looking at the countdown on the light screen, the time of the next cosmic collision, he frowned and his expression became serious.

He pulled down the information box and found that there was no news below—Tony Stark didn’t know what he was covering up, so he took a bite of the hamburger and asked casually: “He didn’t say anything else ?"

No more, Sir.

Friday originally meant to say that, but now.

For the first time in her life, as an artificial intelligence, she hesitated.

Disobedience and lying were not part of her program, but her analysis turned out to be irrelevant compared to Tony Stark's current situation.

The rental house that was tidied up a few days ago is now a mess again, the curtains have not been opened for several days, the cat at the door has left a few days ago, Friday knows that Tony Stark will open new cans of cat food every day to the cardboard box, but the cat never came back either.

Empty wine bottles began to appear frequently in the trash can at home, and the weather was getting colder, but the man was still sleeping on his hard metal bed that didn't even have a mattress.

He occasionally stares at the TV in a daze, just like before.

Jarvis shared his old database with Friday, and she knows what Tony Stark's life used to be.

He has competed with many individuals, people who questioned him in the past, the group of bad old men in the company, the media, senior government officials, including the Avengers, Happy, Ms. Rennie, General Rhodes, and this time the target is ——

he himself.

It seemed like keeping his head down was really, really hard for him.

He tried to do it, but failed, which aggravated his negative emotions, and even made the first-generation extremis virus that he had gradually stabilized recently begin to agitate around his neurons.

If an artificial intelligence was created to function only in complete obedience—

This is something Starkly's most common computer can do.

Friday: "He told you to be safe, Sir."

Tony Stark paused.

After a while: "What did he say?"

Friday: "Yeah."

Tony Stark was silent.

His expression loosened for a moment, but then, the man lowered his eyes.

——The restlessness of Neuron Extremis Virus became more intense.

Friday: "?????"

No, it's not what she thought.

The artificial intelligence brain started frantically flipping through the observations of human behavior in the background, but none of them explained the behavior in front of it.

——This is too complicated, and everything is beyond her understanding of human beings as an artificial intelligence brain. Friday quickly studied human behavior twice and did not get the answer.

Then there is only animal behavior.

Friday gave up.

She felt that she probably could only find one explanation for this situation, that is.

Among the typical cases summed up from [-] million cases, even psychologists, no one knows what is going on in Tony Stark's mind.

Until now, Friday began to feel that Downey's description might be correct. Of course, a normal person/system would not know what a fool was thinking.

Unless he/she has read through the psychiatric Encyclopedia of Neurosis for this purpose.

Hours from the second cosmic collision.

Tony Stark returned to his unfinished rental house after a day of filming. He glanced at the untouched canned cat food beside the cardboard box at the door. After a moment of silence, he threw the canned food into the trash bucket.

He took a shower, changed into clean clothes, sat at the workbench and read tomorrow's script for half an hour, and then began to design his brand new armor.

Mark 20 and Mark 6 parked quietly beside them.

The room was dark, with the curtains drawn, except for a small yellow night light in the middle.

"Stark's log, Friday."

Friday: "Recording enabled."

"The time from the second collision of the universe—" the man glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the light screen, "49 hours and 26 minutes."

"No one knows what all this represents and what is about to happen. Everything is full of chance, and it seems that someone has planned a long-term conspiracy. The fragment of will did not say the specific reason, but she doesn't want me to stay in this place."

"If she still had the ability to send me away, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to find me last time. She wanted to cooperate with me, but she didn't want to reveal her purpose. The only question now is whether she knows about the collision of the universe. If she didn’t know, would she—”

Tony Stark stopped here.

There was a long silence in the rental house, nearly 10 minutes later.

"Set secondary permissions, Friday."

Friday: "Please enter the name of the second authorized person."

Tony Stark: "Robert Downey Jr."

After he finished speaking, he paused, and then changed his words: "Tony Stark."

Friday: "The name of the second authorized person has been successfully set. He will have the right to control the data system and all core technologies of Stark Technology, including Extremis Virus, Stark's secret satellite, and Stark's private reserve. Are you sure you want to confirm the operation?" ?”

Tony Stark: "Confirmed."

Eight hours away from the No.20 of the second cosmic collision.

"I saw that peaked cap again downstairs just now, Tony."

In the lobby of the Avengers, Dr. Banner casually mentioned after Downey came out of the workshop: "Is he here to look for you?"

Donnie paused for a moment, then subconsciously glanced out the window.

The small square was empty.

Dr. Banner: "Just now."