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

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This is probably the longest and most peaceful sleep Tony Stark has had over the years.

Without those ensuing nightmares, the whole body seemed to be soaked in warm water, only one hand with a warm palm supported him, and the feeling of peace of mind spread from the brain to the fingertips like a virus spreading between cells—— This description may not be appropriate, but it really made Tony Stark, who has been a workaholic for more than ten years, feel this way for the first time in his life.

Obviously conscious, he can open his eyes whenever he wants, but his body just wants to continue to sleep as if he has become dependent on this feeling, until he hears——

"I don't really want to disturb your rest, Sir."

"Your physical values ​​have fully recovered two days ago, and your functions have been higher than the standard line a day ago. I have not woken you up out of consideration. I remember the last time you responded to this kind of timeout. The sleep rating was 'useless crap, what a waste of your life', I mean-"

"If you don't wake up again, the crew of Gold Medal Lawyer may consider changing to a male number three."

After saying this, Friday "saw" the eyes of the man lying on the bed roll, but there was still no sign of waking up.

If it weren't for the human nature of sighing, Friday felt that she might be able to sigh the hole in the sound transmission system.

"You never slept in before, Sir." The smart butler could only say, "You promised Mr. Downey to act well for him."

As if a certain keyword was mentioned, the man opened his eyes.

The curtains covering the sunlight were automatically opened to both sides, the light came in through the glass, the blue eyes contracted uncomfortably, and Tony Stark subconsciously reached out to block them.

The five senses gradually came back with the awakening of consciousness. It seemed that he had really slept for too long, but the act of sitting up from the bed seemed to consume all the strength of his whole body, and his temples were also swollen and aching due to oversleeping.

After his eyeballs got used to the optical fiber, his vision gradually recovered. Tony Stark looked around the strange room, and the memories before coma flooded into his brain—he really had too many questions to ask.

For example, where is this place, for example, he has been in a coma for a few days, for example, what happened in the end, but after all the questions flashed through his mind at the speed of light, Tony Stark subconsciously asked first: "Where is Donnie?" ?”

Friday: "He's still in a coma, Sir, his injuries are no less serious than yours."

Tony Stark scratched the messy sleeping hair a little irritably, he lifted the quilt and stood up, picked up the white shirt hanging by the door: "Which room is he in?"

Friday: "Medical Room, Sir."

At the same time, outside the door of the room, Barton, who was holding a nutrient solution injection and intending to take care of Tony Stark as he did a few days ago, just raised his hand, and the door was opened from the inside, so violently that he even grabbed the metal doorknob. out of shape.

Barton looked at the man with the light behind him who suddenly appeared in front of him, and was taken aback for a moment: "Are you awake?"

He subconsciously took a look at Tony Stark, and quickly looked away after realizing that the other person was not wearing anything on his upper body: "Oh God, I didn't wake up early in the morning to watch naked men, this is too greasy. "

After Barton finished speaking, he thought about his wording: "Of course I didn't mean you are greasy, rookie, you are indeed in good shape. I mean, since you are awake, do you want to go to the hall—"

Apparently, Tony Stark didn't have the patience to listen to what Clint Barton, the league's only designated chatterbox, had to say here. He glanced at Barton, nodded at him in a face-saving way, then walked sideways around Barton and walked out the door. , put on the white shirt neatly, and looked for the direction of the medical room while buttoning it up.

"—Would you like to go to the lobby and have breakfast by yourself?"

Hawkeye looked at the back of the man leaving, endured it, couldn't hold it back, and chose to finish the sentence alone: ​​"After all, continuous injection of nutrients to maintain body functions will make your muscles quickly become fat."

After finishing speaking, Barton rolled his eyes.

"Can he ever get someone to finish what he's saying?"

In the Avengers Hall, Barton couldn't help complaining while picking out peanut butter: "I wasn't so arrogant when I first joined the alliance. I didn't dare to take a breath."

Natasha, who was sitting next to her, recalled: "The way you don't dare to take a breath is to laugh at Hulk as a green meatball in leggings on the first day of joining the alliance, and then he was so angry that he almost smashed the alliance? "

Barton: "Hnn... When you first meet, someone always needs someone to cheer up the atmosphere. This doesn't mean anything, my lady." He took a sip of coffee, "Speaking of which, I haven't seen Hulk for a while. gone?"

The blond captain sitting on the single sofa and reading the newspaper: "You are very clear that this is not under the control of Dr. Banner at the moment, and you have to understand Robert, Barton. After all, he and Tony are very good friends. If I were in I don't have time to talk to you at this time."

Barton: "Yeah, I can already guess the scene, oh, go away my good friend, no, if I don't go, I will live together or die together." After finishing speaking, he curled his lips, "The final result is two people Almost died there."

Steve glanced at Barton, and Barton paused for a moment, then made a gesture of surrender and said, "Okay, mine, I shouldn't make such a joke, there will be no next time."

Natasha, who has long been used to this kind of scene, rolled her eyes, and then looked at the captain: "How is Tony doing now?"

Steve: "With Dr. Banner looking after him, he shouldn't be a problem, and—"

"I remember that little spider next door came 10 minutes ago."

No one knew how Tony Stark felt when he pushed open the door of the medical room as fast as he could, and then saw an arthropod baby in a spider suit talking to the unconscious Downey in the health cabin.

He knew very well how much Peter Parker liked Iron Man. Of course, the Iron Man here refers to Robert Downey Jr., because even facing Downey, who was lying unconscious in the health cabin and unable to give him any response, the little high school student His voice was full of admiration and piety when he spoke.

It's not at all the same as his explosive keg who looks like the other party owes him hundreds of millions no matter who he faces.

"Hey, sir."

The action of the man pushing the door was so urgent that Peter Parker could detect it without using the spider sensor. Peter Parker looked at Tony Stark standing at the door and paused for half a second, as if recalling his name: "Good morning, Mr. Robert."

Tony Stark glanced at Little Spider-Man, then looked back at Downey who was lying in the health cabin filled with the repairing liquid, and said with some dissatisfaction, "They just let him stay here alone?"

Peter Parker froze for a moment: "Uh, I, I seem to be a human too?" After finishing speaking, the little high school student immediately realized from the man's eyes that he seemed to have said something nonsense, Peter Parker swallowed, "I am Say, I mean—”

"You really don't have to embarrass a high school student, Mr. Robert."

Dr. Banner, who was carrying the nutritional supplement, walked into the medical room and rescued Peter Parker, who was not good at dealing with this kind of situation—or not good at dealing with such people: "Little Spider-Man, can I trouble you?" Go help me adjust the thermostat? The operating room is next door to this room, and I need to keep the room temperature in this room at the same constant temperature as the health care cabin when injecting nutrients."

Peter Parker glanced at Downey who was lying in the health cabin, and he wanted to say that he was actually the one who injected the nutritional supplements yesterday when Natasha was taking care of Downey. The process was very simple and he could operate it skillfully. Before.

Tony Stark: "Obviously he'd love to."

Peter Parker: "..."

Little Spider-Man can only: "It's my honor to help you, Dr. Banner."

Dr. Banner smiled: "Thank you."

After Peter Parker reluctantly left the medical room, Dr. Banner put down the tray in his hand: "Can I inquire about the situation at that time?"

Tony Stark's eyes still stayed on the people in the health cabin, and he didn't directly answer the doctor's question: "How did you deal with the follow-up source?"

This is indeed Tony Stark's most curious question so far, because even he couldn't think of a way to escape safely under the influence of cosmic collisions and solve such violent energy fluctuations in such a short period of time .

unless--

Dr. Banner pulled out the hose connected to Downey's wrist: "No one has dealt with it." He pushed the nutrient into the hose little by little, "I have thought of many methods, such as energy hedging, proton drainage, Or simply build a Rosen bridge artificially to dredge the energy fluctuations in the earth's crust, but you know that none of these can be completed in a short period of time, because the securities center has been collapsed before I wrote the code for the plan to start, I I think you saw the collapsed buildings outside on the way there."

Obviously Tony Stark didn't, because he rushed over without looking sideways.

But this is not the point.

Dr. Banner: "I have no choice but to resign myself to fate. You don't know how dangerous the situation was at that time. Even the SHIELD headquarters was collapsed. Just when I thought the next one to collapse would be the Avengers when--"

Tony Stark: "Is the quake over?"

Dr. Banner glanced at the thoughtful man: "Yes, the earthquake is over."

No one can think of countermeasures in a short time, unless——

After this collision, the universe once again survived safely.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, there must be someone who is more anxious than them when universes collide, and that is the cosmic will of this universe.

Although Tony Stark still can't figure out what the final plan of the will of the universe is, at least he is very clear that this will of the universe is very life-threatening, or extremely afraid of death, and she can't do it after doing so much. , allow yourself to be easily destroyed by a cosmic collision event that has happened before.

"I checked a lot of information afterwards. Although I am not very clear about many things, since the universe has its own will, then I will temporarily characterize this event as the self-help of the universe's will. I can only say that this time we Fortunately, but this feeling of resignation to fate is really bad, and there is one more miraculous thing, Mr. Robert, which I found out from the secret database of SHIELD."

After pushing the nutritional supplements, Dr. Banner dragged out the virtual light screen on the health cabin with one hand, and called up the materials he had prepared before: "30 years ago, a similar earthquake occurred in New York State."

"The same energy fluctuations, the source of the earthquake can not be detected, and even the way of ending is exactly the same as this time. If the technology was not very developed at that time, I would like to compare the wave frequency generated during the vibration to determine whether the two games are the same. Not an earthquake of the same nature, but if it were—"

Dr. Banner: "Does this mean that there was a cosmic collision 30 years ago?"

Rather than questioning, this sentence is more obvious of some kind of temptation.

Tony Stark replied decisively: "Yes."

Dr. Banner pushed his glasses: "When we found you, you were lying in the Steinway Edison Hall with injuries all over your body, and behind you was a Rosen Bridge that was being closed—I'll call that weird thing for now. Rosenbridge."

The doctor looked at Tony Stark, he observed the expression on the man's face: "Tony must have his reasons for rushing to you instead of joining the Avengers, so..."

"What the hell happened to you?"

The expression on Tony Stark's face was very calm, as if he answered without hesitation: "Sorry, I can't tell you." After he finished speaking, he seemed to feel that this sentence was too lenient, and the man added, "At least now cannot."

Dr. Banner froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "At least you didn't just make up an excuse to prevaricate me."

Tony Stark: "You'll find out sooner or later."

Dr. Banner: "For example, why do I have an inexplicable sense of familiarity with you?" He lowered his head and stuffed the hose connected to Downey's wrist back to its original position, and put the empty needle tube back on the tray, " I'm pretty sure I haven't seen you before."

Tony Stark didn't speak.

Dr. Banner smiled and didn't say anything else. After confirming the status of the people in the health care cabin, he walked out of the room with a tray in his hand.

Before the door was completely closed, Tony Stark heard outside the door, the doctor said to Peter Parker who had just come out of the control room.

"Let me take you to visit the Avengers, little spider."

"But Mr. Stark—"

"There are other people taking care of him, you don't have to worry."

"but--"

"Come on, haven't you always wanted to see my lab?"

The door of the medical room was completely closed, blocking out all sounds from the outside world.

The room became quiet again, only the bubbling sound of the oxygen input in the health care cabin and the gentle heartbeat sound remained.

Tony Stark wasn't sure if the heartbeat was his own or Downey's, because he thought his heartbeat had never been this peaceful.

He sat on the chair in front of the health cabin and looked at the person floating in the center of the restoration solution.

The familiar face was separated by thick glass, and it looked a little distorted through the flowing liquid. The soft hair on the forehead swayed up and down with the water lines, exactly the same as the scene when he was soaked in the black liquid.

Tony Stark still feels a little suffocated when he recalls that scene.

It seemed that those black hands never left him, and they grabbed his throat and his heart.

He didn't know the severity of Downey's injury who was rashly pulled in under the circumstances, but judging from the amount of repairing liquid used and the health cabin being adjusted to the most advanced nursing mode, it can be seen that his injury will not be light, he even It's unclear why Downey barged in with his bare hands.

He felt that if Downey was sober now, he would definitely not be able to help but get angry at him.

He would loudly question Downey why he did that at the time, ask him if he was not afraid of death, and yell at him that people who have no choice spirit are not worthy of being a superhero, even though the reason is that he can't imagine what happened to Downey because of him Accident--

Tony Stark didn't dare to think about it.

Then Downey will definitely look at him in confusion with those beautiful eyes, just like every time he was killed by Tony Stark inexplicably before, with a little anger, dissatisfaction, and injury of wrongly paying for good intentions.

Then they started a cold war.

Then Tony Stark will start to feel annoyed, blame himself, fall into serious self-denial, and then start to give up on himself.

This scene was all too familiar to him.

He seems to have experienced it three times in this month alone.

Tony Stark had a headache, he thought he might think about something else now: "I've been in a coma for a few days, Friday."

Yes, until now he hadn't thought of asking this question, which should theoretically be the first question he asked after waking up.

Smart butler: "Five days, Sir."

This answer didn't make Tony Stark feel much better.

Five days, deducting the two days that Friday said before that his functions had fully recovered, meaning that even his body, whose various values ​​exceeded the limits of the human body after being injected with the Extremis virus, recovered for a full three days.

If the same injury were placed on Downey as an ordinary person——

Tony Stark couldn't help pressing the center of his eyebrows.

The room was very quiet, and after a long time, he heard his own hoarse voice: "Am I very bad, Friday."

Smart butler: "Accurately speaking, he is a scumbag in some respects, Sir."

Tony Stark was not surprised to get such an evaluation, and this time he did not directly mute his smart butler: "I have to think of something."

Friday: "If you mean to thank Mr. Robert." A translucent virtual light screen popped up in front of the man, "This afternoon is the last filming time given to you by the Golden Lawyer crew, and before that your mobile phone has almost been blocked by the crew. people blow up."

Tony Stark: "...I see."

Friday was silent for a while: "Maybe you can help repair Mr. Robert's Mark 20?"

Next to the medical room is Tony Stark's original workshop. There is a transparent glass door between the two rooms. Tony Stark can clearly see the Mark 20 parked in the workshop display warehouse through the glass.

To the naked eye, there was no damage to the Mark 20, except for a few wires on the arm that were torn due to forceful dragging. Then he looked up and saw the lifelike windmill on the back of the Mark 20's head.

Tony Stark: "..."

He seems to have found something more important than acting later.

He instantly felt what a real headache is: "Where are the will fragments placed?"

Friday: "The original location of the database on the third floor, Sir."

Tony Stark stood up from the chair, and took a last look at Downey in the health cabin: "Arrange two nanny robots to come over, Friday, I need to keep track of his situation."

After speaking, he got up and walked out of the medical room, and pushed open the door of the database on the third floor.

The two airtight compartments were placed in their original positions, and the two will fragments shimmered obediently inside.

Tony Stark recognized at a glance which of the two fragments was the one he took out on the day the universe collided.

And Will Fragment No. [-] who received the man's gaze: "..."

Probably everyone who asks for help will not be too arrogant, and this time Tony Stark is no exception.He rolled his eyelids, and finally asked a little politely: "In?"

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "..."

And the man's politeness is probably limited to this. After he finished asking, he went straight to the point and said: "Is it you who showed me the fragments of those images at the Hydra branch in Sicily last time?"

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "...so what?"

Tony Stark stopped in front of the airtight cabin, and took out a nanoscale chip engraved with the Stark Industries logo from the mechanical strap on his hand: "You copy to me the clip of Donnie introducing his windmill villa. "

Will Fragment No. [-] who thought Tony Stark was going to take the opportunity to settle old scores: "...Huh?"

Tony Stark: "Hurry up."

Will Fragment No. [-] couldn't react to this strange request for a while, but her arrogance as one of the wills of the universe made her reply: "You think you can drive me?"

Tony Stark: "Do you know how big a mushroom cloud can be formed after a bomb made of will fragments explodes in the desert?"

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "..."

Tony Stark: "Want to see?"

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "...I don't want to."

Tony Stark put the chip on the data connection line of the airtight cabin, and asked: "It's best to reach the standard resolution of Super Hi-Vision, if it can't reach 4K, it's okay. I need a room interior." Do you have all the records?"

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "..."

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "...Yes."

After Tony Stark is satisfied with getting what he wants and leaves the database.

Will Fragment No. [-] imitated the tone of Fragment No. [-]: "I will never yield to humans. They are ants, and we are their gods. No ants can order God, no."

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "...What are you acting weird about, you traitor."

Will Fragment No. [-]: "I don't have yin and yang, I just repeat what you said, dear."

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "...shut up, please."

Fragment of Will No. [-]: "Okay."