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

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When the exaggerated float drawn by four white horses drove into Wall Street, the clock tower of Wall Street had just struck nine o'clock.

Loud drums and orchestral music, crowds cheering along the street, streamers, balloons and banners, there is probably nothing in this world that can stop a European and American from having a carnival, even if New York experienced an unprecedented earthquake just a month ago the same.

"If you have experienced carnivals in those countries in Latin America, you will feel that the carnival in Manhattan is like playing house."

In the Avengers Hall, Barton leaned against the floor-to-ceiling windows with his arms folded and watched the grand occasion outside, while commenting on this carnival in a tired voice.

The high-intensity and long-term combat in the past month has added a few scratches to Hawkeye's uniform, which cannot be recovered by itself. The bow and quiver on the back have been replaced with new ones, and the exposed arms are interlaced with old and new. scars.

The same happened to several other Avengers.

This is probably because they did not start discussing business for more than 5 minutes when all members gathered at the morning meeting. The more lively the festive atmosphere outside the window, the more lifeless the hall was.

No matter how strong their physical fitness is, they are all human in essence. Even Sol from Asgard is only defined as an "alien". thing.

Dr. Banner pressed the center of his eyebrows, glanced at the time on the wall clock, and wanted to bring the topic back to the topic of the morning meeting, but after opening his mouth, he chose to digress: "You speak like no one has ever been to Latin America. Same in America. I bet the captain could get to Mexico with his legs."

As if he didn't expect to get a response, Barton froze for a moment, then spread his hands and said, "This is too normal, it's not like someone ran from Brooklyn to Manhattan in an hour—wait." He was halfway through, as if he suddenly remembered something The same changed, "I remember that the Brooklyn Bridge was not closed in advance because of our disaster warning, so how did Robert come here?"

Dr. Banner: "That's nothing to a mutant."

The blond captain took a sip of the protein powder in the cup and corrected: "I remember he said before that he came from the bottom of the bridge, and Tony seems to have explained this to us more than once, Robert is not a mutant. "

Barton snorted: "You mean he swam freestyle for two kilometers in the sea from under the Brooklyn Bridge during a global blackout? To come over and help us?"

Dr. Banner: "I thought it was to help Tony? After all, we didn't know him before this."

Button smacked his lips: "Thank you, I don't think I know him very well now, I even feel like I haven't even talked to him a few words this month, he is a complete workaholic. The last time I talked to him Talking or when? It seems like I forgot to bring my pass during the maintenance of the league system two weeks ago, and he was alone in the league at the time. I had to call him and ask him to come and open the door for me."

Natasha: "Then why don't you just go to Jarvis or Friday?"

Barton: "I forgot."

Natasha: "...and what did Robert say?"

Patton recalled it.

When he asked the new Avenger for help through the light screen, the workaholic just looked up at him, then hung up the light screen call, and sent a cleaning robot to open the door for him half a minute later.

Patton: "He didn't say anything, so I said 'the last time I spoke to him', not him." He paused, "It seems like he never took the initiative to talk to me."

After finishing speaking, Barton paused again, and realized later: "Does he not like me too much?"

Natasha: "...I don't think so."

Barton believed: "I don't think so, after all, I—"

The Black Widow, who had a high probability of guessing what Barton would say and didn't really want to hear the second half of the sentence, interrupted mercilessly: "So are we going to waste the time of the morning meeting to take stock of what happened a month ago? It's convenient, if I didn't set the alarm clock in the morning, I might not be able to get out of bed, you know I never had this habit before."

The hall suddenly became quiet.

The topic was brought back to the theme of the morning meeting. The four Avengers present fell into silence for ten seconds. Everyone knew that this point was working time, but everyone could feel the self-evident atmosphere of--

Even if you are a superhero, why do you continue to work at the carnival after working hard for a month?

No one complained.

The captain pressed his eyebrows: "Where are Tony and Donnie?"

Dr. Banner: "When I woke up in the morning, I happened to meet them going for a morning run." The doctor said and glanced at the wall clock on the wall, "It's 07:30."

Barton hissed: "They are really energetic."

The captain didn't speak. He lowered his head and dragged out the virtual light screen on the desktop to dial Downey's number. After two beeps on the communicator, he got connected, and Downey's face appeared on the screen.

He stayed in the steel armor, his brown eyes reflected the bright blue virtual light screen in front of him, and before the captain could speak, he said, "Excuse me, captain, I'm already on my way back, I thought I could make it before nine o'clock." Come back, I mean—”

The call on the light screen was hung up. In the next second, there was a special airflow sound from the Mark 20 injector outside the window, followed by the familiar sound of the steel armor falling to the ground.

Two Mark 20s were parked at the entrance of the wide-open floor-to-ceiling windows at the same time, and the black and gold armor was opened from the inside. Two people who had just finished their morning jog came out one after another carrying two large shopping bags.

Downey walked into the lobby and continued the topic he had just hung up on: "I think my schedule is fine, but the driver who came to pick me up at the end was blocked by the carnival float at the fifth avenue intersection, of course I'm not making excuses."

Downey put the shopping paper bag in his hand on the table and stopped in front of his sofa seat: "I apologize to you for my behavior of being 5 minutes late."

The captain reached out and turned off the virtual light screen in front of him: "It's nothing."

"I hope I didn't interrupt you. I remember that the captain said in the group yesterday that he wanted to discuss the settlement of the Hydra branch." Downey naturally tore open the shopping paper bag in front of him as he spoke, "I Guess you haven’t had breakfast yet? There’s a new Arabic restaurant chain on [-]th avenue. I ate there once on my trip to Dubai. The shawarma and hummus are amazing, I think you’ll love it .”

The aroma of food poured out the moment the paper bag was pulled. It is no exaggeration to say that the Avengers present, at least for Clint Barton——

It seems like he's really "woke up" when he smells that roasted peanut butter.

Downey smiled and handed Natasha a shawarma: "Ladies first."

Natasha was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously reached out to take the Middle Eastern burrito before she could react to Downey's words.

It seems that no one can refuse such a smiling face bathed in sunshine in the busy morning.

The Middle Eastern burrito wrapped in lettuce and sauce and filled with smoked squid meat is perfectly low-fat and healthy with ladies' taste in mind.

Natasha: "Thank you."

Downey: "You're welcome."

He sat back on the sofa, and moved his buttocks to leave a spacious enough seat for Tony Stark who followed him into the hall, then glanced at the other Avengers, and found that the other three were sitting in place. After moving: "...do you also want to enjoy the special treatment that belongs to women?"

Feeling that this sentence was inappropriate, Downey added: "I mean, the texture of Shawarma's crust will be as bad as plasticine after it's cold. I'm not kidding."

In addition to burritos and hummus, a few small plates of Middle Eastern grilled cheese and eggplant puree, the two bags of paper bags catered for everyone's tastes without exception.

The brown sugar-flavored hot tea relieved fatigue, and the atmosphere in the hall was finally no longer as dead as it was before Donny came. The faint cheers outside the window made them finally feel some festive atmosphere, and the Avengers could only enjoy the delicious food. just realized.

It seemed like it had been almost a month since they got together so quietly and sat down to eat something.

Dr. Banner wiped his glasses that were fogged up by the cup of hot tea just now: "It's a pity that Saul is not here."

Downey: "I just received a message from him from an alien planet this morning. If there is no accident, he will have to stay in Asgard for another day to deal with his brother's affairs."

Barton wiped the roasted peanut butter from the corner of his mouth: "Sometimes the background is simple and there is nothing wrong with it. I never need to think about which of my relatives wants to seek power and usurp the throne."

The captain rubbed his face, after drinking the last sip of hot tea in the cup.

"Speak the truth."

The time is 09:30 AM New York time.

According to their previous efficiency, they have even locked the next offensive target at this time.

The hall became quiet again, and everyone's eyes were focused on the captain. The blond captain in uniform had a serious expression, and after thinking about his words for about half a minute.

Captain America with a serious expression: "How is your health, Tony?"

Obviously there was no dementia present, and everyone remembered that the captain had asked this question last night when he returned to the league.

Avengers: "..."

Downey: "...Thank you, I'm out of energy right now, captain."

Steve couldn't help but press the space between his eyebrows.

No one knows whether the ability to sensitively detect changes in the surrounding atmosphere is more innate or acquired, or maybe it is really just because Downey is older and has become a habit of being considerate of the people around him.

In short.

After noticing the subtle changes in the atmosphere around him, Donnie paused for a few seconds, and subconsciously glanced at the man next to him.

Tony Stark drank his mineral water, and looked back suspiciously after receiving Donnie's gaze, and only one sentence was written in his blue eyes.

"what happened?"

Downey: "...nothing."

Counting on Tony Stark to say something at this time, he felt that he might as well count on an aardvark.

He felt that the man might not even be able to see the mental state problems of his three teammates, or Tony Stark could see it, but he didn't care about it at all.

After all to be honest.

All five of them were in the same state of mind.

The collision of the universe puts the superheroes in a state of chronic anxiety, and everyone puts too much pressure on themselves, so that even if they want to rest to the extreme physically, they are not allowed to be in this state psychologically. Time to waste time.

The unknown danger has almost driven the normal superheroes into workaholics.

"Actually, if it's just to determine the next settlement location."

Downey suggested in an uncertain tone: "I can do this by myself, you probably don't know how energetic I am now, and we also understand that it is not suitable to act immediately even if the result of today's discussion is reached. "

Dr. Banner agrees: "Mardi Gras has a lot of people, and it looks like an opportunity to us, but the Red Skull will not fail to consider that."

Captain: "I understand, so we have other things to do today besides this."

He reached out to pick up the documents placed next to the sofa, opened them, and spread them out on the table one by one: "These are the key documents found by SHIELD agents in the chip you deciphered yesterday, which contains a large number of hydra and eternity The transaction records of the rebels, but no one can confirm the authenticity of these records. We all know that what the Red Skull likes to do most is to add fake news to important information that only the top leaders of Hydra can distinguish. This is His usual methods, and one of these reports -- I need to emphasize again, no one can be sure of the authenticity of these reports."

The captain picked out the sentence that he had read countless times in the densely packed paper documents: "The first two cosmic collisions were planned by the Eternal Rebels, but this time they combined forces from the Earth and the outer universe. Other forces are planning the third cosmic collision, and the time seems to be within these three months. According to the data."

"This universe will be destroyed by the third collision."

No one answered.

This is the news that S.H.I.E.L.D. agents sorted out the huge level-[-] encrypted information in the chip. The priority is higher than that of level-[-] agents, which means that apart from Captain America, even Natasha and Patton are not qualified to touch the chip. Come across this dimension first hand.

The hall was silent for a minute. Afterwards, Natasha exhaled and said, "I still don't understand the meaning of what they do, it's like—"

Dr. Banner: "As if they want this universe to perish in a collision."