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

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The Stark aircraft carrier opened the invisible protective layer from the moment the space-time jump node landed. After landing in Polar Star City, the agents of SHIELD immediately blocked all surrounding signal detection and communication stations when they established a temporary signal communication station. Interference, the second group of Eternal rebels who hunted them lost their target in the Ripper Desert, so in other words.

At least this place is safe until they take the initiative to attack.

In the last few hours of preparations, Agent Hill was very busy.

"We have drawn a brand new Asgard layout based on Ms. Sif's description, and the relevant secret passages and troop deployment are also marked under the landmarks. According to her, the Asgard's defenses will be the most stringent until tomorrow's sunrise. Yes, we can only do it after the celebration starts, so my suggestion is—"

Agent Hill held the folder in her hand and the map that covered the entire virtual light screen on her wrist, and stopped in front of the bonfire of the Avengers team.

After seeing four Avengers lying on folding beach chairs around the fire, with a small umbrella set up in the middle of the campfire with a sense of ritual, and sitting on the outermost edge, from the back view, it is just a U-shaped beach chair. After becoming the Hulk of Omega.

Agent Hill: "..."

Agent Hill: "... oh."

After the Avengers heard the noise, except for Thor who was covered in bandages and could only lie on the spot like a mummy, the other four Avengers poked their heads out from the back of the chair at the same time.

Barton took off his purple sunglasses: "Hey, what's the matter, Agent Hill?"

Agent Hill paused for a moment, she hadn't gotten out of the working state just now, and she couldn't get into the sudden vacation atmosphere for a while, hearing this subconsciously said: "It's nothing, it's just that you want some coconuts and barbecue— —Uh, no, I mean."

Agent Hill: "Sorry, did I bother you?"

On the back of the only chair where his head was not sticking out, Thor raised his bandaged hand, which was wrapped like an oven glove, and even held a glass of bottomless beer: "If you are here to find the son of Odin If you have a drink, then no."

Barton also raised the cocktail glass with cherries in his hand: "Would you like a mojito, Hill, nat special."

Agent Hill didn't know what to say, she looked at Natasha for help, and the Black Widow, who had always been vigorous in her impression, smiled at her, and then said: "The traditional Cuban recipe uses spearmint Xiang, you will like it."

Only the captain said: "Can I trouble you to send a copy of the map of Asgard to every Avenger, Agent Hill."

Hill: "Yes, Captain, I—"

Captain America: "Then sit down and chat with us?"

Hill took a deep breath.

Agent Hill: "I thought—" She looked at the Avengers who turned their heads back again, either staring at the campfire or at the night, drinking beer or roasting the Holy Army's monster legs on the campfire, "Should we act a little more nervous?"

Barton: "We've been nervous for a whole month, if you know."

The rare Black Widow who agrees with his words once: "So why don't you seize the last day and relax?"

Why not seize the last moment to relax, after everything is set, before the sun rises tomorrow.

Everyone is very clear about what tomorrow's battle means. They probably don't even think that the survival of the universe will one day be shouldered by the earthlings, a race that is despised by the whole universe. Hill knows that the Avengers are ready, SHIELD Get ready, all forces on Earth that receive the message are ready.

They were just anxiously confirming, confirming and confirming again, their nerves seemed to be tied to the tip of a knife, and she could read the same information a dozen times, just hoping that tomorrow's actions would be correct, but in fact, as a garrison, Once the planning of the Avengers fails, they may not even have a chance to appear.

Only a well-prepared person thinks about relaxing before the last moment.

Agent Hill stood there for a while, and finally put away her folder with a smile: "Why didn't you see Iron Man?"

Steve: "You mean Tony and Donnie?"

Natasha stood up from her chair, took a glass of cocktail from Stark's freezer by the campfire and handed it over: "They seem to have gone for a walk."

Barton: "Didn't you see the two armors flying over your head just now? I have to say that their new armors are so handsome, I thought I saw a shooting star."

Thor: "Amit doesn't have shooting stars." He paused, "But that's kind of cool."

On the edge of Polestar City, far away from the Stark aircraft carrier, there is a towering clock tower.

The clock tower carved out of rock and unknown space metal survived the post-war fire in Polar Star City, although after the war the clock tower was riddled with spears from the Eternal rebels and hung on the top The clock is also missing, but that does not affect someone sitting on the roof of the clock tower to watch the night view.

The top of the mountain in the distance is still glowing with light and blood red that cannot fade away, and then it turns into lavender like a gradient, and then there is an overwhelming night and a dense sea of ​​stars in the universe.

The sea of ​​stars is split by a Milky Way in the middle, extending to the depths of the clouds.

A fist-sized golden star hung above Downey's head.

"UY Scutum?" Tony Stark glanced over his head, "I'm not sure."

Just like the knowledge points that would pop up in Downey's mind after Tony Stark uttered Aditya Singh's index theorem, after mentioning the name of this planet, Downey subconsciously said: "The life span is less than 5000 million years. The red supergiant star will become a supernova after losing mass rapidly, and finally become a huge black hole."

He looked up at Tony Stark, then smiled and turned on the light screen on the bracelet: "When did you become an astronomer?"

Tony Stark: "If there were other ways to confirm the status of Stark Enterprises in the military besides making bombs, I don't think I would mind another doctorate."

Downey: "I think it's only in this universe that someone would say that getting a PhD is as easy as baking a slice of bread."

Tony Stark frowned when he heard the words and didn't know what he thought of.

He looked around. Downey was sitting on the edge of the roof, with his knees bent and heels on the roof. In front of him was the bright blue light screen that had just been projected. sliding.

He sat down next to Downey, with his legs hanging 300 meters above the ground: "I thought the purpose of calling you out was to make you stop working?"

Downey: "If you think hacking S.H.I.E.L.D. systems would be a job."

Ok.

Tony Stark has to admit that many times he also regards hacking the internal system of S.H.I.E.L.D. as an entertainment project.

Just like college students are always happy to write some school-age children's homework after they are tired of doing advanced mathematics to relieve stress in disguise.

Tony Stark: "So what are you looking for?"

Downey: "Agent Hill's evaluation of you."

Tony Stark glanced at the virtual light screen: "What are you looking for?"

Downey: "I don't know either, I just took a look."

As he spoke, he entered the last intrusion code of the S.H.I.E.L.D. operating system, and then a report popped up.

Downey deftly ignored the identity information column in the upper left corner that marked Tony Stark's name but used his ID photo as his profile picture, and looked directly at the comments at the end.

"Language ability-A, research and development level-SS, physical fitness data monitoring-S-there is actually s, this is probably the biggest difference between comics and movies."

Downey read on, after a string of A's and S's and SS: "Interpersonal skills—sorry."

He looked at a mass of black lines on the report and tried to identify the graphics on it: "Agent Hill drew a shot put on it? And it has iron spikes? It looks like some kind of weapon. So the weapon is a SHIELD judge." Is it a noun of human character? That is really a unique way of judging.”

Tony Stark glanced at the report casually: "Hedgehog."

Downey: "What?" He reacted after asking.

In terms of interpersonal communication, the evaluation given by Agent Hill, who has always been known for his accurate and rigorous data, is yes.

hedgehog.

"That's really not appropriate at all." Downey brushed the report aside casually, "Hedgehogs don't bring dinner for others, and they don't care whether others have a good rest."

Tony Stark didn't speak.

His eyes fell on Downey again. The roof of the clock tower was close enough to the Milky Way, so close that even the eyelashes on the other's eyelids were clearly illuminated by the stars.After finishing his last sentence, Downey looked up at the starry sky boredly. From Tony Stark's angle, he could just see his eyes reflecting the entire starry sky.

That made it impossible to tell which one was more beautiful for a while.

Tony Stark could only hear him say in a deep voice, "You are different from them."

Donnie froze.

He subconsciously wanted to look at Tony Stark, but his eyes suddenly stopped after thinking of something.

oops.

He almost forgot about it.

Donnie can swear that he didn't forget it on purpose, it was because of the recent events that left him with no time to take care of other things, and he also knew that avoiding emotional issues was indeed not the best solution, and could even be regarded as the best solution. Bad, because this is extremely unfair to the side that is showing favor, almost tantamount to putting the other party in an absolutely passive position.

It was hard for him to imagine that Tony Stark would be willing to stay in this position passively, but he didn't dare to think about the reasons why Tony Stark was willing to do so.

Downey's brain, which was still running fast when he first invaded the S.H.I.E.L.D. system, suddenly became dull as if he had been injected with lead.

The two were silent, and neither of them spoke first.Downey thought a lot, including his meeting and getting along with Tony Stark, including the kiss at the Windmill Villa, including everything that happened between them, but after a blink of an eye.

His mind was as empty as if he hadn't thought about anything.

He could only lower his eyes: "I'm sorry."

Tony Stark's Adam's apple moved up and down, and he said after a while: "You said that you will discuss this matter after we have finished dealing with the matter in front of us."

Downey: "What?"

"So before dealing with Naisa and the will of the universe—" the man said in a low voice, "I don't want to hear you apologize."

Downey froze for a moment, while trying to think of words in his mind.

Tony Stark looked up at the night sky again: "I don't want to put pressure on you either."

"Look at the stars."

Downey looked at Tony Stark's side face, opened his mouth, and finally said nothing.

The surroundings became quiet again.

I don't know how long it took before the man's voice sounded again.

"Do you know when I first invented something that saved lives?"

With endless questions, Tony Stark looked up at the boundless night and paused for a few seconds without waiting for Downey's answer. He continued: "At that time, the shrapnel that pierced into my body after the mine exploded was only [-] meters away from my heart. Two centimeters, and it was getting closer with the flow of blood, I had to design something to stop them from flowing, and then combined it with another invention to escape the house arrest of those terrorists."

"I continued to study this technology for a few years until medical science advanced enough to get the shrapnel out of my heart. I originally invented the armor to save myself, but after that, I still kept this technology, and in the Keep improving. I never say those words to anyone.”

"It protected me, so I'm trying to use it to protect more people. I don't want them to think I'm just making bombs, though—"

"Everyone has been thinking that for a long time."

Tony Stark paused here.

He seems to be thinking about his words, because he is really not good at dissecting himself, especially in the past, he really doesn't want to talk about it.

After many things are polarized to the extreme, it seems that things will turn against each other. Strong self-esteem and arrogance will gradually turn into inferiority complex, followed by depression, self-doubt, self-loathing, all negative emotions come one after another, so that in Tony Stark negative emotions During the time when the backlog reached its peak——

"I even thought about how many bombs can blow up an earth."

Tony Stark's expression was very calm when he said this, he thought he would feel angry, or irritable, just like every time he recalled his past life before, but the fact is.

He even felt that experience had become strange now.

"I didn't want to win anyone's sympathy, and I never thought about it."

"I just feel—"

When Tony Stark said this, his right shoulder suddenly sank.

He paused for a moment, and after realizing what the weight on his shoulders represented, the man froze for half a second, and he turned his head to look.

Robert Downey Jr., who had been tense until now, seemed to finally relax his nerves at the last moment, and fell asleep when he didn't even realize it.

Tony Stark looked at the head on his shoulder, and the words behind him stopped in his throat.

He adjusted his position and looked overhead again.

Behind him is the desolate Pole Star City after the war, and above his head is the Milky Way quietly flowing.

Tony Stark looked at the light screen in front of Downey that he hadn't had time to turn off. On it was still the report written by Agent Hill about him.

The blue eyes suddenly became a little dazed.

Tony Stark seldom felt at a loss about anything, his person was always as firm as his choice and his goal, and he almost forgot when was the last time he had such a feeling of being at a loss , he only remembered most of it when he was about to face unknown and huge difficulties.

And now he's thinking about—

If Downey really leaves this universe.

what his life would be like.

……

……

It was only after Peter Parker woke up that he realized that Downey and Tony were not in the room.

He inquired about Friday, and then climbed up the clock tower in the darkness of the night. The first thing he saw were two steel armors parked on the clock tower on alert. The two reactors, one blue and one brown, looked like As bright as a searchlight.

He saw Downey who was sleeping against Tony Stark on the edge of the roof, froze for a moment, and then sat lightly on the other side of Tony Stark.

Good evening, Mr. Robert.

Little Spider-Man silently mouthed Tony Stark.

Tony Stark glanced at Peter Parker, but didn't speak.

After the previous two incidents, it seems that the person in front of him is not as difficult to get along with as it seems, and Peter Parker has no initial anxiety and embarrassment.

"Are you looking at the stars?"

Tony Stark: "Yeah."

Peter Parker's Adam's apple moved up and down, and after being quiet for less than half a second, he found a new topic: "Mr. Robert, there is going to be a war tomorrow. Are you nervous?" He paused after speaking, and then said, " Oh, I forgot, you have been on the battlefield since you were six years old."

As if thinking of what Downey said before, "If you were there at the time, I wouldn't let you go even if you were 16 years old." Tony Stark couldn't help but smiled, and took it back before the smile reached his eyes.

Tony Stark glanced at Peter Parker: "It's useless to be nervous, what you have to do now is to go back and take a good rest."

"But I don't want to go back." Little Spiderman dangled his legs up and down in the air, "I'll rest here with you."

After speaking, Peter Parker took out the small blanket he prepared from nowhere and covered his lap, and even handed it to Tony Stark and Downey: "Do you want it? Aunt May said that when it's cold You don't need to cover your knees to get arthritis."

Tony Stark: "...no need."

Peter Parker: "Oh."

Little Spider-Man looked up at the galaxy above his head, and let out small sighs one after another in his throat.

After that, no one spoke anymore, and the galaxy above his head seemed to be so beautiful that Peter Parker, a talkative Peter Parker, would be speechless one day.

I don't know how long it took.

Tony Stark's left shoulder sank.

Tony Stark: "..."

He glanced at the head of the spider armor sleeping on his shoulder, and after half a second of silence, he said expressionlessly, "Friday."

Friday understands: "..."

So, 5 minutes later.

After the bonfire party, the Avengers saw eight legs grow out of the back of the spider armor and walked back by themselves, while Peter Parker, who was locked in the spider armor, cursed——

"Hey, put me down, Friday."

"I can go by myself!"

"Friday!"

"Hey--!"