infinite hero

After staying in the laboratory for a while, Tony estimated that it was almost time, so he set out and went down the gangway to find Loki.Probably due to good luck, he met Natasha on the stairs.The latter obviously just came back from Loki, and his face was not very good-looking.

In normal times, Tony would never let go of any chance to flirt.It's just that he was preoccupied, and the two passed by silently.

"I almost thought you weren't coming."

When Loki said this, he was slowly pacing in that high-strength glass cage, his attitude was as relaxed and casual as in his own back garden.

"It's very lively here, huh?" Tony couldn't help but sarcastically.He climbed the last step, passed the console, and finally stood in front of the cage.

Loki nodded of course.Not long after he came up, Tony was already the third group of people who came to him-the first time was Fury, and the second time was Natasha.No matter who among them, they want to know something, and he happened to pinch the weakness of these people!

Tony took a deep breath.Don't be like that, he told himself, you have to be patient.Sid has a soul gem on him, and he doesn't want Fury to know anything about it. "You're sure you're not going to tell me where Sid is," he said, "and I'll put it another way—are you telling the truth?"

"Are you saying that you slept soundly, or that you can't wake up?" Loki stopped for a moment, and then continued walking. "It's all true."

Tony didn't speak for a moment.The Helicarrier is full of surveillance cameras, and he doesn't want to be talking to Loki about the Infinity Stones right under Fury's nose.

Loki smiled and glanced at Tony again. "You should be happy about it," he said softly. "This is a great opportunity."

"...to whom? To you?" Tony really didn't think what Loki was doing was good for him or Sid.

"Maybe," Loki spread his hands, "but before that, I'm sure that Sid and you can get more help."

Tony stared at Loki puzzled.He doesn't like this situation - Loki obviously knows a lot more about the Infinity Stones than he does, so that he can only be led by Loki now!

Loki obviously received this doubt and was even more pleased. "There are some things that you and I know, but I won't say them clearly. On that basis, Sid himself has no idea, which is not allowed."

Tony's brow furrowed deeper. "What do you mean?" He questioned, faintly having a bad premonition.

"Although we don't know how far he can do it yet, he is destined not to be a mortal." Loki spread his hands, "All I did was push a little bit."

"...Push?" Tony seemed to understand a little bit.The baby that can appear on the edge of the Cosmic Cube is obviously not an ordinary source.Even Loki couldn't pry into the secrets, so the only one who could find out... Sid himself?

"That's right, push." ​​Loki said with satisfaction. "He needs a little bit of pressure, a little bit of adversity, to realize how naive he was to want to stay out of it. I can see that, which means there are others." He took a sharp step forward, pulling closer. The distance between the two: "Do you really think that he will stay by your side forever?"

Tony turned pale.This was his deepest and longest-lasting fear, and Loki had evidently discovered it!

"What is Earth? What is Asgard?" Loki withdrew his feet and continued to stroll in the courtyard. "Even, what are the Cosmic Cube and Infinity Stones?" He suddenly turned his head and looked directly at Tony. "Are you Have you really thought about it, the most likely and worst outcome?"

The rhetorical question was loud, and Tony's lips trembled slightly.Loki's words revealed the reality and future that he was least willing to look at directly; without Loki's reminder, he also knew that Sid had some great secrets.If even the Soul Gem coveted Sid, what would Sid himself be?Who in the universe will be attracted in the future?

Loki approached Tony slowly, placing a hand on the glass. "You don't know what amazing thing your father picked up and brought home. You don't know, your heart has long been lost..."

"Shut up!" Tony's lips were actually trembling this time.But of course, there was more anger than fear, because he was prepared before he came down. "I don't know what you are expecting. But I can be sure that Sid will never do the future you are looking forward to!"

But the smile on Loki's face didn't change at all. "Are you sure?" He whispered softly, "I would draw this conclusion cautiously, after all, I haven't figured out what he is..."

"He's nothing! He's my brother!" Tony almost yelled. "Always will be!"

"Wow, wow," Loki pretended to be scared, and took two small steps back, "I am really touched by this deep friendship. From the point of view of stubbornness, you are really similar. If Sid is like you , I might be able to understand more things." He chuckled again as he spoke, "But you are still not brothers. I mean, can this relationship satisfy you?"

Being punctured face to face, Tony's face should have turned red, black and blue, but he calmed down abnormally. "May I take this as a sign of your jealousy?" He curled his lips, and the corners of his lips pressed down, "Your brother Thor will probably say the same thing as me, but the shadow in your heart is still lingering? Inferiority shrouded in the shadow of the halo?"

Loki's expression twisted for a moment, and the smile disappeared in a flash. "I don't have a brother," he replied gruffly.

"Look," Tony spread his hands, "that's the difference. You want to put Sid on your path, but you're not him. Also, Sid isn't going to do what you set out to do in the face of adversity." Do it. He's never going to be the next you, that's the reality."

"Shut up!" Now it was Loki's turn to utter the phrase viciously. "It doesn't matter what you say about it, what I say doesn't count, even Sid himself doesn't count! As I said, he is not a mortal, this is his fate!"

Tony wanted to refute again, but the floor under his feet suddenly shook violently, and there was a low-pitched explosion.While he quickly grabbed the side rail, the siren of the Helicarrier and the reminder of his control bracelet sounded at the same time.

You don't need to listen to the alarm to know that someone is attacking the Helicarrier. As for Jarvis, what he said is: "Your armor has changed, sir."

While boarding the Helicarrier, Tony was temporarily using a warehouse and putting the armor in it.At this time, what about the mutation...

"Won't someone steal it? Or just blow it up?" Tony was startled, turned around and walked down the iron ladder quickly, ready to go back and have a look.Now who has time to talk to Loki?

"Neither sir, the armor looks fine."

"Very well, you still?" Tony quickly walked through the curved gangway and boarded the stairs to the warehouse, more like a trot.

Jarvis' voice sounded hesitant. "I don't quite understand, sir. I've never seen anything happen to the armor before."

"...What?" Tony asked back, thinking that this was really weird.He just put the armor in the warehouse, what could happen that Jarvis didn't know?

At this time, the main control room of the Helicarrier was in chaos.

"What's going on?" Fury came out of a corridor in disgrace, and asked immediately.He was just observing the progress of the gamma ray search results in the laboratory (Thor and Natasha were also there), and not long after leaving there, he was knocked out by the shock.

"One of the turbines was blown up, sir." Agent Hill quickly reported.The Helicarrier has a total of four turbines, symmetrically distributed on both sides. "If there is another one broken, we will..."

As if to test her bad hunch, the entire Helicarrier shook violently again, its center of gravity tilted.

The driver staring at the screen was too nervous to speak. "The second one is broken too, the direction indicator is out of order..." he stammered, "we're going to fall..."

Fury was furious.There is no one who can do this with his toes, except Hawkeye, because Hawkeye is very familiar with the structure of the Helicarrier. "Look at the sun when it's out of order!" he ordered aloud, and then called into the radio channel: "Did you hear that, Stark?"

"I'll fix it right away!" Tony's panting voice came from the other end of the current.

"Captain, where are you?" Fury continued, "Go to the turbine on the left and see if you can help!"

"Right away!" Although the ping-pong-pong sound in the background didn't sound very good, Steve's answer was concise and neat.

By the time Tony answered, he had almost reached the warehouse.And when he actually opened the automatic rolling door, he was immediately stunned by what he saw, and at the same time understood what Jarvis' "things that never happened" were——

His armor is new and polished, as perfect as it was when it was first made!

Tony stood where he was, eyes wide.But how is this possible?He had a real fight with Thor before, and the armor on his hands was pinched and deformed by Thor.But now he found that they looked as if they were all his own hallucinations!

"...What happened, Jarvis?" Tony stared at the armor that seemed to have a self-healing function for a moment.Can he actually wear this thing?

"I don't know, sir." The artificial intelligence's voice was full of incomprehension, "It's placed here well, and I'm adjusting the combat system. Then...in almost an instant, it looks brand new."

"Nothing happened during this period?" Tony asked with certainty.

"No, sir." Jarvis affirmed, "No one has come here, and no abnormal changes have been detected." He added: "At least the data that can be monitored are the same as usual."

Tony keenly captured the "observable".He looked around sharply, but there was nothing there.Still unwilling to give up, he raised his voice and asked, "Is that you, Sid?"