Superhero Damage Control [Comprehensive]

Before Tony entered the hotel, he was surrounded by reporters who had been waiting there for a long time. Countless flashing lights poured down like a waterfall. Tony put on sunglasses, and a female reporter squeezed forward.

"Mr. Tony Stark, how do you feel about the company's employees being kidnapped and executed? Is the engineer really implicated for helping you make the Iron Man suit?"

The microphone was almost in Tony's mouth, and Tony ducked for a moment, but more reporters swarmed.

"Will you fight back?"

"You haven't responded, are you afraid?"

A male reporter asked in a mocking tone. He held up an unofficial mobile phone, set it to the video button, and kept pointing at Tony Stark.

Tony was irritated by this flirty tone, he took off his sunglasses, and looked at the camera with black eyes like deep pools: "Well, I know you all want to see me furious, but I'm going to disappoint you. Man My lord, I have been thinking about how to leave a message for you, I have checked your information..."

"You want to restore your feudal dynasty, but you can only be chased by the Chinese government like a coward who hides in caves like a street mouse. You want to come to the United States to find a sense of presence. I am waiting for you."

"This is not a political declaration of war, it's me and you, Iron Man vs Mandarin, if you kill my man, I'll collect your body, if you're in a cave, I'll bury you in the ground forever, if If you are in the sea, I will send you to feed the fish, if you are in the toilet, I will drown your head in the toilet."

"If you're smart enough, you come to me, 10880 Malibu Beach, my door won't lock."

Tony snatched the mobile phone from the male reporter's hand, and looked at him with a sneer: "I don't accept phone recording, find a professional." He nodded to the photographer next to him who was carrying the machine, and the photographer proudly compared him Got a thumbs up.

Tony turned and threw the phone against the wall.

"Go to the Stark Foundation and ask for money."

Tony walked into the hotel.

In the White House of the United States, the president is happily playing a game of tennis with his Doudan dog. Tony Stark's friend and his "insider" in the US military, Colonel Roddy, who has the code name of War Machine Hero, stomps his feet anxiously , the Vice President cast him a reassuring look.

"I advocate the Iron Patriot as a top-secret weapon against tactical strikes, not as a show fighter jet flying around," Roddy said to the president.

"What happened to the Iron Patriot?" The president pulled the tennis ball out of the Dudan dog's mouth, and Roddy said a long line. He didn't hear a word, or he didn't want to hear it, "It took a month gone."

Roddy almost collapsed in anger.

In the end, he fulfilled his duties as an American soldier and answered the President of the United States without any concealment: "The Iron Patriot is ready."

The president clapped his palms together and was very pleasantly surprised: "Then what are we waiting for, we have to arrange an unveiling ceremony...ah no...the press conference, no matter what you call him, anyway, we have to tell the world that the United States has Armor weapons similar to Iron Man's suit."

Roddy said: "Only one. Iron Man refused to develop the Iron Armor into a national weapon."

"Do as he pleases, the enemy will think we have thousands of pieces." The president frowned, looking at Roddy, "What we want is deterrence, and that's the most important thing."

Roddy looked at the vice president as if asking for help, but the corners of his mouth were bent downwards, expressing his helplessness.Roddy left the president's office full of complaints and was stopped by the vice president.

"Colonel Rhodes."

The vice president looked at him very kindly, neither wooing him nor deliberately alienating him: "I hope you can understand, I know Stark and you are friends, Stark accused the military of privately modifying the steel suit to make weapons for you. The government has taken a serious image hit."

Maybe you guys should think about the consequences before you do these stupid things.Roddy thought.

"There was also the New York War, which almost made Stark alone in the limelight."

He almost died!Rody could hardly restrain his anger, and wanted to punch the hypocritical old man in front of him.

"The government must reshape its image. In the face of threats to the world, what we need is not individual heroism, but a strong government. After all, the government can do much more than a hero."

The vice president put his arms around his shoulders, and Rody resisted reluctantly in his heart.

"Maybe we're helpless when it comes to dealing with alien threats, but that doesn't mean it's incapable. Heroes can knock out a few aliens, but can they build a medical system, a legal system, control the economy and the land? Of course not. But the people just want to Seeing heroes win simply makes them stronger and more able to protect them."

Roddy had to admit that this was right. Polls showed that after the New York War, Americans' trust in the government had fallen to an all-time low.

"Heroes are destroying the foundations of trust that the government has worked so hard to build over the years, and I think you've noticed... so we need Iron Patriots, and we need people to understand that we, the government, the law, the welfare system are the ones who can protect them stuff. Not Iron Man, or Captain America, or that guy flying around in a Shakespeare costume."

That's Thor, Roddy thought, rolling his eyes.

Finally, Roddy sighed heavily and conceded: "Yes, Mr. Vice President, I will follow Mr. President's arrangement."

Two days later, when he was wearing the American flag color painting, he looked like a combination of Captain America and Iron Man. The Iron Patriot streaked across the sky, and finally landed in front of the president. over him.When Roddy stepped on the flamboyant red carpet, the president pretended to be very surprised and looked at this "weapon" with amazing combat effectiveness, with a smile in his eyes.

Roddy walked up to the President. The President happily patted the Iron Patriot on the shoulder, pretended to be in pain, and said to the camera: "Mandarin, you said that I have been ignoring your signal. Okay, I'm telling you, that's my response, that's America's response."

Rody was stunned, the president turned and left, Roddy quickly followed the president, and flipped off his mask: "Mr. President, you didn't say that there was this paragraph!"

"I thought about it from the beginning, Colonel Rhodes." The president jumped up and down, as if a spring was installed under his feet, "Tony Stark can answer the Mandarin's provocation in such a way, if I don't respond, So what should people think of the President of the United States? Could it be that the Pentagon and the White House are cowards, not even a Stark?"

Roddy stopped, watching the president get further and further away from him.

"It's not a goddamn competition!"

Roddy didn't wait for the president to respond, closed his mask, took off from the spot, and turned into a flame in the eyes of everyone and left.

Avengers Building.

"...if you're smart enough, you come to me, 10880 Malibu Beach, and my door won't lock."

Tony Stark's arrogant face disappeared from the screen, and Pepper turned off the TV and threw the remote control.

"I really don't understand. If he doesn't make some big news every day, he will feel uncomfortable and panic. Do you know how dangerous he is now? I didn't sleep well last night. I was afraid that someone would suddenly call and ask me to go to the hospital. Collect the corpse."

Watson also looked at Pepper with a sad face: "I have been doing psychological rehabilitation for Tony for so long, and a video of that Mandarin ruined all my hard work! God, I really shouldn't come back."

"You really shouldn't come back." Holmes was playing with his mobile phone boredly. Before Watson could choke, he looked at Pepper, "Do you have the video of the Mandarin? It's all been deleted from the Internet."

Pepper handed him a tablet computer, which contained the archives of the Mandarin videos.

"We still have to negotiate with the Ten Rings Gang to retrieve our engineer's body. His family is about to collapse." Little Pepper held her forehead, and she really understood what it means to be in a state of exhaustion, signing hundreds of documents a day. What is it, does it bother her now?

Holmes looked at the short video, as if he had discovered something, he pursed his lips and muttered in a low voice, "It's interesting to jump to the clip."

Watson said: "The top priority is to get Tony back. He can't stay in Malibu."

Pepper agreed: "I called Tony, but he didn't answer. Fortunately, he dared to tell me that I have the highest priority! The employees of the Los Angeles branch went to him, but he blocked him outside the villa. I have already asked the United States The captain flew directly to Malibu to bring him back, and he was the only one who could listen to what Bucky said."

Lucy has not spoken, she looked out the window in a daze.

"Lucy? Calling Lucy?"

Little Pepper called her four or five times before she came back to her senses.

Lucy showed a tired smile: "What's the matter?"

Little Pepper said caringly: "Honey, are you sick?"

"Hmm, no, it's a broken relationship." Holmes said while watching the video.

Watson growled: "SHERLOCK!!!"

Holmes put down the tablet. "She's going to have to accept this sooner or later, won't she, Lucy?"

I don't know why, Holmes said something so lightly about something that was originally sad, which actually made Lucy relax for a moment.

Little Pepper looked at her with even more worried eyes: "I shouldn't have called you here, you should have a rest, and the affairs of Titan should be put aside, everything will run normally."

"Oh no no no, I still want to work, you know, I have to... keep myself busy."

Lucy said that once she gets busy, she can forget everything, work overtime every day until eleven o'clock, and then go home and fall asleep, dreamless all night, this is definitely a luxury day for Lucy.

Watson stroked Lucy's leg: "If you need help, don't forget me. My successful cases of psychological escort include Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark."

Holmes wrinkled his nose: "I don't admit it, but in theory..."

"Before I throw you out of here, keep your mouth shut, Sherlock." Watson squeezed the words through his teeth with a smile.

Holmes took a deep breath and changed the topic away: "Your engineer is not dead, but Tony Stark is coming soon."

Little Pepper was shocked.

"When ordinary terrorists record execution videos, they will use long shots to render the sense of reality and horror as much as possible. Especially the execution shots must be absolutely true, and this..." Holmes clicked the play button.

The Mandarin aimed at the engineer's forehead.

Gunshots sounded.

The camera jumps to a close-up of the Mandarin, and then a shot of the engineer lying on the ground, bleeding from his forehead.

"So I'm guessing your engineer isn't dead. And this footage has left us with a clue..."

Holmes randomly found a video of a terrorist circulating on the Internet, and showed it to the three ladies present: "Do you see the difference?"

"This video is very rough." Lucy has a special sensitivity with journalistic background, "but it's very real. The adult scene has professional lighting. Look at the light on him. It's not natural light, or It’s just any light source, it’s very professional red headlights and spotlights, and the top light is used when shooting, so that people’s faces can form a skull face effect and increase the sense of horror.”

Little Pepper's eyes lit up: "Is this a show?"

Watson nodded: "The purpose is to anger Tony."

Little Pepper thought for a while: "But they are still terrorists, the Ten Rings Gang, they are a group of people who kill people without batting an eyelid, I am a bit lacking in humanitarianism when I say that, but they didn't kill the engineer, right, why they can When recording a real video, but have to edit it?"

Holmes said slowly: "That engineer is one of the people who helped Tony Stark make the steel armor, right?"

The implication is that this engineer may have betrayed Tony and became an accomplice of the Ten Rings, helping them develop weapons.

Little Pepper felt chilled, and she almost wanted to quickly pick out a steel armor from the warehouse and fly to Malibu herself.

Lucy watched that video, and a flash of light flashed in her mind. A certain familiar plot passed through her mind. The Mandarin is a fake, just an actor. The real Mandarin is Tony’s opponent. She couldn’t remember the name of that person. , but Tony is really in danger now!

Lucy stood up, but when the words came to her lips, she swallowed them again.

She thought of Karen who died because she changed the world karma at will.

Could it be that letting things happen naturally is the best choice?

Lucy's heart is tangled, which means that she is powerless to prevent any bad things from happening in the future. The goddess of fate has already woven everyone's future. Once she cuts one of them, she may face the cruelest fate. Retaliation may be the diversion of bad things, or it may be worse.

When Lucy came back to her senses, everyone looked at her strangely.

Lucy explained hesitantly: "I'm not feeling well, sorry, I want to go back first."

Under the ardent instructions of Peibo and Watson, Lucy fled in a panic and walked into the president's elevator, which could go all the way to the end. She pressed the door close button, and stretched out a hand to block the closed door.

Holmes stepped into the elevator and stood beside Lucy.

When the elevator was halfway down, Holmes suddenly said, "I remember I promised you that after the Lizard Man matter is over, I will tell you exactly how I forced Orion to fire you."

Lucy smiled absently: "That's not important, I like my current job."

"That's very important," said Holmes. "You say you're going to be busy, and what I'm about to say will keep you busy for a while."

Lucy looked up at Holmes, and Holmes kept looking at the elevator door, and was silent for two seconds. He finally looked at Lucy meaningfully: "Lucy Lang, don't you ever know that you are an agent?"