Chapter 256 Black Panther, the death of the war machine!
"No, you missed one count." Natasha Romanoff added, "Did you forget that Doctor Strange turned black? Although the scene of Tony's death was not directly shown, the universe was destroyed and only Stephen
How can Tony survive if a person still exists?"
"If you think about it, Tony, how lucky are you to be alive in our world?" Phil Coulson said.
"No, he can't survive in our world. He snapped his fingers to kill Thanos." Nick Fury said, "Tony, Tony, why do you end up dead in every world?"
"It should be a character issue." Loki said, "A disgusting guy like the Tin Woodman, even the universe hates him and doesn't tolerate him. That's why he is a tragedy in every universe."
"Whether I am a tragedy in other universes has nothing to do with me. As long as I am not a tragedy in our world." Tony Stark laughed, "Loki, you are going to be disappointed. In our world, I will not die."
Already."
The video continues to play.
Although Tony Stark was not injured as before and built a steel armor in the cave, he still held a press conference after returning.
"Mr. Stark, were you injured in the attack?" a reporter asked.
"No, but I spilled my drink," Tony Stark said. "That was Macallan whiskey from 1926, so I'm pretty sure it was a war crime."
"Excuse me, sir, this is Harry Whittington from the British Mail. Did you learn anything from your trip to Afghanistan?" another reporter asked.
"Yes." Tony Stark said, "Don't go anywhere without a Four Seasons Hotel."
"Mr. Stark, has this experience changed you?" a female reporter asked.
"I saw young Americans being killed by the very weapons I built to protect them," Tony Stark said after drinking a glass of red wine. "I realized we had to do better.
Stronger weapons, fight harder for them."
The butterfly effect is reflected here. In the original trajectory of things, Tony Stark was going to close the weapons department at this time, but in this time and space, he was not captured and injured, and his psychological changes were completely different.
"So I'm going to make Eric Stevens, the SEAL who saved my life, the new chief security officer of Stark Industries." Immediately afterwards, Tony Stark announced another major announcement.
information.
Eric Stevens stepped forward and gave Tony Stark a close hug, and the spotlight kept flashing.
"Lieutenant, Lieutenant, this is Christine Everhart." A female reporter raised her hand and asked Eric Stevens again, "What were you doing in Kunar Province at that time?"
"Save me, we must have said that." Tony Stark replied.
"It's very strange, because his troops were stationed 400 kilometers away on the day of the attack," the female reporter said.
"You want to say that he knew beforehand that the attack was going to happen?" Tony Stark asked in displeasure.
"She's right." Eric Stevens admitted directly, "I discovered a plan to assassinate Tony Stark when I was undercover in the Ten Rings organization."
"Now you are satisfied!" Obadiah Stane became anxious upon hearing this and immediately stood up, "This matter is over here."
"Yeah, you want it to be over, right?" Eric Stevens said, "because these plans are funded by Stark Industries COO Obadiah Stane."
Reality suddenly became an uproar.
"Tony, I don't know what this kid is talking about." Obadiah Stane quickly explained to Tony Stark, "Let's get out of here quickly and then talk about this matter."
"No, you don't need to worry about it. I brought all the evidence." Eric Stevens directly put everything on the big screen at the press conference, "electronic transfers, bank documents, phone records, and online searches.
Well, I put it all online."
The fact that Obadiah Stane was the mastermind behind the attack on Tony Stark has not changed, but his ending is also very different from that of Obadiah in the original time and space. Tony Stark did not build the Iron Armor.
, the incident where he drove the Iron Overlord and fought Tony Stark later would not have happened.
But he is still pathetic. He has become a stepping stone for Eric Stevens to win Tony Stark's trust.
Eric Stevens saved Tony Stark's life, which made Tony Stark trust him very much. Now that he has exposed the assassination conspiracy, Tony Stark trusts him even more.
It was his sincere decision to directly let him take over Obadiah Stane's position as the COO of Stark Industries, which is also the chief operating officer.
"Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes, what did you find out about this knight in shining armor?" Pepper Potts was not blinded. She was interested in the sudden appearance of Eric Stevens.
He was always skeptical and entrusted James Rhodes, a good friend of Tony Stark, to investigate the other party's details.
"Graduated from Annapolis at the age of 19 and graduated from MIT with a master's degree a year later. Since joining the SEALs and becoming a member of the elite Ghost Team, he has gained a lot of fame because he specializes in executing high-level target missions." James Rowe
Des handed a piece of information to Pepper Potts.
"It's definitely a water pipe cleaning task," Pepper Potts said.
"It's an assassination mission," James Rhodes said.
"Oh my god, luckily I confirmed it." Pepper Potts said fearfully.
"For a kid from Oakland, he's really cool." James Rhodes, like his gay friend Tony Stark, has a good impression of Eric Stevens. "Pepper,
What are you worried about? Other than murder."
"A lot of people are going to want to hook up with Tony Stark, and it's my job to figure out what they want from him," Pepper Potts said.
"And what did you find?" James Rhodes asked.
"Nothing," said Pepper Potts.
Although Pepper Potts is shrewd, when it comes to conspiracy, how can she be compared to Eric who was born in Wakanda? If she can find out with a document, then there is something wrong.
Besides, Eric's identity is a top secret, and even the Wakandans don't know that there is such a Wakandan prince living abroad.
And if you don’t know the true identity of Eric Stevens, how can you possibly understand his true purpose?
Tony Stark really trusted Eric Stevens so much that he not only appointed him as chief security officer and chief operating officer within one day, but also brought him into his home.
Here, Eric Stevens showed his excellent acting skills and inadvertently mentioned his college thesis, the design of an autonomous combat drone, during the conversation.
Tony Stark, a man with a lot of money and an eagerness to repay his kindness, decided at that time, I will help you complete this design of yours!
"The worst outcome is to build the most expensive Gundam figure in the world." Tony Stark said.
Tony Stark and Eric Stevens started working passionately, and soon built an automatic combat drone that looked like a Gundam.
However, during the test, the drone was not powerful and could not be used at all.
"It seems that the drone's regulator runs too fast."
"We also need a micro power supply."
The two were there to analyze the reasons for the failure.
"Yes, we can make a micro-reactor." Tony Stark, who was lying on the ground, suddenly had an idea, but immediately denied himself, "No, it's not realistic."
"We only need vibranium." Eric Stevens' fox tail was revealed at this time. "Reasonable improvements can turn it into a self-regenerating energy source."
"Yes, the idea is good." Tony Stark said, "It's just that I ran out of it during the previous war."
"Not all used up." Eric Stevens took off a pendant from his neck, which was a small piece of vibranium.
After Tony Stark analyzed it, he believed that vibranium was feasible, but such a small piece of vibranium was not enough and more vibranium was needed.
Where can I get vibranium?
Tony Stark quickly thought of someone.
This man knew Tony Stark, and had previously dealt with Ultron. He was Ulysses Klaue, whose arm was cut off by Ultron because he failed to mention Tony Stark.
"I'm sorry, are you qualified to say such things to people in my tax bracket?" Tony Stark said disapprovingly while sitting on his chair.
"Tony, don't forget that Stark Industries will never do business with black market arms dealers." Pepper Potts said.
"She's right, Tony," said Eric Stevens, "and I agree."
"Wait a minute, what did you say?" Pepper Potts was surprised that this guy would actually stand on his side?
"If this comes to light, shareholders will withdraw their capital unless it is covered by diplomacy," Eric Stevens added.
He was not siding with Pepper Potts at all, but had his mind set on James Rhodes.
"Send Rhodes!" Tony Stark said immediately, "Okay, he is the American Air Force, the company's military consultant, we can definitely pick him out."
James Rhodes, a gay friend, has always supported Tony Stark, and like Tony, he had no doubts about Eric Stevens and immediately rushed with him to a scrap recycling station on the coast of Africa.
ri, making a deal with Ulysses Crow.
"It's really rare. Why would Americans come to trade with someone like me?" Ulysses Crow said.
"If you want to make the world a better place, you have to get your hands dirty when necessary." James Rhodes said.
"It's so well said that it could be sewn onto a pillow as an aphorism," said Ulysses Crow.
After a few nonsense words during the meeting, James Rhodes proposed to inspect the goods. Ulysses Crowe opened an iron cabinet and saw that it was full of vibranium.
"Where did you get these?" James Rhodes was stunned.
At this moment, someone suddenly broke in.
The visitors came and went without a trace at all, coming and going freely in this heavily guarded place. Even those well-trained guys were not enough to see even if they were fully armed, and they were knocked down one after another.
There is no doubt that the person coming is Black Panther T'Challa.
Bang bang bang!
When the Black Panther finally arrived, James Rhodes drew his gun and started shooting.
"This conflict has nothing to do with you, Colonel." T'Challa casually took away James Rhodes' pistol.
"Really? But I don't think so," said James Rhodes.
"I just want to bring vibranium back to where it belongs," T'Challa said.
"I'm sorry, because that's impossible." Eric Stevens appeared, holding a sonic stun gun, and fired with a bang.
Under the rolling sound waves, both James Rhodes and T'Challa fell to the ground.
"Eric, why?" James Rhodes asked.
No matter how stupid he is at this time, he still knows that he has been calculated.
"The better question is, why serve as soldiers for your oppressors?" Eric Stevens took off the gloves of T'Challa's Black Panther suit and put them on his hands, "Fight for them, fight for them
die?"
"Kids, if you want to change the system, you have to become part of the system." James Rhodes said.
"No, you can destroy them all." Eric Stevens dug his claws into James Rhodes' chest.
"Rhodes and T'Challa are dead, I don't know who will be next." Seeing this, Stephen Strange couldn't help but said.
"Five cents, I bet it's Tony," said James Rhodes.
"I also bet it's Tony." Steve Rogers said, "No matter how stupid Tony is, if his good friend is dead, he can't not investigate. That Eric can't be perfect, Tony will definitely find out
, and once Tony is found out, it means that he will be killed."
"Tony is no longer Iron Man, but Eric is an experienced executioner, and Tony is no match for him." Clint Barton said.
"Tony, have you produced that sonic stun gun?" T'Challa asked. In the video, he was knocked over by that gun, so he was very concerned about it.
"Don't worry T'Challa, I used to produce similar gadgets, but now the weapons department of Stark Industries has been shut down, and I no longer produce weapons." Tony Stark said.
Two coffins appeared next in the screen, one was T'Challa's coffin, which was carried by the Wakandan Royal Guard, and the other was James Rhodes's coffin, which was carried by the air force.
The music of black people carrying coffins sounded at the right time, making this sad moment inexplicably more humorous.