New York, on Interstate 78, an Audi R8 e-tron sped through the open road at super-high speed. Frightened, all parallel vehicles gave way, for fear of causing some terrible tragedy.

For this kind of biker party who drives luxury cars, to be honest, they really can't afford to provoke, and it's quite difficult to just hide.

On the horizon, in the sunset that spreads out the horizon, a ray of sunset slowly sinks into the horizon. The dim orange light spread like a stream of water, casting a haze over his eyes as blue as the deep sea.

The scenery outside the window quickly receded, and the wind whistled in my ears. West squinted a little dizzily, looking at the magnificent sunset on the coast, as if he was aroused by the blood and desire to challenge in his bones.

"Hurry up again."

Regardless of the face of the Iron Man who was driving, the young man spoke very kindly. Indulgence is always a novel experience for him, and since this is the idea of going out today, he has decided to do whatever it takes...... Anyway, no matter what, there will always be someone around him who is more sober than him.

“…… It's going to take off soon, young master. ”

glanced at the car dashboard, although Tony complained so, he also stepped on the accelerator again. Anyway, Jarvis will help deal with the speeding bill or something, and it's a big deal to transfer it all to Professor X's account. For President Stark, none of the problems that can be solved with money are problems.

So, it was a great ride. For Iron Man, who holds two lives in addition to the steering wheel, it is indeed the first time that he has been so engrossed in being a driver for others. After all, among these superheroes, West Xavier dared to call him the gold lord like this. And the whole Avengers know that he has wanted to open this kid's head more than once, and judging from the current situation, this kind of thinking will obviously not be the last.

- I must have ruined the galaxy in my last life, and I will only know such an unlucky thing in this life.

Thinking so, he glanced at the side face of the young man in the co-pilot who was plated with a layer of orange light by the sunset. Tony was playful, suddenly hit the steering wheel, and when the car suddenly swung its tail and drifted through a corner, he also managed to make West hit his head on the window glass, and it sounded like it hurt.

"Shorty, you want to fight?"

Covering his red forehead, he glared angrily, and the hermit who was plotted turned his head murderously, almost biting a mouthful of white teeth.

"Let's make another appointment." I don't take the threat of teenagers seriously at all. Tony shrugged, knowing that he wasn't just doing it to vent his anger. There are some things that West really needs to make clear to him: "Now, answer me, when are you going to go back?" ”

"Where are you going?" West played dumb.

"Oxford, I saw you booking a plane ticket yesterday." And Tony didn't like him at all: "Why, knowing that someone is thinking about how to dissect you, you still don't go to school as if you didn't do anything?" What if you are attacked over there? ”

"You're worried about me?"

"No, I'm worried about scaring your lovely classmates."

A hard mouth is a consistent specialty, and in West's eyes, it is a tsundere regardless of time and place. Seeing Tony snort coldly, flatly denying that he cared about his own safety, the young man smiled knowingly and looked down at his bony hands.

"You know I've had a third mutation in my genes. Although it is not stable and drags down other functions of the body, it is indeed an evolution in another sense. ”

Elizhe studied his genetic sequence because it contained an incredible evolutionary factor, an unknown that even Charles was fascinated by. From apes to Homo sapiens is the first leap in the history of human evolution, and from ordinary people to mutants is the second time, so what will the evolution of mutants make the world look like?

No one could answer.

Perhaps it is too early to ask this question, and the change of his genetic sequence is at best a refinement of his own functions, and may even be a process of developing the ability to truly mutate. But the most important thing about this kind of anomaly is not what kind of scientific sample it provides for the future, but a possibility, a direction...... Although, in the current era, there are still very few people who can see it.

And abandon this theoretical emptiness. For West himself, although his physical condition has deteriorated a lot because of this mutation, it is not a breakthrough in the application of his ability that he has not improved for a long time.

"So?" As if he understood something, Iron Man raised his eyebrows with interest.

"So," the boy narrowed, "some people will regret what he did." ”

Although he said that he would no longer indulge in the past and be bound by hatred, this does not mean that the beam that has been knotted is just that. Charles was punched in the face by Eric's broken leg, he was almost killed by a madman several times, and he was not allowed to avenge himself quietly?

What's more, he doesn't have any other reason that he can't speak.

"You know, someone called me yesterday and said that if I don't go back to class, the professor is going to void my degree."

Lazily against his forehead, looking at the night that was gradually unfolding on the horizon, West complained half-truthfully:

"I'll have to go back and give that old man a headache for a while before he can forget that I've been skipping classes for more than half a month...... You must know that when people have nothing to do, they are easy to think about everything, and their problems are idle. ”

So, if he could find something to do for himself, his chest wouldn't hurt all the time, right?

If he could allow himself to indulge in hatred again, he wouldn't think Merlin would be heartbroken, would he?

The neon lights and the stars were reflected together in the boy's terrifyingly blue eyes, like a leaping and burning flame. I don't know if I noticed something, Tony rarely didn't answer, but hit the steering wheel again, slowed down, and drove into the bustling high-rise buildings of New York.

"I'll treat you to a drink tonight."

Fingers hooked the Iron Man figure that West had hung on the reversing mirror. In the countless flashes of light and shadow outside the car window, he glanced at the boy-like side face of the man next to him, and finally, he just spoke.

……

Taking the hermit to the bar is a chore, especially when the eldest young master is in a bad mood.

It was a disaster from start to finish.

By the time Tony realized this, they had been sitting in a bar with a gentle and soothing atmosphere for a long time. Looking at the rather spectacular row of wine bottles in front of him, and the crazy people who were still ordering around him, President Stark felt a little stunned for the first time...... Not for West, but for his money.

"Did you really drink so much?"

I recalled the amount of alcohol I had in my impression, and although there were a lot of them, they didn't reach the point where they could finish drinking them and go out sideways. But he dug the pit by himself, and he had to jump by himself if he slapped his swollen face, and since he said that he wanted to invite someone to drink, he only needed to be responsible for paying the bill.

Having already consciously taken the cup and drinking, West glanced at him, as if he did not intend to answer. However, the bartender next to him took the president's credit card, squinted his eyes and smiled happily:

"Don't underestimate young people, they are all hidden! Maybe after drinking these, your son will end up sober than you are. ”

“……”

Tony squirted out his first sip.

In fact, the bartender really didn't mean anything bad when he said that. After he settled the accounts for the two rich second generations, he went to entertain other customers.

can't stand someone's face, it's too deceitful. Next year is already an old man, standing next to Iron Man, but he was forced to be turned upside down by that young face, at first glance, it doesn't look like two generations of father and son.

What's more, it was the president of Stark who paid the full amount and was so generous that he didn't complain at all. People didn't say anything about the gold owner and the little white face he raised, obviously enough of them had given them face.

“…… If I had an unlucky son like you, I would have strangled him to death a long time ago. ”

Wiping the corners of his mouth, Tony felt that his personality had been subtly insulted: "You are obviously older than me, why do I look older." ”

"It's a fact."

In a moment, the whole bottle of vodka has been poured into it. West opened his eyes a little confused, looked up, and found that Tony in front of him seemed to have become several at once:

"Besides, I'm leaving tomorrow, and you're really going to talk to me all night about this?"

It's not his fault that he's grown like this. Even if he has an ageless face, he still can't wait for the person he wants.

What's more, he's here to drink, so he doesn't want to waste all his energy on playing tricks.

As soon as his nails picked, an uncapped bottle of Rum appeared under Tony's nose, making it clear that he wanted him to blow the bottle. In fact, whether it is Professor X or Iron Man, they have spoiled the hermit-sama, and they start to play tricks when they don't agree. Whether it's drag racing or getting drunk, even if there is no clear reason, he dares to act recklessly like this.

Tony took the bottle in full view of the bar.

――It seems that this kid really made up his mind to die here drunk today...... can make West, who has always been heartless and heartless, become like this, maybe he is really sad in his heart.

"Maybe I'll have to give Cap a call first."

Raising his chin defiantly at the boy, Tony coughed lightly and quickly rolled half of the whiskey on the table to his side:

"You know, somebody has to take us back at the end of the day, right?"

“Good。”

Finally smiled from the bottom of my heart. West raised his glass, tilted his head and drank the orange-gold glass.

The night is still long.

……

As the saying goes, if you don't do something, you don't die.

The next day, at noon, when someone rubbed his forehead and climbed up from the carpet of the Avengers Mansion, he felt like his whole head was going to explode.

"Why did you throw me to the ground? The service attitude is so bad? ”

But fortunately, the hermit is still conscious, and he still knows how to seek justice for himself. He climbed on the armrest of the sofa to get up, but accidentally overexerted himself, and even took off Iron Man, who was still sleeping on it.

"Tony kicked you down in the middle of the night, not for me."

It's rare to sit at the table and wave. Steve Rogers, the model worker of the Avengers, does not seem to have any intention of saving the world today, but is leisurely drinking tea in the building in a home T-shirt:

"Besides, you didn't let me put you on the bed, remember?"

"Why?" West looked confused.

"You said you 'don't want to sleep in a place where no one is.'" Honestly answering, Steve pointed to President Stark, who was now lying on the ground, "I can't separate you. After all, you seem to be crying so much, and you're clinging to it—"

"Stop...... I don't want to know what is next. ”

His expression suddenly became very distorted. West, who had completely drunk the fragments, couldn't think of any relevant memories at all, and relying only on his brain to make up for it was too large, which challenged his tolerance limit too much. So he simply broke the jar and broke it:

"What else did I do?"

The young man looked at death as if he were at home.

"I don't know." And Steve's tone was still calm that he had seen countless winds and waves: "When I arrived, Tony was trying to talk to the whole bar **, and you sat on the couch, said you wanted to confess to the person you liked, and then took out your phone and made a long call...... By the way, have you been in a relationship with a girl named Merlin lately? ”

"Huh?"

Knowing that the captain would not amuse him in such a matter, poor West was once again confused.

Shall I call Merlin? Excuseme？！

Hurriedly pulled out his mobile phone. The young man flipped through the dialed call with confusion and found the recent call record of more than 100 minutes.

“…… Shit！！ ”

As soon as his legs were weak, West sat directly on Iron Man's stomach.

――I made a phone call to Magneto for nearly two hours to confess that he wanted to be killed by his two fathers?!

"Oh God!!"

It feels like being hit by a Hulk in your sleep. Tony rolled his eyes and woke up slowly, and at a glance he saw the hermit who was still sitting on him in a daze, and he didn't hesitate to lift the person down:

"Xavier, you're committing murder, you know?!!"

"I'm done." Still unable to recover from the blow, West babbled with a pale face, "Charles must have known about this, and Eric will kill me directly." ”

"Oh, that's great."

It doesn't matter what he says. Tony gritted his teeth and waved at the ceiling, while Steve still sat behind the table and watched with interest: "Jarvis, what about the Mark ×× I made the other day?" Master Xavier said he wanted to help us experiment with the functionality of the new armor!! ”

"No, don't listen to your Daddy, baby."

A bone got up from the ground, narrowly avoiding the teacup smashed in the face. West ran away when he was done, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared outside the door of the parlor:

"Guys. I flew at two o'clock in the afternoon, and I left first, and I will talk about what happened when I got to the UK. "If Charles hadn't gotten his brain into the Atlantic halfway through.

'Boom-'

Iron Man answered him with a beam cannon that almost blew up an entire wall.

So, it was in this kind of chicken-fly-dog jump that West finally boarded the passenger plane to London Sithlo.

And he didn't know that ahead, there was a reunion that had missed a thousand years waiting for him.