Chapter 19: The Stark Family's Visitors to the Sky

Iron Man Tony, 10880 Malibu Shores, CA. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Stark's smart villas

It's a fantastic building that looks like a flying saucer and is full of postmodern sci-fi style, perched on a cliff face on the shore of the Pacific Ocean. The entire villa is suspended from a cliff overlooking the sparkling expanse of the sea, and you can enjoy the stunning sea views from the comfort of your home. Especially when the sun sets over the Pacific Ocean and the twilight reflects through the waves, the scenery is indescribably magnificent.

However, the only people who can enjoy this beauty are Tony as the host. Stark, and "Pepper" Pepper as half of the hostess. Potts, for example, has only a handful of visitors. Because his villa is very empty, except for the owner, there is not even a housekeeper or servant, and the daily cleaning and maintenance and living habits all rely on the intelligent housekeeper program "Jarvis" and a bunch of robots to serve.

In recent months, Iron Man Tony has been nesting in his underground laboratory in his California Seaview Villa, rarely going out, completely leaving the company to "Little Pepper" Potts, and developing various new Mark series Iron Man armors on his own ********.

At this time, in his basement, there was already a circle full of various Mark armors. There are those that have been painted and coated with a film, and there are also those that are pure metallic and have nothing applied. This dazzling collection is Tony's proud achievement for some time, and although the performance of these latest works still does not satisfy the discerning Tony, they are the crystallization of his quest for perfection. For more powerful combat effectiveness and more effective targeting, Tony. Stark designed a number of types of special aircraft to deal with different enemies in different environments, from the Mark 7 suit used during the Battle of Manhattan, which was upgraded to the current Mark 42 propulsion autopilot suit.

Since the big battle against the aliens in Manhattan, New York, Iron Man Tony. Stark was visibly anxious, feeling that the world was far crazier than he had imagined, and that his future enemies were more dangerous than he had imagined. While he was slowly upgrading his Mark armor and complacent about his Iron Man identity, the evil god Loki and his teammates in the Avengers taught him a crucial lesson: the danger of this world did not come from Earth alone, nor was it only the enemies he had fought with the Mark suit.

Therefore, out of an inexplicable sense of anxiety and crisis, he stayed in the studio of his villa to engage in an arms race during this time. You could say that these feelings are some kind of anxiety disorder, but you should see a psychologist. But once they exist, they are very difficult to eliminate themselves.

In Tony's view, this inexplicable anxiety is more like a prophecy, an oracle, or an apocalypse, reminding him, the "child of destiny", not to slack off, urging him to go all out to meet new challenges - and now, new challenges have finally appeared!

The leader of a terrorist organization called the "Manchurian Adult" suddenly rose to prominence and carried out bombing attacks on the battlefields of the Middle East and on the United States mainland. If that's all there is, then it's nothing, anyway, the crime rate in the United States in this world has always been extremely high, especially in New York, where even superpower crimes are common, and everyone is used to living a life of fighting and killing all day long. And Tony didn't care too much about it at first, if any criminals who were a little more murderous had to trouble him Iron Man to do voluntary labor, then what was the federal government going to eat?

But in the latest bombing attack that the "Manchurian" claimed to have organized, Tony. Stark's former personal bodyguard, Harpy, was also unfortunately hit, and is now lying on a hospital bed, tightly wrapped in bandages. Although there is no real danger to life for the time being, it cannot be said that it is completely out of danger, let alone completely reassuring. No one knows if he'll be able to bounce around as usual.

This made Tony's heart heavy, as if there was a raging anger burning in his heart. Anyone who dares to provoke him, or those who value him around him, is an abominable enemy who provokes his anger.

has been with Tony for more than ten years, although the importance is not as important as Pepper Pepper Pepper. Potts' place in his heart. But it's only a thin line of difference - there are only a handful of people close to him who can be recognized and valued by his arrogant genius, and each one is precious.

In Tony's opinion, this means a declaration of war against his Iron Man! They must be made aware of Iron Man's wrath!!

The scene at that time appeared in front of his eyes again, when he visited Harpy and walked out of the hospital, a large group of reporters who received the news had already been guarding the door, and when they saw Tony walking out of the hospital, they immediately rushed up, in order to grab the position, a female reporter simply kicked out the high heels that hindered her running one by one, and then held the microphone barefoot, and took the photographer to Tony. The microphone and recorder in his hand struggled forward, almost poking him in the face.

“…… Stark ......"

“…… Mr. Stark, do you think this attack ......"

“…… There are sources who say that this is yet another terrorist attack, what do you think about this, Mr. Stark......"

“…… Mr. Stark......"

“……”

The cacophony of questions rang around Tony's ears, and every reporter was asking his own questions at a rapid pace, hoping to get even the slightest response from Tony. However, this time, Tony, who had always been high-profile, did not give them the response they wanted, but silently lowered his head and walked towards the silver-white sports car not far from him. Just when these reporters thought that they were going to return empty-handed this time, and they were extremely disappointed, Tony, who walked to the front of the car, suddenly stopped and turned around.

Then, Tony in sunglasses. Stark looked around in silence until all the reporters had quieted down before he spoke, "...... I do have something to say, and I want to spread it through you -- I want to say, whoever planned this attack. You're in big trouble. I'll find you out and give you the punishment you deserve. Or you can ask me to save some effort and come to me directly. It has nothing to do with the government, it's purely a personal vendetta! The address of my place is known to many people, but just in case you don't know, I can say it again here, I live at 10880 Malibu Coast. I'm looking for you, or you're looking for me. The choice is yours! ”

After making a personal declaration of war speech against terrorists, Tony. Stark returns to his oceanview villa, using Jarvis' database to reconstruct the scene of the terrorist attack, as well as analyzing and researching the evidence that Harby, the former personal bodyguard, fought for his life to bring back from the scene of the explosion: a plain-looking silver flat triangular metal block. He thought there must be something here that would allow him to get some vital information.

Now, in the empty underground workshop, the intelligent program manager "Jarvis" has used stereoscopic projection to restore the explosion scene into a virtual model, and analyzed the composition of the evidence brought back by Harpy, and then came to some strange conclusions.

“…… According to the on-site restoration calculation, the heat generated by the explosion exceeded 3,000 degrees Celsius, and objects within 12.5 yards of the explosion will vaporize instantly. Curiously, no bomb fragments were found within a three-mile radius of the blast site...... How exactly do terrorists do it? Did they transform themselves into real human bombs, inject liquid explosives into their bodies and then detonate them? But even so, the temperature is not enough, right? ”

“…… The silver flat triangular metal block that Mr. Harpy brought with him was a special alloy that contained some kind of liquid potion inside, and I did a little bit of a simple test on it, and there was no doubt that it should be some kind of biological weapon. If the kind of biological and chemical weapons found on Mr. Harpy's body are related to this explosion, then we only need to find out who made it, and we can understand the ins and outs of these explosions, as well as the true identity of the Manchurian......"

-- The judgment of the smart butler program "Jarvis" can be called orderly, but how to find its maker, Iron Man Tony has no clue so far. Moreover, out of the intuition of a genius, he also vaguely felt that this mysterious "Manchurian" did not seem to be just a simple terrorist. And the U.S. government's recent handling of such terrorist attacks also seems to be somewhat incorrect......

The provocative words he made at the entrance of the hospital before also meant to deliberately provoke the mastermind behind the terrorist attack and lure the other party to fight on his home turf. But after waiting for a few days, there was no movement at all, and it seemed that the other party seemed to be a character who was good at forbearance, rather than a brave and resourceful reckless man, and it was not so easy to jump into his trap as soon as he was provoked.

In this way, on the contrary, he let go of his arrogance, and became a little difficult to ride a tiger - who knows where the "Manchu adult" is?

The embarrassing feeling of hanging in mid-air and not being able to get up and down made the arrogant Tony very uncomfortable for a while. However, although it is his Iron Man's mission to fight against evil forces, it is also his duty as a man to make women happy.

On Christmas Eve, he gave "Little Pepper" Pepper. Potts gave a two-story Muppet Bunny as a Christmas present, but the beauty didn't seem to be satisfied. So now he's bought an even bigger teddy bear as a New Year's gift for Pepper.

However, it wasn't until the delivery company trucked in the giant teddy bear puppet that Tony discovered an unexpected problem, how to move such a large thing into the house? Not to mention that the door is not big enough, even the height of the living room can't accommodate it!

So, he had to have the giant teddy bear placed in the small square outside the villa, waiting for Pepper to find out about the surprise as soon as he returned.

It's a pity that just as Tony was wearing the latest Mark No. 42 Iron Man suit, sitting at the door waiting for the beauty to come home, he suddenly felt a sudden feeling in his heart. As soon as I looked up, I was even more shocked to see that at the end of the distant clear sky, a bright point of light suddenly appeared at some point, and it quickly became more and more conspicuous...... It was a fireball that swooped down from the end of the sky, as brilliant as the aurora, and its light was so bright that it was difficult for anyone to look at it directly!

What's even more terrifying is that this blazing fireball in the sky, which is rapidly brightening, seems to be crashing straight towards his seaview villa!

“…… Oh! My God! What is it? Meteorite? No! It's a spaceship!! Where did this spaceship come from?!!! ”

He only had time to mutter, and a very small bucket-shaped spaceship fell from the sky with raging flames, and accurately hit the giant teddy bear in the square, not only burning the flammable puppet to ashes in an instant, but also knocking out a large crater in the ground! The earth, rocks and air waves stirred up when it hit the ground shook the glass windows of the villa to the ground.

The wheel of history or the trajectory of the plot that has already begun to shift has been completely pushed into the ditch at this moment, it is a New Year's gift purchased by Iron Man for his girlfriend, a cute giant teddy bear, smashed into the ground by a mini spaceship falling from the sky as the beginning......

At the same time, the secret radar station arranged by S.H.I.E.L.D. nearby also sounded a terrible superlative alarm......

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ps: I was shocked to hear that the US military and the White House are tearing up in the Middle East, which is comparable to the great internal fighting of the old Japanese Empire.

The latest revelation this year has exposed the infighting between the U.S. military and the CIA in Syria. The outside world has known for a long time that since the Arab Spring, there have been obvious differences between the White House and the military in the United States on Middle East policy. But it was always thought that the black president was restraining the more radical military hardliners. But the truth is quite the opposite: the White House and the CIA are the radicals, and the Pentagon is the conservatives who are deliberately stirring up the situation and dragging their feet!

The White House insisted on funding ISIS and taking out Assad first. However, the military insisted on taking out ISIS, and then whether to deal with Assad depending on the situation. As a result of the failure of the two sides to get along, the Americans themselves fought. Back when the White House instructed the CIA to cooperate with Turkey to fund ISIS, the Pentagon strongly objected, arguing that the White House's Syria policy was allowing the real enemies of the United States, al-Qaeda and ISIS, to grow. After the failure of the opposition, starting in the fall of 2013, the U.S. military simply contacted the Russians and Kurds to try to interfere with the CIA's efforts to send aid to ISIS through Turkey.

The previous Syrian crisis in 2013 was actually a game done by the Turkish government and the CIA with the acquiescence of the president, but the US military refused to do it and directly disclosed the inside secrets to the EU. And the White House, which is bent on the main battle, has no choice but to withdraw because the military is resolutely refusing to do it.

Since the Russian army entered the war in Syria, why has the White House always spoken harshly, but the US military in the Middle East has not made any major moves? Because the Pentagon is seriously opposed to interfering in the Syrian war, unwilling to confront the Russians in order to help terrorists, and even supports the Russian army in fighting terrorists. The strange thing of spending $500 million to help the Syrian opposition train five "super soldiers" was actually deliberately screwed up by the US military. In addition, the U.S. military also manipulated the internal response to the revelations planted in Turkey to deal with the CIA and Turkish President Erdogan, and the two sides have been fighting fiercely for more than two years.

In short, today's war in Syria, at least between the Kurds and ISIS, has become the Americans fighting themselves. The White House supports ISIS and Turkish religious forces, and the Pentagon supports the Kurds and Turkey's secularized military. On the one hand, the U.S. military bombarded terrorists indiscriminately, and on the other hand, CIA agents provided covert assistance to terrorists. It is completely unclear who is a patriot and who is a traitor.

And Turkey is almost torn apart, the current government that advocates religious supremacy and the military that advocates secularism, plus the Kurds in the east, with the support of the White House and the Pentagon respectively, and the support of the Americans on both sides, is almost about to start a civil war: reality is more outrageous than fiction! A militant civilian government and a war-weary military! How brain-opening does this have to be to imagine such a strange pattern?