Chapter 36: "I am Iron Man."
Sitting backstage at the press conference, Diana calmly flipped through the newspaper in her hand, and Pepper Pepper Pepper was covering up the scars on Tony's face across from her.
The TV on the side was also showing James Rhodes about the two tin men who were filmed in the road fight yesterday.
"There are unconfirmed reports of a prototype robot malfunctioning, resulting in damage to the Ark reactor. Luckily, one of Tony Stark..."
"Iron Man, it's catchy, and it's loud. Not strictly accurate, because my suit is made of gold and titanium, but this kind of intention is coming. Tony also took a newspaper and flipped through it, and the cover picture of the newspaper was a heroic picture of him.
Coulson also walked over at this time and handed Tony a copy of his speech, a perfect alibi: "This is your alibi. ”
“OK。” Tony reluctantly took the small piece of speech.
This is followed by a series of statements by Coulson to prove that Tony Stark did not show up.
"You might as well say it's just me Pepper." Tony said unconcernedly.
Pepper playfully ripped off the band-aid on Tony's eyebrows.
The two men looked at each other silently.
Seeing this, Coulson didn't say anything, just told Tony that he had a minute and a half to go on stage to speak.
"So, why are you here?" Tony looked at Diana, who seemed to be on vacation, and said, this woman is here as an oversized light bulb that no one can ignore.
"Why can't you be here?" Diana didn't even raise her head, "Did I disturb you?" ”
Tony choked, he did have a different emotion for Pepper, it was different from the previous feeling of just sleeping, maybe he would have a good relationship.
But not now, after all, to continue drinking that disgusting green drink.
Diana didn't say anything more, after all, she had to leave some room for others. stepped out with graceful steps, although the word "elegance" does not go well with the word "warrior", but it always makes people feel that her state is elegant.
"I guess this woman won't be able to find a boyfriend in her life." Tony looked at Diana as she left, pouting.
Pepper gave Tony an angry look.
Diana stood beside Coulson, looked around and said, "I'm curious, why hasn't anyone taken a picture of me?" ”
Coulson touched his nose and said embarrassedly: "We spent a lot of money to solve your photo problem, and some things are not too acceptable." ”
"It's still the same old thing, can't mutants still appear in everyone's sight?" Diana didn't believe in this kind of bullshit at all, and she could make mutants walk around and not be able to accept the transcendent showing her face?
Coulson cleared his throat: "Mutants have long been known to the public, not to mention that the current mutants are completely free of any threat in a sense. ”
Diana looked at Coulson and didn't bother him, this kind of thing is not something that a small agent of his can control.
"Fury is busy right now." Diana said lightly, "If he has found something, it should be in a state of flux." ”
Coulson had already ripped off his headset when Diana said Nick Fury's name: "I don't know, but the Director is not going back to the Triple Wing at all." ”
Coulson paused, "But we'll still be given orders through Agent Hill." ”
Diana nodded, and stopped discussing the topic: "You said that today's press conference will not happen something that you never expected?" ”
"Uh~ probably not." Coulson was a little unresponsive to Diana's jumpy conversation.
"I don't think so." Diana saw the mustachioed man at the behest of a blonde reporter's questioning, a little unscrupulous, until Rod reminded him to read along.
Tony raised the text in his hand and stopped, opening his mouth, but eventually put it down.
"Everything may be different from what you expected, but the truth is..."
“I am Iron Man.”
It's you, Tony Stark. No matter what happens, you will never agree to hide yourself.
Patting Coulson on the shoulder, Diana said, "Congratulations, pretty boy." I can't hide it, I guess you're going to work overtime again. ”
Coulson couldn't keep his expression in check, so he picked up the phone and called his director.
Looking at Coulson's hurried steps, Diana couldn't help but feel sad for his hairline, which had been moving backwards since she knew him until now.
Diana didn't want to get up, and in a way she's in a state of complete break with Nick Fury right now, and it's only suspicious to get together at this point.
The podium was a complete mess, and Tony had already left the stage that had become the prologue to the superhero era under the cover of the security personnel behind him.
Everyone wants to know more and more exciting news, which is not only a matter of jobs, but also the nature of a journalist.
In the chaos of the scene, Diana also silently left the venue and returned to the backstage preparation room.
Maybe there's a good show to see there.
Sure enough, as soon as I arrived backstage, I heard the sound of Pepper collapsing.
"Are you crazy? Why are you saying it! ”
"I just thought, that's right. I should bear it all, and I can bear it all. Tony's voice was full of confidence, "And you see, while I'm admitting, our stock price is going crazy, okay!" ”
Diana really didn't know what Tony was thinking, and she wanted to exchange the stock price for Pepper's forgiveness, or agree to her own approach.
Pepper, she's just worried about Tony.
"It seems that I came at the wrong time." Diana pushed open the door at the right time, and saw that it seemed that it was not two people, but two pit bulls enraged by the shaking of the red cloth, "Relax, relax." ”
Diana walked between the two and pressed down with both hands.
"There's nothing you can't talk to each other." Diana threw out a lasso of truth and slapped it on Tony's wrist.
"Hey! Is this some kind of magic prop? Tony said to Diana as he looked at the glowing mantra lasso on his wrist.
Diana didn't pay any attention to what the mustache was saying, and was about to explain her mantra lasso to Pepper when she was interrupted by Pepper's exclamation: "The mantra lasso can..."
"This is the Lasso of Truth!" Pepper was able to recognize at a glance the lasso of mantra that Diana threw out, which was a direction that Diana had completely failed to envision, "So you're Wonder Woman!" ”
"You know the Lasso of Truth?" Although she knows that the world has its own comic book image, she will never associate Pepper with comic book fans, and a strong woman who can support the entire Stark industry is still her own comic book fan?
Pepper looked at Diana with some embarrassment: "You are the favorite character of many of our girls when they were young." ”
"Wait, why didn't I even know about this?" Tony interrupted the conversation and said to Pepper. And now he still has that mantra lasso wrapped around his wrist.
He had tried to untie it just now, but it didn't work, it still firmly wrapped around his wrist, as if it had been on his wrist since birth.
"So you're really that Wonder Woman?" Pepper didn't care about Tony's question at all, and his childhood idol couldn't help but be excited when he was in front of him at the moment, "I didn't think about it when I heard your name before, if it weren't for the fact that you just took out this shiny mantra lasso, I really just thought that you were also that S.H.I.E.L.D. agent." ”
"Well, I do." Diana didn't have to hide, and generously admitted, "Aren't you afraid that I'm a liar?" ”
"Don't be afraid, after all, my boss just admitted that he is Iron Man." Pepper said and turned to Tony, "Why do you want to admit that you are Iron Man?" ”
"Hiding my identity will only make me passive, and the United States will also block me, and even start a war with my stuff." Tony looked at Diana with a surprised expression, he had just roughly understood the function of this thing in his hand, like a polygraph with a magnification function, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to use.
"Besides, I'm Tony Stark, and I don't have to hide myself."
Retracting the Lasso of Truth, Diana looked at Pepper, who was silent, and then at Tony Stark, who was staring at her Lasso, and said, "You can't study this thing." ”
Tony pouted, he didn't believe there was anything that science couldn't explain.
Diana didn't continue to explain, and the mustache would understand later. Standing up, Diana decided that it would be better to give the space here to these two fools who fell in love with each other and didn't explain it.
There are things for them to discover for themselves.