Chapter 53: Review by the Department of Defense

When Diana and Tony walked into the Department of Defense review, everyone present stared at them.

"Nervous?" Tony said to Diana, "If you're nervous, you can sit with Pepper, and I can do it alone this time." ”

Diana didn't look at Tony, but said, "Do you think those people on the podium will make me sit down in peace of mind?" ”

Tony shrugged as he looked at the old man of the Ministry of Defense who was eyeing the two of them. He knew that what he had just said was just a way to relieve his tension.

The two of them sat peacefully across from the presidium.

"This time the main censor has arrived, so we can start our topic this time." Senator Stern, the head of the Department of Defense, knocked on the table to try to draw everyone's attention to himself.

But it was clear that he had failed.

The two people sitting across from him, one is Tony Stark, the most talked-about Iron Man in the United States, and the other is a beautiful woman, and it is almost difficult for anyone to take people's attention off these two people.

"Knock Knock"

As a last resort, Senator Stern could only bang the gavel in front of him again.

"Now, we're going to get to the point." Senator Stern was a little unhappy with the casualness of the two men in front of him.

"So, dear. I wonder, why were we summoned? Tony opened his mouth to Senator Stern and asked, "The reason on your subpoena is kind of funny. ”

Tony pulled the subpoena out of his pocket: "What do you mean by being based on the safety of the United States?" Am I a danger to America? Or is this beautiful lady next to me a danger to America? ”

"Because you have weapons of mass destruction in the true sense of the word." Senator Stern didn't panic at all, but said lightly that the two members of the Insight Seeker were weapons that could bring danger to the United States.

Diana sat there quietly watching all this happen, knowing that it was not the time for her to show up, and that she would just hand over the stage to Tony Stark first.

"Wow! Weapons of mass destruction! You're a bluffer, do you want to take out a small tube of laundry detergent and tell me it's a biological weapon? Tony patted the table with both hands, completely immune to Senator Stern's bluffing term.

"Tony Stark, your Iron Man, and the woman next to you are also weapons of mass destruction." Senator Stern pointed the pen in his hand at Diana, who was smiling gently.

"Sorry, you're saying you're going to classify her as a weapon of mass destruction as well?" Tony didn't understand if they really had their heads on their buttocks, or what was going on.

"That's right, this woman is also a weapon of mass destruction."

"I really think the advice you gave me yesterday was pretty good." Tony leaned in to Diana and said, "Do you want to do it now?" ”

"Now is your stage, get your things done first." Ever since Diana came in, she had had a smile on her face that seemed gentle but was actually unapproachable.

Tony shrugged, leaned back in front of Mike and said, "So what does Mr. Senator want us to do?" ”

"My limited consideration is that you will hand over your suit to the people of America along with the lady beside you."

"Then don't think about it." Tony responded seriously to Senator Stern's completely question, "I am Iron Man, Iron Man is me, you asked me to hand over Iron Man, you are asking me to sell my body, not to mention that you also let the young lady next to me hand over to the American people?" Could it be that Washington, D.C., has now let go of this kind of thing? ”

Diana looked like a bystander, as if she didn't care what they were discussing, she just looked at the councillor with a brace on her face.

It's like there's something special about that Senator Stern.

"Maybe I'm not familiar with this kind of thing, so I've brought in real weapons experts and experts in biological genetics." Senator Stern loosened his tie, "Now I'm going to subpoena Justin Hammer and Norman Osborne." ”

"I saw Justin Hammer walk in, but where is the weapons expert? Oh, Norman Osborne is a weapons expert, but why do you call him a biogenetic expert? Tony didn't take these two men seriously at all, maybe Osbourne could be called a weapons expert, but definitely not a biological genetic expert.

Justin Hammer, that clown jumping off the beam.

The appearance of Justin Hammer surprised Diana a little, after all, this guy had been taken away by S.H.I.E.L.D. before. But looking at the current S.H.I.E.L.D., it's not a new thing that this product can come out.

Norman Osborne's villain-like face didn't have any expression, just sat there with a straight face.

Justin Hammer had a pompous smile on his face, and even raised his glass to Tony when he said he wasn't an expert in weapons.

"Norman Osborne and Justin Hammer will determine if your Iron Man armor and the lady next to you are weapons." After the senator finished speaking, he leaned back in his chair as if everything was in his hands.

Justin Hammer was just about to stand up and say something when he saw a pair of beautiful eyes.

Diana was looking directly at the beam-jumping clown.

All the words that Justin was about to say were swallowed back into his stomach by this glance, and he could only sit down again with an unnatural expression. After all, the impact that Diana brought him before was too great.

"I would like to remind this Miss Diana Prince that it is not right to threaten a spokesman." Senator Stern saw Diana's gaze at Hammer.

"I want to remind the senator that if a glance at you is a threat, then I have threatened everyone here." Tony said to Mike, looking around at the attendees for a week.

"I think it's an honor for a lot of people to be stared at by such a beautiful lady, isn't it?"

Tony took on Diana's speaking role entirely, refuting Senator Stern's apparently outrageous remarks.

Diana is also happy to be idle, after all, sometimes a real American billionaire like Tony Stark knows how to deal with these people.

At this time, Norman Osborne, who had not spoken a word, spoke up: "Then it seems that I can speak." ”

He took a sip of water and continued, "Maybe none of us can tell from Tony Stark's mouth whether Iron Man is a weapon or not, but at least the young lady sitting next to him, I can tell you for sure, is not a character from the comics." ”

"She's the perfect form of a biological weapon, but everyone thinks it's a real person."

Norman made a conclusion that almost no one had ever made, but one that at least sounded like a very reasonable thing to do.

"As for why this young lady is in this state, even I don't know very well, maybe only Stark can explain it, and we can even make a bold guess." Norman pointed at Diana, "This young lady is the most powerful protection that Howard Stark left to our current Iron Man, as well as wealth." ”

Listening to Norman's speculation, Tony had to say that if he hadn't done an all-round scan of Diana in his own home, he might have really wondered if Diana was really a bioweapon because of Osborne's remarks.

"Haven't you really seen my dad?" Tony said to Diana with some jokingness.

"When I came to Earth in 1995, what do you say?" Diana asked Tony rhetorically.

β€œAll right。”

"Bang bang." While Diana and Tony were talking, Norman Osborne also finished his speech, drawing applause from Senator Stern.

"Thank you, Mr. Osborne, for your statement." Senator Stern then turned at Tony, "Is there anything Mr. Stark would like to say now?" ”

"I don't think there's any technology in the last century that could make such a perfect bioweapon, and if it was my father's bioweapon, then at least she should be Marilyn Monroe." Tony had no idea that one day he would use his father's aesthetic to refute an absurd but outrageous hearing.

"Then we can put this matter aside for now, and we can also put aside the matter of whether Iron Man is a weapon or not, and now I have a weapon report on Iron Man from Air Force Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes. Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes is invited to enter. ”

"Rod?" Even Tony didn't expect that this hearing would invite his few friends over, and even show up as his opposite.

Rhodes walked into the venue from the outside.

"Dude, I never thought I'd see you again on such an occasion."

Rod said helplessly: "Yes, I'm here, admit it, look forward." ”

"I just..."

"Save it." Rod shook Tony's hand and continued walking in the direction he was supposed to go.

Tony scratched his head and returned to his seat.

"Lieutenant Colonel Rod, read for us, your report on Iron Man's weapons, page 57, paragraph 4, please." Senator Stern had no intention of letting Rhodes finish reading it, because he knew how thick a report Rhodes had written.

And for him, it doesn't take much to say it, just one paragraph that is bad for Tony Stark is enough.

Rod clearly didn't expect this to happen: "Do you want me to take a paragraph from the report to state it?" I thought it was a more detailed and specific proof. ”

"It's okay, Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes. Just a paragraph. Today a lot of things have changed a little, changed. Senator Stern had no idea what Rhodes was going to say, "You just have to read that paragraph." ”

Rod glanced at Tony apologetically, then flipped through his report: "Because his actions are not clearly under the jurisdiction of any government agency, Iron Man poses a potential threat to the American nation and its interests. But then I also concluded that the benefits of Iron Man's existence outweigh the disadvantages......"

Senator Stern saw that Rhodes still had the idea of continuing to state, and quickly interrupted him: "Okay, Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes, these are enough. ”

"I think Iron Man should be incorporated into the current chain of command..."

"OK, it's over, Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes." Senator Stern said.

Tony just watched quietly as the senator jumped up and down like a clown, and didn't reply.

There was no way, there was a woman sitting next to her who couldn't be defeated with existing weapons, and she was also her friend, so there was no need to worry about anything at all.

Sometimes it's better to get these clowns to jump out before you can punch them in the face.

At this moment, there is someone who can't take his eyes off Diana, and that person is Norman Osborne.

The biggest reason Norman actually agreed to attend this hearing was that the woman who sat next to Tony Stark, and obtaining her genes might cure Osborne's genetic defects.

At least it will allow them to live a little longer.

Diana naturally felt Norman Osborne's gaze, but what did it matter. A man who could die at any time because of a genetic problem.

Diana glanced at Norman and stopped paying attention to the guy.

On the contrary, it was Senator Stern, who was constantly shouting on the stage now, that made her a little more interested, after all, a guy who was still a hydra was now sitting in the seat of the US Department of Defense in the open.

"Don't you want to say something?" Tony couldn't stand the dreary atmosphere of the hearing, and he needed a little adjustment to keep himself from yawning at the hearing.

Now only Diana can break this situation if she comes forward, after all, who doesn't love beautiful women?

Beautiful women are much better at talking than these men are talking about.

"I didn't expect you to refute Rhodes' report." Diana glanced at Tony with her peripheral vision.

"It's not interesting, since I know the real universe you're talking about, this kind of thing honestly doesn't interest in wine anymore. This time I just came to see what new tricks this group of people could come up with for me, but I didn't expect it to be the same old way. Tony was a little lacking in interest.

"Then I guess you can see some new tricks, and change the hydra." Diana said to Tony with a smile.

"Then I'm going to have to take a closer look." Tony didn't expect that there was still Hydra here, and it could be said that this was part of the most powerful group of people in the United States.

Hydra appears here?

Then the United States is completely rotten to the bottom.

Diana smiled at Tony, then stood up and looked at the senator on the stage.

The red dress was like a rose in the morning, setting off Diana's fiery figure, but what she said sounded to some people was the cold wind of winter.

"Cut off one head and grow two."