"Mr. Stark, the current titanium alloy used in the Warframe is second only to vibranium and Erdman on Earth, but Miss Howlett's organic diamond skeleton is almost as tough as it"

Tony tipped the armor model on the light curtain and adjusted the design of the weapon system, and in the workshop, the intelligent assistant Jarvis continued to analyze:

On the one hand, it is recommended to find armor casting materials with better hardness and performance, as well as defensive force fields against mysterious side forces, including but not limited to anti-magnetic and anti-mental power."

"Jarvis, can you help me order a thousand kilograms of vibranium ore from the Howlett Group?" Tony said with a roll of his eyes.

"I'm sorry sir, vibranium and its various derivative alloys are strictly controlled by the Orient Group, and I can collect enough vibranium metal for you to be scattered in the market, but it is estimated that the volume that may be collected is not more than fifty kilograms."

"Then where do you ask me to find a better casting material for the armor? Useless advice aside, let's start with a portable suit plan document, and I hope to be able to wear it anytime and anywhere when I get to the Mark 5. ”

As he gave Jarvis an order, the glass door on the upper floor of the workshop slowly opened, and a tall, but somewhat thin young woman walked down with a stack of papers.

Miss Pepper Potts, Tony Stark's most trusted and capable assistant and secretary in the group's day-to-day work, waited quietly for a long time, until Tony finished working on the design of the last part of the armor's leg engine propulsion, and pressed the touch button that started manufacturing, and then said aloud:

"Mr. Stark, here are two proposals for the Ark Energy civil project, a partially screened appointment application, a subpoena for interrogation from the 'Order' department, and. . . Miss Laura Howlett sent a verbal message on the phone, saying that if she continues to be unbeaten as before, please stop harassing and disturbing her. ”

Tony glanced at the group's project book and threw it on the table, took a document printed with the "Whip of Order" emblem and looked at it carefully, suddenly grinned, looked at the secretary Potts and smiled:

"Hey, that's not what she said, right? Interpellation subpoena. Solving the problem of war in the Middle East is still being interrogated and questioned, and even if the local war in this world continues, one by one the self-proclaimed righteous order executives still have the face to question me. ”

Tony shook his head indignantly, extremely unhappy with the Whip of Order.

After developing a Warframe capable of combining flight, firepower, and melee combat, he directly intervened in two war-torn areas of the Middle East over religious issues.

With the help of one person, he swept away the military forces of two regiments, but he was immediately questioned by the "whip of order" and ordered to be interrogated and dealt with within the specified time.

Compared with Tony, who resisted the restraints, Miss Potts on the side was quite rational:

"The pros and cons of the prohibition of extraordinary-force interference in political and military conflicts between countries and regions have been established for decades, and the pros and cons of this have been greatly involved, at least for a few years since it was established, and the rate of harm to ordinary people who are not threatened by the holders of supernatural forces has been steadily decreasing."

I signed two plans, took the next month's appointment form and scanned it roughly, occasionally sketched the names of one or two people who agreed to meet, and said indifferently:

"Times are different, Pepper, if the progress of technology or power does not benefit the masses, but only becomes the capital of a small number of people, then it is another kind of 'dictatorship', the Howlett family has controlled the 'Rubik's Cube Energy' and vibranium for more than half a century, and they never thought - Reed? Reed Richards? ”

Tony flipped through the application and rushed to Pepper Potts, pointing to a name on it and asking in surprise, "Is it my college classmate Richards?" The one that has been missing for years? ”

The Skrulls were ultimately blamed for the invasion of New York, which shook the world, and the cause of the incident was not known to the world, the Stone Man and Reed Richards, who went out of control due to the supernatural powers of the cosmic storm radiation.

The two were imprisoned in the Wolf Tower in a very secretive manner, including the initial research plan for the Cosmic Storm, which was also one of the top secret projects of the Howlett Group.

For the outside world, Dr. Richards, a genius scientist who was once in the spotlight of the scientific community, just suddenly lost his voice, as if he had disappeared.

"Yes, Mr. Stark, the caller who made the appointment claimed to be Dr. Richards, who had an old acquaintance with you, and although I can't verify it yet, I put his name on the application form."

Tony looked at Reed's name in silence, and after a while, handed back the document in his hand to Pepper, and said quietly:

"Bring Richards' meeting to the forefront, as soon as possible."

The next day.

Tony Stark, who rarely stayed in the group office, looked at the thin figure who pushed the door under Pepper's guidance, and nodded slightly.

Although the sideburns and hair of the person who came have become frosty white, and the temperament has become a lot more indifferent, the young face that is still familiar and an outdated wide suit is Reed Richards himself.

"Tony Stark, long time no see, excuse me."

"Reed. Thank you Pepper, don't arrange anything else today. ”

Tony got up and shook Reed's hand, not very warm, but after leaning over to the secretary to give instructions, he looked at the old classmate who had suddenly appeared, and invited Dr. Richards to sit on the couch.

"Have you disappeared for five years or six years? Talk about your abilities and abilities, I've rarely been so curious. ”

Tony poured two shallow bourbons, a rare patience and anticipation for Dr. Reed Richards, who could make him respect and affirm in the field of science, and even faintly felt that he had lost.

"Hey, I've been doing it for seven years. yes, I'm pretty good right now, and—"

Reed leaned back on the sofa and didn't get up, under Tony's stunned eyes, his right wrist stretched out dozens of centimeters and held the wine glass on the table, quickly retracted, took a sip of the glass, and laughed self-deprecatingly:

And I've been staying in the 'Wolf Tower' for the past seven years. Endanger public safety. ”

"That super prison! What did you do? Do you have an X gene mutation? How could it have been until now?"

Tony's eyes flickered as he reacquainted himself with his old classmate, and the two pieces of information that the other party suddenly threw out made him a little difficult to understand for a while.

"It's not the mutant X-gene mutation, it's the genetic mutation that occurs when exposed to the energy radiation of the cosmic storm"

Reed Richards talked roughly about the experiment and what happened next, and from time to time he took two sips of Bourbon, and the two of them quickly drank half a bottle.

Then you come to me. Hehe, do you want to work for Stark Group? If that's the case, you can't ask for it. Tony chuckled.

Although Richards looked like he was coming out of prison and should be desperate to find a job, his calm and even somewhat indifferent expression did not have a trace of decadence.

On the contrary, it seems that he has strengthened some kind of will, determined to do something big.

"Do you think our world should go on like this, and how long will the ridiculous theory of human mutation and evolution deceive the world? The interstellar age has arrived, and the future belongs to science, not to a certain family and their group of minions who have gained power by luck 'lottery'. ”

Tony saw hatred in Reed's face, and although he said this with a calm face, and not even in his tone of emotion, there was no emotional fluctuation in his blue eyes

"What? You're trying to pull me along to deal with Howlett? ”

"No, I just want the world to be better protected, by intelligence, by technology, not by a handful of mutants who are high up in the sky, although I am no different from them now."

Richards' last words made Tony's heart flutter, and it coincided with a certain idea he had been envisioning.

"I've got a little place to do some research and there are some very interesting techniques that you are welcome to take a look at if you are interested in collaborating. I think vibranium ore is enough for you to make a few sets of Warframes, and it should satisfy you. ”

Tony's pupils twitched slightly, and he suddenly fell into a kind of self-entanglement and contradiction, the point being that he had never thought of his attitude towards the mysterious family.

It's different.

——

Half a month later.

When the Phoenix could already see the blue earth, James Howlett, who was standing in front of the giant porthole in the central hall of the starship, ordered the landing of the ship to be postponed, and stared at the planet silently.

"What's wrong? I'm not in a hurry when I get to the door, I won't really worry about explaining to the teacher and Laura~"

Jean Grey, dressed in a flaming red high-leg dress, came to James and chuckled and teased him by the crook of his arm.

"Hehe, I'm thinking about going back now, or finishing that thing first."

"Phoenix" raised her chin lightly and thought slightly, and the arrogant and domineering queen's temperament when she was by James's side suddenly changed to quite gentle.

"Asgard doesn't have the god king Odin, but his two sons are not worth caring about, some of the other seven worlds are already barren, and it won't take much time to walk around, but I think Laura must have been extremely depressed on Earth in the past few years."

"Okay, then let's go home first!"

The "Wolf's Lair" base has not received a signal from the long-distance spacecraft for almost four years.

When Hank McCoy "The Beast" reported to the White Queen, Emma seemed to realize something, and she just ordered someone to go and get Laura back immediately, and at the same time notified Eric Lanschel, Steve, and Bucky, and then walked towards the snowy field on the ground.

The Earth's orbital protection network has now been perfected, although the pace of human exploration of the galaxy is still stuck in the collection and construction of resources in the solar system and surrounding galaxies, and has not been in contact with the major civilizations in the universe for the time being.

But it's hard to revisit the situation where Marauders and Kree were able to come and go as they did in the past.

As the Phoenix approached Earth's orbit, the planetary defense array lit up with an energy glow, as if to welcome its return with some kind of ritual.

As the spaceship sailed towards Greenland, a group of people had been waiting silently for a long time on the vast snowfield.

A door of black and red light opened, and Assazo appeared beside Emma with his wife Raven and Peggy Rogers, the head of the newly established "Heavenly Sword Bureau" from outside the earth.

With Bucky and Steve, Eric and others coming from New York and other places, the Howlett family is finally together again.

"Alas, I've been looking for so many years, and I almost went to the dark dimension to take a turn, but I haven't even found any news from my father, Emma, are you sure he's back, maybe it's just that Grey's girl is tired of playing outside and wants to come back to see."

Emma Howlett's eyes looked at the clear blue sky, and the cold wind of the ice field blew the tips of her golden hair.

"Jean wouldn't have come back if he hadn't found James, and I could feel that he was back."

The White Queen's cold voice was full of certainty, and a brass-colored spaceship finally peeked out of the clouds in her eyes, and after a few breaths, it approached and pressed over everyone's heads.

As the dark yellow light curtain flickered, James Howlett stood at the front with Jean, and behind him, nearly three hundred young men and girls who had been away from home for several years also stepped on the ice field.

His dark eyes only reflected Emma, who was dressed in white, in front of him.

The White Queen looked at her long-haired husband walking straight towards her, biting her lip and taking a deep breath. Although his appearance is still the same, in Emma's mental world, James's familiar "taste" has become a little different.

"I brought you a gift."

James hugged Emma and whispered in her ear, and took out a topaz necklace strung with vibranium from his bosom and placed it on her snow-white neck.

"Daddy, do we have any gifts? Your new hairstyle is quite special. ”

Asazo smiled and wrapped his fur coat tightly, still looking shy, very afraid of the cold.

The White Queen felt an indescribable psychic power from the moment James appeared, like a stranded fish finally returning to the sea, and when the necklace made of the original soul stone was worn around her neck, the blue pupils were filled with bright yellow dazzling flames.

The golden flame of eternity ignited in James's body, helping Emma, who was unable to control the power of the rough stone for a while, gradually stabilize.

He looked at the students and children he hadn't seen in years, and remembered that Jean had told him on the Phoenix that he had killed the warriors of his family for attacking Asgard, and his expression suddenly darkened.

"Take me to see Remus first, I'm sorry to worry about Laura?"

Except for her daughter Laura, almost all the members of the family have arrived on the ice field.

"Laura doesn't usually like to bring a communicator, and I've sent someone to find her."

"What, little Tony, you want to be beaten up again in less than a month?"

"Storm Girl" Oloro Monroe opened in a bar in New York, Laura was wearing black leggings and a sleeveless shirt, looking at Tony with the attitude of an elder.

"Ahem, I'm a few years older than you, I'm afraid you'll fight next time. But I'm here today to help your Howlett family. ”

Tony Stark, who has always been comfortable with women, is always a little uncomfortable in front of Laura.

He shook his glass lightly and said with a complicated expression.

(End of chapter)