Chapter 332 James returns

   "Mr. Stark, the titanium alloy material used in the current armor is second only to Vibranium and Adamantium on the earth, but Miss Howlett's organic diamond skeleton is almost as tough as it"

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

  “. On the one hand, the way to improve combat effectiveness is to find armor casting materials with superior hardness and performance, as well as a defensive force field against mysterious side forces, including but not limited to anti-magnetic and anti-psychic forces.”

   "Jarvis, can you help me order 1,000 kilograms of vibranium raw ore from the Howlett Group?" Tony said, rolling his eyes.

"I'm sorry, sir. Vibration gold and its various derivative alloy materials are strictly controlled by the Howlett Group. I can collect enough vibrating gold metals that appear scattered on the market for you, but it is estimated that the volume that may be collected is no more than five Ten kilograms."

   "Where do you want me to find better casting materials for the armor? Don't mention the useless suggestions. First, create a portable armor plan document. I hope that when I advance to the Mark 5, I can wear it anytime and anywhere."

   Just as he was giving orders to Jarvis, the glass door on the upper floor of the workshop slowly opened, and a tall but thin young woman walked down with a stack of documents familiar to her.

Ms. Pepper Potts, Tony Stark's most trusted and capable assistant and secretary in the group's daily work, waited quietly for a long while until Tony finished the design improvement of the last part of the armor's leg engine propulsion. After pressing the touch button to start manufacturing, he said loudly:

"Mr. Stark, here are two proposals for the Ark Energy Civil Project, a partially screened appointment request, a summons for inquiry from the Department of 'Order', and... Miss Laura Howlett's phone verbal Leave a message, and she said that if she is still as unbeaten as before, please stop harassing and disturbing her."

  Tony glanced at the group's project book and threw it on the table, holding a document with the "Whip of Order" emblem on it, and suddenly grinning, looked at Secretary Potts and said with a smile:

"Hey, isn't that what she said exactly? Questioning summons. After solving a war problem in the Middle East, you are still being interrogated. Let the local wars in this world continue, and the order executives who claim to be just You still have the face to question me."

  Tony shook his head angrily, extremely dissatisfied with Whip of Order's approach.

  After he developed a armor capable of integrating flight, fire attack and melee combat, he directly intervened in two groups in the Middle East that were constantly fighting due to religious issues.

   With just one person, he wiped out the military forces of the two regiments, but was immediately questioned by the "Whip of Order" and ordered to be interrogated and dealt with within a specified time.

  Compared to Tony, who resisted restraint, Miss Potts on the side was quite rational:

"Extraordinary force must not interfere with the political and military conflicts of countries and regions. It has been established for decades. The pros and cons of this are very involved. At least for a few years after the establishment, ordinary people are not subject to the control of supernatural power holders. Threat injury rates have been steadily decreasing."

   Few signed two proposals, took a rough look at the appointment form for next month, occasionally sketched the names of one or two people who agreed to meet, and said indifferently:

"Times are different, Pepper. If advances in technology or power can't benefit the public, but only become the superior capital of a minority group, then it's another kind of 'dictatorship'. The Howlett family controls the 'Rubik's Cube Energy'. For more than a century, they never thought—Reed? Reed Richards?"

  Tony turned over the application form and rushed towards Pepper Potts, pointing to a name on it, he asked in surprise, "Is it my classmate Richards in college? The one who has been missing for many years?"

  The New York invasion that shocked the world was ultimately blamed on the Skrulls, but the cause of the incident, the Golem and Reed Richards, who lost control and ran away because of the supernatural power obtained by cosmic storm radiation, was unknown to the world.

  The two people were imprisoned in the Wolf Tower is also handled extremely secretly, including the initial research plan on cosmic storms, which is also one of the top secret projects of the Howlett Group.

  For the outside world, the genius scientist Dr. Richards, who was once widely regarded by the scientific community, just suddenly lost his voice, as if he had disappeared.

   "Yes, Mr. Stark, the person who called to make an appointment claimed to be the Dr. Richards who you knew a long time ago. Although I can't verify it at the moment, I still listed his name in the application form."

  Tony stared at Reed's name silently. After a while, he handed back the document in his hand to Pepper, and said quietly:

   "Bring the Richards meeting to the fore, ASAP."

the next day.

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

  Although the visitor's sideburns and hair have turned frosty white, and his temperament has become more indifferent, the still familiar young face and the outdated large suit are definitely 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 hands with Reid. It wasn't that warm and acquainted, but he turned to the secretary and looked at the old classmate who appeared suddenly, and asked Dr. Richards to sit on the reception sofa.

   "Have you disappeared for five years or six years? Let's talk with your abilities and abilities. I'm rarely so curious."

  Tony poured two glasses of shallow bourbon. He had rare patience and expectation for Dr. Reed Richards, who made 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. Yeah, I'm pretty good now, and—"

  Reed leaned on the sofa and didn't get up. Under Tony's astonished eyes, he stretched his right wrist by tens of centimeters and held the wine glass on the table. He quickly retracted it, took a sip from the glass, and said with a self-deprecating smile:

  "...and I have been staying in the'Wolf Tower' for the past seven years. The crime is...endangering public safety."

   "That super prison! What did you do? You actually have a mutation of the X gene? How come it's only now."

  Tony's eyes flickered and he recognized this old classmate again. The two messages suddenly thrown out by the other party made him a little difficult to understand for a while.

   "It's not the X gene mutation of the mutants, it's the genetic changes that occurred when they were exposed to the energy radiation of the cosmic storm"

  Reed Richards briefly talked about the experiment and what happened after that year. He took two sips of bourbon from time to time, but the two quickly drank half a bottle.

   "...Then you come to me. Hehe, do you want to work for the Stark Group? If that's the case, I can't wish for it." Tony laughed jokingly.

  Although Richards looked as if he had come out of prison and was desperately looking for a job, his calm and even indifferent expression showed no sign of depression.

   On the contrary, it seems that he has strengthened his will and is determined to do something big.

"Do you think our world should go on like this? How long will the ridiculous theory of human mutation evolution deceive the world? The interstellar era has arrived, and the future belongs to science, not a certain family and their group of lucky 'lottery' to gain power minions."

  Tony saw hatred on Reed's face. Although he was calm when he said this, and there was no emotional ups and downs in his tone, the blue eyes

   "What? You want to drag me to deal with Howlett?"

   "No, I just want the world to have a better way to be protected, relying on wisdom and technology, instead of relying on a small group of mutants who are superior, although I am no different from them to some extent now."

  Richards' last words moved Tony's heart slightly, which coincided with a certain idea he had been imagining.

   "I have set up a small place to do some research. I have some very interesting technologies that you are welcome to take a look at. If you are interested in cooperating. I think the vibration gold ore that is enough for you to make several sets of armor should satisfy you."

  Tony's pupils trembled slightly, and he suddenly fell into a kind of self-entanglement and contradiction. The point is that he never thought of his original attitude towards that mysterious family.

   It's changed.

—

   Half a month later.

  When the Phoenix was already able to see the blue earth, James Howlett, standing in front of the giant porthole in the central hall of the starship, instead ordered the landing of the spacecraft to be suspended, just staring at the planet silently.

   "What's the matter? I'm not in a hurry when I get to the door, I can't be really worried and explain to the teacher and Laura~"

  Jean Grey, wearing a fiery red high-fork long dress, came to James with a chuckle and teased, and took his arm.

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

  "Phoenix" raised his chin lightly and thought for a while. When he was beside James, the haughty and domineering queen's temperament suddenly changed to be quite gentle.

"Asgard doesn't have God King Odin, but his two sons are not worth caring about. Some of the other seven worlds have been deserted. It won't take much time to walk around, but I think Laura has It must be very suffocating on Earth."

   "Okay, then let's go home first!"

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

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

  Earth's orbital protection network is now complete. Although human beings' exploration of the galaxy is still in the resource collection and construction of the solar system and surrounding galaxies, they have not been in contact with the major civilizations of the universe for the time being.

  But like the Marauders and the Kree, it is difficult to come and go from the earth at will.

  When the Phoenix approached the earth's orbit, the planetary defense arrays all lit up with energy glows, as if using some kind of ceremony to welcome its return.

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

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

  As well as Bucky, Steve, Eric and others who came from New York and other places, the Howlett family finally got together again.

"Well, I've been looking for it for so many years, and I almost went around the dark dimension, but I didn't even find any news about my father. Emma, ​​are you sure he's back? Maybe it's just that girl Grey was tired from playing outside. Want to come back and have a look."

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

  "Jean will not come back if she doesn't find James. I can feel that he is back."

  The White Queen's cold voice was full of determination, and finally a brass-colored spaceship protruded from the clouds in her eyes, and after a few breaths, it approached and covered everyone's heads.

  As the dark yellow light curtain flickered, James Howlett stood at the forefront with Qin, and behind him nearly 300 boys and girls who had been away from home for several years also stepped on the land of the ice field.

   His dark pupils only reflected Emma in white in front of him.

  Watching her husband with frosty white hair walking straight towards her, Queen White bit her lips and took a deep breath. Although his appearance remains the same, in Emma's spiritual world, the familiar "taste" of James has become a little different.

   "I brought you a gift."

  James hugged Emma and whispered in her ear, took out a topaz necklace strung with vibrating gold from his arms, and put it on his snow-white neck.

   "Dad, do we have any presents? Your new hairstyle is quite special."

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

The White Queen felt an indescribable spiritual power from the moment James appeared, like a stranded fish finally returning to the sea. When the necklace made of the original soul stone was worn around her neck, her blue eyes were filled with Bright yellow flames.

  The golden eternal flame ignited on James, helping Emma, ​​who had difficulty controlling the power of the rough stone for a while, gradually stabilized.

  He looked at the students and children he hadn't seen for a few years, and remembered that Qin had told him on the Phoenix that the family warriors who died because of attacking Asgard, his expression suddenly darkened.

   "Take me to see Remus and the others first, sorry for making you worry about Laura?"

   Except for daughter Laura, almost everyone in the family is present on the ice field.

   "Laura usually doesn't like to bring a communicator. I have already sent someone to find her."

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

  "Storm" Orolo Monroe was driving in a bar in New York. Laura was wearing black leggings and a sleeveless T-shirt, looking at Tony with an elder attitude.

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

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

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

  (end of this chapter)