"So Fury, how many more things are you hiding from me?" Tony Stark asked.
Nick Fury was a little embarrassed. Originally, because Tony Stark wasn't suffering from palladium poisoning this time, there was no need to specifically mention the new element left by Howard Stark. But now, Lin Feng had exposed it.
"Not much, but you know now, don't you?" Nick Fury, with a dark face and a dark heart, didn't panic at all, and said directly.
Tony Stark glanced at Nick Fury. He knew there was definitely a hidden truth here, and a big one at that, otherwise, it wouldn't be this way.
Because the matters involved here were already at the government level.
This Anton Vanko sounded like his old man's partner, and he would meet Anton Vanko's son in the future?
He needed to go back and investigate this matter properly.
After all, Anton Vanko was deported, which suggested he might have been involved in some classified information, eventually leading to government intervention.
In that era, during the height of the US-Soviet Rivalry, every top scientist had spies around them. And this Anton Vanko, with his name, sounded like a Russian, and he definitely wouldn't be trusted.
Based on his understanding of the US government's usual tactics, it was likely that after developing the technology, the US government had simply discarded him. Whether Anton Vanko really wanted to sell the technology abroad was no longer important.
He was Russian. That was his original sin.
Moreover, if, as Nick Fury said, he wanted to sell the technology to the Russian government, he'd be lucky to be alive.
Before he could think further, Tony Stark in the video asked, "What do you mean I haven't tried everything? What haven't I tried?"
Facing the hope of survival, he finally couldn't contain himself.
"He said only you have the resources and the intelligence to complete the plan he started!" Nick Fury raised his water glass, saying.
Tony Stark was a little stunned when he heard this. He never imagined that his own father would think so highly of him.
Because as far back as he could remember, his father had always held him to a high standard. Other kids getting an A was enough to make their parents proud, but for him, that was just the bare minimum.
He never heard a word of praise.
In the end, he was even sent off to boarding school.
This was also why, later on, they had a falling out, and he decided to do the opposite of what his father wanted him to be.
His father wanted him to be serious and responsible, so he became wild and unrestrained.
His father wanted him to be clean-cut, so he partied relentlessly.
His father wanted him to be like a traditional Puritan, so he became the playboy that the whole world knew.
Even in the end, they never even saw each other one last time.
In his mind, his father had never been satisfied with him, always disappointed.
But he heard a different assessment from Nick Fury, and he was stunned.
In the video, Nick Fury looked at Tony Stark leisurely and said, "Is he talking about you?"
"If it's you, you can solve the mystery in your heart!" Nick Fury said mysteriously.
Tony Stark shook his head and said, "I don't know how you know these things, but he didn't value me very much!"
"What do you remember about your dad?" Nick Fury asked.
Thinking about this, Tony Stark suddenly felt a desire to confide. He said, "He was cold, he was scheming, he never said he loved me, nor did he ever say he liked me. You're telling me now that he said I could change the future, and I find it hard to believe! And he passed this responsibility to me, I don't understand. His happiest day was the day he sent me to boarding school!"
"No, he wasn't like that!" Nick Fury said, taking a sip of water.
"Oh? So, you know my dad better than I do, apparently!" Tony Stark sneered.
Outside the screen, Tony Stark's emotions were complex. So, that's what his father expected of him?
Twenty years had passed since his parents died. It had been so long that he couldn't easily recall their faces unless he made a conscious effort.
He had grown from a rebellious youth into a rebellious middle-aged man. He didn't even know if his current rebellion stemmed from his true nature or if it was just a habit from his youth. Back then, he rebelled to spite his father. But who was he rebelling against now?
No one saw it anymore, and no one would come.
He would never have the chance to reconcile with his father!
He would never have the chance to change his father's image of him as a mischievous child. Even more regrettably, he would never have the chance to let his father know he had changed, that he had not only taken on the heavy responsibility of Stark Industries but had also made it even greater.
Then, in the video, Nick Fury revealed a shocking piece of information: Howard Stark was one of the founding elders of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Of course, Tony Stark in this timeline already knows about this.
Nick Fury didn't stay long in the scene because he had a meeting in the afternoon. He only left Tony Stark with a sentence: "Oh, Tony, remember, I'll be watching you!"
Hearing this, Tony Stark outside the screen couldn't help but complain, "Fury, you really love to act cool. Do you remember what you said the first time you appeared in front of me? You think you're the only superhero in the world? You broke into my private territory and even cut off my power!"
Nick Fury was a little embarrassed. Since becoming the director of S.H.I.E.L.D., it had become a habit to speak with an air of mystery.
"That's right, Tony, Fury's love for acting cool is a match for yours. You two are evenly matched, it's hard to say who's better," Widow Natasha nodded and criticized both of them in one breath.
She had been holding it in for too long. These two show-offs, one more pretentious than the other, one loves to be mysterious, and the other loves to show off. Different types, but equally annoying.
Tony Stark almost choked. Wasn't he just criticizing Nick Fury? How did it turn to criticizing himself?
Well, even if he took a step back and admitted he loved to act cool, so what?
He was a billionaire, a super genius, a physicist, and Iron Man, the most popular superhero in the world. After being busy for half his life, couldn't he enjoy himself?
Couldn't he act cool?
Everyone has their hobbies!
Just as Tony Stark was gritting his teeth, he in the screen had already opened the box Nick Fury had left for him. Inside were design drawings, an Arc Reactor, the code TFTR-1, Vanko, Stark.
After a moment, he found a videotape. When he played it, Tony Stark saw Howard Stark appear on the screen.
Outside the screen, Tony's eyes reddened. He barely remembered his father looking so young and vibrant. It was just a vague impression from when he was very, very young.
By the time he reached his teens and began to form memories, his father was already very old.
Because Howard Stark was quite old when he had Tony, in most of Tony's memories, his father was already gray-haired, cold, and stern.
Seeing Howard Stark in his middle age, he couldn't help but feel sad. "The tree wants to be still, but the wind won't stop; the child wants to be filial, but the parent is gone."
In the recording, Howard Stark spoke with great enthusiasm: "Everything can be achieved through technology: a better life, a healthy body, and the possibility of maintaining world peace for the first time in human history!"
Iron Man lay on the sofa, flipping through the notes his father had left, listening to his father's voice, and writing on his phone.
"I am Howard Stark, and everything you need in the future is here! Future City, Tomorrow's Capital, Future City, wait a moment!"
In the ancient footage, Howard Stark paced back and forth, introducing his proud invention.
"I am Howard Stark. Everything you'll need in the future is right here. I want to personally present this to Stark Industries..."
He was interrupted by a young boy appearing behind him.
"Tony, what are you doing? What's that? Put it back, put it back where it belongs!" Howard Stark exclaimed.
The sudden appearance of young Tony Stark caught everyone's attention. So, the flamboyant Tony Stark had a childhood too?
If Tony Stark knew what they were thinking, he'd probably be speechless. Nobody was born from a rock, everyone had a childhood.
"Tony, where's your mother? Maria, quick, go, take him away!" Howard Stark ordered someone to take the young Tony Stark away.
Tony Stark looked as if he expected this. His father had always been impatient and dismissive of him, the typical father-son relationship in an old-fashioned family.
A moment later, Howard Stark reappeared.
He was drinking, and he said with a smile, "Were you waiting for me?"
The next part was just bloopers, seemingly without anything of note.
Iron Man got up, defeated. Another day with nothing to show for it. He put down his notebook and took a drink, but then, suddenly, Howard Stark in the video became serious.
"Tony, you're still too young, you don't understand. So, I'll record this for you first. All of this is for you!"
Those words shocked both Tony Starks, the one inside the video and the one watching it.
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