So secretive." Natasha was a little annoyed. What couldn't be said now? Why wait until she got the armor?
"Of course it's not a mystery, but a surprise, a huge surprise. It would be meaningless to tell it in advance." Yang Han said with a smile.
"Oh? Really? I'm actually looking forward to it." Natasha raised the corner of her mouth and left here silently.
The next morning, Tony arrived at a secret base of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he was met by Nick Fury.
This operation was a great success. S.H.I.E.L.D. helped Tony successfully create a new element and saved his life. They joined forces to defeat Ivan Vanko and saved many innocent people in the World Expo.
Although this battle still caused some casualties, compared with the last battle between the Hulk and the Abomination, which destroyed several city blocks, this loss was still acceptable to Nick Fury.
As for casualties, there were not many. After all, Ivan's only target was Tony Stark, not a terrorist. There was nothing he could do if some unlucky people were injured.
Chapter 155: Thor's Hammer
Tony sat at the table with two files on it, one about the Avengers project and the other about Tony's personal files and information.
"Don't move." Tony was about to pick up the Avengers Project file when Nick Fury slapped his hand and said, "I'm not sure if this project has anything to do with you. Take a look at this first: Agent Romanoff's assessment of you!"
"Serious self-destructive tendencies?" Tony frowned. "Come on, I'm almost dead by then!"
"Typical narcissist?" Tony smirked. "I agree with that!"
"Don't care about your image and hygiene?" Tony looked at this one, his smile froze. He pointed at the words above and asked, "Hey, I'm at the forefront of fashion, and she actually said I don't care about my image and hygiene?"
Nick Fury pushed out a short video showing Tony's ridiculous behavior at that time.
"Don't you often ask me how I go to the bathroom in this armor?"
"That's it..." Tony in the video looked serious, as if he had really urinated in the armor.
Before the video was finished, Tony snatched the phone away. Tony said frantically, "I was drinking and drunk at the time, and you are invading my privacy."
"Come on, hundreds of people saw it, and the video is everywhere. What privacy do you have left?" Nick Fury snatched the phone and put it away, pouting disdainfully.
"Okay, keep reading," said Nick Fury.
"The Avengers are recruiting. Iron Man is qualified." Seeing this, Tony's mouth curled up into a smile, and he immediately put aside his assessment and said seriously: "I have to think about it."
Nick Fury stared at Tony and said, "Keep watching."
Tony continued to read Natasha's assessment of him, but the next sentence froze his smile and wrinkles on his face. "Tony Stark, unqualified?"
Tony was immediately confused. He looked at the one-eyed man in front of him, Nick Fury, who had a black question mark on his face, and asked, "What does this mean?"
"What else could it mean? Agent Romanoff approves of your armor, but not you." Nick Fury said with remarkable calmness.
To be honest, when he first received the report, he was a little confused. But after asking about it, Natasha's explanation made Nick Fury feel that it made sense, so he showed it to Tony directly.
"This doesn't make sense. How can you accept another me but not the real me? I have a brand new heart, and I treat Pepper well. Our relationship is very stable." Tony argued unconvinced.
It's not that he really wants to join the Avengers, because there is no such word as unqualified in his dictionary. Originally, he was not interested in the Avengers, but now he really wants to join, even to be the captain!
"Due to your performance, you can only serve as a consultant for now." Nick Fury walked up to Tony and said.
Tony extended his hand, and Nick Fury naturally wouldn't refuse. Just when Nick Fury was overjoyed and thought it was a done deal, Tony suddenly said, "You can't afford me."
"But I'm willing to use my contract fee to ask you to do me a small favor. Washington is going to present an award to me and Roddy, and we need a guest presenter." Tony changed the subject and said.
"I'll think of a way." Nick Fury nodded and said.
At the same time, Nick Fury's phone rang. It showed Coulson. Nick Fury answered the phone and asked, "What's up? Agent Coulson."
"Sir, I'm here!" Coulson, who was far away in New Mexico, looked at the bustling pit below that looked like a market and contacted his superior.
"You decide for yourself. I'm talking to Tony Stark right now," Nick Fury ordered.
"Okay, sir." Coulson hung up the phone.
He began to call the subordinates he could command and prepare to start his work. The first step they had to take was to drive away these civilians who treated this place as a market and were of no use except to cause trouble.
Then they had to build a temporary fortress to protect the hammer that fell from the sky, even though no one could lift it.
In a small town a few dozen kilometers away in New Mexico, there is a research institute.
Jane Foster, a petite Jewish beauty, is also an astrophysicist.
Like most scientists, she was working tirelessly on her research project. In Mexico, she had been working tirelessly for several years, forgetting to eat or sleep, and finally, she had achieved some results.
But just when they were about to achieve results, they met a man, well... a man who looked crazy, mainly because she bumped into the man, and then her assistant knocked the guy down with a stun gun, so she had to take responsibility.
Jane Foster took Thor to the hospital out of responsibility and paid for his medical expenses, which was already the utmost kindness, but she didn't expect that this was just the beginning.
As mentioned earlier, she is an astrophysicist, and the project she is currently busy researching is closely related to an unusual auroral movement.
She believed that it was a phenomenon caused by abnormal celestial movement. As long as the cause of the aurora could be reversed, perhaps the extraterrestrial life that humans have been exploring could be discovered.
However, when her assistant Daisy Louise discovered something very special from the photos they took, they found that there seemed to be a human figure in the aurora.
He landed on the earth along with the aurora, and judging from the situation at the time, there was only one person who fit the identity of this guy who landed.
That was Thor, who was sent to the hospital by them. This discovery shocked them. Based on the idea that their discovery must not be discovered by others before they made it public, they immediately returned to the hospital.
They wanted to find Thor, who was tied up like a madman, but when they rushed to the hospital, they only saw black restraints. The guy it was tied to was gone.
Although the three of them tried every possible way to find this guy named Thor, they were not professional searchers after all, let alone hounds, so naturally, they found nothing and could only return to their car honestly.
As soon as she got in the car and closed her door, Jane Foster said to the other two people with self-mockery: "I lost the most important evidence. It's always like this. What am I? Bad luck?"
Chapter 156: Awards
"What should we do now?" Daisy asked with a frown.
As her assistant, friend, and the only graduate student who signed up for her course for credits, the two of them are tied to the same string. If Jane cannot complete her project, then her credits will probably be gone. This is definitely not good news for Daisy, who is about to be kicked out if she misses the course by a few points.
Jane sighed, as if she had made up her mind, and said firmly: "We must find him!"
"Find him? I'm not sure that's a good idea." Eric Shavig, who had been following them, expressed his disapproval. He was much older than Jane and the others, so naturally he was more conservative and rational.
Recalling Tony's glorious deeds, Shavig advised, "You should have seen what he did in the hospital, right? He single-handedly injured more than a dozen guards. I don't think this is something a normal person can do. He's dangerous, Jane! We shouldn't have any contact with him!"
Shavig had his reasons, but Jane also had her own ideas. As scientists, they both had a very paranoid side, so on this issue, Jane did not give in at all.
"The data we have cannot reveal the internal situation of that abnormal phenomenon. But if he really came out from there, then he can tell us what the situation inside the phenomenon is. So, we must find him." Jane said very seriously.
"Find him? How? Do we have to search the whole of Mexico?" Savi asked back. He had no good feelings towards Thor, this crazy guy who hurt people.
Moreover, the Rainbow Bridge, Thor, the God of Thunder, and Odin, the King of Gods, were things that only existed in the fairy tales he had heard when he was a child.