Phantom Kid in the American Comic World
89. The Opening Ceremony of The Stark Expo

"MST. Poz, Colonel Rhodes is calling, he wants to talk to you.”

At the Stark Building, Pepper had just negotiated various arrangements with Director George, and Natalie walked over and whispered in Pepper's ear.

"What! Are you real..?”

After answering the phone and listening for a while, Pepper suddenly exclaimed.

Natalie looked at him curiously.

When Colonel Rhodes called just now, his voice was very anxious. His case appears to be linked to renewed military pressure to have Tony Stark hand over the Iron-Man suit.

James Rhodes and Tony were friends who grew up playing together, and he had a high position in the military.

Apart from his rank as a Colonel in the Air Force, Rhodes was also Minister of the Army Weapons Development Department, and he specialized in weapons transactions with Stark Industries before Tony closed the weapons department. He is a loyal friend!

Rhodes was agitated, hence, there was a big problem of his concern.

But clearly, Rhodes would not talk to the new assistant about this sort of thing. As a result, Natalie has no idea what Rhodes wants Pepper for.

However, judging from Pepper's reaction, it wasn't a trivial matter.

This made Natalie very curious.

Natalie watched Pepper's face attentively, changing again and again, from shock, anger, and finally regained her composure.

“...OK, I agree with you. Then do what you say, this won't harm Tony, right?”

Ever since he got the call, Pepper had only said two sentences, and then he hung up.

"Is this urgent?"

Natalie asked with concern.

“Thank you for your concern, but it's not a big deal. You don't have to worry too much about this. ”

Pepper forced himself and smiled at Natalie.

Natalie saw Pepper's unnatural expression. Something complex had obviously just happened, but he was in a special situation now and could not monitor Pepper's phone, otherwise he would not have to knock to the side.

“With Jarvis, ordinary technology is no different from Stark of children's games.”

That's right, Natalie isn't just an ordinary assistant, her real identity is SHIELD's top agent

Natasha Romanov's.

The Tony Palladium poisoning incident is no big secret. Not only was Ivan Vanko, his enemy, aware of this, but SHIELD also monitored Tony's movements closely.

In fact, SHIELD had anticipated Tony's chances of getting palladium poisoning before Tony himself.

Moreover, in the past few months, Tony's behavior was too abnormal. Fury orders Natasha to go undercover as Natalie. He took advantage of the opportunity that Tony planned to hire a new assistant at the time to lurk by his side.

His job is to find out about Tony's current physical condition and assess him to see if he's worth joining the Avengers project.

As a result, Tony changed hands and gave Pepper the CEO position, which made Natasha's job much more burdensome.

Truth be told, Natasha had a very bad impression of Tony, arrogant, moody, careless, know-how-seeking, unable to listen to anyone else…

Oh my God, his shortcomings are limitless.

After all, he had to continue his undercover mission, and Pepper did not want to provide the data he needed. Natasha has to give up.

It would be too deliberate to ask any further.

Then the two begin their day-to-day tasks, and Pepper has to think about how to deal with a press conference in the evening.

Meanwhile, at Hammer Industries, inside a secret lab.

"Why did you take the freedom to turn the battlesuit into a drone?"

So, he risks saving Ivan Vanko from prison, as Ivan is the world's second genius scientist who can independently develop a mini nuclear reactor, at least in Hammer's eyes.

Guns account for almost all of Hammer Industries' revenue. Initially, after Stark Industries announced the closure of its weapons division, the U. S. military command of Hammer Industries increased dozens of times over.

However, when Iron Man appears, the military's attention is completely focused on the costume, and they begin to use various means to coerce Tony.

Unfortunately, Tony's last name is Stark, and in a country like the United States, no one can really force him, unless Tony wants to commit treason.

So, Hammer tried to work with Ivan to produce the battlesuit Hammer Industries.

As a result, Ivan changed his suit into a drone.

This made Hammer very angry, and he thought Ivan was wasting money.

“Trust me, drone is better.”

Ivan, however, did not care about Hammer, knowing full well that Hammer needed his technology now.

“People will make trouble, but drones are not.”

Seeing that Ivan looked like a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, Hammer had no choice but to let Ivan do his best.

“The Stark Expo is about to start, and you better pray that this drone wins everyone's applause!”

"I can save you from prison, of course I can send you back!"

Hammer threatened loudly.

Since then, time has passed under the tidal wave.

The opening ceremony of Stark Expo is imminent.

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the exhibition, some of them were very interested in the exhibition, and some wanted to see the true identity of the Phantom Kid.

On the outside wall, Kid's notice letter remains intact. Tony even specifically asked someone to keep him.

George stands with thousands of police officers outside the exhibition, as Tony orders to ban the police from entering his central pavilion.

Even if Pepper spoke up, he wouldn't change his mind about them.

The opening ceremony will be Tony Stark's solo show, and there will only be one thing on display today, the first-generation Arc Reactor.

An airplane flies over the exhibit; it's Tony's private jet.

"Confirm altitude, wind direction, air speed ..."

Tony wears a Mark 4 and jumps off the plane. The propellers were installed on his palms and the soles of his feet and were immediately activated. He dived fast.

"explosion!"

In an instant, he was wearing armor, and an explosion sounded. Tony.Iron Man fell from the sky like a meteor and was on the ground in just a few tens of seconds.

As Iron Man was about to land on the booth of the Expo Center Pavilion, the thrusters stopped accelerating, and then his body flipped over, igniting the thrusters again to counter the downward thrust.

He was hung two or three meters above the booth.

As soon as Iron Man appeared, the audience immediately broke out. Amidst the cheers of tens of thousands of people, Iron Man made a standard heroic landing.

Commonly known as kneeling with one knee.

The Mark IV mask opens automatically, revealing Tony's face.

Then, the show continued.

A group of cosplay dancers Iron Man came out from backstage, and Tony danced with them in public, while wearing his suit.