Chapter 89 Stark Expo Opening Ceremony

"Ms. Potts, here's your phone number. It's Colonel Rhodes."

At Stark Tower, Pepper had just made arrangements with Director George, and Natalie came over and whispered in Pepper's ear.

"What! Are you telling the truth?"

After taking the phone and listening for a while, Pepper suddenly screamed.

Natalie looked at her with an inquiring look.

When Colonel Rhodes called just now, the other party's voice was very urgent, which seemed to be related to the military's renewed pressure on Tony Stark to hand over the technology of the Iron Man suit.

James Rhodes and Tony have been friends since childhood, and he has a high status in the military.

Although his military rank is only Air Force Colonel, Rhodes is also the Minister of the Army Weapons Development Department, and before Tony closed the weapons department, he specialized in weapons transactions with Stark Industries. This is a super-rich job in the military, the kind that you will never change in the future.

Something that can make Rhodes so anxious must be a big deal.

But obviously, it was impossible to tell a newly recruited assistant about this kind of thing in detail. Natalie didn't know what Rhodes wanted to say.

However, judging from Pepper's reaction, it shouldn't be a small matter.

This made Natalie very curious.

In Natalie's eyes, Pepper's face changed again and again, from shock to anger and finally returned to calm.

"...Okay, I agree with your idea, then do as you say, you can't hurt Tony, right?"

Since receiving the call, Pepper only said two sentences, and then the phone was hung up.

"Is it an urgent matter?"

Natalie asked with concern.

"Thank you for your concern, but it's no big deal, you don't have to worry too much about this matter."

Pepper forced himself to smile at Natalie.

Natalie saw the unnaturalness in Pepper's expression. Something uneasy must have happened, but her situation was special now, and she couldn't monitor Pepper's phone calls, otherwise there would be no need to be indirect.

"With Jarvis here, common technological means are no different from children's play for Stark."

That's right, Natalie is not just an ordinary all-round assistant, her real identity is a top agent of SHIELD.

Natasha Romanoff.

Tony's palladium poisoning is not a top secret. Not only Ivan Vanko, who hates him, knows about it, but SHIELD is also closely monitoring Tony's movements.

In fact, SHIELD had already anticipated this possibility before Tony himself had palladium poisoning.

Especially in recent months, Tony's various actions were too abnormal, so Fury ordered Natasha to use the alias Natalie and take advantage of the opportunity when Tony was planning to recruit a new assistant to lurk around him.

Her task is to find out Tony's current physical condition and make an assessment for him to see if Tony can join the Avengers plan.

As a result, Tony immediately gave the position of CEO to Pepper, which made Natasha's work much more arduous.

To be honest, Natasha had a very bad impression of Tony. He was arrogant, conceited, talkative, self-righteous, and unwilling to listen to others' advice...

Oh my god, Tony Stark's bad habits are endless.

In any case, the undercover work must continue. Pepper didn't want to talk, so Natasha had to give up.

It would be too deliberate to ask further.

Then the two began their daily work, and Pepper had to think about how to deal with the press conference in the evening.

Meanwhile, Hammer Industries.

In a secret laboratory.

"Why did you change the battle suit into a drone without authorization?"

Justin Hammer is very unhappy now. As the head of Hammer Industries, he is thinking about how to beat Stark Industries.

So he took the risk to rescue Ivan Vanko from prison, because Ivan is the second genius scientist in the world who can independently develop a miniature nuclear reactor, at least in Hammer's eyes.

Arms account for almost all of Hammer Industries' revenue. After Stark Industries announced the closure of its weapons department, the U.S. military's orders from Hammer Industries increased dozens of times.

However, when Iron Man appeared, the military's attention was completely focused on the suit, and they began to use various means to force Tony.

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

So, Hammer wanted to cooperate with Ivan to make Hammer Industries' suit.

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

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

"Believe me, drones are better."

But Ivan didn't care about Hammer at all. He knew very well that Hammer needed his technology now.

"People will cause trouble, but drones won't."

Seeing Ivan's dead pig fearless look, Hammer had no choice but to let Ivan play himself.

"The Stark Expo is about to start, you better pray that these drones win the applause!"

"I can rescue you from prison, or I can send you back intact."

Hammer threatened fiercely.

So, time passed under the undercurrent.

Soon, the day of the opening ceremony of the Stark Expo arrived.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Expo, some of them were really interested in the exhibition, and some wanted to see the real face of Kaito Kidd.

On the outer wall, Kidd's notice was kept intact on it, and Tony even hired someone to maintain it.

George led thousands of police officers to guard outside the Expo, because Tony would not let the police step into his central exhibition hall.

Even if Pepper came forward, he could not change his mind.

The opening ceremony was Tony Stark's personal show. Only one thing would be exhibited today, that is, the first generation of the Ark Reactor.

I saw a plane flying over the top of the Expo, it was Tony's private plane.

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

Tony put on Mark IV and jumped off the plane. The thrusters installed on his palms and soles started immediately, and he dived down quickly.

"Boom!"

Instantly, the Iron Man suit accelerated, and there was a bang. Tony... Iron Man fell from the sky like a meteor, and in just a few tens of seconds he was close to the ground.

When Iron Man was about to land on the booth of the exhibition center, the thrusters stopped accelerating, and then he turned his body over and turned on the thrusters again to offset the downward momentum.

Suspended two or three meters above the booth.

As soon as Iron Man appeared, the whole audience was boiling. Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of people, Iron Man performed a standard heroic landing.

Commonly known as kneeling on one knee.

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

Then, the performance continued.

A group of dancers cosplaying as Iron Man ran out from the backstage, and Tony danced with them in public in his Iron Man suit.