Chapter 71 The Beaten Tony

"The way to die from palladium poisoning is very painful"

On the return flight, Tony hid in the kitchen.

Every word of Ivan hit his heart heavily.

‘The myth of Iron Man has been shattered, the Ark Reactor is no longer just his patent, and the Mark 5, which is basically scrapped, his wounds have appeared in front of everyone’

At this moment, Tony, who was already on the verge of collapse, wanted to go out with Pepper and relax for a while.

After walking out of the kitchen, looking at Pepper outside, and Leo sitting on a plate drinking Coke, Tony's face became depressed.

On TV, the fat senator at that hearing sneered at the rhetoric at the scene.

"Tony Stark said that steel armor won't be anywhere, never will be anywhere, at least for the next 5 to 10 years..."

"Mute!"

Tony sat down, put the tray in his hand in front of Pepper, and pulled out a few knives and forks from his trouser pocket.

"What's that?" Pepper asked.

"Your meal on board."

Tony opened it, and inside was a pan of fried mushroom omelettes.

"You did this?"

"Yes, what do you think I've been doing these three hours?" Tony said, looking at Pepper.

Leo leaned over and took a look.

"Leo, it's not your part."

"Oh, I'm so lucky." Leo lay back again.

"What are you hiding from me?" Pepper stared at Tony with questions, helplessness and sadness in his eyes.

After ten years of company, she has discovered Tony's abnormality.

Tony looked at Pepper seriously, "I don't want to go home at all."

"Cancel my birthday party, we're in Europe, we're going to Venice to stay at the Cipriani Hotel... Do you remember?"

Pepper seemed to remember something, and couldn't help but smile.

"Remember."

"It's good to live there.. it's okay.. it's good for your health," Tony said, looking at Pepper.

"It's not a good time, there are a lot of things to clean up, and as CEO, I have to be in the company."

"You, as CEO, have the right to leave... er... employees on vacation."

"Vacation? In this pinch?"

Pepper's eyes widened, and she looked at Tony in shock. She didn't know the truth. She really didn't understand that Tony would say such a thing.

"As long as, just take a car." Tony was a little afraid to look Pepper's eyes directly.

Tony's eyes darkened, his voice became smaller and he lowered his head.

"We just need to recharge and we'll figure out a way."

"We don't all live on batteries, Tony," Pepper said, looking at Tony.

Tony raised his head and smiled as he looked at Pepper who had been staring at him.

But the smile didn't last for a second, his head tilted back again, and his eyes were full of disappointment.

Looking out the window, the mighty Tony Stark frowned tightly. He knew that he had tested all the elements, and there was no way to replace palladium.

So as long as he continues to wear the steel suit, he will be getting closer and closer to death.

Leo looked at Tony Stark who was looking down at the window, and he had never seen him so disappointed and in pain.

......

Meanwhile, Ivan, who was arrested in Monaco and had just been put in a private cell, is desperately waiting to be sentenced and spend the rest of his life in prison.

But it was obviously not dinner time, but a plate was placed at the door.

Ivan picked it up and found that there was a plastic time bomb in the place where the mashed potatoes should have been placed.

At the same time, a prisoner of similar size to himself was pushed into the door.

Glancing at the number on the prisoner's body with the same number as his own, he laughed savagely.

So, after an explosion, Ivan was sent to a secret factory in Queens, New York by the civet cat for the prince.

And Justin Hammer had already set the table here, waiting for his arrival.

......

Malibu's seaside mansion.

Pepper and Natasha kept answering the phone in the hall without stopping for a moment.

Because of the events in Monaco, many TV shows are talking about the news about Iron Man.

The crowd questioned whether Iron Man could keep them safe.

When Pepper and Natasha were in a hurry, Rhode walked in angrily.

"Where is he?"

Natasha turned her head and said, "He doesn't want to be disturbed."

"He's downstairs." Pepper said without looking back, and then quickly continued to negotiate with the voice on the phone.

Pepper was a little angry that Tony didn't come out to help, and also hoped that Rhodes would persuade Tony.

Tony, who returned home, sat at the desk in a daze, with all the information about Anton Fanco on the huge projection screen in front of him.

Jarvis' voice came.

"Search done, sir, Anton Vanko was a Soviet physicist who defected to the United States in 1963, but he was accused of being a spy and deported in 1967."

"His son Ivan, also a physicist, was sentenced to 15 years in Kopesk Prison for reselling weapons-grade plutonium material to Pakistan during the Soviet era. There is no other record."

Rhodes directly opened the door with his own password and looked at Tony sitting at the table.

"Tony, I've been on the phone with the militia all day trying to convince them not to come in a tank, ram your gates, and take this."

Rod pointed to the armor on the wall and said, "They want to take your steel armor, they don't bother to play games with you anymore."

"Are you listening?"

Tony still sat there blankly.

Leo came over and brought the box containing the palladium plate to Tony.

"Is the government ready to rob it now? Is it the armor or the reactor?" Leo laughed while looking at the helmets without energy sources on the wall.

Rhodes also saw Tony who looked very bad, "Tony, are you okay?"

......

Because of the appearance of Ivan's reactor, Tony fell into endless self-blame.

No one knows if Ivan leaked the reactor. Maybe it won't be long before there will be a large number of inferior armors on the black market, large and small wars will break out because of themselves, and countless people will die.

In addition, Tony's own character also has a tendency to self-destruct, which means that Tony at this time is already determined to die.

Tony, who looked very bad, took down the reactor, took out the charred and smoking palladium plate, and put a new one in.

Rhodes looked at the smoky and disgusting palladium plate, and asked in shock, "You put this thing in your body?"

"What's with the anagram around your neck?"

Tony was silent for a moment, "Scratches."

Rhodes was also silent for a while, looking worriedly at Tony who was drinking chlorophyll juice, "You don't have to be the savior alone, you don't have to rely on yourself."

"I believe what you say, but you have to trust me!"

"Ordinary people misunderstand me, I know what I'm doing." Tony stared at the two of them stubbornly.

......

That night, Tony and Leo were sitting in the studio, doing nothing.

Tony stared at the computer screen in a trance, not knowing what he was thinking.

Leo swayed around the basement sucking Sprite, "Tony, you have externalized the energy source of the Mark II, why, figured it out?"

Tony smiled bitterly, "Give it to Rhodes, he wanted it for a long time, and I also gave Rhodes permission, which can be regarded as an explanation for the military."

"How come you're going to die? Didn't I tell you a long time ago? I can see a lot of things with my eyes, but you never believed it."

Leo walked up to Tony, "Have you tried all the elements?"

"I've tried it all."

"Then, have you ever thought about discovering a new element?"