Osborne Megacorp

TVA, Time Court, Judge Losrael is trying the time criminals in the hall.

"Howard Stark, you have been accused of violating the sacred timeline and conducting space-time experiments in violation of regulations, which caused the timeline to branch. Is there anything else you want to say?"

The Howard Stark who was tried was the Howard Stark in universe 876-56. An accident occurred in the Cosmic Rubik's Cube experiment. First, a strange space-time channel appeared on the scene, and then there were more brilliant colors, and then a bald woman appeared. , and then a group of security-looking guys came.

Then, he was taken here.

He is confused now.

"I said...if this is a courtroom, where is my lawyer?"

Boom!

Losrael banged her gavel a few times in annoyance - Lawyer?There is a shitty lawyer in the Time Court.

"Do you plead guilty?"

"Me?" Howard was also very angry. He had never been treated like this!

"What crime am I guilty of? We defeated the German army, ended the war, and were about to solve the energy crisis forever, and you kidnapped me? You actually said that I was guilty?"

Losrael ignored Howard's excuse and banged the gavel again.

"This court found you guilty and sentenced you--" Losrael wanted to sentence Howard to "reset," but she took another look at Howard's resume.

This is a talent with a high IQ and a strong sense of morality. He may be able to help TVA - several other agencies have already recruited several Howards, who work very quickly. She can also recruit one.

After all, there is a shortage of manpower now.

"Incarceration--next case."

The bailiffs took Howard away one by one. Of course, the young genius was not convinced: "Imprisonment? You ridiculous bureaucrats have no right to decide my outcome..."

However, his resistance was ineffective.

Soon the next time criminal was escorted up by the bailiff.

Losrael breathed a sigh of relief after quickly looking through the resume of this time criminal: she had become accustomed to seeing those familiar faces during this period of time.

Howard, Carter, Dr. Erskine...these people are all key nodes that will produce major branches. It stands to reason that these people have special departments to control their behavior. I don't know why they appeared together during this period.

Like the current time offender: Philip Barnett, an engineer at Hammer Company, such an inconspicuous little person used to be a frequent visitor.

But after looking at it, Losrael frowned:

The data shows that Mr. Barnett hacked into Iron Man's armor, causing Iron Man to lose control during a product display, injuring the head of the US military's procurement department, and significantly changing the subsequent direction of the sacred timeline.

This... is a bit rare. Small people like this usually don't do such "big things".

Usually small people do sneaky things, and then affect the big people because of the butterfly effect.

But this Barnett directly hacked Iron Man's armor?

"Philip Barnett, you have been charged with a felony violation of the sacred timeline."

"Crime? Sacred timeline? Me? What did I do?" Philip looked a little panicked.

He is a typical middle-aged man, with seniors and juniors, who dare not make mistakes. In the face of "law", "officials" and other forces, he can always be submissive.

So why did he hack Iron Man's armor and let Iron Man do such outrageous things?

Losrael wanted to know more: "You hacked into Tony Stark's armor and changed the direction of the sacred timeline. Do you have anything to defend?"

"Me! You and that guy Stark are in the same group! I knew it!"

When it came to Stark, Philip became extremely excited. The image of the middle-aged man who was submissive just now changed and became extremely angry.

"Stark Industries and the Federation carved up Hammer Industries together, without any regard for the life and death of ordinary people like us..."

To put it simply, after Tony foiled Hammer Industries' conspiracy, the Federation split up and reorganized Hammer Industries in the name of security.

This process will naturally result in many labor disputes - according to normal legal procedures, even if a company undergoes mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, etc., it cannot lay off workers at will.

However, Tony Stark has a lot of money, and most of Stark Industries' technological development relies on him alone, so there is no need for so many R&D personnel.

So he laid off many people from Hammer Industries, and Philip was one of them.

Because of Iron Man's high reputation, the original engineers of Hammer Industries were struggling. Although they had no actual criminal records, they were fired by Tony Stark, and Hammer Industries was an old rival of Stark Industries.

The enemies of superheroes are naturally super villains, so these people who were laid off are all the super villains' younger brothers!

Philip is a very capable person, but any boss needs to consider the possible social impact of hiring him, so no one is willing to risk hiring him.

After all, if he were hired, competitors would just break the news to the media and make them angry, and countless people would stand up and denounce them.

But... Philip is very good, but that is compared to ordinary people, and Tony Stark is not in this category.

Losrael knocked the gavel and asked indifferently: "Then you are found guilty, I sentence you to...reset."

They already had a Philip in the bureau. After the collapse of Hammer Industries, that Philip founded a new company and became prosperous, so they hired him as an executive commissioner.

Maybe a heavy penalty can scare something away.

"Reset? What kind of punishment is this...Where are you in the court? Where is my lawyer? I told you I..."

Philip, who was angry just now, panicked when he heard the word "sentenced".

Boom!

"Okay, next case."

Being controlled by the bailiffs from left to right, Philip became more and more panicked. He shouted: "It's not me, I...I was bewitched by the devil! That's right! At night I often hear a man who calls himself Osborne... .Someone is talking to me..."

Hearing this, Losrael frowned.

"Wait a minute and listen to what he says."

The bailiff stopped.

......

"The Osborne Group?"

TVA Executive Commissioner Moebius frowned.

Mobius is the executive specialist within TVA who specializes in investigating and dealing with abnormal time criminals.

Generally speaking, most time criminals are easy to catch because they know nothing about time.

Some time criminals may have robbed the TVA Commissioner's belongings and thus traveled through one or two timelines, but what's the use?These technologies belong to TVA, and no time criminal can escape TVA's pursuit.

But there was an exception some time ago: a female version of Loki had tricked them several times.

He had to think that Judge Lothrael was bringing another time variant of Loki to investigate the matter.

Now that Loki is watching his life from next door, Morbius hopes to convince this Loki to assist him.

But before he could convince Loki, another difficult case was handed down.

This case was not originally his responsibility, but it has recently been classified as an emergency within TVA, and all personnel must pay attention to it.

The above shows that the culprit behind the recent rapid increase in timeline branches has been found. It is a mysterious group calling itself "Osborne".

Many time prisoners said they felt...familiar with the name, and they didn't know whether they were scared out of their wits by various punishments or something else. The things they confessed were a bit strange.

He said that he should have made a deal with the devil.