Phantom Thief Kidd in the Comic World

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

In Stark Tower, Pepper had just negotiated various arrangements with Director George when 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 exclaimed.

Natalie looked at her with searching eyes.

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 Suit.

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

Even though his military rank is only an Air Force colonel, Rhodes is also the director of the Army's Weapons Development Department, and was specialized in weapons transactions with Stark Industries before Tony closed down the weapons department. This is a special-grade job in the army, and he will be a general. The kind that won't be replaced.

Something that makes Rhodes so anxious must be a big deal.

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

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

This made Natalie curious.

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

"...Okay, I agree with your idea, so let's do as you say. You can't possibly harm Tony, right?"

From the moment he got the call, Pepper only said two sentences and then the call was hung up.

"Is it an emergency?"

Natalie asked with concern.

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

Pepper braced herself and smiled at Natalie.

Natalie saw the unnaturalness in Pepper's expression. Something extraordinary had definitely happened, but she was in a special situation now and couldn't monitor Pepper's phone calls, otherwise there would be no need to make insinuations.

"With Jarvis here, common technological methods are no different to children's play to Stark."

That's right, Natalie is not just an ordinary all-around assistant, her true identity is a top agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Natasha Romanoff.

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

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

Especially in recent months, Tony's behavior has been too abnormal. Fury ordered Natasha to change her name to Natalie, just in time to take advantage of Tony's plan to recruit a new assistant to lurk next to him.

Her mission is to find out Tony's current physical condition and make an evaluation for him to see if Tony can join the Avengers program.

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

Frankly speaking, Natasha has a very bad impression of Tony. He is arrogant, arrogant, talkative, self-righteous, and unable to listen to the advice of others...

God, there's so much wrong with Tony Stark.

No matter what, the undercover was still going on, Pepper didn't want to say anything, so Natasha had to give up.

It would be too deliberate to ask further.

Then the two started their daily work, and Pepper also 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 your suit into a drone without permission?"

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

So he took a 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 the 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 surname is Stark. In a country like the United States, no one can really force him unless Tony wants to treason.

Therefore, Hammer wanted to cooperate with Ivan to produce a Hammer Industrial suit.

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

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

"Trust me, drones are better."

Ivan, on the other hand, doesn't care about Hammer at all. He knows very well that Hammer needs his skills now.

“People can cause trouble, but drones don’t.”

Seeing that Ivan looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, Hammer had no choice but to let Ivan do what he wanted.

"The Stark Expo is starting soon, and you'd better keep your fingers crossed for these drones to get some cheers!"

"I can get you out of prison, or I can send you back intact."

Hammer threatened fiercely.

Ever since, time passed under the surging undercurrent.

Soon the day came for the opening of the Stark Expo.

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the expo, some were genuinely interested in the exhibition, while others wanted to see the true face of Kaito Kidd.

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

George led thousands of police to guard the outside of the fair, because Tony refused to let the police enter his central pavilion.

Even if Little Pepper comes forward, he can't change his mind.

The opening ceremony is Tony Stark's personal show. There will only be one thing on display today, and that is the first-generation Ark reactor.

I saw a plane passing over the expo. It was Tony's private plane.

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

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

"boom!"

In an instant, the Iron Man suit finished accelerating, and there was just a sound explosion, Tony... Iron Man fell from the sky like a meteor, and was on the verge of the ground in just a few dozen seconds.

When Iron Man was about to land at the booth in the exhibition center of the expo, the thrusters stopped accelerating, then he turned his body upside down 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 place was in an uproar. Amid the cheers of tens of thousands of people, Iron Man performed a standard heroic landing.

Commonly known as kneeling down on one knee.

Mark Four's mask opened automatically, revealing Tony's face.

Then, the show continues.

I saw a group of dancers cosplayed as Iron Man running out from the backstage, and Tony danced with them in public while wearing the Iron Man suit.