The Stark Paradox

"Does the leader know about this?" Arci kept staring at Tasha when she asked this sentence, and after ten seconds passed precisely—that's what Judgment told Tasha—after she didn't get an answer, she turned to He looked over at Jazz, "The leader doesn't know." His tone definitely had a hint of disapproval.

In Tasha's judgment, this usually means 'we need to have a good talk later'.

Sure enough, Jazz twisted a few times uneasily, and then was hit hard with a wrench by the ambulance that was trying to dig out the bullet. Jazz almost jumped up, "Hey ambulance, check, I'm a wounded man!!!!"

"... Shut up." The ambulance took a rare look at Jazz and said sternly.

"Don't try to change the subject." Arci didn't buy it, and continued to ask.This reminded Tasha of Pep and Carol, no matter how much she tried to change the subject, they always had a way to stay in the pit unless they didn't really want to pursue it.Oh, and Steve too.

"..."

Sir's silence again made Alci very dissatisfied, "Sir, has your CPU been damaged? I thought you have been the first lieutenant for so many years, at least you have some common sense. How did the leader make the rules? You let a carbon base know about us. and blatantly involved her...a useless carbon-based..."

"Hey, I'm still standing here." Tasha waved her hand to attract attention. In fact, she succeeded. Alcie and Jazz turned their heads to look at her, and Bumblebee also turned her head and blinked her eyes in a kind manner. , The ambulance stopped what it was doing, and even the little robot assistants who had been wandering around the garage raised their heads for no apparent reason, thinking that their master wanted to give them some instructions.

Tasha is very used to the attention of everyone... But it is not the weird atmosphere now, nor is it facing so many non-human beings, so she shrugged in embarrassment, "I remind you, the land you are standing on now belongs to Stark Enterprises, That is to say, it belongs to my carbon base."

The blood of the Stark family seems to have the skills to mess up things with a full mouth. Tasha has never understood the truth of saying too many mistakes. When she speaks, her mouth can make the listener want to Kill her with the things at hand - only three people who are immune to this skill, Pep, Roddy and her old butler Jarvis since childhood.Captain America used to be on this list too... But the civil war proved that the good guy in America will finally have his day.

This time, seeing Alcie's face getting worse and worse, Jazz was not surprised that if Tasha continued to talk, Alcie would go berserk within 5 minutes, and it was no surprise that he must be unlucky.When he was thinking about how to intervene, the smart housekeeper of Tasha's house first spoke to save him from the fire.

"Madam, we have a visitor."

"Huh?" Tasha stopped her long-winded prattle in her head, and she glanced at the ceiling and asked.

"Several agents claiming to be from District Seven," Jarvis replied.

"..." Tasha waved her hand and picked up the communication outside the door. "Oh, Mr. Detective, why don't you have a long memory?"

"... Ms. Stark..." From the voice, one can imagine the expression of the other party's gnashing of teeth, and Tasha already felt happy just thinking about this scene, "We have sensed special radiation signals around your building, please cooperate with us The inspection." Obviously hit a nail once, this time the other party did not come up and showed arrogance.

"I remember I said, appointment? Or search warrant?"

"You did," Jarvis replied immediately.

“………………We brought a search warrant this time.” People in government departments don’t always like to make appointments… Whether it’s SHIELD, Tianjian, or other departments, they can’t escape this as expected. Theorem, so to speak.

But it's really not suitable now... Tasha glanced at the giant machine standing in front of her and had to lower her head because of the ceiling and exhaled. She was sure that there must be quite a few people wearing sunglasses at the back door with faces like 'I'm very professional' but they were completely amateurs. The agents squatted waiting for a vehicle to run out.

"Jarvis, take them to the reactor on the next floor." Tasha walked to the elevator alone, then turned her head, "Don't touch the arc reactor, I don't want to see half of Manhattan blown up."

Whenever this time she will miss Carol very much.

"so……"

"Ms. Stark... we don't have to waste time, this is standard procedure, do you have anything else to confirm?"

Tasha looked down slightly at the search warrant stamped with the New York Police Department stamp that the other party held up, and raised her eyebrows.

Few people want to offend Stark Enterprises...even the government.

Because Stark Enterprises has business dealings with many departments, although it is just a businessman, Natasha Stark, as the CEO of SI, a leading technology company, often has a back door to open.

"Whatever." Tasha glanced at it to confirm that the search warrant was not forged, then waved her hand. Unexpectedly, the other party immediately took out something similar to a scanner and pointed it at her.Before Tasha could react, she heard the cheerful beeping of the instrument.Then she saw that the other person raised his head excitedly and was about to say something when the voice of the machine became disordered, making him frown.

Tasha resisted the urge to press the arc reactor on her chest, believing it to be interfering with the proper functioning of the probe.

Then another agent came up and whispered something to him, and the other agent looked up again, "Ms. Stark, we need to go to your garage for inspection."

"..." Tasha raised her eyebrows. "There is my laboratory there, and there are many unfinished technologies."

"We won't destroy those." The other waved her hand dismissively as if he was not interested in SI's technology at all.

"..." This kind of tone made Tasha laugh. Facts have proved that her technology is always something that everyone thinks about, and she has long been used to it. Then she waved her hand in the air, "Jarvis, let me go." .”

"Yes." The voice suddenly remembered in the air obviously startled the man on the opposite side. He raised his head and looked around but couldn't find anyone.Tasha didn't intend to explain anything to him, she just shrugged and didn't seem to care about anything, turned and went upstairs, and privately issued an order to release the EMP interference with Jarvis through the desperate situation.

In this way, no matter what they want to check, it is impossible to get the result.

"By the way, the arc reactor is on the next floor of the garage. Because it is a prototype, there may be signal interference." Tasha said as she left, as if it was a matter of course.

Tasha swore she heard someone grinding their teeth behind her.

——However, who cares about him?Come and bite me.

After the people in the Seventh District searched and found nothing, and finally left reluctantly, Jarvis woke up Tasha who was asleep on the sofa in the living room upstairs.

Tasha opened her eyes and looked at the bright lights outside the floor-to-ceiling windows in front of her.It is rare to see the night view of New York from this height, but Tasha is not in the mood to appreciate it.

*****

"How's the scenery here? Captain."

"...beautiful."

The original residence of the Avengers was the Stark family's old mansion, where everyone was like a family... until Wanda lost control and the alliance had to be disbanded... As a living legend of World War II, the captain has been staying with him since he woke up. In the alliance, so when everyone had to disband, Tasha once invited him to live in Stark Tower temporarily.

Some nights, when Tasha came up from the lab and wanted to fill herself a cup of coffee, she would run into the captain somewhere in the building who was still awake or asleep.

When she passed the living room with coffee that day, she saw the TV playing silently. There was a person with his back to her and facing the floor-to-ceiling windows looking outside.So she walked in and asked casually.

She never asked the captain why he wasn't in his bedroom late at night...everyone was a little bit *.But in reality it was, Tasha guessed, because the captain never really made it out of the war.

"60 years ago, we never thought about what the world would be like." The captain turned his head slightly as a greeting, as if he was used to seeing her sober in the middle of the night.

"Sixty years from now, you won't see such scenery often..." Tasha shrugged, "This is the highest point in New York."

"I know." The captain nodded, his expression softening a little, as if he was happy to see her. "It's... amazing."

She smiled and waved her hands and went to the glass window to look at the night scene outside, completely unaware that she was only wearing a vest stained with oil, exposing the mechanical heart to the outside.Glass is one-way reflective.As for the captain?They have known each other for many years.

"Yeah, I'm Natasha Stark," she said, but what she was actually thinking was

——Sixty years ago, you never imagined what the world would become, but you were willing to fight for it.

Then she turned and asked "Cap, have you considered rebuilding the Avengers? There are a lot of rooms here."

*****

Tasha stood up from the sofa, rubbed her eyes, and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass.

From here she could see Brooklyn.That's where Captain America was born.

Coincidentally in this world, she started her life from there.

"But this isn't really home, is it?" she sighed.

"Madam?" The smart butler couldn't understand the question suddenly popped up unconsciously by the master, so he couldn't answer this logically, so he asked suspiciously.

"It's nothing..." Tasha didn't dwell on the topic again, she turned her head and asked, "How are our guests doing?"

"It is recommended that you confirm it yourself."

"..." Tasha felt that she hadn't missed the second suspicious pause of her smart butler, so she raised her eyebrows, recalling the attitude of the woman named Arcie towards Sir when she left, and felt that she should Can foresee something.