The Stark Paradox

"I am, Iron Woman."

For Tasha's unconventional speech, obviously everyone present did not expect it. Tasha was satisfied to see that all the reporters were silent for 6.89 seconds after she finished speaking - the perfect count of Extremis ——Then the crowd boiled, all the flashes flashed desperately, and all the reporters stood up and stuffed the microphones and recording pens in front of her as much as possible.But due to the obstruction of the military, there was no way to stuff it under her nose.

Carol was stunned for two seconds—this reaction was much faster than those reporters and soldiers in the military, thanks to Carol’s extremely tenacious nerves trained by Tasha who did not follow the rules—then Responding quickly, he ran up to the stage and pulled her backstage, gave her a 'you're screwed' stare, and then ran to the stage to try to appease the crowd.

It's a pity that this usually threatening look didn't reach Tasha's heart at the moment. She looked at General Hawke with a green face full of schadenfreude.

She waved to General Hawk in a happy mood, then put on her sunglasses and slipped out through the back door.

[I am Iron Woman... Tasha, this sounds a bit...] Jazz first played Tasha's brief speech just now, and then tried to comment.

[Beating up? 】Tasha raised her eyebrows behind the sunglasses, and answered him with desperate situation.

[Actually, I want to say "pull the wind"... yes, that's the word. 】

"Oh...thank you so much." Tasha opened the car door and sat in the driving position as she said this. The Jazz just put the gear on and wanted to start... but a figure in black came out from nowhere. After waiting for her for a long time, he knocked on her car window and pulled down his sunglasses, revealing a familiar face.

Tasha had no choice but to open the car door, and K sat on it unceremoniously.

"I am Iron Woman, Ms. Stark, you really don't leave any room for what you say."

"Hidden secrets will always be discovered," Tasha took off her sunglasses, rubbed the bridge of her nose, and sank into the seat completely, removing the brilliance she had just been under the flashlights, showing a tired look—after the New York War Then came the press conference, a lot of things needed to be dealt with, so she hadn't had time to rest, and she didn't have a rest before the war. Now the tense nerves have relaxed, the adrenaline has faded, and a sense of fatigue surges from the bottom of her heart. There are a lot of follow-up matters to be dealt with urgently, but she is very tired now, and she wants to go back to the building to take a rest. At this time, she is not in the mood to go around in circles. I'll take care of it." She waved to K, "Just this time, it's very difficult for you to deal with the aftermath, right?"

"..." K nodded, intending not to be polite at all, "It has added a lot of workload to us... My retirement plan has to be postponed." The secrets of the aliens, but the MIB that has existed for many years must continue to operate, and the aliens on the earth do not need to be exposed, but the recent entry and exit seem to be strengthened.

"The exposure of Autobots and Decepticons is not conducive to your work?" Tasha raised her eyebrows and asked sharply, and smiled at the other party's silent acquiescence, "Why don't I help you take over?"

"In the world, you always need a super team to solve unexpected events, don't you?"

After returning to the building, Jazz took her directly to the garage through the underground passage, where the Autobots hadn't left, which was Tasha's proposal.It seems that Optimus Prime does not understand the problem, and it is not a good choice to go out on the cusp of this storm.

"Ms. Stark..." Optimus Prime squatted on the ground looking at Tasha who jumped out of the jazz car, and nodded, "Thank you for the place and energy you provided."

"..." However, Tasha didn't answer him, but waved at him, walked past him, waved away the small robot arms that surrounded him, raised her head and called to her housekeeper, "Jarvis, Reduce the security level of the building to normal."

"Ms. Stark..." Optimus Prime was not particularly angry at Tasha's ignorance, but continued completely calmly, "I'm sorry for involving you in this matter..." But he hasn't said anything yet After finishing, he was stopped by Tasha's pause gesture.

"I'm not in the mood to talk about this right now, Optimus Prime." When Tasha said this, she didn't look up at Optimus Prime at all, but kept focusing on the screen in front of her, swiping back and forth, watching the stock market, Street construction and all kinds of public opinion "I believe you have talked to K, right? The MIB is clearly out of the loop on this matter, and you just got all the attention... so you need an agent urgently."

"Anyone can say a beautiful word... Optimus Prime. In the final analysis, I will agree to this resolution because of the same interests. But I am very tired now, and I just want to take a shower and have a good rest, so we postpone the discussion on the specific details." The last sentence Tasha spoke in a completely affirmative tone, leaving no room for others to speak at all.

Then she stood up, waved her hand, scattered all the virtual platforms around her, turned and left the garage.

"Boss, this carbon-based..." Tiepi looked at the owner of the building who took the elevator and left, and was very dissatisfied with her tone of voice to her leader just now.

"Boss... Tasha didn't mean that..." Jazz, who had transformed from the shape of a car, walked slowly to Optimus Prime and tried to explain to Tasha, but was also stopped by his boss' gesture.

"I know..." Optimus Prime's eyes turned back after Tasha's elevator left this floor.

Although he was sure that the hostility he felt from the other party was not his own imagination... But from this cooperation, he can completely see that Natasha Stark is essentially a trustworthy good person .

*******

——Are we sure we want to do this?

——We have no choice, Hank, we all admit that super soldier serum is irreproducible, Extremis has a fatality rate of more than 90%, and sending people to experiments is sending people to slaughterhouses... Besides, you don't want to know about the modification process.

—But, that's Thor, Tasha, that's your friend, your teammate, he's still a god... We can't be sure what will happen.

—What else, Reed?Do you want Peter on the dissecting table, or Janet?or Johnny?

—We're not good people, Reed, I never thought of myself as a hero, but at least we're creating life, not ending it.

*******

"Madam?"

"..." Waking up in a daze, her caffeine-deprived brain was still unclear, and she waved her hand to stop her butler from telling the time.

Then she reached out to fumble for the coffee cup by the bed, but suddenly realized that this was not her room, but a guest room—the floor where her room was located had been completely leaked from all sides due to the first round of attacks She can only wait for the renovation team to renovate the ruins, but fortunately, her building has a lot of rooms, so there will be no situation where there is no place to sleep - her housekeeper carefully adjusted the reflectivity of the glass for her to adjust the light.

Tasha didn't get out of bed in a hurry, but picked up the tablet on the table and called up the model of the building. The housekeeper had already loaded the damaged parts into the model.Tasha turned over the model, and then daubed it a few times.

"Madam, are you going to redesign?" The steward looked at the modified data in Tasha's hand and asked aloud. It noticed that its master seemed to be planning to cut through the first, second, and second floors.

"It's going to be redecorated anyway, isn't it? It's better to completely renovate."

"Let me remind you that the building was completed in less than three years, madam."

"Relax, Jarvis, three years is not a short time. In fact, it is incredible that it has persisted for three years." You must know that the building was attacked again and again not long after it was completed.

At that time, because of Wanda's mental breakdown, Stark's old house, which was used as the base of the Avengers, was destroyed, and the company had a big financial problem. The Avengers team had to be disbanded, and many things had to be done by herself. Dealt with... It wasn't until much later that their team reunited, and she simply renamed Stark Tower to Avengers Tower.

"If I can build a Pacific police force, I can build a second one, right?" Tasha thought as she unconsciously tapped her finger on the screen.

"Madam?" The AI ​​that was born in the building didn't understand what the master said, so it made a rare questioning tone.

"Nothing... Is Optimus Prime still in the building?"

"Most of the Autobots have already left...but Optimus Prime and Mr. Jazz are still waiting underground."

"Really..." Tasha nodded thoughtfully, put the tablet back on the head of the bed, turned over and got out of bed, glanced at the falling night, rubbed her temples, walked to the coffee machine in the kitchenette, and waited While having coffee, I connected to the network of the building using Extremis.

*****

Optimus Prime first dismissed most of the subordinates who came to help during the battle yesterday, leaving only Jazz and the ambulance who were in the building.As Tasha said before, he did talk to MIB's agent K before. Due to the concealment of their department, it is difficult to be effective in this era of media focus, so they all agreed that This scientist, who has close ties to the military and is comfortable with new things, is a good new contact.Perhaps they can also seek cooperation with the government in this regard.Although the person involved is already very dissatisfied with deciding this matter without consulting with him... But Optimus Prime still feels that it is necessary for them to sit down and talk, especially after Jazz reported to him the conversation between Tasha and K before after.

Five hours later, the owner of the building went down to the ground floor again. She must have learned about the situation from the human housekeeper, so she was not surprised by their existence when she went down to the ground floor.

Just as Optimus Prime was about to say something, he noticed that the other party ignored them after getting out of the elevator and went directly to pick up a piece of cloth near the workbench.

At this time, Tasha's hand that had been covering her face was lowered, allowing them to see the red liquid flowing from the nostrils to the chin.