The Stark Paradox

"Are you sure this appearance is normal?" Jazz squatted outside the bathroom door of the laboratory, looking at Tasha who was washing the blood on her face, and asked worriedly, "The ambulance said that your physiological indicators It's all normal..."

"Then you should trust your doctor's diagnosis, shouldn't you?" Tasha said with raised eyebrows.

"But you are bleeding." Jazz sharply pointed out the crux of the problem, "I also asked the ambulance, and he said that although women on Earth have periods of natural bleeding every once in a while, but..."

"That's enough, sir... don't let me make up that picture, okay?" Facing the unrecognized obscenity of the alien male robot saying obscene words in an extremely upright tone, Tasha felt even more dizzy. It hurts.

"..." Jazz closed his mouth very obediently, and then stepped out of the way, allowing the little robotic hand to slide in a glass of water and medicine.His huge size prevented him from doing anything at this time, except to ask useless worried questions.

"Don't worry too much." Tasha said as she walked out, and walked to the other side where Optimus Prime and the ambulance were still waiting. "This is like your CPU is overloaded... just take a break..."

"Ms. Stark, our cpu overload corresponds to your carbon-based intracranial hemorrhage... so I don't think it's anything to worry about." As a professional doctor, the ambulance interrupted in time to give some advice.

"It's okay, this kind of situation doesn't happen very often, and it's not like it never happened. I figured it out." Tasha waved her hand to indicate that this topic can be stopped.

"Speaking of this... Ms. Stark, what did you do to yourself?" Optimus Prime, who was standing aside and hadn't spoken since the beginning, spoke cautiously at this moment, pointing to Tasha's chest Looking at the bright light in front of him, he pointed to his head again, with a hint of worry in his serious tone, "Ordinary people don't have the ability to 'talk' to us."

"So I'm not an ordinary person, am I..." Tasha nodded her temples, "I'm a futurist."

"..." The good-tempered Optimus Prime ignored the tit-for-tat in the other party's words again, and persuaded, "I don't know if this is a good idea. You should be more careful when you test it on yourself."

"Don't say it as if we know each other very well." Tasha stopped what she was doing, but she still didn't turn her head, and said in a very calm, calm enough to be irritating tone, "Optimus Prime, we all know our The alliance is temporary. I am a businessman, and I care about interests. You are a politician, and you also care about interests. Since we are just taking what we need, don’t say it as if you entrusted me with trust... It won’t be long before we really understand 48 hours, right?"

"...but I trust you, Ser Natasha..."

Obviously, Optimus Prime's answer was not what Tasha expected. Three seconds later, she raised her head and glanced at him in doubt. Seeing his completely calm face, she was not sullen and said patiently, "Sir, I would like to believe you." , and I am willing to trust the judgment of my adjutant."

This embarrassed her.

At this moment, her caring butler Jarvis rescued her, "General Hawke asked to enter outside the building."

"The leader of the special forces, General Hawke." Tasha raised her eyebrows and said to Optimus Prime in a questioning tone.

"..." The latter thought for a moment and nodded, Tasha ordered Jarvis with Optimus Prime's acquiescence, "Please come in, General Hawke, and direct me here."

Less than 5 minutes later, the elevator turned around, landed on this floor, stopped and opened the doors. General Hawke, who was wearing a full military uniform, looked like he had just come out of a press conference.

"Stark." General Hawke stepped down and walked in front of Tasha, completely ignoring the huge robot behind her. "Am I the Iron Woman?"

"Ah, I know I'm handsome when I say it... but it's been repeated too many times today? I can predict what the headlines will be in the New York Times tomorrow morning."

Tasha waved her hand and said casually.

"I'm not interested in talking to you, Stark."

"'I'm not interested in talking to you, Stark.'" Tasha turned her head and looked at him with a half-smile at this time, "Your tone reminds me of someone I knew before, Nick Fury, you must I don't know him... But, I really don't like that guy..." Tasha restrained her tone while saying this, and put on a formal and serious tone, "So I don't bother to talk to you, Hawk." Saying so, she pointed to the big guy behind her, "This is the purpose of your coming here, what do you want to talk about, just be direct."

"..." Hawk looked at Tasha's face that changed in an instant. In all public reports except academic reports, Natasha Stark appeared as a chaotic private life in Game Life.

As a self-made billionaire, Hawk thought that this person might have some business acumen and cleverness... He never really took this person seriously.The kind of guy who just writes a check to a charity and does superficial engineering never catches his eye as someone who's actually solving a problem.

However, today's Natasha Stark is not the same as his impression, nor is it the same as the last time he saw it.It wasn't the face she had when she announced her identity in a high-profile manner to the media today.

The sharpness and sharpness contained in those eyes are the eyes that Hawke once saw in his own eyes in the mirror, which were really solving problems.

Maybe there was something in it that he couldn't understand.

At this time, Hawke really began to face up to this problem-Natasha Stark is not a simple person.

"We want to seek cooperation with you." Hawke turned his head at this moment, he decided to put this matter down first, and turned his attention to Optimus Prime.After all, the other party was a leader, and Hawke's tone was somewhat polite, "We can provide you with bases, shelters, resources, and other things you need."

"The Decepticons have caused us trouble more than once, and we need your help and cooperation."

"..." Optimus Prime listened to Hawke's invitation in silence, and then looked at Tasha who was sitting on the chair. She didn't look at him but kept focusing on the screen in front of her. It's hard to say what you think about Hawke's blatant poaching.

General Hawk's offer was tempting, and Optimus Prime fully understood the stakes.Direct cooperation with the military may have more benefits, but...

"I see, General Hawke, we already have an agent, Ms. Stark will be very willing to discuss this matter with you in detail."

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For a moment, the eyes of the other two people and the two machines in the space were all focused on him, but he nodded calmly, as if what he said was not a big deal.

"So... I understand." Hawk paused, then rearranged his mood and nodded, with a clear look, "Then I will talk to Stark about this matter again." Hawk Saying this, he looked at Natasha who was sitting on the side again, knowing that today might not be the time to continue the conversation, so he touched his hat, gave a military salute, and then turned his head and left.

Tasha didn't get up to send General Hawke off when he left, and she didn't mean to intervene in the whole conversation between General Hawke and Optimus Prime. She first paid attention to the company's stock market, and saw that the stock had risen by 10 One point later, he nodded in satisfaction, knowing that Carol would at least kill himself recently, then opened the mailbox, put some unimportant emails aside, and asked casually, "So, with The alignment of the armies...and then? Do you have any ideas for the next step? I mean, you should have a plan, right? You always have a plan, don't you?"

"..." Ignoring Tasha's strange last sentence, Optimus Prime nodded, "Megatron should still not have dispatched all his troops in this battle. Our team is a bit weak in comparison. I am going to release it to the outer space. A message to lead our people to Earth to fight Megatron."

"..." Tasha didn't express her opinion right away, but tapped on the table thoughtfully and thought about it.

Although Optimus Prime's words sounded full of sincerity, the matter of introducing more aliens to the earth itself has a certain degree of danger.After all, this is an internal struggle in Cybertron. According to Tasha's consistent principles, she doesn't want to get into this muddy water at all... But now that their stage is Earth, this matter has to be taken seriously.The uneven combat power will lead to the unfavorable situation of the battle... Then... How much sincerity is there in Optimus Prime's words just now?

Tasha looked up at the blue optical lens, and the other party looked straight into her eyes without fear.

——At this time, I really miss Charles' ability...

Tasha sighed from the bottom of her heart, then nodded, "Okay..." She stood up while saying so, "So we need to start working, making a small satellite that can be sent to outer space."

"Look, we can also cooperate happily, Natasha." Optimus Prime slowly bent down to look at her, and stretched out a finger.

"..." Tasha looked at him, and then at the earnest eyes of Jazz behind her.He wiped his forehead, wiped back the hair that fell in front of his eyes, then nodded, stretched out his hand and held the finger extended by Optimus Prime, "So, we are a team now? You can call me , Tasha."

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Brian O'Connor was originally an FBI undercover agent. The reason why he used the past tense was because he had completed his mission two years ago and became an ordinary FBI New York branch agent.

A few days ago, when he was following a case and was approaching an important clue, he suddenly received an inside message.

Then he discovered that Letty, who had become a family during his undercover period, died in an accident.

O'Connor doesn't believe it was a simple accident... After attending the funeral from afar - which was officiated by Letty's boyfriend's sister, Mia Tretto - looking at the man he once loved The woman looked like she was about to cry at the funeral, and the first thing O'Connor did when he returned to the branch was to find a thin stack of reports on Letty's haunts.

Then he discovered that, before Letty's accident, he had been to New York once.

O'Connor looked at the two women who entered together in the unclear photo taken from the hotel's surveillance camera, and thought maybe he should go to New York.