[Zhongyingmei] The number one black powder

In the end they returned to the small bed in the corner, huddled together too intimately.

It's amazing, Tony thought, that they were huddled together in this bed just a few days ago, happy and stress-free thinking about getting married.And in just a few days, everything changed.

He tried to say lightheartedly, "I've got tons of thousand-thread-count sheets upstairs and we have to work on cold, hard workbenches?"

"It's nothing wrong." Veronica replied, lying in his arms, turning her head close to his ear, and said suggestively, "What do you think?"

Tony's heart skipped a beat, and he replied, "It's too good." At the same time, he reached out and pulled the blanket down a little bit on them. "Do you want another round?"

"It's a good proposal, but I'm out of strength." Veronica lowered her head and got into the blanket, yawning.

"Ok."

"You can still do whatever you want with me, I'm here anyway." Veronica yawned again, making the sentence seem unattractive.

"I'm not that kind of person," Tony replied, pulling the blanket over her side.And Veronica didn't argue any more, she turned over in his arms, unceremoniously rolled up half of the blanket.So Tony patted her shoulder lightly in protest, "Hey, this is not good."

Veronica just raised her eyelids and glanced at him sideways, and then simply pulled the rest of Tony's side to her side.

Tony looked at her speechlessly, and after a while he said, "Some things really haven't changed?"

"What?" Veronica opened her eyes this time and looked at him suspiciously.

She looked at Tony and shrugged noncommittally, "I just think it's not too surprising, like something you can do."

"You're talking about me." Veronica narrowed her eyes slightly and lowered her face, "That version 1.0 Veronica Violet who was in love with you last week and talked about marriage. "

"1.0?" Tony laughed at that. "Sounds like there are some other versions of you?"

"Yes, you have already seen Veronica 2.0."

"What?" Tony's smile froze, he looked at Veronica and didn't quite understand what she meant.

"Didn't you decompress that chip?"

"We decompressed..."

"That's it." Veronica probably felt that she was too tired to turn her head to look at him, so she simply turned around and lay down facing him, "2.0 is the AI ​​version of me, I made it based on my memory Everything about that friend, but that's still in my memory, and you know people's memories aren't always that reliable, so I think it could be me, at least in part."

Veronica frowned and thought for a while, "But we all know that there are huge differences between different versions of the same model. If you want the 1.0 in the past, I'm sorry, I can't give you What. She's gone...or evolved, updated, but no longer the original."

"But you know that all versions of the same model are modified versions of the previous one, right? They're all the same at their core, the original one," Tony said, not bothering with her outrageous words.

"You're right." Veronica thought for a while and admitted while thinking "a core."

Tony can see her unspoken question in her eyes, what is my core?

He hugged her so he wouldn't get into her corner. "I thought it was pretty obvious."

Veronica didn't resist this, she leaned into the hollow of his shoulder.Tony had an uneasy feeling the whole time, he held Veronica tighter, felt her right next to him, and thought, they're so similar, so maybe the uneasiness came from him feeling Veronica will do some things.

——So, what would he do in this situation?

Actually, he did.In the early years when Stan robbed his company of everything and he was addicted to alcohol to numb himself.When he finally decided to pick himself up rather than die, he left New York to rebuild his career on the West Coast.He left all his friends.

"I hope this isn't some sort of parting ceremony," Tony said tentatively.

"It's not," Veronica replied, looking calm. "I want you, and you obviously want me. That's it."

"Then you won't leave without saying goodbye, will you?" He asked persistently.Because in Tony's own experience, Veronica's answer is not a guarantee.

"No." Veronica was silent for a moment, and then replied, with a sense of appointment in her voice.When Tony felt bad, she sighed, "I was going to talk to you about it afterward, but I guess, it's now."

"You mean you still have to leave." Tony asked quietly.

"Yes."

"God, you really are not tactful at all."

"You expect me to answer honestly, don't you?"

"Yeah," Tony thought, shooting himself in the foot.But on the other hand, he also heard the familiar stubbornness in Veronica's voice, and he knew he shouldn't try to stop it.He doesn't want anyone to stop him at times like this "Can I ask what you want to do?"

"I want to... calm down and face all my past," Veronica said.

"So, when you...find yourself, you'll come back, right?"

—I won't be coming back.

But Veronica said "Yeah."

Veronica left the next day, in the drizzle, without even an umbrella.

The weather in New York hasn't been very good recently, so Tony plans to blame his bad mood on the weather.He didn't send people out the door.Sometimes some people will leave him, and sometimes he will take the initiative to push some people away, this is common.Tony felt that he should be able to accept it calmly.But the fact is, he can't, everyone's departure will always leave a trace in his heart.And Veronica...he thought that if he hadn't seen her leave with his own eyes, he could pretend nothing happened.

"Now, what are your plans?" John sat in the driver's seat, watching Veronica get into the car, he couldn't help looking at the door of the Avengers Building, there was no one there who made him feel a little bit Displeased, but he didn't show it, just asked calmly.

"Go back to the base." Veronica answered him, looking straight ahead, without giving a glance to the building she just left. "I plan to finish some things."

"Finished?" John keenly noticed her strange words, and asked vigilantly, "Finished what?"

"Everything." Veronica replied.

The first thing she did was go back to their headquarters, the one they had taken from the Red Skull.There are a lot of old archives there, dating back to after World War II.

Veronica dug out all the files, those about human experiments and genetic engineering, and then destroyed them one by one.

She was very calm when facing the files related to her, without flashbacks or fear, as if it had nothing to do with her.

"This shouldn't exist anymore." Veronica said to Bucky, who was beside her, watching her calm, but with a creepy feeling.

It felt nonsensical, because the Veronica from the past was very emotional, self-centered, thinking jumping, crazy, and people couldn't figure out the routine.Usually such people are more dangerous to beware of.But she seemed so innocent, as if she wouldn't do anything horribly sinful.

But this Veronica is different.She regained all her sanity overnight—according to her own account—and suddenly grew into the mind-set of a highly effective, ruthless adult, acting with a no-nonsense determination.

Bucky is good at seeing people, he just has a feeling-"You have a plan."

"I do," Veronica tells him, unabashedly, turning her head to look at him. "I'm telling you this because I like you as a person, but that doesn't mean I like S.H.I.E.L.D."

When she said it, Bucky didn't feel nervous or scared, but relieved.For a man who compares S.H.I.E.L.D.'s protective net to a sieve, is it any surprise to know his true identity?

"I don't think these proposals should be left to S.H.I.E.L.D.," Veronica said.

And Bucky agrees with that.He had read the contents of these files, and the experiments inside were inhumane, and an astonishing result was piled up with a mountain of human lives.It's full of technology that shouldn't be used on any intelligent creature, leaving it there will only make some crazy scientists who have no bottom line try again in the future.

"I'm curious, how are you going to explain this to your boss?" Veronica looked at the incinerator and then at Bucky, and suddenly remembered to ask, "Your boss won't be happy, right?"

"What can I do? Cry, make trouble, and hang yourself three times. How miserable can you pretend?" Bucky changed his face in a second, burst into tears, panting and choked up, complaining, "You were shot with missiles after drinking two bottles of wine. Lord of our own people, we dare not ask and we dare not say, what can I do, I am also very desperate."

Veronica saw Bucky's superb acting skills for the first time, and was so surprised that she couldn't speak.

"Actually, Fury's mood has nothing to do with me." Bucky recovered his expressionless face for another second, shrugged indifferently, and said honestly, "If you read my complete file, you should know, my My immediate boss should be Captain America, and he should be held accountable for all my actions."

So Veronica suddenly realized: "So you are planning to sell your teammates?"

"How can you sell your teammates? For the sake of the revolutionary cause, can you sell your teammates?" Bucky retorted angrily, "Isn't everyone here to build a harmonious society and a beautiful new world?"

Veronica stared at Bucky for a while before asking, "Have you been dating that copywriter girl from the Propaganda Department recently?"