As Tony Stark outside the screen breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly saw Obadiah unexpectedly appear, easily overpowering Tony Stark once again. All of Tony Stark's weapons were ineffective against this behemoth.
"Whoa, what a mess!" Tony Stark quipped, but his expression was extremely serious. He could see that the Iron Monger's design was strikingly similar to the armor worn by the Tony Stark on screen. It was likely designed by himself, perhaps for different scenarios.
In a real fight, his armor was too small, and the energy was obviously insufficient, putting him at a significant disadvantage.
However, he silently made notes of these points. For example, flying too high would cause icing, so an ice-removal design was necessary. He also needed to develop heavy weapons specifically for large armored targets.
Meanwhile, the Tony Stark on screen began to cooperate with Pepper Potts. Finally, at the last moment, they blew the entire Iron Monger into the sky, finally achieving victory.
Tony Stark's assessment of his future first battle wasn't good; he could only describe it as ugly.
He actually lost to the Iron Monger!
But he had to admit, he was very fond of the armor's design.
Because he naturally had such ideas in his mind, and had also researched a lot of information in the past, otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to complete the design and manufacturing in the short time he was captured in Afghanistan.
His ideas were only vague concepts. Now, this image concretized his vague ideas, floating before his eyes and letting him know what he should do next.
"Iron Man, huh? Sounds pretty good!" Tony Stark murmured to himself.
Tony Stark thought of Lin Feng's diary, where he was called Iron Man. He hadn't understood it at all before, why he was Iron Man, and had even thought he'd awakened some ability to control steel. Now he probably understood! It seemed the so-called Iron Man probably meant something like this.
The image continued. In a conference room, Tony Stark was looking at a newspaper. The headline on the front page read, "Who is Iron Man?" Just as he and Pepper were whispering to each other, Coulson, the village chief of the newbie village, stepped forward and handed Tony Stark a small note, then said, "Alibi!"
"Alright!" Tony Stark took the note and said.
"You were on a yacht at the time, and the Port Authority can prove that you were docked at Avalon Port all night, with the testimony of fifty guests!" Coulson explained.
"Actually, I think it's better to say that only Pepper and I were on the island that night!" Tony Stark looked at the obviously fabricated alibi and said directly.
"We can't lie!" Coulson said with a faint smile. "Just read what's on the paper."
"Alright!" Tony Stark shrugged indifferently, then looked at the contents of the note and said, "No mention of Obadiah!"
"We've handled that. He's on vacation. You know, the safety of small planes is really terrible!"
Coulson replied.
"But how do we explain the fabricated bodyguard?" Tony Stark asked. "He is me, I mean, how do we explain this weak link!"
"This isn't the first time I've done this. As long as you stick to the official statement, there's no problem. You only have ninety seconds!" Coulson said and immediately turned to leave.
In the scene, Tony Stark walked onto the press conference. War Machine, Rhodes, who had been waiting, said, "Next, Mr. Stark has prepared a statement, but he will not be answering any questions. Thank you!"
After saying that, Tony Stark walked up and said to the reporters, "I haven't appeared in public for a while, so I'll just read from the script!"
"Some people have speculated that I was personally involved in the incident that occurred on the highway and rooftop..."
He was just about to read from the script when a very impolite reporter interrupted him, saying, "Excuse me, Mr. Stark, do you really think we'll just believe that it was just a bodyguard?"
The female reporter, confident in her ability to expose Tony Stark's lie, continued, "Wearing armor, appearing at just the right moment, and in fact, you usually..."
However, she didn't get to finish her sentence before Tony Stark cut her off. He wasn't one to be walked over.
Tony Stark said directly, "I know what you mean. Questioning the official statement is fine, but you shouldn't make baseless assumptions and randomly call me a… superhero!"
"I didn't say you were a superhero!" The female reporter smiled faintly, then said.
"Oh, good. That would be ridiculous. I, I, I am not the hero type!" Tony Stark took a deep breath and then said, "Obviously, I have too many character flaws, have done too many wrong things, and have had a bad influence..."
He hadn't finished when Colonel Rhodes on the side reminded him to stick to the script.
Then he took a deep breath, looked at the notes, made an important decision, and said, "The truth is, I am Iron Man!"
The entire press conference was instantly in an uproar, everyone was in an uproar.
Before this, everyone thought Tony Stark would definitely not admit it, which was also the official routine. But no one expected that he would actually admit it just like that.
Tony Stark thought of the video title: I am Iron Man. It turned out that the sentence that opened the Marvel era referred to this.
Did that one sentence end the Marvel era, also referring to this sentence?
At this moment, the screen changed again, and a desolate battlefield ruin appeared. Tony Stark was wearing a never-before-seen suit of armor, which looked even more technologically advanced, but it was full of damage, obviously after a huge battle.
He knelt on the ground with his legs spread apart, and his right hand flickered with many lights like electricity.
Clearly visible were several gems attached to it, and Tony Stark seemed to have been electrocuted, constantly twitching. After a moment, he came back to his senses. He stared fixedly at the distance, and then said: "I... am... Iron Man!"
Saying this, he snapped his fingers. In an instant, the entire screen went white, and then this video ended.