Tony Stark originally thought that the people he cloned and resurrected would be his parents.
but...
Not really.
Those were two completely different people, two people Tony could swear he had never seen before.
Lake raised an eyebrow: "What did you use to clone it?"
Tony looked up at Lake: "Will I use something else to revive them?"
Lake rubbed his chin.
There's no reason for this.
Lake asked, "Since the people who were resurrected by the clones weren't Howard and Maria, then didn't you discover this during the cloning process?"
Tony shook his head. "I just remembered now that they are not."
Lake: "…"
Just remembering it now?
So what were you doing before? You were obsessed with your great achievement of reversing life and death, and you were in a state of mind like a creator.
Tony looked at Lake and said in a deep voice, "They are not dead."
Lake came back to his senses and looked at Tony speechlessly: "Stop it."
He has intervened in Howard's affairs countless times, starting in 2001 and continuing until now, in 2006, and it's not over yet. Will it ever end?
It turns out that my main mission is to find Howard?
MMP!
Tony was very sure: "What I said is true. I took all the tissue samples from the coffins. If they are not them, then where are they?"
Lake asked suspiciously, "Open the coffin?"
Tony nodded.
Lake exclaimed, "Wow, this is about to change from the Marvel superhero universe to the Marvel supernatural universe."
but...
Lake shook his head and said, "This only proves that the people in the coffin are not Howard Stark and Maria Stark. It doesn't prove anything else."
This is the Federation.
Their purpose of digging graves and stealing corpses may not be to satisfy their sexual desires, but they are capable of doing some other perverted things that Lake cannot even imagine.
But the next second, Lake overturned this idea.
The reason is simple.
The Stark family has its own private cemetery. Anyone or any team interested in body stealing will never be able to get close to the Stark cemetery.
That...
Lake asked again: "Where's the brain?"
Tony said in a deep voice: "No."
Lake looked at Tony, whose face was filled with confidence and certainty: "I remember you said that you took out their brains."
Tony nodded, "I know what I said, yes, but not them."
"Someone switched it?"
"No one can switch packages under Jarvis's 24-hour surveillance."
"Jarvis's brain had already been removed when he was born."
"It has been kept in a Stark classified level 3S biological freezer."
"…"
Lake opened his mouth. It wasn't this, and it wasn't that. Could it be that Howard Stark and Maria Stark were really not dead? Then who the hell was dead?
Also, if they are not dead, where are they?
What?
The brain cannot be saved.
Lake also struggled with this problem at first, but he was not a scientist, and this was the Marvel Universe where black technology was rampant. Tony Stark was sure that he could preserve it, so there must be such a way. Lake thought of this and stopped worrying about it.
Pepper heard this and said to Tony, "I've asked Jarvis to invite experts from all over the world to help you solve the problem on your chest..."
Tony looked down.
Seeing this, Lake also stood up and said goodbye.
Before one wave subsides, another wave arises.
Suddenly, a person named Wanda, who seemed to have traveled back from the future, appeared on his side. Then, Howard Stark and Maria Stark suddenly appeared on Tony's side. Is it possible that they are not dead?
Could it be that my version of Marvel has never been about superheroes, but rather about suspense and puzzles?
After Lake walked out of the manor, he got into the car and shook his head speechlessly.
Three days later.
Lake picked up the Warrens who had returned from the Vatican with holy water, and then took them back to Tony Stark's Stark Manor in Long Beach.
Pepper Potts was already waiting at the door.
After the Warrens got off the car, although Pepper Potts had never heard of the Warrens' names, since Lake said that he could help Black Charcoal Tony recover, he must have real skills.
soon.
In the basement where the ding ding ding sounds were coming from, a few people saw Black Charcoal Tony lifting weights.
Riker's eyes fell on Tony Stark's chest and he raised an eyebrow.
A triangular energy source is very conspicuous.
Good job.
Could it be that the emergence of the small Ark reactor is a cosmic necessity, and the process of its emergence is irrelevant? The Ark reactor is Rome, and the process is all roads?
As Lake thought about it, he walked up to Black Charcoal Tony and tapped his fingers, making a crisp sound: "Nice, have you transformed yourself into a half-human, half-machine body?"
Tony said, "He was able to suppress the fragments in my blood and prevent them from attacking my heart."
Lake touched his chin and said, "Give me one of this..."
By the way, if the electrical appliances in my home were connected to this, would they not need electricity for at least a year?
Pepper reminded from behind: "Lake."
Lake came back to his senses, said "oh", and introduced the Warrens to Tony: "These two are the Warrens, the only authentic exorcists certified by the Vatican."
After seeing Tony, who was covered in charcoal, the Warrens said with certainty, "This is someone who was attacked by a demon, was about to die, and was suddenly abandoned."
Pepper took out her necklace: "Is this why?"
The Warrens took the necklace from Pepper and nodded. "It's possible that the sacred aura on this necklace comes from the Vatican, but it's very weak. It has indeed been triggered."
Finished.
The Warrens looked at Tony Stark, "I need a wooden cave that can hold holy water. It's almost noon now. If we want to exorcise the demonic energy that remains in you, we must hurry."
Lake looked at Pepper: "Where's the barrel you bought?"
Pepper said, "It was delivered yesterday and is in the backyard."
Around noon.
In the backyard of the manor, the sun was high in the sky. Tony Stark entered a wooden barrel and took off his underwear with an expressionless face.
In the living room of the manor.
Pepper stood by the window with a nervous look on her face, watching what was happening in the backyard.
Lake sipped from a glass of bourbon, "Relax. The Warrens are professionals in dealing with demons."
Pepper, who had her back to Lake, hummed, then looked at Lake with some confusion: "Are Howard and Maria really not dead?"
Lake shrugged: "I can't be sure for now."
The remains of Howard Stark and Maria Stark were exhumed yesterday afternoon and transported to Washington, D.C., by Stark's special plane. In Washington, the two remains will be confirmed with the help of anthropologist Dr. Temperley Brainer to confirm whether their bones correspond to Howard Stark and Maria Stark.
Pepper couldn't help but say, "But that video."
Lake was just about to speak.
Suddenly.
A scream and a groaning sound came from the backyard. Pepper looked back nervously, but saw that not far away, while Mr. Warren was begging from the Bible, Mrs. Warren was pouring spoonful after spoonful of holy water on Tony Stark's body, and thick black smoke came out of Tony Stark's body.
In the midst of the pervasive black smoke, there was also a hideous laugh that sounded like a demon from hell.
Mr. Warren's chanting became more and more rapid.
Mrs. Warren quickly ordered Tony Stark to bury himself completely in the holy water.
Tony, with a face full of pain, still maintained the last bit of clarity and did as he was told.
With a puff.
The moment Tony Stark buried himself in the holy water, it was like a red-hot iron meeting cold water. An incomprehensible sound was heard, and the holy water in the barrel was about to boil.
While white smoke was gurgling, black smoke was constantly being forced out by the white smoke.
"Wow!"
Lake walked to Pepper's side without knowing when, his eyes fell on the scene in the backyard, and he tutted his tongue twice: "I'm afraid this thing is going to be cooked."
Pepper couldn't help but laugh, then said to Lake speechlessly, "Tony is already like this, can you please hold back your sharp tongue for a while?"
Lake shook his head, "No, I warned him that he wouldn't get what he wanted, but he didn't listen."
Pepper defended Tony: "Tony is just doing what he can do."
Lake laughed and said, "Obviously, he can't do it."
Pepper stopped talking, but just thanked Lake on behalf of Tony, and then turned her gaze back to Tony Stark who was struggling in the white and black smoke.
The end of science is God.
Theology can be deduced from science, but science cannot be promoted to theology so easily. If you try to explain theology with science, what you get will always be completely unrelated.
Riker didn't help Tony Stark for no reason.
Of course.
Lake wanted to get the land for free from Tony Stark, but this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was that for some reason, Lake's strong sixth sense told him that perhaps he could use what happened to Tony Stark to solve what happened to him.
Lake has always believed in his sixth sense.
Especially after obtaining the method of the microcosm and integrating it into his force seed, Lake's sixth sense may be vague, but it will definitely not provide him with wrong information.
Of course.
This range does not include cheat draws.
The exorcism process was quick.
But in Tony Stark's view, the exorcism process is painful and long.
When Tony Stark, who had turned white again, emerged from the barrel, his face was pale and his whole body was trembling.
Happy, who was standing nearby, quickly handed the towel to Tony Stark, and then helped Tony, who was too weak to even climb out of the barrel, to get out of the holy water that had turned black.
…
PS: The Warrens - from the universe of "The Conjuring" movie series!