Chapter 167: Choices and sacrifices (5000)(2/2)
Thor hangs the Storm Axe in his hand and waits for Steve Rogers to answer.
"It's the Storm Axe," Rocket Raccoon replied.
Thor was stunned for a moment, lifted the axe higher, and pointed his other hand at himself and asked, "Who is holding the Storm Battle Axe?"
No one paid attention to him. Thor asked and replied: "It's me!"
Tony Stark ignored the "savage man" holding an axe behind him, and his emotions were obviously excited: "It's not that there were opportunities, the captain, and even before you and me, but what's the result?"
Steve Rogers didn't think so, and he tried to convince Tony Stark: "It's different from five years ago, this time we have the initiative."
"Advantage?" Tony Stark was amused by Steve's words, and he walked back and forth in the conference room: "What is the difference between Thanos coming to grab our gems and Thanos' gems?"
"Oh, that's probably because we'll be lined up to Thanos and wait for him to cut off our heads."
"Now we have a way to insure, why not to insure, but to touch this disaster that can destroy us?" Steve Rogers was helpless in the face of Tony Stark's string of rhetoric. He exhaled a heavy breath and looked out the window.
Since the New York War in 2012, Tony Stark has fallen into ptsd (post-traumatic stress disorder) or more complex thoughts, fear, disappointment, and even complete despair... In the past, Tony, narcissistic, conceited, cool, pretended to be x, and since he had a family, all this has disappeared.
Conservative, this is the biggest manifestation of Tony's change. The Avengers Civil War incident, including the current reversal infinity, has fully demonstrated his conservative thoughts.
Kuroguyi and the others didn't speak because they were not familiar with each other, and they knew that these Avengers would make the right decision.
"Tony, no one's life should pay for this mission!" Steve Rogers emphasized.
"No one?" Tony Stark laughed furiously: "Hey, everyone, sacrificing one's life can save half of the lives of the entire universe. What is the thing that has been famous for all eternity? What do you want to do?"
"You know, Thanos has Infinite Gems in hand, and Wakanda couldn't stop him in a battle. Now, with the ten of us, who can speak out loud and say that he can survive?!" Tony Stark almost yelled at the end of his words.
"So this has to be sacrificed!" Steve Rogers yelled likewise: "Is it you, or Pepper Potts?!"
Steve mentioned Pepper Potts, which was undoubtedly the turning point in the dispute between the two. Tony Stark was stunned when he heard the name. After a while, Tony calmed down. He looked at Steve, spread his hands again, but in the end he still didn't reply.
"I can..." Natasha spoke weakly, but Steve shouted directly.
"Shut up!"
Natasha closed her mouth very tactfully...
Seeing this, Steve Rogers's voice became much smaller. He continued to persuade: "Tony, if we have hope, we will fight for it, even if the chance is slim..."
"If it fails..." Tony Stark murmured.
"Then we will fail together," Steve Rogers immediately blocked the follow-up words and replied firmly: "I will never regret it!"
With great struggle inside, Tony looked at Steve intently, shook his head, his expression bitter, and finally chose to move his eyes away.
Everyone in the conference room saw this dispute, but no one chose to interrupt. When he turned his head, Tony's eyes focused on magicians like Kuro who suddenly appeared.
"Can you tell me who you are? The doctor prepared the backhand? You did not appear during the Battle of Wakanda, but this time it appeared because of the more than one in ten thousand chance he mentioned? So, we traveled to the past to grab the gem from Thanos's hands and was the only chance to win?"
"Emm, that...I hope you will make it clearer and don't hit some mute fans like that doctor." Rhodes said with his hands raised.
"The future Strongch sees is limited to fate, but we are a group of people who are beyond fate." Gu Yi said calmly.
"Okay, I'm starting to not understand." Rhodes spread his hands helplessly.
At this time, Grindelwald, who had been watching all this silently, spoke: "Our main goal here is not to help you save half of the world. We are here to save you, Tony Stark."
Tony frowned, and Curlow did not continue to play the hoarse fan, but spoke.
"In the past and future, you sacrificed Natasha and successfully obtained six Infinity Stones. You also snapped your fingers and let half of them come back, but there was a little accident in the middle..."
Kuro looked at Nebula.
"The Nebula will generate data sharing with the sub-time and space itself, which will still lead Thanos to know your plans, and even be fully prepared to bring the entire legion to chase him."
"I can fix the Smurf," Tony Stark didn't hesitate for a moment.
Rocket Raccoon reminded: "Tony, this is not a disease."
Besides, you are so confident that you can fix it?" Scott Lang whispered.
"yeah,yeah...you're right," Tony Stark said excitedly: "Then leave the Nebula at the base!"
"You keep talking." Steve left his eyes from Nebula and said to Curlow.
Kuro continued with a smile: "Next, you will have a battle with the Thanos army that came over the past, and Tony Stark will finally snap the gems in the melee and snap the fingers. Thanos army will be destroyed, and Tony will also die because he can't bear the gems. This reversal of the future, you sacrificed two people..."
quiet--
There was silence in the presence, and everyone turned their eyes to Tony.
Tony was also stunned, but after a moment of silence, he said firmly.
“If it were really time, I would have made that choice.”
"Tony!" Steve shouted excitedly, "You have a five-year-old daughter in your family! What should they do if you leave?"
"She will be proud of her father, and Botz will also manage Stark Industry well. In fact, she has been managing it in the past few years."
"That..." Scott said weakly: "It seems that you haven't discussed it yet..."
quiet--
"You're really a good mouthful, Scott."
Chapter completed!