Everyone inside the Galactus Engine looked over Natasha's findings and offered their own opinions.
As the King of Agents, Nick naturally spotted the clues. He said, "The possibility of Ross being the culprit is very low. Setting aside my personal belief that he wouldn't commit murder, Tony's decision to visit Rhodey was completely spontaneous."
"Besides, Ross and Rhodey's factions within the military aren't completely opposed. There was no reason for him to install surveillance equipment in Rhodey's home, which means he couldn't have known Rhodey would complain to Tony about his arrest operation. Even if he did know, there wouldn't have been time to prepare."
"This is very strange." Tony frowned. "The me from that universe came in armor. That Tony Stark's suit already had basic life-scanning capabilities. Even if the other party could turn invisible, they wouldn't have been able to hide from the scan. How could he have failed to detect them?"
"Unless the other party never came at all." T'Challa, standing behind the bar, gave his opinion. "I think they may have poisoned him in advance."
"Like I said, Tony's decision was clearly spontaneous. Who could have predicted that he would suddenly go see Rhodey and poison him beforehand?" Nick refuted the idea. "Either Tony was unlucky, and the culprit happened to be planning to murder Rhodey at that time, or he just happened to walk into it."
"The odds are too low." Tony shook his head. "The culprit obviously wanted to create conflict between Stark Industries and the military. There's no such thing as that much of a coincidence."
"Have you considered that the culprit might have acted on impulse too?" Schiller spoke up. "That they changed their actions based on Tony's?"
"But again, if they were monitoring Stark in that universe, they would definitely have