"Mr. Stark, please sign on behalf of the Avengers. I trust you understand just how severe the fallout from the Sokovia incident has been."
The former General Ross appeared at Avengers Alliance headquarters today as the United States Secretary of State, urging them on with a smile.
It has to be said, American politics was a very interesting place.
Given all the mistakes and crimes he had committed while researching Hulk, it was absurd that he could make a comeback and rise to the powerful position of Secretary of State.
Clearly, the capital forces behind the military-industrial complex had played a crucial role in it.
What was even more absurd was that Americans seemed to have memories like fish, lasting only a very short time.
Coupled with capital's control over the media and public opinion, Ross becoming Secretary of State had not caused the slightest stir.
It was as though Hulk's battle with Abomination in New York, which had demolished entire blocks of buildings and houses, had never happened at all.
Unlike ordinary Americans, Tony Stark clearly had a memory. He knew exactly what the old man standing before him had done, and he frowned as he questioned him, "Why are you so determined to take back control? I admit that the Ultron incident was indeed my responsibility. But the US Government has made far too many similar mistakes to count, and the damage and deaths they caused far exceeded Sokovia. Don't think I don't know that you're still secretly researching all sorts of viruses and biochemical weapons explicitly banned by the United Nations."
"Don't change the subject, Stark. We're discussing the Sokovia Accords, not dredging up the US Government and military's old debts."
Ross's expression immediately darkened at the mention of those Dark History.
Although he had spent many