All successful people in the world tended to share one thing in common: the persistence to never give up.
As Earth's most outstanding scientist and the owner of Stark Industries, Iron Man naturally could not lack such a quality.
Most importantly, now that things had reached this point, he desperately wanted an answer.
Why had Allen helped Asgard overcome its crisis, yet stood by and watched what Thanos did?
As long as those doubts remained, his heart would never be at peace.
He had not even bothered to care for his daughter, who had no idea what was happening, and even the wedding he had planned with Pepper Potts had been postponed indefinitely.
Tony Stark instinctively felt that there had to be secrets behind all this that he did not know about.
If it had been someone else, perhaps they might have simply let it go.
But he was different!
His mad-scientist way of thinking had given this guy the habit of getting to the bottom of everything, no matter what happened.
That had been the case when he faced Director Nick Fury of S.H.I.E.L.D., and nothing had changed after he later joined the Avengers Initiative.
Finally, after repeated attempts to contact him for dozens of hours, a blurry image appeared at the other end of the magical device.
The instant he saw this, Tony Stark snapped awake from his drowsy state. Ignoring the fact that he had not slept for more than thirty hours, he immediately shouted toward the other side, "Allen! Is that you?"
"Obviously! Who else could it be if not me? It has to be said, your persistence really impresses me."
Along with the familiar voice, the image gradually shifted from blurry to clear.
Allen was sitting in a chair, fiddling with some unknown dark-red substance