"This didn't look like a proper cocktail party."
Looking at the chaotic scene, Ina Sandra, who had been invited over, said to Pepper Potts, who had come to greet them. Luke stood beside her, while Snoke and Jessica stood nearby, keeping the crowd away from them. Colonel James Rhodes of the Air Force had come along as well.
"Don't even mention it. Life has been a complete mess lately! I don't know what's wrong with Tony, but I know he isn't normal! I invited you here because I hoped you could get something out of him." Pepper Potts looked deeply worried as she led them through Stark's villa.
"I saw the accident. Afterwards, I even had someone try to interrogate the man who attacked Tony. But unexpectedly, before he could even be transferred to another prison, something happened at the prison where he was being held. He died in an explosion! It was like someone didn't want him to stay alive." James Rhodes revealed the latest information he had received.
As Tony Stark's friend, of course he knew about Tony being attacked during the race. Yet before he could do anything, all the information and the man himself had vanished in an explosion.
As for the military forcing their way in with planes and tanks to seize Stark's armor, as had happened in the original timeline, that had not occurred now that they had Hebron as an alternative channel. Though they still coveted Stark's Iron Armor technology, with a substitute available, there was no need to resort to such unscrupulous methods.
So this time, James Rhodes had truly only accepted Pepper Potts's invitation to come check on Tony Stark's condition.
The surroundings were deafeningly noisy. As the blaring music grew louder and louder, the group arrived at its source. On