Maya Hansen, standing to one side, could not help but look forward to it. At last, she would get to see for herself what the mysterious S.H.I.E.L.D. was really like!
Tony Stark's expression, however, kept changing.
"Dad, maybe I shouldn't go."
Chen Mo glanced at Tony and slowly shook his head.
"How can you not go? The Extremis Virus still needs your help to be perfected. Don't you want to get stronger? If aliens invade again the next time I'm not around, do you think you can handle them with that pile of scrap metal of yours? What if Pepper gets kidnapped again..."
Tony Stark's face changed at once. He could feel his anxiety disorder showing signs of flaring up again, and he hurriedly nodded.
"I'll go! I'll go, all right?"
Tony then called up three suits from the underground armory.
Chen Mo still wore the tall Striker Armor. Maya Hansen wore Igor again, the suit large enough for her to lie down and sleep in. Tony Stark, meanwhile, gave up on the Gamma Armor with its green head and chose the Ultra-High Speed Armor that had previously brought Pepper back—Mark XL, Hunting Rifle!
Gamma was simply too large for him. That kind of "faint" sorrow was more than he could bear!
Soon, the three suits flew out through the open garage doors, rapidly rose into the sky, and headed for New York!
There was no urgency in repairing those damaged suits for now. There were still more than thirty usable ones left. The research into the Extremis Virus, on the other hand, could begin immediately!
The three suits sped onward and soon arrived in New York, on the United States' East Coast.
The East and West Coasts of the United States were more than four thousand kilometers apart. Under