The Purpose of Pretending to Be Injured

"Tony!" x2

Maria and Howard stared sternly at the two Tony.

"We were just joking, right?"

Tony felt a chill run down his spine as his parents stared at him like that, and quickly winked at his Future Tony.

"That's right, this is our unique way of communicating."

Future Tony and cooperated by putting away his armor.

"Little Tony, you two should get along well. And you, you're already married, why are you still arguing with him? Don't you know what kind of person he is?"

Maria said to Future Tony.

"Little Tony, you're getting married too. Be more mature. What's the big deal about fighting with your other self? He's older than you, so you'll call him 'brother' from now on."

Maria said to Tony.

"Brother, that's impossible! And you're married? Who's your husband?"

Tony initially refused, then asked curiously.

"Pepper, we have another daughter."

"Daughter, do you have any photos? Let me see them."

"Yes, I'll send it to you."

"Friday? Where's your Jarvis?"

A lot has happened on my end.

Howard nodded in satisfaction, seeing that the two Tony got along well.

He looked around and began searching.

I spotted a corner and walked over.

Two Steve, one Bucky, and one Carter.

"Steve Rogers!"

Howard called out his full name.

Both Steve looked over, and both of them wore expressions of shame.

"Which one is Steve from the Parallel World?"

"I."

In the Future Captain America silently takes a step forward.

Howard punched the Future Captain America in the face.

Future Captain America offered no resistance, allowing the next few punches to make his nose bleed profusely.

On the other side, the two Tony also stopped talking.

Howard threw a few punches and then stopped, panting heavily.

"These punches were for another version of myself. I understand you want to save Barnes, but you shouldn't hurt Tony. You're still his uncle."

"Sorry."

"Hmph, you should say that to Tony."

Howard rubbed his aching back.

"You should be glad I'm old. If I were younger, I would have beaten you half to death, hmph!"

Howard snorted and walked away, clutching his aching back.

The Future Captain America stood silently in place, blood streaming down his chin.

Steve stepped forward to say something, but Peggy stopped him and gave Bucky a wink.

Your situations are both different; wouldn't your attempt to comfort them just make things worse?

Bucky nodded and walked toward the Future Captain America.

Tony sighed, "The last time I saw Dad this angry was when I was fourteen and stole his car, smashed it to pieces. It was his favorite car."

Future Tony continued, "He beat me with his belt and I was bedridden for three days."

Looking back now, I realize that Dad wasn't heartbroken about his car; he was afraid of losing us.

"Real?"

"You'll understand when you become a father."

Future Tony.

Full of vigor and without a care in the world, with a happy family.

I'm truly enviable in this world.

"You guys keep chatting, hurry up and help Howard up!"

Maria got furious when she heard them talking about this; it scared her so much that she fainted.

"They're here, they're here."

"Immediately."

Over the next few hours, more and more people arrived at the conference room.

Mutants: Charles et al.

Tom and others, Acting President of the Demon Group

President: Matthew

Hydra: Baron Zemo Pierce, Pierce

Science Group: Banner et al.

Demon Artifact Team: Frank and others

Demon Army: Mora, Hulk, Basa, Abomination

Parallel Universe: Future Captain America, Future Tony, Ant-Man, Doc Green

(I think I haven't missed any, right? Most of the Shadow Ninja are in DC.)

After everyone had taken their seats

Kino appeared at the scene wearing a dress made by Yu, followed by Venom and the others, and took their seats at the head of the table.

"Sit down, everyone! Here's a report on the battle. (Future) Tony, you can all listen in."

"Yes."

The people around them also began to sit down.

Tom stood up.

"Let me go first. In this war, there were 520,000 lightly wounded, 120,000 seriously wounded, and 27,000 dead. Fortunately, they have all been rescued, so there were actually no casualties."

Then, of the five boroughs of New York, Manhattan and Brooklyn were 80% destroyed, the Bronx and Queens were 30% destroyed, and only Staten Island remained intact.

"These issues are the responsibility of the president and the Mutants. You can arrange the movement of people and the reconstruction, which will allow you to gain public recognition."

Once we've done enough, we can release some news and legislation about Mutants.

"Kino said."

"Yes."

Charles nodded excitedly.

"Furthermore, Mr. President, thank you for your cooperation during this time. Your rank will be promoted to internal staff."

"Kino... no... Chief!"

Matthew was overjoyed.

Now we're truly on their side.

"Kino, I want to ask, what was your purpose in faking your injury today?"

"Tony asked."

"It shouldn't be called a goal, but a choice, a choice given to the entire planet."

"Kino said."

"Choose?"

Everyone present looked puzzled.

"Tony, Banner, I'm asking you, how much of the technological data from a thousand years in the future that we gave you has actually been digested?"

"A thousand years?"

Apart from Tony, Tom, Banner, and the rest of the tech team present, everyone else looked shocked.

"7%, I've been too busy lately, I don't have time right now."

Tony scratched his head, realizing what Kino was up to.

A thousand years later, there weren't many new inventions in technology; instead, there were more updates and iterations.

"46%, that's the sum of what each of us individually holds; it will take about two more years to fully digest it."

Banner said.

This information is classified; researchers without insider qualifications are not even qualified to know about it.

Doc Green, standing to the side, looked at Banner with envy.

Leading a global group's laboratory and becoming its representative is what he has always dreamed of, instead of becoming Doc Green, forced to stay away from people.

Then I looked at another muscular version of Banner, or rather, Hulk.

In one year, Hulk has gained complete control over his transformation.

Doc Green touched his stomach in phantom pain, experiencing for the first time the pain of being hit by the Hulk.

How did they separate? Clones? Consciousness transfer?

"What about the alien database that Galacta gave you?"

"An alien database?"

Everyone was shocked again, having truly grasped only the tip of the iceberg of the Demon Group.

"I only looked at the table of contents."

Tony doubted that he could learn it all even if he spent a lifetime.

"0.002%, all of humanity combined, contains a vast amount of knowledge systems different from those on Earth; we need to learn from scratch."

Banner and the others were both happy and distressed.

I'm happy that I can learn about alien technology and knowledge.

The pain he described as starting from scratch meant learning to read and write.

"Now we also have Chitauri technology. I'll leave some Chitauri behind to train you, and you can send your own people to take over later. Banner, this is your responsibility."

"Kino said."

"Yes."

Banner was invigorated.

Having someone teach you is much faster than figuring it out on your own.