"These aliens don't seem like much, do they?"
Tony was easily fired up. After defeating Barricade, he said arrogantly, "Maybe he was just cannon fodder."
"Cannon fodder?"
Tony was stunned. If cannon fodder was this strong, they were in trouble. At that moment, a broadcast played from Bumblebee's body. "We are an elite football team..."
Bumblebee was telling Andrew and Tony that Barricade was no cannon fodder. He was an elite.
"You can't talk?"
Tony turned around and asked in surprise. Bumblebee first pointed at his throat, then shrugged in a very human-like manner. The meaning could not have been clearer.
Tony was a little disappointed. He had wanted to get information about the aliens from Bumblebee.
"You can't talk? That's easy enough."
Andrew took a silver ball from his pocket and tossed it at Bumblebee's throat. The ball then broke apart, turning into Nano Particles that repaired Bumblebee's voice module.
"I... can... talk?"
Bumblebee's voice module was quickly repaired. He tried saying a few words, then excitedly bounced around on the spot.
"What's so great about having nanotechnology?"
Tony said sourly. His research with Shuri was only one final step away from completion, but they had been unable to break through that last hurdle.
That was how science and technology worked. Sometimes, a single bottleneck could hold things up for ages.
Bumblebee said gratefully to Andrew, "Thank you, human."
"Don't mention it."
Andrew took out the Glasses case and asked, "You and that police car came for this, didn't you? I can sense an energy on it that's very similar to yours."
Tony asked, "What is that?"
Andrew said, "A pair of old Glasses I bought from eBay for a thousand dollars."
Tony really wanted to complain. "Why would an angel who will never become nearsighted want to buy