"See? I told you we'd make it in time. We got here just in the nick of time."
Only after arriving at the entrance to Stark Group Tower and seeing that the press conference hadn't started yet did Mary finally breathe a sigh of relief.
"There are only three minutes left before they let people in. I don't know what you were thinking. We almost missed a truly huge story."
The cameraman, who was carrying the camera, had dropped his usual workday silence and was now complaining nonstop. "If everyone else reports on the press conference later and we don't get the footage firsthand, you should understand how bad the consequences will be..."
"Okay, I understand. What we need to do now is hurry inside."
Mary gave him a helpless look. She didn't want to argue with her partner, so she simply quickened her pace and headed into the building.
There were clearly more reporters at this press conference than there had been when Tony Stark returned last time. The auditorium was packed with people as far as the eye could see.
Luckily, CBS was a well-known television network, so it had received an invitation. There were seats reserved for them inside.
The cameraman went straight to the back of the crowd, found a good angle, and began setting up to record. Mary quickly found her seat and sat down.
Before long, the television networks began their simultaneous live broadcasts. Copies of a written statement were handed out to the reporters in attendance, and the military's spokesperson slowly walked onto the stage.
It was Colonel Rhodes, who had stepped forward last time to dispel the rumors surrounding the Camilla incident. Perhaps that incident had made his superiors think he was a good person to take the fall, because they had