A Challenge
Two days later.
Aboard Tony Stark's private jet.
Tony Stark idly tapped away at a transparent tablet, though who knew what he was actually doing.
Across from him sat Li Si, wearing smart glasses and typing with both hands on an invisible keyboard in midair.
Why was Li Si on Stark's plane?
That had to do with his admirable virtue of thriftiness. He had no interest in something as purely ceremonial as a private jet—or rather, he had simply never thought to get one—so naturally, he lacked this sort of transportation that screamed status.
And so... he shamelessly came over to hitch a ride, claiming that they were headed to the same place anyway.
Aside from the two of them, Gwen and Pepper Potts sat across the aisle, chatting happily.
Li Si had spent rather little time with Gwen before. Since this trip to Monaco was not particularly dangerous anyway, he simply invited Gwen along and treated it as a vacation.
As for Pepper Potts and Tony Stark... emmm, apparently it was more or less the same for them.
The moment the four of them met while boarding, they immediately felt a sense of mutual sympathy. Bound by that shared feeling, Gwen and Pepper Potts grew closer, and the two got along exceptionally well.
As for Li Si and Tony Stark... these two fellows, who seemed destined to die alone, ignored the women and instead went off to compete with their keyboards.
This time, Tony Stark had issued a challenge to save face... Well, let's call it a challenge for now.
Perhaps Bumblebee's performance against Obadiah had left too deep an impression on Tony Stark. Stark was practically brimming with resentment toward Bumblebee. While he would not actually build an identical robot to fight it head-on, he had