Iron Monger Reduced to Scrap

Stane, back from Afghanistan, became elusive, often disappearing from his office. Though Tony had his suspicions, he did not send Pepper to investigate.

After all, she was the mother of his child.

He had a female employee who was close to Pepper look into it.

Strangely enough,

this employee was not only beautiful,

but she also had a great figure.

How should he put it? She was quite alluring.

And she was pretty skilled too. Even Happy was no match for her. She easily uncovered the truth behind Tony's kidnapping.

This was how Tony described that female employee to Qin Yi in the laboratory of Mokong Tower.

Qin Yi curled his lip at that. Why had Black Widow shown up so early? By all rights, she should not have joined Stark Industries until some time later. Could that bald black egghead be pulling something again?

Seeing Qin Yi lost in thought, Tony said with a sly grin,

"Hey, Qin, do you really want to meet this new employee? I think you'll like her."

Qin Yi shrugged.

"By the way, put a few older arc reactors in your company's lab tonight."

Tony nodded.

Though he did not know why, he trusted Qin Yi and brought an old reactor back with him.

Qin Yi stretched lazily and vanished from the laboratory amid spatial ripples.

Even though his new home was only five or six floors away,

Qin Yi was still too lazy to take the elevator.

When he got home, Qin Yi rested his head on Wanda's lap and watched dramas with her.

He had never expected these melodramas to be so popular. Even Wanda and Jean Grey loved them so much.

Qin Yi could not help regretting it a little. If he had not been so lazy over the past few years,

he could have become a copycat author and brought over all the famous films, TV shows, and novels from his previous life in one go. Maybe he could have made another fortune in the United States.

Qin Yi merely scorned his own greed in his heart before dismissing the ridiculous notion.

What was the point of making so much money?

When Wanda saw the tragic United States lovers in the show, one stranded in the freezing seawater and the other lying weakly on a wooden plank, making their final confessions to each other,

she burst into tears, looking utterly heartbroken. Qin Yi hurriedly got up and pulled her into his arms to comfort her.

When Qin Yi carried Wanda back to her room, the still-teary Wanda grabbed the hand of Qin Yi, who had been about to turn and leave.

Qin Yi froze for a moment, then pounced on her.

I love melodramas!!!

That night,

neither of them knew how many times they lost themselves, from the head of the bed to its foot, then rolling from the bed to the floor.

Qin Yi suddenly felt that all these years since coming to the Marvel Universe had been worth it.

Only when Wanda, experiencing this for the first time, bit down on Qin Yi's shoulder,

did the two of them finally lie there, breathing heavily. Qin Yi held Wanda in his arms and quietly savored the warmth between them.

Dawn was almost here.

The two fell asleep in each other's arms.

For several days in a row,

Qin Yi did not leave the house. He did not want to think about anything now.

The two spent every day wrapped up in each other,

forgetting his promise to take Jean Grey out for fun, forgetting his agreement to take little Morgan out, forgetting Pietro, who was still training magic desperately at Kamar-Taj...

Qin Yi and Wanda forgot everything. All they could see was each other.

One evening, several days later,

Qin Yi held Wanda in his arms as they rewatched that melodramatic movie, both staring at the television,

when a golden portal appeared in the living room. Neither of them noticed it.

Little Morgan crept up beside them and suddenly threw herself into Qin Yi's arms.

"Ah!"

Wanda screamed in fright, then saw little Morgan say angrily,

"Uncle, Sister Wanda, your phones have been turned off for days!"

Wanda shyly pulled little Morgan into her arms and asked,

"What's wrong, Morgan?"

Little Morgan pouted.

"Dad is fighting a big robot while wearing that iron suit. Mom was worried, so she sent me to get Uncle to help."

Qin Yi scratched his head.

Sure enough, heroes fell at the feet of beauties.

Even someone as incredible as me couldn't hold back.

Shaking his head to clear away those messy thoughts,

Qin Yi said a word to Wanda, opened a spatial vortex, and walked into it while holding little Morgan's hand.

But then,

Qin Yi turned back, came over, and hugged Wanda before kissing her several times. Only then did he vanish amid spatial ripples under little Morgan's disdainful gaze.

Stark Industries Tower—the old, shorter one.

Holding Morgan's hand, Qin Yi emerged from a suddenly appearing spatial vortex beside Pepper.

The sight startled Coulson, who hurriedly raised his pistol and aimed it at them.

Only after recognizing Qin Yi did Coulson let out a long breath.

Iron Monger had terrified him just moments ago. The S.H.I.E.L.D.—Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division—agents under his command had been wiped out in an instant.

He was the only commander left alive.

Coulson had never imagined

that Tony Stark and Obadiah Stane possessed such powerful equipment.

If every Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division agent had one,

then handling all kinds of future crises would be effortless.

But

what exactly was this ability of Mr. Qin's to appear out of nowhere?

Why did the agency have no information on it at all?

Qin Yi looked up and saw Tony, deliberately wearing the Mark 7, grappling with Iron Monger.

To be fair,

although Iron Monger was far inferior to the Mark 7, Stane's creation was tough enough to take a beating.

For a while, the two were actually evenly matched.

The explosions from their fight drew a large crowd.

They held the latest Ikong phones and filmed the two metal giants in the air.

Qin Yi swept his gaze over them and found that some were even livestreaming. He frowned slightly.

The appearance of the spatial vortex earlier might have been captured too.

Whatever. It did not matter.

Qin Yi thought to himself.

As long as those rule gods did not show themselves, he did not believe anyone in this universe could defeat him.

Amid the cheers of the surrounding crowd, the Mark 7, generations ahead of Iron Monger, fired a repulsor blast that struck Iron Monger precisely and sent it flying.

Qin Yi glanced toward the Iron Monger that had been blasted away.

Stane inside instantly turned to ash and vanished.

Clang!

Iron Monger crashed to the ground and shattered into scrap metal scattered everywhere.

Tony, hovering in midair, stared at his hands in disbelief. Since when had his armor become this powerful?

Jarvis's prompt sounded.

"Sir, Qin Yi has been detected. There is a 99.99% probability that Mr. Qin acted. Our technology did not capture any movement from Mr. Qin.

There are two possibilities.

First, Mr. Qin no longer requires any gestures or forms to release attacks such as energy or magic.

Second, he has become so powerful that he exceeds the limits of what Earth's current technological civilization can comprehend. Unable to analyze... unable to analyze..."

Tony hurriedly shouted,

"Stop the analysis, Jarvis."

"Understood, sir."

Tony looked down at Pepper and little Morgan, who stood safely beside Qin Yi.

With flames blazing from the thrusters beneath his feet, he shot into the sky and disappeared.

As the onlookers uploaded their videos online, the internet exploded.

It could be said that everyone had dreamed of being a hero as a child. Who had not wished to stand shoulder to shoulder with gods as a mere mortal? Well, except for that scammer Celestial Quill.

But on this Earth, most people were ordinary.

Without being born with superpowers, how could they become superheroes?

Tonight, the appearance of the steel armor ignited everyone's dreams of becoming heroes.

The continued uproar online left even Tony, after returning to Howard Estate, utterly astonished.

As Tony and Qin Yi stood blankly in the courtyard,

Tony quietly asked Qin Yi,

"Can I become a good superhero?"

After exhaling a puff of smoke, Qin Yi looked at Tony.

"Didn't you already know?"