"How could the legendary Dwarf King not have a pair of nimble hands?" Homelander stepped through the portal first.
"Come with me. I'll find someone to fit you with the best pair in the universe."
"As you command."
Eitri followed Homelander through the portal.
On the other side of the portal stood Vought Tower in Manhattan, New York.
Homelander took Eitri straight to Tony Stark's laboratory.
But when the doors slid open, the laboratory was empty.
All kinds of equipment sat in standby mode, with only a few cleaning robots tidying the floor.
"Skynet, where's Tony?" Homelander asked.
"Sir." Skynet's holographic projection appeared in midair. "Mr. Stark is not at Vought Tower."
"Where did he go?"
"Mr. Stark felt that the laboratory at Vought Tower was too small to meet the research and development needs of his new project," Skynet replied. "He selected a new site near V.G.D. headquarters and built a new laboratory covering 7,000 square meters."
"Send me the coordinates."
After receiving the coordinates from Skynet, Homelander opened another portal.
The two stepped out of the portal and found themselves facing a massive hangar of staggering scale.
When Homelander saw what was inside, he couldn't help whistling.
Two neat rows of Iron Man armors stood along the sides of the vast hangar, six in total.
But these were nothing like the form-fitting suits Tony had worn before, nor were they merely Hulkbuster Armor-sized upgrades.
Each of the six armors stood over twenty meters tall.
Their thick mechanical joints and arrays of heavy thrusters mounted on their backs radiated the oppressive presence unique to colossal machines.
"Cool..." Homelander couldn't help praising them.
"Who's praising me?"
Tony Stark, holding a plasma welding torch, slid out from beneath the ankle of one of the mechs.
He got to his feet