Leaving aside Tony's inner musings about building more suits in the future, Captain America warned Iron Man about his uncivil language, then warmly shook hands with Daisy before tilting his head toward the street.
"Looks like we're the only ones left who can stop those two from wrecking the city."
"They used to be human, right?"
Thor narrowed her eyes behind her half-mask. Since both Captain America and Iron Man had shown up, this meant the matter had likely affected the authorities. The odds of it being a secret experiment had risen considerably.
Captain America fell silent for a moment before shaking his head. "No comment. This concerns classified information and some old history. You only need to know that they are still human, still American citizens, and must face legal judgment."
Stare.
Daisy's eyes seemed to turn catlike. She could sense that the captain was lying. It was instinct.
"There's nothing we can't say, beautiful. I'll tell you the answer. Those two monsters below are products of military experiments. We're here to clean up the military's mess." Tony, as usual, said whatever was on his mind. He simply wasn't the type to keep things bottled up.
The military was at fault anyway, not him.
Suppressing information and fooling the public—did they really think they could keep it hidden forever?
Not even counting Ultron, that network ghost, there had recently been a hacker group called Rising Tide digging up dirt and posting it online everywhere. They had exposed plenty of shameful secrets, humiliating countless politicians and major capitalists.
Tony had no faith in the military's network defenses. For Jarvis, hacking into The Pentagon was like walking into his own home.
Even if it was only an internal local network, as long as one employee carried a phone or any electronic