"Honestly, I don't know what to do with you two. I've seen plenty of fathers and sons with bad relationships, but you two are a special case."
Seeing Howard's expression that said Tony was still too green, Su Ming sighed with an amused shake of his head. Both father and son were far too proud. Perhaps distance really did make the heart grow fonder.
During the years when Tony believed his father was dead, he would still show a wistful expression whenever Howard came to mind. Especially when he discovered the electronic arrangement of the New Element in the Stark Industries campus model, he had even shown rare admiration for his "dead" father.
But now that he knew his father was alive, he wanted Howard to give back all the emotions he had felt back then.
"No, Slade, this isn't a bad relationship." The man with the meticulously groomed mustache picked up his glass and clinked it against Deathstroke's. He swirled the liquid in the firelight, then tipped back his head and took a drink. "That brat simply doesn't know what's good for him. I'm clearly doing this for his own good. Instead of following your lead in his research, he insists on fooling around with some Superhero team. If that isn't a waste of time, what is? A scientist's time is precious."
Although someone of Tony's status had surely received the Infinity Formula sponsored by S.H.I.E.L.D. and possessed a nearly unlimited lifespan, all technological research had a limited window of relevance.
Take humanity on Earth. If someone had invented the stone wheel ten thousand years ago, that person would have been an absolute genius. Everyone would have considered him a god for creating something so useful and labor-saving. If he was lucky, his name might even have entered mythological