On the top floor of Stark Tower, Tony lounged lazily on the sofa, sipping an iced whiskey. Having just finished a hearing, his face was full of frustration.
"Come on, I'm a Superhero, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s chief scientific adviser, and the owner of a new-energy company. Those people didn't give me any face at all."
Tony complained to Sean, who was sitting by the bar like a disgruntled housewife.
"If they'd truly given you no face at all, Blonsky's special operations team would've forcibly arrested you and thrown you into Isolated Island Prison."
Sean swirled his glass and answered in a relaxed tone.
This time, the Ultron Program Tony had developed had caused quite a stir. Although the news leak had been fully contained at the first opportunity, S.H.I.E.L.D. was ultimately under the jurisdiction of the World Security Council. There was no way it could keep such a matter hidden without reporting it.
In fact, after Tony found Zemo, the Sokovian colonel reported directly to the World Security Council and promptly drew up a complete emergency warning plan to prevent the situation from worsening into an irreversible catastrophe.
"You should be grateful Ultron didn't focus on kidnapping the president and obtaining the nuclear launch codes. Otherwise, by the time I got back to New York, World War Three might've already begun."
Sean teased as he looked at the furious Tony.
Although S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Project Insight had Skynet as its final safeguard, if Ultron was truly determined to cause trouble, it really could have thrown the entire world into chaos.
Just triggering a financial tsunami on Wall Street or infiltrating the military systems of various countries would have been enough to run Tony ragged and leave S.H.I.E.L.D. helpless.
"Do you know how much effort and resources I poured into the Ultron Program?"
Tony tipped