By the time Su Zhou opened a portal with practiced ease and left that secret chamber, he had no idea how much time had passed.
Because sitting in his apartment was an agent with a truly moving hairline.
Coulson.
The sight of Su Zhou emerging from a portal scared a few more hairs off Coulson's head!
"Su Zhou?! What kind of magic trick are you pulling now?"
Coulson really couldn't take Su Zhou unveiling something new every day. First, he had demonstrated deadly marksmanship.
Then came physical capabilities comparable to monsters like Hulk and Abomination.
And now, he had somehow learned a magic trick that let him teleport!
"Uh, it's pretty complicated. Given your level of understanding,
it's hard for me to explain what the multiverse and dimensional spaces are!"
Su Zhou shook his head helplessly. Even if he wanted to explain it to Coulson, he couldn't.
His own knowledge was a half-full bottle sloshing around... no, he only had a little at the bottom!
Other than opening portals, he didn't know a single spell!
"Long story short, the strongest person on Earth chose me. She said I was born with the physique for external martial arts.
Once my conception and governing vessels were opened, the task of saving Earth and maintaining world peace would fall to me.
Then she taught me this portal spell and told me to come learn magic from her once I'd made up my mind."
Su Zhou opened another portal in front of Coulson, letting him see the thinning hair on the back of his own head.
Coulson: Σ(ŎдŎ|||)ﾉﾉ
Amazing!
But why am I losing hair at the back of my head too?
"Then once you've learned magic, can you help treat my baldness?"
"Just get a hair transplant. Don't think magic can do everything!"
Su Zhou curled his lips in exasperation. The more important something was, the less it could be changed through magic.
Like the anchor points of different universes, they were things that simply couldn't be changed.
Just as Doctor Strange would never end up with his girlfriend, Dr. Christine, no matter the universe.
The same went for Coulson's hair. In any universe, he was guaranteed to go bald!
"Get to the point. I've got enough on my mind!"
Su Zhou really was a little tired. Although he had scored a skill for free,
he really didn't want to become the Sorcerer Supreme until he was sufficiently confident.
Mainly because his mind didn't work like Doctor Strange's, using the Time Stone to keep going up against Dormammu forever.
Most importantly... without defeating Dormammu, he might not get any Justice Points!
Wouldn't all that effort be wasted?!
"You've been missing for three days. Tony's run into some trouble lately.
He entered an F1 race himself and got attacked by a Russian who'd mastered Arc Reactor technology.
After the attack, he started letting himself go, flying around everywhere in his armor.
The report from our undercover operative says Tony has palladium poisoning."
Coulson produced a file from somewhere and set it in front of Su Zhou.
"So the director hopes you can go check on Tony and bring him a few things while you're at it."
Su Zhou picked up the file and looked it over. Ivan Vanko had attacked Tony wearing a homemade powered suit and wielding energy whips.
Codenamed Whiplash, he had already been arrested and put in prison after the attack, but Su Zhou knew
that the major arms dealer Justin Hammer would probably get him out before long.
He wanted to use the technology Ivan possessed to build his own Iron Man Armor.
Only, who would end up using whom was still up in the air!
"Howard Stark left his son an inheritance with S.H.I.E.L.D.? And Nick Fury actually wants to use it to win Tony over!
Isn't that taking something that already belongs to someone and doing them a favor with it? What kind of person does that?!"
Su Zhou slammed the file down on the coffee table, raised his right hand, and drew a circle in the air.
A portal large enough for a person to pass through appeared, and under Coulson's horrified gaze,
Su Zhou stepped through and vanished from his apartment!
Suddenly thinking of something bad, Coulson followed Su Zhou's example and walked into the portal.
Only to find that Su Zhou had already grabbed the still-sleeping Nick Fury and dragged him out from under the covers.
Holding Nick Fury up by the collar of his pajamas with one hand, he pinned him against the bedroom wall!
"Su Zhou? How did you find me?!"
The groggy Nick Fury found that, somehow, he had suddenly left his warm bed.
Su Zhou had him pinned so firmly against the wall that even breathing felt a little difficult.
He had no idea how Su Zhou had managed to appear right inside his bedroom.
After all, the place where he slept was no ordinary bedroom.
It was a safe house he had specially arranged, paying out of his own salary, to ensure his safety while he slept.
Even his most trusted subordinate, Coulson, didn't know this safe house existed!
Not only had Su Zhou avoided triggering any of the warning devices he had set up, but he had even brought someone along...?
"Coulson! Why are you here too?!"
Smack-!
Su Zhou slapped Nick Fury across the face with a crisp crack.
"Tell me honestly, how much more stuff did Tony's playboy dad leave him?"
"What stuff?"
"Still playing dumb?! Will another slap jog your memory?"
Su Zhou raised his right hand high. The previous slap had only been to help Nick Fury wake up.
He hadn't used any strength at all, but he wasn't planning to hold back with this one.
With his current strength, he could slap three Nick Furys to death!
"Nothing else, nothing else! I've already packed up all the notes and videotapes he left.
Wasn't I asking you to deliver them to Tony? Why did you come here and hit me?!"
Only then did Nick Fury realize that Su Zhou had come to call him to account.
But he didn't think he had done anything wrong in this matter. Su Zhou was going a little too far!
"The things you asked me to hand over should've been given to Tony before he turned thirty!
Not only did you fail to give them to him on time, but you're acting like he owes you a favor. What gives you the right?"
Su Zhou really couldn't stand these little schemes of Nick's. Tony might be a playboy,
but he shouldn't be schemed against like this!
"Who's demanding gratitude? Wasn't I letting you raise Tony's favorability toward you?
You're not Natasha. You can't max out Tony's favorability just by showing some thigh and cleavage!"
Nick Fury truly couldn't understand how someone as unappreciative as Su Zhou could exist!
"Why do you only use honey traps on Tony? How about trying one on me next time?"
Su Zhou lowered Nick Fury from the wall and even thoughtfully straightened his pajamas.
"Who says I haven't? I planted that single woman across from your apartment.
But after handcuffing her to the bed, you chose to call the police! What was I supposed to do?"
"A 57-year-old single black woman counts as a honey trap?!"