Tony and Arthur walked along side while the rescue team finally found them. The soldiers looked at him vigilantly while Tony stopped them and said he is a boy who helped him escape from the terrorists. Rhodes scrutinized him and then turned to Tony. Tony whispered something into his ears while Rhodes nodded. After some medical checkup in the military base, they departed to USA, but Tony and Arthur talked so long that Rhodes find it unbelievable looking at his old friend.
" so you're saying SHIELD will send a killer beauty to moniter me. and her name is Natasha Romanoff aka Black widow who will be part of avengers and she is smoking hot lady ".
" Yep, Don't be deceived by her looks. She is one of hell of a agent who can hold on against super soldiers ".
" What? I have a daughter with pepper ".
" Yep. You named her Morgan H Stark. As for whose aunt name I don't know exactly ".
" hah, i selected spider man who is no older than you as my successor and he is fooled by my ex employee who is angry and jealous of me ".
" yes, you named the technology barf by the way ".
" You mean the old fossil is still alive frozen into popsicle ".
" yes, the serum kept him alive until now. He is hibernating ".
" There will an alien invasion in New York. damn, what the hell man? you're not joking are you? ".
" No, they're lured here by Tesseract. But don't misunderstand, That's not a complete war. It's Thanos sending a portion to test Earth ".
" Thanos ?".
" He is the purple bald alien. His goal is to wipe out half the population in this universe ".
" The hell? How do you know all this? ".
" I told you I'm from a parallel world and my power is related to time. Although i lost most of my powers while travelling to parallel world ".
" Yeah, yeah. Keep making that parallel world excuse ".
" In fact I'm not the only one who can travel to parallel worlds Tony. A version of you did it too ".
" What the hell? My version. Do you mean there is stark more intelligent than me who figured out dimensional travel. Hmm, it seems I also needs to master that technology. Although it'll take decades since we don't even have proper starting points ".
" Oh and you made an enemy of Aldritch Killian, he hated you to the bone and turned Pepper into a bomb once ".
" What? Tell me every detail you know about it now".
" Okay don't get excited ".
" Huh, Thor, the god of thunder will be banished to earth without his power in Mexico ".
" Yes and not many can lift his hammer. Only few worthy people can lift it ".
" Worthy my ass. It must be some kind of technology".
" Oh and his brother Loki launches a coup and fails. He will be the one to lead the war in new york".
" I'm going to beat that bastard ".
Tony mood swings are too frequent. In fact Rhodes who saw Tony like this is bewildered. But Tony strictly forbade him to listen to this conversation. So he is helpless here. It's only after something that kid said made Tony look at him with a smile and then he called him. Now it's his turn to go crazy.
" What I'll lose my legs in a few years. Shit ".
" The hell do you mean by I'll steal from Tony".
" No no I would never agree with the military to send nukes or capture my comrades ".
" Uh, you mean I'll fight beside Tony and earth will be invaded by aliens ".
" What do you mean my jokes are lame? ".
" Ugh, we need to fight a purple bald alien to save the earth. Do you think I'm an idiot to believe that ".
Tony and Rhodes are almost driven to insomnia by Arthur. Arthur chuckled and said," so what do you think about future? ", both of them sighed and said," first let us confirm few events that's going to happen ". Both of them have frustrated looks.
There are dark circles under their eyes. Rhodes and Tony even bickered once like kids. The reason is simple. Tony said Rhodes betrayed him by siding with military and Rhodes reported saying Tony is the one who must have driven him like that.