"Does it count as a special feature if it's particularly shoddy?" Shiller turns around, not looking at Stark, and walks back to the fridge to start picking out ingredients to make a al.
"This is a suit made from an alloy of Molten Steel and Vibranium! This is my first Molten Steel Vibranium Alloy Battlesuit!" Stark raises his voice to introduce: "In the past, no one has ever been able to make an alloy of these two tals, but I succeeded!"
Eddie touched his face and said, "Leaving aside whether anyone else could do it in the past, are you sure...you succeeded?"
Stark looked down at his slightly shabby appearance, touched his nose, and said, "This is a test version, the properties of this alloy are a bit more difficult to control than I thought, so parts of the components don't fit together very well, and their coordination is a bit lacking..."
"But that's fine, this is precisely why I created it! I ca here today to ask you all to na this commorative piece for a milestone in materials science, sothing resounding and pleasing to the ear!"
At this mont, a woken-up Thor ca out with his hands on his waist. He was half-naked, his body full of smooth muscle lines from manual labor. He tossed his golden hair, squinted, and looked at Stark, saying: "...You crashed a plane?"
Stark imdiately jumped up like a cat that had its tail stepped on, and shouted, "What do you an crash?! This is just a minor accident in the testing phase!!!"
"Alright, so you crashed," Thor walked over to the island platform in the kitchen, took the cold beer handed to him by Shiller, opened the can, took a couple of gulps, wiped his mouth, and let out a satisfied sigh.
Stark stood in the sa spot, sighed, looked down at his toes. The foot that was missing a toenail had a broken shoe.
Stark coughed a couple tis and nonchalantly said: "So, is this a stopover you guys have open for friends? The great Stark has arrived, shouldn't you guys offer a bit of maintenance and upkeep help?"
Eddie also walked over to the chopping board. Shiller just happened to bring over a plate of celery, the two of them huddled together, Shiller turned his head to look at Stark, and whispered: "I guess he crashed halfway through, and his image was too shabby so he was too embarrassed to go ho and see his dad..."
Eddie took a stalk of celery and put it in his mouth, took a bite, and as he chewed said: "I think he was more likely too embarrassed to see Pepper..."
The two nodded in agreent, while Stark stood at the door shouting at them: "Don't think I can't hear you!... Can't you find a pair of shoes before you chat?"
Thor was reclined on the sofa drinking beer and pointed at the shoe cabinet at the door, "Second to last layer, you'll find slippers, shoe covers and sports shoes there."
Stark limped over to the shoe cabinet, using the hand covered in gauntlets, he took out a pair of brand new disposable slippers. After slipping them on, he sauntered over to the couch, and sat next to Thor.
Thor held the back of the sofa with his hands, turned his head to look at Stark, and asked: "How is JARVIS doing?"
Stark supported his elbow on his knee, rubbed the stubble on his chin, and said: "I decided to delete JARVIS' base protocol, what do you guys think?"
"I am not a human being, I don't really have an opinion. But I think, it's best not to let too many people know about it. Humans are really suspicious, they would not be willing to hand so much important data over to a self-aware robot..." Thor walked to the island platform, took another cold beer can, and handed it to Stark.
"I trust JARVIS." Stark opened the beer, took a sip, winced because it was so cold, then said: "However, you do have a point, so I am not planning on telling anyone besides you guys. You guys also have to keep this a secret for JARVIS..."
Eddie served the freshly made veggie salad on the coffee table, patted Stark's shoulder. Stark turned around to look at him.
As Eddie walked back, he said: "Initially, I also didn't think self-aware intelligent beings were trustworthy, but after giving it so thought, it would be even less trustworthy to put these data in the hands of Congress, the military, or private groups. It would be better to give them to JARVIS."
"Speaking of which, what's up with this suit?" Thor patted Stark's arm, which was still donning the armor, and said, "it looks a bit different. Compared to your original more convenient wear-on suits, it seems heavier, sturdier, and appears to have so additional features..."
"You sure know a thing or two." Stark imdiately perked up, Thor sneered and said: "Don't take the gods of Asgard as country bumpkins who have never seen the world. All these stages of technological developnt that humans have gone through, Asgard has been through them long ago."
"In fact, we also conducted research on similar personal armors and have so achievents. The Destroyer is one of them. However, we later realized our individual qualities were too strong. Any type of armor will only hinder our agility, so we abandoned that path."
Stark snapped his fingers and took another sip of his cold beer, saying: "You hit the nail on the head. this new suit is actually modelled after The Destroyer."
"Previously, I was always pursuing the speed of armant as well as the lightness and agility of the suit. But now, I have realized that I need a set of heavy armor to strengthen my close combat ability, and sotis even use it to control the opponent."
"Thanks to the gift of nature, the Destroyer armor gave a lot of ideas. In addition, the breakthrough in materials science brought about by the successful slting of Molten Steel and Vibranium alloy is another necessary factor for the successful developnt of this suit..."
"The most important part is..." Stark was getting more and more excited as he spoke, and his tone gradually beca louder: "Previously, the Nanosuit and the Folding Suit were more suitable for humans who were experienced in combat. But this type of suit is more suitable for autonomous combat..."
"And not only to fight, as long as there is an AI intelligent enough, they can help humans accomplish many tasks in cosmos, allowing our precious astronauts to be safer and play a bigger role..."
"So, you're saying that in such a cutting-edge, high-tech, epoch-making battle suit, you ran into a truck?... And didn't manage to beat it?" Thor asked.
"I told you!! It's just a test version!!!" Stark stood up and roared : "And besides, these missing components have an automatic pathfinding function, they will return quickly!"
"Whizz—Bang! Boom!"
A black shadow broke through the glass, drawing a beautiful straight line in the air, hitting Stark straight in the nose.
The three of them turned their heads to look at the part of the face visualizer that just flew up and made a deadly strike.
Stark, on the other hand, shook the visualizer stained with blood out of his face with his trembling arm. In his blurred vision, he saw Thor and Eddie's heads leaning in, and from Shiller's side, a cell phone cara was extended.
With a 'click', Shiller pulled back his phone. Stark on the floor widened his eyes, Shiller walked over, crouched next to his head, shaking his phone and said:
"If you don't want the recipient of this ssage to be Howard or Pepper, then maybe you should consider increasing the budget for your health and dical expenditure for the next quarter?"
"Shiller!!!!!"
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