Chapter 2: Reward for answering question: Allspark fragments

"Aren't you mistaken guys?"

　　"This Thanos doesn't matter at all, it's pointless to analyze him."

　　Iron Man came up with a direct objection, and his analysis was equally head-on, "We don't need to bother with the Thanos, we just need to analyse the four people in the options, and whoever is the most powerful, go with them! It's simple."

　　The two of them, Rhodes and Coulson, looked at each other and each shrugged their shoulders.

　　This theory of Iron Man was simple and crude, but it had to be said that it was indeed a thought worth trying in the face of this inexplicable subject.

　　"Tony, you're finally reliable for once." Rhodes reached out and patted Iron Man on the shoulder.

　　"So let's look at the people in the options, Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man, Thor, who is the most powerful of the four?"

　　Coulson followed Iron Man's lead and began the analysis.

　　"We all know Captain America is dead, but since he appears in the options, we'll assume he's still alive."

　　"If it's Captain America, he's the only super soldier in the United States of America who is, physically, at the limits of the human body."

　　As a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Coulson was also well-informed about Captain America and could be trusted in this situation.

　　"The limits of humanity, wouldn't that still be human? It's worthless in the face of giants, gods and steel." Iron Man bristled repeatedly, not giving Captain America a second thought at all.

　　"Captain America can be ruled out for now, so what about the remaining three? Tony, no offence, I think you can be ruled out as well."

　　Rhodes said with a straight face to Iron Man.

　　As Iron Man's best friend and the military's liaison with Stark Industries, Rhodes knew exactly what level of power the Iron Warrior armour was at.

　　To put it bluntly, it was just a flying suit of combat armour, nothing more.

　　The Hulk, on the other hand, was something that Rhodes did not know much about, but he did know something about it.

　　It was said to be a monster created by General Ross by accident, invulnerable to sword and spear and of immense strength.

　　General Ross had led an army to capture it but had been routed several times by the Hulk.

　　This was not the kind of being that Rhodes thought Iron Man could deal with.

　　And Thor, the god of thunder?

　　That was a legendary god!

　　It would be even more impossible to be outclassed by the Iron Man Armour.

　　"So it seems the answer is clear unless you guys think the Hulk is more powerful than Thor." Coulson concluded off to the side.

　　S.H.I.E.L.D. had actually had their eyes on the Hulk for a long time and had been secretly monitoring him for all these years.

　　Coulson even knew more about the Hulk's strength than Rhodes did, so he agreed with Rhodes' point of view.

　　"Wrong, very wrong!"

　　Just when Coulson thought everyone had agreed, Iron Man vetoed without mercy.

　　"What's a giant or a god or whatever, what's the point? The best must be me, Tony Stark!"

　　Iron Man looked arrogant, "Even if it's the overlord of the universe, I'll make an even more powerful suit of armour to defeat him! So ..."

　　With that said, Iron Man didn't even give Coulson and Rhodes the room to continue interrupting, he simply turned around and said to the fluorescent screen, "I'll go with C, Iron Man!"

　　"Tony ...," Rhodes called out from the side, trying to stop Iron Man.

　　After all, this bizarre answer seemed too unfathomable to be such child's play.

　　But before Rhodes could even finish his sentence, Iron Man had already come up with an answer.

　　This made both Rhodes and Coulson feel slightly nervous, and each looked around them warily, trying to see if anything would happen.

　　[Correct answer!]

　　A familiar electronic synthesized voice sounded.

　　Rhodes: "..."

　　Coulson: "..."

　　Both men looked like bleeps.

　　Was there any mistake that it was really Iron Man, the egomaniac?

　　The Iron Man guy was so irresponsibly messed up that he answered correctly, instead they both took their analysis seriously and got the wrong answer.

　　"See?" Iron Man couldn't help but hold his head up, his face full of braggadocio, "I, Iron Man, am the best!"

　　"Tony ... this isn't a self-directed farce by you, is it?" Rhodes couldn't help but say speechlessly.

　　[Congratulations to the answerer Tony Stark for receiving the reward of an Allspark fragment].

　　[The reward has been distributed, please pay attention to it!

　　The familiar electronic synthesized voice sounded again.

　　And with these two words from the answering system, Iron Man immediately felt a sinking in his right hand, and a sense of touch.

　　It was as if something had appeared in his hand.

　　At the same time, a big amount of information, too, suddenly appeared in Iron Man's mind.

　　It was the information about the Allspark, how to use it, the binding information, and so on.

　　Iron Man carefully combed through the extra information in his head, and then looked up at the metal fragment that appeared out of thin air, and he fell into a slight daze.

　　"This is real, this is real Rhodes!" Iron Man said as he turned his head to look at Rhodes in surprise.

　　With the reward being given out, Iron Man finally confirmed the authenticity of this answering system.

　　The fact that you can move things out of thin air and the brain directly implanted with information is not something that can be done in the current era.

　　"This is the Allspark fragment?"

　　The duo of Rhodes and Coulson couldn't help but gather around and stare curiously at the small fragment in Iron Man's hand.

　　No matter how one looked at it, it was just an ordinary shard of alloy metal, not seeing anything special about it.

　　"What's the use of this thing? The Allspark, what does that mean?" Rhodes muttered incessantly making guesses.

　　"Rhodes, get your phone out." Iron Man, however, said to Rhodes out of the blue.

　　"What for?" Rhodes subconsciously ducked his body.

　　Whenever Iron Man made an inexplicable request, it was most likely that something was going to happen.

　　"You'll regret it if you don't give it to me, I promise." Iron Man said cryptically instead.

　　Rhodes stared at Iron Man for a moment with suspicious eyes and finally held out his phone.

　　Iron Man picked up the Allspark at this time and, using his mind, sent a command to the Allspark based on the description of the extra cloud of information in his mind.

　　Swish!

　　A light flashed out from the Allspark and shot on Rhodes' phone.

　　Rhodes' phone suddenly began to tremble, as if it had suddenly developed epilepsy.

　　Both Rhodes and Coulson were shocked.

　　However, they were still more shocked.

　　They saw the mobile phone rapidly undergo a series of sophisticated and complex changes such as splitting and reorganising, and eventually, it turned into a robot!

　　It was a mini Decepticon!

　　Iron Man, Coulson and Rhodes were all dumbfounded.