Stark Expo 6

"Furthermore, let's try to create a special prison to hold people with superpowers, so we don't have to worry about them escaping from prison." Jack gave some ideas that Peter would create in the future in his company Parker Industries.

This way, Peter would have something real to do and it wouldn't seem like Jack had only hired him to help him with money. If Jack's company started making hundreds of millions of dollars in profit, Jack would give Peter a share of the company's stock.

"That's brilliant! I had thought about doing something like that, but it would require a lot of research and time, not to mention a laboratory, but in this laboratory, we can do it so that we can keep the villains in prison," said Peter excitedly.

"I'm going to start paying you today, and you don't have to rush to hire other people. Investigate well if they'll listen to you first. I don't want to fire anyone soon after hiring them," said Jack.

"I'll buy all the things you sent on the list, and soon these things will be in the laboratory," said Jack.

So Peter gave his bank account to Jack to deposit the money. He didn't even ask when his salary would be, because it would certainly be more than he earned selling photos to J.J. Jameson.

Jack sent Peter to his house and returned to the apartment he had bought in New York, which had a physical training machine. Jack no longer used the place he had rented in Queens.

Jack looked at his bracelet, thought for a moment, and decided to pay Peter $20,000 a month. Jack thought this was little for what Peter could do, but it was much more than most laboratories paid their top researchers.

Jack knew that since Peter was still in college and was Spider-Man, he wouldn't have much time to go to the laboratory. So if he paid Peter a higher salary, he might not like it. Jack wouldn't tell the other researchers in the laboratory that they would earn much less than Peter and work much harder.

But Jack knew that this salary was temporarily enough for Peter to pay for his medicines and part of the loan that Aunt May had taken out, so Peter would no longer have to worry about money.

As he expected, Peter called him saying that the salary was too high for a researcher, especially for him as a university student, but Jack said that Peter deserved the salary because he was the head of the entire laboratory.

Jack planned to hire physicists, engineers, and biologists for the laboratory, and Peter would be the head of all of them while creating the cure for Electro, Sandman, and Doctor Octopus, so Peter deserved a higher salary.

After doing this, Jack bought the things that Peter had said the laboratory needed and had the company deliver them to the laboratory, so he would let Peter take care of the rest.

So more than a month had passed since the start of the Stark Expo. Jack continued to use his clone to fight against the criminals, and he took advantage of the rest of the time to have his clone follow Tony as a real bodyguard when Tony had to go somewhere.

Now that Jack had trained for a few months and his physical strength had increased, he also managed to create one more clone to stay for up to 15 hours a day. Tony thanked Jack for this because he knew that the clone was like Jack and had the same memories and personality as him.

Now Tony really had a secret bodyguard who was Iron Man. Unlike before, Tony sometimes talked with Jack's clone. In the past, Tony found it strange to talk for too long with J.A.R.V.I.S, who used the Iron Man armor before.

Soon, Jack, who only wanted to help Tony, saw that leaving his clone with Tony had been worth it. One day, Justin Hammer, whom Jack was observing, told Tony that he wanted to use a day at the Stark Expo to present his new product.

The Jack clone who knew what could happen suggested to Tony refuse this request, but Tony, despite trusting Jack, was not afraid of Justin and was not worried about what he might be capable of creating.

Jack did not know if Ivan Vanko had allied himself with Justin this time and could not tell Tony that he knew the future, so he at least told Tony that he had to see what armaments and technology Justin Hammer wanted to present at the Stark Expo.

Tony saw that this would not be a problem and asked Justin about it, what surprised him was that Justin did not want to say what he would present that day, but that Tony could not refuse, after all, he said that the Stark Expo would be free for everyone.

In addition, Justin Hammer said that on that day he would present technology that had been bought by the government and that the military would be at the Stark Expo to watch his presentation.

Hearing this, Jack was more certain that Justin Hammer could really be working with Ivan Vanko, this was not illegal because this time Ivan had not been arrested for attacking Tony and Justin did not have to fake Ivan's death to get him out of prison.

Tony, who was not worried before, also found it strange that Justin Hammer was so arrogant and did not want to tell him what he would present, but as Hammer said, he said that the Stark Expo was free.

So Tony could not refuse Justin Hammer's participation, who had the support of the military, especially because if he did that, Hammer could use the media to say that Tony was afraid of him and this could decrease Stark Industries' stock value.

Soon after Tony accepted, Jack's clone decided to connect mentally with Jack to tell him what had happened, Jack, who was training, saw what the clone knew and decided to go meet Tony and called him.

"Tony, I don't know what might happen, but I think I'll leave my clones ready and using the Iron Man armor, maybe our secret will be revealed sooner than we thought, I think it's better not to take Pepper and Hogan on that day." Said Jack.

"I don't know what you're worried about, Jack, even if Justin Hammer creates something that could threaten us, with the media and the military on the site, he would never try to attack me, especially knowing that Iron Man is my bodyguard." Said Tony, laughing.