The whole world shook when Tony gave the press conference. That day the market fluctuated wildly. Many company's stock prices went down within hours. People always believed what Tony said as his technology never failed. Recently he had started business on energy sector. That was already a highly efficient and cheap technology. But now a better, cheaper and more efficient came out.
The great part of this was that it could be used almost everywhere, at least that's what Tony claimed. And everybody believed him. The next days went smoothly for the company. The authorities came to check the working of the car and the safety with it and they were more than satisfied and gave it a green light. The US President himself congratulated Tony of this awesome invention and hoped that this would lead humanity to a brighter future.
But the good days didn't last long. One fine day the month of April, all the TV channels changed itself and showed Mandarin threatening US of war and terrorism. He showed sightings of various bombings on US soil and said that he would kill Tony Stark himself. This surprised John as in actual world no direct threat to Tony was made.
"So this is another butterfly effect. Well whatever! Aquaman is here. Isn't fire his weapon. Arthur can pour water in his head."
Actually, Tony in the last few months almost lived in Jurassic Park for the experiments. And he continued to live there, he even made a grand home for himself with the help of transformers. Even though Tony did lot of work for the new technology, he didn't forget to make new suits.
And the latest he made was Mark 42. The biggest difference between the original world's Mark 42 and the new Mark 42 was that all the parts of Mark 42 were transformers. This suit looked more efficient and better than the original version thanks to the new solar power harnessing technology.
The difference in the story of Mandarin came because of the fact that Tony had introduced such a new technology that the old corporations such as Roxxon Corporations suffered the most. Their share prices dipped crazily and now such corporations banded together and approached the Mandarin (fake) to deal with Tony on the garb of war and terrorism.
After the threat was made Tony responded saying that the Mandarin could come up to his home at the Jurassic Park and he would still beat Mandarin back. And as if the universe corrected itself, Tony did get hit but the ending this time was different.
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Maya Hansen, the main person behind Extremis Virus came to meet Tony after Tony's response to the press.
"You need to get away. Mandarin he is dangerous." Maya said.
Pepper who packed her luggage was ready to take away Tony from Jurassic Park back to NY where it would be safer with John. As they were arguing about it Cinch suddenly transformed himself who was lying on the nearby table.
"Tony. A missile is coming to our direction in 1 minute. You need to get out now."
"What? What is this?" Maya got scared when he saw a mobile transforming. Tony didn't reply to Maya and said instead
"He really did come. Pepper and Maya go away with Drift. I have 42 with me." As soon as he said that various parts of Mark 42 came flying by while Pepper ran taking the hand of Maya. Drift was already waiting outside. Pepper directed Drift to take them to Diana who was the curator of Jurassic Park.
The missile hit his home at Jurassic Park and Tony was able to equip himself on time but failed to escape the blast. His house was hit by two missiles and since this home was at the edge of the island too he fell down to the sea. And got stuck in debris and this time the debris were heavier than the original world.
Tony at that time thought that it was his end. He cursed his stubbornness to equip himself with 42 while he could have easily left with Drift. As he was contemplating this he suddenly saw that water beside him moved away by itself and slowly created a small sphere where no water was present.
Tony instantly knew who had come to help him. And as expected a man with golden armor and trident appeared. It was Arthur Curry. Tony sighed in relief but said instead
"You are late Fish Man. My home got destroyed."
"Do you think I work for you Tin Man?" Aquaman replied.
"Whatever! Will you help me? Or continue mocking at me?" Tony said. Arthur removed the debris easily with his bare hands and Tony finally was able to move.
"Thank you!" Tony said finally as he stood up. "Want to go and meet Diana?"
"Yes I just arrived. John guided me and gave the relevant information. You are lucky I found you on my way to meet her." Arthur lied as directed by John.
"Did Mera come?" Tony suddenly asked.
"John said that she would arrive soon."
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