"Here's your alibi. You were on a yacht and here's the signature of 15 people who can testify for this. And John you can just say the half truth. Of course the thing of other universe should be omitted. I think you know what you say." Coulson said after handing the statement to Tony.
"Iron man. That's a nice name. Bruce what do you think?" Tony asked as reading the newspaper. Bruce just shrugged and didn't say anything while Coulson left.
"I have a gift for you all for defeating Obadiah." John said while bringing out a cubic suitcase.
"Gift? Are you going to give me the shares of my company back?" Tony asked as he knew John bought many shares when it went down.
"No Tony, it's much better than that?" said John while opening the suitcase. "I got it much earlier but I think this is will be more helpful for you. Of course I might have to take it for some of it's uses in future." Bruce and Tony both looked at it. Tony suddenly thought of something and became excited.
"Is this what I think it is?" Tony asked.
"Yes, it's the Cube" John said. "Use it well."
"Thanks John." Bruce said.
"OK let's go for the press release."
In the press release John came to the podium first.
"Hello Mr. John the videos circulating say that the guy in the fight in the freeway was Batman. Is that true?" a reporter asked. Because all already knew John wasn't Batman because in body structure wise his body is completely different from Batman.
"Yes it was Bruce Wayne. I can say truthfully that he is indeed real and he is my friend but I can't reveal his face. That's the least I can do as a friend and protect him." John said. This caused a commotion.
"Is the story in your movie real?" another reporter asked after silence prevailed.
"Yes some of the parts are indeed real, but some are just for selling the movie" John said. "Now Tony will give his press release" John continued.
"Thanks John. Now I will follow the script unlike last time to buy vilify myself again" Tony said as he laughed and came on stage
And the following scenes followed exactly like in the original world.
"I am not a superhero because that would be ridiculous and..... fantastic" Tony said being little distracted.
"I never said you are a superhero" the reporter said who questioned him before.
"The truth is..... I AM IRON MAN" Tony said with a smirk. And immediately the reporters went crazy and started asking him questions but he left turning around refusing to take any questions.
" So it starts." John said.
"Yes and it starts. This is going to be a long and dangerous journey. I hope we will strong enough." Bruce said while standing beside him.
" I hope so too." John said.
"Let's go. I can't wait to try the power of the cube." Tony said
"Tony at first try to solve your problem" John said in a serious expression while pointing to his chest
" You know it too? Well I guess you will know since you can see glimpses of future. Will I be able to get rid of the poisoning?" Tony asked
"Tony the future I see is never constant. It changes. Don't rely on my powers but yes in alternate future you did find the solution. I just don't know, maybe you can look into your father's work. It might help." John reminded Tony which was almost close to the truth as future is never constant. Him being in the universe already means that the trajectory has changed.
"I understand. Bruce? What will you do? Do you want to try this Cube's powers?
" Sure. " Bruce said.
Soon after John left for New York. He had work to do now. Since Batman became real his influence in the world would change as he was the friend of superhero. He was thinking of expanding his network by starting a television channel and broadcasting various cartoons from previous life to extract more fans. There was a sharp rise in the number of fans after Batman came out real. He was happy about it and he needed to capitalize on it.
[Ding
Total number of fan values - 6 million]
"It rose 1 million in just 2 days and it's still rising. That' good. I need to think of a world which can influence all but be equally balanced. Now the plot of Iron Man 2 will start. I will try to help if there is diversion in the story. Bruce can help him too. I have two more year for Thor. Let' start with mythology. I already have a character during his emergence. Bruce needs more suit too. I hope the cube can help him in this regard. "John thought to himself.
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In the next 2 months he did lots of things like making a television channel and introduced various cartoons, starting new animes and making two more movies. The two movies he has in mind will help him gain more recognition.
He had already shared his ideas of how to use apps in mobiles to Google and told them to work on it. John wanted to bring another character and for that he needed to do the proper work to achieve fan value because bringing a powerful character is going to cost him and he wanted to bring some knowledge from a particular anime. This knowledge would help him gain a power without even changing himself to characters.
John even tied up with an European company to make games specially working on role playing games because only that will bring characters but developing games needs lot of time so he would have to work hard and make necessary preparations.
At the mean time in LA, John and Bruce who were working on the cube when a certain man visited them. Instead of showing up suddenly from shadows like always Fury came from the front door this time.
"Hello Mr. Bruce it's nice to finally meet you and you to Stark, 'I am Iron Man'. You think you are the only superhero in the world?" Fury asked.
"Bruce here is also a superhero, so of course no. I know that I am not alone. Oh yes Bruce said that someone took away Yinsen to save. I guess he too is a superhero. I hope he is fine. Who are you by the way?" Tony lamented. Fury took out a mobile with connected a video call. Yinsen popped out from the video and said.
"I am fine Tony."
"Yinsen you are fine? That's great? Where have you been? Why aren't you here?" Tony asked
"Yes I m fine. Director Fury here brought me to you. The things and the people I have seen are so awesome. Never knew such a world existed Tony." Yinsen said with wonder in his eyes. Fury coughed as he said that. "Sorry Director, I know the rules."
"The reason I am not beside you is because I can't go out of their dimension. I am not safe outside. So for now I can't meet you." Yinsen continued
"What happened? You can tell me what you know. I will sue them in court if they do anything to you." Tony said while eyeing Fury.
"It's ok Tony. Their world is different and their people are way too powerful for this world. And they did no harm to me. I can't tell you why I can't go out but rest assured I am safe. It's better we have secrecy." Yinsen replied.
"Fine. One day I will find this so called 'world' myself. Wait if this is a world, only one work of John fully consists of a full fledged world apart from Bruce's Earth. Shit.. You mean Naruto is real. OMG!!" Tony said. Tony was smart enough to understand from the hints given by Yinsen.
"I am Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD. Sometimes you are too knowledgeable for your own good Stark. You better keep it under wraps. Or else one day your body will be found in the seas and I won't be responsible for it. Yinsen will be working for SHIELD now as a liaison between us and the 5 kages and won't be coming out." Fury said seriously.
"I know. Bruce here too won't say anything." Tony said without even asking Bruce.
"I am sorry for his rude behavior. It must be hard to be put up with his attitude" Fury said to Bruce. "Mr. Bruce I hope you can come with us later for your assessment by SHIELD. I will have to follow some protocols and make a report." John told me that your world too is very dangerous." Fury asked.
"Sure. I am fine with Tony. He provides me the platform to better myself and we can share ideas so little bit of arrogance can be handled." Bruce said without even considering the feelings of Tony.
"I thought you are my friend Bruce. You hurt me." Tony commented sarcastically.
"Even though I don't like being subjected to such ridiculous assessments but John had asked this from me so I guess I will accept it." Bruce added.
"And answering to the question, yes. Our world was or is dangerous. I hope they don't come to this universe. It will be very difficult if 'he' comes" Bruce said clutching his fist.
He has two worlds of memories and both world's Darkseid was terrifying.
"He? who's he?" Tony asked he could see the helplessness, anger and guilt all over his face. It was the same he felt when he was on the cave. Fury too was interested. But Bruce didn't answer to that.
"I understand Mr. Bruce. Are there any more superheroes in your world?" Fury asked
"My world? There are some. We were a team. Some are really powerful. Powerful enough to destroy earth single handedly" Bruce said with a smile.
"My god you are saying that you have a group of superheroes powerful enough to destroy earth and you still don't have much confidence with this 'he'?" Tony was really surprised and shaken this time. The last few months have been great for them. Tony understood Bruce better now.
Bruce is an epitome of 'persecution delusion' syndrome. His contingencies had contingencies, be it his suit or his works. He would evaluate everything before giving a green light to anything. Tony felt it was fine if this 'he' doesn't come but if he comes he would have to get ready to stop him and he needed better suits.
Then again he remembered he was dying. Bruce and Tony had tried everything but still no result. Now seeing Yinsen he saw a ray of hope but he wanted to try everything possible to get himself out of his situation. He didn't want to owe a favor to another person again which he didn't even know and he wasn't sure if 'they' would help him. Specially after what Yinsen said.
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