Chapter 74 - M.D.B 74: The Not-So-Great Cause of Saint Lee (1/2)
Chapter 74: The Not-So-Great Cause of Saint Lee
At the same time, Tony had already begun working on the blueprints for the prototype for the Iron Suit. This was to be named: ”Mark I”, in a reference to the world's first tank. Just like that one weapon changed the world back in the day; this one was to be Tony's way out of this hell!
This… this was the great Tony Stark!
Filled with emotion, Tony raised his hammer, slamming the iron piece on the anvil once again!
It was a pity that Saint's arrival was to keep this dream of Tony from coming into fruition, at least for now…
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Eight hours later, SHIELD's Quinjet landed in a US military base in Afghanistan, with three people walking out of its rear cabin.
Welcoming them was a female CIA agent. Just like when they first met Saint and claimed to be FBI, Coulson and Melinda May now became ”CIA Agents”…
”You are…” Seeing Saint in his transformed state, the CIA agent actually recognized him: ”GOLDEN BOY! You are Golden Boy?”
”That is confidential.” Saint made a poker face and said: ”If I tell you, I would have to kill you!”
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'Don't rip off people's jokes in their presence, bastard!' Coulson looked furiously at Saint without saying a word, and then stepped forwards and extended his arm to the agent saying: ”Don't mind him please; I am Phil Coulson, the agent in charge of this operation.”
The Agent flusteredly reached out to shake hands with Coulson: ”Tina Johansson, senior agent. Pleasure to meet you, sir!”
”The pŀėȧsurė is mine. Now, can you take us to the conference room?”
”Yes, sir.”
After all four entered the conference room, Tina Johansson immediately opened the projector which showed a topographic map of Afghanistan on the screen in front of them. At the same time, she explained: ”The green areas are ones that we have searched closely, the ones in yellow are the ones that we aerially explored, and red ones are the ones we haven't explored yet at all.”
”I don't need to be looking at this!” said Saint: ”Remove this rainbow of a map, and show me another one with the mountain areas and large sand dunes marked.”
”Uh…” Tina glanced at Coulson, just to find him nodding for her to do as he said. Seeing that, she used the computer and made the map show what Saint had required.
Looking at the map, Saint walked up to it and drew two twisted lines: ”Take me to fly over this line. If I don't find him, go along this line.”
”You have the final say.” Coulson understood that Saint was expecting that Tony would be hidden by the Ten Commandments in a mountain base. Indeed, this being the case was highly probably. Fully agreeing with this speculation, he did not argue, asking the visibly concerned Melinda May instead: ”Is there a problem?”