"Tony, you weren't very obedient growing up, much like me in that aspect."
Tony's attack seemed to be expected by Howard, he raised his hand slightly, the scepter in his hand instantly disintegrated into a state of parts, a strange force field opened up, all of Tony's missiles stalled in mid-air, unable to move.
Tony didn't say a word, his palm cannon fired repeatedly, but unfortunately it was still useless, the energy attack was also unable to penetrate the special force field.
"What is that?" Tony stared at the floating parts beside Howard, his tone somewhat strained.
"My weapon! When Newton and I built it together, I used it to drive the truth and push Newton into the abyss myself." Howard's face was retrospective, his expression complex.
"What was the principle of that?"
"I won't tell you." Howard gave Tony an amused look, like he was looking at a naughty child.
"Well, then I'll just have to figure it out for myself!" With that, the weapon rose above Tony's arm armour once more, but Howard suddenly made a gesture of pause.
"Wait, Tony, how long has it been since we've done sports together?"
"Sports? You want to play baseball or golf? You're no match for me in either!"
"Oh? Is that so? Then let's have another round!" Howard waved his hand and all the parts hovering on his arm flew to the time machine, a bizarre force field shielding it as he snapped, ripping open his suit to reveal a strange suit of battle armour, "It'll take a few minutes for the space based weapons set up to be completed, Pops is here to play with you!"
"Tony, you're clever, but you're not the first person to think of the idea of battle armour, Da Vinci had built battle armour that could go up to the sun, Newton made battle armour that could travel through time, and this one, belongs to the Nightmare Machine, Nikola Tesla!"
Howard pulled the helmet from behind his head and activated the battle armour.
The battle armour was very strangely shaped, all black, made of some unknown material, and looked so light and thin that it looked like a straitjacket on Howard's body. However, after he activated the battle armour, several orange energy pillars suddenly protruded from the back, shoulders and elbows of the battle armour, just like a large electric bulb.
Huge electric currents weaved between the energy pillars, and the air around them was ionised with a glorious halo of light. Howard raised his hands and aimed them at Tony, "Come on, son, old dad will have a good time with you!"
"You sure about that? I don't want to bully an old man!" Tony put away the weapon on his arm and clenched his fist.
"Haha, I'm at least twice as fit as you are now!" Howard shouted, lunging at Tony, his body flashing with a burst of lightning, like Thor descending into the world.
Tony also lunged forward, the Ark reactor in his chest running at full power, providing him with a powerful boost.
Howard slammed his fist with a violent electric current, but instead of attacking Tony directly, the current would ionise the air, creating an extremely hot plasma that seemed like a sharp blue blade stabbing at Tony.
The super-high temperature instantly scorched the paint on Tony's battle armour, which still could not insulate him from this heat, and the armour automatically activated its fire-extinguishing function, bringing the temperature down slightly before he felt slightly better.
"Old man, you want to roast me?" Two jets rose from Tony's arm armour, spewing out a large volume of compressed cold air as the temperature around him began to cool rapidly again.
"I knew you'd have a way to deal with that!" Howard laughed as he flew up and kicked Tony out of the way, electricity swirling under his feet and surprisingly flying.
"Oh, what's the principle of that? Flying on electricity?" Tony steadied himself and took flight as well.
"Who knows! Tesla's research into electricity has surpassed mankind by centuries!" Howard raised his hand and a huge ball of lightning quickly took shape, then compressed again and again, and finally turned surprisingly into a fist-sized ball of white light that struck Tony with lightning.
Tony dodged, but the white ball of light seemed to have a tracking function and chased him until he released the incendiary bait.
The white ball of light hit the incendiary bait and instantly expanded into a transparent ball of light two metres in size, with all sorts of energy exploding inside, as powerful as a strategic missile, but strangely enough, all this energy was locked up inside the ball of light, without a single leak.
After everything had calmed down and there was no trace left in the air, Tony said, "That's low carbon, zero pollution, zero emissions!"
With that, he raised his arm and the weapon he had just hidden rose again, aiming it at Howard.
"Buzz!" There was an ear-piercing cracking sound that caused Howard to cover his ears, followed by a steady stream of high-frequency sound waves coming in, blasting him straight back to the ground.
Not waiting for Howard to get up again, another mass of missiles shot out of Tony's shoulder to hit Howard.
"Tony, you're really looking after your old man!" Howard had just sat up when he saw the overwhelming number of missiles coming at him, and with a bitter laugh, a layer of electric light fiercely lit up on his body, and a transparent energy shield protected him within it.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!" After an explosion, the dust settled and Howard stood there intact, not even a speck of dust on him.
However, Tony's gaze did not look at him, but to the side of him, where a large area had been collapsed and a large number of mechanical structures could be seen inside, where countless mechanical spiders had been assembled and transported to the far side via a conveyor belt.
And next to the production line of mechanical spiders stood something like a signal tower, with a special ripple constantly occurring.
"Is this the X-gene suppressor you built?" Tony slowly descended and circled the signal tower.
"Nice, whoever invented it was a genius, inhibiting the activity of the X-gene in this way, a very good idea!" Howard had an approving look on his face, "I built this one to be able to cover the entire range of Rome, as long as it's within the range of Rome, Eric won't be able to use his magnetic powers!"
Tony suddenly raised his arm and several missiles flew out, blowing the X-Gene suppressor to smithereens.
The ripples that could inhibit X-Gene activity disappeared, but Howard didn't look the least bit worried, he raised the remote control in his hand and shook his head with a smile, "It's no use, game time is over, even if he regains his powers, he won't be able to resist such a massive energy blast!"
With that, Howard gently pressed the remote control in his hand, and then quietly waited for the trial to come.
However, he waited and waited, but the trial he was expecting was delayed, which made his smile froze on his face.
"I told you, you won't be able to get what you want!"
The steel battle armour suddenly opened and a tall figure stepped out, floating in the air like that without relying on any assistance.
"Erik! This can't be!"
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