Reincarnated As Tony Stark With A Skill - Volume 3 Chapter 120 Rogue 2
On their way to Rogue’s holding cell
Tony was trying to raise his hand wanting to ask all kinds of stuff that popped into his head. He would put it down immediately because he would either deem the question offensive or he solved the problem himself. This made look like he was doing some warmup exercise, raising and lowering his arms periodically.
Jean: “What’s wrong with you?”
Mystique: “It’s not him. It’s me. Go ahead. Ask what you want.”
Tony: “Really? Ok. So, you don’t pass down the skin color? Because honestly, I thought this other blue kid is your child and not her. ”
Jean: “Tony!”
Tony: “What? Don’t tell me you’re not curious.”
Jean: “…”
Mystique was a little disturbed by what Tony said but didn’t show it. She didn’t know if they would pursue this topic so she thought about a comeback so that should distract them.
Mystique: “It’s fine. But why did you ask? Are you afraid you accidentally i.m.p.r.e.g.n.a.t.ed me?”
Tony: “Wha… ”
Mystique: “It’s a joke. To be honest, I’m not quite sure of it myself.”
Tony: “But how did… OH. Is she?”
Mystique: “Yeah.”
Tony: “And you left her when she was?”
Mystique: “Old enough to remember.”
Tony: “I see. What will you say?”
Mystique: “I don’t know. That’s why I went to you first. I thought you might have an idea.”
Jean suddenly felt left out. She was between the two yet it felt like she wasn’t even noticed by them. The two seemed to be understanding each other despite not talking properly that she started to get annoyed.
Jean: “What? What’s with the OH? Are you two telepaths now? Don’t make me read your minds.”
Mystique: “Relax. It’s just about Rouge. She’s adopted. So, Tony? Any ideas?”
When they looked at him, he had this face that he that they were familiar with. It was a face that said that he has an idea. The only problem is that whatever it is inside his head, is the thing they would choose as plan Z. The last plan in case everything else failed.
Jean: “No.”
Tony: “What? I haven’t even said anything yet.”
Jean: “You don’t have to. Your face says it all. You’re probably thinking of some stupid solution right?”
Tony: “Hey! It’s not stupid if it works. And I guarantee, this solution works. I’ve already tried it and so far, it worked 100% of the time.”
Jean: “Really?”
Tony: “Yeah. Swear to ^ !33.”
Jean: “To who?”
Tony: “Just. Nevermind. You can check my mind. I guarantee I’m not lying.”
Jean tried to take a peek in his mind but Mystique interrupted her before she could.
Mystique: “Don’t waste your time Jean. If he’s that confident, then it shouldn’t be a lie”
Jean: “I know. But something’s fishy.”
Mystique: “Of course there is. It’s him”
Jean: “Fine. Old rule?”
Tony: “Yup. Old rules. You can ask anything you want as long as it’s not too direct.”
Jean: “Fine. Is it really 100% of the time?”
Tony: “Yup.”
Mystique: “How many times have you tried this solution ?”
Tony thought about it and started counting. He didn’t even reach the double digits when he decided to give up counting.
Tony: “A lot”
Mystique: “Ok. I’m in.”
Tony: “Okay!”
Tony told JARVIS to prepare for something but Jean suddenly asked one last question.
Jean: “Wait. What’s the sample size? And just to be sure. Not the total number of subjects, how many sorts of cases like this did you solve? ”
Tony: “Why are you still asking? She’s already in.”
Jean: “Why aren’t you answering? Are you afraid she’ll back out?”
Tony: “Yeah!
What’s with those stares? I can’t be shameless?”
Mystique: “Fine. As long as you don’t hurt her, I’ll cooperate.”
Jean: “So?”
Tony: “Fine. One”
Jean: -_-
Mystique: -__-
Tony: “What? I didn’t lie. 1 out of 1 is 100%.”
Jean: “That’s…”
Tony: “Math”
Mystique: “It’s fine Jean. But you have to tell these first. One, who are they? And two, what’s the situation before and after.”
Tony started telling them a bit of the history between Carol and Minn-Erva. He told them how they weren’t even close to being actual friends before he jumped in and how they were now close enough that if they could be considered sisters.
Mystique: “Jean? Is it true?”
Since they were still walking distance from Carol and Minn-Erva’s room, she decided to check it out. She looked into their minds and sifted through their memories of before and after the events of Captain Marvel.
Jean: “Check’s out”
Mystique: “Fine. If this is what it takes. Jean, mind giving us some privacy?”
Jean: “Not yet. I’ll have to vet her first.”
Tony: “What do you mean vet? Do you want to check up on the puppies? I thought I already told Emma to just push the button and throw the ball when it gets bigger. Everything else should go automatically.”
Jean: “Anthony Edward Stark, you know what I’m talking about.”
Tony: “Yes Ma’am.”
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Meanwhile in Tony’s mind.
He started sending commands for JARVIS to hurry up with the company that was going to be given to Jean. He even asked JARVIS to try and create a new AI for the company. The AI should also follow the same TAIL’s but other than that, Tony told him to only add the management experiences. The other functions are only at the most fundamental levels. This way, the AI should mostly grow on its own.
Other than having revenge by giving JARVIS a kid of his own, Tony also did this to make Jean busy. With the new company and the AI, Jean should be busy, even for just a bit. He wouldn’t dare say it to her but he felt like she was becoming suffocating.
Sure it was nice that she’s allowing her to these kinds of things but it still felt weird talking about these kinds of stuff with her.
He also didn’t notice it before, but now he is starting to feel guilty sleeping with all those women. Jean may allow it but he’s not sure if she’s just saying that. It also a problem that he doesn’t know if the guilt is because Jean didn’t know about everyone he slept with before or because she knows a lot of women he slept with now.
He was hoping that with this, he should be able to relieve himself from his guilt. With the company taking up most of her attention, she should be busy for the first couple of months. Bi or not, this should take away her focus from building up a harem.
He’ll even get some company from a ‘certain’ country, go and pirate some of the company products to compete with her. Just to keep her on her toes.
He’ll then have one of his shadow clones live with her.
He’ll have to bring some kind of portable laboratory similar to his Poke Balls to cope with boredom but if all goes according to plan, Jean should experience being with him properly like a couple. Not a weird leader managing his harem. She would go to work, and then back, and be greeted by her house husband Tony.
The only job of his clone is to observe her mood. He’ll check to see if she actually enjoys that kind of life. If she does, he’ll let her do that and maintain it. If she doesn’t, he’ll let her go back and manage the harem.
That’s right. He wouldn’t break the harem.
Sure he didn’t plan to make his harem but it doesn’t mean he would destroy it. It’s there for him to enjoy. Who is he to reject sleeping with such beautiful women when they want to sleep with him.
The only thing that would probably change, if Jean wouldn’t return to build up the harem, would be his goals. Instead of collecting all kinds of beautiful women, he’s planning just to sleep with every beautiful woman. It would be their choice if they decide to take things further.
Tony Stark in the comics is known to have slept with a lot of women. The only thing he would be doing is adding a lot more women to that list.
Tony: [Ah I really did great in picking shadow clones as my skill.
Sure I chose it for the ultra multi-tasking ability. I mean MCU has all these kinds of things. I couldn’t possibly study all of those alone. But with my shadow clones, let’s face it, even if I didn’t become ‘ME’, I’d still be able to study all those things with just my shadow clones.
It also helps that I don’t have to clean up if one of my clones die.
What is surprising is with this, I can enjoy a harem while being fair to every girl. I mean she wants me, she can get me. She can get one, or even more, of me just for herself. Sure we all look and act the same but she can just treat us as X-tuplets]
Phoenix, who was sleeping inside Tony, couldn’t help but wake up because of all of his monologuing. She went ahead and started talking to him asking.
Phoenix: [Who are you talking to?]
Tony: [Hopefully? No one.]
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After learning a bit about Rogue’s habits and her personality, Tony found a way to have his plan get going.
Tony: “I think I could make things work but we have to go somewhere private.”
Jean: “Why? Couldn’t you turn off the cameras and drill them there?”
Tony: “Drill? Really? Classy. Jean. Classy.
And no. I need to do something that I don’t like some people to know.”
Mystique: “We could go to my room.”
Tony: “No. We need somewhere safer. And Really? In school? You think you’re safe here?”
Mystique: “Yeah. I mean I thought it was just going to be a quicky. Let’s go to your place then”
Tony: “But what about the meeting? Isn’t Fury still making deals with the X-men and the Brotherhood before Rogue attacked?”
Jean: “Why do you even want to go? It’s not like you don’t know what’s happening to them.”
Tony: “Oh you know, I like to meddle in other people’s business. Besides, if something happens, I’ll still get involved. Unless SHIELD decides to take it slow and work on their R&D first. ”
Jean: “Fine. Give me a phone. JARVIS can record everything they talk about and ask questions using that.”
Tony: “Thanks. Now Mystique, what I’m about to do next is going to be a secret. Just ask Jean for a mind wipe in case you think you can’t handle keeping it a secret.”
After saying that, Tony had JARVIS doctor the footage of them in the cctv’s. He then turn off the light. Then, he used his symbiote to cover them from any other sort of exposure.
Then, Tony ahead and had used his other powers to change his genetic structure into Mystique’s. He started looking like her and after stabilizing, he looked like himself again.
Mystique was able to adapt to the darkness by changing her eyes to become cat eyes. She saw Tony transform into her so he asked.
Mystique: “What was that?”
Jean: “Did you copy her?”
Tony: “Yeah. Now here comes the hard part. Mystique, you have to convince Rogue that I have her powers.”
Mystique: “What? Why?”
Tony: “You said it yourself, she’s got her powers after her first kiss with a boy. According to you, she’s not nun material and she’s also not a lesbian. That means she still likes men. She’s old enough to be in a relationship but still hasn’t been in one due to her powers. Now, what do you think would happen when she meets someone like her? A guy who also steal other powers. A person she can touch.”
Mystique: “That’s…”
Jean: “Tony. I need to ask. Are you sure you’re one of the good guys?”
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After arriving at the room, they rehearsed things one last time.
He then took a peek to see Rouge. He had just taken a look of her face. He thought she just looked like someone he knew but then he saw her eyes. He knew those eyes from his past life so he got stunned.
Tony: “Alexandra Daddario”
Jean: “Who?”
Tony: “Nothing. You said you want to vet her? Take a peek.”
Jean did as he said.
Jean: “Wow. She’s pretty. Okay. She passes.”
Tony: “That’s it?”
Jean: “What do you want me to say?”
Tony: “Look again. Wait until you see her eyes.”
Jean: “Eyes? Why would I look at her ey… WOAH”
Tony: “I know right.”
Jean: “I like her. Okay, here’s the deal. When you get full control over your powers, I want you to look at you with those eyes or something better.”
Tony: “Done.”
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Rogue heard the commotion Tony and Jean caused outside. She paid attention to the door and after some time it opened.
She saw a familiar blue skin from the hand opening the door.
Rogue: “Hello Mother.”
