While Anthony was thinking about his special Iron Man Armor, on the other side of New York, in a luxurious manor, someone was very, very angry.
And the angry person was very familiar to Anthony. It was his father's good friend and also the second shareholder of Stark, Obadiah.
Back then, Anthony had regarded Obadiah as the enemy who had killed his father, although according to Peter Parker's various investigations, Obadiah had not done so. But after that, Anthony still had a gap with his former uncle Obadiah.
In fact, it wasn't hard to understand. Children sometimes stubbornly believed that people they thought were good were good, and people they thought were bad were bad.
Although it would be cleared up later, the contradictions in the meantime had already been buried. Besides, Obadiah was not a harmless guy.
Ever since Howard Stark's death, Obadiah had taken the shares of Stark Corporation from Anthony and become the majority shareholder of Stark Corporation.
Considering the board and personal factors, Obadiah's actions were understandable. Anthony was too young. He was only twelve years old at the time. There was no way the board of directors would agree to such a child becoming the company's largest shareholder.
For Obadiah, it was his lifelong dream to take control of Stark and then go further. Before, he had Howard on top of his head, so he couldn't do anything.
Because Howard did have great charisma and leadership skills. Compared to the talented Howard, Obadiah was willing to take a back seat. But when Howard died, his son, a twelve-year-old boy, also had to ride on his head, which Obadiah was unwilling to accept.
At first, Obadiah adopted a conciliatory policy towards Anthony, hoping that the twelve-year-old Anthony would become his puppet. Of course, as Anthony's uncle, Obadiah did not mind spending some money to support him. If Anthony knew his place and was obedient, Obadiah could raise Anthony as his own child and make him a rich second generation.
If one day, he was too old to work, then it was not unacceptable to hand over the power to Anthony again. After all, Obadiah was not married and had no children.
But the appearance of Peter Parker destroyed all of Obadiah's plans, and the conciliatory policy was completely ruined. He was getting further and further away from controlling the Stark Corporation.
However, when Peter Parker first appeared, it also caused many other people in the board of directors to be dissatisfied and criticized. For the big shots in the board of directors, it was unacceptable for Peter Parker to become a leader out of nowhere.
Many of them began to fight with Peter in the open and in the dark. Obadiah looked on coldly from the sidelines because he knew that the fun of watching quagmire wrestling was sitting in the audience.
If he were to go on stage and wrestle, it would definitely not feel good to be covered in mud. Now that someone had jumped down to arm wrestle with Peter, he naturally wouldn't do it himself.
No matter if he won or lost, or even if both sides suffered, he wouldn't lose anything. Thus, for the past ten years, Obadiah had been watching from the sidelines, watching the big shots in the board of directors, or the greedy capitalists outside, wrestle with Peter Parker.
Obadiah believed that one day Peter Parker would fall, but Peter Parker's ability was unexpected. No matter what kind of opponent he was, he won, whether it was in the open or in the dark.
Peter Parker was expanding his authority step by step. When Obadiah came back to his senses, he was horrified to find that. He actually didn't have the ability to arm wrestle with Peter Parker!
Picking up scraps was a good thing, and everyone liked it. But if you held back and picked up scraps, and did things with the attitude that you wouldn't make a move if you didn't miss out. Then you would probably be the one to suffer. For example, someone like Obadiah.
In ten years, Peter Parker had actually taken control of the company. He trampled on his former opponents one by one.
But that wasn't what worried Obadiah the most. What worried him the most was that Peter Parker wasn't doing all this for himself. He didn't really usurp the company's power. He was laying the foundation for Anthony.
If a man was too selfish, Obadiah could always find a flaw in him. But if Peter did everything with a clear conscience, then there was nothing Obadiah could do.
And now Obadiah had a thorny problem in front of him. In Howard's will, the ten-year period of Peter's escrow was coming to an end!
You said this was a good thing? No, no, no! For Obadiah, this was a very bad thing. Because Anthony was about to succeed him. By February 1966, Anthony would automatically become the company's largest shareholder.
From then on, everything would be suppressed by Peter's power, and there would be a reasonable explanation for the unjustifiable things. As for Old Parker? Don't think that he would leave obediently. Given Anthony's relationship with the Parker family.
In the future, the old dog would continue to work in the company, and even give Anthony pointers behind his back on how to run the company. The situation would only be worse than it was now.
Because Obadiah not only had to face Old Parker, the old dog, but also Anthony, the little dog. If the two dogs attacked, he wouldn't be able to stop them!
Obadiah, who had been fishing steadily for the past ten years, hadn't even caught a catfish, and now even the fishing platform was about to be overturned by the two dogs. How could he tolerate this? Obadiah had never thought about retiring and going home to be a rich man.
Just as Obadiah colluded with the Ten Rings gang in the main world to eradicate Tony, Obadiah colluded with a group of real bandits on Earth One. He wanted to get rid of Anthony and Parker.
After watching quagmire wrestling from the audience for so many years, Obadiah finally had to jump down and fight.
In front of Obadiah was a middle-aged white man with a fierce expression. At the same time, he was blind in one eye and wore an eye patch. Anyone who had seen the wanted posters posted in New York would most likely be able to tell who he was at a glance. He was the one-eyed Nick Fury.
Obadiah knew that this guy was a tough bandit who had killed many people and had a group of equally fierce men under his command. That was why Obadiah had looked for Nick (Fury). If he couldn't deal with Parker with dirty tricks, Obadiah needed a really strong guy.
Of course, he didn't know that Nick (Fury) had formed Skyhammer. Otherwise, Obadiah wouldn't have been willing to have anything to do with such a person.
But now, Obadiah took out a suitcase and placed it in front of the white one-eyed man. Obadiah pushed the suitcase forward and opened it. The entire suitcase was stuffed with colorful bills.
"Here's three million dollars in cash. After it's done, I can give you another three million dollars. Help me get rid of the Peter Parker family and Anthony Edward Stark! Before Christmas, I hope I have a reason to celebrate this year! "Obadiah said in a low voice.
The white one-eyed man looked at the large suitcase of bills in front of him but didn't say anything. He just used the tip of the dagger to fiddle with the dirt in his nails.
The silence lasted for a minute, and Obadiah kept staring at Nick (Fury).
Finally, Nick said, "Money isn't the only condition, Obadiah. Money alone is far from enough. If you want us to make a move, you need other conditions. "
Obadiah's face twitched. "I've already helped you install that woman into the Stark Corporation."
Nick Fury (White): "You know, if we want to accomplish your goal, we need enough information. That's not a condition. That's what you did for yourself. "
Obadiah thought for a moment and finally asked, "What else do you want?"
Nick smiled. "Don't worry too much, Obadiah. I don't want anything else from the Stark Corporation. I just want some equipment. Some of the Soviet Union's allies are willing to spend a lot of money on the black market to buy some of the Stark Corporation's equipment. "
Nick's explanation was very reasonable. This condition didn't alarm Obadiah. Of course, he didn't know that Nick didn't want the equipment to be sold on the so-called black market to the Soviet Union's allies.
The only reason why Nick wanted these machines was because Smid had told him before he was arrested that if he wanted to unleash the [Dancing Gem] to its fullest potential, he would need these machines to complement it!
The two old dogs, each with their own ulterior motives, were scheming against each other.
A few hours later, in Stark's New York villa. Li Jie came to this world with an Iron Man armor that was countless years ahead of this era.
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