The first attempt ended in failure...
Dio and Steve came outside the base to get some fresh air.
Dio had just lit up a cigarette for himself when he unexpectedly heard Steve say, "Give me one, too."
"You... can smoke?"
Dio hesitated for a moment, but still handed over a cigarette. In all the time they had known each other, he had never seen Steve smoke, but Natasha had smoked with him before.
"What's that expression on your face? I just suddenly wanted to try it."
Steve glared at Dio with a somewhat amused look, and then started smoking with him.
Steve doesn't smoke simply because he doesn't like it. He used to be too thin and in poor health, so he naturally had no chance to indulge himself.
And after he became a super soldier, he was portrayed as an American superhero. He first performed everywhere and then joined the war.
But before the war was completely over, he was frozen into an ice stick in the process of killing the Red Skull, and was not dug out until more than 70 years later.
So even though he is quite old, his life experience is really not rich at all.
"How about it?"
"It's choking and bad for your health."
Dio started laughing when he heard this typical Steve-style answer. Smoking is indeed bad for the body, but for "supermen" like them who have completely surpassed the level of ordinary people, they are immune to most diseases, so how could they be hurt by a little bit of nicotine
"I really don't know why you like to smoke this kind of thing."
If he didn't like it, he just didn't like it. After trying to take two puffs, Steve frowned, put it out, and threw it into the trash can beside him.
"You don't understand. I don't smoke because I like it. I smoke for the sake of smoking."
A faint smoke enveloped Dio's face, making his eyes look even more blurry.
"It's like many things are pushing us to move forward. We can't avoid them."
Steve didn't understand what Dio was talking about, or rather, he had no idea what this guy was thinking or what he wanted for so long.
"If we succeed in salvaging everything, what do you want to do next?"
"Go back and reopen my restaurant? Or find a nice place near mountains and rivers to retire? To be honest, the thing I regret most in my life is probably meeting you troublemakers."
Steve thought about it and realized that it was indeed the case, so he couldn't help but laugh.
"Maybe... with great power comes great responsibility?"
"Don't give me that! The last kid who believed that kind of shit deserved his ashes for rice."
Dio couldn't help but glance at him.
This rhetoric can only fool young boys, but any adult with mature values and world views will not take it seriously.
Of course, Steve also knew that such words would not affect this guy at all.
So after a brief silence, he spoke without thinking: "No matter what, I don't regret meeting you. It was like this before, it is like this now, and I hope it will be like this in the future."
Dio smiled, twisted his fingers, and burned the remaining half of the cigarette into ashes.
"You should know me. I hate trouble the most, so I rarely take the initiative to do something, but trouble always comes to me."
Steve was silent for a moment, just as Dio knew what he meant, and he also knew what Dio meant by saying this.
but...
well!
"Let it be. Who can predict what will happen in the future? Look, the most unlikely person is here."
Dio, who didn't want to continue this topic, smiled and pointed to the front. He saw a very handsome sports car, which was driving towards him quickly with the accelerator on.
"Did I interrupt your date?"
The car window rolled down, and Tony looked at Steve and Dio with a world-weary face.
Steve and Dio heaved a sigh of relief helplessly. Tony had that kind of magic that made people want to beat him up as soon as they met him.
"The experiment failed. What are you doing here?"
"Oh, let me guess, has he become a baby?"
“It also became something else…”
"This is the Apollo Paradox. Lang is not traveling through time and space. Instead, time is traveling through his body. It's very complicated and dangerous. Someone should have warned you."
Tony got out of the car, dressed in a cocky outfit, as if he was back to the time when he first met him.
That flamboyant, confident, and annoying Tony Stark!
"I know you warned us, but if you keep talking in such a sarcastic tone, I will take your daughter and run away." Dio's eyes revealed extreme danger.
Even Tony was defeated by his shamelessness and was stunned for a moment.
"Okay, I admit I'm threatened by you, you damn bastard! She's only two years old!"
"It's okay, I can wait."
Tony was about to call the police and wanted to pull out a gun and shove it into his mouth. Even the way Steve looked at him seemed a little strange.
"Hey, what are you thinking? I mean to reserve a girlfriend for my unborn son in advance."
The murderous look in Tony's eyes finally subsided a bit.
"I've got it. A fully functional time-travel navigator."
Looking at the watch-like thing on Tony's hand, Dio and Steve were stunned for a moment, and then showed surprised expressions.
They originally thought that Tony had simply figured it out and came to help, but they didn't expect that this guy could actually do it by himself without making any noise and even bring back something!
Is it so showy
"We can take risks again, but I have to decide first what is most important to me. I hope to turn this around, but the premise is to keep everything I have now. It would be even better if I could not risk my life so much."
As Tony spoke, he opened the trunk, took out a shield that couldn't be more familiar and handed it to Steve.
"I think we can officially reconcile."
"Tony, I don't deserve this."
Looking at the shield, Steve took a deep breath with a complicated expression.
"Why? He made it just for you."
Tony personally handed it to Steve again, and then the two grown men held hands together awkwardly, the full of gay love gave Dio goose bumps.
"Thank you, Tony."
"Can you be a little more low-key? I don't have gifts for everyone."
Tony, who couldn't stand this kind of situation, immediately changed the subject and gave Dio a warning look, hoping that he would stop.
So Dio had to put the phone back quietly with regret. This scene was so worth remembering, what a pity.