Marvel Novel Series 10 - The Avengers - The Man Who Stole Tomorrow by David Michelinie

Author:David Michelinie [Michelinie, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 0671820931
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1979-10-15T07:00:00+00:00

“It isn’t melting, Iron Man. Not a drop.”

Inside his gold-and-crimson armor, Tony Stark listened to the Scarlet Witch, and worried. It had been half an hour since they had defeated Aningan Kenojuak; half an hour since they had brought the ice block containing the inert Captain America into the office/jail of Sheriff Lee Cordell, placing it in front of a hissing radiator and positioning several portable electric heaters around it in a semicircle. And in the half hour that the ice block had sat bathed in enough heat to slow-bake an apple pie, it had remained as solid, as glistening and unchanged, as it had on the frost-covered knoll outside.

The Scarlet Witch rose from her kneeling position beside the block, delicately daubing perspiration from her forehead with a Kleenex, and stepped from the semicircle of direct heat. It wasn’t much cooler anywhere else in the room, she thought. The jail was small, officially furnished with desks, wanted posters, and rifle racks, and was obviously built to comfortably house two men—Sheriff Cordell and his single deputy, Kurt Turnbull—as well as the occasional apprehended malefactor. Now, however, the building was crowded, not only with sheriff and deputy, but also an old Eskimo shaman, five super-heroes, two construction-company paramedics who served as Bantu Junction’s hospital and emergency service, and a three-by-seven-foot block of unmelting ice. The only one missing was the Vision.

The cause of the synthezoid’s absence was a matter of courtesy. Moments before, he had stepped outside to act as the Avengers’ representative in seeing off the departing Sub-Mariner. That such an action was mere formality had been evidenced by the fact that neither party had spoken as the Prince of Atlantis had taken to the air and flown swiftly southward. Neither had asked for gratitude; neither had given it.

In all, it had been a rather somber leaving, and as such was indicative of the general atmosphere prevailing in the aftermath of the recent battle. Though the Avengers had emerged clearly victorious, that triumph had soon taken on an oddly unsatisfying flavor. At the beginning, they had reacted as might be expected: reveling in the hardy gusto of conquest, and in the joy of knowing that none of their number had been seriously hurt. But then they had taken Captain America to the sheriff’s office—the sheriff having just returned from settling an altercation at one of the outlying pipeline repair sites—and the explanations had begun. As minutes had passed and mud had been scraped from dirty costumes, pieces of the puzzle had been put together, and the full story of Aningan Kenojuak’s despair, loneliness, and almost childlike faith had come to light. And the Avengers had found it more and more difficult to look with anger at the old Eskimo who had such a short time ago tried to destroy them all.

Their antipathy had been so blunted that when officials from the Amrek Construction Company had finally found the courage to come complaining about the destruction of their property, Iron Man had simply told them that his employer, Stark International, would pay for all damages.

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