Marvel At What Could've Happened

Chapter 24

"So, theoretically, how strong would a ship have to be to survive a wormhole and not be completely ripped apart?"

"Your rocket ships and planes won't be strong enough," Loki replied. "They'll be shredded in seconds."

"What materials do you use?" Tony asked.

"Just metals found in space," Loki said. "And often the ship some sort of invisible shield around it."

"What about the Bifrost?" asked Bruce

"It works in such a way that we can go through it just as ourselves, we don't need a ship to protect us," he said. "I don't know how a normal human would do, but we're just fine."

"He just called us weak, is that what I heard?" Tony joked, looking at Bruce.

"I think that's exactly what he meant." Bruce grinned.

"Thor and I are gods, we're objectively stronger," Loki said.

"That's insulting. Appreciate us for the tiny, weak earthlings that we are," Tony said. Loki laughed.

"I do, Stark, believe me, I do," he replied.

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"Look at these plans." Tony shoved some papers at Bruce. The other scientist pulled them closer to himself and glanced over them.

"It's a suit," Tony told him, "designed to provide oxygen and protect the wearer from space like a normal space suit, but it's built within an iron man suit so that it still flies, and it's weaponized."

"It's a great concept, but you do see some of the logistical issues, right?"

"What would you change, doctor?"

"I see this design being useful in place of a space suit, but I wouldn't just take this to space without a ship. You have nowhere to store food, no way to charge it, and it's not fast enough to go as far as we want to. Not to mention, a wormhole or jump-point will tear it apart."

"So, what do you say I do?' Tony asked.

"Do something different. Expand your design to a ship and have suits like this on board. Adapt to the situation, because this is different than anything we've ever attempted before."

"You're right. I've always just made suits...okay. We need to find something strong enough to withstand space travel in a way we've never done it before."

"There's nothing like that on Earth. We need to find something new."

"Actually...there's one thing."

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"That was all there ever was," Steve insisted. "Howard said that it's all we have."

"That's what Dad always said," Tony said. "But we don't know if it's true."

"If there is any more, it's probably in space," Bruce said. "I'm guessing that the little bit that we have is from an asteroid and there isn't any more on Earth. Which defeats the point, because we need to go to space to get more, but we can't go into space without it."

"So, we're back so square one." Steve crossed his arms.

"Unless my dad was wrong," Tony pointed out.

"Nobody has ever found any more," Steve said. "We've tried."

"Where does vibranium originally come from, again?" Tony asked.