Chapter 240 Winter Guard

Earth, December 24, 2007.

Tomorrow is Christmas.

In a luxurious manor outside London, England, Wanda and Pietro, brother and sister, are sitting quietly together watching TV.

The twins, born in February 1989, are now 18 years old and officially adults.

And it has been almost five years since they were adopted by a mysterious rich man.

For the brother and sister, the past five years of life have been like a dream.

From wandering around the streets, stealing and cheating, they turned into British rich sons.

So for the mysterious rich man who adopted them, the two are grateful, but also very curious, and have made countless guesses.

Especially Wanda, the glimpse between her and Levi that year, she still remembers it deeply.

So much so that she has always believed in her heart that Levi is the one who adopted them.

For this reason, in the past five years, she has been trying to find out Levi's identity through various means.

But nothing was found.

But this is normal, after all, Levi is not British at all. Except for the entry record left when he first came to the UK with Tony, there is no information about him in the UK.

It was after the subversion of SHIELD last year that Levi, as one of the leaders, was paid special attention to by the five major countries including the UK.

But at the same time, all his relevant information at that time was already the top secret of the five major countries.

It is even more impossible for Wanda to find it.

But obviously, Wanda did not give up because of this, and expressed her desire to meet the other party to the butler every year.

Although the final result was always prevarication.

And when the twins celebrated their birthdays this year, she and Pietro also expressed their ideas to the butler again.

But they got a different answer at that time.

Because when they proposed this intention in the past, the response they got was that it was not the time.

And the response they got that time was that the other party needed to go on a long journey, which might take a year or even longer.

This gave Wanda a hunch that the day when the other party unveiled the mystery might not be far away.

"Maybe it will appear tomorrow!" Wanda said to Pietro beside her with a smile.

"I hope so!" Pietro was not as optimistic as his sister. He shrugged and said noncommittally, then watched the TV series that had ended and switched channels.

"According to our report, the superhero group Winter Guard of Mao Bear Country has once again collectively dispatched and cracked a transnational human trafficking gang. President Mao praised the performance of Winter Guard. In comparison, as a superhero in the free world, Iron Man has been much quieter in the past year. Except for occasionally appearing as Iron Man, Mr. Tony Stark has not appeared in public for nearly a year. Almost all the affairs of the Stark Group are handled by Ms. Pepper, which makes many people wonder whether the person under the iron suit is still Mr. Stark..."

Watching the report on TV, Wanda and Pietro couldn't help but fall into silence.

But it was not because of the Winter Guard, but because of Tony Stark.

In fact, the twins are already familiar with the Winter Guard.

Because the other party did not just appear now, but a superhero group belonging to the bear appeared in the first half of the year.

And in the past six months, the Winter Guard has been very active and has appeared in the news almost every day.

It must be said that the media's speculation is also very accurate. Although Iron Man still appears from time to time, Tony Stark, as the original, is no longer on Earth.

The current Iron Man is sometimes Frank, sometimes Melina, and sometimes even a remote-controlled Iron Soldier.

Without Tony, the original Iron Man, the sense of existence of Iron Man is naturally not so high.

So much so that in the past six months, the Winter Guard has been the most handsome guy on Earth.

What's more, unlike the previous alliance, only Tony and the British captain Peggy Carter, who is a "foreign aid", are public.

All members of the Winter Guard have been fully public from the beginning.

This has made them even more popular and sought after by many people around the world.

Even though this superhero team comes from the country that is not very popular in Europe and the United States.

Their members include Whiplash, a guy wearing a half-covered steel battle suit and using two energy whips, who is also the leader of the Winter Guard.

(The appearance setting of the comics is adopted here)

And there is no doubt that this Whiplash is Ivan Vanko, who was let off by Levi and wanted to prove himself in another way.

This Winter Guard is the final result of Ivan Vanko's efforts in the past year.

In addition to Whiplash, the Winter Guard also has Red Guardian, Crimson Mech, Titanium Man, Ursa Major and... Black Widow.

Yes, there is also a Black Widow in the Winter Guard.

However, this Black Widow has nothing to do with Melina, Natasha, Yelena and other Black Widows of the Drekov School, nor is she the Black Widow students who were given new identities by Tony after the Red House was destroyed.

This Black Widow, named Claire Vayon, is a true Black Widow trained by the Red House during the Cold War, earlier than Melina.

Of course, because of her earlier generation, this Black Widow is also very old.

Born in the 1950s and active in the peak period of the 1970s, Claire Vayon is now in her 50s, two generations older than Melina, who was born in the 1970s.

In this respect, Claire Vayon's name as the Black Widow is more worthy of the name than Melina and Natasha.

However, this Black Widow disappeared as early as the early 1980s.

And the reason why such a special existence joined the Winter Guard is thanks to Ivan's father, Anton Vanko.

After Ivan Vanko left, Anton Vanko, who knew his son's plan, finally woke up and wanted to contribute to his son's career.

As a scientist in the old days of the bears, Anton Vanko actually had quite a few connections.

His later years of poverty were actually more due to his own self-abandonment.

And Claire Vayon was a relatively special existence that he knew.

It was also unknown how Anton Vanko convinced the other party.

Anyway, after disappearing for more than 20 years, Claire Vayon indeed reappeared in the Winter Guard under the name of Black Widow.

I just don't know why, this Black Widow who is obviously over 50 years old and reappeared in front of the public looks like an 18-year-old girl, even younger than Yelena, the real 18-year-old Black Widow.

And it seems that she has mastered some special abilities that seem like magic.

Today's Claire Vayon has directly surpassed the Crimson Mecha Boris who founded the Winter Guard with Ivan, and directly became the No. 2 figure in the Winter Guard.

And the No. 3 figure is naturally Ivan's friend and former comrade-in-arms, Crimson Mecha Boris Tegenov.

The so-called Crimson Armor is the steel armor that Ivan built for Boris when he found him. It looks very similar to the Mark 1 in the original time and space.

It is named because of the red paint on the whole body.

Then there is the Red Guardian.

It is Alexei Shostakov, who once partnered with Melina and served as the "father" of Natasha and Yelena.

After Ivan and Boris were ready to form the Winter Guard, they used all kinds of connections to get Alexek, who was imprisoned in prison, out, let him put on his battle suit again, and took the shield that Ivan made for him.

Then there is Titanium Man.

Titanium Man has the same name as Crimson Armor, also called Boris. There is no way, Boris is a very common name in the bear.

Just like Zhang Wei from the Eastern Power, it is a name that can easily form an army.

Titanium Man's full name is Boris Bursky, and like Ivan, he is a scientist.

The reason why he got the title of Titanium Man is that to some extent, like Ivan, he was stimulated by Iron Man and got inspiration from him, so he designed a titanium alloy suit for himself.

However, he did not have such a thing as an Ark Reactor, and his technology also inherited the consistent style of the bear, which was practical and rough.

Therefore, although the design of the Titanium Man's armor in the early stage was similar to that of the Crimson Mech, it could not fly due to energy problems, and it had to be recharged after running for a few hours.

And he was not like other members of the Winter Guard, who were actively recruited into the team by Ivan and others.

In fact, at the beginning, Titanium Man was a super criminal-because his research lacked funds, so he drove his suit to rob.

As a result, he met the Winter Guard, which had just been formed not long ago, and was beaten up by the Crimson Mech.

However, because he was a talent, he was recruited by Ivan and others and became a member of the Winter Guard.

As for the last Ursa Major-well, the other party was indeed a big bear that looked like a human.

Of course, he was indeed a person.

But after turning into a bear, he can never turn back.

Ursa Major was originally named Ursus, a product of genetic modification of the bear in the 1970s (a mutant in the comics), and was a former colleague of Claire Vayon.

Later, with the help of Claire Vayon, he lived in seclusion in the jungles of Siberia.

After Claire Vayon joined the Winter Guard, he was invited by Claire to become a member of the Winter Guard.