Justin hears him talking about a force field and is ready to roll with it. It's outlandish and silly, but if anyone could invent one, it would be Tony Stark. Still, it's an odd idea and he's ready to make some sort of crack about it...
...until Tony mentions an invisibility device.
It's been used in so many fantasy and sci-fi works throughout the years that Justin's always tossed it off as just that: fiction. Fantasy. Impossible and so far removed from reality that it belongs in nothing but the pages of books and screens of theaters and television sets. He's thought about it from time to time, but the ideas behind it—how to make it function well at all—always seemed like too great a challenge for anyone to do more with than think, would be awesome, but far too ridiculous to ever create.
But then he hears that SHIELD has done it. If it had been Tony, it wouldn't have seemed like such a heavy blow. In the eye of the world, Tony could do basically anything. That was easy to accept. It would have been easy for Justin to shrug it off as something he could never have done but something a man who created a flying suit could achieve. It would have been much easier to hear it.
But he wasn't hearing it. He was hearing that—
"You don't know who came up with it? The, uh. The inventor of the invis..." It's still too strange to think of actually existing, so he falters. He stops. He continues by ignoring it. "...thing. Was it a team of people or just one person? Do you know?"
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...until Tony mentions an invisibility device.
It's been used in so many fantasy and sci-fi works throughout the years that Justin's always tossed it off as just that: fiction. Fantasy. Impossible and so far removed from reality that it belongs in nothing but the pages of books and screens of theaters and television sets. He's thought about it from time to time, but the ideas behind it—how to make it function well at all—always seemed like too great a challenge for anyone to do more with than think, would be awesome, but far too ridiculous to ever create.
But then he hears that SHIELD has done it. If it had been Tony, it wouldn't have seemed like such a heavy blow. In the eye of the world, Tony could do basically anything. That was easy to accept. It would have been easy for Justin to shrug it off as something he could never have done but something a man who created a flying suit could achieve. It would have been much easier to hear it.
But he wasn't hearing it. He was hearing that—
"You don't know who came up with it? The, uh. The inventor of the invis..." It's still too strange to think of actually existing, so he falters. He stops. He continues by ignoring it. "...thing. Was it a team of people or just one person? Do you know?"