Marvel's Umbrella

Chapter 18 Interlocking
After Pepper said to raise hands to vote, Tony immediately raised his hand.

But none of the people below took action. They just looked at Tony and Pepper coldly.

Pepper was not disappointed with this, but continued: “Now the votes in favor account for 39% of the shares. According to the articles of association of the shareholders’ meeting, those who oppose can now raise their hands.

Those who abstain from voting will not be counted in the equity…”

Just as she was about to persuade everyone to abstain from voting, she saw all the small shareholders raising their hands, followed by Obadiah and Luna.

This immediately made Pepper and Tony's faces look ugly.

Although these small shareholders don’t hold much shares, only 1% or 2%, they are numerous.

Adding Obadiah and Luna's shares, it has reached 41%, two points more than them.

From this we can also see how popular Obadiah is.

You have to know that when he didn't have the 5% stake in Umbrella, he was able to unite everyone to remove Tony from the position of chairman, let alone now.

At this point, Pepper stopped talking.

After all, she was still young and had only been in Stark Enterprises for three years. This was also her first time seeing Obadiah's prestige and she was a little caught off guard.

After a while, seeing the silence at the scene, Obadiah said confidently: “Forty-one to thirty-nine percent, it seems that this shareholders’ meeting will disappoint you.

Okay, now for the second vote, Tony will leave the shareholders meeting and no longer be involved in Stark Enterprises' affairs."

Hearing this, Tony immediately stood up and shook his head.

"No, you can't do this, this is Stark Enterprises, I am Stark!"

What made him despair was that most of the small shareholders raised their hands.

However, some of the company's veterans still missed Tony's father very much, so they did not raise their hands.

At one point, the vote on site reached 38%, but it was not enough to pass the resolution.

Obadiah then looked at several company elders and said viciously, "Do you still want this kid to continue to destroy Stark Enterprises?

If Howard saw Stark Industries today, do you think he would be happy or sad?

The only way to save Stark Enterprises now is for me to take charge of Stark Enterprises, reopen the weapons research and development department, and accept orders from the military!"

Seeing that the elders seemed to be interested, he continued, "I promise that in one year, the market value of Stark Enterprises will return to 300 billion! Or even higher!"

Upon hearing this promise, the eyes of several elders immediately lit up and they all wanted to raise their hands.

Although they watched Tony grow up and have a lot of affection for him, affection cannot be eaten.

You have to know that the 1% of the shares in their hands were worth 3 billion in the past, but now it is only 1 billion.

What kind of relationship can be worth 2 billion?

Tony became anxious when he saw these veterans also raising their hands.

"Uncle Núñez, Uncle Hidalgo, you can't do this. Stark Enterprises can't do without me. Only I can lead the company to become stronger!"

The two people named were Howard's good friends and were very old. At this moment, they looked at Tony with their hands raised firmly.

"Tony, I know you're a good kid, but we have to eat too."

"Yeah, Tony, the stock price has dropped so much recently that my family can barely make ends meet."

Without waiting for Tony to continue persuading him, Obadiah said excitedly, "Forty percent to thirty-nine percent. Tony, you're out. Come on!"

Although one veteran shareholder did not raise his hand in the end, it did not affect the overall situation.

And Tony also turned his attention to the last person.

If he could get that 1% of the other party's shares, it would be forty to forty, and he still had a chance.

But before he could speak, the man turned his head.

The meaning is very clear. For Howard's sake, he will not participate in the raising of hands, but asking him to support Tony is impossible.

Just when Tony was feeling discouraged, Pepper suddenly stood up.

"No, there is another shareholder who did not participate in this shareholders' meeting." "Who?"

"S.H.I.E.L.D."

When Tony heard the word "S.H.I.E.L.D.", he immediately remembered that S.H.I.E.L.D. also had a 5% stake.

If he could get the help of SHIELD, he still had a chance.

Pepper said, "I am now applying to suspend the shareholders' meeting and continue in half an hour!"

Now it was Obadiah's turn to look unhappy.

If SHIELD takes action, it can indeed play a crucial role.

Wouldn't everything they had done be in vain by then? You know, in order to get the support of these small shareholders, he made a lot of promises last night and gave up a lot of interests.

Thinking of this, he looked at Luna, hoping that she could come up with some solution.

But Luna still had a confident smile on her face and just nodded at him.

"There is no problem with Miss Pepper's application, but if the voting result remains unchanged in half an hour, I will be sorry."

Pepper glanced at Luna and said nothing, but stood up and left with Tony.

After walking out of the conference room, Pepper immediately took out her cell phone to contact Coulson.

"Hello, the user you dialed has been turned off..."

On the other end of the phone, there was a sound of the phone being turned off.

"Shut down?"

Pepper felt uneasy and called again.

But no matter how many times she called, the number Coulson left for her was always turned off.

Tony watched Pepper continue to make calls and asked in confusion, "What's wrong?"

"The phone is turned off..."

"Why is the phone turned off at this time? Try again."

At this time, Luna walked out of the meeting room, looked at the two people in front of her, and suddenly smiled.

"I heard that someone reported to the Security Council last night that SHIELD was interfering in the affairs of ordinary people. If I'm not mistaken, they should still be being interrogated now."

The current SHIELD is not yet the fully fledged SHIELD of the future, or even the SHIELD that has evolved into S.H.I.E.L.D.

Therefore, SHIELD is still subject to monitoring and supervision by the Security Council.

The rules set when S.H.I.E.L.D. was established were to protect ordinary people from being threatened by extraordinary beings and from being attacked by ultra-advanced technology.

At the same time, SHIELD is strictly prohibited from interfering in the affairs of ordinary people.

Last night's real-name report immediately resulted in SHIELD being supervised and questioned by the Security Council.

Tony and Pepper paled when they heard this.

But Pepper continued to make calls without giving up.

Half an hour later, Coulson's phone was still unreachable, so the board meeting continued.

Another vote, same as before.

This also made Tony and Pepper lower their heads, like defeated roosters, completely losing the confident attitude they had at noon.

Seeing this, Obadiah immediately asked the security guard to drag Tony out of the company.

Without Tony as his backer, Pepper was fired from his job.

From then on, Stark Enterprises entered the era of Obadiah's control.

(End of this chapter)