Year: 2004
It had been six years since Avalon Industries was founded.
Avalon now stood as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world with a market cap of $100 billion—an impossible achievement for such a young corporation.Only two companies surpassed it:
Stark Industries – $150B
Oscorp – $1 Trillion (due to weapons, biotech, and hidden illegal revenue)
Alex didn't care.He was building something much bigger.
🌐 Alex Predicts the Future – The Internet Boom
While the rest of the world was still celebrating email, slow websites, and the early rise of Google…
Alex saw the future.
Games.Online communities.Esports.Streaming.Digital empires.
The entire entertainment and communication world was about to explode—and Alex refused to miss the opportunity.
🎮 Avalon Gaming – A New Empire
For the next five months, Alex and Red Queen locked themselves inside the Avalon R&D server core.
Together, they developed two games using:
Red Queen's insane processing power
Alex's knowledge of future game design
Avalon's advanced engine optimized for low-end PCs
And then they launched:
1. PUBG – Player Unknown Battlegrounds
– The first fully polished battle royale– 100-player real-time matches– Server stability never seen before– Guns, physics, recoil… all perfectly realistic– Addictive gameplay nobody had experienced yet
2. Call of Duty – Avalon Warfare
– Military shooter with cinematic campaign– Smooth gun mechanics– Multiplayer maps designed by Alex– Red Queen balancing data in microseconds
They launched under the label:
Avalon Gaming Studios
And the world went insane.
🎮 Global Impact
Within one month:
Internet cafés were filled
PC sales skyrocketed
Gaming magazines called Avalon "the future"
Kids begged parents for PCs
Even adults got addicted
Avalon Gaming became the fastest-growing entertainment company in history.
🤣 Tony Stark, Secret Gamer
One day, Alex walked into Tony's lab and froze.
Tony—genius billionaire weapons engineer—was hunched over a monitor, sweating, shouting:
Tony:
"RED QUEEN STOP AIMING AT ME! WHAT KIND OF AI IS THIS!?"
Red Queen:
"You are eliminated. Again."
Tony spun around and saw Alex watching.
Tony:
"It's for… research.This is research."
Alex:
"Sure it is."
Tony:
"…Shut up."
Even Pepper started complaining:
"Alex, your game has turned Tony into a teenager! Make him stop staying up until 3 AM!"
📈 Market Shift
Avalon Gaming single-handedly triggered:
A global PC gaming boom
New internet infrastructure investments
Competitors scrambling to copy the battle royale genre
Investors started calling Alex:
"How did you predict gaming would explode!?"
Alex always replied:
"I just followed the data."
Only Tony suspected he was hiding something.
🔥 State of the World (2004) Avalon Industries – $100B
Dominates cosmetics
Dominates medical
Dominates automotive
Now dominates gaming
Stark Industries – $150B
Weapons
Robotics
A bit jealous of Avalon Gaming success
Oscorp – $1T
Biotech
Military weapons
Black funding
Corruption
Internal conflicts increasing
Gwen's father watching them closely
Norman walking on thin ice after the "Alex incident"