Marvel: I've Just Arrived at a Hydra Prison and Found Scarlet Witch Right at the Start!
Chapter 1 Blacklight? Venom? Fusion?
Luke felt like he had been sleeping for a very long time.
Then, he felt cold.
It was really cold.
Whose air conditioner was left on?!
Then, accompanied by noises, he slowly woke up from his coma.
"Damn!!"
A murmur escaped Luke's throat, feeling as if he had eaten betel nut.
He raised his hand and found that his body was extremely weak, making even moving a finger an extravagant hope.
Where is this?
Soon, he finally remembered where this was.
His name was Luke, and a month ago, he was still an office worker working 996 every day and worrying about his mortgage.
Waking up from a sleep, he inexplicably traveled through time into the Marvel Universe.
No system!
No golden finger!
Not even a newcomer gift pack.
He was just an ordinary person from Huaxia, and his only luck was that he fell into a remote American town.
Afterwards, relying on his fluent spoken language and the identity of a traveler, he managed to scrape by.
It took him more than a week to accept the fact that he lived in the same universe as Tony Stark.
Then, the town was attacked.
It wasn't the Chitauri, nor was it Ultron.
It was a group of soldiers wearing black combat uniforms and gas masks.
They were like slaughtering machines, subsequently purging the town.
Luke only remembered being choked down by a tear gas canister, and then losing consciousness.
Waking up again, it was now.
"Vital signs continue to drop, platelet count is below the threshold, and signs of multi-organ failure are obvious."
Just at this moment, a male voice sounded not far away.
Luke rolled his eyes, and in his blurred vision, he saw blinding lights and a few figures wearing white lab coats.
He was lying on an experimental table, his body covered in various tubes.
"Doctor, Specimen Zero is not going to make it."
Another voice sounded, tense.
"Expected."
The person called the doctor looked at the data terminal.
"The Blackwatch project has failed."
Luke's heart sank abruptly.
Blackwatch?
Specimen Zero?
This fucking sounded like anything but a good term.
"I can't believe it..."
That tense voice continued to speak.
"A month ago, hundreds of residents in the town were all injected with the prototype virus, and as a result, he was the only one who survived."
"Survived?"
The doctor let out a sneer.
"Is this called surviving? From the data, he is just a container about to die. The virus cannot be activated within his body. Instead, the corrosiveness of the virus is constantly destroying his physiological functions."
"Let's wish for a miracle, long live Hydra!"
Luke was dumbfounded.
He understood everything.
Hydra!
The ones who attacked the town were Hydra!
And he had become their experimental subject!
Damn!
Why!
Why of all people was it me!
I'm just an ordinary transmigrator!
Luke roared in his heart, but his body couldn't even muster a shred of strength to resist.
"Doctor, are we really going to give up?"
The technician was somewhat unwilling.
"This is a perfect creation fused with the meteorite-derived sample Symbiote and the Red Light virus strain. Its original intention was to surpass the Super Soldier Serum..."
Meteorite sample?
Symbiote?!
Luke was too familiar with this word.
Venom!
And the Red Light virus...
Wasn't that stuff from Prototype?
What kind of monster had these lunatics from Hydrastitched together?
"A perfect creation?"
Hearing this, the doctor directly sneered.
"What kind of perfection is a virus that can't even find a host and instead kills the host? Specimen Zero is the only survivor. We observed him for a full month, and besides his body getting weaker and weaker, what else has he shown?"
"Nothing else."
The technician lowered his head.
"Instrument testing shows that there is no energy reaction in his body, no different from an ordinary person."
"So, this is the conclusion."
The doctor turned off the data screen.
"Prepare to destroy the remains of Specimen Zero and clean up the laboratory. I am going to report this news to Baron Strucker."
Baron Strucker?
Luke despaired.
Not only was he captured by Hydra, but the one who captured him was also Strucker, one of Hydra's leaders.
Wait, destroy the remains?
I'm not dead yet!
Luke mustered his last ounce of strength, trying to roar, trying to sit up.
But all he could do was cause a weak fluctuation in the curve on the electrocardiogram.
"Doctor, look! He still has a reaction!"
The technician cried out in pleasant surprise.
"Just a struggle before death."
The doctor didn't even glance at it.
"May 2010, remember this date. The Blackwatch project is officially sealed today."
May 2010...
Luke remembered the time.
During this time period, the plot of Iron Man 2 was happening, Tony Stark was racing in Monaco, and moreover, he thought he was dying.
And me, Luke, an unlucky transmigrator, seemed like I was really going to die.
"I don't want to die..."
Luke used all his strength to squeeze a few syllables out of his throat.
Just at this moment, an alarm sounded through the laboratory.
Beep beep beep beep!
The technician looked at the monitor helplessly.
"Doctor! Specimen Zero's heartbeat has stopped! Breathing has stopped! Vital signs have completely disappeared!"
Luke's vision plunged into the final darkness.
At the very last moment before his consciousness dissipated, he just wanted to make a sarcastic remark.
"I just said I didn't want to die, and then I actually died? What is this? Reality warping in the Marvel Universe?"
Darkness.
Boundless darkness enveloped him.
Luke felt as if he were floating in the water, the pain and weakness on his body disappearing.
"Is this death? It's more comfortable than I imagined. Neither heaven nor hell."
Then, Luke's world fell silent.
He even began to enjoy this tranquility a little bit.
How much time had passed, he did not know.
Maybe a year, maybe a day, maybe an hour.
Luke suddenly found that he seemed to hear some movement.
"Fack! What bad luck!"
A crude voice broke the tranquility.
"Exactly, the Baron was furious. I heard that Dr. Ares, who led the team, was chewed out on the spot by him."
"Shh! Keep it down! Do you want to be dealt with together?"
"What is there to be afraid of, this damn project has already failed. Just for this corpse, it made us come to clean up in the middle of the night. These scientists are of no fucking use."
"Alright, stop complaining. Quickly drag Specimen Zero away and throw it into the incinerator so we can get off work."
Luke was dumbfounded again.
Wait...
Incinerator?!
I am already dead, and you guys still want to grind my bones to dust?!
Are all the people in Hydra a bit psychopathic?
He suddenly opened his eyes.
What met his eyes was still the blinding light.
"I'm not dead?"
Luke found that he could think again, and he could hear more clearly.
He could hear two cleaners wearing protective suits talking.
He could even hear the sound of blood flowing in their blood vessels, and even smell the sweat and cigarette odor on them.
"What the hell, why did it look like he moved?"
One cleaner stopped in his tracks.
"Don't scare yourself. The electrocardiogram has already been drawn into a straight line, how could he move? Let's carry him away early."
The other cleaner walked over impatiently and grabbed Luke's ankle.
Just the moment he was about to exert force, Luke's finger twitched slightly.
"Fack!!"
That cleaner let out a weird scream in fright, quickly retreated, and sat heavily on the ground.
"He really moved! The corpse has come back to life?!"
"Shut up! You coward!"
Although the other cleaner was also badly scared, he still mustered up his courage, drew the pistol from his waist, and aimed it at Luke on the experimental table.
"Don't come over!!"
Luke found that a very strange sense of hunger surged from his body.
He felt every cell screaming, longing for something.
Soon, the hunger overwhelmed everything, overwhelming the fear of death.
At the same time.
The surging power in his body responded to his thirst and hunger, and then erupted from his heart!
"Ahhhhhhh!!"
Luke let out a roar and suddenly sat up from the experimental table!
The virus inside him, or rather the Symbiote.
After the two combined, at the moment of his death, they completely merged with him, becoming a part of his body.
The two cleaners were dumbfounded in an instant.
"Fire! Kill him!"
The armed cleaner pulled the trigger tremblingly.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bullets hit Luke's chest.
"Block it!"
Luke screamed frantically in his heart.
Just the moment the bullets were about to contact his skin, a sticky black fluid suddenly surged from under the skin of his chest.
With a few muffled plops, the bullet heads were wrapped and swallowed up.
"This is..."
Luke lowered his head to look at his chest.
The black fluid, like a living creature, slowly squirmed under the control of his will.
Bang!
Another shot, this time hitting Luke right in the forehead.
Luke tilted his head, and at the same time, with a thought, more black fluid covered his cheeks.
The bullet was blocked again, feeling just like an itchy tickle.
The armed cleaner despaired.
"Monster!!"
"Monster?"
Luke understood what was going on.
He had died, and then resurrected because the virus fusion inside his body succeeded.
Thus, he licked his chapped lips, the hunger making his eyes turn red.
"I should actually thank you guys."
Swish!!
He moved his right arm stuck with infusion tubes, and then gave it a fierce flick!
Following his will, the black fluid covering his arm instantly flowed at high speed, reorganized, and hardened.
In just One Second.
A fiercely shaped heavy armored blade replaced his right arm.
The black armor covered his forearm and elbow, with indestructible armor on the back of his hand, and a blade up to one meter long extending from the front of the arm!
Luke blankly raised his arm.
"Holy shit, is this the Blade form from Prototype?! No, this is much cooler than Alex Mercer's blade! This is simply a work of art!"
Chapter 2 Are you ready?
The fear in his heart was instantly replaced by excitement.
"Monster! Go to hell!"
The cleaner sitting on the ground reacted and drew a pistol to shoot.
Luke waved his right arm.
Swish!
A black afterimage flashed past.
The cleaner's movements froze in place.
The gun in his hand and half of his shoulder were cleanly sliced off.
"Ah!"
It wasn't until half a second later that the scream rang out.
The other armed cleaner had broken down; he turned and wanted to run while frantically pressing the alarm on the wall.
"Want to run?"
Luke smiled slightly.
The sense of weakness was temporarily suppressed, and next was explosive power.
"Turn into a whip! Catch him!"
The blade on his right arm instantly melted, transforming into a long black whip that lashed out with a swoosh!
The long whip quickly wrapped around the runner's ankle.
Luke gave a fierce yank!
"No!"
That person was dragged back by the immense force, slammed into the experimental table, and passed out on the spot.
The whole process took less than five seconds.
Luke got out of bed and stood in the center of the laboratory.
"Calm down, calm down."
He looked at his hands.
The black fluid, like an extension of his limbs, was roaming all over his body.
"Protect my whole body!"
The next second, the whip-fist on his right arm retracted, turning back into a normal arm.
Following closely, the black fluid covered his entire body like flowing water.
The fluid rapidly hardened, forming a set of oppressive full-body black armor.
Sharp claws popped out from his fingertips, his shoulders and back were armored shells, and his head was covered by a V-shaped faceplate, revealing only a pair of red eyes.
"Awesome."
Luke moved his body a bit; this armor fit perfectly, was as light as a feather, and was indestructible.
Aside from hunger, everything was fine with him now.
Beep beep beep beep!!
The alarm siren echoed through the entire base.
"Fine, I forgot about that alarm."
Luke cursed.
He glanced at the two cleaners lying in pools of blood and shrugged.
"Alright, ladies and gentlemen, Test Subject Zero has revived, are you ready to receive it?"
He turned toward the tightly closed metal door!
Boom!!
The alloy door was blasted open from the inside by a massive force!
Outside the door.
The Hydra assault team didn't even clearly see what happened before they were knocked down by the steel door panels.
A black afterimage rushed out from the smoke and dust.
"Open fire! Open fire!"
"Rat-tat-tat-tat!"
The corridor was instantly covered by dense tongues of fire.
However.
These bullets hitting Luke's armor couldn't even count as an itch.
Although he was currently weak and hungry, the physical strength of his body was still not something these ordinary fodder could contend with.
Dozens of tons of strength were contained within his body, and the impact force of conventional thermal weapons could not make him pause for half a step.
"Too weak!"
Luke roared excitedly, his voice echoing under the faceplate.
This was the feeling of power!
This was power!!
"Claws!"
The ten fingers of Luke's hands instantly elongated, transforming into sharp claws.
He rushed into the crowd, striking left and right.
Swish! Swish!
The Hydra soldiers' firearms and body armor were fragile in front of the sharp claws.
Every move of Luke went straight for the vital parts, his sharp claws tearing through their combat uniforms and pinning them onto the wall one by one.
"Ahhhh!"
Screams were endless.
Luke did not stop.
He kicked off the wall with one foot, then traveled at high speed along the ceiling.
"He's up there!"
"Open fire!"
"Hammer!"
Luke descended from the sky, his right arm instantly switching into the hammer form.
A giant fist larger than his head smashed fiercely into the ground!
Thud!!!
A shockwave erupted!
The soldiers and the floor within five meters centered on him were instantly blasted into depressions!
"This fucking feels so awesome!"
Luke felt the recoil transmitted from the heavy hammer, sending a tingling sensation across his scalp.
"Stop! Monster!"
Right at this moment.
A man wearing a white lab coat and gold-rimmed glasses appeared from the end of the corridor with several heavily armored soldiers.
It was precisely Dr. Ares, who had declared Luke dead!
Dr. Ares obviously didn't expect that the test subject, whose failure had just been announced, would turn into this appearance in the blink of an eye.
There was not only fear on his face, but rather a morbid fanaticism.
"It succeeded, it actually succeeded! The virus has activated! It has chosen a host!"
Dr. Ares shouted excitedly.
"Catch him! I want him alive! This is the Baron's most perfect creation!"
"Fine, it's you again, you jinx."
When Luke saw Ares, anger flared up immediately.
If it weren't for this guy, he almost would have been sent to be cremated.
"Catch me?"
Luke's crimson eyes locked onto the doctor.
"I'd like to see how you plan to catch me!"
"Blade!"
The next second, the heavy hammer on his right arm instantly switched back to the blade form, and his entire body rushed out.
"Protect the doctor!"
The heavily armored soldiers raised special alloy riot shields.
"Clang!!"
Luke's blade collided with the riot shield, bursting out dazzling sparks.
These soldiers' strength far surpassed ordinary people, but facing Luke's monstrous strength of dozens of tons—
Their defense line instantly collapsed, and their shields and arms were directly cut in half.
At the very moment Luke was blocked, a trace of craftiness surfaced in Dr. Ares's eyes.
He pulled out a specially made injection gun from behind and aimed it at Luke.
"No matter how perfect a creature is, it still needs control!"
Swoosh!
A blue serum shot toward Luke.
Luke's reaction was very fast; he tilted his head instantly, but the serum grazed his shoulder armor.
Sizzle!
A sharp pain came over him!
Luke looked down and saw that the blue serum was actually corroding his armor!
The black armor was dissolving, emitting white smoke, revealing the pale skin underneath!
"Holy crap! It's effective?"
Luke was startled in his heart.
This was the first time he felt damage since waking up.
"Hahaha! Did you see that?"
Dr. Ares laughed wildly.
"Since I can create you, I can destroy you! This is a gene-dissolving agent specifically targeting biological structures like yours! Surrender now!"
"I hate crazy scientists like you the most!"
Luke grew furious.
He glanced at the expanding wound on his shoulder, and a crazy thought welled up in his mind.
Can this thing be eaten? Isn't the essence of the Blacklight Virus adaptation and evolution?
He no longer cared about that group of heavily armored soldiers; there was only one target, and that was Ares!
Bang!
He kicked away the soldier in front of him, and the claw form instantly popped out, going straight for Dr. Ares.
The doctor was startled, not expecting Luke's target to be so clear.
He hurriedly retreated while raising the injection gun, preparing to load a second one.
"Don't come over!"
Too late.
Luke's speed was too fast.
He grabbed Dr. Ares's gun-holding arm with one hand while using his other hand to snatch the remaining blue serums in his pocket.
Copy! Absorb!
Several black tendrils surged out from Luke's gauntlet, and like living creatures, they instantly pierced into Ares's arm!
"Ahhhhh!!"
Dr. Ares let out a scream.
He felt as if his brain was about to be sucked dry!
Memories, knowledge, and information surged rapidly into Luke's mind through those tendrils!
"Four-language proficiency, Hydra base layout, bioengineering, and advanced at that. Blackwatch project logs..."
Luke was still absorbing the knowledge.
Meanwhile.
He looked at the gene-dissolving agent in his hand.
"Damn it! Let's risk it!"
With a thought, the black fluid on his palm opened a small opening and swallowed the serum!
Soon, an even more intense sharp pain than before came over him!
Luke felt like his arm was about to be melted!
Ah!
The sharp pain lasted less than two seconds before transforming into a sense of satisfaction.
The corroded wound on his shoulder stopped worsening, and immediately after, tougher black armor grew back out!
He felt that his body had evolved.
He could feel that this dissolving agent was no longer effective against him.
Thud.
Luke let go of his hand, and Dr. Ares collapsed to the ground like a puddle of mud, rolling his eyes, foaming at the mouth, and having already gone to see God.
Luke shook his head, and the dizziness quickly disappeared.
"I suddenly know how to speak German?"
He said in a pure Berlin accent.
"Das ist ja irre."
"Holy crap, it really is!"
Luke was overjoyed!
This ability was simply heaven-defying!
Copy whatever is missing!
He began to quickly digest Dr. Ares's memories, searching for the secrets regarding his body.
Soon, he found it.
"Blackwatch project logs? Virus fusion energy requirements, host exhaustion?"
He finally found the explanation for his hunger and weakness.
The project log stated.
[The hybrid virus body exhibits extremely high energy conversion rates and instability.]
[To maintain the host's basic life and extraordinary functions, it requires very special catalysts to neutralize its corrosiveness.]
[And then convert it into stable biomass, Experimental Area B12, protein...]
Luke:???
He flipped to the final conclusion.
The conclusion was that he needed a large amount of protein, so, he had to drink milk?!
"Milk?!"
Luke almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.
"What kind of international joke is this!!"
Luke was somewhat speechless.
What kind of weird things did those brain-dead scientists from Hydra inject into him?!
They stitched together the Symbiote and the Blacklight Virus, and the resulting perfect creature was a calcium-deficient baby?!
Chapter 3 Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver
He was practically speechless.
But the physical weakness and hunger forced him to accept reality.
"Screw it. Get out first, then find a convenience store!"
Luke glanced at the terrified soldiers ahead, his gaze indifferent.
Since they did these things, they should be prepared for the day they would face retribution.
Stopping himself from thinking about it anymore, a thought crossed his mind, and countless black tentacles extended from his back. Then, without looking back, he turned and rushed towards the deepest part of the base.
Behind him, screams rang out one after another in rapid succession.
Then, those tentacles retracted back into his body.
According to Dr. Ares's memory, this was a Hydra base located deep in the mountains of Sokovia.
Aside from the Blackwatch project, another even more secretive experiment was being conducted in the base.
The subjects of the experiment were two teenagers who had accidentally awakened superpowers.
If he guessed correctly, these two could only be an older sister and younger brother. Of course, they could also be an older brother and younger sister.
And when Luke himself was captured a month ago, he had also been locked up in the Sector B dungeon, right in the cell next to that pair of twins.
"So that's how it is…" Luke remembered. When he was just captured, he was also just an ordinary person, and very terrified.
He remembered that in the adjacent cell, there was indeed a pair of similarly young men and women. The two sides had communicated from a distance with their eyes during guard shift changes.
Until a month ago, when he was taken away by Dr. Ares's men and sent to the main laboratory in Sector A for the final fusion of the Blackwatch project, after which he lost consciousness until his sudden revival just now.
"That is to say… they recognize this face of mine."
Luke had a plan in mind.
"Very well, it's going to be torn down anyway, having two more helpers isn't bad."
Luke sprinted all the way along the corridor.
His speed had already surpassed human limits. After copying Dr. Ares's access permissions, the base's security system was as good as useless in front of him.
Soon, he arrived at Sector B on the lowest level of the base.
Rather than a laboratory, this place was more like a dungeon.
Zzzzt!
A harsh buzzing sound of current came over.
Luke stopped in his tracks.
In front of him was a cell made of special glass.
Inside the cell, two figures were huddled in the corner.
A boy with short silver hair and a girl with long red hair.
They looked to be around eighteen or nineteen years old, their faces full of vigilance and hatred.
Luke smiled. He really hadn't guessed wrong.
Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff.
Of course, that meant the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
But after actually seeing them, Luke was momentarily stunned.
"The year 2010, Baron Strucker, Sokovia, Wanda and Pietro."
He instantly connected everything together.
This wasn't the traditional Iron Man 2 plotline at all!
This was a heavily modified Marvel Universe!
In the year 2010 of this universe, Wanda and Pietro were already under Strucker!
Moreover, their ages had also changed.
He also found the background of this pair of twins from Dr. Ares's memory.
Their family had died a few years ago in a secret weapon test by Hydra, and the two of them had accidentally awakened superpowers under intense stimulation.
They tried to resist, but their newly awakened powers were too weak.
After fleeing for a few months, they were still captured by Baron Strucker and became test subjects here.
Just as Luke was sizing them up, they were also sizing up this uninvited guest.
"Pietro." Inside the cell, Wanda's voice was very low and very vigilant.
"Who is he? Is he Strucker's new monster?"
Wanda's heart was somewhat uneasy.
The aura on this monster was very chaotic and full of power.
But he didn't look like one of Hydra's people.
Pietro stood up, shielding his sister behind him.
He stared closely at Luke's menacing armor, getting ready to sprint at any moment.
Pietro's heart was beating wildly.
The alarm had been ringing for so long, were all the soldiers outside dead? Was this guy here to kill them?
"Monster?"
Luke heard Wanda's whisper.
Only then did he realize that he was still maintaining his menacing armor form.
"Fine, this look really doesn't have much affinity. Not a friendly neighborhood at all."
With a thought, the faceplate covering his head slowly receded, and the black fluid shrank back into his neck, revealing his handsome face, which was somewhat pale due to weakness.
"Hey." Luke squeezed out a smile.
"Don't be nervous."
After seeing his face clearly, the two people inside the cell widened their eyes at the same time.
"It's you?!" Pietro exclaimed.
"That Luke next door?!"
"Weren't you taken away by them a month ago?!" Wandaalso recognized him, her face full of shock.
"How did you end up looking like this?!"
It seems they still remember me.
Luke felt somewhat reassured.
"It's a long story." Luke shrugged, although shrugging with clawed hands still looked quite terrifying.
"To put it simply, I died five minutes ago and almost got thrown into the incinerator by them, and then I activated."
He pointed at the black armor on his body with a helpless expression.
"This is the gift they injected me with."
"So, you mean you're alive?" Pietro still felt it was incredible.
"Those soldiers were all taken care of by you?"
"Otherwise?" Luke rolled his eyes.
"I'm conducting a prison break. You know, smash everything, then run away. Judging by your looks, you probably don't want to stay here anymore either, right?"
Wanda and Pietro looked at each other.
"How can we trust you?" Wanda mustered up the courage to ask.
He didn't show any hostility, instead looking at them with a knowing gaze.
"Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff."
Luke spoke calmly.
The expressions of the two changed once more.
They were certain they had never told Luke their full names.
"You come from Sokovia." Luke continued.
"A few years ago, a weapon test by Hydra destroyed your home and killed all your loved ones."
Pietro frowned.
"Don't mention this!"
"You awakened your powers under intense stimulation." Luke ignored his anger and continued.
"One can run very fast, and one can do some incredible things. You resisted, but you were caught and locked up here as lab rats."
Wanda and Pietro were stunned.
These were the deepest secrets and pains in their hearts.
"How do you know these?!"
Wanda took a deep breath. She already believed him; magic told her this person had no hostility.
Luke pointed at his own temple, then pointed in the direction he had come from.
"I downloaded the brain of the chief scientist, Dr. Ares. This is my new ability. His memories are mine now."
Luke looked at them and finally said,
"I don't have time to explain too much. Hydra ruined my life, and it ruined yours too. Our goals are consistent."
Without wasting any more words, he turned around, and the blade form on his right arm popped out with a swish.
Amidst the horrified gazes of Wanda and Pietro, Lukedidn't bother with any combination locks, instead aiming at the metal door frame beside the cell door.
"Screech!!"
A harsh cutting sound rang out!
Luke directly gouged out the door lock and door hinges from the wall with his blade!
"Boom."
The heavy door collapsed onto the ground.
Luke retracted his blade and tilted his head towards the dumbfounded two inside.
"So, team up? Or stay here and wait for Strucker to come back and explain to you?"
Pietro glanced at his sister.
Wanda took another deep breath, the confusion and fear in her eyes ultimately replaced by determination and vengeance.
She pulled Pietro and slowly walked out.
"Very good." Luke nodded with satisfaction.
"Then, team debut."
He turned around, the black armor covering his whole body once more, and his crimson eyes lit up again.
"Step one, destroy this damn rat nest!"
Luke's cold voice echoed in the corridor.
"Pietro, you're fast, you're responsible for scouting and causing chaos!"
"Wanda, your ability looks very powerful. You're responsible for tearing down walls! Blast everything with the Hydra logo into slag for me!"
"What about you?" Pietro couldn't help asking.
"Me?"
The blade on Luke's right arm popped out with a swish, and he smiled slightly.
"I'm in charge of clearing the way! By the way, I'll look for the cafeteria here."
"I'm about to starve to death, urgently need a box of milk!"
Wanda and Pietro:???
Chapter 4 Good job!
The expressions of the two instantly froze, somewhat unable to believe what they had heard.
Pietro's mouth twitched slightly.
The way he looked at Luke was like looking at a lunatic who had just run out of a psychiatric hospital.
Is this guy's brain fried?
They were currently in a heavily guarded base of Hydra.
The alarm resounded through the sky, and outside were fully armed soldiers.
And he, a fierce man who had just finished performing tearing living people apart with his bare hands and dismantling a door barehanded, wanted to drink milk?
"Are you serious?"
Pietro had to confirm whether the other party was joking.
"Do I look like I'm joking?"
Luke asked back, shaking the black sharp claws on his hand.
"I'm very hungry, my body tells me I need that."
What he referred to was the high-protein catalyst specially stored in the cafeteria's cold storage for the Blackwatchproject in Dr. Ares's memory.
Commonly known as special-supply milk.
"The startup fuel for my body is quite special."
Luke shrugged.
Other people's cheat abilities activated either by killing enemies, checking in, or at worst, paying real money.
When it came to him, Good grief, it turned into paying with milk.
What was this considered?
Hell mode for lactose intolerant people?
Fortunately, drinking milk was fine for him in his past life, otherwise, he would have to die once more due to allergy right after being resurrected, which would truly make him the biggest sucker in the Marvel Universe.
After being shocked, Wanda fell into deep thought.
Her ability gave her a vague perception of emotions and reality.
Luke's emotions were very excited, very relaxed, and also joyful.
He had no sense of tension about being in a dangerous situation at all.
Moreover, when he said he wanted to drink milk, it was a heartfelt desire.
Therefore, it was true.
Of course, most importantly, she understood that Luke was different from the him locked up next door a month ago.
Back then, his eyes were full of fear and despair, but now, they were completely two different species.
"Alright."
Wanda took a deep breath, choosing to temporarily suppress the absurdity in her heart.
No matter what Luke was looking for, even if he was looking for a cow, as long as she could take them away from here, she would accept it.
"Which direction is the cafeteria?" Wanda took the initiative to ask.
Luke glanced at her; this girl was much more sensible than the flustered Pietro.
"Follow me. By the way, let me introduce myself."
While taking the lead walking deep into the corridor, Luketurned his head sideways, although his speech was a bit terrifying.
"Luke. Loves peace, likes small animals, and drinks milk."
Pietro:...
He was now one hundred percent sure that this guy's brain wasn't normal.
"Pietro Maximoff."
Pietro reported his name, and at the same time added a sentence.
"I run very fast."
"Wanda Maximoff."
Wanda's voice was very low.
"I can do some things."
"I know."
Luke carried a smile.
"Trust me, you are much more powerful than you think. Now, bring out your strengths and let us turn this rat nest upside down."
Luke's humor eased the tense atmosphere.
He wasn't like those people from Hydra, whose mouths were full of order, sacrifice, and power.
"Wait!"
Pietro was about to take a step when his shoulder was grabbed by Luke.
"Don't rush, little lightning."
Luke's perception had already reached into the shadows of the corner ahead.
In his sensory field of vision, everything was like a thermal imager, and it also had penetrability.
This was a reconnaissance technique he developed after fusing the Symbiote traits, far more covert than the Blacklight Virus's infected vision.
"There is a surprise ahead," Luke said softly.
As soon as his voice fell, footsteps came from the corner of the corridor.
Thud, thud, thud!
A team of fully armed Hydra heavy armored soldiers rushed out.
Moreover, the weapons in their hands were no longer ordinary assault rifles.
Instead, it was an energy weapon with blue arcs, or rather, an arc pulse rifle.
"Target appeared! Subject Zero!"
"Fire!!"
Crackle!
The blue energy beam instantly blocked the corridor!
"Pietro!!"
Wanda screamed, but Pietro was faster than her voice.
The moment the soldiers opened fire, a silver light flashed in Pietro's pupils.
He grabbed Wanda, then turned into an afterimage, instantly retreating back to the cell area.
Boom!
The energy beam hit the ground they were standing on just now, blowing a pit out of the floor.
On the other side, Luke didn't dodge or avoid.
"Just in time! Try my new shield!"
Luke roared excitedly.
The next second, the black fluid on his left arm surged crazily, proliferated, and hardened!
In the blink of an eye, a giant shield taller than a person appeared out of thin air, firmly protecting him behind it!
This shield integrated the shield form of Uncle J from Prototype 2 and the biological texture of the Symbiote.
Bang bang bang bang!
The energy beams smashed onto the giant shield like raindrops, bursting out dazzling electric lights, yet unable to shake it by a fraction.
Luke couldn't feel the impact force; it seemed all the energy was absorbed by the shield and then neutralized.
"Just this?"
Luke poked his head out from behind the shield, his tone mocking.
"You call this a weapon? This isn't even fit to scrape my skin!"
"Monster! Increase the output!" the leading soldier roared.
"Pietro!"
Hiding in the distance, Wanda saw Luke bear all the attacks head-on, her heart settling slightly, but she was still nervous.
"Don't rush, Wanda!"
Pietro's breathing was a bit rapid, his eyes staring at Luke's back, filled with shock.
Too strong.
Is this still the Luke who could only be unconscious in the cell a month ago?
"Alright, warm-up is over."
Luke intended to continue experimenting with his new abilities, so he still carried the shield and pushed forward step by step.
"It's my turn!"
"Hammer!"
Boom!
Luke's right arm instantly switched into a hammer, slamming heavily into the nearby wall!
Thud!!
The corridor suddenly shook!
The shockwave spread through the wall as a medium!
"Wah aaa!"
The heavy armored soldiers lost their footing, quickly swaying left and right, and their formation was in complete disarray.
"Pietro! Now!"
Luke roared.
Pietro's combat instinct was instantly triggered; he didn't need a second reminder!
"Hold tight to me, Wanda!"
A silver lightning flashed across the corridor!
Pietro's figure shuttled through the chaotic soldiers at extreme speed.
Due to his physical traits, he just tapped each soldier's weapon, helmet, and joints.
Bang bang bang!
When he returned to Wanda's side, all those soldiers' weapons had fallen to the ground.
Their helmets were also tilted to one side, and they were spinning in place one by one, completely unresponsive to what had happened.
"Good job!"
Luke praised.
"Wanda! It's up to you!"
Wanda looked at the weaponless, dizzy soldiers ahead.
She remembered the night her parents died tragically, and the pain of being treated as a guinea pig.
In an instant, hatred and anger surged into her heart.
"Aaaaaah!!"
She opened her hands, and crimson energy instantly burst out from within her!
Hum!
The energy turned into a substantial shockwave, rapidly engulfing that group of soldiers!
"Urgh ah!"
The armor on the heavy armored soldiers twisted and deformed in the red light.
Afterwards, one by one they were heavily slammed against the ceiling and walls by tremendous force, then heavily dropped down, losing all movement.
Pietro:!!!
He looked at Wanda dumbfounded.
He didn't even know Wanda could reach this extent.
Wanda herself was also stunned; she panted heavily, looking at her reddened hands, somewhat unable to believe it.
"I, I..."
"Look, I told you you guys are awesome."
Luke put away the shield and hammer, stepped forward, and patted Wanda's shoulder.
The surface of his armor also flickered with wisps of red electric arcs during the previous energy burst, but they quickly disappeared.
"This feeling..."
Luke's heart stirred.
When Wanda's energy swept across his body just now, a kind of craving emanated from within him?
It was like smelling a scent sweeter than milk.
"Interesting. Chaos Magic?"
Luke noted this down; it seemed his golden finger also had a very strong appetite for energy.
"Let's go, after clearing out the mob grunts, it's time to get our loot."
Luke smiled and said.
"Loot? Milk?"
Pietro couldn't help but complain.
"Right answer, plus ten points."
Luke was in a great mood.
With these two teammates, the subsequent prison break plan would be even more interesting.
The three-person team was officially established.
Pietro was responsible for high-speed reconnaissance and harassment.
Wanda was responsible for long-range AOE clearing.
Luke was responsible for dealing with high-combat-power enemies and acting as a commander by the way.
They quickly solved several heavy firepower defense points, killing their way all the way towards the cafeteria and cold storage in Zone B.
The Hydra soldiers encountered along the way couldn't even last a single round in front of their combination.
Pietro's speed became faster and faster, and he began to enjoy the thrill of toying with the enemies in the palm of his hand.
Wanda also gradually adapted to her power, and her attacks were no longer mere emotional bursts.
Instead, they became directional; she would use energy to twist the heavy doors into a twist, or stop incoming bullets in mid-air.
Luke switched to whipfists from time to time, dragging soldiers who were about to call for backup from dozens of meters away.
Chapter 5: S.H.I.E.L.D. really is full of loopholes!
"Damn, these guys are truly rich."
Luke kicked open the door labeled Officer's Lounge, and the luxury inside was comparable to a five-star hotel.
"Pietro, see what's in the fridge."
Pietro rolled his eyes, but still dashed in as a blur.
"There are only some energy bars and soda! No milk!"
"Fine, how shabby."
Luke was helpless.
"Let's go, next stop, the cafeteria!"
...
Area B, Central Cafeteria.
Luke kicked open the cafeteria doors, scaring the chefs and logistics personnel preparing for the shift change out of their wits.
"Don't kill us! We're just cooks!"
A fat chef shivered, then raised the soup ladle in his hand.
Luke ignored these people and walked straight to the cold storage.
"Pietro, watch them."
Luke turned his right hand into a sharp blade, and just as he wanted to make a move, he glanced at Wanda and made a plan.
He retracted the blade and smiled at Wanda.
"Wanda, help me open the door, this lock looks a bit high-end."
Pietro shrugged, his figure flashed, and he appeared in front of the chefs to start supervising.
Wanda walked up to the heavy door of the cold storage, which looked like a special door requiring dual iris and password verification.
"I'll do it."
Wanda extended her hands, and crimson energy coiled around them.
Clack! Creak!
The door lock began to change under the power of Chaos Magic.
The internal structure was forcibly twisted and destroyed.
Boom!
The door was shoved open violently, and a bone-chilling cold air rushed into his face.
Luke's eyes lit up instantly.
He saw that deep inside the cold storage, hundreds of boxes of drinks were neatly stacked.
The packaging was printed with the Hydra logo, and the sides read Tetra Pak one-liter cartons of B-12 catalyst.
"Very good."
Luke's faceplate automatically receded.
He rushed over, casually tore open a box, and took out a carton.
"Glug, glug, glug..."
Under the gazes of Wanda and Pietro, Luke tilted his head back and quickly downed the entire liter.
"Ha ah!"
Luke let out a satisfied sigh.
Awesome!
So awesome!
Ever since his resurrection, he had been weak and hungry, but now, having absorbed the catalyst, it was instantly different.
He could feel his body cheering.
His shriveled cells were rapidly filled, and his strength was growing exponentially!
His original height of 188 seemed to have also become over 190.
The transformed state was also changing under the surging black fluid.
His muscles expanded again, and his overall figure grew a notch taller.
The battle armor covering his body also changed, becoming much heavier.
Bony barbs grew out from his shoulders and back, the V-shaped faceplate also became more ferocious, and his red eyes shone like searchlights.
"I lack nothing now!"
Luke clenched his fists, feeling the explosive power within his body.
"This is more than just adding a catalyst, this is simply a super doubling!"
"He got bigger?"
Pietro swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
Wanda didn't speak, quietly watching Luke.
She could feel that the aura on Luke's body had become even more dangerous.
"Not enough!"
Luke threw away the empty box and picked up another carton.
"Glug, glug..."
He gulped down many cartons in one breath until the hunger completely vanished, followed by a sense of fullness and power.
"Perfect."
Luke moved his neck, making clicking sounds.
He felt very good right now.
"OK, I'm full."
Luke turned around, his faceplate automatically covering his face, and his red eyes lit up once more.
"Time to work."
"Work? Aren't we going to escape?" Pietro asked.
"Escape? No, no, no."
Luke shook his finger.
"That would let them off too easy. I know that besides the cafeteria, there is another very interesting place."
"Where?"
"Area A, Baron Strucker's office. Rumor has it that his research data is hidden there, including data about the two of you."
"Do you want to know what they actually did to you? Or burn the base and documents to ashes?"
The flames of revenge ignited in the eyes of Wanda and Pietro.
"Let's do it!"
Pietro said it almost gritting his teeth.
"Very well. Then..."
Luke's right arm blade form automatically shaped itself, the blade nearly twice as long as before, flashing with a bone-chilling cold light.
"Kill!"
...
Meanwhile.
Inside the base's main control room.
Strucker wore a gloomy face, in a very bad mood.
He looked at the black figure on the surveillance screen, and the red and silver brats beside him.
"That idiot Ares! What kind of monster did he create!"
"Baron!"
A technician reported in panic.
"The defense line between Area A and Area B has been breached! They are heading towards the office!"
"Trash! You're all trash!"
Strucker slammed his fist onto the console.
Looking at the arrogant black monster on the screen, anger welled up within him.
"I originally wanted to study you for a while longer, since you are in such a hurry to seek death..."
A hint of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes.
"Activate the Destroyer prototype. I want to see whether my crystallization of technology is harder, or the armor of specimen zero is harder!"
"Also, activate the incineration procedure for the Area B passage!"
"What I cannot have, no one else will!"
...
Boom!!
Luke smashed open the final floodgate leading to Area A with a heavy blow.
Luke was in a great mood right now.
Having just eaten his fill, his body was full of strength, and now he wanted to find something sturdy to practice on.
However, what greeted them was not Strucker's office, but an empty hangar.
In the center of the hangar, a giant robot over four meters tall, entirely silver-white, and with a terrifying design slowly stood up.
Afterwards, a red light flashed in the robot's single eye, locking onto the three of Luke.
"Unauthorized intruders. Target, specimen zero..."
The robot's voice echoed inside the hangar.
"Executing, destruction order!"
"Hydra even has this kind of thing?"
Luke clicked his tongue in wonder.
"It actually looks quite a bit like a Gundam."
Pietro and Wanda also grew tense; they felt a threat from the robot!
"Um..."
Pietro glanced at Luke.
"Are you sure you're still hungry?"
Luke:...
"Shut up!"
"Wanda, try it with your energy!"
Luke thought about it, intending to test it out, and instructed.
Wanda immediately raised her hand, and an energy beam blasted towards the robot.
However, the robot raised its arm.
Hum!
An energy shield unfolded in front of it, barely blocking Wanda's attack.
Of course, this was under the condition that Wanda's abilities hadn't fully awakened.
"It can even put up a shield?" Luke was even more curious.
The robot lowered its arm, and the armor on its chest split open, revealing a pitch-black muzzle.
"Threat clearance, commencing."
A surge of energy began to gather at the muzzle.
"This energy is not right!"
Alarm bells rang wildly in Luke's heart, he grabbed Wandaand roared at Pietro at the same time.
"Run!"
Pietro reacted extremely fast, quickly transforming into a blur and rushing towards the cover at the edge.
The very next second after they left their spot.
Boom!!!
A blue energy beam jetted out from the Destroyer's chest, fiercely blasting the spot where they had just been standing!
Rumble rumble!!!
The base seemed to be trembling!
Luke quickly stabilized his figure, using the armor on his back to provide defense.
No, this is definitely not technology that should exist at this point in time!
Strucker is cheating!
"Pietro! How are you?"
Wanda broke free from Luke's arms and cried out anxiously.
"Cough! To Live."
Pietro crawled out of a pile of debris, his combat suit mostly charred, but fortunately his speed was fast enough, and he only suffered a bit of impact.
"Luke, you..."
Wanda looked at Luke with worry.
"It's fine."
Luke stood up, the corroded armor on his shoulders rapidly repairing under the surge of the black fluid.
And it grew a harder energy-resistant stratum corneum; this was his evolutionary trait.
"This guy definitely absorbed the energy of the Tesseract."
Isn't this thing in S.H.I.E.L.D.? It seems S.H.I.E.L.D. really is full of loopholes!
After fusing with Ares's memories, Luke had a rough understanding of Hydra's technological level.
This prototype was obviously a weapon manufactured by Strucker infusing it with energy!
"Very well."
Luke wasn't scared; instead, he licked his lips, his crimson eyes growing even brighter.
"Then I'll start with you."
"Pietro, take Wanda to a safe place! Leave this guy to me!"
The blade on Luke's right arm popped out once more, and his left arm transformed into a giant shield.
"Today, I'm going to tear this tin can apart with my bare hands!"
His legs bent slightly, and the ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch.
The next second.
Like a black cannonball, he actively charged towards the Destroyer prototype!
Chapter 6 Evolution, Absorption
He actually charged up!"
Pietro's eyes were almost popping out of his head.
In Quicksilver's dynamic vision, Luke's speed was astonishingly fast, leaving behind a trail of black afterimages!
But this still wasn't enough!
The Destroyer prototype's reaction was even faster.
As a killing machine, its combat program had already locked onto Luke.
"High threat level. Initiating firepower suppression."
Hum!
The robot's shoulder armor plates slid open, revealing dense rows of gun muzzles.
Tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat!!
Two fiery serpents composed of large-caliber bullets instantly crossed and shot toward Luke in mid-air!
The power of each such bullet was comparable to a small artillery shell, enough to tear a main battle tank to shreds!
"Mere child's play."
Luke was in mid-air with nowhere to leverage his strength, but he didn't panic at all.
"Shield!"
He guarded his front with the giant shield on his left arm.
Clang, clang, clang!
Bang, bang, bang!
Dense sparks burst out on the giant shield.
Luke only felt a slight numbness in his arm; the impact force of the bullets was like a clay ox entering the sea, quickly absorbed, deflected, and neutralized by the black fluid on the surface of the shield.
"Painless and tickling!"
Luke laughed loudly; this was precisely what he wanted!
The fusion of the Symbiote and the virus made him immune to almost most conventional physical kinetic energy strikes!
"Damn it! His armor!"
Far away in the master control room, Baron Strucker wore a gloomy face and slammed his fist onto the control console.
"That idiot Ares! What kind of monster did he actually create! How is the physical resistance so high!"
"Baron!"
A technician reported in panic.
"Its bio-armor is neutralizing the bullets' kinetic energy! Conventional weapons are ineffective!"
"Then use unconventional ones!"
Strucker roared.
"Activate the Arc Purgatory! I want to see if he can withstand high-voltage electricity!"
Strucker's command was executed swiftly.
Just at the moment Luke was about to land, that prototype machine stopped firing.
It raised its giant hand covered in silver-white armor, fingers spread wide, aiming at Luke.
Sizzle-la-la-la-la!
Dazzling blue electric arcs converged in its palm; that energy definitely did not come from Earth technology!
"Electricity?"
Luke's pupils constricted.
He recalled the traits of his golden finger; the weaknesses of fearing fire and fearing sound waves had already been eliminated.
However, what about electricity?
"Fuck! No time to think!"
The blue high-voltage electric grid instantly enveloped Luke!
"Ahahahaha!!"
A sense of numbness and intense pain instantly spread through his entire body!
Luke felt as if he had been thrown into a high-voltage substation.
The black battle armor on the surface of his body trembled violently and rolled in the electric arcs, even showing signs of peeling off from his body!
"Luke!!"
Wanda in the distance let out an exclamation; she could feel that Luke was enduring immense pain at this moment.
Pietro also clenched his fists. He wanted to charge up, but reason told him he couldn't.
If he rushed into the electric grid at his speed, his end would only be the same as Luke's, turning into a piece of charcoal.
"Hahaha! Effective! Truly effective!"
Strucker laughed wildly in the control room.
"Specimen Zero! So what if you are strong? Ultimately, you are just a living organism! In front of energy, you are utterly fragile!"
"Damn it, scientists..."
Luke gritted his teeth, his scarlet eyes flickering dimly in the electric light.
"You think this is the end?"
He could feel that the symbiotic substances in his body fell into chaos under the electric shock, but the adaptability of the virus was stimulated to the extreme at this moment!
"You're charging me up, bastard!"
Luke roared in his heart.
"Give me adaptation! Give me evolution!!"
"Since you fear electricity, then give me insulation!!!"
Following his roar, the black fluid in his body began to undergo a qualitative change!
The surface of the originally streamlined battle armor began to rapidly harden, and its keratinization became rough and dry.
Those black biomasses crazily reorganized, constructing insulating structures similar to rubber and ceramics!
Merely two seconds.
"What?"
Strucker's smile froze on his face in the control room.
He saw on the monitoring screen that Luke, bound by the electric grid, not only did not collapse, but instead stopped trembling.
Those electric arcs sufficient to melt steel were now flowing across the surface of his body and then being led into the ground!
Luke slowly raised his head from the electric grid.
He moved his neck slightly, emitting a series of popping sounds.
"Phew! This electrotherapy service packs quite a punch. Next time can you change to a gentler technician?"
Feeling the brand-new insulation traits within his body, a wave of ecstatic joy welled up in his heart.
"Holy crap, it really works! Whatever is lacking gets supplemented! I love this golden finger."
"Impossible!!"
Strucker grabbed the communicator out of composure.
"Increase the output! Blast him to pieces with the energy cannon for me!!"
"Luke!"
Wanda wept tears of joy.
Pietro also breathed a sigh of relief.
"This guy is truly a monster. He's not even afraid of electricity anymore."
The prototype obviously also received the new command.
It stopped discharging electricity, and the red light in its eyes flickered even more hurriedly.
"Threat level extremely high. Switching to annihilation mode."
The robot's chest armor cracked open with a click, revealing a pitch-black gun muzzle.
A terrifying energy began to converge at the muzzle.
The blue light, like a miniature sun, compressed within the muzzle, and compressed again!
"Holy crap! It's going to use its ultimate!"
Alarm bells rang wildly in Luke's heart.
This blast definitely exceeded the previous energy!
The insulation armor he had just evolved could protect against electricity, but it couldn't protect against this kind of energy cannon!
"Can't take it head-on!"
Luke made a judgment instantly.
"Pietro!"
Luke roared without looking back.
"Take Wanda to that ventilation duct you saw just now! Quick!!"
"Then what about you?"
"Me? I'm going to find some fun for it!"
Luke's scarlet eyes locked onto the muzzle on the opponent's chest.
"Wanda! Do me a favor! Hit its eyes! That red light!"
"I..." Wanda was stunned.
"Trust me! And trust yourself! You are stronger than you think!"
Luke roared.
"Pietro! Take her over!"
Pietro hesitated no longer; he knew now was not the time to be indecisive.
"Hold on to me, Wanda!"
A flash of silver light passed, and Pietro instantly appeared with Wanda on the other side of the hangar, facing the side of the Destroyer.
"Right now, Wanda!!" Pietro roared.
Wanda saw Luke's resolute back, then looked at the machine accumulating energy.
The scenes of her parents' tragic deaths, the humiliation of being used as a test subject, and the towering hatred toward Hydra all surged into her heart!
"Ahahahaha!!"
Wanda spread her hands, and the Chaos Magic within her body suddenly erupted without any restraints!
It was no longer the tentative energy beam from before.
But rather a violent energy storm!
Hum!
The scarlet energy, like the sharp sword of vengeance, fiercely slammed onto the prototype's eyes.
Bang!!
Crack!
The Destroyer's sensors were covered in cracks under the impact of the Chaos Magic, flickered a few times, and went dark!
"System... vision... damaged..."
The Destroyer emitted a stuttering sound, and the energy converging at its chest also paused for a moment!
"Nicely done, Wanda!"
Luke's voice echoed in the hangar.
"Now, it's my turn!!"
The very instant the Destroyer was blinded, Luke moved.
But he didn't retreat; instead, he rushed toward the Destroyer at an even faster speed!
"What is he going to do?!" Pietro was greatly alarmed.
"No, he doesn't look like he's going to attack..."
In Wanda's perception, Luke's intention was crystal clear.
They saw that during his high-speed charge, the blade on Luke's right arm instantly melted, transforming into dozens of highly elastic black tendrils!
Not a whip fist! But the tendril form of the Symbiote and virus!
"The Blacklight Virus can fly because it devoured birds..."
"I don't have any birds to devour..."
Luke's figure, like a giant net, pounced toward the Destroyer!
"But!!"
"You have thrusters!!!"
Dozens of black tendrils, like living creatures, precisely coiled around and pierced into the energy thrusters on the prototype's back and calves!
"This is it!!"
Luke roared frantically in his heart.
"Copy! Absorb! Analyze! Evolve!!!"
"Ahhhhhh!!"
A massive energy trait rapidly surged into Luke's body along the tendrils!
That was a feeling he had never experienced before!
No longer the genes of previous creatures, but the blueprints of machinery!
The methods of energy utilization!
[Energy propulsion mode... analyzing...]
[Energy structure... copying...]
[Biomass... reorganizing...]
At Luke's back and ankles, the black battle armor began to writhe violently.
They were simulating! Constructing!
Forming bio-energy channels of thruster nozzles inside Luke's biomass armor!
"Got it!!"
Luke felt a surge of joy in his heart; he could sense that between himself and flying, there was only a thin layer of paper separating them!
"Intruder, must, die!!"
Right at this moment, the Destroyer prototype recovered from blindness.
It was enraged!
The energy cannon on its chest no longer charged up, but instead locked onto Luke, who was close at hand, with maximum power!
The blue light became bright to the extreme!
Chapter 7: Peak of the Snowy Mountain
"Wait, it's going to explode!"
Luke instantly controlled the tendrils to retract.
"Pietro! Take Wanda! Go through the hole I just smashed open!!"
Luke let out a roar, simultaneously channeling all the energy he had just copied within his body into the biological thrusters on his back and the soles of his feet!
"Fly, damn it!!"
Boom!!!
Soon, a blue energy stream mixed with black biomass suddenly jetted out from Luke's back and the soles of his feet!
Luke darted toward the hangar ceiling in a crooked posture!
"Hurry up!!"
Pietro reacted, grabbed Wanda, turned into a silver flash of lightning, and rushed toward the large hole Luke had just smashed through.
At the exact same instant the three of them split up vertically.
The prototype machine opened fire.
Rumbling rumbles!!!
A massive beam of energy jetted out from its chest, fiercely slamming into the ground where Luke had just been standing!
There was no explosion, only annihilation.
Wherever the beam of light passed, everything turned into ruins.
Without Luke blocking it, the terrifying aftermath of the energy swept through the entire base.
Boom!!
Luke used all his strength to crash through the hangar dome.
He had never expected that the base's ceiling was actually shoddy construction, even easier to break through than that big door.
Bang!
Pietro also rushed out of the passage with Wanda.
The three of them escaped the hangar almost simultaneously.
The next second, behind them, the energy cannon of the Destroyer went out of control due to overload and system damage.
Deep in the mountains of Sokovia, the Hydra base erupted with dazzling blue light.
Afterwards, there was an earth-shattering massive explosion.
Rumble!!!
...
"Cough, cough-cough..."
A few kilometers away, on the mountainside of the snowy mountain in Sokovia.
Luke climbed out of the snowdrift in a disheveled state and deactivated his battle armor form.
His whole body was sore; that maiden flight just now had almost sprained his waist.
"Phew! I survived."
He took large breaths of air as the thrill of surviving a disaster surged into his heart.
"Wanda! Pietro!"
He hurriedly turned back to look for them.
"We're here..."
Not far away, Pietro drilled out of the snowdrift with Wanda.
Quicksilver looked even more miserable than Luke; his battle suit was burned to tatters, and his hair stood straight up, making him look like a Super Saiyan.
Wanda also choked on a few mouthfuls of snow, her small face frozen red, but her eyes were filled with shock and rebirth.
They had escaped?
Truly escaped from hell?
"You, you..."
Pietro pointed at Luke, stammered "you" for a long time, and finally squeezed out a sentence.
"You just flew?"
Luke glanced at the soles of his feet which were still smoking and shrugged.
"Strictly speaking, that's called a propulsion-assisted jump, or an explosive liftoff, far from flying."
Luke gasped for breath, feeling the sense of weakness and hunger washing over him once again from forcibly driving energy within his body.
"Besides, the fuel consumption of this thing is damn high."
"So..."
Pietro's mouth twitched.
"We're now on a barren mountain in Sokovia, with the just-exploded Hydra base behind us. What do we do next?"
Luke and Pietro exchanged a glance.
Luke revealed a pale smile and patted his belly.
"Next?"
"Of course it's to find a place first and get me a crate of milk!"
"I'm about to starve to death!!"
Wanda and Pietro:...
The two of them simultaneously produced an absurd thought.
Is following this guy really reliable?
But for some reason, the confusion in Wanda's heart dissipated a lot.
She looked at Luke and gave a slight smile.
"Luke."
"Huh?"
Luke raised his head listlessly.
In Wanda's eyes, a different kind of light flickered.
"Thank you."
Luke froze for a moment, then smiled.
"You're welcome."
He stood up, patted the snow off his body, and gazed into the distance at the mountain range.
"We've noted down this debt with Hydra."
"But right now, we need to survive."
"Let's go, you two Avengers, let's go find something to eat first!"
"Something to eat?"
Pietro's voice almost cracked in the cold wind.
All around was a vast expanse of white, a snowy mountain where not even a ghost's shadow could be found.
"You call this going to find something to eat? We are deep in the remote mountains and forests of Sokovia! Do you expect us to eat snow, or go back and eat Hydra's ashes?"
Pietro's inner self was broken.
This guy is definitely crazy!
We just slaughtered our way out of a Level 9 security military base and blew up a mountain, and now he's thinking about lunch?
Also, Avengers?
What kind of ghost thing is that? Is that a collective term in their place for milk-drinking madmen?
He swore that if it weren't for the fact that Luke had just saved him and his sister.
He would want to drag Wanda away and disappear in front of this guy right now.
"Don't be so irritable, little lightning."
Luke rolled his eyes.
The consumption from forcibly taking off just now truly far exceeded his imagination.
He was very hungry now, extremely hungry.
The sense of weakness was even stronger than it was in the laboratory.
Furthermore, the catalysts he had just swallowed were consumed down to the last drop.
Mostly because the flight just now consumed too much energy; it seemed he still needed to go swallow some birds.
"Damn it, this golden finger's battery life is truly garbage."
Luke crazily complained in his heart.
"It's simply running a 100-meter dash with a V12 engine, and the fuel tank is already empty."
He didn't mind; as a fusion of virus and Symbiote, this bit of cold was about the same as an air-conditioned room to him. Organisms came with built-in constant temperature functions, and that was truly high-end configuration.
But the cold wind was like knives, scraping against the three of them.
Luke was fine; he had his hands in his pockets and stood straight.
But Wanda and Pietro had it miserable.
They were still wearing tattered battle suits and had long been frozen with purple lips.
"Wanda!"
Pietro noticed his sister's state, too busy to complain about Luke, and hurried to Wanda's side, rubbing her arms with his hands.
"How are you? Hang in there!"
He ran very fast, friction generates heat, but on a snowy mountain peak that was below minus ten degrees, this was simply a drop in the bucket.
Wanda's teeth chattered, unable to say a single word.
Wanda's heart was far colder than her body.
Freedom, is this what freedom is?
Escaping from a cold cell to another cold hell.
So cold...
But at least, it wasn't that cell anymore.
She glanced at Luke not far away.
He just stood there, as if the blizzard that could freeze people to death was just a breeze in spring, and he was even complaining about no milk.
What, what on earth was he?
Was he not cold at all? He was the one who saved them.
Although he looked very strange, the hungry yet uncontrolled by Hydra power on his body was their only hope.
"Miscalculated."
Seeing this scene, Luke also cursed.
"Alright, stop rubbing, any more rubbing and the skin will fall off."
Luke strode over.
"You..."
Pietro looked at him vigilantly.
"What are you trying to do again?"
"Giving you some humane care."
Luke rolled his eyes.
"Don't be nervous, this might be a bit disgusting, or cool? I'm not sure either, anyway it's a new feature."
He took a deep breath and extended his hands.
"What?"
Pietro was just about to shield Wanda behind him.
Then he saw that on Luke's arms, the black fluid began to squirm.
"Holy crap, what is he going to do? Is he going to melt?"
Pietro screamed inwardly.
"Don't move!!"
Luke gave a low roar, his voice very steady.
"I'm making clothes for you! This will consume my remaining reserve energy. So, don't shake around!"
Swish!
The black fluid separated from Luke's body, stretching and deforming in the air.
They didn't turn into weapons, but split into two strands, flowing toward Wanda and Pietro.
"No! Stay away from her!"
Pietro wanted to pull Wanda and dodge away.
But the fluid was faster, covering them instantly.
Wanda and Pietro froze; the anticipated pain and restraint did not appear.
Afterwards, there was a wave of warmth.
The cold fluid became soft and warm upon touching their bodies, quickly solidifying and shaping on them.
A few seconds later, the tattered clothes disappeared.
Then, there were two sets of seamless, minimalist-style black winter jackets and trousers, which also thoughtfully wrapped around their shoes.
These clothes isolated the external severe cold.
Wanda stopped shivering.
She touched her new clothes in disbelief.
Very warm.
These clothes felt alive.
But there was no malice.
She could feel that there was still a faint connection between this garment and Luke, but it was protecting her.
Pietro was also stunned, lowering his head to look at himself.
This was too cool!
Although it was black, the style was very fitted, ten thousand times more fashionable than Hydra's prison uniform!
He moved his hands and feet without any obstruction.
"You, you..."
Pietro pointed at Luke.
"How did you do this? Is this made using your body?"
Pietro suddenly felt a bit nauseous, but couldn't help thinking this was amazing.
"This is definitely the most disgusting, yet also the coolest tailoring skill I've ever seen."
Chapter 8 Crew, Captain
Luke took a deep breath and patted his stomach.
"Alright, now I really don't have a single drop left."
He wore a look of utter despair; though he didn't seem cold, the hunger made him feel like he could swallow a whole ox.
"Cut the crap." He waved his hand.
"These clothes are a part of me, lent to you temporarily. I'll take them back once I recover! Don't you dare dirty them!"
"Now, I need energy. We must find a village! Find protein, or milk."
Watching Luke complain, Pietro felt slightly less inclined to retort and lowered his guard a bit.
Although this guy was crazy, he didn't seem like a bad person?
Clearly unaffected by the cold himself, he still used his remaining strength to make clothes for them.
"Fine."
Pietro took a deep breath and carried the somewhat weak Wanda on his back.
"You lead the way, leader. I hope your nearly starved brain still remembers the map."
"I don't need a map."
Luke pointed in a direction.
"I only know, go down the mountain! Walk towards where there is light!"
"And, don't call me leader."
"Call me Luke."
...
The three of them trudged through knee-deep snow.
Pietro walked at the very front carrying Wanda, his speed advantage greatly discounted in the snow.
Luke followed behind with steady steps, but kept muttering under his breath.
He was purely bored from hunger and started finding fault.
"So..."
Luke spoke up.
"Pietro, just how fast can you run? The speed of sound? Supersonic?"
"I don't know."
Pietro was concise. Carrying Wanda while stepping heavily in the snow, his energy expenditure was also massive.
"Faster than you."
"Nonsense."
Luke rolled his eyes.
"I'm asking, once we reach the village later, your primary mission is reconnaissance."
"Reconnaissance? I get it."
Pietro nodded.
"Looking for Hydra's pursuers? Or Strucker's other bases?"
"No."
Luke shook his head, his expression extremely solemn.
"Look for convenience stores and grocery shops. Look for any liquid in cardboard packaging, with a lid, preferably in blue and white packaging!"
Veins bulged on Pietro's forehead.
"I've had enough! Why do you insist on drinking that thing!!"
"What do you know!"
Luke replied righteously.
"That's my Super Soldier Serum! That's my spinach! Without it, I'm just a—just a 190-cm-tall, handsome, exhausted ordinary person!"
Pietro:...
He was now a hundred percent sure that this guy's brain must have been put through a blender when he was being experimented on.
Just as Luke felt he was about to lose the strength to retort from hunger, Wanda suddenly moved on Pietro's back.
"Ahead..."
She spoke weakly.
"There are lights."
Luke and Pietro perked up simultaneously and looked up.
Sure enough, amidst the blizzard at the foot of the mountain, a few dim yellow lights flickered faintly, like a candle in the wind.
It looked like a village!
"Great!"
Luke's eyes lit up.
"We're saved! Milk! Here I come!"
"I'll go check it out first."
Pietro put Wanda down.
Luke stepped forward and let Wanda lean against him.
His body was very warm, and he stood very steadily.
"Don't do anything rash."
Luke instructed.
"Look only, don't touch. Confirm it's safe."
"Got it."
Before his voice fell, Pietro's figure had already turned into a silver-white blur, disappearing into the snowstorm.
"This kid is just a bit impatient."
Luke let Wanda lean more comfortably while he looked at the distant lights.
"He's always like this."
Wanda's voice was very low as she looked in the direction Pietro disappeared, worry in her eyes.
"You seem to know a lot about us."
Wanda suddenly turned her head and stared at Luke.
Luke felt a chill in his heart.
"I said, I read Ares's memory."
Luke did not avoid her gaze.
"He regarded you as his proudest works. Sector A is Blackwatch, which is me, and Sector B is you."
"Works..."
Wanda chewed on the word, a glint flashing in her eyes.
"We're just monsters."
"No."
Luke shook his head.
"You're just kids who were pushed to the limit."
"You..."
Wanda wanted to say something more.
"Shh."
A flash of silver light passed, and Pietro reappeared in front of them, stirring up a gust of cold wind.
In his hand was a dark, stone-like object.
"How is it?"
Luke asked.
"A very small village."
Pietro panted and handed the stone in his hand to Wanda.
"Very poor, very rundown. No Hydra, no soldiers. Only frightened old people."
He glanced at Luke with a very odd expression.
"I found the convenience store. Rather than a convenience store, it's more like a junk pile. The door is locked, and an old man is sleeping inside."
"Is there milk?!" Luke grasped the main point.
"No!"
Pietro sighed.
"Only this!"
He pointed at the thing in Wanda's hand.
"Black bread! Hard enough to kill someone!"
"And..."
Pietro's expression became even stranger.
"Lots and lots of vodka."
Luke's heart sank.
"No milk?"
"What kind of crappy place is this! It's 2010! Hasn't even milk been popularized yet?! How do Sokovians grow up?!"
Luke rolled his eyes.
"Without milk, without a catalyst, I can't recover. Without recovery, these two jackets will keep draining my energy. I'm going to starve to death!"
A super-lifeform fused with the Blacklight Virus and Symbiote, starving to death in the snow mountains of Eastern Europe in the end just because it couldn't drink milk.
If word of this gets out, it's simply a disgrace to transmigrators!
Just as Luke fell into despair, Wanda suddenly spoke up.
Her voice was still weak, but very certain.
"No. He has it."
Luke and Pietro looked at her simultaneously.
"Who?"
"That old man in the shop."
Wanda closed her eyes slightly, sensing something.
"He is very scared. Scared of soldiers, scared of bandits."
"He hid something in the cellar."
Fine sweat seeped from Wanda's forehead.
"He is praying that no one will find it. He is protecting the food."
"There are canned goods. And milk powder. Yes, it's milk powder!"
Luke and Pietro exchanged a glance.
Milk powder?
"Milk powder works too!!"
Luke instantly revived at full health.
"Pietro!"
"Got it!"
Pietro rolled his eyes.
"For the sake of milk powder, I'll be right back."
The silver light flashed and vanished once more.
"Look."
Luke smiled and gave Wanda a thumbs-up.
"Teamwork. You are the brain of our team, he is the legs, and I..."
"What are you?" Wanda asked curiously.
"I am the mouth."
Luke licked his chapped lips.
"The one responsible for drinking milk."
Wanda:...
She felt that she might have boarded a pirate ship.
But for some reason, this ship was just a little bit warmer than Hydra's cell.
Even though the captain was a madman desperately in need of milk.