Change Lin Li to Arthur
Chapter 11 With Black Cat Crescent Sky C?
Just as Arthur was pondering where the Space Stone could be.
His Super Hearing caught an extremely faint sound.
It sounded a bit like the squeaking noise made when glass was being cut open.
"Hmm? What is going on?"
Arthur frowned slightly.
Super Hearing and Super Intelligence allowed him to instantly calculate where the sound was coming from.
The seventy-third floor of the Stark Industries Building.
The jewelry exhibition area.
Arthur tilted his head slightly, and with Super Visionpenetrating through layers of floorboards, he looked at a figure climbing the building.
That was a woman.
Silver-white long hair, a black tight suit, cat-ear mask.
The anti-hero Black Cat.
At this moment, she was squatting in front of the jewelry display cabinet.
Holding tools in her hand, she skillfully cut open the bulletproof glass.
And inside the display case lay a newly exhibited sapphire necklace.
Seeing this, the corners of Arthur's mouth split open slightly, revealing a Homelander-style smile.
"Stealing all the way to my house?"
...
Stark Industries Building, seventy-third floor.
Black Cat moved very fast, a specially-made glass cutter sliding across the bulletproof display case.
This was the result after she studied the security system for a full three days.
Without triggering any alarms.
"Easy peasy." Black Cat muttered softly, reaching her hand towards the sapphire necklace inside the display case.
But...
Just the second before her fingers were about to touch the necklace.
Whoosh!!
A gust of wind suddenly blew from behind.
Black Cat's movements suddenly stiffened.
Her entire body sprang sideways like a cat, landing behind a row of display cases.
"Who?!"
She held her breath, lowering her body as much as possible to blend herself into the shadows.
But a few seconds passed.
The surroundings remained as quiet as ever, with only the sound of the night wind outside the window.
Black Cat frowned.
Illusion?
She slowly poked out half her head, looking towards the doorway.
No one.
"Phew..." Black Cat breathed a sigh of relief, "Scaring myself."
She stood up and walked back towards the display case.
Then.
In her line of sight, a pair of shoes suddenly appeared.
Hovering half a foot in the air off the ground.
Black Cat froze all over, her gaze moving upward bit by bit along those shoes.
Gray suit trousers, a black shirt, and further up, the face of a young man.
He crossed his arms and hovered mid-air.
Behind black-rimmed glasses, a pair of pitch-black eyes were looking down at her condescendingly.
The corners of his mouth still hung with a half-smiling arc.
"Go on." Arthur tilted his head, "I have not seen how you people steal things yet."
In an instant.
Goosebumps broke out all over Black Cat's body.
"You... what kind of person are you?!" She took a step back, her voice tightening.
"From the Stark family."
Arthur slowly landed back on the ground, hands shoved into his trouser pockets.
"Every single brick in this building bears the surname Stark."
"Surnamed Stark, what does that have to do with me?"
Black Cat stubbornly put up a front, but her footsteps had already quietly crept toward the window.
"Then it is fine if I do not steal it anymore, right? I will return it to you."
With a flick of her hand, she threw the sapphire necklace toward Arthur.
Arthur did not even look, tilting his head slightly as the necklace flew past his ear and landed on the floor behind him.
"Do you really think I care about a necklace?"
Black Cat's expression changed slightly.
The next second.
She turned around abruptly and rushed toward the floor-to-ceiling window behind her.
Bang!
The glass did not shatter.
"The glass of Stark Industries is seventeen times harder than ordinary bulletproof glass."
Arthur's voice came from behind.
"Do you want to try and see if you can smash it open with your head?"
Black Cat stopped talking.
She turned around, her back pressed against the glass, staring dead at Arthur.
"What do you want?"
"Catch you." Arthur said very directly.
"And then?"
"Then it depends on my mood." Arthur grinned, "Whatever I want to do, I will do."
Black Cat's heart sank as she suddenly rushed forward with a whip kick, but Arthur easily dodged it by tilting his head.
Her martial arts skills could be considered top-notch even in the New York underworld.
Three or five ordinary people could not even get close to her!
Even though she was dodged by Arthur, she remained calm, taking advantage of the momentum to turn and smash her elbow toward Arthur's temple.
But...
All of her attacks were like hitting an iron wall.
What is going on with this man in front of her?
"Did you not eat?" Arthur spoke indifferently.
Black Cat was about to explode with anger, but she was helpless.
Just as she was preparing to launch her final assault.
Arthur gently pushed her shoulder with his right hand.
Boom!!
Black Cat flew backward like a kite with a broken string, crashing through a window.
Screaming as she plummeted from the seventy-third floor.
Then...
A hand grabbed the back of her collar.
Like holding a cat, Arthur hoisted her in his hand, hovering in the New York night sky.
"How is it?" Flying to the top of the Stark Industries Building, Arthur raised an eyebrow and looked at Black Cat.
Black Cat: "..."
I was almost killed by you, how the hell is it?!
Without the slightest hesitation, she suddenly flipped over, stepping her feet onto Arthur's arm.
Then she violently pushed off for leverage, dashing in the opposite direction.
At the same time.
A silver grappling hook popped out from Black Cat's hand, precisely hooking the roof edge of the opposite building.
"Bye-bye, little brother of the Stark family!"
Black Cat looked back with a smile, swinging an arc through the air.
Arthur wore the expression of looking at an idiot, watching this woman.
"Interesting..."
With one hand behind his back, he tapped in the air.
Immediately.
His entire person shot like an arrow off a bowstring, pursuing in the direction where Black Cat disappeared.
...
Queens.
Spider-Man was lying on the roof of an apartment building, staring at a distant sewer exit.
He had been tracking Doctor Lizard for over an hour.
"Why is he not coming out yet..." Peter Parker muttered softly.
Just at this moment, a silver-black figure flashed past overhead.
Spider-Man was stunned for a moment.
"Black Cat? What is she doing here?"
Just as he was preparing to follow and take a look, he saw another figure fly past through the air.
That was a man wearing a black shirt, with his hands behind his back, flying easily and comfortably.
Spider-Man widened his eyes.
"He-he-he... he can fly?!"
He looked down at the web shooters in his hand, then looked at the figure flying further and further away.
"This is unscientific!"
Hesitating for half a second, Spider-Man still flicked out his webbing and chased after them.
"Hey... up ahead... mister, and Black Cat, wait a second!"
Black Cat ignored him.
Arthur ignored him too.
Seeing the two getting further and further away, Spider-Man: "..."
How can these two be so fast?
Running wildly all the way, Black Cat ran from Manhattanto Queens, and then back to Manhattan.
Finally landing on the top of the Osborn Building.
She squatted on the edge of the rooftop, panting heavily, and looked back.
There was no one behind her.
"Phew... finally shook them off..." Black Cat wiped away some sweat, her heart still beating wildly.
"Shook who off?"
A voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
Black Cat froze completely.
She turned her head bit by bit.
Under the moonlight, Arthur's feet were off the ground, hovering two feet high in the air above the rooftop.
Behind him, a full moon hung high like a silver disk, and he was like a deity.
A few minutes later.
"No... my clothes!"
"Wait, do not..."
...
Half an hour later.
When a few drunkards were walking home along the street.
They looked up at the sky and found that two figures seemed to be in the sky...
What are they doing?
Crescent Sky C?
Chapter 12: Space Stone! Epic Battle Against Thor and Loki!
Punishing the Black Cat seven or eight times in the sky.
Arthur was only willing to stop until she rolled her eyes and passed out.
"A small episode has passed, now let's see where the Space Stone is."
Arthur stood with his hands behind his back, hovering beneath the night sky.
Super Intelligence began searching through the memories of his past life.
If this were the movie Universe, the Space Stone should be in some secret base of S.H.I.E.L.D..
And...
It seemed Loki's target was also this Space Stone.
It's just that I don't know... if this is the movie Universe.
Arthur thought softly.
...
Nevada - Mojave Desert.
It was hundreds of kilometers away from the nearest town, and the surface was just a desolate Gobi desert.
Yet hundreds of meters underground, one of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s most confidential bases was hidden.
Late at night.
The interior of the base was brightly lit.
Inside the main laboratory, dozens of researchers were busy around a huge annular device.
In the center of the device, a cube emitting a faint blue light was fixed on the energy base.
[Tesseract]
"Energy readings are stable, maintained within safe thresholds."
Doctor Selvig stared at the screen, his face full of undisguised excitement.
"This is simply the greatest discovery in human history."
"Doctor, can we really control it?" asked a young researcher beside him.
"Of course." Selvig didn't even turn his head, "Isn't what we are doing just..."
Before he finished speaking.
Hum!!
The Tesseract suddenly trembled violently.
The faint blue light suddenly surged, and the energy baseemitted a harsh overload alarm.
"What's going on?!" Selvig's expression changed drastically, "Quick, cut off the energy supply!"
But it was already too late.
The Tesseract seemed to be activated by some external force, and a tiny crack split open in the center.
Followed by——
The crack expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the blink of an eye, it formed a rotating blue vortex.
Rampant energy gushed out from the vortex, overturning all the surrounding instruments.
Everyone was forced to back up repeatedly by the air wave.
"Oh damn it, what... is this?!"
In the blue light, two figures slowly walked out.
The person in front was tall, wearing silver armor and a red cape.
Golden long hair danced wildly in the energy storm.
Not only that, he was also holding a warhammer in his hand.
Warhammer 40K?
No.
Actually it was Thor!
Behind him, a slender figure also walked out.
Black hair, green eyes.
His face still wore a faint... eerie smile.
"Brother, it seems we arrived just in time." Loki looked around, his voice frivolous.
"Stop talking nonsense, take the Tesseract." Thor said in a deep voice.
Loki chuckled and raised a Mind Scepter emitting a faint blue light.
At the top of the Mind Scepter, the gem lit up.
Visible mental energy fluctuations spread around.
The S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents rushing up froze in place one by one.
Their eyes changed from blank to hollow, and then one by one they put down their weapons.
"Go, do what you are supposed to do." Loki said faintly.
Hawkeye Barton walked out from the crowd, and DoctorSelvig stood beside Loki.
There was no expression on both of their faces.
"Take the Tesseract, let's go." Loki commanded.
Barton and Selvig walked towards the Tesseract.
And at this moment, the base's alarm finally sounded.
Loki frowned slightly: "Someone is coming."
He looked up towards the entrance of the base.
There were several figures approaching this side.
"Deal with them." Loki said to Thor.
"Thanos cannot wait much longer, and... this is our only chance to rebuild Asgard."
Hearing this, Thor gripped Mjolnir tightly.
Crackle crackle!!
Silver electric arcs danced on the hammer.
"Don't drag it out too long."
Loki said, taking the Tesseract handed over by Selvig.
"I know."
Thor stepped forward.
But just the moment he was about to make a move.
A harsh sonic boom came roaring from outside the base.
Boom!!
A figure smashed through layers of isolation doors and rushed into the main laboratory at an unimaginable speed.
Arthur hovered in mid-air, his gaze sweeping across the chaotic laboratory.
Finally fixing on the Tesseract in Loki's hand.
"Tesseract." Arthur raised an eyebrow, "Hand it over to me!"
"Oh, it seems Earth is not entirely full of mortals." Lokilooked at Arthur with interest, "Who are you?"
Arthur's body instantly disappeared from the spot, and when he appeared again, he was already standing in front of Loki.
"Give it to me!"
Loki's expression changed abruptly.
So fast.
He instinctively placed the Mind Scepter horizontally in front of him, stabbing towards Arthur.
The gemstone at the top of the Mind Scepter flickered with faint blue mental energy.
Enough to instantly control the mind of any mortal.
But...
Arthur just leaned his body slightly, and the Mind Scepterstabbed into empty air.
Then...
He reversed his grip on the Mind Scepter and gave it a fierce tug.
"I'll take this thing." Arthur said faintly.
Loki was tugged to stumble, before he could react.
Arthur's hand had already touched the Tesseract in his arms.
"No!"
Evil God was shocked and angry, slamming his left hand toward Arthur's chest.
A ball of green Loki's power exploded in his palm.
To Evil God's astonishment, Arthur didn't move at all.
The Evil God power sufficient to corrode steel hit him, just like waves beating against a reef, having no effect at all.
"How is this possible?" Loki was full of shock.
"Let Loki go!" Thor shouted furiously.
Mjolnir, carrying the force of ten thousand thunders, smashed fiercely towards Arthur.
"Get lost!"
Arthur frowned slightly and raised his right hand.
Bang!!
Mjolnir was steadily caught in his palm.
The power of the normal Superman template was enough for him to completely handle the Thor in front of him!
Seeing this scene, the laboratory instantly fell into dead silence.
Thor's expression looked like he had seen a ghost:
"This is impossible!"
Mjolnir was a divine artifact of Asgard.
Personally enchanted by Odin, it could only be picked up by the one deemed worthy.
Yet this Earthling in front of him actually caught it with bare hands?
Even.
Even the thunder on the hammer had no use against him at all!
How the hell is this possible?!
"Give it back to you." Arthur exerted force suddenly.
Mjolnir flew back at a speed even faster than when it came.
Immediately.
Smashed fiercely onto Thor's chest!
Boom!!
Thor was sent flying from the hit.
Loki seized the opportunity to hug the Tesseract and turned to run towards the portal.
Arthur's eyes instantly turned crimson, and Heat Visionsprayed out.
Screech!!
The crimson beam swept past Loki's shoulder, burning half of his cape to ashes.
"Ah!!"
Loki screamed.
But...
Taking advantage of this momentum, he fiercely plunged into the portal that was not yet fully closed.
"Damn Earthling, wait for my Chitauri and Asgard armies to descend!!"
As the words fell, the portal suddenly contracted.
Loki's figure also disappeared.
Arthur's expression was gloomy.
He only got one of the Tesseract and the Mind Scepter, but failed to snatch the Tesseract required by the mission.
However, what surprised Arthur was that in the original work, Loki came alone.
And now, Thor actually came with him to snatch the Tesseract...
What on Earth is going on?
Shouldn't Thor be a member of the Avengers?
Why is he still coming over to snatch the Infinity Stones?
Thinking of this, Arthur turned his head to look at Thor who stood up from the ruins.
"Tell me, Thor, why did you team up with Loki?"
"MD, put down the scepter!"
Thor roared and rushed up again.
Perhaps knowing that the hammer was useless against Arthur, he chose to use his fists.
The strength of an Asgardian was enough to smash an armored car in the mortal world.
But...
Arthur just raised his hand slightly and caught Thor's fist.
"Too weak!"
Arthur said, punching him in the abdomen.
Bang!!
Thor curled up like a shrimp, spat out a mouthful of blood, and was sent flying backwards fiercely.
Just as Arthur was thinking whether to grab Thor and exchange him for the Space Stone later.
"Stop!"
The red and gold armor rushed into the laboratory and landed steadily on the ground.
Tony's expression was gloomy, and his voice came from under the faceplate:
"Arthur Stark, look at what you've done?!"
Chapter 13: The Blip of the Future, Asgard and the ChitauriArmy Invade Earth!
"Look at what you have done?!"
Tony's voice carried an anger that was suppressed to the extreme.
He stood in front of Arthur, his red-gold armor reflecting a cold light under the lights, and his repulsor cannon aimed at Arthur.
"This is a classified base of S.H.I.E.L.D., do you know how many people were injured because of you?"
Arthur glanced at him and slowly landed on the ground.
"I didn't injure them," Arthur said flatly, "It was Loki."
"Then what is going on with him?" Tony pointed at Thor, who was half-kneeling on the ground and vomiting blood nearby, and questioned him.
"He threw the first punch," Arthur glanced at Thor, "Besides, he and Loki are in cahoots."
"Whether they are in cahoots aside, put down the thing in your hand!"
As he spoke, the charging sound of Tony's repulsor cannon suddenly increased.
Arthur looked down at the Mind Scepter in his hand, then frowned:
"Tony, move aside, I don't have time to explain to you."
"No." Tony blocked in front of him, "Today you must make things clear."
"Where on Earth did your abilities come from? Why can you fly? Why did you become like this? Did you make some deal with Hydra?!"
"A deal?" Arthur sneered, "Hydra almost brainwashed me into a puppet, and you're saying I made a deal with them?"
Tony was stunned; he didn't expect Arthur to say such a thing.
Could there be something he didn't know about?
"Then how do you explain that you suddenly went from an ordinary person to... to become like this?"
Tony's voice trembled, hiding a hint of fear beneath his anger.
"Do you know that you are now more like a monster than those monsters?! My brother, what on Earth happened? Why did you become like this?!"
"You want to know why?" Arthur looked at him.
"Yes." Tony gritted his teeth, "I must know! I am your brother, I have the right to know, and I can help you!"
Looking at Tony with his earnest face, Arthur actually came up with an idea in his heart.
He slowly raised his hand and aimed the Mind Scepter at the tip of the scepter toward Tony.
"Since you want to know, see for yourself."
Hum!!
The Mind Stone suddenly lit up, and a deep blue light enveloped Tony.
A wave of dizziness washed over him, and Tony felt the world spinning.
Immediately following.
The scene before his eyes suddenly changed.
Flames filled the sky!
The sky tore open a huge gap, and countless ferocious alien fleets poured down.
New York turned into ruins.
The entire Earth was burning.
Everyone was dead.
Corpses lay scattered among the rubble, their chests pierced and their bodies torn apart.
"Save me..."
"I don't want to die..."
"Mom..."
Amidst the flames, countless voices mixed together.
Like a giant hand, constantly stimulating Tony's nerves.
Tony felt somewhat suffocated.
But immediately following, he saw a figure.
Atop the mountain of corpses, a figure as huge as a mountain raised his right hand.
On his hand was a golden gauntlet, and six gems of different colors flickered with an ominous glow upon his knuckles.
Tony widened his eyes, looking at everything before him with disbelief.
And then...
Under his gaze, the purple giant snapped his fingers.
Boom!!
The Universe disintegrated, galaxies collided, and space-time shattered!
Countless dimensions mixed together like torn breadcrumbs.
Hundreds of millions of lives turned to ashes in an instant.
Tony felt as if he were standing in the void, watching the Universe being kneaded into a ball, yet he was powerless to do anything.
"Did you see it?"
Arthur's voice dragged his consciousness back to reality, and Tony panted heavily.
He was covered in cold sweat, and the lining inside his armor was already soaked with sweat.
"What... what was that?" Tony's voice was hoarse, and his repulsor cannons had gone out.
"The future," Arthur's expression was calm, "If we don't stop them, this is our end."
"So this is why you came here?" Tony looked at Arthur, his eyes complex.
"Yes," Arthur nodded, talking nonsense with a straight face, "So I found it in advance, intending to hide it."
Tony was silent for a moment, then spoke:
"But you didn't have to go to such lengths, you didn't have to break into S.H.I.E.L.D., kill Natasha, and torture Stevelike that."
"The world is far more complex than you think, Tony." Arthur looked at him and said word by word.
"The line between good and bad is not as clear as you think. Furthermore, S.H.I.E.L.D. has an inside mole; Hydrahas already infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D., and they will definitely be our enemies."
Tony was stunned.
Hydra infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D.?
How is this possible?
"But I am standing on the side of justice."
Arthur looked solemn.
"You are my brother, believe it or not, everything I do is so that you guys can still be alive in the future."
Having said that, Arthur took the Mind Scepter and prepared to fly out of the base.
Although he could wipe out Tony at any time now, the guy was at least a cheap brother, and his brain was still useful, making him worth cultivating.
"Arthur!" Tony suddenly called out to him, "Where are you going?"
"Find Loki, take back the Tesseract," Arthur said without looking back, "Then collect all the Infinity Stones before Thanos makes a move."
With that, Arthur abruptly accelerated and flew toward the night sky.
Tony stood in place, watching that gradually disappearing figure, feeling as if his heart was blocked by something.
"Sir," Jarvis's voice sounded, "Your heart rate is still at a high level, it is recommended that you..."
"I know," Tony interrupted him, his faceplate opening, and looked up at the dilapidated ceiling.
"Jarvis."
"I am here."
"What my brother said, do you believe it?"
Jarvis fell silent for a few seconds.
"Mr. Arthur's physiological characteristics did not show significant fluctuations when describing the future scene. Judging from probability, he was not lying, Sir."
Tony was slightly stunned, and then gave a wry smile.
"Meaning..."
"We are going to be in deep trouble soon?"
Loki did not appear on Earth.
After the Space Stone was seized, he returned to the Asgard divine realm for the first time, and then cooperated with Thanos.
Preparing to let the Asgard army and the Chitauri army invade Earth together to seize the remaining Infinity Stones.
As for Arthur, during this period of time, besides searching for Loki, he would occasionally rush into outer space to bask in the sun and enhance his strength.
Being a 100% standard Superman template anyway, absorbing sunlight to boost his power was a breeze for him.
However.
Good times did not last long.
This day... a blue portal suddenly appeared above New York.
Dense alien fleets poured out from it, overwhelming the sky and blotting out the sun.
Tony stood on top of Stark Tower, gazing at this world-destroying scene.
He recalled the futures Arthur had shown him earlier.
"These aliens..." Tony's expression was ugly, "They really came after all!"
Chapter 14: God Among Men Descends from the Sky!
New York, 10:00 AM.
The sky split open without warning.
A blue portal, resembling a slowly opening giant eye, hung above Manhattan.
Countless passersby stopped by the roadside, looking up at this incredible scene.
Following closely.
Countless black dots poured out from it.
The Chitauri single-person gliders emitted a piercing shriek, pouring down like a flock.
Stepping on flight boards and wielding energy rifles, they fired frantically toward the ground.
Buildings were collapsing, and streets were burning.
Cars were blown high into the air by energy blasts, and pedestrians' screams were swallowed by the sound of explosions.
Following right behind them was an even more ancient and solemn army.
Asgard's warships broke through the clouds, the rune cannons at their prows continuously condensing golden energy and aiming at the ground.
On the lead flagship, Loki stood in the center of the command room, his dark green battle robe fluttering without any wind.
His expression was gloomy, and his gaze pierced through the porthole, looking down at the battlefield beneath his feet.
"You must find Thor, and the remaining Infinity Stones. Then... make these damned mortals understand who they are messing with."
"Yes, Your Highness." The nearby Asgard officer bowed and withdrew.
Loki clenched the Tesseract in his hand, his eyes cold.
"Arthur Stark..." He whispered the name, a trace of apprehension flashing deep in his eyes.
After leaving Earth, he learned the man's name through magic and secretly noted it down.
"Thor, brother, I'm coming to save you!"
...
S.H.I.E.L.D.
One hundred floors underground, special cell.
Thor was bound to the wall by several high-strength alloy chains.
These chains were the crystallization of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s highest technology—Adamantium, combined with a gravity field suppressor, enough to suppress an Asgardian god.
But Thor did not struggle; he merely gazed through the iron window at the sky outside.
The sky was torn apart, and flames soared into the sky.
"The glory of Asgard will eventually descend upon Midgard."
"As long as I obtain the Infinity Stones, I can resurrect Father."
"And these mortals of Midgard are only worthy of submitting beneath the feet of the gods!"
New York, Manhattan.
Hill stood on the temporary command vehicle, tightly gripping her communicator and shouting loudly:
"Sector B, retreat to Seventh Avenue and get the civilians out. Sector C, blockade the Brooklyn Bridge!"
"Report, there are too many enemies! Our heavy weapons can't stop them at all!"
"All police air support has been shot down!"
"Dammit!" Hill cursed, looking at the screen.
On the screen, the entire southern end of Manhattan had turned into a sea of fire.
Hulk the Green Giant jumped between buildings, smashing three Chitauri soldiers into pieces with a single punch.
But more enemies were still pouring out of the portal.
Hawkeye stood on top of a building, his arrows never missing, but his ammunition was running out.
Iron Man shuttled through the enemy forces, firing repulsor rays and shoulder missiles like they were free.
But...
There were too many enemies.
Endless, like a tsunami.
"Jarvis! How many enemies are left?!" Tony asked, gritting his teeth.
"Sir, according to the scan results, the number of enemies entering through the portal has exceeded 100,000, and is still continuously increasing."
"Fuck!" Tony cursed, "Pajama Baby!"
"I'm here."
Spider-Man swung past a rooftop, a handful of webbing sticking several Chitauri soldiers to the wall.
On the other side, Black Cat was entangled with an AsgardValkyrie, the two fighting to a standstill.
"Ha!"
Black Cat kicked away the Valkyrie's sword with a whip kick and slashed across the opponent's shoulder armor with a backhand claw.
"You armored ladies are really tough and hard to deal with."
The Valkyrie didn't speak, slashing down with her sword in return.
Black Cat narrowly avoided it, feeling bitter inside.
She had originally just come to steal things, so how did she inexplicably get dragged into an alien invasion?
Just as the battle was gradually losing its balance.
A huge pillar of golden light crashed down from the Asgard flagship.
As the pillar of light dissipated, a metal giant several meters tall appeared in the center of the battlefield.
Its whole body was made of dark golden realm metal, with no facial features, only a constantly opening and closing energy light slit.
Destroyer armor.
Odin's creation, exceptionally powerful.
"Roar! Hulk!!"
Hulk was the first to rush up.
He was like a green cannonball, fiercely slamming into the Destroyer and knocking it back two steps.
But...
The Destroyer didn't have a single scratch; instead, it raised its arm and aimed at Hulk's chest.
Boom!!
The Hulk was blasted flying backward, crashing through three buildings before barely stopping.
He struggled to stand up, but a large patch of skin on his chest was charred black, and blood gushed from the wound.
The Destroyer didn't give him a chance to breathe.
It strode forward, a battleaxe formed from realm energy condensing in its hand.
Seeing this, Tony blocked in front of Hulk.
"Jarvis, concentrate all energy on the chest repulsor!"
"Sir, that is suicide..."
"Do it!" Tony roared.
But...
The Destroyer was faster than him.
The battleaxe was raised high, the golden light illuminating Tony's scratch-covered faceplate.
"Arthur!"
Out of fear, Tony instinctively cried out.
Space.
Earth synchronous orbit.
Arthur suspended in the starry sky, slowly opened his eyes, two red dots suddenly lighting up.
Seeming to sense something, he turned his head to look at Earth.
...
New York.
The Destroyer's battleaxe was almost unstoppable, carrying a world-destroying momentum as it fiercely slashed down toward Tony and Hulk.
Tony felt a chill in his heart, his chest energy cannon erupting, but it was easily cleaved apart by the battleaxe.
"What? We're done for!!" Tony wailed in his heart.
Seeing that the battleaxe was about to fall on his head and split him in half.
A figure descended from the sky.
Boom!!
The Earth cracked, and the shockwave spread wildly in all directions like a tsunami.
Arthur landed steadily, expressionless.
The battleaxe, capable of splitting Asgardian city walls, chopped fiercely onto his shoulder.
Clang!!
Like an ancient bell being struck.
The Destroyer's arm trembled violently.
The edge of the battleaxe sparked a string of sparks on Arthur's shoulder.
Then...
The energy battleaxe actually developed a crack!
And Arthur stood in place, unmoving.
"Is that it?" Arthur slowly raised his head, his gaze like torches.
Next second.
Heat Vision suddenly burst forth.
The Destroyer's tall body was like being struck by a meteorite, flying backward entirely.
Then Arthur rushed forward explosively, sending the Destroyer flying with a single punch.
Boom!!
Seawater exploded, stirring up hundreds of meters high water pillars.
The huge commotion also made everyone else on the battlefield turn their heads.
The gazes of all people and monsters fell upon that figure flying in the sky.
This...
What on Earth is going on?
Chapter 15: The Tesseract Acquired! Green Lantern Ring!
The Destroyer was sent flying with a single punch, smashing into the Hudson River.
The river water boiled, and steam soared into the sky.
The next second.
The dark golden metal giant stood up from the river, the energy light slit on its face shining incomparably bright.
As a robot of Asgard, its duty was only one.
To destroy everything.
The Destroyer raised its arms, the energy cores in its palms lighting up simultaneously, and two beams instantly blasted toward Arthur.
Swoosh!!
Wherever the beams passed, the air was torn apart.
Even.
The asphalt road surface was melted into scorching magma.
God Among Men wore a calm expression, charging fiercely straight into the beams.
The blazing beams smashed against his body like a column of water crashing into a mountain.
They splashed in all directions, unable to harm him even a single bit!!
"Too weak!"
Arthur spoke calmly, rushing in front of the Destroyer and fiercely throwing a punch.
Boom!!
A terrifying sonic boom rang out.
Before Arthur's fist, the indestructible metal of the Divine Realm instantly dented inward.
"Open up for me!"
Arthur let out a low shout, hooking his hands into the crack on the Destroyer's chest and tearing hard.
Rip!!
In everyone's line of sight.
The Destroyer's indestructible body was forcefully torn in half from the chest by Arthur.
The internal energy core was exposed, crackling noisily.
"This... What the hell..."
Tony stood in place, his face beneath the faceplate completely numb.
That robot had performed with incomparable terror just moments ago.
Hulk had been severely injured, and even he had almost been hacked to death by an axe.
And now...
What did he see?
Arthur tore it apart with his bare hands?
The severely injured Hulk also crawled up from the ruins.
The wound on his chest was still bleeding, but he even forgot to roar, only blankly watching that figure in the air.
Tearing apart that robot with bare hands?
Even Hulk couldn't do it.
Where on earth did this monster come from?
"It's time to end."
Arthur's eyes lit up, outputting Heat Vision at full power.
Two crimson beams, like divine punishment, pierced through the Destroyer's remains.
Boom!!!
An earth-shattering explosion.
The Destroyer's energy core was pierced through.
The entire body twisted and melted in the high temperature, finally blowing up into countless fragments.
The firelight dissipated.
Only Arthur remained suspended in mid-air.
The wind of the flames of war blew his clothes.
Resembling a deity standing tall in the human world.
"Oh my god." Black Cat gasped.
"This guy..." Spider-Man crouched on a nearby rooftop edge, stuttering, "seems even stronger than the last time I saw him."
Inside the S.H.I.E.L.D. command vehicle, Hill was already speechless.
As a senior Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., she had seen many superhumans and participated in quite a few battles of all sizes.
But...
A battle as destructive and irresistible as Arthur's.
Even Hulk couldn't compare, right?
"Director Fury..." Hill connected to the encrypted channel, her voice somewhat dry.
"I saw it." Fury's voice came from the communicator, hoarse and heavy.
"Is that Arthur Stark?"
"Yes, Sir."
After a few seconds of silence, Fury spoke:
"Our problems can be discussed later."
"Right now, let him clear away those alien scum first."
"Understood."
In the center of the battlefield.
Loki stood on the flagship, seeing this scene clearly.
His face was full of disbelief.
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
"The Destroyer was left behind by Father..."
"How could it be torn apart by bare hands?!"
"Your Highness, what should we do?" The voice of the Asgardian Sir beside him trembled.
Loki's expression twisted.
He abruptly turned around, his voice sharp:
"Send out all troops, all Chitauri biological weapons, and the elite Asgardian warriors!"
"Push them all up for me, I don't believe he can wipe them all out!"
"Your Highness, that is..."
"Go!" Loki roared shrilly.
Thus, almost all the aircraft in the sky changed direction.
Dense crowds of Chitauri soldiers riding flying gliders swarmed toward Arthur like locusts.
Asgard's warships also changed course, and all rune gun barrels aimed in unison at that figure suspended in mid-air.
"He's dead for sure." Loki gritted his teeth and stared fixedly at all this, "No matter how strong he is, he will exhaust his strength... No matter how strong, he is just a mortal!"
"A mere mortal, how can he..."
Before he finished speaking, Arthur moved.
He took a deep breath.
Then...
Hoo!!
A white cold current spewed out from his mouth.
Like a polar storm, it swept across the entire sky.
The Chitauri aircraft were frozen one after another.
Those ferocious biological weapons, along with the gliders under their feet, turned into ice sculptures.
The ice layer spread, and even the air was frozen.
The rune cannons on the Asgard warship had just finished charging when their barrels were sealed shut by thick frost.
"No... This is impossible!"
Loki completely collapsed onto the command chair, his face pale.
This mortal...
How could he have such an outrageous ability?
In the sky, Arthur shuttled back and forth through the enemy formation like a meteor that would never tire.
With every punch, patches of enemies turned into fragments.
Every sweep of Heat Vision was like the Grim Reaper's sickle mowing grass.
That alien army that had left Iron Man and the others overwhelmed.
In front of Arthur, they were like toys made of paper.
Irresistible and destructive, God Among Men.
This was the only thought in everyone's mind at this moment.
In less than three minutes, the sky was instantly swept clean.
The remaining Chitauri and Asgardian soldiers had long lost their will to fight and fled toward the portal one after another.
But the portal was too small, and there were too many people fleeing for their lives.
They trampled and pushed each other.
"Mon... Monster! That Earthling is a monster!"
Loki tumbled from the command chair to sit on the ground.
He knew he was done for.
Just as he was preparing to activate the Tesseract to escape again.
A figure abruptly appeared outside the flagship's porthole.
Through the glass, Arthur nodded and looked at him, expressionless.
"Where are you going?"
The voice penetrated the cold glass and drilled into Loki's ears.
Loki froze all over.
Crack!!
The next second, Arthur shattered the flagship's reinforced glass with a single punch and flew in.
The Asgardian Sirs in the command room retreated in terror.
No one dared to step forward.
To step forward was to die!
Arthur looked down at Loki: "Hand over the Tesseract."
Loki grasped the Tesseract tightly, the veins on the back of his hand bulging.
"You... You can't take it, it's mine!"
"Without it, how can I restore Asgard's glory? Father, he..."
"I have no interest in Odin's affairs," Arthur interrupted him, even though he didn't know what had actually happened here in the Marvel World.
But...
He didn't care at all.
As long as he completed the mission and unlocked the current million-sun sentry template.
His strength would definitely become even stronger!
Thinking of this, Arthur grabbed Loki's wrist, his tone icy: "Either give it to me, or I'll take both your hand and the Tesseract together."
Loki's expression was ugly to the extreme.
From childhood to adulthood, he had never been threatened like this by anyone.
He was a god, the Prince of Asgard!
He should have been high above.
But at this moment, in the eyes of this Earthling before him, there was not a shred of awe for a deity.
Only coldness.
"I... I'll give it..." Loki helplessly loosened his hand.
Arthur picked up the Tesseract and weighed it in his hand.
[Ding! Mission "Capture the Space Stone" completed!]
[Reward obtained: million-sun sentry template fragment * 10, Green Lantern Ring * 1]
[million-sun sentry template (pending unlock, fragments 40 / 100)]
Chapter 16: The Ultimate Insult to Loki and Thor, Captain Marvel Arrives!
The Battle of New York came to an end.
No one knew where Commander Loki had gone.
Even Thor, who was locked up in S.H.I.E.L.D., had vanished without a trace.
At this moment.
In the dim and cramped room.
The air was filled with the smell of dampness and rust.
Loki and Thor had their limbs bound by Adamantiumchains.
Hanging in mid-air like two fish waiting to be slaughtered, unable to move.
"Let me go, you damned mortal!"
Thor struggled frantically, muscles bulging, the chains clanking loudly.
But...
These chains were snatched by Arthur from Hydra.
Mixed with Vibranium and Adamantium, they couldn't be broken off with his current strength at all.
As for Loki...
This guy was much quieter.
He lowered his head, his green eyes flashing in the shadows, not knowing what scheme he was plotting.
"You'd better let us go," Loki said in a cold voice, "otherwise Asgard will not let you off."
Arthur sat opposite them, crossing his legs, toying with a ring glowing with green light in his hand.
Green Lantern Ring.
It could materialize many things with willpower.
It was a prop he had just acquired.
"Asgard?" Arthur raised his face to look at Loki with a mocking expression, "Your Asgardian army is already gone."
Hearing this, Loki stiffened all over, and his expression became even uglier.
"The Realm of Gods will send more people," Thor gritted his teeth.
"That's just right, no matter how many come, I'll kill them all," Arthur said with an indifferent look.
Immediately.
He stood up, put his hands behind his back, and flew towards the door.
"Since you two are brothers, enjoy it together."
Snap!!
Having said that, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
Following closely.
Eight tall, muscular strong men walked out from the shadows.
They wore enthusiastic smiles on their faces, scanning back and forth between Thor and Loki.
"These two are both gods," Arthur turned back and smiled, "Rare opportunity, torture them slowly."
"How dare you!!" Thor roared.
Loki's expression also changed completely:
"Wait, Arthur, we can talk!
I can tell you news about Thanos, I still have utility value!"
Arthur stopped and glanced at him.
"I know more about Thanos than you do."
After saying that, he left.
And behind him.
Came the hysterical roars of Thor and Loki, as well as the excited laughter of the eight British guys.
Arthur left the dim basement and came to the ground.
The sunlight was just right.
The next second, his entire body turned into a stream of light and flew towards the Stark Industries Building.
The top of the Stark Industries Building.
Arthur landed on the rooftop.
From here, one could overlook the entire New York.
A few days had passed since the Battle of New York, but the scars in the city area were still clearly visible.
The destroyed blocks were still under reconstruction, looking from afar like patches of rags.
Arthur sat on the edge of the rooftop, his feet stepping in the air, letting the high-rise wind mess up his hair.
He reached out his hand and looked at the Green Lantern Ring in his palm.
"This gadget, I need to find a chance to try it out," he muttered to himself.
Green Lantern Ring.
In the neighboring DC, Hal Jordan could even smash Parallax with this thing.
Definitely possessing cosmic-level combat power.
But what he cared more about was the new mission just refreshed by the system.
[Current Mission: Hunt down the remnants of Hydra]
[Mission Description: Hydra is still active on Earth, they are secretly gathering strength, please eliminate them.]
[Reward: million-sun sentry template fragment * 10, Turtle School Qigong (upgradeable)]
Arthur narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Turtle School Qigong? Is this going to make me a Dragon Ball warrior."
He smiled, put away the ring, and the expression on his face gradually faded.
"Hydra... Just right, old and new grudges will be settled together."
...
Meanwhile.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters, Triskelion.
In Nick Fury's office, the atmosphere was unusually heavy.
Nick Fury sat behind his desk, and on the screen in front of him, some footage of the Battle of New York was playing.
In the picture, Arthur punched the Destroyer away, tore apart Asgardian metal with his bare hands, and froze the entire sky with his freezing breath.
The terrifying strength like a god, as well as the formidable ability, were breathtaking.
And Nick Fury, sitting here, had watched it a full ten times.
Every time he watched it, his brows furrowed a little tighter.
"Has Tony Stark been contacted?" Nick Fury asked in a deep voice.
"Contacted," Agent Hill standing aside nodded.
"He said he is dealing with family internal affairs and asked us not to interfere."
"Nonsense," Nick Fury snorted coldly, "That guy wiped out an Asgardian fleet."
"Now the evil god Thor and Loki are both missing, 90% of it is related to him, and this is a family affair?"
"But we have no evidence, Sir."
"The satellites only captured images of him fighting the alien fleet, not him taking away Thor and Loki."
"So it's even more troublesome." Nick Fury rubbed his brows.
"A person with this kind of power who doesn't take any side is the biggest threat."
"All our covert operations may be transparent in his eyes.
He completely has the ability to destroy a city single-handedly."
Nick Fury was silent for a few seconds, then took a deep breath and ordered:
"Find a way to locate Thor and Loki first.
At the same time, activate the backup monitoring system of the 'Insight' project to see if we can lock onto Arthur's movement patterns."
"Understood," Hill nodded.
"As for Arthur..."
Nick Fury sighed.
"This guy's strength is too strong, even the Hulk might not be his match.
We might not..."
Just at this moment.
The office door was pushed open.
A woman walked in.
She wore a dark blue flight jacket, her short blonde hair neat and crisp.
The whole person was like an unsheathed blade, carrying a sharp sensation rushing to the face.
"Fury." She looked at everyone present.
"Carol." Nick Fury raised his head and looked at her with a surprised expression.
"Aren't you still in Centaurus..."
"Received your summons and came back early."
Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel.
Not only possesses planetary-level strength, but can even activate the binary state, possessing brief stellar-level combat power.
Her strength is definitely an extremely powerful member among cosmic-level combat powers.
At this moment, Carol walked to the desk, her hands in her jacket pockets.
She looked at Nick Fury, her brows slightly furrowed:
"What on Earth is going on? Who could scare you like this?"
Nick Fury looked blankly at Carol.
He didn't expect Carol to be back so soon.
Since Carol was back, then on Arthur's side...
"Come, Carol, take a look at these videos..."
Without the slightest hesitation.
Nick Fury directly opened and played Arthur's previous battle video in front of Captain Marvel.
"This is Earth's biggest crisis..."
Chapter 17: Captain Marvel's Defeat CG!
Sokovia, Hydra underground base.
This base was hidden deep within the snow-capped mountains. On the surface, it appeared to be an abandoned mine, but underground, it was a whole different world.
Hydra was conducting human experiments here, attempting to transform ordinary soldiers into superhumans.
"Still want to escape? Give up that thought, no one is coming to save you today!"
Countless researchers in white coats coldly stared at the test subjects bound to the experimental tables.
The test subjects all wore looks of despair on their faces.
The Hydra personnel sneered all over their faces.
However...
Today, they welcomed the ultimate daddy.
When Arthur descended from the sky, the base's alarms rang out almost simultaneously.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"It's that monster! Open fire quickly!"
The automatic turrets at the base entrance quickly turned, but before they could fire, they were melted into molten iron by Heat Vision.
Arthur crashed through three layers of armored doors with a bang and rushed into the experimental zone.
A researcher in a white coat was scared so badly that he collapsed onto the ground.
Clutching his head, he screamed hysterically: "Don't kill me, I don't know anything!"
Arthur glanced at him, and Heat Vision directly pierced through his chest.
The Hydra soldiers deep in the corridor fired frantically.
Bullets hit his body and slid off like raindrops.
Some soldiers tried to activate their armor suits, but before they could close their masks, they were smashed to pieces with a single punch.
In the experimental hall, several test subjects undergoing transformation wriggled in pain within their cultivation tanks.
Arthur frowned, and Heat Vision swept across, shattering all the cultivation tanks.
Those half-transformed test subjects collapsed one by one, a look of relief in their eyes.
Arthur recalled the memories of being bound by Hydra and about to be brainwashed.
He grinned coldly: "Hydra fucking deserves to completely vanish!"
Slaughtering all the way from the bottom floor of the baseto the top floor, none of the more than three hundred armed personnel survived.
Finally, he crushed the main control core of the base, and the entire underground base began to collapse.
Ten minutes later, Arthur flew out from the sky-filling smoke and dust, hovering above Sokovia.
He looked down at the mission panel.
[Mission: Hunt down the remnants of Hydra (In Progress)]
There was no completion prompt.
It seemed this was just one stronghold; Hydra had many more places.
He was just about to fly towards the next target.
But...
A voice came from afar.
"Arthur Stark!"
Arthur turned his head to look in the direction the voice came from.
A blond figure was flying towards him at an extremely fast speed.
The speed was astonishingly fast.
"Captain Marvel." Arthur raised an eyebrow, recognizing the other party.
"Are you here to capture me on behalf of S.H.I.E.L.D.?"
"I'm here to talk to you."
Carol stopped in front of him, her feet suspended in the air, her hands still tucked into her jacket pockets.
"Talk about what? Make me go back to S.H.I.E.L.D. with you?"
"No." Carol shook her head, her gaze calm.
"I want to see just how strong you really are."
As she spoke.
Her fist came smashing over without any warning, striking straight at Arthur's face.
Arthur's expression was calm as he tilted his head slightly.
The fist swept past the side of his face, the force of the punch stirring up his hair.
"Such slow fists."
"Stop talking nonsense."
Carol turned around and delivered another whip kick, enveloped in energy light, sweeping horizontally across.
Arthur raised his arm to block.
Bam!!
With a dull impact sound, a visible shockwave of air exploded outwards with the two of them as the center.
The accumulated snow on the ground was blown everywhere across the sky.
Carol's brows furrowed slightly.
With this kick, she hadn't held back much.
Yet Arthur simply blocked it with his forearm, and his body didn't even sway.
How is this possible?!
"Is that it?" Arthur smiled, "You're so weak."
"Hmph! It's still early!"
Carol's gaze turned fierce, the energy within her surging forth like a tide.
Fists rained down towards Arthur like raindrops, each punch carrying enough power to pierce through mountains.
Arthur did not retreat, meeting fist with fist in kind.
The fists of the two constantly collided above the snow-capped mountains.
Bam! Bam! Bam!!
With every collision, rings of white shockwaves exploded outward.
The mountains below continuously fractured under the impact.
Rocks rolled down, and the ground trembled.
"Your strength is indeed not bad." Arthur blasted a punch onto Carol's shoulder, knocking her back dozens of meters, "Much stronger than Thor."
Carol steadied her figure, swallowing the blood in her mouth.
"But you, it seems you didn't use your full strength. Are you still testing me?" Arthur tilted his head.
Carol took a deep breath, the energy within her beginning to climb frantically, golden light burning across her skin.
"Binary form." Arthur looked at her, his smile withdrawing slightly, "That's a bit more like it."
"Hmph! Shameless boast!!"
With an angry shout, Carol abruptly rushed towards him.
The speed of this punch was even faster than before; she had brought out her true strength.
But Arthur did not dodge.
After absorbing the power of sunlight, he was several times stronger than before!
Mere Captain Marvel was simply not his match!!
The two fists collided head-on.
Boom!!!
The sky lit up for an instant.
As the light dissipated, a figure flew backward out of the shockwave.
It was Carol!
She flew hundreds of meters away, smashing the peak of a snow-capped mountain, and managed to steady her body in a disheveled state.
She raised her head, blood trickling from the corner of her mouth, but her eyes were astonishingly bright.
"You... really are strong." Carol's voice was hoarse, but filled with fighting spirit.
Arthur retracted his fist and flicked his wrist.
"Is that so? It should count as very strong to you, seeing as you're so weak."
Carol: "..."
"Bastard!"
She burst forward abruptly, striking over once again.
But...
Arthur easily dodged all of Carol's attacks, maintaining a posture of complete ease.
"Your strength is great, and your speed is fast, but you have zero high-intensity combat experience."
Arthur evaluated while dodging, "You're just hard-carrying everything with your physical body."
"Shut up!" Carol shouted angrily, and a beam of light shot out from her palm.
Arthur sidestepped to avoid it, and with a backhand punch, smashed into her back.
Carol was smashed plummeting towards the ground, barely stopping at the very last moment.
"You really..." Arthur hovered high in the air, looking down at her, "Are too weak."
"Hmph! How strong do you think you are?" Carol raised her head, wiped the blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth, and spoke coldly.
"It looks like... you seem somewhat unconvinced?"
Looking at Captain Marvel below, Arthur suddenly became interested.
He didn't know if this was the movie Universe, because the Captain Marvel before him wasn't like the one in the movies.
Not an older woman, but a very pretty young girl.
Bright-eyed and white-toothed, with a gorgeous appearance.
"Hmph! You're not that strong either!!" Captain Marvelretorted.
"Is that so?"
Arthur slowly descended, grinning to reveal a wicked smile.
"Since that's the case..."
"Then don't go crying later!!"
Chapter 18: Nick Fury rose to power by selling hooks to Hydra!
"No… You can't do this!"
"You're already defeated by me now, properly accept the defeat CG I'm giving you!!"
It was unknown how much time had passed.
Captain Marvel was stark naked, sitting in the snow, watching Arthur flying up into the sky with a pale face.
"I…" She clenched her fists and muttered in a low voice, "I'm no longer clean!"
"Arthur!" Carol raised her head, staring fixedly at the already departing Arthur, "I will definitely win against you next time!!"
This defeat of hers resulted in her being ruthlessly humiliated by Arthur.
Just wait until next time!
Carol firmly believed that she would definitely become stronger next time!
At that time, she would also ruthlessly humiliate Arthur.
Drain him dry!!
…
After leaving Sokovia, Arthur flew at high altitude.
His Super Brain was running at overspeed.
The base he had just wiped out in Sokovia was one of Hydra's obvious strongholds.
The remaining few strongholds were all hidden too deeply by Hydra.
Super Vision swept across South America, Middle East, Siberia, and even took a look under the Antarctic ice sheet.
Arthur still couldn't find Hydra's other bases.
This left him quite puzzled.
But as Superman,
he had other methods.
"Since we can't find the snake's nest, let's go find the snake's head."
Arthur stopped at high altitude, overlooking the city beneath his feet.
Where was Hydra's snake head?
Answer: S.H.I.E.L.D..
As a pair of ill-fated mandarin ducks, Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. had been in a love-hate relationship for many years.
They had long since been intertwined with each other.
If it weren't for that old bastard Nick Fury, S.H.I.E.L.D.would probably have been renamed Hydra-Shield by now.
But now… it was getting close too.
Thinking this, Arthur shifted his figure and flew rapidly towards the direction of Washington.
…
Meanwhile,
S.H.I.E.L.D. headquarters, Triskelion.
inside a certain encrypted conference room.
Nick Fury, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, and Hawkeye Bartonwere sitting around a long table.
The atmosphere was gloomy.
Nick Fury sat at the head seat, his expression somewhat ugly.
He glanced around the circle, his voice low: "I'm telling everyone some bad news.
Captain Marvel Carol Danvers was defeated by Arthur Stark not long ago."
Bruce Banner looked at him in confusion: "How was she defeated?"
He knew some things about Captain Marvel.
The other party's combat power was very strong, and even if he transformed into Hulk, he might not necessarily be an opponent.
But now…
"Head-on confrontation, suppressed the entire time, without even a chance to fight back." Nick Fury spoke in a low voice.
"And…" He turned his head to look at Tony, "Captain Marvel was also humiliated by your brother."
"Humiliated?" Tony glanced at Nick Fury and asked in confusion, "How was she humiliated?"
Nick Fury was silent for a second: "It's that meaning you guys are thinking of."
Tony: "…"
Is my brother this fierce?
Not only possessing such terrifying power, but even violated a powerhouse?
Hawkeye frowned, sitting in his seat without saying a word.
Black Widow's death made it very hard for him to accept.
Consequently, his attitude towards Tony also turned unfriendly.
Bruce pushed his glasses up and said in a low voice: "Fury, are you sure you want to confront him head-on? With our current strength…"
"That's why we need to discuss." Nick Fury spoke, interrupting his words.
"We cannot sit back and watch an unconstrained super-human do whatever they want on Earth.
An entire underground base in Sokovia, over three hundred human lives, he killed them just like that without even blinking an eye."
"Those people were all Hydra." Tony suddenly spoke.
"Even if they are Hydra, they should be handed over to the court for trial." Nick Fury's tone was cold and hard, "He has no right to execute private punishment."
Tony recalled what Arthur had told him before, as well as the evidence S.H.I.E.L.D. found afterwards.
He quickly spoke:
"Then where was the court when Hydra brainwashed him and almost turned him into a puppet back then?"
Nick Fury narrowed his eyes: "Tony, are you speaking up for him now?"
"No." Tony shook his head, "I just feel that we know too little about him.
If we treat him as an enemy from the very beginning, then in the end he will definitely become an enemy."
"So what?" Nick Fury asked in confusion, "How do you want to understand him? Invite him for tea?"
"He is my brother." Tony spoke, "I understand him better than you all."
"What you understand is Arthur from a few years ago," Nick Fury said coldly.
"Not the person who can tear apart Asgardian mech with bare hands and single-handedly slaughter through an alien fleet right now."
Tony stopped talking.
He knew what Nick Fury said was a fact.
In the days since Arthur returned, the time the two brothers spent together was very little.
Except for last time in the desert when he could know that Arthur was doing things to save the world,
he knew nothing else.
The conference room fell into silence once again.
Right at this moment, a gentle breeze blew in from the doorway.
Arthur flew in slowly with his hands behind his back.
"Hearing you guys are in a meeting." He glanced at the four people in the conference room, his tone flat, "I'm not too late, am I?"
In an instant,
everyone in the conference room became nervous.
Nick Fury abruptly stood up, Hawkeye placed his hand on his quiver, and Bruce subconsciously leaned back against the back of his chair.
Only Tony looked at Arthur with a complex expression.
"Don't be nervous." Arthur looked down condescendingly at the crowd.
"If I wanted to make a move, you guys would already be dead people by now."
Nick Fury raised his head, his single eye staring fixedly at him:
"What are you here for?"
"To kill Hydra." Arthur said it very directly, "I have a grudge against them."
"There is no Hydra here." Nick Fury said coldly.
"No, Hydra is everywhere here." Arthur looked at him.
"And… isn't this Director position of yours obtained by selling hooks to Hydra?"
As his voice fell, the conference room instantly fell into dead silence.
Tony:???
Bruce:???
Hawkeye:???
Nick Fury's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot, almost visibly to the naked eye.
What on Earth is this guy talking about?
Selling hooks to Hydra?
Would I, the dignified Nick Fury, do such a thing?!
"What did you say?" he asked somewhat incredulously.
"I said, the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. is someone who rose to power relying on Hydra."
Arthur tilted his head and smiled slightly, "What, wasn't I clear enough?"
"This is defamation." Nick Fury said coldly.
"Whether it's defamation or not, once I drag those snakes out, you'll naturally know."
"Arthur, have you lost your mind?" Tony frowned as he looked at Arthur.
"That damn black guy Nick Fury, although sometimes very annoying, wouldn't be Hydra, right?"
Nick Fury: "…"
Thank you so much for being racist against black people.
"I never said he was Hydra." Arthur interrupted.
"What I said is that his Director position was pushed up with the help of Hydra."
"What do you mean?" Bruce couldn't help asking.
"Meaning that Hydra has raised many chess pieces inside S.H.I.E.L.D..
And Nick Fury is the one who stands in the center of the chessboard yet thinks he is the chess player."
Arthur turned his head to look at Nick Fury.
"You think you control the whole situation, but actually you've been used by others long ago."
"Where is the evidence?" Nick Fury asked coldly.
"Want evidence?" Arthur smiled slightly, "It's very simple."
He raised his hand and pointed towards Hawkeye.
"Isn't he right there."
Hawkeye was stunned.
"What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Since when did you start experiencing memory loss?
Those missions you can't remember, those assassination operations you executed by orders.
Think carefully, were those orders really given by Nick Fury?"
Hearing this, Hawkeye's expression changed.
Because what Arthur said… was indeed something he had always been puzzled about.
Clearly there were no such missions, yet he went and did them, and even killed quite a few people.
Could it be… S.H.I.E.L.D. was really infiltrated by Hydra?
Arthur grinned, turning his head to look at the black braised egg Nick Fury with an ugly expression.
"You guys can go check S.H.I.E.L.D.'s field operations records of the past five years right now.
See if there are massive gaps between them and the operation orders you signed and confirmed.
Hydra's people deleted the orders that shouldn't exist, and along the way deleted their own footprints."
Seeing Arthur looking so certain, could S.H.I.E.L.D. really have been infiltrated by Hydra?
But that kind of thing about him rising to power by selling hooks to Hydra…
Wait!
Nick Fury's pupils constricted.
He felt as if he had found a blind spot.
"To think you're still the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., and yet this is it? Hydra has infiltrated for so many years, and you're only finding out now?"
Arthur looked at Nick Fury with a look of disdain.
"Now, I have two things.
First, everyone in S.H.I.E.L.D. related to Hydra, I will deal with them personally.
Second, Director Nick Fury, you'd better cooperate with me."
Arthur placed his hands crossed on the table, looking at Nick Fury, his eyes suddenly turning red.
A faint sense of oppression rose from his body.
"Otherwise, I don't mind plowing through the entire S.H.I.E.L.D.."
Chapter 19: Hydra's Doom, Turtle School Qigong!
Under the suppression of Arthur's absolute power.
Nick Fury was still forced to begin a grand and vigorous purge of Hydra.
You wouldn't know without checking, and once you checked, you got the shock of your life.
"What do you mean, apart from me, Hawkeye, and Hill, the entire S.H.I.E.L.D. is fucking Hydra?"
"What do you mean, Hydra infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. right when it was founded?"
"What do you mean, former S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Alexander Pierce is a fucking Hydra member?"
"What do you mean, my wife Valentina is also a HydraAgent?!"
Nick Fury was completely dumbfounded.
He never expected that what Arthur said was actually true.
Looking at it this way, did he actually fucking climb to the position of Director by selling out to Hydra?!
"Damn it..."
Staring at the red markers popping up constantly on the screen.
Nick Fury's single eye surged with monstrous anger.
The extent of Hydra's infiltration far exceeded his imagination.
Even among the core authorized personnel of the Project Insight, three senior Hydra members were hidden.
"I said it before." Arthur leaned against the wall nearby, his tone calm.
"This place has been fucking rotten to the core for a long time."
"I could never have imagined..." Bruce pushed up his glasses, his face full of solemnity.
"That they infiltrated this thoroughly."
"Now you know." Arthur raised an eyebrow and said, "Then it's time to clean house."
He turned around and walked toward the conference room door.
"Where are you going?" Nick Fury looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"To take revenge, of course." Arthur said indifferently.
After leaving the office.
He directly smashed through the floor-to-ceiling window at the end of the corridor and flew down from the outer wall of the Triskelion.
The wind whistled in his ears, and his Super Vision had already locked onto the target.
On the north side of the building, a silver-gray internal elevator was descending at high speed.
There were five people standing in the elevator.
The leader was none other than Brock Rumlow, codenamed Crossbones.
Standing behind him were several members of the former S.H.I.E.L.D. Strike Team.
All of them were sleeper Agents planted by Hydra for many years.
"Quick, go to the underground garage; there is a disguised armored vehicle there." Rumlow said in a deep voice.
When Nick Fury began his investigation, these Hydramembers had already sensed something.
What surprised them a bit was why that damned Nick Furywould suddenly start an investigation?
"What about Mr. Pierce?" someone beside him asked.
"He's taking another route." Rumlow said, "Let's save ourselves first."
Boom!!
Before he finished speaking.
The elevator violently shook.
The lights flickered.
Following that.
Under everyone's gaze, a hand suddenly pierced through the elevator door and stabbed in from the outside.
Arthur hovered outside the elevator, one hand gripping the torn-open door panel.
He grinned and smiled: "You guys run really fast."
In an instant.
The eyelids of the five people in the elevator twitched wildly.
Rumlow subconsciously pressed his hand onto the gun at his waist, but squeezed out a smile on his face.
"Bro, is there something the matter?"
"Of course, I'm here for the people from Hydra."
"Are you from S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Rumlow probed.
"No."
"If you're not, then what the fuck are you pretending for?" Rumlow's smile suddenly turned ferocious.
Almost at the same time, the five people in the elevator moved simultaneously.
Three pistols, two tactical knives, plus a high-voltage stun baton...
All directed at Arthur.
"If you're not from S.H.I.E.L.D., what the fuck are you acting tough in front of us for?"
Bullets shot toward Arthur's head.
But he only gave a mocking glance at these guys.
Then...
The bullets hit his forehead, falling to the ground like they had struck a steel plate.
"What?!" Rumlow's expression changed abruptly.
"My turn." Arthur slowly raised his right hand.
The Green Lantern Ring on his finger lit up.
The surging willpower energy like a green tide instantly filled the entire elevator.
"Th-this... what is this thing?!" Someone screamed.
"The power of willpower!" Arthur said calmly.
Green energy continuously gathered and formed shapes in his hands.
In less than half a second, it turned into a six-barreled laser cannon constructed of green light.
That muzzle was as big as a basin, pointing right at the five people in the elevator.
"Don't you guys like it when there are more people bullying fewer people?" Arthur raised the muzzle slightly.
"Now experience what true firepower is."
"Wait... wait!" Rumlow's face turned pale instantly, "I can..."
"Too late."
Arthur pulled the trigger.
Boom!!!
A terrifying torrent of green energy poured out from the muzzle.
The entire elevator instantly vaporized in the green light.
The impact blew a hole several meters in diameter through the floor slab.
When the light dissipated, nothing was left in the elevator shaft.
Only a few wisps of charred smoke slowly drifted upwards.
Arthur retracted the Green Lantern Ring and curled his lips.
"The sense of oppression from this thing is pretty strong."
Pierce, Nick Fury's wife, and other Hydra members were also successively purged by Arthur.
With only a few bases left unbreached, Hydra was about to be completely bloodbathed.
However...
Hydra's secret bases usually shared one characteristic.
Hidden very deeply.
Doctor Zola's base was hidden even deeper.
It was hidden in an abandoned missile silo in the Appalachian Mountains.
The missile silo looked long abandoned from the outside, but after passing through a camouflage tunnel over a hundred meters long, one would discover a whole new world below.
When Arthur landed on the surface, the sky had already grown dark.
He found the ceiling of the underground base, and then smashed down with a punch.
The earth collapsed with a boom as if struck by a meteor.
Steel bars, concrete, and rock layers shattered into dust under his fist.
Inside the base, the pale white lights flickered wildly.
Alarm sounds rose one after another.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
"It's that guy! No, it's that flying Arthur Stark!"
Hydra soldiers rushed out from various passages holding guns.
But before they could aim, Arthur's Heat Vision had already cut them and their guns in half at the waist.
He just went all the way down like an unreasonable pile driver, plowing the entire base from top to bottom.
In the laboratory, Doctor Zola's sound sounded from the loudspeaker.
"Stop, we can talk, I know a lot of secrets about Hydra!"
Arthur didn't stop, and Heat Vision continuously burst forth.
"I can also give you everything you want—money, weapons, technology!"
Still didn't stop.
"You... you lunatic!" Doctor Zola despaired.
Arthur smashed an alloy door to pieces with one punch.
Behind the door was a huge cylindrical laboratory.
In the very center of the laboratory stood an ancient and massive machine.
Its entire body was a mottled metal structure, wrapped in cables and conduits.
And on top of the machine, a blurry human face appeared on a rectangular glass screen.
Doctor Zola.
"You're here."
The face on the screen twitched slightly, its voice hoarse, as if coming from a rusty deep well.
"You should have died long ago." Arthur looked at him expressionlessly.
"death is just another beginning." Doctor Zola said slowly.
"My consciousness has surpassed the limits of the flesh.
Even if you destroy this base, you can't kill me.
My data was backed up long ago."
"Is that so?"
Arthur tilted his head, raised his hand, and the Green Lantern Ring lit up.
"Then wouldn't it be fine if I just destroyed all your backups?"
Doctor Zola: "..."
Is this fucking even human?
When did such an awesome guy appear in this world?
"You will regret this."
"I never regret anything."
As Arthur spoke, the torrent of green energy poured out.
The machine twisted, disintegrated, and melted in the green light.
Doctor Zola's last scream came out from the loudspeaker.
Sharp and piercing.
"No!!!"
The sound cut off halfway.
The base began to collapse.
Most of the other Hydra bases were also destroyed one by one by Arthur.
[Ding! Host has completed the task "Hunt down the remnants of Hydra"!]
[Reward obtained: million-sun sentry template fragment * 10, Turtle School Qigong (upgradeable)]
[Name: Arthur Stark]
[Current Template: Normal Superman (100%)]
[Templates to be unlocked: million-sun sentry template(to be unlocked, fragments * 50), Silver Supermantemplate (to be unlocked, fragments * 0), Six-Dimensional Superman template (to be unlocked, fragments * 0)...]
[Abilities: Heat Vision, Body of Steel, Super Strength, Super Intelligence, Super Vision, Super Flight...]
[Items: Mind Stone, Space Stone, Green Lantern Ring, Turtle School Qigong (upgradeable)]
Chapter 20: Superman + Kamehameha =?
If Superman were placed in Dragon Ball, what would his battle power be?
Arthur had read Dragon Ball in the past.
In the early days, Master Roshi, with a battle power of two hundred, could blow up the Moon with a Kamehameha.
Although Superman could also shatter the Moon, he required the power of sun radiation to do so.
Base form Superman...
If placed in the Dragon Ball worldview, would he even have a battle power of ten thousand?
But now, Arthur had obtained Turtle School Qigong.
Almost the instant he received the reward,
various cultivation methods flooded into his mind.
The method of cultivating Qi, Air Dance Technique, Afterimage Technique, Thunder Shock Surprise, as well as the Kamehameha.
At this moment,
Arthur sat cross-legged on the rooftop of the Stark Industries Building, resting with his eyes closed.
Sunlight poured down from above, falling onto his body.
He could feel every cell in his body acting like a greedy mouth, devouring solar radiation in large gulps.
But this time, Arthur wasn't merely relying on his Supermanphysique to passively absorb radiation energy.
He was trying to mobilize Qi.
Qi in the Dragon Ball worldview was completely different from the energy Superman absorbed from sunlight.
In the Dragon Ball Universe, Qi was a composite entity formed by combining life energy with willpower.
The life energy of the Body of Superman was already vast enough.
And now, he needed to use his own willpower to ignite the life energy within his body!
"Phew..."
Arthur slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.
Within his perception, a brand-new pathway had appeared inside his body.
Starting from his dantian, that pathway was like an invisible river flowing through his four limbs and hundred bones.
"So this is Qi." Arthur opened his eyes and spread open his palm.
In the center of his palm, a speck of faint blue light emerged.
Though very weak, it was indeed something tangible.
As he slowly clenched his fist, that speck of blue light was squeezed back into his palm, instantly disappearing.
At the same time, a surge of warmth rushed from his palm into his forearm.
"Interesting." Arthur smiled faintly.
At this moment, he possessed 100% of the base form Superman template, the Body of Steel.
It was one of the most perfect physical bodies in the Universe.
And Qi just happened to require a powerful physical body as its foundation.
Qi that ordinary Earthlings needed decades of cultivation to accumulate...
...for Superman, took only a brief instant.
"If I can combine Qi with the Superman template..."
Arthur stood up, walked to the edge of the rooftop, and used his Super Vision to look at the setting sun sinking into the distant ocean.
"Solar Flare plus Super Vision... Kamehameha plus Heat Vision, Afterimage Technique plus super speed?"
The more he thought about it, the more excited he became.
If he could master and integrate these abilities, let alone those guys on Earth...
...even against God of Stories Loki, God Emperor Doom, or even the Living Tribunal, he would dare to challenge them.
"Multiversal-level battle power isn't impossible either."
Arthur clenched his fist, then released it.
"Take it slow. First, finish what's at hand."
He looked at the system panel.
[Current Mission: Find the Reality Stone]
[Reward: million-sun sentry template Shard * 10, dragon talisman]
"The Reality Stone? The Dark Elves' Aether?"
Arthur frowned slightly.
If this world's progression wasn't much different from the movie...
...then the Reality Stone should show up on Jane Foster's end.
Thinking of this, Arthur immediately prepared to depart for Britain.
But...
Just then, his phone suddenly rang.
This was a phone Tony had specially provided so he could contact him.
The caller, however, wasn't Tony, but Jarvis.
"Mr. Arthur, there is something I need to report to you."
"Speak."
"Thor and Loki have vanished from that abandoned factory.
According to energy residual analysis, they were taken away by an external surge of dark matter energy."
Arthur raised an eyebrow slightly.
Dark matter energy?
Could it be the Dark Elves?
What on Earth was going on in Asgard?
First, Thor and Loki joined forces to come to Earth and steal the Space Stone.
Then Asgard and the Chitauri invaded Earth together.
And after that, the Dark Elves came to rescue Thor and Loki...
Why was it such a mess?
"Wait, if it's the Dark Elves, is the Reality Stone still in Britain right now?"
Arthur had some guesses in mind.
"Jarvis, can you track the positions of those two?"
"The signal is interfered with by dark matter, making it temporarily impossible to lock on.
However, judging from the energy trajectory, the direction of their last appearance was London."
Britain indeed!
"I understand."
Arthur hung up the phone, his gaze piercing through the clouds toward the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
Jane Foster.
If the plot hadn't changed, that woman should be in London right now.
Hopefully, the Reality Stone is by her side.
The next second, he took to the sky and flew off in the direction of London.
...
London, evening.
Jane Foster stood beside Westminster Bridge, holding a palm-sized detector in her hand.
She had recently been tracking a special type of gravitational fluctuation.
The fluctuation was very strange, appearing only in the vicinity of London.
Furthermore, it grew stronger every few days, like a little kitten constantly teasing her curiosity.
"It appeared again." She stared at the jumping curve on the device, her eyes growing brighter and brighter.
Just then—
Boom!!
A sonic boom sounded.
Jane raised her head and saw a silhouette hovering directly above her, silhouetted against the setting sun as it slowly descended.
"Are you Jane Foster?" Arthur asked.
"Who are you?" Jane stepped back guardedly.
"My name is Arthur Stark." Arthur landed and stood opposite her. "I have some business with you."
"Business with me?" Jane sized him up. "Are you... a superhero?"
"You could say that. I'm here to look for the Reality Stone, and before long, aliens will come looking for you..."
Arthur spoke calmly. Turning his head to the left, he noticed Jane Foster's assistant and the others hurrying over.
"Jane! What happened? I just saw him flying!"
Jane's assistant, Daisy, ran over out of breath, still clutching a half-drunk cup of coffee in her hand.
As soon as she reached Jane's side, she saw Arthur standing opposite them.
"Jane, who is this guy? Do you know him?"
Daisy lowered her voice, but her eyes couldn't stop sneaking glances at Arthur.
Handsome, tall, and wearing glasses.
No matter how you looked at him, he seemed like the type who was "obviously impressive even if you don't know who he is."
"N-No..." Jane shifted her feet uneasily. "He said he has business with me."
"You don't know him, yet you're letting him stand here blowing in the wind?" Daisy rolled her eyes, then extended her hand toward Arthur.
"Hello, I'm Daisy, Jane's assistant and best friend.
Are you an alien? Did you just fly? Can I learn that too?"
Arthur didn't shake her hand, merely turning his head slightly to look at Jane.
"Arthur Stark, that's my name. But you have a very noisy friend."
"Likewise." Jane gave an embarrassed smile, pulled Daisyaside, and whispered.
"He said just now that the energy I've been tracking is something called the Reality Stone.
He also said aliens will come looking for me soon."
"Aliens?" Daisy's eyes widened. "Woah, that's pretty explosive. Is he here to protect you then?"
"I don't know." Jane took a subtle glance at Arthur.
Under the night sky, Arthur stood by the riverbank.
Neon lights and moonlight fell upon him simultaneously, as if plating his silhouette with a faint golden outline.
"But I don't think he's a bad person," Jane added in a low voice.
"What, because he's handsome?" Daisy nudged her teasingly.
"Daisy!"
"Alright, alright, I'll shut up."
Daisy raised both hands, though a smile she couldn't hide was plastered across her face.
"Though seriously, if he really saves you from aliens, why don't you just marry him?"
"Stop it!"
Jane's face flushed hot, wishing she could gag Daisy's mouth.
Just then, Arthur suddenly turned his head.
"Someone is coming!"