Chapter 213: Divergence
"How long do we have reinforcements?" Stark asked in the communication channel as he manipulated the mecha to trample and sweep with an arm, directly overturning the tenth-level hunters who rushed forward, and then the energy cannon in his palm swept and cleared the surrounding circle.
Since the last attack in New York, he suffered a big and thick loss from the opponent's mecha in the battle with Obadi, and he has also realized the importance of the size of the mecha.
Regardless of the usefulness of large mechs in actual warfare, looking at the size of Obadi's mecha, the size of those Transformers, and the size of the mech made by Chris, Stark has no choice...... Anyway, at least when it comes to heads-up, the size of the mecha is still very important, and he doesn't want to use a small suit next time to fight those big guys.
So while developing the nanosuit, he also built the big guy he is using now that is twice as large as the Hulktop armor in the original timeline.
Because this guy is obviously not easy to carry, and Stark does not have a space teleporter like Chris, so for convenience, he designed it into a complete system delivered by satellites and deployed it in space.
But this system is not called Veronica, Veronica in the original book was completed by Stark and Bruce Banner, and Veronica was named because of a stalk, there is a comic called "Archie" in the United States, the rich and handsome Archie has two emotionally entangled girls, one girl is called Veronica, and the other is called Betty.
Dr. Banner's lover was named Betty.
Therefore, the armor created to defeat Banner should be called Veronica......
But now the system didn't have Banner's involvement, so Stark named it Friday...... This comes from one of his father Howard's favorite movies, Friday Girl.
However, the number of hunts was too large, and the overwhelming number of hunters continued to pour in this direction, and almost instantly, countless hunters filled the void of their companions.
If Stark hadn't blasted all the ice around the canyon at the beginning, largely hindering the attacks of those hunters, they would have been unable to hold it a long time ago.
But even so, they can't stop the hunters, because these guys can swim! It's not fast, but it's too large enough to quickly replenish the loss.
"It's going to take at least half an hour, our nearest military base is thousands of kilometers away, even if it's an F16 fighter, you have to fly for more than half an hour," Kaplan, who had already turned from a pilot to a liaison and a sniper, quickly replied after killing a batwing monster in the sky with one shot.
"Damn, we won't be able to support it, the ammunition and parts loaded on Friday are not unlimited, what about the Russians? Did they respond? A part of Stark's mech that was damaged by the hunter automatically bounced away, and a corresponding new part immediately ejected from the suspended fire platform in mid-air and was installed on Stark's mech.
"In fact, there are three air bases in Kamchatka, but apparently Isaacs had premeditated them, they were breached by these monsters in the first place, and the larger biochemical forces are marching inland, and with the strength of the Russians in the Far East, they are simply not able to come to our aid." "The worse news is that the Russians have said they will reserve the right to bomb the area if the situation is bad," Kaplan said helplessly. ”
"Damn the Russians, captain, give up on those guys, I can empty Friday's load, and take you out, or we'll all be gone!" Seeing that there were too many enemies, Stark opened the missile bay on the mech, and dozens of small missiles once again blasted out of a no-man's land, giving the soldiers of the squad a little time to breathe.
Although the Friday system is very large, it is not made for manning after all, even if it is emptied of the load inside, it will only hold a dozen or twenty people at most, but there are more than a hundred people in those clones, and it is impossible to take them all away.
"That's right, we should give them up, sir!" Hearing Stark's words, Saike of the military's Tyrannosaurus special operations team was the first to stand up and agree.
"No, we can't give up on them, it's our responsibility to protect the people, how can we just give it up!" Faced with Stark and the proposal, Captain America immediately objected.
"But they're not our people, they're just a bunch of clones, they weren't supposed to be in this world!" Stark retorted that it was cruel, but it was true.
After these people were rescued, all the people already knew that this group of so-called civilians was actually just some clones, and for this kind of existence, human society had no basis at all to locate their location.
"I don't know what is cloned or not, I just know that they are just a living being!" The American team dodged the attack of a hunter with a side flip, a shield flew over and overturned it, glanced at the clone townspeople who were hiding in the valley and were protected, and said, he obviously disagreed with Stark's words, in his opinion, as long as the other party was a living human life, it was worth saving.
"I agree with the captain, and I've given up once, and I'm not going to give up this time," Chris Redfield said at this point.
"Me too," Leon agreed.
Lyon, the members of their squad also expressed their support for their two captains.
"Don't drag us to death, we won't give up our lives because of a group of people who shouldn't exist, if we can't hold it, we'll leave on our own," the military's Tyrannosaurus team continued, the ability of the nano suits was enough for them to avoid those monsters and get out of here.
As for their true commander, Colonel Rhodes was still attacking the batwing monsters with the war machine, and didn't say a word.
But it is clear that Saike's words actually represent his attitude...... Rhodes actually has no choice, although he is the leader of this military special squad, but after all, he was parachuted, for these proud generals who have fought against aliens, they may be able to listen to his command in peacetime, but in the face of this life and death choice, he really can't influence the choice of these soldiers, after all, in the regulations of the US military, under reasonable circumstances...... That is, if it does not violate the Constitution, military law, and international conventions, US soldiers can refuse to obey orders.
Obviously, it is not their job to protect a group of clones who do not have any legal recognition.
Not only among the military's action teams, but even among the members of S.H.I.E.L.D., there are many people who question the choice of the commander of the American team, for the same reason, there is no law in the world that requires the protection of clones.
So even though the two sides are still in the same trench, differences have arisen.
And in the umbrella base, Isaacs quietly looked at the screen in front of him, the picture on it is the picture of this special operations team resisting the biochemical army, these pictures are taken through satellites, although the property of the umbrella company on the surface has long been divided by the government and Osben and other enterprises, but secretly he still retains some spy satellites that are only civilian satellites on the surface, but in fact they are not weak, which is also one of the ways for him to understand the outside world in this base.
At this time, Isaacs saw Iron Man and their multi-party mixed team, although the losses were not small, but they could not be destroyed for a long time, and there was already a trace of impatience in his heart.
"Manuela, transfer another 20,000 hunters and 10,000 bats over and kill them for me!" Isaacs ordered that there were not many biochemical troops besieging Stark before, only more than 10,000 hunters and a few thousand bats, that is, those flying batwings.
In Isaacs's opinion, such a number is enough to deal with them, but he didn't expect to meet an Iron Man who had just undergone a comprehensive upgrade, although the opponent's defense line was crumbling, but it was not destroyed, so Isaacs, who was angry, once again sent several times the number of troops, ready to take the other party in one fell swoop.
But he never imagined that at this time, he wanted to kill Stark and them, it was too late, his order had just been given, and the piercing siren sounded.
"What's going on? Manuela! Isaacs asked.
"Doctor, we've found a powerful energy response" As Manuela answered, the large screen in front of Isaacs showed a huge battleship passing through the atmosphere.