Chapter 473: Destruction Comes to Visit
Bacchus Mansion, the home of the Fantastic Four.
"I'm glad you finally reached a settlement." Tony stood in Reed Richards' lab and said, "You know, it's important to have the Fantastic Four on the side of the bill. People trust you, and your choices will ease the stiffness of the situation by a lot......"
"Say no more, Tony." Mr. Fantastic doesn't seem to be in a good mood when it comes to this topic, "Susan still has Ben...... They still don't agree with my decision. I managed to say that convinced them, but ......"
Reed sighed softly and shook his head, as if he didn't want to talk.
"I'm sorry, man." Tony patted him on the shoulder, "But we've all paid a lot for it. β
"Susan hasn't spoken to me in days." "I know why. You and I, we started that project together, and by deriving and calculating, we came to the result that the battle of heroes was inevitable. I told myself that our choices were just trying to make things work out for the best, but deep down, I knew that maybe I was just scared...... Maybe I just wanted to protect my family to make such a compromise. β
"You made the right choice, Reed, at least I can guarantee that." Tony said.
Reid shook his head, stopped talking about himself, and asked instead, "What about you?" You won the battle, and things should be going fairly well now? β
"I don't know, Reed." Tony sat down in a chair at a lab table, looking out the window with his eyes distracted, "Even though we seem to have won, I don't feel that way at all. And everything feels like a mess to me, especially when something has gone wrong lately - I can't tell you exactly what it is, but it's a real headache......"
Rumble!!!
Without warning, flames tore the lab floor apart. A powerful blast erupted from the bottom up, slamming the two men in the lab in opposite directions.
The moment the scorching wave of air touched his body, the standby armor in Tony's body was immediately activated. Liquid metal seeped out of his pores and quickly covered his entire body. By the time he tumbled and fell to the ground, the armor had taken all the impact for him.
Tony gasped and got to his feet, and the smoke filled the room, severely affecting his vision. He activated the thermal field of view and shouted, "Reed, are you okay?" β
"Also...... Alive. Reed's staccato voice came from under the rubble, "But can you help me...... Take this out of the way? β
Mr. Fantastic was now crushed against two boulders and half of the lab table, with two steel bars poked into his body. He has the superpower of a "rubber man", his body is extremely flexible, and the steel bar does not pierce his skin.
Tony moved away from the rubble and pulled him up, "Have you forgotten that there are other guests coming today?" β
The thermal imaging field captured multiple targets in the smoke and dust, with a thermal response, but no signs of life.
That's four robots. They had the exact same appearanceβbare heads, protruding mechanical eyeballs, skeleton-like metal bodies, and bodies wrapped in dark green cloaks.
"That's ...... Destroy robots? Reed was a little surprised.
Tony asked, "What's that?" β
"It's a robot made by Victor." "It's Doctor Doom, the ruler of Latvia." β
"Uh...... Okay, I remember, but do you have any holidays? β
"We were college classmates." Reid said.
Tony raised an eyebrow, "Oh, you're talking like college classmates should kill each other." β
"We ..... Belch...... There were several more clashes later. Victor always wanted to prove that he was smarter than me. β
As he spoke, four Destruction Robots had activated their weapons at the same time. Their arms transformed into black cannons, and green energy spiraled out like sound waves.
Tony raised his hands and activated the repulsion barrier: "Don't be nervous. I've had a pretty good deal with Dr. Doom, and while he's a genius, I'll admit, I've recently gotten some upgrades to my skills and can easily ......."
Before he could finish speaking, the green spiral easily shattered his repulsive barrier...... No, it's not shattered, it's actually decomposed.
Before he could be surprised, two more blast beams had already struck the armor plate on the armor's chest. Iron Man is blown away head-on, and his back is slammed into a lab table.
"What, but how is this possible?" Tony held his head.
After the last major update to Genesis' armor, Tony's confidence in his armor skyrocketed with those new technologies. Logically speaking, the upgraded repulsion shield should be able to withstand even a direct bombardment from a strategic warhead, and he never imagined that such a level of shield would be as vulnerable as a layer of tissue paper in front of Dr. Doom's robots.
Unbeknownst to Tony, most of the new technologies he uses to upgrade come from Kang the Conqueror, the forty-first-century conqueror who once tried to occupy the era. And it was Dr. Doom himself who researched and cracked these technologies together with Michael in the first place.
Therefore, he uses these future technologies against others, and the other party may be helpless. But what about the combat robots produced by Doctor Doom? Of course, the effect has to be discounted.
Reed leaned out, his upper body stretching out like a soft noodle, coiling up the body of one of the machines like a snake. His hands twisted and deformed, reaching through the gaps in the robot's armor, ripping through the robot's critical wiring with precision, paralyzing the other party's functions.
The other three machines were aimed at him with the intention of firing, but Iron Man was one step ahead. He raised his palms, and the repulsive beams fired three times, and the three destruction machines fell in response.
"Victor must have managed to breach my firewall." Reed's body changed back to his original form, and he said with a frown, "But although we occasionally clashed over certain incidents, he never took the initiative to attack us. There must be some reason for this......"
As soon as he finished speaking, the wall on one side of the laboratory was blasted through from the outside. A large mass of burning scrap metal was thrown in, tumbling and crashing into the corner. Thunderbolt, the Invisible Woman, and the Stone Man walked in, carrying the wreckage of a robot that had been smashed in two.
"Tell me what this is?" The stone man frowned and said, "Is it someone who has itchy skin and came to beg for a beating?" β
"Be careful, sir, very high energy reaction detected......"
At the same time as Jarvis reminded him, the exclamation logo also appeared on the built-in display of the Iron Man helmet. In the next second, the ceiling was blown up. The wave of air swept down with flames, blowing everyone to the ground who were caught off guard.
Doctor Doom, Victor von Doom, floats in the air in his armor, arms folded, cloak flying, like a condescending king.