Chapter 43: Iron Man, the Last Avenger?
"Mister Fantastic" Reed Richards' body deformed into an oval umbrella shape, and his hands and feet stretched out like ropes of nearly ten meters, wrapping around the body of the stone man.
Black Panther T'Chaka's armor was wrapped in a three-finger-thick blue-black chain, crouching on Ben Graeme's mill-like back.
Reed, who descended slowly from a high altitude, could even rely on the slight adjustment and transformation of his body to achieve the effect of paragliding, and quickly swooped down towards the green giant running frantically on the mountain.
"Reed! The scene was really familiar, and I could understand the mood of this big green-skinned man. ”
The Stone Man yelled as he watched the out-of-control Dr. Bruce Banner as he seemed to remember when he had escaped from the Howlett Group's experimental base.
His roar quickly moved away as Richards let go of his tangled rubber hands and feet, and crashed straight into the Hulk's back like a bomb.
Rumble!
At the moment of impact, the panther leaped back sensitively, landed on the branch of a beech, clasped the bark with both hands like a real leopard, and stared cautiously downward.
In the searchlight from the gunships in the sky and General Ross's energy engine fighters, a dark green figure lying in the dirt pit shook its head, its chest swaying and slowly rising.
The stone man's weight of hundreds of kilograms and the falling momentum of a hundred meters high hit the back of the Hulk, but he didn't blow him into a puddle of mud on the spot, but it was like being beaten with a stick.
The green body of more than two meters and three is full of explosive muscles, not only the back muscles condensed like steel cables, but also the most inconspicuous small muscle groups in the human body have multiplied into fist-sized bulging pieces of flesh.
The arms were longer than the knees, and the lower arms were almost as thick as the waist of an adult man, and the legs looked a little short, but they were as strong as a tree trunk that a man could not hold.
The overproliferated and enlarged body broke through all the clothes, shook the terrible lump under the crotch, and completely bare the green flesh.
The "stone man", who is also a big man, is similar to the Hulk in the horizontal dimension, but his size is only just enough to fit the opponent's chest, and he looks a lot "mini".
"Ho Hao. Gram, Hulk! ”
Boom!
The Hulk turned his head suddenly, and the punch that detonated the sound barrier slammed into the stone man who was a little disbelieving and stunned, and smashed the broken stone that hurt him dozens of meters away, breaking the trunk of the tree in the mountains and forests along the way.
The green-skinned giant who had been turned into a result of an experimental accident could no longer find a trace of Dr. Banner's appearance.
His head was enlarged in equal proportions, with a steel ingot-like white tooth mouth and eyes like copper bells, and his short black hair was thick and stiff at the roots, but it still retained the outline of human features and basic body structure.
The texture of the Hulk's skin is also more similar to that of flesh and blood, which is completely different from Ben Graeme's almost silicon-based life form, but the strength and tenacity of the flesh are still surpassed.
"Huhuk! Smash! Hulk! ”
The Hulk roared a short single word, and he seemed to be disgusted by the bright light falling from the sky, so he picked up a tree the size of a telephone pole and threw it at it, blasting through an armed Black Hawk helicopter.
The old panther T'Chaka under the helmet looked like a cunning tanuki, and even with his full body vibranium armor, he didn't have the slightest intention of stepping forward to try to compete with this berserk giant.
Then Reed, who fell from the sky, stretched out his rubber arm and reached for the Hulk's legs, which quickly spread and entwined as soon as they made contact, but before he could pull it, the giant kicked his leg forward violently, pulling "Mr. Fantastic" forward like a spring.
Burst.
A punch slammed into it, and only a dull sound came from the flesh that had been beaten into a ball of plasticine, and the Hulk looked at his copper-sized fist suspiciously, pinching Reed's super rubber body and shaking it vigorously.
Dr. Richards' octopus-like body, which is immune to almost all physical potential attacks, extends his body with a rapid speed, whether it is the torso, neck, or limbs and fingers, all of them become strong rubber elastic bands that wrap around the Hulk's body.
The stoneman who had just been blown away also ran back with rumbling feet, rushing left and right and slammed two fists on the Hulk's chin, taking advantage of the fact that he was getting closer and closer to being wrapped around by Richards, and continued to smash his fists.
At this time, the black panther finally jumped down, stabbing an inch-long silver claw between his five fingers, finding the Hulk's unbound and exposed skin, and cutting several green cuts on his cheeks.
"Roar!"
The bloody pain re-irritated the unconscious Dr. Banner again, and he suddenly stopped roaring, but gritted his teeth, the muscles of his cheeks bulging high.
The Hulk's two eyes were green, looking directly at the black panther and the stone man in front of him, letting them scratch and bang at him, little by little, inch by inch, stretching out the arms that were bound by the rubber body and clinging to his side.
"What a joke!"
The long snake-like neck dragged Richards' head full of color, and he hurriedly wrapped around the Hulk a few more times, but the other party still stretched his limbs steadily.
Richards knew in his heart how powerful his body was when it tightened at its maximum strength, and it could even twist and deform the superalloy steel pillar like a python strangulation.
Even if the stone man was completely entangled by him like this, he would be completely immobile and unable to resist.
"Ben! T'Chaca! Fast! Reed yelled as he tightened his restraints, seeing that his body was about to reach its limits.
The stoneman stopped his fist and took a few steps back, then charged up with all his strength, knocking over the Hulk.
The panther removed the vibranium chain wrapped around his body, and the neat twist of the lock clasped the Hulk's stump-like ankle, beckoned to the armed fighter plane in the sky, and connected the hook chain of the plane at the other end of the lock.
But without waiting for the fighter plane to rise and pull it up, the Hulk lying on the ground flicked his waist and made a similar action of "carp fighting", but instead dropped the plane straight down, smashing on his body and exploding instantly.
Under the blazing firelight, the unrestrained Hulk's face quickly healed the injuries inflicted on him by the panther claws and the stone man, and the loose teeth that were pushed out by the new teeth burst out of his mouth, and he broke the vibranium chain under his feet, and took a step with a hideous eye, instantly clasping T'Chaka's body.
Then he saw the stone man from the ruins of the explosion, raised his hand and smashed him into the ground with a fist, only half of his body and head were exposed, as if he was kicking a stone to vent his anger, and stomped on him one by one.
Looking down from the sky, the smoke and flames filled the shadows, and you could see the Hulk's angry movements.
Grabbing the panther legs, he smashed the armored T'Chaka on the stoneman's head.
Richards, who was somewhat burned by the flames, just wanted to step forward and continue fighting, but was hit by the flying panther in his arms, and then the Hulk spread out his palms and struck him, and the air explosion sound wave that came from the rush was even more overwhelming.
"Stryker, your people had better be useful, the explosions will soon be noticed, and if the Whip of Order finds out, I'll have to hand you all over to them."
Admiral Ross, who had been watching from above, had a bad face, and his guards had already drawn their weapons and pointed them at William Stryker, and the alliance that had just been formed was about to break.
"Understand, understand that the reason why the experiment went wrong is just to be deducted from us, and we understand the habitual operation. Don't worry too much about General Ross, isn't this still over, Dr. Banner has been transformed and has such a powerful power, you should be happy. ”
Stryker pulled away the pistol pointed at him with his cane, and though he was just as apprehensive, he still pretended to be in control, pulling at the hatch and looking down.
His eyes flickered, as if waiting for a miracle to appear.
Boom! Boom! Boom.
Step by step, the Hulk, who struck out the shockwave with one palm, had already walked in front of Richards, and he did not see any injuries or fatigue after being beaten by the three of them, but his strength rose to a higher level under the blessing of anger, and the state of the same start of the fight was judged to be two people.
Just as Reed's mind was racing to think of a countermeasure to subdue the Hulk, the rushing air wave suddenly subsided by half, and his crushed head quickly returned to its original shape, only to see the Hulk staggering under his feet as if he was drunk, and his palm no longer had the strength of the combined blow just now, and he patted lightly for a while.
With a bang, he fell to the ground and fainted.
As the tissues of his body shrank rapidly, the dark green of his skin receded like a tide, leaving only a slick and medium-sized white male lying next to the rubble of the plane's explosion.
"Look, what I'm talking about! HeheheHappy cooperation, General Ross. ”
Stryker looked at Dr. Banner on the ground and looked at Admiral Ross with a smile.
The knuckles of his cane turned a little white, and his body was slightly swung with excessive excitement, planning a plan that he had endured for decades.
Finally, there is hope.
New York's most chaotic neighborhood, located on the West Shore of Manhattan Island in West Midtown, is known as "Hell's Kitchen."
William Stryker dragged his broken leg up the creaking old wooden ladder and returned to his rented room at the bottom of the floor.
Pushing the door open, there was a smell of rotting and moldy wood, a narrow box-spring bed stretched across the innermost part of the room, and nothing decent except for an old-fashioned television that had accumulated dust.
It was empty as if no one had ever lived there.
Stryker didn't turn on the light, just sat quietly on the edge of the low bed and hung his head silently, and after a while, a blue glow flashed, and his vision was reflected on the tips of a pair of metal boots.
"Tony Stark, he has been in the limelight recently, and he has used the technology of the Ark Energy Stack to create a comprehensive armor, he has been a little repulsed by the Howlett Group since he was a child, and he has always been dissatisfied with the special treatment of the mutant group, can he contact it."
Stryker's hoarse voice sounded softly, and after a while, the strange figure who suddenly appeared in his room spoke in a faint accent that he had never heard before, and said with a pause:
"'Iron Man', he's an interesting person, but he's not like you Avengers who hate James Howlett, well~ give it a try, I'm looking forward to it."
A square dark blue energy plate rose from the feet of the figure and above the head, and as the two light plates closed and finally disappeared into one point, there was no sign in the room except for William Stryker, who was sitting alone.
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Dozens of kilometers away, in Tony Stark's villa on the coast outside New York, the noisy and explosive heavy metal rock music is the background music for the iron arm of the machine tool and the splash of Mars.
Wearing clear goggles, Tony wore a tight-fitting tank top and was busy in the villa's expansive underground studio.
As a result of his recent dedication to hand-to-hand combat and related combat training, he also has a pronounced muscular bulge on his chest and arms.
The hands in lead gloves smoothly put the palm-sized ice-blue energy source into the test groove, watched the light curtain in front of him continue to jump various index data, and leaned on the silver-white metal arm and shook his head unsatisfied.
"Jarvis, bring up the data from the last fight I had with her and compare it to see how much worse the core energy is by the magnitude of."
As Tony's order was given, a voice with the same tone as that of the old butler, Mr. Edwin Jarvis, sounded, and said clearly and calmly:
"Mr. Stark, the energy index of the Type 3 suit tested is less than five percent different from my estimate of Laura Howlett's combat power, and the current type 4 energy test is enough to make up for the gap."
Tony nodded slightly, but thinking that he had already been violently beaten by Laura three times, he was still skeptical about the current improved armor.
"How did the composition of that flame, as well as the special blood-colored energy she used at the beginning, analyze?"
Fingertips touched the combat video playback button on the light screen, and through the video recording function of the suit, Laura, with Tony as the first-person perspective, instantly changed from a crimson streamer to a burning skeleton, and then the claw shadow slashed, and the scene in the video blurred without a follow-up.
"Life energy is Miss Howlett's most basic power, please refer to the 'Exploration of Killing and Evolution' report for relevant research materials and information, as well as one hundred and five books and papers, as for that kind of flame."
Suddenly, the light curtain flickered, and Tony was lined up with totemic scrolls and photographs of ancient books, and Jarvis's voice continued:
"'Hellfire' is a more mystical energy that exists in legends and myths, it is not a physical flame, it can burn in water or even in a vacuum, and it may be used in addition to the demonization of metallic matter, but more in the realm of soul and spirit."
Tony let out a long sigh as he looked at the ghostly patterns on the screen, he was extremely tired of the power of magic.
Like the mutant abilities that he struggled with as a child and couldn't learn to copy, these powers, which were so different from his old scientific ideas and material understanding, gave the genius Mr. Stark a headache.
But defeating the Howlett lady who had taken him captive was the original impetus for Tony Stark's research on Warframe technology.
(End of chapter)