Ryan has to admit that being a troubled teenage girl is a good change. Usually he comes to the rescue.

But it wasn't easy, as the dump was completely in chaos. Rising taller and taller Frank pits at the dragon-shaped wyvern, the giant reptile that pushes her opponent onto a pile of molten trash. With every blow of the superheroine, the psychopath seems to add extra height. However, Lanka sniped him with a white orb from her vantage point, shrinking Frank and making him manageable in size.

Is she Sykes' missing sister or what?

"You're teaming up with Wyverns?" Ryan asked Justimin in surprise.

"Temporarily." Vulcan replied, firing a volley of bullets at Adam. Although the psychopath's carbonskin got rid of the projectile, repeated electric shocks prevented him from moving forward. "Very temporary."

When those two people put aside their differences, you can tell that the situation is bad.

After devouring the entire land, the chirping rats begin to march towards Adam, but it turns out that the leader of Meta is a bad meal. He stomped on the rodents and trampled them into blood on the ground; Even when they tried to bury him under their weight, his increased strength allowed him to shrug his shoulders.

Taking advantage of this distraction, Ryan grabbed a knife from his uninjured arm and managed to free his leg from the shackles of the dirt. Meanwhile, Jamie, showing off his badass samurai credentials, jumps from his roost and creates a red lightsaber in flight. On the descent, he swung his blade and pierced Frank's back as easily as butter, leaving a scar on his waist.

Unfortunately, the psychopath's metal body quickly regenerates from the wound, and while Lanka slows down his exponential growth, she can't stop it. Frank will soon be eight meters tall.

"Anything that can destroy a communications tower?" Ryan asks Jessamine if he needs to shout to drown out the gunshots. "I mean, their guns are bigger than yours, no offense."

"I've wasted most of my good stuff on the reptiles over there." Vulcan replied in frustration, quickly running out of ammunition. Without suppressing firepower, Adam was now free to move, and he pulled a warhammer out of his esophagus. "Cover me when I load my bullets."

To give himself more time to think and plan, Ryan activated his abilities. The world turned purple, and Shin used his left arm to look under his suit. He couldn't touch the right one, and Adam's chains tore through its key muscles.

Are the injectors powerful enough? Higher-caliber guns

"So you're the source of these anomalies."

Ryan winced, then looked up at the sky.

An ivory-colored figure floats above the garbage dump, shrouded in a dazzling aura of electricity; A powerful white air stream blew from his feet, allowing him to hover over the ground. He moved alone in frozen time, standing above and looking down on the humans below.

Electrohydrodynamics. He used an electric charge to ionize air molecules, enabling himself to fly.

"I'm beginning to get suspicious," Augustus said, holding a half-charred corpse in his hand. Judging by the clothes, Ryan recognized it as acid rain. "You will make a mighty Saturn."

Time returned, and Lightning Ass focused his attention on the others present.

As soon as Augustus appeared, all men ceased to move; Even the blind Adam seems to sense his presence. The appearance of the Lightning Emperor, and the sheer electric tension that emanated from him, frightened everyone present into silence.

"You have failed," Augustus said to Adam, throwing the body of the acid rain on the ground like garbage. "Not even the flame of Hargraves warms me. Do you think this faint light will kill me? You think something is going to kill me?"

To his credit, Adam recovered quickly from his surprise. "Frank, crush him!"

The giant, who had reached eight meters tall, immediately pushed Wiven aside and tried to smash Augustus with both hands, like a man smashing a mosquito. Instead of dodging, the Lightning Emperor raised his arms and blocked the giant's hand with his own hand.

At this moment, Frank's metal skin moved around Augustus's fingers, covering them; Even the mob Zeus was surprised by this development. It looks like the metal structure of the madman Frank tried to digest Augustus' hand, but it was difficult to digest. This reminds Ryan of a dog trying to crush a bone that can't be bitten by teeth.

But it doesn't make a difference.

Augustus looked at Frank and shot a blinding bolt of lightning from his eye, striking the giant in the head. The enormous force behind the blow melted the steel body of the "psychopath", leaving a pile of molten metal where it should have been the brain. Although the fragments of Augustus's body were still glued to him, Frank fell on his back.

"Ryan, get down!" Vulcan activated her propeller, grabbed Ryan, and flew out of the shadows where the giant fell. The chirping rats scattered, while Vane, Jamie, and Adam scattered. Frank fell to the ground, dust scattered, and he was only an inch away from the tower. Even after the dust settled, he remained motionless.

Augustus wasted no time, gracefully landed on the ground and began to walk slowly towards Adam. Instead of flinching, the nihilistic Psycho glared at the invincible man.

"My sister, daughter, and goddaughter all died because of you." There are no words on earth that can sum up the icy rage that comes out of the mouth of the lightning ass. "They die much faster than you. I promise you a tartarus. ”

"It's okay," Adam replied as he smashed his hammer into the invulnerable man's head. "Even if I die, I've already won!" You've all lost!"

His weapons were squashed, and Augustus did not even flinch.

"Well, it's been a fun time," Adam said, and then shouted loudly. "Adam calls Bahamott!" Change the target to the current target-"

Augustus inadvertently backhanded Adam in the face, ripping off his jaw and knocking the carbon-making man to the ground. Then the emperor kicked the psychopath in the stomach with enough force that he crashed into the tower. While everyone was watching, too frightened to move or say anything, Lightning's ass began to stomp on his victim. Under a brutal beating, the psychopath's hard shell folded like aluminum, his bones were broken, and his legs were twisted.

In the end, Adam lay on the ground covered in bruises, and Augustus hung his neck and looked at the dead Adam. "Any last words, vermin?"

Adam laughed.

It's not desperation or crazy laughter, but the mocking gurgling of a monster who is happy with his work. Loud, grew, crowd laughter of schadenfreude.

This will only further infuriate the mob Zeus.

"At the end of the day, as much as you have so many delusions, you're just using the first person's name." Augustus lifted his foot over Adam's face. "As long as I am God."

Augustus stomped on his head with a disgusting snapping sound. Adam was silent, saliva running down his mouth; His appearance changed from carbon to scarred skin, fragile and fragile. The superpowered person is still breathing, but has a severe concussion.

But he might soon wish he was dead.

"Soldiers, grab this garbage and send him to Venus. He will not die unless I crucify him on the island of Ischia, and his screams soothe the soul of my daughter. "Augustus turned to Wyven." We're fighting now?"

"Fight for what?" Wyve

Regained her human form, waving a hand at the destruction around them, while Jamie and La

Ka immediately rushed over and tied up Adam. "Ashes?"

"Get out of here, then," Augustus replied, glancing at the communication tower. "Now I have a clear view of this cursed land, and there is an intact metal tomb under our feet. Maykelen's grave, I guess. ”

"What are you going to do?" Wynne asked, frowning.

"Do what Hargraves didn't have the courage to do"

Lightning Bart's electric aura became brighter and stronger, and energy was accumulating inside his body. The Courier immediately realized the Terrible's plan, and how it would ruin everything.

"No!" Ryan pleaded, turning to Vulcan, he couldn't see her face under her helmet. "There must be something down there that we can utilize!"

"Ryan," his girlfriend replied in a resolute tone. "It's the end. If we stay, we will die. ”

Augustus fired a bolt of lightning at the tower, and his force short-circuited the force field, tearing the building in half. Half of the tower fell to the ground of the garbage dump with a catastrophic shock wave. The aura around Augustus briefly vanished, revealing the man below: an ivory statue, fragments of Frank's body still stubbornly trying to devour his hands.

Lightning Ass looked sick, his cheeks wrinkled and his eyes gloomy. But he's already recharging, and this time his aura is brighter than ever.

Vulcan grabbed Ryan and flew away, the courier weakened by a wounded arm and blood loss, unable to resist. Everybody's evacuated quickly, Wyve

Assist La

Ka and Jamie drag Adam away, leaving the Lightning Emperor alone.

Twenty minutes later, a huge lightning bolt struck the junkyard in a catastrophic explosion, completely burying Mekron's bunker.

As expected for the side effects of the rage, Ryan started vomiting everything he had eaten in the past few days once the medication wore off. Considering his wounds and arm injuries, Jessamine gave him a sedative.

When the courier wakes up in a hospital bed, he is surrounded by his friend and a cat. Jamie is sitting in a chair, his girlfriend is sitting on his lap, and Jasmine is petting a white cat. Only Lanka stood at his feet, with his back against a white, featureless wall.

"Hello, Sleeping Beauty," Lanka said thoughtfully, though her usual desperate attitude softened a little.

"Oh my God, are you worried about me?" Ryan asked, holding up his bandaged left arm. He can really feel the pain now, it's much better than before. "Didn't anyone tell you I wasn't dead?"

Ki-jeong giggles, but her boyfriend doesn't. Jamie is happy to see the handsome courier alive, but clearly doesn't like the joke.

"There." Jessamine almost threw the matter to her boyfriend. "Now it's your turn."

"Schrödinger!" Ryan grabbed the cat, and the cat immediately took the courier's leg as his throne. "You're still alive!"

"I don't know how," Jessamine admitted. Ki-jeong looked at the cat with a worried look, apparently for Ryan's sake, and she forced herself to stand in front of the cat. "Of all the people in the factory, only the damn cat came out alive. That pet was luckier than Fortuna. ”

"Is she out?" Ryan asked, then corrected himself. "Who else escaped?"

"Very few," Jamie admits with a sad face.

"Fortuna and her parents were far from the blast point and were not killed, probably thanks to her unlucky luck," Ranka added. "The house almost fell on us when Meta aimed at Mount Augustus, but we avoided burning. Neptune also survived. ”

"Yes......" Ryan's voice disappeared from his throat. Is Blue still alive?"

They exchanged glances, and Jasmine frowned completely.

"You don't need to whitewash it," Ryan said, his hand gripping Schrödinger's back. "Tell me the truth. I'm looking forward to it. ”

"Almost everyone on Ischia died, either from the laser itself or from the scorching ashes," Jasmin said bluntly, despite her apparently frustration. "Only Geist survived, if you may say so, and a few of us who fought outside the World Trade Center. Diver...... Didn't survive. ”

Ryan was silent for a moment. Maybe it's because of anesthesia, maybe it's because of fatigue, maybe it's because I realized I completely messed up this run...... He couldn't muster up the courage to feel anything.

"I'm sorry," Jamie apologized. "I know it's a cold comfort, but no one can stop it."

His intentions were good, but it only hurt more. "I could," Ryan said.

Once again, he failed to protect Ryan from psychosis.

"You can't," Jamie insisted. "Everything happens in a split second, there is no time to think."

"You're a hero, Ryan," Ki said. "You most likely prevented Adam from firing the beam again, killing thousands."

"You mean, it's completely stupid!" Jasmine growled at Ryan. "What are you thinking, attacking them head-on?"

"Hey, I tried to call for support, but no one answered!" Ryan said. "I feel like I can be like Tony Montana."

"You're right," Lanka snickered. "As far as I know, your own medicine can hurt your body more than superpowers."

"We're in Sorrento, south of New Rome," Jamie told Ryan.

"You can still see the fire outside the window," Ranka said, as Ki was pushing her elbow.

"It's a city of ours, so it's safe here," Jamie assured the courier, in an almost fatherly tone. "With your genomic metabolism, you should be able to recover quickly."

At this point, Ryan wasn't sure if he should delay his recovery or shoot him in the head. He decided to wait a while in order to have a clearer picture of the situation. "What happens now?"

"We bury the dead," Jamie said coldly. "After that, we rebuild, we move on. That's all we can do. ”

"I don't think it's the time to talk about it," Ki-jeong said to her fiancé.

"Yes." Jamie stands next to his girlfriend. "We'll let you rest, my friend. Sri Lanka. ”

"yes, yes," Ranka said, and the three left Jasmine and Ryan. The courier heard her complaint and closed the door casually. "Damn couple ......"

Vulcan waited a few seconds, waiting for another Augustus to leave, then turned to Ryan.

"Can you hold on?" She tries her best to pretend she doesn't care, but she's not very good at it. "You owe me a favor."

"Unfortunately, I can only pay with my body; My money is in ashes. Ryan's answer drew a snickering from the "genius." "Is my car okay?"

"No," Jasmine shook her head, also mourning the destruction of this beautiful contraption. "Adam blew it up next to my foundry"

If Ryan's death didn't end Ryan's life, then the killing of his car did. ch

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o

The radio was gone, and even if he remembered the plan for the Ryan device, it wouldn't work without the brain-driven Plymouth Fury.

What did his car do to Meta to be treated so painfully? Except to repeat it over and over again?

Someone knocked on the window of the ward, and the genomic couple immediately looked up.

"Hey." Wivin said as he opened the window from the other side. Ryan felt the scene very familiar.

Jasmine immediately pulled out a gun hidden under his pants and aimed it at Wywen's face. "Get out, Laura"

"Jassamine, can we not ...... Don't do that?" The Wyvern sighed. "Stop fighting once?" Aren't you tired of all the things that have happened? I come for peace. ”

Vulcan raised her weapon, put her fingers on the trigger, and lowered.

"How did we break up?" Wynne asked as she walked into the room through the window and landed on the floor.

"You started first," Jasmine replied, putting the gun aside. "Aren't you helping civilians?"

"It was, but Carnival came to help."

Jasmine's eyes widened in horror. "Does Augustus know everything?"

"Not yet, but soon," Wyve

Say. "He and Leonard can't stand each other, so I expect more bickering soon."

“Dy

How's Amis?" Ryan asked.

"What I've been fearing is going to happen," Wyve

Admit. Alphonse Manada was in charge of the rest, including all the troops in Sicily, Libya and Spain. Under his command, the truce could not be maintained. If anything, I think he sees this as an opportunity to wipe you out once and for all. ”

"There will be a new round of genomic warfare," Jassamine muttered. "They'll fight for leftovers."

"Yes."

There was an awkward silence in the room. Although Hannifat Lecter didn't live to see, he won. In the following years, he ruined Europe.

The worst thing is...... The stuffed animal was still outside.

"It's your fault." Jessamine said to Wyvan with a frown. "You've hired superpowers. You have sown the seeds of this catastrophe. ”

"I ...... I didn't. "Jasmin, I swear I don't know. Neither did Enrique, God bless him. If anyone is at fault, it's Hector too. If I knew, I would have stopped him. ”

"That's your problem, Laura. You can never concentrate. Vulcan shook his head, skeptical. Why are you here?"

"I'm here to apologize," the heroine admitted, causing Jasmine to blink in surprise. "I still don't understand how we went from friends to enemies, but after all this happened, I've been reevaluating my options. I don't want to fight with you anymore, and...... No matter what I've done to make you miserable...... I would like to apologize for that. ”

Jasmine listened quietly, different sensations changing her expression. From doubt, to anger, to regret. "Get out, Laura," she finally said, unacceptable. "Get out."

"I understand." Wyve

He replied with a frown, then turned to the messenger. "Romano, I don't know why you chose to join Augustus, but ...... What you did was very brave. You still have time to change your life and become a force for good in the world. ”

"yes," Ryan replied looking at the sleeping cat on his lap. "There's still time."

Wyndwen took one last look at Jessamine and Ryan and flew out the window, presumably to rejoin New Rome.

"You know," Jasmine said after leaving, glaring at her boyfriend. "About that McClainburg. That's what you've been hiding. ”

"I know Mech

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Weapons are hidden underneath, "Rya

Admit. "It's not that he has a control panel for the orbital laser."

"You didn't tell me?!" She growled. ", Ryan, we!" In my bed! It doesn't hurt to believe me!"

"Jasmin, I swear—"

"Shut up," she interrupted, looking away. "Shut up."

Schrödinger let out a lovely meow, as if to ease the tension in the air. Ryan stroked his ears and wondered if Shubb Nicholat had also survived the disaster. Although all he thought about in his heart were the orphans in Lan's undersea base. If you're lucky, the automated system will be available to them, but there is no Sho

tie…

All in all, the run was a disaster.

McKellen's bunker was blown up, along with his car, space-time broadcasting, and all the brain-replicating research at Powerhouse headquarters. His plan to divert another person's consciousness through time fell through.

Couriers have only one option; The only chance he had to salvage was Vulcan's energy-boosting armor. But will she help him? He wasn't sure.

At this moment, he should ask Vulcan for a gun and pull the trigger.

However......

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Jasmine broke the silence. "I know I'm pretty, but it's scary."

"I've been thinking about what you've said," Ryan said. "A little trust. You know I'm hiding something, but you don't say a word about Augustus and the others. Why?"

"I want to know myself," the genius replied with a shrug. "I don't know, you're smart, you're funny, I like you. It's that simple. ”

"Like, now?" So you still have feelings for me. ”

"Don't push me, Ryan," she replied, though he saw a smile on her lips. "yes, I still kind of like you, so I'm mad at your stupidity. You can only be angry with someone you hate or care about. ”

Ryan smiled, but his heart wasn't there. The problem is that there are a lot of people he hates more and more, but there are very few people he cares about. He was always careful not to get attached to others, because when he left, it would only hurt more.

The problem is, Vulcan kept some secrets for him, and she could have easily betrayed him. Even now, she doesn't quite see him as doomed. She's not a nice person, his Dy

The AMIS loop can prove it, but she's not that bad either.

A little trust...... Ryan hasn't trusted anyone in a while, except Ryan, because trust is a fragile thing that can easily turn into an open wound. Because it's something that once given, it can't be easily taken back.

But this disaster happened because he didn't trust anyone but Len to tell him the secrets of the bunker. If Ryan had always done the same thing all over again, he would have gotten the same result. Maybe... Maybe it's time for a change.

Maybe it's time for him to change.

"Jasmine".

"What?"

"I can travel through time."

After all, trust goes both ways.