American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 455 Bant: Watering a Certain Vegetable Stark

"The Cosmic Cube? The Space Stone?"

Felicia leaned closer and asked疑惑地问道, "What's the use of this?"

She knew the Space Stone had unlimited power, but how could it turn Steve Rogers into Captain Hydra?

"It's not a Rubik's Cube, it's a cube."

Just then, Tony Stark's voice rang out. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw a semi-transparent Tony projection emitting a blue light walking towards them, complaining, "Do you have any refrigerant? If we can't fix that damn air conditioner soon, we're all going to die from the heat!"

"besides……"

He pointed, his fingertip finally lingering on Bant's face: "Who is this person?"

"I don't know why, but the moment I saw him, I felt really annoyed and wanted to rush up and punch him."

Bant shrugged: "This symptom is clearly conjunctivitis, an inability to accept that someone is smarter than you."

"what!"

Tony immediately lost his temper and shouted, "Then you fix the air conditioner!"

"I never imagined that someone as great as Tony Stark would stoop so low as to not be able to fix an air conditioner." T'Challa expressed his sympathy for his colleague with whom he had worked to destroy five planets.

“Tony, this is Bant Parker and Ms. Luma. They are both from Earth in another universe,” Natasha introduced briefly.

"Him too?"

Tony pointed at Steve: "Can I kick his ass?"

“As long as you can stand up,” Natasha joked, then explained, “He’s Tony’s AI.”

"Ai? What about him?"

"He's lying in a 'coffin,' beaten into a semi-paralyzed vegetable by some woman. Now only his brain can still move."

She was referring to Captain Marvel.

T'Challa: ...

"I don't even know who's worse off, you or Tony from our world."

Bant interrupted the conversation: "Now that you know why your captain defected to Hydra, what are you planning to do? I can help you, but you don't have much time. Even if you destroy Hydra, it's useless if you don't have time to take these people away from Earth."

Tony said, "Perhaps it's to deceive you. Steve is indeed gathering the people. As long as we defeat them, the ship can still be launched and these people can be taken away. Or, we can simply hijack their ship and take these people away."

His meaning was to leave Hydra alone and let them fend for themselves.

The informant, who had finally managed to bring over the clue Rick Jones had found, became agitated and shouted at him, "You're giving up?! Rick Jones went through so much trouble to steal this, we had a chance to win! And you don't even care about it?!"

Tony wasn't angry; he simply said calmly, "No one can prove that everything on this USB drive is true. Maybe it's just a plan to lure us out and then wipe us out."

"Listen up, kid."

“We once thought Steve Rogers had been replaced and wanted to expose his true identity, but the plan failed, 89 people died, and the answer we got was: he was Steve Rogers. Later we thought he might have been brainwashed by Hydra, and more than a hundred people died in that operation... We made so many sacrifices, but we got nothing.”

The informant was furious: "Do you really think Rick Jones would lie to you?"

“Who knows? He used to be that guy’s assistant,” Tony said. “Maybe he’s already sided with Hydra and is deliberately giving us false information.”

Upon hearing about the sacrifices, the informant fell silent.

Ultimately, how much did he really know about Rick Jones?

But then, Steve, contrary to his usual silence, spoke up: "No matter what, we have to try." As he spoke, a flame of hope seemed to flicker in his eyes.

He had personally experienced the power of the Cosmic Cube.

It was just a failed experiment that brought about a huge leap forward for their race.

What if it were a true cube?
What if it's a complete cube?
Would their evolutionary path, now at its end, be completely resolved? Seeing his enthusiasm, Bant knew that the other party probably had ideas about the Cosmic Cube.

“How about we split up?” he said. “According to the information we have, the known fragments of the Tesseract are scattered in Wakanda, Atlantis, the mutant nation, and Ultron’s domain. Collecting them one by one would definitely take too long.”

"Little Class is right!"

Steve nodded in agreement, becoming more talkative, his desire for the Cosmic Cube becoming increasingly apparent.

"Wakanda has always been T'Challa's territory. Go negotiate with Black Panther in this world. Ben, how about you go to Ultron's Realm? Those robots are helpless against your shapeshifters. Leave the mutant kingdom to..."

His gaze swept across the room and landed on Ruma, whose appearance was unusual.

“Leave it to Ruma. Felicia can go with Ruma, or stay behind to help them try to seize Hydra’s ship or open the Star Shield.”

"And Atlantis is in my hands." He made the arrangements for everyone very clear.

The people who seized the Cosmic Cube were all from Bant's team, so even if Natasha and the others had doubts, they couldn't say anything.

As for his true thoughts...

'Atlantis is close to Wakanda, yet relatively far from other places. Once I obtain the Atlantean cube fragment, I'll immediately attack T'Challa, steal the fragment from him, and then slowly figure out how to get the others.'

The evolved humans already had a perfect plan in mind.

however,
"Your idea is good, but I think we should make some minor changes."

How could Bant possibly let him have his way?

Whatever the enemy supports, we must oppose!

Isn't the evolved human's goal to access the Cosmic Cube? Then let's make him carry out a mission without a cube.

"The mission to infiltrate Hydra is assigned to you. Felicia will assist Ruma."

"But what about Atlantis?"

The evolved humans were getting anxious.

“We’ll send people to Atlantis. We can’t expect you to do all the work,” Hawkeye suddenly said.

He didn't know what Bant was planning, but he also felt that this arrangement was more reasonable.

“You are Steve Rogers from another universe. Making good use of your face will be more beneficial to our infiltration operation.”

The evolved humans had no choice but to remain silent.

Now is not the time to tear off the mask of civility. Even after being strengthened, the evolved humans do not believe they are a match for Bant.

We still need to find a way to get the cubic meters first!
'My disguise is perfect. It's not too late to take it after they've gotten all the fragments.'

The evolved humans are indulging in fantasy again.

"Okay, let's do it that way. But we need to hurry, time is running out."

"Then let's get started. Take me to your lab."

Bant beckoned to AI Tony, who immediately became alert.

"What do you want to do?"

"Of course, it's to fix the air conditioner that Tony Stark can't handle, and also, while we're at it, to water that vegetable."

"Or is it that taking a piss is more nutritious?"

"roll!"

(End of this chapter)