American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 456 Look in my eyes
My lifelong enemy!
Tony Stark was certain that the guy in front of him was definitely his nemesis.

Which kind-hearted person would immediately offer to fertilize a person in a vegetative state?

But he still brought Bant to his lab, as fixing the air conditioner was a real priority right now.

Bant examined the refrigerant for a long time and concluded: "There's no refrigerant left."

"Nonsense, do you need me to tell you?"

Tony was speechless.

If there had been refrigerant, he wouldn't have been at a loss.

This is like having no rice to cook, no vegetables to stir-fry, and wanting to have sex but finding you don't have a girlfriend. As a last resort, you can only have sex, only to find that you don't even have the right tools.

“It’s not my fault, you do it if you’re so good!” Tony said, immediately offering his opinion.

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Bant raised an eyebrow: "Are you challenging me?"

"If you can fix the air conditioner without refrigerant, I'll call you dad!"

Bant's favorite thing was to slap the face of arrogant guys like Tony.

"Cryogenic lizard".

To Tony's astonishment, Bant transformed into a blue dwarf lizard. With a single breath, a terrifying chill emanated from his mouth, instantly causing the temperature in the entire laboratory to drop by tens of degrees. Even AI Tony's instruments were affected, hissing a few times before stabilizing.

When he opened his eyes again, he saw the crystals that had condensed in front of Bant due to the extremely low temperature.

"what is this?"

“It’s a crystal. It can maintain its coolness for several weeks at temperatures close to minus 100 degrees Celsius,” Bant explained as he placed the crystal into the air conditioner. “Once the machine is running, its cool air can be piped to every corner of your base.”

"Son, call me Dad!"

"You're cheating!" Tony refused to admit it. "I had no idea you could turn into a frozen little lizard."

"What's going on?"

"If you can't change, you should look for the problem within yourself. Tell me, is the air conditioner fixed? Okay, speak up! Look me in the eyes!"

What could Tony say? He could only watch silently as Bant started fiddling with the aircraft again.

"Ruma, come in and lend a hand."

The burly Ruma walked in: "What's wrong, Ben?"

"I need a few engines; could you please help me upgrade them?"

"no problem."

Luma agreed. She may seem rough, but she is actually very skillful. Assembling and modifying the engine was a piece of cake for her.

"Wow, an engine can be designed like this?" Tony exclaimed. "Can I modify it into my armor? I'm willing to pay royalties."

"No need, just call me Dad."

Bant didn't even turn his head.

He transformed into a shapeshifter, assembling several engines in the blink of an eye and then merging them into several small aircraft.

"Forget it, talking to you will only drive me crazy sooner or later." Tony Stark, unable to bear the humiliation any longer, decided to just install the engine first.

By the time all the preparations were complete, another half hour had passed.

In the base hall.

“Six hours and 23 minutes left.” Bant glanced at his watch. “Spacecraft equipped with the Tetraman engines can reach any corner of Earth within a minute, but more importantly, they can complete interstellar travel in an extremely short time.” “Luma and I have prepared dozens of engines that you need to install on the Hydra mothership, after we successfully seize it. Then it will be able to take you away from Earth quickly.”

As he spoke, he handed out dozens of badges from the Tian Gong Association.

"so small?"

Natasha was confused.

What Bant was holding looked like a smack. What could it possibly do?
Are you going to a comic convention?
“I concentrated it using nanotechnology, otherwise how could you move around with the engine?” Bant said, demonstrating how to use it. “Just put the badge on the engine.”

After the Tian Gong emblem was attached to the engine of a car, a large number of nanomolecules diffused, eroding and reorganizing the original engine, turning it into a completely new engine.

Meanwhile, more nanomolecules slowly form an outer layer, enveloping the car.

“For faster-than-light travel, the spaceship itself needs to be strong enough,” Bant explained, taking back the badge and handing it to Natasha, while whispering something in her ear.

Natasha was somewhat surprised and avoided looking at Steve.

What are you doing?
Is this Steve fake too?
Is being replaced simply Steve Rogers' fate?
What puzzled her even more was why Bant, knowing this, still allowed the other party to participate in the operation.

But now is not the time to ask.

Hawkeye said, "I've broken down the group assignments. No matter which side you're on, you'll need at least three people to work together."

He looked at Steve: "Captain, Natasha, Mockingbird, and Miles, your mission is to infiltrate Hydra headquarters, disable the planetary shield, and rescue Rick Jones."

"T'Challa, Vivi, Kamala, the three of you go to Wakanda and do your best to persuade Black Panther to hand over the Tesseract fragment to us."

“Ms. Luma, Black Cat, you’re going to New Tian, ​​the land of mutants. You might need a guide, Quicksilver.”

As soon as he finished speaking, a familiar face suddenly appeared – it was Pietro.

"I hope my dad won't beat me to death if he finds out I lost my sister," Quicksilver said helplessly.

The Scarlet Witch of this world has been corrupted by the will of an ancient god summoned by Lady Hydra through some kind of consciousness, and is now a member of Hydra's Avengers.

She was experiencing hallucinations.

He was infected with Dr. Zola's virus and became a Hydra agent.

Of the three main members of the Hydra Avengers, only Thor was willing to obey Steve.

Because after Steve revealed that he belonged to Hydra, he raised Thor's hammer in front of everyone, which made Thor stubbornly believe that the current Steve was right and that he was recognized by Mjolnir.

“Tony, Amadeus, and I will go to Atlantis,” Hawkeye said. “But before that, we need more people to go to different cities. Your mission is to hijack Hydra’s ship, then wait for Nata to open the shield and take the people away from Earth.”

Bant glanced at the list; there were dozens of squads, most of whom were street-level heroes he'd never heard of.

He even saw a falcon inside.

But there was no Winter Soldier.

"Where's Bucky Barnes? Is he still loyal to Hydra?"

When it came to Bucky, Hawkeye and the others were silent for a moment, before Tony finally explained:

"died."

His expression was ambiguous, neither dejected nor anything else, but it was certainly not happy.

“Steve killed him with his own hands, killed his best friend.”

"Steve killed Barnes? Are you kidding me?" T'Challa was incredulous, his expression no less than if he had heard that Ultraman Seven had lost to Zedi.

“Now you know how absurd this world is,” Tony laughed sarcastically. “That guy with his ass sticking out like that actually said his best friend is Baron Zemo, he’s insane!”

(End of this chapter)