American comics: Starting as the Jinchūriki of the One-Tailed Beast

Chapter 146 Tony and Rogers' Breakup (4000 words)

Tony didn't realize it at first.

After a few seconds, he finally spoke, "Even if you're here, I won't have any reservations. Come with me!"

"I don't care if he's been brainwashed or not, he must pay for killing my parents!"

Roy did not refuse and nodded.

Seeing him nod, Tony immediately instructed Jarvis to activate the Mark 20 in the studio.

Compared to the previous Mark 15, the Mark 20 did not have any major optimizations, only some minor functional improvements.

Soon, Mark 20 arrived at the reception room under Jarvis's control.

Tony stood up decisively, put on the Mark 20, and gestured to Roy with his eyes to open the portal.

Roy picked up the Tesseract from the coffee table and created a portal to Bucky.

He didn't know where Bucky was.

When the shadow clones eliminated Hydra agents at the Tri-Wing Building and underground base yesterday, they did not encounter Bucky.

Not only Bucky, but Pierce also didn't know where he was hiding.

However, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Bucky and Pierce should be together now.

Compared to him, Bucky, who was injected with the enhanced serum, was no different from an ordinary person.

But within Hydra, Bucky is undoubtedly a top-tier fighter.

Aside from the five Winter Soldier soldiers frozen in the Siberian base, and Pietro and Wanda, whose current status as superhumans is unknown, Bucky's strength is practically nonexistent within Hydra.

In just a second or two, the portal was formed.

Once the portal was formed, Tony immediately closed the visor of his helmet and walked in without saying a word.

Roy, holding the Tesseract, leisurely stepped through the portal.

After emerging from the portal, the first thing they saw was Bucky standing a few meters away, exuding an aura that warned others to stay away.

Bucky wasn't wearing a mask at this moment. He had a tactical belt around his waist and a rifle in his hand. He stood behind Pierce, who was dressed in a sharp suit, like a bodyguard.

Besides Bucky and Pierce, there were twenty or thirty Hydra soldiers nearby.

Like Bucky, these Hydra soldiers also raised their pistols and pointed them at Roy and Tony.

As soon as Pierce gave the order, they would pull the trigger and fire wildly at Roy and his companion.

When Roy first emerged from the portal, he had no idea where he was.

However, upon seeing the freezing equipment around him, and the five men and one woman whose auras were completely different from the other Hydra soldiers, he knew where he was.

The five men and one woman with cold expressions and dressed in black combat suits were none other than the other five Winter Soldier besides Bucky.

Although they are all Winter Soldier, the enhancement serum they are injected with was not developed by Hydra scientists, but by Howard.

The reason why Howard's enhanced serum was used on them is quite simple.

Bucky took it from the trunk when he killed the Howards.

These five Winter Soldier members don't have Bucky's mechanical arms, but their strength is in no way inferior to Bucky's.

In one-on-one close combat, any one of them possesses strength comparable to Bucky's.

In addition, they speak 30 languages ​​and are skilled in covert operations, infiltration, assassination, and destabilizing the government.

In Pakistan's words, they could bring down a country overnight without any warning.

If there is any problem, it is that the mental state of these five Winter Soldier is not very stable. During the relevant tests, they attacked the researchers and Hydra warriors.

It was precisely for this reason that, after being transformed into Winter Soldier, Hydra rarely sent them on missions, freezing them in a secret base in Siberia.

Tony ignored Pierce and the other five Winter Soldier members, staring intently at Bucky, and said to Roy, "Barnes is mine. You deal with the rest!"

"Okay!" Roy replied quickly.

As soon as he finished answering, Pierce ordered Bucky and the others to open fire.

Da da da da da da da da——————

Intense gunfire erupted throughout the hall, bullets raining down on Roy and his companion.

However, none of the bullets hit their target.

After flying to Roy and his companion, the bullets stopped instantly, floating in the air and maintaining their rotating posture, as if they had been frozen in mid-air.

Magnetism!

Roy didn't have a penchant for taking bullets with his body.

As Buggy and the others raised their arms to aim at him and Tony, he silently unleashed Magnet Release, converting his chakra into a high-intensity magnetic force.

After stopping the incoming bullet, Roy redirected it, sending it flying back the way it came.

The moment he stopped the bullet, Bucky and the five Winter Soldier soldiers realized something was wrong.

Bucky grabbed Pierce by the shoulder and pulled him behind a pillar.

The five Winter Soldier soldiers immediately took cover behind nearby bunkers.

The other Hydra soldiers reacted a fraction of a second slower.

Normally, being a little slower in reaction time doesn't have much of an impact.

But in such situations, a slow reaction means death.

Without exception, all the Hydra soldiers who did not go were riddled with bullets that flew back the same way.

With the Hydra soldiers falling, Tony wasted no more time. He activated the thrusters on his feet and flew towards Bucky at breakneck speed like a cannonball.

He had absolutely no interest in Pierce or the other five Winter Soldier.

His only thought now is to kill Bucky and avenge his dead parents.

As Tony flew toward Bucky, Roy used his Shadow Clone Technique.

With a loud bang, five plumes of white smoke appeared out of thin air.

As the smoke cleared, five shadow clones that looked exactly like him appeared on either side of him.

Without his order, the shadow clones simultaneously used the Instantaneous Movement Technique to appear in front of the five Winter Warriors.

The shadow clones did not use ninjutsu or genjutsu, but instead used taijutsu.

Although the Shadow Clone is far less resistant to damage than the Wood Clone, Roy still chose the Shadow Clone over the Wood Clone.

As for why, the reason is very simple.

Even if the shadow clone only uses physical techniques, it can easily kill these five Winter Warriors without taking any damage.

Since there's no risk of injury, there's no need to specifically use the Wood Clone Technique.

The battle between the shadow clone and the Winter Soldier ended quickly.

These five Winter Soldier fighters, whose fighting skills and physical attributes were in no way inferior to Bucky's, were as helpless as infants who couldn't walk in front of the Shadow Clones.

After killing them, four shadow clones immediately dispelled their own existence, turning into white smoke and disappearing with a bang.

The remaining shadow clone teleported in front of Pierce like a ghost and grabbed him by the neck.

Click!

A crisp sound of the neck bone breaking rang out immediately.

With a slight exertion of his right hand, the shadow clone snapped Pierce's neck like a withered twig.

Immediately afterwards, the shadow clone casually tossed Pierce's corpse aside as if it were trash, and then ceased to exist.

Just a dozen seconds ago, there were more than thirty living people in the hall.

Now, only Roy, Tony, and Bucky remained in the huge hall.

Roy sat down on a nearby crate and watched Tony and Bucky fight with a calm expression.

In terms of combat experience and skills, Tony is far inferior to Bucky.

However, under Tony's relentless and frenzied attacks, Bucky was forced to retreat repeatedly.

At first, Bucky was able to hold his own against Tony for a few moves.

But after Tony activated the combat mode analysis system, Bucky never hit Tony again.

In order to inflict as much pain as possible on Bucky, Tony did not use any other weapons on his suit except for the arc pulse cannons in his palms, and began to beat Bucky with his bare hands.

Thud! Thud! ————

The dull, drum-like sound of battle drums rang out continuously!

The combat patterns were completely analyzed, and Bucky, one of Hydra's top combatants, became a human punching bag.

Tony's fists kept landing on Bucky, beating him until he coughed up blood and looked like a horrible mess.

Just as Bucky was about to collapse, Tony grabbed Bucky's mechanical arm and forcefully broke it off.

With the robotic arm destroyed, Bucky lost his last means of resistance and collapsed to the ground in agony.

Tony casually tossed the broken mechanical arm aside and stomped on Bucky's chest.

"This punch was for my father!"

Bang!

Tony's right fist slammed heavily into Bucky's head.

"This punch was for my mother!"

Bang!

No sooner had he finished speaking than Bucky received another punch to the head.

Bucky didn't say anything.

At this point, it's already quite remarkable that he hasn't immediately lost consciousness, let alone spoken.

Seeing Bucky's face covered in blood, Tony loosened Bucky's collar, stood up, and aimed the arc pulse cannon in his right palm at Bucky's head.

Just as he was about to smash Bucky's head and use Bucky's life to pay tribute to his deceased parents, a hurried voice came from the corridor.

"Stark, stop!"

The speaker was none other than Rogers.

Rogers, wielding a vibranium shield, rushed out of the corridor at top speed.

He didn't come alone.

Natasha and Hawkeye came with him.

In addition, they brought a fully armed special forces team.

Rogers quickly arrived in front of Tony.

Seeing his best friend Bucky beaten bloody and barely breathing by Tony, his expression turned grim.

Just as he was about to say something more, Tony activated the arc pulse cannon in his right palm.

Bang!

An electric arc pulse, like a beam of energy, struck Bucky's head precisely, shattering it like a watermelon falling from a great height.

Blood and brain matter splattered everywhere, staining Tony and Rogers.

this----

Apart from Roy, neither Rogers nor Natasha expected Tony to be so decisive in firing and killing Bucky.

Rogers unconsciously clenched his fists, veins bulged on his forehead and neck, and his chest heaved violently.

He only found out yesterday that Bucky was still alive.

As a result, Bucky died right in front of him today.

Why?

"You should know that he has been brainwashed by Hydra. Killing your parents was not his intention. Why are you unwilling to let him go?"

"Rogers glared at Tony and said loudly.

Why should I let him go?

"Just because he's your friend, I'm supposed to let him go?"

"Yes, he was brainwashed, but that doesn't change the fact that my parents died at his hands!"

"I don't care who he is, or what he's been through. As long as his hands are stained with my parents' blood, I will make him pay with his life!"

"If you want to avenge him, I don't mind having a life-or-death duel with you right now."

"Furthermore, you are not worthy to use this shield; it was made by my father!"

"You know he killed my parents, but instead of seeking revenge, you plan to protect him. Is this how you repay my father?"

"Don't forget, my father also deserves credit for your success as Captain America, the person everyone knows."

"Without the equipment he made, even with the serum injection, you might not survive!"

Tony opened the visor of his helmet, glared at Rogers, and shouted back.

Because of their personalities, he and Rogers never really got along.

Furthermore, unlike in the movies where they fought together in the Battle of New York and the Battle of Sokovia, he doesn't fight alongside Rogers very often now.

If Rogers had called him after learning that Bucky had murdered the Howards, or had come to New York in person to plead for him, he wouldn't have been so angry.

Rogers fell silent and turned to look at Bucky's headless corpse.

After a silence of more than ten seconds, Rogers removed the vibranium shield and tossed it aside.

He then picked up Bucky's body, turned his back to Tony, and said, "I'm leaving the Avengers. From this day forward, I have nothing to do with the Avengers."

After saying that, he carried Bucky's body and walked down the corridor.

Before long, his figure disappeared around the corner of the corridor.

After he left, Roy asked Natasha, "How did you find this place?"

Without any hesitation, Natasha replied immediately: "After the riot at headquarters ended, the department used all its resources to find Pierce's whereabouts. They discovered that he arrived in Russia yesterday afternoon on a private plane belonging to a multinational trading company, and finally followed the trail here."

"But we didn't expect to meet you and Stark here."

Pierce is the leader of Hydra.

Even though S.H.I.E.L.D. has a lot of things to deal with right now, capturing Pierce is still their highest priority mission.

Roy didn't ask any more questions. He took out the Tesseract from the system space and created a portal back to Tony's villa.

Tony wasn't in the mood to talk to Natasha and the others. Without a word, he entered the portal and returned to his villa in the suburbs of New York.

Roy had no intention of staying any longer, so he entered the portal and disappeared from Natasha and the others' sight.

As soon as he closed the portal, he heard Tony giving instructions to Jarvis.

Jarvis posted an announcement on the Avengers website that Rogers was leaving the Avengers.

Normally, Tony might have tried to persuade Rogers to stay.

But now, he has no such thoughts at all.

Since Rogers wants to break ties completely, then so be it!

"Yes, sir," Jarvis replied immediately.

After giving Jarvis his instructions, Tony activated his suit, stepped out, and said to Roy, "I'm really looking for a drink right now. Want to have a few drinks with me?"

"Okay!" Roy nodded.

Although he avenged the Howards, Tony's mood was clearly not going to improve anytime soon.

It's understandable that Tony would want to drown his sorrows in alcohol at a time like this.

Tony gave Roy a grateful look, then turned and walked toward the wine cellar.

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