Become a Homelander and a Marvel superstar

Azu floated in mid-air, with a huge stone statue that he had split in two standing beneath his feet.

He should have been enjoying this moment, savoring the thrill of conquering a powerful foe, but instead, a chill crept up his spine.

That was the "spider-sense" he received from Peter Parker.

Unlike the match against Thor two years ago.

This warning felt like a mad drummer pounding heavy metal rhythms inside his skull, making every hair stand on end as if electrified, and even his skin felt phantom pain.

This level of warning was something he had never encountered before in the Marvel Universe.

"Jessica." Azu flew to Jessica's side instantly, his voice low and urgent.

"I want you to leave and go back to the spaceship. Now!"

Jessica Jones is holding a camera, filming several close-up shots of the stone giant's remains.

She was taken aback by his words and looked at Ah Zu with a puzzled expression.

"What? Why are you leaving? Didn't you win? I still have to film that..."

"Something's not right," Azu said gravely. "Some kind of change is happening on this planet that I can't predict. Your presence here is distracting me."

"I'm not leaving," Jessica stubbornly retorted. "I have a spacesuit; I can teleport. I can take care of myself."

"Miss Jones!"

Azu let out a low growl, a faint red light flashing in his eyes—a dangerous warning.

"This is an order, not a discussion!"

"Go back to the spaceship and wait for me in geosynchronous orbit."

Jessica looked at him, her lips moved, but she couldn't bring herself to say anything in response. She knew this man too well; when he spoke in this tone, it usually meant things were really serious.

"Okay." She didn't waste any more words or ask why. "But listen, Anthony. If I see you dying up there, I'll still come back."

"Suit yourself." Azu's eyes regained their calm. "Now, let's go."

Without further hesitation, Jessica reached out and pressed the device on her chest, and a blue holographic spacesuit covered her entire body.

She suppressed her unease and took one last deep look at Ah Zu.

next second.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

After a few flashes, Jessica's figure disappeared from Azu's sight.

……

Outer space, geosynchronous orbit.

Homelander 1 is silently hovering in the dark universe.

"Whoosh!"

Jessica appeared out of thin air on the spaceship's observation deck.

"Hey! You scared me to death!" Startled Rocket Raccoon, who was munching on beer-flavored chips in the driver's seat, the raccoon dropped his snacks. "Next time, can you at least use the front door? Or at least ring the doorbell first?!"

Jessica ignored the rocket's complaints. She felt her heart pounding, and the unease she felt became even more pronounced in space.

She walked quickly to the huge porthole and looked down.

That one glance was enough to make this formidable woman, who was used to seeing alien fleets, feel as if the blood in her body was about to freeze.

"My God..." This was absolutely the most terrifying sight she had ever seen in her life.

Previously, when they approached Ego Star, all they saw was a somewhat abstract outline composed of clouds and terrain.

It takes a bit of imagination to recognize the facial features that resemble a human.

But now... it's wriggling.

The continental plates are shifting, the oceans are flowing backward, and the clouds are reorganizing.

It no longer resembled a human face; it was a face.

The towering mountain range forms a high nose bridge, and the deep canyons resemble tightly closed lips...

Suddenly.

The planet's previously slightly closed "eyes" have opened.

Those were two blue seas of light, each thousands of kilometers in diameter, churning with endless divine power and malice.

At this moment, megalophobia and the uncanny valley effect combined to the extreme.

at the same time.

The image was simultaneously transmitted back to Earth via the still-dutiful live-streaming device.

The billions of viewers in the live stream also witnessed this indescribable horror through Jessica's camera lens.

The people who were cheering for Azu splitting the stone giant now felt as if they had been collectively choked.

In Times Square, people looked up at the giant screen displaying a planet with its eyes open. The enormous blue eye seemed to pierce through the screen, hanging above the Earth.

"Th-what is that...?"

A little girl dropped her ice cream on the ground, pointed at the screen, and her voice was trembling with tears.

"Mom...that ball is looking at me..."

No one could answer her.

Because the adults were trembling too.

That was a terror that surpassed the limits of human cognition.

Godzilla and alien fleets are nothing compared to this living planet.

If the people of our motherland are gods among men, then this one before us... is a demon that devours the world.

In the live stream, there was even a gap in the number of comments.

Several seconds passed before someone finally typed out the words with trembling fingers.

I...I feel like throwing up...

Is this real? The planet... has come to life?

Can we really win? This kind of thing... a nuclear bomb would just be a pimple, right?

Don't look at that eye! Don't look!

[I'm not watching anymore! I'm turning it off! I feel like it's watching me!]

Are Homelanders still down there? Oh my god...

……

"Friday! Friday!"

Jessica snapped out of her daze, lunged at the control panel, and yelled into the communicator.

"Quickly! Contact Anthony! Get him out of there! Immediately!"

"Attempting to establish a connection, Miss Jones." Friday's calm tone sounded unusually cold now. "Connection failed. Signal is being interfered with by a strong magnetic field."

"Try again! Quickly!"

"Warning! High-energy reaction detected; the target planet is releasing an energy field."

Jessica turned to look out the porthole.

Then, Ego Star's enormous mouth slowly opened.

"call----"

Although she didn't hear any sound, Jessica felt as if she could hear a sigh from hell.

A faint blue mist-like energy spewed out from that "giant mouth".

It's like a rapidly spreading virus.

In just a few seconds, the blue mist enveloped the entire planet's atmosphere, forming a film of light that completely sealed off the planet.

"Damn it!" Jessica was frantic. She no longer relied on the communicator; it was a waste of time.

She pressed the button on her chest, activating the holographic spacesuit.

"I'm going down to find him!"

"Are you crazy?!" Rocket jumped over and grabbed her. "That thing looks like it'll eat people! You'll die!"

"Let go!"

Jessica shook off the rocket and vanished in a flash.

"Whoosh!"

The next second, she appeared at the edge of the atmosphere of Ego.

She tried to teleport back to the surface and return to Azu's side.

but……

"Thump!"

It was as if she had bumped into an invisible wall; Jessica's figure appeared outside the blue membrane.

"What's going on?" She tried teleporting again.

"Whoosh!" Still in the same spot.

That seemingly thin layer of blue mist was like an invisible wall, isolating the continuity of space.

Worse still, the blue mist seemed to sense her presence.

Like living tentacles, they began to extend upwards, curling towards Jessica.

The feeling was like falling into super glue.

"Get out of here!"

Jessica used Flash to escape again.

"Buzz—"

The space rippled slightly, but she remained in the same spot.

Blue mist quickly enveloped her limbs, corroding the energy shield of her spacesuit, while alarms blared frantically in her ears.

"Teleport! Teleport! Teleport!"

Jessica frantically issued commands in her mind.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!"

Her figure flickered wildly in place.

But each flash only means staying in the same place.

The blue mist had covered her mask, obscuring her vision.

A feeling of suffocation and despair overwhelmed her.

"Anthony..." Jessica murmured the name in her mind as her consciousness began to fade.

"BOOM!!!!"

Inside the planet below, a blinding burst of lightning suddenly erupted.

A sharp sword, crackling with golden lightning, pierced the sky from the earth! It forcefully sliced ​​through the viscous blue mist covering Jessica's body.

Followed by.

Amidst the rumbling thunder, a figure pierced through the atmosphere and the fog.

Like a shooting star traveling in reverse, it broke through numerous obstacles and arrived at Jessica's side in an instant.