This sentence became the clarion call to war!
An agent standing to Steve's front right immediately turned, weapon aimed at the incoming threat.
The others also sprang into action, and in an instant, the cramped elevator became a scene of a dozen people brawling.
And Steve wasn't the only one being attacked!
Underground base.
Peter, who was repairing the aircraft carrier with Tony, suddenly had his Spider-Sense triggered.
"Mr. Stark, watch out!"
Peter didn't have time to think; he immediately lunged towards Tony.
"What are you doing, ouch?"
Tony felt like he'd been hit by a train, unable to stand up straight from the pain.
The next moment, a bomb flew in, landing where Tony and Peter had just been standing.
*BOOM!*
Peter looked up, his face contorting into a grim expression as he saw hundreds of people surrounding them on the suspended bridge above.
"We're surrounded, Mr. Stark!" Peter yelled.
"Tony Stark, Spider-Man, don't make any sudden moves. We suspect you two are Hydra spies. Put down your weapons immediately and submit to investigation!"
"We're Hydra spies?"
Tony was so angry he almost laughed.
That kid Ben was right after all. S.H.I.E.L.D. has been rotten to the core. Tony's expression was grim inside his Battle Armor.
He didn't say anything else.
Because he was too lazy to speak to those who wouldn't listen!
"You want me to put down my weapons? Fine, let's do this!"
He raised his arm, and a row of small missiles rose like a magazine clip, firing out instantly!
"*WHOOSH!*"
The missiles left long trails in the air before detonating, engulfing all the enemies in a flash of fiery light!
Seeing this, Peter cried out in alarm:
"Mr. Stark, your weapons will kill them all!"
"Why else would I fire them?"
Tony rolled his eyes.
Be merciful to enemies?
Dream on!
Just as Peter was still feeling it was a bit too brutal, the flames dissipated, revealing the agents, unharmed behind their Energy Shields.
"It's the Energy Shield Benny invented!" Peter shouted.
"Counterattack!"
The agents, holding machine guns and cannons, advanced under the Energy Shields, relentlessly firing at Tony and Peter.
Tony clicked his tongue impatiently, muttering, "Classic American comics, where the protagonist's inventions are used by the villains..."
The scene was all too familiar; he himself had almost died from a bomb he'd created.
But in reality, this was all part of Ben's deliberate plan.
After all, with the weapons on Tony's Battle Armor, wouldn't it be a massacre against those S.H.I.E.L.D. agents?
Ben was afraid Tony would break the plan he and Norman had discussed and simply wipe out Hydra within S.H.I.E.L.D.
How could that be allowed?
If Hydra didn't hold power, how could Norman Osborn turn the tide?
If Norman didn't turn the tide, how could H.A.M.M.E.R. be established?
If H.A.M.M.E.R. wasn't established, how could the Galactic Plumbers inherit the mantle of Hydra?
Therefore, Ben was actually bolstering Hydra's strength!
Tony was completely unaware of this.
The only plan he knew was to modify the aircraft carrier with Ben and then use Project Insight to find all of Hydra.
He had no idea Ben was already eyeing Hydra's legacy.
Now, Tony felt like this boomerang had come back and hit him, with the villains using Ben's weapons against them.
"Wait!"
"Why is Ben's boomerang hitting me?"
Tony suddenly had a realization.
Since Ben invented the energy shield, shouldn't Ben be the one in trouble right now?
Why was he still the one being surrounded?
"Damn it!"
"Spider-Kid, where's your brother?!"
"I don't know!"
Peter shouted.
At this moment, he was constantly dodging attacks, and the spider silk shot from his wrists was completely ineffective against the energy shield of the person he was hitting.
With a grim resolve, he activated the Iron Spider battle suit again.
Perhaps the suit's powerful shockwave could break through the energy shield.
"Mr. Stark, we need to use more powerful weapons."
After putting on the battle suit, Peter was no longer afraid of the hail of bullets. The dense bullets hit him, and sparks flew like droplets of water.
As he spoke, the device on his wrist was activated.
"I suggest you cover your ears immediately, or it's going to get a little loud."
"Wait!"
Tony rushed down and blocked Peter's path. "We can't do this here, or the aircraft carrier will be destroyed."
"At a time like this, you're still worried about the aircraft carrier?" Peter retorted.
"You don't understand, kid. This is our chance to completely eliminate Hydra and achieve victory!"
In Nick Fury's office, Pierce, who heard this, sneered and muttered to himself, "You're wrong, Tony Stark. This is Hydra's opportunity and weapon to overthrow the old world and create a new one!"
He knew that Nick Fury must have spoken very highly of Project Insight, but in reality, the algorithm for Project Insight originated from Dr. Zola. All his calculations were aimed at eliminating Hydra's enemies!
Tony Stark's painstaking efforts to upgrade the aircraft carrier were merely paving the way for them.
In the underground base.
After hearing Tony's words, Peter immediately aimed at the agent's arm and lifted it upwards.
*BOOM!*
The shockwave surged, instantly blasting a large hole in the ceiling of the base.
"Then let's take this outside!"
With that, he shot out spider silk and swung outwards.
At the same time, Tony also shot towards the hole Peter had created.
As soon as the two flew out, they heard a tearing sound from high above, followed by a rain of glass falling from the sky.
Steve broke through the window!
"Captain!"
Seeing this, Peter immediately wove a large net and caught Steve.
"Thank you, Spider-Man!"
The three landed simultaneously, forming a triangular formation back-to-back.
And in front of them, several Quinjets had already surrounded them.
"What the hell is Nick Fury doing? S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fangs are bared, and he's doing nothing?" Tony cursed angrily.
"Fury was attacked. We're probably on our own now," Steve said, panting. The fight in the elevator had consumed a lot of his energy.
But he still had a question.
"What about the Hacker?"
"Still in the base."
Tony replied, "Don't worry, that kid will be fine. His energy shield is tougher than a turtle's shell."
Among them, only Steve was a little worried about Ben, while Tony and Peter were completely unconcerned.
Tony knew that Ben invented many things and had plenty of trump cards, and Peter knew about the existence of the Little Broken Watch.
"Let's fight our own battle!"
"Then let's go!"
Captain America instantly threw his shield at one of the aircraft, and in an instant, the shield hit the Quinjet's turbine.
"Throw me out!"
Peter immediately understood. He grabbed Steve's arm with one hand, twisted his waist, and forcefully threw Steve into the air.
At the same time, he immediately turned around and unleashed a charged shockwave in another direction.
Sometimes, Peter felt that when he wore the Iron Spider battle suit, he no longer felt like Spider-Man, but had transformed into a mobile shockwave cannon.
On the other side, Tony Stark's attack was even simpler and more brutal.
Deploying Quinjets?
Then let's see who has the larger ammunition reserve!
He directly entered bombing mode, rows of inconspicuous missiles possessing immense power, continuously targeting the Quinjets.
In just an instant, all the Quinjets surrounding them were destroyed.
"Nicely done!"
As the group was about to celebrate, Peter's Spider-Sense went off again.
"Careful!"
The three of them looked up simultaneously, seeing a bomb falling from the sky. But before Tony could even attempt to detonate it, the bomb exploded mid-air on its own.
Instantly, a powerful electromagnetic pulse swept through the area.
"Machine... bzzt... malfunction..."
Intermittent voices from Jarvis and Karen reached Peter and Tony's ears simultaneously. Then, Tony's vision went black, his Battle Armor completely lost power, and he plummeted from the sky.
"Are you guys okay?"
Captain America shouted, full of worry.
"It's an EMP Bomb!"
Inside the Battle Armor, Tony's voice was muffled.
The electromagnetic pulse had caused his Battle Armor system to completely crash in an instant. Although his Arc Reactor's energy source was nuclear, the energy converted to power the Battle Armor was still in electrical form. Not to mention, the various technologies within the Battle Armor used electronic chips, all of which were completely destroyed by that one-second electromagnetic pulse.
At this moment, he was completely trapped inside the metal shell, unable to move.
The darkness made him feel incredibly suffocated.
His situation was different from Peter's.
Although his Battle Suit was also greatly affected, it didn't rely on an external energy source; he could move using his own strength alone.
However, all the equipment on his Battle Suit was now completely inoperable.
And now, all the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents had surrounded them, aiming their guns at them.
Damn it!
"What should we do, Captain?"
Peter asked.
"I still have one last resort, I don't know if it will work..."
Steve said uncertainly.
He still had a hammer he could use.
But the problem was, would the Hammer of Thor still listen to him?
Steve couldn't help but doubt.
He felt selfish and despicable for harboring Bucky, who had killed Howard. Such a person probably no longer had the right to wield the Hammer of Thor.
As Steve was thinking, a faint, hoarse voice, like that of a ghost, echoed.
"Are you dressed, friends?"
A semi-transparent shadow emerged from the ground, immediately causing Peter to exclaim excitedly:
"Ghostfreak, ...wait, who are you?"
But he quickly realized that the other party was not Ghostfreak at all.
It was a bipedal creature wrapped entirely in a cloak.
It looked like a phantom wizard.
Ben stepped towards the incoming Hydra agents.
Then, he slowly opened his mouth, and a terrifying cold current was instantly released from his body like the breath of an ice age!
In an instant, the agents, who were holding shields and thought themselves invincible, were all frozen into blocks of ice by Ben.
"You can call me, Big Chill."
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