The call to counterattack has sounded!
At this moment, Norman, devoid of any superpowers, seemed to have become the leader of the Avengers.
He even snatched Steve Rogers' classic line.
But no one found anything wrong with it. Anyone who wasn't a high-ranking member of Hydra, seeing Norman Osborn's performance today, would have found him incredibly heroic.
He dared to challenge Pierce without any preparation.
And the public adored him even more.
Everyone couldn't help but think that they truly needed a strong-willed person to lead everything, to wield the superpowered individuals like a hammer, delivering a heavy blow to evil!
In reality, though.
Norman was also panicking.
The moment he saw Pierce pull out a gun, he felt a bit dizzy.
What gave him confidence was a small gadget Ben had given him – a portable energy shield that could envelop him in an instant.
So, even if Steve hadn't arrived in time at that moment, he would have been fine.
Of course, as a show, the effect wouldn't have been as good as it was now.
At this moment, everyone was engaged in battle. After Connors injected himself with the serum again, his physical condition was immediately healed by the serum's regenerative abilities.
Strangely, however, he wasn't the Dinosaur Man at this moment, but an ordinary Lizard Man.
Although his physique and defense were much weaker, Connors still charged towards the Hydra soldiers!
Peter quickly rescued Harry and the others.
"Are you okay, Harry?"
"I'm fine." Harry's voice sounded a bit weak, but with the battle armor Ben had given him, he was actually the safest among those captured.
After being rescued by Peter, he dodged the agents' attacks while remotely summoning a new Green Goblin skateboard.
Natasha, Nick Fury, and Hawkeye didn't have any weapons in hand, but their combat skills were strong, and they quickly snatched weapons from the Hydra agents and began to counterattack.
There were only a few of them, but they fought like an army of thousands.
And on the Hydra side, there was truly an army of thousands, and they were fully equipped!
"I still want to say..." Nick Fury bit down on a grenade and threw it forcefully. "Can't the Primus energy shield be nerfed so we can actually play?"
They couldn't break through it, they simply couldn't!
Only Tony Stark's battle armor's high-intensity energy could penetrate the shields; conventional weapons were useless.
"I remember you insisted on equipping every agent with one back then," Hill said, her hair stuck to her cheek as she dodged an attack.
"I didn't know they were Hydra..."
Nick Fury shouted.
On the other side, Connors charged towards the agents holding energy shields. The immense energy burned his skin, but he didn't even blink.
"Doctor, the energy shield is one-way."
Peter swung on his spider silk, flew over the Hydra agents from above, and kicked an agent away with a backflip.
Instantly, a gap appeared in the Hydra's defensive formation.
Connors immediately cooperated and charged through, instantly scattering the agents.
Seeing this, Peter backflipped and landed on Connors' shoulder, using him to cushion his fall before landing on the ground.
"I didn't expect you to make it back, but why did you turn into Lizard Man?"
Peter asked.
"I used the failed Lizard Serum from back then," Connors said, his round, ugly face splitting into a grin.
"Lizard Serum?!"
Peter jumped back in fright. "Weren't all of those destroyed?"
"You forgot the few that Stromm stole; they were at the Hardy Foundation,"
Connors recalled.
...
Let's rewind the time a bit.
At the Hardy Foundation.
Just as Mrs. Hardy was about to use her phone to report to Pierce, Felicia rushed in and snatched the phone from Mrs. Hardy.
"Felicia, what are you doing?" The way this seemingly delicate girl erupted in anger stunned even the usually authoritative Mrs. Hardy.
"Mom, you can't arrest them!" Felicia smashed Mrs. Hardy's phone, saying firmly.
A few minutes earlier, Felicia had seen Mary Jane.
After discovering that Primus was under lockdown, Mary Jane had immediately gone to find Felicia. In her eyes, the Hardy Foundation was also a colossal entity.
She thought Felicia might be able to do something to get Ben out of danger.
So, she told Felicia the secret she had discovered.
But the subsequent turn of events far exceeded the expectations of both girls.
Regardless, they couldn't just stand by and watch Ben and his friends fall into danger.
Connors breathed a sigh of relief, but he hadn't forgotten that he still had to return to the battlefield. However, with his serum power exhausted, he no longer had the strength to fight, and even his current injuries put him in danger at any moment.
At this moment, Felicia produced a green serum.
This was something she had obtained by chance.
Ever since Ben was captured by Kraven last time, Felicia had been hoping to gain the ability to protect him.
She had set her sights on the serum, but unexpectedly, before she even went looking for it, she found these things in a corner of the Hardy Foundation.
Felicia had even considered injecting it herself at one point, but she worried about permanently turning into an ugly, giant lizard, so she couldn't make up her mind.
As it happened, Connors' appearance led her to give away all the serum vials directly.
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Peter was utterly astonished after hearing Connors' explanation.
"There's such a thing?"
Connors grabbed a Hydra soldier and crushed his head, then said, "I suspect Stromm deliberately placed it in the Hardy Foundation."
"I heard that Benny and Felicia acquired the original Osborn equipment from him. I think he might have held a grudge and placed these serums in the Hardy Foundation. If someone accidentally broke them, Felicia would turn into a monster!"
"That madman Stromm!"
Peter cursed angrily.
Then he asked worriedly, "Doctor, can you control yourself?"
"Don't worry, I was injected with an antidote before, so there won't be a problem for a while. Be careful, the enemy is coming again!"
A heavy machine gun opened fire, bullets striking the ground, even piercing the asphalt road dozens of centimeters deep.
Peter and Connors quickly separated.
Tony, in the air, also came under heavy attack.
"There are too many of them!"
He flew in the air, blasting away a few enemies with his repulsor rays head-on, but was hit by a missile from behind, crashing heavily to the ground.
"Where's our support?!"
He yelled.
"Ben's whereabouts are currently unknown," Steve said, pushing forward with difficulty through the hail of bullets.
"Then we're done for..."
Stark said dejectedly, looking at the dark clouds gathering in the sky.
"Mr. Stark, why are you speaking so dishearteningly?"
Peter shouted, dodging bullets.
"You guys see for yourselves."
He pointed upwards.
In the sky, three massive aircraft carriers floated, like the Sword of Damocles, threatening the safety of the world.
Those colossal behemoths, like islands suspended in the air, pressed down ominously on everyone's hearts.
Upon seeing this, Pierce, who had been furious at the appearance of the superheroes, immediately burst into laughter.
He had hidden himself the moment the battle began.
Now, he had found an opportunity to return to the aircraft carrier by plane. In the main control room, Pierce looked down at the tiny superheroes in Times Square, feeling like a god wielding divine punishment.
He directly pressed the attack button.
Instantly, bullets and explosives rained down like a storm!
Boom!!
Boom!!
It was almost an indiscriminate attack!
However, the Hydras had energy shields to protect their heads.
"Spider-Kid!"
Stark shouted, throwing out several devices. When the devices opened, they immediately formed a small localized field, enveloping Peter.
Peter, quick as lightning, simultaneously shot out several strands of spider silk, pulling Natasha and the others into the field.
"Thanks!"
The first wave of the aircraft carrier's assault was safely weathered.
But no one breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the bullets were merely the least significant weapons on those three behemoths.
Pierce didn't immediately continue his attack.
He opened the communication system, and the screen immediately appeared on the giant screens in Times Square.
He laughed mockingly, "Heh heh, you've already lost, Fury, Captain. That was just a small greeting."
"The weapons loaded on these three carriers are enough to start a war and conquer a small country in a day!"
"And we have you to thank for this, Tony Stark, as well as that hacker whose life is unknown... Without your help, it would have been difficult for us to get these three giants into the sky so quickly."
"Shut up, you bastard!"
Steve violently swung his round shield, smashing Pierce's face on the screen.
But then, Pierce directly used a virtual projection.
"You're fighting a losing battle, Captain."
"Just wait and see, Hydra's holy fire will purify you all!"
"A new world will be reborn from the ashes of the old, hahahaha..."
"He's planning to use nuclear missiles!"
Nick Fury's face darkened.
Just as he said, the carriers' nuclear missile programs began to activate. The three carriers flew higher into the sky to avoid being affected by their own attacks.
The heroes could run, but New York couldn't.
Soon, the three carriers reached sufficient altitude, and Pierce resolutely pressed the nuclear missile activation button.
"Perish with this city, Fury, hahahaha..."
However, the carriers showed no reaction.
"Huh?"
Pierce froze for a moment, then pressed the button several more times. He kept pressing the red button until it was almost sparking before realizing that it actually wasn't working.
No way, something this important could be broken?
His laughter abruptly stopped.
At this moment, a hoarse voice came from behind him.
"Of course it's not broken. I've already taken control of the carriers' programs."
Pierce turned around and saw that all the agents had been frozen into sculptures.
Ben, who had transformed into Big Chill, walked towards him.
"Why aren't you laughing anymore? Is it just your nature not to laugh?"
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