Volume 6: Secret Invasion Chapter 30 Isn’t it normal for the Sinister Six to have seven members?
The troubled New York City has become a mess.
The superheroes arrived faster than the Skrulls expected, and the first batch of raiders led by Thor and Captain Marvel started a bloody storm as soon as they arrived.
The Skrulls also knew that this was the most critical moment, so they made preparations in advance. Not only did they gather a large number of elite soldiers here, they also specially arranged for the Mark Battle Suit Legion that Alpha Agent had hidden on Earth for many years to prepare for them.
However, the firepower of this wave of superheroes was a little bit stronger than expected. The "salvo" of more than a dozen Thor's hammers at the beginning brought about flying thunders all over the sky, which almost scared the Skrull elite soldiers to death.
What's going on?
Was Thor massacred or what?
If twelve Thors come together, not to mention the Skrull coalition, even an average Hulk wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
However, it turns out that there is still a slight difference between the fake and the genuine product.
Among the twelve Thor's hammers thrown out at once, except for the real Meowth Hammer that went straight forward and destroyed three lines of defense, the other hammers were defeated at the second line of defense.
But this isn't really a good thing.
After all, Mason was ingenious and innovatively combined the Isu inscriptions that can absorb energy and the Asgardian inscriptions that can manipulate lightning, so that these hammers can continue to summon lightning to strike the surroundings as long as they are not broken.
Although its strength is far inferior to the authentic God Hammer, it can be defeated by its large number.
The X-Men Angel Warren descended from the sky amid rolling lightning, clutching a warhammer in one hand and pounced down like a "thunderbolt", knocking down a dozen Skrull cannon fodder soldiers in one encounter.
The eyes of the Storm Girl in the sky behind were glowing white. She held a replica trident staff in her hand and made a shameful gesture of "help me, Thunder God" in the strong wind. Then, even more terrifying thunder and lightning mixed with strong winds and heavy rain mercilessly fell down.
Other guys who could fly also followed the lightning and charged forward like tigers and wolves. Led by the mutants Nightcrawler, Phantom Cat and Blink, and with the Inhumans' big dog Tetanus as the main force, the teleporters continuously sent ground forces into the battlefield.
The first one to rush out from the pure human camp was the Punisher, but this guy rushed out driving a downgraded version of the Fenrir armor.
That was a "good thing" that Fury and his friends pooled their money to buy for him.
Expensive, indeed a bit expensive.
But there is a reason for the high price. The Punishers, who are well versed in tactics and ruthless, lead the way with firepower and brute force, while the "power armor army" in the back also rushes forward with a roar.
The speed of the counterattacks' progress shocked Norman Osborn, who had been hiding in Osborn Building observing the situation.
What's wrong with these superheroes? They've all been whipped by dinosaurs, so why are they so brave?
The "New Sinister Six" behind him also looked at each other. The young version of the White Queen and the "Venom Scorpion" Mike Gargan beside him looked at each other, and a hint of hesitation appeared in the eyes of both of them.
But the blond and lonely man standing next to the gloomy Norman Osborne didn't care about anything in front of him. He felt the battle in the city with a cold and contemptuous look, and had the temperament of a master who "disdained to take action".
“I feel like we picked the wrong side.”
The burly man who was sitting in the house eating and drinking without paying any attention to the outside world was chewing on a pig leg and mumbling:
"The balance of war has tilted unexpectedly. The stars of the side that was originally sure to win have become dim. Although they still have the advantage, I think from the perspective of victory, we should be more cautious."
"What do you want to say, Ares?"
The middle-aged Green Goblin sneered, slammed the window shut, turned around and said to the small team he had formed, which was called the Six-Man Team but actually only had five people present:
"You are all losers in your respective fields, my friends, including me. I don't deny this, but we all agree that if we allow superheroes and S.H.I.E.L.D. to continue to be in power, we will never get ahead.
If you want to gain power, you have to be unexpected!
We've made a deal with him, haven't we?
Lord Brainiac has no interest in this world. As long as we make sure he gets what he needs, we will have a complete world for us to rule!
There are no rules, and you don't need to consider anyone's mood. Everyone can do whatever they want.
Everyone gets what they want!
Even better, we don’t even need to get involved directly. We have already lured the hidden heroes here as agreed. Now it depends on whether its servants are powerful enough…”
"boom"
A loud noise interrupted Norman's speech to his companions.
He looked back and saw the Perfect Ultron flying into the battlefield. The silver-grey robot had made a red cloak for itself, and four of the six grooves on its chest were already filled.
He was as majestic as a god descending to the earth. With a wave of his hand, the blood-red power of reality was snatched away, turning the pioneer Thor who killed everyone into a funny frog croaking in the rainstorm.
Although it was knocked into the sky ten thousand meters high by the rushing Captain Marvel the next second, Ultron, who had obtained the four Infinity Stones, was already very close to true "perfection".
Even the powerful combination of Thor and Captain Marvel can't do anything to it.
"See, I told you, they have an advantage."
Norman pointed to the chaotic city outside the window. The aggressive superheroes were being surrounded by the Skrull elites and mechanical legions that were a hundred times their number.
They headed towards the signpost in the center of the square, but it was like they were stuck in a quagmire, making every move difficult.
Even non-combatants like Nick Fury stood on the Demon Lizard Tank with cannons on their shoulders and shot down planes in the sky... uh, shot down Skrull aircraft.
"They'll break through the Skrull defenses."
The White Queen whispered:
"These heroes have been strengthened. Even the imposters transformed by the Skrulls can't stop them. What's more terrible is that they are brave. I can feel the anger and will to fight to the death in their hearts. It seems that the Skrulls' lack of martial ethics has indeed angered them... Hmm?
What is that sound?
The super senses of the perception mutant allowed her to quickly capture the special howl coming from a high altitude, and the God of War Ares, who was eating and drinking behind her, also stopped using the knife and fork in his hand.
This descendant of Olympus who made a living from war and could sense the rhythm of war suddenly stood up, grabbed his black battle axe and shouted:
"Changes! Big ones are coming!"
"It's a missile."
Norman grabbed a special device to check the sky and soon discovered fifteen intercontinental missiles moving at high speed outside the atmosphere. Judging from their angle, they were landing in New York City.
The bright Stark Industries logo on it made the Green Goblin's face even gloomier in an instant.
"Isn't that guy dead? Those missiles will flatten New York. Are these superheroes crazy? A tactic of mutual destruction?
Are they that great?"
Venom Scorpion, the weakest member of the New Sinister Six, roared. The lonely man next to Norman was about to stand up and fly out to block the missiles, but was held back by the Green Goblin.
The wily fellow narrowed his eyes and said:
"Change your clothes! Take those scared cowards down there with you, and let's join the battle!"
"Help the Skrulls?"
Venom Scorpion asked stupidly, and then saw Norman gave him a gloomy smile:
"No, the fact that they dare to fire missiles at their own people proves that they are confident that they can defeat the Skrulls with this thing. Of course we will go down to help the heroes.
We share their victories that are just around the corner but will soon be gone...
Haven't you always wondered who the final member of the Sinister Six is? Soon you'll meet him.
Everyone, remember the oath we swore when we united.
We always stand on the side of the winner!"
"Shua"
He activated his armor signal, and an Iron Patriot suit very similar to Iron Man's was covered on him.
Then the front wall was pierced, and in the bombing scene caused by flying explosives, the majestic Green Goblin also joined the battlefield, killing two attackers with one shot, and then a blond man in a golden battle suit fell from the sky like a war hammer.
As soon as a guy who looked extremely similar to Superman appeared on the scene, he shattered the ground of an entire city block with a terrifying shock, and killed a dozen or so Skrull elites nearby.
The White Queen and Ares then rushed in from the flank, shouting slogans while bravely opening the way to the center of the square for the surrounded superheroes.
This scene was transmitted to the palace of Wakanda through the spider-web surveillance system throughout New York City. Mason leaned back in his swivel chair, holding a cup of coffee, staring at the Green Goblin and the lonely macho man with flowing blond hair beside him on the screen.
He squinted his eyes, took a sip of coffee, and said with a curled lip:
"Green Goblin and Sentinel are a perfect pair. But there are only five of the Sinister Six. Where is the last one?"
"I think you should pay more attention to what will happen next than this."
Mr. Zhang, who was at the operating table next to him and manually controlling the missile's flight trajectory with his fingers, complained:
"Without satellite guidance, the missiles' landing points are no longer accurate. If someone gets hit on the head by a flying warhead at this speed, it will be a disaster."
"How big of a deal could it be?"
Mason, who was used to the world, rolled his eyes and calmly inserted a special USB drive into the console. The next moment, dense red dots were projected above the war zone.
The position of each hero who takes his weapons and armor is marked in real time.
The avoidance signals sent by the locators hidden in the weapons and armor were summarized again, and finally the flustered Mr. Zhang completed the final positioning before the missiles entered the bombing process.
A few seconds later, the Stark missiles that fell from the sky exploded in the air like a honeycomb. Dense flying missile explosions emerged from the sky over New York City like flowers scattered by fairies, and then fell to the ground amid lightning, thunder, wind and rain.
The next step should have been an extremely violent explosion.
Those Skrulls even opened their battlefield bunkers to withstand the firepower projection, but no!
There was no blinding fire, only the dull sound of warheads hitting the ground, as if hundreds of duds were placed around the battle zone and detonated simultaneously without any violence, releasing the liquid toxins inside in all directions like the classic design of chemical weapons.
Black smoke instantly enveloped the entire war zone.
In order to increase the lethality, Mr. Zhang reduced the landing point of these warheads by one third, which made the concentration of neurotoxins in the war zone reach a "choking" level in an instant.
The heroic commanders who were well prepared were not disturbed at all.
They launched another attack the moment the black smoke spread. Mason's "secret little pill" was thrown into the heroes' mouths, making them full of energy again as if they had taken stimulants.
However, those deformed pretenders who inhaled the Skrulls' exclusive VIP neurotoxin fell to their knees, coughing in pain.
Their disguises were forcibly stripped away.
This is the first phase of implementation.
Then the intense poison gas began to attack their respiratory systems and internal organs, causing them to lose strength in a short period of time. Their hands and feet were so sore that they couldn't even hold their weapons, let alone deal with the fierce Earth heroes in front of them.
The effectiveness of the second phase of biological and chemical weapons caused the situation on the entire battlefield to instantly get out of control.
Except for those Stark armor troops who were still resisting undisturbed and were commanded by Ultron to block the defense line, all the Skrulls, young and old, strong and weak, were "disarmed" at this moment.
Dr. Reed did not program the toxin to be lethal, but Mason had no concerns about its effectiveness, as the angry heroes of Earth would help him exact his "punishment" on the Skrulls.
In just less than five minutes, the entire war zone was flooded with blood.
There is no need to calculate how many Skrulls died in the counterattack of Earth's heroes. That is definitely a horrifying number that would make the Virgin Mary cry.
This is a world war!
Being merciful in this situation would be a crime against one's own people. Even Captain Carter, who had always been against violence, began to go all out. She threw and caught three shields with acrobatic skills. The sharp edges of the shields were filled with anger and the will of revenge. Those weak Skrulls almost died upon touching them.
"beep"
The watch on Mason's wrist beeped.
He looked down at the "Send Completed" sign above. The thirty minutes of video footage that took place in New York City had been sent back to Utopia to prove that he, the Knight of X, had successfully completed the work he was assigned to do as the "Executioner".
The first goal of this journey was successfully achieved.
At this moment on the battlefield, the morale of the heroes who have tasted victory is greatly boosted.
Of course, they didn't forget their business. Captain Marvel burst out the energy of the binary star to entangle the perfect Ultron. On the ground, the boiled egg who was shooting and executing the Skrull commander shouted to the party king Thor in the sky:
"Thor! Go, destroy that sign! It's activated, quick!"
"Crash"
Amidst the flash of thunder, the elegant Thor flashed to the square filled with the remnants of the Skrulls. He called out Odin's name loudly and raised the disposable Spear of Judgment in his hand high.
Thousands of Isu inscriptions on it were illuminated.
Although it is said to be a throwing weapon, Mason actually made it completely according to the specifications of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
It's a one-time thing after all.
If it is not powerful enough, customers will definitely complain severely.
The golden electric current activated the majestic spear of Gungnir, just like Thor holding a golden lightning that was constantly flickering. The towering sign in front of him was already filled with purple energy, like a sword of energy rising straight into the sky.
But before it actually reached the height that could open the plane , Thor roared and threw the spear in his hand.
A golden light flashed across the sky as if separating heaven and earth, and with the roar of Asgard's God of Thunder, it pierced into the top of the weapon in front of him.
The next moment, the energy generated by the twenty-four disposable micro-arc reactors running to their limit was released at once, and a terrifying energy ring exploded in the air.
It was like a sword slashing across the waist, accurately cutting off the Skrulls' call to their master.
Having accomplished the final blow, Thor laughed heartily and opened his arms in the air, causing the joyful Thor's hammer to spin and dance around him, while the heroes of Earth below cheered in unison.
They once again won the battle to defend the Earth.
Once again, they defended their world.
But the cheering did not last even ten seconds. Soon, as everyone stared in silence, an identical beam of purple light shot into the sky from the far end of the horizon. In just a moment, it dyed most of the sky a mysterious and magnificent purple.
It was like some invisible BGM sounded, weighing heavily on everyone's heart.
Something is coming...
Something dangerous is coming!
At this time, on the terrace of the King's Castle in the small Eastern European country of Latveria, Lord Doom, Doctor of Doom, wearing a green cloak and metal armor, was standing with his hands behind his back, watching the energy beam shooting towards the sky from the center of his country.
He knew without a doubt what kind of being this beam would bring.
But unlike the Green Goblin and his gang who only crave power to do evil, he chose to join the new Sinister Six not for those pathetic things.
"There is strength in every crisis..."
The gloomy king expressed his ideas in a hoarse voice. Then he stopped looking at the dimensional passage that had been opened above the sky and turned back to his castle.
Before meeting the God of Wisdom, he needed to "prepare".
In the main control room of the Wakanda Palace, Mason reached out and patted Dr. Reed , and said:
"See, this is why I am not optimistic about the war situation. Every time at this time, all kinds of people will do all kinds of stupid things for all kinds of reasons.
Don't be sad, I have seen a lot in my travels.
These self-deprecating wake-ups are indeed a social problem that exists throughout the universe..."
"Bang"
The door of the main control room was pushed open the next moment, and a large number of royal guards armed with Wakanda weapons rushed in, pointing their weapons at the original distinguished guests.
Mr. Zhang raised his hands obediently, and Mason also gave a French military salute.
He looked at the Prince of Wakanda who was wearing a leopard print battle suit and said to Dr. Reed beside him with a curled lip:
"Of course, compared to the wake-ups, the royal relatives who always want to overthrow their relatives' thrones and sit on them themselves have long been a common cliché in monarchical countries.
Hello, Eric the Leopard, the seventh member of the Sinister Six.
Mind if I ask, does it feel good to grovel to those alien bastards just to stay alive?"
