stonecrandall Chapter 170 The Messenger from Hell
Chapter 170 The Messenger from Hell
Chapter 170 The Messenger from Hell
Just as Tony was about to ask the Spider-Man in front of him, who spoke fluent Japanese, if this was 2099, the other man's attention shifted to the sky before Tony could react.
Then came an unusual celestial phenomenon that immediately caught their attention.
This was an energy burst that caused Jarvis's sensors to alarm, and it also produced a halo that could be seen with the naked eye even in a clear-eyed area like District 11, with the explosion center as the origin.
With his diverse observation methods, Tony scanned the high sky after the explosions subsided and, unsurprisingly, captured a familiar figure in the optical scanner.
Joey broke through the clouds and was falling from outside the atmosphere toward Earth.
Excuse me!
Just as Iron Man was preparing to take flight, ready to catch Joey before he crashed into the ground and created a deep crater,...
Spider-Man raised his right hand and slightly manipulated the electronic wristband on his wrist.
A four-wheeled race car suddenly appeared from the side, flying into the sky without any propulsion exhaust and defying the laws of physics. It caught the unconscious Joey at an extremely high speed and returned to where the two were.
"what?"
Tony Stark is a little disgusted now, but soon something even more disgusting awaits him.
"plz follow me."
After dispatching a flying car or spaceship to pick up Joey, the Spider-Man with the strange accent, who pronounced "Spiderman" as "400-year-old lady," nodded to Tony.
"The Spider-Sense has already foretold his arrival. When two immense forces in the universe meet, the Doomsday Messenger will descend within that radiance."
"I thought spider-sense was just a 'quick-feeling' ability!"
Iron Man, still somewhat skeptical, looked at Joey, who was half-cooked in the car. After scanning him and confirming his vital signs, he breathed a sigh of relief—Joey was still alive and recovering.
He couldn't help but wonder what kind of thing could have injured Superman, who could take a missile in the face, so badly.
If Joey, who is still unconscious, could answer Tony's question right now, he would definitely say that it was a cosmic-level car accident.
Moreover, the other party bears full responsibility.
[Sir, now is not the time to assign blame. Our lives are intertwined; can't we at least try to reconcile for now?]
The collision just now involved a fierce clash between the bio-force field and the pure light, resulting in heavy damage to both sides.
The two of them are now like two different colors of clay, squeezed, deformed, and stuck together, each containing the other.
"Reconciliation my ass!"
It's already a miracle that Joey, who was hit and left completely disoriented as soon as he appeared in this universe, didn't demand compensation from the red orb.
Fortunately, I'm a Kryptonian, so this minor fatal injury can be healed by sunbathing. If an ordinary person were hit by such a faster-than-light ball, they would probably be vaporized into atoms and quarks on the spot.
[I apologize, but please forgive my bluntness; ordinary people don't just suddenly appear in the vacuum of space—by the way, my name is Lipia, from the M78 Nebula; powerful alien, where do you come from?]
"What???"
Joey, who was almost killed by the superluminal red sphere that resembled a cosmic dump truck, had already gone through the whole thing in his mind countless times, trying to find out where the other party came from in the Marvel Universe. Now that the other party had revealed its identity, Joey was completely confused.
A red sphere of light, M78, Lydia... isn't that the original Ultraman???
[Ultraman? Ultimate Human? Good name. You understand my existence perfectly. So, how should I address you?]
[Superman, superhuman? Interesting name.]
[Your Excellency, now is not the time for idle chatter. Open your eyes, a formidable enemy is about to arrive!]
"It's as if you're saying I don't want to wake up!"
Joey is currently in a state similar to a lucid dream; his consciousness can clearly communicate with another energy within his body, but he is unable to control or perceive his own body.
"I need to calm down a bit more!"
Hopefully Tony will realize this, and it would be best if he quickly put his body in the sun for ten minutes or so, which should solve the problem.
I regret that I cannot offer you much assistance.
Joey wasn't the only one severely injured; the original Ultraman from the Land of Light also suffered serious damage.
It's less about the original Ultraman driving a space dump truck and nearly killing Joey, an innocent bystander.
It's more accurate to say that the 100-ton truck crashed onto the cement block, leaving neither the driver nor the cement block with any benefit.
As for the "powerful enemy" that Ultraman mentioned, it is probably a super-giant cosmic monster with a height of around 60 meters, possessing both numerical values and mechanics, but lacking any scientific basis.
Joey sincerely hoped that Tony would be lucky enough not to try to be a hero during those ten minutes.
If something unexpected happens, like being stomped to death by a monster or dying from an unknown area-of-effect attack, that would be troublesome.
Tony, who hadn't seriously considered the source of Joey's power, carried Joey out of the car and thoughtfully placed him in the shade under a tree.
This is Japan in the summer, the sun is scorching, we can't just let our good buddy get heatstroke, can we?
"Tony, prepare for battle!"
Standing to the side, Yamashiro Takuya—who had just exchanged names with Tony—frowned and looked down at the mountain road winding through the valley.
"They arrived so quickly!"
Tony looked down and saw only lush forests in the valley below, but Spider-Man's serious attitude made him dare not be careless.
He scanned the area with twenty-three different sensors inside his armor, but in the end, all he could detect was the chirping of birds in the treetops.
"Is the enemy hidden...?"
Before he could finish speaking, Tony watched as Spider-Man leaped into the driver's seat and started the car.
Takuya Yamashiro turned the car around, aiming it at the direction of the spider-sensor warning. Several machine guns extended from the front of the car and immediately began unleashing a hail of ammunition, setting the entire forest ablaze.
In the midst of this massive artillery barrage, a transparent figure finally emerged.
This giant creature, as thin as a sheet of paper, was covered in brownish-black scales, its face was covered in metal, and its exposed, hole-like eyes emitted a blue light.
Having been revealed by the attack, he slowly turned around to face Yamashiro Takuya and Tony:
"Shh, your observation is quite sharp! My name is Zarab, be proud, you're the first Earthling to be able to detect me!"
In the instant the other side materialized and turned around, Tony observed that its side profile seemed to have no thickness, completely like a two-dimensional plane.
Now, even though it's facing him directly, apart from the optical camera and his own eyes, none of the sensors inside the Iron Man suit can detect its presence.
Such a large enemy is a natural target, so naturally, we need to use some weapons of mass destruction.
Tony was preparing to test all the amazing gadgets inside his armor on the other man, and for that reason, he hoped Spider-Man would stay out of the firing zone to avoid accidental injury.
"Back off, I'm about to..."
"Damn it! That wretched space machine monster!"
In a fit of rage, Spider-Man Takuya Yamashiro interrupted Iron Man's aiming and firing. As Spider-Man, he carried the deep hatred of his father and Spider-Star, and what he hated most were these aliens who wantonly caused destruction.
Faced with a powerful enemy he had already foreseen through his spider-sense, Spider-Man Takuya Yamashiro immediately summoned his strongest trump card: the spaceship "Wonder" from Nebula M77!
With a roar, the earth cracked open, and a spaceship nearly a hundred meters tall flew out from the fissure, leaving Tony dumbfounded.
Didn't Joey tell me before that Spider-Man is basically a street hero, the kind of "friendly neighbor"?
What the hell is this space cruiser?!
But even that wasn't the end. What truly astonished Tony was the opponent's next move: "Leo Patton, transform!"
The spaceship began to transform during its flight, and by the time it landed, it had become a giant robot sixty meters tall.
Upon seeing this scene, Iron Man recalled what he had said thirty minutes earlier: "The multiverse is truly wild."
But isn't this a bit too "wild"?
What kind of "street hero" is this? What level of chaos does a neighborhood have to be to warrant a 60-meter-tall [heroic figure]?
"Friendly neighbors"?
Habitually ignoring Tony's shocked gaze, Takuya Yamashiro used his webs to swing onto the robot's shoulder and leap into the cockpit of Leopardon, facing Zarab directly:
"The messenger from hell, the monster-slaying expert, the man who thwarts evil plans, Spider-Man, reporting for duty!"