290 Chapter: 290
Boom! With a loud noise, the energy shield of the Hydra base was officially breached, and Hydra lost their last retreat. The only path before them was to either fight the Avengers to the end or surrender.
"Sir, after the shield was breached, the Hydra soldiers have gone completely berserk, and their attacks have started affecting nearby cities," Jarvis reported real-time updates to Tony from within the Iron Man suit.
"I knew Hydra wouldn't care about civilian casualties. Jarvis, deploy the Iron Legion to maintain order in the city."
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"The Avengers thought they could completely annihilate us, but for Hydra, cut off one head, and two more will grow. So today, we absolutely cannot surrender!"
"Never surrender! Never surrender!..."
Inside the Hydra base, facing the passionate speech of their leader, Strucker, all the members who remained in the base and those who were still alive on the other end of the radio communication responded enthusiastically to his call.
Seeing that his emotional manipulation worked on his subordinates, Strucker took his assistant aside and whispered, "I'm planning to surrender. Delete all the confidential data from the base.
If we leave some weapons for the Avengers, it might divert their attention and prevent them from delving too deep into our research."
"But what about the twins..." the assistant asked.
"They are not ready yet..."
Before Strucker could finish, the assistant patted his arm, interrupting what he wanted to say, "No, I don't mean sending them out. I mean... the twins are gone..."
Following the direction indicated by the assistant's finger, Strucker also immediately noticed that the twins, who had been standing silently behind them, had disappeared without a trace.
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Whoosh!
On the outer battlefield, Hawkeye still occupied the terrain advantage, launching attacks against the continuous stream of Hydra soldiers.
Just now, he fired a high-explosive arrow at an enemy turret and then took cover behind a tree trunk, waiting for the explosion to sound.
However, to his surprise, the explosion didn't occur as he expected. The Hydra soldier at the turret continued to attack other Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D. reinforcements without any disruption.
"Did I just get a dud earlier?" Hawkeye speculated in his mind as he reluctantly took out another high-explosive arrow, aiming at the target, ready to fire.
But once again, his arrow failed to explode. Before he could shoot the arrow, someone interfered with his action and knocked him down.
"Didn't you foresee this situation?" lying on the ground, Hawkeye looked up to see a young silver-haired guy, dressed in sportswear, provocatively speaking to him.
What followed surprised Hawkeye. After making a bold statement, the silver-haired youth suddenly burst into an unbelievable speed and disappeared from his sight.
Seeing this, Hawkeye quickly stood up, bent his bow, and aimed in the direction where the silver-haired youth disappeared.
However, because the superpowers displayed by the other person attracted his attention, Hawkeye didn't notice that the turret he wanted to destroy had already aimed at him.
Swoosh! Using the energy weapon developed with the Mind Stone, the Hydra soldier at the turret completely ignored his battle suit's strong defense and inflicted a severe open wound on Hawkeye.
"Ah!" In agony, Hawkeye screamed and immediately covered the wound, falling to the ground.
"Barton got hit and injured!" Black Widow, who was nearby, rushed over upon hearing that something was wrong with Hawkeye.
After dealing with the turret that injured Hawkeye, she came to his side to inspect his injury. "How is it? Let me see!"
Natasha opened Hawkeye's hands that were tightly covering the wound to assess the extent of his injury.
Seeing a huge wound on Hawkeye's side that kept bleeding, she quickly removed her combat gloves and took out a small syringe from the utility belt around his waist, injecting it into his body.
This was the life-saving substance Mark had prepared specifically for Hawkeye and Falcon before the mission - the ultra-concentrated nutrient solution, and it turned out to be useful now.
With the treatment, Hawkeye quickly recovered from his weakness. With his battle suit weakening the effect of the turret's attack, combined with his recent enhancements, the otherwise fatal blow didn't claim his life.
However, due to the lack of high-purity energy stimulation, although Natasha had injected him with the ultra-concentrated nutrient solution, it didn't immediately heal Hawkeye's injury; it only stopped the heavy bleeding.
"Barton needs to be immediately evacuated from the battlefield and treated in the nutrient sleep chamber. His injuries are severe!" Natasha knew that with Hawkeye's current condition, continuing to fight was impossible. He had to be taken away as soon as possible.
"Wait, Captain, can you hear me? An enhanced individual has appeared on the battlefield; his speed is incredibly fast. He managed to catch my arrows barehanded while moving at high speeds.
Captain, I believe only you, being the fastest among us, can catch this guy!"
"Rest assured, Hawkeye. Just focus on resting. I've spotted this mischievous troublemaker!"
As Hawkeye transmitted the information, Captain America had already noticed Quicksilver's high-speed movements on the battlefield.
He was pranking the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents assisting in the operation, causing them to lose their combat effectiveness one after another. Hence, Captain America referred to Quicksilver as a mischievous troublemaker.
As described by Hawkeye, Quicksilver's speed was exceptionally fast, and even Captain America's superhuman reflexes and dynamic vision couldn't fully grasp his movements, let alone anticipate his attacks.
To counter Quicksilver's ability, Captain America decisively activated the accel world feature of his suit. In an instant, the world seemed to shift into slow motion, and everything came to a halt, except for Quicksilver, who was locked in by Captain America.
Although Captain America had increased his reaction speed to thousands of times its normal rate, Quicksilver's actions remained incredibly swift. Captain America knew this confrontation would not be easy.
However, having made a promise to Hawkeye, there was no other option but to face the challenge head-on. If Quicksilver continued to wreak havoc, the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents would undoubtedly suffer severe casualties.
Captain America switched his Flash suit to high-speed mode and rushed towards Quicksilver's location.
This action immediately caught Quicksilver's attention; it was the first time he had encountered someone who could match his speed. Curious like a cat discovering something new, Quicksilver engaged Captain America in a cat-and-mouse game.
Leveraging his advantage in familiarity with the terrain, Quicksilver continuously zigzagged through the forest, always accelerating at the last moment when Captain America felt he was about to catch him, causing the attempt to fall short.
In this back-and-forth, Captain America understood that Quicksilver was toying with him. However, even in this series of jests, Captain America was not acting recklessly without a plan.
From the start of the chase, Captain America had not unleashed the maximum speed of the Flash suit. One reason was the complex terrain and dense foliage in the area, where running at full speed could easily lead to collisions with obstacles.
On the other hand, Captain America intended to keep some tricks up his sleeve, aiming to surprise the enemy with an unexpected move in the current situation.
Indeed, Quicksilver realized that Captain America wasn't repeating the same tactics and decided to close the distance between them to toy with Captain America once more.
However, this time, Quicksilver wasn't successful.
Captain America gave him the impression that he was pushing himself to the limit to catch up, and when the distance between them reached a dangerous level, Quicksilver accelerated, attempting to leave Captain America behind.
Unexpectedly, Captain America also accelerated at that moment, and his speed surpassed Quicksilver's.
Caught off guard, Quicksilver had no chance to evade Captain America's sudden attack.
The corner of his sportswear was firmly caught, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Captain America exerted force, disrupting Quicksilver's balance, and they both tumbled and fell to the ground.
Thud!
Having witnessed Quicksilver's non-malicious approach to dealing with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and sensing that the young man's nature might not be bad, he could be either threatened or brainwashed by Hydra.
Captain America chose to protect both of them from harm. He used his shield to crash into several tree trunks, finally bringing them to a stop.
"Kid, I've got you now!" Captain America said with a smile, looking at Quicksilver, who was pinned under him and unable to resist.
Unexpectedly, the irritation on Quicksilver's face vanished completely after Captain America spoke, replaced by a mocking smile. "Not necessarily!"
Seeing Quicksilver's reaction, the rich experience of the WWII veteran immediately alerted Captain America. However, before he could take any precautions, a tremendous force came from behind and flipped him away from Quicksilver.
While rolling on the ground, Captain America looked towards the direction of the attack and saw a red-clad girl with long hair, holding two balls of red smoke, clearly an enhanced individual.
However, what surprised Captain America even more was that her appearance didn't trigger any response from the artificial intelligence in his suit.
He only realized there was an enemy behind him after the attack, which could have resulted in his heroic sacrifice if the girl had any malicious intent.
When he finally stopped rolling and stood up from the ground, both the silver-haired young man and the girl in red were nowhere to be found.
At that moment, Tony's voice came through the communication channel, "Guys, I've got Loki's scepter, and there seems to be a big guy we are all familiar with here..."
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