Chapter 182: Distress Signal
In the following days, Oaks lived a relatively peaceful life.
Nick Fury didn't bother him anymore, and the young members of the 'New Druidism' were also settled.
Approximately one-third of the people passed the Benevolence Society assessment and officially joined, while Oaks contacted the families of the others and sent them back home.
Mr. Dane Whitman also officially joined Benevolence Society, and surprisingly, he got along quite well with the young people like Jack, Antonio, and Matt.
He finally stopped obsessing over transforming into a giraffe.
As a result, Oaks was able to fully devote himself to the modification of the Spirit Ship, now named "Nature Guardian."
Tony was still working on his armor, but the technological modifications of the ship didn't encounter major difficulties with Bruce leading and Yinsen assistance.
The new large-scale Arc reactor was already in place, and the signal base station and radar invisibility system of the Nature Guardian had been officially activated.
Now, this giant ship ark combined optical invisibility, infrared invisibility, and radar invisibility, would appear to the world only when performing spell amplification.
However, on one evening at the end of the year, Oaks received a message when he was so busy that he was dizzy.
Sender: J.A.R.V.I.S.
Location: Tennessee
Status: Going offline soon
Master's status: Minor injuries.
...
"Pepper, what happened?"
When Pepper received the call from Oaks, she almost burst into tears.
"Oaks! Tony... he..."
Because Killian had come to her to demonstrate the bio-enhancement technology of his company, A.I.M. and to persuade her to invest, but she rejected it, leading Happy to discover something was amiss.
Happy tracked Killian's car but got caught in the explosion of the Hollywood Theater and was severely injured.
When Tony learned that the mastermind behind the terrorist attack was the Ten Rings, whom he had been searching for, and that this time, their true leader Mandarin had emerged...
The enraged Tony publicly disclosed his address and challenged the Mandarin, while also investigating the connections between the terrorist attacks.
However, just as the key figure, Maya Hansen, a DNA bio-coding scientist, came to find him, Tony's seaside mansion in Malibu was subjected to a wild terrorist attack.
Tony's mansion was destroyed, and he managed to escape using the Mark 42 armor—
But whether it was the enemy or his own people, they couldn't find his whereabouts.
Now, Oaks' phone call was undoubtedly Pepper's only ray of hope—
Oaks obviously knows something!
"When I last met Tony, I suggested that J.A.R.V.I.S. add a distress signal thread if Tony himself didn't reject it, and it only triggers when J.A.R.V.I.S. is on the verge of going offline."
Oaks's voice was serious. He knew Tony had to go through this ordeal, and he didn't stop it—
Because if Tony wanted to completely overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, he had to experience this.
All Oaks could do was ensure his safety and prevent accidents during this process.
After all, the President of the United States was no longer the same as the one in the original plot.
"A few minutes ago, I received a message from J.A.R.V.I.S. and Tony was marked as lightly injured, so there should be no life-threatening danger. Perhaps he'll call you in a while."
Oaks comforted the anxious Pepper, and she visibly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing his words.
"Now, leave the area with Maya Hansen and give me an address. I'll come find you—
If they want to do anything to Tony, they won't spare you either!"
"But Tony needs help now..."
"Don't worry, he can handle most things on his own, and his location is unknown— he definitely isn't at the initial coordinates anymore."
Oaks said in a deep voice:
"After making sure there are no enemies on your side, I'll personally go find him. Don't worry."
"...Okay!"
Oaks received Pepper's address and hung up the phone. He immediately transformed into white-throated needletail and disappeared with a sonic boom.
...
"Knock, knock!"
Just as Pepper and the injured Maya Hansen had settled into a hotel room, they heard a knocking sound on the window.
Pepper turned around and saw a small bird that was emitting green light pecking at the glass.
She smiled with relief and quickly opened the window, allowing the bird to fly into the room and transform into Oaks.
Pepper let out a sigh of relief:
"Thank goodness, Oaks!"
She grabbed Oaks' arm, she was so excited that her words became incoherent:
"Just like you said, Tony left me a message... he's fine, he's really fine!"
"Of course, but now you're probably in trouble."
Oaks arrived just in time, he closed the door and signaled Pepper with a serious expression:
"You two hide for now, leave it to me!"
"There's really someone..."
Pepper's expression remained unchanged, because as the woman of Iron Man, she had seen many big scenes.
She quickly led Maya into the closet without making any sound at all.
"Knock, knock, knock..."
The door was knocked, and the voice of a waiter came:
"Miss, your dinner is here."
"Click."
Oaks opened the door.
Just as the waiter was confused because a man had opened the door, Oaks pulled him inside and swung the food cart behind him.
"Boom!"
The frightened waiter saw the food cart thrown by Oaks cut in half like slicing tofu!
At the incision, even the metal melted!
"Huh? So you anticipated that I would come..."
Killian looked at Oaks, who stood calmly at the door, and frowned:
"I seem to remember you, Avenger... Druid? Haven't you been out of sight for a long time?"
"Just out of sight, not dead."
Oaks scoffed lightly:
"You're not a welcome visitor, care to introduce yourself?"
"Heh... what's there to talk about with a dead man!"
Killian grinned maliciously as his neck and hands turned red:
"My abilities can completely overpower you!"
"Swoosh!"
The magical vines used by Oaks to intercept Killian were sliced apart by high temperatures, like a hot knife through butter.
Indeed, high temperature type attacks were disadvantageous to Oaks' plants, but he wasn't limited to just that move!
"Boom!"
Killian was suddenly lifted by a strong gust of wind and embedded directly into the wall behind him!
Before he could react, a phantom of a full moon appeared above his head, and a beam of moonlight crashed down!
"Ah!"
Killian let out a painful howl and his chest was caved in by the lunar fire!
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
In agonizing screams, Killian's body turned bright red, as if there was a volcano inside him.
In just a moment, the injury on his chest recovered!
But Oaks was already launching his next spell!
Thick starlight turned Killian's struggling left arm into nothingness!
But in the next moment, Oaks saw his severed arm starting to regenerate rapidly!
"Not bad."
Oaks commented as he struck a pose reminiscent of Turtle School martial arts:
"Star Surge!"
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