10 Technomancer in MCU #9

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Chapter 9

Technomancer in MCU

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New York 

–Tony Stark–

As soon as I heard those words, my mind immediately went into overdrive. The first thought that crossed my mind was how the hell did they get past Fury.

The one-eyed spymaster was many things but incompetent was not one of them.

"Jarvis?", I called out loud.

"..Si…Sir..Can you hear me?"

"Jarvis, what the hell happened?"

"..All communication attempts with you after you stepped on that platform failed.."

Giving a look to Ed, "Never mind."

"Set a path to the missile. Full thrust."

I shot off like a rocket towards the missile.

I could see it on his HUD. I was getting closer.

"Sir, I do hope you are not blindly charging towards what is clearly a nuclear armament."

I could hear my own heart beating loudly.

Hearing his response, I chuckled, "Of course not. I do have a plan. I am just not sure about it working."

Just a little more, I could see it closing in.

Coming to an abrupt halt under it, I flew after it in an attempt to latch myself to it.

I had just the place to send it to.

I activated the external magnets in my suit, affording me some grip on the missile.

I just hope that this gambit of mine works. It has to.

As the barrier entry comes closer, I hear Ed say, "Alfred, clear the path, please."

No sooner than that, multiple lasers from hundreds of sources cut down the alien horde as far as he could see.

"Jarvis."

Without a sound, Jarvis charted a path straight to the portal, displaying it on my HUD.

Just a little bit more, I could see Stark Tower now.

BOOM!

With a stupefied look that must have looked so stupid on my face, I could only watch as Ed's suit just tackled me away from the missile and the missile continued on a straight path towards Stark Tower.

In my confusion, I failed to notice that Ed was taking me outside the barrier.

I tried to get out of his frankly embarrassing grip but the suit at the last moment failed me.

Even the HUD shut down.

"STOP!", I shout, nearly hysterically.

"We need to throw that into the portal. The city will be doomed otherwise."

"Too late for that now", he replied.

Ed took me and dropped me unceremoniously on the floating platform from before.

Somehow, the suit came online after that and my face plate opened up.

The first thing I saw was the backs of the team as they stared ahead with an incredibly sad air about them.

Then my vision turned white.

I fruitlessly raised my hands to shield my face when I knew that there was nothing that could stop my inevitable demise now.

Some part of me was incredibly resentful of Ed for dooming us all.

Resentful at the politicians who probably authorized the strike without thinking or communicating at all, fearful of Ed and the power he displayed.

After a while, the light began to die down but there was no shockwave, no damage to me.

I looked around in confusion as the light died down, only to see that the team sported similar expressions on their faces.

Looking back at the city, I expected to see the barrier crumble or something but what I saw was just despair-inducing.

The barrier held strong. The entirety of the area inside the barrier was turned into a huge crater. Most of the skyscrapers were outright vaporized and the shockwave probably destroyed the rest.

There was only rubble as far as he could see.

But the portal was still open and the aliens continued to pour out of them. 

The machine was still protected by the pure energy barrier generated by the barrier.

With a choked sob, I forced out, "So, that was all for nothing."

I glared at Ed, who was just standing there nonchalantly as if what was happening in front of us had nothing to do with him.

"I had it. I was going to send the nuke into the portal."

"How did you plan on coming back?"

"I..I would have done something. The repulsors would have generated enough thrust–"

"Your suit is not rated for outer space operations. You would have died there.", he replied harshly.

"Yeah, but I would have saved the city. At Least I would have gone with that knowledge.", I replied back.

His face softened, "There was no need for that, Tony. Humanity still has need of you."

He extended a hand towards me, "Besides, it's not like this is the end."

I took his hand and stood up, "What do you mean?"

He gestured towards the city.

On a screen, we could clearly see Alfred standing near the portal machine and after receiving some signal, he breached the energy core with the sceptre and cut the connection to the cube.

With the cube no longer supplying any energy, the portal swiftly began collapsing on itself.

At the last moment, they all saw a projectile exiting Alfred's suit and going through the portal to the other side before the portal closed upon itself.

Alfred then began to fly back towards us with the sceptre in his hands.

Sighing, I turned towards Ed, "Great. The aliens are now dealt with."

Chuckling sardonically, I said, 'Some great heroes we are. Stopped the invasion but destroyed Upper Manhattan for it, displacing hundreds of thousands of people."

"Billions of dollars in property damages. Can't forget that."

"Don't go all mopey on me now Stark.", came an infuriating voice from an equally infuriating person.

"What?", I glared harshly at Ed.

He rolled his eyes, "Just Watch", he said, gesturing to the barrier area.

Curious as to what he was talking about, I looked inside the barrier area only to nearly fall back in shock when a high-speed projectile just slammed from straight above right near where Stark Tower was.

Looking at Ed for confirmation, I see him nod as if this was his doing all along.

I focused on the crater and saw a black sand-like wave flow out of the crater. It began flowing from the crater in all directions, eventually reaching the edge of the barriers.

It then began to climb the barriers from all directions until the entire spherical shield from outside looked black as the nanites covered the entirety of the shield's surface.

The entire team watched with bated breaths the spectacle happening in front of them.

The nanite wave then began to contract slightly. In the process, they began to change colours, purplish streaks began to colour the otherwise pitch-black wave.

The wave soon reached the crater from where they came from and stayed there.

The entire team along with me looked at Ed with questioning gazes as the nanite wave seemed to have done nothing.

He chuckled, "That was for scrubbing the entire area of radiation. The inside of the barrier now has less radiation than any city on the planet.", he said, pointing towards the city.

I could only gape in awe, as he explained to us the principle of the frankly revolutionary technology he used.

The power to negate the after-effects of the most potent weapon in Humanity's arsenal.

The weapon that hasn't been fired for decades as the consequences of doing so are too high, acting as a deterrent on its own.

The method involved the use of Vibranium nanite latices. Vibranium, upon special processing, was capable of becoming a material that could absorb any and all types of energy. 

Ed configured it so that it was capable of scrubbing an entirely enclosed area of all radiation in it.

His entire body relaxing, Steve replied, "At least the city can be rebuilt then."

Ed's face lit up with a mischievous smile.

He wordlessly gestured to the city.

All of us looked back, only to jerk back in shock.

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Word Count - 1337

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