The Collection of The End

——Marvel, 2011——

Manhattan, New York.

As the financial center of New York, most of the people living here are very busy. If it is during the rush hour, almost all the pedestrians on the street will be in a hurry, and every one of them would like to fly.

Under such tremendous pressure, almost no one will care about meteors, military experiments, or public statements unless those things that only exist on radio and television actually appear in front of them, such as——

"Look, is that a bird?"

"Is it a plane?"

"No, it's Iron Man!"

The golden-red steel armor flashed past among the high-rise buildings, causing waves of exclamations from those who still had time to pay attention to it.

Compared with Captain America, Iron Man's status in the hearts of ordinary residents is not very high. After all, Tony Stark is the boss of Stark Industries, and the widespread hatred of rich people has naturally lowered his evaluation. Some media Street interviews revealed that a large number of people viewed him as a playboy who spent a lot of money to make expensive toys for himself.

However, as Iron Man has continued to "do justice" since his official "debut", his reputation is gradually developing in a positive direction. The only problem is that his recent behavior of "boosting his reputation" seems to be a bit too hard.

"Ah, ah! Balloon! Mom!"

In a street park, a little girl raised her head to watch Iron Man flying in the sky. As a result, she let go of her hand and the balloon she was holding flew freely into the sky.

The little girl cried for her mother, but the mother beside her could do nothing about it. After all, she couldn't fly. And just when she was comforting her daughter and considering whether to buy another one, she found that the little girl suddenly burst into laughter. Looking behind her with bright eyes.

"Hey, let me see, whose little girl is crying?]" Iron Man left and came back at some point, holding the balloon that the girl had just flown away in his hand.

"Nini didn't cry!" The little girl wiped her eyes randomly: "Mom said that the balloon will always fly away. If I keep holding on to it, it will gradually sink and become flat and never fly again. Not getting up—just like dad.”

"...Uh.]" Iron Man originally planned to say something, but fell silent when he heard the last sentence: "Sorry.]"

"Uh, no, my husband is just busy with work and rarely comes home." The little girl's mother waved her hands repeatedly: "Speaking of which, the 'Hammer Industries' he works for is very similar to your company, Mr. Stark."

"I will consider... not to put too much pressure on that company,]" Iron Man put the balloon rope into the little girl's palm: "You should listen to your mother more at home]"

"Well! Thank you, Uncle Iron Man!" the little girl replied, holding the balloon.

Iron Man nodded, slowly floated up, and then soared into the sky.

The little girl's mother looked around at the person approaching her, who seemed to be a tabloid reporter, and immediately picked up her daughter who was still looking at the sky and ran away.

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"Hey, Jarvis, did I just behave like Mr. Stark?"

"I can't say it's completely consistent, I can only say it has nothing to do with it."

"Really? I think what I imitated is already very similar."

"If it were Mr. Stark, he would have completely ignored the balloon that flew away. If he had to take action, he would have directly bought all the inventory at the balloon stall next to him and asked the boss to give it to the girl."

"In that case, wouldn't the girl be carried away by the balloon?"

"……really.】"

The steel suit is still traveling through the steel jungle of Manhattan, and the passenger inside, Peter Parker, is chatting with the suit's artificial intelligence.

Although Peter refused Stark's arrangement to tailor a steel suit for him, as a big boy, he would not refuse the opportunity to wear this cool-looking suit.

Of course, the voice of Tony Stark produced by the Iron Suit was all corrected by Jarvis using a voice changer.

Previously, Stark had obtained the remains of the "Destroyer Armor" and was restoring its materials and processes through reverse engineering. Because the technology was too complex and difficult, he even turned down his plans to meet with all movie stars, models and cover girls. .

Peter can't help much in this regard. Although his mechanical and biological talents have been unanimously recognized by Mr. Stark and Dr. Banner, he is only a high school student after all, and his knowledge reserve and logical thinking ability are still far behind. Far inferior to these two real geniuses, let's put it this way, with his eyesight, he couldn't even understand the complex analysis results of the Destroyer Armor, let alone participate in the discussion between the two of them.

In the end, either because Stark was afraid that he could never get a word in and felt inferior, or because he simply disliked him for trying so hard to give advice even though he didn't understand, he arranged for Peter to "patrol New York in a steel suit after completing his homework and daily research." mission and ask Jarvis to assist.

Peter didn't have any objections to this. He just wanted to help ordinary people, and he had no intention of making the name "Spider-Man" famous around the world. If "Spider-Man" needed to appear, he could take off his steel suit and work overtime. In addition, , with his physical strength and spider silk launcher alone, some things are indeed difficult to solve.

For example, just a few days ago, a large ship "hit the rocks" off the coast of New York, and the entire ship split into two halves. If he were just "Spider-Man", he would not only use spider silk to tie the two halves of the ship together, but There was no other way, but he happened to be wearing a steel suit at the time. After closing the cracked parts with force, he directly used a high-temperature palm welding gun to weld the cracks together. Although the entire ship inevitably needed to be overhauled, it did not sink in the end. , all the passengers above were successfully evacuated through lifeboats.

It's just that... this incident obviously caused a lot of repercussions and brought a lot of positive comments to "Iron Man", but Mr. Stark was not very happy. The "Jin Jing" lady even said something to him. What to say: "Do you know what 'moral kidnapping' and 'killing' mean? If you encounter this kind of thing again, just save the person and leave the ship alone."

But Mr. Rogers clearly said, "With great ability comes great responsibility." If you have the ability to do it, why not do it?

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boom! Peng!

"Ahhhh——"

As "Iron Man" flew around New York, passing through Queens and about to enter the sky above Brooklyn, a violent explosion suddenly occurred below, and the crowd screamed and ran away.

Peter turned and flew towards the site of the incident, while Jarvis also simultaneously displayed the real-time footage of the scene and the surveillance video before and after the incident on the screen inside the helmet.

The footage showed that the location of the incident was an assembly factory under the name of "Hammer Industries". Flames were erupting from all the sewer outlets inside the factory and on surrounding streets, and there were many cracks on the ground, which looked like underground gas. Pipeline explosion.

But whose gas pipe explosion will spew out purple-black flames?

What's more, the culprit of the accident used a whip to blow up the surveillance camera.

Um? whip?

Peter walked through the diffuse smoke and saw the prisoner who caused the explosion at a glance.

It was a giant red armor that was at least four times larger than the steel armor. A long whip glowing with dazzling blue and white electric light extended out from each arm of the armor. The helmet of the armor did not When he closed it, one could clearly see the big brown face with a sinister expression and a cigar in his mouth. When he saw "Iron Man" appear, a fierce smile appeared on his face. He opened his mouth and said:

"Come on! The show is about to begin! Hell, it’s about time!]"

With a bang, the mask of the heavy mecha closed, revealing the white skull depicted on it, and then he waved his arm and whipped it over.

"Hey! Man, you know what? Smoking is harmful to health, especially if you don't have ventilation," Peter flashed the whip and flew around the red armor: "Jarvis, please start tactical analysis."

If he were not wearing a steel suit, of course he would not need Jarvis to analyze, he would be able to fight just by intuition, or as Miss Jin Jing jokingly said, "Peter's inspiration".

But because the enemy mecha made too much noise, many people who didn't care about life and death were filming the battle with various photographic equipment. Now if he turns on the mecha and goes out...it's hard to imagine tomorrow's newspapers. What will the meeting say about Mr. Stark?

Since his mission now is to "patrol New York in an iron suit", dealing with bad guys as "Iron Man" is also part of the mission. This is much more exciting than helping an old lady cross the road or rescuing a cat from a tree. .

Buzz-buzz!

The red armor attacks "Iron Man" with the double lightning whips at extremely high speeds. The frequency reaches five times per second, and the damage seems to be very high. As a result, the control of the iron armor is not that skillful. Peter was so exhausted that he had no chance to fight back except to dodge.

"Iron Man! Hahaha! You deceive the world and steal all the technology of Stark Industries!]" The red armor launched an attack while still shouting through the loudspeaker: "I want to demolish this place." Stark Industrial Park', stop me if you can!】"

"Not only do you have a bad brain, you are also blind," Peter tried to imitate Stark's tone: "Do you want to see what is written on the sign of this industrial park?"

"...Hammer Industries?]" Crimson Armor said in a puzzled tone: "According to the investigation, most of the finished steel armor products are shipped out from here.]"

Although the voice in the loudspeaker of the red armor was talking to Peter, its body was still attacking "Iron Man" without stopping. It seemed that the person controlling the mecha and the loudspeaker were not the same person.

"Idiot," Peter recalled what Stark had told him: "After the military obtained Si, my technology, it subcontracted the manufacturing to Hammer Industries - you destroyed the military's manufacturing plant. .】"

"Damn it! We were fooled!]" The other party's tone became angry: "Whip rope! Retreat quickly!]"

"Roar----!!】"

Peter heard the voice of the armor pilot again, but it was completely different from when he still smoked cigars. There seemed to be no trace of humanity left in the voice, and the speed of waving the lightning whip was actually a little faster, which made the people who had just adapted to him The speedy Peter was tired of dodging and was surrounded by dangers.

"Whip rope? Whip rope? Mark!? Retreat quickly!]" The voice on the loudspeaker sounded obviously panicked: "Damn it! I shouldn't believe them! They actually used our hands to eliminate dissidents!]"

There was a flurry of sound from the loudspeaker, and then it clicked off, leaving only the red armor still roaring and dancing wildly.

"The latest tactical analysis concludes that you should retreat at full speed immediately, Peter.]" Jarvis said.

"What?" Peter asked confused: "I have figured out the attack method of this mecha. If I fight for a while, I can defeat it."

"No, Peter, it is not a mecha, but a 'mutated creature'. Combined with what its leader said was 'being fooled', this attack is most likely an attack by the military's bio-enhanced faction against the mechanical-enhanced faction." In an attack, these people who have hatred for Stark are just tools that have been pulled in, and this tool has gotten out of control.]"

"But if we leave it alone, this city will..."

"Ouch-ouch—!]"

Katcha, creak, kacha——

With another heartbreaking roar, the red mecha suddenly grew in size.

No, it didn't grow bigger, but all its armor was stretched outwards, revealing the huge brown body of the "pilot" inside.

It was a huge humanoid creature whose size could hardly be called human. It had a body three times larger than that of an ordinary person. Its skin was brown and black with a hint of green, and its muscles and blood vessels were bulging like spider webs. It was originally red. The armor looks like a tattered medieval armor when worn on it.

"It's not like Dr. Banner ever-"

"Flash——]"

Peng——! ! Stab-!

The brown monster raised its foot and stepped on the ground. The whole "man" flew into the air and hit the steel armor that was staying in the air to observe the enemy's situation with one punch. The blazing white lightning whip on the "arm guard" also used the opportunity to swing the armor's head. One note.

Boom boom boom——!

"Iron Man" was sent flying out without any chance to react, and crashed through the bombed-out park building of Hammer Industries. Finally, he hit some flammable and explosive object, triggering a series of events where he finally stopped. A violent explosion caused the superstructure to completely collapse, completely burying the broken armor underneath.

"Hoo-ho-" The brown monster landed and looked at the location where the steel suit was shot down. He turned back uninterested and looked at the surrounding photographers who were not afraid of death taking pictures here.

"Iron Man is defeated!"

"Help!"

The prerequisite for not being afraid of death is to make sure that you will not die immediately. The "war reporters" who came because of the explosion in the Hanmer Industrial Park immediately dispersed, and they did not forget to relay the news along the way.

"Ho-ho-!]"

The brown monster roared twice with no meaning, turned around and looked around, then chose a direction, suddenly jumped up with all its strength, and disappeared into the billowing smoke and flames.

"Peter... sizzle... insist... I'll... sizzle...]"

Under the ruins, Jarvis's voice finally disappeared completely.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

Next time, the death of Spider-Man.