The Death Knell

Not to mention how the tropical storm caused Dr. Banner and Betty to give up their escape to Mexico, and how they were hit by a falling tree and turned into the Hulk after returning.

Just say that the battle between Hulk and Red Skull is simply a world war.

During the violent storm, the roaring waves washed up on the shallows of the wetland again and again, and the ruins of the museum that were turned into sinkholes were also filled with rainwater.

Every time Hulk and Red Skull fight, the water will bounce up from large and small pits like it is free of gravity, making its own sound in the strong vibrations. Under the influence of the earth's gravity, it fell like a goddess scattering flowers. Bean-sized water droplets fell from the sky, hitting uniforms of various colors and emitting various different sounds.

Steve wiped the water from his face and placed Bucky in a safe place away from the battlefield-in an inflatable spacecraft.

This is supposed to be something for little kids, who didn’t want to jump around in a spaceship-shaped hovercraft as a kid? Unfortunately, roller coasters didn't have big swings when Steve and Bucky were kids. At that time, they were taken to amusement parks by their godfather, usually to haunted houses or similar places.

Now that I think about it, it must have been cultivated since childhood that I and Bucky are so courageous, right?

The thoughts in his mind flashed by. Steve settled Bucky and returned to the battlefield with the shield. He saw the Red Skull flying in the sky and bombarding the Hulk, and the Hulk could jump hundreds of meters every time he jumped. , he faced various beam attacks, waving his huge fists like fluttering butterflies, wanting to tear his enemies to pieces in the rain.

The heavy rain flowed down the Red Skull's black leather coat. His Hydra armband was as wet as his head, and it was dazzlingly red. The moist and cold color made people's hearts tremble like a dagger on a dark winter night.

All kinds of gravel and ruins were flying everywhere above his head, and the ground was shaking beneath his feet. The rain blurred Steve's vision, but he still rushed to the Pym couple and held them on his shoulders.

The Red Skull was too busy dealing with Hulk's crazy attacks to pay attention to Captain America for a while, and he continued to spit out sweet things in German and Russian.

If faced with other enemies, perhaps psychological tactics would be useful, but today's Hulk has no sense at all. In his eyes, the Red Skull is just a living creature that makes noise.

And this living thing also hit him, causing him a little pain, which was annoying.

Large areas of the ground sank, and the space center suffered a catastrophic destruction. Just as Steve put Pim and his wife into the inflatable spacecraft, and jumped out to drag the spacecraft away, a pickup truck suddenly appeared. Rushed over by the rain.

The slippery and rugged ground made it splash with mud and water as it drove, and the muddy mud covered the car's body. It drifted and stopped in front of Steve, who was full of vigilance.

The water-stained cab glass rolled down, revealing a familiar pretty face: "Take them into the car, Steve."

"Peggy..." Steve had mixed feelings for a moment. He didn't expect that Paige would not only return to the United States, but also rush into the battlefield to find him, just like in the past.

Paige smiled bitterly. The cold war between her and Steve had lasted too long, but this time she finally caught him.

But those things will be discussed later. For now, the first step is to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. A battle at the level of the messenger Red Skull and Hulk is already too dangerous.

"Don't be stunned, Captain, do you still want us to help you move people here? We are ladies." Natasha's head poked out from Paige's side, and Steve noticed it. He thought he was being The black widow who was buried under the rubble appeared in the passenger seat at some point.

Steve took a deep breath, turned around and rushed into the 'hovercraft' to transport the injured. Among them, Bucky was the most seriously injured, while Janet was the least injured and had already woken up.

It just so happened that Steve only had to carry Bucky and Hank.

Arriving at the truck, Peggy started the vehicle and drove it wildly. Only then did Steve have time to sit down and rub the cracked bones on his body. There was a small window between the body of the car and the cab, and he happened to have something to ask Peggy.

"When did you come back?"

Paige, who was driving, signaled to Natasha to take her place, and she changed positions and climbed into the car from the passenger seat, grabbing Steve's arm as if she was afraid that he would run away.

"After all, I am the former director of SHIELD and Howard's friend. I will definitely come back after he dies."

Steve turned his head and looked at the muddy rutted distance behind him. There were two shadows, red and green, colliding in the air above the mud. He had heard the saying "red with green, really trendy" from his godfather before. , is said to be the entry-level policy in the fashion industry.

But when he thought of his godfather, he remembered that Peggy didn't attend his godfather's funeral, and Steve's face darkened.

"Then why didn't you go to his funeral?"

Peggy knew who Steve was talking about, and only the man who raised him had such a great influence on Steve. She sighed: "At that time, Hydra and Leviathan were attacking us step by step. Come on, they stole Howard's 'Athena' system, I really can't leave."

Steve frowned. He had never heard of the existence of this system.

Peggy saw his confusion. She patted the rainwater on her leather jacket and wiped her hair behind her ears: "The Athena system is a satellite control system developed by Howard. It can operate satellites and rockets from the ground and control them. The orbit was later handed over to NASA and spawned the Apollo program."

The Apollo program was the United States' moon landing program. It was indeed important. At least it allowed the United States to defeat the Soviet Union in the space race.

Steve knew the reason, and Peggy didn't tell him at that time probably because of the confidentiality agreement. He left the logistics department at that time, and he really shouldn't know these secrets.

He sighed and looked at Bucky lying in the truck bed. The rain made the long-haired brother look pale. Steve took off his shield and clasped it on Bucky's face.

"How did you know we were here?"

"I am the director of the Logistics Department. Naturally, there are people of mine in SHIELD today. Ever since you gave the shield to me for safekeeping, there have been people paying attention to its whereabouts." Paige wiped her face and looked with big eyes. To Steve: "Fury thought he could take out the shield and hand it to you without alerting anyone. He was wrong."

Steve was annoyed by the agents' behavior. Aren't they all one of his own? Why are you digging holes everywhere? Is it because brain cells are not dying fast enough?

But he was not stupid at all. He immediately checked the pocket of his uniform and found a small transmitter that looked like the electrical device inside a disposable lighter.

"your?"

Paige shook her head: "It's Fury's, but I shared the information through some means."

"Is that girl named Iron Cavalry one of yours?" Steve thought of the Asians who followed Fury at that time.

"She is my student, but not anyone else's. She is only loyal to SHIELD, so you don't have to worry about these things." Paige rested her head on Steve's shoulder: "I asked my sister to pretend to be me, which caused I was still confusing Fury with the signs abroad, causing him to give you wrong information, and by the time you and Bucky returned to the United States, I had actually arrived."

"You have a sister?" Steve looked confused. He had been with Peggy for decades and never knew she had a sister.

Peggy felt the disbelief in his tone and smiled awkwardly: "Work requires that the less people know about the agent's family situation, the better. A distant cousin, very young, but looks very similar to me. She There is also a daughter.”

"Huh..." Steve let out a long sigh. He was really fed up with the agents, but Paige looked pitiful now and was trembling slightly in the rain. He still couldn't be cruel. Make up your mind.

So he still held her in his arms.

"Bah bang bang..." Janet clapped excitedly beside her, as if she had eaten sugary CP powder: "Great, you are reunited again, woo woo woo."

As she said this, she was even moved to tears, and she didn't know what plot she was imagining.

This made Steve and Paige a little embarrassed. After all, although they were immortal, they were old enough to be Janet's grandparents. It was really awkward to be looked at by young people with direct eyes.

The two still separated, Paige adjusted her hair and clothes, while Steve continued to rub his neck, which was almost interrupted by the Red Skull just now.

Thinking of the Red Skull, he looked back and saw Hulk jumping higher and faster for some reason. He actually grabbed one of the Red Skull's legs at an altitude of five or six hundred meters and pulled him away. Fell to the ground.

As a white line separated by rain appeared between the sky and the earth, the ground shook violently.

Sewage and gravel flew everywhere like a ballistic missile explosion site, and the next second, the entire Cape Caravel Air Force Base was wiped off the map, and huge roars and sonic booms were heard at this time.

A terrifying huge crack appeared behind the pickup truck, and the collapse of the ground chased several people along the road.

"Nat, step on the gas!" Steve immediately shouted from the cab.

Nat and Cortana are both nicknames for Black Widow Natasha, but now there is no old antique in S.H.I.E.L.D. who calls her that. After all, the only older generation members still alive today are Fury and Dugan, and those two are both I don't like to get too close to my colleagues.

Black Widow glanced at the rearview mirror, and naturally saw the cracks in the ground under the water chasing the car like a giant python, and she immediately stepped on the accelerator.

In fact, she never entered the museum from the beginning, because the boss had long told her, 'All Steve's actions will eventually turn into a strong attack, and as long as a single force is divided, it will be a hard battle.'

So she had been hiding far away, just to find a way to save people after Steve and the others were defeated, and knowing that the Red Skull was a user of cosmic energy, she hid as far away as possible.

But when she was hiding in the trees hundreds of meters away and watching with a telescope, she unexpectedly discovered Peggy driving over.

She had an idea and took the initiative to greet him, saying that both the captain and the team had encountered difficulties, and she had escaped to prepare for the rescue.

Paige didn't think much about it. After all, she had known Natasha for a long time. She said directly that she was the rescuer. Then the two of them drove back and saw Steve 'stealing people' on the battlefield.

Then when the two met, their minds were filled with old scores, and even the captain forgot to ask Natasha about her disappearance during the battle.