Superman from the comics: Starting with the Black Robe

Chapter 353 The Secret Base That Is No Longer a Secret

Chapter 353 The Secret Base That Is No Longer a Secret

Quicksilver, Pilcher Maximov, was born in Sokovia, a war-torn and conflict-ridden region of the Balkans.

Like other Eastern European Third World countries and regions, their suffering has never shown any signs of ending after the struggle between the majority and the minority had finally come to a conclusion.

Quicksilver's childhood ended when a few cannonballs landed in his house; he was only ten years old at the time.

With his home destroyed and his parents killed in the bombing, he wandered the streets and alleys of Sokovia, risking being bombed to death by aerial bombs as he scavenged the meager supplies he had.

For a ten-year-old child, a shortage of any one of the following—food, water, or clothing—could be fatal.

Such days lasted for at least seventy-eight days. Quicksilver survived tenaciously amidst such chaos, disorder, and hatred until he finally joined Hydra and gradually awakened his superpowers.

But hunger, cold, fear, and despair became the underlying tone of the first half of his life.

After miraculously surviving a misfired shell, the only thing Quicksilver could remember was the logo engraved on the shell casing—

Tony Stark didn't even need the other party to say the name; he already knew what was engraved on the missile.

Stark Industries.

The speedster locked up in front of us wasn't so much hostile towards "Iron Man" as his hatred was directed purely at the essence beneath the Iron Man mask: billionaire and arms dealer Tony Stark.

Quicksilver, now trapped in the trap, had lost the rage he felt after his failed assassination attempt. After recounting his story, he appeared remarkably calm, looking at Tony as if he were a complete stranger. He uttered only a prophetic curse before falling silent:

"You won this time, but you won't keep winning. One day, someone else will drop a bomb on your heads."

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Upon hearing this, Tony suddenly felt like he couldn't breathe, and a vague sense of panic welled up in his mind.

He didn't know how to describe the feeling; the fear was so real and believable, yet so elusive.

Looking at Quicksilver, who was confined to a small cell and restricted in his freedom, Iron Man felt as if he himself was now trapped in a cage.

He himself manufactured and sold weapons that killed Quicksilver's family in the past, and now he's coming to seek revenge.

Meanwhile, Tony had just settled the pregnant Invisible Woman on the first floor of Stark Tower. Her husband, family, and friends had disappeared and their fates were unknown because they were being hunted down by the future Tony.

The blood debts of the past and the future are chasing after him, squeezing him until he has no room to breathe.

Why is this happening?

He always thought he was a good person.

"Wake up, Iron Man!"

An aged voice boomed in Tony's mind, instantly jolting him awake from his daze and fear.

This is Professor X, who had just moved in not long ago.

He rarely interrupts other people's daydreams, but for him and some special people, thoughts themselves are a weapon capable of killing.

Professor X's mind is under immense pressure, entirely from external intrusion.

This pressure comes not only from the psychological level, but also from the physical impact. All of this happened simply because Tony brought in people he shouldn't have. Just as Professor X had warned before, if anyone is brought in casually, this secret base will soon have no secrets left!

No one expected that "soon" would happen so quickly.

Thanks to Joey's continuous construction, the hollow area beneath Manhattan Island, serving as a secret base, was structurally quite stable. However, someone was using immense telekinetic power to tear it all apart.

With a loud bang, the internal structure of the base began to deform and collapse, and the entire underground base shook violently, causing Fury, who had just picked up his pizza delivery and was about to take a bite, to fall face-first into the mud.

WTF!

Tony's radar scan revealed traces of the intruders inside the base.

It was a young woman radiating red light. She was hovering in a corner of the base, and the surrounding rock structure was crumbling away from her. Soon, there was no longer any obstacle between Tony and her.

"Why are you here!"

Upon seeing the familiar figure, Quicksilver appeared even more surprised and anxious than Iron Man himself, shouting into the other end:

Get out of here!

Quicksilver had not told Iron Man the whole story beforehand. In that disaster, Quicksilver was not the only survivor in his family, and his ability to survive several times in cities that had become war zones was not entirely due to luck.

He has a twin sister who is even stronger than him, who acts like a guardian angel, protecting him intentionally or even unconsciously.

Wanda Django Maximov, Scarlet Witch.

After Quicksilver was arrested this time, she appeared where she was supposed to be, just like always.

The Scarlet Witch roared, and the whole of Manhattan could hear it:

"Give my brother back!"

This banshee-like scream unleashed a mental shock powerful enough to turn an ordinary person into an idiot, but fortunately Professor X was there and intervened to calm it down.

Faced with this "familiar" "old friend," Professor X's eyes twitched, and his entire body groaned as if it were about to burst under the strain.

He quickly projected his mind into Wanda's mind: "Wanda, I know you. Can we talk?"

He also managed to send a short-range message to Tony:

"Contact Superman! And whoever else, everyone!"

This is the Scarlet Witch in her berserk state; Professor X doesn't want to gamble on whether he can take her down by himself.

At the same time, Joey and Bruce, who had just raided a secret Hydra base, also began to split up and carry out separate operations.

Batman sent the Winter Soldier and other dangerous Hydra agents to the base of the Spider-Green Lantern Corps and temporarily detained them.

Meanwhile, Joey, carrying a unwanted fragment of the Cosmic Cube, knocked on the door of an expert.

Another Bruce, Bruce Banner, also known as the Incredible Hulk.

Although the Hulk, a muscular beast, lurks within him, Dr. Banner also possesses a mind that can be described as super genius in the Marvel Universe, where geniuses abound.

For example, when it comes to the study of gamma rays, probably no one in the universe knows more about them than him. That's why Joey needs his help to see if they can locate the Space Stone, which was once associated with it, using the only fragment of the Cosmic Cube.

However, when Joey came over, the situation became slightly more complicated.

Joey, who knocked and entered through the skylight, felt a little awkward looking at Dr. Banner, who was subconsciously straightening his clothes in the living room, and Black Widow, who was sitting upright and seemingly nonchalant.

"Did I come at the wrong time?"

"No, that's perfect, Natalie and I were just discussing—"

In this situation, Dr. Banner's lying skills are even worse than Hulk's; after struggling for a while, he still couldn't come up with a suitable reason: "Uh—uh, well—"

Joey rolled her eyes. "She can't be teaching you Russian, can she?"

"Ah, that's right!"

Dr. Banner was about to use this freshly made excuse, but then he remembered that he had already obtained a diploma from a Russian language institution a long time ago, and immediately felt it didn't hold water. "No!"

In the end, Black Widow couldn't stand it anymore and decisively chose to withdraw from the scene.

"It's just a discussion about some 'Avengers' work, nothing important. I'll leave the space to you boys."

After awkwardly watching Black Widow leave, Dr. Banner turned to give Superman a piece of his mind for his uninvited arrival:

"My God, don't you have super hearing or super vision or something?"

"You can't just throw that thing around like that?!"

Who uses superhuman senses to spy on and eavesdrop on others every day? That's incredibly rude!

Moreover, even if we disregard other people's privacy, if Joey sees something she shouldn't have, and it harms her mental health, who should be held responsible?

"At least you could have rang the doorbell! Instead of just knocking on my window!"

Although Joey's words made a lot of sense, Dr. Banner felt so ashamed and indignant that the Hulk was about to jump out of his skin.

"Even sending an email would be great!"

"I'm sorry, Bruce, but the situation is indeed urgent."

It was certainly impolite for Joey to just show up like that, but the multiverse collision crisis wouldn't wait for Dr. Banner to go through the emails himself:

"I need you—"

Joey hadn't even sat down on the sofa when he suddenly heard a loud bang, interrupting his conversation with Banner.

He turned his head to look in the direction from which the strange noise came, and immediately cold sweat broke out on his forehead:

"Oops!"

The noise was so loud that even Banner, far away in Brooklyn, could sense it. He looked around, especially towards the kitchen:

"Was there any noise just now? Did we forget to take the food out of the oven? Oh my god, please don't let it explode!"

"No, not an oven, but the entire Earth might explode in a moment!"

Joey grabbed Dr. Bruce Banner, eager to rush to the scene, and then dialed another Bruce's contact:

"It's me, yes, there's a problem at the base! Take us with you, how many? All of us!!"

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