Chapter 109 Nightmare Attack (4K)

Chapter 109 Nightmare Attack (4K+)

California - 10880 Marbury, Breck Shores, San Diego

Night falls slowly, and the sky takes on a deep, velvety blackness.

The owner of this luxurious villa, Tony Stark, is lying quietly on the soft Hästens bed. In the silent master bedroom, it seems that the only sound is his gradually rising and falling breathing.

The Battle of New York brought him more mental exhaustion.

After finishing the soul torture of Nick Fury, the old Bidden,

The Avengers got a plausible answer. After those in power introduced a "scapegoat" as an explanation to everyone,

This matter seems to have calmed down, no one wants to discuss it, and no one wants to mention it again.

Maybe "good guys should be held at gunpoint". After all, "superheroes" like them can't possibly do more radical behavior.

Everyone knew it and chose silence tacitly.

But there is no doubt that this is wearing away some people's patience and kindness.

After the Battle of New York, most of the Avengers had their own goals.

Dr. Bruce Banner, the Hulk, left here temporarily, saying that he was going to find inner peace and a way to control himself.

Thor, the God of Thunder, returned to Asgard with Loki as a matter of course, and at the same time, he also took away the Cosmic Cube.

After regaining their sanity, Hawkeye Barton and Black Widow Natasha returned to S.H.I.E.L.D. and began to perform tasks together with Captain America Steve Rogers.

As for the [Psychic Scepter], which was a crucial prop in this war, it seemed that it was also "accidentally lost" during the war.

S.H.I.E.L.D. said it has begun a search and is cooperating with the Disaster Control Bureau to jointly recover various high-risk items scattered among the people.

But as a local "local snake", it is indeed a snake in a sense.

SHIELD firmly occupies the United States as its base.

Faced with the visiting UEP, they were not very cooperative, which also led to the slow progress of the anomaly containment. Moreover, they were not the only place that needed to focus on New York.

More energy was scattered outside the ocean and space at the moment. Those seemingly unexpected accidents quickly attracted their great attention.

In addition, the fleeing Decepticon remnants appear in some corner of the world from time to time to cause destruction and harassment. They seem to be looking for something,

But what are you looking for?

No one knows yet.

And Link, who saved New York and even the whole world, and showed a god-like attitude,

Then he disappeared, and no one knew where he went.

It also makes people wonder whether he is still alive, or is seriously injured, perched in a corner, recuperating in secret.

Turn your attention back to this luxurious bay villa,

The sleeping Tony Stark did not seem to be as peaceful and beautiful as expected.

His brows were furrowed, his face was thin and gloomy, veins appeared on his forehead, and his breathing became increasingly rapid.

It's like having a nightmare.

——

"Tony, what's wrong with you?"

He stretched out a hand and patted Tony Stark's back gently, holding his forehead and feeling a little dizzy.

He turned his head subconsciously and saw a familiar but unfamiliar face.

"Who are you……"

For a moment, Tony Stark couldn't remember the name of the person in front of him, even if he flipped through the memories in his mind, he didn't have the impression of this person.

"Don't be ridiculous, Tony, today is your big day, everyone has been waiting for a long time."

The man smiled and pushed Tony Stark's shoulder.

Tony was just about to continue asking, but he caught a glimpse of an acquaintance walking towards him with the same smile on his face - James Rhodes, his good brother.

"Tony, what are you still doing here?"

"Hey, Rod, what's going on now, we're not..."

Rhodes looked strange, but he still tentatively spoke,

"You really don't remember? Today is your and Pepper's wedding day,"

"We also invited the most famous priest in New York, Mr. Joseph Moriarty, to officiate at the wedding!"

"Come on, the guests are all waiting impatiently!"

As a result, under the push of the two people, Tony Stark left this seemingly temporary dressing room in a daze.

At the last moment of leaving here, Tony Stark turned his head and saw a huge floor-to-ceiling mirror.

The expression on my face in the mirror is as blank as my mood at the moment, but I am wearing a white and neat suit, looking solemn and elegant.

"I am married?"

It always feels like I've forgotten something, but I can't put it into words.

In a daze, Tony Stark climbed onto the high platform of the venue,

Next to her was Pepper Potts, who was shy but vaguely expectant, wearing a gorgeous wedding dress.

Glancing around, the figures sitting in the guest seats were all close friends and celebrities from all walks of life.

Everyone came here to congratulate and witness this grand wedding.

Then a figure holding a black Bible and wearing a priest's robe walked out.

On his chest hangs a miniature, pocket-sized version of the idol pendant.

The face is solemn and the expression is compassionate.

But Tony Stark saw that the image of the god depicted in the statue pendant was not the Jesus in the traditional impression.

When he wanted to get more detailed clues, he was interrupted by the priest's right voice,

"Let us cheer for the new couple together..."

Suddenly, Pepper Potts' beautiful face came right in front of Tony Stark's eyes.

Squinting his eyes slightly and pouting his lips, as if in anticipation,

And Tony Stark, whose mind was in chaos, had no time to think too much.

After all, so far, everything is beautiful, and it is also a longing scene that originally existed only in dreams, so I took advantage of the situation and took advantage of it.

But I didn’t get the warmth and softness I expected.

Instead, there was a strong smell of rust and a sharp stinging pain.

Almost immediately, Tony Stark pushed Pepper Potts away. He was a little surprised. He stretched out his hand and wiped it off. Blood gradually appeared on his lips.

In just an instant, the pretty lady in front of her suddenly changed her appearance.

She was half-kneeling on the ground, twisting her body stiffly like a puppet.

Slowly raised his head,

The plump and bright red lips opened, accompanied by a creepy tearing sound, and the upper and lower jaws expanded far beyond the limit that humans can achieve.

The skin tore, revealing a row of neatly arranged bright silver alloy teeth and cheekbones supported by mechanical structures.

Immediately afterwards, the skin began to dissolve and flow away like a candle, revealing the cold and solid metal skeleton inside.

Raising a pair of slender white palms, they have now turned into jagged and sharp steel knuckles.

An equally long and slender metal tailbone twisted in mid-air like a rattlesnake, its sharp tapered tail blade swaying, waiting for an opportunity to move.

"Pepper Potts" has turned into a cruel and violent mechanical monster.

It roared, then rushed towards Tony Stark, leaping high,

"Jarvis!"

Tony Stark shouted,

But he didn't get any response. He rolled sideways and dodged the attacking monster.

"Puff——"

The wooden structure of the high platform was destroyed by the monster that suddenly fell and attacked. A hole was made and the wooden boards were broken.

But it didn't give Tony Stark much time to breathe.

The pair of sharp mechanical claws quickly raised up, grabbed the broken edge of the pit, splashed sawdust, and jumped up suddenly.

Walking like a cat, he began to surround Tony Stark, who looked a little pale.

The sharp blade at the end of the tail keeps swaying from side to side, like a cold poisonous snake, waiting for its prey to relax its vigilance.

As for the guests in the audience, they all disappeared without a trace, leaving no trace.

There was only one figure whose face could not be seen clearly, wearing the same suit and leather shoes, looking at Tony Stark on the stage with interest.

Tony Stark quickly cheered up after a moment of panic, constantly looking for things around him that could be used to resist and defend himself.

But it was obviously to no avail. Faced with this monster that seemed to be born purely for killing, it seemed that only his own steel suit could fight it.

But what surprised him was that no matter how he called, Jarvis, who should always be by his side, did not respond.

He reached out his hand and touched his chest in disbelief.

Unexpectedly, the familiar Ark reactor seemed to be missing from his chest.

"what happened?!"

"Puff——"

But in response to Tony Stark, the monster rushed towards him,

And the sharp tail blade cut through the fabric of the clothes, piercing the flesh and blood and causing severe pain throughout the chest.

"Am I...going to die?"

Blood continued to flow from the corners of his mouth, and his face turned pale. Tony Stark collapsed to the ground.

But just in a trance, everything around him changed. He was once again wearing a white suit and returned to the way he was at the beginning of the wedding.

The noisy cheers and excited shouts came to my ears, but they seemed to be separated by a layer of sound insulation board, which seemed a bit hollow, and there were bursts of tinnitus.

Tony Stark only felt that all of this had become a bit inexplicable. His brain kept thinking about it, looking for traces, and stayed in place.

No matter how the people around him pushed and shouted, he remained unmoved...

"Click——"

Suddenly, Tony Stark's consciousness sank into darkness, and the things in front of him gradually became distorted and collapsed.

Dissipated beside me like floating clouds, becoming fragmented,

And from among the dark shadows, a familiar figure appeared. It was the figure that I couldn't remember who it was.

But at this moment, he has lost his seemingly harmless appearance, and his body is constantly twisting, as creepy as a snake shedding its skin, and changing intangibly like a flame.

Finally, it was shaped into a human-like image of rising and rolling blue flames.

"Tony Stark, you don't seem satisfied with your peaceful and leisurely life."

"Maybe you should have realized it a long time ago,"

"It's not that you are chasing knowledge, but knowledge is chasing you, hahaha..."

Tony Stark's expression was painful, and the sounds coming from that twisted and weird figure kept echoing in his mind, as if they were wrapped around his body and entangled endlessly.

In reality, Tony Stark's strange movements also woke up Pepper Potts, who was sleeping on the same bed.

But when she just touched Tony Stark with her palm, wanting to comfort him,

Tony Stark, who had closed his eyes tightly, suddenly turned around, with a ferocious face, and opened his eyes.

Subconsciously, he reached out his hand and pinched Pepper Potts' neck.

There are some vaguely metallic mechanical components protruding from the exposed skin surface.

In the pupils, azure light flickered, full of coldness and no emotion.

It is even said that in the underground laboratory of the villa, in the display cabinet where the steel armor is stored,

Several steel suits also raised their heads and arms at the same time, smashing the glass and starting to move upstairs.

When Tony Stark saw the person in front of him clearly, he let go of his hand in panic.

"Uh...ahem"

Pepper Potts collapsed to the ground, clutching his neck that had been pinched with purple marks. His eyes were full of fear and disbelief, and big tears kept flowing.

She couldn't believe that the person she loved so much would become like this.

"I am sorry……"

Tony Stark, who was already somewhat unable to distinguish between illusion and reality, looked at his hands helplessly, with a look of pain on his face.

He also couldn't believe that he almost killed the person he loved most.

Pepper Potts stood up staggeringly, and said to her lover,

She always shows the greatest degree of tolerance, otherwise she would not have been by Tony Stark's side.

He wholeheartedly provided him with all the help he could, and his company, Stark Industries, was almost entirely managed by Pepper Potts.

And while Tony Stark was wandering around in the flowers, dissolute and indulgent, Pepper Potts didn't say much.

She knew very well that after that battle, Tony Stark seemed to be a different person.

Suspicious, nervous, anxious,

Originally, Pepper Potts thought that Tony Stark was just like those soldiers who were mentally stimulated after going to the battlefield and encountering unprecedented battles.

It just requires proper psychological guidance and treatment.

Tony Stark, who is stubborn and immersed in his own world, spends every day in the underground laboratory of the villa, conducting various scientific researches.

Naturally, he almost sneered at the psychological counseling and treatment programs that Pepper Potts had booked for him, and was perfunctory and evasive.

But what happened today gave Pepper Potts considerable fright and pain.

Without any explanation, she quickly left the bedroom,

But suddenly he saw those scattered steel armors standing in the corridor, waiting for the palm cannons with their arms raised.

Under multiple stimulations, Pepper Potts rolled her eyes and fainted to the ground.

Tony Stark also hurriedly walked out of the bedroom,

Everything seems to be just a nightmare tonight...