Chapter 641 - Theft (1/2)
”Uh-oh!” Tony's figure flew into the sky, leaving a trail of glow formed by the thrusters installed within the palms and the calves with a pack of killer armors, completely robotic without any controller within, rushing towards him with their missile launchers and guns blazing. Well, all beside one suit of armor, to be precise. Tony's only friend, well, from childhood, Colonel Rhodes now shouted bloody mary while his body flew, and armor hijacked.
”I always knew you wanted to kill me,” Tony's voice communicated with Rhodey's as the man in the controlled armor shouted, ”Look out, one mean blast incoming!!” With that, War Machine's suit launched a mini-missile capable of ruining a building easily as it flew towards Tony's suit. The sudden assault of Hammer Industries' armors took everyone by surprise, even Shield units surrounding Stark Industries personnel but then again, most opponents would aim to surprise and strike ruthlessly in a given period.
”Holy...” Mary mumbled as she saw blasts stretching across the sky when her surroundings erupted in stunned screeches, making Mary look back at one titan of a monster, pale white suit with patches of black to denote the eyes and the wildest smile and jagged teeth stretched across his face. ”That's... Vanish!” One of the men shouted, his social standing clearly high for Vanish's appearance wasn't known to everybody and yet once the words echoed, chants of praise followed only for Mary to smile gleefully and gesture her cameraman to make way towards Vanish.
”Vanish! Vanish!” Mary shouted, her voice reaching the loveable monster as he grunted in surprise with a mic trying to be shoved in front of him but the height of his woman acted as an obstruction to the task. ”Are you here to save all of us? What are your superpowers? How did you defeat those villains that hijacked the mall?!” She stated all her 'queries' and back at their apartment, Anna felt her cheeks burn at her mother's shamelessness. Before he could answer, however, Nik's gaze flashed as he found Harry in the crowd, panicked and afraid while being led away with his security detail.
Bolder ones, however, stuck with Vanish as he grasped the microphone from Mary's hands, inquiring with her through their mental connection, however, no reply came from her as the mischievous smirk on her face made Vanish's eyelids twitch. Sure, if she wished to play and catch Vanish on the act then he was sure to get his names across everybody's lips.
”Sweetheart, your channel a national broadcast?” Vanish's voice echoed for the first time as mary nodded hurriedly, ”Yes! One of the best! Now please answer our questions!” Before other channel teams could flock Vanish, he tossed the microphone back to Mary and stretched his arm right above, the white material consisting of Pickle stretched forward without a hint of surprise and caught a drone passing overhead, the camera's angle raised alongside the stretch and caught the live-action.
”Reed, this guy's ability... works like your mutation,” back in their Baxter Building, Benjamin pointed at the television while the attack had caused the recently mutated group to feel grim. Even a young blonde wrapped by a robe with his hair steaming due to the wetness getting evaporated at a breakneck pace. ”I can see that,” Reed pointed out. Vanish had saved Benjamin and showed a form of spatial ability that screamed of teleportation but this was the first time they were seeing Pickle in action and the moment the fleshy appendage crushed the drone into a small, skull-sized ball of metal with circuits buzzing about, everybody's pupils contracted for a moment.
Still, now that Nik had decided to propel Mary's career with her officially being the first reporter to convince a superhero in action, he threw the ball of metal and it struck one of the many flying bots, causing it to fall down with internal damage to its structure, however, jumping from his position and causing a wild gust to pick up in his wake, Vanish intercepted the fallen with an uppercut, causing the bot to fly high and striking another one.
”Whoooaaaa! That's a monster right there! Look at that smile!” Meanwhile, Tony's voice within War Machine's armor didn't help. ”Just focus on getting the control of my suit!” His friend begged while the billionaire snickered, ”Priorities, brotha! I got to focus on dodging the attacks. And then counterattacking.”
”Then what about fighting off the hijack?”
”That's Jarvis' business!”