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"Adam!" Banner shouted.
Fury's face shifted instantly."Natasha! Barton—move!"
They jumped into action. Natasha tossed an electric baton while Clint (Barton) let loose a high-explosive arrow.
Jiro didn't even turn around. He just waved his hand slightly.
Buzz!
An invisible telekinetic barrier blocked both attacks, bouncing them off harmlessly.
"You two should probably sit this one out," he said flatly.
Just then, the cliff exploded—Adam burst out, now cloaked in raging anti-matter energy, charging even faster than before.
"JIRO!!" he roared, swinging a massive punch!
Jiro didn't dodge. He grabbed Adam's wrist and flung him down.
SMASH!
Adam slammed into the ground, cracking it into rubble.
But he wasn't done. He flipped up, fists glowing blue, and unleashed a storm of punches.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
Jiro blocked every hit with one hand. The ground beneath him shattered from the force, but Jiro didn't move an inch.
"Not bad," Jiro commented. "But still not good enough."
Before Adam could react, Jiro spun—delivering a brutal spinning kick!
BOOM!
Adam flew again, smashing into an upside-down floating mountain.
Fury looked furious. He turned sharply to Banner."Now, Banner! No more hesitating!"
Banner hesitated. His eyes flickered with internal struggle."Are you sure about this, Fury?"
"Do it!" Fury barked.
Banner took a deep breath, closed his eyes—when they opened, they glowed green.
ROARRR!!!
Hulk erupted from within, roaring to the skies.
Jiro finally looked intrigued."Two on one? Sure. Bring it."
Hulk didn't waste time. He leapt into the air and swung his giant fist at Jiro!
This time, Jiro vanished and reappeared behind him—then drove an elbow into Hulk's spine!
WHAM!
Hulk grunted, stumbling forward, but quickly turned and swung a backhand punch!
Jiro raised his arm to block, the clash exploding with force. The ground beneath them disintegrated.
He hadn't activated his bio-force field yet—this mirrored dimension could take the beating.
"Now this is getting interesting," Jiro muttered.
From a distance, Adam stood again, fully powered up. He and Hulk charged Jiro together, attacking from both sides.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The battle exploded into full chaos. Shockwaves rocked the entire cliffside—the battlefield turned into rubble.
Wanda tensed on the balcony, energy swirling at her fingertips.
Tony narrowed his eyes, muttering,"Yeah… this just got way outta hand."
At the center of the chaos, Jiro took on both Adam and Hulk at once—still completely in control.
His speed, strength, and reaction time were far beyond theirs. Every exchange had him on top.
He caught an opening—landed a punch square in Hulk's chest, sending him flying. At the same time, he conjured a magic chain, wrapping Adam up and slamming him hard into the ground.
"You're never going to beat me like this," Jiro said, shaking his head."If even I'm too much for you—what makes you think you can protect the world?"
"Come on. Show me your real power!"
Adam struggled to his feet, blood trickling from his lips.
Hulk panted heavily, fury rising in his eyes.
The tension kept rising.
The sea wind seemed to freeze. Even the sound of the waves vanished.
Jiro stood in the center, golden lines on his suit glowing brighter. His eyes turned a blazing gold.
Solar-flare-like energy pulsed around him. The ground beneath his feet cracked… and started to melt.
Across from him, Adam Bernard slowly levitated into the air. His anti-matter energy no longer held back—now it exploded.
Blue storms surged around him, his skin glowing—his energy core fully unleashed.
In the distance, Hulk's body bulged once again. Muscle fibers tore and reformed. His skin shifted from green to a deep, inky shade of dark green, almost black. What flowed through his veins wasn't blood anymore—it was boiling gamma energy.
Every breath he took came out as searing white steam, and the rocks beneath his feet vaporized instantly.
Nick Fury backed up to a safer distance. His lone eye darted frantically across the battlefield, and his face darkened by the second."What the hell is Jiro…? What kind of monster is he?"
Natasha and Hawkeye had already retreated even farther back. Clint's fingers were locked on his bowstring, but he realized… he didn't even have the guts to aim.
This wasn't a fight humans had any business interfering in.
Wanda stood on the balcony of the villa, chaos magic spiraling out of control around her. A scarlet storm of energy cloaked the entire building.
Her eyes reflected the battle raging in the distance. Her heart was pounding so fast it felt like it might burst out of her chest.
Tony Stark's helmet was already sealed, and J.A.R.V.I.S. was urgently warning in his ear,"Sir, energy levels have reached nuclear detonation scale. I strongly advise immediate evacuation!"
"No." Tony's voice was low. "I have to see this."
The battle began.
Adam made the first move. Clapping his hands together, a blast cannon of antimatter instantly formed between them—a beam of eerie blue light shot forward like a lance.
Jiro didn't dodge.
His eyes blazed gold—heat vision fired straight at the incoming beam!
BOOM!!!
The instant the two energy blasts collided, blinding white light swallowed everything, and a spherical shockwave rippled outward.
The entire cliffside collapsed. Massive boulders plummeted into the ocean, sending waves towering dozens of meters high!
Hulk seized the moment. With an explosive stomp, the ground beneath him caved in, and he launched himself like a meteor straight at Jiro!
He hadn't even landed yet, but everyone could feel the sheer power packed in that punch.
Jiro kept up the heat vision, clenched his right fist, activated his full biokinetic field, and threw a punch of his own.
BOOM!!
The moment their fists collided, time itself seemed to pause for one breathless second.
Then—an earth-shattering shockwave detonated.The clouds above were torn apart, and the ocean surface was blasted into a thousand-meter-wide crater.Tony's villa, shielded only by Wanda's chaos magic, shook violently and nearly collapsed.
Hulk's arm bone cracked audibly under the pressure, but he just grinned. His wounds were healing before everyone's eyes. With his other fist, he swung straight for Jiro's gut!
But Jiro blinked out of sight—he appeared behind Hulk in a flash and lashed out with a brutal spinning kick that sent Hulk flying toward Adam!
Adam quickly switched tactics. His antimatter energy morphed into a massive net, catching Hulk mid-air. The two were perfectly in sync—Hulk bounced off the net and charged again, while Adam slammed his hands to the ground.
"Core Impact!"
The earth turned deep blue, and countless energy spikes burst upward, surrounding Jiro like a cage!
At the same time, Hulk dove from above, both fists clenched:"HULK! UNSTOPPABLE!!"
Jiro… laughed.
"Now this is getting fun."
Suddenly, his suit disintegrated, revealing a sculpted upper body covered in glowing golden patterns.
The mark of a fully activated solar flare mode.
BOOOM!!!
Pure light and heat exploded out of him.Adam's antimatter spikes evaporated in an instant.Hulk was swallowed by the blazing inferno—like crashing straight into a sun!
When the blinding light finally faded, Hulk—now charred black—plummeted from midair and crashed hard into the sea.
Half of Adam's body had been scorched, his antimatter energy scrambling to heal the damage.
Jiro floated in midair—like a god.
He looked at Adam. "Still want to go?"
Adam wiped the blood from his lips… and grinned. "Hell yeah."
His body began to disassemble, transforming into pure, glowing blue energy. He had fully unleashed his antimatter mimicry.
Meanwhile, the ocean suddenly roared as a more terrifying Hulk burst out from the water—bigger, stronger, and fiercer.
He wasn't just healed. He'd evolved.
Steam hissed from his body, and a blood-red glow flickered in his eyes.
"HULK! INFINITE RAGE!!!"
Jiro took a deep breath, then slowly brought his hands together.
"Then let's end this."
A golden magic circle unfolded beneath his feet, instantly spreading to cover the entire sea. His eyes, chest, and fists all lit up with blinding gold energy.
Adam shot toward him like a streaking blue meteor.
Hulk launched into the air with a roar.
Jiro's voice thundered through the heavens:
"DIVINE JUDGMENT!!"
BOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!
White light consumed the entire Mirror Dimension.
When the light finally faded—
The sea level had dropped by who knew how much.
The cliffside was gone, replaced by a five-kilometer-wide semi-spherical crater. Its walls gleamed like crystal—smooth and mirror-like.
Adam was down on one knee, back in human form, drenched in blood.
Hulk had reverted to Banner and lay unconscious.
Jiro stood tall before them, the golden glow on his body slowly dimming. He looked toward a pale-faced Nick Fury in the distance.
"…Your turn."
Fury's single eye twitched with alarm.
"What are you planning?"
Jiro's eyes began glowing again. His enhanced vision had already picked out the green-skinned alien under Fury's disguise.
"A shape-shifting alien… pretending to lead Earth's mightiest? You think I wouldn't notice?"
"....."