Chapter 22: Thrilling Pursuit! A Frightened Rhodes!
The two fighter jets continuously maneuvered in the air, but even their radars couldn't pinpoint the location of the two humanoid flying objects. This left the two pilots quite puzzled. The next second, one of the pilots caught a glimpse of a humanoid object clinging to the underside of the adjacent fighter jet.
"Hey, Jim! He's under your fighter jet, quickly shake him off!"
"Oh, sh*t! There's one under your fighter jet too! No wonder I couldn't find them!"
Boom—!
After spotting Tony and Ethan, the two fighter jets accelerated and began to spin. This directly flung Tony and Ethan off the underside of the jets, forcing them to activate their Iron Man Armor's flight mode and accelerate away.
But the fighter jets clearly wouldn't let them go so easily. Soon, they caught up to Tony and Ethan again. This time, after seeing Tony and Ethan, a machine gun appeared on the underside of the fighter jets. Both jets began to strafe Tony and Ethan separately.
The machine guns on the fighter jets were incomparable to those of the Gomera Terrorists. Tony and Ethan's Iron Man Armor quickly showed dents from being hit by bullets. This made Tony and Ethan realize the danger, and they could only use the Iron Man Armor's flexibility to evade the fighter jets' attacks.
Each of them dealt with one fighter jet, using the Iron Man Armor's flexibility, and soon made it impossible for the fighter jets to hit them! But the next second, Tony and Ethan were instantly terrified because the fighter jets actually launched two missiles directly at them.
With two missiles each, Tony and Ethan could only fly downwards. With Jarvis's calculations and assistance, they began to look for an opportunity to blow up these four missiles! With only their repulsor rays, it wasn't easy for them to hit flying missiles, even if Jarvis could predict the missiles' trajectories.
The flying speed and wind force would directly affect the Iron Man Armor. Even with Jarvis assisting with aiming, they couldn't hit the missiles. Moreover, the missiles were chasing them from behind; if they turned around to activate their repulsor rays, they would instantly be hit by the missiles.
For this, Tony and Ethan could only constantly change their flight direction flexibly to evade the pursuit of the four missiles! At this moment, Tony had an idea after seeing a grand canyon. He alone lured the missiles to chase him, continuously accelerating towards the canyon wall.
At the moment he was about to crash, he used all his strength to pull up his flight path in a straight line, but he still hit a rock! Fortunately, with the protection of the Iron Man Armor, there was no problem. However, the missiles chasing Tony directly hit the canyon wall and exploded.
Boom—!
Boom—!
After Tony dealt with the missiles chasing him, he began to instruct Ethan on how to deal with his missiles. However, the next second, he was attacked by the fighter jets again. Now he could only flexibly dodge while observing Ethan's position. But Ethan, after all, had several Dr. degrees.
He quickly found a way to deal with the missiles because there was a very small gap in the canyon ahead, probably only wide enough for the Iron Man Armor to pass through. Even with a tracking system, the missiles couldn't accurately pass through this gap. Seeing this, Ethan continuously accelerated towards the gap.
After Jarvis's calculations, he flew directly through the gap without touching even a bit of the surrounding mountain! The missiles chasing him, however, directly crashed into the mountain, instantly exploding. The entire mountain next to the gap was destroyed by the missiles, and the blast even caused large amounts of soil on both sides of the mountain to begin collapsing.
Boom—!
Boom—!
While Ethan was dealing with the missiles, Tony was already entangled with the two fighter jets, constantly dodging their attacks through flexible maneuvering and flying! At this moment, Tony was suddenly hit by the wing of one of the fighter jets, sending him flying backward violently.
With the protection of the Iron Man Armor, he was not injured. After flying backward for a distance, he stabilized himself using the Iron Man Armor's flight mode. However, the fighter jet was not so lucky, as the engine next to its wing was destroyed by Tony's impact, causing the entire fighter jet to lose balance and fall to the ground.
Tony didn't care about this, but he had been observing for a long time, wondering why the pilot wasn't ejecting and deploying his parachute. If he waited any longer, he would face extreme danger! Even the pilot of the other fighter jet was anxiously contacting him!
"Jim! Eject now! What's wrong? Why aren't you deploying your parachute!!"
"No, I can't open it, the parachute is stuck!"
"What, d*mn it! How could this happen! No!"
After the pilot of the other fighter jet contacted his counterpart, he suddenly ejected from the fighter jet but was slow to deploy his parachute. From their conversation, it was learned that the parachute had malfunctioned and couldn't open! Even Rhodes in the command center of the Air Force Base was furious.
He never imagined that the parachute would malfunction at such a critical moment. He had already cursed the ancestors of the inspection department eighteen generations back! If the parachute couldn't open, it meant he would lose an excellent fighter pilot and airman!
At this moment, Tony also noticed that something was wrong. He immediately maneuvered his Iron Man Armor to dive towards the pilot's position, continuously accelerating along the way! After reaching the pilot, he ripped open the parachute, saving the pilot, and then activated his flight mode to fly towards Ethan's direction.
To avoid more fighter jets chasing them later, Tony reluctantly called Rhodes!
"Alright, Rhodes, that was me. Stop sending fighter jets over."
"What? What was you?"
"The thing your fighter jets were chasing, I was in it! Buddy, I'll give you an explanation later. Quickly send someone to rescue that pilot."
"F*ck! Do you know! We lost a state-of-the-art fighter jet and almost sacrificed an excellent pilot! Tony, you wait until I settle this with you!"
After connecting with Rhodes, Tony told him the truth of the matter. Hearing that the fighter jets were chasing Tony, he broke out in a cold sweat and angrily reprimanded Tony, but for now, he could only deal with the situation first and settle accounts with Tony later.
Fortunately, the pilot was fine; only one fighter jet was lost, which was the best outcome! Otherwise, if anything had happened to Tony, he could guarantee that the generals and senators connected to Tony would tear him apart.
After receiving Rhodes's reply, Tony contacted Ethan, and the two directly accelerated away from there, flying towards New York. He believed Rhodes would handle everything.