Tony Stark's eyebrows, hidden beneath his armor's faceplate, twitched as the built-in sensors frantically analyzed the material and energy output of the "action figure" before him.
"What kind of metal is this?"
"An unheard-of energy signature?"
"This is far more interesting than the collectibles in his Underground Room."
"Alright, I take back what I said just now."
Tony's voice, amplified by the speakers, carried a hint of excitement at encountering a new toy.
"This is definitely a limited collector's edition. William, where did you dig this up from?"
The Destroyer clearly had no interest in responding to him.
Its target instantly shifted from the half-dead William on the ground to the gleaming Tony in mid-air.
The faceplate split open again, without the slightest delay.
A beam of destruction, even more concentrated and lethal than before, like the breath of a mythical dragon, tore through the air and shot directly at Tony Stark.
"Whoa! Fiery passion!"
Tony yelped, and the thrusters at his feet instantly unleashed powerful propulsion.
The red and gold figure arced through the air in an elegant yet extreme curve, narrowly evading the direct hit from the beam.
Boom—!
The beam missed, slamming heavily into the side of William's office building.
The wall, composed of high-strength concrete and rebar, instantly melted and vaporized as if cut by a hot knife, leaving behind a massive, dark-red glowing hole with smooth edges.
Through the hole, one could even see the burning remnants of an Italian leather sofa in William's office.
William, still sprawled on the ground, his eye twitched violently.
He felt as if his soul had been vaporized along with that wall.
"Tony…"
He let out a desperate groan in a voice only he could hear.
"Can't you take it out to sea to fight?! Do you have to perform acrobatics over my fixed assets?!"
Tony, in the air, couldn't hear his thoughts.
After dodging the attack, he immediately launched a counterattack.
Dozens of miniature missiles whistled out from his shoulder and arm armor.
Trailing white contrails, they formed an impenetrable web of firepower, completely engulfing the Destroyer.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of violent explosions erupted on the Destroyer, fire and thick smoke instantly swallowing its form.
Each explosion was like a heavy hammer, pounding hard on William's chest.
He could almost hear countless U.S. dollars wailing, burning, and turning to ash in the flames.
"Stop bombing! Stop bombing! The lawn below is top-grade imported from New Zealand!"
William roared in his heart, clutching his hair in agony.
As the smoke cleared, the Destroyer stood unharmed.
The missiles, powerful enough to destroy a tank, hadn't even left a scratch on its smooth Uru metal exterior.
"A bit tough, huh."
Tony's voice held a new gravity.
He hovered in mid-air, beginning to re-evaluate his opponent's defenses.
Just then, the "customer dispute" resolution team on the ground also recovered from their initial shock.
"Hey! Tin can!"
Jessica Jones yelled at Tony in the sky, "That guy's arm is worth a million! Don't you dare blow it up!"
She roared, and once again charged forward like a cannonball.
This time, she was smarter, no longer going for a head-on collision, but instead using her superhuman leaping ability to circle the Destroyer, searching for weaknesses in its joints.
On the other side, Abomination also let out a battle-hungry roar.
Its massive body moved, making the ground tremble.
It abandoned grappling with the Destroyer and instead charged towards the ruins of the bombed-out warehouse nearby, using its massive hands to forcibly lift a load-bearing steel beam nearly a meter in diameter!
"Roar—!"
Abomination swung the steel beam like a baseball bat, with a tearing whistle through the air, slamming it heavily into the Destroyer's head!
Clang—!!!
A deafening metallic crash echoed across the entire island.
The Destroyer's massive body staggered, its head tilting slightly backward.
Although it still caused no substantial damage, this blow was clearly much more effective than Tony's missiles.
"Well done, Emil! Your bonus this month is increased by fifty percent!"
Seeing this, William's eyes lit up, as if he saw a glimmer of hope in the ruins of despair.
He immediately pulled out his phone, disregarding the danger, and turned on the video recording function, aiming it at the battlefield.
"Come on! Smile for the boss! No, smash it harder for the boss! This is all evidence! Evidence to claim compensation from S.H.I.E.L.D.!"
Tandy and Tyrone also found their rhythm.
"Tyrone, left!"
Tandy's clear shout, and several light blades instantly formed, shooting towards the Destroyer's left knee joint.
A deep darkness spread at the Destroyer's feet.
Tyrone's figure emerged from it, he stretched out his hand, and dark energy transformed into invisible chains, wrapping around the Destroyer's ankle, and pulling hard!
The Destroyer, already unbalanced by Abomination's heavy blow, now had its feet constrained, and its massive body finally lost its balance, crashing to one side.
"Now!"
Tony in the air seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The circular arc reactor on his chest glowed brightly, and a surge of immense energy, far exceeding that of a repulsor blast, instantly converged.
"Taste this, big guy!"
A thick, solidified blue energy beam—a monomolecular beam cannon—erupted from Tony's chest, precisely striking the faceplate of the Destroyer as it was about to fall!
Meanwhile, Thor, who had been ignored by everyone, was leaning against a broken wall, gasping for breath.
He looked at the scene before him, at these mortals.
An Iron Man, a drunk.
A scrubber.
Two lost children.
And a monster whose name he didn't know.
These people were fighting for their lives to protect this place, to confront a disaster from his homeland.
They could have fled, but they didn't.
A strong wave of shame and unwillingness surged into Thor's heart.
He, the Prince of Asgard, Thor, could only stand there like a useless person, watching.
His pride, his glory, were crushed to dust at this moment.
No!
He couldn't go on like this anymore!
He struggled to his feet, looked around, and finally picked up a broken steel bar.
He threw the steel bar with all his might towards the Destroyer, who was grappling with Abomination.
But the steel bar weakly hit Abomination's back with a soft thud and bounced off powerlessly.
"Hey! Big guy!"
Thor roared with all his might, trying to attract everyone's attention, "It's afraid of cold! Use that Water Man! Use seawater!"
He remembered the battle in Jotunheim, where the Destroyer's energy output was noticeably affected when facing the Frost Giant.
This was the only valuable piece of information he, now overcome by anger and despair, could think of.
Almost instantly, everyone's movements paused.
In the distance, Morris Bench, the Water Man who had been cowering behind, suddenly looked up.
William immediately shouted: "Maurice! Listen to him! Give it a bath! Use your maximum power!"
And at the moment Thor shouted this, in the distant New Mexico, in the desert sealed off by S.H.I.E.L.D.
Mjolnir, the Mjolnir, lying quietly in the center of the meteor crater.
On its ancient hammer body, the mysterious Runic characters suddenly flashed with a faint, almost imperceptible, light blue electric glow.
Om… A faint hum, as if from ancient times, echoed in the silent desert.
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