New York, the outskirts of the city, an area not yet covered by war.
Inside a factory warehouse, five or six cars were parked side by side. There were luxury cars and RVs, and both inside and outside the cars, many dyed-hair or tattooed gang members were waiting.
These gang members paced anxiously, but dared not drive away early, so they could only endure the torment of waiting.
Just then.
Lorna walked in from the warehouse entrance, carrying an unconscious Wanda on her back.
"The boss is back!"
"The big sister is finally here!"
"The aliens are almost here, we can finally leave this godforsaken place!"
The gang members, both male and female, shouted ecstatically.
One tattooed youth stepped forward and reported to Lorna with reverence: "Boss, all the cars are ready, fueled up, and there are guns and cash. The license plates are official police ones, no one will dare stop us from leaving the city!"
Lorna nodded calmly. She placed the unconscious Wanda on a bed in the RV, then stepped out of the RV compartment and leaned against the RV door, arms crossed.
Outside the car, all the gang members ready to depart looked at her, puzzled.
Lorna pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a metal lighter, lit a cigarette in her mouth, and exhaled a ring of white smoke, saying, "We're not leaving."
"Boss, what did you say?!"
Everyone on the scene was stunned.
"Let's wait a bit longer, there's no need to rush," Lorna raised her light green eyes, puffing out smoke, and looked towards one side of the city… New York, the central battle zone of the city, an antique building not much different from a regular church.
On the top floor terrace.
The bald woman, dressed in an immaculate white robe, had a calm expression. One hand was behind her waist, and on the other, a strange golden circular mark appeared.
She watched as alien robots, like dense locusts, flew and crashed, attempting to invade.
The bald woman stood on the building's terrace and casually waved her right hand, which bore the golden magic seal.
Before the alien robots could even approach the edge of the building, they were directly shattered by a powerful and invisible force, transforming into countless iron filings with sparks, scattering everywhere!
She alone easily defended the church building.
Even as she watched the city of New York on the verge of falling, the bald woman did not even frown. For her, compared to the current alien invasion, there were even more terrifying potential enemies to guard against.
However, at this moment.
The bald woman seemed to sense something, and her expression finally showed a subtle wavering. She looked up towards a certain direction on the outskirts of the city's battle zone.
"An anomaly."
The bald woman frowned, then murmured to herself, "A variable..."
...Above the ruins.
Vincent, possessing two great superhuman genetic abilities simultaneously, stood up. He looked down at his hands with ice-blue eyes, feeling a strange and unprecedented sensation filling his heart.
He didn't yet understand what this strange sensation was.
But... Vincent looked towards the inner part of the city's central battle zone. If he were in his current state, he might be able to reverse New York's impending fall!
Thinking this, Vincent stepped towards the central battle zone.
Entering the city battle zone within ten kilometers, which was the boundary between the inner and outer perimeter areas.
The city area here was completely blacked out, and humans had long since evacuated, leaving only buildings, vehicles, and personal items like shoes scattered everywhere.
No part of the entire street was intact, and thick smoke billowed everywhere.
Click, click, click!
Besides the alien robots piloting small flying vehicles, there were also alien mechanical creatures crawling on all fours, roaming the now largely occupied city areas, carpet-searching and hunting down surviving humans in hiding.
Suddenly.
Some alien mechanical creatures searching inside the damaged buildings all sharply raised their metal heads, their eyes, flashing with crimson electronic light, looked towards the road outside.
On the empty and desolate city pedestrian street.
A black-haired, blue-eyed human youth was pacing forward, deep in thought about something, and moving deeper into the city's battle zone, as if unaware of the terrifying alien presences lurking around him.
Bang!!
From a tall building on one side, a crawling alien mechanical creature violently smashed through the glass and pounced towards the youth on the street below!
Its sharp metal claws were about to pierce his chest and stomach, and its wide-open metal fangs were about to crush his skull!
The human youth acted as if he didn't notice, continuing to walk forward on his own.
When the alien mechanical creature pounced within three meters of the youth, it suddenly froze all its movements, as if glitching, fixed in mid-air, its metal body unable to approach any further... as if tightly gripped by an invisible large hand!
The alien mechanical creature remained motionless in the air until the youth's finger swiped forward. After five seconds of stasis, the alien mechanical creature suddenly shot through the air at an extremely fast speed, crashing into another pouncing alien mechanical creature.
Metal heads pierced through each other's metal chests. The two alien mechanical creatures were scrapped into a pile of junk metal, losing their intelligence and falling to the ground.
"So that's it," Vincent murmured to himself.
At this moment, he finally understood the source of Lorna's powerful ability—
Metal Control!
"And..." Vincent looked up at three or four other alien mechanical creatures, simultaneously surrounding him from different directions.
He made no movement, only a thought.
A massive, glowing green energy tide surged outwards, centered on Vincent!
The energy tide washed over the oncoming alien mechanical creatures, immediately causing their bodies to burst with electric light, disintegrate, and shatter, clanging as they crashed backward onto abandoned cars and buildings!
This was—
Magnetic Field Manipulation!
Metal Control, Magnetic Field Manipulation, and Force Field—these were the superhuman abilities Lorna possessed!
However, the ability Vincent now commanded was a fusion of the abilities held by Lorna and Gwen.
It wasn't as simple as simultaneously possessing two superhuman abilities; the two superhuman abilities had fused and superimposed, mutually enhancing and optimizing each other's manifestation!
Vincent tentatively extended an index finger, and immediately, a metallic web shot out from his fingertip!
Whoosh—
The almost imperceptibly thin metallic web shot forward, instantly traversing a hundred meters, directly piercing through a small flying vehicle, along with the two alien robots piloting it!
Like candied haws on a stick.
"Is this the Spider ability enhanced by Metal Control?" Vincent retracted the metallic web. While he was still pondering, several orange-yellow streams of flame suddenly shot towards him from a distance!
Vincent instinctively tilted his head, easily dodging one stream of flame, but because his position didn't move, he was still enveloped by the flames!
Boom!!!
Vincent and everything within a ten-meter radius were engulfed by a powerful explosion!
Before the flames and smoke from the explosion could dissipate, a tall figure walked out, maintaining a steady pace, from a crater that was over three or four meters deep.
The silver spider pattern reflected a cold metallic glint in the sunlight!
Vincent wore a spider hooded battle suit almost identical in style to Spider-Woman's, except that the suit was made of highly tough metallic web, like a layer of silver exoskeleton covering the entire surface of the youth's body!
This should be the ultimate form of simultaneously possessing Metal Control and Super Spider abilities!