"Luca! Luca!"
Looking at the hellish scene outside the window, even Luca, who had seen some storms in his previous life, couldn't help but feel terrified when he truly faced an alien invasion at this moment.
However, his parents' anxious shouts from downstairs immediately made him realize that he had to do something.
But before Luca could even respond to his parents' calls.
In his line of sight, a deep purple beam of light shot rapidly towards his home.
The next moment.
"Boom—"
The violent Impact instantly sent Luca flying.
Soaring flames filled his vision, and the entire building trembled continuously from the explosion.
Luca, who slammed into the wardrobe behind him, didn't first feel the pain from the Impact.
Instead, it was a piercing buzzing sound and an intense feeling of dizziness that filled his brain.
Dazed, Luca propped himself up on the fallen desk beside him, struggling to stand upright.
Looking up, the most striking sight was the huge hole blown open in the outer wall of his duplex apartment, extending from upstairs to downstairs.
Including Luca's own bedroom, nearly half of the entire second floor's ground had shattered and collapsed to the first floor.
Smoke and dust permeated everywhere.
The heavy smell of gunpowder filled his nose and mouth.
Large chunks of brick and stone debris continuously slid down.
Luca, whose hearing hadn't fully recovered, didn't care about the dust in his mouth at this moment and immediately shouted his parents' names loudly.
"Gina! Hermann?! Are you alright?!"
However, no matter how Luca called, there was no answer from the ruins of the house.
Although Luca, as a transmigrator who only inherited the original body's memories, might not have a deep emotional connection with his parents.
But whether for himself or for this family, he didn't want any danger to befall his parents.
Without time to think, Luca quickly opened the wardrobe behind him, took out his backpack, and put it on.
Then, he slid down the sloping ground where the floor had collapsed.
As soon as Luca reached the first floor, facing the devastated ruins, he hadn't even had time to start searching when he saw two roaring Chitauri soldiers crawling out of the huge hole in his wall and rushing towards him.
At this moment, it seemed a bit too late for Luca to take out the [Pencil Missile] from his backpack or crouch down to activate the [Power Enhancement Shoes].
However.
"Bang bang—"
Two loud gunshots came from behind him.
Immediately after, the heads of the two Chitauri soldiers in front of him exploded like watermelons, spraying flesh and fluid everywhere.
Watching the two headless bodies fall to the ground, Luca finally turned his head.
He saw his mother, Gina, lying by the doorframe in the ruins, propping up her upper body to look at him.
In her hand was a high-power firearm, still in the experimental stage, from their family company.
"Mom! Where's Dad?"
He hurriedly ran forward to support his mother.
It was only then that Luca noticed that Gina's entire lower body was still pinned under the collapsed wall, just behind the doorframe she was leaning on.
Fortunately, this section of the collapsed wall happened to form a small angle with the other ruins, which prevented Gina, who was pinned under the debris, from dying immediately.
However, on the other side of this ruin, his father, Hermann, who was also struck by the rubble, had already lost his breath when Luca reached out to check him.
Ignoring what his mother was saying, Luca immediately bent down, using both hands with force, trying to move the wall pressing on Gina.
However, his mechanical prosthetic limb, which had only been installed recently, was not a military mechanical arm like Winter Soldier's.
Its output was even less than a normal person's healthy right hand, let alone moving such a large stone.
"Luca! Luca! Listen to me!"
"Take this gun now, Dad and Mom taught you how to use it!"
"Don't mind me! Find a place to hide quickly! The storage room at home is specially reinforced, stay there! Don't come out!"
Watching Luca futilely trying to move the stone, Gina, who had just recovered from the explosion-induced coma and was still a bit disoriented, quickly urged her son.
Looking at the oddly shaped pistol handed to him, Luca only then noticed that this pistol also emitted the faint White glow unique to 'Core Components'.
However, Luca didn't immediately take the pistol; instead, the White glow on the pistol reminded him.
'The Power Enhancement Shoes don't seem to just enhance instantaneous explosive power!'
This thought flashed through his mind like lightning.
Luca immediately crouched down and twisted the White knob on the outside of his right foot with his left hand.
Immediately afterward, a visible electric arc flashed across the red and White sneakers, and his entire right foot seemed to be coated with a layer of colorful flowing light.
Feeling an unprecedented sense of power flowing through his entire leg from his right foot, Luca carefully inserted his toes into the gap in the ruins.
As his right leg slowly exerted force.
The collapsed wall, which he couldn't move an inch with all his strength, was easily lifted with a single foot under this immense power.
Even during this process, Luca didn't feel much pressure or discomfort on the instep of his right foot.
Even his left foot, which wasn't 'electrified', seemed to have several times the grip and support, completely eliminating the need to worry about balance.
Under Gina's astonished gaze.
With a 'boom'.
The huge stone debris was directly flung aside.
Luca, quick-witted, swiftly embraced his mother and carried her away from the spot.
"Luca? What was that?"
Gina, still somewhat shaken, was no longer dazed, but her gaze was blank as she looked at the huge stone flung away by her son's single foot.
However, Luca, who was asked, could only vaguely mumble with a hint of embarrassment.
"Just a small invention of mine."
He couldn't explain what a Golden Finger was in a short time, so he simply brushed it off and prepared to take his mother to the storage room she had just mentioned to hide.
At a time like this, it was best not to linger here, lest more Chitauri Impact affect this place.
But before Luca could even help Gina walk a few steps.
A figure in golden-red armor plummeted from the sky, passing through the large hole in the outer wall, and with a 'thud', crashed heavily inside the house.
The already dilapidated floor immediately had a shallow pit smashed into it, and the figure plowed a long gully on the ground, splashing a large amount of rubble, and slid straight until it barely stopped in front of the two.
Seeing Iron Man suddenly descend from the sky, the mother and son, whose moods had just calmed down slightly, were both startled, and simultaneously pulled out their weapons, aiming at the figure lying on the ground in front of them.
However, Gina pulled out an experimental pistol developed by their company, while Luca pulled out the [Pencil Missile] he had 'made' earlier and kept in his backpack.
"Oh~ relax, relax, madam! I don't think this counts as illegal entry, does it?"
Seeing that Tony Stark, who was being pointed at with a gun, showed no tension, he just stood up somewhat awkwardly and gently comforted the two.
However, his electronic synthesized voice, after being converted by the armor's mask, sounded somewhat cold and distorted.
Seemingly noticing this problem, Iron Man's metal faceplate 'clicked' open, revealing Tony Stark's face, and he continued to soothe the emotions of the mother and son.
"Relax, both of you. Find a place to hide as soon as possible. Trust me, those fake Predators outside will be dealt with soon~"
Saying that, Tony Stark even winked at Luca, revealing what he thought was a handsome smile and said.
"And kid, next time remember, a pencil case won't protect you~"
After saying this, the metal faceplate dropped back down.
Iron Man immediately turned around, flames ejecting from both his palms and feet, and flew quickly out through the hole in the wall where he had crashed in earlier.
But...
"Boom—"
A violent explosion sound.
Iron Man's armor had barely flown two meters out of the room when it was hit directly in the face by an incoming laser beam.
The explosion's Fire and Impact directly blew him away.
In an instant, Iron Man tumbled back even faster than when he left.
Crashing down again in front of the mother and son.
Immediately after, several Chitauri hovercraft quickly arrived, floating outside the house, with two or three Chitauri soldiers standing on each hovercraft.
Dozens of laser weapons were all pointed at the hole in the room.
The mother and son, also startled by the explosion, first covered their faces with their hands to shield themselves from the dust and sand brought by the Impact.
Then, they simultaneously and quickly raised their weapons, aiming at the Chitauri floating outside their house.
Gina, who attacked first, directly shot one of the Chitauri 'drivers' in the head.
Luca, holding the [Pencil Missile], was a beat slower.
The covers on both sides of Luca's pencil case instantly popped open, revealing the pencil-shaped missiles inside.
At the same time, gun components resembling a grip and a muzzle extended from the bottom and front of the pencil case, respectively.
Luca, holding the grip with his left hand, didn't even aim; he just quickly swept the [Pencil Missile] across all the enemies in front of him.
The continuous 'beep' sounds, indicating successful lock-on, rang out, and Luca unhesitatingly pulled the trigger quickly.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh~"
A large amount of tail flame ejected from the rear of a dozen Pencil Missiles, twisting through the air like winding spirit snakes, flying towards their respective locked targets.
In just an instant, all the Chitauri were hit.
However, the expected violent explosion did not occur; all the missiles, upon hitting their targets, burst out a large gush of adhesive liquid, thoroughly covering these enemies.
Losing their vision and being stuck motionless, all the hovercraft immediately swayed and fell towards the ground.
"Wha the F?"