allendalepharm Chapter 343 You're fired!
Chapter 343 You're fired!
Chapter 343 You're fired!
Meanwhile, in Tony's universe, Susan clutched the communicator tightly, her last glimmer of hope. "Did you see that?! The communicator's crackling with signal! They're still alive!"
Communication requests kept coming in from the communicator, and Susan hurriedly pressed the button, but every time the machine tried to establish communication, it failed.
"I think," Tony glanced at the communicator, as a professional scientist, he was always willing to make a judgment:
"Maybe it's just bad, ugh!"
Joey and Batman teamed up to subdue Tony before he could utter the word "Oh no!", and the unaware Tony, who was prone to making careless remarks, was caught off guard.
"Shut up!"
At this point, what good would it do to further provoke the victims?
"Who is she anyway?" Tony, who had been forcibly silenced by Superman and Batman, was now furious. He'd had a terrible day already.
"Can I hold her responsible for destroying my mansion with that half-finished spaceship?"
Joey quickly grabbed Tony, who was demanding accountability, and explained in a low voice:
"Then you'd better not. She's a pregnant woman, being chased and forced to flee to this universe. Her husband, brother, and friends are all missing and their fates are still unknown. She's already pitiful enough."
"Ha! So what!"
Despite Joey's advice and warnings, Tony, still somewhat headstrong, remained unmoved, claiming that responsibility must be pursued: "So, this wasn't your money! What does her pitiful state have to do with me!"
"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush."
Joey figured there would be plenty of time for Tony to worry: "She escaped in a spaceship because she was being chased by Doctor Doom, that 'Doctor Doom'."
Tony, having caught the key words, widened his eyes: "Is this source reliable?"
"Remember when I said someone was going to travel through time to kill you?"
Joey's voice grew lower and lower until no one but Tony could hear what he was saying: "This is it."
"Huh?" After piecing together what happened at Christmas and what's happening now, Tony was immediately at a loss, not knowing what to do.
"I...I have other things to do—"
"Don't go!" Joey forcefully grabbed Iron Man, who was trying to take off. "This is your home, only you can clean up this mess!"
"That's true." Iron Man, whose escape attempt failed, immediately lost his previous arrogance and, like Superman and Batman, chose to keep a low profile.
"So what should we do now? Should I tell her right now that I'm 'that person'?"
"Of course," Batman said, unusually breaking his silence on such a significant topic. However, his advice to Tony was, "But you'd better wait until I take your measurements and prepare a suitable coffin for you."
"Then I want one made of vibranium!"
"Vibranium has excellent ductility," Joey said, picking up on Tony's offhand remark. "The little bit left over should be enough to make you a hundred pairs."
"Sigh~" 3
Superman, Batman, and Iron Man all understood that at this point, it was impossible to say that Iron Man was Doctor Doom.
Given the current relaxed atmosphere at the grave, there's a 99% chance that if the Invisible Woman were to reveal this, she would immediately and desperately try to kill Tony.
To avoid making the situation worse, let's stop here for now.
Moreover, this is not the only problem the three of them have to face.
Soon, a searchlight shone on the three of them.
Several Quinjet fighters emerged from stealth mode, their high-speed turbines creating swirling air currents that shook the media helicopters watching nearby.
Amidst such cyclone interference, a reporter carrying a long camera and microphone lost his balance inside the helicopter and was thrown out of the cabin door with a scream.
Seeing this, Joey vanished from his spot in a flash, reaching out to grab his colleague from the helicopter, while also giving the colleague's name tag a quick, alert look.
"The Daily Bugle, Eddie Brock? Since when did the Daily Bugle have the resources to buy a news helicopter?"
If a newspaper can be considered a second-rate newspaper, then the Daily Bugle is basically a third-rate roadside tabloid that makes its main source of revenue by broadcasting "yellow news".
The term "yellow journalism" here does not refer to the literal meaning of the word, but rather to a reporting style defined in the news industry that deliberately exaggerates vulgar content such as crime, scandal, and sex through sensational headlines, exaggerated narratives, and fabricated images or stories.
"That's me. The Daily Bugle doesn't have that kind of financial strength. The helicopter was rented by our boss."
Eddie, still just an ordinary reporter, was pale-faced. After being pulled back into the helicopter, he nodded with lingering fear: "Thank you, listen—"
Eddie couldn't remember Superman's name for a moment.
Just as Joey realized, the Daily Bugle mainly followed and reported on those masked weirdos, shamelessly inciting the audience's hatred towards these masked people on the street.
Superheroes like Superman, who never wear masks and are rarely seen, don't generate much buzz. They're not even as popular as Tony Stark, who appears alongside him, so much so that Eddie rarely follows news about him.
As for why not use Iron Man to uncover Superman's true identity?
J. Jonah Jameson of the Daily Bugle once said, "He's not afraid of Iron Man's iron fist, but Tony Stark's capitalist fist can really bankrupt him."
At this moment, the radio from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Quinjet was relayed to Tony:
"Iron Man and Superman, you two are suspected of assassinating Nick Fury, the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. Do not act rashly, and leave with us immediately!"
Before the other end of the communicator could even finish speaking, Superman had already closed in as if by teleportation to a safe distance.
The crew members, who had already received permission to fire before takeoff, turned the plane around and opened fire immediately. The new weapons that S.H.I.E.L.D. had previously developed based on the Tesseract were rained down on Superman and Iron Man.
Even before firing, Batman had already skillfully leaped to the side, raising his bat-like cape in an attempt to provide some protection for the Invisible Woman, who was still in a daze beside him.
Iron Man, on the other hand, was even more direct. He had just taken down a group of Hydra pursuers and hadn't even had a chance to show off to everyone when another group arrived, providing perfect targets to demonstrate the powerful firepower of his armor:
"It seems the situation is bound to get even worse!"
But no matter how fast Tony was, he still couldn't outrun Yang Yi.
The Quinjet from S.H.I.E.L.D. in this universe is relatively outdated, still using primitive turbo engines to drive it in this version where Galactus is everywhere and gods are less than dogs.
In normal times, this might be enough for fighting counterinsurgency and bullying ordinary superpowered individuals, but in the event of a real war, this obvious weakness would be magnified infinitely.
For example, right now -
Joey clapped his hands together, and a chaotic airflow erupted from his hands in a fan-shaped pattern, blowing away all the projectiles fired by the Quinjet.
Under such airflow interference, all the Quinjet fighters hovering in the air began to sway precariously.
The Quinjet is driven by both jet and turbofan engines, with the turbofan engine primarily responsible for its vertical maneuvering.
Although the designers had taken many anti-interference measures at the beginning of the design, they obviously did not consider that one day they would encounter an enemy that could accurately calculate and use airflow disturbance to attack the fighter group.
"Switch to jet engines! Perform a horizontal maneuver!"
Eddie Brock, who had barely settled into his position on the helicopter, witnessed a devastating and overwhelming battle waged by Superman against an unknown armed force.
Just as he was feeling grateful to have captured such a scene, thinking that even dying would be worth it, he subconsciously twisted the hand he usually used to adjust the focus, and immediately felt a chill in his heart.
He then realized that something was wrong—
The camera he was carrying on his shoulder just fell into the water!
Superman was so busy rescuing him that he didn't have time to grab anything else before he started fighting with the bunch of bastards in front of him!
Eddie felt like the sky had fallen—the camera wasn't even his, but the newspaper's property.
Just as he was losing all hope, another urgent ringtone sounded from his chest—it was Jonah, the owner of the Daily Bugle.
Jameson:
"Eddie, why aren't you back yet? Do you know how expensive it is to rent that helicopter for an hour?! If there's no other big news, just quickly film a few videos of the fire, and make up the rest!"
"Well, boss, I have good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
"Let me tell you the bad news first!"
"The helicopter almost crashed just now. I'm fine, but the newspaper's security camera fell into the sea!"
"What did you say?!"
Even from hundreds of miles away, Eddie could sense Jameson's exasperation over the phone.
"Eddie, you're fired!"
In order to keep his job, Eddie quickly dropped the good news:
"But there's big news here! Superman and Iron Man are here, and they're fighting a group of unidentified armed men in planes!"
"What?!" Jameson's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees upon hearing this on the other end of the phone:
"Eddie, you've been hired again!"
Upon hearing that this could be a big news story, Jameson wished he could shove his head over the phone and see for himself.
"Eddie, don't you have a phone? Hurry up and get to work, use your phone to take pictures!"