"Hey, Tony, where's the President?"
Previously, because Colonel Rhodes had been sent by the [Department of Defense] to carry out a secret mission, he was unable to rush here to participate in the rescue of the President after receiving Tony Stark's notification.
"Did I just miss something?"
Colonel Rhodes surveyed the chaotic battlefield, feeling inexplicably guilty.
Could the President have been killed already?
"Rhodes, it's a good thing you arrived late, otherwise you might have ended up like the two of us."
Tony Stark was always very tolerant of his friends, and was not annoyed by the other party's 'lateness'. Instead, he weakly explained:
"Although I don't know exactly what happened just now, what's certain is that since Killian didn't recapture President Ellis to carry out the fire sacrifice, President Ellis must have been successfully rescued by the superpower team that came later, right?"
"Superpower team?"
Colonel Rhodes was immediately dumbfounded. He hadn't heard anyone mention a superpower team before he came here.
"That... let's not talk about these nonsense, hurry up and put me down, I can't feel my hands anymore," Tony Stark urged in pain.
At this time, the Human Torch also said with a bitter face, "Me too!"
...
[Sky Carrier].
"Thank goodness, Jonathan is finally saved."
Seeing that her younger brother, the Human Torch, and Tony Stark were successfully rescued by James Rhodes, who arrived last, Susan Stone's face was filled with tears of joy, and her heart, which had been hanging, was finally relieved.
"Phew... I didn't expect the [A-Space Group] to actually take action."
Captain America breathed a sigh of relief, recalling the live broadcast that had just ended, feeling both emotional and fortunate.
Whether it was him, Black Widow, Hawkeye, or others, although they usually complained about Tony Stark's personality being too selfish and narcissistic, they had actually long accepted his bad personality.
After all, who would refuse to be friends with a rich and generous local tyrant?
So no one really wanted to see Tony Stark die tragically on the spot.
It's just that they were unable to do anything about this matter, so they could only watch the situation develop and were unable to rescue him.
However, just when everyone thought that Tony Stark and Jonathan Stone were dead this time, who would have thought that the [A-Space Group]'s rescue team would unexpectedly appear.
Although they were here to rescue President Matthew Ellis, they didn't even bother to look at them, let alone take the initiative to rescue them.
But fortunately, the Reqi Killian gang was successfully wiped out in the process.
This can be regarded as indirectly saving Tony Stark and Jonathan Stone's lives.
Everyone was very grateful for this.
However, obviously not everyone was satisfied with the current outcome... especially Nick Fury, the commander!
At this moment, the expression on Nick Fury's face was extremely gloomy.
Because in his opinion, this time the limelight that originally belonged to [.] was once again stolen by that damn bastard, Karl Malla...
He would rather see President Matthew Ellis, Tony Stark, and the Human Torch burned alive by the [Ten Rings Gang] than see the former rescued by Karl Malla's people.
Moreover, after witnessing the strength of Logan, Little Wolf Girl, and Lorna Dane, he was even more envious.
Especially Logan.
Originally, more than ten years ago, in order to monitor whether the [Mutant Extinction Plan] led by [.] could be successfully completed.
Nick Fury had specially dispatched a large number of Skrull agents to track and investigate the members of the [X-Men], except for Professor X, and the situation of those [mutants] with powerful mutant abilities for a long time.
And in his eyes, the [X-Men], led by Professor X, have always been the most threatening and unstable factor in the entire [mutant] group.
Because this group of freaks has abilities and technology.
The most important thing is that there is Professor X, a 'brain-peeping' expert who is impossible to defend against, so that even Nick Fury and [.] did not dare to compete with him face-to-face during the most glorious period of the [X-Men], and could only secretly trip him up behind his back.
So, from that time on, a long monitoring cycle began, in years...
Until one day, Nick Fury officially confirmed that most of the [X-Men] had died of the [M43 virus].
And after the remaining members who had luckily escaped the disaster gradually lost their mutant abilities under the influence of the [M43 virus], he felt relieved.
And withdrew all the Skrull agents responsible for monitoring other mutants, except for a few powerful mutants.
Let those mutants who lost their superpowers survive and die on their own.
In this way, after a few more years, until Professor X's superpower was out of control due to a [epileptic seizure], which caused the sensational [Westchester Incident], resulting in the death of the remaining 7 main members of the [X-Men] on the spot, and more than 600 ordinary people in the nearby area fell into brain death, and was wanted by the [Department of Homeland Security] on the entire network, Nick Fury was satisfied and withdrew the last part of the monitoring personnel.
And he clearly remembered that the report at the time showed that Logan Howlett's self-healing ability had shown great signs of weakening at that time.
Even in the repeated attack tests by Skrull agents disguised as gangsters, they successfully left several unhealable scars on Logan Howlett's body.
It was precisely for this reason that Nick Fury never regarded Logan Howlett as a dangerous target since then.
But who would have thought that today, this old wolf, who should be dying, still possesses such terrifying self-healing ability?
Even if only a [Edelman alloy skeleton] is left, it can still "flesh white bones and revive the dead"!!
"Motherf*cker, didn't the intelligence say that Logan Howlett's mutant ability has already become overwhelmed? Why is it getting stronger and stronger?"
Nick Fury roared fiercely in his heart.
However, in addition to Logan, Lorna Dane, who can control [magnetism], also aroused his great vigilance.
Isn't this ability a copy of [Magneto]?
Although it can be seen that Lorna Dane is still a bit clumsy and jerky in using this mutant ability at the moment.
But given time, the other party will definitely grow to the height of [Magneto]!
When he thought that Karl had two more under his command without [.'s] knowledge... no, the little wolf girl with a sturdy fighting style, and Pietro, who possesses the "speed force", are also eye-catching, so there should be four more powerful superpowers, Nick Fury felt even more uncomfortable than the death of his family.
Originally, after successfully recruiting Susan Stone, Jonathan Stone, and Ben Grimm, Nick Fury was confident that the overall strength of [.] would be able to catch up with the [A-Space Group] in a short time.
But now it seems that the other party has obviously not been idle during this time!
Nick Fury even darkly suspected in his heart that Karl Malla had actually known the location where the President was kidnapped for a long time.
The reason why he didn't do anything was deliberately waiting for Tony Stark and the Human Torch to fail, so as to take the opportunity to step on [.] and the [Avengers].
When he thought that the [Avengers], which he had painstakingly assembled, had only gained good popularity in the [New York War] a few months ago, but was quickly overshadowed by Karl Malla's subordinates, Nick Fury was almost so angry that he exploded on the spot.
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But he was helpless about this.
He couldn't beat him, and he couldn't plot against him. Apart from secretly raging in the back, he couldn't do anything to Karl at all.
Nick Fury: Baby is bitter, but baby can't say it!!
...
Although the live broadcast was interrupted, the [Daily Bugle]'s revelations did not stop there.
John Jameson personally appeared in the live broadcast room to conduct deeper and more explosive revelations for a group of netizens who had not yet enjoyed themselves.
"According to insiders, the real cause of today's presidential kidnapping case actually dates back to a New Year's Eve party in 1999..."
"At that time, the ambitious Aldrich Killian traveled thousands of miles to find Tony Stark, hoping to persuade his idol to invest in his project through his talent..."
"But who would have thought that things would go against his wishes? Tony Stark, who was wandering among the flowers and thinking about spending a good night with the beauties, in order to prevent his ugly and lame fan from ruining everyone's interest, deliberately coaxed him to the rooftop, and then left Aldrich Killian on the rooftop for a whole night."
"Aldrich Killian, who had been blowing the cold wind on the rooftop all night, was determined from that time on to take revenge on his former idol no matter what."
"So, he used his intelligence to embark on the road of revenge step by step... First, he co-developed the [Extremis Virus] with others, which can give people self-healing ability and release high-temperature attacks."
"Then, he secretly created the [Ten Rings Gang], and at the right time, he created a KB attack on the streets of [New York], so as to attract public attention, so as to facilitate his kidnapping of the President."
"The final result, I think everyone has seen it. Without a doubt, he succeeded!!"
"And Aldrich Killian's purpose in doing this, in addition to taking the opportunity to take revenge on Tony Stark, actually hides another bigger ambition..."
Speaking of this, John Jameson deliberately paused very cunningly, estimating that the melon-eating people in the live broadcast room were so anxious that they were scratching their ears and cheeks, and then continued to say:
"That is, he wants to let Vice President Rodriguez successfully take office by publicly executing President Ellis... That's right, the Vice President has long been colluding with him. As long as Aldrich Killian's plan can succeed, then he will transform himself and become the person who is hiding behind Rodriguez and truly controls the power and destiny of [America]!"
"How about it, fans and friends, isn't the truth very scary... If General Ross hadn't timely launched a rescue application to Mr. Karl Malla, I'm afraid Aldrich Killian's plan would have succeeded by now."
"That's right, Mr. Karl Malla 'again and again' saved our [America] in times of crisis, so in my opinion, he is the real hero!!!"
Hundreds of thousands of viewers in the live broadcast room suddenly boiled over, and they all used barrages to swipe the screen: "Hero Karl, the guardian of [America]..."
After John Jameson's revelations, it directly increased the heat of this incident to another level.
At least it brought nearly tens of millions of [prestige points] to Karl!
Even Karl couldn't help but admire John Jameson's operation. This guy has really figured out how to play with traffic now.
...
[Washington, . · 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue].
President Matthew Ellis returned to the [White House] under the protection of General Ross and a group of American soldiers.
Originally, the work of protecting the President should have been done by agents of the [USSS Secret Service], but President Matthew Ellis is now like a frightened bird, and he doesn't trust anyone except General Ross, who led the rescue plan.
He even suspected that he was captured by Aldrich Killian's men before because there were spies of the other party within the [USSS], who leaked his whereabouts in advance.
So this good job naturally fell on General Ross and the [Department of Defense].
President Matthew Ellis pushed open the door of the office with force, looked at Vice President Rodriguez, who was full of red light and preparing for the presidential inauguration ceremony, and said with a sneer:
"You bastard, I trusted you so much before, but I didn't expect you to collude with the [Ten Rings Gang] in secret, trying to get rid of me and replace me..."
"Ah, President Ellis, you... you didn't die... Ah, no, I mean it's great that you were saved."
Vice President Rodriguez was shocked when he saw this, and tried to suppress the fear rising from the bottom of his heart, and said with a forced smile:
"I think you must have misunderstood something. I swear to God, I don't know any members of the [Ten Rings Gang] at all!"
However, President Matthew Ellis didn't listen to his defense at all, and directly ordered General Ross behind him:
"Arrest him, I want to imprison him for life for treason, so that he can spend the rest of his life in the most harsh prison..."
"Also, anyone related to this kidnapping incident, no matter what their identity is or what important position they hold, arrest them all, and don't let any of them go!!"
