Marvel: The Imposter Inventor

Chapter 194 Just a Nuclear Bomb, Meteor Dunk

"Holy crap? What just flashed?"

Inside the cockpit of the [Boxing Mobile Armor], having just confirmed with Hakimi on the phone that 'Strucker' had led his Hydra agents to a complete withdrawal from Luca, Sokovia, he was jolted awake by the continuous flashes of red and blue light on the virtual screen.

Previously, due to Luca's display of 'violent output', Steve had a brief conversation with Luca and received a positive response.

The decision was made to send Thor to join the rest of the team in attacking the space carrier to the south, in order to supplement their lack of 'flying units'.

The aircraft carrier in the northwest direction was naturally left to Luca to handle alone.

Luca, who already had two other Haro mechs assisting him, naturally wouldn't refuse.

So after that air battle ended, the Avengers dispersed and flew towards their respective designated aircraft carriers.

However, although the current [boxer] can fly, he can only fly in a straight line using Veronica's thrusters, and he doesn't have much room for maneuver at all.

Luca decisively handed over control to Haro, the 'ace Gundam pilot,' and activated the autopilot mode.

He then began a call with Hakimi to find out about the situation in Sokovia and Hydra's European branch.

While he was still on the phone, the virtual screen in the cockpit suddenly flashed red, followed by the beeping sound of the 'self-defense gun' locking onto the target.

And then... and then that was it.

The red light disappeared, the beeping subsided, and the mechs continued to fly steadily in formation, as if everything before had been an illusion.

However, since Luca had raised the question, Haro, who was piloting the mech, naturally provided an answer.

"Revert data and display the operation process."

"Three enemy aircraft detected. The enemy aircraft are carrying ultra-long-range missiles, suspected to be nuclear warheads. The missiles have entered the interception range. The automatic defense main gun has successfully intercepted the nuclear missiles. The enemy fighters are quickly withdrawing."

"Dispatch mechs No. 2 and No. 5 to break away from the flight formation and pursue them."

Just as the mech broadcast reached this point, three streaks of fire appeared in the distant sky.

Okay, it's obvious that the Haro mechs that went out to pursue the enemy have already destroyed the enemy mechs.

However, Luca, upon hearing Haro's report, was not happy about the destruction of the enemy plane; instead, he secretly wiped away a cold sweat with a sense of relief.

'Tsk tsk, so they're going for nuclear weapons. Luckily they didn't overestimate themselves and activated their self-defense systems.'

Here we need to introduce the so-called 'automatic defense turret system' on the [Boxing Mobile Armor].

Apart from those few traditional small machine gun interceptor turrets.

In fact, the core of this system is a 'transmission platform' that Luca specifically left in the cockpit when modifying the [Boxing Armor].

He simply needs to place the [dehydration gun] on the 'transmission platform' and then activate the defense system.

The [dehydration gun] will be moved and fixed to a 360-degree 'turret' on the mech's forehead via a transmission device.

Then, thanks to Super Pilot Haro's auto-aiming interception system and the [Dehydration Gun's] near-instantaneous compression ability against physical objects, virtually no missile-type attack could hit the [Boxing Armor] which had activated its "Self-Defense Cannon".

However, the only slightly awkward thing is...
"Hello, where did the energy cubes from those three nuclear bombs go?"

"Unknown area, multiple points delineated. Do you need to return to search for the nuclear bomb block?"

"Um, forget it. Let Wuha go look for it later. The weather forecast doesn't seem to predict rain these past two days."

Seeing that the landing point on the virtual screen seemed to be in a no-man's land, and considering that Hydra's space carrier was just ahead, Luca decisively and inconsiderately abandoned the idea of ​​returning to find the energy cube.

'Hmm, just three nuclear warheads that are being activated, it shouldn't be a big problem.'

Of course, Luca was also a bit timid.

Ultimately, nuclear bombs are indeed one of the most powerful weapons humanity currently possesses. If the energy cube lands near water, it could accidentally release and detonate the nuclear bomb.

Luca felt that even if he were in the cockpit, he would most likely be killed.

'My main body is still too weak. I wish I could find an item to strengthen myself someday.'

'It would be great if we had a nanotech core or a superhuman serum.'

In fact, Luka is in a rather conflicted position right now.

For him, the safest way is to remain hidden in the back and control the mecha, becoming a true 'Metal Knight'.

The problem is that if Luca wants to confirm whether any 'glowing props' have been missed, he has to go to the site in person and observe them with his own eyes.

Luca will eventually have to make some trade-offs between strengthening himself and ensuring his safety.

The reason Luca didn't choose to stay in the back right now, besides the fact that the [Boxing Mobile Armor]'s full-circuit cockpit and neural connection control meant he couldn't rely entirely on Haro for remote piloting, was also because he felt that this major event might give him some gold coins or something. "Alright, Haro, full speed ahead!"

"This is already the maximum flight speed."

Okay. Never mind.

In front of the space carrier.

Actually, despite the airstrikes and nuclear bombs that Luca and his team encountered on their way from New York to Washington, it didn't actually take them much time.

Upon arriving at the designated target, the space carrier, Luca did not immediately rush forward to destroy it.

After sending out two Haro mechs to draw some of the carrier's anti-aircraft fire, he controlled [Boxer] to hover in the air.

He then opened the cockpit canopy and looked out into the howling wind.

"Fine, if you can't get any light, then you're out of luck!"

He muttered a complaint, and the cockpit canopy closed again.

Then, Luca's fingertip touched the virtual screen.

The boxing phone armor suddenly arched its back, and the Veronica engine's jets burst out with blinding white light.

It's not just a surge, it's a violent spike!

A pale blue flame trailed behind it, leaving a half-kilometer-long afterimage, and it reached a height of several hundred meters in an instant.

"Click——"

Veronica's thrusters unlocked precisely along the interface, and the four sets of thrusters detached smoothly, hovering in mid-air like carefully stored spare parts.

next moment.

The entire mech suddenly curled up.

The curved armor plates snapped shut with a "click-click-click," and the hundred-ton mech was completely transformed into a giant iron ball.

With Luca piloting his mech so close, Hydra's space carrier naturally wouldn't stand idly by.

The mothership's anti-aircraft guns instantly abandoned the two mechs and unleashed all their firepower on the [Boxer], which had turned into an iron ball in the air.

"Da da da! Shoo shoo shoo!"

The close-in weapon system unleashed a barrage of tungsten-core bullets, weaving a golden-red fire net, as twenty anti-aircraft missiles streaked towards them, trailing plumes of fire.

However, the [boxer] in the air remained completely unmoved in the face of this overwhelming firepower.

As it continued to fall, the anti-aircraft fire only sent sparks flying across the surface of the mech.

The clanging of shells hitting armor and the muffled boom of missiles exploding became futile accompaniments.

From the perspective of the Hydra agents on the aircraft carrier bridge, the enormous iron ball in the sky was plummeting toward the deck, trailing a dark purple sonic boom cloud.

At this moment, gravity becomes the most delighted accomplice.

"boom--!!!"

A deafening roar echoed throughout the entire mothership.

The moment the hundred-ton iron ball crashed into the deck, the entire mothership was thrown sideways by half a meter.

The nearly half-meter-thick alloy deck rolled inward like tin foil, and the crackling sound of breaking steel bars mixed with the explosion of steam.

Centered on the point of impact.

The deck within a hundred meters was blown away like falling leaves, and the anti-aircraft gun arrays further away were directly uprooted by the shock, with the gun barrels twisted like pretzel ropes.

In an instant, this supercarrier, which had dominated most of Washington and was invincible high in the sky, began to sway precariously.

Amidst thick smoke and flames, in the center of the space carrier's deck, in that twisted and deformed enormous crater.

The unharmed blue and white mech slowly stood up, stretching its body once again.

At that moment, Luca's somewhat cold and excited voice came from inside the mech.

"My meteor dunk didn't even break through?"

"Well then, things are about to get interesting!"

(End of this chapter)