He was selling gashapon toys in Marvel Studios, and at the beginning, Tony turned into Kuuga.

A red bullet shot straight into the sky.

The guard's force field shattered, his mask shattered, and the head behind the mask shattered as well.

Kang didn't have time to react.

"Let's go." Star-Lord grinned from beneath his armored mask after transforming.

With the thrusters firing at full power, his body was launched off the rooftop and soared into the sky.

Golden arcs of electricity erupted from Pietro's legs, following closely behind.

Wanda raised the bird-headed staff, and dark red chaotic energy condensed at its tip.

Darcy patted Tyrannomon's head, and Tyrannomon released its front paws that were gripping the roof, spreading its wings.

Coulson moved his right palm, and the elastic light membrane in his palm lit up and then went out.

The wristband data was briefly adjusted, and the vital signs of all members were simultaneously displayed online.

"The show is about to begin."

Li Ang leaned against the door frame and pulled out another handful of popcorn.

10,000 meters above the ground.

Before Kang, the Transcendent, could even release the button, fragments of the first guard's corpse floated past him.

He slowly turned his head.

The red and white humanoid dot of light rushing up from the rooftop is approaching at an extremely fast speed.

Kang's lips twitched.

Besides the pistol, hanging from the waist of that red and white dot was an ugly, rusty iron sword.

The global time-freezing force field has spread.

A deep blue ripple spread outwards from the bottom of the spherical seat at an extremely fast speed, instantly turning the airspace within a one-kilometer radius amber.

Where the ripples passed, the air froze, the light bent, and even sound was frozen in its path.

But Pietro was faster.

Golden lightning exploded from his legs, and the Speed ​​Force protective field expanded into a dazzling golden sphere on his body.

It encompassed Star-Lord, Wanda, and Coulson, who followed closely behind.

The rule of freezing time was deflected when it encountered the golden protective barrier.

Not even a wrinkle remained.

With one hand grabbing Star-Lord by the back of his collar and the other pulling Coulson's arm, Pietro tore a golden passage through the amber space of the freezing force field.

Wanda followed at the very back, the tip of her bird-headed staff leaving a dark red trail.

"Could you try a different way of grabbing me?!"

Star-Lord was once again grabbed by the collar and thrown sideways, his neck constricted and red, his legs kicking wildly in mid-air.

"I have thrusters! I can fly by myself!"

"Your thrusters are useless in the freezing field; you can only move within the range of my Speed ​​Force!"

"Then at least grab my belt! Don't pull my collar!"

Pietro thought for a moment, then switched hands and wrapped his arm around Star-Lord's waist.

"This position is even more uncomfortable."

"Stop arguing, we're almost there!"

At the end of the golden passage, the shield of the spherical chair is within reach.

Through the transparent shield, one could see the silhouette of Kang, the Transcendent, sitting upright in a chair.

He was adjusting some kind of high-dimensional control panel, his fingers flying across the keyboard, expanding the coverage of the time-freezing force field from one kilometer to one hundred kilometers, encompassing the entire North American continent.

He hadn't noticed that someone had crossed the freezing force field.

Or rather, he didn't believe anyone could get through.

"Wanda!" Star-Lord turned his head in Pietro's arms.

"It's growing! Don't rush it!"

At the tip of Wanda's bird-headed staff, the dark red ball of chaotic magic had grown to the size of a basketball, its surface wreathed in raging flames of energy.

It's exactly the same as the one that Star-Lord smashed in the training ground last time.

But this time no one will hit her.

Because Pietro had learned his lesson this time, his turning trajectory precisely avoided Wanda by more than three meters.

"put!"

Wanda gripped her staff with both hands and thrust it forward with a sudden lunge.

The Chaos Magic Orb detached from the tip of the staff, flew straight out along the last section of the golden passage, and crashed into the outer wall of the spherical chair's shield.

Bang!

Dark red energy exploded on the surface of the blue and white shield. The rules of chaotic magic interfered wildly with the underlying logic of the time shield, and dense cracks appeared on the surface of the shield.

It's not broken.

Kang, the Transcendent, finally turned his head, and his pupils reflected four figures that should not have appeared in the time-freezing force field.

"impossible."

His voice was soft, but every word carried genuine astonishment.

He had seen the effects of the time-freezing force field far too many times.

In countless cycles beyond the realm of existence, no living being can move freely in a frozen state.

"Yo."

Star-Lord's voice came from behind the mask, its tone lowered by half a tone due to a metallic filter.

"Your facial expressions are better controlled than mine."

Star-Lord broke free from Pietro's embrace, his thrusters blasted, and he flipped over in mid-air to steady himself.

Magnum Shooter 40X raised its head and fired three shots at the area with the densest cracks in the shield.

Swish swish!

Three red projectiles struck the same point precisely, and spiderweb-like cracks spread rapidly from the center of impact.

The shield didn't break, but Star-Lord's target wasn't the shield in the first place.

What he wanted was to keep Kang's attention entirely focused on the positive.

"Coulson!"

Coulson's right palm was already full of elastic light membrane.

He leaned halfway out from the edge of Pietro's protective perimeter and slapped Star-Lord on the back.

The slight fatigue that Star-Lord experienced due to the transformation and high-intensity maneuvering was expelled by Coulson's Paw-Paw Fruit.

A dark red bubble of fatigue floated out from Star-Lord's back and hovered in the golden channel of the freezing force field.

Boo!

Upon seeing the bubble, a golden arc of electricity shot from Pietro's fingertip, striking the bubble's surface precisely.

The bubble twitched and expanded in volume.

The color changed from dark red to deep purple, and the surface showed the afterglow of golden lightning.

The concept grenade is complete.

But now is not the time to use it.

The shield hadn't shattered yet. Although the shield on the seat was the same as the one on the simulator in the training ground, the real thing was clearly much stronger.

More is needed.

"Star-Lord, swing your sword," Pietro's voice came from the side.

"I know."

Star-Lord holstered his Magnum Shooter 40X and reached for the holster on his waist with his right hand.

My fingertips touched the cold, rough, rusty hilt of the sword.

He drew his iron sword.

The sword looked even uglier in the eerie blue light of the freezing force field; the rust spots seemed alive, slowly wriggling on the metal surface.

The red warning message popped up again on the Extreme Fox Armor's panel.

[A life-extracting energy field has been detected emanating from the item. Removal is recommended.]

He turned it off again, the thrusters were at full power, and his body rose to a position thirty meters directly above the spherical seat.

Looking down from this angle, the shield-like sphere of the spherical seat and the Beyonder Kang inside the seat are clearly visible.

But Star-Lord didn't look at Kang; he looked behind Kang, and further away.

The skies above New York were filled with thousands of warships, and on those warships were tens of thousands of elite Kang variant soldiers.

They are lining up.

It is accumulating energy.

He was aiming at those tiny figures on the rooftop.

Star-Lord's breathing quickened for two beats. The bio-amplification field inside the armor circulated throughout his body, stabilizing his heart rate at 160 and keeping his adrenaline levels within a safe threshold.

But the iron sword vibrated in his hand.

That premonition of something being pulled out of my bones came back again.

"Aren't you trying to prove you're not a battery?"

Tony's voice came through the visor's communication channel.

Tony didn't come up. He was still standing on the rooftop, looking up at the small red and white dot in the sky.

"Then don't be shy or hesitant."

"Guardians of the Galaxy Captain, pin these bastards to the ground."