radicalducati Chapter 177 Doctor Doom 2099
Chapter 177 Doctor Doom 2099
Chapter 177 Doctor Doom 2099
If you do the math, it only took Joey less than ten minutes to cross the portal and bring the baby back from the Inheritor's universe.
Why did such a large spacetime rift, resembling fragments of a mirror, appear on Earth in the 2099 universe in such a short time?
Lowering his voice, Joey leaned closer to Tony's visor:
"It can't be because of our time travel, can it?"
Although it's not a good habit to question yourself first when faced with a problem, the only unstable factors that can be imagined right now are those two.
"Impossible, I used the same technology as those Spider-Men when I opened the portal."
Tony said he couldn't take the blame; the only possible mistake he could think of was Leopardton.
In other words, the Surprise's internal systems were incompatible with the teleportation technology:
"There is at least a 67% chance that this accident is unrelated to our teleportation."
The cracks in the space-time expanded further, and the spacetime structure at the damaged area could no longer maintain stability.
Colorful dimensional fragments fell from the sky, reflecting scenes that did not belong to this universe.
The sharp-eyed Joey noticed this, as well as what lay beyond the crack.
Countless robots, densely packed together like a swarm of ants, are poised to strike from behind the crack.
"Now we've reached that 33%!"
After uttering those words, Joey soared into the sky, unleashing a heat beam that swept across the entire heavens, melting the vanguard attempting to enter this universe before anyone could react.
But all of this was in vain, because a second wave of robots had already filled the void, pouring into the universe from the ever-expanding spacetime rift.
Joey's second heat vision shot out, an energy powerful enough to incinerate the entire city of New York, but it was blocked by an invisible magical shield.
The red heat vision created green ripples on the defensive array, which were absorbed and neutralized in no time.
Behind this shield, a crack appeared in the surging array of robots, and this torrent of steel made way for its master.
A red hood and cape, a full-body gold armor, and a metal mask that Joey couldn't see through, with only his eyes exposed.
If this outfit had a different color scheme, like a green robe and silver armor, it would be Doctor Doom's classic look.
The current gold and red color scheme only proves that the person who came is someone else, not to mention that Joey saw familiar pupils in those eyes.
"It's you!"
Before the sound arrived, the fist was already there. Before Joey's words could reach Doctor Doom's ears, a punch that broke the sound barrier was already coming straight at him.
Faced with the Kryptonian attack, Doctor Doom merely had a thought, and the light ripples around the defensive array instantly reversed, returning the heat vision energy he had just absorbed at an even faster rate, doubling the speed.
Looking down at Joey, who was temporarily forced back and falling, Doctor Doom, from his superior position, denied the other's accusation:
"No, I am Viktor von Doom, Doctor Doom."
Belatedly realizing what was happening, Tony Stark caught Joey, who was scorched by the rebounding heat gaze, and glared angrily at the otherworldly visitor whose attire was identical in color to his own armor:
"Did you know that Stark Industries has already trademarked Iron Man's design? They paid the licensing fee and can just use it however they want!"
Doctor Doom appeared in front of Iron Man in a flash: "What? Are you going to send me a cease and desist letter?"
The ghostly appearance startled Tony, who immediately threw Joey to the ground.
Through the visor of his Iron Man suit, Tony and Doctor Doom locked eyes. Recalling the prophecy Joey had told him, Iron Man felt a chill run down his spine.
Because he recognized those eyes; they were the same eyes he saw every morning when he looked in the mirror.
What terrified him even more was that he saw a different emotion in those eyes that were exactly the same as his own: "God."
And he also knew what had happened.
"Difference in time flow rate." x2
Both Destroyer and Iron Man stated the current situation at the same time.
One of the risks of traversing the multiverse is that you have already transcended time the moment you step out of your own universe.
The time and space dimensions of each universe are not always consistent.
Just like when Joey is in Tony's universe and its parallel universe, because the timeline coordinates are not consistent with his own universe, he has more time to deal with what should be an imminent crisis.
Tony also encountered the same problem: his present self and his future self both visited the same universe—the universe of Spider-Man 2099.
Iron Man roared angrily, "What have you done?!"
Upon learning the other party's identity, an endless rage ensued. Without hesitation, Iron Man raised his hand and fired a high-energy beam from his hand cannon, ready to kill the other party immediately.
Doctor Doom, having used a spell to merge his form into another phase, calmly watched as all of Iron Man's attacks futilely passed through the afterimages.
"Why are you so angry?"
"Damn it! Do you know why?!"
After unleashing his fury in the first round of attacks, Iron Man was also struggling to control his emotions: "Say it now—you're not me, you're just some parallel universe variant or something!!"
"If saying this makes you feel any better."
Doctor Doom spoke these words slowly and deliberately, his mask distorting his voice, transforming it into a steely tone that made it impossible to discern his true emotions.
"I am Viktor von Doom, 'Doctor Doom'."
The eyes are the windows to the soul. Just from that brief eye contact, Iron Man remembered what the gloom in those eyes was all about.
When he returned to Stark Industries in New York from Constantinople, he saw that shadow every time he looked in the mirror; it wouldn't go away.
Long ago, arms dealer Tony Stark was unafraid to be called the "Merchant of Death" by other media reporters or third-rate editors.
Because deep down, he still held onto a sliver of hope that the weapons he produced had been used in the right place.
Until he saw weapons bearing the Stark Industries logo slaughtering his own country's soldiers and nearly blowing himself up.
After being rescued from the desert by Joey, he was rendered speechless by Joey's accusations, losing his last psychological defense against the accusation of being the "Death Merchant".
It took Tony a long time to overcome his guilt and temporarily emerge from that gloom.
He stopped selling weapons and switched to selling clean energy, and then continued to try to do some truly good things to prove himself.
For example, helping Joey save his universe.
"What...have you...done?!"
Tony repeated his words, emphasizing each one: the twelve reactors of the Iron Man suit were already pushed to their limits.
"I won't ask a third time!"
He was acutely aware that his future self must have done something far worse than selling weapons to Third World countries and causing massacres.
Despite Iron Man's threat, Destroyer remained unmoved, knowing full well that his past self had no way to harm his present self.
However, he still has time to explain things to his past self, just as he did "back then" -
"You can think of the multiverse as a giant tree, with each individual universe being a different branch extending from it."
Behind him, countless robots emerged from the spatial rifts, stretching out in a magical array to the horizon, severing the moonlight in the sky:
"All I have to do is prune some of the harmful branches."
The results returned by Iron Man's armor scanner revealed the technological origin of these robots, and there is no doubt that they are what Iron Man was thinking.
Yamozo robot.
Moreover, it's enough to count the number of rock machines with the counting sensors. With this level of sub-magnets, the opponent can do almost anything.
brush~
Doctor Doom swayed, and Joey's sudden attack missed its target as if he had punched a hologram.
Another bolt of magical lightning struck down from the void, destroying the Iron Man armor that was beginning to analyze Doctor Doom's phase coordinates.
"The man who crushes evil plots, four hundred old ladies are here! Leopardon, out..."
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Doctor Doom pointed a finger, creating another spatial rift that banished Yamashiro Takuya, who hadn't even finished his introduction, along with his vehicle Leopardon, into the endless void.
Of everyone present, only Joey was capable of holding his own against Doctor Doom.
The crimson indicator lights in the eyes of hundreds of millions of mechs merged into one, making the holographic GGs and neon lights covering this cyber city pale in comparison.
Cold metal filled the entire sky of New York, and the self-programming Amozzo robots hissed and crackled.
Due to the obstruction of the magical shield, Joey could not observe the microscopic changes of these Amoredoid robots within his field of vision.
But now a Kryptonian is right in front of them, and it goes without saying what their self-programmed code will imitate.
[I've re-analyzed and located the phase where he's hiding; his etherealization no longer affects you—want to attack?]
Joey rejected the suggestion that the original character appear in person, and instead pulled out a kryptonite ring that shimmered with green light:
"I don't care what you want to do, get out of this universe right now!"
While the Kryptonians' abilities could be somewhat countered with Kryptonite, Joey couldn't even imagine how to deal with a group of Amozzo robots that mimicked Ultraman's physical characteristics.
"Interesting. So this is why I failed once, no, 'now'."
With great interest, Doctor Doom manipulated the Amorod robots to reverse the process of imitating Kryptonian abilities, examining the Kryptonite ring in Joey's hand.
At the same time, an even wilder idea formed in his mind, and he turned his gaze to Joey, asking a question he had never asked in the past or future:
"Tell me, Joey, do you believe in fate?"
"I trust you****!"
Unaffected by the opponent's intangible state, Joey Zero Frames immediately struck, slamming his fist into the opponent's face.
The punch landed, but it didn't feel solid; instead, it made the sound of shattering glass.
The space before him shattered like a mirror, and Joey found himself and the Destroyer were now on opposite sides of the mirror, one inside and one outside.
"Aaaaaah!"
Beside them was Iron Man, who had changed from falling downwards to floating upwards.
The gravity and physical constants of the entire space seem to have been distorted and reversed.
"I caught you!"
Reaching out, Joey grabbed the screaming Tony. His biofield had just adapted to the gravitational direction of the new space and was preparing to find a way out.
Doctor Doom, on the other side of the mirrored space, pushed with both hands, causing the weight of the entire space to press down on the two of them.
Jarvis, activate your hidden backup energy!
Even without the high-tech sensors, Tony could see with his naked eye that if they didn't get out of this space soon, they would definitely be in big trouble!
A Kryptonian's physique might be able to withstand this, but someone with his build would either die or be crippled if hit by it!
Fortunately, when he installed the teleportation system on the Leopardon, he didn't forget to also install a temporary similar loop mapping on his own armor:
"Hold on tight, Joey—Emergency teleportation activated!"