civilwarnovels Chapter 154 Doctor Doom
Chapter 154 Doctor Doom
Chapter 154 Doctor Doom
Joey doesn't know how he fell into this dark world, or why he started a strange battle with the Fantastic Four.
All he knew was that this time he was truly going to fight back without any scruples.
His mistake of accidentally shattering Abomination with a punch has left him feeling timid, but he's facing the Fantastic Four, who are bound to be more resilient, right?
Thinking of this, Joey stopped suppressing his bio-field and headbutted the stone golem's powerful rock fist.
The Kryptonian's Ironhead immediately smashed the latter's fist, along with the attached half of his rocky arm, to pieces.
With a sweeping heat vision, Joey, who was bound by Mr. Fantastic, began to struggle free after interrupting the Invisible Woman who was preparing to apply an energy field to him again.
However, this is somewhat difficult to achieve—Mr. Fantastic's "rubber body" is just a description; the actual strength of his body is far more than that.
No matter how much Joey stretched and stretched the rubber arms binding him, and tried to scorch and cut them with his heat vision, it was all in vain.
Frequent struggles only lead to a deeper and more inescapable entrapment in the endless cycle of copper prohibition.
This is how Joey felt as he struggled to break free, while Mr. Fantastic, who directly withstood Joey's brute force with his own body strength, was sweating profusely.
He had already realized the difference in strength between himself and his opponent. His currently incredibly resilient body was only able to hold his opponent back thanks to a masterful use of leverage. By the time he realized what was happening...
wrong!
While contemplating his next move in this battle, Mr. Fantastic Reed realized a more critical question during those few seconds of exchange: Could the person from the earlier part of this timeline have possessed such formidable power?
Even in the future, that guy shouldn't have such brute force that could overturn a star!
While Mr. Fantastic was deep in thought, he suddenly felt a tremendous force coming from the far end of his body, and then he immediately lost his balance and flew up.
Oh no, this is bad. It seems the other side has realized what's going on.
Thinking this, Reed wanted to release the restraints and retract his body, but it was too late.
Joey, who was already being forcibly taken off while still restrained, grabbed Mr. Fantastic's arm, which had already extended for tens of meters.
It started spinning directly around its own body.
In such high-speed motion, he uses Mr. Fantastic's body as a weapon, like wielding a long chain meteor hammer, and when he gets it round, it's a deadly blunt windmill.
The flying Human Torch and the Invisible Woman narrowly escaped the attack, but the massive, clumsy Stone Golem was in deep trouble.
Before Mr. Fantastic could even begin to soften his body again, he collided with the Thing. The immense impact sent the Thing flying towards the horizon.
The Invisible Woman, who was trying to come to her aid, raised her invisibility field, preparing to launch a sneak attack. Joey noticed this and immediately let go, throwing the already dazed Mr. Fantastic into the foundation of the villa, which was already completely destroyed.
With a slap of his palms, a massive shockwave spread out from Joey's palms. Through subtle disturbances in the airflow and sound waves, he located the Invisible Woman, who was completely invisible even with his super vision. A heat beam forced her to reveal herself.
Seeing that his sister's defensive force field was becoming increasingly vulnerable under the heat vision, Thunderbolt flew around to Joey's back at lightning speed and shouted again:
"Firestorm!"
A plasma fire tornado erupted from his blazing body and hurtled straight toward Joey.
"If you shout out the name of your move when you make it, then you can't catch people off guard."
With his super vision scanning the area, Joey clearly saw the Human Torch's body, which had completely transformed into high-temperature plasma magma. Facing the oncoming storm of fire, Joey simply took a deep breath and exhaled:
"What was it called again... ah, right, it's Frozen Breath!"
A gust of extremely cold wind swept by, freezing and annihilating both Thunderbolt and the firestorm he summoned.
The extreme low temperature instantly reverted him to his original form; without his flames, he could no longer maintain his ability to fly.
He screamed as he plummeted to the ground, the remaining debris from the buildings he fell into causing him countless secondary injuries.
"Wow, those falls must have hurt pretty badly."
Seeing the Thunderbolt crashing into the remaining frame, repeatedly colliding with its vital points before finally landing, Joey felt a little relieved.
Then he pointed to the only one of the Fantastic Four present who still had the ability to fight:
"You're next, Invisible Woman!"
The Invisible Woman, watching helplessly as her three companions were all defeated, frowned and clenched her fists as she looked at Joey in front of her.
"asshole!"
She no longer concealed herself, but instead sharpened her force field, transforming it into a beam of light that rushed forward, preparing to launch a final, desperate attack on Joey:
"I will definitely kill you, Doctor Doom!"
"Haha, instead of running away, it's heading straight for me...::...Wait a minute!"
Joey almost started quoting lines about a life-or-death battle between good and evil with the Invisible Woman, but hearing that line felt a bit absurd:
"Doctor Doom, me?!"
The Invisible Woman's charge continued, and like the Human Torch, she flew at an equally fast speed, arriving in front of the bewildered Joey in a matter of moments, her body pierced by sharp light beams.
With a backhand swipe, Joey wiped away the opponent's defensive stance and light wave blades as if swatting away a fly.
The invisible woman, whose force field had been completely shattered, was sent flying backward. She was already exhausted and swaying precariously.
As Joey was considering whether to catch her, Mr. Fantastic had already stretched out his arms and pulled Susan down from the sky.
Looking at Joey, who was hovering in the air with several large holes scorched in his down jacket and jeans, and confirming that Joey had no intention of pressing his advantage and ruthlessly attacking him while he was down, Mr. Fantastic gave a bitter smile:
"Stop, everyone, we've already failed."
Only after realizing that her clothes were torn did Yang Yi belatedly activate the armor that her cheap father had given her. The active metal covered her entire body, repairing and even covering her ordinary clothes.
The dark blue bodysuit featured the dark gold El family crest, and a bright red cape stretched from her shoulders to her back, billowing in the air.
Seeing this, Mr. Fantastic was finally able to confirm that his desperate plan had completely failed.
He, now supporting Susan, looked at Joey:
"This is absolutely a huge misunderstanding. Can we resolve this?"
...Mr. Fantastic is explaining...
"Don't you think this creates a grandfather theory?"
After hearing the explanation, Joey was even more furious. He had been beaten up for no reason again.
"As one of the smartest people in the universe, how could you come up with such a stupid plan?"
The cause of the matter is not complicated. Doctor Doom, the nemesis of the Fantastic Four, is unstoppable in the future. Driven to the brink, Reed chose to take a desperate gamble and solve the problem from the past.
The plot of Terminator is so old that nobody uses it anymore!
"It's not about simply killing him, but about obtaining his past self, then having that self collide with his future self. That should be enough to create a spacetime paradox to completely end him."
"I'm not interested in your proposal. I just want to know how you four amazing idiots managed to mistake me for Viktor von Doom?"
Victor is Doctor Doom's real name. In the "past" timeline where Joey is, he was probably just a student from the small Eastern European country of Latvia, and a classmate of Mr. Fantastic.
There's a cause for every grievance, and a debtor for every crime. If they want to take down the destroyer of the university, they should go to the State University of New York.
What kind of nonsense is it to cause trouble at Stark's mansion and then drag yourself into this strange space and get beaten up?
Faced with Joey's question, Mr. Fantastic Reed shook his head:
"No, Victor is not Doctor Doom. Doctor Doom destroyed the entire city of New York when he was purging the Avengers. I watched Victor die right in front of me."
Okay, welcome to the parallel universe—Joey wasn't surprised to hear Reed say that. So what if the Destroyer of the Boulder was someone else? It wasn't the first time he'd encountered a world that didn't follow the script.
"Who is Doctor Doom? It couldn't possibly be me!"
"That's the problem—we don't know who 'Doctor Doom' is either."
This is also why Reed and his three companions launched an attack on Joey without any explanation as soon as they saw him:
"He cast a spell long ago to erase his true name from the entire spacetime, perhaps because he already knew we would do this."
We, however, used the spell of the Book of Vishanti to gain insight into a crucial point in his history—the moment he created that destructive robot army capable of sweeping across the entire multiverse.
The strange space where the five of them were currently located was a spacetime that should not exist in the first place.
It is the Fantastic Four's "past" and Joey's "future." Theoretically, it is an absolutely impossible place to reach. However, according to Mr. Fantastic's prediction, he can use a divine spell to occupy it, and with the time machine he created, he should be able to accurately pull the relevant people at that point in time into this place.
But now he's only bringing over a complete stranger, an "unrelated person".
"I am truly sorry that our radical actions almost hurt a completely innocent person like you."
Please don't worry, the spacetime we are in is temporary, and we will soon return to our respective times.
Perhaps this gamble was destined to fail in preventing the entire multiverse from falling victim to the poison of Doctor Doom and his robot army.
Mentioning the so-called "destruction robot army," even the mentally resilient Reed couldn't help but cover his face and sigh in anguish:
"God, you've never seen a robot army like that before. They can accurately mimic each of our abilities, and even use them more skillfully!"
First it was the Avengers and S.H.I.E.L.D., then the X-Men and the entire mutant race, then the entire universe, and other multiverses beyond that. We're just lucky enough to have survived this long... :.."
"Damn it."
Listening to Mr. Fantastic's description of the robots, Joey finally understood who the future "Doctor Doom" he was talking about was.
Reed's timing was actually quite precise, and he wasn't some 'unrelated person'. If the Fantastic Four had been just one minute earlier, they could have precisely met the person they wanted to kill in this timeline.
Tony Stark from the 'past'.