nownovels Chapter 459 Disaster
Chapter 459 Disaster
Chapter 459 Ten Calamities
A sneeze!
Tony, who was lying in his office chair, sneezed and felt himself wake up from a daze.
When he opened his eyes, he saw only darkness in the room, a stark contrast to the bright lights that had been there when he had closed his eyes.
"Dr. Banner? Reed? Cyborg?"
Tony looked around and saw that there was no one around and it was completely silent.
When did he fall asleep? And how long did he sleep?
Where did Reed and Banner, who were busy in the lab before, go?
Feeling flustered, Tony straightened up and was about to stand up when he realized that he was holding a crystal ball around his waist.
The crystal ball sealing Doctor Doom shone brightly, emanating a voice that reached Tony's mind: "Look outside."
Tony had intended to watch it, but he managed to resist: "I'm not watching! Do you think I've never read horror stories? Before an evil spirit possesses someone, it always sets up a whole bunch of plot holes for the protagonist!"
Tony has seen movies about possession before. Maybe if he makes a gesture of looking out, he will be possessed again?
"I'm still dreaming, aren't I?"
Holding the crystal ball in his hands, Tony resisted the urge to kick the other person away like a ball. He realized that he might not have truly woken up.
How can he wake up from this nightmare? He can't just say "evil spirits begone" or "demons and monsters, leave quickly," can he?
Speaking of which, why didn't the Supreme Master just completely destroy this wicked creature's soul and spirit back then?
The thought of Reed and Dr. Banner working tirelessly outside to save the world, while he was stuck in a dream, being sabotaged by this persistent bastard, filled Tony with anxiety: "Let me out of here!"
"I'm not trying to trip you up, I'm trying to help you."
As soon as Doctor Doom finished speaking, Tony felt a tremor beneath his feet.
Rumble rumble~
With a deafening roar, the entire Stark Tower shook violently, the ceiling above his head cracked amidst the crashing noises, and countless pieces of construction debris rained down on him.
Before the building collapsed, Tony, who had already donned the Iron Man suit, flew at full speed through the shrinking cracks to the outside of the building.
Looking up at the sky from the outside, he finally understood what had happened.
The sky above was no longer the one I knew, but the reflection of another city filled with neon lights.
The glaring lights in the distance formed several colorful letters, piecing together the name of the upside-down city—
NOVA New York.
The name might be a little unfamiliar to Tony, but the distinctive lighting style of the city called New York instantly reminded him where he was.
Tony had been there once, to the parallel universe Miguel O'Hara came from, to New York City in 2099.
"Look, this is where it all began."
Doctor Doom's words were true. After all, it was there that Tony first encountered his future self. He knew from the beginning that he would become so evil in the future. Tony should never have agreed to let his father send him to a boarding school!
Even with his mind on edge, Tony still had the energy to crack a small joke in his mind. But upon closer reflection, he realized that the scene in his dream shouldn't have happened at all—the 2099 Spider-Man universe colliding with his own. Why would Tony have such a dream?
Logically speaking, shouldn't this universe have been destroyed by Doctor Doom long ago?
If that's the case, then where does the claim of a collision come from?
Doctor Doom's voice came again: "Don't rush, keep reading."
The first to collide were two cities, one new and one old, both part of New York, followed by two Earths.
These two almost identical celestial bodies had long since crossed each other's Roche limit. When the two worlds approached a boundary, the astronomical spectacle of the two planets hanging upside down relative to each other, caused by the instability between spacetime, ceased to exist.
When the two Earths collided, they finally began to be bound by the laws of physics, revealing an apocalyptic scene:
The forces of gravity between them began to tear each other apart, the continental shelf cracked and deformed, seawater surged in from below, and magma erupted from the Earth's core.
In no time, the two planets were torn apart into countless fragments by each other, and then, under the combined gravitational pull, they coalesced into a cloud of asteroids.
Even though Tony knew it was just a dream, seeing the devastation before the destruction of the two worlds and the wailing of the bewildered crowds still made his palms sweat.
In the vacuum where Tony was suspended, countless corpses, flung into space by the recent planetary fission, drifted by. Several of them floated directly in front of Tony. He glanced at them, and upon seeing their faces, his hands and feet turned ice-cold—
When the two Earths collided and broke apart, the atmospheres of both ecosystems naturally collapsed at the same time. People thrown into space would not be able to survive and would die quickly from suffocation and cold.
Pepper Potts, Happy Hogan, Rod, Coulson —
The expressions on everyone's faces showed the pain and terror of impending death.
"F*ck you!" Tony cursed in the darkness. He didn't know why Doctor Doom wanted him to see this. Was it just to make him feel bad?
If that's the case, then he has indeed achieved his goal: "You beast, you psychopath! Are you happy now?!"
Doctor Doom did not answer.
Just as Tony was about to exhaust his entire knowledge and unleash a torrent of words to curse the freak's ancestors, a glimmer of light finally flashed before his eyes.
After that dazzling beam of light, everything returned to nothingness, and neither universe existed.
Tony knew that after Earth's destruction, the two universes had finally collided and both perished.
In this void, Tony, having calmed down, began to compose himself and think about how to escape this damned nightmare.
But before he could think about it, the scenery around him quickly returned to normal, and New York City reappeared in his sight.
Tony looked up and saw the city's reflection overhead was a dark mass, like a dense mass of clouds.
The New York beneath my feet is still the same New York, but the difference is that this time, it's a new universe opposite me, no longer the neon-lit Universe 2099.
A new collision.
After Tony became somewhat numb to it, these collision crises finally stopped happening.
Tony, who was recording the number of collisions, discovered that in this bizarre dream, his universe collided with other unfamiliar universes and was destroyed in pairs a total of ten times.
If a single collision destroys both of them, how could such collisions occur ten times?
Tony's question was quickly answered when Doctor Doom appeared.
"Now you believe I'm helping you, right?"
Doctor Doom's crystal ball hovered high in the air, shimmering: "Although you didn't thank me, well—you're welcome."
"What did you do?!" Tony gritted his teeth, but he already had a vague answer in his mind.
He just needed confirmation, and Doctor Doom just happened to be able to help him confirm, "You once asked me how many universes I've destroyed."
Doctor Doom's familiar yet unfamiliar cold tone was so calm that it sent chills down Tony's spine. He quickly rattled off a number: "1024 parallel universes."
Doctor Doom had already made his point quite clear, but he didn't hesitate to make it even clearer: "If you're so scared that you can't even do basic math, then I can help you with 2 to the power of 10, with perfect precision."
2 to the power of 10, 10——.——
Tony now understood that one corresponded exactly to the ten cataclysmic disasters in their universe.
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