nownovels Chapter 315 It's Time
Chapter 315 It's Time
Chapter 315 It's Time
With a clean and decisive three-punch combo, Joey effortlessly sent Doctor Doom soaring into the clouds. "Long time no see!"
As he greeted him, Cytorak's crimson chains pierced out from Doctor Doom's body.
Each of these chains burned with endless crimson wildfire, the sizzling chains stretching out, wrapping around and slapping against Joey's body, trying to repel his pursuit.
Ignoring this type of attack, Joey let the hellfire scorch through his newly replaced suit, and then through the flesh and skin beneath, before continuing to deliver two more punches to Doctor Doom.
Joey, who was gripping the chain with one hand, was immediately torn and bleeding. At the same time, he felt a sudden sense of powerlessness, which came from the magical power of the other end of the chain, which came from the Crimson Universe Dimension Lord Cytorak.
The more Joey dragged, the heavier the chains became. Doctor Doom's command of power in the Scarlet Universe dimension was far more skillful than that of other spellcasters. Joey's current power was not enough to withstand the energy output of half a dimension.
Fortunately, Joey had another method. He grabbed the end of the chain and pulled Doctor Doom, who had cast the spell to release the chain, close to him. Joey, whose superficial wounds were already beginning to heal, ignored Doctor Doom's "reminiscing" and unleashed another flurry of punches on his iron mask:
"One old friend like you from the future is enough!"
This statement truly came from the heart—Thor alone was enough to annoy Joey.
The two characters' timelines are intersecting in opposite directions. If not handled properly, it will lead to many inconsistencies, and both Joey and Thor are currently suffering from this.
Speaking of which, Joey doesn't know if he will explain Hela's situation to Thor in the future. If he does, what impact will it have on the present?
While Joey was lost in thought, she heard a muffled thud, and the sensation in her hand proved that Doctor Doom's armor had hardened to the point that even the strength of a Kryptonian couldn't break it.
The chains dissipated, and Doctor Doom punched into the thin exosphere, creating a sonic boom that sent Joey flying dozens of miles away.
The Amozzo armor's replication ability activated, and Kryptonian bio-field radiation enveloped Doctor Doom, helping him escape from the beating he was receiving from Joey.
Boom!
Before Doctor Doom could even get his footing, Joey, who had already accelerated three times, pounced on him again.
A punch, shimmering with an eerie green light, shattered Doctor Doom's mask, revealing his familiar face covered in scars.
"So ugly!"
Without much hesitation, Yang Yi, who was already mentally prepared, threw out a trash talk and then raised her right fist to punch the extremely ugly face.
Fortunately, Amozzo only simulated the visible part of Kryptonian abilities, not the lurking Doomsday, otherwise Joey's Kryptonite fist sneak attack would have failed.
"Ugly Truth"
Just as Joey was pressing his advantage, his movements, along with those of Doctor Doom, who was fighting with him, began to reverse, and the two of them returned to their positions from a few seconds earlier, as if rewinding a timer.
Doctor Doom's mask, which had been stolen, was now completely intact.
He wasn't entirely exaggerating when he told Tony that he was above time.
Green spells surrounded Doctor Doom, and Joey's time vector seemed to be distorted. Moving forward one meter felt like flying tens of thousands of miles, and all attempts to get close to him were in vain.
"Why can't we talk, Joey?"
Before Superman could think of a way to escape, Doctor Doom delivered his carefully prepared explanation:
"I come from your future, unlike Thor. I have no scruples. You can know anything about the future, and I can tell you right now, like..."
Doctor Doom stared through the cold iron mask at Superman, who was still enveloped in hatred and rage. His next words, unsurprisingly, caused Superman to halt his attack:
"Don't you want to know what price you'll have to pay in the future to bring your Kansas parents back to you?"
If Doctor Doom had asked, "Have you brought your parents back?", Joey probably wouldn't have paid him any attention. After all, when she met Raven for the second time after the great upheaval, she had already pointed out the path.
But what is the price for achieving all this?
This did indeed tempt Joey.
At this moment, Doctor Doom seems more like a tempting devil.
He was stalling for time, and Joey knew he was stalling for time.
However, it would be far too difficult for Superman to capture or even kill Doctor Doom.
In the original plan, Joey approached Doctor Doom in order to buy some time.
"Tell me about it?"
VA
Batman and Iron Man arrived at Stark Tower, where the teleportation beacon was located. The beacon was broadcasting coordinates to an object that did not exist. Their task was to correct this error and enable a true two-way connection with Tony's original universe.
As soon as Batman entered the building, he saw the cyborg version of Iron Man. Even though he was a veteran of countless battles and had seen it all, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.
What kind of cruel world must it be to mold Tony, a playboy and spoiled brat inside and out, into this kind of person?
The cyborg Iron Man was being treated on a workbench. His gaze as he swept over the intruder was still sinister, but it no longer held the sharpness of his former self.
Seeing Tony burst into the workshop again, the cyborg Iron Man reached out and stopped "him," who had not yet been baptized by the future:
"Stop, Tony, I have something to tell you."
"Dude, I know I just saved your life, but can we save the mushy thanks for later?"
Eager to repair the beacon with Batman, Tony was thinking of shaking off this troublesome guy lying in the hospital bed, but he found that the mechanical hand of the other man had an extremely strong grip, practically holding him firmly in place.
"No," the light in cyborg Tony's eyes was gradually dimming, "there's no time."
Tony then noticed the other person's unusual expression, and his expression, which had brightened considerably due to Superman's arrival, turned serious again.
"Is it that serious?"
When Doctor Doom first split Tony in half, nothing happened!
Why did the second injury become fatal?
Batman nodded and went alone to rewrite the beacon, leaving Tony behind, trying to repair his cyborg body.
"How can I save you? Jarvis! Jarvis! Help! Bring me his blueprints!"
Even without Doctor Doom's visit, cyborg Tony's life was already hanging by a thread, barely clinging to life thanks to his mechanical systems. Now, after two blows, his life support system is on the verge of collapse.
"It's no use. I know every part of my body. It's time."
At this point, the cyborg Tony no longer hoped to see the sun rise tomorrow; he simply wanted to pass on his reflections, accumulated since Ant-Man's assassination by Wolverine, to his other self—
"Tony, ever since I met you, I've been thinking, maybe the reason our universe is having such a difficult time is because it shouldn't have existed in the first place?"
"Wolverine's act of preventing Ultron's birth tore apart the previously stable continuity of spacetime, causing more timelines to split off. But time is never a dead thing; it is alive and will eventually repair itself."
The cyborg Tony coughed up blood, but he didn't stop thinking:
"I have always felt an unimaginable weight on my shoulders. If I relax even slightly, it feels like the world is about to collapse. But what if this is the purpose of the universe itself?"
It wants to annihilate itself so that we, the parallel universes that split off, will disappear and the torn flow of time will return to normal. Perhaps some things shouldn't be changed so easily in the first place?
Looking into the gradually dimming eyes of the cyborg Tony, Tony didn't know what to do. To Tony, the other person's words might sound like a wise warning, or perhaps just the ramblings of a dying man:
"You need to rest."
While the two Tonys were communicating, Batman quickly repaired the beacon: "Beacon ready, the people over there can come over now."
In Tony's universe, in the Sanctuary in the Himalayas, the ancient one, dressed in yellow and bowing his head to sip tea, felt something:
"It's time."