Yasuo in Marvel - Chapter 44
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Hydra’s command center echoed with the screams of their special forces. The elite squads were being slaughtered by a single enemy. The transmitted messages barely contained 20 words:
“Be careful, he’s coming!”
“A red demon! He’s a red demon!”
“He’s too fast! Watch your back!”
“Fire! Fire indiscriminately!”
“I hit him! But he’s not dead, watch out!”
“Ah! Ahhh…”
Four elite squads, wiped out in five minutes, without even seeing the enemy clearly. The fearless, highly trained Hydra special forces couldn’t comprehend what was happening. Jetson, sensing the gravity of the situation, urgently contacted Strucker, who was heading to the front gate.
“Sir, something’s wrong. The messages from the special forces are strange. The enemy is a single person. Be careful, he might be a powerful mutant,” Jetson warned.
“What? Just one person? One person dares to invade my base? I’ll show him the consequences of angering me. Even if he’s a mutant, it won’t matter,” Strucker dismissed the threat, confident that his thousand-strong elite Hydra troops could handle anything.
But he was wrong. A red figure appeared in his line of sight—an enemy he recognized by the codename “Red Weirdo,” a powerful superhuman whose blood he’d once obtained.
Yasuo, alone, charged fearlessly at the thousand-strong enemy force, his red figure a lightning bolt across the battlefield.
“All units, prepare for battle!” Hydra’s commander ordered as soon as he saw Yasuo.
Hydra soldiers couldn’t believe a single person would dare to attack them head-on. They expected a distraction, thinking the real assault would come from elsewhere.
From afar, Sharon Carter thought Yasuo was either insane or planning to die for her. Facing tanks, armored vehicles, elite soldiers, and numerous snipers on fortified walls, only a fool would charge head-on. Unless he wanted to die.
If she weren’t on the brink of death, Sharon believed Yasuo’s speed, which rivaled that of a sports car, could effectively block the enemy’s gate. She believed that within a month, Yasuo could completely dismantle the enemy forces.
Seeing Yasuo genuinely charging, Strucker was shocked by his speed, faster than most cars. But what could one man do?
Yasuo’s actions were so shocking that some Hydra soldiers, perhaps in awe or panic, opened fire without orders. Once one fired, the rest followed, unleashing a hail of bullets like a torrential downpour. Dust clouds rose from the relentless barrage.
“Cease fire! Cease fire!” the commander ordered after a magazine was emptied. As the dust settled, the ground was scarred and torn, but there was no sign of the red-clad weirdo’s body.
A tense silence fell. The commander was at a loss, unsure what orders to give.
Disband?
Stay alert?
Had the enemy been shredded to pieces? Or had he escaped?
“Be careful, he’s not dead. Stay on guard and find him!” Strucker took command, not believing a powerful superhuman would die so easily. No body meant he was still alive.
Yasuo had used his flash ability to teleport into a tank, slaughtering the crew before they could react. The sound of gunfire outside masked their screams.
Inside the high-tech tank, Yasuo’s curiosity got the better of him. Like any man, he dreamt of driving a tank. Though he didn’t know how to operate it, he fumbled around, pressing and toggling everything he could find. If it broke, he wouldn’t mind.
Suddenly, the tank came to life. Among the orderly line of tanks and armored vehicles, one tank went berserk, reversing madly and crushing several soldiers. Its cannon rotated, crackling with electricity.
“Boom!” An energy ball fired from the cannon, hitting a nearby armored vehicle, which melted instantly. The soldiers inside were vaporized. A nearby soldier, hit by the energy splash, melted into a skeleton, writhing and screaming in agony with no one able to help.
“Boom! Boom!” The energy balls continued to fire, exploding among the soldiers. The blast radius was immense, instantly killing dozens more.
Realizing the tank had gone rogue, soldiers turned their guns on it. In a hail of bullets, the berserk tank was reduced to scrap. But before it was destroyed, many saw a red flash escape from within, disappearing in an instant.
The red figure reappeared on the battlefield, cutting through soldiers like a deathly blur. The densely packed formation, unable to fire for fear of hitting comrades, fell into chaos.
The stench of blood and burnt flesh filled the air. The battlefield, littered with bodies, burned-out vehicles, and a wrecked tank, was a scene of utter chaos. Strucker saw it all.
The energy tank, a superweapon created by Hydra using the Tesseract during World War II, was a rare and precious asset. Losing one because of this “Red Weirdo” was infuriating. Along with a hundred elite Hydra soldiers, the loss was significant.
Strucker decided to face the enemy himself. He admitted Red Weirdo was strong, but no one could resist his virus. Not even superhumans. Once the virus infected his opponent, he might consider sparing him, making Red Weirdo serve him to atone for his sins.
War was cruel, and entering it meant facing any future. Strucker activated special features on his suit, including target locking, allowing him to track Yasuo’s movements.
Yasuo reveled in the chaos, joyfully cutting through enemies with his E (Sweeping Blade) skill, each kill earning him more gold coins.
In his bliss, Yasuo didn’t notice he was being watched.
The Hydra commander couldn’t sit still. Hundreds of soldiers lost to a single enemy was unacceptable. He shouted into his comms, “Spread out! Everyone, spread out! Snipers, what are you waiting for? Take him down!”
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