Peter didn't know if the hotel was booked by S.H.I.E.L.D. or the school, but all in all, it was quite nice. He had a room all to himself and was currently lying on the bed looking at information on his laptop, with a Wild Pack combat suit, provided by Silver Sable, lying beside him.
After a battle that started and ended just as inexplicably, Peter had finally gotten a firsthand look at Sandman and the combat style of the Wild Pack.
Undoubtedly, this wasn't the Wild Pack's first encounter with the Elementals. This was evident both in the Wild Pack's specialized equipment and the fact that the Elementals immediately chose to retreat upon seeing Silver Sable.
"The Elementals' intel, the Wild Pack has it down in detail. They have basic data on every enemy, including the limitations of their abilities... Hydro-Man can control water, but unless he infuses the controlled water into a human body, he can't control the person. Hmm, not as formidable as I thought."
So, ultimately, the most troublesome aspect of the four Elementals wasn't their abilities, but their immortality. The Wild Pack had designed corresponding tactics for each one, yet they couldn't find a way to capture or kill them.
They could only deploy forces repeatedly to stop them.
So, what were they trying to steal?
Nick Fury most likely knew, but he hadn't told Peter, and Cindy didn't know either. Silver Sable provided some information, but this intel, based on the Wild Pack's resources, was limited in many aspects, as they were only a private mercenary group and couldn't obtain much government information.
"Hospitals, laboratories, warehouses. Match all of these with... ugh, is there a distribution map of Hydra bases from World War II?"
Peter laughed, essentially holding the answer and trying to find the question. Ultron, of course, retained all the information of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s predecessor, the Strategic Scientific Reserve, including the known locations of all Hydra bases.
They didn't all perfectly match up, but the distribution largely overlapped. These locations spanned from Western to Eastern Europe, almost entirely within the areas controlled by the German army back then.
In other words, both sides of the Cold War chose to directly rebuild research facilities on the old sites of past Hydra bases. It was normal that the Wild Pack didn't know this line of clues.
This also explained why there were no related facilities in Lisbon; Hydra hadn't set up a research base there.
"So, I just need to overlay the remaining old Hydra bases, compare them with the existing research facilities on those addresses..."
As he was thinking, Peter noticed something seemed amiss: with such a deep level of Hydra infiltration, did they really need such violent means to snatch laboratory results?
And even if they didn't know the Elementals' target locations, they should at least know what they stole after all this time, right? But the result was, they didn't know. The Wild Pack had a detailed list of stolen goods, but even when given to Ultron, Peter had no idea what these seemingly chaotic, fantastic items were stolen for.
Technological items with absolutely no connection to each other were all snatched by the Elementals.
"If they're not using sheer quantity to hide their real objective, then the Elementals' actions themselves are problematic—could Nick Fury be using me as a decoy, and Hydra be using these guys as a decoy?"
After careful consideration, the more Peter thought about it, the more likely it seemed. That dog Nick Fury and Hydra might have coincidentally arranged a group of thugs to fight on the surface, but in reality, they dispatched others to execute the truly necessary tasks.
Why is that black bald head so wicked?
Sighing helplessly, Peter decided to deal with the Elementals first. After all, no matter what, they were the enemy.
In Rome, Italy.
While Spider-Man was still in Portugal, two people had already arrived in Rome via passenger plane, heavily disguised. The taller one looked around and sighed with emotion: "The last time I was in Rome, it had just been liberated from the Nazis, and it was engulfed in war. I didn't even have time to take a proper look."
"Now you have plenty of time to look, Steve. By the way, you said we were comrades in WWII, how much do you know about my past?"
Nick Fury chose not to entrust the real mission to any S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, because at this time, no agent in S.H.I.E.L.D. was trustworthy. Therefore, he had to entrust the mission to people he could trust one hundred percent.
For example, Captain America, and for example, Wolverine.
Captain America and Logan put on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s disguise gear and came to Rome. Meanwhile, LMD Life Model Decoys would impersonate them operating in New York to cover for them.
Of course, Peter Parker was also very trustworthy, the only problem was that the person involved in this mission was too... sensitive.
Richard and Mary Parker were assassinated here by the Winter Soldier. Hydra assassinated them because of the results of Hydra's Super-Soldier plan, which was currently under development. As the heads of the Savage Force project, the Parkers had also conducted research on other Super-Soldier projects and were sent on an investigation mission.
They undoubtedly uncovered something, which led Hydra to assassinate them, even at the risk of exposure. And swiftly, the Pentagon hired the Black Cat to steal the Super-Soldier serum in Russia.
The whole plan was too coincidental.
Even more coincidentally, Captain America and Logan, who were sent to execute this mission, were the products of Weapon Plus Project #1 "Rebirth" and Project #10 "X." Spider-Man was the product of Project #2 "Savage Force," and he also came with the product of Project #5 "Symbiote."
"So, Fury wants us to investigate exactly what kind of Super-Soldier Hydra is researching and how far along they are."
The two walked and talked in low voices. The Elementals were handed over to Spider-Man and the Wild Pack; they would attract Hydra's firepower, creating space for Captain America and Logan to investigate. The two of them needed to thoroughly investigate where the problem created by Hydra lay.
And in this process, undoubtedly, they would also face very tricky troubles. Even old friends from the past, such as the modified and controlled original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, or Captain America's old partner, the "Winter Soldier," Bucky Barnes.
Yes, through the Wasteland Universe, Captain America already knew the true identity of the so-called Winter Soldier, and what he had done.
Now, he was here to stop his old buddy.
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