Chapter 219: Earth's Counterattack (Part Three)
Inside the control center of the Chitauri's Black Trident Starship, the Starship's Captain looked at the constantly flashing alarms on the display screen, feeling a bit panicked.
Insufficient energy meant the ship cannons couldn't be activated for a counterattack, and the protective shield couldn't be raised. This warship had truly become a sitting duck stuck in space.
"Rumble!"
The bombing outside was continuous. The primitive gunpowder weapons of the Midgardians, which he had originally looked down upon, were causing extremely severe damage to the Starship's hull now that the Starship had lost its protective shield.
However, the Chitauri Fleet had extremely strict requirements for combat. Before receiving an order, the Captain didn't dare to order the Starship to withdraw from the spatial gate.
"Clang!" Before the Fleet Commander behind him could respond, a loud noise came from above his head.
"Beep beep beep—"
The Captain glanced at the alarm on the panel. It was the isolation layer inside the Starship's surface that had been damaged. One must know that the isolation layer was the key for the Starship to shield itself from cosmic rays and extreme temperatures—
Without the isolation layer, even if this Starship wanted to exit the spatial gate and withdraw from Earth, it would be impossible.
After losing the isolation layer, those on the ship simply couldn't withstand the damage caused by cosmic radiation and instability.
What's more, there was the pressure difference. In this situation, once the Starship returned to outer space, the ruptured hull would directly suck everyone out.
Now, they could only take the initiative to attack, using the troop transports to break through the Midgardians' ambush circle to have a glimmer of vitality.
The Captain urgently issued an emergency evacuation order. The Chitauri on the Starship rushed to the escape pods and Iron Dragon troop transports—
Just as they were scattering in panic inside the Starship, the sound of giant hammers smashing against Iron Gates boomed repeatedly.
Thor, holding Mjolnir flashing with lightning, landed directly above the Chitauri Starship. Waving his hammer, he was smashing the Starship's hull repeatedly. With every strike, a large section of the hull would be dented inwards.
After a few strikes, the entire Starship was directly dented by a third.
Clang!
Thor raised Mjolnir in his hand, preparing to continue drawing upon the power of lightning to completely destroy this Starship.
The Starship suddenly shook beneath his feet. Before Thor could react, the outer shell of the entire Starship peeled open like the metal lid of a Spam can that had been pulled open.
The entire top of the Chitauri Starship was directly lifted by an invisible strength, and the heavy Starship metal plates incidentally swatted Thor away.
Magneto, wearing a red helmet, slowly lowered his hands, his gaze fixed on the alien Starship that was missing its top.
In his and Tang Song's plan, having a few alien Starships in hand would be a bargaining chip for future negotiations with the Federal Government.
No one would like a newly emerging mutant nation, especially the Federal Government, which was accustomed to being overbearing.
According to common sense, the Federal Government would absolutely not allow a powerful neighbor to exist beside it.
One of the reasons the Federation made a fortune in WWII was its superior geographical environment, free from external enemies.
As for Mexico, it was more like a trash can for the Federal Government, a place to dump garbage.
Just like a joke on Twitter, the Mexican people's hatred for the Federation was caused by historical reasons. There were two reasons: one was that it seized half of Mexico's territory, and the second was that it left the other half without seizing it! The Federation kept Mexico as a trash can and a scapegoat, but that didn't mean it wanted a powerful mutant country next to it.
Of course, a powerful mutant country was Magneto's personal opinion. In his mind, once mutants established a country, they could quickly become powerful like Israel.
Magneto didn't notice the look of disdain in Tang Song's gaze when he spoke to him with such confidence.
Tang Song held a pessimistic attitude towards the matter of mutant independent statehood.
A mob of unreliable individuals who had nothing but their own unreliable superpowers and no faith, establishing a country? On what basis?
Many mutants, due to their appearance or abilities, had not received higher education.
Gathering them together to establish a country? Just thinking about it shows how unreliable it is. However, Tang Song inciting Magneto naturally had his own intentions.
He wasn't interested in the Chitauri's alien technology, but in the spatial gate itself.
Without the Mind Scepter, this spatial gate that couldn't be closed was a bridgehead to the universe for Earth.
Occupying this bridgehead was equivalent to occupying humanity's future access to the universe.
No country in the world had the strength to occupy it alone, otherwise, they would definitely be attacked by everyone.
Either everyone develops it together, or no one gets to play.
So they would definitely need a buffer zone, like Poland was to the Soviet Union and Germany.
Tang Song's purpose in inciting Magneto to establish a country was precisely this. A joke of a mutant country, any politician with a bit of common sense wouldn't take it seriously.
If he could truly build it, it would undoubtedly be an excellent buffer zone.
Tang Song had already promised Magneto investment beforehand, offering to be responsible for helping him build the infrastructure, and even the security, of this new country.
Boss Tang promised that Magneto could hire mercenaries trained by their Tang Security Company at a low price.
Of course, the premise of their secret plotting was based on the spatial gate being held and the Chitauri being driven away.
The key point of the matters lay with the spatial gate before them.
This was also the reason Magneto intervened to prevent Thor from completely destroying this alien warship.
He wanted to leave some bargaining chips for the future establishment of the mutant Utopia. Of course, relying solely on some alien technology was naturally not enough.
Inside the Starship, now missing its top, Iron Dragon troop transports flew out from the upper section of the Starship one after another.
As soon as these Iron Dragons swam out of the Starship, they were met with focused fire from hundreds of fighter jets in the sky—
"Hulk!"
The enraged Hulk looked at these big guys, stomped his feet, launching himself dozens of meters into the air. He landed on an Iron Dragon troop transport and fiercely smashed its top with his fists.
Lightning flashed in the sky. Thor, who had just been swatted away, flew back with fierce momentum, his red cloak billowing behind him. Wielding Mjolnir, he brought forth large areas of lightning, corralling swathes of Iron Dragons. He didn't forget to turn back and give Magneto a provocative gaze.
However, Thor still underestimated the mutant's polarity. Magneto opened his hand towards an Iron Dragon troop transport. As he clenched his palm, that Iron Dragon troop transport was like something made of clay or paper. It was completely compressed by the powerful magnetic field, forcefully squeezed into a solid iron ball, which crashed to the ground with a clang.
"Cobra Commander!"
On the Chitauri Starship flagship on the other side of the spatial gate, several tall Chitauri cast their gaze towards their Leader, the Fleet Commander of this nomadic fleet.
"Thanos promised that as long as we take this place and get the Space Gem, he will grant us a habitable planet as our new mother planet and provide protection.
We Chitauri have been wandering the Milky Way Galaxy for hundreds of years. This is an opportunity for us, we cannot give up easily!"
The Commander seemed to be speaking to his subordinates, and also trying to persuade himself. "Notify the bio-cabins, tell them to adjust the weapon templates! The Midgardians are not scary, it's just the size of this spatial gate that restricts our attack!"
Watching the stars representing the life forms of the Chitauri soldiers on the screen extinguish one after another, the Chitauri Commander decided to change the combat mode.
In the pitch black space, dense silver flying discs flew out from the fleet, lining up neatly in space.
In front of the spatial gate, with the full assistance of the Avengers and the Brotherhood of Mutants, the Chitauri's vanguard was almost completely wiped out. Meanwhile, the Federal National Guard and Rangers who were successively entering the battlefield to clear the area and build defensive formations were setting up machine guns to establish new defensive positions.
Large numbers of fighter jets in the sky took this opportunity to return to base to refuel and replenish ammunition.
Just then, an armored unit that had just arrived at the battlefield began to accelerate towards the spatial gate. Their direction was subtly towards the alien spaceship stuck in the spatial gate.
The armored unit, composed of hundreds of armored vehicles and dozens of tanks, quickly reached the front line of the position.
This armored unit, painted with the Federation's army flag, under the command of a Black Person Colonel, spread out the armored vehicles and tanks, surrounding the spatial gate.
Heavy vehicle-mounted machine guns and tank barrels were aimed remotely at the spatial gate...
If it were normal garrison duty, everything would naturally be fine, but whether intentionally or unintentionally...
More than a dozen Federation tanks had their gun barrels pointed outwards, subtly aimed at the mutants and Avengers members who were still fighting the Chitauri.
The atmosphere suddenly became strange...
Many mutants stopped their actions and moved closer to their leader.
And the Avengers members also looked at the tanks aimed at them.
"It looks like they're coming for this alien warship. Whose order is this? The Department of Defense or the White House? It seems they aren't very smart!"
Captain America gripped his shield tightly, looking at Black Widow beside him, his face full of doubt: "Are the High-level Staff of the Federation seventy years later all this, this..."
"Stupid?!" Captain America thought for a moment and squeezed out a word.
"Right now, we've only gained the upper hand, the spatial gate is still there, the enemy is right opposite, and now they're jumping out to grab the spoils of war?!"
Black Widow's pretty face was also full of confusion. She responded by shrugging at Captain America, indicating she didn't know either.
"Hey, listen to me, this is your humanity's base nature. You need a wise ruler. Look at your current leaders. Believe me, if I became the King of Midgard, I would do better than your current leaders!"
Bang! Captain America threw a heavy punch directly at Loki's stomach, making the King's face turn slightly green from the pain.
"How dare you, you human, dare to strike a great god..."
Loki's words stopped halfway, and he tightly closed his mouth.
Because not far away, a large green big guy was holding a Chitauri flying motorcycle in his hand and giving him an angry gaze.
Loki looked at the Hulk's eager gaze and had no doubt that if he said one more word, he would directly smash the not-insignificant motorcycle onto his body.
...
At the White House, President Francis, who was evaluated as an idiot by Captain America, was also in a furious rage at this moment.
"Shit! Who is the Cobra Commander of this unit? Did his mother forget to install a brain when she gave birth to him?!"
"Who ordered him to go grab this alien warship now? Which idiot?!"
"Call the Department of Defense, tell Ross to find this idiot, I'm sending him to a military Court of Law!"
That's right, Francis wanted to seize this alien warship for himself, but no matter how ugly the behavior was, you couldn't just bite into a live cow, could you?
Through this live broadcast, the Federation's supercomputers and artificial intelligence collected many comments mentioning the Federal Government.
On Twitter, forums, and many social media platforms within the Federation.
With his tough attitude towards declaring war on the aliens, the support rate for this government among the Federation's populace, who had been brainwashed by Hollywood movies for many years, had greatly increased.
Now this idiot had caused such a mess, making Francis so angry he almost smashed the television in front of him.
More than twenty tanks with their gun barrels not aimed at the spatial gate, but instead at the comrades-in-arms they were just fighting alongside – this ugly behavior.
The public watching this scene through drone live broadcasts expressed their astonishment.
"What are they doing?!"
"I knew this was something our idiotic President would do!"
"Shit, this is truly embarrassing us internationally!"
"Speaking of which, if we really get this spaceship, can we achieve interstellar travel? I want to go see Mars—"
"Damn, the Americans really have no strategic vision! That spatial gate hasn't even closed yet. Short-sighted, nouveau riche lacking substance!"
"They're fighting among themselves now, are they crazy? The aliens haven't even been driven away yet!"
On Twitter and some social websites, the comments section was flooded with reactions to this bizarre operation by the Federation's armored unit.
Many netizens from other countries specifically bypassed the firewall to mock the Federation Person.
The atmosphere on the internet was even more intense than on the Lyon Battlefield, with an unusually high amount of profanity.
However, with the real-time live broadcast from the drones, soon no one paid attention to this foolish armored unit anymore.
Just as they were setting up their defensive formation! On the other side of the spatial gate, a Starship in the Chitauri Fleet aimed its ship cannon at the spatial gate flashing with blue light.
As the ship cannon finished charging, a thick blue light beam shot out from within the spatial gate.
The incredibly powerful ship cannon energy beam directly pierced through the damaged Starship stuck in the spatial gate, blasting it into wreckage with one shot.
After blasting through the Starship stuck in the spatial gate, the energy beam then penetrated three armored vehicles and overturned two tanks before finally disappearing completely.
Before the Allied Forces and Avengers on this side of the spatial gate could react—
Hundreds of silver flying discs flew out from the spatial gate. These spaceships, which looked like two silver plates clasped together, were less than a meter in size, with a dozen thumb-thick tubes extending from their sides.
From satellite monitoring, one could see the dense silver flying discs pouring out from the spatial gate, like countless silver jellyfish swarming.
The rotating silver flying discs sprayed out energy rays from their dozen tubes, instantly piercing through the armor of many armored vehicles and tanks that the armored unit was so proud of.
(Sorry, sorry, I was slacking off at the company during the day and came up with an idea I felt really good about, so I spent the whole day working on a new book outline. Then I had something come up tonight and got held back for overtime. Oh no!)
(end of chapter)