The atmosphere was tense for a moment.
Beckett had encountered counterfeit products before, but this was the first time he'd met two individuals like the The Other before him, who even Woz couldn't identify.
As beings that were half-biological and half-mechanical, the Chitauri's physical characteristics were usually difficult to imitate, but this rule clearly didn't apply to the Skrulls.
However, "Bring Astra down."
Beckett's gaze swept over the two people still arguing in front of him, and he commanded the The Other beside him.
He didn't care which of these two was real or fake, but Astra was different.
Astra was someone his adoptive father, Thanos, had specifically asked for, and he had to be alive.
"Your Highness Beckett, believe me, they are really Skrulls! If you let him come down now—"
"I said, bring Astra down." Beckett directly interrupted the incessant chatter of the The Other beside him, his icy gaze making the latter freeze.
"...Alright, in fact, I think your subordinate should have been killed by me." The The Other standing beside Beckett rotated the blue scepter in his hand, sighed in disappointment, and his form immediately began to change.
Green skin, a ferocious face – the standard for every Skrull warrior.
"Your name is Beckett, right? My name is Magma, from the Third Army Group of the Skrull Empire. Please send my regards to your father, Thanos."
Magma, having returned to his original form, watched Beckett with great interest, as if trying to find the anger, disappointment, or shock he desired on his face. But Beckett clearly disappointed him.
His cold expression showed no emotional fluctuation, his indifferent gaze fixed on him as if he were looking at a corpse, which greatly displeased Magma.
No one liked being stared at with such an unsettling gaze.
"First of all, thank you for sending Astra."
Because Thanos, a major figure, was standing behind Beckett, Magma's attitude was somewhat more subdued. At the very least, he wasn't spewing threats of killing anymore.
"Secondly, goodbye."
Holding the Casket of Ancient Winters in one hand and the blue scepter in the other, Magma slowly walked towards the entrance of the battleship, escorted by Skrull soldiers who had also revealed their true forms behind him.
Not only did he successfully capture Astra on this trip, but he also gained two extra treasures. Magma was very satisfied.
As the triumphant Magma stepped onto the battleship's gangway with his right foot, a sharp pain suddenly shot through his mind, causing him to cry out involuntarily!
"What's going on?!"
"Who?!"
It felt as if ten thousand people were simultaneously stabbing his forehead with needles. Magma's breathing even stopped under this sudden, piercing pain.
If Magma, the superior officer, was like this, let alone the other Skrull soldiers.
One by one, they clutched their heads in unbearable pain and bent over, veins bulging on their foreheads and the backs of their hands, cries of agony erupting one after another!
"Did I say you could leave?"
The cold, murderous voice made Magma, who had helplessly fallen to his knees, look up. Beckett, with an icy gaze, was looking down at him.
"Impossible, how did you do it!"
The blue scepter and the Casket of Ancient Winters fell to the ground. Magma, still clutching his head and unable to alleviate the piercing pain, hissed and roared, his eyes filled with disbelief.
"Unbelievable, how did you do it? How did these Skrull soldiers suddenly lose their ability to move?"
Astra, who had burst out of the battleship wielding a firearm, looked at Magma, who was roaring in disbelief at the entrance, and then turned his gaze to Beckett.
Between falling into Beckett's hands and falling into the Skrulls' hands, he would rather choose the former.
"For me, nothing is impossible." Beckett placed his right index finger on Magma's forehead. Energy surged and gathered at Beckett's fingertip, forming a beam of silver-white light that pierced directly through Magma's skull!
The remaining dozen or so Skrull soldiers were all gunned down by Astra alone, who was wielding a firearm.
Green blood flowed, pooling on the magnificent ice crystals.
"Rejoice! For the great Son of Titan, Your Highness Beckett! At this very moment, he has used his incredibly insightful gaze to purge the treacherous Skrulls!"
The sudden hymn that rang in his ears startled Astra, causing him to shiver. Following the sound, he saw the The Other, whose armor was tattered and who had lost an eye, completely disregarding his injuries and dragging his broken body to sing praises of honor for Beckett.
"Are your subordinates always like this?"
Casually tossing the toy in his hand onto the ground, Astra, who was quite perceptive, looked at the The Other with amusement.
"Woz, shut down the magnetic field."
"Understood, Your Highness Beckett."
Beckett completely ignored Astra.
Woz's voice came from inside the small battleship. Astra felt a slight click from the helmet on his head, and then nothing else happened.
Beckett glanced at him and casually pulled him into the cabin.
The group then returned to the small battleship.
This helmet was the contingency Beckett had Woz leave behind earlier.
Astra's earlier words about the Skrulls had reminded him. To prevent any unknown situations, Beckett had asked Woz to add something to the special magnetic field when replicating it as a backup.
"Your Highness Beckett, Woz has detected thirty intercontinental missiles heading our way."
Before he could even sit down, Woz's warning echoed in Beckett's ears. On the screen before Beckett, an interstellar fleet belonging to the Kree Empire was rapidly advancing towards Tofa Star.
The signal Woz had blocked had naturally been restored, and the Kree fleet, having located Beckett's position, initiated the warning first.
These thirty interstellar missiles were their welcoming gift.
"Your companions don't seem to care if you live or die." Beckett, who had taken everything in, turned to look at Astra, who was bound hand and foot by The Other. Astra shrugged, his fierce face, covered in messy stubble, showing utter indifference.
"I don't get along very well with the Accusers, so I don't care if they do something like this." In Astra's opinion, the people in the Accuser team were a bunch of warmongers, even crazier than he was.
He only researched weapons so he could defeat the Skrull Empire as soon as possible and avenge his parents and brother. The people in the Accuser team, however, were constantly thinking about how to lead the Kree army to invade other planets.
They had nothing else on their minds but invasion.
Rather than let Astra, who possessed the energy conversion formula, fall into enemy hands, it would be better to just blow him up and be done with it.
He never doubted the decisiveness of the Kree Empire's Accusers.
"Your Highness Beckett, Woz cannot modify the Tofa planetary defense system. The Kree have changed the internal master key."
"Woz is decoding..."
The massive fleet gradually approached, and the interstellar missiles, serving as an appetizer, had already appeared above the small battleship.
"Notify our fleet to disengage cloaking and prepare for interception."
Beckett calmly issued the order. Then, he immediately rushed out of the cabin.
The silver armor in the sunlight shone with an incredibly dazzling light on Beckett. Immense energy surged, and invisible air currents roared, howled, and tore through the sky with ferocious intensity!
The figure standing on the ground swayed its tail and raised its right hand towards the sky. Immediately, a beam of energy condensed in Beckett's palm and pierced the sky in an instant!
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!!!!!!!
The deafening roars echoed endlessly!
The real battle had only just begun.
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