svetikya Chapter 83 The Kryptonian Capture Plan
Chapter 83 The Kryptonian Capture Plan
Chapter 83 The Kryptonian Capture Plan
Not a buddy!
As Cyborg watched this scene, he felt as if his processor and half of his brain were about to short-circuit.
Does Captain Atom know what he's saying right now?
Does he know who Joey is?
A being capable of single-handedly capturing Wonder Woman, forcing Aquaman to surrender, and withstanding a magnitude 12 earthquake with his own flesh and blood.
Do you really have to be so forceful?
If you're going to force me, at least bring more people with you!
There was this guy named Tess Adam, and the way he looked at Joey was weird. If this black guy didn't slap Captain Atom across the face when they started fighting, that would be a good thing!
Does Captain Atom know how many superhumans are underground right now?
Almost the most powerful group on Earth, and all of them ruthless and vicious like Aquaman and Wonder Woman, are currently concealing their true forms underground.
Steelbone figured those two ruthless guys probably wouldn't mind burying two more bodies.
Even if the bugs in the White House and the Pentagon do nothing right, they can't just give orders randomly and let Captain Atom come and mess things up, can they?
Captain Atom must be out of his mind to take on such a job.
Suddenly, Cyborg remembered that the insects in the White House didn't seem very human-like, and Captain Atom did indeed have a screw loose.
Otherwise, Captain Atom wouldn't have been ordered to go alone to meet with the Atlanteans and negotiate.
Not to mention that Captain Atom was also captured by Aquaman and used as a live battery for a doomsday weapon, almost causing a seismic wave to collapse half of the Eurasian continent.
Some people learn from their mistakes, while others learn from them again and again. Cyborg thinks Captain Atom is clearly the latter.
"What's wrong with you today, Nathan? Do you remember Joey rescued you from Aquaman?"
Cyborg is still trying to salvage his completely irrational best friend; he doesn't want to have to lay flowers at his grave every Memorial Day from now on.
That long weekend should have been a joyful holiday, perfect for a family to go to the movies, not a time for mourning a hapless soul who had contemplated suicide.
"Stop being silly, Nathan! Think about your wife Angela, your daughter Peggy. Didn't you invite Superman to your house for dinner?"
Calm down! We're clearly on the same side now, why are we doing this?
Captain Atom remained unmoved by Cyborg's attempts to dissuade him.
Give me that Kryptonian's corpse.
His response was a set of Steel Fist attacks that started at zero frames, delivered by Cyborg himself:
"That's enough, Nathaniel Adam!"
Boom!
Almost instantly, Cyborg accelerated and, with the immense kinetic energy from his thrusters, sent the overbearing Captain Atom into the troposphere with a single punch.
Amidst the gloomy rain clouds where thunder and lightning constantly crisscrossed, Captain Atom was met with a series of iron fist blows, with Cyborg pushing Captain Atom away from Joey's side with one punch after another.
Wow! They must have a really good relationship.
Black Adam watched as Cyborg and Captain Atom, who had taken countless punches, got further and further away from him, then eagerly looked towards his target—Shazam:
"How about catching up with your seniors?"
"Can't you wait...?"
Before Joey could finish speaking, Shazam stepped forward, poised to strike: "Come on, you traitor!"
"Fine, never mind."
Joey was completely speechless.
At this moment, Joey couldn't help but wonder to himself if Black Adam's praise of him just now was truly from the heart.
Was he waiting for me here?
If Black Adam could see what Joey was thinking, he would definitely cry foul—his previous respect for Joey was all from the bottom of his heart, just as intense and real as his hatred for Shazam at this moment.
However, Joey couldn't bring himself to attack Black Adam directly at this moment, not only because of Black Adam, but also because of Shazam.
Although Joey doesn't care at all about the thousand-year feud between him and the wizard Shazam, it's clear that both sides still care quite a bit.
At this point, helping either of them would be an insult to both, so Joey simply let Black Adam and Shazam fight it out in a true 1v1 battle:
"If you're going to fight, let's go somewhere where there's no one around!"
In any case, the difficulty for these two to kill each other in a short period of time is not much lower than the difficulty for me to smash another "Superman" to death with my fists.
Two bolts of lightning flashed, and Shazam and Black Adam had exchanged more than a dozen punches in the instant the lightning appeared and disappeared, pushing the battle line from the already devastated Gotham to the Sahara Desert in North Africa.
After getting rid of these two heavyweights who were capable of destroying the entire Gotham, Joey turned his attention to Cyborg and another humanoid nuclear bomb with enough power to flatten half of North America.
After the initial attack, Captain Atom easily took control of Cyborg's mechanical arms. Cyborg was merely a body of steel, while Cyborg was already a mass of plasma; physical attacks had little effect on him.
"Victor Stone, are you betraying your country and going against the entire North American army...?"
"You idiot!"
The steel bones that had been restraining his arm reconstructed a new arm from within his body, slamming a punch into Captain Atom's face and shattering his incessant panting.
"I'm saving you! Are you in such a hurry to make Angela a widow again, and Peggy lose her father once more?"
Captain Atom himself was born from a runaway secret military research project. The massive explosion that resulted not only transformed him but also sent him to the future, ten years in the future, where everyone believed he was dead.
For Captain Atom, ten years had passed in the blink of an eye, and it took him a long time to repair his relationship with his family.
Cyborg knew this not because he liked to secretly browse military archives when he had nothing better to do, but because he had heard Captain Atom tell this story at the latter's family dinner table.
Aside from this story, Cyborg only remembers that Angela made a pretty good meal, of course, assuming the other person was white.
That's why he couldn't understand why Captain Atom still didn't get it, even after he had explained everything so clearly!
"Nathan, why would you rather blindly obey the orders of those bastards in the White House and die in vain than face the fact that this world is inevitably about to usher in a new order?"
He didn't think Captain Atom could easily defeat Joey, especially with Aquaman and Wonder Woman present. If Captain Atom continued like this, he would only face certain death.
Cyborg always knew that the people in the White House, Congress, and the Pentagon had a lot of opinions about Joey, or more accurately, they hated him to the core.
Joey was just hailed by Black Adam as the "Liberator of Africa" and praised for "shaking off the oppressors."
As for which entities "liberated" Africa and which "oppressors" were shaken, Cyborg felt there was no need to name them all.
Not to mention that another of Superman's partners had previously seized all the weapons from African extremists, South American Anarchists, and the British Civil War, sinking them into the sea to temporarily keep the conflict within an acceptable range.
As for where those weapons came from, Steelbone, as the absolute ruler of the cyber world, knows perfectly well the flow of every piece of online money and logistics in the world.
Cyborg anticipated that there would be people who disliked Superman and would try to trip up his group, but he didn't expect it to happen in this way.
This choice is so foolish that it's comparable to starting a direct war with that major power across the Pacific right now, a thermonuclear war that is completely impossible to win, or even worse.
"You see, this is one of the reasons why the President will dismiss you immediately after the war ends."
Captain Atom's metallic outer skin emitted a reverse energy stream, counteracting Cyborg's thrust. Deadly mixed gamma radiation erupted from his hands, instantly melting both of Cyborg's arms.
"You call that Kryptonian the New Order, but the authorities see him as a new threat."
He had no parents, no lover, no friends, no secret identity, and was almost completely detached from human society.
Do you know how enormous the potential threat that the existence of a single individual like him poses to the entire human world?
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Cyborg knew, of course, that if it weren't for the impending Kryptonian invasion, this Kryptonian might have already begun his next move.
He could use his powerful military force to force the Amazons and Atlanteans to submit, so he could naturally do the same to other countries.
After that incident, will he be a philosopher-king, a charismatic authority, or a tyrant, a butcher?
This is an issue that everyone, including those in the steel industry, should observe and take precautions against.
However, from the perspective of the current Steel Bone, this problem is now a minor contradiction, or even a contradiction at all.
Because whether human society as a whole can continue to exist in a few days is already a question.
An even more imminent threat loomed before them, and in this life-or-death moment, Cyborg couldn't understand what this insider deal was all about:
"What are we even talking about? This is all nonsense! The Kryptonian army is coming soon!"
Who the hell cares about this Kryptonian's plans to interfere in regional politics now?!
Are the White House and the Pentagon really going to pool their already strained resources at this crucial moment to deal with the only Kryptonian willing to help us?
"This is the key, Steel Bone—"
Captain Atom's gamma ray swept across Cyborg's waist, melting off the latter's mechanical lower body. Captain Atom knew that what he was about to say might be a bit stupid, but it was indeed the truth:
"They don't believe you, and they don't believe that Kryptonian either."
The news of the impending Kryptonian invasion came from you and that Kryptonian; to them, you are both unreliable sources.
Upon hearing this, Cyborg was indeed enraged. He used his remaining arm to grab Captain Atom by the neck.
Then it tried to generate another hand to cover the other person's mouth:
"At a time like this, what kind of joke are those sons of bitches spouting! My decoding never goes wrong!"
The blow of Captain Atom severing his arms and legs was far less devastating than the earlier statement of an "unreliable source," yet he continued his futile attempt to prove the truth of the matter:
"Those idiots don't believe me. They can simply have the cryptography experts or scientists at Star Labs or Green Arrow Military Industry decode that data again! They'll definitely come to the same conclusion!"
Captain Atom had to admit that Cyborg was incredibly naive.
"No, Viktor, you still don't understand. This has never been a decoding problem; it's not even a scientific problem."
Lightning bolts from the storm clouds struck Captain Atom's body, each strike making his energy body even brighter, illuminating his still expressionless indigo metallic face.
Cyborg inexplicably sensed extreme inner turmoil and pain from Captain Atom's unchanging iron face, realizing that Captain Atom might have always been calmer and more rational than himself.
"I've already told you the root cause, Cyborg."
Captain Atom repeated the sentence he had just said, word by word, even though it would seem incredibly foolish and absurd:
"They don't believe it."
A powerful energy matrix gathered in Captain Atom's palm and then aimed at Cyborg.
He planned to first carry out another order he had been given: to blast Steelbone, who had overheard too many secrets of those important figures, to smithereens.
"Nathanil, stop this! You know perfectly well that this conflict is pointless! And I've calculated it countless times, you can't win!"
Cyborg's scanner had already detected that Superman would arrive at their location in 3.62 seconds, while Captain Atom could also feel the sound barrier in the distance shattering layer by layer.
Captain Atom knew that he couldn't completely destroy Cyborg this way.
The Victor Stone in front of him is theoretically just an interface between himself and the real world. The real Cyborg has always existed in the vast cyberspace, but those big shots would never understand.
So he still insisted on saying, "No, Viktor, this has never been about winning or losing."
Flames erupted, and under the onslaught of immense energy, the steel skeleton's metallic shell melted layer by layer, revealing the exposed heart and other flesh and tissue...
Although it seemed like a long process, under such a high power output, Steel Bones turned to ashes in just a moment, and his remaining human body was reduced to ashes and scattered.
Captain Atom watched with a complex expression as Viktor's ashes dissipated into the sky.
He knew Cyborg's character so well that he never questioned the authenticity of the Kryptonian invasion.
However, this does not mean that he will abandon his primary task of annihilating or containing the Kryptonian.
If everything proceeds according to plan and everyone achieves the operational objectives flawlessly,
Then a laboratory or a prison would be the other person's final destination.
The plan wasn't considered particularly complicated by Captain Atom.
While it's true that the more complex a plan is, the lower the margin for error, this plan is indeed a bit too simplistic, so simple that it's practically describing how to put an elephant in a refrigerator.
The first step, of course, is to provoke the opponent as they are now, but Captain Atom is unsure if Cyborg alone is enough to complete the mission, but he has no other options.
The second step is to lure the enemy into space and then deploy a specialized special operations team there to carry out the operation.
Then comes the most crucial part of the whole plan: everyone should try not to die before subduing or killing the other party.
Whether he can win or not is not something he needs to consider.
He's a soldier; he only follows orders.