Trump Card

"Hulk, stronger!"

Future Hulk roared. His already enormous body grew even larger. His fighting style was very simple: overpower his opponent with brute force. If that was not enough, then make his strength even greater. Simple as that.

"You’re just a beast. No wonder the people of that world hated you so much."

Hulk shook his head, his heart filled with gratitude toward the Blood God. If not for him, he too would have become nothing more than a beast.

"Hulk, not beast."

Future Hulk furiously slammed the ground, shattering everything around him. Then, he charged at Hulk with all his strength, intending to smash him into pulp.

Hulk shook his head and strode toward Future Hulk. Rather than being alarmed, Future Hulk was delighted. He threw an Earth-Shattering punch at Hulk’s head.

Hulk lowered his body, dodging Future Hulk’s fist. Then he turned, grabbed Future Hulk’s left calf, and used the momentum of his spin to slam him hard into the ground.

Bang! The ground shattered, and the entire Collider trembled. But that was not the end. Hulk swung him down again with his backhand. Bang, bang, bang… Future Hulk was swung around like a hammer, smashed left and right by Hulk. The Collider shook without pause, and two enormous pits dozens of meters wide rapidly appeared in the ground.

"So brutal!"

The massive commotion Hulk caused made everyone look down. Seeing Future Hulk’s miserable state, they could not help swallowing. Hulk was truly vicious. He was even this ruthless when beating himself up.

"Damn it, that guy held back when he fought me. Uh, good thing he held back."

Future Thor cursed and charged toward Dr. Octopus with his axe in hand. He wanted to capture her and force the Super Collider’s secrets out of her.

"Since when did Thor get so fat? And here I was thinking of asking you out."

Seeing Future Thor charging at her, Dr. Octopus was not afraid in the slightest. She even looked somewhat disgusted—her quantum abilities were ineffective inside the Super Collider due to the Quantum Interferometer, but that also meant she had an innate advantage that made her invincible.

"Smashing you is way more satisfying than smashing Loki."

Having thoroughly enjoyed himself, Hulk casually tossed Future Hulk into one of the pits and spoke while clapping his hands.

Future Hulk could not move. Tears seemed to slide from the corners of his eyes. At this moment, he finally understood how Loki had felt back then.

Hulk squatted in front of Future Hulk and asked, "Hulk, what is the meaning of your existence?"

"The meaning of existence?"

Future Hulk looked utterly lost. How could he know why he existed? All he knew was smash, smash, smash.

"Hulk, only by understanding why you exist can you become a true living being. We may have originated from Banner, but we are not completely Banner. We are like two branches on the same tree."

Hulk spoke. Seeing that Future Hulk only half understood, he said no more and placed a hand on him.

Then Hulk violently tore the symbiote completely off him. Future Hulk immediately reverted to Future Banner, who let out a breath and said, "Couldn’t you have been gentler? I feel like all my bones are broken. Could you call me an ambulance?"

"You really are a comic relief character."

As Hulk mocked him, he injected a massive amount of rage into the symbiote in his hand. The symbiote struggled in agony, but it could not escape Hulk’s grip.

A moment later, the symbiote was assimilated by the rage and turned into a mass of green liquid. Hulk nodded in satisfaction and wrapped the green liquid around Future Banner’s forearm like a wristguard.

Future Banner froze, then asked, "Hulk?"

"That’s right. Hulk’s residual consciousness is inside the symbiote. Whenever you need him, you can have him attach to your body and help you fight."

Hulk nodded and said, "You hold the initiative, Banner. You’re not cut out for fighting. Even with ten parts of strength, you can’t bring out one. From now on, just honestly stick to being comic relief."

Future Banner weakly said, "Actually, I’m a scientist."

"A comic relief scientist."

Hulk stood up. At that moment, Tony shouted, "Hulk, watch out!"

Hulk turned and saw the symbiote monster, now covered in wounds and uglier than ever, flapping its wings as it flew toward him. Tony and Future Tony were chasing closely behind it.

Seeing Hulk on guard, the monster directly disintegrated into countless black strands that swept toward him—it was no match for the two Tonys, so it wanted to control the strongest Super Hero on the field.

There was no doubt Hulk was the strongest one. Better yet, Hulk was the embodiment of rage, making him easier to control than the others.

"Everyone thinks I’m an easy target, huh?"

Hulk clicked his tongue in annoyance, but he did not dodge. He stood where he was and quietly waited for the symbiote monster.

Naturally, the monster did not hold back. It densely wrapped itself around Hulk. Tony was horrified. New York knew exactly how terrifying Hulk could be.

"This is bad."

Tony gritted his teeth. Were they going to have to call for help again? They had already called for help twice today. If they did it again, Tony would be too embarrassed to leave the house.

At that moment, Future Banner got up and said, "Don’t worry, Hulk will be fine. This world’s Hulk is very smart. Tony, hurry and stop the Super Collider. It’s about to activate."

"Fine. I’ll leave this to you."

Tony did not waste words. He turned and flew toward the entrance on the left. Kingpin and the others had come out from there, so the control center should be inside.

"Hulk is smart?"

Future Tony did not follow. He sneered, "Banner, your jokes are getting better and better."

Before Future Tony could finish speaking, a mass of black strands stuck to his forearm. Then Hulk flung him hard, and with a bang, Future Tony smashed a flying robot to pieces.

Future Hulk was startled and hurriedly prepared for battle. At that moment, the symbiote fell to one side and quickly formed into a black Hulk. At the same time, Dr. Banner returned to normal. He stared at Hulk in surprise and asked, "You separated?"

"No."

Symbiote Hulk looked at his hands and shook his head. "You and I are one. We cannot fully separate. I’m merely using the symbiote to take form, and I can’t get too far away from you.

"Besides, I can’t use the power of rage in this form. I can only use it normally when playing games or doing housework."

Banner and Hulk were not two separate people. They shared the same emotional core, which was also why they both considered Betty their wife.

Tony sneered through the communicator, "Wow, what did I just hear? Hulk, you actually do housework?"

Hulk looked at him disdainfully. "Banner does the housework. I play games. Also, don’t think I don’t know that you’re the one who handles chores in your household. Like washing dishes."

Tony’s face darkened slightly. It was all Avengers: Endgame’s fault. Now everyone knew about him washing dishes.

As Future Tony dealt with the flying robots nearby, he asked in astonishment, "You weren’t controlled by the symbiote?"

"How could a symbiote possibly control me?"

Hulk smiled disdainfully and snapped his fingers. A pair of Bone Wings appeared out of thin air behind Banner, and within them, a giant spider was devouring the symbiote monster’s soul.

"That’s the Spider Demon God I subdued. It swallowed the symbiote monster’s soul. Now, the symbiote is completely under my control. It’s a pretty decent outfit."

Hulk controlled the symbiote to fly back into Banner’s body. Banner immediately transformed into Hulk again, while the symbiote rapidly changed into a large black suit that fit him perfectly.

"Spider Demon God? You can even kill gods?"

Future Tony was greatly shocked. He stared at Hulk, thought of something, and suspiciously asked, "Why does this outfit look familiar?"

Hulk said, "The one I wore at your funeral."

"Damn it!"

Future Tony cursed loudly. The Hulk of this timeline was definitely an asshole.

Hulk chuckled and flew into the sky with Future Banner, dismantling flying robots with his bare hands.

Leaving that aside, Tony flew to the passage on the left. Just as he was about to cut open the door with lasers, a massive black shadow suddenly descended from above and smashed fiercely toward him.

Tony hurriedly turned aside to dodge. At the same time, nine high-temperature Nano Crescent Blades flew from his body and slashed toward the shadow together. Unfortunately, all nine blades cut through empty air, because the other party had turned quantum.

Tony aimed both hands at Kingpin and shouted, "Kingpin, surrender. You can’t beat us."

"With just you?"

Kingpin sneered and charged toward Tony like a mountain, every step making the passage shake.

Tony formed a gravity device with Nanoparticles and enveloped Kingpin. Kingpin immediately found himself unable to move. With an angry roar, he turned into a phantom and rushed out of the gravity field, then threw a punch at Tony’s chest with the sound of wind and thunder.

Tony controlled Nanoparticles to form a shield before him. At the same time, a large number of Nanoparticles beneath his feet silently flowed onto Kingpin’s pants.

Bang! Kingpin’s fist slammed heavily into the Nano Shield, but the shield did not budge. Kingpin was somewhat startled. What kind of shield was this? How could it be so sturdy?

The answer was a Vibranium shield. Tony had used a great deal of advanced technology to trade Shuri for a batch of Nano Vibranium. Since Vibranium was not very compatible with advanced technology, he generally used Nano Vibranium to form shields and weapons.

After blocking Kingpin with the Vibranium shield, Tony controlled the gravity device to envelop Kingpin again. Kingpin was about to turn quantum when the Nanoparticles that had secretly attached to his pants earlier unleashed a powerful current, electrocuting him until his entire body convulsed.

Kingpin’s quantum transformation was interrupted. Tony seized the chance to attach large numbers of Nanoparticles to Kingpin’s body and pin him down with the gravity device.

Tony smugly said, "Kingpin, you lost."

"No, you’re the one who lost."

Kingpin resisted the gravity and spoke with a savage expression. The next moment, two emitters simultaneously fired strange multicolored beams of energy at one another. The two beams violently collided, and the surrounding area rapidly began to distort.

Then, a capsule fell from the sky. Inside was none other than Black and White Spider-Man, his trench coat fluttering in the wind—also known as Shadow Spider-Man.

Soon, the capsule fell into the point of collision, and the distortion around it grew even more severe. The Super Collider even became a pocket space, with countless skyscrapers, trains, streets, and roads constantly appearing around them before rapidly vanishing.

"Parallel worlds!"

Tony cursed and tried to shut down the Super Collider, only to find that the passage and door had vanished. He gritted his teeth and fired lasers at the emitters, but they were blocked by the strange energy.

"Come out, my Spider-Man army!"

Dr. Octopus laughed loudly. The next moment, a large number of Spider-Men appeared around them. Some were red, some black, some large, some small, and some were even directly in spider form. They looked incredibly bizarre.

"What is going on?"

Everyone was shocked. It was worth mentioning that all these Spider-Men had blank expressions. They were clearly being controlled.

Dr. Octopus shouted, "Riot, have the symbiotes attach to these Spider-Men and strengthen them."

"No problem."

Riot immediately gave the remaining symbiotes an order. The symbiotes were delighted and eagerly flew onto the Spider-Men one after another.

The Spider-Men immediately became symbiote Spider-Men.

"Kill these Super Heroes."

Dr. Octopus ordered. More than twenty Spider-Men accepted the command at once, swinging toward the Super Heroes on webs. Future Thor could not help complaining, "Is today Spider-Man Day? Why are there so many Spider-Men?"

"This is troublesome."

Blonde Spider-Man kicked Middle-aged Spider-Man aside and tried to jump down to rescue Black and White Spider-Man, but Dr. Octopus’s tentacles seized him and viciously flung him away.

"This technology isn’t complete yet, so for now, it can only summon Spider-Men. Once I uncover the secret of Spider-Sense in the future, I’ll be able to use it to summon other versions of myself from other worlds. At that point, I’ll become a god."

Dr. Octopus laughed. Someone capable of inventing the Super Collider was no less intelligent than Tony Stark and the others.

Thinking of something, Dr. Octopus smiled at the Super Heroes. "Oh, right. These Spider-Men are all good people, so make sure you don’t kill them. They’re merely under my control, hahaha."

"Damn it!"

The Super Heroes’ expressions became extremely grim. There were so many Spider-Men, and they still had to hold back? How were they supposed to fight this? "No choice. Looks like I can only use my trump card."

Seeing this, Steve reluctantly took a Pokeball from his pocket. As he threw it out, he shouted, "Come out, Hydra!"

Everyone present was dumbfounded. Captain America was actually an old-school chuuni? "Buddy, I don’t remember having that hobby. Also, Hydra? Are you sure you didn’t shout the wrong name?"

Future Steve looked utterly stunned. Steve rolled his eyes. Do you think I wanted this? The Blood God set me up.

That was right, the thing had been made by the Blood God. Even the command phrase had been specially designed by him. As for its purpose? Naturally, it was to mess with Steve. Did that even need saying? Although Steve knew Wang Bert had malicious intentions, the Pokeball was simply too useful, so he could only carry it around with a helpless expression.

The next moment, the Pokeball shone brilliantly. Then, a gigantic Hydra appeared before everyone.

The Avengers were fine, since they had seen it before. Future Steve and the others, however, were dumbstruck. S.H.I.E.L.D. actually kept a Hydra as a pet. Was this S.H.I.E.L.D., or Hydra S.H.I.E.L.D.?

Steve pretended not to see their stares and ordered Hydra to quickly restrain the Spider-Men.

Upon hearing the command, one of Hydra’s heads immediately raised itself and spewed a massive amount of freezing air at the Spider-Men. The Spider-Men were frozen one after another.

"Scientists, hurry and figure out how to stop this thing. I have a feeling it’s going to explode."

Steve shouted, "If it explodes, its power will probably be even more terrifying than the Artificial Sun."

"We’re trying. Hawkeye, help me keep an eye on Kingpin. Don’t let him escape."

Tony cursed as he studied the Super Collider with Future Tony and Future Banner, trying to shut it down as quickly as possible.

"You have to hurry. The space around us is extremely unstable. I can’t hold it for much longer."

Strange shouted. He had been doing his best to stabilize the space. Otherwise, San Francisco would have already been destroyed by the Super Collider.