Boom—!
A thunderous blast unlike any ordinary explosion—more like space itself being torn apart—erupted violently within the cramped escape pod! This was not an external attack, but the final verdict of the brutal gene war raging inside Steve Rogers's body.
The Mark XLVIII Deep Sea Protective Suit, painstakingly crafted by Tony Stark and already covered in cracks after repeated fierce battles, its energy circuits flickering from overload, had finally reached its limit.
It was no longer armor. It was more like a fragile shell restraining a volcano on the verge of eruption.
Violent energy, mixed with the green glow of Gamma Radiation and the dark golden radiance unique to Godzilla cells, burst from every pore and every inch of Muscle Fibers in Steve's body like a supernova suppressed to its utmost limit!
This tangible shockwave instantly filled the narrow cabin.
The incredibly tough nano-synthetic fibers were as fragile as dry fallen leaves before this destructive energy erupting from within.
They were not burned away by flames, but thoroughly shattered and disintegrated at the molecular level by the pure energy torrent!
In an instant, the protective suit turned into countless fragments gleaming with a ghostly blue luster and twisted metal wreckage, as if crushed by an invisible giant hand before being flung outward.
These deadly "shrapnel" shot in every direction at astonishing speed, slamming into the cabin walls with scalp-numbing bursts of impacts—clang clang, crackle crackle—like a sudden downpour striking a tin roof. Yet every sound meant that this small escape pod was heading toward total disintegration.
The restraints were gone!
He was no longer the Captain America tormented by pain and mutation.
A new being, radiating the aura of Primal Power, violently broke free from his restraints and straightened his body amid the wreckage, which shook violently as seawater poured