"J.A.R.V.I.S... report status... locate Natasha and Barton..."
He tried to speak, but his voice had changed completely.
It was low and deep, like two massive slabs of granite grinding against each other in the depths of the earth. Every syllable carried tangible vibrations, shaking the few remaining twisted metal plates and exposed cables inside the pod into a humming resonance.
Yet within that inhuman voice, Steve Rogers's distinctive calm core and urgency could still be clearly heard.
Cold reality answered him in a manner crueler than any Artificial Intelligence voice.
Crack—! Creak—!! Rumble!!!
Under the terrifying water pressure thousands of meters beneath the sea, the already severely damaged escape pod let out one final, teeth-grinding, despairing metallic groan.
It was as if an invisible giant claw belonging to a Deep behemoth had clenched down viciously!
The cabin walls could no longer hold. Huge sections of specially reinforced HY-100-grade alloy steel plating twisted and deformed with heart-wrenching violence, collapsing inward like fragile sheets of tinfoil!
The seawater that had previously only seeped through the cracks now became an immeasurable expanse of icy giant hammers, crashing down with the Absolute Power to crush everything!
In an instant, it filled the cramped space and completely swallowed the wreckage!
Bone-piercing cold and pressure great enough to flatten an ordinary submarine into an iron pancake squeezed in from every direction without a single blind spot!
"Roar—!!!"
The Deep blue giant did not howl in pain. Instead, he erupted with an earth-shattering roar!
This was no longer the tortured bellow from before, but a Battle Roar brimming with power—an active declaration of war against death and despair!
The sound waves formed visible ripples in the water, instantly shattering the churning bubbles around him!
Faced with the icy, lethal deep-sea pressure crushing in from all sides, along