More blazing than ever before! The light even pierced through his blue cuticle-covered eyelids, casting two fleeting, terrifying beams through the darkness of the deep sea!
The price? What price?!
A mad thought split through his chaotic consciousness like lightning! Godzilla Blood! The savage deep-sea primal power of the Ancient Titan, dormant within him and suppressed by the Super Soldier Serum and Hulk Power!
It had never been tamed, only imprisoned within a cage of will! Now... that cage was about to be burned through by his conviction to protect and his desperate fury!
"Urgh... Aaaah—!!!"
It was no longer an angry roar, but a cry of agony, as though his very soul were being torn apart!
Steve's massive blue body convulsed violently in the silt!
The enormous wound on his right arm, torn open by Rumlow's Bone Claws, suddenly erupted with an unprecedented, blinding molten gold light!
It was as if lava were rushing through his blood vessels!
The blue cuticle-covered skin and muscle around the wound instantly turned crimson and scorching hot, like metal thrown into a furnace!
Hissing white smoke and dense bubbles poured frantically from the wound!
This pain far exceeded any injury he had suffered before!
It was as though every nerve had been held over a fire! But he ignored it all!
He crazily squeezed out every shred of will, all his Life Energy, and every bit of pain, pouring it into his right arm as it underwent a terrifying transformation!
Not to attack Rumlow, but to—
Rumble!
A muffled boom, as though the Earth's core itself had trembled!
Steve's right arm, blazing with molten gold light, smashed brutally into the cold, hard basalt seafloor beneath him! His target was not the rock itself!
It was beneath the seafloor! The area weakened by geological