"Is this what they mean by Blackened being three times stronger?"
Sitting in the passenger seat, Hawking watched the battle between Peter's group of three and the Hydra Stomper operated by Steve up ahead and thought to himself.
Even the real Captain America probably would not have had much chance of winning against Peter, Venom, and Jessica all at once.
Yet after briefly exchanging blows with the three of them, Steve, controlling the mech, had suppressed them with the mech's various weapons.
It was not that the mech itself was truly that powerful.
The power displayed by the mech was indeed formidable, but Peter, Jessica, and Venom were no weaklings either. Each had other abilities as well, and they could fight together as a team.
On top of that, the three of them were smaller and more agile, while the mech was huge and full of openings. They should not have been suppressed.
What was truly powerful was Steve Rogers inside, operating the machine with his abundant combat experience and powerful fighting instincts.
It reminded him of when Steve from the main world had first encountered Peter. Though his strength and reaction speed had both been inferior to Peter's, he had easily suppressed him through combat experience.
And after picking up Thor's Hammer and gaining Thor's Power, he had even been able to trade blows with Thanos when Thanos had no Infinity Stones.
Steve's strength did not come solely from that vial of Super-Soldier Serum. The power it gave him might not even have surpassed that of an ordinary Asgardian soldier.
Yet he had become one of the Avengers' most important leaders.
Compared to the battle-hardened Steve, Peter and Jessica had only just started college, and they had possessed their abilities for barely over half a year. Though Hawking had