Where's Your Gear?!

"Checking passes. All right, you're good. Go on in."

Just as Bob had said, the security checks required to enter Hydra Mountain were unbelievably lax. The guard at the entrance merely glanced at their access cards before letting them through, and Peter and Kitty, dressed in Hydra uniforms, slipped inside just like that.

Peter's Hydra uniform was a disguise created with nanobots and Anti-Venom, while his access card had been directly fabricated by the nanobots. Even so, Hydra failed to notice anything suspicious. Kitty, meanwhile, wore the clothes of the dead Hydra grunt and carried his card, and no one questioned her either.

"If we didn't need to watch out for Hydra's internal security systems, this wouldn't have been nearly so troublesome."

After infiltrating Hydra Mountain with baffling ease, Peter finally relaxed a little. Kitty followed behind him and asked, "So, do you know where we're going?"

"I got some information about Hydra Mountain from Bob earlier. I have a rough idea where the teleportation chamber is, but even that Hydra soldier didn't seem to know how many defensive forces the entire base has. We need to proceed carefully."

After Peter finished speaking, Kitty thought for a moment before looking at him. "Then should we split up?"

"What? Split up?"

"Yeah. Wouldn't that be more efficient? I'll cause some trouble somewhere like the armory and draw some fire for you, buying you some time. After all, you've got a lot to do—contact the Avengers, open the teleportation route, disable the signal barrier..."

"That would be dangerous."

But Kitty seemed to have already known what Peter was going to say. "Don't worry. When it comes to staying alive, there aren't many people better at it than me. And don't let the fact that I'm only sixteen fool you—my combat experience isn't