Beast: Crash Landing

Beast: Crash Landing

Gorgon was already dumbfounded.

No matter what, he had never expected the LMD trick. Hydra should have known about S.H.I.E.L.D.'s LMD technology. Precisely because of that, he had been able to confirm that Elektra's corpse was not an LMD, but an absolute, genuine corpse. And yet?

And yet Fury had still outplayed him.

More importantly, all the Norn Stones were gone! That meant they did not even have enough time to escape!

He had originally been counting on Daredevil becoming corrupted and tripling in strength after going dark. With a resurrected, mind-controlled Elektra, they might have been able to fight the Defenders and Spider-Man. Now? Fight my ass.

"Damn Spider-Man! Damn Daredevil! You all deserve to die!"

Gorgon raised his hand to his face covering again, intending to remove his blindfold. Matt, who had already defected to the heroes' side—literally, by leaping over from The Hand—immediately warned, "Careful, Gorgon's ability..."

"Just like his codename, he petrifies others." Peter fired a strand of webbing behind his back, gluing Gorgon's hand to his face covering. Furious, Gorgon shouted for Typhoid Mary to burn away the webbing with psychic flames.

But where was Typhoid Mary? She was already considering making a run for it. Though she had been brainwashed by The Hand, she was mentally unstable as a psychiatric patient. The brainwashing had been only moderately effective.

At this point, Gorgon understood one thing: there was no way they were getting out today. So he said something in Japanese to several elderly Japanese men behind him, and they immediately objected.

Peter did not understand Japanese, so he curiously asked Matt, "What are they saying?"

"Gorgon wants the Beast to descend upon him, but those old men say he is not a qualified sacrifice."

The "Beast" was a demon that caused