Call Me XLR8

"Tony Stark!"

Benny gritted his teeth.

He hadn't expected Iron Man to show up here.

"Yes, I'm Iron Man. You know me?" A flippant voice came from inside the metal suit.

"So, are zoos showing the news to little animals now? Or is the zookeeper a fan of mine? Want an autograph, little lizard?"

"Sir, I'm afraid this is not an animal that escaped from a zoo." Jarvis's voice sounded in Tony's ear.

"Thanks for the reminder, Jarvis." Tony rolled his eyes.

The creature before him was clearly not a species that existed on Earth, and Tony could naturally tell that much. Jarvis, on the other hand, still wasn't very good at understanding so-called humor.

"So, sir, who exactly are you?" Tony asked.

He had only planned to test the flight performance of his newly replaced engine today, but instead, he ran into XLR8, whom Benny had transformed into, racing all over New York City in search of Dennis.

Relying on his speed, Benny hadn't planned to hide XLR8's existence from the beginning. To find Dennis, he had even beaten up several thugs along the way.

Those people later blew up the New York police hotline, claiming they had been threatened by a blue Velociraptor.

Naturally, the police ignored them, assuming they were high on drugs.

But while Tony was flying, Jarvis had scanned Benny moving rapidly through the city.

Tony really wanted to know who Benny was, but he didn't seem inclined to let Benny speak. Instead, he raised a hand to signal Benny to stay quiet and kept talking to himself.

"Lizard Man? Dinosaur Man? An upright Velociraptor? Wait, is your name Blu?"

"My God, Jurassic World has become real! I bet some mad scientist is trying to resurrect the prehistoric world!"

He shouted dramatically. Even through the armor, Benny could imagine how arrogant his expression was.

Benny didn't answer Tony's question. He merely stared coldly at Tony with those triangular eyes. After confirming from the corner of his eye that Dennis was still lying on the ground and hadn't escaped, he issued an angry warning.

"This has nothing to do with you. Don't meddle, Tony Stark."

Benny, who had no desire to become a Super Hero, also had no desire to get involved with Stark, unless Stark was willing to put up some money.

A few months ago, he had considered buying some Stark Industries stock when it crashed, but he quickly realized that even after a cliff-like plunge, he still couldn't afford it.

"Nothing to do with me?" Tony asked.

"If someone like you wants to kill people, then it has everything to do with me!" he said coldly.

In his eyes, Benny didn't even look like an Earthling at the moment.

Just a monster. Wasn't a monster naturally humanity's enemy?

From the very beginning, Tony had already designated Benny as a hostile target. He had said so much only to see whether he could get some information out of Benny.

This thing, possibly an alien life-form, might even have a whole race hidden among humans.

He raised his palm. The armor had already locked onto Benny, and the glow in his palm grew brighter as his voice turned cold.

"Dinosaur Kid, raise your hands and surrender!"

"As long as I'm here today, you won't hurt anyone!"

"Just you?"

Benny sneered.

He didn't even take Tony seriously.

Nothing else mattered. He was XLR8 now. Not even Tony Stark could stop him!

"Then give it a try!"

He assumed a runner's starting stance. At the same time, a mask that looked like black metal slowly lowered over his face, covering it completely. A blue "X" was painted on the mask.

He calculated the time and figured he wouldn't need to ask the school for leave.

"Five minutes left. Kill that thug, deal with Tony Stark, and I'll still have time to get to school."

Although he hadn't managed to crack the Omnitrix, Benny had discovered that his transformation time lasted far longer than ten minutes. Last night, his transformation into Grey Matter had lasted nearly half an hour before he was forcibly changed back.

As a level-twenty technological creation, the Omnitrix wouldn't need recharging after such a short period of use. In reality, the transformation was canceled to prevent the user's genes from being contaminated by alien DNA.

At the beginning of the cartoon, Benny could only transform for around ten minutes.

Benny guessed that because he had gained spider abilities, his genes had already undergone a certain degree of restructuring and improvement. The alien DNA inside the watch could not assimilate him so easily.

Thirty minutes was currently the limit. Once that time was exceeded, the watch would forcibly cancel the transformation.

However, Benny had no intention of completely removing Little Broken Watch's protection program.

After all, knowing it was a protective mechanism and still insisting on destroying it might not be a good thing. Benny didn't think his intelligence could compare to Azmuth's.

"You've pissed me off, kid!" Tony attacked without hesitation.

The palms of the Mark 3 armor grew scorching hot, and two brilliant beams instantly shot toward Benny!

Boom!

The Repulsor Ray was quite powerful. With just one strike, Tony blew apart the platform constructed inside the factory.

The section directly hit had been blasted open with a huge hole, while the rest completely collapsed because of the breach!

In an instant, it was like a mountain collapsing!

"Done!" Tony couldn't help pumping his fist in celebration.

"Hope Dinosaur Kid didn't die that easily," he muttered smugly.

After a while, he would dig that kid out of the rubble and study him properly to see what that unknown creature was made of.

But Jarvis poured cold water on him.

"You are overestimating yourself, sir. Your attack did not hit him at all."

"What?" Tony raised his voice, but didn't care.

"That joke was a little too stiff, Jarvis. There were only a few meters between Dinosaur Kid and me. Do you think anyone could dodge an energy beam at that distance?"

"Looks like I need to upgrade you when I get back, at least enough for you to understand what real humor is." Tony turned on some rock music and bobbed his head in midair.

"I am not telling a joke, sir. Please look down," Jarvis reminded him stiffly.

Tony looked down. In his field of vision, Benny had already reached Dennis's side, his sharp claws pressed against Dennis's chest.

"Let him go, Dinosaur Kid!"

"My name is XLR8!"

Benny coldly drove his claws into Dennis's heart.

Bright red blood splattered across Benny's black mask.

The bloodstained "X" was incomparably glaring!

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