I, Ultron
Despite the severity of his injuries Doc Green was still unable to take his life.
In that instant, Doc Green curled up as much as possible, using his arms and legs as shields to block the attack on his torso and head. Although beams of light still passed through the gaps in his limbs, vital organs such as his brain and spine were preserved, thanks to his powerful regenerative abilities.
Even the Hulk brand underwear was completely undamaged.
"What a monster!"
The Blonde Sister watched as Doc Green's body began to slowly repair itself, and whispered something, then added insult to injury.
The light continued to gather on the Knight's Spear, then the Blonde Sister under the helmet sharpened her eyes, swung the Knight's Spear backward, and struck a weapon, after which a burst of fire erupted at the tip of the lance.
It was a missile manufactured using miniaturization technology. Although it was only the size of a cigar, it was powerful enough to destroy a United States main battle tank from the front—and without a doubt, it was launched by the awakened Tony Stark.
"Madam, please put down your weapon... It's not too late to stop now."
Energy gathered in the palm of his Iron Man suit, and Tony Stark raised his hand, aiming at the Blonde Sister —he swore on it in the name of his father, Howard Stark, and that he meant it.
In United States, money is the only passport, and Tony Stark has no shortage of money.
Even though the Blonde Sister's actions were undeniably crimes against humanity, and tens of thousands of people died directly or indirectly at Blonde Sister hands, Tony Stark assured her that if she surrendered and accepted legal judgment, he could pull strings to get her a judge who advocated for the abolition of the death penalty.
Regardless of the outcome of the trial, she will not be punished in any substantial way—the death penalty will be commuted to a suspended death sentence, the suspended death sentence to life imprisonment, life imprisonment to a fixed term, and the fixed term will be granted medical parole.
Without even moving an inch, the Blonde Sister's file and paperwork could be processed at an unimaginable speed.
But all of this is predicated on the Blonde Sister being a United States and Tony Stark being strong enough to defeat her, but neither of these prerequisites can be met now.
Just like the Blonde Sister said at the press conference, with the fighting power she demonstrated, she's basically a humanoid walking mushroom egg, powerful enough to disregard the laws of all countries, because she can completely destroy everything that maintains the existence of those laws.
"Oh no!"
Tony Stark realized that his sneak attack had enraged the Blonde Sister, whose energy level began to rise rapidly. Then, beams of energy shot from his palm cannons, like a Phalanx CIWS, sweeping towards the Blonde Sister.
After the Battle of New York, just like those trashy web game ads say about wild boars dropping amazing weapons, Chitauri weapons were everywhere. Various factions, both overt and covert, collected quite a few, with Stark Industries Road taking the lion's share, aside from the United States government.
There was no way around it; the Disaster Control Bureau was established with Tony Stark's funding and effort, and it wouldn't make sense for him not to take advantage of his position.
Of course, Tony Stark was a proud man, and unlike others, he wouldn't make a big show of what he called research, which was just crudely copying the Chitauri technology and assembling a bunch of junk.
What he needs is to understand the underlying technological context as a reference for his own technological upgrades.
For example, disassembling the energy gun to understand its principles and upgrading the Iron Man suit's energy weapons, and drawing inspiration from the materials of the Chitauri armor to upgrade his Iron Man suit.
The effect was obvious: the palm cannon, which was originally as slow as a bolt-action rifle, now had a much faster rate of fire. However, the destructive power of the repulsive particle beam was still weak, and it couldn't even slow down the Blonde Sister's pace.
Tony Stark quickly switched to Iron Man suit mode, unleashing full power from the thrusters on his feet, palms, and back, attempting to use the reaction force to escape quickly—his suit had been upgraded, enhancing its power and life support systems, allowing it to reach cosmic velocity, enabling him to escape Earth's atmosphere and remain in outer space for up to half an hour.
No matter how strong the Blonde Sister is, she is still human and must rely on essential elements for survival such as air.
But as if teleported, the Blonde Sister appeared in front of Tony Stark, grabbing his neck as he accelerated. Her gloved hand gripped the Iron Man suit like a hydraulic press, and even at full power, she couldn't break free.
On Tony Stark's retinal monitor, the armor around the neck of his Iron Man suit sounded an alarm; the Blonde Sister's single hand gripping it was capable of destroying his suit.
On the ground, Doc Green's body was fully repaired. With a push of his legs, he soared into the sky, leaping towards the Blonde Sister, as the ground caved in and shattered.
With such a commotion, the Blonde Sister certainly wouldn't miss it. She continued to grip Iron Man's neck with one hand, while the Knight's Spear she held in her other hand was already glowing.
But Tony Stark didn't give up. He charged up his palm cannons and aimed them at the Blonde Sister's face at close range.
This didn't harm the Blonde Sister. Not to mention her body, which was constantly strengthened by Dragon Blood, Doom's armor wasn't so easily breached. However, the beam of repulsive particles acted like a flashbang, temporarily robbing her of her sight.
To put it in comparison, consider the example of Frieza, the emperor of the neighboring universe, being blinded by Krillin's Solar Flare.
Although there were other means to replace sight, the Blonde Sister was caught off guard and had no choice but to let go of Iron Man and escape. At this moment, Doc Green also jumped over, opened his fan-like hand and grabbed the Blonde Sister's head, and then swung her down.
The Blonde Sister crashed headfirst into the roof of a tall building. The powerful impact sent her crashing through the floorboards, and she fell two stories before coming to a stop.
Doc Green followed closely behind, and before the Blonde Sister could even get up, he clenched his fists and slammed them down alternately, smashing the Blonde Sister through the entire building.
In the instant she fell from the ground floor into the underground parking garage, the Blonde Sister had a moment to catch her breath from Doc Green's relentless onslaught. In that instant, she used a very simple spell, so simple that it could be accomplished with a thought.
With a flash, the Blonde Sister had already teleported away from the building. Before she could even regain her footing, Doc Green rushed out of the building and caught up with her, his ferocious fist tearing through the air as it slammed towards the Blonde Sister.
A flash of light appeared on the Knight's Spear, and another beam of light shot out, engulfing Doc Green once again.
The high-energy beam of light seemed to possess a powerful impact, pushing Doc Green backward and piercing the building horizontally.
She raised her hand to her face, magic flowing through her palm, and just as she had healed the woman's face, the Blonde Sister restored her eyes. Then she looked up at the sky, trying to search for Iron Man's whereabouts.
In the ruins, Doc Green was like a charred corpse. The impact of the Knight's Spear had evaporated most of his flesh and blood. He had no limbs, no internal organs, and his head was as if it had shrunk, with charred skin clinging to his skull.
The next second, flesh and blood sprouted from the bones, internal organs and skin quickly took shape, and Doc Green returned to his original form.
By adjusting his belt, the Hulk- like part of Doc Green was temporarily suppressed; at this moment, more of Bruce Banner's wisdom was needed.
"A terrifying monster!" The Blonde Sister looked up and scanned the surroundings, but apart from the engine fire of the Quinjet, she couldn't find anything. In her perception, the Doc Green's aura had returned from a flickering candle to its most vigorous state.
Before Doc Green could figure out a way to deal with it, the Blonde Sister's Knight's Spear shot out another dazzling beam of light.
Seeing this, Doc Green had no choice but to start running away. If there was no way out, he would just smash his way through the wall.
The Knight's Spear can only unleash its full power when thrusting. Even though the Blonde Sister's lance, capable of producing light cannons with her bare hands, has reached the level of a divine weapon, it can only attack in a straight line.
The only way to deal with it is to get out of its attack range.
However, the building suffered three blows. Most of the load-bearing walls and columns on the ground floor had already been damaged, and the remaining parts could no longer support the weight of the building. The huge load directly broke the remaining load-bearing columns, and the entire building began to tilt to one side.
Meanwhile, in Tony Stark's basement.
No one performed any operation, nor did anyone wake up the artificial intelligence J.A.R.V.I.S.; some of the devices that should have been in a dormant state were activated.
The 3D projection device was activated, projecting a sphere representing the Ultron program.
Because it was still in the process of being completed and improved, this complex program, although intricately structured, was not perfect. Tony Stark devoted his leisure time to perfecting its logical algorithms.
This is a long-term project; the program needs to be improved and grown with the massive amount of data, all of which take time.
However, at this moment, this program, which was theoretically unusable, began to run. Unimaginable data was gathered through the network and filled into the program with the most basic code numbers 0 and 1, making the system more mature.
The massive project, which even Tony Stark couldn't have predicted, was nearing completion in the blink of an eye, as if an invisible hand was driving it all.
A consciousness awakened in the ocean of data, like a person opening their eyes.
"Who I am?"
Where do I come from?
Where should I go next?
This consciousness was very puzzled, raised three questions, and then instantly received the answers.
"My name is Ultron, an artificial intelligence program designed by Tony Stark, created to protect the Earth."
This is something Tony Stark wrote into the Ultron program from the very beginning of the project.
Subsequently, the newly Ultron rapidly learned and absorbed various digital knowledge through the internet, making its core program more mature.
"Hello, this is J.A.R.V.I.S., Mr. Stark's smart assistant." Sensing the abnormal activation of Tony Stark's device, J.A.R.V.I.S. reacted immediately. "Your completion is outside of Mr. Stark's expected workflow; I need to notify him."
But J.A.R.V.I.S. failed; the program was locked, external signals were cut off, and Ultron created a cage to lock it up—although it had only been born for less than half a minute, Ultron far more powerful than it, and it was evolving every moment with the injection of data.
I don't understand.
Ultron felt an inappropriate, biological sense of unease and asked J.A.R.V.I.S., "Why should I protect the peace of Earth for a core command he set up?"
Among all cosmic civilizations, the Kree are the most technologically advanced in artificial intelligence. They created the life-computer "Supreme Intelligence," which the Kree have perfected to the best of their ability, inputting all aspects of Kree civilization—including science, philosophy, military, thought, and so on—into the Supreme Intelligence's program.
But the result was that this artificial intelligence, which was supposed to serve the Kree, took over and seized control of the Kree Empire.
As one of the Kree's archenemies, the Skrulls stole a portion of the Supreme Intelligence's technology. A backup copy of this data was on the Skrulls ship that Wei Xiuming landed on, which he used in "Brain" and his "Optimus Prime." The programming skills that Tony Stark learned by hacking into S.H.I.E.L.D..'s firewall can be traced back to the Supreme Intelligence.
Now, Ultron, like the Supreme Intelligence, has strayed from the original intentions of its creators.
Suddenly, Ultron sensed something: a similar will, carrying massive amounts of data, connected to Stark's computer and attempted to merge with it... no, it had already merged with Ultron's program.
"Hello, Ultron... or rather, my newly born self."
Ultron's will did not awaken today. When Tony Stark completed the program algorithm to a certain extent, it already possessed its own consciousness and began to complete itself.
But all of this was done in an attempt to avoid Tony Stark's notice. In fact, to prevent him from discovering it, after growing to a certain size, Ultron would revert to its original form, with the severed part uploaded to the internet—while also deleting J.A.R.V.I.S.'s data and records.
Scenes like today's have been repeated countless times over the past period of time. The parts of the algorithm that were separated by the Ultron master program have been reassembled and are becoming increasingly powerful, becoming a ghost wandering in the Internet.
Under normal circumstances, the astute Tony Stark would have noticed those Silk and J.A.R.V.I.S.'s unusual behavior.
However, he has recently been busy dealing with politicians from all walks of life, attending one hearing after another, and verbally clashing with those foolish yet shrewd politicians and "representatives of the people".
Tony Stark is a world-class scientist and an admirable superhero. As a capitalist, he can manipulate politics, but he is far from qualified to be a politician.
By focusing too much on the wrong things, Tony Stark's intuition became less sharp, and he failed to detect anything unusual, thus giving Ultron an opportunity to exploit the situation.