Because the Helicarrier was relatively slow.
After some discussion, everyone decided to take a Harrier jet ahead to the target location.
The members of the capture team were quickly decided as well: Captain America, Thor, Fang Mo, and Natasha, who would fly the plane.
Stark had originally wanted to go too, but things were different from the original story now. Because he had eaten the Golden Apple, he had been enduring the side effects of the Palladium reactor. When he finally could not take it anymore, Fang Mo had dragged him off for another round of bone-scraping detoxification. Now that he had finally made it home, he still needed to hurry up and study the new element model his father had left behind.
After going through so much in a row, Stark was truly exhausted in both body and mind. He planned to take a short nap aboard the Helicarrier.
In terms of combat strength alone, Fang Mo was enough to suppress the entire situation by himself. On top of that, they had Thor from Norse mythology, as well as Natasha and Captain America—two sensible people—to keep watch. Nothing major should go wrong.
In any case, the Harrier jet soon arrived at its destination.
Stuttgart.
A high-end social banquet was being held there, but because of the aliens, the place was now in complete chaos.
A high-ranking Military official of unknown affiliation had been cut down, and a nimble masked woman was using something to gouge out his eyeball. The scene was brutally gruesome, with blood flowing all over the floor.
Unlike Loki in the original story, however, this strange masked woman did not spout any idiotic rhetoric about people yearning to be enslaved or abandoning their false freedom. She did not even say a single unnecessary word. After digging