I Will Save Everyone Here

New York, Manhattan.

"Boss! We can't hold them off! There are too many of these alien bastards!" A police officer shouted into his communicator from behind a squad car.

Captain America, Steve Rogers, sent a Chitauri soldier flying with his shield and panted heavily. "Hold on! Stark is figuring out how to close the portal!"

"He'd better hurry!" Black Widow, Natasha, shouted over the comms. "I just saw another 'big one' come through!"

At that moment, Hulk was hit by a concentrated barrage of energy blasts. He roared in fury, but was temporarily suppressed.

A Chitauri flying squad noticed the gap in firepower. They descended, aiming at the cover where the captain and the police officers were hiding as dark blue energy began gathering in their cannons.

"Get down!!" Steve roared, raising his shield.

He had already braced himself for the impact.

However, the expected explosion never came.

"...Huh?"

Steve looked up in confusion.

He saw a pair of... red boots.

Those boots hovered silently three meters above them.

A man.

A man in a blue bodysuit, floating motionlessly in the air.

Meanwhile, the Chitauri flying squad that had been preparing to attack had all been sliced in two and was burning as it fell behind him.

"Wh-who is that?" The police officer behind the car poked his head out, dumbfounded.

Steve was stunned as well.

"Sir," a young police officer stammered, "is that... is that Superman? I read his comics when I was a kid..."

"Shut up, George." The older cop snapped. "Superman is Henry Cavill! Who the hell is this?"

"Is he with S.H.I.E.L.D.?" Steve pressed his earpiece. "Fury! Is this the trump card you've been hiding?!"

"..."

There was only silence over the communicator.

S.H.I.E.L.D., Helicarrier.

Nick Fury, the king of spies, stared with his one eye fixed on the figure on the screen.

"Hill," he said urgently, "analyze that target. Who is he? Do we have any prior records? Where did he come from? And why is he dressed like he just walked off a film set?!"

"Sir," Agent Maria Hill said, her fingers flying across the keyboard, "there's no matching superhuman in the database! He just appeared there out of nowhere. His heat signature... God, his biological thermal energy reading is as high as a small reactor!"

In the center of the battlefield.

Wu Yanzu floated in the air, enjoying the gazes directed at him from below.

Awe, shock, confusion, and... worship.

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"Too little..." Wu Yanzu frowned in dissatisfaction.

He needed a bigger stage.

Just then, a Chitauri soldier noticed the strangely dressed man. It screeched, raised its energy spear, and viciously thrust it toward the middle of his back!

"Watch out!!" Steve shouted from below.

Wu Yanzu seemed not to hear him and did not even turn his head.

Splat—!

The spearhead stopped against his back.

The Chitauri soldier used all its strength, yet it could not push forward even an inch.

Wu Yanzu slowly turned around, a trace of annoyance at having been disturbed on his handsome face.

"Trash."

He then reached out, quick as lightning, and grabbed the Chitauri soldier by the head.

Before Steve Rogers's stunned eyes, he gave it only a light squeeze.

"Splat—!"

Like crushing a tomato.

Blue blood and white brain matter splattered everywhere.

The headless corpse fell from the sky.

Wu Yanzu shook the filth from his hand with a look of disgust.

"No wonder Azu likes shooting lasers from his eyes. Using your hands is really disgusting..."

Then he abruptly raised his head and looked toward the sky.

A group of Chitauri aircraft was diving down.

His eyes began to burn as searing power gathered behind his retinas.

"Sizzle—!!"

Two scorching crimson beams shot from his eyes!

The beams swept across the sky, neatly cutting five Chitauri aircraft—and their pilots—in half.

Molten metal and charred wreckage rained down.

For that moment, everything around him fell silent for a second.

"My God..." The police officer named John dropped his gun with a clatter.

"Nick!" Steve stood there in a daze for two seconds. "I'll ask again: is he really not your secret weapon?"

"This guy... really isn't Superman?" Hawkeye Clint muttered from a rooftop.

"He's strong," Natasha's voice came through the communicator. "And... he seems to be enjoying all this."

Iron Man, Tony Stark, made a sharp turn in the air and stopped in front of Wu Yanzu, his faceplate opening.

"Hey! Stars-and-Stripes boy!" Tony's tone was as flippant as ever. "The cosplay party isn't today. Who are you? Fury's new toy?"

Wu Yanzu floated in the air at eye level with Stark and smiled faintly.

"That suit of yours looks much more like a toy than I do. I'm just here to help."

"Help? Your way of helping is pretty... flashy," Tony quipped.

"Thanks for the compliment."

"I wasn't complimenting you..."

"Tony!" The captain's voice cut in. "Stop wasting time! We've got trouble!"

"A big one is charging down Fifth Avenue. Hulk and Thor are teaming up against two others."

"I've got it." Tony's faceplate closed as he prepared to rush over.

"No need to trouble yourself, Mr. Stark."

Wu Yanzu smiled and moved first.

He was too fast.

Tony Stark's armor only managed to catch a red-and-blue afterimage.

The next second, Wu Yanzu had appeared before that Leviathan.

And then he simply... flew straight into it.

Splat—!

Before everyone's horrified eyes, he tore straight through the iron head of the giant beast at supersonic speed!

A perfect circular hole several meters wide appeared in the beast's head.

Boom...

The massive beast lost power and crashed onto the street, smashing a huge crater into the ground.

Wu Yanzu hovered at the other end of the beast's corpse.

His body slowly turned, spotless and immaculate, as he gave the stunned crowd below a dazzling, magazine-cover-worthy smile.

"Don't be afraid, everyone." His voice carried clearly across several blocks. "I'm here."

Then, in midair, he flashed a righteous smile at a news helicopter filming him and waved. "Don't worry, I'll save everyone here!"