"Your plan stinks as badly as your soul."
Fury's hollow eye sockets fixed on Gravik, and he swung his burning fist.
Bang—sizzle!
The punch landed squarely on Gravik's face.
The heat instantly melted half his cheek.
The force sent him flying into the control console behind him, showering sparks everywhere.
The Skrull warriors around them were shaken, but instinct still drove them to close in.
"For the Skrulls!"
They raised their alien weapons, trying to stop the burning demon.
"Vermin."
Flames surged around Fury as he lashed out with a whip of Hellfire.
"Feel the pain!"
Crack!
The fiery whip swept across them.
Three Skrull warriors were severed at the waist. No blood flowed from their wounds; the flesh had been cauterized the instant the whip touched them.
"Aaaah!"
The remaining warriors opened fire in terror.
Fury opened his mouth and breathed out a fan of flame.
Every Skrull touched by it was reduced to ash, skin and armor alike.
A bony white claw seized a Skrull trying to flee and gripped his head in one hand.
"Look into my eyes!" Flames burned through the Skrull's pupils and seared his soul.
In an instant, endless agony reduced him to a charred corpse.
It was a one-sided slaughter.
In just two minutes, more than a hundred charred bodies littered the hall.
The other Skrulls fled in panic at the sight. Their new leader's fate was unknown.
With the underlings dealt with, Fury strode forward, ready to finish the radical leader with "Look into my eyes."
"Accept your judgment."
But Gravik laughed and slowly rose to his feet.
"Heh... heh heh heh..."
His melted cheek had healed completely, and an orange-red glow shone beneath his skin.
It looked like magma flowing under the surface.
"Hm? The Extremis Virus?"
The fire in Fury's