Chaotic Battlefield

"Arbiters!!"

Chen Tian's voice exploded like thunder, instantly piercing through the clamor of the entire battlefield.

"Attack!"

At that command, the entire sky seemed to awaken like a slumbering beast.

Countless flashes of fire suddenly lit up, like the last stars before dawn.

Civilians pursued by the Chitauri fled through the streets, looking up at the sky in despair—then, in the next second, countless silver-white rescue robots descended from the clouds like angels. They deployed mechanical shields, erecting silver walls around the fleeing crowds and instantly crushing the pursuing Chitauri soldiers.

"Please remain calm. Rescue has arrived." The synthesized mechanical voices came through clearly amid the artillery fire.

An elderly man with an injured leg collapsed among the ruins, watching a Chitauri soldier raise his weapon—then suddenly, a Medical Pod landed precisely beside him. Its mechanical arms swiftly unfolded a barrier while firing several lasers, eliminating every enemy.

"Open fracture detected in your leg. Treatment is commencing." The Medical Pod's AI spoke gently. "This may hurt. Please endure it."

The old man nodded tremblingly as he watched the nanomechanical arms inject painkillers and stabilize his wound. When the Medical Pod closed around him, he heard one final sentence: "You are safe now."

The next second, the Medical Pod shot into the sky, carrying him and the other wounded toward a distant safe zone.

On the ground, more rescue robots were constructing temporary defensive lines. They protected civilians with energy shields while using precise firepower to eliminate surrounding threats. Children were gently lifted by mechanical arms, the wounded were swiftly evacuated, and every Medical Pod that took off traced a path of hope through the morning light.

Madara Uchiha's figure abruptly appeared amid the flames, his Mangekyō Sharingan glinting with an eerie red light through the smoke. Forming a seal with one hand, he shouted in a low voice, "Shadow Clone Technique!"

In an instant, over a hundred clones of Madara surged forth like a tide, each assuming a different combat stance. They split into teams of three and charged into the enemy ranks like a disciplined army.

The front-row clones formed seals simultaneously, spitting scorching fireballs from their mouths. "Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!" Dozens of fireballs exploded among the enemy, burning the Chitauri soldiers to charcoal.

Several clones flicked their wrists, sending Tony's custom alloy shuriken shooting from their sleeves. These concealed weapons, gleaming with a deep blue light, automatically split apart in midair and precisely embedded themselves in every enemy's forehead or heart.

The rear-row clones charged directly into the enemy formation. Some wielded alloy kunai custom-made by Stark Industries, special ninja tools that released EMP shocks upon touching enemy armor. Others attacked purely with taijutsu, their fists and kicks tearing through the air as every blow dented and warped the enemy's metal armor.

"Boring tricks." The real Madara stood on high ground, watching coldly as he raised a hand to form seals. "Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation!" A towering sea of flames instantly swallowed the enemy forces across half a city block.

2B moved through the war zone like a white phantom. Her primary mission was not killing enemies, but protecting civilians trapped within the combat area.

"Please come with me!" She scooped up an elderly man pinned beneath rubble, her katana tracing a perfect arc as it deflected every incoming energy bolt. Three Chitauri soldiers lunged at her from the side, but without even looking back, she threw an EMP grenade that instantly left them limp on the ground.

"Master, twelve civilians have been escorted to the safe zone." As she reported, she used her body to shield the children behind her from flying metal fragments.

A thunderous roar erupted from a transport aircraft in the sky. Hulk leaped down from a thousand meters above, smashing into a Leviathan's head like a green comet.

"Hulk smash!" He swung fists as large as cooking pots, every heavy blow leaving horrifying dents in the beast's metal shell.

The Leviathan let out a pained shriek, wildly twisting its hundred-meter mechanical body.

It opened its gaping maw, trying to bite the green monster into pieces. Hulk grinned savagely, grabbed its metal lower jaw, and flexed both arms, forcing that giant mouth shut.

"Little bug!" Hulk roared, grabbing one of the beast's exposed bone spikes and riding its back as though taming a wild horse.

The beast rolled frantically, collapsing several skyscrapers, but it could not shake off the green demon. Hulk hammered its spinal joints again and again, scattering metal fragments everywhere.

Finally, with an earth-shaking cry of "Hulk strongest!" he grabbed the beast's head armor with both hands and tore it completely off through brute force. The out-of-control creature crashed to the ground, plowing a trench hundreds of meters long before finally slamming into a half-collapsed building and stopping.

Hulk stood atop the beast's corpse and let out a victorious roar toward the heavens.

Trident Building, Eastern Safe Zone.

Chen Tian's battlefield-shaking roar came through Steve Rogers's earpiece—

"Arbiters!! Attack!!"

He froze for a moment, then the corners of his mouth lifted, and he could not help laughing.

"That guy... really doesn't hold back." He shook his head and turned to face the exhausted yet steadfast S.H.I.E.L.D. agents behind him.

"Did you all hear that?" He raised his Vibranium shield. "Our reinforcements are here—now it's our turn to strike back!"

The weary agents' eyes reignited with fighting spirit, but reality remained brutal.

On the other side of the corridor, Hydra soldiers had set up bulletproof shields. The sustained fire from their M249 machine guns sealed off the hallway completely. Bullets crisscrossed wildly through the command center, ricochets sending blinding sparks across metal walls. Bullet holes covered the walls densely, while the pungent smell of gunpowder filled the air.

"Suppressive fire!" the Hydra squad leader roared. The machine gunners immediately adjusted their aim, and bullets poured down like a rainstorm.

The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were forced to press tightly against cover as chunks of concrete constantly fell over their heads.

Coulson tried to return fire, but the moment half his body emerged, a bullet grazed over his head and exploded against the electronic equipment behind him in a burst of sparks. "Damn it!" He ducked back and quickly replaced his empty magazine. "Their firepower is too heavy!"

"Chen Tian! The Trident Building needs support! Hydra's firepower is too heavy—we're pinned down!"

Chen Tian's voice did not come through the communicator. Instead, another familiar voice answered with a teasing edge.

"Relax, Captain. I'll be there soon."

—it was Barton.

Steve was about to reply when an entire row of bulletproof windows behind him suddenly shattered! Gale-force wind and shards of glass swept inside. The Hydra soldiers instinctively raised their guns, only to see several silver-white figures racing in through the windows—

Arbiter Rescue Robots!

They deployed mechanical shields, precisely blocking every bullet aimed at the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. At the same time, their mechanical arms rotated, pulse cannons instantly locking onto the enemy. A series of precise shots pierced straight through the front-row Hydra soldiers' armor!

"Target locked. Eliminating threat." The synthesized voices were cold and efficient.

Then, a black figure flipped through the shattered window—

"Hey, Captain. I'm not late, am I?"

Barton landed steadily, then fired an arrow backward through a Hydra sniper attempting a sneak attack. The miniature explosive on the arrow detonated inside the enemy's helmet, the firelight illuminating his faintly mocking smile.

Steve breathed a sigh of relief. He slammed his shield into the last enemy rushing at him, knocking him over, then shouted loudly.

"All agents, stay close to the Arbitrators and Barton—we're taking back command!"

Before his words had even faded, Barton had already nocked an arrow, its tip gleaming with EMP-blue light.

"Time to scrap Hydra's toys."

The arrow flew, and an electromagnetic pulse exploded in the center of the enemy formation, instantly paralyzing all energy weapons. At the same time, the Arbiter robots advanced as one, their mechanical shields linking together like a moving wall that crushed forward. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents followed close behind, opening fire at full force!

The Washington battlefield had been divided into several orderly combat zones, with different heroes playing crucial roles in each area.

On the ground battlefield, Madara Uchiha moved through the smoke like a ghost. His shadow clone army had already turned three city blocks into a performance of Fire Release—"Fire Release: Phoenix Sage Fire Technique!" Dozens of clones formed seals at once, and fireballs rained down like meteors upon the Chitauri ground forces.

2B carried out a completely different mission in the adjacent block. Her silver-white figure moved swiftly through the ruins, her katana precisely cutting down every enemy threatening civilians. "The evacuation route has been cleared!" she said as she lifted a fallen slab of concrete and rescued a trapped family of three beneath it.

The aerial battlefield was entirely under Tony Stark's control. His Mark-Eclipse armor spread six blue-glowing mechanical wings as he weaved elegantly through the herd of Leviathans.

"JARVIS, lock onto the seventh spinal joint!" At the command, the mechanical wings unfolded, and six high-energy laser cannons fired simultaneously, completely melting through a Leviathan's mechanical spine.

The beast shrieked in pain and crashed toward the unoccupied zone preplanned by the Washington Garrison. Tony flicked his right hand, deploying a scorching laser sword from his wrist and slicing an approaching Chitauri aircraft in half.

Hulk had become the battlefield's free agent. At times, the green giant rampaged across the ground, flipping Hydra armored vehicles over like toys. At other times, he leaped high into the air, grabbed Chitauri aircraft, and smashed them viciously into other aircraft.

"Hulk strongest!" His roar echoed across the battlefield, every leap leaving cracks in the ground.

Behind the battlefield, the silver-white rescue robots had already established a complete evacuation system with the Washington Garrison.

They formed mobile defensive lines, using mechanical shields to open a route for civilians toward the Lincoln Memorial safe zone.

Medical Pods continuously took off and landed, delivering the wounded to field hospitals established by the garrison.

"Please board in an orderly manner. The elderly and children have priority." The synthesized voices remained warm amid the cannon fire. As one Medical Pod landed and its hatch opened, the AI inside was comforting a little girl. "Your mother is already waiting for you in the safe zone, brave little girl."

Though the entire battlefield was fierce, it displayed astonishing coordination. Madara Uchiha's Fire Release cleared the main streets, 2B ensured the safety of civilian evacuation routes, Tony's laser weapons controlled the skies, and Hulk stood ready to reinforce every vulnerable point.

Behind them, more and more civilians were being safely transferred into the garrison-controlled zone, while the silver figures of the rescue robots glimmered with the light of hope in the hazy dawn.

"Mr. Chen, the battlefield situation is under control." JARVIS's voice sounded in Chen Tian's ear. "Civilian evacuation progress: 98%."

Chen Tian stood atop a high-rise building. From time to time, he used Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue to pull the Chitauri soldiers on the ground together, squeezing them into a lump of flesh. At other times, he used Cursed Technique Reversal: Red to bounce aircraft out of the sky like pinballs.

"Mm. JARVIS, locate Loki and Thor. Are they still on top of the Trident Building?"

"Sir, satellite scans indicate that only the unconscious Alexander Pierce is on the Trident Building rooftop."

Chen Tian frowned. Thor and Loki had clearly been on the rooftop just moments ago. Where had they gone?

Before he could finish thinking, thunder rumbled through the sky. Thor descended from above and landed beside him.

Chen Tian turned, one brow lifting. Thor staggered to a landing beside him. The once-mighty God of Thunder was now in terrible shape—his golden hair was soaked in blood, blood continuously spilled from the corner of his mouth, a green-glowing dagger was lodged in his abdomen, and the silver armor on his left arm had been completely shattered, exposing a mangled arm.

"What happened?" Chen Tian caught Thor as he swayed unsteadily.

"Damn Loki, he has help!" Thor wiped the blood from his mouth and pulled out the dagger, tossing it to the ground.

Chen Tian's expression turned strange. Help? What kind of help could beat Thor into this state?

"Hey, Chen Tian, do you know what I'm seeing?" Tony's voice entered his ear. "I'm watching a black-skinned monster brawl with our green baby."

Chen Tian hurriedly tapped his wristwatch several times, and a virtual image projected into view.

A jet-black beast covered in knotted muscles was fighting Hulk evenly. Neither used any fighting technique; they relied entirely on brute force, one punching the other in the face, the other slamming a headbutt into his forehead.

"Cull Obsidian? Why would Thanos send Cull Obsidian out this early?"

Chen Tian's pupils suddenly contracted as a terrifying thought exploded in his mind—this was not merely a Chitauri invasion. Thanos's Black Order had intervened ahead of schedule!

"JARVIS!" he shouted sharply. "Scan the entire combat zone immediately and find—"

Before he could finish, the ground suddenly shook violently. Accompanied by deafening roars, three black stone pillars burst from the earth. Each stood thirty meters tall, its surface covered in bizarre runes. The pillars formed a triangle around the battlefield, their tops flickering with ominous dark-red light.

Chen Tian spun around sharply and saw a tall, thin figure floating between the three stone pillars. The man wore a dark-gold robe, his corpse-pale skin covered in dark patterns, his sunken eyes gleaming with cold light. His long fingers danced elegantly, controlling some ancient energy, while the hem of his robe drifted through the air as if alive.

"Ebony Maw..." Chen Tian gritted out the name. One of Thanos's most dangerous subordinates was looking down at the battlefield with his signature cruel smile, tinged with aristocratic grace.

At the same time, violent sounds of battle came through 2B's communicator. "Master, the target's telekinetic strength exceeds estimates—" The transmission suddenly cut off, replaced by a burst of piercing electromagnetic static.

Chen Tian's pupils trembled. The situation before him was collapsing at an astonishing speed.

Cull Obsidian and Hulk's brutal fistfight shook the ground constantly, while Ebony Maw's appearance drove the entire battlefield's energy readings beyond the danger threshold.

He looked up at the sky—the wormhole opened by the Tesseract was still expanding, and more Chitauri fleets could faintly be seen gathering within it.

"JARVIS, scan the battlefield immediately and lock onto Loki's location." Chen Tian quickly swiped across his wristwatch, expanding a holographic projection before him. "Prioritize tracking the Mind Scepter's energy signature."

"Scanning, sir." The AI's voice remained steady. "A powerful energy fluctuation has been detected. Its source is—"

Chen Tian cut him off. "Coordinates. I need them now."

"The top of the Washington Monument. The energy readings match the Mind Scepter perfectly," JARVIS immediately replied. "However, the target is protected by some form of spatial distortion field. Positioning may have an error margin of fifty meters."

"Good. JARVIS, notify every Arbiter and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent that Steve has battlefield command from this point onward." Chen Tian looked toward the Washington Monument. "Tell Tony to stop acting like a child and listen to the Captain!"

As he spoke, he turned and grabbed Thor by the shoulder. "Listen. I need you to help Hulk deal with Cull Obsidian."

Thor wiped away the blood at the corner of his mouth as Mjolnir began gathering lightning. "What about you?"

"I have to deal with that first." Chen Tian pointed toward the blue wormhole in the sky, his gaze locked onto the Washington Monument. "Before anything else goes wrong."

Thor followed his gaze. "Loki? Can you handle his magic?"

Chen Tian did not answer. He had already contacted Madara Uchiha through the communicator. "Madara, 2B encountered Ebony Maw's mind control in the Seventh District. She needs your Sharingan support."

A cold snort came through the communicator. "Mere telekinesis dares show off before me." It was followed by a burst of spatial distortion—Madara directly used the Body Flicker Technique to rush toward 2B and Ebony Maw's battlefield.

Having arranged everything, Chen Tian took a deep breath and raised one hand in a sword-finger gesture. With his movement, the air around him began to distort, and even his black hair gradually started to fade.

"Whew. First time using this. Don't screw me over, 2.5."

In the blink of Thor's eye, Chen Tian suddenly vanished before him. Thor froze, then scratched the back of his head.

"Isn't he a swordsman? How did he become a mage?" Thor's simple mind could not make sense of it, so he simply stopped thinking about it.

He hurled Mjolnir and shot into the sky, wrapped in lightning as he joined Hulk and Cull Obsidian's battle. A bolt of lightning struck precisely at the seam in Cull Obsidian's back armor, making the Black Order vanguard stumble.

"Need a hand, big guy?" Thor laughed as he landed beside Hulk.

Hulk punched away Cull Obsidian's counterattack, turned his head, and revealed a savage grin. "Hulk can do it alone! But... smashing together is more fun!"

Elsewhere, Madara Uchiha appeared beside 2B like a ghost. The android girl knelt on one knee, her katana deeply embedded in the ground, while every mechanical joint in her body emitted overloaded hums—Ebony Maw's powerful telekinetic field was warping her mechanical structure bit by bit.

"Pathetic trick." Madara snorted, his Mangekyō Sharingan spinning rapidly. He formed the "Release" seal with his left hand and pressed it against 2B's back, his ocular power forming a mental barrier. "It is merely thought, and you dare harm my lord's maid?"

The mechanical pressure throughout 2B's body suddenly eased. "...Thank you."

Madara said nothing more and looked up at Ebony Maw floating in the air. The thin figure elegantly waved his fingers, causing surrounding building wreckage to rotate in midair with his thoughts.

"Language is power. Speech is shackles." Ebony Maw spoke in a voice like an aria, every syllable carrying a mental shock. "Submit to—"

"Too noisy." Madara directly interrupted his mind control. The patterns in his Mangekyō Sharingan suddenly transformed into the form of the Rinnegan. "Let me show you what true control of power looks like."

He raised one hand, and the Rinnegan's gravitational control collided violently with Ebony Maw's telekinesis in midair. Blinding sparks of energy erupted where the two invisible forces met. The surrounding building wreckage first froze strangely beneath the dual forces, then explosively crumbled into dust.

Fierce battles raged throughout the battlefield. At the top of the Washington Monument, Loki stood there, lightly spinning the scepter around his fingers.

He narrowed his eyes, admiring the endless Chitauri army pouring from the wormhole, a pleased curve appearing on his lips.

"What a magnificent sight..." he murmured, the Mind Stone atop his scepter glimmering with eerie light. "Soon, all of Midgard will..."

Before he could finish, the space beside him suddenly twisted. Before he could react, a terrifying repulsive force erupted!

"Cursed Technique Reversal: Red!"

Chen Tian's voice exploded through the void. Loki felt an irresistible force strike him head-on, blasting him away like a kite with its string cut.

"What?!" While flying through the air, Loki widened his eyes and looked toward the monument's peak—the upper half of the entire monument shattered under the repulsive impact, stones and steel bars scattering outward in slow motion.

Just as the scepter was about to fall, a figure flashed into view. Chen Tian steadily caught it with one hand, while his other hand rose in a sword-finger gesture, azure cursed energy flowing around his fingertips.

"Thanks." He smiled at Loki in the distance, then vanished once more amid spatial ripples.

Loki's handsome face twisted into a savage expression. "Damn insect!"

His body shot backward like a cannonball beneath the terrifying repulsive force. He tried to adjust his posture, only to find all the magic in his body thrown into chaos by that bizarre force.

He wanted to curse, but the moment he opened his mouth, howling wind rushed down his throat. He tumbled through the air, crashing through the glass curtain walls of three buildings in succession, making the God of Mischief look even more miserable.

At last, with a deafening boom, Loki crashed heavily into a field of ruins. The impact was so great that the ground within fifty meters shook violently. A crater roughly three meters wide appeared in the street, wisps of smoke rising from its bottom.

"Ugh..." Loki groaned at the bottom of the crater, feeling as though every bone in his body had been shattered. He moved his fingers with difficulty and discovered that he could not even cast the simplest illusion—the Easterner's technique had not only damaged his magical circuits, but was continuously interfering with his recovery.

Fortunately, Loki possessed the powerful constitution of a Frost Giant, and he struggled to climb out of the crater.

"Damn mortal..." he muttered. Just as he raised his head, he saw a massive green figure standing at the edge of the crater, tilting his head as he stared at him curiously.

Loki's rage ignited instantly. He violently waved a hand, pointed at Hulk, and shouted furiously, "Kneel, insect! I am a god!"

Hulk blinked.

Then—he smiled.

That smile sent a chill down Loki's spine.

The next second, Hulk's huge hand shot out like lightning and seized Loki by the ankle.

"No—wait!" Before Loki could finish speaking, his entire body had already been swung into the air.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Like cracking a whip, Hulk smashed Loki back and forth against the ground. Every impact sent dust flying and made the earth tremble. Loki's furious roars quickly turned into pained grunts, until eventually he could only let out weak moans.

Finally, Hulk had enough fun. With a casual throw, he tossed Loki back into the crater and curled his lip disdainfully. "Tch. Weak god."

After saying that, he kicked off with both legs. The ground exploded beneath him as he shot toward Cull Obsidian and Thor's battlefield like a cannonball, leaving behind only a massive green silhouette.

At the bottom of the crater, Loki lay on his back, his armor shattered, cape disheveled, and hair and face covered in dust. His lips trembled faintly as a weak groan squeezed out of his throat, and a tear quietly slid down from the corner of his eye.