The lift came to a stop, and its alloy doors sprang open to either side.
Pietro kicked off the ground the instant the gap between the doors widened.
A ring of spiderweb cracks exploded across the cement floor as he became a pale blue afterimage, crossing the corridor and charging straight for the Arc Reactor in Tony's chest.
He was going to rip out this arms dealer's heart, iron shell and all.
JARVIS's fire-control radar did not even have time to refresh its targeting box.
The blast of air had only just lifted the snow in the corridor when Yang Ming's Observation Haki caught the ripples of air being compressed at high speed.
They don't even buy accident insurance for their test subjects. Hydra's Service Contract is downright exploitative.
Yang Ming cursed inwardly and swept his right hand swiftly in front of him.
He was not going to pit his reflexes against supersonic speed. He would only change the terrain.
A doorway glowing with cold, dim blue light opened out of thin air, right against a spot where Pietro was certain to step.
At the same time, another doorway opened flush against a load-bearing steel column at the side of the hall.
All Pietro could see was the blue light in Tony's chest. He could not brake at all.
Carrying the immense momentum built up at supersonic speed, he plunged headfirst through the doorway.
The next second, the pale blue afterimage shot out beside the steel column at the side, colliding head-on with the violent air current his own charge had left behind half a second earlier.
Boom!
Pietro slammed squarely into the load-bearing wall.
The entire concrete wall caved inward. Rebar snapped, and rubble clattered down across the floor.
Pietro slid down the wall, his eyes rolling back as