After Black Widow finished speaking, the heroes' expressions immediately sharpened.
Lightning flickered faintly around Thor's Stormbreaker, while Colonel Rhodes' Mark III Armor opened weapon ports all over its body, switching into combat mode in a second.
Whether it worked or not, intimidation was the point.
"Easy, guys." Rocket Raccoon's attitude was rather different. He casually shouldered his energy gun and said, "I don't think this big guy looks like an enemy. He's helping us, isn't he?"
"He'd better not be."
The captain muttered as if to himself, then took a deep breath and led the others forward to meet the figure descending from the sky.
Boom-
Violent air currents swirled as the black-clad figure landed in a crouch, knees bent, one hand braced against the ground.
A hero's entrance!
Josen could easily have landed standing straight like Magneto, who always knew how to make an entrance, but to better fit into the superhero group before him, he instead pulled off a "superhero landing" that would have made Deadpool scream.
Style points UP!
Sure enough, after seeing Josen's landing pose, the heroes' stern expressions softened considerably.
The pose checked out-he was probably one of them!
Of course, that was just a joke.
Under the passive influence of Josen's biomagnetic field, everyone, including Thor, the strongest among them, could sense his goodwill. That was the real key to easing the atmosphere.
"Hey, buddy, can you tell us whose side you're on?" Rocket nimbly hopped onto Thor's shoulder. Thor merely glanced at him and thought nothing of it. "We've just been through something painful, and these big guys around me are all in a pretty bad mood, so this is important."
"Everyone, my name is Josen. I'm an Earthling. That shouldn't be too hard to tell, right?"
As Josen spoke, he made a