Boom!
The deafening explosion shook the entire villa.
Tony had no time to react. The blast hurled him across the room like a rag doll, slamming him into the wall before he hit the floor with a thud.
"Cough, cough..."
Tony struggled to get up, but his vision went dark, and he nearly passed out again.
At the same time, two transparent shields sprang up in front of Hermione and Pepper, enclosing them securely.
Maya Hansen, who had been standing close to Pepper, was also protected by the suddenly appearing shield.
The blast wave and debris struck the shields with a barrage of cracks and rattles, but failed to budge them.
As the smoke slowly cleared, Maya looked down at her uninjured body, then up at the transparent shield, still perfectly intact. Disbelief covered her face.
She opened her mouth, but her throat was too dry to make a sound.
What was going on?
Had she just... been attacked by missiles?
And at point-blank range, too!
Then why... was she completely unharmed?
She instinctively turned toward Hermione and Pepper, her eyes filled with shock and confusion.
"Boom!"
A second wave of missiles followed close behind, turning the villa into a sea of flames.
Hermione grabbed Pepper with her left hand and Maya with her right, pulled the Mark 42 over to Tony, and vanished into thin air with the two women.
A second later, they were standing at the edge of a nearby cliff.
The sea breeze blew past, and Maya Hansen felt her stomach churn violently.
"Urgh..."
Unable to hold it in any longer, she braced herself against a rock by the cliff and began vomiting violently.
"Everyone's like that the first time they Apparate. You'll get used to it."
Hermione said it casually.
It was as though their