In Houston, Lier's brand-new, enormous mechanical cyberware cut through the sky, but suddenly went offline--
Once Lier lost the cyberware on his body, even his brilliant mind could no longer sustain high-intensity calculations and data transmission!
The body suddenly lost its spark and fell out of invisibility!
Bang!
Carrying tremendous kinetic energy, Lier smashed straight through the glass of Stark Tower and crashed into Tony's private penthouse residence, while the tremendous commotion triggered JARVIS's alarms!
The AI's cognitive model began adjusting at high speed--as if a human had been badly shocked!
It knew Tony had secretly sent a message out behind its back, but Lier had suddenly appeared out of thin air inside Stark Tower!
Clack--
All the blast doors in the building slid down, sealing off every area. The drones and Combat Robots on the grounds immediately activated, and alarms rang throughout Stark Industries!
At almost the same time, it keenly noticed another violent disturbance in the ctOS Network.
[JARVIS: Mr. Agger, initiate a Network Attack immediately!]
[Dario: In such a hurry?]
Dario, seated in the Oil Refinery Center, froze for a moment, then immediately issued the order.
The order reached every corner of the world: Hydra, lying low within important Government agencies; armed organizations publicly known as Terrorists; legitimate, publicly traded companies; and research institutions funded by Hydra and Roxxon!
A massive Helicarrier emerged from beneath the water, while Satellites in near-Earth orbit all changed course--
And inside Doctor Zola's Server, which had long been damaged, Hydra scientists injected a dose of medicine into a test subject's head after receiving the order.
The test subject swelled and warped amid its screams: its limbs withered, its head grew larger, until it was nothing but a huge biological brain!
The biological brain filled the brain-machine conversion equipment prepared for it,