Wanda's tolerance? You can only take me
The frigid Siberia storm lashed my cheeks like countless tiny knives made of ice shards, cutting into my exposed skin. The air was thick with the pungent smell of Ozone from high-voltage ionization, mixed with a faint stench of blood.
The Winter Soldier's Mechanical Left Arm, gleaming with a ghostly blue light, slammed forward.
There was no sonic boom, no blast wave.
There was only pure spatial distortion. A crescent-shaped, eerie blue rift, like a blade slicing through butter, silently tore through the swirling snow and wind, heading straight for Lynn's brow. That force could crush even Tony's Titanium Alloy armor like paper.
Lynn stood still, not even blinking. His Spider-Sense was screaming for help, and a needle-like pain shot up his spine and into his brain, but he knew he didn't need to dodge.
Just as the rift was about to reach his face, the space in front of Lynn suddenly twisted violently.
Accompanied by a blinding White Light, a petite figure dressed in Black-and-White Suit suddenly burst out from the Cross-Dimension Teleportation.
It's Gwen Stacy.
"Lynn!" Gwen Stacy's voice was choked with sobs.
On the screen in her New York basement, the Higher-Dimensional Energy alert—enough to instantly destroy the Hulkbuster Armor —completely shattered her newly erected psychological Defense Line. To hell with guarding the home, to hell with obedience! All she wanted was for him to live!
Even if it means using my own body to fill that spatial rift!
Gwen Stacy spread her arms and stood in front of Lynn without hesitation, closing her eyes to prepare for the force that would crush her.
"Go back!"
A chillingly cold, arrogant female voice boomed through the raging wind.
The surrounding temperature seemed to drop to Absolute Zero at that moment.
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch who had been deliberately spoiled by Lynn and whose possessiveness had become extremely twisted, was completely enraged.
Her once clear eyes were instantly consumed by a deep Scarlet. Violent Chaos Particles erupted from her body like a volcanic eruption, carrying a world-destroying pressure.
The Dimensionality-Reduction Strike has begun.
Wanda didn't even raise her hand; she merely gave him a look of utter contempt.
The azure rift, capable of cleaving even space itself, struck the Scarlet Particles as if it had crashed into a wall of sighs. It couldn't even hold out for half a second before the energy belonging to the Tesseract shattered into countless specks of light, dissipating into the snowstorm.
At the same time, countless solidified Scarlet Chains burst forth from the snow, coiling around Gwen Stacy's limbs and neck like venomous snakes, forcibly pulling her off the ground and leaving her suspended in mid-air.
"Ugh..." Gwen Stacy groaned in pain. The terrifying power granted to her by her Spider Physiology was utterly laughable in the face of the Chaos Magic of the Skyfather-level; she couldn't even break free of a single finger.
"Who gave you permission to come here and steal the spotlight?"
Wanda trudged through the snow, walking step by step to Lynn's side and shielding him tightly behind her. She slightly raised her chin, looking down at Gwen in mid- Gwen Stacy, her eyes filled with undisguised murderous intent.
"He's injured! Your magic will only make him worse!" Gwen Stacy gritted her teeth, her azure eyes filled with resentment and obsession as she glared at Wanda. "Only I can protect him!"
"Protect him?" Wanda as if she'd heard the funniest joke, a mocking smile playing on her lips. "With your pathetic insect senses, or your frail body?"
Wanda's fingers tightened slightly, and the Scarlet Chains wrapped around Gwen Stacy's neck immediately emitted a suffocatingly tightening sound.
Lynn looked at the tense, Shura Field before him, a barely perceptible glint of shrewdness flashing in his eyes.
He knew all too well that if he didn't intervene, Wanda, in her Yandere rampage, would really turn Gwen Stacy into mincemeat.
"Wanda." Lynn reached out and gently grasped Wanda's shoulder, which was trembling slightly with rage.
With just that simple touch, the raging Chaos Particles around Wanda instantly calmed down. When she turned her head to look at Lynn, the murderous intent in her eyes instantly transformed into a morbid attachment and grievance.
"Darling, you saw it, it was this bug that bothered us first." Wanda's voice softened, as if she were taking credit or asserting her dominance.
Lynn sighed, his gaze passing over Wanda's shoulder to Gwen, whose eyes were red -Gwen Stacy rimmed in mid-air.
"Gwen Stacy, I told you, as long as you watch me, I won't fall." Lynn's tone was soft, yet carried an undeniable air of control. "Go back. That's an order."
Gwen Stacy looked into Lynn's deep eyes, and her stubborn heart felt as if it were being gripped tightly by two hands. She knew she had acted impulsively, but she just couldn't control the fear of losing him.
"But..."
"No buts." Wanda interrupted her coldly.
Wanda suddenly waved her hand, Scarlet Chains swung Gwen Stacy up and slammed her violently into the still-open Cross-Dimension Teleportation.
Immediately afterwards, Wanda formed hand seals, and terrifying Chaos Magic surged into the portal.
"Bang!"
The portal shattered with a deafening roar. Wanda used her reality-altering abilities to completely lock down the Dimension coordinates of the New York blast room. From now on, even if Gwen Stacy smashes the machine to pieces, she won't be able to cross it even half a step.
After doing all this, Wanda turned around and cupped Lynn's face in her hands. Her fingertips were icy cold, and her eyes held a suffocating possessiveness. "You've misplaced your tolerance, Lynn. You can only take me with you. No one else deserves to stand beside you."
Lynn looked at the Scarlet eyes so close to his face and a indulgent smile appeared on his lips.
He thoroughly enjoyed the sense of control that came with dancing on the edge of a knife. The more insane the Yandere became, the heavier the stakes he held. What he craved was this extreme exclusivity.
"Of course, only you." Lynn grasped Wanda's wrist in return, his fingertips gently tracing her pulse. "But before that, we need to deal with that biting dog."
Lynn turned his gaze to the ruins in the snowstorm ahead.
The crisis is not over.
Seeing his strongest Winter Soldier instantly neutralized, a mechanical judgment flashed in his empty eyes. He did not retreat; his Mechanical Left Arm once again glowed with a blinding blue light, and the engine roared under its own power, instantly melting the surrounding snow into water vapor.
Behind him, the five Siberian Suicide Squad members had completely broken free from the Hulkbuster Armor.
One of the extremely burly suicide squad members was firmly stepping on Natasha's back.
"Snap!"
Natasha's ribs cracked under the strain, the sound particularly jarring on the silent, icy plain. Warm blood gushed from her mouth, staining the snow beneath her, but her grey-green eyes remained fixed on Lynn's direction, as she tried to use her last strength to protect the hard drive in her arms.
"Lynn..." Natasha's vision began to blur, and her consciousness was on the verge of collapse. The scene of Lynn shielding her from a grenade in the simulated memory kept replaying in her mind, and that morbid loyalty sustained her until her last breath.
Lynn's gentle gaze instantly turned cold as he watched this scene.
He gently patted Wanda's hand, his voice sounding particularly chilling in the wind and snow. "Honey, go clean up the trash around there. As for that biting metal dog..."
Lynn released Wanda and slowly walked forward. His super physique, which had integrated multiple top-tier energies, began to awaken, and his muscles and bones emitted a low, booming sound.
"I'll pull his tooth myself."
However, the moment Lynn stepped out of the barrier, Natasha, who was being trampled underfoot, suddenly let out an extremely shrill scream.
The suicide squad member didn't use a knife; instead, he pierced Natasha's shoulder with his bare hands, lifting her into the air from the snow! Blood rained down, staining the snow-covered landscape red.
Lynn's pupils suddenly contracted, and an unprecedentedly violent killing intent completely broke through his rational Defense Line.