Meanwhile, in an abandoned subway station in Queens.
The sounds of fierce gunfire echoed through the dark tunnel.
More than thirty vicious Skrull Radicals had taken advantageous positions and set up two heavy energy machine guns, sealing off the tunnel entrance completely.
"Spread out!"
A low, steady, commanding shout rang out.
Holding his red, blue, and white Vibranium Shield in one hand, Steve Rogers faced the dense barrage of Energy Blasts pouring toward him. Rather than retreating, he strode straight into it!
"Alliance Ring, activate!"
Hum!
As Steve unleashed his ability at full power, an invisible domain instantly spread out from him, enveloping the entire stretch of tunnel.
Something strange happened.
The energy beams, originally powerful enough to shatter concrete support pillars, visibly dimmed by a third the instant they entered the pale golden domain! When they struck Steve's Vibranium Shield, they could not even generate enough force to push him back half a step!
Meanwhile, a faint glow appeared around both Natasha and Barton, who followed behind Steve on either side.
Steve advanced steadily behind his shield, like an insurmountable mobile fortress.
Steve had indeed harbored some old-fashioned moral reservations about Lucian's ironfisted treatment of the Moderate Skrulls. But against these radical thugs who tortured humans to death and turned living people into vegetative patients to drain their brain matter, the World War II veteran showed not a shred of mercy. He struck harder than anyone!
"Roger that, Captain!"
Natasha's lips curved slightly as she stood in a shadowy corner.
With the combined boosts of her LV3 Super Physique and the captain's domain, she felt the power surging inside her almost overflowing.
The next second, her figure melted straight into the shadows beneath her feet!
Shadow Traversal LV4!
Whoosh!
Thirty meters away, the shadow beneath a Skrull machine gunner