"Sir, based on human psychological models, this approach has a 99.8% probability of creating a supervillain with antisocial personality disorder." JARVIS's synthesized electronic voice remained flat and silent.
Tony rubbed his temples, looking somewhat exhausted.
"Send the weakness of that giant lizard to Underoos so he can finish the fight quickly."
Frost City, underground laboratory.
The pale blue smoke dissipated, Thor landed steadily on the metal floor.
In front of the huge circular control panel, Reed was rapidly disassembling the multi-dimensional energy wavebands on the holographic projection.
"The angle of spatial curvature folding is off by 0.003 degrees. America, your energy output is not stable enough. Try focusing your mental energy on the anchor point of the dimensional coordinates instead of simply releasing power." Reed spoke extremely fast, his hands leaving afterimages on the virtual keyboard.
Valeria leaned back in the hover chair, tossing a metal Tesseract in her hand.
" Reed, she hasn't even studied basic quantum mechanics. Do you expect her to precisely control the energy valves of the multiverse?"
America stood in the center of the energy suppression chamber, hands on her hips.
"Hey! I've wandered through dozens of universes, relying on intuition, not your boring data formulas!"
"Intuition can't help you pinpoint specific spacetime anchor points." Reed pushed up his tactical glasses.
"Try again, adjust your breathing rate, and resonate with the dimension."
America gritted her teeth and raised her right fist.
Blue starlight condensed on her fist, and she slammed her fist into the void in front of her.
The space rippled violently.
The crisp sound of shattering glass echoed in the laboratory.
A giant blue pentagram portal was smashed open.
The edges of the portal flickered with violent spatial turbulence.
Behind the door was a dim night sky and a dilapidated ancient temple.
Thor stopped in his tracks.
A massive amount of spiritual energy spread through the portal.
In just one second, they learned the information about the other universe.
Earth-10005, a timeline that Days of Future Past.
Just then, the laboratory's automatic door slid open.
Erik strode in, wearing a sharp purple suit.
" Valeria, there's a problem with the artificial Sun base in the East District; the load-bearing structure needs to be recalculated..."
Erik's words were cut short.
He turned his head and looked at the blue five-pointed star portal.
The scene behind the door came through clearly.
Hundreds of tall, silver-gray robots were swarming toward the temple.
Their heads shoot out blinding, high-temperature red rays, and their arms transform into sharp drills and blades.
Several Mutants, covered in wounds, are struggling to stay afloat.
Erik's facial muscles twitched.
He recognized the robots.
Sentry.
The culprits who destroyed Genosha and Carnage countless Mutants.
Not a single word wasted.
Erik leaped into the air, transforming into a streak of purple light, and charged into the portal.
Earth-10005, China, an ancient temple.
The wind howled and the rain poured down.
Storm ascended into the sky, gathering thick bolts of lightning in her hands, and slammed them down on the two Sentry charging at the front.
A scale-like energy shield appeared on the Sentry's surface, absorbing all the lightning.
The next second, the Sentry's chest glowed red, and it fired an even more ferocious plasma beam in the opposite direction.
The Sunspot burst into flames and smashed through a Sentry attempting to break into the temple.
Bishop, holding the energy rifle, frantically pulled the trigger.
Inside the temple.
Erik, now elderly, had a full head of white hair and his hands trembled slightly.
He was struggling to manipulate the surrounding metal debris, trying to halt the Sentry ' advance.
Elderly Charles sat in his wheelchair, pressing his temples, trying to resist the mental backlash from the Sentry Shield.
Shadowcat placed his hands on Wolverine's temples.
" Logan, you have to hold on, the timeline is rewinding."
boom!
One wall of the temple was smashed down.
Three Sentry stepped in, their footsteps echoing over the gravel.
Its head split open, revealing a blazing energy core, which it aimed at Wolverine on the ground.
Old Erik raised his hand, and several steel bars shot out, only to be easily brushed aside by the Sentry.
" Charles, we can't hold out any longer."
Just then...
An extremely terrifying pressure descended from the sky.
It's not gravity.
Rather, it is the pure origin of the magnetic field.
At that moment, the Earth's magnetic poles shifted by an extremely small amount.
The three Sentry who rushed into the temple froze in mid-air.
Their raised mechanical arms froze in mid-air, the core red light flashing wildly, yet unable to emit a single ounce of energy.
Outside the temple.
The dozen or so Sentry that were about to tear Storm in two were also firmly pinned to the spot.
Hundreds of Sentry flying in the sky crashed to the ground in unison.
There was no explosion, no impact.
They were held up by an invisible magnetic field half a meter above the ground, unable to move.
Old Charles suddenly looked up.
Old Erik turned around and looked out of the temple.
Storm, Sunspot, Bishop, and the others all stopped what they were doing.
In the night sky, a blue five-pointed star portal slowly rotates.
A figure dressed in a purple suit floated out from it.
Erik looked down over the battlefield from his vantage point.
He glanced at his elderly self in the temple, his face wrinkled and his appearance disheveled.
"We possess such immense power."
Erik spoke.
Without relying on any amplification equipment, the magnetic field vibrated the air, clearly delivering his words to everyone's ears.
"You're going to use it to control metal?"
Old Erik was stunned.
He looked at himself in the sky, a figure younger than himself, domineering, and radiating a godlike aura.
Decades of understanding began to crack at this moment.
Erik looked away, scanning the densely packed Sentinels around him.
"Watch closely."
He raised his right hand, palm down.
"This is the true power of Magneto."
His five fingers suddenly clenched together.
There was no earth-shattering explosion.
There was no harsh friction from the twisting of metal.
There was only a chilling rustling sound.
The hundreds of Sentinels, frozen in mid-air and on the ground, began to show fine ripples on their surfaces.
The molecular bonds that make up their bodies are completely severed under the forceful interference of the electromagnetic source.
The first Sentry turned into grayish-white powder.
Then came the second one, and the third one.
Less than three seconds.
The countless Sentinels scattered across the mountains disintegrated into the most basic atomic dust.
A night breeze blew by.
The dust drifted away with the wind, leaving nothing behind.
Dead silence.
The entire temple, inside and out, fell into absolute silence.
Storm was agape, her hands still poised to unleash lightning.
The flames on the Sunspot were completely extinguished, and it stared blankly at the sky.
Wolverine sat up abruptly, not even noticing that Shadowcat's hand had been flung away.
He stared at the empty night sky outside, his Adam's apple bobbing.
Charles's wheelchair slid forward half a meter.
" Erik... that's you?"
Old Erik did not answer.
He looked at his own hands, then at Magneto in the sky, whose clothes weren't even wrinkled.
The immense sense of disorientation left him momentarily speechless.
Controlling metals?
The other party just erased the molecular structure of the matter!
Inside the portal.
Thor leaned against the doorframe, watching the scene with great interest.
Valeria flew over on her hoverboard and landed next to Thor.
She glanced at the dust covering the ground outside, then at the elderly Magneto inside the temple, whose face was filled with shock.
Valeria tapped her personal terminal on her wrist.
"Actually, I've never understood it."
Valeria turned her head and looked at Thor.
"Why can't someone who can manipulate the electromagnetic field solve the problem with those robots?"
She pointed to the elderly Erik in the temple.
"Is this universe's Magneto who never went to school?"