After turning off the loudspeaker, Zola turned to Strucker and Zemo beside him and said with a smile, "Gentlemen, I've lured them here for you. What happens next is up to you."
Adjusting the Heavy Cannon modified with Tesseract energy in his hands, Baron Strucker strode away with a sinister expression. He passed through the door in the middle and vanished into the front of the train. Unable to speak and with no expression visible, Zemo merely waved the longsword in his hand before following Strucker away.
Watching the two leave, a strange smile appeared on Zola's round face. "Go die, all of you!"
After discussing matters, Alex and the others decided to split up. Steve took Logan and Nick onward, while Alex and Natasha climbed back onto the roof, intending to head straight for the front of the train. There was a very high chance that Zola was there.
Braving the wind and snow, they climbed onto the roof. Alex had barely steadied himself and prepared to use Teleportation when Natasha, whether from slipping or something else, lunged straight into him.
Alex staggered and nearly fell off the train. After barely regaining his balance, he glared at Natasha in anger, only to find her shivering from the cold, her full lips slightly purple.
"You're cold?" Alex instinctively pushed Natasha away and looked at her in confusion. "I remember Howard saying our uniforms were insulated."
Natasha rolled her eyes, shoved Alex aside, and nimbly ran toward the locomotive. As she ran, she cursed inwardly, Alex, are you really stupid, or are you pretending? I refuse to believe I, Natasha, can't win you over!
Watching Natasha run off, Alex spread out his Psionic Power to envelop her and immediately activated Teleportation. He even teased, "We don't need to run."
Finding herself at the front of the train, Natasha snorted and ignored Alex as she turned and climbed down from the roof. Her supple body hung upside down from the train as she peered through the window to inspect the situation inside.
"Zola really is in there!" Natasha turned and saw Alex hanging upside down beside her, then snorted again.
Alex spotted Zola as well. Old and new grudges surged into his heart at once. Grabbing Natasha by the arm, he appeared directly inside the carriage.
Seeing the somewhat panicked Zola, Alex revealed a gloomy smile and stared at him as he slowly said, "Zola, we meet again!"
"How could you possibly..." Zola pointed at Alex, apparently frightened out of his wits, unable even to finish his sentence.
Alex had no time to chat with him. He dashed forward, and his massive fist came crashing down on Zola's head without hesitation, knocking him straight to the floor. Zola's face slammed against the train's metal floor, immediately drawing blood as his agonized screams rang out.
While Alex was busy teaching Zola a lesson, Natasha moved as swiftly as a cheetah and quickly knocked the Hydra agents in the carriage to the ground. Turning and seeing Alex brutally beating Zola, she hurried over to stop him. "Don't hit him anymore. Be careful not to kill him!"
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing!" As he spoke, Alex landed another punch on Zola's chest. "I learned this move from you—painful, but not fatal!" Seeing Zola curl up desperately in agony, Alex could not help laughing. "Now it looks like this move is pretty good!"
Natasha raised an eyebrow, looking quite pleased with herself.
Just then, Nick's hoarse voice sounded through both their earpieces. "Alex, we've run into trouble!"
Alex's heart skipped a beat. He shouted urgently, "What happened? Is Steve okay?" In the movie, Bucky had gotten into trouble on this train, but Bucky had already sunk into the vast sea. Could Steve be about to become another casualty beneath the wheels of history?
"Their firepower is too strong... Ah!" Nick had not even finished speaking before a miserable scream rang out, followed by silence in the earpiece.
Seeing Alex on the verge of flying into a rage, Natasha gently patted his shoulder and pointed at a screen nearby. It displayed a chaotic battle in one of the train cars. "There are cameras here."
Alex glanced at it, then vanished from where he stood. When he reappeared, he was already inside the carriage where the battle was taking place.
Seeing Alex appear, Logan could not help showing a relieved smile. "Alex, if you'd come any later, we would've been in real trouble."
Alex turned to look around. They were huddled in the corner between two train cars. Steve stood outside with his shield raised, both hands gripping it trembling faintly. Nick leaned against the train wall with one hand pressed to his waist, crimson blood flowing through his fingers. Logan was not injured, but his uniform had already been shredded to pieces.
"What exactly happened?" Alex truly could not understand how Steve and the other two, with their abilities, had been driven into such a desperate situation.
Logan shrugged and pointed across the carriage. There was a large hole there, with howling wind pouring in. He said helplessly, "We never expected Baron Strucker to still be alive. We let our guard down and got caught off guard, nearly blasted off the train." After a slight pause, Logan continued, "That cannon is just too powerful. Even Steve can't withstand it. We can only hide."
"Oh, and there's a swordsman too. He's extremely strong!" After a brief pause, Logan pointed at Nick. "Nick was wounded by him."
"Strucker?!" Alex was shocked as well. If he had encountered him suddenly, he probably would have been startled too.
Alex cautiously poked his head out to check the situation outside. Just as he did, an energy shell the size of a human head came whistling toward him and struck the door between the cars, blowing it away completely.
"Run!" Before Alex could react, Steve grabbed him while Logan hauled Nick up. They rushed out of the corner and sprinted toward the cars farther back before ducking sideways into another corner.
The moment the four stopped, the corner where they had been hiding was blasted to pieces, and wind and snow flooded into the carriage.
"Damn, that's fierce!" Alex looked at the newly blasted hole with lingering fear, then turned to the slightly weakened Nick and said grimly, "We can't keep hiding. Steve, help hold him off. I'll deal with him!"
Steve nodded, raised his shield, and charged out. Alex followed close behind. With a glance upward, he used Teleportation and instantly appeared beside the figure carrying the Heavy Cannon. Even after being warned, seeing the living Strucker again still made Alex's heart tremble. The dagger in his hand involuntarily veered aside and stabbed into Strucker's shoulder.
To Alex's surprise, his dagger slid away as though it had scraped against steel and thrown off a string of sparks, leaving Strucker completely unharmed.
"Impervious to blades and bullets?!" Alex was utterly shocked.
Just then, a sword suddenly appeared behind Alex, and he failed to react at all.
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