American Comics: The Matrix

Chapter 8 So, why are speedsters always one step slower?
Bant pulled out his arm, which was like a gun.

Iron Man visibly twitched, and a short burst of electric sound came out of his suit. At the same time, the light of his helmet dimmed after a flash.

"Boom!"

The heavy armor fell to the ground with a loud bang, and a small gap appeared on the bright blue reactor, as if it had been hit by a pickaxe.

"Sir, the reactor is damaged and energy is leaking."

Through the armor, Bant could hear Jarvis' voice.

Tony knew the seriousness of the matter better than Jarvis did, without him telling him!
You know, now this reactor is not only the energy source of the armor, but also the source of his life!

It is embedded in Tony's chest cavity, and it is the energy provided by the reactor that allows the electromagnet to absorb the tiny particle shrapnel in his body to prevent them from flowing into the heart through the blood.

Bant's powerful blow shattered the reactor's outer shell, which could be said to have hit Iron Man's vital point.

Although there are only some surface cracks, which will not cause all the energy to be lost or even stop the reactor, but in this case, the leakage of palladium in the reactor will be very serious!
In just a few seconds, Tony's palladium poisoning symptoms had greatly worsened!

Seeing this, Jarvis did not hesitate to reduce the operating speed of the reactor so that it could only maintain Tony's normal life activities, trying to use this method to reduce the rate of palladium poisoning.

"Calling Miss Potts for you."

"Don't!"

Tony endured the nausea and dizziness brought on by palladium poisoning and cut off Jarvis' call without hesitation.

He still doesn't know what Bant is, nor does he know what his purpose is, and how he could put Pepper in danger!
"Now let's see how much time we have, Tony Stark." Bant fought back. Of course, at this point, he didn't plan to continue.

Killing Iron Man would do him no good, but - he looked at Mark III and examined the iron armor for a few seconds - this thing was worth studying.

'Perhaps the little warrior can come up with something.'

Thinking of this, Bant acted without hesitation. He planned to disassemble Tony's suit into parts and then pack them up and take them away!
Most of the time travelers who traveled to Marvel had to steal something after gaining their abilities, and the unlucky ones were naturally the poor and empty wallets of those street thugs, but in Bant's case, the victim was Iron Man.

But he brought this upon himself.

You know, this guy also wants to capture Bant and take him back for dissection research!
Bant only took away one piece of his armor, which was nothing.

He did what he said, and his hands left almost an afterimage. In just a moment, he had cut off one of Iron Man's arms.

"What on earth do you want to do?" Tony yelled nervously.

After the armor was turned off, his field of vision was actually very limited. Just like a man in a leather suit, he could only see a narrow gap. However, he could feel that one of his arms had lost the protection of the suit and was exposed to the air.

This made him very nervous and scared. He felt like a can waiting to be opened...

"Time is money, Tony. You delayed me for several minutes. I have to make up for my loss." Bant violently dismantled the armor and soon lifted Tony's mask.

Suddenly, a disgusting sour smell hit me in the face.

"Oh!" Bant felt as if the air in front of him had turned into another color. Half of his body fell backwards, trying to avoid the strange smell. "You vomited in the armor? How disgusting!"

It was a can, but I didn’t expect it to be canned herring.

He looked at the steel mask he had removed in his hand, and felt as if he had unscrewed a Lao Gan Ma mask but his hands were covered in oil. He wanted to throw it away but was reluctant to do so.

After all, this is a large-sized figure, and it can move!

So he shook it hard, and threw the disgusting vomit back into Tony's face. Tony took a deep breath, his face turned pale, and even his hair was wet.

"Who do you think gave this to me?"

"Of course it's you. Remember, I warned you not to meddle in other people's business!" Bant said, speeding up the disassembly of the armor. "I have to wash this thing a hundred times first, and squeeze a whole can of detergent!"

"I have a better suggestion. Leave it alone."

"Shut up!"

Bant found time to punch him.

In less than half a minute, he had completely dismantled the armor. Now, carrying a pile of parts that were almost as tall as himself, he said goodbye to Tony happily.

"I advise you to call your girlfriend, otherwise you will have to walk back to Stark Tower." Bant reminded enthusiastically, "and then the next day, your current appearance will be on the headlines of every news."

After saying this, Bant left with the loose suits.

What's strange is that Flash Star seems to have abilities similar to force fields. Although there are a lot of parts and his speed is incredibly fast, not a single screw is lost due to wind resistance or inertia.

"Wait, Flashstar does have a force field-like ability, otherwise every person he rescued would be cut in half by his speed. But it shouldn't be this strong!"

Bant reacted quickly.

"Unless, Flash Star got a little bit of Spider-Man's powers and used bio-static electricity to stick those tiny parts together!"

Thinking of this, Bant immediately became excited.

After transforming into an alien hero, can you actually add on Spider-Man’s abilities?

This is so cool too!
But so far, this is just Bant's guess. At least the spider sense was not triggered when fighting with Tony just now.

Bant also quickly checked whether there was a positioning device inside the armor.

FlashStar has the speed to try millions of password combinations in tens of seconds, and it takes less than a second to fully check the armor.

As a result, he found a small locator.

After destroying the locator, he hid the armor.

There is no rush to research Mark's battle suit. No matter how fast we study it, we have to wait until he becomes a little hero.

Now, the most important thing for him is to go back to school.

It took him another ten seconds to arrive at the school in a relaxed and comfortable manner, avoiding every camera that might discover him, spending a long few dozen seconds in the toilet, and finally turning back to his original appearance in a burst of red light.

It was at this moment that the school bell rang, and Bant rushed into the classroom desperately before the final deadline.

"Very good, arrived on time!"

"Not good at all, Bant Parker!" The head teacher's face was livid. He stood on the podium and squinted. He raised his arm expressionlessly, "You are late!"

So, why are speedsters always late?

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