I'm a hero in Marvel
Chapter 39 Alley
The two little girls watched the drug dealer's body gradually disappear, leaving only a pile of bones. Mindy jumped down from the trash can and said to Laura, "Your nails seem very sharp. Can you help me chop these bones into pieces?" Laura nodded and stretched out her adamantium claws again, cutting all the remaining bones into powder as easily as cutting tofu. Mindy threw the remaining bones into the sewer, and in this way, all traces of the drug dealer in the world were completely cleaned up. They did it quietly and thoroughly. Who would have thought that it was done by two girls who were only thirteen years old?
"You need this money to support your life now, right?" Mindy asked Laura after she finished the process, remembering the cash Laura had just taken from the drug dealer.
"Yes." Laura nodded in agreement.
"But you're only thirteen years old. Holding a large amount of cash will attract other people's attention, especially if you don't have any family." Mindy looked at Laura worriedly, and her concern seemed sincere and deep.
Sometimes interpersonal relationships are so wonderful that sometimes you can have a strong liking for each other when you first meet. Especially when two people keep a secret together, this liking will deepen. Although the secret that Mindy and Laura kept was quite horrifying - they teamed up to kill a drug dealer and destroyed his body, in any case, it was a shared secret between them. At a certain moment, Mindy had already regarded Laura as a friend, otherwise she would not help her destroy the body; similarly, Laura also regarded Mindy as a friend, otherwise she would not accept Mindy's help. The two little girls stood face to face.
"Where do you live now?" Mindy put on her backpack and took Laura's hand and left the alley.
"An abandoned factory warehouse." Laura did not hide it. She instinctively felt that Mindy was trustworthy.
"That's not good, wait a minute." Mindy muttered, leaving the alley and entering a convenience store on the side of the road. After a while, she came out with a bottle of mineral water.
"Come here, give me your hand." Mindy unscrewed the cap of the mineral water bottle, and Laura handed over her blood-stained little hand. Mindy carefully washed the blood off Laura's hand with water from the bottle.
"It's not safe to live here, and it's not safe with so much cash. You need to find a new shelter and can't always live this way. Tempting drug dealers and getting involved in criminal activities will sooner or later bring you trouble, especially when you are alone." Mindy muttered to herself as she helped Laura wash her hands.
Laura stared at Mindy with wide eyes. The girl in front of her with twin ponytails and blonde hair was smiling. Although they had only known each other for an hour, they felt as close as close friends who grew up together.
"Don't giggle." Mindy finished the mineral water, threw the empty bottle into the trash can, then lowered her head and said to Laura: "I think I can help you find a place to live. It's much better than living in that shabby place. If you trust me."
"Of course I trust you," Laura replied with a smile, while squeezing Mindy's hand.
Mindy squeezed Laura's hand and said, "Well, although no one has lived there for a while, I think it should be okay. Let's go! I'll take you there now."
Mindy held Laura's hand and walked forward, and their figures gradually disappeared at the end of the street.
There is a special military court in the Pentagon in Washington, but it is not used very often. Although it is indeed a military court, the US military does not usually use this court in the Pentagon to try cases because it mainly targets senior generals within the military.
The United States has not tried officers above the rank of brigadier general for a long time. After all, this is not wartime. During wartime, generals sometimes stood trial in court for arbitrary decisions or some misconduct. However, in peacetime, many things are more relaxed. Unless there is an irreparable major mistake, senior generals are usually not sent to military courts. After all, it is really not a good look for the military.
Admiral Ross, who presided over the military trial, remembered that it had been nearly ten years since he had seen a brigadier general-level officer being brought to a military court.
However, this time, the US government and military convened several prestigious generals in the military to form a review team and activated the military court in the Pentagon because some of them had committed a serious mistake that neither the government nor the military could tolerate.
It can even be said that in any era, the mistake he made would have been enough to send him to the guillotine, because he mobilized a troop without the authorization of Congress and the military high command.
Nearly 300 fully armed soldiers carrying weapons of mass destruction were sent to New York by a major general named Stryker to carry out a mission: destroy the mutant school. And it was Stryker himself who ordered the deployment of the troops.
Fortunately for everyone, Charles disbanded Xavier School for Gifted People ahead of schedule, which left Stryker empty-handed. When he arrived, he was greeted by an empty campus, where everything inside had been cleared out and all the information had been destroyed.
Stryker was furious that he couldn't even find any information about the students on campus.
However, others were relieved. If the mutant school was still operating normally at the time, it is foreseeable that Stryker would have a fierce conflict with the X-Men.
No one can predict what kind of results and aftershocks this conflict will bring. Imagine that three hundred elite soldiers armed with heavy weapons encounter equally well-trained X-Men.
It is almost needless to think that there will be a fierce confrontation between the two sides. The scene is comparable to a small war!
If such a small-scale war happened in New York, it would be terrifying to think about it. The common people didn't care about the cause and effect of the matter. They only knew that a general led a group of soldiers to raid a mutant school.
What kind of political storm will this stir up? How will Congress and the White House explain all this to the public? Should they just say that this was caused by a soldier acting on his own initiative?
Haha! If you really say that, the whole United States will be in a panic. People will think that Congress and the White House can no longer control the military. Once such a thing is exposed, it will be enough to force the entire Congress to reorganize and may even shake the presidency.
Moreover, the reason why the general attacked the mutant school cannot be made public, because he came to retaliate because his own mutant experimental base was destroyed. How can such a reason be given? If the truth is exposed, the situation faced by the military and the government may become more serious.
Therefore, assuming that the mutant school had not been disbanded, Charles and others were still in the school, and a war eventually broke out between the two sides, then the US government and military, who were left to clean up the mess, had only one way to go.
That is to do everything possible to cover up everything Stryker did and keep him! This has nothing to do with right or wrong, nor does it matter whether you like it or not. Maybe the government will settle accounts in the future, but there is no choice at the moment. This is the complexity of politics. It is precisely because Stryker knows this that he will mobilize the army without scruples.
Unfortunately, he did not expect Charles' determination. Professor X's thinking was more far-reaching than his. He hoped to avoid further escalation of the conflict between mutants and ordinary people. Once Magneto's plan was launched, the mutant school would become a sitting duck.
If Charles did not join Magneto's camp, he actually had only one choice - to give up all his previous efforts and let his years of hard work go to waste.
All of this is within the plan of Magneto Eric. If he wants to weaken Professor X's influence in the mutant community, his first priority is to eradicate the school.
It can be said that the whole incident is like a tightly linked chain. In this complicated game of power, although Stryker, as a US military general, is outstanding, he is ultimately not as good as Magneto and Professor X.
Therefore, all his plans failed, whether it was pushing the bill or later attempting to attack the mutant school. He was defeated and now he has to stand trial in this military court.
"The defendant, Major General Stryker, is charged with arbitrarily mobilizing troops on the evening of May 10th. Does the defendant plead guilty?" General Ross read out the charges concisely.
Unauthorized mobilization of troops is a serious crime, and Congress, the White House, and the Pentagon are determined to severely punish Stryker, even if someone pleads for mercy. This is related to the fundamental power and ruling power of the country.
So this trial was more like a formality, to warn other generals what should and should not be done.
Stryker lowered his head and said nothing, neither denying nor refuting. He knew that his defense was meaningless, and he must have already reached a conclusion internally.
As expected, General Ross did not pay attention to Stryker's silence and continued: "In view of the defendant's tacit admission of guilt, this court, on behalf of the Pentagon and Congress, rules as follows."
"The defendant Stryker is guilty of treason, terrorism, incitement and inhumane experiments..." General Ross read out the documents one by one. Stryker didn't care about it at all because he knew that all this was no longer important.
"This court declares that former U.S. Army Major General Stryker has been found guilty. You will be executed by injection at 3:00 pm today at the Pentagon Military Court!"
After General Ross finished speaking, he glanced at his watch. It was 2:45 p.m., leaving only 15 minutes to prepare for the execution. Congress, the White House, and the military were determined to deal with Stryker's mistake quickly, severely, and strictly.
He waved his hand to signal the personnel who had been on standby to begin preparations.
"Is that really the case?" Stryker thought to himself. This was the worst possible outcome he had anticipated. As a soldier, Stryker was not afraid of death, but he did not want to die like a prisoner.
When Stryker was tied to the injection bed, his former colleagues watched quietly not far away. They saw the executioner take out the injection needle from the briefcase and prepare it until the liquid medicine was injected into Stryker's vein. Then, they watched Stryker's heart stop beating. Everything went smoothly. Until the body carrier took Stryker's body away, General Ross watched Stryker's body leave, and then sighed softly, and I don't know what he was sighing about.
……
Death by injection is not actually painful, it is just like a shot of sedative. You will quickly fall into a coma, and then your heart and breathing will stop. During this process, you will not feel any pain.
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