allonlinenovel Chapter 169: Unexpectedly, an accident occurred.
Chapter 169: Unexpectedly, an accident occurred.
Chapter 169: Unexpectedly, an accident occurred.
Joey is preparing to travel to the parallel world of 2099.
Perhaps building a time machine capable of traversing the timeline of our own universe would require considering many pain points and be extremely difficult to implement, but traversing parallel universes would not present such significant concerns or difficulties.
The reason Joey wanted to go to 2099 was because the Spider-Men predicted that a major battle would take place in that parallel universe.
The heir is going to have good luck.
They used the two young family members as a decoy while simultaneously launching an attack on the Spider-Men from the other side.
Under normal circumstances, Joey should have been able to reach the scene in an instant, unless he was entangled with the Destroyer as he is now.
By the time they realized what was happening, it was too late.
A successor named "Kane" suddenly attacks, taking away the other Spider-Men from a warehouse in Queens...:
Wait a minute—Spider-Girl, EVA Spider-Man, Spider-Ham, and the local Peter Parker, Joey counted the number of people.
Although all four were covered in dust and dirt, at least they were not in mortal danger, which puzzled him somewhat:
"So what exactly are you crying about?"
The scene mainly featured Maddie Parker, the Spider-Girl, weeping uncontrollably. Spider-Ham and Peter, who was still in high school, tried their best to comfort her, but to no avail.
SP/DR pilot Penny Parker maintained her icy expression. Her Spider-Man armor had lost an arm in the previous engagement, but despite the excruciating pain, she explained the situation to Joey:
"Maiden's brother, Benjamin Parker, was taken away by that heir."
"How are you?"
Even Xinghuo, who was standing nearby, could feel the intense pain to some extent. She couldn't imagine how this petite girl could remain so calm under such suffering.
"I'm fine, this pain won't last long."
Penny Parker, too lazy to explain to outsiders how she was connected to the Spider-Mech, continued to explain the current situation to herself:
"The heirs definitely have a plan. In the past, they would only devour their prey on the spot, not go to such lengths to snatch a baby."
Stopping Xinghuo, who was about to ask Penny a few more words of concern, Joey decided to first understand the cause and effect before getting rid of those annoying flies once and for all: "Give me a recap."
As for Penny Parker's current mental state, Joey thinks it's purely due to piloting the mech.
Especially after learning that she had a classmate named Shinji, he became even more convinced of his opinion. The red spider mech she piloted was a dangerous technology that the humans of that world had not yet fully mastered, and such products were always accompanied by unimaginable tragedies.
Every Spider-Man in every universe obviously has his own troubles. Maddie Parker is the daughter of Peter Parker, the Spider-Man from a parallel universe. Her Spider-Family lived a peaceful life until one day, a man named Morlen came and brutally murdered her entire family.
If it weren't for Spider-Man from another universe coming to the rescue in time, she and her brother Benjamin Parker, who was still naked in the throes of violence, would probably not have escaped their clutches.
The process of traveling through parallel universes with other Spider-Men to find other Spider-Men who are being hunted and seek refuge together is also Medea Parker's escape route.
The transfers and escapes across multiple universes made Maddie Parker realize that her brother might have a very special meaning to the Heirs, so much so that they always pursued him relentlessly.
Just the day before, after witnessing how easily a "Superman," unlike anything ever heard of in this universe, wiped out members of the Heirs family, Maddie Parker transferred her baby brother to this universe for safety and protection, but it was all in vain.
"You mean I failed in my duty as a protector?"
When Joey countered with his question, Penny Parker remained unfazed: "I didn't mean that at all. After all, this is just an internal matter for us Spider-Man."
"No longer."
Joey had to admit that he had unconsciously relaxed after arriving in the Marvel Universe, and the Heir's raid should never have succeeded.
He could have multitasked, keeping a constant eye on Spider-Man's situation, just like he did in the previous universe, keeping an eye on Batman, Atlantis, and Billy.
However, his peaceful state of mind led him to become complacent, which resulted in his current mistake.
In Joey's view, a race of vampires who revel in hunting other Spider-Men from the multiverse and feed on the souls and lives of others has no reason to exist:
"There will be no place for heir families in the multiverse."
"So that's how it is."
Tony, who was hunched over the workbench with Joey, absentmindedly whistled:
"Phew~ The multiverse is truly wild—look, this big red button is finished. Use your thermal vision to polish it for me. No, it's fine, it's just that my OCD is acting up. Quickly polish it into a perfect circle!"
With Tony, a scientific genius, and Joey, who possessed observation and processing capabilities down to the atomic level, the two worked together efficiently to create the teleportation device in an extremely short time.
Starfire had already left for Flashpoint to recharge her Green Lantern Ring. Without the Green Lantern Ring as her primary means of communication, she was constantly hampered. As a living star, she could easily annihilate her enemies, but she couldn't control the collateral damage.
Due to the limited flow of time between the two universes, ten minutes on one side is equivalent to three or four days on the other.
Joey doesn't have time to wait for her now. After he leaves and settles things with the heir family, he'll probably still have time to throw a welcome party for Spark.
"Shall we set off now?"
"us?"
When Tony asked him this, Joey was taken aback:
"It's me who's setting off, not you—this is a life-or-death mission against a multiverse vampire family, not a picnic."
According to the information and coordinates provided by the Spider Trio who went ahead using a small teleportation device, the Spider Legion had already assembled in a future parallel universe in 2099.
All the Spider-Men summoned from across the multiverse have gathered here, using that world as their base of operations against the Heirs.
In Joey's view, such a gathering was a bit too ostentatious, but it was a helpless move for the Spider-Men. If they were to disperse, they would be hunted down one by one without any chance to fight back.
While gathering together carries the risk of being wiped out in one fell swoop, at least it gives them the possibility of fighting back.
The successor might be a bit weak for beings of Joey and Thor's caliber, but for Tony now, it's a lethal threat that would kill him instantly.
"You yourself said that I'll be a super invincible villain in the future—doesn't that mean I'm invincible right now?"
"You can't use this to predict future events!"
"Please, Joey, that's 2099!"
Tony, who was struggling to decipher the core of the Amora, was already getting restless when he first heard the word "2099":
Have you ever heard of "reinventing the wheel" in programming?
The so-called "reinventing the wheel" means that given the existing solution of a round wheel, you try to invent a new type of wheel. In the end, you will find that you will still arrive at the same conclusion and return to the round wheel.
In the context of programming, this means creating a new solution from scratch, even when mature solutions already exist.
Tony now needs new technological equipment and methodologies to study the Amozzo Core, and these new devices and theories are the "wheels" that may be everywhere by 2099.
Although Tony was confident he could do better than the people of 2099 if given a month or two, why waste months on something that could be solved with a glance?
Moreover, his and Joey's time is now extremely valuable; the time warp between the two universes can only buy them a little over a year of time at most.
If the established goals are not achieved within a year, Joey's Earth will likely face destruction in a cosmic-scale war.
"All right!
"
After much deliberation, Tony's words finally convinced Joey: "Go put on your armor, prepare the inter-world communication channel, I'll teleport first, and contact you after I confirm it's safe."
Upon hearing this, Iron Man revealed an expression of being prepared. He spread his arms, and the various parts of the Iron Man suit flew from the display stand and seamlessly fitted onto his body.
After installing the locator to pinpoint the universes where Spider-Men were located, Tony watched Joey step onto the teleportation platform:
"Ready, I'll count to three, one, two..."
"Wait a minute!"
Uneasy, Joey interrupted Tony's countdown: "Check the parameters again, just in case anything goes wrong!"
Having suffered greatly from teleportation, Joey only began to look around cautiously after stepping onto the teleportation matrix. After all, every time he teleported, something always went wrong, so he couldn't help but be careful.
"Don't worry, I'm not like Cyborg, a second-rate operator using top-notch hardware. I'm the genius Tony Stark!"
The genius Tony Stark scanned the control panel, checked the parameters three more times, and after confirming they were correct, slammed down the large red button he had just built specifically to activate the teleportation device:
"start up!"
A flash of white light appeared before their eyes, and Joey vanished without a trace.
Tony picked up the communicator beside him and began speaking into another parallel universe:
"How is it? Is it completely accurate?"
[How is it? Is it completely error-free?]
All Tony heard was an echo, and it was incredibly close to him!
Turning his head, the genius Tony Stark saw the communicator that Joey was supposed to carry around the world perfectly intact on the worktable, and exclaimed in shock, "Holy crap!"
We were so focused on checking the parameters that we forgot to attach the communicator to Joey!
This communication device is also a transmission terminal. You need this to come back. Now, Tony has essentially thrown Joey into another unknown universe without tying a rope to pull him back!
"Jarvis, use the teleporter to send me there!"
Tony grabbed the communicator and had no choice but to continue teleporting, completely unaware of the situation in the other universe.
Perhaps I'll find peace and tranquility after landing, or perhaps I'll land right in the middle of a battlefield, or maybe I'll be teleported into outer space with bad luck...
However, I've been transmitting data according to both coordinates and the locator, so there shouldn't be any major problems, right?
A flash of white light appeared before his eyes, and Tony, clad in his armor, found himself in a new parallel universe.
Tony was standing on a highway, with three motorcycle gang members speeding away in front of him and the roar of motorcycles behind him.
Caught off guard, Tony was knocked flat on his back.
"Damn it, are you alright?!"
Tony was unharmed after being knocked over by the motorcycle. His Mark 11 was already capable of withstanding the bombardment of almost all conventional weapons on Earth, and a speeding motorcycle couldn't even scratch him.
On the contrary, the motorcyclist might suffer broken bones. Tony never expected that his sudden appearance in this world would bring trouble to others first.
But it's 2099 already, are there still motorcycle gangs running rampant somewhere on Earth?
Thinking this, Tony got up and prepared to help the motorcyclist who had also fallen to the ground, only to find that the motorcyclist's outfit looked somewhat familiar.
Red and blue uniform, spider web pattern, spider mask—isn't this one of the 'Spider-Men' Joey was talking about?
"Are you Spider-Man?"
Spider-Man, who was chasing the Iron Cross Legion's strange men, picked up his motorcycle. Seeing that the strange men had already escaped, he had no choice but to give up for the time being.
He had no idea who this suddenly appeared tin man was, but his spider-sense didn't warn him of any danger.
So, Spider-Man, Takuya Yamashiro, politely answered Iron Man's question:
"Yes, Watashiwa 1400 Grandma Desu!"
A flash of white light appeared before his eyes, and Joey found himself in a new parallel universe.
Kryptonians' senses have enabled them to perceive changes in the universe through "feeling" without needing to carefully verify the cosmological constants of this world.
It was the right decision not to let Tony teleport with him, because the place Joey was in might be slightly unsuitable for ordinary people to live in.
At this moment, behind him is a yellow sun, around him is the vacuum of space, beneath his feet is the blue Earth, and in front of him is a red sun...
"Um?!"
When Joey looked again, he realized that what was in front of him was not a red sun, but a huge red sphere rushing towards him!
The reason it resembles the sun is that when it first appeared in this new universe, this thing traveling at faster-than-light speed was already less than ten feet away from it!
At this distance, facing this red sphere that was faster than a Kryptonian's fist, Joey could only exclaim, "Holy crap, what the hell is this?!" before being hit squarely.
The Kryptonian biofield collided with the sphere, and the clash of energies triggered a massive explosion. This cosmic-scale fireworks display was visible to almost the entire eastern hemisphere of Earth, day and night.
Realizing that he was probably destined to be at odds with the portals, Joey, in his last moments before losing consciousness, seemed to see the red sphere that collided with him shatter upon impact, revealing the pure light within.