Chapter 272: Jack in the Box

Chapter 272: Jack in the Box

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"Father!?" Proxima ignored Drax's taunt as well as her severed arm, which was still gushing blood everywhere, and rushed into the blast zone.

"Where do you think you're going?!" Rocket yelled as he and everyone else turned their weaponry in her direction.

Instantly, a dense hail of colorful blaster bolts shot toward Proxima's open back, though she never turned back nor did she even tried to dodge.

Her father's safety was her and the Black Orders' top priority, after all.

"Ugh!" Proxima grunted as her back was pelted with blast after blast, trudging her way to her father's position.

"This lady is nuts..." Rocket commented as another one of his shots hit her on the shoulder.

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"Petty tricks..." Thanos muttered as the smoke cleared, revealing his slightly disheveled form.

"F-Father..." Proxima smiled weakly as she fell at his feet, continuing to leak blood everywhere.

Although the explosion was powerful, it only left the Mad Titan with a few spots of black soot on his body and some torn clothes, making Proxima dying efforts absolutely meaningless.

His body didn't seem to have the slightest scratch anywhere, which was impressive because the area around him showed just how powerful that explosion really was.

Thanos stood in a 10 feet deep crater where the street once was. While the buildings around him, which were practically untouched only moments ago, have completely collapsed from the shockwave.

"?" Thanos curiously peered down at the Orb in his hand, completely ignoring his dead daughter's body.

"I wouldn't open that if I were you." Peter warned.

Of course, the Mad Titan didn't heed his warning.

Ripping it open with his bare hands, Thanos expected to see the bright light of a purple Infinity Stone...

As the Orb separated in the middle, a spring-loaded jack-in-the-box clown popped out. ????

Thanos didn't even flinch as he turned to look at Peter with a humorless glare.

"The games end-" Thanos spoke though he was interrupted by a wet surprise.

*Psshhht*

A black liquid shot out of the mouth hole on the clowns head, spraying the Mad Titans face.

A few sprays even landed in his eyes, nose, and mouth.

"!?" Thanos quickly threw the Orb aside and started wiping his face. "What is this..."

As he looked down at his hands, which were now covered in a black substance, Thanos could feel his strength slowly leaving his body.

And as his strength went, the pain started to kick in.

Starting from his mouth, nose, and eyes, an excruciating burning shot through his entire body, unlike anything he's ever felt before.

Peter watched in interest as Thanos' skin turned pale and his veins began to show, turning a deep black in the process.

"I told you not to open it..." Peter said in an 'I told you so' sort of manner.

'With this, Thanos will hopefully keep underestimating me.' Peter thought as he got back to work cleaning out the Collectors museum.

'I should probably kill that mind-controlling snake...'

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"Tony, what's so important that I have to rush here during a meeting with three generals?" A dark-skinned man in a military uniform came storming into Tony's Lab. "And who the hell is that?"

Rhodes turned to the green-skinned woman who was leaning on a car in the corner.

"That's our navigator." Tony says excitedly as he grabs a thin glowing object and slaps it on his friend's chest.

"W-What are you doing?" Rhodes asked as he looked down at the arc reactor attached to him.

"It's a present." Tony says as he taps the reactor like a button.

Instantly, waves of metal shoot out of the reactor and covers Rhodes' body completely, forming an all-black War Machine armor set.

[Insert picture of War Machine Mark VII here]

Gamora watched on with an impressed look on her face.

For a non-spacefaring planet like Earth, weaponry of this caliber was completely unheard of.

"Is this what I think it is?!" Rhodes shouted from inside the suit.

"Yup, I thought that since we're going to explore space together, you and Pepper would need your own suits." Tony says as the sound of high heels clacking could be heard.

"I get one too?" Pepper asks with her arms crossed as she stood in the doorway, admiring Rhodes' new armor.

"Wait, did you say space?!" Rhodes kept screaming.

"You know, you don't have to yell. The helmet will project your voice to us." Tony explains.

"Oh, sorry..." Rhodes practically whispered this time around.

"We're going to space?" Pepper asks as she eyes a triangular-shaped arc reactor next to Tony. "Who's going to run your company?"

"Happy and Jarvis will have it covered." Tony says as he walks up to her with the Arc reactor in hand. "Come on... Don't you want to see what's out there? Visit an alien planet or two? It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Pepper seemed to hesitate for a moment before grabbing the reactor from Tony's hand.

"So, how does this thing work?" She asked as Tony smirked in victory. "Just put it on like this..."

Tapping her chest just like before, Pepper was covered in a blue and silver form-fitting Iron Man armor.

[Insert picture of Mark XLIX Iron Man armor here]

"Looking good." Tony commented as he tapped his own chest.

Once again, metal waves rushed out of the reactor and covered his body in his updated red and gold Iron Man suit.

[Insert picture of Tony's endgame suit here]

"Can I have one of those as well?" Gamora asks.

"""No.""" Three voices deny her all at the same time.

"..."

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