Chaos and Order - A Multiverse Fanfic

0158 Mark 1 - Failed Skill and Dire Circumstances! (I)

The first name that popped up in Kai's mind as he saw this new enemy was Iron Man.

Meg had told him about the basic facts from the Marvel timelines, just enough to go on in case of random encounters. She knew little about the vast timeline herself, and even the strongest organizations had yet to explore the mysteries lingering in its corners thoroughly.

And knowing this was the exact reason that had puzzled him.

Where was the usual red and yellow? Why was this suit, if it was a suit, looked more beast than a human? Why was it so big?

Kai felt as if Andrik had come to him, wearing the bulkiest armor he could find in the entirety of Westeros.

The metallic suit was gray, and it spoke of nothing but power.

Raw power.

"Blessing?!" a voice boomed out of the iron suit, guessing the reason behind Kai's Golduck appearance.

Kai narrowed his eyes. Before he could take action, the iron man lifted his hand, pointing at him. A dangerous feeling bubbled inside him, and in the next moment, a jet of scorching flame shot out, trying to burn him to ashes.

Kai danced away, slithering low over the deck, the remaining needles still revolving around him.

The Iron Man's hand didn't follow, and it seemed extremely slow to Kai, too. But what he saw next made him give up distancing himself from it. The flames weren't meant for him, Kai concluded, raging. The heat had meant for the freezing red-haired man, who was now standing up, panting. There was something about those flames which made even the intangible serpents melt away.

A figure landed behind the two 4th-floor Contestants, then.

It was a paper-Meg.

From the starboard and port, two blue figures climbed up, thrashing their tails — paper-Golduck-Kai. Another blue-tailed figure followed them, and then one more, until there were five Golduck-Kais on deck now, all looking equally menacing and cold. Three paper-Goldduck-Kais rushed towards the original, and the moment they entered within the 10-meter radius around him, he sent the needles flying towards them, which started to revolve around their head, just like the one revolving around him.

This was the strategy Kai had planned to use in case of unexpected scenarios.

"It's the Model 1 Mark 1 armor from Iron Man!" Meg's origami figure shouted, "Original Gray Armor! It has quite a few odd offensive and defensive properties, master, but it's slow!"

The person inside the Iron Man suit guffawed. "Slow?" the man said, turning around to face Kai, as the red-haired man threw a red and blue capsule in his mouth. "If you know about Original Gray Armor, then you must have heard these words as well. The Mark I Armor isn't about pretty. It's about power. It's about iron and the man wielding it. You think a few clones will help you guys? Here? In the middle of nowhere?"

"Don't worry about him, Charles," the red-haired man spat, raising the greatsword, and eying the original Meg firing arrows at Gyarados. "Our plan has worked. The idiot must have already used too much MP while finishing all the weaklings, and then using those ghostly serpents. Do you see those needles? He has been using Telekinesis since the moment he showed himself. Heh! Blessing he may have, but brains? I doubt it. Keep an eye out for the Telekinesis."

"Haha!" the iron man laughed derisively. "Let him try, Yannis. I will give him a pleasant surprise. But first... let me do something about his Telekinesis."

Kai had been letting the fools rant, trying to get some meaningful information out of them.

But as he heard the last sentence, his Perception roared again, screaming in his ears.