Chapter 374 Avengers 1.5: Invasion (Part 1) (Patreon)

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"Hey! Schiller, what's wrong?!!"

Stark turned to look at Schiller, but he didn't see him. Instead, he saw a gray mist floating in the air. Stark watched as the mist suddenly dispersed and enveloped the woman in the black cloak, causing her to rapidly retreat and crash through a window.

Stark and Steve looked at each other. Steve opened his mouth and hesitated before asking, "Did Schiller kidnap her?"

"It's more likely that she kidnapped Schiller," Stark also hesitated before saying.

"But..."

"Just now, Schiller called us to tell us there were enemies here, so it's more likely that he was kidnapped by them," Stark continued.

"But it's obvious..." Steve wanted to say more, but he paused and then said, "Okay, Schiller has no reason to kidnap her, otherwise why would he call us? Maybe Dr. Schiller is being controlled by her..."

"We need to find a way to rescue him," Stark rubbed his chin and said, "Did you hear that terrifying laughter just now? It gave me a creepy feeling..."

Steve nodded and said, "Yes, maybe there's something wrong with the thing that was injected into Schiller...after the needle hit Dr. Schiller, he became a bit abnormal..."

Steve frowned, looking a bit anxious, and said, "We need to rescue Schiller quickly, otherwise he might be in danger."

Stark pressed a button on his arm and said, "Let's go back first. We need to start with the information Schiller gave us earlier."

"He just had Peter bring us that information, and then he was attacked by a mysterious person. This might be Hydra trying to silence him," Steve said as he jumped out of the window and landed on the balcony. He turned back and said, "I know you're still mad at me about Peter getting hurt...I was wrong."

Stark also flew out of the window and into the air. He looked back at Steve and said, "We'll talk about apologies later. We still have unfinished business between us."

On the other side, the mysterious woman in the black cloak, who was wrapped in gray mist and taken away from the hospital, was placed in a dark corner of an alley. Schiller reappeared, but with a Joker mask on his face. Before the woman could speak, he said, "You idiot! You almost blew my cover!"

"I finally infiltrated the Superhero Squad organized by S.H.I.E.L.D. This is a secret plan that brings together all the powerful superheroes in New York, including our archenemies Captain America and Iron Man..."

"Recently, the organization has lost too many people, so I had to surface to solve these problems. They've been watching me, and you, like a stupid grasshopper, jumped in front of me. If I hadn't reacted quickly, we might have been caught by them!"

Schiller's tone was filled with anger, which made the woman in the black cloak a bit stunned. She spoke up, "I don't know..."

"You don't know anything, yet you dare to come find me?! I really don't understand what makes you so arrogant."

"Perhaps, one Captain America is not enough to make you wary, but what about Iron Man Stark? What about S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury? Even the extraterrestrial races and mutants that you don't know about?"

The woman in the black cloak frowned and said, "It seems like you know more than I thought. What is that plan you mentioned? I mean, the Superhero Squad plan?"

"I don't want to explain too much to you, and I don't want to join your stupid organization. I have a more important mission."

Saying that, Schiller turned to leave, but the woman stopped him and said, "Wait! You haven't removed the nanobot injector on your shoulder yet. You have to treat the wound properly, or it will get infected."

Schiller looked down at the small needle on his shoulder and pulled it out. The barbs on it took some of his flesh and blood, but it quickly healed. He threw the needle in front of the woman and said, "Don't you see it yet? We are a different kind of people. Don't compare me to those weak ordinary people."

"So you should join us even more!" The woman, Jacqueline, walked up to him and said, "I'm a senior agent of the HiveHydra organization and also one of the top candidates for the Hive parasite."

"Before that, I have to ask you, where did your special ability come from? Is it innate?" Jacqueline stared at Schiller's eyes and asked. Schiller lowered his head slightly and looked at her, saying, "I'm a mutant. Is there a problem?"

Jacqueline smiled and said, "It seems like I've hit the jackpot. You both perfectly fit all the criteria to become a senior agent."

"Listen, this is the most valuable opportunity in your life, to merge with that great being..."

"Next, I will tell you about the great being called Hive..."

In the Avengers base, Stark projected information about Hive onto a screen and pointed to a section with a laser pen. "Pay attention here. This is the origin story of Hive. According to a high-ranking Hydra leader, Hive is an experiment of an advanced alien civilization..."

"And here, Schiller made a key note. He suspects that the experimental race might be the Kree because he heard from a Hydra agent that the race that did the experiment had blue skin. The only race we know of with blue skin is the Kree..."

"And this part, about the Inhumans. It mentions that the Kree's experiment wasn't just Hive, or rather, Hive was only a part of it. They also did experiments on Earth and created a race called the Inhumans..."

"Schiller's note here shows that the Inhumans may be related to mutants, but not entirely the same. Hive is likely a member of the Inhumans because they are both products of Kree experiments."

"According to the information, the ancient Inhumans and Hive may have lived together, but later, because Hive was too powerful, he was expelled by the ancient Inhumans and banished to a planet..."

"And Hive is a parasitic organism that can parasitize others..."

"Wait!" Blue Spirit interrupted him and said, "Hive is a parasitic organism?"

The symbiotes looked at each other and Thunderbolt said, "In what way does it parasitize? Don't tell me it's by releasing spores or eggs..."

Stark flipped through the paper documents in his hand and said, "There is mention of it later. It seems to shoot out a parasitic seed from its tentacles or mouth. It can control the body of intelligent life through the small Hive that hatches from the seed..."

The symbiotes looked at each other again and said, "Are you sure it's a product of Kree experiments? The features you described make me think of a very disgusting race..."

Stark turned to them and asked, "What?"

Blue Spirit took a deep breath, seeming to feel uncomfortable just mentioning the race. He said, "We call them 'Space Parasites,' but if translated, they're called 'Brood.'"

"Brood? Doesn't that mean hatching eggs or a brood of birds?"

"Yes, that description is quite fitting. They do parasitize others by hatching eggs, and the process is very disgusting."

"Moreover, their way of acting is completely opposite to that of the symbiotes, especially with Space agents. Their way of survival is to invade and destroy civilizations, then grow themselves..."

Blue Spirit's face showed a very human expression of disgust. He said, "They are mortal enemies with Space agents. If our creator Knull is our number one enemy, then the Brood can also rank in the top three."

"They don't just parasitize, they completely devour. Any life that is parasitized by them will not have their own consciousness, but will be completely controlled and become a tool and slave of the Space Parasite."

"At the same time, they will also split into small sub-bodies, forming a group, and then go to plunder other intelligent life, using them as tools and slaves..."

"Wait, it's mentioned here..." Stark switched the displayed information on the screen and pointed to a few lines of text. "Look here, a Hydra agent once revealed that they sent humans to the distant Hive planet through an operation called the 'Far Star Plan' to serve Hive..."

Peter, Steve, and the other humans in the room frowned, obviously having some bad associations. Suddenly, Peter stood up and said, "Oh no! They might want to take Dr. Schiller over there to parasitize him..."

"The information says they sent them over through something called the 'Blackstone Gate,' and now..."

"We need to find the coordinates of this planet and then take a spaceship, step on the gas pedal..." Stark said.

Steve covered his forehead. He still wasn't used to the sudden fact that humans had an incredibly advanced Space spaceship, but what Stark said was right. Instead of trying to find the possibly heavily guarded Blackstone Gate, it was better to just fly over with the Space spaceship. After all, the Kree's spaceship had a jump engine, and even if it was tens of millions of light-years away, it was just a step on the gas pedal.

Peter asked, "Does the information show the coordinates of the planet?"

"Of course not. This Hydra agent is just an ordinary person who has never left Earth. How could he know the location of an alien planet?"

"But, do you remember what I mentioned earlier? The Inhumans." Stark closed the information and stood up.

"That's right. If the ancient Inhumans exiled Hive, then they should know which planet Hive was exiled to. But the only question is, where are the Inhumans?"

"The information has already told us..."

Stark looked up, although all he saw was the ceiling, his gaze passed through layers of rock and soil and looked up at the sky, until he passed through the atmosphere and entered Space, looking at the small satellite rotating next to Earth.

"They're on the moon."

In a darker underground base, Jacqueline stood next to an altar with her hands down. She said, "Perhaps what you didn't expect is that there is a group of Inhumans living on the moon, who look similar to you humans but have vastly different abilities."

"But we are enemies with them because their ancestors were enemies with the great Hive. One day, we will make them pay the price..."

"You mean you can go to Hive's planet through a portal. But why do you want to do this? Do you want to welcome Hive back to Earth? But why send people to that planet?" Schiller asked.

Jacqueline snorted and paced in front of the altar. She said, "Planet? No, that's not an ordinary planet. It's a main star within the territory of the alien parasitic race, the Brood."

"In the past, the ancient Inhumans went to war with Hive just because they thought such a powerful Inhuman could not be used by them. They would not be controlled and would eventually overthrow their kingdom."

"They originally wanted to kill Hive, of course. They had become mortal enemies, so why wouldn't they want to kill their enemies? They just couldn't do it."

"The great ruler Hive did not appear out of thin air. He is a clone of the more powerful Brood race. After the war with the ancient Inhumans, Hive became weak. So he borrowed the power of the ancient Inhumans, opened the portal, and returned to the Brood's territory, inhabiting a main star there until today..."

"To retaliate against the ancient Inhumans and humans, Hive once drove a part of the Brood members to attack Earth. However, at that time, Earth also formed a Superhero Squad, led by Imhotep."

Jacqueline looked up and said, "You may not understand what I'm saying, but later, it was this person named Imhotep who formed an organization called the 'Brotherhood of the Shield.'"

"Then, the Brotherhood of the Shield developed into today's S.H.I.E.L.D. and SPEAR."

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