BANG! A loud crash.
The lab door was kicked open.
Immediately, a dozen fully armed S.H.I.E.L.D. agents filed in, swiftly surrounding Gwen, Harry, Dr. Banner, and Dr. Otto, who were gathered around the lab bench.
Not only that, as the agents pointed their guns at the four, the windows on both sides of the lab were shattered from the outside. Dozens of red laser dots densely covered their vital points.
Gwen and Harry, with their sharper senses, could even faintly hear the whirring of helicopter blades outside.
Clearly, the lab was completely surrounded.
Before anyone could react to the situation, the familiar one-eyed "black egg" walked out slowly from behind the agents who had rushed in.
Nick Fury swept his gaze over the group and spoke calmly.
"S.H.I.E.L.D. suspects you pose a threat to national security. Please cooperate with the investigation and come with us."
Seeing this, Dr. Otto, the only ordinary person among the four, immediately raised his hands obediently.
"Fury..."
Banner wanted to step forward and negotiate with Nick Fury, but as soon as he opened his mouth...
Click-clack!
Seven or eight black gun barrels were pointed directly at him.
After hesitating for a moment, Banner, who hadn't fully grasped the situation and wasn't planning to Hulk out and start a massacre, gave an awkward smile and obediently raised his hands as well.
However, unlike the two "steady" middle-aged men, Gwen and Harry, the two youngsters, weren't so compliant.
Even with a row of guns pointed at him, Harry took a step forward, shouting angrily.
"Where did you hide my father?!"
As he spoke, the Venom symbiote inside Harry flickered in and out of visibility, seemingly cheering him on.
But the next moment, another person walked out from behind Nick Fury.
"Mr. Stark?!"
Gwen exclaimed immediately.
But unexpectedly, facing Gwen's surprise, Tony Stark ignored her completely. Instead, he spoke softly towards the ceiling of the lab.
"F.R.I.D.A.Y., revoke all permissions for the four of them!"
"Understood."
The cold electronic voice echoed in the lab.
Gwen and Harry exchanged a glance, both instantly thinking of the shapeshifting ability of those green-skinned goblins. Their expressions changed drastically.
"Run!"
With two low shouts, they simultaneously dived to the side, intending to protect the two doctors who were still foolishly performing the "French salute" (surrendering).
The next moment, gunfire erupted.
The surrounding S.H.I.E.L.D. agents pulled their triggers simultaneously.
Harry managed to tackle the dazed Dr. Otto and roll with him under a massive lab bench.
But Gwen made a mistake.
When she moved, she naturally considered the armed agents surrounding them.
Her intention was to dodge the incoming bullets while shooting a web line to stick to Dr. Banner and pull him to her side.
But Gwen had clearly forgotten that the suit she was wearing was also made by Tony Stark.
The web shooters on her wrists had gone dead the moment Tony revoked permissions.
This momentary daze caused her to fail in saving Banner, who was standing frozen in place. She even took two hits herself while dodging.
Fortunately, these S.H.I.E.L.D. agents seemed intent on capturing them alive. The guns fired tranquilizer darts, not metal bullets.
And although Gwen's suit had lost its active functions, the material itself still provided excellent protection.
The two tranquilizer darts failed to penetrate Gwen's skin. Following the warning from her Spider-Sense, she quickly dodged into a corner.
Unfortunately, Dr. Banner wasn't so lucky.
Without Gwen's help, and not having a warrior's mindset, he couldn't react in time.
In the blink of an eye, he was hit by over a dozen tranquilizer darts simultaneously.
Looking down at his chest, which resembled a pincushion, and then turning to see Gwen holding up a table to block the rain of darts on the other side...
Dr. Banner murmured slowly, as if just realizing something.
"So, they're bad guys, and we should run, right?"
Having forced out that sentence, Dr. Banner rolled his eyes back and collapsed headfirst.
"Take them down!"
Nick Fury was speechless at the sight. After giving the order, he retreated behind the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.
Seeing this, Harry narrowed his eyes. He pushed Dr. Otto towards Gwen for protection, his body expanding instantly. Tanking the rain of tranquilizer darts, he charged straight at Nick Fury.
Capture the leader first!
Against these agents, Venom feared neither tranquilizers nor a true hail of bullets. With a few moves, he easily knocked down the agents blocking his path.
However, in the chaos, he couldn't perfectly control his strength, and some people were inevitably injured.
But to Harry's surprise, not all injured agents revealed green skin.
More precisely, out of ten injured agents, only one briefly flashed green skin under a tear in their disguise.
Are the ones attacking me just ordinary humans?!
The moment this thought arose, Harry was horrified.
His originally fierce attacks immediately slowed down. The claws Venom formed gradually turned into fists and kicks. But just because he softened his blows didn't mean the enemy would show mercy.
Just as he was about to reach Nick Fury, Tony, standing beside Fury, suddenly pulled out a strange weapon resembling a speaker from somewhere.
Hummm~
A familiar hum erupted from the trumpet-shaped muzzle.
But this sonic blast was several times stronger than the weird daggers from before.
"Ahhh—" In an instant, the aggressive Harry clutched his head and screamed in pain.
The Venom symbiote covering him began to convulse violently, as if skipping frames, looking like it would be shattered and dissipated by the rapid sonic waves at any moment.
"Harry!"
Seeing Harry collapse in pain, Gwen, who was struggling to deal with the volley fire from the other agents, couldn't spare any attention for the defenseless Dr. Otto.
Having lost her web shooters—her only ranged weapon—she grabbed a piece of equipment beside her and hurled it with all her might towards Tony.
However, the equipment, flying with a whistling sound, was shattered and blown away by the sonic waves before it could even reach Tony.
This made Gwen realize just how terrifying the sonic weapon attacking Harry was.
The person using such an attack against a teammate definitely wasn't Mr. Stark!
Filled with grief and indignation, Gwen prepared to abandon ranged attacks and rush in to help Harry break free.
"ROAR—"
Amidst a roar even more earth-shaking than the sonic gun, the true green monster finally awakened!