Barton: "Should we help them?"
Natasha: "It looks like these are the only enemies left. I'll drop you down first."
"Find me a good spot."
Peng———!
The jet approached the battlefield and quickly caught the attention of the Dark Elves.
They had been intercepted before by people jumping off these aircraft!
So, Dark Elf soldiers immediately opened fire on the Avengers' aircraft———
Biu! Biu! Biu!
The red energy beams traveled at high speed, making them difficult to evade even with Black Widow's piloting skills.
She had no choice but to make an emergency landing, jumping out with Hawkeye onto a rooftop.
Boom!!—Bang!!
"Ah!! Terrorist attack! Quick... run!"
The abandoned jet crashed into a high-rise, causing people inside to flee in panic.
Meanwhile, Natasha and Barton were also intercepted by the Dark Elves———
Tatata..
Two Dark Elves rushed forward, raising their red energy weapons to fire.
Whoosh———Wong~~
Luckily, Hawkeye's sharp eyes caught it, and he shot an arrow directly at the grenade switch on the Dark Elf's waist, detonating a wormhole bomb.
"I told you to find me a good spot... Natasha..."
Being thrown straight into a chaotic battle, the ADC was clearly dissatisfied with the support's decision.
"You think I wanted this? Why don't you fly next time?"
Natasha rolled her eyes and quickly looked for cover, pulling Barton behind a stairwell wall.
She peeked out to observe the central battlefield and noticed that the number of mutant creatures with lizard tails was rapidly decreasing...
Even with their strong regeneration abilities, they couldn't withstand the pull of the wormhole bombs.
Moreover, the cloned lizard-men had low intelligence, which made them somewhat easier to counter.
However.
As the number of cloned soldiers dwindled, the Dark Elves' supply of wormhole bombs was also running low.
Once they ran out, Zero would be able to go on a rampage...
"This strange unit from Silver Sable's security company... seems to be on the verge of collapse..."
Natasha, unaware of the clone army's depletion strategy, wanted to help but felt somewhat———
Powerless...
These Dark Elves weren't like the Chitauri cannon fodder. You couldn't just smack them around.
Her caution was indeed justified.
These were soldiers capable of battling the Asgardian army...
At that moment.
Natasha suddenly felt... a little weak...
Whoosh!
Suddenly, a Dark Elf spotted the two and leapt at them from the stairwell above!
"Damn!"
Natasha instinctively threw a punch———
Bang!
The Dark Elf was sent flying, soaring high and far away...
Finally, he plummeted off the rooftop with a loud thud—probably dead...
Hawkeye—and even Black Widow herself—were both stunned...
Barton looked at Natasha strangely and said, "You..."
"It's not my fault..."
She took a small step and felt incredibly light, but when she jumped again, the feeling was gone...
"The gravity here seems to be fluctuating... What's going on?"
"Wait... look over there!"
Barton noticed something and pointed towards the nearby observatory———
There, in the sky, the phantom images of the Nine Realms were gradually solidifying, aligning into a single line.
"What? What's that—wait, Barton!"
As Natasha was still confused, she suddenly felt someone pinch her spandex-covered rear. Her face immediately darkened.
"What are you doing? I already told you I'm not interested in you!"
"And we're on a mission right now. Where's your professionalism? You weren't like this before."
"Huh?"
Barton looked confused, "What? Natasha, I already have a wife and kids..."
"Other than you, who else could it be? Don't tell me it was an alien..."
As Natasha spoke and turned her head, she suddenly froze——
".....It's you!"
Barton also saw the newcomer, who was smiling, and nodded in greeting, "President Ye."
"You guys are here too."
Ye Li looked around casually and asked, "Just the two of you?"
Barton nodded, "We're a bit short on manpower. If things get worse, the others will drop what they're doing and come. I heard Stark say that these Silver Sable Security Company mercenaries are under your club's banner. We owe you for this one, President Ye."
"How did you suddenly show up?"
Natasha questioned him, "And why did you touch me?"
"Didn't you know? I've recently learned magic."
Ye Li leaned in close and whispered, "...A little touch is nothing. Didn't you already expose everything to me last time~ hmm?"
"Uh....."
The beautiful agent's cheeks flushed. Last time, she had been the one to take the initiative, so she couldn't really argue...
"President Ye."
Barton changed the subject and asked, "Do you know what's happening over there?"
He was referring to the alignment of the Nine Realms.
Ye Li replied calmly, "Just a once-in-several-thousand-years celestial alignment. No big deal."
Barton: "Once in several thousand years? No big deal?"
"Yeah, it's time..."
Ye Li muttered to himself, shifting his gaze away from the Nine-Star Alignment and toward the Dark Elves, who had exhausted their wormhole bombs and were being slaughtered by Zero...
"It's time to end this..."
As he said this.
The Infinity Stones on his bracelet lit up———
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh...
The remaining Dark Elves, their corpses, the bodies of the cloned soldiers, and all battle debris vanished in an instant.
Along with them, several Dark Elf scout ships—and even their massive rhombus-shaped mothership—were erased...
Instant battlefield cleanup!
With the environmental buff of the Nine-Star Alignment in effect.
Ye Li's move was as effortless as blowing a breath.
But the two S.H.I.E.L.D. agents were completely dumbfounded...
Natasha: "...Did we... come here for nothing?"
Barton: "Yeah..."