"Captain, HYDRA's welcoming gift has arrived!"
As Hawkeye finished speaking, he immediately noticed something.
In the distance, more than twenty fighter jets were swarming towards the quinjet.
These fighter jets were naturally all carrier-based aircraft from the Sky Carrier, and these were only the planes dispatched by the Sky Carrier closest to New York in this direction.
The planes from the other two carriers would also arrive shortly after.
Clearly, while the Avengers were focused on the situation in Washington, HYDRA was also watching them.
And upon discovering that the Avengers intended to approach Washington, they immediately launched an interception.
However, facing the approach of these fighter jets, everyone on the quinjet remained calm, and the Captain looked directly at Tony and the others.
"It's up to you!"
Tony smiled slightly at this, and without another word, he pressed a button beside him, and the rear cabin of the plane immediately opened.
Then, Tony picked up something resembling a skateboard beside him and threw it under his feet. This item, somewhat like a Green Goblin glider, directly sprayed Fire and flew out of the cabin.
The Veronica, which had been waiting outside the quinjet, immediately caught Tony, and he was fully armored in just a few moves.
"This guy, always so stylish..."
Colonel Rhodes shook his head helplessly as he watched his friend, then also rushed out of the cabin.
But in fact, he wasn't wrong at all.
This armor-donning device, similar to the Green Goblin glider, was a 'lift' that Tony had specially developed because of how cool Luca looked when he 'wore' the boxing mobile suit before.
At the same time, Thor and Husky Armor, who possessed flight capabilities, also rushed out of the cabin.
The others remained safely inside the quinjet.
Only Harry Osborn, the youngest among them, sighed with a hint of envy as he witnessed this scene.
"It's great to be able to fly!"
To his surprise, as soon as he spoke, the Venom head on his shoulder immediately curled its lip in disdain.
"Isn't it just the ability to fly? It's nothing special!"
"Huh?"
At this moment, Harry hadn't even reacted to what his little friend meant.
Then, in the next moment.
His body uncontrollably rushed towards the cabin door, which was about to close.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't! We can't fly! I'm not envious anymore! No, no, no!"
"I'm afraid of heights, and there are no buildings nearby, nor anything in the sky... Ah ah ah ah~~~"
No matter how fast Harry's mouth was, how could he compare to Venom's explosive sprint?
Before he could finish two sentences, his figure had already 'whooshed' out of the cabin.
Then, to the horrified and bewildered gazes of the others.
Venom Harry, who had rushed out of the cabin, suddenly swelled up, transforming into a block of black muscle, followed by the rapid bulging of black matter on his back.
"Bang~"
A sonic boom.
From Venom Harry's originally muscular back, a pair of enormous demon wings suddenly unfurled.
The already slightly sinister complete Venom, coupled with this pair of huge wings spanning several meters, immediately appeared even more evil.
As the demon wings flapped, a roaring sound immediately echoed in the air, and Venom Harry simply flew away.
"Ah ah ah ah...? I think I really can fly?"
"You've always been able to fly, it's not a difficult thing. You just never asked me before..."
As the conversation between Venom and Harry gradually faded, everyone else in the cabin looked at each other in dismay.
"Is this kid really suitable for joining the Avengers...?"
Regardless of what the group of Groudons in the cabin were thinking.
In reality, those twenty-odd planes outside were truly not enough for the flying units among the Avengers to handle.
Even with the additional forty-plus planes dispatched by the other two Sky Carriers that arrived later, they were still completely insufficient, and in fact, they only made them fight a piecemeal battle.
Tony and Rhodes, these two partners, moved agilely through the fighter jet formations, and with a casual palm blast, a fighter jet was inevitably destroyed.
Lucky pilots could still eject and escape, while less fortunate ones were simply destroyed along with their planes, killing them instantly.
Compared to the two, Thor's attacks were even simpler.
He simply spun the hammer in his hand and charged forward; wherever he passed, the fighter jets in the air would be instantly torn apart,
turning into a massive fireball.
Even Harry, the flying novice, with Venom's assistance, continuously dodged and weaved between several fighter jets,
sometimes flapping his wings to perform aerial maneuvers, dodging the machine gun bullets fired by the enemy.
At other times, he would dive rapidly, leap onto the fighter jet's fuselage, followed by a series of chaotic tentacle slaps, and in the blink of an eye, a fighter jet would be directly destroyed.
And among these 'flying units,' the most tragic was Luca, the unlucky fellow.
Erha and Five Haro had no problems; their coordinated attacks were no weaker than Iron Man and Iron Patriot.
Their enemy elimination speed was even a few points faster.
However...
The clumsy boxing mobile suit was different. It wasn't originally a flying unit, and its current ability to fly in the sky relied entirely on the Veronica jetpack temporarily installed by Tony.
Not only was it slow, but its main body was also large.
At this moment in the sky, it was completely a conspicuous living target.
Those super-fast fighter jets that had bypassed Tony and the others' blockade ahead didn't even target the quinjet, which was carrying a van-load of people in the air. Instead, they all poured their firepower onto the boxing mobile suit.
In an instant, the boxing mobile suit was blown into several tumbles in the air.
Although the mecha itself suffered no damage, it made Luca in the cockpit feel particularly disheveled.
Even Tony, who had just taken down a fighter jet ahead, couldn't help but turn back and ask,
"Hey, kid, do you want Uncle Tony to cover you?"
Hearing this, Luca, who had just readjusted his posture in the air, immediately choked, gritting his teeth and cursing under his breath.
"Alright, alright, alright! So many people to fight, and you pick on me, huh?!"
"Haro! Enable auxiliary aiming! Launch chain cluster bombs!!!"
At Luca's command, the cockpit immediately began to flash red, and even the auxiliary Haro's tone seemed to become much more excited.
"Cluster bomb launched, cluster bomb launched!"
The next moment.
The missile bay in the boxing mobile suit's chest slightly opened.
Immediately after.
"Boom boom boom boom~"
It actually ejected... four miniature missiles no bigger than a thumb.
Watching these four miniature missiles fly crookedly into the air, to be honest, it was completely at odds with Luca's aggressive tone and the frantically flashing red light in the cockpit, full of incongruity.
However, when these four miniature missiles ascended into the sky.
"Bang~"
Four puffs of White smoke exploded.
The next moment, from each puff of White smoke, four more missiles exploded.
Immediately after.
Missiles flew out—White smoke exploded—turned into missiles—White smoke exploded.
In the blink of an eye, the airspace around the boxing mobile suit was already densely packed with hundreds of tracking missiles, poised for battle.
And at this moment, the excited auxiliary Haro had already made the final announcement: "Locking complete, locking complete~"