How the Good and the Villain Saved Each Other

The four jumped out of the plane one by one and observed the surrounding environment calmly—their location was obviously the tarmac of this super prison at sea. In addition to the helicopters of the alliance, there were also several military transport planes parked, and the surroundings were miscellaneous Boxes of supplies were strewn all over the place, like a thrift market in the middle of a Christmas sale.

"Welcome to the 'Floating Island', everyone," a middle-aged man in an iron-gray suit stepped forward under the protection of two guards with live ammunition. He had dark blonde hair and a pair of eagle-like eyes, and he swept past the Winter Soldier. Shi Shi couldn't help but tense all over his body, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't receive my guests in such a messy environment, but the new Sky Hammer Bureau has a lot of work to do, and there are too many things that I really can't take care of."

Loki gracefully reached out his hand and shook the man, as if he knew how to deal with this kind of person: "Please don't mind, the Avenger is a friend of Sky Hammer, and there is no need to talk too much etiquette between friends."

Oh, come on, it's true, and the other three Avengers fight back the urge to roll their eyes, as if you're not the one who treats the government as an imaginary enemy at every collective meeting.

The man's face showed just the right touch.

"You're right, Mr. Sharp. There is no distinction between friends, and false politeness will only hurt feelings." He said sincerely, and the rest of the audience secretly applauded his acting skills that were comparable to Rocky.

The evil god smiled and nodded, as if they were really close friends for many years, then he raised his eyebrows lightly: "Look at me, I forgot to introduce you, this is Norman Osborn, the new director of the Sky Hammer Bureau, who is also a The warden of the Island Prison, these are—"

"—the famous Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and James Barnes," Osborne greeted the crowd cheerfully, "I have read your files, over and over, although I have never met them in person. , but it always feels like an old friend.”

Tony barely knows the word "friend" anymore, Steve is completely fed up with the hypocrisy, and the Winter Soldier slaps the soles of his feet impatiently, seemingly interested in the texture of the floor.

Fortunately, Rocky did not intend to continue his acting career, but cleared his throat: "When can we start the test, Your Excellency Director? To be honest, the feeling of staying in a confined space is not very good."

"I really appreciate the work style of the Avengers." Osborne complimented at the right time, "Why don't we start now?"

As the prison sank, Steve's quadruple perception told him that the pressure around him was constantly changing.They walked through the corridor that only two people could walk side by side. The gates were already open to welcome them through, but Steve keenly discovered that those gates were made of alloy with a thickness of five centimeters, and there were two.

"With all due respect, this level of intensity can't hold a Hulk in a rage." He knocked on the metal door, joking to Osborn.

"No, it would be too unwise if we use the 'floating island' to imprison that kind of thing." Osborne answered casually while leading the way first, his tone seemed to be talking about some non-human monster.

Steve's heart sank, he understood how dangerous the Hulk was, but he didn't like someone beating his comrades so lightly, and from Osborn's words, he was almost sure that the government did have countermeasures against the Hulk plan, and the league knows nothing about it.

It seems that Loki's previous worries are not groundless, which is really bad enough.

"Look who's here?" A familiar-looking man walked up to him. He was wearing a well-tailored British waistcoat and a navy blue suit jacket on his arms. Very familiar.

"I can't imagine that a person like you can endure a month of underwater life, Victor." Tony patted the other party's shoulder and greeted happily, but was pulled into his arms enthusiastically by the other party, and had to accept it half-push and half-heartedly. After receiving this hug, he stole glances at Loki's face like a pet dog who has done something wrong.

The evil god let out a small snort from his nasal cavity.

"This is the chief scientific officer of Sky Hammer, Victor Dum." He introduced Steve and Bucky with a half-smile, "He was also a member of S.H.I.E.L.D.."

Dum let go of Tony, extended his hand and shook Steve in a friendly way: "You must know that after you dismantled S.H.I.E.L.D., I planned to apply for the Avengers. If the government hadn't forced me to detain me, I would be lucky Working with Captain America—" As he spoke, he tilted his head and looked at Loki: "Will you accept me? Dear Mr. Sharp?"

"Of course," Rocky still maintained that smirk that others can tell is fake at a glance, "The alliance has always liked people who are confident."

Dr. Doom gave a mocking sigh.

"Don't be so nervous every time we meet, I won't do bad things to your honey," he winked at Loki flirtatiously, "he's like my ex-wife, hot and sexy, but deadly The downside of being as smart as I am is unbearable. I'm actually interested in you, and if you'd like to go out for a drink with me, I promise to be on call."

Everyone in the room took a few seconds to decide whether this was a joke or a daring face-to-face digging, but Tony was the first to laugh.

"That's really the most euphemism I've ever heard for a person's lack of intelligence." He put his hand on Loki's shoulder and bent over with a smile, who rolled his eyes with a characteristic.

"Okay, gentlemen, the fun is over, it's time to get down to business," The Cthulhu lazily announced while pinching the billionaire's belly stealthily, "Dear Dr. Doom, can you bring Shall Tony and I take a tour of the cell? And Mr. Osborne, perhaps you would like to have the Captain and Sergeant Barnes visit the central control room—it’s not a big place, and I really don’t want all four of us huddled together.”

"Of course, it's a good idea to divide the army into two groups." Osborn nodded obediently, without even a trace of displeasure showing on his face.

This is a scheming person, Steve thought, the submarine prison is a project led by the government, and the alliance only provides technical support for it. It was originally not Loki's turn to issue orders, but Osborn, as the leader of Sky Hammer, faced The evil god's deliberate provocation, but he can still keep his emotions and anger indifferent. This kind of forbearance and viciousness is more worthy of vigilance than the domineering Fury.

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Like all central control rooms, the core of the “Floating Island” central control room is a full wall of monitoring screens. Steve has always hated this kind of thing, thinking that they are purely used to provide security as an excuse to spy on people’s privacy—— In fact, the world would be much safer and more noble without technology. The development of technology has made many things quick and easy to deal with, and it has also made human beings forget to calm down and look at themselves, just like a wild beast running wild. I ran for a long time but couldn't remember why I was running.

Captain America's criticism of modern technology had to be put aside for the time being, because Loki's voice and images had already appeared on the surveillance screen.

"Wow, glass cell." Tony flicked his tongue exaggeratedly.

"This is the strengthened glass originally developed by SHIELD to imprison Hulk," Dum explained. "I don't think any super criminal can have a stronger physical attack ability than that one."

Tony scratched his head.

"I'm not worried about intensity," he said, "but what about the inmate's privacy? Don't they get naked when they shower and go to the toilet? You know, super criminals are not limited to men, and those lovely ladies can do bad things too. Qualifications—didn’t you mean this as a perk for staff?”

"You can't expect super criminals to be hot girls like Black Widow, so this kind of perk is probably blinding," Dum joked with a shrug. Made-to-order cells, put them in a shower curtain or something."

"Good idea," Loki said, with obvious sarcasm in his tone, he deliberately leaned forward, pointing to the metal railing around the reinforced glass, "Is there anything special about these?"

Dum followed and took a few steps forward: "It's made of gold-titanium alloy, and it can be powered inside."

"How strong is the current?"

"Enough to knock down a mammoth in an instant."

"What an impressive metaphor."

Tony, who was left behind, took advantage of the gap between the two of them talking, while pretending to look around, while adjusting the angle of his body, with his back to the surveillance camera, he began to fiddle with his high-tech watch.

"I'm sorry, can you turn up the volume? I can't hear a word of what they are saying." In the central control room, Steve asked pretending to be puzzled, and the voice was transmitted to Loki and Tony's ears through the alliance communicator. The latter smiled knowingly and pressed another button.

"Does your equipment often do this?" Steve asked with a frown, as if he was worried about the security of the "Floating Island" system, because now snowflakes suddenly appeared on the monitoring screen, not only no sound, but no video.

The staff frantically tried to restart the equipment, and Osborne's expression was not very good.

"It's been normal before," he replied in a deep voice, "only some small things happened occasionally, maybe your arrival made it a little nervous."

"It's a good thing to have a problem now, it's much better than a sudden paralysis during the official operation." Steve smiled and comforted, trying to distract Osborn's attention, and don't associate this failure with Tony.

"Director, the system has been restored." The staff member wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and reported, and Tony's playboy voice also came from the surveillance: "The Avengers will provide a batch of prisoners for the 'Floating Island' as soon as possible, or maybe You can introduce ordinary people to try it out for a while."

"That's a good idea," Dr. Doom nodded. "We can only stuff super criminals in if we ensure that the entire prison can operate accurately. This is the bottom of the sea. It's not a joke if something happens."

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The Avengers stayed at the bottom of the sea for four hours before leaving by plane, during which Tony declined Osborn's invitation to share a meal with disdain (the original words were: "If you can open the cabin and catch me a ten-inch long I might be willing to stick around to try my lobster—how many Michelin stars does your chef have when it comes to lobster?")

"The advantage of the submarine prison is that it is well concealed, and it is not easy to be discovered when it is isolated from the world," Loki concluded when they completely flew out of the submarine prison, "but correspondingly, once it is found and attacked, it is basically impossible. To get any support in a short period of time, we can only rely on our own original personnel and equipment to fight alone, if we can control the system, the problem should not be a big problem—what's the matter, Cap, why are you looking at me like this?"

Steve looked away.

"Nothing," he said, "I just think you seem to be very interested in it." Yes, Rocky likes to make trouble, and seems to like other people to make trouble, but Steve still can't understand why anyone is so keen on chaos .

"It's too boring to do everything step by step, you have to find some fun for yourself." The God of Chaos replied generously, without any guilt.

"There are three doors leading to the cell area, two gold-titanium alloy heavy gates, and one explosion-proof door. When opening, Osborn or Dum's palm print and iris verification are required." Tony yawned, obviously the previous four Hours had exhausted what little energy he had left,

"If neither person is on the boat, no one can enter the area?" Steve asked.

"No, no one can enter the area through the normal way," Loki smiled maliciously. "We can cut off the parts we need and press them on the identifier, and that will work just as well—I tried."

Steve snorts uncomfortably, remembering the time he popped a man's eyeball earlier.

"Just kidding, Cap, I wouldn't want to get bloody if I could," Cthulhu blinked, and said before Captain America could say any objection, "The test results are not bad, Tony can let them do whatever he wants." The system is paralyzed, so it is estimated that opening the door will not be a problem. And those glass houses can’t trap me, I can escape easily with teleportation, but once the metal fence outside is powered on, there is no way.”

"Although they call you 'Mr. Sharp', they know what kind of troublesome guy you are," the billionaire said while thinking about installing a coffee machine in his plane next time. There are many cases of them dealing with magical incidents in the encrypted files of the Shield Bureau, and Osborn is also standing on the shoulders of giants."

"I thought you had lost interest in those files." Loki said with a sinking heart, seemingly casually.

"That's a treasure, there are so many interesting things." Tony waved his hand, "especially the old files from the past."

Loki and Steve looked at each other almost indiscernibly, and saw hidden worries in each other's eyes, and at this moment, the humanoid weapon that had been silent all this time suddenly spoke.

"I don't want Crossbones to go to 'Floating Island,'" he said, grabbing everyone's attention instantly.

"You don't want to?" Loki raised an eyebrow.

"Yes, I don't want to." The Winter Soldier replied solemnly, his cheeks puffed up slightly, looking like a stubborn chipmunk.

"Okay, okay, you don't want to," Loki rubbed his forehead, pointed to his cheek with a smirk on purpose, "come here and give me a kiss, and I promise to help you find another way."

The Winter Soldier rolled his eyes, leaned over, and kissed Loki on the face with a "paw".

Then, Captain America was kicked hard by Iron Man.

"Hey, it's not my fault!" Steve looks innocent, and Tony kicks him again in response.

"This kick was for Xiaoluzai," he argued righteously, "Your boyfriend kissed someone else, but you said it wasn't your fault?"

Steve quickly looked at Bucky, only to find that his lover had turned his back on him, leaving him with a brown head with a thorn in it, and couldn't help but feel a little discouraged—could it be that, as Loki said, he was a very Bad boyfriend, even that guy Stark can easily beat him in the "Best Boyfriend of the Year" competition?