Chapter 128. First Encounter with Nick
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Nolan had already figured out what was happening.
The media wasn't just turning on him, it was steering him into becoming the face of a growing divide among enhanced individuals. They wanted to use him to accelerate the fracture. Pit him against his own kind.
"Same old tactics," he muttered. "Rot always finds its way back to the surface."
He closed his eyes. His super senses expanded outward, sweeping through the city like a sonar pulse. In an instant, he locked onto Steve and his group, now miles away, deep in the outskirts of New York.
"Let's go check it out," he said, glancing at Max. "Something tells me things are about to get fun."
The two launched into the sky, flying straight for the rural no-man's-land beyond the city limits.
And Nolan was right, something was happening.
As they approached, his senses picked up multiple presences already on the ground, one of them unmistakable in red and gold: Iron Man.
But that wasn't the surprise.
Standing beside Tony... was someone Nolan had never met, but recognized instantly.