Rocket explained to the Avengers with an ugly expression: "The Skrulls are a notorious shape-shifting race in the Universe. Their Skrull Empire used to be very bellicose, using their Shape-shifting Talent to invade other Planets everywhere!"
"But later, the Skrull Empire ran into the Kree Empire. Their Shape-shifting Talent was countered by the Kree Empire's Collective Consciousness, the 'Supreme Intelligence.' Ultimately, the empire was destroyed by the Kree. I thought the Skrulls were extinct in the Universe; I didn't expect a million Skrulls to be hiding on a backwater Planet like Earth!"
"But how on Earth did they find Earth, a Planet that hasn't even stepped into interstellar space yet?"
Hearing Rocket's explanation and his doubts, the other Avengers' eyes were also filled with confusion.
Right, how did the Skrulls find Earth?
And with so many Skrulls infiltrating Earth, the Avengers shouldn't have been completely unaware!
Regarding the Avengers' doubts, Ryan gave Ultron a look. Ultron nodded slightly and looked at the third image.
[Project Light Speed Engine...]
It detailed when the Skrulls arrived on Earth, how they went into hiding, and how subsequent Skrull refugees managed to evade the Avengers' eyes to arrive on Earth one after another...
First, the first batch of Skrull refugees had already settled on Earth in the last century.
And the people who helped them settle on Earth were two people the Avengers never expected.
One was a black man with an eye patch, and the other was a square-faced middle-aged woman with a mohawk!
Weren't these exactly their Universe's Nick Fury and Captain Marvel?
According to the data, this batch of Skrulls who fled to Earth had originally been caught by Kree pursuers and were all set to be executed.
In the end, Captain Marvel awakened and, together with Nick Fury, forcibly drove off the Kree army and settled the rescued Skrulls on Earth!
Furthermore, the reason Captain Marvel was away from Earth for years—only returning once in these twenty-odd years when Thanos was cosplaying as an old farmer, contributing nothing to the disasters Earth faced—was because she had been searching the Universe for those Skrull refugees to protect them and guide them toward Earth!
And Nick Fury, this guy, was also an idiot. Although his original intention was to use the initial batch of Skrulls to work for him, and he didn't know Captain Marvel was constantly bringing more Skrull 'invaders' to Earth from the Universe.
But Nick Fury's mistake as an idiot was that he put these Skrulls in positions that were far too high!
Even Nick Fury's own identity was often substituted by the Skrull leader, Talos!
This also led to Talos being able to use the authority of the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to allow a large number of subsequent Skrull refugees to bypass the satellites of various nations and the Avengers, entering Earth without any risk!
Now, let alone Tony, even Captain America and Hawkeye, as former S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, had ugly expressions on their faces.
Damn that bald egg!
They had cleaned up so many of Nick Fury's messes and worked for him for so long, yet he hadn't revealed a single bit of information about the Skrulls to them!
They didn't even know now whether the orders they had received before were from Nick Fury himself or from the Skrulls!
Were they cleaning up Nick Fury's mess or the Skrulls' mess!
The more they thought about it, the more terrifying it became!
Ryan glanced at the Avengers, whose emotions were now completely dominated by rage and disappointment, and the corners of his mouth curled slightly.
See, with just a little guidance, the Avengers from the other Universe had already begun to completely antagonize the Skrulls.
The Skrulls of the other Universe only needed one last ignited fuse before their annihilation...
At this moment, Fake Rhodey, whose armor was already soaked with cold sweat, could no longer watch. Forcing himself to stand under the Avengers' rage, his legs trembling, he tried to argue:
"Lis... listen to me, we Skrulls really didn't want to be enemies with the Avengers. That plan against the Avengers was just an emergency draft; we had no intention of starting it..."
Nano Tony sneered upon hearing this: "Heh, is that so? Then what about the Secret Invasion Plan? Is that also just a draft? If I'm not mistaken, you Skrulls have already replaced a large number of high-ranking humans, haven't you?!"
To Nano Tony's sharp question, Fake Rhodey truly had no way to defend himself, because his own replacement of Rhodes was already the best example!
How could he deny it?
But Fake Rhodey gritted his teeth and still forced an explanation: "Th... this, we Skrulls just wanted to survive, s... so we replaced those people out of necessity. Actually, many of them were terminally ill and wouldn't have lived much longer anyway. By replacing them, we could help them spend more time with their families and save their families from the pain of losing a loved one. Isn't that a good thing?"
The Avengers: ?
Do we f***ing have to thank you then?
Hearing this, the One-Eyed Thor—who originally hadn't felt much about the internal human invasion—suddenly became even more enraged than the other Avengers!
He turned around and slammed his axe violently into Fake Rhodey's armor, sending Fake Rhodey flying and embedding him into the wall!
One-Eyed Thor's stormbreaker and his entire body were emitting violent lightning. Panting heavily, he said: "Do you think you depriving them of the right to see their families one last time before death is your mercy, right?"
Clearly, Fake Rhodey's words accurately struck the sore spot of the One-Eyed Thor, who had lost his father, Mother, brother, and countless subjects.
It's already painful when a loved one dies. If one doesn't even get to see them for the last time and then discovers their deceased relative was replaced, Thor couldn't imagine how much pain he would feel; he would probably have gone completely insane by now!
A murky tear trailed from One-Eyed Thor's single eye. His voice was filled with anger and sorrow as he roared: "You don't understand family at all, and you Skrulls have even less right to deprive others of their family!!!"
The Thor of this World, seeing the sad state of his other self, couldn't help but step forward to comfort him: "Brother, actually you can treat my Father and Mother as your..."
"Get away from me!" Before he could finish, One-Eyed Thor pushed away his naive other self and, catching everyone off guard, violently threw his axe at the Fake Rhodey embedded in the wall!
With One-Eyed Thor's strength as a God-King, it could be said that no one present except Ryan could stop him.
And Ryan was resting his chin on his hand, watching the show, clearly having no intention of stopping it~
Instead, he let One-Eyed Thor's stormbreaker carry violent lightning and cleave off Fake Rhodey's entire head in one blow!
One-Eyed Thor reached out to summon back the blood-stained stormbreaker, a resolute light flashing in his single eye. He gritted his teeth and said: "This time I won't make a mistake again, I won't show mercy. This time I cut off a head, and I will continue to cut off every single Skrull head!"
Don't forget, the Asgardian way of protecting their people has never been through negotiation, but through war!
Asgard is a Divine Kingdom of War. As the God-King of Asgard, Thor's way of dealing with heretics is, naturally, war!