Chapter 566: The strategy
"We did have Alexander in our world and I read about him. What about him? Is he coming to help us?" Victor said sarcastically.
"I am not John who gets to bring people out of nowhere." Tony said as he flew and was chased by many small warships who were constantly firing at him. But the shot which hit him would always reflect back. One shot even reflected back to the shooter and blasted the spaceship.
It seemed like Tony was having fun in all of this and he was doing this without any expense of energy. He had even started shooting yet!!!
"Then why is Alexander relevant here?" Victor asked.
"Though I never liked history and their weird obsession with ancient rulers, I once saw in a small commercial where he defeated an army with divide and conquer policy. GAIA knows what I am talking about. Do you want to implement it?" Tony said.
Victor was stunned seeing such a weird suggestion from Tony. Tony had never been a person who looked at the past, but here for the first time he mentioned someone from ancient history. Victor opened the commercial he was talk about and saw what kind of fight he was talking about.
And he had to admit the strategy he was talking about looked good. At least on paper. Now he would have to see if the same thing was possible in space. Alexander fought that war on land. Here they would be fighting that in space.
His strategy was leading a part of the enemy away and thus dividing the enemy into two fronts with two fleets and later using their speed to surround and kill the enemies. The only problem here was if they wanted to surround the enemies they would have to do it in 3 dimensions instead of 2 dimensions.
"Do we have the sufficient number of ships to attack them the way of Alexander?" Tony asked.
"There are sufficient warships for that strategy and we will probably win the war with it but it will also cost us a lot of warships too and there might be more strays." GAIA warned.
"Leave the strays to me and the others on Earth. The more we drag this fight, the more problematic it might become." Tony said.
"Alright, if we fail, then the whole responsibility is on you Tony." Victor joked.
"We won't fail. I just don't want to stay in this universe for too long and include more variables. According to John's calculations, Annihilus isn't supposed to be here so we need to be more careful." Tony said.
"Go with it then. Be the bait." Victor said.
For the start of divide and conquer, one has to bait a part of the enemy away from the main battlefield and since many were following him Tony was the best bait there could be on the battlefield. And since the enemy were already irritated by the 'reflective' armor of his, then it was the best time to work on this.
Tony, who was already manoeuvring around, went straight to the depth of the battlefield. He was flying on the edge all this time but after the strategy of theirs changed he too changed direction. And in order to be more efficient Victor had sent a good number of small and medium warships with him so that he could be a convincing 'bait'.
It had to be said that though Tony was being an unkillable cockroach his firepower was not good enough. His antimetal properties of the suit was of no use to the enemies as their spaceships were not made of metal. It was their version of metal which didn't follow the laws of physics of their world so Tony's thrusters did almost no damage to the enemy spaceships.
So all tony could do while flying was use the pure strength of the armor to inflict damage. Tony knew that his fire power would be of no use so he used the 'ancient' ways and that was to use his fists to destroy the enemy.
While flying he went right through some of the spaceships, like he did to the Chitauris during the invasion of New York. Only this time he didn't have to care for his armor. His armor had anti vibrational and anti kinetic properties so he was basically invincible here.
And while he was entering deep in the battlefield the enemies were getting agitated and sent more spaceships after him. Tony was ecstatic seeing that many were after him. The more they were diverted by his presence, the more successful his strategy would be.
He caused menace as he went deep, destroying small spaceships and even medium sized spaceships. Their energy shields proved of no use as he was able to infiltrate them easily and went through medium sized ships.
There he saw the bugs for the first time as he stopped by when he entered their hull.
Chapter 567: The strategy (2)
"You look surprisingly very modern even after being a descendant of bugs." Tony said as he reached the command centre of the medium sized spaceship. The alarm was going batshit crazy at the time when he reached the command center. Tony had destroyed the main hull and the integrity of the spaceship was going down at an alarming rate. While reaching the center he was killing whoever came in his way with his thrusters. His thrusters might not be as effective on the spaceships but these bugs were not 'spaceships'. All the other bugs who were running around after the damage on the hull stopped on their tracks looking at Tony who just appeared.
"#$%%&$%"
"Guys, I don't speak bug language. Can you please translate? GAIA, little help here."
"I am an AI, not an omnipotent being."
The bugs meanwhile took out their guns and started shooting at him. As usual the plasma shots proved nothing to him.
"Gentlemen... Please.. stop it.. You are embarrassing yourself."
Tony's armor on the shoulders opened up to show small missiles and those missiles flew to kill all the bugs on the command center. Tony did all the theatrics to get a proper view of their technology. These bugs were able to use the antimatter technology so effectively in the material world. That was a feat by itself.
No other scientist of the universe was able to achieve that. They had antimatter but they were never able to control it on such a large scale. This was a huge technological fear, and Tony being Tony wanted his hands on this.
"GAIA did you finish the scanning?"
"Yes. Done. There are some results which don't make sense to me."
"We will look into it after we are done with this war."
"For that you all need to return in one piece."
"Hey can't you be a little optimistic? We are doing our best.."
"Optimism doesn't win war.. Strategy does...."
Tony and GAIA were arguing on how to win war as he flew away after destroying the medium sized warship completely from inside. Since the data was already taken, there was no reason to keep it.
Tony flew out and like always he was assaulted by more spaceships. He didn't understand the idiocy of these bugs. They were not even able to put a small scratch on him and still they were coming after him like crazy.
"These people are really dumb. They think my armor is running on some kind of technology just because I am invincible here." Tony mumbled as he could see that almost 35% of their fleet now was after him. It felt like they were coming with all of their spear and weapons.
It looked very weird that a huge fleet was coming after a small man.
The people of the Earth who were looking at all of this were startled to say the least. It looked funny and terrifying. A small man against a huge army.
"How is he even doing this? Aren't those able to do anything to him?" Rogue couldn't help but ask as all the mutants who didn't join in 'saving' the world were now looking at the news and getting the live footage.
"Ask him when we go there." Charles said as he too was surprised that even a regular member of the Avengers team was so powerful.
After 10 more minutes of flying around and getting the attention of more than 40% of the fleet of the enemies, Tony finally got into the action of the 2nd phase of their strategy.
"Tony, you better be right. Or else you will have to listen to Lex's rants all day." Victor said over the comms.
"That baldy is controlled by John anyway. What can he do." Tony said as he flew around while destroying another medium sized spaceship. He continued flying around. It looked like he was flying randomly.
But he wasn't!!
After flying to the center of the battlefield and even taunting the main warship of the enemies, he flew away. Many times he led the enemies to believe that they were winning on him and even applied fake scratches on his armor just to show that the enemies were winning.
He needed half of their force away and divided. He had almost reached the half quota and now he was slowly dividing the army into two parts. The enemy didn't even realize that this was just a plot and they blindingly ran after Tony.
After about 20 minutes of random running around, the enemy fleet were divided in two parts. One fleet that was actively fighting with the main fleet of Victor and the other was Tony who they were actively trying to kill.
"What is he doing? Dividing?" Rogue asked.
"Seems like it. They want to create a divide and maybe surround the enemy in the hopes of killing them." Charles said as he sat on his chair.
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