Seeing that the suits were immobilized, even if temporarily, Alex, who had created temporary limbs for Laura while controlling her body ran as fast as he could.
Even though he'd enhanced Laura's regeneration, she'd just lost far too much of her body to regenerate it without at least a few days of recovery. Her limbs were gone, her torso was missing a huge amount of flesh and her organs were barely functioning. The only consolation was that her brain was perfectly protected. Both by Alex and by her Vibranium-Adamantium skull.
Alex knew that this kind of injury wasn't enough to kill her, but she wouldn't be active for a while. At least not in a fight.
He had to get out of this city, quickly. He'd already depleted his reserves of Chaos energy and couldn't pull the same trick again. And he was sure that the next set of suits that arrive would be equipped to deal with his rudimentary magical methods. He was hopeful that Tony hadn't encountered the true Scarlet Witch in this timeline so he wouldn't have made any countermeasures against Wanda's full power. But Wanda wasn't here. It was Alex, and he barely had any control over the Chaos energy. Not to mention his reserves were already empty.
But there must've been a version of Wanda on this earth too, so Tony would've had access to some samples of Chaos Energy.
Alex was in a race against time, every single second mattered since he didn't know how long it would be before the next legion would assault him and Laura. So, he made his way to the boundary wall as quickly as possible with the intention of escaping the city, hoping that the suits wouldn't chase him for too long.
As he approached the wall, Alex decided to reveal that Laura had some external help in her escape. He'd wanted to find a way that wouldn't reveal him, but it seemed like there wasn't any other way.
Alex created a camouflaged springboard just a few feet away from the wall and jumped at it with all his strength. Doing his best to propel himself over the top of the wall, Alex had the springboard push him up. And that propelling force created weak web-like cracks in the ground below. It wasn't that the ground was weak, on the contrary, it was extremely durable. It was the jump that created a lot of downward reaction force.
Sadly, it wasn't enough to cover a hundred meters in height. He could only reach around 75 meters and would have to climb the rest himself. Thankfully, although Laura's limbs were decimated, her skeleton was completely fine. Since he was in control of her body, Alex was able to detract her claws from her hands and feet.
He stabbed the claws into the wall and scaled the rest of the distance within seconds.
By now, some of the weak grunt suits had caught up with them and were trying to delay their escape. Though Alex was able to tank some of their attacks with his symbiote body while countering the rest with Laura's claws.
He wasn't as proficient as Laura when it came to using the claws, but it was sufficient for the current situation.
'Seeing how desperate they are in trying to delay us, I feel like I made the right choice.' Alex observed. They were trying to delay Laura's escape while the production lines probably made the modifications to the suits to perfectly counter her newly shown abilities.
'I hope I'll lose the pursuit of these suits after leaving this city.' Alex hoped as he reached the top of the wall within seconds.
It wasn't too difficult to scale a distance of 25 meters with his own super strength. Since Laura's limbs were basically vaporized, Alex was able to utilize his ‹Superhuman Grade Physique Creation (35 Tons)› to make completely new limbs over her Vibranium-Adamantium bones.
It allowed him to bypass the limit of 3 times enhancement to Laura's body and utilize more strength.
The moment he stepped on the top of the wall, Alex was bombarded by sentries located at specific points.
'This is why I didn't tell her to jump over the wall back in the facility…' Alex knew that it was going to be very difficult to completely dodge those sentries.
Especially since these sentries were far better than the ones at the facility. These were city-defending sentries and had far more firepower.
The only consolation in this situation was that they weren't as fast as the ones at the facility, made for far stronger attacks and longer ranges, they had a slower reload rate, becoming just a bit easier to dodge.
Alex used his ‹Enhanced 6th Sense› to its limits as he did his best to dodge what could be dodged while protecting Laura's head. That was the only part that truly mattered. With time, she could regenerate everything, but if her head or more specifically, her brain was lost or damaged, she would lose all her memories and he didn't want that to happen to her.
Doing his best to mitigate the damage that was being dealt to Laura's body, Alex shielded her and ran like hell over the ten-meter distance at the top of the wall while trying to dodge the energy weapons that were being shot at him. By the time he reached the end of the path, all that was left of Laura's body was her heart and her head. Alex decided to prioritize protecting her head over other parts and that caused quite a bit more damage to her body.
Though he was finally out of the main danger as he jumped over the wall and scaled down to the ground.
'Weird…' Alex noticed that the grunt robots that had been shooting him were also gone.
'Let's get out of here first…' Alex didn't think about it and decided to run to one of the empty bunkers that he'd run into on his way here. He made sure to try his best to reduce his presence and use camouflage to its fullest on the way there. He hoped that he wouldn't run into any abomination, at least not yet. He may be an untiring symbiote, but this extreme situation in the Bastion had tired him out mentally and Alex just wanted to rest for a while. Which was what both he and Laura needed the most right now.
After escaping, there wasn't any party that was sent after them, so Alex heaved a sigh of relief.
A few minutes later, Alex reached his destination. Though, he wouldn't be staying here for more than a few hours since it was too close to the Bastion for his comfort.
'Now what do I do with her?…' Alex looked over Laura's horrendous state and thought of how he would go about healing her.
'I have a theory about the Level 3 bond… I could test it out. I'm sure that it would allow me to have more influence over her biology and might also allow me to speed up her healing by a good enough factor…' Alex thought. He sealed the bunker to be safe and covered an entire room with his symbiote body hoping that at least some of the Bastion's probing methods might fail that way.
He created a bed and put Laura's body on it.
'Let's wake her up first.'
Having bonded with a few hosts already, Alex was very familiar with the human body. The extension that he'd formed around Laura's head and heart was the exact replica of her body without any difference. So even if he woke her up, she wouldn't be in any phantom pain over losing her entire body. Though she would be a little uncomfortable, since it wasn't actually her body, there would be some differences. And she would realize those differences.
Alex jolted her awake since he knew that she might not wake up for a while otherwise.
"Ugh..." Laura groaned as she woke up. She had a horrible headache and was feeling uncomfortable all over.
'What the hell?' Laura was feeling really weird. Slowly, everything started coming back to her.
"Am I dead?"
[Yeah, you died. And you brought me with you…] Alex told her.
"Alex?" She was still feeling muddleheaded.
[Laura.] Alex was patient with her. As dangerous as their current situation was, he knew that lashing out with sarcasm wouldn't help either of them.
"Did-did we get out?" She asked with an almost vulnerable touch in her voice.
[Yes we did. We have a few hours to rest before we have to move.] He told her.
"We-we're really out? I'm-I'm free?" She was wide-eyed with disbelief as she asked him again.
[We're free Laura. You don't have to worry… I told you I could get you out of that place. And I kept my promise.] As an empathetic being, Alex was deeply feeling all of Laura's emotions and was being infected by her feelings of relief, joy, and utter happiness that she was feeling at being freed from her hellish prison.
"Thank you, Alex. Thank you so much…" She couldn't help but tear up as she felt overwhelming emotions take over.
[Shh… Shh…] Alex conveyed the feeling of rubbing her back and running his fingers through her hair as he tried to soothe her. He was also affected by her emotions and felt all of her emotions deeply.
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