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The Defenders
Manhattan, at a battle damaged site:
When Hank Pym looks at these new Giant Men they’ve developed to help out with these kind of disasters, he really just wants to slit his wrists. Not because all the lemmings are clapping with great, big goofy smiles on their faces. Not even because he’s on his way to an interview with some new, bargain-basement super-team. Hank’s upset because they’ve broken the sixty-foot ceiling he just couldn’t crack when he was Giant-Man and, frankly, that degrades him as a scientist. Watching the Giant-Man helping out and standing in the middle of a big crowd, Hank thinks to himself that if there was an ounce of justice in this world, that would have been him up there.
Later, at Hank’s first meeting with the Defenders at their apartment…
While Valkyrie fetches some drinks in the kitchen, Nighthawk thanks Giant-Man for hooking up with them. Hank is pleased to meet ah, Nighthawk as well and hopes he didn’t hold the guys up or anything. Luke denies that, mentioning they’re still waiting on the Black Knight. He doesn’t finish work till a little after seven and the traffic’s a nightmare over the Brooklyn Bridge since they rebuild it. Valkyrie asks Hank if he forgot his uniform.
Hank explains he doesn’t wear a uniform when he’s in his normal size. The Giant-Man costume is sixty feet long and in a lock-up downtown. He has to grow full size before he can climb into it. Nighthawk is surprised to hear that and admits he didn’t know. Patsy Walker introduces herself, but everyone calls her Hellcat. She tells Hank he’ll have to excuse her for getting all flustered, but she’s never actually met a celebrity before. Luke is called Power Man, and the man sitting behind him is the Son of Stan. Last but not least is Valkyrie. Hank asks the girl what she does, exactly.
Valkyrie claims she’s kind of a female Thor, as that’s why she’s got all the Norse symbolism and stuff going on in her costume. Hank thinks that weather powers are pretty cool. Thor was amazing when they were fighting the Hulk back in Times Square. Valkyrie tells Hank he can imagine her as Thor without the weather powers. Hank asks if she’s got a magic hammer instead, but she doesn’t have that either. She can’t even really fly, but she can bench-press two-fifty and she’s something of a martial arts expert.
Hank asks the guy next to him if he’s really Satan’s son, but the guy thinks Hank must be on crack or something. As Hank drinks from his beer, Nighthawk explains to him they’re not exactly what Hank’s used to with the Ultimates and everything, but they’ve got some real heavy hitters on this team too. Doctor Strange is one of their members, but he’s on a psychic house call right now and two of the X-Men are talking about coming over once they’ve got their funding together. Hank is surprised they’re getting funding. “Sure,” Nighthawk responds. That’s why he told Hank to hang onto his receipt for the cab and any other expenses he might have. Super-hero teams are the next big thing and they’ve got eight more companies willing to sponsor them once they’ve got Giant-Man on the books.
Actually, Hank corrects, the Giant-Man powers are still owned by the U.S. government and he’s kind of in a legal dispute with them right now. Patsy wonders if that means Hank can’t join the team now. Hank admits he may not be able to join as Giant-Man, but he makes up new ideas for super heroes all the time. He takes out a helmet from his bag, and explains it’s something he cooked up a few months back wand has been tweaking for a while. As Hank puts on the helmet, Nighthawk mentions that if it’s anything noisy, they’ll have to go outside as the landlord cracked up the last time when they had a thing.
Suddenly, Hank disappears and only his jacket and clothes are left! Hank tells the Defenders to look down. He explains that this is the new super hero he’s made up. In this itsy-bitsy tiny form he’s in now, he’s calling himself Ant-Man. The helmet he wears lets him talk to ants. As the Defenders stare and are amazed, Valkyrie can’t believe they’ve finally got somebody on the team with real super-powers.
Later that night, at his bedroom…
After spending a night with the young Valkyrie, who lies sleeping in his bed, Hank refuses to feel guilty about this. Valkyrie’s nineteen years old and she was using him as much as he was using her. So what if he told her he’d introduce her to Spider-Man and the X-Men? Everyone exaggerates when they’re trying to get someone into bed. He can’t sleep. Valkyrie’s snoring and his head’s still spinning from all those vodkas they downed after the meeting. He’s only got another week until his appointment with Fury and these two Ultron robots are his last real chance of getting out of the pathetic rut he’s in right now.
After taking a look at the half-finished robots in his lab next to him, Hank puts on his helmet again and walks outside and goes to stand on his balcony, where he overlooks the night city. Hank realizes that nobody else will touch him after what he did to Janet and his face being splashed all over the newspapers. He’s got nothing else in his life right now. He doesn’t think it’s too much to expect the super heroes save him like they’re saving everybody else out there.
The next day at the Triskelion, ten minutes in meeting with Nick Fury…
While Captain Britain and his companions arrive at the massive headquarters, Hank tries to convince Fury of his plans and shows him his robots. Fury, unimpressed, reminds Pym that he already told him a million times: it doesn’t matter how many super-hero identities he creates for himself… they just can’t have him back on the team. Hank says he can appreciate that. He really does. That’s why he started focusing on these androids. They’re not quite ready yet but, when they are, Ultron and the Vision Two behind him will be as strong as any of the super-soldiers and completely under SHIELD command. He adds that Captain America may be durable, but he’s still a human being. What he’s offering is utterly expendable war machines.
Fury claims they can’t put Hank back on salary. He asks if Hank’s got any idea how close they’re being watched right now. But Hank’s not asking for a salary: he’s giving Nick these ideas for free. He’s only trying to help. Fury begs not to be embarrassed like this. They’ve got a level eight security situation and the whole team’s about to be briefed on how they’re going to respond. He asks Hank to please let it go. Hank again says he’s giving him this stuff for free. Ultron and Vision Two quietly stare at each other. Fury leaves, telling Hank to just let it go.
Janet arrives and asks Hank what he’s doing there, thinking he has a meeting with Nick or something. Hank, hesitant, claims that Fury asked him to come in and have a talk about these new robots he’s putting together, but everything’s still at the planning stage right now. They’re just talking. Janet mentions she read in the papers that Hank’s seeing somebody again, and wants to know if it’s true she’s only nineteen. Actually, Hank corrects, Valkyrie’s twenty in August but they’re really more friends than anything else. They’re both just doing a little corporate work for this Defenders team. He adds she’s a martial arts experts and looks at least twenty-five. Janet smiles that’s cool and that Hank’s looking good. Hank gently glides his fingers through Janet’s hair, giving her the same compliment and says her hair looks fantastic.
Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch arrive, but also… an angry Captain America. He tells Pym to walk away and Hank excuses himself. Cap repeats himself and tells Hank to just walk away or he’ll put his head through the wall next to them. Hank takes off together with his robots, disappointed. Janet asks Steve if he really had to humiliate Hank like this, but he tries to be reasonable. Wanda stares at the Vision robot and he looks back at her. Pietro notices this and asks his sister if she was really flirting with that machine.
Later at the Big Assignment down town…
A skyscraper has caught fire and Iron Man is already on his way to save the day. Among a cheering crowd stand the disappointed Defenders. The Black Knight mocks this is just great: he wonders if there’s any point in them even showing up at this fire now. Ten minutes they’ve been trying to hail a cab and now Iron Man’s just going to waltz in there and grab all the glory. Nighthawk corrects Alex Iron Man’s going to save lives, and that’s what this is all about.
“Sure,” Alex says. Obviously, saving lives is a huge motivating factor in why he wears a costume, but he wants more. A kid notices the Defenders and asks them if there’s a role-playing convention in town. Luke is a bit ashamed now. Another guy tries to get the Knight on film but he pushes him away. He asks the folks if they don’t recognize the Black Knight from the papers. Valkyrie thinks this is just too depressing for words. She means, why is Spider-Man considered a super hero and they aren’t? What’s the line you have to cross? Hank, wearing sunglasses, thinks it’s you probably have to do something heroic. Nighthawk agrees with that. It’s all about marketing. That’s why he wants full press coverage at this warehouse situation tomorrow night.
Hank wants to know what Nighthawk is talking about. Nighthawk explains that his cousin says he knows these kids who’re going to break into a warehouse and steal thousands of cigarettes. He wants to show up in their costumes and give these little punks the fright of their lives. It only needs two ticks while he buzzes his contacts in the media.
Later that night, at a warehouse. Fame at last…
The Defenders are ready and a cameraman is present as well. He explains the deal: he gets a shot of the Defenders in action, they all get their faces in the papers. Valkyrie shows a little leg and breast; he figures he can get them all a full-color-page. Hank tells Barbara there must be a hundred of these warehouses, and believes the kids’ll probably have been and gone by the time they get there. Valkyrie tells him to stop moaning. They’ll all split up and find the kids. No problem. As they all rush into the warehouse and split up, Hank asks what happened to the Black Knight, who isn’t with them. Nighthawk mentions Alex’s caught up in traffic over by the Lincoln Tunnel, but said they should probably start without him.
Deeper inside the warehouse, the kids have already broken in. Another kid explains Ramono left the alarm off, just like he said. They’ll be in and out of the place in fifteen minutes, tops. Another kid fears they’ll never get all of these cigarettes in the car, but the leader says to just take whatever they can carry. Zippo says he’ll give them five bucks a box, so they just have to grab what they need. A voice suddenly triumphantly tells the boys that news is just in from the Surgeon General: cigarettes are bad for health. It’s Nighthawk! He gracefully jumps down, spreading his cape open and freaks the boys out who try to run and hide.
Unfortunately, Nighthawk smacks his face down on the ground and lands on one of the boys. That boy angrily tells Nighthawk to get off of him. Nighthawk tells the kid to shut up, as he thinks he just broke his ankle! Another kid hits Nighthawk’s face with a crowbar and tells him to get off his friend. More kids start to kick and punch the poor Nighthawk until he’s completely down. The kid gets up and thinks Nighthawk knocked his tooth out. Another kid wonders if the costumed fool has got any money in his costume. He checks it out and finds nothing but homemade gadgets and stuff. He also finds handcuffs and mocks his friends if Nighthawk was planning to see their boyfriends after this. Another kid has managed to find fifty bucks in one of the pouches.
Nighthawk mumbles the money’s for the cab home after his shift. The kids mock that a cab is no way for a super hero to travel. He must have a Batmobile or a Bat plane or some other stupid thing ready. They mock that if Nighthawk wants to be a super hero he’ll have to learn how to fly. They drag Nighthawk to a window and toss him out of it! He lands on a cab, scaring the driver inside.
Valkyrie uses her cellphone to contact Giant-Man, mentioning they’ve got to do something, as Nighthawk is in trouble. Hank reports he’s already on it. Another ten seconds and every ant in the harbor’s going to be swarming all over these creeps.
The kids rush out of the warehouse and their leader angrily notices Nighthawk smashed his mom’s car windshield. He suggests they get the gasoline out of the trunk and torch this stooge.
Valkyrie contacts Hank again, who’s doing his best but there’s just not enough ants around. He’s counting maybe thirty or forty, but nowhere near enough.
Meanwhile, the kids are all pouring gasoline all over Nighthawk’s body and somebody goes to get the matches.
Valkyrie begs Hank to turn into Giant-Man and help Nighthawk out. Hank defends he can’t do that because he doesn’t have his costume. Barbara warns they’re going to set the guy on fire. She comes out of her hiding place and calls out to the boys, who are surprised to see her. They rush after her and Barbara tries to run into safety, and contacts Hank for help. Hank starts rushing toward her and calls her an idiot. He finally decides to grow into Giant-Man, but is now completely naked. He spots the kids and points his hand at them, and grabs them in his palm. The cameraman is glad to see this, joking that’s what you call a front page.
The next day…
Hank is seen stark naked in the Daily Bugle newspaper, with a headline reading “Butt-er luck next time: super-hero debut descends into farce.”
Hank and Valkyrie visit Nighthawk in the hospital, and watch him being operated on by doctors. Hank reads on in the paper Nighthawk’s got a fractured skull, broken ribs, a cracked pelvis and a ruptured spleen. And he doesn’t like that frontal picture of him in every newspaper in America. Valkyrie realizes the Defenders aren’t exactly off to a great start. Hank agrees with that. He sighs, realizing the Defenders don’t really know Dr. Strange, but Valkyrie denies that. They don’t know Iceman or Colossus either, nor any other members of the X-Men they kind of hinted might be signing up. She’s not even a martial arts expert. She’s only just going for her orange belt the week after next and she failed her blue belt three times. She starts to cry, believing Hank must think she’s really sick.
Hank gently places his hand around Barbara’s back, telling her not to cry. They all make mistakes. He jokes he practically makes an idiot of himself for a living. He suggests they go home. It’s time they go find themselves a nice bottle of wine and go back to his place and pretend tonight never happened. Barbara agrees but, before they go, there’s something she’s been meaning to ask him. The timing might be a little weird, but she’s been trying to pluck up the courage since the first night they spend together. She even feels like such an idiot for bringing this up now. Hank promises her she doesn’t need to feel stupid and tells her to ask her question. Barbara takes Hank’s hand, and smilingly asks Hank if he thinks he can dress up like Captain America for her.
Later, at a bar…
Hank, sitting with someone wearing a leather jacket and gloves in a bar, concludes it’s like he said: he thinks he’s pretty much at the lowest point he’s ever been in his life. All he wanted was to be big. Now, he’s a phone call away from signing autographs at memorabilia cons. The mystery person reminds Hank he knows the best way to put a smile back on his face. Hank admits he knows. It’s time to do what the person did and betray the team. It’s just hard to believe he’s talking to the person that’s been creating all these problems for everybody. He means, it all makes sense in a funny kind of way, but he just wouldn’t have had him pegged as a traitor.
The person claims that a traitor is someone who betrays what they believe in. This isn’t a nation he believes in anymore. He never asked for Homeland Security or Guantanamo Bay or this big preemptive strike force they made the team do on a third-world country. He claims that Hank should have seen those people faces today: they were terrified. Hank wants to know what the man is talking about. The man thinks Hank hasn’t seen it on the news yet; as it’s on every channel: “we crippled a nation this morning.”
Hank takes a look at a television nearby, and sees the Ultimates and the Giant Men behind them, surrounded by lots of soldiers. In the air, Captain Britain and the others are lifting missile parts.


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Wolf In The Fold
Middle East nuclear facility. Six weeks ago:
Inside a heavy battle damaged facility, Captain America sits behind a computer. He uses it to report back to base, saying that all ground-to-air defenses have been disabled along with a couple of little surprises the now fallen soldiers had up their sleeves. Fury asks Cap if he still hasn’t had any trouble from the locals. Cap mentions security spotted him fifteen seconds ago, but thinks they’ll need a full half minute to react and cock their weapons.
On that very moment, more soldiers carrying guns appear behind Cap. They are ready to open fire on the legendary hero, however Cap reports to Quicksilver that they’re good to go. A moment later, the soldiers start shooting, though Pietro has already carried Cap out of sight!
Outside the facility, Quicksilver does his best to run away as fast as he can, but suddenly trips over some rocks. Both he and Cap fall down on the ground, and Cap asks Pietro what he’s doing: he’s supposed to get him four miles from the compound. Pietro reports to Fury he can’t take Cap any further, because the guy weighs three hundred and fifty pounds.
Inside SHIELD Helicarrier Hermes:
Fury tells Pietro he can relax: Sat-pics say he’s far enough from ground zero for the bombing to commence. He just needs to head for the camp and lend a hand with the EVAC. A SHIELD soldier operating the computer screen warns Hawkeye he’s clear to go. Hawkeye, wearing a pilot uniform and controlling a helicopter, gives the soldier at the base his thumb up as he Rogers that. He and some other helicopters fire missiles at the smaller factories below them, and all the terrorists run out screaming when their buildings catch on fire. P>
While more missiles are being fired, the Giant Men make sure nothing is left standing of the buildings by stepping on them and crushing them apart. Fury asks Iron Man, Blawk Widow, Captain Britain and all the other Captains, who are flying in the air, to do their part. Tony says they’re on it. Natasha explains that she and Tony will take the North end and the Captains can take the South. Natasha and Tony land on a huge rooftop and tear it open. Once inside, the Captains tear apart the nuclear missile.
Wanda fears she can’t do this. She’s freaking out and just keeps thinking about what happens if she makes a mistake. Iron Man compliments Wanda that she’s the Scarlet Witch. Magneto’s daughter. She just has to show these guys that she doesn’t make mistakes. Wanda starts focusing her powers and folds her hands together. As she opens them, a small pink energy ball appears. Wanda uses her powers to make it larger and larger, until the entire area is surrounded by a pink glow and all the missiles are destroyed!
Nearby, American soldiers led by Captain America free some captured civilians and round them up on their trucks. While they all watch at the smoke coming out of the mountains due to the battle, Cap speeches to the civilians that he wants everybody out of here and onto the trucks. They’ve got food and toilet facilities ten miles up the road, and that the Ultimates are doing this for the people’s protection. A small boy stares in front of him in disbelief. Cap notices the boy and shouts at him to move. The kid does as told and gets on a truck, and the soldiers start driving away.
The Triskelion, today…
While all of the Captains return at the base, they see below them lots of protesting people demanding Thor’s freedom. SHIELD officers have the hardest time holding them off.
Below the headquarters, Tony visits Thor in his cell and asks him if he heard about the protestors. Thor has, and mocks that billions of dollars in security and eight of his disciples still manage to barricade themselves inside the canteen. Thor also thinks this is why the Ultimates are going to lose… The tighter they squeeze, the more the people will slip through their fingers. Tony wants to know when he became one of the bad guys. With a stern look on his face, Thor says it’s around the same time Tony took part in that preemptive strike against a Third World country.
Tony defends it was a Third World country with nuclear weapons. Thor thinks that Tony will find the only nation that’s ever used nuclear weapons against other human beings is the one he pledged an oath of allegiance to. Tony asks Thor to stop being an idiot. These people were targeting neighbors at the same time they were assuring America they didn’t even have a weapons program. He wants to know what Thor would have done in their situation… cross his fingers?
A disappointed Thor thinks they’ve got Tony. All they have to do now is say “nuclear weapons” and Tony Stark just falls into line like the rest of them. He asks Tony if he thinks that’s how they’ll get him to invade all their other countries. What is Tony going to do if they decide China’s a threat a few years down the line? Tony thinks that now, Thor’s being ridiculous. Thor, ashamed, closes his eyes, mentioning he used to think Tony was the smart one.
Tony replies that he didn’t come down here to talk about politics. He just wanted to clear the air after everything that happened in Norway. He thinks Thor’s got to appreciate that these delusions he was having were completely out of control. He was hitting policemen back in Italy. Thor defends that he’s the god of Thunder, Son of Odin and half-brother to the wretched Loki, god of Mischief. Tony interrupts Thor, not wanting to listen to this “nonsense.” Thor further explains he came here to save the world from the war to end all wars and claims they still have time to stop this. Tony tells the guard they’re done there.
A guard opens the door for Tony to walk through but, before he leaves, Thor tells Tony that Fury has to turn back now. These aggressive acts are only confirming the worst fears of his enemies and they’re already taking steps against the Ultimates. Tony waves Thor goodbye and leaves. After that, Thor says that Tony has to tell his boss he has a wolf in his fold. Tony has to tell Fury he has one last chance before the other side retaliates.
Downtown Manhattan
Janet, wearing sunglasses, is sitting in a café with… her ex-husband! Hank, also wearing sunglasses, and a cap sits in front of her. Janet can’t believe she’s having an affair with him. Hank jokes and asks since when lunch constituted as an affair. Janet jokes it happened since she told Steve she was meeting with Betty Ross. Hank thinks that’s Cap’s problem. If he wasn’t so psychopathically possessive, Janet wouldn’t have to lie to him. Janet smiles that Hank’s very brave when Hank’s not around. Hank jokes he’s brave behind everyone’s back.
Hank asks Janet if Cap’s still driving her nuts. She tells Hank he has no idea: if Cap’s not complaining about what she watches on television, he’s complaining about what she’s eating or the clothes she’s going out in. It’s like living with your father. Actually, she corrects, its like living with your grandfather. She can’t remember the last time she just had a good laugh. All they do is hang out with old people. It’s like working in a care home sometimes and she’s worried she’s starting to smell like them. Hank jokes he didn’t like to say that. Janet smiles at him, telling Hank to shut up.
She’s glad they’re at least all having dinner at Hawkeye’s place tonight. Wanda and Pietro might not be great conversationalists, but… Hank interrupts, realizing that at least the twins don’t wet themselves when they sneeze. “Exactly,” Janet responds as she takes off her sunglasses. So, she continues, between this and the fact they haven’t used her on the last two missions, she’s starting to feel a little alienated up there. Betty Ross said she’s scoring really low on all the market research they’ve been doing. She’s even behind these new Giant Men they brought over from the Green Berets.
Hank hates those guys. He asks if Janet saw them on that Sixty Minutes special last week. Janet calls them morons. Anyway, she wants to change the subject. She asks Hank to cheer her up and tell her what’s been happening with him. Hank smiles, “nothing special.” The Defenders turned out to be a complete disaster and this company she’s working for now is just really, really boring. He would rather talk about Janet.
While the two continue to talk, they don’t notice they’re being watched by a shadowed man sitting in a car nearby…
Hawkeye’s place…
While doing the dishes, Laura asks Clint if he thinks there was an atmosphere between Steve and Jan tonight. When Clint wonders aloud what makes Laura say that, she doesn’t know. It’s like every time he said something she was rolling her eyes. She just seemed to be poking fun at Cap all the time. Clint never noticed anything. Laura jokes that, for a guy called “Hawkeye,” Clint doesn’t really notice much. Clint tells his wife she can go to bed and get some sleep. Callum and he got this covered. He mentions that Nicole’s going to be through in a couple of hours, so she might as well grab a catnap while she can.
Laura wants to know why Clint’s making coffee at this time, as he knows it’s only going to keep him awake. Hawkeye explains it’s not for him: it’s for the security guys. They always used to appreciate a little coffee when he was on an all-night shift. He just doesn’t want them thinking he’s some kind of jerk. Laura reminds him they’ve got sweepstakes to see when Clint gets to be their bodyguards. He’s John Wayne to these people.
The doorbell rings. Laura goes to answer it, thinking that must be Wanda back for her purse, which she forgot. The poor girl was so tipsy going out that door she could hardly string the words together for their disappearing spell. Holding Wanda’s red purse ready, Laura opens the door. Suddenly, a red dot appears on her head, and… Laura gets shot! She falls down on the floor, and loses a lot of blood…
Clint calls out to her. Two masked soldiers carrying guns come through the door, reporting to their friends that two more kids are upstairs and that they’ve got to go. More soldiers jump through the kitchen window, freaking Hawkeye out. All of the soldiers start shooting at him! Callum gets scared and rushes to his mother, but gets grabbed by one of the soldiers. The soldiers want to shoot the little boy, but one of them gets hit by a knife in the head! Hawkeye’s still alive and, using the forks, knives and spoons as his weapons, mocks the soldiers they shouldn’t have dropped him in the kitchen.
He throws his “weapons” into the soldiers eyes and necks, killing some of them. Callum tends to his daddy, but Clint warns him this is no time to be a bay. He has to go next door to Fitz and ask him to call the special number he gave him. A moment later, Callum gets shot right in front of Clint’s eyes! The child dies in his arms.
A soldier enters the kitchen, telling Clint to relax: the boy’s with his mother up in heaven now. He asks Hawkeye if this is a big surprise for him. Starting to cry, Hawkeye angrily shouts out he swears he’s going to kill them for this! The soldier places his gun against Hawkeye’s face, telling him that now he’s just being stupid. He pulls the trigger, and spent shells fall out of the gun…


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Born On The Fourth Of July
At Cap and Wasp’s place, Manhattan…
Janet wakes up alone in bed. She gets up and enters the living room, where she sees Cap on the balcony, thinking. She joins him and asks Steve how long he has been up. Cap, drinking some of his coffee, admits he never went to bed: he has just been out walking all night. He admits Nick Fury told him everything: about the drinks, the lunches… the fact that the two of them spent four hours alone in that apartment last week… Janet is shocked. Cap, ashamed, knows that Janet’s sleeping with Hank again. He explains that SHIELD considers Hank a security risk and have the whole thing on camera.
She sighs that’s just awesome. Cap is glad that at least Janet’s not denying it, however Janet claims that they were only talking. She and Hank have been married eight years, and that isn’t something you can just switch off. Cap turns around, asking Janet if she wants to know what he thinks. He thinks Janet hates herself so much she won’t allow herself to be happy. Somebody treats her nice for the first time in her life and she has to go and make an idiot of him. Janet doesn’t know what Steve is talking about. He hardly even speaks to her. He just sits there and reads his newspaper every night and plays his stupid old Bing Crosby records.
Cap asks if that’s a good reason to sleep with someone else. Hank put her in the hospital. He cracked the roof of her mouth open! Janet reminds Steve she already told him she isn’t sleeping with Hank… not yet, anyway. They quietly stare at each other. Cap jumps over the high balcony, ignoring Janet’s call to come back and also her apology. He lands on a roof below, and keeps jumping down to street side.
Hawkeye’s place, the suburbs…
Nick Fury, Betty and some SHIELD analyst s have gathered around the place and found the bodies of Hawkeye’s kids. One of them reports to Fury that only four bodies have been accounted for: Laura Barton and their kids Callmu, Lewis and baby Nicole. The exact location of Hawkeye’s body has yet to be determined, but bloodstains on the kitchen floor match his DNA profile. The guy asks Fury why he thinks they took Hawkeye’s body. Did they do it like some kind of trophy?
Fury is too shocked to say anything concrete. They asked him to be Nicole’s grandfather. He’s got the kid’s name tattooed on his shoulder. Everyone’s quiet for a while. Fury eventually asks to be patched through to SHIELD-EYE. He wants to see what the security cameras picked up in here. A woman reminds Nick she already told him it was a wet-job. Whoever these guys were, they snipped the wires before they fired a bullet. Fury asks Betty if she really thinks he just had one set of cameras in this place. He contacts SHIELD-EYE to go to Clint Barton’s file and picture-search the backup cams for the kitchen, hallway and upstairs bedrooms for one a.m. until two-fifteen.
Inside the SHIELD-EYE base, the troops do as told.
The woman is surprised Fury had cameras in the house he never told the Bartons about. Fury smiles that he’s got cameras in places she wouldn’t believe. An agent informs Fury he’s got Betty Ross on his phone for an update. He also asks Nick if he wants her to bring the rest of the team up to speed on all this. Nick doesn’t. He explains that the Ultimates don’t even hear about this until they know exactly what they’re dealing with. Strategic figures there’s a traitor in the ranks, so Hawkeye’s death stays full-time military until he gives the say-so.
The soldiers inside SHIELD-EYE report the pictures are coming through. Fury asks Agent Toffler what the situation is, and if there are any clear shots. With Toffler and the other soldiers just too shocked to answer when they see the pictures, Fury starts to worry a bit when he doesn’t a response.
Bucky’s place…
Cap visits Bucky and Gail. Bucky and Cap spend some time on the porch and drink a beer together. Bucky asks Cap again who Jan’s seeing now. Steve explains she’s seeing her ex-husband again; Giant Man. He doesn’t understand how she can even speak to a guy who beat her up every night. He doesn’t know what goes on in that girl’s head. He has tried to be a decent guy and put up with all her crude friends and weird TV shows, but nothing’s ever enough. All Janet wants to do is have these big, long discussions about “where we’re going as a couple” and he doesn’t even have a clue what she’s talking about half the time.
Steve apologizes to Bucky. He knows he’s got the family over for lunch and everything, but didn’t know who else to call. He starts to cry, admitting that he doesn’t know anybody else. He doesn’t even have other friends. Bucky quietly turns away. Inside the house, Gail stares at the two, quietly whispering that Bucky just has to hug the guy, and he does.
The Triskelion launching pad…
As Fury enters his helicopters, agents report they’ve got a position on their target. Recon says he’s with a civilian in Clinton Hill. Fury can’t believe they were this stupid. How could they just take this punk at his word when everybody else on the team gets six months of background checks? His companion thinks it’s because the guy showed up when they needed him most and wearing the flag on his chest. What were they supposed to think? Fury says he gets paid to be a pessimist. Believing in Santa Claus just cost his friend and his family their lives. He can’t believe what an idiot he was! The agent asks Nick if he’s sure he doesn’t want the Ultimates in takedown. Fury, holding his gun ready, reminds the soldier he said just the Ultimate Reserves.
Greenwood Cemetery…
Bucky jokes to Cap that, if he’s hanging around graveyards in his spare time, it’s no wonder he’s so depressed. Steve guesses he just hit an age where he knows more people under the ground than walking around on top of it. He asks Bucky if he remembers Artie Hollenbeck, that big, skinny guy. Bucky does: the guy looked exactly like Jimmy Steward and had the best singing voice he ever heard. Bucky smiles and admits he used to come down here every weekend after they were discharged. But as time went by, he showed up less and less, until he hardly got a chance to stop by at all. He tells Steve he knows how these things go… real life just gets in the way after a while.
Steve disappointed mocks that phrase doesn’t count for him. Staring at some graves, Cap feels he should never have been brought back to life. He thought he could fit in, but he can’t. He belongs in the ground with these poor guys. He doesn’t belong in this weird America. Bucky smiles and asks Cap if he ever saw the statue they put up for him in this cemetery. They had a memorial for him every year until the nineteen-sixties. Steve should have seen what great funeral he had… he would have sworn it was a funeral for a president.
Overhearing Bucky’s words, soldiers report to each other that Fury just gave them a green light.
Steve suddenly hears something and Bucky asks what’s wrong. On that moment, all of the Reserves show up out of nowhere and attack Cap! One of the Iron Men grabs Bucky who panics. Steve gets hit by tranquilizers and panics when he sees his friend being carried away. The Four Seasons hold Steve back and kick and punch him several times until he eventually falls on the ground. Fury shows up, and tells Cap he must have been laughing his butts off… Stark’s deep sea unit just happens to find him bobbing along in a big chunk of ice at exactly the same time SHIELD was putting a super-hero team together. He shouts that Cap and his buddies must have thought they were pretty stupid.
Cap, almost breathless, tells Nick he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. His head feels so weird. Fury punches into Cap’s face with his gun. Fury holds Cap’s head straight up and points his gun to his mouth, shouting at him not to lie. He punches him down again. He orders the soldiers to get Cap back to the Triskelion before he loses his cool and puts a bullet in his head. He wants Cap taken apart until he gets the name, address and telephone number of whoever put him up to this. He still can’t believe they thought a punk like this was Captain America.
One of the Four Seasons mocks Cap, saying that with all those years floating around in a block of ice, they must have needed their heads examined, falling for all that nonsense. They’re going to fry Cap for what he did to Hawkeye’s family, and that he’s going to burn like Bruce Banner. Cap lifts up a tombstone and slams it into the Four Seasons faces! They try to get up and beat Cap down again, but he moves just too fast for them. The other soldiers think that’s impossible, as the guy’s got a pint of tetrodotoxin in him! Fury tells the soldier to shut up and just take Cap down!
Cap tries to fight his way through the soldiers and Reserves, and Fury asks Rocketman Two what he’s doing. He’s got a priority-one emergency down there! The Rocketman, already high up in the sky, says he’s just finding a little distance. Fury shouts at him to just shoot to kill, whatever it takes! They just can’t allow Cap to reach their chopper! The Rocketman gets a clear lock on Cap and fires his missile at him, taking him down.
At a brides shop downtown…
Natasha is busy trying a dress on. She gloats that she’s going to kill Janet for this. She doesn’t know how she’s supposed to chooses a wedding dress on her sister’s recommendation when that woman dresses like a pole dancer. She also wants to know who invited Quicksilver, as this was supposed to be a girls’ thing only. Pietro jokes to his sister to listen Natasha, wondering if this is just pre-wedding nerves or if she has simply realized how ridiculous her thick, Russian ankles look in that puffball of a dress. Wanda, ignoring her brother, answers her cell phone and stares in shock at it. Pietro notices this and asks Wanda what’s going on.
Stark International…
Tony is in a meeting. A general tells Stark he’ll be frank with him: they can turn a blind eye to the Iron Man suits, but they have it on good authority that he’s assembling a military warplane at his Nevada base. He demands to know why a private citizen would be assembling a plane that’s five years ahead of anything the United States Air Force is developing. Tony’s secretary approaches her boss and whispers something in his ear, leaving Tony thinking.
At a bar…
Janet, carrying some bags, approaches Hank and informs him she finally did it: she walked out on Steve. Hank tells her to be quiet, as he wants to hear the news. A female reporter standing outside Clint Barton’s home reveals that leaked reports suggest that a multiple homicide has taken place there and that Hawkeye, his wife and all three of his children were brutally murdered. Betty next confirms in a press meeting that they are aware that they have a security issue and that an incident did indeed take place at Hawkeye’s home last night, but at the moment she’s unwilling to confirm Captain America’s involvement in this matter and investigations are still underway. Janet and the other bar patrons are all shocked.
The graveyard…
Captain America is down. One of the Rocketmen stands triumphantly over his unconscious body and reports they’ve got him. Nearby Cap is the statue placed in his honor, which has a golden plaque on it reading “In memory of Steve Rogers, Captain America, who gave his life for the lives of his countrymen.”


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Grand Theft America
In a lab at an unknown location…
A scientist holding a scalpel ready says hello to his prisoner: Hawkeye! He asks Clint if he’s feeling drowsy and explains that’s because Clint has just spend the last three days doped up on sodium thiopental while they ripped a bunch of state secrets from his head. The scientist touches Clint’s head, gloating that surely he didn’t think they’d execute a high-ranking SHIELD officer with all that classified information in him: those were tranquilizers. But his children did swallow bullets and that fat wife of his as well, though the scientist can’t remember Clint’s wife’s name… was it Lana or Laura? But that doesn’t matter now.
Clint tries to free himself but the chains on the operating table he’s strapped on are too powerful. His anger at the scientist is clear, though can’t seem to say anything. The scientist bets if there were a knife or a gun or a safety pin lying around, he’d be dead already. But there isn’t any. And there’s nothing less frightening than the best shot in the world with nothing in his hands. A shadowed man enters the scientist room, wanting to say something, but the doc asks for two more minutes. The scientist mocks Hawkeye – he can’t believe the hero never saw this coming. He can’t believe he never guessed what they were after, after Banner and Thor and even poor old Cap got set up by the team’s traitor. He means, think about it… who profits most from disabling the Ultimates?
The scientist put his glasses back on, telling Hawkeye that America’s enemies have been organizing something huge and, thanks to him, they’ve now got all the security codes they need. Clint starts to cry.
Tony Stark’s townhouse…
Jarvis takes a drink and goes to sit on a chair, where he reads his newspaper. He asks Tony how their little Black Widow is doing this morning. Tony, taking two bottles of wine, smiles to Jarvis she’s as well as can be expected. And he’d appreciate it if Jarvis dropped the sarcastic tone because he’s really too tired for his unique brand of misogyny today. Jarvis drinks again, sarcastically asking Tony to forgive him for catching the eye of his betters. He begs not to take him behind the henhouse and give him another sound thrashing for the impertinence. Tony asks Jarvis again to stop being a pain and go make some breakfast instead. Natasha’s still upset and nothing raises the spirits like an ostrich egg omelet and a glass of champagne. He already grabbled a couple of bottles from the cellar this morning, but appear to have swallowed them quite accidentally.  Jarvis does as told, mocking that obvious he doesn’t have anything better to do than running after his master all day.
Tony enters his bedroom again and asks Natasha, who sits on the bed, how she’s feeling this morning. Natasha claims she isn’t doing too badly. Tony climbs on the bed as well, explaining he’s spoken to the cardinal and he’s absolutely fine with postponing the wedding if that’s what Natasha really wants. It’s entirely understandable after the Hawkeye situation. Natasha doesn’t want to talk about it right now. She also wants to duck the meeting with Fury and the guys. Her implants are very itchy and she’s not feeling too sociable today. She wants to snuggle up for a while instead. Tony agrees to do that, and the two start to kiss and make love.
Nick Fury’s office, the Triskelion…
Quicksilver tells everyone that something about this situation doesn’t sit right with him. First, everybody they thought they knew about Thor was wrong and now Captain America’s supposed to be some kind of enemy agent? Pietro’s saying that this doesn’t sit right with him at all. Betty asks Janet if she’s okay. She claims she is but just needs a minute.
Suddenly, the lights go off! Wanda notices that the shields are all down and that somebody just switched off the building’s security. One of the Four Seasons looks outside in shock. The entire Triskelion headquarters is falling apart! Betty asks Nick what’s going on. Everyone just stares outside, and Betty and Fury hold hands. More building sides of the Triskelion collapse until nothing is left, and mysterious men wearing green uniforms fly outside. The men, all looking like each other, report that phase one is complete and that they can move over to Manhattan for phase two.
Stark’s townhouse…
Tony, having heard a noise outside, stops kissing Natasha and wants to know what that was. Natasha claims it doesn’t matter and pushes Tony back on the bed. Tony doesn’t understand what Natasha’s talking about. It sounds like World War three is going on out there. They’ve got to suit up and see if they can help. Natasha keeps kissing Tony and wants him to relax. She glides her arm under a pillow and Tony panics. Natasha takes out a gun and points it against Tony’s head!
Jarvis walks into the room carrying the breakfast on a plate, apologizing that they didn’t have any ostrich eggs, but he managed to find a quail’s egg and a rather good magnifying glass. Natasha spots him and… shoots Jarvis in his head! The butler falls on the ground; dead. Tony calls out to Jarvis but doesn’t get a response. Natasha points her gun against Tony’s head again and thanks him for the laughs.
Manhattan…
In the city, buildings start to explode and robotic feet crush parked cars. All of the citizens start to get scared and try to run in safety. As everyone runs, they stare in shock at all the army of red “robots” attacking the city.
The Triskelion…
All of the Ultimates, Reserves, Fury and Betty have survived the crash. Fury wants to know how that was possible, and Wanda smiles Fury can thank her later. She managed to save the top three floors, but couldn’t get the others out in time. After helping some soldiers get up, Pietro tells Wanda to keep in touch and runs off. Betty asks Wanda where her brother is going. Wanda tries to use the communicator in her ear to call Pietro back, fearing she can’t fight these things on her own. There must be dozens, or hundreds of them.
Pietro tells Wanda to be strong and rushes towards the city. There, he jumps over some cars and attacks one of the robots. He manages to disable the armor and as it collapses on the ground, Pietro reports that they’re the only chance these citizens have left.
Fury and the Four Seasons open the attack on the men wearing the green uniforms, but seem to be outnumbered. Fury wants to know where the other Reserves are and what happened to Iron Man and all the other super soldiers. Wanda doesn’t think that matters: she can do this. All she has to do is change the probability of something bad happening to them, but the equations are so complex. She could fry everyone with her powers if she gets this wrong.
Ships start to soar over the city. Fury looks up and thinks there must be millions of these things. While Wanda starts focusing her hex powers, Fury and the Seasons keep fighting. One of the green uniformed guys badly injures Fury and Betty screams out in fear. Wanda’s finally finished. She enlarges her powers in a big, pink sphere, which surrounds the entire nearby area, at the same time taking some of their enemies out.
The Rocketmen are all suited up. They report that they’re airborne and en route to Manhattan ground zero. They ask if they have intel on the hostiles. Sitting inside a helicopter, another soldier denies that. There’s no info available while the mainframe is down, but there’s hundreds of them. The regular soldiers have never been trained  for this!
The Giant Men and the SHIELD soldiers all team-up, but are all attacked by the man with the green uniform, who keeps creating duplicates of himself non-stop. The foes are victorious and take out most of the Reserves, killing some of them in the process.
Meanwhile…
Still in his cell, Thor lies handcuffed on the floor. He senses something weird about the lightning. He calls out to his father, asking him if he hasn’t seen what’s happened while his glaze was elsewhere. Someone has stolen the lightning.
Manhattan…
A man wielding a hammer floats high above the air and controls the lightning, which he uses to destroy more buildings. He points his attention to Quicksilver, wanting to see how quick the mutant really is. He strikes lightning at Pietro, who panics.
Wanda desperately tries to contact Pietro, but doesn’t gain an answer. She fears they lost him! Fury, wounded, doesn’t think that matters. Wanda has to stay cool and keep her head together. He begs her to do that. Wanda keeps focusing her hex powers, but there’s too many of them. She just can’t keep it up. There’s just too many distinct sets of probabilities. Wanda collapses and her hex sphere disappears. The mysterious adversaries notice this and as they take down the remaining Seasons, they reach Betty and Fury.
Nearby…
Gunnar and his ally are impressed at the victory and overlook the damaged city from their battleship. Gunnar thinks that all this carnage must be very satisfying after everything the Americans have done to the colonel’s country. The colonel reveals to Loki he didn’t come here for revenge. He volunteered to lead this international collective because America’s plans simply had to be curtailed. He thinks the world is a safer place now this new Roman Empire has been restrained.
Los Angeles…
Los Angeles is almost completely destroyed as well. The attackers report that LA is clear, and Chicago and all the major military and nuclear facilities are under their control. The colonel wouldn’t think otherwise, and asks for any word about Washington.
Washington…
With most of the city caught in smoke from the many damages, the attackers explain that the White House and the Pentagon have both been subdued. And they won’t have any trouble from the European Union. Not now they’re holding the nuclear codes. The Colonel asks what about the Fantastic Four.
Manhattan…
The attackers believe the Fantastic Four are buried in the Baxter Building. Likewise, the X-Men have been restrained and their people are trawling their building now, looking for any mutant strays. The colonel says that’s good. They can now call Pym and tell him he’s needed for the containment procedure.
Loki still can’t believe this. The world’s last superpower and they’ve seized complete control in less than an hour. He’s impressed with the perfect planning, all plotted so meticulously. The Crimson Dynamo, the man in the red robot suit, doesn’t understand why Loki’s so excited. He means, he knows why their Chinese agents did this. They did it to stop more preemptive strikes. Likewise, the Russians, the Arabs and all the North Koreans. Even the Widow infiltrated these people for free because she feared what America might do next. But he doesn’t see why Loki would give a damn.
Loki claims it’s because he’s the Lord of Mischief, and what could be more mischievous than World War Three? Besides, he adds, the Ultimates had a Norse god on their side. It’s only fair that their enemies should get one, too. The guy with the hammer laughs at the damaged cities and tells his companions to look at it. The colonel asks for someone to get him a camera. He wants this everywhere. He wants this on every news broadcast and all over the Internet tonight. He reminds the world they said to stop making super people. They told them not to interfere with cultures they can never understand. This is what happens when America’s ambitions outstrip their capabilities. The empire takes a fall.
The Crimson Dynamo units and the duplicates work together to bring down the Statue of Liberty.
The colonel congratulates his team, while he finishes recording the terrible events: the Great Satan has just been liberated!


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The Axis of Evil
The Middle East, two months ago…
Captain America, the other Ultimates, the Reserves and Captain Britain and his companions have just liberated a large group of people. As the heroes and soldiers round the people up on trucks to drive them into safety, a boy named Abdul has doubts and stares in disbelief in front of him. His friend, Labeeb, asks what Abdul’s doing, fearing the Americans will shoot him when there are no cameras around. He reminds that they’re promising food and beds if they get on these trucks, and believes antagonizing the super-soldiers will only get him killed. Abdul doesn’t care. It’s not fair. They shouldn’t be able to kick them out of their homes like this. He wonders why nobody’s standing up to these Ultimates.
Labeeb, as he helps more people on the trucks, says it’s because bullets just bounce off the heroes’ heads. He wants Abdul to stop talking like this or they’ll both get killed. An elder man helps Abdul on the truck, telling the boy to look at the Ultimates: they’re walking around with their chests puffed out. He wonders if they really think they bring peace to this region. He asks what kind of hypocrites would close down their nuclear program when the Americans themselves have enough bombs to destroy the world a hundred times over?
The old man says that Abdul strikes him as a young man who could do a lot of damage to these “infidels.” Labeeb warns the old man to stay away from his cousin. He’s only seventeen years old and too sickly to be involved in his crazy plans. The man claims that he hears stories of men who might make Abdul stronger.
France, one month ago…
A meeting is taking place. The chairman stands behind a big screen, where he shows photos of the members of his team. He explains that their principal task force has been codenamed the Liberators. The members are civilian and military volunteers who have excelled in the Super-Terror trials. The pictures he shows now are their Chinese contingent – Chang Lam and Alex Su, who are soon to be known as the Abomination and the Crimson Dynamo. The Abomination has the strength of the Hulk, but complete control of his genius intellect. The Crimson Dynamo has been fused with his titanium V-R war-suit and can fight either independently or using the fifty giant-sized duplicates they designed for him.
Next, he shows pictures of Hurricane and the Swarm. Hurricane is from North Korea and Swarm from Syria. Hurricane is a speedster and the Swarm has the ability to make insects do whatever she commands. The power’s not as useless at it sounds – you can imagine a million bees descending on a target or ten billion bugs rolling across a battlefield?
Perun is, for all intents and purposes, a soviet Thor… and the Schizoid Man has been augmented with stem cells stolen from the replicating mutant, James Madrox. He asks the people present if they’ve seen the video footage of the Schizoid Men where he stops a riot single-handedly. It’s really quite remarkable. A general mentions they know about the Schizoid Man. They gave Chairman the Schizoid Man. Instead, they want to talk about Abdul Al-Rahman. He understands there has been some progress made.
Chairman confirms them, and shows the men a picture of Abdul behind him. He admits they’ve made substantial progress. They’ve found the first man since Captain Steve Rogers responsive to the super-soldier serum. He shows them images of the experiment, where Abdul gets the serum placed into his body. Proudly, Chairman announces that the Middle East has its own Captain America now, and their Liberators have a leader.
Their other great stride has been the foot soldiers they’ve created. Unfortunately, their power suits eat the men’s bodies up within a month, but flight and class three-level strength means they’ll be enormously effective in the initial strike. Seizing control of America’s power bases is obviously their main concern, and the most vulnerable member of the Ultimates has already been targeted for security information. He promises America will go down one month from today… noon Eastern Standard Time.
New York City, today…
Lots of warships fly over a heavily destroyed city. Below, the Liberators ask their associate, Doctor Hank Pym, what he thinks about all this. Pym, wearing his Ant-Man helmet, wants to know why the Colonel didn’t inform about this. Why didn’t he say they were planning something on this scale? The colonel admits it’s because they had to be sure they could trust Hank. They had orders from their president and prime ministers. The element of surprise was essential for a strike like this. He asks Hank if he’s happy how his androids turned out.
Hank isn’t sure what the colonel is talking about. He shows Hank the multiple Ultron robots they created, who are now all over the city holding all the people in check. He asks Hank if he thinks the Ultron units will help keep the peace. Hank’s confident that they will. The colonel is glad to hear that, because priority now is keeping casualties to a minimum. He declares that the American people shouldn’t suffer for the crimes of their government. Swarm suggests that maybe they should give the people free elections now. She understands there’s been some contention over the legitimacy of America’s current Caesar.
When the colonel asks Loki if he knows where the guy is, Loki states there’s no sign of him in the White House, but the foot soldiers are searching the place top to bottom. The colonel orders Hurricane to go to the White House as well, and she leaves immediately. She runs to Washington, where she bypasses some of the foot soldiers and destroys lots of property in her wake. Once inside the White House, the colonel contacts her, asking if she’s had any luck. Hurricane explains she already triple-checked everything but hasn’t found anything. She wants to ask around.
She threatens one of the employees demanding she tells him where his boss is. The frieghtened man tells Hurricane she can go to hell. She orders some of the foot soldiers to find Air Force One.
Back at Manhattan, the colonel orders Abomination and Dynamo that he wants them to bring the X-Men and the Fantastic Four to Washington. Schizoid Man has to take a search party and dig the drugged-up Captain America from his cell beneath the Triskelion. Loki playfully sticks his tongue out, joking this is the moment they’ve all been waiting for: the public executions.
At the remains of the Triskelion, some troops and doctors have found the unconscious bodies of Wanda, Betty and Nick Fury. Fury’s in a bad state, and one of the doctors, Ashraff, explains he has cauterized the wound where Fury lost his arm, but he hardly sees the point if he’s only getting executed. One of the foot soldiers reminds Ashraff that Fury’s the head of SHIELD. He’s the Supreme Commander of America’s intelligence agencies, and surely the colonel isn’t going to die off-camera.
The soldiers report that Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and their media relations woman have all been accounted for, but they still don’t have any word one Codename Wasp. Another soldier doesn’t care about a woman who can make herself smaller and weaker. They just need to hurry up and lock these people inside the restraining units. They will leave for Washington in twenty minutes.
Tony Stark’s Penthouse Apartment:
Jarvis lies dead on the ground. Tony stares at him in disbelief, with Natasha standing behind him; pointing a gun at his head. Natasha asks Tony to stop blubbering about Jarvis. She reminds him that the butler was an irritating old queen who walked through the wrong door at the wrong time. These things happen. Tony still can’t believe Natasha would betray the Ultimates like this. Natasha grins, telling Tony he can’t be serious about that: she’s a Russian spy. She mocks she can see why Tony would think she’d be the last person to betray America’s premiere defense force.
Tony wants to know how much Natasha get paid for this. Natasha admits the Liberators didn’t pay her anything. Those idiots were only interested in containing America’s overly ambitious foreign policy. Her reward was a chance to cripple the country that crippled hers and turned Mother Russia into a bankrupt nation of hookers and gangsters. But she had her own little plan, too. She wonders if Fury really never see how much money Tony drained from their military contracts, with all those rocket men and carrier fleets and all that lovely Ultimates merchandise.
They descend some stairs, and Natasha says there’s a hundred billion dollars in those offshore accounts and she doesn’t see why it should die with Tony, not when her banker in Switzerland could do something clever with it. Tony asks if that’s the only reason he’s still alive, so he can help her make a funds transfer. Natasha denies that, claiming it’s because she finds cancer-ridden drunks who smell of chemotherapy drugs attractive. She tells Stark to move along, as she doesn’t have all day. Resigned to his situation, Tony closes his eyes, and apologizes to Natasha. She doesn’t understand what he has to be sorry about. Tony presses a button on the wine bottle he holds, and suddenly Natasha screams in pain!
Almost collapsing, Natasha demands to know what Tony’s doing to her. Tony explains it’s the nanites in her head. They’re in her brain and her bloodstream and they allow Natasha to control that armor he gave her, but she can guess who controls them. He jokes that five thousand failed relationships can make a man a little cynical. Natasha begs Tony to let her help. Tony doesn’t see with the point: provide him with information about their attackers? He asks Natasha what she thinks he has been doing for the last twenty minutes. He has just downloaded everything he needs to know from her brains into his. He smashes the wine bottle against Natasha’s head, causing her to fall down unconscious.
Tony jokes that billionaires don’t get rich by being stupid. The security staff and Happy arrive, asking Tony if he’s okay. Happy is shocked to see Natasha on the ground like this. Tony confirms it’s her. He just brain-damaged his fiancée and, as much as this has been one of his more interesting break-ups, there’s simply no time to explain. He needs his pills, he needs a drink and he needs the security guys to get him downstairs to the old engineering shop. They enter an elevator and descend, with Tony declaring they’ve got work to do.
Location unknown…
A scientists asks Hawkeye if he remembers the guy standing next to him. Not getting an answer, the scientist claims it’s no big deal, as the guy sure remembers Clint. He re-introduces him to Captain Dragomir Branislav and says the horrific scar he sports over his right eye is a souvenir from their last encounter in Croatia. Colonel Al-Rahman has kindly offered the Captain a chance to play with him before they go on television for the public executions. The colonel’s only specification was that Dragomir leaves Clint conscious and with one functioning eye so he can see what is happening to his friends before his time comes. Still, the scientist mocks, that leaves them an enormous amount of latitude. He asks Dragomir if he agrees with that.
Dragomir just stares furiously stares at the chained Hawkeye, not responding the scientist. The scientist repeats himself. Dragomir reveals to Hawkeye that he has been waiting almost ten years for this moment. He just worries he cannot stop once he gets started. Unnoticed by both men, Clint moves his finger. He manages to touch his fingernail and throws something against Dragomir’s neck, killing him instantly. Hawkeye also throws something at a guarding terrorists, killing them as well.
The scientist is stunned and wants to know what’s going on. Hawkeye explains to the doc that he shouldn’t have left his fingernails intact. He takes out another of his fingernails, threatening the doc just to be smart and to get him out of the chair before he throws the nail between the doc’s eyeballs. The scientist gets scared, realizing Hawkeye will kill him if he does that. With furious red eyes, Clint promises he’ll kill the scientist too if he doesn’t. The doc does as told.
Above in the observation deck, more men watch what happened with Hawkeye and are stunned. They alert all units that Hawkeye has escaped and to do something. All of the terrorists move into action, holding their guns ready.
Clint, now free, stares at the scientist, who asks what happens now. Clint breaks the scientist’s neck and says he can take a guess. Dragomir, still barely alive, tries to take a shot at Hawkeye but he uses his elbow to knock him down. Clint angrily grabs the guy by his throat and demands to know if it was he in his house together with Romanov, and if it was he who killed his wife. Dragomir sarcastically grins he would have done far worse if there had been time. Hawkeye calls him names and eventually breaks Dragomir’s neck, finally killing him.
The other soldiers barge into the room and quickly surround Hawkeye. Their leader orders to open fire on the hero, and warns if the guy even touches their guns, they’ll be dead. Clint calls them all idiots… they’re dead already. The guys at the observation deck panic when they hear all of their men scream from the horror and pain they endure. Suddenly, their video cameras get turned off, causing them to go “blind.” But one of them manages to quickly reactivate it, only to find Hawkeye the sole survivor of the massacre, triumphantly holding two shotguns in his hands. When Clint notices one of the cameras in the room, he warns the people watching to better run and hide.
At the ruins of the Triskelion…
The Schizoid Man and some troops arrive at the cells below. One of the troops asks Schizoid if he saw Thor back there. Thor was so deep in prayer the trooper doesn’t think Thor even realized they were there. Schizoid Man tells his partners to forget about Thor. He calls him useless without his belt and hammer. The colonel’s main priority was Captain America, and the others will come back for Thor. One of the troops believes that Thor was praying to his father for help. Schizoid Man laughs that not even Jesus, Muhammad and Buddha combined could save these people now.
They find Captain America’s cell and open it, where they find an unconscious Cap trapped in a machine. Schizoid Man takes pity on Cap: he’s drugged up and imprisoned by his own people. One of the troops panics when he reads something weird on his scanner. He’s picking up two meta-human signals. There’s someone else in here with Cap. Schizoid Man realizes it must be the Wasp. Turning around, he can see the tiny Janet trying to fly away. He quickly grabs her in the palm of his hand, and smiles he’s glad to meet her. He tries to crush her, but Janet manages to roll out of his hands and fall on the floor, but has to grow back to her normal size now.
Janet feels the pain a bit, but Schizoid Man tells her to shut up, not understanding how someone so pathetic as her could even get a place on this team. He grabs Janet by her throat, wondering if this is what she does: sneak around and trying to find a real super hero to come to her rescue? One of the troops asks Schizoid to wait, as he wants to record this on his camera-phone. He wants a picture of this to show his friends back home. Schizoid Man apologizes to Janet for spoiling her plans, but she’s afraid things don’t always go to plan in real life. Janet asks the Schizoid Man what he’s talking about: she released Cap from that machine five minutes ago!
The Schizoid Man and the troops sacredly turn their backs around, and notice a released Captain America! Steve, holding his fists ready, warns his foes to “get the hell away from my girlfriend.”


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America Strikes Back
The Triskelion…
A disappointed Thor gently touches his cell’s window with his finger. He asks his father why he has forsaken him. He knows he was sent to save the world, but he wants to know where his father is now that they need him so much. Thor admits he’s starting to fear they don’t want to be saved. He wonders if war is the natural state of man, and if this is why Loki so easily seduced them. He begs his father to talk to him, or to give him a sign that he can hear his voice. Thor starts to cry and, on that exact moment, a bright light appears above him!
Elsewhere at the destroyed base…
Captain America has opened the battle against the Schizoid Man, who in the meantime has created lots of duplicates of himself. However, Cap manages to knock them all out. One of the troops warns Cap to get away from him and his friend, explaining that the Schizoid Man wasn’t the only one here with super-powers. They have taken the Wasp hostage and warn him not to take another step or they’ll tear her apart.
Janet angrily asks the terrorists if they know about that thing she does. That sting when she’s five hundred times smaller? She wonders if they know how much it hurts when she’s full size. She attacks the villains with her stings, shattering all of their teeth and knocking them out. She runs to Cap and hugs him, apologizing for not believing in him. Cap says it’s okay as it doesn’t matter. Janet mentions that their adversaries have destroyed the Triskelion and took over the country, plus everyone has been captured. Cap promises it’s okay as he figured as much. But they need to hit supplies before they do anything else. He needs his shield, some guns and every bullet Janet can carry. Janet asks about Thor. They run to his cell, only to find it… completely empty?! But the cell has remained untouched and not even the window is broken. Cap tells Janet she just asked a very good question.
Air Force One, five miles up in the sky…
Sitting in Air Force One behind his desk, President Bush is in a meeting. Bush asks his partner Danny if hiding is absolutely necessary, as he doesn’t want to be seen like he’s cutting and running. Danny says he appreciates that, but this SHIELD station they’re heading to in Nebraska is still under their control and is the perfect place to strategize their fight back. He also explains that the Presidential Suite has been prepared already and that the shadow cabinet is being assembled.
On that exact moment, the plane gets attacked by Perun! Perun hangs onto the craft and glides his body toward the plane’s window, revealing himself to the startled pilots. He is surprised to see that this is where Bush has been holed up. He destroys the plane and everyone falls out of it! Bush panics and calls out to his wife, Laura. The Crimson Dynamo, also present, promises Bush he doesn’t have to worry about her: he’s not going to die for hours yet!
The Dome, Brussels…
Captain Britain’s father explains to his son that the Liberators have them over a barrel. He adds that the Union even look like they’re going in, and the Liberators said they’ll launch America’s atomic arsenal. They’re in a stalemate now, and anything they do can only make things worse. Brian thinks that there’s actually one option they haven’t considered yet.
Washington DC…
While the Ultron robots round lots of citizens up in front of the White House, the Liberators proudly step in. The colonel is informed of Captain America’s escape. Further, one of the troops leading the arrest of the X-Men, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four admits that they presume Rogers has escaped. He wasn’t in his cell and the Schizoid Man’s bodies were scattered all over the Triskelion. He asks what they should do with the others they’ve captured, wondering if this turn of events changes anything.
The colonel denies that. He tells everyone to convene in Washington, precisely as planned. Loki wants the executions to go ahead at midnight. Hank interrupts the colonel thinking that he’s underestimating Rogers. He seriously thinks they need to focus their attention on finding him or they’ll put the entire mission in danger. Loki asks Dr. Pym to be serious. He knows that Pym’s terrified of the man, but he thinks Cap shouldn’t be too hard to find. They’ve already crippled the man’s country, captured his president and plan to behead his friends very shortly. He’s honestly certain this will smoke the Captain out.
Meanwhile, Janet and Cap walk outside the White House, carrying some Army bags. Janet asks Cap if he saw what the Liberators have done to Air Force One. They enter the White House and Janet says this is a nightmare… she can’t believe this is even happening. Steve asks Janet to calm down as they’ve got to keep it together. They’re the only ones left to fix this situation and if they don’t free the others here, they’re all going to die.
They open their bags, and Cap explains that he’s counted twenty-eight guards in the room next to them. He knows this isn’t going to be easy, but he believes if they keep their heads and think fast it shouldn’t be a problem. What he needs to know for sure is that Janet’s up for this because if she hesitates for a second they’re both going to get killed. “Of course I’m up for it,” Janet proudly declares while taking out a gun. Cap asks if she’s sure about that. “Totally”, Janet replies. Cap holds a gun ready as well, and mentions they’ll go inside the room on the count of three.
He kicks the door open with his boot, only to find all of their enemies dead already thanks to… Hawkeye?! Hawkeye jokes that the two can relax, as the room’s already secure. Janet is thrilled to see him alive and hugs Clint. She admits they all thought he was dead. Disappointed, Clint admits he didn’t have that much luck. One of the surviving foes, even though he has two arrows in his armor, grins that problem Hawkeye mentions is easily fixed.
More enemy soldiers crash through a window, immediately attacking Captain America, the Wasp and Hawkeye.
New York City…
Iron Man flies above the destroyed city. His control team reports that all the signs are looking good from in there, and he asks Tony how it feels inside. Tony admits that the suits he’s wearing now is a kick compared to the recent Iron Man suits, but this old bird still flies like a dream. It even still smells exactly like the first time he crossed the Atlantic in it. Another of his controllers thinks it’s a shame they couldn’t get near the armors back at the Stark company. The latest model would have trashed all those Ultron robots in two seconds flat. He warns Tony that there’s something wrong with his navigator. He just seems to be going up and up from their scanners.
Tony admits he’s flying further up in the sky, surprised his team really thought he was going to fly to Washington in this old thing. He jokes he’d have a better chance of beating the Liberators in a Winnebago. He makes it into space, reporting to the space station’s central computer. He informs that docking takes place in an estimated T-minus sixteen minutes. It’s time to prepare and activate Iron Man Six.
Washington…
Swarm has received word that the Black Widow is now down as well. She isn’t answering anyone’s calls, so they can only assume the worst. Hank thinks it’s Captain America’s fault. He reminds the colonel he told him this would happen, and now Cap’s going to pick them all off one at the time. The colonel gets angry.
Inside the White House, Cap and Janet have regrouped with Wanda, Fury and Quicksilver. While he and Janet fight more soldiers, Cap wants to know what’s wrong with Pietro. Wanda, helping the two combatants out with her hex powers, explains that Betty’s still trying to resuscitate her brother. But Cap doesn’t need to worry, as Betty’s almost there. And she’s confident things will turn for the best when Pietro wakes up.
Swarm arrives and attacks the Wasp with her bees, sarcastically promising Wanda that Quicksilver isn’t going to wake up. And, she reminds everyone, the Liberators have a speedster of their own. Hurricane attacks and strikes Hawkeye several times, almost taking him out. Abomination jumps at Cap, ready to hit the Ultimates with his massive fists. He creates a path between the Ultimates and Cap, and punches the legendary hero towards the direction of the colonel.
The colonel triumphantly stands over Captain America, holding his two-sized laser staff in his hands. “On your feet, sir”, Abdul proclaims, “I’ve waited half my life to rip that star from your chest.”
Outside, Pym contacts his Ultron robots. He wants them to switch from peacekeeping to crowd control. He wants these people kept as far away from the violence as possible. Loki grins that Pym is a funny man. He’s so sentimental. He notices there’s still a little part in him that wants to be a hero. Hank explains that super-people break ordinary people’s bones. And, he reminds Loki, if he’s so into blood and guts, how come he has just been standing on the sidelines through all this? Fully relaxed, Loki smiles it’s because the moment he uses his powers overtly, big bad Odin knows exactly where to find him. Besides, he adds, there’s already enough mischief going on here.
While more destruction take place in Washington, all of its citizens desperately try to flee into safety.
Nearby, a lone man, wearing glasses and covered in shadows, apologizes to the attacking gentleman that he isn’t going anywhere. He didn’t travel five thousand miles just to get pushed around the second he got back to his own country. He doesn’t need to run away from anyone now that he’s in touch with his nasty inner sociopath. One of the Dynamo robots notices the man and approaches him. The man proudly declares that’s it. The robot just needs to keep coming if he wants to meet his partner. The robot steps on the man, scaring a woman who saw it. Another woman notices all of the robots suddenly moving… the man’s still alive!
Suddenly, all off the robots get pushed down and destroyed! The man gets up, and is revealed to be none other than… the incredible Hulk!?! The Hulk notices the crowd below him, smiles and asks them if they’re watching this. He destroys another robot with only one hand, and later rips the armor of another robot apart. With furious red eyes and his big, muscle fists ready for action, the Hulk proudly declares: “Now bring it on!”


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The Avengers
Washington, DC…
The Hulk uses his massive strength to lift up the huge armor of a Crimson Dynamo unit. Next, he throws the Dynamo down and smacks it down! Nearby, Abomination is surprised to see Banner. Abdul, standing triumphantly over a fallen Captain America, orders his teammate to deal with the Hulk. Abomination jumps right towards the Hulk, ready for action.
Cap tries to get back up on his feet and spits blood out of his mouth. First things first, Cap asks for his opponent’s name, but Abdul doesn’t understand. As he takes his shield out of his backpack, Cap explains he likes to know a man’s name before he puts him into the ground. Holding his double-sized laserstaff in his hands, Cap’s foe introduces himself as simply being Abdul al-Rahman and states that he was a farmhand in the northwest province of Azerbaijan. Abdul’s afraid he has no interest in these super hero codenames, and asks Cap if he doesn’t think it’s a little immature to indulge in such childish conventions.
Hawkeye, holding shards of glass into his hands, attacks Abdul, angrily mocking him that Darth Maul wants his lightsaber back. Hurricane protects her leader and kicks Hawkeye away from him. Abdul shouts that nobody else gets involved in the battle between him and Captain America, no matter what happens next. That also suits fine with Cap. Abdul strikes first, but Cap blocks the laser using his shield.
Meanwhile, the Abomination tries to slam the Hulk into the ground. He shouts at Banner that he’s bigger than he is, but also stronger and, unlike Banner, still has his genius intellect. In other words, Abomination shouts while trying to crush Banner’s head: he’s screwed!
The White House...
Hurricane has already used her swift abilities to run towards the White House and continues to punch Hawkeye. She wonders if this is what Clint does: flailing around like a spastic. Hawkeye is no match for her and gets beaten. Hurricane kicks him down, shouting at Clint to get back up as she was told he was fast.
Quicksilver wakes up and when he sees his teammate under attack, he runs away from his sister, Betty and Fury and rushes to Hawkeye’s aid. He punches Hurricane away from Clint, and shouts at her that if she attacks him again he’ll rip her head off. The fight goes so fast that only Pietro and Hurricane herself can hear what’s being said. Pietro wants Hurricane not to pretend she can’t hear him, because he can tell she has been kitted-out.
Dodging some of Quicksilver’s moves, Hurricane mocks she can sure hear him. And, she admits, she has been looking forward to this battle since scientists first sliced her open. They all know about Quicksilver and that strange sister fixation he seems to have. She mocks Pietro, wondering what’s wrong with him, thinking his father never told Pietro he loved him. Hurricane punches Pietro away from her and strikes at Hawkeye again, informing Pietro that, at the speed they’re moving at now, she could just blow Hawkeye up by just touching him.
Pietro smiles he can give Hurricane “fast” if that’s what she wants. He quickly moves to her again, punching her away from Hawkeye once more. He wonders what kinds of limits Hurricane’s creators put her up to back home... Mach five? Or Mach ten? Pietro reveals he was already hitting those numbers when he still had pimples! Quicksilver continues to run real fast, tearing Hurricane up from the inside. Hurricane begs Pietro to save her life, but he ignores that. Pietro asks Hurricane if she can feel her bones rumbling like she’s riding on a freight train. That’s in fact her molecules dancing, and also what happens when somebody threatens Pietro’s friends! Pietro grabs Hurricane tightly, and her body completely falls apart!
As Hawkeye falls on the ground, Wanda asks Betty what just happened and where her brother went to. Clint sees an exhausted Pietro gathering his breath, and jokes at him to stop messing around and give him a hand up. Pietro just stares at Clint.
Nearby...
Captain America punches Abdul into his face, correcting that Abdul should have killed him when he had the chance. Abdul gets back up and punches Cap now, shouting at him to stop talking. He tries to hit Cap again with his laser, but Cap protects himself using the shield. The impact of the laser on the shield causes the laser to break apart. The two combatants continue to hit each other, and Abdul manages to punch Cap’s shield out of his hands. Cap in return kicks Abdul, who drops one of his lasers, which falls on the ground. Both Cap and Abdul now uses the lasers as weapons, which strike on each other.
Abdul shouts at Cap to strike him down, if he dares!
At the White House...
Fury reminds Betty and Wanda they’ve got to move, as they’ve got to save the President. They’re the only ones who can get the president out of Air Force One! Betty doesn’t understand what Nick is talking about, as he can barely stand and only has one arm. Fury gently touches Betty’s shoulder, asking her if she remembers that pistol her old man bought for her eleventh birthday. Betty does. When Fury asks Betty if she still knows how to use it, Betty guesses so, and picks up a shotgun from the floor. She starts shooting with it, and so does Fury with his gun. He yells this is outstanding. Wanda joins the battle as well and fires her hexpowers on the Schizoid Man duplicates.
Outside, Swarm sees she’s not only just fighting the Wasp now. She can’t have Janet’s little friends save the warmonger-in-chief, referring to the president. She knocks Janet down, wondering if Fury and the others realize what they’re up against. Janet stares at Swarm in disbelieve.
New York...
More Schizoid Man duplicates are wandering across the city, and see some civilians approaching them. They wonder what those men are doing here, as it’s past curfew and shouldn’t be out. One of the gentleman, a man with blond hair wearing glasses and a blue suit, explains that they’re actually trying to find the Fantastic Four and asks the Schizoid Man if he has any idea where they are. The Schizoid Man tries to block the view of the helicopter behind him, in which the chained Fantastic Four members are sitting in, and shouts at the man to get out of here, as this area is off-limits to civilians.
The gentlemen take off their clothes, admitting they aren’t civilians. They’re a supersoldier task force from the European Union! The earlier man takes off his glasses as well, assuming the Schizoid Men didn’t read super-hero comics back in Mother Russia. They just used something called secret identities. The man rips his suit open as well, revealing the uniform of... Captain Britain!
Washington...
The Hulk has regained the upper hand in his battle against the Abomination. He defends that he’s smart too and, while punching the villain, Banner asks him what the square root of six million, two hundred and eleven is, and also if the Abomination knows the formula for to make Coca-Cola. A pummeled Abomination begs the Hulk to spare him, but he doesn’t listen. The Hulk lifts up a destroyed Crimson Dynamo armor, and throws it on the Abomination!
Nearby, Fury and his companions have managed to rescue the president out of the Air Force One jet and kill the Schizoid Men guarding it. Fury informs the president that the fight-back’s spreading all across the country, and that the Union’s already in their camps and busy freeing all the other superhumans. The president refuses to go anywhere until he knows for sure the VP’s okay. Betty promises the VP’s fine and that Hawkeye just put the VP’s family into a chopper less than two minutes ago.
Swarm attacks the heroes using her bees and insects, thinking she has now something else to keep an eye out to. Betty tells her friends and the president to get into their jeep and leave this one to Janet. Fury doesn’t get what Janet will do about this, mockingly wondering if Janet can talk to bugs now, too. Wasp thinks Fury is insane when he says that. She’s injects something in her arm with a little something Hank gave her earlier.
A second later, the Wasp grows into a humongous size and steps her foot down onto Swarm, taking her out! Wanda flies up to Janet, complimenting that was incredible. Janet looks forward, and is shocked when she sees the destructions over by the Union Station.
There, the remaining Crimson Dynamo units declare a change of plan: this is a suicide mission now! They will shoot everything they can! Loki, standing calmly nearby without interfering, doesn’t agree with the Dynamo (or whatever he calls himself). Loki thinks their little invasion is all going pear-shaped. As some innocent people get killed, Loki starts floating up in the air, and thinks it’s time to get his hands dirty.
The leader of the Crimson Dynamo orders his companions to aim and shoot as many civilians as they can, and wants this place to look like a desert. It’s time to give the American’s death like they’ve never seen before! But suddenly, a blue light appears above, and the leader gets struck down by a blast! The citizens look up in the skies, and are surprised to recognize a familiar face. A voice warns the terrorists that, even though he might be utterly wasted, he’s still an excellent shot. Iron Man Six is now activated and ready to save the day. All of the Dynamo units fly up, and attack Tony Stark, who is sitting in a huge, red Iron Man suit!
Meanwhile, the Hulk continues to battle Abomination and compliments Stark. He likes it when he makes little men explode; it makes him laugh. He rips off Abomination’s arms, who begs again to spare him. Instead, Banner punches the creature down. The Abomination doesn’t understand how Banner does it. He wants to know how the Hulk could beat him when he’s so much smarter. It doesn’t make sense to him. The Hulk tells Abomination that he just thinks too much. The Hulk gives the Abomination one final punch, which instantly kills him.
The huge Janet continues to take out more Schizoid Men and wants to be informed about the situation on the ground. Hawkeye fires some arrows at more duplicates, explaining that it’s thinning out. Quicksilver punches more Schizoid Men out, saying the same thing. At the same time, the battle between Abdul and Captain America continues. A second later, a proud Iron Man reports that the Washington skies are clear and that he will now be setting course for the streets of Manhattan.
Manhattan streets...
One of the Ultron robots informs Hank that his fellow Liberators are in trouble. The Ultron are with enough units to help them out, and one asks if they should switch from crowd control to intervene. “Definitely,” Hank replies. But the Ultrons have to make sure that they’ll help the Ultimates. It’s, ah, time they let the Ultimates know they were infiltrating the Liberators. The Ultrons ask Hank if he’s serious about that. Hank shouts at them to stop wasting time, as he wants these terrorists closed down ASAP! The Ultrons listen to their creator and start fighting the Schizoid Men duplicates.
Quicksilver makes it to Hank, telling him nobody will believe this. Hank swears on his mother’s life what he just said is the truth.
Captain America keeps punching an almost defeated Abdul and tells him to give up. Abdul falls down, not seeing the point in giving up. If he does that, Cap will humiliate and execute him before his fellow officers. Cap tells Abdul not to be ridiculous as that’s not the way things are done in this country. Abdul smiles Cap is the one being ridiculous one, and has more Schizoid Men outnumber Cap. Abdul gets up, promising he really wanted a fair fight. But Cap can’t expect him to walk away with nothing. Not after everything the Ultimates did to the people he loved.
Janet sees Cap in danger and asks Hawkeye to use Cap’s shield to help him. Hawkeye can’t, as Cap is too far away from him. The Schizoid Men move Cap’s neck in Abdul’s sight, who is ready to use his laser to finish the legendary hero. Abdul promises he takes no pleasure in what will come next. He only does this to wake the American people up. Hawkeye gives Cap’s shield to the Hulk, who throws it at Abdul. The shield hits Abdul rips the arms off of his body!
Cap gathers his strength again and punches the Schizoid Men off of him! He takes Abdul’s laserstaff and slashes it around, killing all of the duplicates. Abdul asks the Captain what comes now: one of his John Wayne guips? Cap doesn’t answer and kicks Abdul in a fountain, and goes to stand triumphantly over him. Abdul asks if this is where Cap cracks a joke, and if this is where Cap finishes him with a witty barb. He wonders if Cap even appreciates why they did this thing. Cap doesn’t answer, and instead sticks the laser right into Abdul’s chest, killing him! This done, Steve says there will be no jokes made.
Some time later, all of the X-Men, Fantastic Four, Defenders and Spider-Man are rescued and join the battle, taking out most of the Liberators.
Meanwhile, the Ultimates have regrouped. Hawkeye explains that satellite uplinks are operational again. SHIELD is in control again and all US bases have been removed from enemy hands. Cap asks about any word on New York. Fury explains that according to Tony, New York is secure but, with that said, Tony did sounded kinda drunk and seemed to be singing while he was shooting things.
Without warning, the sky suddenly turns completely red! A voice declares he will be singing too in a moment. It’s Loki! Floating in mid-air with lightning striking down behind him, Loki reveals that his father sent Thor to bring peace to the world and that he did everything he could to disrupt that. He really did. But it seems the people of the world have no appetite for World War Three and so he must take a more direct approach.
Cap wonders who Loki is, but Wanda knows about him. Loki confirms it’s really him. He’s the half-brother of the wretched Thor and forgotten son of Odin. But he’s had enough of simply tinkering behind the scenes. He has been forced now to show his hand and thus the Ultimates will suffer as no man has ever suffered. Wanda doesn’t think so, not unless she stops Loki. Loki isn’t impressed by the little Scarlet Witch. After all, all she can do is bend probability, and Loki doesn’t see what harm that could do against a god of mischief.
Wanda waves with her hand, smiling that maybe she could increase the odds of someone showing up to kick Loki’s ass. More lightning appears in the skies, and Loki panics. The skies turn back to normal, but now its starts to heavily rain. Thor lands, and holds his hammer proudly in front of him. He asks Loki if he’s looking for trouble...