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No Surrender, part 8
1872
The Valley of Doom:
 “You cannot take the path until you can see it” Red Wolf thinks to himself, recalling that his mother spoke these words of wisdom to him when he was a boy. Right now, though, he is backed up to the edge of a deep ravine, by an outlaw who aims a pistol at Red Wolf and exclaims 'Whoa there, Sheriff Red Wolf. I've still got one bullet in the chamber and it's got yer name on it'. The outlaw is missing a tooth in the front of his mouth, he grins and calls out 'Take one more step an' ye'll see... honest injun'.
Red Wolf remembers that his mother always had grace and poise, even in the face of ignorance and hate and tells himself that her example kept him true, especially in times of great strife – she taught him how to look at things.
Now:
In New Mexico, Red Wolf looks out over a battlefield and assesses his next move – he knows that his path today will be hard to find. He has just arrived on scene with Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye, and before them is an all-out battle between a squad of Avengers and the Lethal Legion. Emily Guerrero a.k.a. Synapse dodges the attack of Mentacle, while Jan van Dyne the Wasp flits about in front of Captain Glory, who is unable to strike her. Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man clashes with Drall, while Wanda Maximoff the Scarlet Witch and Jericho Drumm a.k.a. Doctor Voodoo find themselves up against the Blood Brothers. 'Are you two a sight for sore eyes!' Sam Wilson the Falcon calls out as he swoops over to Hakweye and Red Wolf. 'Even dressed for the occasion. What's the plan?' Hawkeye replies.
Falcon tells the new arrivals that if the baddies get the glowing pyramid up in the air, Earth is kaput! 'Why am I not surprised?' Hawkeye mutters, before firing an arrow towards Molyn the Metal Master. 'What a pitiful attack, you worthless -' Molyn begins, before he starts coughing and spluttering as the arrowhead releases a gas around him. 'Wahoo! Wolf, didja see that?' Hawkeye smiles at his companion. 'Yes. I'm looking' Red Wolf replies, as he tells himself that the path is there.
Meanwhile, in the Antarctic: 'Let's stop for a sec. Double-check our coordinates' Rogue suggests to her team as she flies over ice-cold water, carrying the corpse of Corvus Glaive behind her. Miguel Santos a.k.a. Lightning flies alongside in lightning-form, while Dr Jane Foster a.k.a. Thor pulls Hercules behind her, who carries the unconscious Ebony Maw. 'How much farther, my friends? I tire of this icy bleakness. I need a roaring fire and spicy meat to satiate my heroic hunger!' Hercules calls out. The heroes drop down on some nearby land, and Thor tells Hercules that they are all tired and hungry, and that he should just be happy he doesn't have to walk. Lightning suggests that they should have waited for Voyager, as she said she was coming back to get them. 'Go wait for her if you want. Ah'm not stopping you' Rogue tells him. 'I just figure it would be more efficient if we -' Miguel begins, but Rogue snaps at him: 'Ah don't care what's efficient, Lightning! Ah just wanna make these bastards pay!'
Rogue then looks down at Corvus' weapon that she holds in her hands and apologizes to Miguel, who look at her with side-eyes. 'That was harsh. I know you mean well' Rogue tells Miguel. 'Rogue...' Miguel begins, rubbing the back of his head, before Hercules goes over to her and puts a hand on her shoulder: 'John Storm was one of us. His heart burned bright and inspired us all. You avenged him well' Hercules tells her. Rogue hangs her head and tells Hercules that she knows, but that she still feels empty. 'That's the warrior's curse' Hercules remarks, hanging his head. 'The hold inside us that will never be filled'. Miguel offers to zip back to Avengers Auxiliary Headquarters and find out where Voyager is, or get Toni to send a Quinjet to pick them up. 'Okay' Rogue agrees, before Miguel switches to his lightning form and darts away. Hercules grins and tells Rogue and Thor that he likes boy. 'He fires forth as if thrown by Zeus himself. Let's see Mjolnir do that, eh Thunder God?' Hercules jokes. 'Hmmph' Thor mutters.
Meantime, at Lenox Hill Hospital: 'You treacherous little malefactor. I found you!' Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast exclaims as he looks into a scope that magnifies a strange little creature. Nadia van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp stands nearby as Hank tells her that they ruled out radiation and alien energies, but did not rule out alien pathogens at the quantum level. 'And thus' the Beast exclaims as he flips back through the air, away from the scientific equipment and to the bedside of the gravely ill Edwin Jarvis. 'At that size, Dr McCoy? How can one exist? I mean, I can, but -' Nadia begins, as Hank tells her that the key word is “alien”, meaning it is not limited in the ways terran diseases are, which is why he didn't spot it earlier. He adds that any or all Avengers who have recently travelled off-world might be carrying it benignly. The Beast remarks that certainly, one of them unknowingly infected Jarvis, but the way Jarvis' concussion required his diseases defenses that made him uniquely vulnerable to its effects.
The Beast asks Nadia if he can have her assistance in helping Jarvis. 'Of course! I'll do anything!' Nadia replies. 'Good' the Beast declares as he suddenly shoves a needle into Nadia's arm. 'OW!' Nadia exclaims. The Beast reports that they have to concoct a vaccine against something they have never seen before, and in order to do that, he needs to see if Nadia is fighting it off. He places the sample he extracts from Nadia under the scope and exclaims 'Triumph! Your bloodstream is indeed battling this super-powered sub-microorganism as well – meaning that emulating your internal chemistry gives us the best chance for a cure!' the Beast tells Nadia as he pours a liquid from one test tube to another. Nadia urgently  tells the Beast to hurry, as Jarvis' vital signs have suddenly plummeted!
Back in New Mexico, it has taken Red Wolf a moment to see it, as the battle around him is chaotic – but this isn't chaos. 'I was inside your mind before you even touched this primitive projectile, human! Such physical attacks are useless against -' Mentacle begins as the Wasp dodges his attack, and swoops back around behind him, before suddenly increasing her form to her default human size as she slams a fist into his headpiece: 'Yeah? How about distractions?' she asks him. 'Do those work?' the Wasp asks. Red Wolf notices that it is a pattern, a series of tells. 'Could you please just calm down?' Wonder Man asks as he grabs Drall's sword and tries to keep her at bay. 'fight back, curse you! Attack me!' Drall shouts at the pacifist. Red Wolf knows that there is a way that animals fight when they face certain death – with a frantic, desperate, terrified savagery, but he sees none of that in play from the Legionnaires, to a one, they are cold, fearless, cunning – not suicidal.
Hawkeye fires more arrows towards the Metal Master who remarks that he is coming around to this mode of attack, that it is like performance art. 'May I have a turn?' he jokes. 'Hey! Give that back!' Hawkeye calls out as the Metal Master uses his power to snatch Hawkeye's bow from his hands – but before he can take possession of it, Falcon slams down on Metal Master, 'Come on, man. Be nice That's all Hawkeye has in the  world' Falcon jokes. Captain Glory has found where Roberto DaCosta has been recovering after an encounter with Mentacle and tells him that he is out of practice. 'Too long behind a desk?' he asks. Captain Glory opens fire with an energy blast, but Wonder Man flies down and grabs Roberto, pulling him to safety and telling him that the Legion don't want to talk, he has tried. 'Did you try champagne?' the weak Roberto asks. Red Wolf continues to watch the battle as Avengers and Legionnaires are thrown about. He knows that the Legionnaires want to claim the pyramoid and move towards it without hesitation. Drall, Mentacle, Captain Glory and the Blood Brothers fight on, while Metal Master is currently unconscious. Red Wolf realizes that the Legion know something about the pyramoid that the Avengers don't.
1872:
'I mean it! Walk away or get a bullet in the face!' the outlaw shouts at Red Wolf, who tells himself that fear and courage both make the heart race – they fuel the fire of one's actions but can also make them blind to their own mistakes. Red Wolf decides that if one can slow their racing heart, take in the world around them and see truth, then the way forward is clear. He stands his ground, and the outlaw suddenly looks worried, Sweat trickles down his forehead, he trembles as he attempts to pull the trigger. 'I – I mean it...' he calls out, before Red Wolf lunges at him.
Present:
Red Wolf tells himself that it is just having the will to take it, and suddenly asks Clint to give him covering fire. Hawkeye turns to his friend and asks him what he is going to do. 'You heard Falcon. If our enemies take the pyramoid, Earth is one step closer to destruction. So... I'm going to collect it' Red Wolf announces. Clint looks shocked: 'You heard what happened to the Torch! You touch it, you die -' Clint begins, but Red Wolf smiles at Hawkeye and tells him that if he vanishes from this place, he will find a way back. 'You've known me longer than anyone in this time has, Clint. We are brothers' Red Wolf remarks, before asking Clint if he trusts him. While Wonder Man is still trying to peacefully subdue Drall, the Wasp flies past them, and Hawkeye pauses, he frowns, then mutters 'Damn it'.
Hawkeye looks out through the battle field and tells Red Wolf that he can see a clear run coming up. He asks him if he is ready, and Red Wolf tells him that he is. He remembers punching the outlaw in the face, and starts to run, as Hawkeye fires some arrows and tells Red Wolf that when he gives the word, he is to break right. 'Gonna break you, you little -' one of the Blood Brothers remarks as they loom over Red Wolf. 'Fire in the hole!' Hawkeye calls out, and Red Wolf breaks right, as the arrow strikes one of the Blood Brothers, knocking him into the other. 'He's going for the pyramoid!' one brother shouts. 'Stop him!' the other exclaims, as Red Wolf is reminded that his parents taught him how to look, to read the world around him, to read the truth in people. And he never forgot this.
1872:
'How... how'd you know?' the outlaw, sprawled out on the ground asks as Red Wolf picks up his gun. 'I looked' Red Wolf replies, opening the gun up, he sees only two bullets in the chamber.
Present:
Falcon sees what is happening. 'Red Wolf? What's he -?' Falcon calls out to Hawkeye, who tells Falcon to trust Red Wolf. Red Wolf leaps into the air, reaches out for the pyramoid and knows that if he dies today, it won't be from this. The pyramoid then seems to explode, and Red Wolf with it, lightning up the sky over New Mexico. 'NO!' Falcon shouts 'Damn it – we could have stopped them without -' Facon declares, but Hawkeye tells him that Red Wolf didn't want to take the chance, and adds that Red Wolf was right – this way their “pyramoid” is out of play. Hawkeye fires an arrow into the battlefield, and Falcon asks him when he became so callous. 'First Banner, now this? That man was your friend -' Falcon begins. 'He's not my friend, Falc' Hawkeye replies, before turning to Falcon and smiling: 'He's my brother – and he gave me his word. Red Wolf is not dead. And wherever he is now...I'm betting the Torch is there, too'.
The Grandmaster's cosmic game room, where the Grandmaster and Challenger look up at four colored crystals that hover above the game room, Red Wolf is inside one, as is Johnny Storm the Human Torch. Frene the Other from the Lethal Legion is inside one, and the Black Dwarf from the Black Order is in the fourth. 'I'm starting to think your obstacles are more trouble than they're worth' the Challenger remarks. The Grandmaster tells him not to worry, as the Avengers will soon learn that this game cannot end in a draw. 'Much as you might wish it...' he adds. 'Careful, Gast' the Challenger warns the Grandmaster, adding that he may decide to forfeit the game. 'Then I'll die a winner' the Grandmaster smiles. The Grandmaster comments on how well his Lethal Legion have fared compared to the Challenger's Black Order. 'The advantage is clearly mine...and thus, I claim the finaly pyramoid – the decider. The quintessence' he announces as the pyramoid hovers before them, and he remarks that he knows just where to put it.
Back in the hospital, Nadia announces that it is working, thjat Jarvis' heart and brain waves are growing stronger. 'Let's not count our chickens, Nadia. This is a delicate procedure, and -' the Beast begins as he checks some readings before he hears something: 'Is that screaming?' he asks. Out in the corridor, the final pyramoid has been placed – it is the pyramoid of the soul, of magic and spirit, so where better for it than among the dead and dying? Hospital staff and patients run in fear, 'Please – please don't look at me like that!' someone calls out as a spirit rushes towards him. 'Mom? You – you died!' a woman calls out as the spirit of her mother looms over her. 'Pierce my ears and call my drafty...' the Beast gasps.
The Challenger remarks that such a location will summon the Grandmaster's “obstacles” in force, and suggests that they may even try to claim it, which he thinks is an amusing strategy, and reminds the Grandmaster that he has strategies of his own – a piece held in reserve.
The Beast tells Nadia that they have to get Jarvis out of here, but Nadia declares that moving him could kill him – when suddenly, Jarvis comes to. 'Lie... it's a lie...' Jarvis utters.
The Challenger adds that he has something else for the “Grandmaster” - he has vengeance – he has rage. 'What are you doing?' the Grandmaster asks. 'Reaching out with my mind. Setting a direction. Making an offer' the Challenger smiles.
The ruins of the mount in Arizona, where something green looks towards the opening of the ruins.
The Challenger asks the Grandmaster if he knows what rage is – not the pain of betrayal, the hurt of being wronged by a friend.
'It's all a lie! A lie!' Jarvis shouts, sitting up in bed.
The Challenger grins and exclaims that pain is loud, it roars and bellows, it only wants to be left alone to heal – or to die.
Jarvis falls backwards, and Nadia announces that he is flatlining.
The Challenger adds that rage is silent, cold and cannot be stopped – and it never, ever dies.
At that moment, from the ruins, a mighty green figure lumbers out of the shadows and into daylight – Dr Bruce Banner – the Immortal Hulk!


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No Surrender, part 9
Avengers Auxiliary HQ, where a streak of energy blasts into the secret headquarters, 'Jehoshaphat -' gasps General Robert L Maverick a.k.a. Red Hulk, but the energy takes human form – Miguel Santos a.k.a. Lightning, who tells the General to get his finger off the trigger. Lightning arrives in the makeshift lab of Dr Toni Ho a.k.a. Iron Patriot, and finds her there, along with Aikku Johanson a.k.a. Enigma, who exclaims 'Miguel Santos the Living Lightning? I follow you on Facebook!' Miguel informs her that he just goes by “Lightning” now, before realizing that she was supposed to be in stasis. Enigma reports that she was, but then she snapped out of it. Red Hulk reports that word on the wire is they just lost Red Hulk, but that isn't confirmed, possibly because Hawkeye is in denial. Red Hulk asks Lightning if he brought any good news, because they could use some. Miguel reports that Rogue's team is alive – that's all he has. He then asks if Voyager is around, because the others need transport from the Antarctic.
Toni informs Miguel that Voyager just left, she said she had to go back in the field. 'We thought she had gone to you...' Enigma adds. 'Weird' Toni thinks, before announcing that she will send a quinjet for Rogue's team, as the sooner they are mobile, the sooner they can help with the next trouble. She puts an image of a hospital up on screen, 'Dios...' Miguel gasps, before asking Toni what he is looking at. Toni reports that the fifth doohickey has landed – at the hospital where Jarvis is.
'And things just got worse' Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast thinks to himself within the hospital where he and Nadia van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp look out into a corridor, where spirits have started harassing the hospital staff and patients. Hank tells himself that there is no time to hesitate, and asks himself whether he deals with the deadly alien artifact that has just materialized in the hospital corridor, or whether he helps the Wasp fight the alien pathogen inside Jarvis' brain. 'Oh, no...' the Wasp utters as she looks at the chaos in the corridor, before returning to Jarvis, and checking his vitals, she reports that he is fading again.
The Beast tells himself that the needs of the many vs the needs of the few – it's not even a decision. He instructs Nadia to fill an injector with the antidote as quickly as she can and get ready to shrink down, while he will be right back. The Beast races towards a man who is being harassed by a spirit and tells him not to panic, as it is merely a ghost of some poor soul who died in this place. 'Albeit one with a grip! Let go of him!' the Beast shouts at the spirit as he tries to pull the man free from her – but it's no good, as the spirit flies away with the man. The Beast decides that it is time for plan “B” - to eliminate the threat the only way they know how to. The Beast sees more spirits fly towards others in the hospital, and tells himself that if you make physical contact with a pyramoid, then it disintegrates – but so do you.
The Beast returns to the room where Jarvis is and finds Nadia loading a gun with the antidote. She reports that she has pinpointed the pathogen's location as best she could. 'It should be eliminated when you inject it with this' she tells the Beast. 'You mean when you inject -' the Beast begins, but Nadia tells him 'No' and uses her power to shrink the Beast down. 'Nadia, honey! What are you doing?' the Beast calls out. Nadia tells the Beast that she can only give him about fifteen minutes, so he has to be quick. She places him on Jarvis' chest and gives him the shrunken down antidote. 'You're too important. The team needs you' she adds. Nadia points out that there are two Wasps – her and Jan. 'And maybe we don't need both, or maybe...all that matters is the pyramoid and what it's doing. And an Avenger has to save innocent people no matter...no matter what' Nadia exclaims.
The Beast climbs into Jarvis' mouth and Nadia puts a hand on Jarvis' forehead, announcing that she can't choose Jarvis over them, as he taught her better than that. She kisses Jarvis, while beast finds himself floating through Jarvis' insides, 'Dammit, Nadia, no!' he thinks to himself, as Nadia is just a child, it should have been him, he has had his time, while she hasn't. Nadia wipes back some tears, then shrinks down to wasp form and flies out into the corridor, towards the pyramoid. 'Godspeed, little one. I've not known you for long, but it's obvious that of all the Avengers, there's never been one smarter. More full of hope' the Beast thinks to himself. 'There's never been one braver' he decides as Nadia nears the pyramoid. 'Goodbye' Nadia whispers as she reaches out to the pyramoid – when suddenly, something knocks her back. Nadia looks confused. 'That... wasn't in the rulebook. Why didn't it take me?' she wonders, while another ghost moves towards some staff nearby. Nadia tells herself she can figure it out later, and decides to try some Pym Particles on the pyramoid – but they don't work, it doesn't shrink down. 'Now what?' the wide-eyed Nadia wonders.
The Beast continues his journey through Jarvis' insides. He knows that the fastest route to the limbic system is the carotid express. Instinctively, he holds his breath, even though he is nearly as tiny as an oxygen molecule. The Beast knows that that microscopic size you sustain not on air or good, but rather through the Pym Particles that resized you. 'Best not to dwell on the how of it' he tells himself, and moving eighteen centimeters a second, he has to time his jump just right – which he does, landing in the folds of the hippocampus. The Beast thinks that the pathogen should be quite near, when suddenly, 'Holy Hannah!' he shouts as he gets a surprise.
Back in the hospital corridor, 'Duck!' the Wasp calls out to some civilians who are backed up against a wall thanks to a spirit. The Easp then uses her Pym Particles on them, and tells them not to panic or fight her on this. 'I realize shrinking feels odd – but I've got it all under control' she assures them as she flies out a window, then drops the civilians down on the street, and reverts them to their regular sizes. 'Maybe if I keep saying it, I'll start to believe it...' Nadia tells herself, while one of the civilians waves at her as she flies back into the hospital.
“Energy” crackles around the Beast as he realizes that he is trapped in the “valley of the synapses”, neurons swapping electrochemical signals with their neighbors – that's how the brain functions. If he wasn't in such a mad rush, he would have created some sort of “lightning rod”, but he dodges and ducks the “energy” and decides that it is a good thing he is the agile Avenger, which is a terrible name for his autobiography. The Beast hopes that if he meets the same fate as poor Nadia today, that he will be fondly remembered. 'Oh, my. I needn't worry' he realizes, as he “sees” Jarvis' memories – images of various Avengers' adventures playing out. The Beast sees Cap's Kooky Quartet up against  some soldiers, and then Cap, Thor, Iron Man and the Vision battling the Skrull Emperor Dorrek VII. Another adventure, long ago, during the Beast's original stint with the Avenges, alongside Cap, Ms Marvel, Falcon, Wonder Man, Vision and Iron Man, battling Inferno.
The Beast thinks that it is logical that he is in the memory center, as Jarvis has been there for everything Avengers – from the earliest days right to the present – their accomplishments, their failures, their spirit. The Beast dodges so more “energy” and tells  himself  that they have seen so many changes, lived so many adventures. He sees a memory of Jarvis holding a vacuum cleaner, before a more recent memory of a newer linup of the Avengers – Jane Foster as Thor, Miles Morales as Spider-Man, Sam Wilson as Captain America, Sam Alexander as Nova, Kamala Khan as Ms Marvel and Iron Man. The Beast knows that the Avengers members might not always get along, but one truth is never in contention – their faithful domestic engineer turned assistant is loyal to a fault – they have no one more beloved. The Beast tells himself that Jarvis is a good man – a friend – the heart and soul of the Avengers. 'And he will not die today' the Beast declares as he lands on the part of the brain where the alien pathogen has positioned itself.
The Beast was concerned the pathogen might be hard to find, but he would never have been able to miss it. Suddenly, the hideous creature turns to the Beast, grabs him in a tentacle, and pulls him to what appears to be its mouth. The Beast drops the antidote gun, and tells himself to outsmart the creature, outfight it. But as much as the Beast struggles, while a memory of a new Avengers lineup – Thor, Cap, Iron Man and Wolverine – moves past him, he cannot break free of the alien pathogen. 'I'm sorry, old friend' Hank thinks to himself. 'I've failed you' he admits, when, suddenly, 'Nadia!' the Beast calls out as Nadia appears nearby and fires the antidote at the alien pathogen, which writhes about and releases the Beast. The Wasp then grabs the Beast and flies him forward, informing him that the pyramoid didn't vanish, but she cleared the area except for Jarvis, who she was terrified of moving in such critical care. 'Then let' take care of that, right away!' the Beast suggests as they pass through Jarvis' ear canal.
Jarvis stirs, and the Beast thinks that it is incredible that Jarvis is already feeling the effects. 'By Jove, we've done it! He's going to be all right!' the Beast exclaims as he and Nadia return to their default sizes. Jarvis coughs, and utters that he can finally move, can speak. Nadia rushes over to him and tells him that he still needs time, but Jarvis sits up and reveals that he could hear them, the whole time – every word. He announces that something is terribly wrong. 'Someone...someone is...' Jarvis gasps, before the pyramoid starts to move. Suddenly, 'Don't worry, Hank...let me handle this!' Valerie Vector a.k.a. Voyager calls out as she appears in the hospital corridor. 'Oh, thank you, God I most definitely believe in at this moment! It's Voyager!' the Beast exclaims
'How did this team manage without her? She's awesome!' Nadia exclaims before telling Voyager to be careful. A horrified Jarvis then shouts 'No! That's what I've been trying to – listen to me – don't you see? You've all been tricked! Your deepest memories have been altered! There is no Valerie Vector! There is no Voyager!' Jarvis declares. 'You're right...inside your mind...Voyager was never there!' the Beast utters, remembering his trip through Jarvis' mind. 'I don't understand! It's so vivid...' Nadia utters. Voyager then smirks, and energy crackles around her. 'Whoever that woman is – she's not an Avenger! She never was!' Jarvis shouts, but suddenly, Voyager vanishes with the pyramoid. The Beast, Nadia and Jarvis stand in shock, as Nadia asks 'So then, who is she?' And as they look at the remaining swirling energy, the Beast points out that she is someone who just stole the final pyramoid – and might have damned them all!


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No Surrender, part 10
(In the Hulk's memory – various flashback images)
'Hey! What are ya tryin' to do?' a voice calls out amongst the darkness, many years ago. 'Make them think I'm chicken?' another voice asks. 'Come on you fool!' someone calls out. 'We've got to reach the protective trench before the bomb goes off!' another exclaims. 'Bomb?' someone asks. 'There! You're safe!' another remarks. 'And now I'll -' one of them begins, before a green energy blast drops down on him – Dr Bruce Banner. Apparently, he screamed for hours – they said he wouldn't stop. He couldn't stop. Apparently, a door opened.
Bruce is lying on a table in a lab, where a scientist checks his body and reports that there is a surprising lack of radiation, considering. 'The... the body?' Rick Jones asks, standing nearby. The scientist apologizes, and tells Rick that he knows he brought Bruce in as soon as he could, but he is dead. 'I mean, look what happened. How could he not -' the scientist begins, when suddenly, Bruce opens his eyes, gasping, he sits up, then screams. 'Dear Lord!' the scientist utters, while Bruce continues to scream.
No matter what. He never understood – not fully. He never saw the door. But as the years passed – he began to suspect. Images flash by – of the Hulk being decapitated by Captain America's shield, of General Talbot finding Bruce Banner's body, and another time, of Doc Samson covering Banner's lifeless body with a sheet. A withered Grey Hulk sits in a chair, while at another time, the Hulk was covered in melted metal, and Bruce Banner was even shot in the back of the head.
Another time, later, the Avenger called Hawkeye a.k.a. Clint Barton met with Bruce, who gave him an arrow tip. 'What is this?' Clint asked. Bruce revealed that inside the casing was a custom-built arrow tip, with gamma-enriched vibranium, and very rare – far more precise than a bullet – especially in Hawkeye's hands. Bruce told Hawkeye to aim for the base off the brain – the hypothalamus, as that will instantly and utterly destroy all autonomic functions. He added that there was a spare, in case Clint missed – but if he didn't need it for his head, Clint could put it through the Hulk's heart. Bruce declared that he had done the math, done the biology – this would kill him. It will end him, end the Hulk in a way no “healing factor” can counteract – a way that is impossible to come back from. 'Bruce...' Clint began, but Bruce told Clint that scientifically, magically, it would be impossible.
Bruce Banner made Clint Barton promise to kill the Hulk, and during a war of heroes, Spider-Man, Jane Foster, Tony Stark, Captain Marvel, Sam Wilson, the Beast, Old Man Logan and Maria Hill came across Bruce's body – with two arrows sticking out of it.
It's funny though – there was that door again, as Bruce found himself with gamma arrows sticking out of him in some strange realm. 'Forgive me, Dr Banner...' Doctor Voodoo called out as he approached the named Bruce Banner, who asked Voodoo what was happening, and if he was responsible for this. Voodoo informed Banner that the Hand's magic was deep in him, and told Bruce that it will hurt, as Voodoo began pulling the gamma arrows out of Bruce's back. Banner replied that he didn't feel anything, and asked what this was. Before Voodoo could remove all the arrows, though, a large red monster appeared over them, the Beast of the Hand, who warned Voodoo that if he takes the Hulk from the Hand, then the Hand would claim his brother. 'But...I don't feel anything, no pain – no outside control' Banner remarked. Banner tried to get Voodoo to listen to him as he told him that the Hand didn't have the Hulk – they weren't directing him, he was just loose, just awake. 'It's a trick – don't choose me over -' Bruce pleaded, to which Voodoo declared that he chose his brother – Bruce Banner. He then pulled the remaining arrows from Banner's back and told him that he was free, that he may walk in peace to the light. Banner thought to himself that you have to laugh, when all hope dies, you have to laugh – or scream. 'You... you can't hear me, can  you?' Banner realized, crying, he asked Voodoo to lay him to rest – maybe this time.
Another gamma door, though, a light shines down on Banner, while Armin Zola stands at a monitor and remarks '...and that's the funny past, Faustus. The procedure should have taken much longer. Days, perhaps. It's as if his corpse was just waiting for the excuse...'. Zola then declares that he has taken precautions, and the Supreme Leader needn't know, but that implanted in the hypothalamus, it was time delayed, there will be no coming back – if Banner didn't return to life according to schedule, they can al least make sure he dies at the proper time. Zola turns, and sees Banner sitting on the edge of a table. 'Look at you. You can't help it, can you? All you people – you can't let me rest. You prod at me. Like picking a scab. You can't even let me be dead...' Banner exclaims, wide-eyed. He hangs his head and promises Zola to keep his secret, but that he needs to make sure that this time it is done – and when it is, he wants to be left alone.
Soon after, the Hulk battled the Thing. Banner knows that you can hear the sound in his voice – in his hate, deep down, he knows – he knows there is no magic doing this, no magic science – nobody else. It's just him being him. That's what it's always been. But Hulk lies down at the appointed hour, he still wants to pretend, to sleep, to be left alone. He still has some small atom of hope. There is darkness all around. One more prod, one more pick of the scab, one more wake-up call – to let him know what he is. The opener of the door, the scream that cannot stop – the rage that will not die.
(Present)
The IMMORTAL Hulk rises from the ruins of a cave in Nevada, and the Challenger remarks 'And now that you're back with us, monster... let's talk.
Inside the Grandmaster's cosmic game room, the Challenger and Grandmaster stand on a podium and look at seveal screens which hover before them, all of the screens display images of a particular woman. The Challenger notes the Avengers call her “Voyager”, and exclaims that she teleported away with the final pyramoid. 'That she did, Challenger. An intriguing turn of events' the Grandmaster remarks. The Hulk appears on one of the monitors, and the Grandmaster tells the Challenger that his Hulk has no target to pursue. The Challenger addresses the Grandmaster by his true name, En Dwi Gast, and asks him why he is so smug. 'You did this, didn't you?' he enquires. The Grandmaster tells the Challenger to calm himself, and points out that of all the Elders of the Universe, he should know how quickly things change.
Old images appear on one of the monitors, of the Grandmaster and two of his Squadron Supreme – Whizzer and Nighthawk – and he points out that humans are full of surprises, that they make for entertaining obstacles and useful pawns. Another image, of several heroes competing in the Grandmaster's “Contest of Champions” - Iron Man, She-Hulk, Captain Britain, Daredevil, Darkstar, Arabian Knight, Sunfire and Iron Fist. 'And yet with all your skill and a millennia of play, these “pawns” have defeated you time and again' the Challenger remarks. The Grandmaster declares that “defeat” assumes a state of finality, and boasts that the game continues, and so does he – one move at a time.
While Voyager, where ever she is, thinks to herself that in any game, there are are moves you see – and the ones you don't – and that her moves have always been hidden – until now.
Meanwhile, on Earth, at Lenox Hill Hospital, in Midtown Manhattan. 'Now does what i'm saying make sense?' Edwin Jarvis asks, holding a pole which his IV drip hangs from as he stands near Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast and Nadia van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp. 'Of course it does, Jarvis. Chillingly so' the Beast replies. 'Voyager's story was a lie from start to finish. As you said it, I felt as if I were waking up from a dream' the Beast adds. Nadia remarks that Voyager's entire story was some sort of memory implant, and suggests that the infection in Jarvis' memory center kept it from taking root. Nadia looks at the Beast and declares that Voyager was never an Avenger. 'I don't know enough about the team's history to be surprised...but I know enough about the present to be angry at being fooled' Nadia exclaims, wondering what Voyager wants, and how it is connected with all of this. The Beast announces that they shall find her and ask her – with extreme prejudice.
At the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, 'Like this, Toni?' Miguel Santos a.k.a. Lightning asks Dr Toni Ho a.k.a. Iron Patriot as he releases a charge of eletrical energy into the Iron Patriot armor. 'Nice! That should keep power cells charged, yeah!' Toni calls back as she examines a monitor. 'And where would you like this?' Aikku Jokinen a.k.a Enigma asks as she carries the frozen body of Doreen Green a.k.a. Squirrel Girl. 'That medical bay set up in the canteen, hon. Let's keep all our invalids together!' Toni replies as she waves at Enigma, while General Robert L Maverick a.k.a. Red Hulk sits on a chair nearby, cup of coffee in hand. Toni looks at another monitor, where Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon, Roberto DaCosta a.k.a. Citizen V and Jan van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp can be seen. Toni asks Falcon what his ETA is, and Falcon explains that they are regrouping, but it looks to be at least ten minutes before they are airborne. 'Gotcha' Toni replies, before she tries to connect to the Beast, asking him if she should send Lightning his way for back up, but gets no response. 'That's not good. I hope they're okay' Toni remarks.
Enigma arrives in the makeshift infirmary, where she places the frozen Squirrel Girl next to the Vision, who is also frozen. Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver sits up on the bed he was resting in, clutching his stomach. 'Do not mind me' Enigma tells him, before she leaves the room. Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball also sits up and remarks that he feels like he got hit by a truck full of trucks. 'Myself as well' Quicksilver replies, rubbing his head. He adds that it was quite a battle, but his metabolism should have him up and ready for battle again. Suddenly, they notice two small beams of light darting around their frozen teammates. 'What am I seeing? Strange blue dots in the air?' Quicksilver asks. Cannonball tells Quicksilver not to get up so quickly, or he will get dizzy, but Quicksilver replies that it is something else.
In the other room, a loud buzzing noise can be heard. 'What in tarnation -?' Red Hulk asks, while Toni explains that it is some kind of energy disruption and that it is coming from the storage vault. 'From the look of these readings – it's Voyager!' she announces.
At that moment, Voyager indeed materializes in the storage vault, with the pyramoid that she stole. She screams, then admits to herself, although she hates to do so, that breaking the rules feels good. She smiles, and suddenly, her skin turns blue. 'Voyager! What have you done?' Lightning asks as he, Enigma, Toni and Red Hulk rush towards the storage vault. 'She brought the cosmic doorstop to our doorstep, is what!' Red Hulk exclaims, while Toni asks her why her skin is blue and whether she is hurt. Voyager warns the others to stay back, and thinks to herself that she needs time to red, and to think – to figure out her next move. She slams the door before they can enter the vault properly, 'Wait!' Toni calls out, but it's no use. Lightning bangs on the door and discovers it is insulated. Enigma discovers that she cannot even phase through the door, and wonders what it is made of, while a computer recording announces that the security seal is engaged. Voyager leans against the door, while the pyramoid hovers near her. 'It wasn't a lie' Voyager thinks to herself as she hangs her head.
(Flashback images)
She did her research – there really was a Professor Arthur Vector – she tied her story to his in case anyone thought to check her background – all part of the ruse she played to keep her identity a secret – because everything depended on the Avengers being unaware of who her true father is – the Grandmaster!
(Present)
Voyager gets to her feet and remembers how her father always told her it is about the honor of the game – the Grandmaster never cheats. She laughs as she thinks that her father forgets she has been watching his every move since she was a girl.
(Flashback images)
Voyager remembers how she and her father traveled the cosmos – they gambled on supernovas as they raced toward extinction. They won entire planets so that she might end their wars or protect them from Galactus. To the Grandmaster, it was about the contest – the winnings he used to leave to her.
(Present)
Voyager clenches her fists – she doesn't know what is going to happen this time. Voyager acknowledges that her father gave her the power of teleportation – but not just the ability to move through space – the power to move through memories themselves, and settle afterimages there unquestioned. She thinks of the image she placed of herself with the founding Avengers, and decides that this was to be her father's secret advantage in this game, as he needed her someplace where she could participte in the game while going unnoticed by his Challenger – someplace where she would be lost in a sea of platying pieces – while positioning them to help her father. Voyager is sure that her father is the one who is lost now – now that she is changing her position on the board. She looks at the pyramoid and frowns, deciding that she is tired of being, as the locals say, her father's ace in the hole, as every time he wins, she gets shuffled away. She recalls how her father used to tease her that someday she would be experienced enough to beat even him. 'Well, father...now who's playing who?' Voyager grins.
Back in the Grandmaster's cosmic game room, the Challenger laughs, 'Ha! Try as she might, Voyager did not get far!' The Grandmaster looks at the monitor and agrees that it seems not, while remarking quietly to himself 'A poor strategem on her part...'
And, in Arizona: 'Go, Hulk! Let NOTHING stop you!' the Challenger's voice echoes om the Hulk's mind, as he leaps across the state in powerful bounds.
'Where is your bravado now, En Dwi?' the Challenger asks. 'Do you really think your pitiful “Lethal Legion” can defeat the Hulk?' he enquires, to which the Challenger replies 'Well shall see, won't we'.
At that moment, two of the Lethal Legion – Captain Glory and Mentacle – make their way across the Arizona sky. Captain Glory tells Mentacle that there is no point in running, as the humans will chase them, but Mentacle tells Captain Glory that a simple mental suggestion keeps them entirely obfuscated, and that it will last long enough for them to escape and regroup. 'There is no group. The others have fallen. It's up to...' Captain Glory begins, when suddenly, he finds himself slammed into the ground from a great height – by the Immortal Hulk. 'My spine...he...he's broken it!' Captain Glory gasps as the Hulk pins him to the ground. Mentacle moves towards them and tells Captain Glory to be calm. 'I will reach into the beast's mind – and – and – no' Mentacle utters as the Hulk looks at him, teeth bared and eyes filled with fury.
'NOOOOOO' a scream is heard on the monitor in the Grandmaster's games room. The Gamesmaster covers his mouth and drops his eyes, while the Challenger looks pleased with himself. 'Yes, En Dwi. We shall see' the Challenger points out.
Meanwhile, Falcon, Wasp and Citizen V are with their teammates – Wanda Maximoff the Scarlet Witch, Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye, Jericho Drumm a.k.a. Doctor Voodoo, Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man and Emily Guererro a.k.a. Synapse are standing ready as a Quinjet descends towards them, the unconscious bodies of the Blood Brothers and Molyn from the Lethal Legion are strewn on the ground. Toni Ho's voice can be heard over the communicator, informing the Avengers that Voyager has brought the fifth pyramoid to Avengers Auxiliary HQ – and she has locked herself, and the pyramoid, in thje old storage vault. In another Quinjet, Rogue, clutching Corvus Glaive's staff, Hercules and Jane Foster a.k.a. Thor listen, too, as Toni informs the Avengers that they need backup, and that she figures they guard this thing and maybe use it as a bargaining chip.
Suddenly, there is a loud THOOM in the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, 'What the hell -' Toni begins. 'Sounds like a blamed bomb dropping on us -' Red Hulk exclaims, grabbing a gun, while Lightning tells the others that it came from outside the hangar entrance. Toni reports that there are cameras out there, and plans to look at the footage. 'Hopefully it's nothing...' she begins, but as she looks at a monitor she utters '...too...serious...' - the Immortal Hulk appears on the monitor. 'Is that the Hulk? The original Hulk? I – I thought he was dead' Lightning gasps. 'Well he isn't now' Toni mutters, adding that she doesn't think this is a coincidence, and that he is after Voyager. Toni turns to Enigma and points out that she is the least vulnerable of them, so she should take point. 'But stay phased, okay. Don't get hurt' she tells her partner. 'I...will be careful. I promise' Enigma replies as she leaves the chamber.
Toni instructs Lightning to get the boys out of bed and tell them it is game time – they are going to need everybody on this – wounded or not. General Maverick pauses, before asking 'That includes the Red Hulk, right?' but Toni walks over to him and tells him 'Wrong. Don't you dare, General' as she tells him that his hulk-outs are unstable and getting shorter, not to mention his heart is getting weaker – so he could die, and against the Hulk, he will die. 'The Red Hulk on his best day couldn't beat Banner -' Toni begins. 'Maybe' General Maverick interrupts her. 'But together...I think you and I got something better'.
Enigma arrives in the hangar bay, where the hangar bay door is pounded at by the Hulk. Enigma tells herself that phasing will not stop him, and tries to give herself courage, adding 'Density to maximum. As strong as diamond. As strong as her' she remarks as she modifies her form – and just in time, as the door falls to the ground, and the Hulk stands before her. 'I see you' Enigma calls out as she leaps towards the Hulk, and slams her fist into his face, knocking his head slightly. 'And now you see' Enigma remarks, before boasting that she was made to defend this world against any thread. 'And I do not think even you are strong enough to -' Enigma begins, before the Hulk tears Enigma's armor apart unimpressed and with ease. 'Aikku?' Toni utters as she hears a scream over the monitor.
'God... that scream -' Lightning utters as he, Cannonball and Quicksilver arrive in the hangar. 'HULK!' Cannonball shouts. 'Let her go! Let her -' Cannonball begins, as the Hulk tosses Enigma aside with ease, but as Cannonball blasts towards the Hulk, the monstrous Hulk simply smacks him side. 'Guthrie! His blast field's down...heading for the wal – break his neck!' Quicksilver gasps as he speeds towards Cannonball, and grabs him before he slams into the wall – but as Cannonball falls onto Quicksilver, Pietro falls to the ground, and breaks his ribs.
'Then it's you and me' Lightning remarks as he starts to release charges of electricity. 'I didn't want to do this, Hulk...but I can't take chances. Not with the Avengers' lives. So even if this kills you – you're getting it all! Everything I have in one blast – everything!' Miguel exclaims, but as he pours his power against the Hulk, nothing happens – the Hulk doesn't even flinch. 'Everything – everything I had...how...' Miguel utters to himself, while the Hulk just looks at him. 'Get the hell away from them!' a voice calls out. The Hulk scowls as he turns, 'Oh, yeah. You're in trouble now, you dad-gummed son of a gun... cause here comes the Iron Hulk. God bless America!' exclaims the Red Hulk as he appears in the hangar, wearing Toni's Iron Patriot armor.


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The Grandmaster's games room, where the Challenger refers to a monitor depicting two of his remaining warriors from the Black Order – Proxima Midnight and Black Swan. The Challenger tells the Grandmaster to observe as Black Swan uses the planet's own rotation to speed up her travel to their target. 'Such ingenuity...I'm sure your Lethal Legion would be impressed... if they weren't on the verge of being eliminated' the Challenger declares, adding that scoring against the Grandmaster at this time feels most dishonorable. 'Nonetheless. Victory is victory...yes?' the Challenger asks. The Grandmaster remains silent, while his thoughts reach out across the cosmos, as he tells his daughter – Voyager – that he needs her to re-enter the game. He points out that sshe has the final pyramoid and so the winning point is within his grasp. 'Daughter, can you hear me?' he asks when he gets no response 'Yes' Voyager, locked into the Avengers Auxiliary HQ vault, eventually replies. 'But I am not your puppet' she utters.
Elsewhere within the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, Toni Ho is on the communicator: 'Calling all Quinjets – all AIM units – all Avengers!  We're doing what we can – but we need help now! We can't hold him off any longer! The Hulk is here – and he can't be stopped!' she exclaims, while Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver, Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball, Miguel Santos a.k.a. Lightning and Aikku Jokinen a.k.a. Enigma lay strewn about the floor, unmoving. The Immortal Hulk pounds his fist into the face of General Robert L Maverick a.k.a. the Red Hulk, who is wearing the Iron Patriot armor. Hulk slams the Red Hulk into another room within the Auxiliary HQ. 'That... that all you got?' Red Hulk asks, looking up at trhe Hulk, who leaps into Red Hulk and slams him into a pool of water. Red Hulk then recovers, and fires a blast of energy at the Hulk, knocking him backwards. 'My turn!' Red Hulk exclaims as he uses the armor to propel himself through the air, and slam his armored fist into the Hulk, knocking him back again.
The Hulk appears unconcerned, though, and brushes the punch off, wiping his face. Suddenly, He raises his arm to block his eyes from a blinding light that Red Hulk projects with the armor. 'Got your attention, monster? Got your -' Red Hulk begins, before the Hulk cracks the armor on the Red Hulk's arm, then picks Red Hulk up by his hair. 'What – what're you -' Red Hulk utters, before the armor informs him that the gamma energy is being drained from his body. 'Not – not like this -' Red Hulk utters as he reverts to his human form, the Hulk still holding him up by his head.
'He's killing us! He's killing us all -' Toni's voice can be heard on the Quinjet containing a team of Avengers returning to the Auxilary HQ. 'Oh my God...' Jan van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp utters. Emily Guererro a.k.a. Synapse says nothing, as Roberto DaCosta a.k.a. Citizen V asks Wonder Man what he is doing. Energy darts around Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man who reports that he is not as fast as Lightning, but he bets he can get to the Auxiliary HQ faster than the Quinjet if he is in his ionic energy form. 'Simon, don't! What if you can't re-form your body?' Wanda Maximoff the Scarlet Witch asks her dear friend, who tells her that she won't have to worry about him getting in her way anymore. Jericho Drumm a.k.a. Doctor Voodoo and Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon stand nearby. Synapse suddenly tells Wanda not to try and stop Wonder Man, but Wanda replies that she won't, and that she has a better idea, as Wonder Man flies away.

Wanda explains that last time she lifted the stasis on Vision with hex magic, Pietro was locked in place, so she is bettering she can do it again in erverse, but she needs a volunteer. Doctor Voodoo steps forward, and Wanda begins to cast the hex. Falcon asks Wanda if she is sure this will work, and Wanda replies that she isn't – but she has to try. 'I'm sorry, Jericho!' Wanda calls out as the hex continues. 'Don't be. I trust -' Doctor Voodoo utters, before he is frozen in stasis.
And back at the Avengers Auxiliary HQ:
'Release General Maverick, Hulk!' the Vision calls out, before he phases through the Hulk, causing the green giant to roar in pain. 'Your rampage ends here' the Vision declares as he turns back to the Hulk, hovers before him and asks 'Well? Do I have your full attention?' The Hulk lets go of General Maverick, and the Vision calls out 'Now, Quicksilver', at which point a very pained-looking Quicksilver speeds past the Hulk, grabbing General Maverick and the armor-less Enigma. The Vision tells the Hulk to stay focused on him, that he is his opponent, and he fires energy beams at the Hulk.
'What the -' Dr Toni Ho gasps as Quicksilver speeds past her, and into the makeshift infirmary, where he places General Maverick and Aikku on tables. Toni rushes in after them, 'Aikku!' she calls out when she sees her injured lover. Quicksilver rubs his face and tells Toni that he got them out, but he couldn't sustain the speed. 'My head...the blue dots...I can see it now...' he utters as blue dots of energy dart aorund him. He falls to the floor, and nearby, Doreen Green a.k.a. Squirrel Girl is still in stasis, the blue dots dart around her as well. 'It's an object...moving faster than the eye... can... see' Quicksilver gasps as he passes out.
Toni checks the General's vitals, as Aikku sits up, 'Toni? Is that the General?' she asks. Toni reports that he is alive, and his heart beat is steady – which she would call a miracle. Toni asks Aikku if she is okay, and tells her that she heard her scream. 'It was like he tore out part of me' Aikku explains, adding that the Enigma suit feels dead – like Pod died. Toni tells Aikku that she is sorry, and adds that they will need to strip it for parts.
Back in the other part of Auxiliary HQ, the Hulk slams a fist into the Vision, but the Vision is not moved by the force of the Hulk. 'I don't know if Bruce Banner's psyche still resides... within you. But I will do what is required to contain your destructive nature' the Vision announces as he slams his own fist back into the Hulk, knocking the behemoth backwards into a pool of water. The Vision boasts that the Hulk's mindless rage cannot comprehend the way he shifts his density at will – or the energy that is unleashed by his thermoscopic eye beam, as he fires the beam towards the Hulk, who lumbers forward and suddenly smacks the Vision aside.
Back in the vault, Voyager watches the battle on small portals that she has created. She recalls how her father took her to the planet Xerces, a world that had fallen so close to its sun that it was in a perpetual state of violent groundquake, but the Hulk's attack feels worse. Voyager decides that her father never took her to any planet where the indigenous creatures fought so hard against certain death. She knows that terrans are legendary for their courage. 'But to experience it firsthand...' she thinks to herself.
In the hangar bay, Lightning tries to wake Cannonball as some fiery energy rages nearby. 'We need to do something! The heat pouring out of there – I can barely breathe, and it's only getting hotter!'  Miguel exclaims. Sam coughs as he comes to, and they look into the room where the intense energy pours from, they see the Vision has fires his heat beams. Fire rages around the Hulk, who lumbers towards the Vision. Cannonball tells Lightning that he thinks the Vision is switching tactics. Sam adds that he has seen the Vision play his ghost card before, and they watch as the Vision slides his fingers into the Hulk's head to scramble his brain. 'Watch...he'll turn solid and...' Cannonball begins – but the Vision's plan doesn't work, as the Hulk suddenly slams a fist into the Vision's head, shattering part of his android skull, and causing the Vision to scream!
Voyager, Cannonball and Lightning are all in shock at what they have just witnessed. The Vision falls to the floor, water pooling around him as he mumbles the binary code over and over.
At that moment, aboard the Quinjet, '- you always' Brother Voodoo utters, completing the sentence he was saying when Wanda's hex cast him into stasis. Wanda looks surprised, 'Oh, no! You should still be in stasis! What just happened?' she wonders.
'Hnn. “Mindless”' the Hulk quotes the Vision as he lumbers out of the room. Lightning readies a charge of electricity and utters that this is a nightmare, as Hulk is heading for the vault. 'We can't let him get to Voyager and the pyramoid!' Lightning exclaims. Cannonball tells Lightning that if he has an idea about stopping him, he is all ears. 'Ah just hope Voyager can – aw, hell' Cannonball mutters as he and Lightning turn and see Proxima Midnight and Black Swan have found them. 'It seems the battle is already finished. The Challenger's monstrosity has cleared the way...save for a pair of fools' Black Swan declares.
Lightning switches to full electrical form and tells Cannonball that it looks like Black Swan has got them pegged. 'Yup. Fools 'til the end' Cannonball agrees. 'I've slain thousands across the galaxy!' Proxima Midnight boasts as she leaps towards Cannonball, who replies 'Big deal, lady! Ah ate seventeen hot dogs at the Kentucky State Fair!' Black Swan fires energy beams from her eyes, but they pass through Lightning's electrical form as she declares that they will not be stopped. 'Yeah, that's what the rest of your crew said before we kicked their asses!' Lightning responds. Proxima knocks Cannonball aside and tells the Avengers to joke as they wish, but death will still come for them. Cannonball lands on the floor, while Black Swan asks Lightning how he can defeat her when his electricity can't even penetrate her force field.
'Well, to start – I guess we'd need weapons grown by Earth itself as a plantery defense!' Toni calls out as she and Aikku start blasting Black Swan's force field with the remains of the Enigma armor. 'Her name was Pod. She was my friend. This is for her!' Aikku exclaims as Black Swan's force field falls, and Lightning knocks her out with a blast of electrical energy, 'You're both angels, you know that?' Miguel tells Toni and Aikku. Proxima turns to Toni and Aikku. Toni tells Aikku to fire until Proxima drops. But Proxima stands her ground and remarks that their efforts are impressive, but that it changes nothing – the Hulk will take the final pyramoid, as the Hulk continues to bash against the vault door. 'Victory is innocent!' Proxima exclaims. And inside the vault, Voyager looks worried.
'She's right, damn it -' Toni begins as she continues to fire the Enigma armor at Proxima. 'We cannot fight the Black Order and the Hulk! You must think of something!' Aikku tells Toni. 'Yeah? Like – what?' Toni replies as a blast of ionic energy ripples past them, and past the Vision, before slamming into the Hulk. The Hulk is forced to stop pounding the door as he turns, 'Bruce. Long time no see. Listen, have you got a moment?' Wonder Man asks, as he hovers over the Hulk, and tells him that he would really like to talk.


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'Rogue, I don't know if the Quinjet can handle this!' Jane Foster a.k.a. Thor calls out from on top of  the Quinjet where she raises Mjolnir and creates a powerful wind vortex around the Quinjet, propelling it forward. Inside the Quinjet, Rogue tells Thor to keep the vortex going – and she doesn't care if Thor butns the plane out, as long as they got to the Avengers Auxiliary HQ quicker. 'Aye! Take us to the battleground with great haste, my friend!' Hercules calls out from where he sits next to Rogue. Hercules boasts that he hungers for combat.
But at the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man thinks to himself that some people like to fight – only he is not one of them. Simon thinks to himself that he has been an Avenger, an enemy of the Avengers, and has been dead – but now he is alive again, and is trying to live that life according to one simple truth – that violence is not the answer.
'Listen to me, Bruce. I'm not -' Wonder Man begins as he holds his hands up to the Immortal Hulk – who slams a powerful fist into Wonder Man, drawing blood. '- I'm not letting you into that vault!' Simon declares, rubbing his face, thinking that it is no secret he has had issues with the Avengers' methods – that for all their power, all their righteousness, in the face of evil – they always seem to resort to one thing – their fists. But Simon refuses to believe that the best they can do is punch the world into submission.
The Hulk towers over Simon, who is still on the floor. 'Okay?' Simon calls out. 'Now, you can keep hitting me if you want to, Bruce, but...you can't hurt me. And I won't hurt you' Simon tells the Hulk, who responds by slamming his fist into Simon again, forcing his head against a nearby wall. 'The Hulk is a prime example' Simon thinks to himself. He tells the Hulk that he won't, and asks him what is the point. Simon knows that all hitting the Hulk ever did was feed his anger, but that talking to him – talking to the good man inside him, Bruce Banner, that might just work. 'Come on, Bruce. It's me. Simon. We're friends' Simon calls out. The Hulk remains silent, before uttering 'Friends'.
'Thank heaven you're in there' Simon remarks, before telling Bruce to breathe in, and visualize a calm meadow – but the Hulk declares that they are not friends, and slams his hand into Simon's chest, knocking him back to the floor. 'You're a Hollywood snob drowning in ego. Preaching nonviolence when it's easy – when violence can't ever reach you. Well, I can reach you, Williams. And I can hurt you' Hulk snarls. 'I can smash you' the Hulk begins, while Simon thinks to himself 'His voice. God. His voice. Ice and granite and raw. Bloody hate. This isn't Bruce. This is the other guy'. Hulk's hand covers Simon's head, 'Hulk...?' Simon utters, while the Hulk smirks and asks 'What's wrong, Simon? I thought you wanted to talk...'.
In another part of the Auxiliary HQ, a battle rages between several Avengers and two of the Black Order – Proxima Midnight and Black Swan. 'Your tenacious spirit amuses me!' Proxima Midnight calls out as Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball blasts past her, joking that he will be sure to put “tenacious spirit” on his resume. Dr Toni Ho and Aikku Jokinen, otherwise known as Iron Patriot and Enigma, respctively, are near Black Swan, who has surrounded herself with a force field and snarls 'We'll carve it on your gravestones – if the Black Order leaves enough to bury!' Toni and Aikku continue to use the energies from the destroyed Enigma armor against Black Swan's force field, and Toni reports that they are wearing Black Swan down, but they might only have one more shot before these jury-rigged blasters die on them. 'Then we make it count!' Aikku calls out, before turning to Miguel Santos a.k.a. Lightning, who tells her that he is on it, and as he releases some electrical energy into the blasters, he adds that he hopes the extra charge is enough.
Toni tells Aikku that it will have to be, and asks her if she is ready. 'One last time, say it loud, my love – U.S. Avengers -' Aikku shouts, while Black Swan narrows her eyes, 'You should have -' she begins, as Aikku shouts 'UNITE!' and she and Toni fire a blast from the Enigma armor, super-charged with energy from Lightning, which strikes Black Swan's force field and tear it apart. Black Swan screams as she falls backwards. Proxima Midnight calls out to her teammate while knocking Cannonball over. 'Enough of this!' Proxima mutters as she rushes over to Lightning, Aikku and Toni, who don't see her coming up behind them. 'Got another in you?' Lightning asks Toni, who holds Enigma's helmet and replies 'Not with this. It's dead. 'Pod...my friend...my sister... if you can hear me. Where are you...we need a miracle' Aikku utters.
'Your luck has come to an end!' Proxima shouts, but before she can attack the three Avengers with her staff, Mjolnir is thrown towards her, and slams her backwards. 'Luck ain't got nothing to do with it, lady!' Rogue declares as she, Thor and Hercules stand over her. 'It's called “teamwork”!' Rogue adds, and Proxima suddenly looks concerned.
Within the vault, Voyager watches the battle on a portal she has created. “Teamwork” she remarks, telling herself that she was so focused on being one of the Avengers, one of them, acting the part, playing the role. 'Why am I only seeing it now?' she wonders – realizing that no single one of them is ever the winner, that's not what they fight for, it's not a game. 'What do they fight for, father? Just to win?' Voyager wonders as she looks at the pyramoid that hovers near her in the vault.
Outside the vault, the Hulk goes silent again, but Simon notes that when he did speak, he was articulate – brutally articulate, even. 'The Hulk at his most intelligent... God help us all' Simon thinks to himself, as the Hulk tries to break Wonder Man's body, Simon calls out to Bruce, telling him that he knows he is inside the Hulk. 'You know this is pointless – even if you tear my head off – and myabe you can – I'll just come back' Simon declares, adding that his body is ionic energy, he can't die like a normal person. 'Hah' the Hulk laughs. 'There's an irony' Hulk adds. Simon spits up some blood as the Hulk reveals that Banner was right, sitting there crying in his head. 'I'll always come back, too. I'll always survive. That's why the Challenger woke me up' the Hulk reveals. 'The Challenger?' Simon asks, trying to tell Bruce that whoever the “Challenger” is, he is using him. 'No. I'm using him. When the game ends, Earth ends with it' the Hulk reveals.
Hulk leans into Simon and points out that there will be no more puny humans, just him – alone – finally. Simon realizes that this is like talking to a nightmare, and tells himself that if Banner is in there, he is buried so deep that he can't be reached. Simon tells himself to stop talking to Banner, and wonders what the Hulk want. 'Hulk – listen to me -' Simon begins, but a voice calls out 'Ho there!' and the Hulk turns to see Hercules stride towards him, 'Stand down, Banner! The Lion of Olympus will stop you!' Hercules declares as he slams his fist into the Hulk, knocking him back from Simon. 'Herc, wait!' Simon calls out, but before Hercules can strike Hulk again, Thor drops down and slams Mjolnir into the Hulk, lightning crackling with the impact of the hammer against the Hulk.
Rogue goes over to Wonder Man and congratulates him on great work, stopping the Hulk inhis tracks until the cavalry came. 'Now we'll take care of it' Rogue adds, but Simon tries to tell her no – as he can reach the Hulk, but she doesn't listen to him. Thor continues to pour the might of Mjolnir against the Hulk, while Voyager continues to watch inside the vault, 'Look at them, father. Their strength is awe-inspiring. Every blow, a thunderclap' she remarks, while realizing that with even all that power, the creature does not yield, as Hulk knocks Thor and Hercules away. Rogue removes a glove, and calls out 'Time to power down, big guy...' as she grabs the Hulk by his neck, and Rogue begins to growl as she attempts to absorb his power. 'His mind...' Rogue gasps, her eyes glowing green. Suddenly, the Hulk appears to be gone, and Bruce Banner can be seen in his place. 'Don't do this...run away...he can't be stopped... he can't die' Bruce tells Rogue, before she falls backwards, gamma energy flickering around her.
Rogue's skin has turned green, and she tells herself to stay calm, as Thor tells Hercules that they must strike together. 'Of course -' Hercules agrees, while Wonder Man calls put 'Damn it – no -' and as Thor and Hercules leap onto the Hulk, Wonder Man helps Rogue up, and calls out to the Hulk, asking him to listen to him: 'Maybe you can't die – but you thought you could, remember? You were at peace! At rest – finally  - until they woke you up!' Simon tries to remind the Hulk, who tries to shake Thor and Herc off of him and tells Simon to shut up. 'And now you know the truth – you can never have that again! Never again!' Wonder Man calls out, reminding the Hulk that they took it away from him – because they couldn't leave him alone. 'They wouldn't leave you alone!' Wonder Man shouts, causing the Hulk to push Thor and Hercules aside.
The Challenger uses this moment to call out to the Hulk, urging him to get to the vault, as he is almost there. 'Don't tell me you're going to be brought down by a group of puny humans...?' the Challenger asks as Hulk tears open the door the vault. 'Of course he won't' the Challenger remarks, before warning the Grandmaster that their game has reached its end, and despite his pathetic efforts, victory is at last within his grasp. 'Watch with me' the Challenger tells the Grandmaster.
Voyager tells the Hulk that she won't let him claim the final pyramoid, and raises her hand, creating an energy sphere, she announces that she has made her choice – she fights for the Avengers! But the Hulk knocks her aside with ease, and reaches for the pyramoid.

'Let me demonstrate how a victor truly savors success. That's it, Hulk. You've battled hard and battled well. Claim your prize!' the Challenger exclaims.
'My prize. Mine... to SMASH!' the Hulk roars as he takes the pyramoid and breaks it in two, shocking the Challenger, who screams.
The Challenger drops to his knees, 'What... why...' he utters, as the Grandmaster remarks that it is tragic, that the Challenger somehow managed to both overestimate and underestimate his final playing piece. 'The Hulk hurt you, the only way he could – by committing a foul. A negative point against you. Thus, his victory is mine. You have lost. You know the consequences. I will make your banishment as painless as possible...but there is only so much I can do' the Grandmaster smirks.
'Voyager! What happ -' Rogue calls out, while Wonder Man, Thor and Hercules look on, and the Hulk suddenly reverts to his human form of Bruce Banner, 'Fuh...forgive...me...' he asks the Avengers. Wonder Man goes over to Bruce and tells him that it is all right, that they are his friends, and they will get him through whatever comes next.
Rogue turns to Voyager and declares that she messed with their minds, and wants to know who she is and what her part is in all of this. 'TALK!' Rogue snaps 'I – I can explain -' Voyager begins, while her father the Grandmaster contacts her telepathically, telling her to be silent and come to him. Voyager quickly tells Rogue that she has been trying to help, now that she has seen what an Avenger is – really see – she doesn't want to fool them anymore. 'Now!' the Grandmaster orders. Voyager tells the Avengers that they already knew about the Elders, the cosmic game Earrth is caught in – but they didn't know she was one of the pieces. 'Daughter, no!' the Grandmaster exclaims, as Voyager reveals to the Avengers that the Grandmaster his her in their ranks, to mobilize them, turn them from obstacles into pawns, and while they distracted the Challenger, she was to bring the last pyramoid to him, so he could claim the point himself. 'NO!' the Grandmaster tells his daughter again. Hercules asks Voyager if the Grandmaster was her master as well, to which Voyager reveals that he wasn't her master – but her father!
Challenger sees this revelation on a viewing portal, and does not look happy about it. 'You CHARLATAN!' he roars, turning to the Grandmaster and calling him a deceptive fraud. 'All your talk of the sanctity of the rules! You...you stacked the deck before the players were even engaged!' he exclaims. The Gandmaster tells the Challenger that he is overreacting, as Voyager was simply another tool with which to move the pyramoids about, and there is nothing untoward in arranging for the Avengers to trust her. 'Trust? You do not dare use that word! There is no game now! It is broken, thanks to you! You bring dishonor to all the Elders!' the Challenger snarls. The Grandmaster frowns and admits that he took advantage of some gray areas in the rules, and apologizes for this, and tells the Challenger that if it is a clean victory he seeks, he can offer him an interesting rematch.
The Grandmaster issues his response immediately, by shouting 'NO!' and firing a blast towards the Grandmaster which appears to tear him apart....


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No Surrender, part 13
'Normally, when you recall something, you say “It's all coming back to me”' Jan van Dyne a.k.a. the Wasp thinks to herself, realizing that this is the opposite – this time, it is all going away. Her memories of fighting alongside the original Avengers against Loki, and forming the team – both instances with Voyager – who suddenly fades from the memories. Jan remembers – everyone present is remembering – memories of this woman named Voyager being one of them, were false, implanted. The Wasp remembers the time the Vision cried, Voyager was there – then she fades from that memory, too. As the Wasp stares at Voyager, she realizes that right about now, Voyager is wishing she had never ever met an Avenger!
The Wasp stands with other senior members and leaders of the Avengers – Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon, Roberto DaCosta a.k.a. Citizen V, Rogue, Jericho Drumm a.k.a. Doctor Voodoo, Wanda Maximoff the Scarlet Witch, Hank McCoy a.k.a. Beast, Jane Foster a.k.a. Thor, Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye and Hercules. 'Cosmic... game? What does that mean, we're part of a “cosmic game”, Voyager?' Falcon asks. 'This is all on your father? The Grandmaster? All'a this?' Rogue shouts, while Citizen V asks her if she has any idea what she has done – it is a global panic and people are dying. The other six Avengers all look at her, equally unimpressed, while Voyager looks up at them in shock.

'It's not my – I'm trying to tell you – please I have to see my father!' Voyager exclaims as she attempts to open a portal. Falcon sees this and tells Wanda to do something so that she doesn't escape. 'Can you hold her?' Falcon asks. Wanda casts a hex, which disrupts Voyager's portal, trapping her in a bubble, before Doctor Voodoo remarks that she needn't strain, as he has put Voyager under his command, if only for a moment. Voyager grabs her head, unable to move, as Voodoo tells her that she mustn't resist, and that the fate of the planet may depend on her knowledge. Voyager pauses, before telling the Avengers that they are right, and that she really does want to help. 'Then start talking' Citizen V tells her, clenching his fists.
The Avengers listen as Voyager starts to explain. The Wasp can hear Voyager's heart beating a mile a minute. Jan isn't sure what to think of her, as of those present, she “knew” her the longest, which is probably why she is having a hard time shaking this off, as Voyager is lingering in her mind like a lucid dream. 'She said she wants to help. Is she at all the woman she was in my imagination, even a bit?' Jan wonders, as the Avengers “remembered” her to be noble, brave and honest. But the third is out the window, first and second – probably. But Jan wonders that, even under Voyager's spell, the Avengers should have sensed that.
Voyager stands up and informs the Avengers that her father had her alter their memories so that she can better pose as one of them – but the only one her power couldn't affect was the Vision, due to his synthezoid nature, so he was kept in stasis. 'So that's why you froze Vizh, but what about everyone else? What kind of “ultimate game” is it if most of the “obstacles” aren't even allowed on the playing field?' Falcon enquires. Voyager's eyes glow as she replies 'If you world is to survive? The kind you have to win'.
Meanwhile, in the living quarters within the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, 'Doctor Banner?' a voice calls out to Bruce Banner a.k.a. the Hulk, in his human form, who sit sitting on a collapse wall, a blanket wrapped around him. 'Jarvis?' Banner responds, looking up as Edwin Jarvis enters and approaches him, remarking that now he has out of danger Nadia thought he might recover better amongst friends. 'I believe she expected me to allow myself to be waited on...' Jarvis adds, before opening a thermos and remarking that one would think Nadia would know better by now. 'Tea?' Jarvis asks Banner, who thanks him. Jarvis pours the tea from the thermos and asks Banner if he is not joining the discussion in there. Banner explains that he can't face them – after what he did to them. 'Vision, Enigma...that Red Hulk...and Hawkeye' Banner frowns, adding that he put Hawkeye through hell – he must have – but for what? That the arrow through his brain, it was agony – he died in agony. 'But... I died happy. Because I knew the Hulk would die, too' Banner explains.
Banner continues, pointing out that it all worked out – the special arrowheads, all of it – if the worst happened, Hawkeye could act, and the Hulk would die – but now. 'Well, now we know, don't we?' Banner remarks, sipping the tea. He turns to Jarvis and points out that he has to live with this, with every dark thought he ever had, waiting – waiting to burst through his skin and walk in the world. 'Maybe I did die. Because this is hell. I am in hell. And the king of hell lives in my flesh' Banner declares, the Hulk raging inside of him. Banner sips the tea again. Jarvis looks up and quotes “The mind is its own place...” to which Banner asks 'Hmm?' Jarvis continues: “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven”. Jarvis tells Banner that it was written by John Milton, “Paradise Lost” and a favorite of his. Banner smiles and suggests to Jarvis that he might want to consider who he wrote the speech for.
'For the fallen angel, Lucifer. After his expulsion from the divine presence' Jarvis replies. Banner doesn't say anything, so Jarvis tells him that he has within him the potential for great evil – and he thinks they caught a glimpse of that today. 'But...I believe there is more to you than that' Jarvis adds. Jarvis continues, remarking that it has long been his privilege to serve heroes, including Doctor Banner. 'No, no, I -' Banner begins, but Jarvis reiterates: 'Including you. And often, what drives them on is the knowledge that they are not always heroes. If, when we do what good we can, we are Avengers – what crimes are we avenging?' Jarvis asks, before answering his own question: 'I think...our own'. Jarvis tells Banner that they carry within them all their failures, all their mistakes, all the times they have done less than they might. 'We are all exiles from the divine, Doctor Banner'. Jarvis adds that they must all do better, but that his worth is not dictated by how far he has fallen. 'What matters is how hard you work to rise again'. 'Jarvis...' Banner utters, before tears fall down his face, and Jarvis begs Banner not go give up.
In the medical bay, Doreen Green a.k.a. Squirrel Girl remains frozen in stasis, while Pietro Maximoff a.k.a. Quicksilver sits up on the bench where he was resting. Sam Guthrie a.k.a. Cannonball and Aikku Jokinen a.k.a. Enigma are with General Robert L Maverick, once the Red Hulk, now in his human form. Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man, Miguel Santos a.k.a. Living Lightning and Dr Toni Ho a.k.a. Iron Patriot are standing over the unmoving Vision. 'Okay, I give up' Toni tells the others. Simon and Miguel look at her, shocked, 'Does that mean...' Simon begins, to which Toni declares that she needs a proper lab with proper tools to be able to put the Vision back together, because if she tries with the junk on hand, she could do permanent damage. She adds that he won't get worse in the meantime. 'Okay that's not great, but not -' Simon begins, as Miguel hangs his head and remarks that this is all his fault. 'How so?' Toni enquires. 'I used to worry I'd wasted my shot when I was an Avenger. Like I could have done more. But I threw everything I had at the Hulk – and it wasn't enough. I wasn't enough. And the Vision paid the price for that...' Miguel laments.
'Wait. Lightning, you think it's about how much you can throw at people?' Simon asks his fellow former West Coast Avenger. 'Someone's been reading the message boards...' Toni smirks, while Simon smiles at Miguel and tells him that if raw power was what made an Avenger, then they would have fired Hawkeye on the first day. 'I don't know if you've heard...but he shoots arrows' Simon jokes. 'Sure, Wonder Man, but it wasn't Hawkeye's job to stop the Hulk -' Miguel begins, to which Simon asks 'So what if you had stopped him? What happens when he gets up again? And again? Do we all keep hitting each other for the rest of our lives?' Simon asks. He then assures Miguel that he is an Avenger – a very powerful one – but thjat it has never been what he can do that makes him one of them – it's what he chooses to do. 'Yeah, I guess. Maybe' Miguel replies unconvincingly. 'Definitely. And the most important thing we do – always – is to -' Simon begins, before a voice calls out 'Shut up for five seconds!'
Wonder Man and Toni look over to see Quicksilver, exclaiming that he needs silence while he concentrates, as there is something moving around them – faster than any of them can see. Toni tells Quicksilver that sensors would have picked it up, and suggests that he is probably suffering after-effects of his concussion. 'No! Your machines are far from perfect, and this is not a hallucination!' Quicksilver retorts. Emily Guererro a.k.a. Synapse enters the medical bay and asks Pietro what he is doing, telling him that he is pushing himself way too much. 'Emily...' Pietro begins. Emily puts a hand on Pietro's shoulder and tells him that she knows he wants to help, but that he needs to rest. 'Let me help you calm down and -' Synapse begins, but Quicksilver asks her not to use her abilities in that way. He adds that she shouldn't even be talking to him after everything he put her through.'You did what you thought was right. And I got hurt. We can't plan for every eventuality. Bad stuff happens. It's part of the job' Synapse tells Quicksilver, adding that she doesn't blame him.
'There...that beacon is keeping our fellow Avengers in stasis!' Quicksilver calls out as he sees a small blue streak of energy dart around Squirrel Girl. He gets off the table and speeds past trhe other Avengers in the mediccal bay, 'If – I – can – grab – it – maybe -' Pietro exclaims as he attempts to chase the streak of energy. He keels over, and tells the energy 'You're quite the speedy little mite, aren't you?' while Synapse asks him if he is okay. 'Yes. Just a bit surrpised' Quicksilver replies. Quicksilver grins as he gathers himself, and tells Dr Ho to recalibrate her equipment, as the beacon is almost entirely frictionless and outside the visual spectrum of light. 'Okay, but -' Toni begins, unconvinced, while Quicksilver announces that he will be right back, then speeds away.
Back in the hangar bay, Voyager asks the Avengers to listen closely, as she informs them that she is not of their world, and that her father is one of the Elders of the Universe. Voyager explains that the Elders are beings of galactic might with two things in common – they are each the last survivor of otherwise extinct races – and they are each ruled by their personal obsessions – collecting, fighting, gambling – whatever vice they carried over from their previous existence to this one. Voyager tells the Avengers that terrans have encountered her father several times – En Dwi Gast, the great Gamesman of the Universe, such as the time he pitted the Defenders against the creatures called Takkor, Teju and Chiroptera, and then again, when the Avengers fought the Squadron Supreme. Voyager tells the Avengers that her father is ruled by his hunger for competition – and along with his vice, he has a fatal flaw – he cannot resist a challenge – or a challenger.
Voyager continues, telling the Avengers that what they are witnessing is a combat with a fellow Elder, with the stakes at the utmost – only one will walk away with the title and power of the Grandmaster – the other will die screaming at the hands of the winner. The gameboard is Earth, of course, removed to a distant galaxy, a neutral space, where a handful of Avengers would serve as obstacles – enough to keep things interesting, the Elders thought, but not enough to stop their contest. Voyager adds that the gamepieces, were the Black Order, resurrected by the Challenger, and the Lethal Legion, assembled by her father – it was a team he knew would be understimated. Voyager reveals that, unbeknownst to her father's opponent, he planted her among the Avengers as a spy, able to remotely influence their actions and tilt the advantage toward himself. Voyager informs the Avenger that now, when she reaches out to her father, she hears – she feels – only emptiness – as if the Challenger has toppled him. 'We are all in mortal danger' Voyager exclaims.
At that moment, in the Grandmaster's cosmic game room. The Challenger stands over the ashes of the Grandmaster. 'You cheated me, Wn Dwi Gast, with your daughter...before either of us could be declared the victor'. Energy rises around the Challenger as he announces that he will never allow the Grandmaster to thwart him – not in life, and not in death. The Challenger begins to vanish, the energies enveloping him as he declares that he refuses to grant the Grandmaster even the gift of dishonor, that their game will be completed – even if he must destroy the pieces and the playing field!
At Avengers Auxiliary HQ, the Beast looks horrified as he turns to a monitor which depicts cities all over the world under attack – lightning storms, floods, earthquakes – all ravaging the Earth. 'People! We just skipped right over Defcon-1 to I don't know what! All of a sudden, things are getting worse out there – much worse!' Beast shouts. Voyager calls out for her father, asking him if he is there, but gets no response. 'Valerie – or whatever your name really is – listen to me!' Wasp calls out. 'Wasp...' Voyager replies, hanging her head, to which the Wasp tells her that she needs to focus, and that right now, she doesn't care how she played them, what she wanted or what she did – there are seven and a half billion people counting on the Avengers keeping them alive!
Indeed, in one city, civilians look up in horror as a portal of blue energies opens above them, some of them begin to run in fear.
asp reminds Voyager that she has said before that she has seen what being an Avenger is – she knows what it means to be one, and it is no all hands on deck. 'Valerie... we need your help' the Wasp pleads, while Voyager continues to hang her head. '... before it's too late' the Wasp adds.While from the blue portal, the Challenger arrives on Earth and declares that this planet is a pestilence upon the universe, and it is time to be purged!


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No Surrender, part 14
'The Earth is dying. I can see it' Pietro Maximoff thinks to himself as he speeds across the planet. There is an earthquake in Berlin – he checks the Brandenburg Gate, which holds, for now – no civilians in danger, this time. He speeds to Portugal, but it's a different story there, as a  storm rages and lightning strikes a civilian as Quicksilver passes. There is nothing he can do now, so keeps on running. Halfway across the Atlantic, Quicksilver finds Namor the Sub-Mariner, but he doesn't say hello – he is frozen mid-dive. Quicksilver reaches the East Coast, he looks up for a picosecond to see the sky unravel above him. Quicksilver realizes that whatever kept Earth stable, here at the far edge of creation, it is failing, dying. 'Earth is  dying – because there aren't enough of us to save it. And only I know why. I can see it...the beacon. Whatever it is. Whoever created it... it's keeping chosen heroes frozen in stasis'.
Quicksilver follows the beacon, he is inches away from it. 'You. Will. Not. Get. Away!' Quicksilver exclaims as he passes a group of panicked civilians, where he sees She-Hulk, frozen as she tried to protect them. He comes across Bulldozer, Wrecker and Piledriver of the Wrecking Crew, frozen, too. Quicksilver comes to a stop and sees the Black Panther head of him, also frozen. 'Okay. Plan B...' Quicksilver decides, knowing that he must find a way to destroy the beacon and set the others free.
Chaos continues to rage across the Earth, as a tsunami washes across Yokohama, Japan. In Greymouth, on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island, and earthquake rattles the small town. Heavy rains flood Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, and above Manhattan, New York a globe of energy surrounds the Elder of the Universe called the Challenger. He drops to the ground and slams his staff into the earth itself, before his voice booms across the entire planet: 'People of Earth – my opponent considered your planet to be something special. I am here to inform you that is not the case. And that it no longer serves a purpose in our grand cosmic game'. Civilians all around the world cower with their loved ones, or try to run, escape, to... somewhere. 'Still, before I reduce this orb to a cloud of carbon atoms...I admit I ache to enjoy some recognition of my long-awaited victory. Yours will have to do. Sing my praises and applaud my triumph for the rest of our natural lives'. He narrows his eyes and smirks as he warns the people of Earth that they have five minutes, and that if they want a name to pray to – they can call him Grandmaster Prime!
At the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, 'He's... he's here!' Voyager gasps, wide-eyed. 'The Challenger is here on Earth' Voyager announces. Dr Toni Ho a.k.a. Iron Patriot confirms this as she checks a monitor and reports that the Challenger has been sighted at Avengers Mansion. 'So he's the one making the planet crumble around us?' Roberto Da Costa a.k.a. Citizen V asks. Voyager explains that not even an Elder could break a world, not alone. Voyager reveals that on her father's satelite, there is a machine that maintains the energy envelope keeping Earth at the correct rotation and temperature, and if it were damaged, Earth could tear itself apart. Suddenly, a loud rumbling knocks the three from their feet '... the Hulk?' Roberto asks.
'What the Hell?' Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon asks in another room. Jan van Dyne remarks that it sounded like someone was smashing a hole in the roof, and Edwin Jarvis reports that he is afraid it was – and reveals that Dr Banner overheard them discussing the Challenger's current location and became rather violently upset.
'Hhrrh. They built a statue. A statue to that disobedient monster...madness' the Grandmaster Prime remarks as he stands near the statue of the founding Avengers at Avengers Mansion. He holds the head of the Hulk statue up and declares 'I'll be doing these primitives a favor -' when suddenly, a shadow looms over him, and the Hulk drops down on him, slamming him into the ground. 'You!' the Hulk calls out as he starts punching the Grandmaster Prime over and over. 'You woke me up. Brought me back to life. You didn't leave me alone!' Hulk exclaims, before telling the Grandmaster Prime 'You should have left me ALONE!' But the Grandmaster Prime is enraged by this assault: 'You hurt me. You actually hurt me...' he utters. 'How DARE you?' the Grandmaster Prime roars as he slams his fist into the Hulk's head – hard – in fact with so much force that it sends the Hulk careening upwards into space, which causes the Hulk to start laughing hysterically.
At that moment, Voyager teleports a small squad of Avengers – Toni Ho, Roberto DaCosta, Hercules, Jane Foster a.k.a. Thor and Miguel Santos a.k.a. Lightning onto the cosmic game room. 'I'll be honest, team...I'm not really seeing the funny side' Roberto remarks, as Miguel points out that this whole place is rubble. 'What happened here?' he wonders. Hercules looks at the strange contraption that houses some flickering energy and tells Lightning that if he was to judge, he would say it was the rampage of a maddened god. 'I know the signs' Hercules laments, adding that yon machine whirls and screams as if maddened itself. Toni turns to Voyager and points out that she is the expert, so asks her how bad it is. 'Bad, Toni' Voyager replies, explaining that the world-engine itself is almost indestructible, but that the machines feeding it data, and power, have been smashed. Voyager adds that it will spin further out of control until it uses up all its energy, and then it will die – and so will Earth.
'So... how do we keep the lights on?' Roberto asks. Voyager explains that part is relatively easy – they can charge the induction vent with electrical energy – a few hundred thousand gigawatts' worth should do it. She looks  at Lightning, who shurgs his shoulders and offers to give it his best. Thor adds that Mjolnir stands ready to aid him. Toni supposes that between them they could generate about that much energy, before asking Voyager what the hard part is. Voyager explains that the wheel is linked to the planet's rotation, so they need to hold it steady, but the strength it would take to hold up the world... 'It would be Herculean. A task for a god!' Hercules declares, cracking his knuckles. 'More than one god. Even you can't do it alone, Hercules – and Thor's required elsewhere' Voyager points out. 'In other words, we need the Hulk after all' Toni mutters, hanging her head. She declares that they are all out of Hulks to give, before Roberto exclaims 'Not necessarily'.
Roberto loosens his collar and tie and boasts that he has been waiting for the chance to assert his unique leadership style and do something ridiculous. 'Hi. I'm Roberto Da Costa. I'll be your Hulk for the evening' he jokes. 'Eh?' Hercules asks. Toni admits that Roberto is super strong, but tells him he is nowhere near the level they need. 'Oh, yes I am' Roberto smirks, touching his head, he announces that he has switched off his regulator headband. 'You – are you insane?' Toni asks, telling Roberto that without that headband, his powers run out of control, and they will kill him! 'Eventually. But until they do, I happen to be the strongest mutant on Earth' Roberto replies, rolling up his sleeves. He then stands at the machine and tells everyone to take their places, joking that he and Earth now have an extremely limited window of survival, and he likes to work fast.
Back on Earth, Quicksilver returns to the Avengers Auxiliary HQ, speeding into a room where he finds Wanda Maximoff the Scarlet Witch and Emily Guerrero a.k.a.  Synapse. He calls out to them, frightening Synapse. Quicksilver declares that there is no time to waste. 'We know. The Challenger is on Earth – we have to go -' Wanda tells her brother, but Quicksilver grabs her by her shoulders and announces that there is a becon keeping everybody else in stasis, faster than anyone can see, moving without friction, he chased it across the world, but even he cannot catch it – not on his own. Wanda tells her brother that even if she could use her magic to help, there is no guarantee he could stop it, as he could end up frozen again, or worse. 'We're stretched thin and the world crumbles before our eyes. If this could bring us more allies to turn the tide, we must try!' Quicksilver tells Wanda, who replies 'There must be another way.
Quicksilver points out that they don't have time to search for one, to which Wanda remarks that she doesn't know what will happen if he moves beyond the limits of his powers. 'I'll worry about that. Just make it happen' Quicksilver replies. 'Pietro...' Synapse calls out as she walks over to him. Quicksilver turns away from her, 'Emily, please don't try to talk me out of this' he asks her. Emily assures him that she won't – and that she just wants to help. She explains that Pietro's mind will try to keep him from going too fast, so Quicksilver suggests she use her powers to help him break through that mental barrier. 'Even if it hurts you?' Emily asks him. 'Even if it kills me' Pietro replies. Wanda readies her hex, while Synapse pulls down her mask and leans into Quicksilver, 'I'm sorry we never -' she begins. 'Don't apologize. Don't regret' Quicksilver tells her, before they kills. 'Pietro...I love you...' Wanda tells her brother, who gets into a starting position, and tells his sister that he loves her, too. 'Go' Wanda utters, tears in her eyes as she casts her hex.
Quicksilver speeds onwards, he sees the beacon, taunting him, just out of reach. Synapse and the Scarlet Witch both use their powers on Quicksilver, who realizes he is going faster than he has ever gone – but now he isn't alone, not anymore, as Wanda's sorcery destroys probabilities, and Synapse's mental powers unlock speed beyond fear. Speed. Beyond. Fear. Quicksilver thinks that together, the Avengers are stronger. Together, they sacrifice for those in need. Together, they engage the impossible.
Back in the cosmic game room, Hercules and Roberto use their strength to keep the world engine stable, while at Avengers Mansion, Wonder Man is knocked aside by the Grandmaster Prime. Quicksilver speeds ever closer to the beacon. Lightning and Thor release their energies, and Quicksilver thinks to himself 'That is why wer are a team. That is what it means to be an Avenger. Fighting together'. Rogue and Falcon go up against the Grandmaster Prime, but they are both knocked back – and then, suddenly – Quicksilver grabs the beacon!

Quicksilver looks horrified as the beacon struggles within his clenched fist. But he keeps running, thinking to himself 'Now... and... forevermore...' - he carries on running, and then, nothing. The Scarlet Witch drops to her knees, crying, she utters 'He's... gone...'.
Voyager then returns to Avengers Auxiliary HQ, into the room where the heroes in stasis are being stored. She tells herself that Hercules and the others are trying to keep the world-machine stable, but even if they do, the Challenger's rampage could still doom them all. 'There must be some way to free -' she begins, when suddenly, '- ah, nuts!' Doreen Green a.k.a. Squirrel Girl gasps, as she is freed from her stasis. 'The stasis has been broken!' Voyager exclaims. 'Uh...who are you?' Squirrel Girl enquires. Around them, other heroes are unfrozen – Captain America, Daredevil and Spider-Man – as Voyager announces that she thinks she is the hero they need right now. 'Trust me and pray this works!' Voyager tells them, as she starts to reach out with her power, to everyone close by – everyone calls themselves an Avenger. She connects with Rogue, the Black Panther, Doctor Voodoo, Falcon, Cannonball and Beast, and a portal opens.
From the portal, Voyager appears, with her are Hawkeye, the Scarlet Witch, Captain America, Wonder Man, Synapse, Rogue, Squirrel Girl, both Wasps, Cannonball, Beast, Falcon and Doctor Voodoo, as Voyager shouts 'WE ASSEMBLE!'