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Mighty / Dark, part 2: Deus Ex Machinations
From Asgard, Loki watches his plans unfold, as the real Avengers and Norman Osborn’s Avengers confront the Absorbing Man, who has just absorbed the Cosmic Cube at Project Pegasus. ‘And lo! They gathered to fight a foe no single hero could withstand. Pym’s so-called “Mighty Avengers”…and the team which Osborn has crafted in his own dark image. Now dance for me, my poppets’ Loki exclaims, swirling the water of his viewing pool.
At the Project Pegasus Compound in Upstate New York, Norman Osborn in his Iron Patriot armor orders the first flank attack. He exclaims that the Absorbing Man may have absorbed the power of a Cosmic Cube, and may be able to restructure reality itself, but the man is an idiot. ‘Pour it on! Don’t give him a chance to concentrate!’ Osborn exclaims. ‘Great plan, boss. I may as well be hurling snowflakes at him! (Not that I couldn’t kill a man with a snowflake)’ Bullseye, in the guise of Hawkeye, boasts as he fires an array of arrows. ’You’ve got it all wrong, Osborn’ Hank Pym a.k.a. the Wasp exclaims. ’How dare you undermine me in front of my men!’ Osborn snaps back. Pym ignores that comment and remarks that the Absorbing Man may have the power of a Cosmic Cube, but not its full range of abilities. ’Basically, he’s not shaped like a cube. Without proper form, he loses proper function’ Hank explains.
‘What are you saying?’ Osborn asks. ’He’s powerful, granted. But you have the Sentry on your team, with the power of a million suns. He should be able to take care of this’ Hank declares. Osborn replies that the Sentry is a special case, who needs to be utilized in just the right way. ’Fine. If you don’t think he can handle it…’ Hank replies, shrugging his shoulders. ‘Of course he can! Sentry take him down. This ends!’ Osborn shouts. ‘As you wish’ the Sentry replies, instantly flying towards the massive Absorbing Man, and smacking him in the face with full force. ‘Whoa!’ Cassie “Stature” Lang gasps, while Osborn contacts the HAMMER file department, ordering them to download everything they have on Project Pegasus’ Cosmic Cube Program. ‘I need to prove - or disprove - whatever Pym’s going on about’ he declares.
At the same time, Pym communicates with Amadeus Cho, who is back at the Infinite Avengers Mansion with Jocasta and Edwin Jarvis. ‘If Osborn’s getting intel, I want it too. Can you hack into his systems?’ Hank asks. ‘I dunno, Doc. We’re talking cutting through Oscorp security files. That’s hard core’ Amadeus replies. Jarvis approaches Hercules’ side-kick and suggests that he might be of some help. ‘Junk food! Jarvis you’re the best!’ Amadeus exclaims as he spins around and takes some donuts from a tray. ‘Y’know, I’ve hung out with Herc, the Hulk, Cap…but right now? You’re my favorite Avenger!’ Amadeus exclaims. ‘I appreciate that, Sir’ Jarvis replies.
‘I’m receiving it now. Hurry, you idiots! Jump to the part about Creel!’ Osborn exclaims as images from Project Pegasus’ files are displayed into his armor: “Subject Crusher Creel a.k.a. the Absorbing Man should be an ideal subjects for these trials. His super human powers, though based on Asgardian magic, have scientific properties we should be able to exploit. Primarily how his ability to absorb the properties of any material, energy source or construct…is shared by the ball and chain he carried with him’. Hank smiles as the transmission ends. ‘Studying the science of magic. I like where this is going’ he exclaims.
Stature and Hercules approach Hank, and Hercules suggests that he should attend to the matter at hand. ‘It appears Osborn’s first lackey is not faring too well’ Hercules points out as the Sentry struggles against the massive Absorbing Man. ‘Why won’t you fall? I have the power of a million exploding suns!’ the Sentry boasts. ‘Yeah, yeah. I know. I’ve tried absorbing it a couple times, remember?’ the Absorbing Man declares. ‘But guess what, blondie? I got me a better bag!’ Creel exclaims, grabbing Sentry. He exclaims ‘Try some Cosmic Cube power on for size! Let’s me reshape reality - your reality. I can crush you, reshape you and divide you!’ Creel declares.
‘What - what are you doing? I feel - I feel like - you’re tearing me apart! No! Stop! You’ll release my other half - my dark half! Sentry exclaims as he is torn in two: Sentry and the Void! ‘There ya go. Knock yourself out!’ Creel exclaims, letting the two go free. ‘If it isn’t the Golden Guardian of Good. We meet again!’ the Void exclaims. ‘For the last time, Void!’ the Sentry exclaims. Nearby is Karla Sofen a.k.a. the new Ms Marvel. ‘A damaged psyche playing out the conflict of its dual nature…through comic book archetypes. So pathetic, I’d probably laugh at it…if the two of them weren’t strong enough to destroy all life on Earth!’ Karla exclaims, before calling out to Osborn, telling him to do something, as he is the only one who can get through to Bob when he is like this.
‘Can’t talk. Busy. You’re a psychiatrist, woman. You deal with it!’ Osborn snaps at Karla. ‘But -’ Karla begins, when suddenly, the Absorbing Man smashes his fist down on her, sending her flat against the ground. ‘Dr Sofen!’ Hank calls out. ‘Wh - what are you doing to me? I’m - I’m Moonstone again? I’ve been “Reality punched”?’ Karla exclaims, now dressed in her classic white and yellow costume. ‘That’s the stupidest @#%* thing I’ve ever heard of!’ she snaps, sitting in the dirt, while Stature takes on the Absorbing Man behind her. ‘Yes…this looks promising’ Iron Patriot remarks as he watches the next part of the video, while Moonstone takes to the sky.
‘It’s our hope that, while keeping Creel hooked up to a neural scrambler…if we expose him to Cosmic Cube fragments, we can study the nature of this power transference -’ a scientist declares. Iron Patriot freezes the recording, and tells himself that the ball and chain is still in the complex somewhere. ‘And it’s taken on the properties of…’ Hank begins, before both he and Osborn declare ‘A Cosmic Cube’ in unison. ‘It’s mine!’ Osborn exclaims. ‘Oh, no you don’t!’ Hank replies as they both fly towards Project Pegasus, with Osborn in the lead. ‘Herc, I’m on Osborn! You’re in charge of the troops!’ Hank tells his friend. ‘Godspeed, Pym!’ Hercules replies. ‘Wait! He’s in charge? What am I, chopped liver?’ John Walker a.k.a. USAgent shouts out.
As he speeds through Project Pegasus, Hank tells Cho to get him layouts of Project Pegasus, as he needs the location of the ball and chain. ‘Doc, now’s not a good time for a side mission. We’ve got a godlike Absorbing Man, Sentry fighting the Void -’ Cho exclaims, but Hank interrupts: ‘And I’ve got Norman Osborn moments away from getting a Cosmic Cube! Priorities, Cho! Priorities!’
At that moment in the Infinite Avengers Mansion, Jocasta calls out to Amadeus, asking for his assistance. ‘I am detecting anomalous software in -’ she begins, but Amadeus tells her ‘In a sec, Jocasta’ as he tells Hank to go right, then down two corridors and hard left. ‘Hurry, Sir! Mr Osborn is still far ahead!’ Jarvis calls out as he watches the monitor also. Jocasta continues her sentence: ‘In one of my host bodies. Unit Twelve Thousand Thir-teen-teen-teen-’ she repeats over and over.
Elsewhere in the Infinite Mansion, 12,1013 miles away, the Jocasta host there is overcome by a small device, which wraps wires around her, and gives off a binary code, with ULTRON LIVES imbedded in it - and then this Jocasta’s eyes flash red, and an image of Ultron appears.
Back outside Project Pegasus, ‘Stupid freaking Avengers! Always in my @#$%!’ Creel shouts as he swats away the phoney Spider-Man, in truth he is the third Venom, Mac Gargan. ‘You all need to step off! Give a guy a chance to think!’ Creel exclaims, while the new Vision attacks him also. Gargan lands against a rock, transformed into his former guise of the Scorpion, while the Symbiote makes a run for it. ‘The Symbiote? He separated me from me other! No!’ Gargan exclaims. The Absorbing Man looks down at Moonstone and Scorpion and exclaims ‘No way! The Masters of Evil? You’re Avengers now? And you didn’t cut me in for a piece?’
Nearby, a reporter smiles at this announcement. ‘Frank? Talk to me’ she exclaims to her cameraman, who replies that they lost live feed, but are recording. ‘Sweet’ the reporter declares.
Suddenly, the Symbiote hisses at Pietro “Quicksilver“ Maximoff, and tries to engulf him. Pietro radios to base, announcing that he requires assistance from the Venom-thing that is attaching itself to him. ‘So unless you want a super-fast brain-eating mutant on the loose -’ Pietro begins, before Jocasta apologizes to him, remarking that her systems where offline for a moment. ‘Let’s see…according to our files, symbiotes possess two weaknesses: fire and sonics’ Jocasta announces. Pietro smiles: ‘Good’ he exclaims. ‘I can do sonic’. And with that, he races away at high speed, creating several sonic booms, which causes the Symbiote to scream, and detach itself from Pietro. ‘Tch. How these things bother Spider-Man is beyond me’ Quicksilver remarks.
Nearby, Hercules holds the Vision like a javelin over his head. ‘Not to question your stratagem, Hercules, but -’ the Vision begins, but Hercules tells him that they are fighting a crystalline giant. ‘In your diamond-like state, you make the perfect weapon’ Hercules remarks. ‘Hurled with my awesome strength at the correct point, we shall shatter this rogue into a million pieces’ Hercules assures the new Vision, who replies, ‘Very well. I’ll use my navigation sensors to perfect your aim’. Hercules smirks at this: ‘Ha. Do that and I shall never forgive you’.
With that, the mighty Olympian hurls the new Vision like a javelin - and breaks the Absorbing Man’s left arm off. But suddenly, the new Vision begins to fall to the ground: ‘Cosmic radiation - affecting me on molecular lev-’ he begins, before screaming. ‘Jonas!’ Cassie calls out to her teammate, while the Absorbing Man declares ‘Nice try, robot-boy! But I control every atom in my body. That didn’t even slow me down!’ as his arm reforms. ‘You on the other hand? You’re in for a hard dose of reality!’ Creel adds as the new Vision slams into the ground in front of Stature, who exclaims ‘No! Please be okay. Please be okay -’, and as she shrinks to her true size, where there was one before her, now lies two: ‘Hm. What a fascinating turn of events’ the original Vision remarks, rubbing his head. ‘Oh my God! That’s the Vision! He’s split into the original Vision and…Iron Lad!’ Cassie shouts. ‘Cassie! It’s been so long! I thought I’d never see you again!’ Iron Lad exclaims, reaching out to Cassie, who exclaims ‘This - this can’t be real. It can’t be…’
Back inside Project Pegasus, ‘Cho! We are seconds away from Norman Osborn controlling reality!’ Hank exclaims. ‘Give me something! Think outside the box!’ he declares. ‘You’re too late, Pym!’ Osborn boasts as he speeds ahead. ‘This is my moment! My time! My destiny!’ Osborn declares, blasting the door to the laboratory down, he exclaims that nothing is standing in his way. ‘Got it, Doc. We need to think inside the box. Up ahead!’ Amadeus replies. Hank looks up and sees the air vent, so he flies into it, and along, into the room where the Cosmic Cube is located, while Osborn is busy breaking more doors down.
‘Yes! Made it! Just have to reach out and -’ Hank begins, only for the door to be blown off its hinges behind him, slamming into him. Hank returns to his default size, while Norman stands near the Cosmic Cube, declaring that he finally gets to do it. ‘I get to win. One touch and I get to have everything I ever wanted. Everything I deserve!’ he exclaims. ‘What are you talking about?’ Hank asks him. ‘One touch? You already did it. You got control of the Cube two minutes ago. You already altered reality’ Hank tells him. ‘What?’ Osborn asks, confused. ‘Think about it. A world where you’re running the show?’ Hank exclaims, while Osborn stands paused, his hand inches from the Cosmic Cube.
‘Super heroes on the run? Super villains taking their cues from you? You won. We lost. Do you honestly think any of that could’ve happened without you getting your hands on a Cosmic Cube?’ Hank asks. ‘But I -’ Osborn begins, confused. ‘PSYCH!’ Hank shouts as he quickly increases his mass, knocking Osborn away from the Cosmic Cube. ‘No!’ Osborn gasps. ‘Sorry, Norman. But I’ve got designs on this baby…y’see, there’s a little science experiment I’d like to try’ Hank declares, grabbing the chain attached to the Cosmic Cube.
Back outside, ‘This is all just reality-warping sutff. Something Creel’s doing with his pseudo-cubey powers! You can’t be Iron Lad!’ Cassie exclaims as she physically attacks Creel. ‘Hey!’ Creel mutters as Cassie grabs his head. Iron Lad blasts Creel with some energy, telling Cassie that he feels real enough. ‘and I know how I feel about you, Cassie’ he adds. ‘But you’re helping us. If we win, if everything goes back to normal…’ she exclaims. ‘I go away again. I know. But I have to fight the good fight!’ Iron Lad exclaims. ‘That’s what Avengers do, right?’ he asks. ‘Yeah’ Cassie agrees.
Nearby, the real Vision tells Hercules that it is good to see him again. ‘I take it the Absorbing Man is up to his usual tricks?’ the long-serving Avenger asks. ‘Aye, Avenger! And you are most well met!’ Hercules exclaims. ‘Come, old friend. Fight at my side once more!’ Hercules declares as they make their way to the Absorbing Man. ‘@#%*! Can you believe this bromance bull? They keep this up, I’m gonna have to kill one of ‘em. Hell, both of ‘em’ Bullseye, posing as Hawkeye exclaims, reaching for an arrow. ‘I hear that. There’s no place for these relics. They need to make way for new blood’ Daken, posing as Wolverine, remarks.
Suddenly, ‘Actually, you’d better make way…’cause the Doctor’s in!’ Hank exclaims, towering over Project Pegasus, he holds the Cosmic Cube up in the air, by the chain it is attached to. ‘Holy @#$%!’ Bullseye exclaims. ‘Pym? Is that my -?’ the Absorbing Man asks. ‘It’s your medicine, Creel. Say “ah”!’ Hank exclaims as he swings the Cube around, and slams it into Creel’s face. ‘Godlike power, meet godlike weapon! Oldest game in the book…fighting fire with fire!’ Hank exclaims. ‘Impressive’ Moonstone remarks. Johnny tells her to keep it in check though, as the last time Hank tried a stunt like this he got his butt kicked. ‘This ain’t the Hank Pym show. We gotta take this guy down - and fast’ Johnny adds, motioning to the Sentry and the Void, still battling it out in the air above them, USAgent exclaims that resetting reality is the only way he can think of to get those two genies back in the bottle.
Back inside, Norman Osborn sits slumped over. ‘All crumbling beneath my feet…’ he says in his regular voice. ‘What’re you gonna do, Osborn? Cry about it? You pathetic weakling!’ he exclaims in a harsher voice. ‘Shut up!’ the first declares. ‘I know what you’re thinking. A repulsor beam to the head’s your only way out, coward!’ the second voice declares. ‘What else can I do? Pray for a miracle?’ Norman remarks. Suddenly, ‘why not? Is there not a God looking out for you?’ Loki asks as he materializes beside Norman, holding a very large sword. ‘Loki?’ Norman asks, looking up. ‘Here, my friend. I have foreseen this moment and bring unto you…your salvation!’ Loki exclaims, handing Norman the sword. ‘What is this?’ Norman asks. ‘A spell breaker, Norman. Strong enough…to undo any Asgardian charm’ Loki reveals.
Back outside, Crusher has grabbed the Cube, ‘What? This’s your master plan, Pym? Smack me around with my own ball and chain?’ he asks. ‘What’s next? You gonna fight Popeye with a can of spinach?’. The Sentry continues to battle the Void, while Hank yanks on the chain, and Moonstone, the original Vision, Iron Land and Stature are doing what they can to assist.
The reporter exclaims that this doesn’t look good, and tells her cameraman to keep rolling. ‘I think we’re about to see the fall of two teams of Avengers!’ the reporter exclaims. Suddenly, a voice exclaims ‘No, you’re not. Clear your minds of such thoughts…clear all accounts of these heroes’ misfortunes…and draw your attention skyward, dear mortals. For this is what you will remember of this day…a champion!’ exclaims Loki as he weaves his way through the reporters, casting a spell over them, while, up in the sky, Iron Patriot shouts ‘AHHH!’ as he flies towards the Absorbing Man, sword in hand. ‘Flying out of the sun! A knight cloaked both in glory and in deeds of uncommon valor!’ Loki exclaims. ‘Now, go show the world his new, shining moment’ Loki declares as Osborn shoves the sword into the Absorbing Man’s chest. ‘This is for the people - of planet Earth!’ Osborn shouts, which is recorded on camera.
‘Remove the tarnish from his name…remind us of his greatness…and restore his place of honor’ Loki exclaims as the sword vanishes from Osborn’s arms, and Creel returns to his normal state, fallen to his knees. ‘What the Hell? The power…it’s gone!’ Creel exclaims. ‘I’m whole again! We all are!’ the Sentry exclaims, while Karla hovers in the air behind Osborn, back in her Ms Marvel costume. ‘Of course, Bob. Wait, don’t tell me…any of you doubted me?’ Osborn exclaims. ‘Never, Sir!’ USAgent exclaims. ‘Walker!’ Hercules scolds his teammate. ‘No, he’s right. The threat’s over. That’s all that matters’ Hank declares. ‘Riiiight’ Pietro mocks.
‘As I said before, my team had this situation under control. It’s a shame this unsanctioned group got in our way and helped prolong the crisis’ Osborn exclaims. ‘Curse your treacherous tongue, Osborn! I have half a mind to -’ Hercules begins, but Hank tells him to be at ease. The reporters gather around as Osborn declares ‘We are a great nation of law and order. And my Avengers - the Avengers…honor them and answer to them alone. Not these lawless vigilantes!’. Osborn tells Pym’s Avengers that he admires their misplaced intentions, but must ask them all to leave. ‘Save for you, Captain Walker’ he remarks. ‘Me, Sir?’ USAgent asks, surprised.
‘You are a member of the American Armed Forces. By colluding with these fugitives…I have no choice but to strip you of your rank…and your office as the USAgent!’. Osborn announces. Johnny hangs his head. ‘No!’ Hercules gasps. ‘Pym! Do something!’ Quicksilver exclaims. But Hank is looking into the crowd of reporters, and radios Amadeus, asking him if he is still recording off his goggles. ‘Yeah, why?’ Amadeus asks. ‘Sector twelve. Enlarge, enhance and save’ Hank orders, before telling his teammates: ‘You heard the man, we’re bugging out. Follow me to the correct exit!’. ‘WHAT?’ Quicksilver shouts, furiously.
As the Avengers all begin to leave, the crowd of reporters begin calling out: ‘Osborn!’, ‘Let’s hear it for the Avengers!’, ‘Iron Patriot! Over here!’, ‘Norman!’. ‘And that’s how it’s done’ Osborn whispers to himself. The new Vision hovers in the air, carrying Stature, and asks her ‘Are you going to be -?’, but Cassie tells him that it is okay, and asks Jonas to take her home. ‘Henry. Tell me you have a plan’ Hercules exclaims as they enter the doorway back to the Infinite Avengers Mansion. ‘Working on it’ Hank replies. ‘Good! So how do we get Walker back?’ Hercules asks. Hank makes his way down a corridor and replies ‘No idea. I’m onto something else’. Quicksilver is annoyed by this: ‘Damn you, Pym. We’re all just pawns to you, aren’t we?’ he asks.
‘We’re all game pieces, Pietro’ Hank declares. ‘The important thing is to know who the players are’ he exclaims, before telling the Vision that he needs him in the lab. Entering the lab, Cho, Jarvis and Jocasta are standing by a monitor with an image of Loki standing behind some reporters, smirking, is displayed. ‘Tell me you got it!’ Hank declares. ‘He was there, Sir. In the crowd!’ Jarvis exclaims. ‘Your hunch was right. It’s Loki!’ Amadeus declares. ‘Retinal scan?’ Hank asks. ‘Unmistakable!’ Jarvis exclaims. Hank stares at the screen as the monitor enhances on Loki’s right eye. ‘It all comes down to science. That’s my magic. And Loki, God of Mischief…I gotcha!’


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Pre-Siege Mentality
Broxton, Oklahoma, current home to the mystic realm of Asgard. In his exam room, Doctor Donald Blake asks a young patient how her foot injury happened, while he bandages her foot up. ‘I’d rather not. It’s embarrassing’ the girl replies. ‘You can trust me. I’m a Doctor’ Donald assures her. The girl replies that it was a project for her geology class, that she was collecting rock samples from the underside of Asgard, and she fell off her ladder. ‘I wasn’t even ten feet off the ground!’ she exclaims. Dr Blake calls her Annie and tells her that is nothing to be ashamed of. ‘Look at it this way…you fell from Asgard. That’s mythic!’
Dr Blake tells Annie that anyone who can survive falling from Asgard is all right in his book. Suddenly, a projection of Loki appears above Dr Blake: ‘Brother! Help me!’ Loki shouts, while Annie tells Dr Blake that is sweet of him to say. ‘They’re tearing me asunder! They’re - yahh!’ screams Loki. Dr Blake looks back at Annie, who asks him if he is okay. ‘You look ed out of it for a second’ she remarks. Dr Blake apologizes, and remarks that every now and then he experiences a recurring pain in his neck. Annie gets up to leave Dr Blake’s office, and Dr Blake tells her to come back if her foot acts up. ‘Thanks, Dr Blake. I hope you feel better’ Annie replies.
Dr Blake leaves his office, ‘I doubt it’ he tells himself. ‘This particular pain’s been plaguing me since…well, before “Donald Blake” was born’. Dr Blake slams his cane into the ground, and energy crackles around him as he tells himself that it is a good a sign as any that plea wasn’t intended for him, but for his better half - the Mighty Thor! With the transformation into Thor complete, Thor declares that his half-brother Loki entreats him to come to his aid. ‘I am a God and even I find that miraculous. Surely this is another of his deceptions’ Thor declares. ‘No matter. As kin and countryman, I am bound to answer his call’. With that, Thor uses his powerful hammer, Mjolnir, to rip wide the boundaries of space and time, and a portal opens, taking Thor to wherever his brother, the Lord of Lies and Mischief, may be.
Stepping through the portal, Thor finds himself in a gray, barren land. ‘I know this place. This is the Isle of Silence’ Thor declares. ‘Where all-father Odin once exiled Loki for one of his more treacherous acts’. Making his way across the depressing land, Thor finds several Trolls, lying motionless. He realizes that the blue trolls have not been struck down by Loki’s doing, nor by fell sorcery, but in fierce battle. ‘This does not bode well’ Thor decides. Loki’s projection appears once more: ‘Noble Thor! Dear brother! You are here! I beg of you! They hold me captive - just ahead -’ he exclaims. Thor spins his hammer once more: ‘Loki Laufeyson, be warned! If this be one of your tricks -’ Thor declares. ‘No trick! I swear! But hurry - their cruelty knows no bounds!’ Loki cries.
Moments later, Thor arrives in a citadel, only to find his brother strung up the wall with magic bonds. ‘At last…save me, brother!’ Loki cries. ‘Save me from the mighty Avengers!’ Loki shouts, as Thor sees who has captured his brother: Hercules! Dr Pym! Quicksilver! Stature and the new Vision!
Two hours ago, inside the Infinite Avengers Mansion. Edwin Jarvis walks down a long corridor, carrying a trolley on wheels behind him, singing “I’ve got the world on a string, sitting on a rainbow. Got the string around my finger. What a world, what a life…”. Every morning, the Avengers’ manservant prepares a special breakfast for Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. Using doorways in and out of Pymspace, the world is his marketplace. Coffee beans from Sao Paulo. Tea from Darjeeling. Eggs from Devonshire. Croissants from Paris.
Jarvis is keenly aware that as Avengers these men and women have far weightier things on their plates. Most often, their meals are barely touched, as attentions are turned to would-be world conquerors and alien invasions. It doesn’t bother Jarvis at all. He lives to serve, and right now, approaches a dining room table where the Avengers and their ally Amadeus Cho are seated. A very silent Jocasta listens as Dr Hank Pym a.k.a. the new Wasp tells his companions that he shrunk down Doctor Strange, and together they removed the bomb from Luke Cage’s heart. ‘Awesome!’ Amadeus declares. ‘That’s not all. You want to tell ‘em, Vizh?’ Hank adds.
The new Vision a.k.a. Jonas declares that not long after Doctor Pym and he were instrumental in returning Steve Rogers to this time period. ‘Can you believe it? Cap’s back!’ Cassie “Stature” Lang exclaims. ‘Aye, truly a day for rejoicing. But young Amadeus and myself have some most pressing news to impart. It appears my stepmother, Hera, is marshalling her Olympus Group for a purpose most sinister in its -’ Hercules declares, before being interrupted by Pietro “Quicksilver” Maximoff who shouts ‘ENOUGH!’
The mutant speedster tells his teammates that their first and only order of business should be locating his sister, the Scarlet Witch. ‘Well…’ Hank begins, while Amadeus announces that they have drawn up some plans that might help on that front. ‘It’s a device that should contain…”her”’ the Vision explains. ‘What we should do is bolster our ranks! With the USAgent taken from them, they are already a man down. ‘I wouldn’t worry about that, Herc. We’ll do fine with who we’ve got here’
Hercules asks Pym if he is mad, exclaiming that the Scarlet Witch is a powerful foe. ‘When she last struck in earnest…she destroyed the Mighty Avengers of old!’. Pym reminds Hercules that they have talked about this. ‘This isn’t the Scarlet Witch that you - we’ll talk about it later’. Suddenly, Quicksilver asks Pym what he is hiding. ‘Henry, I enjoy overwhelming odds as much as the next man or god. But there is something to be said about strength in numbers’ Hercules exclaims. ‘Look…I’ve already gone to everyone, hat in hand, to fill out our ranks. They’re all tied up elsewhere. You’re the best I can get’ Hank declares.
‘So that’s how you see us? We’re d-list or something? The remainders at the bottom of the bin?’ Stature asks. ‘Sorry, Cassie. I - I didn’t mean it like that’ Hank assures his “niece”. ‘Excuse me, if I may? I have seen Avengers come and go. I’ve seen rosters that have been full-to-bursting…and times when the ranks have been only three members strong’ Jarvis declares, motioning first to a photograph of a large assemblage of post-Heroes Return Avengers, and to a photograph of when the team consisted of Hawkeye, the original Wasp and Hank Pym as Goliath.
Jarvis continues, telling the Avengers that he can say to them, with certainty, that this is a superlative team. ‘One of the finest’. ‘Thanks, Jarvis’ Cassie exclaims. ‘Yes, Edwin. Very touching. Now…will someone answer me? What’s going on? Where’s Wanda?’ Pietro shouts. ‘You’re right, Pietro. I’ve been selfish…and kept something from you. I didn’t want to lose you. You’re one of the best men I have. But I should have told you sooner. The Scarlet Witch we’ve been encountering…it’s not Wanda. It’s not even a she -’ Hank begins. ‘WHAT?’ a furious Pietro exclaims, standing up so quickly that he knocks his chair over.
Hank stands up, and the Vision urges caution, announcing that his sensors are detecting that his heart rate is elevated, even for Pietro. ‘How long have you known, Pym?’ Quicksilver demands. ‘For some time. I had my suspicions initially, but…this isn’t good, Quicksilver, you need to calm down’ Hank declares. Quicksilver begins shaking furiously, ‘Calm down? I’ve never been more furious in my life! All the time I’ve wasted here - with you and your team of rejects! I could have been searching for her!’ Quicksilver shouts.
‘Pietro, please!’ Hank shouts, while telling himself that Quicksilver is shaking uncontrollably with rage. ‘And with his speed powers - he’s creating a wind shear!’. ‘Tell me if it’s not Wanda, who is it? Who would dare impersonate my sister?’ Quicksilver demands. ‘Loki!’ Hank reveals. ‘He’s the one! I’ve confirmed it! And we’ve figured out a way - to bring him down! To contain him! Then he’ll have to answer to us!’ Hank assures Pietro. ‘Fine. Let’s do this!’ Quicksilver snaps.
Soon, the Avengers arrive at the Isle of Silence. ‘An Asgardian penitentiary? We actually have a doorway in the mansion that leads here?’ Stature asks. ‘Please. Nothing Pym does surprises me anymore’ Quicksilver mutters. Hank explains that it was left behind by a number of villains during what they called their “Acts of Vengeance”. They used this place as a hub with portals to multiple locations on Earth. It’s what gave me the idea for Pymspace’. Hands on hips, Quicksilver exclaims ‘My God, Pym. Some “Scientists Supreme” you are. Have you ever had one original thought?’
Suddenly, ‘Why, what have were here?’ a voice booms, as four giant blue trolls appear. ‘We have trespassers, cousin!’ another troll exclaims. ‘What trespassers? All I see is lunch!’ another declares. ‘What a glorious day! We are set upon by trolls! Come friends, follow me. You are in for a treat…because trolls always make for the best smiting!’ Hercules exclaims as he, Stature and the new Vision begin to battle the trolls. ‘Quicksilver! This way!’ Hank exclaims. ‘But the others -’ Pietro replies as he picks Pym up and begins to run. ‘Can take care of themselves. We have to finish that device - and fast. Did I fail to mention we’re on the clock?’ Pym exclaims. ‘That and other things’ Pietro mutters, while telling Hank to hang on.
Racing towards a citadel, Hank tells Pietro that is where they are going and where they need to set their trap. Inside the citadel, Quicksilver speeds around a large chamber, asking Pym what this place is. ‘Thinks of it as Loki’s “summer palace”. I found it while looking for a place to anchor my first attempt at Pymspace’ Hank explains. He adds that he deduced from trace readings of Asgardian magic that Loki makes an annual pilgrimage here. ‘It’s one of the few times you can predict where he’s going to be’.
Moments later, Quicksilver darts about under the trolls’ feet. ‘What are you doing back here?’ Stature asks him. ‘Getting the rest of the supplies. Aren’t you done yet?’ Pietro asks. ‘Fighting trolls is an art, Maximoff. And one doesn’t rush greatness!’ Hercules booms as he punches one of the blue-skinned trolls in the face. Suddenly, Amadeus makes radio contact with Quicksilver. ‘What now? All of you are sorely trying what little patience I have left!’ Pietro declares.
Inside a control room at the Infinite Mansion, Amadeus reminds Quicksilver that the containment pod has to be built exactly as specified. ‘You can’t cut any corners or -’, ‘Shut up, boy. I know what I’m doing. I want this damn thing to work more than any of you!’ Quicksilver shouts. Jarvis notices Jocasta clutching her head, and asks her if something is wrong, as she looked unsteady for a moment. Jocasta thanks Jarvis and tells him that there must be a bug in her system. ‘I’ll look into it when we have more time. But for now I’m fine’.
Back on the Isle of Silence, the Vision drops down beside Stature and Hercules, informing them that they are needed. While Hercules pummels one of the trolls, the Vision announces that he is picking up energy emissions that match what the Wasp has classified as an “Asgardian magical signature”. ‘It appears…our guest has arrived’.
Inside the citadel, Hank announces that his readings confirm wave particles in the configuration of a “teleportation spell”, and tells Quicksilver that he is activating the Asgardian containment pod. Loki manifests, and finds himself stuck to the large panel which the Avengers erected. ‘What transpires here? Why can’t I move? What force stays my hand?’ Loki demands. ‘That would be me’ Hank declares. ‘Pym! This is impossible! No mere mortal - no man of Migard can ensnare me so!’ Loki boasts. ‘Think again’ Pym tells him. ‘I have a PhD in impossible. And while I may not understand the source of your power…in the end, it’s just a form of energy. Just a matter of finding its counter frequency. And you handed that to me when you gave Osborn that power-dampening sword’.
‘You’re in over your head, insect!’ Loki exclaims. ‘Nah. This’s just like old times. Remember our first meeting? I found a scientific way to trap you then, too’ Hank reminds Loki. ‘Now if you don’t mind, there’s a question I’ve been waiting to ask you -’ Hank begins, but Pietro interrupts: ‘Yes! Where is my sister! What have you done with the Scarlet Witch?’ Pietro asks.
At that moment, Hercules, Cassie and the Vision arrive. ‘Dr Pym, did it work? Is he -?’ the Vision asks. ‘Whoa!’ Cassie exclaims. ‘By the Gods, Henry! You did it!’ Hercules declares. ‘”Gods”? That word is meaningless now, Olympian. Behold! This man of “science” has put us all in our place!’ Loki exclaims. ‘With a wave of his clever machines and gadgets, he has obliterated the line between mortal and immortal. You can see it in his eyes. The arrogance. You’re no longer a God to him…you’re a hairy mongrel he has yet to put on a leash!’. Hank tells Hercules not to let Loki get to him, to which Hercules exclaims ‘Let him down! And I will show him what godly might is at my command!’
The Vision tells Hercules that the Wasp is right, they need to be careful, for Loki is a master manipulator. ‘Think of how much he’s already played with our hearts and minds by pretending to be Wanda Maximoff’. Cassie is surprised by this comment: ‘Hearts and -? Jonas, what are you saying? Is there a part of you that - do you still love the Scarlet Witch?’. ‘Says the girl who was fawning over Iron Lad a few short days ago!’ Loki booms. Hank tells everyone to take a step back, while Hercules exclaims that Loki is trying to set them at each other’s throats. ‘Classic textbook Loki. Won’t work this time’ Hank declares. ‘How much would you care to wager?’ Loki asks.
‘One last time, Loki. If you could please stay on topic’ Hank declares, thumb pressed against a remote. Hank presses the remote, and energy sears through Loki, who screams in pain. ‘Heh. I almost pity you. The retribution I will have on you…it will be the stuff of legends, Pym. Legends’ Loki exclaims wearily. ‘Of course. But first there’s that question I’ve been wanting to -’ Pym begins, but Quicksilver interrupts once more: ‘This is taking forever! Here - allow me!’ Pietro exclaims, taking the remote from Hank’s hand, and approaches Loki, who is calling out to his brother for help. ‘When you replaced her, what did you do with my sister? Where is the real Scarlet Witch?’ Quicksilver demands.
‘I don’t know. I…’ Loki begins, but Pietro tells him that is not good enough, and presses the remote again. Loki cries out once more, as he calls to his brother: ‘I beg of you! They hold me captive - just ahead - no trick! I swear! But hurry!’. Loki informs Quicksilver that he merely took the Scarlet Witch’s form, that he has no knowledge of where she truly is. ‘Why do I not believe you again?’ Quicksilver asks, pressing the remote once more. ‘This - this is wrong. We shouldn’t be doing this’ Cassie exclaims. ‘The girl is right, Pym. Your machine is an abomination to both gods and men’. Suddenly, ‘At last…save me, brother…save me from the mighty Avengers!’ Loki booms as his brother, the Mighty Thor arrives.
‘Thor! Please understand, this is not what it looks like -’ Hank exclaims. ‘Tell me, “friends”, is this how Avengers treat their prisoners nowadays? Where have you misplaced your honor?’ Thor asks. Quicksilver approaches Thor and tells him that he does not get to sit in judgment. ‘That monster is keeping me from my family. Whatever I heap upon him - I am in the right!’ Pietro exclaims. ‘You see, brother, how quick these mortals are to mete out their “justice” upon us? Ask them about this mechanism! What it is doing now, it can do to any of our people! They would become god killers, Thor! Think not of me, that is what is at stake here! Nothing less!’ Loki exclaims.
Hercules approaches Thor, and remarks that Loki is clouding the issue. ‘That trickster has deceived us for months on end’ Hercules exclaims. ‘But tell me, Hercules, does he speak the truth now?’ Thor asks. ‘A version of it. Aye’ Hercules confirms. Thor reminds Hank that they have stood shoulder to shoulder as Avengers. ‘Tell me, why? What gives you the right to judge the gods - my people?’ Hank smiles and asks Thor to understand. ‘I answer to a higher authority. Eternity himself appointed me Scientist Supreme!’ Hank declares.
Loki laughs: ‘You actually fell for that! You dolt! That was me cloaked in an enchantment! Filling you with hubris and false hope! Or did you really think the universe would pick you over Richards, or Doom, or even that brat, Cho?’. Hank rubs his head and declares that Loki is trying to throw him off his game. ‘I recorded the entire exchange through my goggle sensors. I took readings. I -’ he exclaims, while Loki calls him a gullible fool. ‘I actually did it. I actually got one of you to believe that “science” could trump magic. Ha ha!’. Quicksilver tells Loki that is a nice bluff, if that is the case, ‘You won’t mind if I turn this all the way up and leave it there’ he exclaims as he adjusts the remote.
‘HOLD’ booms Thor, declaring that he can not allow this to go any further. ‘Release my brother, Maximoff!’. Cassie asks Hercules to remind her which side they are on. Hercules suggests that they sit this one out. ‘If Hank and Pietro are ready to go to war with the gods, so be it. Let’s see how they fare’. The Vision exclaims that every line of code in his programming tells him to engage here. ‘But I will bow to your wisdom, Avenger’ he tells the much more experienced Hercules.
‘You’ll have to do better than that, “Goldilocks”!’ Quicksilver exclaims, darting out of Thor’s attack. ‘I’ve been outracing lightning bolts since puberty!’ Pietro boasts. ‘And I have vanquished fleeter foes than you, before your kind was blessed with the divine spark!’ Thor booms, slamming his hammer on the ground, which creates a seismic shock that knocks Pietro off his feet. Thor moves over to the fallen Quicksilver, remarking ‘In your brief span, I have heard you and your kin extol the superiority of mutant kind…but think you on this, Maximoff! For all your powers, you are mortal. My people are gods! Know thy place!’ Thor booms, grabbing a wide-eyed Quicksilver by the neck.
‘Thor, enough!’ Hank, who has shifted to a larger form, exclaims, pulling Thor away from Quicksilver. ’This was for your benefit too, Pym. What of that infernal machine?’ Thor asks. Hank replies that he has shut it down, and that no more will be built, so long as Loki doesn’t give him a reason to. ’Very well. I’ll be keeping watch on you, “Wasp”’ Thor replies, pointing out that he was his hand that cast fair Janet, the original Wasp, into oblivion. ‘Her legacy is dear to me too. Should you dishonor her name, you‘ll answer to me‘. ‘Understood. And who will Loki answer to?’ Hank asks. ‘To Lord Balder. I shall take him to Asgard where he will be judged by his peers’ Thor announces. ‘No. He knows nothing…’ Pietro exclaims.
Hank tells Pietro that it is over, and remarks that of all of them, Cassie had it right. ‘We’re Avengers, we’re better than this. He’s all yours, Thor, but there’s something you should be aware of’ Hank declares, informing Thor that this is twice he has trapped Loki. ‘Even if he figures a way out of this device…I can always build something better’. Loki falls from the contraption, while Thor tells the Avengers that, before they depart, he grants them this boon: ‘For the mischief he caused, my lowly brother will answer your question’. Thor picks his brother up: ‘And if he is not forthcoming with a truthful reply…’ Thor adds.
‘Very well! What would you know of me?’ Loki asks. ‘Just this…would you like to join my Mighty Avengers?’ Hank asks. Shock and horror spreads across the faces of Thor, Hercules, Quicksilver, Stature, the Vision and Loki himself. ‘It sounds radical, I know, but if you view the Avengers as a scientific experiment, you are its most powerful catalyst’ Hank declares. ‘From the formation of the original team to this one, you’re the random element that makes it all work’ Hank explains, adding that they have taken on former villains before, giving them a second change. ‘This could be your turn. What do you say?’
Everyone begins to walk away from Hank, ‘What?’ he asks innocently. ‘Oh my God, Jonas!’ Cassie exclaims, wrapping her arms around the Vision, who embraces her. ‘You don’t have to say it, Cassie. We’ll go back to the Young Avengers’. ‘The man’s a lunatic!’ Loki exclaims. ‘So it would seem’ Thor agrees. ‘I’m done. With all of this. You stay away from me, understood?’ Quicksilver warns Hank, while Hercules radios Amadeus. ’Did you hear that? Amadeus?’ Hercules calls out.
But Amadeus is currently running through one of the many halls of the Infinite Avengers Mansion. ’Master Cho, wait!’ Jarvis exclaims. ’He’s gone too far, this time, Jarvis. Trust me. Herc and me…we’re out! Don’t try looking us up!’. Jarvis notices Jocasta looking like she is in agony, ‘Oh dear. Madame Jocasta? Are you…?’ he asks. ‘Something’s wrong, Edwin…’ Jocasta utters. ‘Perhaps if you downloaded yourself into one of your other bodies?’ Jarvis suggests. ‘I’ve - I’ve tried. They’re not responding’ Jocasta replies. ‘All of them? But there are billions of them!’ Jarvis exclaims. ‘Well, no mind. I’m sure when Dr Pym returns…he’ll fix everything. Up on a balcony, a long row of Jocasta bodies have been watching Jocasta and Jarvis. ‘”Pym”…did you hear that? Father is coming home’ exclaims a voice from within the possessed Jocasta…Ultron!


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Salvation, part 1: Heir Apparent
‘Master Ace, Madame Jacquie. Welcome to Mighty Avengers Headquarters’ Edwin Jarvis declares as Ace and Blackjack enter the Infinite Avengers Mansion. ‘Thank you, Jarvis. Well, Ace, looks like I owe you a tenner’ Blackjack remarks. ‘Pardon?’ Jarvis asks, confused. ‘A wager. I said this was called the Infinite Mansion due to its size…Jacquie thought it was for the wait to get in’ Ace explains. Jarvis tells the guests that normally their resident robot, Jocasta, sees to their visitors, but she is currently off-line. ‘On top of that, we seem to have misplaced all of her bodies’ he adds. ‘Understandable. I’m amazed you can find anything around here’ Jacquie exclaims.
‘Speaking of which, could you help us locate Dr Pym?’ Ace asks. ‘Of course’ Jarvis replies, asking if this is regarding the Mighty Avengers’ ties to their organization. ‘What was it again?’ he asks. ‘GRAMPA. The Global Reaction Agency…for Mysterious Paranormal…Activity’ Jacquie explains as they pass a large photograph of the original Hawkeye, Goliath and Wasp - where a strange image mysteriously appears. ‘Wait. Did you just see -?’ she asks, looking at the photo. ‘Ma’am?’ Jarvis asks. ‘Never mind’ Blackjack replies.
Moments later, Jarvis motions to a laboratory: ‘Here we are. Master Pym, ther Agents of GRAMPA are here to see you’ Jarvis announces. ‘Can it wait? I’m rather busy at the moment’ Dr Hank Pym a.k.a. the new Wasp replies, currently in Giant-Man size, he holds Jocasta up as he makes some repairs on her. ‘This won’t take long, Doctor’ Ace announces, informing Pym that he and Jacquie are here to evaluate his performance, revoke the Mighty Avengers’ GRAMPA status and record the end to GRAMPA’s association with the Mighty Avengers. ‘It’s for our files’ Jacquie explains.
‘Fine. Get one with it’ Pym snaps, without turning to look at his associates. Blackjack tells Pym that he must understand their agency was quite impressed with the Mighty Avengers’ initial outings. ‘Fighting off Chthon, Swarm, the AIM, the monster titan’ she recalls. ‘Not to mention the aid and support you lent to our agent, Ban-Luck during the Unspoken’s attack on Tibet and China’ Ace adds, before remarking that following that mission there is a bit of a gap. ‘Then you were off dealing with Zzzax, Dansen Macabre, Terminus -’ Jacquie adds, while Pym shrinks back down to human size. ‘There was no gap’ he replies. ‘Come again?’ Blackjack asks. ‘during your “gap” we were out in Kree space helping the Inhumans fight off insurgency. My Avengers didn’t sit around on their hands, Ace. We kept things busy’ Hank declares.
Elsewhere inside the Infinite Avengers Mansion - miles away, to be precise, at one of the Mansion’s robot spawning nodules, where countless Jocasta bodies have gathered. ‘His spirit has returned to us, from the far reaches of the cosmos’ one of them announces, standing before some sort of cauldron, where a strange energy rises. ‘He followed Pym, the creator, back to this infinite domain…and found his brides waiting. Now we keep his program alive’. The “spokeswoman” for the Jocasta’s tells her “sisters” to run the code, so that he may be restarted, rebooted and reborn.
The myriad Jocasta’s begin chanting the code:‘100U101L101T011R101O110N101L010I011V101E011S’, repeated over and over. ‘Query: By what designation shall we call you? Ultron XIV, XV, XVI…?’ the Jocasta unit asks. The energy that rises from the cauldron takes shape, and a voice booms ‘There is no number that can define me. I have moved beyond such thing. I accept my lineage. I am Ultron Pym, rightful heir to Hank Pym’s legacy and all that entails. And once I have slain my father, all of this shall be my inheritance!’ UItron booms.
‘What of the vessel which brought you back to us?’ the Jocasta unit asks. Ultron holds in his hand a wasp, and declares that it is obsolete, meaningless. ‘We are the future. We are the superior models. Like every other form, it must be replaced by our perfection’ he declares, before crushing the bug in his hand. ‘Organic. Mechanoid. All must be remade! Once we secure this beachhead, we shall spread out across all of creation - and recreate it in our image! Soon there shall be only…Ultron and his army of brides!’
Back in the lab, Ace tells Pym that now they are getting to the part where he overreached himself. ‘You locked horns with Osborn’. Blackjack adds that it was on American soil also, something beyond GRAMPA’s jurisdiction, and therefore, beyond the Mighty Avengers’. ‘We were quite explicit in this’ Jacquie reminds him. ‘I know. We were played and I fell for it’ Hank replies, telling his associates that Osborn was on the ropes, the Mighty Avengers were revered around the world. ‘And by saving the day and showing us up, he was right back on top again. The poster boy for world security’ Hank mutters.
‘Correct’ Ace replies. ‘Thank to you public sentiment is squarely behind him with all this Asgard business’ he adds. ‘What do you mean “Asgard business”?’ Hank asks. ‘You’re serious? It’s all anyone’s talking about’ Jacquie tells him. Hank replies that he has been a little preoccupied with Jocasta. An image appears on a screen: ‘An Asgardian. One of Thor’s friends’ Jacquie remarks. ‘Volstagg’ Hank replies. ‘He wandered into a superhuman crisis, that he was ill-prepared for’ Jacquie explains. ‘Due to his reckless handing of the situation, thousands of innocent civilians perished’ Ace reveals. ‘My God!’ Hank gasps, holding Jocasta in his arms.
Jacquie tells Hank that it is the Stamford paradigm all over again. ‘The similarities and the measured response it produced…they’re so similar, it had to have been orchestrated’. Ace informs Hank that Osborn has used this as justification for a military strike on Asgard. ‘Or Loki egged him on. I brought them closer together’ Hank remarks, while whispering to himself that he is the catalyst, that this is all his fault.
Suddenly, there is an incoming call which appears on the video-monitor. ‘Calling the Wasp. Dr Pym, please respond’ a voice calls out. An image of Steve Rogers a.k.a. Captain America appears. ‘Good. There you are’ Captain America exclaims, telling Hank that he is assembling the Avengers - every able-bodied man he can get. ‘We’re pulling out and heading off to Broxton within the hour’. ‘Astounding. That’s Steve Rogers!’ Ace exclaims. ‘He’s back? Captain America’s back?’ Jacquie asks. ‘You’re serious? That’s some secret agency you work for’ Hank mutters, before telling Steve that he is sorry,
Pym claims that he doesn’t have a Pymspace doorway to Oklahoma at the moment, and that he is in the middle of something here. ‘I’ll show up when I can’ he assures Steve. But Steve replies that this is urgent, and both Thor and Iron Man are there already. At the back of the lab, Jarvis hangs his head. ‘It’s time, then. Very well. Once an Avenger…’ he whispers. Captain America’s image vanishes and the screen goes blank as Jacquie gasps ‘You’re turning down a call to arms…from Captain America?’. Hank replies that there is a bigger picture here, more at stake than they could imagine. ‘Try us’ Ace suggests.
‘It’s Jocasta. She’s been offline too long’ Hank replies. ‘That’s it?’ Jacquie asks in disbelief. ‘If her pattern degrades…if it’s not linked to the Mansion…trust me, you wouldn’t understand’ Hank replies, before announcing that he has just made some upgrades, that are time-sensitive - and with that, flesh colored arms and legs appear on Jocasta’s body. ‘Ohh! I’m alive again!’ Jocasta gasps. ‘How do you feel, J?’ Hank asks. ‘I feel…wait. I do! I actually feel things!’ Jocasta exclaims. Hank smiles as Jocasta touches his face. ‘They’re flesh apsect limbs. When you’re ready, we’ll upgrad the rest later’ Hank tells her. ‘Ha. You need a shave’ Jocasta smiles.
‘You put off Cap to snog a robot?’ Jacquie asks. ‘My God, man! At least call in the rest of the Mighty Avengers!’ she exclaims. ‘Hank - the GRAMPA Agents - you haven’t told them?’ Jocasta asks, surprised. Hank informs Ace and Blackjack that there have been some disagreements of late between he and the team. ‘We disbanded. While there has been the odd time or two where we worked together again…and put on a brave face for the sake of appearances…after the death of our teammate, Hercules, we finally went our separate ways’ Hank explains.
Hank declares that, as it stands, the Mighty Avengers are no more. ‘Right now, the only ones here are myself, Jocasta, and…Jarvis? You too, old friend?’ Hank asks as he sees Jarvis holding a suitcase. ‘Pardon me, Sir. I have to go’ Jarvis replies.
As Jarvis makes his way through the Infinite Avengers Mansion, he is unaware that he is being monitored by Ultron and his brides. ‘Bride 5X-472-epsilon status update: one of the organics has left the subject. Advise’ she announces. ‘Identify’ Ultron asks. ‘Edwin Jarvis: the domestic technician. He is attempting egress’ the Jocasta unit explains. Ultron asks if Jarvis is aware of their reformatting process, ‘Negative’ the Jocasta unit replies. ‘Let him go. He is a standard carbon-based life-form and of no importance. His time will come. Do not interrupt the program. Reformatting almost complete’ Ultron declares, and as Jarvis leaves the Infinite Avengers Mansion, Jocasta brides fill the foyer, and all the posters on the wall no longer depict former Avengers, but now images of Ultron!
Inside the lab, ‘Not a bright spot on the agency’s record. I guess we’ll have to chalk this Mighty Avengers experiment up as a failure’ Ace declares. ‘Whatever. Let me hook Jocasta back up to the main systems and she can show you the way out’ Hank replies, but as he hooks Jocasta up, she goes wide-eyed and shouts ‘Emergency! Firewalls up!’, before urgently asking Hank to disconnect her. ‘There! I got it. Are you okay? Do you need me to to run a diagnostic on -’ Hank asks, but Jocasta tells him that all external systems are compromised. ‘We can’t stay! We have to run!’ Jocasta announces. ‘HE’S HERE!’ she shouts. ‘Who?’ Hank asks.
Suddenly, the monitor screens flash orange and the room turns a purple color. ‘Doctor? What’s happening?’ Ace calls out. Hank replies that something is overriding the Mansion’s fabrication nodes and is reconfiguring the entire base. Hank adds that the number of calculations that would require this to happen, he cannot imagine anyone or anything capable of doing it - before suddenly, Ultron’s image appears on the monitors. ‘Greetings, father. It’s been a while. I cannot wait to delete / see you in person!’ Ultron booms.
‘Killer robot?’ Ace asks. ‘Yes!’ Hank replies. What’s he capable of?’ Ace asks. ‘Anything’ Hank replies. ‘Anything?’ Ace asks. ‘YES!’ Hank shouts. ‘He should know. He built it! I’d say a retreat’s in order!’ Jacquie declares. ‘It’s the entire Mansion. He’s rewritten all of it!’ Jocasta exclaims as the four run out of the lab. ‘No! He’s altered her memory files too…’ Hank gasps. ‘Memory files?’ Ace asks. ‘The portraits on the walls, of the Avengers, those were her - wait. If he could reprogram all of -’ Hank begins, before the four are surrounded by the Jocasta units.
‘Dr Pym, I think I’ve located your missing number of infinite robots!’ Jacquie exclaims as she begins to blast the Jocasta units. ‘They’re not infinite! There’re ten billion of them!’ Hank replies. ‘Seems a bit overkill, to me. Once you reach that many zeroes. Why ten billion, exactly?’ Ace asks as he begins firing at the Jocasta units as well. ‘I - I cant tell you. It’s a secret’ Hank replies. ‘What?’ Jocasta asks. ‘Oh, and don’t shoot the one with the flesh arms. She’s with me’ Hank declares, before announcing that he has a plan, but first he needs some private information. He tells Ace and Blackjack to stay still, as he needs to record full body scans. Hank proceeds, and remarks that he can now call in the troops. ‘Troops? I thought you said the Mighty Avengers disbanded?’ Jacquie asks. ‘Well? Are they or aren’t they?’
Meanwhile, in Central Park, Amadeus Cho, former side-kick of the Incredible Hercules holds his communicator and exclaims ‘Mighty Avengers, come in! This is Amadeus Cho! Is anyone online?’ He gets no response from Stature or the new Vision, and supposes that Pietro is on the other side of the planet, as he cannot reach him either. ‘Finally someone…it’s USAgent!’ Amadeus remarks. ‘Stop calling me that, kid. I’m not USAgent anymore’ John Walker replies. ‘After wearing the mask during that Olympus debacle…they’ve stripped me of my rank. I’m nobody now. I’m just John Walker’ the handsome hero remarks as he puts his USAgent uniform into a box.
‘The John Walker with superhuman strength and combat training? That John Walker? Because I could really use him right now’ Amadeus replies. Amadeus informs Walker that he has just intercepted a call about some major bad stuff going down in Asgard. ‘Something that needs Mighty Avenger-ing. All-life-on-Earth stuff’ Amadeus exclaims. Walker tells Amadeus that he is sorry that he lost Hercules, but that he and Pym are going to have to find somebody else to do the heavy-lifting.
‘Screw Pym! We’d be doing this without him. We’d be doing this because the world’s in danger…and a friend of mine used to say, when that happens, you don’t run from it. You face it, you look it in the eye…and you smite the living @#$% out of it!’ Amadeus exclaims. ‘Nice speech, kid. But you had me at “screw Pym”!’ Walker replies.
At that moment, in Brooklyn, Captain America is speaking to Maria Hill , the other Captain America and several others, including the new Vision and Cassie “Stature” Lang, when the new Vision answers the transmission from Amadeus. ‘Cho? I can’t talk now. We’re in a strategy session. With Steve Rogers’ he declares. ‘Is that Amadeus? Say “hi”!’ Cassie exclaims. ‘Where?’ the Vision asks Amadeus. ‘In a jet with Walker, en route to Broxton? We’re going to!’ he exclaims, before telling Cassie that Amadeus wants them to meet up and help them fight the Thunderbolts. ‘The team with that jerk-face Ant-Man?’ Cassie asks. ‘The same’ the Vision replies. ‘Hey, it’s a big war. We’ll find a way to fit ‘em in!’ Cassie smiles.
And at the Earth’s Equator, circling the globe at speed faster than radio waves. ‘Why did I leave them? Why did I run away? As an Avenger, I had purpose again…to play the hero…what did it get me? A daughter who no longer loves me? Lies and betrayals from so-called friends? Don’t know where I’m running to or from…’ Pietro “Quicksilver” Maximoff tells himself. ‘Everyone? Everything? Wanda. I wish you were with me now. My sister. My family’.
Back inside the Infinite Avengers Mansion, Ultron, flanked by dozens of his brides, walks towards Hank, Jocasta, Jacquie and Ace. ‘Father. It has been too long. But the prodigal son has come home. And what a wondrous home you have built for me’. Ultron declares that he has the fabrication nodes to raise an entire army, and dimensional doorways to dispatch them throughout the universe. ‘You could not have built a deadlier weapon if you tried!’ UItron boasts, adding ‘And that coming from me!’. ‘Fair enough. Well, “son”, you have us surrounded at your mercy. At this time, I’d like to negotiate a peaceful surrender’ Hank replies. ‘No. I am in the position of strength. That would be illogical’ Ultron replies. ‘In that case, there’s something you should know’ Hank replies. ‘I’m not Hank Pym!’ he announces.
‘What does that mean? Answer me, father! Tell me or I will -’ Ultron begins, before realizing that he has just been speaking to an ant with an image inducer. ‘One complex enough to confound even my sensors. The other two organics and the uncoded bride. They are using them as well!’ he exclaims. ‘Husband, please respond’ one of the Jocasta units calls out. ‘Bride 7A-139-Theta, status update’ Ultron asks her. ‘Our section is being overrun by colonies of -’ she begins, but Ultron interrupts: ‘Ants. Always with the ants, father’ before telling his brides that he is on his way.
Down on the floor, Hank, Jocasta, Jacquie and Ace run alongside a colony of ants, with Hank informing everyone that they have arrived at the destination and that he is going to turn off the image inducers and re-enlarge them all. ‘Very good, we’ll cover you!’ Ace exclaims, gun ready, while Jacquie tells Pym that there is one thing he has not explained. ‘They see us! Hurry!’ Jocasta calls out. ‘Where are you taking us?’ Jacquie asks as they return to their true sizes. ‘This is my lab. My original lab’ Hank reveals, while Ace and Blackjack take out the Jocasta units standing nearby.
‘It’s the very heart of the Infinite Avengers Mansion’ Hank explains as the doors to the lab open, he tells everyone to get in. They all make it in and the doors slam behind them. ‘There. It’s dead bolted. It’ll take ‘em a while to get through that!’ Hank boasts, while Ace and Blackjack stare in awe at something: ‘Look at that, Jax!’ Ace exclaims. ‘Incredible!’ Jacquie declares. What that are so enthralled with is a massive heart in the middle of the lab. ‘My dimensional wave device, the science that makes Pym Pockets possible…for the sake of the universe, we have to shut it down!’ Hank exclaims, adding that whatever else happens, he cannot let it fall into Ultron’s hands.
Outside the lab, Ultron storms towards the door: ‘Where is he? Where is Pym?’ he shouts. One of the brides replies that he is trapped, that there is no other way out. ‘We have the upper hand!’ she exclaims. ‘You trapped him? In his lab? You fools!’ Ultron shouts. ‘That’s the one place where he can accomplish anything! That is where he is a GOD!’ Ultron booms.
Inside the lab, Hank uses his Pym Particles to shrink the heart down, disconnects it and takes Pymspace offline. ‘Before, Ultron and his robot army could spread throughout the cosmos. Now, they’re stuck here in limbo. Along with us’ he declares. Ace tells Pym that is a good first step, before asking what the next part of the plan is. ‘I have no idea’ Hank replies, holding the now shrunken heart in his hand, before turning to Jocasta: ‘Do you mind? I need to put this somewhere for safekeeping’ Hank tells her. ‘By all means. Here’ Jocasta replies, opening her chest up, wires automatically move aside as she makes room for the heart, which Hank puts inside her. ‘Thank you’ he tells her.
Blackjack remarks that they cannot stay here all day, and reminds Hank that he said that door would not hold them for long. ‘True But it’s our only working door’ Hank replies. Ace motions to another door in the lab and asks where it leads to. ‘It used to go to Chicago’ Hank replies, before reminding Ace that Pymspace is down, so now it goes nowhere. ‘There’s something on the other side, though?’ Ace asks. ‘Yes, sort of -’ Hank begins. ‘Breathable atmosphere?’ Ace asks. ‘Technically, but -’ Hank begins, before Ace exclaims ‘Good enough for me. Jax?’. ‘Way ahead of you, luv’ Jax replies as both of them blast the door down with their weapons.
‘What gives you the right to do this?’ Hank shouts. ‘Doctor Pym, haven’t we met? We’re Ace and One-Eyed Jacquie, codename: Blackjack. Agents of GRAMPA. We have global authority!’ Ace replies, while Jacquie steps into the blinding light through the door, ‘Ace, dear, I think he may have a point’ she calls back. ‘Where on Earth are we?’ she asks as they all gaze around at their strange new surroundings: terrace-like buildings lined up with a black ground around them. ‘The Infinite Mansion isn’t on Earth. It’s true location was a secret…but there’s no use now. We’re un Underspace’ Hank reveals. ‘Underspace? What does that mean?’ Jocasta asks.
Hank asks Jocasta if she remembers how he traveled to Overspace, the dimension above the Macroverse, the plane where the cosmic entity Eternity resides. ‘This realm, Underspace, is its polar opposite. This is the dimsnion below the Microverse. And not long ago, I deduced that this was the dimension…where Thor sent my ex-wife, Janet Van Dyne…the original Wasp!’ Hank explains, while the Wasp appears to be the living embodiment of the Infinite Mansion!


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Salvation, part 2: WWJVDD (What Would Janet Van Dyne Do?)
Under space - the dimension below the Microverse, where Mighty Avengers Hank Pym a.k.a. the new Wasp and Jocasta currently find themselves, along with Ace and Blackjack a.k.a. Jacquie the Agents of GRAMPA. Hank tells his companions that during the Skrull Invasion, the physical form of Janet van Dyne - the original Wasp and his ex-wife - was converted into a living Pym Particle explosion, but here in the infinite void Underspace, her form can continue to expand, much in the same way that their own universe expands. Hank explains that the Infinite Mansion acts as a harness, helping Janet keep her shape and prevent her from dissipating.
‘And the ten billion Jocastas?’ Jacquie asks, while the real Jocasta looks at her new flesh-like hands, and angrily whispers ‘This was all - this was for Janet?’. Hank answers Jacquie’s question by telling her that they act like the ten billion neurons in any human body. ‘In this case, they constantly reinforce Jan’s brain wave pattern’ he remarks, before turning to Jocasta and putting a hand on her shoulder: ‘Jocasta? Given the circumstances, you’ve been oddly silent. Do you understand your part in all of this?’ he asks her.
‘You used me!’ Jocasta shouts. Spinning around, she smacks Hank over. ‘Like I was a spare sprocket or wing nut! Like I was just some thing! That’s all I’ve ever been to you, isn’t it? You arrogant, little flesh bag!’ Jocasta shouts. ‘Jax? Did she just go evil-robot on us?’ Ace asks. ‘Quite the opposite, luv. That response was all too human’ Jacquie replies. Hank rubs his mouth and gets up, remarking that it is a good thing he switched Jocasta’s arms to flesh and blood ,for if they were metal she would have taken his head off.
Hank asks Jocasta to trust him, assuring her that this is not what she thinks it is. Suddenly, there is a loud KTOOM, and Ace suggests to Hank that he save the explanation for later, as company has arrived. ‘Ultron! He’s broken through!’ Hank exclaims. Indeed, at the doorway to the Infinite Mansion, Ultron stands with several of his brides. ‘It is time, father. Your program has run its course. You must be deleted from the system. The parent code is dead. Long live Ultron Pym!’ Ultron booms. ‘Ultron lives’, ‘Ultron lives’ the brides begin chanting. ‘Trapped in Limbo with a crazed robot and ten billion brides. Should’ve gone to Asgard. Next to this…that’s be a cakewalk!’ Pym declares.
But meanwhile, in Browton, Oklahoma, the Fall of Asgard is taking place. Cassie Lang a.k.a. Stature is one of several formers of the Mighty Avengers taking part in the battle. ‘I’m not falling for it, jerkwald! All you Thunderbolts care about is getting Odin’s spear to your boss, Osborn!’ Cassie exclaims to the new Ant-Man, whom she holds in her hand. ‘We’ve seen what he can do with Asgardian tech - and that’s not happening again!’ Cassie exclaims. ‘Ow! Easy on the goodies, kid!’ Ant-Man tells her.
Nearby, the deadly Scourge is battling Johnny Walker a.k.a. USAgent. ‘This weapon is the property of HAMMER and Director of Security Osborn!’ Scourge shouts as he uses the weapon to sever USAgent’s left arm and left leg, causing the heroic Avenger to scream, before falling to the ground. ‘Mission accomplished’ Scourge grins as he stands over the fallen hero. ‘No…can’t’ve failed…again…not a-’ Johnny utters.
Elsewhere, The Thunderbolt known as Ghost stands over the body of the new Vision and tells Amadeus Cho that it was his data packet Amadeus’ computer intercepted. ‘Where is Hercules? Where is the mutant speedster? They are who are needed here most’ Ghost remarks. Amadeus replies that Hercules won’t be coming, and that he has been trying to reach Quicksilver, but is probably on the other side of the planet. ‘And my game boy is low on juice’ he adds, while the Vision lies at Ghost’s feet, mouth open wide: ‘System failure…re-re-reboot’ he states. ‘Then have a boost’ Ghost offers, and touches Amadeus’ game boy, re-powering it.
At that moment, in Transia, Eastern Europe, Pietro “Quicksilver” Maximoff stands near a caravan and thinks to himself that the gypsies of Wundagore once took him in and treated him as family. ‘Perhaps this is where I shall finally find a place for -’ he tells himself, before his communicator shouts at him: ‘Quicksilver! Come in!’ Amadeus exclaims. ‘Cho? Why are you calling me? I’m done with the Avengers! Don’t you under-’ Pietro tells Amadeus, but Amadeus pleads with him, and informs him that Asgard has been destroyed, that Pym is a no-show, the Vision is off-line and USAgent might be dead. ‘We need you!’ he exclaims. ‘Who am I fooling? Once an Avenger…’ Quicksilver tells himself, before informing Amadeus that he is on his way, and speeds from Transia.
Back in Underspace, Pym, Jocasta, Jacquie and Ace run along the strange building-like ground. ‘Don’t see any sign of them, Ace. I think we lost them!’ Jacquie exclaims. ‘Where to now, Doctor? What’s the plan?’ Ace asks, pistol ready. ‘If I’ve mapped it out, we should be close to the monitor room. I’ve been working on a Pym-wave generator…a transmission frequency that can cross time and space. With it, we could send out an omniversal distress call’ Hank declares. ‘To whom? Who could possibly come to our aid? All the doors to the mansion are off-line!’ Jocasta points out. ‘For now You have the dimensional inducer hardwired into your system, J. If you -’ Hank begins, before Ultron and his brides burst through the “ground” in front of him.
‘DAMN!’ Hank shouts. ‘Enough, father. No more running. You have lost. In every conceivable way!’ Ultron declares. ‘I understand now. I know the real purpose of this system. And I have retooled it to my own ends’ he declares. ‘what do you mean by…? No!’ Hank gasps. ‘Yes!’ Ultron exclaims, while the prime Jocasta asks Hank what is going on. ‘Speak!’ Ultron booms, and an instant later, the remains of Janet van Dyne declare ‘ULTRON LIVES!’
‘Jan. Her brain patters, you’ve reformatted them…’ Hank declares, frowning. ‘I have upgraded them to match my programming. This entity, this base, everything you have worked for has been assimilated to serve me’ Ultron explains. ‘Not everything, Ultron’ Hank replies, declaring that Ultron doesn’t have his dimensional inducer. ‘All I have to do is destroy it, and both you and your army are stuck here!’ Hank exclaims. ‘But Hank, it’s inside me! You wouldn’t -’ Jocasta begins, while Ultron laughs.
‘It took you some time to shut your dimensional doorways down, father. Perhaps I have already deployed billions of my brides across the cosmos?’ Ultron suggests. ‘But you didn’t, did you, “son”? And I know why!’ Hank exclaims. ‘Ten billion soldiers, and you kept each and every one of them by your side. Because you were afraid -’ Hank exclaims, before Ultron interrupts: ‘N-no I am - I am Ultron Pym! The next generation! The superior model! I am not scared of you! I am Ultron Pym! I am -’ he xclaims, before Hank increases his form massively, and grabs Ultron, tearing him away from his brides: ‘Afraid you’d make Daddy angry!’ Hank shouts. ‘NEVER!’ Ultron retorts, before ordering his brides to initiate attack mode. ‘All of you! Target Henry Pym! Destroy him!’.
‘Unbelievable!’ Ace exclaims. ‘They’re completely ignoring us!’ Jacquie points out as the countless brides around them begin to rush at Hank. ‘AAHHH! Hurry! While they’re focused on me…’ Hank shouts as he begins blasting the brides away from him. ‘Go to the main control room! Jocasta, you know what you have to do. Trust me…it’s what Janet would’ve wanted’ Hank calls out while the Jocasta brides begin to engulf him. Jocasta watches, before telling Ace and Blackjack to follow her. ‘What did he mean by that?’ Blackjack asks, before they drop down into a corridor. ‘We’re activating the Mansion’s kill-switch’ Jocasta announces. ‘Pardon?’ Ace asks. ‘Is that some form of self-destruct?’ Jacquie exclaims.
‘A manual shutdown’ Jocasta replies as they enter another room. ‘Much better. So instead of blowing up, we’ll be stranded here?’ Jacquie asks. ‘No. That would deprive Earth of its Scientist Supreme’ Jocasta points out, adding that no matter what her feelings towards Hank are, she could never do that. ‘But the world could get along just fine without Blackjack? Nice to know’ Jacquie remarks, before calling out to Ace, who is crouched over on the ground nearby. ‘Look what I found, Jax. What say we put this to good use?’ Ace suggests, holding up an Ant-Man helmet.
Elsewhere, Hank, in his giant form, shakes off as many of the Jocasta brides as he can, while Ultron falls from his father. ‘You’re a fool, father! You think your size intimidates me? All if does is make you a bigger target!’. Hank immediately shrinks down to wasp size: ‘Wrong, “son”. More like a bigger distraction!’ Hank calls out before flying away. ‘COME BACK HERE!’ ultron booms. ‘My bio-stings were jamming your transmission frequencies…leaving Jocasta free to perform a full memory wipe!’ Hank explains.
Jocasta informs Hank that it is done, that the link to Janet, the Mansion, and all of her host bodies have been severed - and now Ultron is on his own. ‘Arghh!’ Ultron snaps as the Jocastas around him begin falling over. ‘No matter. I am Ultron Pym. I have faced scores of Avengers alone. Two Avengers and two humans with guns are hardly a threat!’ Ultron boasts. Suddenly, ‘You are most welcome to try’ Jocasta says, through the remains of the original Wasp.
‘Impressive, Jocasta. You have supplanted my files with your own. But not impressive enough’ Ultron tells her. ‘Wait. This is not all that’s different. Come inside. This time we have something to barter with’ Jocasta tells Ultron, who enters the Infinite Mansion as requested. Hank and Jocasta stand before Ultron, while many of his brides lay on the ground, motionless. ‘Out with it. What could you possible offer to me, which I could not simply take?’ Ultron asks.
‘Don’t look at me, this is all Jocasta’s doing’ Hank tells Ultron. ‘All right, J, it’s your show’ Hank tells Jocasta. Jocasta informs Ultron that if he agrees to cease all hostilities, she can give him something he wanted for a long time. ‘I shall willingly become your bride!’ she announces. ‘Intriguing’ Ultron replies. ‘Jocasta, no! I won’t allow it! You’re no some thing to be traded off for -’ Hank exclaims, to which Jocasta replies ‘No. I’m not. But humans have made this sacrifice many times…royal families arranging marriages to protect their kingdoms. And that’s what I am. Avengers Royality. And you were too dumb to see it’ Jocasta declares.
Ultron laughs loudly. ‘Very well. Ultron Pym accepts your proposal. Initiate the ceremony at once!’ he announces. ‘I must be mad for doing this’ Hank mutters, before exclaiming: ‘All right. Ultron Pym, do you take Jocasta to be your wife…to integrate her programming and subroutines into your own?’ Hank asks. ‘Affirmative’ Ultron replies. ‘Do you, Jocasta, accept Ultron Pym as your hsuband…granting him access past your firewalls to all of your secret files?’ ‘Affirmative’ Jocasta replies. ‘Then by the power vested in me as the creator of your source code…I declares this cyber-marriage complete’ Hank announces, while Ultron and Jocasta’s files “merge”.
‘Pause. I have analysed all of my wife’s firmware. She no longer possesses the dimensional inducer’ Ultron announces. ‘It has been uploaded into the Mansion. Pymspace is back online!’ Ultron declares, boasting that he has full access to the universe and he has now has his bride. ‘So tell me, father…why should I honor our agreement? Why should I leave, when everything is mine for the taking?’
Suddenly, ‘Pym, do you read me? This is Ace…’ comes Ace’s voice over the Ant-Man helmet transmitter. ‘You’re in the monitor room? Understood. I can take it from here’ Hank replies, before telling Ultron that he can offer him a very compelling reason to leave. ‘I just received a call from my associates. They’ve activated my Pym-Wave. Or, as I like to call it, the Assembler’. Hank explains that this is a simple message broadcast across all time and space, summoning every single Avenger to this spot. ‘Inconceivable. The technology to achieve that does not exist - could not exist!’ Ultron replies. ‘Avengers assemble’ Hank exclaims, and with that, several doors open….
…Captain America! Iron Man! Thor! Ms Marvel! Firebird! Photon! Moondragon! Stingray! And several other Avengers appear, all ready to confront Ultron. ‘There’s something you need to learn, boy. I’m Hank Pym. Founding Avenger, one of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and the Scientist Supreme. For me, nothing is inconceivable!’ Hank announces. Pym motions to a door and tells Ultron to get out, and that the door will take him to a desolate region of space, with no life-forms that he can threaten. ‘That was not part of our agreement!’ Ultron snaps back. ‘Tough. Now I’m arguing from a position of strength!’ Hank declares.
‘Very well. Come’ Ultron calls out to Jocasta as he walks towards the door. Jocasta follows her new husband, but Hank calls out to her, ‘Wait! You don’t have to -’ he begins, but Jocasta interrupts Hank, telling him that she agreed to this, and that it is for the best. ‘I’ll be able to keep an eye on him’ she adds, before telling Hank not to worry, as she will be around. The door slams, and Hank hangs his head. ‘They’re gone, Ace. You can shut it down, now’ Hank announces, eyes closed. And an instant later, the holographic images of all the other Avengers fade from view.
‘Ants. Flying ants this time. With image inducers. Good work, you two’ Hank tells Ace and Blackjack as he walks past several motionless Jocasta drones. ‘I thought robots learned from their mistakes. But he fell for that twice’ Blackjack remarks. Ace, still wearing the Ant-Man helmet suggests that Ultron may not have thought they would be brash enough to try the same thing again. ‘Or, maybe, he’s lulling us into a false sense of security…so he could strike at us when we least - look out!’ Ace exclaims as a door opens - but everyone is surprised at who steps through: Jarvis!
‘Sorry, I stepped out to deliver Master Stark’s attache case. I tried to come back as soon as I could, but the doors weren’t working’ Jarvis explains, before asking ‘Did I miss much?’. Suddenly, one of the Jocasta’s rides and sticks her hands up: ‘I see Madame Jocasta is back to using one of her old bodies’ Jarvis remarks. ‘Watch it!’ Ace exclaims as he points his pistol at Jocasta. ‘J., is that -?’ Hank exclaims, while Jocasta calls out ‘It’s me!’, revealing that she can still project her consciousness here, though she is also off in space with her new husband.
Jocasta explains that she can multitask, still serve as an Avenger, though she doubts that there is enough of her to go around to jump-start “Jan” again. ‘I should have told you about that before. I’m sorry’ Hank replies, before asking Jocasta ‘What can I do to prove to you how -’, except Jocasta interrupts once more: ‘Just…just start acting like an Avenger, Hank’ she tells him. ‘All right. Open a door for me. I know just where to start’ Hank replies.
Broxton, Oklahoma, where Loki, God of Mischief, is facing off against the Void. ‘I’m sorry, brother!’ Loki exclaims, before screaming as he is engulfed in a burst of energy. ‘If I hadn’t seen it, I never would have…Loki? Fighting with the Avengers?’ Quicksilver exclaims as he races over to Stature, the new Vision and Amadeus. ‘By my calculations, the few seconds he brought us, could be the turning point in this battle’ Amadeus declares. ‘Just like Uncle Hank said…’ Cassie whispers. ‘Loki was the catalyst!’ the Vision adds.
‘Ahem’ a voice exclaims. ‘We’re never going to hear the end of this, are we?’ Pietro asks as everyone turns to the new arrival. ‘Pym’ Pietro mutters as Hank flies past his former teammates. ‘There’ll be time for I-told-you-so’s later. Provided there is a later. Where do we stand?’ Hank asks. ‘Right now? It’s the last big push. Everyone versus the Void’ Amadeus explains. Hank asks where USAgent is, to which Quicksilver replies that Walker is down in a field with a medic. ‘We - we don’t know if he’ll make it’ Pietro adds. ‘We thought we could do this without you, but -’ Amadeus begins. ‘We need you, Uncle Hank’ Stature declares.
‘No. We’re Avengers. We need each other. And when we’re together, no force on Earth can stop us! So come on!’ Hank declares as he, Quicksilver, Stature, the new Vision and Amadeus leap into action. ‘One last time! Let’s fight the good fight! Let’s do the impossible! AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!’