Hail, Hydra!

[Beeping] There's is no way you're going to make that shot.

Yeah.

Iron Man's right.

That's just not going to happen.

I don't like to use the word impossible, but it may fit here.

What do you think, Hulk? Don't care.

Only came in case Hawkeye started a fight.

Thanks for the support, team.

What do you think, old man? I haven't seen you miss yet.

I don't expect you to start now.

[Engine powers down] [Hawkeye] What? Did I make the shot? [Wasp] Where's Tony? What happened? Uhh, that was an EMP, an electromagnetic pulse.

Why isn't the mansion power up yet? Well, it could have handled one pulse, but it looks like three went off in the city back-to-back.

We have to get out up there now.

[Grunts] You know, there were stairs we could have taken.

Hey, you're the one who said there was, uh trouble.

Avengers, I need your help.

Natasha.

Hulk remembers you.

Stupid spy girl attacked Hulk in the desert.

Yeah, and she's a traitor.

A member of Hydra.

Go smash her.

[Roars] [Groans] Have to listen.

Widow, you got about three seconds before we let the Hulk squeeze.

Did you set off the EMPs? Not a traitor.

You have to believe.

Nick Fury sent me to get inside Hydra.

Clint, please.

Let her breathe, Hulk.

She saved my life, I owe her that.

You've gone soft.

Ohh.

This better be good, Natasha.

You got one minute.

Start at the beginning.

The AIM base has been located.

Its coordinates are being transmitted to every Hydra ship.

Modoc is to be destroyed.

No one touches the cube except me.

Baron, I need to know what we're dealing with here.

I am the only lieutenant you have left, and I cannot help you if I don't know what is going on.

Modoc and AIM have created a device that can change reality itself.

The cosmic cube was designed to take one's deepest desires, their greatest wishes, and make them reality.

For instance, a reality where Hydra won the Second World War.

[Black Widow] But if Modoc had such a device-- He would have used it by now.

That is exactly why we must capture it before it is complete.

And then the world will be mine.

Hail, Hydra! [All] Hail, Hydra! Hail, Hydra! Hail, Hydra! [Black Widow] This was my mission-- To infiltrate Hydra, learn the nature of the weapon they had hired AIM to create, and neutralize it.

No one could have foreseen this.

I don't buy it, lady.

If you infiltrated Hydra under orders from Nick Fury, then why come to us? Why not go to him? I tried.

He had set up a special channel for me to contact him when I needed to, but he's not responding.

As far as Shield knows, the Black Widow is a traitor.

If I go to them, I'll be arrested.

Fury was the only one who knew the truth, and as far as I can tell, he's disappeared.

Yeah, I'm with Cap, I don't buy it.

Not the Fury part, that I can believe.

But a cosmic cube? Come on, nothing can just change reality.

It doesn't matter what you believe.

Both Strucker and Modoc believe it.

And they're going to tear the city apart fighting for control of it.

[Loud boom] Kind of like that, I'm assuming.

[Iron Man] If you so much as sneeze in a way I don't like, I'll let the Hulk have you for lunch.

Got it, Widow? Of course.

We all want the same thing here, Iron Man.

Once we get the cube, I'll surrender myself to you.

Isn't funny how people are all afraid of you? I bet she really thought you'd eat her.

I would.

[Laughs] [Groans] Heads up, team.

[Aim drone] Shields are holding.

The EMPs took down some of the Hydra forces, but the majority are equipped with shielding that-- That we designed for them.

It does not matter.

We do not need to defeat Hydra, we only need to delay them.

[Computer] 17 minutes until influx of extra dimensional energy is complete.

[Captain America] Iron Man, what's the ETA on Thor and Panther? [Iron Man] They're nine minutes out.

This is crazy.

I think that AIM ship just opened a black hole.

Huh, I say we let them fight.

Enjoy the show.

There's nothing to enjoy about fighting.

[Hulk] You're doing it wrong then.

The tracer I planted on Strucker's ship is active.

We can find him and make sure he doesn't get close to the cube.

Hang on, I'm picking something up.

That's Modoc's energy signature.

Jarvis, scan the ship.

Wait, what? [Cries out] Wasp, make sure he's okay.

[Grunts] [Coughs] Okay, what was that? My whole system just shorted out when I tried-- Ah! This is gonna be a long day.

Agh, come on.

Come on, you stupid armor, reboot.

Come on! [Grunts] Cap, we've got giant atomic robo-monsters coming into the city by the pier.

Ow.

Oh, and Iron Man's okay.

[Captain America] Hulk and I will take care of Hydra.

You and Iron Man keep after Modoc.

Um, I don't know if you guys noticed, but Hydra's invading New York.

We noticed, Wasp.

Agent Hill.

Director Hill.

And I'm putting this entire city on lockdown including the Avengers.

[Soldiers grunt] [Ants chittering] [Drones cry out] [Both grunt] Just like old times, right? Expect for all the lies and betrayal.

You think it wasn't hard for me, Clint? Which part, framing me or beating me up? I had my orders.

You would have done the same thing.

I don't believe that.

Hawkeye was your partner, and your friend.

Couldn't you have just tried trusting him? No.

I just don't understand that.

I do.

I don't like it, but I get it.

Undercover is undercover.

She couldn't have gained Strucker's trust without doing what she did.

I must had been one big pain in your backside.

You have no idea.

And thought Jan and I had problems.

[Device beeps] That one.

That's the ship the tracer signal is on.

[Soldiers grunt] Baron Strucker wanted you to have this, traitor.

Uh-oh.

Sir, incoming! Save Modoc.

[Screams] Lucky shot.

If you say so, big guy.

Now, remember, watch out for civilians.

Is that why you teamed up with me? To protect people from the monster? Stow that talk.

I want you to protect civilians from Hydra.

They're the monsters here, not you.

In my day, we had a name for someone like you.

Yeah, what's that? Hero.

I've been watching you, Hulk.

No matter how scared people are of you, no matter how much you're hounded, you always do the right thing.

And that makes you a hero in my book.

Now, how about we smash some more Hydra goons? [Roars] [Computer] Cosmic cube at 99.

9%.

Attention, the cosmic cube has attained full power.

[Cries out] Okay, look.

I know you and I got off to a rocky start, Hill, but we need to work together here.

The Black Widow says that AIM has created a weapon of incredible power, and we have to-- We don't have to do anything.

The Black Widow is a traitor working for Hydra.

You expect me to believe her? The bottom line? You Avengers are vigilantes, and unless you join Shield right here and now, you're criminals as well.

I've had about enough of you.

I'm going after the cosmic cube, which is dangerous, as it turns out.

You're welcome to help.

Come on, Jan.

Take them down.

Damage assessment, negligible.

Searching.

Ah.

[Strucker] The game is over, you disgusting monster.

The cube is mine.

Had you just given it to me, I would have allowed you a place in my new world.

Instead, you get a grave.

I am Modoc.

I can not be defeated! [Grunts] [All cry out] I am designed only for conquest! [Groans] [Grunts] Dreadnoughts, destroy Modoc.

Not possible.

No brainwaves.

[Cries out] Now, the world will be remade in Hydra's image.

You're sure you can make this shot? He'll make it.

[Screams] [Groans] Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, you really don't want to touch that.

It could be dangerous.

Dreadnoughts, execute this fool! Oh, boy.

Jarvis, shields.

[Grunts] What is the matter with you? We're on the same team.

You have to stop this.

No, you got one last chance, Wasp.

[Thunder crashes] [All yell] [Gasps] Maybe the Avengers are going to give you one last chance, Maria.

No.

Thor, Panther, Wasp, just stop.

We're not going to fight Shield.

My team is going out there to save the world.

Either work with us or stay out of our way.

This is director Hill to the helicarrier.

Fire on the Avengers.

Avengers, save the helicarrier.

Move! Ah! [Grunts] [Strains] Your strength is now mine, Captain.

At last, I will finish this.

[Strains] Everyone relax, I'm here to save the world.

Again.

I-- Whoa.

Cap! Hawkeye! See? Fighting is fun.

I've been fighting you since you were a kid, Strucker.

Today it ends.

[Grunts] [Strains] Strucker, by the order of Shield you are under arrest.

Yeah, take that.

Never! No! I-- I don't understand.

Nothing has changed.

But-- but I touched it, the cube.

It's over, Strucker.

So the Avengers took down Hydra and AIM, saved your helicarrier, and probably the world.

Even after you shot at me.

Nothing's changed, Stark.

I'm not giving the Avengers a pass.

I'm not Nick Fury.

I'm going to the president and congress.

I want the Avengers registered, and working for Shield.

And I'm going to make it happen, whether you like it or not.

You're clear.

This is crazy, Natasha.

Come back to the mansion with me.

The Avengers will protect you until we can locate Fury.

No, I have to find him.

Clint, if Fury really is missing, then something terrible has happened.

Come with me.

I can't.

I'm an Avenger.

They're my partners now.

[Wasp] I can't believe all of that was for nothing.

The cube thingamajig didn't even work.

I knew it wouldn't work.

Just imagine though.

What if they had done it? You can change anything just by touching the cube.

You touched it, Cap.

If it had worked, how would you have changed things? What would you have wished for? The world did change today.

Today the Avengers took down Hydra.

Something I was never able to do in my time.

And we didn't need wishes to do it.

I wouldn't change anything.

[Captain America] No, no, Bucky!