The Final Showdown

Think, Cabal! The Red Skull, your so-called leader, abandoned you. And we just cleaned your clocks. How about you avoid further humiliation and stand down? You think we'll just let you haul us off to the vault? Right now, I'm more concerned about the guy running around with my armor and the most powerful artifact in the known universe. The Tesseract! Without it, this entire place will collapse! Hyperion! Whoa! We're gettin' sucked in here! Widow! The Skull! I'll crush his shriveled red cranium! Sounds like we all want to bring the Skull down, M. O. D. O. K. Maybe that gives us a mutual goal. And so much for the spirit of cooperation. This is awkward. I didn't have time to clean up or anything. Fool! You teleported them too? There was no time to reduce the transport field, Dracula! Or would you rather I'd left half of your miserable corpse behind? And why here? We need resources to carry on. You would rely on them? Attuma will get his own revenge! There's no way we'd team up with the likes of you. Maybe we would. Check his head. Must've hit it hard. No, listen, this is a good time for all of us to try and work together. Wrong! Huh? It's a good time for the Avengers to fall. Ha! That nanosecond-processor brain of yours could easily have teleported the Cabal and left us. What's your game, M. O. D. O. K. ? Glad you rejoined the team, Tony. If you've got a game plan, now's the time. We have to work with the Cabal, Cap. It's the only chance we have against the Skull. I've tried teaming up with the enemy before. It's a surefire way to deep-six you and your team. Yet who beamed us out of there and saved our skin? Now Starting to feel the shrapnel. Jarvis, activate support systems. Tony's chest unit is damaged. Replacement parts already prepped. Oh, man! That's better. Now, to get you into a spare suit. Sorry, Cap. I used every suit when we attacked Skull's base. Iron or no, you're still the man. Sure. I'll go all billionnaire philanthropist on their butts. Billionaire genius philanthropist! You'll think of something. Jarvis, I may have found something to wear after all. Transferring power control. What? Who's up for broiled Halibut? Why do we always end up trapped in a horror movie? It's been too long since I've feasted on such healthy specimens. You're lookin' a little pasty there, Drac. What you need is a good dose of Vitamin D. Not sure if I should take credit for that victory. But you will, won't you? Probably. Hey! Hey! What is that annoying sound? Don't know. Your voice? Hey, muscle-head! I've remapped my suit's anatomical controls into the tower's systems. The entire tower is my armor now. That was me moving my pinky. You don't want to know what I did to make that happen. No offense, Sir, but you're stealing my I believe the term is "shtick. " That was fun, but, Jarvis, can you get to work on something a little more outdoorsy? Already done, Sir. What's the status of the Cabal? Fishface, uber-dweeb, and the prince of dorkness are on lockdown. We lost track of the flying bobblehead. I guess operation "super-villain team-up" is on hold. Split up and search the tower. We need to find M. O. D. O. K. I already ran a full sweep, Cap. He's not in the tower. Neither is Widow. They're both gone? Where? Scanning. But teleportation beams are tough to track. I'll locate Widow, Sam. Right now, we have a bigger problem. What's bigger than finding a lost teammate? The Skull is attacking New York. He possesses the Tesseract. He has access to countless portals, cutting through multiple dimensions. We'll send the team out to take him down. Avengers, assemble! He's also attacking Europe and Asia and south America. Every major continent, in fact. He's everywhere. Okay, I admit it. That's bad. Operation "Earth's mightiest" is online. We've got clearance from across the globe to stop the Skull. Okay, avenge-lings, Jarvis and I are holding New York. You've been deployed worldwide. Roll call. Sydney, Australia reporting in. Rio, Brazil, check. I'm here. Too much sand. That'd be Cairo, Egypt, Hulk. Flying high over Hong Kong. Greetings from Agnafit. Stockholm, Thor. It hasn't been called "Agnafit" since the Norse age. Tony, what about Black Widow? No word. If and when she shows up, I'm sticking her with Antarctica. So, everyone stay sharp and stay in contact. Skull thinks by splitting us up across the world, he can divide and conquer. But be clear, we may be separated, but the Avengers will never be divided. So-called leaders of the Earth, i, the cosmic Skull, now wield the power to match my ambition. Surrender to my eternal servitude! Any country that resists will cease to exist! He's headed to Stockholm. Thor, you're up. How dare you attack the fair city of Agnafit! Have at thee! Watch it, Hawkeye. He's coming. Those Hydras might be empty armor, but they're a cosmic extension of Skull himself. He controls them like puppets. Maybe we can make him cry just a little when we break all his toys. Definitely not How I was picturing My first trip to Rio. Heads up, Cap. Skull's down under. Malfunction. No problem. Hulk, he's on his way. Hulk smash stupid, flying, Skull man! How very eloquent. The power of universe is at my command! And still you follow these worthless heroes. You should be worshipping me! Is it me or is Skull losin' it? The Tesseract is too much for any mortal. Soon, he'll lose every shred of vanity. Skull, you can't control that much power. It's clouding your already deranged mind. I've never seen more clearly. To start a new world, I must burn the old one and its heroes, to the ground. Such surefire precision! And yet, how can a hawk attack what it can't see? My eyes! I'm blind! The other bird. I'm reminded of the myth of Icarus. He flew too close to the sun, and his wings melted. What's the inscription? "Whosoever holds this hammer, "if he be worthy, "shall possess the power of Thor. " Mjolnir! No! It seems you are not worthy after all. This ends now, Skull! An unbreakable shield. A Thorn in my side for half a century. Do you know what happens when the unstoppable force meets the immovable object? You're making me angry! Is it true, monster, that the madder you get, the stronger you become? Shall we find out? But you Avengers must be so lonely. Let's reunite the team for their final moments, shall we? Here, where it all began. Avengers, assemble. And perish! Hey, everyone, just a quick F. Y. I. I'm blind as a bat. Does Hulk smell angrier than usual? Do I want to know what this looks like? You don't. Trust me. I'd planned on ripping you atom from atom, but I must confess a certain joy of seeing you torn apart by your own teammate. This kind of thing happens way too often. Tony, we need a plan. How's this? You've got to subdue the Hulk. Jarvis, light a fire under it. Sorry, Sir. The damage impaired my 3-D printers. Estimate armor completion in two hours. And I estimate world destruction in one. Game plan's out the window. Cap's gonna hate me for this. Howdy, gents. Thought you'd appreciate seeing the fruits of your labor. This is what the end of everything looks like. Nice job. But this is your chance to stop it. Help save the world or be destroyed with the rest of us. Your choice. Stark, you are indeed a fool. Avengers, as one! Attack! Not to be negative, but this really couldn't get any worse. I'm gonna assume that it did. Greetings, losers. Tony, tell me you're not that stupid. Oh, he most certainly is. Tony, a cosmic Skull and a rampaging Hulk weren't bad enough? You had to let the Cabal out of their cages too? Hey, desperate times call for one of Tony's genius ideas, remember? Easy for you to say. You're not here. Okay. That's just creepy. Where are they? You have lasted longer than I thought. I shall show you mercy by destroying you here and now! What? Who would dare? The Cabal dares! You have no honor, Skull. And you will pay for this betrayal! You flatter yourselves. I shed you like so much dead skin. This is our chance to eliminate them once and for all. Fools! First the Skull, then the Avengers. Okay, Avengers. The Cabal bought you some time. You knew this would happen. Fighting each other is what the Cabal does best, Cap. All right, here's part two. Subdue the Hulk. Thor, knock a little Asgardian sense into him. And Cap, remind the Hulk who he is. Stand down, Avenger! That is an order! I said, "stand down, soldier!" Huh? Cap? I can handle Hulk now. You deal with the Skull. Amusing, that this entire attack amounts to exactly nothing. Hawk, hang on! Hello! But I turned you into a mindless beast! But even you can't touch his heart. And his heart is 100% Avenger. Hey, guys, I've got someone on the line who wants to add to the fun. Sounds like I'm missing a good time. Widow, where are you? Wait, don't tell me. It's Classified. A little private time with M. O. D. O. K. At a top secret S. H. I. E. L. D. facility, and I got all the intel i needed. There's a way to disrupt the Skull's portals. I'm uploading the intel to your data cards now. The processor will reconfigure Hawkeye's disrupter arrowheads. Falcon, get me up there. I thought you couldn't see. Say when. When! What? Impossible! You did this! What? You think that's the first triangular shield I've ever had? I've got his arm! Of course, you do, weakling. The legs are much harder to hold. Your soul is mine, Skull. For your betrayal, you shall forever be a slave to the King of darkness. That's not how we do things. If this is my end, it will also be yours! Avengers! I wouldn't have hesitated to bite you. And still you saved me. Why? Because that is how we do things. You think you've stopped me? You've merely prolonged your agony. I've evolved beyond the need No! No! You? How? You should never have double-crossed me. I gave you that armor. I can take it away. So can I. Whoo! Next time you borrow my clothes, can you run them to the dry cleaner before you give them back? Stark and I needed you to focus all your energy on the Cabal and the Avengers. That allowed M. O. D. O. K. here to get past your defenses and use his technopathic abilities to remove my armor. This is the power! The armor is nothing! I'm going to obliterate you all. Starting with Iron man. Nothing is beyond me! Foolish would-be tyrant! You've already forgotten something! What now? We gonna duke it out? As new leader of the Cabal, I say the Avengers will be destroyed Another day. Hey, everyone, I can see again! Yeah, I'm thrilled too. Look, I know I'll regret feeding the Tony Stark ego machine, but nicely done. You led the team from here without your armor. You finagled the Cabal to work with us. That's real leadership. Just between us, there's no better role model than Captain America. But all the leadership in the world means squat without a good team. And we have the best team in this dimension. When you're done with the pep talk, answer me one thing. If you weren't the one who convinced no-neck to break ranks, then what's Widow been up to? Where is she? Like she said, It's classified. The Skull is in one of those dimensions, director Fury. And so is the Tesseract. Let's hope we find him first. Before someone worse does. Master. As you desired, Thanos.