Marvel's Avengers Assemble

Hydra should know by now.

Never mess with a Stark.

Aah!

Always wondered what Mary's top speed was.

- Really, Howard? - Aah!

You named your car after a girlfriend?

Ex-girlfriend. But point taken, Special Agent Carter.

I'll rename the car after we deliver the package in the trunk.

If we deliver the package in the trunk.

You need a ride across town? Take a cab.

These ain't your run-of-the-mill Hydra agents.

Howard, it's about to blow!

Peg, are you hurt?

No. No, of course you're not.

Now, what was that? And how did we not get blown up?

Howard, I don't think we're in 1949 anymore.

I'm surprised to see you here, Tony. New Year's Eve.

Figured you'd be out at a party or on a date or something.

I used to love New Year's Eve, Cap.

All that wild, nonstop partying until the break of dawn.

Then I realized something.

That there's more to life than nonstop partying?

What? No. Uh, are you crazy? No.

I realized that every night for me is nonstop partying, because I'm me.

I can party every other night of the year,

but tonight I'm close to a breakthrough on th...

Picking up an energy signature.

Someone in Central Park is using unauthorized Stark technology.

Being an Avenger... always a nonstop party.

Car crash.

But that wouldn't cause those energy readings.

Whoa! Whoa! I don't know what's going on here,

but I know I'll feel a lot better if you two in the costumes take a few steps back.

- Steve? - Peggy?

Captain America?

- Howard? - Dad?

"Dad"?

How is this...

Possible?

This is some kind of trick.

My dad died a long time ago,

so you must be a doppelgänger or a shape-shifter.

Drop the weapon now, pops.

Howard, Tony, no!

Don't wanna hurt you. Not before I find out who you really are.

And using my dad's license plate number. Huh!

Whoever you are, you did your research.

"Stark1" has always been me.

- Hold your fire! - Both of you, stand down!

Steve Rogers? It's really you!

Tony, I knew your dad.

This is really him. This is Howard Stark.

Howard, Iron Man is Tony Stark. He's your son.

Dad? But how did you get here?

I wish I could tell you. I don't remember anything.

Try as I can, the last 10, 12 hours are a blank.

Something affected our memories. But if I'm a betting woman,

odds are good it has something to do with this.

Yep, there it is. I'm picking up residual neutrino energy readings.

Well, of course you are.

What are those?

They're usually associated with time travel.

You must've come through some sort of portal.

Yeah. Well, tell me about time travel. Why can't I remember it?

In theory, if a time traveler receives a high enough dose of subchronal energy,

it could wipe a few hours of memory.

So I'm actually gonna settle down someday and have a kid.

I thought I'd be a bachelor for life.

- Who's your mom? I-Is it, uh... - Please stop.

You haven't met her yet, and I really don't want

to have this conversation with my dad.

The complexity here... it's amazing.

Yes. Yes. Ask me anything.

- Anything to change the topic. - All right.

How'd you get so much processing power into something this small?

Data packet multitasking. It...

Here. You'll appreciate this.

Whoa. Don't tell me you have hard-light holograms!

This robot has weird energy readings.

Never seen anything this advanced before.

That makes two of us.

So, how are you?

I'm the one who should be asking.

Although, "Anything new?" doesn't sound quite right.

What... Where have you been?

I spent most of the past 60 years frozen in ice.

This world is new to me too.

The last thing I remember, it was almost 1950.

After everything that happened in the 1940s, it felt huge.

I couldn't help wondering what the new decade would bring,

but I never imagined...

I thought you were dead, Steve.

I mourned you.

The whole world mourned you.

I thought I was over you.

Peggy, I... But I'm here now.

Cap, Peggy, got a job for ya.

We can't pull enough data from this robot part,

so I need you to go back to the crash site.

Look for anything else that might've come through that portal.

Well, let's go. It'll be like that date we never got.

You sure you wouldn't be more comfortable on the back of my bike?

I'm perfectly comfortable right here, thank you.

Tell me everything. Like the Iron Man suit.

How do you generate that much power?

It runs off this.

Oh, my arc reactor. Your arc reactor?

I-I mean, I...

That is, it's sort of mine now.

- I perfected it. - Uh-huh.

- Perfected your old man's design. -

All right. Now, what's this?

We call that a remote control.

Oh. This is fascinating.

Huh. I feel so powerful.

It's good to have you back, Dad.

So, now, tell me, Tony.

Was I a good dad?

I'm a billionaire tech genius with cars,

supermodel girlfriends, and I save the world.

Huh. You taught me everything I know.

Speaking of cars, how is it that everything

in the future was better except for the cars?

I wouldn't trade mine for a single one

of those ugly things I saw out on the street.

Oh, that sounds like a challenge.

Give me two hours with your classic car,

and I'll add an arc reactor engine that will...

Look out!

- Are you doing this? - It's not me.

Take cover. I'll handle this.

Run away? Not on your life.

Then stay out of the way!

Really? You're gonna talk to your father that way?

Dad! Will you just listen to me?

You're welcome.

The internal circuits on this thing.

- Should've known. - You've seen this before?

Unfortunately.

I'd hoped I'd seen the last of him.

There is no such thing as the last of me.

And there he is... Kang!

Such informality.

Unlike you, I earned my title, Stark.

The name is Kang the Conqueror.

- A friend of yours? - Hardly.

Kang is from 800 years in the future, where they have perfected time travel.

Howard Stark.

You are a hard man to kill.

I sent robot hunters disguised as Hydra agents to your own time,

and you ended up here.

I can't remember what happened.

I'll have to take your word for it.

In my time, I've been fighting an irritating individual named Arno Stark.

- Huh? What?

Your descendant.

Arno Stark, huh?

If he's a Stark, then he should be able to stop the likes of you.

I'm gonna have a kid?

A threat to my empire

who's proven to be impossible to stop,

so I've come back in time...

to destroy you.

Without Howard Stark, there is no arc reactor,

no Tony Stark, no Avengers,

and no Arno Stark.

Nothing to stand in my way.

We need anything that might've come through the time portal with you.

Like that.

Huh?

I don't remember what that could be,

but if I just threw it in the trunk...

Leaving me in the car boot! Such indignity!

Dr. Faustus?

Captain America?

I knew your so-called death was a conspiracy.

Well, you will leave this place

and forget I was ever here.

Yeah, your mind tricks won't work on us.

They don't have to.

He went that way, toward the bridge!

Huh? Hey, pops, get off our turf.

This is Phantom Riders' territory.

Yes, meine Freunde.

Focus.

These intruders have encroached upon your territory.

Show them what happens to interlopers.

- Yeah! - Yeah!