Marvel's Avengers Assemble

Watch your repost, Volstagg.

Your right flank should never be unprotected.

Unprotected flank? I think not!

Seems you are going soft, Thor.

Too much time with your earthling playmates.

Ha!

My time on Earth only strengthens me!

Earth is a realm of endless creativity.

Watch that flank.

You'll answer for that one, my friend.

Excuse me, Volstagg.

Mmm-hmm.

Right.

An Avengers matter has come up.

We will have to finish this match later.

Heimdall!

I will win this bout when he gets back.

Until then, back to the training table.

Mmm.

Hmm. Strange place for an Avengers emergency.

It gets stranger.

Iron Man, Captain America, and Falcon.

What is so special about this town?

Nothing. That is, nothing if we could see the town.

Is this all that's coming?

It's just us, Hulk.

Hawkeye and Black Widow are on a secret S.H.I.E.L.D. op.

So you dragged us up here to look at fog.

Huh. That's great.

The distress call went out before the town disappeared from sight.

And if you noticed, the area around is untouched.

I noticed. So what's in there?

Wish we knew.

Even my lights can't cut through that fog.

No problem.

One Hulk-sized clap will clear it out.

And shatter windows, and possibly

bring houses down on helpless people.

Allow me. I'll send this fog to the Realm Below.

Sure. Do it the hard way.

And cue the grateful populace.

All in a day's work, folks.

I don't think they're running to us.

They're running away.

Running away from what?

From those things.

Save us from those... Whatever they are.

Easy, easy. We don't have to fight.

Okay. Now we have to fight.

Avengers, show 'em we mean business.

These things look confused and scared.

There's nothing to worry about.

The Avengers are here.

Now, tell me what happened.

Or don't.

As if the day wasn't weird enough.

Avengers, stand aside.

Do not interfere. This only concerns Inhumans.

Inhumans? I know 'em.

Super people with attitude.

They don't play well with others.

Gorgon.

Karnak.

Lockjaw.

Medusa.

And Black Bolt.

Hulk, the creatures you fight are workers of Attilan,

escaped beings of our creation.

We will contain them and be on our way.

It would seem you are the leader.

Not just our leader. He is Black Bolt,

King of the Royal Family of Attilan.

Show due respect, human.

Ha! Human. That is amusing.

Thor, son of Odin,

ruler of Asgard.

At your service, Black Bolt.

Hmm. You will forgive Black Bolt

for not speaking, Lord of Asgard.

For everything you are with your hammer,

Black Bolt is with his voice.

Hmm, then I respect the power of his silence.

A thousand pardons, Black Bolt.

I accept full responsibility for the crash, My Lord.

Crash? This is the Seeker.

A transport ship under his command lost power

and crashed near here.

It carried experimental materials.

Mostly Alpha Primitives and our Terrigen Mists.

You were just cruising upstate New York

with a flying saucer full of horror movie stuff?

Science is the keystone of Inhuman life.

As inhabitants of Earth,

we also have the right to study it, as you do.

The Alpha Primitives are clones

created to assist us in our lab work.

They frighten easily.

But they are never this aggressive.

And what are Terrigen Mists?

It's the gunk that gives Inhumans their powers.

Doesn't work on humans, or Hulks.

Seems we can help each other out if we join forces.

You can see to the cowering humans if you must,

but the welfare of the Alpha Primitives is our business.

Perhaps it is best we stay out of their way.

My sensors got a reading on the Terrigen Mist.

It's definitely the source of the fog,

but it's mixed with some chemical I can't ID.

Mystery chemical might be what's driving the clones into a frenzy.

Contaminated Terrigen could indeed

be responsible for the Alpha Primitives' behavior.

Watch out, pup.

A concentrated sample of Terrigen crystal

would certainly calm down the Primitives.

If I weren't needed here, I could return to Attilan and get some.

I know my way around Attilan.

I can get it. Come here, pup.

You and me gotta make a run home.

It is of the utmost necessity, My Lord.

You call the dog "My Lord"?

He is royalty.

By what other name would you address him?

I don't know. Rover?

Take this key.

It grants you permission to venture anywhere within Attilan.

Back before you know it.

Whoa!

The Science Center of Attilan.

The crystals we need are inside.

What is it, boy?

Can't you run?

All right, I'll carry you.

Told you to be careful knocking down that wall.

An outsider.

And he's captured Lockjaw!

Release him! Now!

He's torturing Lord Lockjaw!

Wait! I'm just here for...

Aw, nuts.

Most of the Alpha Primitives have been accounted for,

but I have pinpointed one last unusual life reading here.

I'd say this qualifies as unusual.

Energy readings are off the chart.

Terrigen emissions are incredible.

This changes everything!

What do you mean? What is that thing?

Well, when an Inhuman... It's... It's nothing.

Merely an Inhuman right.

Wait. If it's nothing, then why are you Inhumans so concerned?

Black Bolt, Medusa, please explain to us what we are dealing with.

Black Bolt has decreed this is Inhuman business only.

We owe you no further explanation.

You have one last chance to leave this place peacefully.

We suggest you take it.

Is that a threat?

We're not going anywhere without answers.

Here's your answer!

I really hate that answer.

Thought we were on the same side!

This battle is not good.

Especially so close to an awakening.

Avengers versus Inhumans is madness.

Surely you and I can reach an agreement!

If you respond only to force,

then force you shall have!

Ow. That actually hurt.

Care to tell me how you did that?

I have the ability to find the weakest point of anything.

And I have the advantage.

Careful, Gorgon! You'll bury us both!

Unhand me!

We don't have to fight.

I can let you go after you talk some sense into your king.

You'll find I'm more than a simple mouthpiece for my ruler.

We could really use some Hulk muscle right about now.

I'm here on official business