Previously on Avengers...
- I'm leaving. - You're leaving what?
You're leaving Avengers? You're leaving me?
Surrender your planet to the Kree Empire,
and you may live.
Whoa, whoa, who are you again?
They're hostiles. Let's take 'em down.
It's a Kree ship.
Major, it's time to see what those powers of yours can do.
My name is Ms. Marvel, and I'm here to welcome you to Earth.
Now go home.
Help me. Please, someone.
They're coming. They're coming for me.
Who's coming for you?
And there came a day unlike any other,
when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves united
against a common threat.
On that day, they became the Avengers:
The invincible, armored Iron Man,
Thor, Prince of Thunder,
The Hulk, strongest hero there is,
and Captain America, the first Avenger.
♪ Assemble, we are strong ♪
♪ Forever fight as one ♪
Avengers, assemble!
Aren't you supposed to be watching out for super-villains?
Isn't that what monitor duty is?
I told Jarvis to let me know if anything blows up.
I just can't believe that Hank and I are falling apart.
I mean, I'm me.
How can this be happening?
Because you're so completely different?
What did something new happen?
He's just so... so frustrating!
But I was really mean to him last time we talked,
which I feel kind of bad about.
I know. But Jan,
if Hank really cared, he wouldn't have left.
I've got to run, someone's at the door.
Hopefully someone that's better at cheering me up than you are.
Is this a drop-off?
Because he doesn't exactly look like a super-villain.
We found him in a crater in Central Park, talking crazy.
Thinks he's been abducted by aliens or something.
Have you contacted S.W.O.R.D.?
What's that?
Corrina? Corrina, we're not safe here.
I, um... Uh...
They keep coming after me, you can't be here! I... I can't...
Uh, sir? My name is Janet.
- Are you okay? - Please, you have to protect me.
The Avengers will take it from here.
- Do you have a name? - Michael Korvac.
I called a friend of mine,
Jane, she's going to come make sure you're okay.
So. What, uh... what happened?
Michael?
Michael!
They took me... They took me into their ship.
Corrina.
Michael! Stop it, you're going to hurt yourself!
- Michael! - Get away!
Sorry!
No, stop. Stay away.
I'm pretty sure I've seen this movie before.
Ow! What'd you hit me for?
You're the one who zapped him into unconsciousness.
And I'm supposed to buy that this guy got abducted
by aliens and experimented on? Come on.
You didn't see the look in his eyes. He's scared.
He's been going in and out of consciousness.
Jane and I have been able to piece a lot of it together.
He escaped from the alien ship, but more aliens are chasing him.
We think Michael's trying to get back to Corrina.
She could be his girlfriend, or his wife.
Who knows how long he's been gone?
Obviously Earth is of interest to several alien races,
but Mister Korvac's tale has problems.
How could a normal man escape from an advanced alien race,
much less return to Earth?
Well, when he wakes up, we'll ask him.
When he wakes up, he's going to flip out.
You realize you put Mr. Abductee here in a med lab
and strapped him to a table to get examined.
- Good thinking. - Oh. Good point.
Well, crazy or not, there's a crater in Central Park.
He didn't make that up.
Hawkeye, Panther, go check it out.
- I'll stay here with Jane and... - I'm going to find Corrina.
Uh, not exactly what I was going to say.
She's probably been looking for him this whole time.
We can use some facial recognition thing-ama-jig
and see if anyone put out a missing persons alert on him.
Because it's probably her.
Okay, then.
Hello.
Excuse me. Are you Corrina?
I... I, uh, yes.
I'm Corrina. H... How...
We found Michael Korvac.
I still don't buy it.
Maybe the guy did get taken by little green men.
Or blue.
Stop it. What I'm saying is, there's something off about this guy.
Perhaps after weeks or even months
of experimentation by alien creatures,
anyone would be "off."
Now you're just being difficult to mess with me.
You are right.
Korvac.
He seems okay, physically.
The scars on his back are rough, though there's no internal damage.
He's malnourished and dehydrated, but here's where it gets strange.
He's emitting some kind of energy, something I've never seen before.
Huh?
Ha, sorry. I guess this is a bit over your head.
It's a form of cosmic radiation.
What? It's not... Oh.
There was residual cosmic radiation at the sight.
Uh, yeah. We found the same kind of thing on Korvac.
I've already contacted Ms. Marvel, she's the SWORD liaison.
They're supposed to be in charge of all this alien stuff.
Where's Cap?
I don't know. He requested some time off.
Went to look up old World War II buddies or something.
Guys, I'm five minutes out.
Meet me in the foyer, and bring Michael.
Michael?
Corrina, I...
I did it. I got back to you.
Michael. You've been gone almost two years!
I... I thought you left, I thought you weren't coming back.
- Two years? - Michael, what happened to you?
I'll never let us be apart again, Corrina.
I will never let them hurt me again.
- Any of them. - Who?
- Tony. - Avengers, protect Korvac.
Still think Korvac's making all this up?
I'm on the fence.
Michael Korvac...
No. No. Please, you have to help me.
Tony.
There's a tree and a raccoon scowling at us, man. Are we firing?
Just wait, they're intelligent, maybe we can...
No!
Wasp, get Korvac and the girl out of here.
We have to go. Back there, to the stairs. Go!
I... Wow, is that quantum energy? Okay, I'm impressed.
Yeah, I'm guessing you didn't just surrender.
I said I was impressed, but I've got shields too, lady.
Your sword's not going to do much.
Okay, those might do something.
You are in my mind.
Better look behind you, mate.
Want to formally introduce you, yeah?
I am Groot!
Head for the hangars. Left!
No, the other left!
Hulk!
- Behind you! - Huh?
You look pretty human for an evil alien.
Who are you? And what do you want with Korvac?
I'm called Star Lord, and you have to listen to me.
You have no idea who Michael Korvac is.
Impossible.
Wait, was that English?
We have to get to the Quinjet.
Michael... Michael, stop! You're hurting me.
No, I need more time, I have to have more time.
I can't let them take me.
I cannot let you do that.
Go. Go!
Jan, wait.
You have to listen to what this guy's got to say.
- Hawkeye, what are you doing? - Just listen to him.
Korvac, he's a wanted fugitive. He's insane.
He's wiped out thousands of sentient lives.
I am Groot!
Well that's not good.
I can't believe this. I won't. Michael is the victim here.
He was abducted, experimented on. He...
Michael?
I'm never going to let them hurt me again.
No, Jan. Jan!
Wake up, please.
Ha!
Iron Man? Hawkeye?
Hulk!
I've been here.
- This is not Wakanda. - T'Challa.
Where are we? What's happening?
What the heck is going on here?
What's going on here
is that you ape-people need to knock this off.
Quasar, do something about this.
Adam, hear me.
Okay, enough! I want answers.
Who are you people? Who is Michael Korvac?
And where are we?
And why can you weird aliens speak English now?
We are speaking mind to mind through the power
of Adam Warlock's soul gem.
Okay, that probably didn't help explain things.
Look, my name is Peter Quill, I'm the leader of the Guardians.
He's the Star-Lord. Respect him!
Rocket...
We're an intergalactic peacekeeping force.
We work together to keep the known galaxies stable.
Guardians of the Galaxy. Sort of like Space Avengers.
This is Quasar.
Mister Personality here is Rocket Raccoon.
The big tree is Groot.
I am Groot.
Any time there's an imbalance detected,
thanks to Warlock here, we intervene
and deal with the situation, whatever it may be.
And in this case, it's Korvac.
He's a threat bigger than anything we've ever seen.
From what we have discovered,
it appears he was a Kree test subject that escaped.
We're familiar with the Kree.
Whatever the Kree did, it changed him.
A latent genetic potential within humanity perhaps.
They had never seen anything like it.
The Kree ship was destroyed.
By the time we caught wind of it all,
Korvac somehow had ended up on a space station.
He destroyed it, too,
along with a chunk of the planet's surface below.
A Rigellian Recorder caught an image of Korvac in space,
just hovering in the debris laughing.
And then he disappeared.
We've been tracking his energy signature
across the galaxy, finally to here, Earth.
I can feel him.
Korvac's power grows, as does his madness.
He would have destroyed us all,
had I not pulled us into the Soul Gem.
- Can we beat him? - Not physically.
Our plan was to keep him occupied long enough
to let Warlock pull him in here, into the Soul Gem.
You may have noticed but it didn't work out so well.
So wait, if we're in here, where's Korvac?
You're one of them, aren't you? The Kree.
You've come to take me, but I won't let you!
No. That's not possible.
Michael, we can help you. But you have to stop this.
No, no, no, no, no. What they did to me,
I won't let that happen again, not to anyone.
And now, I can stop them!
I can feel the power inside of me.
Now!
Korvac, we can protect you from the Kree, if you stop fighting us.
You lie!
Warlock, now!
No. Nooo!
Corrina?
Please, Michael, stop. You're scaring me.
Scared of me?
No, Corrina, I'm going to protect you.
I'm doing all of this for you. To make the monsters go away.
You're the only monster here, Michael.
[gasps]
No. Stop him!
[sobs]
Warlock, what happened?
He sensed the woman's fear of him, her doubt in him.
And despite all his power, all he truly wanted was to be with her.
Where is Korvac?
I cannot sense him on this plane of existence.
If this is the kind of thing the Guardians deal with, then we should talk.
Yeah, I don't think so.
There are things out there in the universe
you're better off not knowing about.
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