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A.I.M. can supply you with anything you desire
You steal my tech, you answer to me
Agent Hill
Director Hill
So, The Avengers took down Hydra and A.I.M.
saved your helicarrier, and probabaly the world,
even after you shot at me.
Nothing's changed.
I want The Avengers registered and working for S.H.I.E.L.D.
and I'm gonna make it happen
whether you like it or not.
I don't like this.
Bad enough Hydra nearly wiped us out,
but this thing. What is it?
I heard it was something that escaped the Vault
the same time MODOC did,
during the breakout.
Whatever it is, it wants out.
Uuugh! Watch it!
Whoa! Auughh!
Someone report! Auuugh!
Contain the creature. Quickly!
I want to be at Stark Industries in one hour.
Supreme, is this worth the risk?
A.I.M. will have its revenge.
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.
♪ Assembled we are strong ♪
♪ forever fight as one. ♪
AVENGERS! ASSEMBLE!
Alone Against A.I.M.
Timing by PotterJ
As you know, we experienced a 80% drop in the value of Stark Industries stock
after you annouced the closing of the company's weapon's making operations.
Uh-hum.
And, um,
while we're been focusing on our aerospace and medical technology divisions,
our revenue streams are still--
Uh-huh.
Mr. Stark, are you even paying attention?
No, I'm paying attention to this?
Ehh, nice right?
OK, someone throw something at me.
Anyone! Come on, who's got a pen?
Excuse me, Mr. Stark?
Your 7 o'clock appointment is here.
Pepper! Throw your shoes at me.
No.
Tony. You need to take these status meetings seriously.
The board is voicing a lot of concerns.
Concerns about how much time your spending with The Avengers.
Really? So they're concerned that I've helped save the world like what?
7 times now?
They're not wrong, Tony.
You've barely been at the office since the whole Iron Man thing started.
And once you formed The Avengers
even less.
Not to mention your paying for The Avengers out of your own pocket.
If Stark Industries fails,
they will too.
What do you want me to do, Pepper?
Your life has become Iron Man 24/7.
That is not true. I'm in the office now, right?
No Iron Man, no Avengers.
Tony, we're ready to move the remaining armor from your armory to the mansion.
I'll, uh, be right there guys.
Are there Avengers in the building right now?
Moving suits of Iron Man armor.
Is that what you mean by 'No Iron Man, no Avengers'?
Look, I'm moving the armor to protect Stark Industries.
The armor makes S.I. a target.
Look what happened with Ultron and Wonderman.
I'm not gonna put my people at risk anymore.
Especially you.
I'm only delivering the concerns of the board.
Tell me, do you think they're right?
I doesn't matter what I think.
But your 7 o'clock appointment's opinion holds more weight than mine.
Wait. Who's the appointment?
You're late.
Hi Maria.
Now what can I do for the acting director of SHIELD?
I want Iron Man, and The Avengers, to join SHEILD.
I haven't seen his new suit yet.
He's been working on it since you got back from...
wherever you disappeared to a few weeks ago.
Asgard.
Riiight.
Anyways, he's calling it the Mark 9.
Hmmm. If all the other suits were destroyed.
What's in that one.
That's my armor.
The War Machine.
So why aren't you an Avenger, Colonel Rhodes?
I'm not interested in being a super-hero.
I just want to keep Tony safe.
Safe from himself, mostly.
What would be the point of registering?
Pretty much everyone knows our identities.
Uh, maybe not T'Challa, but SHIELD knows.
And if we did work for SHIELD, what then?
We'd save the world and then punch a timecard?
What if a save someone crossing the street out of my armor?
Does every good samaritan have to register?
Don't give me that!
Good samaritans don't save little old ladies wearing nuclear powered battle suits.
It's not nuclear.
I need The Avengers as an example.
More and more superheroes are popping up.
The Fantastic Four are public,
but others Spider-Man or The X-Men aren't.
There has to be accountability.
There are laws, and it's my job to enforce them.
And if Iron Man steps forward and supports this, the others will fall in line.
And if I say no?
One day, one of you will mess up.
One day, you'll fail, and people will be hurt.
And on that day,
SHIELD will come after all of you.
SHIELD's not coming after me right now by any chance, are they?
All communications are jammed.
Hello Miss Potts.
Do you know who I am?
An angry beekeeper?
Not quite.
I am the Scientist Supreme of the Advanced Idea Mechanics.
I am now in control here.
What do you want?
This machine is called Technovore.
It has one purpose.
To consume.
I have reprogrammed it to seek out ARC reactor technology.
Much like what Tony Stark has in his chest.
So to answer your question
'What do I want?'
I want Technovore...
to feed.
Magnetically sealed. We're stuck.
I repeat, this is Maria Hill.
Come in Helicarrier.
Whatever happened, it shut down my Avengers ID card too.
And that's saying something.
This isn't a blackout or power failure.
Someone's created a dead zone around us.
That's just great.
You're telling me we're...
I don't suppose that's your next appointment?
I hope not!
Begin downloading.
I want every single byte of data that Tony Stark owns.
Your doing all of this to steal Tony's computers?
Not just the computers, Miss Potts.
A.I.M. is taking everything.
Scan shows two suits or armor inside.
Take them.
Any idea who these guys are?
The Advanced Idea Mechanics.
A cadre of scientists seeking to use their technology for profit.
They've obviously come for Stark's armor and technology.
You may not want to be a super-hero colonel.
But now might be a good time to put on that armor.
Report!
There are two Avengers in the building.
Which ones?
Captain America and the Black Panther.
Destroy them both.
And take any Vibranium the Panther might have.
And. Get. Those. Armors.
There will be no rescue coming for you Miss Potts.
A.I.M. controls this building.
We are the greatest collection of minds on this planet.
And The Avengers are nothing compared to our science.
I'm confused then.
Didn't you say you were here to loot the place?
This is personal.
Tony Stark will pay for throwing me in prison
as if I were some common criminal.
Ahhh. Common looter.
You should be more respectful to the person who's about to destroy
Iron Man and take down Stark Industries.
See what I did there?
I saved you, and I wasn't even registered!
What is that thing?
Technovore.
From the Vault!
I read the file, but I've never seen it.
Technovore is a nanotech A.I.
It was created to destroy data.
It went out of control and ended up eating pretty much everything.
ARC ENERGY SIGNATURE LOCATED!
CONSUME!
It's after the ARC reactor?
In my chest, yeah.
Yeah, I think we should run now.
What!
A.I.M.
Well that makes sense.
We've got visual on Tony Stark.
Then shoot him!
Tony! Tony! They're going to blow up the main reactor!
Uuuggh. Tony!
Pepper?!
Auuugh! Shoot it!
We have to get to the ARC reactor.
What we need do is get out of here.
No! If A.I.M. detonates the reactor, it'll take down the whole building.
I kinda hate you right now Stark.
Panther, we need some cover fire.
Rhodey, you get to your armor.
We'll hold off A.I.M. as long as we can.
In 3... 2... GO!
You wanna hurry that up?
Why, you have a date tonight?
Maybe I do!
This is 221. There's no sign of the third man.
I'm proceeding with armor extraction.
Good luck with that.
Cap! Panther!
Duck.
Run! Get to the ARC reactor.
Stop A.I.M.
I'll hold off Technovore as long as I can.
You can barely stand, I'm not leaving you.
Where's it going?
Down.
Did you bring your jetpack by any chance?
I'm an agent of SHIELD.
I'm prepared for anything.
Download is complete.
We've got Stark's entire mainframe,
including ARC reactor and armor schematics.
Team 3 reporting.
There are 6 minutes left on the ARC reactor explosives.
We're pulling out.
Understood.
Team 2, what's the status on the armor transport?
Team 2, respond!
Ooo, that doesn't sound good.
You guys OK?
What should we do?
This whole place is gonna blow up.
So how about we get out of here!
Present from Stark.
Tony! Where is he?
GET! OFF! ME!
You heard the man.
Down boy.
So, what's the plan?
Not enough time to disarm the bombs.
What bombs?
I was talking about that thing.
We're gonna give Technovore exactly what it wants.
the ARC reactor.
Just not the one in my chest.
JARVIS! Connect to the mainframe's emergency backup.
Begin reactivation of the ARC reactor at 200% capacity.
Overload it!
What! You said that was bad.
Trust me.
CONSUME!
You're hungry monster?
Then eat this!
JARVIS - NOW!
How did you know that wouldn't set off the explosive?
Because they stole that design from me! I--
Pepper!
Contact the A.I.M. base.
Let them know we're going to need engineers to decrypt--
It's over!
Over? I have your precious Pepper Potts.
I'm holding ALL the cards.
I expect this to be reflected in my bonus.
Done.
The hard drive! All the data from the mainframe!
It's OK, Miss Potts, it's safe.
I've got it.
Thank you Maria. Thank you for staying with me.
You saved my life.
This doesn't change anything.
Registration is going to happen.
This was the part where you were supposed to thank me for saving your life.
You don't get it.
I saved your life because that's my job.
But you? You're putting people at risk.
The Avengers put people at risk.
So I'm guessing... dinner is out of the question.