Previously on Avengers...
This was number 42.
It's a super villain prison in the Negative zone.
You call yourself Leader?
I am the most advanced mind the world has ever seen!
I think on a level normal human beings cannot begin to comprehend.
I know of thee.
You are Captain America's foe. Zemo.
You may call me master.
1x16 - Assault on 42
[wasp] Well, Whirlwind, this is your big day.
It's off to prison again. You must be so psyched.
[scoffs]
And, not just any prison.
You've got your own private cell waiting for you in 42.
Jan, you sure it's necessary to tease the prisoner like that?
Yeah, pretty much. Especially when it's Dave.
We go way back.
We won't be long.
- Welcome to 42, Avengers. - Warden.
Let me give you the heads up in case you're thinking about escaping again.
This prison sits in a billion light years of empty,
lifeless nothingness called the Negative Zone.
So, even if you got out, you'd have nowhere to go.
[growls]
[power drains]
Somebody forget to pay the electric bill?
[strains]
Make it stop! Please!
Open 389.
[grunts]
You absolute fools!
Listen to me! They're out there!
Waiting!
And they're coming!
[Fury] 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,
♪ Assemble, we are strong
♪ forever fight as one.
Avengers, assemble!
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They're coming for us all!
- Um, not again. - What's going on?
That, Captain America, is exactly what I'm here to find out.
Agent Quartermain.
Let's talk in the control room. I don't want to scare the prisoners.
When you put it that way, you're starting to scare me.
The prisoners, especially the Leader,
have been ranting about hearing noises.
Something outside trying to get in.
The prison doesn't have any external scanners.
We never needed them. There wasn't anything out there.
Until?
We used the scanning equipment in the Mandroid Armor and saw something.
What exactly?
We don't know, a few blips. Then, they were gone.
- And the power fluctuations? - It's been happening recently.
But we have triple backups in place. The power isn't going to go off.
You were saying?
Emergency power online.
Cell doors holding. Prisoners contained.
But, I'm detecting a severe power disruption at junction 95.
Alright, I'll go have a look.
Major Danvers and I will come with you.
Not that I enjoy stating the obvious, but this ain't good.
That's the primary power conduit.
[Ms. Marvel] It looks... chewed through.
Could one of the prisoners have done this?
Or could something else have followed us through the gateway?
I don't think so. The prisoners are all accounted for in their cells,
and the power dampeners prevent any of them from using their abilities.
And I don't know anything on Earth that can eat through metal like that.
Besides, whatever caused this was digging its way in... not out.
If something came in this way, we would see it.
- The only way out... - Is the way we came in.
[man screams]
What is it?
I don't know. Something's in here.
[creature growls]
[roars] [screams]
What was that?
[agent] Need... need help....
Control room.
[all gasp]
[strains]
What happened, soldier?
A bug. Some horrible alien bug.
- We are familiar with it. - That's an understatement.
- Where's the Warden? - It took him. Dragged him away.
I can get surveillance online. The controls on the gateway are shot.
We have no communication with the Baxter Building,
and we can't open the gate from this side.
How do we get back?
We'll have to wait for the gateway to open from the other side.
And when will that happen?
When the next shift of guards reports for duty.
There! The mess hall!
[Ms. Marvel] What's it doing?
[Thor] Searching for a way out, perhaps.
So much for the Negative Zone being devoid of all life.
Why does it want the Warden?
You always try to capture enemy officers for intel.
It's just a bug.
[Thor] Aye, a very intelligent bug it would seem.
Thor, draw it away. We'll grab the Warden.
Sir! There are more outside. My sensors show them...
[bugs roar]
[grunts]
[shrieks]
[grunts]
- The Warden! - Thor, go with her.
Do not let it get a... Odin's beard!
[gasps]
Oh, boy.
Cap? You're not going to like this.
What's the situation?
[Ms. Marvel] There are hundreds of them.
[screams]
[strains]
Everyone out! Into the hall!
[grunts]
[snarls]
[grunts]
[shrieks]
I'm sealing the Mess Hall doors!
Stubborn, aren't they?
Agent Quartermain, I have Thor and Ms. Marvel on my scanners,
and something coming right at them. A whole lot of somethings!
Carol! Thor! Get out of there!
[Ms. Marvel] We'll try to slow them down a little so you can...
Thor, look out!
[Thor strains]
There's too many. There's just...
[static]
I'm going out there. Open the door.
No. It's too dangerous.
[loud rumbling]
Looks like they're going to open it for you. Everyone get ready.
Thor, Carol, you big blond bug zappers.
Let's not celebrate too soon. I have a feeling this isn't over yet.
Agent Quartermain, we've upgraded the systems
using the Mandroid sensors to scan the exterior.
Good work. Put it on screen.
There's so many. Why aren't they attacking?
It's like they're waiting for something.
If they overrun us, they'll be here when the next shift
comes through the gateway in less than an hour.
The monsters would flood into Midgard unopposed.
We'll destroy the gateway before we let that happen.
Won't that sort of trap us here? Like forever?
As a last resort. Until then, we hold the line.
The five of us and a handful of SHIELD agents
can't hold these things off. We'll never last alone.
What are you thinking, Carol?
All right, everybody!
Listen up! Most of you here aren't stupid.
That'll win 'em over.
You all know something's wrong.
- We knew before you did. - Yes, thank you.
And that's why we're looking to you now.
Outside these walls, there's an army of bugs...
very hungry, nasty bugs.
We need your help. We can't fight them alone.
- You will have my aid in the fight Carol. - Thank you, Mar-Vell.
Sure, sure, space-boy wants to help the Avengers,
but I seem to remember the Avengers putting us in this prison!
It's true. We've fought on opposite sides in the past.
And, each one of you is in this prison for a reason.
But, these insects, whatever they are,
they're marshaling to attack in force.
And, when they do,
they will destroy everyone and everything here,
before swarming to Earth.
Fight them with us, and I will personally testify
on your behalves at your parole hearings,
or do nothing... and wait for them in your cells.
It's your choice.
I will fight these bugs.
Keep dreaming, Zemo.
I'd rather face a million bugs in front of me
than risk one of your daggers in my back.
Oh, do not tease me with such beautiful imagery, Captain.
- Cap? - Too dangerous. Trust me.
Executioner, hear me.
Your Enchantress has fallen into the hands of the fire demon, Surtur.
I can ensure that you get a chance to see her freed,
but you must fight honorably in this battle.
Those bugs did this?
Aye.
Maybe I want back in my cell.
If we live through this, I'm gonna cut you to pieces, Wasp.
Then, lucky for me, we probably won't live through this.
We'll use this corridor as a choke point,
force them to come to us through the smaller opening.
Limit their numbers. If we begin to get overrun,
we'll fall back in groups, covering our retreat.
The main fall back position is the hallway leading to the cell block.
Radioactive Man, Wasp, and Absorbing Man will cover us.
If they get past us there, fall back to the control room.
This is our Alamo. We make our final stand right here.
As a last resort,
I hit the self-destruct sequence and blow the gateway.
Any questions?
[beeps]
Careful with the lightning. In this space, you'll cook us all.
Ahh! They're coming!
It's coming!
[beeps]
Everyone, get ready.
How many this time?
[beeps]
All of them.
[shrieks]
[strains]
[gasps]
I can't take it!
It's in my head!
Make it stop!
I, uh... I better see if Leader's okay.
Stand your ground. Here they come.
[bugs roar]
Hold.
[growls]
Hold.
Now!
[grunts]
[roars]
Keep fighting. We are holding them back.
[strains]
They're stopping.
They only stop because it told them.
What is "it"?
[screeches]
It! Get out of my head! Get out!
[all cry out]
[growls]
[grunts]
[screams]
[flesh tearing]
[grunts]
[groans]
[gasps]
[swarm shrieks]
[gasps] Fall back!
Okay, boys, like we planned. Roast 'em!
[strains]
[war cries]
[screeches]
No!
[strains]
Annihil... Annihilate... Annihilation!
Its name... its name is Annihilus!
10 minutes until the gateway opens from the other side.
The defenses aren't going to hold that long.
[screeches]
[strains]
[grunts]
[cries out]
Annihilus, its controlling them.
Kind of obvious. They go wherever he waves that crazy stick.
Captain, we must take out their leadership.
Agreed. Shield agents, fall back to the Alamo.
Hold the gate! The rest of you with me.
Forget this.
Abomination, take me to the gateway.
Good idea. Let's get out of here while we still can.
[strains]
[screeches]
[strains]
[grunts]
Not even the Mjolnir can touch him!
[strains]
Nothing's getting through.
[screeches]
[screams]
It's too late. Blow the door.
You do it, Quartermain. If I'm going out, I'm going out fighting.
[gasps]
[grunts]
The computer.
[grunts]
[groans]
Touch that computer, and the last thing that'll pass
through that oversized mind of yours is my glowing fist.
- We are not trying to escape! - We're not?
I am going to disrupt Annihilus' energy.
- The energy that's protecting him. - How?
I can attempt to cram 43 years of quantum physics
into that primitive brain of yours, or you can let me do this.
You got two minutes.
Then I'm blowing up the gate and you with it.
[strains]
[Ms. Marvel] Cap, get ready.
The Leader's going to disrupt that Annihilus creature's energy shield.
[strains]
[screeches]
[high pitch pulses]
[screeches]
He's wide open. Hit him hard, Avengers!
[grunts]
[screeches]
[strains]
[shouts]
[grunts]
[chirps]
Ah. I can think again.
The noise is gone. The pain is gone.
It was Annihilus' mind.
So chaotic, unlike anything I have ever encountered
like it was a manifestation of the Negative zone itself.
It could feel our universe encroaching on its and anti-matter universe,
and all it knew was that it had to destroy us,
to destroy the positive matter, to annihilate life itself.
[klaxon blares]
Gentlemen. Welcome to 42.
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