PREVIOUSLY ON "THE AVENGERS"...
WANDA, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
I AM DISCONNECTING WONDERMAN FROM THE MACHINES.
NO. THOSE MACHINES ARE THE ONLY THING
KEEPING HIM ALIVE.
WINDS BEYOND DESTINY...
CHANGE!
SIMON!
SCORPIO, OUR PLAN IS IN MOTION.
WE CAN NOW TEAR THIS MISERABLE PLANET OPEN
AND DESTROY THE AVENGERS AT THE SAME TIME.
BEGIN MAXIMUM POWER.
UH! OH! I THINK SOMETHING'S --
AAH!
SIMON! SIMON, SPEAK TO ME!
HOW DO YOU FEEL?
FELT LIKE I WAS BEING PULLED APART.
Dr. Pim, Mr. Sikorsky is on the line.
PUT HIM THROUGH, PLEASE, JARVIS.
Did your instruments record what just happened?
Our planetary sensors detected a worldwide spike
in tectonic activity --
earthquakes, volcanoes,
whole mountains erupting up out of the ground.
It's as if the forces holding the Earth together
just got tugged in three different directions.
YANKED APART, JUST LIKE ME.
WE'VE ISOLATED THREE MAJOR CRISIS POINTS
WHERE THE TECTONIC ACTIVITY APPEARS TO BE CENTERED.
EARTH'S MOLTEN MANTEL HAS A HIGH METALLIC CONTENT
THAT COULD, IN THEORY, BE AFFECTED BY MAGNETISM.
THERE'S SOMEONE I MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE ABOUT THIS --
CORNELIUS VAN LUNDT.
CAN YOU GET PAST HIS SECURITY PROTOCOLS?
HENRY, PLEASE.
OH, THAT LYING --
HE'S DEVELOPED FULL-SCALE MACHINES --
HUGE ONES.
BUT FOR WHAT PURPOSE?
THE MACHINES WERE PLACED AT THESE POINTS
TO PUT PRESSURE ON ONE SPECIFIC AREA --
HERE IN THE KURIL ISLANDS ABOVE JAPAN.
HE'S USING THEM TO SQUEEZE THE PLANET --
TO RUPTURE THE EARTH'S CRUST
AT THAT PRECISE LOCATION.
BUT WHAT'S SO IMPORTANT ABOUT THOSE ISLANDS?
SECURITY BREACH. HALT OR BE DESTROYED.
HENRY!
TALK TO ME!
HALT OR BE DESTROYED.
HENRY, YOU HAVE TO GET OUT.
DON'T YOU MEAN WE?
I'M NOT GOING TO LET CORNELIUS KEEP MY FATHER'S PLANS,
BUT THERE'S NO TIME TO DOWNLOAD THE FILES.
THEN LET'S DESTROY THEM.
JAN, MANEUVER EPSILON-J.
RIGHT.
OH, HENRY...
MY FATHER TRUSTED HIM.
YOUR FATHER NEVER MEANT FOR HIS MAGNETS
TO BE USED THIS WAY.
VAN LUNDT IS RESPONSIBLE, NOT YOUR FATHER.
IT DOESN'T MATTER.
WHATEVER'S HAPPENING AT THOSE ISLANDS
IS NOW MY RESPONSIBILITY,
AND I'M GOING TO STOP IT.
I SWEAR, ANT MAN AND WASP
WILL PAY FOR THIS, TAURUS.
THIS I PROMISE!
WHY WASTE THE ENERGY?
THE ZODIAC IS ELIMINATING THE OTHER AVENGERS
AT THE MAGNET SITES,
THEN NONE OF THIS WILL MATTER.
FALCON, YOU FOUND THAT MAGNET YET?
I'LL KEEP HAIRBALL HERE BUSY AS LONG AS I CAN,
BUT I'M RUNNING OUT OF DANCE STEPS.
TWO MORE MINUTES, TIGRA.
THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK, AVENGER.
REDWING!
REDWING, MY CRASH ARMOR.
TIGRA, IT'S FALCON. HOW ARE YOU HOLDING OUT?
NOW COMES THE FUN PART --
LOTS OF PAIN AND BEGGING...
AND I LOVE THE BEGGING.
HA HA HA.
Tigra.
I'M KEEPING HIM DISTRACTED.
YOU GOT THAT MAGNET THING DESTROYED YET?
I'M WORKING ON IT.
HA HA HA.
IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?
AAH!
THE MAGNET!
IS THAT THE BEST YOU CAN DO?
NO!
NO.
FINISH HER OFF!
GIVE IT A REST, JUNIOR. WE'RE BOTH TOAST.
WHY YOU --
NOW, THAT'S WHAT I CALL TEAMWORK, DARLING.
YOU AND ME BOTH.
HEY, WAIT A SEC.
WHERE'D THEY GO?
SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH OUR INSTRUMENTS.
IT'S NOT THE INSTRUMENTS.
LOOK. THIS WHOLE AREA
HAS PHENOMENAL MAGNETIC PROPERTIES.
OH, THAT'S WHY OUR READINGS ARE THROUGH THE ROOF. RIGHT.
THERE'S KURIL ISLAND.
PREPARE FOR LANDING.
ALL AVENGERS, CODE RED.
KURIL ISLAND IS BREAKING UP.
Destroy those super magnets.
Repeat -- destroy those magnets now.
ROGER THAT, BOSS MAN, AND HEADS UP.
LOOKS LIKE WE'RE DEALING WITH THE ZODIAC AGAIN.
GOT TO JET.
THANKS, HORNHEAD.
YOUR LITTLE SNOW SLIDE MADE MY JOB A CINCH.
BY THE POWER OF THE STARS,
THE ZODIAC WILL TRIUMPH.
HOW DARE YOU!
AAH!
HEY, GOAT CHEESE.
AAH!
WANDA!
OH, YEAH.
ONE AVENGER DOWN..
AND ONE TO GO.
OH...
SO... WEAK.
NO!
LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE BEING
ON THE RECEIVING END OF THIS THING.
AAH!
WANDA, I'M GETTING YOU OUT OF HERE.
SUCH TACTICS ARE A WASTE OF TIME...
AND ARROWS.
SIMON, DARLING.
AAH!
WANDA, WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?
OH! I CAN'T -- I CAN'T CONTROL IT.
WINDS OF DESTINY, CHANGE!
AAH!
SIMON!
SIMON! AAH!
LET ME HELP YOU.
I'M ALL RIGHT, BUT SIMON...
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM?
WHAT DID ULTRON DO
TO MAKE HIM REACT THIS WAY TO THE SEISMIC MAGNETS?
I DO NOT KNOW, BUT SEEING HIM THIS WAY
AND SEEING THE PAIN IT CAUSES YOU
FILLS ME WITH SUCH SADNESS AND DETERMINATION.
JAN, GROUND'S TOO UNSTABLE.
SWITCHING TO HOVER MODE.
OH, HENRY, NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE.
LOOK, I KNOW CORNELIUS VAN LUNDT
IS SOMEHOW MIXED UP WITH THE ZODIAC
AND I KNOW HE STOLE MY FATHER'S TECHNOLOGY,
BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO TEAR UP THE EARTH?
JAN, I THINK I FOUND SOMETHING. LOOK.
SOMETHING SLAMMED INTO THE KURIL ISLANDS EONS AGO.
IT COULD HAVE BEEN A METEORITE
OR A SMALL ASTEROID.
FOR ALL WE KNOW,
AN ALIEN SPACESHIP OF SOME KIND.
WHATEVER IT IS,
IT BURIED ITSELF DEEP IN THE EARTH.
IF SOMEONE LIKE THE ZODIAC
WANTED TO RECOVER IT...
THEY COULD HAVE TEAMED UP WITH VAN LUNDT
TO FORCE IT TO THE SURFACE.
OF COURSE, AND THEY WOULDN'T CARE
HOW MANY LIVES THEY'D DESTROY IN THE PROCESS.
ANY WORD FROM THE OTHERS -- FALCON, SCARLET WITCH?
THE STATIC INTERFERENCE IS HEAVY
FROM THE MAGNETIC FIELD, BUT EVERYONE REPORTED IN.
THEY MANAGED TO NEUTRALIZE THE SUPERMAGNETS.
AFTER THAT, THE COM-LINKS WENT DEAD.
ANYTHING ON SIMON?
ALL I HEARD WAS, "WONDERMAN'S IN TROUBLE."
WE HAVE TO GET HIM BACK TO THE LAB
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AAH! HENRY!
WE MUST ABANDON THE JET.
HENRY!
INHALED... TOO MUCH GAS.
THAT'S A VAN LUNDT AIRSHIP WITH ZODIAC MARKINGS.
THIS -- THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING.
AT LAST, EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE.
NOW ALL I REQUIRE ARE THE CELESTIAL POWERS
OF MY EARTH AND FIRE SIGNS
TO RETRIEVE MY METEORITE --
THE FALLEN IRON STAR.
BEGIN.
CONCENTRATE. FOCUS YOUR ENERGIES.
AVENGERS, ANT MAN IS INJURED.
RECOVERY TIME UNCLEAR.
THE ZODIAC HAVE ARRIVED.
I SUPPOSE I'M DOING THIS ONE BY MYSELF.
MAYBE THAT'S HOW IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.
WASP OUT.
I HAVE TO LEAVE YOU NOW, MY DARLING.
JAN, NO.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR YOUR FATHER.
HENRY, THIS IS NOT ABOUT WHO MY FATHER WAS.
THIS IS ABOUT WHO I AM.
I AM AN AVENGER.
THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT!
THE METEORITE -- THE FALLEN IRON STAR.
THIS HAS TO STOP NOW.
CONCENTRATE. FOCUS YOUR ENERGIES.
WHAT? WHAT THE... THE PESTS!
I CAN'T LET THEM GET THAT METEORITE.
VIRGO, FINISH THIS PEST.
I CANNOT BE BOTHERED.
MY PLEASURE.
OH, NO, YOU DON'T!
ARIES, CAPRICORN...
LET ME FINISH HIM OFF.
NO!
HENRY, THEY'RE HERE!
NO, NO, NO! MORE AVENGERS!
ZODIAC, TO THE SPEED PODS.
WE HAVE TO GET THE FALLEN IRON STAR.
THE AVENGERS BELIEVE THEY CAN STOP ME?
FOOLS!
I'VE GOT THE ZODIAC SHIPS IN SIGHT.
WHOA!
They're gone, Hawkeye.
BUT IT'S NOT OVER.
TAURUS GOT WHAT HE WANTED.
HE DIDN'T GET ALL OF IT.
THE REMAINING PIECES MAY TELL US
WHAT HE'S UP TO
AND HOW TO STOP HIM ONCE AND FOR ALL.
MY FALLEN IRON STAR
CONTAINS ELEMENTS NOT OF THIS EARTH --
ELEMENTS FROM BEYOND THE STARS.
I CALL UPON THE POWER OF THE COSMOS
TO TURN THE ZODIAC KEY.
AND THUS, I COME ONE STEP CLOSER
TO MY FINAL VICTORY!
AH!
WHAT HAS ULTRON DONE TO SIMON?
WANDA, HE MAY HAVE ALTERED
SIMON'S MOLECULAR STRUCTURE SOMEHOW.
BUT WHY?
PERHAPS BECAUSE ANT MAN HELPED FREE ME FROM ULTRON.
ULTRON IS DETERMINED TO CONTROL WONDERMAN.
TO SERVE HIS OWN EVIL PURPOSES.
SIMON'S POWERS ARE SO UNSTABLE NOW
HE COULD THREATEN --
WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?
EVEN IF WE CAN SAVE HIM,
I'M NOT SURE IF WONDERMAN SHOULD REMAIN ON THE TEAM.
SIMON NOT AN AVENGER?
NO.