(PROLOGUE: WIDE SHOT OF PRISON. TEXT ON SCREEN: SHIELD HIGH SECUIRITY PRISON, OFF THE COAST OF BRITAIN. SCENE CHANGES TO INSIDE THE PRISON. LOKI, WHO HAS BEEN CAUGHT ONCE AGAIN BY THE AVENGERS, IS BEING PUT IN A CELL. WITH HIM ARE RED-SKULL, SINESTRO AND VENOM. CAMERA MOVES TO JOKER. HE TURNS TO RIDDLER.)
Joker: Check out the new guy's.
Riddler: Doesn't look like they're from around here.
Scarecrow: They look like weirdoes to me.
Joker: And you're not a weirdo?
Scarecrow: Point taken.
(LOKI TURNS TO LOOK AT JOKER, TWO-FACE, LEX LUTHOR, SCARECROW AND RIDDLER.)
Loki: You're getting out of here.
Two-Face: How?
Loki: Wait for it…..
(GIANT EXPLOSION. CHITAURI WARRIORS START ATTACKING THE GUARDS. LOKI BREAKS OUT OF HIS CELL AND USES HIS SCEPTRE TO PLACE SOME OF THE GUARDS UNDER HIS CONTROL. THE GUARDS OPEN THE REMAINING CELLS, LETTING OUT JOKER, TWO-FACE, LEX, SCARECROW AND RIDDLER.)
Loki: These guards are under my control. (TURNS TO GUARD) Escort us out.
(GUARD NODS AND LEADS THEM TO THE ROOF. NICK FURY FOLLOWS THEM. HE GETS TO THE ROOF AND SHOOTS AT THE ESCAPING PRISONERS. THE GUARDS FIRE AT HIM. HE DUCKS DOWN AND THE BULLETS MISS. THE VILLAINS GET INTO A HELICOPTER AND IT FLIES AWAY.)
Nick: Dammit! (HE GETS OUT HIS RADIO.) Are there any agent's still out there?
Coulson: Agent Coulson, responding.
Hill: Agent Hill, responding.
Watson: Agent Watson, responding.
Nick: Loki, Sinestro, Venom and Red Skull have escaped with 6 of high security prisoners!
Coulson: Do we get the Avengers in?
Nick: Negative. This is a much higher threat. Too dangerous for the Avengers alone.
Watson: Then who do we get?