AN: Okay, now I know some people are going to complain about me trying to rush the story along, but whenever I imagined the chapter for when Ulrich and Aelita revealed their life stories, it always came off to me as being way too short, and it would've been too difficult to try and make it longer, so I simply combined that moment with the episode of Avengers: EMH that followed the Breakout. I guarantee that you'll all be in for a treat with this one. Now then...
I do not own anything from either the Code Lyoko or MARVEL franchises or any other franchise mentioned in this story.
Chapter 3: Some Assembly Required
A few hours after the battle with Graviton, Ulrich and Aelita found themselves standing before the newly formed Avengers, Nick Fury, and Agent Coulson in Tony's office at Stark Tower. The two were still a bit unsure about what they were about to do and say to them, but they knew that if they did not come clean now, then they probably never would. To be honest, telling their new friends about their history might be another major step in helping the former Lyoko Warriors to move on. The two then gathered their courage, and tapped the wrist watches they both now wore on their left wrist, instantly changing back into their normal appearances as Ulrich said, "For those of you who don't already know, my name is Ulrich Stern and this is Aelita."
"You're adopted sister who never knew her birth parents," Fury cut in, as Hank and Janet both gasped at the sight of the two young adults that they had met a little over a month ago revealing themselves to be the two new superheroes.
"No I'm not," Aelita corrected.
"What," Janet asked, still getting over her shock.
"I said no I'm not," Aelita exclaimed. "I'm not really Ulrich's sister, adopted or otherwise, and I did know my birth parents. My real name is Aelita Schaeffer, and I'm the daughter of Waldo Franz Schaeffer and Anthea Hopper Schaeffer."
Janet and Hank both gasped at this revelation, as they never once suspected that Ulrich and Aelita were not actually adoptive siblings, given how the two acted around each other, but that still left something unanswered. "What…what happened to your parents then Aelita," Hank finally managed to ask.
Aelita lowered her head as she stated, "My mother disappeared when I was a little girl, and my father…he was killed by the same monster who killed all of mine and Ulrich's friends and loved ones."
"What? But I thought that your friends and loved ones died in a plane crash," Wasp stated.
"That was the official story, but it was part of a cover up for the fact that we're from another dimension," Ulrich told Wasp.
"You two are from another dimension," Hank and Tony both exclaimed. Wasp could only silently stare in shock while the rest of the people in the room either managed to contain their shock or just were not shocked all that much.
"It's a really long story, but if you really want to know the full details you'll have to let us start at the beginning. When Aelita's father had begun a secret project to keep him and his daughter safe," Ulrich explained. Before he began though he quickly used his super speed to remove all the breakable objects in the room and then put a safe distance between himself and Aelita.
Aelita had noticed all this and shot Ulrich an annoyed look as she said, "Ulrich, I'm not that bad you know."
"Yeah, personal experience says otherwise Princess," Ulrich argued. "Besides, I know we're going to have to mention that monster's name at least once so I'm not taking any chances."
"Uh, would someone care to explain all this," Tony cut in; clearly annoyed by the fact a lot of his stuff was just zipped out of the room.
"Whenever Aelita hears the name of the one responsible for our friends and loved ones' deaths, she either starts to break down crying for a bit or she smashes the nearest breakable object, or objects, in a near blind fury," Ulrich explained. "Sometimes though, it can also lead her to cause serious pain to the person who said it though."
"Now you are just exaggerating," Aelita insisted. At Ulrich's pointed look in response, Aelita raised her hands in surrender as she said, "Okay, one time during training. Let it go already!"
"What took place this one time during training young warriors," Thor asked.
Before Aelita could say anything, Ulrich cut in simply saying, "I'd rather not talk about it. Now do you want to hear me continue to turn into our old gym teacher, or do you want to hear our life story?"
Everyone immediately insisted that they hear the life story, and Ulrich gave them the full details. Ulrich explained everything about what had happened to him and Aelita, from when Aelita's father first created the supercalculator and later lost control of X.A.N.A. after he virtualized himself and Aelita onto Lyoko, to when Jeremy found the supercalculator and eventually brought their group together, to recovering Aelita's lost memories, to their final battle against X.A.N.A. and the Kolossus, and finally finishing up at the point when X.A.N.A. revealed himself to have survived and their eventual arrival in this dimension, including how they obtained their powers.
Aelita had indeed gone on a small rampage when she heard X.A.N.A.'s name mentioned, but Ulrich knew that it was one of her shorter, less violent ones and just let her vent, while Tony simply blanched at the sight of everything that was left in his office getting torn apart by this normally shy, pleasant girl, and Hulk smirked in approval at the girl's rampage, thinking that it was one worthy of himself.
When Ulrich finally finished his story, everyone had a different reaction to it. Tony had been fascinated at the kind of technology that Aelita's father had created along with the fact that these two had suffered so much since such a young age, and now found an even greater respect for them given their efforts. The fact that they were also living proof of the multiverse theory was of mild interest to Tony, but after hearing their story, he was more sympathetic to their situation than he was intrigued by the scientific effects this would have.
Thor was truly astounded by their tale, and now considered the two to be truly mighty warriors who were worthy of songs in Valhalla. He was also sympathetic to the two's situation having lost friends and loved ones in battle himself, but he knew for a fact that these two were brave souls indeed if they were still willing to carry on their fight, even if only for a moment.
Fury and Coulson were also sympathetic to the situation the two were in, having lost some good friends and comrades in their line of work since they started working at S.H.I.E.L.D., but at the same time they knew what this new information would mean for the two's situation now. As much as neither one of them wanted to do it, they knew that their positions would force Ulrich and Aelita to make a decision that they were probably still not ready to make yet, but something told them that the last Lyoko Warriors would not have a hard time making their decision.
Hulk, though he would not admit it, was both impressed with the two and sympathetic with their situation, but especially in the case of Aelita. After he heard her story, Hulk considered Aelita to be a lot like him in many ways. They had both been hunted by a powerful enemy, lost people they cared about because of that enemy in one way or another, and yet they were still willing to go out of their way to help somehow if they could. Given what was just said, Hulk knew what Fury would have to say in a minute, and that meant that both of the Lyoko Warriors would end up as targets of S.H.I.E.L.D., and that in effect gave him reason to be sympathetic to both Lyoko Warriors.
Hank and Janet's reactions were a bit hard for Ulrich and Aelita to read for a minute, but they could tell there was a bit of both shock and hurt in them. Ulrich really could not blame the two size changers, since he and Aelita did hide such a big secret from them for so long, but it still hurt a bit that it seemed like Janet and Hank felt that he and Aelita had betrayed them, and he knew that Aelita felt the same way. Hank really was amazed at the fact he had been spending so much time in the company of people who were living proof of alternate realities, but that was nothing compared to the surprise he felt at learning what he had learned about them, and he was not about to let his scientific curiosity get in the way of helping Aelita and Ulrich however he could.
Janet just stood there for another minute before she finally walked up to Aelita and broke the silence by asking, "So you guys really are from another dimension, and that all actually happened to you?"
Aelita could only nod sadly in reply, which led Janet to finally say, "That is…so…amazing! I mean not the whole thing at the end there before you came to our world or the other bad parts, but everything else is amazing! You guys have been secret heroes for years without anyone ever knowing, and now you have a chance to use your experience and powers in real life for everyone to know! I mean that has to be the coolest thing I've ever heard in my life!"
Ulrich and Aelita both stared at Janet in surprise for a minute, truly not expecting that reaction, and their surprise was then amplified when they received similar exclamations from Thor, Hank, and Tony. All this was in addition to an approving smirk from the Hulk and in the end, neither one of them could help but smile a little at how easily they had been accepted by the Avengers. The moment was soon interrupted though when Fury coughed to get everyone's attention and said, "I'd hate to ruin the moment and add to your baggage here you two, but now that I know the full story on you two, I'm afraid that I'm only left with two options. In all honesty, I'd much rather leave you both to your own devices, but unfortunately, my job requires me to say that I have to either bring you both in to S.H.I.E.L.D. or leave you with the Avengers. It's just the hand we've been dealt."
Hulk was instantly standing in front of the two and glaring at Fury as if daring the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to give him a reason to smash him, and he was soon joined by the other Avengers a minute later. Coulson threw an apologetic glance at the two, showing that Fury really did not want to do this, but Ulrich and Aelita merely smiled at him before sharing a look and looking at Tony as Aelita stated, "If that is the case, I've got a question. Is that team membership offer still on the table for both of us?"
The minute the Avengers heard that they all turned to smile at the two as Hank asked, "Are you two sure you want to do this?"
Ulrich nodded and simply said, "We're sure. I guess we both figured this might happen after we told you guys our story, and after today, I think Aelita and I know one thing for certain that we've been wondering about for some time now."
"What be that Friend Ulrich," Thor asked.
Aelita and Ulrich both shared a look one more time as they stated together, "We were born to be heroes!"
Fury smiled at the sight and made to leave as he then announced, "After I came here, I found out that Ulrich Stern and his sister Aelita had discovered who Aelita's birth parents were, and had just met them. They were traveling back to the states with them and the rest of their friends and family when some hazardous materials that were being illegally shipped on their plane suddenly exploded and caused the plane crash, leaving them as the only survivors and granting them their new found powers."
Everyone stared at Fury for only a second until they realized that Fury was basically saying that he and Coulson were going to keep everything they just heard a secret unless it was revealed to someone that they absolutely trusted. Fury then looked back before he walked out the door and said, "I really hope you Avengers can assemble something great from all of this."
The minute Fury was out the door, Ulrich crossed his arms as he commented aloud, "Avengers assemble, huh? Has a nice ring to it."
A week after the Breakout and the meeting where Ulrich and Aelita had revealed their true identities, the Avengers had only run into and captured one of the escaped supervillains, which meant that there were now only seventy three of them to go. That little moment was actually just yesterday and now Pepper Potts was standing outside of a large building with Hulk, Angel Guardian, and Sprint Samurai. As Pepper glanced at her watch once again, she looked to the other three heroes and said, "Well thank you three for actually being on time, unlike the others."
"It's no problem Pepper," Ulrich reassured the red haired woman. "Aelita and I are used to meeting up on time for team meetings, but I just want to know two things. One, how is Stark late for this when he was the one who arranged this little get-together, and two, how did you manage to be on time Hulk? I mean, you don't seem like the kind of guy to have a watch on you."
"This is New York. There's always some kind of clock somewhere," Hulk grunted in reply. "Besides, had nothing better to do."
"Sounds like all the bad guys are too scared of their well deserved smashing," Aelita told the Hulk. Hulk only grunted in reply with a smile.
"Ho Miss Potts, Friend Ulrich, Lady Aelita, and Hulk," Thor's voice called out, and the four were instantly greeted with the sight of the Asgardian landing before them. "Tis good to see you again. Are you ready for the upcoming battles?"
"You ready to get a watch," Hulk retorted in reply.
"Oh, burn," Ulrich exclaimed with a chuckle. Aelita only shook her head in exasperation. Hulk and Thor had been butting heads ever since they met now, and somehow she had ended up being the one to always play peacemaker. It was almost like dealing with Ulrich and Odd whenever they started competing to see who the best Lyoko Warrior was all over again.
"We're here," Janet then called out as she flew up to the group. "Sorry we're late. I had to tear Hank away from his lab."
"Why am I not surprised," Ulrich muttered sarcastically, and Aelita had to nod in agreement and Hulk just rolled his eyes.
"It was an important experiment," Hank corrected Janet as he grew up to his full size after dismounting the fly he was riding on.
"Then maybe next time you shouldn't start on it when you know that you have a meeting to be at Hank," Aelita told the size changer.
"Friend Pym! I did not see you there. I expected you to be…giant," Thor greeted.
"Really? Why," Hank asked as he deactivated his Ant Man helmet, revealing that he had his mask up when he did.
"Thy giant self seems more useful," Thor explained.
"Well actually…" Ulrich began to say.
"Where's Stark," Hulk shouted, interrupting Ulrich as he did.
"Sorry. Sorry everyone, I got caught up in a meeting," Iron Man said as he landed before the now fully gathered group. Pepper shot Tony a look as he took off his helmet, which led him to cave in and admit, "Actually I missed that meeting too."
"You need to get yourself a new daily planner then Stark," Ulrich commented, getting laughs from both Janet and Aelita.
"Anyway," Tony said as he shot Ulrich and the girls a pointed look, and then gestured to the house they were all standing in front of. "Thanks for coming, and welcome to…Avengers Mansion. This was my…"
Before Tony could get any further, Hulk had knocked the gates off their hinges and just walked in. "You know that was really rude," Tony said.
"Yeah and so is being late for a meeting that you scheduled, but you don't hear us complaining," Aelita told Tony as they followed Hulk inside.
The minute everyone was inside, Thor had gone over to the wall to inspect a strange device that was built into it when a voice suddenly seemed to call out from thin air, "Greetings Thor Odinson. May I offer you a drink?"
"What manner of palace is this," Thor asked in amazement.
"This was a museum for the Maria Stark Foundation, my mother's home," Tony explained to everyone. "I've had it upgraded since the Breakout, and I thought this could be our headquarters."
"Swanky," Wasp commented as she flew around the foyer.
"The mansion is run by J.A.R.V.I.S., my personal artificial intelligence. Anything you need, J.A.R.V.I.S. will provide. Say hi J.A.R.V.I.S.," Tony continued.
"Indeed," the computer replied through the wall panel.
"Hello J.A.R.V.I.S. Nice to meet you," Aelita then greeted.
"Likewise Miss Aelita Schaeffer."
The team then moved to the kitchen as Tony continued the tour. "We've got a full kitchen and chef on call."
Hulk had immediately started to dig into the food in the fridge and let out a large belch which made Aelita and Janet both make a disgusted face at both the belch and Hulk's eating habits while Ulrich simply said, "I never thought I'd meet someone who could actually eat more than Odd."
"There are twelve bedrooms, maid service, laundry, room service," Tony then continued as they continued to move throughout the house until they finally ended up in a well furnished room with a fireplace. "A theater/lounge, satellite TV and movies, and every form of video entertainment on the planet."
"Are you serious Stark," Hank asked as Wasp sat down and instantly turned on said TV, which turned out to be built into a picture that was hung over the fireplace. "This is what you spent a week preparing?"
"Uh no. I haven't gotten to the good stuff yet. You're gonna need these," Tony corrected as Pepper started handing out small white cards with a red bar at the top, a black screen on the upper right corner which displayed an image of each Avenger and a fancy letter A with an arrow in the center of it on the left side that changed from red to blue when the cards activated. "These ID cards are linked to the Stark Industries satellite network, and they will keep us in audio and visual communication anywhere in the world. They also give you full access and control of the mansion."
"So do they also give us a discount anywhere," Aelita then joked. Janet and Ulrich both laughed at that while Tony just rolled his eyes in response.
"I can show you how it…" Pepper started to offer the Hulk until he just simply snatched his card.
"You think I can't figure it out," Hulk demanded.
"I'm sure you can," Pepper replied.
Ulrich and Aelita both could tell that Hulk was still having some trouble trusting other people so easily after being hunted for so long and were just going to try and calm the green giant down, but Thor did not give them the chance as he marched up to the Hulk and stated threateningly, "T'would be wise to treat the lady with respect."
"Which lady do you mean Blondie," Hulk retorted getting right in Thor's face with a glare in return to Thor's.
"Oh, burn again. That's Hulk two, Thor zero," Ulrich commented. Aelita actually did shove an elbow into Ulrich's side that time as she shot a disapproving look at him while Tony got everyone's attention with a short cough. The minute they all looked to where Tony was standing they saw the fireplace lifting up to reveal a secret elevator inside of it.
"Nifty," Wasp commented as she flew over to get inside with everyone else.
One elevator ride later, Tony simply smiled as he said, "And voila, the sublevels."
"It's official. This place is way better than a secret lab in an abandoned factory. No offense Aelita," Ulrich commented.
"None taken," Aelita replied as the elevator came to a stop.
"The mansion's got a beyond state-of-the-art science lab with space for Hank's modular labs and my armory," Tony explained as he led everyone through one such lab. As he passed through, Hank looked around and smiled as thoughts of what he could do in these labs began coming to him. Everyone then continued on until they found themselves in a large room.
"Wow. Big pool," Wasp commented when she saw they were standing over just that.
"Actually the pool's on the roof," Tony corrected. A minute later, the water parted and a large white and red jet with the same decorative letter "A" as the one on the ID cards on the sides was raised up to their level. "This is a fully functional hangar with two prototype, high-speed, aerial shuttles. The Quinjets. Weapons, shields, and an air speed of Mac Eight for those of us who can't fly." Hulk, Hank, and Ulrich all threw Tony a look as the billionaire genius quickly added, "They can go into space too."
"And for me, that makes it a bit better," Ulrich stated with a smile. "Any chance I can get a chance to fly it?"
Tony did not answer as he elected to continue with the tour as he said, "Then there's the training room."
"What, like a gym," Wasp asked.
"Well kind of," Tony replied with a knowing look.
It turned out that the "gym" was actually a fully equipped simulator room that was filled with weapons and death traps all designed to cause a great deal of harm if one was not careful enough. Even Ulrich and Aelita had to struggle through the death chamber, despite the fact that they had to deal with similar things back when they first discovered Sector Five. If one were to be honest, the only ones who were not struggling were Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk. The last of those three had beaten the simulation easily and asked, "That the best you got Tin Man?"
"It's self repairing, thanks for asking," Iron Man replied. "By the way, that was level one of ten."
Ulrich was quick to throw Tony a horrified look as Wasp landed on Aelita's shoulder to try and catch her breath. "Okay, I'd just like to amend my previous statement and say that, aside from the death chamber, this place is still better than the factory."
"Tell me about it. It felt like we were back in Sector Five before Lyoko was reformatted all over again, only worse," Aelita agreed.
After everyone had taken a moment to catch their breath, or at least those of them who needed to, Tony led the group to one final room, which turned out to be a very large room with a big, round table in the center. The table itself was decorated with a red border around the blue center which had what was clearly going to be the Avengers logo on the center in black. "And this is the Assembly Hall," Tony declared, finally finishing the tour.
"All the money you've thrown into this is very impressive Tony. Were you bored? Are we your new pet project? Why are we here," Hank asked snidely.
"Hank," Aelita reprimanded.
"No, that's actually a good question. Kind of angry, but that's okay," Tony admitted as he and the others all walked up to the table in the Assembly Hall, except for Hulk who just stood off to the side with his arms crossed. When Tony was standing at the table with the others, he called out, "J.A.R.V.I.S., bring up the most wanted list."
A second later, a large hologram that displayed images of all the supervillians appeared from the center of the table. "Seventy four supervillains escaped the day of the Breakout. Graviton is being held by S.H.I.E.L.D. and we caught Mandrill, but we've got more work to do," Tony began explaining.
"I know many of these villains," Thor told everyone. "The Wrecker and his crew are formidable. His weapon is of un-Earthly might."
"If we do recapture them all, where do we put them? The Big House is destroyed, the Vault is destroyed, and we haven't heard anything about the Cube," Hank pointed out.
"Don't look at us. Most of our enemies were not living beings unless they were possessed by specters, so we didn't really bother trying to capture them," Ulrich told the others, making a mild note of how Aelita threw the Hulk a charming smile and a wave, to which the Hulk only replied with a barely visible smile.
"I'm working with a colleague on something now," Tony then revealed. "Reed Richards has proposed a prison that's actually outside this dimension; in a place he calls the Negative Zone."
"Too much talking. We should just go get these guys," Hulk growled as he punched a fist into his hand.
"We don't even know what caused the Breakout in the first place. What's to stop it from happening there," Hank then argued.
Aelita noticed Ulrich and Wasp seemed to be starting to nod off and quickly said, "Maybe we should call it a day and then worry about catching the bad guys tomorrow. It's not like we've really had much of a chance to rest all that much."
"Aelita's right. We can't do anything if we're constantly working without any rest," Ulrich quickly agreed.
"At least two of you know what they're doing," Hulk grumbled as he started to storm off, never noticing that he had seemed to push Thor over the edge with that comment.
"I have had enough of you, creature," Thor exclaimed angrily as he then stormed up to Hulk once again. "Your insults end here!"
"You want to go Goldilocks? Let's go," Hulk then challenged.
"Whoa, whoa! Okay, how about instead of 'going' we find a way to actually get along," Tony interjected as he tried to separate the two. "Since you two are the only ones staying at the mansion full time, I'd appreciate it if you didn't level the place on day one."
"Actually Tony, Ulrich and I were wondering if it would be okay for us to move into the mansion permanently as well," Aelita then asked.
"What? But Aelita…" Janet started to say, having not heard anything about this at all from the pink haired girl or her adoptive brother.
"Sorry Jan. You've been great letting us stay at your penthouse, but we just feel like we're a bit of a burden on you. Besides, at least this way we'll have something close to our own place for a little while," Aelita explained. Ulrich nodded in agreement with this.
"Well I don't see why not. I was actually going to offer you guys a room here until I heard you were living with Janet, but if you really want to, all the better. Especially since I can likely count on you two to keep Hulk and Thor from leveling the place," Tony agreed. Janet just smiled at the two as she nodded in understanding at why they wanted to do this, and a minute later everyone's attention was drawn to the Hulk as he stormed out of the room.
"Wow. He's gonna be fun," Janet commented.
"Yeah well, just be glad you won't be one of the ones living with him," Ulrich joked in reply. With that said, everyone began to disperse to go and do their own things for a while, and so that Ulrich and Aelita could start moving their stuff.
That night, Hank was working on some adjustments for his robot project, Ultron, at his university lab when Wasp flew up into his face as she stated, "You never listen. I can't believe you don't think this is cool."
"Wait, what," Hank asked. He then perked up thinking that she was talking about his robot and stated, "I do think this is cool. The modifications I've made to the AI are very exciting."
"Ugh. No, not stupid Ultron, the Avengers," Wasp corrected her boyfriend. "We're superheroes now!"
"I'm a scientist," Hank argued.
"With super powers, on a superhero team," Janet pointed out.
"Look, I applaud the idea, but just because Iron Man says we're a team, doesn't make it so," Hank argued again. "We're seven strangers. It takes time to form a team, and it takes trust."
"I agree that it does take trust to form a team Hank, but I'm not so sure about the other things. I mean, when me, Aelita, and all the rest of our old friends first became the Lyoko Warriors, we were just a bunch of strangers too, and yet we did pretty well right from the start," Ulrich argued from his where he was leaning against the wall nearby.
"Don't you have to finish moving your stuff into the mansion," Hank asked Ulrich pointedly.
"I already finished. Moving things into a new home is a lot easier when you have super speed," Ulrich explained. "I tried offering to help Aelita, but she insisted on moving her stuff into the mansion herself."
Hank just nodded while Janet simply started babbling on about random things involving Thor and Hulk before the insect themed heroine declared, "I'm moving into the mansion!"
"What? You have a penthouse apartment in the city you don't have to move…" Hank tried to argue.
"Firemen sleep in the firehouse," Janet argued as she flew up into Hank's face once more.
"Right and this has nothing to do with you missing me and Aelita after we move out of said penthouse," Ulrich asked with a small smirk.
"No it doesn't," Janet retorted before she flew off to do just what she said she was going to do.
"She's very excited," Hank sighed as he looked to Ultron.
"Hank, I'm still right here. Why are you talking to the robot head," Ulrich asked. Hank did nothing more than rub the back of his neck sheepishly before he sat down again to do more work on Ultron.
Hank then thought of something as he paused in his work and turned to Ulrich to ask, "Say Ulrich, how is Aelita doing, really?"
Ulrich paused to think for a moment before he decided to tell Hank, "Honestly, she's been doing about as well as can be expected. She has nightmares of…well when that day happened a bit less often than she used to, but they still cause her to wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and it's still at the point that I'm the only one who can calm her down enough for her to get back to sleep, but beyond that she's fine."
"Well I've noticed that she seems to have nightmares rather often. Are you sure that it's getting better," Hank asked.
"It's not always about that day. A lot of the nightmares she has are actually memories of her past, like the day when her mom was taken away, but she's actually gotten used to those," Ulrich explained. "Why do you ask anyways?"
"Well no real reason beyond the usual concern for our little, pink angel," Hank told Ulrich. "Though I do have to wonder if she's thought about starting to see people again yet?"
"What you mean like dating," Ulrich asked. At Hank's nod in reply, Ulrich just sighed as he told the scientist, "I don't know about that Hank. I mean, Aelita and Jeremy had been in love for years, ever since they met actually. You know, one of those love at first sight things, and I'm honestly not sure if Aelita really is ready to move on to someone new so soon."
"I understand that Ulrich, and I do understand that you never forget your first love, but if Aelita ever wants to truly heal that wound then maybe at least thinking about dating again would help a little, and that goes for you as well," Hank explained.
Ulrich had to admit that Hank had a point in what he was saying, but even so, Ulrich still was not sure that he was ready to start seeing someone else yet either. Still, Ulrich knew that the Ant-Man was right in saying that he and Aelita needed to start seeing other people now so he simply told Hank, "I'll think about that, and I'll try to tell Aelita to do the same, but I make no promises. Oh, and if she gets mad at me as a result of bringing that up, I'm sending her after you."
Hank just smiled in thanks for that, but he was definitely worried at the thought of what an angry Aelita would do to him if that did end up being the case. He was there when she had gone on her little rampage at hearing X.A.N.A.'s name back at Stark Tower too after all, so he did not want to be on the receiving end of the pink haired girl's wrath anytime soon. Both boys were brought out of their thoughts once more when they heard a beeping sound from their Avengers ID cards as Tony's voice spoke through them saying, "Avengers assemble!"
"I knew that had a nice ring to it," Ulrich commented before he and Hank both nodded to each other and switched into their hero alter egos. "I'll run on ahead and meet you there with the others."
"Okay, but be careful," Hank warned Ulrich.
"Don't worry. I didn't last as long as I did in the Lyoko Warriors by just jumping into something blindly all the time," Ulrich reassured Hank, and with that said, Ulrich was racing off in a yellow blur. Hank soon shrank down to his Ant-Man size and called for a fly that he could ride on, and then he was off to wherever the Avengers were needed right then to help the others, knowing that Janet and Aelita were on their way over as well the minute they had received the alert.
Wasp and Angel Guardian were the first to arrive on the scene, which was actually in central park, and they were both shocked to see that the problem they were alerted to the fact that Thor was fighting the Hulk, or rather the Hulk was attacking Thor. Neither one of them could figure out how this had happened, but they could not worry about that now and they both swooped over to Hulk as Aelita called out, "Hulk stop! Why are you doing this? Just calm down, none of us are attacking you."
Aelita's attempts to calm the Hulk were quickly thwarted when Thor slammed a hard right hook across the green giant's jaw, sending the Hulk flying across the field. "Well I guess Thor is," Wasp corrected while Aelita simply threw Thor a look for his actions.
Hulk was then stomping towards the three when Iron Man flew in front of him in an attempt to stop him, shouting, "Hulk, stop this! You have to listen!"
"Alert. Unknown energy detected," J.A.R.V.I.S. then reported to Tony.
"Hulk, wait! There's something…" Iron Man never got the chance to finish his sentence as the Hulk grabbed his head and slammed him into the ground. Wasp was quick to react at that point, and immediately started firing her stingers to get the Hulk to back away from Iron Man, and allow the armored hero to stand up as Aelita and Thor came up to him. "There's some kind of weird energy around the Hulk," Tony explained as he glanced over at the thunder god's primary weapon. "Thor, it's similar to what your hammer gives off."
"Tis dark magic. The Hulk has been enchanted," Thor exclaimed the minute he heard what Iron Man said.
"You mean something's controlling the Hulk," Ulrich asked as he skidded to a stop next to the three.
"Aye indeed Sprint Samurai," Thor confirmed. "And I fear I know who is responsible."
"We'll worry about that later. Right now, we need to get the Hulk to snap out of it, and I think I have an idea on how to do that," Aelita declared as she retracted her wings and knelt down on the ground, almost like she was praying.
"If your plan is to pray that we survive then I'm not exactly all that confident," Iron Man told the girl.
"She's not praying, she's using her creativity powers," Ulrich clarified. "Aelita's planning to use her powers to free the Hulk's mind."
"She can do that?"
"Well I've seen her use it to hack an electronic lock once, but we've never really had much of a reason or even a chance to see if it would work that way," Ulrich admitted.
"I think I can handle it. I just need you all to keep the Hulk busy while I concentrate," Aelita explained.
"That we can do," Iron Man stated as he readied a repulsor to fire. Just before he had the chance though, a large hand slammed down on the Hulk, and everyone looked up to see that Giant-Man had arrived on the scene now.
"I'm guessing this isn't a team trust building exercise," Hank joked. Before anyone could reply, Hank was suddenly flipped over onto his back as the Hulk broke free of his grip.
Ulrich then called out to Hank, "We need to keep the Hulk busy long enough for Aelita to free his mind!"
Hank nodded in understanding, but was soon having a hard time doing that when the Hulk had jumped on top of his head. Thor quickly moved in to try and knock the rage beast off of Giant-Man, but the Hulk was quick to counter by grabbing the thunder god by his cape and then spin him around before throwing him to the side. Hank was about to reach up and grab the Hulk, when Iron Man flew in and was suddenly clothes lined by the Hulk, sending Iron Man tumbling down into the trees. Hulk then jumped down onto Giant-Man's shoulder and punched Hank right in the face, sending the towering giant crashing to the ground, and onto his back. As Hulk was about to continue his attack on Giant-Man, he was suddenly hit by a barrage of energy blasts, forcing him to back up.
"Get away from him," Wasp called out as she flew in, continuing her barrage as she did. Hulk was about to try and squash Wasp between his hands, when he felt a sharp pain in his side. When Hulk turned to the source, he saw the last traces of Ulrich's saber vanish before rematerializing in his right hand, and then watched as the samurai started running around the Hulk at a speed that the gamma ray powered hero could not keep up with. At one point, Ulrich had pulled out his second saber, and started to slash away with both swords while the Hulk tried to hit him, but the combined efforts of Ulrich's speed and Wasp's stinger barrage was making that considerably difficult.
Hulk then roared in anger as he leapt up and slammed both of his fists into the ground. The shockwave quickly threw both Wasp and Ulrich off balance as the former struggled to regain her control in the air while the latter tumbled across the ground. Once Ulrich had successfully landed on his feet though, he assumed a fighting stance with one sword forward in a defensive position while the other was held at his side, pointed towards his opponent, and then started to glow for a minute. A second later, Ulrich seemed to split into three gold colored blurs and his barrage on the Hulk increased to three times what it was before.
Wasp was not sure if Ulrich was just moving faster than before or not until the samurai paused for a minute to reveal that he actually replicated two exact duplicates of himself. "Whoa! You can multiply yourself too," Wasp exclaimed in surprise.
"Yeah. It's a little power I call my Triplicate, but it's not going to do us much good unless Aelita hurries up with what she's doing," one of the Ulrichs stated as he glanced over to Aelita who was still kneeling down on the ground as she was before, but at this point, Ulrich could hear the faint sounds of singing that always accompanied Aelita's creativity, so he could only hope that meant she was getting close to the goal.
From Aelita's perspective, the moment she had started using her powers to do what she wanted to do, there was a bright flash of light before the entire battle had disappeared before her eyes, leaving nothing but darkness in its place. Though it was not total darkness, as Aelita could see traces of green flashes all around her mixed in with an eerie yellowish-green glow. Seeing all this gave Aelita reason to believe that so far her plan seemed to be working, and that she was now in the Hulk's mind.
"Hulk! Can you hear me," Aelita called out. "It's Angel Guardian, you know Aelita? There's something controlling your mind, and I'm here to help you!"
For a moment, there was nothing but silence until a voice Aelita did not recognize called out, "Hello? Is someone there? I need help! Please, I have to get the Hulk to stop before the Avengers are hurt!"
Thinking that this was as good a place to start as any, Aelita began moving towards the source, barely noticing that she was actually floating through the empty space, and she eventually came upon a skinny man with shaggy, brown hair, a messy stubble, and wearing dark pants and a blue hoodie. He was actually very pale and seemed like he had not eaten all that much recently, but what really got Aelita's attention was the fact that his arms and legs were tied down by long chains that extended off into the darkness surrounding them. Aelita then realized that this could only be one person. "Doctor Bruce Banner," Aelita asked.
"Yes, that's me. You're…Aelita right? I saw and heard everything about you and your friend through the Hulk," Banner replied.
"What happened," Aelita asked as she floated up to the chains.
"A woman with blonde hair in a green outfit found a way into the Hulk's mind and then imprisoned me here so that I couldn't stop her," Banner explained.
"Then let's get you out of here quickly, before the Hulk destroys the other Avengers," Aelita stated as she prepared to break the chains holding Bruce.
"Wait," Bruce then called out. "You do know what you're doing right?"
"Not really. This is the first time I've had to hack into someone's mind, but I have done my fair share of computer hacking before, so it shouldn't be too difficult," Aelita admitted. A minute later, she slammed her fist into one of the chains, and Banner's arm was instantly freed. Aelita then moved on to smash apart the chains holding Banner's legs, and after a few strikes, those were freed too.
"Hurry! He's just knocked Wasp and Sprint Samurai aside and is heading for you now," Banner suddenly called out as Aelita started to hit the last chain holding his other arm. Surprisingly, Aelita found herself struggling a bit more, until she concentrated a bit more and then put everything she had into her next strike, freeing Banner completely. The minute she did, a massive glow erupted and Aelita felt herself getting thrown out of Hulk's mind and back into her body.
When Aelita opened her eyes, she jumped a bit at the sight of Hulk's fist mere inches away from her face, until she relaxed and looked up to see the Hulk looking down at her in horror at what he was about to do. He then looked around at the others and saw that they were all pretty badly hurt and he did not need to guess to know that it was his fault. His friends, his teammates, he was trying to take them all down, and while some of them did try to help, the rest all just attacked him like he was some kind of mindless monster, but Hulk really could not blame them after what he had just done.
"Hulk," Aelita called out softly. Hulk then turned to see Aelita looking at him with a soft, worried look, but he then immediately turned away, feeling he could not face her, and started to jump away from her and the rest of the Avengers. Aelita watched him go for a moment until she felt a hand on her shoulder, and she looked up to see Ulrich smiling down at her while the others approached her a minute later.
"That went well," Iron Man stated. "Nice work Angel Guardian. Everyone o…ARGH!"
Everyone spun when they heard Iron Man's cry of pain and saw that a large axe had suddenly wedged itself into his chest as he fell onto his back, right at the feet of a large, bald man with a goatee in strange armor. "The Avengers. How unimpressive," a female voice then stated mockingly.
The Avengers looked to see a woman with long blonde hair that went down to her mid back in a green outfit that left her shoulders bare walk up to stand next to the large man that was now standing over Iron Man, and Aelita could tell almost instantly that this had to be the woman that Banner told her about. "You had better hope someone more capable chooses to avenge you."
The woman then raised a hand blasted a yellowish-green energy that had an appearance similar to smoke at Thor, causing him to drop his hammer long enough for her to wrap some of the same energy around his hammer to prevent him from retrieving it. "J.A.R.V.I.S., raise the shields. Now," Tony told the AI from inside his damaged armor.
"Not possible sir. Armor systems are in critical condition and are losing power," the AI replied.
"How dare you attack us Enchantress," Thor accused the blonde woman as he stood up.
"Wait, wait, wait, hold on a minute, you know these people Thor," Ulrich asked.
"Aye. The Enchantress and her Executioner. They are Asgardians," Thor told his fellow Avengers.
"So what's her damage? Is she your ex-girlfriend or something," Ulrich then joked.
Thor just grunted in reply before he returned his attention to Enchantress and asked, "Why have you come here Amora?"
"Oh you love Midgard so much Thunderer. We thought we'd come and see what all the fuss is about," Enchantress replied casually as she blasted Thor once again. This time though, her blast was deflected with a swing from one of Ulrich's sabers as the samurai spun it around and whipped out the other one.
"Well I'd hate to break it to you, but I'm afraid that we have a very strict no criminal actions rule here for tourists," Ulrich joked as he and the rest of the Avengers charged into action.
Somewhere far away from the battlefield, Hulk had finally stopped his jumping to sit down in an alleyway as he hung his head in shame for what had happened. He had let everyone down, Banner, Aelita, the Avengers, even himself with his actions just now. As Hulk continued to wallow in his sadness, Banner's voice spoke up telling him, "You have to go back. Someone was manipulating you. They wanted you to fight the Avengers! You have to go back and make sure they're okay!"
Hulk only growled in response as he finally admitted, "Everything you said was true. I am a monster."
"It's only true if you let it be. Walk away now, and it will be," Banner told him. Seeing the Hulk was not budging, Banner decided to try a different tactic. "Walk away now, and you'll also be letting Aelita down. She risked her life to free you from the person who was controlling you, and when I met her, I could tell that she never once thought of you as a monster. Are you really willing to let that poor girl down after all that's happened to her?"
Hulk looked up to where Banner was standing, at least in his mind, and let out a low growl in response for a moment, before he finally stood up and asked, "What do you think?"
Banner smirked from inside the Hulk's mind as he watched the Hulk start leaping back to where the Avengers were fighting Enchantress and Executioner.
"Oh this is gonna hurt," Iron Man moaned as he watched the Executioner raise his axe over his head to strike at the immobile hero. Before Executioner could though, he was forced back a barrage from Wasp. Once he was far enough away from both Iron Man and Thor, who Enchantress had easily managed to trap with one of her spells a moment earlier, Wasp quickly flew aside as Giant-Man threw a large fist down at the Executioner.
The problem was, each massive blow that Hank threw at the bald, axe wielding Asgardian was dodged almost effortlessly by the Executioner until finally said Asgardian launched a fireball from his axe right into Hank's face. The blow caught Hank by surprise so much that he instantly shrank back down to his normal size and fell unconscious a moment later. The Executioner was about to move in and finish the job, when a blast of pink energy hit him dead center.
"Leave him alone baldy," Aelita shouted as she flew in with a barrage of energy fields blazing. As she flew around Executioner's attacks and continued her barrage, she had to add, "I know that baldy's really not my best bit of material, but I've only just gotten back into the hero life, so excuse me if I'm a little out of practice when it comes to mocking bad guys." Aelita was about to fire another energy field when she was suddenly blasted and then trapped by Enchantress as well.
The minute the blonde woman had Aelita in her grasp, she lifted the pink haired girl over to her and said, "So you are the one who broke my hold over the monster, hm? I do not know how you were able to accomplish such a task, but it hardly matters now since you are about to meet your end child."
"First off, I'm not a child, and my name is Angel Guardian, and second, don't ever call him a monster! He's my friend," Aelita spat at Enchantress.
"How cute, and you believe that you can actually do something if I do decide to call it as such," Enchantress laughed.
Wasp had then flown over to Iron Man and quickly said, "Iron Man, now might be a good time for some kind of…something?"
"Armor's leaking energy faster than I can recharge," Tony groaned in response. "Unless you've got some spare batteries lying around or an electrical socket…"
Iron Man was not able to finish as Wasp was suddenly wrapped up in Enchantress's energy bindings as well. The blonde Asgardian then looked over the fallen Avengers as Executioner stepped up to where Hank was lying on the ground when she suddenly paused seeing that something was wrong. "Where's the samurai," Amora asked.
The minute she asked that, a flash of gold sped past Executioner and Enchantress, just as both felt like they were just slashed by a sword. They then heard someone shout out, "Hey you little witch and overgrown lumberjack! Nobody messes with my friends!" They then looked to see Ulrich racing towards them, swords drawn, as he split off into three once more. His barrage against the two seemed to hold for a moment until Enchantress was able to use her magic to determine which one was the real Ulrich and then used her powers to direct the Executioner towards him. One blast of fire from the Executioner later, and Ulrich was knocked down onto the ground as well.
Executioner then pinned Hank beneath his foot as Enchantress told him, "The Giant-Man first. His head will make a good trophy on my wall."
"Hank," Wasp gasped, already feeling a tear begin to fall from her eyes, as she was forced to watch as Executioner raised his axe up to chop off Hank's head. Before he could bring his weapon down though, an energy blast forced him off of Hank and then the sound of singing could be heard as the energy around Thor, Wasp, and Thor's hammer began to disperse a little. Enchantress looked to where Aelita was laying, only to gasp in shock as the pink haired girl vanished from sight.
"Sorry to disappoint you Enchantress, but I'm not so easy to take down. Sprint Samurai's not the only one who can duplicate himself," Aelita's voice announced as Enchantress turned to see the first Lyoko Warrior standing tall behind her with one, glowing hand out before her and pointed at Thor's hammer and the others who were trapped. Aelita then smirked and stated, "By the way, I would not look behind you if I were you."
"Do you honestly believe I would fall for such a childish trick," Enchantress asked. Her answer came in the form of a loud roar followed by the sound of something big landing behind her and knocking her off her feet, freeing the other Avengers. Executioner and Enchantress both looked to see that the Hulk had just returned to the battle, and he was pissed.
Amora then had to duck down as Thor's hammer came flying over her head and into Thor's waiting hand. The minute he held the mighty Mjolnir in his grasp once again, Thor called down a massive burst of lightning as Enchantress stood up and proclaimed, "I do not fear your lightning Odinson. Your magic is nothing against mine."
"You are not my target witch," Thor retorted with a small hint of a smirk. A minute after he said that, Iron Man stood up, his armor now more than fully recharged thanks to Thor, and he immediately blasted out of the way of Executioner's attack while Ulrich dashed away at the fastest speed he could manage from the follow-up attack that was directed at him.
Iron Man quickly threw a repulsor blast at Executioner before he landed before the Avengers who were still standing and shouted, "Take them down!"
The minute Iron Man had said that, the Avengers had charged in with Wasp, Hulk, and Aelita fighting against Executioner and Thor, Iron Man, and Ulrich taking on the Enchantress. Thor and Ulrich were both swinging their respective weapons at Enchantress as hard and as fast as they could, but somehow, Amora always managed to either leap or teleport away until finally she threw a blast of magic at Thor that sent him and Hank crashing into the nearby pond. Ulrich then sped around as Iron Man launched numerous repulsor blasts at the blonde woman, which she teleported away from every time, until finally, just as she was about to hit Iron Man with a spell as well, Ulrich was able to hit her with a saber throw.
Hulk was having a difficult time getting to Executioner, as every time he got close, the axe wielder would use his weapon to freeze him in ice before slamming the weapon itself in Hulk. Seeing this made Aelita think that Odd was right to say that freezing people like that was cheating when she did the same to him once on Lyoko, but she quickly shook herself out of her memories as she joined Wasp in firing a barrage of blasts at Executioner. The combined attacks of the two women were just the distraction that Hulk needed to slam a hard fist into the bald Asgardian and send Executioner flying across the sky and out of sight.
Hulk was about to make a move to go after him when suddenly a strange glow surrounded him and he turned to where Enchantress was shielding herself from Iron Man and Ulrich's attacks while Thor was carrying Hank out of the pond as the blonde woman commanded in an eerie voice, "Destroy them all my creature."
Hulk gripped the sides of his head for a minute, trying to fight off Enchantress's magic, when Aelita shouted out, "I told you to not call him that. Now leave my friend alone!"
The sound of singing was heard once more as Aelita extended her hand towards the area between Enchantress and Hulk, and the hand began to glow as the glow of Enchantress's spell on Hulk seemed to weaken just enough for Hulk to break free of it completely. The minute he was freed from Enchantress's spell, Hulk slammed his fists into the ground as he shouted, "NO ONE CONTROLS THE HULK!"
The small earthquake that Hulk had created threw Enchantress off her feet and disoriented her just enough for Thor, Iron Man, and Aelita to all fly up and blast her with everything they had. The minute the dust from the three powerful attacks cleared, Enchantress was revealed to have been knocked out cold, despite the fact that she did not have a scratch on her, and Aelita could swear that she heard Ulrich muttering something about stupid Asgardian invulnerability. Before anyone could have a moment to celebrate their victory, Wasp had shouted out from where she was carrying Hank, "Watch out!"
Her cry of warning was too late, as Thor, Iron Man, and Aelita were knocked aside by Executioner just before the large Asgardian scooped up the blonde woman and escaped through a portal he formed with a swing of his axe. "Does somebody want to explain what that was all about," Hank asked as Janet helped him to limp over to where the others were standing.
"Old enemies from Asgard. The Enchantress has ever found joy in causing me pain," Thor replied solemnly.
Ulrich's eyes then widened a bit as he asked, "Uh Thor. How much of that joke I made about her being your ex-girlfriend was actually true?"
Thor simply ignored Ulrich once again as he approached Hulk with a smile saying, "You have won the day, Friend Hulk. Truly, thou art a warrior to be reckoned with, for few can resist the Enchantress's charms."
"You ask me, she seemed like nothing more than a more dangerous and super powered version of Sissi," Aelita muttered, and Ulrich had to chuckle when he heard that.
"Nothing's changed," Hulk suddenly growled, getting everyone's attention. "You all thought I was a savage monster. You were gonna take me down. You're no different than Ross and S.H.I.E.L.D., except they're honest about it."
"Hulk, come on. It's not like that," Janet tried to say as Hulk started to stomp off.
Hulk then paused only for a moment as he said, "I'm done." He then gave a mighty leap and took off into the night once more.
Aelita and Wasp both sadly watched Hulk leave along with the others as Iron Man commented, "Okay so, not the most promising day two."
"You think," Ulrich asked rhetorically. "Let's just go home and get some sleep."
Everyone instantly agreed with the Samurai and they all began to head back to Avengers Mansion, except for Aelita. She remained where she was for only another second before she spread her wings and began to fly off in the opposite direction of the others.
Hulk was nearly out of the city, still really mad about what had happened and mentally ranting about how he thought that things would be different now if he stuck with the Avengers, when he heard what sounded like wings flapping from behind him. Hulk then quickly landed on a nearby roof and turned around to see Angel Guardian land just a short ways in front of him a minute later. "If you think that I'm gonna come back just cause you're asking, then you're wasting your breath Tinker Bell," Hulk growled.
Aelita stared at Hulk for a minute before she started giggling a little, and when Hulk raised an eyebrow at her, she quickly explained, "I'm sorry, but it's the first time that someone's called me Tinker Bell. Usually it's either Princess or Mrs. Einstein."
"Humph. I'm flattered," Hulk told the giggling girl dryly.
Aelita finally regained control of herself and told Hulk, "I'm not here to talk you into coming back with me Hulk, but I won't deny that it would be good if you did. I'm just here to say that I'm sorry I couldn't help you sooner before the other Avengers had to start fighting you."
Hulk looked down at the girl in surprise for a moment before he said, "It's not your fault. You're not the one everyone thinks is a monster."
"Not everyone thinks that Hulk," Aelita quickly argued, getting a shocked look from the green giant at her outburst. "Ever since I first met you, you've never done anything that would make me think you're a monster. I know what a monster is, and I can say with absolute certainty that you are definitely not a monster. You're a hero same as the rest of us, and more importantly, you're my friend, and I guarantee you that Ulrich feels the same way."
Hulk stared at Aelita in surprise, as this was the first time that anyone had called him a hero and their friend. This girl, who had only known him for about a week, truly seemed to believe that he was a hero, and even considered him to be a friend. As Hulk continued to look at Aelita in shock, the pink haired girl walked up to him and held out a small device that looked like a touch screen phone to him as she stated, "If you still want to leave though, then that's your choice. I don't want to force you to do something you don't want to do, but if you are going to go, then I want you to have this. It's a prototype communicator that I was working on for me and Ulrich to use when we needed them. If you ever get into trouble or you just want to talk, just tap the center and call out one of our names."
Hulk took the device in his hand, and for a moment Aelita was worried he might be considering either throwing it away or just crushing it, until finally, he pocketed the device and turned around to leave again. Just before he did though he softly grumbled, "Thanks Tinker Bell. You're…a good friend."
Aelita's eyes widened for a second as she saw Hulk look back and give her a genuine smile before he leaped off the building and continued on his way. After watching the Hulk disappear into the night for another minute, Aelita allowed herself a small smile at the knowledge that Hulk would be okay and that he would call her or Ulrich if he ever needed anything. Most importantly, she was actually proud at the fact that she had actually gotten the Hulk to consider her a friend and made him smile, and that was something Aelita was sure that not many people were able to do. Feeling completely exhausted now, Aelita opened her wings one more time before she flew off back to Avengers Mansion, more than ready to just collapse on the bed that was waiting for her in her new room at the team's headquarters.
AN: A lot of times when I saw this episode of the series, I couldn't help but wonder what would've happened if there was someone on the Avengers team who had some form of telepathy, and this gave me the chance to explore that possibility. Now I know that technically, Aelita's creativity powers probably couldn't do what they did in this chapter, but given the fact that she did actually use those powers to hack an electronic lock in Season 4 of Code Lyoko, and the fact that they had never actually tried it or said that it couldn't work that way before in the series, I figured why not? If you think that makes Aelita a little overpowered, well in case you hadn't noticed, she needs to really concentrate to use it in that way.
As for the whole thing with the Hulk, I figured why wouldn't he relate to Aelita in some way? The girl just has this thing about her that lets people feel like they can relate to her so well in any way you can imagine, and that especially holds true in Hulk's case. Aelita was hunted by both X.A.N.A. and the men in black just like Hulk was, so that alone would get him to sympathize with her. I guess you could say that in a way, Aelita kind of dominated this chapter, but don't worry, Ulrich will get his chance to do the same in the next chapter. And speaking of the next chapter, heeeeeere's the preview!...
When the Avengers go out looking for the Hulk, they end up finding someone else instead. Someone who the world had thought had died years ago, but was actually still alive, frozen in ice. Captain America, the first Avenger. Any chance to celebrate the return of the living legend is quickly lost though, as Armin Zola unleashes one of his creations on the people of New York. Can the Avengers defeat this enormous, gooey beast? Can Ulrich and Captain America get to them in time, or will Baron Zemo and Whiplash give the two more than they bargained for? Find out next time in…Chapter 3: Living Legend.
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