CAPTAIN AMERICA...WINNER?
The Avengers, as well as their fans in the Garden, all cheered in approval as the shield carrying Cap had just arrived back into the arena after defeating Zemo. Out of all the Avengers, Spidey cheered the loudest, which earned him confused looks from Wolverine and Hawkeye, but smiles from Wasp and Ms. Marvel, who shared his admiration for the Sentinel of Liberty. "ALL RIGHT, CAP!' he exclaimed. "Way to show that Citizen V guy whose..." Suddenly, the Wall-Crawler's happiness soon turned to concern as he looked harder at Cap and noticed something odd about him. "...Cap?"
As Cap waked over to his team, he did not appear to be in the best of spirits. Namely that his skin looked pale and that he seemed to be barely awake, and worse, having trouble breathing.
A sight that greatly worried Iron Man. "Steve?" he asked, moving towards his fellow Avenger. "Steve, are you okay?"
Spidey and the rest of the Avengers were all equally scared for Cap, and they all slowly followed Iron Man in checking with the seemingly sickened Super Soldier.
As for Cap himself, his skin was now pale and with small black veins showing. "Tony...I..." Before Cap could utter another word, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and passed out into Iron Man's arms.
Something which shocked and scared the people in the Garden, especially Spidey. "CAP!" he yelled as he, as well as the rest of the shocked Avengers, all ran towards Iron Man as he began to sweep the now unconscious Captain off of his feet.
After cradling in Cap in his arms, Iron Man saw his teammates coming to him through the corner of his eyes and thus turned to them. "Everybody calm down!" he told his fellow Avengers loudly, causing them to stop in their tracks. "I can get Cap to a hospital in less than three minutes, so just sit tight!" The Shellhead then turned away from his teammates and looked straight ahead over the crowd and to the front doors up ahead with two guards standing by. "J.A.R.V.I.S., divert all power to jet boots!"
"I just did," J.A.R.V.I.S. replied, sounding just as determined in saving Cap as Iron Man was.
Without wasting any time, Iron Man powered on his jet boots and shot off of the stage like a bottle rocket, flew over the crowd and towards the front doors. All which frightened the guards enough to open the doors and let Iron Man leave the stadium with Cap in tow.
After watching Iron Man leave with sickly Super Soldier, as well as leave the crowd in a state of anarchy, the announcer is prompted to try and regain the crowd's attention. "Everybody, please stay calm!" he told them, trying to hide his nervousness of the situation, but with minimal success. "We're not exactly sure what just happened to the Captain, but as you just saw, Iron Man is taking care of it!"
With the crowd in disarray, the Avengers were scared and practically clueless. An equally concerned Spidey somehow knew in his gut as to what was responsible for Cap suddenly collapsing, and more importantly, who. To which prompted the Web-Head to look straight ahead and see who he knew had everything to do with this, and thus muttered his name with intense anger. "Osborn!"
Sure enough, Norman Osborn, within his Iron Patriot armor, looked on at the events with his evil smile behind his faceplate as he mentally activated the intercom system in his helmet to contact Maria Hill "Agent Hill, when Zemo arrives in the Helocarrior, don't put him in a cell. He may have lost, but he still did his job in eliminating Cap, so why punish him?"
Back in the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helocarrior, the defeated Baron Zemo, still clad in his Citizen V uniform, was in his lavish quarters, standing over a golden sink and in front of a mirror. With a sigh, Zemo took off his mask and bared witness to his reflection of a cracked life-like mask resembling that of John Watkins Jr., a man who at one point was the hero known as Citizen V, but was killed by Zemo himself so the former leader of H.Y.D.R.A. could steal his identity. Seeing no point in keeping it, Zemo bashed the face, causing it to crumble in pieces into the sink and reveal Baron Zemo's horribly disfigured face, something that he still felt that Captain America was responsible for, and was confident that he made him pay, despite losing the match. Moments later, he pulled out a drawer underneath the sink and pulled out something that he considered his 'true face,' his purple mask as well as his golden crown. Wasting no time, the Master of Evil placed his mask back over his head, and right after he put on the crown, he heard a buzzing noise, which occurred when someone outside pressed a button to signify their arrival. "Enter," said Zemo as he put on and secured the gold crown on his head.
The door opened, and the person who rang the buzzer was that of Maria Hill, who at this time was holding an iPad-like device right underneath her arm.
"Ah, Agent Hill," said Zemo as he saw her reflection in the window, then turned to face her. "I assume you are here to escort me to a holding cell and place me with the rest of the Avengers imprisoned, as well as the fools who lost their matches?"
"No," Maria replied, her face stern and emotionless. "Mr. Osborn wanted me to inform that despite losing your match, he congratulates you in eliminating Captain America. And as a reward, you won't be confined to a cell."
Zemo chuckled once he heard this news, then held up his hand to reveal a small needle within the ring he was wearing. The needled itself contained the Morlun virus, to which he injected into Cap's system when he grabbed his left shoulder in their match together. "If that is the case, then take that something 'unfortunate' happened to the Captain?"
To answer that, Maria pulled out the iPad and showed Zemo the image of Cap collapsing in Madison Square Garden, a sight that filled him with dark, evil glee. "Excellent."
Elsewhere on the planet, and more accurately, the vast Pacific Ocean, the Hulk tirelessly swam through wave after wave, trying to get back to the United States, using the thought of making Norman Osborn pay for what he did to him in New Mexico as motivation. Suddenly, while in mid-stroke, the Hulk is caught by surprise when a mysterious bright light shined over him, and what was worse, began lifting him up out of the water and into the air. Moments later, the strange force that lifted the Jade Giant up is revealed to be a large, circular like craft, which opened it's bottom doors and brought Hulk himself inside. Once the Green Goliath was inside, the ship closed it's doors and flew higher into the sky.
Inside the ship, the Hulk soon founded himself in a darkened room and anger surged within him as he now knew he had to deal with another person dumb enough to get in his way of getting to Osborn. "Don't know who you are," he growled. "But I only want Osborn, and I already got a list of idiots who tried to stop me. So either let me go or get smashed!"
Suddenly, the door just above opens up to show a blinding light...as well as condescending laughter coming from what sounded like a middle-aged man. "Still thinking that you, a pea-brained monster, is in control of the situation. A middle-aged man came out of the light and revealed himself to be that of the green-skinned, large-headed man that was one of the Hulk's oldest, long-standing foes, the Leader, who by this time was inside a large, hovering metal capsule-like craft. "Well, you are sorely mistaken, old enemy," said the Leader in his usual stuck up demeanor, then pressed a button on the control capsule, which caused the pod to admit field, one which attracted two massive arms, bigger than the Hulk himself, which soon connected to both of the capsule's sides. To make matters worse, two massive legs come from out of the floor and attach themselves at the bottom of the capsule, turning it into a giant mechanical suit. "This time, you will finally bow before your Leader, before I finally finish you off, once and for all!"