Introduction: Where I Explain How It Happened Without Explaining How It Happened

"No! Tony, the Abdnicore!"

"What?!"

Too late.

Thunder suddenly boomed across the darkened night sky with such a force the very stars seemed to shake. White lightning split the sky in two in a flash. The ground rumbled and the air seemed to fizz around them.

It was happening.

"Oh dear God. . .he's opened it."

The air on the roof seemed to fold and condense in on itself, sucking like a vacuum but at the same time blowing like a tornado. It was an odd feeling, being pushed and pulled at the same time.

It was a feeling that only added to the adrenalin now pumping through their veins because something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong. Something that they might not ever be able to undo.

"Hey, you guys never told me. . .!"

The rectangular, box shaped machine on the edge of the roof began to shake and convulse, stuck in its own mini seizure. It toppled from left to right and front to back. It moved so fast, it looked like nothing more than a grey blur.

And once it started, there was nothing in the world that could stop it.

"What!? We never told you what?!"

The box began to glow. It started slowly, emitting from somewhere deep inside the machine, a faint white glow that spread to every corner and surface of the box, making it shine as brightly as a car headlight. Soon it was glowing so brightly you had no choice but to look away from it. Still it shook and, still, there was no way to stop it.

". . .What exactly happens when it opens?!"

The box exploded. It happened like a firework—loud, going off in all directions, and in some sort of way, kind of beautiful. The glowing white light, which had exploded to fill half of the roof, suddenly turned into a power vacuum, sucking into it everything that was near.

The box had just emitted a portal which was now absorbing everything on the roof.

The Avengers were on the roof.

The potted plants, the benches, the tiny trees, everything was suddenly hurling through the air with surprisingly speed and sent flying into the portal, where it disappeared into the white light.

"Well. . .we never told you. . .because we don't know."

One by one, Earth's mightiest heroes were sent flying into this portal, to an unknown time, an unknown place, an unknown land. The portal shut behind them.

The thunder was silent.

The lightning stopped.

The air was cool.

The night was calm. . .and the Avengers were gone.