ASTONISHING AVENGERS #9 By: Stephen Kelley In the interrogation room of the aliens mothership Steve and Tony were undergoing brutal torture, " you can torture me all you like, but I won't fold to someone like you" Steve said the alien Queen just laughed and Steve's face "so did the previous captain America's, you'll be no different from them the same could be said for Mr. stark for we are the kal'thraky"the queen said with the venomous and cocky smirk. Two sentrys were in a hallway conversing with each other while meanwhile unbeknownst to their gaze a small little critter was crawling across the floor. "Please don't let them see me please don't let them see me" "you need to chill Eric"falcon said over the earcom "acting all nervous and twitchy like that and they will see you" "yeah that's easy for you to say you're not the one having to do recon" "and I'm not the one who can shrink to the size of an ant and fit through most then some holes, I would like nothing more than to help you but unfortunately "Antman" they'd blast me out the sky if I try to do any aerial recon"Sam said with annoyance, "cut the radio chatter"Melissa snapped "they could be listening for any COM frequencies and would know that we're coming, maintain radio silence is much as you can unless absolutely necessary" "this is getting dull and boring" "easy big guy, if things go south then you'll have plenty of stuff to cut up, smashup, Maime, cripple" Sam could hear Melissa seething on the other end and both he and skaar stopped talking. Meanwhile inside Eric scurried around when he saw Sentry go through we presumed was a locked door he needed a distraction to slip through unnoticed using his helmet he summoned a small army to "ankle bite"the soldiers distracting them into thinking that there was a pest problem and as the guards eliminated the ants and went through the door they didn't notice a small man running for his life to try not getting caught in or shut out from the door however as was the case with Eric's bad luck the guard he bumped into one of the guards and rise the guard went to turn around and saw him Eric's fighter flight instinct kicked in and he grew to normal size grabbed the guard and remembering how Pym taught him judo throwed the guard into the other one and then he heard a buzzing and immediately Eric thought that they had set off an alarm but when the buzzing stopped it was just a janitorial drone. Eric breathed a sigh of relief "sorry about the mess I left you"Eric jested as the janitorial drone just looked at them then a screeching came out of it along with lots of clanking and lucky for Eric those investments in adult diapers paid off as he had soiled himself because the janitorial drone had turned into a killer death bot "hey look it's wall-e" and to Eric shock the robot actually turned to look giving him time to shrink down and run him between its legs and the robot then started lumbering after him "guys I may need some help I got wall-es mechanical steroid induced cousin chasing me and I also crapped my pants you know just in case one of you happens to smell something" Melissa face palmed while over the comm skaar about died with laughter. "Guys we need to form a"and then Songbird heard a loud crash and alarms blaring and everything, "Sam did he just" "do you even need to ask" "hey you guys said when things went "South" well they did I'm going in and nobody's stopping me" "normally I'm not one for excessive force but I gotta agree with the big guy at the it's about time that we start taken the fight and quit trying to do this covert ops crap I mean what are we the avengers or that secret avengers group that captain america had a while back"dark Hawk said sarcastically, "what the very least can you do me a favor" "and what's that" "can you make it rain on these guys so I can do a "flyby shot"I want to get a good assessment of what their antiair is like" "I think I got something for that"dark Hawk said in a devious tone as his armor produced miniature rocket launchers. Back at Avengers tower vision and singulara looked on in horror as in the distance they could hear the rumblings and explosions and it reminded them of their home earth 612, Earth 612 was a "sister"Earth to 616 on that Earth things were a lot different magneto was never a villain but was a founder of the X school believing in the same message that Charles Xavier did that humans and mutants must be able to coexist also one that world, Felicia Hardy was blind and was in fact the daredevil of that Earth, rather than Gwen Stacy being killed it was Peter Parker and Stacy ended up being the spider woman of that Earth, but the saddest of the mall was Dr. Stephen strange who after watching his wife Clea be killed right in front of him by her uncle dormammu strange snapped and killed him effectively making himself the ruler of the dark dimension and it was mordo who sealed strange in the dark dimension Erica was the third daughter of magneto another big difference vision was a lot different as he was built by the Hank Pym of that Earth and he would in turn create ultron and in the final fight that led to the planet being left nearly barren by the kal'thraky vision lost his love and ended up killing "his son"ultron after he had killed Hank Pym visions "father". Many died in that fight many were left over hero and villain alike and though there are many differences Erica and vision knew one thing, if the kal'thraky weren't stopped here the entire multi-verse would be doomed, "designation, we must help the avengers of this Earth even if it costs us our lives I realize Erica this is not the choice that you desire but it is better that we die in battle fighting for freedom then submitting to being slaves like we were before" "I know that vision it's just, I don't know where dad is on even know if he's alive"Erica said with tears streaming down her face "I don't know what to do, I HATE BEING HELPLESS" Erica roared as she nearly shattered the floor "I know, the time it is taking for my repair unit to get me fully operational again is most unpleasant, I only hope that the avengers can hold out in time"vision said with great concern despite his robotic tone. To be continued in issue 10