Hey, everyone! I'm back with another chapter of Ultimate Alliance What If...?! Let's begin!
I DON'T OWN ANYONE IN THIS SERIES!*
Watcher: Time. Space. Reality. It's more than a linear path. It's a prism of endless possibility, where a single choice can branch out into infinite realities, creating alternate worlds from the ones you know. I am the Watcher. I am your guide through these vast new realities. Follow me and ponder the question... What if...?
Monday
We see Black Widow taking a drive with Nick Fury.
Nick Fury: There was an idea to bring together a group of--
Black Widow: Remarkable people? To see if they could become something more? I know. I've heard the speech.
Nick Fury: Then you realize what's at stake.
Black Widow: Which is why I'm surprised you'd wanna bet the future of the Avenger Initative on that.
She means that they drove to see Iron Man sitting and eating donuts on the outside of a dount shop.
Nick Fury: Stark may be eccentric, but he's got potential.
Black Widow: What he's got is a hangover.
Nick Fury: Did I ever tell you about this one time I actually recruited a Russian assassin to join my American covert ops team?
Black Widow: Vaguely rings a bell.
Nick Fury: Then you should know, I'm not afraid of a big swing. [gets out of car] [to Stark] Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to exit the donut.
Soon, the two went inside to talk.
Iron Man: I told you I don't wanna join your super-secret boyband.
Nick Fury: [chuckles] No, no, no. See, I remember, you do everything yourself. How's that working out for you?
Iron Man: I've been worse.
Nick Fury: You've become a problem, a problem I have to deal with. Contrary to your belief, you are not the center of my universe.
Iron Man: I get it.
Nick Fury: Hit him.
What he means by that is Black Widow injected Stark with a serum. in his neck.
Iron Man: [screams] God. What'd she just do to me?
Nick Fury: What did we just do for you? That's lithium dioxide. It's gonna take the edge off.
Black Widow: It's not a cure, it just abates the symptoms?
That's when started to feel weird.
Nick Fury: Stark! You okay?
Iron Man: [coughs] [groans]
Nick Fury: Stark!
Black Widow: Tony. Tony!
She then flips him to his back and tries to find his pulse. That when she said...
Black Widow: He's dead.
The two looked in shock of what just happen. We then sees the Watcher in space.
Watcher: Humanity, so eager, so willing to face the impossible, yet blind to the bigger picture. Inside one week, three strange and seperate stories unfolded. A genius battled his demons both inside and out, while the world met the monster hiding in the man. And a godly prince fell to Earth. I am the Watcher. And where humans see chaos, I see the crucible that would trnasform this collection of individuals into a team of heroes. At least, that's how things played out in one universe. But in this one...
Tuesday
We now see Mjolnir a crater, and Phil Coulson came towards it.
Coulson: [on phone] Sir, we found it.
Nick Fury: Kind of in the middle of something here, Coulson.
Coulson: [on phone] Not sure it can wait, sir. Locals are getting curious.
Nick Fury: Set up a perimeter, and tell the team I'm en route. [hangs up]
Nick was in a prison where Natasha was being taken to another prison.
Black Widow: I may not have been a fan of Tony Stark, but I didn't kill him.
Brock: Save your spin for Pierce. He wants you in New York first thing for questioning.
Nick Fury: Wanna give us a minute?
Black Widow: This wasn't me.
Nick Fury: I know that, but S.H.I.E.L.D. has protocols, so my hands, like yours, are tied.
Black Widow: You know these won't hold me.
Nick Fury: Oh, I'm counting on it. Someone inside S.H.I.E.L.D. compromised Stark's antidote. [hands her the injector] I need someone on the outside to find out who.
Black Widow: Sure you wanna take another big swing on me, boss?
Nick Fury: Safest bet I'll ever make.
Soon, she went inside a truck with the other soldier were sitting in and they drives away. While they were driving, Black Widow went and made her move.
Black Widow: Wow. So serious. Maybe we should get some tunes going. Lighten the mood. [scoffs] You guys are no fun. Here. [hands soldier her cuffs] Mind holding these for me?
Soldier: Of course. Uh... what?
Soon, she started to fight the soldiers.
[all groaning]
Brock: I never did get what he sees in her. Sure, she can land a punch, but only 'cause people don't expect it.
[all groaning]
Brock: [hears thuds] What? Stop! Stop the truck!
[tires screeching]
He then goes into the back to see that the soldiers were beaten up and Nat was gone!
Brock: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh! Come on!
Natasha was running away from Brock, when a giant hand grabs her. The giant hand came from 2012 Bumblebee.
Bumblebee: [holding her] [African voice] Hey, you good?
Natasha: An Autobot?
Bumblebee: [Elvis voice] Nest team send me. [southern man voice] Just to see how you're doing.
Meanwhile, Nick, Hawkeye, and Coulson were in Puente Antiguo, New Mexico, where Mjolnir was, while a thunderstorm was roaring by.
Hawkeye: Best we can tell, it's extremely powerful and not from around here. Electromagnetic, neutron, vita radiations, all off the charts.
While they were talking, someone broke in and punch on of the guards.
Guard: [groans] [thuds]
While he was doing that, the storm was getting worst.
Nick: [hears storm] Well, that doesn't sound ominous at all.
Hawkeye: It's been happening all night. The artifact has a bit of an attitude. Also, no one can lift it. Not even Jackson and he does CrossFit.
Nick: Something that powerful goes missing, someone always come looking.
Then the mystery figure was still fighting the guards.
Nick: We just have to cross our fingers that someone is an ally.
Hawkeye: So, what's the move?
Nick: Same as always. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.
Then, Coulson notice a guard on the ground knocked out and reported it.
Coulson: We got a man down. Sound the alarms.
[alarm blaring]
[men shouting]
Hawkeye: I think the worst just got here.
That's when Nick and Hawkeye went to their business.
Nick: Coulson, talk to me.
Coulson: We got a perimeter breach. Multiple agentsdown and...
He then notice the men taking down the guards. Turns out, it was Thor!
Coulson: Whoa. I got visual on the intruder. He;s a Caucasian male, mid-twenties with... really great hair.
Nick: [confused] Excuse me?
Coulson: It's an accurate description. Sir, he's gorgeous.
Nick: I need eyes in the sky. Barton.
Hawkeye: Already on it.
Turns out, he went in a cart that was hanging up in the air by a hook.
Hawkeye: He's making a move on the hammer. One shot, one kill, sir. Just say the word.
Fury: Hold your fire. I wanna see this.
Thor then went to hammer to grab it.
Thor: [sighs]
Hawkeye: Whoa. Coulson wasn't lying about the hair. That's nice. Fury, now or never.
Thor: [grabs hammer] [grunts]
Nick: Hold your-
But before he could lift the hammer, Hawkeye shot Thor and killed him!
Nick: Damn it, Barton. I told you to stand down.
Hawkeye: I did! Wasn't me! I didn't shoot!
Then guards came to the crime scene and point their guns at him.
Guard: Drop your weapon!
Hawkeye: I swear, I didn't shoot.
Nick: [sees arrow in Thor] Your arrow would indicate otherwise.
Soon, Hawkeye was locked up in a cell.
Hawkeye: This doesn't make any sense. I don't slip. I don't misfire.
Then Nick and Coulson came to his cell.
Coulson: What's the word on our intruder?
Nick: Dead. And if his blood samples are to be believed, he's almost a thousand years old and not of this world.
Coulson: First Stark, now Muscle Beach. That's two high value S.H.I.E.L.D. targets killed by our own agents inside twenty four hours.
Nick: Barton's sticking to his story?
Coulson: He's pretty bent out of shape in there. He won't talk to anyone.
Nick: He'll talk to me.
[trilling]
Nick then went inside Hawkeye cell to talk to him.
Nick: Wake up, Sleeping Beauty. Barton.
Turns out, Hawkeye was dead!
Nick: [grunts] Barton. Coulson, get a medic.
Coulson: How could this... Who did you let in here?
Guard #1: No one.
Guard #2: No one.
Nick: Stay with me. Stay with me.
Later on...
Coulson: We're running a tox screen to see if it was a cyanide capsule.
Nick: Barton had a wife and kids. If he was goona go, it wouldn't be willingly.
Coulson: You think he was murdered.
Nick: If I had to guess, my omney is on the same someone who killed Stark.
Coulson: But Barton was in a locked cell under observation. There was no sign of struggle, no entry wounds.
Nick: It's weird, but I also have a space corpse that looks like a Chippendales dancer rotting on the next table over.
Coulson: [sniffs] Oh, wow. Even while rotting, he smells like lavender.
Nick: Really? [sniffing] Mmm.
Coulson:Still, there's not a lot connecting a billionaire playboy and a S.H.I.E.L.D. assasin, unless you have any ideas.
Nick: There was an idea.
When Nick left, Coulson was still smelling Thor.
Wednesday
In Culver University, Virginia, Natasha met up with Dr. Betty Ross.
Natasha: Dr.Ross. Not sure if you remember me, but-
Betty Ross: [sighs] Oh, I remember. And I'll tell you the same thing I told you the last time S.H.I.E.L.D. came poking around. I haven't seen him.
Natasha: I'm not here about the green guy.
Betty Ross: His name is Dr.Bruce Banner. And I'm in a rush, Agent Romanoff.
Natasha: I'm here about Tony Stark. I believe he was murdered.
Betty Ross: What? By whom?
Natahsa: Me. Or at least someone's trying to make it look that way, using this.
Betty Ross: So, why did you come to me?
Natasha: You're an expert in the tactical applications of cellular biology.
Betty Ross: There are plenty of others. Why did you really come here?
Natasha: I need to keep this off S.H.I.E.L.D.'s radar and you seem to have some experience in that department.
Soon, the two got to work.
Betty Ross: Mmm. Well, your injector's clean and there's no trace of lethal pathogens of any kind.
Natasha: Then what killed him?
Betty Ross: Whatever it was, it wasn't biological. Your antidote didn't even make it out of the syringe. It looks to me like a tiny projectile of some kind was fired from the needle.
Natasha: You're thinking nanotech?
Betty Ross: I'm a biologist, not a ballistics expert. And I believe we're done here.
Natasha then started to look around and notice a pizza deliver uniform.
Natasha: Huh. You got a side job, Dr.Ross?
Betty Ross: What? I don't know. I... A student have left it there.
Natasha: [chuckles]
[cell phone ringing]
Turns out, her phone was ringing.
Nick: I got bad news and worse news. You in a secure location?
Natasha: Not currently.
Nick: Barton's dead.
Natasha: [inhales deeply]
Nick: I know what he meant to you.
Natasha: [sighs] [anger] Who do I kill?
Fury: Looks like his and Stark's muders are connected.
Natasha: By what?
Nick: The Avengers Initiative. Seems our killer is going after the candidates.
Natasha: If someone wanted to kneecap S.H.I.E.L.D., that's a good place to start. Who else is on the list?
Nick: That's the thing. Brunce Banner and you.
Natasha: Inder different circumstances, I'd be flattered. So would Clint.
Nick: You need to get yourself to ground. But first, find Banner.
When she look at Betty doing a quick look at the locker, she know what was going on.
Natasha: Funny thing, boss. Think I already have.
She then goes to the locker, but Betty block her.
Betty Ross: I... I'm sorry, but I can't let you in there.
Natasha: [threatening] Move, or I'll make you move.
That's when...
Bruce: [opens door] No need for violence, agent Romanoff. That's probably not gonna work out. For anyone.
That's when she sense something coming.
Bruce: What? What is it?
Natasha: We need to go. Now.
[helicopter blades hovering]
Meanwhile, Coulson was driving back to the desert base, while the Watcher was watching him.
[cell phone ringing]
Fury: What's your twenty, Coulson?
Coulson: Coffee run. Needed a breather. Got you a double macchiato. Just how you like it.
When he arrived, he felt something shaking.
[rumbling]
Coulson: What the...
That's when a beam of light came crashing down from the sky.
Agent: Director, sensors are reporting a massive energy surge. Seem like it came out of nowhere.
Nick: What are you seeing, Coulson?
Coulson: A meteorological phenomenon of some kind.
Turns out, the beam came from Asgard when came out Loki, Fandral, Hogun, Sif, and Volstagg with Asgardian soldiers and the Destroyer!
Coulson: Oh, boy. Whatever it is, it came with bogeys.
Nick: They look like they're from Earth?
Coulson: Maybe Middle-Earth?
Then more agents came out with Nick.
Coulson: Go get 'em, boss.
Nick: [to Loki] Looking for directions, sir? Because you seem to have lost your way.
Loki: [chuckles] You would do best to kneel before a god.
Nick: We don't really do that here. No matter who or what you are.
Loki: I am Loki, Crown Prince of Asgard. The rightful king of Jotun-
[cell phone ringing]
Loki: [clears throat] Jotunheim. And God of M-
[cell phone ringing]
Loki: Mischief. Are you gonna take that? I'm in the middle of something.
Meanwhile...
Natasha: Damn it, Fury! Pick up.
Turns out, Nat was calling Nick about her problem.
Bruce: Het, I'm telling you, it's safer for everyone if I fend for myself. I sort of can't die.
Natasha: Then I guess you're in luck.
turns out, an army came to the university, lead by Thaddeus Ross.
Thaddeus Ross: Look alive, people. I want strike teams locked, loaded, and ready to move in on my mark.
Meanwhile, Nick decided to answer his phone.
Nick: I'm a little busy here, Widow.
Natasha: Oh, good. We'll start a support group. I've got Gerenal Ross, a dozen snipers and a few tanks. What are you dealing with?
Nick: Space viking.
Natasha: Show-off.
Nick: Handle it, then get to ground.
[cell phone beeps]
Loki: [groans] Lady trouble?
Nick: Well, what exactly is it that brought you here, Mr.Loki?
Loki: Vengeance. An agent of this planet murdered Thor Odinson, the Crown Prince of Asgard.
Back with Nat...
Natasha: Natasha Romanoff, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. I have Bruce Banner in my custody. You need to stand down.
That's when something shot Bruce in the shoulder!
Bruce: [groans]
Natasha: Hey, hey! Don't shoot!
Thaddeus Ross: Who the hell opened fire?
Soldier: Not us, sir. We're clear.
Natasha: Bruce! It's okay. We're okay, right? I'll get you out of this. I swear on my life.
Loki: Director Fury, you fail to comperhend the enormity of the situation.
Nick: Oh, I'm comprehending, all right.
Loki then pulls out the Casket of Ancient Winters and Bruce transforms into Hulk, creating problems on both sides!
Bruce: Agent Romanoff, I think you might be better off getting out of here.
Nick: Which is why I have to ask, what's in the box?
Loki: Ooh. Such insolence will not be tolerated. And your planet will be taken as retribution.
Bruce: [groaning]
He then transforms into the Hulk!
Hulk: [roars]
Thaddeus Ross: Take it down!
[guns firing]
While Hulk was fighting the soldiers, Loki blasted the agents with the ice power inside the Casket!
Thaddeus Ross: Oh, you want some of this? Come on! [shoots at him]
Betty Ross: [runs in] Father! No! Stop! Stop, please!
Thaddeus Ross: [screaming]
Betty Ross: [sobbing] Stop!
Natasha: [stops her] There's nothing you can do.
Betty Ross: That's my father. He'll listen to me.
Natasha: The Gerenal isn't the one who started this.
Betty Ross: [gasping] Then who did?
After a few minutes, Hulk started to grow in size, leaving everyone in shocked!
Betty Ross: Bruce! Bruce!
After a few seconds, the Hulk exploded!
Betty Ross: [sobbing] No. No, no, no. Bruce. But he can't die. He can't die. He can't.
Nick: Declaring war on this planet will not bring your prince back!
Sif: [stops Loki] Wait. He's not wrong. The All-Father would want us to listen.
Nick: We have the same enemy here. The person who killed your brother also killed two of my people. Good people. We should be working together.
loki: We are not alies.
Nick: Then let me help you. I promise, when I find your brother's killer, you will have your pound of flesh.
Loki: What a fascinating choice of words. But I shall require the entire corpse.
Nick: You need to give me time.
Loki then looks at the sun and decided...
Loki: Very well. You have until the next rise of Midgard's sun to deliver my brother's assassin, or I will reduce this planet to ash and ice.
Back with Nat, she was in Manassas, Virginia library, calling Coulson on looking up what was going on.
Coulson: Why do you need my password?
Natasha: [sighs] I need to get into the Avengers Initiative files, but I'm locked out of the system and wanted for murder.
Coulson: I'm not telling you my password, Romanoff.
Natasha: Why not?
Coulson: Because I'm not.
Natasha: Coulson. Clint was your friend, too.
Coulson: [sighs] Hashtag-Steve-Steve-Steve-I-heart-Steve-0-7-0-4.
Natasha: Wow. Good one, Coulson.
Coulson: What?
Natasha: No, nothing. That's great. Thank you.
She then looks up the Avengers Initiative files and discovers...
Natahsa: Huh How did a woman who dies two years ago access the database yesterday?
As she was calling Nick, she sense something. Or someone...
Natasha: You won't win. Not against me. Not against S.H.I.E.L.D.
That's when she started to get hit by someone with incredible strength.
Nick: [voicemail] You found me. You know what to do.
Natasha: Fury, it's Hope! It's all about Hope!
That was herlast words before she was dragged into the darkness and was killed! Back in Mexico, Nick received her voicemail and was thinking.
Natasha: [message] It's Hope! It's all about Hope! It's Hope! It's all about Hope! It's Hope! It's all about Hope!
Coulson: Four hours to sunup, sir.
Nick: I haven't forgotten.
Coulson: Sir, I understand that this Prince Loki situation is the very reason you proposed the Avengers Initiative for a group of remarkable individuals to fight the battles we can't.
Nick: I wrote the speech.
Coulson: There's still one name left, sir. Yours.
Nick then realises something.
Nick: I'm not the only Avenger left.
Coulson: What?
He then went to his car, find the device to someone he knew.
Coulson: Is that a beeper from the '90s?
Nick: Also our last hope. "Hope. It's all about Hope." [chuckles] Widow.
Coulson: Boss? Where are you going?
Nick: Not sure. Either make a pact with a god or deal with a devil.
Soon, he went to where Loki was, to see the Destroyer guarding the entrance.
Nick: [gets out of car] You got a name, soldier?
Destroyer: [powering up]
Nick: I'm here to see your boss.
Thursday
In San Francisco, California, Nick was in a graveyard, looking at tombstone until he came to a certain one.
Nick: [hears something] If it isn't Hank Pym.
It was Hank Pym, now known as Yellowjacket!
Yellowjacket: The balls you have to come here and stand over her grave.
Nick: Oh, don't worry about her. I doubt she'd mind, considering she's dead.
Yellowjacket: She died because S.H.I.E.L.D. killed her. She died because of you.
Nick: Agent Nope Van Dyne was killed on a mission outside Odessa, Ukraine.
Yellowjacket: Agent? She was my daughter! My little girl. She missed her mother and you exploited that!
Nick: Her mother was an agent?
Yellowjacket: Don't play the fool with me, Fury. You filled her head with nonsense about protecting humanity and saving the world. You just left out how she died the same way her mother did, doing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s dirty work!
Nick: And that gave you permission to murder them? Anthony Stark? Clint Barton? Bruce Banner? Natasha Romanoff?
Yellowjacket: You took everything from me. I wanted you to hurt. To witness everything you've ever worked for... fought for... hoped for... die.
Turns out, he was the one killing the Avengers!
Nick: And what of Thor, Prince of Asgard?
Yellowjacket: Goldilocks? You would have recruited him in a heartbeat. Sold him some malarkey about being a hero. That's what you do. What S.H.I.E.L.D. has always done. Find others to fight your battles.
Nick: That's it? You murdered him because you could?
Yellowjacket: His death was a favor. Yours will be a triumph.
He then started to fight Nick. But, for some reason, Nick was dodging and blocking all of his attacks.
Yellowjacket: What the... You're still pretty spry for a guy with a corner office.
He tried to hit Nick, but he was still dodging and blocking!
Yellowjacket: You never cared about Hope.
Nick: I don't give a damn about any of them. [laughs]
Yellowjacket: [grunts]
He then charges at him and try to hit him, but nothing.
Yellowjacket: Fury! Come on.
Nick: You're supposed to be a killer? Well, come on, then. Kill me.
Yellowjacket then blasted him, but it ended up hitting Hope's tombstone.
Yellowjacket: [gasp]
Nick: Ooh.
When he tried to punch Nick, he dissapeared!
Yellowjacket: How are you...
Nick: [dissapears] [laughing]
Yellowjacket: Stop moving, Fury. What are you doing? Let's go- It's like you're everywhere. Aah!
No matter what happened, he couldn't hit Nick! He then flies up to escape Nick, but was stopped by ice!
Nick: [laughing]
Turns out, all of the things happening was from Loki!
Yellowjacket: Uh, what's with the goth kid?
Loki: Hello. Trickster God. Hi.
Nick: S.H.I.E.L.D. is people, people willing to give their lives for something greater than themselves to save the world from men like you. [takes out Pym-particles from him]
That's when Asgardian guards came and took Hank away.
Nick: Angent Hope Van Dyne understood that and she will never be forgotten.
Yellowjacket: Then you honor her. Then honor her.
Loki: Well, tihs was an aboslute pleasure, Director Fury.
Nick: Good. Now take your hammer and get off my planet.
Loki: [chuckles] About that, we should be allies. You know, I've just had an idea. I was thinking I might extend my stay here on Midgard.
Nick: For how long?
Friday
Turns out, Loki was thinking of taking over Earth, when he went to United Nations, New York City.
Loki: Good evening, my loyal subjects. It is with great pride that I stand before you today to announce that in just one day's time, the nations of Earth have put aside their differences and united under my command. It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom hobbles you, diminishes your life's joy. You were made to be ruled. So I have come to help you fulfill your destiny.
Meanwhile, Nick and Coulson were in a airport, where five coffins where the five dead Avengers were in.
Coulson: The Avengers fell before they had a chance to rise. May they rest in peace.
Nick: They can, but we won't. The Avengers were always meant to be more than a team. They were an idea, the affirmation of humanity's need to believe that in our darkest hour, we will find our heroes.
Watcher: I believe that in this universe, as in every other, hope never dies. As long as someone keeps their good eye on the bigger picture.
That's when Nick went to a aircraft in the Artic and found Captain America in ice.
Nick: Welcome back, Captain.
Suddenly...
Captian Marvel: So where's the fight?
End