This story has 2 separate strands.
The 1st opens in the city of Bayamo in Cuba in 1959. 2 men in an open-top car are searching the streets because the driver believes he's seen Nick Fury but the other 1 doesn't believe it. Then they do see the target looking like he's just been waiting for them. They stop abruptly, Fury runs off and the passenger jumps out and gives chase. After a while he shoots at him but misses, then he gives up the chase because he's winded. The car pulls up, the passenger gets back in and they restart the chase, but only after a bus has got in the way. They catch up to Fury eventually, but he tosses a couple of live grenades into their laps. They leap out to escape. The passenger doesn't make it but the driver tries to crawl to his gun until Fury stamps on his wrist.
Nick has been joined by Dum Dum Dugan and Gabe Jones. Fury addresses the man as a Kraut and accuses him of war crimes. The German protests that the war ended years ago. Then he tries the "I was only following orders" excuse. Then finally defiantly declares that the Reich will rise again. Then they shoot him.
In the present the New Avengers (Dr Strange, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Spider-Man, Thing and Wolverine) are on a rooftop stakeout of a closed-down store called Things N Things in Barrington, Rhode Island. They alert Mockingbird undercover as a waitress in the next door coffee shop when 3 big trucks arrive and overly-muscled men (and women) start moving large metal equipment in. Then a car draws up and a statuesque female gets out who their liaison Victoria Hand had pre-identified as Dr Deirdre Wentworth who goes by the super-id Superia. She immediately starts bossing the minions around.
Dr Strange sends his astral self inside to see what they're doing and then reports back that it's as predicted. Superia has hired ex-Agents of Norman Osborn's HAMMER (replacing SHIELD) and they're setting up a high-tech base. Logan wants to get proactive. He'll cause a distraction while the others steal the trucks before they're unloaded. Cage and Ben Grimm agree but the others (except Bobbi Morse listening in) think they need to wait for them to do something actually illegal.
Thing takes it upon himself to demonstrate their bad intentions by leaping down into the building (smashing through the roof). Those outside immediately rush in with guns. Spidey, Strange and Wolvie join Thing while Danny Rand, Jessica and Luke head for the trucks. Danny admits that he doesn't have a driving license, because as an inhabitant of New York and K'un Lun (and head of a corporation) he's never needed 1. He and Jess find keys left in their vehicles but Luke has to call on the hot-wiring skills of his youth, but in the end just picks his truck up and carries it away.
Inside there's a lot of shooting which doesn't bother Thing, and Spider-Man and Wolverine just dodge. DrS has his own defences, plus he casts the illusion of a monster which scares some of the foes away. Mockingbird joins in by taking down fleeing enemies with flying kicks and such. Then she gets distracted by a Spidey joke ... and she gets shot in the stomach.
Back in 1959 Cuba Nick Fury's drinking alone in a cantina when he's approached by his superior Gen'l Hill (in civvies) who says the President wants him to stop hunting Nazis and help him with some project called the Avengers Initiative.
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Story #2Avengers Assemble - the oral history of the Earth's mightiest heroes Chapter 13 part 4
Writer:
Brian Michael Bendis. Penciler/Inker:
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Synopsis
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This is the end of the Kree/Skrull War. Part 3 in
Avengers #9 dwelt on #92 where the team testified before the Alien
Activities Commission and got disbanded (by Skrulls masquerading as
Captain America, Iron Man and Thor). This issue will cover the whole of
#93-97.
The real
Cap,
IM and Thor brought in
Dr Pym as
Ant-Man to
save
Vision's life from within his
synthezoid body while
Quicksilver
and
Scarlet Witch were taken with
Captain Marvel and
Carol Danvers to
the Skrull's Andromeda Galaxy. The government sent
Mandroids against the
Avengers. (Via the involvement of the
Kree-created
Inhumans)
Rick Jones
got kidnapped to the Kree capital planet. This turned out to be the
Supreme Intelligence's masterplan as he caused Rick to generate old
Timely heroes from his mind which miraculously ended the war. When they
all got home the leader of the Alien Activities Commission turned out to
be a Skrull.
Avengers #10 doesn't have an instalment of this story so the next bit will be in our
#11.
CharactersGood (or All)Plus: Carol Danvers.