#RRRRR I HATE BEING BEHIND ON THIS

[thelocalmoth]

Ink Demonth: Day 8

For the prompt: “Line”

Careful, Susie! That can cost you the role nowadays…haha!! No this isn’t late… I probably wont get to today’s until tomorrow. Apologeez.

Or: Susie forgot her line…!

[grazhir]

Rrrrr.

And now I'm irritated at Calibre.

I just finished a fic (mostly because I've been hitting brick walls on actually serious fics I'm trying to complete) that is pure bullshit, mostly so I was writing something. Didn't expect to finish it, but that's not the problem.

So I did the usual export to .epub, [insert a lot of stuff here that isn't relevant to my grief or the problem], and then I import the completed .html pages to Calibre.

I convert from .zip to .azw3, edit the book so I can fix the ToC (to point to title page, etc.), save, and drop a copy into Kindle for PC.

Thing is, this latest time? The CSS was missing shit. Like, I've been using the same fucking CSS for years now? But shit was missing, had to edit the .azw3 copy, and manually paste shit into the .css file.

Honestly, I'm tempted to do a test convert and literally replace the contents of the e-book copy of the .css, and do the same with all the damn story pages.

Because Calibre keeps taking my style.css and giving everything new names, other various changes, and it's really annoying. For the reader it's nothing, because I'm fixing shit behind the scenes before I toss copies into my Digital folder on DropBox.

Maybe I should just bite the bullet and try it, because I'm irritated, and I hate being irritated. It will nag at me. But I'm fuckin' lazy, too, so who knows.

Of course, I finally clicked on the update link for Calibre as it nags me every time I launch the program. Somehow I doubt my issue got fixed, especially since it's not like I've ever sent a detailed email asking why this shit happens.

Why do you rename things from my style.css, like H2 to shit like Calibre12?

[tafferling]

An Odyssey for Two

On Soft Paws

> Ao3 | This one’s all fluff. Literally.

Sinvik has a liking for things with big teeth.

Tom thinks the only thing she ought to like that's got big teeth, is him.

This ancient Greece thing was real pretty. Didn’t matter what island they cozied up with, she’d always find it striking. For one, there was always that brilliant, blue water, so clear she itched real bad to go for a swim, even if she wasn’t awfully good at it. Plus, there were sharks.

Sharks, Tom’d told her (shown her, really), were very big fish.

Fish with big teeth.

So no swimming (for now), just a lot of gawking, because this island in particular was an exceptional sort of pretty. It’s beach was white and soft— like most others were, to be fair —lined with the ocean curling up to it in bright turquoise. And on land, everything smelled real good. Fresh and clean, for the most part. Salt, sunkissed air, and spice and flowers— so. many. flowers. Blue, red, yellow, purple, all popping from the verdant green clinging to craggy hills.

Mh. It was all real gorgeous.

Distracting, too, and it preoccupied her while she followed Tom along the crest of a stoney hill. The ridge was lined with trees laden heavily with red fruit, one of which she juggled idly between her hands. She didn’t know what it was called. Just knew that on the inside it had lots of tiny beads that tasted a little sour and a little sweet, and that were fun to throw into Tom’s open mouth. Or on his nose. Or into his eyes. Probably the eyes most of all.

She smirked, tossed the fruit from one hand to the other again, and when it landed in her palm, Tom got attacked.

It came out of a tree.

And it was rather large. A large, puffy scruff of sand coloured fur that hissed and spat and clung to Tom’s back with wicked claws sinking into his shoulders and tearing bloody ruts down his lower back. Tom, ever so eloquently, screamed and cursed up a storm so colourful it rivalled the variety of flowers all around. He also staggered and thrashed around, frantically trying to throw it off. Whatever it was. Though since the thing was on his back, he couldn’t get his swords— and when he tried to reach back, grab it by the neck to maybe tear it off, it bit his hand.

“Fucking shit fuck shit— get it— get it off— what the fuck.”

Sinvik leaned her head to the side.

It looked like a cat. The thing.

A big, fluffy cat.

With big teeth.

Teeth that suddenly glinted— red on white, because there was blood on them —as they headed straight at her. Seemed like the cat had grown tired of riding on Tom’s back, and decided to leap right over his head and at her.

Which was really unfortunate, because she’d stepped out of Tom’s way just a moment ago (what with how he’d been flailing about like a drunk), which’d put her right at the edge of the crest. And the hill was real steep.

It took Tom a while to find her after that. Mostly because her and the large, angry, fluffy cat had found a narrow crack in the hillside and had gone tumbling ass over paw into a damp, cool cave.

“Vik!” she heard him go. Up there, somewhere. Stomping around. “Viiik?! Where the fuck are you?”

Purrr.

Sinvik sighed and folded forward, sticking her nose and cheeks down, right into the soft fluff sprawled out on her lap. Her hands were busy around its ears and neck, scratching and scratching and scratching. Oh yeah, the fluff was heavy on her lap. Had to admit that. The thing had a lot more muscle and bone and meat under all that fur than she’d originally anticipated. And by Elaya’s ample titties, was it loud. She was surprised Tom hadn’t found her by just following the constant purring that’d started when it’d stopped trying to eat her because Cad’his scratches were a lot better than having said Cad’his stab it with her itsy bitsy sword.

Or maybe Tom did end up trailing the constant Rrrr-rrrr-rrrrr-rrrrr , which led him to the hole above her, his silhouette blotting out the sun spilling in around him.

Said hole was up real high. So high, she’d not even tried climbing it, and picking her way through the dark cave had sounded like a whole lot of effort. Especially since she’d banged up her leg on the way down, and unlike other present company, she didn’t heal in a snap. Three snaps, maybe.

“Vik…” he said up there, voice edged with relief. Same relief that seemed to exhale soundly from his soul, right before it was replaced by a jitter of confusion.

And a stab of jealousy.

Almost like he had a bit of an issue with how she was scratching a purr out of that cat-thing. Maybe even being horribly offended by how she’d taken a liking to yet another thing with big teeth. One that wasn’t him.

Yeah, Tom didn’t like that one little bit.

He sneered at it and sized up the stupid pincushion of claws and tiny sharp teeth and hated it in about two seconds.

“That little shit was trying to tear my back off,” Tom said pointedly, folding his arms. “Y’know, in case you missed that…” and he turned around some to show off a very bloody back that – ow – okay, it hurt.

“ I did something like that to you once,” Vik replied sweetly, scratching the lynx behind an ear.

Tom scoffed. “Pff, no, give me a break – you were obviously aiming for my throat, not my back—and besides, that’s really beside the point right now.”

“Don’t have any forgiveness in your heart?” she teased softly.

Oh come on . “ You’re here, aren’t you?” he said just as sweetly, offering a little smile.

She hummed and shrugged and that stupid ugly cat purred even louder like she’d found some favorite spot to scratch.

Tom sputtered as he started climbing his way down into that tiny fucking crevice they’d managed to find their way into, which was definitely tight on his shoulders on the way in. And he threw another look over one of those (very broad, thanks for noticing) shoulders, saw her petting the cat (no, lynx), and snapped, “Will you stop that?”

“Somebody’s jealous,” she whispered in one of the lynx’s tufted ears.

“I’m so much bigger. My everything is bigger. Incomparable, really,” Tom practically blurted, very pointedly landing in front of her to stand over the two of them and put his hands on his hips.

“Mh.”

“Claws are way bigger…”

“Mh…”

“And don’t get me started on the muscles – or the teeth.”

She sighed.

“See, you’re swooning just thinking about them, babe.”

That got a snort out of her, anyway.

So he quickly added, “And my fur – hair – fur, all of it, it’s a lot softer than that wiry old thing.”

“You haven’t even touched her fur.”

“Yeah, because prissy little pussy bit the hell out of my hand when I tried. But hey, I still felt it when it was trying to get a look at my fucking spine—wait, her? ”

“Her.”

“It’s a her.”

“Tom, jealousy doesn’t make you deaf.”

“Of course it’s a her…” he muttered as he abruptly scooped the both of them up in his arms, halfway to make a point that he could. The lynx started, its purring stuttering for a second and pausing in alarm. “Fine, I’ll bring it with us so I can eat it.”

“You’re not eating the fucking cat.”

“Why not? It wanted to eat me .”

“She only didn’t know you’re a werewolf and those aren’t for eating. Isn’t that right?” she asked the cat, very pointedly, giving it a scratch along the back of its head.

Tom actually growled then, deep and loud and ripping up his throat, and the lynx recoiled in terror in Vik’s arms, ears all flat, and looked ready to take a wild swipe at his face. At least until Vik swiped for it and flicked him right on the bridge of his nose.

Which got him to flinch back with an, “Ow!”

“Rude. Don’t be a brute.”

“I swear to Athena I’ll just eat both of you right now, you like that better? That way you’ll still have your cat.” He pointedly opened his mouth to make a show that he’d gladly shove the both of them down his throat—

He stubbed his toe, hard , on a big old rock because he was paying fuck-all attention to where he was going, and his sandals didn’t really do much for shielding his toes.

Then that set him cursing and sputtering and growling and having to actually look where he walked instead of staring at Vik the whole freaking time.

Which wasn’t nearly as fun. Even if she was just relentlessly teasing him with that purring ball of wiry, staticky (it was so not nearly as pretty as his) fur… And, you know, now also giggling because he’d nearly planted himself face-first in the dirt.

That made him almost wish he had’ve, since he would’ve landed right on top of her and her newfound precious bundle of needles and maybe given them both a good flattening they kinda deserved.

[hellyeahheroes]

36 Pages

I did a thing. In order to hone my own scriptwriting skills, I made an attempt at rewriting two comics I hated, Marvel: Legacy and Secret Empire: Omega, and found redundant into one. One of these comics had 48 pages and another 30. I managed to convey all the same, while conveying the same stuff through just 36 pages and hell I even managed to give some fixes on things I hated (mind you, these fixes are still compromises - I’d rather these things didn’t happen, but I tried to make them happen in a slightly less jarring way). 

If anyone’s interested, check it out below the cut. My ultimate argument why these books were just Marvel desperately trying to grab our money.

- Admin

Secret Empire: Legacy

A rewrite of Secret Empire: Omega by Nick Spencer and Marvel: Legacy by Jason Aaron done by me for exercise purposes. I will attempt to rewrite the following two books into the script for one book. In case I would be leaving a page intact, I will be posting a scan of it instead.The goal is to try to tell both of those stories in a lesser number of pages total and in a way that allows conveying all the same information without wasting two issues.

The rules I set up to myself are that I need to keep up all important information from the two titles and that includes things I didn’t like. Here is the list of things that must be included:

Confrontation between Steve Rogers and HydraCap

Funeral of Black Widow and Winter Soldier’s investigation of possibility she’s still alive

Punisher��s quest for redemption

Fall of New Tian

Avengers 1 000 000 B.C.

Fight between Ghost Rider and Star Brand in Cape Town, ending in the latter’s death (even though I hate said death)

Loki sending Black Ice Berserkers to steal a crate from SHIELD facilities and said Berserkers being intercepted by Falcon, Thor, and Ironheart

One of the Berserkers escaping with the crate only to be intercepted by Wolverine, who takes the Infinity Gem from the crate

Tease of Mangog’s attack on Asgard

Tease of Search for Tony Stark

Tease of Return to Planet Hulk

Deadpool’s return to villainy.

Tease of Voyager stuff in Avengers

Ben and Johnny stuff

Cosmic Wakanda

Norman Osborn’s quest for magic

Franklin and Valeria Richards

I will ignore Steve Rogers stuff from Marvel Legacy because it’s redundant but I will add to this list to acknowledge the death of Quasar, which both of those books failed to address.

It will be written how I write scripts, I give myself right to take from original dialogues as much as I need and cut what I don’t.

So, let us begin

Secret Empire: Legacy

Note 1: Names of the characters will be always written in ALL CAPS

Note 2: There will be two narration boxes used in this issue, symbolizing words spoken by two characters. Those by HydraCap should have dark green borders, those by Steve Rogers - blue ones. Other narration boxes may occur but they will be only occasional or to finish their sentences, no need to make them distinct from each other. Captions will be used to inform of the time and location.

Page 1:

Panel 1:

An inside of a dark cell. HYDRA CAP is standing straight, his back turned to the readers, with hands behind his back, fingers intertwined. He is shirtless from the waist up (don’t worry if his scenes come off as fanservice - despite being a horrible bastard this guy still has a body of Steve Rogers, who is a fine man after all). Despite being in prison he looks like he is still in full control of the situation.

CAPTION: Shadow Pillar. A black site prison many miles off the American soil.

HYDRA CAP: You did not come here to gloat.

Panel 2:

A camera zooms a bit closer, now showing us most of HYDRA CAP above his ankles. He slightly turns his head, giving a slight glimpse of the fact he is growing a beard.

HYDRA CAP:: You could, of course. The war is over, the country is...regaining what it lost, that’s how you probably see it.

Panel 3:

The camera zooms even more on HYDRA CAP, now focusing on his head and bit of shoulders. He turned his head enough that we can see his full profile and yes, he does have a beard.

HYDRA CAP: But that’s out of character for you. I should know.

Page 2:

Panel 1:

A big panel that switches point of view so that now we see HYDRA CAP on the left, with a good view of Hydra symbol tattooed on his chest, while right side of the page shows us who is he looking at - STEVE ROGERS standing in his cell, wearing civilian clothes - including a blue hoodie with a white star symbol. Singular lightning bulb in the ceiling shines dim light on STEVE ROGERS

HYDRA CAP: It comes with the territory.

Page 3:

Six-Panel Grid. Panels on the left, odd panels, are colored in noticeably bleaker colors to give it the look of a distant past or a memory. Odd and respective even panels form pairs as if you saw the scene from one continuing on the other, with different scenery and actors.

Panel 1

A group we will call Avengers 1 000 000 B.C. stands on the frozen field. Prehistoric incarnations of STARBRAND, IRON FIST, PHOENIX, BLACK PANTHER and GHOST RIDER on a WOOLY MAMMOTH, alongside AGAMOTTO, although on this panel we don’t see all of them or see them in much of detail. You can see some mountains behind them. And something else, darker, not possible to identify, obscured by shadows. A snowstorm rages around them.

CAPTION: Earth. One Million Years Ago.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: I know you better than anyone.

Panel 2:

A different frozen field, in a different realm and different scenery - different mountains but nothing else - stands a group of BLACK ICE BERSERKERS. It’s a sunny day.

CAPTION: Now. Jotunheim, Realm of Frost Giants

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: But even I was expecting you sooner.

Panel 3:

A close up on part of the Avengers 1 000 000 B.C. roster, allowing us to see a bit more of them - PHOENIX looking towards something with confidence on her face, while troglodyte STAR BRAND stands behind her, looking worried. AGAMOTTO, in his human form, and BLACK PANTHER stare at that dark thing behind them all.

PHOENIX: You lost it again.

PHOENIX: Every time you throw this thing, it seems to be trying to escape.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: What took you so long?

Panel 4:

A close-up on the BLACK ICE BERSERKERS, as they stare towards something. Serves to provide contrast with the panel next to it and juxtapose heroes with those horrifying, blue barbarians.

A voice outside the panel: I know what you’re thinking.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Was it fear?

Panel 5:

A small silhouette is seen approaching through the snowstorm, it’s hard to tell much of it now, but it appears to be large and carry something heavy in its hands/

Silhouette: Mind your own business.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Were you afraid to look me in the eye?

Panel 6:

In Jotunheim a small silhouette is emerging from behind a nearby hill. While it’s too far away to tell much of the detail, it appears to have large, slick horns and carrying a scepter-shaped object in their hand.

Silhouette: This isn’t the life I expected. The glorious adventure I was destined to lead. That was promised to me since birth.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Afraid of me? Of what I am?

Page 4:

Two large panels, each taking half of the page, juxtaposed next to each other, one on the left, the other on the right side.

Panel 1:

ODIN stands on top of the prehistoric-field. He is visibly younger, his beard still only greying, not white like in present, his outfit simple and far from armors he is known for, a helmet not unlike Thor’s on his head and Mjolnir in his hand.

ODIN: Everyone assembled?

ODIN: Good.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Were you afraid to look at the man who stands for everything you hate?

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Or of the fact that whenever they will look at you, they will always think of him?

Panel 2:

In the present figure behind the hill is revealed to be LOKI, wearing a horned helmet and holding magical scepter. Since Loki can change gender, I will be using he/she pronouns depending on the form in each specific panel. Right now it’s the male form with a confident smirk on his face.

LOKI: Well, welcome to the club.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: That he is and always will be your legacy?

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Or maybe that however much you despise his methods, deep inside you know he is right?

PAGE 5:

Recap page

Pages 6-7

This time we divide two pages in the middle, where the Top Row focuses on Avengers 1 000 000 B.C. and the Bottom Row on LOKI and BLACK ICE BERSERKERS.

Top Row:

Panel 1:

Close-up on PHOENIX and STAR BRAND still standing behind her. He is getting angry, while she looks concerned.

STAR BRAND: Rrrrr...

PHOENIX: The beast is stirring. I and Star-Brand hit it with enough power to destroy the Sun each and it’s still moving.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: I did not seek the power.

Panel 2:

Now a close-up on worried IRON FIST, as she snaps angrily at the last comment.

IRON FIST: It’s Chi burns brighter than the Sun. Brighter than even Shou-Lao the Undying.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: It was given to me. By the law I didn’t ask for.

Panel 3:

IRON FIST turns towards AGAMOTTO, whose expression remains shrouded in shadows.

IRON FIST: Agamotto, you claim to be All-Seeing. Have you ever seen a being such as this?

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: You turned to me to guide you.

Panel 4:

AGAMOTTO strokes his chin, thinking intensively.

AGAMOTTO: Yes. But this one is different. More wanton, more...deranged. It seems almost rabid. Infected or….

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: I didn’t cut you off from rest of the Universe either. You did it yourselves.

Panel 5:

BLACK PANTHER is turned towards dark shape on the horizon, showing his back to the readers. He maintains a stoic posture, arms crossed on his chest

BLACK PANTHER: Infected or not, it raises. The way it’s tearing the ground as if searching for something…

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: You gave me all power to rule as I see fit.

Panel 6:

GHOST RIDER pats his WOOLLY MAMMOTH on the back, like modern human petting his dog.

GHOST RIDER; Whatever it’s doing, it also bleeds. That’s all that matters.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: And I did.

Panel 7:

ODIN nods his head with a rakish smirk.

ODIN: Aye.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: So now...

Bottom Row:

Panel 1:

Close-up on LOKI, who has a rakish smirk, not unlike young ODIN’S on his face.

LOKI: We have all the same Frost Giant blood coursing through our veins. But you lot never quite measured up.

LOKI: Just like me.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: They don’t know what to do with me.

Panel 2:

LOKI looks down, allowing the shadow to obscure his eyes, giving him a mysterious look of somebody who tries to hide his bitterness. Which is exactly the impression he wants to make.

LOKI: Runts of the Litter. Giants in the name only. Crushing disappointments our fathers would rather forget about.

LOKI: But we won’t let them, brothers. Not after tonight.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Make no mistake. I have no delusions of justice.

Panel 3:

LOKI looks up the sky and raises his left hand, half as if he was reaching to his interlocutors and half as if he already was holding the artifact he talks about.

LOKI: It’s out there in Midgard, calling out to me across the realms. A trinket of power to change the worlds.

LOKI: I gave you all descriptions. Taught to read the numbers.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: The deck is always stacked against ones like me.

Panel 4:

LOKI spits with contempt.

LOKI: Of course, you can expect some resistance. It’s Midgard, you cannot throw a rock without five foolish humans rising to stop you.

LOKI: But what is it for my Black Ice Berserkers?

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: But we both know this prison won’t hold me.

Panel 5:

LOKI raises his finger and waves it a bit.

LOKI: Try to not be too murderous. It may attract the attention of those few actually dangerous.

LOKI: No unnecessary risk. Succeed and your glory will be enough for any ambition.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: I will return. Like each of your “villains”.

Panel 6:

LOKI half-turns to show a magical portal opening behind his back.

LOKI: The portal is open. Waste no time.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Like Red Skull. Like Zemo. Like Kang. Like Loki.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: An endless collection of “rogues” for your pitiful super club.

Panel 7:

LOKI steps away from the Portal, allowing BLACK ICE BERSERKERS to rush towards it.

LOKI: Return victorious and children of this realm shall sing songs of your frigid greatness for as long as blizzards roar and skies rain frozen death!

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Adventures for your “heroes”, never-ending nightmare of death and pain for normal people.

Page 8

Panel 1:

Avengers 1 000 000 B.C. all charge towards the unseen enemy. PHOENIX spreads her wings. ODIN swirls his hammer to fly by throwing it, just like his son will be known to do. STAR BRAND and WOOLLY MAMMOTH with GHOST RIDER, IRON FIST and BLACK PANTHER on it’s back, both take a leap. AGAMOTTO begins transforming into a more monstrous form, perhaps that in which he fought Galactus in the 90’s.

ODIN: WE KILL IT!

ODIN: And then we nail its corpse to the Moon as a warning to its kin!  

ODIN: That this world may be hideous….

ODIN: But is protected!

Panel 2:

Loki walks away transforming into female form, her face obscured by the shadow, hiding her feelings. She seems to be slowly vanishing as well. Behind her last few of the BLACK ICE BERSERKERS jump into the portal.

LOKI: Can’t believe they bought that crap. Even despite the truth being far more ludicrous.

LOKI: I’m Loki. The littlest, more liarish giant. And believe it or not…

Page 9:

Splash page showing all of Avengers 1 000 000 B.C. flying to the sky towards giant shape in the sky. A shape that, while still obscured mostly by shadows, gives us a glimpse of its identity - a shape of a giant, robotic hand clenched in a fist, except for the thumb. While the colors are wrong, being green and purple, it looks a lot like the infamous hand of Celestial Arishem the Judge.

NARRATION - LOKI: I’m here to save the world.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Which brings us back to the question….

Page 10:

Panel 1

ROBBIE REYES in his GHOST RIDER form and few other superheroes associated with Los Angeles - NICO MINORU, SUPERNAUT, MOON KNIGHT - standing all roughed up and exhausted but happy from a job well done, surrounded by destroyed Hydra vehicles and dead or unconscious Hydra minions, maybe one of Hydra Helicarriers crashed in a distance. It gives this whole “look, these characters have a life we don’t see and saved the world when nobody was looking” vibe.

NARRATION - ROBBIE REYES: I know I’m still new at this, but I’ve seen my share of weird, from evil spirits to mutant parrots.

NARRATION - ROBBIE REYES: I thought nothing would surprise me after having to liberate my city from Hydra.

NARRATION - ROBBIE REYES: But then I fall asleep….

Panel 2:

HELL’S CHARGER on a mountainside road next to a sing “WELCOME TO CAPE TOWN”

ROBBIE REYES: ...And wake up…..

ROBBIE REYES: IN @#$% SOUTH AFRICA!

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP:.. Why are you here?

Panel 3:

ROBBIE REYES, sitting frustrated in his car, looks like he slept in it too, his hair is a mess. He is so angry he doesn’t notice a person in a red suit (modern-day STAR BRAND, but it won’t be clear until the last panel) approaching his car from a side.

ROBBIE: And of course Eli goes silent. I swear if it’s another one of his schemes….

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: I doubt you came here to do what you should do.

Panel 4:

STAR BRAND’s hand punches through the window and grabs shocked ROBBIE by the throat.

(A note: STAR-BRAND’S dialogues should be in red letters and his speech bubbles look mechanical. When I will be referring to him by his human name, KEVIN, it’s indication of normal dialogue boxes as it’s his human side talking)

ROBBIE: And what was the deal with that dream about riding a Mammo….

STAR-BRAND: We know all about your dreams, Roberto Reyes!

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: To kill me.

Panel 5:

An obscured by shadow silhouettes of STAR-BRAND pulling ROBBIE out of his car and throwing him to the ground.

STAR-BRAND: What’s calling to you…. It has to stay buried, no matter who has to die.

ROBBIE: What the @#$%?! If you’re some sort of local super-hero….

Panel 6:

We get to see STAR-BRAND Standing intimidatingly above ROBBIE, his eyes and fist glowing red. He looks possessed, there is something robotic in the way he stands and moves, like a puppet on strings.

STAR-BRAND: We are Star-Brand, We are Earth’s defense mechanism.

STAR-BRAND: The Rider cannot be allowed to meet with the Sleeper. No matter who Star-brand has to kill. The risk is too great.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: You never could make necessary sacrifices.

Page 11:

Panel 1

STAR BRAND fires a powerful blast of energy that hits ROBBIE with a big explosion, launching a lot of dust and smoke into the air.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: You really loves the sound of your own voice.

Panel 2:

STAR BRAND is being hit from behind by HELL’S CHARGER, moving on it’s own.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: Reminds me of that one guy. Only he was more…

Panel 3:

The smoke clears, revealing ROBBIE, now transformed into his GHOST RIDER form, apparently being able to tank the blast thanks to his powers.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:....Skull-faced.

Panel 4:

We’re back in the cell from earlier. HYDRA CAP stares towards the reader with an outright disgusted look on his face.

HYDRA CAP: Don’t you dare. He was jsut another loose end you couldn’t take care of.

HYDRA CAP: I did. No need to thank me.

Panel 5:

STEVE ROGERS crosses his arms, looking at HYDRA CAP with contempt.

STEVE ROGERS: Should I thank you for some other names?

Panel 6:

A funeral scene in open field, a coffin is being leveled to the grave. Crowds of people much larger than a single funeral could gather.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: Like Rick Jones?

Page 12:

Panel 1:

A large panel showcasing a larger part of the funeral to show it’s not just one coffin being put to the grave, but four. There are huge crowds of people, many of them look genuinely not-human or wear masks or full costumes (although in that case, they wear costumes under appropriate clothes to the funeral). Throw as many superheroes as you feel like, as long as it’s nobody featured somewhere else in the issue. The funeral takes place at Avengers Mansion, next to the statue of original Avengers, although it’s not very well visible from this angle.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:  Or Jack Flag?

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:  Avril Kincaid?

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:  Natasha Romanov?

CAPTION: Avengers Mansion.

Panel 2:

CLINT BARTON kneeling in front of Black Widow’s gave. He is crying and looks completely broken. LUKE CAGE leans over him, putting a hand on his arm.

CLINT: Nat….No….please……

LUKE: C’mon man, let’s get you home...

Panel 3:

An angry woman in black dress storming off from the funeral, leaving behind CAROL DANVERS, holding her hand to her cheek with a shocked expression on her face, as if she just has been slapped. Which is exactly what happened. Next to CAROL stands HENRY GYRICH, holding his arms behind his back, both of them look after the leaving woman.

GYRICH: I believe that was Avril’s girlfriend.

Panel 4:

HUMAN TORCH and THE THING among the crowd.

TORCH: So many heroes showed up. I wonder how many will ever be remembered.

TORCH: You think someone will remember us? Heck, do they still need us?

THING: Spoken like a true moron. Who cares what people remember? As long as we never forget.

THING: And after what happen….You can bet my sweet aunt Petunia they need us. Maybe more than ever before.

Panel 5:

In another part of the crowd, next to the founding Avengers statue are JANET VAN DYNE, NADIA VAN DYNE, and EDWIN JARVIS, the latter looking around with a confused look on his face.

NADIA: Jarvis, what’s wrong? You look distracted.

JARVIS: I know every stone and blade of grass in this mansion and yet….I cannot say what but…..It feels like something is just….wrong.

JANET: It’s this funeral. No….the entire Hydra deal. Things were so utterly wrong for so long the perspective of things being back to normal feels terrifying.

NADIA: Janet’s right. Let’s hope that from now on….

Panel 6

The camera pans back to show the full statue of the Founding Avengers and it is now clear something strange has happened to it - a statue of VOYAGER has been added to the original team.

NADIA:... Everything will be just like it was supposed to be

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:  Should I be grateful for that?

Page 13:

Panel 1:

Back to the cell. HYDRA CAP looks down, While STEVE ROGERS continues

STEVE ROGERS: Or how about everyone in Vegas? Do you want me to thank you for that too?

HYDRA CAP: I’m sorry for your losses. I truly am.

HYDRA CAP: You might not believe it, but I didn’t want anyone to get hurt.

Panel 2:

HYDRA CAP turns back from STEVE ROGERS, looks, to some extent, ashamed. STEVE ROGERS, however, has none of it and it shows in his expression.

HYDRA CAP: I came to Rick’s cell. Begged him to do the right thing. Hell, even make it look like he did.

STEVE ROGERS: And he didn’t. Like you knew he wouldn’t. So you killed him.

Panel 3:

HYDRA CAP turns back to STEVE ROGERS and starts yelling at him, while the latter keeps full composure.

HYDRA CAP: I’m not proud of everything I did! I will regret my choices for the rest of my life!

HYDRA CAP: But you know what? It had to be done.

HYDRA CAP: Look around you.

Panel 4:

Three old, white-robes clad ASGARDIAN ORACLES meditating in their private chamber.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: People no longer look forward the tomorrow.

CAPTION: Asgard. Chamber of the Oracles.

Panel 5:

Just like Panel 4 only now one of the ORACLES falls on her back, screaming and clawing at her own face, while other two rush to stop her.

ORACLE: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

NARRATION- HYDRA CAP: They’re scared of it.

Panel 6

A close-up of the ORACLE’s face, covered in fresh scars, as another forcibly pulls her hands away from her own face, while the third tries to hold her down.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Why should they?

ORACLE: MANGOG IS COMING! MANGOG IS COMING!

Page 14

Panel 1:

EMMA FROST standing in front of a large glass window on one of higher floors of a skyscraper. She is observing something, watching.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: All around them the world is falling apart.

EMMA: I told Steve Rogers no mutant would kneel. Clearly, I meant only to Hydra.

CAPTION: New Tian. Safe Haven of Mutants.

Panel 2:

As panel 1 only now we pan back a bit to reveal HANK McCOY standing nearby and looking at EMMA.

EMMA: Everyone else celebrates overthrowing a fascist rule. Nobody seems to understand that Mutants always live under it.

HANK: Not always.

Panel 3:

The camera pans a little bit further back, showing us more of the building as well.

HANK: For however long it lasted, New Tian was a homeland Mutants dreamt of.

EMMA: Built on a lie.

HANK: But an inspiring one.

Panel 4:

Now the camera pans even further, showing us a building as a whole. It looks dark, a big, overshadowed by something place, completely solitary.

HANK: Generations of Mutants saw a glimpse of what we could have. What we should be.

HANK: I believe this is a map to something better. Something history will smile upon.

SPEAKER: Attention citizen of the New Tian.

PANEL 5:

We pan a bit further, now showing the skyscraper standing surrounded by rest of the city, a lot of which looks demolished or otherwise damaged. From many places raises smoke.

EMMA: And yet, when those history books will be written, I won’t be mentioned. Except as a villain. They will never know what I did here

SPEAKER: Please remain indoors for the planned demolition.

Panel 6:

We pan even further, for the last time, to show the same building and now more of the landscape of devastated New Tian. And SENTINELS flying around.

EMMA: The will never know who their queen was.

SPEAKER: Remember, any interference will be considered a hostile action and preparators will be deemed enemy combatants.

SPEAKER: United States Armed Forces thank you for your cooperation.

Panel 7:

Back in Cape Town, GHOST RIDER is being blasted by STAR-BRAND, this time blast sending him flying back.

STAR-BRAND: If you understood the stakes you would let Star-Brand eliminate you.

STAR-BRAND: This world was cursed because of our kind. Those who saw the First Host and the Great Fall.

STAR-BRAND: This Chaos is our legacy.

Panel 8:

STAR-BRAND flies at high-speed, with two clenched fists forward, towards GHOST RIDER, who is rising from the ground.

STAR-BRAND: There is too much upheaval on the horizon. Too many ways in which everything can come crumbling down.

STAR-BRAND: Too many of our kind already dear or warped beyond all recognition.

Panel 9:

STAR-BRAND tries to ram in GHOST RIDER but the latter grabs his fists and stops the attack mid-air. The impact at this speed sends nearby objects flying.

STAR-BRAND: Beings like us must protect this world….

Page 15:

Panel 1:

A close-up on DEADPOOL’s face, his mask rolled up to above his nose so he can drink. He is, in fact, rising hand for a toast.

NARRATION- STAR BRAND:... even from ourselves.

DEADPOOL: I want to propose a toast for our wonderful friend. A hero. An Avenger. A Five Times Dance Champion.

DEADPOOL: Wade Wilson, ladies and gentlemen!

Panel 2:

A camera pans back a bit to show DEADPOOL sitting at a bar, continuing his toast. Behind him is the window on the street. Behind it you can see multiple police cars parking on the street, including at least one police truck.

DEADPOOL: He saved the Avengers. He saved the world. Everyone loved him! Even Spider-Man!

DEADPOOL: Such a chap, that Wade!

Panel 3:

As above, only now DEADPOOL drinks, while in the back multiple human figures are either leaving police cars or rushing to the bar.

Panel 4:

DEADPOOL puts the drink down with a morbid look on his face, while SWAT TEAM rushes through the door, aiming their guns at him.

DEADPOOL: But then he had to trust a wrong guy.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: They fear even slightest mistake could destroy their lives.

Panel 5:

A bunch of scared HYDRA AGENTS is tied up to a column, surrounded by Hydra vehicles and technology and dead bodies of other agents. A MAN obscured by the shadows is pouring gasoline over them from a canister.

HYDRA AGENT 1: T-there must be a mistake!

MAN: I’ve made a lot of those lately. Trusted a wrong man. No more.

HYDRA AGENT 2: But we’re Hydra! The Immortal Hydra! Cut one limb and two more shall take its place!

Panel 6:

A perspective shift, revealing the MAN to be THE PUNISHER, lightning a match in his hands.

THE PUNISHER: Do you know how they killed your namesake?

Panel 7:

THE PUNISHER walks to his van, building behind him being now utterly set on fire.

Panel 8:

NICK FURY standing on a rooftop, putting down a pair of binoculars and holding a communicator in his ear.

NICK FURY: I’ve found Castle. He’s ready.

Panel 9:

A close-up on IRON FIST’s worried face.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Meanwhile the real bastards always get another chance.

IRON FIST: I’ve been having those dreams. About cavemen and Phoenix…..

Page 16:

9-Panel. Panels 7-9 in the bottom row are in fact one continuous picture divided by panel borders.

Panel 1:

DOCTOR STRANGE and IRON FIST are standing in front of the door to the former’s SANCTUM SANCTORUM.

STRANGE: Could it wait? I think someone tried to break into my house.

IRON FIST: You need any help?

STRANGE: No, it seems they failed.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: And you know what’s the worst?

Panel 2:

We see NORMAN OSBORN observing SANCTUM SANCTORUM from a nearby alleyway, with a grim, angry look on his face.

STRANGE: Fools don’t know how lucky they are. A normal human wouldn't make it alive past the shrubbery.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: That none of you can see what’s right under your eyes.

Panel 3:

NORMAN OSBORN turns back and leaves.

OSBORN: *Sigh* Not the only game in the town, Norman.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: Monsters just waiting for a moment to strike.

Panel 4:

Two SHIELD AGENTS wearing suits and a bunch of SOLDIERS in full military cramped in an elevator. We will follow them for rest of a page as they do nothing but walking and talking in a very boring, awkward and mundane scene - which is exactly how they feel about the situation.

SOLDIER 1: Sorry for being late. Travis thought we’re being followed.

SOLDIER 2: It was the same green Honda for miles, man.

SHIELD AGENT: *sigh* Let’s just get over with it so I can go back to being unemployed, okay?

CAPTION: S.H.I.E.L.D. Storage Facility. Location Classified.

Panel 4:

Now SOLDIERS and SHIELD AGENTS are leaving the elevator, entering a storage hall.

SOLDIER 1: Cannot believe they’re shutting you guys down. I mean, S.H.I.E.L.D. always seemed like such a stable organization.

SHIELD AGENT: God, a cretin, and a smartass. Anyone else having any amusing quirks they wanna share with the class?

Panel 5:

SHIELD AGENTS stop in their tracks and SOLDIERS with them, one of the AGENTS spreading his hands to present the storage, with body language saying “I cannot believe I’m doing this nonsense”.

SHIELD AGENT: Here it is. A room for our darkest secrets, each one could blow you up to kingdom come. Enjoy driving them back to Area 51.

SOLDIER 2: Lovely. Hope you have some manifesto for all this laundry.

Panel 6:

AGENTS and SOLDIERS resume walking, the AGENT talking making a gesture to others to follow him.

SHIELD AGENT: Sure, come with me. Everything is on the list, except for crate 4-1939. Special orders, don’t open, don’t catalog.

SOLDIER 1: And nobody has even gotten curious...

Panel 7:

SHIELD AGENT stops next to a computer and takes the seat in front of it.

SHIELD AGENT: As opposed to you, S.H.I.E.L.D. takes...was taking orders seriously. “Don’t open” means don’t open.

SHIELD AGENT: Let me print the manifesto for you.

Panel 8:

Other SHIELD AGENT and SOLDIERS wait, standing there awkwardly.

SOLDIER 2: Guys, is it me or it suddenly gotten….

Panel 9:

Right behind the group of SOLDIERS opens a portal and first of the BLACK ICE BERSERKERS comes running out of it.

SOLDIER 2, off-panel:....cold?

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP: And the next cataclysm….

Page 17:

Panel 1:

A splash page of BLACK ICE BERSERKERS attacking SOLDIERS and SHIELD AGENTS in very brutal, bloody and barbaric fashion.

NARRATION - HYDRA CAP:... Is probably closer than you can imagine.

Page 18:

Panel 1:

Back to the cell. HYDRA CAP is now completely ranting, making hand gestures

HYDRA CAP: And I could have stopped it all. For a moment, when I held the cube, I saw it happen!

Panel 2:

HYDRA CAP clenches his fists and his teeth in anger

HYDRA CAP: And then Sam Wilson took it from me to bring you back! You condemned us to this world, so twisted and corrupt even magic got twisted to…

Panel 3:

STEVE ROGERS slaps HYDRA CAP with the back of his hand.

STEVE ROGERS: Oh shut up already!

Panel 4:

HYDRA CAP looks towards the readers. He is in shock, holding his cheek.

Panel 5:

STEVE ROGERS stares back with an utter disgust on his face, like if somebody took a dump on his beloved teddy bear.

STEVE ROGERS: You want to know why I came here?

STEVE ROGERS: To see what they changed. What Red Skull took away that turned me into a monster that brought my country to its knees and destroyed the good name I worked so hard to build.

Panel 6:

STEVE ROGERS starts talking, getting increasingly angry

STEVE ROGERS: But what I’ve found was just another misanthrope with no faith in others.

STEVE ROGERS: Let me tell you something about people.

Panel 7:

STEVE ROGERS: Yes, they are easy to sway, scared, most of them just want to go with the flow and hope for the best.

STEVE ROGERS: But we’re not weak.

Panel 8:

STEVE ROGERS: You keep focusing only on our bad, on how we are at our worst. But you know what?

Page 19:

Panel 1:

BLACK ICE BERSERKERS are doing a short work out of SOLDIERS, not realizing a source of light appears behind their back.

Panel 2:

A sudden outburst of light blinds everyone in the storehouse.

Panel 3:

In the middle of the fight, two new characters appear - Sam Wilson as FALCON and Jane Foster as THOR. She is kneeling with MJOLNIR held to the ground - she teleported them there just like her predecessor usually does

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: You forgot all the good ones.

Page 20:

Panel 1:

FALCON flies towards one of BLACK ICE BERSERKERS and punches him, saving one of the SOLDIERS from being cut to pieces. I suggest making this panel an updated homage to 1941 Captain America Comics #1

FALCON: I was looking for a chance to try out the new suit. But maybe one with a bit less bloodbath.

FALCON: Get behind me, man.

Panel 2:

THOR sends several of the BLACK ICE BERSERKERS flying with a swing of her hammer. Similarly to the above, this panel could be a homage to Journey Into Mystery #83

THOR: We should celebrate the new beginning for you with the sweet taste of combat. And later the mead. And your lips.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: No matter what threat arises, there will always be someone to stand against it.

Panel 3:

One of BLACK ICE BERSERKERS grabs one of the SOLDIERS and holds a shortsword to his throat.

BERSERKER: Lay down your weapons! Or I will tear this weakling’s throat like a….

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: And even if they find themselves in a pinch, well...

Panel 4:

And now that BLACK ICE BERSERKER gets hit from behind by a blast of energy, dropping his weapon and releasing the soldier.

BERSERKER: AAAAARGH!

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:... That’s when they usually learn…

Page 21:

Panel 1:

IRONHEART is standing above the felled BLACK ICE BERSERKER in a pose highly reminiscent of that in which Iron Man is depicted on the cover of Tales of Suspense #39

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:... They’re not alone in their fight.

IRONHEART: Sorry I’m late….

Panel 2:

MARY JANE WATSON and a SCIENTIST standing in a room with highly advanced technology - including the chamber in which Tony Stark has been put after his coma.

NARRATION - IRONHEART:...something came out.

SCIENTIST: There is no trace of anyone or anything entering this room. No fluctuations in his biosigns either.

MARY JANE: A man in a coma doesn’t just walk away. Where the hell is Tony Stark?!

Panel 3:

A shot of an archeologist dig site in South Africa. Two black ARCHEOLOGISTS enter their car after a checkup with two SHIELD AGENTS (let’s call them AGENT 3 and 4 to avoid confusion with previous ones).

CAPTION: The Great Karoo Region, South Africa

ARCHEOLOGIST 1: These drawings definitely date to the early Stone Age, doctor. I think we should slow down the dig and study them….

ARCHEOLOGIST 2: Don’t be ridiculous! You’ve seen the lidar scans. The real find lies deeper.

Panel 4:

In the air STAR-BRAND and GHOST RIDER continue their fight - RIDER is currently sitting on STAR-BRAND’s back, trying to strangle him with a chain, while STAR-BRAND flies downwards at incredible speed. It looks incredibly ridiculous.

Panel 5:

AGENT 3 and 4 watch as the car disappears behind a hill far in distance, implying a very large area is being isolated.

AGENT 3: Cannot imagine a more boring job for my last day on S.H.I.E.L.D.

AGENT 4: Tell me about. I cannot remember when was the last time I even shot somebody.

Panel 6:

A huge explosion occurs behind surprised AGENTS 3 and 4, as something (STAR-BRAND and GHOST RIDER, but we don’t see it here) crashed from the sky into the ground at great speed.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: Yes, the crises come one after another….

Page 22:

Panel 1:

STAR-BRAND or rather KEVIN wakes up in a huge crater, GHOST RIDER getting up from the ground not so far behind. KEVIN looks utterly terrified.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: And every other seems more overwhelming than the last.

KEVIN: Please….stop this…..

Panel 2:

KEVIN rushes towards GHOST RIDER, almost losing balance and falling on his knees.

KEVIN: I don’t know what happened to Star-Brand! It went crazy! Took over my body...k-killed people!

Panel 3:

Suddenly AGENTS 3 and 4 show up, the latter shoots KEVIN in the arm.

KEVIN: You need to help me...before I lose control again...before more people….

AGENT 3: Hands in the air!

AGENT 4: Oh to hell with this!

Panel 4:

Close-up on KEVIN’S eyes which become red, as STAR-BRAND takes over once more.

Panel 5:

STAR-BRAND fires a blast of energy and burns AGENT 3 and 4 alive.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: But even in the darkest moments….

Panel 6:

Close up on GHOST RIDER, whose face remains as much of an emotionless enigma as always.

Panel 7:

GHOST RIDER screams as he starts transforming, fire bursting around him.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:... The salvation may come….

Page 23:

Panel 1:

STAR-BRAND spreads his arms, both his palms pulsating with red energy. If you're getting any Dragon Ball vibes from this, this is exactly what I'm going for

STAR-BRAND: Be grateful, flame-child. Star-Brand shall grant you…

Panel 2:

STAR-BRAND:...a quick death!

Panel 3:

A powerful blast of energy hits GHOST RIDER and doesn’t stop there.

Panel 4:

A space shot of EARTH, we see a ray of red light leaving from it and traveling a great distance

Page 24:

Panel 1:

A shot of ray of red energy being visible in space.

Panel 2:

A black-skinned ASTRONOMER, utterly terrified, runs from his highly-advanced telescope.

Panel 3:

We see the same ASTRONOMER running through the street of the highly advanced alien world - or maybe not so alien one. It looks incredibly technologically advanced, but we see both aliens and humans, all of them black, going with their lives, many carrying flags of Wakanda. Soldiers in uniforms resembling that of Black Panther oversee the streets and in the back, we can see a huge monument of T’Challa.

CAPTION: Birnin T’Challa, Planet of the Bast, Benhazin Star System.

CAPTION: Throneworld of the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.

Page 25:

Panels 1-3:

Each of them is showing STAR-BRAND as he keeps firing his blast, each in a closer shot and each more and more showing of a human-shaped shadow growing inside the stream of energy, suggesting something is moving in opposite direction and getting closer.

STAR-BRAND (Panel 1): You still learn controlling the demon. You do not understand the stakes. All more reasons for you to fall.

STAR-BRAND (Panel 2): These are times that will test us. Reshape everything we know.

STAR-BRAND (Panel 3): If Star-Brand allows you to find the Fallen, to bring the Host, there shall be no easy death for….

Panel 4:

A hand in black reaches from behind the panel and grabs STAR-BRAND by the throat, shutting him up.

Page 26:

Panel 1:

GHOST RIDER in a new, transformed form, that from the cover of the never-published 6th issue of his 2016 series, casually stands there, completely unscratched by that powerful attack, and holds STAR-BRAND above the ground by the throat.

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS:..... In the most unlikely forms.

Panel 2:

A very simple close-up, but one that will be telling a lot to the fans of Ghost Rider franchise - a close up on GHOST RIDER’s eyes.

Page 27:

Panel 1:

GHOST RIDER drops STAR-BRAND, who grabs his own head, screaming in pain.

STAR-BRAND: AAAAARGH!

Panel 2:

STAR-BRAND is in agony, having just been hit by Penance Stare. His hands on his head, he is screaming in pain.

STAR-BRAND: The interference! The pain!

STAR-BRAND: So many dead! It was necessary! To save the world!

STAR-BRAND: Star-Brand must….Star-Brand…..

Panel 3:

STAR-BRAND stops as we get a shot showing us his human-looking eyes again, showing KEVIN has taken control back again.

KEVIN:... won’t hurt anyone ever again.

Panel 4:

KEVIN flies off upwards with huge speed.

Panel 5: GHOST RIDER looks up at a huge explosion of red energy in the sky above him.

Panel 6:

GHOST RIDER turns back into ROBBIE REYES, who is really confused about what just happened.

ROBBIE: What the hell was that all about?

ROBBIE: And was that Penance Stare? Since when can I do that?

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: You might say you put something or someone down and I didn’t but trust me….

Page 28:

Panel 1:

A place filled with computers and machinery and computer screens. One of them shows words “Incoming Message From Tayo Star System”. The message is being played by the machine

THE MESSAGE: Zzzzzzt! Found your energy signature… zzzzt!...know you’re alive….zzzzt!

THE MESSAGE: Back to Sakaar! We need you, Green Scar! Please,...zzzzt!

THE MESSAGE: We need you, Hulk!

NARRATION -STEVE ROGERS:...Past is a funny thing.

Panel 2:

A hand putting a photo showing six original RUNAWAYS on the shelf.

NARRATION - THE MESSAGE: It’s time to come home.

Panel 3:

The photo on the shelf is on the left, while on the right we see a person looking like CHASE STEIN walking away from the readers and towards something that looks like an H.G.Wells style time machine.

NARRATION - WINTER SOLDIER: When did that happen?

Panel 4:

A deep night, some unspecified city in some 3rd World Country, middle of the street. WINTER SOLDIER is crouching and checking something on the ground, while a GUIDE is standing nearby with hands in his pockets.

GUIDE: Yesterday. The guy was about to give his speech when the bullet hit.

WINTER SOLDIER: This is exactly where the body fell?

GUIDE: Yes.

Panel 5:

WINTER SOLDIER points at the nearby tall building.

WINTER SOLDIER: He was another wannabe dictator who saw an opportunity in striking a deal with Hydra, yes?

GUIDE: Precisely.

WINTER SOLDIER: Makes sense why she terminated him.

GUIDE: She? How do you know it was a woman?

WINTER SOLDIER: Because the shot was from that building.

Panel 6:

WINTER SOLDIER looks upwards, unsure what does it all really means himself.

WINTER SOLDIER: The angle, the way it happened, the chosen caliber, that’s all her signature style.

WINTER SOLDIER: Natasha….

NARRATION - STEVE ROGERS: It doesn’t like to stay down.

Page 29:

Panel 1:

OLD MAN LOGAN entering the room in an unspecified place covered in darkness, holding a can of beer in hand. He’s smiling, amused by something.

OLD MAN LOGAN: Well, won’t you look at that?

Panel 2:

IRONHEART, THOR, and FALCON utterly wreck some more of the BLACK ICE BERSERKERS.

Panel 3:

Two of the BLACK ICE BERSERKERS are running between the shelves, one of them, named SNARR carrying the box labeled 4-1939. OTHER BERSERKER is showing him the exit door.

SNARR: These are not the Avengers we heard of! Mere pretenders! I Snarr, son of….

OTHER BERSERKER: Silence! You will take the bounty back to Loki and finish the bargain!

Panel 4:

SNARR runs towards the exit, while OTHER BERSERKER runs in the opposite way, towards the fight. Both of them have morbid looks on their faces.

OTHER BERSERKER: And see we are remembered.

Panel 5:

SNARR runs out of the military complex, he is now running towards the nearby forest.

Panel 6:

SNARR is standing between the threes with the crate and a crystal, yelling to it like to a phone

SNARR: I have it, Loki! Open the portal! Loki?!

Panel 7:

SNARR turns back when a pair of reflectors flashes behind his back.

SNARR: About time you….Loki?

Panel 8:

It’s revealed what the reflectors belong to - a green Honda. A person, obscured by the shadows, is getting out of it.

Page 30:

Panel 1:

OLD MAN LOGAN opens a can of beer.

OLD MAN LOGAN: Everyone missed you, you know?

Panel 2:

SNARR seen from some distance, he is cocky and amused

SNARR: Begone, worm.

SNARR: I am Snarr, son of Scarrcicle, Son of Coldbone, warrior of the Jotunheim.

Panel 3:

SNARR, now seen a bit closer, pulls out a dagger, smiling sadistically.

SNARR: And you should start screaming now before this dagger carves you into a puddle of bloody slush.

Panel 4:

SNARR, now seen even closer, a bit surprised but still rather amused, getting himself excited.

SNARR: No running away? Aren’t you brave one, little worm? Dead, little worm?

Panel 5:

A closer shot on SNARR, who gets completely agitated and excited at the prospect of killing this human.

SNARR: You are dead! You hear me human? Dead!

Page 31:

Panel 1:

The entire page is just one big black panel with huge red word SNIKT! written in a font that looks like if someone has scratched it on the wood with a sharp object.

Page 32:

Panel 1:

On the first plane a cut open corpse of SNARR. On the second a person, still obscured by the shadows, drinking from a can next to the crate carried by ice giant.

Panel 2:

As before, but that person has finished drinking and throws crushed can into the hole in SNARR’s chest and with other hand reaches to the crate.

Panel 3:

Somewhere else, on a spaceship, GAMORA stares shocked at a computer screen.

GAMORA: The readings just all fired up! Another Infinity Stone has been found!

Panel 4:

OLD MAN LOGAN standing with a can of beer next to what was once the adamantium form in which his past self was trapped and which now look like it’s been torn open from the inside.

OLD MAN LOGAN: Welcome back…

Page 33:

Panel 1:

A full-page picture of WOLVERINE holding a shinning, Blue Infinity stone in hand, SNARR”s corpse and a green Honda in the background.

NARRATION - OLD MAN LOGAN:...Bub.

Page 34:

Panel 1:

We’re back to the cell, one last time. STEVE ROGERS is pointing fingers accusingly at HYDRA CAP and yelling angrily.

STEVE ROGERS: You kept saying how you didn’t break any laws to gain power. How it was given to you by the people.

STEVE ROGERS: But those people trusted you to not abuse that power. And you did exactly that.

Panel 2:

STEVE ROGERS starts walking towards HYDRA CAP, his entire body language saying how angry he is.

STEVE ROGERS: You keep saying how strong you were, but all I see is another selfish politician. More concerned with his own image and connection, than doing the right thing.

STEVE ROGERS: People with power, of any kind, make their every decision based on how it might affect others and them as well.

Panel 3:

HYDRA CAP tries to chime in, but STEVE ROGERS shoves a hand in front of his face, without touching it, with this gesture preemptively ordering him to shut up.

STEVE ROGERS: If you really were strong, you would be able to make decisions that might not be best for you. You would be able to say no to the council no matter their reaction.

STEVE ROGERS: You would be able to take actions potentially undermining your power and keep going.

STEVE ROGERS: Conservation of power should be of no importance to you.

Panel 4:

STEVE ROGERS stands now right in front of HYDRA CAP, tapping the latter’s chest with his finger and looking at him with pure disgust.

STEVE ROGERS: Most of the times in a moral dilemma, the right decision is the one hardest for you.

STEVE ROGERS: If you really were a man who makes hard decisions, you would not bomb Vegas. You would keep Rick Jones alive. Consequences be damned.

Panel 5:

STEVE ROGERS turns his back to HYDRA CAP and starts walking away.

STEVE ROGERS: But you didn’t. Because for all your talk, you’re not me. You’re no different from a Skrull, an LMD or William Burnside. Or any other knockoffs of me Hydra made over the years.

STEVE ROGERS: It doesn’t matter how you look. I know exactly what you are.

Panel 6:

STEVE ROGERS leaves the cell, leaving HYDRA CAP alone.

Steve Rogers: And I’ve been fighting you my whole life.

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Panel 1:

Two ARCHEOLOGISTS from earlier are now exploring an underground cave, their flashlights the only source of light. They stop in front of a wall covered in caveman drawings that look like symbols of Star-Brand and Iron Fist, an open eye, a burning bird and burning skull, a panther and a hammer.

ARCHEOLOGIST 1: These drawings are unlike anything I’ve ever seen in a cave dating back to the stone age.

ARCHEOLOGIST 2: That’s what I was talking about. There is truth here, about where we came from. One science and religion both missed.

Panel 2:

As above but now both ARCHEOLOGISTS are distracted by LOKI walking pass them with hands in her pockets.

ARCHEOLOGIST 2: What if there is something unnatural about our origin? What if everything we know and love is some grand cosmic mis….

LOKI: A stone would be nice, but hey, not the only game in town.

Panel 3:

ARCHEOLOGISTS chase after LOKI, who disappears behind the corner.

ARCHEOLOGIST 1: You shouldn’t be here!

LOKI: Speaking of which, hello, new friend. Guess they really should have nailed you to the Moon like father wanted.

LOKI: What was that thing you wanted to do?

Panel 4:

Two ARCHEOLOGISTS take a turn, only to end in front of a giant hand of a CELESTIAL trapped in the cave, that reaches to crush them. LOKI leans on the wall casually.

CELESTIAL: SUMMON THE FINAL HOST!

CELESTIAL: CLEANSE THEM ALL!

LOKI: Sounds good to me.

Panel 5:

A shot of a nebula in space, looking like a giant hand forming across a single, shinning star and a child’s hand in white bodysuit reaching to it.

A VOICE, off-panel: What are you doing?

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Exactly like the final Page of Marvel: Legacy #1: