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scans_dailyThey saved Manhattan too.
They did it on a day in September, when the astrological cartel's army stole over the island before the dawn's early light could.
The men who'd taken Zodiac's coin cut the island off from New York and took its populace hostage.
Their leader, their supreme commander Aries, made their work known to America. He claimed that no rescue would come from outside, because of the force field that now surrounded the island, or from within- because the four Avengers who were there'd been captured by his men.
The lives that he held, he said, could only be purchased with a billion-dollar ransom. If none was presented within twenty-four hours, all who weren't Zodiac would be liquidated.
There seemed to be no one who could gainsay him- the other Avengers were out of town, along with the Fantastic Four. Spidey was in Queens, and had his aunt's health to take care of.
And the Man Without Fear?
He was helpless, and then he wasn't.
The two of them dealt with the Zodiac's soldiers and confronted their general Aries, demanding to know where the Avengers were.
He revealed that he'd moved them, then demanded DD and BP's surrender on threat of their deaths.
" Surrender? So we would all be your captives? Refused! "
(Matt's reading list's varied.)
Dawn soon came, rising on Aries's planned public execution of the Avengers in Madison Square Garden.
To a forcibly massed crowd, he bragged about how Zodiac'd captured the Avengers " in but a few moments- "
That was just what Matt wanted.
" - the very machine which has held four mighty Avengers in a state of suspended animation! "
The freed heroes went to work on their erstwhile captors.
" Aries! H-help us, supreme one-! "
" It's a little late for that, rat! If you can't see the writing on the wall- I'll read it to you! "
(The Panther was there the whole time.)
Aries took flight.
Thor went after him..
.. and brought him to justice.
The Zodiac's army surrendered in the wake of their commander's annihilation.
After the fact, all the Avengers plus Daredevil and the Panther discussed things at Avengers Mansion.
The ones who'd been out of town revealed how the business that'd taken them away'd been part of Zodiac's plans. What'd happened in the course of that'd forced Aries to move early; Cap wondered if that hastiness'd caused his defeat.
Iron Man opined that they wouldn't even have been able to defeat him if it hadn't been for Daredevil and the Panther.
" Is he blind? "
" Certainly not! Why ever would you think that? "
(Oh yes, pagecount- about 6 and 1/6 of 20 pages.)
They did it on a day in September, when the astrological cartel's army stole over the island before the dawn's early light could.
The men who'd taken Zodiac's coin cut the island off from New York and took its populace hostage.
Their leader, their supreme commander Aries, made their work known to America. He claimed that no rescue would come from outside, because of the force field that now surrounded the island, or from within- because the four Avengers who were there'd been captured by his men.
The lives that he held, he said, could only be purchased with a billion-dollar ransom. If none was presented within twenty-four hours, all who weren't Zodiac would be liquidated.
There seemed to be no one who could gainsay him- the other Avengers were out of town, along with the Fantastic Four. Spidey was in Queens, and had his aunt's health to take care of.
And the Man Without Fear?
He was helpless, and then he wasn't.
The two of them dealt with the Zodiac's soldiers and confronted their general Aries, demanding to know where the Avengers were.
He revealed that he'd moved them, then demanded DD and BP's surrender on threat of their deaths.
" Surrender? So we would all be your captives? Refused! "
(Matt's reading list's varied.)
Dawn soon came, rising on Aries's planned public execution of the Avengers in Madison Square Garden.
To a forcibly massed crowd, he bragged about how Zodiac'd captured the Avengers " in but a few moments- "
That was just what Matt wanted.
" - the very machine which has held four mighty Avengers in a state of suspended animation! "
The freed heroes went to work on their erstwhile captors.
" Aries! H-help us, supreme one-! "
" It's a little late for that, rat! If you can't see the writing on the wall- I'll read it to you! "
(The Panther was there the whole time.)
Aries took flight.
Thor went after him..
.. and brought him to justice.
The Zodiac's army surrendered in the wake of their commander's annihilation.
After the fact, all the Avengers plus Daredevil and the Panther discussed things at Avengers Mansion.
The ones who'd been out of town revealed how the business that'd taken them away'd been part of Zodiac's plans. What'd happened in the course of that'd forced Aries to move early; Cap wondered if that hastiness'd caused his defeat.
Iron Man opined that they wouldn't even have been able to defeat him if it hadn't been for Daredevil and the Panther.
" Is he blind? "
" Certainly not! Why ever would you think that? "
(Oh yes, pagecount- about 6 and 1/6 of 20 pages.)
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Date: 2015-11-14 06:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-11-14 06:09 am (UTC)(That Agent Carter short on Blu-Ray does not seem to be "in continuity" anymore.)
My idea for the Zodiac Key: whoever holds it has to tell the truth. If they go with "Scorpio is Jake Fury, some sort of relative of Nick Fury and he can't lie," that would be interesting.