Marvel's Avengers Assemble

Ready to have your socks rocked off?

Those of you courteous enough to wear socks.

Just play.

Out.

Way off, Hawkeye.

Out. And...

Out.

Again.

Bar none, the best training session.

What is that, eight-zip?

Yeah. Is there a point to this?

I'm with falcon.

This isn't the best team-building exercise.

You've ever come up with.

What he said.

Well, that's because this isn't about team-building.

It's about team-busting.

When the Cabal hijacked my pre-play system,

I had to put together an even better program.

To give us an edge.

New data, algorithms, new everything.

The Stark probability engine.

It predicts a sure path to victory.

In any combat situation.

There are no sure things in combat.

You're forgetting the human factor.

The human factor is in there. It's just...

Insignificant. Statistically speaking.

Insignificant?

Do it again.

We've got a little surprise of our own.

Activate the laser battle balls.

With pleasure.

Sonic Shredder.

Plant one at Cap's feet.

I hate this game.

This is how we'll beat the Cabal.

The probability engine is perfect.

No more surprises.

Um, I'm surprised.

Anyone else?

Scanning.

Locked.

Hyperion.

Okay. To be fair, the probability engine was off.

Sync and corrections by DIKIphd

Hyperion took Hulk to the river.

Jarvis, lock down the tower,

and scan all frequencies for the Cabal.

Looks like we get.

To trash the Cabal ahead of schedule.

Stark probability engine is active.

Thor, boat.

Aye.

Sir, there are no signs.

Of the Cabal near the tower.

It's a distraction.

I'm running the probability.

Thor. Get down there and...

Hold on.

S.P.E. says there's an 85% chance.

Attuma's waiting in ambush.

S.P.E.?

"Stark probability engine."

Ah. He's all about the branding.

Skull believes the Asgardian will appear any second.

Falcon. Funnel. Now.

Red-wing mode. Full thrust at 22 degrees.

Prepare to... huh?

Nice try, Attuma.

Fish out of water.

Smoke and mirrors are not enough to def...

How about smoke, mirrors, and Mjolnir?

Skull, it's not going as planned.

Hyperion?

"Bye-Perion."

Ha! 'Twas a good one, no?

Not good enough.

Actually, it was pretty good for Thor.

Comedy's like his third language.

I'm not through with you.

Hyperion, disengage.

Never.

The numbers do not lie, Hyperion.

There is a 75% certainty of your failure.

Disengage.

More like 83%, but who's counting?

Still doubting the numbers?

Why don't you ask Hulk?

We need to get him back to the tower.

This isn't over.

The numbers do not lie?

They do not.

But sometimes we do.

A masterful performance, especially with the Hulk.

The first domino falls.

Two minutes before Hyperion knocked in our front door,

this happened...

A cosmic anomaly in death valley.

Lasted just a few seconds.

No one was hurt, but...

It turned the desert to glass.

The energy readings are off the charts.

Readings we've seen before.

Tesseract?

The greatest power source in the known universe.

Though we've never seen it do this.

I think that the Cabal attacked to distract us.

It was more than a distraction, Tony.

They targeted Hulk. Until he heals...

Hey. I'm workin' here.

I can take a pretty boy in a cape any day, winghead.

Ow! Debatable.

We should not underestimate the Skull's cunning.

We're not underestimating anyone.

We're out-thinking them.

Whatever the Cabal's up to,

with the S.P.E., we can handle it.

Tony, we know you're the smartest guy on the continent,

but there's more to what we do than probability.

Sir, shield satellites.

Are detecting a spike in cosmic energy.

Triangulate its position now, before we lose it again.

There. Huh?

Fury is gonna be so jealous.

Not once it's a pile of scrap, he won't.

Do you think their sudden departure.

Seems a little convenient?

Sneaky little Skull.

They intercepted the coordinates.

Of the Tesseract and have a head start.

Move it or lose it, team.

I can fly faster than this.

I can get to the Tesseract ahead of them. Maybe figure out...

S.P.E. doesn't like your chances in that scenario.

Tony, I'm a scientist, too. Okay?

But even I think you're getting a little obsessed.

With your new toy. What's goin' on?

All right.

Look, when the Skull hijacked my armor and unlocked our playbook,

he got our secrets. I put you all in danger.

It was a mistake, Tony.

I don't do mistakes.

Even the best leaders make mistakes, Tony.

You can't live in fear.

Who said anything about fear?

Fear comes with the job.

It's how you deal with it that matters.

If I told you the odds.

That you were gonna say that, would ya hit me?

No. But that will.

Adaptoid at 12 o'clock.

Brace for impact.

S.P.E.'s got this.

I hope.

Your magic number engine didn't see that comin'?

Actually, it did.

I didn't want Skull to know we were ready for it.

We weren't ready for it, Tony.

You've gotta let us do our jobs.

Speaking of... Falcon, now you can go.

Fly ahead. Try and secure the Tesseract.

Well, I guess that's convenient.

Hyperion's coming around.

Is the plan to let him punch us to the moon?

Thought about it. But how about

Thor handles him instead?

But the Aven-jet.

Trust me. Hulk? Group hug.

Oh, no.

This is risky, Skull. The stakes are too...

I know the stakes better than any of you.

Imagine it as a simple game of super-powered chess.

And we are your pawns?

Hardly, M.O.D.O.K. you are my knights.

What?

Surprise!

Admit it. You didn't see that one coming.