Avengers: United They Stand (1999–2000): Season 1, Episode 2 - Avengers Assemble Part-Two - full transcript

Wonder Man is put on life support and the Avengers must take over where he fell. Meanwhile, Hank meets his worst creation ever, Ultron.

PREVIOUSLY
ON "THE AVENGERS"...

WANDA,
WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

I AM DISCONNECTING WONDERMAN
FROM THE MACHINES.

NO. THOSE MACHINES
ARE THE ONLY THING

KEEPING HIM ALIVE.

WINDS BEYOND DESTINY...

CHANGE!

SIMON!

SCORPIO,
OUR PLAN IS IN MOTION.

WE CAN NOW TEAR THIS
MISERABLE PLANET OPEN

AND DESTROY THE AVENGERS
AT THE SAME TIME.



BEGIN MAXIMUM POWER.

I THINK SOMETHING'S --

AAH!

SIMON!
SIMON, SPEAK TO ME!

HOW DO YOU FEEL?

FELT LIKE I WAS
BEING PULLED APART.

Dr. Pim, Mr. Sikorsky
is on the line.

PUT HIM THROUGH,
PLEASE, JARVIS.

Did your instruments record
what just happened?

Our planetary sensors
detected a worldwide spike

in tectonic activity --

earthquakes, volcanoes,

whole mountains erupting
up out of the ground.

It's as if the forces
holding the Earth together



just got tugged in three
different directions.

YANKED APART, JUST LIKE ME.

WE'VE ISOLATED
THREE MAJOR CRISIS POINTS

WHERE THE TECTONIC ACTIVITY
APPEARS TO BE CENTERED.

EARTH'S MOLTEN MANTEL
HAS A HIGH METALLIC CONTENT

THAT COULD, IN THEORY,
BE AFFECTED BY MAGNETISM.

THERE'S SOMEONE I MIGHT
BE ABLE TO SEE ABOUT THIS --

CORNELIUS VAN LUNDT.

CAN YOU GET PAST
HIS SECURITY PROTOCOLS?

HENRY, PLEASE.

THAT LYING --

HE'S DEVELOPED
FULL-SCALE MACHINES --

HUGE ONES.

BUT FOR WHAT PURPOSE?

THE MACHINES WERE PLACED
AT THESE POINTS

TO PUT PRESSURE
ON ONE SPECIFIC AREA --

HERE IN THE KURIL ISLANDS
ABOVE JAPAN.

HE'S USING THEM
TO SQUEEZE THE PLANET --

TO RUPTURE THE EARTH'S CRUST

AT THAT PRECISE LOCATION.

BUT WHAT'S SO IMPORTANT
ABOUT THOSE ISLANDS?

SECURITY BREACH.
HALT OR BE DESTROYED.

HENRY!

TALK TO ME!

HALT OR BE DESTROYED.

HENRY,
YOU HAVE TO GET OUT.

DON'T YOU MEAN WE?

I'M NOT GOING TO LET CORNELIUS
KEEP MY FATHER'S PLANS,

BUT THERE'S NO TIME
TO DOWNLOAD THE FILES.

THEN LET'S DESTROY THEM.

JAN, MANEUVER EPSILON-J.

RIGHT.

HENRY...

MY FATHER TRUSTED HIM.

YOUR FATHER NEVER MEANT
FOR HIS MAGNETS

TO BE USED THIS WAY.

VAN LUNDT IS RESPONSIBLE,
NOT YOUR FATHER.

IT DOESN'T MATTER.

WHATEVER'S HAPPENING
AT THOSE ISLANDS

IS NOW MY RESPONSIBILITY,

AND I'M GOING TO STOP IT.

I SWEAR,
ANT MAN AND WASP

WILL PAY FOR THIS,
TAURUS.

THIS I PROMISE!

WHY WASTE THE ENERGY?

THE ZODIAC IS ELIMINATING
THE OTHER AVENGERS

AT THE MAGNET SITES,

THEN NONE OF THIS
WILL MATTER.

FALCON, YOU FOUND
THAT MAGNET YET?

I'LL KEEP HAIRBALL HERE BUSY
AS LONG AS I CAN,

BUT I'M RUNNING OUT
OF DANCE STEPS.

TWO MORE MINUTES, TIGRA.

THAT'S WHAT YOU THINK,
AVENGER.

REDWING!

REDWING, MY CRASH ARMOR.

TIGRA, IT'S FALCON.
HOW ARE YOU HOLDING OUT?

NOW COMES THE FUN PART --

LOTS OF PAIN AND BEGGING...

AND I LOVE THE BEGGING.

HA HA HA.

Tigra.

I'M KEEPING HIM DISTRACTED.

YOU GOT THAT MAGNET THING
DESTROYED YET?

I'M WORKING ON IT.

HA HA HA.

IS THAT THE BEST
YOU CAN DO?

AAH!

THE MAGNET!

IS THAT THE BEST
YOU CAN DO?

NO!

NO.

FINISH HER OFF!

GIVE IT A REST, JUNIOR.
WE'RE BOTH TOAST.

WHY YOU --

NOW, THAT'S WHAT
I CALL TEAMWORK, DARLING.

YOU AND ME BOTH.

HEY, WAIT A SEC.

WHERE'D THEY GO?

SOMETHING'S WRONG
WITH OUR INSTRUMENTS.

IT'S NOT THE INSTRUMENTS.

LOOK. THIS WHOLE AREA

HAS PHENOMENAL
MAGNETIC PROPERTIES.

THAT'S WHY OUR READINGS
ARE THROUGH THE ROOF. RIGHT.

THERE'S KURIL ISLAND.

PREPARE FOR LANDING.

ALL AVENGERS, CODE RED.

KURIL ISLAND
IS BREAKING UP.

Destroy
those super magnets.

Repeat --
destroy those magnets now.

ROGER THAT, BOSS MAN,
AND HEADS UP.

LOOKS LIKE WE'RE DEALING
WITH THE ZODIAC AGAIN.

GOT TO JET.

THANKS, HORNHEAD.

YOUR LITTLE SNOW SLIDE
MADE MY JOB A CINCH.

BY THE POWER OF THE STARS,

THE ZODIAC WILL TRIUMPH.

HOW DARE YOU!

AAH!

HEY, GOAT CHEESE.

AAH!

WANDA!

YEAH.

ONE AVENGER DOWN..

AND ONE TO GO.

SO...WEAK.

NO!

LET'S SEE
HOW YOU LIKE BEING

ON THE RECEIVING END
OF THIS THING.

AAH!

WANDA, I'M GETTING YOU
OUT OF HERE.

SUCH TACTICS
ARE A WASTE OF TIME...

AND ARROWS.

SIMON, DARLING.

AAH!

WANDA,
WHAT'S HAPPENING TO ME?

I CAN'T --
I CAN'T CONTROL IT.

WINDS OF DESTINY, CHANGE!

AAH!

SIMON!

SIMON! AAH!

LET ME HELP YOU.

I'M ALL RIGHT,
BUT SIMON...

WHAT HAS HAPPENED
TO HIM?

WHAT DID ULTRON DO

TO MAKE HIM REACT THIS WAY
TO THE SEISMIC MAGNETS?

I DO NOT KNOW,
BUT SEEING HIM THIS WAY

AND SEEING THE PAIN
IT CAUSES YOU

FILLS ME WITH SUCH SADNESS
AND DETERMINATION.

JAN, GROUND'S TOO UNSTABLE.

SWITCHING TO HOVER MODE.

HENRY,
NONE OF THIS MAKES SENSE.

LOOK, I KNOW
CORNELIUS VAN LUNDT

IS SOMEHOW MIXED UP
WITH THE ZODIAC

AND I KNOW HE STOLE
MY FATHER'S TECHNOLOGY,

BUT WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT
TO TEAR UP THE EARTH?

JAN, I THINK
I FOUND SOMETHING. LOOK.

SOMETHING SLAMMED INTO
THE KURIL ISLANDS EONS AGO.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN
A METEORITE

OR A SMALL ASTEROID.

FOR ALL WE KNOW,

AN ALIEN SPACESHIP
OF SOME KIND.

WHATEVER IT IS,

IT BURIED ITSELF DEEP
IN THE EARTH.

IF SOMEONE
LIKE THE ZODIAC

WANTED TO RECOVER IT...

THEY COULD HAVE TEAMED UP
WITH VAN LUNDT

TO FORCE IT TO THE SURFACE.

OF COURSE,
AND THEY WOULDN'T CARE

HOW MANY LIVES THEY'D
DESTROY IN THE PROCESS.

ANY WORD FROM THE OTHERS --
FALCON, SCARLET WITCH?

THE STATIC INTERFERENCE
IS HEAVY

FROM THE MAGNETIC FIELD,
BUT EVERYONE REPORTED IN.

THEY MANAGED TO NEUTRALIZE
THE SUPERMAGNETS.

AFTER THAT,
THE COM-LINKS WENT DEAD.

ANYTHING ON SIMON?

ALL I HEARD WAS,
"WONDERMAN'S IN TROUBLE."

WE HAVE TO GET HIM BACK
TO THE LAB

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

AAH! HENRY!

WE MUST ABANDON THE JET.

HENRY!

INHALED...TOO MUCH GAS.

THAT'S A VAN LUNDT AIRSHIP
WITH ZODIAC MARKINGS.

THIS --
THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING.

AT LAST,
EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE.

NOW ALL I REQUIRE
ARE THE CELESTIAL POWERS

OF MY EARTH AND FIRE SIGNS

TO RETRIEVE MY METEORITE --

THE FALLEN IRON STAR.

BEGIN.

CONCENTRATE.
FOCUS YOUR ENERGIES.

FOCUS YOUR ENERGIES.

AVENGERS,
ANT MAN IS INJURED.

RECOVERY TIME UNCLEAR.

THE ZODIAC HAVE ARRIVED.

I SUPPOSE I'M DOING THIS ONE
BY MYSELF.

MAYBE THAT'S HOW
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.

WASP OUT.

I HAVE TO LEAVE YOU NOW,
MY DARLING.

JAN, NO.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE UP
FOR YOUR FATHER.

HENRY, THIS IS NOT ABOUT
WHO MY FATHER WAS.

THIS IS ABOUT WHO I AM.

I AM AN AVENGER.

THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT!

THE METEORITE --
THE FALLEN IRON STAR.

THIS HAS TO STOP NOW.

CONCENTRATE.
FOCUS YOUR ENERGIES.

WHAT?
WHAT THE...THE PESTS!

I CAN'T LET THEM
GET THAT METEORITE.

VIRGO, FINISH THIS PEST.

I CANNOT BE BOTHERED.

MY PLEASURE.

NO, YOU DON'T!

ARIES, CAPRICORN...

LET ME FINISH HIM OFF.

NO!

HENRY, THEY'RE HERE!

NO, NO, NO!
MORE AVENGERS!

ZODIAC, TO THE SPEED PODS.

WE HAVE TO GET
THE FALLEN IRON STAR.

THE AVENGERS BELIEVE
THEY CAN STOP ME?

FOOLS!

I'VE GOT THE ZODIAC SHIPS
IN SIGHT.

They're gone, Hawkeye.

BUT IT'S NOT OVER.

TAURUS GOT
WHAT HE WANTED.

HE DIDN'T GET ALL OF IT.

THE REMAINING PIECES
MAY TELL US

WHAT HE'S UP TO

AND HOW TO STOP HIM
ONCE AND FOR ALL.

MY FALLEN IRON STAR

CONTAINS ELEMENTS
NOT OF THIS EARTH --

ELEMENTS
FROM BEYOND THE STARS.

I CALL UPON THE POWER
OF THE COSMOS

TO TURN THE ZODIAC KEY.

AND THUS,
I COME ONE STEP CLOSER

TO MY FINAL VICTORY!

WHAT HAS ULTRON DONE
TO SIMON?

WANDA, HE MAY HAVE ALTERED

SIMON'S MOLECULAR
STRUCTURE SOMEHOW.

BUT WHY?

PERHAPS BECAUSE ANT MAN
HELPED FREE ME FROM ULTRON.

ULTRON IS DETERMINED
TO CONTROL WONDERMAN.

TO SERVE
HIS OWN EVIL PURPOSES.

SIMON'S POWERS
ARE SO UNSTABLE NOW

HE COULD THREATEN --

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?

EVEN IF WE CAN SAVE HIM,

I'M NOT SURE IF WONDERMAN
SHOULD REMAIN ON THE TEAM.

SIMON NOT AN AVENGER?

NO.