Captain
America #1
Written
by Braden Michael Kittle
PAGE 1
1 – Full page splash
of hands, Steve Rogers’ hands, turned palms up, fingers flexing, covered in
blood. He is deep in thought.
STEVE
ROGERS/CAPTAIN AMERICA
(Thought narration)
We were so close to becoming
heroes. We were so close.
It was to be a baptism by
fire – gunfire, hellfire, all the same.
PAGE 2
1 – Steve Rogers, Super
Soldier, in full 1970s U.S. Army combat dress, runs at a gazelle’s pace through
high green grass and all the way dodges bullets fired from a fortified bunker
half a mile away.
2 – Steve opens up on
the foxholes as he approaches with a hail of automatic, and precisely placed,
gunfire, killing three.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
Well, we weren’t heroes. We
were murderers.
3 – Steve rams his
combat knife hilt deep into a Viet Cong officer just above the collar bone.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
All of the blood…
4 – Steve stands to
the right of a chair glaring down at a Vietnamese soldier who clutches his
right hand, which is missing a finger. Steve dangles the finger just out of the
reach of the Doberman at his side.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
And the torture…
5 – Steve, with his back to
us, stunned and arms limp at his side barely holding his helmet, stands staring
into the scorched remains of a small Vietnamese village, bodies of civilians,
children included, lay in the blackened mess, some of them being dragged into
piles by U.S. Army soldiers.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
And the innocent dead…
6 – A sepia tone
photograph of President Nixon.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
All of it meaningless.
Redemption was thrown away by Richard damned Nixon.
PAGE 3
1 – Large panel takes
up three quarters of the page of hands, Captain America’s hands, gloved in red,
fingers flexing. He thinks to himself still.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
Nixon was a spineless thug
and it would seem that all politicians are the same.
2 – Tall panel to the
right of panel 1, close body shot of Steve Rogers, Captain America, facing away
from us, in sweatpants and a black sleeveless tee, wearing the red gloves of
his costume, stands from a weight bench, head lowered with an empty gaze
pointed toward his flexing right arm. He is a bit older than traditionally
presented with pale, greying blond hair and a little salty stubble around his
jawline.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
The United States government
is in the business of making Super Soldiers again, thirty-five years later, only
this time they work in secret, cutting corners, and working with known drug
terrorist, the POWER BROKER.
3 – Steve takes a
quick, hot shower, clouds of steam obscure his muscled figure.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
And they aren’t asking for
volunteers. They’re FORCING death row inmates into the program as test
subjects.
4 – Steve Rogers
becomes Captain America, standing now in the flag-themed, bullet-proof,
costume, pulling on the reinforced, blue cowl/helmet.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
I won’t allow this to
continue. The American Government may have abandoned the American Dream, but I
haven’t.
5 – Close shot of the
famous, round, indestructible shield.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
And if the president knows
what I know, if he’s approved of this operation, I’m going to personally bring
that dream crashing through his front door.
PAGE 4
1 – As if looking
through binoculars we see Captain America descend into the sewers through a
man-hole. This panel overlaps the top left corner of a larger half-page panel
(known colloquially as “Panel 2”).
2 – Medium shot. Cap
trudges through the dank underbelly of New York City his shield on his back.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
(Thought narration)
The sewers. One of the few
places this red, white, and blue can move about unseen and unhindered.
The Power Broker’s research
and development compound is still many miles away.
3 – This panel
overlaps the bottom right corner of panel 2. Close on Cap’s face. He’s being
followed by someone very skilled, and he’s not yet sure of it, but he’s heard
something.
4 – We peer at Cap
from a distance, hidden in the darkness from behind the cover of a drain pipe. The
silhouette of a few tendrils of long curly hair hangs into the scene.
5 – Close on Cap’s
face, his eyes narrowed as he smiles darkly.
6 – Long shot of Cap.
Behind him a feminine figure follows. Cap has moved his shield from his back onto
his right arm and continues to press ahead.
PAGE 5
1 – Medium wide shot,
one-third page size, Cap turns and lets his shield fly with a defiant roar.
2 – The black-garbed
female gracefully flips over the shield and begins to close distance. She is Natalia
Romanova, the Black Widow; for her this is natural as breathing.
BLACK
WIDOW
Come now Steven, can’t we
have nice chat?
3 – A small panel
overlaps showing the shield bounce off of the sewer wall to return toward Cap.
4 – Detailed medium
shot of Cap dodging a jump kick from the deadly Black Widow.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
You’ll call me Captain,
commie, and there ain’t ever anything nice about you!
5 – As the shield
approaches, Black Widow does a back flip onto it, catching a ride.
BLACK
WIDOW
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
6 – Her acrobatic
maneuver doesn’t deter Cap in the slightest as he matches it with his own,
flipping backward while kicking her in the jaw, jettisoning her from his shield
as he grabs it out of the air in the same motion.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
Sit down.
7 – Cap holds the
Widow off the ground and against the sewer wall by the neck with one hand, and
his other is reared back, shield pointed edge-first toward her face.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
The hell are you doing
following me?
BLACK WIDOW
Keeping tabs.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
The Power Broker’s bought
you too then. Guess that doesn’t surprise me.
Commie like you.
BLACK WIDOW
Not Power Broker.
Fury.
And he didn’t buy me either,
I’m doing this as favor.
PAGE 6
This page is split into
three tall panels of equal size.
1 –Cap drops the Widow
and lowers his shield.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
What?
2 –Widow stands, her
hand on the side of her head as she rolls her eyes. Cap watches and listens.
BLACK
WIDOW
*Sigh*
Men.
Fury ask me to follow you. I
do this.
He worries about you,
Captain America.
He knows about your steroid
problem.
He say you are reckless.
CAPTAIN
AMERICA
That’s none of your damn
business!
And how the hell do you know
Nick Fury?
BLACK
WIDOW
Nicolas is a very… compelling
man. He and I have had much to discuss as of late.
Such as this Power Broker
adventure of yours.
Don’t you think it’s hypocritical
of you to start a Crusade over the government working with this man when you
have an addiction to an illegal substance yourself?
CAPTAIN AMERICA
(Wild text)
I HAVE TO TAKE--!
(pauses a second to breathe)
I have a choice in what I’m doing to myself. This new super soldier program is
forced upon the subjects – they have NO choice.
It’s about freedom. It’s
always been about freedom.
3 – Widow and Cap
exchange hard stares, both of them with hands on their hips.
BLACK WIDOW
Fair enough, Captain. How
did you catch me anyway?
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Hmph.
Easy.
You expected the sewers to
mask that absurd perfume you’re wearing.
*sniff*
Senses of a predator.
BLACK WIDOW
Well, what are you waiting
for? Lead on Captain America.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Oh, no. No, I think not.
Go back to Fury, Red. I’m
not leading you anywhere.
BLACK WIDOW
Must we fight again?
CAPTAIN AMERICA
*sigh*
Women.
PAGE 7
1 – Wesley Charlet,
the Power Broker, stands tall in a modern, industrial styled office, wearing a
tailored, designer suit, and clutching a red skull, THE Red Skull of Rasputin,
as he talks on the phone. On his desk, a scantily clad woman, VIBRAXA, lays
sprawled over paperwork, and another, VAVAVOOM, lounges in the chair caressing Vibraxa’s
hips with her foot.
POWER BROKER
Ah, yes Senator, I can meet
with you next Thursday about your mutant situation.
I have a fantastic team of
engineers, capable of rivaling anything Ol’ Stark can rustle up.
Ahaha, yes, sir, the old man,
not his two-bit offspring.
Well, that sounds splendid,
I’ll see you then. Enjoy your day, Mr. Kelly.
VAVAVOOM
Oh, Wesley, you can be SO
boring sometimes…
VIBRAXA
All work and no play just
means that the dull boy misses out on all the fun.
2 – Wesley faces away
from us toward the women, holding the Skull to his side. Vibraxa has crawled to
his side, licking the Skull lasciviously while Vavavoom undresses at the desk.
POWER BROKER
Now, where were we…?
3 – Two men in
bulletproof body armor lay unconscious against the walls of the sewer a few
yards away from a ladder to the surface, their modified AKs and several bullet
casings scattered across the floor.
SECURITY MONITOR
(Communications Technology
Text)
Communications with the
patrol team in Tunnels B has ceased. Support unit – check it out. Rearguard is
on high alert.
4 – Captain America
emerges from the sewers at the rear entrance to the Power Broker’s compound
using the manhole cover and his shield to protect himself and Black Widow from
a hail of gunfire as three additional men with the same gear as in panel 3
attack them.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Widow, tactical fire to
wound only!
BLACK WIDOW
Aye, aye, Captain!
5 – Medium shot, side
view, Captain America uses the shield and manhole cover to protect himself and
Black Widow, while she kneels behind him, fires two handguns around Cap’s hips
with surgical precision.
6 – Same angle as panel
4, only now the three gunmen are bleeding on the ground, relieved of their
weapons. Cap is knelt beside one of the men.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Where’s your boss?
PAGE 8
1 – An alarm sounds as
Widow and Cap crash through the secondary defenses. Cap’s shield destroys a
camera/turret mounted on the ceiling, bounces from the ceiling to the wall and
then the floor tripping a gunman up. Widow slides along the floor evading
bullets and firing at two other guards along the way.
BLACK WIDOW
After this the game is
infiltration.
We need to stay out of sight
until we know the lay of the land and what we’re dealing with.
You follow my lead.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
That’s where you’re wrong,
Widow.
I KNOW what I’m dealing
with.
The Power Broker.
And I know where he is.
Considering I’m the one of
us who can take a gunshot or three, I suggest you follow MY lead.
2 – SOMEWHERE IN
BRAZIL.
A tall man stands, wearing a
tactical stealth suit, his back to us, hunched over a wide computer terminal
with multiple keypads, various switches, and several screens. Two armed guards
lay on the ground behind him. His hands, glowing faintly with blue energy, rest
in the air just above one keyboard.
COMPUTER TERMINAL
System override code Fury
Gemini Zodiac accepted. Welcome, Colonel.
3 – Close view of
Fury’s face complete with trademark eyepatch and gray temples. A blue glow
plays over his hard features.
FURY
Director Pincer, this is
Fury reporting. I’m in.
4 – Medium view
centered on Power Broker. The lights in his room are dim, in silhouette,
Vavavoom is closest, her bare back facing us, one hand behind her head, tugging
her own hair. Vibraxa’s naked form falls off the bed as the Power Broker sits
up swiftly.
POWER BROKER
Agent Fury. You’re in where?
FURY
(Comm Tech Text)
I’m in The Fixer’s
mainframe. There’s a lot of interesting stuff here…
POWER BROKER
You have one job to do. Do
it.
(Click)
5 – Close view of one
screen in front of Fury, with part of Fury silhouetted against it. The screen
shows a three-dimensional, digitally-mapped image of plans for a machine, and
overlaying it all, the words: NEGATIVE BATTERY.
FURY
Yes, sir…
PAGE 9
1 – Heavily armored defense
units pour into a clean, well lit hallway, white-painted walls with nouveau-pop
paintings along them. The place has taken the look of a law or accounting firm.
These new units are well trained and well armed. Cap and Widow fight bitterly
to reach the other side.
BLACK WIDOW
Things are starting to look
pretty hairy, just like I knew they would.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Nothing I can’t handle.
BLACK WIDOW
We should drop off the grid
now while we still can!
CAPTAIN AMERICA
If this seems over your
head, pretty lady, why don’t you run home to the Colonel?
2 – Widow and Cap
continue fighting, doing their best to keep their heads above water. The walls
are riddled with bullet holes.
BLACK WIDOW
(Small text)
This is ridiculous.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
What did you say?
BLACK WIDOW
I am NEVER working with you again!
3 – The pair of heroes stand among a pile of armed guards, bloodied
and bruised, bulletmarks still smoking upon Cap’s shield.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Did you hear that?
4 – Large panel; takes up a third
of the page. Crashing through a wall comes what seems to be a cross between a
tank and powered armor. Cap has grabbed Widow across the waist leaping away as
he shields them as best he can from the torrent of highly-illegal, heavy firepower
coming their way from mini-rockets to anti-tank rounds.
5 – Shrapnel and gunshot wounds
mar Cap’s costume as he and Widow lie on the ground half-covered over by
debris. An elevator dings open halfway off panel. Widow looks at it misty eyed.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Koff! Koff! Are you okay?
BLACK WIDOW
I…
5 – Embracing Cap between her
thighs, Black Widow rolls herself and Cap over and away from another wave of
bullets as the huge machine finds them. Her hands free, she tosses a smoke
grenade between them and the metal titan.
BLACK WIDOW
On your feet, Captain!
We have to move!
6 – As the elevator doors close
she desperately drags herself and Captain America into it dodging through
debris and payload.
7 – The Widow slams her hand onto the buttons
to various floors, but before the elevator could go anywhere on its own power they
are rattled by an explosion.
BLACK WIDOW
Oh *%#@.
PAGE 10
1 – The elevator is rocked off of
its tracks by an explosion, its cables snapped like rubber bands, and it
plummets down at breakneck speed.
2 – The elevator crashes violently
at the end of the road in a murky service shaft, broken apart, its doors flying
off from the force of impact and delivering a shock wave that unhinges the
floor under it.
3 – Cap carries a torn and
tattered Black Widow out of the wreckage, him not looking any better for the
ware. The walkway is an old, weathered metal grate above empty darkness. The
walls are lined with pipes and circuit boards.
4 – MEANWHILE…
Good sized panel. Power Broker’s room, same
dimly lit set up as before with silhouetted figures. Vibraxa lies on the bed
unconscious while the Broker has Vavavoom pinned against the wall, her thighs
wrapped around his back. The Broker’s expression is annoyed and his head is
turned toward the ceiling as he rolls his eyes. Vavavoom looks furious.
POWER BROKER
*sigh*
This better be good.
VAVAVOOM
@#$% you, Wesley!! Don’t stop!
POWER BROKER
(small text)
Shut the @!#% up.
HEAD OF SECURITY
(Comm Tech text)
Two intruders have been subdued in the Façade
C area, but they caused a whole lot of collateral damage before we could bring
them down.
POWER BROKER
Intruders?! Why wasn’t I informed MUCH
earlier?
HEAD OF SECURITY
(Comm Tech text)
Well, like I said, they caused collateral damage,
including strategically taking out any cameras in their path, and striking our
men down before they could even think of radioing in.
(small text)
God, they were scary.
5 – Close up on the Broker’s face.
Vavavoom’s face, obviously livid, is seen in the background.
POWER BROKER
Scary, huh? Who the @#%$ were they?!
HEAD OF SECURITY
(Comm Tech text)
As of right now it is believed the intruders,
Captain America and Black Widow, are dead.
I’ve sent a retrieval team after them.
POWER BROKER
(wild text)
You’ve sen--?!
(recovers himself)
You’ve sent a retrieval team.
You seriously think you #$%^ ups took down
CAPTAIN AMERICA and BLACK WIDOW?
PAGE 11
1 – THE HANDLERS.
The room is pristine and calming. Topiary
displays dot the scenery, and a group of eclectic individuals go about their
business, watched by another group of clean, white garbed technicians, called
The Handlers by the Power Broker. It has the feel of an adult daycare. A rest
home. Something about those watched by The Handlers seems… off.
2 – Two old men sit at a table
playing chess.
3 – A man and a woman, mid
thirties, sit at another table, drinking tea.
4 – A little girl chases a little
boy between topiaries. In the background another little girl, younger, plays
with Legos.
5 – Cap carries the Widow into The
Handlers’ domain through glass double doors. He is flanked on each side by
emerald green arborvitae.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Are you doctors?
6 – Several of the handlers look at
Cap with blank faces.
7 – Cap falters, his strength all
but spent.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
(Shaky speech balloon)
(Small text)
Because… I think—Koff! Koff! Koff! Koff! —I
think she’s dying.
8 – Cap slumps over to his knees,
his grip on the Widow gone. People’s shadows approach him.
9 – Cap and Widow lay unconscious
on the floor. A group of the nonfunctionals circle them, and, closest to us,
one of The Handlers approaches.
PAGE 12
1 – Vavavoom (in costume now)
stands in front a group of the Power Broker’s goons and next to the sentry in
powered armor. She looks into the hole in the wall that leads to the ruined
elevator shaft, her arms crossed.
VAVAVOOM
So this is where you killed Captain America
and the Black Widow?
Ha! There’s barely any blood!
You will all follow me, understood?
2 – A thin, tall panel depicts
Vavavoom and her goons leaping down the elevator shaft.
3 – This panel is fair-sized, a
medium shot depicting a pristine white room, with The Handlers affixing diodes
and tubes to Black Widow and Captain America who are unconscious in some sort
of hi-tech surgery beds.
HANDLER 1
(Working with Cap)
This one is responding to the treatment with
incredible speed.
4 – Vavavoom kneels down gazing at
the ground, holding one hand in the air with two fingers pointed up, covered in
blood.
VAVAVOOM
They were here.
5 – Vavavoom and the squad reach
the entrance to The Handlers’ Ward. She holds a small handgun of strange make
and orange color in each hand and her head is turned to the side and she
addresses the goons behind her. Her goons stand with large rifles at the ready.
VAVAVOOM
This is one of Mr. Charlet’s secret projects.
I don’t know what we’ll find in here, but the
targets went through.
Shoot first, ask questions later.
Collateral damage is… desirable.
We’ll sort it all out once Captain America
and Black Widow are dead.
6 – Back in the treatment room
with Widow and Cap. One of the Handlers near Widow holds defibrillators aloft
and another holds an oxygen mask to her face.
HANDLER 2
(The one holding the mask)
We’re losing her!
7 – Medium-large panel. Vavavoom
and squad have entered the ward and come to meet with children and invalids at
play. The panel should highlight the awkward contrast between a raid group
within the adult daycare looking ward.
VAVAVOOM
Hold
your fire.
PAGE 13
1 –
MARIANAS TRENCH, PACIFIC OCEAN
A small panel, depicting a small marine vessel, likely
large enough for just one man, descends through the deepest part of the ocean.
The surroundings are intensely dark though huge, obscure things can be seen
moving in the water. The vessel moves toward what appears to be a structure
with search lights buried within a dark crevasse.
2 – Much
closer to the structure, the vessel fires upon the search lights, taking them
out, while turrets along the structure return fire only to hit a shield formed around
the vessel. A man is seen swimming around to the back of the structure.
3 –
Within the structure, the man moves down a corridor, dripping water on the
floor, but meeting no resistance. A handgun rests in his right hand and a
camera along the ceiling is decommissioned and sparking.
4 –
The man, removing his helmet, though with his back to us, enters a room filled
with computer terminals. His hair is brown with grey temples.
5 – A
much larger panel which takes up half the page. The room encloses a particle
collider and the equipment and computers to observe and collect data on the
reactions. More importantly, Our wetsuited man, still back to us, has
encountered resistance in the form of Adam Brashear, aka the Blue Marvel!
BLUE MARVEL
Nicolas Fury?!
FURY
The one and only.
BLUE MARVEL
What are you doing here?!
Why couldn’t I sense your approach?
FURY
By the orders of Director Pincer of SHIELD you are to
stand down and relinquish your base and all contents therein to the United
States Government.
BLUE MARVEL
No, no, that’s not happening, spook.
Now get out before I—
Before…
FURY
Funny thing about powers; they always seem to run out
just when you need ‘em. Experience on the other hand…
PAGE 14
1 –
Large panel. Vavavoom and her squad are approached by three Handlers. The
children in the room cower behind or under tables and chairs. One Handler holds
a hand to one ear.
HANDLER 3
(Comm tech bubble)
No, no problem, it’s just some of the Broker’s men.
(normal bubble)
And who exactly are you looking for?
VAVAVOOM
A man and a woman came to these doors and their tracks
disappear.
Captain America and the Black Widow.
You should know them on sight, but in case you don’t
They are incredibly dangerous and they do not belong
here.
HANDLER 3
Couldn’t I say the same thing about you?
You are aware that this is a restricted area, aren’t you?
We operate here under the strict agreement that
Our affairs are NOT to be meddled with.
VAVAVOOM
Yes…
Just what is it you do down here?
2 – Cap
has regained consciousness and though he still lies in the surgery bed, all but
one tube has been removed from him. Black Widow is still under. He speaks with
a Handler nearby.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
How long was I out?
How is she?
HANDLER 1
You have been in our custody for twelve minutes,
twenty-three seconds, and counting.
You have enhanced physiology.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Yes.
HANDLER 1
Your companion has had difficulties.
She had an adverse reaction to the treatment early on.
We have stabilized her.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Twelve minutes?
3 –
Cap tears himself free from his bed. He lurches forward and wrings his hands
around the Handler’s neck.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
WHAT DID YOU DO TO US?!
4 – A
stand of medical items and tools is knocked over in the commotion to restrain
Captain America.
HANDLER 1
You came to us broken!
We fixed you!
She is in no danger, i-in fact, she should be coming
around in 15 to 20 minutes!
PAGE 15
1 –
Back in the Handler’s Ward, Vavavoom is being led around by the Handler she
spoke to earlier. She is getting “the tour.” The Handler gestures toward a boy
and girl hiding under a table.
HANDLER 3
These two have some fascinating ideas on not only nuclear
fusion, but interstellar travel.
You see all of our “patients” are exceptional geniuses in
their own right.
We help each other out here.
In exchange for our basic care and services
We glean advanced intel and study from their minds.
We’re making GRAND strides in sciences.
2 –
Vavavoom has turned to her squad, her head inclined toward the Handler, she
points with two fingers toward two of her men.
VAVAVOOM
These child prodigies and delusional geriatrics are all
smarter’n you
So you use them for their brilliant ideas
And you take all the credit.
Boys! Detain them.
HANDLER 3
Wha-Wait!
VAVAVOOM
Nobody leaves this facility.
You two; with me.
3 – A
large panel taking up the bottom half of the page. Vavavoom kicks over a
topiary as she moves through another set of glass double-doors. She is followed
by two goons. Her other goons point their guns at the children and elderly, and
one of them has taken the Handler into a half nelson.
VAVAVOOM
I will turn this place upside down!
I will set your asses ablaze!
If any of you gives me resistance, I promise
I will put a bullet in your brain!
PAGE 16
Page 16 is divided into four long panels, each spanning
an equal portion of the page horizontally.
1 –
Captain America looks down at Black Widow who remains unconscious, and the
Handler next to him looks at a bulky watch-like device on his wrist. Another
Handler, standing behind, puts his hand on the first Handler’s shoulder.
HANDLER 2
What is it?
HANDLER 1
The panic signal.
They must have taken the recreation room.
We have to get these two out of here!
We must not lose our research!
2 –
Vavavoom and her goons move quickly through the facility, passing the kitchen
and lavatories, they pace down a corridor. One of her goons checks a broom
cupboard, another opens a locker in the hallway. Green smoke pours out from a
canister lying on the kitchen floor and out from the lavatory doors.
VAVAVOOM
The Black Widow is an accomplished spy
She may be skulking in the shadows or
In disguise; hiding in plain sight.
Incapacitate any young woman on sight.
Leave the Captain to me.
3 – Captain
America pulls Black Widow’s upper body out of the surgery bed as Handlers
remove the last of her tubing and diodes.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Power Broker’s men are coming?
Why should we run?
I’ll make sure they never walk again!
HANDLER 2
No, you fool!
If you fight you’ll wreck our labs
And endanger innocent lives!
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Hrgn… so what do we do?
HANDLER 1
There’s a set of sewer lines through the bathing area.
I’ll lead you to—
4 –
The door to the very room Cap, the Widow, and the other Handlers are in is
flung from its hinges as Vavavoom and her two goons enter the room guns
blazing. Vavavoom fires green beams of energy from her strange looking guns
striking down two Handlers as she charges after Cap. The Handler that was
speaking to Cap runs toward the back, Cap, carrying the Widow, follows. Another
Handler, ducked under a medical tray, fires a ray gun at one Vavavoom’s goons
knocking him off his feet.
VAVAVOOM
Fire at will!
Leave none alive.
HANDLER 1
(The one with Cap)
Follow me!!
The rest of you; buy us some time!!
PAGE 17
Three smaller panels sit above a fourth panel that fills
the rest of the page.
1 –
With gunfire surrounding him Handler 2 leaps to the wall, pressing a button
that activates thick steel doors covering the entrance and exit. A siren sounds
complete with red emergency lighting.
2 –
Vavavoom kicks another Handler across the room, knocking over one of the
surgery beds.
VAVAVOOM
Aiyaaa!
3 –
Handler 2 fires a netgun, successfully entangling Vavavoom.
4 –
(big splash panel) Vavavoom bursts free from the net with an effortless, but
nonetheless immense force. Handler 2 cowers in the corner of the ruined
emergency room, and on the floor are two dead Handlers and two unconscious
goons.
VAVAVOOM
VAVAVOOM!!
The Power Broker hulked me out!
Do you think these iron curtains are going to stop me?
PAGE 18
Six equal panels divide this page.
1 –
Cap, holding the Widow stands in a men’s room, watching Handler 1 as he pries
open a sewer drain no wider than Cap’s arm.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
This was your escape plan?
HANDLER 1
I don’t deny it will require a certain finesse.
2 –
Black Widow lays on the ground, while Cap approaches the now opened drain
brandishing his indestructible shield.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
How’s this for finesse?
Stand back.
3 –
Vavavoom has Handler 2 in her grasp, gripping him by the face, and slamming the
back of his head repeatedly into the steel door. Blood and indentations begin
to cover its surface.
VAVAVOOM
Hahahaha!
How does it feel to be used by someone so beautiful?
4 –
Handler 2 has produced a device, a powerful stun gun, and stabs it into
Vavavoom’s obliques. Electricity courses over her body and she writhes in
agony.
VAVAVOOM
AAAGGHHH!!
HANDLER 2
(shaky balloon, small text)
You sicken me.
5 – A
much wider hole is ripped in the men’s room floor now, and crushed linoleum
rubble and dust litter the floor and dirty Captain America’s shield. Cap holds
the Widow over his shoulder, and looking at Handler 1, he gestures into the
hole.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
After you.
6 – Vavavoom,
smoldering from the Handler’s attack, lifts him from the ground, and with all
her might she throws him into, and through, the steel doors barring her
passage, knocking them to the ground, and killing the man.
VAVAVOOM
You insolent little freak!
PAGE 19
1 – A
small panel, The Power Broker and Vibraxa are both standing in his office in
villainous costume. The Red Skull sits within the chest plate of Power Broker’s
armored suit like an unbeating heart.
POWER BROKER
(Comm text)
Well done, Agent Fury.
I will be sending other agents to rendezvous with you
shortly.
End simulation codename: Fury.
Run simulation codename: Langley.
2 –
Nick Fury stands in the undersea base, in the particle collider room, over top
the unconscious body of Blue Marvel.
POWER BROKER
(Comm text)
Agent Langley?
FURY/LANGLEY
Yes?
POWER BROKER
It’s covert operations time.
The others will arrive by the end of the day.
FURY/LANGLEY
Understood, Director.
POWER BROKER
Hold that base, soldier.
3 –
Power Broker crosses the room and puts his helmet on.
POWER BROKER
Ha ha ha!
This is like taking candy from babies.
Those Life Model Decoys are a Christmas %&*ing
miracle.
VIBRAXA
So what’s next?
4 –
Power Broker presses himself against Vibraxa and touches her face with his
armored hand.
POWER BROKER
I still need access to Ohnn’s and Pym’s dimensional tech,
and Lightner’s Nth Projector.
I can’t figure out how it works exactly yet
But Doom mentioned something called
The Negative Zone.
VIBRAXA
What makes you think I care about any of that?
I meant what are WE doing next?
5 –
Power Broker and Vibraxa walk down a clean, cozy hall, very business-like, and
contemporary. Two sentries are posted behind them, standing outside of PBs
office door. Vibraxa stares at the ceiling, rolling her eyes.
POWER BROKER
WE are going to mobilize the last of the LMDs
You’re my protection, sweet cheeks.
VIBRAXA
Boooriing.
6 –
Power Broker and Vibraxa stand in an elevator that has begun to close. Vibraxa
bites her lip as she glances at the floor.
POWER BROKER
I bet you cream those mylar tights once you see what I’ve
made them capable of.
VIBRAXA
That Fury IS dead sexy for an old guy.
POWER BROKER
Darling, you wound me.
PAGE 20
This page is a full splash panel. Power Broker and
Vibraxa, both with their backs turned to us, look to a wall upon which hang
three Life Model Decoys of Nick Fury, each with their chest compartments open
to reveal their robotic natures.
POWER BROKER
He’s not even a real boy.
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