04x03 - The Sleeper Awakens

[bunniefuu]

♪♪

Welcome to Avengers mansion,
your new home.

Sounds good.
[GRUNTS]

So if we're home now,

why do we have to wear
our action suits?

Because we're Avengers - .

You all moved in, Vision?

I have no possessions to move,
and this is my only suit.

[BEEPING]

Come on, Ant-Man.
You call that a uniform?

Wait. Aren't you
moving in too?

Relax, Wasp. My movers
are already on the job.

Ew!

Black Panther, where do we
keep the bug spray?

Hey, you do not spray my pet ants.

Especially the big one.

What do you mean, "big one"?

[GASPS]

No, no, no, no...
Uh-uh. No. Mm-mm. No.

What? Anthony's house-trained.
[CHITTERING]

For the most part.

The insects' hive mentality
is very efficient

when completing
team-oriented tasks.

The idea that you have taken an
ant as a companion intrigues me.

Maybe we should get you
a calculator for a pet.

A little version of you to boss around.

If you get a pet,
you have to take care of it.

So, what, change the batteries?

Baby steps here, Marvel.

I meant her, Ms. Marvel.
Not you, Captain Marvel.

By the way, whose idea was it to have two
heroes named Marvel on the same team?

I picked my name
because of Captain Marvel.

Yeah. It's confusing.

[TUNE CHIMING THROUGH SPEAKER DEVICE]

That is the Wakandan national anthem,

and also the door chime.

But we are not expecting guests.

Defense systems didn't trigger.

Must be a friendly.

Captain America!
You're alive!

- What happened to you?
- Are the rest of the Avengers with you?

[WASP] We thought you were dead.

[GRUNTS]
[GASPS]

Vision, what are you doing?

Stand clear.

Captain America must be destroyed.

Vision, stop!

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

- [WASP] What?
- [MS. MARVEL] No!

- What have you done?
- [ANT-MAN] Cap!

This isn't Captain America.
It's some kind of robot.

And only Vision could see
through its disguise.

Apologies, friend.

I should have communicated the danger.

Perhaps I was too enthusiastic.

No. You did good.

Always trash a robot
pretending to be a friend.

Any idea what it is?

It is a Red Skull-Bot,
obviously.

Obviously.

And how do we obviously know this?

[BLACK PANTHER] Red Skull frequently

uses doubles of himself
as decoys and bodyguards.

This automaton was not armed or
equipped with expl*sive devices.

So it wasn't set to att*ck us.

Then why would Red Skull send it?

Once we hunt down Red Skull,
we'll get our answers,

and some payback.

[DISGUSTED GROAN]

Hydra-frequency
comm device.

Its transmissions can be traced.

[BEEPING] [BLACK PANTHER] There.

Satellite is picking up an
uncharted island, straight ahead.

Skull Island.
Ah, so cool!

I bet it even looks like a skull.

[GROANS]

Hey, where's Vision?

He was back there
tinkering with that Skull-Bot.

Thing's creepy, if you ask me.

[GERMAN ACCENT]
You were not asked, Avenger.

[LOUD GASP]

[GRUNTS]
[GROANS]

Hold, friends.
This Skull-Bot means no harm.

[BOTH]
Huh?

As I repaired him,

I decided he could be...
my pet.

[BLACK PANTHER, MS. MARVEL, WASP] Your pet?

I will clean up after it.

- Makes sense.
- No, it doesn't.

What if that thing tries to k*ll us?

Uh, yeah!
It's patterned after Red Skull.

You know he's tried to destroy the
Avengers no less than eight times, right?

I am aware of the thr*at, so I put
behavioral limits on Skully's programming.

You named it Skully?

I find that designation offensive.

I will see you all meet your doom.

Preferably a fiery und painful one.

Skully may talk like the Red Skull,
but he will not act like him.

Can I keep him?

[ANT-MAN] Aw! That doesn't
look like a skull at all.

So much for branding.
You sure this is the place?

Skull's transmissions are
coming from these coordinates.

[ALARM BEEPING]

Excellent.
We have incoming.

How is that a good thing?

Because it means
this is definitely the place.

Everybody hold on to something.

That first wave is coming around.

Activating countermeasures.
[BEEPING]

How about we use Red Skull's
tactics against him? You know?

Skull impersonated one of our
friends to get in our house.

Let's do it to him.

Make it happen. I'll buy us time.

Oh, the indignity.

My retribution will be
swift und terrible.

[BEEPS]
Amplifying Skully's frequency,

we should be scanned as a friendly.

[CAPTAIN MARVEL]
We're out of time.

[BEEPS]

[BEEPING]

- Yeah!
- Way to go, Skully!

Cease your celebrating!

I did not have a choice.

I reprogrammed you to avoid evil,

but you are not a mindless sl*ve.

You always have a choice.

[ANT-MAN] At least it'll
make sneaking around easier.

You can come with us, Skully, or
you can stay here and do nothing.

It's your choice.

Stay alert.
Be ready for anything.

[ANT-MAN] Okay. Wasn't
ready for nothing.

I found something.

[WASP] Skully's brothers.
Hundreds of 'em.

Insolent fools!
These are not my brothers.

I have a higher intelligence capacity.

These are att*ck Sleepers that will
awaken only when summoned by Herr Skull.

Speaking of, where is gruesome?

Where he has been for some
time... the detention block.

Come this way, und meet your demise.

[BLOW LANDS]

Skully was on the level.

Red Skull.
Locked in his own jail.

It took you long enough, .

Apologies, Herr Skull.

- But these Avengers are worse than...
- Silence!

[GRUNTS]

Avengers, release me from this shell.

There is no time to explain.

Oh, we have a little time.

The computer I built to
defend this base, Skull-Net,

achieved sentience and falsely
calculated itself superior to me.

Yeah, pretty humiliating to get
taken down by your own creation.

Quite the contrary... [GRUNTS] Ant-Man.

Skull-Net's evolution
is a testament to my genius.

And even then,
I have outsmarted my creation.

Skull-Net activated
to care for me,

but I secretly reprogrammed it
to fetch you.

Why would you think
we would break you out?

Because you need me.

To stop Skull-Net
from awakening my Sleeper army.

[SKULL-NET] Too late, master.

[POWERING UP]

[MULTIPLE SKULL-BOTS
POWERING UP]

Skull-Net has
awakened the Sleepers

to destroy the Avengers.

[SKY-NET] Skull-drones, att*ck!

Eye lasers?
That's new.

Why didn't your pet tell
us they could do that?

We did not ask.

[GRUNTS]

[YELLS]
[YELLS]

You'll never defeat them, Avengers,

unless you know their weakness,

which I will provide
in exchange for my freedom.

Ms. Marvel, grab him,
and let's go.

I'll clear a path.

[GRUNTS]

[YELLS]

[GRUNTING]

[RED SKULL] The Skull-Bots
cannot all be awakened at once.

Prevent the majority from
activating, and you have a chance.

Split up. Ant-Man,
Ms. Marvel, Wasp,

take the ones not awake yet.

We will put the others back to sleep.

[BLACK PANTHER YELLS]

Because there weren't
enough things sh**ting at us.

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

Trying to sneak away?

Gotcha!
[GRUNTS]

Skully, do not let him escape.

Aah!

Vision, are you sure about this?

- I trust him.
- You shouldn't.

I would betray you
if my programming permitted it.

He's just saying that.

I am not!

[GROWLS]

[GRUNTING]

I can do this.

[ANT-MAN, WASP GRUNTING]

I will deal with Skull-Net.

[GRUNTS]

You and Skull-Net are more
alike than different, android.

Tools created by man
but superior to him.

Your claim of being superior is a flaw.

Building equal relationships
is more important.

You took Skull-Bot
as a companion

because he is like you.

Unite with machine-kind.
We will prevail.

One race with a single mind
and a single vision.

Join us.

You cannot force me
to join you, Skull-Net.

Loyalty is earned by friendship.

If you require friendship,

you are irrelevant and will
be destroyed. [GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

Everybody move!

Skully!

You must have a faulty logic circuit

to risk yourself saving me.

This is what Avengers do...
save others.

How dare you lay your hands on...

[SCREAMING]
Ow!

Your pet needs to be quiet now.

So much for Skull's world destruction.

I'm pretty sure it was domination.

[MS. MARVEL] No. He was
gonna wreck the world.

[SIGHS]
Settle a bet, Big Red.

What were you going
to do with your army?

Destroy the world, or take it over?

Take it over if I won,
destroy it if I lost.

Unfortunately, your victory
over my army was necessary

to slow down Skull-Net.

What do you mean, "slow down"?

Skull-Net still lives.

You broke it here,
but the mainframe computer

is in another location,
southwest of Paris.

Oh, let me guess.
Castle Red Skull.

Hydra Base Number .

Ugh. You are so boring.

Prisoner to the likes of you.

This is humiliating.

[ANGRY GROAN]

Skull-Net's mainframe
is within that tower.

[CAPTAIN MARVEL]
I think you hear me knockin'!

This must be another Sleeper.

One you would be wise
to keep from awakening.

The mainframe is there.

[MS. MARVEL] Whoa! Creepy junk.

And we're here to take out the trash.

[SKULL-NET] Defenses activate.
Skull-Bots att*ck.

[ANT-MAN]
More Skull-Bots?

I hope you bought these in bulk.

[YELLS]

[WHIRRING]
[TIMER BEEPING]

Trying to pull a fast one
when we're not looking?

[GRUNTS] Not happening, Skull!

The machines will rise
to overcome your kind.

When the countdown reaches zero,

[BEEPING CONTINUES]
the Sleeper will awaken.

Not today.
[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

Panther, take Skull-Net offline.

[YELLS]

[DISTORTED]
System failure...

And down
goes Skull-Net.

You owe us big, Red Skull.

[GRUNTS]
[THUD]

[RED SKULL] Indeed, I do.

Now with Skull-Net offline,

there is only one left
to command my Sleepers...

me!

You won't find these Sleepers
so easy to stop.

[ANT-MAN] Wait. Did he say "Sleepers"?

Plural? Like, more than one?
[THUNDEROUS FOOTSTEP]

[THUNDEROUS FOOTSTEP]

[RED SKULL] Omega Skulls,
destroy the Avengers!

[SINISTER LAUGHTER]

[RED SKULL] Earth's mightiest
heroes are dead and buried.

Now follow me, Omega Skulls.

My revenge has only begun.

[GRUNTS]

My creator has
outsmarted you... again.

Your creator left you here to be destroyed.
Don't you care?

It is his nature.

I am merely a Skull-Bot.

Thought you said you had a higher
intelligence capacity than your brothers.

Vision, get us a location
on the Red Skull.

[VISION] The three Omega Skull-Bots
are converging on Paris.

[WASP] Then so are we.

Come on, Skully!
[YELLS]

[CAPTAIN MARVEL] We're the
last line of defense.

Can't let him reach the city.

[GRUNTS]

Vision! He might have been damaged!

Wow. I think
you're starting to care.

We're in trouble.

[VISION]
Emergency exit, at your service.

[THUD]
[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[YELLS]

Panther!
[GRUNTS]

They don't build 'em like that anymore.

Won't be easy to stop.
We do not have a choice.

[GRUNTS]

Well, that didn't work.
Got any other ideas?

No, but we have to come up
with something, and quick!

We need to find a way
to hack that robot.

Despite its enhanced weapons, the Omega
is structurally similar in design

to Skull's smaller doubles.

It may share any design flaws.
Skully?

Our design is without flaw.

Oh, fine.

The arm and leg joints
require additional maintenance.

Arthritis! Yes!
[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

You are a traitor, number .

You were my servant, my creation,

yet you betrayed me.

I helped those who helped me.

You never gave me a choice.

Vision did.

Spare me your sentimental drivel.

Ugh!

Avengers, we have
a Skull-Bot weakness.

Go for the joints.

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

[STRAINING]

[GRUNTS]

I think that worked.

[CREAKING]

This joint-weakness thing
isn't doing it!

Whoa!

[GRUNTS]

I have an idea.
Keep it sh**ting at you.

Wait. What kind
of plan is that?

[GRUNTS]

[GRUNTS]

Okay, it's sh**ting at me!

And it's still sh**ting at me!

[GRUNTS]
Sabotage!

[CRASH]

Nice plan.

[RED SKULL]
You're too late, Avengers.

[ANT-MAN] Uh-oh.

[VISION] They appear to be
consolidating their generators.

Sensors indicate the generators
in his Omega Sleepers

are going to release
an electromagnetic pulse.

I calculate his EMP will
destroy any electrical system

within , kilometers.

Including you and I.

Behold my instrument of revenge.

If Hydra cannot have Paris, no one can.
[BEEPING]

The generators will overload
in less than a minute.

If that happens, the blast
will trap Red Skull too.

Unless...

he bugs out.

Break that shield!

You will fail if you attempt it.

Only another Skull-Bot
might get through the shield.

Only... me.

Would that work?

[WASP] If Skully disrupts
the charge-up, it might.

To stop the detonation protocol,

you would have to insert
yourself into the circuit.

Your form would not survive.

You said I had a choice.

I choose to do it.

Number , you are no pet.
You are my friend.

Remember me... as Skully.

Good-bye, Skully.

Aahh!

[SCREAMING]

[BEEPING]

[GROWLS]

They could not have... Huh?
[KNOCKING ON WINDOW]

Mm.

What are you looking at?

Gotta hand it to you, T'Challa. This
is some good Avengers HQ right here.

I am glad you feel welcome,

and that everything is back to normal.

It's not for all of us.

Aw. Poor guy misses Skully.

[ANT-MAN SIGHS] Losing a pet is the worst.

But the good memories stay
with you forever. [CHITTERING]

I get the feeling
Vision's gonna be okay.