Avengers (Earth-981)

{{Team Template After the Fantastic Four's reveal to the world and the ever growing population and potential threats of mutants and enhanced, S.H.I.E.L.D. created the Avengers Initiative; emergency response team and a collection of enhanced individuals to defend Earth from imminent global threats that would prove so powerful, that no one hero could face it alone. Director Nick Fury was chosen as the liaison between S.H.I.E.L.D. and the new group. He often acted as the group's leader. Nick Fury created a dossier of all of his candidates to join the team, those individuals were;Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, Ant-Man, Wasp, Hawkeye and Black Widow.
 * OfficialName = Avengers
 * Image = Ultiverse Avengers team 2.jpg
 * Aliases = Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Champions of Earth, Project: Avengers, last line of defense team, Captain America and his Super-Friends
 * Status = Active
 * Identity = Public
 * Alignment = Good
 * Universe = Earth-981
 * BaseOfOperations = Avengers Tower, New York City, New York; formerly S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Triskelion,
 * TeamLeaders = Captain America; formerly Nick Fury,
 * CurrentMembers = Captain America, Thor, The Hulk, Iron-Man, Ant-Man, Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Widow
 * Allies = S.H.I.E.L.D., Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, Maria Hill, Agent Carter, Spider Man, Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Fantastic Four, X-Men; Captain Britain, Daredevil
 * Enemies = Korvac, The Skrulls, Hydra, National Force, Kang
 * Origin = The Avengers were created by S.H.I.E.L.D. to have a group of super-humans combat and defend the world from growing threats that no single hero could fight alone.
 * PlaceOfFormation = S.H.I.E.L.D. Triskelion
 * First = Ultiverse Avengers #1
 * HistoryText ====General===

Secret Invasion
The team found themselves in humanity's old war against the shape shifting alien race, the Skrulls, and eventually discovers that the Skrull's super weapon is a bomb that will kill all metahumans on Earth, with millions of collateral human casualties. Thor prevented the bomb from detonating and the rest of the team successfully save the Earth and the Solar System. After the defeat of the Skrulls, the Avengers are then immediately praised as heroes to the world.

Ultimate War
Six months later after the Avengers made their remarkable debut saving the planet and with the rising threat of Hydra after the events of Red Winter a year later, the Avengers reassembled and had been serving the United States government as part of its "police" force in the War on Terror, thus alienating the entire international community and forming an alliance with the European Super-Soldier Initiative (or the Excalibur for short) to ensure world peace and met new allies along the way, including T'Challa, the new king of Wakanda and warrior known as Black Panther and Brain Braddock, also known as the superpowered Captain Britain. Using the new drones developed by Hank Pym called the Iron Legion, they also embarked on several missions to destroy Hydra's plans for world domination. Their main target was the cell of Wolfgang von Strucker, which was in possession of a powerful infinity gem known as The Power Stone.

When Black Widow intercepted a call from Justin Hammer the Avengers quickly flew in their Quinjet to the location of Hammer's lab. Though Hydra managed to shoot down the Quinjet, the Avengers fiercely attacked Hydra's soldiers. Despite their tanks, guns, and numerical superiority, Hydra soldiers decided to retreat. Refusing to admit defeat, Hammer activated a giant robot dubbed Ultimo MK II and attacked the Avengers but was quickly destroyed by the Avengers own giant mech robot consisted of several extremely powerful combat vehicles fused together dubbed "The Ultimate Iron Man MK I" and Hammer was taken in by SHIELD for interrogation.

Thanks to information acquired by Hammer, the Avengers were able to finally locate the Power Stone in Transia, a small country in Europe. The team then launched an all out assault to recover it. The team fought as a unit, using skilled combat techniques which complemented each other's fighting styles. This synergy, coupled with their abilities and equipment, gave them a decisive advantage over the Hydra forces. Together with Pym's Iron Legion in the field of battle, the team soon overthrew the Hydra soldiers and reclaimed the infinity Gem and the team returned back to base.

The team also suffered internal conflicts and problems: The Hulk was mysteriously mind controlled and was seen rampaging in New York and Thor being labeled as a insane person and then imprisoned by his own teammates after fighting them. It is then revealed that the cause of the ruination of Hulk and Thor was due to a traitor among the Avengers, the Black Widow, who was blackmailed by her thought to be dead ex-husband Nikolai Krylenko, now known as the Red Guardian into betraying the group in order to leave the American nation open to attack from the The National Force.

In doing so to further cripple the Avengers from within, she was forced to shoot her former partner Hawkeye in the back and framed Captain America for a crime he didn't commit. Tony Stark tracked her down and took her back to SHIELD for questioning, Immediately afterword, the National Force quickly damaged the Triskelion, and captured almost all of America's heroes and the Avengers. Thanks to her ability to move undetected, The Wasp freed the Avengers and were able to counterattack against The National Force.

Eventually, as the remaining members were defeated by the Avengers, the god of mischief Loki appeared before them who revealed to have conspired with the National Force to destroy the Avengers and start World War III per his role as god of mischief. Also orchestrating the events prior thanks to his reality manipulating powers. Loki then uses Norn Stones on the avengers and teleported them to the seven of the Nine Realms. As they were separated, they fought their way out and made friends with Asgardians, even helping them fight Loki's forces.

On Asgard, they fought their way against evil forces and then confronted him. They defeated Loki by delaying him long enough for the others to find a way to take the OdinForce away from Loki. The Asgardians hailed them as true heroes and returned them back to earth. After their intense battle with the National Force and Loki, China and Russia distanced themselves from having any links with the National Force and stated of offering both aid to a war-torn America and a "full investigation" of the National Force

Meanwhile, the Avengers having experienced that working with the U.S. government and its resulted upbringing was not worth fighting for, decided to leave S.H.I.E.L.D., and continued to work as a independent superhero team instead. The Avengers had the financial backing of Tony Stark. Using the former Stark Tower, now renamed Avengers Tower, as their new headquarters. Natasha was able to regain trust from the avengers, meanwhile, The group's mistrust in Banner became apparent when he was manipulated by Loki, prompting the Hulk to quit.

Kang Dynasty
During Captain America's training session with the Avengers, the team received an alert that Project Pegasus had been broken into and all of the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents posted there had been killed. After the team arrived by quinjet, they were met by Kang, armed with advanced weapons and the power gem in his grasp. Kang quickly escaped after overpowering them with the Power Stone. After regrouping at the Avengers Tower, Hank Pym and Stark examine the technology that Kang was wielding, Hank noted that he recognized the technology from one of his colleagues of the Fantastic Four.

The team went to the Baxter Building for answers, there Reed Richards admitted to helping a time traveler named Kang develop weapons to stop the Avengers and save the future. Kang then attacked the building with the Hulk and the powerful mutant Xorn under his complete control and stole another infinity gem known as the Space Gem. However when using the knowledge of Kang's weakness and Reed's tech, the Avengers simply weren't able to turn the odds in their favor since Kang was able to outsmart them every time. The Avengers barely escaped, but Captain America decided to be left behind in order to stop the villains, although he was defeated. Thor faced the Hulk and was defeated, and Hawkeye unsuccessfully tried to rescue Captain America, only to be defeated by Kang. Susan Storm attempted to subdue Kang, but he was able to neutralize her and subjected her to extreme pain.

The defeated Captain America asked why Kang was doing all of this, to which Kang answered it would be easier if he showed them. Kang took off his mask to reveal his true identity, an older Reed Richards, he then told the Avengers that in the future he was trying to advance human evolution and the Avengers stopped him and killed his wife Susan. Human Torch missed Reed with a projectile attack that ended up destabilizing the Negative Zone portal, causing it to suck in objects with a strong vacuum effect. The Avengers along with and Ben and Reed was pulled in.

Sue tried to hold onto him with what little of her strength she had left, her efforts were futile. She let go in time for the portal to close with no sign of Reed or the rest of her friends remaining. Leaving Kang's task of defeating the Avengers fulfilled and initiated his plans to remolding the world to his shape. Kang used the space stone to gather together individuals and founded a group called Children Of Tomorrow, whose aim was to perfect the world. Their base was built in Northern Germany and called the Dome. In the Dome's interior time passes at an accelerated rate compared to the outside world. Over 900 years have been and gone inside the Dome, and their inhabitants evolved to perfect super-humans thanks to Kang enhancing all of them with the Power Stone. The Excalibur attacked the Dome with Captain Britain, Captain Spain and Captain France along with Thor, Iron Man, Falcon, Human Torch, the Invisble Woman and Black Panther.

The heroes were subdued by the Children however and some of them killed, draining their powers. Thor however teleported inside the Dome in search of vengeance after believing the Avengers were dead. There, he rescued Captain Britain, but was defeated by the Children, and Kang, they were then released on condition of delivering a message. Fury tried to take down the Children using his full armament, but failed to destroy Richards' Dome. The Falcon went in to do recon, where he was surprised that Kang was Reed Richards from the future, who explained his plans to Falcon.

After being free from the mind control, Xorn and Hulk attacked the Children and the Children were all absorbed by Xorn' black hole. Meanwhile, inside the Negative Zone portal; Captain America, Black Widow, Ant Man, Wasp, The Thing, and Mister Fantastic were all transported to a alternate dimension and find themselves on an near exact replica of modern day earth but with an exception being that everything was ravaged.

They encounter other surviving heroes; an older alternate version of Bruce Banner known as Maestro, Spider-Girl, and the Next Avengers (James Rogers, Torunn, Azari, Pym, Francis Barton), children of many of the originals.The Thing demanded answers asked where they are. The survivors brought them to safety and explained. As Maestro outlines it: In they're reality before everything came to ruins, The Avengers began a program of protecting humanity from itself after a war with the Red Skull, The Avengers seized the world's governments, ruling with an iron fist. They suppress free speech, outlaw elections and impose curfews. Everyday order was kept by robotic replicas of Ultron. This world's Reed Richards wanted to advance the human race but The Avengers wouldn't let, which led to a debate, which then led to him breaking the law, which led to Reed's imprisonment.

However, when one Ultron developed self-awareness and grew disgusted with the human race, it decided to take over. As such it killed the Avengers and the nearly all of the rest of Earth's meta-humans and superheroes, including Reed's wife Susan before it claimed dominion over the Earth and killing most of its human population. Reed having gone possibly insane and calling himself Kang brought an army of heroes from every period in history repeatedly in his war to stop UItron, but failed every time. Eventually Reed began a quest to undo everything that was done on this timeline through the means of time travel and by killing the Avengers to prevent this timeline from coming to pass. Realizing this was the same Kang that they've encountered back on their home universe. The team then decided to help the survivors by using Kang's Negative Zone portal to travel back to an earlier point in time in Kang's timeline to convince Ultron into surrendering to Kang's army, in which he does and the team (Captain America, Black Widow, Ant Man, Wasp, The Thing, and Mister Fantastic) returned back to their home reality, using their dimensional travel watches that they eached received prior, hoping it'll fix everything.

During a furious battle back at the main timeline where the returned Avengers team came to aid the rest of the heroes in stopping Kang, outnumbering him. A intense battle ensued between the heroes and the children but before Kang could do anything else, an immense flux of energy echoed through time and space. Kang was alerted by this and his dome, along side the children seemed to vanish from existence, Kang warned that Avenger's "betrayal" was only just the beginning and the worst was yet to come before being erased, bringing victory to the heroes.

Despite this victory, the concern the Avengers had that they themselves could slide into the same kind of corrupting excesses remained a bothersome one. Reed on the other hand, was brought in for a hearing regarding his silence on his knowledge of Kang.

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 * Equipment = *S.H.I.E.L.D. issue communications equipment.
 * Various advanced technology equipment
 * Each teammates' arsenal
 * Transportation = *Quinjets: The Quinjets are advanced prototype armed VTOL shuttles designed and created by Tony Stark for the team to use in their field missions, these can change their use from an aerial, seaborne or even an outer space use.


 * Shield Helicarrier

Avengers /Gallery/ Official Name Avengers Team Aliases Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Champions of Earth, Project: Avengers, last line of defense team, Captain America and his Super-Friends  Status Status Active
 * Ultimate Iron Man:*Consisting of three powerful aircraft named Preying Falcon, Stinging Sun Ray, Tornado Flyer and one tank-like machine whose name is unknown. When the Ultimo appeared, Tony ordered his A.I. Friday to retrieve the vehicles in order to deal with the situation. It was then that they fused the Iron Avengers into their true form, the Ultimate Iron Man and quickly claimed victory.
 * Weapons = *Each teammates' arsenal:
 * Notes = To be added
 * Trivia = *Unlike in the original comics, Loki is not the first villain that the Avengers face. However, he is responsible for the formation of the superpowered villains The National Force that invaded the United States.|Creators = User:FaKeRoBiN46}} Avengers

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