THIS WEEK ON AVENGERS ASSEMBLED

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LOCAL & WORLD NEWS

• A handful of Stuttgart locals have come forward to support Steve's version of events. The news media spent hours, at least, feeding back in on this -- drawing up video from the UN speech, Steve's speech, then pointing out Loki's absence at the meeting of world leaders.
• So maybe Loki's a bad guy, after all. Multiple networks put out offers for interviews. Daily Show?
• A managerial restructuring of most companies is not interesting enough to make the news, but with the company in question being Stark Industries and the Avengers still being a thing, it's enough to cause nervous flutters on the financial networks. SI is down 7 points. They are still head-hunting.
• Bruce's lab is back up to spec with a tunnel to Central Park. A big tunnel. Just in case.
• The magic detection protocols were down for a few days, but swiftly restored. (See: Loki.)
• JARVIS is still down as Stark digs through his systems. He's estimated to be back online Monday, barring disaster. (See: Fucking Loki again.)

 

WSC

• Natasha and Clint have turned up what they think to be a member of the WSC: Lady Cecilia Wallace of England.
  • She was the first woman to serve as Chief Scientific Adviser of the Ministry of Defense, and she sits on the Defense Council of the UK.
  • Stark confirmed that HYDRA soldiers were using weaponry similar to UK soldiers.

 

LOKI

• Loki vanished during a conversation with Amora. A power surge took out monitoring equipment and some electronics, which Stark repaired and replaced.
  • He then used Steve's shield to control Stark long enough to take down the magic detection protocols and dig through Stark's work researching magic.

 

SVALBARD

• HYDRA has turned its portion of Svalbard into a tightly defended fortress. They are based in a castle built into a mountain with weapons manufacturing facilities inside the mountain.
  • Mind-controled polar bears carry cameras to act as part of the surveillance net. Yes, really.
  • There is also CCTV, motion detection, etc., etc., etc..
  • A team of Avengers (+SHIELD, +Asgardian) put on some HYDRA costumes and hit Svalbard as recon.
    • Loki and Schmidt are fighting. Stark intends to capitalize on that.
    • Schmidt killed Wei Jr. which pissed Loki off.
    • Stark believes that Schmidt is powering the production of Tesseract-tech weapons using himself somehow.
    • There are a lot of Tesseract-tech weapons: bullets, missiles.
    • Also pigeons.

 

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