To Defy The Collector!

Result:

The Collector receives the Scarlet Witch’s attempt to tamper with his mind … angrily.

He drops the Vision’s life-gem and turns both red and green beams on the Scarlet Witch, a pair of firehoses of energy meant to blast her out of existence like a snowman hit by two firehoses!

For an instant, the Scarlet Witch parries both beams WITH HER HANDS, her hex power stopping the beams just short of her body. It’s a tremendous strain as well as quite a surprise.

But the beams are getting through, and they would have gotten through, had Giant-Man (which is what Ant-Man is called when he’s giant) steps on the Collector!

The Collector goes down angry. Obviously.

“Nrrgh! It does not matter what size you are, I will simply …”

Then hurricane winds and lightning bolts strike the Collector. And Giant-Man, of course, who’s on top of him.

Being hit by lightning is not so bad at giant size. But it’s still extremely sudden and extremely disorienting. There’s a blast of red and green light just as his eyes are recovering from the lightning strikes.

The Collector is vanishing in the sky, flying at space-launch speed.  He flies into a slowly rotating vortex of force in the sky, which closes behind him. It looks a lot like the teleport hole that Loki used to invade New York; literally everyone on Earth has seen those videos.

Colossus calls back, “Iceman and I are on the way! You’re very close by - ten minutes!”

At which point Namor bursts in.

“So, Collector, you seek to trick the Son of Atlantis by changing your form! But you are mistaken if you think I cannot break every single person here until I find you! IMPERIUS REX!”

Giant-Man is woozy from the lightning, and the Vision is standing robotically still, so Namor goes after Machine Man.

“Hey, I just got here!” explains the metal man, to no effect.

Meanwhile, in the Conference Room:

Sue clamps a stun-laser in two flat force fields and turns it on Professor X, knocking him out.

This also works on Mr. Fantastic and the Human Torch.

It does not, however, stop the Thing.

“Huh. It tickles!” he observes. “Suzy, I got nothing againstcha, but I’m in a rhino-chompin’ bad mood, so stay outta my way if you know what’s good for ya!”

Namor has left the room and burst into the Recreation Center. Iron Man, however, has not yet followed.

“Stark! I always wanted ta take you down a peg,” sneers the Thing.

“Okay, Terra Cotta Frankenstein,” says Iron Man. “Let’s go.”

And he holds out both hands to his sides, generating a buzzing gravitational field.

“Friday, plot path around the invisible force fields,” he says to himself. “And get working on generating a counter-field to neutralize ‘em. I got clobbering to do.”

“No, I GOT clobberin’ to do!” yells the Thing, and charges.

Spider-Man slides slowly down a force field wall.

The SHIELD agent on the floor says, “Swinging into action. That’s a new one.”