Ant-Man Goes To Town

Storm will fly out of the way of the arrows, if possible, before deflecting the winds.

Looking at the field of battle, she thinks that even a super angry Hulk would be a benefit here...but how to get him here.

But there is no time for that now. Storm will continue to concentrate on the giants....

Until they appear right around Wanda. Sending a storm there seems...problematic.

Storm continues to blast giants if it looks possible, otherwise, she looks for opportunities to help

Wanda or Spiderman, if they need rescuing...or merely flying to a different place.

They do not appear to need rescuing, which is as well, because the giants are stubborn. But as Storm has practiced evading missiles while controlling the winds literally a hundred times (it's Danger Room setting Seven, Missile Madness!), she keeps out of their sights until they are all writhing with cold or heat as the case may be. Also, the Warriors of Asgard, who fight very well in a thunderstorm, are mopping them up.

INVISIBLE GIRL

Sue turns herself, Vision, and the Scarlet Witch invisible, and places a protective force field around the three of them, holding them in place while the cart and Spider Man continue onward, bravely drawing the enemy fire.

She sort of wishes she had asked Spider-Man to volunteer for that, but, then again, she perhaps still
harbors a bit of resentment that time he broke in to the Baxter Building looking for a job.

Still enveloped in rage, Wanda aims the Evil Eye at the hand holding the blue cube.

The Evil Eye shines its malignant light of suffering at Thanos' hand, passing through Sue's force field with ease (although the field shimmers, and Sue feels a surge of formless dread overtake her. Is Reed all right? Is Namor all right? Is Reed fighting Namor? For her? Does he ever? WILL he ever?)

Thanos clutches his hand in pain, squeezing the Cube randomly. The portals to other worlds blink out.

Curling his fist against his chest, Thanos coats himself in a blue glow and warps himself somewhere else. His ink-black eyes are locked on a spot slightly to the left of the Scarlet Witch ... because she's
invisible. But he's looking daggers NEAR her, if not exactly AT her.

SPIDER-MAN

Spidey leaps into action, and mugs the monsters that just appeared around Wanda. He will use his spidey-sense to dodge any incoming attacks, use his super spider reflexes to run up giant arms and shoulders, use his clinging powers to stand on their faces, shoot webbing up the nose or in the eyes, and use his proportionate spider strength to judo throw giants by yanking on webs binding any giant heads he webs, and using webs to form a club and a shield and the like.

Spider-Man is SUPER annoying to the giants, and they're such serious types that they just can't DEAL with it! They stop to swat Spider-Man, and he ends up backflipping off a cyclops' face right before another two-headed giant slaps him with a giant club! BONK! (The club hits the cyclops, of course, making Wolverine snarl with envy.)

Therefore, and Spidey being so darn fast, TWO of the four groups menacing Wanda, the Vision, and Sue are stopped in their tracks! And tripped by webs, blinded by webs, slapped by Spidey, etc. Most are not down, but they're definitely not threatening anyone else.

THE VISION

The Vision's eyes glow yellow. He floats up, transparent, through Sue's field, and activates the gem on his brow. Turning in place, he tracks the irresistable energy blast through ninety degrees of arc,
cutting down all the dead men who are attacking the Scarlet Witch.

And Sue Storm, too, of course. And the Vision himself.

Of course.

All four mobs attacking the ladies have now been vanquished. But still one invader, the Grave Ship, looms a mortal threat to all of Asgard!

ANT-MAN

Ant-Man will shrink down until he is small enough to slip his head out from between the wolf's teeth. He will then slip free of the wolf, hit the wolf with a shrinky disk, and at the same time grown back to giant size. He punches the wolf with his patented growing-punch which he throws as he grows, adding the momentum of the growth to the force of the blow.

WHOPP! Ant-Man's fist travels sixty feet in a quarter-second, arriving with the momentum of a truck. A big truck. With knuckles.

The wolf, shrinking, collides with Ant-Man on the way up. The Fenris Wolf, who will one day literally eat the Moon, is knocked unconscious. By ANT-MAN.

He also discovers from his ant radio telepathy helmet what is going on around the battle field, and sends giant ants to go rush to help Spider-Man, Machine-Man, and he sends another few giant ants to mug the queen of the dead.

This means fewer ants to fight the beasts, but there aren't as many beasts moving around as before. Wait, strike that. Seeing the Fenris Wolf go down and stay down tears the heart out of the beasts. They howl and flee, fighting to pile through the portal into their Beast World.

The Beasts are OUT! And that, by the way, includes those beasts sent after the Scarlet Witch. Once the panic gets going, they catch it too. Because they're beasts.

Which, mathematically, leaves ALL the giant ants free to help Wanda, Sue, and Vision, and to mug the queen of the dead.

Thor has put his hammer down on the deck of the grave ship.

"I will not slay thee, Balder, thou who hast the terrors of the grave e'en erenow suffered. Strike me
down if thou wilt; I shall not resist thee."

Balder, although enslaved by despair to the Queen of the Dead, can't do it. He drops to his knees.

Thor takes Balder's sword from his limp hand. He hands it to a giant ant, which clamps it in its jaws
like a piece of leaf and carries it back to the hive. Other ants are helpfully cutting all the ropes
which allow the Grave Ship to steer across the sky, and using their proportional ant-strength, tossing
dead sailors who resist right over the side.

Hela says: "No ... NO! Balder the Brave was my greatest conquest, arrogant Thunder God! Thou shalt not turn him from my side, while Death yet lives!"

(Spider-Man is tempted to point out that Death doesn't live. Can't. By definition. But he can't quite
connect up the punchline to the next level, and besides he's bouncing around one step ahead of a horde of quite legitimately angered giants. Comedy is hard.)

Thanos appears beside Hela, the Death Goddess.

"Does she yet live?" Thanos demands. "We have much to talk about, my lady."

And he warps away with Hela, using the blue cube, with a big carpenter ant chewing on his leg. The ant goes too.

Thor consoles brave Balder, and wonders why all the dead sailors are leaping over the side, to plummet hundreds of feet to their doom.

The shadow of a rotating sphere falls across the cobwebbed decks of the Grave Ship. Thor turns.

The ship is seconds away from crashing into Odin's mead-hall Valhalla! And the ship is actually bigger than Valhalla. The collision will surely wreck them both!

Thor's eye twitches involuntarily. An ant, beside him, waves its antennae in support.

Next issue: will the Grave Ship destroy Valhalla?

Will the giants finally catch Spider-Man?

Will Reed EVER stand up to Namor and tell him to keep his eyes off his girlfriend?

Stay tuned, True Believers! The most BOMBASTIC is yet to come!