>THWAM! The arrowhead is deflected by a purple shield, created by (who else?) Star-Lord!
You know, Storm may owe that cute dweeb an actual date.
Storm rushes forward as soon as Thanos falls, trying to grab one of the stones...preferably space, because wrath is icky to touch.
But Thanos only fell a few feet, whereas Storm has considerably more distance to cover. Unable to seize the stone, she focuses the lightning of the storm, zapping the Red Skull a lot.
But Hala's weather control systems prevent her from really whipping up a skullbuster of a storm, so he endures it. The Will Stone protects him from serious damage.
Drax the Destroyer leaps high to stab the Red Skull, and is knocked out of the air by a green blast that swats him like a fly. A very tough fly who is still alive, but very unconscious.
Star-Lord uses the Heartstone to shoot the Red Skull. But the Skull's infinity gems parry the Heartstone's purple influence.
Then the Red Skull warps space around Star-Lord, casting him into the heart of a roaring sun. But Star-Lord uses the Heartstone to resist, causing him to be suspended over a slowly rotating space warp leading to a big bright sun. People near him fall into it, but that was limited to Drax and Storm, who have both moved closer to the Red Skull and therefore don't fall in.
"Star. Lord," mocks the Red Skull. "Perhaps the star will obey your commands, my lord, when you are boiling on its surface!"
And the Scarlet Witch floats up close to him, not least because the Red Skull does not worry at all about what the Gypsy outside his field of vision is up to.
Surely the Red Skull has nightmares. Particularly after what he has witnessed. Wanda will help him see them.
(Parenthetically, is there any major villain that WOULDN'T work on? Maybe Ultron, although his chaotic origin suggests he, too, might have nightmares.)
The Red Skull relives the moment when the Space Gem took him apart a piece at a time and spread him over a large portion of the universe, very thinly indeed, like butter over a continent of bread.
"Aaagh ... not this time!" he insists. "I haff taken the measure of this Space Stone in our last encounter, and now, instead of bobbing along with the tide, I ... am ... its master!"
"Only a master of evil, Darth," says Star-Lord in a passable English accent.
"Darth ... ?"
"You never saw Star Wars?" gapes Star-Lord. "Oh, dude! We gotta get you in front of a VCR!"
Wanda:
ReplyDeleteThe Red Skull was right about one thing. Gypsies are deft pickpockets. And how else is one to survive on the street when one parents have been crushed thanks to the implements of destruction of TONY STARK?!
Ah. Well. That is for another time. Even so, that is a lovely bauble on the wrist of the Red Skull but it would look better on Wanda's wrist.
While his is provoking the young man with the lovely purple eyes, Wanda will relieve him of the Will Stone bracelet. That may get his attention. And he may not be able to force the Space Stone to do his will after all.
If she manages to do this, she would slip it on her own wrist.
>"Star. Lord," mocks the Red Skull. "Perhaps the star will obey your commands, my lord, when you are boiling on its surface!"
ReplyDeleteOkay, that is passably funny. Storm tries not to laugh.
She will continue to zap the Red Skull with lightning to the degree that she can...and Thanos, too, if he's still laying there.
If nothing else, this may distract them from Wanda.