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  Nick Fury approached, making his way up the bank.

  “Hey,” he said.

  “Everything okay?” asked Cap.

  Fury shrugged.

  “Not sure,” he said. “Plenty here that needs sorting out. Look, I hate to mention it, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. station in LA just squirted me. Every clock in California just got set back by three hundred minutes. There are reports of a tachyon flare around the San Diego area.”

  “Temporal disruption?” asked Cap. “Someone screwing with time?”

  “Could be Kang,” said Stark. “Kang, or Immortus. Or the other guy. The one with the headdress.”

  “Could be anything,” said Fury.

  Cap and Iron Man looked at each other.

  “Your turn,” said Iron Man.

  “I did it last time.”

  Tony Stark sighed.

  “Okay,” he said. He turned toward the others.

  “Avengers?” he called. “Guess what I’m going to say next.”

  THE END

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Award-winning British author DAN ABNETT has been a New York Times best-seller seven times and won the Best Comic Writer award in 2003. He has written more than fifty books — including best-selling Warhammer 40,000 novels and tie-in fiction for Doctor Who, Torchwood and Primeval. He co-created Death’s Head and Knights of Pendragon for Marvel UK in the 1980s, and contributed extensively to the UK’s illustrious 2000AD. He has also written Iron Man, New Mutants, Doctor Strange and Punisher for Marvel, and worked on some of Marvel’s epic cosmic comics including the Annihilation and War of Kings events, and the Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy series. Abnett is also known for his work on major games such as Alien: Isolation and Shadow of Mordor. He has returned to Marvel’s cosmos on Guardians 3000 and Guardians of Infinity.

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