Skrull Invasion

The **Skrull Invasion** (also known as the **Secret Invasion**) was an epic battle from Marvel's *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*. It deals with alien shapeshifters known as the Skrulls that had come to invade Earth. The Skrull Invasion lasted for the first half of Season 2 but the battle takes place in the Season 2 episode, "Secret Invasion."

## History

### Background

It all started with an evil alien species called Skrulls who had the power to shapeshift to look like anyone and anything. It also started when the Skrulls' home world, Skrullos was destroyed by Galactus the Devour of Worlds during the Kree-Skrull War which scattered the Skrulls across the Galaxy. As a result, they began looking for a new planet to live on which was foretold in an ancient Skrull prophecy to be Earth so they decided to invade it. To do that, they sent Skrull Agents to infiltrate key groups and organizations on Earth by capturing certain people from them and taking their places to act as spies even gaining both their abilities and memories which they were able to do for a whole year. Some of the people and groups the Skrulls captured and infiltrated included Madame Hydra from HYDRA, Dr. Lyle Getz from A.I.M., Invisible Woman from the Fantastic Four, Mockingbird from the Secret Warriors, Agent Clay Quartermain from S.H.E.I.L.D., Director Henry Gyrich from S.W.O.R.D., King Cobra from the Serpent Society, and Captain America from the Avengers which happened after Loki's War. The Skrull Agents would try and weaken Earth's defenses by sabotaging the groups they were in so that no one would fight back against them when the Skrulls invaded Earth. However, Nick Fury found out about the Skrulls after Mockingbird captured Madame Hydra Skrull and showed her to him which led to Nick Fury leaving S.H.I.E.L.D. and going undercover to find out more about them with help from his Secret Warriors which consisted of Black Widow, Quake, and Mockingbird. But they didn't know that the Mockingbird with them was actually the Skrull Queen, Vernake in disguise. Doctor Doom also found out about the Skrulls and captured Wasp and Invisible Woman to see if they were Skrulls in disguise which he discovered was Invisible Woman then he started making a chip that could reveal the Skrull's true form after Wasp and the Invisible Woman Skrull were both rescued by both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. Then one day, Nick Fury secretly appeared on the S.H.I.E.L.D. and warned Agent Hill about the Skrulls since she was in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. while Nick Fury was away. Nick Fury also captured Iron Man, took him to his secret base with the Secret Warriors, and told him about both the Skrulls and that one of them was in the Avengers which he suspected to be Hawkeye. However, when Iron Man told the other Avengers about the Skrulls it caused severe amnesty and trust issues between them which resulted in the Avengers breaking up. With Black Panther going back to Wakanda to prepare it for when the Skrulls invade, Ms. Marvel going back to S.W.O.R.D., and Iron Man going back to Stark Industries to do his own research on the Skrulls to try and find them. But the Skrull posing as Captain America managed to keep Hawkeye, Hulk, and Wasp together as the Avengers with him and leading them which was part of his and Queen Vernake's plan. Then later, the Captain America Skrull let Hulk turn himself over to General Ross after being framed for attacking the S.H.I.E.L.D. Hellicarrier by a Red Hulk which left only him, Wasp, and Hawkeye as the Avengers.

Meanwhile, the real Captain America had been imprisoned aboard a Skrull ship by Saturn for two months and had been trying to maintain his sanity by doing exercises to resist any form of the Skrull's interrogation as Queen Vernake wanted to know how to get the Humans of Earth to submit to her. After multiple attempts at trying, the Skrull Scientists tried to trick Captain America into talking by using some Skrulls to impersonate the Avengers and make it look like they were trying to free him. But Captain America didn't fall for it, fought off against the Skrull Avengers, and escaped while taking the Skrull Interrogator hostage then he found the real Madame Hydra and convinced her to trust him and work together to escape the Skrulls. Captain America soon interrogated the Skrull Interrogator about the Skrulls' plans which he revealed to them about the prophecy which had led them to invade Earth where they would enslave those who submitted to them and destroy those who don't. Captain America then forced the Skrull Interrogator to reveal the locations of the other prisoners the Skrulls had captured which he and Madam Hydra found after knocking him out and fighting off some of the Skrull Guards. Although some of them believed each one of them was a Skrull, Captain America convinced them all to work together to escape back to Earth. Madame Hydra planned to have them all escape on one of the Skrulls' shuttle ships that brought them aboard then Captain America finds Invisible Woman who had been sedated by the Skrulls because of her power and later frees her. When the prisoners all got to the shuttles they were confronted by a Super Skrull who had all the powers of the Fantastic Four. Captain America and some of the prisoners fought off the Super Skrull while the other prisoners tried to get one of the shuttles running. Then some more Skrull Guards led by the Skrull Commander came to stop them but the prisoners got the shuttle working and used it to fight off the Skrull Guards. But when all the prisoners got on board the shuttle, Madame Hydra got captured by the Super Skrull so Captain America went to go rescue her by holding off the Super Skrull while she escaped. Captain America also managed to escape with help from Madame Hydra and Invisible Woman then the shuttle took off and headed back to Earth. However, when the Skrull Commander reported to Queen Vernake about their escape, she came up with a plan to subjugate the Humans by using the Captain America Skrull. Who ordered the Skrull Commander to infiltrate Wakanda and prepare for the invasion starting with New York City and Washington D.C.

Sometime after that, A Skrull shuttle headed down to Earth and landed in Africa where it was found by Ms. Marvel who called the Avengers about it. Another team of Skrulls posing as the Avengers came out of the shuttle and told Ms. Marvel that they were the real Avengers who were captured and replaced by Skrulls after saving Asgard but escaped when Hulk got angry unaware that they were all being watched by Wakandan guards. Meanwhile, the real Iron Man was at his condo by the sea working on his Skrull detection device for the past three weeks while also ignoring his phone calls and had not even taken off his armor throughout that time. Iron Man then tried to test it out to find the Skrulls but he had no luck until Doctor Doom arrived at his condo wanting to talk with Iron Man. Back in Africa, the Skrull Avengers told Ms. Marvel that the Skrulls are after the Vibranium in Wakanda so they could steal it which was part of the Skrull Avengers plan to infiltrate Wakanda. Meanwhile, Nick Fury worked on his Skrull investigation when Quake came up to him and told him about the Hulk being arrested by General Ross. As Ms. Marvel and the Skrull Avengers arrived at Wakanda they were confronted by the real Black Panther and his guards who ordered them to turn back. The Black Panther Skrull tried to convince Ms. Marvel that the real Black Panther was a Skrull and they all fought him off along with the Wakandan guards who appeared out of the long grass with some laser turrets despite Ms. Marvel's attempts to reason things out. Meanwhile, Iron Man fought off Doctor Doom but he easily defeated him and revealed to Iron Man about his own research on finding the Skrulls and that he knows how to find them. Doctor Doom also claimed he wanted to help Iron Man find the Skrulls to stop them from invading the Earth because he wanted to rule it. Then he gave Iron Man a chip that could expose the Skrulls when combined with Iron Man's Skrull detection device and took his leave. As for Nick Fury, he watched videos of Hulk's arrest and the Kree coming to Earth where he noticed how Captain America was not acting like himself so Nick Fury told Quake to contact Black Widow to tell Iron Man about Captain America being the Skrull. Back in Wakanda, Ms. Marvel and the Skrull Avengers continued to fight off Black Panther, his guards, and even his robots until the real Wasp and Hawkeye arrived after receiving Ms. Marvel's call. As the Avengers fight off the Skrull Avengers, Ms. Marvel becomes confused over who the real ones are but when Thor Skrull gets injured during the fight he reveals his true self. Then Black Panther arrived after defeating the Black Panther Skrull and revealed his true self as well which made Ms. Marvel fight off the Skrull Avengers. The Skrull Avengers were eventually defeated by the real Avengers so Ms. Marvel rejoined the Avengers and they all went back to New York City to stop the Skrulls from invading Earth but Black Panther decided to remain in Wakanda. Meanwhile, Iron Man was able to connect the chip to his armor then Black Widow showed up to bring him to Nick Fury but when Iron Man met up with Nick Fury at his secret base and talked about the Skrull chip. Nick Fury realized that Mockingbird should have told him about the Red Hulk attacking the S.H.I.E.L.D. Hellicarrier and realized that she is a Skrull too. Who later attacked everyone with a blaster and used a virus she uploaded into Iron Man's armor to torture him then she revealed herself as Queen Vernake and ordered the Skrull Army to commence the invasion.

### The Battle

The Skrulls begin the invasion with the Skrull Agents sabotaging and taking out most of the groups they infiltrated by destroying their bases just as Captain America and the other prisoners arrive back on Earth to try and warn them. With the Dr. Lyle Getz Skrull taking out some A.I.M. Soldiers at the A.I.M. base, the Agent Quartermain Skrull and some other S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Skrulls taking out the S.H.I.E.L.D. Hellicarrier by setting it to self-destruct, the Director Henry Gyrich Skrull taking out the Damocles by setting it to self-destruct, the Captain America Skrull taking out Avengers Mansion using Skrull bombs, and the Invisible Woman Skrull taking out the Baxter Building by transporting it to another Dimension. However, some of those groups were able to evacuate their bases before they were all destroyed with Agent Hill escaping and placing a robot duplicate of herself in the Hellicarrier when the Skrulls attacked. Queen Vernake also taunts an injured Iron Man for causing the Avengers to break up which allowed the Skrulls to invade Earth then she finds out the remaining Avengers are coming to New York City on their Quinjet. So she orders the Captain America Skrull to divert them to Washington D.C. while also revealing to Iron Man that he was the Skrull spy in the Avengers the whole time. When the Avengers get the call from the Captain America Skrull, they are attacked and shot down by the Skrulls and land in Washington D.C. at the Whitehouse. Then a Skrull ship arrives and a whole bunch of Super Skrulls surround the Avengers, all with multiple powers of both heroes and villains but the Avengers fight them off. Meanwhile, Nick Fury wakes up and Queen Vernake taunts him about how he helped her invade the Earth but just when she is about to attack him, Agent Hill shows up, scares Queen Vernake away with a blaster, and destroys the Skrull bomb before it could destroy Nick Fury's secret base. Agent Hill tells Nick Fury about the Skrulls taking out Earth's defensives so Nick Fury decides that they have to save Iron Man from Queen Vernake's virus to stop the Skrulls. So Iron Man tells them to take out his Arc Reactor and has them fix it from the damage caused by the virus then after they fix it, Iron Man recovers and goes to call Thor to help him stop the Skrulls. Back in Washington D.C., the Avengers continue to fight off the Super Skrulls but they get defeated and are presented to the Captain America Skrull which makes them realize that he was the Skrull that infiltrated them. Hawkeye tries to fight him but gets taken out by one of the Super Skrulls then the Captain America Skrull tells a man with a camera that the Super Skrulls captured to broadcast all over the Earth about the Skrull Invasion. Where the Captain America Skrull tells all of humanity to submit to the Skrulls claiming that they are not here to hurt them but to save them from themselves. Queen Vernake then arrives disguised as Mockingbird which makes the Avengers realize that she was a Skrull too. Queen Vernake states that those who surrender to them shall live but those who refuse will die and with the Skrull posing as Captain America talking to the people they will be able to submit to the Skrulls and she will rule the Earth. But then the real Captain America arrives with the real Agent Quartermain, Mockingbird, and Madame Hydra to stop the Skrulls but Queen Vernake claims that the Skrulls have already one. Until Iron Man arrives and reveals the Skrulls' true forms with his repulsor blast combined with Doctor Doom's Skrull chip. So Queen Vernake sends the Super Skrulls to attack them claiming that the Avengers are all outmatched until Thor arrives and shoots down the Skrull ship with his lightning which causes it to crash into the water behind the Whitehouse. Then both the Avengers and prisoners fight off the Super Skrulls again with Captain America fighting off the Captain America Skrull. As a result, Queen Vernake declares that Washington D.C. has been compromised and orders the Dr. Lyle Getz Skrull from A.I.M. to activate the failsafe which is having Earth's satellite lasers blast the planet with powerful sonic waves to attack everyone on it except for the Skrulls who are immune to it. When it happens, Iron Man tells Thor to take all of the satellites down which he does using his lightning which saves everyone. The Avengers and the prisoners then fight off and defeat the rest of the Super Skrulls, the Captain America Skrull, and Queen Vernake which ends the invasion.

### Aftermath

After the Skrulls were defeated, they were all sent to a special section in Prison 42 including both Queen Vernake and the Captain America Skrull. Those who were taken prisoner by the Skrulls also returned to their normal positions in the groups that the Skrulls had infiltrated. Invisible Woman was also able to bring back the Baxter Building and she along with the rest of the Fantastic Four were able to defeat all of the Skrulls within it. The remaining Skrull spies were also found, captured, and sent to Prison 42 as well by S.W.O.R.D. thanks to Iron Man giving them his Skrull detecting equipment. While some of the groups whose bases were destroyed by the Skrulls had to set up new bases in different places while Avengers Mansion was rebuilt. It also caused most but not all of the Avengers to be reunited but with one cost, the Skrulls had shattered other's peoples trust in each other. But Captain America was able to regain the people's trust in him with help from Spider-Man and the Avengers were able to reunite themselves back together again. However, just as Galactus had destroyed Skrullos, he would later come to Earth to destroy it too in the Invasion of Galactus.

## Belligerents

### Avengers

* Iron Man
* Captain America
* Thor
* Wasp
* Hawkeye
* Ms. Marvel
* Nick Fury
* Maria Hill
* Clay Quartermain
* Mockingbird
* Madame Hydra
* Fantastic Four
	+ Mister Fantastic
	+ Invisible Woman
	+ Human Torch
	+ The Thing

* Commander Abigail Brand
* Sydren
* S.W.O.R.D. Agents
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents

### Skrull Empire

* Queen Vernake/Mockingbird Skrull
* Captain America Skrull
* Skrull Commander
* Clay Quartermain Skrull
* Dr. Lyle Getz Skrull
* Invisible Woman Skrull
* Director Henry Gyrich Skrull
* Jasper Sitwell Skrull
* S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Skrulls
* Super Skrulls
	+ Super Skrull
	+ Abomination/Whirlwind/Griffin Super Skrull
	+ King Cobra/Grim Reaper Super Skrull
	+ Thor Super Skrull
	+ Wolverine/Cyclops/Colossus/Nightcrawler Super Skrull
	+ Iron Man/Mr. Fantastic/Black Bolt/Doctor Strange Super Skrull
	+ Crimson Dynamo/Ant-Man/Klaw Super Skrull
	+ Spider-Man/Black Panther/Iron Fist Super Skrull
	+ Thing Super Skrulls
	+ Human Torch Super Skrulls
	+ Quicksilver Super Skrull

* Skrull Soldiers

## Videos

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