War for the Cosmic Cube

The **War for the Cosmic Cube** was a short battle from Marvel's *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*. It deals with HYDRA and A.I.M. fighting each other for control of a powerful weapon that could alter reality called the Cosmic Cube. The battle takes place in the Season 1 episode, "Hail Hydra!"

## History

### Background

It all started with two evil organizations called HYDRA and Advanced Idea Mechanics, or A.I.M. for short. HYDRA was led by Baron Stucker while A.I.M. was led by its Scientist Supreme, Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing, or M.O.D.O.K. for short. They had a partnership together where A.I.M. would create and/or steal weapons and technology for HYDRA. A.I.M. even helped create a cybernetic arm blade for a HYDRA agent named the Grim Reaper. But eventually, they along with their leaders were captured and sent to the Vault, a high-security prison built by S.H.I.E.L.D. to hold tech-based villains and their gear. But when the Breakout happened, both groups and their leaders escaped and started planning evil schemes together to take over the world. However, through a special assignment from Nick Fury, a superhero and S.H.I.E.L.D. agent named Black Widow was assigned to join the ranks of HYDRA to act as a spy for S.H.I.E.L.D. But by doing so she was seen as a traitor to the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Avengers, and even her old partner, Hawkeye who she framed as the traitor to cover her tracks. The only person who ever knew the truth about her actions was Nick Fury himself which he kept secret from S.H.I.E.L.D. Then one day, HYDRA hired A.I.M. to create a powerful weapon called the Cosmic Cube which had the power to alter reality based on the desires of anyone who touched it. HYDRA wanted to use the Cosmic Cube to change reality so that HYDRA won World War II and took over the world, they even paid A.I.M. a large sum of money to build it for them. The Avengers didn't know about their plans and were only interested in finding and capturing Black Widow, especially Hawkeye. During their actions, HYDRA's base, HYDRA Island was destroyed after being compromised by the Avengers, and Hawkeye's old friend, Mockingbird while some HYDRA members including the Grim Reaper and Madame Hydra were captured and sent to Prison 42. But during A.I.M.'s work on the Cosmic Cube, M.O.D.O.K. realized how powerful it was so A.I.M. decided to double-cross HYDRA and keep the cube for themselves to use to take over the world. M.O.D.O.K. even lied to Baron Strucker claiming that the Cosmic Cube was a failure and even returned all the money HYDRA gave to A.I.M. but Strucker saw right through him.

### The Battle

As a result, HYDRA goes to fight A.I.M. in New York City to get control of the Cosmic Cube before M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M. can use it. When Black Widow finds out about it from Baron Strucker, she tries to contact Nick Fury but he has disappeared and since she can't get help from S.H.I.E.L.D., Black Widow goes to the Avengers for help but they have a hard time believing her. Until she tells them about her mission for Nick Fury and how both HYDRA and A.I.M. are going to fight each other for control of the Cosmic Cube by tearing all of New York City apart just to get it. So the Avengers and Black Widow all go to stop both HYDRA and A.I.M. in the Quinjet and Black Widow's HYDRA ship with the agreement that Black Widow will surrender herself to the Avengers when they retrieve the Cosmic Cube. Just then, they find both HYDRA and A.I.M. fighting each other in their ships with M.O.D.O.K. who is on one of the ships planning not to defeat HYDRA but to delay them until the Cosmic Cube is fully powered up to use. The Avengers try to fight off both HYDRA and A.I.M. so they can stop Baron Strucker and M.O.D.O.K. and get the Cosmic Cube with Black Widow using the tracer she put on Baron Strucker to find him. Then when Iron Man finds M.O.D.O.K. on one of the A.I.M. ships, he also finds the Cosmic Cube which causes his armor to short out when he scans it. Iron Man crashes at the docks and is attacked by some HYDRA tanks and when he tries to escape, his armor doesn't work until Wasp saves him. But they are then confronted by S.H.I.E.L.D. which is now led by Agent Maria Hill who declares that she's putting the entire city on lockdown including the Avengers. While both the HYDRA Soldiers and the A.I.M. Soldiers fight each other, Ant-Man, Hawkeye, and Black Widow arrive, take them down, and take down a HYDRA ship which they believe to have Baron Strucker on it since the tracer signal is coming from it. But discover some HYDRA Soldiers who reveal to them that Baron Strucker gave them the tracer to give back to Black Widow and that all of HYDRA now knows that she is a spy. During the fight, M.O.D.O.K. has one of his own ships take a HYDRA missile to protect his own ship that the missile was launched at, and both Captain America and Hulk fight off some HYDRA Soldiers and take down some HYDRA tanks. When the Cosmic Cube gets fully powered up, M.O.D.O.K. tries to use it but his ship gets shot down by Baron Strucker and crashes into a warehouse then some S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents and Mandroid S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents try to fight off some of the HYDRA Soldiers. Back at the docks, Iron Man tries to convince Agent Hill that they all need to work together to stop HYDRA and A.I.M. but she refuses to listen and states that since the Avengers are vigilantes they are also criminals too. So Iron Man and Wasp leave to continue fighting off HYDRA and A.I.M. but Agent Hill sends some S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents to take them down. At the warehouse, M.O.D.O.K. tries to get the Cosmic Cube but then Baron Strucker and some HYDRA Soldiers arrive to attack M.O.D.O.K. to get the cube. M.O.D.O.K. is able to take down the HYDRA Soldiers but Baron Strucker still fights M.O.D.O.K. and sends out some HYDRA robots called Dreadnoughts to take M.O.D.O.K. down which allows Strucker to get the Cosmic Cube. Meanwhile, the Avengers still continue to fight off HYDRA and A.I.M. while Iron Man and Wasp fight off the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents then Hawkeye launches an arrow with Ant-Man on it to stop Strucker from getting the Cosmic Cube which he does by punching Strucker when he grows big again from the arrow. Baron Strucker then orders the Dreadnoughts to attack Ant-Man while Thor and Black Panther help Iron Man and Wasp defeat Agent Hill and the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents but are called off by Iron Man then they all help save the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier from being destroyed by HYDRA. Back at the warehouse, while Ant-Man fights off against the Dreadnoughts, Baron Strucker is about to get the Cosmic Cube but Captain America arrives and fights him off. During which, Strucker absorbs Captain America's youth and strength with his mechanical claw arm then Black Widow and Hawkeye arrive and save Ant-Man from the Dreadnoughts. Just then, the warehouse floor breaks down and Hulk also arrives to help Black Widow and Hawkeye fight off the Dreadnoughts. Baron Strucker and Captain America continue to fight each other with Black Widow helping. Then Hawkeye destroys and pins down Baron Strucker's mechanical claw arm against a crate using one of his arrows which returns Captain America's youth and strength. But then Strucker makes one last move for the Cosmic Cube by disconnecting his mechanical claw arm to get it with Captain America trying to stop him which results in both of them touching the cube but nothing happens which ends the war.

### Aftermath

With the war over, most of both HYDRA and A.I.M. are arrested and sent to Prison 42 along with Baron Strucker and M.O.D.O.K. but the organizations would still continue on without them. However, Agent Hill and all of S.H.I.E.L.D. still viewed Black Widow as a traitor which resulted in Black Widow being on the run to find Nick Fury. Also while everyone thought the Cosmic Cube didn't work it actually did, when Captain America touched it he changed reality to where his old partner, Bucky survived but he was found by a HYDRA general named Red Skull who turned him into the Winter Soldier. Meanwhile, Nick Fury was away on a secret mission because when both the Grim Reaper and Madame Hydra were captured, he discovered that Madame Hydra was actually a Skrull which would lead to the Skrull Invasion.

## Belligerents

### HYDRA

* Baron Strucker
* HYDRA Soldiers
* Dreadnoughts

### A.I.M.

* M.O.D.O.K.
* A.I.M. Soldiers

### Other

* Avengers
	+ Iron Man
	+ Captain America
	+ Thor
	+ Hulk
	+ Wasp
	+ Ant-Man
	+ Black Panther
	+ Hawkeye
	+ Black Widow

* S.H.I.E.L.D.
	+ Maria Hill
	+ S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents
	+ Mandroid S.H.I.E.L.D. Agents

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