X-Men Mission: Avengers vs X-Men: Prelude

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Duncan contacts Kane with a back channel call for help with a situation that is tremendously dangerous. The X-Men are literally asked to be the main line of defense for SHIELD against their own Avengers.



"Garrison."

"Fred. I thought you were still running around in your Cubs related euphoria. I like the dress, by the way. Very Veronica Lake... especially around the eyes."

"Kane, shut up. This is serious." He heard the sigh over the phone and the strained sound of Duncan's voice. "There's been an incident with the Avengers. Some kind of magical attack out in the Mid-West. They're coming for SHIELD."

"Wait, slow down. What happened?"

"Acoording to Fury, they were investigating what they thought was a new portal to the other realms. Maybe Jotenheim or some other place. Typical Loki stuff. However, as they were checking it out, there was some kind of magical event. The Avengers turned on the SHIELD support team and slaughtered them. Before the feeds were lost, they got sound and video of them talking about SHIELD as if it was HYDRA and how they were coming to Triskalion to end them."

"You must be fucking kidding me. SHIELD has the Avengers inbound as hostiles?"

"Yeah, I know. They're about an hour out. They don't want to abandon Triskalion because they're worried that if they do, the Avengers will start searching for them and that could be a disaster for civilians in New York City." Duncan said. "Fury is asking for help. Completely off channel. You have magic and Asgard specialists. Brand is going with a SWORD team to investigate the site, see if there's a way to reverse whatever happened."

"I'll get you some experts."

"There's a stripped down Quinjet inbound to the mansion. It's been stripped down into basically a flying engine, so it should be able to get the team to the site before the Avengers reach New York. But... this is Thor, Iron-Man, Hulk... they can topple Triskalion in a matter of minutes, regardless of what assets they can deploy in defense."

"So you're... sorry, Fury is asking for the X-Men."

"Defense only. Anything you can do to parry the attack."

"Fuck..." Kane scrubbed his hand through his short hair. "This is big league ball, Dunc."

"I know. So does Fury. Look, there isn't a backup scenario left, Garrison."

"Yeah. Fuck." He shook his head. "I'll convince them. This is going to be a shitshow."

"You're telling me. Thanks Gar."