the_ruskies:

The call comes in about 4:20 am EST.

A man in crimson armor climbs out of a harbor in Manhattan, barely able to stand. He collapses, water-logged and battered, upon the ground. He lit up American airspace alerts two or three miles out, but he moved too quickly for anyone to mount an adequate response.

Two hours later, Crimson Dynamo sits in an interrogation room on the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, awaiting someone, anyone who will hear him out. It galls him to ask the Americans for help, but he has no choice.

He is betraying his country to save it from a monster.

i_am_doom:

Doom's arrived in Moscow under the cover of darkness, the chill of the winter air stinging his eyes. This was the only effect that the cold had upon him; his armor's life-support systems managed his body temperature easily as he walked across the darkened landscape leading to the city. The time was nearly at hand to make his appearance to the "Russian" president, and Doom could still hear the crowing of those blithering idiots in their self-styled "Intelligencia" . Leader and M.O.D.O.K. were out of the picture, and with them went the true power behind the group.

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