Synopsis
Avengers: Marvels Snapshots #1 synopsis by
Rob Johnson
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Kerry is an Ohio girl come to New York and freeloading with acquaintances while she searches for an apartment. She's out jogging when she sees a giant red robot rampaging through town. She goes to help injured people but has to persuade a rookie cop to let her through as an off-duty paramedic. They get injured and others to 1 of the specially-built Stark International facilities known colloquially as Shrapnel Shelters. Then Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Vision, Wasp and Yellowjacket) show up to fight the robot.
A Police Sergeant tells the rookie to look after the people in the shelter while he stays up top to coordinate. He finds Kerry in there with some other medics. The battle above rocks the shelter. The cop diverts Kerry from worrying by telling her the 1st shelters were built after Sub-Mariner hit the city with a tidal wave and fought the original Human Torch. Kerry responds by saying she saw Beast, Cap, Thor and Wonder Man fighting Count Nefaria, and they made her miss out on an apartment. The cop says that was his 1st day on the job. He missed the Avengers but was nearly run down by a vintage limo containing the scientist who created Nefaria. But later he was doing crowd control when the Avengers went to court (and later fought Grey Gargoyle) - we see Beast, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch and Thor.
But also after the car incident another cop Cochran was giving our guy, Jay Sero, grief about being Native American, but his fellow cops took the rookie to a bar where they saw a Tony Stark having a few drinks. They were complaining about the show-off superheroes and Stark started to argue with them. Jay stood up to him and said that the heroes should spare a couple of minutes from a fight to save some lives on the ground. Later when Jay was walking home he was accosted by Iron Man who said he'd got a message from Stark. But now Sero breaks off the story.
Kerry's looking after another patient who asks for another story. She says she'd just missed another apartment when she literally ran into Beast and Wonder Man exiting Avengers Mansion. Simon Williams had been taking lessons from Hank McCoy and tried to chat her up, but she passed. Now she says she was weirded out by WM's glowing red eyes, but she might have said yes to Beast.
Just then a thump causes cracks in part of the ceiling. Murray the Sarge calls Jay to say part of a building has come down on top of them. Sero should keep them calm until they can be dug out. Jay asks if anyone else has any superhero stories. A guy says he saw Hawkeye and Ms Marvel fighting Absorbing Man. Daredevil saved another guy from a mugger with a gun. An old woman saw 'Ms Invisible' of the 'Frantic Four' in Macy's.
Jay and Kerry get to properly introduce themselves to each other. They share a moment that promises to be more. But then another loud noise puts the lights out. Torches reveal that an electrical conduit on the ceiling has broken and snapped the wires within. And 1 of the patients was on life support which is also now down. Jay mutters that this is a matter of life or death, and he sends a message LOD. Kerry fights to keep her patient alive. And then Iron Man breaks in the door. He fixes the electrics and takes the patient to a hospital, saying "Good call, Jay. Less than 2 minutes by my watch."
Everybody looks at Sero, who now completes his earlier story. Iron Man gave him an emergency contact card, to be used when 2 minutes would make a life or death difference.
Then Jay gets an all clear message and he leads everyone outside. Where Kerry finds that the apartment building she was about to move into has been trashed. But she and Jay agree to go on a date. We see a later date, with Vision and a dinosaur in the background.