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1st Story: When the Abomination Comes a' Calling  -  2nd Story: Love Stings
1st story:
'RAAGGHH!' the being known as the Abomination roars as he tears the shackles that bind his hands within a special federal security compound near the Rocky Mountains. 'Hit the dirt! He must have been playing possum before we could secure those manacles!' a guard shouts as he drops to the ground, while other guards look around, confused. 'Fools! In your rush to transport me to the Vault you became careless – sloppy! And thus, I escape! Nothing forged by twentieth century surfacemen can hope to contain the Abomination!' the behemoth boasts as he tears the ground up, knocking the transport vehicle over. The Abomination warns the guards that this is the smallest example of what he will do to their world, and asks them if they see the unchallengable might that they are up against. 'DO YOU?' he shouts.
The Abomination then leaps into the air, he thinks to himself that it is strange, that the man who originally became the Abomination has been separated from this body, and now, it is another's mind which inhabits this green shell – the mind of Tyrannus. He reminds himself that when he abandoned his physical form and became one with the legendary flame of life which would have given him supreme power, the accursed interfered, and his disembodied consciousness was hurled into space until the atoms of the disintegrated Abomination entity passed him by. He remembers merging his consciousness with the floating atoms of the Abomination, and willed the now-reformed body back to Earth, again encountering the Hulk, and then that strutting buffoon – the Avenger that calls himself Wonder Man. Abomination decides that the brutish Hulk can wait, for he first desires revenge on this creature who dared mock him, then defeat him in combat as he rampaged through Los Angeles. 'Wonder Man – your life is mine!' Abomination exclaims to himself.
The West Coast Avengers Compound, home of the most famous fighting team west of New York, where two of the staff, Lita and Carlos are discussing Hawkeye. Lita tells Carlos that she feels so bad for Hawkeye, as since the break up with his wife, Mockingbird, he has been so quiet, so morose, so unlike himself. She wishes there was something they could do. Carlos agrees, but reminds Lita that they are merely servants here, and Hawkeye has given them the day off so that he may be off alone. Carlos suggests that perhaps they may be helping him by doing just that – leaving.
Inside his darkened bungalow, Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye sits on the edge of his bed and looks at a photo of he and his wife, Bobbi Morse-Barton and thinks to himself that they had so much going for them – so how did it get fouled up. He wonders how this could happen to him – an orphaned kid who joined a carnival and became the world's great archer – the stuff dreams are made of. 'Yeah, dreams...and what does that all mean now that my wife...my love is gone?' Clint asks himself. He reminds himself that they split over differing philosophies, as she felt that under certain circumstances, Avengers should be allowed to kill. 'Well, lady – I just don't buy that. We're the good guys...and we don't kill. Nothing can change that principle! Not even out break-up!' Hawkeye decides.
Outside, just within the Compound walls, Abomination lands on the front lawn, and thinks that his body is the result of a gamma radiation blast that struck a Russian spy, transforming him, but since his bodily separation from Abomination, it is the mind and will of Tyrannus that now commands it. Suddenly, guns rise up from the ground, and start firing at Abomination. 'Eh? Defensive mechanisms' Abomination wonders, before boasting that the puny devices were not intended to halt an intruder such as him – and he slams a fist down on them, destroying them.
Back in his bungalow, Clint hears a noise – the sound of something be trashed out front. 'Gotta be kidding me! Just when I wanted to be left alone!' he mutters to himself, before picking up his bow and arrow and trudging out into a corridor, he knows that duty calls, and no matter how bad he feels, it is time to go to work. 'That's what being an Avenger is al about! And I used to call Cap a corn-ball! Times change' Clint thinks to himself, while outside, Abomination is surprised as large metal coils rise up from the ground and ensnare him. Abomination begins tearing at the coils, while calling out to Wonder Man, announcing that there is an unfinished affair between them. 'You choose to mock one who strode this world fifteen centuries before your birth! And the penalty for such effrontery is – DEATH!' he booms.
Suddenly, Abomination cries out in agony, as an arrow strikes his head. He turns to the doorway to the building nearby and sees Hawkeye, who tells him that Wonder Man isn't here, he's off making a commercial. Hawkeye jokes that they gave at the office, and tells Abomination to beat it. 'You have sealed your fate as well' Abomination remarks, causing Hawkeye to spin and re-enter the building, slamming the door behind him, he wonders how he gets out of this one – as that was his best explosive-tip arrow. 'Cease your flight, bowman! There is nowhere to hide!' Abomination roars as he bursts through the doorway. Hawkeye turns and fires a sonic arrow at Abomination, hoping the high frequency will disturb him. Abomination drops to his knees and clutches his head, while Hawkeye realizes he better lead Abomination outside before he demolishes the place, but knows that the only chance to defeat him is in the work room.
Hawkeye runs down some stairs, knowing he has to keep Abomination off balanced. Abomination lumbers after Hawkeye, who turns around and fires a flare arrow at Abomination, striking him, and blinding him. Unable to see, Abomination doesn't notice the bolo-whip type arrow that is fired at him and wraps around his ankles – causing him to topple over and fall down the steps. Hawkeye tells him to keep pouring it on, use every trick in the quiver – including the putty arrow which he shoots at Abomination, it lands on his face, covering it in sticky putty. Hawkeye races on down the corridor, determined to stay ahead of Abomination, he wants to get more distance between them, before he turns back and prepares to fire a rocket arrow filled with knockout gas – but Abomination rounds the corner and slams his fist into the wall, sending some debris into the air, Hawkeye can't fire the arrow until the fragments drop, as he can't risk his aim being spoiled – he wants to get the beasty boy right between the eyes.
Hawkeye fires the arrow, and it indeed strikes Abomination between his eyes, releasing the gas – but Hawkeye notices Abomination hold his breath while the gas dissipates. 'How come such an ugly dude is so smart?' Clint wonders, deciding that since that didn't work, he will have to bring up thje heavy artillery, and shouts at Abomination: 'Yooo-hoo! Egg-crate head – wanna rent yourself out as a target?' Hawkeye asks. He then opens a door and beckons Abomination to follow him: 'C'mon! Let's see what's behind door number one! A new face, maybe? Some lingerie for the discriminating monster? Moustache wax?' Hawkeye jokes as he enters his work room, and starts picking up various arrows. Clint knows that he has got the Abomination steamed, so it is time for his ace in the hole – the adamantium-tipped arrow, the strongest metal ever created, complete invulnerable. Hawkeye saved this arrow in case they ever ran into their ol' buddy, Ultron, because his hide is adamantium, too, and a projectile of the same substance is the only thing that might penetrate his casing.
Hawkeye lines the arrow up on his bow, and thinks that the adamantium tip is definitely strong enough to pierce the skin of tall, green and gruesome, who arrives at the door to the room, punching it down. 'You have not exhausted the ineffectual tricks in your quiver? What possible effect can one more arrow have?' Abomination enquires. Hawkeye informs Abomination that this one is made of Adamantium, that it can pierce anything – he saves it for special occasions. Hawkeye warns Abomination to take one more step and then he will get it right through the heart. Abomination grins at Hawkeye, as he telepathically communicates with him: 'You lie, Avenger. I retain the telepathic powers I acquired when I was one with the flame of life' Abomination explains, revealing that he probes into the center of Hawkeye's mind and senses that Hawkeye has no desire to kill. 'You are weak! Weak! WEAK!' Abomination exclaims, before going wide-eyed as he digs deeper, and learns that Hawkeye does desire his death.
'Beneath the heroic exterior – at the core of your reptilian brain – there is only the predator's lust for the kill!' Abomination realizes. Hawkeye frowns and wonders if Mockingbird was right – maybe in this business there are times when circumstances dictate the death of an enemy – when your cherished principals must be violated. Clint wonders what value are principals if they don't hold up under the supreme test. 'What use is an Avenger's oath if it's disregarded for any reason?' Clint asks himself. Hawkeye then fires an arrow which strikes the floor under where Abomination is standing. 'What? I misjudged you! But I was so certain -' Abomination begins, before grinning as he tells Hawkeye that he is a fool for not having seized the advantage. 'Now the arrow that might have served as my demise... shall instead be plunged through your chest!' But as Abomination grabs the arrow, he cries out in agony as an electrical current courses from the arrow through his body.
Abomination drops to the floor, and Hawkeye remarks that he is sorry, guess he forgot to tell him that arrow wasn't simply designed to penetrate Ultron, but also to release a huge electrical discharge inside him – instant short circuit. Hawkeye adds that he set the control the feather-tip to stun not kill. 'So just hang around while I contact the boys at the Vault' Hawkeye adds. Hawkeye remarks that he can only guess what Abomination saw inside him with his telepathic probe, and walks out of the room, knowing that deep down, he is sure Abomination hit some instinctive impulse to kill whatever threatens him – but there is not a living creature that doesn't have that impulse – it is what makes them animals. Hawkeye believes that if you temper that impulse – restrain those urges – do only what is necessary to stop an enemy – then you become a man. And when that impulse dominates your life, then you become an Avenger. He knows that now, and someday, he thinks Mockingbird will see that, too.

2nd story:
The outer wall of a United States federal prison, a large hole is in the wall, which the Fixer has broken down, and opens fire on some guards. 'Quickly, Yellowjacket! I can't hold these guards off forever!' Fixer exclaims to Rita DeMara the second Yellowjacket, whom he has just rescued from prison. Yellowjacket fires a blast of energy at the guards as she finishes putting her costume on. She tells Fixer that she I nearly there, just needs a few seconds to finish putting on her costume which he so thoughtfully brought her. 'Allow me to provide one final distraction to assist you, my dear!' Fixer exclaims as he throws a bomb at the guards, knocking them backwards. 'Finished, at last! Now I can do one of the things I do best – get small!' Yellowjacket declares as she puts her helmet on over her head, and shrinks down to her smaller size, and takes flight alongside the Fixer, who is propelled upwards by his costume, he tells Yellowjacket that he has a place to stay not too far away from her. Guards continue to fire at the former Masters of Evil, but they miss, and Yellowjacket tells Fixer not to get too forward. 'You pick me up and right away you want to take me home. Not that I'm complaining, mind you' she adds.
Half an hour later:'Home at last!' Fixer exclaims as he and Yellowjacket stand before a run-down old warehouse. 'I've heard the saying “be it ever so humble...” but this is ridiculous!' Yellowjacket exclaims. She increases her form back to her regular size as they enter the warehouse, and the Fixer tells Yellowjacket not to sound so disappointed, and that she must have heard said “You can't judge a book by it's cover”. Yellowjacket removes her helmet, and gasps 'Wow!' as she looks into the clean, well-equipped home of the Fixer. Fixer smiles and points out that Yellowjacket seems suitable impressed, but that this is just the beginning. He claps his hands, and a small robot rolls towards Yellowjacket, with two glasses of champagne. 'Cute' Yellowjacket remarks as she takes a glass. Fixer takes the other glass and clinks it against Yellowjacket's as he tells her that he is glad she feels that way, as he would like this to be the start of a very long, prosperous and beautiful relationship.
Fizer continues, informing Yellowjacket that he loves her – and he has loved her ever since they met during the Masters of Evil's siege of Avengers Mansion. 'I suspect that you must feel the same way about me' Fixer adds. Yellowjacket looks surprised, then awkward, as she pulls away from Fixer who moves in closer to her, and tells him that she appreciates all he has done for her, breaking her out of prison and all – but she thinks he has gotten the wrong idea somewhere along the line. Yellowjacket then shrinks down to insect size and flies up above the Fixer, who asks her what she is saying. 'How can you spurn me after all I've done for you? All I'm willing to do for you?' he enquires. Yellowjacket tells Fixer that it is nothing personal, butb she didn't appreciate his advances before – and she doesn't appreciate them now. She then flies out a window, while Fixer tells himself that he won't let her get away with this – he can't.
One week later at the Creskill, New Jersey home of Jan van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp. Wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a long coat, Yellowjacket is crouched amongst some trees and shrubs out the front of the home, 'This is it. This is where that little runt, the Wasp lives!' Rita thinks to herself. She has been waiting for this day for months – it is high time that she pays her back for the humiliation the Wasp made her suffer through. Rita remembers that it was during her first outing as Yellowjacket, while she was stealing Dr Pym's technology, that she had the bad luck to run into the Wasp, and although she gave her a good fight, she wasn't ready to handle any Avenger then, not even one as small as the Wasp. Rita decides that the Wasp didn't actually defeat her – it was the shock of getting small for the first time that did her in, and vows that things are going to be a little different this time around.
Rita removes her hat and coat and declares that Little Miss Wasp is going to find that she will not be so easily beaten again. Yellowjacket starts to put her helmet on, thinking that it is going to be a real pleasure to kick the Wasp, she notices a car pull up out the front of the Wasp's home, and realizes it looks like she has company. A handsome man exits the car and Rita wonders what a cute guy like him is doing visiting a priss like the Wasp, and supposes it must be a relative. She realizes that she will have to wait until he takes off, before thinking that something about him seems familiar – or perhaps she would just like to get familiar with him.
The handsome man is Dane Whitman a.k.a. Black Knight, member of the Avengers. As he approaches the front door, he tells himself that he has to calm down. He knows that as the Black Knight he has been in much tougher spots, and all he has to do is say what is on his mind. 'Sure, easy, huh! Give me a nice murderous world dominating super-villain any time!' Dane thinks to himself as he knocks on the door. The door doesn't open though, instead the Wasp flies over to him, telling him that she thought she heard him drive up, and points out that he is an hour early for her fencing lesson. Dane smiles at Jan and explains that he has something to talk to her about before they start. 'Great!' Jan smiles as she increases to her regular size. 'Here. These are for you' Dane remarks nervously as he hands Jan a bunch of flowers. 'Oh, Dane, you're just the sweetest thing!' Jan responds, kissing Dane on the cheek.
Dane tells Jan that he is glad she feels that way, as it makes what he has to say that much easier. 'We've been friends for some time now. We've worked together, side by side, in the Avengers and we've occasionally dated. I think that we, er... that is, I'd like us... I want to see more of you, Jan. I'd like us to be more than just friends' Dane reveals, while thinking to himself 'That wasn't so hard'. But Jan tells Dane that she doesn't know what to say – that she is very flattered, and really likes Dane, and hopes they can always be friends. 'But I'm afraid there could never be anything more between us' she states. Dane looks away and covers his face, as Jan reveals that Dane reminds her too much of her ex-husband, Hank Pym – what with the science background, being super heroes and all. 'Dane, it just would never work. I'm sorry'. Dane quickly tells Jan that he understands and heads back to his car, remarking that he better be going.
All this time, Yellowjacket has been watching from the shrubs. 'What a jerk that little goody two shoes is! How could she let a hunk like that get away?' Rita wonders to herself, deciding that it is too bad he isn't sticking around to see the beating she is about to give the Wasp. But as Dane speeds away in his car, Rita wonders what she is doing here, realizing that she is getting too caught up in this super-villain thing. 'Who cares about little miss-too-busy-to-be-a-prom-queen and revenge? I'm going after the hunk!' Rita decides as she shrinks down and flies after Dane's car.
An hour later at the former site of Avengers Mansion, Dane peers through a hole in the fence that surrounds the property, and thinks to himself that he can't believe what a loser he is – just can't believe it. All the weeks of preparation, working up the nerve to bare his feelings to Janet and then he blew it in two minutes. He supposes he isn't destined to find the right woman. 'I'll have to be content with polishing the old Ebony Blade' Dane jokes to himself, unaware that Yellowjacket is perched in a nearby tree, thinking to herself that it is a shame someone this cute should get jerked around by a rich witch like the Wasp. Rita is in awe, as she gazes at Dane, thinking about how good looking he is, she wants to get to know him, but still has the feeling that she has met him before. 'That's it! It was right here. He's the Black Knight. I remember him from the raid on the Mansion' Rita realizes.
'What do I do now? Go up to him and say “Hi, I don't know if you remember me, but I helped put you in the hospital. My name's -' 'YELLOWJACKET!' Fixer shouts as he interrupts her train of thought, declaring that he has found her at last, he calls her an ungrateful wench and asks if she really thought he would allow her to cast him aside like yesterday's trash, and reveals that the electronic device he planted in her helmet before he returned it to her enabled him to track her wherever she went. He adds that he followed her ever since she left him. 'I've seen how you've been fawning over this, this, this – soon to be maggot ridden piece of flesh!' Fixer shouts as he turns to Dane and starts firing a weapon at him, 'Die, FOOL!' Fixer calls out, while Yellowjacket switches to her regular size and calls out 'Fixer, don't!'
Dane raises the case he has been carrying, and uses it to absorb the blasts, although Dane is knocked back through the fence surrounding the hollowed-out ground where Avengers Mansion once stood, and falls into a small pit, the case breaks open, revealing the Ebony Blade. 'What a hardy fool you are! But it doesn't matter, dying in this pit will allow you to go to where you belong that much quicker!' Fixer exclaims as he stands on the edge of the pit and aims the weapon at Dane, who has had the wind knocked out of him. He knows he needs to reach his sword, but suddenly, Yellowjacket comes to Dane's aid, as she fires a blast of energy at Fixer's helmet. 'Yeow!' Fixer cries out. 'Why kill an unarmed man, Fixer? Afraid a little woman would give you too much of a fight?' Yellowjacket asks.
'Afraid, woman? Ha! It is you who have to fear!' Fixer calls back as he turns on Yellowjacket and opens fire on her. 'You have to hit me first, Fixy!' Yellowjacket calls back as she ducks and dives between the Fixer's blasts – blasts which start to hit the fence surrounding the property, near where some civilians are gathered. 'The sky is falling! The sky is falling!' a man calls out. 'If that's supposed to be funny, I'm not laughing!' another man remarks as he begins to run. A woman calls her daughter to her, but the young girl cries that she is scared – and as the weapons fire blasts around her, she falls towards the pit. 'My baby!' the woman screams. Yellowjacket sees this, and knows she has to get to the child – so speeds towards her, 'Got you!' Yellowjacket calls out as she saves the girl.
Dane sees this, and realizes that Yellowjacket saved him and now the girl – but he thought she was one of the bad guys. Yellowjacket returns the girl to her mother, who asks 'How can I ever thank you?' and Yellowjacket tells her to get to cover while she finishes off the Fixer – but before she can defend herself, Fixer fires a blast at her head, knocking her out and boasting that it is she who is finished. Dane sees that Yellowjacket is stunned, helpless, and watches the Fixer goes over and grabs her, telling her that this is the way he likes her, and to make sure she stays this passive, he finds it necessary to give her a mind control pod. But as he prepares to place the small device on Yellowjacket's helmet, Dane shouts 'No!' and moves towards the Fixer, 'You!' the Fixer gasps as Dane holds the Ebony Blade and tells Fixer to put Yellowjacket down now.
'Fool, if you had known what was good for you, you would have stayed down in that pit!' Fixer responds as he opens fire at Dane, who blocks the blast with the Ebony Blade. Dane admits that the Fixer caught him unaware last time, but that won't happen again, not while the Ebony Blade can absorb anything that the Fixer throws at him. As Dane blocks another blast, Yellowjacket comes to, wondering what happened, she sees that the Fixer has attacked the hunk again, so quickly shrinks down, then flies over to Fixer, and returns to her regular form, 'You're really beginning to annoy me!' Yellowjacket exclaims as she slams her fist into Fixer's face. The Fixer pauses, before retreating, flying away.
'Look at him go. How's he doing that? I hit him hard enough to be out for a week!' Yellowjacket tells the Black Knight, who assumes that Fixer's armor must have an autopilot system that kicks in if he goes unconscious. Dane smiles at Yellowjacket and tells her that was a nice piece of teamwork. 'Maybe we could get a drink together sometime' Dane suggests, before going wide-eyed as Yellowjacket grabs his face and kisses him on the lips. 'I'd love to stick around, but the cops are going to be showing up soon and I am a wanted woman' Yellowjacket calls back, before telling Dane that she will look him up sometime. 'Yes...you do that!' Dane thinks to himself as he leaves farewell to Yellowjacket.


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1st Story: Beware the Bullet Biker!   -   2nd Story: The Fall Guy
1st story:
Until a second ago, this was merely another highly successful gallery display opening by renowned painter Max Scheel. Suddenly, like a new Picasso, a violent explosive element thrusts itself into the placid art world, and gallery attendees duck for cover as a red motorcycle is driven through a nearby window, and the rider shouts 'Heads up, art-lovers! The Bullet Biker's back in LA!'
Several gallery guards rush onto the scene, but the Bullet Biker fires a smoke bomb at them from the weapon attached to his wrist. He tells himself that it is a good thing he equipped himself with weapons so he can handle anyone who plans to stop him. The gas pellet blasts will put them under while he goes about his dirty little business. The Bullet Biker then raises his arm and fires several explosives at some of the artwork, destroying it. 'That's what I call a master-piece! If only I could stay for the critics' arrival!' he jokes to himself, before driving back through the window he entered the gallery through, and sees a police car driving towards him.
'Chuck – there's that Bullet Biker bozo that's been knocking over LA's art galleries! Let's get him!' one of the officers tells the other as they give chase, speeding after the Bullet Biker, who decides that he will just lead these flatheads on a merry chase – and darts down an alleyway, where he pulls his patented disappearing act. The officers drive down the alleyway, but the Bullet Biker is nowhere to be seen. The officers are confused, as they radioed for another car to wait at the other end of the alley – so how could the Bullet Biker have escaped?
Back at the art gallery: 'Sir, what exactly did you see?' a reporter asks an elderly man, who throws his arms into the air and declares 'What did I see? The end of law and order – society – Los Angeles! If you're not safe in a cultural enclave – where are you?' The reporter replies 'Um...yes' Before she turns to see Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye enter the gallery. She introduces him as the leader of the West Coast Avengers. Hawkeye recognizes the reporter and greets her as Ms Rogers, announcing that he decided to look into the case, and figured here seemed like the best place to start. Ms Rogers leaves the gallery with Hawkeye and informs him that it was that Bullet Biker again – the fifth time now, and no one has been able to catch him yet. Hawkeye boasts that will change now that he is on the case, and reveals that he has some leads he wants to check out.
Hawkeye climbs onto his sky-cycle, and Ms Rogers joins him, asking 'Mind if girl reporter Go-Get-'Em Gayle Rogers tags along?' she asks, reminding Hawkeye that they never did finish that interview they started a few weeks ago. 'You related to Bawbra Wawa or what?' Hawkeye frowns. Gayle tells Hawkeye to lighten up, and adds that she thinks  she can give him some info that might lead to the Biker's capture. Gayle suggests that first they head out of millionaire Marcus J Waldner's estate in Bel-Air, explaining that the first three times the biker struck, the galleries belonged to one man. The sky-cycle rises up into the air, and Gayle reveals that the last two times, the galleries were owned by Waldner, so her guess is the Bullet Biker is running an extortion racket, and Waldner should definitely be informed.
'Sometimes the ladies and gents of the press can be more dangerous than the super-villains!' Hawkeye exclaims. 'You're up front. I'll say that' Gayle replies, before telling Hawkeye that what she would like to know is whether Hawkeye thinks his own flamboyant activities have a positive impact on people. Hawkeye grumbles at this question, before admitting that he has always been a bit of a show-off, as it's in his nature, he loves the attention it brings him. 'So I'm a ham. Sue me!' he adds as they fly through the air. 'Tell me more' Gayle asks, before pointing out that they have arrived at their destination. Clint lowers the sky-cycle over a mansion, where an orange van is pulling out of the driveway. Clint informs Gayle that a real square named Captain America showed him that you can get all the attention your ego craves – and save the world at the same time. 'And that's where I'm at now!'
As Hawkeye and Gayle descend next to the mansion, they find a window that has been blasted open. 'OMIGOD! I think he's been here already!' Gayle exclaims. 'You got that right' Hawkeye tells her, and they enter the mansion, where Gayle sees Waldner over by some stairs. They go over to him and Hawkeye asks Waldner if he is all right, and whether this was done by a man on a motorcycle calling himself the Bullet Biker. 'Yes. And you're Hawkeye of the Avengers' Waldner remarks, looking up and revealing that the gentleman burst in and threatened to destroy his main art collection unless he paid extortion money to him. 'I refused, and this is what happened!' Hawkeye tells Waldner that he is sorry, and points out that he has hit two of his galleries, so the warehouse must be next. 'I need directions fast!' Hawkeye adds. Waldner gives Hawkeye the address of the warehouse in Van Nuys, and Hawkeye instructs him to stay here with Ms Rogers, as things are likely to get hairy. 'What? I'm a reporter, buster – and I'm sticking with this story!' Gayle exclaims. 'You're staying right here, Ms Lane! That's final!' Hawkeye jokes.
Moments later, after a physician has been called to check on the injured Waldner, Hawkeye and Gayle are back on the sky-cycle, heading into the air. 'Let’s see now. You're up-front... a show-off... dedicated to justice... and have no clout with the opposite sex!' Gayle exclaims. 'You got that right!' Hawkeye replies.
A short time later at a certain warehouse in Van Nuys: 'This must be the place! And this must be the grenade to get me in!' Bullet Biker thinks to himself as he fires a grenade at the warehouse door, which explodes, enabling Bullet Biker to ride his motorcycle into the warehouse. 'So pops didn't want to pay up! Now he's gonna pay up in a different way!' Bullet Biker thinks to himself as he starts blasting the art in the warehouse, destroying it.
'Guess how we got here so fast, Bright Eyes?' Hawkeye calls out as he bursts through a warehouse window on his sky-cycle. 'Hawkeye the Avenger!' Bullet Biker exclaims. 'You're grounded – but I fly as the crow flies!' Hawkeye jokes. Hawkeye points out that Bullet Biker seems to be into big blow-ups. 'So try on these explosive arrows on for size!' Hawkeye calls out as he fires three arrows towards Bullet Biker. Hawkeye then asks Ms Rogers if she is okay. 'C-call me Gayle' Gayle replies, 'And then call me a cab! I want to get out of here!' Gayle thinks to herself as she clings to Hawkeye.
Bullet Biker pulls his motorcycle up and avoids the exploding arrows, 'Nice try, but I can stop on a dime and make you eat nine cents, stiff!' Bullet Biker responds as he fires some blasts up at Hawkeye, who moves the sky-cycle, avoiding the blasts, while thinking that this dude is real good – and deciding that the only guy he saw handle a bike like that was back when he used to perform archery stuff in the carnival – Dillon Zarro, the best stunt cyclist in the big top – but that was years ago. As Hawkeye flies back outside, he fires another arrow, but misses the Bullet Biker again. Bullet Biker speeds underneath the sky cycle, then fires back some sort of smoke bomb. 'We're flying right into it!' Gayle exclaims. Hawkeye tells her not to sweat it, and pulls the sky cycle up so it flies over the smoke bomb, and continues on after Bullet Biker, who suddenly turns his motorcycle down another street, where he narrowly avoids being hit by a car.
Bullet Biker throws a grenade backwards, but Hawkeye swerves to avoid it, and tells Gayle to hang on – but they theyn crash through a high-rise window, 'Cover your eyes, fast!' Hawkeye tells Gayle as they crash into an office, where Hawkeye apologies to the men sitting around a table, he makes a joke, but is pleased that no one is hurt. On the street below, Bullet Biker thinks he has lost Hawkeye, and speeds towards a garage, where his specially equipped van is waiting. He wonders where Hawkeye is now. 'Probably covered with broken glass making excuses for him-' Bullet Biker thinks, when suddenly, Hawkeye and Gayle catch up to him. 'Okay, Knievel – playtime's over! Time to put your bitty-bikey to bed for the knight!' Hawkeye jokes. 'Stuff it, Bow Brain!' Bullet Biker calls back as he speeds past, towards his orange van, and fires some more blasts at Hawkeye, but Bullet Biker can't stop at his van, he knows he needs to keep moving.
'Like they say in the movies – gotcha!' Hawkeye jokes, deciding that Bullet Biker has no place to go but up to the roof, where he will be waiting. He then asks Gayle how she is holding up back there. 'Ohh..' Gayle utters, wearily. Bullet Biker speeds up to the rooftop, realizing that Hawkeye thinks he will have him, but he has one trick that puts the best of them to shame. Hawkeye sees Bullet Biker arrive on the rooftop. Hawkeye sees Bullet Biker, but looks surprised: 'What's that maniac going to do?' Hawkeye wonders as Bullet Biker speeds towards the edge of the rooftop, 'Hope you play catch better than you shoot arrows, bozo!' Bullet Biker shouts. 'He's not going to do what I think he  is?' Hawkeye wonders, as Biker's motorcycle speeds over the edge of the garage rooftop – 'Up up and aawaaay! But not me!' Bullet Biker exclaims as he leaps off the motorcycle and lands on the rooftop, while the motorcycle plummets to the busy street below.
'That lunatic! When that bike hits the pavement, it could kill a dozen people!' Hawkeye calls out, before telling Gayle to hold on again, as he speeds the sky-cycle downwards, planning to get under the motorcycle, he manages to get underneath it, and thanks his buddy Jorge Lathan who helped design the sky-cycle, as Hawkeye and Gayle hang upside down while Hawkeye uses the sky-cycle to push the motorcycle onto a rooftop, while Gayle thinks that she is going to lose her lunch. 'Did it. We kicked that darn bike onto a roof – and my lovely lexan windscreen absorbed the impact perfectly!' Hawkeye thinks to himself.
Inside a certain orange van, the Bullet Biker has removed his helmet, and drives the van from the garage, while thinking 'What a waste! I had to sacrifice that customized beauty to make good my getaway! At least I'm free. And that Hawkeye character...takes me back to another Hawkeye I knew back when I did biker stunts in a carnival for a living'. Bullet Biker thinks to himself. He thinks that he was the hottest act on wheels, always left the audience gasping – but the problem was, he was always upstaged by the flashy tricks of that crumb Hawkeye – and he couldn't take being second best, so he quit and started a life of crime that when nowhere until this extortion gig came up – with Hawkeye never knowing how much he resented him. He decides that he would probably still be in the carnival if it wasn't for being upstaged by that phoney. He supposes that Hawkeye is still working at the carnival, when suddenly, his tires are blown out and the van comes to a stop.
Bullet Biker looks over and sees Hawkeye, pointing an arrow towards him. Hawkeye is surpised that Bullet Biker is indeed Dillon Zarro. 'I thought those stunts looked familiar' Clint thinks to himself, while remembering that they were buddies in his carney days, and wonders what could have gotten him into this racket. Clint hopes that Dillon doesn't make him do anything they will both regret. 'Don't even twitch, fella...at this range, it's fish in a barrel material!' Hawkeye calls out. 'Just won't give up, huh, Robin Hood?' Dillon asks, before climbing out of the van and putting his hands in the air, 'Okay, hotshot. You did your duty for mom and apple pie. Now choke on it, boyscout!' Dillon exclaims. Hawkeye tells Dillon to keep a lid on it until the cops show up.
A short time later, Hawkeye and Gayle watch as police officers lead Dillon Zarro away. 'Still a mystery. You think  you've known someone and they shock you!' Clint thinks to himself. Hawkeye then suggests to Gayle that she can tell her readers that being a big bad super hero ain't all it's cracked up to be. He admits that there is the excitement of the hunt, the chase, but bringing a man down, seeing a wasted life, there is no “thrill of victory” in that. Gayle explains that she thought with all the bad guys Hawkeye has taken down, he would be hardened to that by now. Gayle smiles and tells Hawkeye that she can add to the list of things she has noticed about him – that he is tough, but there is a big heart under that brawny chest. 'I like that' she remarks, before claiming that she hasn't had this much fun following a story in years. She admits that it was scary, but assures Hawkeye she loved the ride.
Gayle starts to walk away, reminding Hawkeye that they still haven't finished their interview, but she knows the address of the Avengers' estate, so maybe she will drop by in a few days and he can show her what he's really got in that quiver. 'Toodles' Gayle calls out. Hawkeye smiles and thinks that just when his marriage is in the dumps, along comes some help from the fourth estate – nothing like a woman to get the juices flowing again. Clint decides that this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

2nd story:
'My baby!' a blonde woman screams as a thuggish-looking man grabs her baby and lumbers backwards onto the street – where a horrified bus driver is about to ram the bus into him – the bus does, and there is an explosion. 'CUT!' shouts the director, ordering someone to extinguish the bus. 'Cool' a camera operator thinks to himself, while the thuggish man was none other than the hottest action-film actor this side of Arnold Schwarzenegger, the West Coast Avenger Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man, who throws the prop baby to one of the film crew, while taking off his clothes which have been ruined by the fire, revealing his costume underneath. Simon approaches the director, Eli, and asks him 'Was I great or what? I was born for this part!' Simon exclaims. Eli is smoking a cigarette and replies that he is finished with the stuntman, and wants the actor, now.
Simon looks over to where one of the film crew has approached the actor, 'Here's da real kid, Dirk' the crew member remarks, handing Dirk the real baby. 'That's Mr Studley!' the actor replies, before asking if they could use the stuntman's hands for this wet brat. 'My face is what's important' the actor boasts. 'You're such a dream, Dirk' a woman standing nearby gushes. Simon frowns, and remembers what his agent said: “Do this one last stuntman gig for Eli. He likes you, he'll make you his next super star”. But Simon thinks he has been a star since Arkon IV, and decides contract or not, this abuse stops now. 'Eli, I quit!' Simon announces, as he takes flight. “Use the stuntman's hands” Simon thinks, annoyed, while Eli shrugs and mutters that Simon will return before he needs him. Suddenly, something happens to Dirk, and a presence in his mind thinks 'This body doesn't seem super human', while Eli the director announces that he wants the close upo on the hands. 'What's that hot dog for?' Dirk asks as one of the crew carries a large hot dog past him. Eli notices something strange with Dirk's voice and tells him to pay attention and clear his throat, as he sounds dreadful.
Up above, Wonder Man decides that he doesn't need Eli, as he is an Avenger. He thinks that Eli doesn't even have a last name, and decides that he better get a new agent. 'Dirk Studley as “Mr Cool”!' Simon thinks, deciding that he is “Mr Cool” - when suddenly, his jet packs start to fail, 'Aw – nuts!' Simon mutters as he freefalls to the ground, hitting it hard and breaking the concrete up. 'Terrific! That bus must've wrecked my jetpacks. At least the day can't possibly get worse'. A security guard nearby walks over and smiles: 'Hell! How are you this morning Mr Studley?' to which Wonder Man frowns and swears under his breath.
Nearby, a strange circular camera floats past Hawkeye. Two unseen beings are watching, and one of them remarks 'These creatures are certainly odd-looking' to which the other replies 'All the better'. The second one points out Wonder Man. 'The fat one?' the first asks, referring to the security guard. 'No! The one with the red eyes!' the second explains, before wondering 'If it's been appropriated, why is it just standing there?' while Wonder Man holds up his jetpacks and decides that they are shot. He hears a strange sound, but the mysterious camera floats out of sight. 'Oh great, not I'm hearing things!' Simon mutters, while the second mysterious being fears that something has gone wrong. Simon decides that he has got to clear his head and strides down the street, as he has seen the perfect place to release a little tension.
'Maybe we should terminate -' the first mysterious being asks, but the second points out that a slight accident will get things rolling. Wonder Man approaches a demolition site, where some construction workers turn to him. 'Wonder Man! Wow, dis is great! Hey, do supmthin uh strong! Yeah, strong!' one of the construction workers exclaims. 'I kinda liked his old costume better' one of the construction workers decides. 'I thought you'd never ask!' Wonder Man replies, as he pulls his fist back and tells the men to watch him demolish the building with one punch. At the same time, the strange camera-like device blasts a large wrecking ball with green energy. Wonder Man tells the men to stand back, as this could get messy – but before he can strike the building, the wrecking ball slams into him, knocking him through the building, which partly collapses around him.
Wonder Man looks up as the camera appears above him, and a voice transmits through the device: 'Takumer, you are not performing the correct functions!' the voice calls out. 'Functions? Why you -' Wonder Man declares, lunging at the device, while the second mysterious being wonders if a mistake has been made. The first suggests that Takumer must have appropriated someone back at the studio. 'We must get Wonder Man back there' the second remarks, while Wonder Man asks 'What's going on? Who's Takumer?' The second mysterious being realizes that Hawkeye is very upset, while the first announces that they have an idea, and the camera-like object animates a pile of rubble into a rocky-thing. 'Hey, Wonder Man! Look out behind ya!' one of the construction workers calls out, as the rocky-thing tosses Wonder Man through the air. 'This is not happening' Simon thinks to himself. 'Now there's something ya don't see every day!' one of the workers remarks. 'Lemme outta here!' another mutters.
Back at the studio, an unhappy producer has arrived, while crew members sit around. 'What are you doing? Where's Simon! Why'd you wreck four buses? The insurance people will have my shorts for this!' the producer exclaims. Eli the director tells Dirk that this is a crucial scene and assures him that it is perfectly safe. He explains that the chopper will be lowered on chains and he shall lift it as Atlas lifted the Earth. 'Why do I even bother? He's not listening!' the director shouts. 'We're gonna miss lunch I know it' one of the crew thinks to themselves. 'Roll film. ACTION!' Eli shouts, when suddenly, Wonder Man crashes through the roof, landing several feet in front of the camera. 'Simon. How very nice of you to drop by' Eli mutters, before asking Simon if he is here to stay, or just visiting.
The strange camera device flies onto the set, and the first mysterious being notices the “creature under the helicopter looks just like Wonder Man, realizing that Takumer did appropriate the wrong form. 'We must set those two together' the second decides. 'Oh my, this is terrible. Butch, roll film!' Eli calls out, while the camera device fires a blast of energy at the chain holding the helicopter above Dirk. 'He'll be killed if I don't -' Simon begins, while Takumer, inside Dirk's body realizes that this is not an indestructible body. The chopper falls – but Wonder Man catches it, just in time. Dirk squats down and covers his head, while Takumer discovers that he has been saved – and that Wonder Man is close enough for him to phase out of this useless body, and take over his powerful one. 'What is going on?' Simon wonders, as Dirk moves closer to him, and a strange surge of energy moves from Dirk's body to Simon's. Green energy flashes about, and a scantily-clad woman starts to run away, thinking that she doesn't want to die, while Dirk begins to run, too, announcing that he quits.
However, the surge of energy isn't able to maintain itself inside Simon's head, and Simon notices as something materializes nearby – a large orange mutated bunny. 'This is getting too weird' Simon mutters. 'I told you a being filled with ionic energy couldn't be appropriated' the first being mutters. 'Quiet! We'll have to make do...one living camera crane coming up' the second replies, as they fire a blast from the camera to a nearby camera crane, turning it into a beastly device. 'Kiss it goodbye, Blunder Man!' Takumer exclaims, while Wonder Man decides that this giant bunny is as strong as he is. 'That's Wonder Man, you over – hey! What are you looking at?' Wonder Man exclaims as he realizes Takumer's attention has turned elsewhere. Simon looks up and notices the transformed crane, which knocks a wall towards Wonder Man, but as the wall collapses on him, he is unharmed. 'Didn't I see this in a Buster Keaton film?' Simon wonders, before deciding that he had better stop this – and fast, with the bunny on one side, and the killer crane on the other. 'This is great' one of the mysterious observers thinks. 'This  is great!' Eli shouts.
Takumer opens his mouth and attempts to blast Wonder Man, but Simon dodges the blast, 'no sweat. Exit one nasty threat' Simon thinks to himself, while one of the unknown beings observing the chaos remarks that death and destruction is their favorite. 'Now that's cinema!' Eli the director calls out. 'This equipment is rented, Eli! Do you understand? Rented!' the producer snaps. Simon grabs Takumer by his large mouth, and remembers that zapping him hurt this thing. So if he can get him to do it again, he might be able to take him down. Takumer roars at Wonder Man, who hopes that this is hurting Takumer more than it is hurting him. Eli orders a camera man to keep rolling the film. 'Mommy!' one of the crew cries as they run for safety.
Wonder Man knocks Takumer back, but he feels like his bones will shatter – however the energy feedback is enormous, and Wonder Man's plan begins to work. He hopes that he can hold out long enough, as huge blasts of energy tear up the studio, Simon thinks that this could be the end of them both, but he keeps pounding Takumer down and hopes the ground will help contain the blasts – which suddenly stop. 'Is he – dead?' one of the crew asks. A hand moves in the tubble, and Simon climbs up from the debris. 'Wonderful performance, Simon, my boy! But that creature, he isn't...' Eli begins, as Simon explains that Takumer is just unconscious, and won't be giving them any more trouble. 'Cut! Excellent!' a voice can be heard from the strange camera that has been darting about. 'Who said “cut” on my set?' Eli asks. 'I did' the voice from ther camera replies.
The voice reveals that they are a film director from a dimension bordering this one, and is making a docu-drama using Wonder Man. 'A movie? He endangered all those lives for a movie?' Simon thinks to himself, he grabs the camera and asks 'anybody home in there?' 'No' comes the response from the camera. 'Aw...too bad' Simon declares as he crushes the camera with ease. Simon then turns to Eli and tells him that he bets this is the best film he ever shot. 'Uh, Eli? Problem. All that electricity blanked the film!' a camera man announces. 'Oh, man. That footage could have made me!' Simon exclaims. Eli goes over to Takumer who is trapped in the rubble and asks him if he would mind running through that again. 'Are you kidding me? They only pay me scale. Im zorpin' out of this dimension!' Takumer replies. Simon thinks that he could laugh, or he could cry, before telling Eli that is show business, and starting to walk away. 'Come back! Come back, I say!' Eli calls out after Simon.


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1st Story: The Awesome Android!  -  2nd Story: Ronin on Empty
1st story:
'Move it, Widow! Find cover before he nails you with an electro-blast!' Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye calls out to Natasha Romanoff the Black Widow as they dodge the energy fire towards them from the robot known as the Attackoid. 'Careful – Hawkeye! It looks like you are his primary target!' Black Widow calls back. They are in this facility after Hawkeye received a distress call from the Black Widow, and he rescued her from the AIM scientist holding her captive, before the Attackoid confronted them. Hawkeye tells the Black Widow not to worry, and shoots and arrow at the Attackoid, which strikes the robot's head, then curves around the Attackoid's body, it's a cable arrow and it wraps around and around the robot, with Hawkeye hoping that it will ground the Attackoid and prevent him from using their electricity against them. Suddenly, 'Wait! What's he doing?' Hawkeye asks as the cable suddenly goes slack.
Black Widow points out that it looks like the Attackoid is using those containers on his chest to raise his temperature. Hawkeye adds that he has heard about androids like this, and he knows that those containers are full of chemicals – which he can use to change the physical composition of his body – and suddenly, the Attackoid releases flames towards the Black Widow, who uses a rope to swing above the ground, the fire misses her, as she tells Hawkeye to try and distract him, as she has a plan. Hawkeye fires a foam arrow at the Attackoid and tells Natasha not to try anything foolish. Clint adds that the foam arrows may not stop him, but they will sure slow him down. The Black Widow tells Hawkeye that he brought her enough time to swing around to the Attackoid, and  she slams into him, toppling him to the ground – but as Hawkeye points out, it's not good, as the Attackoid rolled with Natasha's blow, like he instinctively knew the best defense against it.
The Black Widow jumps over the Attackoid as it attempts to kick her, and Natasha remembers that this android had been programmed with her physical prowess – as well as her knowledge of martial arts. 'It's like fighting a larger, more powerful version of myself' Natasha realizes, as the Attackoid slams her to the ground. The Attackoid gets back to its feet, and Hawkeye leaps onto its shoulders, while telling the Black Widow to take a breather while he fasions a good old fashioned strangle-hole. 'Don't do it! He's too powerful!' the Black Widow calls back. 'YEOW! You ain't kidding!' Hawkeye shouts as the Attackoid violently flips Hawkeye off his shoulders and tosses him across the lab. 'He beat my bow with a bow!' Hawkeye exclaims, while Natasha thinks to herself that Clint will need a few moments to recover, so she leaps in front of the Attackoid and fires her Widow's Sting right in the Attackoid's face. She hopes that the sting will hold off the chemical monstrosity until he has had time to plan his next move.
But barely an instant passes before the Attackoid releases some kind of noxious gas, and Natasha stumbles backwards, unable to breathe. 'Head's up, Tasha! Clean air is on the way!' Hawkeye calls out as he fires an arrow towards the gas, which disperses some of it. He then tells Natasha to stand asidre and let him at the Attackoid. 'You're a super-spy! I'm the Avenger! Fighting super-creeps like him is my job!' Hawkeye declares. Natasha coughs and tells Hawkeye that he won't get an argument from her.
Meanwhile, just outside the laboratory, several AIM operatives have gathered, and one of them announces that they have to stop the Avengers before they ruin everything. 'Now's our chance, while they're distracted by the Attackoid!' one of them shouts. 'They'll never know what hit them!' another remarks, as the operatives raise their weapons. 'And neither will you!' a voice down the corridor calls out. 'Who said that -' one of the operatives asks, as Barbara Morse-Barton a.k.a. Mockingbird cartwheels into the middle of the AIM operatives, knocking several of them over, 'I did!' she shouts. Bobbi uses her trusty staff to whack the weapons from the operatives, while telling herself to move quickly, to flatten these clowns before Hawkeye spots her. She doesn't want him to know that she secretly followed him here – because she heard that he broke his date with her to meet his old girlfriend, the Black Widow. Mockingbird raises her arms into the air, while two operatives rush towards her. 'Ha! Just look at her!' one of them exclaims. 'While she's posing – we'll be disposing of her!' another shouts, but before they can grab her, Bobbi converts her staff into two battons, and moves her arms backwards, hitting the operatives with the battons. 'That's what you think!' Bobbi declares.
And, as Mockingbird strikes, back in the lab, the AIM scientist known as Third Level AIM Scientist looks up and sees Hawkeye and the Black Widow continue to hold their own against the Attackoid. He is surprised that they have been able to immobilize his creation. 'I hope your plan works, Hawkeye!' Natasha calls out. 'Trust me! I know what I'm doing!' Hawkeye calls back as Natasha wraps her rope around the Attackoid's neck, and Clint fires an arrow towards the Attackoid's face. 'Just get your Widow's Line around his throat – and leave the rest to my explosive-tipped arrow!' Hawkeye declares, as the arrow enters the Attackoid's mouth. 'Good shot, Hawkeye!' Natasha exclaims as she pulls back on the rope around the android's neck. 'Forget the compliments! Clamp his jaw shut!' Hawkeye tells Natasha, who then leaps from the Attackoid's shoulders, as the android's head explodes. 'JUMP!' Hawkeye shouts. 'No need to shout! I heard you the first time' Natasha calls back as she lands on the ground.
'No! NO! This cannot be!' the Third Level AIM Scientist exclaims as the Attackoid falls back, energy bursting from its neckhole. The scientist declares that the Attackoid is supposed to be their deadliest, most sophisticated mobile combat unit, to which Hawkeye suggests that maybe they had better check their warranty and file a complaint with the Consumer Action Line. The Third Level AIM Scientist decides that he needs reinforcements, and that Hawkeye and the Black Widow need to be neutralized before they can become a danger to Project Brain Drain. Hawkeye alerts Natasha to the escaping scientist, and tells her that he will snag him with a quick arrow, but Natasha tells Hawkeye not to, and suggests that he might lead them to his superiors. They run after him, and Natasha reminds Hawkeye that the AIM has been secretly collecting perfectly preserved human brains – and she needs to know why. Hawkeye admits that he is curious about their source.
As Hawkeye and the Black Widow race into the corridor, they run past dozens of AIM scientists who lay sprawled across the ground. 'I see that you had an interesting time reaching me' the Black Widow remarks. 'All in a day's work, kiddo' Hawkeye replies, while looking worried, as he doesn't remember taking down all these bozos. 'Either I'm a heckuva lot tougher than I thought, or  I have a very active guardian angel' Clint thinks to himself, while Mockingbird watches, unseen from the shadows. Hawkeye and the Black Widow continue to follow the Third Level Scientist, who leaps into a rocket sled. 'Pour on the speed, Hawk!' Natasha calls out as they increase the pace. 'If we don't reach it before he fires the ignition -' Hawkeye begins, as he and Natasha jump onto the side of the rocket sled as it speeds down a track. 'This must be our lucky day!' Hawkeye remarks. 'We made it without a second to spare!' Natasha adds, while Hawkeye tells her to hang on tight, that it is going to be a rough ride. An instant later, the rocket sled is further down the track, a large flume of smoke trailing behind it as Mockingbird arrives on the platform, too late to hitch a ride. 'Oh, swell!' she thinks.
Inside the front of the rocket, the Third Level Scientist picks up a communicator and announces himself as Scientist 47-B. He states that he needs some assistance immediately and reports that his base has been compromised by Hawkeye and the Black Widow, and now Project Brain Drain is in severe jeopardy.
Scientist 47-B is not aware that he is being monitored via a video monitor observed by the Imperial Council of the AIM, who sit around a table and observe the monitor. 'The fool doesn't realize he is carrying passengers!' one of the Council exclaims. 'He could endanger us all!' another calls out. 'Your point is well taken, Number Three' the Council member known as Number One replies, before stating that the time has come for the Imperial Council of Seven to take an active hand in these proceedings. He calls out to another figure who enters the room, Enforcer Fourteen, and entrusts this assignment to his tender mercies. Number One informs Enforcer Fourteen that his primary responsibility is to protect Project Brain Drain. 'I understand, Number One!' responds Enforcer Fourteen, who wears the same yellow jumpsuit as other AIM operatives, but with orange boots, gloves, belt and helmet. 'I will not fail' Enforcer Fourteen replies as he starts to leave the meeting room, adding that to a true agent of AIM, death is the only acceptable excuse for failure!
Enforcer Fourteen strides through a laboratory where other Attackoids are being created, in various stages of development, and announces that at long last, he has been given the ultimate opportunity – a chance to prove his loyalty and true value to the secret rulers of the AIM. He adds that the Imperial Council will not regret their decision to activate him.
Minutes later, as the rocket sled finally brakes to a sudden stop, and Scientist 47-B emerges, he is surprised to see the Black Widow and Hawkeye. 'Thanks for the lift, chuckles' the Black Widow tells him. 'What the! How'd you get here?' the scientist asks, to which the Black Widow tells him that she thought the answer would be obvious. But, suddenly, Enforcer Fourteen and dozens of other AIM operatives appear, surrounding Hawkeye and the Black Widow, who are backed up against the rocket sled. 'Alas, it was a little too obvious...for your own good' Enforcer Fourteen shouts, while warning the Avengers that resistance will only prove futile, and quite fatal. Hawkeye raises his bow overhead, 'Sheesh! If this is how you guys treat hitchhikers, I'd hate to be caught jaywalking!' Hawkeye jokes. Hawkeye then tells Enforcer Fourteen not to do anything hasty, and that in case he doesn't recognize them, he happens to be the chairman of the West Coast Avengers, and the lady is a renowned super-spy. 'Since there are barely a hundred of you, and the odds are so heavily weighted in our favor, I'm going to be sporting and give you a chance to surrender' Hakweye tells Enforcer Fourteen, who replies 'I like you, Hawkeye'.
Enforcer Fourteen continues, stating that it is refreshing to see a man who can joke about his own death, and that few people have such a an accurate sense of their own self-worth. Hawkeye goes wide-eyed, 'Your voice – it sounds so familiar, but that's impossible! It can't be YOU!' Clint gasps. 'Of course it can, old friend' Enforcer Fourteen replies, as he starts to remove his orange mask. 'From the horrified expression on your face, it's quite obvious you recognize me despite my disguise!' he exclaims, and the mask is completely removed, the angry face of Hank Pym snarls back....

(2nd story)
The Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, where the massive head of Red Ronin is on display – and someone suddenly falls into Red Ronin's gaping mouth. 'Someone help him!' a shocked civilian calls out. 'He's getting eaten alive!' another calls out as dozens of civilians watch in horror. 'I'm not gonna grab him – you grab him!' someone calls out. 'I'm not gonna grab him – hey, let's get Mikey to grab him!' another exclaims, while an older stuffy-looking man with white hair and a white beard frowns and thinks to himself 'Tasteless display. Typical'. He wears a badge that says “Cord Inc” on his suit jacket. 'But, then again, leave it to Stane to ruin this trade show with the most theatrical and ostentatious display of the entire electronics hardware community!' the old man thinks to himself.
Large billboards advertising Stane International surround Red Ronin, and while civilians stand on a platform Red Ronin's head, the rest of the torso sticks up above the ground level inside the Silverdome, where the electronics hardware trade show is currently in full swing. 'What's going on up there?' someone asks. 'Is someone hurt?' another asks. 'Ms van Dyne – did you hear that?' a woman calls out as she rushes over to where Jan van Dyne a.k.a. Wasp is sitting at her booth for Van Dyne Industries. 'Yes, I did, Barb – and if there's someone in trouble that means this is a job for the Wasp!' Jan replies as she suddenly shrinks down to wasp size and flies towards the platform where the civilians are at the large open mouth of Red Ronin. 'Why didn't that sound right?' Jan thinks to herself, as she arrives on the platform, 'Is everything – what's going on here?' she asks as a young man is climbing out of the gaping mouth of Red Ronin. The young man smiles and tells Jan that he is glad to see the president of Van Dyne industries can become interested in the wonderful works of Stane International.
The Wasp stands on the edge of a railing and addresses the young man as Mr Inoyawa and tells him that she doesn't see the humor. 'Ah, Janet – may I call you Janet?' he asks, explaining that he was merely demonstrating how harmless Red Ronin is – as would a lion tamer by sticking his head in the lion's mouth. Jan doesn't look impressed. 'In your case, Karaguchi – may I call you Karaguichi? - the appropriate analogy would be sticking a foot in the mouth'. Jan's memory flashes back as she tells Karaguchi that she knows how dangerous Red Ronin can be, as she was with the Avengers when they had to stop the robot's mad rampage through Long Island, and that it took everything they had just to slow him down – luckily, through teamwork – and Ronin's own weaponry, they were able to cut him apart. 'Is this the kind of “toy” Stane is now selling the public?' Jan asks. 'Ah, Janet, you wound me. Ouch' Karaguchi smiles, before explaining that it took them months just to properly transport the various pieces of Ronin's body to a suitable location, and that more time passed as he redesigned Ronin for peaceful purposes – he was able to sell the board on the idea, and he stepped on a lot of toes – but the construction of Ronin was completed.
Karaguchi throws his hands into the air as he explains that now, Ronin is ready to serve the public good – in construction, terraforming – the possibilities are endless. 'Would you care to discuss them over dinner?' Karaguchi enquires. The civilians nearby applaud Karaguchi, while the old man narrows his eyes and thinks to himself 'Yes, you stepped on quite a number of toes, didn't you Inoyawa? Well, I guess I'm all healed now, you pompous fool – and it's time to step on you and crush you like the insect you are!' At that moment, Jan reverts to her regular sized form, 'I don't think so. You're a little too brash for my tastes, Inoyawa' Jan replies. 'Ah, you prefer a man unlike you, then? I understand...come back to Stane anytime, Ms van Dyne' Inoyawa replies. Jan isn't impressed, and thinks to herself 'A little stuck up, eh? The hammer on the head method doesn't work with this girl!' while the older man is now standing next to her, and thinks to himself that Inoyawa's overbearing nature will be the end of him.
Jan thinks to herself that Karaguchi is kind of cute, and the old man realizes that Karaguchi has a lot of friends. Jan frowns and tells herself not to do it, as the old man wonders what will happen if he fails. 'Oh, do it! Do it!' he thinks to himself, and as thje platform lowers to the ground, they all go their separate ways, and the old man calls himself Joe Kilman, and boasts that it is time for him to become the big fish in this pond. 'I wonder if he likes sushi?' Jan wonders to herself as she walks off. Kilman walks towards the booth for Cord Inc and decides that Stane will realize firing him was the biggest mistake they ever made. 'Hey, Joe – if you were still with Stane, you'd be standing on top of the world, eh? Or are you afraid of heights?' one of Kilman's colleagues asks. The old man ignores them, and thinks that they are idiots, as they don't realize he was responsible for reprogramming Ronin – and can still gain access to that program – access to Ronin – and access to revenge. His frown turns into a grin as he puts a disc into a computer, touches some of the control keys – and suddenly, someone screams!
There is a loud creaking, and one of the large scaffolds surrounding the Red Ronin begins to topple over, as Red Ronin raises one of his arms. Someone else screams, 'Help!' another calls out. 'We'll fall!' another shouts from the platform. 'Oh, what now – oh, no! This is for real!' Jan realizes as she turns around and looks up at the Red Ronin. Jan knows that if the scaffolding tower falls it will crush dozens of people, so switches to her insect form and flies up to the platform, where she uses her wasp's sting to break the platform rail, which unhooks a cable mooring – which then begins to swing down, and, as Jan hoped, the mooring carries the scaffolding tower backwards into the empty stands, away from any people. 'Thought that only worked in comics and bad Roger Moore movies. But – what's it doing now?' Joe Kilman wonders as there is a rumbling, and Red Ronin begins to move. 'Oh-oh' Jan thinks to herself.
The Red Ronin then suddenly moves backwards, straight out of the stadium, creating a huge hole in the building as it moves along on its knucles. 'It look silly!' someone calls out, while cars in the parking lot suddenly find themselves tossed upwards and knocked aside as the Red Ronin slams into them. As the billboard for Cord Inc catches fire, Jan decides that this is quickly getting out of control. She flies down to investigate, and laments the fact that she could have been in Cancun today with sun and sand. Jan then sees the old man, Kilman, lying motionless on the ground, she remembers him riding the elevator platform with her earlier. She wonders what happened, but as she looks up, she sees a computer screen, with Red Ronin's schematics.
Jan flies back to the platform, where Karaguchi is still standing, and tells him that she needs him. 'I knew you'd come back!' Karaguchi exclaims, to which Jan warns him that his humor is on shaky ground right now. 'Was that a pun?' Karaguchi asks, before Jan grabs him and flies him down to the Cord Inc station, announcing that she has something to show him. Karaguchi recognizes Joe Kilman and reveals that he fired him a while ago. He adds that he has seen Kilman looking better, not much better, but better nonetheless.
Soon, some medics carry Kilman away on a stretcher, and Jan tells Karaguchi that, for what it is worth, he will be okay – but the question is, how do they stop Ronin? Karaguchi explains that Kilman was always an average hacker at best. 'Just give me a few seconds with his program override and i'm sure I'll be able to... hmmmm...' Karaguchi's voice trails off. 'Hmmm what?' Jan asks as she removes her business suit, revealing an orange costume underneath. Karaguchi looks at the computer and mutters that he can't believe he is playing with the computer while she is taking her clothes off in front of him. 'Listen, Mister, I've -' Jan begins, before Karaguchi looks serious and reports that Ronin has been locked on an assembly mode, which means he will search for the rest of his parts until he is whole, then await further commands. 'Great, then we can just let him get his act together and we'll be okay!' the Wasp exclaims. 'Could take a while. His legs are in Chicago' Karaguchi reveals as a security guard approaches them.
'You're kidding me!' Jan shouts. 'Moi? Never!' Karaguchi replies, before handing Jan the security guard's beeper and headset, and tells her that this way they can communicate. Karaguchi adds that he can track Jan's movements and direct her. 'Wait a minute – while you're here nice and cozy, what'll I be doing?' Jan asks. 'I was afraid he'd say that!' Jan thinks to herself as she flies out of the stadium towards the Red Ronin who is making its way out of the carpark. “Just fly inside Ronin and I'll guide you to the central wiring outlet and we'll pull the plug on this programming override” Jan repeats Karaguchi's words in her head, while wondering what they tell the owners of all these cars. Suddenly, 'That was my Jaguar!' Jan shouts, wide-eyed as she looks down at her crushed car. 'That does it!' Jan calls out as she flies up into Red Ronin, and reaches some mechanical control area. She contacts Karaguchi on the headset and asks him if he can hear her. 'Loud and clear!' Karaguchi responds, before asking Jan where she is.
Jan reports that she is in some sort of turbine, and Karaguchi explains that is what would power his legs if he had any, and instructs Jan to move straight ahead. 'Sure' Jan replies as she flies onwards, while Karaguchi warns her not to trip any of the electric eye beams – but as if on cue, Jan trips one of the electric eye beams. As pellets are fired towards her, Jan dodges them and tells Karaguchi that next time he should tell her about things like internal defense systems and electric eye beams before he tells her to move ahead. 'Geez, make one little mistake...' Karaguchi mutters, while warning Wasp that the pellets are heat-seeking, so she should try not to let them hit her. 'Just keep spouting out those pearls of wisdom at your leisure, Karaguchi!' Wasp mutters as she flies into another part of the Red Ronin. 'Watch out for the -' Karaguchi begins, as nozzles suddenly spray the Wasp with a foam. Jan looks unhappy, 'Flame retardant foam?' she asks. 'Uhm – yeah. That would be it' Karaguchi replies.
'That does it!' the Wasp shouts as she suddenly starts tearing at wires and other parts within Red Ronin. 'That makes two “That does its”. Is that allowed?' Karaguchi asks over the communicator. Jan declares that she has a quota of six per adventure, before asking what she just did by ripping apart those cables. Karaguchi tells Jan that he believes she has torn into Red Ronin's internal logic circuitry. 'What does that mean?' Jan asks, as Red Ronin begins to stumble about. 'Well, he's going to act a little...drunk' Karaguchi explains. 'Drunk?' Jan asks. 'Inebriated. Intoxicated. Toasted. Plastered. Looped. Picked. Potted. Smashed' Karaguchi adds. 'I get the idea already!' Jan retorts as Red Ronin falls backwards with a loud CLUNK.
The Wasp is suddenly knocked about inside Red Ronin, 'Wh-wh-at-at n-n-o-ow?' she asks Karaguchi, who flails about on its back, as Karaguchi explains that Ronin is at his most vulnerable now – and his most dangerous, and that his actions will be beyond the limits of the Wasp's imagination. He warns her to expect the unexpected, a whole new universe of danger awaits her. 'Do I sound ominous enough?' Karaguchi asks. 'Yow!' the Ewasp exclaims as a small blast hits her behind. 'This really steams my buns!' Jan frowns, clenching a fist, before she starts flying fast through the Red Ronin's various chambers, 'Let's get this over with!' Wasp shouts, while Karaguchi tells her that she is getting close now, through the casing tube, and that she needs to be careful, as Ronin is activating its blocking system.
The Wasp announces that she is through, but Karaguchi tells her that she is just getting started. 'Oh, brother!' Jan exclaims, as she comes to a piece of equipment with lots of wires connecting to it. Karaguchi tells her that this is the central wiring outlet, and Jan asks him which ones she should unplug. 'The red one!' Karaguchi replies. 'They're all red!' Jan snaps. 'Just kidding' Karaguchi jokes, while Jan calls him “Guchi” and tells him that they better hurry up, as Ronin keeps rolling over – and they might be close to the highway now. 'Guchi? Okay – describe the wires to me' Karaguchi responds. Jan asks him if he is still kidding around, and declares that they all look alike. Karaguchi tells Jan to just start pulling all of them, as she is bound to get the right one sooner or later! 'It's the later part I'm worried about' Jan replies.
Later, Jan has escaped from the Red Ronin's insides, and stands with Karaguchi as they watch soldiers start to wrap large bands around the fallen Red Ronin. 'What do you mean women aren't mechanically inclined? It only took me eight wires to get the right one!' Jan exclaims, adding that she can't get over how easily Ronin was defeated compared to the last time. 'Janet, I'm a lover, not a fighter' Karaguchi responds, adding that the creation will always bear the mark of the creator. He then tells Jan that if she wants real excitement, perhaps she should take him up on that dinner proposal. Red Ronin releases a loud burping noise, and Jan smiles, telling the unimpressed Karaguchi that it seems the big galoot doesn't agree. 'But then again, he's too stupid to understand anything! You said it yourself – he takes after his creator!'


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1st Story: The Sinister Secret of SODAM   -  2nd Story: Seconds!
1st story:
In a vast underground complex, Hawkeye and Black Widow have been taken captive by AIM – but help is on the way in the form of Hawkeye's estranged wife, Mockingbird, who looks around a corner into a lab, she thinks to herself that she has to find Hawkeye without letting him know that she secretly followed him here because she heard he was meeting his former flame the Widow.
Bobbi Morse-Barton a.k.a. Mockingbird watches as two AIM operatives load strange capsules onto a platform. 'Yeech! It's disgusting to think that these things hold the brains of dead AIM agents!' one of them declares. The other tells him to shut up and keep loading the brains onto the teleportation platform, or they might be next! 'Relax, pal! We're finished here – and we ain't joining Project Brain Drain!' the first operative replies. 'Let's hope not' the second mutters, before telling the first to get ready, as he is activating the tele-jumper. He presses a button, at which time Mockingbird leaps onto the platform, and vanishes alongside the two AIM operatives and dozens of capsules containing brains.
An instant later, they all re-materialize in another part of the lab, where dozens of AIM operatives are waiting. 'Look! An intruder materialized with our cargo!' 'It's Mockingbird of the West Coast Avengers!' one of them shouts as Bobbi springs into action, using her trusty staff, she knocks several AIM operatives backwards, and several canisters containing the brains are tossed about in the process as she declares that she quit that group. 'But you gentlemen must be so busy with your plans for world conquest – that you just don't have time to read the current gossip in the supermarket tabloids!' Bobbi jokes.
At that moment, elsewhere in the complex, Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye and Natasha Romanoff a.k.a. Black Widow find themselves suspended in strange triangle contraptions, while dozens of AIM operatives stand before them, along with Hank Pym, who wears an AIM jumpsuit and goes by the name Enforcer Fourteen. He tells his former teammates that there is no need for them to exert themselves, and they have his personal guarantee that they will never escape from those electromagnetic immobilizers. The Black Widow exclaims that she can't believe a man like him, a former Avenger, would betray them to the AUIM. 'I've got a flash for you, Natasha – this joker may look and sound like Hank – but he's as phony as a politician's promise!' Hawkeye declares, revealing that this is just some crummy robot. “Hank” suddenly pulls back his jumpsuit, revealing a robotic body underneath. He tells Hawkeye that he is impressed with his powers of observation, and explains that he is no ordinary robot, but a highly sophisticated simulacrum, before asking what it is that gave him away. 'Get real, pal! You need a lot more than a pretty face and some high tech hardware to pass yourself as a man like Hank Pym!' Hawkeye responds.
Hawkeye decides that there is no need to admit he suspected the imposter from the start and turned up his hearing aid so that he could hear the gears moving in the robot's artificial body. Enforcer Fourteen decides that since Hawkeye has already seen through his disguise, there is no need to concela the genuine article anymore. He presses a button on a control panel, and a door slides open, revealing the real Dr Hank Pym. 'Hawkeye!' Hank calls out. 'What are you doing here?' Hawkeye asks as he looks over at Pym, who explains that he isn't sure – he remembers working in his lab, desperately trying to cure his wife, Maria, to find a way to reverse the expansion of her artificially enhanced brain. He was on the verge of making some real progress with her, and had finally managed to stabilize her condition and had just completed a mobile support system for her, when some gas was released from a vial on the device containing Maria's enormous brain, and knocked him out.
Hawkeye declares that there must be a connection between Maria and AIM, and wonders what it is. 'The answer should be quite obvious, Avenger!' a voice calls out, as suddenly, inside a large flying capsule which holds her enormous brain safely in place, Maria flies into the large room, and announces that she has always been a creature of AIM – a product of Project Brain Drain! She then introduces herself as SODAM – a Specialised Organism Deisnged for Aggressive Manuevers! 'No! It isn't possible!' Hank shouts, while Maria grins, her eyes are wide as she explains that her “birth” was not without problems and she needed a genius with unique skills and knowledge to resolve them, so she devised a stratagem which would force Dr Henry Pym to aid her. 'You mean you're not my wife? You're not Maria Pym?' Hank exclaims. The woman continues to grin and replies 'That question is irrelevant! I had no life before AIM created me... no other identity... I am SODAM!'
Meanwhile, as Hank Pym gasps in shock and horror, Mockingbird continues her savage battle against the AIM operatives, and a carefully placed kick knocks back the arm of an operative who was about to fire his weapon at her – so the weapon sends a blast of electro-magnetic force into a nearby computer, shorting the entire system and causing a massive overload.
Back in the other chamber, the lights begin to dim, causing Hawkeye to assume there is some sort of power failure in the facility – and this enables he and Natasha to free themselves from the stasis chambers they were trapped in. 'The cutback was enough to weaken my immobilizer!' Hawkeye declares, while Black Widow tells him to move it, and points out there are only the three of them against a few dozen of the agents. 'Yeah, the poor suckers don't stand a chance!' Hawkeye jokes, before he shouts 'AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!' and starts to battle the AIM operatives. Hank starts to tackle his robot imposter, while SODAM flies above them and shouts 'Cease this foolishness at once!' and warns the Avengers that even though they managed to break free, they will never escape. 'Who wants to escape? I'm just treying to reach the clown who copped my bow and arrows!' Hawkeye responds as he retrieves his weapons, 'Sheesh! I don't mind passing out a few souvenirs to my adoring public – but thiis guy got just a little greedy for his own good!' Hawkeye jokes.
Hawkeye readies his bow and starts firing arrows as he asks 'Who else would like a genuine arrow...shot from the bow of the World's Greatest Archer?' The arrows strike the AIM operatives and release a gas which knocks them out. 'Don't be bashful, boys...step right up! I have plenty for everyone!' Hawkeye jokes. As the battle rages, Hank informs Hawkeye that he has managed to piece together the purpose of Project Brain Drain, and announces that AIM is trying to artificially enhance human intelligence and create a super-mind which they can control. Before he can reveal anything else, Hank is thrown into the air by his robot imposter, who exclaims 'I am afraid that knowledge is classified!' The Black Widow knocks back one of the operatives she is fighting with and tells Hank to hold on, that she is coming. 'But you will never reach him!' SODAM shouts as she begins firing blasts down below, 'Mind-blasts are quite deadly!' she calls out. 'They'd better be accurate, too – because you won't get a second chance to stop me!' the Black Widow calls back as she dodges the blasts which strike several AIM operatives, before she fires her grappling cable towards the robot imposter, which wraps around his neck. The Black Widow then tugs on the cable, and pulls the robot backwards.
'Good work, Natasha! You managed to catch my double by surprise with your Widow's Line!' Hank calls out, while SODAM appears above them, and point out that she also left herself totally exposed to another mind-blast – but to SODAM's surprise, the Black Widow reacts quicker than SODAM's ability to fire the mind-blast, and she tosses the robot double of Hank Pym straight into the line of fire, causing it to explode as SODAM's mind-blast strikes it.
At that very moment, the AIM Imperial Council of Seven, the secret rulers of the AIM, watch the battle on a monitor, and tension mounts among them. 'This is getting totally out of hand!' one of the Council exclaims. Another suggests that they have invested far too much in SODAM to allow her to be endangered in this fashion. 'I agree! There is only one way to proceed...!' another shouts, before one of them contacts SODAM and instructs her to initiate code-omega. 'But I can win this battle and defeat these fools!' SODAM responds. 'You have been given an order! Obey it!' the Council member retorts. And so, without another word, SODAM fires a previously programmed coherent beam of light, and initiates the self-destruct sequence. An alarm sounds, and the AIM operatives stop fighting the Avengers, they turn and run. 'Why is everyone bugging out?' Hawkeye wonders, before SODAM fires a blast at the ceiling, which causes it to collapse and separate herself from the Avengers. 'But, why? WHY?' Hawkeye shouts.
The Black Widow and Hank Pym drag Hawkeye away from the rubble which collapsed near him and is set ablaze. 'No time for questions, my friend! We must get out of here!' the Black Widow points out. Hank agrees and points out that the walls are suddenly bursting into flame – the whole place is crumbling down around them!
Meanwhile, Mockingbird knocks out another of her foes, while noticing that others panicked when they heard the alarm. She wonders if those who could still walk have fled, and on a monitor, she sees Hawkeye, Widow and Pym make it to a rocket sled and escape. As flames begin to engulf the room she is in, Mockingbird leaps to the teleport platform. 'Something tells me that I'd better activate it before -' she thinks to herself, when suddenly, the platform explodes!
Sometime later, soldiers are leading the AIM operatives who have been rounded up into police vans. Hawkeye, Widow and Pym watch them, while Pym tells his allies that he can't top thinking about SODAM. He wonders if she was really Maria, or just some pitiful creature who tricked him into helping her. Natasha tells Pym that it doesn't matter, and reminds him of what she said – that whoever she once was, she now belongs to AIM – body and soul. Hawkeye thinks to himself that it does matter to Hank, though – that it is terrible to lose someone you love, even if that person doesn't care about you. Clint wishes that Mockingbird were here now so that he could tell her his misses her, needs her – wants her. Standing behind a corner, Mockingbird watches the other Avengers in silence. She then turns and strides away, as Hawkeye thinks that it wouldn't do him any good – Mockingbird would probably laugh right in his face. 'Yeah, in fact, I can almost hear her laughing now...' Hawkeye decides, while Mockingbird frowns, and looks as if she is about to cry....

2nd story:
In a darkened office, a woman sits slumped over her desk, resting her head against one of her hands. Her name is Pamela Douglas, and she is an editor for a business trade journal, “The Manhattan Project” - and somebody is free-associating inside her head – and she doesn't think it is her. 'You know the Monty Python routine about the art critic talking about “the history of the nude in my bed...I mean in art! Art! Or maybe it's more like the one about the barber, when the customer says 'razor' he starts saying 'razor cut blood spurting psycho mangling'...”. Pamela realizes she isn't making much sense, 'Razor razor slash burn psycho shower help me...' she thinks to herself as she lets her hand shift away, and drops her head onto the desk with a THUMP. Suddenly, her office door swings open and the room fills with light from the corridor, as a man calls out to her 'Pam, you thinking about din – ssay, are you all right?'
Pamela looks up at him, Joey Barker from the production department, and all she sees a hateful scuzz-bag who wants her dead. “Get out!” she wants to scream – or does she? Pamela stands up and tells Joey that she is okay, and that she and Tom are going out tonight. 'Your funeral. See ya!' Joey replies, closing the door. Pam crouches down and picks up a snow globe which she knocked from her desk, and thinks to herself that Joey is a good guy – they are all good guys and gals and she gets along fine with them, a good working relationship with them, that this is a fine place, a fine job. She looks down at a notepad, where she has written over and over “Hate them” across the paper. She screws the paper up and clutches her head, 'Help. Stop. Help. Stop' she thinks.
Soon, Pamela arrives in her Soho apartment, 'H'lo, Pam. How was the day?' Tom calls out to her as he waters some potted plants. Tom announces that he wasn't sure whether they wanted to do  the Chanterelle again, or Barocco, so he made reservations for both, and asks Pam what suits her fancy. 'You don't love me! You don't love me because I'm -' Pam shouts as she strides across the living room, slamming her briefcase down on a table as she passes Tom. 'Pam!' Tom calls out, before grabbing her by her shoulders. 'Because I'm...' Pam utters as Tom assures her that he loves her. 'Because I'm what?' Pam wonders to herself, while reminding herself that Tom does love her, she knows that – so why is she screaming? Pam begins to cry and Tom tells her that they can order out. Pam then tells Tom that she is sorry.
Later that night, Tom is asleep, and Pam is in the bathroom. 'Of course he loves me. Or does he? Does he not love me because I'm going mad? He doesn't. He doesn't and I'll show him. Show you all. Show you all -' Pam thinks to herself as she starts shaving – hair falls onto the bathroom counter – then she looks into the mirror, horrified – she has shaved all of her hair off. 'My God. What did I -?' Pam gasps, before throwing her hands to her head and screams 'NOOOOO!'
A new day, and Pam is driving in Indiana. The tranquilizers she is on help, and the doctor advised her that she needs a vacation, but she told the doctor work would be the best therapy and Tom backed her up. Pam decides that stress is a stupid word, as everything's stress these days. She thinks that the conference was fun, and nobody even noticed her wig. She hasn't blown up once since – when suddenly, as if on cue, Pam begins to sweat, 'I'm not -' she begins. 'Ashes no please!' Pam exclaims, as her car skids off the road, and down a small hill towards a billboard. 'Please what please I don't please I'm not!' Pam exclaims. She looks up at the billboard, which depicts a fetus and reads “15 weeks – heartbeat – fingerprints – reactions to sound”. 'Baby...' Pam utters.
Once back in Soho, Pam sits up in bed, 'The baby, Tom, the baby -' she begins, but Tom, sitting on the edge of the bed reminds Pam that the doctor checked her, and that she is not pregnant. Pam, whose hair is starting to grow back, starts to get out of bed, 'You think I'm crazy! I'm not! All this is real!' she exclaims. 'All what is real? Pam, please – what's real?' Tom asks, reaching out to Pam, who turns to him and shouts 'I don't know! I don't know what's real! But it's real!' 'Pam, please...' Tom calls out, while Pam exclaims that it is real – she is going crazy and it is real. Suddenly, a large hand bursts down through the skylight window, 'NOOOOOO' Pam screams as the hand reaches out for her. 'Holy!' Tom gasps.
Pam runs out into the street, she has to get somewhere – but where? She doesn't remember. She thinks about Tom, then hides behind a dumpster. She tells herself that she has to stop it, that something is out there and she has to hide – she doesn't know where she is running to. She thinks of Tom again, then the baby. 'There is no baby – where is the baby?' Pam asks herself, clutching her stomach. 'Titan' a mysterious voice suddenly calls out. 'Titan?' Pam wonders, as the face of a bald woman materializes in front of Pam, and tells her that Titan is the biggest moon of Saturn, that she knows that. 'No. I never studied astronomy. What are you doing in my mind?' Pam screams, before the mysterious face greets Pamela, and tells her that she is sorry. 'You're sorry? What have you dont to me? Who are you?' Pam shrieks, hysterical. The face introduces herself as Heather Douglas, and informs Pamela that although they have never met, she is her closest living female relation, cousin, she thinks, and that on Titan, she took the name Moondragon. Moondragon explains that she ewas corrupted by the Dragon of the Moon, and when she ewas with the superhuman group called the Defenders, she gurned on them, and paid the price – she died and her body was turned to ash.
Heather continues, explaining that her mind, though shattered, was set adrift, until now, when it found Pamela, and on Titan, the living computer known as Isaac started preparing a clone host for her. Heather reveals that the clone host is incubating on Titan as they speak and that her soul had hidden in Pam's mind, that it was weak and wounded, and she heard her death screams and hatred. 'I wasn't strong enough to talk until now' Heather adds. Pam is still huddled behind the dumpster and asks about the hand and the busted glass. Heather assures her that was not her, and that it scares her, too, before announcing that they need to get her out of here. 'I really doubt that I -' Pam begins as she stands up, while thinking that she can't stand sounding like she is talking to herself, and wonders where they run to, as Titan isn't on the subway line. 'No, it isn't – so I hired a limo' Heather declares as Pamela walks back out onto the sidewalk, and sees a spacecraft hovering above her. 'Please don't make jokes' she thinks, to which Heather informs her that this is her personal spacecraft, Sensia II, and explains that it has been orbiting Earth for a long time now.
Suddenly, a man in a uniform approaches Pam and calls out 'Heather', causing Heather's voice to tell Pam to run. 'Who is that?' Pam wonders, but Heather tells her that she doesn't know. 'Heather' the man in the uniform calls out again, before releasing two large hands which move towards Pam and attempt to grab her, like the one in her bedroom. 'Oh God oh God oh God!' Pamela declares, ducking between two parked cars for safety. One of the hands slams into one of the cars, crushing it, as Pamela tells Heather that she has to do something. 'I can't! Your mind doesn't have any powers and I'm dead! Heather responds. 'Dead? We'll both be dead if we don't do something!' Pam exclaims. 'Dead? Dead! You killed me! You killed me!' the man in the uniform calls out as he moves closer to Pam, his hands extended and reaching out again.
'Killed?' Heather's voice asks, before telling Pam that she might have this, and instructs her to get closer to the man. 'But I -' Pam protests, to which Heather tells her to trust her. The man's hands revert to normal, and as the stands in front of him, Moondragon's ship hovers above them. Pam tells the man in the uniform that she just wants to talk, and asks him not to do anything for a second. Heather asks Pam to let her have her voice, to relax and let her speak. Moondragon speaks through Pam, and tells the man in the soldier's uniform that she knows what happened, that she is sorry, and that he has to know she wants to help – and then holds up a crystal hanging around his neck and addresses him as Isaac Christians! Heather admits to Isaac Christians that when she was under the Dragon's control, she deceived him, reached intothe breast of the Gargoyle's body he inhabited and ripped his naked soul out. She remembers doing this, and tells Isaac that the evil of it still burns in her, that she cast his spirit away and she didn't care, she would have let him die – but his spirit found its way into this crystal, one which he took from the house of Dr Strange. As she starts to remove the crystal from around the man's neck, Moondragon assumes him to be one of the military men that helped clean up the aftermath of the battle with the Dragon of the Moon, assuming Isaac's soul took him over and went hunting for her.
Heather tells Isaac that she died for her misdeeds, died and wants to start again 'Please let me!' she asks him, telling him that her has to know she cared for him. 'Heather, I -' Isaac starts to say through the soldier. Heather asks Isaac to come with her, suggesting that perhaps he can begin again, too. 'We can – begin' Isaac utters. The spacecraft Sensia suddenly releases a beam, which carries Pamela upwards. She thinks to herself that she works for a trade journal in Manhattan and is going on a spaceship to Saturn to give birth to her cousin, and has a gargoyle's soul in her hand. 'I'm floating upward on a beam of light. Scared? You betcha'. The spaceship streaks out into space, and Pamela realizes that there is someone inside her singing.