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Doom
Thanos, with the aid of his newly-created godlings, firebeing Primo and saurian Reptyl, has captured his target Quoi, the human/plant hybrid Celestial Messiah, along with saurian Raptra, synthezoid Avenger Vision and his current lover and Quoi's mother Mantis. He sums up their situation from last issue:- Eternity refused to help them, the other Avengers are with Raptra's ship but he has teleported his captives to his Sanctuary ship on the far side of the Rot, a darkness that is spreading through space. Now he'll kill his 'rival' Quoi, but 1st he'll get Mantis to tell him the best way to do it. Then he'll make Vision his permanent recorder. And as an afterthought he'll kill Raptra.But for now he and his godlings leave his prisoners in their cages. Raptra tries to persuade Quoi that she only pretended to give him to Thanos last issue to give her time to save now. (After all Thanos had already captured them, so she wasn't giving him anything.) And she starts to cut her arm with her own fingernail, which will eventually show she meant what she said. Vision can't phase through the energy field of their bars, but he's working on it. Then Thanos comes back and takes Mantis away.Mantis is taken to what looks like a torture dungeon, complete with Trollish minions. Primo and Reptyl fasten her down to a table. But as with the Priest Of Pama in #2 the torture is to be more of a mental invasion. Except when Thanos touches his hand to her head, instead of giving her pain and insanity he finds both of them transported to the realm of the gods (the astral plane?). Conjuring up a giant axe with but a thought the mad god splits the Celestial Madonna in twain. But she heals up again saying that her perfect human/plant mental unity makes her his equal in power. He responds that it is *will* not power that counts as he tries to crush her skull. But Mantis holds him at bay with inner meditative stillness.The Titan abandons the struggle and they both return to the mortal plane. He says he'll turn his attention instead to the boy, who won't have the experience to resist him. He's not fazed by a sudden attack by the Avengers quinjet, which has arrived much quicker than he expected. He sends Reptyl to deal with them while he and Primo attend to Quoi. Mantis (probably correctly) deduces that they must have added Scarlet Witch's magic to Thor's hammer to get the extra speed. And, left alone, she sees the figure of Death hovering over her before moving away.Thor is attacking Sanctuary alongside the Witch in an armoured spacesuit. Wanda Maximoff uses a hex through a 'window' to fuse Reptyl's legs together. But his hands can still work controls that fire blasts at them and the quinjet piloted by Haywire and Silverclaw. Thor has nearly cracked the 'window' with Mjolnir, but the nearby Rot is drawing closer.Raptra's scratching at her skin bears fruit, exposing acid capsules embedded in her arm. She uses them to dissolve some of her bars, taking their energy field with them. She has no more acid to free Vision but instead calls to the Troll guard outside. After a brief fight she defeats him and uses his keys to let Vizh out. They know where Thanos took Quoi so the synthezoid phases through the door.Meanwhile with Quoi strapped down before Thanos, Primo is sent away to join the defence. Thanos seeks to weaken the boy's confidence by telling him that his mother broke down and told him what he wanted to know. Quoi says he doesn't believe that. And they too have to fight on the god-plane. This time the axe doesn't even dent the Celestial Messiah. It turns out he shared Mantis' experiences here. He claims to be stronger than his mother because what she *became* he was born as. And he magics up an even bigger axe to attack Thanos with. The Titan god blusters but fears he can't win here, so he returns to the mortal plane where he is in control ...... just in time to see Vision coming through the door. But he ignores the android, *opens* the door and storms out past Reptyl. Vision frees Quoi and they all set out to find Mantis. Which they do.Thor has broken in to Sanctuary, but Scarlet Witch warns him that the Rot has almost surrounded the quinjet. He finds a way to fly there, telling Haywire and Silverclaw to don their spacesuits. They abandon the quinjet to its fate and make it back to Sanctuary, where everyone assembles to face Thanos, Reptyl and Primo. Thanos tries to teleport away, leaving his godlings to face the music, but he finds that he can't because they are completely surrounded by the Rot.And then Death shows up again and speaks, telling them they are trapped in here with *her*.


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Love
Mantis and Vision have gotten naked again, this time in a sylvan glade, but Mantis is struck by a telepathic distress call from here son Quoi. They hurriedly dress and run/fly to help. They meet Quoi's father, the Cotati in Swordsman's image, on the way. But when they get to Quoi's grove the Cotati plants there say he just vanished. In Vision's opinion stealth isn't Thanos' way, the mad Titan would just have fought his way in.And he's right. Quoi has been taken by the saurian Raptra using the cloak of invisibility she stole from Thanos last issue. But Raptra did it to keep the Celestial Messiah out of his clutches. However she does wonder why someone who is supposed to be the Messiah for the whole Universe is only a hybrid of plant and humanoid. What about us saurians? Whatever, she now she reveals her real plan. She contacts Thanos and offers him the unconscious Quoi in return for a promise of immunity. But Thanos refuses, saying he'll take Quoi *and* kill her for interfering. He sends after her the 2 beings he upgraded to 'gods' last issue:- Primo the firebeing and Reptyl, another saurian. He wants both targets alive so he can kill them personally.Mantis and Vision have gathered the rest of their team together (Avengers Scarlet Witch, Silverclaw and Thor plus ex-Squadron Supreme Haywire) to discuss what they should do next. But the voice of the telepathic Cotati commune speaks to them angrily. The plant-beings no longer trust the humanoids who have failed to defend their 'greatest treasure'. Swordsman tries to stick up for his friends but the Cotati bring him back into the fold. And now suddenly *they* control the only Cotati who can move around, and they use his body to attack the heroes. The Avengers try to avoid harming him until Vision knocks him out.But now the plant-planet assaults them with gas and tangling vines. The gas takes down Wanda Maximoff (a human, even if mutant) and Thor (because as an Earth God he's an archetypical human) but not Vision (because he's an android), Haywire (supposedly because he's from another universe), Lupe (when she shapeshifts to a jaguar-form to escape vines) and Mantis (because she's now part-plant?). The vines respond by growing thorns. Silverclaw doesn't shift to an avian form because she wouldn't be able to fly through the thicket. Vision could go insubstantial but doesn't want to leave the others.Mantis suggests they split into pairs and try separately to reach the quinjet. Whoever succeeds can pick up the others. Haywire and Silverclaw set off together, but bickering as usual. Harold Danforth uses his tanglewire like a machete. Lupe tries stealth but at 1 point has to expand into a llama to break out of some vines. Vision carries limp Thor and Wanda while Mantis does the fighting for them. Except Vizh can also use the solar beam from the jewel in his forehead.Thanos is brooding. He wants to kill the Celestial Messiah, slowly, because they are opposites - death and life. He remembers the 1st time he saw Lady Death. He was 8 and had just killed a cat. He has loved her since then, and hated all other women including his mother. When he was grown he led an invasion of aliens to kill all other Titanian Eternals, especially the women. Some few Eternals survived, but not his mother. But now he has rejected even Death. He now kills because he wants to.Remembering his family makes him wonder why his father Mentor wasn't involved when his brother Eros and the other Eternals attacked his Sanctuary spaceship last issue. Was the attack a feint and Mentor is the real menace? And we see Mentor entering into a dark region of space where the darkness is blotting out the stars. And once inside the Eternal starts to fall to pieces (literally).Quoi wakes up and Raptra tells him she kidnapped him from the Cotati and the Avengers to save him from Thanos. But the villain has now ignored the Cotati planet in favour of chasing *them*. She says that Thanos is an evolved ape (like the Avengers) and Quoi is an evolved ape crossed with evolved alga. He and Thanos are fated to fight for supremacy because that's what apes do. But she's an evolved dinosaur and thinks differently. She's taking them to the Rot, a part of space pirates can hide in.Mantis and Vision have a pause in battling through the undergrowth. Carrying the other 2 Avengers seems to have reminded Vizh of the 2 sons he and Wanda had. Mantis knew nothing of this (even if her 'ghost' in West Coast Avengers may have). He explains that Billy and Tommy were created by magic, but later the magic failed and they no longer existed. Wanda grieved at the time, but he didn't have the chance because by then he had been stripped of his personality and emotions. So now he and Mantis share the grief of lost children. Another bond, like the fact that they are both now effectively immortal.Haywire and Silverclaw have the quinjet in sight, but their way is blocked by a valley of very large thorns. Harold lays a tanglewire blanket as a road over them, but he also makes the way smooth for Lupe to walk on. Meanwhile mutual sniping continues. Then some plants shoot acid at them which dissolves the tanglewire, so Lupe turns to bird-form and airlifts Harold the rest of the way. She only has the energy for this short hop.Haywire opens the quinjet door with a remote control, despite the vines trying to hold it shut. They dive inside and Lupe impulsively kisses him. Harold pushes her back reminding her he's committed to his dead girlfriend Inertia (he hopes to persuade Death to bring her back). Lupe thought their constant arguing meant they fancied each other (she's been watching too many romcoms). Harold calls her a teenager, she calls him a jerk.The rest of the team make it in to the quinjet and they break free of constraining vines to zoom off into space. SW and Thor recover. Mantis can sense the awakened Quoi and that he's headed into the dark area of space (where Mentor went). And Raptra confirms to Quoi that that is the Rot she referred to.


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Death itself
The Avengers team are with Thanos on his Sanctuary starship, and Death arrived last issue to inform them that they're all trapped here by the Rot, a blackness slowly consuming the Universe. Thanos couldn't even teleport away.Mantis creates an energy bubble to surround the ship but it soon buckles and tendrils of darkness invade. Previously Thanos the Titan 'god' upgraded 2 beings to 'godling' status - Primo the firebeing and the saurian pirate Reptyl. Now a tendril disintegrates Primo. But now Mantis' son Quoi, the plant/human hybrid Celestial Messiah, joins his power to hers and they succeed in erecting the protective sphere.Haywire, the only member of the alternate-Earth Squadron Supreme left in this universe, attached himself to this mission with 1 purpose. And now he knows that he's in the presence of Death he can implement it. He asks her to return his dead love Inertia to him. But Death just ignores him.Then Death's ex-lover Thanos addresses her, reminding her that he no longer serves her. But she ignores him too. Scarlet Witch tries too (but I don't know why she thinks Death wants to speak to *her*).Because he can't teleport out, and the Rot can kill Eternals (as his father Mentor found out last issue), Thanos proposes a truce so they can work on an escape plan together. Quoi adds that he absorbed half of Thanos' power (last issue), so the Big T needs them even more. The saurian Raptra claims (sort of) that's why she tried to give him to Thanos. The Celestial Messiah needed to learn how bad the universe could be so he'd learn how to survive. But Quoi doesn't know whether to believe her.Reptyl goes with Scarlet Witch, Thor and Vision out into the protected space around the ship. Wanda Maximoff senses the Rot is magic, but also something else. Thor throws his hammer out into the Rot. Mjolnir returns to him unharmed but without affecting the Rot. The 4 combine their powers but only manage to damage the Rot slightly and temporarily. Vision has to talk Thor out of flying out into the darkness.They re-enter the ship to get Quoi's help. Mantis says that she's got the measure of the Rot now so she can hold it back without him. The Messiah says he knows what he has to do, but before he goes he tells his mother he loves her ... and also Raptra.He flies out into the Rot. Within the darkness he tries to use his power to absorb and transmute it. At 1st he fails and the Rot starts to break him apart. But then he rallies and manages to literally pull himself together. And then he sends a blast of his/Thanos' power into the darkness. But the darkness absorbs it and seems to like it.He returns to the ship to report his failure. He only made the Rot stronger, and Mantis senses that too. Thanos says it's because the boy doesn't know how to *use* power, because he worships life while the Titan worships nothingness. Mantis retorts that Thanos grew up loving to kill, and life meant nothing to him. So he worshipped Death herself, but later abandoned even her. Now he claims to love nothingness, but in truth he loves nothing. The mad god agrees that he loves nothing but himself.Now Death speaks again (after surprising them at the end of last issue) to tell Thanos that the Rot is their child. She had always kept him at arms length. But when he died (Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2) they merged and at that moment birthed a horror. It grew from a tiny dot for a long time without Death sensing it. But eventually it grew too large to be ignored, and she realised she hadn't sensed it because it was alive (because of its father) but not life (because of its mother).She then says that only she and Thanos together can end what they began. Despite others' reservations Quoi gives Thanos his power back. Revelling in his full power he accompanies Death to invade their offspring. Thanos fires his power cosmic into the darkness, and Death tries to let the Rot flow into her as all things must in the end. But both fail and are already rapidly breaking apart. Death says they need to go against their natures to succeed. She repels the darkness and sends it towards Thanos who takes it all in. And then he lets it all out again in 1 explosion ...... which results in everything the Rot consumed being recreated, including Mentor.Death approaches Thanos and suggests that having offspring has changed their relationship, and she accepts his suit. But he turns her down, as he had offered her his love not a relationship. And "If you will *have* me, you are not *worthy*". (Shades of Groucho Marx "I refuse to join any club that would have *me* as a member".) And he teleports away.Haywire asks Death again to return Edith Freiberg (Inertia) to life - she means everything to him and nothing to Death. She responds that everyone is special to her. But as she turns to leave he leaps into her body, hoping to be reunited with his love. Silverclaw suggests it was obsession not love, like Thanos and Death.Quoi decides to stay in the ex-Rot to oversee the healing process. Raptra offers to be his pilot, and more. Reptyl is a dino-separatist and angrily disapproves of the Quoi/Raptra relationship, but leaves them to it. Mantis gives them her blessing as she lets her son fly the coop. She and the Avengers will use Thanos' ship Sanctuary to return to Earth. (Their quinjet was lost to the Rot last issue and for some reason doesn't seem to have returned with everything else.)Vision has a private word with Mantis. The synthezoid knows that Mantis would love to have more children, but as an android he can't give her any. So he says that their love can't work. She reluctantly agrees, but they part with the hope that the future might be more conducive to their love. His ex-wife Wanda lays a consoling hand on his shoulder.


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Avengers Scarlet Witch, Silverclaw, Thor and Vision came to the Cotati planet Tamal, with ex-Squadron Supreme Haywire tagging along, to help Mantis protect her son Quoi, the Celestial Messiah, from Thanos. But then someone else managed to sneak Quoi away from under their noses. The Avengers quinjet followed that spaceship, guided by Mantis' psychic link with her son, and last issue they saw it enter a strange black area of space.Now pilot Vision detects Thanos' massive starship Sanctuary approaching the dark area too, but from the opposite side. Thor suggests that while the others follow Quoi into the dark, he and Mantis should seek an audience with Eternity and ask for his help against his sister Death and her 'champion' Thanos. Thor is a god and Mantis has been raised to godhood as the Celestial Madonna, so they have the best chance of being heard. But Vision insists on taking the Thunder God's place alongside his beloved, and Thor gives way.The lovers leap out into space, hands entwined. (Synthezoid Vision doesn't need to breathe. Presumably Mantis' plant/human hybrid goddess nature enables her to survive somehow.) Mantis tells Vizh that Silver Surfer taught her the joys of space travel (back in SS(1987)#3-9). The unjealous android just says now she can teach him. And they head into the stars.Quoi was taken by saurian Raptra. In #3-4 Thanos created godlings out of another saurian Reptyl and the firebeing Primo who are now quizzing an informant about where Raptra might have gone. He tells them about the Rot, the recently-developed dark area in space. It's dangerous to go inside but there are plenty of places to hide around the edges. He claims not to know exactly where Raptra said she was going, but a handful of gems improves his memory and he says she enquired about the left side of the area. Afterwards Reptyl, who knows her well, smells a double-bluff. She asked about the left to make them think she was heading right, but then she will have gone left after all.And Raptra and Quoi *have* taken their ship left. Raptra knows they can't hide forever because Thanos is inescapable. Quoi believes the Avengers and his mom will defeat the bad guy. The conversation turns to the powers being the plant/animal Celestial Messiah might have given him, but quickly degenerates into playful sparring which ends with a kiss. But Raptra remembers that she tried to 'sell' Quoi to Thanos in return for her own safety (last issue).Last issue left Thanos wondering if the attack of his Titanian brethren had been a distraction to stop him wondering what his father Mentor was doing. He's now tracked him down inside the Rot where as we saw last issue the strange area of space is dissolving Mentor bit by bit. Thanos has always foreborne to kill his father so that Mentor would have to continue to live with the knowledge that his wife died by the hands of his son. However now he senses that Mentor is truly preparing to die here. But if death is to come to Mentor it must be by *his* doing, so he strikes his father shattering him into pieces which fall into the Rot. And Thanos now declares himself All-Father of Titan.On the quinjet Haywire has a 'firefly' he caught on Tamal. Now he kills it hoping that Death will come to claim it. (He intends to petition Death for the return of his dead girlfriend Inertia.) But nothing happens. However in the cargo hold where Silverclaw and Scarlet Witch are sparring it's another matter. Wanda Maximoff tells Lupe not to give up on trying to win the affections of Harold Danforth away from dead Edith Freiberg. After all *she* originally beat Mantis for the love of Vision (and their later break up was nothing to do with the other woman). Death then *does* appear to these 2. They both face her down, and then she fades away without speaking.Meanwhile Mantis and Vision have found Eternity floating in space (that was easy!). Mantis petitions the personification of the Universe for help against Thanos and Death.  He surely knows how important the Celestial Messiah. But Eternity refuses, so Mantis escalates her contact by entering his 'body'. Vision sees her appearing to dance her way in. But inside her attention is drawn to the area of darkness which she now senses as a growing cancer that will eventually consume Eternity's body, ie the Universe. Now it's *her* turn to offer help, but Eternity says he has accepted his fate.Mantis doesn't intend to let *this* kill Quoi either, and she leaves to pass this news on to Vision. But she finds Thanos has captured the synthezoid in a force bubble. And he blasts her unconscious and takes them both away from Eternity.Raptra is flying her ship between lumps of darkness (like flying through an asteroid belt is popularly imagined) when another spaceship appears nearby. Reptyl and Primo leave their craft to invade Raptra's ship manually. She fights back with a hand blaster. Quoi reveals his power by sucking the flames out of Primo. ('Scientific' explanation - humans breathe in oxygen and transmute it to carbon dioxide, plants do the reverse, and he can absorb and transmute anything.) Reptyl knocks Quoi down so enraged Raptra keeps peppering him with blasts. But then Thanos teleports in and ends the fight.'Generously' he offers to take up Raptra's previous offer, Quoi in return for her safety. Desperate Raptra accepts, and Thanos makes sure Quoi hears her. Then he says he lied, he won't let her go.And the quinjet approaches their location.


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Madonna reborn
Thanos has hunted down and killed 4 out of 5 copies of Mantis on Earth. Now he's fighting the 5th version in Alaska, but she has absorbed the essences of the previous 4 and is now powerful enough to trade energy blasts with him. The 4th copy managed to get a mental message to the Avengers (in this case Scarlet Witch, Silverclaw, Thor and Vision) who are standing back watching the fight, along with Ex-Squadron Supreme member Haywire who just happened to stumble on the scene.Thor holds the others back for now. He believes that Mantis has regained her status as a goddess (that she gained when she mated with the Cotati plant-being to become the Celestial Madonna in Giant-Size Avengers #4). Thanos certainly considers *himself* a god, of death, and Mantis opposes him as a goddess of life. Although the fight mainly consists of her agilely avoiding his blasts he stops firing and declares it over. She is too powerful to kill easily.He continues that his aim was to kill all 5 personae *before* she could regain her full power, to avoid her interfering in his true goal which is to kill her half-plant son. The star(s) which appeared last issue signalled that he has reached the age of 18 (even though he was only born 6 years ago) and has matured into the Celestial Messiah, who will be a hindrance to Thanos' plans. He then teleports away to find and kill him.Mantis asks the Avengers to help her save her son Quoi. Thor agrees on the others' behalf to oppose the mad god who serves the Goddess Of Death, and Mantis says they don't have time to assemble any more of the team. Wanda Maximoff suggests teen Lupe stays behind but Silverclaw won't accept it. Vision tells Haywire it's not his fight, but the ex-Squady seems strangely interested in their being a Goddess Of Death.Meanwhile (for some value of 'meanwhile', to paraphrase Sir Terry Pratchett) across the universe a passenger spaceship is being chased by 3 pirate craft. It escapes by diving into a 'class 3' nebula where the pirates don't have strong-enough shields to follow. Captain Reptyl wisely gives up. Kid Syn angrily questions his decision, and for having ships that traded shields for speed in the 1st place. The female Saurian Raptra tries to calm them down.On board the liner a Pegasusian drops his disguise in private to expose a Kree Priest Of Pama whose thoughts remind us that the Priests trained Mantis and reveal that he is the only 1 who knows her son's location. So that's why Thanos turns up to extract the information.The Avengers are in their quinjet in space, but even with Thor's hammer boosting its power it will still take 3 days to get where Mantis has directed them. Plenty of time to catch up with each other's news, which really means asking their guest where she's been since they last saw her. Mantis says that she herself has only regained those memories since her merging.Last issue Thor told us of her time with the Avengers which ended (in GS Av#4) with her being declared the Celestial Madonna, the most perfect human, and 'marrying' the perfect Cotati to combine their energies. Mantis now says that she returned several months later with a child of that union who she named Sequoia, or Quoi for short. She didn't contact the Avengers but chose to live as a human mother in Willimantic, Connecticut for a year (at the end of which Quoi was older than that). Then his father took the boy to spend time with the Cotati.Mantis then left to explore the Cosmos and teamed up with Silver Surfer to stop the Elders Of The Universe from killing Galactus (Silver Surfer (1987) #3-9, with the bit above explained in #4) which ended with the Elders blowing her up. She is able to re-cohere from such a thing but her atoms were so scattered that for a long time she was able to
only create what she now calls 'ghosts' of herself. The 1st visited the West Coast Avengers (a tale in SS Annual #1, WCA#37-39 including An#3, and probably SS#20). The 2nd appeared in Fantastic Four #323-325 and a tale in their An#25, where the Cotati wouldn't let her see her son and her enemy Kang from the Celestial Madonna saga was helping them. The last ghost took part in the Galactus The Devourer mini-series where she helped them *kill* Galactus. Mantis says that when these ghosts dissipated they took memories of them away too, and the Avengers present who were involved in most of these issues admit that they can't remember her being there. (But it obviously didn't work completely because I can remember.)But 3 years ago she incarnated as 5 separate more substantial women (see last issue), and now she has coalesced into her complete self. (Or as Thor jokingly puts it "The Avenger assembles".)But the fate of the Priest Of Pama is no joke. He's tied down in Thanos' dungeon with menacing goblins in attendance. He expects physical torture but the mad Titan touches a gauntleted hand to his brow and the man goes insane. His mental energy bursts free and Thanos bathes in the madness to break reality ...... to reach the realm of cosmic entities where he faces Eternity and his sister Death plus Lord Chaos and Master Order. He tells them that he is now a pair like they are with his opposite the Celestial Messiah. But he wants no partner. He has given up killing for love of Death, but now he will kill the Messiah for his own sake. Then he returns to reality. He has the satisfaction of that confrontation and also the Messiah's location from the Priest's mind.Haywire and Silverclaw feel like outsiders in all this. Haywire says at least Lupe's got a team to belong to. She replies that he's in the Squadron Supreme. She's read about them and he was 1 of the few who fought on the side of democracy when some of them turned fascist and took over their world (in the Squadron Supreme limited series), but his girlfriend died (SS: Death Of A Universe GN). Harry Danforth tells her angrily not to mention Inertia and stalks off.Mantis consoles the young girl saying that Silverclaw is the new girl on the team as she once was, and she will do her best to support her. Lupe can't help bragging that *she*'s destined to become a goddess (like her mother Peliali as seen in Av (1998) #28-30).Later Mantis chats with Vision. The synthezoid tells her that since they last met (even including WCA issues) he was taken to pieces and his mind and emotions erased. (He doesn't say that he's got it all back since then.) She lets on that Wanda told her that she and Vision were no longer together, and stressed that Vizh is a good man. He tries to change the subject to their quest to save her son, but she deflects it back to her humanity in need of comfort. The android denies being human, but she says Wanda doesn't believe that, and neither does she. Mantis expresses regret that she never had a chance to love him before because he was with Wanda. Now they can share their aloneness. He protests at 1st but then they kiss.


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Captain America is informed that Rick Jones has been captured by Baron Zemo to lure the hero into a trap. Iron Man tries to dissuade Cap from his path of vengeance but Cap is determined to rescue the young man and bring Zemo to justice and he must go alone. When Iron Man tells him that his leaving would jeopardize the continued existence of the Avengers, Cap can only say he’s sorry as he walks out the door. Iron Man swears Jarvis, who overheard the last part, to secrecy….
Jarvis again meets with Hawkeye downtown and again tries to persuade him to seek the Avengers’ help. Hawkeye, depressed, does not believe redemption is possible for a guy like him….
At the Mansion, Iron Man finds Thor sitting in a darkened room. Thor reluctantly informs Tony that he has been summoned to Asgard for a Trial of the Gods. Iron Man accuses him of abandoning the team in favor of another delusion from his fantasy world. Thor, offended to not be taken at his word, offers his hammer Mjolnir for Iron Man to touch. When the Armored Avenger does so he is granted a vision of the splendor of Asgard and realizes in a second that all Thor has told them about himself is true. He apologizes to Thor and wonders if the Avengers experiment is now to be considered a failure. The Thunder God reminds him that the Avengers is a concept larger than any one member and if Iron Man has faith, others will follow. He then takes his leave….
In Germany, the fugitive Wanda and Pietro Maximoff hear on a television new report that the Avengers have lost several members just as they were beginning to gain acceptance….
Captain America lands in Bolivia, which CIA sources have identified as Zemo’s hiding place. Cap infiltrates the compound and frees the bound and tortured Rick. Zemo however has the drop on him and orders him to beg before he kills him. Cap responds, "I don’t beg…take your best shot." As Zemo opens fire with a ray gun, Cap leaps among the Nazi’s henchmen throwing punches as Zemo screams defiance. Cap hurls his shield deflecting Zemo’s aim and the bolt fires upward causing an avalanche among the rocks above. Rick makes it to safety but Cap and his enemy are buried by the falling boulders….


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One evening, Edwin Jarvis, Tony Stark’s butler, takes his mother out to dinner; on the walk home late at night they are accosted by a trio of thugs bent on mayhem. Suddenly the hoods are taken down by some special arrows, courtesy of a purple-clad archer who calls himself Hawkeye. As the hero turns to leave, Jarvis calls him back….
Elsewhere, Captain America is a prisoner in the dungeons of Count Nefaria at his castle in New Jersey (!). His fellow Avengers come to the rescue, with Iron Man, Thor, and Giant-Man crashing through the stone walls. In another room, Wasp finds Rick Jones and his Teen Brigade and warns them to leave—too late, as the Count’s henchmen enter, guns blazing….
At a neighborhood bar, Hawkeye confides in Jarvis how his plans to become a masked hero were derailed when he was mistaken for a crook by the police, a misunderstanding that led to several brushes with Iron Man and compounded by his association with the Soviet spy Black Widow. As they talk through the night, they walk the streets and sunrise finds them at the gate to Avengers Mansion….
At the castle, Nefaria is captured and evidence gathered from his computer files proves he is the head of the Maggia crime ring. The Avengers get a sudden call from Rick and discover Wasp, critically injured by bullet wounds….
In East Transia, Pietro and Wanda Maximov—Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch—take refuge from the snowstorm in an inn. They are tired of the fugitive life but don’t know where to go where they will be accepted in view of their status as mutant criminals….
Wasp is rushed into surgery at a nearby hospital where she is placed in the hands of the noted Dr. Svenson. Iron Man wonders whether the loss of an Avenger is too high a price to pay for their mission. He wants to talk to Cap about their security clearance depending on Cap’s participation on the team but Cap is preoccupied. He can’t rest until he has hunted down Baron Zemo, Bucky’s killer and suspects that this preoccupation with vengeance is what led to his capture by Nefaria which in turn led to Wasp’s injury. Cap walks out leaving Tony alone. In the hospital chapel, Hank is praying for God to spare Janet’s life when Thor enters to tell him to have faith, the matter is in the All-Father’s hands and even if she should die, she will be honored as a warrior in Valhalla. Hank, who with the rest of the Avengers, believes Thor’s claims to divinity to be an act, or at worst a delusion, takes offense but at this point, Dr. Svenson arrives to announce that the operation was a success….
At the Mansion, Jarvis and Rick are relaxing after hearing the good news when suddenly the lights go out. Jarvis is knocked unconscious and Rick is taken prisoner by Baron Zemo….


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The injured Captain America relates to his Avengers teammates (Thor, Wasp, Giant-Man) a nightmare he had about Baron Zemo, Bucky’s killer and how all he can now think of is revenge. He is now able to describe in detail the death of his partner—and his hatred for Zemo….
Meanwhile, Iron Man is meeting with NSC liaison Agent Murch and General Paul Wallace of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, informing them that they will work with the military but not for them. Resigned to this state of affairs, the General tells him of an unexplained craft that has landed outside Waynesboro, Virginia, and asks the Avengers to check it out. Soon a military plane carrying a team of soldiers is on its way to the area, with the heroes on board. Cap has been lost in his thoughts until a GI asks to interview him for the military newspaper STARS AND STRIPES. The soldier asks Cap why he does what he does. Cap replies that he wears the colors because he believes in something greater than himself and that he and his fellow Avengers are fighting for freedom.The alien ship belongs to the time-traveling warrior Kang the Conqueror….five hours later the press is reporting that the Avengers have been taken captive by the invader and may be dead…nine hours later, Rick Jones has managed to shut off the paralysis ray and the Avengers are free to confront their enemy. Cap rallies the heroes by calling on them to "Assemble!" Thor breaks through Kang’s force field long enough for Giant-Man to shoot a capsule at the villain releasing an acid that eats through his armor. Kang launches a neutrino missile into the air but Iron Man shoots it down with his repulsor rays. Thor uses his enchanted hammer Mjolnir to absorb Kang’s energy and fire it back at him. As his body nears critical mass, Kang escapes to his ship and flees the planet. An interviewer talks to Captain America who calmly explains that facing death is in their line, they are here to serve the people, fighting tyranny because it is the right thing to do. General Wallace receives a call from the President….
The Avengers are now national heroes, honored with a parade in New York. Privately Murch informs Iron Man that they now have their security clearance but…it all depends on the participation of Captain America. If he ever leaves the team, their clearance is revoked.
That night, Cap confides in Thor that the need for revenge against Zemo is consuming him; Thor suggests that the cure may lie in fulfilling his destiny. Cap realizes that means killing Zemo….


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Tony Stark brings Wanda and Pietro Maximoff to the United States as the new probationary members of the Avengers. At Avengers Mansion, they suit up as Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver for their first formal meeting with the team; the suspicious Pietro wonders if Thor and Captain America are avoiding them out of anti-mutant prejudice. Jarvis assures him that such prejudice does not exist within the Mansion walls….
Steve Rogers and Rick Jones arrive at the Mansion to see a flurry of activity by protesters opposed to the new mutant team members, with the media covering the controversy. Suiting up as Captain America, Steve leads Rick in through a secret entrance and to the conference room, where all the Avengers (minus Thor) are assembled. Iron Man leads Cap to another room where they can confer privately, joined by Wasp and Giant-Man. There, Iron Man reveals that he is leaving too and that he wants Cap to be the new team leader. Iron Man says that it is Cap’s spirit that holds the team together as well as his presence being the only guarantee of continued government security clearance. Cap is the one the public trusts; he still doesn’t know, though….
In the meeting room, Hawkeye tries to make flirtatious small talk with Scarlet Witch but finds Quicksilver hostile and defensive and Scarlet Witch cool and distant. They tell him the truth: they are seeking redemption after their association with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants….
Cap, left alone, studies the Avengers Charter and determines that, in a world where nothing is sacred any more, the Avengers will be. Elsewhere, Giant-Man and Wasp take their leave of Iron Man, certain they will meet again. As they unmask, Hank and Janet are relieved to be free of one burden of responsibility but wonder if they made the right choice. Iron Man simply flies off into the sky, already in touch with Pepper Potts about Tony Stark’s next business deal….
Captain America formally introduces his new teammates on a TV newscast and all the journalists in the room are caught up in the spirit of optimism. Tony Stark, watching from his office, declares, "The dream lives on."


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Hank (Giant-Man) Pym and Janet (Wasp) Van Dyne watch on television reports of the Hulk’s latest violent confrontation with the US military. Hank excuses himself and goes out to his lab; Janet follows in her tiny form and he explains that he wants to work on improving his growth formula—in peace. Janet angrily buzzes off back to the house where the TV anchor is asking "Where are the Avengers?" Tony (Iron Man) Stark is also watching at his penthouse and is concerned about the public skepticism of the Avengers’ effectiveness—and motives….
At Avengers Mansion, Steve (Captain America) Rogers is silent at the breakfast table, drawing concern from Rick Jones ands Jarvis. Fragmented memories are bubbling to the surface, memories of a masked Nazi, and a runaway plane. Rick suggests a little trip….
Iron Man arrives at a meeting with NSC liaison Agent Murch, who introduces him to General Paul Wallace of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They have a proposal to make the Avengers an official part of the military, granting them security clearance and allowing them to maintain their secret identities. Iron Man is skeptical….
At Arlington National Cemetery, Cap finds the grave of Bucky Barnes and the details of his partner’s death become clearer. He would like to know more about what happened while he was on ice. We see him salute at the grave of President John F. Kennedy and read the names of every soldier on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
Iron Man tells Murch he will have to consult with his teammates about becoming a branch of the military. Murch is angered at the hero’s reluctance to gain his precious security clearance. Thor suddenly arrives in a furious windstorm and intimidates the agent into leaving hastily. Iron Man puts the government’s offer before Thor, Wasp and Giant-Man, who don’t like the idea of being the lackeys of the military (subtle joke: that is what the Avengers became in THE ULTIMATES). They wonder where Captain America is and Jarvis tells them he is off re-familiarizing himself with certain areas of American history….
A week later the Masters of Evil attack the city and the Avengers are on the scene to battle them. When Cap comes face-to-face with Baron Zemo, his final memories come flooding back and he realizes he is looking at Bucky’s murderer. He takes on Zemo’s men but the villain escapes in his heli-hovercraft. When the other Avengers find him, Cap is lying in a pile of rubble with a head wound, and muttering the name, "Zemo"….


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The media is abuzz with reports that five super-powered beings are forming a team to be known as the Avengers. As reporters camp out in front of the Howard Stark Mansion in New York, Clint Barton watches with interest on a barroom TV. As the group, consisting of Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp, and the newly pardoned Hulk, assemble at the Mansion, Barton expresses mild skepticism that their plan to fight evil as a team will be successful. At the meeting, Iron Man talks about the need to earn the trust of a suspicious public and introduces Edwin Jarvis, who is the senior member of the mansion staff. He passes out a proposed charter and by-laws. As the heroes read, they are concerned at the revelation that the group is to be monitored by the National Security Council, which Shellhead claims is necessary to be granted the security clearance needed to do their jobs. Ant-Man and Wasp gladly sign, though she seems more taken with the celebrity aspects than the heroic ones. Thor is also convinced to agree by IM’s impassioned speech but the Hulk refuses; he says no one will ever trust them and the whole thing is nonsense. When the others, including his pal Rick Jones, try to persuade him, the Green Giant erupts in a rage and leaps away, leaving a gaping hole in the masonry. The others take their leave, with a despondent Iron Man standing in dust and rubble. Jarvis tries to encourage him by admiring the ideals set forth in the charter, but it doesn’t help much.
Two weeks later, Agent Murch of the NSC tells Iron Man that their plan is a fiasco, and Avengers Priority Status depends on their bringing in the rampaging Hulk. The mission goes very badly and as the damaged heroes head home in their sub, Hank Pym, now Giant-Man, lashes out in anger at Wasp, leading Thor to intervene. Iron Man explains how their security clearance depended on this mission’s success and Thor begins to have second thought about their project. The atmosphere gets very tense as the heroes argue among themselves but they are interrupted by an alarm from the ship. The Avengers look out the portholes and see a man, dressed in red, white, and blue, frozen in ice….


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Giant-Man runs tests on the newly-revived Captain America, Steve Rogers, who is having trouble adjusting to his experiences. Jarvis shows him to his room, where he flips on the TV and surfs the channels, witnessing reality TV, war, sex scandals, and heavy metal music. He sits there, more depressed and confused than ever….
Giant-Man reports on his findings to the other Avengers: he judges that physically Cap is in perfect condition but doubts that he will recover from the psychological shock. Iron Man suggests they give him more time to recover. A late-night study of old military documents reveals to Iron Man that Captain America has full security clearance for himself and his allies which would grant them the priority status they desire, though Thor finds the manipulation dishonorable. The self-proclaimed Thunder God (the others doubt his assertions) wonders whether Iron Man is more concerned with the NSC’s red tape than the team’s original goal of fighting evil.
Steve is awoken in the middle of the night by a bad dream about the war. He heads down to the kitchen and runs into Rick Jones, who still drops by frequently even though he has no reason to be there since the Hulk left. Jarvis intervenes when Rick asks about Cap’s wartime adventures, reminding him that is wasn’t a pleasant time. Cap is still having trouble with his memory and can’t answer. After Rick leaves, Cap asks Jarvis about the Avengers and their goals, and Jarvis has him read the groups’ charter….
One week later, Captain America joins with the Avengers in combating the menace of the Lava Men. His well-publicized return starts to give the team more credibility in the eyes of the public. Tony Stark meets with the Avengers liaison in the National Security Council, Agent Murch, who takes a dim view of their exploitation of Cap’s security clearance for their own ends. Murch is skeptical of Cap’s mental state however, and announces he will be watching the team very carefully….


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Iron Man, Wasp, and Giant-Man arrive at Avengers Mansion to find Jarvis bound and gagged and the criminal Hawkeye standing guard. The archer calmly draws three arrows on his bow and lets fly, severing Jarvis’ bonds. Hawkeye announces that this was a sort of audition for the Avengers; he would like to join the hero team to makes amends for his criminal career which was based on a misunderstanding compounded by poor decisions. The three Avengers withdraw to the conference room to debate the archer’s offer…and Giant-Man and Wasp announce that they are leaving the team; after Wasp almost died in the fight against Count Nefaria (issue #5). As Iron Man ponders being the only one left, he questions whether the Avengers experiment is a failure. Wasp and Giant-Man try to persuade him otherwise, that the Avengers is an idea bigger than any individual member. Iron Man comes around: Hawkeye is the proof that the Avengers offer a second chance to criminals seeking rehabilitation. Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Jarvis and Hawkeye silently make their peace over a cup of tea….
In Bolivia, Captain America stands over the body of his enemy Baron Zemo, killed in a rockslide. Cap is uneasy with the revenge he struggled for and as he carries the injured Rick Jones to safety, he says his farewells to his long-dead partner Bucky Barnes….
The Avengers announce publicly that Hawkeye, former felon, will be joining the team on a probationary basis. Agent Murch of the NSC throws a fit and confronts Iron Man who tells him that the Avengers will no longer put up with Murch’s bullying tactics and obstructionist manner. Hawkeye will have to earn the public’s trust as the Avengers as a team did, and so will the next two potential recruits….
Tony Stark heads to London to meet with Wanda and Pietro Maximoff—Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver—about joining the Avengers on a probationary basis; Pietro is hostile and suspicious but Wanda is willing because she wants to demonstrate that not all mutants are evil. Murch is still opposed to the idea, unable to forget that the mutant siblings were followers of the terrorist Magneto, and questions whether Captain America would support all this….
In South America, as he and Rick make their way back to civilization, Cap is shown an American newspaper announcing the newest Avenger….


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In the jungle, Goliath fights frantically against the Adaptoid
horde, constantly reminding himself that they are not human and that he is an
Avenger….
At the main A.I.M. base, the other Avengers (Hawkeye,
Vision, Black Panther, and Wasp) have located the central control of the base
and neutralized the enemy. They contact Nick Fury to send in a cleanup team but
sensors show that the Super-Adaptoid is no longer there. (But the reader knows
the android has been watching from a distance and it swims away underwater.) Vision
and Wasp go out into the jungle to find Goliath; he’s there, he destroyed all
of the monsters but he is an emotional wreck.…
Back at Avengers Mansion, Hawkeye excuses himself while Hank
asks to talk to Panther soon; T’Challa suggests that Jan keep an eye on Hank….
T’Challa returns to P.S. 75 as teacher Luke Charles and
talks to the misfit Delroy who walks out of the classroom and is immediately slugged
by the bullies….
Hawkeye and Vision foil a bank robbery but the police resent
their interference while the crowd is afraid of the non-human Vision. Hawkeye
stops off to troll the SHIELD agents keeping them under surveillance….
Agent Murch meets with Hank and Jan and takes every
opportunity to express his disdain for the Avengers while impressing on them
the importance of capturing the Super-Adaptoid….
Hank, troubled by dreams of the Adaptoids playing on his insecurities,
heads out to the garage where his anger and frustration cause him to lash out
releasing some chemicals. He inhales the gas and changes….


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Nick Fury confronts the Avengers (Hawkeye, Black Panther, Vision)
over Hank Pym’s going crazy and adopting the new identity of Yellowjacket.
Agent Carver maintains that humoring him is still the best strategy for helping
him. Fury promises to keep this new development from Much and the NSC while
promising to keep and eye on the team. Hawkeye takes the opportunity to ask Fury
where Natasha Romanova is; Fury tells him that info is classified….
Yellowjacket has carried Wasp off to his hidden lair where
he continues to bad-mouth Hank as a failure and wasted effort. Jan defends Hank
while trying to get YJ to recognize the inconsistencies in his own brain but he
keeps fighting back—and then he kisses her….
Jan brings YJ to Avengers Mansion to meet Captain America
who is still loathe to humor the cracked Hank Pym (and Hawkeye moreso). She
announces they are getting married so Cap asks to speak to her in private. In
the next room, Cap reveals that the wedding will be well protected by
undercover SHIELD agents but Jan is still suffering with Hanks’ mania and
insists that marriage is the best way to get Hank back to normal….
That evening, as Death Tiger watches Avengers Mansion while
all the famous superheroes gather for the big event. An argument breaks out
between Iron Man and the Panther over his (Tony’s) not being consulted. The
various guests find all of this a bit puzzling….
Meanwhile, two SHIELD Agents confront Death Tiger on the
roof, which turns out to be their hard luck….
In the kitchen, Ringmaster and the Circus of Crime, seeking revenge
against Thor, have taken Jarvis hostage and when Hawkeye walks in, they force
him to surrender by threatening the butler. The ceremony concluded, the other
Avengers keep an eye on Hank as the huge wedding cake is rolled out. Black Knight
 presents his sword to the bride to make the cut and when she does, a
massive fanged snake bursts out….


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Black Panther visits Delroy at the police station, revealing
his identity, mentioning the consequences of Delroy’s actions, and warning him
against violence. T’Challa then receives an Avengers Priority Alert….
Hawkeye and Jarvis watch from the doorway of Avengers Mansion
as Vision battles the Super-Adaptoid in the sky above Manhattan. The villain
fires an explosive arrow which passes harmlessly through Vision but hits a
building spilling rubble toward the crowd below. Vision swoops down and
vaporizes it before anyone is hurt. The Super-Adaptoid taunts Vision for his
compassion as they fight and then Black Panther and Hawkeye arrive on the scene
to join the battle. After some more scuffling and explosive arrows, Vision delivers
the final blow that knocks the baddie out of the sky and the crowd cheers. A
SHIELD helicopter arrives, bearing Hank Pym and Janet/Wasp; Jasper Sitwell demands
to know what they think they were doing. Vision answers: "We’re doing our job.”

Later Luke Charles is telling the kids about the Rwandan
genocide and assures his colleagues that his resolve to change the kids’ lives
is stronger than ever….
Hawkeye meets with Black Widow and they realize their lives
are at different points and so they decide to part amicably. Hawkeye then
hurries to the meeting room where the Avengers, including Captain America and
Iron Man, are listening to Nick Fury on the big screen. Fury is telling them
the capture of the Super-Adaptoid almost makes up for the disaster of a wedding
but ends up praising them. Cap congratulates Vision, Panther, and Hawkeye for
their recent performances; Hank mentions a leave of absence; Vision knows that
he serves a noble purpose; Iron Man says the dream lives on….


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The villains plotting against T’Challa hire Death Tiger to
kill their king….
The Avengers Quinjet carrying Black Panther, Hawkeye,
Goliath, Wasp, and Vision approaches the Pacific island where A.I.M.’s experiments
with the Super-Adaptoid have gone wrong, releasing an army of Adaptoids against
the natives. Nick Fury had explained that the island houses a main base which
was the command center and a Site B where the duplicates were created; Goliath
refused to take the mission unless Vision was released from SHIELD custody. They
fly over the ruined Site B and see the army of Adaptoids cutting a swath
through the jungle and laying waste native villages. Six of the mindless monsters
spot the Quinjet and attack, knocking the craft out of the sky. Goliath says
that he and Wasp will check on the natives in the monsters’ path while the
others will strike at the main base to find the original Super-Adaptoid. Hawkeye
steers the damaged Quinjet into a hanger at the enemy base and the three
Avengers do battle with A.I.M.’s agents…
In the jungle, Hank tells Jan to do reconnaissance from the
sky, ignoring her suggestions. She spies the horde of Adaptoids coming their way
and Hank tells her to join the others while he stops the advancing monsters by
himself….
Vision enters the main reactor and disrupts the operation, causing
an overload while they search for the Super-Adaptoid which has escaped from
A.I.M. custody and is running loose in the base….
Out in the jungle, Goliath psychs himself up for the coming
fight, reminding himself that the enemy isn’t human and he doesn’t need to hold
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A gang of crooks are interrupted in their exercise by a new
costumed hero, the Yellowjacket; he beats them up and leaves them for the
police….
At P.S. 75, new teacher Luke Charles (the Black Panther’s
secret identity) wants to know more about the class misfit Delroy Watkins and
gets an earful about the dangerous kids and he is warned not to threaten the
status quo….
Hawkeye calls his lover Black Widow, trying to patch up
their relationship but she can’t talk as she is at work…aboard the SHIELD
Helicarrier. Director Dum Dum Dugan tells her to get back to work so she hangs
up on Clint but not before telling him that Jasper Sitwell will be visiting the
Avengers that evening….
Agent Sitwell arrives at Avengers Mansion with Special Agent
Carver from the Psych Department. They will be questioning the Vision as to
whether he allowed the Super-Adaptoid to escape (last issue). Hawkeye bursts in
and begins arguing with Sitwell and Black Panther explains to the SHIELD man
that they are hunting the fugitive android. Then the Avengers are summoned
upstairs…
…where they meet Yellowjacket, who broke in and tied up
Jarvis and now he’s demanding that he be inducted into the Avengers while
flirting with Wasp. The problem is that everyone knows immediately that it’s
Hank Pym in the costume. In the next room, Sitwell demands an explanation as to
Hank’s actions; Agent Carver suggests that Hank is suffering from schizophrenia
and advises them to humor him and play along with his pretentions to forestall
a complete breakdown. A distraught Jan thinks that would be abandoning Hank
when he needs them most; Panther suggests they continue to observe Hank and go
back to meet with Yellowjacket. The new guy also demands to be the new chairman
of the team and claims to have killed Hank Pym, further upsetting Jan. He fires
his weird gun at Hawkeye, Vision, and Panther and insists on taking Jan out to
dinner….


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With the battle between the assembled heroes and the Circus of Crime,
Yellowjacket cowers impotently in a corner as his thoughts go wild, and
suddenly he grows into Giant-Man and takes down the Ringmaster. Captain America
has a talk with Nick Fury and learns a pair of SHIELD Agents were killed by an
unknown assailant (we know it was Death Tiger last issue); Black Panther sees
the bodies and knows also….
At P.S. 75, T’Challa as Luke Charles again sees Delroy being
bullied and suspects he may be planning some sort of vengeance and warns him off
it. Vision appears, having been tasked by Cap to find out what he knows about
the dead SHIELD agents, learning about T’Challa’s secret life ass well but promising
to tell no one….
Aboard the Helicarrier, Nick Fury confronts Hank Pym and Wasp
as Agent Carver insists Hank isn’t mentally stable. Hank says he and Jan are
stepping down from the Avengers and he appreciates what she did to save him….
At school, Delroy stays late, hiding in the bathroom with a
gun until everyone is gone…but then he sees Death Tiger and hides. As T’Challa
leaves his classroom he is attacked by the African assassin and there is a
bitter fight in the halls that spills out into he alley. When Death Tiger has T’Challa
at his mercy, Delroy shoots the villain down….
Back at Avengers Mansion, Jarvis is clearing up the mess in
the kitchen while Hawkeye takes a call from T’Challa about his meeting with
Death Tiger. Vision enters also despairing about his unpopularity with the
public and he ascends to the roof where he faces the Super-Adaptoid….
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A.I.M. is studying the Super-Adaptoid but a power surge destroys
the lab….
Vision has been arrested by SHIELD and is taken to the HQ
where he angers Jasper Sitwell by descending through the floor, bypassing the
barber chair….
Back at Avengers Mansion, Goliath complains to Captain America
about the incident; Cap suggests calm but Hank pulls rank as Avengers Chairman
and demands Cap set up a meeting with Nick Fury….
Vision describes his creation by Ultron-5 to destroy the
Avengers and his rebellion and current attempts to find his place in the world.
SHIELD scientists scan Vision and determine that he is not the Super-Adaptoid. Sitwell
tries to intimidate Vision by suggesting “he” is not fit to be a hero….
In his new identity as Luke Charles, Black Panther takes charge
of a world history class at a Harlem high school, trying to inspire the kids with
a knowledge of their place in the world but also becoming aware of a bullied
kid named Delroy….
Meanwhile, various Wakandans who resent T’Challa’s opening
the nation up to the outside world are gathering to take action….
Hawkeye and Black Widow, romantically involved, split up
over his commitment to the Avengers and her being a SHIELD Agent….
Goliath, Wasp, and Black Panther meet with Nick Fury at
Avengers Mansion. The meeting is tense from the start but when Hawkeye arrives,
the confrontation becomes loud and bitter. Fury tells them he is on their side,
ready to support them over the Vision and there is another matter. He tells
them of A.I.M.’s experiments with the Super-Adaptoid and how they have gone
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SHIELD is transporting the Super-Adaptoid to more secure
quarters when the truck is ambushed by A.I.M. and the android stolen….
Overwhelmed at being inducted as a member of the Avengers,
Vision turns back to the other members (Captain America, Iron Man, Thor,
Black Panther, Hawkeye, Wasp, Goliath) and they fill him in on some of the details, namely,
that they have an understanding with the National Security Council. Vision is
also introduced to Jarvis who brings drinks for the celebration….
Afterwards there is a Founders Meeting (Cap, IM, Thor, Jan,
Hank) where they address the problem: the NSC representative, Agent Murch,
might not like a non-human member of the team, especially one who so recently
tried to destroy them. Jan mentions that they have always had trouble
trying to hold together as a team and Hank, as Chairman, promises to give it
all he’s got….
NSC Agent Murch contacts SHIELD’s Avengers liaison,
Jasper Sitwell, to talk about the questions surrounding the Vision. Sitwell is also
suspicious that the Super-Adaptoid was stolen the day before Vision was named
an Avenger….
T’Challa, King of Wakanda, addresses the United Nations,
pledging that his newly joined nation, promising honesty and empathy.
Afterwards, NSC Agent Henry Peter Gyrich puts together a secret identity for T’Challa
when he is not being Avenger or King and T’Challa has a confrontation with
Murch over his distrust of the Avengers….
Hawkeye and Jarvis give Vision a short history of the
Avengers starting with Clint’s joining the team through its various changes.
Vision responds with a demonstration of his powers. They are interrupted by the
arrival of Sitwell and a SHIELD team to take Vision back to SHIELD HQ for
interrogation….


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Mercenaries working for the deposed rulers of Slorenia, the Tabissaria, against the new democratic government are opposed by what they think are US drone planes. But when they shoot 1 down they find that, although it does have US markings, it's some giant cyborg creature.Captain America prepares for the weekly Avengers meeting in Avengers Tower, still not comfortable having his coffee made for him by a butler, Jarvis. But then he's not comfortable with a lot of the modern world.Captain Marvel is the 1st to arrive, and she engages in some interservice rivalry banter with Cap (Air Force vs ex-Army). And she reports that medical tests have shown that her human/Kree hybrid situation is still stable.Black Widow and Wolverine turn up, and Iron Man arrives on the roof. And Hawkeye staggers in after a night on the tiles.Steve Rogers hears a news report about the Slorenia incident. The cyborg technology is unfamiliar to defence experts. But as well as the US markings the 'drone' has Hereward painted on it, which is the name of a British military contractor based on the Norwegian island of Skrekklandet. And this causes Cap to flasback to a wartime mission.It's 1944 and Cap was with a trio of RAF bombers sent to the island. Cap intended to parachute down to investigate before calling the planes in to bomb the place. He suspected Baron Zemo was there, building wunderwaffe (wonder weapons). Suddenly 1 of the planes was destroyed by a beam from above, from a huge delta-winged craft.Cap ordered his plane to fly above the mystery craft and launched himself down on to it. (As he did so, lightning struck the island base below them.) Cap smashed into the cockpit with his shield, and threw a bunch of live grenades in. Then he abandoned the stricken craft to regain his own plane.But then a beam much like the one that hit the 1st plane struck the island. And the base was reduced to a crater,Back in the present, Steve wants to know what's happening. The team cease exchanging friendly insults and snap into action. Tony Stark  pulls up more details of the attack in Slorenia, while Cap explains about his 1944 mission and says the tech there reminds him of stuff he fought in the war, and stuff Red Skull used later. Meanwhile Carol Danvers finds out from the Air Force that the things aren't remotely-piloted drones, they're semi-intelligent machines. And the US has subcontracted the whole operation to Hereward. Natasha Romanoff gets SHIELD info which indicates that Hereward is active worldwide, gaining power and influence.Logan figures correctly that Steve wants to get hold of 1 of these 'drones'. Storming Skrekklandet would be frowned upon, but getting into the Slorenian war zone will be easier. Even though Colonel Danvers protests that's still against US policy. Later Cap tells Widow they're taking the job because SHIELD and other official US agencies won't.Thor joins the gathering, and is reminded of something from his past too. There is an evil creature called Nidhogg that lives among the roots of Yggdrasil the World Tree that supports the Nine Realms of Asgardian lore. One day it escaped to 1 of the Realms, Midgard - Earth. (We see it surfacing at the Skrekklandet base with the delta-craft flying overhead.)Thor tackled it alone, his arrival signalled by a lightning strike. Nidhogg had laid eggs in the ice. Thor and the monster fought, and Thor was driven to Berserker Rage. The battle ended with a massive beam of energy wiping out the base.Thor's pride in going it alone, and succombing to the Rage, convinced Odin that his son needed to be taught humility.Now Thor recognises the fleshy base of the cyborg 'drone', and suspects that it is a spawn of Nidhogg. Stark reasons that the 'drones' are the result of Nidhogg's children fusing with the  Nazi experimental weapons after being buried by Thor.Thor's humility lesson doesn't seem to have taken, because he wants to go hunt the creatures alone again. But Steve says this kind of thing is why the Avengers were formed. (And reminds them that they've all gained from the association, even Thor.)Wolverine suggests they just drop Hulk on the enemy. Black Widow reminds him that Bruce Banner now works for SHIELD, with drugs to keep his Hulk side down.When they get to Slorenia they detect 2 active 'drones'. Thor goes to capture one, with Captain Marvel and Iron Man, while the rest fly the quinjet to the launch site within the country.IM deploys something to hide their activity from prying eyes. CM and Thor double-team the creature they have chosen, knocking it out. And IM attaches lines to it, to haul it away.When Cap's group get to the launch base they find it in a mess. BW and Logan grab a techie who tells them that the Ice Harriers (as it seems they are called) still at the base went mad, smashed up the place, and started burrowing into the ground. Remote detonators have killed 1 of them and the airborne 1 that Thor's team haven't got. But there are 2 underground that aren't affected.One of those creatures now bursts out of the ground. Only to be taken out by a bunch of delayed-explosion arrows from Hawkeye.Wolverine notes that the last Ice Harrier is spawning in its hole. BW calls for something inflammable to burn them with. (But we don't actually see the result in detail.)However the problem isn't over. The next model of Ice Harriers have been delivered to SHIELD in New Jersey. These are endless war machines, which create their own fuel and armaments. They don't have the limiters which were supposed to keep the MK1's under control. And the remote detonation doesn't seem to work. And SHIELD won't listen to Natasha.Cap decides they must go tackle the other Harriers themselves. CM questions the wisdom of invading a SHIELD base. BW wonders why the Harriers here went berserk. Thor gets fed up with all the talk, and flies off to deal with the problem alone. CM says the quinjet can't fly that fast, but she takes them it on a punishing sub-orbital arc to catch up.Thor has gone ahead because he realises that the Ice Harriers went mad because they sensed him nearby, the killer of their parent. So now, as he approaches the New Jersey site, the new lot break their bonds too. (Not exactly the cleverest decision by the Thunder God.) And this lot seem to be able to cause him some damage.As Thor is downed, the rest of the Avengers arrive. CM goes high to get a tactical overview, while IM goes in shooting and sowing anti-missile bomblets. Until a combination of lucky shots cripple his armour. BW uses the quinjet as a weapon, smashing into the creatures and frying them in its exhaust. Then she drops Cap, Hawkeye and Wolverine off.CM swoops down to take out some of the Ice Harriers, and rescue the falling IM. She holds him up in the air so he can shoot at the enemy. Meanwhile Wolverine's adamantiun claws are slashing some of the ones on the ground to pieces. Armed SHIELD troops arrive as Cap and Hawkeye find the staggered Thor. They see the Avengers as the enemy, so Hawkeye holds them off.There seems to be just one Ice Harrier left, and it goes after Clint. But Cap throws his shield up in the air, and Thor hurls Mjolnir to hit it and propel it through the Harrier's head.The quinjet limps home, Thor carrying Tony's disabled armour. Following on from the idea that the Ice Harriers are driven mad by the presence of Thor, Wolverine wonders if the Nazi AI parts are also triggered by Cap. So if those 2 stay away, the Harriers will remain obedient.Stark points out that primitive AIs like that would probably react to Logan, as another Super-Soldier. And (not quite so logically) that they'd target any super-powered being. (He jokingly excludes Hawkeye who has no super-powers. But then that also ought to apply to Stark himself.) Natasha thinks that may be exactly why SHIELD wanted the Harriers, as a counter to the super-population.Talking of SHIELD, just then some of their flying craft appear and (literally) drop Bruce Banner off. He says SHIELD has been monitoring him for Hulk cells and they figure he's about due to transform. So they've brought him here as a sort of live bomb. He recites a speech they gave him, that the Avengers should promise to stand down before he Hulks-out. And that SHIELD will use the Ice Harriers as a defence system for when the Avengers mess up.Cap and IM explain how the creatures can't be controlled. And that the Avengers intend to shut down the manufacturing site on Skrekklandet. Banner then reveals that he's plastered his chest with stress-reducing patches, so the Hulk won't appear for a couple of hours. He suggest sthe Avengers take him with them.Everybody gets ready (renewing weaponry and clothing, and in IM's case new armour) and then they're off in a new quinjet. Against some other advice, Cap and Thor are going in 1st to talk the human inhabitants into leaving the Hereward facility before the Avengers destroy it. And also to see exactly what the situation is. But the base opens fire on the quinjet. Captain Marvel and Iron Man deal with the weapons, while Thor ferries Cap to the ground.Inside the base (on the edge of the original crater) Thor and Cap find 2 people who claim to be descendants of 2 RAF guys who were in the plane with Cap in 1944. Hereward is a family business. However it turns out these 2 beings are really descendants of Nidhogg, and loads more come out of the walls.Just then Hulk drops in and mops the floor with them. But even more Nidhoggs take their place. CM and IM are also on the ground fighting more of them. IM's armour has been damaged by a blast again, and once again he can only shoot, not move. Then BW, Hawkeye and Wolverine join in.Inside the building Thor realises that they need to get to the source of the Nidhoggs, which will be underground. He starts to smash his way through the floor, while Hulk leaps into the original crater. On the way down Cap and Thor meet Wolverine. He had gotten IM to use thermal imaging to find warm bodies. He had then tracked down the 2 semi-human Nidhogg bosses, who were trying to escape. He killed them.Outside BW has told IM to leave the fighting to the others and use his brain to find a solution to the problem. Tony reasons that the original Nazi AIs would communicate by radio, and that any sane creator would build in an off-switch. So he finds the radio command that turns all the little Nidhoggs off.Hulk finds the big (original?) Nidhogg that is giving birth to all the new ones. When CM arrives down in the crater later she finds Banner, who says Hulk killed it. (But it had wanted to die. to end its existence as a living weapon. Irony, what!)Thor stays on the island to call the lightning down again, to bury everything. The other Avengers return to New York by quinjet. On the way Cap tells Clint he's glad its finally over. Hawkeye retorts that war is never over. They've destroyed some weapons, but SHIELD and others will just build other kinds.


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It's 3 months after Avengers Disassembled where insane Scarlet Witch caused the deaths of Ant-Man, Hawkeye and Vision, the humiliation of Tony Stark, She-Hulk to go berserk, the destruction of Avengers Mansion and severe injury to Captain Britain and Wasp. Now some Avengers are gathering in the Mansion ruins.We open with Henry Pym and Janet van Dyne in civvies approaching the building past broken statues of fallen heroes. Apparently Tony Stark is going to leave it like this as a memorial to those who died in Disassembled.Butler Edwin Jarvis is there, wiping dust and debris off a table in absent-minded habit. The other surviving members are there. Most are also in dark ordinary clothing - Kelsey Leigh, Jennifer Walters and Sam Wilson. But Captain America is in uniform and Iron Man is armoured but with his helmet off. Carol Danvers has attended with her Homeland Security outfit under her jacket, and her Warbird eye-mask. Ex-Avenger guest Wonder Man is in uniform and Beast is just Beast.Henry McCoy is reminiscing about how Clint Barton would automatically disagree with anything Cap said. Jan apologises to Carol for not returning her calls - she's been away recovering from her injuries. She also asks Jennifer Walters why she's not here as She-Hulk, and Jen says it because of how she ripped Vision apart as Shulk. Hank Pym assures her that the synthezoid was wrecked before she laid hands on him, and everyone knows that Scarlet Witch was controlling her.Tony reminds them that (as of IM#89) the world now believes that someone else has taken over the Iron Man role. He can't ask them to lie for him but he hopes they won't deliberately contradict the idea. However he's actually called them together for a different announcement. The damage to his reputation during Disassembled has had a drastic effect on his financial situation. He and the Maria Stark Foundation no longer have the cash to repair the Mansion, or to continue funding the team. He's cleared out all dangerous tech and sensitive documents, and the City will declare the Mansion a public landmark.Carol declares that she hates Wanda Maximoff for what she did and will never forgive her. She says that all the people in the room have suffered in their lives including herself, but she didn't go on a rampage with her powers. Jan says that Wanda would have forgiven *her* if she had. Carol protests that she wouldn't ...... but just then Wanda's brother Pietro zooms in to contradict her. He claims to have been communing with himself in an isolated cabin in Greenland and has only just learned what happened. Simon Williams objects that he was with them (#502) but Quicksilver denies it - it must have been 1 of Wanda's illusions. He tells them that their father Magneto has taken her to another country where Charles Xavier is trying to heal her. But even if he succeeds Pietro believes the guilt will scar her forever. He apologizes for her, but then he breaks down and rushes away.Warbird wanted him to tell them where Scarlet Witch is, but Wasp doesn't think it would do them any good. Falcon asks about Thor. No-one's seen him and Jarvis wonders if Ms Maximoff could have affected Asgard. (We know Ragnarok was nothing to do with her.) Sam points out she brought the Kree army here, but Hank Pym suggests they were as imaginary as Quicksilver was. Hank McCoy thinks Wanda's actions were somewhat arbitrary and wonders how much control she had. How long had she been building up her effects? (Eg the Disassembled story in the CA&Falcon series.) Did she have a plan, and how far would she have gone if Dr Strange hadn't stopped her?Carol asks if this means the Avengers are over. (She's already out and in Homeland Security.) Jennifer says she's quitting because of what she did as She-Hulk, and she walks out. Henry Pym says he's accepted a Fellowship at Oxford in a month's time, and he and Janet have got over the resurgence of their partnership problems before Disassembled. Jan says Hank supported her through her recovery, and they're seeing how it goes. Sam Wilson says he's got some personal stuff to deal with and he might give up being Falcon altogether. Kelsey Leigh thanks them for taking her in when she became the new Captain Britain, but now she's heading back to England - and she too leaves.Warbird asks hopefully if anyone thinks the Avengers did *anything* right. Cue a sequence of double-page spreads depicting iconic moments in Avengers history. Pym asks Tony what he thinks their best moment was, and the answer is the founding of the team (Av#1 of course). That's why he started paying for them. He hands over to Jan who votes for finding Cap in suspended animation (#4). Hank Pym volunteers the Kree-Skrull War (#89-97) even though he himself only played minor roles in a few issues. Simon Williams apologises if its in bad taste now but he votes for the marriage of Scarlet Witch and Vision (Giant-Size Av#4) (even though he himself was 'dead' when he appeared in the run-up to it). Beast *was* with all the others for the Korvac Saga (#167-177 with a gap for #169.) Carol wasn't around for the end of Thanos' 1st life (Av Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One An#2) but her inspiration Captain Marvel was. Jarvis rather masochistically chooses the time when the Masters Of Evil invaded the Mansion and tortured him (Avengers Under Siege Av#270-277). Falcon also picks an event he wasn't involved in when Giant-Man defeated his creation Ultron (at last we've reached the 1998 series with Ultron Unlimited in #0 and #19-22).Those still here are having a quick meal off the table Jarvis cleaned earlier. Steve Rogers comments that he's been part of the Avengers (with a few small gaps) since they woke him in #4, and he never thought that it could end (I think he may have forgotten a few *very* low points). He raises a glass in memory of Clint Barton and Scott Lang. Others add their own toasts to other dead Avengers - Vision, Mar-Vell, Jack Of Hearts, Swordsman, Mockingbird, Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara), Dr Druid, Whizzer, Two-Gun Kid, Gilgamesh, Marrina and Thunderstrike. Carol Danvers toasts everyone here, and even adds Wanda.Then Iron Man puts on his helmet and Warbird shucks off her jacket. And they all go out front to be greeted by a candlelight vigil of assembled fans. And they are humbled by the support. (But the team's still finished ... for now.)


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Lost in the stars
Monica Rambeau steers the charter boat she runs with her father Frank who comes up from inside to tell her that the passengers are happy. She asks him if he misses being a firefighter. He has mixed feelings, but opines that her question was more about *her* missing being an Avenger as Captain Marvel. Cue a brief resumé of her career as a superhero.She accidentally gained the power to convert her body into electromagnetic energy (Amazing Spider-Man Annual #16). She immediately joined the Avengers as a trainee (#227), but by #279 she was leading the team. However in #293-294 she expended so much energy in a fight that she had to quit the team and stop super-heroing for a while. She returned but eventually (Av Unplugged #5) handed over the Captain Marvel title to Genis-Vell, son of the original, and took the new name Photon. As Photon she was in the mighty assembly in #1-3 of the 1998 Avengers series and dragged into conflict with the Wrecking Crew in Arkon's dimension in #16-18.She turned down an offer to rejoin the team because she was needed in the charter business because of Frank Rambeau's heart condition. Now her dad tells her his doctor says he's fine so she shouldn't worry.Way (and I mean a *long* way) out in space Quasar is sitting on 1 of the thousands of listening stations he's got scattered across the universe (or whatever small part of the probably infinite universe he means by that) in his role as Protector Of The Universe. It's a lonely job:- His 'god-daughter' Epoch left to study the Crab Nebula. His last team Star Masters (with Beta Ray Bill and Silver Surfer) disbanded. And he hasn't been back to Earth since that assembly in Av#1-4.He gets a signal from listening post #1287 and his quantum bands teleport him to the edge of the Galaxy and a devastated and lifeless planet that was part of the Rigellian Empire as Rimworld R-76. But then he detects 1 lifesign beneath some rubble. But we leave him there and switch to ...... the vacation-world Deneb-7 where we find Tigra being propositioned by an alien. She brushes him off but he won't take no for an answer so she dissuades him more forcefully. Starfox (Eros of Titan) notices and leaves the company of 2 female aliens to join her. (Eros promised to take Tigra here at the end of Av#4 but 1st he stopped off on Titan for Warlock (1998) #3) Greer Grant says she's finally tired of partying so Starfox suggests they leave the planet seeking adventure.Back on Earth a small glowing ball from space passes through the walls of Avengers Mansion and surprises their butler Edwin Jarvis with a quantum video call from Quasar, who explains he's on the other side of the Galaxy but would like some Avengers help. Jarvis explains that the team is away on a mission so Wendell Vaughn asks permission to contact some Reservists.Thor is having a reflective moment on a mountaintop in Colorado. In the latest issues of his series (up to #29) Odin is again in the Odin-Sleep and Sif is ruling in his stead, and meanwhile Hogun of the Warriors Three has been fatally injured. But now his Avengers communicard beeps. The Thunder God quit the team after getting angry with the Press (Av#25) and he's still not minded to give an apology. But since it's Quasar and he owes his Rigellian friends after failing to save their homeworld (not the planet Quasar's on) from Thanos and Mangog (in his 2000 Annual) he's glad to help.In New Orleans Photon's beeper also goes off, but Maria Rambeau tries to stifle it so her daughter won't hear it. She's unsuccessful and Monica answers Quasar's call and suits up. Maria says she's only just got her husband to give up firefighting and she doesn't want her daughter returning to another dangerous profession. But Monica promises to be careful and zooms into the sky to the designated rendezvous point ...... where she finds a cloud-hidden spaceship containing Thor and its owner Moondragon. Photon resumes human form as Heather Douglas prepares to warp to Quasar's cosmic location. She detects a frostiness between Thor and the Titanian priestess which she recalls dates back to before her time on the team. (#219-220 where Moondragon was mentally controlling an alien population 'for their own good' and mentally turned Thor against his fellow Avengers when they found out.)When they get to Rimworld R-76 they find another Titanian spacecraft already there, and Eros and Tigra already with Quasar in a dome that is the only structure on the planet not in ruins. The comrades greet each other, and Moonie and Tigra exchange catty remarks. (They fell out in Av #211 when Moondragon mentally 'persuaded' Tigra and many other heroes to try out for Avengers membership. This despite the fact that Tigra actually got the job.)Quasar leads them to the survivor he found and it's Earth hero Jack Of Hearts. His armour is cracked releasing the forces within so Wendell has him in a quantum containment tube. Moondragon reads his mind to find out what happened.She learns Jack was wandering through space when he came across this world under attack. They also attacked him and he fought back, but when he touched 1 of the attackers he got a massive data download which blew his mind. Then a blast breached his armour releasing an explosive force that probably destroyed the enemy. But Heather detects that the downloaded data named the invaders as servants of the Infinites.Thor recalls that Wasp's report on the future Destiny War (to which she time-travelled in the Avengers Forever limited series) mentioned the Infinites as some foe the Avengers faced between that present and that future. (If he'd remembered that Wasp reported Immortus as saying the team defeated this enemy, then maybe they'd be more hopeful during this encounter. But then, alternate futures and all that.) Moondragon says the attackers weren't Infinites, merely their Servitors. The Infinites are *much* bigger.And then a thing she calls a Servitor bursts up through the floor of the dome. Photon springs to the attack with a multi-gigawatt electric blast. But Quasar gets there 1st and contains the foe in a Q-Sphere. Wendell asks Eros to use his mood-control power to sedate the Servitor, but it breaks out of the unbreakable Q-Sphere still warlike. Now it's Thor's turn up to bat. Monica tell Tigra and groggy Quasar to help Moondragon and Starfox get Jack Of Hearts into Moonie's ship before the Servitor cracks his containment tube. Meanwhile Photon goes to help Thor who throws his hammer Mjolnir at the enemy. The hammer splits the being in 2. But then the halves co-opt matter from the floor and rise up as 2 complete Servitors.And outside as the others reach the starship more Servitors erupt from the ground around them.


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Last issue Quasar called on fellow reserve Avengers Moondragon, Photon, Starfox, Thor and Tigra to help investigate a razed Rigellian planet whose only survivor was a comatose fellow Earth hero Jack Of Hearts. Moondragon read his mind and learned that the place had been wrecked by the Servitors of the Infinites. And they were attacked by android Servitors rising out of the ground.Moondragon, Starfox and Tigra are trying to get unconscious Quasar and JOH into Moonie's starship but they're surrounded by Servitors. Jack is in a containment tube created by Quasar to stop his dangerous energy exploding out of his breached armour. Starfox (Eros of Titan) lays into them. Tigra hands Quasar over to Titanian priestess Moondragon and tells her to use her psychic powers to wake him up, and joins in the 'fun'. They seem to be doing OK until they notice that every android they break apart regenerates into 2 or more.Inside a dome Photon and Thor already discovered the splitting problem last issue. But only now do they find that more Servitors can rise from the ground as well. Photon in her energy form dives into the ground to see if she can find where they're coming from.Moondragon is irritated at being told what to do by inferior Tigra, and also by her inability to get through Quasar's psi-blocks despite the inferiority of his mind. (To Heather Douglas *everyone* else is inferior to her.) But eventually she rouses him and he generates a quantum wall to keep the Servitors at bay. Followed by 1 of his favourites - ram's head battering rams. And after that a load of quantum anvils to drop on their heads - which does seem to work.But inside the dome Thor is getting swamped by a plethora of Servitors. This gets him really frustrated so he unleashes a mighty lightning(?) blast. And he emerges from the wrecked dome to say that the foe has been vanquished and the Rigellians avenged.But then Photon erupts from the ground to tell them that there are millions of Servitors underground and they're all multiplying. They seem to be converting the mass of the planet. And they're following her here. The Avengers ex-leader orders them to retreat to Moondragon's ship with JOH while she  holds the Servitors off. Heather again doesn't like being told what to do, especially when it was what she was trying to do in the 1st place. But she bites her tongue and obeys with Starfox, Tigra and Jack's tube.But Quasar (with a quantum shield) and Thor stay to fight - they won before and retreat isn't an option. Monica Rambeau has a hard time trying to convince them that their previous victories were illusory. But then a Servitor unleashes a new kind of force blast which downs all 3 of them. Photon is 1st to recover and dives inside that android. She emerges to report that their power source is extra-dimensional, and warns her allies to shield their eyes as she expends a lot of energy to wipe out many of the foes.Thor reluctantly allows Quasar to generate a quantum bubble to protect them from further blasts while it carries them up to Moondragon's Titanian ship. The Thunder God claims that if he'd been allowed to fight on he would have prevailed as he always does. Angry Photon says further fighting would be useless. There are no lives to save and the enemy is unstoppable. Thor says that his Rigellian friends still need avenging. (Not that he necessarily knew anyone on *this* planet personally.)Once on Moony's ship Starfox directs Monica Rambeau to a med-unit that will heal her fairly serious wounds. Tigra accompanies her. Eros also points Quasar in the direction of an analysis chamber where Heather is studying Jack Of Hearts. She tells Wendell Vaughn to remove his quantum tube so that she can get at her patient. Then she cuts off his armour which worries Wendell but she reminds him that she studied Jack before (Quasar #27) and her own dampening field can contain his energy (Q#29) without getting in the way.Meanwhile Photon gets fixed up in a healing bath while Tigra feeds her equally-damaged costume into a device which makes that good as new too. Monica has to explain that she's no longer Captain Marvel because Mar-Vell's son Genis-Vell claimed dibs on the name. And she has to explain to Greer Grant that Photon is an appropriate new name because a photon is a wave-packet of electromagnetic energy. Tigra thinks this Avengers ex-leader should take charge of *this* team.Thor is bemoaning the fact that he's failed his Rigellian allies twice recently by turning up too late to protect them. 1st Thanos (and Mangog) killed everyone on the Rigellian homeworld (Thor Annual 2000) and now this slaughter. Eros points out that if not for Quasar's listening posts they wouldn't have even known it had happened. Thor still wants revenge, and Photon promises him that as she enters with Tigra. But 1st they need more info ...... which is what Moondragon promises when *she* enters with Quasar. She's decoded more of the data in Jack's mind that he got from the Servitors, and she now knows what's going on. The mindless drone Servitors are burrowing into the planet, converting its mass into more of themselves. When they breach the molten core it will explode and consume them, but the end-result will be a molten planet ready for their masters the Infinites to reshape. And we see Moondragon's spaceship fleeing from exactly that. But Heather hasn't been able to discover *what* the Infinites intend to do with the planet now.Suddenly she senses JOH awakening and they all rush to his side to find him muttering over and over "They're coming". Outside the ship a hole opens in space and a giant hand pokes through, followed by the rest of the being - a variation on the Servitors as big as the planet.