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Chapter 5: The daughter of Odin
This is the last issue of this War Of The Realms tie-in.Last issue Ares kidnapped baby Laussa Odinsdottir from our heroes aka the Babysitters Club. Now he's driving his Hellwagon through New Washoe City in Nevada being directed by Sindr, daughter of Surtur, via a mystical satnav. She's promised to reunite him with his deceased son Alexander in return for delivering the baby to her. Although at the moment she seems vague on the details.Just then flying Wonder Man catches up with them and rips the door off the wagon to get Laussa back. Ares exits the wagon violently to leap after him, leaving his vehicle to crash. He brings WM down but pacifist Simon Williams refuses to fight him for the child. Instead he reveals that he doesn't actually *have* the baby wrapped in the blanket he's carrying.Angry Ares prepares to kill him anyway, but Spider-Man (Miles Morales) webs his axe and throws it away. Spidey has the baby, and taunts the War God by explaining how he was cloaked on WM's back as he agilely dodges his lunges and twists the helmet round on Ares' head. But Ares takes the helmet off and hits Miles on *his* head with it.But all this was only a delaying tactic until the rest of the team arrive in the Wonder Wagon (WM's RV), and ram the God. That's now 2 vehicles totalled, but Fire Demons erupt from the back of the Hellwagon. Asgardian Balder prepares to fight the inhabitants of Muspelheim, but Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) tells him to take care of fellow god Ares while she and Death Locket and the Asgardian dog Thori handle the demons. This is the best fun Thori's had all trip.Meanwhile the remaining team-member Sebastian Druid has Laussa, but Ares has *him*. Druid quickly pushes the baby through his magic coat. He hopes (correctly as we see) that she winds up on the beanbag in his apartment in Flagstaff. Now Ares throws *him* away, but Spidey's web saves him. Miles asks Sebastian why he didn't hide Laussa this way before, but Druid tells him it's risky teleporting a living being that way.Ares has his axe back. Simon asks his fellow ex-Avenger why he's doing this. Ares says he needs to die in battle to get to the Elysian Fields to be reunited with his son. Druid offers confirmation because Alex was in the Secret Warriors with him and he saw him die (SW#22). Balder offers to help Ares along and they have a sword vs axe fight until the Asgardian uses his God Of Light power to end the battle.Ares is bowed but not beaten. He says the Queen Of Cinders guided him here to fulfil her promise. But then Kushala the Demon Rider (see last issue) appears and says *she* did that. Sindr has been dealing with her own problems on the other side of the Pacific (WOTR: New Agents Of Atlas). Gaea and Skuld the Norn (as seen in #1) helped Kushala to hack the satnav and bring the battle here, because Laussa asked her to.Kate realises that the little Asgardian goddess has been orchestrating things all along. She guided them to the Skrulls (#2), the Wild West ghosts (#3) and even the convention of evil henchmen (#4). Balder works out that she's been recruiting an army to fight in the War. And true enough those guys all turn up. Demon Rider explains that Laussa's unique heritage means she can influence the hearts of mortals and immortals alike.Laussa toddles over to Ares and starts to influence *him*. Sebastian reminds him that his son would want him to fight on the side of the angels (except in this War the 'Angels' are on the other side). Even Thori welcomes him with a back-handed compliment. And Ares is in.Now for the reason they came *here*. Everybody goes the short distance to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe where Death Locket ditched a SHIELD helicarrier. She gets it airborne and they fly it to Avengers Mountain (the giant body of a dead Celestial in the Arctic) which is the Avengers' HQ. The Skrulls and the ghosts find places to gather, and the henchmen are fixing the Wonder Wagon and making it even better. Our guys join a gathering of heroes.While Jane Foster, the All-Mother of Asgard, rallies the troops (as seen at the end of WOTR#4) Thor greets Balder, Laussa and Thori. Balder and Thori say they will be going into battle with Thor. Balder leaves it to Hawkeye to decide what the rest of the team will do. He may have recruited them all but as he told her in #3 she's the natural leader. But Kate says Laussa has proved that *she* really runs the gang. She asks the baby if they should join the fight, and Laussa's eyes light up which they take as a yes.


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Chapter 2: They who became powerful
Last issue ended with Ares catching up with our fleeing gang. This issue starts with Sindr recruiting him in New York. He's brought the Champions Of Europe to NY but her forces have defeated (killed?) them all. Ares still lives but *wants* to die so he can rejoin his dead son Alexander/Phobos in the Elysian fields. (Ares died in Siege but was brought back to life in the 2015 Contest Of Champions limited series.) But to get there he has to die in battle. Sindr offers him such a death if he'll 1st bring her baby Laussa.Now we rejoin our heroes who were gathered together to protect Laussa, baby daughter of Freyja and Odin (but who's also part fire-demon), from the forces of Malekith, or more specifically his ally/subordinate Sindr, Queen of Muspelheim. Last issue they picked her up and went on the run. Ares caught up with them, but they must have escaped him because they're still on the road in Wonder Man's RV.Kate Bishop (Hawkeye) is still driving because she's the only 1 who can. (Not even Simon Williams can drive his own van?!) Spider-Man (Miles Morales) is in the cab with her in civvies but is keeping his mask on to protect his identity. Kate talks him out of it because he's going to have to leave the van sometime. No-one wants to use the bathroom onboard!Asgardian Balder asks WM's advice on where on Earth to head for to hide from Ares. Sebastian Druid has been watching War Of The Realms news on his phone and tells them that Frost Giants have taken over North America so there's probably no safe place they can drive to. Death Locket (Becca Ryder) suggests they could fly or dive. There's a ditched SHIELD helicarrier, and she knows where it is because *she* ditched it.Everyone agrees that's a plan. But for the moment driver Kate is beat and wants to stop for the night, even though it's only the middle of the afternoon. She turns in to an RV Campground. Kate doesn't know how she found the place, but we see baby Laussa looking spooky. The place is full vans, but Balder advises they stay inside for safety. But then the Asgardian dog Thori says he smells something evil ...... and they all rush out to avoid the smell from Laussa's diaper. Balder says it's not a normal Asgardian smell (maybe it's the fire-demon element). Sebastian asks who's going to change her, but as the only registered nanny he's elected (despite reminding them he's only a learner). As he leaves to do the dirty job with Becca to help him, the others are accosted by an old couple Sol and Flo as welcoming committee. Quick-thinking Kate comes up with the cover that they are members of the 1st Church Of Freyja on a mission to give aid to victims of the War Of The Realms. Strangely the couple have never heard of the War. They invite the group to a sing-along tonight, and when Becca brings the steaming diaper out the team decide to accept.Meanwhile Ares is still on their trail in his battlewagon. He's at a truck stop which for some reason he sets fire to before he leaves. But that's the last we'll see of him this issue.The team leave Thori to guard Laussa and go to the campfire. Kate figures the baby can get some sleep without everyone shouting around her. Sebastian learns that this camper community has been living here for years, and they have no contact with the outside world. Dozing Thori awakes to see Laussa sitting up and waving her hands about ...... and coincidentally(?) an ember leaps out of the fire and stings Sol. The shock makes him reveal himself as a Skrull. Their cover blown the other campers turn into the same green-skinned aliens, but suiting their shape-shifting nature they have different body-forms like tentacles and sword-arms.A fight ensues, but Balder sends Death Locket to protect Laussa. Druid reaches into his magic coat and pulls out Pinaka, the Bow Of Shiva, which he tosses to Hawkeye. She doesn't need arrows as it fires energy versions. Meanwhile Sol and Flo have turned into cheetahs to race Becca to the RV. She gets there 1st and opens the door to let Thori out to deal with the 'cats'.The aliens all transform into basic humanoid Skrulls. It turns out they are deserters from the Skrull Secret Invasion who have been hiding here and have grown to love life as humans. And they're willing to kill to preserve their secret. But Death Locket feels the urge to bring Laussa out to meet them, and the baby (possibly literally) charms the aliens into peaceful friendliness.


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Chapter 4: Near the mulberries
Our crew and the Western ghosts they met last issue have gathered together in the church in the abandoned Western theme town. Baby Laussa is happy sitting on the altar even though she's part demon (but then it's not a real church or altar). The Asgardian dog Thori explains that her parents *are* Odin and Freyja but she was conceived in the Realm Between Realms (see Angela: Asgard's Assassin #4) where Surtur had been banished, and so she is as much *his* child. Most of Surtur's power was removed from Laussa in that series, but not all.Thori says he overheard Odin and Freyja discussing this. Balder didn't know about it (well he's been dead for a while), and Freyja neglected to tell him when she gave him the job of protecting Laussa from Surtur's daughter Sindr during War Of The Realms. Thori figures Sindr is after Laussa because she's a rival to the throne of Muspelheim.All the ghosts from last issue are still around. Wonder Man wonders if they're here to kill Laussa. But then another 1 appears at the door saying they're here to serve her. Death Locket fears this flaming-skulled apparition is an agent of Sindr but Sebastian Druid says he knows her, she's called Kushala. She douses her flame to reveal a Native American woman, but she says she can't enter holy ground. (So maybe this *is* a real church after all.)They all join her outside. Sebastian says Kushala's possessed by the Spirit Of Vengeance (like most Ghost Riders), she rides a flaming horse and is known as the Demon Rider. She also became a Sorcerer Supreme at the end of the 19th Century and joined Dr Strange and others in the  Dr Strange & Sorcerers Supreme series. She remained in this time and has summoned these ghosts to fight against those who invade Earth in WOTR. Now they leave to join the battle, and Demon Rider gives our lot a warning that their pursuer Ares is close behind.Our gang pile into Wonder Man's RV and head off to find the old SHIELD helicarrier Death Locket knows about. (Suddenly we find that WM *can* drive it, despite Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) being lumbered with the task in all previous issues.) They're almost out of provisions and cash to buy them with. Then they reach Carson City and Simon Williams suggests they head for a casino.But when they enter a hotel/casino they find it full of super-villains, or to be more precise members of villainous organisations. A sign tells them this is HenchFest, the convention for henchmen. We see people in Hydra, AIM, Secret Empire and Hand uniforms, plus lesser known groups like Black Spectre, and later some Hellfire Knights and a member of Agence Byzantine. When they line up to register with Virgo of the original Zodiac and 1 of the users of the id Cat-Man they learn that the henchfolks thought they'd have some fun while the 'heavy-hitters' were involved in WOTR.So now that they're dealing with villains they figure a small robbery would be OK. Cyborg Death Locket will plug into the casino's computer system and trigger payouts at specific slot machines, where the others will be waiting.The guy chasing the BabySitters Club is Ares in his HellWagon with some unspecified monsters in the back. He's being directed in the chase by the voice of Sindr from a magic SatNav. In the hotel everyone's gone to execute the heist plan, leaving Thori to guard Laussa. The dog opens the door to housekeeping, but Ares is there as well. Thori takes a bite out of the War God but Ares guts him with his axe.The gang are in position. Simon Williams is with Kate Bishop, and the movie star is secretly hoping to be recognised. But it's Hawkeye who gets rumbled. Spider-Man (Miles Morales) swings in to knock some baddies down.  Druid throws Kate the magic Pinaka Bow from his extradimensional pocket. Battle commences with pacifist Wonder Man keeping out of it until he stands up calling for a truce. All the henches shoot at *him*, but all the bullets bounce off his invulnerable body. So they give up.Meanwhile Ares leaves the casino with Laussa, who seems quite happy about it. The housekeeper runs into the lobby screaming about what happened. Our gang rush to their room and find the Asgardian Thori recovering. Druid produces some fancy glasses which enable him to declare the dog will live. But they realise Laussa is missing.


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Chapter 1: With the will to protect
We begin in media res with our heroes' RV being pursued by a fiery battlewagon.Spider-Man (Miles Morales) looks out the back and reports they're being firebombed. He asks Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) to come back and fire explosive arrows in reply. But Kate is driving and reminds him that no-one else on the bus knows how to drive! This presumably includes Wonder Man, even though it's *his* van. Anyway he's too busy trying to secure a baby seat, with kibbitzing by Death Locket, for a baby goddess. They also have a self-styled god dog Thori, the self-styled Entrail-Gargler. And an actual god Balder, recently rescued from Asgardian Hel. Last in the mix is Sebastian Druid.Now we go back to before the beginning. 4 Weeks earlier Freyja and and the other Asgardians are slumming it in the Bronx. Balder has just learned that he has a baby sister Laussa Odinsdottir. Thor says his birth-mother Gaea is looking after her in his Oklahoman castle. Balder swears to protect her with his life, and Freyja will hold him to that promise.And this is where the story really starts (with apologies to the Goon Show Dishonoured). A few days ago in Times Square Balder and Freyja with Thor's dog Thori face Sindr, Queen Of Cinders, and some Rock Trolls. The War Of The Realms has come to Midgard. Sindr has figured out where Laussa is and threatens her life. While Freyja attacks Sindr she sends Balder and Thori to find help and go save her daughter.In another part of the Square Spider-Miles saves Marvel cosplayers from Trolls who think they're the real deal. Balder and Thori help him. (Balder mistakes him for the other guy.)Agent Of Wakanda Roz Solomon agrees to drive the 3 to Broxton where Thor left his castle. On the way Spider-Miles sets Balder straight about not being the Peter Parker Spider-Man, and tells him about all the other Spider-people he's met, such as Spider-Gwen and Spider-Ham. When they get there the place is besieged by firefly riders and the battlewagon. Roz goes to help defend the place while our trio go in search of the baby. They find Gaea and she hands Laussa over to Balder.Skuld, 1 of the 3 Norns/Fates, is there. Normally she is silent and lets her 2 sisters interpret her visions to others. But she's alone now so has to speak for herself. She directs them west and predicts they will find more allies:- The brave archer who never misses (Balder thinks Hawkeye/Clint Barton). He who would be Sorcerer Supreme (Balder thinks Dr Strange). The half-machine warrior (Spidey posits Deathlok). The one of wonders (Balder's right about Wonder Man). But Skuld warns him that a lot has changed while he was in Hel.In Amarillo PI Kate Bishop has tracked down mercenary Slaughterman. Dodging blasts from his 2 ray guns she pins him to a wall with 2 arrows through his loose trousers, and threatens him with another arrow more strategically placed. But she's not there to arrest him but to serve him with divorce papers. Our trio greet her and Balder begins to realise what Skuld meant.In Albuquerque teenage Becca Ryker is at a large party talking to her father and Dum-Dum Dugan. In the background we appear to see others such as Tony Stark and Black Widow. Natasha Romanoff rescues Becca and sends her to dance with the younger set. But then Balder walks in and all the guests apart from Becca appear to have arms that morph into guns which they aim at him. He tells them he's looking for Deathlok the cyborg to join him on a mission. Becca presses a button on her wrist and all the guests power down - they are SHIELD LMDs. She introduces herself as Deathlok 2.0 (but actually Death Locket).It's in a store in Flagstaff that we catch up with Sebastian Druid. He's working as a nanny for a screaming brat of a boy. He's trying to find his wallet and accidentally pulls out a magic wand instead, and equally accidentally trashes the place. Next we see him in jail. And next we see Balder and Thori breaking him out.The final stop is Los Angeles where Simon Williams is in his RV describing to his agent Joel the latest pitch he sent him to consider. It had Wonder Man fighting the Apparition (they couldn't get rights to the name Vision). Simon pointed out to Gary that Vision is his brother, which confused Gary because he thought that was Grim Reaper. But now he was excited about the idea of a 3 brothers super-team beating up baddies together. But WM blew the whole thing out of the water by saying that he didn't beat people up anymore because he's a pacifist. Joel admits the project wasn't a good fit. That's when Balder & co turn up.At last we've reached the opening scene where the goodies in Simon's RV are being chased by the hell-battlewagon along a conveniently deserted elevated freeway. Balder wants Wonder Man to fly out and attack the pursuers. This is the point where the Asgardian discovers WM is now a pacifist. Kate asks if he's allowed to beat up concrete. So indestructible Simon nips out and smashes a wide line through the highway between the 2 vehicles.Kate stops the van and suggests they can now take the fight the fight to the enemy. But then the enemy steps out of the wagon and it's the Greek War-God Ares.


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The God Without Fear: Part Two
Daredevil recalls an incident years ago
in which he captured a cannibalistic serial killer named Stanley Sean
Sugarwill; DD needed to pray that he wouldn't kill Stanley while
beating him to a pulp....
Malekith has Kurse beating Kingpin to
force him to tell how to defeat Daredevil. Fisk offers to kill DD
himself and soon Dark Elves are burning down churches in New York to
bring Daredevil, the God without Fear, on the run. Wilson Fisk
appears, strength boosted and wielding a giant hammer; the two smash
at each other with inhuman might, laying waste part of the city. Some
Frost Giants arrive and one goes to step on DD; Fisk swing his hammer
and destroys the monster. Then DD realizes: a Roxxon news copter is
filming this and Wilson Fisk looks like the hero fighting for the
city....
Malekith learns that Fisk is not going
to kill Daredevil and so his Dark Elves take disabled children
hostage to draw DD to him for his destruction....

“Agency”
Writer: Devin Grayson. Art: Paul
Davidson. Colors: Andres Mossa.
Synopsis: At Avengers Mountain among
the refugees, Doctor Strange is in a trance; turns out he's actually
removing various ugly creatures like temporal ghasts from Eternity. A
little girl gives him her stuffed rabbit as he is about to go to
sleep to face another enemy: it's Nightmare, who believes that Dr
Strange's worry is what will ensure his victory in the coming
invasion. Strange, however, smiles; the foe has helped him articulate
his concerns and to realize that his miscast spell teleporting the
heroes to the refuge was really a concern for the refugees' safety
rather than his own. He chains Nightmare and wakes up, ready for
action once more.
Captain Marvel, Iron Fist, and
Black Panther also appear in the story.
“My Drag Brunch With Loki”
Writer: Anthony Oliviera. Art: Nick
Robles. Colors: Cris Peters.
Synopsis: Centuries ago in Asgard:
child Loki turned Thor into a bear cub and wanted to know why Odin's
helmet had horns. Freyja tells him it is to show the world what a
hero looks like. Loki restores Thor to his rightful form and vows to
be a hero someday....
Now: While Hulkling stays home to watch
TV, Wiccan meets their pal Kate Bishop at a drag club for brunch.
Kate wants to talk about their problems with Loki and if they are
being too hard on him. When Wiccan is contacted by Hulkling that Kate
is still in California, he realizes he is sitting with a disguised
Loki. Wiccan divines that Loki wants to know if he can ever be
forgiven. Wiccan cuts though Loki's self-justification to tell him
that there will be a reckoning but that there are people who care
about him, including himself. [A few days later Wiccan and Hulkling
see Loki eaten by his father Laufey.] Wiccan leaves and a couple of
kids ask Loki if he is the devil with the horns on his helmet. He
replies, “Sometimes.”


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The God Without Fear: Part One
Years ago, Daredevil met Thor and tried
to reconcile Thor's divine status and his own Catholic faith. Days
ago, the forces of Malekith invaded Manhattan and a helicopter
carrying Mayor Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk was brought down by a Frost
Giant. Now refugees are praying for deliverance in a church besieged
by giants; Daredevil arrives with the powers of Heimdall to hear all
ten realms and he fights off the giants with Heimdall's sword—though
he doesn't know if that makes him a god. Among the rescued is an aide
to Wilson Fisk; DD asks him what happened to Fisk. Answer: he is a
prisoner of Malekith, under watch by Kurse. Malekith wants to know
how to break Daredevil; Fisk just laughs....
“The Warriors Three (or Four)”
Writer: Josh Trujillo. Art: Ricardo
Lopez Ortiz. Colors: Felipe Sobreiro.
Synopsis: As the War of the Realms
consumes New York City, the Warriors Three, specifically Hogun and
Fandral carrying an injured Volstagg to safety toward Dr. Strange's
Sanctum Sanctorum; they are led by Hildegarde who resists being
included in their number. They encounter a Frost Giant; Hildegarde
and Fandral attack, leaving Hogun to deposit the comatose Volstagg in
a dumpster for safety. As they engage the giant, Cloak and Dagger
appear and Cloak absorbs the monster into the Darkforce. The two
teams introduce themselves, with Fandral hitting on Dagger, and,
getting directions to Strange's home, they part—and discover that
Volstagg is no longer in the dumpster. They find the sleeping hero
has crawled to a hot dog stand and eaten his way through, vanquishing
a couple of Dark Elves in the process. They arrive at the Sanctum
Sanctorum where Hildegarde presents the group to Jane Foster as The
Warriors Four.
“Nice Shot, Frank”
Writer: Ram V. Art: Cafu. Colors: Brian
Reber.
Synopsis: A frantic mother arrives at
the Sanctum Sanctorum to be met by Jane Foster. Her kids Jae and
Chris arrive with a tale about how they helped Wolverine defeat the
bad guys: trapped in an alley by Dark Elves, they were rescued by
Logan who cut through the baddies and when a troll came up behind
Logan, Jae threw a rock, hitting it in the head and killing it. Logan
tells them that “as long as we're still fightin' for each other,
even when we're scared, we'll be okay.” The refugees are then
teleported to Avengers Mountain. Back in the alley, we find it was
Punisher's shot that killed the troll and they joke around as they
head off into battle.

“Waugh of the Realms”
Writer: Chip Zdarsky. Art: Joe Quinones
with an ink assist from Joe Rivera. Colors: Rico Renzi.
Synopsis: Private eye Howard the Duck
Duckson takes the job of locating a missing dog in a Manhattan
overrun by monsters. He takes Tara Tam, “Aunt" May Parker, and
Biggs the cyborg cat to the dog park Mitzie loves; the place is
crawling with Frost Giants who are using the place as a toilet. Tara
shapeshifts into a giant to distract them while May calls the
dog—which, having rolled in giant poop, comes. Later, Howard has to
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The God Without Fear Part Three
In Asgardia, Heimdall is teaching
Daredevil to fight when the latter detects Malekith. Heading to the
Black Forest in Germany, Daredevil confronts Malekith with the Sword
of the Guardian. DD draws down the broken shards of Bifrost to kill
Malekith's army of Dark Elves. Kurse attacks DD and he tells her her
forgotten name, Waziria, causing her to fall down in tears. Malekith
unleashes his magic on DD who is able to release the blind children
and summon the remaining bit of Bifrost to teleport himself and the
children away, returning to Manhattan to battle Frost Giants....
“A Rose for Victor”
Writer: Christopher Cantwell. Art: Cian
Tormey. Colors: Dan Brown.
Synopsis: Doctor Doom, the power he had
stolen from Galactus nearly drained, broods about the Dark Elves
invasion of Latveria. Meanwhile, a little girl is with agroup of
refugees fleeing Malekith's forces. Her father dies reaching Doom to
warn him of the enemy. Doom strides out and takes on the Dark Elves
singlehandedly, defeating them. The little girl gives him a rose and
he demands all of the humans kneel before him. He returns to his
castle, pressing the rose in his spell book.

“The Face of a Warrior”
Writer: Charlie Jane Anders. Art:
Simone D'Armini. Colors: Federico Blee.
Synopsis: Freyja and her party
(She-Hulk, Ghost Rider, Punisher, Blade) are traveling through
Svartalfheim to shut down the Black Bifrost. She-Hulk has reverted to
her Jen Walters form as she now has trouble remembering what she sees
while in her Hulk form; she is also self-conscious that she is
“dating” her son Thor. Freyja calls this the face of a warrior
and Jen resents her know-it-all attitude. A huge dragon strikes from
behind and swallows Blade and Punisher before slithering off. Jen
turns into She-Hulk and while they are pursuing the dragon, she has
the courage to tell Freyja about herself and Thor. As they converse
on the topic they are attacked by the dragon and Shulkie punches its
lights out, yelling “Women are talking!” Freyja, deciding that
Jen and Thor are a lot alike gives her blessing to the relationship.
Blade and Punisher crawl out of the dragon just as Dark Elves attack
and the battle begins....


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How strange my destiny Part 1
This issue is split into 3 chapters.Chapter 1: The priceAdam Warlock and his new pal Pip the Troll along with Thanos and his agent Gamora are on the Homeworld of Magus' Universal Church of Truth. Magus, a being who Adam will evolve into, has sent 25000 of the Church's fanatic Black Knights to attack them to keep them occupied for 3 hours until the In-Betweener arrives to take Warlock away.Magus deals out death with his eye-beams while Gamora and Warlock guard his flanks. Pip just tries to avoid getting killed. The pile of bodies mounts higher and higher, but eventually even Thanos runs out of blasting energy and resorts to his massive fists. So he calls for a strategic retreat up a staircase. But when they break out into thee open air they find thousands of the Black Knights still waiting for their chance to get at them. So Warlock creates another escape route by smashing down through the floor. Pip and Gamora follow him but Thanos stays behind. Adam then lifts up a wall and they slip underneath before he puts it back down (it only works in comics).Later they are wandering through caverns below the palace. Warlock doesn't know how he knew about their existence. But he passes the time by going over in his mind the events of the issues since his comics career restarted in Strange Tales (see last issue). He begins to think his subconscious already has access to the memories of the Magus he will become. And those memories have led him to the broken but still-living body of the Matriarch of the Church. We last saw her last issue falling through a trapdoor as punishment for plotting to get rid of Magus and take over the Church for herself. She now regrets that she didn't join forces with Warlock because they might have succeeded together. And she dies.While Adam asks the eternal question of why there is so much pain in the universe, Thanos 'ports in and tells him to accept that pain is the price of life.Chapter 2: Who is Thanos?This is a brief history of Thanos narrated by Captain Marvel. He was born with his brother Eros on Titan, moon of Saturn, sons of the civilisation's ruler Mentor. But evil Thanos conquered his peaceful homeworld with an army of aliens and then set his sights on Earth. He made a pact with Death as part of his quest for the Cosmic Cube. With that he became the Mad God, opposed by CM, Drax the Destroyer and the Avengers. But Mar-Vell ended his reign by shattering the Cube that was the source of Thanos' new power. (Most of this occurred in CM#25-33.)We now learn that the result was not to kill Thanos but to return him to his mortal form floating at the centre of the universe. And now here he is.Chapter 3: Enter the redemption principleThanos explains that he didn't have the luxury of attaining the concentration required to mentally transport all 4 of them to safety. So he held off the Black Knights while they escaped and then *did* have enough concentration to send *himself * here. And now he can compose himself and move them all to his space ark Sanctuary. Warlock senses that Sanctuary has the power to destroy planets. Thanos suggests he may actually be *recognising* a fact he has drawn from Magus' future knowledge.While Pip figures out how to get Sanctuary to provide him with a cigar the Titanian explains why he is helping Warlock. After he lost control of his home moon he schemed to regain his power. (And future events will reveal that he means more than just the rulership of Titan.) 1 tool he created to help him was a time machine. Another tool will be Warlock, or rather his Soul Gem. But if Magus succeeds in his plan to have the In-Betweener soon take Adam to his own realm to be turned into himself then that would wreck Thanos' own plan. And Magus himself might be a threat to the Mad Titan. So he intends to help Warlock avoid his fate and thereby get rid of Magus.Thanos has used his time machine in view mode to study Adam's complete life, which convinced him not to intervene directly. Instead he 'created' Gamora who he plucked from the future where her people the Zen Whoberis will be wiped out by Magus' Grand Inquisitors. He then fired her hatred for Magus on Sanctuary, enhanced her powers and trained her as an assassin.Her practical training involved killing the Inquisitors who would later be involved in the genocide, thus cutting off her personal timeline. This disconnection helped shield her from Magus' attention (which was last issue attributed to his inability to see anything which didn't fit his memories of when he was his past self Warlock). But Magus' godlike senses saw through the ruse last issue when Gamora tried to kill him.Thanos claims this leaves only 1 option open. Warlock must commit suicide.Magus is enraged that Gen'l Egeus lost his opponents. But Magus only knew about Warlock, Pip and Gamora. When he hears that Thanos was involved too he realises who must have arranged for Gamora's presence. But this change to his past (ie to Warlock's present) hasn't been enough to eliminate him. The In-Betweener is still on his way to capture Adam and corrupt him.Magus locates the In-Betweener's current position and extrapolates his course, and at the end of it finds the Sanctuary ark. He strangely discovers that all the ship's defences are down allowing him to scan the ark and see the time machine. This makes Magus realise that Thanos is even more dangerous than he realised. So he opens a portal and personally leads his Death Squad to the spaceship.Meanwhile Thanos has expanded on his plan. He will send Warlock through time to kill himself in such a way as to preclude Magus ever existing.


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How strange my destiny Part 2
This issue is again split into chapters. And because the issue is labelled as part 2 of last issue's story then the chapters start at 4.Chapter 4: Escape into the inner prisonWe're in a big time loop. Magus is the evil future self of Adam Warlock who went back in time and is now trying to ensure that Warlock does become him. Thanos has his own reasons for wanting to help Adam avoid his fate. He sent his agent Gamora to help, and eventually joined the struggle himself. Along the way Warlock gained a 'pal' in Pip the Troll.The 4 of them are on Thanos' space ark Sanctuary when Magus teleports in with his Death Squad. Battle commences but the Squad are under strict orders not to kill Warlock. Adam is scheduled in less than 1 hour to meet the In-Betweener who will take him to another dimension where, as Magus remembers, he will be gradually changed into his evil future self.But Thanos has a plan which involves sending Warlock through his time machine. However their numberless foes block the way. Thanos needs to conserve his energy for later so he urges Warlock to use his Soul Gem to steal the souls of their enemies. Adam is loath to do this because such souls live on in his mind to remind him of his actions. Thanos offers counter-arguments. If he doesn't do it then *he* will live on inside the Magus to witness what *he* does. Gamora and Pip will be killed. The victims of Magus' Universal Church of Truth will be on his conscience. And the Gem itself wants to be let loose.Succumbing to the cumulative pressure Adam unleashes the Gem's power and all the Death Squad die. Magus gloats that Warlock has just revealed that he is *already* well on the way to being evil. But Thanos blasts him out of the way and sends Adam through the time machine. And Pip follows ...... into a Steve Ditko-esque realm which Adam says is his 'kismet trail', a representation of his fate. In order to erase Magus from existence he has come here to commit cosmic suicide. But the In-Betweener arrives before he can do anything.Back on Sanctuary Magus realises that Thanos had lead him to this by leaving the ship's defence screens down (last issue). He wanted the attack so that Warlock would be rushed into making a decision before he realised what it really meant. Thanos reveals that he did this because Magus, though evil, is a powerful agent of Life. But Thanos worships Death and needed Magus out of the way. And the 2 titans clash.Chapter 5: The strange death of Adam WarlockThe In-Betweener, servant of Chaos and Order, claims to have been created for the sole purpose of turning Warlock into Magus. Adam says he won't go without a fight, but his nemesis says he can't be fought. He exists between life and death, good and evil, reality and illusion, logic and emotion, god and man. As such he can't be affected by anything. Warlock tests this theory but his foe is immune to the Soul Gem and a 2-ton hunk of rock.The In-Betweener assures Adam that his fate has a noble purpose. He says that the universe needs Magus as a champion of Life to balance Thanos the advocate of Death. So he hopes Warlock will wait peacefully through the 5 minutes until the appointed time.Magus and Thanos are still fighting in Sanctuary. They both know that Magus was designed as champion of Life to stop Thanos' ambition to destroy all the stars in the universe for his love Death. Their battle wrecks half of the space ark. In the other half Gamora escapes into space as the safer option (without a spacesuit?).Adam realises that In-Betweener can't take him before the fated moment. So he has 5 minutes to achieve his goal. He stands on a path which represents his timeline, which at this point splits into 5 futures. 1 of them becomes black a short way along, which is obviously the 1 that leads to Magus. So Warlock uses his Soul Gem to purify that path to brightness. And then uses the Gem again to destroy it.Meanwhile Magus is beating Thanos. But now he starts to fade away. And vainly tries to reach the time machine to stop Warlock before he does what he just did.Meanwhile (again) Adam is rushing down another of his future paths which is extremely short. He thus chooses this 1 to be what happens, and now must ensure that the Warlock at the end of it will be in no position to *ever* become Magus. And he gets there before In-Betweener is 'allowed' to take him.Adam now materialises some months in the future where future-him is dying. Future-Warlock recognises present-Warlock and realises this must be the moment he remembers. F-W says everyone he loves is dead and everything he has strived for is ruined. He welcomes death. P-W absorbs f-W with the Soul Gem. And the universe is reborn without Magus ever having existed.Thanos and Gamora meet in (the still half-destroyed) Sanctuary, and he tells her that only they and Warlock and Pip will remember Magus and the recent events. Privately the mad Titan exults that now there is no champion of Life to stop him wiping out all the stars in the universe, and hence all life.Warlock and Pip reappear on Homeworld. But it appears that another Church has arisen using the same symbol as the Universal Church of Truth. And they see the woman who was the Matriarch. But she seems still to be the prostitute she was before Magus made her temporal head of his religion.


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Just a series of events
At the end of last issue Adam Warlock returned to the Solar System to find that he had grown larger than the whole system. The explanation given was that he had been in a part of the universe (the Herculean Galaxy) that was expanding at a much greater rate than the Milky Way. His huge bulk isn't affecting our world because he still has the same mass, he's become nebulous.As he muses that he can never go home again he tells us that he won't miss Earth so much as Counter-Earth on the opposite side of the Sun. The High Evolutionary created that planet and sent him there to save it's inhabitants from the Man-Wolf. Adam became their Messiah and saved them. (See Marvel Premiere #1-2 and the 1st run of this series #1-8.) But now he resigns himself to leaving his adopted world and searching for somewhere else to call home.Meanwhile Thanos and his agent Gamora have rebuilt the space ark Sanctuary, damaged in the fight with Magus in #11. Thanos now gets on with his scientific work and Gamora gets bored. So he sends her out to find Warlock and become his bodyguard. Thanos' plans require him alive. Gamora agrees because she finds Adam 'intriguing'. When she's gone Thanos' thoughts reveal that now he won't have to continue hiding his true work from her. She wouldn't approve of his plan to kill everyone in the universe by destroying all the stars.Warlock comes across 3 big aliens forcibly removing an old man from his spaceship. Adam of course stops them. Then he's greeted by Marr Garr a plant-like being who represents Interplaneteur Inc. The old man Lamilm Gor owes them money. He can't pay so they're taking his spaceship. It's not their problem that this will leave him drifting in space. Warlock lets Gor get back in his craft and tells him to go find some money. Adam will keep the aliens from pursuing him immediately.Gamora is flying her spacecraft looking for Warlock. She is actually suspicious of Thanos, despite her loyalty to him for saving her life (see #10). She hopes Warlock can give her some clue how he fits in to her master's plan. But suddenly Drax the Destroyer appears in her 'windscreen' accusing her of being a Thrall of Thanos. And as he crashes into the spaceship it explodes.At this point Adam is on a dead world ejected from it's solar system. He complains that he no longer has any purpose to his life. He thinks himself alone but his soliloquy is interrupted by an aged alien mystic who tells him life is its own purpose, and then something about interacting with other life and expanding out into the universe to become part of the all.But Warlock says he knows he's destined to die soon (see #11) and wants to make his mark on the universe before that happens. The alien poo-poos that idea, and tells Adam he will die alone killed by Thanos and himself (see #11 for that last bit). But before that he will see Gamora and Pip the Troll die, and he will cause the death of the High Evolutionary. He will be the most hated person in space. He advises Adam to look beyond the body to the spirit. And then disappears. Warlock thinks this means he should investigate his Soul Gem.We have 1 more of our regular characters to look in on. Pip the Troll is on the planet Degenera in a sleazy bar where he looks through the sack containing today's pilferings. But he's interrupted by Constable Trueheart who has noticed that the recent spate of robberies started when Pip breezed into town. Pip distracts his attention by pointing out several more likely crooks, at the same time relieving him of various valuables. He also unfastens the cop's belt so that when Pip waltzes off with his gains Trueheart's trousers fall down.Warlock's last port of call is an Earth-like planet. He lands in a jungle away from habitation. Here he can deal with his Gem without fear of harming others. It has proven a defensive and offensive weapon, including eating souls. In Strange Tales #180 he discovered that he could no longer survive without it. But now he temporarily removes it from his brow so he can communicate with it man-to-gem.He concentrates and forms a mental link. And the Gem responds by welcoming him into its warm embrace, appearing to grow larger and swallow him up. It has been waiting for this moment. Adam has constrained its hunger for souls, his morals restricting those he allows it to consume to the basest villains. Now the Gem will control Adam's body and it will be free. But Warlock says he will be free or dead. And the Gem lets him go.This was all part of Adam's plan. He chose an isolated area so that if he died the Soul Gem would have no other host to latch on to. And then he threatened to will himself to die, and the Gem could tell he had the willpower and intention to do it. So it freed him to save itself.


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Pip, king of the universe
At the end of Infinity Crusade #3 Pip The Troll teleported to the Cosmic Egg at the centre of Paradise Omega, the planet Goddess created on the far side of the Sun. She had created the Egg from many Cosmic Containment Units (normally referred to as Cosmic Cubes), and she's been sitting within it broadcasting her telepathic message which is turning the Galaxy into her peaceful thralls. He'd got the location he needed to teleport to from Moondragon's mind when she mentally communicated with Prof X while Pip was touching him. The Egg shares the property of the CCUs that compose it of granting the wishes of anyone touching it. And as soon as Pip arrived he'd turned Goddess to salt.Now he's left with the problem of what else exactly as king of the universe he wants to wish for. The obvious 1st choice is a big throne and crown befitting his station. Then he starts to daydream. A continuous supply of beer and Cuban cigars will satisfy his basic necessities. Having the super-babes of the Marvel Universe fawning over him will provide some creature comforts. Revenge comes next - Hulk, Thing, Wolverine and others will get appropriate payback for giving him a forced bath (last issue). Pip himself will get an 8 foot muscular body.We'll take time out from Pip's fantasies to look in on 1 of the 2 interstellar Avengers quinjets carrying the assembled non-believer heroes to Omega, the 1 Pip teleported from. Hulk thinks he's gone to betray them to Goddess. Maxam thinks he's just run from the fight. Hulk counters that the Infinity Watch are probably all in league with her anyway. (He's got a down on the Watch since Drax was reported as defeating him in #13.) Wolverine is also suspicious of them because Maxam has no detectable scent.And on board Thanos' giant spacecraft we see the result of events in Warlock Chronicles #3. Adam Warlock planted his Soul Gem on Thanos' brow to transfer his soul into the Titan, and also give him the knowledge of Goddess' ultimate goal (which we aren't party to yet). Thanos now lays Warlock's inert body down and realises that Adam has left him with the task of carrying out his counter-plan (which we also don't know about). He is somewhat amazed that Warlock trusted him since he could just defeat Goddess and take her place. Meanwhile Adam is basking in being back in the paradise that is Soul World inside the Soul Gem, which he reluctantly left (Infinity Gauntlet #1) to save the universe from Thanos.Now back to Pip. While he continues to elaborate his fantasy we see tendrils of darkness seeping from a cannister that we saw (IC#2) Goddess had with her in the Egg. Pip imagines putting defeated supervillains to constructive work (we see Dr Doom, Mephisto and Thanos washing his imaginary sports car). Since the superheroes won't have anyone to fight other than each other they can also be better employed, say in building him a palace. Thing and Wolverine can be refuse collectors. He will improve the world in general by giving all women fit bodies. And since most problems on the world are due to excess testosterone (he heard it on Oprah) he'll give all the other men unfit bodies. All news stories will be about him. He'll get his own TV show (adding himself to an existing cartoon and renaming it The Trollsons). A star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame will follow. Then he'll successfully run for President and get his face on Mount Rushmore.But he fears that the rest of the Infinity Watch will find some way to defeat him so he'll have to strike 1st and imprison Warlock, Drax, Gamora and Moondragon. Then he'd better deal with Eternity and Infinity. This will of course make him Pip The God. But now he realises he doesn't really want that because it would make *everything* his responsibility. Sounds too much like a job. And he realises all he really wants is for people to like him and be nice to him. So he just wishes for the biggest birthday party ever.But then his bubble is popped as he's attacked by Silhouette who'd been hidden in the cannister. It was her Darkforce we saw seeping out of it. Goddess had placed her there just for a situation like this. She knocks him off the Egg and then uses it to wish Goddess back to life. And back to converting the Universe.


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Interlude
Thanos and the Infinity Watch are examining the Magus’ relay point on a deserted planet. The group must wait some time while Thanos recalibrates his scanners to trace the energies to their point of origin. Gamora suddenly has a vision of Adam Warlock crucified, courtesy of the Time Gem, and tries to warn him, but Adam is oddly unconcerned. Meanwhile, Thanos is trying to stir up trouble among his allies, first by reminding Moondragon that she once killed Drax (who had been her father) and hinting she would do well to fear the return of his memory, then by goading Gamora into a fight. As they finally prepare to move on, they suddenly find themselves surrounded by the hostile team of Earth heroes.


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Raid on Asgard
Continued from WARLOCK CHRONICLES #8.In Asgard Odin senses peril approaching and in his scrying orb he sees our gang (Dr Strange, Silver Surfer and the Infinity Watch:- Adam Warlock, Drax, Gamora, Moondragon, Pip and Thanos and their ally Maxam) land on the Rainbow Bridge with Thor encased in block of force. Bifrost's guardian Heimdall bars their way so Thanos blasts him (successfully). Odin reasonably takes this as a hostile act and assumes the villains hold his son as a hostage so he mobilises all Asgardian warriors and sends then to defend the Realm.We know of course that Thor is consumed by a madness that has him intent on destroying Asgard and then the universe. Thanos has him in a stasis field but the Thunder God has Drax's Power Gem and it won't be long before he breaks free. Pip apologises for bringing them to the Bridge rather than into Asgard itself but he passes the blame to Surfer. He can only teleport the group to somewhere 1 of them knows, and this is how SS normally entered the place. They expect to now have to fight their way through some Asgardians, but are not prepared for the horde they see approaching, led by Balder and the Warriors Three.Thanos says he has to stay behind to keep the stasis field secure, so it's everyone else that has to face the warriors. They hold their own in pages of battle that follow (Pip mainly keeping out of the way) until Balder KO's Dr Strange, Gamora accidentally flattens Moondragon with Volstagg and Hogun brains *her* with his mace (Pip is also unconscious by this time). That leaves Drax, Maxam, SS and Warlock still in the fray.Meanwhile Sif teleports nearby (via her Norn Stones) with Beta Ray Bill in tow. They view the battle and Sif hopes they can rescue Thor before Odin learns that he suffers from Warrior Madness. But Bill reminds her how dangerous her lover has become. To free him would imperil the universe. Sif is torn because the penalty for Warrior Madness is exile or death.Thanos sees the tide of battle going against his side. He sees no personal profit in joining in, but reluctantly feels that he must again play the hero. He calls Maxam to him to keep monitoring Thor while he takes his place in the combat. Immediately the Titan makes a massive difference even though Warlock has to watch his back. Thanos reminds him of how they stood thus together against 10,000 of Magus' religious zealots (Warlock #10-11). Adam reminds *him* that was an alternate reality that they wiped out, but Thanos says that they 2 remember it. They join forces with Drax and Surfer for a final assault.Watching Odin decides it's time for a personal intervention. He materialises on Bifrost and orders his troops to stand down while he deals with the invaders himself. Drax lunges at him but gets blasted unconscious for his pains. Thanos tells Adam to gather their fallen and retreat while he and SS tackle the Lord Of Asgard. Warlock picks up Moondragon and still-unconscious Gamora and retreats to a safe distance while the 3 remaining combatants exchange blasts. All too soon Surfer is out of the fight and we see the other 3 with Maxam. Gamora is recovering while unconscious Pip and Strange are draped across Thor's floating force-field prison. Odin and Thanos exchange boasts and then the Titan strikes.We have another interlude in the other-dimensional floating castle of Count Abyss who seeks Adam Warlock's Soul Gem and now has a bottle of wine that will get it for him (see #23). His army of demons failed (#16) but he tells his consort Maya that stealthy deceit will win the day. This bottle will be given to Warlock by a leader of forces in opposition to the Count. This person will even share the contents with him, because it isn't poison. And we get the impression that this 'rebel leader' will be Maya herself.Back at the final conflict Odin calls down passing asteroids to rain on his opponent, but Thanos just punches them to smithereens. Both combatants continue to declare their superiority, but Thanos pooh-poohs any talk of *moral* right. He encases the All-Father in a block of pure force like that around Thor. But Odin easily breaks out of it and calls his regal staff to his hands with which he blasts Thanos through the walls of Asgard. The watching heroes fear that the pair will tear Asgard down around them. (Drax is there too and wakes up.)Odin thinks he's won but Thanos arises out of the rubble. Bill and Sif also fear for Asgard. Bill says they must stop the fight but Sif still worries about Thor. Odin resumes blasting Thanos with his power sceptre but the Titan forces his way through the onslaught to grasp the staff. The pair rise into the air vying for control of it and then plunge back to destroy some more buildings. Odin salutes the fallen Titan as a worthy opponent but battered Thanos struggles to his feet and refuses to yield.Then Sif teleports to their side with Bill. She begs Odin to cease the fight because Thanos and his comrades are innocent. She finally admits to the All-Father that his son has gone mad and the heroes only imprisoned him because with the Power Gem he is a danger to Asgard and everything. She hoped to cure him of this before Odin learned of it because she fears it is Warrior Madness. Odin forgives her because she did it for love of his son. The heroes now arrive with the floating force box and Odin apologises to them and welcomes them to Asgard.Adam Warlock, Dr Strange and Silver Surfer now explain to Odin that they believe this is *not* Warrior Madness. They explain that when Odin gave Thor the mortal identity Don Blake (and again when he was merged with Eric Masterson) they believe that this fractured his soul and drove him to this state. Odin accepts this and says that only he can cure him. He mentally contacts his son and we see them in psychic combat. But then the All-Father returns to the physical world and admits his failure. So for the safety of Asgard and the universe Thor must die.To be concluded in THOR #471.


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Abyss
It's recreation time. In their castle on Mole Man's Monster Island Pip is watching Drax' favourite cartoon ALF and Drax himself is being repeatedly beaten at checkers by a Moloid. Then shadow demons attack them. Pip teleports away for help and the demons overwhelm Drax with a metaphysical cold that freezes his soul (and his body). Meanwhile Gamora is telling Moondragon of the visions her Time Gem keeps giving her, particularly 1 of the future where a man is standing over Adam Warlock's dead body. She mentally broadcasts an image of him which Moondragon is able to display. Then Pip pops up to tell the ladies to go help Drax, and then pops off again to hammer on the door of Adam's bedroom. He gains entry to find Warlock experimenting with the large pink Orb that Eternity left with him last issue.Gamora is getting beaten up by the demons. Moondragon telekinetically rescues her but she find that her mental powers have no effect on the foes. The duo run away and Moondragon erects a barrier of rubble, but the shadow demons just phase through it. So they too fall. Then Warlock arrives but even his blows are useless because the enemy regenerate and his Soul Gem has no effect because the demons are soulless. So instead he leads them away, and Gamora opines that he is their prime target. Meanwhile Pip has gone to try to revive Drax, and eventually he's successful.Warlock's been trying to lose the shadows in a maze of corridors, but just like Moondragon he learns that they can phase through walls to come directly at him. They overwhelm him with numbers but Drax lumbers onto the scene and beats them off him. However they soon start to freeze him again. Then Adam remembers an old trick with his Soul Gem he hasn't used for years. He gets it to emit the Cold Light Of Truth to determine a beings purity of spirit. Because these shadow demons, he suspects, are creation of a dead soul the light makes them wither away. But he can only concentrate on 1 at a time and the others are still attacking him. Then Pip ports in with a big spiky club and Gamora, giving Warlock the time to pick all the demons off.Drax and Moondragon join them and Heather Douglas suggests that they succeeded by working as a team. They decide to give this team business a go.Then the boss of the demons shows up as a dark face inside a red globe. He announces himself as Count Abyss and says he wants the Soul Gem or he'll kill them. Adam points out they've just beaten off his shadow demons but the Count says he has many other monstrous servants. AW muses that (last issue) Eternity warned him that he would meet someone without a soul and he guesses that Abyss is that person. Warlock then refuses to hand the Gem over, and Abyss vanishes swearing to return.The team hardly have time to congratulate themselves when something else happens - a flash of bright light on a distant part of the island. When they get there they find a man lying face down on the beach. Pip turns him over and Gamora exclaims that it's the man in her vision who will kill Adam. She suggests they kill *him* instead.


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The appeal
After the end of the Infinity War event Eternity has an audience with the Living Tribunal. After the Infinity Gauntlet event the Tribunal (in our #1) ordered Adam Warlock to give up all of the Infinity Gems except his Soul Gem. Eternity now tells LT that Warlock has chosen unsuitable recipients for the other 5 Gems and he suggests that they should be taken from the Infinity Watch and given to himself (just as the Tribunal expected). But the LT asks for evidence of this unsuitability. So Eternity relates the members' life stories.Gamora has the Time Gem. She was of the Zen Whoberi race who were slaughtered by the Badoon. Only the little girl survived, saved by Thanos. He had her trained in martial arts and her body augmented (as we learned in #9) into the 'most dangerous woman in the universe'. Eternity complains that apart from her warrior abilities she has no scientific or mystical skills, and doesn't even know how to *use* the Time Gem. LT points out she no longer serves Thanos and she has the skills necessary to *protect* the Gem. And the Gem is safer with someone who can't use it.LT tells Et to move on to the next protector. Pip has the Space Gem. He's equally lacking in knowledge and doesn't have *any* fighting ability. He used to be Prince Gofern of Laxidazia whose only talent was painting black and white starscapes. 1 day he went carousing with some decadent Trolls and learned to his cost that doing that turns you into a Troll. (This was related in Warlock #12.) Pip The Troll somehow became an ally of Warlock and Gamora against the Magus (starting from Strange Tales #179). Later he annoyed Thanos who turned him into a mindless husk (Avengers Annual #7). But Adam saved his soul and the trio lived for years in Soul World within the Soul Gem. Thanos also died (Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2) but was later returned to life by Death (Silver Surfer #34), and then Warlock resurrected the trio to oppose him (Infinity Gauntlet #1). Eternity has to admit that Pip can only use the Space Gem for simple teleportation, but the Tribunal says that's enough for him to keep the Gem out of more dangerous hands.Eternity now tells the story of Drax (Power Gem) and Moondragon (Mind Gem) combined. Arthur and Yvette Douglas and their young daughter Heather were driving home from a Las Vegas vacation through the Mojave Desert when Thanos' spacecraft blasted their car in case they witnessed anything. Heather was the only survivor but Mentor, father of Thanos, took her to Titan where she was trained in telepathy by Kaluba monks. As she matured she surpassed her masters and gained a superiority complex. As Moondragon she returned to Earth where she initially fought Iron Man (in his #54), but soon joined Captain Marvel and the Avengers in opposing Thanos (in the Thanos War epic).Kronos, the god of Titan, took Arthur Douglas' soul to animate a being he created from earth. Drax The Destroyer's only purpose in life was to kill Thanos. He too met IM and joined in the CM/Av battle against Thanos who had used the Cosmic Cube to become a god (in the Thanos War). But it was Adam Warlock in a later conflict who ended Thanos' life (MTIO An#2).Moondragon became an Avenger (#133-151) but her pride led her to leave them and journey to the stars. She mentally enslaved the alien Ba-Bani for their own good, but Drax and the Avengers tried to stop her and it ended when Heather mentally killed her own father (Av#219-220). After a term of imprisonment (in Asgard) she joined the Defenders (#123-152). When Thanos was 'reborn' Kronos reanimated Drax, but because of the way Moondragon killed him he's now mentally impaired.The Living Tribunal still maintains that the pair are clever or strong enough to guard their Gems. Eternity counters that all 4 got captured by the Man-Beast (#3-6), but LT points out they were rescued by Warlock. Eternity falls back on claiming that the guardian of the Reality Gem (whose identity we still don't know) is the worst choice of all, and here the Tribunal is forced to agree. However Warlock was omnipotent when he made the choices so they deserve respect. And none can deny that he can keep it secure from almost anyone. But Eternity asks if he can be trusted, and senses victory when LT replies that he doesn't know if *any* of the Watch can be.However the Tribunal then questions Eternity's motives. When the Infinity Gems were combined in the Infinity Gauntlet, wielded by Thanos and then by Warlock, Eternity's supreme status was challenged. But when LT decreed that they must not be held by a single being that threat faded. So the Tribunal now suspects that Eternity desires the Gems himself, and Et admits it. So LT rules against him.The hearing concludes with some advice from the Tribunal. Eternity was used to omnipotence and omniscience, but now the 6 Gem bearers are outside his control and knowledge and are a source of unpredictability. This is a spice that he should learn to savour.


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High Evolutionary
In #1 Adam Warlock agreed to give up the Infinity Gauntlet and the god-like status it entailed. But he was allowed to distribute the 6 Infinity Gems between himself and 5 others. Last issue he formed the Infinity Watch. He kept his Soul Gem but gave the Power Gem to Drax The Destroyer, the Time Gem to Gamora, the Mind Gem to Moondragon and the Space Gem to Pip The Troll. The recipient of the Reality Gem is so far unrevealed. Then the members of the Watch split up.Adam has come seeking his old mentor the High Evolutionary but he is attacked by HE's upright beasts the New Men and 1 human-seeming man. As he defeats them with his staff the human recognises him but believed him dead. Then Warlock enters a cave where he expects to find his friend. (He recently had godlike omniscience so he knew where everyone was.) Descending he remembers Herbert Edgar Wyndham giving him a purpose in life, to defend his creation Counter-Earth against corruption by the evil Man-Beast. He also recalls some HEW history (for our benefit) - how he uplifted animals to humanoid New Men (including unfortunately the Man-Beast) and turned himself into a cosmic being (and back).Now Adam reaches a hidden laboratory where he sees the Evolutionary at work. He calls out to his friend whose monitoring of cosmic doings will undoubtedly have kept him informed of Warlock's own recent rise to godhood and back. He wants his advice on readjusting to fleshly life, and avoiding the suicidal tendencies he had long ago (in Jim Starlin's 1st Warlock run). He tells HE that he had found peace on Soul World within the Soul Gem but he gave that up to stop Thanos using the Infinity Gems. But Wyndham doesn't answer him. Adam removes the faceplate of his mentor's armour and uncovers a blank-eyed face babbling nonsense rhymes.On Earth the Human Torch and Mr Fantastic have found their Fantasti-Car embedded in the side of an apartment block. They can't understand how it got there from Four Freedoms Plaza, nor how someone has apparently managed to steal an Avengers quinjet. We see that the guilty party (in both incidents) is Pip enjoying using the Space Gem to teleport into places and steal stuff. Then an armoured being plummets through the plane, destroying it and flying off with unconscious Pip - reporting success.Back in HEW's lab the human has introduced himself as Nobilus and explained that Herbert's mind was shattered when he witnessed the birth of a Celestial (Thor #424). Getting him to medical help has been impossible because they've been on the run from an unknown gang of cyborg warriors seeking the Evolutionary's death. Their spaceship just managed to limp to this abandoned lab and here they'll have to make their last stand.Time for an interlude near Saturn where a spaceship has tracked down Drax and his Power Gem. They hail him pretending to be in trouble. The dim-witted but good-hearted Destroyer would like to help but he's on the way back to Titan to watch Alf cartoons. But then the spaceship's occupants offer him a complete Alf video collection as a reward. He enters and a different armoured figure greets him with some flowers to smell - which put him to sleep.Back in the lab the Evolutionary demonstrates his latest invention, a machine that will self-destruct as soon as you switch it on. He touts it as the ultimate in planned obsolescence which companies have been searching for. Then an alarm goes off to alert them that a load of cyborg warriors have just teleported to the cave entrance. Warlock coldly tells Nobilus to send the New Men  out (to their deaths) to fight the foes so he can study their capabilities. The loyal New Men do it for the good of their creator. Adam watches them get slaughtered and deduces that he probably can't stand against the foe. As the warriors enter the cave Nobilus turns to find Warlock gone.


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Distant Memories
As Moondragon watches the childlike Drax build a huge sandcastle on the beach, she recalls his story: her father Arthur Douglas, jazz musician, who died in a car accident in the Nevada desert; his soul taken by Kronos to animate the fearsome Drax the Destroyer; her inadvertent killing of him; his resurrection with a stunted intellect into the being he is now. Her greatest fear is that he will regain his memory and take revenge on her for his death. Unable to bear the waiting, she prompts him with references to a desert and he recovers the memory of his first death, for which he blames Thanos. Drax then takes off for Reno, Nevada. Moondragon barely has time to give Pip the Troll a message for Gamora, who is watching over a catatonic Adam Warlock before she heads in pursuit of the big green guy. Arriving in Reno, Drax accidentally causes trouble as he wanders in search of half-forgotten music. TV reports of a green giant on a rampage blame the Hulk. Professor Hulk, meanwhile, annoyed at the accusation sets out to find the interloper and discovers Drax gazing longingly at a saxophone in a pawn shop window. Hulk arrives and lands a blow on Drax, making the Destroyer very angry.


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Revenge of the beast
The Man-Beast has sent dupes to kill the High Evolutionary and has kidnapped 4 of the bearers of the Infinity Gems (Drax The Destroyer, Gamora, Moondragon and Pip The Troll). Adam Warlock has saved the Evolutionary, defeated Man-Beast's automatons and his armoured aide Triax. Now he faces the Infinity Thrall, an energy being the MB has conjured up using the power of the Gems.Warlock's powers prove ineffectual against the Thrall, even his Soul Gem, so he flees (after losing his cloak). But the Space Gem's power allows the Thrall to teleport to wherever he goes, and its own blasts prove very effective. All the while Man-Beast's boast echo through the giant spaceship, of how his machinery allows him to safely control the Gems. Adam hides in a confined space but the Thrall just tears apart the ship to get at him. This gives our hero an idea.After giving Man-Beast a last chance to surrender, which of course the villain dismisses without a thought, Warlock flies off again but this time with a destination in mind. All the while the Infinity Thrall power blasts its way after him. Adam escapes out into space and the Thrall follows him there too. He allows himself to be hit and falls onto a certain part of the ship. The Thrall prepares the killing blow.Triax tries to get his master to stop, but Man-Beast brushes him aside. He urgently indicates where Warlock has landed, and MB realises too late what is happening. The blow lands. That part of the ship explodes, and that includes the engines. And without power Man-Beast's machinery can't control the Thrall, and it dissipates.The spaceship is falling to Earth. Man-Beast and Triax escape in an escape pod leaving the 4 Gem-bearers unconscious in their containment unit and Warlock presumed dead. (But remember we saw Pip waking up last issue, and Moondragon seems to be awake now too.) But Adam is still alive, albeit too weak to stand. He desperately crawls to help his friends as the vessel plummets down into an ocean (presumably onto an island because we see it burning).But then we see all 5 of our gang watching from another island. Pip managed to teleport them all to safety, and Moondragon mentally located Adam so Pip could take him too. Pip just thinks this demonstrates how the Infinity Watch work so much better as a team. Warlock cautiously agrees.


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Trial
Story continued from WARLOCK CHRONICLES #7.In Warlock Chronicles #7 Adam Warlock and the Infinity Watch along with Dr Strange and Silver Surfer were on their way to Asgard to tell Odin that his son has gone violently mad. Sif and Beta Ray Bill didn't want that to happen because they feared that the All-Father would diagnose Thor with Warrior Madness and have to banish him from Asgard forever. So they tricked a horde of Trolls into attacking them, and defeating and capturing them all.Now they are chained up in Troll King Geirrodur's Castle Grimlock and kept asleep by Valkisack Vines provided by a Troll Witch, ready to be sacrificed to Borgeddon. However the witch detects Trollish blood in Pip of the Watch. He's not an Asgardian Rock Troll but he deserves the right to trial by combat before being killed. Geirrodur isn't happy but concedes that the witch has always steered him right before. So they remove Pip's garland of flowers and he wakes up.They explain Pip's situation to him. He knows he could just use his Space Gem to teleport away but that would mean leaving his comrades behind so he decides to play along for a while. Geirrodur takes him to the Cathedral of Borgeddon who is the Troll's god. It's a huge deep hole in ground, and when the King drops a rock down it a very large 3-eyed reptilian monster slithers up. Then Pip is taken back to the combat area.He's presented with 4 fearsome armoured Trolls to choose from as an opponent. He knows he has no chance against any of them so asks if he can nominate a stand-in to fight *for* him, and the witch admits that the rules allow it. But Geirrodur adds that in that situation *he* gets to choose the Troll champion.Pip picks Gamora (the most dangerous woman in the Galaxy) but the Troll King says it would dishonourable to face a 'mere' female. Pip counters that Gamora isn't mere anything, but Geirrodur insists he must choose a male who won't be allowed to use any special talents or weapons. Pip rules out Moondragon (another female), Dr Strange (no use without his magic), Surfer (ditto without his Power Cosmic), Drax (in case the Troll opponent has any brains) and Maxam (too much of an unknown), so he picks Warlock.When Adam awakes Pip explains the situation to *him*, while Geirrodur holds a sword to the still ensorcelled Moondragon's throat to assure Warlock's compliance. Pip has to admit that if Adam wins the fight then he and rest will still be killed. Only Pip stands to go free. And the King introduces his choice of fighter, even bigger than the other 4 Trolls. It is Olik the Widow Maker, older brother of the better-known Ulik. Warlock checks that the rules mean he can't use his Soul Gem or Karmic Staff. Geirrodur confirms that if he does Moondragon will die immediately and everyone else including Pip will be thrown to Borgeddon.Adam kicks Olik in the teeth and discards his cloak. Then he dodges Olik's counterattack lunge, knees the Troll in the jaw and smashes down on his head - all the while taunting him. But Olik finally gets a blow in that floors our hero and he dives to flatten him. However Adam rolls out of the way and the Troll lands face-1st on the ground. Warlock kicks him again but Olik picks him up and throws him at a wall. The crowd goes wild, and no-one notices Pip slipping away.The contest continues with Adam enraging his opponent so that he makes stupid mistakes, enabling Warlock to evade most blows and get his own in. But eventually the larger and stronger Troll gets ahold of him and seemingly pummels him to submission. However Adam then stops feigning defeat and claims he'd been rolling with the punches to give Pip time to deal with the dungeon guards. And then he downs Olik with a Karmic Blast.Geirrodur calls foul and orders the Troll who is currently holding the sword to Moondragon's throat to kill her. But Pip teleports in above the guy and brains him with a mace. The Troll King grabs Pip and starts to throttle him but then the rest of our heroes burst in from the dungeon and lay about the audience. Drax grabs Pip and Maxam grabs the still-unconscious Moonie. Dr Strange is carrying Gamora (who also seems still asleep) and they all fly off to Asgard.Story continued in THOR #470.


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Judgement
This issue follows on immediately from Dr Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #36. At the end of the Infinity Gauntlet event Adam Warlock was left in possession of the Gauntlet with its 6 Infinity Gems. But all that power went to his head and his pals Gamora and Pip The Troll called in DrS for an intervention. They were successful but at the end of DRSSS#36 Eternity took Warlock away for a Cosmic Trial to consider his fitness to wield the Gems.Eternity has brought him before the triple-faced being known as the Living Tribunal. Present are Master Order and Lord Chaos, Master Hate and Mistress Love, Epoch daughter of the deceased Eon, Uatu the Watcher, Galactus, the Stranger and a Celestial Ziran The Tester. The Gems are still obviously having an effect on Adam because he still considers himself the Supreme Being of this universe and all these lesser beings are obviously conspiring to take the Gauntlet away from him. He could just destroy them all but he'll play along to learn what they intend.Eternity claims that *he* is the supreme being of this universe and as such the Infinity Gems belong to him. The Tribunal responds that Eternity has made a similar claim against Thanos before (IG#3) and it was dismissed then. But Eternity counters that unlike Thanos Adam isn't mentally competent to handle absolute power. Warlock hits back by saying that the very fact that he is now the supreme being means that he can't be wrong. The jury members here except LT were all defeated and imprisoned by Thanos (during IG) and would still be there if Adam hadn't saved the universe from Thanos. He *earned* this power and he'll surrender it to no-one. So saying he blasts the avatar of Eternity, who is bowed but not beaten. Eternity says this just proves his point - Warlock can't even control his own temper. Adam's anger increases and he broadcasts a blast of energy which sends everyone else flying and damaged ...... except the Living Tribunal who sits impassive on his throne. Then he clicks his fingers and the others are restored to their places unharmed. Warlock can't understand how his total control of everything, granted by the Gems, has been overridden. The Tribunal now claims that an even higher power has given him the responsibility of being the highest court in this reality. As such he is more powerful than any of them, Eternity and Warlock included. This is something that Adam can't conceive or accept.Eternity now presents his case in the form of a review of Warlock's life. He was created (as Him in Fantastic Four #66-67) by scientists to be the perfect human towards which humanity was evolving. But at the last instant they tried to destroy him so he lashed out at them and left. Adam protests that their intentions were evil, but Eternity brushes that aside to concentrate on the fact that he had no normal upbringing which would give him the experience necessary (as a minimum) to control all life. But Warlock looks around and wonders (quite rightly) whether any of the others here are any better in that respect.Eternity continues by mentioning that Him's next action was to try to *take* Thor's companion Sif as his mate (Thor #164-166). Then he fell under the guidance of the High Evolutionary (Marvel Premiere #1) who gave him the name Adam Warlock and the Soul Gem (1 of the 6 Infinity Gems) and a mission to save Counter Earth. This planet had been created by HE to be a better world than the original, but had been corrupted by another of his creations the Man-Beast. Adam tried his best (in MPrem#2 and (Power Of) Warlock #1-8). This saga ended (Hulk #176-178) with his crucifixion and resurrection, which he used to transcend his humanity and become powerful enough to defeat Man-Beast and his minions completely. Eternity questions the sanity of his decision to go that route when he didn't know if his resurrection would work.Adam claims that he's always used his power for the good of the universe, but Eternity bring up the fact that he once became the evil Magus who went back into the deep past to found the Universal Church Of Truth which he used to despotically rule a thousand worlds. But Warlock stopped all that from happening by travelling into his own future and absorbing his future self's soul into the Soul Gem before he could turn into the villain. (See Strange Tales #178-181, Warlock #9-15 and Avengers Annual #7.) Eternity now argues that he could still become the Magus, but now with the Infinity Gems.Eternity proposes that *he* should be given control of the Gems. Adam suggests that the Living Tribunal might not agree with that. At the moment LT is supposedly superior to Eternity, but the Gems might reverse that relationship. All the assembled cosmic powers look searchingly at the Tribunal in response to that.LT states that it is up to him to maintain the balance of powers within the universe. He and AW concur that it is now down to whether LT can actually wrest the Infinity Gauntlet from Warlock. LT declares his judgement against Adam and they face off. But Tribunal says that surely Warlock's mastery of time means that he foresaw this decision. If they fight for possession of the Gems then reality will surely be destroyed, and is that what Warlock the god wants? Adam admits that he did know all that would transpire here, so now they both know that the Tribunal will allow him to go to oversee the dispersal of the Gems and that Eternity will now object ...... on cue Eternity does protest. Warlock says he's going to select 5 other beings to share the burden with. Eternity demands to make the choices but Adam wishes him away. The other jurors leave, and the Living Tribunal wishes him good luck.


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Power play
The Infinity Watch are testing their guest Maxam's strength. Moondragon is monitoring as he holds a metal plate over his head (Infinity Crusade #1 will show that the plate is very thick and Drax is on top of it). She measures him in the Hulk class. Gamora and Pip are still suspicious of the new guy and his supposed amnesia. But Adam Warlock ignores them all and walks out. Gamora can't understand why Adam isn't more concerned about Maxam given that she saw him in a time vision standing over Warlock's apparently dead body (#12). But she objects violently to Pip referring to Adam as her boyfriend.Moondragon also leaves to rest after telepathically controlling the computers. She's still worried about Drax regaining his memory that he was her father in a past life, and that she herself killed him for the 2nd time with a mind-blast (Avengers #220). His later re-resurrection (Silver Surfer #35) left him brain-damaged and amnesiac.Gamora is running another strength test as Drax and Maxam arm-wrestle, with Pip egging Drax on. She annoys the Troll by stopping him lighting a cigar. But then the Goddess (see IC#1) appears to her to recruit Gamora into her army of good. The others can't see her but they do notice when their seemingly-entranced comrade walks through a glowing portal and disappears.Pip rushes to Moondragon's room but finds her gone too. And when he opens Adam's door he finds that room replaced by a white void containing only the Orb Of Eternity. He now decides this is a good time to make his play for leadership of the Watch. He dashes to his own room and re-emerges as Pip Man in a thrown-together supercostume, which smells, and declares himself the new leader.Drax asks why *he* can't be leader but Pip reminds him he's brain-damaged. Maxam throws *his* hat in the ring but Pip points out he's so amnesiac he doesn't even know his own name (they call him Maxam because it's written on his belt). Drax suggests a vote. Maxam and Pip vote for themselves so Drax has the decider (Pip reminds him about the brain-damage disqualification). Maxam points out to Drax he would be the strongest leader but Pip reminds Drax that Maxam punched him into the ocean (last issue), so Drax votes for Pip.Pip Man figures they need to get more info about what's happening, but none of them know how to work the computers. So he teleports off to get someone who can, and returns with Mr Fantastic. (Pip's suspicions are increased when amnesiac Maxam recognises him as the leader of the Fantastic Four.) Reed Richards wants to get back home to investigate his wife's disappearance (IC#1 again) but he pauses when he hears that Gamora, Moondragon and Warlock have gone too.Reed detects the same wavelengths where Gamora went through a portal as he did when Invisible Woman did the same, and he finds something familiar about them. Then he encounters the same wavelengths in Adam's void room, but mixed with mystical forces. He tries to get the Orb to do something but it shocks them all. However they do get a result as it shows an image of the Goddess surrounded by her Cosmic Containment Units. He now recognises the wavelengths he's been detecting as those of the Cosmic Cubes Magus had in the Infinity War event, and this woman has many more of them. He believes such things operate telepathically, and because Gamora and his wife went through the portals voluntarily he deduces that they are now under the mental control of the mystery woman.Pip now feels that Richards is challenging his leadership so he pulls a stick of metal off a piece of machinery and teleports to hit Mr F from behind. But Stretcho bends out of the way and Maxam grabs the little guy. Everyone apart from Pip now votes for Reed as leader (including Drax once he's assured that Mr F has never done anything to harm him). Reed now informs them that the Avengers have called a big meeting of every hero who *hasn't* vanished, so Pip teleports them into the middle of it (early in IC#2).


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Adam Warlock has gone to see his old mentor High Evolutionary but found that his mind has been blown by witnessing the birth of a Celestial. Also HE is being pursued across the Galaxy by some cyborg warriors who have arrived and just slaughtered his defending New Men. Now only Adam and Thor-clone Nobilus are left to save Herbert Edgar Wyndham. But Warlock has left his post like a coward. But of course that last bit isn't really true.As the foe descend the cave tunnels that lead to HEW's lab Warlock starts to stealthily pick them off 1 at a time. But his combat skills are a bit rusty so 1 of them gets the drop on him. However his Soul Gem automatically sucks in the warrior's soul. But as usual this overwhelms Adam with the memories of the victim and he collapses. The other warriors think him dead and continue on their way.While recovering Adam conveniently reviews his past history (again). Born in a laboratory he wandered the universe without purpose until he met the High Evolutionary who sent him to his creation Counter-Earth to save it from corruption by another creation the evil Man-Beast (Marvel Premiere #1-2). This set up the storyline for his 1st series which only lasted 9 issues. The story was completed in Hulk #176-178 where Warlock died and was reborn 3 days later to finally defeat Man-Beast by devolving him back to his original wolf state.In #2 we saw Adam hand out 4 of the 6 Infinity Gems to Drax The Destroyer, Gamora, Moondragon and Pip The Troll for safe-keeping. He kept the Soul Gem for himself. But last issue we saw Drax and Pip captured by 2 armoured beings. Now we catch up with Gamora and Moondragon in a spaceship Moonie cobbled together with her newly-enhanced mental powers. Unfortunately it's not good enough to withstand attack by a much larger vessel. Ultasonics knock them out and 1 of the armoured beings comes to collect their unconscious bodies.Nobilus defends his babbling master with a machine gun but he's soon overcome. But Herbert Wyndham recognises his attackers.When Adam wakes he has learned from the fallen warrior's memories why they are after HE, and now he can remind us of the latter fate of Counter-Earth (described in Marvel Two-In-One #63-64). Alicia Masters, Her (Adam's later female counterpart), Starhawk and Thing found the planet gone and the HE seemingly dead. They revived him and learned from Sphinxor of the Prime Movers Of Tarkus that they had towed the planet away to a museum belonging to the ultra-advanced Beyonders.That's where we left it but now Warlock can tell us new info. The advanced energies of the Beyonders mutated the population of Counter-Earth. And then when Thanos was playing with reality in the Infinity Gauntlet event the planet was destroyed. But a being called Omega (looking exactly like the armoured char who's just captured Gamora and Heather Douglas) rescued 12 of the inhabitants and cyborged them. He convinced them that all that had happened to them was HE's fault, and sent them on a hate-fueled quest for revenge.Now Adam Warlock confronts these men and makes them remember that he was their saviour. And he commands them not to kill the Evolutionary. The conflict between their beliefs in Adam and Omega literally blows their minds.Nobilus is still alive, and Adam commends Herbert into his care. He himself says he'll chase down this Omega sometime. But for now he'd better check on the people he left in charge of the Infinity Gems. He tells Nobilus of the 4 we know, but when he gets to the unknown 5th he suddenly realises his choices might not have been as good as he thought.


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Sweet Music
Professor Hulk and Drax battle through the streets of Reno, with the Destroyer easily knocking around Jade Jaws. Rather than let the situation get out of hand, Hulk uses a ruse against his foe: he surrenders, claiming that Drax has beaten him. A brief chat clarifies the matter (for Hulk at least) and he sympathizes with Drax, persuading him he would only make enemies by continuing his rampage. Hulk gives Drax the saxophone out of the pawn shop window and gives him a friendly slap on the back—which Drax misinterprets as an attack. Crawling from the wreckage of the building into which Drax hits him, Hulk prepares for battle, only to be put to sleep by a mind blast from Moondragon. When he awakens, Hulk returns home to the final indignity: the news is reporting on Hulk’s rampage being stopped by the heroic Drax. “…shouldn’t have gotten out of bed this morning,” he mutters. Back on the island, Moondragon consoles herself with the thought that none of her father’s mind still inhabits Drax’s gigantic body, and she delights in the Destroyer’s sweet sax music.


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Strange encounters
The Infinity Watch is living in a castle given to them on Monster Isle by its monarch Mole Man. But although they helped stop Magus taking over the universe in the Infinity War event it left their leader Adam Warlock in a coma. Gamora is watching over him and Moondragon joins her saying that she can still mentally detect no brain activity. She drags the green alien away to distract her by demonstrating how possession of the Mind Gem has enhanced her mental powers. She levitates the 2 of them in the air and then pulls multiple stones from the castle walls and telekinetically juggles them.Gamora wishes the other team members were training as diligently as Moonie, who responds that the team will probably disintegrate without Adam. At that point Drax crashes through an outside wall and apologises - the flying guy was practising landing. Then he flies out again. Gamora asks Heather Douglas if she's quitting and gets told not yet because she has unfinished business with Drax. Gamora opines that it won't go well if he remembers he's her father, and last time that he died *she* killed him.Then a Moloid runs up to inform them that soldiers are invading the Island. Moondragon recognises them as UN troops. The team (the 3 we've met plus Pip the Troll) gather in Mole Man's throneroom. Harvey Elder has to admit that Monster Isle has never been *officially* recognised as a sovereign state by the UN, they've just left him alone. A TV shows that a Senator Kyle Munson has stirred up trouble by claiming that the alliance of Mole Man with the Watch who have the Infinity Gems is a threat to US Security. The UN troops are here to take control until the situation can be sorted out.Gamora dissuades Mole Man from unleashing his Moloid army. In the absence of Warlock she'll go and negotiate with them. Pip and Heather have a bet on how long until she gets in a fight. The leader Capt Hammer says they're here to keep her and others safe from the monsters. There aren't any in sight but he figures they're waiting for nightfall to attack. When she tries to reason with him he orders her gagged and taken away. So it's only been 3 minutes before she starts fighting. (Moondragon wins the bet.)Moonie still tells Mole Man to hold his troops back - Gamora needs the exercise. She and Pip have another bet on how long the UN troops will last. They have to stop Drax joining the fight and ruining the bet. (They tell him to go watch Alf on TV.) 8 minutes later Pip's won his money back.Pip catches up with Gamora on another beach. They agree that Adam would have handled it better but Pip says in his absence she's their best leader. Gamora's amazed that Pip's even staying but he says that he and Drax consider the Watch their family and the Island their home. (Pip is mainly drawn by the free beer and reasonable TV reception.)The UN troops are leaving but the pair know that this won't be the end. Next time the invasion will be serious, so Gamora wants to know how well Pip has mastered the Space Gem. He shows her how he can teleport with just a thought, and then how quickly he can do multiple jumps. He can also 'port another person if they're in contact - he holds her hand and they're suddenly in Dr Strange's Greenwich Village house (DrS is there with his pupil Rintrah). Pip can only go to somewhere he's been before, but with the contact he can also 'port to somewhere the other person knows. And they wind up in the place where Gamora's people were slaughtered by Badoon.Back on the Island the 2 compare notes, revealing that they both have increased strength in the bodies Warlock gave them when they reincarnated from Soul World (Infinity Gauntlet #1). But this may not be enough if the UN sends the Avengers or the Fantastic Four next.Meanwhile in a reality far far away a new villain Count Abyss with his female companion Maya is observing Gamora. He's learned that the Watch have the Infinity Gems, but the 1 he wants is Warlock's Soul Gem.Meanotherwhile Eternity tries to waken Adam from his coma.