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When Shatters Reality!!
Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR:
AVENGERS #2.
Dr. Strange stands at the Nexus of
Realities, telling the Fantastic Four that they must kill their
opponents—even their friends—to save the universe....
At Praxis headquarters, all is
confusion but Lester again calms Nora Queen's suspicions about his
true interests....
Battling the Frightful Four at Agatha Harkness'
house, Thing tricks Sandman into breaking him free from the
paste trap and then he uses Trapster's glue gun to encase Sandman in
a thick shell. Medusa snatches baby Franklin from the Wizard and Ben
grabs the Golden Apple slice which sends him back to his own time.
Agatha Harkness sics her cat Ebony on the baddies and everything is
safe again....
In the Great Refuge, Human Torch is
dodging Black Bolt, Gorgon, and Crystal, who believe he has been
hypnotized by Maximus the Mad. Johnny goads Crystal into unleashing
her powers at him, then dodges so it's Black Bolt who takes the fall.
Johnny then snatches up the Golden Apple slice, gives Crystal a big
smooch and returns to his own time, letting the past situation sort
itself out....
At the Enclave, Mr Fantastic promises
Ben he will make Alicia Masters's rescue his top priority so Ben frees him
from the rock trap. Torch burns a small tunnel through the barricade
that only Reed can crawl through; he does and makes sure Alicia is
safe as Ben busts his way through. Reed takes the Golden Apple slice
and heads home, intending to confront Dr Strange about his insistence
on Reed's killing Ben....
In Atlantis, Reed and Sub-Mariner are
fighting over Invisible Woman, and Dr Strange teleports Thing and
Human Torch to Sue's side—but when they try to protect her, she
throws a fit, denouncing all the men for treating her as helpless and
fragile, even Namor and she takes the Golden Apple slice and goes
back home...
...but the FF find themselves in
another dimension, where they are met by Dr Strange, who assembles
the four slices into half of the Golden Apple and departs. The heroes
find themselves back at the East River where they attempt to rejoin
their frozen bodies—but they can't. They are then hurled through a
vortex and into a New York they have never known....
Continued in DOMINATION FACTOR:
AVENGERS #3.
2. “Fast Lane Part 2 of 4: Feel the
Rush!”
Writer: Glenn Herdling. Pencils: Gregg
Schigiel. Inks: Richard Case. Colors: Chris Dickey.
Synopsis: An anti-drug public service
announcement featuring Spider-Man appearing in several Marvel comics
this month.


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Yesterday's Tomorrows
Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR: AVENGERS #3
Loki has dropped his disguise as Lester
to reveal to Queen Knorda (no longer Nora Queen) that all of his
scheming with the Golden Apple has been to create a world for her to
rule. She asks how he would benefit from this; he answers that in
this world Thor is dead and there are no other superheroes, a
condition he likes very much....
At the junction of realities, the
disembodied Fantastic Four and Avengers meet up and try to figure out
how they can reverse this major change. They theorize that they can
enter the bodies of their counterparts in this reality and split up
to locate “themselves” and meet up later at the site where the
Avengers Mansion was located. Noting that Praxis Corporation has a
very strong presence in this New York, Mr Fantastic heads to their
labs where he finds normal Reed Richards an employee, working under a
normal-looking Victor von Doom. At Doom's urging, Reed unveils the
world's first time machine. Doom thumps Reed on the head and prepares
to use the time machine in a scheme of world conquest....
Human Torch finds this world's Johnny
Storm as a racing car driver in the Indianapolis 500—and sees his
car go into a fiery crash—he merges with the body and escapes the
flames....
Thing locates his Ben Grimm counterpart
running a pizzeria on Yancy Street, married to Alicia whose blindness
has been remedied by Praxis-made glasses and they have a daughter
Petal. And Ben likes this world better than his own....
Invisible Woman runs into the astral
Iron Man and they discover that Sue Storm is married to Praxis VP
Tony Stark and they are bitterly unhappy and planning to divorce.
Tony enters the body of this world's Stark and dons a mask to hide
his secret identity from the others....
Captain America finds his counterpart
in a nursing home, aged former Congressman Steve Rogers who, of
course, never drank the Super-Soldier Serum and was never frozen in
ice for many years. As his pal Bucky Barnes—also having survived
the war as he was never a hero's sidekick—watches, astral Steve
occupies the body of current Steve and he can walk again....
Scarlet Witch discovers her powerless
alter ego to be a phony fortuneteller, which is a real
disappointment. Vision, of course, has no equivalent self....
By concentrating, possessed Reed
discovers he can stretch his limbs and he seizes Doom and knocks him
cold....
Now embodied, the two hero teams meet
again to decide on a course of action. Dr Strange appears among them
and Reed accuses him of being their adversary since this world's
Strange is a Praxis staff doctor. The Strange that enlisted them in
the hunt for the Golden Apple slices reveals himself to be Loki and
he intends to make it so that the Avengers and Fantastic Four never
existed....Continued in DOMINATION FACTOR: AVENGERS #4.


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Flashback Times Four
Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR:
AVENGERS #1.
Thing finds himself back at the scene
of the Fantastic Four's first meeting with Agatha Harkness when they
hired her as a nanny for young Franklin; he embarrasses himself by
being overly familiar with “Aggie” and openly coveting the Golden
Apple slice. Outside however is the Frightful Four, planning to
kidnap Franklin as leverage against their arch-enemies. Sandman
envelopes Thing in a sand piledriver while Trapster glues Reed and
Sue's door shut; Wizard snatches the kid—but also spots the Golden
Apple slice. At this, Medusa, who was only pretending to join the
group, turns against them but she is likewise clouted by Sandman,
leaving all of the heroes out of action....
At Praxis Corp HQ, Lester promises Nora
Queen that their plans are nearing fruition....
Human Torch arrives in a previous
adventure to the Inhumans' home, the Great Refuge, with Mr Fantastic
and Thing out to stop Maximus from seizing power. Johnny is dazed so
Reed and Ben take down the monster Zorr; Johnny takes the opportunity
to search for the Golden Apple slice. He encounters a treasure vault
and, breaking in, he spies the apple slice before him—but he is
seized by Black Bolt; Crystal concludes that Johnny must be under
Maximus' spell for him to betray his Inhuman friends so she and
Gorgon bounce him around trying to break the spell. And Black Bolt
determines that the apple slice is what Johnny was after....
Mr Fantastic is transferred into the
Enclave with Torch and Thing, seeking to rescue the captive Alicia Masters
but when Reed tries to search for the Golden Apple slice, an
angry Ben demands he join them to rescue Alicia first. As Reed tries
to explain without explaining, Ben becomes increasingly mad and the
two fight, damaging the tunnel and uncovering a treasure chest. Reed
finds the slice inside and Ben is shocked that Reed would betray them
for gold. Then the tunnel collapses on them....
Invisible Woman enters her previous
self in the palace of Namor the Sub-Mariner, who imprisoned her,
thinking he could force her to return his love. She talks her way out
of the protective chamber, playing on his love to find for her the
Golden Apple slice. Reed arrives and fights Namor and suddenly
Dr Strange arrives in his astral form; Sue appeals to him for help but
he is the Strange from the past and doesn't know about the Golden
Apple quest. Dr Strange from Sue's era appears and tells her that for
the quest to succeed she must kill Namor....
And Reed must kill Ben....
And Johnny must kill Black Bolt....
And Ben must kill the Wizard....
Continued in DOMINATION FACTOR:
AVENGERS #2.


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Arrival
Air Force One is flying the President
back to the US from a science conference in Europe. Aboard the plane
are Reed Richards and Tony Stark, admiring a Golden Apple given to
the President by Norway. In flight around the plane are the rest of
the Fantastic Four: Invisible Woman, Thing, and Human Torch,
escorting the plane by request of the Secret Service. Danger comes: a
band of masked crooks wearing jet packs assaults the plane; Torch
tries to hold them off while Sue and Ben do what they can from a
jet-cycle. A villain's blast tears a hole in the plane sucking Tony
Stark and the Golden Apple out. Tony summons his Iron Man armor and
dons it in midair but the villains seize hold of their objective—the
Golden Apple—and retreat....
Atop a Swiss mountain is the hidden
center of Praxis Corporation whose head, Nora Queen, lies dying while
her aide Lester assures her that the Golden Apple is practically in
her hands. Johnny, still fighting the flying marauders, accidentally
immolates the Golden Apple angering Nora Queen. As Sue literally
holds the damaged plane together with a force field, Mr Fantastic
repairs the internal connections, Ben takes the controls and Iron Man
substitutes for the burned-out engine and they land sort of safely at
LaGuardia Airport. Back at Praxis, Lester assures Ms Queen that the
loss of the apple can be remedied....
As the FF fly back to the Baxter
Building, they see a wooden giant in the East River; investigation
shows that the figure is alive—and hostile as it shoots the heroes
with painful eye beams. Reed dashes to headquarters for some
equipment (not noticing that his son Franklin and nanny Alysande Stuart are
strangely immobile) and examining the giant more closely realizes
that time has halted all over the world save for themselves. Dr
Strange appears in his astral form to fill them in: an unidentified
evil force is attempting to travel back in time, releasing the
Harbingers of Everlasting Winter (the wooden giant and his partner
facing the Avengers) and to stop this, the FF must go into their
pasts via astral projection to retrieve the four pieces of the Golden
Apple...and so they go....
Ben find himself back at the FF's first
meeting with Agatha Harkness, delivering little Franklin into her
care. Ben spies the apple slice in a cabinet but he doesn't see the
Wizard and Medusa lurking outside....
Continued in
DOMINATION FACTOR: AVENGERS #1.
2. “Fast Lane Part 1 of 4: Media
Blitz”
Writer: Glenn Herdling. Pencils: Gregg
Schigiel. Inks: Richard Case. Colors: Paul Mounts.
Synopsis: An anti-drug public service
announcement featuring Spider-Man appearing in several Marvel comics
this month.


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The Cotati plant-beings tricked the Avengers into defending them against the Kree/Skrull Alliance, but only to give them time to let a Death Blossom bloom and give the Cotati enough power to destroy the Alliance armada themselves. The Cotati were revealed to be the real threat, intending to wipe out all animal life in the Universe and establish a plant Empyre, starting with Earth. They need access to Wakanda's Vibranium Mound whose mineral-rich soil will allow them to grow Death Blossoms whose power will span the Galaxy. The Cotati are led by the Celestial Messiah Quoi and his Cotati father Swordsman. But now his human mother Mantis has joined the Avengers in Wakanda.The Alliance is led by the Kree/Skrull hybrid Hulkling (Teddy Altman) as Emperor Dorrek-Vell. He is on the surviving flagship as it's troops fight the Cotati on Earth. With him are Avenger Captain Marvel, recently given the Universal Weapon of the deceased Kree Ronan the Accuser, and Human Torch of the Fantastic Four, and his 4 advisors Kree Captain Glory and Tanalth the Pursuer, Kl'rt/Super-Skrull and the hybrid sorceress Mur-G'nn who have told him that he must be ready to stop the rise of the Cotati by authorising the Pyre which will explode the Sun and destroy the Solar System. But at the end of last issue Captain Glory discovered that Tanalth was actually the Skrull ex-Empress R'klll, and he joined her in a plan to make her grandson Teddy do their bidding.Now Carol Danvers gets word that Captain America's efforts to get the human military to work together isn't doing well (see the Empyre: CA mini-series). Super-Skrull comments that the Kree and Skrull warriors aren't cooperating too well either. And now Tanalth has gone to her room and the Emperor is off sleeping. But he's awake now and announces that he's ready to activate the Pyre if necessary. CM and HT are definitely not happy and Carol asks the Universal Weapon to check that he hasn't been replaced by some shapeshifter. But Dorrek is confidant and the scan bears him out. The 2 Earthers fight Glory and Kl'rt and win but Hulkling tells Mur-G'nn to deal with them. Reluctantly she does what he asks, but then has to explain the only spell she had ready was teleportation ...... and the pair wind up in a New York apartment. Carol wonders if Mur-G'nn is on their side, which sounds more likely when Wiccan enters and asks them what they're doing in his and Teddy's place. Johnny Storm explains that Teddy wants to blow up the Sun and asks to borrow a phone to ring Avengers Mountain.Mr Fantastic takes the call in the lab where he's working with Tony Stark who's building a new suit of Iron Man armour, but with a '4' on the front. Reed Richards asks if this is a productive use of his time in these circumstances. Tony replies that he told Thor to go on a quest because that's *his* kind of thing. Well, creating armour is *his* thing. Reed lets Black Panther in Wakanda know what's going on ...... and we see T'Challa (with the Cotati-killing Star-Sword Hulkling gave him last issue) fighting Cotati alongside Wakandan warriors of the Dora Milaje and the Hatut Zeraze. Quoi and Swordsman watch the battle from Lake Victoria, but Invisible Woman  smuggles herself, Mantis, She-Hulk and Thing in to see them. Quoi asks his mother if she's just here to appeal to his human nature again (as she did in the Lords Of Empyre: Celestial Messiah 1-shot). She says doesn't want him to carry the burden of genocide, but he replies it will be worth it for the peace that will reign once the squabbling animals are no more. She counters that the Kree and Skrulls have made peace with each other, but his riposte is to ask if it was peaceful for the Skrulls to use the Pyre to blow up their own 10-world Kral System in an attempt to destroy the Cotati - and they're probably planning to do the same here. Sue Richards claims that things haven't got that bad yet ...... but Jennifer Walters says she's lying and the Cotati should take the Vibranium Mound before the opposition gets the chance to use the Pyre here. Our heroes are stunned and Thing asks which side Shulkie is on?! In answer she uses a gamma explosion to blast the other 3 far away. IW uses a forcefield to protect her and Mantis from the gamma radiation while She-Hulk leaps to follow Ben Grimm ...... but instead of fighting him she explains what happened to her. She says that Jen is dead and her corpse has been taken over by a Cotati. When that is done the body turns green (like Swordsman's did) so it can't usually be used for infiltration. But She-Hulk's body was already green so she made a perfect spy. (The conversion happened in #1 when She-Hulk was taken away and supposedly changed so that Jennifer Walters' intellect could be in control.) And by the time she's finished speaking her body has gone even more vegetative.Back at the lake Swordsman tells Quoi that their She-Hulk will kill the others. Quoi is still troubled that this will include his mother. And Mantis makes another telepathic attempt to convince him to stop the war. But the 2 foes use 1 of their plant-based teleportation gateways to leave the lake, now that the site's purpose of luring the heroes away from Wakanda has worked.Back in the NY apartment Wiccan scans Captain Marvel's mind to see exactly what Hulkling said and how he said it. Then Billy Kaplan tells them that the Hulkling they saw *wasn't* Teddy. They may have found a way to fool a genetic scan but that person had none of Teddy's tells, which would show even if he were possessed or mind-controlled. And at this point we learn for the 1st time that the duo are married, and we see a flashback to the ceremony with various other Young Avengers (including Elijah Bradley/Patriot who hasn't been seen since Av: Children's Crusade).


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Mr Fantastic summarises the current position for his thought journal (and us). Last issue Captain Marvel saved the Kree/Skrull Alliance flagship from the Cotati's animated flora and now its troops are down on Earth fighting the enemy. Emperor Hulkling told them not to kill unnecessarily but they're not really following that order (as seen in Empyre: Avengers #1). Reed Richards has checked on his children but it seems they have recruited allies and have their situation in hand (see Fantastic Four #21). Captain America is leading a worldwide fightback (or trying to, see Emp:CA#1). Thor is seeking godly power (would that have been in Emp:Thor which has been cancelled?). And other Avengers are fighting in various battles (Emp:Av#1 again).Now Reed's gone to Avengers Mountain to help Tony Stark devise a way to stop the Cotati's control of Earth's plantlife. Actually what Tony's doing is beating himself up because he was taken in by the Cotati, including the Swordsman and the Celestial Messiah Quoi, and helped them defeat the Kree/Skrull Armada (#1). But then it turned out the Cotati were the real menace who intend to wipe out all meat-life in the Universe, starting with Earth. Reed says he didn't suspect either.Another Fantastic Four member Thing is in Wakanda with Avenger Ghost Rider and Fat Cobra, Gorilla-Man, Okoye and Wasp of the Agents Of Wakanda to help Shuri and the Wakandan troops defend their homeland. They have forcefields surrounding the place but the Cotati have now broken through, and pitched battle commences.Quoi and Swordsman are close by at Lake Victoria because this theatre of war is important. They are winning against the zombies in Genosha (it doesn't look, like it in Emp: X-Men #1) and succeeding in the Savage Land (Emp:Av#1 yet again). But Swordsman advises Quoi that, having seen the Death Blossom on the Moon, Black Panther will have worked out what they want from his land.T'Challa is with Invisible Woman and She-Hulk on the Wakandan Palace roof. He tells them that the Cotati want the vibranium mound. Jennifer Walters objects that the Cotati don't use metals, but Panther says they're after the vibranium-enriched soil. A Death Blossom growing on the Moon was enough to destroy the Kree/Skrull fleet. 1 grown in vibranium soil will enable them to control the plants of the Galaxy.Now the space-craft we saw at the start of last issue arrives and out of it steps Quoi's mother Mantis. She says she's here to save her son whose mind has been poisoned against animal life by Swordsman. But she thinks she can get through to him. Sue Richards has to admit she would so no less for 1 of her own children. T'Challa supports a diplomatic mission but he will continue to explore other options too.On the Kree/Skrull flagship another option is also being explored. Last issue Captain Marvel allowed Hulkling to stab her with his magic Star-Sword, and she absorbed enough power from it to kill all the plants in the spaceship. Carol Danvers was also given the Universal Weapon of the deceased Ronan The Accuser and was recruited into the Kree Accuser Corps. Now Super-Skrull proposes they stab her again. Mur-G'nn the sorceress explains that because she is a Kree/Skrull hybrid like the Sword (and the Emperor) she will be able to temporarily boost its energy so CM can absorb even more of it this time. Enough to destroy the Cotati Garden in the Blue Area of the Moon where they breed their soldiers and weapons.Human Torch objects that it nearly killed her last time she used the energy, but Carol is willing to accept the suicide mission. (Strangely no-one suggests that the extra power she gets from the Universal Weapon might allow her to safely take more energy from the Sword.) Johnny Storm asks Emperor Dorrek-Vell to decide, but before he can answer he gets a call from Panther asking for the use of the Star-Sword *himself*. Teddy Altman gets T'Challa to confirm that *his* plan doesn't require an Avenger to die. And to everyone but Johnny's shocked surprise he mentally sends the Sword to Wakanda. Kree Captain Glory and Super-Skrull protest at the Emperor's weakness, but Dorrek-Vell gives his rational reasoning that the original plan could have wasted 1 of their best weapons, Captain Marvel.Kree Tanalth changes the subject to what may be Hulkling's *real* test of fitness, the Pyre. She suggests Kl'rt tells him what happened to the Kral system, and the Skrull is dismayed that a Kree knows of this. Last issue he told Dorrek that the Pyre meant the death of a world, but now he ups it to the death of a sun, making it go nova and obliterating all its planets. The planets of the Kral system housed Skrulls who imitated human societies, but the Cotati infected some of the planets and would have taken them all. Kl'rt, Emperor of the then Skrull Empire, authorised use of Pyre on that system. (The destruction of Kral was told last issue from the Cotati POV, and also in the 2019 Guardians Of The Galaxy Annual.) The Earthers think this was genocide, but the aliens see it as killing billions to save trillions. And Tanalth reminds the Emperor that he may have to destroy the Solar System to save the Galaxy.Tanalth the Pursuer leaves the room followed by Captain Glory. He noted last issue that she referred to Ronan as a hero of the Kree Imperium, but when he died he was on the side of the Supreme Intelligence's Utopians. This struck him as odd and he started watching her closely. She may fool a gene scan but he's fought Skrulls long enough to recognise that *she* is 1. She admits it but claims that she has successfully worked to make the Kree strong again, which he knows and which is why he hasn't publicly exposed her.She further claims to have always known it was destined for the 2 Empires to form an Alliance, ruled by *her* grandson. And she reveals herself to be the long-thought dead Empress R'klll, mother of Princess Anelle and grandmother of Dorrek VIII/Hulkling. The 2 now agree to conspire to rid Dorrek of his human heroism.


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I'll dive right in and we'll pick things up as we go along.In Avengers Mountain HQ Reed Richards and Tony Stark have been working together to solve the problem of the Cotati and the Kree/Skrull Alliance.They've seen that the Cotati have planted a new Death Blossom on the Wakandan Vibranium Mound, which when it flowers in a few minutes will turn Quoi the Celestial Messiah into a god capable of controlling all plant-life throughout the universe. They've lost contact with Black Panther and assume the worst. (And we see what we saw last issue that Quoi and his father the Cotati Swordsman have apparently killed T'Challa.)They also don't know what exactly is happening on the Kree/Skrull flagship. (We see from last issue Emperor Hulkling/Dorrek-Vell revealed as a Skrull imposter, now attacking the real Hulkling who had been her prisoner. And Captain Marvel, Human Torch and Wiccan fighting Kree Captain Glory, Super-Skrull and hybrid sorceress Mur-G'nn respectively.) But we do know that the false Hulkling has triggered the Pyre which will detonate the Sun, also in a few minutes.Tony has created a Fantastic Four armour for Reed which has been programmed to take him to Wakanda at high speed, leaving Tony alone to save the Sun. Reed is worried about Tony since Stark realised he'd helped the Cotati defeat the Kree/Skrull Alliance (#1) who then turned out to be the real threat, intending to wipe out all meat-life in the universe - starting with Earth. But Tony reminds him how he created Iron Man to a short deadline in a cave with whatever he could lay his hands on. He says situations like that and this are when he's truly himself.Reed wishes Tony could give him a clue as to how he's going to do it. Tony picks up Reed's discarded FF uniform and says he's going to do what he does best, put the Sun in a suit.We now pop over to the Temple of the Priests Of Pama in New York to see what's happening in FF#23. Their martial arts wing the Dark Harvest have hooked the 2 alien kids up to an Omni-Wave Projector. Kree Jo-Venn and Skrull N'Kalla are the living histories of their species' versions of the millennia-long Kree/Skrull War. And the Omni-Wave is projecting it all into the minds of the Kree and Skrull troops of the Alliance, making them fight each other instead of the Cotati. Franklin and Valeria Richards along with Spider-Man and Wolverine are trying to stop the Priests.Now in the Kree/Skrull flagship the aliens have stopped fighting the Earthlings. Super-Skrull turns on Captain Glory, and hybrid Mur-G'nn is conflicted. Half Kree Captain Marvel struggles not to join in while the other Kree/Skrull hybrid Hulkling is spared being split because the inhibitor mask still stuck on him suppresses his shapeshifting Skrull half.Teddy Altman now wonders if Johnny Storm's flame control and Carol Danvers' energy absorption could stop the Sun from blowing up. Billy Kaplan says he could magic them there and keep them alive in space. But Teddy says he's not going with his husband, he's staying here to fix the Alliance situation.Wiccan chants a Protection/Teleport spell which brings him, Captain Marvel and Human Torch to the surface of the Sun. Johnny wonders why Billy doesn't just cure the Sun with magic, but Wiccan says there are limits to his power. HT wonders if he can do this without the rest of his FF family to support him.  Carol reminds him he was once an Avenger (in Uncanny Avengers) and so he's part of the Avengers family too. And Billy shouts "Avengers Assemble".Back on Earth near Lake Victoria Invisible Woman and Mantis are trying to stop a Cotati-possessed She-Hulk from beating Thing to death. Sue Richards suggests they combine forces. Mantis telepathically blocks Sue's pain and fatigue allowing IW to push her forcefield beyond her limits and drag She-Hulk off Ben Grimm. Ben tries to get through the Jennifer Walters and remind her that she's part of the FF extended family. The Cotati replies that Walters is dead. It opens an internal 'door' to access the total gamma power within, but is shocked by what it sees. And She-Hulk returns from the 'dead', shrugging off bits of Cotati.Alongside this scenario we see the climax of FF#23. Valeria and Franklin remind Jo-Venn and N'Kalla how they bonded in captivity and escaped by working together as a 'family'. And the young Kree and Skrull transmit *this* to the Alliance troops ...... and we see hostilities end on the Kree/Skrull flagship. The false Hulkling tries to resume control of the Alliance but her co-conspiritor Captain Glory reveals she is the long-thought-dead Skrull ex-Empress R'Klll, because the warrior bred to not feel guilt seems to have been stricken with it. The real Teddy Altman orders Mur-G'nn to teleport herself with Glory and Super-Skrull to the Sun to help there.Meanwhile in Wakanda Quoi and Swordsman get the news of the Dark Harvest's failure and the renewed assault by reinvigorated Alliance troops. All now rests on getting the Death Blossom to bloom. But then Black Panther is the 2nd Avenger to rise from the dead this issue. He at 1st claims his 'resurrection' is due to him being King Of The Dead, but then more prosaically that he used meditative techniques to greatly slow his metabolism while his Panther suit mended his 'fatal' stab wound (from last issue). He easily bests the Swordsman but Quoi retaliates by controlling the extract of the heart-shaped herb in his blood that gives T'Challa his powers. However it doesn't work, because Mr Fantastic has arrived in his armour that emits sonic frequencies that interfere with the Celestial Messiah's telepathic plant-control.Quoi leaps to the attack with 2 swords, but Mr F's reply is the 2nd "Avengers Assemble" of the issue - and a whole horde of heroes 'port in. As well as Invisible Woman, Mantis, She-Hulk and Thing we get Dr Voodoo, Scarlet Witch, Vision and Wonder Man direct from the Empyre: Avengers mini-series and Captain America from *his* Empyre mini-series. Thor is also here (presumably from *his* unpublished Empyre mini-series) plus Blue Marvel, Dr Strange, Spectrum, both Wasps and a load of Alliance warcraft. (We also see Ghost Rider and Wakandan Okoye later.)Back in Avengers HQ Tony Stark is talking to himself. He reasons that the Pyre system must work by increasing the density of the Sun's core by teleporting in denser elements. He's programmed the unstable molecules in Reed's costume (which among other things make the material able to survive Human Torch's nova heat) to replicate and remove the denser elements. He then sends the suit to the Sun. Meanwhile Glory, Mur-G'nn and SS add their efforts to those of Marvel, HT and Wiccan, as Carol Danvers shouts "Alliance Assemble" ...... and the Sun starts to cool down (but we don't know which solution worked, or both). In the flagship R'Klll is informed that the Pyre is shutting down, and the angry Empress drops her disguise. She blames her grandson Hulkling for this, and it is only now that he realises this R'Klll is the same R'Klll who was Princess Annelle's mother. Her attack knocks his inhibitor mask off, and Billy fights back to lock it onto *her* face, stopping her shapeshifting into more disguises or attack forms.In Wakanda Thor confronts Quoi. He has returned from a quest to his mother the Earth Goddess Gaea (definitely in his cancelled mini) and in her name he removes the Celestial Messiah's power over the plants of Earth. But Swordsman reminds his son that the Death Blossom will still let him control plants across the universe. So that's why Black Panther starts a sword duel with him, using Hulkling's star-sword, and is on the point of winning when Swordsman grabs Quoi and threatens his life (which doesn't go down well with the Cotati). The Cotati Swordsman claims that it is the human Jacques DuQuesne within him that sinks so low. But T'Challa retorts that the original Swordsman was an Avenger who died to save his love Mantis, so this action must spring from the plant half. And then he runs the villain through, and in doing so pierces the Death Blossom too.The War is over.Later they hear that the Death Blossom on the Moon was destroyed, along with the rest of the garden there, by the X-Men (led by Magneto in their #11). Mantis hopes that her son Quoi has seen the error of his ways. But while admitting that his path may have been corrupted by the 'toxic humanity' in himself and Swordsman, he claims that the meat-things are still ravaging the Earth's bio-sphere - and the only hope is to get rid of them.Tony Stark joins the gathering by hologram to learn that the Kree and Skrulls are peacefully accepting the Cotati's surrender. Reed tells Sue Richards that Galactic politics may be permanently changed. T'Challa allows the star-sword to return to its master Hulkling who has resumed command of the Alliance.


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The Kree and Skrulls have united under hybrid Emperor Dorrek-Vell (Hulkling) to destroy their ancient enemy the Cotati plant-beings on Earth's Moon. The Avengers went to help Quoi, the Celestial Messiah, and the Cotati. The Fantastic Four tried diplomacy with the approaching armada. But at the end of last issue it transpired that the Cotati were the real danger, planning to kill-off all non-plant life in the Universe and replace them with a plant Empyre - starting with Earth.This issue begins with someone flying his spaceship towards Earth to warn the Avengers of danger. All we know of him is that he tells his computer that he was born on Earth (which the computer thinks is pre-civilized and dangerous). But we're not going to see him again this issue.But back at the ongoing plot in the Blue Area of the Moon Quoi has Captain America, Iron Man and Thor tangled up in thick vines. Grateful for their help last issue he offers to let them live in the Cotati's new garden here. But Thor rails at him, asking what happened to the boy who fought beside him (Avengers: Celestial Quest mini-series) as part of the Avengers family? Quoi replies that he was born into the family (son of Mantis and the Cotati version of the Swordsman), raised by them (he claims Thor visited Mantis sometimes when he was young), but then she handed him over to the Cotati.'Swordsman' taught him how the Cotati had been badly treated by meat-life. Millennia ago the Skrulls tempted them from the plant-world with their meat technology, then the Kree slaughtered them for it. He knew from his human Swordsman memories how the the humans treated plants (like eating them and using them to make clothing). No plants would be safe until meat-life was purged.Now we join Swordsman with Black Panther, Captain Marvel and She-Hulk out in space accompanied by Ghost Rider in a quinjet turned Hell-vehicle. Kree Captain Glory is with them and tells them how all the plants in the Kree/Skrull spaceships have gone berserk (under orders from up-powered Quoi last issue) and are killing everyone on board. She-Hulk asks Swordsman what's going on. In answer he slashes her arm with his sword, and then cuts his own palm out of which blossoms a huge plant circle which forms a portal through which he escapes. But on the way out he repeats Quoi's offer - if they don't interfere they will be allowed to live.On the Moon Quoi is controlling the vines to reposition his 3 captive Avengers - he calls it human arranging. Tony Stark finally believes that the Cotati were behind the deaths of Bel-Dann and Raksor (Incoming 1-shot). He couldn't accept it before because they and the Celestial Messiah were nice pacifists.Quoi now explains that they've been experimenting with Death Blossoms (see last issue) for a while. They started in the Kral System of worlds where Skrulls pretend to be humans (1st seen in Fantastic Four #91-93) but the Skrull Empire detected them and destroyed the whole system (that event but not the reason for it was seen in a tale in the 2019 Guardians Of The Galaxy Annual). They improved the Blossoms and moved on to destroy a Kree military outpost. By now the Kree and Skrulls worked out what they were doing and started to build their Alliance. The Cotati tried to stop Bel-Dann and Raksor recruiting Hulkling as their hybrid figurehead Emperor, but too late (Incoming again). So the Cotati called in the Avengers to help them against the nasty Kree and Skrulls (Empyre: Av#0), but really as a delaying tactic until the latest Death Blossom was ready (last issue).But then Thor's hammer returns from the Kree/Skrull flagship where he sent it last issue. With Mjolnir in hand he calls down lighting which frees him and his 2 companions. However the Celestial Messiah's response is to create a plant portal and step through it. Cap isn't completely surprised because the X-Men use such plant gateways to and from their island Krakoa. Then Black Panther contacts them from space and they compare notes. But he also tells them that the Cotati have already made multiple attacks on Earth (we see plants smothering the Bryant Park New York Public Library). Thor portals our 3 to Earth where Panther, Ghost Rider and She-Hulk will join them. Captain Marvel will find the FF in the Kree/Skrull flagship.Captain Glory and Super-Skrull accompany her and find the FF, Hulkling, Mur-G'nn, Tanalth and a mixture of soldiers still fighting the plants. Seeds have taken root in the cracks in Thing's rocky skin and have fast-grown to begin tearing him apart. But Hulkling uses his magic Star-Sword Excelsior to hack him free because the vines seem to hate its touch. Carol Danvers offers to absorb that magic energy and use it as a weapon, so Teddy Altman 'stabs' her through the stomach with it. She fights the pain for as long as she can, and then even longer. But finally a wave of energy explodes out of her.She revives to find the flagship free of plants. Mr Fantastic tells her she nearly died but he used Tanalth's hammer as a defibrillator to revive her. Tanalth The Pursuer admits that it is the Universal Weapon used by Ronan The Accuser (who died in Death Of Inhumans #3) and that she has never been able to wield it the way he did. She suggests someone else might be able to do better, at which Captain Glory's ears prick up. But she instead turns to half-Kree Captain Marvel and offers *her* a place in the Kree Accuser Corps, with Emperor Dorrek-Vell's hurried approval.Carol takes the Weapon and immediately feels a oneship with it. She cautions herself to never let its power take her over. Tanalth bows to her and tells her to prepare to render judgement for the glory of Hala (the Kree homeworld) and of Earth if it survives the Pyre. Super-Skrull explains that the Pyre is the death of a world (ie Earth) which the Emperor (ie Hulking) may be forced to authorise.


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Last issue ended with Billy Kaplan telling Carol Danvers and Johnny Storm that he and Teddy Altman are married. We continue from there as he explains that it was in the last hour before Hulkling had to go off and become Emperor Dorrek-Vell of the Kree-Skrull Alliance (another replay of the scene in the Incoming and Lords Of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling 1-shots). Teddy suggested they get married and they arranged it all in that time! The other ex-Young Avengers all made it via a variety of superpowers and Billy's family got a live feed of the ceremony.Importantly their new symbolic connection means that Wiccan's magic can locate his husband. Last issue he told Captain Marvel and Human Torch that the 'Hulkling' who agreed to ignite the Sun to destroy the Earth wasn't Teddy, and now he can take them to the real deal.Meanwhile at Lake Victoria near Wakanda the Cotati who has taken over She-Hulk's dead body is pounding on Thing without let up, intending to kill him. Invisible Woman and Mantis are hovering nearby in a protective force bubble. Sue Richards tries blocking the blows with a forcefield but Shulk just punches through it. She tries little force bubbles in the foe's brain, but the dead enemy doesn't stop. The Cotati-Hulk tells Ben Grimm to just give up ...... but that's like a red flag to a bull to Thing. He pushes himself to his feet for his Fantastic Four family and the memory of his dead friend Jennifer Walters. But strangely most of all for the sake of the 2 Kree and Skrull kids they rescued (see Empyre: FF #0 and now the ongoing FF series). For them all he's not going to give up and not going to die. Just call him the Immortal Thing. (I don't need to mention that the current Hulk series is The Immortal Hulk.)In Wakanda itself Shuri is directing the defence forces. She sends air support to the vibranium mound where Black Panther is using Hulkling's magic Star-Sword to hold off an endless supply of Cotati troops. The Cotati want the soil of the mound to enhance their power. The planes ask where to target their fire, and T'Challa tells them to shoot at the greatest concentration of the enemy, ie where *he* is. He dodges through enemy blows and the bullets of his own side. But the Cotati don't slacken. They don't fear death and their numbers are ever-renewed.Then a Cotati sorcerer reaches the sacred mound and sacrifices his life to open a plant-based gateway. BP prepares to cleave the portal with the Star-Sword. But another sword pokes through the gate and stabs him. Followed by the Cotati Swordsman and Quoi, the Celestial Messiah.News of this Cotati success reaches the Kree/Skrull Alliance flagship. But 'Hulkling' isn't bothered by it. It will ensure that the enemy's concentration is fixed on Earth while the Pyre builds to burn the world. At that point Wiccan teleports in to confront the Emperor who orders the Kree/Skrull hybrid sorceress Mur-G'nn to send him away. But then Billy brings in CM and HT and a prisoner they found in a cell - the real Teddy Altman in a Skrull inhibitor mask which prevent him from shapeshifting.Super-Skrull is stunned that he has failed to protect his liege. Mur-G'nn says nothing (but last issue she sent Danvers and Storm to Billy Kaplan so probably she'd already suspected what was going on). The Kree Captain Glory protests that it's a lie (but we know that he's in on the deception). As Torch carefully burns off the mask, Teddy tells them it was the Kree Tanalth who imprisoned him. Captain Marvel says that Tanalth gave her the Universal Weapon and made her a Kree Accuser, so that's probably why the Weapon was 'fooled' by the false Hulkling. But as an official Accuser she suspends the Emperor's authority and tells him not to trigger the Pyre. But Dorrek VIII says the Pyre has already started, and he challenges his accuser to Kree trial by combat.(We know from the end of #3 that the not-present Kree Tanalth was actually the Skrull ex-Empress R'Klll. Captain Glory exposed her but then joined her. It is almost certain that Emperor 'Hulkling' has been R'Klll since the beginning of last issue.)In Wakanda Swordsman finds T'Challa dead, and Quoi plants a Death Blossom in the vibranium soil. But Invisible Woman, Mantis and Thing are still holding out against 'She-Hulk'.In Avengers Mountain Reed Richards gets news that the Sun is heating up and the Death Blossom is planted. It will bloom in 10 minutes, but the Sun will explode in 9. Then we see that he is wearing the '4' armour that Tony Stark has been working on.


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In Empyre: Avengers #0 the Cotati led by Quoi, the Celestial Messiah, and the Cotati wearing the image of Swordsman called the Avengers to the Blue Area of the Moon where they had created a garden but were about to be attacked by an armada from the new Kree/Skrull Alliance. In Empyre: Fantastic Four #0 the Fantastic Four rescued a Kree boy Jo-Venn and a Skrull girl N'Kalla from an arena where they continually fought while the spectators bet on them. Then they warped back to the Solar System and found themselves in the middle of the armada.Mr Fantastic is recording things in his thought journal as he tells his children Franklin and Valeria to take the alien kids to safety in the spaceship's escape shuttle. Franklin Richards protests that *this* is surely a situation where he should use his dwindling cosmic power, even if it uses it all up, but his dad talks him out of it. Val offers to let him stay and *she*'ll pilot the escape pod, but Reed reminds her she failed her driving test. So off the 4 go (and we'll see what happens to them in FF#21).Sue Richards makes the FF and their craft invisible, and Thing steers them to a window on the flagship's command deck. Inside they see Hulkling on a throne with a big sword backed by Super-Skrull and Kree Tanalth the Pursuer plus another Kree and a blue-skinned(!) Skrull female. But Kl'rt has the powers of the FF and is able to detect the cloaking and dispel it. Teddy Altman welcomes them and offers to answer any questions. Reed Richards knows Hulkling is a Young Avenger and wonders what part the Avengers are playing in this.On the Moon Tony Stark is also making a mental record in his Iron Man armour of what's happening in case things go badly. He includes a brief version of Kree/Cotati history. Millennia ago the Skrulls organised a contest in the Blue Area between the primitive Kree and the Cotati plant-beings. The Kree built a city and the Cotati a garden. The Cotati won but the Kree nearly wiped their species out (and started the Kree/Skrull War).Swordsman takes the bestial She-Hulk aside to give her a useful weapon, as Quoi approaches them again, this time with 2 humanoid plant guards (the sessile Cotati seem to have returned to mobility with a vengeance). He eschews all honorific titles and promises his allies the Avengers that there is a place reserved in the garden for them forever. (Reading this again after getting to the end, that now seems ominous rather than friendly.) She-Hulk rejoins them and she now has Jennifer Walters' intellect, courtesy of an amber hammer and Cotati meditation techniques (she must be a quick study). Thor isn't so sure this is good (he's been having a sexual relationship with the Hulk version).The armada approaches the Moon and Captain Marvel contacts them to warn them off. But then Tony Stark also contacts them holographically and is surprised to see the FF and Hulkling. Meanwhile Reed has been thinking and has worked out that Hulkling is just a figurehead. The real Alliance was formed by Kl'rt and Tanalth, the  current Skrull and Kree rulers. Teddy confirms that he accepted the job because it would end the Kree Civil War as well as Kree/Skrull hostilities.Iron Man is displaying the proceedings to the Avengers via his chest uni-beam. Hulkling says the Cotati will be allowed to surrender, but their garden must be destroyed as a threat to the Galaxy. So say Super-Skrull and Tanalth, and he believes them. Stark interjects that this is an obvious PR move to cement the alliance (as Quoi told him in Emp:Av#0), but Teddy will have to get his sword bloody to make it stick. Iron Man tells Hulkling to stand aside and let the Avengers deal with it. Ghost Rider drives the quinjet with Captain Marvel, Black Panther, She-Hulk and Swordsman inside. He uses his demonic powers to turn the spacecraft into a Hell-Vehicle and charges towards the fleet.Reed tells Sue he's not sure whether to believe either side is right. He tries to persuade Hulkling to stop the fight and try diplomacy. Kl'rt urges him not to listen. Ben Grimm asks Teddy if he *wants* to be a puppet ruler. But Hulkling responds to that by being decisive and ordering Super-Skrull and Captain Glory (the other Kree) to go out and stop the Avengers but without casualties. Invisible Woman tries to stop them but they seem to melt away. The 4th member of the cabal (apparently a Kree/Skrull hybrid named Mur-G'nn) had used an illusion spell to disguise their departure. And the remaining players prepare to attack the FF.The Ghost-quinjet spit hellfire to disable other spacecraft by delivering GR's penance stare which makes warriors experience all the evil they have committed. But Captain Glory is gene-modded to feel no guilt. However he follows Hulkling's order and only destroys the quinjet's engines. The other 4 leave GR and go outside to do things personally. Panther, the Avengers' leader, hacks into the enemy comms and tells the super-foes that they will be stopped. At his command Captain Marvel rockets into Glory and propels him from the field of battle. T'Challa tries to reason with Kl'rt, who attacks him with a combination of FF powers. She-Hulk fastball special's Swordsman to slash Super-Skrull.Captain America, Iron Man and Thor are still on the Moon. IM attaches a device to Thor's hammer, and Thor sends Mjolnir into the other fight within the flagship control room. It aims for Hulkling but Teddy's sword stops it in flight, to the astonishment of everybody. But I guess this was part of Tony's plan because he remotely activates the attached device which corrupts the armada's computers stopping all the ships in mid-flight.Quoi thanks the Avengers for their aid, but then turns sinister. They have delayed the fleet long enough for a plant called the Death Blossom to flower. And it enhances the Cotati's power so that they can take the Universe back from meat-things for its true owners, plant-life. And exact vengeance for all the crimes meat has committed against plant. And Quoi causes all plant-life in the Kree and Skrull ships to rise up and kill the inhabitants (which includes the FF). He declares that the plant Empyre will begin on Earth.


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The Empyre War is over (Empyre #6) and the Cotati have been banished (Empyre: Fallout Fantastic Four 1-shot). Now it's time for a wedding.But 1st a flashback to the death of the Skrull throneworld Tarnax IV by Galactus (FF#257) where Empress R'Klll supposedly died. But now we know she's been impersonating Kree Tanalth The Pursuer and then hybrid Hulkling/Emperor Dorrek-Vell. So now we'll find out how come she *wasn't* dead.She was on Tarnax with her daughter Princess Anelle watching the destruction and waiting to die. Anelle chose this moment to confess that she and Kree Captain Mar-Vell had a child. Her mother says she knew about that shameful incident. But what she didn't know was that Anelle saved her son from Emperor Dorrek VII's wrath and sent him and his nanny to Earth where Mar-Vell might find him. R'Klll is overjoyed because there is hope for Skrull Empire while this lost prince might return to lead them. And she reveals her dream of Skrulls and Kree united to rule the Galaxy with Anelle's hybrid son to lead them (under R'Klll's own control presumably). But then her senile husband ruined it all by killing the boy. Or so she thought.She now revealed to Anelle that she had a way of escaping. R'klll had been ready to die with her lost hope, but now she wanted to live. The translocation device in her crown could take them far away. But taking Anelle along would increase the chance of it failing. So she chose to go alone and leave her daughter to die a 'holy martyr'.In the present captive R'Klll, in an inhibitor mask to stop her shapeshifting, is relating all this to her grandson Hulkling, Emperor of the Kree/Skrull Alliance, with Super-Skrull and Kree Captain Glory. Teddy Altman is aghast that she left his mother, her own daughter, to die. R'Klll says a true ruler has to be ready to make sacrifices for the good of the Empire. And she tries to sow dissension in her captors by reminding Teddy that Super-Skrull killed his nanny/foster-mother (Young Avengers (2005) #9).R'Klll also explains that the real Kree soldier Tanalth died in a Skrull dungeon long ago. After she escaped Tarnax and hooked up with some Skrull scientists she mimicked Tanalth's form, Power Skrull tech gave her the extra strength and speed, and a new nano-process masked her Skrull DNA from all scans. When she learned that this nano-thing was known only to these scientists, she killed them to protect her secret.Then she 'returned' to the Kree as Tanalth with juicy Skrull secrets to win her favour with the Kree Empire. She was rewarded by being made a Pursuer. Then she rose in the ranks during the chaos of the Inhuman takeover of the Empire, the destruction of Hala, the Kree Civil War, the death of Ronan The Accuser and the 'defection' of the Supreme Intelligence to the opposing side in the Civil War, so that Tanalth was at the top table when the Alliance was founded. Her dream of the combined Empire was cemented when Hulkling was found and raised up as Emperor Dorrek-Vell.R'Klll admits that Teddy Altman's conciliatory style of ruling does seem to have allowed him to succeed in bringing the Alliance to victory where she, disguised as him, failed. But she still says he should have destroyed his other allies' planet Earth (with the Pyre). She claims that the Earth heroes only care for themselves and predicts that they'll all turn on him eventually. Teddy says his husband Wiccan will always stand by him, but R'Klll says that *she* shot her Emperor husband in the back for cowardice.Then we skip back a day to Teddy and Billy's proper wedding on the Alliance flagship. (They had a quick ceremony in Las Vegas just before Teddy took up his Emperorship, with only their fellow Young Avengers in attendance (shown in Empyre #5).) A rabbi reaffirms their union (Billy is of the Jewish faith) and Kree Colonel Kal-Torr and Skrull General J'Bahzz give their races' blessings, naming William Kaplan-Altman Prince Consort to Emperor Theodore Kaplan-Altman and Court Wizard to the Kree/Skrull Alliance.Everyone who is any(super)one is at the wedding party (see my Comments for some extras). Captain America and Tony Stark remember when they tried to stop the YA being heroes (in their original series). Cap regrets not taking them in and training them instead. Tony likens that to Registering them, a joke that doesn't go down well. Thor smooths things over with a toast to Hulkling's father the deceased Captain Mar-Vell (Tony has Skrullian fruit juice).Teddy is especially saddened this day that his parents and foster-mother are all dead. Billy asks if his foster-mom ever tried to contact Captain Marvel. Teddy thinks so, but Mar-Vell was usually off-Earth (until he died early back in the 1st Marvel Graphic Novel) and probably never got the messages and so never even knew he existed. The current Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, did know her predecessor well and says he would have been proud this day. Carol's half-sister the Kree Lauri-Ell, who has been made an Accuser and given dead Ronan's personal Universal Weapon, expresses her unworthiness but her Emperor says she has also been the accused and opines that this will make her wield her power with compassion.Alpha Flight Commander Abigail Brand interrupts them to 'borrow' Colonel Danvers. She was Carol's friend and 2nd-in-command and she took over that Interstellar Defence And Diplomacy Agency when Carol resigned. So Carol is taken aback when Abigail is angry with her. It turns out that she's miffed that Danvers never told her anything about the Cotati or the Alliance until it was too late. Alpha Flight should have been involved from the very beginning. Such things shouldn't be left to the Avengers. And maybe there wouldn't have been so many civilian deaths. So Brand tenders her resignation from the Flight during a dramatic exit.Tony Stark and Carol Danvers are chastened. Invisible Woman tries to convince them that Alpha Flight would probably have made the same mistake of trusting the Cotati over the Kree and Skrulls with the evidence at hand. But Mr Fantastic points out that it was the Fantastic Four/Avengers/Kree/Skrull co-operation which enabled them to win the War, which is a lesson they should all learn.Billy tells Teddy that it was weird how everyone hangs on his every word. Black Panther, King of Wakanda, overhears and advises Hulkling to get used to the responsibility. Sunspot, their old boss in Avengers Idea Mechanics, chips in tongue-in-cheek that he and others from that old team will be watching to make sure he keeps on the straight and narrow. Ms America, who was with the duo in the later Young Avengers, chimes in agreement. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), who was with them all through the YA, tearfully reminds them that the team started at a wedding.In the present R'Klll continues her monologue as Hulkling, Kl'rt and Gla-Ree leave her cell. She maintains that the Empire will shatter, and the Avengers and Alpha Flight will let it happen. But Super-Skrull is more interested in his idea of giving Earth a gift of the Kree/Skrull ships wrecked by the Cotati (Empyre #2). Glory doesn't think much of junk as a gift, but SS says they are the graves of their honoured dead. Captain Glory just continues that the Earthers could rig them with explosives as a space minefield.Emperor Hulkling tells them both to shut up. He accuses Kl'rt of burning his (foster-)mother alive, and of using the Pyre to destroy the planets of the Skrull Kral system which had been infected by Cotati. SS is willing to accept execution for his crimes. But Hulkling gives the warrior a worse punishment of transferring him from the army to the diplomatic corps. Captain Glory helped R'Klll impersonate Hulkling as Emperor, so he gets the same punishment. But Gla-Ree refuses to accept it because he was gene-modded to be a warrior. And he willingly accepts instead a life-sentence in prison. And he adds that he'll be there ready to serve again when the Emperor needs him.We end with a glimpse of the future. Hulkling is lying injured with his star-sword broken. Among the dead soldiers around him is Captain Glory. He mumbles that his grandmother was right. And standing over him in triumph is Abigail Brand (with an X-logo on her uniform). She says after she left Alpha Flight she built a better team. Behind her we see 3 indistinct figures plus the teleporter Manifold.


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OK, as of Empyre #2 the Cotati have been revealed to be the villains of the piece because they intend to wipe out all non-plants in the Universe, starting with Earth. Meanwhile the Kree/Skrull Alliance are the lesser villains intent on stopping the Cotati by exterminating *them*. And now it's Battleground Earth with our population caught in the middle.Some Avengers (Black Panther, Captain America and holographic Iron Man) have convened with some allies (Black Knight, Dr Voodoo, Scarlet Witch and holographic Vision) and some Agents Of Wakanda (Ka-Zar and Okoye with holographic Mockingbird) in the Garden briefing area in the Wakandan helicarrier. Tony Stark reports that he's working on an anti-Cotati weapon. Director Okoye reports that her Agents and the Avengers are working together to minimise the fallout of the war.Vision is actually with Agent (and X-Person) Dr Nemesis flying to Central Park to meet Luke Cage to investigate a mass of 'roots' choking the Reservoir. Nemesis diagnoses the stuff as a fungus. Vision phases through the vegetation, detects a common 'heartbeat' and discovers a being at the centre of it all connected to the roots. (But that's all we'll see of this scenario this issue.)Mockingbird is driving a fast car in the Mexican desert. Her passenger is Wonder Man, and they're racing Quicksilver towards a village which is the site of a battle. Pietro Maximoff gets there 1st and saves a young boy while punching both sides. But 2 Cotati wizards stop him with some large spores and then he's hit by a spear in the shoulder. Bobbi Morse slams the car into some Cotati, and then Simon Williams' ionic strength and her guns non-lethally take some more down. The Kree/Skrull troops rally and the Cotati are defeated.Quicksilver pulls the spear out and the Avengers see the soldiers killing downed Cotati. They try to stop them but the aliens turn on *them* with electro-zappers. Bobbi and Pietro fall but Wonder Man's ionic body doesn't feel it. However the pacifist hero just disarms them rather than hitting them. And in return the soldiers just threaten semi-conscious Mockingbird with swords unless he lets them finish their job.Back on the helicarrier the non-holographic heroes study a holographic globe displaying data from the Wakandan satellite system enhanced by the magic of Dr Strange and Odin. As T'Challa explains that it's hard to distinguish Cotati from terrestrial plant-life but they have mapped major incursions, Captain America has a side-word to welcome Black Knight who has recently been hunting Giants and Elves left over from War Of The Realms (in the Punisher Kill Krew mini-series).Suddenly the globe shows a flare-up in the Antarctic Savage Land. They try to contact Ka-Zar's wife Shanna Plunder (and their son Matt) but can't get through. Voodoo teleports Ka-Zar and his Smilodon Zabu there along with Black Knight and Scarlet Witch (leaving just Panther and Okoye behind). They are immediately attacked from all sides by Cotati. Dr Voodoo deflects their mages' flung spores, and the usual teamwork is winning the day when Man-Thing erupts from the ground and scatters our team. And accompanying him is Shanna, now with green skin and definitely working with the Cotati.


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A mixture of Avengers, Agents Of Wakanda and other allies have gathered together to oppose the Cotati, who intend to wipe out all animal life from Earth, and have split into teams to handle 3 specific threats.But before we get back to them we see some other folks fighting on some other fronts. The Wakandan Hatut Zeraze take on Cotati archers near Khartoum. The Warriors 3 defend Little Asgard in Broxton. And Captain America helps soldiers hold Washington DC (as seen in the Empyre: CA mini-series). Okoye reports other incursions in Caracas, Lisbon, Manila and Yokohama to Black Panther.  He says he'll send reinforcements if asked, but now he's taking the Wakandan helicarrier back home. Wakanda has not been attacked yet, but he is convinced that they will be a target soon. (This obviously occurs between Empyre #1-2, where BP was in space, and #3 where he is defending his country against Cotati attack.)Now we return to the scheduled battles.Central Park Reservoir has been overrun by a fungoid growth. Vision has gone down inside to investigate, and reports up to Dr Nemesis and Luke Cage that he detects something like a heartbeat. He might say that it matches that of Luke, but his signal breaks up. As does the surface of the lake as a green being bursts forth, closely followed by the synthezoid who informs them that they face Plantman, who used to be human Samuel Smithers but has become a plant elemental servant of the Verdant Green. And he's now willingly allied with the Cotati to rid the planet of meat. The Cotati have shown him how to further enhance his powers, and now he creates an army of vegetative soldiers.Near Navojoa Mexico Mockingbird, Quicksilver and Wonder Man have helped a Kree/Skrull force defeat a Cotati army, but they objected when the Alliance started killing prisoners. Now the aliens have Bobbi Morse and Pietro Maximoff at their mercy and threaten to kill them unless ionic Wonder Man surrenders. Instead pacifist Simon Williams talks his way out of the problem. He gets a leading Skrull to admit to the Kree that he doesn't really believe in their Alliance, and when this war's over the Skrull Empire will beat heck out the Kree. The boss Kree declares the Skrull unfit to lead the combined force, and the 2 sides forget about the Avengers to fight each other.The remaining more-than-half of the issue concerns the 3rd group in the Savage Land. Last issue Black Knight, Dr Voodoo, Ka-Zar and Scarlet Witch went there to protect KZ's wife and son against the Cotati, but when they got there they found that the aliens had 2 allies:- the vegetable Man-Thing and KZ's wife Shanna.Dane Whitman wakes from being drugged by alien spores to find himself without his sword sharing a cave with the smilodon Zabu and a loin-clothed man who turns out to be not Ka-Zar but his son Matthew Plunder. Through a grill of stalactites and stalagmites they see the Cotati surrounding Jericho Drumm and Wanda Maximoff both unconscious at Man-Thing's feet while a green-skinned Shanna holds her husband aloft in a powerful grip. Some time ago in Savage Wolverine #3-4 she died and was resurrected with blood from the local Man-Thing and now she is linked to the Savage Land and it's Man-Thing with extra powers (but she didn't turn green). (And I guess this here is the Savage Land Man-Thing.) Now she has allied with the Cotati who also respect the Land, and she wants Kevin Plunder to join her.Voodoo and Witch's bodies may be immobilised by Cotati plant magic but Jericho Drumm's astral body visits Matthew and the Knight while Wanda enters Shanna's mind, where she finds a non-green Shanna meditating. As soon as she makes herself known the She-Devil goes feral and attacks her. As mental Shanna slices her arm with a blade, Wanda's real body spasms. To distract the Cotati's attention Voodoo enters Man-Thing's 'mind', and the combination breaks Black Knight, Matthew and Zabu free. Wanda brings Ka-Zar into his wife's mind to try to reason with her. Shanna complains about Kevin dashing off to join the Agents Of Wakanda, and before that not listening when she told him how since her resurrection she felt everything that happened in the Savage Land. The Cotati have shown her how to control that power and not go mad.In the outside world Knight, Matt and Zabu are battling the Cotati. Their wizard throws some magic spores, but Voodoo gets Man-Thing to absorb them and knock the sorcerer out. And as Kevin and Shanna embrace in her head, Shanna's body loses it's green. But a Cotati who never trusted Shanna as an ally sees what's happening and strikes. As Shanna returns to her senses she sees him impale Ka-Zar on his sword.


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This issue follows the 3 teams of Avengers/Agents Of Wakanda to the conclusion of their stories.We start with the big cliffhanger from last issue in the Savage Land where Shanna saw her husband Ka-Zar killed. In fact we start with Shanna remembering their lives together:- Their 1st meeting in KZ(1974)#1-2 (vs Malgato and Maa-Gor). Their growing love. Building a home in the Savage Land, getting married and having baby Matthew Plunder. (At some point Matt had a large growth spurt, explained in Fantastic Four: Prodigal Sun as due to a time portal.) Now she and Matt see Kevin Plunder impaled by a Cotati on Black Knight's Ebony Blade.Then to maintain the suspense we switch to Central Park where Dr Nemesis, Luke Cage and Vision are fighting the plant-life Cotati's ally Plantman and the fungoid minions he calls his Sprout Soldiers. The transformed Plantman has Cage trapped in his vegetable body. Vision buries his hand in the mass, and the pain causes PM to let Luke go. Nemesis fires nano-herbicide bullets at the Sprouts as Cage throws a police car at them. Sam Smithers just grows some more but Vision aborts them by boiling the water in the Reservoir with his solar beam. Then another car takes the boss down. Vizh tries to report to Black Panther in Wakanda but can't get through.Then we join the 3rd team in Mexico. Wonder Man is trying to stop Kree and Skrull soldiers fighting each other (after he got the Alliance soldiers arguing last issue in order to get out of another situation). Mockingbird is trying to help. Then Quicksilver recovers from his wound and rushes around disarming the warriors, and then dashes off to dump the weapons in the Gulf Of California.Now at last we can return to the main bout in the Savage Land. Black Knight, angry Matt and Zabu the sabre-tooth tiger are battling Cotati warriors with the aid of Dr Voodoo piloting Man-Thing. Shanna confronts her husband's assassin. The Cotati leader Veltri isn't happy with him either because Shanna was their ally (as was the planty Man-Thing before Jericho Drumm took him over). But last issue the She-Devil realised that Veltri had warped her psychic connection to the Land to make her support the plant Cotati against the meat humans. And now she uses the power her connection gives her to kill the assassin.Scarlet Witch's spirit form deals with the mage Veltri. And then she returns to her body to help Ka-Zar, and calls Voodoo to leave Man-Thing to help too. Jericho complies because he thinks he's broken the Cotati's influence over the muck-monster. Wanda Maximoff senses Kevin's soul within the blade, but if KZ's body dies they won't be able to return it. Shanna prepares to take her husband into the waters which once resurrected her and gave her the link to the Land (Savage Wolverine #4).Meanwhile BK, MT, Matt and Zabu are hit by hail of Cotati arrows. Wanda and Jericho struggle to keep KZ's soul in the sword. And as Shanna bathes her husband another arrow heads *her* way. But she uses her power to shatter it in flight, and then she calls on Kevin to return. There's 1 of those blasts of light and he's back, better than ever. He says the Land now realises the danger of the Cotati, and the plant-beings find themselves surrounded by dinosaurs. Game over.As Dr Voodoo corrals the Cotati in a magic cage, Shanna explains that Ka-Zar is now linked to the Land as she is. Man-Thing wanders off as usual. Scarlet Witch uses magic to try to report to Panther. But she gets Shuri who tells her that T'Challa is dead (see Empyre #5) and Wakanda is under siege.


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The
Cotati forces, led by Shi Qaanth atop the mighty giant Man of Earth, are
destroying Mexico City when a combination of NATO aircraft and Kree/Skrull
ships arrive. The alien allies reveal their plans to leave the bulk of the
fighting to the Earth forces while they provide air support, planning to nuke
the city and their human allies should they have to. Captain America leaves them with a
threat should they bomb the city while NATO forces or civilians are below. Cap
leads his troops into battle on the ground against the Cotati, blowing up
vehicles to create barriers of fire to contain the enemy. Kree/Skrull ships
fire upon the Man of Earth but are unable to damage it and the giant reaches
the fault line through the city. Cap leaps aboard an alien flier and heads to
the top of the monster where he faces Shi Qaanth. Realizing the villain’s power
lies in his staff, Cap smashes it and the Man of Earth crumbles….
The
next day, Cap is found alive in the rubble and told they have won. Then a
messenger arrives to tell Cap something big is happening in Wakanda….
Story
continues in EMPYRE #6.


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Captain America and his troops are in San Antonio, Texas, holding off the Cotati when
their Kree/Skrull allies arrive in spaceships to attack the enemy from the air.
Problem is, the alien allies are not concerned with preserving human life as
they go about systematically destroying the city. Cap rebukes the Kree and Skrull
captains who resent having to care about the Earth people but they bring news
that Shi Qaanth and his army, including a giant monster called the Man of
Earth, are marching on Mexico City. Cap contacts General Woodley explaining the
situation and Woodley, possessed by the Cotati, promises Cap his full support
after he consults with their NATO allies. The Kree/Skull leaders tell Cap they
had better contain the Cotati or the aliens will take care of the matter by
destroying Earth….
That
night, Cap’s squad asks why he needs them since the Super-Soldier can handle
anything. Cap tells them of the Benouville Bridge during the war when Cap and a
small team of commandos were led into a trap and Cap was trapped by a Nazi
weapon; the men should have fallen back but instead they came to Cap’s rescue
and half of them died; for every story about Cap’s heroism, he has a story
about the people who helped him. They notice Spec. Bennett is missing and find
him capturing the minds of other soldiers and the Kree and Skrull allies. They
shoot down Bennett and rescue the others but Cap recognizes that General
Woodley is also under Shi Qaanth’s control and they race to Brussels…
…where
NATO officials are meeting with Woodley. All of the nations there offer
military aid but with political conditions attached. Woodley and his corrupted
aides erupt into vines to capture the bodies and minds of the leaders present.
Cap and his squad arrive to fight the Cotati-controlled soldiers and destroy
them. Cap makes a stirring speech and the NATO leaders agree to support him.
Meanwhile, the Kree and Skrull captains agree between themselves to let the
Earth troops destroy themselves trying to overcome the enemy and then they will
bomb the Cotati and Mexico City off the map….


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The
Cotati have invaded Earth to start their mission to exterminate all
animal-based life in the universe. The US military is fighting them at Fort
Myer in Arlington, Virginia and losing when Captain America arrives on the
field to rally the soldiers and lead them against the enemy. Cap identifies the
Cotati leader, Shi Qaanth whom the solders then fire upon, hitting him in the
eye. Shi Qaanth’s tentacles bring down Cap’s aircraft and another vine goes
down the mouth of Specialist Bennet before Shi Qaanth dissolves into the wind.
Bennet seems okay and Cap assembles a squad consisting of Specialist Bennett,
Sergeant Major Cherry, Sergeant Russo, and First Lieutenant Herrero; they fight
their way through the enemy lines to sanctuary in the besieged Pentagon. Cap
meets with General Woodley, suggesting that they go to the aid of Mexico and
South America to support and strengthen America’s allies but Woodley disagrees,
insisting American troops should be defending American soil, including Captain
America. Cap goes out and informs his squad and the rest of their division that
they are needed in Mexico to aid their allies and the troops enthusiastically
join him….
Inside
the Pentagon, Bennett lies in wait for the General and when he appears, the
vines snakes from the soldier’s mouth to Woodley’s bringing him under the
control of Shi Qaanth too….
Near
Mexico City, Shi Qaanth marshals his forces and scatters seed that enters the
ground, raising a giant made of tree and stone….


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The Empyre War is over and the Kree/Skrull Alliance troops have brought the surviving surrendered Cotati to the Blue Area Of The Moon where they had their garden. Watching them from the shadows is the Area's current sole permanent inhabitant, the Unseen.The last craft to arrive is a Fantastic Four ship containing the 'substitute FF' (Franklin and Valeria Richards plus Spider-Man and Wolverine still clad in their FF costumes) along with the Kree and Skrull children, Jo-Venn and N'Kalla, who they've been protecting and Alicia Masters/Grimm. As the substitutes meet up with the real FF the alien kids, who now get called Jo and Nicki, drag Alicia off to tour the place where the millennia-long Kree/Skrull War began.But then they are distracted by running into Emperor Hulkling/Dorrek-Vell to whom they bow down in worship. But he gets them to rise and tells them that their actions (FF#23 and Empyre#6) brought the Alliance even closer together (and helped win the war). At that point Quoi is dragged past doing a Scooby villain impression ("Everything would have worked perfectly if not for you ... interfering little cubs")Logan senses the watcher and feels like he should know him. Thor tells him it's the Unseen who's taken on the role of the deceased Uatu The Watcher, to watch and never interfere. Thing wonders if he's shown up like Uatu because something important is about to happen, or just because they're invading his home.Captain America, Iron Man and Mr Fantastic want Quoi to tell them where he and the Cotati got their advanced weapons from, far beyond those of the Kree and Skrulls (and presumably us humans). The Celestial Messiah won't say, but Reed Richards says he's called for a specialist opinion. Another spaceship arrives and disgorges the Profiteer, the Elder Of The Universe that the FF rescued Jo and Nikki from (in Empyre: FF#0). IM hands her a Cotati sword, and the arms dealer to the Galaxy says she'll study it but there'll be a price to be discussed later.Thor says it's time get rid of Quoi and the Cotati and Emperor Hulkling agrees. Black Panther releases them from their vibranium shackles. Quoi immediately attacks his 'uncle' Thor but Invisible Woman encases him in a forcefield. Franklin Richards goes with Thor and his mother Sue to transport the Cotati to another world far away where they won't be able to find their way back. Angry Quoi protests that this world is barren, but Thor takes the plant-power he got from his mother Gaea (probably in the unpublished Empyre: Thor miniseries, but used as a weapon against Quoi in Empyre #6) and gives it to the planet to turn it green. Then the heroes go home.The Unseen has viewed all that with the Watcher's eye, and now he turns his gaze on Mr Fantastic and Captain Marvel (accompanied by Alicia, Thing, Wolverine and Jo & Nicki) carrying the ashes of Bel-Dann and Raksor, Kree and Skrull enemies who became friends and were killed (in the Incoming 1-shot) by the Cotati as they aided the Alliance. The group honour their wish to have their ashes mingled in the Blue Area's tunnels where they spent much of their lives.Peter Parker and Johnny Storm have a buddy-moment together. Spidey explains that they were late arriving because the alien kids made them take them to Disneyland 1st (as promised at the end of FF#23). Peter also asks about Johnny's new alien 'soulmate' Sky, whose world-system declared them totally compatible. Peter likens it to his relationship with Mary Jane which failed but now has blossomed again, and so seems fated.Profiteer gathers everybody together to tell them that she's examined *all* the Cotati weapons and that she's never seen anything like them before. The only thing she can add is that they are older than any of the Elders Of The Universe (who are survivors of some of the earliest species in that universe). So for her payment she claims all the 'crystalline batteries' in the weapons. Plus the return to her of the alien children.Everyone says no, but she produces the original contract she had with the Kree and Skrull Empires. They wanted the pair, the Kree Chronicle Of Blood and the Skrull Requiem Of Shapeless Souls, raised to fight each other (see Emp:FF#0). But that couldn't be entrusted to either Kree or Skrulls so they made a deal with the independent Profiteer. And now the Kree and Skrulls are bound by that contract to hand the kids over again.Someone, this time Mr Fantastic, shouts "Avengers Assemble" but Profiteer expects the Kree/Skrull troops to oppose them. However Emperor Hulkling asks to look at the contract. And then he points out that the Kree and Skrull Empires no longer exist, there is now only the Alliance. So he rips the contract up, and Profiteer leaves in a huff.The FF invite Jo and Nicki to become part of their 'family'. Hulking agrees but by royal decree he gives the into the care of Ben and Alicia Grimm, who are overjoyed to be getting an (adopted) family. The kids are all for it too. (And it seems that *this* is the event the Unseen was here to witness, which will change the fate of 'countless galaxies'.)Sue Richards asks if it's true that She-Hulk and Thor are an 'item', and Jennifer Walters answers "Verily". Fire-heroes Human Torch and Ghost Rider bump fists. And everyone goes home.When he's alone the Unseen examines the Cotati weapons. He concurs that they pre-date the Elders, and also the Asgardians and the Celestials. The Watcher's eye tells him that they belong to the 1st race of the universe. And then the previous owner of the eye, Uatu the Watcher, erupts from it and declares that there will be a reckoning.


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A previously-unseen female Elder Of The Universe, the Profiteer, has taken over the Casino Cosmico from fellow Elder Grandmaster. She is taking bets on the outcome of simulations of battles taken from the millennia-long history of Kree/Skrull War. The audience chooses the scenario, but the fight is always between her 2 champions Jo-Venn, the Kree Chronicler Of Blood, and N'Kalla, the Skrull Requiem Of Shapeless Souls. Both are living histories of the War's atrocities, and have been bred from birth to hate each other.The audience chooses the lava wastes of Lorkanna 6, which was historically won by the Skrulls. Bets are laid and the duel commences. N'Kalla shifts to an Argovian fang-bear and relieves Jo-Venn of his shield and pins his sword arm. But Jo grabs the helmet from a fallen Kree and uses its metal crest to slice open the bear's throat. The Skrull is encased in a medical stasis field and the Kree declared the winner.Profiteer gives her medi-bot 3 hours to repair N'Kalla before the next bout.Meanwhile the Fantastic Four, including the kids Franklin and Valeria, are on a cosmic road-trip but a plasma flare has drained the quantum battery of their spaceship, and they're stuck on an asteroid. It isn't considered a good idea for Franklin Richards to use some of his dwindling power to get them home. Then Human Torch spots a passing ship (actually ship-shaped with cosmic sails 'n all) and sends up a flare.Cap'n Barnooka offers them a tow to the nearest spaceport but won't accept payment in universal credits. Not because of the FF's fame for saving the universe several times, but because the universal credit system has broken down. He'll only accept barter. He recognises Thing as the guy who 'went the distance' with Torgo (original FF#92-93) and suggests he enter the All-Comers fight at the Casino Cosmico. The prize-money will be enough to refuel their ship. Johnny Storm immediately declares himself Ben Grimm's manager and offers Barnooka front-row seats at the match in return for the tow.At the Casino N'Kalla's wound is proving difficult to mend, and even Jo-Venn has internal injuries. Profiteer needs them to be really well because she needs the bouts to last longer or her clientele will dwindle. An advisor suggests that Grandmaster would have allowed the contestants to rest longer, but Profiteer says that's because her 'brother' was only interested in the game, she is all about the bottom line. But she *will* consider who else is on the bill tonight.The FF arrive at the Casino with Johnny talking up Thing as a contender. Reed and Sue tell the kids to stay and guard the ship, really to keep them out of the gambling den. But when they're gone Valeria Richards trades the ship to the Casino for a load of chips. She figures her genius will allow her to win enough to buy back the ship and get some fuel.Torch is trying to get his 'boy' in the ring but he needs to pay an entrance fee. The fight-master is willing to take the vibranium cast on Thing's arm (a 'souvenir' of his fight with Hulk in current FF#12-13). Ben will be up after the next Kree/Skrull War re-enactment. They hear Profiteer remind patrons that this is the only place you can now see the War as she introduces the next scenario which has Chronicle and Requiem in the lightning minefield of Outpost Omega during the final assault on New Hala.Reed Richards wonders what could have terminated the interminable Kree/Skrull conflict. Sue Richards reminds him that *they* stopped the War for a while at Black Bolt and Medusa's wedding on the Moon (FF Annual #18). Ben wasn't there because he chose to remain on the Beyonder's Battleworld after Secret Wars I. So they have to explain how Kree Bel-Dann and Skrull Raksor were finishing off the War as a duel of representatives of their species, but the FF tricked them into allying against the Earth heroes - and the alliance stuck. But Reed now reveals that (in the Incoming 1-shot) he and Blue Marvel found the 2 dead on Earth after they'd been secretly working together. Mr Fantastic plans to have a look round in full view of surveillance cameras, but signals Invisible Woman to follow him invisibly.Meanwhile Franklin blags the kids' way into the casino by claiming to be members of a slow-ageing Valerian species. Valeria calculates the odds and places all their chips on a no-lose bet - but only gets 1 chip back.Ben and Johnny are watching the match. Ben is appalled at the bloodthirsty crowd. And then the Kree loses his helmet and is revealed as a mere child. Thing leaps into the ring and rips through a forcefield. The fight-master warns him that his entrance fee will be forfeit if he disrupts the match. Ben's reply is to invite Johnny to join him, and Human Torch flames on.Profiteer sees what's going on and quickly turns it to her advantage. She introduces them as a special attraction, Human Torch and Thing who participated in many of the most epic Kree/Skrull battles. And she initiates a new round of betting.But MF (and IW) invade her 'office' and Reed accuses her of being behind the collapse of the galactic economy and the ending of the Kree/Skrull War. She denies it and claims instead to be supporting the economy with her business and keeping the War 'alive' here, and also keeping the populace's mind off the big problems with the usual bread and circuses. She further claims the War has been a reliable source of profit for all, and caused advances in science, medicine and weaponry. She admits that she's using 2 children in her fights but claims that they are (for some reason) the best hope for the Kree/Skrull Alliance to fail. Reed now has confirmation that such an alliance exists. As Profiteer sends 3 armed and armoured warriors to attack him he notices on a monitor screen Frank and Val in the casino looking unhappy. He sends Sue to help them.Ben and Johnny have discovered that the Skrull 'warrior' is also young and a girl. They try to keep the pair apart but the kids are giving them a hard time. They claim to have been trained from birth to kill each other, but won't accept the Earthers belittling *either* of them.Valeria is still managing to bet, this time in a dice game. And Invisible Woman sneakily arranges for her to win. Apparently this wins them enough money to cash out, but Sue lets them know she's here and tells them to keep going. They win more money on 'roulette' and the jackpot on a 'wheel of fortune'. Invisible Sue advises them what to do at 'poker' overriding Val's claims to have calculated the odds. Profiteer's advisor contacts her to warn her that something's going on ...... but the boss is too busy trying to stop Mr Fantastic accessing the controls of the combat arena. He triggers his favourite scenario before grabbing a big gun and destroying the machinery.In the ring the combatants find themselves at the wedding in the Blue Area of  the Moon again and the alien kids take the roles of Bel-Dann and Raksor, which means they have to fight the FF not each other. The children defeat the 2 heroes and for the 1st time in the Casino's history both Kree and Skrull are declared joint winners. Which discombobulates them.Profiteer and her guards now have Mr Fantastic in shackles. She comes to reclaim her child assets but HT and Thing stand against her. But then Sue and the advisor show up with Franklin and Valeria laden down with jewels and stuff. The advisor says they broke the bank with an incredible run of 'luck' and now they own the Casino. But Val offers to hand the Casino back in return for their ship, some fuel (they forget about Ben's vibranium cast) and the contracts on the child warriors. Profiteer reluctantly agrees. The Kree and Skrull kids go with the FF but promise to return 1 day to kill the Elder.In the FF's ship Jo-Venn and N'Kalla keep verbally sniping at each other but we can see they no longer really mean it. Reed declares the vacation over and they warp back to the Solar System. Where they find themselves in the middle of an armada.


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Conan got stranded in the 21st Century at the end of the Avengers: No Road Home limited series. He then found himself in the Savage Avengers series in the Savage Land fighting his old Hyborian enemy the sorcerer Kulan Gath. This ongoing battle has involved him with various heroes and Dr Doom, who abducted him from South America to Latveria in #7 and then the pair of them with Dr Strange fought Kulan Gath in Egypt. At the end of #10 Doom sent Conan back to SA.Now the Cimmerian has made his way up to Mexico City where he's watching a Lucha Libre wrestling match. But he gets bored and starts his own fight in the audience. However all the fighting stops when the root of a giant tree smashes through the ceiling. The root is a support for a Cotati warship (ie a giant tree), and its mobile plant inhabitants have decided to convert the City's population into fertiliser before continuing on to the main battle in Wakanda (see Empyre #3). Conan thinks they are minions of Gath. He saves a food street-vendor from some Cotati but is struck by an arrow which is presumably poisoned and renders him delirious.He experiences a vision of Atali, the Frost Giant's daughter, who he tried to rape in a tale in Savage Tales #1. She claims to have had nightmares about him since then, but the now genuinely giant-sized girl will now have her revenge and is about to swallow him ...... but Venom (Eddie Brock) pulls him back to reality and greets him. Conan and Venom fought the wizard together in #1-5 (although the symbiote was independent of any host then so Eddie must be relying on *its* memories). Now Venom thinks they should team up against these invaders. Conan seems to have lost his weapons so Venom gives him a parking meter to use as a cudgel. And they begin despatching Cotati.Conan's fight spills into a club whose patrons haven't noticed the mayhem outside. But Venom calls him back out with a plan. He's stealing a tanker truck full of petrol and wants Conan to cause a diversion. The Barbarian spots a farmer mowing down plant-people with a combine-harvester. A Cotati fatally stabs the farmer but Conan whacks *him* and promises the Mexican revenge if he'll show him how to work the machine. And he starts mass slaughter.Then Venom and the truck show up. Eddie drives at high speed up over some parked cars which launches it into the air as he leaps out of the cab. (Eddie possibly gives it added momentum with Venom's strength.) And the petrol tanker flies straight into the 'mouth' of the tree (where tendrils had been dragging people) and explodes, destroying the whole tree-ship.Conan leads his partner to the stall of the man whose life he saved earlier and they both get a free meal.


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Ikaris is levitating among the clouds when he's attacked by a Deviant warship. He's caught in an electro-net, kept unconscious with a brain mine and taken to the Deviant City Lemuria (sunk beneath the Pacific Ocean by the Celestials 2nd Host about 16,000 BC). He's taken to the Deviants' ruler Priestlord Ghaur, who's expecting him.Ghaur took over leadership of of the Deviants after the death of Brother Tode (in Eternals vol 2 #2) and has long schemed against Eternals and humans. He now intends to make Ikaris the unwitting cause of the Eternals downfall. In a genetics lab he demonstrates his complete mind-control over the Deviants via knowledge of each one's unique DNA by causing a scientist to pour acid over his own hand.The location of the Eternals' city Olympia is secret but Ghaur intends to have a tracking device implanted in Ikaris' brain so that they can uncover it. Somehow this device is implanted mentally by electrodes linking Ghaur's brain to that of the Eternal. They will let him go and then Ghaur will mentally follow him to Olympia, after which the implant will dissolve.Ikaris awakes as Deviants are carrying him away from the lab. He feels somewhat weak so he just uses his eye-beams to blast a way out of the city and flies home to Olympia, but collapses a short distance from it. When he awakes again an unknown woman approaches and flirts with him. But then she reveals herself as the illuion-caster Sprite, the permanently-teen Eternal. Ikaris explains what little he knows of what happened to him, and Sprite detects traces of mind-invasion. But Ikaris never knows when to trust her, although he did miss her while she was gone. ((S)he was Excluded between the 2006 series and the current 1.)Ikaris pauses to mourn at the grave of his half-human son of the same name about 1,000 years ago. While on a mission in Minoan Crete he married a human and had a son who longed to fly. Ikaris made him some wings and promised to teach him how to use them. Unfortunately he was called away to battle Deviants for a long time and the impatient boy took to the sky by himself. He flew too near to airless space and died, eventually falling back into the sea. Ikaris buried him and took his name as his own. (We don't know his previous name, and no-one ever uses it.)Gilgamesh interrupts his reverie because Sprite had said she was worried about him. Gilgamesh offers support and Ikaris says that he never agreed with Zuras' decision to banish him as the Forgotten One. The other reminds him how Sprite brought the Forgotten One back from exile to foil a Deviant plan (original series #13). And Ikaris reminds *him* of his famous labours (because he apparently did some of the Labours attributed to Hercules). The pair head into the city.In Lemuria Ghaur is promising his people revenge on the Eternals. He reminds them how the Celestials came to Earth and turned some protohumans into the fixed 100 Eternals, who dwelled above humans and remained changeless, and short-lived Deviants, who dwelled in the depths and proliferated with wildly-varying DNA. The warlike Deviants then conquered early human civilisations. But the Celestials returned and sank Deviant Lemuria beneath the waves. Since then the Eternals have always stopped the Deviants from reconquering the surface world. But now that he has found their mountain home his people will attack and destroy their foe, leaving them free to conquer once more.Olympia is at peace under the rule of Thena since the death of Zuras. As Thena spars with the friendly Deviant Ransack The Reject, Gilgamesh and Ikaris chat with the other friendly Deviant the intellectual Karkas. Then the Deviant Warships attack. Phastos has to admit that Olympia's defences are currently down for maintenance, although the camouflage system should still have prevented anyone from finding the place. The heroes fight valiantly but are being overwhelmed. So Ikaris flies Gilgamesh to the control tower where they initiate the Uni-Mind which gathers in all 100 Eternals and merges them into itself. It is able to drive off the invaders with bolts of energy.Afterwards Sprite tells Ikaris that while in the Uni-Mind she detected Ghaur's tracking device but reassures him that it's dissolving. Ikaris in turn tells them all how the Forgotten One helped him save the day. Ghaur urges his scientists to develop greater weapons, but is haunted by what he saw in Ikaris' mind.