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No surrender: part 2
Last issue the world was spirited away from its orbit (we don't yet where it's arrived at) which caused major problems like earthquakes and erupting volcanoes. 1 casualty was Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis. Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) are fighting to save him in hospital when Beast's advanced bioscan reveals something strange.Most of the supercharacters on Earth have been frozen in a mysterious stasis. The only ones unaffected are some current and previous Avengers who have been called together in Avengers Mansion by a figure out of their past who *we* have never seen before. Now this woman is given a name - Valerie Vector known as Voyager. We now learn the history of this heroine long thought dead, and it seems even those who weren't around to meet her personally know all about possibly the greatest Avenger of all.Falcon and Lightning recall how she was 1 of the founding members in #1 of the original series, even giving the team its name. Quicksilver comments that she was the only founder who stayed with the team when he, his sister and Hawkeye joined in #16. (Captain America stayed too but he wasn't a founder.) Sister Scarlet Witch reminds us of #58 where Vision (now 1 of the frozen) joined. (We see panels from these issues reproduced with Vector added in the appropriate art style.)Hercules introduces the last flashback to #69-71 and the contest between Kang's team of Avengers and the Grandmaster's array of opponents. Voyager faces Victory the Electromagnetic Man in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But her portal field reacts with his energo-field and they both appear to disintegrate. Grandmaster declares that fight a draw.Now Valerie explains that Victory did die but she was taken out of existence and out of memory. (Does this mean the Avengers and everyone else forgot she existed, and the memories only returned when *she* did?) She says she was in a dreamlike state where she could see time passing in the world. (This is portrayed as a stream of comicbook covers. Was she in the place where Gwenpool goes when she leaves the panels of her comic?) When the Earth was stolen she returned to reality (in front of the Pisa Tower falling over) and sent out the call for the Avengers to assemble.The Avengers want her to lead them as the only founding member still standing (Hulk (Bruce Banner) is dead, Iron Man (Tony Stark) is missing, Thor Odinson has been replaced by the female Thor (Jane Foster - not dead yet), Henry Pym (Ant-Man) is now merged with Ultron, Wasp (Jan Van Dyne) is frozen along with nearly-founder Captain America), but she defers to the current team leaders Citizen V (U.S. Avengers), Falcon (Avengers) and Rogue (Unity Squad from Uncanny Avengers).Toni Ho (ex-Iron Patriot) (standing with her USAv team-mates Cannonball and sort-of Red Hulk (Gen'l Maverick)) confirms that they've lost all orbiting satellites including the Alpha Flight space station, but AIM is launching low-orbit drones to give them *some* communications facility. Falcon asks if magic can help but Doctor Voodoo and Scarlet Witch (with *their* UAv compatriots Human Torch (Johnny Storm) and Synapse) say the situation has made magic unreliable. (To complete the roster the so-far unmentioned currently-unattached Wonder Man is standing aside.)We leave the stymied Avengers and head for Wadi El Rayan in Egypt where a beam from the sky deposits 2 groups of aliens.1 team we recognise - the Black Order/Cull Obsidian that used to work for Thanos. Black Dwarf, Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight and Supergiant were the original team from the Infinity crossover. Black Swan was an independent agent also involved in that storyline, but only became a member of the Black Order just with Proxima Midnight in the Unworthy Thor mini-series. This is the 1st time all 6 have been together. And although most of them have been killed in the past only Supergiant reflects that by being incorporeal.The other team called the Lethal Legion also includes some familiar faces. The 2 Blood Brothers are back (1 of them was killed in the pre-Secret Wars III universe, but in the rebuilt multiverse they're a duo again - see the Avengers Standoff event). The Kree Captain Glory may be Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr)'s father of the same name (dead but so what), or the evil alternate universe version glimpsed in MB(2000)#6. Moyln the Metal-Master an Astran like Moylb the MM from the original Hulk #6. Mentacle appears to be a Rigellian head on a tentacled body. Drall of the Endrionic Empire, gladiator from beyond the stars, and Ferene the Other are more difficult to connect.Both sides immediately leap into battle. Supergiant's astral form tries to take over Captain Glory's body but Mentacle mentally repels her. Black Swan eye-blasts a Blood Brother. Ferene dodges Corvus Glaive's weapon (a glaive - look it up). Metal Master takes control of Black Dwarf's axe. The Blood Brothers attack Ebony Maw who makes them think he's elsewhere (or does he really teleport out of the way?). Drall and Proxima Midnight clash weapons.The conflict is halted by an explosion and 2 voices who say they're not allowed to fight until the pyramid is activated. (We saw a black pyramid land in the Colosseum last issue.) They should take time to survey the battleground. The opponents withdraw with ill grace.The Order's leader Corvus reminds his people that there are 'designated obstacles' in the game. He proposes they destroy these before the game starts.Back with the Avengers the 3 team leaders are stepping on each other's toes, so Valerie Vector reluctantly steps up. She asks what they're doing about the frozen members. Hercules and Wonder Man have gathered them together (we see Enigma, Squirrel Girl, Vision and Jan-Wasp), and possibly Beast can cure them when he's finished with Jarvis. Voyager agrees with Rogue's idea of dividing into 2 or 3-person teams.But then a screen comes on showing Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight floating in the air. They tell the Avengers they're in the way. Falcon connects to some birds and sees that the pair are directly above the Mansion. Which gets blown up (and it's only just been rebuilt in UAv#30).


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No surrender: part 5
The Earth has been abducted to act as a board for a game, and all superbeings but a large group of Avengers have been 'frozen'. However these Avengers aren't the players or even the game pieces. They are merely 'obstacles' to be overcome by 2 teams of aliens.The players are the Grandmaster (as usual) and an unknown opponent - 1 whom we are now going to learn more about. Known only as the Challenger he seems to have a personal grudge against his foe even though they were once friends. But the rules of the game have just been bent. The 2 teams have been vying to grab 2 Pyramoids. But now 1 of the obstacle Avengers has taken 1 of them.That Avenger was the Human Torch, and the Pyramoid just vapourised him. Lightning had zoomed here from the site of the other Pyramoid to warn his friends that the same thing happened to the alien Black Dwarf when he won that target. But he got here just too late.Here is Peru, and the other place is the Colosseum in Rome. The alien teams are the Black Order and the Lethal Legion. 3 of the Order (Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight) were contending against Captain Glory, Drall and Ferene of the Legion. Now they all withdraw from the field, leaving the humans with the victory.Synapse wants to follow them for revenge, but team leader Falcon says their priority must be saving the locals from the lava flow that had been caused by the fiery Pyramoid. He sends Red Hulk and Wonder Man to deal with that. But Lightning blames himself for Johnny Storm's death and insists on racing back to Rome to tell Rogue what happened - Rogue who was in a relationship with Torch.But we don't follow him there immediately. Instead we pop in to Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan where Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) are still tending comatose Edwin Jarvis. Wasp has a theory about what's wrong with him. He's been butlering for the Avengers for so long he's got something she names Avengers Fever - all the toxins  and strange energies and radiations the various Avengers have been exposed to over the decades have accumulated within him.In Rome the other Avengers team are also helping civilians who were caught up in the battle of aliens. Cannonball and Quicksilver were both sent home injured last issue. Rogue now only has Hercules and Thor (Jane Foster) with her, and she's continuing to doubt her leadership abilities. Then Lightning turns up with the bad news about Johnny's death.But at the same time we find out that he and Black Dwarf are probably not dead. They've just been removed from play and encased in giant crystals. Challenger gloats that Grandmaster lost an opportunity to even the score - an 'obstacle' won the point which means the gameboard is now beating him. En Dwi Gast replies that he deliberately chose Earth to play on because of its level of difficulty - for both players. This is Avengers World whose inhabitants have beaten the Phoenix and Thanos and changed Galactus from Devourer to Lifebringer.Challenger gets angry at Grandmaster reminding him of his name - which he has only because Gast stole *his*. And we learn of their shared past. They are both Elders of the Universe, unique survivors of the earliest races in the universe. (We see them with others who appeared early in the Marvel Age - Collector, Contemplator, Gardener and Possessor.) When they became (virtually) immortal they each took up a hobby/obsession to fill their time. En Dwi Gast and the so far unnamed Challenger both chose gaming, and frequently played against each other.After a while the Elders adopted names related to their hobbies, and he who is now the Challenger became the Grandmaster. He suggested Gast could be the Gamesman or the Competitor, but Gast was envious of his friend's superiority. Their games became more competitive and the stakes rose until they played a final game to establish the greatest gamer of all time. (Actually it was just a standard chess layout with strange names for the pieces and moves.) The loser would be banished from reality until the end of the universe. Grandmaster suggested this was madness but En Dwi was adamant. And he won (with deliberate irony he is depicted as winning with the same move that Grandmaster beat him in the 1st game we saw). And as his opponent faded away Gast claimed the name Grandmaster for himself.Challenger relates how he was in an existence with no time, no space and no self. There he waited alone for the universe to end. (These 2 sentences are contradictory.) But then the universe, indeed the multiverse, *did* end (Secret Wars III). And it restarted, but the Challenger was free. And now he's here for a rematch with the same stakes (but a different game). In his anger Challenger starts to throttle Gast, but is reminded that would constitute cheating and so Challenger would suffer his fate again. Challenger says he'd do it if he was losing, but since he's winning he'll leave En Dwi for the worse end.Last issue the teams were fighting for 2 Pyramoids representing Earth and Fire. Now it's time for the other 2 elements Air and Water. This time Challenger gets to choose his element 1st (I couldn't see what difference it made last time *who* played *which* element) and he chooses Air which means the Pyramoid will be guarded by thunder and lightning. Grandmaster is left with Water which he says in this case means ice.Gast reminds Challenger that his Black Order team started with only 6 members to the Lethal Legion's 7 (this means they count the 2 Blood Brothers individually). And now he's lost Black Dwarf who won the Earth point, so he's 2 players down. But his opponent laughs and says he was never a player short. He's kept a special pawn in reserve ...... and we go deep under the ruins of the Mount in New Mexico where there's a green glow and the words "Help me" on a green background.


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No surrender: part 3
The Earth was stolen by person or persons unknown, and the Avengers are investigating. But last issue they were gathered in Avengers Mansion when Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight of the Black Order blew it up.We go back a few seconds as Quicksilver detects what's happening. But there's no time for him to save himself never mind everyone else. The rest of the Black Order (Black Dwarf, Black Swan, Ebony Maw and Supergiant) join the duo to survey the wreckage. Supergiant can detect no life signs. Black Dwarf wonders at Earth being chosen as the site for their contest because it had the Avengers to act as 'obstacles' - obstacles which have now been removed in 1 fell swoop.But now we learn that the Avengers are *not* dead. Voyager, the alleged original team member who supposedly died and was forgotten about, used her power to teleport them all to the Av Auxiliary HQ. (This too was forgotten about by everybody, including me. It was seen in the original #13 when the team were hiding from the Government.)Valerie Vector even brought along the 3 Avengers who were in a 'frozen' state - Enigma, Squirrel Girl and Vision (presumably Wasp (Jan Van Dyne) is there too). (They along with many other (presumably all) supercharacters were frozen in #675.) She is drained by the effort of transporting so many people, and others are affected by the move, but Pietro Maximoff races around insisting that they spring to counterattack. The 3 team leaders Citizen V, Falcon and Rogue recommend planning 1st. Rogue suspects there's something more going on.We already know there's some sort of contest between the Black Order and a new Lethal Legion. Now we learn that the game is being run by 2 players, 1 of whom is the usual suspect the Elder of the Universe known as the Grandmaster. His unrevealed opponent seems to have the Black Order as his team of pawns. And whoever loses the game faces being wiped out of existence.We see 5 pyramids on display which Grandmaster refers to as representing elements. They start the game proper by each choosing an element - Earth for Grandmaster, Fire for his foe.Dr Toni Ho (still listed as Iron Patriot even though she's relinquished the armour) gets in touch with Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) to let them know the group are OK. The duo are at a hospital looking after Edwin Jarvis who was injured in #675. But his encephalogram is is showing unusual activity as though his brain is fighting itself.When the Earth was moved its satellites were left behind which crippled most communications systems. The good AIM Toni now leads has transferred a lot of her equipment to this HQ, and she's organised a comms system based on fibre optics and cell towers. Her latest success is a global alert system ... which sounds off to tell them about cosmic events happening in the Colosseum in Rome and a site in Peru. Amongst other things there are sightings of alien warriors which the Avengers assume are the Black Order.Citizen V (Roberto da Costa) suggests they split into 2 teams which Voyager can take to the troublespots, and a small force can stay here in reserve. Scarlet Witch says she and Doctor Voodoo will stay to see if magic can unfreeze their comrades. Protective Pietro is glad that his sister Wanda will stay here in safety.Falcon offers to lead the squad to Peru, and he picks Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Gen'l Maverick (who initiates his hour of Red Hulk power), Synapse and Wonder Man (who is a pacifist but can help save innocent lives).Rogue claims Rome. Quicksilver assumes he'll be on this team, even though he and Rogue aren't on good terms. But Anna Marie chooses Thor (Jane Foster), Hercules, Lightning and Cannonball. Pietro is angry but Rogue says she needs people she can count on. He dismisses Synapse's attempt at sympathy. (He and Emily Guerrero were starting a relationship before Rogue threw him off the Unity Squad for causing Synapse to get injured in battle in Uncanny Avengers (2015) #29.)Voyager takes Rogue's team to the Colosseum where they don't see any Black Order but other aliens fighting unseen foes. We met them last issue as part of the Lethal Legion. They are the 2 Blood Brothers plus 2 new aliens Mentacle and the new Metal Master (Moyln). Hercules and Thor leap to the attack. The Legion recognise them as 2 of the designated 'obstacles' to be overcome. Lightning (Miguel Santos) feels outclassed by the Goddess of Thunder and Lightning. Rogue lets Voyager leave them to go transport the 2nd team.Valerie takes Sam Wilson's group to Cusco where there is an obvious pitched battle between members of the Black Order (Corvus Glaive, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight) and people we recognise as the rest of the Lethal Legion (Captain Glory, Drall and Ferene).But we go back to the Avengers HQ where Voodoo and Witch are examining the 'statues' of their friends. Quicksilver just sulks in a corner. Wanda suggests he follow orders until he can win back Rogue's respect. But the volatile speedster just zooms off and across the Atlantic towards Rome. Scarlet Witch wonders whether a hex will unfreeze 1 of them. Dr Voodoo suggests they start with Vision. The synthezoid is the easiest to put back together if it goes wrong, and his connection to Wanda (they used to be married) might work in sympathy with her spell.In Rome Cannonball smashes into 1 Blood Brother while Hercules battles the other. Metal Master propels metal objects in the way of hurtling Rogue. Mentacle mind-blasts Lightning. Thor throws Mjolnir at Metal Master, but he diverts it back to hit her and Herc. Rogue is already down and Mentacle takes out Cannonball. She tells the BBs to pick up the Pyramoid in the Colosseum to win the point.Just then Quicksilver arrives and defeats all 4 aliens. But at the same time his sister succeeds in restoring Vision to 'life'. However this causes Pietro to assume a frozen state instead. The aliens recover and start beating him up.


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No surrender: part 6
Grandmaster and Challenger have stolen the Earth to use as a gameboard. They have put most of the Earth's superbeings into stasis apart from a large group of Avengers to function as obstacles on the board to be overcome by 2 teams of aliens, each chosen by 1 of the players. Challenger has the tried and tested Black Order. Grandmaster has assembled a seemingly random group that he has named the Lethal Legion.The object of the game is for the aliens to battle past the Avengers to reach elemental Pyramoids placed on Earth. For the 1st round Grandmaster put the earth Pyramoid in Rome and Challenger put fire in Peru. Black Dwarf of the Black Order won the earth Pyramoid, but the Avenger Human Torch gained the fire Pyramoid. And both appeared to be disintegrated when they touched the targets. But we know that they were merely removed from play and are held in stasis. However Lightning has just raced from Peru to Rome to let team leader Rogue know that her lover Johnny Storm is 'dead'.As she struggles to recover from the blow Voyager teleports in to tell them that Toni Ho (ex Iron Patriot) has detected 2 more Pyramoids in New Mexico and the Antarctic. Roberto Da Costa (Citizen V/Sunspot) wants them all back at Avengers Auxiliary HQ. But angry Rogue wants to take the fight to the foe immediately. And Lightning, Hercules and Thor (Jane Foster) support her.Back at HQ Roberto and Toni have contacted Falcon, leader of the team in Peru. Toni says 1 Pyramoid is at Los Alamos whipping up a superstorm for its protection, and the 1 in the Antarctic is producing freak icy conditions. (Last issue we saw Challenger choose the Pyramoid of air, and Grandmaster was left with that of water.)Falcon turns to his remaining 3 team members but Red Hulk suddenly reverts to (still-red) Gen'l Maverick. Hydra messed up his power (during Secret Empire) and now he doesn't get the full hour of power, and also in his human form he has heart problems. Synapse and Wonder Man help him as Sam Wilson contacts Voyager to ask her to port Maverick to the base. But she replies that she's only got enough energy left to get Rogue's team to the Antarctic.Roberto Da Costa says he's sent a quinjet to them for transport. But he can solve Maverick's problem and the manpower shortage at the same time quicker than that. The General is replaced by Roberto along with Doctor Voodoo and Scarlet Witch. Dr V used magic to exchange their places. And their ranks have been swelled even more because Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) is with them. It seems that when Torch was killed she was de-'frozen' to make up the numbers. (As earlier Quicksilver was temporarily frozen when Vision was briefly restored.)The quinjet arrives to take them to New Mexico. Wonder Man elects to fly under his own steam because he wants to make a detour ...... which takes him to the Lenox Hill hospital in Manhattan where Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) are looking after comatose Edwin Jarvis. After Simon Williams gets a reunion hug from his old pal Hank McCoy he brings them up-to-date with events including the 'death' of Torch. Beast wants to go out and help but WM says the Avengers want him and Nadia to keep trying to save Jarvis.Wasp mentions their latest theory that the butler may be suffering from an accumulation of alien energies, toxins and radiation that he's absorbed from his long association with the team. And she has a brainwave that suggests Wonder Man might be able to help with part of that. The science fiction handwaving that follows goes something like this:- Radiation causes atoms to eject electrons becoming positive ions. Simon's body consists of ionic energy that he controls. Thus he can absorb radiation. (I'm ignoring the bit which claims that magnetism is caused by the attraction of positive and negative ions - irrelevant and wrong.)So Hank asks Simon to sense the electromagnetic radiation in the air. And then sense it in Jarvis and draw it out. But WM eventually says there's no radiation in Jarvis. And that their whole theory must be wrong. (But surely he's only disproven/cast doubt on the radiation part.)Now we turn to the Antarctic for the obligatory battle scene. The Black Order (minus Black Dwarf lost in the earlier round) are struggling through the deep cold and a snowstorm which surround the water Pyramoid. Voyager brings Rogue's team to the site. Thor slams Ebony Maw with Mjolnir and then moves on to Supergiant, Lightning zaps Proxima Midnight and Hercules tackles (literally) Black Swan. Meanwhile Rogue starts to take her anger out on Corvus Glaive. As Voyager takes on Ebony Maw while Herc and Thor tag team Black Swan, Rogue brutally beats her opponent and then punches through his chest.Proxima Midnight sees her husband die and is about to throw her spear that never misses at Rogue when hurled Mjolnir knocks her sideways. Swan wants to retreat but Midnight is filled with bloodlust. The Avengers celebrate victory. They've forgotten about Supergiant who plans to take control of Thor's mind and use her to kill her allies. But then Ferene of the Lethal Legion appears and disposes of her. She figures *she* can now attain the prize for *her* team.And in the ruins of the Mount the voice from last issue speaking in green claims to be trapped with someone else - someone unstoppable and unkillable. (And as last issue we can guess it's Bruce Banner and the Hulk.)The cover sports a 'Where is Wolverine' button and in a separate epilogue we see him in Peru, frozen in stasis like most superbeings.


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No surrender: part 1
In a lonely garage in Texas Miguel Santos is playing poker with some guys he's just bought a stolen car from. Their boss walks in and recognises him as Living Lightning. The undercover superhero says it's just Lightning now (to avoid confusion with criminal Living Laser) as he turns electric. The boss taunts him as an ex member of the Rangers (when they were an Initiative team), not good enough to be an Avenger. Santos blasts them harder than he should have.After the authorities arrive Miguel complains to a detective friend that no-one remembers he was an Avenger, in the West Coast branch and later in the recombined team. It seems the cop is his boyfriend (we learned Miguel was gay when he attended a meeting of the Great Lakes Avengers thinking GLA meant Gay/Lesbian Alliance) but their planning for a date is interrupted by a red sky heralding what Santos describes as a Crisis, sorry, the end of the world.The red sky is seen by Falcon in New York too - this time we see it emanating from an explosive point. A distracted driver flips his car into the air. Sam Wilson saves him while real falcon Redwing divebombs pedestrians to herd them out of the way of the crash. Beast monitors reports from all over the US even as we lose connection with satellites, and comms networks start to go down. And Spider-Man (Miles Morales)'s spider-sense goes haywire. There's a world-wide eruption of tornadoes, volcanoes and earthquakes - Dr. Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum is shaken. Aircraft are grounded and emergency services are snowed under.Vision can't contact Alpha Flight space station. But we can go there where Aurora, Puck and Sasquatch tell us that from their perspective the Earth and Moon have vanished. Captain Marvel orders a more detailed investigation and wants Abigail Brand to contact friendly alien races.Carol Danvers' fellow-Ultimate Black Panther is in Wakanda and still in contact with Beast and Vision. The Wakandan king will confer with other world leaders. Beast will check in with the U.S. Avengers currently in Europe. But his measurements suggest it isn't the satellites and Alpha Flight that have gone - Earth has been moved.Vision has lost contact with Beast and Panther and joins Falcon who is urging people to vacate buildings because of the threat of quakes. But he can still reach nearby Thor (Jane Foster) who seems to be in Rockefeller Centre. The statue of Atlas falls over dropping it's huge globe. Hercules stops it from rolling over bystanders and lifts it on his shoulders like Atlas. (Although if this *is* the Rockefeller statue then presumably for dramatic purposes the version on Marvel Earth has a solid globe for the Earth rather than a metal frame representing the heavens.)Elsewhere in the city Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis and Wasp (Nadia Pym) are doing their bit to keep people safe. Jarvis is buried in rubble as he pushes a young boy out of the way of danger.The Uncanny Avengers Unity Squad are in San Diego which is threatened by a tidal wave. Synapse tries to keep people calm with her mental power, but Doctor Voodoo is concerned because she's still recovering from injury (UAv#29). Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Rogue, Scarlet Witch and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) are flying above the wave. Rogue rescues a boat and then Torch vaporises a lot of the water. Wasp rescues him when he falls from exhaustion. Wanda Maximoff prepares a spell to disperses the rest of the wave.In New Mexico Hawkeye and Red Wolf from the Occupy Avengers series are investigating the ruins of Alanna Springs. They find a rubble-trapped woman but releasing her also frees some live electrical wires. Clint Barton nullifies them with an EMP arrow.The U.S. Avengers (just back from rescuing Cannonball from space in the last issue of their series) are dealing with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Sam Guthrie flies overhead to track the lava flow. Enigma fires blasts to slow it down. General Maverick, red-skinned but not otherwise Red Hulk, is presumably using a big gun to do the same. Squirrel Girl appears to be punching flying debris while wondering if Earth has been taken to the Negative Zone, the Microverse or the newly-discovered (Amazing Spider-Man #590-591 - not that recent) Macroverse.Toni Ho is sitting in front of a contraption working her laptop with 1 hand while holding a ball of force in the other. She's oblivious to danger until her girlfriend Enigma flies her out of the way of a falling lump of flaming rock, reminding her that she hasn't got the Iron Patriot armour these days. The device is thankfully unharmed and Toni uses it to expand the force ball to surround the mountain.Citizen V/Sunspot Roberto Da Costa has been standing around trying to keep in touch with other Avengers teams. Doreen Green interrupts to show him something burning up in the atmosphere and heading towards Rome. It abruptly changes direction and crashlands inside the Colosseum. As the smoke clears we see a black pyramid.Captain America (Steve Rogers again now) is saving lives in Washington DC. His personal comms link to Falcon is still running until he suddenly freezes to a pale blue 'statue' along with his shield hanging in midair. Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is similarly frozen in mid web-swing in New York. The same happens to Black Panther in Wakanda and Cyclops, Hulk (Amadeus Cho), Nova and Viv Vision of the Champions in the Arizona desert. We see Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Old Man Logan, Rachel Summers (now called Prestige) and Storm of the X-Men affected in Central Park. Our Avengers teams don't get off unscathed. Enigma, Squirrel Girl, Vision and Jan Van Dyne are frozen.All the still-moving Avengers (except the Occupy Avengers Hawkeye and Red Wolf) get a call to assemble at Avengers Mansion, including reservist Lightning. They seem to get there very quickly. Hercules carries frozen Vision. Wonder Man (who's Unity Squad status was left unresolved at the end of the UAv run) is there with his pal Beast (who *did* seem to be a Squad member).Nadia-Wasp arrives late to tell them Jarvis has been taken to hospital. Rogue says he would want them to concentrate on the world's problem but Wasp insists on returning to the hospital. Beast tags along because his medical training might help. We now see that Quicksilver is also here, still chafing after being pushed out of the Unity Squad (for causing Synapse to be injured).A voice announces herself as being the 1 who summoned them all here. Hercules, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch recognise her and welcome her back to the fold. We've never seen her before, but the Avengers' founders' statue behind her includes *her* in it.


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No surrender: part 7
2 Elders of the Universe Grandmaster and Challenger have stolen the Earth to use as a gameboard for their game. They have chosen 2 teams of aliens as their playing pieces, who will contend for Pyramoids which the Elders place on the board. Most of Earth's superbeings have been frozen in stasis to stop them from interfering. But the Elders have left a large group of Avengers to act as obstacles for the alien pieces to overcome.2 Pyramoids were placed for the 1st round. Challenger has the Black Order team whose member Black Dwarf won the Pyramoid of Earth. But Grandmaster's Lethal Legion haven't won anything because Avenger Human Torch grabbed the Pyramoid of Fire. Unfortunately getting a Pyramoid seems to disintegrate the getter (but we know they have merely been teleported somewhere and frozen inside giant blocks of something).Then 2 more Pyramoids were dropped into place. Last issue we saw Rogue's team of Avengers fighting to stop the Black Order reaching the Pyramoid of Water in the Antarctic. Now we turn our attention to New Mexico where the Pyramoid of Air is the subject of battle between the Lethal Legion and Falcon's Avengers.Captain Glory of the LL gives us a mental voiceover commentary. He explains that he is actually Captain Glah-Ree of the Kree. His squadron was wiped out in battle with the Takolians, but Grandmaster plucked him from certain death to join some others in a similar position. They were to play a game against the Black Order. If they failed they would each be sent back to the time and place they came from, and left to die.Meanwhile he is preparing to fight Synapse of the Avengers. The might of the Blood Brothers is pitted against tiny Wasp (Janet Van Dyne). Ferene defends herself against Falcon. Mentacle lashes out at Citizen V (Roberto Da Costa) with her mind and her tentacles. Metal Master (Molyn) propels a car at Scarlet Witch. And Drall faces the spells of Doctor Voodoo.Synapse and Wasp evade their attackers. Metal Master ignores *his* opponent in favour of trying to encase the Pyramoid in iron. Being a supervillain he speaks his thoughts out loud and lets slip that the fact that they are working for the Grandmaster. Wanda Maximoff hears this and casts a spell at him to force him to explain what's going on. He of course just mumbles a vague hint.In Antarctica Rogue's team have defeated the Black Order. They captured Ebony Maw, and Rogue took out her anger over her lover Johnny Storm's death (as she believes it to be) by killing Corvus Glaive. When she deliberately touched his face bare-handed last issue she absorbed some of Glaives's thoughts and powers, and his skin condition. She learns that Challenger brought Glaive and his brother Black Dwarf back to life in order to rejoin the Order and serve as his pawns in this game against Grandmaster, winning points by acquiring Pyramoids.They didn't notice last issue that Ferene of the Legion was there and dealt with Supergiant of the Order. Now she slips past them and makes for the Pyramoid. Lightning tries to stop her but fails. And Ferene 'dies' to gain the point for her team. BO'ers Black Swan and Proxima Midnight are watching from within force bubbles created by Swan. Proxima wants to stay to help her husband Corvus, but Yabbat Ummon Turru wants them to flee to fight another die. Avenger Voyager doesn't have the energy left to teleport the team back to HQ. She ports herself there to recharge, leaving the others including Hercules and Thor (Jane Foster).At the Avengers Auxiliary HQ (their main base Avengers Mansion was destroyed in #676), Toni Ho (ex-Iron Patriot - the armour is hanging up just *waiting* for someone to use it) tries to find ways to help Voyager rebuild her strength. Gen'l Maverick is there to help out, since his Red Hulk power ran out too last issue (the cover for #685 suggests *he* may be the next to don the IP suit). Meanwhile Valerie Vector tells them how she got to be Voyager.Her father was Arthur Vector, who Toni has heard of as someone who worked on teleportation. Young Valerie heard him explaining to his fellow-scientist wife that he intended to achieve it using quantum entanglement, which he described (not really correctly) as the theory that every atomic particle has a twin somewhere in the universe linked by faster-than-light forces. The wife was more concerned that he was ignoring her and their daughter, and she wanted a divorce. Val didn't want that - she burst into the lab and ran into some equipment that changed her. It made her connected to every atom on Earth.Arthur studied his child as she grew up, and she learned to use the entanglement to transport herself and other things to anywhere on Earth. Her parents published their findings. And Val found *her* calling when she helped found the Avengers. Later her parents died, but she stayed with the team as Voyager until she appeared to die in another of Grandmaster's games (as related in #676).Now she's rested and ready to do her job again.In New Mexico Mentacle is trying to extract information from Citizen V's mind. But he's fighting her off using mental defence techniques taught him (when he was the New Mutant/X-Man Sunspot) by Prof X. The Rigellian recognises Charles Xavier as a powerful telepath, by Earth standards. She prepares to wipe the mind of 1 she reads as Avengers' team leader. But Roberto had only joined *this* team last issue to help swell the numbers. And now its real leader Falcon comes to the rescue, and flies mentally-injured Da Costa away.Captain Glory has continued to fight Synapse, but she keeps using her mental abilities to anticipate his moves. But now he stops blocking her mental probes and what she reads stuns her momentarily. Falcon returns and she tells him how they are just part of the gameboard where the Legion and the Order are players. The Legion plays for Grandmaster. While fighting Scarlet Witch Molyn decides to resume his spiel and says that the Order work for Challenger. And Grandmaster moved the planet to cause extreme weather, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions to make the board more interesting.But Synapse's next revelation caps it all. The teams are competing for the Pyramoids, but once they've won them all and the game is over the gameboard Earth will be discarded. Falcon announces that the Avengers' strategy must change. Now they must stop *anyone* from winning the New Mexico Pyramoid.Wanda bombards Metal Master with spell-cast rocks. But a Blood Brother smashes into Dr Voodoo to stop him from using *his* magic. And Drall hurls her spear at the Witch, but Wonder Man blocks it. As Wasp attacks a Blood Brother, Captain Glory tells Mentacle to put into action a plan they hatched beforehand. Mentacle mentally grabs 1 of the Blood Brothers and propels him towards the Pyramoid, as the most expendable of the Legion. Drall draws the fire of Falcon and Wonder Man as the BB begs them not to make him touch the target. But just as he's about to do so ...... explosive arrows blast him away. And Hawkeye and Red Wolf join the Avengers team.Meanwhile under the ruins of the Mount the green voice continues by telling us that the Hand (in Uncanny Avengers) and the Empire (in Secret Empire) weren't really responsible for bringing him (obviously the Hulk) back to life. It's that he can never really die. And a large green hand reaches the surface.


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Worlds collide: part 3
Continued from CHAMPIONS #13.In that issue an emissary from the High Evolutionary used vibrations to prepare Earth for 'Ascension'. Falcon and Viv Vision were the 1st affected and suddenly found themselves on Counter-Earth where they were attacked by Ani-Men (evolved animals) riding small dinosaurs. (This might be Counter-Earth's version of the Savage Land.)There are also things flying in the sky so that cuts off Falcon's mode of escape. The pair split up to run through the long grass. But Falcon is caught in a net and stunned with an electric prod. Viv phases through the net, but a thrown prod still gets her.Back on Earth all the other Avengers and Champions are in Lexington (teen Cyclops, teen Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Vision must have flown here quickly from where Falc and Viv disappeared in New York) grilling HE's minotaur about where the duo have gone. He explains about Counter-Earth which exists on the opposite side of the Sun but is also on a different vibrational frequency. Spidey (MM) guesses this means the 2 planets can't affect each other and are mutually undetectable - except when a denizen of 1 visits the other they become temporarily attuned to it. Wasp (Nadia Pym) realises this explains why C-E doesn't have a detectable effect on the orbits of other planets (causing her to deny the possibility of it's existence last issue).Thor (Jane Foster) guesses that Ascension means that Earth's vibrational frequency has been shifted towards that of it's Counter-part. She expects an invasion, but the bull-man tells her to expect destruction. The High Evolutionary is his god, who has told them of the evil planet Earth. On their world he has purified them of evil. Young Nova (Sam Alexander) translates this as crossbreeding humans and animals to create the Ani-Men. Cyclops' suggestion is the more usual 1 - HE used genetic modification to upgrade animals to humanoid form and intelligence.Minotaur continues that HE-God has accelerated Counter-Earth's orbital speed (and presumably used his godly power to stop that changing its orbital distance from the Sun) so that it now orbits so fast that it passes through the Earth every 20 minutes. Hulk (Amadeus Cho) deduces that as the worlds' vibrational frequencies get closer it will become easier to move between them when they cross. Wasp adds that this explains where Sam Wilson and Viv have gone, and why the meteor the minotaur arrived in disappeared for a second last issue. (Hercules doesn't mention his disappearing mace, but that was probably the 1st such event we saw.)Minotaur doesn't know what Evolutionary's plan is. Angry Vision wants to know how they can get to C-E to rescue his daughter Viv. Minotaur says that although crossings will increase they will remain random, so he can't help them to go there. And sometimes the crossing will be from there to here. And even as he speaks some Ani-Men pop up.On Counter-Earth Sam and Viv are dragged into the High Evolutionary's citadel. They pass pickled bits of old experiments, unsatisfactory Ani-Men in chains, and the bones of many others. They are dumped in front of Herbert Edgar Wyndham sitting on a throne atop a pile of skulls - and he steps down across the backs of live Ani-Men. (They're really making sure we know HEW is a villain.)Our duo have awoken. Viv phases out of the grasp of her captor, but doesn't run away. She won't leave Falcon, and she's naively sure the Evolutionary can't hurt her immaterial body. So she says she'll stay to discover what's going on.Wyndham boasts how he's made his own body immortal. That and the scale of his power and plan qualifies him to call himself a god. But he can also work on a smaller scale. He notes Falcon's artificial wings and comments that he can 'fix' that. The Ani-Men drag Sam of to Herbert's lab, to make him ready to be evolved.Viv protests but a containment tube slams down around her. And she finds she can't pass through the wall. HE explains that some of his own creations have had a similar power. He knows how Vision created Viv as part of a synthezoid family for himself (during Vizh's recent series). But he thinks Vision's effort crude, and he can upgrade her. Viv protests again, but nanobots have already invaded her system and she loses consciousness.On Earth Thor leads the Avengers against the new arrivals. But Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) stops her, saying that if the transfers are random then this won't be an invasion force - just some confused man-beasts. Spider-Man (Peter Parker)'s spider-sense tells him she's right. And most of the Ani-Men drop their weapons, except 1 who fires at Vision - who lets the beam pass harmlessly through him.As Hercules relieves him of his weapon the belligerent Ani-Man berates the others as heretics who aren't worthy of Ascension. 1 of the others claims to not know exactly what this means, but Evolutionary's most zealous followers are on a sacred mission to cleanse 2 worlds. And Wasp picks up news of beast-men attacking all over the world.Vision suggests the Avengers go to Counter-Earth to rescue Viv and Falcon while the Champions deal with the attacks on Earth. Nova protests saying (again) that he's *been* to Counter-Earth, so Wasp agrees to stay here and let him take her place. Thor will use Mjolnir to transport the team when the next conjunction arrives.Meanwhile Viv wakes up again in Wyndham's lab. He has completed her upgrade. She looks in a mirror and sees a dark-skinned human.Continued in CHAMPIONS #14.


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No surrender: part 9
The Elders of the Universe Grandmaster and Challenger have stolen the Earth to use as a gameboard for their teams of aliens to compete to reach 5 Pyramoids. They froze most of Earth's superbeings in stasis leaving some Avengers to act as obstacles for the teams. The Black Order and the Lethal Legion have won 1 Pyramoid each, but the obstacle Avengers managed to win 2 others. Now the 5th Pyramoid has been placed. And Challenger has revealed his hidden piece, the supposedly-dead Hulk.Lightning zaps into the Avengers Auxiliary HQ to ask Voyager to transport Rogue's team of Avengers from the Antarctic. He's surprised to find Enigma there with Toni Ho (ex-Iron Patriot) and Gen'l Maverick (Red Hulk). They explain that Aikku Jokinen unfroze when Red Wolf 'died' winning the 4th point. Also Voyager just left so Toni will send a quinjet to Rogue.The 5th Pyramoid has landed on the roof of the Lenox Hospital in Manhattan where Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) are trying to cure Edwin Jarvis. It has unleashed ghosts to plague the staff and patients. Henry McCoy and Nadia have identified the alien pathogen in Edwin's brain, and devised an antidote. Beast tells Wasp to prepare an injector of antidote and shrink down to administer it. He's going to deal with the ghosts.But Hank finds that the wraiths are quite physical and attacking the humans. So he decides to solve the problem at source. He'll touch the Pyramoid to win it. This should make it and its effects go away, but also disintegrate *him*. He pops back to tell Nadia what he's going to do, but she gives him the antidote and shrinks *him* (on a 15-minute timer). She says he's more important to the Avengers than her. After all there are 2 Wasps. So *she*'s going to get the Pyramoid.Beast can't unshrink himself so he enters Jarvis' bloodstream to save him, and Wasp heads out to sacrifice herself. But when she gets to the Pyramoid she finds that it repels her before she can touch it. She tries to shrink it with Pym Particles but that doesn't work either.Beast makes his way to the hippocampus but has to dodge miniature lightning bolts - neurons communicating electrically. Meanwhile Wasp has abandoned her fruitless attempts on the Pyramoid and turned instead to rescuing people from the ghosts by shrinking them and carrying them outside in armfuls.Inside the memory centre of Edwin's brain Hank McCoy sees visions of Avengers teams throughout the years. Butler Jarvis was there through it all. Then he finds the pathogen which is now bigger than him. But it grabs him with a tentacle and he drops the antidote gun. As it is about to swallow him Wasp zaps the alien with the antidote. She explains how she couldn't get the Pyramoid so she evacuated the building, and then came to help him.They exit through Jarvis' ear and see him beginning to wake up. Then the Pyramoid appears in the room followed by Voyager. As the duo cheer her on Jarvis tries to tell them something's wrong. He finally gets them to listen - Valerie Vector was never an Avenger. Their memories of her are false. Henry realises that Voyager wasn't in any of Edwin's memories he saw, as she teleports away with the final Pyramoid.


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No surrender: part 12
Grandmaster and Challenger have stolen the Earth to use as a gameboard for their 2 teams of aliens to compete for 5 Pyramoids. They have put most of Earth's superbeings in stasis apart from a group of Avengers who were supposed to just be obstacles for their teams to overcome. But the 'obstacles' have won 2 of the 5 points, and the alien teams 1 each. Now only the 5th Pyramoid remains.Most of the aliens are now out of the game. But Grandmaster had a secret pawn, his daughter who was posing as a long-lost Avenger named Voyager. She grabbed the 5th Pyramoid but instead of taking it to her father she rebelled and took refuge with the Avengers. Challenger also had an extra piece and has sent the Hulk after it. He has stormed through the Avengers who were left at the Auxiliary HQ and is beating at the door of the vault where Voyager hides. But now pacifist Wonder Man has appeared to talk him down.Most of the Avengers are off in 2 away teams. We now see the smallest of those teams comprising Hercules, Rogue and Thor (Jane Foster) hurrying home in a quinjet. Thor is using her power over storms to give them wind assistance.Simon Williams blocks Hulk's path. He keeps talking as Hulk keeps beating on him, trying to reach the Bruce Banner within. He relies on the fact that his ionic body is invulnerable. But Hulk says he can smash *anybody*. And Wonder Man fears there's no Banner to reach.In an outer room some of the Avengers are fighting the last 2 aliens standing, Black Swan and Proxima Midnight of Challenger's Black Order. Our side seemed to be winning at the end of last issue but the fight still continues - Cannonball vs Midnight, Aikku Jokinen and Toni Ho (ex-Iron Patriot) trying to get through Swan's forcefield. That last pair of Avengers are using bits of Aikku's Enigma armour that Hulk trashed last time - Aikku has blast gloves and Toni uses the helmet's eye-beam. These weapons are almost drained until Lightning recharges them, and the duo fire as 1 and take Black Swan down. Proxima defeats Cannonball and turns on the others. (This looks very much like the situation at the end of last issue.)The Enigma weapons are now really dead as Proxima Midnight prepares to throw her spear that never misses. But she's knocked down by Thor's hammer. The 3 reinforcements have arrived. Voyager is watching the proceedings telepathically and realises that it is teamwork that always gives the Avengers the edge. That and a purpose that transcends winning - something that her game-playing father could never understand.Wonder Man has also now realised that he is facing an intelligent Hulk (but not a Hulk with Bruce's mind as has sometimes been the case before). He tries to point out the futility of Hulk trying to tear his head off because his ionic energy will always regenerate him. Hulk finds that ironic because he and his inner Banner recently realised that Hulk can't die either (hence the title of his upcoming series The Immortal Hulk). And he's not *really* working for Challenger. He just wants the game to end because when it's over the winner will destroy the Earth - and Hulk will finally be free of the humans who wouldn't leave him alone.But their interesting chat is interrupted by Hercules and Thor attacking Hulk. Rogue thanks Simon for his delaying tactic and then adds *her* power to the battle. Hulk shrugs them all off but Rogue then tries her unique extra ability. She removes a glove and touches their foe with her bare hand to absorb *his* power. In the process she reaches Bruce Banner in Hulk's mind who desperately tells her to escape while she can. Anna Marie falls away, skin green and muscles starting to bulge.Simon Williams tries the vocal approach again. He reminds Hulk that he *thought* he had died. He was at peace but then the Hand woke him up (in Uncanny Avengers), and later Hydra (in Secret Empire). Now he knows that he can never have that peace. The universe will never let him. But this only angers the brute.Challenger watches by remote viewer as his master piece rips the door off the vault. Voyager sides with the Avengers and tries to teleport Hulk away but she is easily batted aside. Hulk reaches for the Pyramoid ... and claims it for himself before crushing it. And then turns into Bruce Banner and collapses.Challenger can't understand what happened. Grandmaster points out that Hulk committed a foul and so Challenger *loses* a point, making GM the winner. And the punishment for the loser is banishment from reality. But then Voyager explains her role in things to the Avengers (that we learned in #684). She is En Dwi Gast's daughter who he placed amongst the team to mobilise them into opposition, and to win the last Pyramoid for him. This is news to Challenger who accuses his opponent of cheating. Grandmaster just describes it as creative gameplay and offers a rematch.But Challenger blasts him.


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Worlds collide: part 1
The opening page has Spider-Man (Peter Parker) of the Avengers blurring into Spidey (Miles Morales) of the Champions, and they both seem to be saying that someone powerful is coming and the Earth is doomed. I don't think they're talking about what happens in the rest of this issue.Avengers Falcon (Sam Wilson) and Vision are rescuing people from a burning building in New Jersey alongside Vision's daughter Viv Vision (a Champion). Vizh says they've got everyone out so Viv disobeys his orders and dives into the flames to help the firefighters. She startles 1 of them and then turns diamond-hard to protect him from falling beams. And then she carries him to safety.Father and daughter have a difference of opinion. She says she saved the fireman. He thinks the experienced fireman wouldn't have got into difficulties if she hadn't distracted him. She disobeyed his order and didn't stop to consider all the possibilities. Angry Viv flies away. Sam suggests Vizh was a bit harsh. Vision doesn't want parenting advice.Viv flies to Austin Texas and ghosts through a wall into the Champions' Olympus Station HQ. Hulk (Amadeus Cho) is talking down to Nova (Sam Alexander) about a satellite that is just taking up its position on the opposite side of the Sun to Earth. In her Genius In Action Research Lab in New Jersey Wasp (Nadia Van Dyne) is watching the same transmission with Spider-Man (PP). Hulk and Wasp don't believe in the existence of Counter-Earth because it would have measurable effects on the orbits of other planets. Nova and Spidey say they've *been* there, and so have others. High Evolutionary lives there. Amadeus and Nadia suspect visitors 'there' were transported to another solar system.The transmissions from the satellite do indeed show nothing where C-E is supposed to be. But then they see a fast-moving large meteor appear out of nowhere. Spider-Man contacts Vision who has calculated that its trajectory will make it strike Earth. He, Viv and Hulk separately come to the same conclusion - it will hit Lexington Kentucky in 51 minutes with enough energy to wipe out the Western Hemisphere.The teams both assemble in Lexington with 2 minutes to go. (The Avengers add Hercules and Thor (Jane Foster). The Champions also include Cyclops (the young 1 from the past), Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) and the MM Spider-Man.) They agree that they'll have to employ a multi-stage approach to slowing and destroying the meteor. But Falcon gives the orders, upstaging the Champs' leader MsM.He sends Nova and Thor as the 1st line of attack. Then he and Viv carry a Spider-Man each and join the other fliers Vision and Wasp as the 2nd line. Cyclops Hercules, Hulk and Ms Marvel are left on the ground. And Herc notices his large club (or mace) has vanished. (We won't get an explanation this issue.)The atmosphere has started to slow the meteor but not enough. Thor throws her hammer at it and Nova slams into it which slows it some more. The Spider-Men spin combined webbing which slows it some more until it breaks through. Wasp sows a cloud of Pym particles in its path but the meteor mysteriously disappears. However when it soon returns it has shrunk some. Finally Vision blasts it with his solar beam which only knocks chunks off - 1 of which hits *him*.There's only the ground crew left. Cyclops does his version of the Colossus/Wolverine fastball special by using his optic beam to power Herc and Hulk into the air to smash the remaining rock with their fists. He tries using his optic blast directly against it, but now its heading straight towards him. So Ms Marvel grows tall with extra-large hands and she just grabs the rock - and then drops it to miss Scott Summers.The teams gather together with a job well done. Viv carries her father who is slowly healing himself. So now the 2 sides find time to bicker about their performance, particularly how the Avengers treat the independent junior team.But then the Pym particles wear off and the meteor expands to full size again. Thor detects a high-frequency vibration. And Viv reports that news is coming in that the tallest buildings in the world are all vibrating and shaking themselves apart.Falcon takes charge again to split them once more into groups. He sends Nova and Wasp to the Shanghai Tower, and Ms Marvel, Spider-Man and Thor to the Lotte World Tower in South Korea. He wants Spider-Man Jr, Vision and Viv to deal with the Burj Khalifa in Dubai while Cyclops and himself take the One World Trade Center in Manhattan. But Vision says he and Viv seem to work better apart, so Sam Wilson grudgingly swaps Cyclops for Viv. He leaves Hercules and Hulk to investigate the meteor.After Herc reminds Hulk how they were a team when he was just Amadeus Cho, (in the Incredible Hercules series after World War Hulk when Cho's previous pal Hulk had reverted to Bruce Banner and surrendered to SHIELD) they just plan to both hit it. But the rock explodes before they can do anything. And a huge minotaur steps out.Continued in CHAMPIONS #13.There's a 3-page primer at the end of the book.Page 1 + 2.1 cover the origin of the original Avengers when Loki accidentally brought them together to fight the original Hulk. The rest of page 2 shows various versions of the team fighting various foes:- Against the Skrulls with the original Captain Marvel in the Kree-Skrull War. Against an army of Ultrons. As the New Avengers in their 1st adventure the breakout from Ryker's Island. The 3rd page is an 'Avengers Assemble' pinup with a rather eclectic mix since it includes eg Nadia-Wasp alongside Banner-Hulk.


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No surrender: part 8
This issue starts with a flashback for Red Wolf to the Valley of Doom 1872. (He had his own series spinning out of Secret Wars III where he was Sheriff of Timely, but he got brought to the present in #2 - and later joined Hawkeye in Occupy Avengers.) He's weaponless facing an outlaw who claims have 1 bullet left in his gun. But we'll leave him there.In the present in New Mexico a bunch of Avengers are fighting a bunch of aliens called the Lethal Legion. Red Wolf and Hawkeye have just joined them (at the end of last issue). Falcon (Sam Wilson) explains to them that they have to stop the aliens getting hold of a floating glowing pyramid (or Pyramoid as the aliens call it) or the Earth is done for. Clint Barton fires a smoke arrow at Metal Master. But Red Wolf just studies the situation. And now we leave *them* ...... to go to the Antarctic where Rogue's team have just lost a Pyramoid to another member of the LL because they were too busy fighting the other alien team in this game, the Black Order. She, Lightning and Thor (Jane Foster) are flying to find sanctuary somewhere. Thor tows 4th Avenger Hercules who carries their unconscious prisoner Ebony Maw. Rogue has the body of Corvus Glaive, who she killed in anger last issue, along with his weapon - a glaive.Anna Marie was angry over the death of her lover Human Torch. That anger is causing her to make hasty decisions. Lightning suggests they should have waited for Voyager to return to teleport them home, but Rogue just wants to do *something*. Hercules counsels her that she has learnt that revenge doesn't salve the wound. Anna calms down and allows Lightning to zip off (as lightning) the Avengers Auxiliary HQ to bring back Voyager or a quinjet.But we're off to another venue to keep another juggling ball in the air. At Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) are trying to find out what ails the Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis. Henry McCoy has at last isolated an alien pathogen which avoided detection before because it works at a quantum level. He reasons that some Avenger brought it back from some space adventure but the team members' immune systems have fought it off. But Jarvis' recent concussion (#675) has made him vulnerable. Beast takes some blood from Nadia and discovers that she is indeed successfully surviving the infection. So he starts to concoct a cure from her blood. (And of course Jarvis' condition chooses this moment to become critical.) But we're off again ...... back to New Mexico where the battle continues, and Red Wolf continues to observe. Mentacle defends herself against Hawkeye's arrows, but that's just a distraction until the other Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) hits her with a growth-powered punch. Drall attacks pacifist Wonder Man who just defends himself while trying to talk to her. Hawkeye's back to shooting at Metal Master, who turns the tables by mentally stealing Clint's bow. Except Falcon hits him from behind. Captain Glory has Citizen V on the ropes because Roberto Da Costa is out of practice with his old Sunspot powers. But Wonder Man rescues him. Plus Synapse is now under attack by Mentacle, and Doctor Voodoo and Scarlet Witch seem to have the Blood Brothers fighting each other.Red Wolf has been studying the way the aliens fight. Somewhere along the line someone has explained more of what's going on because he knows that whoever wins the point by touching the Pyramoid dies. But he sees the enemy trying to reach the Pyramoid without fear or hesitation. (Which doesn't jibe with how afraid 1 of the Blood Brothers was last issue when Mentacle tried to force *him* to touch it.) And Wolf makes a decision.Back in 1872 he looked his foe in the eyes and lunged towards him.Now he asks Hawkeye to cover him while he makes a dash for the prize. Clint reminds him that they've been told that Torch was disintegrated when he claimed a Pyramoid. Red asks Clint to trust him. He will vanish from here, but he will find a way back. Barton reluctantly complies as his friend dodges the lumbering Blood Brothers and dives for the goal.And in his memory in 1872 he downed the bad guy, whose gun was actually empty.Wolf touches the Pyramoid and they both disappear in a flash of light. Falcon can't understand why Barton let him do it. Clint says he's not dead, and so neither is Johnny Storm.And elsewhere, in the Cosmic Game Room we see Red Wolf appear encased in a crystal, alongside Torch, Black Dwarf of the Black Order and Ferene of the Legion.Grandmaster, 'owner' of the Lethal Legion, and Challenger, who runs the Black Order, are bickering as usual. The 2 Elders Of The Universe stole the Earth to use as a gameboard and froze most of Earth's superbeings in stasis to keep them out of the way. But at GM's suggestion they left some Avengers awake to act as obstacles in the way of their teams. But now the obstacles have claimed 2 of the points.We know that Challenger hates Grandmaster because GM once beat him at a game where the loser was banished from reality. But now he's back and they're playing for the same stakes again. En Dwi Gast taunts Challenger, who threatens to just kill him. But Gast reminds him that would make *him* the loser again.Back in #677 we saw there were 5 elemental Pyramoids. Now GM, on the basis of a vague statement that his Legion are performing better than the Order (even though they've each only won 1 point), claims the right to place the deciding Pyramoid representing the 5th Element Quintessence. (Though I could never see what difference it made who placed the other 4.) And he puts it in the Lenox Hospital ...... where Jarvis is recovering. Suddenly there's lots of screaming as spectres of dead parents (and presumably other loved ones) swoop down on staff and patients. GM's voiceover tells us Quintessence is the element of soul, magic and spirit. Challenger congratulates him on his strategy. The Avengers will flock to the side of their butler. They may claim the 5th Pyramoid leaving a draw between the Elders, and so Gast will avoid his fate. But he reminds GM that *he* has a piece held in reserve who he now summons.Jarvis awakes and shouts "It's a lie" before collapsing again and going flatline.Challenger prattles on about his hate and rage, and the pain of betrayal. And he says that his new piece is fuelled by the same things. And in the ruins of the Mount we see glimpses of green flesh which combine on the last page to reveal (who'd 'a thunk it) the Hulk.


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The Agents Of Wakanda
This issue contains flashbacks showing the recruitment of Agents Of Wakanda but at some point it becomes part of the current Avengers timeframe.Some weeks ago Black Panther shows semi-retired Avengers butler Edwin Jarvis around the newly-completed Avengers Mountain HQ, in the shell of the Celestial Progenitor at the North Pole (see #1-6). T'Challa doesn't expect Jarvis to look after *this* huge place, but wants his advice on choosing a team to do it instead. (But apart from Gorilla-Man who we met in #10 as Chief of Security, most of the rest of the people hired this issue don't seem like household staff.)1st-up *is* Gorilla-Man who Panther finds in a bar in Timbuktu. At 1st Ken Hale thinks T'Challa's here to kill him, like everyone else, to gain immortality. But Ken informs him that those guys haven't read the small print that the successful hunter would spend his immortality as a talking gorilla. However BP says he's here to offer the ex-SHIELD and ex-Atlas Agent a job. Hale immediately tells the barman to send his tab to Tony Stark because he's an Avenger now. But Panther tells him he's not exactly being recruited into the Avengers.Next T'Challa welcomes Wasp (who we also saw as an Agent in #10) to a variant helicarrier over Wakanda. Janet Van Dyne isn't interested in joining a rebuilt SHIELD, but again Panther says that's not what he has in mind for her.In Wakanda itself T'Challa consults with Okoye, leader of his Dora Milaje bodyguards, over the selection of his Agents. She approves of Wasp but isn't so sure about Gorilla-Man or the rest of the photos spread before her. Her king tells her he doesn't need another super-team, he's building a 'ground crew for the Avengers'. Which he qualifies as meaning a group of individuals who can gather intelligence from a variety of sources. And the team members need Okoye's approval because he wants her to be their Director.(We could be up to the present day at this point. Agents Gorilla-Man and Wasp have been active in #10. BP and Okoye have already recruited Roz Solomon in Thor #8 and Roz has met Gorilla-Man and another recruit Ka-Zar in Thor #9.)Okoye's next job is to take Ka-Zar, Lord of the Savage Land, out into the ocean to infiltrate Atlantis to see if they're preparing to attack the surface world. She offers him a special wetsuit and weaponry but Kevin Plunder just dives out of the flying car in his loincloth with a large knife between his teeth.Back in Avengers Mountain Gorilla-Man and Panther greet the next recruit, Broo the small mutant of the alien Brood, as their IT Department. Tony Stark and Kitty Pryde of the X-Men recommend him as a genius who can handle the super-computer running in the Celestial brain.As Broo settles in he gets a mayday call from Wasp in a quinjet besieged by vampires on the hull. She took the craft into space but that didn't faze them. The vamps are after her passenger Morbius the Living Vampire. Broo gives her a new course which side-swipes a Stark satellite and knocks some of them off (breaking 1 of the satellite's solar panels in the process). But the remaining disciples of Dracula break through the hull and Wasp has to go on the offensive. However Broo sends in another Agent to help. John Jameson drops in from an Avengers space-station and transforms into Man-Wolf to deal with the foe.Black Panther, King of Wakanda, goes to visit Odin, All-Father of Asgard, in the ruins of Old Asgard. Apparently Odin secretly acts as T'Challa's advisor and they discuss the current vampire situation. (In #10 Wasp rescued Blade the Vampire Hunter from Dracula's castle, and a vampire problem was mentioned last issue.) Dracula has sent his troops after Morbius, but the scientifically-created pseudo-vampire doesn't know why. Odin regrets not wiping out the vampires when they 1st began with the Mother Of Vampires.In return for Odin's aid Panther is organising the rebuilding of the broken Rainbow Bridge between Earth and Asgard. Heimdall is working with Man-Wolf to find the shards of the old Bridge scattered through space. And then Broo will find a way to assemble them back together.Odin sent his ravens on a spying mission to Transylvania. They have reported that someone called the Shadow Colonel is preparing to challenge Dracula for leadership of the vampires. Both sides have been recruiting allies for the upcoming Vampire Civil War.Now Gorilla-Man meets 3 more new Agents of Wakanda in Avengers HQ:- American Eagle who can spare some time from his job policing the Navajo Reservation. Doctor Nemesis, Nazi hunter and member of the scientific X-Club. Fat Cobra, Master of Kung Fu. And Wasp receives intel from Agent Roz Solomon about the War Of The Realms. (She went spying in Thor #9.)We learn that Mockingbird, Shang-Chi and Ant-Man are coming in for interviews, but Valkyrie and Moon Knight declined the invite. Ka-Zar returns from his ocean dip lugging a sea-monster which he suggests they could roast, and then goes to report to T'Challa.Panther calls a meeting of the Avengers (Captain America, Captain Marvel, Ghost Rider, Iron Man, She-Hulk and Thor) to tell them that Atlantis isn't currently getting ready to invade, but he doesn't tell them how he got the info. He also summarises the vampire situation and introduces them to the newest Avenger Blade.


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The fall of Castle Dracula
In Romania Castle Dracula is napalm-bombed by bats, its vampire inhabitants killed by rats with sunburst grenades and its undead guards mown down by a rotary cannon firing 2,000 wooden stakes a minute. But the Shadow Colonel and his Legion Of The Unliving find Dracula's coffin empty.The Shadow Colonel is an armoured figure who seems to have a baby Man-Thing draped over his shoulders. He's accompanied by a large skull-headed Hellhound who we'll learn is called Sarge. His Legion includes a giant bat and another armoured vamp who possibly controls the rats. Plus a female with a crossbow and a masked Japanese female with the obligatory pair of swords.There is a Civil War amongst vampires.Roxxon Air Flight 959 has been hijacked by vampires over Symkaria. The pilot is dead and Captain Marvel is flying the plane with 1 hand while fending off vamps with the other. She uses the PA to advise human passengers to move to the rear of the plane while Blade the half-human half-vamp Daywalker deals with the undead. They tell him they need the plane to get away from what's after them. He just brings out his silver nunchuks and wades into them.Other vampires have invaded the Great Vibranium Mound in Wakanda. They are the Adze clan (previously seen in Tomb Of Dracula (2004 series) and Death Of Dracula (2010 1-shot)) and they want the metal for unknown reasons. Black Panther and Iron Man kill them all with solar rays from gauntlet and repulsor beam. Tony Stark tries to tell himself they aren't human, T'Challa knows they once were and regrets not being able to cure them.Near the burning Castle Dracul in Transylvania Captain America leads villagers to safety in the Church while overhead Thor blasts flying vampires with lightning. Cap tells the vamps that the Avengers will take them to safety from the Vampire War and give them synthetic blood. But the vamps just want to feed now to give them the energy to escape under their own wing-power. So Steve Rogers hefts a large cross from the church and prepares to keep them out.In Monster Metropolis under Manhattan Ghost Rider and She-Hulk are fighting more vampires. Robbie Reyes sends then to Hell via the trunk of his Hellcharger car. Mephisto appears to him as a young boy demon who can read his thoughts and tells him he doesn't belong in the Avengers because he's a monster like all the previous GRs. And soon the team will realise it. She-Hulk breaks his reverie and shoves him into his hellfire car so she can throw them at some vampires as a "Fireball Special".Back to Transylvania where the vamps suddenly run from Cap in terror as Thor lands. But it's not him they're afraid of because the Shadow Colonel and Sarge have arrived too. The Colonel says the Vampire War will be over if they tell him where Dracula is.But instead he allows himself to be taken captive to Avengers Mountain where he is imprisoned in a cell in the intestine level of the dead Celestial that they live in. Scans have shown the Colonel to be a vampire but his armour is rigged to explode if they try to remove it. So they send in Blade to interrogate him while Panther and the 2 Captains watch through a 1-way mirror.The Colonel gets under Blade's skin. He reminds Blade that he had to be rescued from Castle Dracula by the Avengers (#10). And that as a half-human half-vampire Dhampir he doesn't belong with either race, and he certainly isn't a real Avenger. Blade loses it, but his foe calmly asks if he wants to know why he wanted to be here. Carol Danvers suddenly realises they don't know where his dog is.Robbie Reyes is in the Boat Dock trying to get his car, or the ghost that inhabits it,  to tell him what the demon kid meant. Tony Stark calls down from the Brainbrary (Library in the Celestial's brain) to say he's just seen a ghost dog walk through the walls. (He mentions also seeing a talking gorilla in the showers recently, but I'm sure he really already knows about Gorilla Man.)Suddenly comms and the lights are cut off in the Dock. Sarge is here and intones a chant that turns Robbie into a more fearsome version of Ghost Rider. Meanwhile Shadow Colonel nuts Blade with his helmet and then snaps the chains that bind him.And on the Russia/Ukraine border Darkstar and Vanguard of the Winter Guard are standing watch to keep vampire refugees out. They mention that Ursa Major and Red Widow have just dealt with some. And then Dracula arrives asking for political asylum.


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The secret origin of the Marvel Universe
While the other not-yet-the-Avengers try to fight the Final Host of Celestials and the Horde of giant alien beetles, Loki has taken Captain America to see the dead Celestial he calls the Progenitor. Now he tells Cap the true history of the Earth.This Celestial came to Earth 4 billion years ago when it was still a lifeless molten ball. He was dying because he was the 1st Celestial to be infected by the space-going Horde. And here he perished and his body sank (to the centre of the Earth as suggested last issue or in the ocean below the North Pole where he is this issue?) where he infected the whole planet. And Loki claims that this infection is the source of all Earthly super-powers, and why the Earth has so many super-beings.Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) is listening to all this in his Hell Charger car which can also work submerged. Cap in chains doesn't care what Loki claims - the heroes will still find a way to defeat the Final Host. Loki continues his tale.In 1 million BC another Celestial came to Earth looking for his pal (who Loki suggests might have been his lover). Zgreb the Aspirant found the corpse alive with Horde beetles - which had now got a taste for Celestial and infected *him*. All this drove him mad which was how Odin and his pre-historic 'Avengers' found him. They believed they had killed him, and buried him in what would become South Africa.But soon the 1st Host of Celestials came seeking Zgreb. Their combined and healthy might defeated the team (and maybe killed most of them). Odin alone remained conscious and waiting for death (as we saw last issue). But the 1st Host just left him. Loki speculates they might have feared infection. He says he learned all this from Zgreb the Fallen Celestial when he dug him up in Marvel Legacy.Loki now claims that all the Celestials (who fell dying from the sky in #1) had fallen victim to the Horde infection. Only the Final Host are left. The Horde had not killed Zgreb, now called the Sorrower, they had converted him into the 1st Dark Celestial. Zgreb now created other DC's, the Final Host, and they had fatally infected the other Celestials and brought them to Earth. Now the Horde will feed on their power.Cap asks what Loki gets out of this. The Trickster God answers that he aided the process in order to put the planet out of its misery. But Ghost Rider is having none of that and strangles the Asgardian with his chain.Meanwhile Iron Man and Doctor Strange are trying to deal with the disasters the Final Host have initiated on the Earth. Tony Stark gets an update from his AI Motherboard on the status of his GKII - 11 minutes away and nearing Earth orbit. And then he receives a call from Ghost Rider (who says he got the number from Tony's dead adopted father Howard). He's bringing Cap home in his demon car but the Final Host are in pursuit (now shown as including Zgreb the ex-Fallen Celestial). The Host bring the car crashing down in Russia. And Loki's not happy to have been chained up in the boot.GKII is just 3 minutes out when IM and DrS reach the crash spot and are joined by Captain Marvel and Black Panther who have been in the Alpha Flight space station supercharging BP's suit and Carol Danvers' Kree-hybrid body with Horde energy. They kill all the nearby beetles and say they'll tackle the Horde while the others deal with the space gods. But Steve Rogers informs them that the Host themselves are now walking collections of Horde beetles and wonders if BP and CM could kill *them*. BP says they need to penetrate the Celestial armour.Then She-Hulk and Thor arrive from their chat with Odin last issue. They've brought with them the egg-like Blood Of Ymir. They eat parts of it and begin to transform. Iron Man tells them his God-Killer Mk II is now here from where he keeps it on Mars. Ghost Rider has rescued some folks on a tractor which has empowered with his demon-flame. Captain America suggests he could do that to something else. So Robbie sneaks into the body of a dead Celestial and animates it with his fire.Dr Strange keeps Loki from interfering. Panther prepares his tech to recharge himself and Marvel from the dead beetles lying around. And Cap asks for some of that juice. But the main threat to the 4th Host is the other 4:- Ghost Rider now a flame-wielding Celestial, She-Hulk and Thor now empowered giants, and Tony Stark in the Godkiller, a giant robot copied from 1 left over from ancient Celestial wars.


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Crisis on ten realms
The Avengers are off in various parts of War Of the Realms so the Squadron Supreme Of America will take over this issue and the defence of Washington DC.In Kensington, Maryland mild-mannered Mark Milton is teaching his history class, and successfully ignoring all the little noises (like skin cells flaking off) that his super-hearing picks up. He's also trying to ignore the nagging thought that he can't remember just how long he's been training under Agent Phil Coulson. Then he hears the screams in nearby Washington. Then the school Code Red alarm sounds and he sends his class to assemble in the gym. But when they're gone he rips open his shirt to reveal the Hyperion costume beneath.There's also a Code Red alarm in Washington in the House Of Representatives sending all Congressmen to the safety of the tunnels. But DC's own Congressman Kyle Richmond goes another way, and his minders obey his orders without question - because they are LMDs. And of course they don't blink when he changes into Nighthawk.Zarda Shelton is sparring with another female. The only thing that keeps the contest fair is the Utopia Isle necklace that dampens her powers. But when she hears the screams and Hyperion breaking the sound barrier, Power Princess ends the bout efficiently and leaps off to action (ditching the necklace along the way?).Stanley Stewart gained speed powers from a strange mist. Now he works multiple jobs including computer programming. But when he sees the news he leaves his keyboard and races off as the Blur.Astronaut Joseph Ledger found a strange prism on a space walk. Now he doesn't need a space suit as Doctor Spectrum.Together they are the Squadron Supreme Of America, and Phil Coulson has been training them in secret in Washington for years (or is it only months?). And now he's sending them into battle against rampaging Frost Giants.The War Of The Realms has been under way since Mighty Thor (2016) #1 (that's over 3 years ago in our universe). Malekith the Dark Elf and his allies now control 9 of the 10 'Asgardian' Realms and now in the actual WOTR mini-series/event they've converged on Midgard/Earth. And the Frost Giants have been given North America as New Jotunheim. Thor is missing and the Avengers are concentrated in Manhattan. So instead the Frosties face the Squadron.Hyperion and Power Princess are like speeding bullets boring through the bodies and brains of the Giants. Zarda flirts with Mark but Hyperion is too busy offering the Frost Giants the chance to surrender before killing them. But we then see the 1st of several 'training' flashbacks as Milton and Shelton face each other naked but spend their time intoning their 'philosophies'. Hyperion says he has atomic vision and great strength but he was raised a farmboy and will fight for the American Dream. Zarda is the superstrong princess of the warrior women of Utopia Island but she loves America more, and she will kill for it. And she loves American beer and Mark Milton. Phil Coulson watches this with technicians, and he tells them to turn the dials up to 11 for Zarda. This is our 1st indication that these beings were made not born.Nighthawk attacks the Frost Giants with agility and his own technology such as gamma grenades which he attaches to their bodies. His flashback shows part of his current rigorous physical regimen. While doing 1-handed press ups he dictates into his personal journal. He senses that Hyperion and Zarda's love is fake and wonders if some of his weaker-minded team-mates are being brainwashed. He doesn't trust their bosses Thunderbolt Ross (now deceased - see Captain America) and now Coulson. He plans to covertly investigate Coulson. But Phil is watching this and approves of the mind-state they have given Kyle.Blur creates whirlwinds to tear Giants apart, while using the high-speed camera phone Nighthawk made for him to upload pictures to the Internet. His training session is like something out of Clockwork Orange. His eyes are held open to watch multiple videos of Jihadist executions and celebrity sex tapes run at ultra-high speed. Colonel Joe Ledger objects to such torture of an American citizen. But then he automatically agrees with whatever Coulson replies. (Maybe the Squadron are all LMDs like Kyle Richmond's minders?)As Dr Spectrum Joe uses his Power Prism to kill Frost Giants and chase them northwards. He contacts the other Squaddies and suggests they herd the survivors to Lake Erie. Then they send them across to Canada. Zarda wants to follow them and finish the job but the others say their only responsibility is to the USA. Coulson sends them to liberate the rest of the country.We see Phil celebrating the DC victory in a meal with his boss. He wonders if the boss started the War Of The Realms to boost the Squadron's popularity. The boss says he doesn't have any influence over that, and Coulson will need a much larger army to defeat Malekith worldwide. But Phil isn't bothered about the rest of the world. The boss says Coulson has his heroes, his war, and his life back. Is there anything else he wants? And we see that the boss is Mephisto.


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Challenge of the Ghost Riders Part 3: Cosmic Ghost Rider vs the Avengers
Motorcycle-riding Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze is now King of Hell. He's abducted our Ghost Rider Robbie Reyes and his Hell Charger car to Hell and challenged him to a race, the winner of which absorbs the other's power. But Blaze has used his command of the terrain and denizens of Hell to damage the Hell Charger during the race. However a chorus of previous GR's have arrived to cheer Reyes on.Robbie is surprised by the existence of all these other Riders, going all the way back to the original 1 Million BC version on his mastodon. They hint that there are some other Riders who they don't want to talk about. And as Hell Charger repairs itself they warn Robbie not to trust Blaze. He doesn't really want Robbie's power to keep peace in Hell. And they also hint at an even scarier GR ...... who is the Cosmic Ghost Rider who is currently fighting the She-Hulk and Thor in Avengers Mountain HQ. CGR claims to have come back from the future (at the end of time in an alternate timeline in the 2017 Thanos series via his own mini-series and the current Guardians Of The Galaxy series) and doesn't appreciate having to kill the Avengers all over again. He also remembers being taken to Hell by Blaze (GOTG#6) but is unclear how he got *here*.The Rider uses the Power Cosmic to blast Thor through a wall leaving his hammer Mjolnir behind. Shulk slams his head to the ground piercing Mjolnir's shaft up through his blazing skull and out of an eye-socket. He sends his hellfire to drive her off but then Thor returns and calls Mjolnir to him, taking the skull with it. The Thunder God wants to know why the trespasser is attacking them but the skull's current position makes his reply unintelligible. Instead he spews hellfire at Thor making him release the hammer again and allowing the skull to drop free. Meanwhile CGR's headless body continues to fight She-Hulk.Thor makes to smash the skull with Mjolnir but the body apes Thor's signature move and calls the skull to *his* hand. He hits Shulk with it before replacing it on his neck. Now the Rider wants to know why they brought him here and why they're working for Blaze. Thor denies the accusations but then continues the fight by combining powers with She-Hulk to produce a gamma lightning blast. This time it's CGR's turn to be slammed through walls until he ends up in Iron Man's workshop where he's greeted by Captain Marvel.Back in Hell Robbie Reyes is on the move again in Hell Charger. A wall of demons have been ordered with threats to stop him. They bitch about wishing Mephisto was back in charge but are ready to obey. But then the other Ghost Riders help Robbie bull his way through. Johnny Blaze is riding confidently ahead allowing himself to feel a bit of regret for what he's doing to the boy, but laying the blame squarely on Robbie's Uncle Eli Morrow (the original spirit possessing the Hell Charger). Then Hell Charger lands on top of him after driving off a cliff, and drives off leaving Blaze mangled. But Johnny plays his ace card. A giant Celestial rises out of the ground. It is Callus The Void, 1 of the Dark Celestials of the Final Host who fought the Avengers in #1-6. But more than that it is now possessed by the vengeful Uncle Eli.Last issue Daimon Hellstrom exorcised the spirit possessing Hell Charger but it transferred to the Avengers HQ which is the body of a dead Celestial. Boy-Thing drove it out of there and it became a physical being which turned out to be not Eli Morrow but Cosmic Ghost Rider. Now Black Panther reports that they've regained control of the HQ's systems including comms. Carol Danvers says she's found the intruder and he seems immune to her photon blasts. T'Challa warns her that the CGR has the power of a Herald of Galactus, but Captain Marvel is enjoying the fight until the Rider pulls out a gun he built from Tony Stark's tech and summons his space-faring Hell Cycle.Now Panther and Captain America join in the fight. BP has modified their costumes to harness the power of the dead Celestial, and it is with this that they punch the foe. Hellstorm and Blade are keeping out of the battle because it is more super-science than the supernatural that they are suited to. But then Blade's pet Boy-Thing (a juvenile Man-Thing) makes his play. Normally beings burn at his touch, but the Rider knows no fear and it is Boy-Thing's turn to burn. This inspires Blade to take a hand, and his Breathing Gun stops CGR's bike and then drills a hole through the Rider himself.CGR now expresses grudging respect for the team and suggests they quit working for Blaze and come work for *him*. Again Thor is affronted at the suggestion they work for the King of Hell. At last their foe pieces together what's happened to him (including Blaze putting him in the Hell Charger - apparently back as far as #14 after which the car's voice changed) and realises that he and the Avengers have a common foe. He tells them about the race in Hell (although I'm not sure how he knows about that) and offers to take them there. But they'll need something to ride (which we won't see until next issue).For the final scene we return to Hell where Robbie the Ghost Rider confronts Uncle Eli the Celestial. Eli had tried to make Robbie a genuine sinner-frightening Ghost Rider but Robbie had resisted him and had seemingly gained control of the car and his Ghost Rider-ness. Now he wants to get rid of the GR power, and is only trying to win this race because Blaze threatened his brother Gabe. Eli laughs that if he wins he'll become even more of a Ghost Rider (or maybe that *to* win he'll have to become more so). Angry Robbie-GR leaves his car to attack Eli-Celestial directly, which is what Eli wanted because now Robbie's long-lost parents are suddenly there to see what their son has become. Robbie is stunned to learn that they are actually dead (and in Hell). The Eli Celestial stomps Hell Charger into the ground as Blaze rides past promising to bring the rest of Robbie's family to Hell when he wins.


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Challenge of the Ghost Riders Part 2: Hell race 666
Last issue the Avengers brought Daimon Hellstrom, otherwise known as Hellstorm the Son of Satan, to Avengers Mountain to exorcise Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes)'s car Hell Charger. But the result was that Robbie and the car went to Hell to face the current King of Hell, Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze).Iron Man, She-Hulk and Thor were away in Turkey where they found an IM helmet that had been buried for a million years. Shulk and Thor teleport back to Avengers HQ having left Tony Stark to study the relic despite Thor getting very bad vibes from it. (And that's all we'll get on that plotline this issue.) They are met by Captain America in a magical(?) hazmat suit saying that they need protection. The spirit possessing GR's car has now taken over the giant dead Celestial body that is their current base.Hellstorm is levitating outside the Celestial's head which is weeping blood. He can't identify the spirit but says it is immensely powerful. He starts to extract the invader but warns the team to expect the effects of resistance. Blade and Captain Marvel (also in containment suits) and Black Panther (presumably protected by his usual suit) are fleeing from a fireball. They break into the armoury where they've tracked the entity and face possessed Iron Man armours and Wakandan Hulkbuster with fiery heads.Panther attacks them with blasts of consecrated napalm (he's always prepared). He tells Shulk and Thor to guard the vehicle hangar to stop the demon possessing the helicarriers. Blade sends Boy-Thing to safety and then fires the mystic Breathing Gun Daimon gave him last issue.A voiceover (Johnny Blaze?) tells us the Ghost Riders have always loved to race. The 1st GR, a caveman on a flaming mammoth, raced Odin in 1 Million BC. Often they raced each other, eg Puritan Noble Cale and Lakota Chief Hellhawk raced for the soul of America (and both lost). And the brothers Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch have their motorbikes.Blaze himself is trying to persuade RR to race him for his power. JB won the rule of Hell from Mephisto and needs to add RR's power to his to keep Mephisto at bay. Robbie says he just wants to *stop* being a Ghost Rider so he's happy just to forfeit the race. But presumably that won't work so JB forces RR's hand by threatening to take young brother Gabe Reyes to Hell. Robbie transforms to Ghost Rider and knocks Johnny down before getting a head start in Hell Charger, but Blaze soon catches him up on his cycle.Hellstrom is failing his task but has made contact with the possessor's mind. He has uncovered a mass murderer who's not from this time. King Blaze sent him here but before that he served someone else. And then Daimon recognises who he is facing as the Celestial body starts to move. But he loses contact with the Avengers before he can enlighten them (or us).Inside the movements have caused walls to contract, and Captain Marvel is having difficulty stopping them crushing herself, Blade and Panther. But then leafy tendrils save them. Boy-Thing has grown to infiltrate the whole body, and the Celestial/possessor screams because whoever knows fear burns at the Boy-(Man-)Thing's touch. Hellstorm detects that the possessing spirit is being driven out to its natural form - which may not actually be a good thing. BP tells Thor and Shulk (in containment suits) that the possessor is heading their way. A blast of fire breaks through the wall (and that's the end of their c-suits) and a flaming humanoid walks through the hole.In Hell Robbie Reyes is keeping ahead of Johnny Blaze, even though Blaze figures he still hasn't plumbed the depths of Hell Charger's abilities. But then Blaze's minions fire zombies at Reyes' car. This fires Robbie up and he climb on top of the car to use his firewhip against Johnny, only to see his opponent riding up a ramp to jump over a pile of skulls - which Robbie has to plough straight into. As his car slams to a halt he sees an assembly of other Ghost Riders urging him to keep going.BP warns Thor and She-Hulk not to kill the fire-spirit because they don't know what that would do to Robbie. They don't have trouble obeying his injunction as the 'demon' picks up hammer-wielding Thor and hits Shulk with him, wondering aloud if this means he's worthy enough to lift Mjolnir. Hellstorm gets back in contact to tell them that the being is from the future where he'd been a Herald of Galactus and served Thanos. He's a Spirit Of Vengeance with the Power Cosmic. And the last page reveals the insane Cosmic Ghost Rider, Frank Castle.