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Rough Justice
Linda McQuillan tosses and turns in her bed. Her dreams take her back to the past.
(Captain UK’s nightmare / memory)
As Captain UK, she is among other superheroes. They are confused and frightened, shouting that it must have gotten the Talon. But how? Linda protests helplessly. He could become invisible. How could it kill him when he could become invisible? Her lover, Rick, tells her to calm down, promising everything will be all right. It’s unstoppable! she shouts back. It killed the Talon. It killed Gaath. She is so frightened! Doesn’t he understand? This time they are not going to win!.
There has been a constant booming noise during their conversation. Something is finally smashing the walls of their hideout apart. The Fury enters and, with one fluid move, guts Robot Andy. It then proceeds to roast the previously thought indestructible Tom Rosetta. But the worst fact is that it manages to shoot and kill Miracleman, the most powerful of them all.
Rick and Linda are still standing in the background, looking on horrified at the slaughter. She doesn’t want to die, Captain UK blurts out. She doesn’t want to die like this! Colonel Tusker tells her not to worry as he trains his killer toy army on the Fury. The Fury again just blasts him.
Rick flies Linda to the teleportation device and puts her into the teleportation chamber. He explains that he will beam her as far away as possible and follow later. Linda protests. Rick works on the console explaining that he cannot calibrate the destination properly. They’ll just hope for the best. In the glass tube, Linda shouts a warning, as she sees the Fury looking at Rick. Linda’s last memory of her lover as she teleports away is the Fury choking him to death.
(reality):
Linda McQuillan awakes screaming.
Another reality, where the Supreme Omniversal tribunal is holding court. Two reporters, one human-looking, the other looking like a squid, remind their viewers of the nature of the case. The defendant is the former Majestrix of the Dimensional Development Court, her Whyness Saturnyne. The squid, Neil, takes over adding that if the incompetence charges over her handling of the Earth 238 disaster stick, she could be in trouble. He saw her earlier on the gallery, guarded by Captain England and his Earth 523 counterpart, Captain Albion, He thought she looked… unhappy. The human reporter, Bob agrees, Definitely unhappy and smaller than he imagined. Well, it’s a big court, Neil continues their inanities. That would tend to make her look smaller. Presiding Judge Lord Mandragon, in contrast, looks supremely confident. Since he stands to succeed Saturnyne if she’s disposed, his was a fairly controversial appointment.
Bob adds that, a few moments ago, Lord Mandragon ordered the destruction of Earth 238’s entire continuum. A drastic measure. Yes, Neil agrees. There was some uproar from the gallery about that. The defence witness seemed upset. Is it Captain Commomwealth from Earth 920? Bob is unsure. Doesn’t he look more like Captain Airstrip-One from 744? But yes, he certainly does look upset.
Said defence witness, Captain Britain, still protests in disbelief. Did Mandragon really just obliterate an entire universe? He just wiped out a universe! At the flick of a switch. The Special Executive’s leader, Wardog puts a calming hand on the Captain’s shoulder. They do things differently here. Getting angry won’t help Saturnyne.
Mandragon announces that, if there are any further outbursts from the defence witness, he will be forcibly restrained by order of this court. Is that understood? Cap keeps silent and just crosses his arms sulkily.
Madragon asks the defence to call its first witness. The attorney calls Saturnyne and asks her to describe how the tragedy on Earth 238 came about.
(flashback)
Saturnyne relates that she and her Avant Guard arrived on Earth 238, as scheduled, during the month of Freya. It was a retarded parallel and needed the Push. They began testing the life-enhancing fluid according to regulations. There was no deviation from established procedure. Problems arose when Captain Britain of Earth 616 arrived unexpectedly. His arrival attracted the attention of 238’s security force, the Status Crew. Consequently, their operation was restructured to accommodate this serious upset.
Nevertheless, with Captain Britain’s help, the Push was completed and was successful. What went wrong came later and it was nothing to do with her or her operation. It was a reality storm, gravity, cause and effect, probability, logic. All of them suddenly went haywire.
Saturnyne recounts that she later learned than an immensely powerful and utterly insane psycho-kinetic mutant had been behind the chaos but at the time she didn’t know that. To compound matters, a horrifying techno-biological creature suddenly attacked Captain Britain. It was indestructible. Rather than risk more lives, she withdrew to the home continuum.
(present)
The attorney announces that the defence has no further question. The prosecution counsel may now cross-examine the witness. Mandragon surprisingly announces that he is acting as the prosecution counsel. He attacks Saturnyne, telling her that she only has one witness to corroborate this somewhat unlikely tale, as her own Avant Guard are court-employed and therefore barred from testifying. They only have this “Captain Britain’s” word as to the truth of her story. He suggests that there is an emotional and possibly a physical relationship between her and the Captain. He suggests that they are lovers and that the Captain ha been instructed to lie to the court.
Captain Britain shouts out that this is a lie. Furiously, Cap demands to know what kind of court this is. How can Mandragon be emperor, judge and prosecution counsel? Is he the hangman, too?
Mandragon smirks, as he informs the Captain that he neither knows nor cares what a “hangman” is, but he has abused this court for the last time. He orders the bailiffs to restrain the witness. The other two Captains attack Captain Britain, who furiously defends himself.
Cobweb asks Wardog if the Special Executive shouldn’t’ be doing something about that. It was them who brought him here, after all. Wardog explains that it’s not that simple. There are diplomatic procedures, there’s protocol, there’s… He winces as he witnesses the beating Cap receives. They are being a bit rough with him, aren’t they?
Frozen to his neck in a block of ice, Captain Britain is brought to Mandragon, who announces that Saturnyne now has not witness, as Captain Britain is prohibited from testifying due to unruly conduct. Therefore Saturnyne is now found guilty as charged in respect of her complicity in the destruction of Earth 237. She will be stripped of all titles and properties relating to her office as Majestrix and then will be broken down into her components and returned to the soil her treacherous feet have defiled. Sentence to be carried out immediately.
Utterly furious, Cap breaks out of the ice block with a guttural scream of rage. Now he is the one who is wildly attacking the other two Captains. They should never have taken this job, never! Wardog moans. Whose idea was it to take this job? “Yours!” Cobweb mercilessly replies. Oh, okay, They’d better help him then, he replies, as huge robot guard are entering the court to take care of the Captain. While his team proceeds to do so Wardog remains seated, hoping that this is all a terrible nightmare.
Standing in the middle of the battle, Reporter Bob asks his squid colleague, Neil, what he has to say about he trial so far. Well, Neil replies, he’d say that this is very much a trial of two halves. He’d say that they have seen a lot of disappointments so far… he is interrupted as one of the giant robots step on him, squashing him. Bob looks up, to see the other shoe about to drop.
Back on Earth, Linda McQillan has terrible nightmare about death and blood and merciless things without faces. So do lots of other people. And like them she has to squash them into the back of her mind and get dressed and go to work. She will catch a bus, lose her ticket, hope an inspector doesn’t get on, arrive at work, let Janet tell her about her sister’s baby, sort out the claim files… the nightmare will be following her. It will be hanging back out of sight. But she’ll know that it’s there. That it’s there and that one day it’s going to catch up with her.
Linda takes a look at the newspaper’s front page, showing a picture of Sir James Jaspers, who is calling for superhero legislation. Overcome with horror, she sinks down to her knees.


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Arrivals
Earth 616, night time in a lowdown London area. An elderly vagrant woman sees something burning and slowly moves closer to it.
It arrived an hour ago, space bursting like a blister, and it tumbled out of nowhere. It is not a machine not entirely, nor is it wholly an animal. It is a cybiote. It comes from another universe. Its journey was not pleasant. Its back is broken. It no longer has any limbs. During that last hour it has grown a gland capable of secreting acid and used it to break down the surrounding scrap into a more absorbable form. It needs metal to rebuild itself. Metal and one other thing.
A hook attached to a wire shoots out of it hitting the woman through the brain with the sound “shizik.” It draws the corpse closer to itself. Close by, another vagrant who had been drinking looks up. Mrs. McGeary? Was that you saying ‘shizik’ right now?
Meanwhile, in a nearby dimension, it is pandemonium, as Captain Britain and the Special Executive are fighting to other Captains and the force of the Dimensional Development Court for the fate of Saturnyne. Captain England warns Captain Britain, hoping he knows what he’s getting in there. What does he take him for, Captain Britain aggressively shouts back. Of course, he knows what he’s getting into. He’s in a parallel universe fighting an alternate version of himself, alongside a group of parahuman mercenaries who want him to help the wrongly accused Majestrix of…
The fight leaves him as he suddenly realizes how absurd all of this sounds. Do you ever get halfway through a sentence and find yourself unable to believe that you’re actually saying it? he asks Captain England. No, the other man replies simply and hits him with his staff.
Elsewhere, the telepathic precog Cobweb announces that she knew this was going to happen. She orders her colleague Legion to get Captain Britain out of there, while she rounds up the rest of the team. They need to get back to the ship. Where’s Wardog? He’s looking after the money, Legion replies cynically.
Wardog is with Saturnyne, politely announcing that this is no place for a sensitive omniversal tyrant like herself. He’d like to teleport her to safety. That’s very kind, she replies. It’s inbred, he states. His mother was a demon, but his father was a saint. Bernard? Saturnyne asks.
Back at the battle, the dour Zeitgeist asks Cobweb if she knew they were going to run into this when they got outside. Yes, she replies. When? Last year. Couldn’t she have told them? he asks, annoyed. Yes, but she decided not to after she learned about the horrible insult he was going to hurl at her. That he was going to, Zeitgeist repeats. She didn’t warn them because he was going to insult her? He hadn’t even insulted her yet at that point. He explodes. She is the most thoroughly irrational squack-head that he has ever set eyes upon. She knew he was going to say that. He needn’t come crying to her, because he teleported into the middle of an army of hostile extra-dimensionals. After language like, this he only has himself to blame.
Back on Earth 616:
Linda McQuillan leaves her flat earlier than usual. It is still dark. Perhaps she should have waited. But she couldn’t She had to leave after the dream… after the morning headlines. Something was closing in on her and she had to get out. Linda walks off. In a back alley next to her flat, a cat is scrounging for food. Suddenly, it gets killed by a barbed hook shot through it. The Fury has arrived.
Back at the remnants of the Dimensional Development Court, an injured guard announces to Lord Mandragon that the parahumans and Captain Britain and Saturnyne have escaped. Really? asks  Mandragon, not in the least perturbed. Yes, the soldier continues. They battled their way through to the warp-port, took their vessel and escaped. He stutters, then breaks off, as the smile doesn’t leave Mandragon’s face. Doesn’t he mind?
Not at all, his Whyness replies. One way or another Saturnyne is gone and he is the ruler of the Dimensional Development Court. That being so there is nowhere she can hide from him. Lovingly, he touches the crystal switches, as he continues that, in all the omniverse, there is not one universe he cannot destroy at the touch of a switch. Not one. With a broad grin he asks: so where is that bitch going to hide? You tell me. You tell me.
Back on Earth 616 at Braddock Manor, Betsy Braddock and her lover, Tom Lennox, are embroiled in a telepathic argument. Tom wants them to leave.  Betsy retorts that her brother was kidnapped by a bunch of freaks. She got a look inside one of their minds and she wasn’t even human. That’s his point, Tom explains. Her brother’s lifestyle is clinically insane. They were safer being chased by STRIKE. He asks her to think of Alison. She is thinking of her brother! She wants to know where he is! Getting a precog flash, she announces that the doorbell’s gong to ring. She opens the door in for a big surprise, as in stroll her brother, the Special Executive and Saturnyne.
Fascination immediately latches onto the angry Tom, who states that they cannot stay there. This place is an asylum. What? Captain Britain shouts before getting into Tom’s face. Tom explains that he didn’t mean to say that out loud. He didn’t want to sound ungrateful. Cap asks if Tom thinks he enjoys having a house full of superpowered strangers. Does he think he likes having every day turn into a global crisis?
Wardog helpfully points out that they are only staying until Saturnyne can transfer the money she owes them. Oh, really? asks Brian and where is she going to stay while she is in exile? Well, after a little redecoration, she thought she might live there, Saturnyne announces cheerfully.  ‘She thought…’ Brian repeats before the doorbell rings again. Utterly confused, he gets the door, even though he is in his costume. Aggressively he yells at the person outside  Now, listen! I’m just about… Uh. Who are you?
The plain woman walking in introduces herself as Captain UK. Oh God… moans Captain Britain. Linda McQuillan takes a look around. All these superhumans. All in one room. Just like before. Just like last time. It’s begun already, hasn’t it? The drawing in, the huddling together, the waiting…
Waiting? Captain Britain asks. For what? Genocide, Captain, replies Linda, as she shows him the newspaper front page with the headline Sir James addresses Commons following London Street Battle: Call for Superhero Legislation Waiting for genocide!


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Waiting for the End of the World
Several exotic figures are huddled around the TV set at Braddock Manor, listening attentively a televised speech by Sir James Jaspers, M.P.
 They are clandestine, they are frighteningly powerful and they are not our friends. They have walked among us for more than forty years, robbing us of our independence an endangering lives… And they call themselves superheroes!
Sir James continues that not only is the USA overrun with them, but they are also everywhere else. Many of those creatures are individually as powerful as armies. And they have encouraged them! Last month, the president granted a full pardon to the Hulk! Those monsters must be contained, but how? How do you reprimand creatures that are indestructible? That can bend the very lightning to their will?
Overcome with horror, Linda McQuillan cannot stand to watch any longer and leaves while Jaspers’ speech drones on:
But how do we suppress the supermen? But let them know this… impregnable though they may be, humanity is aware of the menace they pose. We have closed our ranks against them and we stand determined… waiting to see who will make the next move.
The Special Executive member named Legion is playing a game of chess with one of his doubles. Predictably, it ends in a stalemate. Brian walks after Linda. On the couch, Wardog has an arm draped around Cobweb, who is shooting him an annoyed look. Fascination is still hovering over Tom, leeching off his anger. Both Tom and Betsy are looking dagger at her.
Brian addresses Linda, reminding her that the man on the TV isn’t the same James Jaspers responsible for what happened to her Earth. He’s the James Jaspers of this continuum. A totally different man. Maybe it is all a coincidence. Linda replies that her para-senses led her to this mansion tonight to tell him what had happened to her world. He already knows some of it… but he didn’t hear the screams. He didn’t smell the blood and the burning. But he will. All the horrors… all the purges and the betrayals and executions. And on her world it all began with one little speech. But surely a different speech to the one they just heard, Brian ventures. No! Linda cries. It was exactly the same speech! Word… for word.
In a different setting altogether, billionaire industrialist Sebastian Shaw congratulates Sir James on his speech. Well, worth a trip from the colonies, he jokingly adds. Sir James thanks him and reminds him that none of this would have been possible without the generous contributions that Shaw Industries have made. Small change, Shaw laughs, mere coppers. And speaking of “coppers”… he introduces his companion Henry Peter Gyrich from Central Intelligence. Though he isn’t here in any official capacity, Gyrich hastens to add. The men laugh amiably and Sir James asks to be excused. A woman calls him over.
And so it goes on, a carousel of introductions and handshakes and backslaps and musky perfumes and ambassadors’ wives. Ringing laughter like icecubes, gin and insincerity… He feels ghostly and distant again. He wants to laugh but he feels too sad because the wine is wrong. It’s white wine. He doesn’t like white wine. He only likes red wine. Angrily, he looks at the glass. Reality shifts and he is holding a glass of red wine.
The brittle shrieks of distant hostesses splinter against the smoke-blue glassiness of everything. A crooked man is smiling a crooked smile.
Otherworld, set in a lush exotic surrounding, Roma and Merlyn watch what has just transpired while sitting in a pool. And so it begins, Merlyn states. He holds out two closed fists. Roma points at one and Merlyn opens it to reveal a tiny black skull. Well, chosen, he commends her. Black moves first. They begin to set up a complicated three-dimensional chess set with rather unique chess pieces.
On Earth a phone rings.
Roma sets up a black piece of a made-up trashily-dressed elderly woman.
On Earth, said woman attended by a guard, takes the receiver. Of course it is the Vixen speaking, she states annoyed. She believes the person on the line to be the assassin, Arcade, but the other person interrupts her. This isn’t Arcade. This is a cheekier chappy by far. And nevermind asking how he knew how to reach her.
Roma set up a black piece of one of Vixen’s guards.
They mystery caller continues that the Vixen’s forces now control STRIKE from within, don’t they? Who is this? the Vixen asks.
Roma set up a black piece of Sir James Jaspers.
On the phone, Jaspers tells the Vixen this is not important. What is important is that, within a week, STRIKE will receive direct orders from the British government to eradicate all superheroes. She is to prepare herself. Toodle-oo.
Roma sets up a black piece of a man dressed in mysterious armour, evocating the idea of a beetle.
On Earth, a confused Vixen thoughtfully stares at the receiver.
Back at Braddock Manor, another round of chess ends in stalemate for Legion and Legion. Annoyed, Cobweb tells him this is the fifth stalemate game he has played against himself this night. Can’t he take up something less predictable and irritating? Ping-pong? Legion suggests.
Wardog gently tries to draw Cobweb away, telling her they have to work out what to do about this situation. Who’s paying them? Zeitgeist demands. He keeps on insisting. He reminds Wardog that they are only there until Saturnyne pays them the money they are due. This isn’t their fight. No more credit.
This is their fight, the precog Cobweb insists. Something is going to happen there on this world that will affect them all, but she doesn’t know what it is.
At that moment, Betsy Braddock receives a precognitive vision: She sees a concentration camp, a sky turned dark by all the smoke, heads on pikes, captured superheroes, screaming people and one of them is her.
In the other room, Linda McQuillan shouts that they will be facing death camps. Torn scraps of bloodied capes and masks being tossed to the screaming mob. She’s seen it. She can’t stand seeing it again. But if that’s true they have to fight back. They’ll need everybody, Brian states. She is a superhero… No! Linda shouts. She is not a superhero. When they come for her, she’ll plead and cry and beg and say: I’m not a superhero. Take him, over there instead. He’s a superhero. Not me!
Crying, she tells Brian there was no point in coming there. She’s going now. Telling him goodbye, she runs out into the snow.
On Otherworld, Merlyn positions his white chess piece, Captain UK, after Betsy and Tom. Most of the pieces are in play, he announces and yet… it seems as if some factor is amiss. It looms on the periphery of his vision. Can he have forgotten something?
On Earth, Linda McQuillan walks through the snow, observed by the Fury, about to attack her.


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The Sound and the Fury
On the steps of Braddock Manor, Captain Britain still stares into the darkness, moments after Linda McQuillan aka Captain UK ran away. An amused Saturnyne joins him, asking if he is thoughtful. He supposes he is, the Captain replies.
About the McQuillan woman and her prophesies of doom? Saturnyne inquires. About her and a lot of other things, Brian admits. About what’s happening to this country. About Sir James Jaspers. About those aliens or whatever they are in his sitting room. About them.  Saturnyne gives him an amused look with a raised eyebrow. Us? But Captain, whoever said anything about “us”? And Linda McQuillan is screaming.
Inside the sitting room the Special Executive’s leader, Wardog, and Zeitgeist are embroiled in a heated argument, while unnoticed by them their telepath/precog Cobweb keeps on looking sicker. Zeitgeist doesn’t want to get involved in anything as long as they don’t get paid. Patiently, as though talking to someone very stupid, Wardog points out that if the universe gets wiped out, where is Zeitgeist going to find a better job? They…
No, Zeitgeist refuses. If Wardog thinks that… Cobweb begins to make stuttering noises and foams at the mouth. She didn’t see it coming, she finally utters. And Linda McQuillan is screaming.
On Otherworld, Merlyn and Roma are embroiled in the complicated game of chess they have set up. Merlyn is puzzled. He missed something. He of all people… No one is infallible, not even he, his daughter points out. She sometimes thins that a strong wind would blow him over. But he makes the winds, her father remarks slyly. Roma pales as suddenly unbidden a new piece appears on the chessboard. A miniature Fury suddenly stands next to the piece of Captain UK. And … and that, father? Did you make that?
And Linda McQuillan is screaming… and the sound of her scream is the sound of a glass breaking. A glass breaking slowly. The Fury fires at her. And Captain Britain, Saturnyne, the Special Excutive and Merlyn and Roma finally notice.
Linda runs haplessly through the trees around Braddock Manor. It was waiting for her in the bushes. She’d been dreaming about this for ten years. Ugly dreams. Dreams of spurting aorta. Dreams of ganglia twitching from the wreckage of spines. She sees now how hopelessly optimistic those dreams had been. It was so much bigger than she remembered.
The Fury recalls the woman It had encountered her before. She had escaped. It grabs her by the throat. A muscle tightens. Platinum nerves crackle.
On Otherworld Merlyn sees the imminent threat. Desperately he shouts ‘no’ as he cradles the chess piece of Captain UK in his hands.
The Fury fires at Linda.
On Otherworld, Merlyn removes his hands. The Captain UK piece is unharmed, but his hands are charred and scarred.
The Fury stares at the shocked Linda. She is still alive. It has something like a feeling and the feeling is something like disbelief. It identifies the sensation as being contra-survival and erases it with the wave of a gland. She is still alive. That must be rectified. Once it has dealt with whatever approaches it from behind.
Captain Britain only sees a hulking threat standing over Linda. With one fluid movement, the Fury fends off his attack and slams him to the ground. Angrily, Captain Britain blusters before he gets a good look at his foe. ‘Oh God,’ he mutters in disbelief.
Inside Braddock Manor, the others once more hear the characteristic ‘VAARR!’ sound of the Fury’s blaster. A small floating mechanical member of the Special Executive creates a Haiku:
Outside, the bleak sound,
Harsh and blue, rolls like warclouds
Shot with death’s lightening
Not one of her better one, Wardog remarks, addressing her as Lady Burning Fish, but he agrees. Someone’s in trouble. They had better take a look.
As he grabs his jacket and gun, Zeitgeist bars his way. How long have they been a charity? he asks annoyed. This isn’t their fight. He can’t just… He has heard Zeitgeist’s argument before, Wardog spits back and it has some very good points. However, on the whole - he walks right through Zeitgeist - he finds it lacks substance. Now if he will excuse him…
Outside, Wardog and those members of the Executive that have followed him demand to know what this thing is. Saturnyne informs them and wonders how the Fury that is pounding Captain Britain can still exist, when Mandragon had ordered its entire continuum destroyed. Just lucky I guess the multiple versions of Legion offer. Which is a lot more than can be said for their two crumpled Captains, Wardog remarks as he approaches the Fury, with a drawn weapon in his bionic hand. With a fluid movement, the Fury grabs his bionic arm and tears it out.
The different versions of Legion crowd the Fury, trying to bring it down with sheer numbers. A huge insectoid member of the Executive, Oxo, orders Legion to lose himself in the crowd. But he is the crowd, Legion protests. Too late as the Fury blasts away one of the versions of Legion. It killed him! Wardog announces shocked. But only one of him, Saturnyne remarks. There is only one of him, Wardog explains, but by doubling back on his own timeline he can summon countless Legions, each separated by split-instantly. Kill one and the others up the timeline from that point vanish forever and that thing has done it.
One version of Legion grieves over the fallen one, whereas the others keep on fighting and Cobweb is helplessly caught in her visions of the future, all overlaid with images of the Fury:
She has witnessed how Legion has died and, one week from now, catching up with the instant of his death he will blink from existence. Four days from now, they will make love for the last time. Afterwards, she cries and after that…
She didn’t see it coming… Legion dead … Wardog crippled… She is making love to Legion, she is meeting him for the first time, she is crying, but what happens after that?
She sees the Fury on a mountain of skulls. Why didn’t she see it coming?
That thing just kills and kills … McQuillan screaming… it killed her lover too… her bladder letting go…
Her vision shifts to one of James Jaspers. Shouldn’t be here… pattern broken… There was a crooked man and he… white wine turning red…
It turns to Merlyn. White and red, like blood and bone. Like chessmen. The board’s askew… the gamer’s hands are scorched and blackened… all strategies are shredded in the random wind…
nothing is certain now… but if this game is lost… if this world falls… I see a universe eaten alive by chaos… and another universe… and another, like dominoes… tumbling… I see the future… and it is cancelled


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But they never really die
Captain Britain floats through darkness. It’s black and it’s comfortable. He is trying to recall where he is. He had been talking to the woman. Linda McQuillan, Captain UK… She had walked away from him, white coat vanishing over the dark lawns of Braddock Manor. And then a scream. The shrill, hopeless scream of an animal, paralysed with terror. He’d gone to investigate, naturally. The thing had been standing astride her. It knocked him down. He got up again. It turned to face him. He saw what it was...
He finally recalls the ubiquitous visage of the Fury. No! Not again! he shouts in disbelief. It’s dead!! It’s dead, he repeats with less conviction as he watches the Fury battle the Special Executive.
Inside Braddock Manor, Zeitgeist and another member of the Special Executive are trying to treat the hysterical Cobweb, who’s been trying to swallow her tongue. Weakly, she asks Zeitgeist to help the others, before she is shaken by anther paroxysm. She didn’t see it coming, she moans. Like going blind… What’s going to happen… Wardog crippled, Legion dead. It isn’t an animal… it isn’t a machine… it ate the old woman… bones dissolving.
Legion dead? Zeitgeist repeats in disbelief. The other Executive member, which looks like a sentient, six-eyed shrub, remarks that he has never seen Cobweb like that before. She said they needed help. Not this time, Zeitgeist announces stubbornly. It’s a principle. He told Wardog. He doesn’t risk his life for fun. He is a professional. There’s no money involved. He can’t help. From outside they hear the characteristic blaster noise of the Fury and Zeitgeist winces. Almost helplessly he appeals to the others: Don’t you understand? I just can’t. That’s all.
Outside, the insect-like Oxo attacks the Fury. It classifies him as little more than a nuisance and eviscerates him. And somewhere Cobweb’s eyes roll back in her skull, as a tar black shriek of despair tears itself out of her lungs and somewhere the parahuman called Fascination stops smiling. Over Wardog’s warning she snarls and jumps at the Fury.
The Fury begins to raise its weapon fist but suddenly turns sluggish as Fascination begins to use her power on it. Finally, it finds the woman is interfering with the temporal lobe of its brain and so it shuts its brain down and it switches its consciousness to the auxiliary nervous system in the small of its back and then it hits her. It learns. It learns fast.
Unlike some people. Some people never learn at all. Like Captain Britain, who attacks from behind. With a few fluid movements, the Fury takes him out, smashes him to the ground and intends to hit him again, when suddenly Zeitgeist turns up from the ground, phasing through the Fury, tearing at it, causing as much damage as he can.
The Fury cannot perceive him. Something is attacking it. But how can that be? How can that be when there isn’t anything there? It tries for an infrared indication, scans for brainwaves, the most basic molecular activity. Nothing, absolutely nothing.
Zeitgeist finally and impatiently turns to the others, explaining that it cannot register his presence. What’s everybody waiting for? Kill it! Kill it while it is confused! On that cue, they all attack, Captain Britain and Fascination taking the lead. They smash the Fury down into the caverns beneath Braddock Manor and flee before the cave-in.
Afterwards, Saturnyne asks where it is and Cap explains that the Fury is buried under tons of rock. It will be back, he adds. They’d better move out of the manor, Saturnyne states. Brian protests. This is his home! Does he want to face it again? Saturnyne simply asks. Honestly he admits that he doesn’t. They can all travel together. Maybe down to London… sort out this James Jaspers business. Only… what about her? He points at the hysterically crying Captain UK.
Saturnyne examines her and states that she’ll need treatment for shock and some clean clothes. She’s wet. Why should she get special treatment, Captain Britain whines, Everybody’s wet. Saturnyne gives him a scathing glance, as she explains that Linda is wet because she was very frightened. She tells him to grow up.
Wardog, in the meantime, tries to thank Zeitgeist, who angrily tells him to save it. He only stepped in to prevent everybody getting killed because of Wardog’s stupidity. As it was, he was almost too late. He points to their losses. Legion will snuff out in a few days at most, Oxo was torn apart, Cobweb had a seizure that almost killed her, Wardog has been dismembered. All in about five minutes. If that’s his idea of how a professional business works, he can count him out. He is resigning, effective as of …
There’s no need, Wardog tells him softly. He is right. He turns to Captain Britain, apologizing. He has a responsibility to his team. He can’t task them to involve themselves like this. Not for nothing. They have to get back to the Sidewinder, lick their wounds, think things over. He hopes that creature is really dead this time. He hopes Captain Britain can stop Jaspers before he repeats the nightmare that his counterpart caused on Captain UK’s world, but …
But they are on their own, is that it? Captain Britain finishes his sentence. Yes, Captain, that’s it, Wardog agrees, and the Executive walk away, leaving Captain Britain, Saturnyne, Betsy and Tom.


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(the castle of Morgana Le Fey, 690 AD)The sorceress Morgana stands before a large cauldron. Green smoke wafts up high past the castle’s iron chandeliers. She commands the waters of Avalon to show her where the betrayer, Victor Von Doom, has hidden from her. She utters a few magical phrases and an image appears in the water. The image is of the future. There, Norman Osborn is speaking to his cabal - Prince Namor of Atlantis, the X-Men's Emma Frost, the Norse God Loki, the Hood and Victor Von Doom. They listen to Norman telling them how it's going to be.
(Avengers Tower, today)The Iron Patriot addresses the expectant crowd and a large number of reporters. Several heroes flank him at either side as he explains how, as a species, they have yet again triumphed over those who would try to take away what is rightfully theirs. He introduces them to their protectors... their warriors... their Avengers! The crowd roars its approval with raised fists.
(one week ago)Norman Osborn stands in a hi-tech shipyard, surveying the golden helicarrier created by Tony Stark. A dark-haired woman approaches and introduces herself as Victoria Hand. She tells him that she was surprised to get his call. She thought that when S.H.I.E.L.D. went away, so did her job. Norman replies that it did. She is no longer a S.H.I.E.L.D. accountant. She is his Deputy Director. She asks of what. "H.A.M.M.E.R." he replies.
Victoria asks if it stands for something. He says that it does, and she should get to work on it. It's one of the many things on her 'to do' list. He hands her a PDA. "This is my to do list? she asks. He replies that it's the first part. They are building a new world peacekeeping task force from scratch and he imagines that she will be busy. He's adds that, as well as H.A.M.M.E.R., there will be the new Avengers, too. He wants her to start with a full list of S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives at home and abroad. He wants lists. Agents, heroes, criminals, undercovers, Hydra agents, A.I.M. He wants to know the allegiances and the defectors. He also wants a list of Stark loyalists and a list of Captain America loyalists.
He continues to ask for a full report on the Fifty State Initiative. He wants Camp Hammond stripped down and rebuilt and this golden goose of a helicarrier scrapped. He also wants the useless capekiller armor and weapons systems discontinued and replaced. She can use his designs and put them into full production. The designs are on her PDA. Norman explains that before he was the man she sees before her, he was a hell of a weapons designer. He wants all the red and gold out of sight. She is his eyes and ears now and will have to make some tough decisions about some tough individuals. If she doesn't want the job, then she can speak now.
Victoria replies that she isn't sure if he's aware, but she was quite vocal about her feelings for Stark and Nick Fury, and what she considered to be a soft view on terrorism. Norman tells her that this is why she is there. She speaks her mind. He doesn't think that soft will be a word she'll be using much to describe him. "Deputy Director pays more?" she enquires. "Considerably," replies Norman. But, he adds, she will be working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for the rest of her life, so she shouldn't get too excited. "What about Maria Hill? she asks.
(Thunderbolts Mountain, Coyote Springs, Colorado - base of the Thunderbolts, six days ago)Maria Hill visits Norman at his behest. He apologizes for her having to come all the way out to see him, but as she knows, S.H.I.E.L.D. is no longer. A new organization is being established and he will be running the day to day on that. He informs her that due to her failure to detect the Skrull invasion within their ranks, and her failure to defend the world against the ground assault, her presence is no longer required. Maria says that she knows. However, she wanted to look him right in the eye in order to tell him that when he crashes and burns… and he will... she will be there when it happens. And she'll be laughing her ass off. She curtseys in a mocking fashion and leaves, silently.
As she departs, Bullseye walk into the room and Norman asks him to sit. He tells Bullseye that he did amazing work during the ground battle. Bullseye admits that it was fun. It took the edge off for a while. Norman is pleased that his new drugs are working. He held it together. Bullseye knows that this is leading somewhere, so Osborn doesn't waste time in informing him that he wants to reward him and expand their relationship. Reinvent it. They are going to move to New York. Bullseye asks what's in New York. "Avengers Tower," replies Norman. Bullseye almost falls off his chair in surprise and a broad smile edges across his face.
(five days ago, Avengers Tower)Ms. Marvel avoids the circling helicopters as she arrives at the tower. Inside, she encounters Norman Osborn who asks if she's reporting for duty. "To you?" she remarks. Norman explains that he's running the Avengers, and that she is their leader. Carol replies that she reports to Tony Stark and this is his house. Norman tells her that Stark is no longer there, and the tower is no longer his. He used S.H.I.E.L.D. funding to repair the tower after the Hulk attack and to finance the Avengers. Now he is out. His tower and everything in it is the property of S.H.I.E.L.D., and he is in charge of S.H.I.E.L.D. "So..."
Carol feels like she's taken crazy pills. Why would Tony do that? Norman reckons that he didn't think this day would ever come. Carol bows her head and says that she resigns from the Avengers as Norman pours himself a drink. He replies that she is registered. She is military. He has the right to order her to take her position. Carol reiterates her resignation. Norman tells her in that case, she is under arrest. Carol becomes agitated and turns on Norman, telling him that no one worth a damn will side with him. There will be no Avengers. Norman motions behind him to where Ares and the Sentry are standing. Carol's eyes widen as she asks what the @#%% they are doing.
Ares says that he is the God of War and there are battles that must be fought. Carol points at Norman and tells Ares that he is a killer. Ares replies that so is he. Carol turns to Bob who lowers his eyes, telling her that this is where he lives. She asks what Norman promised him. "He's helping me," replies Bob. Carol can't believe it, and she tells them that they're making a huge mistake. No one responds and Carol almost tears her hair out in frustration. Ares tells her that she's putting her ego in front of her task. Carol buries her face in her hands and replies that it's not ego. She just won't do it. She won't work with him.
Osborn calmly asks her to surrender herself, in that case. They can let a military court decide. A tear forms at the corner of her eye and she takes off, smashing through a window as she takes to the skies. The Sentry says that it went badly and wonders if he should go after her. Norman asks him not to worry about it. She'll come around. Meanwhile, there are more Ms. Marvels where that came from.
Norman returns to Thunderbolts Mountain and finds Moonstone in a relaxed position. She informs him that she is meditating, but he doesn't care. He tosses Ms. Marvel's costume onto her lap and asks her to put it on. She and her moonstone are going with him. Karla asks why she can't just be Moonstone. She likes being Moonstone. Norman tells her that she will be Ms. Marvel. "I want to be Moonstone," she replies. Osborn tells her that Moonstone remains at the mountain under armed guard. Ms. Marvel gets her own penthouse in New York City with full privileges. Karla smiles. "I'm Ms. Marvel now," she replies, and Norman welcomes her to the Avengers. One thing though… she wants to be team leader.
(elsewhere)Six guards struggle to control a large Skrull who is held in place by dogcatchers’ poles. They drag him to a cell and one of the guards kicks him inside. Once he has entered, the door clangs shut and the Skrull's neck brace, which prevented him from shape-shifting, falls off. A voice from the darkness informs him that he can shape-shift again and asks him if he knows who Spider-Man is. "Who is there?" the Skrull demands to know. The voice orders him to turn himself into Spider-Man. The Skrull asks why. The voice says it's because he wants him to. Do it and he will live. The Skrull, wary of the unknown, shape-shifts into Spider-Man's form and the voice reveals its physical form. It's Venom, and he towers over the captive Skrull. The Skrull backs off, petrified, and with good reason, for Venom then eats him. Outside is Norman Osborn and he asks a guard if Venom is fed. He is told that he is, so Norman then enters the room.
Mac informs Norman that Skrulls make him gassy. One of the attending doctors passes Osborn some drugs. Osborn then tells Mac that he behaved himself during the invasion, and he promised to do right by him. He wants him to take the drug. Mac is concerned that Osborn is trying to poison him, but Osborn assures him that he is trying to make his life liveable. The drug will hopefully preserve his powers but make him more presentable. Mac replies that he likes himself like this but Osborn tells him that if he wants to get out of the mountain and meet a nice girl, he should take it. Mac warns him that if it's a trick... Osborn replies that if he wanted to kill him he'd have poisoned his dinner. Mac pauses but then opens his enormous toothy mouth wide and Osborn tosses the drugs into it.
Venom staggers backwards and roars. He falls to the ground and writhes in agony as the drugs begin to take effect. A doctor photographs Mac as he screams, but the pain doesn't last long. Osborn asks how he feels. Can he get up? Mac, now resembling a more muscular Spider-Man in his black costume, stands up. He appears to be impressed. He takes back everything he said about Osborn. Well, almost everything.
(New Orleans, four days ago)Daken approaches a Pizza Express on the pretence of getting a job and enters to find Norman Osborn sitting next to Ares, whom he introduces. Victoria Hand sits opposite them. Daken removes his shades and Norman assures him that he's not in trouble. "You have to taste this," exclaims Ares. "'Tis glorious crap." Daken ignores him and asks how he knew that he would be there. Osborn replies that he is an unstable mutant killer. It's his job to know where he is. "So there's no job for me?" he asks. Norman says that this guy has the stones to beat the hell out of Wolverine and wants to know if there's a job. Daken replies that that is between he and his father.
Norman Osborn's expression, and that of Ares, clearly show that they didn't know this snippet of information. "Ha!" exclaims Ares. Daken asks what's so funny as he drops his holdall to the floor. Ares wipes his mouth and replies that he just can't imagine a woman who'd let that ferret climb on top of her. Daken responds angrily, informing him that it's his mother he's talking about. He pops his claws, but Osborn tells him calmly that he'd like to hire him full time. Daken asks what for. Osborn smiles. "Well, tick your dad off for starters."
(the Cube, maximum security penitentiary, three days ago)Noh-Varr sits alone in a large cell, and Norman pays him a visit. He asks the Kree soldier why he is there. He is a war hero. Why is he sitting in a closed jail? What is he waiting for? Noh-Varr offers a petulant glance towards Osborn who tells him that he is fascinated by him. He came to Earth from another dimension, declared war on the planet and then, when push came to shove, he defended it. Noh-Varr asks what he wants. Osborn tells him that he wants him to be what he already is. Kree warrior. Sworn enemy of the Skrull. The stranger from another world who stood alongside us and helped save the world. He wants him to be Captain Marvel.
(Avengers Tower)The assembled crew stand around as Osborn and Victoria Hand look at a large photograph of an early incarnation of the Avengers. Osborn feels that something is missing. Victoria reckons that it's a pretty hardcore team, but Norman reckons that's what the public wants right now. No, what they are missing is a Jarvis, says Victoria. They need a full staff of housekeepers, cooks and armed guards at every door. The reformed Thunderbolts are truly disgusting pigs. She will put together a list. Osborn says that's fine, but it's the team that is missing something. It's Ares who suggests Captain America and Iron Man. Osborn quips that they'll be pretty hard gets. Ares explains that he means the symbolism. Captain America and Iron Man... the soldier and the knight. These are more than men. They are symbols that people gather behind.
Victoria informs her boss that his three o'clock has arrived, so they head down to meet him. The Ghost introduces himself, adding that he wasn't going to come, but Osborn got him an invite inside Stark Tower. It's too tempting. He hates Tony Stark and the corporate government world they live in. Osborn says that he knows. The Ghost adds that he hates what Stark represents, every sickening thing. He's going to bring all of it down. "Good luck with that," replies Karla. The Ghost also hates being condescended to, and tells her that he has the power to slip into any room, any alarm, any code. Osborn tells him that's why he invited him.
They stand before two huge doors, and Osborn asks him to get inside. The Ghost asks what's in there. Osborn admits he doesn't know, but it was Stark's and now it is his. Who better than the Ghost to open the door. The Ghost asks what he gets out of it. Osborn informs him that he has plans for him. The Ghost is surprised by this, and asks if he wants him to be an Avenger. Norman says no. It would be a slap in the face of everything he stands for. But, he has a place for him and big plans. The Ghost gets inside in seconds. Karla asks where Osborn got him from. He smells. Norman asks her to be quiet. Ares runs his eyes over Karla and says that she is a fine woman. Before she can get on her high horse, the doors swing wide, and the treasure is revealed. More than a dozen versions of the Iron Man armor in pristine condition.
(Latveria, this morning)A helicopter comes in to land amidst the ruins of Castle Doom. A crew member radios to the ground but receives no response. He tries once again and wonders why there is no ground crew. One of the crew asks Doom if he can take a picture, but a disdainful look quickly puts him off the idea. The 'copter lands and the agents jump out. One of the agents quips that it's some homecoming. Doom's people must be real glad to see him. Doom replies that if he continues to speak, there will be no end to his suffering. Doom looks around and notices a mysterious woman standing nearby. The agents don't know what to make of her, but Doom quickly assumes a defensive stance. Immediately, arcs of magical assaults fly back and forth as the agents back away quickly.
(Avengers Tower, now)Captain Marvel, Sentry, Ms. Marvel, Ares, Wolverine, Hawkeye and the amazing Spider-Man take the crowd's applause, led by their leader, Norman Osborn... the Iron Patriot. Osborn removes his helmet and informs everyone that he will lead these new Avengers into battle against anyone who would threaten their way of life. "My name is Norman Osborn and I approve these Avengers."


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(Latveria, 37 years ago)A single fire lights the campsite of Victor von Doom’s gypsy clan, while the young boy lies asleep alone within a tent, a book lying open on his stomach. A shadowy female figure stands over him.
“You’ve stolen from, Victor Von Doom,” announces Morgana Le Fay, as she stands over him wielding a knife, two monstrous demons behind her. “You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust. You used me to steal the knowledge of the dark arts I have earned for myself over lifetimes of study. And tonight you will die for it. And the world will be spared your future selfish villainy…
Morgana raises the knife over her head, gripping it tightly with both hands. She stares down at von Doom and a look of realization crosses her face. “No, she says. As much effort as it was to travel to this time and find him… to do it like this…he will never know why he died, she tells the young boy. He will not know it was her. No. No, no. He has to understand why he is being punished. He has to know it was Morgana Le Fay whose heart he broke, she concludes. The young von Doom suddenly sits up, but only manages to catch sight of a thin strand of smoke. He glances at it warily, before curling up and wrapping his blanket around himself in fear.
(Today)“Change has come,” says Norman Osborn, dressed in a brown suit. S.H.I.E.LD. is no more. Tony Stark is no longer a part of their lives. So what does that mean? Does that mean the world is safe? No. Does that mean there are not men out there whose selfish agenda doesn’t fly in the face of everything they know to be the backbone of civilization? “Sadly, no,” claims Norman. Their enemies are still all around them, he continues, their enemies will use this time of transition to strike. To make their mark. They will think that this is a time of weakness and they will make their move.
“But we will surprise them,” he says, addressing a group of agents dressed in purple and black armour from a platform with the word HAMMER emblazoned on it, while Victoria Hand stands beside him. They are here today, they have been chosen as the first wave, announces Norman. An elite force that will replace S.H.I.E.L.D. as a peacekeeping task force. They have been chosen because of their loyalty to the Thunderbolts Initiative or their stellar actions as agents of what were once Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. They will go out there and defend this world. They will keep it safe from those who would have it otherwise. They will act swiftly and they will let the world know it is safe. They are the first agents of H.A.M.M.E.R. They are history in the making. His soldiers.
“Long live H.A.M.M.E.R.!!!” Osborn proclaims, as he stands in front of a brand new helicarrier, his agents throwing up their arms in support. “May you strike down mighty and true!!”
(Castle Doom, Latveria)“Who the hell is--?” starts a startled Thunderbolts agent. “Morgana!?” exclaims Doctor Doom, as he readies his magicks.
He has stolen from her, says the sorceress as she summons an army of demons amid the ruins of what was once Castle Doom. He betrayed her. He came to her and offered himself to her in exchange for her dark secrets. He betrayed her trust and tonight he will die for it!!
“Morgana look around you!!” shouts Doctor Doom.
“And the world will be spared any more of your selfish villainy…” Morgana continues.
“Look around you!” Doom repeats. Can’t she see that he’s lost his kingdom?
“No…” says Morgana as she fires magical lightning at her former lover. Now he has.
Doom cries out to Morgana that he will not tolerate this, conjuring a magical shield, while one of the two Thunderbolts agents is incinerated by Morgana’s lightning.
Even his groveling is arrogant, remarks Morgana casting a spell. “Bring him here! Blood and bones!” she orders her demons.
Doom casts a protective ward to hold back the onslaught from Morgana’s demons.
“This is Delta Niner Six Five Two!” the surviving Thunderbolts agent cries into his helmet. They are under attack. Repeat, they are in Latveria, Castle Doom. Coordinates: Nine Five Two.
 (Avengers Tower)I am the Iron Patriot. I will lead these new Avengers into battle against anyone who would threaten our way of life. My name is Norman Osborn and I approve these Avengers!” exclaims the armored Norman Osborn on the screen. The real Norman Osborn stands within Avengers Tower, while his handpicked Avengers stand behind him.
“You know, it’s too bad I killed my mother in high school… She would have loved this,” says Bullseye. The others stare at him.” Joking,” he says. She wouldn’t a’ cared.”
“Okay, Avengers,” Norman says, drawing his team’s attention, while they all hold celebratory drinks in their hands. Let him make some things perfectly clear… None of them—he means none of them--talk to the media ever again. That was it. If they do, if they even wave at the paparazzi, back to the basement of Thunderbolts Mountain they go.
“I do as I please, Osborn,” says Ares. Osborn asks him if he wants to talk to the media. “Not really,” Ares replies. “Okay then,” Osborn confirms. “Verily,” says Ares. “Right,” says Osborn.
“And more importantly, and I can’t make this point any more clear…” Osborn continues as his armor begins to disassemble. If they start any macho ego @#$ with each other… Any button-pushing, any testosterone… they’re out. No three strikes. No warning. They’re out.
The last of Norman’s armor flows into his belt. “Get to know each other,” he says. Get along Become a team, you all know a thing or two about a thing or two… Learn from each other.
“Okay then what’s next?” asks Mac Gargan, the team’s Spider-Man otherwise known as Venom. As in what do they actually do?
They are going to prepare a list of targets around the world and strike at them, says Osborn, as he puts on a tie and a jacket. Ares confirms and asks to be allowed to contribute to that. Osborn says of course. It’s why Ares is here. “Aye,” says Ares. Osborn then introduces Victoria Hand. She’s Deputy Director of H.A.M.M.E.R. She’s his second in command.
“Whoa wait,” Moonstone interrupts, dressed in the original uniform of Ms. Marvel. She’s not even second in command now?? She’s his Ms. Marvel. She’s field leader! Osborn exclaims. If, God forbid, something happens to him, he mutters under his breath. “Okay then,” replies Moonstone. But she answers to her, Osborn fires back. “You suck,” says Moonstone.
Mac Gargan asks who is she? She is him as far as Mac is concerned, Osborn tells him. Mac asks if she talks. “Yes,” says Victoria. Now step out of her airspace or she’ll have him replaced with D-Man, she threatens. Mac asks what a D-Man is and Victoria assures him it’s not a compliment.
“Osborn, we need to do a Skrull sweep,” announces Noh-Varr. Hawkeye concurs. Noh-Varr states that there are still some of them out there. Osborn counters that there aren’t as many as Marvel Boy thinks. “Captain Marvel,” corrects the Kree. Osborn says, Right. Sorry. They have people on that. No, Skrulls are yesterday’s news. He needs Noh-Varr, he needs them all, to make people feel safe for tomorrow.
“How about Tony Stark? Right? Public Enemy Number One? He let the invasion happen. He’s a war criminal right? Let’s go get him,” suggests Bullseye. “No,” replies Osborn as he glances at the frowning Ares and Sentry. For now, Tony Stark is a court of law matter, he claims. Kicking a man while he’s down is hardly a way to win over the public. Hawkeye asks who cares about that on any level. Osborn says that he does, so they do, too.
Moonstone asks if they should go around the room and introduce themselves. Daken asks her why. That was her nice way of saying she doesn’t know who the@#$% he is! Osborn turns his head to the window as Moonstone asks him, seriously… Who is this?
(Latveria)Doctor Doom continues to protect both himself and the helicopter that brought him there from Morgana’s magical lightning. Arcane symbols glow in front of both Morgana and Doom as they repeat their spells, their eyes closed as they furrow their brows furrow in concentration.
Morgana casts another spell, her eyes glowing with power and a bolt of magical lightning breaks through Doom’s defenses and he cries out in pain. Morgana tells him he would not believe how long she has waited to hear him say that. Doom raises his hand and attempts to cast a spell, only for a demon to smash him into the ground.
(Avengers Tower)”I said he’s our Wolverine,” Osborn tells Victoria. Now they have one too. “They have one, we have-- Hold on.” He says as Victoria hands him a small monitor. She tells him that this just came in over the secure line. Norman asks what is it? Victoria tells him she can put it up. Osborn tells her to do so.
Footage of Doctor Doom’s battle in Latveria appears on screen. “This Delta Niner Six Five Two,” the transmission begins. “We are under attack. Repeat, we are in Latveria. Castle Doom. Coordinates: Nine Five Two. We are under attack. Unidentified female. Doctor Doom is down. I repeat, Doctor Doom is down!!”
“Um…” begins Sentry. Why is Doctor Doom back in Latveria? Norman tells him that he sent him there. He orders Victoria to get him satellite footage, she gets him intel. “Yes, sir,” says Victoria.
“Damn,” says Norman. “Helping Doom isn’t the ideal first mission. Suit up, Avengers. Let’s go do something.”
Moonstone, Iron Patriot and Sentry fly through the air under their own power, while the remaining members of the Dark Avengers fly from the inside of a Quinjet. Norman muses that at least they get to see what the team can do.
“Gagagoo!! Gadapoo!!” a small demon mocks, as it stands on the torso of the unconscious Doctor Doom. “So beautiful,” says Morgana as the demon continues to repeat its earlier speech. She raises her knife and then turns. “Hmm,” she says, summoning forth demons to deal with the newly arrived Dark Avengers. Iron Patriot asks who they think all this is?
He knows exactly who this is! Ares exclaims from within the Quinjet. It’s Morgana Le Fay. Dark sorceress from another time. As Iron Patriot fires energy blasts at two winged demons outside, the Sinister Spider-Man asks if he can eat her. “Why do you always have to make it about eat…” begins Daken, before a giant winged demon sinks its teeth into the Quinjet and sends crashing into the ground while Morgana watches.
While Moonstone deals with the demon, Iron Patriot announces that his name is Norman Osborn. Leader of the Avenges, Miss Fay! They’re here to ask her to go back to where she came from or face them head on!
She has battled Avengers before, noble knight, Morgana tells him, while several demons leer up at Iron Patriot and Sentry. “Not like us, you haven’t. Surrender or leave.” Iron Patriot orders her.
“Or what?” cries Morgana, her hands crackling with magical energy. Iron Patriot tells the Sentry, Bob, that he has his permission… don’t hold back. Sentry complies and streaks towards Morgana, ripping her head clean off her body, magical lightning escaping from her neck as he does so.
He doesn’t say this much but… Whoa, says Bullseye as the Sentry holds Morgana’s body aloft and the demons all vanish in flashes of pink light.
What he did? Was it a good or a bad thing? Sentry asks. “Ha!” says Ares, smiling. “Well, that is one way to end a fight.” “Was it a good thing or bad thing?” Sentry repeats. “Good thing, Bob. Absolutely,” assures Iron Patriot. “It was?” Sentry asks. Daken asks what’s wrong with him, exactly?
The Dark Avengers turn their attention to the unconscious Doctor Doom. “Victor?” Iron Patriot says. Bullseye asks if he is alright. “Is it really him?” Moonstone asks. Iron Patriot confirms that it is. “What’s wrong with him? I thought this was the big ‘ol Doctor Doom. I thought he…”  Venom begins. “She took him down. She got him.” Daken replies. “Doom?” questions Venom. “Never thought I’d be looking right at him, says Daken.
“He’s breathing,” says Moonstone. “In a coma, maybe?” Bullseye suggests. “I wonder what he did to make the sorceress so insane she would travel to our time to punish him so severely.” Ares wonders. “She time-traveled to do this?” Moonstone exclaims. “Well, she’s from the time of Arthur Pendragon,” Ares informs her. “King Arthur,” says Moonstone. “Long way to go to get your head popped off,” Bullseye says
“Hand, this is Iron Patriot,” Iron Patriot says into his helmet. “He’s really going to call himself that in public?” Bullseye asks. Ignoring him, Iron Patriot tells Victoria they’re on the ground at Castle Doom. They need a clean-up team and an EVAC, ASAP.
Sentry tenses and keels over. “Um…” he mutters. “Bob, what’s wrong with--??” Ares asks. “Ow!” cries Bob. “Something’s…” He screams, throwing his head upwards and spreading his arms out as he explodes in a flash of golden light, sending his teammates diving for cover.
“Son of a…” Venom begins. “Okay, Hand” Iron Patriot says. He doesn’t know if Victoria saw that but the Sentry is… gone.”
Morgana and her demons reappear and she tells the Dark Avengers to understand this, you simple, simple mortals of flesh. She is not from their time. Even if they kill her here… She can come back from her time in the far past and destroy them. Do it again and she’ll come back in their childhood and remove them from existence.
“Morgana, I am Ares, god of war, son of Zeus! And I demand that you go back whence you came,” Ares orders. Morgana turns her gaze to him thoughtfully and says that it is him, mighty Ares. Her humblest apologies for not recognizing him before. Her lips curl into a smile as she tells him that he says Zeus’ name, as if his father cares if he lives or dies. She knows in this time that he does not.
“Pavati Mulandooso,” she pronounces, casting another spell. Venom cries out in pain before transforming from his Spider-Man form back into his monstrous Venom state. “Jeez!” says Bullseye, as Venom swallows half of Ares in his mouth. A strike of magical energy strikes Iron Patriot and Morgana’s demons attack the remaining Dark Avengers as they attempt to flee.


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Utopia Part 3
San Francisco Bay. Alcatraz Island. West Coast Headquarters of H.A.M.M.E.R…Hank McCoy feels awful. Professor Charles Xavier, the prisoner in the cell next to his, detects his mental anguish and asks what it wrong. Something’s happening to him, Hank says. Professor X asks if he’s hurt, or if he needs medical attention. “My fingernails just fell out,” Beast says. “So you tell me, professor.”
This news takes Xavier by surprise. Hank elaborates on the matter, further horrifying him. He asks at one point a person in his condition would require medical assistance. How many nails would need to fall out? Beast suspects his dewclaw is detaching as well. Huge tufts of blue fur lie around the room—more than remains on Hank’s body.
Taking issue with the nonchalance of his tone, Professor X advises Beast to preserve his strength; demonstrating his gallows bravado only wastes precious energy. Beast asks the prisoner next door why he should even listen to him: he doesn’t know if he is the person he claims to be. After all, if he can speak directly into Beast’s mind, surely he could make him think he’s whomever he wants. If that were true, Xavier counters, wouldn’t he pretend to be someone who could get them out of there?
Outside Beast’s prison cell, H.A.M.M.E.R. Director Norman Osborn glares at his mutant geneticist, Dark Beast. “McCoy looks like hell,” Osborn says. Dark Beast, the Henry McCoy from the nightmarish Age of Apocalypse timeline, strokes his chin. He reminds Osborn that the Omega Machine is an ongoing experiment subject to constant refinement. Each mutant will react to it in a different way. Osborn deems this unacceptable. McCoy promised him the Omega Machine would painlessly and harmlessly sap mutant of their powers. He places no value in a device that tortures them into uselessness. He also doesn’t have room for refinements. Instead, he needs a machine that does what Dark Beast said it would do.
“You don’t dare give me orders,” Dark Beast barks in Osborn’s face. “This machine—to create such a thing, such a miracle with the crude tools you consider technology—”
Osborn tells him to shut up, and that he whines like an old woman who can’t find her pills at naptime. He brought Dark Beast there and gave him everything he needed because he swore he could deliver on his promise. Now, Osborn wants him to deliver—or else he’ll connect him to the Omega Machine, crank up the dial and see what happens to him.
Osborn’s Suite…Norman vents to Bob Reynolds, a.k.a. the Sentry, about Dark Beast’s excuses. It’s a crazy world they live in, he says. Regardless, he assures Bob everything will be okay. The Sentry doubts that; things outside look bad. Osborn assures him he knows that, but Bob’s malaise overwhelms him anyway. Things always look bad, Bob says. Norman tells him that’s just how it appears. That, however, is only his perception. If he could see the world through Norman’s eyes instead, he would understand what a huge victory this is. He asks Bob to trust in him, and to trust Ms. Frost to do their job for them.
Union Square…Osborn’s team of X-Men—led by Emma Frost and consisting of Namor, Cloak, Dagger, Weapon Omega, Daken and Mimic—continues its fight with the peace-disturbing mutants. Emma targets the group’s leader, Hellion, a former pupil of hers. As she deflects one of his telekinetic attacks, she orders him to not be so stupid and get his people out of there. Hellion tells Frost not to be a Nazi, and suggests she not tell them what to do. Emma shifts out of her diamond form and blasts Hellion with a psionic attack. “Drama queen,” she says as his eyes roll back in his head.
Ty Johnson, the superhuman known as Cloak, opens up his robes and exposes the teleporting void within to his victim, Lorelei Travis. She screams in defiance as she falls into the dark realm. Cloak solemnly accepts his victory. Meanwhile, his longtime companion Dagger, real-name Tandy Bowen, fights with Adam Neramani. Tandy hurls a barrage of light daggers at Adam-X, but he deflects them with his sword. He ain’t going out like that, he says. “Rock on, Eddie Vedder,” Dagger says to him.
Mimic, another of Osborn’s X-Men, faces off against the young mutant hothead Match. Channeling Iceman’s borrowed power of water manipulation, Mimic tries to douse Match’s flames—and tells him to cool off in an attempt at superheroic humor. Match asks if he’s for real. Nearby, Michael Pointer—the mutant with the ability to absorb and rechannel energy known as Weapon Omega— swiftly defeats the mutant rebel called Meld in battle.
Daken, the man currently operating under the publicly accepted and Osborn-approved persona of Wolverine, decides to take on Avalanche. With no intention of taking prisoners, he charges at the Greek man in the antiquated helmet. Avalanche grows nervous and plunges his hands into the ground. The seismic tremor he creates does nothing to slow Daken’s approach. As Emma watches this scene unfold, she realizes the mutant operating under her authority is about the end the life of one of their targets. She intervenes by placing her diamond hand between Avalanche’s face and Daken’s claws. “Non-lethal force,” she yells in his face. Although Daken claims Avalanche was trying to kill him, Emma reiterates that he is only to use non-lethal force anyway.
The squabbling between the two members of Osborn’s X-Men leaves them vulnerable to an attack by Hellion, who knocks them both off their feet with a telekinetic burst. They recover and attack him together.
Meanwhile, Namor—the Atlantean king and mutant—grapples with Roberto da Costa, the rioter known as Sunspot. Namor takes him out of commission with a well-placed head-butt. As Sunspot begins whining that Namor broke his nose, Cloak emerges and sucks him into the Darkforce Dimension.
Hellion looks around the battlefield and realizes he is the last of his teammates standing. Meld, Sunspot, Lorelei, Match, Sunspot and Adam-X have all been defeated. Emma’s team of X-Men corners him by the park’s fountain. Hellion faces them down defiantly. He’s the last one standing? Then come on, he says. After all, the entire world is watching. Emma agrees with him—and the entire world has just seen a group of heroes bringing down a bunch of super-powered hooligans who tried to destroy a city park.
Alcatraz…The H.A.M.M.E.R. agents on Alcatraz sound the alarm at the sight of an approaching projectile. The projectile turns out to be not a projectile at all, but Cyclops, the leader of the X-Men and the apparent owner of a jetpack. As he descends, he tells the anxious soldiers that he comes in peace. Regardless, the H.A.M.M.E.R. agents raise their guns at him and ask how they can help him. He asks to see their leader.
Suddenly, Victoria Hand, Norman Osborn’s most trusted personal assistant, emerges from the crowd of troops and confronts Cyclops. He expects them to let a dangerous mutant extremist into H.A.M.M.E.R.’s West Coast base of operations? She asks him not to be foolish: Director Osborn will come to him.
Osborn, dressed in his Iron Patriot armor, arrives on the deck and thanks his assistant for taking care of business. He marches right up to Scott Summers, introduces himself and extends his hand. Scott folds his arms and scowls. Ignoring this rude gesture, Osborn tells Cyclops it doesn’t have to be this way. They still have time and political capital to spend, and good will to use. They can end the craziness between H.A.M.M.E.R. and the X-Men right there, between the two of them. After all, the chasm between them isn’t too great. Norman knows Scott has his hands full; he’s the leader of an entire people. Norman merely runs one single, government agency and recognizes that even that much responsibility keeps his hands full. “Scotty boy, the way I look at it, the problems of mutants and mutantkind are—”
“Surrender,” Cyclops says. The abruptness of this command catches Norman off-guard. After stumbling over his words for a moment, he asks Cyclops to repeat himself. Cyclops does so, clarifying what he said just so his point is understood. Osborn can call it whatever he wants—surrender, withdraw, pull out, retreat, whatever—just as long as he gets his men out of the city. He already has the riots under control. Now, he only needs to put out the remaining fires, let the curfew he imposed run out—and get the hell out of his town. He can go to the media and say he and Cyclops met, came to terms and agreed that San Francisco is in good hands. As long as he leaves, he can say whatever he needs to say to save face. He and his army can go find some other war to fight somewhere. Cyclops doesn’t care where—he just knows that Osborn cannot remain in San Francisco.
Norman Osborn stares at Cyclops for a moment in silence. “Or what?” he asks in response to Scott’s threat. He asks Cyclops if he’s insane. After all, from where he stands, it doesn’t appear Cyclops could lead his way out of a wet paper bag. He’s left super-powered freaks running wild and razing a city he swore to protect, he’s got kids going out and starting fights, starting fires—in other words, Scott Summers is done. Osborn pokes him in the chest. This was it: this was his olive branch. He doesn’t get to wear the big boy pants anymore.
As Cyclops takes off in his jetpack, he turns back to Norman Osborn and tells him he tried. In frustration, Osborn watches him leave. He tells Victoria that when the time comes, he intends to dump the first shovel of dirt on the boy’s grave himself. “Mark my words,” Osborn says. “Scott Summers is a dead man.”
Inside the H.A.M.M.E.R. compound, Bullseye watches the news report on Osborn’s X-Men in disgust. Those are X-Men? That’s the stupidest thing he’s ever heard; those guys are tourists, he says while fiddling with one of his Hawkeye arrows. Bullseye and his fellow Avengers kicked ass out in the city the previous night, yet they’re now getting benched so Osborn can have a P.R. win? In his perspective, this is crap. Dr. Karla Sofen, the Avenger currently donning the Ms. Marvel identity, disagrees with her bored teammate. The situation in San Francisco is a mutant problem, and therefore needs a mutant solution. The Avengers would cause more harm than help. Not satisfied, Hawkeye asks his teammate Mac Gargan what he thinks. Does he think they would cause more problems out in the city, or does he like being stuck at the base, watching TV? Mac—the Venom symbiote-enhanced loony tune currently masquerading as Spider-Man—defers to their boss’s judgment. He’s bored too, but moaning about it won’t help.
Bullseye turns back to the TV screen and sees his teammate Daken fighting the trouble-making mutants. “And him. Wolverine. Give me a break,” he sneers. “How many teams can that guy be on?!?” He stands up in front of the TV and tells his teammates the situation is crap, and that they all know it. It’s bad enough they have to pretend to be people they aren’t; now they have to sit back while these rubes get a taste of all the action and fame! Bullseye has had enough. He’s a fighter, therefore he wants to fight!
Once again, Karla reminds him Osborn calls the plays, and this is a call he made. While firing a concentrated gravity blast at the tip of Bullseye’s upheld arrow, she tells him to sit down and shut up. Unsatisfied with the little support he’s getting from his teammates, Hawkeye turns to Ares and asks what he thinks. Is he with him? Ares, the Greek God of War, nods in affirmation. “Hah. Damn straight,” Bullseye rejoices.
Meanwhile, Emma Frost and Osborn’s X-Men return to the H.A.M.M.E.R. facility with their arrestees in tow. The Iron Patriot congratulates them on a mission accomplished.
The Sentry rushes into the lounge and tells his fellow Avengers that they’re back: Norman’s X-Men have returned.
Back in the docking bay, Daken kicks the otherwise helpless Julian Keller to the ground, once more inciting Emma’s rage. She shifts into her diamond form and gets in Daken’s face. First he had some kind of psychotic conniption in the field, and now he wants to rough up their prisoners? Daken reminds her that she isn’t his boss, and, all things considered, he’s not that impressed.
Nearby, Dark Beast encourages Osborn to get over there and diffuse the situation. Osborn agrees. He walks over to his dueling charges and tells them he has seen enough, but they refuse to listen. Emma continues berating Daken, who, in return, challenges her to come at him in the flesh. Once more, Osborn tells them he’s had enough. This time, Emma shoves her finger in his chest and tells him she absolutely refuses to yield. She will not have captured mutants abused or mutilated or tortured by any team of which she’s a part. “And this,” she says, gesturing toward the eight captive mutants wearing shackles and oppressive headgear, “—these are citizens, with rights, civil and human. They may have broken the law but they’re still protected.”
Osborn asks her to calm down and compose herself. Admittedly it looks bad—no one is crazy about the visual—but he assures her the helmets are painless power-dampening devices, designed by the Beast. That’s all. Emma takes issue with his use of the codename “Beast”. Gesturing toward Dark Beast, she says she knows who that man is and that he’s nothing like the Beast she knows. How dare Osborn profane Henry McCoy by referring to this man as such! She knows what he meant, Osborn says.
Regardless, Emma demands to see everything. She wants to know everything Osborn and Dark Beast are doing to the mutants they have captive. They need to prove to her they’re not torturing her kind—or else she’ll punch a hole through Osborn’s heart. Norman and McCoy stare at her for a moment in disbelief, but Osborn breaks the silence and relents. He tells Dark Beast they’re going to show Ms. Frost the Omega Machine. Dismayed, McCoy snorts.
As Emma Frost walks away with the Iron Patriot and Dark Beast, she orders her team of X-Men to behave. Moments after she leaves, however, Bullseye approaches Daken and asks which he is: an Avenger or an X-Man. “I always did like playing for both teams,” Daken says suggestively. “Why? Is there a problem with that? Let me rephrase that—do you have a problem with that, little man?” he asks as he gets in Hawkeye’s face. Hawkeye tells him it isn’t anything he can’t handle without breaking a sweat. Unsheathing his claws, Daken tells the ridiculous carny he would quite literally love to see him try. With that, the two teams—Osborn’s Avengers and Osborn’s X-Men—engage each other in battle, while Bullseye is just happy to finally have some action.
Meanwhile, Osborn gives Emma Frost a tour of their holding facility. Although he admits it isn’t the Four Seasons, he asks Emma to understand they’re trying their best. “The prisoners. Where?” she demands. Dark Beast tells her all cells with project numbers on their doors contain prisoners. She can inspect whichever ones she wishes. As she peers into the window of the first cell, which holds the mutant Erg, Osborn explains that part of the process—the governing of the subject’s ability to utilize his or her mutant power—results in a degree of lethargy at the onset, much like a mild flu. He assures her they are working round the clock to lessen that effect. Regardless, the process results in no permanent damage. When administered daily, it limits mutant abilities without retarding them in any way. It’s a work in progress, Osborn says, but the progress is very real and made daily. Besides, if they didn’t store and treat the mutant rioters, the San Francisco Police Department surely would have carted them off to the Raft instead—and nobody wants that.
Suddenly, Emma hears a telepathic voice in her head. She keeps quiet and listens. The voice asks if it’s Emma Frost, but answers its own question. He knows it’s her, and that in her diamond form, her thoughts are protected. “Yes. Yes, that’s right,” Emma says aloud in response to both the voice in her head and Osborn’s rhetorical question.
Professor X continues speaking to Emma. He can hear everything Osborn and Dark Beast are saying, but Emma needs to know they’re lying! Hank is in there too, and they’re killing him. He urges her to ask to see Henry.
Emma turns to Osborn and asks about the effects the process has on mutants with permanent physical mutations. She asks about McCoy and demands they let her see him. Norman, after taking a moment to gather his thoughts, claims they’re not holding McCoy. Why would she think they were? Emma argues that McCoy was part of the first riot, but because no one has seen him since, she assumed he had been arrested. Osborn claims they don’t have him. Perhaps the SPFD does, he suggests
Xavier speaks into Emma’s mind and tells her Hank is in the cell next to his. He begs her to look for him, and to see with her own eyes what they’re doing.
Turning back to Osborn, Emma points toward a set of holding cells and asks Osborn whom they contain. She demands a full dossier of all their prisoners. Dark Beast claims those particular cells are empty and instead store equipment. He encourages her to take a look. Osborn, meanwhile, assures her she can see the full dossier—just as soon as they finish processing everyone.
Emma peers into the window. As Dark Beast said, it appears to contain nothing but bulky machines. The voice in her head claims otherwise. “Emma, you’re looking right at me,” Xavier says. “You are, quite literally, staring me in the face.”
A few steps down the hallway, Osborn whispers to McCoy that his plan had better work. McCoy assures him it’s the Omega Machine that needs work—not their holographic image inducers. Emma thinks she’s looking into a storage closet.
Emma, meanwhile, peers through the window right in the direction of the captive Charles Xavier. “I believe you,” she says aloud. “Everything’s going to work out for the best.”
St. Francis Hospital…Simon Trask—leader of the Humanity Now! coalition and also the Human Sentinel Zero—stands atop the roof of the hospital and addresses his followers. “My people,” he says with a small group of doctors, nurses and patients backing him, “if you’re hearing my voice now, it’s because you took my message into your heart and into your life. In the past 24 hours Norman Osborn has actually sanctioned a team of mutants and entrusted them with restoring law and order. These, he tells us—these are good mutants. Well, I say the only good mutant is dead or dying.” Trask orders his minions to rise and destroy it all. The eyes of his backers begin to glow as they accept the commands of their Sentinel master.