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This issue opens in a New York skyscraper restaurant where Tony Stark has invited Sersi of the Eternals for lunch. He asks her why the Eternals and Avengers are going to be fighting each other soon. She responds that her people are more likely to fight the mutants who have recently learned how to do the Eternals' resurrection thing. But the meeting was actually just a ploy to get her out in the open, and now Phoenix (Maya Lopez) zooms in to take Sersi into the sky to meet Captain Marvel and Thor.Elsewhere in NY in the Treehouse, the X-Men's current base and the Krakoan consulate, Cyclops and Marvel Girl watch Phoenix' flight with mixed feelings considering the battle the Avengers and X-Men once fought over the Phoenix Force (the Avengers Vs X-Men event), and they also view the usual anti-mutant protesters down below, these days with added complaints against the mutants colonising Mars and hogging immortality for themselves. Scott Summers reminds Jean Grey that The 5 can only practically bring a limited number of people back to life.On the living island Krakoa, currently home to ~200,000 mutants, Destiny has also been predicting a war but she wasn't sure who with. It's not their enemies Orchis but now she tells her 'family' Mystique and Nightcrawler that the Eternals are going to try to kill all mutants. The 2 women go to gather the Quiet Council that rules Krakoa, while Kurt Wagner takes a Krakoan Gateway to Mars, now renamed Arakko, to alert the Great Ring. There he finds Cable, Magneto and Storm. They decide that Ororo will go to represent Arakko at the Quiet Council while Magneto and Nightcrawler take the message to the Great Ring. Cable will formulate a plan of war. Kurt muses that just as the Olympian Gods had to kill their predecessors the Titans, the mutants are now the new gods who must supplant the old gods the Eternals.Sersi awakens trapped in a chair in a 'psychic dead room' in Avengers Mountain HQ at the North Pole being interrogated by a remote-controlled Iron Man armour to avoid her mental powers. She matter-manipulates her dress into her usual costume as Tony reminds her how last month (Eternals #10-12) some of her people snuck into the HQ to commune with it (because it's actually the body of a dead Celestial). At that time they reluctantly admitted that Thanos had become their leader and was about to destroy the Earth but they'd deal with it (and they did). Now he wants to know what else they're hiding.But just then Captain America decides to change the approach by entering the room personally. Sersi used to be an Avenger (#314-375) and he's prepared to trust her. But she claims that she doesn't know *anything* about the Eternals preparing for war. Iron Man says he's been monitoring the world for Eternal activity since their last confrontation and last week (A.X.E.: Eve Of Judgment 1-shot) he detected a large spike of Celestial energy in the Pacific (ie below Krakoa as we saw then). And during the last day there have been lower-level pulses all over the world. She still protests her ignorance and tells them that she and others they know like Ikaris and Thena have left Eternal Society. Druig rules the Eternals now and she doesn't know *what* he's up to.In Olympia (1 hour earlier) Druig addressed hologram representatives of various Eternal groups. He reminds them of the 3rd Principle that their makers the Celestials built in to the Eternals - to Correct Excess Deviation. For millennia they have policed the Deviants. But recently (Et#12) it came to light that Deviant interbreeding with humans was the cause of superhuman abilities, and in particular the X-gene that produces the mutants. So he reasons that the mutants are Deviants and should have been watched for Excess Deviation. And now that they have discovered how to resurrect themselves and have colonised Mars then they will spread Excess Deviation through all time and space. This *must* be Corrected. This (limited form of the) Uni-Mind gives their approval.Druig then visits the Exclusion prison under the South Pole to talk to Uranos to tell him that the council have agreed to let him out for the 1st time in millennia to do 1 task. He will only have 1 hour then the Great Machine will teleport him back to his cell. Uranos says that the mutants may have terraformed Mars in 1 day (Planet-Size X-Men 1-shot) but he can undo it all in 1 hour.Druig then moves to the Damocles Foundation HQ in Los Angeles to confer with Moira MacTaggert. He's surprised that the long-time ally of mutants should now be part of their foes Orchis. She relates how she helped found the Krakoan utopia but she was cast out after Destiny was resurrected against her advice. So now she and Orchis will do whatever they can to help Druig destroy the mutant nation.On Krakoa Professor X explains that the Eternals have not previously been enemies of mutants and the Krakoans aren't prepared for war against them. Meanwhile Exodus points out that Mister Sinister (who he has a grudge against) is suspiciously absent. But all discussion is disrupted by a psychic attack by half of the Eternals joined into a true Uni-Mind. Mutant psychics strike back as Druig describes to MacTaggert how the other half of his Eternals are making a physical attack wearing their ancient war armour. And the X-Men team teleport from NY to Krakoa to take charge of the defence.Moira points out that there are about a million mutants on Arakko, mostly Arakkii hardened by centuries of war in another dimension. Druig claims to have that in hand. And as the Great Ring meet on Arakko a great destruction begins on that planet. Instead he turns MacTaggert's attention to the mutant race's method of immortality. The Eternals will be resurrected as long as the Great Machine/Earth endures. But the mutant resurrection system depends on Hope Summers and 4 other mutants.On Krakoa Wolverine and others are fighting the armoured Eternals when Logan detects that 1 of The 5, Egg, as been killed. He quickly moves to where Hope is and saves her from an invisible attacker. The Eternal Jack Of Knives makes himself visible. Wolverine explains that the Eternal was completely undetectable except for the smell of Egg's blood on his dagger. Jack hurls many daggers to pierce Logan's body and then teleports away. Logan alerts Marvel Girl that the Eternals are after The 5 and so obviously know the secret of mutant resurrection. Jean Grey mentally orders everyone to protect The 5. But Druig calls off the Eternal attack now that its main objective has been lost. In Arbor Magna Egg is resurrected from 1 of the eggs he prepared earlier.But then Nightcrawler teleports in through what he says was the last working Gate on Arakko to report that they need to resurrect the mutant leaders of Mars. We see The 5 bring Cable back to life. And we see Uranos on a devastated planet as the last seconds of his hour tick down. Then he's back in his cell reporting his success to Druig. He deduces that the other half of Druig's plan didn't work and asks to be released again to deal with the mutants on Earth. He promises to only wipe out 1 hemisphere of the globe. But Druig has other tricks to try 1st.In Avengers HQ IM gets word of the attack on Krakoa. But then he also says that the energy spikes he detected earlier have now concentrated off the western coast of the US. Then Druig beams a message to all human communication devices to tell the world that the mutants have become too much of a menace so now the Eternals will protect the world from them as they have protected it for millennia. Many humans are delighted by this. But he goes on to ask them not to fear the 'towering death machines' that are rising from the sea. They aren't death machines but Eternals known as the Hex come seeking mutants. However it would be wise for humans to vacate the coastal regions.Cap assembles the Avengers, including Nighthawk, Starbrand and Sub-Mariner who we haven't previously seen this issue. They're keeping Sersi prisoner because she hasn't yet explained *why* she and some others left Eternal society. (Regular Eternals readers know it's because they discovered that every time 1 of them is resurrected a human has to die - something they *don't* want humans to learn about.) Tony Stark has set up extra alarms to detect Eternal intrusion after the last time, and they now go off.It's the Celestian Priests Ajak and Makarri with their prisoner Mr Sinister (see AXE:EOJ). Ajak explains that they want to avoid an Eternals/mutants war that would devastate the planet. The Eternals are compelled to Correct Excess Deviation by their Celestial programming. But that programming could be rewritten by a Celestial god, and she wants their help to create a new 1. Tony admires the boldness of their plan but doesn't see how it could be done. She gestures around them and points out that they're living in 1 of the major ingredients - the body and brain of a Celestial.


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The Eternals attacked the mutants of Krakoa because the mutant X-gene derives from the Deviants, and their recent achievement of effective immortality marks them out as Excess Deviancy which the Eternals are compelled by their Celestial makers to root out. But a small group of Eternals conspired with the Avengers to turn the dead Celestial named Progenitor that was Avengers North Pole HQ into a new living Celestial who called a halt to the war. But unfortunately it then declared that it would judge all the inhabitants of Earth - human, mutant, Eternal and Deviant - and if on balance they were found wanting it would destroy them all.At the Pole the Eternal priest Ajak tries to convince herself that this is a test because her newly-created god would not be so unjust. Her fellow priest Makkari reminds her that the Celestials have made such judgements in the past. Ajak tries to shift the blame to using Tony Stark as the basis for the god's nervous system. Captain America tries to turn their thoughts to solving the problem ... and Progenitor decides *he* will be the 1st to be judged. It describes Cap as an inspiration for America, the world-leading country. But that world is in a bad way and getting worse, so it adjudges Cap a failure.The 6 ordinary humans the Celestial made us aware of last issue react in different ways to a broadcast of Cap urging people to remain calm. Except of course 1 of the 6 died last issue to facilitate the rebirth of the Eternal Syne of the Hex, and it is his widow who hears the message.Druig, the latest Prime Eternal, was the 1 who organised the attack on the mutants to cement his authority. Now he consults with his 'grandfather' Uranos imprisoned in the Exclusion about the latest events. Uranos quite likes this new Celestial, the world needs cleansing. Druig has had Jack Of Knives spying on the Avengers and he's reported on the judgement on Captain America. Uranos' response is that the Eternals need to prove that they aren't failures by fulfilling the original Celestial edict by eradicating Excess Deviation, which Uranos as usual interprets as all Deviants and all mutants. But it suits Druig just to renew the assault on Krakoa. And he's certainly not going to let Uranos out (again).In their bunker at the Pole the Celestial's architects (Ajak, Makkari, Iron Man, Phastos the Eternal smith, and the mutant Mister Sinister who the 2 priests kidnapped to help them) are conferring over tactics. Tony Stark says there is an internal node in the Celestial that if hit hard enough will cause the space god to fall apart. Ajak is horrified at this blasphemy. Phastos is worried that it would explode and cause immeasurable damage to the world. The priestly duo say they must find another way, and leave them to it. When they're gone Phastos says that they *should* kill the Progenitor if they can do it safely. But he must leave IM and Sinister to do it secretly because if any Eternals, including himself, actually *know* they're about to do it then their Celestial programming will kick in and force them to stop it.Sinister takes the advice to heart by secretly mentally contacting Destiny on Krakoa which is under attack again by the 6 Hex monsters, armoured Eternals and Eternal psychics. She goes to inform the rest of the Quiet Council where Prof X has just been killed again and White Queen calls for a resurrected replacement. Irene Adler passes on the info about the Celestial's vulnerability. She also tells them about the risk of explosion but assures them that she hasn't seen it happening in the future. They have a vote and narrowly agree to go ahead. But Nightcrawler says they can't afford to send their best fighters away from defending the island. However Emma Frost then plays her trump card. She's been in communication with the Deviant leader Kro and they are now here to help the defence. Kro points out that their genes must be similar enough to the mutants because Krakoa let them use its portal gates.The 5 occupants of the bunker are back together again comparing notes with a hologram of Cap. Then Ajak learns from Eternal monitors she put in the Celestial that a load of mutants are trying to infiltrate it. And Sinister pulls some wires out of a control panel which opens a hatch leading to the important node. The Celestial Protocols activate in Ajak, Makarri and Phastos and as 1 they intone "Protect Celestials".The mutant attack force led by Jean Grey and Wolverine know they've been made so they abandon their stealth tech and launch into battle with Eternal defence forces. Exodus moves Ikaris out of the way so Marvel Girl can enter the hatch. Iron Man tries to stop her but she hits the node with a telekinetic blast. Tony lets Jean know that the result could level cities, which the Quiet Council hadn't told her about. He tries to limit the effect but the whole thing blows and they're all killed. As are lots of the nearest parts of the globe.But then they awake to find it was all an illusion generated by Progenitor, who repeats its message to the world. It declares judgement negatively against White Queen, Destiny and her lover Mystique, but positively for Warlord Kro. It reserves judgement on the others involved. Jean Grey mentally berates Sinister while Makkari and Phastos stop Ajak from physically attacking him. Tony Stark, Cap via hologram, and Eternal Sersi who's joined them in the bunker agree that the only option left is to ensure that the world pulls together to survive the judgement. Sersi has an idea about that ...... and she sneaks in to the Exclusion with Jack of Knives, getting past the warden Ur-Luciva. They open a cell containing someone who Sersi thinks can get the world to act in harmony. And we see that the prisoner is Eros/Starfox, ready to convince the world that all you need is love.


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To cement his rule as Prime Eternal Druig has set the Eternals against the mutants, on the basis that the X-gene derives from Deviants and their recent ability to resurrect themselves represents Excess Deviancy which the Eternals were created by the Celestials to prevent. He sent the Uni-Mind to attack Krakoa as a smokescreen to allow Jack Of Knives to sneak in and assassinate the 5 mutants who are crucial to the resurrection process. And he sent his 'grandfather' Uranos to destroy the mutants on Arakko (Mars). Uranos was very successful but the Krakoa attack failed. So Druig unleashed the 6 giant-size Hex against the island nation, broadcasting to the world that the Eternals were going to save humans from the mutants.Meanwhile the Eternal priests Ajak and Makkari have kidnapped mutant Mister Sinister and approached the Avengers with a plan to end the conflict. They want to use the Celestial body that the team currently have as their base in order to create a new Celestial who will order Druig to stop.This issue continues to have a voiceover from the Celestial who hasn't been created yet. It begins by introducing us to 6 humans around the world who it says will be important - but adds that *everyone* is important.The action proper continues on Krakoa directly from the end of Immortal X-Men #5 with Exodus attacking 1 of the Hex, accompanied by Jean Grey/Marvel Girl. He manages to propel the red-hot giant 'minotaur' off the island and the duo follow it into the deep ocean. Meanwhile Cyclops is leading the fight against another which he describes as a huge metallic 'centaur' that generates attack beasts. Suddenly help arrives in the form of Captain America leading Avengers Captain Marvel, Nighthawk, Phoenix, Starbrand, Sub-Mariner and Thor. MG is keeping the mutant forces linked together. Exodus' religious fervour is against accepting aid from non-mutants. But war captain Magik welcomes all the allies they can get.The Avengers have left Iron Man working with Ajak and Makkari. The captive Mr Sinister will be useful because he once stole scientific information from the Dreaming Celestial. The mutant now says he wants to help because *he*'s in danger too, but they don't trust him.Back on Krakoa Cyclops explains to CapA that the Eternals' goal is to destroy the mutant nation's method of resurrection. So the X-Men will concentrate on protecting that if the Avengers will fight the Hex and help get noncombatant mutants to safety. CapM, Phoenix, Starbrand and Thor are helping Banshee and Storm against a flying Hex who can turn intangible. Jean Grey calls for help with the minotaur. Namor's already with them but the beast is about to explode. CapM and Starbrand dive down and blast it but proud Sub-Mariner doesn't appreciate 'help'.But this titanic battle in mid-Pacific is causing quakes, volcanoes and tidal waves threatening places such as the Philippines. Cyclops advises CapA to take the Avengers to save the rest of the world and leave Krakoa to the mutants. Destiny and Exodus see the Avengers leaving as another sign that humans don't care about mutants.The voice of the new Celestial brings us up-to-date with the effort to create it. Ajak and Iron Man go to London where the Celestial Arishem The Judge's body fell (in #1 of the current Avengers series). They 'take an impression' of his Thumb Of Judgment. In San Francisco Sinister sends his Celestial-science clones to collect a fragment (the heart?) of the Dreaming Celestial. Makkari siphons power from the Destroyer (created by Odin to defend against the Celestials). The Avengers have freed Sersi (who they imprisoned last issue) and she rouses the friendly Eternals to perform a seance to contact the many Deviants who have been killed by Celestials, while Phastos helps to build the new Celestial. Ajak and Makkari write a new 'scripture' for their space-god. They use Tony Stark as the blueprint for the god's nervous system because he was recently (in his own current series) made a god by the Power Cosmic, and also piloted another dead Celestial during the King In Black event.Exodus and Marvel Girl are still fighting the fiery 'minotaur', now back on land. They have breached its armour and now can hear its thoughts. It is called Syne The Memotaur and it is being healed by another Hex called Phebe Reginax. Jean Grey thinks all the Hex are sisters. Exodus penetrates inside it and causes it to self-destruct, killing him along with it. Cyclops and others celebrate as the Five continue resurrecting dead mutants (on a priority basis) including Exodus. But the Eternals' Great Machine also resurrects Syne, as usual at the cost of a random human life - this time Arjun in Mombai, 1 of the 6 humans mentioned at the beginning of this issue.At Avengers Mountain Phastos has finished connecting the dead Celestial Progenitor to a bunker outside where Ajak, Makkari, Mr Sinister and Tony Stark prepare to switch their new god on.On Krakoa Exodus attacks the 'centaur' Hex but it doesn't work this time. And its combat fauna have disabled the Krakoan teleport gates. However Cyclops reports that the X-Men have infiltrated the Eternal armoury and cut the power supplies to the Hex so they should be running down soon. Then 1 of the gates opens but only to deliver the resurrected Memotaur which starts to destroy the island of Krakoa itself.Then the dead Celestial comes to life and orders the Eternals to cease. The hex teleport off Krakoa. Everyone breathes a sigh of relief until ...... the Celestial announces that it is here to judge mankind. Individually and collectively they have 24 hours to justify their existence. If the bad outweighs the good they will be executed. This is what it meant by 'everyone is important'.


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Last issue the Celestial Progenitor rejected the deal Starfox had cooked up with world leaders for promises of peace on Earth because he didn't believe such promises. So he decided to kill everyone now. We saw the people around Captain America turned to skeletons. Cap survived beneath his shield but not the person he was trying to protect.But now it seems that for the rest of the world doom happens more slowly but they can see it coming. We look in on the 6 ordinary humans singled out in #2 who we saw judged individually last issue. Tom asks why him as his son prepares to confess his deep secret. Katrina ignores her negative judgement in favour of helping people around her. Kamali, widow of Arjun of the 6, waits patiently for death. Daniela is with her mother who wonders why other people are looting shops when they're all going to die. Jada brings a cup of coffee to Cap. Young Kenta's parents comfort him.Steve Rogers had believed the world was going to make it. Jada always knew they'd fail but appreciated Cap's effort. She says she's estranged from her family but Steve urges her to use the time left to contact them. Jada laughs that he just can't stop being inspirational. And she admits that the vague hope that the world isn't as bad as she thinks is the only thing that kept her going.Then Nightcrawler appears and suggests that CA should inspire everyone afresh by visibly giving this false god a piece of his mind. And Kurt Wagner bamfs them to the North Pole at the feet of the Celestial. Professor X and other mutant psychics broadcast what happens to the whole world as Cap tells Progenitor how mankind has stood up to tyrants before and defeated them. He declares that the whole world are now Avengers and urges them to assemble and avenge. Then the god kills him and Kurt.Nightcrwaler is resurrected on Krakoa and Jean Grey informs him that the ploy was successful - the populace is calmer and their anger is focussed on the Celestial. Kurt suggests the resurrection team prepare another egg for him because he and Wolverine are going out to annoy the god again.The Krakoan Quiet Council plus some others are meeting to discuss a plan of action. They have support from many world leaders but they haven't actually decided what to do. Cyclops suggests they hit Progenitor's disabling node (as they tried in #3) after evacuating nearby cities. Tony Stark points out that the whole thing was an illusion generated by the Celestial, but Marvel Girl insists that the node itself is real. Sersi and Starfox remind them that the Eternals are hard-wired to protect Celestials, but they reveal that many Eternals have turned off their psychic firewalls so they can be 'possessed' and used in the attack. The precog Destiny claims this is the only chance of success, with a few tweaks.Progenitor is aware of all this planning as superheroes and armed forces unite in an assault. The six giant Hex Eternal warriors are designed to combat cosmic enemies and they have the most effect. The Celestial counterattacks, but more heroes arrive accompanied by demons(?). This all leads up to the masterblow by Avengers (Captain Marvel, Phoenix, Starbrand and Sub-Mariner), X-Men (Exodus and Marvel Girl) and the Eternal Ikaris. Paving the way for Thor to strike the vulnerable spot with Mjolnir. But Progenitor kills them all, including Iron Man and the mutants controlling the Hex.A spaceship full of mega-rich tries to flee Earth to another star system, but the god blows it up with a glance. It destroys the Eternals' resurrection system and that of the mutants on Krakoa, along with the rest of the island. Now it tries to close down the Eternals' Great Machine that is the Earth, but meets fierce resistance.But we see that most mutants had escaped from Krakoa by a gateway to what appears to be Avengers Mansion. This was Destiny's addition to the plan which included leaving some people, including herself and Mystique, on Krakoa to die (temporarily) as a smokescreen. But they've only got a small number of resurrection eggs so they have to choose carefully who they need to bring back. Iron Man, Nightcrawler, Phastos, Sersi and Starfox confer as Progenitor continues to assault the Machine. Kurt Wagner opines that it's time for the stealth approach. They go to recruit Wolverine who's just emerging from an Egg, but he recommends the Eternal Jack Of Knives as a better man for the job.Phastos assembles the team with those 2 plus Iron Man, Marvel Girl, Mister Sinister, Sersi and the Eternal Priests Ajak and Makkari. Phastos has arranged for Jean Grey to be able to control Ajak, Makkari and Sersi (but strangely not JOK) if their Celestial inhibition activates. Jack points out that all this would have been unnecessary if he'd succeeded in killing Hope Summers (in #1) to stop all mutant resurrections.They teleport to near the Celestial shrouded by a ghost field, but the omniscient god knows they're there. They abandon stealth and Jack distracts Progenitor into killing him while the rest 'port inside. Jean Grey lets Prof X know back at the Mansion ...... where they are preparing to resurrect a special player. Exodus objects to this heresy but Nightcrawler says that all rules must be breakable. And for the 1st time a non-mutant emerges from an egg - Captain America.


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The issue opens with Eternals priestess Makkari finishing her account of the Judgment Day event in her people's favourite mode of words and images (ie comics). She describes how Sersi died to prove that Eternals could change, which helped priestess Ajak persuade Progenitor that it was mistaken in judging that Earth and its inhabitants deserved to die. So the Celestial god undid all the death and destruction it had committed (apart from resurrecting Sersi), dying itself in the process. But at the end it passed its power to Ajak making her the Eternals' next god Ajak Celestia.Now Makkari sits at the feet of Ajak and a statue of the new religion's 1st martyr Sersi, and the deaf/dumb priestess signs the question 'what next'? to which Celestia replies "Heresy".Next we get a list of proclamations from the returned Prime Eternal Zuras.The Titanian Eternal Eros (Starfox) is declared a true Eternal with the role of Pope-Minister For Change.No attempt will be made to brainwash the human race into forgetting that every Eternal resurrection requires the premature death of a human. After all, the current human civilisation won't last longer than a few thousand years (a blink of the eye to the Eternals) so they'll forget it then anyway.The mutants on Krakoa (island) and Arakko (Mars) are now allies of the Eternals, and any Eternal who harms them will be Excluded.In reparation to the humans they will be offered clean energy sources plus technology they won't be able to understand.The Eternals have made mistakes and must do better.Druig is Excluded for his war-crimes in the Judgment Day event.Ajak's ideas are self-confessed heresies, and her followers risk Exclusion.The Great Machine was reset to its default state during the event, which has removed certain recent 'bugs' (eg its flippant/sarcastic attitude).Many Eternals themselves hadn't known about the cost of their resurrection (because Eternals like Zuras and Sersi had arranged for any of them who discovered the truth to forget it during rebirth). (During Eternals #6) Ikaris was resurrected and discovered that his young friend Toby Robson had died for it, but (in the following issue) Sersi (via Jack Of Knives) persuaded him not to confess to Toby's family. Now he visits Toby's mother Sophia in New York who has worked out what happened. The angry woman tries various ways to kill him but to no effect. Then they collapse in joint grief.In London Sally is visited by the giant Eternal war machine Syne (1 of the 6 Hex). (In A.X.E.: Death To The Mutants #2) she and Syne exchanged online chat about poetry without her realising what Syne was. Now Syne appears in 'person' on a world tour to apologise for her actions before she and the other Hex are locked back in the Eternals' armoury. She urges Sally to start her long-delayed poetry zine. While she's in 'storage' she'll write her own laments, and if she's ever unleashed again she'll share them with Sally's descendants and hope to see copies of her zine.In the temple of Ajak Celestia Phastos greets Eros who apologises that he can't join the heretics. He's needed to keep an eye on Zuras. And he hopes to get his parents (Mentor/A'lars and Sui-San) freed from the Exclusion, possibly to start a new colony on Titan. Phastos joins Kingo Sunen who asks the smith if he thinks Ajak can really change things. Phastos points out that the Great Machine can't resurrect Sersi, which *should* have destabilised it and destroyed the planet. But that hasn't happened so things *are* changing.They join Ikaris, Makkari, Sprite and Thena beneath Sersi's statue. Ajak greets them and ask if Gilgamesh or the other Forgotten will be coming. Ikaris tells her that they can't give up their role of policing the Eternals, and they don't trust *any* Celestial. Celestia advises them *all* to watch her and judge her actions. She must be a better god and they must all be better Eternals. Young Sprite asks what *exactly* are they supposed to do. Ajak replies that humans justly hate them, so they must go among them as penance to do good works and learn from them.Now we get a list of Ajak Celestia's heretical reinterpretation of the Celestial Principles, which were built-in to the Eternals when the Celestials created them. Uranos had claimed that they must take the Principles literally, but she believes they can be interpreted.1) Protect Celestials. While it is true that Eternals can't attack Celestials (including herself), during Judgment Day she learned that they must also protect Celestials from themselves when they are in error.2) Protect The Machine. She believes that the Machine is not just the physical thing they call the Great Machine but also the planet and the Eternals combined in 1 system. They should protect each other.3) Correct Excess Deviation. To her this means that they should act to remove any dangerous predator from the environment, ie protect the weak from the dangerous.4) You Have 24 Hours To Justify Yourself. This was the ultimatum issued to the world during Judgment Day and it is claimed here was permanently ingrained in the Eternals by Progenitor. Ajak interprets it as to act as if every day matters.Ajak concludes by promising to find a way to free the Eternals from *domination* by the Principles. But in the meantime she says that they must rise above them.A short interlude as Zuras visits Uranos in the Exclusion where he has been given Druig to torture. Zuras tells Uranos that he will be let out for 1 hour when he will be bound to the service of the mutants on Arakko (which he spent a previous hour devastating in AXE:JD#1 and X-Men Red #5).Now to the Deviant city of Lemuria where Eternal Thena is chatting with her old-time Deviant lover Warlord Kro. She tells him that her heretic band of Eternals will be leaving Lemuria to perform their penance to the human world, but they'll return whenever the Deviants need them. We learn that Ajak is the god of the Deviants now too. She has promised to try to end the curse of Excess Deviation too. They jointly mourn Sersi while standing in front of (I believe) the statue Thena's recent Deviant lover Tolau built of him and her (which Thanos melted in Eternals #9).Meanwhile Phastos teleports to Krakoa to deliver a message from the Great Machine to the spirit of the Island which manifests as an ancient tree. Angry Wolverine reluctantly lets him past to Cypher (Doug Ramsey) who is the communication channel to Krakoa. Doug 'reads' the message and conveys the tree's thanks. Phastos explains to Logan that when the Celestials created the Machine which runs through the whole planet a million years ago they used the living island as a template. And the message from the Machine, recorded before it allowed its intelligence to be drastically reduced by its reset in AXE:JD, was effectively "Goodbye Mommy/Daddy/Self/Other".Ikaris with a newly-shaven head revisits Sophia Robson who has agreed for him to become her lodger while he seeks to do good in the world. Later we see the heretics roam the land in mufti. Ikaris helps a family in the rain in the middle of nowhere by magicking up a spare tyre for their car and changing it by hand. Phastos melts the gun of a mugger. Thena flies a cyclist out of the way of a speeding car. Sprite 'liberates' the billfold of a rich man and gives it to a beggar. Speeding Makkari gets involved in a police shoot-out.All through the issue we've had a voiceover commentary by the Great Machine which finishes by assuring us that no trace of its 'malfunction' remains. But it ends with a smiley icon which suggests that it's not being entirely truthful.


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Previosuly in the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event:- A cabal of Avengers (well, Iron Man), Eternals (Ajak, Makkari and Phastos) and X-Men (well, the mutant Mister Sinister) reanimated the dead Celestial Progenitor to get him to stop Druig's Eternals attacking the mutant nation on the island Krakoa and Arrako (Mars). In that they were successful but then it decided to judge humanity individually and collectively (they should never have used a bit of the Celestial Arishem The Judge). They tried various tactics to stop or sway the judgement, including releasing Starfox (Eros) from the Eternals' prison the Exclusion who got the UN to promise a reformed world. But nothing worked and Progenitor started to destroy the Earth.This issue shows us another plan by Starfox to save the human race, interspersed with flashbacks which show us (nearly all new) details of his life.On Titan long ago Mentor and Sui-San, already parents of the troubled Thanos, decide to have another child Eros. Thanos' birth drove his mother insane, but now she needs to believe she can do better.An info-dump tells us that presently the Celestial is trying to subvert the Eternals' Great Machine which is in effect the Earth. A mixed team of heroes has infiltrated the Celestial's body (at the end of AXEJD#5) and is trying to reach its self-destruct node (follow their slow progress in 1-shots A.X.E.: Avengers and A.X.E.: X-Men). Meanwhile some others have slowed Progenitor's progress by restoring the machine to its factory settings making it calm, emotionless and rational (as opposed to the sarcastic version in the voiceover in the Eternals series). (I haven't seen this anywhere, maybe it'll be in the A.X.E.: Eternals 1-shot?) Meanwhile other superheroes are trying to save as many people as possible, guided by the Machine alerting them to danger areas.As part of that Starfox is in Paris saving rioting folk from themselves by using his emotion-control power to calm them down, but not so calm that they stop trying to survive.Another of the Machine's info-dumps explains the Titan Accord. An even longer time ago there was an Eternals Civil War between the followers of A'Lars and those of Zuras. The Celestials originally created 100 Eternals, and if 1 of them is killed then the Machine resurrects him/her (sometimes changing the sex). Eternals couldn't mate to produce children (though they could successfully mate with humans). A'lars wanted to try to create more true Eternals, Zuras opposed it. They eventually made peace and A'Lars was allowed to go to Titan, moon of Saturn, to experiment. Titan already had Eternal-like beings created in various ways (from an earlier Eternals schism). A'Lars renamed himself Mentor and married (a true Eternal) Sui-San there. Kronos (an earlier Eternal turned into a cosmic being) gave them Quantum Bands as wedding rings which enabled them to procreate. Their 1st child Thanos became a mass-murdering monster. Their 2nd Eros has been a 'moderately successful adventurer'. The Eternals considered A'Lars experiment a failure, and when the parents were each separately killed and resurrected by the Machine they were Excluded.Thanos and Eros were still not true Eternals when they were born. In the current Eternals series that led up to the AXE:JD event we saw Thanos' attempt to be fully Eternalised fail. Now in a flashback we see Sui-San sneak (teen?) Eros into the Eternals' capital Olympia and get the Machine to 'integrate' him. Sui-San has to leave before she's discovered but she urges her son to stay and become the 1st new Eternal ever, to prove his parents right. However Eros is too interested in having fun for the 'moment'.In the present Starfox discovers that the Machine sent him to Paris because its about to be hit by a giant flaming meteorite (shaped like a skull). He's desperate to figure out how to save the place.But we get another flashback where Eros is having a party in an alien bar. A Rigellian Recorder arrives looking for him but the Eternal is going by the name Starfox now (a name which he will also use later when an Avenger). However he asks why the Recorder wants Eros, and is told that Thanos has destroyed Titan. We then see him at his mother's grave swearing to give up his hedonistic lifestyle. But he never really did, just added in a bit of super-heroing.Now Starfox uses the Machine's worldwide teleportation nodes to gather the makings of an atomic bomb which he uses to destroy the meteorite. But the rest of humanity still needs saving.In the final flashback (after Eros was killed to stop Thanos being reborn in Guardians Of The Galaxy (2019) #6) we see the true Eternal resurrected by the Great Machine in Olympia. Prime Eternal Zuras has him thrown in the Exclusion until he can decide what to do with him. And then Sersi and Jack Of Knives came to get him out at the end of AXEJD#3.Now he uses his power to allow a fatally-wounded Parisian to die peacefully. And then he thinks of a plan. He takes the Machine portals to the throne room in Olympia. Since the overthrow of Druig in AXEJD#4 Starfox has been Prime Eternal and now he takes his seat to get the Machine to implement his plan. But Zuras, who's been PE for most of the time since A'Lars left (until Thanos took over, and then Druig), demands to know what he's doing. SF explains that he's going to open all the portals and remove the restriction that only Eternals can use them. The Machine contains fractal dimensions that can hold the population of the Earth, and he intends to keep them all safe until the crisis is over (as 1 of the rules the Celestials built in to the Eternals dictates).Zuras declares that letting humans in goes against tradition and so he blasts Starfox out of the throne, saying that he himself is the only 1 who has proved capable of ruling the Eternals. But Eros blames him for putting his parents in the Exclusion and then *torturing* his father. Of course they continue 'debating' as they fight. Starfox  points out that the Eternals recently discovered that the Celestial-created Deviants were more important than them. The Deviants were *supposed* to cause the rise of superhumans and mutants. He believes that his people and the Great Machine have to change. Zuras points out that Kronos almost destroyed Earth in the experiments that made him a god. A'lars wanted change and got Thanos. Priestess Ajak wanted to create a better Celestial 'god' and caused the current situation.Zuras also points out that most of the Eternals will kill the humans if SF lets them in. After the failure of his plan to save the world they won't listen to him again. But Starfox says they *will* listen to Zuras. He proposes a deal, Z can have his throne back if he allows SF to implement his plan. And for some reason Zuras goes for it.The Great Machine opens all the portals (allegedly 1 every 500 metres) and Eros' persuasive voice invites everyone in. And they gratefully accept the offer.


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Blur of Time
In the sewers,
Po, mistaking the Abomination for the one from his future world, attacks him so
Abom punches him back against a wall. Mok the War Dog unleashes his Sonic Bark
against Abom who only gets angry. And the wounded Char dies. Meanwhile, on the
streets above, Shulk is in pain as they are surrounded by police. Kaspin tells
her Betty is under their feet so Shulk tears into the ground and they get
away….
In the future,
Captain Agarn’s right-hand woman Unit is captured and brought before the future
Abomination. She tries to talk her way out of being eaten and mentions she is
an expert at cybernetic extensions. Abom is interested….
Mercenary Quarry
pursues Janis Jones through the castle sewers and she plans to circle back to
the time platform, head to the 20th century and bring back Hulk….
In the present
sewers, Betty goes into labor (despite never looking pregnant) while
Abomination fights with Po and Sleek. Cyberslik panics and tries to escape,
running into Shulk. She wants to know where Betty is so Cyberslik tells her;
realizing she means to harm the girl, CS draws his gun and shoots Shulk in the
back—which only makes her angry. Abom subdues Po and Sleek and turns to face
Shulk who recognizes him as Emil Blonsky. CS warns them the interloper is out
to kill Betty. Abomination says she is under his protection. Shulk is ready to
dispute the point….
In the future,
Janis returns to the time platform and discovers the coordinates have been
tampered with—Quarry leaps at her and they both vanish into the timestream….
In the future,
Abomination is impressed with the cybernetic arm and eye Unit has built for
him. Despite knowing that Janis and Shulk and many others have escaped into the
past via the time platform, Abomination destroys it, saying the past is dead….
In the present,
Shulk and Abomination fight with Po and Sleek joining in once they have freed
themselves. Shulk subdues the others and looks for Betty, saying that the
Maestro can never be allowed to return; Betty claims she was lying when she
said the baby was Maestro’s but Shulk can’t take the chance…and then Kaspin
unleashes his psychic power, shorting out Shulk’s brain, killing her. Sahe
whispers a final message to Abomination as she dies….
The baby is
born, named Bruce Willis Sylvester Chan, the refugees find a home with the
homeless. Char and Shulk (“Jennifer Walters”) are buried. Abomination mourns.
And together they form a group that adventures to the surface to hep people in
need and they call this team…the Abominations….


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Blood Rush
After the fall
of the Maestro, the exiled Gravity Police discover a swamp where they are
captured by this world’s Abomination. Questioning them, Abomination learns the
Maestro is dead and feeds the cops to his mutates and makes plans to conquer
Dystopia….
Within
Dystopia, Janis Jones is aiding in the building of a new society. The intense
Chira has been put in charge of the police and is whipping the new recruits
into shape. Captain Agarn has been elected leader (defeating Janis) and he is
putting things in order with his tech guy Cyberslik and his right-hand Unit—but
he has a secret agenda….
Two cops,
gigantic Po and techie Sleek, look at Sleek’s latest project: reprogramming a
deadly War Dog called Mok to serve the people, not terrorize them (Po is dubious).
Char takes care of the children. Betty-6, one of the Maestro’s mistresses, and
librarian Librito discover a hidden lab containing a huge sarcophagus. Agarn’s
team takes it over but everything grinds to a halt when the Abomination attacks
the city with his mutate army. Abom’s forces capture the castle and his psychic
Kaspin detects the presence of a sought-after woman. They find the sarcophagus
and Abom smashes it open to find the comatose figure of his lover Shulk. Abom orders
his troops to slaughter all humans and vows to wipe all traces of the Maestro
from the Earth….
Elsewhere,
Betty-6 dons armor and presents herself as the Maestro former consort, carrying
his baby and orders the mutates to leave. And they do, surprising everyone,
especially Betty. When Abomination learns of this, he leaves off mourning over
Shulk and orders his minions to hunt her down and kill her and the baby.
Hearing of this, Janis leads Betty and others to Doom’s time platform and has
them stand on it, sending Betty-6, Char, Cyberslik, Po, Sleek, Librito, Mok the War Dog,
and two children Molly and Polly into the past….
In the East Village
section of New York, a tense confrontation unfolds between the local police and
a band of homeless squatters—and the refugees from the future materialize
between them….


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The Fading Dead
A band of
refugees from the Abomination’s assault on Castle Maestro (Betty-6, Char,
Cyberslik, Po, Sleek, Librito, Mok the War Dog, and two children Molly and
Polly) materialize in modern-day East Village, in the middle of a confrontation
between the local police and a band of homeless squatters. A cop fires a shot
then the others start shooting. Po (big and strong) and Sleek (superfast) try
to protect everyone with Mok the War Dog, which emits a stunning Sonic Bark.
Sleek collects all of the cops’ weapons and hands them over to the squatters
who use them to chase the cops off. Then they notice Char has been hit in the
chest by a stray bullet as police reinforcements arrive and demand surrender….
In the future,
Abomination has captured Janis Jones and has his psychic sidekick Kaspin
torture her mentally to force her to reveal where the refugees have gone. Abom
checks on Shulk and discovers she is awake—and threatening to kill him. But he
wants her as his queen and says she will come around to the idea—or die. In the
dungeon, the childlike Kaspin, aching in his conscience, sets Janis free and
she escapes….
In the New York
riot, the Abomination (Earth-616 version) rises from beneath the streets and
the homeless hurl gas grenades and escape underground, the refugees from the
future joining them….
In the future,
Abomination punishes Kaspin for letting Janis escape and orders him to find
her. But then a mercenary calling himself Quarry offers to eliminate all humans
for the new regime. Abom gives him three hours to capture Janis Jones. Then
Shulk punches Abomn’s lights out and takes Kaspin to lead her to Betty as Shulk
doesn’t want there to be any Maestro offspring either. After a brief visit to
the Rick Jones memorial, Shulk and Kaspin go to the time platform and travel
back to the East Village where she is surrounded by armed police. She smiles….
Down in the
sewers, Abomination rebukes his people for going to the surface. Char is dying,
Betty goes into labor, and Po awakens, sees the Abomination, assumes he’s the
one who caused all of their troubles, and attacks him….


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Battleground: Paris
Colonel Fletcher stares in surprise at the destroyed telephone as the trio of Nazi killers takes him prisoner. A sort time later, Captain America arrives at the diner to discover all but one of the inhabitants dead, gruesomely murdered by the villains. He heads to the abandoned factory Hodge had told him was the enemy hideout, arriving just in time to rescue Cindy Glass from being shredded in a huge machine. Cindy tells him the Nazis have taken Fletcher to Paris to force him to cooperate in recreating Project: Rebirth, leading to an army of enemy super-soldiers. They return to Camp Lehigh to prepare for the journey to Paris but are caught by Bucky Barnes, who discovers Steve’s secret identity. Bucky manages to finagle them a flight to Europe, as well as talking his way on-board. When he interrupts a romantic moment between Steve and Cindy, he is tossed overboard (with a parachute) and the other two follow. One the ground they link up with members of the Resistance and make plans. In a Paris hotel, Colonel Fletcher has been turned over to the Master Interrogator to discover the secret final factor for the super-soldier process. The Resistance manages to sneak Cap close to the building (first silencing a river patrol that spotted them) where he arrives in time to see Fletcher, injected with truth serum, hurl himself out of a window to keep from betraying the secret. After the Colonel dies in his arms, an enraged Cap bursts into the hotel and engages the trio of villains in a violent melee. Saurespritze is the first to go down as Cap hurls him over a balcony and the fall bursts his gas tank, making him a victim of his own poison. When a squadron of soldiers arrives, Cap beats a tactical retreat. Outside Cindy leads Bucky to the Resistance safe-house where they are greeted by Nazis, as Cindy reveals herself to be the mysterious Agent X. Cap leads his pursuers on a chase through the sewers, surfacing near the Eiffel Tower. Cap mounts the landmark and turns to face his foes; Blitzkrieg tumbles down the steps and electrocutes himself. Cap and the remaining killer Zahnmorder grapple atop the monument and end up tumbling over the side, Cap hanging on by one hand with the villain clutching Cap’s boot. Suddenly a sinister figure appears above them, introduces himself as the Red Skull, raises his pistol and fires….


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Angels of Death, Angels of Hope
Atop the Eiffel Tower, the Red Skull raises his pistol and fires—killing his failed henchman Zahnmorder. His men then take Captain America prisoner. On the ground the Skull reveals to Cap that Cindy Glass is the traitor Agent X, leaving him devastated. He puts up no resistance as he and Bucky are taken to a concentration camp and locked in cells. Bucky despairs as Cap seems to be in a catatonic state, not even reacting when the prisoner has a very important visitor—Adolf Hitler himself. Der Fuehrer is there to see Captain America crushed before an audience of Germans and is disappointed that the symbol of America seems defeated already. After Hitler leaves, Bucky tries to give Steve a pep talk about how his country needs him but it seems to do no good. Steve is dressed in his Cap outfit and led to a stadium filled with both German soldiers and Jewish prisoners. Back in the cells, Bucky picks the lock and escapes running into Cindy nearby; after slugging her, she gives Bucky the keys to the complex and appeals to him to help Steve. He uses the keys to free prisoners and arm them. In the stadium, Steve watches the Red Skull brought in to the cheers of the assembled Nazis and supplied with armor and weapons for a battle to the death to prove which country’s symbol is the greater. After a long and brutal confrontation, Cap knocks the Skull to the ground in front of Hitler’s dais—but refuses to kill him because America is about freedom. As he stands defiantly before the Nazi leader, Bucky drives a tank through the stadium wall and the freed prisoners open fire. Hitler orders Cap killed on the spot; the American hero takes down the guard with the Red Skull’s shield. As the Skull aims his own weapon, Cindy tosses Cap his own shield—and the Red Skull shoots her down as a traitor to the Reich. Bucky then drives the tank between the antagonists, picking up Cap and hauling him off. As the Red Skull pursues in a staff car, Bucky turns the massive gun around and destroys the Nazi vehicle. Cap and Bucky make it to a waiting plane and take off. The defeated Red Skull contemplates suicide for a moment but decides instead to dedicate himself to revenge. The freed prisoners are elated but Cap is in mourning for his lost love, Cindy. In the United States, Captain America is lauded as a hero and with his new sidekick Bucky devotes himself to battling tyranny and injustice wherever they may rear their ugly heads!


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First Flight of the Eagle
Late in 1940, Steve Rogers goes to the movies with his friends Pat and Eliot. He is so upset by the newsreel of the Nazi depredation of Europe that and irritated Eliot suggests he enlist. At the recruiting office, he is classed 4-F (unfit for military service); he is then approached by General Phillips who offers him a role in a mysterious project. He is flown to a secret location by Phillips and his aide, Lieutenant Cynthia Glass, where he becomes part of Project: Rebirth, under Colonel James Fletcher, nicknamed the American Eagle. He is introduced to the other test subjects, Harmon Furmintz (a brain and Jewish), Jack Windmere (a jock and African-American) and Gilmore Hodge (a bigoted jerk). After preliminary tests, Furmintz is revealed to be a hemophiliac and sent away. Hodge’s sneering causes a ruckus in which Windmere’s knee is broken, causing him to drop out as well. That night Fletcher and the project scientist Dr. Erskine decide to reject Hodge as too ignorant and unstable for their purposes; the next day Cindy Glass informs Steve that he has been selected as the test subject. Steve is elated—then begins a grueling regimen of drugs followed by closely observed physical testing. Erskine reveals to Fletcher that his formula was distributed among his various assistants, finally telling Fletcher the secret ingredient—Vita-Rays—just in case. The next day, a shy Steve is uncertain about telling Cindy his feelings for her so ends up relating why he wanted to serve his country, a tale which leaves her strangely quiet. As his training continues, Steve sketches a superhero costume (with cape!) while dreaming of his mighty adventures. The next day is the fateful one: before an assembly of VIPs, Steve is subjected to Vita-Rays and emerges a massive specimen of physical power. At his point a Nazi agent shoots down Erskine; Steve leaps into action and hurls the killer across the room, where he is accidentally electrocuted on a fallen cable. Realizing the assassin was smuggled in by a double agent, Fletcher orders Steve and everyone else into the safe houses. In Germany, the Red Skull orders his team of killers into action to uncover the secrets of the process. Over the next few days, Erskine’s assistants are killed by Der Saurespritze (who sprays poison gas), Blitzangriff (electrocution) and Zahnmorder (various pointy weapons) under the direction of the mysterious Agent X. Steve is ordered to go undercover as an ordinary GI at Camp Lehigh. Chafing under the enforced idleness, he uncovers a smuggling operation at the camp. Donning a wool cap and goggles (and dubbing himself "Mr. America") he pursues the crooks on a motorcycle. Entering their hideout he takes the smugglers prisoner at gunpoint—unaware there’s an axe-wielding enemy sneaking up behind him….


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The Great Divide
Leader and his Humanoid army defeat Wolverine and remove the
unconscious Hulk to his secret lab. X-Factor (Havok, Polaris, Wild Child)
rushes to the scene, along with General Thunderbolt Ross, whom Logan accuses of
experimenting on Hulk. The X-Men (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast) arrive and there
is a friendly meeting between Scott and Alex, despite being on opposite sides
of the X-Factor controversy….
General Ross gives a brief summary of Hulk’s career, stressing
his threat to national security; Logan still insists on rescuing him. Ross
reveals there was a tracking device implanted in the Hulk, ordering them to
bring back Hulk. The two X-teams head out, Logan and Havok bickering along the
way….
Leader returns to his base, keeping the Hulk sedated while
offering a precis of his own history. His big scheme is to employ a series of
satellites he has launched to release specific amounts of gamma radiation on
the populaces of major cities and offer the cure in exchange for submitting to
his will. He needs Bruce Banner’s brain to calculate the exact amounts of
radiation and to gain his cooperation, he has induced a delusion in Banner’s
brain where he was never the Hulk, hailed as a hero for saving Rick Jones,
respected for his achievements, and married to Betty Ross, living happily ever
after. And then the good guys come crashing through the wall and battle the
Humanoids. Jean and Polaris mentally attack the Leader, which brings down all
the Humanoids but the villain makes it out an escape hatch. Jean then enters
Bruce Banner’s mind to tell him that his life is all a fantasy created by the
Leader. Bruce recognizes this is true and watches as his perfect family
crumbles away before him. His mind back in the real world, he hurries to
reprogram the Leader’s satellites but the stress of the operation turns him
into the Hulk. Beast jumps in and finishes the job based on his observation of
Bruce’s work. X-Factor tries to capture Hulk but the big green guy leaps away
as Wolverine stops the trio from pursuing him. The X-Men support Logan and
there is a debate over whether Hulk is a menace that needs to be captured or a
lonely monster who just wants to be left alone. Havok decides they are right
and X-Factor stands down….
They give an edited report of the adventure to General Ross
and the X-Men are allowed to depart….


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The Green Revolution Part 1: Bring Us a Leader
Wolverine is taking a camping vacation in the Colorado
Rockies when Hulk suddenly comes down on him. Though Hulk didn’t know he was
there, Logan takes it personally and a fight ensues. Then they are interrupted
by X-Factor (Havok, Polaris, Wild Child), announcing they have been authorized
by the US government to take the Hulk into custody. Logan calls them a bunch of
traitorous mutant-hunters and the battle resumes. Wild Child takes on Logan
while the others two capture Hulk by Polaris disrupting the iron content in his
brain to render him unconscious. Havok then blasts Logan to end that fight too.
The two captives are locked into special harnesses, loaded on a plane, and
taken to Hulkbuster Base. There they are met by Major Glenn Talbot and their
liaison Valerie Cooper. They take the X-Factor members to meet General
Thunderbolt Ross but he seems catatonic, with another mystery person in the
room….
While being transferred to a cell, Wolverine recovers much
more quickly than they had expected and he breaks free and takes down all the
soldiers guarding him. He dons a uniform as a disguise and contacts the X-Men
in New York to summarize the story thus far; Storm promises to send help. Logan
then locates the lab where the Hulk is imprisoned. When he discovers scientists
experimenting on him, he flies into a rage and smashes his way into Hulk’s
cell. And then the wall explodes and the Leader enters on a levitating platform
accompanied by a Humanoid army, wanting to take the Hulk….


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Age of Innocence: The Rebirth of Iron Man
This epilogue to the Crossing crossover continues from AVENGERS #395.This issue is a remembrance of Tony Stark's life as Iron Man, and a prelude to the (short) career of his 19 year old self, brought to the present by the Avengers in Avengers: Timeslide.Ths story opens with a recap of the climax of Iron Man #325, where older Tony ripped the heart out of younger Tony. And the end of Avengers #395, where older Tony redeemed and sacrificed himself by destroying the weapon that would have given Kang control of a devastated Earth.Now Giant-Man (Henry Pym) and other specialists have fitted young Tony with an artificial heart, and a chestplate like Iron Man's to keep it running. Only time will tell if he will recover from his coma.A motley group of Avengers waits outside the operating theatre. Black Widow, Captain America, Crystal, Hawkeye, Hercules, Quicksilver and Vision were all in at the end of the saga in Avengers #395. Only Century and Wasp are missing from the roster of heroes in that issue. Beast, Black Panther, Deathcry, Jarvis, Scarlet Witch and Thor all had roles of varying sizes in the Crossing crossover.Jarvis elects to watch over the patient, along with Happy and Pepper Hogan. Pepper recalls the previously unseen day when Stark made her his PA. Happy tells how he saved Tony from a crashed racing car, and became Tony's chauffeur, in Tales of Suspense #45. Jarvis picks a time between those, Iron Man's origin in Tales of Suspense #39, including Stark and his bulky chestplate distancing himself from his fiancee Joanna Nivena, as told in more detail in a flashback in Iron Man #244.Captain America and Hawkeye reminisce about Iron Man's many armours, allies, enemies and battles. But they can't help being drawn to his final battles in the Crossing crossover. How he killed Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara) and Marilla in Avengers: The Crossing and Amanda Chaney in Force Works #19, and seriously injured Wasp in Avengers #393 causing her to evolve into her current insectile form. They also say he is also indirectly involved in the deaths of 2 others, by which they presumably mean Gilgamesh and teenage Luna.They repeat how Kang (said that he) tried to corrupt Hank Pym, but Pym resisted, leading to his nervous breakdowns (e.g. the Yellowjacket Schizophrenia in Avengers #59-60, and the period leading up to his court-martial in Avengers #213). But Stark succumbed, and turned against the Avengers in the Crossing crossover. Hawkeye blames it on Stark's weak character, exemplified by his alcoholism and womanising.Masque, who aided the Avengers during the crossover, slips into the recovery room and uses her image inducer to masquerade as a series of Tony's female acquaintances:- Kathy Dare (stalked him from Iron Man #233, shot him in IM#242), Meredith McCall (Tony's first love, seen in Avengers: Timeslide, who popped up again, married, in IM#28), Janice Cord (Tony thought about marrying her in IM#21, so of course she was killed in IM#22), Gretl Anders (a pregnant homeless woman whom drunken Tony befriended in IM#178, but who died in chidbirth in IM#182), Su Yin (temporarily cured Stark's neurological damage in IM#270-272), Whitney Frost (it's complicated) and Bethany Cabe (this one's complicated too).Next Marianne Rodgers, another player in the crossover and in the older Stark's life, telepathically checks that young Tony is truly free of Kang's influence. But she also finds the same vulnerabilities as older Tony.Finally a mystery villain appears by hologram to threaten young Tony, and taunt him with the 'return' of some of Iron Man's foes:- Blacklash, Ghost, Mandarin, Controller, a successor to Jack Frost, and an unnamed villain.Until Tony awakens to find Jarvis still by his side.The epilogues to the Crossing continue in FORCE WORKS #21.


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In #6 Wolverine and Invisible Woman went back in time to kill Henry Pym before he could invent Ultron, thereby preventing the Age of Ultron which destroyed the world in their own timeline. Last issue they returned to the future to find of course a totally different timeline. Here the main hero group is the Defenders rather then the Avengers, including this timeline's Wolverine. This timeline also has it's own Susan Richards, who is off in space with husband Reed. But Thing is a member of the Defenders. The Defenders reluctantly handed over the captured duo to Iron Man, who apparently runs this version of the US.Tony Stark, with the help of Charles Xavier, Emma Frost and the JARVIS AI, has extracted and compared the memories of Logan and Sue. He can't bring himself to believe in the world they describe, despite the assurances of the psychics that the memories aren't fakes. And despite the fact that old SHIELD surveillance tapes show Wolverine killing Pym while Invisible Woman watched. (Previously this had been blamed on Skrull imposters.)Last issue the Defenders suspected this Logan and Sue of being Skrulls. This issue the spotlight is more on them possibly being plants by Morgana le Fey. Stark explains to Logan how the Avengers broke up soon after Pym's death. And later there was a war between Latveria and Asgard, with Morgana le Fey on the side of Latveria, which seems to have ended with le Fey ruling all of Europe. Thor went back to Asgard after that, and Asgard withdrew from the affairs of Earth. And during the battle Morgana ripped Iron Man in half, so he is now a cyborg.Stark can't believe there wasn't something else they could have done back in time to prevent Ultron without killing Pym. Logan rehashes the discussion he had with his version of Tony Stark. The current Tony comes up with the idea of a computer virus programmed to kill Ultron just as he was about to start Age of Ultron, thus preserving most of the timeline. But Wolvie points out that the other Tony didn't think of it. And neither did Reed Richards, who was unfortunately dead by then.While Stark is interrogating Wolverine, Invisible Woman is left alone in another cell. But she uses her force field to break out of her hi-tech handcuffs.Meanwhile the Defenders (Cable [Scott Summers], Captain Marvel [Janet van Dyne], Colonel America [Steve Rogers], Dr Strange, Hulk, Star-Lord, Thing and Wolverine) refuse to leave the Starkguard helicarrier. Strange sends Frost and Xavier to sleep. Thing and Wolverine go to find Sue and Logan, with Cable as backup. They force their way into Susan's cell, but can't find her. Belatedly they realise she's just slipped past them invisible.The JARVIS AI announces that the helicarrier is in lockdown. Emma Frost recovers just in time to witness with the remaining Defenders as Morgana and her forces (who look like copies of Dr Doom with horns growing out of their helmets) arrive through a white hole. Invisible Woman has reached Wolverine's cell, and now Iron Man is more-than-ever convinced that they are spies sent by le Fey to open the way for her somehow.The Defenders on the deck of the helicarrier launch into defence, and the 3 inside the carrier try to break out to join them. Iron Man leaves off attacking our Logan and Sue, and joins the battle with his Alpha Drones, the robots we saw him with at the end of last issue. But Morgana cause one of Stark's helicarriers guarding New York to crash into the one where the preceding action was set. Throwing our duo out into the air, before the 2 helicarriers plunge down onto the city.


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Last issue Morgana Le Fey and her forces attacked New York with devastating results. Wolverine pulls himself from some wreckage to discover that he's lost half a leg (except for the adamantium skeleton). It takes him 5 days to regrow a new one. Then he has to fight off some of Morgana's horned Doombots.This is the Wolverine from the Age of Ultron timeline. He went back in time in #6 and killed Henry Pym before he could invent Ultron. But the new timeline he came forward to is arguably as bad as than the one he left.Logan finds what remains of this timeline's cyborg Iron Man. Stark guesses that Wolvie is going to go back in time again, to try to make a better timeline. But he warns him not to do it, because repeated meddling at the same point risks rupturing time. But Wolverine isn't listening.Now we look back in time to when Logan confronted Pym, and Wolverine fought Goliath. Sue Richards had accompanied the X-Man/Avenger, but is now outside trying to convince herself what's the right thing to do. But she's spared the decision as someone knocks her out.It's Wolverine come back to stop himself. He's dressed in his original duds from Hulk #180-181. He's come back via the time machine in Nick Fury's Savage Land hideout. This was the only Wolverine costume he could find there, to replace the tattered one from the Morgana future.Wolverine(2) tells Wolverine(1) not to kill Pym, because it will lead to a bad future. Wolverine(1) takes some convincing that Wolverine(2) is really his slightly-older self. Injured Goliath looks on bemused, finding it difficult to accept time-travel. And of course he's never heard of Wolverine.W2 says they need to try something that the alternate future Tony Stark thought of last issue. Pym should be allowed to create Ultron, but he should build a secret off-switch into the robot. Pym agrees (because he can't resist the lure of creating an AI) saying he can then stop Ultron whenever he attacks. But W2 says they can't risk creating an unknown future. Stark's idea was to let Ultron do all the earlier attacks, knowing that the Avengers (or the Fantastic Four or whoever else did it) will be able to beat him. Pym must wait until the Age of Ultron assault and stop him then, so that the world evolves as the Wolverines know it will.Now a reawakened Invisible Woman joins them and asks W2 why he hit her. W2 says it was to stop her from not stopping W1 from killing Pym. Sue protests that she had decided to stop him, but W2 knows that history proves otherwise. Befuddled, Sue wants to call in this time's Reed Richards for his opinion. But the Wolverines veto it.Sue's testimony (from someone he actually knows) about the 2 future timelines helps Hank decide to do whatever he can. The final plan is to put a time-release on the off-switch, so Ultron will get switched off automatically. Then to stop Pym from interfering prematurely he'll make himself forget about it. He asks how to do that, and the 2 versions of Wolverine exchange glances.Next we see Sue and the 2 Logans arrive back to the Savage Land in Nick Fury's flying car (which they nicked in #6). Sue points out that the Wolverines are a paradox. The 2 Wolvies excuse themselves and go into Fury's cave. They agree that 1 of them should die. W2 elects to be the one, to wipe out memories of the Morgana future. So W1 kills him. Then he and Sue re-enter the cave to go back to the future.We end with Pym and the 1st version of Ultron as seen in flashback in Avengers (1963) #58.


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We start with Tony Stark remembering showing an inert Vision to Henry Pym and Reed Richards. Vision's self-repair system had healed his body since Avengers Disassembled, but he wouldn't wake up. Tony was hoping the others had some ideas.Pym admitted he didn't know how Vision worked because Ultron created him, not Hank himself. In fact Hank didn't know how Ultron worked either because he only created the original simpler Ultron. Each Ultron then created a more advanced successor.Henry also said that he'd thought about going back in time and stopping himself from creating Ultron, but that would also mean preventing the Vision's birth. (Reed mentioned the idea of stopping Victor von Doom becoming Dr Doom. But then he'd have to go back and stop Hitler too, and all the way back to the Garden of Eden.)At this point Vision just woke up for no apparent reason.In the present as the assembled heroes trudge through the Savage Land Tony realises that it was Ultron that awoke the android then, to use him as his conduit from the future as discovered last issue.The heroes are looking for Nick Fury's secret base. They have reached the cave entrance, but Emma Frost can't sense past its psychic shield. Captain America sends Invisible Woman in to investigate. She finds a vault door with a keypad for a code. But there's no code mentioned in the documents Black Widow and Moon Knight brought with them from Fury's safehouse in San Francisco.Cap sends Red Hulk to smash his way in. He succeeds, but is downed by a gun in the hands of a mystery figure. Who turns out to be Fury himself. Who holds everyone off with his gun as he scans them to ensure they're who they appear to be.We break off for an interlude which shows Ultron's takeover of the world is still an ongoing affair. Despite hearing about other cities that have fallen, the inhabitants of Austin are still not really prepared when flying Ultron drones tear into the place.Nick says he discovered that Ultron's orders were coming from the future when SHIELD analysed the transmission that took over their helicarrier and crashed it into the Kremlin. When he saw the way things were going, he came here to this base he built after the Skrull Secret Invasion, because he had loads of technology squirrelled away here, including Dr Doom's time platform. He had waited a week for some superpeople to turn up to go with him to the future to tackle the problem at source.Stark disagrees. Ultron must know that Vision told Luke Cage the secret last issue. So Ultron will be waiting for them. It's a trap. Wolverine also disagrees. he wants them to go *back* in time to stop Hank Pym creating Ultron. Even if it means killing him. Logan gets agreement from Stark that if *he* was warned not to build something because of the future consequences, he'd just see it as a challenge to find a way to build it *without* the bad results.Fury interrupts the subsequent debate on morality and the unknown consequences of changing the past. He shows them some of the tech he has, and tells them to grab what they want.Tony finds what he calls his Mark II Iron Man armour, which didn't have any external comms links, and so can't be invaded by Ultron. Captain America has his photonic shield. Rulk gets the axe of Ares. Spider-Man finds some of his web shooters (his current stuff was confiscated by Hammerhead and Owl when they captured him before #1). (The Otto Octavius inside is less gracious about the gift than Peter Parker would have been.)Fury enlists Black Widow, Cap, Iron Man, Invisible Woman, Quake, Quicksilver, Red Hulk and Storm to accompany him to the future. Iron Man believes he knows where and when to find Ultron, based on their last meeting.Emma Frost, Hawkeye, Monica Rambeau, Moon Knight, Spider-Man, Valkyrie and Wolverine are to stay behind and guard the base. Ka-Zar's in charge, and his Savage Land people will help keep watch. But (somewhat contradictorially) Fury tells them to destroy the place if his team don't make it back within 3 hours.When the others have gone, Wolverine asks Hawkeye if he knows how to work the time machine. He doesn't believe the future team will make it back. He wants to go alone to the past, and he won't take 'no' for an answer.


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This issue jumps into the middle of the story, with New York already ruined and built over. And maybe the rest of the world in no better state.Hawkeye is staking out a surviving brownstone. He sees 2 men come out to invite a girl in. He takes them out with arrows and pushes through the open door. Inside he finds 2 more men offering Mutant Growth Hormone to another girl, here seeking safety. Hawkeye kills these 2 too, with a crossbow, and tells the girl to leave. But she turns on him with a dropped gun, so he wounds her and repeats his suggestion.On a monitor screen Hawkeye sees a man being tortured.Further in the house Hammerhead and the Owl have been alerted by gunfire. They come downstairs with their men. They fear an Avenger has found them. (But not Thor, who they believe has gone.) They also hope it's an Avenger, because they can get a big reward for one.Hawkeye disposes of the troops with an incendiary grenade. Then he kills the 3 men with the prisoner, who we now see is Spider-Man.Owl and Hammerhead are still alive, and have the heroes pinned down. But suddenly a piercing sound has all 4 clutching their ears. A group of Ultrons have the house surrounded.Owl complains to the Ultrons that Hammerhead has paid them off. The Ultrons take no notice. Perhaps not coincidentally Hammerhead makes his escape with 2 suitcases full of money.Hawkeye and Spider-Man crawl out of the building. The archer has taped several bombs to each of his arrows. With these he destroys the Ultrons.The heroes stagger away until they reach the ruins of a crashed SHIELD helicarrier. Creeping into a secret entrance they are grabbed by Luke Cage and She-Hulk. Hawkeye shouts that he told them he was going to rescue Spidey. But Cage just says they'd warned Clint that if he left them he wouldn't be allowed back.Tony Stark arrives with portable equipment to detect if the returnees have been infected by Ultron. They register clear. But Cage worries that Ultron may have found ways that Stark can't yet detect. And She-Hulk worries about them being followed.Just then Emma Frost arrives to confirm that everything's OK. Beast and Wolverine are with her. Further inside, in a makeshift barracks, we see others including Invisible Woman and Thing.Cage is still angry that Hawkeye risked their security to rescue Parker. Hawkeye basically says that Avengers risk everything for their own. And he'd rather die living up to that ideal, than live by betraying it.Stark says they're lying low until they have a plan. Captain America is working on one. But the Cap we see just seems to have lost all hope.


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The Age of Ultron is over. Last issue Wolverine and Invisible Woman went back in time, and Wolvie killed Henry Pym before he invented Ultron. Now we'll see what kind of world they have created.They return to the Savage Land in the flying car they stole from Nick Fury. Logan hides it so that they can hopefully retrieve it in the future. Then they enter Fury's secret base and ride Dr Doom's time platform back to the present.They find that now the Savage Land is a graveyard of alien spaceships. Sue recognises Skrull and Kree craft, and figures the Kree/Skrull War must have reached Earth, because the Avengers didn't stop it in this timeline. They also overhear some armoured soldiers who refer to themselves as StarkGuard.The duo do find the flying car where they hid it and fly to New York, which they find guarded by several helicarriers, markedly different from the SHIELD one they're used to. The car is immediately fired on, and they bail out via Invisible Woman's force-field chute.On the ground they are attacked by a group calling themselves the Defenders. Dr Strange leads Hulk, Star-Lord, Thing (his skin pockmarked with craters) and another Wolverine (in a different one of Wolvie's uniforms, so we can tell which is which), plus Wasp in a Captain Marvel uniform, Colonel America with Nick Fury's eyepatch, and a guy called Cable with a (one-eyed) visor and first name Scott (i.e. presumably this reality's version of Cyclops) who seems to be in a relationship with Jan.Ben Grimm recognises Suzie, but it appears that Reed and Sue Richards have been off in space for years. This Wolverine is confused to sense that his lookalike really is him. The others think the interlopers are Skrulls, or some other kind of bad guys.Sue repels them all with her forcefield, and she and Logan escape before Dr Strange can use magic to find out who or what they are. But this reality's Wolverine tracks them down. And after a fight they are KO'd.Steve's Strange and Rogers argue about whether to report this to someone (Colonel America is against it), when that someone makes the point moot by arriving with a troop of robots. It's this reality's Iron Man.


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This issue we'll catch up with the doings of heroes in all 3 cities we've seen so far:- New York, San Francisco and Chicago.Luke Cage has infiltrated Ultron's HQ in New York, pretending to bring She-Hulk for sale. But inside he found not Ultron but the upper half of Vision.Vision mechanically asks Luke what he has to trade, but Cage wants to see Ultron himself. Vision becomes more like his old self and tells Luke that Ultron is controlling things from the future. But then he cries out in pain, and reverts to his original robotic question.She-Hulk stops pretending to be unconscious. She grabs Cage and hurls him out of the building, urging him to escape and tell Tony Stark what they've learnt. She fights a delaying action against the assembled Ultron drones, until one of them shoots her through the head.The drones then pursue Luke's hurtling body, setting fire to it with eye-blasts and grabbing it in mid-air. But Cage fights back until they crash onto a building. As he then runs along the roof-tops the drones follow, destroying everything behind him. Until at last they surround him and unleash a combined atomic explosion, which topples buildings and causes a tidal wave.Meanwhile, as per last issue's plan shared with Luke and Jennifer, the other NY heroes are leaving for the Savage Land as a safe haven. Storm is flying the group with her wind power, while Invisible Woman is keeping them enclosed in a force bubble. But she tells them to hold hands to keep together as she switches from force field to group invisibility until they're out of the city. They see the nuclear blast behind them.In San Francisco Black Widow and Moon Knight are still hiding out in an old underground safehouse of Nick Fury's. Natasha has found documents where Fury made plans for various doomsday scenarios, including this Ultron one. He left a specific doomsday bunker in the Savage Land, where they might find the wherewithal to implement his anti-Ultron plan (which of course we aren't told about yet).In Chicago Taskmaster is fleeing with the stolen head of an Ultron drone. Suddenly he's joined by Red Hulk. It seems Rulk survived the battle with the drones last issue and has an Ultron body to go with the head. Not trusting Taskmaster, Rulk takes the head. (I'm not sure what state he leaves Taskmaster in.)8 days later the New York contingent arrive in the Savage Land (dotted with blast craters) to find a crashed Avengers quinjet. They are met by Ka-Zar who takes them to a village (seemingly the only one left). Emma Frost detects Luke Cage inside, and reads his mind. She learns that he's dying. He survived the atomic explosion, found a quinjet and made it to the Antarctic. Then he crawled to the village to pass on his information about Ultron operating from the future via Vision. Now he allows himself to die.It turns out Red Hulk, Black Widow and Moon Knight also made it here. Rulk says they must wipe Ultron out of existence, and Widow says Fury's plan will do that.


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6 months ago Dr Henry Pym gets a message on his supposedly-secure computer telling him to look outside his lab door, where he finds a package. He (obviously) doesn't see Invisible Woman watching him retrieve it. It turns out to be a video from his younger self which he doesn't remember ever recording. The younger self assures him that he's not supposed to remember it. He's been given the message now because he's got to do something about Ultron.We then get 8 pages reprinted from Avengers (2010) #12.1 where a bunch of Avengers (Beast, Iron Man, Moon Knight, Ms Marvel, Protector, Thor and Wolverine plus Abigail Brand of SWORD) bust in on a meeting of the Intelligencia (Klaw, Mad Thinker, MODOK, Red Ghost and Wizard) to rescue Spider-Woman. They discover the baddies have been tinkering with a Spaceknight armour, which turns out to contain Ultron.There is dialogue added to these scenes. 1st as a voiceover with younger Pym telling older Pym what's happening. Later there's older Pym contacting Iron Man and sending him some code to be uploaded into Ultron via a backdoor Pym had built in when he created the 1st version of the robot.In the original issue Ultron escaped at this point. But now Ultron is aware that something's happening within him. The code is still uploading, so the Avengers attack him to keep him distracted. Ultron claims that he's dealing with the code as it arrives, but it still finishes uploading and starts installing. Ultron shuts down, and Thor destroys him leaving only his head.Afterwards older Pym explains to Iron Man that it wasn't the uploaded code that stopped Ultron. But when he tried to fight it, that triggered a virus that Pym had built into the original Ultron. And it was the virus that killed him.Next we see Wolverine and Invisible Woman arriving back from their time trip, to a New York not dominated by Ultron's structures. They think it's all over. But reality breaks apart:-We see Wolverine over a backdrop of various versions of him such as Old Man Logan and the Days of Future Past incarnation.We see Tony Stark against a similar backdrop, including Iron Man 2020.We see a Guardians of the Galaxy comprising Groot, Rocket Racoon and Star-Lord in his old uniform, with a backdrop of a Nova (but which one), Thanos and the original (dead) Captain Marvel.We see Hank Pym in a couple of his super-identities, plus some characters from the upcoming Avengers A.I..We see the current Ultimate Spider-Man over characters from various alternate realities, such as the Squadron Supreme and Killraven.We see Thing in his Blackbeard disguise from the original Fantastic Four #5, and scenes from other time-travel adventures such as Dr Doom and Iron Man in Camelot.Then a bright light starts to consume these scenes, while at the same time they break through into cover or interior scenes (mostly) from Previewed future comics:-The Wolverines connect to the cover from next month's Indestructible Hulk #11 which starts a time-travel mission caused by Age of Ultron.The Iron Men shatter Kang and the baby Apocalypse Twins in a page from the recent Uncanny Avengers #5 (and the succeeding storyline mentions an event that splits the prime Marvel timeline into 7 - an aftereffect of Age of Ultron?).The Guardians are paired with the original X-Men brought forward in time in All-New X-Men, who are going to be involved in a story involving X-Men from 3 eras.Pym morphs into a scene which eludes me, featuring a load of robots and an old man.Ultimate Spider-Man meets up with Galactus from the main Marvel timeline, which refers to the upcoming Hunger series mentioned below.The time-travellers are linked to Spider-Man 2099 who will soon feature in a time-clash with the current Superior Spider-Man.Plus the shattered bits of the current scenes show other elements (including HERBIE!) too numerous to mention (and often too difficult to identify).Now cut to Beast, Henry Pym and Tony Stark discussing what just happened. Pym believes Wolverine's repeated time jumps to the same place and time over the past few issues have broken the space-time continuum (as the alternate Iron Man predicted last issue). Other timelines may be affected.We now see Ultimate Spider-Man facing Galactus again, followed by a promo for Hunger #1 (the issue previously known as Age of Ultron #10UC). This must be Galactus from the main Marvel timeline because the Ultimate Gah Lak Tus was totally different. This indicates a crossover between the 2 universes.Then Pym tells Stark he knows how to do AI right. Cue Avengers AI #1.Finally out in space Angela has arrived, swearing vengeance on whoever has brought her here. And she'll appear next in Guardians of the Galaxy #5. Angela extends the space-time fracture to the omniverse, as she's Neil Gaiman's character from Spawn.And just to round things off there's an ad for the 1st follow-on book to appear, Age of Ultron #10AI.


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This issue is split into 2 halves. 1st we'll visit ruined San Francisco. Then back to the even more ruined New York to pick up with the gang of heroes we saw there last time.In San Fran a hooded woman is picking through the ruins, avoiding flying Ultron robots. She is accosted by a man with a gun, desperate for anything like food or transport. She turns out to be Black Widow with a shattered eye.Suddenly the man is shot in the head by semi-costumed Moon Knight from a rooftop. Widow ruthlessly rifles the body for snack bars. Then signals to MK that they should return to their safe house. On the way she sees people randomly blasted to death by Ultrons.The safe house is a barbershop with a special chair that takes you down to an underground lair, which belonged to (the original) Nick Fury. Notes on the wall suggest it was used during Secret Invasion. Widow thinks they're safe here because Fury never put places like this in the SHIELD database, so Ultron won't find out about it. And they 2 were on a secret mission, so it won't know where they are either.They wonder what's happening in the rest of the world, especially New York.Within the crashed SHIELD helicarrier in Central Park a bunch of surviving heroes are gathered.Last issue Hawkeye rescued Spider-Man, captured by some villains. Maskless Spidey tells them his name is Peter Parker, and he doesn't even know how the world got in this mess. He woke up one morning and there it was (or at least an early stage of the devastation). (Others comment that that's how it happened with them too.) He was swinging through town when a floating figure in a cape hit him with a flash of white. Next thing he knew he was being tortured by Owl and Hammerhead's men, who said they were going to sell him to Ultron.The other heroes can't understand why Ultron would want to buy Spider-Man. If it wanted him it could go get him itself. Spidey counters that the villains claimed they'd sold heroes to Ultron before.The others tell Peter that while he was in captivity the whole world has gone incommunicado. And they specifically know that Washington DC is gone completely.Spider-Man asks if they intend to do anything more than just try to survive. Captain America, with only a shard of his broken shield, finally stirs, and says he's got a plan.


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Last issue Nick Fury led a band of heroes through Dr Doom's time platform to the future to stop Ultron's takeover of the world of the present. But among those left behind, Wolverine was determined to use the time machine in a different way, to go back in time to stop Henry Pym from inventing Ultron in the 1st place. This issue follows both plotlines.Fury had Doom's time machine in his secret base in the Savage Land, so Wolverine winds up in the Savage Land in the past. But he's not alone. Invisible Woman has slipped out of the future-bound team to join him. She'd figured he'd try something like this, and she's here to be his conscience.They both know he intends (or at least is perfectly willing) to kill Pym to stop Ultron. Wolvie asks Susan if she'd kill to save her children, because he's willing to kill to save billions of people in the ravaged world they've left. (Sue already left her kids in space and saw the rest of the Fantastic Four killed by Utron drones in Fantastic Four #5AU.)Before she can fully answer, Sue has to hide them in her invisibility shield as a much earlier version of Nick Fury arrives at his base in a flying car. While he's in the base our duo 'borrow' the vehicle and head for New York and Henry Pym.'Meanwhile' the future squad find themselves in the future Savage Land, minus Invisible Woman. Fury sends Quicksilver ahead to scout out New York. Storm will use her wind power to carry the rest of them there more slowly. He tells Quake to be ready to destroy any Ultron robots that meet them. And Red Hulk smash any she misses. Then he devolves tactical command to Captain America. (The other 2 in this team are Iron Man (in old armour that Ultron can't infiltrate) and Black Widow. Widow and Fury have big guns.)Wolvie and Susie arrive in old New York where Hank Pym is studying the comatose Dragon Man android. He accepts that Dragon Man is a wonderful creation, but its artificial intelligence is stuck at child-level. He dreams of designing the first AI that could learn to be better than human.Pym has a rosy view of such an AI. He believes that machine intelligence would help the human race to make a better world. He also looks forward to the 'singularity', where men and machines will merge to produce a better species. (Apparently, despite inventing Iron Man's metal armour, Tony Stark didn't think the singularity would be such a good thing. But then maybe he valued his playboy pleasures too much.)Henry also has a more selfish motive. Like Stark and the secrets of Iron Man's armour, he won't make his size-changing Pym particles public because they would be too dangerous in the wrong hands. But such is his faith in the benevolence of AI's that he has no qualms about making loads of money from it.Wolverine enters the lab just as Pym gets the idea that would result in Ultron. Henry doesn't know who Wolvie is, and Logan doesn't properly explain what Pym will do that causes the problem. He just says that he's from the future, whose destruction Pym is responsible for. And he can't trust Pym not to mess up. So he's got to kill him. So of course Hank changes to Goliath to stop him.As the future team head towards New York (rejoined by Quicksilver), they see that the whole Eastern Seaboard has been transmuted into a lifeless robot metropolis. Suddenly they are surrounded by attacking Ultron heads. Quake does her thing, but there are too many, and soon everyone's in on the act. But it's not enough, and the overwhelmed heroes start to fall, including Cap getting his head blown off.Back in the deep past, even Goliath's strength is no match for Wolverine's adamantium skeleton and claws. Logan has the wounded giant at his mercy. Before the final blow he tells Pym that he did a lot of good in the future world too, but he still must die. But Invisible Woman's force field stays his hand.Hank of course recognises Susan, and begs her to help. Even as Logan reminds her of what she has lost, and what the world has lost. Pym still can't understand what's happening, but he sees Sue's face fall. And she turns away as Wolverine slashes his throat.Then the duo prepare to return to the future. Which can't be worse than the one they left!