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Earthfall!
He enters our space at a random point, for time and distance have no meaning for him. At unimaginable velocity, he travels through the cold, seeking one particular galaxy and therein a certain planet – Earth. He lands near a suburb of Colorado less than gracefully.
Owen Reece, the Molecule Man, peers out of the apartment he shares with Marsha Rosenberg aka Volcana, believing he heard something. She tells him it was nothing. The two return to their snacks and watching Hogan’s Heroes.
Suddenly, the TV stops working. They wonder what’s going on when they hear a strange noise. Owen rushes to the window and sees pieces of ground flying by. Marsha turns to her Volcana form and fries a boulder until Owen remarks that her volcanic form is damaging the floor.
Molecule Man levitates outside and figures it had to be a pretty strong energy field to disrupt gravity. He sees a person standing on one of those boulders. Scared, he returns to Marsha and hugs her. He begins: it is the—
Muir Isle, Scotland:-- the Beyonder! Charles Xavier shouts as he awakes, bringing the New Mutants and his son Legion running to his side. Dr. Moira MacTaggert orders him to rest after his ordeals. He must warn everyone! he shouts, and marshal their defenses. The Beyonder is somewhere in the western United States. He tells Moira to take the students to Westchester and rendezvous with Magneto and the X-Men there. He’ll try to reach other—
In vain, she tells him not use his telepathy and think of his injuries. He does his best until he faints. What shall they do? Wolfsbane asks. Pray this was delirium, Moira replies. From what Charles has told her, if the Beyonder were really here, she fears for them all.
In a plane flying from Heathrow, London to New York JFK, the passengers in coach are treated to a rare sight, namely Captain America flying among them. While they are speculating about his presence, Cap is also telepathically contacted by Professor X and informed about the Beyonder’s arrival and his presence in the Western US.
Cap gets up, musing that Xavier sounded unwell and panicked. He must not ignore his warning. He walks up to the flight deck, tells the flight crew of his wish and shows his Avengers priority card, which he is told isn’t necessary. One of the pilots tells him Cap saved his platoon from being overrun by Nazis in Normandy. But he has to tell the passengers.
Soon, Captain America tells the crowd that the flight had to be diverted. Back on the flight deck, the pilot asks what this is about. He wouldn’t believe it, Cap sighs. At times he is unable to…
Flashback:Cap reflects on what happened some time ago:Along with several other heroes and villains, he was abducted to another world. Their captor proved his power by annihilating a galaxy. He ordered them to slay their enemies and what they wished would be theirs. The Beyonder created a battleworld from parts of other worlds for their fights. Of course, war broke out between the villains and the heroes, the latter of whom just wanted to return home.
Doctor Doom managed to usurp the Beyonder’s power. Ultimately, though, Doom’s inner doubts and fears proved his undoing, leaving him struggling with the powers which threatened to run wild and destroy the universe. The Beyonder reclaimed his power, seemingly destroyed Doom and his lackey Klaw and vanished, leaving the other combatants to make their way home.
Present:And Cap grimly wonders what the Beyonder wants now.
In the Molecule Man and Volcana’s apartment, the Beyonder sits, having taken on a mixed form of several heroes and villains he met. The Molecule Man tells him not to worry about the couch he destroyed. Sitting on a comfy chair, Marsha adds Owen will repair it later. She tells him to make himself at home. Laverne and Shirley is on. Owen suggests the Beyonder isn’t ready for Laverne and Shirley and might need more basic information.
He desires… to understand, the Beyonder finally says. Owen agrees how important that is. Knowledge isn’t understanding. He always knew he was omnipotent but only recently he came to understand that.
He had subconsciously limited his powers because of self-doubt, self-hate and fear. But when his mind was opened he understood that every iota of matter and energy answered to his whim. Before he could only do things with inorganic molecules. Now he can do everything!
The Molecule Man demonstrates by turning a small statue into an apple which he then munches. He doesn’t really do much with it but live a peaceful life with Marsha. But now that he realizes his potential he feels so much better. He guesses that’s what it’s all about: realizing, whether you’re omnipotent or not, there’s good inside of you and that makes you OK. But he guesses everyone has to find out for himself. Experience is the best teacher.
He desires experience, the Beyonder announces. Marsha suggests he go to LA. You can experience everything there. Some instructions and the advice to change to a more inconspicuous form later, the Beyonder steps through a teleportation portal and Marsha and Owen return to their TV.
Meanwhile at Xavier’s school for gifted youngsters:Nightcrawler and Colossus are in a heated discussion with Magneto. They also heard Xavier’s psionic scream and they don’t doubt Xavier, but Magneto is another story. When Magneto blusters the rest of the team, Rogue, Wolverine, Shadowcat and Rachel Summers, burst in through the wall, ready to attack him.
Colossus and Nightcrawler physically intercept them and Kurt explains Magneto is only here to talk.
Magneto expresses surprise at all this suspicion and reminds them that on the Beyonder’s Battleworld they were allies. Wolverine stood by him when the mutant haters wanted his blood.
Wolverine retorts that mutants take care of their own, but now it’s just them and him. He’s tried to kill them too many times to forgive and forget.
Nonetheless, Xavier has asked him to lead them in their search for the Beyonder. He asks them to follow and asks but once. As team leader, Nightcrawler decides they will following him… Very carefully, he thinks silently
However, with the Blackbird being repaired, they only have the cars. They all get into a limo and Magneto levitates it.
In the meantime, the Beyonder’s disembodied energy moves through Hollywood until something gains his attention. In an office, Stewart, an angry writer, berates his agent, on the phone, shouting about how he sick he is of writing the pabulum the networks buy. He’s tired of prostituting himself, tired of car chases and phony dramas. Did he know that on last night’s A-Team five thousand shots were fired and no one got so much as a scratch? He’s sick of the network censors – sick of the hypocrisy of this stupid world’ s lack of violence, the mediocrity the idiocy – Reagonomics, for Pete’s sake! He wants to show the couch potatoes out there who sit in front of the TVs like mindless zombies all day the disgusting horror they inflict upon each other. He wants to show them what it means when a forty-five calibre slug rips though your guts – show ‘em up close the shredding flesh and squirting blood and – of course he is against violence! That’s the point!
His scantily dressed girlfriend tells Stewart the cartoon he writes is on. Stewart lays down the phone as he sees the ball of energy forming in front of him. Both he and the girl are scared.
Stewart grabs a small paperweight with a lightning bolt symbol to defend himself. What does it want? he shouts. Taking on the shape of the Molecule Man, the Beyonder manifests and announces he desires to understand. Stewart introduces himself and his girlfriend Marian. The Beyonder explains he is from beyond. In his realm, he is all. But here is multiplicity… diversity… incompleteness… which he does not understand. He desires to understand. The Beyonder apes Owen’s words about the importance of understanding and shows them he can do anything by turning Stewart’s desk and word processor into a pile of apples.
At that moment, Magneto makes a grand entrance in the secret arena where mutants fight for the audience’s amusement and demands the release of Xavier’s students. Magik and Cannonball join him, bringing along Lila Cheney and Dazzler. However Magma and Sunspot, the reasons the other mutants infiltrated the Arena, choose to stay behind.
When the X-Men ask what’s going on, Magik explains they are in trouble and suggests they return and get their friends. Magneto decides they have no time for that now. They need to find the Beyonder. He asks Rachel to use her telepathy to pinpoint him.
Back in Stewart Cadwall’s apartment:Stewart muses if he had the power to do as he wanted – does he want desire turned into reality? Then give him some power! The Beyonder complies. Both Stewart and the paper weight / award he is holding transforming him into Stewart’s idea of a superhero – Thundersword – and his award into a boltlike weapon.
Unimpressed, Marian has fallen asleep. Stewart tears apart the wall with his newfound power and decides he will straighten out a few things in the world. He calls out the name Boromir and a flying horse materializes. He flies off and the Beyonder follows invisibly.
Meanwhile, the X-Men’s limo makes its way through the traffic while Rachel finds herself incapable of tracking the Beyonder. She explains she has no idea what to look for and doesn’t relish the idea of using her powers to hunt for someone.
Impatiently, Wolverine and Colossus suggest they head for a motel. The Beyonder will show himself soon enough. At that moment, Rachel senses something high in the air, moving away. The limo takes off.
And soon they see who they believe to be the Beyonder (actually Thundersword) destroying the NBC building and people running away in a panic.
Thundersword sees the flying car and totals it. Cannonball falls out. Magneto lowers the rest to the ground and asks Rachel to link them all telepathically. Magneto orders the flyers and Nightcrawler after Thundersword and tells Shadowcat to cut him off.
As the flyers surround him, Thundersword strikes them with his lightning bolt. Rogue and Cannonball suffer the brunt of the attack. Colossus and Wolverine catch Cannonball as he is about to land in a McBurger’s restaurant.
Thundersword starts ranting about junk food and junk culture and begins totaling the restaurant. A fire breaks out threatening the neighboring buildings. Magneto orders Rachel to warn the people inside.
People – some only in their night clothes – leave the hotel without knowing why.
Some distance away, a very impatient Captain America asks the star struck cabbie if he can’t go faster.
And at the West Coast Avengers compound, Tony Stark and James Rhodes hear about the fight in the news. Tony decides to look in as Iron Man.
Near the fighting, a trapped woman tries to get her small son to leave her before the conflagration reaches her. Luckily, that moment Captain America arrives and saves them both.
He looks around to see Thundersword, who mocks him for defending the corrupt institutions he represents.
Dazzler shouts that Cap is coming to help them fight the Beyonder. Cap is pretty sure though that their foe isn’t the Beyonder and hopes Magneto is wise enough to pick up on what he is about to do. He throws his shield which, as expected, Thundersword blocks. Magneto orders Dazzer to act. The sound of the shield ricocheting plus the rest of the racket give Dazzler enough sound to radiate light enough to pierce Thundersword’s protective goggles.
Magneto sends a barrage of empty car flying at him. Thundersword strikes at them with his sword. Some of the debris is hurled at Lila Cheney.
Rachel senses that she is only stunned and wonders about the interference she keeps on sensing. She reaches out toward the presence and suddenly the Beyonder (still in the Molecule Man’s form) becomes visible in front of her. Kitty, Dazzler and the New Mutants have joined her and wonder who he is. Rachel figures he’s the Beyonder.
The Beyonder is interested in Magik. He reaches into her core and brings her demonic essence, her Darkchilde nature, to the fore. Horrified, she teleports herself and those close to her away.
Wolverine is the first to note the psi-link is gone, as are the youngsters. He realizes that this is the real Beyonder and, in a berserker rage, attacks him, slashing him.
The other X-Men hold him back and marvel that, despite his injuries, the stranger doesn’t seem to be fazed. Rogue reminds them the Beyonder destroyed and created a world. What if he is angry now? Panicked, Lila Cheney teleports the mutants away, leaving Cap alone to face Thundersword.
When Cap is distracted Thundersword strikes him down. He gets ready to deliver the coup de grace, gloating there will be one less Republican now.
That moment, Iron Man blasts him with his repulsors. As Iron Man flies Cap out of harm’s way, Thundersword childishly protests. Iron Man reveals the sword is his power source.
While the Beyonder realizes that what he is doing now is not experience, Iron Man dive bombs at Thundersword and Cap throws his shield at the sword, separating it from the wannabe villain, who turns normal again a moment later.
Steward begs the Beyonder to turn him back but the Beyonder is too busy with his own train of thoughts regarding the nature of experience versus watching. Cap addresses the Beyonder but he teleports away.
Stewart claims he was possessed; it was temporary insanity. He realizes he destroyed the studio he worked for. Cap suggests he needs psychiatric care and asks Iron Man to keep an eye on him until the police arrive. As for the missing X-Men, he will contact Xavier to learn more. He figures the Beyonder will make his move eventually. Cap strides away, unaware that invisibly the Beyonder is following him.


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“I’ll Take Manhattan…”
The Beyonder, having now taken on the perfect form of Captain America, materializes atop one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and ponders the eventful last few days. He has seen much, yet understood little, and knows experience is the guide to understanding. He learned that almost immediately; still he has been hesitating, watching. His few tentative contacts with humanity have been rewarding, especially his brushes with the X-Man Rachel. Thus, he is now convinced that in order to understand humans he must become fully human. It is time to make a commitment to full human form.
He turns human, but three dimensions is strange, even as he becomes aware of the effect of time. A strange sensation washes over him, connected to the movement of air around him. He begins to shiver. Already a new sensation to ponder.
He desires more and decides to go among the humans. He takes a step forward and falls. Yet some inbuilt instinct in the body protests against this falling. He briefly turns into his energy self and returns to material form a short distance above the ground. He realizes this small fall is already a shock to his body. A greater one would have destroyed it. He would have had to start again. A parallel between this experience and being slashed by Wolverine’s claws. The sensations are intense. Perhaps this type of intense experience bears further investigation, but an instinct tells him subtler experiences are wanted now.
He gets up, ignoring the people and wanders, constantly encountering mysteries like clothing (he only wears a white skinsuit) whose purpose he doesn’t understand. His eyes are drawn to a pretty jogging woman in tight workout outfit and he wonders why his eyes are drawn more to some people and whether it is connected to the clothes.
He notices a feeling of emptiness and recalls the X-Man Rachel telling him if he ate he wouldn’t feel hungry. Was that an instruction or a warning? He decides he desires to feed. He sees a man giving an order at a hot dog vendor’s and repeats the order, adding he desires to eat. Unimpressed, the vendor tells him to stuff his face. Stuff his face? the Beyonder parrots. Bite, swallow, chew! he is told. The Beyonder complies and bites into the soda bottle. Another intense experience, he decides. He believes Rachel’s words were a warning and repairs his body. The vendor leaves disturbed.
As darkness falls, pockets of pain and flame erupt across the city as thousands of New Yorkers succumb to an unnatural force pervading Manhattan. A force which drives them to hate each other, every minority, every other group. One mob pickets Avengers Mansion. Though the Avengers are absent inside, Mr. Fantastic works on finding a cause for the hate, watched by the Human Torch.
Elsewhere in a rumbling padded wagon are their teammate She-Hulk and her boyfriend Wyatt Wingfoot, who were arrested under suspicious circumstances. She-Hulk sulks wondering aloud why she doesn’t simply break them out. Wyatt reminds her how that might make things worse.
Not far away on Madison Avenue, the Invisible Girl escorts Alicia Masters home, avoiding the dangerous mob by rendering both herself and Alicia invisible. However, they do not go unnoticed by the authors of this hatred, the Psychoman and his creation, the Hate-Monger. Psychoman orders the Hatemonger to begin his metamorphosis and the Hatemonger takes the shape of Reed Richards.
He confronts Sue and touches her, thus filling her with his hate stimulus. Moments later, now dressed in a bondage costume, the Invisible Girl has now taken on the identity of Malice, who vows to destroy her husband, Reed Richards.
The Beyonder passively walks the streets unaware that this hatred is something extraordinary. He is curious though about the clothes behind the shop window. When somebody throws a brick that breaks a shop window, he climbs through it into the shop. He asks the shop assistant about the purpose of clothes. Annoyed, the shop assistant suggests he find a friend who explains these things to him.
The Beyonder decides to find someone he knows. He reaches out with his senses and in the offices of the Daily Bugle finds one Peter Parker who is waiting for the elevator. The Beyonder teleports to his side.
Peter’s spider-sense tingles. He wonders why the stranger dresses so weirdly and enters the elevator. Before the doors close, the Beyonder asks him about the purpose of clothing. Peter shakes his head at the weirdness and soon thinks of something else. When the elevator doors open in the lobby, the Beyonder stands there again, continuing his barrage of questions.
The Beyonder follows Peter, whose spider-sense is tingling even more. Peter passes a corner, quickly jumps up, sticks to the ceiling and changes to Spider-Man. His Spider-sense tingles but no one comes around the corner. Unknown to him, the Beyonder has turned invisible.
Spooked, Spider-Man leaves and swings to his apartment, still followed by the invisible Beyonder. He enters through the skylight, takes off his mask and heads for the fridge, figuring maybe he hallucinated because he hasn’t eaten all day.
The Beyonder becomes visible and asks if hallucinating is why there is eating. Peter screams startled and jumps to the ceiling. The Beyonder fires his whole barrage of questions about clothing at him. Angrily, Peter hits him. The Beyonder floats up and asks about the significance of that type of intense experience. Peter finally asks who he is. When told he is from beyond, the penny drops – he is the Beyonder, Peter realizes.
Peter recalls how he kidnapped them to Battleworld and made them fight but eventually he let them go, so they figured he was through with them – and now he is here? He saw him destroy a galaxy, create a world from scratch. What does someone like him want here?
He desires to understand. He desires experience, the Beyonder explains. In his universe, he was all. Here there is multiplicity... diversity. Why?
Peter muses he was a science major at ESU… has an academic scholarship, 1600 on his SATs but for the meaning of life… Maybe he should get a guru or philosopher. Somebody smarter than him anyway. He suggests Reed Richards. Peter can’t help him. Apart from his spider-powers, he is just an ordinary guy.
The Beyonder decides to do as he says. Belatedly, Peter feels bad about being a rotten host. Can he get him anything? A glass of water maybe? Will that relieve the strange pressure he feels in his abdomen? the Beyonder asks. Embarrassed, Peter tells him it sounds like he has to go to the bathroom. The Beyonder demands an explanation. Embarrassed, Peter gives him one and shows him to the bathroom.
After he closes the door, Peter panics. When the Beyonde returns, Peter suggests they talks some more, but the Beyonder teleports away to seek out Reed Richards.
Peter realizes he just sicced him on the Fantastic Four, puts on his mask and swings away to find them and warn them first.
Meanwhile in midtown, much has transpired. The She-Hulk and Mr. Fantastic have survived vicious attacks by Malice and Reed has managed to break the Hatemonger’s hold over her. Reunited, the Fantastic Four face the Hatemonger, who has turned the crowd against them.
Suddenly, the Beyonder appears next to Reed and asks if hallucinating is why there is eating.
Unseen, the Psycho-Man manipulates the Torch, who loses control of a fireball. Sue puts a forcefield around Reed and the Beyonder to protect them. The Hatemonger has disappeared. She- Hulk and Sue want to follow but Reed quickly realizes the stranger is the Beyonder.
In an alley nearby, the Hatemonger, still looking like Reed, begs his master for help as the other members of the FF are closing in. However, the Psycho-Man is displeased with his servant’s performance and turns away. Sue grabs the Hatemonger by the collar. She-Hulk tries to grab the Psycho-Man, who disappears.
The Hatemonger sobs and begs for mercy. Reed and the Beyonder join them. From another alleyway, someone fires a raygun and kills the Hatemonger with the words: justice is served. He disappears.
She-Hulk suggests they try to catch him but Reed tells her to stay. This was no murder, as he is sure the Hatemonger was just a construct and he believes he knows the identity of the mastermind behind him but they have a more pressing concern now. Sue demands he lead her to the mastermind. She wants him to pay.
The Beyonder complains the multiplicity and disunity of this universe are confusing. Reed starts discussing the human condition with him while Sue fumes that Reed is ignoring her. When Reed muses that he doesn’t know if he can fully explain the intricacies of the universe to him, the Beyonder decides to take his questions elsewhere. Reed is frustrated but Sue isn’t having it, reminding him of her needs at the moment.
Spider-Man swings by above them but doesn’t see them.
The Beyonder ends up in front of the clothing store again, frustrated that none of those he knows have been able to help him. Experience is the best teacher, he remembers and teleports the blue suit of the store mannequin onto his body. Unfortunately, it is too small to fit properly.
A homeless woman berates him for not paying, then criticizes the bad fit of the suit. Following her instructions, the Beyonder alters the suit accordingly with his powers. The woman, Elsie, is unsurprised and also reminds him of shoes. Afterwards, she ask why he is so dumb. Is he from space? She lectures him about money being the root of all evil and that you need it to survive.
She leads him to the box she uses as shelter. Both are attacked by a gang of young thugs led by Charlie Carcrash. They beat up the Beyonder but, when they learn he has no money, they become enraged and beat him more. After threatening Elsie, they leave.
Elsie gives the Beyonder (who heals himself) a card of the Heroes for Hire, suggesting he seek them out for help.
He teleports away and emerges at the prestigious Park Avenue office of Heroes for Hire Inc. to find nothing, as it is three am Sunday morning. He looks into Luke Cage’s office. He peers into the recent past to see Power Man and Iron Fist there, plucks them from there and brings them to the present.
Luke Cage rushes toward him intent on hitting him. Believing this to be a customary greeting, the Beyonder hits him first. Iron Fist intends to strike at him with his focused Chi. Fed up with intense experienced, the Beyonder teleports out of his way.
Cage wrestles him from behind and tells him to step outside their office, so he can asks some questions. Taking this literally, the Beyonder jumps out of the fourteen stories’ high window.
Luke jumps after him, intent on breaking his fall somehow. When he is about to catch up, he sees the Beyonder turning into energy. Luke lands hard, whereas the Beyonder transforms to his human form again once he reaches the ground.
Danny comes running and asks if Luke is hurt bad. What does he think? Luke groans. But he’ll feel better after he kills the stranger… Luke’s attacks are blocked by Danny, who is worried about making the stranger mad. He prefers asking questions first and asks the stranger who he is and what he wants.
After the Beyonder gives his usual answer about wanting to know about desire, Danny asks why it is night all of a sudden and is told he moved them through time. Danny tells him if he truly experienced unity, he already has everything humans strive to attain. There is nothing else for him to learn.
Cage pushes him aside and explains that, being a martial artist, Danny is hung up on all that Zen bull. The Beyonder’s obviously been there already and wants out into the real world and Luke can tell him what it is. He shows him some money. This is it. Cash, bread, gap! With this, he can get himself about anything, including the service of Heroes for Hire. Without it, he’s got jack! A lot of trouble in the world is because there ain’t enough of this stuff.
The Beyonder can’t believe value of some paper. Luke lectures him that this is special paper that stands for gold and there ain’t much of that. Danny gently reminds him the gold standard was abandoned years ago.
The Beyonder believes he understands and heads toward their building. That’s when Spider-Man sees them and gives a warning. The Beyonder touches the Heroes for Hire’s building and turns it into gold. Unable to support its own weight, the building collapses. What did he do that for? Luke groans. The Beyonder cheerfully echoes the words to pay for their service. Someone must pay. His work done, he teleports away, leaving three stupefied heroes.


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This World is Mine
It’s early morning in Manhattan and the Beyonder fell asleep on the street until a cop rudely awakes him and prods him with his stick. Why do so many encounters with others begin with an intense experience? the Beyonder complains. The cop demands some ID. When the Beyonder doesn’t understand, he asks where he is from. He is from beyond, comes the reply. That better be the name of a town, the cop replies angrily. The Beyonder offers to show him and opens a gateway there, adding there is nothing to see there because he is all in his realm and he is here. Dazed, the cop walks away.
At the next corner, a prostitute calls out to the Beyonder. Is she addressing him? No, she is just standing here, holding up the wall, she quips. Does he want to go out? He desires to understand. Figuring he is a foreigner, the young woman explains she is a “public servant.” One of New York’s finest. And who is he? He yawns when he introduces himself. She chides his manners then suggests he get a hotel room and she’ll tuck him in. He agrees. Drawing him closer, she demands to see some cash first.
This is something he knows. Cash stands for gold; he learned that earlier. He manifests a gold bar out of thin air. The girl becomes scared and hostile and orders him to stay away. He points out she is no longer holding up the wall. So he do it! she snaps. He complies and creates a system of girders to hold it up, causing the girl to panic even more. He teleports away and she calls her pimp Chulo for help.
The Beyonder reappears in the lobby of the sleazy Columbia Hotel, announcing he is weary and desires to remedy that. The porter didn’t see the manner in which he arrived and gives him a room, figuring he looks rich and to rob him later when he sleeps.
The Beyonder walks upwards not using the stairs, walking on air instead. Unaware of how keys work, he simply phases into the room through the doorway. His body’s instincts assert themselves and he falls asleep on the ground. Several hours later, he is abruptly awakened by a group of people. Their leader, a middle-aged man introduces himself as Vinnie, the African-American strong man is Laverne Lacy aka Smurfette, his bodyguards. The mousy woman is his bookkeeper Millie ‘the purse’ Shuriff. The scared prostitute he already knows is Toots and the guy in the mink coat holding her is Chulo.
Vinnie shows the Beyonder the gold brick he made before asking if he made this. The Beyonder agrees and Vinnie asks him to tell them about himself:
The Beyonder’s narration:In his realm, he was all he knew, until an event of great magnitude opened a small hole into their universe. Through the pinhole, he observed Earth for years. He learned of incompleteness and desire and decided to study it.
He collected beings of great power, offered them a prize and set them upon each other, to see what desire would cause them to do.
They fought. One among them, Doctor Doom, desired more than the prize and fought the Beyonder himself. A mote against the universe. And yet he attained his desire. He succeeded in drawing away the greater part of the Beyonder’s energy. Falsely believing the Beyonder had ceased to exist, Doom turned his attention to his enemies from their realm and destroyed them.
The Beyonder was incomplete for the first time and finally knew desire, the desire to be whole again. However, he was not strong enough to regain his power. He inhabited the body of Doom’s companion Klaw and caused him to use all his faculties in the Beyonder’s service. He attacked Doom in a manner the Beyonder does not comprehend, subtly, psychologically, preying on things humans call fear and doubt.
Meanwhile, Doom’s foes were restoring themselves, aided by an alien healer and renewed their struggle against Doom. In a moment of great confusion and doubt, Doom’s grasp of the Beyonder’s power weakened and the Beyonder regained it.
Then he sent Doom and Klaw away and returned to his realm to ponder events. Even more than before, he desires to understand. Days ago, he came to Earth. He encountered the greatest of them, the Molecule Man, who helped him begin his quest for understanding.
At first he merely watched, then sought the counsel of many. But their counsel wasn’t helpful. Finally one – Luke Cage – spoke clearly, giving him clear advice: namely that he needed money. He paid him for his services with gold, then left, and now he is here.End of narration
Vinnie asks for his name and is told he is from beyond. Vinnie christens him Frank. When he sees Frank is tired, he orders everyone out except for Toots, who is to keep him company.
Toots tries not to show her fear, as she instructs the Beyonder how to sleep on a bed.
Outside, Vinnie order his people to get some guards and make sure their new friend is undisturbed. He has big plans for him…
Seven hours later, the Beyonder awakes. Instead of the hotdog wagon the Beyonder recognizes, Vinnie takes him and Toots to a good restaurant where Toots patiently teaches him what and how to eat (which makes the experience more pleasurable). Later at the ice cream parlor, he enjoys the sweets like a child. In the evening, he is surrounded by many ladies whom Vinnie hired, causing Toots to become jealous.
The next day, Vinnie and Toots get him dressed in cutting edge (80ies style) fashion such as purple overalls.
The next day, it’s time for “Frank” to go to work, in this case scaring away some gangsters who were trying to muscle in on Vinnie’s territory with his powers. Later he makes sure Vinnie’s girls are healthy and then he creates some gold for him.
Later that evening, he cures Vinnie Jr.’s dyslexia. Seeing his somewhat overweight wife standing next to the boy, Vinnie whispers something into the Beyonder’s ear and, moments later, Gina looks younger and slimmer. Happily, Vinnie promises they’ll take the next day off for some shopping. He can have anything he wants.
The Beyonder turns out to be fascinated by gadgets such as a motorbike, which Vinnie buys for him.
Vinnie orders his people around and lectures “Frank” that having guys who work for you shows how big you are.
He takes him to the races. When Vinnie complains that his horse is losing, the Beyonder manipulates the outcome. Vinnie is not pleased, however, because if you take the sport out of it, it’s no fun. He takes him gambling next.
Days later, the Beyonder has been set up in an expensive East Side penthouse. Vinnie praises his new hairstyle, black Jheri curls. Several beautiful girls help him get dressed. Then he goes to make the rounds. Vinnie tells him to stop by his house later.The Beyonder gets into his limousine, telling his driver to stop by Radio Shack before his route. He needs some more discs and tapes. He plays with his gadgets, such as his Cuisinart. Later, he gathers the money and jokes with the customers.
Later still, he helps some other of Vinnie’s people to transport some Cocaine with his powers.
The evening his limo passes the street corner of twenty-sixth and Park Avenue, where he sees Chulo and Toots. Toots greets him happily, if shyly. She asks if he ever thinks of her now that he sees a better class of girls. What better class? he shrugs. People are just people to him. She stares after him lovelorn as he leaves to meet Vinnie.
Soon at Vinnie Corbo’s Saddle River estate:After some small talk, Vinnie tells “Frank” that he has learned all he can teach him. He is too big to be cooped up in his small turf. It’s time he struck out on his own. He was made for bigger things. Vinnie is happy here. But a man ought to know what’s in him and use that to the fullest. A man also got to know his limits. Vinnie knows his but Frank doesn’t have any. It’s time for him to move on. If he ever needs advice… Not caring, the Beyonder tells him bye and leaves.
A few days later at King’s Point, Long Island, the most luxurious residence on the East Coast, one of many luxury mansions purchased by the Beyonder:
Several beauties fawn over him as he decides to fly out to his yacht, the third biggest hydrofoil craft in the Atlantic (he also owns the first and second biggest).
More girls fawn over him on the yacht and one teases him (as he has grown quite overweight) over his “cute little tummy”. He realizes that they actually find this accumulation of body fat repulsive and restores his body’s previous ideal form, garnering even more admiration.
Later he decides it’s time for business as he steers the yacht towards New York. He explains to the ladies who the Kingpin of Crime is and that other smaller crime lords like Vinnie Corbo have to pay a percentage to him. Today he is going to muscle in the Kingpin’s operations.
Soon he mentally takes over the Kingpin and his henchmen. Generously, he decides to keep the Kingpin on as a lieutenant, but he’ll give him 90 percent of his intake.
Too easy, he decides and soon he takes over the USA. But why stop with one country? he wonders. With a thought, he can subject all who live under his will with no exception. One exception he realizes a moment later, but he isn’t a problem. He can always deal with him later if he wishes.
But it’s still not enough. Why limit his control to humans and other higher lifeforms? He brings the viruses and bacteria under his control then inanimate matter. Now everything is his. He plays around with his control, having all things living and inanimate pay homage to him as he passes them by.
Meanwhile in a modest apartment in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, the second most powerful being in the universe sits watching Three’s Company with his girlfriend, Marsha Rosenberg. The Molecule Man, Owen Reece, asks Marsha if she is okay, since her molecules are controlled by an outside force. He soon realizes this goes for the molecules of everything and everyone, except for his own. He figures the Beyonder is behind this. He decides he is probably just going through a phase but nevertheless liberates Marsha’s molecules and the two return to their TV shows.
Meanwhile, the one from beyond revels in his supremacy. He appears simultaneously to many men and women of power, all of whom humble themselves before him. Finally, one of the mighty who pay him homage gives him pause, the hybrid woman Circuit Breaker. He senses she is an extraordinary woman, driven by extraordinary desires.
She recounts how she was crippled by a robot and needs this exo-skeleton to move and get her revenge. She hates robots, especially those who seem to be alive. They are just a mockery of men. For all their programming, they lack the spark of life. She has given the Beyonder something to think about.
Later, he relaxes at a luxury mansion in Brazil, surrounded by beautiful women. Still, he is not content, so he returns to New York to ask Vinnie Corbo. He has followed his instructions to their logical end, yet he is discontent. Vinnie cannot help him.
The Beyonder finds Toots now wearing a waitress uniform and asks her why he is discontent. She tells him how she worships him and he figures that maybe in controlling everyone he has extinguished the spark Circuit Breaker spoke about. He releases Toots. Happily. she gushes she gave up her old job and is a waitress now and she has him to thank for it. She never had much and nobody believed in her but, when he told her people are just people, she realized she could be like other people… decent people. She tells him she loves him and kisses him, then adds they could never be together. He has a whole life of catching up to do, and so does she now.
The Beyonder ponders her words and releases everybody else, making them forget what happened.
Soon he materializes at Avengers Mansion and tells their butler Jarvis he wishes to speak to the Avengers. Jarvis invites him in but explains the Avengers aren’t there. Can he help him with anything? The Beyonder mentions his experiences and how he found that power and possession bring no fulfilment but the gratitude of another human being did. He would like to know more of this. It would explain previously believed inexplicable behavior like that of the Avengers who have greater power than most but do not it to acquire wealth. Jarvis agrees that they are indeed selfless. He believes that virtue is its own reward.
The Beyonder wants to work with the Avengers. Jarvis tells him that is not possible while he pours him tea. They are in the Skrull Galaxy right now.
The Beyonder teleports after them, only to return hours later to Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, feeling dejected. He really made a mess of that, he sighs. But something else occurs to him. He recalls Vinnie’s lecture about gambling. Perhaps it’s the trying not the doing in which fulfilment lies. He has a plan. A game to play. First, he needs a lawyer – one used to unusual legal work. One with no fear of anything.
The Avengers’ lawyer, Matt Murdock, is perfect! He’ll go see him right now…


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Love is the Answer!
She is Sharon Ing, heiress, actress, jet-set socialite, internationally renowned beauty. But right now, fame and fortune have no meaning to her, so lost is she in love with the man who holds her so firmly and kisses her so sensuously. Nobody does it better. Sharon Ing doesn’t know who’s kissing her. Not really. A man she thinks, a wonderful, incredible, unforgettable man who somehow found her and captured her heart. It is no man embracing her, however. It is the one from beyond – and he will be the death of her.
The Beyonder breaks off the kiss and tells Sharon he has business to attend to here. It was very nice with her. When will she see him again? Sharon demands. He doesn’t know. She’s never going to see him again, is she? Sharon bursts out. While getting dressed, he admits he doesn’t think so. Sharon shouts that she loves him. Though she’s only known him for a short time, nobody has ever meant so much to her. She doesn’t even know his real name. He said he is called “the Beyonder” by some. What kind of name is that? Does he have a name? No, he replies, while cleaning his mouth. Good-bye.
Seconds later, he is outside the expensive Washington DC hotel that is his current residence. The bellboy warns him about heavy traffic. He replies that won’t bother him.
While driving his expensive Ferrari, he sends it flying, not caring that anyone sees him. In the process, he agitates the nearby Air Force base. The people there scramble fighter jets to intercept whatever the flying object is.
Unaware of this, the Beyonder takes notes via handheld tape recorder. He is at ten thousand feet, it is warm, calm, quiet and here behind the wheel it is easy to think and reflect. During the time he has been on Earth, he has learned a lot about humans, and he is beginning to understand the nature of desire, which seems to be the basis of most things going on in the universe. He’s dabbled with various means of gratification, with mixed results. He is ready to begin more pointed experiments. On this tape, he’ll record the first steps of his experiments.
While flying up here, he quickly scanned the desires of every living creature on Earth. Most fall into pretty basic and predictable patterns. There are exceptions, though: There is a creature lying virtually dead, far beneath the English countryside. He is or was Algrim the Elf. He fell into a lava pit while battling the Asgardian Thor. The mystical protective properties of his armor kept him alive… though his body is cooked and shriveled. Of all the higher lifeforms on Earth, he is the one with the most single-minded purpose – and perhaps his all-consuming desire has kept him alive, in addition to the armor. He desires the death of his arch-enemy Thor. It will be interesting to watch him fulfil his desire and what he will do then. He teleports Algrim aboveground. Algrim begins his way across the ocean bottom to reach Thor.
Who else was interesting…the little girl called Cindy Adams, who has the essence of a Dire Wraith in her brain. She desperately wants it out of her mind.
And close by her, a woman named Brandy Clark desires to be transformed into a cyborg warrior so she can be reunited with her cyborg warrior lover Rom who is on an interplanetary quest.
Then there’s Benjamin Grimm aka the Thing whose desires are confusing and unusual.
The alien Silver Surfer desires freedom from Earth. He believes an impenetrable barrier holds him here.
US president Ronald Reagan desires tax reform a certain way.
Captain America desires that the ideals her cherishes become true in all the world.
The jets have caught up and the pilots can’t believe what they are seeing, a man flying a Ferrari, speaking into a recorder and chopping up vegetables in a Cuisinart.
Following orders, one of the pilots fires and hits the car. The Beyonder briefly loses control and decides that was rude. He freezes the offending fighter and walks over, then admonishes the pilot that was uncalled for. His car is a mess now. Stupefied, the pilot asks who is he? What is he doing here? Why was he chopping up carrots? He just likes gadgets, the Beyonder explains. They fascinate him, that’s all. Don’t change the subject! Now about his car, he’s got an idea…
And soon the bewildered pilot in the car is dropped off at Eddie’s Body Shoppe, while the Beyonder takes his jet. On a whim, he decides to fly to Denver to look up Owen Reece and Marsha, though he decides to make the plane invisible this time. He begins singing Rocky Mountain High.
Upon arrival, he creates some space to land the jet in the middle of the street, then walks away while the crowd wonders where the jet has suddenly come from. A young woman asks if she may give him her card (he agrees), while her friend admires her for her brazenness.
The Beyonder visits Owen and Marsha. Owen looks outside and disintegrates the plane, as he and Marsha are trying to be discreet. Marsha kisses him Owen goodbye, heading out to dance exercise. Owen apologizes for destroying the Beyonder's jet, then asks what he can do for him. The Beyonder explains he thinks he’s beginning to understand this desire thing but what he really wants to know more about is love. Owen’s guidance was very helpful to him when he first arrived. He thought maybe he could explain what love is.
The Molecule Man ponders the question. He used to think love was liking someone very much, but that’s not it at all. All he can do is tell him about Marsha and him. She taught him about love. She is a very loving giving person. As soon as they met, right away she cared about him. Eventually, she grew to care about him more than she cared about herself. Not because he is the Molecule Man and can do anything for her. It was because she saw something worthwhile in him, long before he did. He was pretty screwed up back then. But when he finally stopped being wrapped up in his fear and self-hate, he was able to give, too.
He smiles. Love is always good but it’s nice when it’s mutual. Then it can make you so happy. And the more you give, the more you have to give. It’s amazing. It’s… limitless.
The Beyonder believes he understands and thanks him. They shake hands and Owen adds love is only good if it’s real. Love gone wrong can be dangerous, even for guys like them. He tells him to be careful. He will, the Beyonder promises as he teleports away.
The Beyonder reappears in his hotel suite, where he finds Sharon Ing, dead of an overdose. Her reads her suicide note that she cannot live without him, then decides to return her to life. He came back to her! Sharon moans. No, he simply came back, he corrects her. This love she professes to feel for him, why does she feel it? Because of what he does to her, she stammers. He brings her ecstasy like no one else could! Ah, a business deal, the Beyonder realizes. He wants to experience real love.
He makes the images of several women and men appear. He must find a partner. One of these, perhaps. Sharon points out some of them are men. The Beyonder demonstrates that he can easily change his sex, but then decides he is used to the male form.
He finally settles on a pretty strawberry blonde. Sharon points out she is as pretty - why not her? The Beyonder replies bluntly she doesn’t really love him. She loves what he does for her. He only considers women whose love cannot be bought at any price. She intrigues him as well because she is a mutant, perhaps the most powerful one on Earth. He asks Sharon to go. Hurt, she complies.
Outside in the corridor, Sharon begins to cry at the humiliation and shatters the mirror with her fists Then she stands erect and proudly as she enters the elevator, unware that one man in the cabin admires her beauty and poise.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Arizona, a pickup truck rumbles along, bound for Colorado. Inside are O.Z. Chase, bounty hunter, his prisoner Alison Blaire aka the Dazzler and his dog.
Chase is clearly embarrassed by the situation and apologizes to Alison for taking her in. Petting his dog, Alison assures him she is glad in a way. She’d like to get whatever charges there are against her cleared up. Chase doubts there would be any charges, if she weren’t a mutant. That seems to be a mite unpopular these days, just because they can do things that aren’t exactly… He wants to say ‘human’, but at that moment Alison disappears.
She reappears in a transparent bubble, floating through the cosmos. The Beyonder welcomes her. She immediately attacks and orders him to keep his distance. Just start talking! Right after he undoes the blindness her flash caused, he replies. What a wonderful power she has, absorbing sound, storing the energy and release it again as light. May he call her Alison? Call her a taxi! she shouts. She wants out of here! Who is he? What is this?
The Beyonder forges a psionic contact with her and shows her his story. How in his universe he was all until an event opened a pinhole into their universe. Curious, he eventually came to Earth, took human shape, that he might come to experience and understand the way of things here. He has learned much in his days here. Today he has learned of something called love. He would like to experience it. Out of all the women in the world, he has chosen her.
Oh, so suddenly it’s Valentine’s Day and she is elected, Alison scoffs. Does she get any say in this? Of course, he assures her. She’d like to get to know someone before… love isn’t something you can rush. He enthusiastically agrees.
Alison notices the scenery outside keeps on changing. He thought he’d give her a tour of some of the more interesting places in her galaxy while they talk. She asks him to put them back to Earth.
Moments later, she crawls out of an Igloo to find they are in the Arctic. Antarctic, the Beyonder corrects her, lying naked under a bearskin. Want to cuddle up with him? It’s nice and cosy in here. That’s not how she gets to know someone! she tells him.
Moments later, Alison finds herself on a romantic carriage ride with the Beyonder as the coachman. Is this better? he asks. He doesn’t know much about courtship yet. A jogger, also looking like the Beyonder, offers her flowers. Another Beyonder, a business man, takes the flowers to hand them to her. He apologizes for frightening her. She can’t believe this! she shouts.
Would she believe this? A moment later, they are in Rio at Carnival time. It’s a café in Paris a moment later. Would he please cut it out!? she shouts. He apologizes. He just wanted to make her smile.
Ali in turn is sorry for making a scene. No problem. Everyone here is him. She looks around and realizes he is right. This is all very flattering, Ali admits, but he is so powerful… omnipotent. He realizes she fears him. Just as humans fear her because she is a mutant and more powerful than them. Why? He means no harm. Does she? She guesses that is hypocritical. Touché, she admits.
He takes her to another place, a mountain top, so they can talk alone. He remarks she is still afraid. Ever since he appeared on this world, people have been afraid of him. The first day he was here, Captain America, Iron Man, the X-Men and she, as he recalls, traced him to Los Angeles to attack, worried about what he might do. He admits he did a few foolish things early on, but nothing terrible. And here he is wanting to court her. Is that so bad? He guesses he hasn’t gone about it the usual way but he is no ordinary guy and she is not ordinary either. In fact, while they’ve been dating he took the liberty of looking into her soul and what he found there was greater and more beautiful than he dreamed possible.
It’s astounding… paradoxical! Alison finds. All at once she is but a tiny speck of protoplasma… infinitesimal , and yet inside, in the essence of her being she is more it seems than the universe itself. He is awed but does not fear. He only asks for a chance. He kisses her and she reciprocates.
The next morning, Alison awakes to be greeted by three maids who inform her she is in the master’s house in the south of France. She walks downstairs, where the Beyonder waits with breakfast. A small band plays classical live music. She admits she is overwhelmed.
He’s decided to work on that control himself, play by the rules a little more. For instance, today he is going to bring her a gift and he is going to earn it. He tells her to feel free to use his music library and recording equipment and teleports away…
To the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta Canada, where moments ago a pitched battle between Canada’s superteam Alpha Flight and the villains of Omega Flight took place.
When the Alphans see the Beyonder materializing, Heather Hudson fears he might be another member of Omega Flight. They agree to subdue him and attack. Instead, the Beyonderr grabs Puck and Northstar, tossing Puck aside and Northstar into his twin Aurora, causing a blinding flash. As he next magnetically repels Box, Snowbird attacks as a polar bear while Shaman watches. As the Beyonder puts Snowbird to sleep, Shaman reaches into his medicine pouch for a magical artifact. However, the Beyonder takes the pouch to Shaman’s horror. The pouch suddenly grows and, from out of  the mystic void inside, the Beyonder saves Shaman’s daughter Talisman, who was trapped within. He restores the bag to its normal size and grabs a ring from it.
And, after a very short explanation later, he disappears. He returns to his villa, where his entire staff is pleading with Dazzler, who is trying to leave. He shows her the present, the ring, but she isn’t interested. She just wants to get on a plane to New York.
A moment later, they are both in Manhattan. Forcefully, she informs him she’d rather he didn’t do than anymore. She just can’t deal with this. She is not afraid of him anymore, but she doesn’t want trips and presents and things so easily. Okay, he tosses the ring aside. Alison continues that yesterday was beautiful… beyond words. She gets chills just thinking about it. She could very easily lose herself in him. But she’s got a life to live and wants to get back to it. She’s got dreams. He knows, he smiles.
A moment later, she finds herself on stage and is presented to an adoring crowd. From backstage, the Beyonder urges her to sing. It’s what she wants. Not this way, she replies coldly. He assures her he was very careful to do this the right way. These are real people. He sold tickets. He... She asks him to put her back where they were a moment ago.
Back in Manhattan, he apologizes. Shall he call her a taxi? Ali refuses. He’d probably whip one up out of thin air. He is too all-powerful. The Avengers show up and agree. He is too powerful and dangerous for the Avengers to allow to roam free. Hercules immediately attacks, only for the Beyonder to tell him to go easy on the shirt. Dazzler shouts at Herc to leave him alone. He wasn’t doing anything wrong!
The Beyonder tosses him aside to be hit by Captain America’s shield and the Wasp’s sting. Wasp, the Black Knight and Cap tackle him at the same time. Still not attacking, the Beyonder levitates himself free, only to be blasted by Captain Marvel. Starfox uses his pleasure power to mellow him, while the Wasp again attacks. The Beyonder is out of it.
What are they going to do with him? Dazzler demands. They must make certain he menaces their universe no longer, Herc replies. They have no choice, Cap agrees. Then neither does she, Dazzler decides and dazzles them. The Beyonder recovers and creates a forcefield to protect them, then teleports himself and Ali back to the peak in Nepal. The Beyonder thanks her for saving his life. Alison now realizes that the Avengers were uncharacteristically belligerent and the Beyonder could have spirited them away earlier.
He admits that they weren’t real. He faked it. But she was concerned about him, wasn’t she? She really does care for him. Yes, she does, she admits, but she is just a tiny fleck of protoplasm, remember? And he is… something else.
The Beyonder offers to fix than and shares his power with her. She is still transfixed as they share a cosmic kiss but then she tears herself away. She flees and, in a microsecond, is half a world away. Driven by desperation, he catches her in the skies of Dallas. Why does she flee? he demands. It was glorious. She kicks him away and shouts that she doesn’t love him. She can’t love him. When they touched, she knew, and no pleasure or power can make it so. She won’t trade her love, her soul for this! She wants the power gone and casts it away.
He is momentarily overwhelmed and she falls to her death. He realizes it’s his fault. And even worse, she doesn’t love him! How could she do this to him?! He cries in rage, glowing with energy. He blasts a bolt of pure force into the sky that obliterates an entire galaxy far away.
Calmer, he uses his power to restore Alison to life. He helps her up as she admits that what she did was really stupid. She can’t tell him how wonderful it was to open her eyes and see him. She missed him. She loves him! Does she? he asks. Totally, she assures him. Hey, isn’t it about time he told her his name? What should she call him? A taxi? he asks. Sure, she agrees, let’s get married! She drags him into a mall to find wedding gowns.
The Beyonder takes her up into the sky and realizes he can’t go through with this. He’s making her act this way. She doesn’t really love him. He releases her mind and then makes her forget what happened. And then… he will try to forget.


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Despair!
Near Washington DC, the “one from beyond” walks on the train tracks humming Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone. The frantic shriek of an air horn interrupts his reverie as a fast train is about to run him over. The Beyonder raises his finger and imitates a gun. Bang! The train comes apart around him without touching him, its momentum unbroken. At the last moment, he relents and allows the passengers at least to land safely.
The former passengers panic and somehow the Beyonder is pleased as he walks on. His life is screwed up, yanked out of the path he intended, by a force out of his control. Why should they fare better? Lives here in this universe are so easily broken, it seems, even his.
However, a skinny teenager with blond hair runs after him, telling him to wait. He did that didn’t he? Yes, he replies curtly. She knew it! she shouts excited. He is a mutant like her! She can always tell. That’s some power he’s got. She babbles on that she was on her way to Westchester in New York. She heard there was a place for mutants there, like a secret school or something. Since he wrecked the train, the least he can do is let her walk with him. He honestly replies he doesn’t care.
Hours later, she tells him she is called Boom Boom. She hates the nickname but her real name is Tabitha, which is worse. Besides, Boom Boom is funnier than her alleged friends think – if they knew. She complains about being tired. Aren’t they going to make camp? A moment later, two tents, a campfire and all the makings of camping appear.
Again, she marvels at his power. Everywhere he goes – poof –instant home. She used to think she had a home, but not long ago she found out she was a mutant. So did her parents. They were appalled. Of course they’ve always been appalled by her. She was always too weird to suit them. Anyway, this mutant thing got them really freaked, they lost it. She takes off her sunglasses to reveal a blackened eye. Daddy tried to beat it out of her. Tears come from her eyes. So she took off and here she is. Huh, he probably couldn’t care less about her traumatic childhood. And why should he?
She shows him what she can do. She focuses and a small glowing globe appears in her hand. She tosses it into the tent and it blows up. She can make them in different sizes and set them to go off whenever she wants. She calls herself Time Bomb.
The Beyonder asks why she destroyed the tent. Boom Boom points out he can fix it. Why did he blow up the train? It’s a long story, he replies evasively. She’s got time. All right, he begins. He comes from another universe. He was alone there. The idea of anything else existing never occurred to him, until he became aware of their universe. He became intrigued. So he assumed human form and came here. He was okay until he met this woman. He wanted her to love him…
Flashback:He took her to romantic secluded spots, so they could get to know each other. The closer they got, the more terrific he thought she was. He fell more and more in love with her. He wanted to do everything for her. Then he tried to help her with her singing career. But all his help just upset her. Finally, he gave her the ultimate gift, part of his own cosmic power. He made her a goddess. That went over like a lead balloon. She fought it, fought him. And gave the power back to him.
Present:The Beyonder admits he’s felt empty since. He’s tried to keep thinking of other things but his stomach keeps twisting itself into knots.
Grabbing some wieners to roast over the fire, Boom Boom replies she knows about rejection. First you think it’s your fault, like you’re the jerk. So you try to fix yourself and, since that never works, you feel more useless and stupid. So you cover it up, pretend it isn’t happening. Or else you wallow in it, like it’s a game where you get ten points for each rejection and whoever is the most miserable wins. Sometimes you get mad and try to hurt them back. She did that to her daddy, which is why he punched her lamps out. She should have put a bigger timebomb in his lasagna. Anyways you slice it, it leaves you lonely. You just want so bad for someone to want you.
Desire, the Beyonder scoffs. It is the root of everything in this universe. Ever since he learned of this thing desire, he had nothing but grief, pain and trouble. He’s beginning to wish he’d never come here. What point is there in seeking to understand desire? He understands it’s a nuisance! A nuisance born of incompleteness. Should he track this nuisance to its end or simply go home where he is all… complete? And no desire can haunt him.
Boom Boom interrupts. Nobody can just take a rain check on life. His choice is to go on trying or just collapse. And then die. Quick or slow. She had had a friend who took the quick way out and a bunch who vegged out on drugs and stuff. Same thing… just slower.
That’s too bad, the Beyonder says disinterested, but he is not like her friends. He decides to leave. Boom Boom gives him a hug and thanks him for the company and food. A moment later, he disappears. He’ll be back, she decides. So, all alone again. Ten more points. She wins! She buries her face in her hands.
Meanwhile, the Beyonder reappears in his home dimension, which is completely empty. He figures he will just discorporate, then hesitates. He can’t help thinking… he almost wishes he brought a few things. He adds some gadgets and appliances, people, finally even star systems. An image of Dazzler appears. He could create a copy, even bring the real Alison here and make her love him. But love freely given, that he can’t have. He can’t earn it, buy it, make it, force it, beg it. Or live without it.
Angrily, he reminds himself that he came here to forget the other universe and everyone in it, and dissolves everything. That moment, the back of his pants explode and he realizes Boom Boom snuck in a timebomb. That sneaky little twerp—
Boom Boom is hitchhiking on Interstate 92 when an expensive car finally stops. Of course, it is the Beyonder. She panics at first but he assures her he is not going to hurt her and drags her in. She asks if he isn’t mad about the bomb she put in his pocket. In response, he fixes her black eye. Now does she believe he isn’t mad? She guesses so and welcomes him back.
142 miles later, Boom Boom is in a better mood and claims she knew he’d come back, even without the time bomb. He’s not ready to quit yet, she can tell. Her neither, although she considered it a few times. Things will be fine once she finds that school for mutants, she knows it. And she’s sure things will work out for him, too. Why doesn’t he find a place to stay near Westchester, so she can visit him once in a while? Who says he’s staying in this universe? He still considers going back. Boom Boom retorts he can’t bail out. It’s just the same as dying. But he’s going to make it. She knows.
Minutes later, the car stops in front of a large building. The Beyonder tells her this is Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, the secret school for mutants she heard rumors about, the headquarters of the X-Men. Confused, Boom Boom asks, but if it’s secret, how did he… He knows whatever he wants to know, the Beyonder explains. Now scoot. Boom Boom stammers how she can get in touch with him. Just yell, he replies. He’ll probably hear her if he’s in the universe. She asks him to wait till she’s in. Okay, okay, he sighs.
She knocks and Peter Rasputin opens the door. She babbles that she is Tabitha, she means Boom Boom. She can make these little time bombs and—Taken aback, he asks if she is sure she has the right house.
Suddenly behind him, Rachel Summers shouts, “it’s the Beyonder!” As if on cue, several X-Men and New Mutants burst out of the building to attack the Beyonder. While the Beyonder yawns, some of them wonder why they are attacking. Because Rachel said so, Shadowcat announces.
The Beyonder decides he really has no time for this, if they’ll excuse him… A forcefield forces them all back from his car and he drives away at top speed.
Rachel orders the others after him, who do as ordered, subconsciously strengthened by her psi-powers, leaving behind a frightened and bewildered Boom Boom. She runs into the woods crying.
A little later, X-Men and New Mutants return after their unsuccessful chase. Rachel defends her actions by pointing out the Beyonder’s insane power level. Wolverine concedes that maybe they should hunt the Beyonder full time, but right now it’s her power that concerns him. He doesn’t like being psionically coerced into anything. Maybe they should have a little talk about that.
Colossus asks about the girl. Why would the Beyonder bring her here? Wolverine insists they settle their internal problem first.
Meanwhile in the woods, Boom Boom shouts her heart out for the Beyonder to come and get her out of here but nothing happens. Finally, she makes a huge timebomb and announces it’s set for thirty seconds. If he doesn’t come back by then, she will quit. The quick way. She begins to count down to zero, but nothing happens. The Beyonder doesn’t come. Maybe he knew she really set it to a minute, she thinks. Or maybe he just doesn’t care. Ten points… She decides she is sick of running. This time she counts down for real.
The bomb explodes but doesn’t hurt her, thanks to the intervention of the Beyonder. Why did he come? she asks. Because she is not ready to quit yet, he can tell, he echoes her earlier words. He admonishes her for the stupid stunt. Boom Boom shoots back she is thirteen. Stupid stunts come with the package. Not that stupid. He tells her to get into the car, which then phases through the trees as it drives through the woods.
She admits that, for a moment there, she was ready to quit. She was really counting on that school, but they scared her, ignored her and ran off trying to kill him. She was so down. She still is. Then the only way is up, he decides and the car flies upwards and finally into space. He tells her he is maintaining a life support system around the car. He has decided the planet is too small for him.
Soon they close in on the world center complex of the Celestials. He explains the Celestial are those really big armored giants. Boom Boom thought those were statues. He admits they don’t move around a lot. Who are they? What do they do? Boom Boom asks. He explains they are one of the universe’s oldest races and they have sort of taken it upon themselves to look after the universe and shepherd its development along.
They land. Other lesser races call them spacegods, he continues. As far as he is concerned, they are just a bunch of big stiffs. He suggests they head down the boardwalk. The Celestials don’t do much but they are impressive-looking, so the spacefaring races in this quadrant have built a tourist trap around them. Sort of like Niagara Falls? Boom Boom asks. Exactly, he agrees.
He treats her to some alien fast food and Boom Boom is amazed at the alien vendor’s deference. He’s heard of the Beyonder? He explains all of the more sophisticated races are aware of his presence. He is the most powerful being in existence. He guesses that makes people nervous. Boom Boom points out the Celestials didn’t even look up when they arrived. Nonsense, he replies forcefully. They’ve thought of nothing else since he’s arrived in this universe. And since he came here, they’ve been absolutely frantic! Boom Boom points out they looked bored to her. She just can’t perceive it with her humans senses. She want more action? Watch!
He flies upwards and into space. Emitting a radiance, he addresses the Celestials and dares them to keep him from destroying the universe, which they are meant to safeguard.
They don’t act and he realizes they know he was bluffing. They are a little more subtle than he thought but they are also fools if they think this universe means a rat whiskers to him. This time he means it: He gives them three seconds, then they can kiss creation goodbye. Three… two… one…
Finally, the Celestials move to attack. He blasts them back, figuring this will look great from the Boardwalk. He takes them out, almost smashing the Boardwalk.
Boom Boom shouts for him to stop. Cheerfully, he joins her and announces they are not hurt, just a little shaken up. Boom Boom calls him crazy. He assures her he was just kidding. No, he wasn’t! she shouts. He meant it! He was going to destroy everything!
Will she relax? he asks annoyed and then apologizes for scaring her. How about if he gives her a little present to make up? Anything she wants. She’s always wanted to be pretty, hasn’t she? He shows her her new face in a mirror. Boom Boom refuses. He decides she secretly wants to be older and ages her to 21. Again, she shouts no. He figures she wishes to be normal and takes away her mutant power. No! she groans. She screams at him to leave her alone. She wants to be back on Earth and she wants him to stay away from her forever!
Annoyed, the Beyonder sends her home. Good riddance to the stupid little twerp, he announces and demands an Earth beer from the bar keeper. As he walks to the car, several aliens discuss his rude behavior and worry for the universe.
The Beyonder wants to cruise the universe but soon is drawn back to Earth. In his mansion in Brazil, he settles down in front of a viewscreen and looks at how Algrim is progressing. In fact, he is still in the ocean, making his way to the US. The Beyonder figures it’s going to be interesting to see what happens once he has fulfilled his desire to kill Thor, which ought to be in a week. What shall he do with himself until then? He turns on the record player, only to find a song by Dazzler playing. Now he’s even more depressed.
Meanwhile in a phone booth in Westchester, Boom Boom liberates some money and uses it to call the Avengers hotline. When she mentions the Beyonder, she is immediately patched through to Avenger leader, Wasp. Boom Boom gives them a short version of her story and mentions she thinks she can get him to show up.
Later at a familiar campsite, Boom Boom shouts for the Beyonder. She needs to talk to him! He immediately appears and tells her he was hoping she’d call. He missed her. How is she? She hugs him and stammers some polite words. He confides he’s been depressed but he has been thinking about her words. You have to go on trying or die… quick or slow. He was almost ready to quit. He’s so glad she called. She’s all he has left.
Suddenly, Boom Boom runs away. A moment later, the powerful timebomb she placed on him explodes. And then both Avengers teams, the Fantastic Four, Dr. Strange and Thor all rush to attack. They pour it on but the Beyonder doesn’t even fight back.
Noticing this, Captain America holds the others back The Beyonder slowly gets up. The heroes wonder what to do. Do they toss him in the slammer? Hawkeye asks. On what evidence? Wonder Man points out, and what prison could hold him?
Cap asks the Beyonder why he doesn’t just return where he came from. Can’t bail out, he mutters. It’s no use. He tried. He wanders off.
Cap hopes he will eventually go home. He wonder what the meaning of the last thing he heard the Beyonder mutter is. “Ten points. I win.” What do they make of that? Strange figures Tabitha might know but she slipped away in the confusion. The Invisible Woman predicts she will turn up again. And so will the Beyonder.


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Life Rules!
Sparta, Illinois:The “one from beyond” goes through all the legal channels to obtain a property lot, gets his building permits and then constructs and builds a futuristic headquarters. He then inspects his handiwork from the inside, the communications center, the garage and hangar, the conference room, the gardens and the den. He is brimming with enthusiasm over starting his new career.
Dave, a reporter, notices the new addition to the skyline and blows off an advertising customer to get there as soon as possible.
In his comm center, the Beyonder sees the Power Pack kids and their alien friend Kofi getting in trouble and decides to intervene.
Dave has just arrived outside and sees him flying away.
In New York, Power Pack have followed Franklin Richards’ precognitive dream to find a certain elevated train which is attacked by the Gang Squids with a Snark laser gun. As it The falls, Alex Power degravitizes the train and the flying Julie tries to push it back onto the rail. Their younger brother Jack notices one of the gangsters aiming the Snark gun at them and Alex orders Jack to create a cloud cover for them.
That moment, the Beyonder arrives, takes out the gangsters and fixes the train. The Power kids thank him. He commends them on their good work and flies away.
Soon he returns to his citadel. Dave, who has been waiting outside, shouts for his attention. He believes he didn’t hear him but suddenly a door automatically opens for him. He hesitantly steps forward. A moment later, a mechanical scoop collects him and his car. Dave is transported to the Beyonder, who greets him and asks what he can do for him. Dave’s questions burst out. Who is he? How does he fly? How did this building get here so quickly?
The Beyonder replies patiently. People call him the Beyonder. He’s a champion of life. He’s from… wait! He manifests a gadget to visually accompany his story. He loves gadgets. He calls this one the mento-projector.
The Beyonder’s story:He narrates his story, accompanied by the images of the projector. He existed in his own universe until a small hole let him see the other universe. Earth fascinates him.
Another image shows him on Park Avenue. He had taken human form to study humans.
Another image shows him depressed after learning of desire but being unable to fulfil it. Then he heard about a sorcerer who might be able to help him. He met Dr. Strange, who showed him the path to enlightenment he himself follows, so the Beyonder might become like him… a champion of life.End of story.
Baffled, Dave asks what that means. The Beyonder lectures him that there is an ongoing struggle between life and death. Ultimately, either all things will die and the universe will reach a state of total entropy or all inhabitants will evolve into immortal godlike beings and death will be vanquished. He is siding with the forces of life. It helps to think of Death as a being who is in constant struggle with other beings that represent life.
On a screen, he shows Dave the representations of some of the cosmic beings: Chaos, Order, Eon and their foe Death. Death has no allies but lovers, such as Mephisto. The In-Betweener divides these forces and is the division between the personifications. Eternity is the sum of all these, the Living Tribunal stands apart and is the judge.
Are those guys for real? Dave asks stupidly. The Beyonder explains that they are conceptual beings. Substantial as an idea, yet powerful beyond imagining. Those were their essences pressed into representational forms that he can relate to.
Dave admits this is over his head but he understood that the Beyonder is out to preserve life. He is one of the good guys! Dave thinks that’s great! He’s always dreamed of doing what the Beyonder is doing. Something noble… important. The heck with journalism! He wants to help him. Here’s what he has in mind…
The next day, Perth, Australia:Huge tsunamis thunders toward the port city Perth, to be dramatically stopped by the Beyonder, who is trying to think of a better battle cry than “for life.” Moments later, he returns to his home / HQ, which is now teeming with people.
Sitting at a comm console, Dave informs him he hired two dozen phone reps this morning. The rest of the people here are clerical, accounting, ad men and media buyers. He gets a call from the governor, who is interested in doing lunch.
Dave turns back to the Beyonder and explains that tomorrow they will be hundred percent operational: A. getting the word out about him, B: screening the calls that will come in and C. prioritize the requests for his help. He has to run to make some arrangements for the press conference. But it’s a great thing, a real purpose in life, isn’t it? The Beyonder agrees. Speaking of which, there is something he must take care of.
Flying off, the Beyonder muses that he doesn’t need the organization any more than his gadgets, but Dave doesn’t need to know that. He’s so happy to have found his purpose. He wonders though if he has really found his. It seems like he should be doing something more.
In a modest apartment in a Denver suburb, Owen Reece aka the Molecule Man returns home from work to find his girlfriend Marsha Rosenberg has already cooked dinner. They kiss and she notices he is upset. Owen shows her a newspaper which shows the Beyonder fighting for life. He’s got the feeling this will lead to trouble and wishes the Beyonder would just relax and keep a low profile. He’s not going to find happiness this way.
He notices the wilting flowers and recalls he wanted to bring her new ones. That moment, they realize dinner is burnt. Despite himself, Owen uses his powers to fix the mess.
Later, they are eating in front of the TV and Marsha realizes something is wrong. She insists he tell her. He relents and explains the Watcher is here. Owen raises his voice, announcing he finds it pretty darn annoying.
Marsha doesn’t understand and Owen demands he make himself visible. The Watcher obeys, though he had hoped Owen would join him on the astral plane so they might converse in private. Turning his back, Owen replies he has no secrets from Marsha. Besides, he is ignoring him. Go away! When he refuses to listen, Marsha offers to listen instead.
The Watcher’s narration:He has watched everything that transpired on Earth. He saw Owen Reece’s humble beginnings. Despite his frailty and timidity, the Watcher saw his potential. Reece grew into a weak, wretched adult, bitter and lonely after his mother’s death, brimming with hatred and fear. One day, there was an accident at the nuclear facility where he worked. A burst of energy didn’t kill him but instead unlocked his inner potential. This was the true birth of Owen Reece, an event that shook the multiverse to its foundations.
Discovering that he had power, Reece renamed himself the Molecule Man and set out to revenge himself on all who had belittled or persecuted him. Instead of realizing his potential, he clung to his petty emotions, like he used to cling to his mother’s aprons. His self-doubts and fears served to deny him his true omnipotence. He subconsciously created artificial limits to his powers. Thus he was vulnerable. The Watcher abandoned his sacred oath never to interfere and, for the sake of the universe, aided the Fantastic Four in subduing him. Then he took him prisoner. The Watcher reinforced his mental blocks to keep him vulnerable.
Eventually, Reece escaped his extradimensional prison and returned to Earth, still a threat, but a relatively minor one. Thus he remained fearful and limited until Doctor Doom broke down the barrier of his mind and for the first time Owen Reece became aware he was the most powerful being in the multiverse.
And now that hat he knows he is mightier than all other beings, he has sought only peace within himself, joy in simple things and the utter happiness of love.
Present:Uatu admits that in one stroke Doom unfettered Owen’s true nature and exposed Uatu’s folly. He was weak and fearful. He should have—
Enough already! Owen interrupts. He tells him nothing important is happening here except dinner and a quiet evening of watching TV. The Watcher admits he needs his aid. The one from beyond has embarked on a most dangerous course. Only Owen can stop him.
Isn’t that breaking his oath again? Owen asks. Uatu explains that all Watchers gathered and decided that action was required to avert the impending catastrophe. He kneels down in front of Owen and begs him to act.
Owen explains he really doesn’t want to get involved. Find someone else. Uatu announces he will try. But without his help, he fears for all existence.
Meanwhile, the Beyonder continues doing good. He brings food to a famine-stricken village in Africa, then saves a child’s life by giving research assistance in a lab in Pennsylvania. Later in another galaxy, he saves a spaceship that has broken down.
Finally, he rejoins Dave at the HQ, who having read the headlines informs him they are a hit. He notes that the Beyonder isn’t as enthusiastic though. The Beyonder admits he doesn’t know what his role is. Dr. Strange is in tune with the multiverse. He knows what to do. He knows his role. For some reason, he hasn’t been able to discern his role. But he must have one or he’ll fall in despair again. He looks at the screen to see trouble in New York…
… namely Kurse attacking Beta Ray Bill. The Beyonder figures Kurse is mistaking Beta Ray Bill for Thor. He muses out loud he should save Bill, especially since he is the one who reanimated Kurse. But right now he is not sure what to do.
As he hesitates, Dave shakes him out of his stupor by announcing they have visitors, namely Captain America and Mister Fantastic. After the two heroes enter, Reed Richard gets straight to the point. They have seen his activities and believe he means well, but where will this lead? Eventually, people will come to rely on him. Their lives will revolve around him. What he’s doing and not doing will be all that matters. Angrily, Cap asks if he understands the concept of freedom. There’s something disconcerting about him taking care of everyone on the planet. Something reminiscent of Big Brother watching. Freedom is the most precious thing a man can have. It must not be compromised.
He understands, the Beyonder replies, but… What? Cap asks. The Beyonder continues there is nothing for him. No place in the universe. No suitable purpose…
Dave gets worried. He puts on the projection helmet to show everyone what he believes the heroes are really thinking: The Beyonder stealing their thunder and becoming the greatest hero of all. He assures them they are in the business of helping people, fighting for life! Only death itself has anything to fear from them. He hopes that’s true, Cap replies.
The Beyonder promises to think over what they said. The heroes leave. Outside they wonder what to do. Cap asks if they should take action. Reed believes in the final analysis it will make no difference. Cap’s gut says to wait and hope for the best.
On his viewscreen, the Beyonder sees that Beta Ray Bill has escaped death at Kurse’s hands by reverting to his civilian (if alien) guise. Indeed, Kurse has lost interest in the unconscious Bill. At least he doesn’t have to make a decision about Kurse yet. Not until he finds the real Thor. Dave impatiently reminds him of the press conference.
Soon, the Beyonder informs the press he just wants to help, not become a Big Brother or-- Dave jumps in, explaining his friend and partner is too modest. Why doesn’t he show them what he can do? The Beyonder briefly levitates everyone in the room.
Dave continues, talking about the struggle between life and death. They are siding with the forces of life and will not stop until death is vanquished. Glowing with energy, the Beyonder agrees. They are going to vanquish Death! Seconds later, the journalists race to write their articles.
The Beyonder thanks Dave for inspiring him. He finally realizes he is bigger than the multiverse. As long as he is here, the way of the multiverse is his way. His presence affects the multiverse a great deal. There’s really only one role worthy for him as a champion of life. He searches around with his powers, then decides that it can be done. It’s a big step and, once it’s done, it’s forever… but he will do it.
Sometime later, Mephisto learns of the Beyonder’s plans. He curses for there is no time left for him to prevent this.
The next day, in an elegant St. Louis restaurant, the Beyonder introduces Dave to Death, or her physical incarnation at least. He informs Dave she is here to have a drink with them. Her last. Once she’s gone, of course, some changes will have to be made. All living things will have to be modified a bit. Predation will be history. So will grazing, for that matter, and fungi will have to change. It’ll take some work but it will be worth it.
He pours a glass of wine and changes it with his power then hands the drink to Death and orders her to drink. Dave asks if he is sure about this.
That moment, Mephisto orders his troop to attack, now that so much of the Beyonder’s power is inside that cup. He asks his beloved Death to set the cup aside, out of the Beyonder’s reach.
Instead of attacking the Beyonder directly, Mephisto goes for Dave and takes him hostage, hoping to get the Beyonder to bargain for his friend’s life. The Beyonder retorts that Mephisto underestimates him. Even a fraction of his power is enough to blow apart his horde, get Mephisto to submit and free Dave. Dave is almost hysterical and figures whatever Mephisto tries to prevent must be good.
That moment, the Watcher and the Elders of the Universe appear and ask for an audience. The In-Betweener remarks that Mephisto was right. Without Death, life will lose all meaning.
Dave figures they just want to keep on sparring with Death at the expense of the lesser beings. They are the real champions of life. They know what to do and are going to do it.
Eternity steps forth. It is his destiny that is being considered. He would have the cup pass from Death, please. Dave is sorry but his mind is made up. They are conceptual entities, not even real. They can’t conceive of what death is to actual beings.
Dave hands Death the cup. The Beyonder warns him there is a lot of his power in there. Once this is done, he won’t have enough power to undo it. Dave doesn’t see the problem.
And Death drinks… and crumbles to dust. Mephisto screams in despair. The powers of the universe sense the absence of Death rippling through the ether like a shockwave.
At that moment in the Molecule Man’s home, Marsha wonders when he replaced the flowers. Owen Reece examines them. Those are the flowers that were already wilted, he pronounces. Horrified, he realizes what happened and teleports away.
To reappear at the Beyonder’s side. He politely tells the presences he’d like to speak to the Beyonder and his friend alone. The powers comply and Owen asks the Beyonder why.
He explains that fighting on the side of life meant vanquishing Death. It was the only role big enough for him. Now nothing can die! Reece spits. With all his power, he can’t even kill that rose, he demonstrates.
The Beyonder doesn’t see anything wrong with that. Owen asks why he should bother watering it or even eat. Why bother with anything? It’s over. There’s nothing left to do. The Beyonder brought them their destiny and they are stuck with it Angrily, he teleports away.
Dave realizes what they have done. He shakes the Beyonder and begs him to bring Death back. The Beyonder insists he can’t. The only way would be killing someone and that’s beyond his power now. Dave can’t believe that. The Beyonder amends, maybe if some sentient creature were willing… to become Death. For, from that, death it would rise again.
Dave realizes he always wanted to be somebody. He tells the Beyonder to do it. The Beyonder kills him and he turns into Death… and then disappears.
Later, the Beyonder destroys his HQ, considering that part of his life over. He still has to find a role for himself. He figures maybe he can help a little, be a champion for life with one hand tied behind his back, sort of. He realizes that he is exhausted.