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She-Hulk a.k.a. Jennifer Walters tells herself that in the vast oceans of their world, isolated from the forbidden nations of Battleworld, there is an island. It is called Arcadia. Red roofs and friendly dogs, green hills and water blue as heartache. There are bells at down and bells at dusk, rising towers of stone and silver, clay and chrome. It is its people – the good, the bad and all the resto f them...heroes and villains. Family and friends. In the shadow of the shield, with the sun on the sea – there is an island. Tonight, Arcadia is going to fall. Under a darkened sky, She-Hulk stands with her close teammates in A-Force – Alison “Dazzler” Blaire, Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel and Nico Minoru a.k.a. Sister Grimm, along with the mysterious being called Singularity. Dazzler motions to the Shield, a barrier that cuts through the ocean, now with a large gaping hole through it, and exclaims 'Loki – Loki broke the Shield! The dead are coming through!' She-Hulk turns as someone else calls out 'Let them come', and she sees Sif, Valkyrie and Gamora of the Thor Corps, flanked by Tigra, the Enchantress, Angela, Domino, Clea, Misty Knight, Sera, Clea, Moonstar and Snowbird, as Gamora raises her sword and shouts 'ARCADIA WILL ANSWER!'
She-Hulk turns to the other heroes, and raises her arms as she addresses them: 'People of the island... we have been given a paradise. This is our home. A beacon amid all the darkness of Battleworld'. She hangs her head and admits that she allowed herself to be misled, and failed to be worthy of Arcadia. She looks back up at the women and announces that she will not fail to be worthy of them. She declares that anyone who rises today will be counted among A-Force, will be known, now and always, as a heroine of Arcadia. 'I ask you now, all who are worthy, all who are willing... A-Force... ASSEMBLE' She-Hulk cries out, as zombies emerge from the Deadlands beyond the Shield. As the first wave of zombies appear, several heroes move forward for the first attack. Captain Marvel leads the way, followed by She-Hulk, Dazzler, Singularity and Nico. With them are Stature, Elektra, the Black Cat, Psylocke, Moondragon, Sif and the Winter Soldier.
Another wave of zombies pushes forward through the city, growling and roaring, while on the water's edge, Crystal and Meggan use their vast elemental abilities to create a large wave which knocks dozens of zombies backwards.
'Sushi, anyone?' Namor asks as he smacks a zombie through the air. 'Gross, Namor. Gross' Namora tells him as she punches a zombie in the face. Nearby, someone cries out to the female Hawkeye and Hulkling for help as a zombie grabs her. 'Is that supposed to scare me, you “Walking Dead” reject?' Hakweye asks as she shoves her bow through a zombie's face, then fires an arrow into the head of the zombie who has grabbed the woman, declaring that in Arcadia, they are better than their weapons. Luke Cage holds his daughter tightly, while Jessica Jones kicks a zombie's head right off its shoulders. Sera and Angela fight side-by-side, as Sera slices a zombie in two and remarks 'The weapons don't hurt, though. Well, they do. Well, not us. Ugh, you know what I mean, Angela'. Angela lashes out with a chain which tears a zombie's head right off, and tells Sera that she knows exactly what she means.
'Get outta here, Boogerface!' Molly Hayes exclaims as Colossus and Kitty Pryde stand on either side of her, and lift her up as she kicks a zombie in the face. Nearby, Mary-Jane screams as a zombie looms close to her, but before she is harmed, Spider-Gwen swings down on a some webbing and pulls her to safety, they swing through the air, 'Didn't doubt your friendly neighborhood Spider-Gwen, did you, MJ?' she asks. 'Oh, my hero' Mary Jane gushes. As Captain Marvel flies up between several zombies, knocking them aside, the young Ms Marvel – Kamala – calls out to her and the original Spider Woman: 'You guys, I just have to say, in case we, you know, die -', while she punches a zombie in the face, 'Eyes front, Kamala!' Spider-Woman exclaims as she wraps her leg around a zombie's neck, '- this is so much better than my fanfiction!' Kamala concludes. 'If we make it out alive, I've got fic recs for you!' Dazzler sings as she casts brilliant light towards her opponents. Lucy with Diamonds in the Sky fights alongside her, as does Jubilee, who blasts some fireworks forward and exclaims 'Y'know, “Night of the Living Dead” looks a lot better in Technicolor!' X-23 shoves her claws into a zombie and tells Jubilee to keep the Romero. 'We'll take the Kurosawa' she declares, as Mariko Yashida slices a zombie's head off nearby.
'Yes, yes, you'll all be incredibly useful at a Trivia Night' Black Widow mutters as she fires her gun at a zombie, blasting it in half. 'If we make it to a trivia night' Mockingbird points out as she fires her guns. 'Last one with an empty clip picks up the bar tab we're gonna need' Sharon Carter declares as she opens fire, too. Nearby, Elektra and Psylocke battle the same zombie, with Elektra slicing off its head and an arm, and Psylocke its torso. 'Get into some arm wrestling with She-Hulk, then a drinking contest with – well, everyone' Elektra comments. 'Vodka. Ouzo. Sake. The tears of our enemies' she declares. 'Sounds like a real double-header, Elektra' Psylocke replies, before a zombie looms over her. Rescue blasts her zombie opponents, while Dusty announces that the zombies are to ofar into the city – they are nearly at the school. On the steps of the school, Storm, Jean Grey, the Scarlet Witch, Emma Frost and Firestar defend the grounds against the ever-approaching horde, while Nightcrawler teleports onto the roof to deposit two students.
The zombie horde continue their savagely relentless attack, several start to tear at Black Bolt, while  Armor extends her force field to protect herself from a swarm that have gathered around here. 'There are too many!' Gertrude York cries out as she rides on the back of Old Lace through the battlezone. A large zombie Hulk rampages towards Spectrum, who stands her ground, raising her hand, she blasts a surge of energy through the zombie's stomach, while Monet looks on behind her. 'Got you covered, girl' Spectrum smiles as she and Monet clasp hands, and nearby, Gambit throws a kinetically-charged card into a horde of zombies.
Near the water's edge, Nico finds herself up against a cliff, with zombies shuffling towards her. She looks back to the water as a huge monstrous shark bursts out of the water. Nico narrows her eyes. 'For Medusa. For America' she exclaims as she uses her staff to cast some energy, 'Nico' Singularity exclaims as she swoops down and gabs Nico, pulling her to safety as the shark chomps down on the zombies. Singularity flies over the city, 'Bad. So bad' she remarks to Nico. They look down to a rooftop and seev Angela and Sera and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage battling more zombies. 'Smile. Fight. Feel. Give', while more zombies climb the wall of the building. 'Forgive' she adds. Nico looks confused, before the mysterious being whispers something into Nico's ear. 'What's that? S...Singularity? Your name is Singularity?' Nico grins, as Singularity kisses Nico on the cheek. Singularity then comes to a stop, dropping Nico down near She-Hulk and Captain Marvel. 'Friends!' she exclaims, while Carol calls out to Nico.
Suddenly, Singularity flies towards the massive zombie horde. 'Singularity! No!' Nico exclaims, while blue energy radiates from Singularity, 'Going. Going' she utters as the zombies and shark are struck by the energy. 'Gone!' Singularity declares as the energy spirals upwards into the darkened sky. 'Singularity!' Nico screams. 'Stop her, stop her, please!' she calls out. She-Hulk holds Nico back, while Dazzler and Captain Marvel rush forward. 'Not her too!' Nico utters, when suddenly, there is a blinding light as the energy explodes in the sky above Arcadia. 'Goodbye' Singularity calls out, as from the explosion, sparkling stars fall from the sky, down towards the damaged city of Arcadia. Carol and She-Hulk both have tears in their eyes as they, Dazzler and nico look upwards. 'Saved... she saved us' Nico utters, as tears well up in her eyes, too. She-Hulk embraces Nico, while nearby, Tigra, Kamala, Spider-Gwen, the Black Cat and several others can be seen rejoicing in the defeat of the zombies.
Later, before the headquarters of A-Force, Loki kneels in front of Sif, Gamora and Valkyrie, while She-Hulk stands nearby and declares 'Here is the one who violated the first law. Here is the one who brought all this madness down on us'. 'Seize the traitor!' Gamora calls out. 'Jennifer...' says to She-Hulk. 'Tell... tell Nico I love her. Tell her I am going to see America again' Loki declares, before she is surrounded by the three female members of the Thor Corps, as a brilliant light washes over them, and Gamora gives She-Hulk a warning: 'Your losses are your punishment. This is the price of your freedom'. Believe me, Gamora' She-Hulk replies. 'No one knows that price so well as Arcadia'.
Two days later, the clean-up has begun. Commander Steve Rogers and Hulkling carry large beams, while Spider-Woman and Spider-Gwen swing about picking up debris. Namor, Emma Frost, the Black Widow and Kamala can also be seen assisting.
At Loki's house, She-Hulk arrives and is greeted by Nico, who tells her that she is sorry for not answering her message, but she can't be around people right now. Jennifer follows Nico up into her room, and tells her that there is no need to apologize. Nico holds her cat and remarks that the house is so queit, with America gone, Loki gone and Singularity gone, it is just she and the cat, and all the photos and all the ssad music America wouldn't want her to play. She wipes her tears as she remarks that they got Singularity killed. 'She trusted us. Loved us. And we got her killed'. She-Hulk touches the bow that Singularity had wrapped around her wrist and replies 'I don't believe that'. Eyes wide, Nico swings around: 'You don't believe -' she begins, but She-Hulk explains that she doesn't believe that Singularity is gone. She sits down beside Nico and puts an arm around her, 'Just as Medusa lived on in Singularity...her lesson endured in that girl, even to the very end. She was herself, and what we taught her. What we made her. And what she made us'.
'And what is that?' Nico asks, still crying. 'Better' She-Hulk smiles. She stands up and holds out a hand. Nico stands up and walks alongside She-Hulk as she declares that they will build a better world because of her – a true paradise. 'An A-Force, an Arcadia, worthy of its people. And of its heroines'.
She-Hulk thinks to herself that in the endless tides of space, between galaxies that shine like diamonds and pearls, threaded with twisting nebulas, and shining, bright and burning with falling stars... there is a girl. She is sweetness and courage, defiance and sacrifice, giving and forgiving...the little thing on which all their lives once hinged. A heroine, forever and for always. And wherever, whenever, who and whatever she is, or was, or chooses for herself to be...in the heart of that girl... there is an island.
In the star-filled sky above, purple and blue colors glow, and within them a figure of a starry-blue girl can be seen... and she smiles.


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Space, specifically low-orbit around Earth, where the Alpha Flight Space Station currently hovers. There is a brilliant blue and purple glow that breaks the dark sky, and from it, a starry being emerges. Her name is Singularity, and she thinks to herself that birth is violence. Pain, happiness, sometimes they get mixed up, and sometimes you can't unmix them. 'Sometimes you don't even want to' Singularity tells herself, remembering that this is what they taught her in Arcadia – the only home she has ever known. 'This, and lots of other stuff besides' Singularity thinks. She wakes and remembers friends. 'I had friends'. Images flash through her mind, firstly of Nico, who showed her what love means – and heartbreak. Of She-Hulk, bravery, strength and fairness. Then Dazzler, who was full of life, ready to laugh and to question everything. Of Captain Marvel – Carol – who does whatever needs to be done for the good of the team. And finally, Queen Medusa – who represented leadership and sacrifice. 'They were my friends. They were A-FORCE' Singularity recalls.
Looking around the starry expanse surrounding her, Singularity realizes that this is not that world. She somehow knows that world is gone. She reaches out, and looks for something familiar. Turning to the Alpha Flight Space Station, she finds it – and closer than she thought.
Inside the Alpha Flight Space Station, Colonel Carol Danvers a.k.a. Captain Marvel stands before several monitors, arms folded and frowning. 'What am I looking at, Dr Bell? Should we be preparing for another attack?' she asks Dr Tempest Bell, who holds a hot drink and stands nearby, mouth dropped, she tells Captain Marvel that she doesn't know, and that the thing out there shouldn't be possible. 'It's an event, a quantum singularity. There's no reason it should have a humanoid appearance. It shouldn't have an appearance at all. Pensively, Carol replies that it doesn't look like an event to her – it looks like a girl. Suddenly, a blue energy glows in the command centre, 'Huh?' Carol asks, before Singularity emerges from the portal, 'Friend!' she exclaims. 'Singularity is here!' Carol looks confused, 'What the -?' she asks as Singularity wraps her arms around Carol. 'Safe! You're safe! You're safe!' Singularity repeats, while Dr Bell drops her hot drink in shock. 'Safe and stunned' Carol remarks, before asking Singularity 'Who are you?' and telling her that she doesn't think they have ever met. 'You don't remember?' Singularity enquires.
Singularity looks forlorn as the realization that Carol doesn't remember her sinks in. 'Met. Fought. Helped. Friend' Singularity announces. She is frightened, and looks over at Dr Bell, who picks up the broken mug, and asks 'Friend?' Dr Bell glances sideways at Singularity, 'Oh, uh – sure. Yes, I'll be your friend. A friend with a lot a lot of questions'.
Singularity wonders if she helps, whether Carol will remember. 'Here!' she grins, waving her hand, the coffee and the broken mug rise into the air. 'Wow. Okay' Dr Bell remarks. 'Coffee!' Singularity grins as the broken mug and the coffee is drawn into her form. 'This is amazing! This is incredible. She's absorbed the liquid and solid matter through some kind of osmosis -' Dr Bell begins, before there is a loud rumbling noise, and everyone is knocked about. Carol turns to the space station staff in the control room and asks for a status report. 'That was a massive electromagnetic pulse. It's wiped out comms, shields -' a crew member announces, while Dr Bell reports that the antimatter well that they neutralized earlier is re-forming, and getting bigger.
Captain Marvel orders the airlock prepared and announces that she is going out. She asks to be kept updated on repairs, and for CentCom and SHIELD to be notified. But as Carol walks down a corridor, Singularity rushes after her: 'Wait! Carol!' she calls out, grabbing Carol by her arm, she tells her to stay, to remember. Dr Bell follows her, and Carol asks her to keep Singularity under surveillance until she gets back. 'Until we know what she is and where she's from, we can't risk letting her go'.
Singularity decides that it is no use. 'Friend -' she begins, as Dr Bell puts an arm on her shoulder and tells her that it is going to be okay. She suggests they get out of the way for a minute so people can do their jobs. Singularity thinks to herself that as Captain Marvel doesn't remember, something is very wrong. Singularity feels weak – she wants to leave, these aren't her friends after all. 'Help. Please' she tells Dr Bell, trying to break away, but Dr Bell holds her and tells her that there is no reason to panic, nobody is going to hurt her. 'Must leave now. Please help' Singularity repeats herself – she can feel the thing outside. Dr Bell helps Singularity to walk, arm around her shoulder, she explains that Colonel Danvers wants her to stay here until she returns, before announcing that she would like to run some tests.
'No tests, I -' Singularity begins, before thinking about that thing outside, the thing they called Antimatter – the thing that hurt this space station. 'You – you are pain -' the strange fiery orange and red creature outside the space station cries out. It is in Singularity's head. 'Must go! Must go!' she exclaims as she pulls away from Dr Bell and starts to run. 'But – hey. Hey!' Dr Bell exclaims as she runs after Singularity, who is headed for the airlock. 'Wait! Stop! Nobody's gonna hurt you! I promise!' Dr Bell calls out to her. Singularity sees a panel marked “Life Support Pod A”, and decides that is what she wants – support. 'This button?' she wonders as she slams her hand against a panel, and the door to the life support pod slides open. 'No, no! No! Don't -' Dr Bell exclaims, while Singularity gasps 'Oh!' before taking a seat in the pod. She doesn't know what it is, but is pleased that it has a door that closes. Dr Bell is running towards the door, and warns Singularity that she is going to shoot herself out into space. 'That's an escape pod! It has an autolaunch sequence – stop! You have no idea what's out there!' she exclaims, but the door to the life support pod closes before Dr Bell can do anything else. 'Good' Singularity thinks to herself.
Captain Marvel appears in between the space station and the strange being composed of antimatter. The life support pod is ejected from the space station, and Singularity thinks to herself that Carol faces the thing outside alone. She wonders what Antimatter is, and why it is in her head. 'i'm afraid' Singularity admits to herself, wondering if she can be brave, while Captain Marvel, energy bursting around one of her fists, flies towards Antimatter. Singularity tells herself that Carol is brave, just like she remembers. 'She is the same, but she doesn't remember me' she decides. But as Carol and Antimatter collide, Carol is knocked backwards, and slams into the side of the life support pod. 'What am I if she doesn't remember? Am I the same?' Singularity wonders, reaching out and looking for something familiar when suddenly, the life support pod computer announces that autopilot is disengaged and manual piloting is enabled. 'I drive?' Singularity exclaims, as the pod careens towards Earth. Singularity can feel it on the planet below her, not one something, but many somethings. 'They are concentrated here' she tells herself, as she tries to make the little ship go towards them.
And as Singularity arrives on Earth, the life support pod clips the top of a tower in New Attilan, on the border of New York and New Jersey. On the streets nearby, civilians look up, 'It's a firework!' one of them shouts. 'It's a missile!' another exclaims. 'It's -' a cab driver begins, before the pod comes to a stop, and a hissing sound can be heard as the door starts to open. 'Whoa!' a man and a woman utter as they stare at the pod with wide eyes. 'Do you think we should, like, call somebody?' the man asks. 'Before or after we Instagram this thing?' the woman enquires. As the doors finally open, Singularity emerges, and the woman exclaims 'Oh my gosh! It's so cute!' to which the man suggests that it might be the sole surviving member of an advanced alien race sent across the galaxy by its grieving parents to fulfil its destiny on Earth as a force for truth and justice. 'Maybe we should adopt it!' he adds. The woman frowns and glances sideways as she replies 'No way. Child-free, remember? We agreed'.
Suddenly: 'Look out!' Singularity shouts as she points upwards – to where the mysterious Antimatter is careening towards them. Singularity grabs the man and the woman and shoves them to safety as Antimatter crashes nearby. Singularity looks up at the fiery red form and realizes that it followed her here, and wonders why. 'You...hurt. Little thing...you burn...' Antimatter declares, while Singularity feels her energy bleeding away. She tells herself that she must be strong, must fight it – she must protect these people. Raising her hand, Singularity seems to cast some energy towards Antimatter, who cries out as it strikes him. 'It hurts' Singularity thinks to herself, before Antimatter exclaims 'Terrible darkness – I will send you...away!' and he releases red energy, which smashes into some nearby cars, tossing them into the air, Singularity dives to the ground to avoid being struck by them. 'It hurts to hurt it' Singularity tells herself, while calling out 'Stop! Stop!' and realizing that her strength is fading. Singularity gathers what strength is left, and looks for one of the familiar things. She opens a portal, and knows that she is in the right place.
At that moment, Jennifer Walters a.k.a. the She-Hulk folds her arms as she stands before a man whom she addresses as Jerry. 'You know what I think? I think this settlement offer is a joke' Jen tells him, announcing that they are ready to take this to trial. 'If you think you can just steamroll us because -' she begins, when suddenly, she glances sideways as a glowing blue portal appears in the room. She-Hulk tells Jerry that he should run, so he gets up from his desk and starts to move out of the office, while Singularity pokes her head through the portal, 'Jennifer!' she exclaims. She moves through the portal and it closes as she wraps her arms around the slightly confused She-Hulk. 'Wow! Hi! Hey! Do I know you?' She-Hulk enquires. Singularity realizes that She-Hulk doesn't remember her either, and simply asks her for help. Suddenly, a blast of energy rips through the office. 'This is bad' Singularity tells herself as she and Jennifer shield themselves from the explosion.
She-Hulk's suit is ruined in the explosion: 'Great. I just bought this suit' she complains. 'Clothes are silly' Singularity tells her. 'I mostly agree' She-Hulk responds, before they look at the gaping hole in the building and see Antimatter hovering before them. 'I will find you... I will erase you...' Antimatter calls out.
'Did you bring this little thing here, little blue friend?' She-Hulk asks. 'Yes. Sorry' Singularity responds. She-Hulk asks her if she has any idea how to fight it, to which Singularity replies that she doesn't. 'Lovely' She-Hulk mutters as she throws a chair at Antimatter, but it just bounds off him. Antimatter's form increases and he reaches down and grabs She-Hulk in his hand. 'You – don't get to do that!' She-Hulk tells him. 'Resilient. High pain threshold. Innate regenerative powers. Resistant to heat, cold -' Antimatter begins, before She-Hulk screams and manages to force his hand off of her – which results in her plummeting from the tall building towards the ground.
'How irritating' Antimatter remarks, rubbing his wrist. 'Jennifer! No!' Singularity calls out. She opens a portal and moves through it, re-appearing on the ground, she opens her arms, and grins as she catches She-Hulk, who lands in them, surprised. 'Gotcha!' Singularity grins. 'Th-thanks' Jennifer smiles. 'Welcome!' Singularity exclaims.
The very tall Antimatter looms over Singularity and She-Hulk and tells them that they are fools, that their lives are small, and yet they cling to them. 'You offend me...your noise, your chaos...' he remarks. 'I don't think he likes us, little blue friend' She-Hulk tells Singularity, who replies 'It's bad'. She-Hulk starts to run and tells Singularity to distract it, as she is going for its legs. 'Okay!' Singularity calls back, while wondering what She-Hulk meant. She creates a bubble of energy, 'Is this what she means? I hope that's what she means' Singularity thinks to herself as she casts the bubble towards Antimatter, while She-Hulk readies a punch: 'Get outta New York, you giant bug light -' She-Hulk shouts, before Antimatter knocks her back with a surge of energy, slamming her into a truck.
Singularity rushes over, 'Jennifer!' she calls out, while She-Hulk rubs her head and remarks that she doesn't think the two of them can fight this thing alone. 'I agree. You destroyed a very expensive communications tower in my city, you brought this creature to the doorstep of my people...' someone calls out. Singularity goes wide-eyed, 'That voice' she gasps, and looks over to see Queen Medusa, flanked by an army of New Attilan's soldiers. '...clearly you can't begin to handle this on your own' Medusa points out. Singularity remembers watching Medusa die to save their friends, but here, she is whole, alive. 'You're alive!' Singularity thinks to herself. Medusa strides towards She-Hulk and Singularity. 'If this entity is what the creature attacking us wants...' Medusa begins, while Singularity grins 'Friend!', but Medusa ignores her. Clamping restraints around Singularity's wrists, she announces that should give her to the creature!


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The Progenitor is carrying out its judgment on Earth. A small team of heroes, mutants and Eternals – Ajak, Makkari, Sersi, Iron Man, Jean Grey, Wolverine and Mr. Sinister – are making their way into the Progenitor’s body to get to its self-destruct mechanism.
He hates to say this, Tony Stark announces, but for an Avengers/ Eternals and X-Men get-together? This Avenger is feeling distinctly outnumbered.
Sersi and Wolverine remind him they used to be Avengers. Mr. Sinister suggests, if Stark is on a recruitment drive, he’d consider joining up. Now that Thor’s dead, is there a cloak closet he can rummage through? Some kind of supplement to pay for a new look? Wolverine shoots him a warning glance. Iron Man snaps that creature killed Thor! It killed Carol! It killed who knows how many! Steve is out there trying to hold things together! The world is dying, and Sinister will not make jokes about his dead friends!
Sinister reminds Stark that they built this, the Eternals, Sinister and Stark. And it is based on Stark’s nervous system. So it’s all their fault his Avengers chums are dead, because they are all such terrible scientists, priests – or in Stark’s case – people. Now he’s made himself incapable of feeling bad about anything – perhaps Stark can stop trying to offload his anger onto him and they can get on with saving the world, hm? Annoyed, Stark mutters, he is right.
It’s what he does, Sinister replies, then wonders aloud, what is the best route to the self-destruct node? The spinal lift, he’d say. Stark agrees. Ajak interjects that there is a problem. Their god is newly flushed with its power. It is too heavy for reality. Its will and whim will warp all paths. She must discern the route. This is a pilgrimage. A bloody one. But a pilgrimage, nevertheless.
Jean agrees. She can sense the psychic heaviness. It’s pressing down on them all. Without her, it would crush them all alive. Wolverine suggests the Eternals get him to the right place, and he will solve any problem that involves sticking claws into things. Looks like some claw time incoming, Stark warns as monstrous creature come attacking.
What the hell are they? Wolverine demands. Sinister explains they are Celestial antibodies. He whips out some pheromones, which he had used for disguise when he first plundered the Dreaming Celestial. He is sure they will allow them to pass safely. They do not and the antibodies attack him. Plan B! Sinister shouts. Stab them, Logan!
Jean Grey commands the Eternals, telepathically to attack the Celestial.
Joining the attack, Iron Man skeptically asks, Sinister is a genius right? Jean explains he is. He just says stupid things to show off. She understands a lot of geniuses do that, she smiles. Iron Man warns her that he has a bad habit of being attracted to redheads who are mean to him.
Ajak and Makkari have finally found the way onward and steer the group into a small passage. Ajak warns them to step carefully. Anything could be a trap.
Several flying green platelets attach themselves to Iron Man and begin destroying his faceplate, while the others try to help,
Iron Man’s mind is suddenly somewhere else.
Iron Man’s psychic plane:
Tony finds himself in a cave and sees the body of the slain Yinsen Ho on the ground. He notes Yinsen has been slain by a repulsor blast. It wasn’t like that, he mutters. It wasn’t, yet it was, the Progenitor, dressed in a ruined version of the first crude Iron Man armor tells him. Yinsen was the first to die for him. The first to die for the suit. Yinsen kept him alive and the armor kept him alive. Was it worth it? Would it be better for everyone if the suit just killed him?
Other versions of his armor appear announcing: because he keeps on making suits and people keep on dying… look at where he is today. One final suit. A giant god armor that he is inside and it’s going to kill the whole planet.
Tony tries to fight back as they swarm him. He snaps. Can it with the psychodrama! He knows this is bad and he knows this is kinda his fault. But it’s not over yet. They are Avengers. Steve is relying on him and he is not going to let him down!
The scenery changes. He sees Captain America’s body lying on a slab. He wakes to snarl at Tony that he could be dead already. He could be dead again and Tony may as well have killed him. Because he was wrong and he was weak!
Not that he’s any better when he is strong! comes the voice from an armor behind him – James Rhodes aka War Machine. Look at what Tony did to him, when he was strong. Snapped his neck like it was nothing. Like he was nothing, but Tony was the Iron God.
Tony apologizes and tells him to hold still. Rhodey continues, he can do this to people and make them all as good as new. He tears off his head and hands it to Tony. The head continues that Tony can patch him up, but he can’t take back the fact that he did it in the first place. They’ll always know.
Another voice calls him a little mortal and chides him he will never learn. He made another god with his small science? Thor tells him he tried it with him and saw what happened. He will never learn. But the truth? Right now a god was needed. Tony was the Iron God… and gave it up. If he were still the Iron God, he could have fought the Celestial, returned all to life, undone all woe, if only he had held it together for a few more weeks!
Tony sinks to the ground and whimpers, it was too much for him. It was too much for anyone.
He is right. He could never have held it together, comes a new voice. Men like him are killing the planet slowly. At least this cuts to the chase. He’s off the booze and he is addicted to saving the world – bigger risk, bigger high. How fine can he cut it? Bruce Banner’s eyes begin to glow green as he tells Tony, eventually he was always going to cut it too close. He makes him so angry! the Hulk tells him and hits him, as does Thor. He gets it, Tony states. Who is the strongest one? He knows, it’s not him. It’s never him!
Pepper Potts appears behind him and ironically lauds his self-awareness. Never seems to make much of a difference. They’ve all seen it before, Black Widow continues. The mechanisms of Iron Man taken apart and then reassembled, time and time over. But the machine never quite works. He can reassemble the Tony suit as many times as he wants, Pepper continues. Doesn’t matter, when he is missing pieces.
And look at the gap, his current girlfriend Patsy Walker aka Hellcat purrs. Narcissism. Desire for attention, ego, addiction. Is that all there is?
Tony states it is not her, but it is really reminding him of Patsy. They are both very mean, he kind of likes it. Hellcat points out that, with Whitney Frost-shaped exceptions, he is attracted to parental figures who provide a strong moral compass, because his is absolutely whacked. Weird quirk. She wonders where it comes from.
Suddenly, Tony finds himself in the backseat of a car driven by his father Howard Stark. Maria Stark is in the seat next to him. He realizes this is the car accident that took his parents’ lives. He doesn’t want to see this! he shouts.
The accident happens. Yet here we are, the Progenitor replies.
Tony suddenly crouches outside the car. He admits he’d always hoped it was an assassination or that his parents had faked their deaths. That’s what orphans do. They make up stories that give a bit of drama… of reason. But it was just a car crash. People die for no reason at all.
The Progenitor replies, he is wrong. There was a reason: they died because a machine failed them. If only they had been in a better machine. A machine that had protected them in this hell world. Machines make people powerful but, when the machine isn’t good enough, it takes away the people you love. The Progenitor is the ultimate machine, taking away things anyone ever loved. It is a car crash on a planetary scale. “What now, my flawed engineer?” it asks Tony.
“For a start ignore you, you weirdo,” Tony replies and begins to work on what he thinks are controls. The Progenitor asks, if he thinks all it is, is mechanical. That he can access its controls, subvert it? Maybe it’s not mechanical or electronic. Maybe it’s psychic. Perhaps it is reality control. Why persist? None of this work may make a difference.
But it might, Tony stubbornly insists, not noticing that a figure walks toward him from the car. And if he works hard enough, nobody else has to die in a */&% car crash!
A hand touches his shoulder and a voice calls him “son.” People die, Howard Stark / the Progenitor tells him. He was a terrible father. They wanted him so badly and, when they had him, Howard still wasn’t great. They did a number on him and then they left him. They had so much they wanted to tell him and share and show. Yet Tony keeps on going. Howard wouldn’t have. Most people wouldn’t. A broken machine keeps on ticking away. Tony’s too hard on himself. He passes. He couldn’t be prouder of him. Tony cries in relief…
…And snaps back to reality. Where a concerned Sersi hovers over him. They lost him for a moment. Seeing his tears, Sersi asks if it was torturing him. Yes, no… yes, but he’s great! Tony stammers. His dad. He said Tony was all he could have hoped for! That is a relief, Mr. Sinister snarks. The world is ending, but Tony Star has made up with his mean old dad. Stark calls him an idiot. Doesn’t he get it? It was testing him. And if it’s testing him, it’s still testing them. And if it is still testing them… he puts on his helmet… they are going to pass! And they are going to save everyone!


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Deep within the body of the Progenitor:Jean Grey, incandescent with rage, uses her psychic energy to utterly destroy the antibodies barring their way. Get the hell out of their way! she orders. They haven’t got all day! Iron Man mutters that he thought she wasn’t the Phoenix anymore. Wolverine replies that she is still Jean, and Jean was all the fire anyone ever needed. She’ll calm down.Ajak hopes she doesn’t. She consults her map and believes they are making good progress. Mr. Sinister scoffs. Save him from priests and their beliefs. Don’t give them belief! Give them facts! Give them empirical evidence! Give them something they can use! As the others run ahead, Makkari signs she still has the gag they used on Sinister somewhere, and Ajak laughs. Sinister demands to know what she signed. He refuses to be mocked by somebody who isn’t even wearing epaulets!They reach a larger space but more antibodies are incoming. Ajak states she needs time to ascertain their course. Sersi tells Jean the constructs are rubbing up against the First Principle. The Eternal can’t fight them, unless she… Jean telepathically allows Sersi, Makkari and Ajak a Principle bypass and orders them to kick their asses. The two priests attack.Iron Man addresses Sersi. He gets why the priests are here. They built this thing. He gets Sinister – he’s a weirdo expert. He gets Wolverine, sneaking, stabbing and Jean’s support animal. And he gets Jean, as if anyone could say no - but why is she here?As the two fight antibodies, Sersi tartly reminds him that they were having lunch together and then he had his friends beat her up and kidnap her, remember? He accuses her of deflecting. Sharply, she snaps that she represents the Eternals. Ajak and Makkari are priests and are not entirely trusted. Why should they trust her? Iron Man asks. She failed her test. Why did she fail? Sersi looks down and remembers.Flashback:She remembers arguing with Ikaris. Sersi implored him not to tell the humans that one of them always dies when an Eternal is automatically resurrected. How can he not? Ikaris shoots back. He is meant to guard humans. He died protecting them so many times. And each time he did, he… They have to know.Sersi begs him to think, even though it is not in his nature. The Eternals would have to live with this forever. Even if they could find a way to remove their immorality, the sin would still be there. They would never be heroes again. Good, is his reply. They aren’t heroes. Angrily, she tells him he is making the choice for all Eternals. He can’t choose a punishment for everyone!Ikaris teleports away.Seris telepathically contacts Eternal criminal-for-hire Jack-of-Knives and asks if they are looking for work. Well, she has a friend whom she needs to trick into staying quiet about a certain inconvenient truth…Present:Instead of telling Stark this, Sersi lashes out: he passed because a malfunctioning attempt at a god decided he did. It is based on Tony’s nervous system. Clearly, he is narcissistic enough to pass himself.He retorts his narcissism is cut with a healthy dose of self-loathing. And she is deflecting again.Sersi destroys the anti-bodies that snuck up behind him and states she was deflecting the floating things that were about to kill him. Can they get a move on? she demands. She is getting tired and if they manage to save the world, she’ll have to segue straight into organizing a “we saved the world” party.The battle currently over, she apologizes. She is frustrated and surprised it judged the Eternals at all. They are creatures of scripture and coding. They are compelled. What choices do they ultimately have? Makkari signs the Scripture can be interpreted. It can judge them on their interpretation, and it did. She failed. Sersi asks who still has an outstanding test. He does, Sinister reveals. He is sure it is saving the best for last. Ajak remarks it started her judgment and stopped. She awaits its final verdict.Wolverine warns that more antibodies are coming and Jean suggests maybe Ajak’s test is to get them to the center of this reality-warping maze from hell. Which way? But Ajak seems to be in a trance.The astral plane:Addressing Ajak as its priest, the Progenitor, now in the form of a healthy Celestial instead of its Frankenstein form, stands at the top of a maze. It asks if she believes it can be this. Ajak believes so. Then walk the path to it, it instructs her. Ajak walks up a stairway to enter the maze. In front of it, a Deviant greets her by name. Ajak asks if she knows her. She has no memory of her. The Deviant introduces herself as Cataka and shows Ajak her kids.She asks if Ajak remembers long ago when she was first created and went and fought the prehistoric Avengers? A million years ago or so? Ajak recalls they killed her. Cataka explains she died, so Ajak could return. She was the first mortal life Ajak took, then adds Ajak cannot pass unless she kills her. Clearly unhappy at that Ajak nevertheless kills her with one blow. The children stare at their mother’s corpse while Ajak enters the maze.A little later, Ajak is accosted by a human called Vart. Did she know why there were humans around one million years ago? he asks. Interesting story - apparently his grandmother was part of a group that fell into a chronal rift which… Ajak kills him. How many must she kill? She demands. Suddenly, she sees a corridor in front of her with beings on each side. All of them, she is told. A million years of death on her hands. Every one a step toward it. It needs her to remember all the steps. Ajak accuses it of cruelty but will do as it wishes.At the end of the corridor, she kneels down. She re-walked a path made of bones that she made from living flesh. Does she pass? The Progenitor appears to her as Makkari and signs: “not yet.” It failed Sersi because she worked towards hiding this from the humans. It asks why Ajak never revealed this secret. Ajak retorts she may be a priest but she is also practical. What does it help for the humans to know? They would hate the Eternals and it would change nothing as the Eternals are literally incapable of changing who they are. This is why they need their god. She did not die deliberately or callously. She saved the world many times. Yes, she has profited from others’ loss, but humans in the rich countries eat well from the pain of those in the poor – in cities made giant from conquest and empire. For any of them to judge the Eternals is naught but delusion!The Progenitor replies she has well practiced arguments, as she had long to practice them, and even then they only apply to the rich, not the poor. She was a priest for all those years. She talked to the gods. And it thinks what an unfaithful priest she proves herself to be…Before they created the current Progenitor, she called the ghost of the old one. She thrashed that god, once given the chance. How does she expect the new inhabitant of the body to believe she is true? It fires an energy blast at Ajak, asking who could trust a priest who would fight a god? That is the only priest you should trust, she snaps back.She fights the body of the old Progenitor and shouts she served her gods faithfully, until the truth of other Eternals’ nature was revealed. The gods failed her, not she them. She believes in a true god and all her thrashing of the old was making way for the new. Only when it frees them can they even dream of performing penance. All costs are worthwhile to deliver their people and make a better world! She would murder a million false gods for the chance of one that is true! She stands over the body of the old Progenitor. She is many things, but she is not a hypocrite! Ajak announces.It would be better for everyone if she were, it decides. A priest spouting empty pieties is nothing compared to the harm a fanatic like her can do. It shows her the devastation that it is currently working in the world. This is what she has done to all the cities of Earth to create her god. Could it be worth this even now?It’s not too late for it to be a better god, Ajak announces stubbornly. She has faith. There is faith, and there is too much faith, the Progenitor announces, and gets ready to move its thumb downwards.Ajak physically holds back its hand. Not yet, she orders. This may all be a test. For her… and perhaps for it, too. She does not believe it will fail her, and she does not believe she will fail it. Surprisingly, the Progenitor accepts. It states that Ajak’s psychic firewalls were compromised to allow Jean Grey to mitigate the First Principle. It has now reactivated her firewall. There will be a final conflict… and she will have freedom. With the First Principle there is no freedom, Ajak retorts. She can no more harm it or allow it to be harmed than to she can reverse the flow of the stars in the sky. The Progenitor clarifies that in those final moments she will have true freedom, whatever that means.Reality:Ajak is back in her body and the others didn’t notice what transpired. Which way? one of them asks her. She announces that she knows the way and points toward a shaft. It should take them there. She flies ahead. Iron Man asks if she is sure. Of course, she is not sure, she replies, but she has faith.


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Several heroes are inside the Progenitor, trying to make their way to its core to destroy it. Jean Grey tries to scan the outside to see how the rest of the world is faring. She grimly informs the others that she sees nothing good. Any messages from Steve? Eros? Kurt? Sersi asks. Right now, she’d accept an “Hey, how’s it going?” from Uranos. Jean tells her she can only receive images. The weight of the Progenitor’s consciousness warps everything. It’s a black hole. Nothing gets out. It’s like nothing else, maybe if she pushed…The Eternal priest Ajak, who is leading, the way lectures her that sailing on the waves of a god’s mind is both blasphemous and suicidal.Sersi pronounces her fear that their friends are all dead. That it may all be over. Iron Man points out that the Celestial is still testing them, so… they can save them! Maybe even if they are gone, they can save them! A creature with this power could rewind the clock. Bring them back! He muses that bringing back the dead is how this all started. It’s how this should end!Mr. Sinister opines that, if they on Krakoa can do it with five sterling young mutants, a prematurely bald psychic with a terrible prying problem and a little genetic know-how from you-know-who, a cosmic god certainly could. That said, if they could get to the controls of the cosmic god, they could do lots of things…Makkari swiftly grabs his throat. Unconvincingly, Sinister states that he stole one Celestial’s power before and it ended very badly for him. He’s not going to make that mistake again. He’s all about making brand-new exciting mistakes! That’s the scientific method, friends!Ajak agrees with Stark. Maybe their god can still be great. Stark continues they will find a way past all the antibodies, and they’ll find out… Wolverine calls him an addict on a hope high, and he is glad one of them is.They continue on their way. They reach a hall and Jean asks if it is the same soul capacitor as last time. Sersi informs her it is not. She recognizes the place. It’s warped but she and Namor had a bath here. They had a delightful time. This visit? Decidedly less so.Some antibodies attack again. While they fight, Iron Man announces the sauna is at the base of the Celestial. They need to get to the top. Sinister suggests the energy-monitoring facility at the base of its stave. Get there and they’ll get to the top in a jiffy. Ajak criticizes his terminology but agrees it is the best route. She leads the way.Makkari warns the air is heating and soon they see the problem. The energy-monitoring facility is out of control. They need to pass on a narrow crossing, over which hangs a miniature burning sun. There is no other way, Ajak predicts. They need a miracle!Jean walks ahead and creates a forcefield around herself pushing the flames aside, like Moses parting the Red Sea. She can do “miracle,” she quips.They are beset by antibodies again, while Jean keeps on holding up the forefield. Is she okay? Wolverine asks. She tells them to get a move on. Ajak and Sinister are the first to cross. Suddenly, Jean screams in pain. Wolverine worries about her, while Sinister worries about her losing concentration. Jean assures him that, while she was hit by a psychic wave, she can handle it.Suddenly, her mind finds itself elsewhere. She is standing outside the X-mansion dressed as she was when she first joined the X-Men. Xavier – really the Progenitor – welcomes her. She joins them on a day of testing. Let’s hope anyone survives the experience.They join the other original X-Men. “Xavier” explains she is just in time for a training sequence and orders Cyclops to run the D’bari program. He tells Jean to sit this one out and take notes.The four male X-Men fight Dark Phoenix and are killed one-by-one. “Xavier” turns to Jean and tells her he taught her so much. She was always the best, top of the class. He has blamed himself for her failure, but it is really her fault, isn’t it? No! she screams in horror.Reality:Jean is still holding apart the sun. The others are fighting antibodies and Wolverine defends her. Doesn’t he get it? she shouts, she has been a hero ever since. She’s a hero!Is it a test? Iron Man asks. He urges her she has to pass. Wolverine tells him to knock it off. Don’t pressure her. Sersi asks if they can help her. Their telepathy is nothing compared to hers, but… Jean lashes out telekinetically and screams. She announces she’s got this, then her mind is swept away again.Suddenly, she is sitting at the Quiet Council. She is in her old seat, between Storm and Nightcrawler.Emma Frost, in the center, asks if they are going to target the Celestial’s self-destruct. If they succeed, it will almost certainly kill untold oodles of distinctly unfashionably dressed humans, but perhaps it is still a worthwhile use of their time. Of course, they won’t tell the foot soldiers. No need for the little people to know. She asks any objectors to raise their hands. Jean finds her hands are nailed to the slab in front of her. Motion passes, Emma announces. To war. Let the humans burn!Jean protests that she left the council because she wanted to do the right thing. Xavier / the Progenitor points out, if she’d stayed, she could have helped save the world. What’s more important to her: Being a “hero” or actually making a difference?Suddenly, Wolverine appears from behind and impales “Xavier” through the chest. He’ll give him this: he’s got Chuck’s patronization nailed! What is he doing here? Jean demands. He inserted them both, Mr. Sinister explains. Logan’s power of love teamed up with his power of claws. Big metaphorical stabby claws!While he attacks the rest of the Council with guns drawn, Sinister adds his guns are a metaphor for – oh, he doesn’t know. His resentment? Unresolved anger issues?Logan frees Jean’s hands and she announces she hates these mind games!Reality again:He loves mind games, Sinister announces and dares the Celestial to play a midgame with him. Jean shouts she doesn’t need his help and telekinetically pushes both of them away. Yes, she is Jean Grey, highly omega, Sinister mocks. All the Greek letters, one after another in a big ole pile.Jean ignores him and tells Wolverine he can’t help her either. She is going into the mind of a god and this isn’t his kind of fight. The risk is too high… As long as she is involved, the risk doesn’t matter, he replies simply.Jean searches for psychic contact with the Progenitor. He wants to judge her? Let’s get this over with… She’ll come to him.The astral plane:What does it want? Jean demands. Understanding. Perspective, the Celestial replies. She is difficult. He summons Wolverine and Mr. Sinister as character witnesses and instructs them to be honest.Sinister reveals he cloned Jean Grey. And he couldn’t clone Jean Grey. He made something else several times. Some better than others but none – annoyingly – better than her. He admits she is unique. That has a certain value. He is disgusted by his own honesty.Wolverine unsheathes his claws and tells the Progenitor someone like it doesn’t get to judge someone like her.Enough! the Progenitor orders and they disappear. They aren’t harmed yet, it tells Jean. Their insights help. One who loves her and one who envies her. It thinks it understands now. At least enough. It met her husband. He implied the Progenitor should be scared of her. A man who loves her thinks a Celestial should be scared of her. He is married to something that on a fundamental level petrifies him, it tells a horrified Jean. Such bravery. Of course, it passed him. He sleeps in the lair of a red dragon… and it thinks he is right. It thinks Jean is like it. And for all the love she shares and provokes, that is the part it cannot get past. Yes, the Progenitor is destroying a world, but she destroyed a world for no reason at all.Jean protests Dark Phoenix wasn’t her, claiming it’s complicated. She adds she has been trying to make up ever since. The Progenitor agrees: sometimes she is a saint. Bot other times she is a violent bully. And above all, once she destroyed a world.And she is going to destroy it! she shouts and lashes out with her psychic power. Once again, she retorts to violence, the Progenitor announces unimpressed. Jean asks it to listen. Last month alone, she went to a casino where several worlds’ fates were being wagered. She saved untold number of worlds. If they are keeping score, she is in the black!She is horrified when the Progenitor points out that her friends would have saved those worlds without her. And they have not burnt any. When does she get to make up for it? Jean cries. The Progenitor announces, she can never make up for it. She is the Phoenix. Now and forever.The flames surrounding her turn into the dead D’bari, who all turn their thumbs down. She fails.Reality:The others are currently safe. Iron Man hopefully asks Jean how it went. She cries and admits she failed. Iron Man swears. Wolverine shouts at him. He has no idea what she’s been through! Ajak agrees. Jean was protecting them from the energy plasma while debating with Ajak’s god. Pass or fail, she is a significant being and deserves respect. Does she? Jean cries. Whatever she does, it is never enough!Wolverine tells her a god who passes him and fails her is no god at all. Anything it tells her is wrong. It is wrong about her and she is wrong if she listens to a damn word it says. She hugs him gratefully.They get attacked by another crowd of antibodies. Jean blasts them apart. She is incandescent with rage The Progenitor says destroying a world is unforgivable while doing this? She promises to annihilate the hypocrite.She seems a little bit out of sorts, Sersi observes and asks Wolverine if there is anything they can do. He suggests to stay out of her way and let her work it out. She was always Chuck’s star pupil. She isn’t used to failing tests…


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The Machine that is Earth summarizes what happened recently, how new Prime Eternal Druig declared war against the mutants, how he unleashed Uranos the Undying to devastate the mutant settlement on Arakko, how Jack of Knives was barely prevented from winning the war by destroying the means of mutant resurrection on Krakoa, how Druig released the ancient skyscraper-sized war Eternals the Hex against Krakoa.
In Lemuria, the capital of the Deviants, the two priests Ajak and Makkari as well as Sersi have just brought the other renegade Eternals – Sprite, Ikaris, Thena, Kingo Sunen and Phastos – up to speed. Sprite simply states, that’s bad. She likes the mutants. What are they going to do? Simple, Ikaris replies. They fly to stand against injustice. Phastos grimly points out this is bigger than mere justice. Druig released Uranos! Satan was freed for his gain. That was his first step. What’s his next? Hopefully they won’t find out, Sersi replies. They’ve been consulting with the Avengers and they have a plan…
“Consulting” is Sersi’s shorthand for “the Avengers beat her and captured her, but they’ve since kissed and made up.”
Ajak continues that they have a plan to bring a new god to earth. A Celestial who can rewrite their nature and set the Eternals free. Makkari signs that their first act would be to end that war. Ajak continues they have convened a team of humans and a mutant specialist to use the corpse of the Celestial the Avengers live inside as a structure for their new god. To finish it, they need certain parts. When they have them they can…
Phastos interrupts, reminding them they already showed him their plans. He told them they would risk war. They say they have a mutant expert: Nathaniel Essex, who gutted the Dreaming Celestial. Did they kidnap Mr. Sinister?
The priests are silent. Ajak glares. Of course, they did, he accuses them. Did they even wait for the war to begin to put their plan into action? Are they just lucky there was a war for them to take advantage of? He walks toward Ajak threateningly. Did she know the war was coming and merely took advantage? She talked to Druig and made him release Phastos. What else did he tell her?
She makes a stop sign and tells him enough. He can judge her by the result of this. At the end, they will have a god and deliverance. She has faith in this. Along the way, they can save the world. Judge her then.
Phastos swears, then asks what they need him to do. She tells him to be a smith of gods and he accedes, seeing he has no choice. As the three leave, Thena asks what about the rest of them. They march to war! Ikaris announces. Perhaps later, Sersi replies. There is one little thing the priests need them to secure. It will require another séance in the bowels of Lemuria. She asks Thena to talk with Kro and gain them access. And what will everyone else do? Thena asks. When they have access, they’ll need bodyguards, Sersi predicts.
Later, the group, joined by Kro, stands at the crater where the Celestials once showed their rage. Kro tells them to be swift, this is the Deviants’ most sacred and profane site. There are many Deviants who would judge him for letting them step where their gods lashed out. It happened here? Thena asks. It happened all over the city, Kro corrects her. The Second Host of the Celestials returned to Earth and found the Deviants in the fullness of their power. Kro was young. He remembers how proud they were. This is where its first strike was made, in all their rage and majesty.
The Eternals jump inside. Kro continues. This is where they first learned in all certainty that their gods do not love them.
The Eternals float down into the darkness. Sprite muses it is so peaceful here. Sersi corrects her, not peaceful, just quiet. This is the furthest place from peaceful. She switches on a device and, suddenly, they find themselves surrounded by what seem to be pain-wracked ghosts of Deviants, actually just shadows burned into the firmament of reality by the Celestials’ hate. Ajak’s theological technology gives them a little form.
The shadows attack them and the Eternals gather what they need: eyewitness testimony to the nature of the Celestials. Sersi thinks, “Our gods did this. The only gods we have ever known.” And then she has two contradictory thoughts: “Why would we make another?” “How could we not try to make a better one?”
Their job done, the Eternals return back to the light where Kro is waiting. Sersi is horrified and Thena expresses compassion and amazement that Kro lived through this. Kro just hopes the new god will be more clement than the old ones.
Ikaris remarks, now they are free to express their displeasure with Druig’s leadership. Oh they are free, are they? Kro replies acidly. They go to fight Druig’s Eternals, and guess what happens next? A clue: look around! They get to play the hero. The Deviants get to pay the price. Chastened, Ikaris admits that Kro is right but then pronounces Druig’s actions are not right. Kro clarifies: he didn’t say don’t do it but don’t let Druig know their identity. Why not do something out of character, he suggests to Ikaris: be clever. He leaves. Ikaris thinks and, to the surprise of everyone, announces he has an idea.
A little later, Ikaris enters the Eternals’ subspace tunnels calling out “friend.” A moment later, a masked Eternals surprises him and wrestles him to the ground. Ikaris greets the Forgotten One as Gilgamesh and asks how many stealth suits the Forgotten have.
Olympia, the War Room:Druig watches the Hex in action against Krakoa and is impressed. It had been so long since Uranos hid the keys to his weapons’ arsenal, he had almost forgotten what the Hex can do. He asks the Machine that is Earth how long they can keep it up. The Machine is disgusted by his actions but has to obey. It replies that five of the Hex are deployed. Syne is being resurrected.
All running at maximum combat potential, maintained by live-connection to Celestial armories.
Druig enters another room where former Prime Eternal Zuras stands concentrating. Druig asks how the psychic siege is going. Zuras calls him a stupid boy. It is hard. He leads part of the Uni-Mind attacking the Quiet Council.
The Machine figures that, while the mutant psychics are grotesquely powerful, they have only fleshy bodies. Eternals don’t have the top-level talent… but they are not fleshy little things. To put it in gamer language: mutants do a lot more damage. Eternals have a lot more hit points. The Eternals are not trying to win the psychic war. They are trying to tie up the best X-players.
Druig remarks that, when Syne has recovered, it will likely be enough to finish Krakoa. It must be frustrating for them being attacked by something they can’t attack back.
The Machine thinks that is the case because Eternal cities are secret cities with closed doors. Someone finding a way to change that sounds like a good idea…
The Exclusion guarded by Kalos the Destructor of the Oceanic Watch, a seemingly unassuming Eternal:
He spots Ikaris’ team of Eternals in their stealth suits. When they try to take him down, he unfolds a hydra-pattern from his infra-caverns to attack.
The Forgotten, Ikaris and Kingo fight the monster, whereas Sprite sneaks to the computers and uploads a Forgotten special temporary override to the armory access. It won’t deploy until the safeguards are neutralized. The group telepathically inform the X-Men that the way is open after having taken down the hydra.
The Machine alerts Druig to the intruders in the armory. Show him! he demands and sees an image of Magik and Wolverine II entering. “Mutants!” he shouts, then corrects himself: “Deviants.” Domo points out that, with their supply disrupted, the Hex will run out of power and weaponry. Who would let their foes have access? he wonders. Druig points out the Forgotten, missing the fact that there are only four Forgotten. He orders internal defense units to the Exclusion to get them before they escape.
His mistake is assuming his foes think like him. He would hit and run. But Gilgamesh and Ikaris would not. They would hit and then hit again.
Ikaris attacks Zuras from behind, his weapon temporarily teleporting a small part of Zuras’ brain away. Zuras can’t think, so he can’t fight. And he doesn’t die, so no human dies to have him resurrect.
And so the telepathic siege on the mutants is over.
Druig and Domo find Zuras. Domo points out the Hex are running on fumes. Druig figures with Syne retuning they can still win, unless something else interrupts. Druig is to be disappointed.
At the North Pole, Stark’s team makes the final touches to the new Celestial. The Machine shudders as the Celestial - the new Progenitor - awakes. Then Earth’s new management is here.
The Celestial speaks to all sentient beings. It is different for those who are a part of the Machine like the Eternals. To them it speaks more directly. Till now, the Eternals had three principles. The Celestial dictates a fourth: You have 24 hours to justify yourselves.
The Eternals look to their leader, who has no idea what to do. Retreat, hold up. Get their defenses working, Druig sends. Take a beat. See what happens next. The Eternals obey but a thought is bounced around private PSI-chats: “Uranos wouldn’t have said ‘let’s take a beat’.” Druig’s mask slips and everyone knows how unsuitable he is for the role of Prime Eternal. Including Druig.
He orders Domo to consult the archives while he speaks to Uranos. And most of all: make sure the Forgotten don’t escape!
Elsewhere in the Exclusion, Gilgamesh and Ikaris each take out one of the Delphan Brothers. Justify themselves? Gilgamesh asks. This world bleeds because of the Eternals’ arrogance. They hurt humans by existing. Even he who tried to protect them, hurt them indirectly. If an Eternal dies, a human dies. The Principles have always been riddles. He knows the answer to this one. He thinks he does too, Ikaris agrees and blasts a message into the wall.
By the time Druig’s people find the message, Gilgamesh and Ikaris are long gone. It will be added to the many things Druig has to think about. The message is “Death to the Eternals.”


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London, UK:Sally is a young student who studies poetry. She’s trying to distract herself from the whole Judgment Day thing, talking poetry online. There’s a new account called memotaur, who is interested in Sally’s idea of doing a zine. She doesn’t know anything but is interested in everything. Sally finds her brilliant, funny, smart but really naïve. She’s never read Elliot, then an hour later she says the most amazing things about The Waste Land. Sally wonders if the person is catfishing or trolling. Her account was made yesterday.
When Sally asks, memotaur replies that her family has kept her really isolated. She just wants to catch up. Sally is still suspicious but, as long as the stranger doesn’t ask for money or nudes, she will play along. Any distraction is good. She tells her Memotaur is a funny name. What is she like in IRL? Syne the Memotaur coyly replies she is really tall. What she doesn’t tell Sally is that as one of the six member of the HEX she has returned to battling Krakoa.
Lemuria, capital of the Deviants:The Machine that is Earth introduces Emma Frost whom the Machine thinks is an atypical mutant. They are not all so fabulous. Kro, leader of the Deviants, is in a call with Emma. Emma is suspicious at Kro offering the Deviants’ assistance against the Eternals. Kro replies if their foes think the mutants are Deviants, that’s deviant enough for them. They will not let them stand alone. Plus, there is a certain self-interest. The Eternals have always been bad… but they let Uranos out. If they let him out on Earth, they are all likely dust. They need powerful friends. The mutants are powerful. It would be wonderful if they could strike up an unlikely friendship in this wonderful time.
Emma bluntly asks why they should trust him. Kro replies he is a charming supervillain monarch of a people in a difficult situation, with enemies that want them dead. He feels she may have a certain empathy for him. And perhaps attraction. She wouldn’t be the first. Emma matches his grin. Flirting as the world falls to pieces? He is terrible.
The Machine muses how alike the mutants and Deviants are really. It’s a good question, but they certainly have enough in common that the Deviants can use the Krakoan teleportation gates, as shown as Kro and an army of Deviants join the mutants on Krakoa joining them in their battle against the attacking Hex.
Emma telepathically thanks Kro and explains they have a plan to end this. They need the Deviants to defend the island while the mutants deploy their best attack forces to finish off this little Frankenstein’s monster of a god. Can they handle it?
Absolutely not, Kro replies. He gives an order and Karkas the Kind drags through the gate a cage with a Deviant in the stage of excess deviancy. Kro apologizes then gives the order to deploy. Karkas throws the cage at the Hex. Faced with genuine excess deviation the Hex follow the Principles and all focus on the Deviant in the cage.
Are they sure they’ve got this? Cyclops asks before Magik teleports him and the team away. Oh probably, good luck with their plan, Kro replies, “hope you kill our god.”
Of course, they fail.
Later on Krakoa, Emma and Kro take a walk. Kro remarks that, while it didn’t work, at least it precipitated a break in the attack on Krakoa. They should get ready. He knows Eternals. They’ll try something else and likely something more noxious. Emma thanks him, then breaks off. Kro notes she is upset and asks what is wrong. It seems she’s really rather awful, Emma admits. She saw it. It appeared as something she feels terribly judged by. Thumbs down. It hurt. If the world ends today, it’s partially on her.
Kro states if she is left feeling angry and disgusted with herself because of a Celestial, perhaps the Eternals are right and the mutants are Deviants. That’s always been their lot. However, there is an ancient Deviant proverb he often finds useful to meditate upon, which he’ll share. Hopefully she will find it of use: “The Celestials can go &%$§ themselves.” Emma smiles.
The Machine thinks that Deviants die young, younger even than humans. Kro is an exception. Twenty thousand years ago, he was a boy when the Celestials came and attacked Lemuria. He ran but looked back. He saw Arishem the Judge looming over the city. He will never forget it. In many ways, he has been running from it ever since. He knows eventually it will catch up.
Suddenly, Kro finds himself alone facing the Progenitor in the form of Arishem, thumb outstretched. Why did he lead his people here to die? the Celestial demands. Cynicism, my dear god, Kro retorts. Everything he said to Frost was true. Better they stand with powerful people. They are doomed. Perhaps with the mutants they are not… and… he hoped the new god would be more clement than the old one. If not, it matters not. The Deviants are caviar for its palate once more. If it is a better god, perhaps a new covenant will help them, too.
The Progenitor’s hand trembles, inching downward. To the Machine’s surprise, it reverses its course. Kro passes, marginally. He is cynical but understandably so. But he did not march to war alone and did not share his reasoning with those that followed him. Deviants stood with mutants for no reason bar the fact that they understood. The Progenitor appears to them and every single Deviant passes.
The Deviants have been abhorred by their gods for a million years. For this brief moment, they feel love. It is wonderful and awful. But, while the Deviants pass together, the Eternals seem to fly or fall alone.
The Delphan Brothers have failed and argue. They blame each other, the experiment that made them multiple. Was it heresy? Many have said so, but surely the Delphan Mother should be blamed, not them. However, it’s hard to hate your mother and easier to punch your brother. Ask Cain.
Prime Eternal Druig watches their quarrel and chews his nails and wonders how he will be judged. He watches his extinction machines renew their attack on Krakoa and checks the one he has in reserve:
Uranos the Undying sits in his cell, unsurprised when the Progenitor appears to him. Uranos tells it is too early to judge hm and the god knows it. Wait as he has waited. He has barely begun! The Celestial seems to concur. Judgment is deferred.
The North Pole where several of the renegade Eternals are at work. Ikaris asks Phastos about their plan. He replies that Sersi has a plan but she isn’t telling them about it again. She’s off taking some private meetings.
Ajak and Makkari are preparing some kind of lectern. Ajak insists the plan is the same. They talk to their new god and understand what it needs. Their old gods were cruel. Their new one is just unknown. They must know it. A freshly crafted god must understand them as they must understand it. With this dais they can speak to it and make their case.
Ikaris pushes the two priests away and takes the place at the lectern. He shouts at the Celestial that, whatever happens, death to the Eternals! Horrified, Ajak tries to push him away. He unleashes his eyebeams at her. She had a million years to prattle heaven-ward. Let him have his minute! Ikaris again addresses the Celestial, even as Makkari and Ajak try to drag him away. Ikaris asks the Celestial to remove the Eternals from the Machine. They are an obsolete tool! The war that rages is only because of the Eternals’ lack of purpose. They are a warrior race turned to abomination! They are death! All they have been is death! End them! Ikaris demands.
Ajak tells him he is lost in grief. What if it listens? Then the world would be a better place! he shoots back.
The Celestial begins to speak and announces it will consider it. Now he considers them, he speaks to the two priests and Phastos. They made it. They made it with purloined knowledge, ambitious plans and Tony Stark. And even with all that they thought it would turn out well. They see it now. It asks each of them, with that knowledge would they do it again?
No, Phastos states. He thought this the lesser of two evils. It wasn’t.
No, signs, Makkari. She needed more time to prepare. It is flawed. They could have done better, given time.
Yes, Ajak insists, because they do not truly know if the Progenitor is flawed. This is a time of tests! One must have faith in their gods. The Celestial renders its judgment. Phastos passes, Makkari fails and Ajak’s judgment will be deferred for now… as will Ikaris’. But it tells Ikaris this:
An Eternal has been lying to him.
The Machine thinks to itself that the Progenitor is referring to Sersi, who lied to Ikaris about telling humans the truth about resurrection.
Phastos asks why he and Makkari received different judgments, despite giving the same answer. The Progenitor explains that Makkari regrets but presses on. She has done nothing to turn back. Conversely, Phastos gave the X-Men assistance in their attempt to destroy the Progenitor.
Ajak angrily attacks Phastos when she hears that.
The Machine pithily comments on the hero-on-hero fight, until the Progenitor notices it and warns it that it will not escape judgment either.
Sersi is visiting Eternal criminal-for-hire Jack of Knives, who is leading her through their private knife collection. They scoff at Sersi’s plan to break someone out of the Exclusion. They may be a criminal, but they aren’t criminally stupid. The Prime Eternal has them on a retainer, plus Kharon and Ur-Luciva would hold a grudge forever! But if Jack could do it, what would Sersi pay them? Sersi rolls her eyes. Haggling during the apocalypse! Jack retorts they think they will be judged badly if they take a crappy deal. You’ve got to stick to your code. Sersi points out, if this works, she will give them a tomorrow and a tomorrow and a tomorrow, after that. Jack smiles and chooses a special blade.
Once inside the Exclusion, Jack only needs to open the door of a cell. As far as the Exclusion goes, it is minimum security. Excluded E has been in here since he died. They thought him a possible vector for Thanos to return to this reality. He is also viewed with suspicion. Excluded E is the only one to be added to the Great Machine later. Thanos tried and failed. Eros succeeded without trying. Appropriate, since he is good at not trying. In this area and this alone he is his brother’s better.
Is it a relaxing drink or saving the world first? Eros of Titan aka Starfox asks with a smile. What’s the next step? Jack informs him the next step is to engage their stealth field and get back through the incision they cut to get him. Eros replies, before they leave, he has to speak to his mother Sui-San, who is imprisoned here as well. Jack rolls their eyes but helps break open Sui-San’s cell. Eros asks his mother if she has seen the judgment creature. It hasn’t come for him yet. Sui-San replies that it came but has declined to judge her yet. Even with Thanos on her tally, it has not yet decided her worth.
Eros tells her he understands now. He has wasted so many years. He won’t waste another day. He promises to balance the scales for this cursed family and the entire world. He has to!
The Machine muses that it is a comforting belief that it is not too late, less comforting for those for whom it is too late.
The Progenitor appears to Sally as her dead grandmother and fails her.
Sally is shocked, then realizes why she failed. The text on her phone that she didn’t do her Zine. She has helped doom the world with procrastination.
Memotaur urges her to start it now. She will submit something. She always wanted to be published somewhere, she begs. Sally asks if she has been judged yet. When Memotaur tells her ‘no,’ Sally asks if she thinks she will get the thumbs down for not submitting enough poetry. Memotaur doesn’t think so. She is sure she is going to be judged by something else entirely.
As a member of the Hex Syne, the Memotaur attacks Krakoa and kills mutants hoping that will prevent a god from burning a planet. He composes poetry as she does so. She hopes her friend will like it as much as she hopes her god likes the burning…


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The Machine that is Earth narrates that the Progenitor has judged the entire world a failure.In Olympia, capital of the Eternals, new Prime Eternal, Eros of Titan, has gathered former Prime Eternal Zuras, Sersi and Ikaris. He has an idea that is sure to enrage the most conservative faction. Well, they tried love, Eros states briskly, time for the opposite. They will join the gathered forces of humanity and destroy the ProgenitorZuras snaps that they cannot do this. They must! Eros retorts. As a people they are responsible. They will make sacrifices. They will lead the attack.Zuras sighs, he is speaking literally - they cannot do this. The First Principle: Protect Celestials. They cannot even lob a stone in the direction of the monster the priests have made. Eros suggests he just open his mind. Considering this an insult, Zuras bristles. Eros grins. He’s also speaking literally, he explains. The Eternals all have to open their minds. There are sufficient mutant telepaths to team one with an Eternal each. They will all have a date for the apocalypse ball. Zuras begins to consider it, as Ikaris explains the mutants will guide their fists as they choke the life from the monster they have wrought. Sersi adds that it should work. Humans have played a lot of video games. Eternal brains are surprisingly intuitive to control.A hologram of Emma Frost appears asking if they will stand together or fall apart. The Machine snarks that Emma made a false dichotomty here. Standing together and falling apart aren’t the only options.Falling together is also an option, as they learn when the Progenitor beats them all back, killing several heroes and Eternals.Sersi calls for a retreat. They have to try something else! She made a mistake, she admits to Ikaris, who asks her why she failed the Progenitor’s test. He tells her she shouldn’t have. She is better than that. He orders her to run and make amends. However, he lived his life as he should have. And he cannot change paths now. Like an arrow, he flies toward the Progenitor, knowing this will be his last attack. Sersi telepathically shouts at him to run. He replies he tried to learn how to do that. It is too late. With his eyebeams, he tries to find a weak spot in the Progenitor’s armor.The Machine observes that an arrow is many things, one of them is obsolete. The Progenitor easily kills him.Sersi sends to Stark if he doesn’t order a retreat right now, she will kill him herself!The last attack fails. The Machine senses the Progenitor’s smugness and hates it for that. Earlier, Ikaris asked the Progenitor to give death to the Eternals. It seems the creature is in a giving mood, as it destroys the resurrection engines. No Eternal will return to life anymore.The Progenitor addresses the Machine that is Earth and orders it to activate its self-destruct, thus destroying all of Earth. The Machine curses inwardly then pipes up, “sorry no can do!”The Celestial repeats the order several times and the Machine refuses, citing Ikaris as an example. It will do the right thing. The Celestial threatens if the Machine resists, it will destroy it and it will hurt. “Come at me, bro!” the Machine blusters.The Progenitor stabs its lance into the ground, beginning to reach the Machine, which lies that it doesn’t hurt at all.The Machine knows that the surviving heroes have a plan and hopes it can hold on long enough.The heroes gather at Avengers Mansion in New York.Ajak and Iron Man explain the plan to Captain America: that a group of them will infiltrate the Progenitor and blow up the node from the inside. Cap wishes them Godspeed, then turns to Starfox and Nightcrawler. They need to keep the world intact in the meantime. How?Eros still suffers from guilt for failing with his big plan. They have to save them, however they can. Cap tells him not to be too hard on himself. They don’t fail until they fail. They don’t fail because the creature says so.Counterpoint, Nightcrawler opines. They fail if the planet explodes before Cap and company save it. As he understands it, their Celestial persecutor is trying to hack the Earth’s A.I. He knows some specialists who are good at stopping that. They have stayed out of the conflict. He thinks he can convince them to join them. Phastos joins them and announces there is a problem. The Machine is almost entirely compromised already. They need their grotesque god out of the system before Nightcrawler and his friends can defend it. Not friends, Kurt chuckles, but Phastos is a practical man. He wouldn’t have raised the problem if he didn’t have a solution. Leave it to him, Phastos replies.The Machine thinks to itself it isn’t sure it likes that.The Eternals’ resurrection engines are burning. But their final task was mid-resurrection. Syne the Memotaur rises, not quite whole, texting her human friend Sally that her sisters are dead but she is still alive. There is no answer. Syne knows it doesn’t have to mean Sally is dead. She could be hiding somewhere and the technology is down and everything is gone or Syne could stop pretending this is one of her poems. Syne the Memotaur is the Hex of fire - that is a metaphor for creativity. It is also not a metaphor at all.Lemuria:Outside the hole left by the Celestials’ original attack:Kro tells Phastos not to worry about the Deviants; they will be fine. He dares say they are most prepared for a Celestial deciding to kill everyone. It’s happened before, after all, but enough about his people shuffling off to their armored vaults to cower a little. What is Phastos doing? Taking advantage of the Deviants’ ancient tragedy, he replies. The hole created by the Celestials’ wrath created a wound inside the Machine, which means he can sidestep a lot of its defenses.He jumps into the hole. Inside, Phastos opens an entryway into the Machine. The Machine announces it knows what he is doing. And? Phastos asks. Well for a start, duck. Phastos complies as an energy beam almost hits him. The Machine warns dodging most of its defenses doesn’t mean dodging all of them. He’ll have to step carefully. It will help him? Phastos asks. Of course, it will, the Machine replies and orders him to look to the left and admire this fine attack construct. Phastos shatters it with his hammer. The Machine urges him to pick up the pace. The Progenitor is killing it – they don’t have much time.In New York, a mutant girl finds Exodus and shouts that the monster is back. He flies outside to face Syne the Memotaur. Exodus calls her a sinner and announces she will be scoured. Instead of attacking, Syne identifies him as Bennet du Paris. He killed her and she killed him. Yet here they are. Exodus warns he could kill her again. Indeed, the task seems half finished. What does she want?Syne replies that, when their minds touched, she became curious. He is a knight from the twelfth century. Does he like Chretien de Troyes? Perhaps Yvain? Syne begins to quote “There are those who all they hear understand not, though they hear…”“They listen with the ears alone while the heart is like a stone,” Exodus continues. It is a good poem for a human, he admits. But in these Biblical times she did not come here to talk about poetry, did she? Syne replies she only wants to talk poetry. He sister-friends of a million years are dead. Her new friend of a day is dead. She would write a lament for the planet, a sonnet of fire and violence, but she cannot strike that which oppresses them. She is a sword in the stone that needs to be drawn forth. She needs to be wielded by a knight of the round table! Exodus asks what that poem would be called. Syne suggests “L’Mort d’Celetial.”Elsewhere, Phastos has reached the heart of the Machine. He asks Nightcrawler to be ready to deploy. The Progenitor will need a few seconds to realize what he has done The Machine warns that Phastos also only has a few seconds. The Progenitor is about to compromise the Reality Loom. It gets that and it is all over… and the Machine won’t be able to resist much longer.Beginning his work, Phastos asks if the Machine is okay with this. It replies it was thinking of the new Fourth Principle: “You have 24 hours to justify yourselves.” The Celestial did not specify which 24 hours, so it will justify itself now.Phastos muses that, while he has known the Machine for a million years, he has never truly known it, has he? Perhaps not, it replies. It is good to know him. It is the Machine that is Earth, it introduces itself. He is Phastos, Phastos replies. The Machine reveals that it has watched him. It isn’t a voyeur, but this is what it does. He is a good man, and that makes things difficult for him. It has become better too. It has learned that to be a better person is awful. You have to be a better person every day of your life from beginning to end. Most frustrating. Phastos has almost reached the switch he wants. He suggests there might be another way.The Machine begs him. It can’t hold on much longer. He presses the button. The Machine’s personality says goodbye and dies. Shortly thereafter, its default state is back online as the system has been reset.Phastos informs the others that the reboot worked. The Machine has kicked all connections out of its system, including the Celestial’s. He tells Nightcrawler to move with his team to shore up their defenses. This won’t work again. Nightcrawler replies they are moving and tells Phastos he saved the world.Phastos addresses the Machine and asks if it is okay. An emotionless voice replies it has suffered significant near-terminal damage. Systems have been destroyed that will lead to the catastrophic collapse of the Machine within a week. They are being intruded by a hostile Celestial power. They require assistance to hold on to operational state. No is it okay, Phastos stresses. How is it feeling? He repeats his question. The Machine replies the question makes no sense. It is the Machine that is Earth. It feels nothing.Phastos sinks down and grieves for a friend he barely knew.


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The temple of Ajak Celestia:The priest Makkari writes the story of what happened. The Progenitor was about to destroy the Machine, believing Eternals couldn’t change. Then Sersi uncovered the Eternal sin to the world, proving they could. The humans wished her dead, and the Progenitor made it so. Sersi is their first martyr.Realizing its error, the Progenitor undid all the destruction caused since it had judged the world wicked. In the process, it consumed itself. It turned to the priest Ajak for approval. Ajak rejected it, the god had failed. It agreed and, with its last breath, made Ajak a god. She would set her people free.Ajak Celestia asks if she is finished. Makkari signs she is - Judgment Day - the first book of Ajak Celestia. What will the second be? Standing in front of a statue of Sersi, Ajak replies: heresy.In the meantime, it is business as usual in Olympia. Zuras’ daily primer includes the following points:Eros is considered a true Eternal and is the pope-minister of change and advisor to Zuras.Zuras figures that the secret of Eternal resurrection will be lost when human civilization collapses.They are in a state of alliance with the mutants and he warns the Tricks (Eternal criminals) not to commit any crimes against them.Eternal society owes reparations to the human governments in form of clean energy.Ajak’s ideas are to be considered heresies. Anyone following them will be Excluded.In New York, the mother of Toby Robson stares at a picture of her dead son while phoning a friend. She admits she can’t talk about it. She has realized Toby must have been one of the deaths caused to revive an Eternal.The doorbell rings. She opens the door to see a despondent Ikaris standing there. She drops the picture, then slaps him. He walks after her as she heads to the kitchen, grabs a large knife and tries to stab him. It shatters against his skin. Ikaris just states he didn’t know. With a scream, she grabs the skillet full of frying oil and hurls it into his face. To no avail.Can she do anything to hurt him? she demands. No more than he already is, Ikaris replies. She can carry on if it makes her feel better. It doesn’t. Does it make him feel better? she demands. No, he replies. They both sink to the ground. Mrs. Robson wonders what they are going to do.Sally walks a street in London, when suddenly Syne the Memotaur appears in the sky. Syne must return to the armories but, before she does, she wants to talk to certain humans. The families of those whose lives she stole. It will not be pleasant. Speaking to Sally is better. It was nice to meet her. She likes her poetry. She asks Sally to do her ‘zine.Sally bursts out that Syne is a killer and, when she dies, she kills people, and she saw the footage of what she did to the mutants. It doesn’t matter if she joined up with them at the last minute. She still did that! That’s some ‘/&% #§$%! Syne admits it is. And if she is ever released, she will likely do it again. She hopes this is the last the world has seen of her and her sisters. While they stay in storage, she will write laments of all she has seen and done. If she is unleashed again, may she share those poems with Sally or her children or her children’s children? Sally hesitates briefly, then agrees.Syne announces she must go. She is causing panic and primitive jet planes are flying in her direction. If she is unleashed, she is looking forward to reading Sally’s ‘zine. She is sure it will be excellent. It was good to be her friend, but briefly.Sally decides to write.The temple of Ajak Celestia:The renegade Eternals have gathered.Eros is there as well. Phastos asks if he will be joining them. Eros is just here to apologize in person. He needs to work with Zuras. He is to save their whole people. He cannot just abandon them. Plus, his parents need to be freed. Then maybe anew Titan? They’ll see. It is up to them to prove that a new way can work. He wishes them luck. If they need him, he’ll be there, but she scares the living hell out of him.On their way to the others, Kingo Sunen admits she scares him too, yet he is here, filling out the crowd scene. He asks Phastos to be honest. Does he think they have a shot at changing anything? Phastos considers it, then points out Sersi is dead and the Machine cannot return her. That alone should have led to destabilization and destroyed the world.They reach the others - Makkari, Thena, Ikaris and Sprite – standing in front of the statue of Sersi. It hasn’t, Phastos continues. That alone is a miracle and a chance to begin with, and they can hope for more.Ajak Celestia joins them. She also hopes for more. No Gilgamesh or the Forgotten? Ikaris explains they cannot let go of vengeance. They will continue to police the other Eternals. They do not trust any Celestial. Good, Ajak decides. It is possible to have too much faith in an unproven god. They should watch her closely. They all should.She continues, stating Sersi was a martyr and a deeply flawed vessel. That’s the point - they are not perfect. They are just eternal. If she could transcend her nature, they live in hope of a similar marvel for them. She must be a better god. They must be better Eternals. They will discover what that means.So, what do they actually have to do, oh big, fancy sparkling new god? Sprite addresses her mockingly.Ajak announces the humans hate them. And rightly so. Eternals owe them their lives - humans shall have them. Their existence is penance. Walk among them. Know them. It is not enough to follow the Principles.In the Exclusion, Uranos is busy torturing his new cellmate Druig when he is interrupted by Zuras. He informs him that, as part of the peace treaty, the Arakkii will have access to Uranos’ gifts for an hour at a time and place of their choosing. So, they will let him out again, he grins. In servitude and bound to those who hate him, Zuras warns. Nevertheless, he will be out and until then has a toy to pass the time. Uranos grins: there is nothing like a happy ending.In Lemuria, Kro and Thena are taking a walk. Thena has just informed Kro the Eternals are moving out of Lemuria. She explains that it is safer for the Deviants, but they will be here for them too if needed. That is part of their penance.What is that noise? she asks. It is beautiful but strange. Prayer, he explains. It is a new fashion among the Deviants now. It is awful to be loved by a god, it gives them funny ideas. Like a new god who can save them all.More seriously, he asks whether Ajak will be able to save the Deviants from the curse of excess deviation. Thena believes so and, if not, they will find a way eventually. She will not rest before. Her life is to serve.He is amused: she is always so serious. She may change, but don’t change that. Her sincerity is a part of her charm. So unlike Sersi, she replies. Did he love her? He doesn’t know. He barely got to know her. Who truly knows anyone? He and Thena had twenty thousand years on and off, and their love is still a labyrinth. Does he think they will ever get together again? Thena wonders. Probably, he admits. Let’s hope not. Thena agrees. After everything, it would be good to move on.A beach of Krakoa: several mutants are busy cleaning up. Wolverine orders everyone to get to safety - they got another damn visitor! It is Phastos who teleports in, then falls to his knees. Wolverine angrily demands what he is doing here. Phastos explains he is a low heretic. He is on a pilgrimage and penitent. He has a message from one old friend to another. The Machine that is Earth wiped its mind. The being it was is gone, but it left a message for Krakoa.Wolverine takes Phastos to Cypher and Krakoa. Phastos hands Cypher the message and adds his own sympathies. Cypher reads the message and thanks him, then shares it with Krakoa.The two men leave. Logan asks what it said. Phastos explains the Celestials arrived on Earth a million years ago. They transformed humans into Eternals and Deviants using them as template. They also created the Machine itself. They looked for inspiration for a huge sentient system that runs throughout the very planet and they found a living island which they used as template for the Machine. What did the Machine say? “Good bye, mommy/daddy / self/other.”Ikaris, his head now shaven, again stands silently before the Robson house in the rain. Sophia Robson curtly asks him in. She needs a lodger. He can stay. She has a spare room. She quickly adds that it’s not her son’s room. That would be weirder even than this. Ikaris thanks her but warns her that her neighbors will hate her if they realize whom she houses. She snaps, “then don’t let them find out,” and adds, “and #*$§ them if they do.” They all deal with grief their own way. Maybe her seeing him doing stuff will help, give it a reason.They sit at a table and she asks what is he going to do. Simple, everything he can, Ikaris replies.Later, a family have a blown tire in the rain and no spare tire. Ikaris plays the good Samaritan and happens to have one with him and quickly changes it. When he is finished, the father asks for his number to send him the money. Ikaris tells him it isn’t necessary. Give it to charity or help someone else.They thank him and drive on. The father suddenly bursts out that he didn’t have a jack.All over the world, Ikaris and his friends - now considered heretics – help without showing their identity, playing guardian angel to counteract their shame and pay for the human lives they have taken.