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What if Iron Man had died instead of Captain America?
The Civil War ends when Captain America surrenders; he is put on trial and sentenced to 36 months in SHIELD custody. SHIELD Director Tony Stark makes the announcement to the media on the courthouse steps. As he heads for his car, he is approached by Tom Foster, whose uncle, Bill “Goliath” Foster was killed during the Civil War; Tom bitterly accuses Tony of getting away with murder, grows to giant-size and crushes Tony under his fist. Stark dies, Foster is arrested, and the world is shaken….Denial: At the training ground for the Fifty State Initiative, War Machine is giving trainer Gauntlet a hard time over being too easy on the trainees. Henry Peter Gyrich arrives and announces he is in charge, now that Stark is dead. Rhodey threatens him and goes back to what he was doing….Anger: Luke Cage and Spider-Man are hanging around the Sanctum Sanctorum talking over Tony’s death. The Mighty Avengers, led by Ms. Marvel, crash through the wall to arrest Luke and Spidey; Wolverine and Iron Fist join in as New Avengers. Luke and Carol duke it out while debating the wisdom of the Registration Act but when Luke wishes he had killed Stark first, Carol loses it and blasts him. The subdued rebels are taken away….Bargaining: The board of Stark Enterprises is in turmoil over dropping stock prices. Aleksander Lukin enters and announces he owns 51% of the company and demands all the others sell out to him….Depression: As the world wonders, Pepper Potts sits in her shower and cries….Acceptance: Captain America reads a letter left for him by Tony Stark, telling him he is the only one he trusts to keep everything going after Tony is gone. Cap is released from prison to attend Tony’s funeral as his friends all gather to remember him….Epilogue: As Tony’s coffin is shot into space, the Skrull invasion fleet heads toward Earth….Characters: Iron Man, Captain America, War Machine, Gauntlet, Henry Peter Gyrich, Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel (CD), Aleksander Lukin, Pepper Potts, Skrulls2nd story: part 2 of 5 of What If The Runaways Become The Young AvengersWriter: C.B. Cebulski. Pencils: Patrick Spaziante. Inks: Victor Olazaba. Colors: John Rauch. Letters: Jeff Powell.Continued from WHAT IF? HOUSE OF M #1.Victorious chews out his younger self Ferro Lad for failing to kill the Runaways. He also abuses their prisoner, a young Kang. But Arsenic is on to them and she sics her dragon on the bad guy. But Victorious takes down the dragon and hurls a sharp screwdriver at her; Takeback walks in, sees the situation and throws himself in front of Gert, taking the screwdriver in the chest and he falls, seriously wounded….Continues in WHAT IF? NEWER FANTASTIC FOUR #1.


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What if…Captain America Fought in the Civil War?
Hacker Hector Espejo (online name: The Watcher) discovers he can read websites from an alternate Earth. He spies news articles about General America battling his enemies, a supremacist group called the White Skulls. Reading further he finds the Civil War diary of the original Captain America, Corporal Stephen Rogers, US Army. Rogers is mocked for his idealism and naiveté while serving in the Redlegs Regiment commanded by Colonel Buck Barnes. On the Kansas-Missouri border, the Redlegs’ mission is to stop the rebel army, but Rogers is shocked by his company’s slaughter of civilians and wholesale looting. When he is confronted by Barnes while attempting to rescue children from massacre, Rogers attempts to shoot his commander but Barnes gets the drop on him; Rogers’ life is saved by the sudden appearance of an eagle attacking Barnes, allowing the children to escape on horseback. Shot in the back by Barnes, Rogers is dragged behind a horse for several miles. After seeing the vision of an eagle spirit he is rescued by a Negro soldier, Private Wilson. The dying soldier is made comfortable by some of the blacks and Indians in this regiment, while they send for Colonel Barnes. Wilson, a tribal shaman, sees Rogers as the hero the Eagle Spirit We-Pi-Alk was indicating would be the one to unify all races of the nation, and so casts a spell that what he is on the inside, he shall become on the outside. Barnes, arriving, bursts into the room at this moment and the spell affects him too. His face burned into a skull, Barnes orders his men to slaughter the Blacks and Indians. Rogers appears, transformed into a Native American deliverer, and strikes down Barnes with his shield. Later dubbed Captain America, he inspires the troops to fight for the union and freedom, ending the war earlier than in our history and preventing Lincoln’s assassination. After the war, he stamps out the Ku Klux Klan and his embrace of Native American culture also ensures the Indian Wars never happened. Buck Barnes, the White Skull, would later escape from prison and reform the Klan as a deadlier white supremacist group and becomes Cap’s nemesis. The hero and the villain demonstrate the heights we can rise to, and the depths to which we can sink. In America, the choice is ours.


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What If the Hulk Died and Caiera Lived?
Instead of the ship explosion killing everyone but Hulk, he
chose to hurl away Caiera and she survived while the explosion killed him. She
goes to Earth for vengeance, kills most of the superheroes facing her, enslaves
the rest, and forces them to spend decades building a massive statue of the
Hulk from which she rules the Earth.
“What If the Hulk Landed on the Peaceful Planet That Reed
Richards Promised?”Writer: Greg Pak. Pencils: Rafa Sandoval. Inks: Gary Erskine.
Colors: Guru-eFX. Letters: Joe Caramagna.Synopsis: Hulk lands on the peaceful planet and gets
acclimated. He turns back into Bruce Banner and builds a shelter; when he kills
an animal for food, he Hulks out and destroys the shelter. Banner builds a
catapult to hurl Hulk into a mountain. They fight back and forth until they
decide to divide the land into separate domains. Banner discovers Hulk has
created a peaceful valley where giant statues scare off predators and Banner
settles there. Millennia later, the small animals have evolved into human-like
creatures who have legends about the Hulk as their race’s protector but we see
he’s still there, watching over the creatures.
“What If Bruce Banner Had Landed on Sakaar Instead of the
Hulk?”Writer: Greg Pak. Art: Fred Hembeck. Colors: J. Brown.
Letters: Joe Caramagna.Synopsis: The ship lands on Sakaar and Hulk, thinking he’s
finally found peace, turns back into Bruce Banner—and is immediately killed.
Reed Richards goes to check up on him and he is instantly killed. Every
subsequent hero landing on the planet in search of his predecessors is
instantly killed.


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What If Captain America Were Not the Only Super Soldier in World War II?
The Watcher presents a world in which
Captain America—Steve Rogers—was eventually elected President of
a fascist United States: this world diverged from our own when
Rogers, turned into a super-soldier by Dr. Erskine's formula, saved
Erskine from the Nazi assassin sent to kill him. As a result the
formula is available for creating more Super-Soldiers. Steve is
trained and sent out as the hero Captain America but one day he gets
the order to abandon his sidekick Bucky (who now goes on to survive
the war) and report to a base in New Mexico. There he learns that he
is to command a team of 500 Super-Soldiers, including Nick Fury, Dum
Dum Dugan, and Gabe Jones. They are dispatched on Operation: Invaders
where they will be parachuted into Berlin to stop the Nazi aggression
at its source. It takes only a few hours to overthrow the regime with
the Red Skull gunned down and Cap stopping Fury from killing Hitler
so he can stand trial for his crimes....

The news spread all over the world with
Human Torch and Toro realizing that they missed out on the action by
waiting too long and Japan surrendering so they don';t have to face
the Super-Soldiers, as Sub-Mariner tells Betty Dean.
The Super-Soldiers liberate the
concentration camps and are shocked by what they see. Cap pauses to
talk to a little boy named Magnus and fills him with hope for the
future so that he does not grow up to become Magneto. On their way
home, the Queen Mary is torpedoed by a renegade Nazi sub and
Cap is the only survivor. He is given a hero's welcome in America and
named head of the newly-created SHIELD by President Rossevelt; the
new agency is staffed with Super-Soldiers personally selected by
Steve Rogers. Rogers announces to the nation that because of the need
of a booster shot, the super-soldier serum cannot be manufactured for
the use of the general population. After this, the Super-Soldiers
invade Russia and overthrow Stalin, leaving the USA as the only
superpower. Rogers is then elected President in 1956 and again
promises the Serum will be distributed to all citizens. He explains
on TV that the Serum will not work on African-Americans, which is a
lie just like the lie about the booster shot; President Rogers
personally shoots an aide who worries about consequences. African
Americans peacefully protest the serum segregation and are brutally
quashed, the state-run media painting their protests as a riot;
Rogers uses this as the pretext for shutting up the “colored
people” in relocation camps....
America becomes a paradise for the
privileged few. After this, a group of four try to sneak into a
spaceport and hijack a rocket; they are killed by super-soldier
guards so there is no Fantastic Four. Dr Bruce Banner is found to be
conducting illegal experiments with Gamma radiation and is killed. TV
star Spider-Man is likewise executed as a freak, along with his
family. The government hit squad is headed up by Captain Frank Castle
who has trouble with one of his men who enjoys the killing too much,
Clint Barton....
Decades pass: the sixties, the
seventies, the eighties as Steve Rogers keeps being reelected
President.  Then the derelict and Amnesiac Namor is discovered in the
Bowery and the hit team pursues him; a leap into the river restores
his memories and he returns to Atlantis to find it destroyed by
American bombs. He vows revenge on the human race and takes on the
hit squad in the Arctic and defeats them...then Namor discovers Inuit
people worshiping a man frozen in ice...Captain America....


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What if the Avengers Lost Operation Galactic Storm? [Part Two]

The Watcher continues his account of the alternate version of Operation Galactic Storm. As the Kree conquer and subjugate the universe, a band of heroes goes on an undercover mission to steal the master files from the Kree communications web. The mission goes wrong; Black Knight and Smasher are killed and the files can only be saved by overwriting the Vision’s programming. With the information on those files, the rebels launch a full-scale intergalactic war under the direction of Captain America. The rebels are joined by Silver Surfer with a band of cosmic heroes and by Thor leading the warriors of Asgard; the battle is furious and Wonder Man is killed. While this is going on, a small party led by Cap lands on the Kree homeworld. They are met by the Kree Starforce and a fight ensues. In the confusion, Cap makes his way to the central command room where he downloads the program containing the Supreme Intelligence. On-line again, it unleashes its wrath over its betrayal by wiping out the entire Kree Empire and then it destroys itself for good. Wonder Man’s mind is implanted in Vision’s body and Captain America looks ahead to rebuilding the galaxy.


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What if the Avengers Lost Operation Galactic Storm?

The Watcher presents a parallel timeline in which Operation Galactic Storm had a different outcome: the point of divergence is AVENGERS #346. There, Captain America was able to stop Deathbird from assassinating the Kree leaders. They then killed the Shi’ar enemy and unleashed a virus to destroy the Supreme Intelligence. Ael-Dan then murders his co-ruler Dar-Ben and proclaims himself absolute ruler of the Kree. He orders the Avengers into a concentration camp and forces Captain America to watch while he uses his super-weapon to destroy Earth. Ael-Dan follows this up with the destruction of the Shi’ar throneworld. The fugitive Iron Man and Hawkeye hatch a plan: Iron Man battles the Accusers to provide a distraction while Hawyeye switches places with Cap. Tony sets his armor to self-destruct, taking Ronan’s forces with him while Clint is executed in Cap’s place. Cap links up with a resistance movement and they free the other Avengers from the labs where they were being subjected to grisly experiments. They heads for the airfield and the blinded Hercules and dying Sersi sacrifice themselves so the others can get away in a stolen ship. They are found by Quasar who takes them to a spaceport where they are reunited with the Shi’ar Avengers team (Thor, Captain Marvel, Scarlet Witch, Living Lightning, Starfox, Vision, Wonder Man). The Earth heroes then team up with the surviving members of the Imperial Guard to take down the Kree empire….


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What If Captain America Had Formed the Avengers?
The Watcher continues his tale of a
fascist America ruled over by Steve Rogers, the former
Captain America, and his cadre of Super-Soldiers....
Government hit squad leader Frank
Castle, wearing the gray and silver armor designed by Tony Stark,
overcomes Namor the Sub-Mariner in the Arctic. The squad imprisons
Namor aboard their ship and also recovers the body Namor found frozen
in ice. They recognize it as Captain America, confusing them since
“Cap” is President of the United States. Cap thaws out and proves
his identity by subduing the hit squad (Castle, Clint Barton, Jasper
Sitwell); the last thing he remembers is the sinking of the Queen
Mary in 1942 which killed all the other Super-Soldiers. Cap frees
Namor who brings Cap up-to-date on the world situation. Cap locks up
Sitwell and Barton; Castle, who was inspired by Cap decides to throw
in his lot with the good guys—and to prove his sincerity he kills
Barton and Sitwell, shocking Cap. Cap persuades them to team up to
overthrow the fascist America and they, Cap, a bearded Namor, and
Castle as Iron Man, form the Avengers....
They consult the list of superhumans
marked for elimination by the government for possible allies and head
to British Columbia (the 57th American state). Cap meets a
veteran named Logan who transforms into the Wendigo to fight them; it
takes some time to convince him of the situation but he joins up and
calls himself...the Hulk....
They head to New Jersey, to the lab of
Dr Hank Pym and find Pym and his wife Anna dead, victims of a hit
squad. They catch a burglar, Samuel “Snap” Wilson, and once they
see his resolution to overthrow the government, they give him Pym's
tech and Sam Wilson joins the team as Giant-Man....
In Westchester, they find the Magnus
Academy a scene of carnage, the students all dead and their leader
Magneto, unwilling to listen to them, vows revenge against the human
world....
The Avengers take advantage of Castle's
security clearance to infiltrate the SHIELD Helicarrier. There they
discover a captive Thor imprisoned by the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak
(stolen from the murdered Dr Strange); they attack and free the
Thunder God and battle the SHIELD Super-Soldiers. Cap realizes that
they are not fighting as a team and are bound to be defeated. Cap
enters the Serum vault where he finds Dr Erskine, kept alive by his
own Serum while being kept in the dark about what is going on. Cap
takes Erskine to a communications center where he shows him the world
created by the Super-Serum. President Rogers appears and reveals
himself to be the Red Skull, his mind transferred into a body cloned
from Captain America's who faked his rescue from the Queen Mary.
The Skull tries to shoot Cap but Erskine jumps in the way saving the
hero who throws the villain into a power grid, electrocuting him. Cap
then rejoins the team and calls “Avengers Assemble” for the first
and last time. Their sacrifice ends the nation's tyranny and America
is free once again....


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What if Wonder Man Had Not Died?
The Watcher reveals a reality in which Wonder Man (tool of
Baron Zemo to destroy the Avengers from within) did not succumb to the poison
he was given by Zemo but saved by an antidote created by Reed Richards. He goes
on to join the Avengers which leads to Giant-Man and Wasp taking leave sooner,
and when Iron Man and Thor choose to leave Wonder Man is part of the new
line-up with Captain America, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, and Hawkeye. Simon and
Wanda are attracted to each other but Pietro strongly disapproves. When Cap
goes, Wondy is the obvious choice for leader, which leads to Doctor Doom
dropping his plans to set the Avengers against the Fantastic Four (AVENGERS
#25) and Swordsman being killed by the Mandarin for balking at a mission
against the heroes. The mission to save the Wasp (A #26) leads to Wasp
rejoining the team and Hank Pym being their scientific adviser, so that Hank
and Janet marry earlier and never have any of the problems they had in “our”
world. Quicksilver rejoins Magneto's gang and, as the Grim Reaper, he battles
the Avengers, leading to a confrontation in which Pietro dies saving Wanda's
life and she retaliates by destroying Magneto. Not long after Pietro's funeral,
Simon and Wanda are married....
“What if the Vision Had Destroyed the Avengers?” Part Two.
Ultron-5 creates an android called the Vision to defeat the
Avengers; he transplants his own brain patterns into it and heads out on his
mission of destruction—which ends with his defeating the Avengers in battle at
their mansion. But then the originals, Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America
arrive and join a revived Wonder Man in bashing Vision around. But Vision gets the upper hand and rips Simon's heart out. Hank becomes Ant-Man and enters
Vision through the mouth and tears out the wiring to his brain. To save Simon's
life, Hank programs Simon's brain pattern into the Vision's body; Wanda doesn't
like it but eventually gets used to it. And the cosmic balance is set aright, thus
sayeth the Watcher.
Hercules (who declines to join the team) and Black Panther
also appear but couldn't fit in the synopsis.
Also includes: “What if the Incredible Hulk—Instead of
Becoming a Legbreaker in Las Vegas—Had Become a High School Monitor?”
Writer: John Rozum. Pencils: Vince
Mielcarek. Inks: Chris Ivy. Colors: Tom Vincent.
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What If The Hulk Killed Wolverine?
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Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, and Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, are in Las Vegas, posing as glamorous guests at the Red King casino. They sneak into a restricted area and enter a secret door that leads to a long-forgotten Soviet base. Fighting a skeleton crew of guards they read the main chamber to find an empty stasis tube. They are too late, the first of the sleepers is awake….
Later, Bucky depresses himself by watching a news report on the controversy that exploded around him when it was revealed that the new Captain America was a former Soviet assassin. Natasha makes him turn it off but his bad memories continue—of his time in the stasis tube between deadly missions for the KGB, his training of other agents as machines of murder, and how he was brainwashed and employed against his own country. Now, three sleeper agents from Project Zephyr have been sold on the black market by the former-KGB man Red Guardian, and Bucky, the Winter Soldier, holds himself responsible for any evil they may do. They contact Jasper Sitwell of SHIELD who explains what they have found: the Vegas sleeper’s handler was Nico Stanovich, living undercover in the US as Nick Stanton for decades—until he got a call. He then murdered his whole family, burned his files, and revived the sleeper. A second handler has been identified as Mickey Bonderant of Minnesota a/k/a/ Mikel Bulgakov. Bucky and Natasha head there and capture him, forcing him to tell what he knows….
The two the proceed to the location of the third sleeper where the buyers, an A.I.M. splinter group called R.A.I.D. (Radically Advanced Ideas of Destruction), are in the process of collecting their prize. Bucky suspects R.A.I.D. is only a pawn of the real mastermind, and he and Natasha infiltrate the facility cautiously—until they are spotted, then the mission becomes a firefight. Bucky makes it to the truck carrying the stasis tube but is fired upon by a Russian-speaking gorilla. Yes, you read that correctly….
In New York, ex-Soviet mad scientist Ivan Kragoff, the Red Ghost, reports to his employer, Madame Lucia von Bardas, ex-Prime Minister of Latveria, and now a cyborg. She is the buyer for the Project Zephyr sleepers and even now, one of them is on a rooftop across from the Latverian Embassy, awaiting the appearance of Doctor Doom. When the armored monarch steps through the front door, the sniper takes aim…fires—and there is a massive explosion….


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The Longest Winter, Part 5 of 5
Lucia von Bardas has seized control of Doctor Doom’s secret missile silo in the Latverian Alps, with the aid of the Red Ghost and the Soviet Zephyr agent Dmitri. Nick Fury is learning from the Winter Soldier and Black Widow that she gained the launch codes from her purchased Doombot. Now aboard a SHIELD spy carrier, Doctor Doom is repurposing Reed Richards’ teleportation rig to get them into the missile base. Bucky, Natasha and Doom materialize inside the base; while Doom and the Widow battle the Red Ghost’s super-apes and von Bardas, Bucky heads further in to stop Dmitri from launching the missiles. Pausing briefly to trick the Red Ghost into his intangible form so he can get by, the Winter Soldier faces the deadly sleeper agent he himself had trained near the silo. As Natasha defeats the apes and Doom shuts down von Bardas by destroying her cyborg eye, Bucky fights for his life against an enemy almost as good as he is. Finally a thrown knife kills Dmitri, and Bucky wonders why his foe did not even attempt to dodge. A fast survey reveals that the Red Ghost has escaped. A deal gives von Bardas to Fury, who agrees not to reveal the existence of Doom’s missile base so long as he dismantles it and keeps secret the fact that the Winter Soldier is still alive. They also discover that Dmitri had disobeyed orders and had never armed the nuclear warheads….
In the Bahamas, Col. Andre Rostov, the Red Barbarian, is living in luxury on the money he received for selling the Zephyr codes on the black market. Suddenly he is gunned down by a hidden sniper….
At a secure holding facility, Lucia von Bardas has one last bit of information for Jasper Sitwell, her interrogator. She was able to revive only two of the Zephyr sleeper agents; the third stasis tube was empty when she found it….


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The Longest Winter, Part Two
Bucky Barnes (the Winter Soldier) and the Black Widow are assaulting a secret facility to stop the terrorist group R.A.I.D. from recovering the third Soviet sleeper agent, when they were fired upon by a Russian-speaking gorilla with a machine gun. Bucky and the Widow try to get into position to fight their odd enemy but the huge ape straps on a jet pack and flies away. Yeah, they don’t believe it either. They meet with their SHIELD contact Jasper Sitwell, who gives them the news of an assassination attempt on Doctor Doom (last issue). From surveillance footage, Bucky recognizes the assassin as Arkady, one of the sleeper agents from Project Zephyr. His mind goes back to that Soviet project to create more expert killers like the Winter Soldier—and he was the one who trained Arkady, Leo, and Dmitri. And now to find redemption he is hunting down these three agents who have been kept in stasis—until now. The intelligent gorilla immediately points to the Russian mad scientist known as the Red Ghost, who was a consultant on Project Zephyr. And so the heroes must uncover who purchased the killers’ activation codes….
In a secret lab in New York, the next sleeper agent, Dmitri, is revived by the Red Ghost….
In Prague, a disguised Nick Fury infiltrates a palatial building, subdues the guards and takes the owner at gunpoint, demanding to know where the next black market auction will be held….
In Chicago, Bucky and Natasha attend the auction undercover and watch the sale of stolen H.A.M.M.E.R. tech to a bidder from Madripoor. When a Pym-particle prototype is offered as the next item for sale, the two agents reveal themselves and fight guards and panicked criminal customers to capture the auctioneer. Bucky demands to know who bought the activation codes for the three Soviet sleeper agents. The auctioneer describes the Red Ghost and assumes he had a grudge against Latveria, because of the other item he bid on….
Elsewhere, the mastermind of the plot against Doctor Doom, Lucia von Bardas, shows off to Arkady her other recent acquisition—a functioning Doombot….


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Broken Arrow: Part Three
Bucky Barnes is at loose ends, worrying about the fate of his partner and lover the Black Widow, who has been kidnapped by the rogue Soviet agent Leo Novokov. SHIELD Agent Jasper Sitwell tries to put himself in the mind of their enemy and he eventually deduces where Natasha might be….
She is starring in a ballet at Lincoln Center in a special performance attended by the First Lady. Bucky and a SHIELD contingent arrive and warn the Secret Service who quietly spirit the First Lady and her party out. Seeing her target vanishing leads the brainwashed Natasha to pursue but she is intercepted by Bucky. The former allies spar on stage and are pinned down by gunfire from Novokov from a catwalk. As Bucky climbs to the walkway to confront the Soviet villain, Jasper engages Natasha. Unfortunately, the Black Widow gets the drop on Jasper with his own gun, prompting Bucky to leap to his rescue, penetrating her conditioning so that she remembers who she is. As Jasper takes her away to be debriefed by Nick Fury, Bucky heads to the villain’s last known base; there he rescues Professor Rodchenko from Novokov’s goons and learns that there was more to the brainwashing than he suspected. He phones SHIELD HQ to warn them, but there is no answer, the room a scene of blood and carnage….


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The Longest Winter, Part Four
Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes and the Black Widow have made contact with Doctor Doom and have warned him about Lucia von Bardas’ plot to wreak havoc with her stolen Doombot. Doom traces the Doombot’s whereabouts to the United Nations Building. Doom and Bucky fly to the scene in one of the dictator’s special aircraft while the Black Widow rides off to locate the Red Ghost, following a lead from Nick Fury. At the UN, Project Zephyr sleeper agent Arkady has accompanied the robot impostor into the Latverian offices and murdered the staff. A sudden trembling in the air gives way to the real Doom’s craft bursting through the wall. As Doom takes on his unstable duplicate, Bucky pursues the fleeing Arkady through the building with only the Winter Soldier trying to avoid harming any innocent bystanders. Finally Bucky corners his quarry on a balcony and the two crack Soviet killers fight it out. Arkady seizes Bucky’s pistol but it has a sensor so that it only works for Bucky. The pistol explodes with the unintended result that Arkady is fatally wounded. As he is dying he explains that the plot was for him to attack the Doombot as a distraction for von Bardas’ next step—but she got what she needed from the robot. Bucky turns on Doctor Doom and asks "What else did you program those things for?"
Meanwhile, Black Widow has arrived at the site of the Red Ghost’s secret lab but finds the place has recently been vacated….
In the Latverian Alps, Lucia von Bardas, the Red Ghost, and Dmitri, the remaining Zephyr agent, invade one of Doom’s missile bases. They kill everyone in the place since von Bardas already has Doom’s launch codes….


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Broken Arrow: Part Two
Winter Soldier and a SHIELD team rush to the site where Black Widow was captured by rogue Zephyr agent Leo Novokov. Elsewhere, Novokov forces Soviet brainwashing expert Professor Rodchenko to aid him in his scheme of revenge by threatening the man’s family. His subject? The captured Black Widow.
Bucky spends a full day questioning underworld thugs and informers, looking for a lead on the villain’s whereabouts but it is Jasper Sitwell who comes through. After the wreckage of Novokov’s copter is found, Jasper identifies it as one stolen in Germany a year ago—and Bucky picks two of Novokov’s henchmen out of the suspects’ photos. Bad news: signs are pointing to an incursion into Russia for Bucky. Later, Jasper meets Bucky at a bar to which the remaining gang members have been lured. Bucky explodes into action, overpowers the men and demands they tell him Novokov’s plans.
Meanwhile, a sniper has shot out a tire, causing a taxi to hit a young ballerina just outside the Lincoln Center and the troupe auditions an outstanding replacement: a red-haired Russian named Natalia….


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It Ends with a Kiss
Having saved the life of the Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes), the Electric Ghost (Tesla Tarasova) surprises him with a kiss. She reveals that her father allowed himself to be slain by the Winter Soldier to prevent his discovery from falling into the hands of the Soviets who would use it as a weapon. She unveils the Tarasova Tesseract, a glowing cube which is the source of her power, and now she wants to bend time and space//she returns to her childhood and instead of murdering her friend Alphonse, as demanded by her trainers, she kills the brutal Master Murder Mouth instead//Tesla proceeds to visit the crisis points in her life, killing her enemies as Bucky pleads with her to abandon her thoughts of revenge…. Finally they reach the cabin where Bucky assassinated her father, she pleads with him to refuse his mission this time, preventing the creation of the Electric Ghost. He declines, insisting they can’t change the past, that he will have to live with this, the choice having made him stronger. She seizes the gun but they wrestle, Tesla inhabiting the body of Father Hammer, but Bucky asks if what she has really chosen is vengeance? They are suddenly cast back to the space station where, in frustration, Tesla shatters the Tesseract, sending the ship in a dive toward Earth. She can sacrifice herself to destroy the station, preventing it from killing civilians. Bucky instead persuades her to join him in his "jump" home, her intangibility shroud being the only thing that will ensure a safe landing. She does so and they plummet into the ocean—but she sinks to the bottom and Bucky is unable to save her….
Later Joe Robards meets with Bucky and explains how his beloved Gina Autry was the only person who accepted him for what he was; he ran from fear but instead of blaming himself, he realized she made her own choices—and Bucky had better do the same.
On the final page we see Bucky reunited with Natasha by the magic of the tesseract….


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(Widow Hunt: Part One)
James "Bucky" Barnes, the Winter Soldier, is summoned to the SHIELD Helicarrier where Maria Hill briefs him on the shocking events which have just taken place. The Black Widow, rescued from Leo Novokov last issue, was being examined and questioned to learn whether her brainwashing had been reversed. Natasha seemed to be back to normal but when Nick Fury entered the room, a second level of mental conditioning kicked in and she grabbed a gun and started firing. Jasper Sitwell threw himself in front of the wounded Fury, giving the ace agent the time to shoot the Widow and hit the red alert. Natasha fled and escaped by hijacking a flying motorcycle. Now Sitwell is dead and Fury is in surgery; Bucky demands to see Professor Rodchenko who performed the brainwashing; the Soviet doctor explains that Leo Novokov had him create a deeper level of conditioning. He had erased all memory of her romance with Bucky and made her believe she had been a deep cover Soviet agent all along. Maria Hill summons Captain America, Hawkeye, and Wolverine (the latter two are surprised to learn Bucky is alive) to join in the search for Natasha. Hill stresses that this mission must be kept secret so as to make it possible for Natasha to return to her real life….
Elsewhere, underground weapons designer Marvin Martin is about to be killed by client covering his tracks; he is rescued by Leo Novokov who recruits him for his mission….
As Bucky trains in the gym, his mind goes back to an idyllic afternoon in Paris with a delightful Natasha. Brooding, he is interrupted by Hawkeye telling him that she has been spotted in Manhattan and it’s time to go to work….


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Black Widow Hunt: Part Four of Five
James Barnes, brainwashed into resuming the deadly persona of the Soviet assassin Winter Soldier by the villain Leo Novokov, is trying to kill Daredevil. Wolverine and Hawkeye are racing to Matt Murdock’s new home, hoping that Bucky doesn’t know that the lawyer no longer lives in Hell’s Kitchen. No such luck, as the two antagonists come crashing through a high window as the heroes arrive in a flying car. DD swings away but the Winter Soldier lands on their hood, disables the controls with several gunshots, sending the aircar plummeting to the ground, and leaps to a rooftop where he reengages Daredevil. DD is holding back since he knows Natasha (the Black Widow) loves him but no such restraint is on the assassin. Wolverine and Hawkeye appear as well to continue the melee. A chopper arrives, its presence masked by the gunfire and explosions; Daredevil alone is aware of it. He distracts Bucky long enough for Captain America to drop from the chopper and knock out Bucky. Leaving DD with no answers, Cap takes the unconscious Bucky back to SHIELD HQ where Novokov’s brainwashing is reversed. Cap takes Bucky to task for his stupid decision to follow the enemy’s orders but Bucky explains he was desperate….
Later, he tries to justify himself to Logan but the X-Man is unsympathetic and they come to blows. Cap steps in to stop the fight but Bucky is still consumed by guilt over his foolishness. Cap scolds both of them then raises Bucky’s hopes with the clue the distraught lover overlooked: the mission against Daredevil was designed to hurt Natasha—meaning Novokov is planning to give her back at the worst moment. Meaning there is still time to save her. The team heads out on the trail of the Black Widow once more….
Meanwhile, at Arlington National Cemetery, Leo Novokov shows Black Widow their target: the Captain America and Bucky memorial….


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Black Widow Hunt: Conclusion
Searching for Leo Novokov and the brainwashed Black Widow, Captain America and Hawkeye capture Novokov’s weapons maker Marvin Martin as he tries to leave the country and learn that he has created a massive bomb for his employer. At SHIELD HQ, the heroes determine three possible points around Washington for the terrorist to plant his device and split up to check out each spot. Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, intuits that he strike zone will be Arlington National Cemetery and heads there to rescue his beloved Natasha. Arriving at the gate he discovers a murdered guard and radios Cap for aid; Cap then alerts the other team members to rendezvous there. Bucky is attacked the Widow and he fires at her knowing she will dodge easily but it will get her out of the way while he targets Novokov. Dodging his two enemies Bucky finally gets the drop on the villain just as his arriving teammates flash spotlights on the area. The Widow distracts Bucky long enough for Novokov to get up—but he takes Natasha hostage, surprising her. The standoff is tense but Hawkeye puts an arrow in Novokov’s leg and Bucky shoots him down. The rescued Widow does not recognize her lover….
The villain survives and is placed in custody, and SHIELD scientists are able to restore Natasha’s memories—all except one. She is unable to recall anyone named James Barnes. Cap assures him that there are a lot more they can try but Bucky declines: he doesn’t want her head messed with anymore…and she’s better off without him. As the Winter Soldier heads off into the night, he faces a life of pain and heartbreak but consoles himself that Natasha will not be in the same situation ….


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The Longest Winter, Part Three
On a deserted New York dock, the Red Ghost has brought Nico Stanovich, handler of the first of the Soviet sleepers, to be executed by his own charge, Dmitri. The reason: by killing his wife and children, which he was not supposed to have had (issue #1), he has brought the attention of the authorities on them. Dmitri pulls the trigger and the careless agent falls into the river. The assassin wonders whether Stanovich’s comment about the Cold War being over is true; the Red Ghost assures him that it isn’t and this time the East will win….
At a SHIELD facility, Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, and the Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff, meet with Nick Fury and their liaison Jasper Sitwell to discuss the current crisis. The assassination attempt on Doctor Doom, which was clearly intended to fail, was designed to provoke a violent reaction, now the Red Ghost will unleash his Doombot on a path of destruction and the real Doom will get the blame, thus leading to war between the United States and Latveria. The only possible mastermind for this plot is Lucia Von Bardas, the US-backed former Prime Minister of Latveria who turned out to be funding supervillains, and who was overthrown by a covert operation of heroes led by Fury; she subsequently returned as a cyborg for revenge, critically injuring Luke Cage. Now Jasper will try to track her down while Bucky and the Widow must prevent a war….
In her lair, Von Bardas activates the Doombot, which believes itself to be the real Doom and is puzzled at why it is taking her orders. The device is then shipped off to where it will be used….
Using technology borrowed from Reed Richards, Bucky and Natasha leap from a SHIELD jet and teleport into the Latverian Embassy. They sneak past the various guards and surveillance systems until they come face-to-face with Doom himself. Believing them to be assassins, Doom attacks with the deadly weapons in his armor. The supervillain easily overpowers Bucky and prepares to deliver a killing blow when the hero manages to warn Doom that he is about to be framed….
Meanwhile, we see Arkady and the Doombot waiting for their order to go into action, seated in a van—outside the United Nations Building….


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Widow Hunt: Part 3
On a dark rainy night in New York, Wolverine is stalking a target—but the quarry is instead stalking him. Sudden gunfire knocks Logan to the rooftop and the Winter Soldier dashes from hiding, armed with a pair of knives and prepared to see how long it takes to kill the X-Man in spite of his healing factor….
Eighteen hours earlier, Bucky Barnes was debating with Hawkeye and SHIELD leader Maria Hill what to do about the ultimatum posed by Leo Novokov at the end of the last issue. Novokov left a hard drive to be implanted in Bucky’s head, restoring his programming as the Winter Soldier and containing a mission he must undertake—or the Black Widow dies. Hill and Clint insisted Novokov can not be trusted, but Bucky didn’t see a choice. So, trusting in his comrades to stop him if he goes too far, he crashed out of the window with the drive and disappeared into the night. Bucky forced Soviet mind control expert Professor Rodchenko to implant the info in his brain, then wiped the Professor’s mind to stop the heroes from following. Captain America was called in and contacted Wolverine to hunt down the Winter Soldier…
…which is where we came in. As the assassin prepares to slay Logan, Hawkeye arrives and fires an arrow—which Winter Soldier parries, then fades away….
Black Widow and Leo Novokov kill the guards at a hazardous waste facility in New Jersey; something in her head does not feel right, however, and she rebuffs Novokov’s romantic overtures….
The Winter Soldier, with Bucky still partly conscious within his mind, runs across the rain-swept rooftops on his mission, pursued by Wolverine and Hawkeye. The two Avengers receive a message from Captain America. Cap tells them that SHIELD was able to recover data from the drive containing Bucky’s implanted mission and they are being sent to warn the target….
Matt Murdock is training within his secret gym when the brainwashed Bucky opens fire on him; donning his Daredevil gear, the blind hero fights back but is startled to see that his enemy is the supposedly dead Bucky Barnes—and the pause gives the Winter Soldier the opportunity to shoot….


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Closer than Enemies
Thirty years ago: carrying out his assignment Soviet assassin Winter Soldier spies on the remote cabin where defecting scientist Dr. Linus Tarasova and his handler, SHIELD Agent Gina Autry are holed up. He takes aim with his sniper rifle and kills both of them as they sit inside the cabin; he then slowly approaches the structure….
Today, Bucky Barnes, ex-Winter Soldier, has SHIELD undercover agent Joe Robards in a Paris safe house owned by Natasha Romanov, the Black Widow. The suicidal Robards wants to leave; Bucky debates telling him he was the one who destroyed Robards’ life by killing Autry all those years ago. On a pier where he sits fishing, the retired Nick Fury has a visit from SHIELD’s acting director Maria Hill who wants to know what Fury intends for Bucky Barnes. Nick explains that he gave Bucky a mission to keep the loss of Natasha (issue #14) from destroying him. Hill questions involving him in the case of the Electric Ghost, but Fury is confident…..
Bucky knows that Tarasova’s daughter Tesla was spirited away after her father’s death and raised to be a killer in the notorious Red Room, and he tells Robards that finding Tesla will lead to Autry’s killer. Their lead is Colonel Petrov a/k/a Father Hammer, who had been his commander during his Winter Soldier days. Petrov fled the collapse of the Soviet Union and established "The Orphanage," a similar training ground for young assassins on a remote island. Bucky has Robards fly him to the island where he is greeted by a series of severed heads mounted on stakes. Soon he comes upon a group of murderous children tormenting one of their former teachers, a big brutish man with steel teeth known as Master Murder Mouth. Bucky steps from the jungle and the kids set their captive upon him. He is good but Bucky is better and he quickly overcomes his foe. He demands to know where Father Hammer is; the girl in charge tells him that he is dead, killed by The Electric Ghost, who freed them. Bucky realizes they are talking about Tesla Tarasova….
Thirty years ago: Winter Soldier enters the silent cabin and finds his two victims dead, plus a third person: Tarasova’s frightened young daughter, who had been drawing pictures of Captain America and Bucky…


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Broken Arrow: Part Two [sic]
At a secret research facility in New Mexico, the last remaining Zephyr agent, Leo Novokov, takes down all the staff he encounters and kidnaps a scientist…..
In the two weeks since Fred Davis was murdered, the Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes and the Black Widow have been on Novokov’s bloody trail, following the corpses he’s left in his wake. They arrive at the science lab to see his latest handiwork and the Widow recognizes the kidnapped scientist as Professor Rodchenko, a Soviet defector who once worked in the Red Room. This was the top secret program where both Bucky and the Widow were trained in their deadly skills. Rodchenko was one of their experts in brainwashing, specializing in implanting false memories in subject. Jasper Sitwell informs Barnes that they are tracking the motor home in which Novokov escaped with his captive….
Somewhere in Colorado, Bucky and Natasha try to board the motor home from the back of a motorcycle in the face of enemy gunfire. They make it aboard only to have Novokov murder the driver and escape to a back-up vehicle which was following. They discover a bomb on board the motor home, set to detonate in 90 seconds. Natasha takes the motorcycle in pursuit of the fleeing villain, while Bucky pilots the vehicle over the highway to an exit. There he manages to send the motor home over a cliff where it explodes while he jumps to safety. Sitwell then notifies him that they have lost contact with the Black Widow. Suddenly Bucky realizes his enemy’s true target…. In a clearing near a radar emplacement, Novokov get the drop on Natasha and stuns her into insensibility….


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Broken Arrow: Prologue
On the trail of the Zephyr Agent unaccounted for at the end of the previous issue, Winter Soldier James "Bucky" Barnes visits the site in San Francisco where the killer was kept in stasis. There, he discovers A.I.M. agents scavenging the premises. Bucky takes them down and finds the stasis tube shattered, likely by an earthquake some time earlier. The question is, where is he now and why has no one heard from him?
Twelve years ago: an Earth tremor freed Leo Novokov from the tube and, amnesiac, he wandered naked into a parking garage where he murdered a policeman and stole his uniform. Leo lived on the streets as a drifter, surviving by any means he can and trying to orient himself to the new world he is in. When the superheroes started making the news, Leo felt drawn to them and headed to New York where he continued his under-the-radar existence. Then, three months ago, he spied the classified ad which caused his mind to clear…. He contacted his controller Boris Kolchek who had been placing the ads since he discovered Leo missing. Leo murders the man, then embarked on a war of his own: seeing the news coverage of the exposure of Captain America as the Soviet agent Winter Soldier and his trial for treason, Leo determines to kill his old mentor for betraying him (by leaving him in stasis: Leo is unaware that Bucky only recently recovered his memory of the Zephyr agents’ existence). As Leo prepared for his mission, Bucky was sent to the gulag, then killed during the events of FEAR ITSELF. But watching the funeral on TV, Leo realized that Barnes was still alive and had dropped off the grid. Then he conceived a scheme to draw him out of hiding….
Bucky and SHIELD have been on the trail of the missing agent; Bucky remembered the classified ad protocol and the murder of Kolchek was discovered. The word comes in that Fred Davis, the now-elderly second Bucky has been shot to death in his home. Bucky heads to the scene with Black Widow and Jasper Sitwell to find a message scrawled on the wall over the victim, "Only one Bucky left." And spying from across the street Leo has drawn out his target….


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A Dark and Heavy Star
Thirty years ago: the Winter Soldier has carried out the assassinations of defecting scientist Dr. Linus Tarasova and his handler, SHIELD Agent Gina Autry at the remote cabin. Now his superior Father Hammer comes in to take charge of the orphaned Tesla Tarasova, intending her for training in the notorious Red Room. Then he has his men set upon the Winter Soldier….
Today, Bucky Barnes enters the A.I.M. data hub known as the Desolation Islands, hoping to find information on the Electric Ghost. There is nothing. He contacts a hologram Nick Fury with the news and accuses the former SHIELD director of lying to him about the mission. Fury defends his action in getting Bucky back in the game where he’s needed. Why? SHIELD’s new Helicarrier has been sabotaged; LMD spies on dangerous world leaders have begun assassinating their targets; a top secret gamma warhead depot near Madripoor has exploded. And Tesla Tarasova, voice of the Electric Ghost has sent them as message indicating this is the fruit of the nation’s dangerous course. And Bucky is the only agent they can send against her because he is believed dead. Her base is aboard the hijacked satellite (issue #15) and it is due to refuel in the Van Allen Belt soon; when the station shuts off its cloaking device is the opportunity to put Bucky aboard. Rogue Agent Joe Robards, having hacked SHIELD’s computers, operates the teleportation platform and sends Bucky to the satellite. He arrives at his destination and kills a maintenance crew to gain entry. He locates the Electric Ghost by means of a built-in tracking device and readies to shoot her—but a cloud of nanites enters his brain halting his actions. A gun composed of cosmic radiation assembles itself in her hand and she demands his secrets. Bucky fires but bullets pass through her. She returns fire, wounding him—and then she recognizes him as the killer of her father….


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Black Widow Hunt: Part Two
Winter Soldier Bucky Barnes and Hawkeye watch the surveillance tapes that show the brainwashed Black Widow in Manhattan. She is seen in pursuit of a speeding car before bringing out a rocket launcher and blasting her quarry to bits. She then smiles for the camera letting Bucky know this has been staged for his benefit. Bucky and Clint join Maria Hill and her SHIELD team as they have identified the dead men in the car. The crooks were part of a gang who had attempted to break into the Baxter Building The rest of the crew has been found dead in the workshop of weapons designer Marvin Martin. They deduce that Leo Novokov sabotaged the Baxter heist and lured the crooks to Martin’s lab in order to kill them and then set up a trap….
At his hideout, Novokov shows Martin to his new workshop and, in answer to the gunsmith’s questions, reveals that the Black Widow is not his lover; he wants to earn her love like the Winter Soldier did….
Mentally reviewing the evidence found at the murder scene of Novokov’s handler, Bucky realizes they are being pointed toward a dead drop in Gramercy Park. Bucky and Clint reach the place and find a slip of paper bearing the address of a secret munitions cache—and the paper has Natasha’s fingerprints on it. Another trap. The two heroes fly a Quinjet out to the munitions dump and discover a team of A.I.M. agents on the scene. Hawkeye fires on them with arrows while Bucky crashes the Quinjet into their craft (thus stranding everyone). They fight their way into the facility and reach the main vault; all the shelves are empty, except for an old hard drive. A screen activates and Leo Nokokov addresses them, explaining that the hard drive contains a mission to be downloaded into Bucky’s head—or he will never see the Black Widow again….


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The Phantom Limb Technique
Tesla Tarasova, the Electric Ghost, relates her secret origin to the gravely wounded Winter Soldier. After her father was killed by Bucky, she was taken by Father Hammer to The Orphanage, where children were trained to be killers for the Soviet cause. There she was taught to be cold and ruthless, with the test being that she had to slay a wounded friend—that day she became the ghost….
Now she holds cosmic power—and desires to show all men they can live without far. Continuing her story, after that grim day, she closed in on herself, honing her intellectual and antisocial gifts, to the point where she became defined by what was absent in her life. On graduation, she was sent to work for Warren Van Owen, recruiter of children for The Orphanage, and she became his lover. Van Owen then sent her to assassinate Father Hammer but she failed, and was nearly killed. She earned her way back into hammer’s graces by killing Van Owen, only later learning that he was a deep cover agent for SHIELD. She studied her scientist father’s research and came to be powered by cosmic radiation and adopting the philosophical principle of the phantom limb—that reality is subjective: it both exists and does not, feels and cannot be felt. She took revenge against all her enemies, finally killing Hammer and recruiting LMDs to her cause by her philosophy that we are nothing. She tells Bucky that his murder of her father was what put her where she is today: on the verge of limitless potential. She heals his wounds, then releases him from his pain—with a kiss….


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Skin to Shed
A pair of SHIELD SuperSEALs are sent into space to retrieve a wayward satellite. The mysterious Madame Hydra seizes control of their bodies by telepathic short wave and removes their safety protocols then triggers the Banner Codes in their DNA, transforming them into Hulks, then she pushes them off the satellite to fall back to Earth….
Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, is in Croatia to locate a Colonel Rajko whose brothers he assassinated in order to make amends. He is attacked in a bar by the Colonel’s agents and his training kicks in and he kills the men in short order. Nick Fury suddenly arrives at the bar to recruit him for a mission, reminding him that this crusade of his is likely to jeopardize his faked death. After listening to Bucky agonize about losing Natasha (last issue), Fury fills him in on the details of the new mission. Joe Robards is a SHIELD agent who has been deep undercover inside HYDRA for years; his handler—and love of his life—Gina Autry, was killed by the Winter Soldier back in his Soviet days. The loyal Robards faithfully carried out his mission for over thirty years, until last night, when he entered a casino and opened fire, killing several HYDRA big shots. He is now barricaded in the casino holding off a squad of HYDRA agents. Now Bucky crashes through the window, gunning down the villains and trying to persuade the suicidal Robards to come with him. There’s a surprise in store though: one of the slain assassins is a member of Dark HYDRA—the occult arm of the organization introduced in CAPTAIN AMERICA: HAIL HYDRA—and will not go down easily. Bucky slices the monster's arm off and several grotesque heads spring from the open wound. Finally Bucky holds the creature still while Robards sets it afire. Robards takes a swing at Bucky who knocks the rogue agent out and carries him off, wondering what made the spy suddenly break cover, and what Nick Fury isn’t telling him—or doesn’t know….


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Winter Soldier and Sharon Carter investigate the man who
claims to be RJ’s father: he’s Richie Boyle, an ex-con who just served time for
bank robbery and DNA shows that he is RJ’s dad. Now Bucky is spying on Boyle
and RJ as they try to reconnect over a restaurant meal; it goes rather
awkwardly for them. Leaving the place, Boyle is confronted by some thugs who
work for a loan shark Boyle owes money to. When they threaten Boyle, RJ takes
action, hitting the hoods where they don’t expect it. Then Winter Soldier appears
and chases them off. Boyle is angry that Bucky was spying on them and stalks
off. RJ asks Bucky to give him a chance at a fresh start….
Bucky goes to Philadelphia and confronts the gangster Boyle
is in debt to, clouting his bodyguard, tossing him some cash, and telling him
to leave Richie Boyle alone. Though the gangster doesn’t believe Richie Boyle
will ever change, he agrees to Bucky’s demands….
Soon, Bucky sets Boyle up in an apartment and gets him a job
as a bartender. The next day, Boyle tells RJ that he has a plan to rob a
high-stakes poker game and needs RJ to be his partner. RJ rejects the idea so
Boyle backs down….
Bucky confides in Sharon that he thinks he’s losing RJ while
Sharon points out that RJ isn’t his to lose…and then Sharon gets a text….
That night, Boyle is leaving work when Bucky confronts him
in an alley; the text Sharon received shows Boyle with Colt, RJ’s Hydra handler
and he knows Hydra has paid Boyle to get the boy back for them. Boyle denies it
and, enraged, he attacks Bucky. Bucky steps aside and Boyle hits his head
against a dumpster and dies of a broken neck….


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RJ is waiting at the restaurant for his father to show up and
doesn’t know why he isn’t answering his phone…
…but it’s because Richie Boyle fatally injured himself in a
fight with Winter Soldier. Bucky shows the body to Sharon Carter, intending to
bury in the woods and let RJ just think his father ran out on him; Sharon
insists he tell RJ the truth….
RJ breaks into his dad’s apartment and is met by Colt, his
former Hydra handler. RJ is angry with Colt’s treatment of him and there is a
fight. RJ manages to take away Colt’s nunchaku and strangle him with it but
Colt produces photos of Bucky with Richie Boyle’s dead body….
Later, Bucky sees RJ leaving the house with all of his
belongings and wants to talk—but RJ knows his father is dead and won’t listen
to Bucky, kicking him down stairs and beating him but Bucky won’t defend
himself and RJ, knowing he can’t kill Bukcy, never wants to see him again and
runs out….
As Colt is sitting in his car, reporting to Hydra that they
will soon have TJ back, he is cut to pieces by automatic weapons fire—in the
hands of RJ. The boy tosses the rifle away and heads off into the night….
Days later, Bucky and Sharon meet at the cemetery where
Richie Boyle has been buried. Bucky is miserable as he knows what it is like to
hate oneself and he wanted to save RJ from all that. Sharon points out the
difference between helping and saving and when his phone rings, Bucky answers
it to speak to the next person needing help….


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As Tony Stark replaces Winter Soldier’s missing cyborg arm,
Sharon Carter informs them that their guest RJ is healing. Bucky goes to see the boy
and brings him up to date on the situation, telling him to stay as long as he
wants and encouraging him to leave his criminal past behind….
Two weeks later and RJ is being counseled by Doc Samson and
he is fed up with the whole thing, believing Bucky is only being nice to him so
the boy won’t kill him. RJ also knows who Doc Samson is, the Hulk’s doctor who
couldn’t help him….
Samson reports to Bucky and Sharon that, because of his
background, RJ has serious trust issues and suggests positive reinforcement.
Meanwhile, RJ sneaks into Bucky’s room and reads his diary….
Later as Bucky is trying to reinforce RJ positively, he gets
a call from another client who suspects he has been made by the enemy; Buck
heads out, inviting RJ along. At a cabin in the Michigan woods, Bucky is trying
to assess the danger to client Seth when the Spot reaches through his portals
and tries to seize him; Bucky grabs the villain and his cyborg arm is severed
by a portal. The three are beaten mercilessly by the Spot using his special powers.
Bucky and Spot fall through a hole into Spotworld where the hero is brutally
beaten. RJ makes sure Seth gets away and then returns with Bucky’s spare arm,
firing his pistols at Spot. He delivers the arm to Bucky and the latter punches
out the bad guy….
Later Sharon questions Bucky’s wisdom in taking RJ on the
mission; RJ, having read Bucky’s diary, knows that while Buck is encouraging
criminals to live better lives, he hasn’t managed to do that himself. Bucky
explains that this mission helps him feel worthwhile again and he tries to make
every day better than the last. He assures RJ that he doesn’t have to be a
killer anymore and that he doesn’t have to be alone anymore….
Arriving back at home, they encounter a man skulking around
the house who claims to be RJ’s father….


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In a New Jersey diner two years ago, Mr
Colt ordered a large breakfast for himself and nothing for his young
protege. Colt tells the boy that only when a talented person lives up
to potential is he worthy of love. The boy is good at killing; Colt
shows him photos of some failed killers and says they are going to
make him better than them. Colt hands the kid a knife and sends to to
kill the two men in the back booth if he wants to eat. He commits the
deed and returns, bloody, to the table; because he was sloppy, Colt
swipes the food off the table and forces the boy to eat off the
floor. We see that among the failed killers in the photos is the
Winter Soldier....
Now in a Wisconsin bar, the boy,
dressed as Bucky Barnes, stands over the wounded Winter Soldier and
prepares to kill him with a machete; the waitress conks the kid on
the head with a coffee pot and when he turns, Bucky is on him,
hurling them both through the window onto the street. There is a
scuffle, the kid hurls a tear gas bomb then attacks with the machete
which is made from Vibranium as it cuts into Bucky's bionic arm.
Bucky then uses the exposed electronics in his arm to deliver a
serious shock to the kid....
The boy awakens on the back of Bucky's
bike as they head for somewhere safe. Bucky tries talking to the kid,
who turns out to be part of Hydra, asking him if he likes killing,
trying to get through to him. Unknown to Bucky, the kid activates a
transmitter in his tooth. Further down the road, the white-clad Mr
Colt places a spiked trap across the road; Bucky runs into it,
blowing his tires and causing a crash. Colt, bearing a nunchaku in
each hand, attacks Bucky, ridiculing him as has-been. Colt tells his
protege this was his last test and he failed; Bucky confronts him and
the villain shoots down the kid and Buck. The latter seizes a burning
nunchaku and sets Colt's clothes aflame, giving him the opportunity
to beat the Hydra killer to a pulp. Bucky calls Tony Stark for help;
at this the boy finally tells Bucky his name: RJ....


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Chicago: a trio of crooked cops are
plotting to rob a band of drug dealers under cover of a legitimate
police raid. One of the men, Arthur Hayes has had second thoughts and
contacted the Winter Soldier; Bucky meets with Hayes to prepare him
for his disappearance into a new life. Hayes' partners show up
unexpectedly at his door and Bucky fights them, though one has the
power to create some sort of ectoplasmic tentacles. When a gang of
armed men arrive, Bucky grabs Hayes and crashes through a window and
they get away by motorcycle....
At his secret hideout in Shelbyville,
Indiana, Bucky has repairs made to his damaged bionic arm by Tony Stark;
Sharon Carter aids Bucky in vetting the requests for help
while Bucky makes the final decisions. His HQ is in Shelbyville as it
is centrally located in the US and also because it's where he grew
up. He gets a call for help from a former client and heads out to
meet the fellow at a bar in Wisconsin. Terry, a former Hydra
torturer, is having a difficult time fitting into his new life but
when he casually mentions that he has been in contact with his old
girlfriend, Bucky barely has time to react before a Hydra assassin
fires through the windows, killing Terry. Bucky pursues but he is
immediately shot in the chest multiple times, a vest protecting him
but he is still knocked on his back. He looks up to see his
assailant—and it's boy (RJ) who looks just like the young Bucky
Barnes....


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Winter Soldier: the Bitter March, Part 2
1968: SHIELD Agent Ran Shen is trying to escort ex-Nazis Peter and Mila Hitzig out from behind the Iron Curtain to keep their Alchemy Formula out of enemy hands; he contacts SHIELD scientist Horace Littleton (the future Dr. Mindbubble) who links him up with a train to the West. At this point, the Soviet Agent Winter Soldier catches up to them, leading Ran Shen to fight his way past him and Hydra goons to make the train. We see, however, that it is Winter Soldier’s memory of Captain America training him to never shoot a man in the back that allows the SHIELD agent to escape….
Aboard the train, the Hitzigs want to know what will happen to them in America. Peter’s arrogant Nazi diatribe prompts an angry response from Ran and he departs in a huff. Mila explains that she didn’t want the Alchemy Formula to fall into Nazi hands but Peter betrayed her and she was forced to cooperate with them….
In the dining car, Peter Hitzig meets with Hydra Agent The Drain who prepares him for their rescue that evening. As Mila and Ran are bonding over their political views, Winter Soldier crashes in through the window and locks Ran in a death-duel. Then The Drain’s henchman with electrified hands enters through the doorway….


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Winter Soldier: the Bitter March, Part 4
As the bombed train flies off the bridge, Ran Shen fires a grapple and cable so that he and Mila Hitzig can swing to safety—and then watch in horror as the train crashes into a village below….
Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier is holding onto The Drain as he attempts to escape with a jet pack. The villain exerts his psychic power to convince Bucky that he is a disgrace to everything Captain America stands for—and he lets go….
In the village, while the citizens try to escape the flames, Ran and Mila hide out in a safe building, but The Drain finds them and uses his power to turn Ran’s fears and doubts into a weapon against him. When Ran doesn’t respond, Drain manipulates several villagers into killing themselves. This ghastly sight compels Mila Hitzig to surrender to the villain. Wearing Shocky Dan’s electric gauntlets, Ran challenges The Drain and the baddie turns his power on him, overwhelming him with his own doubts about America and his mission and believing he has shamed his family—suddenly he is rescued by the arrival of the Winter Soldier but Drain is able to escape by using Mila as a shield. Ran is rescued by the Soviet killer, who is now mostly aware of his true identity, Bucky Barnes. Bucky and Ran trail Drain to the edge of a cliff, where they beat him down; the villain though, commands Mila to jump by convincing her that her discovery will only endanger the world. Bucky swings down on a cord to catch her and Ran savagely beats and stomps The Drain….


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Winter Soldier: the Bitter March, Part 1
1966: ex-Nazis Peter and Mila Hitzig have successfully completed Arnim Zola’s long failed pet project known as the Alchemy Formula. Now the Hitzigs are prisoners of HYDRA; SHIELD Agents Nick Fury and Ran Shen are sent to rescue them. The two take out some guards as they approach HYDRA’s mountain stronghold. They make a bet over who will get in first: Fury plans to enter through the sewer pipes but Ran Shen has a better idea…
…he infiltrates the big cocktail party within where HYDRA leader Chancellor Cassandra announces that they have the Alchemy Formula, planning to destroy the world’s economy with an influx of new gold. Ran flirts with a gorgeous redhead and they sneak off to look around the castle and tour a classic villain lair section. They kiss (as he steals her pass card) and Ran finds she has passed parasites into his mouth—she’s Madam Worm and she captures men’s minds this way. Nick Fury arrives and blasts her with a flamethrower, knocking her down a missile silo. The Agents free the Hitzigs and take them up to the roof to evacuate. A figure leaps out, knocks down the agents, grabs the Hitzigs, and soars off the cliff on mechanical wings. The SHIELD men pursue with similar flying devices. Fury attacks the enemy agent forcing him to drop his prisoners; Ran seizes them and carries them to a barely non-fatal landing. Fury goes down and Ran realizes that their opponent is the legendary Soviet agent, the Winter Soldier….


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Winter Soldier: the Bitter March, Part 3
On a speeding train, SHIELD Agent Ran Shen is locked in combat with the Winter Soldier when Hydra Agent Shocky Dan enters the compartment. The interloper blasts Winter Soldier as Peter and Mila Hitzig flee. Ran Shen then takes on Dan but finds him a tough customer—until he sprays a caustic chemical in the bad guy’s face. By this time Winter Soldier has recovered and he fires three bullets into Ran’s chest at point blank range; Ran releases a smoke bomb and crawls out the room. The assassin follows the trail of blood down the corridor but Ran ambushes him using Shocky Dan’s electric gauntlets. Winter Soldier is too fast for him and Ran is again at his mercy, when Bucky recalls Captain America telling him not to murder a defeated for, and he leaves.
Meanwhile, Mila Hitzig discovers that her husband has cut a deal with Hydra. They enter the dining car to discover that The Drain has manipulated everyone in the car to kill themselves. No longer needing him, The Drain hypnotizes Peter into shooting himself.
In the Soviet Union, Winter Soldier’s handlers, realizing his Bucky memories are returning, order him to abort the mission but he refuses, insisting he is all right….
A critically injured Ran Shen makes it to a hypo in his luggage…
The Drain dons a jet pack, ordering his henchmen to remain in the train while the bomb they have planted ticks down to the countdown. The Winter Soldier arrives and starts shooting; he grapples with Drain and the two go flying out of the train into a massive chasm below. Ran Shen enters using a metal ladder with Shocky Dan’s gauntlets to take down the other Hydra agents. In midair, The Drain uses his powers of persuasion to remind Winter Soldier of who he once was—and how he has sullied the legacy of Captain America, ordering the assassin to kill himself….
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Winter Kills
Christmas Eve 1944: Bucky Barnes recalls what he did not know would be the last Christmas of the War. He and Toro are on their way to a holiday party; Steve is too busy with military matters to join them, so they head off alone for what Bucky also did not realize would be his own last Christmas for several decades….
Now Bucky—the Winter Soldier—is facing his first Christmas since then, so he walks the city streets solitary and aimless. He receives a call from Nick Fury who asks him to check up on three members of the Young Avengers. Patriot, Hawkeye (the female one) and Vision (the new one) are about to assault a warehouse, thinking it is one of Tony Stark’s secret factory. They are wrong: it is a Hydra base and they would be ruining a lengthy SHIELD operation. Winter Soldier intercepts them, and after a brief skirmish, gives them Fury’s warning. Unfortunately, the commotion is heard by a Hydra sentry; Bucky kills him with a thrown arrow (!) and they are forced, with Fury’s blessing, to clean up the terrorist base. They make short work of the baddies and Bucky hurries off to his intended destination: Jack Monroe’s grave. He can only apologize to the man he killed (while under Aleksander Lukin’s brainwashing) and wishing Jack’s idolizing of Bucky hadn’t warped his life. The three Young Avengers have followed him to the cemetery though, and have learned through Vision’s database who Bucky really is. They tell him it was an honor to serve with him. He tells them that, to him, Christmas has been about looking back on the good and the bad. Jack Monroe was one of the bad things for him and the good is still to come. He advises them to not let the struggle against evil steal everything good from life.
His mind drifts back to that party in 1944: after literally pushing Toro toward an attractive woman, he meets Steve who chose to come after all. Bucky lets Steve in on his next plan: maneuvering Toro and his dance partner over toward the mistletoe….
Back in the present, his next errand takes him to another cemetery where he meets with Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner. Together they visit the grave of Thomas "Toro" Raymond, and Bucky asks how his old pal died. "It’s not a short story," Namor replies. Bucky says, "I’ve got nowhere else to be."


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Amour in armour
Tony Stark has come on a motorbike to a public garden in Kyoto, Japan to see Rumiko Fujikawa to persuade her that he's not the coward she thinks he is (after he 'ran away' and 'let' Iron Man and Rumiko handle things in a volcanic eruption in #4 and against Ultimo (#23-25)). She's cold towards him but he melts her with a kiss. She then takes his bike with him on the pillion for a hair-raising ride to a company called Askew-Tronics.Inside he's introduced to her friend Professor Jennifer Smith who tells him about SKIN (Synth-Kinetic Interfacing Nanofluid). The company have created strands of synthetic DNA and a chemical to fuel them but the result isn't yet strong enough to operate as a nano-machine. She's hoping she can persuade Tony to consult with them. Tony is interested in its potential use as liquid information, a digital fluid. It also has possible uses in Iron Man's armour.Suddenly an explosion hits the room. Prof Smith leads everyone to evacuation tubes. Tony makes sure everyone else is out but the ceiling falls on him before he can follow. He manages to remotely activate a package on the motorcycle outside, where other shots are hitting the street. The package flies away just before the bike gets totalled. It enters the damaged building and blasts the debris off Tony. And then it expands to enclose him in the Iron Man armour.The Golden Avenger flies out to see a flying craft in the elaborately twisted shape of an oriental dragon. And it is surrounded by a lot of copies of his original bulky yellow armour, all shooting repulsor rays at targets on the ground. A loud voice from the dragon says they are the Sons Of Yinsen and demands that a prisoner of war, the yokozuna, be handed over. Tony of course recognises the name Yinsen as the scientist who helped him create the 1st IM armour when they were captives of Wong-Chu. He scans 1 of the suits and finds it identical to that design, but operated remotely.However they are no match for his modern armour and weaponry. He blasts some from the sky and prepares to deal with the falling debris. But the dragon-craft beats him to it, showing that these 'terrorists' are unusually concerned about sparing human lives. But then the foe tries another tactic. The remaining 'old Iron Men' cluster closely round him in a ball trying to crush him. He responds with an EMP, but these suits are obviously shielded against that. He reasons that to achieve that they must be totally airtight. Then he kicks a boot free and jets the whole ball into space where air trapped inside them causes them to explode.Leaving their bits to burn up on re-entry Iron Man heads back to Kyoto and finds the dragon-ship gone. On the way he searches the Internet but finds no mentions of Sons Of Yinsen. He returns to Askew and is relieved to discover Rumiko and the others all safe. But she of course is worried about Tony Stark. He enters the ruined building, exits his armour and puts it on remote control. Thus he appears next carrying himself to hospital.It turns out that Tony has been relating this adventure to his holographic psychiatrist Jocasta. Tony has provided the hologram with an obviously unreal head but a sexy female body. He assures her that it's to put *both* of them at ease. She responds that his 2 favourite things were always women and machines. And he tells her Rumiko has already agreed to a date.


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The Last Best Hope of Earth
On a visit to New York, Captain America sees the spacecraft E.V.A.
crash to the ground and an injured Wolverine falls out. The holograph image of
mutant/cyborg Fantomex appears and addresses them but they are attacked by a
band of green-visored killers. Cap and Logan tear into them, discovering that
they are strong, fast—and easily destroyed. Cap unmasks one to find his own
face looking back. The Fantomex recording tells Cap that all the varied super-soldier
projects since he was created are connected and inspired by Cap’s example….
1945: Young Billy Junger dresses as Cap and stands up to
bullies, unsuccessfully, and then the news reports that Captain America and
Bucky are missing and presumed dead….
The Fantomex tape continues relating how he uncovered the big
weapons conspiracy and the notes of a murdered reporter led him to a Cap fan
named Billy Junger and coordinates….
1953: Billy Junger demands to be included in super-soldier trials
and his fanatical determination and threats lead to his being added to the project….
Cap and Logan discover a hidden underground lab with subjects
still in glass tanks. A cyborg bear smashes loose and attacks the two heroes.
The fight is brutal and futile until Cap realizes it is being controlled
remotely and smashes the receiver in its head….
1974: Super-strong Billy Junger, still wanting to serve his
country, is encouraged by a scientist to continue his work, the last great
[sic] hope of Earth….
Cap and Logan trace the bear’s signal to the Swiss Alps,
arriving in E.V.A. to discover everyone at the lab has been killed recently and
info on “Weapon XXX” being purged. The killer is a psychopath called Adam in a
Captain America uniform who is stronger than the two of them and has Wolverine’s
healing factor as well. As they fight, Junger, from a remote location, orders
the lab destroyed. Logan smells the coming explosion and he and Cap barely make
it out, caught by E.V.A. in midair, though Adam dies. The two vow to track down
Weapon XXX for the sake of Billy Junger and others; Junger though vows to
remind Cap of what he once stood for, as something ghastly percolates in the
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The Infinity Watch - part 5
In his 2023 series Thanos bound Death in a new Infinity Stone, the Death Stone. His 2024 Annual started both storylines running through this year's Annuals.In the main Infinity Watch stories the bearers of the other 6 Infinity Stones are gradually coming together. Overtime (Time Stone), Quantum (Space Stone) and Star (Reality Stone) met in the Thanos and Amazing Spider-Man Annuals. The Immortal Thor and Ms Marvel Annuals brought in Otherone (Power Stone) and Multitude (Soul Stone), and now those 2 continue their odyssey here.In the backup Death Stone Saga the Death Stone has resurrected Phil Coulson.Wolverine and his motorbike are travelling through northern British Columbia, Canada making an annual pilgrimage. He stops at a remote filling station to pick up a long thin package from the owner Lee who is an old friend, and then he moves on. Overhead Multitude (the synthezoid named Ward) and Otherone (now going by the super-id Apex) are flying on an orange dragon-like creature created by Mult, searching for other Stones. And the voices in Ward's head direct them to Wolvie. 2 Stones close together make both more powerful, and he now hears many more souls' voices that were too weak before. And Apex is eager to increase his physical power more by recruiting another Stone bearer.He leaps down onto a bridge that Logan is crossing, shattering part of the roadway and causing the bike to halt. He demands the bearer join them or he'll take the Infinity Stone by force. Logan says he doesn't want a fight on this special day but Apex insists. But he doesn't feel any increase in strength. Multitude joins them and tells Apex he recognises Wolverine, a good guy but dangerous. But the strongman is now consumed with battle lust. However Ward stands between them and tells Logan that the Soul Stone drew them to him. They thought it was because he had another Infinity Stone but now M knows it's something different.Apex is fed up with all this talk and attacks Wolverine. Logan refuses to fight back because A is further damaging the bridge and there's a family in their car trapped with them. Apex throws him off the bridge but Wolvie uses his claws to save himself. Apex just exults that this will make a better fight. Ward tries to talk him down but Otherone says the Power Stone is filling him with the urge to fight. Wolvie gets back on the bridge and A throws his bike at him. W's claws slice it in 2. Logan's still holding back so A tells him to fight or he'll kill the family.At that point he's interrupted by an oversized orange Hulk that Ward has created. Multitude reminds A that he's not a killer. When he destroyed his own planet it was an accident (as revealed in his origin in the 2021 Guardians Of The Galaxy Annual). In the background we see Wolvie free the car from the rubble its back wheels are stuck in, and it zooms away to safety. Ward now thinks maybe the Soul Stone wants Wolverine to help them. But the warrior madness makes Otherone attack his ally and throw him a long way away (so the 'Hulk' fades away).But this also means that the power boost from the other Stone also fades. And Wolverine's given up being passive. Wolvie pretty much wins the ensuing fist fight until he sees that his package has broken open revealing a single rose. This is the last straw and he unsheathes his claws to brutally attack his foe. Otherone expects to die ...... but Logan is stopped by the voice and sight of Rose O'Hara, whose soul Multitude has manifested. Hers was the voice which guided him to Wolverine so she could now tell James (Logan) that she didn't blame him for accidentally killing her, and she's proud of all the good he's done since. She forgives him and loves him, but now she has to go.Apex is now reinvigorated by the proximity of the other Stone. But it also warps his personality again. He declares Wolverine a weakling for seeking forgiveness and prepares to kill him. But Multitude brings forth the souls of Otherone's mother and older brother and others from the home planet he destroyed. He hopes for forgiveness from them, but they instead hope his guilt torments him forever. They too vanish away. Otherone asks Wolverine to kill him, but Logan gives him a 'with great power' speech and says that the only way to counter the guilt is to use his power for good.With the help of Multitude's 'dragon' and 'Hulk' constructs they repair the bridge. Logan tells Ward that he would have killed Apex if he hadn't sent Rose's ghost to stop him. Ward says that it was Rose who saved them both. Logan asks if he's sure he can keep Apex under control. Ward replies that Otherone is slowly learning. Wolvie warns him that if Apex loses control then he'll come back to finish the job. Ward says that's what he would want.The story ends with Logan laying the rose at Rose O'Hara's grave.Story 2:- The Death Stone Saga chapter 5Writer Derek Landy. Artist Sara Pichelli. Colourist Mattia Iacono. Letterer Travis Lanham. Editor Nick Lowe.In the Ms Marvel Annual Nick Fury Jr found Phil Coulson's grave broken open and the body gone. Now he gets a phone call (while fighting AIM Agents for some possibly unconnected reason) from Wolverine to tell him that Infinity Stone bearers are active. Maybe Wolvie asked around and learned about other Stone stuff because after the call Fury knows about the Death Stone. He remembers that Nighthawk (of Mephisto's Squadron Supreme Of America) was looking for Infinity Stones (in the Infinite Fury backups in the 2021 Infinite Destinies Annuals crossover event) and he (amazingly correctly) puts 2 and 2 together to deduce that Nighthawk has Coulson.In the last chapter we saw Phil tied to a chair. We now learn that Nighthawk has been using behaviour modification techniques on him (that did affect Fury in the ID/IF backups). But Coulson has resisted it all. He credits his indomitable will but NH thinks it's due to the Death Stone inside him. He threatens to physically remove the Stone.The villain leaves him and Phil continues to find that the Death Stone is no help in escaping his bonds. But Nick arrives to cut the ropes (luckily NH is still using the same base as in ID/IF). Phil fills him in on what's happened, including that NH has a scanner that can track his Death Stone energy. 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Tomorrow Dies Today Conclusion
Future:
Roxxon scientists create a human brain running an AI with human emotions
programmed in but tabled. Deathlok Prime is sent on his murderous missions with
his bloodthirsty human brain kept in check by the AI….
Present:
Miranda Bayer holds a knife to the throat of the kid who will grow up to be
Deathlok Prime while DPrime from the future holds a gun on her. She threatens
to kill the boy to prevent the cyborg from coming into existence and DPrime is
torn between the human’s instinct to kill everyone and the AI’s desire to
understand compassion. Wolverine enters and tries to talk Miranda out of
killing the boy, suggesting that her visions sent her to the kid so she could
save him. DPrime is confused//future Miranda Bayer battles Deathlok Prime and
suddenly realizes what to do—she asks DPrime to kill her—which he does. Word
gets to the General but he remains silent….
Present:
The assembled Avengers—Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Spider-Man, Luke Cage,
and Spider-Woman, led by Steve Rogers—are fighting the Deathloks while Thing
and Iron Fist evacuate the children. Deathlok Prime comes to a certain peace,
the AI, interested in human emotions has submerged the human killer inside and
wants to explore the topic. He rejects his programming and joins the Avengers
against the Deathloks….
Future:
The dying Miranda Bayer has recognized Deathlok Prime as the man she came to
love decades earlier while aiding him in learning to be human. DPrime continues
in his mission to lead the Deathloks to the past to kill anyone who has the
potential to become the resistance’s mysterious leader. The General learns that
all of his fighters are dead and has nothing to say….
Present:
The Deathloks are defeated and Miranda thinks she can prevent the boy from
growing up to be a serial killer; DPrime tells her she can’t change that and
vanishes, leaving a lot of confused Avengers. Deathlok, mastering its human
side, is free to explore the world, picking up a rabbit’s foot as a memento of
the day….
Future:
The aide informs the General that Bayer and her team are all dead and the
Deathloks have teleported to the past, asking what orders he has for their
agent there. The General relays instructions to take the boy to a certain
orphanage where he will be abused and grow up to become a serial killer. The
aide is taken aback but the General—revealed to be Deathlok Prime—is certain….


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Tomorrow Dies Today Part 4
Future:
A vicious serial killer is sprung from prison to be part of a Roxxon
experiment, the first step of which involves shooting him in the head. When he
wakes up he is a cyborg called Deathlok Prime and Roxxon is celebrating. His
killing instincts controlled by a computer, he is dispatched to execute
Roxxon’s enemies. He was present when Wolverine was killed (issue #12) and
stood firm as the resistance attacked, his human mind exulting in the number of
people he has killed….
Present:
Deathlok Prime approaches Miranda Bayer with murder on its mind but the AI
freezes up when it gets too close to her. Wolverine and Captain America (Bucky
Barnes) rush to her rescue and battle the killer cyborg. Miranda tries to run
with Wakowski but Deathlok Prime summons two more of his kind to the scene and
they go after the fleeing Miranda//in the future, Bayer sends Wakowski to bomb
the Roxxon time portal but young Evan Wakowski is killed in the present and
vanishes from the future attack. The General orders instructions sent back to
their agent in the present and it turns out to be the confused Miranda, who is
not psychic merely informed from the future. Present Miranda leads the
Deathloks to the Youth Development Center as Steve Rogers, Spider-Man and
Luke Cage arrive on the scene. As the heroes fight the Deathloks, Miranda enters the
Center with Deathlok Prime right behind//in the future, Bayer hurls a bomb at
the time portal but it is caught by Deathlok Prime//in the present, DPrime
finds Miranda holding a knife to a boy’s throat—it is DPrime as a child….Avengers also on site include Thing, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), and Iron Fist.


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Tomorrow Dies Today Part 1
Jeffrey
K. Winstone, with a body made of rock, sets out on his career as the superhero
Slag but is immediately killed by a Deathlok, who moves on to his next target….
Wolverine
and Steve Rogers go on a pub crawl to celebrate the latter’s recent return from
the dead; Nightcrawler will serve as their designated driver in a borrowed jet
from the X-Men….
Deathlok
approaches a young couple on a rocky first date; informing them that they will
marry and have a child who will go on to be a superhero, he guns them down in
the street….
In
Polynesia, Logan and Steve sit in a bar, talking about various things going on
in their lives. Then a big guy complains about Logan’s choice of Hank Williams
on the jukebox and is thrown through the window for his troubles. Nightcrawler
calls Cyclops to say he’s won the bet with Logan lasting this long before
starting a fight….
Deathlok
slaughters several guards and staffers to enter a hospital to kill babies in
the maternity ward….
Returning
to New York, Steve and Logan part company to head home. Moments later, Logan is
approached by a young woman named Miranda Bayer who claims she has had visions
of the future and that Deathloks are now killing people who threaten that
future….
With
the death of latent telepath Winston Rowe, the Deathloks are assigned their new
target: Captain America….