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Crossover continuing from AVENGERS (1998) #31 where we learned, amongst other things, that Wonder Man is missing.Meanwhile the Thunderbolts have just had an adventure (#41) involving Sandman. And lots of subplots are evolving which I'll mention as they come up.Erik Josten (Atlas) is in a bar in Burton Canyon, Colorado below the team's base in Mount Charteris. He's about to unburden his woes on the regular barmaid Wilma, without revealing the fact that he's a superbeing and member of the Thunderbolts - especially as he's recognised her as Man-Killer of Crimson Cowl's Masters Of Evil who they defeated in #25. (But we get the complete details).He'd fallen in love with Dallas Riordan, their liaison to the Mayor of New York when they were stationed there. But when they were revealed to really be Baron Zemo's Masters Of Evil (#10) they had to go on the run and Dallas lost her job. She then secretly turned up as the heroic Citizen V (#16) but was herself framed as their foe Crimson Cowl (#25), but it was all sorted out after they met CV's team the V-Battalion. However not before she was rescued/abducted by Crimson Cowl's cape (#39), again throwing doubt on her allegiance.But his outpouring is cut short when someone he recognises attacks the bar.Meanwhile Dallas in her Citizen V garb is confronted by her captor Cowl, but still finds time to remember her youth when her father, cop Jimmy Riordan, pushed her to become athletically fit. She knew it had something to do with her grandfather who died in mysterious circumstances in Europe after WWII. (We see him lying at the feet of grieving Destroyer (Roger Aubrey) and Silver Scorpion (Elisabeth Barstow).) And she eventually joined the police to please him. Now she attacks Cowl with 2 pieces of pipe but is easily defeated by her formidable cloak.CC then explains her earlier interaction with Dallas. In #24 Citizen V interfered with her plans and was captured. Then in #25 she teleported Dallas into a non-functioning copy of her Cowl garb and allowed her to be 'unmasked' by the TBolts. This set things up for conflict between the 'Bolts and the Battalion. which unfortunately was over far too quickly and painlessly. Now her usefulness is over and it's time to die. But CV has an em-pulse generator designed just for this eventuality which scrambles the cloak's circuits and leaves its owner vulnerable to a beating.Back at the bar we see that the assailant is Wonder Man. Erik saves Wilma and she urges him to go fight the foe. It turns out *she* recognised *him* too. Atlas grows taller (and thus stronger) but tries to talk Simon Williams down. After they met in #11-12 the Avengers agreed to give the Thunderbolts the chance to prove they really were heroes. But WM doesn't talk, just punches, and Atlas hits back. Then he tells Wilma he knows she's really Man-Killer and asks for her help in the battle.Now we turn to TB HQ where the rest of the team are trying to locate Moonstone who walked (flew) out last issue mid-battle, but tech-whiz Ogre is failing miserably. Songbird thinks they should be looking for Jolt's killer (between #34-35) instead. But leader Hawkeye says that won't bring Hallie Takahama back, but Karla Sofen was in a bad way when she left and she might need their help.We know that Ogre is really their old team-mate Techno (Norbert Ebersol) who remained with Baron Zemo when the rest of the team revolted against him. He replaced Ogre in #33 and stashed him in a suspension tube. There are 2 others in tubes, 1 of which is obviously Jolt's bioelectrical form but the other is as yet unrevealed. However the new Scourge who has been secretly stalking the corridors since #38 knows Techno's secrets too.But now Ogre picks up a police report on the fight between Atlas and Wonder Man ...... which Josten is losing hard. At least Wondie's talking now. Erik again tries to get Simon to stop for the sake of civilian casualties. But then kicks him into another building. He has another stab at getting Wilma to help but she doesn't want to become a 'hero' like the TBolts. And she thinks he might also be angling for her to become his girlfriend. She tells him her name's not Wilma but Katrina Van Horn, and she calls herself Man-Killer for a reason which precludes any romantic involvement with him. And then she runs off as Wonder Man slams into him.Elsewhere Crimson Cowl is running from Citizen V, then showing that she doesn't depend on her cape to fight back. We pull back to see that this is taking place in a lonely hi-tech base atop a sea-cliff. Now Dallas is doubting the reasons why she followed the path which led to her joining the V-Battalion on the invitation of Roger Aubrey after the Mayor fired her, a job which her grandfather had but her father had refused. And she took on the long-dormant mantle of CV, which identity Zemo had borrowed and besmirched in the early issues of this series. But now she realises that it isn't vengeance (against Thunderbolts or Crimson Cowl) that drives her, or honour, guilt or the law. She just wants to fight evil, and Cowl qualifies.CC has reached a flying craft on a VTOL platform jutting out high over the sea. CV stops her entering and their fight takes them to the edge of the platform. Dallas goes over the railing, clinging to Cowl's cape. The villainess is willing to expose her identity if it means her foe's death, so she slips the cloak and hood off and watches her fall to the water far below. Dallas' last word before she hits is Erik's name.Burton Canyon High School is hit by the plummeting body of Atlas. Student Charlie Burlingame slips away and changes to Charcoal's flaming form to fly up to fight Wonder Man in mid-air. Again Simon Williams refuses the chance to talk and hits the boy, shattering him into pieces of his charcoal body.At this point the TBolts arrive. Mach-2 catches Charcoal's head, and Charlie says it hurts but he'll be able to reassemble his body. Hawkeye and Songbird join them just in time to see Wondy flying off with unconscious Atlas. Mach-2 is shocked to see that WM has his hand inside Erik's chest. But Hawkeye explains that it's because they're both made of ionic energy. And now it's time to call the Avengers.The crossover continues in AVENGERS (1998) #32.


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Crossover continued from AVENGERS #33.In the last few issues of both titles the Thunderbolts and the Avengers have been worrying at the same problem from different ends. Now Earth's Mightiest Heroes have invited the TBolts, still technically wanted criminals, over to Avengers Mansion to discuss strategy. Most worried is seemingly African-American Mach-2 Matt Davis who is really Mach-1 Abner Jenkins who is supposedly in jail. Also present are team leader Hawkeye, Songbird and Charcoal with tech-whiz Ogre on a hologram link from the 'Bolts HQ, plus Black Widow who was helping them last issue. (Moonstone is missing and Jolt is (Marvel-)dead. And Ogre is secretly actually ex-member Techno in disguise.)The Avengers are here en masse:- Goliath, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Triathlon, Vision, Warbird and team leader Wasp with disapproving Government liaison Duane Freeman and guest Madame Masque.Iron Man explains that Count Nefaria has gained control of sometime-Avenger Wonder Man and TBolt'er Atlas, all 3 of them beings of ionic energy, and he's also got the Maggia working for him. He's got some world-control plan and his daughter Madame Masque is helping them figure out what it is. (All in Av#31-33.)The TBolts side of things has been in #42-43. Black Widow, with kibitzing from Hawkeye, tells the Avengers that after she left them in #32 she went to investigate the Maggia and discovered that they were collecting machinery to control ionic energy. She went to the Thunderbolts (last issue) for info on Baron (Heinrich) Zemo's ionic process that empowered both Atlas and WM. Then they all went to search Zemo's old castle in Central America where they encountered Cyclone of the Maggia. He escaped but they caught ionic energy scientist Karl Malus (after the end of the issue) who told them what he knows of Nefaria's plan in hopes of leniency.Goliath and Ogre agree that Nefaria is building an ion emission device but they don't know why. Malus then leaks some more info. Nefaria's control of Atlas and Wonder Man was to demonstrate he could control anyone with any small taint of ionic energy (which it doesn't actually prove). Iron Man puts 2 and 2 together and deduces that his ionic bomb spreading ionic energy all over the globe will make everyone his puppet.At this point Captain America and She-Hulk (who quit in Av#25 and #32 respectively) join the throng, answering a call for aid. But we take time out to catch up with 2 subplots.Last issue Moonstone invaded the Fantastic Four HQ but was caught by Invisible Woman and Mr Fantastic looking at their database. We see screens showing the Kree Captain Marvel, Ms Marvel, the Supreme Intelligence, Ronan the Accuser and the Inhumans - all Kree-related. The duo try to restrain her while assuring her they mean her no harm, but she can't bring herself to trust them (an echo of Madame Masque in the preceding Avengers issues), and evades them with her intangibility. She screams in alien and flies off, phasing through the walls. Their computer translates her words from an ancient Kree dialect as "I have to look within the lifestones". Reed Richards surmises that this has something to do with the origin of her powers (from a Kree Moonstone gem).And Andrea Sterman continues her investigation into a Government conspiracy behind the death of a Roxxon employee by contacting a Washington TV journalist Jack Norris. He arrives waving a copy of her book about Nomad and wants to know why she called him a 'desk-bound file clerk' in it. Andie responds that she also said he was the best information gatherer SHIELD had. (This was all in his previous job.) Now he says he couldn't find anything on Winsdshear/Colin Hume and his mutant invention Hard Air than she already knew (see last issue). But he found links to deleted data which indicated that Roxxon had a research grant for Hard Air from her old employer the Commission On Superhuman Activities.Back at the main plot Goliath, Iron Man and remote Ogre have been looking for a large ionic energy reading to indicate where Nefaria is building his bomb, but all they've found is random ionic background radiation. Ogre suggests they look instead for somewhere that used to have a high-ish reading but now has none because Nefaria is masking it, and they find a suspicious place in Canada. Meanwhile Malus has been helping Whitney Frost recreate the product of her Nefaria Protocols, an ionic lock gun to dampen down ionic energy.In other meanwhiles:-She-Hulk and Wasp are showing Mach-2 and Songbird around the Mansion, saying the Avengers have inducted reformed criminals before (like Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) so the duo could have a chance. (We saw Songbird as a future Avenger in the Avengers Forever limited series, but then Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) was with her so that must be an alternate future. However she will be part of Sunspot's New Avengers team.)The 2 real African-Americans on the teams are bonding. Triathlon tells Charcoal that he and the only previous A-A Falcon had to be levered into the team by the Government. (Presumably Black Panther doesn't count because he's not American.) Charlie Burlingame comments that they have similar costume designs. They both have nested triangles on their chest, but Delroy Garrett doesn't say that his is because he's a member of the Triune Understanding.Cap gets together with Hawkeye and Widow. Steve Rogers tells Clint Barton he's impressed by his leadership of the Thunderbolts. He'll also inquire via SHIELD if Jolt's murder was part of something bigger.Once the teams are getting ready to head for Southwestern Alberta, Ogre signs off. Since he's alone in the Mount Charteris base (or so he believes) he drops his disguise and wanders around as the currently-robotic Techno, expressing his disgust for meat-life. He muses to himself about his secret search for the missing Baron (Helmut) Zemo and his attempt to recreate life. (Here we see his 3 containment pods, 1 with the replaced Ogre, the 2nd which we suspect contains Jolt, and the so-far unrevealed 3rd.)Then Scourge, who has been haunting the place cloaked for several issues, uncloaks himself and accosts his next victim. They spar verbally and Techno accuses him of murdering Jolt (between #34-35) as well as reporter Gayle Rogers and Roxxon employee Bobbie Haggerty (both in #35-36). He also tells Scourge that killing *him* will kill the 3 in the tubes. Scourge says he knew that but he's checked with his bosses and it's OK, and he attacks with an energy-crackling double-bladed sword.For our last subplot bit we return to Moonstone at the last listed (in the FF's database) site of the Inhumans' city Attilan in the Himalayas. But she finds it gone (again). She takes her frustration out on the ground and rhetorically asks the universe where else on Earth she can find info about ancient Kree history. Then she sees the Moon and figures there's someone else who would know. (Cue next issue a visit to the Kree Supreme Intelligence currently a 'guest' of SHIELD on the Moon.)Back again to the main plot where the combined teams are about to infiltrate Nefaria's castle in it's new home at the Crowsnest Pass in the Canadian Rockies. She-Hulk throws 2 huge rocks to smash holes in the castle walls. Neffy (as Hawkeye calls him) sends out Atlas and Wonder Man to investigate. Charcoal, Iron Man, Mach-2, Vision and Warbird take them on. In the battle the Golden Avenger drops the ionic lock weapon.But this is all a distraction while Black Widow, Captain America, Goliath, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Triathlon and Wasp sneak in through the sewers. The others were hoping they could draw Nefaria out while the sneakers dealt with the bomb, but the plan doesn't seem to be working. Mach-2 retrieves the fallen weapon and fires it at the ionic 2. Their ionic energies are temporarily neutralised and they fall to the ground.Suddenly the sneaky team are forcibly ejected from the castle via another new hole in the wall. And Nefaria follows, dwarfed by his humongous bomb. Mach-2 fires the ionic lock at *him*. But he laughs it off.Crossover to be concluded in AVENGERS #34.


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We see New Avengers Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Wolverine attacking the Thunderbolts in their Cube HQ. Logan guts Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady). Black Widow (Yelena Belova), Ghost, Paladin and probably Headsman are already down. They find Iron Fist in chains and release him, but then he attacks them from behind. His glowing fist punches through Spidey's chest. He plucks Cap's shield out of the air and slices it through Logan's skull. And uses his chi to send Cap's bullets back where 1 of them blows his brains out. Now only Luke remains.All the while we've heard a voiceover claiming that friendship doesn't exist - people just use each other for their own purposes. But when Danny Rand attacked his friends it turned into a conversation between Norman Osborn and Ghost. It seems this is a simulation and IF has nearly always killed Spider-Man, with lower scores for Wolverine and Cap.But when Danny approaches his old friend Luke he can't bring himself to attack. He asks for help, which Cage gives by breaking his neck. It seems they've run the scenario over 3000 times and Iron Fist never kills Luke Cage.We now see Danny's head hooked up to a computer system. Ghost is of the opinion that to change IF's mind that deeply would probably kill him. It would be safer just to wipe his brain completely. But Osborn doesn't want to lose Rand's martial arts learned skills. He's convinced that *anybody* can be persuaded to betray *any* friend with the right incentive. He orders Ghost to continue until Iron Fist is loyal only to *him* - or dead.We now flashback 2 days to where Danny Rand heads for a meeting with a Mr Thompson. Who turns out be Norman Osborn. And he's brought Ghost, Mr X and Scourge (Nuke) as backup. Iron Fist's 'drunken' martial style beats Mr X's semi-telepathic anticipation of his moves. He agilely avoids Scourge's bullets. But Ghost pops up and drops him out of a window. As he falls down the side of the skyscraper Headsman swoops in on his flying disc and smashes Danny against the wall. Osborn details a H.A.M.M.E.R. Agent to cover his tracks by killing everyone who knows Rand was here.In the present the TBolts are having a meal together (except that paranoid Ghost only eats his own food in his own room). Ghost congratulates the others on a job well done, because they followed *his* plan. Ant-Man prattles on about bonding, annoying Paladin and Mr X who threatens to cut his tongue out if he doesn't shut up. Mr X abandons his meal and leaves. The others follow suit when Iron Fist joins them, except O'Grady who tries to bond with *him*. But Rand quickly leaves, abandoning *his* meal too.Next day Luke Cage is in a diner waiting for someone who's late (Danny Rand?). He gets a call which he thinks is from his wife (Jessica Jones) but it's actually Ant-Man saying Cage has just eaten his miniature self with his waffles. He threatens to expand inside Luke's stomach if he doesn't follow orders. LC points out that his body is steel-hard, and all we hear is a grumbling noise from his belly.But O'Grady's not here alone. Paladin shoots Cage in the head with a nervous system disruptor ray which causes him to lose control of his body. It's also supposed to make him unconscious but that doesn't happen. And the motor-control bit wasn't that successful either, as Luke punches Paladin through a wall.But Paladin's not alone either. Mr X and Scourge leap down from the hovering Thunderstrike jet. The disruptor *did* affect Cage's brain in that he's only communicating in grunts, and Mr X can't predict his moves as he grabs X's 2 swords in his invulnerable hands and kicks him in the gut. Scourge uses his guns again until Luke picks up a car and buries him under it.But then Iron Fist attacks. Luke can't bring himself to fight back, and Danny's glowing chi-fist puts him down.They take Cage to the Cube and Ghost reports to Osborn with Iron Fist. (I guess Ghost was piloting the plane.) Norman is amusing himself completing a very large domino layout while hovering on his Goblin glider. He dismisses the fact that Ant-Man is still trapped inside Cage as a minor annoyance. He wants Luke reprogrammed to serve him as Rand does - and as he promised to do earlier.Ghost reminds us of reasons why Osborn hates the hero. In The Pulse #5 Cage caused Norman to publicly expose himself as Green Goblin, and he beat him up and took him to jail. In New Avengers #48 Cage agreed to work for work for Osborn if he helped find baby Danielle Cage kidnapped by Skrulls. But Luke reneged on the deal in NAv#49.Paladin, his face in bandages after his confrontation with Cage, confronts Luke in adamantium restraints. He prepares to get revenge on the prisoner when the cuffs open and Cage hits him in the face again. Ghost leads Iron Fist and Mr X to the scene. X follows Cage's escape route into the ventilation system but runs into 3 Goblin pumpkin bombs which explode in his face. Ghost reports the escape to Osborn, suggesting Ant-Man may have set him free as petty revenge for being left inside him.Luke drops out of a vent into a kitchen. A voice tells him that a vent to the outside will open in 5 minutes (on a regular schedule), and tells him how to get there. On the way he is assaulted by small flying discs, 1 of which acquires his DNA from a skin sample (even his invulnerable skin presumably still discards dead flakes). They then set up a laser grid. Scourge shows himself and describes the system as DNA lasers which attack the flesh only of the target DNA. And they use a negative biological frequency to negate his invulnerability (either that or they wave their hands).Scourge shoots at the caged Cage. But he's still invulnerable enough to survive. And he grabs 1 of the discs and throws it at Scourge. The disc reads Scourge's DNA and the lasers turn to attack *him*. Luke delivers the coup de grace with an uppercut.Cage continues to run towards his target vent, followed by Headsman on his flying disc. The chase includes a long leap down into the bowels of the building. Norman Osborn is watching it all on a monitor screen in his office. He comments on how events have consequences, toppling his domino display as a metaphor. Cage sent him to jail, but Norman later became as he describes it 'ruler of the Earth' and now gets revenge by using his best friend Danny Rand to kill him.Luke has indeed run into Danny, along with a lot of rats. He tries to persuade his friend to escape with him - the vent is only a short distance away. But Iron Fist has now been successfully programmed to believe Luke is his enemy. He spouts a rationale based on Osborn's idea of the non-existence of altruistic friendship. Luke tries to get through to him and only fights back defensively. He says he doesn't blame him for what he's doing because his mind has been messed with. Osborn continues to watch as his convoluted array of dominoes continue to fall.Luke's final gambit is to remind Danny that his lover Misty Knight is pregnant. His dying wish is that Danny let the child grow up with Danielle, as they always said they would. But Iron Fist replies that his child will never even know Luke existed, as he lands a final chi-laden punch in his face. And Osborn's final domino tips over.Ghost, Headsman and Mr X catch up with Iron Fist standing over Cage's body. Headsman examines Cage's bloody head. and discovers it's only blood from a nearby dead rat. Luke hits him and then the heroic duo turn their attention to Mr X. As they fight they exchange banter about what broke Iron Fist's programming. Luke says it was his brilliant psychology, Danny says it was summoning all his chi for that final blow. Meanwhile Mr X's move-prediction is defeated again, this time because he can't read 2 minds at once. Headsman returns with his flying disc and axe and tries to slice Cage's head in 2, but Rand kicks him with what appears to be a chi-powered foot.Ghost runs away and the pair follow him hoping he'll lead them to Osborn. Who is mightily enraged and scatters his dominoes. But instead Ghost leads them to a chamber which (presumably) teleports the 2 away.Later Osborn berates his 5 failures (Ant-Man is still missing). Headsman, Paladin and Scourge have various levels of injury. he's going to dock their pay for this. He also claims to have planted a file of false info to suss out any traitors. He knows someone stole it and helped the prisoners escape - and he claims to know who it is. But if the culprit owns up he won't be killed. He doesn't get any response and storms out.When Ghost and Paladin are alone Ghost says the file was true and revealed that Osborn intended Cage and Iron Fist to replace the Thunderbolts and kill them. Paladin says Ghost should have warned him he was going to release Cage's bonds, but Ghost replies that he couldn't risk Norman hearing. And they needed the 'hero program' to fail so completely that Osborn wouldn't try it again.The last scene is Danny and Luke in a restaurant. Luke is having digestive problems which he blames on the meat he's just eaten - he's just returned from the toilet. But we see a wet and soiled miniature Ant-Man creeping out of the place.


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Ghost interrupts Thunderbolts leader Black Widow's training session in their Cube HQ because he heard she wants to talk to him. She wants to know why *he* is in the group - she understands the motivations of the others. But she knows his paranoia won't let him tell her in front of the security cameras. Ghost responds that he's hacked the security system so that it doesn't record him unless he wants it to, and at this moment it's off in this room because he wants to speak freely.He tells her he knows why *she* really joined the team, and where she spends her night (but we get left in suspense). BW picks up a gun but Ghost reminds her he's intangible. But then Yelena Belova tells him she's inserted a nano-bot in each of his meals for the last 6 weeks and they've combined to form a bomb in his intestine which she can trigger any time.Ghost says they should trust each other because they share a goal. He's an anti-corporation saboteur and he intends to bring down Norman Osborn's edifice from within. And he knows that BW's *real* boss wants the same thing.Meanwhile in Cleveland H.A.M.M.E.R. troops are forcibly relocating the homeless from the city. They try to resist and HAMMER opens fire on them. Then 1 of them reveals herself to be Songbird and throws the troops into their own relocation trucks. She decides she's been hiding long enough and flies off.In Avengers Tower Osborn greets his latest recruit. He comments that they've given the guy a new face which he's now defaced to something he's more comfortable with. However Norman tells him he's going to have to wear a full-face mask he gives him anyway. And he'll now go by the name of Scourge.Victoria Hand interrupts to show her boss the news about Songbird. Norman is annoyed because Swordsman (Andreas Strucker) told him she was dead in #127. He's now even more glad he killed Strucker in Secret Invasion: Dark Reign.Back in the Cube it's Ant-Man's turn to interrupt Paladin's training session. He's worried about the killer Mister X who joined them last issue. But he's also concerned about the whole Thunderbolts deal. He isn't really suitable for the job - he was only a computer-guy in SHIELD but he hacked his own file to make him seem more. Norman Osborn isn't going to let him quit, but Paladin suggests he just sweat it out - psycho Osborn will smash his own empire eventually. Eric O'Grady tentatively suggest they could help the process along, but Paladin is more cautious.Black Widow welcomes Scourge to the team but then slips away to a secure place to contact her real boss - Nick Fury. She tells him that Ghost is on to her, and Fury wants to pull her out. (He almost calls her by her real name - gets as far as Ta...) But she thinks she can use Ghost to achieve something.


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The Grandmaster has been recreated in the Wellspring of Power, and now he and Zemo face off. The Power has spread around the globe granting superpowers to the people. Chaos and panic abound. Zemo wants GM to control the power, but GM wants the panic - his plan is to blackmail the world until they agree to serve him.All the Thunderbolts are now awake after the battle in #106, including traitor Joystick. Songbird has no option but to stick to her plan. After Grandmaster has calmed the Power, Zemo will defeat him again. And then Melissa will destroy Zemo's Moonstones, denying him the Power too.Now that he and Songbird have successfully used Zemo to bring GM back, Overmind is free to resume mental coordination of the forces opposing the chaos. As we saw last issue a team of telepaths led by Prof X are calming people down and preventing many from realising they have powers, while physical teams address individual hotspots. Zemo's army of 'reformed' supervillains has been split into groups, while both the Registration supporters (represented here again by prime movers Iron Man, Mr Fantastic and Yellowjacket) and the Resistance (we see early members Captain America, 'Daredevil', Falcon and Hercules) have lent their support.Overmind urges the villain team led by Dr Octopus not to give in. And he tells everyone to get ready to do what they promised - trust in Zemo. Meanwhile Grandmaster, bathed in the energy of the Wellspring, breaks 1 of Zemo's Moonstones.Now we find out what the big plan is. Overmind draws on the powers of the heroes and the villains, and all the people that have been transformed by the Wellspring. And he siphons all that power to Zemo.The Thunderbolts' powers are being sucked out too, even Smuggler's Darkforce and the technological energies of Fixer and Mach-IV. But Songbird gets Blizzard to shield them in an ice dome.Zemo then uses all that power in a surprising way - to strip both Grandmaster and himself of all power. Then he just shoots GM in the head. And then contemplates whether to retake all the Wellspring Power himself.The Thunderbolts throw Joystick out of the ice dome to see if it's safe to come out. She finds half of her bo staff (broken by Swordsman last issue), which was designed to disperse the Wellspring energy (as it did in #106). Now Grandmasters' agent intends to throw a spanner in Zemo's works.But Speed Demon (his legs mended by the Power last issue) runs up and takes her staff away. He proceeds to beat her with it, in revenge for breaking his legs in #102.Blizzard's ice dome is melting because Radioactive Man is putting out too much heat. But Dr Chen is doing that because he's also been absorbing lots of deadly radiation form the Wellspring. Finally the dome collapses and the Thunderbolts lose their powers.They find that Zemo has absorbed all the Wellspring Power (stopping the radiation), and glued his broken Moonstone back together. He tells Melissa he intends to block up this last conduit to the Wellspring - eventually. But before that there's so much good he can do for the world. Songbird reminds him of what he told them in #106 - if he keeps the power an alliance of alien races will destroy the Earth to kill him. But of course Zemo is confidant he can defeat that armada.Zemo now says that this is the point his visions foretold Melissa would betray him. But she's lost her superpower, along with every other superbeing. But his visions were always fragmentary, and conflicting because of multiple futures. So he didn't foresee what happens next.Melissa does what she intended to do all along. She uses her natural singing ability to produce a high-pitched not which shatters the Moonstones into tiny fragments.Without the Moonstones to control the Power, Zemo is sucked into the Wellspring. The Thunderbolts (and presumably all the other heroes and villains, but not the newly-empowered people) get their powers back and save each other from following him, until Atlas grows to extra-giant size and uses his body to plug the hole.


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Norman Osborn, hero of the Skrull Secret Invasion, was given control of SHIELD, the Avengers and the Initiative by the outgoing President. Now the new guy wants to check him out. Now Osborn is waiting with his aide Victoria Hand outside Air Force One as the Pres is half an hour late. When he arrives the President invites them aboard the plane. They can talk on the way to Moscow and the plane will bring Osborn back straight afterwards.But there's a surprise 3rd party to the 'chat' - Dr Leonard Samson who claims to have a DVD showing Norman reverting to his old Green Goblin ways and killing CSA security guards in the Thunderbolts Mountain HQ.But we break off for a flashback to an old SHIELD weapons depot 6 weeks ago as a blonde Russian-speaking female breaks in. 2 guards catch her but she easily defeats them. Then Norman Osborn steps from the shadows and applauds her performance. He calls her Yelena Belova, the 2nd Black Widow. She's rightly suspicious but he's here to offer her a job as field leader of his new Thunderbolts.Back in the present AF1 is flying over Alaska with an escort of 2 fighter jets. Doc Samson accuses NO of a combination of personality disorders which make him unfit for office - in fact be should be in a maximum security mental institution. He claims that Osborn had a psychotic breakdown (#120-121) and attacked his own staff as the Goblin. Norman counters that the HQ was attacked by psychic terrorists (he omits that they were prisoners) who controlled people's perceptions. But Samson responds that his DVD of security camera footage will show that it really happened.Osborn's next ploy is to point out that anyone can wear a mask and costume, maybe it was even Samson himself. He accuses Doc of smuggling a weapon onto the base as the attack began (#117), and suggests that Samson was in league with the villains. Leonard tries to explain that the ceramic knife was part of his therapy for Robbie Baldwin/Penance, which NO portrays as convincing the patient to try to commit suicide. And then DLS tried to kill Dr Karla Sofen (Moonstone) who intervened (#121).Samson is tired of these distortions of the truth and suggests they watch the video. So Osborn activates a signalling device in a cufflink.Suddenly the accompanying jets are hit by missiles they didn't detect. 4 more missiles streak towards the plane but detonate just short of their target. The confused pilot is KO'd by a dart from his co-pilot's wrist blaster - it's Yelena Belova. She triggers pre-planted smoke decoys and claims that all 4 engines are on fire. She's going to try to bring them down on the Bering glacier.The next move is to call Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) from his hiding place in her cleavage (his choice obviously). He sneaks out into the body of the plane where the President orders the unwatched DVD to be put in the crash-proof safe. However Ghost materialises to waylay the agent and steal the disk. Meanwhile Ant-Man attaches a gamma emitter to Doc Samson's neck. And Len immediately starts getting green-eyed and angry.The last phase of the operation now kicks in as someone blasts in through the wall of the plane - it's the Green Goblin!


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The Thunderbolts are out there capturing unregistered supervillains. Atlas, Smuggler and Songbird take down Mongoose. The 3 Beetles have been inducted and are working with Mach-IV to bring in Eel and Porcupine. And Quicksand, the other villain caught last issue, is with Blizzard, Fixer and Joystick against the U-Foes (despite the fact that 1 of them, X-Ray, was shown already captured last issue).Their progress is monitored by Dallas Riordan and Henry Peter Gyrich of the Commission on Superhuman Activity, who are now presenting Operation: Justice Like Lightning to the Joint Chiefs and the Intelligence Community. The live satellite feed of the battles shows how the ex-villains are taking care not to harm the public. The new inductees have been fitted with Subdermal Phase-Shift Locators which will teleport them to jail if they misbehave.The idea is that the Thunderbolts will be expanded into a permanent army of ex-villains. For those who won't submit to this regime, a new prison is being built. Dallas shows the audience Thunderbolt Radioactive Man working with Mr Fantastic and Yellowjacket to create it. Their work is being recorded in case anything goes wrong - someone else can learn from their mistakes.We now see Zemo visiting that workplace. They are making use of his Static Spatial Fold technology (that I guess is part of what makes the Thunderbolts' Folding Castle base work). Henry Pym is more gung-ho about the project than Reed Richards (but then he is an unrevealed Skrull replacement), but he's suspicious of Zemo's motives. Baron Z counters by pointing out that Pym isn't beyond reproach - he blackmailed the Thunderbolts into attacking the Avengers for CSA purposes (#94-95 - he was a Skrull then too).Zemo returns to the Folding Castle (through a portal he generates using the Moonstones) where Mongoose has been told about O:JLL (and also about the 50 State Initiative). The captive villain agrees to join, and Zemo sends him with Atlas and Smuggler to Swordsman for training.Zemo reviews his grand plan with his confidante Songbird. They intend to build a supervillain army to fight Grandmaster and the Squadron Sinister in the near future. He also promises Melissa they will have a special ally when the time comes.The other 2 teams return with their catches, who also agree to join the army.We now look in on the last Thunderbolt Swordsman, whose job it is to train all these new recruits in the New Mexico desert. He's currently dealing with King Cobra, Ox and Unicorn. Watching are Ox-s fellow-Enforcer Snake Marston and Cobra's fellow Serpent Society members Bushmaster and Rattler. Then Andreas Strucker is challenged by 2 new users of the names Blacklash (male) and Whiplash (female), who it seems were S&M buddies from his dissolute days.The reunion is interrupted by the arrival by space-fold of Zemo and some of the team (including for some reason Radioactive Man). And our view expands to encompass loads more villains at the training centre. Including Dr Octopus who is very sceptical about the long-term benefits of the deal. But Zemo leaves again to deal with that very question.His destination is a meeting with Captain America and other Resistors Falcon and Hercules. He says that when they're captured by the government's forces, he will be able to free them. And he hints at a way of becoming heroes again in the eyes of the public.


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As TVs in a shop window show Spider-Man revealing his identity at the end of Civil War #2, a bunch of Thunderbolts led by Songbird help police capture Quicksand. The sandy villainess knocks giant Atlas (Erik Josten) over, and he falls on his young brother Conrad. But Smuggler saves himself and some civilians by teleporting them through the Darkforce Dimension. As Joystick keeps Quicksand occupied, Songbird's hard sound splits her in 2 and Blizzard freezes her that way. Then Swordsman (Andreas Strucker) channels his mutant power through his sword and shatters her into pieces. None of this is fatal for the villain, but they need to gather up the pieces before they melt and allow her to reform.Meanwhile Zemo takes Fixer, Mach-IV and Radioactive Man as backup to meet with Dallas Riordan and Henry Peter Gyrich of the Commission on Superhuman Activities. The CSA has armoured Guardsmen on their side, and as it turns out they also have Iron Man, Mr Fantastic and Yellowjacket.Zemo and Iron Man verbally spar over recent interactions between their teams. In the Avengers/Thunderbolts: Best Intentions limited series (before Avengers Disassembled) the Avengers stopped a scheme which Zemo said was meant to save the world. That confrontation ended with Zemo saving Captain America's life at the expense of a horribly scarred body and face. Later the CSA blackmailed the Thunderbolts into attacking the new New Avengers (#94-95).Zemo thinks the supporters of the Superhero Registration Act want the Thunderbolts to help catch superheroes who refuse to register. But instead Iron Man wants them to go after supervillains and persuade them to register and work for the government. (But actually in CW#3 we will see Thunderbolts fighting alongside SRA heroes against refusenik heroes.)The 3 SRA science heroes are working on a prison for the captured superbeings. But in the meantime they want the Thunderbolts to detain them. They want the ex-villains to do all this to prove that they really have reformed. But Zemo has his own reasons for accepting.The 1st action in this new arrangement pits some Thunderbolts against 3 college students who have stolen 3 armoured suits from the CSA - armours that Mach-IV used at various points in his villainous career as the Beetle. Everyone's there apart from Zemo and Swordsman.The 1st Beetle armour is quickly frozen, and stamped on by giant Atlas, who's also holding the 2nd armour. That guy escapes, but his armour is fried by radiation from Dr Chen. The 3rd bulky armour was created for Abner Jenkins by the CSA when he was in jail between stints with Thunderbolts. But Smuggler ports inside it and KO's the female driver. Fixer portal-shifts the 3 to the Detainment Quadrant of their Folding Castle base.Zemo welcomes the team back home. He takes Songbird aside and they kiss before discussing their plans for the captured villains. Melissa knows that they are being kept sedated, but Zemo reveals that they are being indoctrinated while they sleep into wanting to join the Thunderbolts (not the government forces) - but he assures her that they will still have the free choice whether to join or not.And we learn that Zemo started building this army before Iron Man asked him to.


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(Ex-Thunderbolts) Abe Jenkins (Mach-IV) and Norbert Ebersol (Fixer) are working at a Commission on Superhuman Activities research site. They've upgraded Abe's old armoured flying suit, which Norbert now calls the Mechanised Aerial Combat Harness, for the Defence Department. But their latest test run is aborted before it begins when something rockets into their lab through the open hangar bay door.That something turns out to be their old teammate Songbird.In the current Thunderbolts HQ, the ex-prison the Cube, Headsman (Cleavon Twain) watches Mr X practising martial arts moves - which he claims are based on alien Kree and Shi'ar techniques. Mr X invites him down for a sparring match. Cleavon is just a brawler and so doesn't like the idea, even when X offers to keep both hands behind his back. So X riles him up with insults, and then easily takes him down with just footwork.He ends up throttling Headsman with a foot on his throat, until Black Widow interrupts with a video call for a mission to go after Songbird. (Norman Osborn was annoyed when he learned Melissa Gold was still alive last issue.) As X turns to leave Twain throws a knife at his back. X dodges and catches it in midair. He refuses to return it unless Cleavon takes it from him. And then promises to give it back to him "when he least expects it".(Osborn has devised this mission after being asked by Hydra to kill Nick Fury in Secret Warriors #7. As we will learn later in this TB/SW crossover this is all part of a cunning plan to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.)Songbird has come to Fixer and Mach-IV on the run from Osborn to suggest they reform the old gang to take him down. She blames herself (and them) for allowing  him to take over the Thunderbolts after Civil War, which started the ex-Green Goblin's rise to power. Abe is ready to follow her (largely because of the romantic attachment they had in the Thunderbolts), but Norb doesn't want them to become outlaws again.Melissa lets them off the hook and says she'll go find another ex-TBolt Radioactive Man. But before she goes she gives Abe a kiss.The current 'Bolts are in their Thunderstrike jet. Pilot Black Widow is covertly communicating with Nick Fury. He wants her to keep Songbird alive and bring her to him. It may blow her cover, but Ghost already knows her secret anyway.Osborn contacts her and tells her Scourge (Nuke) will lead the team on this mission. She is to remain in the plane and monitor Songbird's comms to see who her allies may be. BW is not happy.Songbird is flying along minding her own business when she's attacked by 2 missiles. Which miss her, as does a hail of bullets. Widow alerts the troops. Headsman offers to take his flying disc and bring SB in, but Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) doubts his ability to even stay in the air. (Paladin's here as well.) The missiles loop back for another pass but Melissa grabs 1 with her sonic powers and throws it at the jet. BW ejects before the plane crashlands.The explosion has also knocked Songbird to the ground. She recovers to find Black Widow standing over her. But BW tells her they need to get away before the Thunderbolts come after them. Widow injects herself with a counteragent for genetic camouflage. Her body is wracked with pain as it changes, including her height. She is revealed as not the blonde villain Yelena Belova but the Avenger Natasha Romanova. (Like we didn't know that.)


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Deadpool is trying to get Norman Osborn to pay for the data he stole from him in Secret Invasion which allowed NO to kill the Skrull Queen and use his hero status to ascend to his current position of power. For his part Osborn wants his Thunderbolts to kill Wade Wilson so he can't tell anyone about it.Last issue 'Pool defeated the 'Bolts but couldn't bring himself to kill their leader Black Widow because he fell in love with her.In DP#9 BW flirted with Wade until Paladin joined her. But Wilson teleported to the base of his ally Taskmaster where they continued with a plan that involved both of them dressed as Deadpool (though there seemed to be some confusion in DP's head about whether the aim was to get Osborn's money or make it with the Widow). Wade lost at rock, paper, scissors so he had to go tangle with the rest of the Tbolts while TM met BW. But she tricked him into captivity.So it's Taskmaster in DP's costume who's strung up in front of Norman and the Thunderbolts (minus Paladin who's apparently injured) on top of the OsCorp building. Widow drugged him but she calculates Wade's healing factor should revive him about now. But of course TM has no such ability. And he doesn't have the teleport device which they let 'Pool steal from them last issue.In the meantime Ghost has hacked into Deadpool's computer system that they 'liberated' from his place in DP#9. He's confirmed that Wilson is working for Nick Fury (but that was only for the 1 job during SI), but the files don't say where Fury is hiding. Angry Osborn takes it out on Headsman, who responds by preparing to chop DPool's head off with his axe ...... but then another (the real) Deadpool 'ports in. Confusion abounds.DP attacks. TM-DP is actually awake and breaks the chains that bind him. He has a hand-to-and duel with Black Widow. The he tips Headsman off his flying disc (as DP did last issue). Meanwhile the real DP tackles Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), whose response is to shrink and invade his costume. *DP*'s response to that is to keep shooting himself where he thinks AM is - taking *himself* out of the fight temporarily. Ghost keeps out of it because fighting isn't his thing.Osborn tries to escape in the Thunderstrike plane. The real DP has recovered (healing factor remember) and grabs on to it. BW follows later with a leap into space and a hook and line. Norman gets righteously angry and abandons the controls to attack his foe in a frenzy. So the plane crashes.Widow chooses this moment to enter and shoot Wade Wilson through the heart, which 'Pool finds poetic. She seems about to finish the job by slicing his head off with a knife when Headsman flies in and does it for her with his axe. BW keeps the head as a trophy.But then we see live Deadpool getting money to pay Taskmaster out of an ATM. Apparently Wade filched Norman's Gold Card while he was letting him beat him up. (It's going to take a lot of ATMs to provide the amount DP was asking NO for.) DP thanks TM for sewing his head back on (that healing factor again). But TM says it wasn't him, so DP realises it must have been Black Widow. She *must* love him!


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The Thunderbolts have been sent on a mission against the Agents Of Atlas. Paladin has been studying the files they were given on the individual Agents and thinks they need more strategy time. Super-confidant Mr X is willing to wing it. Team leader Scourge (Nuke) says Norman Osborn wouldn't have sent them if he didn't think they could handle it. All they know is Osborn wants revenge for the Atlas Foundation double-crossing him in an arms deal (AOA(2009)#1-5).When they land their Zeus plane Osborn greets them and introduces their newest member Grizzly as muscle, and also because he's fought Atlas before. Then he leaves them to get on with other stuff. When the team convene back in the plane Mr X makes fun of the bear suit Grizzly used to use as a costume. (He's still wearing a furry coat with a bear-head-shaped hood.) But Maxwell Markham is self-confidant enough to ignore him and tell them about their enemies.The Atlas Foundation is the front for a criminal empire that used to be run by Yellow Claw. But now ex-SHIELD Agent Jimmy Woo has inherited it. He's the strategist of their strike team the Agents Of Atlas, but he's also handy with guns and martial arts.Namora is super-strong and flies like her cousin Sub-Mariner.Gorilla-Man is what his name says but he's also their weapons expert.The Uranian is their science guy and telepath. He's their pilot and usually doesn't get involved in combat. He also permanently wears a fishbowl space helmet.M-11 the Human Robot looks outdated but his Cyclops-eye is a death ray, he can generate electricity and has extendible arms.Lastly Venus is a Siren whose song can affect all men.No-one knows where their base is but the TBolts are going to attack 1 of their many subsidiary sites - a chemical warfare factory in Bayou Choupique, Louisiana. Atlas is so big the Agents probably don't even know they own this place but experience says they'll react fast when it's brought to their attention.Ant-Man and Ghost go in as recon team. Ant-Man plants bombs on fuel lines all over the place. Ghost sees men in hazmat suits handling a fast-acting caustic chemical agent. They mention containers of antidote dotted all over the building, and Ghost nicks some.Mr X deals with a couple of guards who stumble across the rest of the team just before Ant-Man says he's finished, and Paladin shoots another 1. Scourge is worried that they might have alerted the factory and gives the recon duo a count of 5 to get out before he blows the place. Ant-Man says he can't make it but Ghost turns him intangible so they both survive the explosion.Eric O'Grady isn't happy with Scourge, but the leader says Ghost did just what he expected him to do. Ghost injects Eric with the antidote to the caustic agent, then explains about it to the others as the yellow gas rolls towards them. Not fully trusting him they still let him inject them too.Then the AOA's flying saucer arrives overhead and the 'Bolts start shooting as the Agents debouch. Jimmy Woo tells pilot Bob Grayson to use swamp water to douse the burning factory. Venus starts to sing. Grizzly is immune because he has earplugs but the others reacted too slowly and now don't *want* to stop listening.Ant-Man is immersed in a sex-fantasy with Firestar, Pulsar (Monica Rambeau) and Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers). Scourge's 'sex-fantasy' is zombies of women he killed in the Vietnam War. But his response is to start shooting which disrupts Venus' song and the fantasies dissipate.Namora punches Scourge, knocking his mask off and revealing the flag-tattooed face of Nuke within. Then she hits Grizzly with a tree-trunk as he runs away from her. Paladin tries to dehydrate the Atlantean with a heat-ray but she bats him away. Mr X shoots her in the (fairly-invulnerable) face and then easily dodges her angry attacks due to his special telepathy.But M-11 wraps an extended arm round X's neck and starts choking him. Gorilla Man points out that X's telepathy can't detect the Human Robot's attack plans. Then M-11 electrocutes his victim. Headsman is far from bothered about what's happening to Mr X but he still strikes Gorilla-Man with his axe. But when he tries to do the same to the robot he hits a forcefield. Then Namora hits him.Nuke is recovering and can't accept that Norman Osborn sent them to face such superior foes. But his Vietnam women return to whisper of acceptable losses and expendable soldiers. Gorilla-Man has Paladin in a headlock. Namora has the unconscious Grizzly and Headsman. Ghost has stayed ghostly during the whole fight, and Ant-Man is now tiny and hiding too.Namora's gills are burning and Gorilla-Man's skin is itchy. The Uranian has put the fire out and now arrives to warn them about the chemical he detects mixed with the swamp gas. He wants them all to return to the saucer so he can decontaminate them.Nuke has taken 1 of his red pills that increases his adrenaline and turns him into a berserker. He dons his Scourge mask and picks up Mr X's sword. Then he leaps to the attack and guts the Uranian.


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Mr X dreams about killing Iron Fist and Wolverine. (He failed to kill Iron Fist last issue and Wolverine has been his bête noire since we 1st saw him.) Suddenly he wakes sensing the invisible Ghost watching him. He throws a knife but of course Ghost is intangible as well. Ghost partially materialises and tells X he's worried about him. It's been too long since their last mission and X needs relief from brooding over his failures. Mr X denies it and Ghost leaves. But then X admits he was right.Later Ant-Man and Paladin are watching Rockford Files reruns instead of a gym session when Scourge (Nuke) blasts the TV screen and announces that Mr X has gone AWOL via the teleporter. Ghost has retrieved the coordinates of his destination.Mr X himself is surprised to find himself on the Colombia/Venezuela border watching a line of guerrillas who he proceeds to kill in various ways.The rest of the Thunderbolts team (the other 4 plus Headsman) arrive and immediately face some more FARC guerrillas which they see off. As they trek through the jungle Frank Simpson (Scourge) is haunted by memories of people he killed in the Vietnam War, and almost shoots Ant-Man.Meanwhile invisible Ghost haunts Headsman with a recording of Mr X threatening to kill him (Ghost) at the beginning of this issue. But Headsman thinks Mr X is threatening *him* again (see #134). So when Headsman finds Mr X nearby he attacks 1st catching his foe unawares. But it only takes seconds for X to recover and take Headsman's axe off him and prepare to kill him with it.Ghost has called the rest of the team to the spot. Scourge makes a better showing but Mr X definitely has the upper hand. The other 3 prefer to watch. Headsman retrieves his axe and slashes at Mr X, who ducks so that Scourge gets sliced. Scourge now turns on his perceived attacker.The mêlée is broken up by the Colombian army. Paladin tosses some big guns to Mr X and Scourge. Everyone attacks the army except Ghost who draws their fire by being visible but still intangible. Paladin only uses a stun gun but the others fire real bullets or missiles and Headsman chops some heads off.When it's over a H.A.M.M.E.R. craft picks the Thunderbolts up because their boss Norman Osborn has a real mission for them. But before telling them about it he has a little chat with Ghost on a private channel. Osborn has deduced that someone (implicitly accusing Ghost) deliberately set the teleporter to send Mr X into a war zone. Maybe the intention was for some of the team to get killed, either by the soldiers or each other. Or maybe he hoped the situation would force them to bond as a team. And maybe he had his own ulterior motives.But Norman leaves these questions hanging and switches to an open channel and tells them he's sending them after the Agents Of Atlas. The Atlas Foundation made a deal with Osborn and then broke it. They must pay for that.


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Last issue the Thunderbolts fought the Squadron Sinister over the Wellspring of Power in a German castle. Eventually their bosses Baron Zemo and the cosmic elder Grandmaster clashed for possession of the Power, and Zemo used his Moonstones to get rid of GM. But Thunderbolt Joystick was secretly working for GM, and she used her staff to disperse the Power worldwide.The Wellspring is a source of superhuman abilities (which partly explains the number of supercharacters on Earth). Joystick's action has empowered people all over the globe. The army of supervillains that Zemo built for Iron Man and the Registration forces (since their agreement in #103) is sent out to try to keep control. Their actions are being coordinated by the telepathic Overmind (this is the 1st we know of him being co-opted). Later we learn that the world's greatest telepaths (Cable, Dr Strange, Prof X and for some reason Cyclops(?)) have teamed up with Overmind to control panic and stop most people from finding out they have powers.Dr Octopus is leading a squad in Chicago comprised of Boomerang, Eel, Porcupine, Quicksand, Unicorn, Whirlwind and X-Ray. Bloodstrike, Pretty Persuasions, Smiling Tiger, Texas Twister and a Lava Man(?) are in Los Angeles. Dallas sees Ironclad, Mongoose, Red Ronin and the 3 Beetles, While Tokyo has to make do with Batroc, Bushmaster, King Cobra, Tatterdemalion, Zaran and the Blacklash/Whiplash duo. Sydney gets Aqueduct, Killer Shrike, Ox, Slyde and possibly Snake Marston.Back in Germany Joystick has unconscious Zemo and most of the Thunderbolts held prisoner by the Wellspring, but Swordsman is on the loose. She tracks him down and shatters the adamantiun-sheathed blade of his sword with her Wellspring-powered staff. (She claims that the miraculous properties of adamantium come from the Wellspring.) Andreas Strucker gets away, but runs into a newly-powered crowd. He replaces his blade with a spare(?) and grips the hilt wrapped in the skin of his dead sister, the touch of which enables their combined mutant ability to emit a force blast.Joyspring returns to her captives and explains Grandmaster's plan to the ones who are awake (Atlas and Songbird). She worked for GM because he promised her endless thrills out in the universe. He intended to control the Wellspring power, letting people have it at a price. And Janice believes that GM isn't dead (the Elders are very difficult to kill), and the Wellspring is even now using the Moonstones to bring him back.Overmind mentally contacts Songbird, and we get his interpretation of GM's plot. The Elder expected this chaos, and he intended to step in later and offer to calm everything down in exchange for world domination.We also see that the Registration (represented by Iron Man and Mr Fantastic) and Resistance (represented by Captain America) forces have both joined the efforts of Zemo's army (as they promised in #104-105). We continue to concentrate on Doc Ock's team as their leader flounders in indecision.Overmind brings Swordsman into his mental conversation with Songbird. Andreas suggests they help bring Grandmaster back. Melissa figures they'll need Zemo's help, 'cos he's the only 1 who knows where he sent the Elder. Overmind doesn't want to wake Zemo, so he suggests he directs Songbird's hypnotic sub-sonic pitch into Zemo's brain to get him to subconsciously do what they want.They begin. But Overmind has to take his mind of his other tasks to do it. Bloodstrike and Smiling Tiger start attacking their comrades. (Texas Twister comments that they got their powers from the Wellspring in the 1st place.) The Sydney and Dallas teams are overwhelmed, and Manhattan is awash with supercharacters (when wasn't it?!).At home crippled Speed Demon wishes for his running power back, and gets hit by lightning (or some such flashy energy).  The situation makes strange bedfellows as Resisters Captain America and Daredevil (actually Iron Fist) team up with pro-Registration Yellowjacket (actually a Skrull). Iron Man and Mr Fantastic are on more familiar ground with Wonder Man. And Swordsman uses his sword to draw as much of the Wellspring energy down on himself as possible.Feedback from that makes Joystick drop her staff. She hears Songbird and Zemo mumbling the same words and realises something is going on, and leaps to strangle Melissa Gold. But she is interrupted by Swordsman sparking with power. Picking up her staff they begin a duel.Melissa meets her lover Helmut Zemo inside his mind - they are both naked. She tries to persuade him to restore Grandmaster to save the world. But Moonstone/Karla Sofen (equally naked) also pops up (from her coma?) to tell him to take the power for himself and rule the world - he should retrieve Grandmaster but then destroy him completely.Back in the world Otto Octavius has finally made up his mind, and tells his team to flee - every man for himself. Swordsman breaks Joystick's staff in 2. Overmind tells Songbird it's all falling apart - it's all up to her. Zemo wakes. And Grandmaster returns through the Wellspring conduit.


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Norman Osborn sent his Thunderbolts to exact revenge on the Agents Of Atlas (for reneging on an arms deal in AOA(2009)#1-5). The team got their asses kicked and blame it on bad intel from Osborn (though it didn't look that way to me). The Agents had some of the TBolts prisoner but suddenly Scourge went berserk and sliced the Uranian's guts open with Mr X's sword.Headsman recovers consciousness in time to witness that, and Mr X leaping to engage Jimmy Woo in a martial arts bout. Gorilla-Man leaps on Scourge but Grizzly separates them and hurls G-Man high into the jungle. In turn Namora leaps on *him* but the amphibian is weakened by the toxin released from last issue's destroyed chemical plant and she's easily downed by Paladin's heat ray (which didn't work so well last time). Mr X pushes Paladin out of the way of a blast from M-11, the Human Robot. Headsman whacks the robot with his axe.Tiny Thunderbolt Ant-Man is watching from hiding. He was glad his team got beat last issue because he could slip away and go hide in a foreign country and let Osborn think Atlas had killed him. But if the 'Bolts win that won't work.Venus finds the dead or dying Bob Grayson and lets out a wail of distress which disorients the hearers. TBolt Ghost has also been sitting out the fight, and now adds artificial deafness to his intangibility to avoid the effect. We see Headsman remembering the time his older brother Cody killed his dog Duke because it kept biting him. Mercenary sometimes-hero Paladin regrets the things he's done while working for Osborn. Grizzly is terrorised by a giant spider version of his main foe Spider-Man. Mr X experiences a crushing defeat by *his* hated main foe Wolverine. Scourge/Nuke experiences his worst nightmare, a world where the USA has no enemies for him to fight. Ant-Man regrets abandoning Veronica King, the mother of his child (in the Irredeemable Ant-Man series). Meanwhile M-11 puts himself back together but Ghost phases through him and scrambles his system. But the Uranian reveals himself to Venus to be alive - his injury was a mental illusion to avoid being attacked again. But when he telepathically investigated the mind of Scourge he got lost in the man's insanity. Now he repeats the warning he gave before being attacked - the Agents need to return to their flying saucer where he can treat them for the toxin they've been exposed to. (The Thunderbolts were given an antidote last issue.) Gorilla-Man makes it back and picks up the limp forms of M-11 and Namora, and all 6 leave in their ship.But before they go Jimmy Woo gets the Uranian to plant a suggestion in Scourge's mind to kill Norman Osborn the next time he sees him because he's a traitor.Ant-Man reluctantly returns to his team. Cleavon Twain tells him about his brother Cody who always despised him for being a runt. Their Louisiana family home isn't far from here and they share a laugh about Headsman showing up and lording it over Cody. They and Grizzly join the other 3 who are shooting at the departing saucer. Scourge orders everyone into their Zeus plane.On the saucer the Uranian cures his teammates. But then he detects another presence. It's Ghost who says he's just exploring their alien tech and then phases out of the ship. He figures he can later claim to Osborn to have stayed hidden on board, but meanwhile he can pursue a mission of his own.The others head home to their Cube base. Mr X says he saw Ghost sneaking onto the saucer. They get a message from Norman Osborn and put it up on a holographic display. Osborn tells them to get some rest because he'll soon be sending them on their most important mission to Broxton, Oklahoma. He doesn't want to say more at this time (but we know that's the current site of Asgard, and the upcoming mission is part of Siege).But in the middle of the spiel Scourge pulls a gun and shoots at the hologram of Osborn. Of course the bullet passes straight through and plugs Headsman in the forehead - and of course he's dead.


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Last issue Norman Osborn sent the Thunderbolts to sneak in to Asgard, during the invasion by his Dark Avengers and HAMMER and others, to steal the Spear Of Odin. They located it but were then intercepted in the Asgardian armoury by some ex-Mighty Avengers (Amadeus Cho, Stature, U.S. Agent and Vision) (who had been alerted by the TBolts' missing member Ghost).US Agent attacks Grizzly. Giant Stature stomps on Scourge (Nuke) while Ant-Man ducks out of the way. But Grizzly throws USA at Stature, knocking her over. Amadeus tells them to take out Scourge, who's really Nuke, and Mr X 1st because they're the deadliest. Mr X comes after him. But Cho grabs a quiver of large Asgardian arrows and tips them out in such a way that they ricochet and fall towards X - so many of them that he can't avoid being pierced by *some*. And all this calculated by Cho's amazing brain. Scourge grabs little Ant-Man and tells him to stop hiding and orders him to grow giant-size and take on Stature. He hurls the mini-man who expands in flight and knocks Cassie Lang down (again).Meanwhile Paladin has sneaked over to where they found the Spear. Vision accosts him and asks the honourable mercenary why he's working for Osborn. Paladin throws the Spear at the synthezoid, which passes through his intangible body but disrupts his system in passing. It then exits the building leaving destruction in its wake. The glitching Vision can still tell where it lands, causing more destruction. USA says they've got to keep it out of Osborn's hands, but Scourge disagrees and drop kicks him and Cho. Grizzly tips Stature out of the tower, and her falling big body causes yet more destruction. But she gets back up and throws a giant statue at him.Eric O'Grady has shrunk down to man-size and detects that the Spear is still on the move. Paladin tells him they've got to get it before Scourge or Mr X do - Ant-Man is confused but agrees. Scourge is more concerned at the moment with shooting at Stature until USA shoots the gun out of his hands. Those 2 fight, during which Agent knocks Scourge's facemask off. USA is surprised to see a face tattooed with the Stars And Stripes (maybe he wasn't listening when Cho told them Scourge was really Nuke, so Nuke repeats the info now). This tests the limit of John Walker/Jack Daniels' political support for Norman Osborn, so he beats Nuke up and tosses him into a blazing fire.Vision is increasingly suffering from the effects of the Spear. Amadeus tries to help but then Ghost materialises by them. Mr X finishes ripping arrows out of his body and then goes after the Spear just in time to see Ant-Man (still man-size) dive for it, and Stature grab him  before he can grab *it*. But Eric astonishes Cassie by telling her she can have it as long as she keeps it out of Osborn's hands. However it's Paladin who gets his hands on it (again), but US Agent takes it off him. It's Paladin's turn to echo Ant-Man's sentiment and urge USA to take the thing far away.But no-one gets to take the Spear anywhere because it's at this point that Sentry blasts his way through Asgard and the hovering city starts to crumble and fall to the ground (see the end of Siege #3). As everyone tries to survive the devastation a burned but determined Nuke reaches the Spear, seen only by the Agent. So he uses it to slice John/Jack's left arm and leg off, and claims the Spear for HAMMER and Osborn - mission accomplished.


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Last issue the Thunderbolts sneaked into Asgard, ignoring the ongoing battle, to find the Spear Of Odin for Norman Osborn. The ex-Mighty Avengers Amadeus Cho, Stature, U.S. Agent and Vision tried to stop them but team leader Scourge, now openly the cyborg Nuke, got hold of it. In Siege #3 the battle turned against Osborn, as Iron Patriot, when US Government forces attacked his side and Tony Stark appeared in an old Iron Man armour to shut down his Stark-Tech suit. So he sent Sentry to reduce Asgard to ruins (which complicated the TBolts/MAv fight).Now helpless IP faces IM, and Norman desperately calls for the Spear. Nuke tells him he's got it and he's on his way. He tells Mr X and Grizzly to keep the heroes off his back, and Paladin to clear the way ahead. But last issue Paladin decided that his boss Osborn was *too* crazily villainous, so now he shoots Nuke in the face.Last issue Vision's AI system was damaged by the Spear. Amadeus tried to help him but Ghost materialised. Cho tells the TBolt to keep off Vizh, but Ghost reveals that it was *he* who contacted him (TBolts#141 and MAv#35) to warn him about the TBolts' plan. He asks where Hercules and Quicksilver are - Herc is dead but Cho has been unable to reach Pietro Maximoff. So Ghost boosts the power of his phone and suddenly Amadeus is talking to Pietro in his homeland - Transia in Eastern Europe. And seconds later Quicksilver is zooming on his way.Paladin continues blasting at Nuke until his blaster runs out of juice, and Grizzly grabs the Spear and starts to throttle him with it. Ant-Man, who also 'came to his senses' last issue, attracts Grizzly's attention and then goes ant-size to run up his foe's arm and into his ear - where he kicks the eardrum. With Grizzly down Mr X takes up the maguffin. Vision, fully revived possibly thanks to Ghost, flies to the attack. But X is able to read even the synthezoid's brain and predict his moves. And with the power of the Spear he soon has the robot, Cho and Stature at his mercy. But a wind announces the arrival of Quicksilver, whose moves are so fast that Mr X's 'precognition' doesn't help. Pietro's repeated blows wear the man down, including smashing his limbs with an iron bar. And Ant-Man slips away with the miniaturised Spear.All that's left is for the MAv 4 to polish off Grizzly and Ghost (Vision does that, so maybe Ghost *didn't* revive him). Amadeus belatedly tells Jonas he should have gone easy on the villain because he helped them. Vision replies that he picked that info up from the villain's cyber-suit, but also that he recently tried to kill Tony Stark (Iron Man (2008) #20-24).Quicksilver has found U.S. Agent, whose arm and leg Nuke chopped off with the Spear last issue. They decide to take him for medical attention before returning to the fight. They'll head to wherever Norman Osborn is, assuming that the 2 missing TBolts (Ant-Man and Paladin) have the Spear and will take it there. Those 2 watch them leave. Paladin didn't want to give the Avengers the Spear in case Osborn *still* won the day, and then they'd be in big trouble. He says he'll take it away and keep it hidden.Later we see Amadeus Cho, Quicksilver, Stature and Vision watching a later part of the battle - heroes vs the Void. And we see Grizzly and Ghost being carted away by US troops. And Paladin on the road with the Spear.2 weeks later Eric O'Grady visits Cleavon Twain's brother Cody to explain some of what happened to him (he died in #140). He gives Cody the Headsman suit and weapon, and hopes the brother can become a hero with it.Our last scene sets the stage for the next iteration of Thunderbolts. Luke Cage and his wife Jessica Jones and their baby Danielle Cage watch from a distance the refitting of the Raft, the island prison in New York's East River. We learn that he has been given a job there rehabilitating supervillains. Ie he's going to run the next version of the Thunderbolts.


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In their Cube HQ Scourge (Nuke) orders the Thunderbolts to report to their plane the Zeus immediately. They've heard about the explosion in Chicago and they figure that Osborn is sending them against the Asgardian gods. Ant-Man tries to talk Paladin out of going but Paladin is a professional mercenary and goes where he's paid to go. They meet up with Grizzly and join Scourge and Mr X in the plane.Norman Osborn fills them in on their mission by prerecorded video. As a result of the death toll in Chicago 'caused' by the Asgardian Volstagg he has declared martial law in Broxton, Oklahoma where the city of Asgard is now situated (we see an image of Volstagg fighting the U-Foes in Siege #1). He is on site with his initial forces (we see images of the Dark Avengers) but he's expecting reinforcements. He says their 1st hurdle will be Thor (we see Thor fighting Sentry in Siege #1, but presumably that hasn't happened yet).Osborn tells the team he's sending them on a stealth mission to break into the Asgardian armoury  and steal the Spear of Odin (which he shows them a handy image of). Odin is currently out of the picture, but unlike Thor's hammer Mjolnir the Spear can be wielded by *anyone*. Norman butters them up by listing their individual skills which qualify them for the job. But he includes Ghost and Headsman on the list so obviously doesn't know that Scourge killed Headsman last issue, and no-one knows where Ghost is.*We* see Ghost materialise in Asgard after an uncontrollable teleportation which he blames on Tony Stark. When he recovers his senses he goes invisible and intangible. He gets the message from Osborn but is suspicious because the Chicago disaster sounds improbably like the Stamford incident which sparked off Civil War I. He figures Osborn arranged it, but also figures it's no use telling his teammates because Scourge wouldn't allow them to abort their mission. So he decides to pass the info on to others who may make use of it.(Ghost isn't a good guy, but we've already seen him do other things to put spanners in Osborn's works. 1 reason may be because he's anti-corporations, and Norman is a corporate bigwig. But really it's just a way to set up this crossover with Mighty Avengers.)He fails to get through to various other people but finally manages to download the data into the pocket computer of Amadeus Cho. He in turn tries to contact the other now-disbanded Mighty Avengers. He can't reach Quicksilver, Stature or Vision, but eventually gets U.S. Agent. And a short time later USA picks him up in a borrowed Air Force VTOL jet.As the Zeus approaches Asgard Hogun the Grim fires an arrow at it. Most of the team scoff at this but Paladin urgently tells them to evacuate the plane. The arrow blows the plane up, and the TBolts paraglide down towards their destination building (with Ant-Man on Paladin's shoulder).On the ground leader Scourge takes issue with Paladin ordering the evac. There are already 2 of the team missing and he won't tolerate insubordination. Mr X objects that Scourge *killed* 1 of the 'missing'. Scourge claims that was due to psychic manipulation (by the Uranian of the Agents of Atlas). X says it's an example of Scourge's mental instability. So the leader pulls a gun on him.But Grizzly calls for help pushing open the god-heavy door to the armoury. And Paladin says he hears an Asgardian coming so they nip inside sharpish. They see a motley collection of weapons ancient and modern. Grizzly spots a door bearing a symbol they saw on the Spear in the video. Mr X finds a finely-balanced chain weapon which he tests by decapitating a statue, and also picks up a shield which he guesses will be proof against Earthly bullets.Ant-Man climbs inside the keyhole of the inner door and unlocks it, and Grizzly again provides the muscle to open it. Inside they find loads of gold coins and objects, which unfortunately Ant-Man can't shrink because that's not 1 of the powers of his super-suit. They discuss what they'd do with the money this could get them. But Scourge fires his machine gun to remind them of their mission.They locate a large chest which working together they manage to open. Inside they *do* find they Spear of Odin. But an Asgardian heard the machine-gun and now attacks them. After an intense fight Mr X manages to kill him (but not with the chain). Scourge orders them to take the Spear and leave before reinforcements arrive. But reinforcements *do* arrive in the shape of Cho, Stature, US Agent and Vision.


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OK, last issue Doc Samson was going to show the President a DVD proving that Norman Osborn reverted to being Green Goblin in #120-121. But then Osborn's secret new Thunderbolts team attacked Air Force One and Green Goblin himself smashed through the wall of the plane.As the Secret Service squad try to get the Pres to the escape pod Doc Samson goes into full Hulk rage. (Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) stuck a gamma emitter on his neck last issue.) And Goblin makes out that Doc's an ally before knocking the President and his staff out with a neural scrambler.Now that there are no witnesses that matter Osborn reveals the attackers are working for *him*. he calls on the Ghost to take Samson intangibly through the floor of the plane and drop him in mid-air. Ant-Man then injects the President with an antidote that wakes him up - in time to see NO defeat the Goblin and throw him from the plane.Norman gives the Pres an edited account of what happened. He reckons the Goblin's ally the Hulkified Samson could have survived the fall, so the President orders a manhunt for him.Meanwhile the 'Green Goblin' has a device which enables him to be picked up by the Thunderbolts' plane the Thunderstrike. He calls himself the Headsman. The plane is piloted by Paladin, and Ghost is already on board.AF1 is in turn piloted by the TBolts' new leader Black Widow (Yelena Belova), who made it seem like the engines were on fire last issue. She brings the craft down for an emergency landing on the Bering glacier. HAMMER agents are 'conveniently' quickly on the scene.Osborn issues a global warrant for Leonard Samson. No-one mentions the DVD of evidence, which Ghost made off with last issue. The Pres is now pretty much convinced that Norman is a shining example of the Thunderbolts program to turn ex-villains into heroes.Epilogue 1:- Songbird listens to 2 homeless guys discussing the news. She vows to bring Osborn down.Epilogue 2:- The Thunderbolts return to their new HQ in the deserted Cube prison. They think it went well but BW thinks they were sloppy. She already has their next mission lined up - Deadpool is expected to attack Osborn in Avengers Tower.


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Baron Helmut Zemo met with Captain America, Falcon and Hercules last issue (and it turns out Daredevil/Danny Rand is there too) to offer his help to the Registration resistance. But their 1st instinct is to attack him.Zemo uses the Moonstones to suspend Daredevil and Hercules in midair, just to show that he can handle them. However Falcon causes his bird Redwing to steal the Moonstones. Cap then disarms him with his shield and Falcon punches him. But Zemo now has mental control of the Stones and calls them back to him. Then he sends everyone but Cap to New Jersey.The Baron makes the Captain's shield too heavy to lift, and avoids a kick by making himself intangible. Then he pins the Steve Rogers to a wall with bands of force. But then releases him because he wants them to talk.Zemo points out that the world has changed. He is now working for the US government while Cap is a fugitive. And the Baron claims, as he has for a while now, that he too has changed. As evidence he reminds Rogers that he saved his life in Avengers/Thunderbolts #5, at the cost of the scarred face (and more) which he takes his mask off to reveal.Meanwhile Songbird meets Dallas Riordan in a bar. The CSA are offering Melissa leadership of the 50 States Initiative team in Colorado (where the Thunderbolts Mountain HQ is). She can take some of the Thunderbolts with her.Fixer, Joystick and Mach-IV are in Washington to arrest Iron Maiden as she tries to get a fake ID to escape to Canada. Joystick is enjoying doing all the fighting herself.Nighthawk returns to the Squadron Sinister's interdimensional base hidden in the flat of Dr Spectrum (Alice Nugent). We learn that he has infiltrated the SRA resistors, because his team are worried that Zemo will take advantage of the Civil War. They are working for Grandmaster, an Elder of the Universe, and are vying with Zemo for access to the Wellspring of Power (which among other things will allow GM to heal Speed Demon's broken legs, shattered by Joystick in #102). But the stakes are higher than that - if Zemo wins Grandmaster says it means the end of the universe. And that's why hero Nighthawk is helping.In the Baxter Building Mr Fantastic, Radioactive Man and Yellowjacket are working on the portal between dimensions that will give access to the prison they are building. Chinese Dr Chen tries to convince the other 2 that what they're doing is as bad as some of the actions of his own government.Back to Cap and Zemo. The Baron is still trying to persuade the Captain that he has turned over a new leaf. He reminds Rogers that the saving his life/scarring incident happened when Zemo's plan would have (allegedly) stopped all future wars, but the suspicious Avengers intervened and ruined it. He apologises for many earlier actions, including destroying Steve's WWII mementos in Av#275 during the Acts of Vengeance crossover. He claims to have learned some kinship with Cap when Scourge (Jack Monroe) destroyed his family memorabilia and 'killed' him for a while.Zemo now repeats the offer he made last issue. When they've inevitably been captured he can help them escape from the hi-tech prison Mr Fantastic and chums are building (because as we saw last issue he has a hand in it's design). And sometime during the Civil War the resistance can openly help him and the Thunderbolts against the Grandmaster to save the Earth (thus regaining the public's trust).Cap still doesn't trust him. But Zemo has 1 last card to play. He uses the Moonstones to bring Steve's footlocker forward in time from before he destroyed its contents. Inside Cap finds things like his original triangular shield and photos of his mother.Zemo points out that with the power of the Moonstones he could conquer the world. But he doesn't want to. And he hands Cap an electronic key that will get him out of the threatened cage.Steve thanks Zemo for everything. But after the Baron has gone Cap promises that he'll be watching his every move.Back in Zemo's quarters in the Folding Castle we see that he has also retrieved his destroyed goodies.Songbird comes to see him. But before Zemo lets her in he uses the Moonstones to make his face uninjured. He tells Melissa that all went well with Captain America, and she replies that the CSA will also be 'on board when the time comes' (which doesn't match what we saw her and Dallas talking about).Zemo describes what he foresees as the end result of the conflict with the Grandmaster. Songbird will survive and go on to lead the Thunderbolts. He himself will be dead (again) because she will betray him, and he will have to sacrifice his life to save the world. Melissa Gold realises that he knows of her deceit, only pretending to be on his side (and his lover), but he has let everything happen.But Zemo now adds a contradiction that he'll die and also live forever.


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Black Widow and Songbird in Oregon are on the run from the Thunderbolts, keeping to woodland cover to hide from HAMMER satellites. Natasha Romanova explains that she has been undercover in the TBolts for Nick Fury as the other Black Widow (Yelena Belova) since Norman Osborn formed the new team (#128). As well as spying for Fury she's been doing her best to keep the 'Bolts from killing anyone. (A comment explains this is why she made sure Deadpool survived the crossover in DP#7-9/TB#128-130.)Suddenly they are ambushed by Mr X who quickly knocks down Songbird. Widow is a bit more of a match but he plucks her neurotoxin dart out of the air and stabs Melissa Gold with it. Then his 2 swords deflect a hail of bullets until 'Tasha's guns are empty. BW defends herself against his sword attacks for a while but X's ability to predict his opponent's moves eventually lets him wound her. And he has her at his mercy.But then Songbird hits him with a sonic blast which sends him crashing through the trees. (We don't get an explanation how she survived the neurotoxin. Maybe the dart hit the sonic harness she wears round her neck?) SB helps BW get away from the scene.Headsman, Paladin and Scourge (Nuke) are still at the site of the crashed Thunderstrike jet (Songbird brought it down last issue). Mission leader Scourge is hacked off that Mr X and Ghost have gone off without orders. He isn't at liberty to explain to the other 2 why they aren't actively chasing the fugitives. Instead he contacts Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady) who is keeping BW & SB under surveillance. (Scourge orders him *not* to zap them unconscious.)Meanwhile Ghost has appeared hovering before the females and reported their position back to Scourge. But he explains that he has sent false co-ordinates, confirming the sort-of alliance he made with Black Widow in #133. In return Natasha tells him she made up the threat of nano-bombs in his body then, but he claims to have figured that out.As they go on their way, with now Melissa seeming to be the 1 who needs help, BW sends an encrypted message to Nick Fury telling him where she's going and asking to be 'extracted'. (This message will be received by Hellfire and Phobos of Fury's Secret Warriors in SW#7. Nick is off on a secret mission so *they* will decide to help.) Then BW leads the way through a railway tunnel through a mountain.3 days later they are outside Yankee Stadium in New York. Widow knows the access codes to a secret base underneath the Stadium. But miniature Ant-Man, hovering with his jet pack, is still following them. This is NF's secret base #20 codenamed Home Run. At this point we reach a scene from the end of SW#7 as Fury greets them and tells them they've been followed. And the Thunderbolts blast their way in.There's a brief fight as Ant-Man zaps Songbird (accompanied by a typical sexist remark) and Paladin's stun grenade takes all 3 of them out.Fury awakes to Norman Osborn's gloating face and Dark Avenger Hawkeye (Bullseye)'s fists. The 3 prisoners are in restraints surrounded by the Thunderbolts, Ares of the Dark Avengers and several H.A.M.M.E.R. Agents. Osborn tells Romanova that she has delivered to him 2 of his enemies - Fury and Gold. And now Hawkeye will make her tell them where Captain America is. (Presumably he's referring to Bucky Barnes and the New Avengers. Steve Rogers hasn't been Reborn yet.)He explains that the Nick Fury she's been reporting to has just been a voice or hologram under his own control. So it was *he* who sent her into his own Thunderbolts as the other BW. Her reports on the likelihood of getting other 'Bolts to revolt were just giving him info on their loyalty or not.NO tells Scourge to send Romanova to an interrogation unit - he'll attend to her later. But he wants Gold's head - and a film of it being removed. The TBolts leave with the females and Headsman prepares to cut off Songbird's head with his axe. Natasha tries to reach the unease with Osborn she had previously found amongst some of them. But Scourge says they're just obeying orders.Meanwhile Norman Osborn takes a gun and shoots Nick Fury in the head.Parts of the end of this issue will be repeated in the beginning of Secret Warriors #8. The Fury side of this story will be resolved there and in SW#9. The Black Widow/Songbird part will continue in our next issue.


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Norman Osborn led the Thunderbolts to visible success against the Skrulls during Secret Invasion, and was the 1 who gave the killing shot to Skrull Queen Veranke in SI#8. So now he's riding high in public opinion.This issue opens with Songbird accompanying Swordsman as he burns his sister's body in a spot with a good view on Thunderbolts Mountain. When Andrea died the 1st time she was buried in the family crypt. He doesn't think it appropriate to  repeat that (perhaps because she's a clone).Andreas von Strucker tells Melissa Gold that he intends to complete his contract with the CSA, and then when he is free he will kill Osborn. Songbird reminds him of the nanobots that will disable them if they rebel against Norman. But Andreas dismisses this and turns to the subject of their leader's intentions.NO has gone to Washington to meet the President and bask in media acclaim. He's left them behind to clear up the mess in their HQ. But Strucker suggests that Norman is cleaning house in a different way, and warns Melissa to be on her guard.In Washington Osborn attends a meeting of the Senate Oversight Committee on Superhuman Activities. Dallas Riordan commends his actions in the SI and judges it a validation of the CSA's decision to make him Director of the Thunderbolts. But Norman sees the CSA, SHIELD, SWORD and the Avengers Initiative as all criminally failing to prevent the Invasion. They were all infiltrated by Skrulls and were taken over during SI.He claims that the Thunderbolts were the only group not corrupted, due to his security procedures and using OsCorp Tech which wasn't affected by the Skrull's StarkTech virus. He goes further and suggests that there were human collaborators in the other organisations.Senator Woodman protests that there's no evidence of such traitors, but Osborn replies that the Skrulls would have covered their tracks. He proposes an independent group to uncover the villains, which Riordan likens to a McCarthy-style witch hunt.Osborn says he can't continue to work for the suspect CSA, and resigns and says he's disbanding the Thunderbolts. Then he leaves for a meeting with the President. Outside the crowds cheer him.Later at Thunderbolts Mountain HQ Karla Sofen (Moonstone) calls Robbie Baldwin (Penance) in for a chat as team psychiatrist. He's nearly at the end of his 12-month tour of duty (like Swordsman since #109). But he's been under the psychiatric care of Doc Samson, and Karla must evaluate whether he's fit to remain on active duty.Robbie remembers how Moonstone tried to kill him in #121 until he blasted her through several walls. But she reminds him that they were all being messed with telepathically then. Because she didn't have her intangibility power at that point she was severely injured. She asks him how it felt.Baldwin breaks down and says she must hate him. Sofen responds that everyone hates him. Not for the Stamford disaster that kicked off Civil War, but because he's a whining teen who 'punishes' himself with spikes in his costume to get his power to work. He's turned adolescent angst into a superpower. She suggests if he loathes himself that much he should commit suicide.Robbie is taken aback. But Sofen softens and and claims she was just provoking him to see if he could be trusted to control himself. She gives him a drink of water. When he's downed a lot of it she asks him if he'd like to see his new costume. Confused Baldwin sees her holding a straitjacket, which she says is de rigueur where he's going.He tries to stand but falls over. Now Sofen lets her real feelings show. She tells Robbie he's going to a maximum security mental institution. The drink contained a powerful anaesthetic which stops him feeling pain to kick-start his power. And a tranquiliser which sends him to sleep. That'll teach him to punch her through a wall.Karla rings Norman Osborn to report her progress. Then she tells Mac Gargan to clothe himself in the Venom symbiote and go after Songbird and Radioactive Man (Chen Lu).Melissa is in her quarters, wrecked like everything else after the telepaths sent Osborn on a rampage as Green Goblin in #120-121 and the Skrull Captain Marvel attacked in #122-123. She's sorting through the wreckage salvaging stuff like a picture of the old Thunderbolts team.Chen Lu comes to see her to tell her that the Chinese government have recalled him home immediately. They go to the hangar bay where a helicopter is waiting to take him away. He tells her that his 1 regret is leaving her because he thought they might become more than friends. Melissa has been friendly up to this point, but she freezes up and brusquely tells him to go. He leaves thinking he has offended her.But then we learn that Bullseye is behind her and told her to get rid of him. He has a dagger to her back, and now 1 to her throat. He's seeking revenge for #115 where she tricked him into getting his nervous system fried by the nanobots that keep him in check. He's going to insert a dagger into the nerve cluster at the base of her spine, and make Melissa beg for death.Songbird tells him Osborn will be very angry if he kills her because she has blackmail tapes of Norman going Goblin in #120-121 which will be released if she dies. But Bullseye informs her that Osborn has dealt with that, and asked him to kill her. She's not part of Norman's plans for the team.