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Ultimate Power, part 4
‘So, what’s the plan?’ one of the United States’ super heroes asks as they and several of their comrades stare up into the sky. ‘I’m thinking about it!’ Nick Fury of SHIELD replies as he too looks at the sky. ‘Uh-huh’ the young hero known as Spider-Man remarks, before asking everyone what they are looking at. Turning, he sees the massive battle ship in the sky, ‘Oh…now I get it!’ he remarks. Fury declares that with Reed’s equipment damaged, they need to move fast, so the helicarrier will take a strike team to whoever can show them how to follow Reed. ‘Uhm, Nick -’ Spider-Man begins, until he is ignored, and Fury continues, ‘Into whichever dimension the others took him’.
Spider-Man a.k.a. Peter Parker keeps trying to get Fury’s attention, ‘Nick? Mr. Fury? Nicky-poo?’ Fury stops his own talking and turns to Spider-Man. ‘Nicky-poo?’ he snarls. Spider-Man exclaims that he had to get his attention somehow, to which Nick asks Spider-Man what he wants. Spider-Man replies that when he saw them all looking up, and then when they were all looking up, he thought they were all looking at the same thing. ‘What is your point?’ Fury interjects. ‘I wasn’t looking at the helicarrier - I was looking at him’ Spider-Man announces, pointing at the God of Thunder, Thor, a member of the Ultimates, who is hovering beside the helicarrier and staring at it curiously.
Fury, Thor’s teammates in the Ultimates and all the other heroes that are standing in the ruins of the Baxter Building all look towards Thor, who notices them staring at him, and putting his hands on his hips turns to them, ‘What?’ he asks. ‘So here’s what I’m thinking’ Spider-Man begins, before asking Thor if he is the God of Thunder. ‘Verily’ Thor replies. ‘So I’m guessing that hammer of yours -’ Spider-Man remarks, ‘Mjolnir’ Thor interrupts. ‘Pardon?’ Spider-Man replies. Thor explains that his hammer is called Mjolnir, so Spider-Man tries to pronounce it - ‘Majohlnar? Maj-jonger?’ he asks. ‘Mjolnir’ Thor replies. ‘How do you spell that?’ Spider-Man asks.
Thor spells it in his own Asgardian language, to which Spider-Man obviously cannot understand. ‘Right. Doesn’t matter’ Spider-Man mutters, before declaring that his point is that the hammer can take Thor anywhere he wants. ‘Aye’ Thor replies, beginning to list all the places his hammer can take him, until Spider-Man interrupts, exclaiming that he understands. The web-slinger then turns back to his acquaintances, pointing out that since the energy trail that let the Squadron take Reed is still fresh, ‘I’m thinking Thor and Mahlatallanar -’ ‘Mjolnir’ Thor corrects him - ‘Can open up a dimensional portal and follow them!’ Spider-Man concludes.
‘Good idea!’
‘Kid’s smart!’
‘Makes sense to me’
‘You’re standing on my foot’
‘Sorry’
‘So what’re we waiting for?’
‘How did he spell that?’
‘Where’s the toilet? If this is gonna be a long trip I gotta pee’
‘Fury got owwwwned!’
‘Can we stop at Valhalla first?’
‘Spidey’s got a point, Nick’
‘Yeah, what do you say, Nick?’
Finally the heroes stop chattering and Fury stares at Spider-Man. ‘And once Thor opens the dimensional portal, we’re going to need the helicarrier to get everyone to the other side, aren’t we?’ Fury says to Spider-Man. ‘Yes sir!’ Spider-Man replies. ‘So I was right, wasn’t I?’ Fury exclaims. ‘Yes sir!’ Spider-Man replies again. ‘Good. So now that we’ve got that cleared up, let’s get this show on the road!’ Fury exclaims.
Thor flies alongside the Helicarrier and Fury radios to him, asking if he can pick up the energy signature. ‘Verily’ Thor replies. Someone asks what the deal with this “verily” is all the time, but someone mumbles ‘Shut up!’, before fury announces that they have got everything buckled down, ‘And some things webbed down’ Spider-Man jokes, ‘I said shut-up!’ Fury declares, before informing Thor that they can go whenever he is ready. Thor replies that, the full power of Mjolnir, once released, may be more than even the strongest mortal can survive, adding that the portal itself is perilous, and asking Fury if he is sure they wish to proceed.
‘Verily’ Fury replies as he looks down at the impressive gathering of heroes before him. ‘So be it’ Thor replies as he swings Mjolnir around, opening the portal as he shouts ‘Let the heavens be torn asunder, let us be carried by lightning and storm, let the world fall asunder, the sky be ripped away - and leave this world behind!’ And with that, Thor begins leading the Helicarrier through the portal and into a new universe.
At that moment in said new universe, an army official tells Doctor Spectrum a.k.a. Colonel Joe Ledger that they have to be prepared for some measure of an invasion, pointing out that if Reed Richards was able to send that device across the dimensional plane, then it only follows that they might be able to send others as well, so they have to be prepared for that eventuality. Doctor Spectrum replies that they have got it covered, and informs the army official that Hyperion is in heavy-duty monitoring mode. ‘If somebody even farts in a way he hasn’t heard before, we’ll be all over it’. ‘Not an image I wanted, Colonel Ledger’ the official replies. Spectrum replies that he doesn’t imagine Hyperion was much happier about it than he, but that he also has a suspicion that Hyperion was just as happy to get away from that…stuff that came in with Reed Richard’s device. Spectrum adds that they have to find out what the Hell that stuff was before they can try Richards.
In a laboratory nearby, Steadman asks Reed Richards a.k.a. Mr. Fantastic if he has any idea what they are dealing with. Test tubes and various other equipment in front of him, Reed replies that he thinks so, but isn’t sure. Reed explains that the cellular structure is similar to a spore he discovered on other extra-dimensional expeditions, but that it was a simple one-celled organism, biologically inert.
‘Well, I’d suggest that it’s far from inert now’ the handsome Dr. Emil Burbank remarks snidely to Reed, who replies that he knows, adding that his only guess is that as his device passed through the dimensional rift, the energies surrounding the probe interacted somehow with the spores, which hitchhiked onto the probe as it passed through them, and sped up their evolutionary process, so that when they arrived here…his voice trails off before asking Steadman how many people he said he been killed by this.
Steadman replies that they are not entirely sure yet because all the resources that would normally track this sort of thing are not fully functional at the moment, but that they are estimating that the final tally will be somewhere in the tens of millions - maybe even more. ‘God…God, God, God…’ Reed whispers while rubbing his eyes under his glasses. Reed exclaims that he was sure he had compensated for this possibility, that he took every precaution to guarantee that nothing organic could stick to the probe’s skin and avoid contamination. ‘I don’t understand!’ he remarks, before Burbank exclaims that he has a question.
Smirking wickedly, Burbank remarks that he has always wondered what it must feel like to kill millions of people all at once, and since he was never going to have the chance to meet Hitler or Stalin, he was wondering if Reed could tell him what it’s like. A furious Reed rushes over to Burbank, and screams at him, asking him if he thinks this is funny. ‘Don’t you understand what I’ve just done!’ Reed exclaims, placing his hands on Emil’s collar. Emil calmly replies that he understands just fine, adding that he understands something else, also. ‘Touchy-touchy bad!’ Emil exclaims before tapping the cufflink on his shirt, which sends a shock through Reed’s body, causing him to scream and lose control of his form, as his body stretches in all directions.
Reed lies on the lab floor and Emil kneels beside him, ‘Now, as I was saying, before you’re put on trial and convicted of crimes against humanity and introduced to a far more powerful jolt of electricity than the one I just showed you, tell me - how do we stop that stuff from adding even more numbers to your already quite astonishing body count?’ Tears tumbling from his eyes, Reed replies that he doesn’t know. ‘God help me…I don’t know…’.
Meanwhile, in the portal between two worlds, Thor radios to the Helicarrier, asking a SHIELD officer to inform General fury that they are nearly at their destination, so he needs to prepare for their arrival. Moments later, an announcement is made over the Helicarrier, asking for General Fury to report to the bridge. At the same time, Captain America passes Kitty in one of the corridors and asks her if she has seen Fury, as he is not responding to the page. Kitty replies that she thought she saw him going down one of the maintenance hallways, and asks if she should go get him. Captain America remarks that as they are soon to be up to their ears in trouble, that would be wise.
Kitty phases through the interior walls of the Helicarrier and calls out ‘General Fury? Olly-olly oxen free!’ Kitty phases part of her face into a room that is lit only by dim lights, and stops as she hears someone say ‘You’re sure Richards suspects nothing?’ Standing in the shadows, Fury replies to the unknown person ‘Affirmative’ explaining that they are going to go in, get Richards, clean up the mess and get the Hell out before any of this can bounce back on them. Fury adds that the important thing is that they make sure Reed doesn’t get his hands on any of the probes. ‘Two seconds under that freaking high-I.Q. spotlight of his and he’d figure it out!’
The mysterious voice replies that they will have to make sure that doesn’t happen, to which Fury replies ‘Don’t worry, it wont’, before stepping out of the red room and extremely surprised to see Kitty on the other side of the door. He begins to ask her what she is doing back here, to which she informs him that Captain America asked her to find him. ‘Well, you did that’ Fury replies, before standing in the doorway still and telling her that they should get to the bridge. ‘Actually, I was just -’ Kitty begins, until Fury interrupts her, telling her that she can hit the little mutants room later, as right now they have a war to start. Fury puts his arm around Kitty’s shoulders, forcing her to walk with him towards the bridge, and a very suspicious Kitty looks over her shoulder back towards the red room.
Back in the Squadron’s universe, Zarda a.k.a. Power Princess soars up into the open night sky, stars twinkling in the background, ‘My love!’ she cries out to Hyperion, ‘They do not see you as we do. A star, compressed beyond imagination, needing only a single spark to light the fire, and then…it will be…beautiful. We…will be beautiful!’ she exclaims smiling. Grinning, Zarda remarks that for those who wait for word beneath another star, who have waited so long for that word - they too, shall be beautiful. Zarda adds that perhaps that time is now.
Zarda tells the silent Hyperion not to open his eyes, but to continue listening, not for the approach of the enemy, but to those below. Zarda flies around her lover, ‘Listen to those that crawl across the broken rind of the world below, denied flight, denied the sky, denied the stars…listen…what do you hear?’ she asks him. ‘Cries. Screams. Shouts’. Hyperion replies, adding that he hears seas of pain fed by rivers of death - a million shuddering last breaths and over and over again, one question - why?
Zarda replies that it is the question they have awaited, because now they can give them the answer they have always known, but needed to be told before they could truly understand. ‘Why are they dying?’ she asks rhetorically, ‘Because we…because you…could not protect them as you could, as you would…if they would but let you. If you had the power, if they gave you the power!’ Zarda tells Hyperion that he could be there right now, fighting the enemy that swarms among them, devouring them, ‘But you do not. Why?’
Hyperion replies that something in the entity weakens his powers, ‘And I can’t -’ he begins to say, ‘You cannot save them all’ Power Princess concludes. ‘No. No, I can’t’ Hyperion declares. Zarda grins as she asks Hyperion if he cannot save them all, then would it not be wise, and right, for him to save only those who will allow him to save them, who will let him do what is necessary to keep them safe, those that will listen to him. ‘Who obey you. Who will love you…as I love you’.
Hyperion begins to answer, when suddenly he realizes that the enemy has arrived. He flies towards where the portal breaks open the space nearby and tells Zarda to go and get the others. Zarda frowns, ‘Of course, my love’ she replies. Thor and the Helicarrier appear in a brilliant burst of lightening, and inside the Helicarrier, Fury orders everyone to get ready, as it will only be a matter of time before they - ‘Better make that no time at all, General!’ a SHIELD officer announces. Fury asks him what he has got, and the officer suggests Fury take a look for himself. Turning to the window, ‘Oh, crap…’ Fury mumbles as he sees Thor and Hyperion fly towards each other.


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Ultimate Power, part 5
In a world not their own, the members of the Ultimates, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, and also Spider-Man and General Nick Fury watch from the Triskelion as the Norse God Thor of the Ultimates flies towards the devastatingly powerful Hyperion. ‘Oh, this is so gonna hurt!’ Spider-Man exclaims as the two men collide. An unmeasurable amount of energy pounds the stratosphere as the two who really are gods among men begin to smack each other up with unbelievable force.
Inside the Triskelion Nick Fury tells the Invisible Woman and Human Torch to go and give Thor a hand. Nervously, Johnny Storm asks ‘Give him a hand?’ General Fury replies that Thor and Hyperion are too evenly matched, ‘And I don’t like to lose!’ Fury pauses, before adding that he suspects Hyperion doesn’t like to lose either, and everyone watches as Hyperion forces Thor backwards as he flies into him. Fury turns to Susan and tells her to get going, as he needs her and Johnny to buy him some time to find Reed. At the mention of her captive boyfriend and teammates name, Susan tells Fury ‘That’s all you needed to say!’, and in an instant, ‘Flame on!’ shouts Johnny as he jumps out of the Triskelion, with Susan not far behind, floating on an invisible platform.
Fury orders a new course and direction to be put into the computer, to which Spider-Man exclaims that he doesn’t like leaving the others like this. Captain America, leader of the Ultimates, tells Fury that he isn’t happy about the idea either. Fury turns to those around him, and motioning to Iron Man explains that apart from Iron Man who he is keeping in reserve, Susan and Johnny are the only people he can spare who can fly - or levitate or whatever - and tells Spider-Man that if he wants to try webbing across the clouds, or if Captain America wants to skim the air on his shield, then they can feel free, but that right now they have a job to do and the choices he made are the best choices to buy them some time.
Taking a seat, Fury announces that the worst-case scenario is that the Invisible Woman and Human Torch are far more expendable than Reed Richards. This shocks Spider-Man, ‘Expendable?’ he whispers to Captain America. Cap replies that with everything that Reed Richards knows, he could give their enemies enough information to destroy their world. ‘He’s that smart?’ Spider-Man asks. ‘Fine, next time, he’s buying lunch!’
Outside, Susan asks Johnny if their plan is to control and contain. ‘You got it!’ Johnny replies, before adding that how long it will work is anybody’s guess. Susan replies that there is only one way to find out, and encases Hyperion in an invisible bubble. ‘What the -? Doesn’t matter’ Hyperion mutters, before smacking his powerful fist hard against the side of the bubble. The Human Torch hovers around his sister, seeing that the impact of Hyperion’s fists against the bubble is causing her pain. Another mighty punch and Susan screams, blood begins to trickle from her nose.
Susan exclaims that she has never felt power like that before, and looks a bit confused, before Johnny asks her to open up a small hole in the bubble, ‘I’ll take care of this!’ he boasts as he flies past Thor, who is whirling his hammer about. ‘How about a little fire, scarecrow?’ Johnny mutters to Hyperion through the hole, before pouring a massive amount of fire into it. But Hyperion just floats there, glaring through the fire at his attacker, before smashing the bubble again.
Thor sees Susan stumble on her platform and informs Johnny that he will go to her. Johnny thanks Thor, before turning back to Hyperion and remarks that since he is tough enough that he doesn’t have to pull his punches, ‘Let’s go nova!’ With that, Johnny gathers unmeasurable amounts of raw fire power and pours it with tremendous force into the bubble. Johnny mutters that he doesn’t want to kill Hyperion, but that he doesn’t know where to stop - and admits that he cannot keep this going forever. Suddenly, from inside the burning bubble, Hyperion snarls at Johnny, ‘Burn!’, and in a massive display, a mighty explosion takes place, like a burnt orange splattering of paint against a cloudy blue sky.
The Human Torch falls to the ground below screaming, while Susan, who has already fallen, catches her brother in an invisible cushion with her last amount of strength, before she passes out.
Back up in the air, Thor flies towards a now-naked Hyperion, calling him a monster, he raises his mighty hammer, ready to strike - but before Thor can strike him, Hyperion has turned around so fast, and snatches Thor’s hammer from his grasp. ‘Odin’s blood!’ Thor gasps. ‘No. Your blood!’ Hyperion exclaims as he grabs Thor’s neck with one hand, then smashes him hard with his own hammer. Thor falls to the ground, and Hyperion drops the hammer, before flying away.
Back on the Triskelion, Nick Fury announces that their target is this world’s version of Washington D.C., adding that the downside is the Squadron probably already knows they are here, so they are going to encounter heavy resistance. Spider-Man asks Fury how they can be sure this world has a version of Washington, and suggests that this version of Earth might be run by Russia, or China - or New Jersey. Fury replies that from what they have seen already, it just stands to reason. Quicksilver of the Ultimates begins to protest, but Fury cuts him off, assuring the assemblage of heroes that if he is wrong then they will change course. ‘But I wont be’ Fury boasts.
Wanda Lehnsherr Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch takes her brother’s hand, telling Quicksilver to come along and that they can hope that Fury’s certainty about the location of Reed is not the same as the vaunted American certainty about the location of weapons of mass destruction.
Spider-Man writes a note and passes it to Captain America. It reads: Nick knows something he’s not telling us. What? How? Captain America crosses out the “what” and the “how” and writes WHY? and passes it back to Spider-Man. Fury notices something going on and asks them if they have something to say. ‘No, sir’ Spider-Man replies after shoving the note into his mouth. ‘Good. Keep it that way’ Fury declares.
Meanwhile, down below, several soldiers approach Mister Fantastic a.k.a. Reed Richards and inform him that he is to go with them. When Reed asks why, the soldiers inform him that he is being transferred to a more secure location. ‘I’m not entirely sure that’s an answer to “Why”!’ Reed replies. The soldier remarks that he is not cleared for that kind of information. Surrounded by security as he is led from the facility, Reed remarks that there is a lot of back up here for someone who gave himself up peacefully, and asks if there is a problem. The guard replies that he is not cleared for that kind of information either. ‘What kind of information are you cleared for?’ Reed asks. ‘I’m not cleared for that kind of information’ the soldier replies.
Suddenly, an alarm goes off, and Reed asks what it means. The soldier begins to give his standard reply, when Reed interrupts him, ‘Never mind’ he mutters, before stretching his neck and head up through a vent grate, and along the inside of the ceiling until he finds a vent grate that leads outside. ‘Hold it right there!’ one of the guards orders, to which Reed replies that he is not trying to escape, he just wants to take a look outside to see what is going on. ‘Oh no! This can’t be good!’ Reed gasps when he sees what is going on outside - Captain America, Cyclops, Shadowcat, Iron Man, Thing and the Wasp going up against Arcanna, Doctor Spectrum, Nighthawk, Tom Thumb, the Shape and Power Princess!


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Ultimate Power, part 6
An Earth that is not ours, where several of our brave heroes though, race into battle the heroes of this strange other Earth. There are some things you never see more than once in your lifetime, and as Nick Fury, Director of SHIELD looks out the window of the SHIELD helicarrier that transported our heroes to this world, he knows that this was at least five of those things.
Down on the battle field, Doctor Spectrum tells his fellow members of the Squadron Supreme that this is what they planned for, based on what they saw on the other side, and tells Blur to take the point. ‘You got it!’ Blur replies as he speeds over to the incoming heroes.
Captain America turns to the speedster in his group, Quicksilver, who announces that he sees Blur, before he speeds away. As the speedsters clash, Kitty Pryde of the X-Men asks what is going on, why they aren’t fighting, and where are they, for all anyone can see is what looks like a small twister. What the squabbling speedsters see though as they punch each other up, is an enduring lifetime of pain in the time that it takes for the rest of the battle to be concluded.
Doctor Spectrum suggests to his team that they try and soften their foes up a bit, and unleashes the powerful energies from the gem bonded to his hand, but the crystalline beam is shattered by a repulsor ray from Iron Man who hovers in the air nearby. ‘Welcome to the majors’ Iron Man remarks. ‘So. Now that we’ve learned you like to accessorize with jewelry - what else you got?’
Power Princess approaches the Thing, ‘We see you!’ she exclaims. The Thing calls her crazy and remarks that he has rules, that he doesn’t like hitting a lady. ‘You are an honorable man’ Power Princess replies, and as she smacks the Thing across the face, exclaims that they shall see to it that he has an honorable burial. The Thing picks himself up off the ground, exclaiming that Power Princess didn’t give him time to finish his sentence. ‘I was gonna say - ya take my pal Reed, and the rules don’t apply no more! I’m gonna enjoy this!’ he exclaims, before smashing Power Princess.
Meanwhile, in a highly secure facility, the man that the heroes of our Earth are fighting to save, Dr. Reed Richards, surrounded by guards, approaches Dr. Emil Burbank, the most brilliant mind on this world, exclaiming that he must talk to him. The suave Dr. Burbank replies that he was just coming to see Reed himself, and allows him into a meeting room without any guards. Reed tells Emil that he must call off his people. ‘Those are my friends out there!’ he exclaims. ‘Really? I never would have guessed. Did you call them?’ Emil asks. Reed replies that he didn’t, as he would never put his friends in that kind of jeopardy, so, clearly, they think they are here on some kind of rescue mission.
‘Clearly’ Emil replies sardonically, before Reed remarks that if he is allowed to go out there, he can explain to his friends that he is cooperating voluntarily, and then come back. ‘Of course you will’ Burbank mocks. Reed stretches his neck towards Burbank, ‘Are you calling me a liar!?’ he asks defensively. ‘You’re the one who can make your nose grow, Pinocchio, you tell me!’ Burbank replies. Reed asks Burbank if he thinks that he or anyone else could keep him in here if he did not choose to remain.
Burbank warns Reed against getting too close to him, or else he will set off the pain-givers. ‘You mean these?’ Reed asks as he shifts his form, slipping out of the device that held his hands behind his back. Reed begins to speak again, but Emil interrupts, telling him that there is no reason for threats, and announces that he has the solution to the problem. ‘Yeah? What?’ Reed asks. ‘Morph gas’ Emil replies, explaining that it is an invention of his, that it is colorless, odorless, lighter than air and harmless in every way - except that it knocks out anyone exposed to it for a few moments. Reed interrupts, exclaiming that he will not allow Emil to use it on his friends, that he doesn’t care how harmless Emil claims it to be.
Reed points out that, out in the open, such a gas would also be ineffective. ‘You interrupted me, Dr. Richards’ Emil remarks, smirking as he reveals that the gas knocks out anyone exposed to it for more than a few moments, unless you happen to be wearing nose filters, like he is. Reed extends an arm as he lunges for Emil’s throat, ‘You lied to me!’ Reed exclaims. Fighting Reed off, Emil replies ‘Nonsense. I said I had a solution to the problem, and I did’ he reminds Reed, before adding ‘What you failed to understand is that right now, you’re the problem’. Reed falls to the floor as the gas sets in. ‘I am the solution!’ the cocky Emil boasts as he walks away, calling Reed an amateur.
Back on the bridge of the helicarrier, Fury turns around and sees the glamorous Wanda Lehnsherr Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch and asks her what she is doing here, as he sent her outside. The powerful young woman refers to the equally glamorous Arcanna Jones as she replies that she senses there is one among the so-called Squadron with magicks of her own, and that they would seem to be rather considerable in nature.
‘Yeah? So?’ asks Fury, pointing out that Wanda is rather powerful and asks if she is afraid of fighting someone on the same power scale. ‘Not afraid, no. But I wanted you to understand’ Wanda remarks, before informing Fury that she senses Arcanna’s powers come not from traditional sources, but from an understanding of the quantum-mechanical forces that are the very underpinnings of reality. Wanda explains that to set her powers against Arcanna’s might cause, for the lack of a better term, an implosion of natural laws. ‘Yeah? What’s that mean?’ Fury asks abruptly. ‘That it could potentially tear this world asunder and destroy it!’ Wanda reveals. Fury stands staunch and silent for a moment, before declaring that it is not his world, and orders the Scarlet Witch to ‘Get the Hell out there - your teammates need you!’.
Soon, Wanda flies down towards the battle field, where Iron Man and Doctor Spectrum are continuing to pit their powers against each other. Power Princess goes up for another fight with the Thing, while Shadowcat phases her hands into the Shape’s head. Captain America smashes Nighthawk in the face, while Tom Thumb lunges at the Wasp - and Arcanna sets her sights on the approaching Scarlet Witch.
Back aboard the helicarrier, Fury asks one of his officers if everyone from both sides is engaged. The officer replies that they have eyes on everyone except for Spider-Man, as they can’t pick him up yet, but that otherwise, it is a pretty even match, and asks Fury what he wants them to do now. ‘Wait’ Fury replies. ‘Wait? For what?’ the officer asks. ‘For the tipping point. You’ll know it when you see it’ Fury remarks as he leaves the bridge.
In the weapons room, Fury loads himself up with large guns and plenty of ammunition. ‘Whoa!’ a soldier exclaims as Fury walks past him. ‘Sir!’ Fury snaps. ‘Whoa, sir!’ the soldier replies. ‘Better’ Fury mumbles, before entering a room that is lit with a strange red glow. ‘It’s time. I’m going in!’ Fury announces. A voice, coming from someone hidden in the room asks Fury what he hopes to accomplish. Fury replies that he will slip in quiet and get the probes while everyone is looking at the biggest storm of the century, then run like Hell. ‘And then…? What of the rescuers?’ asks the person shown standing in the shadows with a cloak and hood.
Fury replies that, obviously, they will save as many of them as they can, but there will have to be some cases where they must compromise. He points out that there are priorities, and that they must stick to them. ‘I agree’ the mysterious figure replies, before Fury is somehow struck down by some sort of concussive blast. ‘Unfortunately, you have never been a priority’. Fury clutches himself, ‘Son of a…’ he mutters, while secretly reaching for a weapon, then leaping to his feet, he begins firing not one, but two, guns, ‘You can’t do this! This wasn’t the plan!’ he bellows while blasting wildly. ‘Yes I can. And yes, it was’ the unknown entity exclaims, unleashing another concussive force against Fury and knocking him out.
In the corridor, several armed SHIELD officers rush towards the location of the shots. One of them orders everyone to form up, and suddenly they unleash fire on the mysterious figure who exit’s the room - only for all of the soldiers to suffer the same fate as Fury, bombarded with some sort of concussive force. The cloaked figure steps over the soldier’s unmoving bodies and makes his way through the helicarrier.
Shortly, back outside on the battle field, Quicksilver and Blur continue to tussle, with Quicksilver getting in one good punch, causing blood to splatter everywhere from Blur, before the two men are suddenly struck down by a large burst of the same concussive energy that toppled Fury and the soldiers.
Down amongst the strands of grass, the Wasp asks the equally tiny Tom Thumb where Mr. Fantastic is being held. ‘You wanna know where they’re keeping Richards?’ Tom asks. ‘Yes!’ the Wasp exclaims. ‘Have you tried looking up your -’ Tom begins. ‘What the Hell?!’ one of them exclaims. ‘You stupid fool of a human being! What the Hell were you thinking?!’ comes a tiny voice from within the grass, while overhead, the stranger walks across the grass - and steps on them!
Up in the air, the Scarlet Witch and Arcanna hover near each other, both young women surging with their respective magical powers, when suddenly, there is a massive explosion, and both women slam to the ground.
Also up in the air, Dr. Spectrum and Iron Man continue to face-off, and Spectrum tells Iron Man that, he suggests they get the Hell back to their ship, when suddenly, Spectrum’s eyes light up and a voice fills his mind ‘- enemy…there is an enemy here who can harm the children. The children must be protected!’ and with that, Dr. Spectrum soars off, leaving a bewildered Iron Man hovering in the air.
Down below, Power Princess pulls at the Thing’s neck, exclaiming that she wishes to see if his blood is the same color as his skin, adding that she will make his death beautiful. The Thing exclaims that he isn’t done yet, when suddenly, Dr. Spectrum flies overhead and picks Power Princess up with his powers, ‘What are you - stop!’ she exclaims, ‘The children must be protected!’ Spectrum exclaims, while the Thing jokes ‘Yeah, that’s it…run off when…I nearly had ya…I handled tougher gals than -’ his sentence is cut off by the mysterious stranger who approaches him, ‘Always the braggart!’ he remarks, before the Thing is blasted across the battle field. When he gets to his feet, a weary Thing whispers ‘Can’t be…can’t be…you!’.
Back in the glowing red room aboard the helicarrier, ‘Nick? Niiiiiiiiiiiiiick? Nicky-poo? Anybody home?’ calls a voice from the shadows. ‘NO!’ Fury exclaims as he leaps off the floor and fires a weapon into the shadows. ‘You know, that’s what I always expected!’ the voice exclaims, before some webbing is flung from the shadows, taking hold of the weapon. Spider-Man then steps out of the shadows, revealing his presence, exclaiming that he knew there was something going on, that he could feel it, and that it had everything to do with Fury.
Fury tells Spider-Man to let him go, but Spider-Man ignores that, instead remarking that he stuck around instead of going where Fury wanted him to go, but Fury just shouts ‘I said let me go - before everybody on this mission is killed!’ Spider-Man lets Fury go, muttering that all he had to do was ask nicely, and to tell him what is really going on around here. ‘He can’t be allowed to get his hands on the probes…if he does…’ Fury exclaims as he rushes about the helicarrier. ‘He who? Pronouns can be fun, but nouns are better…and names can be even more fun!’ Spider-Man jokes.
Fury enters a control room and an officer informs him that they have got something - someone - on the scanners. ‘It’s not possible, but…’ the woman’s voice drifts off as Fury snaps ‘Show me!’ Clinging to the roof, Spider-Man exclaims ‘Show us both. I can keep a secret…right up until I put it on my blog!’. Fury looks at the monitor, ‘No!’ he exclaims. ‘you have got to be kidding me. We are so screwed!’ Spider-Man adds as he too looks at the monitor, which depicts the mysterious figure, now identified as…Dr. Doom! Doom stands over the Thing’s motionless body, with power surging in his hands, and steam rising from the Thing, while Doom exclaims ‘Yes. Very nice. A new universe…a new world to conquer. A new tomorrow. A new DOOM!’


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Ultimate Power, part 7
The Supreme Power universe - where, after a myriad of events, have led to this: Dr. Doom has arrived. The heroes of two worlds - this world and the Ultimate Universe - have been left scattered. Iron Man battles Dr. Doom, while his teammate the Scarlet Witch, the Thing of the Fantastic Four, and Arcanna Jones of this universe, lie motionless in the rubble nearby, while fire rushes around them.
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, 10,000 feet above Washington D.C. of this universe, and Spider-Man tells SHIELD’s commander, Nick Fury, that he wants some answers. The young hero pushes Fury against a console, demanding that he tell him what is going on, or else face having his lungs filled with webbing. ‘Kid, you’d be dead before your first thread left your wrist’ Fury replies, motioning to his officers who have surrounded Spider-Man and aimed their guns at him. ‘Wanna bet?’ Spider-Man asks.
‘Okay, what do you want to know?’ Fury asks. Spider-Man points to a monitor depicting Dr. Doom. ‘That!’ he exclaims, remarking that the Fantastic Four told him about Doom, and asking what he is doing here. ;Kicking some serious ass as far as I can tell’ Fury replies. ‘Funny. Don’t quit your day job. I’ll handle the quips from here on in’ Spider-Man remarks, before suggesting Fury start at the beginning. Fury explains that, like most big things, they start with something small - a broken promise in this case.
(Flashback, takes place behind-the-scenes of Ultimate Power #1)
‘I promise you, Ben. I’ll find a way to change you back to normal’ Mr. Fantastic told his friend and teammate the Thing after part of his rock-hard skin came off in battle. Mr Fantastic met with General Fury, Carol Danvers and various other important officials, showing them an interdimensional data retrieval device, explaining that it will retrieve data from other dimensions and broadcast that data back to the Baxter Building. But Fury told Reed Richards that the mood wasn’t right for this, reminding him that they have just had Gah Lak Tus, an alien invasion, Atlantis, mole men, and the Hulk out there doing God knows what.
It was a swift rejection, but Carol Danvers pointed out to Fury that Reed is a teenager. ‘You know he’s going to defy you’ she told him. ‘I’m counting on it’ Fury replied. Secrets - lots of secrets - led to strange bedfellows, as Fury showed the data retrieval device to Victor von Doom. ‘Slightly primitive. But, I can see why it’s giving your scientists so much difficulty’. Fury told Doom that he doesn’t like him being here - any more than he liked dealing with Saddam back in the say. ‘But I can’t have that kid sending sensitive information through dimensions without us having a look at it first’. Fury explained.
‘So…you need me to reprogram the probes so it will relay data directly to SHIELD - and then on to the Baxter Building. Child’s play!’ Doom declared.
Fury and Doom established the ground rules - the Fantastic Four kids had to be sleeping, and Doom was never to be out of Fury’s sight. They broke into the Baxter Building for the probes and only the probes. Part of Fury hoped that Doom would decline the offer - but by then, it was too late. Entering the Baxter Building on a rainy night while the kids slept, Fury put on a glove that had the imprints of Reed’s finger prints, gaining security clearance to the dimensional portal. ‘We’re on a clock here’ he told Doom. ‘Do not test me’ the villain replied as he went about doing his work.
Reed Richards woke in the middle of the night as the thunder boomed and lightning struck. And upon entering his lab with the dimensional portal, Reed reacted exactly as Fury hoped he would have, and without any authorization, he launched the probes throughout the universe. The Fantastic Four proceeded to go on about their lives - which is when it all came down like a house of cards - literally - as the so-called Squadron Supreme arrived from their own universe, seeking vengeance….
(Present)
‘S’okay…this is where I came in. That Hyperion dude and his merry band dropped by and kicked the crap out of us…all because of something they think Reed did…but really it was Doom! We have to find Reed Richards right away!’ Spider-Man exclaims.
Meanwhile, inside the Pentagon, Washington D.C. of the Supreme Power Universe, Dr. Emil Burbank sits on a chair, while Mr Fantastic lies motionless on the floor. ‘Imagine living your whole life thinking the universe was one way. Wasn’t the world once believed to be flat?’ Burbank remarks. ‘Or don’t they have a “Columbus” where you’re from?’ he asks Reed. ‘I mean, a universe that doesn’t have an “Emil Burbank” just chills me…I half wish you would wake up, Richards, so I could hear you admit that the better scientist won’ Emil remarks.
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‘The smartest man in the universe - that’s what Time Magazine called me three years running’ Emil remarks. Adding that for his admittedly genius contributions to various fields of science, he was awarded the Nobel Prize. ‘Smartest man in the universe - only one problem with that statement…despite what we all believed…the universe was bigger than we thought!’ Emil mutters that he might as well have grown horns and a tail before he was going to get the kid of recognition those “super heroes” were getting - like Hyperion, who received a massive photo and article on the front page of the Washington Chronicle, while an article about Emil receiving the Nobel Prize gained a small box at the bottom of the page.
Several months later though, ‘You familiar with the expression “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”? a General asked Burbank, who replied that he has heard of it. ‘Good. That’s the situation I fear we’re heading into with Hyperion’ the General explained to Burbank, who asked if Hyperion had done something. ‘Not yet’ the General replied. ‘But before we get to read the writing on the wall seared into there by his heat vision…I want you to find a way to take him out’ the General declared. ‘”Take him out”?’ Burbank replied. ‘Don’t play coy, you hate him more than any of us. Just give me an option’ the General replied.
Burbank was given unlimited funding and his own personal “Manhattan Project”. But he knew that Hyperion could withstand an atomic blast, so this had to be particularly special. And so, he found success, but never believed his superiors would go along with the cost of it. Burbank explained that the infection would grow exponentially upon contact with the air, as the organism emits a kind of radiation which Hyperion will not be able to survive. ‘But it will not be inexpensive’ Burbank told his superiors, who asked him: ‘In human lives. Give me a number’. ‘Conservatively?’ Burbank replied, ‘On a worldwide scale, ten million at least’.
‘Well, those are acceptable losses given the nature of the problem’ the General replied. ‘Never underestimate the hubris of the military industrial complex’ Burbank decided, before telling the General that may be all well and good, but that he would rather not go down in history alongside Hitler and Stalin. ‘We’re going to need a fall guy’ he remarked. ‘How about an invasion from another universe?’ the General asked, holding up one of Reed’s devices in a plastic case….
(Present)
‘And that, deer Reed, was the beginning of your end…’ Burbank exclaims, unaware that Reed has extend his fingers behind Burbank’s back, while revealing that they hid his probe within the ever growing organism and let Hyperion’s arrogance take it from there. ‘So Reed, you see you had nothing to do with -’ Burbank is cut off as Reed wraps his stretched-out fingers around Burbank’s neck and lifts him off the ground. ‘Can’t breathe?’ Reed asks the shocked Emil. ‘My guess is you can’t hold your breath as long as someone who expands his lungs…when someone is trying to gas him’.
‘What’s the matter, Burbank?’ Reed asks. ‘Don’t people “play possum” on your world? Or don’t you have possums here?’ he asks sarcastically. ‘We’re going to leave now, you megalomaniac. Find Hyperion. And start with the truth!’ Reed declares.
Thirty minutes away, ‘ENOUGH!’ bellows Thor as his hammer spins around, crackling lightning all over the place, he sends a massive surge of it into Hyperion, who falls to the ground. Thor stands over Hyperion and holds his hammer, ready to bring it down upon him, ‘Now, Hyperion…you will learn what it is to bring forth a God without mercy!’ And with that, Thor smashes his hammer down against Hyperion, splattering blood everywhere.
Thor brings his hammer down against Hyperion again, but as he prepares to do it a third time, a hand grabs it. ‘We have our own Gods without mercy’ a voice exclaims. ‘And Goddesses’ she adds - it’s Power Princess, who smashes Thor in the face. ‘Then I spit on your gods’ Thor declares, before smashing Power Princess aside with his hammer, ‘I am THOR! God of Thunder!’ he bellows, when, suddenly, Doctor Spectrum arrives, flying down towards Thor, he orders him to step away from Hyperion.
But before Doctor spectrum can strike, the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four flies towards him and engulfs him in a massive burst of flame. ‘I hope you wanted him extra-crispy!’ the Human Torch jokes as he flies past Thor. The rain continues to beat down as Thor grabs Hyperion by the face and shouts ‘Villain, we shall have some answers!’.
Back aboard the Helicarrier, Fury marches down a corridor, with Spider-Man crawling along the roof above him, excusing himself for not being the super-dooper James Bondy that Fury is, Spider-Man asks if nobody at spy school told Fury that when you put the fox in charge of the henhouse, all you get is chicken salad? ‘We took a chance, yeah’ Fury replies as he punches a code into a console. ‘Uh. Not buying the extended warranty on your cell phone is taking a chance - what part about the name “Doom” in Doc Doom hasn’t rung your bell? And where the Hell are you taking me now!?’ Spider-Man asks.
Fury motions to his eye-patch and tells remarks ‘Look, I know you think that because I have one eye I can’t see - but I have been doing this job longer than you’ve been alive!’ he exclaims angrily, adding that one of the things he has learnt is that if you have a fox in your chicken house, you get a bigger dog. The door opens and Spider-Man looks into the room. ‘You’ve gotta be kidding me. You brought him!? You brought the Hulk!’ he shouts, staring at the green behemoth restrained in countless contraptions.
Back outside, Quicksilver has found the Scarlet Witch, and tells his glamorous sister that she needs to clear her head. Wanda asks Pietro what happened, to which the speedster replies that they have one chance, and tells her to focus all her energies on their enemy - this Squadron Supreme - then they can win the day. But Wanda replies that she cannot take that chance. ‘My power is unpredictable enough, but here - on whatever world this is in, whatever universe…’ her voice trails off. Quicksilver looks her in the eyes, ‘Take the risk. Or would you rather one of our own deaths be on your head?’ he asks. ‘All right, brother. But, the Squadron’s fates will be on your head then!’ Wanda replies as she unleashes her power, causing the conscious members of the Squadron Supreme to begin screaming….
Inside the Pentagon, Reed tells Burbank to say the password so the door can open, ‘Or you’ll never say another word’ he adds, with his fingers still wrapped around Emil’s neck. Suddenly though, a laser beam passes by and cuts a hole in the wall, before the wall is knocked out by a powerful blast, and standing in the doorway are Wolverine, Cyclops and Storm. ‘The X-Men!’ Reed exclaims. ‘Either one of you girls need a ride home?’ Wolverine jokes. Reed smiles and begins to explain something, when, suddenly, the other side of the building is blown apart by yet another group of super beings that arrive on scene.
Brightly dressed and looking mad, one of them shouts ‘You’ve destroyed out world - and you will answer for what you’ve done!’ Hyperion, Power Princess, Nighthawk, Doctor Spectrum, Arcanna, Whizzer, Amphibian, Skymax, Skylark, the Shape - the Squadron Supreme!?!?!


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Ultimate Power, part 8
The Pentagon, Washington D.C, the Supreme Power Universe. ‘Squadron, scramble!’ shouts the powerful Hyperion - not of this universe, but the Earth-S/712/616 universe, who, along with his teammates, have just found themselves displaced here. Hyperion uses his near-unbeatable strength to pummel the Ultimate Universe’s Wolverine of the X-Men, while his teammates Power Princess, Dr. Spectrum and the Shape deal with Storm, Cyclops and Mr. Fantastic in their own manner.
Hyperion calls out to his teammates Nighthawk and Whizzer, ordering them to take everyone else except for him, Power Princess, Dr. Spectrum and Shape, to which Nighthawk replies ‘I told you about going in fists first!’ Hyperion ignores him and declares that they need intel, and fast. ‘Ain’t nobody faster!’ boasts the Whizzer as he speeds away, while Wolverine lunges at Hyperion. ‘What the Hell are you made of?’ he asks, discovering his claws do not leave any damage. ‘Righteousness!’ Hyperion replies, before blasting Wolverine with powerful optical beams. Wolverine’s body is torn apart, but quickly heals itself. ‘Oh’. Wolverine utters, before leaping at Hyperion. ‘You’re one of those people!’.
Nearby, Mr. Fantastic exclaims that he doesn’t understand. ‘There are doppelgangers of you all?’ he asks, while he and the Shape both try to tangle each other up. ‘Huh?’ the dim-witted Squadron Supreme member replies. ‘How can there be two versions of the same being occupying the same universe?’ Mr. Fantastic asks. ‘You’re funny. I don’t look like you!’ the Shape replies as he head-butts Mr. Fantastic, smashing his glasses, and pushing Mr. Fantastic back, both men eventually spring together into a giant-rubber-band-like-ball. Mr. Fantastic mutters that this is like trying to have a conversation with Ben when he’s been drinking. ‘Who’s Ben? Does he look like me too?’ the clueless Shape asks.
Storm casts a bolt of lightning upwards at the Squadron Supreme, while Cyclops fires an optic blast at them, asking his teammate if he has any idea what is going on here. ’None’ Storm replies, remarking that they came to rescue Mr. Fantastic, but got attacked - but the same men and women as the ones who attacked them back on their Earth, but with different uniforms. Cyclops replies assuredly that he doesn’t know how, or why, but these ones are not the same.
Up above, Power Princess blocks the lightning bolt and asks Dr. Spectrum if he can hear them too, remarking that they are just as confused about them being here as they are. Dr. Spectrum replies that the probe which landed in their world, led them here. ‘Hyperion knows what he’s doing’ Dr. Spectrum declares. ‘Not from where I’m standing’ Power Princess replies.
Back on the ground, Wolverine and Hyperion are still going at it, and Wolverine exclaims that there has to be somewhere he can cut Hyperion. ‘Better men than you have tried’ Hyperion replies smugly. ‘Bub, you don’t even know me. And I’m the best at what I do!’ Wolverine exclaims as he lashes out at Hyperion with his claws once more.
Meanwhile, Whizzer speeds around the surrounding area, and notes that he is not as fast as he should be - almost at half speed even. He passes this world’s Hyperion who, naked, is being attacked by the Ultimates Thor. ‘You weaken, Hyperion. You will never best the Son of Odin!’ Thor boasts. Whizzer speeds past enemies of the same universe - Iron Man and Dr. Doom - who are squabbling, as Doom boasts that he has claimed this Earth for himself. ‘When you fall, it will follow’ Doom exclaims. ‘Not much of a plan, Doom, since I’m not going down’ Iron Man replies. The Whizzer speeds past his counterpart of this world, Blur, who is battling another speedster, Quicksilver, before he arrives back at Hyperion’s location and announces that something is wrong.
‘Something is wrong!’ screams this world’s Hyperion as Thor blasts him with unmeasurable amounts of lightning, while shouting ‘You attacked our world! Kidnapped one of our heroes!’ Furious, Thor asks ‘And now, thou dost plead some kind of madness!?’ Suddenly, this world’s Power Princess and Dr. Spectrum arrive on scene, and Power Princess tells Thor that she would like nothing better than to rip his head off, but that something is wrong - even in this chaos.
Dr. Spectrum agrees, and explains that there has been a shift of some sort. ‘Everyone on our Squadron felt it - our powers halved, as though we’d been split in two’. Dr. Spectrum remarks that Thor is clearly a warrior born, and informs him that he is first and foremost a soldier. ‘We could continue waging battle. All of us. We brought blame. Your people claim innocence. If there’s someone else to be held accountable - shouldn’t we try to uncover that person or persons?’ Dr. Spectrum suggests. A thoughtful Thor calms down and listens to Dr. Spectrum.
Meanwhile, Dr. Doom boasts that every advance Iron Man has made, he has countered. Doom suggests Iron Man concedes, and he will consider having him serve him in the new world order. Iron Man replies that this is madness, and remarks that this world lays wasted - tens of millions have lost their lives. ‘Is it all because of you?’ Iron Man asks. ‘Tens of millions and one!’ Doom replies as he blasts Iron Man to the ground with a powerful surge of energy.
Suddenly though, someone taps Doom on the shoulder - it’s the Thing, who shouts ‘It’s clobberin’ time!’ as he pummels Dr. Doom across the landscape. The Thing continues his assault and declares that he knew his friend Mr. Fantastic could not be to blame for all of this mess, remarking that this had Doom’s stink on it from the get-go. ‘And with nobody from the team to hold me back - it’s open season on you, Vic!’ the Thing exclaims. Dr. Doom asks then if no one is here, who will mourn Thing’s death by his hands, and us about to release a point-blank blast on the Thing, who triples ‘Like to see ya try’ and yanks at Doom’s hands - when suddenly, they break off.
Puzzled, the Thing exclaims that he has been fighting a blasted robot. ‘I hate robots!’ he shouts as he begins to smash up the supposed robot. ‘I want my money back!’ Thing jokes, when suddenly the metal begins to shift together, like mercury. Thing admits that he may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he has a feeling Mr. Fantastic is going to want to have a look at this. ‘Eew!’ he whispers as he picks some of the goo up.
‘This can’t be good’ Mr. Fantastic exclaims as he manages to poke his head out from within his and the Shape’s tangled bodies. This world’s Hyperion, now clothed, appears overhead with Power Princess and Dr. Spectrum at his side. ‘Explain yourselves!’ he demands. ‘Explain yourselves!’ his Earth-S counterpart exclaims. This world’s Hyperion introduces himself, and orders everyone else to surrender. The Earth-S Hyperion says exactly the same words, before taking flight and smashing into his counterpart. ‘Wild!’ exclaims Wolverine.
Power Princess of Earth-S asks Dr. Spectrum why he thinks they keep repeating what the other one says, before she attacks her counterpart of this world. ‘Who are you people?’ she exclaims. ‘Who are you people? This world’s Power Princess replies. The two Dr. Spectrums battle it out, while the two Hyperion’s toss each other about, both shouting ‘Why do you keep repeating everything we say?’.
Meanwhile the Nighthawk of Earth-S finds the Captain America of the Ultimate Universe, thinking him to be the Captain America of Earth 616, he exclaims ‘I know you. You’re with the Avengers!’. ‘The…who? We’re the Ultimates’ Captain America replies, to which Nighthawk asks him what he is talking about. ‘We’ve met. Fought alongside each other!’. But Captain America replies that he has never seen anyone who looks like Nighthawk before. Suddenly, the Nighthawk of this world appears. ‘How is this possible?’ the Earth-S Nighthawk asks, to which of course this world’s version asks the same thing, while Captain America asks either of them if they have answers.
Suddenly, Captain America’s teammate, the sultry Scarlet Witch tells Captain America that she warned her brother that something terrible would happen if she used her magics here. Suddenly, the both the Earth-S and the Ultimate Universe Arcanna Jones appear beside the Scarlet Witch, both with their mighty powers ready, they tell the Scarlet Witch that she has much to answer for.
Meanwhile, 10,000 feet in the air is the SHIELD Helicarrier of the Ultimate Universe. ‘Isn’t this like pouring gasoline on a fire?’ asks Spider-Man as Sergeant Nick Fury leads the powerful and nigh-unstoppable Hulk to an opening in the carrier. ‘Don’t they teach you anything in high school?’ Fury retorts, to which Spider-Man replies that he attends a public school. ‘We’re lucky enough to have books’. Fury explains that when two sides are too evenly matched, you introduce a third element that will unite them all. ‘Strategy 101’ he adds.
‘And he’s the third? Spider-Man asks, unimpressed. ‘What if he - y’know - starts eating people!?’ Fury informs Spider-Man that he will be going with him, acting as the Hulk’s conscience. ‘Y’know. Like Jimmy Cricket’. Spider-Man corrects Fury, ‘It’s “Jiminy”. Didn’t they teach you anything in high school?’ he mocks, before asking how Fury expects him to control the Hulk. ‘This oughta be good!’ the Hulk exclaims as he looks down at the scene below him, before leaping out of the Helicarrier, ready to enter the fray. Spider-Man fires some webbing onto the Hulk’s back, enabling him to get down to the ground while shouting out ‘Tell my Aunt May I might be late for dinner!’…


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Outside the Washington Monument, Washington DC of the Supreme Power Universe. ‘HULK SQUISH FISHES!’ bellows the Incredible Hulk of the Ultimate Universe as he smashes Amphibian of the Earth-S Squadron Supreme and his Supreme Power counterpart, Kingsley, into some kind of lake, while his former Ultimate teammate Captain America tells him to put the Earth-S Nighthawk down. ‘Crushing my leg!’ Nighthawk exclaims as the behemoth grips his left leg tightly.
With the SHIELD Helicarrier in the distance, the Ultimate Universe’s Spider-Man remarks that Fury’s plan, as idiotic as it sounded, to have the three groups of heroes fight the Hulk instead of each other is actually working. ‘Now, if I can just keep Mr. Monster from eating them!’ the young hero exclaims. ‘Hulk make bird-man fly!’ the Hulk shouts as he tosses Nighthawk towards Captain America, smacking the legendary hero over.
The Hulk realizes that someone is approaching him - indeed, three someone’s actually, as the speedsters from each universe - Quicksilver of the Ultimates, Whizzer of the Earth-S Squadron Supreme, and his Supreme Power counterpart Blur - race towards the Hulk, and all begin punching him at extraordinary speeds, until the Hulk smashes his fists to the ground, sending water spraying everywhere and knocking the three speedsters aside with great ease.
Suddenly, Skymax of the Earth-S Squadron Supreme approaches Quicksilver, telling him that they have little time, and as his world’s Whizzer is down, he needs Quicksilver to get to the others. ‘What?’ shouts a dazed Quicksilver, exclaiming that he cannot hear anything thanks to the Hulk’s sonic boom. ‘Then don’t talk - think - I can hear you’ Skymax replies telepathically. ‘A telepath? Like Xavier?’ Quicksilver asks, referring to the founder of the X-Men. ‘Who…never mind’ Skymax exclaims, before telling Quicksilver that he must get Hyperion and any other beings of that power. ‘We must work together, I can see that now’ Skymax remarks, adding that he will by them as much time as he can.
Nearby, the Scarlet Witch of the Ultimates is confronted by both the glamorous Arcanna Jones’ of the two worlds. ‘Witch! By bringing another version of the Squadron Supreme to this universe - you have somehow halved our powers. Difficult to make even an independent thought - when our duplicates are essentially two beings occupying one space!’ the powerful sorceresses exclaim. Confused, the Scarlet Witch replies that she knows. ‘I don’t know how to send them/you back!’ she points out. ‘We know. We’re going to help you!’ the Arcannas reply.
Meanwhile, the Hulk has found himself fighting - himself? ‘Hulk doesn’t like two Hulk’s!’ the behemoth shouts as he and his counterpart smash each other up. ‘Not a problem - this one is taking you out!’ the impostor Hulk replies, but the Hulk replies ‘No HULK is Hulk!’ and smashes his doppelganger hard in the face, drawing green blood. ‘Hulk is Hulk!’ he keeps repeating over and over again as he lays waste to the impostor - Skymax! ‘Stop…’ an exhausted Skymax exclaims, but the Hulk continues to thrash him as he returns to his default form. ‘Now you don’t look like Hulk…you look like dinner!’ the Hulk bellows as he smashes Skymax some more.
Suddenly though, both Power Princesses fly between the Hulk and Skymax, telling the behemoth that he has done all the damage that they will allow, and using their combined might, they knock the Hulk aside, enabling their respective teammate Doctor Spectrum blast him with their energies. ‘Together we make one. One who will make you fall!’ the heroes exclaim, joined by the X-Men’s Cyclops of the Ultimate Universe who blasts the Hulk with his optic beams.
The Ultimate Universe’s Human Torch of the Fantastic Four unleashes a powerful blast of flame upon the Hulk. ‘That’s gonna leave a mark!’ the young hero jokes, only for the Hulk to exclaim ‘Hulk make a wish!’ and blows the Human Torch out as if he was a candle. The Torch is knocked backwards through the air, rescued by Spider-Man who grabs him with a web. ‘And will he thank me when he wakes up? I think not!’ Spider-Man mutters.
‘You’re goin’ down, bub!’ Wolverine of the X-Men declares as he shoves his adamantium claws into the Hulk’s chest. ‘No!’ the Hulk replies angrily, before wrapping a hand around Wolverine’s neck and threatening to tear his head off, when, suddenly, the Hulk is forced to release Wolverine when he is attacked by the combined might of both world’s Hyperion‘s, the Ultimate’s Thor and the X-Men’s Storm. ‘MONSTER!’ shouts Thor, exclaiming that although this day began with all sides against each other, there is none among them who does not see the Hulk as the greater threat.
Suddenly, the aptly named Thing of the Fantastic Four lunges at the Hulk with some large metal beam, exclaiming that this whole thing started because of him when Mr. Fantastic went looking for a cure to return him to his old self, but it wound up messing with this whole planet. ‘The least I could do is keep you from making it any worse!’ the Thing tells the Hulk as he pummels him with the large beam.
‘Hulk knows you!’ the dim-witted monster replies as he grabs the beam and squashed it. Calling the Thing a monster, he exclaims ‘Monster just like Hulk’ before boasting that he, the Hulk, is the strongest there is. The strong beings clash again, with the Thing remarking ‘You may think you’re stronger than me - and maybe you are. But I got something you ain’t never gonna have. Heart!’ the Thing boasts. But the Hulk just laughs in his face and smashes the ground, sending shockwaves rippling. ‘Hulk eat Thing’s heart!’ the Hulk shouts.
Spider-Man swings down on his webbing, exclaiming that “Hulkie” said the magic words. ‘Nobody’s eating anything on my watch!’ Spider-Man boasts, while admitting that he is not exactly sure what he is going to do about it though. From no where, literally, Thing’s teammate the Invisible Woman materializes, telling Spider-Man to blind the Hulk. ‘Who said that…whoa!’ Spider-Man exclaims as he turns to the Invisible Woman, who, after Spider-Man mumbles ‘Hellllo, Betty!’, asks if he is actually flirting with her. ‘What? Who? Me? What?’ Spider-Man replies unconvincingly, to which the Invisible Woman orders Spider-Man to blind the Hulk, then she will bubble him.
‘You got it, gorgeous!’ Spider-Man replies as he fires webbing in the Hulk’s eyes, followed instantly by a well-crafted invisible force field around his face, the Hulk exclaims that he cannot breathe. ‘Say good night, pal!’ the Thing exclaims as he comes up behind the Thing and smacks him over, hard, rendering him unconscious.
Finally, the Scarlet Witch, Arcanna “Moonglow” Jones of Earth-S and this world’s Arcanna combine their immense powers. ‘Back all things go!’ they each exclaim, and as the energies flow, the Squadron Supreme of Earth S - Hyperion, Power Princess, Nighthawk, Doctor Spectrum, Amphibian, Whizzer, Skymax, Skylark, Shape and Arcanna herself - are all seemingly transported back to Earth 712.
Following that, the heroes of the Ultimate Universe - Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Wasp, Spider-Man, Invisible Woman, Mr. Fantastic, Thing and Human Torch - all gather. Captain America addresses Hyperion, pointing out that they have now fought against and beside each other. ‘Given what we’ve learned, you’ve for to now admit we - and Reed Richards - are not responsible for the destruction of your Earth’. Cap exclaims.
Hyperion stands with his Squadron Supreme - Power Princess, Arcanna, Blur, Doctor Spectrum, Nighthawk, Tom Thumb and Kingsley - and exclaims ‘I only know this. You wish to blame your “Doctor Doom” for our planet’s ills. But, he was apparently little more than a tool. If not Doom, if not Reed Richards, then who should ay for the death of millions?’ he asks. Spider-Man begins fake coughing, while muttering ‘Fury’.
Up in the air, inside the Helicarrier, Nick Fury of SHIELD is watching what transpires below on a monitor as Spider-Man informs everyone else that Fury brought in Doom. ‘Who knows who else he dealt with, the schemer!’ Spider-Man remarks, while Fury curses, and snaps that Spider-Man is dead. Suddenly, Shadowcat of the X-Men phases into the chamber, exclaiming that she happens to like Spider-Man.
‘He told me to keep an eye on you. And gee, aren’t you screwed’ she exclaims. Fury points at the young mutant, ‘Not today’ he tells her, claiming that there are seventeen ways he can spin this, when suddenly, some sort of malleable oozes around Fury, then engulfs him. ‘Spin that, Fury!’ Shadowcat exclaims, as Fury struggles inside the Shape. Shadowcat turns to the odd hero and tells him that he is kinda cute when a girl gets to know him, before declaring that it is time for Mister Fury to go to Washington.
Shortly, Doctor Spectrum holds a firm grasp on Fury with his powers while the heroes confront him. Fury tells them that they are making an enormous mistake, claiming that if they take him out of the equation, then they are taking away the safety valve. ‘There are things. Secret things. Things you know nothing about! Do not do this!’ Fury shouts. But Thor tells him not to waste his breath or time. ‘A traitor’s words always fall on deaf ears’ he remarks.
Captain America tells Hyperion to consider Fury a down payment, assuring him that when and if they locate Doctor Doom, they will get word to the Squadron. Hyperion replies that, given the strength of their military industrial complex, Fury would have risen here to even greater heights than on the Ultimates’ home world.
Nighthawk remarks that there is something that doesn’t make sense, pointing out that if none of them knew that they all existed here in this world, then how could Fury be part of a conspiracy that ultimately destroyed their planet? Mr. Fantastic informs everyone that Doom had help. ‘Using my probe, your man contacted him in our universe’. Mr Fantastic motions to Emil Burbank, introducing him as a megalomaniac, and more importantly, co-conspirator. The well-dressed scientist exclaims ‘You can’t do this to me! My planet needs me to protect it from all of you!’.
Hyperion frowns and assures everyone that Burbank will be dealt with severely, adding that however this “virus” was created, Burbank will resolve it for them, before asking Captain America what assurances he can have that this will never happen from his universe again. Power Princess remarks that they have none which have teeth, and announces that she will return with ‘These…Ultimates’ to learn about their Earth and ensure that they make no move against this world again. Power Princess and Hyperion kiss passionately, and Zarda tells Mark that she will return to him someday. ‘You’d better’ is all Hyperion replies.
Later, inside the Triskelion, SHIELD headquarters, New York City, the Ultimate Universe. Captain America informs Iron Man that the Hulk is back in his box, and officials are already talking about having Carol Danvers taking over SHIELD. Cap admits that he never trusted Fury, even back in the day. ‘Meh. He was useful at the start’ replies Iron Man, remarking that they really are on their own now, and adding that he had most of the furniture moved over to his place.
Noticing Captain America staring out the window, Iron Man asks him what is going on, ‘You’re even more inside your head than usual…if that’s possible?’. Cap replies that it’s Wanda. ‘Did you have any idea she has that kind of power?’ he asks, ‘I mean, to pull an entire group of super-powered individuals from another universe…’ his voice trails off, while Iron Man, helmet off, grins and holds up his martini, ‘It’s kinda hot’ he remarks, before admitting that if Wanda wasn’t so into her brother, he would take a crack at her. ‘You’re suck a jackass’ Captain America tells him. ‘Yeah, I know’ Iron Man replies.
Meanwhile, inside the Baxter Building, home of the Fantastic Four, Mr Fantastic tells the Thing that Doctor Storm says the roof will be repaired in another week. ‘I told him I’d event something to sell so we can pay for it’ he remarks. The Thing sits in darkness while Reed stands at the doorway and replies that he supposes everything will be good as new then. He tells Reed that his skin - or whatever this turtle shell is - grew back, so that piece that got knocked off is like it was never lost. ‘I can look forward to this handsomeness for a long time’ the Thing mutters sarcastically.
Reed begins to say that he promises to find a way, but the Thing interrupts him, ‘Don’t say it’ he declares. ‘Last time ya made that promise ya wrecked at least three universes. Besides, I knocked down the Hulk. I’m gonna be the idol of millions’. The Thing asks Reed to leave him, as he needs to get some beauty sleep. Reed goes, while the Thing looks at a photo of himself and Reed, back in the day, before their transformations, and cries.


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Wearing a half-made Spider-Man costume, Peter hangs on a wall and watches some cop cars driving to a crime scene. He decides to follow them and lands in front of a school. There, he sees a group of youngsters cheering for Geldoff, who has just destroyed a car with his powers. Spidey lands and tries to talk some sense into both Geldoff and the kids, but seeing his half-made costume, they don’t believe Spidey is the real deal. Spidey puts some webs on Geldoff’s hands to make everyone understand he is real. Geldoff frees himself using his powers and wants to fight. The cops come, so Spidey wants to leave Geldoff to them.
Geldoff panics and refuses to stay, and grabs Spidey’s costume just as he web-slings away! Once Spidey realizes this, they are already too high in the sky to stop. Spidey moves too fast and Geldoff drops down, but Spidey manages to safe the guy with his webs and they land on a roof. Spidey is rather upset and demands to know why Geldoff was doing all those things. He explains that his principal suspended half the football team because of what happened on a party. Spidey’s confused. Geldoff explains that he was just blowing up some parked cars at the party for fun, and the principal got a name list and suspended half of the team. Geldoff threatened the guy that, if he didn’t get them back, he would protest against the principal. But Geldoff admits that he got carried away.
Spidey can’t understand that Geldoff has this amazing powers, and the only thing he can think of doing is to show off at parties. He really does miss Doc Ock! Geldoff decides to demonstrate his powers to Spidey. He focuses on a nearby barrel, thinks for a while and fires a big electrical like bolt at it and destroys the barrel! Spidey thinks that Geldoff’s a mutant, who gets angry hearing the remark. Spidey apologizes and, hearing Geldoff’s accent, wants to know where the guy came from.
Geldoff reveals that he’s an orphan and originates from Latveria. Spidey can’t believe it. Geldoff continues and says that he was adopted by an American family about two years ago and came to school there. At first, his parents didn’t know about the powers, but now they do and are rather mad about it. They too think that he’s a mutant. Geldoff told them he isn’t, but they didn’t believe him and are scared. Spidey really suspects that Geldoff is a mutant, since he doesn’t know how he got his powers. Geldoff rather believes that he’s what they call a magic man.
Geldoff wants to know about Spider-Man, and how he got his powers and why he wears the rather stupid costume. But Spidey doesn’t want to talk about it. Geldoff thinks about getting a costume too. Spidey tells him that, if he does, he’ll have to use his powers more responsibly. Geldoff realizes he went a little too far today. Spidey tells Geldoff a great saying someone told him: “with great powers comes great responsibility.” Geldoff’s intrigued. Spidey explains that it means that when you’ve got a great power, you have to use it wisely and help people without getting something out of it for yourself.
Suddenly below them, gunfire and other noises are heard. Spidey goes to check it out and orders Geldoff to stay on the roof. He goes into the robbed store, which is robbed by criminals wearing masks of famous superheroes. Spidey opens the fight, and the thugs open fire. Just then, Geldoff interferes and uses his powers at maximum strength, and destroys the entire store and one of the shoppers! Spidey checks her pulse, and luckily the woman’s still alive.
Spidey jumps back to the roof and slaps Geldoff in the face for reacting so immature. Geldoff says he won’t handle such behavior on his person, and wants to use try his powers on Spider-Man now. He panics a bit.
Luckily, three cute women arrive next to them. Those women are Marvel Girl, Shadowcat and Storm from the X-Men! (As seen on TV.) And they would like to have some words with the both of them.


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Peter’s teacher notices that he isn’t at class, and is angry about it, since he has seen Peter in the hallway. He demands that Peter’s classmates tell him where Peter is if they know it, but nobody responds. MJ lies that Peter has a “stomach thing,” but this upsets the teacher even more. He promises that he’ll punish Peter for skipping the class he has been teaching for 17 years. The principal announces through the speakers that there’s a heavy battle going on nearby, and that the school is to be evacuated. The students quickly pack their things and leave. MJ is worried, and Gwen calmly thinks that mutants are involved.
At the same time, Geldoff recognizes the female X-Men as mutants. Jean jokes about it and asks where the mutants are. They jump down, and tell Geldoff that they just want to talk. They explain to the confused boy that he really is a mutant, and that they X-Men are a mutant peacekeeping task force. And they wish to talk to Geldoff about his future plans. Spidey jokes about Geldoff being a mutant, and that he was right. Geldoff doesn’t know what to say, and faints.
This is the first time that a kid fainted when the X-Men approached him. Kitty turns her attention to Spider-Man, with a smile on her face, asking if he’s the real one. He confirms, and she replies that she’s a big fan of his. Jean confirms that, as Kitty even has posters of Spidey hanging in her room. Peter’s surprised to hear that, as he wasn’t even aware of the fact that they sold posters of him. Changing the subject, Jean telepathically tells Spidey he did a good job with the way he handled Geldoff.
Spidey’s freaked out by her powers, so she apologizes. Jean explains to the hero that they X-Men try to handle things in a peaceful away, but sometimes Jean thinks that the message gets lost with all the shenanigans, but it’s really what they want to achieve. Peter doesn’t feel comfortable with Jean in his head, but she says it’s okay, especially since Peter is the first guy in six months who hasn’t immediately pictured her naked when she talked to them.
Peter thinks about it. Jean “sees” that Peter is now trying to picture her naked, and tells him to stop. Peter has the hardest time to, but eventually manages to do it. Storm notices that Geldoff is waking up and warns the others. Jean telepathically says hi to Geldoff, which freaks him out and makes him faint again! Kitty asks what they are going to do with him. Jean isn’t sure, but suspects that if they handle him to the police, they’ll surely arrest him, which won’t be good to the X-Men cause. Spidey tries to explain that Geldoff did blow up things, but the ladies are too caught up thinking.
Storm mentions they don’t even know for sure if Geldoff is a mutant. Kitty suggests that they call the Professor and ask him what to do. Jean agrees, and telepathically reaches out to their founder. Spidey is confused, as the girls just said that Geldoff was a mutant, and now they deny it? Xavier says hi to his “angels,” and explains that he was monitoring the missions. Charles can’t come to them right now since he has his hands full, but since this is a special case, he thinks it’s really for the best that they bring Geldoff to the school, though he realizes that technically, they would be kidnapping the boy. Storm still isn’t certain, but Xavier tells them to bring Geldoff, as the only kind of equipment that can examine him is at the school and nowhere else.
Spidey finally recognizes Xavier and tries to talk to him, but Xavier has already “hung up.” Storm once again thanks Spidey for the job well done, and they shake hands. Kitty invites Peter to join them on the plane, and to the school so he can meet Xavier in person. Jean and Ororo are hesitant about it. Spidey asks if he can get a ride back before six. He can, and tags along into the X-Jet, and they leave.
Back at school, the students wait for either the school buss to bring them home, or for their parents to pick them up. MJ hears some girls talking about Spider-Man fighting some other kid, and that they think he’s cute. She asks the girls about Spidey, but the girls don’t even pay attention to him and just talk about Spider-Man being handsome. MJ’s mom shows up, and hugs her daughter, happy to see her okay. MJ asks her mom to stop embarrassing her. They argue about it, until a panicking Aunt May arrives and not being able to find Peter. MJ lies that he already left, but Gwen cuts in that isn’t true, as Peter hasn’t even been in class. May demands to know the truth, leaving MJ wondering what to answer.
At the X-Jet, Peter is overjoyed to experience the plane’s maximum speed. He tells Kitty how he lost his costume during a battle. Spidey asks Jean if she knows how to fly the plane. She answers, “not legally,” but that would be her joking. During the conversations, nobody notices that Geldoff is waking up, and once again freaking out finding himself on the fancy plane. Jean contacts Xavier again, asking if he has already found out where Wolverine is, who is now missing. Spidey explains that he has met Wolverine, but doesn’t know where he is.
Kitty asks questions to Peter like how he got his powers and costume, but he doesn’t really want to answer them. But he is curious about how the X-Men get their costumes, as he has the hardest time making new ones. Kitty isn’t sure about that, and wonders about it. Geldoff shouts in Latverian. Spidey and the X-ladies try to say hi and make him understands that they are all friends, but Geldoff is too freaked out. He activates his powers, and releases blasts from his hands, which destroy part of the Jet!
Meanwhile, a worrying May contacts the Daily Bugle, asking about Peter, but neither Ben Urich nor Betty Brant know where he is.
At the same time, the X-Jet loses its balance. Jean tries to keep the plane together with her powers, but fails. She warns everyone to hold onto something, before the wind blows them out of it. Spidey points his attention to Geldoff and shoots some webs against his mouth so they can’t hear his screaming. Storm flies outside, and telepathically informs Jean that she is going to try to pull a wind tunnel together hopefully strong enough to keep the plane up, but even though it works, Storm knows the plan will only last for a little bit.
Kitty almost falls out of the plane, so Spidey reaches his hands out to her. He can’t fall out, since, thanks to his sticking abilities, he can hang onto anything. However, the plane falls further apart, and the wind makes Geldoff lose his grip and fall outside! Spidey goes after him, but he soon realizes his mistake, and also falls down! Storm goes after the two, but the X-Jet is still falling down as well…


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Tampered
(Parker home, Queens)
While cooking, May gets a phone call from Mr. Ayers, Peter’s geometry teacher. May remembers him from their earlier meeting at a bake sale. Ayers cuts to the chase, and wanted to inform May that Peter hasn’t been in his class today, but understood it after all the ruckus that went down today. May is confused. Ayers admits that Peter is an excellent student but, despite that, Peter isn’t allowed to come to classes as he pleases. May promises to deal with it, and Ayers says goodbye and hangs up.
May begs Gwen to tell her if she knows where Peter is, but she honestly swears she has no idea: the last time she saw Peter was when they walked to school together this morning, and didn’t even notice that he was gone until their teacher started yelling. May goes to Peter’s basement door, and shouts, suspecting he might be there, to come up to her right now! Getting no answer, May takes a fire extinguisher and slams it onto the door’s lock, until it’s open! Ignoring a freaked out Gwen, May hesitates a moment to descend.
Meanwhile, sitting in a library in his own fantasy world, Peter reads a book his Daily Bugle co-worker Ben Urich has written about the downfall of Wilson Fisk, who used to be the Kingpin. An unseen person asks him what he thinks of it. Peter informs the man that Ben is a great guy and has gotten an award for the book, and that he has always been meaning to read it through but never found the time. Professor Xavier’s astral form appears in front of Peter, and, despite the fact that Charles hates to do this, he really needs Peter to wake up now.
Peter wakes up in a lab, unaware that his mask is off, and gasps at the uncanny sight he sees in front of him! Professor X introduces himself, and behind him stand his team called… the X-Men. Peter is speechless and can just stare. Jean, for one, is glad that the boy’s all right. Kitty is curious about Peter’s age. Calming down, Peter wants to know what happened. Storm decides to explain.
Jean ordered Storm to switch sides, as Jean thought it would be best that she would be better suited to rescue the falling Spidey and Geldoff. Storm understood, and flew back towards the plane, and extinguished its fire using her powers to make it rain. Jean at the same time used her telekinetic powers to fly herself down, and managed to grab Geldoff, who fainted again, however Spider-Man was out of reach. Jean pushed her powers harder, and managed to telekinetically grab Spidey, before he reached the ground below.
Peter’s astonished. He suddenly realizes that his mask has been taken off, and gets angry because people always seem to want to know his secret identity of Peter Parker! Beast smiles, and informs him that they just wanted to make sure he was still breathing, but weren’t aware of his real name! Peter feels stupid.
Meanwhile, May checks around the lab Peter has in his basement. She notices his computer, and decides to check it. However, a password keeps her back. May gives up and walks back upstairs, luckily not noticing that one of the special glasses Peter uses for his Spider-Man mask so that he can see through it.
After Xavier gives him an “X-” shirt to wear, he tours Peter to the other side of the lab, where they are treating Geldoff. He seems happy, but Xavier admits that he had to use his telepathy to give Geldoff happy thoughts, because he didn’t want to risk him destroying his research machines too, as they’ve already lost an airplane because of Geldoff. After all, the X-Men’s equipment is expensive. Peter wants to know if he fell out an airplane for something good, and wants an explanation whether Geldoff is a mutant or not.
Xavier shows Peter a part of his mutant tracking device called Cerebro, and explains to the web-slinger that the reason he was interested in Geldoff in the first place is because, when Cerebro pinpointed him, the machine didn’t recognize Geldoff as either a mutant, or a human. And that has never happened before. Even now Cerebro hasn’t managed to make a proper analysis, but Xavier has spent some time with Geldoff while Peter was asleep, and poked a little through the boy’s brain, and discovered that Geldoff used to be a guinea pig, and that disgusting, mutant-related, genetic experiments have been performed on him in the past. Xavier has also discovered that someone has did illegal placenta tampering on Geldoff, but promises to find the culprit.
He explains. When a woman is pregnant, she grows a placenta. This placenta, really, is nothing short of a miracle organ that creates itself for the sole purpose of supplying the fetus with everything it needs. It links the mother to the fetus. Xavier adds that this placental complex, being a perfect symbiosis of two separate organisms. And when the baby is born, the placenta dies. The placenta literally dies. It serves no further purpose so it dies away. So must research done on the placenta is done on animals, or that minute after the fetus is born. There is however still mystery as to the placenta’s complete abilities. He thinks that research on the placenta while it is still functioning could do damage to the fetus.
In fact, Xavier concludes, placenta tampering is flat out illegal in most countries, including Latveria, where Geldoff is originally from. And what they have here now, as far as Charles can tell, is a young man who had the isolated mutant gene injected into the placenta while he gestated. Xavier what would happen. Geldoff, with the Cerebro helmet on his brain, can only smile at the explanation, and replies “no way…”
Beast finds it fascinating, and wonders who could think of such a thing and consider this as a valuable conduit. Xavier mentions that fetal placental tissue isn’t recognized as foreign and rejected by the maternal immune system. Spider-Man interrupts the guessing, and wants to know why, if someone went through all the trouble into making Geldoff a mutant, or a freak or whatever, why Geldoff is now in America blowing cars up and stuff?
Xavier assumes that the experiments have probably have been done on Geldoff without his mother knowing and abandoned before it was discovered. Or it could have also been considered a failure at the time, and only recently manifested itself in Geldoff now, as he is in puberty. The X-Men imagine that Geldoff was abandoned and sent away for adoption. Either way, it happened fifteen years ago and, realizing that it won’t be easy, Xavier promises Geldoff to find out what and why he is this way today. Peter wants to know what the X-Men are going to do to him now. Charles wants to represent Geldoff to a couple of prestigious science organizations and then present their findings to the U.N., with the hope that the information is enough to pressure these countries that turn a blind eye to these inhumane mutations.
Spider-Man doesn’t really agree, as they are still taking to Geldoff, who’s trapped and his with his brain not even working well, thanks to the Cerebro. Peter wonders what if Geldoff doesn’t want any part in this? Xavier defends that its all a matter of rights, but Peter remembers that Geldoff is a mutantphobic, so he seemed to be, and thinks he won’t like to be a part of all this experimenting. Xavier understands, but wants to find the culprit. Peter gets angry and wonders if Geldoff will ever get a shot at getting a normal live. Beast calms him down, and asks Peter to define the word “normal”. Xavier agrees.
This makes Peter even angrier. He slams Beast to the back of the room with one single punch, and grabs Geldoff! He slings away, successfully avoiding Cyclops’ optic blasts. Xavier begs Spidey to be reasonable, but he ignores the Professor, and even passes Kitty on his way out of the lab. Peter next tackles Colossus, and punches his way through a window, and lands outside in the gardens. Xavier’s astral form appears in front of Peter again, and asks him what good this will do. Peter returns back to reality, and jokes that the battle was just a thought.
The Professor tells Peter that he has read his works and therefore is aware of what the X-Men do, and promise that what they are going to do will be in Geldoff’s best interests. And, realizing Geldoff’s fears for mutants, Xavier promises to have a little chat with the boy as well. Geldoff reaches his hand out to Peter, and explains that he never really wanted to fight him, and just show off in front of his friends like he always does. But, he tells Peter that they are cool. Kitty asks Peter if he’s going to be okay with all this, and asks if he needs a ride back home. Peter realizes that he has been here a while, and shouts to know what the time is!
A while later, Peter walks behind his house and heads to his basement. He thinks that, if he learned anything from all this, he is done meeting people he admires, as it always turns out in crap. Even though he loves the X-Men and Xavier, he is now really frustrated thanks to Geldoff’s cause and just wants to smack them. Peter hesitates, and jokes that he hopes Xavier isn’t still reading his mind and knows what he just said. Peter enters the basement and goes to his computer, but freaks out when he finds someone waiting for him:
Aunt May! With an angry look on her face, May tells Peter that they need to talk. Uh-oh.


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Brian Bendis introduces the story. "Once in a while a story comes along that defines a writer... a story so powerful that he doesn't want to tell it, he HAS to tell it. This is not one of those stories." Mark Bagley beats his own head into his drawing board.
The Parker home, Friday - May screams at Peter to wake up for school. Peter wakes up, scratching himself and looking around. He finds Aunt May at the kitchen table, packing boxes to move out. Pete freezes, and asks what the hell is going on. May says she wants to get an early start on packing because it relaxes her. Pete still doesn't understand. May tells him to go get his books, and go to school. Peter walks around the house with confusion in his eyes, and heads for the basement to get his books. There, he looks around at all of the science lab equipment and finds a web cartridge, which he sniffs. He looks in a backpack and sees the name "Peter Parker." He snaps wide awake as he realizes that something is horribly wrong. Just then, Mary-Jane walks in, and starts kissing Peter. He is surprised, but as she hugs him, a cocky smile comes to his face.
Elsewhere - Wolverine wakes up, surrounded by empty beer cans and cigar butts. He starts complaining of a ferocious odor, and looks at himself. He freaks out, wondering why he is all of a sudden hairy and smells bad. He looks under his bedsheets, and stares in awe. He rushes to the bathroom to look at himself in a mirror. He looks at his reflection in shock, and as he stares, his claws pop straight through his opposite arm. He screams in pain.
Parker home - Peter heads back into the basement, telling Mary-Jane that he's giving up on school for now. Mary-Jane just stares, asking if he needs to go out as Spider-Man. Peter gives her a look, and tells her yes. She says that she still has his costume at her house, and Peter tells her to go get it right away. He says that school is a colossal waste of time - there's nothing MJ can't learn from going on a good hunt. He continues to nod at the rest of her questions, and goes inside. May calls him, telling him that there is an urgent call from the Daily Bugle. Pete takes the phone, snapping angrily at Aunt May. It is Wolverine on the line, demanding to know why he is trapped in a hairy beast body, apparently infected by some kind of mutant virus. They realize that they are now stuck in each other's bodies.  Peter tells Wolverine to take his body to Midtown high school right away and go to classes. Wolverine refuses. Peter continues to insist, but pops his claws again uncontrollably. Wolverine continues to refuse to attend class for Peter, but Peter screams that for all the crap he has been put through because of Wolverine, he needs to go to school now. Wolverine finally agrees, and Peter instructs him to just follow the kids. Wolverine says that Peter should really be more honest with his family - Peter replies, angrily, that Wolverine needs to get out of the house, and stop playing mutant tricks. At that moment, though, Peter accidentally uses the claws to shear off one of his fingers. Wolverine, in the Parker boy's body, says that he has no idea what's going on, but the phone gets cut off. Peter screams, crying out for a doctor, but then looks at his hand and watches as Wolverine's mutant healing factor kicks in and the finger grows back. May tells Wolverine to get to school. He grunts, and finally heads for the school.
Midtown High School - Wolverine, in Peter's body, stops to check out the high school cheerleaders with a perverted grin on his face. Mary-Jane arrives with Spider-Man's stuff, but can't get his attention as his is too busy staring.  Wolverine asks why the girls are allowed to walk around like that. Wolverine continues to confuse Mary-Jane, as he didn't bring Peter's school books, but she gives him the Spider-Man costume. He takes one look at it and laughs.
 Wolverine starts walking around campus, looking for his own body and the Parker boy within. A truant officer begins following him around, but Wolverine ducks him by using the Spider powers and clinging to a wall. However, Wolverine finds that he isn't good at it, and falls on the officer. He begins to hit the man, but Peter rushes in with Wolverine's body, and stops him. They blame each other for what has happened, and Wolverine asks Peter how he got his powers in the first place. Wolverine grabs his own hand and shouts at Peter for managing to cut off a finger. They argue about school for a while, when Peter accidentally pops a claw in front of Wolverine, causing the mutant to experience the Spider-sense. He shakes his head, asking why it buzzes so much, and they finally agree that Wolverine will take Peter's body to class and Pete will wait outside. Peter asks Wolverine politely not to ruin his life.
Wolverine goes upstairs, and the teacher looks at him sternly for coming to class late. He puts his hand up and says that he has to pee. The teacher says that the bathroom is for students who come to class on time. He gets up anyway and heads for the door, with the teacher and Mary-Jane staring at him. The teacher finally threatens to expel Peter, and Wolverine narrows Peter's eyes and sits down finally.  Behind, Flash Thompson flicks his ear, and Wolverine turns around, giving Flash a crazed look.
Later, Peter still waits by a tree with Wolverine's body. He hears police sirens, and sees a drive-by shooting in progress. His sense of responsibility kicks in, and he pops the claws and jumps into action, unaware that his agility and Spider-sense no longer apply. He overshoots the van with the guns, which causes it to spin out and hit the police car. The van is then hurled into the air, where it lands on Wolverine's body.
Inside the school, the kids flock to the window to wath, while Wolverine sits in his desk with an angry look.
"Idiot kid."