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This is the 3rd origin issue, this time of Captain Universe. The previously-page concentrates on her, reminding us that her secret identity doesn't appear to know what's going on, but the aliens on Mars recognised the Captain as the Goddess of the Universe. We're also shown the newly-created Adam, babbling in Builder machine code.Now Shang-Chi is trying to unravel CU's 2 identities. The Captain herself describes her origin and life as that of the universe. But Shang-Chi is more interested in what her secret identity has to say. (It turns out he already knows the answers. He just wants to know what the woman inside remembers.)Shang-Chi tempts her out with some hot pie, which she rambled on about in #3. At first she remembers nothing (apart from things like her mother used to make her pie), not even her name. Shang-Chi supplies that:- Tamara Devoux. The woman doesn't recognise the name, but thinking about it gradually brings up memories of a night-time car crash. And her 6-year old daughter Ella was in the car too.Meanwhile Sunspot and Cannonball are angry that Spider-Man is eating Sam's specially-prepared food. Spidey isn't his usual wise-cracking self, and brushes off their complaint. They retaliate by saying they don't like his new costume design. But SM just goes to Tony Stark to complain about them and their lack of respect for their elders.Tamara now remembers her past, and wants to see her daughter. Shang-Chi has to tell her that no-one knows what happened to Ella. But Tamara has been in a coma for 10 years. Until Captain Universe occupied her.Tamara reverts to Captain Universe in shock. CU explains that she has come to Earth because this planet is the axis of the multiverse. And here the fate of everything will be decided. She took over Tamara's body because the woman was dying, just like CU is (ie the universe is?).Tony is still trying to write a translation program for the Builder code that Adam speaks. All he seems to have got so far is what he had last issue, that Adam's real name is Blackveil.Shang-Chi brings Captain Universe with him to tell Stark what she said. But CU starts talking in Builder code with Adam, using his name in Builder code. Tony recognises that, and brags that he's worked out what it means. But CU tells him he hasn't even got that right! The name's not Blackveil but Nightmask.The Captain makes it so that the Avengers can understand what Adam is saying. And now we hear "The system is broken." (something that CU has said before) and "It's coming. It's here ... the White Event." And there's a blinding white light in the sky.


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The previously page shows us that last issue's White Event was supposed to announce that Earth was ready to 'ascend'. The White Event turned Adam into Nightmask beforehand as a herald. Now there should be other beings transformed, but the system isn't working properly. However a youth has been made into a Starbrand, and the energy has destroyed a college. Captain America, Captain Marvel, Captain Universe, Hulk, Hyperion, Iron Man and Thor went with Nightmask to investigate.They find naked Kevin Connor in the middle of the devastation, with the Starbrand burned into his palm and no idea what's going on. They want to spirit him away before the military arrives. But Kevin is freaked out by all the skeletons around him. He's even more disturbed when Captain Universe tells him he's responsible. It's not helped by her explanation that he's the product of a system that's malfunctioned.Kevin starts to glow with energy. Iron Man and Captain America suggest a strategic withdrawal until he calms down. But the armoured Hulk isn't having any of that and tries to attack. The only result is that he suddenly finds himself floating in outer space. Kevin's as surprised as anybody.CA sends CM to retrieve Hulk, and Iron Man radios the military to stay away for now. Hyperion tells Kevin to surrender. When the lad doesn't comply, Thor sends him flying with his hammer. But Kevin just gets up and shrugs it off. Hyperion tries his eye blasts, but Kevin deflects them to hit the other Avengers. And then his Starbrand blasts Hyperion.Meanwhile Captain Marvel has reached Hulk, and sends him hurtling back to Earth. Where he lands on Kevin. Captain America, Hulk, Iron Man and Thor dogpile on the only-stunned youth.Captain Universe and Nightmask have been keeping out of the conflict. They now intervene, and Captain America signals to give them a chance. Captain Universe gives Nightmask 'permission' to take Kevin away. Just as Captain Marvel returns, and Captain Universe reverts to her confused human avatar.Adam takes Kevin to the Superflow, which gives him a Starbrand costume.  The Superflow is littered with damaged communication stations which used to support a network across universes. But as Adam and Captain Universe have been saying for several issues, the system and the multiverse are broken.Adam explains that Starbrand (the person and the hand tattoo) is a weapon designed to protect a world's people as they progress to a more advanced society. But Earth's White Event didn't work properly (for reasons suggested last issue). Kevin was a bad choice for the Starbrand. And the other heroes the Event was supposed to create probably won't be here.The Superflow and the White Evnet ascension system were designed by the ancient race called the Builders. But Adam himself was created by another Builder system (in #3). The White Event just took him over and used him as a Nightmask. These 2 Builder systems are now in conflict within him.The Avengers have returned to Avengers Tower, where Tony Stark scans for a tracker he'd slipped on Adam before they went out. And finds that Nightmask is now on Mars.Adam has brought Starbrand to the transformed part of Mars wher he was 'born', to meet his makers Abyss and Ex Nihilo.


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The Avengers are fighting a flying brainless protoplasmic mass with multiple mouths and tentacles outside their Parker Industries Baxter Building HQ.  It has Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Hercules in its grip. Herc hits it hard and it drops them. Thor (Jane Foster) carries them to the ground before hurling her hammer which splatters it into goo. But it reforms, until it is dispelled by the Flames of the Faltine.

However it's not Dr Strange who uttered the spell but Iron Man (Victor von Doom). He explains that the creature was a Chronosite that feeds on things displaced in time. And he wants the team to do a job for him.

The immediate reaction of most of the team is to attack Dr Doom. Except Wasp (Nadia Pym) who's in awe of his scientific genius, and of his combining it with magic. She invites him in for tea. Victor von Doom accepts and tells them the tale of what he's been doing recently. How he's now turned good and taken up the vacant role of Iron Man (in the pages of Infamous Iron Man). Spider-Man (Peter Parker) voices the common belief that he's trying to trick them - but he has no answer as to why his Spider-Sense isn't warning him.

Victor apologises for all the wrongs he's done them in the past. He reiterates that there is a problem that he needs the Avengers to solve. He especially needs Nadia, which sends her into another fangirl frenzy. There have been recent magical disturbances in New York State (which Vision confirms). Doom has tracked the source but he can't go there for fear of endangering innocents. The Avengers are still suspicious but are willing to go along for the moment.

Doom magically transports them to the site (except Vision who he deems would be out of place). Cap protests that he should have consulted the team before doing that. Thor takes it as a personal insult.

Their target is the Susan Storm Camp for Girls' Leadership. Cap wonders why Victor is afraid of teenage girls. Wasp interjects that she knows some very dangerous teen girls (members of her GIRL squad in Unstoppable Wasp). Doom replies that he doesn't want to endanger the legacy of Invisible Woman, who since he saw the light is now someone dear to him. If he went in as himself he'd cause panic.

This is why he needs Wasp to scout out the land. Nadia overrides Sam's objection because she was capable enough to escape from the Russian Red Room. Victor invokes the Images of Ikonn to disguise her in the right uniform, and casts a communication spell so they can stay in touch.

Nadia joins various groups of girls in their activities looking for clues, and eventually lights on a cabin where 5 girls are sitting around some candles. They each have very specific ideas of powerful futures, including 1 becoming President. Nadia agrees to help them, which turns out to mean becoming a sacrificial victim to complete the ritual that will ensure their fates.

Wasp finds she can't use her shrinking power. The girls tell her that a spell stops the victim from escaping. But Nadia shouts "Avengers Assemble" and her teammates smash through the cabin wall. Doom accompanies them as the girls gain magical armour and weapons. They reveal that they are Champions of Anamelech, a Moon Demon who Dr Doom has angered in the past.

Victor takes Wasp outside while the other 4 try to hold off the girl warriors without hurting them. 1 of them calls on a Chronosite. Doom can't use the Flames of the Faltine in the small cabin space without endangering the girls as well. But Wasp persuades him to channel the spell through the shrinking ray projectors in her gloves. This gives him the accuracy needed to only hit the Chronosite.

Then another spell banishes Anamelech's influence, including the magic armour and weapons. But the girls' leader is being dragged away by the spell too. Victor thinks that is justice, but Nadia rescues her.

We learn from Doom's thoughts that he had an ulterior motive here to study Nadia Pym. He had learned that the evil agency WHISPER (see lots of issues of New Avengers (2015)) believed that she would become an evil genius (which explains why they were after her in All-New All-Different Av #14). Victor's vendetta against 'mad scientists' (see Infamous IM) made her a target. But he is now convinced WHISPER was wrong.

Next day Nadia and Sam are looking at stuff in the Avengers' basement archives when they spot the gravestone of Avenger X (that we saw materialise here last issue). Cap doesn't recognise it. And suddenly it cracks open as glowing arms emerge.


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The Avengers (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Thor (Jane Foster), Vision and Wasp (Nadia Pym)) don't know where they are. Except Vision recognises the blank space as Limbo. Thor's hammer can open a portal between Limbo and Earth. But before she can try she is zapped by someone who claims to be a future Kang.He warns them that if they leave they will die. Cap rallies his team to attack, but with a snap of his fingers Kang sends ectoplasmic beasts to subdue them as he explains what's going on. Last issue Kang-Prime and his earlier self Scarlet Centurion went back in time and killed them all as babies (and stop Vision being created). This caused a timewave which would have wiped the Avengers out of existence when it reached the present. But Future-Kang snatched them all into Limbo just before it hit. If they leave Limbo the timewave will get them.He reminds them that all the versions of Kang are prevented from reaching the future by a timeblock. Kang-Prime has been deliberately creating paradoxes and splitting himself (though which causes which is unclear), hoping to thereby break the barrier. Future-Kang is 1 of these split-offs, but he is from a time when Kang has repented his evil ways and become good. And he wants to keep his fellows trapped.The timeblock is caused by an anchor which holds the Kangs here. And that anchor is the baby Kang which Vision stole in ANAD Av #13. Which he hid somewhere, a place which he revealed last issue he had removed all memory of from his brain. He had stored that memory itself somewhere secret.Future-Kang's memories are corrupted by the paradoxes. He remembers that Kang found out where the baby was hidden, but can't recall where it was. But he does remember something about an important artefact.The other Avenger Hercules has not been affected by all this, and he left before his team vanished into Limbo. He went to get help from his friends.1 such friend is Sybil Aquila, head of the Federal Reserve! After bulling his way into her office he greets her as Sibyl the ancient Greek Oracle. He claims to have deduced where she'd be - this is the perfect place for a revered authority who makes cryptic predictions which can be interpreted to suit your own ideology. But Sybil doesn't believe Herc is that clever, so he admits that he asked Minerva where she was.Sybil tries to foresee when Kang will attack the Avengers. She sees him and Centurion but is hit by tempero-psychic (I made that up) feedback. But she can tell the demi-god that his teammates have been murdered as babies and no longer exist. Herc want to know why he hasn't been killed. Sybil offers him 2 possible explanations. Maybe Kang  thought he wasn't worth worrying about. Or maybe nobody knows when Hercules was actually born.But she gives him her big necklace as protection from Kang. She says it will keep him and those near him from being removed from existence. And she give him a key card to her private jet, which he'll need to get somewhere fast.'Somewhere' is Vietnam and the temple of the Priests of Pama. Kang-Prime and Scarlet Centurion are attacking, looking for the stolen child who will be Kang. Last issue the Kangs used time travel to see the object where Vision hid his memory. They stole it and its contents led them here.The pacifist Priests are putting up a valiant fight when Hercules drops in. Prime tries to defeat Herc by removing centuries from his life, but the demi-god is effectively immortal. Centurion takes over beating Herc up while Prime finishes off the Priests. He deprives Hercules of his big guns, but only succeeds in smashing him into the chamber where the baby is lying.Baby Kang is fascinated by the big pendant on Herc's big necklace. But as soon as he touches it Future-Kang remembers about it. And its protective property. So he and the Avengers return safely from Limbo as Hercules shields the child with his body. The team attack the 2 enemy Kangs. But Kang-Prime blasts Future-Kang causing him to split into more Kangs to attack the Avengers.Vision realises they can't beat the Kangs this way. He takes the baby from Herc and gives it to Wasp. He has retrieved the cybernetic collar that Future-Kang wore and programmed it to go to the point from which he abducted the child. Nadia must return the child and thus undo what he has caused. As Centurion kills Spider-Man, Vision sends Wasp and baby into the timestream.


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This issue is a retelling of the history of Kang the Conqueror, which he relates to his personal log (maybe?) as he awaits the coming of his enemies.His citadel is at the end of time orbiting the last dying star as entropy rules outside. But he rules an empire across large swathes of space-time. He has generals to serve him in many eras in a complex web that only he fully comprehends. For instance diamonds mined in the 17th Century (Earth time) fund arms factories in the 45th Century, and their weapons are used against rebels in the 38th Century.Now he considers his birth Century the 31st. A time of peace with no challenges or threats. But the man who would be Kang studied the theory of time machines, a subject which had been banned in the 29th Century following the Ravonna Paradox. He found his answers in the notebooks of the 21st Century Victor Von Doom.He built a time machine and went back to Ancient Egypt seeking the secret of immortality. But they didn't actually have that secret so instead he armed an army with future weapons and became Pharaoh Rama-Tut. He compelled slaves to build pyramids in which he stored for future use more futuristic tech he had designed.Then he headed home to the 31st Century but overshot and landed in the 41st. He donned a timesuit he'd also designed, and became Kang the Conqueror and conquered the Earth of 4086 using his knowledge of military tactics from all of history.But now he needed money to fund further conquest. He learned of a tomb of an unknown ruler containing a treasure of gems and rare metals from all over the Galaxy. He broke in and discovered that the tomb was his own (seemingly after he became Rama-Tut II). Kang gained 2 things from that encounter, as well as whatever riches were there:- A mask which completed his outfit, and a determination to change his future so that he would never be forgotten.And he went on to create his time-space empire.Now he prepares to face his enemies. But his accumulated armoury disappears, wiped from time. As do his generals (or at least their transtemporal video-links). And finally his armour dissolves except for the mask. And his enemies break in - an assembly of Avengers from different times.


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In Free Comic Book Day 2017: Secret Empire Captain America (Steve Rogers), now head of Hydra, took Thor's hammer and proved worthy to wield it. And Thor disappeared from the battle for Washington.Now she finds herself on a different planet in a different dimension, rising out of a slime pit. Aliens are digging in it for the only food they now have, which grows there. 1 of them still has a functioning translation implant and asks who she is. Thor claims to be a god, but is panicking about not having her hammer. She expects to transform into cancer-ridden Jane Foster any instant. The aliens drag her free and she discovers that the hammer's enchanted side-effect has no effect in this dimension.Most of the aliens now ignore Thor and go back to work. The talkative 1 named Hecla says he's the only 1 cursed with curiosity. Thor explains that she was in the middle of a battle on Earth/Midgard when something brought her here, without Mjolnir. Hecla humours her delusion and takes her to his home for some of the food they dig out of the slime pits. Thor tries to convince herself that voluminous Volstagg would eat it, but her taste buds disagree.Thor says she must find a way back to her world to help her allies. Hecla says there is a legendary device which may do that. But 1st she must get some sleep. He is adventurous as well as curious and decides to go with her on her quest. Next morning he provides her with a bag of food and a wooden hammer he made to ease her loss.On the way Hecla explains how his wife and son died. His people used to have a thriving civilisation before Yod came and destroyed it all to deny them the means to revolt. Now he travels the world seeking tribute (of what?). Hecla's wife and son defied him and he killed them. And as she gradually learns to stomach the vile-tasting food, Thor tells him more about Midgard.Hecla also relates more about the artefact they seek. Legend has it that Yod too doesn't know how to get home. He ordered the alien race's scientists to find his home and build a way to get there. They couldn't do either but using Yod's magic they created the device which can send someone to the place they call home. (So why hasn't Yod used it?)During their chat they are attacked by 2 giant horned beasts. Hecla is injured but Thor defeats them by hitting 1 of them with the other. And she uses Dr Jane Foster's healing knowledge to bandage Hecla's wound.Later they reach the mountain lair of Yod. As they approach they are attacked with lightning bolts. But Thor grabs 1 that was about to hit Hecla and uses it to break a way into the mountain. Inside they see an aged guardian holding a glowing orb. But when he strikes it on the ground he transforms into the giant Yod.Yod and Thor battle, the master of lightning vs the god of lightning. But Hecla sees a gun in a niche. He hopes it's what they're looking for, and that it's working. But somehow he works out that it only has 1 charge left in it. Yod blasts him as he brings it to Thor.Thor takes Hecla to safety down a side passage. Hecla tells her that he's found the weapon but it can only be used once. Dying, he urges Thor to use it to return home to the friends that need her. But instead she uses it on *him*. Then she turns back to Yod and smashes his orb with her wooden mallet. And the villain burns(?) to nothing.And Hecla is reunited with his dead family.


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This issue follows Hydra's Avengers led by Superior Octopus on a little Secret Empire adventure of their own. As he pilots their quinjet and tries to ignore Deadpool's annoying chatter Otto Octavius thinks to himself that their 7th member is really superfluous - *he* always found 6 was the right number for a group (ie the various versions of his Sinister Six).Wade Wilson turns his attention to baiting Thor Odinson as Doctor Octopus mentally reviews his compatriots' motivations and abilities. DP's healing factor would unfortunately make throwing him out of the plane futile. He and the disgraced Thunder God are both here out of loyalty to Captain America.Black Ant and Taskmaster are here for the money. Otto is concerned that TM's photographic reflexes would allow him to duplicate Ock's own unique fighting style (but without the extra mechanical arms). But he's not concerned about Ant using his size-changing abilities in any of the spectacular ways *he* could think of.Scarlet Witch and Vision join them after making out in the rear cabin. She is currently controlled by the demon Chthon. He/it has been reprogrammed to support Hydra. (But we see a little good Vision inside trying to get out.)Super-Ock explains the team's mission (again, because Wade wasn't listening before). Hydra have set up a force-shield around Earth to keep out invading Chitauri (but also to keep out lots of pesky heroes). The shield is sustained by a worldwide network of power transmitters. The 1 in Uzbekistan was destroyed yesterday. A problem was detected in the Swiss 1, the North side of which explodes as they reach it. But the Avengers will stop the perpetrators escaping.Octavius divides the team into 3 groups to stop the other quarters of the installation being destroyed. Deadpool and Vision will go East, Black Ant and Taskmaster go West while he, SW and Thor go South. They have earbuds to keep in communication (except for Deadpool).Ant and TM immediately run into an alien blob with multiple eyes and pseudopod/claws. BA shrinks and dives through an eye. Then he grows to explode the creature from inside - but finds himself trapped as the skin won't break. Taskie attacks and slashes an exit wound for him. The alien dies.Pre-warned DP and Vision find 2 more aliens. Vizh goes intangible and 'Pool cuts of an arm but it's only a holding action. Wade comments that he hears voices, but that's quite usual for him. But the 3rd team are already deep in battle with several of them and calling for help.Taskmaster is fighting some more aliens when they get in telepathic contact with him. They claim to be a peaceful race who came to Earth to evaluate humanity's suitability to be given advanced technology. They are trying to bring down the barrier so they can go home. TM has somehow met up with DP who realises *that's* what the voices he heard were. But only Tony Masters could hear them clearly. And TM claims that the aliens are here to kill off the human race.All the Avengers now set to with increased ferocity and annihilate their opponents. (They all now seem to be in the same place.) Only Odinson mourns their death.And we realise that Octopus has stolen 1 of Black Ant's batches of Pym Particles that he uses to change size.


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Last issue ended with Avenger X bursting free of her tomb which rewritten history had moved to the Avengers' storage room in the basement of their current home in the Baxter Building, now HQ of Parker Industries.We know Avenger X from the recent continuity implant mini-series Avengers #1.1-5.1. But the team members who found her (Captain America (Sam Wilson) and Wasp (Nadia Pym)) don't know who she is and have carried her up to their top floor base. They are joined by Hercules, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Thor (Jane Foster).The young woman is surprised that Cap is an African American and asks about Hawkeye, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. (These were the 4 Avengers in her day.) Then Vision enters and warns them that Cassandra is a power syphon. When the team met her she amplified their powers, but they learned that she did it by draining the life from other people. In the final battle against her she disappeared. (We know that the Frightful Four buried her.)AvX shows her colours by causing Vision to explode, which also takes Hercules out of the fight. She gets away and the other 4 split up. 3 of them start evacuating parts of the building, keeping an eye out for the enemy. Nadia is left to contact the 4 old Avengers and try to find a weakness in Cassandra they can exploit.Spider-Man comes across her in his travels. His Spider-Sense had warned him she was dangerous but he hadn't wanted to prejudice his team against so obviously weak and traumatised a foe. Now it goes off again but she puts on a confused act to win his sympathy. But then she hits him with the strength of Hercules and drains his own power.Sam contacts Nadia and is told that the old Avengers aren't answering. She's not getting any joy from the Avengers' database either. Cap sees Avenger X and gives chase with his thrown shield. Wasp has abandoned her task and found Spidey, looking withered like Herc. Cassandra is clinging to the ceiling Spider-like and drops on Cap. Now she has his shield and skill.Wasp meets up with Thor and tells her that AvX has taken the others out and absorbed their powers. Cassandra hits Thor with Cap's hurled shield which stuns her a bit (and knocks her helmet down a stairwell). Groggy Thor goes up against the villain who manages to get the upper hand with a combination of skills and drains *her* power. Mjolnir takes the weak Goddess down the stairwell to join her hat.Cassandra tracks down the remaining Wasp. But Nadia *did* manage to contact *somebody*. Iron Man (Victor Von Doom) turns up to save the day. He effortlessly deflects her attacks and grabs her by the throat. But then the ricocheting shield hits his armoured head and she manages to get his mask open. She is about to touch his face and steal his power/knowledge when Wasp strikes.Next thing AvX knows is that she and Wasp are in the Microverse. Nadia tells Cassandra she won't be able to escape from here even if she takes her shrinking/growing power because Nadia didn't have time to leave a homing beacon to aim for. But Wasp hasn't actually committed suicide because she expects help ... and grabs Cap's shield as it whizzes past.She and the shield enlarge in front of Dr Doom. Nadia knew that Victor knew all about travelling to the Microverse (since way back in Fantastic Four #16), and gambled that he could rescue her.The other Avengers are recovering so Doom takes his leave.


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Falcon (Sam Wilson), Hercules, Thor (Jane Foster), Vision and Wasp (Nadia Pym) have gathered at their HQ in the top floor of the Parker Industries-owned Baxter Building. Their Avengers Identicards no longer work and the place is a mess. Peter Parker has closed down the company and sold the building. All the important equipment has been removed. It was all owned by PI and is presumably to be sold in the bankruptcy proceedings. Only furniture and personal effects have been left, but not all have survived intact.Spider-Man joins them and tries to defend his 'boss', but eventually decides the best course is to join in the condemnation. (Peter/Spidey deliberately crashed his company to keep it out of the hands of Dr Octopus and Hydra during Secret Empire in Amazing SM #31, but from the outside it appears that it failed due to faulty products and Parker didn't give any warning.) The team are now without a base.For the moment they split up. Falcon and Thor fly off together. Hercules and Vision go for a chat. Leaving Spidey with Wasp who took an immediate dislike to him when they 1st met. The original Janet Pym Wasp was the same, and blamed it on natural wasp/spider enmity. Spidey tries to win Nadia over by taking her someplace special.Jane and Sam talk in flight. He is glad to have handed the role and responsibility of Captain America back to Steve Rogers, and now glories in flying once more as Falcon. But he wants to discuss her cancer. He's the only Avenger who knows of her secret id and of her illness when in human form, and he's honoured his promise (#7 of the previous series) to keep both secret. He adds now that he was wrong then to say that he would stop her if he thought she was trying to commit suicide by super-battle - she's the mistress of her own future.But now that he's stopped being Cap he thinks he's no longer suitable to be team leader, and he asks *her* to do it.Cut to Herc and Vizh in a coffee shop (Herc is trying to live down his hell-raising reputation). Back in this series' 1st storyarc Vision learned that he would survive into the far future. He asks Hercules what it's like to be a near-immortal.The Olympian demi-god says that like all gods he doesn't think of himself as long-lived but that humans have such *short* lives - to him the blink of an eye. When he was younger he moved among men (and especially women), but their inevitable deaths grieved him so he withdrew. But later he came to the realisation that he should rejoin humanity and experience the brief relationships to the full. That way he can give *them* immortality in his memories.Meanwhile Spider-Man is taking Wasp to a science fair so they can bond over such stuff. But on the way they see a crashed circus lorry and lots of escaped animals. Nadia herds a bear back into the truck but is menaced by a lion which she shrinks. Spidey is beset by a horde of monkeys but climbs into the truck with them to deposit them there, while Wasp disagrees with him about whether they are macaques or marmosets.Afterwards Spider-Man complains about missing a lecture he wanted to hear at the fair, but Wasp is glad they were able to help the animals. She asks him why he always thinks the glass is half empty, and he wonders why Nadia always thinks of it as half full. But they do agree on 1 thing - why is the glass always twice as big as it needs to be? Bonding at last!Jane asks Sam if he's retiring as Falcon too. If not, why does he think he can't lead as *Falcon*? Does he think the team follow the costume rather than the man? She puts her helmet on his head, which of course doesn't make him Thor. He says that the face of the Avengers is traditionally 1 of the big 3 (Cap/Iron Man/Thor). But Jane says he has the experience to be the leader (much more than she has). And anyway the face of the current team is Spider-Man because he's the most recognisable.Sam agrees to stay as leader, but an app on his phone alerts him to news of a problem for the team to tackle. With no Identicards to summon the troops Thor does the honours with lightning and thunder. The Avengers assemble and Falc informs them that Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man have taken hostages at the American Embassy. They have no quinjet so Vision carries Hercules and Thor has Spider-Man in tow by web-line (even though Wasp offers, maybe to shrink him). They all fly off into battle.


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The Asgardian giant frost-wolf Hoarfen has come to Earth (NY's Central Park) and the Avengers are having trouble dealing with it. Vision's not here to phase inside it. It isn't harmed by Thor (Jane Foster)'s hammer Mjolnir. The new Wasp (Nadia Pym) hasn't got enough Pym-particles to shrink something that big. Hercules is here too but his big gun doesn't faze it.Wasp offers to go in small, but Captain America (Sam Wilson) has a plan. He throws his shield to Herc and tells him to brace himself. Then Thor throws Mjolnir to rebound off it. It doesn't hit Hoarfen so I presume it's the sound that knocks him out.The team is at a low ebb. Iron Man is 'in rough shape' (his own titles suggest he's died in the so-far unpublished end of Civil War II, but maybe he's in a coma or something). Ms Marvel, Nova and Spider-Man (Miles Morales) have left to form the Champions. It seems Nadia has officially joined the Avengers. But now Cap invites Herc to join. The Greek demi-god accepts because it will help his current image problem.Thor takes Hoarfen back to Asgard and then meets the others at ...... Parker Industries in the Baxter Building where they have a meeting with CEO Peter Parker himself. With Tony Stark's money off the table PP offers to fund the Avengers himself. He also shows them a new quinjet, which he makes appear from stealth-invisibility. They can use the top 5 floors of the building for their HQ, and he introduces them to Ms Beachum their new Administrative Assistant.Wasp hotly protests that no-one can replace Jarvis, and Parker quickly agrees. We see the butler tidying up the old airplane hanger that the Avengers have been using as a base since Stark lost a lot of his money (even before whatever happens to him in CWII). Even that is being closed down now.But Nadia continues her rant because of Peter's association with Spider-Man (not Miles Morales) as his bodyguard (the team don't know that Peter is that SM). PP puts it down to the natural antipathy between spiders and wasps. (Nadia never had chance to interact with Miles - at least not as far as we saw.)Parker says this was all Spidey's idea. He feels bad about his (minimal really, at least so far) part in CWII. This is his way of helping heal the wounds.Sam isn't impressed with the little bird cage provided for Redwing. So Pete shows them the 360° view of the city through adamantium-laced glass. They can spot trouble wherever it occurs. Which Hercules immediately does. When the team rush off to investigate an explosion, Peter invents some work for Ms Beachum and changes to Spider-Man to follow them.The cause of the disturbance is the timelord Kang attacking Vision and demanding to know where 'the child' is. Vision refuses to tell him. Kang threatens to take the synthezoid back in time to before the birth of the stars where he would have no source of solar power. But before he can do it he splits into 2 beings, and it hurts.The other Avengers arrive and Cap recognises the newer guy as the Scarlet Centurion, 1 of Kang's earlier incarnations. They attack while their foes are disoriented. But each claim that the other is the Avengers' true enemy.Spider-Man gets here and punches Centurion. Kang uses his time-jumping trick to pop out of existence and reappear behind the heroes to blast them in the back. Then he causes a diversion by aging a nearby building to dust, and the Avengers have to save the inhabitants.Centurion grabs Vision and he too wants to know where the child is. Vizh refuses again and SC smashes his head on the floor. The 2 Kangs now join forces. Centurion extracts all the data out of V's brain, which surely must include the location they seek. But future Kang suddenly remembers what happens next as Vision stutteringly declares that he offloaded that information to a secure store and deleted it from his memory.The Kangs go back into the timestream to cook up a new plan.The Avengers take Vision back to the Baxter Building where scientist Nadia works on fixing him, including internal work at mini-size. So now they can ask him what's going on.The android Avenger reminds those who were there at the time how they fought another split-off Kang (Mr Gryphon in ANAD Av #1-6) who told them that there was a barrier in the timestream preventing the Kangs from travelling very far into the future. But apparently it also enables them to do the splits, and to tamper with time more delicately than before (without creating alternate timelines?).Vision also admits that he himself started the latest war with Kang. After the timelord used him as a weapon (ANADA#9) Vizh did something do stop the villain once and for all (although it obviously hasn't worked). In ANADA#13 he used a time machine himself to kidnap baby Kang and hide him somewhere/when. A mysterious being told him the best place to hide the baby (but we don't know where that is). And as he told Kang, he has hidden that information somewhere else.But Kang and Scarlet Centurion follow Vision back down his timeline and see him downloading data into a crystal. Which they steal at a later time. They look in it and discover where the baby is. But before retrieving the child they will punish the Avengers for this.Meanwhile Cap invites Spider-Man into the team (after demonstrating some of the powers of his falcon Redwing). Hercules leaves to get help from some friends. And Sam Wilson has a premonition.But the Kangs travel across the past killing Peter Parker, Jane Foster, Nadia Pym and Sam Wilson at birth, and stopping Ultron from creating the Vision.


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This is the continuation from last issue of a 2-part explanation of how the Avengers accomplished the downfall of Kang the Conqueror depicted in #4.

The current team (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Hercules, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Thor (Jane Foster), Vision and Wasp (Nadia Pym)) with the help of a future version of the Vision recruited the help of 2 teams of Avengers from earlier times:- the founding group (Hulk, Giant-Man, Iron Man, Thor (Odinson) and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)) and an 80's team (Black Knight, Captain America (Steve Rogers), Captain Marvel (Monica Rambeau), She-Hulk and Sub-Mariner).

With the Visions staying behind to monitor progress, the others split into 3 (different) teams to attack strategic parts of Kang's time-spanning empire. In Ancient Egypt BK, Cap(SW), Herc, Hulk and Spidey sought to destroy the cache of super-weapons stored in a pyramid by Kang when he was Rama-Tut I. CM, GM, Thor(JF), Thor(OS) and Wasp(JVD) went to planet Sacniaa where Kang's minions mine chronal energy. CA(SR), IM, Namor, Shulk and Wasp(NP) went to Kang's 1st empire on 4022 AD Earth. But they all ran into problems.

Meanwhile the Visions have an existential discussion. Future-Vision has survived to the end of time, and during that time his upgrades have replaced every part of him. So is he still the same 'person' as the current Vision. Our Vizh says they are still the same as long as his brain patterns are based on those of Simon Williams. But future-Vizh doesn't answer and changes the subject.

In 2948 BC Sam-Cap's team have planted a time bomb on a fusion reactor to destroy the pyramid. But warriors are firing a giant heat ray at them. This isn't really a problem for them as Hulk can destroy it. But it might set the reactor off before they can get everybody out. Hercules solves that problem by flushing the place out with a large water pipe. Cap activates the bomb with his flung shield and the team leg it.

The time bomb goes off destroying the pyramid. And the bomb's special timey-wimey nature feeds energy into the time tether that future-Vision has set up to link all 3 attacks to Kang's main base at the end of time.

In 7215 AD on Sacniaa Jane-Thor's team  have destroyed the time-mining complex but 1 of the aliens has used a device to steal the future of the original Giant-Man and Wasp. This supposedly means there will be no Avengers. (OK, it was Ant-Man and Wasp who suggested the idea of the team, but they've already done that.) So CM and the Thors start to fade away. (OK again, without the Avengers there might not be CM or Jane-Thor, but the Odinson already existed.)

Captain M somehow finds herself with Jarvis in Avengers Mansion. But it's still the Stark family home and he's never heard of her or the Avengers.

Back on Sacniaa the Thors merge their disintegrating Mjolnir's into 1 eternalo hammer and throw it to KO the alien. GM shrinks to ant-size and climbs inside the alien's gizmo. He reverses the polarity and everyone's back to normal. (And CM's back on the planet.)

This task didn't make use of their time-bomb. But now CM explodes it in midair to connect with the time tether.

In future North America Nadia-Wasp's team have been captured by Kang, and she has been taken to him for interrogation. The others discuss what to do. They were supposed to destroy Kang's army here and set off their time bomb but without disrupting Kang's timeline by alerting him to their presence before he actually meets Avengers for the 1st time in Av#8. But She-Hulk uses her clever lawyer brain to point out that depriving him of this early power base will change his future anyway - which is what the whole plan is.

Freed from indecision the 4 kick butt and rescue Nadia. However Kang and his elite guard aim their super-weapons at them - until the actions of the Egypt team cause those very weapons to disappear. Iron Man zaps Kang, the Avengers finish mopping up and Wasp flies the time bomb to complete the energising of the time tether.

Future-Vision gathers the teams together and sends them all (including himself and current Vizh) to the end of time where Kang's fortress explodes and he has been reduced to a powerless man with a funny mask. The Avengers intend to imprison him.

But then other incarnations of Kang appear 1 by 1:- Scarlet Centurion, Immortus then Dr Doom. They start blasting individual Avengers into nothingness. Sam-Cap can't explain to Iron Man how they can exist after Kang's future has been disrupted. (But then how come Kang is still there in a fortress at the end of time?) Also they didn't even know Doom was a Kang.

Eventually only Giant-Man is left. But he still has the alien device from Sacniaa - which he seemingly miniaturised and slipped into a pocket (something which Henry Pym didn't start doing until his Dr Pym days). Now he restores it to size and uses it to steal Kang's future. The other 3 enemies vanish, and Kang is sucked into the machine.

The rest of the Avengers reappear. Future-Vizh uses the device to wipe the 2 old teams' memories when he sends them back to their times. The current team leave the device with Kang and his future trapped inside in the possession of future-Vizh. And he sends them home with their memories intact.

But as a side-effect, for some reason, the grave of Avenger X has been moved from the woodland where the Frightful Four created it at the end of the recent Av #5.1. It's now in a basement of Parker Industries' Baxter Building where the Avengers are currently based on the top floor.


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Issue #3 ended with Captain America (Sam Wilson) telling the Avengers he had a plan to deal with Kang the Conqueror for good. Last issue we saw the result of that plan as Kang's time-spanning empire disintegrated and a medley of Avengers from various times came knocking at his door. Now this issue and next will show us what the plan involved.

We return to the end of #3 and Vision produces something he calls a time tether which connects the present with the heat-death of the universe, saying it will help with the plan. Spider-Man (Peter Parker) thinks this is beyond current science and queries if he built it himself. Another Vision-voice answers "Yes, but not for several centuries." as a figure phases through a wall into the room.

This is Vision of the far-future, an android who has survived by a long series of upgrades and replacement parts. He remembered Cap's suggested plan at this meeting and has come back to improve it.

He shows them Kang's fortress at the end of time, where the other end of the time tether is located. The tether is a quantum string stretching from now to then, and to it all these times are the same. Future-Vision gives the team time bombs to use in their attacks. He says if the attacks occur simultaneously relative to the tether then the energies would magnify and destroy Kang's citadel.

Thor (Jane Foster) says they're going to have to divide the team. And Cap suggests they need a bigger team - and they'll use time travel to get them.

The Avengers meeting room is in the Parker Industries Building (but the team don't know Spidey is PP). Current-Vision takes them down to the sub-basement where he found a time machine (see ANAD Av #13) which SM(PP) knew nothing about! It's a holdover from when this was the Fantastic Four's Baxter Building HQ. Future-V says he can travel in time at will but the Avengers will need the time machine.

While f-V is setting things up Cap whispers to current-V to ask if they should trust him. C-V says he met f-V in ANADA#13 when he used the time machine in another attempt to 'deal with' Kang. (So that's who the mystery 'living shadow' was in that issue.) Earlier today he revealed his identity to c-V and they 'melded minds' so c-V knows f-V speaks true.

Cap sends Spidey and fem-Thor to recruit the original Avengers (Giant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, male-Thor and Wasp (Jan van Dyne)). Then he and fem-Thor (again) pick up a later version (Black Knight, Cap (Steve Rogers), Captain Marvel, She-Hulk and Sub-Mariner). Then Sam-Cap assigns teams. The Visions will be together - they appear to remain behind to monitor the situation. Sam-Cap will take Black Knight, Hercules, Hulk, and Spidey, Jane-Thor has CM, GM, original Thor and original Wasp. Nadia Pym/Wasp has Steve-Cap, IM, Namor and Shulk.

Sam-Cap's team go to Egypt in 2948 BC where Kang has an army of slaves building weapons and stuff. They face ancient warriors with futuristic guns. During the fight Hulk asks why Spidey talks to him as if he's an idiot. After defeating their foes the Avengers find the power source - a fusion reactor - and plant the time bomb on it. But more Egyptians fire a heat ray at them ....

Jane-Thor's team are on planet Sacniaa in 7215 AD. Original Thor is mystified that the female Asgardian has his Mjolnir. Jane's reply is "Spoilers". The scenery is a desolate waste of ash but CM and the Thors give Jan-Wasp and GM a lift to a still-green place where some aliens are at work. Wasp pretends they have come from Kang for a progress report. They are mining time - chronal energy - ageing stuff to death, hence the ash. But they also steal future time from things like a nearby colony of apes - who will now not evolve into an intelligent race. The Avengers start wrecking the project, including freeing the apes' future. But an alien starts to steal the future of GM&W, which Jan says will negate the future of the Avengers. On cue CM and Jane-Thor start to disappear, but for some reason so also does original Thor ....

In North America in 4022 AD Nadia-Wasp's team have been captured. Steve-Cap is being tortured for information but won't tell them anything. Guards take him back to the Avengers' cell and take Wasp away. The team have another problem - they can't risk changing history by doing anything to the Kang who is in this time. Nadia is taken to face him ....

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Worlds collide: part 5
Continued from CHAMPIONS #14.The Avengers and Champions are on Counter-Earth trying to stop the collision between that planet and Earth organised by the High Evolutionary. The HE escaped at the end of Champions #14, but the teams are heading deep beneath his citadel where a means of salvation should be available - a machine to change the vibrational frequency of Counter-Earth so that it will pass through the Earth. But allegedly they will have to face someone even the Evolutionary fears. And they only have 58 minutes left.Thor (Jane Foster) and the teen version of Cyclops are smashing and blasting the way through barriers. They are miles underground, and Wasp (Nadia Pym) figures there must be an incredible magnetic field keeping the C-Earth's heat out. Vision calculates that they are nearing the optimal place for the machine to be.With 52 minutes to go they reach a large door, which Hercules and Nova (Sam Alexander) force open. Behind that they find a deep shaft which even Thor's lightning can't show them the bottom of. The fliers will carry the non-fliers down. Once again Vision tries to tell his now-human daughter Viv Vision to stay behind. Once again she refuses.With 48 minutes left they start down. Thor carries Cyclops and Spider-Man (Peter Parker). Wasp carries Hercules. Falcon (Sam Wilson) has Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan). Nova takes Hulk (Amadeus Cho) and teen Spider-Man (Miles Morales). And Vision reluctantly lifts his daughter.Vision takes the time to tell Viv what he's been hinting at for the last couple of issues. Vizh says he met a version of himself from the far-future (#5-6 of the 2017 series) and learnt that he will live for millennia. But when he created Viv he built her to age and die with a normal human lifespan. This is why he is so protective of her. (He doesn't mention that High Evolutionary turned her fully human last issue.)They reach the bottom with 33 minutes remaining. And they are confronted by 3 giant Ani-Men (a minotaur, a tiger-man and a snake-man) each with 2 human-sized versions on leashes - who won't let them past. But while the others engage in combat Viv Vision sneaks around the side as the countdown reaches 29 mins.There are only 18 mins left when Viv finds another large humanoid with armour very similar the the HE's, manacled in front of the machine. He tells her he is the Higher Evolutionary, created by the HE from his own genetic code. The HE considered his Ani-Men failures and wanted to create a better species to replace them. But the Higher E had compassion for the Ani-Men. He begged the High E not to destroy them, and so his father imprisoned him down here.With 9 mins to go Viv tells him that the High E has fled. She and her friends can help him if he lets them use the machine. But he is immediately suspicious because tampering with the Orbit Engine will destroy the planet. High E didn't chain him here - Higher E put himself here to protect the machine. Viv tells him that his father has set his Earth to collide with *her* Earth and only the Orbit Engine can save both planets. But he doesn't believe her.All this while we've seen the other heroes fighting the Ani-Men. Now with 5 mins left Viv continues to try to convince the Higher Evolutionary. And with 3 mins to go he breaks his bonds and steps aside. Behind him is a short lighted tunnel. Any slight adjustment to the controls at the end will be enough to avert the collision. But only he can survive the vibrational feedback.But as he prepares to enter the others arrive. He believes they are attacking him, and fights back because he thinks Viv lied to him and they intend to destroy Counter-Earth. So at the last minute Viv enters the tunnel, with memories of her short life flooding through her brain. She lays her hands on the control surface at the end, and CE fades as it meets Earth. But Vision watches his daughter too fade away.The there are 2 epilogues.1st the Avengers and Champions standing over a gravestone for Viv Vision.2nd Viv herself in a white space.So what's left for the conclusion in CHAMPIONS #15?


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No surrender: part 13
Voyager has just told a bunch of Avengers (Beast, Citizen V (Roberto Da Costa), Doctor Voodoo, Falcon (Sam Wilson), Hawkeye (Clint Barton), Hercules, Rogue, Scarlet Witch, Thor (Jane Foster) and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)) what's going on. They're trying to process that fact that she wasn't really a long-lost founding Avenger - those memories were just implants. (We see her fading from Wasp's memories - 2 images from Av#1 and 1 from Av#58.) I'm sure they'd already realised they were involved in a game, but it was news to them that the Grandmaster was behind it, and that she was actually his daughter.Scarlet Witch traps her in a mystic force bubble and Dr Voodoo controls her mind (presumably to stop her teleporting). But Voyager tells them she wants to help and explains in more detail. Most of Earth's superbeings were placed in stasis leaving only a few Avengers to act as obstacles for the 2 competing teams of aliens. Vision was included in the stasis because she couldn't implant the false memories in his synthezoid brain (which is why the Witch wasn't alloowed to successfully revive him in #677-678).Elsewhere in the Avengers Auxiliary HQ Bruce Banner is feeling sorry for himself when the Edwin Jarvis (recently recovered from his coma) brings him a flask of tea. He is deeply sorry for what he as Hulk did to some of the Avengers in the last few issues. And even more sorry for the guilt he as Bruce loaded on Hawkeye by getting Clint Barton to kill him during Civil War II to stop him becoming Hulk again. And that's made worse by the fact that they now know that Hulk (and by extension Banner) *can't* die. So now Bruce is in 'Hell' dreading Hulk's next eruption.Jarvis quotes Milton about a man's mind creating its own Heaven or Hell. He says Bruce contains the potential for evil but then so do all men. The mark of the hero is to transcend their mistakes and failures by striving to do better.In the medical bay ex-Iron Patriot Toni Ho doesn't have the equipment to repair Vision (Hulk ripped the top of his head off in #685). In the background Aikku Jokinen and Cannonball look after Gen'l Maverick. In the same issue Hulk drained the Red Hulk gamma radiation out of Maverick, and in #684 he ripped the semi-sentient Enigma armour from Aikku, killing it. Cannonball got beat up some too.Lightning blames himself for Vision's state because his power wasn't enough to stop Hulk earlier. Wonder Man tells him it isn't raw power that makes an Avenger (or they wouldn't have let Hawkeye in). And he can't resist inserting his pacifist message that fighting solves nothing.Quicksilver, who's also suffered damage in this story arc, tells them all to shut up while he concentrates. Pietro Maximoff can see a little blue blob zooming around faster than any of the others can detect (and also indetectable by machine sensors). Everyone thinks he's still suffering from concussion including Synapse. Pietro nearly had a thing going with Emily Guerrero back in Uncanny Avengers but his misjudgement caused her to get severely injured and he hasn't forgiven himself, even though she has.But he rises past that and manages to keep track of the blob. He realises that it is the blob continually passing through them all that keeps the other Avengers in stasis. (We see 1 such Squirrel Girl who they have in the room with them.) He tries to catch it but it slips through his fingers. He advises Toni Ho to recalibrate the sensors because the blob doesn't emit visible light and is almost frictionless. And then he whooshes off to chase it.Voyager continues her explanation. She tells the Avengers that her father Grandmaster is 1 of the effectively-immortal Elders of the Universe (but I'm certain most of them already know that) - each the last survivor of 1 of the earliest races in the universe. (But what does that make Voyager herself, and Collector had a wife and daughter too?) Each of them has concentrated on a personal obsession to pass the time. (We see Champion, Collector, Contemplator, Gardener, Grandmaster, Possessor and Runner - I myself am an Elder obsessed with Marvel Comics chronology.) She reminds them that En Dwi Gast has involved Earth heroes in his games many time (we see examples from Av#70 and Giant-Size Defenders #3).Gast can't resist a challenge, and Challenger is another Elder who wants to take over his role. The loser of this game will die (previous issues have said he will be removed from reality). Earth has been taken to a distant part of the universe to act as the gameboard. Challenger resurrected the Black Order as his pieces while Grandmaster assembled his Lethal Legion. Challenger had Hulk as a secret pawn in reserve. Grandmaster hid his daughter among the Avengers not in stasis.Voyager says she's lost contact with her father. We change our view to their cosmic game room where Challenger blasted his opponent at the end of last issue. All we see of Grandmaster now is a pile of dust blowing away. Angry Challenger decides to destroy the board Earth. On the Avengers' viewscreens we see superstorms, tidal waves and earthquakes. Wasp reminds Voyager that last issue she said she'd learned what it meant to be an Avenger and wanted to help. Well now they need her.


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No surrender: part 14
Elders of the Universe Grandmaster and Challenger stole the Earth to use as a gameboard. Now the game is over but Challenger, in a fit of pique over not winning, vaporised his opponent and decided to destroy the world. Most of Earth's superbeings are in stasis with only some Avengers allowed to take part in the game. But now Quicksilver has detected a blue miniblob whizzing around the globe that he suspects is what's keeping the others frozen, and he's set off to catch it.As he zooms round the world Pietro Maximoff sees signs of global disaster but his mission means he can't stop to help people. He passes frozen heroes like Sub-Mariner, She-Hulk and Black Panther and villains such as Wrecker and his Wrecking Crew. But he can't catch his prey, and eventually stops to rethink his plan.Challenger arrives at the site of the destroyed Avengers Mansion in Manhattan to announce the imminent destruction of the Earth but his message is heard around the globe. He gives the people 5 minutes to recognise his 'victory' and pray to him in his new name Grandmaster Prime.The Avengers themselves are in their Auxiliary HQ. Grandmaster's daughter Voyager is with them. She tells them that an Elder doesn't have the personal power to bust a planet, but her father had a machine on his satellite that keeps the Earth stable in its unaccustomed position. By stopping that Challenger could just let the Earth tear *itself* apart. Roberto Da Costa says they need to send a team up there with a mix of science and power, and he suggest involving Hulk/Bruce Banner. But Edwin Jarvis pops in to say that loud noise they just heard was Hulk smashing through the roof on a solo mission. (Other Avengers seen here are Toni Ho (ex-Iron Patriot), Falcon (Sam Wilson) and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne).)Hulk's leap lands him next to Challenger who he proceeds to beat up. His anger is mainly fuelled by the fact that the Elder brought him back to life yet again, or as we now know it he woke him from long-desired sleep. But then his foe hits back and sends Hulk into orbit, coincidentally near Grandmaster's satellite containing his game room.Voyager has just teleported there with Da Costa, Toni Ho, Hercules, Lightning and Thor (Jane Foster). They find it in a mess due to Challenger's fit of rage last issue. The world-engine doesn't sound healthy. Voyager says it itself is almost indestructible but its attendant machinery supplying data and power has been trashed. It's running out of control (causing earthquakes and such down below) but eventually it will run out of energy and the Earth will die.Lightning and Thor will supply the missing power. But someone needs to hold the spinning engine steady. Hercules is ready to do that but Toni thinks they also need a Hulk and they've run out of them. (She's referring also to their Red Hulk who lost his power in #685.) But Roberto steps up. He removes the headband which regulates his Sunspot power and adds his strength to Hercules even though it might kill him.Quicksilver returns to the HQ and locates Synapse and Scarlet Witch (his sister Wanda Maximoff). He wants Wanda to use her magic to boost his speed (even if that might kill *him*). Synapse suggests that his mind might try to stop him so they agree she will use *her* mental power to prevent that. Emily Guerrero and Pietro regret that their relationship hadn't had a chance to progress, and brother and sister exchange "I love you"s and then he's off.With their help Quicksilver exceeds his personal speed barrier. We look in on Hercules and Sunspot straining to keep the world-engine stable as Lightning and Thor provide the power to keep it going. We see Wonder Man and Rogue getting hit by Challenger. And then finally Pietro grabs the speeding bullet. And Wanda collapses saying she's lost contact with him.Voyager returns from space to the Auxiliary HQ Just as Captain America, Daredevil, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Squirrel Girl unfreeze. She mentally contacts other Avengers including Beast, Cannonball, Doctor Voodoo and the unfrozen Black Panther. And then she brings them together with Falcon, Rogue, Scarlet Witch, Synapse, Wasp and Wonder Man plus Hawkeye and the other Wasp (Nadia Pym).


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No surrender: part 4
Earth has been stolen by Grandmaster and an unrevealed opponent to provide a battleground for a contest between the alien Black Order on 1 side and a new alien Lethal Legion on the other. Most supercharacters have been 'frozen' leaving only a load of Avengers to provide 'obstacles' for the contestants.In Peru Falcon leads a team consisting of Human Torch (Johnny Storm), Red Hulk (Gen'l Maverick), Synapse and Wonder Man. Teleporter Voyager is still with them after transporting them there. Torch gets fed up with Sam Wilson trying to plan a strategy (not as quickly as Reed Richards would have got the Fantastic Four into action) and just flies to the attack.But his targets are already fighting each other - Black Order vs Lethal Legion (Corvus Glaive vs Drall,  Ebony Maw vs Ferene, Proxima Midnight vs Captain Glory).The other scene of action is Rome. The Blood Brothers, Mentacle and Metal Master of the Lethal Legion had defeated Rogue's team of Cannonball, Hercules, Lightning and Thor (Jane Foster) last issue when Quicksilver dashed to the rescue. But he suddenly froze like many others and was at the villains' mercy.Now the other Avengers have recovered and come to *his* aid. Thor tries to wrest control of Mjolnir back from Metal Master. But he sends it against her instead. Cannonball rashly intercepts it and is sent reeling into Rogue. Mentacle mentally grabs Hercules' mind until Lightning hits her with electricity. But 1 of the Blood Brothers is about to crush Pietro Maximoff's skull ...... when their true opponents Black Swan, Black Dwarf and Supergiant of the Black Order blast *them*. Molyn sends Thor's hammer against them but Black Swan's force field stops it, and Supergiant phases through him and disrupts his brain. Mentacle is still down so Black Dwarf just attacks Thor.Cut to Grandmaster and his opponent verbally sparring. The other guy says his Black Order are an established fighting force who used to work for Thanos. While GM has just cobbled together a bunch of aliens who've never met. But En Dwi Gast claims to have used his knowledge of this universe to hand-pick his team.Back in Peru Falcon recognises the Black Order members. He tells Synapse to try reading the mind of the mind-controller Ebony Maw. (Sounds to me exactly the wrong 1 to aim at.) She gets the name Lethal Legion and the names of the 3 members here. And that the 2 sides are vying for an alien object (she sees the pyramid shape). And apparently Sam Wilson stopped Torch's impetuous move because the combatants haven't spotted the Avengers yet. So they'll just observe their tactics.Meanwhile Voyager has just popped across to see how the others are doing in Rome. Rogue tells her to take frozen Quicksilver back to base, and orders Cannonball to go with them because she thinks he's suffering from concussion.In the Avengers' backup HQ (Avengers Mansion was destroyed (again) in #676) Scarlet Witch and Doctor Voodoo have revived Vision from his frozen state (last issue). But Wanda Maximoff is having to fight to keep him from slipping back. Valerie Vector arrives with her patients, and Jericho Drumm calls Toni Ho to get the medical bay ready. When Wanda sees her frozen brother Pietro her concentration wavers and Vision freezes again. But Quicksilver revives, and the Witch realises she must have caused him to freeze when she woke Vision.In the Colosseum Supergiant has invaded Metal Master's mind and made him relive being exiled from his planet for being a conqueror. Mjolnir returns to Thor and she attacks a Blood Brother. Rogue has figured out that the aliens are fighting over a small pyramid hovering in the air surrounded by flying rocks, and intends her team to grab it off them all.But Black Swan erects a force field around Black Dwarf so he can get through the rocks to win the prize. He reaches it, touches it ... and it explodes, apparently disintegrating him. A large number 1 appears in its place and Swan declares the Black Order have won the 1st point. (The symbol on the Pyramoid indicates it's the 1 chosen by Grandmaster last issue - signifying the element Earth. Which explains why it was protected by rocks.)Black Swan and Supergiant teleport away. The Lethal Legion go after them. Thor wants to follow but Rogue stops her. She's seen what happens to someone who touches a pyramid. She's worried that the other team might try to do what she'd thought of, and try for the prize themselves. Lightning flashes off to warn them.In Peru Corvus Glaive defeats Ferene and is about to kill her when Red Hulk stops him. Falcon has decided saving lives, even of enemies, is the Avengers' priority. Pacifist Wonder Man is happy to separate Drall and Proxima Midnight. Captain Glory downs Ebony Maw. Falcon flies after him, telling Synapse to mentally keep Maw from possessing anyone.The Pyramoid here is the Fire element chosen by the opponent, and it's surrounded by a firestorm. So Torch figures he's the right 1 to go after it, pausing only to hurl flames to keep Drall and Midnight from following him. Proxima hurls her lance that never misses after him as Lightning arrives. Rulk has Glory in his grip when he sees what's going on and leaps towards the prize himself. Lightning tries to stop him but Torch gets there 1st. And screams as he touches the Pyramoid.


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No surrender: part 15
The contest between the Elders of the Universe Grandmaster and Challenger ended when Challenger obliterated his opponent. But now the winner has decided the destroy the gameboard, the stolen Earth. But also Quicksilver sacrificed himself to stop the process that kept most of Earth's superbeings in stasis except a few Avengers.Around the USA we see superheroes, who have just thawed from their freeze, saving people from the effects of Challenger's action:- Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan), Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Viv Vision deal with an earthquake and flood in New Jersey while their fellow Champions Hulk (Amadeus Cho) and Nova (Sam Alexander) face fires in Texas. In New York the Defenders Daredevil and Iron Fist are as usual in Hell's Kitchen and Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur are on Long Island. Ms. America is in Los Angeles and Scarlet Spider in Nevada.All this is happening because Challenger's rampage in the Grandmaster's cosmic game room (in a spaceship above the Earth) disrupted the World Engine which kept the Earth stably spinning in its foreign environment. But Lightning exhausted his energy helping Thor (Jane Foster) repower it. And Roberto da Costa has unleashed his Sunspot power (which may kill him) to help Hercules keep the machine stable. Thor now joins their effort. Toni Ho, without her Iron Patriot armour, can only tend to Miguel Santos and watch. But this is only a stop-gap measure until someone returns the globe to its rightful orbit.Grandmaster reassembles his atoms (the Elders can't die since Grandmaster tricked Death into making them immortal in Avengers Annual #16) but he's lost his title to Challenger. En Dwi Gast prepares to leave Earth to its fate, but Toni sends Lightning after him (she has to stay to minister to Roberto if his power burns him out).The Avengers in New York of course think that defeating Challenger at the site of Avengers Mansion will solve the problem. Cannonball and Rogue slam into him from behind. Falcon (Sam Wilson) leads Beast, Doctor Voodoo, Wonder Man and the newly-woken Squirrel Girl to attack. Captain America was also until-recently frozen but he's ready (well he has experience with being defrosted) to direct Synapse to probe the foe's mind and Scarlet Witch to hex his nervous system. Rogue attacks again with Hawkeye and Wasp (Jan Van Dyne). But Challenger is now ready for them and blasts them all away.The other Wasp (Nadia Pym) is sheltering with Voyager, Grandmaster's daughter who turned against him to help the Avengers. Wasp asks her if she can teleport Challenger away. Voyager has never used her power on an Elder before, and when she tries she collapses with the strain. And Challenger's still there to get revenge for her earlier subversive moves against him.But Beast, Dr Voodoo and Falcon attack again before he can strike her. And Jan-Wasp gives Hawkeye 2 nano-acid arrows to use against him. He lets fly with them (but we never see if they have any effect).Lightning is following Grandmaster as he goes to pick up a few trophies before leaving. GM intends to lie low for a few centuries and then challenge Challenger to a rematch when he's calmed down. They pass Human Torch (Johnny Storm) and Red Wolf (plus the aliens Black Dwarf and Ferene) alive but suspended in crystals. (They got there by claiming Pyramoids in the game, which appeared to disintegrate them.) GM views his daughter (whose true name we learn is Va Nee Gast) fighting alongside the Avengers, and prepares to abandon her too.Lightning doesn't have the power to affect Grandmaster, even if he hadn't used all his electricity up. But he tries another tack and challenges him to a game of poker.Challenger has shrugged of all attacks again, when Wonder Man approaches and suggest they talk things over. But if he won't chat then Simon Williams says he'll have to go through him. The pacifist hero probably intends to let his foe waste his energy against his invulnerable ionic body. But then the Elder's blast starts to tear even that energy-form apart, until Dr Voodoo uses a stasis spell to hold him together. The 2 Wasps combine forces to blast the enemy in the eyes with their Stings.In their poker game Miguel Santos raises the stakes - he bets his life against freedom for Red Wolf. En Dwi Gast counter-raises - if he loses he'll return Earth to its orbit, but when he wins he'll take Earth and its population for his own gaming amusement.Synapse is still trying to attack Challenger's mind but is blocked. Squirrel Girl suggests a different team-up. On a hunch she asks Falcon to use his ability to mentally communicate with birds, and he finds he *can* see through the foe's eyes. Synapse piggybacks on that connection to reach in and trigger the alien's pain centres. (Doreen Green had expected her to just mentally talk the guy down.) While he's reeling Cannonball and Rogue strike again. And Squirrel Girl joins in, but only with the proviso that they try to rehabilitate the enemy when they've defeated him. But all they succeed in doing is make him more angry.Back at the poker game Miguel makes the move he'd planned all along. He raises the stakes again. Voyager was able to alter the Avengers' memories so he figures her father can do that too. He bets his legacy - if he loses then En Dwi can erase all memories of the good he's managed to do in his life, so that he will be remembered as a loser. But GM will have to risk the same.As we see more heroes doing their things on Earth (Thing, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Dr Strange, Luke Cage, Storm and Old Man Logan) Lightning muses that Avengers don't do what they do for glory (except maybe Hercules) but he's betting that for Grandmaster it's not enough to win but to be *known* as a winner. And he's right because En Dwi Gast folds even though he's got a good hand. And as Red Wolf and Torch are released Miguel won't even let him see what hand he was beaten by.In Manhattan all the Avengers are piling on and Cap urges them on as he senses Challenger weakening. But Va Nee knows that as an Elder their foe has almost limitless energy, and it is the Avengers who weakening. Then Beast tells her to use her memory control to make them remember earlier desperate fights that they won. And she does so, ending with the inspirational cry "No retreat, no surrender". Scarlet Witch in particular is inspired to craft a spell to use their rallying cry "Avengers assemble" to magically enhance everyone's power for 1 last mighty blow ...... and Challenger falls, unconscious.The team return from the cosmic gameroom with the 2 rescued Avengers, and Johnny Storm is reunited with his love Anna Marie (Rogue). Voyager stands aside to let the Avengers savour the moment. The Earth returns to its proper place (GM true to his word) in front of the waiting Captain Marvel. Sasquatch and Puck report from the Alpha Flight space station that its readings are normal, and also the Moon's back too (although it never figured in the story while Earth was away). And the population of the world rejoices in relief. (We see Black Panther in his citadel, and Colossus and Kitty Pryde near a crashed plane.)


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No surrender: part 10
This issue begins with several pages of Hulk history seen from a new slant. Possibly they're meant to be Hulk remembering. (A handy page at the back tells us where these memories come from.)It begins of course with Bruce Banner saving Rick Jones from the Gamma Bomb test. A medic declares Banner dead, but then he wakes up and 'screams for hours'. (Hulk (1st series) #1 of course.) Then we see Hulk being decapitated by Captain America's shield (from Avengers: Ultron Forever #1). Major Talbot declaring Banner dead again (Tales to Astonish #69). Doc Samson ditto (Hulk #225). Wasted-away Hulk dying (in Hulk #367). Hulk trapped in molten metal (I think) (Hulk #446). Banner gets shot in the head (Indestructible Hulk #20).But he kept surviving, so in the lead-up to Civil War II Bruce devised a way to definitely kill Hulk. At the time he was supposedly free of Hulkness, but he told Hawkeye to use it if he ever seemed about to turn again. It involved 2 arrows tipped with gamma-enriched vibranium. Clint Barton should put 1 in Bruce's hypothalamus at the base of the brain. If he didn't need it for a 2nd attempt he should put the 2nd arrow in his heart. And of course Clint did both shots in CWII #3.But the Hand used magic to resurrect the Hulk until Doctor Voodoo allowed Banner's soul to go to its rest (Uncanny Avengers v3 #17). Here we see Banner trying to tell Jericho Drumm that the Hand isn't really controlling the Hulk, he's just awake and angry, but Drumm can't hear him.Then behind the scenes in Secret Empire #5 Arnim Zola used science to bring Banner back again. Zola was surprised how quickly Bruce revived. But he'd (without Hydra-Cap's knowledge) put a time-delayed implant in Banner's hypothalamus that would *really* kill him this time when he'd done his job. And Bruce was happy about that. In SE #6 Hydra dropped Hulk on the Resistance HQ the Mount, and he had a last rematch with the Thing as shown here.And the voice over tells us that it wasn't magic *or* science that brought him back because the Hulk *never* died. When Zola's implant kicked in he just pretended to die to get some peace, as in the previous occasions. But now the Challenger has woken him again - reactivated the scream that won't stop, the rage that won't die, the Immortal Hulk (a new title unveiled at the end of last issue).Now on with the main business of this story arc. As we all know the Grandmaster and the Challenger have stolen the Earth to play a game on it. Their 2 teams of aliens the Lethal Legion and the Black Order contend for 5 elemental Pyramoids. Most of Earth's superbeings have been frozen in stasis to keep them out of the way, except for a bunch of Avengers to act as obstacles for the alien teams to overcome. However the obstacles have won 2 of the Pyramoids. The proper teams only have 1 each. Now the 5th Pyramoid is left to play for. Challenger revealed his extra playing piece the Hulk. But Grandmaster has something up his sleeve too.The 5th Pyramoid unleashed vengeful ghosts on the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan where Beast and Wasp (Nadia Pym) were trying to bring Avengers' butler Edwin Jarvis out of a coma. Last issue Voyager teleported the Pyramoid away. She was supposedly 1 of the founding Avengers who had appeared to die in a later conflict. But she had returned for this battle. However when Jarvis awoke last issue he claimed that the team's memories of Valerie Vector were false implants - she had never been an Avenger.Challenger has apparently sent Hulk to grab the Pyramoid for his side, but now Grandmaster gloats that the Hulk doesn't know where to go. Challenger suspects that his opponent might have something to do with Voyager.Jarvis has convinced Beast and Wasp of Voyager's deception. Nadia theorises that the infection in Edwin's memory centre, that they cured last issue, is why Voyager's trick didn't work on *him*.In Avengers Auxiliary HQ Lightning uses his power to charge up Toni Ho's old Iron Patriot armour while Dr Ho herself contacts Falcon (Sam Wilson), Citizen V and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) in 1 of the 2 away teams. She also tries and fails to get in touch with Beast. Enigma takes the frozen-in-stasis Squirrel Girl the the medical bay and puts her with equally-frozen Vision. Cannonball and Quicksilver are there recuperating from injuries. Suddenly they see blue spots in the air (with no explanation this issue).Tony Ho detects an energy reading from the storage vault as Voyager arrives in there with the 5th Pyramoid. But Val shuts the door on the others locking them out. Her skin has turned blue and she lets us see her memories which explain what's going on. The physicist Arthur Vector that she claimed was her father really did exist, to lend credence to her story. But we now learn that her true father is the also blue-skinned En Dwi Gast, the Grandmaster.She'd been at his side during all his previous games, most of which we don't know about, learning all his moves. (But we never saw her there.) Apparently he used to give her all the things, like planets, that he won - and she was a benevolent protective ruler(?).This time her father gave her the powers of teleportation and memory alteration, and it seems maybe he persuaded Challenger to allow the Avengers as obstacles just to have some some place to hide her in plain sight. She was to work behind the scenes to his advantage.But apparently her latest move wasn't in Grandmaster's plan. And we learn that she intends to win *this* game for herself.The gameplayers detect where the Pyramoid is. Challenger sends Hulk after it. Grandmaster sends Captain Glory and Mentacle, the only remaining active members of his Lethal Legion. But Hulk lands on Glory breaking his back. And when Mentacle tries to take over Hulk's mind she cries out in agony.Toni Ho contacts the 2 Avengers teams to tell them where the 5th Pyramoid is now. We see the rest of Falcon's squad:- Dr Voodoo, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Synapse and Wonder Man with LL captives Metal Master and the Blood Brothers. And in the quinjet she sent for them last issue Rogue with Hercules and Thor (Jane Foster) and the glaive she took from Corvus Glaive's dead hand.Hulk arrives at the HQ with a thoom. Toni sends Lightning to bring Cannonball and Quicksilver into battle, and her lover Enigma out to face the Hulk with orders to stay invulnerably phased. However Aikku Jokinen does the opposite and goes diamond hard to take the brute on. But Hulk tears bits of her armour off and tosses her aside.Cannonball rockets at him but gets a similar treatment. Pietro Maximoff superspeeds to save him from crashing into a wall, but suffers broken ribs. Lightning throws all his electric power at him and collapses with exhaustion. But Hulk stands unharmed.Toni Ho told Gen'l Robert Maverick not to go against the green Hulk as Red Hulk. Even when his power was fully working he wouldn't have won, and now that Hydra messed him up during Secret Empire he has no chance. But Maverick said he had an idea and triggered his Rulk hour (if he's lucky) of power. Now we see what he meant as he turns up as Iron Hulk - Red Hulk wearing parts of the Iron Patriot armour.


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No surrender: part 11
Grandmaster and the Challenger have stolen the Earth to use as a gameboard. Their alien teams have been competing for 5 Pyramoids. It's a draw so far with only the 5th Pyramoid to play for, but both teams  have nearly run out of players. However Challenger has released his secret extra piece the Hulk. But Grandmaster had an ace in the hole too - his daughter was disguised as a long-lost Avenger Voyager and hidden among the other Avengers. And she has telekinetically taken the last Pyramoid.The only other pieces still active are Black Swan and Proxima Midnight of Challenger's Black Order, and they are speeding towards the Avengers Auxiliary HQ where Voyager has locked herself and the Pyramoid in a vault. Grandmaster mentally contacts her and asks why she hasn't brought the the winning point to him, but she's rebelling against him.Hulk is already at the HQ and has already smashed his way through Cannonball, Enigma, Lightning and Quicksilver. Last issue we left him facing Iron Hulk - Red Hulk (Gen'l Maverick) in Iron Patriot's armour. Toni Ho, the previous occupant of that armour, is desperately trying to get the Avengers away teams to rally to the defence.Hulk has thrown Iron Hulk into a room containing a fountain, and continues to beat him up in the pool. But suddenly Maverick repels him with repulsor rays and then gets his own licks in. But then as he blasts the green Hulk his foe breaks his gauntlet. And then grabs Rulk's head and drains all the gamma energy out of him. The General is left as a frail old man, no longer even red-skinned, and suffering from problems brought on by his use of the Hulk power.The largest away team (Citizen V (Roberto Da Costa), Falcon (Sam Wilson), Doctor Voodoo, Scarlet Witch, Synapse, Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) and Wonder Man) hear Toni's plea in their quinjet. Wonder Man turns himself into ionic energy which will get him there faster. Scarlet Witch has a cunning plan - she uses hex magic to freeze willing Dr Voodoo into stasis, reasoning that the rules of the game will unfreeze Vision at the base.She's right and Vision phases through Hulk making him drop Maverick. Quicksilver whooshes past taking Maverick and Enigma to safety in the med lab. As he collapses he says he sees the blue spots again (as last issue) but now he realises it is 1 very small blue object moving around very fast. Enigma awakes to see Toni checking the General's vital signs. Aikku Jokinen tells Toni that when Hulk ripped her helmet off last issue she thinks it killed what was left of Pod in the Enigma armour. Toni commiserates but says they'll need to make use of what's left.Vision is switching between superdense and intangible to survive Hulk's attacks while getting in his own blows and solar eye blasts. Voyager is mentally watching the bout. In the next room Lightning wakes Cannonball before they get suffocated by the heat spilling out from the battle. They see Vizh reach an intangible hand into Hulk's head. They expect him to turn it solid and scramble Hulk's brain. But instead Hulk reaches out and tears away the top of the synthezoid's head. As Vision 'dies' Jericho Drumm unfreezes.Cannonball and Lightning are wondering what they can do when Black Swan and Proxima Midnight enter through the door Hulk broke through last issue. Proxima easily swats Sam Guthrie aside while Miguel Santos' electric bolts can't get through Swan's forcefield. Until Aikku and Toni join in with handblasts from the Enigma suit and an eyeblast from the detached helmet carried by Toni. BS quickly falls and they turn their attention to PM.But they know all this is useless unless they can stop Hulk who is battering at the vault door. But a purple glow zooms past them and the downed Vision and resolves itself into Wonder Man. Who tells Hulk it's time for a chat.


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No surrender: part 16
Beast, Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) and Wonder Man bring recuperating Edwin Jarvis in a wheelchair to see work begin on repairing the destroyed Avengers Mansion. Nadia Pym (the other Wasp) runs to greet him. In the background various Avengers use their superpowers to clear away debris. (Cannonball and Squirrel Girl get a look in here.)Roberto da Costa (Citizen V/Sunspot) intends to resign as leader of the U.S. Avengers. The other team leaders Falcon (Sam Wilson) and Rogue try to talk him out of it. Jan-Wasp joins Rogue in surveying the damage.Human Torch (Johnny Storm) complains to Beast that they only rebuilt the place a short while ago (in Uncanny Avengers). Johnny financed that with money from Reed Richards' estate which he inherited (now the that Reed and Sue Richards are missing presumed dead since Secret Wars III, or whatever the inhabitants of this multiverse believe happened then). But the firm of accountants he hired made sure the place was insured so that's alright. In that case Hank McCoy has suggestions for improvements such as a jacuzzi.Roberto and Falcon join Captain America, Hercules, Thor (Jane Foster) and Wonder Man to offer Voyager a place in the Avengers. But she feels unworthy because she initially worked against them for her father Grandmaster. She says someday she may return to *earn* her place. And if GM returns to play more games with the Earth she will be there to oppose him. But for now she'll just take his opponent the unconscious Challenger away with her.The team wonder where the alien playing pieces of the game that the 2 Elders of the Universe played in this story arc have gone. The Black Order are all alive and well on a far-distant planet where they are accosted by Grandmaster who offers them a job. (In this series they were working for the Challenger.) Meanwhile the Lethal Legion are in Knowhere, the hollowed out detached head of a Celestial that the Guardians of the Galaxy often use as a base. They prepare to split up but Captain Glory suggests they stay together. Grandmaster had rescued them each from certain death, and he himself would be executed by the Kree for desertion if he went back. We leave them thinking about it.Lightning and Red Wolf are in Texas helping arrest some A.I.M. Agents who have gone back to their criminal ways. They decide to team up. Roberto da Costa informs Toni Ho (ex-Iron Patriot), current Supreme Leader of AIM as the government agency containing the US Avengers, about this development. She's quite happy to let AIM go back to being criminal scientists led by Andrew Forson or whoever. Maybe the government will stop annoying her and go after *them*. The ones she can trust are still working for her, and she's thinking of renaming her bunch R.E.S.C.U.E.. Currently she's repairing the damaged Vision. And she says she's been talking to some people about what comes next. (See the current Iron Man 'Legacy' series for that.)Roberto confirms that he's quitting the group. Turning off the headband which limited his Sunspot power last issue in order to save the world has probably taken years off his life. This has focused his mind and he's going back to fighting for mutants with a new identity Citizen X.Doctor Voodoo, Scarlet Witch and Synapse meet to discuss Quicksilver. Wanda Maximoff and Emily Guerrero were mind-linked to Pietro Maximoff when he disappeared in #688 and they believe he is still alive in some other realm. The 3 of them agree to use Voodoo/Witch sorcery to search for him. (They'll presumably turn up in the new Quicksilver series.)Wonder Man says he's going too, but Hercules insists they have a farewell feast. Herc is now teetotal so he says Simon Williams will have to drink *his* share. Thor calls on Heimdall to bring the 3 of them to Asgard to feast with the gods there.Clint Barton and Bruce Banner are having coffee in a greasy spoon. Clint isn't wearing his Avengers costume for anonymity, but he is actually wearing his Occupy Avengers t-shirt. Bruce apologises for getting Hawkeye to kill him (in Civil War II), especially as it didn't actually work. Clint says he'd been shown a vision of the future with Hulk killing everyone he loved, which was why he agreed. And then it turned out Ulysses' visions were just possibilities, and the world has gone a different way. As Banner leaves Clint urges him to remember he's not a bad person. (Bruce will star in the new Immortal Hulk series.)Jarvis has been thinking it's time for him to retire as Avengers butler. Nadia shows him a holographic AI she's built to help him, which he now thinks could replace him. But when it turns out it doesn't really know what it's talking about he decides he'd better stay anyway.Rogue is going back to the X-Men (well there's really no Unity Squad left for her to lead). Workmen arrive to restore the Mansion. Including a new statue to commemorate much more than the original founders.Voyager and a shackled Challenger are watching from very afar. Challenger swears to break free and kill her, her father and the Avengers. Va Nee Gast thinks there's someone inside Challenger who can be saved, just as the Avengers saved her. He pooh-pooh's all that, but is eager to see what happens next. We see some images of upcoming stuff.