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An unknown speaker narrates it doesn’t exist yet, but will soon, it begins to observe, about to decide who are the heroes here.
On the balcony of a restaurant in New York, Tony Stark is having lunch with the Eternal Sersi. He suggests cutting to the chase. Why are they going to be fighting again in a day or two? She asks him to let her finish her drink first. Is he serious? At the moment, she is much more likely to pick a fight with the mutants. They are such plagiarists. Returning to life is the Eternals’ thing.
She is not going to make this easy, he decides. A moment later, Echo, the current wielder of the Phoenix Force, flies in to attack her. She drags Sersi high into the air, where fellow powerhouses Captain Marvel and Thor are waiting. Sersi is taken out and Captain Marvel informs Stark.
The Treehouse in New York, the X-Men’s current HQ:Looking out the window, Cyclops asks his wife Jean Grey if that was the Phoenix. It is strange seeing the Phoenix being an Avenger. Jean, however, is distracted by the angry crowd outside. People have been protesting since it has become public knowledge that the mutants have technology to return from the dead. She can feel their anger and grief. She refers to one young woman, Jada, thinking how many times has Jean come back – her daughter is still dead!
What can they say? Jean wonders. Cyclops replies, they tell the truth. It is a practicality. The Five can’t bring everyone back. even if they wanted to. And most of all, it’s not like everyone has stopped killing mutants.
Krakoa (population 200,000):Somewhere atop a volcano, Nightcrawler meets with his mother Mystique and her wife Destiny. He asks the precog how sure she is about there being a war. She tells him there will always be a war. The precise details are the problem. They are elusive. Orchis are ready, but it’s not them…
There will always be a war, Kurt repeats. He could really do without her cynicism right now. Mystique sighs, commenting that she sometimes wonders if he is her child. Genetics isn’t destiny, he shoots back. She retorts he will be hated for every second of his life for what he is. Of course, it is!
Destiny shushes them… she can see it. The Eternals will try to kill them all! They decide to call the Quiet Council and they have to warn Arakko too. Kurt’s on it. He jumps though one of the Krakoan portals…
…and steps out on planet Arakko (population 1,000,000):Taking in its alien beauty, he marvels at life, at taking a breath on Mars. Don’t use that ugly human word, a voice chides him from behind. This is Arakko, Magneto continues, and for those breaths thank the mutant responsible. He refers to Storm who stands next to him, with Cable sitting nearby. “Bravo, monarch of Mars!” he addresses her. She retorts she isn’t a monarch and it was a team effort.
Nightcrawler informs them of Destiny’s vision: war is coming – it’s the Eternals. The Quiet Council is about to meet and the Great Ring of Arakko needs to know. She needs to be in both places, Storm points out, being a member of both ruling bodies. Magneto suggests she take Arakko’s perspective to Krakoa. Kurt and he will bring it to the Great Ring. He addresses Cable regarding their plan of war. Cable has a few thoughts on how to take the Eternals on. It won’t be easy. But nothing they can’t handle. Really? Kurt asks skeptically, pointing out both groups can’t die. This is not good. He wonders why the Eternals have a problem with them.
“Eternals,” Magneto stresses the name. Did they think that the powers that be would surrender the beaches of forever without a fight? The Olympians tore down the Titans. Mutants follow in their deicidal footsteps. They are the world’s new gods. The time of the old ones is over!
Avengers Mountain:Sersi awakes shackled to a chair. Iron Man stands in front of her. She asks where she is. Stark explains he is suspicious she messed with him. He needed a safe place to talk-cum-interrogate. It’s a psychic dead room deep in Avengers Mountain. They can talk safely and she can’t call for help. She reminds him she is a minor psychic but a world class matter manipulator. To underscore her point, she changes her gown into her usual costume. With his history, she could give him a stroke, if she chose to.
Coolly, he replies her posturing is just making him more suspicious. Imagine if she were in his shoes. She scoffs she would never wear any of his shoes. That armor doesn’t even have a kitten heel! Assume she needs convincing. Show her his PowerPoint and hope his transitions are enough to wow her into compliance, Sersi suggests. He protests it is his own bespoke system, then tells her to forget it. Last month, the Eternals snuck into Avengers Mountain to try some of their cosmic stuff. Only, when the Eternals’ mission failed, they told the Avengers the entire truth: Thanos was on Earth and somehow leading the Eternals. And Earth was minutes away from destruction!
Sersi admits, she regrets that. Stark replies that, if he was in a more giving mood, he’d think that’s nice, but… Sersi says “regret.” She doesn’t say it was a mistake. She doesn’t even apologize. Sersi snaps, there are things only Eternals can know. Only they could stop Thanos. And they did!
“Things that only Eternals can know,” he repeats. Is this another doomsday they’ve chosen to hide? He orders her to tell him. She shoots back he should tell her what he knows, and she’ll see what she can do to help. Really? he scoffs. After everything, she just expects the ape in the suit to show all his cards? Really?
This isn’t the way, a voice announces over intercom. He is coming in. Stark warns that he will be exposed. She is an untrustworthy telepath. They had a plan. They did, Captain America agrees as he enters, but it’s bad. Sersi was an Avenger. They have to show her some trust. The Eternals are going to war, he states and asks her to tell them what she knows. Well, she knows that war is significantly more likely now that they have strapped her to this unfashionable and uncomfortable chair. Unamused, he glares and she realizes he wasn’t joking. What is Druig do… she begins, then demands they tell her what they know.
Iron Man explains that, since the Eternals hid Thanos from them, he has been keeping an eye on them. Last week there was a huge spike in the Pacific Ocean that cut out instantly, as if testing something. In the last 24 hours, a series of low-level impulses have become visible across the world. Something is warming up. Something is coming. What are they doing? Cap asks. Sersi explains she isn’t part of it. The Eternals are not a team. They are a society. A society she and her friends have left. She is not the Eternal they need to worry about.
The Eternal they do need to worry about, new Prime Eternal Druig, has been addressing his fellow Eternals in Olympia one hour ago within the Uni-mind. He reminds them of the Principles they uphold, particularly “Correct Excess Deviation.” For a million years, they have done that and protected Earth from the Deviants. But they have made a mistake. They missed some - the mutants. Their X-gene came from the Deviants. They are human but Deviant, so they fall under the Eternals’ watchful purview. They have escaped the great Machine that is Earth and have colonized Mars. Worse: they have escaped the chains of death itself. Their deviation will go on forever! This is excess deviation and must be corrected! He asks for the approval of the Uni-mind. Let him bring force and death to those it is their Eternal duty to correct.
The majority decide for him.
A little later in the Exclusion, most specifically the cell of Uranos the Undying. Druig informs his grandfather of the session mocking his own melodrama. He sounded just like him. He didn’t, Uranos opines, unimpressed. Druig is the equivalent of a human child wearing its parent’s shoes. This role is too big for him. Perhaps, Druig shrugs, but he doesn’t really care. An external foe will unite the Eternals. This is just an opportunity for him… and one for Uranos. For the first time in hundreds of thousands of years, they are going to let him out. Remember: this is a test. He has one hour. The Machine has coded him to return instantly. Uranos smiles as he muses that his own people have forgotten him. These mutants made Mars habitable in a day but to destroy is always easier. A human takes nine months to make another. A human can crush a windpipe in seconds. They will see what Uranos the Undying can do in an hour…
A little later at the Damocles Foundation HQ, Los Angeles:Druig admits he is sure he made a mistake. Thanos met Uranos when he was on Earth. Called him “granddad” affectionally. He is a monster and Druig’s leash is uncertain, but he needs him for his plan to slap the mutants on the wrist, so here they are. Of course, her information is appreciated, he assures the other person. He is surprised she would betray her old friends so completely. Moira MacTaggert replies she may not be a million years old but she has lived long enough to see friends turn to enemies and vice versa. Now she is with Orchis. And Orchis wants to help all causes that align with their interests. Pro-human. Anti-mutant. Druig mildly points out that strictly speaking the Eternals’ position is human-agnostic and anti-Deviant. So anti-mutant, Moira doubles down. Potayto -potahto, Druig shrugs. He gets Orchis’ position, but tell him about her.
Moira replies that Krakoa was a utopia she founded. She gave them everything. And then they cast her out. Destiny told Mystique that, if the mutants failed to bring her back, she should burn it all down. Moira should have made it clear that the inverse was also true. Taking a donut, Druig enthuses that he likes grudges. Let them wage war…
On the beach of Krakoa, Wolverine asks Egg why he doesn’t join them for volleyball? He has work to do, the member of the Five replies.
In the meantime, the Quiet Council is meeting to discuss Destiny’s vision. Xavier announces they know of no grudge the Eternals hold against them. They are prepared against Orchis, not this. Exodus points out that Sinister’s absence is suspicious and suggests purging him from the Council.
The next moment, they are under psychic attack.
Druig explains to Moira that the Eternals are a psychic species, but the mutants have some of the greatest minds on the planet. The Eternals can’t face them individually, but then they don’t have to. Half their committed force combined in the Uni-mind are attacking psychically. The telepaths on the Quiet Council will defend themselves and protect their peers.
Psychic warfare above the island, invisible to the world, Druig summarizes. All they need is the mutants distracted and leaderless. A delay. Confusion.
Moira warns him the mutans aren’t just the Council - they need more to create confusion. She did say something about burning, Druig reminds her. Another group of Eternals outfitted with attack armor from their earliest days is attacking the island physically.
On Krakoa, Wolverine shouts to sound the damn alarm. The X-Men in New York teleport in and quickly join the battle, led by Cyclops.
Moira remarks the X-Men turning up is less than ideal. Druig points out they have their own transport via that Magik person, so it wasn’t worth it to deploy their stealth resources to dispatch the gates in New York.
Moira muses that a handful of X-Men aren’t the problem. Krakoa has a population of 200,000 mutants with mostly weak powers. On Mars, there are over a million Arakki from a war-torn existence, hardened by centuries of siege. And there are the gates from Mars to Krakoa. Druig smirks as he disagrees: one, they aren’t mutants, but Deviant. Two, there will be a lot less than a million by now…
Arakko:Nightcrawler teleports to the Great Ring and tells them to get out.
Druig continues that the key factor is the nature of their immortality. They are not like Eternals, who will be reborn as long as planet Earth exists. Mutant immortality comes from five mutants working together: Hope and her friends. Time to break up the band. Without that mutant circuit, Krakoa falls.
On Krakoa Wolverine races toward Egg to find him murdered. He runs to the Quiet Council, whose members are locked in telepathic stupor… and stops the Eternal assassin Jack of Knives’ blades just in time before they kill Hope. Jack admits he is good. How did he find them? Wolverine retorts that he didn’t smell them but Egg’s blood on their blades. Jack throws several burning blades at Wolverine, who covers Hope. Well played, they admit and promise to be seeing him.
Wolverine shouts for Jean Grey to come over here. Their enemies know about Hope and the Five! Jean telepathically gives orders to secure the Five. The Attackers are driven away.
Druig sulks that Jack of Knives failed. At least he won’t have to pay their murder bonus, he cheers himself up. Moira bristles that he blew it. He chides her to be patient. Eternals are eternal - they win by erosion. It’s not like his plans only consisted of this afternoon…
Arbor Magna:Since Egg had made some spare eggs, the first things the others do is resurrect him. What happened? he asks. Hope tells him they went after her people. The *&%$ are going to pay!
Wolverine suggests to Jean they get Beast, Brand and Cable on this. These people know how to hurt them. That moment, Jean hears a psychic scream from Mars. A moment later, an exhausted and horrified Nightcrawler teleports in from Arakko. It’s hell! he shouts. Bring them back! He barely made that gate before it went. Bring them back! Arakko needs leadership! Hope asks what about her dad Cable.
The Five act as one and resurrect Cable. He asks what happened. As Hope hugs him, Kurt and Jean look away. What happened?! he shouts.
The Exclusion:How was his hour? Druig smirks as Uranos the Undying is teleported back into his cell. Uranos summarizes that the gates to Earth are destroyed. Much of the power structure is destabilized. He left a little of his arsenal to distract whoever’s left. They won’t interfere directly.
Druig tells him he is very good in every way but, literally, he knew he could rely on him. Uranos smirks, deducting that Druig’s other plan failed. He is going to have to let him out again, Uranos predicts. Losing his smile, Druig quickly replies that it’s not that bad yet. He has Uranos’ armory, so the Hex can be deployed. That first… before sending him again. He walks away grimly as Uranos calls after him to let him out. It will save time. He promises to leave a hemisphere undestroyed.
Avengers Mountain:Sersi explains Druig is a lickspittle and will do anything to secure his power. Iron Man informs the others there has been an attack on Krakoa, then interrupts he is getting those energy spikes again… on the western seaboard… and a message.
The message is from Druig, addressing all humans. He announces that the mutants have overreached and are a threat to all. The Eternals apologize for letting them get so far. But rest assured they will protect humanity as they have done for a million years.
Human protesters everywhere rejoice as they hear Druig’s message.
Druig continues asking them not to be afraid of the towering death machines that have appeared off the northern seaboard of the USA. They are not towering death machines. They are the Hex and they are Eternals. Yes, they are not all human-sized but rest assured, no matter the size, they are humanity’s protectors. That said, he would advise anyone in the coastal regions to head inland. It’s possible this may get messy…
Avengers Mountain:Captain America calls the team together, Captain Marvel, Thor, Starbrand, Nighthawk, Echo (the current Phoenix) and the Submariner. Captain Marvel is skeptical about keeping Sersi locked up. Cap explains that there is something Sersi hasn’t told them. She and her friends have left the Eternals, but she won’t say why.
Iron Man interrupts, telling him he’s got some intrusion signals. After the last time the Eternals snuck in, he set up some precautions.
He flies to another part of their HQ in the body of a dead Celestial and announces using the same way to sneak in is a bit of an insult. He is kind of a genius.
The intruders are Ajak, Makkari and a tied up and gagged Mr. Sinister. Ajak apologizes; they meant no disrespect. She would have changed her method, but the genocidal war of their peers made them act with haste. She introduces herself and Makkari and refers to Sinister as an annoying mutant with useful talents, whom they have gagged. She continues: She sees two ways. The Eternals cannot be defeated as long as the world exists. They will keep coming. Eventually, all that lives will be rendered nothing but dust. Not a fan of that, Iron Man announces. Option B?
Ajak explains that this is a holy war born of holy scripture. A god can rewrite the scripture and end the war. She asks him to help them build their god. That plan is pure hubris, he announces. Opening his faceplate, Stark continues that, speaking broadly, he is pro-hubris. But how on Earth do they think they can make a god in a few hours? Ajak tells him to look around. They have everything they need…
Who is the hero? They will find out.


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An unknown being watches six normal human beings from all over the world, as Druig’s declaration of war echoes across the world. There’s Tom, a middle-aged white guy who is brushing his teeth. Good for the Eternals, he figures and goes to bed.
In Vancouver, a young woman, Katrina, sits in a coffee shop and fires off a supportive tweet. She gets a lot of positive interaction. It will be an hour before the bigots come out. She wishes the tweets could be a shield above Krakoa. She knows they are not. But solidarity is a power, too.
Mumbai, the elderly Arjun has lived a long time, even before the age of marvels. He survived all kinds of disasters. He hears of the Hex and shrugs. The heroes will save them. They always do.
In Sao Paolo, Daniela, a girl in her late teens or early twenties is busy delivering food by bike. She doesn’t even stop. Disaster happening - bad. Getting a non-five-star rating would be even worse. However yesterday she was thinking it would be nice to be a mutant. Free everything, beaches, immortality. Today she is reminded of the downside. Still, she thinks, it was nice of the Eternals to tell them.
New York:Jada had raised her child to respect mutants, that they were all on the same side. And now her child is dead, and it turns out the mutants were always on their own side. But genocide? No, never. She looks around and sees the celebrating crowd. These aren’t her people either, she decides.
In Yokohama, the parents of Kenta, a preteen boy, are worried about a tidal wave hitting them. Kenta doesn’t care. Later he changes his name to Hexblaster on his favorite shooter. He gets kicked off for insensitivity and laughs.
Six people. They are all important. Everyone is important.
Above Krakoa, six giant Eternals called the Hex are about to attack. Exodus and Jean Grey are in the sky to defend the island. “Avaunt, Eternal beast!” Exodus shouts. Jean sends that she doesn’t think it is going to listen. Exodus retorts that it is only right to issue a challenge before a duel. He is not a barbarian. En garde! he shouts as he attacks one Hex member with all his might.
Jean sends to her husband Cyclops that their resident religious nut powerhouse got one off the island. How is it going? Cyclops is in battle with another Hex member alongside other X-Men on the ground. He replies, badly. He should have written protocols for a skyscraper-sized centaur that generates its own attack fauna. Why does he always miss the obvious things? They need a hand!
That moment, the Avengers drop in on the island and Captain America asks how they can help.
Still battling in the sky, Exodus sends to tell the Avengers to leave. They do not need a people untouched by the grace of God! Interesting take, but the War Captains are in charge, is Jean’s diplomatic reply. She addresses one of them, Magik, who states, if the Avengers want to help kill those bastards, the more the merrier. Jean tells Exodus if he wants to assemble the Quiet Council and have a vote on this, he is welcome to, until then the Avengers are welcome on Krakoa.
Cyclops grabs Cap’s hand and welcomes them aboard. Things look bleak, he warns. Cap retorts that they have both seen bleaker. They’ll get through this. And the whole world will see them stand together. Plus, Iron Man’s working on a peaceful solution.
Avengers Mountain:Iron Man is working together with Eternal priests Ajak and Makkari, as well as an imprisoned Mr. Sinister. Iron Man summarizes. The plan is they have hours to reanimate a space god and tell it to order his grumpy kids to quit it. He guesses he’d have to be some kind of super genius to pull this off. Reed is going to be as green as Bruce when they do this. Ajak replies she has plans, but they also need luck and a penitent who has transgressed against the Celestials and stolen knowledge from the gods.
Penance, Mr. Sinister repeats smirking. Now he understands why they have kidnapped him. He feels so responsible and guilty. Of course, he’ll help. It’s his planet too – literally, it is his planet and they are all cockroaches. Where shall they start? With a prayer to the underlying fundaments of reality, Ajak replies strictly. This is a holy task. Sinister scoffs in disgust.
Krakoa:Captain America asks Cyclops what the objectives are. Cyclops explains that most mutants are noncombatants. They get them to the defensive vaults. The Eternals are also trying to destroy their method of resurrection. If they take that down, they win. He asks the Avengers to stop the Hex and help get people to safety. The mutants will protect resurrection. On it, Cap promises, but still keeping secrets? After everything they’ve been through, he wishes the X-Men had told them. After everything, Cyclops replies, how could they?
In the sky, Captain Marvel, Echo, Thor, Storm, Starbrand, Banshee and other flyers are fighting a Hex that is intangible half of the time. Jean Grey alerts them that, with the help of Namor, they’ve immobilized the fiery minotaur at the bottom of the sea. It’s ready for a coup de grace. Captain Marvel and Starbrand do the job, attacking it just as Namor is about to spear the Hex with his trident. Angrily, he complains while Jean congratulates them for weakening its armor. However, the next moment she senses cries for help from the Philippines. Their actions have caused tidal waves and earthquakes. Thousands are going to die! Philippines, Papua, New Guinea. Tsunamis heading toward the east coast of the USA, Australia Japan!
Cyclops tells Cap to go help. If the Avengers deal with the fallout, that is one less problem for the mutants. Cap thanks him. They are heroes. One day the world will see that as well.
As the Avengers leave, Exodus telepathically tells the Council that it is good to have a reminder; they are abandoning them. Nightcrawler protests that is unfair. Destiny corrects him it is accurate. She sees the future and she remembers the past. They stand alone, they always did.
The unknown narrator wonders if that is true, then continues that elsewhere others strive to make him stand.
Near London:Arishem the Judge, first of the Celestials, crashed here. Its thumb signature, the thumbprint of justice, is harvested by Iron Man.
In San Francisco once stood the Dreaming Celestial, promising a new age of Eternals. It was here that it was subverted by Sinister and finally detonated. Sinister has since abandoned Celestial science, considering it too unreliable, but he still knows enough to sift through the debris and find a shattered fragment of the heart of a dream.
Odin once planned for a war against the Celestials. The Destroyer was his weapon created to stand against the impossible power of the star gods. It failed utterly and was torn asunder long, long ago. It speaks to Odin’s gifs that it was not an easy task, even for them. Makkari harvests the tiny remaining fragment of that power.
Sersi is freed and gathers the Eternals who stand against Druig. Science smith Phastos starts assembling their new god. The rest explore the depths of Lemuria. The city of the Deviants has faced Celestial wrath more than any other. In the haunted abyss, they perform a séance and gather testimony from the slaughtered Deviants. It’s not just love that makes a Celestial heart beat. That’s why they know it is not just enough to make it live. They want a better god. They argue. They write scripture. The narrator muses they are entirely successful. It is a god in their image.
Tony Stark has been literally possessed by the Power Cosmic. He piloted a dead Celestial when a king wreathed in black ruled the Earth. His body still remembers. He will be a blueprint for its nervous system. Like Hank and Ultron, Tony says and laughs.
Elsewhere, the mutants have finally managed to breach the one Hex’s armor at the cost of several lives. Exodus can sense her thoughts now. She is called Syne. What is the other Hex doing? Jean senses they are all sisters. The other is called Phebe Reginax and she is healing her sister. Exodus smirks considering this good news. If they live, they can be killed and they can be sent to hell. Exodus flings himself into the breach in Syne’s armor with all his telekinetic energy. As he tears at Syne’s internal essence, there is a final moment in which he hears Syne’s voice, and she says: “Please don’t.” But then Eternal and mutant are both gone in a detonation.
On the shores of Krakoa, the mutants celebrate. One down, five to go, Nightcrawler observes. Hope, that’s what they need. Being entirely too literal, Cyclops assures him Hope is secure.
The Five resurrect the mutants who died in the battle, Exodus, Psylocke and the others. In the meantime, the Machine that is Earth revives Syne the Memotaur. Exodus is uploaded with his last backup. He doesn’t remember the last moment of communication. Syne does.
The narrator watches the six humans.Tom watches the news about the battle on Krakoa. He turns to his wife and says, it is all the mutants’ fault. “We’re showing them.” His wife asks who died and made him an Eternal and he laughs.Katrina is still tweeting.Arjun falls to the street, dead before he hits the ground. His life force has been taken by the Machine to resurrect Syne the Memotaur. This is the Eternals’ secret. A life randomly taken to make them live again. Nobody else knows.
Daniela is working her third job as a waitress. She almost forgets the war until a tremor hits. She comforts the customers and hopes for a better tip. She does not linger on the cosmic apocalypse elsewhere. Who has time?
Jada sees people with newly painted anti-mutant signs heading to the protests. The mutants may have escaped death, but to see that and scream for more death? Jada doesn’t want equally shared misery for all but doesn’t know what she wants.
Kenta gets a blurred shot of Captain Marvel fighting a tidal wave with his phone. He doesn’t think of death or life. He just lives. And several beings of science and faith hope that he will too. Phastos’ part of the work is ready. Iron Man asks if they are sure about this. The Celestials have been kinda… testy. Ajak corrects him they have been genocidal monsters, cruel and distant, unknowable. Stark snarks that she is one of the Eternals who is bad at subtext, right? Ajak replies she refuses to make jokes at times like this. She is saying that she knows the most important part was the soul. They have made a god who is more like them. The scripture is key. Whatever the god is, it will be the word made flesh.
Sinister sulks he still doesn’t see why he couldn’t add some words in the margins. Can he at least press the on button? Ajak sternly tells him the first chapter of their story will not suffer his vile touch. Stark adds that now that he understands what Sinister did to the Dreaming Celestial, the bad blood is absolutely justified. What was he thinking? Sinister calls him a spoilsport. His dad was much more chill. Sorry, he means his adoptive dad. However, if they’ve finished the ever-popular game of monstering the mutant, can they move on? His people are dying. Boohoo etcetera, etcetera.
On Krakoa, the X-Men are still battling the Hex Eternals. Cyclops telepathically informs Jean Grey that the vaults are secured, plus the X-Men have infiltrated the Eternals’ armories and damaged the Hex’s weapon supplies. They should be running down soon. The big green one’s combat fauna is messing with them. The gates aren’t operational.
That moment, an Eternal Gate opens and the resurrected Syne returns to continue the work of bringing the island down. The mutants find they can’t move quickly enough to evacuate everybody. If they move to stop Syne, the other Hex are free to hit the Vaults or Arbor Magna. They don’t know what to do. Nightcrawler prays to God and a god answers. The Progenitor is brought online. The first thing he does is ordering Syne to cease. As the Principles demand, Syne replies and obeys. The Hex leave Krakoa.
Stark announces their plan worked. Ajak smiles. They have their god and their god is just. However, then the Progenitor addresses all people on Earth. He calls them bickering children. The planet is ruined. They have acted with unrelenting unkindness to each other. They leave him no option - this is their judgment day. They have twenty-four hours to justify themselves. They will be judged individually. They will be judged as a collective. If there is more that is just than wicked, they will live. But if they are found lacking, there will be no tomorrow…


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The North Pole:A group of heroes has raised a new Celestial, the Progenitor, in the hope of having a gentler god who would end the Eternals’ war on mutants. While the Progenitor did that, he then announced his decision to judge everyone on Earth.
Ajak wonders whether this is a test too. To judge people individually and then let the tally decide the world’s fate? To drag the good down with the sinners? Their god would not be so unjust. Makkari touches her shoulder and signs her reply. Is she sure?
Ajak admits Makkari might be right. Their gods have been unjust before. Maybe they shouldn’t have used a failing human as an element. Said failing human – Tony Stark – shouts they can’t blame him for this. Only he can blame himself for this. More pragmatic, Captain America states, blame can wait. They made this mess. How do they clean it up?
The Progenitor identifies Captain America as the leader. He judges him first. He appears to Cap as an idealized version of himself and announces: He is a dream of a better country. He has been trying to inspire it for a century. This country is the world’s leader… and the world is what it is. It is worse every day. He is a failure. He moves his thumb downward.
Iron Man wonders, if it judges Cap by that standard, what chance do the rest of them have? Cap replies they are not going to play its game. Not unless there is no other option. He tells Tony to try and find a way out of this. He’ll keep the world calm.
Tom listens to Cap’s broadcast at the local pub. He nods along: Good guy for a yank. A bit soft, but a bit tough too. Someone harder than Tom asks if they are going to be punished for what the mutants have been up to. Britain doesn’t even recognize them! Tom nods along: the harder guy in the bar is saying what everyone is thinking.
Katrina misses Cap’s broadcast. She watches the highlights later. Earlier, after listening to the Progenitor’s words, she hurried to post an “okay, now cancel culture is real” joke. Disappointing numbers. She hoped for more distraction. Instead, she sits sleepless with anxiety.
Komali, Arjun’s widow, sees his body. In the moment, she carries her loss with all the dignity she can. Later, she will howl. She howled when he talked of judgment day. For her, it was already the end of the world. She cursed the Progenitor with all her heart; he watched interested.
Daniela is told about the Avengers’ struggle and has a moment of empathy. Being a superhero must be like working a half dozen jobs. It never ends. Her mother messages her and tells her to get home. She thinks it may get nasty. Sure, Daniela messages back, lying. A girl has to work.
Jada sits on her sofa, watching. She wishes she could believe the man in the flag. He seems sincere, but she knows sincerity and reality are rarely close friends.
Kenta tried to use the end of the world as an excuse to avoid homework. His father tells him if they are all being judged, perhaps Kenta will be judged on his homework. Does Kenta want to help destroy the world because he couldn’t face Algebra? Kenta says he’ll take the chance. His father laughs. His smile disappears when he leaves the room. He judges himself. What kind of father can’t protect his family?
In the Exclusion, Druig is once again talking to his imprisoned grandfather. Uranos the Undying is amused: that new god is better than their old Celestials. This is a world of failure and disappointments. It should be swept away. Druig peevishly replies the world hasn’t failed its test yet. Now he shouldn’t take Druig’s asking his advice as a sign that things are going badly. He thought it might be good using his institutional knowledge. He had Jack of Knives observing the Avengers and report back. He will ‘port the intel over.
Uranos decides that the Celestial judged Captain America a failure for not fulfilling his aims and duty. He adds that the Eternals have failed their duty. It is not too late to make amends. Any deviation is excess deviation! he insists.
Surprisingly, Druig agrees, then telepathically contacts the other Eternals and gives orders to prepare the Hex once more and renew the psychic siege against the mutants.
Uranos orders him to let him out if he is serious. Druig tells his grandfather that things would have to be considerably worse than now for him to get into arm’s reach of Uranos.
In a station at the North Pole:Phastos informs the others that their society is marching to war again. Krakoa will be under attack again soon; they must hurry. He asks Iron Man what he has found. Showing a hologram of the Progenitor, Stark explains they have found something. They can hit a certain internal node hard enough and the whole thing falls apart. Ajak protests they cannot turn it off. It is their god! They can’t treat it like a science experiment gone awry. They must try to understand it.
Phastos muses its death would also cause a backlash to the Eternals. The war could be over but… he turns to Stark and tells him to follow the system. It could cause a cascade. On its first day of life, a Celestial has unimaginable power. They’d be risking an explosion. It could hit Reykjavik. From here.
Ajak and Makkari turn to leave. Ajak tells them to find another way. Stark announces, that’s off the table for a dozen reasons. Let’s move on… There’s times he envies Cap for getting hitting-things-and-making-speeches duty.
Phastos changes his tune. With the priests gone, he thinks that, if they can find a way to do it safely, they should do it. Ajak and Makkari are believers. He thinks the Eternals should make a sacrifice for the others. This is their fault, and the world has outgrown them. However, they should know, if they do follow the plan, the Eternals will try to stop them. Their principles force them to. If they plan to do it… do it safely and do it secretly.
Sinister, who has been silent so far, enthuses that he loves secrets. Make it safe and make it get the hell off the stage - got it. Telepathically, he contacts Destiny. He gives her the information and tells her to time it right.
Krakoa:The island is again under attack. In the Quiet Council, Xavier is killed, overwhelmed by the telepathic siege. Emma Frost tells Hope Summers they need another Xavier. Destiny joins them and announces they need a council meeting. An opportunity presents itself. Emma is in a bad mood from handling the relentless psychic attack but agrees. She calls the council members together telepathically. Emma tells her to make it quick. Exodus agrees. He has to fight both the psychic siege and the Hex monsters.
Destiny quickly summarizes the message. Sinister has been in contact. He was kidnapped by the Eternals and helped make the new Celestial. He has discovered a weakness. If they attack it, they can destroy it and end this judgment day. Its loss would paralyze the Eternals. The war would be over but there’s a risk that it could cause considerable devastation. She has looked into the future; it will not happen. She warns them they have to act swiftly or the Eternals will block them. She calls for an immediate vote.
Kate Pryde protests that Xavier is dead and Storm is on Mars. She is cheating! She accuses a seer of planning? How shocking, Destiny snarks. She has been planning around the weakness of her fellow mutants for over a century. She doesn’t see why she should stop now.
They vote. In favor of the plan: Destiny, Shaw, Mystique, Exodus, Hope. Against: Colossus, Nightcrawler, Kate. The White Queen abstains. The motion passes.
Really? Nightcrawler angrily asks Hope, who retorts that if you get a headshot you use the opportunity. This is all about measured risks. Emma informs them that the War Captains will assemble a force and be briefed. They should know what the dangers are. Destiny disagrees. She reminds them Jean and Scott left this circle due to moral quibbles. They chose to be implements of policy, while they are the Quiet Council. Emma can dress in white all she wishes, but the blood is on their hands.
Exodus opines that Summers risked the Earth with the Phoenix to rebirth their species. He does not see the difference between this and that. Once more, let them save the world. Humans can share in the danger for once.
Kurt sensibly asks if they can even send away a strike force. If they send away their best, the Eternals will overwhelm them. Emma announces she also has a little secret: She has been making a few diplomatic overtures herself.
Elsewhere on Krakoa, Cyclops shouts the gates are opening on their own! How did the Eternals…
A horde of unique beings step through. Not the Eternals, their leader Kro replies. Almost quite the opposite, in fact. They are the Deviants and here to stand with their brethren against their Eternal oppressors. Cyclops points out mutants are not Deviants. Kro retorts that they could use the mutants’ gates. They share enough genes for that. But to be honest, anyone on the wrong end of an Eternal’s theurgic lance is Deviant enough, as far as he is concerned. He tells the X-Men to save the world while the Deviants will blunt Eternal blades with their numbers. They’ve been doing that for a long time.
Back at the North Pole, Captain America is calling the group there, telling them with the judgment day situation the situation on the streets is getting ugly. It’s only belief that the heroes will stop this that is keeping things from churning over. Anything from their side on shutting down the Celestial? No, at least not safely, Iron Man replies.
Ajak interjects that any method of shutting down their god is unacceptable. She is trying to communicate with it. She breaks off, realizing the divine boundary has been breached. Infiltrators! she hisses. Did Stark think they would just trust his technology? Never trust technology that’s less than 40,000 years old! An army of mutants is coming.
Stark asks Sinister if he knows anything about this. Sinister interrupts communication with the Avengers and presses a button. Oops? he replies sheepishly.
Phastos explains he has opened the way to the node. They are coming for that. Stark shouts at Sinister that millions could die. But billions will live, is the reply. They won’t thank them, but they are mutants and used to that. They can say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ later. Well, maybe they can’t, he adds with a grin, as if it goes wrong, Stark will die while Sinister will resurrect… so toodles, maybe?
As the Principles engage, the three Eternals blindly obey the Principle “protect the Celestial.” They warn the X-Men outside.
Jean Grey sighs and tells the others they can drop Forge’s stealth tech. They’ve been made. Why couldn’t it be easy for once? Wolverine tells her to look on the bright side. They’ve got experience doing it the old-fashioned way. And the X-Men battle against the Eternals whether they are priests, renegades or others.
Jean sends a telepathic message, asking if someone can help her get past Ikaris. Exodus drops Ikaris and Jean flies toward the Celestial, specifically the vulnerable node, ignoring Iron Man who tries to stop her. She apologizes then telekinetically damages the node. Stark fatalistically tells her if this node goes, the whole Celestial might detonate. And the shock wave could hit cities. Jean is shocked. She didn’t know. She should have known, she berates herself. Is it going off? she asks as Stark examines the damage. He smiles in relief. He thinks it’s going to be all…
That’s when it detonates. Along with Iceland.
Except it doesn’t. Jean and all of them realize that the whole attack and its consequences happened in the Progenitor’s mind. She should have known, Jean states, forlorn. The Progenitor thinks she is one of the few who could have known the annihilation did not happen. It merely let everyone taste the experience. Elsewhere, people hug in relief. Some died of heart attacks.
As it feels the world does not understand, the Progenitor explains, talking to all sentient beings: Their heroes think themselves gods beyond judgment. Now they see they are mistaken. “Your day ticks away. Justify yourselves!”
People are judged individually. On Krakoa, Emma Frost gets a thumbs down, whereas Deviant leader Kro passes. Destiny and Mystique both fail. Others it will consider longer.
Jean berates Mr. Sinister telepathically. He knew about the risk! she shouts. He retorts that, firstly, this is a very melodramatic projection. And, secondly, she would have known, had she stayed on the Council. He doesn’t know what the big fellow thinks of her, but she gets a big thumbs down and a raspberry from him! Now excuse him, the grown-ups are still working. He breaks off contact.
He refers to the fact that Makkari and Phastos both have to keep Ajak from killing him. He shrugs that it was worth a try. What’s next? Stark glumly replies it’s clear what’s next. It’s going to judge them all and there is nothing they can do about it. Cap, who is with them via holographic projection, replies there is. They make sure they pass. This will have scared a lot of people. They are going to do things they will regret, but the only way they get out of this is with the whole world pulling together. This gives Sersi an idea.
A little later, she and fellow Eternal, Jack of Knives, are breaking into the Exclusion. She thanks Jack for joining them. Jack corrects her; they are not joining - this is a job. They get paid. They’ll get Sersi’s target out, they promise. Luckily, he is low security. Ur-Luciva is a hellish guard but she doesn’t really care about this one.
Who’s there? someone from within the cell asks. Sersi tells him to hush. They are going to break him out. They are in terrible trouble and she thinks he can help. Someone to get the world to sing from the same hymn sheet. Now this is Eternals business, but some of them have never been just Eternals. She thought perhaps it’s time for a little of the “Avengers, Assemble,” Starfox, she suggests, as the cell door swings open. The inmate smiles languidly. He loves the idea. The world will have to realize all you need is love! Eros of Titan aka Starfox enthuses.


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People are rioting and panicking as the Progenitor watches and tests them. In New York, Captain America stands in front of the X-Men’s treehouse and tries to calm a rioting crowd. He already failed his test and prays others do not do likewise. So, he tries to stop people from bludgeoning each other to death. He promises they are going to survive this, trying to not let any doubt show on his face.
The Progenitor observes Captain America fight on. He needs the world to be a fundamentally good place. They will see the world may think differently. Several rioters try to tear Cap down.
Avengers Mountain, the North Pole:Sersi has brought the freed Eros aka Starfox with her and explains her plan to the others. Eros is an emotional manipulator who has been desperately underperforming. His parents made him to be the equal and opposite of Thanos. He can connect to the Machine. They broadcast love and peace to the world. They come together in an Age of Aquarius and fake being better for just long enough to pass the test.
To her surprise, Eros refuses. If he uses his abilities like this, he will fail the test. They all will. If they can’t pass this test, they deserve to fail. If they don’t believe love can win, what’s the point? Sersi snaps back that this is not a game. The stakes are too high. He needs to take this seriously! Eros replies that he is. When he was killed and trapped in the Exclusion, he had time to think. Time to watch. He’s got ideas. And they are wasting time.
The Progenitor silently watches and agrees. He watches all over the world.
On his way home, angry at the world, Tom passes two other angry men, who beat him up because they think he looks Eastern-European. Tom spits out a tooth and fails to see the irony. He fails.
As mayor of New York, Luke Cage is talking to the press. Posing as a journalist, the Progenitor asks him how he judges his performance. Luke tells him to ask him tomorrow, before he returns to the streets. This is not an option. He fails by default.
Thor fights the Themex (one of the Hex) in orbit. The Progenitor reads the inscription on his hammer and ascertains a truth: by definition, Thor must be worthy. He passes.
Eros meets with Sebastian Shaw of the mutants and talks philosophy, and single malts and hard-nosed business. And he listens.
The Progenitor appears before Kamala Khan as Captain Marvel, offering her and her family a chance to leave the planet, escape and join the secret higher league of heroes. She pummels him and demands what he did with the real Carol. She passes.
Katrina leaves her hotel room on the way to a rally. She is fifty meters down the corridor when she realizes she forgot a tip. She looks at the distance back, knows she is late and carries on. He appears to her in the form of her dead aunt, thumb down. She is horrified. Charles Xavier fights Eternals in psychic battles. The Progenitor pretends to be his son Legion and sends a message that he needs to talk. Xavier replies later, he is busy, and returns to work. He doesn’t even notice that he fails.
The Progenitor appears at the foot of the bed Komali shared with Arjun and watches her weep. He leaves fearing she would judge him.
Eros meets with heads of state, among them the Black Panther. He talks about whatever they wish to talk about. And he listens.
The Progenitor tests the Starbrand by having her fight a Dungeon Lord. She passes.
After watching Captain America speak, Daniela leaves her jobs and returns to her mother. She passes.
The Progenitor appears to Dr. Doom and gives him a simple challenge: Say that Reed Richards is smarter than him and he will pass. Doom laughs, turns and leaves. He passes himself. The Progenitor concurs.
Jada watches Captain America speak. She hears the crowd chanting “Death to the mutants” and knows in her heart that they are really chanting: “death to ourselves.” She despairs. She understands. She passes.
The Progenitor considers Daredevil, a man with a moral code which he has violated time and time over. The Progenitor appears to him with a crown of thorns and a down-turned thumb. Beneath his mask he weeps, says “I know,” yet carries on.
Eros is in in the rose garden of the White House, smelling the flowers. He listens. He empathizes. It is the other half of his powers. He finds common ground. He has already judged himself a failure and fights to make it not so. The Progenitor is interested to see whether it is too late.
Miles Morales is in a battle. He turns around to see the Progenitor as Peter Parker, who gives him a thumbs up. He gives him one back.
Kenta is still not doing his homework and is gaming instead. The Progenitor withholds judgment. Kenta is too young. It is no monster. Let them hope for Kenta’s sake that the adults secure a future for him.
Eros speaks at the United Nations. If they remember him from his Avengers days, they’ll know he is a hedonist. He wants them to think about hedonism in a different way. Hedonism is about loving life, whatever that means to you. They will survive because they love life. They have a choice today: They can choose life over death. They’ve seen the plans they have pulled together. Making a better world isn’t easy but they have to start somewhere. Mutants offered some technology before. Now they offer more. And that’s not all of it. They’ve seen Eternals technology at its worst. Imagine it at its best! If they agree to this package of human rights and environmental concerns, they can have access to certain Celestial tech… the Eternals will help them build a paradise. A world where all can love life as it deserves to be loved.
He leaves the stage to applause hard enough to make hands bleed. They are all desperate to believe.
Backstage, Sebastian Shaw is waiting for him and commends him for doing good work against a hard time limit. He thinks this may work. The plan will piss a lot of people off, but there is a lot of Celestial carrot. However, he has to wonder, does Eros really speak for the Eternals?
Meeting back with Stark, Sersi, Ajak, Makkari and Mr. Sinister, Eros unhappily agrees. They have to do something about his dear cousin, Druig. He’s ruining the “let’s get together and love one another” vibe. Stark hates to be the American on the team, but can’t they just beat him up? He has a very punchable face. Sersi warns that it’s not so easy. All outsiders are banned from the Eternals’ cities and passageways. Their friendly Eternals would have to sabotage certain key circuits in the Great Machine to change that. Ajak interjects their best hope is to finish communing with the Celestial. This is all a test. Even the tests are a test! Sinister interrupts that is a Panglossian perspective. If they don’t do something, everything will go from awful to awfuller to awfullest!
Now he’s agreeing with the supervillain, Stark opines. If Ajak wants convincing, here is footage from Mars, he means Arakko. He shows footage of how Uranos and his armory rampaged on Arakko, culminating in Uranos’ tearing out Magneto’s heart. He is like the nuclear deterrent could pick a fight with you. What’s to stop Uranos from doing that on Earth?
Nothing whatsoever, Eros replies. Druig just isn’t desperate enough yet. He will be, Sersi predicts. Druig is paranoid, and rightly so. The Uni-mind selected him as a compromise candidate. Mos of the Eternals have no real loyalty and are just following the Principles. Their best hope is that he makes a mistake they can use before he makes a mistake that none of them will survive!
In the Exclusion in front of Uranos’ cell, Druig rants that, if they had more than one day, they’d wear them down. It has yet to turn up to judge him. It’s waiting to see what he does, yes? A final play… but what? He has had loyalists suggest ideas… messages saying they are worried his rule will fail. He should unleash the Uni-mind once more. The mutants are weaker now, they are mortal and they tire. Bring everyone into the Uni-mind including the Hex.
Uranos observes, then he could unleash one of the Uni-mind’s war forms. It has merit. The Uni-mind is the most fundamental of their people’s weapons, but as an alternative? Uranos grins. He is still here waiting. Druig refuses.
Druig calls all Eternals and a more formidable Uni-mind attacks Krakoa. But Sinister has brought some friends to Krakoa, namely Sersi, Thena, Kingo, Phastos and Eros. They merge with the Uni-mind.
Inside, Druig welcomes them asking if doomsday has addled their brains. Do they mean to make it easier for him to scrub their brains? Or have they finally seen sense and joined the winners? He is willing to forgive and forget. Forget by mindwiping them but, still, come aboard. Join them!
Sersi asks if he really thought he had loyalists. It was them messaging him to form the Uni-mind. After all, it is not just a weapon. It’s also their democracy. They call for a vote on Prime Eternal.
Druig scoffs that they can’t win; he still has the numbers. Sersi contacts Ikaris and Gilgamesh, who are deep inside the Machine, disabling the Uni-mind’s firewalls. Once that happens, all mutant telepaths enter the Uni-mind. Led by Jean Grey, they vote for Eros.
Druig realizes he is going to lose. Telepathically, Uranos tells him there is only one way to win - Uranos is one of the patriarchs of the Eternals. If he is in the Uni-mind, he controls the votes of his line. His psychic power is enough to tilt the scales, even against these mutants. He urges his grandson to unleash him. They can win together. Druig desperately scrambles for some fail-safes. But as Uranos brutally reminds him, there is no “safe” for him. Uranos is his only chance.
Druig gives the order to release him, then pleads for his help. But, free once more, Uranos informs him he would only help, if Druig weren’t such a crushing failure. He now walks into Olympia, announcing Druig released the master of the world, and he can finally sweep away the dust…
The others are unaware of what has transpired. The mutants win, Druig is expelled from the Uni-mind and Eros is Prime Eternal.
Exodus takes the chance to beat up Druig. But then teleportation portals open in the air and, from the armories in the heart of the Earth, Uranos releases hellish weapons all over the world. And Druig admits he may have made a mistake.
The Eternals find that Uranos has sealed the Machine. They cannot get in and Ikaris and Gilgamesh cannot get out. Nightcrawler asks if they can fight him, but Sersi realistically fears that there is not a force on Earth that can touch him.
In the meantime, back-up from Mars / Arakko – namely Magneto and Storm – has arrived. Tony Stark explains to them they cannot use the portals which are spewing weaponry but they can use the one he opened here. They have left traces in time and space. He thinks he can force them open and get straight to him. He’s going to need an electromagnetic charge like they won’t believe, but he thinks they can handle that.
The doorway opens and Storm and Magneto take a step between worlds.
Mildly interested, Uranos asks Magneto, isn’t he dead yet. His foes always thought him heartless, Magneto retorts. Uranos merely made that literal.
Powered by Storm, Magneto attacks keeping him busy for the minutes needed for Stark to hack into Uranos’ portals. Magneto takes control and has Uranos’ own weapons take him out.
With that done, Magneto sinks down, dying, not calling out for Xavier to save him as the Progenitor expects. A crying Storm cradles him. The Progenitor appears to him as his lost daughter Anya, smiling and waving approvingly. And Magneto smiles.
The Progenitor thinks, if all men were like him, there would be no need for men like him.
He then witnesses Ikaris and Sersi talking, while Sersi is doing some healing work. Ikaris informs her Uranos is back to his cell, telekinetically repairing himself. The mutants wanted to kill him, but Ikaris promised them it wouldn’t help. He’d return and there’d be… side effects. He whispers, best not another human die if they can help it. Still… he understands their rage. They owe these mutants much. Sersi agrees. The Progenitor appears to them. He passes Ikaris and fails Sersi.
Stark is shocked. Sersi made the plan that saved everyone and he gave her thumbs down? What has she done? Who can tell with those enigmatic cosmic beings? she replies breezily. Perhaps he preferred her when she wore green. Luckily, it’s not just about her. Let’s hope he sees the bigger picture.
Ajak instructs new Prime Eternal Eros to speak to the Progenitor from the heart. It will hear him. Eros addresses the Celestial. He is like everybody else. He spent years wasting his potential until the Progenitor woke them all up. They’ve had a day to try and justify themselves. “Try” is the word. There are still problems. People are still fighting, disagreeing over what “right” means. But look at what they’ve done. Peace and plans for a better future for everyone. The mutants made the red planet habitable in a day from nothing… but it is harder to repair. They can make this world a heaven, but they need more than a day to do it. It is not too late, unless he makes it too late. It’s all in his hand. With a smile, Eros proffers his hand.
Hope turns to horror, as the Progenitor turns his thumb down. He decides that even if they had a million years, it wouldn’t be enough. They will always be better tomorrow.
Fire rains from the sky. And in Manhattan, Captain America is horrified as he watches the people around him die.


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The Progenitor has just passed its judgment on Earth. They have failed. Now only the sentence must be fulfilled.
At the North Pole, the Progenitor speaks to the world and orders it to end.
Tom hears the sky burn. He turns to his family and, full of self-pity, asks what did he do to deserve this? His son decides it’s time to tell him who he is. Tom had no idea.
Katrina thinks of her own judgment. What did she do? She decides it’s a narcissistic dead end and it doesn’t matter what she did. It matters what she does. She heads to the burning streets and tries to help.
Komali looks outside and waits.
Daniela spends the time she still has with her mother.
In Manhattan, Jada looks at a man in a flag at a field of bones. She was right and he was wrong. She wishes so very badly that she had been wrong.
Kenta has realized this is real and is scared. For that, the Progenitor is sorry. The adults built a world for him to live in. They built a world for him to die in, too.
New York:
Jada walks up to Captain America, who sits there dejectedly and hands him one of her two coffees. She’s sorry, she tells him. So is he. All his life he thought that he could inspire people to make a difference. That this world could be better. He thought they could pass. He really did.
Jada replies that she knew they would fail, but she appreciates that he tried. They both introduce themselves and drink the coffee as the skies burn. Cap asks if she has any family. She should be with them. She explains she lost her daughter. She’s been distanced from everyone since. It’s hard. She’s angry with them just for existing. He suggests she could still go. Maybe it’s not too late.
Jada points out he is still trying to inspire; he can’t help himself. It is a bad habit, he admits. Jada corrects him, it is a good habit in a bad world. And the idea that maybe it is not a bad world… and if it is, maybe it doesn’t have to be? On a bad day, in this bad world, that’s about all that gets her up.
Suddenly, Nightcrawler appears in the tree above them. He tells Cap he’s saving the world that hates, fears and now judges him. He thinks everyone should see Cap give this false god a piece of his mind. Interested?
Cap agrees and thanks Jada. He gives Nightcrawler his hand and asks if he can teleport them all the way to the North pole. After the day he had? Kurt asks mockingly. The strain could kill him. Does he think he is some kind of superhero?
Several jumps later, they are at the North pole. Kurt explains the professor is linking this to everyone.
The Progenitor wonders why the mutant psychics are allowing everyone in the world to see this. It just shows how doomed they are.
Captain America stands before him. He has faced up to tyrants before. They were all as sure as the Progenitor. Back in 1940, people thought the war over. Heroism isn’t about strength, it’s about not giving in. It’s not over as long as any of them are still standing. The world can hear him. They are all Avengers now! Assemble and Avenge!
The Progenitor kills him and Nightcrawler with a blast.
Krakoa:
Nightcrawler awakes from resurrection. He asks Jean Grey how it went. She scans the world. Just what the world needed. There is a bit more calm… and the anger is directed. Get him another egg, Nightcrawler orders the Five. He’ll likely be back shortly. Wolverine asks if he is okay. Absolutely not, Nightcrawler grins. This parody of a god wants to cast them into the fires. He rejects it. He rejects this. But if they have hours to live, they are going to live them. They are going to love and live and fight. If the Spark is about anything, it’s about raging against the dying of the light. The Spark will burn, he promises.
The Quiet Council meets alongside several X-Men, Iron Man, Starfox and Sersi. Xavier announces they have had messages of support and commitment from many world leaders to their plan, but what is their plan? he asks the war captains.
Cyclops figures the best plan is to try again and hit the vulnerable node inside the Progenitor and evacuate the cities that could get caught in the fallout. Stark protests that was a trick from the creature. It is messing with them! Jean Grey corrects him that that weakness is real. That’s why they fell for it. It wasn’t a complete lie.
Okay, they got a target, Bishop muses. What can the Eternals bring to the party? Eros and Sersi explain that the problem is the Eternals cannot go against the First Principle “Protect Celestials.” They can be of no use in a direct attack on a Celestial. Then they are no use, full stop. Bishop announces. The Eternals continue that all their friends have turned off their psychic firewalls. It would be terrible if someone took them over and made them punch their god in the face.
That sounds fun, Magik announces and asks Destiny what their chances are. This is their only chance, the precog announces. With certain modifications.
So, the mutants, Eternals and heroes all attack a stargod. The ballistics distract it, allowing the Hex to get close, each one controlled by a Stepford Cuckoo and one by Emma Frost. Their attack leads to a counterattack, leaving the Progenitor open for a riposte. Patiently it waits, for the hammer is yet to come…
Earth mightiest – Captain Marvel, Phoenix, Starbrand, Ikaris, Exodus, Jean Grey and Namor, - strike as one to expose their target. They are followed by Thor.
The Progenitor is impressed, but it has already rendered its judgment. What god would it be if it vacillated? It burns Thor first. It figures, Thor may be worthy, but the world is not. It kills the other heroes that attacked, trying to use a different method with each. It kills the Hex and the backlash burns out the Stepford Cuckoos. It makes Cyclops vulnerable to his own optic blast, it kills Captain Marvel with cancer like her predecessor.
Iron Man gives the order to get the hell out of there.
The Progenitor thinks that it has been cruel to let them come so close to victory. But it is the god they made and it has much work to do.
The Progenitor begins burning cities and seas. A spaceship with billionaires tries to flee. It too is destroyed.
It destroys the Eternals’ cradle and it destroys Krakoa. And with all this done, it turns to the planet itself. It has ordered the world to end. The Machine that is Earth said no. The Progenitor will trash it into obedience.
Some of the survivors - Eros, Sersi, Phastos, Iron Man and Nightcrawler - are gathered in a building. Nightcrawler summarizes that Destiny was right. As long as they left certain people (such as Mystique, Destiny and Egg) on Krakoa, the Celestial presumed it got them all and they could evacuate the rest. But they only got a handful of eggs. They need to choose carefully.
They need to choose quickly, Phastos replies. The Progenitor is integrating with the Machine that is Earth. Even destroying the Resurrection Engines would be enough to make the world end eventually. This is just it trying to speed it up. It is efficient, he muses. It is the sort of thing he would do. It is his child after all. Stark admits it is ringing bells for him too. What the hell have they done?
It's not over yet, Kurt reminds them. They tried the big hammer approach (RIP, Thor). Now they try the scalpel.
They walk to the kitchen where the Five (sans Egg) are already resurrecting people. They need scientists and psychics and the rest… but they need to infiltrate. Kurt addresses Wolverine, who is just being resurrected and who admits that this is one thing he is not the best at. Jack of Knives is standing behind him, right? Jack drops their disguise and announces they are in, they’ve killed just about everything else. Let’s kill a god.
A little later, a small group is gathered, consisting of Jack of Knives, Sersi, Ajak, Makkari, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Mr. Sinister and Iron Man. Phastos explains to Jean he has granted her personalized firewall access, so she can control Ajak, Makkari and Sersi if the Principles start interfering with their actions. They are accessible to Jean alone. Spoilsport, Sinister mutters.
Any regrets? Wolverine asks Jack of Knives who admits to being sorry they nearly stabbed that resurrecting redheaded girl of theirs. Wolverine guesses a late apology is better than none, until Jack clarifies if they’d done the job right, the Eternals would have won the war and they wouldn’t be in this mess.
Jack activates their ghost field and teleports the group in close to the Progenitor. As they arrive, Jack curses. It knows they are here. They’ll be damned if their last mission is a failure, Jack decides. They order the group to get inside the Progenitor, while Jack will distract it. Really? Wolverine asks. Jack grins cockily. What did flag guy say? “Avenge me.” They like that. Stab it deep for them, he asks Wolverine. Jack calls out to the Celestial and gets blasted to atoms.
Jean sends that they are inside but they will have to fight every step of the way, so they need the others to buy them whatever time they can.
Back at the building:
The resurrected Exodus protests at what he considers heresy. They should return Cyclops instead. This is against all the rules of Krakoa, he protests. No, it’s against their customs, Nightcrawler corrects him. And customs are just rules that got too big for their boots. As long as they live, they try something new. That’s what they do. Cyclops is a great leader, but he is not who Earth needs right now.
The Five finish the resurrection process and a blue, white and red shield breaks through the egg, heralding Captain America’s rebirth.


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Sitting in front of the X-Men’s treehouse in Manhattan, Jada watches the end of the world taking place. Suddenly a doorway opens in space and Captain America offers a hand, ordering her to get in here now. She obeys. Cap explains the Eternals have opened their transport nodes all over Earth to evacuate the surviving humans. They can use their cities as shelter until they win this. It isn’t over yet, he promises.The Progenitor silently agrees and is frustrated.Tom sees the strange portal opening outside in the street. He stays inside, distrusting. He makes his family stay as well. The fire gives him just long enough to realize he made a mistake.Katrina sees the portal, then sees a burning building. She hears cries above the noise and makes a choice. After the fifth time, they beg her not to go back in. She doesn’t listen and she doesn’t make it out.As the building shakes and start to fall, Komali thinks of Arjun. It is a comfort.Daniela sees the portal and drags her mother with her inside. Jada walks though the Eternals’ city and sees a crying small boy - Kenta. Automatically, she tries to comfort him.Prime Eternal Eros, who gave the order to open the portal, mingles with the crowds. He sees Nightcrawler, who stands before a screen. Must be nice to have a fan club, Kurt remarks. Eros promises they’ll love him soon enough. There is enough love for everyone. He is a hero! The Eternal cities are now life rafts for humanity.He presumes delaying the Machine’s self-destruct is going equally well, because they are still alive. Nightcrawler replies Phastos’ resetting the Machine gave them time. His A.I… colleagues - he refers to Orchis - are at work cutting off every route through the Machine as the Progenitor tries to activate the self-destruct. They can keep the world intact for another twelve hours, hell, maybe a day. The infiltrators will have more time than they could have hoped for. Unless it changes tactics, remarks Captain America, who has joined them. It will change tactics, he predicts.The Progenitor silently agrees. It has much of Tony Stark in it. Like him, it believes in efficiency. It should be able to simply make the Earth explode. It is designed as such. Instead, the reality loom that lies at the heart of the Machine that is Earth is kept out of its reach. And it does not hear its orders. But where an engineer likes to be efficient, a god need not be. It parts the ground making its way toward the reality loom.In Olympia, Eros shouts, if it hits the reality loom, it’s all over. He admits he doesn’t know what to do. Nightcrawler sarcastically states this isn’t a situation they can hug out. They fight. Cap agrees. Every minute counts more than ever. Tony will need every second he can get to pull this off!In the body of the Progenitor, Iron Man orders the group to hurry. God knows what Cap is doing to keep them alive. They are getting close to its core node. Good! Jean announces as she swats an antibody away. She needs this hypocrite to burn!Mr. Sinister mock-whispers to Wolverine that Stark has become unbearable since he passed his test, and Jeannie has become unbearable since she failed. Why won’t the Celestial judge him? Wolverine warns him if he keeps talking, he will judge him right here.Makkari signs at Ajak that something has changed. Ajak telepathically explains to her and Sersi that, when they passed the last chamber, their god temporarily shut off the Protocols and resealed their psychic firewalls. The mutants cannot control them - they are free to act however they wish. This is terribly bad timing to get what they always wanted, Sersi mocks.Stark announces the core is in here. They see an empty chamber, within is a smaller version of the Progenitor controlling several globes that act as screens. Iron Man orders them to keep the antibodies from entering, while Makkari keeps Sinister from examining the Progenitor, who doesn’t seem to notice them, while they can see he is heading to the core of the planet, searching for the self-destruct.Jean creates psychic claws, believing her psychic totality will blow this sky high. She hopes the Five can still bring them back. She is about to attack. Over Sersi’s protest, Ajak grabs her cudgel and hits Jean in the back.Olympia:With the Progenitor about to break through, Eros gives the order to arm everybody who is willing to fight. The people give their best but the Progenitor nevertheless walks the distance to the reality loom. Captain America blocks its way, telling it that it is not too late to surrender. This is his last warning. The Progenitor booms he cannot stop it. Nope, but he can distract it, Cap replies, as Syne the Memotaur channeling Exodus’ powers as well attacks. They are effective, actually halting the Progenitor. Cap shouts to keep hammering it. Every second counts!Inside the Progenitor:Jean orders Ajak to get out of her way. Ajak scoffs that death is meaningless to her. If they survive, the mutants will all be returned. They will inherit the earth. But “humanity” dies today. Iron Man admits she is right. If they end this, all the billions who died are still dead. Maybe they can’t save everyone, Jean admits. Maybe they can, Iron Man replies. They have to at least try. What is the other option? Ajak replies, convince it that its judgment is flawed. This is still a test.The Progenitor silently wonders whether it is. It gathers more information with every moment, but the moments are running out. Syne falls, burned out by the mutant might channeled through her, so the Progenitor can return to its task. It is fascinated when Orchis now attack, Nimrod, Sentinels all their forces.Inside the Progenitor:Jean scoffs that they are down to hoping Orchis holds the line. Enough! Sinister! she orders telepathically and he shoots Ajak in the back. Jean gets ready to destroy the Progenitor. She doesn’t care about “maybe.” They have to save who they can, before they lose everybody.When she tries to attack the Progenitor, it easily hits her back and traps her in a force field. Of course, it is a test, it announces, which they failed. It was questioning itself, but it has learned that they do deserve to die. They remain creatures solely guided by self-interest. The mutants would kill it, as they have less stakes. Some of their number would cheer as loudly as the humans cheered their deaths. Those who hate mutants stand with them only because there is no other choice and the Eternals, even when free, prove they cannot change!Sersi swears then orders the Machine that is Earth to broadcast her. She addresses the humans of Earth and tells them of the cost of the Eternals’ immortality. Every time one of them dies, a human has to die to bring them back. They have used humans as fuel for a million years. They try to be angels, but they have a vampire’s heart. They do not choose to do this but they did choose not to tell humanity. She has lied and manipulated good-hearted people to keep this secret and she regrets that. She failed her test because she did so. She was a fool. She was wrong and must make amends. She shouldn’t have hidden from the judgment of humanity. By doing so, she enraged this beastly god. She should have accepted humanity’s judgment, not the Celestial’s.Intrigued the Progenitor listens.In Olympia, Captain America and Nightcrawler demand if this is true or a trick? Not a trick, which the best kind of trick, Eros replies. She’s telling the truth. Now, if they live, they live with it.The Progenitor listens to humanity’s thoughts, wishing for Sersi to die. Eternals have never died. Just as Sersi triumphantly tells the Celestial they can change, it fulfils humanity’s wish and kills her. For good.Tony Stark tells the Celestial Sersi was right. If Eternals can change, any of them can. The Progenitor replies that this proves nothing. It merely shows another way they deserve to die. Perhaps they do, a crying Ajak admits, but does it deserve to kill them? This is also a test for it. She wanted a better god. If it does this, it fails.Outside, the Progenitor is getting closer and closer to its destination.Inside, Sinister whispers to Jean that it has lost attention, as the forcefield around her dissolves. Stabby-stabby, quicky-quicky? he suggests. Jean turns away. She sees it now. The poor creature. She addresses the Progenitor: She killed plenty and it failed her for it. It said she could never come back from that. Whoever she was then, was out of control. The Progenitor is doing this with a cold heart. She touches its face. Once it is done, it is done, and it has to live with it. Can it?It replies that it doesn’t matter if it stops. Less than a billion are alive. It is over. Iron Man doesn’t accept that. He stresses the similarities between the two of them. It is him in a messed-up way. If he gets out of his depth, he tries to make amends. What can it do? Do that! Don’t do this. The Progenitor replies doing so could destroy it. That’s the deal, isn’t it? Tony agrees. He does it every day, every late night. If somebody who is as messed up as him can be a hero, despite all his #&%/, it can be too. In this world this is what being a hero is all about.The Progenitor recalls what it said before: What kind of god would it be if it vacillated? Perhaps not a god at all. But it is akin to a god in many other ways, as it begins to work. A god is omniscient - it remembers where everything was before it tore it apart. A god is omnipotent: It can put things back. If it were a god, its judgment would be flawless. As it restores things, giving its own lifepower, it considers that if it were omnipotent it would be without limits, which proves it is not a god. It can make mistakes. It must make amends. It puts things as they were before its judgment.Weakened, it tells Ajak it has given up everything to save everyone. Ajak is its maker - is it a worthy god? Tears in her eyes, Ajak looks away and moves her thumb downwards. It is not! The Progenitor agrees and asks her to be better before giving what is left of its power to her.The group of heroes finds itself outside at the North Pole. The Progenitor is again back to its dead state as the Avengers’ HQ. Tony announces he is getting signals from all over the world. They are back! Uranos’ damage is still there, the scars from the Eternals’ war with the mutants as well. But billions are breathing again. The damage the Progenitor wrought is gone!Mr. Sinister sulks aloud that the bastard didn’t even speak to him. Wolverine sits down in the snow, announcing he needs a drink. Tony is torn between wishing he could join him and not.Makkari, the only Eternal present, angrily gestures at Jean, demanding where Ajak and Sersi are.A transformed Ajak appears in the sky and explains the Progenitor removed its own judgment, not humanity’s. They wished Sersi dead, so she is. She is a martyr for their new church. She brought a chance of redemption for their fallen people. Ajak is now Ajak-Celestia. She tells Makkari she is their new god and will strive to be worthy of them if they strive to be worthy of her.The Progenitor is dead but its power is such that it still considers things as it did before it was created.It again watches the humans.Tom and his family live again. He remembers what his son said. Tom tries to find the right words. He is not very good at it. Still, a step.Katrina is greeted in the streets with cheers. They remember what she did when all was lost. She died for them. She feels more than a little smug. Forward is only one direction in which a step can be made. It hopes small steps do no erode the large.Komali feels alone in her mourning, then Syne appears, apologizes for stealing her husband’s life and departs. Komali imagines Arjun laughing at the absurdity. She smiles, then she cries. Grief is more than five steps. There is comfort in knowing Arjun will be with her for them.Daniela is back at her jobs. When she gets a message from her ,mom she replies more quickly than she would have in the past. A step need not sacrifice your existence to make the world a better place.Jada decides to stay in bed the day after Judgment Day. She gets a message that surprises her. Today, she decides the step out of bed is enough.Kenta tells stories to his parents about the strange place he went and the cool people he met. They have not told him they were dead. It is a comfort to know there are people who would look after their child if they were gone.People can be good. That’s a good thing to learn, even if it is not an easy thing to be.At the United Nations:Eros nudges Zuras to just do it. If he wants to be Prime Eternal again, he also needs to do the statesmanlike stuff. Zuras harumphes but then kneels down in front of Storm and Nightcrawler. Speaking for his people, he apologizes for the war and the atrocities committed. The Eternals offer a treaty of alliance and offer the people of Arakko the weapon that was used against them: Uranos for an hour to do with as they will.With the ceremony over, Eros explains to the mutants now they know why they cannot kill Uranos, and only they can keep him locked up.What about Druig? Storm asks. The Arakki have left the bones of their dead to lie until he buries every single one himself. That would be fitting, Zura considers, perhaps later, after his Eternal punishment.Said punishment consists of Druig being locked up. In Uranos’ cell.Uranos announces he saw what he can do with an hour. Let’s see what he can do with the next thousand years or so…Back at the United Nations:What about the Principles? Storm asks. How do they know the Eternals won’t go to war again? Zuras replies he has a more… conservative interpretation of the Principles. Mutants share some DNA with Deviants? It is of little matter. Until a mutant triggers their physiological excess deviation response, they are not deviant in any way that counts. They are just human. Mutant, Storm corrects. Unimpressed, Zuras teleports away without another word.Eros promises to teach him to be more diplomatic. They step outside where, for a change, anti-Eternals protesters are raging. Eros is somewhat helpless, as objects are thrown at them. He isn’t used to being hated or feared. And still they have to fulfill their duty. Nightcrawler shrugs. He’ll get used to it. Eros agrees. And the Eternals can’t even share their immortality, but this war happened because of those who are jealous of mutants’ immortality. Are they going to go ahead with their plan? Absolutely, Storm and Kurt assure him. Jean loved the idea. She even had the perfect name…Elsewhere, Jean explains, they cannot back up eight billion people. And it is still going to take a decade to return all the dead from mutant genocides. They have to bring back their own people. However, they also recognize they are a fortunate nation and as such have the duty to aid those who are not. In the spirit of foreign aid, she will personally scan those who are selected for back-up and recovery. The Phoenix Foundation is a body separate from Krakoa who will be selecting those who receive the gift. This will prioritize the vulnerable, the weak and those whom the world has abandoned.Jean and Scott are back at the treehouse. Five percent of the Five’s work, Jean summarizes. She hopes it is enough. Scott looking outside tells her, it’s good. As Shaw said: who can object to sick kids being prioritized? This is a win for the X-Men. He just wishes it wasn’t a win for Orchis too…Walking past the treehouse are people with Orchis merch.At the North pole, the Avengers are back to using the corpse of the Progenitor as their HQ. Iron Man considers it bad PR and weird to still be living in it. Thor on the other hand thinks it shows they have defeated it. It is a trophy. Starbrand agrees and suggests everyone getting matching tattoos. Nighthawk tells her no and Captain Marvel sighs if she got a tattoo every time she dealt with a cosmic threat, she’d look like she was playing drums in a ska-punk band.Iron Man and Captain America leave the table. Tony asks if he is okay. No, and they shouldn’t be, Cap replies. This was a wake-up call. They should all pay attention and a ct. Stark jokes he didn’t mean that. He meant him passing and Cap failing. That must be hard for him. Cap shoots back, Iron Man made the Celestial. It was based on him and it tried to destroy Earth. And he is taking his opinion as meaning anything? Let him have this one, Tony wheedles, then announces he is going to head to the pool in memory of Sersi. Care to join? But Cap already has a meeting lined up.He finds Jada sitting in some ruins and tells her he owed her a coffee. How is she doing? Worse and better. They drink the coffee in companionable silence. This doesn’t prove anything, she states. He agrees. It isn’t a good world, but you never know.Remember, “you did not pass,” are the Progenitor’ last words. It was not worthy of judging anyone. Ajak will work to become a god worthy of the name. While her heretical followers have an endless, thankless penance to serve humanity, she will not make its mistake. One cannot judge a species in a single day. Judgment is ongoing. Humanity’s mistakes are cumulative. They should remember every day, perhaps this is the day the species goes too far and the world is doomed. Act accordingly. Every day is Judgment Day.Ajak stretches out her arm. It is unclear in which direction her thumb will move…