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Story 1: Captain Marvel: FarewellWriter: Brian Reed, Artist: Lee Weeks, Colourist: Matt Milla, Letterer: Cory PetitPreviously:-In Civil War: The Return the original Kree Captain Marvel was apparently pulled forward through time from before his death. Iron Man asked him to stay hidden as Warden of the Civil War Negative Zone prison, actually to keep him safe so that he could eventually be returned to his own destiny. That all ended when the prison was breached in CW#7.He went into hiding until after World War Hulk, then chose to become active in his own 5-issue series. But Tony Stark asked him to keep a low profile again, and appointed SHIELD Agent Heather Sante as his handler. Then he was attacked by Skrulls, 1 of whom accused him of being a Skrull too. Mar-Vell didn't believe him.During this series he interacted with his old love Carol Danvers as Ms Marvel. And met his son Teddy Altman as Hulkling in Young Avengers Presents #2.At the end of the series CM and Heather independently found their way through portals to a Skrull base. They both discovered that this 'Mar-Vell' was actually Skrull Khn'nr who had been turned into a duplicate of CM, complete with cancer, Nega Bands and his powers except cosmic awareness, as part of the upcoming invasion. But a bodged job allowed him to escape believing he really was Captain Marvel.Sante wanted to arrest him, but he convinced her that whatever his body he really is Mar-Vell inside.Now:-Captain Marvel and Heather discuss plans she found in the Skrull base. But SHIELD doesn't think they are plans of a real invasion, they're too incomplete. CM disagrees. But meanwhile he is unhappy about the way the government is using the criminal Thunderbolts to arrest Unregistered heroes.Mar-Vell leaves Heather a note asking her to trust him no matter what he seems to do. He goes back to the Skrull base and offers himself as a warrior in the Secret Invasion. But his 1st act is to attack Thunderbolts Mountain, to do a bit of good in the guise of evil. He seems to expect to die in the attempt.To be continued in SI#1.Story 2: Agent Brand: In Plain SightWriter: Mike Carey, Artist: Timothy Green, Colourist: Nathan Fairbairn, Tom Chu, Letterer: Cory PetitPreviously:-Abigail Brand is head of SWORD, the division of SHIELD that deals with alien threats. She featured in the 1st half of the 2004 Astonishing X-Men series - the extended Breakworld storylineShe has already appeared in SI#1 where SWORD detected a Skrull ship crash in the Savage Land. The Mighty Avengers went to investigate. Then SWORD's orbital base, the Peak, was destroyed and a Skrull armada appeared.Now:-Brand is floating in a gelatinous survival pod waiting to be possibly rescued.She remembers various encounters with Skrulls in the past and realises they have been flaunting clues at her which she now recognises. Tapping on a copy of The Iliad to indicate a Trojan Horse manoeuvre. Statements like "Enemies acting as friends", "You cannot be insured against a disease you've already contracted" and even from a Skrull TV program "My war against you did not begin when it was declared". All these indicate a long-running infiltration.We also see a mention of a Skrull religion that plays a big part in SI. Including a belief that other alien races can be brought into their fold because the '1st One' loves them all.At last Brand makes it to 1 of the Skrull warships. We'll see what happens next at the end of SI#4.Story 3: Wonder Man & Beast: Seems like old timesWriter: Christos Gage, Artist: Mike Perkins, Colourist: Raul Trevino, Letterer: Cory PetitPreviously:-Beast and Wonder Man became good friends in their time together in the Avengers. Beast mentions Red Ronin from Av#198-199 and some yellow creatures in the sewers in a solo adventure they had in #203. They teamed up many other times, and even had their own limited series in 2000.In SI#1 the Mighty Avengers including WM went to the Savage Land to investigate the crashed Skrull spaceship. A much earlier version of many Avengers including Beast and another WM popped out claiming that they had been abducted by Skrulls and kept in suspended animation - so the current Avengers must be Skrull replacements, even if they've been brainwashed not to know it. In SI#2 they fought.Now:-A dinosaur interrupts the battle between the MAv (including Iron Man) and old heroes (including Captain America and Thor). Beast and the current Wondy fall down a big hole which separates them from the rest. Beast doesn't know which Simon Williams it is because current Wonder Man is back in his old red safari jacket outfit. But Beast is obviously from the past because current Beast looks very different.Simon makes it known that he's the modern version, and tells Beast a lot of the changes that have happened since his day. All while they fight various prehistoric oversized creatures. Wondy admits they still make a great team, and has come to accept that they both believe they're the real deal. But Beast traps him in the hole while he himself escapes, because he can't take the chance that Williams is unknowingly a Skrull.Apart from a viewscreen shot from this battle in SI#4 we won't see Wonder Man again until SI#6. By then we'll have learned that it was Beast's crew who were the Skrulls programmed to believe they were real Avengers, to sow confusion and distrust. In New Avengers #43 we see the fakes being prepared, and being allowed to think they escape from captivity. And in SI#4 Beast and others revert to Skrulls when they die.Story 4: Marvel Boy: Master of the CubeWriter: Zeb Wells, Penciller: Steve Kurth, Inker: Drew Hennessy, Colourist: Gutu eFX, Letterer: Cory PetitPreviously:-This Marvel Boy is Noh-Varr, a Kree from an alternate universe. The rest of the crew died when their spaceship crashed on Marvel Earth. After various adventures in his own mini-series where he declared a 1-man war on Earth he was captured and imprisoned in the Cube, SHIELD's jail for alien criminals.In NAv:Illuminati #4 that group visited him in jail and tried to convince him to become a hero instead. But in the Civil War: Young Avengers & Runaways limited series the Cube's Warden sent him under mental control to arrest the Runaways. But the YA intervened and broke the Warden's control. That ended with MB taking over the prison, declaring it the capital of a new Kree empire.Now:-Marvel Boy uses the remnants of his Plex AI (which looks like the Kree Supreme Intelligence) to control the Cube using an Omniwave broadcast that turns prisoners and guards alike docile. He keeps the Warden unaffected so he can suffer, except when he needs him to report to Maria Hill at SHIELD. Suddenly the Omniwave shuts off and the mingled guards and aliens start fighting. Noh-Varr finds 1 of his ancient enemy the Skrulls responsible, and the Warden dead. He kills the Skrull and sets out to fight the Secret Invasion.We'll see the result in MAv#19 and various issues of SI.Story 5: Agents of Atlas: The resistanceWriter: Jeff Parker, Penciller: Leonard Kirk, Inker: Karl Kessel, Colourist: Michelle Madsen, Letterer: Nat PiekosPreviously:-The team debuted in their 2006 mini-series but were given a backstory which said they were previously briefly active in the 1950's. Led by Jimmy Woo they mainly fought his enemy Yellow Claw.Woo later became a SHIELD Agent and got old. In the mini-series he fought the Atlas Foundation. The long-lived rest of his team reassembled and Jimmy got rejuvenated. Claw turned out to be the head of Atlas, but all of their clashes had been designed to make Woo worthy of taking over the Foundation, which is a centuries-old secret society. Jimmy accepted in order to use the group as a force for good. His team became Agents of Atlas, and the whole lot remained secret. They've since appeared in Spider-Man Family #4.Now:-This occurs after the full-scale invasion in SI#5. In Portland Oregon the team fight back. Their undercover nature means the Skrulls weren't expecting them (but the general paranoia campaign means that the Agents don't currently control the rest of the Atlas Foundation). Namora has been captured after killing a Super-Skrull (with the powers of all of Alpha Flight?). Gorilla Man and the robot M-11 rescue her. It was all a scam to capture a Skrull leader.They take him to Marvel Boy's flying saucer. (This is another Marvel Boy, Bob Grayson now known as the Uranian to avoid confusion.) BG decapitates the Skrull. Keeping the head alive he dissects the body. Jimmy Woo takes the other 3 with him to hold off attacking Skrulls. Then the Uranian uses his mental powers to link the Skrull's brain to that of Venus (actually a Siren). Her carefully chosen song compels the attacking Skrulls to drown themselves in the river.But she can't go through with it because she senses the enemy isn't evil. Grayson confirms that the captured Skrull believes that their god wants them to take Earth over for the humans' own good. So M-11 kills them all with his death-ray instead.The Skrulls also believe they have nullified the Atlantean threat by causing them to be dispersed (presumably they were somehow behind the events of the Sub-Mariner: Revolution mini-series). But Namora can connect the team with some Atlanteans in the North Pacific to give them a base of operations.They won't actually make any more apps in SI. But in Dark Reign: New Nation they'll decide to oppose Norman Osborn's rule.


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Secret War Book Two
One year ago, Nick Fury needed a hero team for a covert operation in a foreign nation: he recruited Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Spider-Man. A short time later, Peter Parker boarded a flight for Latveria and was surprised to find Matt Murdock, Steve Rogers, Luke Cage, and a drunken Wolverine aboard. There was also a young woman he did not know….
In Latveria, Steve Rogers went off with the American attaché while the others, including the enigmatic young woman, were taken to a safe house by a disguised Black Widow. There, Nick Fury (disguised as a Gypsy woman) revealed himself and explained the mission. Latveria is funding American supervillain for a terrorist strike against America, so Fury has assembled them to overthrow the government….
Today: Captain America bursts into Luke Cage’s hospital room and shouts "I told you this would happen!" and knocks Fury to the floor….
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Character bios of the heroes in the story and a conversation between Nick Fury and Daisy Johnson (13 pages)
An article discussing the covers for the series with sketches and mock-ups.


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On their way home, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones stop so Luke can ask some street punks about a local drug dealer. Entering their apartment, they are met by a sinister woman in the shadows. An explosion ensues….
When he hears about the incident at a SHIELD briefing, Nick Fury rushes to the hospital where he finds Luke Cage in a coma. Jessica and Danny (Iron Fist) Rand explain how Luke suffered internal injuries and doctors are unable to penetrate his skin to perform the necessary surgery. Then Jessica wonders why Fury is there….
One year ago: Villain Killer Shrike was being interrogated by Jasper Sitwell and Jimmy Woo, asking how such a third-rate criminal could afford all the high-tech gear. After beating and threats, Shrike agreed to reveal who was backing him. In Philadelphia, Killer Shrike led them to the lair of the Terrible Tinkerer but when he tried to enter, he was electrocuted. SHIELD agents burst in but the Tinkerer had escaped. A short time later, Black Widow called Nick Fury from the airport in Latveria; the Tinkerer is there and he was met by one of the highest government officials. Fury reported to the President what they had discovered: a cadre of high-tech American villains were being funded by Lucia von Bardas, the Prime Minister of Latveria elected with US support. Fury was startled when the President told him not to follow up on this because von Bardas was America’s ally. Fury decided to stop the threat to America without official sanction….
…and now in Luke Cage’s hospital room he sees the result of his actions…. Additional material:
Character profile of Jack O’Lantern and a transcript of his interrogation, alluded to in the story (seven pages)
A one-page text article on Spider-Man
Seven pages of pin-ups by Gabriele Dell’Otto.


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Secret War Book Three
Peter Parker is having flashback to a massive hero versus villain free-for-all that he doesn’t remember. At the hospital Captain America advises Jessica Jones and Danny (Iron Fist) Rand to move Luke Cage to the Baxter Building for his safety. Instead, Jessica contacts Matt Murdock…. Daredevil returns home to find Spider-Man in his apartment, come to talk about bizarre dreams about a battle he doesn’t recall. Matt checks his messages and learns that Luke Cage is in the hospital. He and Spidey are on their way there when they are attacked by the villains Scorcher and Diamondback (not Cap’s old girlfriend but an upstart trying to cash in on her reputation). They were sent to kill Daredevil but the presence of Spider-Man takes them by surprise. After taking a beating the two baddies retreat into the distance. DD and Spidey head to the hospital where they find Captain America telling Nick Fury how he was attacked at home. Suddenly a cadre of villains arrives, ready for battle….
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A seven-page text article of a conversation between Captain America and the Contessa.
A full-color version of the opening splash page, showing the secret battle.Four pages of character sketches by Gabriele Dell’Otto.
A character guide to the final double-page splash.
A four-page tie-in to THE PULSE #6 and 7.


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Nick Fury's Secret Warriors team is on a mission at a SHIELD secret storage facility Black Ice in Odessa, Texas. Quake (Daisy Johnson) surveys the scene while Hellfire (JT James) complains that this spying gig hasn't had the perks he expected - cool gadgets and hot women. Daisy is in touch with the rest of the squad and using code names she sends Slingshot (Yo-Yo Rodriguez) to move in for a closer look. But then there are shots fired and the team call for help. Quake and Hellfire respond.Soon they're all (including Sebastian Druid and Stonewall (Jerry Sledge) caught in the crossfire between Hydra and Norman Osborn's HAMMER Agents led by the Sentry of his Dark Avengers. Johnson successfully leads her team out of the situation. And Hydra stay only long enough to teleport away a box which they came for.Our lot return to their Caterpillar base the Cocoon in New York, Fury's Secret Base #17. Fury's not happy to see them and wants to know why they didn't follow orders. They were to see but not be seen. Daisy takes the blame for telling the team to get closer. Nick stresses the need for discipline, then you don't need luck. He dismisses them, but holds Quake back for something else.They pass the youngest team member Phobos (Alexander Aaron, son of Ares) playing an online video game. Nick is angry that the boy has hacked the base's computer system to get access to the Internet. They leave the boy and Nick tells Daisy to keep an eye on the teenage Greek god. But it turns out he's not so concerned about the messed up mission as what the presence of Hydra and HAMMER meant.1 month ago Fury infiltrated the Carousel, the SHIELD Datacore facility in Chicago. After dealing with some LMD guards he tried to login but the system denied him access. However the override code "Fury Gemini Zodiac" got him in, and he downloaded full information about the command structure of SHIELD, its assets and a list of remaining known Agents. As he left the building blew up behind him.2 days ago Fury sneaked in to the Oval Office in the White House to ask the President why SHIELD was *really* dismantled. The Pres said it was because they needed something more accountable after the Skrull Invasion. Sensors in Nick's wristwatch told him the man was telling the truth (at least as he knew it). Fury in turn owned up to destroying the Carousel. He left a list of other covert SHIELD shadow bases in the US for him to look into, and then made his way out of the building.Daisy Johnson is amazed that her boss can get into the White House past the security. Fury says he has his own secret entrance. But what's more important is that there are 9 SHIELD bases that the Government doesn't know about. This Cocoon site isn't 1 of them, it's 1 of a set known only to him. Nick tells Daisy he misled the President, there were only 2 bases on the list he left. 1 was the Black Ice site, the other he knows the Government has already found.Fury now admits that he sent the team to Texas to see who turned up. He was expecting Hydra, but he wanted to see if HAMMER showed up as well. He wanted to see how high Hydra had infiltrated the Government  - to see if it was high enough to stop the President sending HAMMER in. The experiment proved to him that the current administration was clean.Nick also says that Hydra weren't stealing something from SHIELD, they were retrieving something that belonged to them. He shows Daisy a schematic of Hydra's subsidiaries that he downloaded from the Datacore, and SHIELD is 1 of them. "I've been working for the bad guys the whole damn time!"The story is followed by some more info Fury has put together. Some of it is what he got from the SHIELD Datacore, other stuff is from his personal files.The Hydra hierarchy lists 2 companies, Typhon and Echidna, and 3 subsidiary organisations, Secret Empire, Them and AIM (including AID, RAID and AGM). It  lists SHIELD separately, and also agents embedded in the US, Canadian and Russian governments.There is more info on Typhon and Echidna. The Typhon Group is a major pharmaceutical company with philanthropic tendencies. But behind the scenes it also manufactures chemical weapons for many armed forces including the US. Echidna Capital Management is a venture capital institution that invests in, and gains control of, cutting edge technology.Next we see a map of Hydra bases, SHIELD shadow facilities and Fury's secret sites.There are 3 known Hydra bases. The original HQ Tsunami (Hydra Island) in the Pacific was sunk way back in Strange Tales #158. The replacement Ichor, also in the Pacific, was destroyed recently (as we'll see in a flashback next issue). Hydra's financial base the Crown in Japan is still in operation.There are 7 suspected sites. Ravenous in British Columbia, Canada is the recruitment centre. The function of the others is currently unknown:- Nemesis in Sumatra, Tarantula in Western Australia, Hell's Heaven in China, Omega Point in Italy, the Hive in the Indian Ocean and Gehenna in New Zealand.Of the 9 SHIELD secret shadow bases we've already heard about Black Ice and the Carousel. Fury told the President about another site he knew was already in HAMMER's hands. There are 2 such mentioned on this list:- the Dock base for helicarriers in the Caribbean and the Torch black ops base in Hawaii. There are 2 sites compromised much earlier:- the Cube prison in Kansas(?) taken over by Noh-Varr during Civil War I and the Utopia holding facility in Alaska wrecked in X-Men v2 #189 when the Children Of The Vault rescued Northstar.That leaves 3 active(?) sites:- the Red Worm base for Psi-Agents in California, the Barracuda weapons factory in Wyoming(?) and the mysterious Sunburn in North Dakota(?).Then we have Nick Fury's own 27 secret bases, which are split into 4 categories:- Ones he inherited from WWII. 2nd and 3rd generation bases he had constructed later. And some labelled Protected which even *his* files don't describe.The 8 original sites are:- #2 the Queen Cold War safe house in what was East Germany. #9 Thunder remote quarantine facility in Sweden. #10 Minuteman in Hong Kong, originally a base for ops in China. #13 Hotspot in Paris for ops in Europe. #17 the Cocoon in Brooklyn, the base for Caterpillar ops where the Secret Warriors live. #18 Snowstorm in the Savage Land. #20 Homerun in the Bronx which was compromised in Civil War I. #23 Memorial access to the White House, presumably what Fury uses this issue.The 8 2nd generation sites are:- #1 Stinger safe house in Madripoor. #3 Apollo 'perpetual power station' in Austria. #4 the Sandbox in the Sudan, base for ops in Africa and the Middle East. #5 Radiant in Moscow, base for Russian ops. #11 Challenger in Nantes to support ops in France(?). #14 Columbia in London for UK ops. #19 Chariot in Florida 'termination protocol alpha station' - Marvel Fandom Wiki suggests it may be where faulty LMDs go to die. #25 Valhalla in New York, compromised in Civil War I.The 5 3rd generation sites are:- #6 Brimstone in Carpasia, compromised by Carpasian rebels (but that doesn't happen in Carpasia's only app in Wolverine & Nick Fury: Scorpio Rising). #12 the Rocket, a launch site in the New Siberian Islands. #16 Carbon in Colorado housing Fury's AUTOFAC mainframe. #21 Providence/the Bunker long-term storage facility in South Dakota(?). #22 Inside Straight replication facility in Arizona(?).The 6 mystery sites are:- #7 Pieta in Rome, #8 the Playground somewhere around Syria/Iraq/Saudi Arabia, #15 Telescope on the Chile/Argentina border, #24 the Dragon in New York, #26 the Hammer in Alaska and #27 the Anvil in Colombia.The next page is a list of Caterpillars, superpowered people who Fury has located but are otherwise under the radar. It starts with the ones he got Daisy to recruit for this team (in Mighty Avengers #13), plus Layla Miller who turned the job down. Layla was introduced into the X-universe in House Of M but apart from her, as per spec, none of the chars have previous form. We'll meet them all before the series is over.Next is Nick's overview of Hydra history.The origins of Hydra can be dated back to 3rd Dynasty Egypt. (This comes from Captain America: Hail Hydra #2 where agents of the Order Of The Hydra in 2671 BC raid the tomb of Gilgamesh for an ingredient of an immortality formula. #2-3 show them seeking more ingredients over succeeding ages up to 1522 AD and Ponce de Leone's search for the Fountain Of Youth, and using the Inquisition to mine for alchemist's secrets)References to the Order disappear after the Renaissance. (But CA:HH has them resurfacing as the Thule Society in WWII.)Fugitive Thule Nazis and the Hand in Japan joined forces to become modern Hydra.Baron Strucker took over Hydra and created Hydra Island/Tsunami (Captain Savage #4).He used Nazi gold to expand Hydra and found the Typhon Group.SHIELD was created under Rick Stoner (Fury 1-shot) to oppose Hydra. During that period occurred the Zodiac event and Fury's 1st encounter with the Kraken (we'll learn about these later). Eventually Stoner was killed and Fury took over SHIELD (Fury again).Strucker died in the destruction of Hydra Island (Strange Tales #158). Hydra split into AIM, Secret Empire, Them etc.Strucker was resurrected and retook control of Hydra (NF(1989)#20-21). Typhon went public and Echidna was created.There was a civil war within Hydra between Strucker and the Gorgon, leader of the Hand. Gorgon won for a while and Strucker was put in stasis. But it eventually ended with Gorgon killed by Wolverine and Strucker back in control. (There were too many comics involved in this to mention.)Hydra then went quiet until the Skrull invasion during which the Ichor base was destroyed.But now Hydra is back at full strength.Another page details the Termination Protocols.SHIELD was disbanded after the Deltite affair (in the NF vs SHIELD limited series). When it was rebuilt Fury set up these Protocols in case SHIELD was terminated or corrupted again. They kicked in when the organisation was decommissioned after Secret Invasion.The defunct Cube and Utopia bases were ignored. Agents were successfully removed from the Dock, the Torch, Barracuda and Black Ice and replaced by LMDs. The Carousel DataCore was blocked off. At Red Worm the Psi-Agents were automatically mind-wiped and LMDs put them in stasis. We're not allowed to know what happened at Sunburn.Then there's a list of SHIELD Agents.The Executive Directors were Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan (now running Howling Commandos PMC), GW Bridge, Sharon Carter, Maria Hill (now working with Tony Stark) and Tony Stark.Psi-Agent Olivia Hook and Agents Gabe Jones, Eric Koenig and Jasper Sitwell are now also in HC PMC.Yuri Brevlov and Alexei Vashin are with the Russian GRU and SVR respectively. Seth Walters is in the US Treasury Dept.Fury's son Mikel Fury is supposedly back in Carpasia with the Separatist Movement (see the Wolverine & Nick Fury: Scorpio Rising 1-shot for some background to this).John Warden is listed as in biostasis at Red Worm. He was the the Psi-Agent responsible for getting himself and all the others into stasis.3 Agents now seem to be working for Hydra:- John Allen Adams is working for Echidna, Gaffer/Sidney Levine is at Gehenna base and Dr Myron MacLain is at Tarantula base.Nails/Joan Eaton, Kid/EB Farrell, M-80/Sayuri Kyota, Silicon/Gerald Simms and Skul/John Skulinowski (all previously the Elite Agents Of SHIELD) are listed as Rogue Security from the Torch.John Garrett and Natasha Romanova are active but their whereabouts unknown.The file doesn't know the status of Rigby Fallon, Val de Fontaine, Alexander Pierce and Clay Quartermain.The very last page is a set of entries from the official journal of Yo-Yo Rodriguez. Fury told her that she, like all the others, should keep such a record. But much later when she mentioned it to the others they informed her that Fury and never said that to them. But she kept it up anyway. And it reveals that she came to understand why Fury was training them so hard.


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The Secret Warriors rob a bank in Switzerland:-Sebastian Druid is on the roof trying to remember which wire to cut to disable the security system while Hellfire (J T James) walks in and tells a cashier it's a hold-up. Then Eden Fesi, Quake (Daisy Johnson) and Stonewall (Jerry Sledge) burst in and tell everyone  to lie on the ground. Quake takes care of a couple of security guards and give the OK for Nick Fury to follow them in.Druid cut the wrong wire so they don't have long before the police arrive. Stonewall rips the vault door off. Eden will create a large portal so they can move money quickly to their base. Meanwhile Fury finds the bank president and staples a note to his forehead telling Baron Strucker of Hydra that he's taken 1.2 billion dollars off him.Strucker contacts Norman Osborn and asks him as a favour to arrange for Fury to be killed (claiming he's too busy to do it himself). Osborn complains about #5-6 where Hydra raided a HAMMER base and stole 3 helicarriers. (Actually it was Fury's side that took the carriers with help from Dum-Dum Dugan's mercenary Howling Commandos.) He tells Strucker that he killed his children Andrea and Andreas (the 2nd personally in Secret Invasion: Dark Reign). The Baron just thanks him and says that's 2 favours he'll owe Norman.Osborn calls in Ares (of the Dark Avengers) and Ghost and Scourge (Nuke) (of the Thunderbolts) and gives them the job.NO will continue his plan in Thunderbolts #134, taking Ghost and Scourge with him.At Inside Straight (NF's secret base #22) the team, including Ares' young son Phobos (Alexander Aaron), are miffed that Fury is going to send all the money to Dum-Dum Dugan to finance the Commandos. He relents and lets them each have $20 for a night out. But then precognitive Phobos warns Nick that something he expected is about to happen soon, and Fury tells Daisy to keep everyone on base - he's going away.Later Alex tells J T he shouldn't have stolen some of Fury's money. But Hellfire's reply is cut short by an incoming private message for absent Nick. It turns out Phobos knows everybody's passwords, so they can access the message. It's from Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) saying her cover is compromised, she's on the run and requests extraction from her hiding place. Alex has a plan.BW sent the message in Thunderbolts #135 where she's on the run from the Tbolts with Songbird.2 hours later Fury is in Toronto. He knows the password sequence to get him into a secret base where he rousts out cyborg ex-SHIELD Agent John Garrett.4 hours later Widow is in Homerun (Fury secret base #20 in New York) with Songbird. They think they're safe here but Nick arrives and tells them they were followed there. (Next issue we'll learn Phobos' secret plan - this NF is an Life Model Decoy with Alex inside it. Hellfire and Phobos found Fury's stash of LMDs in #4.) The door blows in as the Thunderbolts (Scourge leading Ant-Man (Eric O'Grady), Ghost, Headsman, Mr X and Paladin) come knocking.That particular scene is duplicated in Thunderbolts #135, and the action will continue there.


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The forces of Leviathan have invaded the Hydra Nemesis shipyard. Gorgon is fighting them. He's successful against the ordinary troops with his sword and his petrifying gaze. But the accompanying 'demon' seems immune. He says his masters have just awoken from a long sleep and they want to know about the modern world. To this end he burrows tendrils from his fingers into Gorgon's brain. But Gorgon cuts that arm off. The demon just says "We have the girl". Gorgon beheads him and rushes out of his quarters to see other troops taking Viper into their aircraft. They escape, leaving some of the troops as a delaying tactic.Last issue Jerry Sledge (Stonewall) persuaded Yo-Yo Rodriguez (Slingshot) to visit her mother - she was afraid of the reaction to her new cybernetic arm. Now that it all turned out OK she's holding Sledge to his pledge to go visit *his* father. On the way Jerry is teaching Yo-Yo to drive his car.Jerry's dad is a super-villain in Lacoochee Supermax Prison. He tells Yo-Yo how the guy  raped his mother before he had his powers, and that's how Jerry was born. Years later the powered version tried to attack the mother again. Jerry tried to defend her, but when the men touched something happened. Jerry woke up in hospital with his powers, and his mom was dead. After hearing this Yo-Yo is ready to let jerry off his promise. But he says he's at the prison now so he might as well go through with it.Jerry introduces Yo-Yo to his father Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man. Creel cruelly suggests when he gets out he'll dig Jerry's mother up.Now we go back 6 years for the origin of 1 of Hydra's ruling council, Hive. In the Hydra recruitment centre Ravenous near Vancouver 1 nervous recruit is told he's been chosen for a special program. He's taken by Kraken to the Hive base under the Indian Ocean where he's thrown naked into a pit full of 'pods'.Kraken tells Baron Strucker that the guy was chosen because he has a low IQ and also a weak immune system which won't be able to resist the process. They have developed a parasite which can take over a human being. Now they want to develop a host who can breed more parasites and mentally control the other infected people via a sentient group consciousness. There are worries that the parasites might mutate, but they're willing to take that risk. We see the pods open and fire multi-eyed blobs at the victim.Of course the human host's consciousness will be destroyed. We see the man already converted physically into the Hive being we've seen in earlier issues. But Kraken says that it will take years for the parasites to transform the internal organs to their liking. And the brain and nervous system will be saved for last because the parasites want the adrenaline that the pain will produce.And we see Hive now in Hydra's current main base Gehenna with Kraken, Strucker and Madame Hydra as Gorgon tells them how Leviathan kidnapped Viper, and also killed half the agents in the Nemesis base and destroyed 2 Dreadnought ships. He says they knew too much detail of the base, and this renews the suspicion from #6 that they have a traitor in their midst. Madame Hydra suggests it might be Viper herself, and the kidnapping was staged to divert suspicion. But Kraken has a plan - he will use the SHIELD psi-agents they acquired from the Red Worm base (#3) to scan all high-level Hydra operatives.Last issue Nick Fury took Daisy Johnson (Quake), leader of the Secret Warriors his White Caterpillar team, to his base #15, Hotspot in Paris, to meet the leaders of the 2 other Caterpillar teams. His son Mikel Fury leads the Gray team which is an attack and response group concentrating on Leviathan. Alexander Pierce has the Black recon team looking at Hydra. Daisy says she has no idea what *her* team's role is. Nick tells her it's his personal hammer.Pierce summarises his position. They've identified Hydra bases Gehenna, Nemesis, Ravenous, Tarantula and the Crown. They track people from the recruitment centre Ravenous to trace the spread of Hydra's tentacles. Mikel reminds his father that nothing but rumours of the Russian Leviathan organisation has been heard for decades until recently. Nick picks up that narrative to describe locating Seth Waters, a Leviathan agent in the US Treasury who unwillingly provided them with some info (Dark Reign: The List - Secret Warriors 1-shot).Nick continues with some history. Just as Hydra rose from the ashes of WWII Germany and Japan, so Leviathan was born in post-WWII USSR. People think they know about the Russian spy organisations, but there was a whole totally secret other group Leviathan. And then 1 day all Leviathan agents vanished. Daisy asks what happened but we don't get an answer.We now turn our attention to The Long Winter, Leviathan's 'cold storage' facility. The Leviathan troops from last issue bring Viper to their leader who demands to know where the box is. (We saw them last issue on the trail of the box that she and Madame Hydra got from Silver Samurai in #6.) She profanely refuses to answer. 1 of the Leviathan 'demons' painfully inserts probes into Viper's face and reports that she doesn't know where it is, Madame Hydra took it away.The leader (not yet named as Magadan) comments that they were woken before the others to summon the horde and wake the beast. They obviously need the box to fulfil this task. We see a containment tube labelled Orion linked to a large number of other tubes.


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At the Howling Commando reunion two weeks ago, it was Gabe Jones’ duty to remember their comrades in arms who were no longer with them: Clay Quartermain, Dino Manelli, Pinky Pinkerton, Junior Juniper….
The disabled Helicarriers had crash-landed in a valley in China and the Howling Commandos made their last stand. Lord Gorgon led the hordes of Hydra onto the field and the Howlers were ready for them. Dum Dum Dugan was knocked unconscious in the assault and Gabe Jones ordered Jasper Sitwell to take him to safety; Jasper reluctantly complied, even though it meant leaving his comrades to die. In the battle that followed the Howling Commandos were killed to a man with Gabe Jones being decapitated by Gorgon’s sword….
The sole survivors, Dugan and Sitwell, testify before a secret meeting of the United Nations Security Council. Dugan can see the global map showing Hydra bases around the world, and tells them they are powerless to fight this shadow war. He then puts his finger on the real reason for the hearing: they want to know if Nick Fury will fight this war for them. Dugan warns them that Fury is no politician and they will not like his attitude…or his methods…. The meeting adjourns. US Ambassador White returns to her office to find Senator Robert Ralston, former Howling Commando, waiting for her. She is able, in guarded terms, to reveal that the UN will draw on the services of Nick Fury through further meetings with Dugan and Jasper, who will be held "in custody" for the time being….
In a bar at Fury’s secret base, Steve Rogers sits with Fury and asks him if he is in over his head. Fury declines to answer and Steve acknowledges that Nick Fury is the kind of man who will deal with a problem that no one else sees and not give up until it is done and who knows it never ends. And he tells Fury that he, not Steve, is the "One Man" (see last issue). Alone, Fury sits brooding over the pictures of the Howling Commandos who have died, a larger number than it was two weeks ago….


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It's 2 weeks later than last issue. Nick Fury is in his secret base #7 Pieta deep under Rome having a conference with holograms of his 3 team leaders Daisy Johnson (Quake), Alexander Pierce and his son Mikel Fury.10 days ago the leaders of Leviathan arrive at the Hydra financial base the Crown in Kyoto for the meeting they arranged last issue (3 days before). Baron Strucker and Kraken prepare to greet them. They are expecting 3 guests:- Orion, Magadan and the traitorous Madame Hydra/Val de Fontaine. Wolfgang von Strucker says it will revive old memories to have 4 of the original 12 members of the Great Wheel (he, Kraken, Orion and Magadan, see Dark Reign: The List: Secret Warriors 1-shot) together in the same room again.But for now we divert to another flashback to 2 years ago. A man visits another man in a hospital bed. He refers to the dying man as an old friend, and says he found his Kraken diaries in his London house - a litany of the most evil deeds imaginable, including his involvement with Zodiac. He takes the Kraken helmet and puts it on, and it expands into body armour. He says he'll take over the role, and the helmet seems to transform him both physically and mentally to fit. And then he switches off the man's life support.Back at the Crown the Leviathan 3 are led to a conference room to face Strucker, Kraken and Gorgon. Then Hive enters with the transformed Viper. She forgives the Contessa for shooting her (#14) because it led to her new form. (Hive revived her last issue and gave her a large tentacled parasite on her head.)Orion had asked for the meeting to discuss an alliance between Hydra and Leviathan. But now he demands that Hydra be subservient to Leviathan. But they will allow Strucker and the rest of his council to pretend to their troops to still be in charge. The Baron of course rejects this out of hand, saying he should have killed Viktor Uvarov long ago. Orion points out that he *did* try.Strucker sics Gorgon on him and Tomi Shishido plunges his sword through Orion's chest. But Viktor bats him back with a large mallet that he magics up out of nowhere (is this guy really Slapstick in heavy disguise?!) and then withdraws the sword, saying it'll take more than that to kill him. Valentina calls in a strike and a squad of Leviathan jets and armoured flying troops attacks the base. Meanwhile the occupants of the conference room battle each other.Now back to Fury's hologram conference in the now. He tells his team leaders that 4 days ago Hydra and Leviathan went to war against each other. (That day count doesn't add up.) He reports that large numbers of troops were killed but the leaders all escaped with injuries. The Crown base was destroyed. Fury tells them to prepare their teams for action because it's time to hit the enemy while they're wounded. When the holograms fade we see that 3 other figures are *really* in the room with him.Daisy takes her VR headset off in Fury's Providence base and tells her boyfriend JT James (Hellfire) that Nick is going to mobilise her team in a few days. So they start to enjoy what free time they will have left.We then see Fury and the other 3 in his Pieta base sitting round the Great Wheel/Zodiac table. The others are Dum Dum Dugan, John Garrett (from #7-9 and DRL: SW) and a new player called the Professor (but in DRL:SW they were all listed as members of the Great Wheel). He tells them that what they've been planning for has reached it's moment, so now is their last chance to back out. The Professor says everything is in place. Dugan says he's tired of waiting so let's end it. Garrett asks Fury if *he*'s having 2nd thoughts. Nick denies it but says they'll all pay a price.Later that night JT gets a message to meet someone. He leaves Daisy's bed and 20 minutes later he's in the Black Atlas bar passing info to someone. JT reminds him he promised nothing would happen to Daisy, and regrets taking the money (#7) from the fortune Nick stole from Hydra. He's talking to Baron Strucker, and all that money was trackable by Hydra so Strucker is blackmailing him.


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The SHIELD base the Dock in the Caribbean has been taken over by HAMMER but still houses the helicarriers. 2 HAMMER Agents prepare to take their shift in the control room for the defence grid. Derrick Richardson was only in SHIELD for a couple of months before HAMMER took over. Eric Koenig was in it for 28 years. Richardson reckons Eric must feel like him that it was time for a change and the old guard had to make way for the new regime. Koenig says he felt the same way about Nick Fury's rule when he 1st joined. At this point they do the shift handover and Eric 'reinitialises the grid'.He starts to tell Derrick about some advice Fury gave him, but Richardson spots 6 incoming unidentified helicopters. He doesn't understand why the defence grid isn't dealing with them until Koenig says he disabled it - and shoots him. Fury's advice was that Howling Commandos only retire when they're ready. And he contacts the choppers and tells them to come in. Nick Fury's flying 1 of them.24 hours earlier Fury describes the mission to the HCPMC troops. They're going to steal the 3 helicarriers from the Dock. Eric Koenig, who's in the audience, will knock the defence grid out and they'll get in and out before most of the HAMMER Agents (who outnumber them many times over) know what's happening. Voice authorisation was hardwired into the carriers so Dum Dum Dugan will be able to launch them if he survives the assault. There'll be a couple of hundred ground troops to go alongside the 6 helicopters. Gabe Jones is still complaining - now he thinks the odds are too high against them. Dum Dum says they all volunteered because they wanted to make a difference again.Now 2 helicopters are taken out by what Fury terms an assault vehicle (looks more like a stationary gun emplacement to me) until Dum Dum destroys it with a rocket launcher from another copter. Meanwhile Gabe's ground troops have set charges on the docking clamps on the helicarriers. The remaining choppers land. But overhead is a presumably-stealthed Hydra troop carrier commanded by Baron Strucker with Gorgon, Hive and Kraken.13 hours ago Kraken tells Strucker, Madame Hydra and Viper that he has learnt about Fury's plan to attack the Dock. Strucker agrees they should go there, but the 2 females have another task that shouldn't be delayed.Now Dum Dum and his men are about to enter the command centre of 1 of the helicarriers. Nick Fury and others, including Eric and Jasper Sitwell, will slave the other 2 carriers to Dugan's and he can fly them all out.But then Hydra attack, some ordinary troops and some the Hive's men enslaved by the 'squids' on their heads. (The single eye plus short octopoid limbs (which apparently are *not* tentacles) put me in mind of DC's Starro the Conqueror.) They plus Gorgon and the Hive himself unleash chaos. The Hive shoots out small octopoids which convert HCPMC guys to his side. Fury faces Gorgon. A couple of HCPMC guys tackle the villain but he hurls his sword at high speed at his foe. However Jasper pushes Nick out of the way and takes the blade in the shoulder.Hive ejects something else which explodes near Fury. Next thing he knows Kraken's boot is on his chest and Strucker stands triumphantly over him with his Satan Claw. Kraken and Fury greet each other like old enemies. The Baron prepares the killing blow. But then the Secret Warriors teleport in.


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Last issue Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos Private Military Company raided the Dock where HAMMER keep (the?) 3 ex-SHIELD helicarriers in order to 'liberate' them for their own use. But Hydra had been forewarned of the operation and turned up to throw a spanner in the works. They had Fury's troops on the ropes and Baron Strucker was about to kill Nick when the Secret Warriors teleported in.Now we go back an hour. The team are in Inside Straight, NF's secret base #22. (At last Bendis & Hickman are using the number they gave it in #1 - the last 2 issues have called it #8.) New recruit (last issue) Eden Fesi is admiring his new uniform when Daisy Johnson (Quake) runs in to tell then she's just had a panic alert from Fury. She's taking them into action even though Nick said last issue they weren't ready. JT James (Hellfire), Alex Aaron (Phobos) and Sebastian Druid are there. Daisy goes to collect Jerry Sledge (Stonewall).Jerry is watching over comatose Yo-Yo Rodriguez (Slingshot) who had her hands chopped off by Gorgon in #4. The LMD doctors of this replication base are looking after her. Daisy says she can offer him some payback. And Eden Fesi teleports all the active members to the source of the panic alert.Now they're up to their necks in trouble. Hellfire uses his burning chain on Hive to keep him away from Druid and young Phobos. But Hive grabs the chain to whirl JT around and drag him onto his fist. Stonewall goes after Gorgon but the foe's blade cuts across his chest. In response Jerry absorbs the quality of stone and becomes a stone giant. Gorgon just relishes the challenge.Druid helps Fury up from where Strucker and Kraken have left him. Nick calls up Dum Dum Dugan to ask if the helicarriers are ready to fly. Dum Dum and his troop have taken the control room of 1 of them. He uses override command "Dugan Libra Zodiac" and the carrier is up and away. Once in the air he sends drones to attack Hydra's airborne troop carrier.Meanwhile Madame Hydra and Viper are carrying out their secret mission in Tokyo at the HQ of Clan Yashida. They have the families of the board members hostage, so the board has agreed to hand control of their factories to Hydra via their Typhon Group company. And another part of the deal is to hand over a certain ancient casket. Silver Samurai brings it in, but they warn the women that no-one who opens the box ever survives. As they leave with box the Samurai asks Viper if her affair with him has always been just for this end. She tells him it's best he believes that.Back at the Dock Hydra are losing so Strucker orders a retreat. Gorgon as usual wants to stay and fight, but the Baron figures Fury knew they were coming and they have a traitor to suss out. Their teleportation field engulfs even the furious Gorgon.But now Fury and the Warriors are surrounded by HAMMER troops demanding their surrender. Nick faces them down and the enemy lower *their* weapons. As he knew these are all ex-SHIELD Agents who transferred to Hydra after the government disbanded SHIELD. And now they all accept his invitation to come work for *him*.Later everyone celebrates. Gabe Jones admits that Nick was right last issue - they've now gained 3000 men. But Fury tells Dum Dum they're going to need even more for the war with Hydra. HCPMC has Olivia Hook, an ex-SHIELD psi-agent, who can vet new recruits. Fury gives Dum Dum a month to build his army. Dum Dum asks if Nick can afford all this, and Nick says it isn't *him* who's going to be paying. And they all fly off into the sunset on the 3 helicarriers.Next day in Inside Straight Daisy has some pointed questions for Nick. How come he's got a private army? And who are the other Secret Warriors groups that Gateway mentioned (in #4)? And also she nearly got her team killed responding to his panic button. Fury says he never sent the alarm. But he refuses to tell her who did, or answer her other questions. There are things she will never get answers to. And Quake has to leave it at that.When she's gone Nick gets a call from Val de Fontaine. And *we* see that she's wearing the Madame Hydra outfit and has opened the mysterious box.


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1 month after the events of #10 Daisy Johnson (Quake) is awoken by Nick Fury and told to come with him on a trip.Meanwhile in the Clan Yashida stronghold in Agarashima, Japan, Silver Samurai is attacked by a horde of armoured foes. The white-clad troops with large axes have helmets with 1 red glowing eye. There's 1 black demonic figure with 2 red eyes. The aloof leader's white armour has 3 red eyes. The demon does all the work, demanding that something be handed over then extending claws into Keniuchio Harada's brain to establish that he no longer has it. The angry leader insists on knowing where the box is. (This will be the box that Madame Hydra and Viper acquired from Clan Yashida in #6.)We turn instead to the Hydra base Nemesis in Sumatra, now identified as their shipyards. Viper tells Gorgon that the prototype dreadnought Medusa is ready, and the other 5 will be completed over the next 2 months. She's thrown herself into this task even though she counselled against the war that Gorgon desires (#4). They are served food and drink by a bevy of sexily-clad women. Gorgon takes 1 to his quarters.The American girl babbles on about how she's taken a semester off from her college education to earn some cash and hang-out with supercool terrorists. She's willing to do kinky stuff if it doesn't go too far. She notes his 'unconventional' statuary, all women in poses of fear. Gorgon removes the headband that covers his eyes, and his gaze turns her to stone.He contemplates his blade and remembers how he was given it 6 years ago. Tomi Shishido already had his mutant powers including the turn-to-stone trick. He keeps his stone family with him. He is visited by Kraken in his armour who says his visor protects him from Tomi's gaze (they have to have eye-contact for Shishido's power to work). Kraken gives him the sword Godkiller with which he says a mortal man once wounded a god. Tomi says he would like to kill a god, and Kraken replies "Who am I to deny a man his destiny?".Meanwhile (again) in Puerto Rico  Jerry Sledge (Stonewall) is taking Yo-Yo Rodriguez (Slingshot) to see her mother. She is afraid of what she will think of her cybernetic forearms. She agrees to it if Jerry will confront *his* parents. We leave her in the doorway as her mother is aghast at the sight. (I don't think her father the Griffin is ever around.)Back in Nemesis the demon-guy leads the troops in another assault. They want the 'girl' (by which they mean Viper). The demon takes some of the troops to deal with Gorgon, who recognises them as belonging to Leviathan.Now at last we get back to Fury and Johnson and their mystery trip. They arrive in Nick's secret base #13, Hotspot in Paris. As they arrive Fury tells Daisy to fire Sebastian Druid for incompetence when they get back. Inside they meet the Howling Commandos Private Military Company, including Jasper Sitwell whose shoulder has recovered from Gorgon's sword wound. Gabe Jones seems to give a codeword "Resurrection" and then shows the pair to a meeting room and leaves them there.Inside are Dum Dum Dugan and 3 others. The female is psi-agent Olivia Hook who scans Daisy's brain [with a Vulcan mind-meld] and declares her clean. Fury then dismisses her, and Dum Dum who is surprised but acquiesces when Nick says "It's that time".Nick introduces the other 2 as Alexander Pierce, leader of the Caterpillar team designated Black, and his son Mikel Fury, head of the Grey team. (NF must have told Quake more about the existence of multiple Caterpillar teams since #6, and possibly that hers is the White team.) He now says the 3 teams are going to work together.


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Last issue ended with the Thunderbolts breaking into Nick Fury's secret base #20 - Home Run under the Yankee Stadium. Part of TB#135 fits between last issue and this showing the 'Bolts capturing Fury, Black Widow and Songbird, and Norman Osborn telling BW he'd been playing her all through her time with the team. The opening scene of this issue matches parts of the closing scenes of TB#135:-TBolts Ghost, Mr X and Scourge (Nuke) take BW and SB away to TB#136. That's the last we'll see of them here.Hawkeye (Bullseye) of the Dark Avengers beats up NF while H.A.M.M.E.R. troops hold him. Ares of the DAv is here too. Then Norman justifies why he's got Nick's old position (as head of the SHIELD replacement HAMMER). He claims the Government wants someone who'll do the dirty jobs that the public doesn't want to know about, without any annoying scruples. (But I thought Fury was basically like that too.) And he shoots Fury in the head.Here endeth the overlap with TB#135.Then the 'body' of NF makes some metallic noises and opens up. It's a Life Model Decoy, and out steps Ares' teen son Phobos (Alexander Aaron) of Fury's Secret Warriors.The real Nick Fury is in Alexandria, Virginia with cyborg ex-SHIELD Agent John Garrett. Nick tells him about another ex-SHIELD guy who now works here for the Treasury. But data he uncovered (in #1) suggested Seth Waters was working for Hydra. He's set up a meeting with him for Garrett, and wants John to find out if it's true. Garrett says this feels more like the "older thing". Fury doesn't deny it.We now flashback an hour to when Thunderbolts and HAMMER invaded Home Run. They were watched by Eden Fesi and Hellfire of the Warriors. Phobos was supposed to go in there as Fury and bring BW & SB out. But it's obviously all gone wrong. So they capture 2 HAMMER Agents, take their uniforms and infiltrate the invaders.Now they shed their disguises, shoot the other HAMMER guys and put guns to the heads of Ares and Bullseye. Precog Alex wasn't worried - he *knew* they'd turn up to help him. Phobos greets his father. Osborn knows Alex is in the Secret Warriors and deduces the other 2 must be also.Norman tries to get Alex to tell him where Nick Fury is with the promise of some kid's toys. Alex's response is hardly kid-like. So NO turns to threats. And Phobos responds with another of his powers - he instills fear in Osborn's heart, calling himself the God of Fear. Ares looks on approvingly.Hawkeye/Bullseye isn't impressed and starts to fight back, but Ares stops him and compels him to back down. He tells his son that he did well. So he'll give the 3 of them a minute's start before coming after them. They take the hint.Osborn is understandably enraged that Ares let them go. He swears they'll all die, even if Phobos *is* Ares' son.Time for a scene change. In Fury secret base #22 Inside Straight, Sebastian Druid and Daisy Johnson (Quake) are on the way to see their injured teammate Yo-Yo Rodriguez (Slingshot). She had her arms cut off at the elbows (by Gorgon in #3) and they have been replaced by cyborg prostheses. Jerry Sledge (Stonewall) is already by her hospital bedside. Slingshot wants back on duty but Quake is worried about psychological trauma so only suggests a provisional go.But it's all taken out of her hands when alarms sound. Eden, Hellfire and Phobos have just entered the base through 1 of Fesi's portals. But Ares, Bullseye and Osborn as Iron Patriot have followed them with a horde of HAMMER troops. And the base has initiated a 5-minute self-destruct sequence.


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Last issue Nick Fury surrendered to Kraken of Hydra after losing/retiring the members of the White team of his Secret Warriors and losing the whole of the Grey team including his son Mikel.But this issue heads in a whole new direction and takes us back to 1961 as Nick's brother Jake Fury removes his blindfold in an underground room and is ushered onwards to a lift which takes him and his guide down into an underground city, where he is led to a room where others await him. (Readers of Hickman's SHIELD series will recognise the costume of the usher and that the place is the Immortal City of the Brotherhood Of The Shield below Rome.) (Readers of this series will recognise Jake's password "Fury, Zodiac, Scorpio" as indicating that we're finally going to find out what the Great Wheel was all about.)Inside Jake/Scorpio finds all the others already there:- Vasili Dassiev/Capricorn, John Garrett/Aquarius, Shoji Soma/Pisces, Cornelius Van Lunt/Taurus, Nick Fury/Gemini, Baron Strucker/Sagittarius, Dum Dum Dugan/Libra, Thomas Davidson/Virgo, Daniel Whitehall/Leo and Viktor Uvarov/Cancer. Their host Aries welcomes them to Pieta. (And SHIELD readers will recognise *him* as Leonardo da Vinci who travelled to the 20th Century to fight immortal Isaac Newton for control of the Brotherhood.) They are seated around a large round table (the Great Wheel) with their Zodiac signs etched in. (And *we* have seen that same table in Fury's base Pieta which is here confirmed to be in the Brotherhood's Immortal City.)Aries addresses them all as major players, some of whom know each other. Dassiev wants to know where they are (it seems they've all been brought here from different places without being allowed to see where they're going). Soma deduces correctly from the travel time and the architecture that they are in some ancient underground ruins in Italy. Garrett wants to know how 'prominent spymasters' like them were identified. Whitehall guesses Aries' group have been watching them for a long time. Nick Fury just wants to know why he shouldn't just shoot some of the others. Before he will answer that last question Aries says that anyone who wishes to remain anonymous can do so. They will all uses their Zodiac titles here. Sagittarius/Strucker isn't impressed.Aries says they have been chosen as representatives of governments or other groups that have the greatest potential for world domination. He doesn't care who succeeds because in his long life he has seen many powers rise and fall. (But in SHIELD I was led to believe Leonardo had come to the future directly from his own age.) He chose them because they know how to keep secrets. At this point he notices Leo/Whitehall taking notes and angrily says there must be no record of what transpires here. Scorpio/Jake Fury brings Aries back to the topic of why they're here, and he says he wants something from them. In return he will give them the means to attain their goal. Taurus/Van Lunt wants that made clearer and Aries says they should treat it as a contest for his favours.Capricorn/Dassiev refuses to play such games - he needs nothing from anyone. Pisces/Soma says they are all players in the Great Game (of political manoeuvring) who can't afford to lose out - but possibly the 'Great Beast' could wait for a 'Long Winter'. Capricorn sits down, possibly because that sentence indicates Pisces knows something of Leviathan's plans. Libra/Dugan bridles at them all being treated equally - he can just about stand working with Communists but not Nazis. Gemini/Nick Fury echoes him. Aries replies that he doesn't care about their moral stances. Whoever gets him what he wants will be rewarded.And it seems they all agree to play.We see Soma/Pisces, Whitehall/Leo, Garrett/Aquarius and Dassiev/Capricorn on a mission beneath the Pyramids of Giza. After some bickering they detect a powerful object and Dassiev retrieves it. But then they sense the approach of guardians. Whitehall pulls a helmet out of his bag and puts it on, and it immediately generates armour for him (and we now realise he's the original Kraken). They are attacked by aliens that we also recognise as the Brood. (We saw in SHIELD v1 #1 that an invasion by Brood in Ancient Egypt was what started the Brotherhood Of The Shield.)The next group (Nick Fury/Gemini, Davidson/Virgo and Jake Fury/Scorpio) are in the Chapel at Chateau d'Amboise in France. (It is of course no coincidence that this is the supposed burial place of da Vinci.) Jake forces the nuns at gunpoint to let them in and they open an old tomb. Inside there is a mechanical skeleton which sends out tentacles towards Jake.The 3rd mission is to the Zargos Mountains in Iran. Dugan/Libra, Strucker/Sagittarius, Uvarov/Cancer and Van Lunt/Taurus are fighting their way through scimitar-wielding robots (without tentacles). Inside a cavern they find thousands of containment tubes all wired up together. (These tubes have not yet shown up in SHIELD #Infinity which will be published in the following month. And Zodiac don't find the lower chamber with 3 other tubes that were previously occupied.)The teams reconvene at Pieta. Cancer/Uvarov reports that they've arranged for 1 of Leviathan's remote Russian bases to house the containment vessels, if the others agree. Sagittarius/Strucker isn't happy about that, but Aquarius/Garrett points out that the ex-Nazi has no country to house *anything* and the US won't touch it - it will work with the right security protocols. Capricorn/Dassiev reports that they exterminated the Brood and have the alien power source. But Gemini/Nick Fury claims that they found nothing at the Chateau. Aries obviously doubts this but doesn't push it.2 weeks later they meet again at Pieta for a demonstration of a small number of the chambers. Virgo/Davidson has worked out that the tubes are augmentation/rejuvenation devices built to keep people alive in stasis for centuries. (SHIELD v2 #4 will reveal that the 3 in the undiscovered lower chamber were used to keep 3 particular Arabic gentlemen alive.) On the original site they were powered by geothermal energy but now they will run off the Brood power source which would make people in the tubes superhuman. But Virgo has rigged it so that instead the 'extra' energy is all siphoned to 1 particular tube, producing someone superior to Captain America.This demo system only funnels 6 tubes into 1. But it could be reused as often as you like. Cancer/Uvarov asks him how it works. Virgo starts a long technical explanation but Cancer cuts him off - he just wants to know how to operate it. Virgo says the security system is the same as Pieta's, and he demonstrates the simple controls. The he asks who wants to try it 1st. Cancer says "Certainly not you" and shoots him in the leg.Leviathan troops have taken the place over and report that the other chambers are being taken to their base. Uvarov tells them to take the control system and the main 'Orion' chamber. Dassiev has apparently persuade Uvarov to be merciful and he tells the others that they will leave them alive, in thanks for their part in securing the artefacts. Strucker starts to protest but Dassiev warns him not to try their patience. Garrett promises to kill them 1 day. Uvarov tells Dassiev he told him so - mercy wouldn't work. And he orders his men to shoot everyone. Everyone dives for cover and shoots back, with Dugan saving Davidson. Strucker, Whitehall (in his Kraken armour) and Soma run for it. Nick Fury gets shot in the eye, but the Russians leave them all alive.A month later Baron Strucker and Shoji Soma are watching the Leviathan base. Strucker has the Spear Of Imhotep. Soma is Grandmaster of the Hand, and a horde of white-clad Hand ninjas emerge from the surrounding snow to attack the place. Inside 100,000 loyal men and women are occupying the standard containment tubes, and Viktor Uvarov prepares to enter the Orion tube to receive the transmitted power. But then the ninjas breach the chamber and Strucker stabs Uvarov through the chest with the Spear. Vasili Dassiev, in what we recognise as his Magadan armour, punches the Baron in the face, removes the spear, thrusts Uvarov into the chamber and activates the system. But meanwhile Soma has liberated the alien power source and the attackers flee with it. The process starts to go wrong, and we see a man in a tube turning into 1 of the Leviathan 'demon' warriors we 1st met in #11.Nick Fury meets with Aries in Pieta and berates him for the power he's allowed Leviathan and now Hydra to gain. Now *he*'s going to have to clean up the mess. Aries replies with cryptic comments about the game which isn't a game and isn't over.And finally we get back to the present where Kraken takes a hood off Nick who's tied to a chair and finds himself facing Strucker in the same situation. He says he's going to help them both become what they're supposed to be (which is what Kraken does).


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This issue tells us what happened to Sebastian Druid after Nick Fury fired him from the White team of Secret Warriors.It begins with a flashback to 6 months ago at the end of #13 where he finds Fury's note telling him to go home, which turns out to be Hawaii. But there he finds the cyborg ex-SHIELD Agent John Garrett waiting for him, who informs him he's not been fired but sent for special training. Garrett gets him to fill out an Army aptitude test, but after reviewing it just says Druid's too fat. This makes him a liability to the team because it indicates a lack of self-control which spreads into an inability to fully control his magical powers.You can't *will* yourself a better person you have to do the work to *become* that better person. So John puts Sebastian through a gruelling fitness regime, and 2 months later he's slimmed down and more magically accomplished.6 weeks ago they are on a mission in China. In #17-19 the HCMPC attacked a Hydra base there and left 2 crashed helicarriers which the Chinese impounded and are studying in warehouses in a remote valley. Fury doesn't want them to reverse-engineer the tech so he wants the wreckage disposed of. Druid remotely alters the corrosion rate of the materials so radically that they disintegrate to nothing in seconds. Garrett commends him for creativity.1 month ago they are outside Leviathan's Ursa Major base (which appears to be in the Russian oblast of Amur north of China). Druid magically creates a special bullet which Garrett will use to assassinate 1 of the 3 heads of Leviathan. He says that 1 of them Fury doesn't want to get off so lightly (that'll be Val de Fontaine) and another can't be killed (we'll learn in #28 that description applies to Orion). So the target is Magadan, and the special bullet paints the Hydra symbol on a wall with his blood. Garrett is quite happy to kill Vasili Dassaiev because their enmity goes back a long way (to when they were members of the Great Wheel/Zodiac, which we will learn more about in #25-26).Then Sebastian tries to magic them an escape route but fails under the pressure. So they have to run for it in a blizzard.Recently they're in a troop transport plane. John won't let Sebastian take the controls despite Druid claiming to be much better than when he crashed 1 (in the Australian desert in #4). Garrett reminds him that his general performance is erratic. He did well in China but badly in Ursa Major. Well in Leviathan's other base Ursa Minor (an incident we know nothing about because that place has never featured in the stories), badly in London (which again I think is new to us). He has trouble keeping his head in sticky situations.They get a call from Eagle (Nick Fury) to them (Last Chance) for urgent retrieval. And they land at the Hydra base Gehenna near the end of last issue to pick up Fury and what's left of the White team. They've lost Hellfire and Phobos, and Stonewall is carrying grievously injured Eden Fesi. Quake and Slingshot are OK. The team scramble aboard along with Nick who was keeping Hydra troops off their backs. They leave Gehenna in ruins.Following on from last issue Sebastian enters the main cabin of the plane for a reunion with his surprised old team. Garrett lets Fury know that Hydra have sent a lot of faster planes after them. So Druid goes to the still-open bay door and destroys all the planes with 1 spell. (Which got reported to Baron Strucker at the end of last issue.)Later they've all made it to Fury's secret base #26 Excalibur in Alaska (called the Hammer in the list in #1). Garrett confirms to Sebastian that Alex Aaron and JT James are dead. Eden Fesi is being kept in a medically induced coma to help him heal. Nick is talking to Daisy Johnson about her boyfriend JT. He shows her evidence that JT betrayed them to Hydra. She angrily quakes the room and tells him to leave her. Fury joins the other 2 and tells them that she's taken it too hard. Garrett apologises to Sebastian - after all his training he was ready to rejoin the White team, but the team is now disbanded.


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The issue starts with a flashback to 3 months ago during Secret Invasion. In the underwater Hydra HQ Ichor in the Pacific Ocean, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is watching scenes of superheroes fighting Skrulls. His 4 aides report on the invasion, saying that the aliens have prepared by infiltrating governments and the metahuman community - but Hydra is clean. However Baron Strucker turns on them and says he can tell they themselves are aliens. The Skrulls reveal themselves, saying it is irrelevant because they have taken over Hydra completely - and now they can be rid of *him*.The Baron dons the Satan Claw and invites them to attack. And after a brief fight he slaughters them. Knowing that the base really is compromised he triggers a self-destruct mechanism with authorisation code "Strucker Sagittarius Zodiac". Ichor is destroyed and only Strucker escapes. Hydra is broken, but he knows that he can rebuild it in the chaos that will follow the Invasion.In the present in Nick Fury's secret base #17, the Cocoon in New York, Fury has just shown his Secret Warriors' team leader Daisy Johnson what he learned 1 month ago when he broke into the SHIELD secret DataCore facility, the Carousel, last issue - that the now-disbanded SHIELD was always actually working for Hydra. This was true all the time that Fury ran SHIELD and he never sussed it.Daisy can't believe it, but Nick encourages her to think it through. It would explain why Hydra is never fully defeated. And they could use SHIELD to eliminate their competition. And they had access to all the info SHIELD collected, including the secrets of the superheroes. She asks him why he's so sure that Hydra did this. He replies because that's what *he* would have done. [But what about the successes SHIELD *did* have against Hydra, including blowing up Hydra Island and killing Strucker in Strange Tales #158? But then Strucker was resurrected later. And Hydra didn't die.]1 month ago in the Hydra base Gehenna inside a mountain in New Zealand, Strucker gets a report on the latest Hydra situation. Recruitment is healthy and they have more than 6,000 fully-trained members. They've liquidated 900 billion dollars from various holdings. They lost a lot of tech in Ichor but they've 'siphoned off' lots of decommissioned SHIELD stuff. And their data survived because of a parallel data store, the SHIELD Carousel DataCore.However this leads into the breaking news that Nick Fury has just infiltrated that site. Strucker realises that Fury will now at last know what the real situation has been. And this will make things more interesting. He orders the 'grand chamber' to be dusted off and invitations to be sent out.In the present the Secret Warriors minus Daisy are in a Chinese restaurant. Quake joins them but only to say that Fury wants them back at HQ right away. Yo-Yo Rodriguez warns Sebastian Druid his unhealthy eating is going to kill him. JT James suggests that in their business that's not the way they'll go. Alex Aaron lets slip that he can see the future, to some extent. (Comes of being Phobos, son of the Greek god Ares.) He reluctantly gives them some hints of their fates.Druid will be a genuine hero. Yo-Yo will get hurt, but Jerry Sledge will take care of her. And Jerry's going to find out who he really is. Daisy will be good at her job, and after some troubles will make it big. And JT's going to die.Another flashback. 2 weeks ago Strucker's call has gone out. Viper leaves her lover Keniuchio Harada (Silver Samurai) in the HQ of the Japanese Clan Yashida that he rules. Kraken comes from the endless deep, Madame Hydra from the outer dark and the Hive from the unknown regions. These 4 meet Baron Strucker in Gehenna in New Zealand. (This appears to be an ancient HQ of Hydra, and Strucker refers to the room as the Grand Chamber.) But he says they still need 1 more player.Now Fury tells his troops the news about Hydra and SHIELD. From now on they can't afford any mistakes. They're going to need to gather all the intelligence they can. And someone will have to go undercover in Hydra.The issue end with a last Hydra flashback 2 days ago. The 5 conspirators have slaughtered their way into the Hand's Resurrection Temple, which allegedly has never happened successfully before. Now they want a body resurrected, which Hydra acquired that morning. (So this is what they took from SHIELD's Black Ice base last issue.) The Hand Grandmaster says his price will be Strucker's head, and the Baron calmly agrees.The body has been hacked to pieces. The GM and 5 other Hand specialists perform the resurrection ritual. But as the body reforms it consumes them to feed itself. (So Strucker's head is safe.) And the Baron welcomes back Tomi Shishido, the Gorgon.


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This series has been mainly following the adventures of Nick Fury's White team of Caterpillars (super-powered youngsters the world didn't know about) led by Daisy Johnson (Quake). But last issue that team suffered losses and was retired by Fury. This issue describes the career of the Grey team led by Fury's son Mikel.The issue begins with Nick standing in the rain contemplating some gravestones.But then it immediately switches to a flashback a year ago where Nick has gone to see Mikel Fury at his desk in Moldova. It appears he's a politician there. They go outside to a balcony because the office is bugged. Nick asks Mikel to come work for him and the son jumps at the chance.1 week later Mikel recruits his 1st Caterpillar in Miami. He finds old college friend and would-be revolutionary Carlos Ayala using his TK to pick pockets. Carlos too is eager to do something more interesting.Next day Lynn Richards comes home to discover Carlos waiting for her in her Manhattan apartment. She pulls a telescoping double-ended sword out of her shoulder bag. Carlos tries to telekinetically take it off her but his power fails. Mikel is also there and tells Lynn he knows all about her. She was enrolled as a teen into a rogue SHIELD operation led by Mentallo to create superpowers, and she was the only success - she can inhibit other people's superpowers. Nick Fury told her to lay low until he needed her. And now he does.The following day in Bethesda, Maryland Mikel and Carlos confront a would-be Fox Mulder who calls himself Red Webo, who is concerned that they were able to find him and his secret base. Mikel establishes his bona fides by quoting from a letter written by Galileo. Red starts spouting about the truth of conspiracy theories concerning secret societies and hidden knowledge - but he doesn't know anything about alien abductions. He shows them a diagram by Galileo which he said he modified. While Red goes to get something Mikel tells Carlos that father Nick released this diagram on the Internet and Red was the only person who was able to decipher it. Now Red returns wearing something he calls his Portable Creation Engine, which certainly does *something*.The next section starts with a mythological warrior-king Arda Ulhaf standing alone against an army led by the demon Aeshma (a figure from Zoroastrian mythology). He challenges Aeshma to single combat and wins, taking Aeshma's Mace as a trophy. It has been passed down through generations and is now in the hands of Sandra Murphy in Winthrop, Massachusetts. And she stands ready to emulate her ancestor.We don't see the recruitment of cyborg Bryan Cole or 'organic builder' Robert Martin.A week later our duo make their last stop in Calgary, Canada to see rich twins Jenny and Malcolm Monroe, who are accompanied by multiple duplicates of themselves. They initially turn them down Mikel's 'offer' of a job until he suggests that his father can get the slate wiped clean of their previous crimes. Jenny protests that they aren't responsible for their father's misdemeanours, but is told that Malcolm has been supporting their lifestyle by committing bank robberies. So they're in.We learned in #12 that Mikel Fury's Grey team concentrated on Leviathan, but we've seen no actual evidence of this in action.1 week ago Nick Fury called Mikel and his team together. He tells them that the White team has gone, and that Hydra and Leviathan have nearly destroyed each other. Hydra has split into 2 factions led by Gorgon and Kraken (as we saw in #22). Gorgon's only base is Hive's facility beneath the Indian Ocean, and that's where they're going to attack.2 days later the mission is underway. The Grey team is in the base and they've planted explosives. But now they've been overrun by Hydra forces controlled by Hive via the parasites on their heads. If Hive gets control of *them* then he can stop them blowing the place up. So Mikel triggers the detonation, killing himself and his team (some of whom looked dead already) along with the base and the Hydra troops within.Now back in the present Nick Fury is facing the graves (presumably empty) of his son and the Grey team. Suddenly he's surrounded by Hydra troops led by Kraken. And he surrenders to them.


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Dum Dum Dugan has just rocked the meeting of the United Nations Security Council with the revelation that most of the Howling Commandos died in the raid on the Hydra base in China. Jasper Sitwell suggests that China covered up the story as they were more interested in recovering technology from the damaged Helicarriers. They recall the assault on the base two weeks ago: as the Helicarriers laid down fire as a distraction, the Secret Warriors Black Team with several of the Howlers went through the front door, fighting their way to the main lab. There they discovered Hydra was transforming more captives into the tentacled hive creatures. They planted explosives to destroy the base and departed in haste….
At the Howling Commandos reunion, the old soldiers regale themselves with stories of how Captain America stood up to a Nazi commander and they defeated a much larger enemy force. They toasted Steve as the One Man who held them together. Later Dugan met with Nick Fury to tell him the Howlers were placing bets on which battle cost Fury his eye. The leader declined to reveal the info.
Aboard the Helicarrier, Alexander Pierce asked Dugan how Fury knew the base was there. Dugan replied that he had to learn to trust Fury just as Dugan did during the War. As the two ships are in flight suddenly six Hydra dreadnaughts de-cloak around them and open fire. The Argonaut is disabled and sent crashing to the ground; the Iliad, with Dugan aboard, is damaged. Dugan gives order to stand their ground and be ready to rescue their comrades. The enemy leader is revealed to be Lord Gorgon.


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2 weeks after last issue in the Cocoon base Daisy Johnson (Quake) summarises what they know for the rest of the Secret Warriors. In #1 Nick Fury discovered that SHIELD was always controlled by Hydra, and the team saw Hydra retrieve a large box from the SHIELD storage facility Black Ice. Later a satellite took a photo of what we saw last issue in the Hydra base Gehenna in New Zealand - a meeting between Baron Strucker, Viper and 3 others around that box.Next day 1 of the others led an attack on the Torch, a SHIELD base now used by HAMMER - and the Hydra Agents called her Madame Hydra, which used to be Viper's designation. (Daisy wonders why Viper is no longer Madame H - although truthfully she seems to have dodged between the 2 noms-de-guerre frequently of late). Viper herself was seen 3 days later in the Tokyo financial district. A week later the 2nd unknown led a raid on a SHIELD weapons factory Barracuda. His men had squid-things on their heads. 1 of them was captured and the squid removed. Before he died the kid, a missing college student, named his boss the Hive. The last member is possibly the Hydra agent Kraken, but no-one knows anything about that guy (but we who read last issue know that *is* who it is).Hydra has attacked all of SHIELD's shadow facilities except the Dock, now controlled by HAMMER, and the psi-agent base Red Worm. The Warriors next mission is to get the agents out of Red Worm and destroy it before Hydra get there. JT James (Hellfire) wants to know if they're going to fight Hydra if necessary this time, not run away like in #1. Fury has been listening to the meeting and says it's up to team leader Daisy what they do.Nick got an encrypted message from old flame and fellow ex-SHIELD Agent Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine agreeing to meet for dinner. We now follow him to Tamaya in New Mexico where Val turns up late. They verbally spar then pull guns on each other. She admits to still being in the spy game but claims to be 'self-employed'. She taunts Nick about having lost everything. But she still came when he called. Over the meal Nick says he may have lost SHIELD but he's doing something important now. But he suggests that when it's over he may retire to be with her. She doesn't believe it - he'll always find a new cause. But he should realise that there is no good vs evil anymore - the world is more complex now.The Secret Warriors have reached Red Worm near Zzyzx, California, but the place has been overrun by Hydra. They see Kraken and another man who Daisy recognises as the supposedly-dead Gorgon (whose body we know from last issue was in the box in #1). They have revived and taken prisoner the psi-agents. But 3 of them were brain-damaged by the hasty revival and Gorgon kills 2 of those with his sword. He's about to kill the 3rd when Quake orders an attack. Kraken arranges a teleport retreat to Gehenna with the prisoners, leaving the troops, but Gorgon elects to stay and fight - there's someone he wants to meet.Sebastian Druid gets close to Gorgon but is kicked away. Hellfire is there too and calls for backup. Superfast Slingshot (Yo-Yo Rodriquez) leaps in with her quarterstaff, but Gorgon is faster and chops off her forearms. Quake tells Stonewall (Jerry Sledge) to get Yo-Yo and orders a retreat. She blasts Gorgon with her vibration power, and then turns to follow the others.But now it's Phobos (young Alexander Aaron)'s turn to stay behind. He turns his fear power (as the son of Ares, God of War) on the foe. But Gorgon says he's died and been reborn, so he has nothing to fear. Alex runs after the others, and Gorgon says "1 day I will kill a god". (I take it that Phobos is the person he wanted to meet.)Back at the dinner Val says she *will* wait for Nick. But she reminds him that last time he went off to do the right thing (Nick Fury's Secret War) he left without a word and never came back to SHIELD and her. "Next time ..." she says, but Nick's phone goes off and he gets up and leaves. So she wearily ends with "Next time you should bring flowers".The call is from Quake in their plane. Yo-Yo's badly hurt and Daisy doesn't think she'll make it to New York. So Fury redirects them to a nearer 1 of his secret bases. And he gets in his flying car to join them.The destination is Inside Straight, the replication facility possibly in Arizona (this issue and next refer to it as base #8, but #1 listed it as #22, with #8 as the Playground in the Middle East). They hand Yo-Yo over to 3 LMD doctors, with 'faces' covered with 'eyes' and medical appendages projecting from their heads. Jerry goes with her. (This begins to fulfil Alex's prophecy last issue that Yo-Yo will be injured and Jerry will look after her.)Later Daisy reports to Nick that her condition is stable. She apologises for screwing up the mission, but Fury is more concerned about the surprise involvement of Gorgon. He says they'll need to recruit a replacement. But the team is now on the bench until she's trained them better. He has another plan to deal with Hydra.After she's gone Nick makes a secure call to HCPMC and gets Dum Dum Dugan and tells him he's got a job for them. After Dugan rags him (like Val) for not making contact since Fury left SHIELD, they get down to business.


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This issue works through a sequence of scenes, some of which are flashbacks to other comics.We start 'ages ago' with a war between the old Greek gods and the even older Japanese gods. Zeus and Mikaboshi both go to an unnamed blind blacksmith to ask for special swords. He makes the perfect sword Grasscutter for Mikaboshi and the flawed sword Godkiller for Zeus. The war lasted ages during which gods died and were reborn and Godkiller was lost.Next we have a flashback 1 year ago to the 2006 Ares mini-series where war again breaks out between the Greek and Japanese gods. Mikaboshi has kidnapped Ares' son Alex Aaron, turned him against his father and given him Grasscutter. In Ares #5 they meet in battle. Alex severely wounds Ares but then repents and switches sides, and the Greeks win.This flashback ends 11 months ago where father and son recuperate and bond in Africa. They decide to live as humans in New York. (But in the Ares series they were already doing that, and that's where Alex was taken from.)The next flashback is 9 months ago, Ares fighting Mole Man's monsters as part the Mighty Avengers in MAv#1. Alex looks on admiringly.7 months ago Daisy Johnson/Quake recruits Alex into the Secret Warriors as Phobos in MAv#13.5 weeks ago the Warriors fight in Secret Invasion alongside many other heroes including Ares. 3 days later Alex is disgusted to hear that his father has signed up for Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers.2 weeks ago Ares meets with Nick Fury after Ares discovered in DAv#9 that Alex was a member of NF's Secret Warriors. They make a deal:- Ares will help Fury get into Avengers Tower and Nick will let Alex go with his father to be judged as suitable to be God of Fear by a panel of Gods.1 week ago we have a flashback to our #9 where Ares fought the Warriors alongside Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) (and he left his axe embedded in the chest of Stonewall).Yesterday's flashback is to Dark Reign: The List: Secret Warriors where Ares allowed Fury entry into Avengers Tower (and actively helped him escape afterwards). We see the scene where they agreed to meet today.And now Ares has come for his son. Nick and Alex meet him. Fury gives him back his axe, but complains that Ares attacking his base wasn't part of their deal. Ares says he was just following orders, and tells Alexander to come with him. Nick tells Alex he doesn't have to go if he doesn't want to, and Alex says he doesn't (because Ares is working for the bad guy).Ares tells his son they have more important things to do than this Earthly squabble, but Alex doesn't understand because Nick hasn't told him about the Trial of the Gods (to nick the title of a Thor issue). Ares tells him he's going to be judged worthy to be a god. And Fury suggests it's his destiny.Next scene the realm of the gods. Phobos is to be judged by the Asgardian Balder, the Aztec Quetzalcoatl and the Olympian Hera. But 1st he is given his (Japanese) battle armour and his sword Grasscutter, which has been indelibly stained red  since it stabbed Ares.Phobos walks into the great hall lined with other gods. We see prominently Hela and Hercules, but others recognisable include Asgardians Fandral, Hogun and Volstagg and Olympian Hermes.Hera does most of the talking. She claims that Alexander became a god when he killed Mikaboshi (in Ares#5). (It didn't say that there. And if true it means he wasn't a god when he defeated his father earlier.) She also claims that he was the cause of the fighting (but in the Ares series the war had started before Alex was kidnapped). But when Phobos dares to name himself the God of Fear Hera caves in.Then there's a feast. But Ares tells his son he won't be fully a god until he dies and is reborn.


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In Nick Fury's secret base #21 Providence the Secret Warriors are playing poker in the kitchen and young Alex Aaron (Phobos) is winning especially against JT James (Hellfire). JT accuses him of cheating by knowing what cards he's got. Alex says he *can* tell what JT's got but not by cheating. Then he raises the question of Fury firing Sebastian Druid. Team leader Daisy Johnson (Quake) makes it clear that Nick didn't think he was up to the job. Yo Yo Rodriguez (Slingshot) thinks Fury was right in that, but Jerry Sledge (Stonewall) thinks the firing still wasn't right. Daisy reminds them that they have a job to do. Jerry reminds them how most of them are abused children of bad men, and they're grateful to Nick taking them out of that and giving them a purpose in life. But he thinks they should also look out for 1 another like family. Daisy asks for a show of hands on whether she should demand that Nick reinstate Sebastian. All vote yes apart from JT, who then caves in under Daisy's glare, and Alex, who says he doesn't think Fury will give in. Eden Fesi keeps quiet throughout all this.Hydra invade Leviathan's Long Winter base and find it deserted apart from some assassination squads, who are dealt with off-panel, and the body of their colleague Viper. Baron Strucker orders the body checked for booby traps, which it isn't, but they find a recorded holographic message. It's from Orion, who we saw revived from suspended animation last issue, and who Strucker recognises as Viktor Uvarov. The recording device recognises his voice which authorises the playing of the rest of the message. Orion says that recent events while he slept have soured things between them. He requests a meeting to clear the air, and suggests to allay Strucker's suspicions that they meet at a Hydra base. He suggests the Crown in 3 days. Gorgon doesn't trust him. But Kraken notices that Hive is doing something to Viper's body.Now we get a potted flashback history of Viper. 22 years ago 96 little orphan girls were trained by Kraken to be warriors for Hydra. (It seems Viper's hair was green even then.) Over the years the girl who will be Viper beat all the other girls until 12 years ago she alone remained. 8 Years ago she lost everything (probably after Captain America #113 when as Madame Hydra she was kicked out of Hydra and later became the independent terrorist Viper). 6 years ago she married a man she hated (Wolverine in his #126 to rule Madripoor). 4 years ago she couldn't marry the man she loved (Silver Samurai, but I don't know what comic issue is referred to). 3 months ago she betrayed him (our #6). We end with her capture by Leviathan and murder by the current Madame Hydra (Val de Fontaine) in recent issues.And now Hive revives Viper's dead body, calling herself Madame Hydra again, with a large octopoid being on her head.Last issue Val de Fontaine arranged to have dinner again with Nick Fury in their 'favourite' restaurant in Tamaya New Mexico (they were there in #3). This time it's Fury who is late, but this time he brings flowers. He lets her know he knows about her working for the enemy (but it's unclear whether he means Hydra or Leviathan). A bunch of guys stand up and aim guns at Fury. Nick says in the old days he would have just killed her, but older him wants to know whether she was always a double-agent or whether she learned lying from him. And everybody else in the restaurant pulls out *their* guns, and Val's force is way outnumbered. She tells him she did always care for him, but for both of them ideology comes 1st. Then Fury gets up and leaves with his men, leaving Val free to go.When he gets back to Providence he finds Daisy waiting for him. She makes her pitch to get Druid back but Nick turns her down flat. This game isn't for bleeding hearts. She returns to the kitchen to find Eden stuffing marshmallows in his mouth. JT tells her Alex bet Eden that he would vomit after eating exactly 67 of them. But distressed Daisy pins JT up against the wall and tells him he'd better have meant every word he said to her (when the pair went to a restaurant last issue). And she kisses him hard.