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Can’t give it all away!
A news reports discusses the strange attack on Con Ed and the fact that the thief – a picture of Longshot is shown – got away with 3 million dollars worth of diamonds and caused a city wide blackout leaving Manhattan crippled for hours. The anchorman points out that this was no ordinary robbery. Strange electrical and paranormal activity registered on the power company’s sensitive equipment. He begins discussing whether this is was another in the rising number of mutants which menace…
Watching the report, Peter Parker recalls that he had to waste those hours during the blackout at the Daily Bugle with Jameson. He describes Longshot as just a kid and wonders whether the Bugle wouldn’t pay for some good action photos of that bozo.
Across town, in her apartment, She-Hulk is getting ready for a jog. She too is watching the report and mutters that just when you think there are enough villains… Still, she wouldn’t mind chasing his tail. She decides to jog across the park to where he was last seen… the Bronx.
In the Bronx, Longshot is chased out of a shop, the owner angrily telling him he doesn’t want his plastic diamonds. If he can’t pay for the extension cod with real money, he should get out. He shouts at him to get back to Manhattan, where all the weirdoes belong.
From some park, Longshot looks at Manhattan. So magnificent, so terrifying… and he shut off its power grid. He blames himself and decides that he has to pay back the people for taking away their power with the diamonds. But nobody wants them, as nobody believes them to be real. He doesn’t even know if he is real.
Behind him, something snaps. He whirls around to see Pup moving away. Even Gog, his pup, acts weird and has been looking stranger. He’s been skulking around, watching Longshot… In his flashback, he saw himself on another world as a warrior… a slave … a movie star. What is he really? And why does everyone tell him he is lucky? He doesn’t feel lucky. He remembers Ricochet Rita. When this is over, he’ll go find her, he decides.
Somewhere else, a group of space cowboys are threatened by freebooters. Their commander, Butch, orders the team to blow the enemies to smithereens. Come on, Starrammers…
No, Starslammers, somebody else corrects him. They are a group of kids, wearing masks and playing in an abandoned car. The argument starts getting violent and they fall out of the car in front of their parents, who are engrossed in an argument over whether TV or comic books are worse.
The kids hide around the corner, gathering their few scraps of money to buy some comic books, but it isn’t enough. Suddenly, some diamonds fall before their feet. They look up to see Longshot, crouching on a wall. They thank him and he asks what they are going to do with the diamonds. Buy comic books, of course, the kids chorus.
While Longshot introduces himself, one kid takes of the paper mask. Darla is the only girl in the gang and she is totally smitten with him. Longshot walks off, waving good-bye, and Butch believes to see a monster – Gog – for a moment before he disappears. The others don’t believe him though.
Longshot strolls though Central Park, wondering why people always keep telling him the diamonds are too hot when he tries to give them away. They feel cool to him. The world keeps on feeling wrong. Is he all imagining it? Is he dreaming? He decides to keep trying and give away the diamonds, then find Pup and the monsters, if they were real. Can he help this world somehow, he wonders. He reads sadness violence, insanity… Could he heal those people?
A jogging She-Hulk passes him by, then stops in her tracks. She taps him on the shoulder, then decks him, astonished that he’s flying that far. Hitting a lamp post, Longshot somersaults over her and tells her to cut it out. She-Hulk demands he give over the diamonds and Longshot protests that he has been trying to give them away. She-Hulk doesn’t believe him and grabs him by the belt to hurl him away again, over his protests that she should give him a chance to talk.
She’s beautiful, he thinks, but another monster. She wants him dead, like the others. Unless this is not real… another fantasy?
Impossibly elsewhere, a grossly obese spineless being, whose face is frozen in a permanent grimace, protests that someone is making holes in the clouds. The person he addresses, an effete-looking humanoid called Major Domo, patiently explains to Mojo that the sky has always been that way. Then what’s been killing his plants, Mojo demands. Mojo is, every time he is walking through the room, Major Domo whispers. Mojo protests. He brings life and rebirth, not death. Tell that to the plants, Major Domo suggests wryly. Are plants speaking now, Mojo asks shocked. Can they hear them?
Distracted, Mojo commends the view on the spitfire and asks if he owns this view. He owns everything he looks at, Domo agrees. Mojo asks him to access his circuit banks and tell him the market news. Hurt for the first time, Major Domo asks if he must make feel like… an appliance? Mojo shouts that he is an appliance! A gadget! A vacuum! A slave! Market news, please, he asks more reasonably and Domo informs him that he owns 43 % of the new slaves that rolled off the assembly belt this month. That’s not even a controlling share, Mojo rages as he waves away a few slave girls he had called for earlier.
Everything is so ugly, he complains. The only face he can look at is his own. Everyone must have his face. He orders for the masks to be made instantly. And it stinks in the room. Did somebody die and not remove himself? Domo smirks. And tells Mojo darling that he is having a bit of a PSI-crisis. He suggests a little therapy.
Soon, Mojo is shut into a room. He reminds his servant not to let him out, no matter how much he screams. The room is full of mirrors and images of Mojo are reflected at himself. He rants about being the Lifebringer. All he sees is himself. Everything is him. No boundaries. He begins to scream. Major Domo finally lets him out. While Mojo is keeping his eyes shut, he demands that all the mirrors be painted black. Domo agrees and informs him the slave trackers he sent after that rebel slave have returned though a portal. With the dead rebel? Mojo rejoices. Not quite, Domo replies. Mojo wants to see them with their new faces.
Quickly, the hunters are brought before him, all wearing masks of Mojo’s face One of them informs Mojo that the rebel got lucky and a portal opened, sweeping all of them into another dimension. That dimension has got a planet with a race of man who look exactly like the manslaves they genetically engineer. The hunter reminds Mojo that the Spineless Ones took the man image from mythology, their worst nightmares, which means their myths are real. But the slave was trouble. His memory is beginning to come back. He is meeting and communicating with true men, who tell him he doesn’t have to be a slave. But worst of all, he is lucky. So lucky that he almost stopped all of them from getting back. They were going to bring him back, but he’d be too dangerous here. He is sort of miraculous, the hunter finishes his report.
Mojo refuses to believe this or the news of a whole race of man. He turns his wrath on the hunter, demanding to know why he is wearing Mojo’s face. He is mocking him. Mojo drains his life from him and demands they take off his face! It’s his and nobody else’s. He is miraculous.
He calls one of the hunters to him. The white-haired, six-armed woman Spiral. What is she in the mood for? She wants to return to the planet of men. She has an interest in the Lucky One… Longshot. Mojo asks if she’d be so kind as to introduce them. Perhaps, Spiral agrees, and she is in the mood to dance. She dances and her spell together with Mojo’s power opens time and space. As they disappear, Major Domo shouts not to do it in the house. Too late. He hates this, as those portal opening tricks play havoc on all his servo-attachments. Mojo really is so tacky sometimes, he informs nobody in particular. The little darling.
Back in New York, Longshot still believes She-Hulk to be one of his demon hunters. Angrily, he defends himself. He knows he ruined the portal for them, but he couldn’t let them kill a baby. He didn’t mean to drag them into this dimension in the first place… he thinks. She-Hulk has no idea what he is talking about and hits him again. He is smashed against a tree and decides to stop talking to her. There is no point. The point is to focus his spirit. Through purification of the motive, the luck will follow, he almost recites to himself. His left eye begins to glow.
She-Hulk attacks again, but Longshot simply somersaults over her head and lands behind her. In midjump, he throws the extension cord as well as some of his knives and manages to pin She Hulk’s sweater against the tree. By the time she frees herself, he is already gone. She-Hulk wonders about him. He is human, yet so alien. He seemed crazy as a loon, yet so focused. He got lucky there at the end…
Jumping across rooftops, Longshot wishes he could just go see Ricochet Rita. But he better keep returning diamonds to the people. Could he just throw them through those windows? That moment, Spider-Man shows up, his automatic camera already prepped. “Hey, blackout king, got any hot diamonds for sale?” he shouts. Spidey swings at him from behind, but Longshot manages to evade the kick. Another demon, he thinks, but Rita says there are no such things as monster. So why does he keep seeing them?
 Longshot recalls that one of the kids wore a mask like Spider-Man and told him Spider-Man wasn’t real. He doesn’t know what is real anymore. Spidey follows him over the rooftops but simply can’t catch him. All the time, he makes jokes about Longshot’s haircut.
Longshot shouts that Spider-Man isn’t real and he is going to wake up now. Spidey cracks another joke, while again missing Longshot and he asks him to stop. It isn’t funny.
Spider-Man decides he has enough pictures. Should he just web him up now? But he’s not acting like a villain. More like a confused kid. Longshot jumps off the roof down, uses a clothing line to change his direction and manages to briefly take out of Spidey. When Spider-Man looks around, he is gone. Spidey muses that nobody is that lucky. He may be fast and agile, but he has some other force throwing punches for him.
Upstate New York: Ricochet Rita is playing Tarzan in the garden, watched by her faithful dog, Saxophone, who isn’t at all interested in taking over his part of the stunt. They enter the house, which is a mess. When is he going to clean this place, she jokes. “Ricochet lost her marbles,” her parrot, Wifferdill, greets her. Rita pets her dog a bit and tells him that she is worrying about Longshot. He looked pretty smashed up last week, but Hitch said the hospital had released him. She wonders why he didn’t visit her. That’s what she gets for acting too much like a man, she figures.
She doesn’t notice that her potted plants are suddenly wilting. Sax begins to act up and, the next moment, Wifferdill drops to the ground.
“Oh gross!” Rita exclaims when she sees her guests: Mojo and Spiral. Mojo informs her that her plants don’t seem too happy to see him. How about her? He tells Spiral that she was right. That being does have the same form as their engineered slave race. And there’s a whole planet of these repulsive things? Perhaps he should just exterminate them all. He hates to be messy, though.
What’s her name, he addresses Rita, who doesn’t know what to say. He realizes that Longshot has to be found before he returns home to tell all the slaves about this race. They’d probably feel they were real and rise up and rebel… that would be… inconvenient. Pity that Spiral received six arms, he mocks. Even here, she’d still be a freak. He addresses Rita again and tells her to get ready to take them to Longshot.
In northern Manhattan, Longshot runs into the kids again, who seem agitated about some kind of monsters. He asks them about the monsters. While Darla is smitten again, Butch informs Longshot that he saw the monster twice at the cloisters. Darla asks Longshot to kill the monster and she will love him forever. The boys react with disgust and worry that she will scare Longshot away.
Unsure himself, Longshot informs them that there are no monsters. One must remember the difference between reality and pretense. They aren’t really warriors and there is no monster. There is a monster and he’s going to kill it with this gun, Butch shoots back. Longshot touches the gun and reads its psychic imprint.
(Longshot’s reading/memories)
The kids traded the diamonds for the gun from a man who had used it to kill and Longshot has seen this objects used to kill… his friends. They were rebelling, using swords and clubs. They wanted to be free, but they were shot at. They used these things to… capture Longshot. The Spineless Ones wiped his mind, his memories, left him drooling, eyes empty pits, windows to a hollow mind. He was a good slave again.
(reality)
The kids shake Longshot awake. As he rubs his head, they notice a cross-shaped scar on his temple. Longshot wonders how he escaped and what happened after the mindwipe. How can he trust his own memories?
He tells the kids to show him their monster and he will show them the difference between fantasy and reality.
The kids and Longshot walk up to the cloisters. Darla is in heaven because Longshot is holding her hand; Alfi is afraid and Butch wonders where they could get some nukes. Dad always says those are the best weapons. The others ask if they shouldn’t get Spider-Man first, which leads to a discussion whether or not Spidey really exists or the Bugle made him up.
They enter the building and inside there is a grossly grown Pup, stuffed full with magic .He is waiting for Longshot’s luck, that isn’t really luck to deliver Longshot to him. And, as if on cue, Longshot addresses him as Pup. Gog n’Magog to you, Gog corrects him. He stands above the bloody corpse of a security man.
He has grown, Longshot observes. Does that mean he is real? Depends on how he defines real, Gog laughs. He is a magic magnet there and now he is bloated with power. Darla announces that this can’t be real. It is too horrible. Gog laughs and, before their eyes, grows another eye. He holds up a bloody claw and asks if anybody has an itch he should scratch?
How do they know Gog is not real, Longshot asks the kids. He can hear and see him. That means nothing, one of the boys tells him. They see monsters in comics and on TV all the time, but Mom says they are not real. Just special effects and other tricks. Butch agrees, in total denial, telling the others that he was lying before.
Longshot announces he gets it. Reality is what you make of it there. And Gog is trying to make it monstrous. He addresses Gog, telling him, if he is going to be the monster there, he can’t believe in him. But pups are real. Why doesn’t he go back to being —
Gog hits him. Hard to know what is real in this world until it slams you in the face, he announces. Longshot can’t close his eyes to him. He has to face Gog’s reality. Now does anybody else want to tell him he isn’t real?


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Deadly Lies
Manhattan, the Cloisters museum… Nighttime:
Gog n’ MaGog has become a monstrosity and stands gloating before Longshot and the kids who led him there. Gog explains that, ever since Longshot tricked him there, he’s been attracted to this world’s magicks. They fill him up. He is bloated with the power of this world and still hungry.
The kids are scared out of their wits. Longshot shoos them back. He calls Gog ‘Pup’ and tells him he always knew he had secrets. He wants them now. One of the boys wants to attack Gog and Longshot shoves him back. He is called “Longshot,” he tells Gog, and people claim he is lucky. Is that the truth? His mind feels hollow. He has only the echo of memories. But Gog knows. Is this his world? Gog interrupts him, telling him that he knows this is not his world. He knows that he doesn’t fit in. This is a great place if you have an appetite… and Longshot bugs him. He stuck around to kill him.
Butch with his gun sneaks up on Gog, while Longshot asks why Gog hates him. He is sorry if he stuck him there and will try to help. Too late, Gog announces. Longshot calls him a puppy, but Longshot is the puppy… leaving messes everywhere… walking off, wagging his tail… assuming someone will pick up after him. He is oblivious. And as for why he wants to kill him. Maybe… Butch aims and Gog slaps him. … he just doesn’t like his face.
Longshot reacts with righteous anger and his eye begins to glow. You don’t hit children! He attacks Gog, who just slams him to the ground and tells him to listen. Longshot was a slave, who rebelled. Gog was a tracker, just doing his job. He was tracking Longshot when he got lucky and pulled him through a dimensional portal into this miserable world. Gog lost his home, his world and began to grow into this monstrosity. The kids begin to cheer Longshot to fight, while Gog accuses him that it is his fault Gog is this way. Longshot realizes that he is right and wonders what to do.
Meanwhile in upstate New York, Rita entertains unwanted houseguests: Spiral and the monstrosity known as Mojo, who examines Rita and notices the similarities between her and the slave species created by the Spineless ones. He is not happy at the idea of a whole world full of the beings they thought to be myth. If the slaves knew, they might do something real obnoxious, like want rights and freedom… doesn’t Spiral agree? Spiral points out that she is one of those slaves and considers staying there. Grinning, Mojo points out that she will be a freak here as well with all her extra arms. He turns back to Rita demanding to know where Longshot is or he will turn her young again. Mistakenly, he ages her instead. He orders Spiral to begin her dance that is to take them across dimensions. He takes the struggling Rita along.
Back at the Cloisters, Gog keeps on hitting Longshot, as he announces that, whenever Longshot uses his luck, somebody else gets unlucky. Like him. Gog mocks Longshot and lures him to use his luck, his crutch and screw up somebody else. Longshot refuses to fight back. The kids get disappointed, even his groupie Darla.
Longshot realizes that he cannot disappoint them. Gog is evil and has to be stopped. He attacks, threatening to kill him with a snap. A tentacle grows from Gog and holds him fast, as he mocks Longshot’s unwillingness to kill. He also states that, if he does die, Longshot will never have a chance to regain his memories. His family… his lover… doesn’t he remember that he loves somebody very much? And his children… doesn’t he want to see them again? Longshot hesitates and Gog grows a claw to sever the tentacle and toss Longshot to the ground.
Suddenly, a ram-headed humanoid appears and orders Longshot to get up. Longshot recognizes him as one of the demons he fought before. He hopes he and Gog will kill each other. Gog recognizes the newcomer as well and asks what he can do. Logshot’s famed luck has run out. Maybe, but his hasn’t, the stranger replies as his eye begins to glow. Calling Longshot a coward, he orders him to get up and help him finish Gog off. Without waiting he attacks.
The kids asks Longshot to act. Disappointed they announce that heroes are supposed to know who the bad guy is. Crouching in the corner, a dejected Longshot thinks that he knows who he is.
The kids head outside following the fight. Quark evades Gog’s attacks, announcing that he stayed on this planet to protect Longshot. Gog grabs for Quark’s head, but Quark is stuck between dimensions and can dematerialize. He disappears.
Elsewhere, Dr. Strange is sifting through dimensions with his mind, watched by his admiring manservant, Wong. Strange realizes that recently a portal opened to Earth and several beings slipped though. In his scrying glass, he witnesses the Ritual they performed to create a doorway, which failed, and a later attempt that met with success. Strange senses the evil involved in their rituals. The last portal opened north of New York City. More otherworldy beings entered this dimension a mere hour ago. He flies outside the building, prepared to meet them.
Longshot walks away from the Cloisters, still ashamed of his cowardice. He doesn’t know whom to trust. The new one talked like a friend but so did Pup once. Did he just leave another mess for someone else to clean up? When he first arrived there, everything was so clear and simple. He had no visions, no dreams. Stripped of memories, past, identity – all he had was his life and it was the ultimate freedom. It was so uncluttered. He sinks down. He doesn’t want his memories back. The more he finds out, the less free he is. He wishes he could have his mind wiped again. He wants to be a man without a past. Rita liked him that way.
He empties out the junk from his bag. The doll he got from Hester, the diamonds, some tools, trash. He wonders why he is collecting that junk. What clues does it offer? Did such trinkets have any meaning where he came from? As if objects had answers. He knows the answer. He lost his luck, his faith, his friends. He is a displaced nobody, heartbroken and homesick for a world he can’t remember.
Mojo, Spiral and their prisoner, Rita, have arrived between dimensions. It’s a mad place where a huge ship is sailing. On Mojo’s order, Spiral binds Rita to the prow. Hating the other woman for looking normal, Spiral gleefully complies. Mojo babbles on, wondering how he and Spiral can be joined together in their magic when he is the one who does all the twisting. Mojo asks Spiral how Rita is dong as their navigator. Rita is uttering a silent scream, as she is being driven mad by the sights. Spiral informs Mojo that she is screaming with delight. Content Mojo announces that she must be in love with him already. Does he own this dimension? Spiral replies he does and suggests they go see everything. Rita wants to see everything.
Back outside the Cloisters, Longshot wishes he could start all over, be a baby again. But he doesn’t remember being little. Or being born. Except when he came to awareness a short time ago, already a grown man. Maybe he should start reading the origins of other things. He reaches out for a statue and reads its history. Its creator was proud. He formed beauty where there was nothing. These emotions strike a familiar cord… and he remembers.
(flashback)
A foreign landscape. A younger Longshot with shorter hair, dressed in a cloak evades a guard and then runs towards his goal, wondering why his creator should even speak to him, should he find him. He is a nobody. He makes his way across the dangerous land, the barren bogs and ink lagoons. Suddenly, he sees a lovely elf with butterfly wings. Delighted, Longshot greets it, only to notice a moment later that it is mechanical. Fake like him and his kind… or so the only ones tell them.  But he exists, he feels and thinks, isn’t that alive enough, he wonders. Should it matter to him if they say he isn’t real? Does it matter to the elf? The mechanical creature just giggles.
Longshot is amazed, as he sees the citadel the elf and others of its kind have emerged from. He has never seen such beauty. Passing a pile of junk, he suddenly runs into a giant caterpillar, who asks if he can be of help. Longshot hesitatingly explains that he heard rumors… he is following a dream. Wonderful, the caterpillar enthuses and urges him to go on. Longshot reveals that he heard of a man who taught all men how to walk… who built his works… and perhaps even built him.
He thinks someone built an exquisite creature like him, the caterpillar scoffs. If he didn’t already exist, he could never be imagined. A door opens from the caterpillar and out steps an odd, tall being, with a bristly beard and a long shock of hair. He looks like an emaciated version of the spineless ones, with the difference that he clearly has a spine as he is walking upright.
Taking a closer look at Longshot’s face, he states that Longshot is definitely one of his designs. He explains that he is a creator. He has the right temperament. Impatience for the way things are and an angry desire to make them better. Longshot kneels in the presence of Arize, his creator, who actually isn’t interested in adoration. He wants to know why Longshot has sought him out. The young man blurts out that he is a slave. They are all slaves and they need Arize’s help.
His creator explains that he is one of the special ones. He built powers into him. He asks Longshot to “read” him… Longshot does so and sees Arize’s memories.
(Arize’s memory)
In the beginning, all creatures were spineless, Arize recounts, and could only crawl. They dragged their spirits through the muck and hid their eyes to the ground. Arize was the man who woke up in the dark; he built himself an exo-skeleton. He taught men to stand tall and look to the spitfires above. He dragged the whole helpless race out of the mud… he raised the dead. Some refused spines, though, a matter of integrity, they claimed, and somehow those Spineless Ones became the rulers who required slaves to maintain them. So Arize took images from myth, evils from their collective mind and designed Longshot’s kind. Next, they wanted galaxy spanning super-weapons and Arize refused. The turned him out.
(Longshot’s memory):
Now Arize only builds amusing beautiful trinkets. Now it is the turn of Longshot’s kind. The slaves must rebel. Longshot protests that he is just a nobody. Arize agrees, but adds that within Longshot there is the possibility of miracles. He was lied to. He wasn’t built. He was genetically engineered. The slaves are living breathing creatures.
(reality):
Longshot awakes wondering what all that meant. Did he lead the rebellion? Did it fail? What went wrong? He must have left a big mess and ran away. He must get back. He decides that Rita will help and decides to go visit her.
He arrives at her home, smashing a window, and is surprised how ruined everything is inside. Dr. Strange addresses him and dryly informs him that the door was open. In his hands is Rita’s parrot and, at his feet, lies her dog, both of them seemingly dead. Strange muses that while there is no sign of violence – and their lifeforce seems to have been drawn out of them. And Rita? Longshot asks agitated.
Strange illuminates the Eye of Agamotto to find out who Longshot is. He sees that Longshot is more than he sees to be and inform him that he detected several timespace rifts. The last such disturbance was here. What does he know about that? Longshot hesitates, then admits that he dragged some creatures there with him. But he doesn’t want to talk. He must find Rita.
Picking up one of her belongings and reading it, he finds that he can only read the past. That means she will never touch these objects again! There’s no future here for her! Agitated, he shouts that she has no future.
They don’t know that, Strange tries to calm him and asks if he can lead him to one of those otherworldly beings. But he must go find Rita, Longshot protests single-minded. So he will leave him to fight his demons for him, Strange asks pointedly. Longshot realizes that Gog is his mess and agrees to take Strange to him. However, he asks the sorcerer not to kill him. He owes Gog that much at least. Dr Strange teleports them both to the Cloisters.
Back there, Gog feels his hunger growing. He plans to consume Longshot’s magic as well, unless Longshot releases him. He senses his foe’s arrival. Longshot asks the disturbed Dr. Strange not to kill Gog. He promised… Strange interrupts to point out that he promised to see if he could salvage what was once good, but Gog is beyond salvation. The danger is too great. He cannot wield such power. It wields him.
Longshot is torn. He cannot kill Gog. He was his friend! He knows who he is! He addresses Gog as ‘Pup,’ then tells himself that he mustn’t be selfish. Strange told him to keep Gog busy, while he could weave his spells. He has to do it. Gog mockingly greets Longshot as ‘dear pal’ before attacking him. The monster shout at Longshot to kill him, kill his past, kill himself. Does he remember yet, how hated he is? Strange begins his spell while he urges Longshot not to believe the demon’s lies. The spell doesn’t seem to work, as Gog just swallows the magic tossed at him. Longshot kicks him in the face, while Strange keeps up his spell, his intention being to fill Gog with magic.
Gog mockingly asks Longshot where his luck is now. He doesn’t need it, Longshot replies in mid-jump, as he keeps on evading Gog’s blows. Strange tells Longshot that Gog is now full to burst. Now, Longshot has to lance this festering sore, before it infects the whole world. He tells him to banish Gog to another reality. Longshot draws one of his small blades and Gog asks if he would destroy him considering he brought him here… considering he created him. He would destroy his memories… his past?
He doesn’t want his memories. He doesn’t need his past! Longshot shoots back. Power took Gog and he welcomed it. Longshot does not. He throws his blade at Gog, who literally explodes with all his power. Moment later, he is gone.
Strange inquires how Longshot feels and the young man confides that he feels as though he lost something. Gog was his buddy… even saved his life once. He thought the good in him could be salvaged. Strange sighs that Longshot truly is an alien. He has his eye on an ideal. He believes in the best a thing can be. Quite unrealistic, Strange begins to lecture, but perhaps something quite astonishing could result. Many arcane principles of magic are based on just such a ratio between the real and the ideal. If one focused on the ideal… perhaps he could make the ideal happen.
Longshot warns him of someone coming. It is the ram-headed creature that fought Pup before. Grimly, he reminds Longshot that he left him to die but he didn’t. He is Quark – he and Longshot are from the same side of the track. Can he helps him sort out the lies? Longshot asks. Quark remarks that Longshot was created to be a slave, but as he can see from the people on this planet… Longshot finishes his sentence. There is a race of man here and they are free. Where they came from, he rebelled against being a slave, and was mind-wiped.
Quark tells Strange that they had to suppress him. Longshot was special, some said miraculous. And they suppressed his Messiah complex as well, Strange observes wryly, though he fears it is returning. Longshot remarks that he tried to wake the people up, but they were all asleep from slavery. But now, if only they could see this planet of men… he must get back.
Strange reminds him of the entities he brought there with him. He has some cleaning up to do in this dimension first. Quark explains that most of those went back through a portal. Gog stayed to have some private revenge. He stayed to make sure Longshot was the victor. Strange points out that one last being, two perhaps, entered this dimension mere hours ago. Longshot remembers that they have Rita. Quark realizes that only two can move freely through space and time… they are doomed.
Strange suggests tracking them with his magic, and Longshot replies he can use his luck. Quark explains that their luck is fickle. It has a flipside. They call on a force that suspends the laws of probability for them. They ask that force to ignore all other possibilities and just do for them what they need it to do. There may be a backlash effect… repercussions… Longshot has been forcing his luck pretty hard. Strange understands, this may result in an equal opposite elsewhere… bad luck… He warns Longshot that his luck may turn on him. Use a force and it uses you.
Longshot doesn’t care anymore. He is done hiding from his past. And he can’t stumble along leaving messes in everyone’s lives. He has to clean up after himself. And he has to do it his way.


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A Snake Coils …
Leaving the home of Ricochet Rita, Mojo and Spiral wonder what to do next. Why are they on this murderously ugly, dying planet? Mojo inquires. Spiral impatiently reminds him that they are here for the rebel slave, Longshot. They found a strong psychic imprint on that Rita-girl, but she refused to speak. Mojo recalls that and how traveling through the multiverse with Rita locked her in a permanent, soundless scream. Can Spiral imagine to scream forever and yet not make a sound? An interesting existence, better than most. A snake coils in his heart waiting to strike, but at what?
As they talk and float on, around Mojo the vegetation and smaller animals die. Again, Spiral reminds him of Longshot. Mojo decides he will own this planet. He brings fertility to this land. He will kill everything in sight, first, Spiral sighs. All will worship him, he continues, ignoring her. Did Spiral know that worship brings power? Oh, what would she know – she never worshipped him properly.
He orders her to dance allowing them to turn invisible and examine the streets of the small community they have reached. A family just is on their way to church. Mojo examines them and wonders why the people aren’t paying attention to him. Because they are invisible, Spiral sighs. He may be a genius but he is also an idiot. He must have pulled his brainwires too tight this morning. She orders him to stop touching her as though he owned her. He does own her, he reminds her. He touches a cat, which at once dies. How dare it die on him? he asks enraged. Doesn’t it know who he is?
Spiral admits he is clever, giving her all those extra arms and then bringing her to a planet full of two-armed creatures. What better way to make her hate humans than harness her hate for his petty despotism? Mojo may act completely psychotic, but she knows he is really thirty moves ahead of everyone. She shoves down an elderly woman and walks over her. Their attention is now focused on a church. Mojo figures it is his royal court. They are already worshipping him. But they need to make some minor adjustments in the building. He asks Spiral for help before reminding himself that she has no taste, especially not in men. After all, Longshot… of all the hearts to win, his is… Spiral warns him to watch it.
What color to paint it, Mojo wonders and then wishes Major Domo were here to help. Now what would Domo do? He’d get them in the proper frame of mind, he decides and uses his powers to twist the people’s brains. At once the people begin taking the church apart and worshipping Mojo. The Spineless One grins. Longshot can have his miracles and his luck. So what if he ruins Mojo’s slave trade and movie industry. Who needs that old dimension? No need of constructing slaves when there’s a whole planet full of them easily trained. His slaves shall build him a citadel to rival the one at home. After that he needs control of the world’s airwaves. His tower will zap everyone into worshipping him.
Elsewhere, Rita has been returned to her home. She is unmoving, locked in a perpetual silent scream. That’s the way Longshot finds her. He sees she is still alive but can’t awaken her. He wonders if they have hollowed out her mind like they did his. He snaps her loose and figures since his memories are slowly returning maybe he can help Rita by surrounding her with familiar things. He tries to awake her dog but finds his head is on backwards. Disgusted, he flinches. There are no wounds. It is as though it grew that way. Something is so very wrong here. He begins to ‘read’ Rita.
(Rita’s memories)
He sees a Spineless One and Rita strapped to the tow of a ship sailing through dimensions. She sees too much and retreats. He sees Mojo shouting at Rita threatening to keep her bound to the prow until it absorbs her.
(reality)
The Spineless One did this to her, but he wanted him, Longshot realizes. So he is to blame. He hears a snapping sound and expects an attack but it is just Quark and Dr. Strange, who were following him. They didn’t trust his luck, he announces. Putting a hand on Longshot’s shoulder, Quark explains that it’s getting too dangerous. This is Mojo’s work. He must be furious his men couldn’t destroy Longshot. Now he’s come to do the job himself. Longshot agrees; Mojo tried to use Rita to find him. That spineless horror had her. His crazed eyes, his face … that face…
Quark perversely tries to comfort him, telling him that they are doomed if they are up against Mojo. Might as well give up. Dr. Strange in the meantime has begun to examine Rita who is suffering from severe psychic and physical shock.  Whatever traumatized her, paralyzed her, bound her body and soul. This entity is an anti-nature force. The evidence outside, the red rain, the black lightning, the negative ion winds… All natural phenomena are either warped or destroyed. He intends to bring her to his sanctum in a protective stasis field while they search for…
A frantic Longshot interrupts: Strange has to heal her. It may not be possible… Strange trails off. He decides to listen to his intuition and let Longshot lead the way in this one. Healing Rita may be the only key… He promises to try.
Strange’s attention is drawn to a television set that is flickering on and off. The report is about a bizarre new religious cathedral. Longshot and Quark, in the meantime, have equipped themselves courtesy of Rita’s extensive weapon stash. Quark tells the doctor goodbye and hopes that next time they meet won’t be in the realm of the dead.
Quite a difference of spirit in those two, Strange muses. A headlong positive spirit and a diehard negative one. Perhaps the combination will create an effective force. This is one of those moments when the world seems to pause at a precipice of fate, but which way will it fall? Time for one of Longshot’s miracles…
Soon, Longshot and Quark are getting ready to face Mojo, though Quark keeps on muttering about his face. Longshot insists he has got a great face. Impatiently, Quark explains that it’s not like anyone else’s. Mojo probably saw it as some joke he could play on him. Chasing Mojo is futile. They are just a couple of fleas next to his power. Longshot tells him to cut it out. Nothing is ever futile. They have got luck on their side!
They become interested in a TV  set in a electronics shop, where the anchorman is talking about religion. Longshot wants to know what religion is. The news report is about a community that has built a strange otherworldly church. There are also reports of a “new god.” Quark tells him to ignore it. He’ll just want to save somebody. That’s how he got mindwiped to begin with. He reminds Longshot that Strange told them to look for unnatural things. So can they just get this over with and die?
As they keep on running, Longshot asks what Quark meant about him liking to save people. What was he like before he got brain-wiped? Did Quark know him? Quark explains that he had heard of Longshot. He was legend, a rebel leader trying to free them. It was hopeless, of course. Sounds exciting, Longshot admits, What’s hopeless about it?
The secret meetings, the hiding, the fear. And the rebels were squashed by Mojo or turned inside out by wizards… or betrayed by a comrade. Longshot was branded a hero and then almost crucified for it. It doesn’t pay to be a hero. Then why is Quark one? Longshot retorts. After all, he decided to save Longshot. That was before he realized how hopeless it all is, Quark retorts. They’ll lose, then they’ll gut their minds or kill their families. Did he have a family? Longshot wonders. He wishes they’d wiped his mind, Quark whines. He wants his past back, Longshot replies. Then if he wants to forget it, at lest it’ll be by his choice.
 A man runs into them. When he catches sight of Quark’s face, he runs away screaming. They notice that nature around them is decaying and figure they are getting closer to Mojo. Longshot is still playing-catch-up and Quark tells him that he is now stuck halfway between dimensions. Longshot decides that, once they get rid of Mojo, they can return and continue the rebellion. Quark moans He is fed up with Longshot’s eternal optimism. Plus, Longshot doesn’t remember Mojo. He looks at something and it dies. He rules their dimension. Quark wishes he were like Longshot and could forget who he is. Longshot urges him to remember who they are – the lucky ones. If they keep their motives pure and their hearts honest, they will win. They’ll save both dimensions!
But Quark has lost his faith in luck. It has a flipside. He feels their foes know that their luck will eventually turn on them. Longshot points out that, despite Quark’s constant moaning, he keeps on fighting. Maybe he’ll get lucky and die trying, Quark jokes grimly. As they pass a horde of sheep Quark mentions that that’s why he lost faith. Longshot at least was made in man’s image, but he was based on a mindless beast. People only see him as a freak.
Suddenly, laughter appears out of nowhere as does Mojo who agrees with Quark. As he mentions Rita, Longshot threatens he will cut out Mojo’s tongue if he speaks her name again. Referring to Longshot as an ‘it’, Mojo marvels that he has forgotten his place. Why even Rita…
Drawing his knife, Longshot jumps at him. He said he’d have his tongue. Mojo order Spiral to defend him and sew Longshot’s tongue into a pig’s mouth. She’ll have a better fate for him, Spiral replies. Longshot owes her more than his tongue. Longshot somersaults around her and attacks the weakened Mojo, weakened as he put his powers in his cathedral, his place of worship. Away from that place he is weak.
Longshot finds that he cannot simply kill a defenseless being and goads Mojo to defend himself as he hits him. He cannot simply slaughter him. Why not? War has no ethics, Mojo shrugs as he calls Spiral to his side.
Why couldn’t he kill him, Longshot wonders, and why did Quark let Spiral go? Quark explains that he feels sympathy for Spiral, as Mojo played the same trick on her as he did on him: made her a freak. Whose side is he on? Longshot demands. Spiral protests that Mojo told her Longshot was hers. Not now, he tells her and orders her to teleport them back to his power base.
They failed, Quark announces. If Longshot cannot kill Mojo, he’ll doom this whole planet. Isn’t that what he wants? Longshot snaps. This was their chance and Quark doesn’t even know which side he is on. Quark agrees he is a coward and Longshot hits him. A moment later, he apologizes. It’s just that Quark is always complaining and whining. His spirit is wrong. Can’t he rise above it? He is a beast, Quark states simply. Beasts have no spirit and he doesn’t trust this luck. It scares him. If they use their luck they shift it away from somewhere else. Someone somewhere … gets hurt.
Longshot states that something kept him from killing Mojo. He will have to get rid of him some other way. It is his fault that Mojo and Spiral are there. But he has no right to kill them. He can only banish them back to where they came from. He heard what Spiral said about the tower. They should call Dr. Strange and tell him what’s going on.
Later, the two of them decipher the mysteries of a payphone and manage to call the Doctor. Strange and Wong are busy taking care of Rita. While her parrot has already recovered, Rita is still catatonic. Strange senses from her aura that it is of the utmost importance that she survives.
Longshot explains to Strange what they have learned and Strange figures that Mojo is extending his metaphysical superstructure. He will be weak until it attracts more worshippers. Suddenly, Rita murmurs a barely audible ‘Longshot.’ Strange gives her the receiver and she cradles it as if it is her very lifeline. Strange informs Longshot that Rita will recover and tells him to destroy the tower.
At the tower, Mojo berates his followers that they should sculpt his face everywhere on the building, while Spiral makes fun of the exhausted workers. Suddenly, Mojo complains about them sculpting his face into the stone and Spiral mockingly reminds him that was his order. Agitated, he kills some of his followers, becomes disgusted with his own action and then admires the sunset. He owns the sun, doesn’t he? he asks Spiral. Sure he does, she sighs.
On a roof elsewhere, Longshot has created a glider from stuff he found at Rita’s place, while Quark is preparing bombs and catapults. He’s got a real death fixation Longshot tells him. The way he sees it you can either be dying or living, so why doesn’t Qark join the living for a change? Quark reminds Longshot that, if they destroy the tower, it means the power will be drawn back to Mojo and since Longshot refuses to kill him…
He can threaten to kill him, Longshot decides. Mojo will leave for his dimension then. Nobody has to die. Even if they deserve it? Quark asks. He doesn’t know who deserves to die, Longshot replies. He dragged everyone through the portal and into this mess. He stuck Quark between dimensions. Does he deserve to die for that?
They leave bombs and catapults. Longshot tells Quark to get ready when he sees him flying. He’ll be ready, Quark replies. Today’s a fine day to die, because he now knows what he is, an animal.
As Longshot runs towards the tower he sees a horse. He touches the animal and once again remembers something.
(flashback)
A younger Longshot is talking to his creator, Arize, who explains that it is all a matter of spirit. Forget you ever were a slave and you cease to be one. He didn’t create them for that. The Spineless Ones may have asked for a slave race but he didn’t give them one. He put some good stuff into their DNA like rebellion and willfulness. His people only know slavery, Longshot explains. It is hard to have a will.
Arize explains that he was born short, but always wanted to be tall. Now look at him. He is so tall he towers over Longshot. For a long time even with those legs he felt short. They are fake legs. He is short, but his head is in the clouds. Existence precedes essence – stop living like a slave and you no longer are one. Longshot has to get that message across to his people and he’ll seed rebellion.
Now he has a gift for Longshot. Arize leads him to a mechanical horse. His inventions have been changing lately, he explains. They seem to have evolved will and they are coming alive. And if they believe they are alive, then they are. Just like Longshot. He is like a man who woke up in the dark – everyone else is still asleep! He gives him the horse to ride fast and far – farther than any of his race has ever been before.
(reality)
Longshot awakes from his reverie. So he is not a slave, but there are still thousands who believe they are. If they could see Earth, full of beings like them … but free. He’ll go back to his dimension and bring his people here, he decides. Mojo must be one of the oppressors he realizes. Maybe he should have killed him, after all…
Nearby, Mojo is on top of his growing power and rants, while getting on Spiral’s nerves. Suddenly, they see Longshot coming closer on his glider. Spiral warns Mojo not to unleash his full power until she has had her way with him.
Quark fires the catapults, giving the impression that Longshot is being aided by an entire army. Spiral reminds Mojo that his power is locked in the tower. If they destroy it, they cripple him. Mojo orders Spiral to attack Longshot. Longshot wonders how he can directly attack Mojo when he cannot even bear to look into his face. And why isn’t he using his magicks? He prays for some luck as he attacks Mojo and kicks him into the stomach.
That moment, Spiral appears on a rooftop behind the unaware Quark, who is agonizing whether or not to shoot Mojo. He decides to be optimistic. That moment, Spiral chops his head off, which has a less permanent effect than desired, for Quark is still stuck between dimensions. Instead, he just shifts his body to Longshot’s side.
Moments later, Spiral teleports in, reminding Mojo that he promised Longshot to her. What’s her problem? Longshot demands. What went on on that other world? Did something go on between them? Spiral vehemently denies it as she attacks him with his sword. Longshot deftly stops the blade between his hands and accuses her of lying. But he hopes she is right, for to know her is to be degraded.
Longshot intends to end this but Mojo surprisingly hits him and then takes both him and Quark out with steam. He orders Spiral to serve him their hearts. She is only too willing to comply when she is shot in the back courtesy of Richochet Rita, who is arriving with Dr. Strange. Strange engages Spiral and Mojo while Rita explains things to Longshot. Strange states that Mojo is an anti-life force. He’s turning nature inside out. If he stays on Earth long enough, the planet can only die. Yet he seems too powerful to kill him on Earth…
Longshot understands and begins working into Mojo’s psychosis, when he mentions that he knows all of his secrets. Mojo is enraged as he begins shooting at Longshot. How dare he know his secrets? Strange begins his spell and opens a dimensional portal and Longshot, with a deft kick, pushes Mojo through. Barely holding on, Mojo shouts for Spiral to join him. He can’t be alone in there. He will lose his mind. He needs her to steer him home. He’ll give her a kingdom.
Rita, still pointing her gun at Spiral, warns her not to move. Spiral shoves a handful of dirt into Rita’s face and joins Mojo. Following them is Longshot, who tells the others he has to go after them. Rita protests. He’ll get lost! He’ll die! He’ll never be back! Longshot tells her he has to go. With Spiral at his side, Mojo will be able to return to his world and may even try to come back here. He is ready now… to kill Mojo. Then he must gather his people and bring them to this planet where they can be free.
Quark steps forward. He may be walking to his doom but, if Longshot can put up with his bad odds, he’ll join him. Rita moves closer to Longshot asking who his friend is. Plus, they should make some room for her – she is coming, too! She’d never survive, Longshot protests. She is Ricochet. She always survives! Rita retorts. Besides, Longshot needs proof for his people. She is living proof that a race of free men exists. Is she sure? She’ll be risking anything, he warns her. That’s what makes it fun! she replies with a grin. Grinning back, Longshot agrees and together they brave the portal.
Strange calls after them, warning Longshot not to overuse his luck. Longshot thanks him. He’ll see him when he returns with his people. The portal closes.
How amusing. A whole race of Longshots, Strange muses. But somehow he thinks here isn’t more than one Longshot in the universe. He suspects Longshot will make his own world worth living in – with Rita at his side - and will have no need of this one.
The people begin to awake from Mojo’s hypnosis and Strange begins to repair the damages to the world. For now, the flowers bloom again. The natural world will not be destroyed after all. And perhaps… another world is about to be saved.


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Fools
Longshot is wandering the far reaches of the Mojoworld. He is searching for something, but he doesn’t know what. He recalls telling his wife that he has to leave to find something and that he’ll be back once he finds it. His wife wanted to know what he is looking for, but he answered that he’ll know once he finds it. His wife told him to hurry up and to bring it back home once he finds it.
Upon reaching the Odd and Uncharted Regions, he sees a small four-fingered little elf with a moustache, who speaks in rhymes. With him is a four legged, giant, red creature called Thingee, who is about to eat the little man. Because Longshot is of pure heart and clear mind he senses that Thingee is nastiness incarnate. He leaps towards the two as the elf is about to be eaten and throws a couple of daggers at Thingee, but he simply laughs at Longshot's attack; the creatures’ laughter (the words) turn solid hitting Longshot and carrying him away. Thingee then swallows the tiny creature and Longshot jumps in after him.
The Thingee is happy because he has eaten two souls. The creature feeds on goodness and purity and had always dreamed of eating Longshot. However somehow his purity is too much for Thingee and he explodes. Longshot wakes up and finds himself being sucked into a black hole. He realizes he has died and finds himself before a tornado of light with red doors swirling around it. Feeling the goodness around him he moves towards The Whirl of Light, thinking that although he is sad to leave his friends and family, he realizes that they will eventually join him. Suddenly he realizes he’s not worthy of heaven, because you need a pure soul. He knows then what it is he’s been looking for: his innocence. He is then pushed into an open door, setting him free to find his destiny.
Longshot wakes up in cornfield and throws up. This makes him happy because “dead men don’t vomit”. He begins to review the events in his head: he remembers being killed by Thingee, but can’t remember the Whirl, he’s been brought back to life and has a new set of clothes. He also doesn’t know where he is. Suddenly his head begins to spin and he passes out again. He is awakened by a sound from his pocket. It’s the little man he tried to save earlier, his name is Nutt and he asks Longshot where they are. Longshot sees a sign that reads: “Baum Kansas 4 Miles”. He realizes he’s on earth and tells Nutt he has some friends here that can help them. As they walk away he wonders what the purpose is of them being revived together. Nutt answers that he’s happy, as long the creature is dead. Unbeknownst to them, Thingee, who has also been revived, has been spying on them. He comes out of the cornfield and breaks the road sign, but before he goes after them he smells “easier prey” and decides to go after it.
Reaching the town of Baum, Longshot asks two old men, Herb and Ray, how to get to New York City. The old men make fun of his looks and of Nutt, who he is carrying on his shoulder. Herb asks how he plans on getting to New York City, Longshot answers that he will walk, unless it is too far. The old men tell him it’s only a few miles up the road. He thanks them and leaves. Afterwards Herb and Ray have big laugh.
As night comes Nutt and Longshot begin to feel hungry. They decide to stop at a nearby house and ask for some food. A little girl called Betty Fillmore opens the door and invites them in. She tells them that her parents are visiting her older sister who’s having her first bay and that her grandma has always taught her to never turn a beggar away because he could be Jesus in disguise. She also thinks that Longshot comes from a fairyland. They eat cupcakes and drink soda for half an hour and Longshot decides to leave. As his saying goodbye to Betty, he touches her shoulders, which triggers his power to read peoples memories. Suddenly as his left eye begins to glow, the ghost of Garret, Betty’s brother who died the previous year in a swimming accident, appears. Longshot doesn’t know how this happened, he wonders if it’s a real ghost or if Betty’s belief in magic is so big she brought the ghost forth through him. She can fell Garrets presence, but can’t see him. Longshot tells her that Garret says he is always watching over her and that he wants her to be happy. Betty hugs Longshot and asks if she can go with him to the fairyland. He says he’s really going to New York and only wants to know if they’re headed in the right direction.
(30 minutes later)
Betty hears a knock on her door and thinks it’s Longshot , who has come back for her. It turns out to be Thingee and Betty screams. Longshot and Nutt who were sleeping in an open field are awoken and wonder what the sound could be. Nutt thinks it might be a bird and that Longshot is being absurd and needs some sleep. Longshot agrees and goes to sleep.
(the next day)Three policeman and some locals, including Herb and Ray, awaken the pair. They claim Betty’s parents found her huddled up in ball and very scared. All she could say was “Longshot”. Genuinely concerned Longshot lurches forwards, prompting the officer to cock his rifle. Longshot’s luck powers make the rifle explode as soon as it fires. He then uses his throwing-daggers to knock the other officers rifles from their hands and kicks a local who’s holding a bat, on the head. While fleeing from the sheriff and his men, he trips over a rock and falls. After asking Nutt if he’s O.K., Garret’s ghost descends from the sky and warns Longshot that the Sheriff is waiting for him at Betty’s house. Betty herself has been taken to a Sanatorium in Barrie. Longshot asks if Garret is a real ghost or just a thought projection that’s taken a life of it’s own. Garret answers that it’s not important what he is; the only thing that matters is that Longshot helps Betty.
Meanwhile Bea Lillian, an old woman, is sitting on her porch picking through the beans that will be her dinner. Suddenly Clifford Spalding, Bea’s former fiance, appears. She can’t believe it because he died in 1947 and he looks young. She on the other hand is old and tired. Clifford says she doesn’t look old to him and she suddenly realizes she’s been turned young again too. As they embrace in a passionate kiss, Clifford begins to morph, nails and ears grow and spiked protrude from his back. Bea faints and Clifford shape shifts back into Thingee. Because Bea was so full of faith and dreams, she was the perfect meal for him.
(nighttime)Thirty miles away Longshot is walking on the roof of the Albany Avenue Sanitarium, realizing he has not only lost his innocence, but his faith in himself as well. He also thinks he might be responsible for Betty’s condition. Longshot sneaks in through a window, but a large fat man stops him in the hallway. The man tells him, that sneaking around at night is not allowed. Longshot answers that, technically, the man is also sneaking around. The man tells Longshot that if he doesn’t tell anyone neither will he. As they walk towards the kitchen, he tells him his name is Wilson and that Doctor Joshua Doctor is the director of the sanitarium. Although he was promised to be cured, Wilson has been in there for 22 years. Longshot inquires about the little girl; Wilson says she’s in bad shape. She is on the fourth floor, but Wilson says he can get them in because he’s on “excellent terms” with the orderlies. Suddenly an orderly named Jake Benny busts in and reprimands Wilson on always sneaking in and stealing food. He then asks Longshot what he is doing there. He answers that he is not really there, and that Jake is dreaming. To prove it he shows him his four-fingered hand and his friend Nutt. While Jake is distracted, Longshot knocks him out with a soft punch on the head.
Wilson gives Longshot a nightshirt as a disguise. It’s too large for him and Longshot asks how it is supposed to disguise him. Wilson explains that if somebody sees him, they’ll think he is Wilson, though Longshot points out that he and Wilson are both trying to get into the upper floor. Yet Wilson is not bothered by that fact, as he leads the way to the little girl’s room. Longshot sneaks into Betty’s room, with the help of Nutt who picks the lock. Meanwhile Wilson sits on Elston, the orderly guarding the room, so as to not attract any more attention. Longshot finds Betty in some sort of catatonic state. Feeling responsible, he once again pulls an image from her mind. It was an image of Thingee, Longshot immediately realizes that he must be responsible for Betty’s condition, so he must be stopped.
In the meantime Thingee is walking through town, when two policemen begin to shoot at him in order to stop him. The bullets don’t faze him and he simply uses some tendrils that grow from his belly to consume them.
Back at the Sanitarium, Longshot is carrying Betty away, but runs into Doctor Doctor and his orderlies, who demand he give them back the girl. Longshot feels that the Doctor isn’t a bad man; it’s just that his intentions are misguided. To escape, instead of running for the door, he pushes through them, in order to confuse them. As he’s running he wonders if he should simply give up and turn himself in. Just then Wilson appears and brings him into a room with five other patients: Diane, who danced naked on the courthouse lawn; Tallulah, an old movie star from the fifties; Mikey, who doesn’t talk much; Mr. Berkowitz, who believes to be a direct descendant of Geronimo and Dennis/Denise, a transsexual man dressing in women’s clothes. The doctor and the two orderlies burst in and Longshot realizes he no longer has faith in either his innocence or his luck to help him out. However seeing the trusting look in the others‘ eyes gives him hope. With his left eye glowing intensely he takes out the doctor and his orderlies without breaking any bones. He flees to an abandoned barn with Betty and the six patients, who insist on following him.
Thingee has seen them escaping and plans on eating them. As he hears a siren approaching, he morphs into the two cops he ate before. The sheriff arrives, claiming someone tipped him off that Longshot was coming to take the girl. The doctor comes out and confirms that Longshot is indeed gone with the girl as well as six other patients. Thingee then tells the sheriff that he was the one that called him, by means of telepathy. He then proceeds to take possession of the sheriffs’ mind in order to enlist his help in capturing Longshot.
Inside the barn, Longshot is trying to use his power to help Betty. He begins to glow, but his self-doubt makes him fail. He feels helpless and tells the mental patients that he can’t help her or anyone else; he can’t even help himself. He tries again, just to show them he’ll fail. The glows becomes blinding and in that instance he realizes, that innocence is not enough; it has to be tested by experience, purged and strengthened by the struggles of the world in order for it to attain its full value. Betty wakes up from her zombie like state and hugs him. Suddenly bullets come flying through the wall. Longshot manages to avoid them and tells everybody to go out the back door. It’s raining now, as he steps out to face his attackers he sees the cops surrounding him, but realizes that Thingee has them under his control. The cops refuse to kill Longshot in cold blood; Thingee says that this is the problem with humans, too much independent thought. He absorbs the policeman back into himself and prepares to eat Longshot. He is too weak form helping Betty, but isn’t afraid to die because his sacrifice will mean his friends have enough time to escape. However he is surprised to see the six patients and little Betty standing behind him.
Thingee is elated because he’ll get to eat all off them together and tells them that once he is finished with them, he’ll consume the hearts and souls from everyone on the planet, till they become like him. Nutt climbs out of Longshot's pocket and whispers to him that in order to defeat the creature, they must love it until it can take no more. They all join hands and with the aid of Betty’s ghostly brother, they begin to glow until the Thingee is engulfed in a tornado of light. Thingee‘s true nature is revealed, he was actually a creature of pure light, who tried restore itself from the weight of tears and suffering, by seeking purity in every form. But with time he forgot his true self, until only the black despair remained. He thanks them and dissolves into the light of the sun.
(several hours later)A now restored Sheriff apologizes to Longshot and tells him he is welcomed to stay. Longshot declines telling him he has to go to New York to find his friends. Betty asks him to come visit soon, he answers that he’ll always be there with her, because he left the best part of him in her heart. As he is leaving, Nutt asks him if his sad. Longshot replies that he feels complete because he found what he was looking for. Suddenly he hears a voice calling him, it’s Wilson and his friends from the sanatorium. Wilson tells Longshot that they want to with him. They are free to leave because they all were committed voluntarily. Longshot asks why they didn’t leave before. Wilson answers it had simply never occurred to them. Longshot welcomes his new friends and wonders what miracles await them along the way.


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(Lower East Side, Manhattan)An old man leans against the counter of a convenience store, using a coin on a freshly bought scratch card. The clerk at the store asks the man, Santiago, how the ladies are treating him these days. Santiago replies that he is in trouble and if he doesn’t win today he won’t be able to afford all the dates he’s going on. As he scratches the card, he tells the store clerk it isn’t the card he asked for. However, before he can object too much, he sees he has three hooks on the winning row and tells the clerk it is perfect.
Suddenly, a man appears behind him and tells him that’s incredibly lucky of him. Santiago turns around to see the man is wearing a mask, one side is white and the other is black with a horn sticking from it. It is the In-Betweener, who is also wearing a sharp suit. The In-Betweener stares into Santiago’s eyes and the old man collapses to the floor. He walks away from the body, adjusting his black and white tie, and apologizes as he wasn’t the person he was looking for.
(Avengers Tower, Midtown Manhattan)Reed Richards, aka Mr. Fantastic, finishes telling Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, a story. Because the portal accidentally opened up to fifteen minutes in their future, he was able to reach his hand through and grab the object without detection. Reed has opened a box, just enough for a brilliant light to radiate from it. Tony looks into the box, mesmerized by what he is seeing. He tells Reed that he can’t believe it was in the Sphinx in the middle of the Met for who knows how long without a single Kang, Doom or Thanos trying to grab it. Reed adds that he only noticed because he left his cosmic-vibration sensitive goggles on. Tony says there is no way those guys have them but Reed points out they probably have equivalent technology.
As Reed closes the box Tony tells him it was a joke that humans make to relieve stressful situations. Reed says that he believes it has only recently appeared there and just looks like it has been there longer. Tony tells him they have a carrier they can put it in that can shield it from any form of divination. Then they can drive it to a secure storage facility he has on Staten Island.
(Dr. Chip Dipson’s Home Laboratory, Park Slope, Brooklyn)Four men dressed like cable repair men tell Dr. Chip Dipson that there is a cable outage in the area and they need to do some rewiring to fix it. Chip, who was working on one of his inventions when they disturbed him, doesn’t notice that his cable TV is still working and that one of the men has a gun stashed behind their back. He tells them to do whatever they have to do, which surprises the men, given there is a news report blaring out on the TV about a man passing through forty-seven green lights before suffering a brain aneurism.
(Humans of Interest Barbershop, Park Slope, Brooklyn)As Longshot sits in the barber’s chair after being given a new haircut, the news report sounds out over the shop’s speakers. It continues and says that the incident is another in the string of “fortunate mort-unates” that follow a path from upstate New York, through Manhattan and is now heading into Brooklyn.
Noting the theme, Longshot asks his barber if the deaths of lucky people have been happening a lot. The barber tells him that it seems recently if you are lucky enough to get a trivial pursuit question right you get an aneurism. As Longshot hands his credit card to the cashier, he hopes that whatever it is isn’t coming after him. The cashier hands Longshot his card back and looks annoyed as he tells him it was declined. Longshot smiles and tells his barber he could never get the hang of money in this dimension anyway. The barber laughs and tells him not to worry as handsoming him up was a public service. As he walks towards the door, Longshot tells the man that even his bad luck works out for him and it’s kind of his superpower. He has to look out when using it selfishly though as it gets all twisted. The barber winks at him and tells him he gave it him free because he is cute.
(Staten Island Ferry Terminal, Lower Manhattan)Tony and Reed are dressed in civilian clothing and are driving a large truck. The security guard at the ferry terminal tells them they cannot drive something that big on the ferry but Reed says he swore he read that the terminal was expanding to accommodate more commercial traffic. Tony tells him he must have read it in an alternate universe and that before he listened to him he was going to drive the truck down through New Jersey to get to the storage facility. He tells Reed that he doesn’t want to backtrack and proposes a different route to get to Staten Island.
A little way off, a man who is late for a job interview rushes towards the ferry. He manages to get through before the guard closes the gate and marvels that it is the fifth day in a row he has barely managed to catch the ferry. As the lucky man boards the ferry and wipes the sweat off his brow, the In-Betweener appears behind him. The cosmic being tells him that every other person will be late and asks why he should profit from it. He reaches out and touches the man, who collapses dead on the floor. The In-Betweener walks off still, continuing on his quest to find the one he seeks, but a little closer now.
(Park Slope, Brooklyn)As Longshot walks down the tree-lined street, he wonders if it is lucky or unlucky for someone to win the lottery and then die. It seems unlucky but it was good luck that started it off. So then it might not affect him because he is so lucky. He is suddenly distracted by a taco van, but when he opens his wallet he sees it is empty. He is so hungry and decides using a little luck won’t hurt. His left eye glows yellow, which startles the taco van owner. Suddenly, the building behind Longshot explodes and money rains down on him.
On a subway station, the In-Betweener picks up on something and looks at a subway map. Figuring out he needs to use the R-train, he plots his course towards Longshot.
(Red Hook, Brooklyn)Tony and Reed’s truck is stopped again, this time by a construction worker. He gives them directions to get to the BQE, which will get them where they want to go. As the truck drives off, another construction worker approaches the first and asks why he told the men to turn around, as this entrance is fine. The first worker apologizes and tells them he is new and he really needs the job.
Back on Park Slope, Longshot looks up at the building that just exploded and decides he had better fix it as it was his fault. As passersby grab for the money that continues to rain down, Longshot throws a knife through the bottom floor window and jumps through it. As he lands inside the room, he is met by a frightened woman, who asks if he is one of the cable guys who are here to rob them. He introduces himself and tells her he is there to help her not get robbed, hurt or killed. She asks if he is with the X-Men and then tells him she knew there was something fishy about the cable guys, as there are scams all the time. Longshot tells her he was with X-Factor but she doesn’t know who that is. She asks what his mutant power is but be replies he isn’t a mutant; he just got involved with the X-types because they just assumed he was. He tells her he is a genetically engineered orphan from another dimension with magic luck powers.
She seems a little taken aback and he apologizes, as he was probably responsible for the money explosion at her house. She points out the cable guys did it but he explains that whatever circumstances came together to craft the moment, they culminated when he wished he had money for tacos. He must be pure of heart when he uses his luck powers; it must only benefit others or else it turns. She summarizes that he wanted some money for tacos and as a result the top floor of her building exploded. He adds that it blew money all over him and tells her that luck is capricious. She points him in the direction of the stairs and, as they leave, she asks him if he wants to grab a drink afterwards. He informs her that if he used this as an opportunity to get a date then his luck might turn again.
When they go upstairs, they see Dr. Dipson’s laboratory in ruins with a huge hole in the wall. One of the cable guys is holding him at gunpoint whilst the others pick money up off the floor. One of the men tells the others they need to go, as they ruined the safe cracking. The man holding the gun tells him that Chip saw their faces. Longshot and the woman walk in and the robbers immediately point their guns at them. Longshot asks if they guns are Defender 8’s and one of the men confirms they are, not that he will care in a second. The men pull the triggers, but Longshot’s luck activates and his eye glows yellow. The guns explode in the men’s faces and Longshot, remembering a newspaper article he saw earlier, informs them there was a recall and they should ask for their money back.
As Reed and Tony drive through the city, Daft Punk’s “Lucky” plays over the radio.
Longshot walks over to the shaken Chip and asks if he is okay. He says he is and he has other safes. Longshot asks if he ever thought about a bank but the man tells him he doesn’t trust them. He used to have one but it was turned over by the Green Goblin. The woman tells them she called the police and asks Chip if he is okay. Chip replies that the robbers didn’t even try to mess with his equipment, as they just wanted his money. When Longshot asks about it, Chip tells him he is trying to produce constant radiation that might nullify the random cosmic rays that bombard them from space. The woman puts her hand on the man’s shoulder and tells Longshot her dad is a scientist and he has provided independent work on all sorts of advancements. Chips adds that he sold Hank Pym the patent that allows him to talk to ants without using pheromone signals. Nobody wants to talk to the amazing fart-man.
Longshot hears a voice coming from outside and he peers through the hole in the wall to see the In-Betweener standing below. The woman asks if the police are there but Longshot tells her they aren’t and asks the In-Betweener if he is the one killing all the lucky people. The In-Betweener looks up at him and tells them he is but he will be done with that after him. The woman tells dad she doesn’t see anyone down there but Chip replies that Longshot is talking to a god. He can see him because he accidentally left his cosmic vibration-detecting contacts in.
The In-Betweener uses his powers and forces Longshot out of the window. As he struggles in the energy grip of the In-Betweener, he asks why he is doing it, to which the cosmic god tells him that he is throwing off the balance of the universe. Struggling to breathe, Longshot tells him that, if he wasn’t there, Chip and his daughter might have been killed. But then again he might have caused the robbery too. The In-Betweener tells him that he doesn’t mean this incident; he is talking about the others. Longshot guesses he means the haircut and the In-Betweener realizes he doesn’t remember. Suddenly, Chip appears on the doorstep with a huge gun. He tells the In-Betweener to leave Longshot alone and to go back to whatever unimaginable maddening space he came from. He fires the gun and the In-Betweener vanishes, musing on the fact the man can see him.
He immediately reappears a few steps away and tells the man he has a job to finish, although he’s dropped Longshot now. Unfortunately, Chip’s gun fired a laser beam that just happened to hit Tony and Reed’s truck as it was driving past. The beam hits Reed, who begins to writhe in pain. As he starts to contort out of shape, he tells Tony the laser must have been parallel to the cosmic radiation that originally altered his DNA. He is unable to control his form and so he grows and grows until the cab of the lorry bursts open, sending Tony flying into a fire hydrant.
The lorry explodes and the case containing the mystery object is catapulted out. The In-Betweener tells Longshot that if he does not let him act then everything is doomed. Longshot points out that if he hadn’t been there then the lorry wouldn’t have exploded. As the case bounces along the floor towards the two arguing men, Tony activates his Iron Man suit and demands Longshot step away from the case. With water pouring down on him, though, his suit cannot properly form and he ends up malfunctioning and slapping himself in the head. The case lands at Longshot’s feet, pops open and the object lands in the lucky one’s hands. Longshot looks down to see he is now holding a bluing blue object that the In-Betweener immediately recognizes as a cosmic cube.
As Mr. Fantastic struggles to contain his form, Iron Man, in his half-formed armor, tells Longshot not to do anything, as the cube is unstable and could destroy the planet. The In-Betweener calmly tells him not to be selfish and to release the cube to him, as he has to die. As everyone looks on, Longshot tells the In-Betweener to get lost. The cube activates and a bright light shines out.
Longshot is sat in the barber’s chair having just received his new haircut. A news report comes over the stereo that talks about the Supreme Court’s decision on SHIELD’s expansion.
Elsewhere, Chip’s daughter turns away the cable guys who have come calling at her door.
Longshot walks down the street and spots the taco van. He decides to use his powers to get some money but suddenly armed men drop from the sky and tell him to put his hands on his head. A man, looking like the fully white version of the In-Betweener appears and tells him he is giving off a magical aura but is not a registered magical being. He isn’t even a citizen and so it is his duty to inform him that, according to the SHIELD anti-unlawful magic program, he is to be purge from existence and executed on sight.
Longshot takes a step backwards and bumps into the steps leading up to Chip’s house. His psychometry suddenly kicks in and he gets flashes of images of the things that happened before. He thinks something lucky is about to happen but instead he eye doesn’t glow and nothing happens. With guns pointed at Longshot’s head, the soldiers are given the order to fire at will.


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(Putnam, Connecticut)Some loud banging wakes a woman up from her sleep and, as she walks towards the door, she wonders what the commotion is. Suddenly, her windows and door are kicked in and she screams in terror. A group of soldiers are outside and one of them announces they are SHIELD and by rule of Order they are there to detain the extra-dimensional being known as Mr. Dapples.
The dazed woman informs one of the soldiers that Mr. Dapples is the name of her daughter’s teddy bear. The man tells her they will have to detain her daughter, Jennifer, too. The woman yells for them to stop but the men charge into the little girl’s room, waving their guns around. Jennifer sits upright in bed, screaming and clutching her purple teddy bear, Mr. Dapples. However, the soldiers look in a nearby mirror to see the Mr. Dapples’ reflection is that of a huge creature with a skull for a face.
Outside, the house gunfire rings out, followed by roaring and screaming. Jennifer and her mother come running out of the house and get in their car. The mother, Sonja, phones Diana Dipson but gets her voicemail. She leaves a message and apologizes for calling so late but she can’t talk about it on the phone. She asks if Diana’s father has invented a demon scanner and tells her she is driving to the city to see them. She looks in the rear view mirror to see Jennifer cuddling up to the demonic looking creature. Her daughter tells her not to worry though, as Mr. Dapples’ reflection won’t hurt her because he knows she is nice.
(Brooklyn, New York)As two boys walk through a kitchen, a news report plays on the TV. The reporter is interviewing the pale, white version of the In-Betweener that previously captured Longshot. The new entity, calling himself Order, tells the reporter that their society has been held hostage by the random and brutal threat of magic for far too long. No mundane terrorist organization can compare to a Hell-portal opened up by some careless sorcerer. He asks what would happen if an immortal imp were to wipe the memories of their entire civilization. It could have happened already and that is unacceptable. SHIELD has always been committed to a safe and orderly America and it is only natural that their new priority is the regulation and containment of magical and extra-dimensional forces.
The reporter interviewing Order asks about the fears that SHIELD will expand to hunt down mutants and other super powered beings. Order assures him that SHIELD is not a gang of genephobic barbarians. Certain mutants do pose a threat but he believes current programs are enough and they are more concerned with the random, unscientific danger of magic at this time.
One of the boys, carrying a children’s magic kit, walks through the kitchen and asks the other if they should be doing this. The other kid tells him it’s just a game and asks if he is afraid he will summon a monster. SHIELD isn’t going to bother with them. As the two boys go outside, they look up to see the SHIELD helicarrier flying overhead and they decide to go inside instead.
Not far away Longshot is about to be executed by armed SHIELD soldiers. He tells Order that he has seen him before, or someone like him, with a split face and a horn. Order stops the execution and asks about the horn. Longshot explains that he touched the building and his psychometry caused him to see some visions. Order tells Longshot he is lucky to never have met that demon and he is lucky because of him. Longshot points out he is lucky because of a magical ceremony he took part in years ago. Order tells his soldiers to shoot him but one of the men tells him they are picking up a much larger magical force nearby. Order realizes it must be Mr. Dapples and turns to see Sonja’s car pull up nearby. Looking at the helicarrier and the SHIELD agents she says that she was hoping they would have touched down somewhere else.
Order tells his men that their new priority is to fire on the car, which alarms Longshot as he can see there are people inside. Before the soldiers can react, Longshot vaults over one of them, whips out a bunch of small blades and throws them. The blades jam in the men’s guns and Longshot shields the car with his body. He asks if Sonja is okay but she just tells him he’s gorgeous.
One of the soldiers asks why they would be given rifles that can be stopped by knives. Another tells him they were designed by Bruce Banner and he should ask him next time he sees him. Order vanishes and reappears behind Longshot, pushing him out of the way and telling him once again he must expend his power personally. He thrusts his hand through the window of the car and goes to grab Mr. Dapples. Jennifer dodges out of his grasp and shouts that Mr. Dapples tells him to go away.
Elsewhere, the two boys are dressed like magicians and one of them holds a top hat. He waves his wand and says the hat is empty but, with a simple flourish, they will find the hat... is occupied. Dr. Strange’s head pokes out of the top hat, much to the surprise of the two boys. He climbs out of the top hat, introduces himself to the shaken boys and tells them he was pulled here by a powerful magical force. It probably wasn’t them though and he looks out of the window to see Longshot and Order fighting.
Order tells Longshot that Jennifer is harboring something but he suddenly stops moving and speaking. Longshot is a little confused but Dr. Strange appears and opens the car door, letting Sonja out. He politely explains that Order is after her daughter because her teddy bear is a great and powerful force. Order is still frozen in place but Dr. Strange tells them that he fights the temporal cessation and it shall break at any moment. He gathers everyone around him, ready to vacate to his sanctuary and uses the top hat as a portal. Once he has left, Order can move again and he continues with what he was saying.
Everyone appears in Dr. Strange’s sanctum sanctorum. He offers them a drink and tells Longshot it is nice to see him again. Longshot tells him he can’t recall meeting him but then again his memory gets wiped all the time. Longshot kneels down in front of Jennifer and asks if she is okay, as the first portal ride can be scary. He puts an arm on her shoulder but it touches Mr. Dapples’ head and he gets a vision.
He seems himself lying in some rubble after crashing through a roof to an apartment. A man shouts at him and Longshot apologizes because his jetpack broke. On the other side of the room, Sonja holds Jennifer close to her and tells Longshot they cannot afford to fix the roof, as they can’t afford their mortgage as it is. The man, wielding a bottle, shouts at her and asks why she didn’t tell him she wasn’t paying the bills. Longshot tells the two that he can help.
He suddenly snaps out of the vision and tells Sonja that he helped her with her husband and he paid for their house, but he cannot remember how. Sonja laughs and tells him she hasn’t seen Bill since she got pregnant with Jennifer. She inherited the house from her great aunt and there wasn’t need for any help there.
Dr. Strange ponders something and then asks if Longshot’s luck is powerful to alter reality. He replies that it isn’t but Dr. Strange tells him it seems good enough to connect him with the powerful and mysterious presence in the bear. He says them he will inspect it later and then tells Sonja she will be safe there. He has a more pressing concern in the form of the new SHIELD director and his anti-magic agenda. He has an unknown power of his own and nobody remembers when he took control. Sonja smiles and tells Longshot that, just so he is clear, she doesn’t have a boyfriend at the moment.
Longshot tells Dr. Strange that he might have a psychometric memory of the director. He vaguely recalls the mask he wears but it is split in two, with a horn on one side. Dr. Strange excitedly picks up a book and tells them it is all clear now. He opens it to reveal hand-drawn sketches of a man similar-looking to the man Longshot saw. Dr. Strange informs them they are dealing with the In-Betweener, a cosmic arbiter of balance in the universe. He contains all that is good, evil, strong, weak, orderly and chaotic and he attracts the envy of all the other-worldly entities. In his own realm he is safe but it is dangerous for him to take form on their plane. When he has to personally seek out sources of imbalance in the universe, he wears a hunting mask. It renders him invisible to all but his prey, in the interest of fairness and balance.
Longshot asks that if you can see the mask then you are the one he is hunting. Dr. Strange confirms it and points out the person who drew the sketch was also being hunted by the In-Betweener. Longshot tells him he saw the mask and Dr. Strange tells him they will deal with it later. He has fought the In-Betweener before; he had to cheat to beat him though and it won’t work again.
Dr. Strange conjures a holographic image of the SHIELD helicarrier. He tells Longshot somehow the In-Betweener has been split and the person who has taken over SHIELD command represents Order. It would also explain the concentration of his restrictive power. Order is unchallenged because he has captured his twin, who represents Chaos. Dr. Strange then conjures an image of a vault inside the helicarrier and tells Longshot that Chaos is being held inside. Regardless as to what caused the split, they need to be joined again or Order will continue his radical crusade. Order has imbued himself into all of SHIELD, what they saw earlier was only an avatar, a focus for his attention and power.
Dr. Strange tells them he has a strike force who has managed to escape Order’s regime so far. They can raid the helicarrier, free Chaos and try and rejoin him to Order. Unfortunately, he lives in every aspect of SHIELD. If they are struck by a bullet, knife or fist Order will have them. Dr. Strange tells Longshot he won’t be available in any offensive capacity, as it will take all his power to ward off an attack. He won’t be able to shield anyone who isn’t in direct line of sight. Some luck would be appreciated.
Dr. Strange teleports his team, consisting of Longshot, Deadpool, Ghost Rider and the Scarlet Witch, on to the SHIELD helicarrier. Inside the control room, Order is watching the events on some monitors. He tells all agents to defend the helicarrier from the wizards and demons. They knew this was their mission and they knew it would happen. Behind him, Dazzler mutters that of course he knew Longshot would happen. He asks what she said but she replies nothing.
Outside, Deadpool skips along the tarmac whilst waving a magic wand. He starts zapping SHIELD agents, turning them into birds. The Scarlet Witch asks where he got it from and he simply tells her he found it. Dr. Strange is struggling to shield everyone and so Longshot grabs Ghost Rider’s chain. When asked what he is up to, he says he doesn’t know but something will probably happen. He throws the chain and it manages to whip around all of the nearby jets, but Ghost Rider tells them they are going to whip off the bike now. The Scarlet Witch tells them they won’t if the jets are suddenly much lighter. With that, she waves her hands and the jets bounce up into the air, tangled in the chain that Ghost Rider is dragging behind him.
With another wave of her hand, the jets become their normal weight again, and their missiles are armed. They slam into the control tower and explode, much to the delight of Longshot, who wishes his powers were that cool. The Scarlet Witch, flirting with him slightly, laughs and tells him she thinks his powers are great. In her head, though, she tells herself to get it together.
Dr. Strange is suddenly hit on the head by some metal thrown by a SHIELD agent. Before he can react, the agent shoots him and tells his commander the shields are down. Inside the control center, Order uses his powers and takes hold of Dr. Strange, but struggles to do so. Outside, Deadpool has also been caught by Order’s powers but his wand shoots up into the air. He tells Longshot his eye is still glowing but Longshot declares that this isn’t lucky. Unbeknownst to him, Order’s magical hold of the vault breaks through the strain of trying to contain Dr. Strange. The bolt of magic Deadpool’s wand fired in the air turns into a small bird that enters one of the offices and grabs some files off a desk. Outside, Ghost Rider skids his bike along the floor, catapulting Longshot off it and through a window.
He lands and then bounces down a flight of stairs. When he comes to a stop, he looks up to see the vault he has been searching for. He opens the door, expecting to find Chaos inside but instead he sees the Hulk, who is tied up with magical bindings. Order and Dazzler suddenly come from behind and tell Longshot not to touch the monster. Dazzler tells Order that, to find Longshot, you have to go to the place you want him the least. Longshot looks at her and asks if they have met. Angrily, Dazzler tells him not to pull the “my memory gets wiped all the time” crap on her like before.
Order walks up to Longshot and tells Dazzler that he was originally cleared for purging but he is now intrigued by his abilities and he might be useful for their agenda. When Longshot asks about it, Order tells him it is the protection of the country and maybe the world. Behind him, though, the small bird flies overhead and drops the set of files into Dazzler’s hands. Longshot tells Order that that must be why he has the Hulk locked up, as he tends to break a lot of buildings. Dazzler opens the files, marked “Phase Two: Mutant Restriction/Elimination.” Her face turns red in anger at what she reads inside. Order tells Longshot he doesn’t understand why the Hulk was in SHIELD’s employ in the first place. He doesn’t know what to do with him except waste energy restraining him. He is pure force and anger, it takes nearly everything he has to hold him, not to mention holding his friends too.
Dazzler tells Order that she didn’t realize they had Dr. Banner there. He must realize that he is so large and has so much energy because he is in direct opposition to the forces acting upon him. Order asks what she means and she explains that the madder the Hulk gets the stronger he gets too. If Order stops pushing him, he will turn back into a plain old scientist again. Order looks up at the green goliath and decides to give it a try.
The newly freed Hulk leaps through the top of the helicarrier in a pure rage. He grabs one of the propellers and smashes it up, before jumping off the helicarrier to the ground below. Dazzler tells Order that he will turn back eventually, to which Order realizes he has been tricked by her. Order declares that he has regained most of the energy he was using holding the Hulk. He decides to take his new recruits and go. Longshot looks to see Dr. Strange and his team are now all dressed in white and under the control of Order. Order clicks his fingers and the team disappears. Before he leaves as well, he tells Dazzler she is discharged of duty and he also tells Longshot if he saves the ship he gets a pardon.
Dazzler runs off to have a go at saving the crashing helicarrier, to which Longshot yells good luck after her. He suddenly gets a good idea and jumps off the helicarrier to the city below. As he falls, he is randomly caught by Thor, who just happened to be flying below. He asks if Thor is off anywhere important. The god tells him he is and so, not wanting to be a bother, Longshot jumps out of his arms again. He continues to fall, bounces off a shop awning, and lands on the pavement safe and sound. Thor looks at the burning helicarrier and wonders if he should call the emergency services.
Longshot looks at the way the helicarrier is falling and finds a spot on the pavement to sit. He watches as the helicarrier slowly nosedives to the exact spot he is sat in. Suddenly a man teleports in front of him, with jet-black skin and adorned with tusks and ritualistic clothing. He thanks Longshot for scaring off his brother and for helping the helicarrier inevitably blow up a large chunk of Park Slope. He asks what Longshot is doing now, to which the dazed man tells him he has put himself in the path of the collision and, if he is really lucky, something will happen to stop the collision.
The man, Chaos, smiles and looks up at the helicarrier and asks Longshot what happens if he pushes his luck too far. With a very worried look on his face, Longshot watches the helicarrier get closer and closer and then tells Chaos his luck simply stops working. Chaos simply says “neat” as he stands next to Longshot, waiting for the explosive touchdown.