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Golden Child - part 3
(Greenwich Village)
A full moon bathes Dr. Stephen Strange’s impressive townhouse in New York City. He is meditating, hovering in mid-air, when he suddenly gasps and drops to the ground. Something is wrong with the world. He calls for his assistant, Wong, and informs him that he was expanding his perceptions to make sure that everything was right with the world. As his awareness widened and his perceptions grew, he could sense an urgency, indescribably compelling him to expand his awareness further and further, until he detected something horrible. He cannot rest until he discovers what has achieved such a feat. He uses a tiny portion of his magical powers to levitate a spell book into his hand, and asks the hand of Vishanti to guide him. He has a long night ahead of him, and he asks Wong for some tea.
(the next morning at the Baxter Building)
Moon Knight glides past the building, as Johnny Storm, better known as the Human Torch, exits the shower and erupts in a fit of anger. He wants Ben Grimm - now! He emerges from the bathroom with green hair, and though it looks good, it’s still green. Reed Richards is playing with a doohickey at the breakfast table, as his wife, Sue, feeds little Valeria. Johnny flames on, and Reed comments on how pleased he is that the towel he’s wearing is made of unstable molecules. He asks Johnny what the problem is. Johnny points to his hair. It’s pretty obvious.
Reed finds it amusing, but Johnny has a date with Kourtney later on and is sick of Ben’s constant antics. Sue replies that he gives as good as he gets. Ben makes a timely appearance. “Mornin’ kiddo. Heh, I see you found the shampoo,” he quips. Johnny flames on and the two go at it hammer and tong. Reed manages to wind his way between them, and reminds them that they’re adults. After a little more bickering, the stern voice of Sue Richards manages to bring the scrap to a halt. She tells them that they’re acting like children. A fight here could well lead to Franklin or Valeria getting hurt. She tells Ben to stop messing with Johnny, and Johnny to stop overacting. Suddenly, an alarm sounds.
Reed spring into action, using his elastic body to head for a control panel. He calls for his wife to get the kids to safety, but there is no time, as Dr. Doom suddenly crashes through the roof. Energy sparks everywhere, and Sue quickly erects a force field between them and Doom. He says her pitiful force field won’t hold him for long. Sue asks Reed to take care of the kids; she’s a little busy now. Reed agrees but, before he departs, he looks at Doom and says his name. He grabs the kids and whisks them away through a teleportation device, depositing them with Crystal in Attilan. He apologizes for this, but says they have an emergency on their hands. He tells the kids to behave, and returns to the Baxter Building.
When he gets back, he’s just in time to catch Sue, who has finally succumbed to Doom’s power. The Thing attacks but is blasted away with a powerful blast from Doom’s gauntlet. Violet energy crackles around Doom, and even the Human Torch’s controlled flame attack fails to rattle him. However, Johnny’s very appearance does. “Johnny Storm! It can’t be. It can’t be you!”
Johnny replies that it’s him alright, right down to the flames scorching his hide. As Reed wraps his body around Doom’s, Doom tells Johnny that he saw him die. Reed asks him what he’s talking about, but Johnny is in no mood for rhetoric. He asks Reed to hold him while he gets a clear shot. Doom suddenly behaves uncharacteristically. He says this isn’t right; something’s not right. Ben wants to paste him one, but Doom suddenly unleashes a burst of energy from his armor, felling the big guy. “I don’t understand,” he cries.
With that, he flies out through the hole he arrived through, and into daylight. The Fantastic Four pick themselves up, and Reed cares for his wife. Johnny thinks he could catch him up, but Reed replies that he’s in no shape to face him alone. He’ll be back - he’s sure of that.
Ben wonders what all that was about. The last time he checked on ol’ ironsides, he was six feet under, twice over. He asks Reed how he thinks he came back. Out of nowhere, Dr. Strange appears above them, floating in mid air. “How indeed.” He lands, and tells Reed they need to compare notes.
(elsewhere)
Government troops have sealed off an area of land, and their commander asks his troops to get ready. Their target is headed their way. He reminds them to remember what they’re up against. A massive ‘Va-throom!” and a blinding flash rocks the entire area. In a huge crater, a naked man lays smoking. Appearing behind him is the incredible Hulk.
(later, New York City)
Dr. Strange and the Fantastic Four have flown into the city. After hours of study and meditation, Strange discovered a spell that allowed him to follow the trail their adversary left from his violent entry into this dimension. That led him to the Baxter Building. Sue Richards adds that, now, it’s allowing them to track him to wherever he went after their encounter with him. She thanks Strange for his help, and says it would have taken Reed at least an hour to invent a way to track him. Jokingly, Reed replies that she wounds him.
Strange asks them to stay on guard. The trail continues to dissipate the longer he’s in their dimension, but he senses he is close by. The Thing is itching to take another crack at him. Johnny can’t believe Doom is back, again. He doesn’t feel he’s ready for this. Strange’s eyes light up, and he warns Johnny that he’s going to have to. Doom’s heading their way.
Powered by rocket-propelled boots, Doom flies in swiftly and attacks Dr. Strange. He says that he knew Strange had a hand in this. The Fantastic Four prepare for battle. Reed knows Doom isn’t acting like himself; he’s got no doomsday machine or enhanced powers. There are no innocent lives at stake; so today they take Doom once and for all.
Dr. Doom crushes Strange into the ground and asks what the sorcerer has done to him. Strange begins to speak, surprised at the ferocity of the attack, but Doom stops him. He wants to know if he’s put him under one of his spells. Nothing makes sense. In a crackle of magical energy, Strange vanishes, and Mr. Fantastic throws Doom into the air, whilst the Invisible Woman uses a localized force field around Doom’s head to prevent him from breathing. He heads in the Thing’s direction, and Ben is only too happy to lay a massive clenched fist on him.
Doom is thrown back with enormous pace, and crashes into a building. The Human Torch flies after him, and focuses all his power at Doom, who withstands the attack and manages to douse Johnny’s flame. Sue catches him as he falls, and turns them invisible to evade Doom. The Thing follows up his punch by laying into his opponent, trying to crack his armor. Mr. Fantastic asks Doom how he managed to come back this time. Suddenly, Doom once again hurls them away with a burst of energy emanating from his armor. The two heroes lay on the ground, beaten, and Sue calls after them.
Doom stands his fallen foes, and tells them that he thought they would be expecting that after last time. Richards disappoints him. “I half-anticipated…” He stops in mid-sentence. “Reed,” he continues, “It just occurred to me; you called me Doom, didn’t you?”
Ben wants one last shot, but Reed asks him to wait. Doom tells them it’s all starting to become clear. He slips his facemask up and over the top of his head, and asks Reed, “Am I to understand that you don’t recognize your former colleague - Tony Stark?”


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Golden Child - part 4
(New York City)
The Fantastic Four are extremely surprised to find that, under the mask of Dr. Doom, is the face of Tony Stark. He looks the same as always, but for some scarring around his eyes. He appears to believe he had killed Johnny Storm previously.
Johnny, sporting his green hair, says this doesn’t make any sense. He saw Stark just two weeks ago, and this ain’t him. Reed looks like he’s cottoning on; and Dr. Strange confirms his belief. Floating above the heroic quartet, he informs them that it appears the man they thought was Victor Von Doom entering their reality from the afterlife is in fact a parallel version of Tony Stark, entering from an alternate Earth. Not that old trick again, comments the Thing.
Stark replaces his faceplate, and knows it all makes sense now. “Reed, you genius,” he says. “You got rid of me once and for all, without killing me.” Reed asks why he attacked them. What was it that changed him? Stark quickly becomes airborne, and uses his gauntlets to fire blasts of energy at them. Sue erects a force bubble, and Johnny flames on. Stark informs them that narrowing it down to just one event would take more time than he cares to wait before he kills them. He clearly isn’t wishing to make nice. Ben is pleased to be getting some action after all the chatter.
Reed is eager to discover why Stark is acting this way, but Stark tells him that Richards is the same man; they’re the same people. Why would he assume they would be different? He extends energy from his armor in one concentrated blast, which once again downs his opponents. Picking himself up, Mr. Fantastic replies that, in their dimension, Tony Stark is their ally; even a friend. Stark says he is then a fool. He prepares to continue his attack, but is suddenly felled by an assault by the unseen Invisible Woman.
Down, but not out, Stark figures that, if he’s in another dimension and dealing with an entirely different Fantastic Four than he’s used to, then an old trick might just work. He clicks a button on his chest armor, and a large violet forcefield extends around the area. Johnny’s flame is immediately snuffed out, and he falls to the ground with a ‘krunk.’
The Thing transforms into his human form, and the other two members of the team realize that their powers no longer work either. Because the Thing’s bulk is considerably larger than Ben Grimm’s, he has to hold his shorts up, lest they embarrass him. Sue is concerned for her younger brother, fearing his neck might be broken. Reed demands to know what Stark did to them. He replies that it’s obvious. He’s temporarily removed their powers for a few hours. They’d get them back - but they won’t last that long.
The circle on his chest begins to glow, and another blast prepares to fell the heroes. Surprisingly, for Stark at least, he finds his opponents being moved away inside a mystical ball of energy. Dr. Strange hovers nearby, and he effortlessly removes the team from danger. Now he has Stark’s full attention, he warns the doppleganger that he’s more than a match for him. Stark senses Dr. Strange’s attempts to cloud his mind, but his armor protects him from such an invasive technique. Strange informs him that he has other tricks up his sleeve. With Strange’s mystical power and Stark’s technical brilliance, the two men go at it.
Away from danger, the Fantastic Four pick themselves up. Johnny is in a real bad way, and Sue’s concentration is focused wholly on him. Whilst Reed takes a look at him, Dr. Strange conjures up the crimson bands of Cyttorak, which begin to envelop Stark. Stark is confident he will escape it, and a faint sound confirms it. “It is done,” he pronounces. Strange asks what is done. He suddenly senses something, but it is too late for him to react.
All around them, explosive devices detonate. Numerous buildings in the vicinity are shattered into a million pieces as Stark, now without his green cloak, exits the scene using his rocket-boosted boots. Fools, he calls them. His Reed Richards would never have fallen for that. Rocketing away from the billowing smoke into the night sky, he leaves Dr. Strange and the heroes to pick up the pieces.
(elsewhere)
A small spherical drone hurtles back to a secreted spaceship, returning to its creator, Titannus. He takes one last look around, before heading back inside the craft to his beloved. She is in stasis, but he talks to her nevertheless, knowing an answer won’t be forthcoming. He tells her he loves this planet. It is spectacular. After everything is done, he thinks they could make a life on Earth, and make it their homeworld.
Suddenly, he notices something on his monitors. An array of feeds provide information on super hero activity around the world. Shown at this instant are Nova, Man-Thing, Dr. Strange and the Fantastic Four. “This is promising,” he mutters, “very promising indeed.”
Outside the Baxter Building, Willie Lumpkin is making his rounds, whilst inside, Ben Grimm and Reed Richards materialize. Ben thinks he saw an explosion just before they vanished, and Reed informs him that Dr. Strange got them out of there just in time. Ben wonders how he does that. “It’s best not to know,” is Reed’s response. He then notices that Sue and Johnny aren’t with them. Dr. Strange appears, and informs him that they’re fine. He dropped them off at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Sue is going to stay with her brother. To his knowledge, Johnny sustained nothing more than a broken collarbone and may have a concussion.
Ben asks about Stark. They can’t allow him to just get away. There’s no telling what he might do. Reed admits they’re not in any position to go after him. It’s not like they can call the Avengers either. Strange adds that he’s been in this dimension long enough for his residual energy to dissipate. He can’t track him any longer. He decides to return to his sanctuary, and see if there’s anything in his mystical tomes that will be of assistance. He bids them farewell, and disappears in a puff of magic. Ben remarks that it’s something he just never gets used to. With their powers gone, Ben doesn’t want to even think about what Stark could do in the meantime. Reed opts to put in a call to Nick Fury.
(Stark Industries)
The alternate Tony Stark, now wearing a respectable suit, enters the real Starks’ offices, using identical fingerprint I.D. to get past security. He wanders into a storage room, and finds an array of weaponry. “This is a start.” He wanders to reception, and hands the receptionist a list of instructions. He wants items delivering to certain parties. The receptionist, surprised at his brusque manner, obeys.
Stark continues through the building, and comes across an operations room. He seats himself at the computers, and looks for the energy source that the people of this Earth are using. When he sees nuclear power plants on screen, he wonders if these people are insane. He notices a blip on one of the monitors. It was enormous, but then vanishes as quickly as it came.
(elsewhere)
Paul Patterson, who was seemingly destroyed in a huge explosion, mysteriously reappears in a large crater. Alongside him is the jade giant; the Incredible Hulk. The naked Paul blasts him and sprints away into the forest, but the Hulk isn’t to be put off so easily. He leaps after him, landing in a pool of water right beside him. He is furious, and is about to crush Paul, when the alternate Tony Stark, once more wearing Doom’s armor, pulls him away from danger. He asks Paul quickly which Hulk they’re dealing with; Banner or Pym? Before Paul can respond, Stark finds a vise-like grip around his boot and turns. “Oh, dear...”
The Hulk slams Stark to the ground, and Stark calls for Paul to run. He turns and uses his gauntlet to scan the Hulk. The energy hurts Hulk’s eyes, and Stark determines it’s Banner.  Stark cocoons himself in a ball of energy and rises several feet into the air. The Hulk attacks, and Stark is forced to grab Paul and head skywards. Paul, however, isn’t without his own resources. He turns to the Hulk and uses his own power to blast the giant. Stark warns him to stop, and explains that the madder the Hulk gets, the stronger he becomes. He flies off with Paul in his arms, explaining that the only way to win a fight with the Hulk is to run. Seeing the Hulk leaping towards them in a frenzy, Stark adds that maybe one more blast won’t hurt. Paul obliges, and the Hulk is sent plummeting back to Earth with a crash.
Once they’re far enough away, Stark lands, and deposits Paul on the ground. He thinks they’ve lost him. Paul explains that he woke up in the rubble and the Hulk was standing over him. He though it was going to eat him - so he blasted him. He didn’t like that at all, and it didn’t seem to stop him for long. He doesn’t think he’d have gotten away from him without Starks’ help, and he thanks him. Stark removes his faceplate, and replies that he shouldn’t thank him. He’d just as soon see him perish under the brute’s fists. He couldn’t care less, but Paul’s his ticket home. His nefarious grin says it all, and Paul doesn’t hesitate in summoning energy into his fist.
(elsewhere)
Aboard his craft, Titannus is watching the Hulk’s battle with Stark. Other monitors show Tigra, Iceman, Daredevil and Dragon Man’s current activities. He likes the look of the Hulk. He’s the most promising specimen yet. He turns to his beloved, and says he thought this world would offer them nothing; that they would find no allies to aid them in their mission. But, as time goes by, he thinks that maybe they were meant to crash there. Earth is teeming with beings worthy to fight for their cause. He turns back to the monitors. “Yes - we were meant to be here.”
Behind Titannus, a voice says, “Excuse me. Exactly what are you doing here?” The voice comes from Japan’s greatest superhero: Sunfire!”


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Golden Child - part 5
(Japan)
Japan’s premier superhero, Sunfire, confronts Titannus in his futuristic craft. There are no pleasantries exchanged, as Sunfire immediately informs the alien that he is trespassing on Japanese soil. He asks who the woman is, and what he has done to her. Titannus does not answer to such as he, and he warns Sunfire to leave, or face his wrath. Shiro looks at the woman, encased in some kind of stasis pod, and wonders if she’s here against her will; maybe as a prisoner of his new foe.
Shiro demands that the device be opened at once. Titannus replies that he will do no such thing. Sunfire then proceeds to try and open it himself, and this does not go down well. “Don’t touch her!” screams Titannus, before blasting Sunfire clean out of his craft and into the rocky ground outside. He follows quickly, his hands glowing as the fearsome alien pursues Sunfire.
(New York City)
Aboard a tanker docked in the harbor, electricity lights up the night sky. On board is the costumed adventurer known as Cardiac, and he has his hands full with Spider-Man. Spidey avoids an initial blast from his staff, and Cardiac quickly explains why he is there. He tells Spidey that Drugco has a shipment of Catazene Seven, a common ingredient in most prescription medicines. It’s from unregulated factories in South America, and isn’t up to the F.D.A’s standards. He thinks it’s more likely to be contaminated by any number of things. He adds that Drugco are out to save money by using this stuff. This is about increasing their profits. Does Spider-Man realize how many lives this puts at risk?
Spidey fires webbing at Cardiac’s eyes, and asks if it’s more than six; because that’s Cardiac’s tally so far tonight. Cardiac replies that they are simply unconscious. He protects people; all people - not just the ones he can see. He tells Spidey that he’s pathetic. Thinking he’s doing good by fighting him - he’s not even scratching the surface.
All Spidey can see is a man attacking people, but Cardiac tries to get it through to him that this shipment is a disaster waiting to happen. If these drugs make it into circulation, they’ll have an epidemic on their hands. “Why won’t you listen to me?” Spider-Man leaps, and his fist connects with Cardiac’s face. His short answer is, he thinks Cardiac’s crazy; in the same way he thinks the Punisher is crazy.
Spidey reaches for the staff Cardiac has dropped, but has his fingers brush it, an electric shock zips its way through Spidey’s central nervous system. He drops to the ground, and Cardiac collects the staff himself. He explains that only he can hold it. He then proceeds to destroy the shipment, before clicking a switch on the staff, which opens up to become a makeshift glider. As Cardiac soars skywards, he tells Spidey that it’s been nice working with him. Spidey watches him vanish, and figures that he may as well go home and get some sleep. Unfortunately, he turns to see the sun rising over the city, and knows he has no time for that. He has to get to work.
(Westchester)
As the sun lights up the Phoenix statue in the courtyard of the Xavier Institute, the young woman known as X-23 watches a CCTV screen, silently. Storm wanders by and asks what she’s doing. Has she been up all night? She assures X-23 that there’s no need to watch security monitors. The alarms will sound if there is any activity on the grounds. Hank has set up a link with Cerebra that will catch any heavy mutant activity outside the grounds. She suggests getting some sleep. She leaves X-23 to it, and it’s revealed that she is simply watching Wolverine sleeping.
(Japan)
Sunfire recovers as Titannus lands beside him. “Do you realize what you could have done? She is my mate! My other! Had you opened the stasis pod, she would have…” Sunfire doesn’t care, and he blasts Titannus with a wall of searing flame. Titannus stares at him through the orange glow, but remains resolutely unaffected. Sunfire pours the heat on, but Titannus simply informs him that he’s succeeded only in compounding his anger.
(New York City)
At the Baxter Building, Reed Richards is pursing his normal activity - namely losing sleep. His wife, Sue, is on her way to wash some clothes, and she wonders why he does it. Reed, unshaven and sleepy, tinkers with one of his numerous devices, and informs Sue that he spoke with Nick Fury. He’s got his people on the lookout for the alternate Tony Stark. Reed is concerned that the man is as brilliant as their own Tony Stark, and he’s running around doing goodness knows what. And, he adds, there’s nothing they can do. “Then go to sleep,” Sue replies. Reed knows when not to argue. “And most people think I’m leader,” he utters, as he wanders off.
(elsewhere)
The alternate Tony Stark is soldering a control panel on a large machine he’s devised. Paul Patterson is nearby lying on the floor, but Tony knows he’s only feigning unconsciousness. He’s placed a collar on Paul which inhibits his mutant abilities, and he tells Paul that his muscle mass is laughable. He poses no threat. Tony knows Paul’s mutant powers are impressive. He houses enough solar energy to power the city for years, though he doubts that Paul had the foresight to think of that application of his powers. He thinks Paul probably stopped with energy blasts, completely happy with his abilities. “Kids today,” he remarks. “It’s the same in every dimension. No ingenuity.” Paul eyes a telephone lying on the floor nearby.
Meanwhile, Peter Parker rushes into the school building, and is caught by Ms. Bradley. After a brief flirtation on her part, Peter sets his students a quiz, before noticing the answer machine flashing away. He picks up the receiver, and listens to the message. It’s from Paul Patterson. Whispering, he says he’s in big trouble. He knows that Parker knows Spider-Man… or whatever, and wants his help. He promises not to try and kill him this time. The message ends, and Peter can’t really believe it.
Back with Paul, Tony Stark explains that he’s running some tests to see if his machines can properly harvest Paul’s energy. He has Paul strapped into a machine with his extremities locked into place. Using a remote device, he deactivates Paul’s’ inhibitor collar and asks him to try and kill him. Paul gives it his best shot, and energy pours out of him and into the machine. Stark is pleased with the results, and switches the collar back on. He believes this is going to work out.
(Westchester)
X-23 continues to watch Wolverine, but she notices a bleep coming from a panel beside her.
Cyclops is trying on a new costume, but it’s still too tight. It doesn’t allow him enough flexibility. Emma Frost tells him it looks great, but he isn’t interested in how it looks. X-23 appears, and informs them that they had a blip. Scott replies that they have blips all night. That’s why they don’t spend all their time sitting in front of the monitors. If something big blips, they go after it. They just can’t investigate every one. He tells X-23 that he knows she wants to prove herself, and she’ll get her chance. For now, though, she should relax.
“But…” she replies. Scott asks, “But what?” Does she want to chase down every blip? That’s something Wolverine would do, and he’s not an example she wants to follow. X-23 folds her arms, and runs away - unhappy at Scott’s attitude.
(Japan)
Sunfire takes to the air, but is pursued by the powerful Titannus, who flies using some form of energy coming from his boots. He catches Sunfire with a blast, and Shiro’s wind is knocked from his sails. He begins to drop, but is grabbed by Titannus who warns him it’s not wise to anger him.
(the Baxter Building)
Peter Parker calls Mr. Fantastic. Reed asks, “What do you want, Spider-Man?” Peter asks him how he does that. Reed replies that their caller I.D. is a bit more advanced than what is publicly available. Peter explains that he’s in a pickle, and needs his help. Reed tells him they’re in the middle of something. Johnny just got out of hospital, and he asks if it’s Earth-shatteringly important. Peter guesses it’s not, but asks if he can trace a call that he received earlier. At least Reed can do that.
Outside Tony Stark’s temporary headquarters, X-23, dressed in the old Fang costume, scampers through the streets as she investigates the blip. She finds a skylight on the roof, and peers inside, still thinking about what she feels is Scott’s condescending attitude. Below her, Tony Stark, now dressed in the Iron Man/Doom armor, prepares to use Paul Patterson’s power to get home. He explains that Paul will be dying for a worthy cause. On the roof, X-23 suddenly sniffs the air, and instinctively snikts her four claws. She turns to see Spider-Man right behind her. “Oh, man,” remarks Spidey as he sees the claws appear. “Wolverine. Good lord! What did they do to you?!”
(Japan)
Sunfire isn’t ready to submit just yet, and the two titans become embroiled in a powerful struggle. Sunfire pours on the flame, and Titannus responds with physical might, as well as his own energy blasts. Their rumble soon becomes a desperate fight for survival.
(New York City)
X-23 launches herself at Spider-Man, missing him by inches. “Was it something I said?” asks Spidey. He spins some of his webbing at X-23’s wrists, but only narrowly avoids a garroting from her spiked foot. With only the occasional ‘grrrrr’ emanating from X-23’s lips, Spidey comments that he thought Wolverine’s dialogue was basic.
The pair of them crash right through the skylight and into the room below. As they land heavily, X-23 is about to continue her assault, but she turns and sees Stark standing next to her, with Paul strapped into the machine behind him. Spidey also looks up. “Uh, hi. I’m Spider-Man. I don’t believe we’ve met.”


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Golden Child - part 6
(New York City - South Bronx)
Spider-Man and X-23 have landed in a room, where an alternate dimension’s Tony Stark, dressed in Dr. Doom’s armor, is preparing to journey back to his own dimension. In order to do this, he is utilizing the mutant powers of a naked boy named Paul Patterson, who is held fast in a device created by Stark. He doesn’t recognize Spider-Man, and wonders if he’s working for Reed Richards. He blasts at Spidey, forcing both he and his companion, X-23, to get out of his way. Spidey realizes that X-23 isn’t Stark’s watchdog after all, and she confirms his by informing him she is an X-man. He can’t keep up with all their comings and goings these days. As it happens, X-23 doesn’t know who Spidey is either. He can’t believe it. He’s in the paper all the time.
Stark summons more energy into his gauntlets, and demands to know who sent them. Meanwhile, Spidey tries to assure Paul that he’ll have him freed soon, “So you can… um… go to prison and stuff. You little psycho.”
Again, Stark demands to know if they’re minions of Richards. Spidey leaps about, avoiding his blasts, as does his young companion. He never stops with the mouth, asking if he has a crush on Richards, as it’s the second time he’s mentioned him. X-23 complains that she can’t hear herself fight with all his yakking. As a blast takes out the ground beneath her, Spidey fires a line of webbing and yanks her clear of danger. He asks whether, since they’re on the same side, is she gonna help him out with this guy. “You mean team-up?” she asks. Spidey didn’t actually want to say that, but yes.
(Aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D heli-carrier)
Captain America is aboard the massive floating vessel, and meets with Nick Fury. He explains that he’s heading to sector 76, but Fury tells him he’s going to the wrong lab. He must have gotten his directions from Simmons. “How about I escort you?” He and Natasha were just going to grab some lunch while she waited for transport to her next mission. Cap smiles and says it’s been a while. Natasha, better known as the Black Widow, replies that he’s looking good, but no surprises there.
They come across a stasis pod filled with liquid. Inside it is Diamondback. Fury informs them that it isn’t really her. It’s a Life Model Decoy they’ve been developing. It fell into the hands of the Red Skull before his death and caused Cap a bit of trouble. Cap asks if it’s the best they could do. Fury answers by admitting they don’t really know what to do with it. It should never have been activated. It was in the testing stages when Mark Nolan stole it and passed it off to the Red Skull as Diamondback. They can’t just deactivate it, but they can’t let it continue to malfunction either. It doesn’t actually know it’s a machine. There’s no telling what it would do if left unchecked.
Cap touches the container, and says it’s just that she seemed so real. It was her, and really seemed like her. “Seeing her like this, even knowing it’s not her, it’s… it’s not easy.” Fury apologizes for this. It should never have happened, but it did, and right under his nose. If it’s any consolation, he adds, where Mark Nolan is, he probably wishes he was in a stasis pod. Once they find a way to fix its programming, they’ll pull it out of there. He is interrupted by a message that the energy signature he had his team scanning for has been found.
They all head up to the bridge, and Fury asks where it is. His man informs him it’s coming from the South Bronx. It’s really lighting up. Also, they’re getting a transmission from Reed Richards.
Mr. Fantastic’s face appears on a large screen. He informs everyone that he’s just monitored a transmission from the heli-carrier, so he assumes they’ve detected Stark and are en route to take him into custody. He continues to say that Stark’s been using his power blatantly, as if he doesn’t care if they detect his whereabouts. He deduces that he must be close to achieving his goal, which he can only assume is devising a way to return to his own dimension. This theory, he adds, is supported by the list of equipment the real Tony Stark reported missing days ago; equipment checked out by him, according to an employee of his. It’s conceivable that the equipment he’s acquired could be used to build a jump-gate, if he could find a suitable power source.
This could cause real problems, he continues. There’s no telling what kind of ripple effect the resulting distortion could cause. Simply put, he must be stopped. Richards himself is unable to help, as his family’s a little busy in the Negative Zone, and they can’t make it. He’s leapfrogging his signal to them through a series of micro-fissures in space-time. He has no idea when it will reach them. “Just make sure Stark is stopped!”
The transmission ends, and Nick Fury asks Cap and the Black Widow if they’re up for a little freelancing. They’d be happy to help.
(South Bronx)
A massive burst of energy smashes the walls of the building Stark is occupying. Spidey remarks that he’ll have a tough time getting his deposit back on the place. He webs up Stark’s eye holes, as Stark orders him to shut up. X-23 approaches Paul Patterson, and says, “Hang on kid. I’ll get you out of here.” Arrogant as ever, Paul asks who she is calling a kid. He bets he’s older than she is. Spidey sees them, and warns X-23 not to cut him loose. She should focus on the iron guy. As he is distracted, Stark punches him with his iron gauntlet, throwing Spidey crashing into a pile of junk. Before Stark can follow this up with a blast from his gauntlet, a voice from above tells him the game is over. This ends now!
Captain America drops through a hole in the ceiling. “Steve, is that you? Is that really you?” asks Stark, surprised. Cap asks him to stop this and turn himself in. They don’t have to do this the hard way. Stark wonders if it can be so different here. Can Cap really be alive? As the Black Widow watches from the rafters, Cap explains that things are very different here. His counterpart is a good man; one of his closest allies. He has to believe that Stark was once a good man too. He doesn’t know what happened to him, but it must have been something major.
Despite his reassurances, Stark knows that he isn’t the Cap he once knew. He uses his chest plate to fire a burst of blue energy at Cap, who quickly hides behind his trusted shield. He tells Cap that he sounds just like Richards. “You’d love for me to spare their pathetic lives… wouldn’t you?!” He tells Cap he’s going home; that much is inevitable. If he has to leave a colorful pile of corpses in his wake - so be it. His chest plate is webbed up by Spider-Man, who’s pretty confused by this point. Cap uses this break in Stark’s concentration to hurl his shield. It connects with Stark’s face plate, shattering the connections between it, and the rest of the helmet.
Cap tells Stark that he sickens him. Stark removes the faceplate, and angrily replies that his Steve Rogers is a great man - a living legend. He’s not some lapdog for that psycho Reed Richards. Out of nowhere, X-23 leaps at Stark and swipes at his face with her claws. They only connect slightly, and Stark grabs the much smaller girl with his gauntlet. The Black Widow then strikes with her widow’s bite, forcing Stark to drop her.
Cap is already charging as Stark wipes his face, but he is aware enough to swat Cap away with a backhand. He then unleashes a burst of concussive force against Spider-Man and the Widow, smashing them against a wall. They drop to the ground, and Natasha assures Spidey that espionage is more her area of expertise. She’s not normally this useless. Spidey replies by asking her if she thinks he’s in this guy’s league. He was thrilled when Cap showed up. He’s just glad it wasn’t a cosmic guy. He hates cosmic guys. Also, his back… really hurts.
Stark then uses magnetic force to bring Cap’s shield to him. Cap informs him that his shield is far from his only weapon. “As far as I’m concerned, it is,” Stark replies, as a small antennae pops out of his armor on the shoulder. It emits a painfully debilitating sonic scream, which renders his four opponents helpless. It’s a neural scrambler. It’s setting their nerve endings on fire, he explains. Their heads won’t explode, but they’ll feel like they are. He notes that they should be on the ground, passed out by now, but he figures the damage to his armor has weakened its effect. No matter, though; he only needed a free moment.
Young Paul Patterson, still encased in the large machine that Stark has built, is bathed in golden energy. Stark faces the boy, and explains that he’s started extracting Paul’s raw energy. It’s quite a remarkable process, if he says so himself. Richards would appreciate it. Captain America wants to stop Stark, but even he is unable to concentrate that well. It’s only a matter of moments before Paul generates enough energy to open the portal. Stark hopes he never has to return to this miserable world.
As Paul can only battle the pain this causes him, Stark notices the beautiful Natasha lying beside him. He hadn’t even noticed it was her. He tells her that he’s missed her. He longed to see her once more for so long, but thought he’d never get the opportunity. She broke his heart. He callously places a metal boot on her face, and says that now he has the chance to kill her all over again.
All of a sudden, a realization hits him. The Black Widow is alive. Steve Rogers is alive. “Reed is… This isn’t just another dimension. The timelines don’t match either. Things are close, but not…” He struggles to figure out just what the score is. “The Titannus war!” he continues, “It hasn’t happened yet. You don’t even know who he is yet…”
Paul Patterson has energy pouring from every orifice, but manages to tell Spidey he sucks. “Any second now,” comments Stark, anticipating a return to his own world. He stretches his arms out, and tells the assembled heroes that he’s afraid he has to leave now. What they have to look forward to - their deaths would now be merciful. He won’t have that.
Behind Stark, who is oblivious to this, the four heroes slowly regain their senses. Cap thinks it’s best to let Stark believe they’re still preoccupied with the pain. He knows his armor must be almost out of power. Cap also knows that Reed Richards said that this jump-gate could blow up the world, and he tries not to second guess the guy. By his count, they have less than a minute to take Stark out.
Luckily, Spidey has an idea.
Just at the moment of success, Cap launches himself at Stark, and sends him crashing into the side of the machine. Spidey launches X-23 at Paul Patterson. It’s a fastball special, and he hopes the X-Men don’t have a trademark on the move. “It’ll be our little secret,” replies X-23. She reaches Patterson, and plunges her two adamantium claws into his arm.
Outside, the streets are rocked by a huge explosion, as the building is utterly destroyed. Onlookers see the smoke clear to reveal the ruins of the building, bathed in the afterglow of dissipating energy. The four heroes gather themselves. Natasha coughs, and asks if he exploded the first time. “Yeah, kinda,” replies Spider-Man. Natasha, Captain America and X-23 all look at him incredulously, but he assures them that he’s probably popping up somewhere else as he speaks. It’s not like he killed the kid! “I’m sure he’s okay...”
(Canada)
Paul Patterson is indeed, alive and well, but as he explodes into this wilderness, creating a small crater, he finds himself face-to-face with the hulking white figure of Wendigo!
(New York City - South Bronx)
Spidey apologizes to X-23, but tells her that he figured she’s as tough as Wolverine, and could take it. She replies by asking him to leave her alone. She’s not talking to him - he’s crazy! Spidey’s cool with that. Wolverine hated him first time around too. “He still hates you,” replies X-23, “Everybody hates you.” Spidey is a trifle offended, but Cap explains that he doesn’t hate him. He can be annoying from time to time, but it’s not a big deal. They’ve all gotten used to tuning him out for the most part. As Spidey prepares to leave, he asks if Stark didn’t say something about a Titannus War? “What’s a Titannus?” he asks.
(Japan)
Titannus leaves the defeated Sunfire, his costume torn and ragged and his body broken and twisted. “Such is the wrath of Titannus. I warned you,” he utters, before taking off into the empty skies. “I warned you.”
(Aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D heli-carrier)
Next to the Diamondback LMD, another stasis-pod now contains the extra-dimensional Tony Stark. Captain America and his colleague, Iron Man, look at the doppelganger as he sleeps. Tony couldn’t resist taking a look at him. This is a new experience for him. It’s not often they have one of those. Cap says that Fury has informed him that Reed Richards is working on a way to get him back to his own dimension, without the transfer having any ill effects on their own. Until then, he feels the most humane way to incarcerate him is in stasis. They don’t know much about him. He could just be crazy! In the meantime, Stark jests, if he never needs a new liver, or heart…
(Dr. Strange’s Inner Sanctum)
Strange is pleased that this ordeal is finally at an end. He uses the all-seeing Eye of Agamotto to look in on events aboard the heli-carrier. He informs his assistant, Wong, that he senses much danger contained in this one. Though he may be unconscious, he feels they must remain vigilant, for if nothing else, he represents the potential for further threat from his twisted world. As Spidey passes by Dr. Strange’s window on his way home after a long day, Strange thinks this will be a long night indeed.


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Untitled
(Japan)
Titannus returns to his craft after defeating Sunfire. He has been monitoring the super hero community, unbeknownst to them, for reasons not yet revealed. He is still concerned that Sunfire got as close to his beloved’s stasis chamber as he did. He tells her he’ll have to cloak the ship, and promises he will never fail her. He kneels down before her and swears his love for her over and over.
(New York City)
The Ringmaster, in plain clothes, meets with an aging oriental gentleman at a street café. His name is Chen Hsu. He has something that Tiboldt seeks, and pulls a small piece of jewelry from inside his shirt. It is a glowing ring. It has the power to warp reality around the wearer. He explains that the Mandarin commissioned its forming, from a fragment of the western world’s fabled cosmic cube. The Mandarin passed to the other realm before it could be completed, and his son is not worthy of its power. He shows it to the Ringmaster, asking him to make of it what he will.
Tiboldt tries to use his top hat’s hypnotic powers on Hsu, but the old man knocks his hat off with his cane. He asks if Tiboldt thinks him unprepared for negotiations. He is no fool. However, Tiboldt no longer relies as much on the hat as he used to, and uses his eyes to put Hsu asleep. Tiboldt takes the ring, and saunters off down the street, removing his overcoat, which he figures he no longer requires. As he disappears, Hsu is already awake. Evidently, he never was under Tiboldt’s spell.
(elsewhere in New York City)
Peter Parker is cooking steaks as Mary Jane reads a magazine. He asks why he had to cook - it’s her turn tonight. She replies that she got called in this morning, and worked all day. Peter, on the other hand, had the day off. Peter tells her he had the day off from teaching. He fought the Rhino today. She teases him about not knowing which of the multitude of super-villains he faces the Rhino is, before they launch themselves into some heavy petting. Unfortunately, the distraction causes the steaks to burn, and Mary figures they should get a Chinese takeout instead. Peter grabs his duds.
A crime is underway in another part of the city. The Constrictor has a couple of his henchmen moving some crates, but they are being watched by one of Moon Knight’s lookouts. He radios Frenchie to bring the glider round, before slinking back into his hidey-hole. In a matter of moments, Moon Knight is one the scene, and he delivers a deft kick to the Constrictor’s face. Schlicting is sent flying into a pile of crates, as Moon Knight throws a couple of bolas which wrap themselves around his henchmen, leaving them helpless.
The Constrictor uses one of his coils to wrap Moon Knight up, and seems intent on popping Moon Knight’s head off. In response, Moon Knight prepares to slice Frank, using small blades which snikt from his glove. However, before he can act, Spider-Man sees what’s going on and webs the Constrictor’s feet, pulling him away from Moon Knight. He leaves him dangling helplessly from a fire escape, and goes to speak with Moon Knight.
Moon Knight assures Spidey that he had the situation under control, as the Constrictor frees himself with surprising alacrity. They didn’t think it would be that easy, did they? His coil glows as he prepares to face them both. They attack Frank, whose coils smash the ground beneath them as they miss their targets. Moon Knight’s happy to fight. This is now personal.
(Japan)
Titannus looks at images of many of New York’s super heroes on a large screen. “Soon, my love, soon.” He says her father can no longer keep them apart. His madness will plague them no longer. He sees before him the raw materials that he can shape into the weapons of war to strike at her father, and force him to cease his attempts to separate them. Then, he will be able to cure her at long last. They will be together forever, as they were meant to be.
The ‘cosmic’ Ringmaster heads through a crowd of people, stopping traffic using the ring’s power and walks straight into the NY 1st National Bank building. <>
Spider-Man and Moon Knight have fought the Constrictor and won. He is now thoroughly webbed up, upside down, between buildings. Even Moon Knight looks beat. They hear sirens and figure they should exit the scene before they’re arrested for doing their civic duty. Moon Knight grabs a ladder, which is dropped from his glider, and offers Spidey a lift. Spidey grabs the Chinese food and jumps aboard.
As they glide over New York City, Spidey is impressed with his transport. His shoulders get so sore sometimes, he wishes he had something similar. He had a car once, but it was so lame. Now it’s like he’s riding with Batman, or something. Frenchie notices the bank robbery taking place beneath them, and Moon Knight is immediately out of his seat, preparing for action. Moon Knight assumes Spidey will help, and Spidey replies with a little sarcasm that maybe Moon Knight should just assume he’s got nothing else to do. He quickly apologizes, though. He didn’t mean for it to come out like that.
Suddenly, as Frenchie beings the glider down, an explosion takes out one of the craft’s wings. They crash land unceremoniously in the street and evacuate the glider. Moon Knight tells Frenchie it isn’t safe, and to go. Spidey apologizes for his spaceship, but Moon Knight replies that Frenchie will probably be back soon with another one to pick them up by the time they’ve dealt with whoever shot them down. Spidey is a little upset about the takeout. MJ is going to kill him. “You’re married?” enquires Moon Knight. Spidey asks why that always surprises everyone.
Behind them, the Ringmaster approaches, carrying a colorful weapon, which he used to down the craft. He then drops the weapon, which reverts to its former incarnation; a flock of pigeons. As they fly away, none the worse for their experience, the Ringmaster holds his gloved hand up, showing them the ring. He explains that it can do anything he wants it to. He’s just getting the hang of using it, but they can imagine his delight when he saw that they had decided to try and foil his bank robbery. His ultimate goal, of course, is world domination, but for now he’s just tearing things up - practicing mostly.
Because Spidey remembers his name, the Ringmaster tells him he’ll kill him second. Out of nowhere, a circus tent appears around them. The heroes find themselves standing in a ring of fire, with several of the Ringmaster’s cohorts surrounding them. He orders them to attack, and the heroes soon find themselves up to their spandex in animals, muscle-bound thugs and a bowling pin-throwing clown. It doesn’t take long to subdue the heroes, and an elephant wraps its trunk around them. Spidey easily removes the trunk, and Moon Knight’s staff is thrown with accuracy at the Ringmaster, and it catches him on the chin. The circus vanishes, leaving the Ringmaster on the floor with the bank’s security staff waiting patiently, hypnotized, and carrying his quarry.
Tiboldt admits that elaborate things take a lot of concentration, but he thinks he’s really getting the hang of this. He thanks them for allowing him to work with them. He’s learning all sorts of things he can do with the cosmic ring. For instance, he tells them, he asks Spider-Man if he knows his webbing is now a highly volatile explosive substance. Spidey suddenly becomes really worried. “You wouldn’t! Oh, you’re fighting dirty.” Seen from afar, a massive explosion rocks the street.


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Master of the Ring part 2
(New York City)
It’s dark in the city, as Antonio Seghetti and his companion, Vinny, wait to do a deal. It’s Antonio’s first big score, and he wants things to go perfectly. He tells Vinny that his father will kill him if he messes this up. Antonio calls the people he’s doing business with on the phone. They’re sitting in a car behind them. This is a risky deal for Antonio, as the people he’s dealing with are vampires. Vinny hands Antonio the briefcase full of money, and the lead vampire calls for the truck. It’s time for a show and tell.
Up above them, standing on the edge of a rooftop is Blade. He’s carrying a sword, as well as an assortment of other weaponry. A shadowy figure creeps up behind him, but Blade already knows he’s there, and who it is. He tells him he smelled him the second he stepped off the fire escape. He turns and holds his sword out at arms length, millimeters away from the Punisher’s neck. In response, Frank Castle holds his pistol at arms length, aiming at Blade’s face.
After a silent impasse, Blade finally asks, “You a bettin’ man?” He’s sure he could slit Frank’s throat before he can even think about pulling the trigger. He’s not even sure the gun would do any damage. Frank replies that he has more. Blade likes that, but doesn’t have time for a pissing contest anyhow. He suggests Frank pull the trigger. Those guys down below would love a heads up that he’s arrived on the scene. Another impasse follows, with Blade having lowered his sword and Frank maintaining his focus. Finally, Frank lowers the pistol, and Blade tells him he was really playing it hardcore there. He can respect that.
Frank asks him what he’s doing up there. Blade tells him he’s here to kill the vampires. Doesn’t Frank know who he is? Frank doesn’t care, and shoots Blade in the back anyway. Clearly, Blade’s not happy about that, and asks why he had to go and do something stupid like that. Frank smirks. “Kevlar, huh! Nutjob? You got some in your head, too? Doesn’t look like you’re wearing a helmet.”
Blade grits his teeth, and replies that he ain’t going to tell Frank again. He should sit down and shut up. They really don’t need to call attention to themselves. He asks if any of this is getting through. Frank doesn’t reply. “And where do you get off calling me a nutjob, mister gun-toting-trigger-happy-killer?” adds Blade.
Blade asks Frank if he thinks he’s crazy. Does he think vampires are a myth? Does he think he’s wearing Kevlar and isn’t half-vampire himself? That’s rich, he adds. He’s seen a special on Frank on Court TV. Frank says that was grossly inaccurate. Blade asks him to fill in the blanks. Why is he out there spying on wise guys instead of getting fat and watching TV like everyone else in the city? Frank replies that they killed his wife and kids, so he kills them. “That’s it?” asks Blade. “Simple as that?” Frank doesn’t reply, and Blade figures he’s not one for talking.
He doesn’t fault Frank for killing the mobsters that killed his family, but they’re dead now. Why does he keep on going? He informs Frank of his own situation. A vampire killed his mom and turned him into a half-breed. He got him, but it’s still open season on his kind. It’s something that has to be done, and he’s the most qualified. Frank looks at Blade with skeptical eyes.
Blade assures him that he’s the real deal. He explains that the guys below them are full-blooded vampires. They exist. The stories are true – some of them at least, and Frank needs to come to terms with that. What he’s saying is, they both got their revenge, and yet they keep on going. This has become their life. The difference, as Blade sees it, is that, with his lifespan being what it is, he has the chance to succeed. He could eventually rid the world of vampires and he’s doing good every step of the way. Ultimately, there is a goal he can reach.
Frank, on the other hand, is fighting a losing battle. Blade adds that for every two wise guys he bumps off, there’s ten more waiting in the wings. He’s already getting up there in years. “It all seems kinda futile, you now?” Frank again doesn’t have a response. “Well? What do you think of that?” prompts Blade. Frank tells him he doesn’t care. What he sees are piles of bodies, and to him, that’s all that matters. Frank notices movement down below, and asks Blade to shush.
The vampires’ truck backs up, and the back is opened to reveal heavy duty artillery; boxes of it. The vampire trusts Antonio likes what he sees. Antonio smiles. His people will be very pleased. The vampire asks for the money, and Antonio asks him to relax. It’s only a phone call away. The Punisher and Blade watch everything that goes on, and Frank is itching for some action. Blade wants to see how this plays out before they go jumping in there. He promises Frank that if he starts firing now, he’ll need his help against Antonio’s business partners.
Blade remains calm. He reminds Frank that these guys aren’t going anywhere until he sends them somewhere. Besides, they’re having a good talk. It’s refreshing for Blade to talk to someone so consumed by what they do; so dedicated, so driven… like him.
Suddenly, a huge explosion rocks the area. The vampires think Antonio is somehow involved, and it provides them with the excuse to turn on him. The lead vampire explains that they never actually intended to give them the weapons anyway. He grabs Antonio whilst his friend grabs Vinny. The two men are ripped apart. “It’s dinnertime, boys!!”
Up above, even Frank Castle is horrified with the viciousness of the attack. Blade folds his arms, nonchalantly. He tells Frank his job is done now. His boys took out Frank’s. “Looks like you got the night off.” With that, Blade offers a friendly grin, and leaps into action. Franks offers his help, but Blade doesn’t need it. With daggers drawn, he wades into the crowd of vampires like he was born to do it.
(Japan)
Titannus sits inside his craft, contemplating the future. With the planet Earth as their stage, the heroes of this planet prove themselves time and time again, surpassing insurmountable odds and never accepting defeat. At the smallest sign of unrest, they leap into action, setting right what is wrong. It seems he admires them. He looks at his beloved in her stasis booth. She cannot hear what he says, and is oblivious to his plans, but he speaks to her anyway. He tells her that her father’s armada would be no match for the assembled might of these beings. It is as though they were meant to encounter them, as if no other force in the galaxy would serve their purpose better. The time of their reunion draws closer. These heroes will be their salvation. He has but to devise a method of getting their attention.
Titannus heads to the city to stir up some action. He succeeds. Waiting for him is Sunfire, and he’s brought the military with him. He asks Titannus if he though he could stray far from his sanctuary without being detected. He underestimated him before, but he will not make the same mistake twice. This time, he’s brought a little help. Titannus informs him that he assures him it will make no difference whatsoever.


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Master of the Ring parts 3 and 4
(Tokyo, Japan)
A section of the city is in ruins. Soldiers lie on the ground, either dead, or about to die. One solider reaches in vain for a radio set, but a burst of flame puts an end to his life. Nearby, Sunfire is outstretched on the ground, with small fires flickering around him. Titannus stands over him, with energy still leaking from his gauntlets. He tells the hero that he’d hoped he has learned enough to save himself this embarrassment a third time. He turns and looks at downtown Tokyo. Now, he says, to cause some real damage.
(New York City, USA)
At the offices of Nelson & Murdock, Foggy and Matt are entertaining a client and his lawyers. They have plenty to go over before their client’s trial begins the next day, but Matt still excuses himself, saying he isn’t feeling too well. Foggy can’t believe he’s leaving, but tries his best to humor their client. As he turns back to them, he sees the reason for Matt’s untimely exit. Stilt Man is walking the streets carrying a briefcase. He tells them Matt had some Indian food earlier and doesn’t think it’s agreeing with him.
Outside, Matt is soon in his Daredevil costume and on Stilt Man’s tail. He asks where he’s headed with his briefcase. Stilt Man quickly turns and uses his telescopic arms to lash out at Daredevil. He knew he would run into Murdock, though he thought he’d be laying low after his identity was leaked. Daredevil replies that he’s been misled. He isn’t Murdock. Stilt Man doesn’t really care either way. He deposits his briefcase on a rooftop and prepares for battle.
He knows the arm thing has got Daredevil thinking, and he explains that he isn’t Wilbur Day. He quit, he explains, and because he was out of the way, he decided to give the whole villain thing a shot. He got the plans for this suit on the Internet. They were on eBay but he found them somewhere else for free. Daredevil hurls his billy club at the villain, and replies that he doesn’t talk any less than the old Stilt Man.
The club misses, and Stilt Man’s response is to open fire from a gun attached to his wrist. This is another improvement on the old design. He’s added all kinds of gadgets and what not, including the extendo-arms. He’s pretty confident that he’ll be able to beat Daredevil with little to no effort. His hubris doesn’t seem misplaced when a volley of rounds cause Murdock to leap acrobatically from his rooftop position.
As he falls, he asks Stilt Man to tell him more, and throws his Billy club once again. The club misses again, as Stilt Man offers his surprise that this is the first time they’ve met. Unseen by him, the club’s wire wraps itself around a metal support and Daredevil uses the momentum of his fall to pull himself towards Stilt Man. He lands with both feet in his torso, but he is barely winded by the attempt.
He grabs Matt in his fist and extends his arm again, holding him out precariously several stories up. Barely felt that, he tells Matt. As he was saying, he’s been at this for weeks now; nine successful heists under his belt. He figured he’d run into him before now. He beat up a guy called Superpro last week. He was the silliest looking guy, he adds.
Down below in the streets, his elongated legs are causing damage; trashing vehicles and forcing innocents to flee. Luke Cage is wandering the streets listening to some tunes having picked up some food, when he notices the commotion.
Up above him, Stilt Man punches Daredevil with his other fist, and warns him that he’s gonna have to get used to his new powers. He thinks Matt is out of practice. Too much time in the courtroom and not enough time in the gym, he reckons. Daredevil once again insists he’s not Murdock. Stilt Man replies that maybe he is a new guy. That would certainly explain his performance.
Suddenly, he hears a thud behind him, and turns to see Luke Cage crawling over his suit. Luke agrees with the villain, and asks what’s up with him tonight. He’s letting the Stilt Man give him trouble. “You got the flu or something?!” Matt replies that he’s trying to put him in jail, not the morgue. If he gets knocked out while he’s on those things the fall will kill him. Cage reacts instinctively, and tells Matt that innocent lives are at stake. They don’t have a lot of options. He smashes his fist down on Stilt Man’s helmet, which knocks him out cold.
As he falters, Luke leaps to the nearest rooftop. “Act now, think later,” he shouts to Matt. Daredevil is quick to respond as he sees the lolloping villain and he leaps towards him, wrapping the wire of one of his Billy clubs around Stilt Man with the other end around the metal support. With the other club, he does the same thing but lashes onto a support on the other side of the street. As Stilt Man falls, he is left dangling above the street, with Daredevil balancing on the wires, and giving Luke the evils.
“See man, I knew you had it covered,” says Luke. Matt tells him to shut up, and Luke asks if that’s any way to thank him for helping out. Luke picks up the food he bought earlier, and tells Matt that he was out getting burgers. When Jessica gets a craving, it’s better to just switch to “Yes ma’am” mode. He asks Matt if he wants one. He bought a couple extra in case he got hungry. Matt declines, just before a huge explosion rocks the streets below them.
Luke drops the food, and asks Matt not to tell her he did that. If she finds out she’ll kill him. Matt is about to tell Luke they’re most likely needed below, but Luke insists the girl will eat him alive if he doesn’t return with the food five minutes ago. “Luke, you’re not serious?” asks Daredevil. Luke assures him that he has to get the food home, but if Matt doesn’t call to say the coast is clear by the time he gets back, he’ll turn right around. He adds that someone ought to call Fury about Stilts as well. He doubts the police can get him down from there. Daredevil has no time to waste, and leaps from the rooftop, heading for the location of the explosion.
Back at Nelson & Murdock, their client waits impatiently for Matt’s return, which isn’t forthcoming. Foggy tells them they can continue without him. It’s no big deal. Their client points his finger at Nelson, and says he wasn’t thrilled about having this meeting in the first place but, once he realized his hotshot partner was going to be sitting in, he really wanted to hear what he thought of the strategy they’d developed. He’s not leaving until he hears from Matt Murdock. Foggy pauses, and smiles nervously. “I’m sure he’ll be back any second now. Yes, sir… any second now…”
(meanwhile)
In another part of the city, Rick Sheridan is in bed with a redheaded woman, who is reading a book. She can’t believe Rick’s asleep already but, when Sleepwalker materializes from nowhere, she realizes he’s already in a deep sleep. Sleepwalker asks if she’s going to waken him, but she resigns herself to leaving him be. She tells him the window’s open, so he can go do his thing. “Thank you ma’am,” he replies, before slipping into the evening air.
He makes his way over the rooftops in search of trouble. He is glad to be free of Rick’s mind. Though his waking hours are not extending, his idle time inside Rick’s mindscape seems an eternity. He quickly spots something down below, and drifts across to a building where Black Cat is hanging upside down from a rope and cutting a circle of glass out of the window. He orders her to halt and explain her actions. She glances around at him, and replies that she’s dropping off some medicine for her grandmother. She asks him to leave before he sets off the alarm.
Sleepwalker, not the brightest hero on the planet, still realizes that she is breaking the law, and demands that she ceases her illegal activity. He doesn’t wish to have a physical encounter with her. Too bad, ugly, she replies. She’s not letting him take her in. She hurls the glass disc at him, but it misses and sails off into the street below. “You would be wise to surrender,” says Sleepwalker, his eyes glowing from under his cowl. Black Cat replies that she’s been called a lot of things, but wise is not one of them. She leaps at Sleepwalker with her talons bared.
In response, Sleepwalker uses warp beams from his eyes to pull away part of the building’s metal support. He wraps it around her, pinning her arms against her body without lifting a finger. He approaches, and tells her if she would be so kind as not to struggle, he will notify the proper authorities of her whereabouts. Before he can continue his speech, a huge explosion rocks the streets below and he turns to see what the commotion is. He excuses himself, but as he turns to look at Black Cat, she has already slipped her constraints and has vanished. Sleepwalker figures he must be more focused in the future.
Never mind, he thinks, there are more urgent matters to attend to. He must seek the source of the explosion and ensure that there have been no injuries. Unfortunately, because Rick Sheridan has been snoring, his companion wakes him. He apologizes to her, but it’s too late for Sleepwalker whose presence dissipates into nothingness.
(Tokyo, Japan)
The city’s downtown lies in ruins, felled at the hands of Titannus. He smiles. “I believe I can seek their attention no longer. They must notice this.”


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Master of the Ring part 5 and conclusion
Captain America meets his fellow Avenger, Wolverine, in a coffee shop. He was expecting Cyclops, but Logan explains that he’s been a bit busy, leading the X-Men and all. Doesn’t he watch the news? Cap seats himself at the table and picks up the menu. “Why didn’t they send Storm?” he asks. Logan replies that he’s got him - deal with it. Cap is there to exchange data on their enemies, and thinks Wolverine could’ve saved him a lot of trouble by just bringing it with him the next time he stopped by the tower. He should have known something was up when he was asked by Jarvis to have the meeting at the coffee shop.
A waitress appears and Logan orders some pie and milk. Cap asks for apple pie, which confirms to the waitress, who’s checked out the costume under his jacket, that it’s Captain America. She turns to Wolverine and adds, “So… that would make you Thor?” Wolverine pauses, not even looking up from under the rim of his hat. “Not even close,” he replies.
Logan hands over a disk. It should be up to date on who’s loose, who’s behind bars, who’s a good guy this week and who’s gone back to being a bad guy. He thinks Kitty burnt the information to the disk. He doesn’t really care. He’s just there for the pie. Cap hands over his info. It has all the up to date info on the jailbreak at the raft, the Savage Land adventure and Sauron. It also has updates on the Sentry and … Wanda.
Both men pause, before Logan asks what’s up with the shirt. Cap replies that his identity is public now. He wears the top from time to time. It seems to have a calming effect on the people around him. Logan asks if he’s paid for dinner since he took to wearing it. Newspaper? Parking ticket? Anything? Cap’s facial expression confirms he isn’t impressed by the implication. Logan says he respects him as much as the next guy, but he is so full of…
Suddenly, a huge explosion attracts their attention, and both men are out of their seats in an instant. Cap throws a few notes back to the table as he runs. As they exit into the street, Logan asks if he knows how much he just threw on the table. People could be dying out there, and he’s so worried about stiffing a waitress that he overpays her for food they haven’t even eaten! “You’re such a boy scout.” Cap replies that he’s a decent human being, just doing what’s right. He asks Logan to keep up.
As they continue, Wolverine picks up on the fact that Cap has his shield hidden under his jacket, yet it’s clearly too wide for his shoulders. What gives? Cap doesn’t have time for this, and just replies that you get used to it. Logan wonders how they’re supposed to get to where the action is happening. Cap suggests maybe calling for the quinjet, but Logan has other ideas. He stands in the road, forcing a car to screech to a halt. He commandeers the convertible, much to the owner’s annoyance, and they head of at speed towards the blast zone.
(nearby)
As the green-hued smoke dissipates, Moon Knight and Spider-Man find themselves miraculously unharmed. Close by, the Ringmaster stands, triumphant; smug in the knowledge that he has more power than he ever dreamed of. As the two heroes check themselves to make sure each limb is still attached, the Ringmaster mentions that they’re both invulnerable. Spidey is the first to respond. “Cripes, man! You almost gave me a heart attack!!” The Ringmaster reckons that’s not a bad idea, and as he clenches his fist, Spidey’s spider-sense goes off. There’s nothing he can do, as his heart goes into cardiac arrest. Moon Knight leans towards him, but then suffers the same fate. He doubles over and drops to the ground.
The Ringmaster stands with his arms outstretched. He is rather annoyed that he didn’t think of this himself. He reckons it’s because he’s a showman, and this kind of act lacks spectacle. He believes he’s had an epiphany. His normal methods usually result in him getting his head handed to him. He believes this is the new beginning of a new era of villain for the Ringmaster!
As Tiboldt revels in his newfound power, he is unceremoniously kicked in the face by Daredevil, who drops from above with assured precision. Sprawled on the ground, Tiboldt turns and sees his assailant. “Do you have a villain-getting-the-upper-hand sense or what?!” He’s annoyed, and tells them they’re all getting shot out of cannons… straight into the ground.
Instantly, as soon as the Ringmaster thinks about it, with the help of his shard of Cosmic Cube, the three heroes find themselves inside personalized cannons, each aimed at the ground. Daredevil is taken completely unawares, and asks what on Earth’s going on. Spider-Man just says their foe isn’t nearly as lame as he used to be.
As the Ringmaster prepares to watch his nemeses die, a rocket lands next to him, throwing him off his feet. He scratches his head. “I just can’t catch a break tonight,” he remarks. He looks up into the night sky and sees Moon Knight’s crescent-shaped craft hovering above him. He wonders just how many Moon Knights there are. “Just one!” says Moon Knight as he delivers a mighty left jab to Tiboldt’s nose.
He isn’t happy about that, and intends to take it out on Moon Knight’s craft. He aims the ring skywards, but absolutely nothing happens. Moon Knight calls Frenchie and informs him that he’s out of range and he should stay where he is. Daredevil then grabs Tiboldt around the waist and takes him down, as Spider-Man webs up his legs. The Ringmaster gathers himself and uses the ring’s power to hurl everyone away from him. He then threatens to set them all on fire.
As he holds his hand up, a shot rings out and the Ringmaster’s finger, along with the ring, is separated from his body. He screams, as the Punisher looks down from the rooftops; a job well done. The three heroes look to the rooftops, and Daredevil tells the others that Frank Castle was there. Spidey asks Daredevil to remind him to send him a thank-you card. “Anyone have his address in Crazy Town?” Castle leaves without a word.
Now the danger is over, Captain America and Wolverine arrive, belatedly. Cap apologizes for the delay and blames the traffic. Wolverine sees the Ringmaster curled up on the ground, nursing his stump, and he assumes everything is under control. Cap then picks up the finger to give to the paramedics, but he first removes the ring, which he says will find its way into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.
As Tiboldt is stretchered into the ambulance, Spidey says, “I’m sorry… but this whole adventure was ridiculous!” He turns to see the others looking at him. “C’mon,” he continues. “Cosmic Ringmaster, the Punisher, cannons. I even blew up once - you saw that, right? This was crazy.” Wolverine turns to leave, and Cap tells them he’s going to ride to the hospital with the paramedics to ensure the Ringmaster doesn’t try anything.
As Wolverine climbs into the car he appropriated, Spidey says that he’s been hearing things lately about Wolverine not liking him. Logan says he doesn’t. Spidey says he’s being serious. “Seriously,” replies Logan, “I don’t like you.” Spidey is surprised. He can never tell when Wolverine’s joking. Logan says he isn’t joking.
Moon Knight offers Spidey a lift, and he accepts. He asks if he can be dropped off near Soho. That’ll be close enough. He also asks if they can swing my McDonald’s if they’re still open. He still owes his wife a take-out. If he shows up empty handed, it won’t be pretty.
(later)
Spider-Man arrives home with his take-out. MJ is in bed, and he carefully places the food on a nearby table. Without moving, MJ says it better have been Thanos again. If it wasn’t Thanos, he shouldn’t even bother telling her who it was. She swears, if he tells her it was the Vulture she will punch him in the face. Peter offers her a Big Mac. MJ sits up, and asks when she has ever eaten a Big Mac. She hasn’t eaten one the whole time they’ve been together. Peter removes his mask and apologizes. He’s had a hell of a night and wasn’t thinking straight. Seeing her husband battered and beaten, MJ forgives him, and soon makes up for her grouchiness.
(elsewhere)
In a Japanese-styled house, green swirls of mist reveal an image of the cosmic ring. The creator of these mists, Chen Hsu, says the ring comes one step closer to its true possessor. He finds it strange how often a straight line is often not the fastest path to a destination. “Strange indeed.”
Later, as Rick Sheridan sleeps, Sleepwalker is hovering over the crater that came as a result of Spider-Man exploding. “Curious,” he remarks.


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Titannus War part one
With the destruction in Tokyo causing massive psychic disturbances and loss of life, Doctor Strange is caught by a psychic backlash and holds his head in horror. His assistant, Wong, asks if he requires some more tea, as he senses Strange has a long night ahead of him. Strange replies that this is no time for tea… this is a time for action.
Over New York City’s moonlit skyscrapers, Spider-Man’s thoughts are centered on whether Mary Jane mailed some bills out. His concentration is broken when his webbing is spliced in two and he begins to fall. Out of nowhere, Nova swings around and grabs him under the armpits. He explains that it was an accident. He’s in the middle of a fight with the Rhino a couple blocks over and accidentally hit the webbing. Spidey tells him that being carried by the armpits isn’t remotely comfortable and, as he spins another web, preparing to depart, Nova calls after him. He asks if he wants to help him with the Rhino; just to make things go a little quicker. Spidey turns and apologizes. He has a lot on his mind today.
Moments later, the two heroes approach the Rhino, who is holding a rucksack. He tells Spidey that he think he’ll break his legs this time. Spidey quips that the last time out, all he did was surrender. He isn’t going to take any cheap jibes in front of Nova. He asks Nova to shove the Rhino off the edge of the building. Nova is surprised. They don’t want to kill him, do they? Spidey asks Nova to trust him. As requested, Nova rams the Rhino who topples through some brickwork and heads towards the street below. Spidey quickly erects a sheet of webbing to catch him, and completes it just as the Rhino drops past him. The Rhino resigns himself to yet another defeat at Spidey’s hands, as Spidey returns to speak with Nova.
Nova’s impressed with Spider-Man’s quick thinking. Spidey explains that some branch of the government should be around soon to pick the Rhino up. He asks Nova how he is. They haven’t had much time to catch up recently. Nova reckons things are going okay. He thinks the New Warriors might be reforming again so the hero side of his life is looking up. Also, his ex-girlfriend has just had a baby, which is kinda weird; like her life is moving on and his is staying the same. He adds that he might be graduating college soon, so that’s good. Spidey is surprised. He always thought they were the same age. Nova is equally surprised to hear that Spidey is younger than himself. Spidey tries not to take offense at the remark.
Suddenly, the astral form of Doctor Strange appears. Nova isn’t too familiar with Strange. He informs Spidey that he was there when everyone fought Thanos in space a while back. He didn’t really meet him, though, or his creepy ghost. Spidey says he’s a cool guy. He’ll like him. Doctor Strange interjects. “I’m standing right here, kind of.” He informs them that they don’t have time for this. Something disastrous has taken place and once he’s gathered some more heroes, they can meet him back at his abode. Spidey knows the way, and so the two heroes take off, leaving Doctor Strange to gather more muscle.
The next place he visits is the Hammer Pool Hall on B. Willis Street. Inside, Carol Danvers is playing the She-Hulk at pool, though Jennifer is kicking her butt. She’s won six games in a row, and she asks Carol to tack the balls while she gets another beer. As she heads for the bar, Doctor Strange’s astral projection appears and he tells them that they need not be inebriated for the mission he has in store for them. Carol wonders why the hall’s customers don’t appears to be concerned about his appearance, but Strange replies that they cannot see him - only they can.
He adds that he will inform them about the task at hand once they’re back at his sanctum, but for now, he must gather some others. He imprints Carol’s mind with his address and the two former Avengers head off. She-Hulk asks Carol if she’s gonna fly slow enough for her to leap behind her, but Carol figures she should armpit her. It’ll be faster. Once they are airborne, She-Hulk remembers fondly the old days when they could just calla Quinjet. She misses those days, and so does Carol.
Spidey and Nova arrive at Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum in Greenwich Village but, on landing, Spidey knocks something over. He’s a little concerned that it’s something potentially unpleasant. He warns Nova not to touch anything. Nova insists he isn’t about to. Spidey could have sent them back in time, or to Hell or something. He wonders if Strange can hear them. They turn to see the Doctor’s physical body sitting there, motionless as his astral form does the legwork. Spidey hopes not. “If he saw what I just did, he’d kick my a…”
At that moment, Wong opens the doors and ushers in Ms. Marvel and She-Hulk. Spidey picks up on their conversation, and reckons Carol must have armpitted her. Jennifer replies that she did. Spidey acts all justified, and tells Nova that he was right. It isn’t even remotely comfortable. From now on he’s using a web harness. Carol asks if anyone knows what this is about. Before anyone can answer, Bruce Banner materializes in a swirl of smoke. He tells them he certainly doesn’t know anything.
“Cousin,” remarks She-Hulk, “It’s been so long!” Doctor Strange’s astral form re-enters his physical body, and he stands before them. He apologizes for the delay, but he had to retrieve some more muscle, and the Hulk wasn’t easy to locate. He appreciates their patience. He explains that what he has sensed is a great cataclysm taking place in Tokyo, Japan. It appears to be the work of one man, whose origin is unknown to him. The media are being kept in the dark to avoid widespread global panic, and the military forces of nine countries have been dispatched, including their own. However, they will be no match for this man. They must save their lives and keep this being from causing any more damage.
Nova asks about the New Avengers. Wouldn’t this be a good job for them? Some of them… at least? Strange explains that they are the only heroes he could muster in such a short amount of time. Captain America and Iron Man aren’t in the city, and Banner was the only one he specifically sought out. He knew his strength would be needed.
Spidey figures this means he’s going to Japan. Ms. Marvel wonders how they’re gonna get there. She can’t carry all of them. “You got that right,” replies She-Hulk. Doctor Strange tells them he has means and, with a little mystical teleportation, the heroes find themselves amidst the ruins of Tokyo’s modern city center, laid waste by Titannus. “Oh my,” exclaims She-Hulk, as she takes in the terrible devastation.
Titannus stands before them, arms outstretched. He expected their response time to be a little shorter than this, but now they have arrived, it doesn’t matter. Before he can explain himself, Wolverine attacks, having waited for an opportune moment to strike. He slashes at the giant’s armor, and Titannus stumbles backwards as Wolverine prepares to take his head off with his adamantium blades. As he lies on the ground, he summons energy into his giant fist and strikes Wolverine with great power. Wolverine is launches high into the air, blood spurting from his face as he rockets skywards.
Nova is keen to attack, but Doctor Strange stays their hands. He has something else in mind. He places his fingers on Bruce Banner’s temple, and asks him to dwell on this thought. Banner screams, and in an instant he is transformed into the mighty Hulk. Wolverine lands, meanwhile, and Spidey asks when he arrived. Wolverine replies that he’s been there, keeping people safe and saving lives, waiting for the right time to attack. He knows this guy is no lightweight, and asks Spidey if they are all that Strange brought.
Strange asks everyone to just keep an eye on the fight and keep any civilians safe. He feels the Hulk should be able to defeat this monster alone. “See, Wolverine… I think he brought too many,” quips Spider-Man. The Hulk, dwelling on Strange’s implanted thought, is in an angry mood, and says Hulk will smash puny armored man! However, when he approaches Titannus, the alien delivers a punishing blow to the Hulk’s stomach, and lays him out with a ferocious right cross. A third punch puts the Hulk down for the count. “Listen to me!” cries Titannus as the Hulk falls.
The Hulk transforms back into puny Banner. “Uh-oh,” gulps Spidey. Titannus confronts the heroes, but explains that he doesn’t want to fight any of them. He needs their help. Having seen what he did to Tokyo and witnessed his defeat of the Hulk, Spider-Man reckons that maybe they should hear the guy out.


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Titannus War part two
(present)
Having defeated the Incredible Hulk with ease, the assembled heroes cautiously allow Titannus to explain his presence on Earth.
(flashback - lies)
Titannus explains that he was born on the Skrull homeworld, and was deemed inferior at birth by Skrull standards of physical perfection, as he was never able to harness his natural shape-shifting abilities. Because of this, his superiors experimented upon him, and he became part of the Super-Skrull program. These tests failed, and only resulted in disfiguring Titannus, making him even less useful to the empire. However, they weren’t done with him yet.
They continued to experiment with him and it was torture. Eventually, they succeeded and he was given powers far beyond those of a normal Skrull. For a time, his superiors were happy. However, they wanted to conduct more tests and Titannus endured them as long as he could. He attempted to escape but failed. He was severely punished for this, but he didn’t give up. He had to get away, and eventually he managed to escape.
(flashback - the truth)
Titannus was born on the Skrull homeworld, and grew up to be a violent, murderous individual. Because of his innate aggressiveness, he was subjected to experiments to make him a Super-Skrull. The experiments succeeded, and the scientists were impressed. They tested the limits of his strength and were pleased with his improvement. However, Titannus felt there was more out there for him. He murdered one of the scientists and left the facility, bringing it down around him as he left.
(flashback - lies)
Titannus tried to hide and start a new life away from civilization, where he could live in peace. With his powers, he could have enslaved the Skrull people and destroyed their cities, but instead he sought peace and he hid. They soon tracked him down, but deemed him no longer of any use in their experiments. They exiled him into space, sending him away with no supplies, no food and forcing him to eat all sorts of horrible things to survive. Once these food sources were exhausted he was left alone to drift in space to die.
However, his pod crashed on a peaceful, alien planet, where he was greeted with open arms. He was given gifts and accepted into their society, which was ruled by a kind and fair king, who had brought peace to his people. He caught the king’s eye immediately. He was treated like a son, and for the first time in his life he was happy.
 (flashback - the truth)
Once free, Titannus ravaged his homeworld and brought the Skrulls to their knees. He stole a pod and set off into space. With little or no food on aboard, he took to cannibalism and ate the crew. Once the crew were no more, he found a nearby planet and set down. Warriors met him as he emerged from his craft and Titannus soon came into conflict with them. Eventually, he was subdued, but the king was impressed with his fighting qualities and decided to use him in his gladiatorial arena. He became a great champion, content for the time being to kill people and be praised for it.
(flashback - lies)
This period of tranquility was not to last and, eventually, the old king passed on. Though it would not fill the void in his heart by his passing, the king left his crown to him. He suddenly found himself ruler of the planet. In honor of his departed liege, he took very good care of his daughters, providing them with their every desire. He was a good and fair king; a peaceful king who thought it important to ensure the previous king’s legacy endured. To that end, he spread goodwill across his planet and, eventually, the galaxy.
He spread his message across all the neighboring star systems, wanting to make his fallen king proud. For a time, it seemed like he was succeeding. Then, then Trellions invaded his newly adopted planet. They were a vicious army, and a peaceful civilization like theirs was no match for them. They conquered his planet, slaughtering millions. Titannus held his ground as long as he could, but in the end, he was only one man.
 (flashback - the truth)
One day, Titannus ruthlessly murdered the king and took control of his planet, using fear to control his people. He enslaved the king’s daughters, using them as his concubines. He callously murdered anyone who dared stand against him, and enjoyed nothing more than to wage war with anyone he could. He traveled across the planet, pillaging every village and killing those who lived there. When he ran out of people to conquer, he took a fleet into space and began a piratical existence. Titannus eventually found another world to conquer, but the Trellions defended it voraciously. His own army was defeated, leaving him alone against the defending army.
(flashback - lies)
It was early in the occupation that Titannus met the Trellion king. He was a ruthless man who took a special interest in him. His prowess on the battlefield impressed Titannus. He had never seen such an accomplished fighter. He was to be kept alive, and so was taken prisoner. The conditions under which he was kept were unbearable, proving just how sinister and brutal the Trellion race was. He was kept in a cage and saw no sunlight, no hint of the outside world. He lost track of time and soon lost his will to live. He was fed only when it appeared he might die from starvation. His captors were powerful and tried to keep him weak. He thought his treatment on the Skrull homeworld was inhumane, but he soon found himself longing to go back there.
 (flashback- the truth)
The Trellion King was impressed with Titannus, and he agreed to work for the king as his bodyguard. He stood by the king as he overthrew other regimes. For this, he was rewarded with high status, good food and fine wine. The king’s beautiful daughter soon took his fancy.
(flashback - lies)
Titannus was sure he would have died had Princess Amissa, the King’s daughter, not taken a liking to him. She began by sneaking him extra food and visiting him in the dead of night. She took great risks in coming to see him, and over time they formed a bond. They became friends, and more. Were her father to find out about their love, she would surely be met with his unbridled fury. Thankfully, they were able to keep it a secret… for a time.
Their love was discovered, and he was beaten within an inch of his life. The king would have killed him, were it not for Amissa’s pleas. The king sent Titannus out into the wasteland to die, a fate worse than being kept prisoner. He thinks it was more to punish Amissa than himself. He knew it would destroy her to know the tortures he was to encounter in the wasteland. Rather than perish, he flourished and learned to survive. He regained the strength he had lost long ago in the Trellion prison and amassed an army in secret - one strong enough to overthrow Amissa’s evil father. He waited for an opportune moment to strike.
 (flashback- the truth)
Titannus took Amissa by force and, when her father confronted Titannus about it, the Skrull defeated him with ease and had the king taken away by guards. Taking over this new kingdom, he forced Amissa to sit by his side as he ruled.
(flashback - lies)
One day, he returned to the palace and confronted the king. Amissa rejoiced at his return, which made her father furious. Titannus fought through his forces, eager to get to his lost love, but their reunion was bittersweet. In one final act of inhumanity, the king infected his daughter with a rare disease native only to his planet. He thought it better to seal her fate rather than allow her to live in happiness with his enemy. Titannus fled with Amissa into space. The Trellions pursued them as long as they could but finally they were free.
Sadly, Amissa’s condition overtook her and Titannus was unable to help. The only cure lay on her home planet, but he could not return for fear of incurring her father’s wrath. He did the only thing he could think of, and placed Amissa in one of the ship’s stasis pods, preserving her and preventing the illness from taking her life. He then focused his efforts in searching the galaxy for a civilization that could aid him in returning to Trellion to defeat the king and cure his beloved Amissa.
Damage sustained in the escape from Trellion made his landing on Earth difficult and, at first, he thought he had been stranded on a remote planet that could be of no assistance. He soon came to realize that fate had placed him on Earth, providing him with everything he might require in his quest so save Amissa.
 (flashback- the truth)
One day, Amissa slipped the keys to the dungeons to a trusted friend who freed the king and some of his comrades. The king confronted Titannus once again, but he managed to grab Amissa and fight his way to a craft to make his escape. The pursuing Trellion craft were finally disposed of and Amissa fought Titannus, though her struggles were futile. To stop her constant complaints, he shoved her into a stasis pod to keep her quiet until he found a new planet to land on. Damage sustained to his craft meant the landing wasn’t perfect, but he soon discovered that the heroes on the planet might be of use to him.
(present)
Titannus concludes his story against the backdrop of a Tokyo in ruins. He apologizes to the assembled heroes for the damage, but he found himself threatened by the inhabitants of the city and lost his temper. He regrets his actions, but once again he asks for their help. Dr. Strange tells him he senses little truth in his words. Wolverine knows he’s lying. He can smell it on him. He snikts his claws, preparing for battle.
Titannus says he feels insulted that they don’t believe him. Dr. Strange replies that if what he says is true, then he needs some proof. He is a doctor, and he asks to be allowed to examine Amissa to confirm her illness. He may even be able to save her without involving Trellion; preventing the war Titannus speaks of.
Titannus is furious. He insists the only way to her salvation lies on Trellion. They must go there and take it by force. Spidey asks if he’s got this whole story straight. He wants them, after he has destroyed Tokyo, to take his word and trot out into space to fight some galactic battle on his behalf. That’s not how it works. He hasn’t been in the Avengers, or the Champions (or whatever they are) for very long, but he knows that this isn’t how it works. Warbird whispers that they’re not the Champions.
Wolverine agrees, and prepares to jump Titannus. Titannus summons energy into his gauntlet, and tells them that he will kill them all if he must. There is no shortage of their kind on the Earth, and it will be a simple matter to seek them out once they have been slain. Spidey replies that it’s a good plan. That’ll really endear him to the super hero community on Earth. He turns to his comrades. “Shall we?” he asks. “Let’s,” replies She-Hulk. The heroes launch into their attack, as Spidey remarks that it’s been nice knowing them all.