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Tin Can Heroes: part 1: Machine-Manned
Dr. Valerie Cooper introduces the scenario to her visitors: the Hulk is on a rampage through a small, American town and the only thing standing between that bloodthirsty monstrosity and unimaginable devastation are three Sentinels.
A Senator is surprised Sentinels are being sent in to deal with the situation. He wants to know why the Avengers aren’t called in to help, or even the Fantastic Four, or any other super-group that usually deals with this sort of threat. Val explains they send in the Sentinels in case the Avengers are dead or disbanded, and the Fantastic Four are away on one of their excursions. She doesn’t see who else could be send in to deal with the Hulk, as the X-Men are not exactly heroes in the conventional sense. And, she adds, the government doesn’t really have control over any members of the Fantastic Four or the Avengers.
The Senator and his partners, standing in a room and observing the situation through a viewing screen, asks Val for confirmation that they are safe there. Valerie explains that they are more than a half-mile away from the operation site, and they wouldn’t bring the Senator or the others in this close if the exercise wasn’t under their complete control. She reminds the Senator that’s also why the Office of National Emergency was formed, and to give the American government some semblance of control within the superhuman community. They also wish to deal with these kinds of threats in case the heroes they’ve relied on for so long are dead, disbanded or otherwise missing in action.
The Hulk stops running away from the Sentinels, and instead throws a car at them. Unharmed by the car, a Sentinel knocks him down. Immediately getting back up, the Hulk jumps, in full rage, at the Sentinel hoping to hit him. But the Sentinel acts faster, and fires the blast from the palm of its hands! The Hulk is still alive, but something weird happens… robotic parts are shown?!
Valerie explains that’s because the Hulk the Sentinels are fighting isn’t actually the real one, but a simulacrum loaned to the base by Dr. Reed Richards for the express purpose of this demonstration.
The Senator gets confused though: he can see the Sentinels having the Hulk outnumbered and under ropes, but they aren’t finishing him off. He wants to know why. Val reveals that they’ve got tripped up the Sentinel’s logic boards with something to think about. They’ve just fed the Sentinels information that the Hulk’s alter ego, Bruce Banner, is actually a brilliant scientist and on the verge of curing cancer, hence capable of saving millions of lives. And despite advances in artificial intelligence, the simple fact is that Sentinels are not human. They’ve continually proven to have difficulty weighing contradictory input, thereby making tough moral choices as a result. That probably used to be their fatal flaw.
The Hulk-bot realizes that the Sentinels are hesitating, so he decides to take advantage of the situation. He quickly rips off one of the Sentinel’s arms, and uses it to destroy all the others! With his adversaries out of the picture, the Hulk jumps away into safety.
Valerie believes that what Sentinels have always lacked is a human capacity for reason. She adds that what the O*N*E* would like to propose is a Sentinel that still has the raw power to stand up to Earth’s many superhuman threats, balanced with an intelligent being’s ability to juggle nuanced and sometimes opposing bits of information to make informed, logical and moral choices. The Senator listens to what Valerie has to say, but hears something and panics a bit.
On that very moment, the Hulk crashes through the roof! The Senator panics, as he thought Agent Cooper promised this situation was under control. Remaining calm while everyone else is afraid, Val explains that nobody has to worry about that. As she was saying, like currently, should a Sentinel find itself in a position of deciding between a hypothetical scientist who could theoretically save millions of lives, and three real-life Senators who head up the Armed Services Committee which oversees a military budget in the billions, it’s a no-brainer what the robot will chose to do: namely smash the Hulk.
A Sentinel outside the building has watched the whole thing happening. It smashes its arm through what used to be the roof, and knocks the Hulk down!
Val is proud to present the Sentinel for the twenty-first century. She reveals the Sentinel incorporates offensive and defensive improvements from SHIELD and multiple design up-grades from Stark Industries, among hundreds of other new features and notable enhancements. The Senator is impressed by the theatrics, but wonders what’s to stop this Sentinel model from going crazy like the old models used to do. Valerie tells the Senator to take a closer look to the Sentinel’s shoulder. She introduces him to the man controlling the Sentinel: James Rhodes.
Val would like to present the Senator and his partners with the following proposal for an entire squadron of Sentinels, which are now operated by human pilots, trained to follow a military command structure and supervised by the O*N*E agency. Plus, it’s exclusively serving America’s government agenda. She hands the Senator a file, which holds the money Val would like to have. The Senator can’t suspect that Val would ask him to sign something with this many zeroes. Val doesn’t like to put a price on saving the world. But another Senator is already impressed, and signs the folder.
5 months later…
Lots of Sentinels have already been built and are ready for action. The human controllers and soldiers are ready to use them. A bus with new recruits arrives. One of them is impressed by the beautiful workmanship and can’t wait to get behind the wheel of one of the Sentinels. Another recruit, Jennings, doesn’t understand that but his partner-recruit jokes that Jennings knows what he means.
Another recruit remembers that he spent two hours in the Gulf, had a stint in Panama and made it out of Latveria on foot after they shot down his F-16 plane over a no-fly zone. He doubts that the Sentinels are going to give him any trouble. Among the new recruits is also a mutant, who isn’t very pleased to see the Sentinels. But nobody bothers to talk to him.
A lone recruit steps out of the bus and takes out a cigarette. He thinks all of the other recruits are losers, wearing big smiles as they line up to get killed. Suddenly, someone takes out the cigarette out of his mouth and jokes that smoking isn’t allowed at this place, and that he might as well quit now. The recruit suspects he’s talking to the C.O. The man jokes that he isn’t yet, but hopes he will be in some time. He introduces himself as Nathaniel Briggs, mentioning that the guys in his unit used to call him “Bulletproof.” The recruit introduces himself as Alexander “Lex” Lexington.
Valerie overhears them and agrees with Briggs, defending that Lex’s smoking days are now officially over. She introduces herself as the deputy director of the Sentinel Squad. That means she’s heading up the Sentinel Squad Program, but isn’t directly in charge of the recruits. Lex wants to know to whom they are supposed to report. A Sentinel flies in, and Val smiles that the recruits can report to the man inside the Sentinel suit. He will be the recruit’s Direct Commander Officer and also their combat instructor. This guy knows just about everything there is to know about modern robotics, cybernetics and mech-tech and even spend an inordinate amount of his life punching people from inside a claustrophobic metal suit.
The Sentinel takes off his helmet, and the man inside introduces himself as James Rhodes, who welcomes all of the new recruits to the Sentinel Squad. James jokes that they better listen up, as this place isn’t exactly Club Med. He explains that, for some reason, the government decided that the recruits are all the kinds of people with the skills and know-how to operate some of the world’s most sophisticated hardware. James is here to make sure that every last one of the recruits is up to the task.
Jennings doesn’t like the idea of working alongside mutants. James notices that Jennings has a problem with mutants. Jennings defends that he has, like almost everybody has. James fires Jennings, as he won’t tolerate this sort of ignorance or attitude. Two security guards help Jennings out. James tells the group to say goodbye to Corporal Jennings, joking that at least he is leaving in one piece. But he knows that some of the others won’t be so lucky. He is aware that it’s his responsibility as combat instructor that none of the recruits go home in body bags. And there’s only one way that’s going to happen: they need to become a team. So, James doesn’t care what color the recruits are, where they come from, what god they worship, who they date, or what their DNA looks like under a scanner.
He adds that if the recruits want to make it to the Sentinel Squad, every last member of the team will be their brother. He asks Lex if he understand. Hesitant, he agrees. James wants to demonstrate what he means. He introduces cadet Skylark, who was among the Squad’s initial wave of recruits and has logged in enough hours that she’s now combat certified. She has been training on the Stealth Unit, but they thought that for the purpose of this demonstration they would give Skylark a different kind of Sentinel: the Brawler Unit.
The Brawler Unit is one of the several Sentinels designed by Tony Stark himself. He mentions that what’s more fortified than this standard unit is that this is built for close combat and to withstand a tremendous amount of punishment. The Brawler unit also got triple-plated armor and includes a protective adamantium chest plate, as well as reinforced hydraulics to give it extra strength. There’s no doubt about it that the Brawler packs a serious punch.
Skylark goes to stand on a panel, which flies up and helps her crawl into the back of the Sentinel, so she can control it from the inside. James orders Skylark to head over the hill she can see to start this exercise. Skylark asks Rhodey… er… Commander Rhodes, what the mission scenario is. James smiles that it couldn’t be more simpler: all Skylark has to do is stay alive.
Airplanes fly towards her at full speed, and open fire! Skylark asks about the status of these vehicles. James explains that they are fully radio-controlled with no living beings anywhere near the cadet, so she has the permission to pound the living crud out of them. That’s exactly what Skylark wanted to hear, so she grabs the planes and starts crushing them. However, the exercise isn’t quite over yet, as an entire brigade of battle tanks reveal themselves!
Lex panics. He doesn’t care how heavily modified that Sentinel is, he doesn’t think there’s going to be one way it will be able to take on that much firepower. But that’s exactly James’ point. As dust clouds merge from the heavy battle, James explains that against those kinds of odds, they don’t expect the Sentinel to survive, as it was never their intention to build the perfect Sentinel… but rather to build the perfect team. As the dust clears, an entire group of Sentinel controllers proudly step forward, happy that they are victorious.
Evening in the Mess Hall…
Everyone in the cafeteria is talking about the Sentinels, but also about James, whom some have heard used to be Iron Man and War Machine. Jake and Nixon are sitting together on a table, and notice that the mutant is sitting alone, staring at them. Jake looks back but doesn’t do anything about it. Nixon asks Jake if he likes Skylark. Jake doesn’t like her, as he likes his women to be more exotic. He notices Rajani entering alone and invites her to sit with them. She refuses. Nixon doesn’t know what her problem is.
Jake explains that Rajina is all about business, and also is some kind of computer-scenarios expert. He thinks she’s going to be the squad technician. Nixon isn’t surprised that they’ve got tech support from a woman from India. Rajina overhears that, and angrily punches him in the face! Ignoring him for the rest, she walks over to a table. Jake and Nixon walk back to their dorms. Jake explains to Nixon that was a stupid thing to do because, if Rhodes had seen that, he would have booted them both. Nixon ignores him.
As they continue to walk to their rooms, Lex fails to open the door of his room with his keycard, as it is apparently non-operational. With nobody in sight, he decides to use his mutant powers to open it instead! The other mutant, Meld, has seen it all happening and is startled at the discovery. Lex angrily shouts at Meld that, if he ever informs anyone about the fact that he’s a mutant, he’ll kill him. Frightened, Meld promises Lex’ secret is safe wit him.
Elsewhere…
Val sits alone in the computer room, looking through the files of the new recruits. She reads the file of Corporal Nathaniel “Bulletproof” Briggs. He is a war hero with a Congressional Medal of Honor for service in Afghanistan. He was awarded multiple commendations, including two silver stars, during his tour in Iraq. She also reads the file of Emil “the Professor” Winston. He’s a recipient of two major grants for his work with cybernetics and artificial intelligence, which helped him get on board for the Sentinel Squad.
General Lazer enters. He warns Val that she wouldn’t get too attached to the new recruits, as with the missions they have planned for these boys, he expects there are going to be many more recruits for Val to familiarize with. Val doesn’t understand. Lazer reveals that he is talking about casualties, and lots of them. He hands Val over a file, which reads “Operation: Savage Land.” He also shows her a picture of a mind-controlled T-Rex…


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Tin Can Heroes: part 2: Growing Pains
James Rhodes observes on the battlefield, while Alexander Lexington is busy fighting none other than… Galactus! Lex uses his Sentinel unit to give the planet devourer a hard punch, and also a blast. Rhodes informs Lex to hit Galactus hard before he has a chance to recover. He mentions that Galactus also has a ranged attack that will melt Lex’ Sentinel’s circuits like butter in a microwave. The blast hits Galactus, whose helmet gets destroyed, but he’s still standing.
Lex has had enough of Commander Rhodes ongoing notes, and smirks that he’s trying to save the universe here, and can’t concentrate when he keeps talking like that. Lex gives Galactus another blast, and now he stays down! And to make him stay that way, Lex snaps Galactus’ head! Rhodes warns Lex not to look so pleased with himself, as apparently, he forgot all about Galactus’ Herald: the Silver Surfer! The Surfer reveals himself and soars right through Lex’ Sentinel, and takes him down for the count. Rhodes explains that Lex got cocky and dropped his guard. That got him killed.
Lex thinks that’s a good thing, as he was getting tired of this virtual reality simulation nonsense. He asks someone to get him out of the training device. Rhodes congratulates Lex though, as he did pretty well up there, although he reminds him this was supposed to be an exercise in defense combat technique. Lex apologizes for it, but admits that with all that firepower, it made him hard for him not to get enthusiastic. Slayton laughs at that. Rhodes want to know what he has to say.
Slayton wants to know how much longer it will take before they will get to operate a Sentinel for real. James explains that maybe, the recruits will be ready for the real thing when this squad can get through a training scenario without someone dying, like what happened to Lex today if the situation were for real. James believes that might be a good starting point.
Slayton agrees, but wants to know what all the other training is about. He wants to know why they are learning all the hand-to-hand combat if they are going to be controlling a giant robot in the near future. Rhodes thinks Slayton doesn’t get it. They aren’t training this squad to control a Sentinel. He reminds Slayton that when he is in the command core of a Sentinel, the commanders expect him to be the Sentinel. James reminds that a Sentinel is only as fast as the reflexes of its pilots. The Sentinel’s combat skills are the controller’s combat skills. He wants the troops to understand that this is not like driving a tank or flying a jet fighter.
James explains that, as they have already explained to the troops before, once the Sentinel Squad Program is underway, pilots will be expected to serve a minimum of a three-month tour of duty within their Sentinel, with only a very small dormitory area to retire to. Of course, it’s not quite as bad as it sounds. Electrocurrents in the command suit will stimulate musculature to prevent atrophy and there will be some limited bi-weekly R&R time. When hearing that, Briggs starts to sweat, but nobody notices it.
James knows that most of the recruits will think that’s a small price to pay. He is also aware that they have all been handpicked to be one of the next generation of American super heroes, and it doesn’t get much better than that. But James warns them not to be too eager to get inside that cold, cramped hunk of metal. He can say that from experience, and promises there will come a time when they may be literally dying to get out of the suit. He orders the troops to get over to the hand-to-hand arena and see if they can’t punch away some of the frustrations they have. Nixon praises Lex for snapping Galactus’ neck like that.
Rhodes sighs, as he is approached by Valerie, wanting to ask if there were any problems. James admits he’s only having problems with Jake Slayton at the moment. He explains that he’s a loudmouth, with more muscle than brains. Valerie reminds James that she has given him complete discretion to remove any recruits from the Sentinel Squad who aren’t working out, and he’s free to use that. James is aware of that, but doesn’t want to go that far. James realizes that Slayton has some rough edges, but what’s really bothering him, is that Slayton may be right.
James believes that training for the other squads was nowhere near this intensive. He thinks that putting them up against Galactus right out of the gate may not have been the right thing to do. After all, he remembers he used to be Iron Man, and he never even had to train for something like that. When one considers the injuries he sustained already back then and the recruits who dropped out because of the pressure, it seems to James that they could all use the manpower they can get, instead of just giving these troops the permanent run-around. Or, he wonders, would this have something to do with Meld who was recruited into the Squad?
James looks at Meld training below him. James is aware that Meld’s real name is Jeremiah Muldoon. He thinks it’s funny how they were in such a big hurry to have him on the books, but are dragging their heels when it comes to trusting him with any actual responsibility. Valerie defends that General Lazer has his reasons for that. When Lex approaches him, Meld congratulates him on the nice job with Galactus, but Lex coldly orders Meld to mind his own business.
Valerie wants to be straight with James. She explains that she and the General have reservations about this entire unit. She mentions that Lex is without a doubt an accomplished and utterly lethal soldier, but he also has a bad attitude and a disciplinary record as long as her arm. Rajani Dhama isn’t much better. Her IQ is almost off the charts, but so too is her temper. Valerie is aware that Dhama physically assaulted one of her fellow recruits within hours of entering the program. James reminds Val that she also gave him discretion to keep whoever he wanted on this squad. He has noticed that all of these recruits have made tremendous progress, especially when one considers what they have been thrown at. But he does have someone in mind he wants to see fired.
Val realizes who James is talking about, but she won’t allow it. She reminds James that she already told him that Professor Emil Winston is here under special circumstances. He’s got one of the most brilliant minds in the world in the field of cybernetics and artificial intelligence. James calls him a nutcase. Valerie reveals that Winston agreed to work on the Sentinel Squad program only if he could actually be in the program! James believes that, despite its dysfunction, he will still stand by this team. He realizes that, right now, the team is good at what they do, but they could be the best. He wouldn’t be wasting his time there if he believed otherwise. And he doesn’t think it’s fair Valerie is wasting their time. James thinks that he needs to have a word with Lazer. Val tells him to give it a rest, as she’s actually there to send the team on a mission. James thinks that’s about time.
Later…
The Sentinel troops have been assigned into Sentinels… to guard the live of a Senator! Lex really hates it and asks for permission to say that out loud. James orders Lex to keep his mouth shut, explaining that the Senator they are guarding is one of the program’s biggest supporters. But now, all those anti-terror bills he has been sponsoring have earned him a big red bull’s-eye painted on his forehead. Lex admits he thought Hydra was SHIELD’s jurisdiction. James confirms that, and explains they are working with SHIELD on this job. And they got firm intel about an assassination attempt on the senator by Hydra.
Lex agrees to do the job, but he still thinks it’s a colossal waste of all their times. Briggs tells Lex to shut up. He believes that if SHIELD says Hydra has some new mystery weapon that they want to use, it’s up to them to make sure that won’t happen. Briggs’ claustrophobia starts kicking in and he gets all sweaty, but doesn’t admit it to his teammates. Instead, he asks for Lex’s status. He doesn’t understand why Briggs is asking it, but explains it anyway. Rajani recon model knows everything already, as it monitors system functions of the entire squad, and who knows what else.
Rajani suddenly spots two Hydra operatives! And they are standing right next to Lex. She has scans indicating accelerated heart rates and high body temperatures. There’s also magnetic resonance readings showing concealed weapons within them both. The two operatives start walking away, but Lex quickly intervenes and grabs them! Another agent, carrying a small man in his arms, starts moving closer to Slayton. Slayton notices and tries to attack, but the operative starts running away. Rajani asks Briggs if he knows what the operative is carrying, but he’s too sweaty and can hardly say anything. Slayton doesn’t care and moves in, but the operative goes to sit on his knees, and reveals the explosives taped on his stomach. And they go off!
Luckily, Slayton’s Sentinel survived the blast and doesn’t even have a scratch on himself. And he’s pretty sure they found the “mystery weapon” as well. The thing the operative was carrying appears to be a man, and he starts to grow. As the man starts to grow, he punches the Sentinel down! He quickly gets back up again and isn’t impressed by the villain’s power. They start punching each other. Rajani explains to Slayton that she’s got information in the Sentinels’ database: the man they are fighting is actually an android, better known as the Growing Man. He absorbs kinetic energy and converts it into size and mass.
Slayton wishes Rajani informed him about that sooner, as now, the Growing Man is already bigger than the entire city! The Sentinels work together in the hopes to take them down, but neither of their blasts bring any damage on the villain. He even tears one apart! Lex asks Briggs for explanations what to do, but his claustrophobia gets worse and worse.
Lex flies in, secretly planning on using his mutant powers to end this madness. He also remembers that Meld is aware of the fact that he’s a mutant, but doesn’t want to think about the risks right now. He activates his powers, and his entire Sentinel gets covered with energy!
Rajani notices the energy flux and wants to know what’s going on, but Lex lies that he just came up with something. He attacks the Growing Man with his powers, and he gets defeated! Nobody understands what just happened…
Later…
General Lazer and Valerie have arrived on the battlefield. Lazer really doesn’t like the look of the mess. He angrily tells Valerie that she assured him the team was up to the guarding task, both she and Commander Rhodes confirmed it, actually. Now, he demands to know what went wrong and that she takes immediate action against it. She walks over to Briggs and demands to see his entire team in her office tomorrow morning. She thinks they’ll need a report to determine whose fault this mess is. Briggs apologizes, claiming his communications must have shorted or something and wasn’t able to communicate with the other members of the squad.
Rajani angrily calls him a liar, as she knows his Sentinel was perfectly fine. She knows this because she can monitor the Sentinels’ functions. Lex tries to calm her down. Briggs defends that Rajani can’t manage that recon unit from a hole in the ground. He wonders when she is going to explain how Lex’ Sentinel issued that power surge. Valerie tells the troops to stop arguing among themselves, reminding them what happened to Slayton. He lost half of his legs, and is being carried into an ambulance.


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Tin Can Heroes: part 4: A Prehistory of Violence
The Savage Land…
Brainchild holds James Rhodes and Skylark chained as prisoners at his newly installed base. While holding a literally human brain, Brainchild explains that the average adult human brain weighs three pounds and has 100 million neurons, which are capable of transmitting signals in excess of 250 miles per hour. Brainchild’s own brain weighs 27 pounds, with neurons numbering in the billions, traveling at speeds equivalent to Mach 1! It’s a small wonder that he is given the appellation of Brainchild. He reveals to Rhodes and Skylark that the brain he now holds used to belong to one of their comrades, the one called Nixon. He mocks that the brain is a tad on the small side, and figures that’s why Nixon is dead now.
Brainchild sadistically drops the brain, causing it to break into pieces! He wants to go back to topic. He explains that dinosaurs also have very small brains. But science and evolution have shown the world the potential of these tiny Saurian brains, which have potential for both change, manipulation and exploitation. Telekinesis remains an inexact science in hominid brains, but within the primordial lizard brain, the secrets are more easily unlocked. To bioengineer an army of dinosaurs to increase in size, strength and ferocity was the easy part of Brainchild’s job.
He activates a computer screen and demonstrates what he means. He further explains that to design an artificial brain connecting to cybernetic implants within a Saurian cranium, allowing the mental commands to manifest into telekinetic force, that would be an act of unparalleled, incomparable, inconceivable, and almost godlike… genius.
His original plan was to simply use an army of these creatures to overrun the Barbarians and Savages who “pretend” that it is they who rule the Savage Land. But Brainchild feels that the “civilized” world has interfered one too many times with his plans, thus they must be punished. He reveals that it was the Saurids that created his enhanced dinosaur army, but he was the one who perfected it. Very soon, Brainchild believes, all of mankind will fall to his army, becoming slaves to his very whim. Even the X-Men will fall for his power. Brainchild sarcastically looks at Skylark, promising her that every of his whims will be followed up.
Skylark heard enough, and gives Brainchild a powerful head-butt, knocking him out. She calls him an idiot. Rhodes smiles that was a head-butt worth for the record books. Skylark feels a little pain though, confessing that she honestly hoped that head-butt would have cracked her own skull. She’s starting to think that the rest of her squad may have been the lucky ones, since they are dead now. Rhodes warns Skylark not to talk like that, as he is certain that as they speak, O*N*E* is probably alerting some former Avengers members, or the Fantastic Four, or even the X-Men so they can put a stop to this. Skylark wants to know if Rhodes is certain about that. Rhodes confesses that he is, since that’s the only option that makes sense.
Outside Brainchild’s base, Lex has Briggs control his stealth Sentinel, and they approach the base. Meld, who’s also in the robot, wants to get things straight. They are thousands of miles from reinforcements, in the middle of a pre-historic oasis, and now they are marching into the stronghold of the genetically-enhanced telekinetic dinosaurs which have already slaughtered four entire Sentinel squads, all while crammed in the control room of the cloaked stealth Sentinel which gets operated by the team’s unstable resident claustrophobic. He can’t believe that this is Lex’ plan.
Briggs warns Meld not to call him a claustrophobic. Lex admits to Meld that this is the only chance they’ve got. Slayton asks Briggs how they are doing. A sweaty Briggs explains that “these two mutant freaks” have him marching into certain death because he is the only one left alive with training to pilot the stealth unit. He can’t be doing well. Lex explains that their sensors will show Slayton that with an elevated heart rate and increased blood pressure, not to mention vocal modulations, which indicate extreme nervousness, if not outright panic. Lex gently places his hand on an angry Briggs’ shoulder, admitting to Slayton that Briggs is doing just fine. They all just need to keep their cool, move slow, stay focused, and don’t do anything stupid.
However, Briggs makes the mistake of stepping on a small tree below him, and alerts one of the dinosaurs! Though the dinosaur fails to see the Sentinel, it does start to sniff around the area close to it. While Briggs fears that they are going to die and wants to get out of there, Lex warns him to keep quiet and stay still. Briggs believes that this is suicide. Meld uses his powers on the chair Briggs sits on and ties him up, hoping he stays calm now. But Briggs begins to panic even more. Lex promises Briggs that everything is under control. He asks Slayton how they are doing. Slayton, operating from a damaged Sentinel, confirms that phase two is good to go.
Slayton activates the Sentinels nearby him, and has them soaring through the skies, with the dinosaurs following them. Briggs admits that he didn’t even know the Sentinels could be operated by remote. Slayton smiles that is just one of the many fine features of the recon unit. Lex explains that, now with Slayton controlling those Sentinels from a distance, providing them the distraction they needed as the dinosaurs start attacking those Sentinels, Lex and Meld need to go. Lex tells Briggs to hang tight and to stay cloaked. He promises they’ll be back as soon as humanly possible. Briggs finds that hard to believe, hearing the word “human” coming out of the mouth from a mutant, and keeps sweating.
Lex leads the way and tells Meld to follow him. Meld wants to know how much time those unmanned Sentinels will buy them. Lex fears it won’t be much, given the short work the dinosaurs did on the Sentinels before. However, it will be more than enough time to cover their entrance. They make it to the base of the mutates, and Lex uses his powers to destroy the control panel and they get in. Winston and Joni ask Slayton what kind of state their Sentinels are in. Slayton confirms that they are all down now, unfortunately. But he does mention to Joni that her Brawler unit held out the longest. Joni already guessed that.
Meanwhile, Meld and Lex have already entered the base of the mutates. Lex takes the lead, and Meld wants to know if his partner knows where he is going. Lex believes so. They make it to another huge, locked door. Lex explains that their thermal-sonar shows them a lab near the center of the compound. He believes that whatever is giving the dinosaurs their telekinetic enhancements is coming from behind that door. They need to disable that force, and hopefully they won’t run into any complications. Unfortunately, as Lex manages to open the door, they soon get spotted by lots of Savage Land mutates! But, Lex quickly uses his powers on the mutates and takes them all out.
He warns Meld to hurry, and follow him to another room. Meld has an idea. He uses his mutant powers to manipulate any metallic substance, and uses them so he and Lex can hide behind a wall. As the Mutates initiate pursuit, they fail to notice this and keep on running. Once it’s safe to come out, Lex congratulates Meld on the fine job. He laughs a bit too, believing that telekinetic dinosaurs and mutant super-villains in a secret lost world in the Antarctic are probably not the thing he must have expected to face when he joined up for this crew. Meld doesn’t understand what Lex means by that, as he didn’t “sign on” for anything. Lex wants to know what Meld is talking about.
Jeremiah reveals that soldiers found him as a baby on a military base. He was abandoned. The base kept Jeremiah, and was raised by the government. Everybody wanted to keep an eye on him, but nobody really wanted him. So, Meld bounced around a lot, and eventually wound up in the Sentinel Squad Program. Lex understands that Meld isn’t there by choice. Jeremiah sadly confirms that he’s twenty years old, and in that entire time he has never been given a choice. Lex wants to promise Meld something. When they get out of there, that it all going to change.
Meld wants to know for sure if Lex wants them to go to the middle of the building. Well, as they say, Meld jokes, the shortest distance between two points, is a straight line. He uses his mutant powers again, and creates a hole into the walls, giving them the opportunity to get to Rhodes and Skylark faster! Both Rhodes and Lex sure are surprised to see each other, and Rhodes wants to know how Lex got there.
While Meld frees Skylark, Lex admits to Rhodes that it is a long story, and that he is having a hard time believing that the commander is still alive. He sets Rhodes free, and he puts on his battle armor again. Lex notices a big brain hanging into the room, and believes that must be device that gives the dinosaurs their enhanced powers. He wants to destroy it using his powers, but Rhodes tells him not to. This one is his. Once in full armor, Rhodes quickly flies towards the big brain, and smashes it into pieces.
The four run out of the base, and Lex tells Meld to close the holes in the walls they created so the mutates can’t follow them. Meld confirms he can do that, and smiles he also has another idea. Rhodes wants to get out of here. Lex believes that might be problem. He wants to know what happened to Briggs, because he can’t see him anymore. A few moments later, they find Slayton, but he confirms that he lost sight of Briggs. He’s completely off the tracking grid. However, Slayton doesn’t think that Briggs is dead. He would have received an alert if anything had happened to the guy.
Rhodes believes they’ll just have to worry about Briggs later. The telekinetic powers of the dinosaurs may be disabled now, but they are still big, mean and lethal. There is also a few dozen of them standing between them and getting back to civilization in one piece. And unfortunately, only one Sentinel won’t be enough to get them home again. Joni believes that the combined strength of the squad might be just enough. Rhodes wants to know what Joni is talking about, because there is nothing but broken Sentinel parts remaining. It’s nothing but junk! Joni can only see opportunities. Winston is already on it.
Joni explains that Professor Winston has spent the last six months creating design improvements and modifications to the Sentinels. Now is the time to put those designs to use. It’s like Rhodes said: there are plenty of spare parts around, all which they can salvage, and they also have enough munitions left. Meld can fuse the components they need. And once they have it all assembled, Lex can supply an additional power source with his powers. Rhodes wants to know what is going to happen next. Joni laughs that Rhodes even has to ask that question. After that, those dinosaurs will no longer be their problem. They will be history. A few moments later, after enough spare parts have been gathered, Meld uses his powers to create a giant “Super-Sentinel,” which quickly begins to attack all of the dinosaurs.
Epilogue. 9,100 miles away, at the O*N*E* operating base…
Briggs has made it back to the base, and informs Lazer about the very serious situations they are dealing with. Lazer wants to know what the problem is. Briggs believes that his teammates are the problem. He explains that, at Lex’s behest, the rest of the squad defied the sergeant’s orders to engage the enemy. They fled, and almost two dozen of good soldiers, as well as billions of dollars in government-owned hardware are now lost. Lazer finds that troubling. Briggs realizes that, and confesses he has more to say. Lexington has been keeping a secret to the base: he is a mutant!


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Tin Can Heroes: Part 5: Creep Mission
Sentinel Squad O*N*E* training base and Central Command...
The recruits have all returned back at the base and have even brought their mixed Sentinel with them. They all talk about what they are going to do next. Tracy thinks that she’s going to take a shower first, and jokes there won’t be enough soap on this base to wash off all of that dinosaur funk that’s covered on all of her body. Slayton jokes that he would give an arm and a leg – if he would have another leg – for six uninterrupted hours of free time. P>
Lex wants to go take a cheeseburger, and no more of those K rations. And he doesn’t want anything in his mouth that spent even a minute inside a can. Speaking of tin cans, Winston reveals that he’s done there. He never wants to get inside a Sentinel again. Not after what they just went through. Meld asks Winston if he’s certain about that, but Winston is dead serious. He explains that he’s a scientist – a robotics engineer. He belongs in a lab and not in a war zone. Besides, he adds, building that modified Sentinel gave him some good ideas about some future design modifications. Lex can imagine that Cooper is going to have some choice words about that modifying thing they did. Slayton corrects they won’t have just Cooper to deal with: he can see General Lazer himself approaching them. And Lazer sure doesn’t look too happy.
Lazer orders his soldiers to arrest Lexington where he stands. His soldiers quickly point their guns at Lex. Lex wants to know what’s going on. Lazer reveals that he got a sworn testimony from Briggs, who’s standing next to him, that Lex defied the orders of a superior, which resulted in that superior’s and his entire squad’s deaths. And Lazer doesn’t even want to bring up the fact that Lex didn’t inform any of them that he is a mutant.
Rhodes tries to defend Lex, but Lazer warns Rhodes that he’s getting pretty close to insubordination himself. James doesn’t care and angrily defends that Lex saved his life, and also the lives of every single squad member Lazer can see today. Lazer wants to know if it’s possible that the lying mutant is also a hero. If that’s true, maybe he won’t lock Lex up. But, Lazer promises the troops, they can all be sure that there are going to be some changes around the base.
Three weeks later…
The alarm goes off at the base. An angry Briggs shouts at all of the troops to get up because this isn’t a drill. As the troops line up, Tracy asks Briggs what’s going on. Briggs warns Tracy to call him Squad Captain Briggs now. Standing next to each other, Lex asks Meld if he has given any more thought about what they were talking about. Meld claims that he hasn’t been thinking about anything else. He knows that things were bad enough before Lex got demoted and Lazer put Briggs in charge. Now, Jeremiah can’t wait to get out of there. Slayton wants to know what Meld is going to do. Meld isn’t sure, but he thinks he’s going to wait for the right time and place. Briggs hears the boys whispering, and angrily wants to know what they are talking about.
Lex apologizes for it, and wants to know what the mission of today is. Briggs smiles that Lex and Meld are going to love this particular mission. It’s a rescue mission for a bunch of mutants. These mutants got themselves a village in Ecuador, at the base of a volcano that is known as Gigante Dolor. The volcano has been unstable for a while, and geologists have been saying it could erupt at any possible time. The geologist just didn’t know that the volcano would erupt giant insect-like Sentinels, who are now busy killing all of those mutants!
Elsewhere at the base, Valerie meets up with Lazer. Lazer wants to hear an update concerning the new squad assignments. Valerie explains that Tracy Skylark is doing well. She gets along with her teammates and, as a pilot, she’s seamlessly incorporated into the squad. Rajani Dhama is excelling with the brawler unit, as is Jake Slayton on the recon. Professor Winston has been transferred into the research and design division, and he has already offered up some very promising model schematics.
When Lazer next wants to hear about Nathaniel Briggs, Valerie confesses that the entire squad hates Briggs. Not one of Briggs’ teammates respects him. They think he’s a bully, a coward and even a rat. Alexander Lexington, on the other hand, has shown real leadership, initiative and imagination. Not to mention bravery. He has saved his teammates lives, and possibly the Sentinel Squad program, several times over.
Lazer recalls that Lexington also lied to him, hiding the fact that he is a mutant. And Lazer is aware that Lexington’s teammates would have helped him keep that secret. That’s why he promoted Briggs to squad captain. Lazer doesn’t particularly care what Briggs’ teammates think of him, as long as Briggs is loyal to him it’s all fine. Valerie admits that she thought she and Rhodes were in charge of the personnel. Lazer confirms that they are, but he gets to decided about one particular thing: he doesn’t care who gets on the roster of this team, as long as the squad leader isn’t a mutant.
Later, at Ecuador…
The squad flies towards the mutant town. Slayton explains that the “no mutants” rule is the primary bit of programming that houses in every Sentinel. And hence them operating these things now. He realizes that too many Sentinels have gone nuts because of that programming over the years. These particular insect-models attacking the troops have to deal with in Ecuador were created by a madwoman known as Cassandra Nova. They possess an animal-level sort of artificial intelligence and are self-sustaining, creating other models from discarded metal and technology. Apparently, despite the squad’s best efforts to drive these things to extinction, the insects found a way to survive, developing into several distinct types of species and societies. A hive of them had an underground colony in this area, but Slayton guesses that the lure of a town populated primary by mutants was too hard to resist.
As the Sentinels land in the middle of the town, they are immediately spotted by the insect-Sentinels. Slayton starts scanning for mutant life readings, but he can already tell his fellow recruits one thing: these bugs are everywhere! Lex tells everyone to hold up, noticing that the insects aren’t attacking them. He makes his Sentinel move closer to one of the insects, and they gently touch the Sentinel’s finger. The insects can feel that the Sentinels are related to them. Lex wants to try to send some information to the insects so that maybe they can communicate. He wants to input the right code signal to the bugs, and convince them something like he’s their queen, or something. Maybe this way, they can end this peacefully.
Briggs totally disagrees with that and has his Sentinel fire a blast, obliterating a group of the bugs! The troops are surprised at what Briggs is doing, but he doesn’t care. He’s the one giving orders around here, and he orders his troops to exterminate the bugs. He activates the flamethrowers on his unit, and literally starts burning up the insect-Sentinels. The troops don’t like the idea but obey Briggs. Joni calls Briggs an idiot, mocking that he’s in a fight now where he doesn’t have to run away from. Briggs orders her to shut up and just do as told. He orders Lex to finish the bugs. Lex powers up, and channels his powers through his Sentinel unit so he can take out most of them. Briggs asks Meld if he can use his metal-altering powers on the insects.
Jeremiah smiles he can and does so. He touches the control panel of his Sentinel, and channels his powers through the Sentinel and has the robot’s fingers stretch so that it grabs some of the bugs. After a short while, Meld does the same thing to his entire unit, and, he jokes, for as far as the bugs are concerned, he’s now acting like a flypaper! After Meld destroys the many insects surrounding him, Slayton detects some life readings. He notices a church, and it has a basement under it where the life signs are coming from. Tracy doesn’t really like tearing up churches but, under the current circumstances, she’s certain that God will understand it. She rips the roof open, and actually finds some surviving mutants!
Tracy picks them up in the pal of her Sentinel’s giant hand, and promises to the scared mutants that they really are the good guys. The troops have now completely destroyed every last one of the insect-Sentinels, and think they’ve done a good job. Meld thinks that’s a small consolation for the kids that have lost their families now and are all alone. He believes that this is the right time and place. Briggs doesn’t understand, and at first neither does Slayton, but eventually he does get it. Lex gives Meld his thumbs up, promising they’ve got his back.
Meld reports to Briggs that he’s getting a transmission from Quito. When Briggs doesn’t understand, Meld explains he is referring to Ecuador’s capital. It’s about a 20 minutes flight from there if they move it. He explains that the local TV news team spotted something in the air, heading for the big city but it isn’t too big. And according to Meld’s long-range scanners, it’s probably no more than five of those Sentinel-skeeter thingies.
Briggs wants to go take care of the situation by himself, seeing there’s only five of the Sentinels. He orders everyone except Slayton, who has to come with him, to stay put while they deal with the situation. Joni notices that Briggs only shows an ounce of backbone when he’s got easy targets to deal with, and the media will turn him into a hero. But at least they are relieved from listening to his nonsense for an hour. Jeremiah wishes he could see the look on Briggs’ face when Slayton tells him they were just chasing a flock of geese. Lex smiles that, from there on out, Briggs is the last thing Jeremiah will have to worry about. Meld agrees, confident that things are over. He completely melds his Sentinel unit, and steps out of it. Meld proudly declares that from this point on, he quits!
Lex, Joni and Tracy also step out of their units. Joni is surprised that Lex had this whole thing planned out. Lex admits that he began planning when Jeremiah told him he was raised up like a military guinea pig. He admits that they were both in the brainstorming face yesterday, and didn’t knew they would do this so soon. Meld realizes that, but he won’t leave a bunch of traumatized mutant orphans to be wards of the government. Not of any government.
Joni and Tracy tell Meld they could have told them about the plan, because the both of them would have helped out. Lex smiles to the girls that they can still help. He explains that, when they get back to the base and file the report about how, as soon as Briggs and Slayton were out of range, a few surviving Sentinel creatures attacked and that Jeremiah was killed in action. He doubts that O*N*E* will ask too many questions, and General Lazer will probably not be too concerned either. Meld knows that he’ll be just another dead mutant to Lazer.
Later, Meld takes goodbye from his friends, and stays behind with the other mutants, ready to make a difference.
One month later…
Lex is sleeping in his bedroom. Suddenly, a bright, white light surrounds the chamber. It is soon followed by another, yellow light. Lex quickly wakes up, and feels weird. He wants to know what just happened.
M-Day…
Lex walks over to the cafeteria, where everyone is busy watching the TV. He asks Joni what’s going on. Joni tells him to watch TV, as the event is described on every channel. A reporter explains that a 90% of all of the mutants have suddenly been de-powered. Joni asks Lex how he’s doing. Lex confirms that he’s one of the mutants who lost their powers. And he feels great. Lex… feels human.
Rhodes thinks about all of the villains and madman that have been de-powered. This is a great day for national security. Valerie mentions that Lazer doesn’t agree with that. He believes that erasing mutants doesn’t erase anti-mutant sentiment. She believes that the enemies of mutantkind couldn’t have a better time than to strike now. And she believes that for the remaining mutants, things have gotten more desperate because their species is almost extinct now. She’s afraid that the O*N*E* agency is going to have to step in and stabilize the situation before it gets out of control.
Time passes…
Lex, Tracy, Slayton, Joni and Briggs all walk together to their new, permanent assignments. It’s a new world. Mutants have always been a minority, but at least they have been able to defend themselves. Things have changed now. There’s a lot less mutants out there now, and they are going to need O*N*E*’s protection. Briggs thinks that this can be compared to baby-sitting. He doesn’t want to be doing favours for mutants. Lex doesn’t care about what Briggs thinks, and tells him to move it.
As the troops leave, Lazer and Valerie observe them from their office. Lazer hopes that Valerie had a good reason for the team reassignment. After all, Lazer remembered that he told Val he doesn’t want Lexington leading the team. Val smiles that she heard Lazer say something different. According to her, Lazer said that he doesn’t want any mutants to be leading the team. And Lex isn’t a mutant anymore.
The troops walk over to Rhodes, and look at him guiding in some new recruits for the base. Rhodes congratulates Lex on his new assignment, and hopes he survives the experience. Lex salutes Rhodes and shakes his hand, and thanks him for everything. The new recruits look in awe at Lex and his friends, already having heard rumors that they took down the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the Savage Land, and even took down Galactus.
A while later, the O*N*E* squad arrives at the Xavier Institute, with the astonished X-Men gazing at the Sentinels…


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The Sentry: part 1: Under the Eye of the Clock
Manhattan, today…
A lot of scared people are trying to get into safety, as giant robotic machines are chasing them and destroying the entire city! Luckily, help is on the way in the forms of Iron Man, Spider-Man and Luke Cage. Luke wants to know what the hold up is, as they were supposed to be at the crime scene three minutes ago! He fears that the robots are going to destroy the entire place if they don’t get there in time and wonders where their other member of the team is.
Iron Man asks Luke to hold his course and position. He mentions that he’s getting a situational report on the build-in scanners in his armor as they speak. Tony explains to Cap that he’s seeing some of the larger Octo-meks bottlenecking at the bridge. He guesses the bridge will remain structurally sound for a little while longer. While dodging a tentacle, Cap fears that they might not be structurally sound much longer! He wonders what’s taking their assistant so long and what he’s doing. Iron Man reports that the guy said he was busy.
Elsewhere downtown, the Sentry is gathering his strength and floating nearby the leader of the Octo-meks. Iron Man opens communication and asks Sentry what he’s doing. Tony wants his ETA is, as they need his help. Sentry reports that he’s assessing and prioritizing and tells Tony to hold his position, and closes the communication. The Octo-mek isn’t impressed and is prepared to unleash more fire and damage. Iron Man can’t hold his position any longer, because their enemies have send in a second wave of soldiers! If they can’t pin Attuma down, they’re going to have big problems in upper Manhattan. The Sentry, calmly, tells Tony that’s fine. He finishes the Octo-mek by flying at top speed right through it!
Robert remembers that he is the Golden Guardian of Good. Ever vigilant, he is humanity’s only hope. He thinks he’s everything… Shakespeare’s Caesar: he bestrides the narrow world like a colossus. He watches over the world, living each moment under the eye of the Clock. The Clock warns his partner that there are only 48 seconds left to finish the job. When all else has failed, when all hope seems lost, he’ll be there. As the Sentry unleashes an attack upon Attuma, who’s bossing his troops around on his troops, Robert remembers a time from his golden past where he was attacking with the power of a million exploding suns.
The Clock informs Sentry that he’s unleashing an enormous powerful blast. Clock warns there’s a volcanic eruption danger in Sumatra. The blast takes out most of Attuma’s troops and the Sentry thanks Clock for the information and now wants it to reprioritize. Clock mentions it is running the priority algorithm, and mentions that a suicide bomber is up on the Eiffel Tower in France about to attack in 41 seconds. The Sentry understands and, with glowing eyes, receives the information and mentions he’ll stay another thirty seconds at his current location.
Attuma shouts that, because of their support for his adversary, Namor, he and his troops declare all “Hu-men” to be enemies of Homomeramus and all true Atlanteans. He orders the Sentry to stop his attack, but Bob ignores the guy and knocks him right out! Below, Spider-Woman and Wolverine have witnessed the punch and Jessica believes that did it, as their enemies are already retreating back into the sea, but Logan wants to go catch some fish by himself.
The Sentry tells Spider-Man that he can mop up from here and wants him to tell Reed Richards that he’ll need to look into Namor’s latest diplomatic overture to the Skarkans and promises to brief the other Avengers about it later. Peter asks Bob to stay but he can’t, as there’s a volcano eruption. As Sentry takes off, Peter tries to contact him later as MJ wanted to go catch a movie with Bob and Lindy sometime soon.
Sentry fears. If only people knew his mind remains elsewhere half of the time. And that he hears voices in his head. More specifically, Sentry can hear the Clock, his Centrally Located Organic Computer, which is a machine programmed to calculate probabilities, to weigh the importance of one emergency against another. As Sentry destroys enemy jets, Clock never stops to warn him about the minutes left to take care of them. The Sentry and Clock remain in constant contact. Clock decides who lives and who dies so Bob doesn’t have to do that.
While Bob has been engaging the jets, four people were burned to death in a Boston fire. He wonders what people would say if they knew he ran this ship around to avoid lifting it, thereby killing all aboard? That the millions of dollars in environmental damage, for which Bob is about to be sued ten times over, pales into insignificance next to the lives about to be lost in a nuclear accident near Tehran? He wonders if those people would be ready to rely on him if they knew he made decisions about their lives based on probability? While answering to the press, Sentry wonders if they would accept the filming of a public service announcement as more important than a life lost in a car crash in Mexico, a death Sentry could have prevented if he had chosen to do it?
While sitting at his lair on top of Avengers Tower at observing his many viewing screens which gather info from across the entire world, Bob wonders how those people would feel to have the weight of the world on their shoulders. He wonders if they could carry this burden that weights so heavily on his mind.
Clock reports that the volcanic eruption spawned several incidents of seismic activity and thinks it’s fortunate they were in the neighborhood. He adds that nine deaths are attributed to the bombing incident in Paris, and he has detected a developing humanitarian crisis in western Sudan, to which Clock thinks Sentry’s response is currently discretionary. Sentry gets up and thanks the Clock. He wants him to continue monitoring the situation and to open access to the Watchtower’s secure unit.
Clock thinks that’s a highly illogical request. Sentry explains that he doesn’t want to tear the door off, as it’s expensive and time-consuming, which he is certain Clock will agree is also highly illogical. As Bob takes off, he reminds himself that he has to remember to forget sometimes that Clock’s not a person. That he’s an exotic computer program, designed to review world events and prioritize his responses to them. Clock always speaks to Bob, always, and predicts how Bob will think before even he does. But Bob knows he could never expect Clock to understand what he’s about to do next.
The Sentry flies deeper down the Watchtower and makes it to a giant, closed door. After opening it and getting scanned for security reasons, Bob enters a room with nothing in it but two chairs, and he goes to sit on one of them. After waiting for a while, someone starts materializing inside and starts singing, “Yesterday, life was such an easy game to play. Now I’ve found a place to hide-a-way. Oh-Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I’m not the man I’m used to be.”
It’s the Void! He goes to sit on the other chair and Bob asks him to shut up. The Void sarcastically says hi to the Sentry and has heard about him having missed out on the terrorists in Paris. Bob defends that he isn’t here for the Void’s entertainment. He just wants to make sure his enemy is still safely under lock and key. The Void confirms that he is. For the moment. But he mentions that he’s working on that problem. Bob doesn’t like being mimicked. Void laughs at that remark. He smiles that he would never mimic Bob. That’s not what he’s doing at all. The Void smiles that… they are one and the same person!
The Sentry knows that isn’t true. He knows that the Void wants to be him, that this is what this childish little game of him is all about. That the game is a delusion of grandeur. The Void knows a secret of Bob: that he wants to be him. Void knows that Bob doesn’t come here to check on him, but to further torture himself. With angry glowing eyes, Sentry warns the Void not to flatter himself. He knows that the Void is just a rogue aspect of his personality. He knows that the Void is a separate entity, and that before long he wouldn’t exist because he’s getting weaker.
Void wonders if Bob even considered the notion that he could be a rogue aspect of his personality?! That maybe it’s the Sentry who’s the imposter around here? Bob tells his enemy to shut up. The Void tells Bob that he’s out of his mind for coming here and talking to himself like this. Void jokes, wondering about what he really is. He explains to the Sentry that he is his dark conscience, his grubby little secret. Void wonders if the Sentry ever tells his Avenger friends about the scabby little part of his brain that he can’t itch? He wonders if Bob has told those heroes what both Bob and the Void know – that Bob will eventually will escape from here and that then it’s curtains up for humanity? While fading away, Void threatens that he can’t wait to scratch Bob’s wife a little more.
Sentry gets angry, but then Clock warns his master that they are receiving an important communication from the Pentagon. Bob shouts at Clock that he never wants to be disturbed when he’s down here. Clock apologizes, but he calculates this priority override situation and claims that Terrax has made planet fall in the Ukraine. Bob hesitates. Upon leaving, he mentions to the Void that he hopes he tries it and to give him the excuse he needs. Because, Bob promises, the next time Void sets foot out of this vault Bob won’t stand on ceremony. Next time… Void wants to know what’s going to happen next time. Bob promises that next time, he will kill the Void.
The Ukraine…
Terrax, demonstrating the full potential of his power in glory, shouts that hereby he has claimed planet Earth. He wants this moment to serve notice that judgment has been passed and that the world has been found guilty of the crime of sentience. In addition, he concludes, the world has been found guilty of harboring impure aspirations, of spreading malignancy beyond the confines of Earth’s atmosphere. And for these crimes, Terrax wants to nullify Earth!
Army helicopters start firing upon Terrax, but none of their bullets harm him. The Sentry lands down and Clock mentions he has 38 seconds to deal with this situation. Terrax isn’t impressed by the Sentry and fires the weapons build inside his axe at the Sentry, but thanks to Bob’s enormous powers is unharmed by the attack. Terrax decides to simply kill the Sentry and raises up his axe to do it, but Sentry holds him back! Startled, Terrax can only witness how Sentry takes his axe away from him, and breaks it in half! Terrax’ power goes down and he feels humiliated. Sentry tells the alien to just leave the planet.
Upon returning home, the Clock reports that the Sentry only needed thirteen seconds to deal with the villain, which is much sooner than he expected. Upon landing in the Watchtower, Clock reports to Bob that his appointment is waiting for him in the upper room. The Sentry takes off his super hero uniform and wears his casual clothes in return. He goes to the upper room, where he meets up with his psychiatrist, Dr. Worth. Realizing that Bob’s time is limited, Worth decides to skip to the point. They shake hands and Worth asks Bob how he has been. Bob mentions that he has been busy and hasn’t been around much.
Worth would like to pick up the threat from their last session. He wants to know if it concerns Bob that he can’t be himself, even if he wants to be. Bob admits that he believes it annoys his wife, as she keeps staring at him like she’s expecting things to change. And things are different living at the Watchtower. He knows his wife lives in a big house, which might feel her lonely even with the robot to do the dishes. Worth wants to know how that makes Bob feel. Bob admits that makes him think he’s not as much in command of his body as he thinks he is.
Clock warns there’s only 24 seconds left. Worth explains that these feelings of worthlessness are quite typical for a man in Bob’s situation. Worth knows that coming back to the Watchtower hasn’t been easy for him and is concerned that he hasn’t been taking his anti-psychotic medicines. Bob claims that the pills make his mouth dry. Worth wants Bob to be honest, and asks Robert if he is trying to avoid being himself. He wonders if that’s why he spends more time as the Sentry these days, which is more time than he should.
Bob promises the Doctor that he doesn’t have to worry about the Void, claiming to have him under control. But Worth does concern about Bob. He believes that Bob talks too much about the Sentry and the Void, but thinks they only exist because Bob feels incomplete. He wants Bob to hear him talk about himself. Bob doesn’t think he’s that important. Taking a stress doll from Worth’s desk, upon saying that he isn’t important, Bob starts squishing it. Worth tells Bob that if he’s both the Sentry and the Void, that would mean he’s the most important person on the planet. Worth thinks that’s what is infecting Bob. He wants to know if Bob doesn’t feel being important. Bob cries.
Worth reminds Bob that they have discussed how his illness puts him at risk of depression. Bob stands up, apologizing, mentioning that they’re out of time. Worth thinks that’s fine, but tells Bob that he has to realize he is the only of his patients who does this to him. Bob apologizes for doing it, but duty calls. As always, he thanks Dr. Worth for his time, as he has been most helpful. Bob thinks he has a lot to think about now and promises Clock will make sure Worth gets to his car. He walks out of the office and asks Clock to fill him in.
After Bob put on his Sentry uniform again, Clock reports that a priority request from the European Space Agency has come in: one of their new shuttles is in jeopardy. As the Sentry flies into action, he believes that this is who he truly is: the Golden Guardian of Good. He’s a man of priorities, subject to the parameters of the prioritizing algorithm that he created. And, he wonders, maybe he is the Void, a creature of the blackest heart, like pitch. Maybe he’s trying to worm his way out of prison and unleash an unknowable fury upon the world. And maybe, he’s just plain Robert Reynolds, a man struggling to keep himself together. A diagnosed schizophrenic with agoraphobia. A man who likes cartoons and Captain Crunch cereals. A man who thinks his wife doesn’t love him anymore. And maybe, he’s more than all of those things put together. One leg on either side of the world. Like a colossus.
He is the Sentry, a man with the power of a million exploding suns. A man who’s ever vigilant, humanity’s only hope. The weight of the world rests uneasily on the Sentry’s perfect shoulders. The weight of the world. And, he wouldn’t have it any other way. Sentry heads into space, where he finds the shuttle in trouble and rescues it.


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'I AM SHATTERSTAR!' the warrior also known as Gaveedra-Seven boomed after defeating numerous opponents in battle. His costume is torn and blood-splattered as he holds his double-bladed swords over his head. He is a genetically engineered humanoid from the alternate dimension called Mojoworld, 100 years hence. Enhanced for maximum viability in the gladiatorial arena, he became a fierce warrior, drawing blood to appease the audience who demanded new and inventive sacrifices in exchange for their blessing of ratings. Sometimes, he thinks he can still hear the whir of cameras, the roar of the crowd on the wind, a prayer to a bored god. But he knows those are just echoes of another era, the faded soundtrack to a character he played before he joined the rebellious Cadre Alliance, before he travelled back in time and through space to the planet Earth to see out the assistance of the X-Men in overthrowing Mojo's rule. Before the civil war ended and he was left a refugee. Before he put down the swords and became Ben Gaveedra – a landlord.
Wearing blue sweatpants and a white tank top, Shatterstar sweeps the pavement in front of a three-story house in College Point, Queens. He had purchased the lonely end-lot building beneath the thundering airplane flight path with funds earned as a detective and a bounty hunter. He opened Major Crossing specifically for others like himself – outcasts of alternate futures and parallel dimensions hoping to make better timelines for themselves. Shatterstar takes the sweepings from the sidewalk to a garbage can and thinks that he had come to like the title “landlord” - it was the kind of a designation he'd have spilled intestines to attain back in the gladiator pits – it sounded powerful, regal – and respectable.
'I believe we discussed the rules about the sidewalk outside the building and bodily waste' Shatterstar remarks, turning to Karl Snortenhall a.k.a. Pug-Smasher, a dog who sits on a windowsill. 'We did. And I explained that I wouldn't abide by your imperialist laws' Pug-Smasher replies. Pug-Smasher is a former anti-nationalist terrorist super villain, cast out of Earth-8311 amidst a battle against Thanhorse, Pug-Smasher is currently a resident of garden apartment #1.
'You may get away with charging me for 600 square feet of what should be communal earth, but you can't force me to ignore nature's most urgent demands' Pug-Smasher declares. 'I see. Well, you've forced my hand' Shatterstar replies as a woman jogs past the front porch, her dog running behind her. Shatterstar picks Pug-smasher up: 'Come here, little cuite pootie-kins! Aw, him so cute! Wait until the kennel club sees you! We're gonna win best in show oh yes we are!' Shatterstar gushes. The other dog looks back at Shatterstar and Pug-Smasher, unimpressed. 'Did you just  utterly emasculate me in front of Mitzi Moscowitz the most eligible schnauzer in Queens?' Pug-Smasher asks, wide-eyed. 'I did. Yes. And I'll do it again unless you curb yourself in the future' Shatterstar warns Pug-Smasher, who gets up on his hind legs and walks up the front steps, 'Fine' he mutters, while telling Shatterstar not to be surprised if his rent is late. 'Owner class elitist' Pug-Smasher adds.
Shatterstar goes inside, he can hear arguing from the hall and opens the door to garden apartment #15, where Goldon and Crimzor are in their living room. They are former Rajas of the Scorpus Citadel.
Shatterstar tells them that he is just checking on the air conditioning. Several weapons are scattered about, and Goldon smiles and gives Shatterstar the thumbs-up, telling him that the air conditioning is as frosty as the underbelly of the white dragon, Isiclus. Before Shatterstar leaves, Goldon asks him if he can settle an argument for them. 'I think we should try Rupert Grint as the bag guy, but Crimz -' Goldon is interrupted as Crimzor calls out 'Hunters of the gods, the man's a toad!' Shatterstar knows that the majority of their heated discussions were over the high-fantasy TV series they had been developing for the past six months, and smiles at them, telling them that he thinks that could work. 'Ha! I told you!' Goldon exclaims. 'How I wish I had pushed you into that black hole, Goldon' Crimzor mutters as Shatterstar closes the door, and recalls that the TV series features the epic tale of a pair of brothers, one good, one evil, and their struggle to rule their color-worshipping kingdom against the backdrop of a planetary disaster.
Shatterstar makes his way up the indoor stairs, as a woman with dreadlocks calls him Mr Gaveedra and tells him that she was just looking for him. Shatterstar identifies her as the End Woman, a mutant commando from a dark future, and resident of apartment #25. 'Ah, yes. The lease' Shatterstar remarks as the End Woman hands him a piece of paper. 'Looks like you're stuck with me for another year' the End Woman smiles. Shatterstar knows that a coven of X-Angels had sent the End Woman back to kill the half-demon mutant who would turn the world into a fiery hell in a thousand years. But, in this era, Sister Conflagration the Burning Nun was a shy 13-year old girl, and the End Woman was unable to avert her reign with a bullet before it began. 'Did you bring your homework?' the End Woman asks the 13-year old girl who approaches her. Shatterstar knows that the would-be assassin provides friendship, guidance and an occasional safe place for Gabbi Sotelo to go when her mother is drinking. He looks at the lease, and decides that every time she signs her name, it looks like the final title screen to an old film “The End”.
Shatterstar goes to another apartment. 'Hold your horses! I'm comin!' a voice calls out from within the apartment. The door opens and an elderly man asks Shatterstar how much he owes him. The man is Night Thrasher of Earth-90214 and resident of apartment #3N. 'A gift' Shatterstar repplies, handing the old man some pills. Shatterstar knows that he was from an alternate past full of hard boiled heroes who solved problems with fists and quick wits, and that he had been brought here by his New York Warriors teammate, Ms Slip, so that he might benefit from the advances in the treatment of Parkinson's disease. The old man thanks Ben and tells him that he should change the sign on his door so it says “babysitter”. Shatterstar wonders why Ms Slip hadn't gone further into the future where a cure for his condition would exist, where there were no pills to flush down the toilet.
As he makes his way down a hallway, Shatterstar decides that babysitter is certainly a less kingly label than landlord, but he tends to his tenants' needs, and they kept him busy. Some busier than others.
'Mr Gaveedra!' a voice calls out, and Shatterstar comes to a half, narrowing his eyes, he cringes as Tina Cooke, resident of apartment #3S steps into the hallway, wearing a Fantastic Four t-shirt, she exclaims 'Galactus. I just read about Galactus. A 30 foot giant in a purple helmet who tried to eat Manhattan. A purple helmet'. Shatterstar tells the woman that he is familiar with Galactus. 'Oh my God. Did you ever fight him?' Tina Cooke gushes. She is from Earth-1218, a world that followed strict rules of physics and logic, that lacked super heroes, alien invasions and interventionist gods. Tina had accidentally passed through a rift and had decided to leave behind a successful life as a regional bank manager to stay in this place where seemingly anything was possible. 'Yes. Just once. Alongside X-Force, but -' Shatterstar begins, knowing that Tina loves to hear his tales of super hero adventure, and pines for any details of his life – but it makes him uncomfortable, so he tells Tina that he can't talk, as he has an appointment.
Soon, Shatterstar actually does have an appointment – once a week he goes to see a play. It doesn't matter what, or the quality of the production. His affection for these live stories isn’t for the words, or the action, or the sounds of the crowd. It was for the characters. He takes his seat among other theater-goers, while the performers take the stage. They seem to be speaking directly to him, across the room, no camera between them – and no matter how complex these people are, no matter how expansive their existences before their tales could be – everything important about them – their motivations, their beliefs, their desires – could be ascertained and understood in the span of two hours and an intermission. It was so simple, so clean, so clearly communicated. The production plays out, and Shatterstar thinks that this extreme contrast is all the evidence anyone needs to know that real life is not entertainment.
At the same time, Pug-Smasher wears a black and white costume and stands on ledge outside a window of Shatterstar's apartment building. There is a bolt of lightning and a winged man wearing straps of spiked leather and not a lot else called Deadair appears and grabs Pug-Smasher. The armor-wearing Sweepzweak uses energy to knock out Goldon and Crimzor, while the scantily clad Cancellartor slams a fist into End Woman, knocking her back. The woman called Lead-In  drags Tina Cooke down the hallway.
'Motivations. Beliefs. Desires. In real life it could take years to ascertain these in another person' Shatterstar thinks to himself as he walks down a sidewalk, the glow of the night beaming down on him as he realizes that even then it could be completely and hopelessly misunderstood, as he stops outside a nightclub where Julio Richter a.k.a. Rictor is greeting some musicians. Shatterstar has had teammates, associates, friends – but he struggles to maintain deeper relationships.
Rictor looks over and sees Shatterstar. He frowns. The former hero is now a club owner, and also a former resident of Manor Crossing. Shatterstar watches Rictor and remembers their last conversation – through tears, Rictor had asked why Shatterstar's attentions had waned, why his attentions were spurned. “Don't I interest you anymore?” Rictor asked through tears, before leaving and telling Shatterstar that the worst part is, he knows his problem with them – they don't fight enough.
The rerun of memories is interrupted as soon as Shatterstar steps off 15th Avenue – he knows something is wrong. 'Za's vid!' he gasps as he sees smoke rising from his apartment building, some damage to the outside. There is no barking from #1N. No bickering from #15 and no smell of microwaved dinners from #3S. Shatterstar rushes inside, and stops – not because there is no one shouting at gloved gladiators from #3N, but because the old Night Thrasher calls out to him. He clutches his wounds as he tells Shatterstar that they came in fast and hard, swept room to room, but they didn't want him, so he figured he would make sure they didn't get away with the others too easy and took one of theirs with him, pointing over to a table, where the body of the ghoulish Timeslot lies, a large knife in his neck.
'No. Don't...' Shatterstar begins, taking the old man's hand. The alternate reality Night Thrasher tells Shatterstar that it is okay, that things kept changing and time kept marching on – and this was as far as he wanted to go.
Shatterstar sits in his office. The curtain opens and time winds back, as he witnesses a play captured by the multiple security cameras around the manor. It is as polished and rehearsed as any production he has seen. Space and time are unwoven by the dance of the teleporter Timeslot, as the mercenary unit known as the Death Sponsors step out from the Mojoverse and abduct his tenants one by one. Shatterstar watches as Timeslot stands for a moment outside Night Thrasher's door, unaware that he walks toward his own death, pausing to summon another – Gringrave – the Smiling Executioner! The woman steps through the portal and stares straight into the camera.
A long time ago:'I AM SHATTERSTAR!' the warrior roars as he holds his blades overhead, within the arena on Mojoworld. 'Good for you' a voice calls out. 'Happy to have a name to put to that body. It's a good body. Firm. Taut. Not overly muscled' Gringrave remarks as she hurls several throwing blades at Shatterstar. Shatterstar turns to her and frowns. Beneath the blood splattered across his body he moves quickly and blocks the blades, as Gringrave notices his star tattoo around his eye and tells him it is cool, wondering if it is a tribute to the great Longshot. Gringrave drops down and kicks Shatterstar in the face, telling him that either way, it doesn't even really get in the way of his handsome face. Gringrave adds that Shatterstar's hair is a bright accent color and the length is good for enhancing movement – but as she dodges Shatterstar's blades, she grabs his long hair then slaps his face and knocks him to the arena floor. '... anyway, thanks boy. You made me smile' Gringrave remarks, holding her hands up to her face, she positions them near her mouth, the pattern on her gloves extending out like a large grinning smile.
The citizens of Mojoworld watching the fight begin chanting Gringrave's name over and over. She holds two throwing blades up above her head as she stands over Shatterstar. 'White shirt. That's good. Thank you. They'll see the blood all the way in the cheap seats' Gringrave remarks, before enraged fans begin chanting for Shatterstar. 'They... they love you' Gringrave realizes, before kneeling down next to Shatterstar and pulling him close to her, telling him that he is going to be her partner, that she is going to teach him to capitalize on that natural talent, and that lesson one is to convincingly give the audience what it wants – by wanting the same thing. She then puts her lips to Shatterstar's, kissing him.
Present:Gringrave had given Shatterstar motivation, belief and desire – she had made him who he was in that time before. And now, she has taken the people he had sworn to protect – the only thing he has.
He throws his laptop off the desk and opens the desk lid. He doesn't have to question why – Gringrave's motivations are obvious to him, like a character in a play. He looks at several weapons hidden in the desk and recalls how his relationship with Gringrave ended in tears and pain – and not because they didn't fight enough.
Shatterstar goes to the body of the old Night Thrasher, and buries him in the lawn behind the manor – and lays “Ben Gaveedra” beside him, as he suits up and stands with the moon glowing on him, Shatterstar holds his blades and declares that he will hunt the Death Sponsors, rescue his tenants and avenge Night Thrasher – he will kill Gringrave. It is so simply, so clean, so clearly communicated.
Small cameras whir around Shatterstar, recording him and transmitting back to an arena where an assortment of aliens watch the large screens displayed before them, watching Shatterstar and his captive companions. They chant for the Grandmaster, over and over. The roar of the crowd on the wind, a prayer to a bored god. Several strange aliens on mechanical legs follow the Grandmaster and clap as he tells them to cut, fade to titles and end episode one.