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8: Business as usual
Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) and Nova (Richard Rider) are delegates to the Galactic Council in the newly-built Proscenium. Marvel Boy has been accused of killing 2 other delegates. Rocket Raccoon and the rest of the Guardians Of The Galaxy have intervened to sort it out.Rocket takes another swig from his hip-flask of booze and summarises the position. The Kree Imperium and the Skrull Empire have merged into the Kree/Skrull Alliance, which worries the rest of the Galaxy. They don't know what to make of the new joint Emperor being the Earth superhero Hulkling who has ended the Kree Civil War between the Imperium and the Utopians. And this Council meeting is to determine the new Galactic political situation. Marvel Boy, the Utopian delegate, managed to get it agreed that the Alliance should submit to weapons inspections. So to celebrate he goes to the toilet where he murders the Zn'rx delegate and Val-Lorr of the Kree Imperium.Kl'rt (Super-Skrull), delegate for the Skrull half of the Alliance, points out the seriousness of the situation. The death of Stote, Emperor of the Zn'rx (usually pronounced Snarks), will have set off a Snarkwar where the sons of his several Queens will lead their troops to fight for the succession. He claims something I think we've never heard before, that they will have telepathically sensed his death and the War will have already started. And it will cause immense collateral damage to non-Snark civilisations.SS also adds that Val-Lorr discovered Noh-Varr standing over the body, and then MB shot him with Kree's own weapon. Marvel Boy claims that Val-Lorr killed himself because his gun misfired. Oracle-2 of the Shi'ar offers to scan MB's mind but Kl'rt pre-dismisses any exonerating result as fake news (such as a post-hypnotic cover story).Rocket asks the Skrull to check that the gun is working properly by firing it at the floor, which works. Then he tells him to shoot Noh-Varr in the head. If it kills him it proves his guilt and executes him at the same time. Kl'rt happily complies, but when he pulls the trigger the barrel of the gun swivels back and shoots *him* through the head. Of course Rocket knew that's not where the shape-shifting Skrulls keep their brains. The weapons-expert Raccoon explains that he could tell that the gun had a built-in gene-scanner to stop it killing Kree (like Marvel Boy) by backfiring on the shooter. (But presumably it didn't have a safety check for if a Kree (like Val-Lorr) tried to kill another Kree.)Rocket puts forward a theory that whoever supplied the gun wanted to reignite the Civil War and fracture the Alliance. Imperial Val-Lorr hated Utopian Noh-Varr and was likely to try to kill him, but that murder could be handled by Emperor Hulkling. However the opposite murder could potentially dethrone him and restore the fighting between Skrulls, Imperials and Utopians.He also says that he's run diagnostics on the computer system and robotic staff of the Proscenium. They came up clean and tamper-proof, and there are no other living beings in the space station. So the guilty party is in this room. And he issues an order to the system to lockdown the building for 1 hour, and ignore him if he countermands the order (potentially under mind-control).He then tells Oracle-2 and the Rigellian Mentacle to mind-scan the other delegates while the Guardian Moondragon scans *them*. Oracle objects but Mentacle declares her innocent and Moondragon vouches for them both. Mentacle then clears Marvel Boy, Kl'rt and Zoralis Gupa of the Galactic Rim Collective. Oracle vets Lani Ko Ako of the Badoon Sisterhood, Victoria of Spartax and Nova of Earth. Nobody actually mentions the Kymellian Nymbis Sternhoof (surely a prime suspect because Kymellians and Snarks are hereditary enemies) but Moondragon concurs that none of them knows anything about Stote's death.However Heather Douglas tries a more general scan for thoughts of murder. No-one mentioned the Chitauri diplomatic drone Peacebringer above either but she *does* detect murderous intent there. Exposed it opens its chest to reveal a bomb within. It explains that the bomb isn't ready to go off yet and apologises for the delay in their deaths. Moondragon confirms that the Chitauri had nothing to do with the earlier deaths, this bomb was intended to kill them all.Nova tells Hercules and Phyla-Vell to hold the drone down while he and Marvel Boy defuse the bomb. Noh-Varr blames the drunken Raccoon for locking them in with the bomb. Taking another sip Rocket expresses confidence in his bomb-disposal abilities while he gets on with exposing the murderer. Groot and Kl'rt join in the physical attack too.Rocket's looking for someone who can fool top-level telepaths and has an image-inducer to mask her true appearance. He rounds on Lani Ko Ako who was the only 1 who didn't react to the Chitauri bomb. And the Sisterhood Of The Badoon never leave their planet, except for some outcasts who would never be chosen to represent them. He claims that she killed Stote to start the Snarkwar because it would be good for her weapons business. And she didn't have to provide Val-Lorr with a specially-rigged weapon because he figures she provided them to the whole Kree army. And she expects to survive the Chitauri bomb. To him this all adds up to an Elder Of The Universe, in particular the 1 known as the Profiteer. And Lani drops her disguise to reveal that it is indeed she. Profiteer admits to it all except the Chitauri bomb. But that will serve her purpose too by burying the evidence of her involvement.Disarming the bomb is proving difficult to impossible. Then Zoralis Gupa gets a phone call. He tells the others that his home planet Silnius has been destroyed along with many others across the Galaxy including planets of most of the races here. He predicts that it will have a disastrous effect on the Galactic economy which is already fragile after the Alliance/Cotati War (in the Empyre event). No-one will be able to afford Profiteer's weapons. This makes her change her plans. The delegates need to live to mitigate the chaos, so she teleports herself and the bomb-laden Chitauri away. Rocket takes another sip and admits that locking the doors was futile.Super-Skrull commends Gupa for his bluff but Zoralis says it was true. Something worse than Galactus is eating worlds. And a last message from Silnius named him Knull.


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4: We're not friends
In #1-2 Rocket Raccoon, Star-Lord and the alternate-timeline couple Captain Marvel (Phyla-Vell) and Moondragon sneaked off for a mission with Nova and Marvel Boy, even though Gamora didn't want her lover-at-last Peter Quill to go. During the mission they rescued Hercules but Peter died.Last issue Gamora couldn't forgive them and the Guardians Of The Galaxy split. Drax, Gamora and Groot were joined by this timeline's Moondragon, who is Drax's daughter. They set themselves up as a mercenary GOTG and were hired by Rocket's enemy Blackjack O'Hare and a guy who calls himself the Prince Of Power. The whole group was then hired by another of Rocket's enemies Castor Gnawbarque III, a beaver-analogue, who wants them to kill the Raccoon.Blackjack's team have a meeting with Gnawbarque in the Beavertron Incorporated HQ on Daggett's World, where they agree to go after Rocket. Gnawbarque has a grudge since the Raccoon robbed his safe (in the 2017 Rocket mini-series comprising the Blue River Score story arc). And now he's on this very planet and Castor suspects he intends to sabotage his revolutionary new power source the D-Type Converter.Some of the other Guardians are in a spaceship on Daggett's moon. The other Moondragon is overseeing Richard Rider's recovery from having a big hole blasted through him in #1-2. Heather Douglas is maintaining them both in telepathic contact with the rest of the team on the planet. Rocket is making himself obvious in a casino to divert attention from their *real* plan. Phyla-Vell is lounging nearby. And we see Blackjack drawing a bead on his head, waiting for Castor to stop 'savouring the moment'.The 'real' plan is Marvel Boy white-running towards the D-Type Converter (with his mind switched off to conserve energy). It's modelled on Galactus' helmet but even larger than life, and D-Type stands for Devourer-Type. As they were informed Gnawbarque is using the technology of Galactus' energy converters to convert the life energy of the planet into power. But it will turn the planet into a lifeless desert, except for the parts the villain owns which will rise in value.Noh-Varr breaks into the structure and worms his way through tight spaces into a clear area. But the facility is guarded by the Prince and Drax. Prince throws a mace which shatters MB's helmet (but Noh's suit just reabsorbs the pieces). Noh-Varr responds by firing explosive fingernails at him. He sends a psychic alarm call to Moondragon, but his assailants are mentally shielded against her probing. Marvel Boy switches to stereoscopic consciousness and his suit generates guns as Drax attacks him. When blasts don't work he spits psychedelic saliva which takes Drax back to his previous existence as sax-playing Art Douglas. Then someone throws a knife which Noh-Varr nonchalantly catches ... but it explodes in his face, and Gamora tells him to stay down. But the Boy's response is to use a Kree-Vann directive (and clash his wrist bands together) to quantum swap with Hercules. The Greek demi-god tells Gamora that hurting her friends won't bring Peter back, but she points out that *they* aren't friends and points a gun at him.Meanwhile Moondragon's telepathic contact with the team has been cut off. A voice in her head asks if she recognises her opponent. It's the original Moondragon in her guise as the Dragon Of The Moon.


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9: I shall make you a Star-Lord
The Master Of The Sun speaks to young Peter Jason Quill and tells him he has been chosen.Then young Peter awakes in a hospital bed to be told that his mother is dead but he has survived with injuries. A nurse hands him his space gun with the Sun symbol on it.The MOTS speaks again to older Quill facing the Olympian Gods (at the end of #2). He tells him his weapon (the Element Gun) is invincible but it's only as powerful as *he* makes it. Peter triggers the manual countdown on the singularity bomb and says he has a plan to survive the explosion. He gets the gun to recharge from the power of the Gods themselves, and then the bomb explodes.Now the Master continues by saying that he may not be what he seems. But he will make Quill into Star-Lord and allow him to have a whole new life if he wants.Most of the rest of the issue is divided into pseudo-astrological sections.1st house: The house of beginnings.We are told it is 12 days later when Peter awakens naked in a bed with his Element Gun on the bedside table.2nd house: The house of possessions.He checks its charge but it replies "Charge unknown". He sets it to Earth setting and it spits out a lump of rock, so that seems to be OK.3rd house: The house of communications.Someone calls to ask if he's alright. His translator implant enables him to communicate with this blue-skinned male, who says that Peter was babbling in a strange language when they found him.4th house: The house of homes.We learn that they're in a house on the back of a flying tortoise above the land they call Morinus which means World Beyond The Sun in the language of their ancestors. A blue-skinned female joins them and they exchange names. She is Aradia and the man is Mors. She explains that they are nomads, unaffiliated with any of the 12 Houses. And Peter thinks he'll fit in.6 months later we see the 3 of them fighting men with breathing apparatus on a ship while another ship nearby sinks.5th house: The house of play.1 year into his life here they are relaxing by a fireside beneath a cubic moon. Aradia offers to let Peter join her and Mors' sexual union, but he says that's not the way of his people and there's someone (Gamora) waiting for him to get back home. Aradia thinks he's weird.6th house: The house of health.In the 3rd year Peter uses the Element Gun to create a green object made of peridotite which he says is 1 of the heaviest types of rock. Aradia asks him how the Gun works and he has to admit he doesn't know. He says he's taken it apart and rebuilt it, changed the housing and once built a copy. He likens it to a Hieronymus machine but it won't work for anyone but him. He now creates a green peridot statue (of Gamora), and says that the Gun's never needed recharging since he arrived here. She wonders what the power source could be, and he cryptically says he hopes it's far away (ie the Greek Gods).Mors arrives to say they've been hired to rob a flying castle.7th house: The house of partnerships.12 days later they are flying with artificial wings fighting bird-men. They now have a clear run towards a cloud bearing a castle encrusted with Sky Gems. Apparently the bird-people hired them to attack their own home because it will aid in diplomatic negotiations with the Land Kingdoms.9 years in and they are escorting possibly the same bird-people carrying large eggs. Mors has something like a giant toothbrush slung over his shoulder, and Quill's Gun now looks like the 'toy' he had as a child.8th house: The house of death and rebirth.In the 12th year the trio are in a heated pool in a temple called the Gateway. Myths say it is a place of destiny which will change your life forever, and the Gateway will take you home. But Peter says he's given up that dream. This is his home now and he's ready to join them fully.9th house: The house of ideas.It's the 143rd year and Aradia is pregnant. Peter quotes something from their philosophical texts which ends "... and you become the Master Of The Sun." But he adds his own extra bit "The only weakness in working your will is you." which he says he thinks is a false memory he had when he got the Element Gun. Aradia says it sounds like something from a fairytale. Mors asks if the Gun has limits. Quill says he hopes not, and we see he's rebuilt it differently again. He's about to tell them about the power it stole ...10th house: The house of life's work.... when the Olympians arrive to take their power back. They begin by blasting him, and explaining that each time he used the Gun he gave a little power back to them. Now they have enough to face him.11th house: The house of community.A year later the Gods are still chasing him. He's flying again, fighting them with his allies the Bird-people. Aradia joins them and assures him that Rocky (presumably her son) is safe with Mors. That is until the Olympians destroy the world. But Quill knows they won't do that until they've got *all* their power back from the Gun and him. He has a plan, and she follows him down to ...12th house: The house of endings.... the Gateway pool. He intends to go through the Gateway so that the Olympians will follow him and leave Morinus alone. Aradia asks him not to forget them, and then he jumps in ...... As he sinks the Master's voice returns to tell him he is now a Star-Lord, Master Of The Sun and Master Of The Solar System, and of something more universal. But what will he do with it?Peter Quill awakens on a plain of skeletons, still wearing his Morinus clothes. And then he sees Rocket Raccoon and Nova. 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Hunt of the Spartax
Last issue Star-Lord got a message from his father's planet Spartax. Now we hear it's from his sister Victoria, current ruler of Spartax, asking him to attend the yearly Gilded Hunt. As he watches Gamora and Nebula killing skeletons in a computer game, Mantis practising gymnastics with a long ribbon, and Drax just holding his blades he decides to go.The Gilded Hunt in the golden spaceship land on the designated planet. Peter Quill is on board and he's only brought Drax with him, leaving the rest of the (much-reduced) Guardians Of The Galaxy behind. The Spartoi have sterilised the landing area from orbit to protect themselves from contamination. (That's not going to help when they go further out to hunt.) The Hunt is led by Captain Sagittar Of The 1st Arcana in a ceremonial uniform, heading a bevy of similarly dressed nobles and some robots. Quill and Drax are conspicuously in their normal (outlaw) Guardians getup. Sagittar makes a disparaging comment about barbarian Drax and his knives. Drax promises to show him what he can do with them. He also comments on how many big guns the hunters have brought. A robot offers Prince Peter regalia commensurate with his status but he refuses it. Sagittar comments that not to wear it will curse the hunt and probably lead to the Spartoi Empire's rapid decline. (The Spartoi have recently revived astrology and other superstitions.) Peter remembers his sister's letter telling him not to mess this up, so he reluctantly dons an antlered cap.The expedition sets off into the wilderness. It turns out this is a planet in the Manifold Territories that its colonists called Ra'thalamzi. (Like all Manifold planets there were no indigenous sapients.) Star-Lord agreed to come here because it had been devastated by Grootfall, and it shouldn't now *have* a forest for them to hunt in. Sagittar knows all about Grootfall which caused Spartax to quit the Proscenium (the Galactic Council that the GOTG used to work for in their last series), a good thing in his opinion.They come across a beast which Sagittar blasts with his big gun. The troop bag many more and the boss hopes to beat his grandfather's record. Quill protests that there shouldn't *be* any beasts to hunt after Grootfall. Drax protests that this isn't a hunt, it's butchery. A Spartoi sipping tea served by a robot replies that to hunt is just to take what you want, so Drax changes his definition to theft.A robot detects a huge target in the middle of the forest and it turns out to be a Flora Colossus (Groot's species). Star-Lord forbids Sagittar to attack the being before he talks to it and finds out how it survived Grootfall. The huntsmen say Quill has no authority here. So Drax uses his knives on them while Star-Lord jets up to chat with the tree. Its branches grab him and insert tendrils into his brain to communicate. He has a Groot conversation where he asks Groot why he's killing people. Groot says that he used to be alone but now all is Groot. He says that Rocket Raccoon knows, and suggests that Peter goes to find him so they can be family again. But it's too late for this 1 (has he absorbed some Mantis?). Because while Drax has been fighting other Huntsmen, Sagittar has fired a shot that destroys the big tree.Sagittar declares the Hunt a success and they'll all go home safe in the knowledge that the Astrologers Of Spartax reign supreme. He even speculates that the next Master Of The Sun may be among them to wash away the stain of the Earth hybrid. (Peter became Master Of The Sun in the previous series.) Drax watches them go as Peter digs himself out of the remains of the Flora Colossus.The duo return to their own spaceship. Nebula reports that the planet's livable atmosphere is declining rapidly. Peter says that the planet was a Groot and the Hunt killed it. Gamora thinks they should use the same method to kill the Groot that's causing Grootfall, but Quill tells her to open the cargo bay door. He activates his Star-Lord helmet and uses his element gun to blast the Hunt's golden spaceship to smithereens.


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The Star-Sheriff
Grootfall is terrorising the planets of the Manifold Territories. Survivors from 12 worlds have settled on the planet Refuge protected by the Star-Sheriff from a series of Grootfall asteroids. Now another 1 approaches and he blasts it out of the sky with a really big gun. Which we see is a giant space-cannon tethered to the planet by a 'beanstalk'. The Sheriff leaves the cannon in a large robotic space suit/landing module and makes a fiery descent to the planet. As he climbs out of it to perch on its shoulder we see that he's Rocket Raccoon. He talks to the robot suit which responds in the manner of Groot.A spaceship lands nearby and the Sheriff goes to welcome the newcomers. A motley group of aliens disembark. He tells them the 3 rules they must obey. 1) Don't mess with the railroads because they're vital to planetary defence. 2) Play nice with everyone else on Refuge. 3) If a Grootfall asteroid gets past him and his gun then evacuate the planet immediately. The head alien replies that they won't evacuate because they welcome Grootfall. The various intelligent species of the Galaxy continue to ruin it with their wars and greed. But soon "All will be Groot". (This echoes what the Groot-tree on the recovering planet Ra'thalamzi told Peter Quill last issue.) The cult have come here because this planet gets more Grootfall attacks than anywhere else (possibly only because most planets are destroyed by the 1st such attack).Rocket leaves them and enters his base at the base of the beanstalk, which sits on a monorail track. He mourns the loss of the only being he called friend, Groot. And adds 1 to the long tally of Groots he has killed, and settles down to sleep.But all too soon he's awakened by the alarm signalling another Grootfall. The cult hear it too and begin chanting, and their leader prepares a 'cigarette lighter'. Rocket in the Groot-robot/lander jets up towards the cannon again as the base moves along the monorail to get it in position to intercept the incoming asteroid. But their progress stops abruptly because the cultists have blown up the base and the line. Nearby settlers witness the disaster but hesitate to obey rule 3.In the out-of-position cannon Rocket devises a last ditch plan. Her asks the Groot-bot to take him and anti-(Flora)Colossus shell to the approaching Groot-asteroid. He reminds himself that he wouldn't abandon his friend like he did before. This time they'll go out in a blaze of glory together. But at the last minute he ejects from the bot-suit which collides explosively with the asteroid.But the Grootfall asteroid survives and crashlands on the planet as they usually do. Rocket is left floating in space (in an ordinary spacesuit). He discards his Sheriff's badge ...... and is teleported on board the spacecraft of the Guardians Of The Galaxy. They've come to take him to the Groot they met last issue as the tree requested.


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Into the far horizon
Rumour has it that the Guardians Of The Galaxy are dead. But Hulkling and Wiccan are coming into the Manifold Territories to see if it's true. Their guide is a young alien survivor of what's happened there (we saw the Guardians rescue him and others from the  town of Solitude on the planet Galilee IV in #1). They'e taken time out from being Kree/Skrull Emperor and his Court Wizard (without telling anyone) to find out what happened to their friends and the Territories (Hulkling's cover reason is to suss out a possible threat to the Empire). Last they knew the Territories were suffering a war between Sectors United and the Whitecaps. But young Rilak knows that war has been overtaken by something much bigger, Grootfall.They enter a region now called Grootspace, where planets are connected by vegetable tendrils. They land on the 1 which used to be Galilee IV, near what used to be Solitude. Amazingly the once desert planet is now green and blooming. And Rilak leaves them there and returns to the spaceship.Suddenly they are attacked by a horse-sized animal which actually seems to be plant-based. Billy Kaplan recites 1 of his mantra-spells to learn the secret of this forest world, but he's grabbed by a tendril. Teddy Altman severs that with his sword so a tree forms a huge fist and punches him. And then what looks something like their friends show up and announce themselves as the Guardians Of Grootspace.Wiccan wants to talk but Star-Lord (Peter Quill) pulls a gun on them. Hulking reacts angrily so Gamora leaps in with both swords drawn saying she's currently sober and it hasn't improved her mood. Teddy says they thought the team were dead. Drax responds that they did die, as did everything around here, but now they've been regrown. Billy wants to know if that means Hercules, Moondragon and Phyla-Vell are alive too. Rocket Raccoon says it's not that simple. Wiccan does another mantra seeking understanding, and a flower blooms saying Groot. Mantis suggest he picks it, so he does. (Nebula's there too but doesn't say anything.)Both interlopers see a vision and hear an explanation of what Groot has been doing. Combining this with what we learned last issue I construct the following:- The desolate Manifold Territories used to be the verdant Branch Worlds of the Flora Colossi. The ancient FC Granopy transformed Groot into the Grootfall Asteroids to remake these worlds as they once were.Peter tells them that Groot is working to bring all the dead back, and that the Guardians will protect the place until he's finished. He wants the duo to convince the rest of the Galaxy to leave the Territories alone until then. Billy and Teddy say they'll try but they can't guarantee it. Then they return to the ship and fly off.After they've gone Peter and Gamora agree that they're mostly worried about 'her'. (If you're wondering who 'her' is, read on.)12 hours later Emperor Dorrek-Vell speaks to the Galactic Council on Councilworld. On behalf of the Kree/Skrull Empire he asks them all to agree to a Treaty Of Non-Interference with Grootspace. But a female representative urges them not to believe the lies of Peter Quill. She reminds them what he did to the Gilded Hunt of the Spartoi (in #3). And how he betrayed Sectors United and left them to their fate (as biased account of #5) (we see Quill's old friend Krakeen Toreth now part-cyborg). The woman is revealed as Quill's half-sister, Empress Victoria of Spartax. She and the Astrologers of Spartax will lead their Arcanic fleet to cleanse the Manifold Territories of Grootfall and capture the criminal Guardians.


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Last stand at Torment Pass
The remnants of the Guardians Of The Galaxy (Drax The Destroyer, Gamora, Mantis, Nebula and Star Lord) are trying to stop their old member Groot, who has somehow been transformed into a load of asteroids called Grootfall, from attacking and transforming the planets in the Manifold Territories. Last issue they re-recruited ex-member Rocket Raccoon, who had been defending the planet Refuge from Grootfall, because Peter Quill thinks he can help them communicate with what his old friend has become.The Guardians are a sorry bunch these days. Quill is morose. Gamora and Rocket lose themselves in booze. Nebula buries herself in keeping their spaceship running. Drax sharpens his knives. But Mantis wants to do something about it. Peter claims to have communed with Groot (#3) and thinks he knows how to get him back. Angry Rocket says that they all know Groot is dead and the Grootfall asteroids aren't *him*. Drax thinks they should just carry on killing them.Then empath Mantis angrily interrupts to remind them that they used to be superheroes. They can't just kill their friend. Peter's right that Groot is trying to talk to them but it requires all of them. She also berates them for never talking about what happened at the Proscenium. While talking she morphs through 7 different clothes, appearances, voices and attitudes. Rocket's never seen this before but Gamora drunkenly explains that Mantis got a 'magic dress' which came with multiple personalities.Nebula's been ignoring all this to scan what's going on in the Territories. She's detected a lot of activity in Torment Pass and it's attracting lots of Grootfall asteroids. As the ship heads there we are reminded of the political situation we saw in #2. Sectors United are battling the Whitecaps for domination of the Manifold Territories. Now we learn that SU's base Standoff has been destroyed and taken their front line with it. The Generals mobilised all their remaining forces to try to outflank the Whitecaps but instead it's turned into a pitched space battle in Torment Pass.Our gang get there and are greeted by the crab-alien Krakeen Toreth, Peter's old friend they met in #2. Quill tries to warn him about the incoming Grootfalls but Krakeen's to interested in killing Whitecaps. And the Whitecaps won't listen either. Then the asteroids arrive and attack both sides, destroying ships and turning people into Groots. Krakeen leads a suicide charge into the maw of 1 of the Grootfalls.To get Groot's attention Star-Lord tells pilot Rocket to take them to the nearest Grootfall asteroid. They have to plough through loads of Groot-people who force their way into the spacecraft. Drax and Gamora glory in fighting the invading forces and accept their imminent death. Mantis doesn't want to die but transforms to her warrior form anyway. Drax and Mantis get sucked out into space. Gamora asks her sister Nebula to work out how they can escape but Nebula gets taken by Groot vines. Gamora is enveloped by Groot bodies. Quill tries to keep them out of the cockpit with his element gun long enough to get the ship to the biggest Groot asteroid. But soon Rocket is the last Guardian standing, reminding the absent others that he never asked them to 'save' him from Rescue anyway. But Peter isn't actually dead yet. He's triggered his Star-Lord helmet to protect him from vacuum and rides the remains of the spaceship into the fiery mouth of Groot.


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The massacre at Galilee IV
A Clint Eastwood-style Star-Lord (Peter Quill) on an alien 'horse' gallops out of the desert into the little town of Solitude on the planet Galilee IV in the Manifold Territories. He still wears the G(uardians) symbol on his pistol holster. He's greeted by an alien child with the G on his computing device(?) who wants to give him the 'good news' that Star-Lord is risen and salvation is at hand. (This child provides a voiceover for the beginning and end of this issue.) Peter retracts the bottom of his helmet to advise him to go home because things are about to get ugly ...... which proves correct when the local Sheriff tells him to leave town. Quill hints that *he* is the promised Star-Lord come to save them because soon Solitude will be destroyed. He advises the Sheriff to put his guns away before ...... Gamora throws a knife through his brain. Peter objects that they're here to save people not kill them. Gamora discards an empty bottle of booze and philosophically points out that everyone dies eventually. Nebula arrives on a Star Wars-type hoverbike and reluctantly agrees with her sister. She reminds them that the Corplexians' home planet was destroyed by Galactus 6 years ago and this town may house the only surviving refugees. And now they're going to be hit by the 'Fall. Nebula also reckons that the town is probably run by a local gang. Gamora burps and asks if Nebula can suggest where they will find their advance scout who's been softening the populace up. Nebula says her probability engine can't predict *her* very well, but she'd guess the Saloon. She herself takes up a sniper post.Inside that Saloon Gamora and Star-Lord find Mantis who's been putting on a burlesque performance. She thanks her enthusiastic audience of miners and ends with "I've been Mantis and we are the Guardians Of The Galaxy". Now she warns them about the looming threat and urges them to evacuate the town.Then the predicted local gang shows up and shoots Quill's 'horse'. They call the Guardians out saying that they've heard that the GOTG abandoned their police duties a year ago. And in the lawless Manifold Territories war veterans like them run things. The Guardians prepare for battle, including Mantis transforming into a warrior personality and accoutrements. They dispose of the gang in a double-page battle collage.When it's over SL tells the townsfolk to go to waiting transport outside town. Mantis transforms back to her vaudeville self to encourage them. Nebula tells them that the 'Fall has arrived. The last surviving gang member tells them they won't get past the mountain, before Gamora guts him with her swords. Mantis leads them out of town and the alien kid asks her if they're really the Guardians, and what happened to them? She doesn't answer. Gamora is more brusque in her urging stragglers to keep up as they approach a hovertrain with only 2 'carriages'. Peter helps her stuff them into the crowded 'boxes'. And then they're off.It turns out that their actual ticket to survival is waiting beyond the mountain that the gangster said they wouldn't survive crossing. And the train runs into a giant metal monstrosity that Quill calls a Lowkesh War Walker. He fears they've got nothing that could take down *that*. Nebula chides him for his lack of faith as Drax suddenly appears (in a horned barbarian getup), grips the base of 1 robotic leg and topples the war machine to its ruin.A now-childish Mantis welcomes him onto the train. Some of the Corplexians want to get out here now the bad guys and machine have been dealt with. But Gamora finally lets them know that it's not just their town that is doomed but the whole planet, and the spaceship they now see is going to take them off it. And we and the aliens now learn that there's no room for them inside the ship so the 2 container boxes will be attached to the outside. The aliens protest but Gamora shuts them up. And she won't even let them have any of her whiskey.However Mantis insists on staying with the settlers. And as they prepare to fly away she tells the kid to look out of the window and she'll see what happened to the GOTG. We see a giant fiery vegetable being behind them and we hear Drax and Gamora announce Grootfall as they finish tethering the boxes to the spaceship. Nebula thinks the extra weight will slow them down too much to escape the impact wave. Peter is more optimistic.The starship has to ride out the shock wave. Then giant roots start breaking up the planet. They also reach out to the spacecraft and latch on to the 2nd box. Drax is trying to hold the 2 boxes together and asks Gamora to help him but she believes it's a lost cause. Star-Lord joins them and uses his element gun to solder the 1st box to the ship but the 2nd box breaks free, and the lessened weight allows pilot Nebula to achieve escape velocity. Quill says half a win is about on par for the Guardians.Then they try to contact Mantis who stayed with the passengers. She's OK because she was in the 1st box. Peter asks her hopefully if the 2nd box had enough speed to reach orbit but she has to report that she is watching Groot's tendrils dragging it down and impaling the Corplexians. She says "They are now Groot". The Guardians 'celebrate' their 'victory'.


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The hand-dug grave
Last issue the Guardians Of The Galaxy (Drax The Destroyer, Gamora, Mantis, Nebula, Rocket Raccoon and Star-Lord) faced a bunch of Grootfall asteroids attacking Torment Pass in the Manifold Territories. They flew their ship into the mouth of 1 of them hoping to get the attention of the Groot they hoped was inside.Now they think they're dead but they find themselves in a strange wasteland. Nebula picks a flower which takes her back to the day Peter Quill invited her to join the Guardians in their Proscenium base. The others were suspicious of her but she told him she could use the data gathered by this station to detect problems before they got too big. Straightaway she identified a star system in an area of space that the Kree designated worthless. Now she blames herself for raising this threat and condemning the team.Rocket picks a flower and experiences running alongside Groot who volunteered for the mission so of course Rocket went with his best friend. As soon as they got to the system Groot became aware of something very old which he called the Branch Worlds. They approached a dead planet and landed. Groot kept repeating "I am Groot" as usual but in this case he meant "She's dying". They found an ancient tree that said "I am Granopy" and Rocket remembers that she was the 1st of Groot's species of sentient trees. She reached out a tendril and transformed Groot. Another tendril took Rocket's left eye. He now blames himself for leaving instead of putting his friend out of the misery that he had become.Gamora picks a flower and blames herself for reacting to Rocket's transmitted warning by sending the rest of the team to fight Groot - sending them to their deaths.Drax picks a flower and blames himself for deciding not to go. And his sort-of daughter Moondragon died with the rest.Mantis picks a flower and remembers that after her son Sequioa tried to conquer the Galaxy for plant life (in the Empyre event) she left the Guardians (presumably waiting until the end of the last series) and became a singer fronting a band (and possibly the multiple personality she is now). So she wasn't there to die with her friends and blames herself for that.Star-Lord's flower reminds him of how he led the remaining Guardians in the (mobile) Proscenium to stop Groot before he reaches the Manifold Territories. Proscenium was sacrificed to no avail but the GOTG escaped in a spaceship. And so *he* blames himself.Now the 6 join hands in a circle and include a flower. Out in space the collection of flaming Grootfall asteroids crumbles, and out of the ashes emerges another asteroid which looks like Star-Lord's masked head.


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A fistful of mysterium
This issue begins with a brief history of the Manifold Territories that the Guardians Of The Galaxy now find themselves living in. It is described as an expanse of 1000 dead worlds on the edge of known space that factions from civilised space expanded into and are now involved in a protracted war between Sectors United and the Whitecaps. While we get this infodump we see the Guardians doing routine stuff. Nebula is doing some repairs to their spaceship, Gamora is polishing her sword, Mantis is washing her costume (which most superheroes never seem to have to do) and Star-Lord is looking wistfully at the uniform he wore last series when they were an official galactic police force. (We don't see what Drax was doing but he does head out with them (at least initially) on this issue's mission.)They leave their spacecraft and then split up. Gamora and Nebula head off in 1 direction, but disagreeing about what they should do. We follow the other 3 to a meeting, but Drax decides not to accompany them because he's not good at talking. So Peter Quill and Mantis go to the Sectors United Forward Operating Position known as The Fort on Planet Standoff to meet its Primus Commander, an alien Krakeen Toreth who Peter knows from an old mercenary campaign on Morricon 4. This is a quiet period locally in the war. The Whitecaps are rumoured to be experimenting with exotic matter while the SU boffins are aiming for bigger weapons to counter that.But before they start their meeting Krakeen hands over a message tube which arrived for Peter 2 days ago from his home planet Spartoi. This was before he knew Peter was here, but the messenger said Quill's arrival was predestined. Peter takes the message but then states his purpose. He tells his old friend that SU will have to abandon their war and evacuate the Territories or they're all going to die.Meanwhile Gamora and Nebula have gone to the Whitecap Forward Entrenchment and are having communication difficulties. Nebula tries every known galactic language but the aliens don't seem to understand any of them, and *their* 'speech' is equally unintelligible. During her attempts Nebula lets slip that the duo are here to steal the Whitecaps' mysterium, without getting any angry response. Gamora reminds her that they *aren't* here to steal mysterium (this is the disagreement mentioned above). Mysterium was recently discovered by Earth's mutant nation and has become the most valuable commodity in the galaxy, and Nebula knows that the Collector will buy whatever they can get. Gamora would like the money too but she doesn't want to ruin Peter's plan.Peter tells Krakeen about the GOTG's ex-member Groot who has become a cosmic menace that they call Grootfall which is consuming the worlds in the Manifold (like Galilee IV last issue) and nothing can stop it. But Krakeen is committed to the ideals of the SU Republic, free from domination by the likes of the Skrulls and the Shi'ar. They're not leaving the Territories and they're not backing down from the Whitecaps. Quill says his allies have gone to negotiate with the enemy, but Toreth retorts that the enemy *never* negotiate. Quill says that an arms race can only lead to mutual destruction and the GOTG can't let that happen.Krakeen appears to see reason and shakes claw with Peter, but empath Mantis can tell he's lying. Toreth attacks as M morphs into her battle configuration. She comments that Nebula *knew* this was a bad plan.Nebula sees an explosion in the Fort, orbiting in the asteroid zone of a large planet. She gloats to Gamora that she was right. She morphs her cybernetic hands into big guns as G draws her swords (and drops her ubiquitous bottle of booze). N sprays the place with bullets but the alien they were 'talking' to reveals itself to be a technopath who disassembles N's cyborg body (or maybe just makes her think it's happening). But G solves that by slicing the foes head in half (looking suspiciously like a melon), and N is reassembled. Gamora approaches the chunk of mysterium.Mantis and Quill are being shot at and are taking cover behind an asteroid. Peter calls Drax for help but the Destroyer opts to continue sitting the 'negotiations' out. Mantis throws a bomb a long way through space to destroy an attacking spaceship. She mentions to Peter that she learned  from Toreth's mind that the exotic matter is mysterium (so apparently only Gamora and Nebula knew about that). Peter guesses that she 'mentioned' it because in the old days they would have been here to steal it. Drax who's listening in thinks fondly of those days.Just then G & N turn up with the mysterium, propelled by Nebula's jetpack. They cause some space fighters to explode on the way and knock Drax's asteroid out of orbit, which he rides like a rodeo steed. Peter calls for them all to rendezvous at their own, miraculously unscathed, ship and they leave the area. Krakeen calls off the chase because the Guardians have done them a favour by stealing the enemy's mysterium.Nebula admits to Peter that her plan was always to steal the loot so they can pay for stuff like fuel for their spacecraft, but at least she waited until *his* plan fell apart. Gamora points out that wasn't a plan it was just a naive hope. Mantis thinks about Groot and gets angry, but then turns into her Buddha form to calm down. Drax agrees that Peter will never reach inner peace until he accepts that the universe is just chaotic.The issue ends with Peter reading the message from Spartoi.


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The guns of home
Meditating Drax the Destroyer is thinking of himself and his currently-dead daughter Moondragon when Gamora and Mantis return from last issue's mission to retrieve his soul (that of the clone's original identity Arthur Douglas) from Soul World. He tries to consume it but it doesn't work.But they can't deal with that now because Star-Lord's sister Empress Victoria of Spartax is leading a space armada to destroy Grootspace. (Potted summary:- Groot was transformed into a horde of asteroids called Grootfall which transformed a sector of space called the Manifold Territories into Grootspace, seemingly killing the Guardians Of The Galaxy and all its inhabitants. However they weren't dead but assimilated, and Grootspace is the restored homeland of Groot's people the Flora Colossi. Groot rebirthed most of the Guardians (Drax, Gamora, Mantis, Nebula, Rocket Raccoon and Peter Quill) to help him complete the transition and bring back the rest of the 'dead'.) Now in Groot-as-spaceship they prepare to repel the attack.Peter on the hull of the Grootship gets a message from his sister stripping him of his rank as Star-Lord and High Prince of Spartax. But he also faces a mechanoid on the hull of the Spartoi flagship which contains his old friend Captain Krakeen who blames him for his current condition and the defeat of his troops in earlier issues. They exchange weapons-fire which is a signal for the rest of the GOTG to start fighting.Drax and Mantis in war-mode 'distract' the enemy by destroying some of their ships while Gamora and Nebula invade the Spartoi flagship. They fight their way to the solar engine which cyborg Nebula manages to eject, stalling the ship. Rocket is piloting a little thing he rustled up which now engulfs the solar engine so he can he can fly it to where it will become a pocket sun for the Groot system. But the angry Empress is prepared to sacrifice the rest of her armada (except the heavily-shielded flagship she's on) by firing everything they've got to explode the lost engine.Gamora wants to assassinate Victoria but Nebula talks her down. Rocket was supposed to trigger the solar engine into a sun remotely but he has to stay as pilot to avoid the Spartoi weapons. Drax leaves the armada-bashing to Mantis and grabs an engine off a ship which he uses to follow Rocket. Quill and Krakeen are still shooting at each other until a blast from Peter's gun cuts the mecha in 2. Then he leaps from the Grootship through a window into the control room of the flagship to confront his sister. He says he's come to retake the throne of Spartax.


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Them who sow and those that reap
Grootfall has taken over the Manifold Territories planets, killed the inhabitants including the Guardians Of The Galaxy, and transformed that region into Grootspace. However last issue when Hulkling and Wiccan came from the Kree/Skrull Empire that they head to investigate they found that the GOTG had been reborn as the Guardians Of Grootspace, and all the other 'dead' are to be reborn as well in this ancestral home of Groot's species the Flora Colossi. The new Guardians asked the 2 heroes to persuade the rest of the Galaxy to leave them alone.The Guardians are happy as they fly around in a Groot-wood space ship, knowing that their missing compatriots (like Moondragon and Phyla-Vell) will soon be with them (when Groot flowers). Peter Quill calls them to a briefing on their next mission. Gamora is no longer a drunk and is getting along with her sister Nebula. Mantis is being mysterious, investigating 'weird sounds from the cosmic fabric'. Rocket Raccoon talks over plans with the facet of Groot that is their ship. He's building a special project that will help Groot flower but he needs more space and especially more time, and he doesn't believe Hulkling and Wiccan will be able told the rest of the Galaxy off for long. They meet at the 'stump' on which Drax sits meditating and claiming that his daughter Moondragon is with the woman she loves, Phyla, but they are impatient to return to life. But he also claims that he still can't find  his soul (because he is a clone created by the Universal Church Of Truth in the GOTG(2019) series after the original Drax died in the Infinity Wars event).So Star-Lord joins them and tells them they're going to deal with the Whitecaps (1 of the 2 factions fighting over the Territories in earlier issues) who are the only group not yet assimilated by Groot, and are now holed up in their last fortress. Pete doesn't think they'll be open to negotiation because they have no known language (and Nebula adds because the GOTG stole their mysterium in #2), so he intends that the GOG will have to drive them out of Grootspace.The Guardians attack the Whitecaps (who are robotic bodies with unconnected globular 'heads' floating above them. The team destroy both parts as they rampage through the fortress. Behind them they don't notice plant tendrils emerging from the bodies. Nebula selects 1 body and invades its innards to interrogate its operating system. She is surprised to find no sentience just looping algorithms. But they do have ancient memory which provides an even bigger surprise.The Elder Of The Universe known as the Gardener created 5 Branchworlds (actually I believe each a collection of star systems) overseen by his greatest creation Groot and he created pollen to seed them, and we see that the Whitecaps are the pollen. But all 5 Branchworlds died. So then he arranged the Rotation. 1 Branchworld would thrive while the other 4 lay dormant. When that BWorld withered Grootfall would arise and lead the Whitecaps to 1 of the other barren Branchworlds to quicken it anew. This was the wasteland of the Manifold Territories.Now the team see 1 globe head floating over a spire of wood which Rocket somehow recognises as the Granopy, Groot's dying grandmother (who we learned in #6 turned our Groot into the Grootfall asteroids). Nebula reasons that the Whitecaps brought it here because it is a sacred relic of the previous 'garden'. Peter Quill realises that they have been killing the 'pollen', but Rocket reminds him that Groot arranged for them to be here. So Pete decides that shooting the Whitecaps mus be a good thing (and we saw the tendrils emerging) and so he shoots the Granopy-globe ... which spews out tendrils. The remaining Whitecaps follow suit and the fortress is soon enveloped in greenery. Drax declares "This is Groot".Nobody really noticed that Mantis had slipped away during the battle but now she's back and won't tell Quill what she's been doing. But she does get a message (on a *really* old-looking telephone she's been carrying around) from Hulkling to say that he stalled them for as long as he could but now Peter's sister Queen Victoria of Spartax has sent her Imperial Armada to burn the Grootworlds (in revenge for the Spartax vessel Peter destroyed in #3).


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The magnificent Mantis
The Grootfall asteroids transformed the Manifold Territories, actually the ancestral home of Groot's species the Flora Colossi, into Grootspace. Everyone within died but the core Guardians Of The Galaxy were resurrected with Groot to oversee the reseeding of the worlds and the rebirth of everyone else. However Star-Lord's sister Empress Victoria of Spartax is leading an armada to destroy them all.Nebula and Rocket Raccoon are working on necessary machinery while Drax the Destroyer contemplates the infinite. But Gamora is faced with a large array of bottles of booze. Mantis, this time dressed in cowboy fashion, comments that when Groot assimilated and rebirthed them he saved what they each needed, like tools and machinery for N & RR and the alcohol for G. She shows her the stash of mysterium that they acquired in #2 and claims that it has been preserved for Drax. She also claims that Drax is only pretending to have achieved contentment - he really needs to regain his soul currently trapped  in the Soul Stone. As Gamora once had power over the Stone maybe she'd like to join her in a trip to Earth to retrieve D's soul from it. When Mantis tells her that they'll sneak out without telling their leader Peter Quinn, Gamora's all for it. And we see them leaving the Guardian's spaceship that is now Groot in a detached bit of him. And Groot has to explain to Star-Lord what's happened.The duo land in the middle of the US Southwestern desert, and Gamora is now also suitably cowboy attired. Mantis explains that the Soul Stone is now in the possession of a boy robot named Multitude (see Avengers (2018) Annual), and he's somewhere round here but she's only got some strange hints as to where. So they head into a conveniently local bar, and after a good time (which strangely doesn't involve Gamora having a drink or a fight) leave with directions and the keys to 1 of the many motorcycles parked outside.On the way Mantis explains how she became her current multi-personality self. She begins with how as the Celestial Madonna she had a son Sequoia who was a plant/animal hybrid who was supposed to be the Celestial Messiah. But he grew up wrong and led plants into a war against animals (see the Empyre event). After that she was lost until she saw an exhibit in the Collector's collection and stole it. It was a sentient garment that she calls Dress which reads her mind and changes her attire and personality to fit her needs. In fact she describes it as becoming her selves from alternate universes.They arrive at an area in the desert where sculptures of salvaged metal have been erected, and they and the surrounding rock daubed with multi-coloured paint (as per a vision Mantis had). She tries to persuade the android to let them borrow the Soul Stone to help their friend Drax, but the Stone doesn't trust them and prepares to fight. So Mantis morphs to a warrior version and Gamora draws her swords. Multitude employs the souls (or at least the fragments thereof) within the Stone. 1st he sends Adam Warlock against them. Gamora urges Mantis to use the mysterium to absorb the Stone's energy, but she says she has a different plan for it. The boy confronts Gamora with a version of herself. Silver Surfer and Thanos are next, quickly followed by many Earth heroes. But Mantis cycles through many of her selves to defeat them.Until eventually the soul of Arthur Douglas, saxophone in hand, emerges and tells Multitude to stop because it's him they want. And he wants to be reunited with Drax. So the robot boy allows the soul to pass into Gamora's hands. In return Mantis gives him some advice. He's been trying to find himself, work out his place in the world. She strongly advises meditation rather than relying on an Infinity Stone. And she gives him the mysterium which is worth a lot of money. Gamora objects that they risked a lot to get that, but Mantis says they never actually had any use for it. And they leave.They return to the Grootship where Gamora throws out all her bottles of booze (and presumably they give Drax his soul). But behind them the Spartoi fleet turns up.


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This issue describes what happened to some of the characters who escaped from the black hole after #1 of the series. There is a framing sequence and 3 individual stories.Frame: FaithWriter Donny Cates. Pencils/inks John McCrea. Colours Mike Spicer.Opening section:Some mystery hooded guys are asking Cosmo the Space Dog if he's located the other heroes who fell into the black hole. They want to save them like they saved *him*. Cosmo says Silver Surfer pulled him and the others out of the hole but they are now scattered through the galaxy. These guys then rescued him from space, and now they have sent faith-drones to find the others. And Cosmo now gets reports back that some drones have been successful.Story 1: A long time in politicsWriter Al Ewing. Pencils/inks Yildiray Cinar. Colours Rain Beredo.Nova (Richard Rider) is in a space bar. The scanner's broke so the barman asks for cash. He doesn't have any usable money but Quasar steps up to pay. Rich had heard about Quasar and others falling into a black hole. Wendell Vaughn explains that Silver Surfer got him and some others out but he himself is still trapped (see Silver Surfer: Black #1). They talk about how Galactus is feeling after reverting from the golden Lifebringer to the old World Devourer. Nova didn't think the Big G could get depressed but Wendell says "He's just this guy, you know" (according to Gag Halfrunt his personal brain care specialist).Wendell then asks why Richard why he's on therapeutic leave from the Nova Corps, so Nova tells him about an incident 8 days ago in the Kral system where Skrulls pretend to be US Prohibition mobsters.The Skrulls in the rest of their empire didn't approve of the Krallian Skrulls. Nova was on Kral-IV to stop a troop of Skrull soldiers looting and killing, which was against the Nova Corps Pan-Worlds Treaty agreed to by the Skrull Emperor Kl'rt (Super-Skrull). The soldiers refused to stand down and Rider was  forced to kill them to stop them killing civilians. But then he got an urgent message from Commander Scott Adsit telling him that the Skrulls had pulled out of the treaty. They were going to cleanse the Kral system and Rich had better leave immediately.It turned out that the 'cleansing' process had already turned the Kral sun nova. Influential Kral Skrulls had already evacuated. The process destroyed the Kral planets. Rider's Nova Force protected him but he saw the inhabitants of Kral-IV die.Richard says that the Kree are going more hard-line too. The new Extreme Intelligence (see the Royals mini-series) was more conciliatory. But there's now a Kree civil war (see Death Of The Inhumans mini-series) and the warrior class are winning. And then they'll pull out of the Treaty. And everyone else is likely to follow suit.In turn Wendell Vaughn reminds Rich of the trainee Quasar Avril Kincaid who was assumed killed in the Secret Empire event. When the Surfer used his Power Cosmic to expel the heroes out of the black hole Quasar helped with his Quantum Bands. And during or afterwards he briefly saw Avril and she tried to tell him something. Now he believes she's still alive somewhere and he's going to find her.Wendell tries to persuade Rich that everything will work out OK. But Rider has seen too much to trust in blind faith. He thinks the (local) universe is on the edge of collapse, and 1 new unforeseen player in the game could tip it over.Nova flies off, and Quasar hears a voice calling him and telling him to have faith. And all goes white.Story 2: Advent horizonWriter Tini Howard. Pencils/inks Ibrahim Moustafa. Colours Jay David Ramos.On the way out of the black hole Adam Warlock briefly sees a white-haired, purple-faced image of himself.But then he lands on the planet Ryas, the homeworld of the little Druffs. He crashes into their temple but stops himself from hitting the ground. While floating he effortlessly repairs the damage he's done. The Druffs understandably think he's their god. He is led to their king who hails him as the promised one. But Adam doesn't know who they are.The king explains how they have spread throughout the galaxy, where they are seen as fast-breeding vermin. But their god doesn't see them like that, and after a recent especially long drought he began sending down globes full of food and water and fuel. Warlock denies sending them but says he will go to see this god.He flies into space and finds an orbiting entity who claims to have once been a man but is now evolved into something more. It turns out that he is fattening the Druffs up so that they will breed a mighty army who he can lead to conquer the Galaxy. He also says that if Warlock kills him the Druffs on this planet will die out.Warlock does destroy the 'god'. But then he swears to take his place and ensure that the Druffs survive peaceably.Story 3: You're only young onceWriter Zac Thompson & Lonnie Nadler. Pencils/inks Felipe Andrade. Colours Mike Spicer.As Darkhawk falls *into* the black hole Chris Powell is separated from the Raptor armour Razor. Chris's life flashes before his eyes. But then the pair remerge as they and others are expelled from the hole.Darkhawk awakens much later on a spaceship to be confronted by a Skrull, a Kree and a Shi'ar. They accuse him of bringing a contamination from the black hole. But they also say "Have faith" and "Let us bless you with our light". They fight, and Chris discovers his Darkhawk body can now feel pain and bleed. And then he realises that's because 1 of his human arms is exposed within an exoskeleton, unlike the rest of the Darkhawk armour. And the armour no longer communicates with him.The aliens leave him in a pleasant-enough cell where Chris starts to examine his new state. He can't will himself to become human, sending the Darkhawk body to Null Space. He feels no connection to the Darkhawk body. Finally he removes the helmet and finds himself inside the armour (which isn't how things used to work), but reverted to a young boy.Then it goes white and a voice tells him to "Have faith".Continuation of the framing section.Cosmo tells his master the Patriarch that Darkhawk and Quasar have been recruited. But the fight between Warlock and the god fried the drone. The Patriarch says they'll have to deal with Warlock later but they must have faith because they are the Universal Church Of Truth. And we see Darkhawk and Quasar in suspension alongside Firelord, the Starjammers (Ch'od, Hepzibah and Raza) and several Kree and Skrulls. And their next target is Star-Lord.


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Oh no! It's the Prince Of Power!
The current sober and mild-mannered Hercules is sitting in a bar drinking fruit juice and not giving people the 'gift of battle' when the so-called Prince Of Power literally drops in through the roof. Herc tries to pretend he doesn't know the guy but then gets drawn into an argument over who won their fight (in Guardians Of The Galaxy #5) and who has the rights to the title Prince Of Power.Then the being Grunnt who punched POP into the bar makes a dramatic entrance demanding that he hands over a priceless emerald. The Prince declares that he ate the gem to stop Grunnt resurrecting a robot starship and helping Cordyceps Jones bulldoze an orphanage. Grunnt orders his 2 henchmen to rip the Prince apart to get the gem, so Hercules helps fight them off. Meanwhile he asks the Prince to explain what's going on, starting from the beginning. POP takes him literally and recounts his origin story.He was born 22 years ago in Noblor on the planet Muscula where physical perfection and heroism are prized above all. Queen Regalia of Noblor has given birth, via a gestation matrix, to a baby son Prince Majestar with maximum heroic power. But he has a twin who is plain ordinary and is dismissed as the 'other one' and left to be raised by a nanny. The name sticks and Prince Otherone grows up to be a (not very good) apprentice paper clip sorter, while Majestar leads Abdomina, Biceptor and Legday in never-ending battle against Rapskullion ruler of Evillius. (But we see Majestar also win a victory by brains and general goodness as well as brawn.)But Majestar has existential doubts and goes for answers to (for some strange reason) the wizard Answeros in the secret Cave Of Answers on Mount Answers. He wants to know why he always manages to defeat the more powerful Rapskullion. If he always *fated* to win then he isn't really a hero. Answeros says it's because Rapskullion is a bit thick.He also gives us a description of Muscula as a planet of 2 halves. 1 half is Noblor and the other is Evillius, and their goodness and evil are seeped into the very rock that constitutes the globe. In between is the neutral Mount Answeros which maintains the balance between good and evil, and also between brain and brawn. Rapskullion loses because he focussed only on physical power. The wizard urges Majestar to always keep his mind as well as his muscles in good condition.Meanwhile Otherone continues snacking on his favourite jelly beans and thinking that if he had his brother's power he would destroy Evillius for good. As fate would have it the purple Power Stone is in his bowl of beans and he swallows it. And it converts him into the Prince Of Power. Which also gets him fired from his job, but he doesn't care because he's now a hero like Majestar.Majestar and Answeros are concerned about this power which Otherone says he got from a diet of jelly beans. (This claim has induced many others to follow his advice to consume jelly beans constantly without pausing even to breathe, which has caused an epidemic of jelly bean lung.) Answeros detects the cosmic gem in his body boosting his strength to potentially infinite levels. But luckily the power output is regulated by the user's mental capacity, and Otherone's low intellect will keep things still in balance.Answeros decides to keep Otherone's intelligence in check by assigning him a load of boring homework. But our 'hero' sneaks off with a book called Count Thinkula's Mind Strentgh For Dummies. The Count's main lesson is the zen-like attempt to clear your mind and think of nothing at all, which Otherone finds extremely easy to do. And this gives him a direct link to the Power Stone to develop a new ability ...... which he now demonstrates on Hercules. He touches Herc on the shoulder and the demi-god is imbued with power beyond even *his* dreams. A light tap and Grunnt goes sailing through a wall. POP explains that this was his Power Push which he used in GOTG#12 to regrow Groot. Herc asks why he didn't just do that to start with. The long fight has trashed the bar and knocked out (at least) all its clientele. Otherone says he didn't think of it, he was too busy recounting his origin. Which reminds him he hasn't finished it.The Prince Of Power led Majestar and his allies in an invasion of Evillius, which Majestar is uncomfortable with as they're just supposed to foil Rapskullion's evil schemes. They defeat all the evil minions and confront Rapskullion at his No-Scheme Tuesday barbecue. Then the villain's untrusty henchman Betrayo sneakily knocks Majestar down. Otherone picks up his brother's dropped Sword Of Strength and channels the Power Stone through it to destroy evil forever.But as we learned earlier the evil half of the planet Muscula is completely evil. And destroying half a planet isn't very good for the other half. And the only survivor Otherone is left drifting in space. Luckily he can hold his breath for many days and Blackjack O'Hare picked him up while looking for anything to salvage from the wreckage of the planet.Now Hercules tries to console him for the guilt he must feel over destroying his homeworld. Otherone says if he really thought about that it would drive him mad. And if he thought about what someone smarter than him could do with the Power Stone he'd go mad with fear. Luckily he's very good at not thinking. But Herc offers to be his buddy and train him to use his power more responsibly. But 1st they have to talk about the name Prince Of Power.2nd story:-Infinite Fury part 6Writer Jed Mckay. Artist Juan Ferreyra. Letterer Joe Caramagna. Editor Nick Lowe.Nick Fury Jr has been hunting a new player in the spy game and has discovered that it is Nighthawk of the Squadron Supreme Of America. Nighthawk wants to restore the recent Heroes Reborn universe and has now brainwashed Fury into helping him.Part of what motivates NF Jr is that in that world his father NF Sr became President instead of disappearing in ignominy. Now they hunt the people with the Infinity Stones to use to bring that world back. He's just 'liberated' a piece of a Cosmic Cube from Project PEGASUS which Nighthawk says will enable them to track the Stone bearers. Chased by cop cars he drives into the river to be rescued by a his high-flying partner.At NH's base he tells Nick he used to have a partner Falcon (in the Heroes Reborn mini-series) and asks him to inherit his winged uniform. In his quarters Nick starts to change into the uniform but he sees the face of his mother Nia Jones tattooed on his chest with the word 'remember', which triggers a failsafe mental shutdown.


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Grootrise
Previously the Grootfall asteroids killed most of the Guardians Of The Galaxy and destroyed the area of space known as the Manifold Territories, finally killing the last 6 Guardians in #7. But then we learned that Groot had transformed the Territories back into his ancestral homeland of Grootspace and resurrected the 6. Together they worked towards completing the job that would resurrect the rest of the GOTG and all the others killed. But Peter Quill's half-sister, Empress Victoria of Spartax, put the project in jeopardy by leading the Spartoi armada to avenge the dead.In the last issue of the series the GOTG fought the armada and stole the solar engine from the flagship, which Rocket Raccoon planned to turn into a sun at the heart of Grootspace. But Spartoi fire ruined the remote control he'd built so now he has to trigger it manually which will kill him. Drax the Destroyer stopped armada-bashing and broke an engine off a ship to use to get him to Rocket.Now this Annual completes the story.Star-Lord and sister Victoria continue a personal duel on the flagship. She accuses Peter of abandoning Spartax to 'join' Groot, consumer of worlds. (Technically he left Spartax long before that.) She also accuses him of wanting her throne. (Again, he gave that up when he left, long before she replaced him on it.)Drax reaches Rocket and takes his place. He attaches the Raccoon to his engine and sends it back towards safety, swearing to ignite the sun himself. Back at the armada Gamora and Nebula complain that he's left them facing huge odds, but Mantis says that Drax knows what he's doing. He 'remembers' being Arthur Douglas, saxophonist. But then he was reborn as Drax, a soulless weapon of war. (It is unclear whether he's referring to his 1st rebirth way back in Iron Man #55 or this clone's birth in GOTG v5 #12.) But lately he's felt the music again (since Gamora and Mantis gave him Art's soul at the start of #10?). Now he pulls out 2 objects from a pouch he's had round his neck all series. (1 might be the mouthpiece of a saxophone and the other might be the retrieved soul.) Regretting that he won't be there to see his daughter Moondragon resurrected, he slams the 2 together and the sun ignites, seeming to have Drax playing the saxophone at its heart.The 3 female Guardians witness it and Gamora renames him as the Creator as Rocket joins them. Peter points it out to Victoria and claims that they don't have to fight anymore, but she stabs him through the stomach. But then she sees flowers blooming all over the vegetable strands pervading Grootspace, and the 'dead' step out of them. We concentrate on Moondragon and other Guardians joining Gamora, Mantis, Nebula and Rocket.Hercules, Noh-Varr and Phyla-Vell join Nebula in repairing broken spaceships while Quasar and Super-Skrull join Mantis in bringing the resurrected to safety where Gamora and Rocket wait with medical aid. Moondragon celebrates her father's success. On the flagship Victoria realises her error as she holds her dying brother in her arms. She orders her fleet to stand down.Later Star-Lord is healed and everyone's celebrating. Except Rocket who's taking time out to be with his old pal Groot who's now returned to his former shape. He apologises for attacking the Grootfall asteroids (with the other Guardians) before he knew what they were really doing. Repairs and reconstruction continue. And we see the narrator of this series finishing the story he's been telling to children.


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The world at my fingertips
In the Negative Zone on the planet Baluur the tyrant King Blastaar promises (again) to lead his army into the positive universe to conquer the Milky Way galaxy. And he promises death to any of his people who don't support him. He goes through a portal to a base on a positive planet they've christened New Baluur where they've been building a weapon to 'obliterate the positive universe', but the head scientist has to explain that they've hit some snags. Facing his King's wrath he says they're working flat-out to fix them. Blastaar leaves him with a threat if he doesn't.But we have seen that many Baluurians oppose his plan. And this scientist Graybar is 1 of them. He has done all he can to delay the project but now he decides to get help elsewhere ...... which is in Gosnell's Bar where the Guardians Of The Galaxy are drinking (and using the opportunity to briefly mention their history). Peter Quill (Star-Lord) reminds them how he 1st gathered the Guardians together as a group after they helped fight of the Phalanx invasion of the Kree (which was recounted in the Annihilation: Conquest event). Gamora reminds him that he had to get Mantis (the former Celestial Madonna) to secretly use her mental powers to persuade them to agree. Mantis is unapologetic because the result was good. Nova (Richard Rider) reminds them that he was part of the Nova Corps before he joined them later, and they're very different kinds of team. Gamora reminisces that Thanos made her the 'deadliest woman in the Galaxy' but she's become better, but less lethal, in the GOTG. Drax The Destroyer adds that he was previously Earthman Arthur Douglas who was killed by Thanos and then reborn as his nemesis. Rocket Raccoon points out that he and Groot were in Peter's pre-GOTG team (in Annihilation: Conquest, but he 'conveniently' forgets Mantis was there too), and then adds that they need a big threat to keep them occupied.At this point Graybar walk in and asks for their help. He tells them about labouring under the tyranny of Blastaar, who Quill knows well as a villain. But now he tells them about the weapon which will use Blastaar's power to transmit an antimatter pulse across the Galaxy to kill all life, and then he will lead his people to colonise the now-empty worlds. Blastaar is prepared to resist a major assault from the likes of the Kree or Shi'ar, so Graybar has come to them for a stealth attack to stop him. They all agree to take the mission.They approach New Baluur in the Guardians' spaceship The Almond in stealth mode and land outside the base where Graybar says he knows a way in. Rocket as usual wants to blast their way in but everyone excedpt Drax disagrees. The Baluurian leads them to a little-used side entrance but it is of course closed. Nova plans to blast it open until Pete reminds Rich about stealth and gets Groot to lever it open with plant-power. Nova impulsively flies ahead for a reconnaissance but triggers another door which shuts behind him. Graybar says the building is composed of the almost indestructible Baluurian metal Corbomite, and Drax's fists and Rocket's gun make no dent in the door. But then Star-Lord pulls out his element gun and turns the door to glass which Drax gladly smashes through.A bit further on as they get near Blastaar's chamber a piercing alarm goes off in their vicinity until Groot smashes the speakers. And then a giant cyber-assault robot arrives to deal with the problem. Graybar says he designed the thing and it can be disabled by the power cord on the back of its neck. Quill tries to use his element gun to turn the metal to plastic but it hasn't rebuilt its charge yet. And Graybar pushes him out of the way of a laser beam which hits *him* dead centre. Drax holds back 1 of the robot's fists while Mantis somersaults up its arm to reach the power cord and rip it out. And that threat's over. But Graybar dies.All through the mission Rocket and Nova have been verbally sniping at each other. But now everyone pulls together the make the Baluurian's sacrifice not be in vain. They dash down the corridor to where the antimatter machine is held, guarded by 2 armoured Baluurians who Gamora takes out with 1 scissorkick while Groot's tendrils disarm them. They enter the chamber to find Blastaar attached to the machine ready to power it up. Star-Lord sends his troops into action because his element gun still isn't working. Groot tries to infiltrate some tendrils into the machine but gets hit by electric feedback. Drax hits Blastaar's jaw with a 'blow that would have staggered Thanos' but the villain just kicks him away. He also fends of Nova's blast and retaliates, and this is while the machine is siphoning off much of his power. Gamora tries to find a weak point while Mantis sneaks up and tries to remove the syphon connection from his back, but he grabs both of them by the throat. Rocket at last fires his gun but its only effect is to make the villain drop the females. Blastaar sends a quake through the floor which catches all they GOTG except flying Nova. Pete tells Rich it's now all up to him.The Human Rocket zooms out of the building and locates the external antenna which is going to fire the anti-matter beam. He hopes to destroy it before it fires but then senses he's too late. So he flies straight into the mouth of the weapon pushing against the beam until his forcefield blocks the exit which causes the 'gun' to explode. He falls exhausted form the sky. But Star-Lord had anticipated this and Groot is ready to soften his landing.Inside the building Blastaar demands that his scientists shut the machine down before feedback causes it to explode. But it's too late and the villain is blasted by his own power. He's now too weak to stand up to the Guardians but his troops are still here. However it turns out that *nobody* loved him and they're all glad to take their hated leader home and punish him accordingly. And the Guardians return to Gosnell's Bar to raise a toast to Graybar.


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The Xandarian Worldmind AI wants to find out more about Earth. As such she wants to interview 1 of its most Galactically-known sons Peter Quill/Star-Lord. Unfortunately when she contacts him the Guardians Of The Galaxy are in the middle of a fight against tiny alien creatures with big teeth who want to stop them 'borrowing' a gem as a power source to jump-start their ship. Not wishing to harm the aliens the team have their weapons set to stun.Suddenly they are confronted by a giant blue hand on tentacles. It has a single eye in the middle of the palm with a large gem embedded above it. Rocket detects that of course that is the gem they need. Groot says "I am Groot" as usual, to which Rocket replies that he disagrees - the hand probably won't just give it to them if they ask nicely. Drax dives on the hand with his 2 big knives, but the hand just grips him in its fist. He escapes but reports that there's no way of removing the gem without killing the hand.Worldmind contacts Peter again as Gamora is trapped in an electro-net but breaks free. The AI says she's provided the comfy chair with cupholder that he requested. Quill says it's still not a good time and suggests she try someone else. The AI responds that she already did but Drax wasn't able to answer her questions satisfactorily. We flashback to Drax in the comfy chair. As well as continuing to demonstrate his inability to grasp Terran idioms he did tell her that Star-Lord has shown his ability to rally the troops.Back at the battle with the hand and the little aliens the hand starts emitting blast rays from its jewel. And it turns out that Groot and Rocket too have been interviewed together. Rocket wore Star-Lord's helmet and pretended to be him. When asked to name the best team-members he responded "Rocket and Groot". But Groot gave the game away by saying "I am Groot" and the Worldmind claimed not to have been fooled anyway - Rocket doesn't look anything like a Terran. Rocket countered that Quill himself is only *half* Terran. But he admitted that Peter is quite smart so if he's only half-Terran then that must mean that Terrans are very intelligent.Back at the battle again the gang try to hide from the hand but the little aliens keep telling it where they are. And Gamora admits that she also had an interview. She attempted to describe the typical Terran but kept giving away that she was actually describing Peter. She at 1st thought he was despicable, dishonourable and faithless. But later she realised this was a front hiding bravery and compassion.Back in the present Peter and Gamora come to the conclusion that the hand is the small aliens' god. They ask Rocket if he can devise a way to siphon off some power from the gem. The master engineer claims that it will be difficult of course but he sets about doing it.Meanwhile we see a Celestial who has decided that the stubbornly defiant human race needs wiping out, and that the Xandarian cosmic generator will enable it to go back in time and snuff the Terrans out at birth.Back at the battle Rocket has built a device to absorb the gem's blasts and convert them to energy to power their ship. So he carries it into battle shooting at the hand to get its attention. But Groot has found a better way. He snaps off an arm and presses the wood against a fingertip of the hand. In this way he attains mental communication with the hand and explains the situation. The hand compliantly fires a large blast at Rocket's absorber. But Rocket hadn't reckoned with a side-effect striking him like lightning.The Guardians' ship now has power so Quill is ready to give the Worldmind the interview. Except he finds that the chair and cupholder have been messed up. He tells the AI that she can find all the answers about humans in the movie Footloose. She asks if that includes why they call the Galaxy the Milky Way. He opines that it's just because they like milk so much. Fortunately the interview is cut short by Gamora saying that the Nova Corps have asked for help.


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Supposedly killed in the assault on
Hydra headquarters (ALL-NEW CAPTAIN AMERICA #6), Nomad (Ian Rogers)
had found his way to the Infinite Elevator which takes him to an
alternate New York, a dark and ugly one built by Hydra. Ian spots a
kid spray-painting graffiti on a building and the kid panics. They
are then surrounded by a Hydra police patrol. Ian takes them all down
in a furious fight, then heads off to find out what happened to the
kid....
The kid (Christopher Miller) is taken
away in a cruiser and brought before the holographic image of Arnim
Zola. In view of his bad record, Zola sentences him to “sanitation.”
The boy is taken to a massive incinerator where he is tied up with
other convicts awaiting immolation in the giant furnaces and his
ashes put to a more useful purpose. As Chris is about to be tossed
in, Nomad arrives and saves Chris, telling him to free the other
prisoners. Nomad fights his way out and sabotages the building
explode. Ian takes Chris to a rooftop where the kid explains how the
world is a fascist dictatorship ruled by Hydra (and wonders why Ian
doesn't know this). The kid is suddenly decapitated by a thrown
shield with the Hydra emblem on it. Captain Hydra has arrived and he
is startled to see Ian. They fight and “Cap” unmasks to show that
he is Leopold Zola—the man Ian was meant to become....


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Flashback to Earth-616 with Nomad (Ian
Rogers) having a quiet breakfast with his adoptive father, the
now-elderly Steve Rogers. Ian is puzzled at how Steve never just quit
when he realized that not killing one's enemies just made for a long,
drawn-out, and pointless career as a hero. Steve tells him to do what
he thinks right....
Now in the Hydra-held alternate
dimension, Ian hangs by a hand to the ledge of a skyscraper as the
Hydra version of the Avengers stands over him. Captain Hydra appeals
to him to give up but Ian prefers to let go and fall to his death.
Iron Baron jets after him as Arnim Zola covets the secrets of
regeneration hidden in Ian's body. Ellie Rogers, now merged with the
symbiote, swings down to rescue him having gained control over it. He
tells her to head for the Infinite Elevator; there's nothing they can
do in this world but they can live happily back in 616. The Avengers
pursue and there is dodging of Dr. Mindbubble's mindbubbles and
skirmishing along the way. Ellie is trapped in a mindbubble where
what she desires most is designed to kill her; Ian joins her, and
they find themselves...
...at a peaceful family get-together
with Steve and Sharon. Ian and his dad talk things over and Ian
realizes that Cap's seemingly endless battle against Hydra was in
pursuit of a more peaceful vision and Steve knows that Ian's
experiences lead him down a different path. Then Sharon draws a
pistol to shoot Ian but he snatches it away, shoots Ellie then turns
the gun on himself...
...because killing oneself is the only
way to escape a mindbubble. Seriously wounded, they make it to the
Elevator with the enemy hot on their heels. They fall inside and Ian
hits the button for 616 as Iron Baron fires missiles at them. They
know they tried their best...then a massive explosion, bigger than
what the Baron's missiles would have caused, rocks the elevator.
Arnim Zola, in Captain Hydra's body demands they search for the
bodies to recover the secret of regeneration but there is nothing to
be found....


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Nomad (Ian Rogers) remembers how his
father Captain America/Steve Rogers told him to never give up...
Useful since he is in battle with this
world's version of himself, Captain Hydra/Leopold Zola. Leopold
wonders why his father would create a duplicate of him—as he
casually beats Ian to a pulp and breaks his spine. Leopold contacts
Arnim Zola who recognizes Ian from the police report and tells
Leopold to capture the stranger. But Ian is gone, having regenerated
his broken spine enough to escape into the sewers....
The badly wounded Ian is found in the
sewer by a young woman, who takes him back to the headquarters of the
resistance. Her compatriots, including Tony Stark and Hank Pym,
suspect a trick of Zola's and rebuke her for her poor judgment. Ian
tries taking the girl, Ellie, hostage but her parents, Steve Rogers
and Sharon Carter, arrive and don't recognize this young man as other
than Captain Hydra. Pym has his robot servant Lil' Ultron replay the
surveillance tapes that caught the battle between the two versions of
Ian. This still does not calm suspicions. Eventually Ian reveals
enough about Steve that he is willing to believe the newcomer's
sketchy story. Steve explains how Hydra destroyed the colonists
during the American Revolution and seized control; Steve, who was the
first Captain Hydra, revolted and became Captain America for the
resistance. They propose to use Ian in a plan to assassinate Arnim
Zola by playing on his resemblance to Leopold. Before they can begin,
however, a green and slimy Venom appears, having tracked Ian there
and he kills Tony Stark. Venom is followed by the Vipers, female
versions of the symbiote, who slaughter the rebels. Sharon tells Ian
to get Ellie to safety before she too dies. As the two young people
flee, Ellie is hit with spray from a symbiote. Venom gloats to the
captive (and sole rebel survivor of the battle) Steve Rogers that
Ellie will soon be infected and bring Ian to them....


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A disguised Nomad (Ian Rogers) and
Ellie attend a public announcement by the Avengers headed by Iron
Baron (Strucker) with Captain Hydra being given the credit for
destroying the rebel base (being the boss's son and all). Returning
to their safe house, both Ian and Ellie struggle with despair over
not being able to do anything to change this world. They decide to go
ahead with the resistance plan. Before he died, Tony Stark gave Nomad
a device that could lock Arnim Zola's consciousness into a single
body long enough to kill him and Ian thinks they have a chance. When
Ellie asks why he is doing this, he replies that Steve Rogers saved
his world and now he has the chance to pay it forward....
Ian thinks he can pass the Hydra
checkpoints to Zola's headquarters because he shares Captain Hydra's
DNA. He is wrong: Zola's consciousness recognizes him at once and
commands the guards to let Ian and Ellie into the inner chamber,
Zola's home. It is a massive control center with Zola's face on a
gigantic screen. Zola welcomes Ian because his body contains the
secrets of regeneration, something the Zola of this world could not
discover that he covets desperately. Zola brings out Steve Rogers,
who begs the two to surrender and join Zola's cause. Knowing that
their father would never tell them to give up, Ellie leaps forward
and stabs him. “Steve” turns out to be a corpse animated by Zola
and he and Nomad fight. Ian uses Tony Stark's device to trap Zola in
Steve's body. As Ian steps forward for the killing stroke, he sees
that Ellie is being taken over by the symbiote, giving Zola the time
to recover and attack Ian. The two combatants crash through a window
onto a high ledge—then Ian is hit by a shield, throwing him over
the edge where he barely hangs on. He looks up to see that Captain
Hydra and the rest of the evil Avengers have arrived....


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Nick Fury stealthily infiltrates Hydra Headquarters: he kicks a guard in the head
and shoots the man’s partner, then enters….
The
Hydra Agent with a headache is Hank Johnson, family man, nursing his pain,
bickering with his wife about not helping around the house, trying to wrangle
the kids into order, and hating it. At the funeral for his murdered partner,
his wife nags him to talk to the dead man’s supervisor and maybe he can move
into his job. Gets in trouble for including peanut butter in his kids’ school
lunches. He hangs out at Little League with Clay Quartermain of SHIELD. Takes
his kids to the wrong birthday party. Gets a promotion and his new boss Madame
Hydra (a/k/a Viper) hits on him. Takes his kids out for Halloween dressed as
Captain America and She-Hulk. Fights with his partner over basketball tickets.
Takes the wife to a dull meeting at Viper’s house, gets bored and leaves just
moments before the Avengers arrive. Reports Madame Hydra to HR for sexual
harassment. Brings MODOK and Madame Hydra to a boring school fundraiser. Ends
up being kicked in the head by Nick Fury while his partner is gunned down.
Wonders if he can get his late partner’s basketball tickets.