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(San Francisco)Luke Cage and Daredevil are in the back of a truck transporting Emma Frost for incarceration. Sitting across from each other, Luke tells Matt that he never got to ask, but how does he like being an Avenger? Daredevil nurses a bandage on his right arm and asks if it’s always this crazy. “Can you handle crazy?” asks Luke. Matt says this is crazy on another level completely. Cosmic forces, out-of-control mutant terrorists… From the back of the truck, Emma Frost says she’s right there, but Luke asks her to settle down. Matt tells him that he can’t believe he’s trying to raise a child in all this. Luke doesn’t reply, but loses himself in thought for a moment.
Matt asks if the baby’s okay and Jessica, too. Luke replies yes, but Matt asks what happened. This life is no place for a baby. Luke reminds him that there are babies born in every hellhole all over the planet. Matt says there are, but they don’t have a choice. Luke closes his eyes. “You’re quitting the Avengers?” asks Matt. Luke admits that something’s gotta give. He never had something to lose before. He thought he did, but he was kidding himself. Once you’ve got a baby… it’s a cliché but it changes everything. He keeps pretending it isn’t, but…
“Dear lord, please make it stop!” says Emma, bored with their conversation. “Lady, I told you to pipe down,” snaps Luke. She tells him he can call her Emma. Luke goes into sarcasm mode and tells her that now he can call her Emma. Yesterday she wanted him to bow down and call her God. She says she never used those exact words. Luke tells her that for the life of him he doesn’t know what she thought was going to happen at the end of this. “We were trying to fix the world,” she replies, adding that they were trying to use what powers they had to create the best version of the world. At the end of the day, isn’t that what they’re trying to do. “You two of all people.”
Luke asks what that means, but Daredevil replies that she thinks it means that they’ve dedicated so much of their lives to fighting for their neighborhoods… and because they’re both black. Luke smirks but Emma tells them that if her mental powers weren’t locked down because of the contraption they have her in, she would have gotten that joke. Matt tells Luke that he should call his wife and tell her he’s okay. Luke knows that he’s right. He really needs to remember to do stuff like that.
Daredevil suddenly sits up straight, sensing danger outside the truck. A moment later, the truck is rocked by a massive assault by a group of mutant-hating Purifiers. They surround the truck and, hovering several feet in the air, pour firepower at its wheels to disable it. They each quote from various sources as they fire. “Mutant is the abomination of the devil,” says one. “Mutants must die so that we may live,” adds another. Inside, Luke stands up and asks if they can have just one normal day. Daredevil informs him that they’re surrounded and they have tech. Emma recognizes them by what they are saying and tells the others that they hate people like her on a religious level. She asks that they take off her power-dampener to give them a fighting chance. Luke and Matt ignore her and prepare to exit the vehicle.
Matt mentions that Luke’s the bulletproof one. He should go first. “Everybody makes me go first,” he balks. Emma tries again to be freed, but Luke gives the order. “Go!” They smash open the back doors into fresh air and find the Purifiers waiting for them. As soon as they are out, one of the Purifiers starts ranting that God did not create mutants. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. As he runs, Matt replies by asking what about, “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, ‘you shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” The Purifers continue shooting, with one pointing out that even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Both heroes are rocked by the gunfire.
(meanwhile, back in the truck)Mockingbird is at the steering wheel next to the Thing but the truck is on its side. “Why can’t we have one normal day?” asks Bobbi, asking Ben to wake up. He asks if they are there yet. “We’re under attack,” she replies. Ben says he’s sleeping, so she should do it. Bobbi can’t believe that the truck blowing up didn’t manage to wake him up! Ben informs that he’s tired. Mockingbird wastes little time in leaping from the truck with her billy club in hand. A Purifer fires at the truck as Daredevil and Luke Cage go on the attack. The Purifers find the fact that despite them not being mutants and instead mutant sympathizers, even worse. “Mutant protectors,” says one. “Traitors to the human species,” adds another. “Betrayers of the human race,” adds a third as they shoot. Luke asks if they just called him an Uncle Tom. Daredevil tells him that if it makes him mad enough to whoop their ass, then sure. “It does,” replies Luke. “Then they did,” quips Matt.
Luke charges at them and, along with the Thing, gets down to some serious ass whupping. One of the Purifers is sent crashing into a storefront, whilst another is grabbed by Ben and lifted into the air with one hand. He wonders how many hits it takes to get one to the center of a whacked out zealot. “God be with me,” he prays, but he is saved by a fellow Purifer who blasts Ben from behind. “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in heaven,” he exclaims.
As Luke punches Ben’s attacker, he tells the others that he wishes he could tell them that his heart was in the fight. He’s about as mad at Frost as these guys are, except that he seems to be able to do it without coming off like a nutball. Mockingbird replies that it makes them better than the Purifers. They can just not like her for her. She throws a Purifier over her head and into a signpost which crumbles under the weight. Emma, meanwhile, tries to escape, but she is soon approached by one of the terrorists. “Abomination,” he snarls. With no powers, Emma is almost defenseless, but she is saved as one of Mockingbird’s billy clubs bounces off the guy’s helmet. She continues running as Mockingbird finishes him off, but she herself is clocked by a billy club courtesy of Daredevil who reminds her that she is still under arrest.
Daredevil takes out two more of them as the Thing uses two Purifers as shields when a third opens fire on him. Mockingbird leaps acrobatically over another and contacts S.H.I.E.L.D. command. She asks them to tell Captain America that they are under attack by joyless anti-mutant zealots. Meanwhile, Luke warns them that he will give them to the count of three. “Cut this @&*%$ out or I’m gonna…” One of the Purifers blasts him in the face at close range and stands over his fallen body. “For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” He then blasts Luke again, this time in the chest.
Luke shoots backwards into a nearby building. As he sits there, his mind is flooded with images of his wife Jessica, his daughter Danielle and his best friends such as Iron Fist and Misty Knight. As he takes a couple more shots, the images keep coming and Luke decides he has finally had enough. He leaps from the building and punches right through the Purifer’s armor. His fellow Avengers keep up their momentum and are assisted ably by Mockingbird who appears with a really big gun which she appears to have torn from one of their foes. “Everbody down!” she cries as she blasts away, ending the fight once and for all.
The Avengers look at their fallen opponents as the cops arrive, right on cue. Mockingbird looks up to see backup arrive in the forms of Iron Man and Thor. “Wow,” exclaims Iron Man. “Can’t we just have one normal day?” Thor reckons it is a fine day. Their foes have been vanquished and their prisoner is still their prisoner. Tony says he doesn’t remember the Purifiers having this level of tech. Emma replies that when someone believes God told them to kill a species… money is no object.
Luke and Ben deal with the police. One of the officers tells Luke that there is no way he would remember this, but Luke saved his life two years ago. He was a volunteer in Harlem. Luke tries not to be rude but he simply asks if he can borrow his phone. The cop hands it over and Luke calls Jessica. He explains that he’s okay and he is coming home. For good. Iron Man asks the others what’s going on with Luke. Daredevil replies that he just quit the Avengers.


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(New Orleans)Daimon Hellstrom is in his darkened room, looking at some unusual goings on. Above a pentagram on his floor with a candle on each point, a small glowing image bubbles away. He wonders what the hell he is looking at. Calling the Avengers’ answering machine, Hellstrom says that he realizes that Dr. Strange is busy beating up mutants for trying to make the world a better place but, when he’s done, he was wondering if he could get him to take a look at some funky surges coming out of the Astral Plane. He knows Strange has always been a more controlled sort of sorcerer but these surges seem violent. Without a Sorcerer Supreme in this dimension, he doesn’t like these kind of magic anomalies.
He hears a knock at the door and uses the fire incantation of illumination to see who is on the other side. He sees that it is Victoria Hand and he opens the door to her, as they know each other from the mansion. Daimon asks what she’s doing there. She informs him that Captain America sent her on official Avengers business and asks if she can come in. Daimon asks her not to mind the mess as she enters and Victoria quips, “I’ve seen worse. No, wait. No. I haven’t.” She informs him that Cap wants to know if he’s witnessed anything out of the ordinary. “Like heroes fighting heroes on the local news,” he replies.” Oh, wait. You said out of the ordinary.” Victoria asks if he’s noticed anything arcane. They were the words he used. Something out of sync, perhaps. There have been some intel reports out of S.H.I.E.L.D. that suggest something is up.
Daimon says that he has, actually, and asks where Captain America is. She informs him that he has his hands full but he feels that this is important. Suspicious, Hellstrom says that he is surprised that he sent her. Offended, she thanks him for his time and begins to leave, only for Hellstrom to give in, grab her arm and tell her that he has seen something unusual. He asks her to stand back before bringing the strange image forth. He explains that it is a map of the Astral Plane. It’s a phantom plane of existence parallel to ours. You have to be a hard-core badass magic man to bounce back and forth inside it… and someone is. Someone is really ripping into it.
When Victoria asks what he’s saying, Daimon replies that he’s @&*$@ with their dimension through use of another. This is dangerous stuff. He’s a high-level mage doing whatever the hell. These dimensions, he explains, are held apart by nothing but a membrane. Standing behind him and creating some kind of magical white/blue sword from nothing, she asks who could do this. Hellstrom explains that he was calling Dr. Strange to see if he had any clue when she came knocking. “So you don’t know,” she replies. He turns just in time to see her thrust the blade into his chest. The energy blade goes in and energy spews from his mouth. “It was me,” snarls Victoria as energy lights up the sky outside his apartment.
(Avengers Mansion)The team is seated around the table, eating. Luke and Jessica have informed everyone that they are leaving and need to sell the place. Jessica asks if anyone’s interested. Iron Fist offers five dollars - a four hundred percent profit. Daredevil seems disappointed that Luke dragged him into the Avengers and now he’s leaving. Wolverine tells Jessica that the place is a fine place to raise a kid. He grew up somewhere just like it and he turned out fine. Captain Marvel appears and she asks what’s going on. Spider-Man informs her that Luke and Jessica are leaving the Avengers, and selling him the mansion for the top bid of thirteen dollars. Cash. Carol is shocked. She tells Luke that this is his team. If he’s done, is this it for the New Avengers?
(Miami)Jennifer Kale is defenestrated from her apartment, landing hard on a car parked below. She looks up to see Victoria Hand standing at the shattered window. She tells Jennifer that she should be honored. Very few people in this dimension are standing in her way. Jennifer flies back up and as she shoves Victoria backwards, she asks who she is… really? She calls her a coward and asks her to show themselves; to give up the body they’re molesting or she’ll pull them out of it. Victoria responds by punching Jennifer in the face. She then summons the white energy sword once again and thrusts to into her body. Jennifer, severely wounded, asks weakly who she is. Victoria looks into her eyes and Jennifer appears to see the truth. She gasps, “No,” before Victoria takes her out once and for all. When she hears a knock on the door she magically disappears leaving Jennifer’s body behind.
(meanwhile)Surrounded by statues of Avengers past and present, Dr. Strange and Iron Fist sit facing each other, meditating. Danny says he can’t believe that Luke is up and leaving. They are all there because of him. Dr. Strange asks him to focus. They’re supposed to be meditating. Danny can’t seem to concentrate. He wonders if they maybe should disband. They’re all busy on other teams anyway and without Luke, what kind of team will it be? Strange tries to remind him to concentrate, but Danny continues to say that in the old days they would have made this decision together. “You and I?” asks Strange. Danny says it would have been he and Luke. But, he adds, things change. All of a sudden everything is turned around and Luke is a father and a husband, whilst he is… he is just the same. Though his costume is better.
Strange tells him that he and Luke will be friends for life. Danny replies that he knows this and he knows that change is inevitable. Strange tells him that they have to support their friends as they journey forth and know that they will cherish the moments they were lucky to have shared. Danny pauses a moment before saying that he is going to buy himself a Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4. Strange tells him it’s a great idea. Danny asks if he wants one. “Yes,” replies Dr. Strange.
(back at the mansion)As Carol Danvers cuddles baby Danielle, Jessica sorts some of Luke’s clothes out. She tells Carol that everybody hates her. Carol assures her that nobody hates her. Jessica reminds her that she is the wife who’s making her husband do what she says instead of what he wants. She’s suddenly that. Carol believes that she’s quite the opposite. She’s a better friends and partner than most. She let him figure that out all by himself. Though he took his sweet time getting there, she offers her congratulations that she has a man who has the ability to figure out what the big-boy, right thing to do is. A guy like that is few and far between. ”Lord is this baby cute,” she adds.
Jessica asks what she’s dressed as. Carol replies that it’s the new her. She hopes Jessica likes it because she loves it. “I actually do love it,” replies Jessica. Carol informs her that she’s going by Captain Marvel now. She knows that Jessica always hated “Ms. Marvel.” Jessica says she just didn’t care for the name. It seemed slight. “Whatever… Jewel,” replies Carol. Jessica asks for her baby but Carol doesn’t want to give her back. She thinks she loves the baby. She admits that she was standoffish before, but now she sees it. Jessica tells her that she feels the team is going to disband. Carol reckons it’s up to Captain America. Jessica’s job is to keep her baby safe. Jessica admits that she feels torn and twisted about the whole thing. She thinks Luke will start resenting her.
Carol tells her straight that Luke knew her when she was at her worst and didn’t even blink about starting a life with her. She was there. She’s known Jessica at her darkest hour and when she sees what she’s building with Luke… this is where life is taking her and it’s kind of a damn miracle. Who knows what will happen tomorrow, she sighs. But, for now, Jessica must follow her instincts and her instincts are telling her that this baby shouldn’t be living anywhere near them. Jessica looks at her and tells her she’s a damn good friend. She doesn’t want to go a long time without talking. Carol asks her to focus on one neurosis at a time. “I can multitask,” quips Jessica, looking out the window at her husband below.
Luke is carrying boxes to a moving truck when Victoria Hand approaches him. She asks what’s going on. Luke asks where she’s been. She replies that Captain America had her working on something. Someone moving out? she asks. He informs her that it’s him, Jessica and Danielle. Victoria says she thought this was his house, but Luke replies that they’re going to try something else now. Victoria asks if he’s told Captain America yet. Luke looks at her and says he was respecting her and trying not to go over her head; her being the official Avengers liaison and all. She asks if he’s moving out without talking to anybody about it. Luke tells her she doesn’t get to vote. He just wanted to give her a heads up. Victoria assures him that he doesn’t have to be on the team. Luke says he knows that, but it’s best to close the chapter. He’s not saying he isn’t going to help out, but he has to prioritize. He knows it sounds weird coming out of his mouth.
As they talk, a guy shows up in an FBI truck and introduces himself as Jeff Colt. Luke asks what’s going on. Colt asks Victoria if she is indeed Victoria Hand. When she says yes, he tells her that she’s going to have to go with him. “What the hell?” asks Luke. Colt tells him it’s official FBI business, but Luke informs him that he’s on official Avengers property so why doesn’t he just tell them what’s going on. Carol comes outside and asks the same question. Agent Colt informs them that Ms. Hand is wanted for questioning. He’s in charge of a multiple law enforcement organization task force put together to deal with a very serious situation. They don’t want any confrontation with the Avengers.
Daredevil also appears and informs them that they have to explain what it is for. It’s the law. Colt proceeds to inform them that she is wanted for questioning in the disappearance of a Miss Jennifer Kale. Dr. Strange is surprised to hear this, but before he can enquire further, Maria Hill, Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. appears, descending to the ground using a jetpack. She tells Colt that the FBI were told to stand down so they can investigate this matter internally. Colt stands his ground and replies that he was told by his superiors to bring her in for questioning. Hill says he will stand down or she will detain him and his men. Does he want to spend the rest of his career trying to figure out what happened today? Colt tells her to take it up with his superior, but Maria Hill reminds him that she is his superior… on every conceivable level.
As the pair of them argue, the Avengers think about going back into the house, but Victoria suddenly says, “Do you see? I don’t know what this is.” Carol looks back at her and sees Victoria begin to convulse. She screams, asking what they’re doing and how did she get there. Agent Colt asks her to calm down as Victoria collapses. The Avengers stand over her wondering what on Earth just happened. Carol picks up Victoria but, as she walks, she suddenly begins to smile until she has a broad grin on her face.


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Victoria Hand has collapsed. Carol Danvers carries her to a guest room in Avengers Mansion where Dr. Strange tries to figure out what has happened. The other Avengers look on concerned. Strange asks for everyone to leave, but he is ignored. Mockingbird thinks they should get Captain America and Iron Man over, while Iron Fist wishes for them to carry out their own investigation into what happened to Jennifer Kale. Daredevil states that he will stay and use his heightened senses to try and find something. As they banter back and forth, Dr. Strange turns and yells, “Everybody out!” Stunned, the Avengers don’t need telling a third time and they leave Dr. Strange with Victoria.
Once he has a little peace and quiet, he stands and uses Carelli’s Forced Mortal Extraction from the Book of Fire and takes both himself and Victoria onto the Astral Plane. She is shocked and disoriented as she looks around at her unusual surroundings. Despite her panic, Dr. Strange assures her that her physical body is safe in Avengers Mansion but this is the only place he could think of where they could have this conversation. She asks if he’s literally saying she is out of her body. She then throws up (which helps) and asks what’s going on.
Dr. Strange replies that he believes that she was recently mystically abducted. Victoria holds her head and tries to remember what might have happened. She explains that she was home, then all of a sudden she was she was on the lawn at Avengers Mansion surrounded by everyone. She asks if she passed out and Dr. Strange confirms that she did. She can’t believe that she’s been on the planet thirty years and never passed out. He asks what her last memory was before she ended up at the mansion. Victoria pauses and asks why they are in this crazy place. Strange informs her that it’s because they can’t trust anyone. Not even the Avengers. He explains that if a predatory sorcerer or spirit used her body to commit crimes against other sorcerers in his dimension and then brought her to their doorstep, he has to presume that they have already infiltrated the team. They cannot trust that anyone is who they say they are. She asks who could be doing this.
(back on the physical plane)The Avengers are standing around chatting. Iron Fist doesn’t understand why they can’t go investigate the Jennifer Kale incident, but Luke asks him to sit tight. Ben agrees. This is Dr. Strange territory. Maria Hill says that she’ll give Strange ten minutes and then she’s calling in S.H.I.E.L.D. command. Ben asks her to sit tight also and let the doctor do his thing.
Suddenly, Daredevil turns his head and states that something is wrong. Bobbi doesn’t like it when he says things like that. He says that something is off. His senses create a radar and it feels like there’s something there that doesn’t belong.
Before he can continue, Jessica walks in and asks what’s going on. Ms. Marvel, now under the possession of the unseesn mystic, asks her to get herself and the baby out of there as soon as possible. They then hear a voice coming from a loudspeaker outside. Avengers! This is your last warning!” They look outside to see agent Colt and a dozen police vehicles blocking the entrance gate. He introduces himself and insists that Maria Hill open the door. Maria can’t believe this. She outranks those FBI goons and told them to go home! Ms. Marvel tells her that she can deal with this, but Maria says she’ll do it. Carol reminds her that she has military experience. She knows how to talk to these guys. Maria holds her arms out and tells everyone that she is acting Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. She doesn’t want to sound all like ‘I’m up here and you are down there,’ but…
Carol warns her that she’s about to have an aneurysm and takes over. She stands in the door and greets Agent Colt by asking if there’s anything she can help him with. She stares at him and tells him that she believes Ms. Hill told him that everything was under control. The mystic’s power then transfers to Agent Colt and he finds himself unable to control himself.
(meanwhile, on the Astral Plane)Dr. Strange peppers Victoria Hand with questions about what she was doing prior to being taken over. She remembers being online and he asks what websites she was using. She asks why that would matter but answers that she was checking her dating site profile. “So no one came into your apartment?” he asks. He explains that he’s trying to determine whether she was attacked on the physical plane or not. He asks if she remembers talking to Jennifer Kale. Victoria says she’s no idea who she is. Strange informs her that she’s a very powerful sorcerer. He’s pretty sure she was to be the next sorcerer supreme if she wanted it. Victoria replies that she doesn’t know who she is. Strange tells her that it’s how Jennifer wanted it. That makes her disappearance all the more unnerving.
(Avengers Mansion)Carol suddenly feels strange and asks what happened. Agent Colt, now under the mystic’s control, reaches for his pistol and tells her that she is under arrest.
(the Astral Plane)Victoria doesn’t understand. What magician or spirit person thing would want anything to do with her? Dr. Strange assures her that it isn’t about her. He doesn’t wish to sound egocentric, but he’s sorry to say that this is about him.
(Avengers Mansion)Agent Colt aims his pistol at Captain Marvel and several other Avengers who emerge to see what’s going on. Carol tells him to get the gun out of her face and Danny asks if everyone is going crazy.
(the Astral Plane)Victoria is confused, telling Strange that they barely know each other. He replies that that might be the beauty of it. It’s a plan he isn’t prepared for. Victoria asks how, in that case, they stop them?
(Avengers Mansion)Agent Colt states that Captain Marvel just confessed to the murder of Jennifer Kale. “What?!” exclaims Luke. Maria Hill demands that he lower his weapon. Colt then turns the pistol and aims it at his temple. “Oh, no,” he cries. “What… what are you doing to me?” Maria again orders him to put the weapon down and Luke warns him that if he doesn’t he’ll shove it where the sun don’t shine.
(the Astral Plane)Dr. Strange informs Victoria Hand that, when somebody this powerful decides to plan your destruction, by the time you figure out who it is and what is happening to you, it’s too late.
(Avengers Mansion)Agent Colt says that the Avengers are controlling him and making him do this. He closes his eyes and then squeezes the trigger, killing himself instantly. The Avengers are shocked, but Colt’s agents aim their weapons at the team and call the situation in to command.
(the Astral Plane)Victoria asks Dr. Strange if he knows who could be doing this. He replies that he has a very good idea. “If he’d just show himself I’m sure I could find a way to…” He is interrupted by a voice that asks what the American phrase is about being careful what you wish for.
(Avengers Mansion)Luke Cage, trying to ameliorate the situation, asks everyone to put their guns down before they hurt themselves. Maria Hill takes charge and sates that Avengers Mansion is now a live crime scene. She needs everyone to step away from each other and step away from the body.
(the Astral Plane)“You don’t always get what you want,” replies Dr. Strange to the stranger’s question. He adds that he was just really hoping it wasn’t him. Now, sitting there in full view is Daniel Drumm, Brother Voodoo, the brother of Jericho Drumm. “Shame on you,” curses Dr. Strange.
(Avengers Mansion)Maria Hill contacts S.H.I.E.L.D. command by radio and explains that she has a “level five” at Avengers Mansion. She needs the entire crime scene cordoned off and a media black-out a.s.a.p. As she walks away with Agent Colt’s soldiers, she warns them not to use their powers or do anything to suggest flight. If they leave the area they will be considered fugitives from justice.
(the Astral Plane)Dr. Strange tells Daniel Drumm that he knows he blames the Avengers for his brother Jericho’s death, but he sacrificed himself for them of his own free will. Drumm asks him not to speak his brother’s name.
(Avengers Mansion)Spider-Man calls after Maria Hill, pointing out that this wasn’t them and she knows it. “We don’t have psychic powers,” adds Iron Fist. Luke reckons he’ll get his baby and get out of there.
(the Astral Plane)Dr. Strange tells Daniel that he will not let this stand. He demands to know where Jennifer Kale is. Daniel orders him to be quiet. He wants him to hear this. He wants him to hear the scream! He reaches out and plunges his hand through Victoria’s body and removes her heart, which he grips in his fingers. Victoria spits blood and collapses. “Let go of her, you monster,” says Dr. Strange as he performs a series of spells.
(Avengers Mansion)Maria Hill informs one of the soldiers that she doesn’t know what powers they have but S.H.I.E.L.D. psi-division will sort this out. She asks the leader to stand down or she promises that he’ll be working at Burger King tomorrow. Meanwhile, on the Astral Plane, Daniel Drumm withstands Dr. Strange’s attack and tells him that he’s not listening. The Avengers hear Victoria’s scream coming from the guest room and rush inside. On the Astral Plane, Drumm grabs Dr. Strange around the neck and tells him that if he could dream he would have dreamt of this moment.
Spider-Man flings open the door and sees Victoria lying on the bed with Dr. Strange gasping from the exertion of coming back to the physical plane. “What did you do?” asks Iron Fist. Daredevil rushes to the bed and holds Victoria. “She’s dead,” he sighs. Maria Hill pulls out her pistol and informs them that this is a crime scene and they need to back out of there, right now! Luke grabs her weapon and crushes it in his fingers. Carol asks Luke to get Jessica and the baby out of there, and Daredevil suggests they use the basement tunnels. Dr. Strange tells everyone to stop. He didn’t do this, he explains. They are under attack! Maria Hill says that no one leaves the house and warns Luke Cage that, if he doesn’t get his hands off her, he’ll be sitting in prison till his kid graduates high school. And she means it.
Dr. Strange uses a teleportation spell to get him out of there and he appears high up in a nearby street. He then begins to fall. At the mansion, Luke, Carol and Jessica leave the rest of the group and prepare to leave only to be confronted by several armed soldiers who order them to put their hands on their heads. Captain Marvel decides enough is enough and apologizes to them, but this is out of their hands. Moments later, the soldiers run for their lives as Carol lights up the place.
Dr. Strange lands and communicates with Wong, whose image appears next to him in an alleyway. Dr. Strange warns him that he is not safe. When Wong asks where he is, Strange replies that he needs to hide himself and hide himself well. He should hide himself even from him. Wong tells him he will come to him, but Strange replies that Wong cannot trust him. He cannot trust anyone. He then teleports to New Orleans and lands there with a thump. Clutching his chest, he hopes he doesn’t have a heart attack.
He enters the home of Daimon Hellstrom and finds him seated in front of a television with his back to him. Strange apologizes for coming to him like this. On the television, a report comes through about Avengers Mansion being a crime scene with at least one death reported. Strange realizes he knows about the problem already. He tells him he would never have come but he is in trouble. They are all in trouble. He would be wrong not to come and warn him. As the reporter asks how many more public relations disasters the Avengers can survive and mentions how with Captain America’s track record they certainly won’t be hearing anything from him, Strange approaches Hellstrom. He finds Hellstrom with his eyes blackened out and his face contorted as if something horrific has happened. He definitely looks dead. Dr. Strange is shocked. Four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents then appear and place him under arrest.


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(New Orleans - recap)Dr. Strange arrives in New Orleans and finds Daimon Hellstrom’s dead body at his apartment. Four S.H.I.E.L.D. agents arrive to arrest him, one of which is Maria Hill, who Dr. Strange knows is supposed to be in New York City.
(Avengers Mansion)Over a dozen FBI trucks and police cars are congregated outside the gates. Agent Sanchez contacts his superiors and informs them that they have a hostile environment. They have attempted to breach the mansion as ordered but were met with hostile resistance. The Avengers are not cooperating. They have an FBI agent down from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and they need backup. They need Captain America.
Down in the tunnels underneath the mansion, Luke and Jessica Cage are running with their baby, backed up by Captain Marvel. Jessica can’t believe this. They were so close to leaving. They had their bags packed and were loading them on to a U-Haul. That is how close they were to not living there anymore. Carol informs them that they’ve come to the end of the old Quinjet tunnels. This will take them right out on the other side of the park. When Jessica asks what she will do, Carol replies that she has to go back and try to calm things down. She’ll call them when and if. Luke says her that there ain’t no way that Dr. Strange killed Victoria Hand. Carol knows that, but this is news to Jessica. “Victoria Hand is dead?” she asks. She knows that Dr. Strange would kill himself before he would do anything like that. There’s no way!
(New Orleans)Maria aims her pistol at Dr. Strange and warns him not to run. He asks her how she even knew to look for him there. “Anonymous tip,” she replies. He believes that it’s a little convenient, doesn’t she think? She asks him to step away from Hellstrom’s body as Agent Quincy asks a colleague to call it in. Strange asks how she got to New Orleans from Avengers Mansion so quickly. She tells him he’s not the only one with a trick up their sleeves. “Is that you, Daniel?” he asks. “Daniel who?” replies Maria. Dr. Strange tells her it’s Daniel Drumm. She has a S.H.I.E.L.D. file on him of some sort. He’s sure they do. He is the brother, or was the brother, of Brother Voodoo. Quincy brings up the file on a holo-display projected from his wrist and informs her that it says he died ten years ago.
Maria tells Dr. Strange that he’s gonna have to do better than that. He asks if she really believes he would murder someone. She tells him that it doesn’t matter what she believes. It matters what she can prove. He informs her that, although he knows this all sounds like a bit much if one is not familiar with the mystic arts, but Daniel Drumm lives on the spirit plane. He’s vowed to exact revenge on him and the Avengers for the death of his brother. Maria says she thought his brother died saving them from some magical hoo-ha last year. Dr. Strange replies that Daniel doesn’t see it that way. “Isn’t that right?” he asks, tying to elicit a response from Daniel, who he believes is right there.
Maria asks if he’s saying that Daniel murdered Victoria Hand. Dr. Strange says he did, right in front of him. Maria tells him that she was there too and all she saw was him. Strange admits that, but she didn’t see him kill anyone. She asks if he thinks that Drumm is hiding in the room right now, because she doesn’t see him. Strange explains that it would seem that Daniel is murdering all the high-level sorcerers so they won’t get in his way as he exacts his revenge on him and his friends. Maria tells him this is all pretty hard to believe. Strange once again tries to reach out to Daniel but he doesn’t respond. Maria tells him that she really wants to believe that he isn’t entirely cuckoo for lucky charms.
Strange turns to one of the agents and asks if it’s him. Maria informs Strange that, without magic hand waving or any kind of struggle, he is going to go with them. Dr. Strange bows his head and replies that this is what he wants.
(Avengers Mansion)Captain Marvel returns and informs the rest that Luke and Jessica are safe. “Great,” replies Spider-Man. “Now what about us?” Ben reckons he can handle this, but Mockingbird steps up and says that she has this. She emerges through the front entrance and informs the assembled law enforcement that her name is Barbara Morse and she is a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent level VI and an Avenger. She explains that things momentarily got out of hand but they are willing to cooperate in any way they can.
Inside, Spidey is wanting a quick exit the same way as Jessica and Luke as he has plenty going on in his personal life. Daredevil asks him to wait. It’s too late for that. If he leaves he will become a suspect. “We’re all suspects,” replies Spidey. Daredevil says they aren’t yet. They are ‘persons of interest.’ Iron Fist agrees with Matt, and Matt adds that there is substantial evidence to suggest that they had nothing to do with Victoria Hand’s murder. Outside, Mockingbird asks if they can get Captain America there and figure out what the proper protocol is. “Funny you should say that,” says Maria. “Already called him.”
(New Orleans)Dr. Strange tells Daniel that he will not possess anyone without their permission. Maria asks why he thinks she is Daniel. He tells her that it’s because he can possess her. “Not me,” she replies. “Even you,” says Strange. Maria then notices that one of her agents has moved his gun and aimed it at her. Before Dr. Strange can complete a protective spell, the agent shoots Maria in the head, killing her instantly. Dr. Strange uses the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak to grab hold of all the agents and orders Daniel to release the man he’s possessed. “What are you going to do about it Strange,” he replies. “Daniel…” says Strange. The guy replies that his name is Gary. He’s no idea what’s going on.
(over in New York)“Damn it,” sighs Maria Hill. She then contacts Dr. Strange and informs him that she is still at Avengers Mansion. What he’s looking at is a Life Model Decoy with a bullet in its head. She asks if he’s familiar with the technology. Strange is still quite shocked at seeing her body fall to the ground, even though he now knows it’s not real. Maria admits that, although she didn’t know what was going on, she knew there was something screwy in magic town. She was controlling the LMD from the mansion. She needs him to release the other agents and come in. She believes what he’s been saying now. He needs to come in so they can work this out.
Mockingbird asks Maria what’s happening now. She ignores her as she’s still in contact through her LMD with Dr. Strange. The doctor tells her that because of what she’s just seen is exactly why he can’t come to her. Daniel is everywhere. He can be anywhere he wants. Maria informs him that Captain America and the team are on their way, but Strange warns her that it’s the absolute worst thing that could happen. As he speaks, Maria looks up to see Cap and the Avengers descend towards them. “Oh, no,” she sighs. Captain America asks what the hell is going on.
Inside the mansion, Daredevil is still speaking with Spider-Man, assuring him that, if he runs away, it will change the way they look at him during the course of a very serious murder investigation. Spidey remarks that it’s good news then that they don’t really know who he is. Daredevil points out that Captain America does, but Spidey reckons that’s between he and Cap. Ben Grimm then tells them that he has an idea. Why don’t they take this conversation outside? He grabs the two heroes and charges outside with them. Carol has no idea what is happening.
Seeing the two heroes fly past her, Maria tells Cap to forget everything she said and to get his team out of there. The team thinks that the Thing has gone crazy and when they smash him down and grab him, Daniel releases his possession leaving Ben wondering what’s going on. It transfers to Captain Marvel again and she smashes a wall into smithereens. Cap wants to know what’s going on. Daredevil tells him that there’s something wrong. There’s an aura. Maria informs them that they have a rogue violent spirit on the loose. Before Daniel releases control over Carol, he uses her power to blast the Avengers. Daniel then takes over Ben again and he and Red Hulk trade blows before the Vision intervenes. He phases his arm through Ben’s chest and warns him that, if he chooses, he can solidify his arm until his heart stops. He should stop this madness and explain himself.
Cap realizes what’s going on but, as he does so, he is taken under Daniel’s control. He smashes Maria with his shield before being jumped on by Mockingbird, Spider-Man and Iron Fist. It doesn’t really help as Daniel switches rapidly between Cap, Spider-Woman and Red Hulk with ease, causing mayhem with each switch.
(The London Hotel, 54th Street)Squirrel Girl greets Luke and Jessica as they head to the hotel to check in. She can’t believe what’s happened. She goes to class for one hour… Jessica assures her that it’s fine and not her fault. She’s still the best nanny on the planet. She explains that they’ve decided to hole up there until they know what’s what. The receptionist greets them and Luke tells him he made a reservation under the name Carl Lucas. He replies that he looks very familiar and asks if he’s a basketball player. He asks if they can just have the room. On television, they are showing live footage of the bedlam at the mansion. The reporter says that it seems the Avengers have turned on each other. There are already rumors circulating of another super hero Civil War!
Jessica looks at Luke and gives him a hug. “Go,” she says. Luke tells her that he made his choice, but she tells him to go help their friends and then come back, preferably in one piece. He looks at his wife and then at his daughter. He then looks at the screen and sees the Red Hulk attacking someone with a tree. Luke turns and heads back to the mansion; a man on a mission.
(Avengers Mansion)Thor has been possessed and he smashes Captain America’s shield, taking the Vision and a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent with it. “You can’t stop me,” cries Daniel. He tells them they don’t even know which one of them he is. If they hurt someone, they are just hurting their brother. Iron Man knows that he has a point. Cap asks what he wants exactly. He transfers to the Thing and says that this, what they are doing, is fine. Dr. Strange realizes that this is going nowhere and he shouts for everyone to stop. He then levitates above everyone so he can be seen and tells Daniel that, if he wants to ruin him and take everything he has, then he should just do it. “I challenge you, Daniel,” he states. In front of the Avengers and in front of the world, sorcerer to sorcerer, he challenges him to the death!”


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Daniel Drumm is using the Avengers to fight each other by taking possession of each of them in quick succession. Dr. Strange levitates nearby and tells Daniel to accept his challenge and unhand the Avengers. This is between the two of them. Captain America calls for Strange to get out of there. Daniel speaks through each of the Avengers, one by one. He tells Dr. Strange that this is between everything Strange can do and everything he can do. He asks if Strange even understands what it means to challenge him. He controls his friends, his world. Anyone around him is a weapon for him to punish him with. If they try and run away he can stop them with the speed of thought. This is what he does. If Strange fights him… he fights someone he loves. He adds that he waited until the time was right, for the moment he was sure that Strange wasn’t ready for it. He made sure no other sorcerers could stand in his way.
He asks if Strange thinks if by coming here and confronting him puts a stop to this. Because of Strange, his brother is dead and he offers him a sorcerer’s challenge? With all the Avengers lined up before Dr. Strange, Daniel says, “Challenge accepted.” Strange readies himself and brings forth the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak. “By the Vishanti,” he sighs. “I wish I knew a spell that would shut your mouth.” He envelops the Avengers within the bands and asks Daniel to listen to him. He explains that he did not kill his brother. He had nothing but respect for him and Daniel. Speaking through Thor, Daniel replies “No! You killed him. You set him up to fail.” Daniel uses Thor to create a lightning strike which hits the ground next to the Avengers, splitting them apart. Strange’s spell disappears and Daniel uses the Red Hulk to intimidate Strange.
As Dr. Strange lies on the ground, Daniel tells him that Strange made Jericho the sorcerer supreme in order to see him fail, thereby making it look like he’s the master sorcerer. He let him die. He adds that Strange tries not to hurt his friends whilst he doesn’t care what happens to them, whether they live or die. He has the Red Hulk charge at him and orders him to get up. Strange is then forced to go on the offensive against the Avengers without hurting them, but stopping them from being able to participate in Daniel’s nefarious plot. He assaults the Red Hulk mentally, forcing him to drop him. When Spider-Man swings by, he uses his magic to manipulate a tree’s branches to grab him tightly.
When facing down Ben Grimm he looks into his eyes and makes him see the truth about what’s going on. Ben stands down and Dr. Strange moves on to Captain America. Cap batters him with his shield but Strange exhales something out of his mouth which almost puts Cap to sleep. With Thor he appears to create a visual image of something that Thor fears to slow him down whilst Captain Marvel actually manages to get through with a solid punch after blasting him.
Battered, Strange then sees Thor and the Thing standing above him, once more under Daniel’s control. Daniel taunts him, thanking him for going out of his way to make this moment almost worth everything his family has been put through. Strange replies that this will not bring his brother back. Daniel tells him he’s tried bringing his brother back from the nether realms but couldn’t find him. He asks Strange if he knows what he had to do just to get to this moment. He had to battle his way through the darkest dimensions just to make it back here. “Do you think this came to me lightly?” he asks. Does he think him some mindless criminal? He is there to end him.
Meanwhile, Daimon Hellstrom speaks with someone in the dimension of light. He asks him if he can get this straight. He’s not going to help Dr. Strange? Doesn’t he realize that when the crazier of the Brothers Voodoo kills Strange and the rest of these Avengers and once he gets a taste for blood, all hell is going to break loose in their dimension. Isn’t he going to lift a finger to stop this? He then pauses and wonders if this is all a test. “Everything is,” replies his companion.
Back on the ground, the Vision tells Daniel Drumm to unhand the doctor. Captain Marvel sees him and tells him to run, but the Vision says no. This will stop. He orders Daniel to unhand the Avengers and retreat. Daniel leaves the Red Hulk’s body and asks if that’s all he has. The Vision informs him that he is an artificial organism and cannot be possessed. He has no soul and therefore Daniel has no power over him. Drumm possesses Captain Marvel and has her pick up Iron Man by his legs. “Fine,” he replies. “The old-fashioned way then.” The Vision quickly turns and punches Iron Man, ordering Daniel Drumm to go back where he came from and hope that the Avengers never find it. Daniel possesses Ben Grimm and has him grab Daredevil by the head. The Vision tells him that he doesn’t want to do that, but Daniel replies that he doesn’t want anything that has happened in his life. Daniel then takes control of Thor and has him smash Captain America with the back of his fist which draws blood. Ben comes to and is confused about the whole thing.
Dr. Strange then informs Daniel that he’s figured it out. As he controls Ben again who tries to smash the Vision only for his hand to go straight through his phased body, Daniel asks, “Figured out what?”
At that moment, Luke Cage arrives and punches Dr. Strange, believing he is the one possessed. He then punches Ben, telling him that he’s punching a guy in the face who he genuinely likes… and he doesn’t like a lot of people. Daredevil calls for Luke to run as the Vision grabs Thor and hurls him as far from the scene as possible. He figures they may be better off with the big guns off the table. Luke, already now possessed by Daniel, then punches the Vision. He tells him it was a nice try but assures him that space means nothing to him.
He stands and looks around in search of Dr. Strange, telling him that he’s gone to a lot of trouble bringing all the players together. He can’t leave now. He then notices him lying on the floor and asks him what he’s done. He doesn’t have the power!
In the dimension of light, Hellstrom watches events and smiles. “Oh yeah. He’s got it.”
Luke grabs Dr. Strange and Daniel asks what he’s done. Strange looks up and replies that he just had to stop by a friend’s house and look something up. He then circles Luke in the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak and Daniel realizes that for some reason he cannot leave Luke’s body. The Vision asks Strange if he should grab him, but the doctor tells him he has this.
Creating a pentagram beneath Luke’s body, Dr. Strange explains that at first he thought Daniel murdered the other sorcerers because they might warn him about him before he was ready to surprise him. Using several spells one after the other and in conjunction with each other, Dr. Strange adds that he thought Daniel had done it because he wanted to pin their murders on him, which he almost did. But then it occurred to him that he got rid of them because they were using dark magics - magics he would never use.
“Badass!” exclaims Daimon Hellstrom watching.
Strange informs Daniel that using the dark arts is something he would never do when he was sorcerer supreme. Except… he is not the sorcerer supreme, and Daniel hurt and killed his friends, used them as puppets and made him mad. “Any last words? he asks.
Using the Zhadana spell of astral form destruction from the Scrolls of Damnation, Strange adds, “Never mind,” before destroying Daniel Drumm’s spirit and forcing him from Luke’s body.
Luke drops to his knees, now himself once more. The rest of the Avengers get to their feet, their bodies and their costumes battered and torn. Captain America asks if everyone is all right. “No,” says Luke, exhausted.
In the dimension of light, Daimon Hellstrom points at his companion and tells him that’s why this plane of existence needs a sorcerer supreme. “We agree,” comes the reply. Daimon asks him, in that case, to do something about it.
Dr. Strange looks around and apologizes to the Avengers for having to be a part of that. Luke tells him he didn’t do this and that he always blames himself for what some asshat does. Strange tells him he knows, but he’s sorry. “You’re still apologizing,” says Hawkeye. Spider-Woman asks if the bad guy is gone now, just to be sure. “For good,” replies Dr. Strange. As Thor congratulates him, a bright light appears in the sky and everyone turns to look toward it. Standing there with his arms folded is the Ancient One and his companion, Daimon Hellstrom. He tells Dr. Strange that it’s good to see him in person again.
Strange informs everyone that it is his teacher, the man who taught him everything he knows. “Not everything,” replies the Ancient One. He believes Strange has learned much since he first came to him. When Strange was his student, he would never have been able to control the dark arts without succumbing to them. He taught himself to vanquish a foe who used his friends as weapons and did it without hurting them. He protects the realm even though it is no longer his duty. He adds that he knows that he relinquished his role as sorcerer supreme because he thought he did not deserve it anymore, yet he continued to act as her to anyone and everyone and asked for nothing in return. Because of this, he bequeaths to him once again the All-Seeing Eye of Agamotto. He pulls out the amulet and the red cape it’s attached to and uses magic to place it on Dr. Strange’s body. “For you are the sorcerer supreme once more.”
The Ancient One then wishes Dr. Strange well and asks him to choose wisely. He knows he will. Daimon Hellstrom asks him to put his stuff back where he found it. He’s not dead. “You’re not?” asks Strange. Hellstrom replies that he’s the Son of Satan. A feeb like Voodoo can’t kill him. As he and the Ancient One fade away, he asks Strange to wait for his next look. “It’s going to…”
Once he’s disappeared, Spidey says he believes he was going to say ‘rock.’ Maria Hill reckons this is going to need an insane amount of paperwork. Strange wouldn’t happen to have a spell for that would he? Strange apologizes, but no. Maria asks her agents to secure the perimeter as Thor returns, telling the Vision that he was truly heroic. Iron Man turns to everyone standing outside the gates and informs everyone that although he hates to be that guy, could everyone who isn’t an Avenger get the hell off their lawn now?
(later)A statue of Victoria Hand is placed in the grounds of Avengers Mansion. “Godspeed Victoria Hand,” says Thor. “I liked her,” adds Daredevil. Even Spidey admits that when Strange got rid of Daniel Drumm she would magically come back to life or something. Strange informs them that sadly, that is not how it works. Luke then arrives with Jessica. Mockingbird tells them they look different. Jessica replies that this is how she actually looks when she’s slept eight hours in a row. Luke asks Tony Stark if he happens to have five dollars on him. “You need $5?” asks Iron Fist. Tony hands it over and Luke grabs it, congratulating him that he just bought back Avengers Mansion.Jessica gives Spider-Man a hug and informs them all that they are going to raise their baby where evil spirits and Nazi robots don’t knock on your front door every half hour. “So you’re leaving New York entirely?” quips Spidey. Luke informs Cap and Thor that if they need him they can call, but they should make sure they really need him. Mockingbird can’t believe that all this is for real. Luke tells them he loves them but they love the baby more. “As it should be,” replies Thor.
Luke says so long but Tony points out that he sold Luke the mansion for one dollar. Luke tells him he turned a profit on the deal. He thought Tony of all people would appreciate that. They depart the mansion and meet up with Squirrel Girl who asks how they took it. “They took it,” replies Luke. Jessica asks Doreen to keep moving before Galactus comes and tries to eat the damn house. Luke turns one last time and recalls some of the things that have happened whilst he’s been an Avenger. He recalls Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers, the Skrull invasion, Cap and Iron Man on opposing sides of the Civil War, Mockingbird’s ‘death’ and the invasion by Sin and her Nazi robots. These memories are mixed with happier times chatting around the dinner table with his fellow Avengers and cuddling up to Jessica.
Doreen wishes to say something and asks them to shut her up if need be. She says it occurs to her that Luke went from being in jail to being an Avenger to being a husband and a father; Jessica too. She’s not exactly what their life was like before all of this, but she gets a sense that it wasn’t something they like to talk about. “Ya think?” replies Jessica. Doreen adds that it seem that both of them should be very proud of themselves. Jessica tells her that it was nice of her to say. It’s about the nicest thing anyone’s said to her since kindergarten. “Do I get a raise?” asks Doreen. Jessica quips that it wasn’t that nice. Doreen asks if she’s still getting paid to be the nanny. Jessica tells her they’ll figure it out.
Jessica asks Luke how exactly they will be making money. He tells her that it’s no problem. Who’s she talking to? He is the co-owner of the most lucrative super hero-for-hire business in the tri-state area. “You’re bringing back Heroes for Hire?” she asks. Luke informs her that he’s not only bringing it back but he has a whole new way to play it. Jessica asks if that’s it. Aren’t they going to discuss it? “We just did,” he replies. He reminds her that he was Heroes for Hire before they even met and he will be… Jessica warns him not to finish that sentence. “Come on. I love you,” he replies. She tells him to shut up. “I do,” he adds. She tells him she knows as they disappear into their new life.


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In a jet, en route to Paris, Billy Kaplan aka Wiccan listens to French news on his cell phone about Parisian men and women being transformed into crystal-headed, zombie-like, staggering creatures, grabbing hold of people on the street. The reporter explains one of them spoke to him a moment ago in the voice of his dead grandmother. The person asks for help. Not understanding any of it, Wiccan sighs. It’s times like these he wishes he’d learned French .
Also in the jet are Wiccan’s fellow New Avengers: Teddy Altman aka Hulkling, Ava Ayala aka White Tiger, team leader Melissa Gold aka Songbird, Victor Alvarez , the current Power Man and Doreen Green aka Squirrel Girl (along with her squirrel sidekick Tippy Toe).
Wiccan worries about their speed. Escape velocity, Songbird who pilots the jet, explains. Orbital flightpath takes them from Avengers Island to Paris or anywhere in the world within twenty minutes.
Is he having one of his days? Hulkling asks his boyfriend. A little, Wiccan admits, and he’s out of practice. Songbird tells him he is with AIM now, Avengers Ideas Mechanics, the New Avengers. He wouldn’t be here, if he couldn’t stand the pace.
He’s still worried when Hulkling asks if he is okay and assures him he has his back.
Seriously, White Tiger considers that a good strategy. They should pair until the team meshes more -- like a buddy system. She and Power Man, Hulkling and Wiccan… her and Tippy Toe! Squirrel Girl announces enthusiastically (referring to her squirrel sidekick). Yes, White Tiger agrees, taken aback.
Songbird calls mission control, their boss Roberto DaCosta aka Sunspot on Avengers Island, to inform him they are five minutes from the dropzone. How are things on his end? Any word from the visitors? They are on their way here now, he replies. A SHIELD inspection in the middle of a mission; deep joy, Songbird sighs. What happens if they don’t like what they see? Then they are at war with SHIELD, Roberto replies calmly. He tells her not to worry. He is disgustingly handsome and – he’s wearing a suit. They’ll love him. He suggests she worry about Paris.
She asks if they have any explanation for the crystal heads. Not yet, he admits. Right now he’s got Max Brashear working on it. He’s got a good head for weird things, like his dad.
He has to go meet the inspectors. He tells her to keep up the good work and orders Pod to meet him outside. She’s needed. After she meets him outside, he calls Max Brashear, head of the theoretical physics division, and asks if there is any news on the crystal heads. He has no idea what the contagion is or how it spreads. Once the field team arrives, they can gather more data.
Roberto suggest putting Toni’s division on it to help but Toni Ho, head of the engineering division, protests. They have enough to do without handling weird crap too. Roberto tells Max to send Toni the relevant data and ask her to have a lookover. He’ll be busy with their guests. If they don’t hear from him, it’s because he’s under arrest.
‘Dum Dum’ Dugan gets out of the helicopter to greet Roberto. Should he be worried? Roberto asks. Just a friendly visit, he is told. He’s moved up in the world. Dugan scans the surroundings and tries to scan Pod. However, her powers don’t allow it.
While Dugan is still taken aback, Roberto asks him why he is really here. He knows SHIELD is keeping an eye on them but— He’s supreme leader of a secret cult of science crazies, Dugan reminds him. They live on an artificial island in international waters with a private army and a fleet of superweapons. He’s damn right they are keeping an eye on him. Lucky for him, they don’t know what to make of him - yet. SHIELD still figure him one of the good guys. Just to make sure, he’s been tasked with infiltrating DaCosta’s group. The plan is one of Dugan’s people joins the team, spies on them and DaCosta doesn’t know a thing about it. Simple and nice.
What part of the plan involves telling him all that? Roberto inquires. The part where he doesn’t treat him like an idiot, Dugan replies. Meet the new guy. With that, Hawkeye steps out of the helicopter and informs Roberto he’s the super-secret traitor on his team. Sorry.
Roberto scrutinizes him then asks if they could get the other Hawkeye. He really wanted the other Hawkeye, he mutters.
Speaking of the other Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, Hulkling figures she would have loved this. Paris at 10,000 feet… Of course he has wings, thanks to his shape-shifting powers. Wiccan doesn’t feel as happy, despite the gravity belts they wear which also make them invisible and inaudible, though not to each other.
They land in Paris amidst a crowd of crystalheads, who unfortunately almost immediately announce – first in French then English – that they can see them (despite their lack of eyes).  Songbird orders the lightbenders off and to move to Plan B.
As in “B” very careful not to hit those totally ordinary peeps too hard, right? Squirrel Girl pipes up. Because they are being mind-controlled. White Tiger warns her they may need to incapacitate them. Squirrel Girl believes they can talk to them. “Hey, awesome new friends!” she greets them. She totally loves the gyro-elongated bipyramid look. It’s her third favorite geometric solid. Secondly, how do they breathe? She thinks science would like to know.
They are the dead, the Crystalheads announce. Life minus. Soon they will be too. Good talk, Squirrel girl replies then mutters she was lying. This was not a good talk and these are not awesome new friends. White Tiger decides she doesn’t understand her at all.
Plan C! Songbird announces, for “Clear a Path.” The team attacks the crystalheads. Power Man tries to use his chi vision to figure out what is wrong with them. He reels from the sight. Those crystals are the souls of the dead!
In another place, a lackey asks his leader, calling him ‘supreme one,’ if he thinks Power Man knows. About the nano-cams? his leader asks. He doubts it. They are smaller than dust motes. They won’t know they are being watched.
But the experiment! the lackey continues. Life minus… The excavation? He’d be surprised, is the reply. If the New Avengers figure it out though, they’ll have to kill them. And he knows he is new here, but he doesn’t like ‘Supreme One.’ Maker is fine.
On Avengers Island, Max Brashear and Toni Ho call Roberto with bad news. Roberto is displeased, as he is just giving their guests the grand tour (in this case the billiard room). Toni explains she did some hacking on European spysats to track the population. Paris is now 90% crystallized and they are moving in formation. When they are not dragging normals to whatever the source of this is, they are forming some kind of pattern, some kind of star-shaped energy lattice.
Dugan listen up when he hears Roberto’s team is in Paris. He swears and explains Director Hill put an enhancile team in the field for recon work. Gene modded, best of the best. So they’ve got help? Roberto asks. They don’t, Dugan replies. They lost contact with the squad ten minutes ago…
In Paris, Songbird demands what those enhanciles can do. If they shoot fire or optic blasts, they are probably ok. If they are supersoldiers… Worse. Far worse, Dugan replies.
Songbird sighs and announces Power Man has a theory. He explains he can see it. Lattices. Pentagrams, nets and grids. A web. They are turning the city into a circuit. A switchboard. A telephone to the dead. They are being invaded by the afterlife.
Listening in to this, the Maker tells his lackey that Power Man’s missed the finer details but he is mostly right. Sitting down on his throne, he decides that, if the New Avenger can’t come around to Life Minus, Life Minus will come around to them. He gives orders to someone named Evald, a strangely enhanced crystalhead, that he has lives for him to end.
‘Rise’ he orders. ‘My Neohedron.’


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Neohedron
WHISPER HQ:The Maker (an alternate Reed Richards gone bad) is busy with some bloody piece of surgery and talks to (or rather at) his patient. He recounts that biocentrism dictates that the laws of physics are a byproduct of consciousness. Expanding one’s mind is expanding reality. That is what WHISPER is all about. A world headquarters for international scientific / philosophical research and experimentation. Studying the nature of reality to build a better one.
He orders the victim to hold still; this is going to sting. When the victim screams in agony a moment later, the Maker chides him for being a baby. He told him; anesthetics interfere with the process.
Anyway. Another theory by the biocentrist movement is that consciousness survives in some form after death. For want of a better term, the soul. Imagine countless of souls released by mortality to emerge within the universe. Like beautiful diamonds gleaming within the landscape of spacetime. The ultimate historical artifact. Waiting to be… excavated.
He may feel a tearing sensation, he informs his patient, only to lift out his brains moments later.
He continues. So he dug one up. Evald Skorpion, a mad scientist, who died unusually. It made him easy to find.
He downloaded him into a new form, a perfect higher-dimensional crystal. A neohedron. A new form of life -- “life minus.” And what is life, if it can’t reproduce? So he grafted Evald on a body created from scorpion and gorilla genes and set him to work. Converting the living. Excavating the dead. Digging deeper.
They are done, by the way. Conversion complete. Welcome to post-humanity and his inner circle. How does he feel? Reborn and at his service, replies his victim, now in a monstrous body. Other post-humans applaud. The Maker thanks them and asks for someone to patch him through to Evald. He thinks it’s time to kill the New Avengers.
In Paris, said New Avengers defend themselves against several monstrous and heavily armed crystal-heads, who used to be SHIELD agents. They fire at the civilians and Songbird orders Wiccan to intercede. Gunsintobirds gunsintobirds he keeps on chanting and succeeds. Songbird asks via comm if Roberto is getting this.
Avengers Island:Roberto DaCosta, who is accompanied by ‘Dum-Dum’ Dugan, Hawkeye and Pod, replies they just entered Mission Control. He asks Dugan if those were the SHIELD enhanciles. They were, he replies, apart from the Scorpion guy. He adds that they don’t need guns. Roberto needs to get his people out now. Why? What kind of enhancements do they have? The worst, Dugan replies grimly. Gamma.
Paris:The enhanciles press buttons on their wrists and hulk out.
Avengers Island:Who thought that was a good idea? Hawkeye wonders. Not him, Dugan replies. They are not Hulk strength – who is – but while those wristbands supply gamma charge they can take anyone. Except Pod, Pod remarks.
Paris:White Tiger grimly points out that Pod isn’t here. She orders Squirrel Girl with her and together they quickly destroy the wristbands.
Power Man, White Tiger’s ex, shouts a warning. Behind them, Evald comes up, rays come from his tail, transforming Squirrel Girl and White Tiger into crystalheads.
Please change back! Wiccan chants, to no avail as his boyfriend points out. They tell mission control that they know how the contagion is spreading. Frustrated, Songbird uses her sonic scream against her former friends who are attacking.
Even the Maker admits there is a certain poetry to that as Songbird’s scream is blocking Neohedron’s conversion ray.
Suddenly, the screen turns off. A dark cloud calls him “man-of-now” and demands why he called it from the dark. Just to see if he could, the Maker shrugs. They are in a new universe. A reborn universe. Universes existed before those. And before those. Better ones maybe. So he’s been excavating. Finding old ghosts. Then using them for triangulation… to find older ghosts. And so on. Older and older. Further and further back. Mapping those previous universes. He laughs. It’s funny, really. He should have expected an old ghost to find him.
The being agrees and introduces itself as Mor-I-Dun of the fifth cosmos, the dark cosmos… space and time of deep magic. This is the eighth. So fresh and bright. So new and possible. He would stay. One of the Maker’s new humans informs him they can’t turn on the lights.
Elsewhere, Hulkling asks how long Songbird can keep up the shield. Does she have to keep screaming? Not constantly, she replies. Though she wants to. She asks Mission control if they got something. Tell her they can fix this.
Roberto stammers. He okay? Dugan asks. Roberto swallows then addresses the whole island. This is the supreme leader speaking and, believe him, he is in supreme leader mood. If they can hear him, they already have the data. He wants advanced ideas. He wants Avengers ideas. He wants his team’s heads back. First person to dazzle him gets a Lexus. He orders Max Brashear and Toni Ho to take the lead and be fabulous.
Max Brashear tells Toni Ho to imagine some dude in a magazine. You paste a sticker over his head. The head’s still there but all you see is the sticker. He thinks this is a higher-dimensional version of that. So the victims are still alive, Toni muses, but their heads are shunted into some kind of… tesseract space. While the crystals animate the bodies. So how do they peel off the stickers? She asks the people from engineering particularly time machine division. A Dr. O’Connor pipes up: Scorpion-Gorilla–Man’s raygun can’t penetrate Songbird’s shield, correct? Because she’s thinking that means there’s a vibrational component. Some kind of higher dimensional frequency. And if these are the souls of the dead – if Power Man’s right… She bets he could find that frequency. That’s what he does right? See ghosts?
It’s Mandy, right? Robert asks. Enjoy the Lexus. He thanks the team. He asks the field team if they got that. They did, Songbird replies and asks Wiccan for a telepathic bridge. Linkminds linkmindslink minds Wiccan chants.
Songbird explains she needs Power Mans Chi-vision to see what he sees and hear what he hears. Chi-hearing, he replies, the secret song in everything. Hear it? Some wrong notes in the mix, Songbird decides. But every frequency has its counter frequency. She drops the shield and orders mission control to record the high fidelity broadcast through Avenger One’s speakers. Play it loud! She orders the others to cover their ears and begins to emit the counter frequency. And soon all inflicted Parisians have been restored to normalcy.
Ten minutes dance party, everyone, Roberto orders on Avengers Island and tells the champagne robot to take charge.
Grinning, Roberto asks Dugan how the SHIELD inspection is going. Dugan admits he was worried for a second there. And Roberto will understand him leaving Hawkeye here, but… good work, son, he admits. Seconded, Hawkeye adds. They want to be the New Avengers… they earned that name today. With a grin, Roberto welcomes him to the team and promises him he hasn’t seen anything yet.
In the Maker’s lair, he muses that, from a scientific standpoint, this was wildly successful. Admittedly, from a calling-up-dangerous-creature-from-before-time standpoint, it was a little too successful. He orders a henchman to recover Neohedron’s clone body. It might still have its uses. The rest they draw a line under.
The henchman nervously wonders where the creature went. Back to its time before the past, right? A safe assumption, the Maker agrees. It did vanish when DaCosta’s people disrupted the Life Minus frequency. Besides, where else would it go?


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The Dark Is Rising
Castle Tarnala, the far edge of the Andromeda Galaxy:Three beings stand there, admiring a warrior’s statue. Is it time? one of the two men asks. Not yet, the young female alien replies. Since Throneworld perished at the Devourer’s hands, the Skrull Empire has slowly disintegrated. Their botched Invasion of Earth only hastened that downfall. Nothing remains now but a cluster of squabbling warlords. And now Hala is dust as well. Now it’s time for the Kree to slide into chaos.
Not immediately, the older man, M’ryn, protests. But soon, the woman announces. Lan-Zarr is right. M’ryn’s own prophecies foretold these days. And when the change comes, when the great star empires must evolve or perish, they’ll need those who are both Kree and Skrull - the hybrids - to lead and protect them. They’ll need the Knights of the Infinite. And they’ll need the best of them – their once and future king!
Lan-Zarr agrees. He’s come of age. The empire already tried to recruit him. M’ryn believes he needs more time. Lan-Zarr retorts he is already a hero on his own world. M’ryn angrily repeats he needs more time and he gives the orders. He tells them to attend to their duties.
Lan-Zarr warns him that this will not wait forever. No, it will not, another voice tells M’ryn when he is alone. It was easy to bear the prophecy when it was far in the future. The creature manifests as Moridun, the ghost wizard from a previous iteration of the cosmos the evil Reed Richard freed. He reminds M’ryn that he never told his Knights the rest of the prophecy - that he would die when the king found his throne. As he kills the magus, he tells him to be happy. His king is coming. And all the dark is coming with him…
Avengers Island:The New Avengers are busy with different things.The new Power Man reveals he hates Wiccan’s codename. What’s wrong with it? Wiccan asks. Power Man asks if he is actually practices Wicca…
In her lab, Dr. Toni Ho tells Pod her diagnostics are in the green but she would like to talk to the woman inside, Aikku Jokinen. We are we, Pod replies helplessly.
Field leader Songbird wants to see leader Roberto da Costa. Is it good news or bad news? Roberto asks. She tells him to see for himself and shows him her finger. On its tip lies a tiny listening device she only found because it resonated with her powers.
He is lapsed Jewish, Wiccan muses. He’s looked into it, done research. He doesn’t mean magical self-help books, Power Man replies. He means on the most basic level: is this his faith? ‘cause he doesn’t know if he gets to wear someone else’s belief system like it’s a cape. Hulkling joins them, proud of the giant sandwich he’s made.
Toni reminds Pod she is two beings. The Pod armor which Earth grew as a self-defense system and Aikku Jokinen, the woman who found it. But they only seem to talk to Pod. She just wants to make sure Aikku is okay in there. User status? They are not ok, Pod admits. Toni asks why. Pod admits they are alone and plays back a recording about Darja Vollun.
Roberto figures they probably shouldn’t tell Hawkeye about this. That moment, Hawkeye enters, announcing he is just here to do some SHIELD spying. Don’t mind him. What a coincidence, Songbird remarks tartly. She just found one of his bugs. Hawkeye doesn’t know what she’s talking about. If it isn’t his bug, she continues, then there is another traitor, one SHIELD doesn’t know about.
Hulkling jokes about duty to food science when they hear the noise from outside.
Pod plays the rest of the memory, how Aikku’s lover left her because she was not human any longer, and they hear the noise.
Hawkeye muses maybe SHIELD didn’t tell him and they hear the noise.
Outside, they see a decloaking spaceship in the sky. How did that thing get past Alpha Flight? Hulkling wonders. If cloaking tech was that good, they’d get invaded every other week. Wiccan explains they are using magic… some low form of reality warping. Power Man agrees. He senses it with his chi vision. Think Doom.
The ship announces they seek Dorrek III, son of Princess Anelle and Mar-vell. His destiny waits.
It’s worse than Doom, Hulkling sighs. It’s the Skrulls. Hawkeye points out it looks more like the Kree and recalls uncomfortably that he flew into a Kree engine once.
Songbird suggests a mix of both and Roberto reminds everyone the last time the Kree and Skrulls fought about Hulkling, they killed his foster mom and nearly caused a new Kree-Skrull war. He calls for Pod. Pod ignores Toni’s concerns and attacks the ship.
The aliens intended to come peacefully but now their comms are taken out, so they decide on a kidnapping. Murr-gnn cast a teleportation spell.
On the ground, the others see Hulkling vanishing. Wiccan tries his reality warping to stop the spell. When he finds he can’t, he modifies it instead, allowing the teleportation spell to take him along.
He so picked the wrong day to call him out on the name, Power Man sighs.
Please tell him space aliens didn’t just kidnap Teddy, Roberto orders. Um, space aliens didn’t kidnap just Teddy, an AIM member offers. Almost the same, he deadpans, but it’s not.
Hawkeye joins Roberto, announcing they need SHIELD or Alpha Flight or-- Roberto tells him to call whomever he wants but AIM takes care of its own. He calls Toni Ho and asks if Avenger Three is ready to fly. Ready when he is, she replies.
Avenger Three is a deep space vessel flying with Brashear warp, faster than light speed (and still not the coolest vessel on the island).
It breaks out of the mountain. Songbird points out Roberto is kind of into the super-villain thing. She has no idea, he replies.
Aboard the alien ship, the aliens warn Teddy (or Dorek VIII as they call him) that he has to get used to the thin air and apologize. If they are wrong about him, they will return him home. He corrects them that his name is Teddy. And what if they are right? Then he is already home, he is told.
Billy tries to manifest a fireball but the magician is stopping him. Lan-Zarr shows Teddy a column of light. If he is worthy, he will find his destiny waiting, but if he proves unworthy, nothing waits for him but searing agony. He continues his speech till Teddy interrupts that he is done. He found the sword. Can they go home now?
The hybrids go to their knees and address him as their liege. What just happened? Teddy asks. Billy tells him not to freak out, but he thinks he is the king of space.


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The Once and Future Space-King
Avengers Island:Hawkeye, Songbird and Squirrel Girl are strapped in Avenger Three (a deep space vessel), about to take off. Space the final frontier, Hawkeye announces. These are the voyages of the starship Avenger Three, boldly going where pretty much all of them have gone before.
Songbird tells him to stop being cool dad. She announces to mission control they are strapped in and ready to go. He’s not “cool dad,” Hawkeye explains, insulted. He listens to the Clash on vinyl! From mission control, Roberto daCosta announces: duly noted, grandpa. They are running final checks.
Aboard the ship, Hawkeye asks how come Sunspot gets to stay behind. Songbird explains Roberto doesn’t do missions. SHIELD may tolerate them, but lots of countries would love to arrest AIM’s Supreme Leader. Space is a country now? Clint scoffs. This is Sunspot they are talking about. He is an asset! Why aren’t they using him? He can fly, is super strong, throws fire.
As Hawkeye enumerates his powers, in mission control Roberto suffers a coughing attack but assures everyone he is fine. Nevertheless, one AIM member worries about his condition.
Aboard the ship, Songbird reminds Clint that Roberto is a mutant. That means the Terrigen Mist is slowly poisoning him, like all other mutants on Earth. Squirrel Girl seems fine, he points out. Doreen interjects she isn’t strictly a mutant, according to her mom and science. Plus, she eats a lot of walnuts for omega -3…
Is she saying Roberto lost his powers? Hawkeye asks. Melissa admits she doesn’t know and asks if he will tell SHIELD. At that moment, the rocket launches.
Meanwhile, in the forbidden asteroids at the edge of the Andromeda galaxy:Lan-Zarr, Knight of the Infinite, tries to explain the situation to Hulkling, how all this began long ago with the first Kree-Skrull war.
Two great generals had emerged, Ryga’a, war-queen of the Skrulls and Soh-Larr the Kree ultra warrior. Those two had been trained from birth to kill each other but, against all reason, when they finally met each other during the ground war for Xaccus, love bloomed on the battlefield. Neither was ever seen again but there were rumors, of their escape and of a child, the first born of a union between Skrull and Kree, named Dorrek after the fabled emperors of the twin star empires. A child, who inherited the ancestral swords of his parents, mystically merged to form the starsword Excelsior. Who gathered other like himself - Kree-Skrull hybrids - exiled for the future they represented. Who formed them into a group of heroes dedicated to uniting the two empires, the Knights of the Infinite.
They land at Castle Tarnala, home of the Knights. Wiccan is astonished and asks how many people live here. Currently seven, he is told. When he is surprised, the Knights’ magic-user Mrg’nn reminds him they are hunted as aberrants by two star empires. Life is short. Lan-Zarr explains that, until recently, they were willing to hide. But with the recent events, the Secret Invasion, the Builders War, the destruction of Hala, they must bring the empires together or they will perish separately.
Where does he fit into this? Hulkling demands. Lan-Zarr points out that he is the first royal hybrid in thousands of years. The empires already tried to recruit or destroy him. He has power as a symbol of unity as their prophesied king. He, who by taking up the Starsword of Dorrek, proves himself of his reincarnation and will bring love to a divided universe.
Teddy doubts he is a reincarnated space king but is informed they were told so by their leader Mr’yn the Magus.
However, they are in for a nasty surprise, for M’ryn has been possessed by something evil and is in the process of killing the other Knights and devouring their souls. Wait their turn, he tells the newcomers. Let’s not and say they did! Hulkling decides and hits him.
Lan-Varr sees one of the victims is still alive and orders Wiccan to help her. He tries to cast a healing spell.
Teddy demands to see who his foe really is and the wizard turns into a tentacled horror – Moridun, dark wizard of the fifth cosmos. He blasts Hulkling and announces he would live again, but life is horror! To live is to commit horror! With these eyes he sees! He saw Hulkling in Maker-Man’s mind. Felt threads of destiny around him. He has tugged on those threads and brought him here. Leaving all friends behind save one… one tasty soul. One of his tentacles touches Wiccan, who is busy with his patient.
Hulkling attacks Moridun. Billy mutters that was like a bee sting in his brain.
One of the Knights tries a proton blast. Too late, Moridun mocks as he swallows it, but they can play pretend.
Elsewhere, the New Avengers’ ship comes out of warp having followed the tracking device Pod left on the Knights’ ship. Hawkeye wonders how powerful she is. I am Pod, she replies predictably.
Songbird steers the ship through the asteroid field and notes the giant space castle. Moments later, Moridun explodes from it. Oh good, there’s a giant space Cthulhu in the space castle, she sighs. Deep deep joy!
In the castle:Teddy holds Billy who is dizzy.
Outside:Another day at the office, Hawkeye tells himself. Space Cthulhu has five eyes. He has five TNT arrows. He nocks them and shoots. Moridun screams threatening he has fire as well.
Songbird erects a shield but feels something is wrong.
Billy and Teddy are outside the shield. Moridun attacks with a blast. Teddy means to knock it aside with his magic sword, but instead it swallows the fire ball.
The Avengers distract Moridun, while Teddy attacks him with his sword. He’s been dead a long time, he tells Moridun, It’s time to lie down! Moridun screams and implodes.
Later, the dead Knights are laid to rest. Teddy apologizes to Lan-Zarr. He wants to stay… Lan-Zarr understands. He has a duty to his friends. He promises that, when the time is right, the Knights of the Infinite will fight by Hulkling’s side.
He doesn’t know if he even wants to be king, Teddy mutters. That’s why he will be a great one, Billy assures him. Lan-Zarr agrees and tells him to keep the sword always near. Teddy is puzzled though. He only got the sword because Moridun sent the Knights out to find him. Why would he bring Teddy to the one weapon that could hurt him? The Knights figure he had to have some reason, like absorb its power. He didn’t just do it for a firework show.
Teddy still feels he is missing something obvious, recalling what Moridun said: Life eats and claws. Lays eggs. Infects. If it provides us distraction we’ll play pretend. Billy agrees. Like an itch at the edge of your brain, right? He’s getting that.
Power Man takes this moment to apologize for being harsh to him before they were kidnapped. However, Billy agrees that he should probably think about a new name. At least until he’s studied more. He’s not going back to Asgardian? Teddy fears. Billy laughs. How about something he will be in the future? How about Demiurge? Yes, he likes that. And in his eye, undetected, Moridun’s symbol shines.