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1st Story: Even an Octopus Needs Arms!  -     2nd Story: Greed
1st story:
A waterfront warehouse in Los Angeles, where Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye hides on a beam connected to the ceiling, and looks down at an illegal arms deal taking place. He is impressed that the anonymous tip to Avengers Headquarters was real, and realizes that there is a lot of high-tech equipment here. Various mobsters, gang members and criminals are gathered below, and watch as one weapon's abilities are demonstrated.
Hawkeye raises his bow and decides that he could end these shenanigans fast and easy with a few gas arrows. He pulls the arrows back, ready to fire them, knowing that in a couple of seconds all the baddies will be sound asleep and he can call the cops for clean-up. 'I got this baby made in the -' Clint thinks to himself, when suddenly, someone appears behind him, wraps their arm around his neck and whispers 'Hiya, Hawkeye. Long time no see!'
Hawkeye glances back, and is surprised to see the Sandman. 'Sssh! In the flesh – so to speak. Glad ya got my tip. Now pipe down and I'll let ya know the score' the Sandman whispers as he releases Hawkeye, who removes the gas arrows from his bow. 'You're the guy who sent that message to Avengers Compound?' Hawkeye asks.
Sandman confirms that he did, adding that he isn't sure what the other Avengers think of him considering that he used to be on the other side of the law, so he figured he would call Hawkeye on the sly. Sandman explains that he was sent here by Silver Sable to bust up this little meeting, and he thought he would need some help, so that's why he rang. He adds that he knows that Hawkeye is secretly one of Sable's operatives, too. 'No way, chum! I'm an Avenger only! I don't work for Sable! We've done each other some favors – but that's all!' Hawkeye retorts. 'Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say' Sandman mutters. They turn their attention back down into the warehouse, and Hawkeye asks what is doing on down there. They watch one of the criminals demonstrate a weapon and Sandman points out that it looks like some kinda paste gun, like the kind his old buddy the Trapster used to use when they were in the Frightful Four. 'Those were the days' the Sandman remarks.
As a large hand is blasted upwards into the warehouse to demonstrate the weapon's capabilities, Sandman explains to Hawkeye that he didn't want him stopping this deal yet because a couple of big shots are supposed to show up – and they are who Sable really wants. 'I hope the floor show starts soon. I'm getting itchy' Hawkeye mutters, while, down below, a masked operative called Agent Five contacts Madam Menace and informs her that the time has come. 'Okay, boys. Send the signal out the window' another criminal remarks, adding that it is time for the big boss to show. A beam of light is shone out a window, alerting the occupants of a helicopter that hovers over the dock, where a large ship is moored. 'There it is, boss! I'll set down near the pier and you can take care'a business!' someone inside the chopper exclaims.
Moments later, two men in wide-brimmed hats and trenchcoats approach the warehouse, 'We checked this joint out from top to bottom, Chief. It's cleaner than a hound's tooth!' the taller of the two men exclaims, adding 'And man, wait'll ya see the gizmos they got for sale. Right outta Star Wars, this stuff!' the shorter man calls the tall man Wilts and tells him that he is thoroughly familiar with the high-tech merchandise. Entering the warehouse, they are greeted by a woman with shoulder-length hair and wearing a blue costume, who the short man calls Madame Menace. He holds up his briefcase and reports that he has the requisite funds for their transaction. 'Excellent' Madame Menace responds, before instructing her men to begin loading the armaments on the freighter.
'Looks like the gang's all here. When do we make our move?' Hawkeye asks. 'Uhhh, not until the buyer hits the road, 'cause Sable only wants the broad!' Sandman replies. Hawkeye looks unimpressed. 'You gotta be kidding me! Let one of them go with the weapons? Why?' he asks. Sandman shrugs his shoulders and tells Hawkeye that is what Sable said. He adds that is who she is paying him to nab – only the seller. 'Well, she's not paying me! I'm taking them both to the pokey, pal!' Hawkeye declares as he begins firing arrows down into the crowd of criminals below. 'Aww, now ya did it!' Sandman mutters as the criminals turn their attention to the railing and open fire, several bullets strike the Sandman, while Hawkeye drops down. Sandman grins as he shifts his form, leaping forward, his hands now large blocks, he declares that he was hoping to do this the easy way, 'But if yez wanna play – welcome to the sandbox!' he shouts, as his large block hands slam into the warehouse floor, knocking several operatives over with ease.
The shorter man in the trenchcoat thinks that the Sandman, an old enemy of the meddlesome Spider-Man has enlisted on the side of the law, threatening his enterprise, but it doesn't matter for him – 'Doctor Octopus will not be denied!' he booms, dropping his disguise as his robotic tentacles flail about the warehouse. Hawkeye drops down to the floor, knocking a gang member back, 'Swell, Doc Ock's the guy buying the weaons! The Avengers files have him listed as one of Spider-Man's most dangerous enemies!' Hawkeye thinks to himself, adding that Doc Ock has been known to have his mechanical claws in all sorts of criminal pies, so it is no wonder he is involved in this caper. Hawkeye also knows that Doc Ock is a criminal mastermind equipped with a set of artificial arms that can snap a steel girder like a twig. 'Nice moves, Doc – but I've got lots more arrows than you've got arms – so sooner or later – boom!' Hawkeye calls out to Doctor Octopus who grabs one of Hawkeye's arrows when he fires it towards him. As a tentacle lashes out towards Hawkeye, the Avenger realizes that Doc Ock must control them mentally, as their speed is unreal.
Nearby, Sandman finds himself under attack by a sonic disruptor. 'Even sand particles can be vibrated into atoms! More!' Madame Menace orders her henchmen, as Sandman struggles to break free from the sonic disruptor, until, suddenly, he shouts 'Lady, I may sound dumb, but I took a couple'a science courses in my day – and there ain't no way yer popguns can vibrate much'a anything on me I can't put back together, capeesh!' as he shifts his form into a wave, and drops down on the henchmen with the sonic disruptor, putting an end to their attack. He then forms a large hammer with his arm and uses it to destroy the weapon. 'Hey, Sandbag – how's about throwing some pailfulls of yourself my way – I could use the help, pal!' Hawkeye calls out, when suddenly, he leaps for safety as two of Doctor Octopus' tentacles slam down towards him. 'I toldja I'm just here for the broad! Yer gonna haveta fend fer yerself against Ockiepus!' Sandman responds.
Suddenly, a piercing sound fills the warehouse, as Madame Menace holds up a tuning fork weapon, causing Sandman to keel backwards and clutch his ears. Menace wonders if perhaps he learned in his “science classes” how tuning forks can produce vibrations of such pitch that the human ear is simply shattered after a time. 'If not, here is a little demonstration!' she exclaims. Hawkeye quickly turns off his special hearing aids, the noise is intense, but he puts up with it long enough to grab some arrows, and fires them at the tuning fork weapons that Madame Menace and two of her thugs are using. 'What? How could he have survived the sound?' Menace asks. 'Clean living does it every time, lady! That and a few centuries of charm school might do you some good, too!' Hawkeye jokes, while Sandman is covering his ears, most of his body reduced to a pile of sand on the floor. Hawkeye tells Sandman that a little teamwork is good for the soul, when Doctor Octopus suddenly grabs Hawkeye with his tentalces. 'Sandman, how about returning the favor before I get used for a wishbone!' Hawkeye calls out.
'There is nothing he can do to aid you, archer!' Doctor Octopus exclaims as he raises Hawkeye high up into the air. Sandman then lifts some sort of tank-like vehicle and tells Doctor Octopus that he is talking outta line there, as there is plenty he can do.
'Boss – lookit that!' Wilts exclaims to Doctor Octopus, before Sandman tells him that he has lotsa arms, so they should play catch, and he hurls the tank towards Doctor Octopus, who uses his tentacles to lift himself up into the air to avoid being crushed by the tank, but in the process is forced to release Hawkeye. 'The fool!' Doctor Octopus exclaims. Madame Menace tells Doctor Octopus that this operation has become untenable and that they must conclude their business at a more opportune time and locale. Doctor Octopus agrees and informs Madame Menace that he will contact her. Menace looks over as Sandman leaps towards her, so she activates her jetpack which levitates her to safety. 'Git yer tush back  here, bimbo! I didn't come this far ta lose ya!' Sandman exclaims, while Menace presses a remote control device that aids in her escape, activating the large robotic hand that was being demonstrated earlier.
'Awww, nuts! What kinda rinky-dink piece'a junk am I gonna have ta squash now?' Sandman mutters as he sees the large hand blasting towards him, he boasts that will not stop him for more than two seconds. 'True, but those are all-important seconds allowing my departure!' Menace declares, and Sandman knows that she is right as the hand blasts through him, dispersing his form and reducing him to a pile of sand. At that moment, the helicopter flies above the dock and Doctor Octopus raises himself up towards the chopper using his tentacles, while holding his briefcase, he is pleased that he retrieved his money from this fiasco. Hawkeye sees Doctor Octopus making his getaway, and leaps onto one of the tentacles, 'Not so fast, Doctor!' Hawkeye calls out, while the villain feels something grab him from below – he then uses another tentacle to smack Hawkeye in the back, causing Hawkeye to fall from the other tentacle.
'And that that takes care'a one flying hand!' Sandman thinks to himself as he reforms his body, then notices Hawkeye above, falling towards him. 'Go limp, buddy! I gotcha!' Sandman calls out, forming a large pile of sand, which Hawkeye falls into. 'Thanks, big guy! It'll take a week to get the sand outta my boots... but better that than the planks outta my head!' Hawkeye jokes. Sandman lowers Hawkeye onto the pier and tells him to can the jokes. He points out that they blew this mission and wound up with nothing. 'It's all yer fault, Bow Brain! So you can explain this mess ta Sable!' Sandman declares. 'My fault? Why, you walking excuse for a beach! I oughtta lay you out! Rescue or no rescue!' Hawkeye retorts, while declaring, for the last time, that he does not work for Sable. 'Oh yeah...how dumb do I look?' Sandman asks 'You really wanna know?' Hawkeye replies. 'Shaddup!' Sandman exclaims.
'You work fer her, and yer telling her!' Sandman declares, to which Hawkeye tells Sandman that the only thing he would tell her is to hire guys who didn't flunk grammar school. 'Now read my lips...  I don't work for her!' Hawkeye exclaims. 'I'm losing my patience! Ya do too!' Sandman retorts. 'Do not!' Hawkeye shouts. 'Do too!' Sandman tells him, which carries on for some time....

2nd story:
He cleaves through the deep blue waters of the Southern Atlantic faster than any fish that ever lived. He is on a mission of vengeance. Indeed his name means “Avenging Son”. He is Namor, a hybrid between air-breathing Homo Sapiens and water-breathing Homo Mermanus. He is the former prince of subsea Atlantis, the one true Sub-Mariner – and he does not look happy! Namor bursts up through the surface of the water and thinks that it is maddening – his quest for the brood of his dear departed wife, Marrina, is going badly. Namor knows that the sea covers three-fourths of the Earth's surface, and at their speed they could be anywhere by now. He laments the fact that he has yet to find a single clue as to their whereabouts in all these weeks of searching – and to top it off, he is uncertain what these creatures even look like! Namor recalls catching but a fleeting glimpse of them upon their hatching. Namor is reminded of his quest for the Atlantean people years ago, but at least then iut was hundreds of persons he pursued, not a mere half dozen.
Namor begins to fly across the ocean, knowing that he cannot – must not – give up, though he is not their biological father, he feels responsible for his wife's heirs. He knows that if Marrina transformed into a dragon of the sea, then so might her spawn. He hopes that traveling above water might aid him in his search, when suddenly, he hears something, as a woman shouts 'No! We are doomed!' as the small boat that she, an old man and a young boy are in capsizes and they topple into the water. 'And there is no one out here to save us!' the old man exclaims, while Namor flies towards them, knowing that he must act swiftly. He firstly picks the boat, which he calls a “decrepit craft” up out of the ocean and turns it upside down to drain the water from it, then he pulls each of them from the water and places them back in the boat. 'There. You are all safe now' Namor tells them. The old man thanks him, and addresses him as Sub-Mariner – the Scourge of the Sea! Namor replies that he has been called many things, and offers to take them back to shore. The woman tells the Sub-Mariner that their home is straight ahead, and as they arrive on a small island, Namor sets the boat down in front of a tiny shack. 'You mean – this?' Namor asks, thinking to himself that this place is a hovel hammered together from scraps of metal and wood.
The woman tells Namor that this is their home and that they are lucky to have it. She adds that they have no money and their family is gone except for her father and her son, Miguel. The woman explains that they were trying to catch some fish to feed themselves when the ocean rose up against them. She admits that they ventured out too far. 'Were it not for you, Senor Sub-Mariner...' her voice trails off. Namor realizes that absorbed as he is in his own matters, he forgets that there are people like these in the world, people who literally do not know where their next meal is coming from. He reaches for a small bag dangling from his belt and opens it, announcing that he had intended to use the contents of this pouch to pay off his various debts to the surface world. 'But your need of it is greater than mine' Namor points out, as he drops several gold coins into the shocked woman's hand. She hugs Namor and thanks him. 'You saved our lives, Senor...I would be honored if you would take this' Miguel smiles and hands Namor a wooden fish hanging from a rope. Namor puts it around his neck as the boy tells him it belonged to his father. Namor smiles and tells Miguel that he is honored, before bidding them farewell.
Borne aloft by the amazing wings on his ankles, Prince Namor returns to the sea, diving into the water, he thinks that the gold means nothing to him, as all the wealth beneath the sea is his for the taking. Namor is pleased that the gold brought such relief to Miguel and his family – a small measure of satisfaction can be derived from that, at least.
Some time later, Namor notices the great Puerto Rican Trench below him. It is seven miles deep, and Namor thinks that it is truly one of the wonders of the undersea world. He wonders if Marrina's brood settled here, and starts to swim down into the trench. Fifteen minutes later, near the bottom of the trench, 'By Neptune's trident! Decaying wooden crates full of...gold!' Namor thinks to himself, surprised to see that the gold is shaped like pieces of a building. 'How odd' he thinks. Suddenly, a blinding light is shone towards Namor, and a voice calls out 'Attention, intruder! You are in a restricted area!' and Namor sees an odd-looking ship floating above him. 'You are ordered to board this ship immediately!' a voice from within the ship commands. 'Ordered? Ordered?' Namor retorts. 'None order the true Sub-Mariner!' Namor booms as he swims towards the ship and slams his fist into it. 'My first blow but dented your hull, dolts! Do you need a stronger lesson?' Namor asks.
The voice inside the ship warns Namor to cease his attack, as this is a US government vessel. The voice once again orders Namor to come aboard at once. Namor decides that they might be able to explain the gold, and moments later, appears inside the ship. 'I have done as you have asked' Namor announces. A man dressed in black introduces himself as Charles Anderson, a special presidential agent, and asks Namor to explain his presence here. Namor responds by stating that he needs to explain himself to no one, and instructs the special presidential agent to explain the goold bricks to him. 'So you've seen them. Great' Anderson replies, before explaining that this area is off limits and that it is his job to keep folks away. Namor assures him that he has no interest in the gold, he is simply curious. Anderson decides that there is no point in keeping it secret from Namor now, and reveals to him that in the middle of the night a few months back an entire Midtown Manhattan office building suddenly turned to gold.

Anderson continues, explaining that after the building collapsed under its own weight, special government operatives dismantled it and dumped the pieces here before the existence of such a huge quantity of gold became known and destroyed the world's economy. Anderson declares that Namor was an Avenger, and that should mean he should care about the surface world. 'For everybody's sake – goo far away from here, forget what you've seen and don't ever comg back' Anderson suggests, adding that if he does, he will see to it that he and his avenging buddies get more heat than they know what to do with. 'I do not like your threatening tone, human!' Namor responds.
Namor leaves the submarine, which heads towards San Juan to have the damage done to it by Namor repaired, Namor swims off in the other direction, 'Bah! What care I of the surface economy? Orders or no orders, I will not leave this trench until I determine if Marrina's brood is here!' Namor thinks to himself. Suddenly, as he swims towards the trench, he sees something rising from the far corner – and is shocked that it is another submarine, this one stealing the gold, lifting it from the trench in a large net. Namor decides that this is the work of some surface-dwelling miscreant. 'I could intervene – but why? It is no affair of mine' Namor realizes, and starts to swim down into the trench.
Inside the sleek submarine: 'He... he's leaving?' a golden man exclaims, surprised. 'The Sub-Mariner saw me stealing the gold – and he's just leaving?' The man is called Goldbug and decides that is okay with him, as he doesn't mind not tangling with the Sub-Mariner. He adds that with his sub's cloaking devices to keep him from being detected electronically, it would be just his luck to run into a super hero. He watches Namor on a monitor and thinks that ever since he got radiation poisoning from handling radioactive gold, he has needed more and more money to pay for treatments. He smiles, remembering how that corrupt GI who helped dispose of the gold building told him of this stash in exchange for a piece of it, he could scarcely believe it – but here it is, wealth beyond imagining.
Nearby, Namor suddenly comes to a stop, deciding that the gold theft may indeed not concern him directly, but there is the matter of honor. Namor knows that if Anderson is right, that theft will wreak untold havoc in the world above – havoc that will affect his erstwhile allies, the Avengers. Namor looks at the necklace of the wooden fish hanging around his neck, it reminds him of the common man. He knows that if the gold in that pit were brought into the planet's economy, all people would be plunged into poverty, such as he helped Miguel and his family escape. Namor realizes that Anderson has not responded to the intruder yet, so the thieves get blithely away. He profoundly wishes it had not come to this, and knows that although he riskes it all, he has to act – must act – and act now!
Namor swims after the sleek submarine, and severs the net from the submarine, where the gold starts to fall back down into the trench. Namor knows that he must deal with the thief or thieves, and inside, Goldbug is surprised by how quickly the ship begins to rise, and assumes the net must have snapped off – before looking at the monitor and discovering that it has been severed by the Sub-Mariner. Goldbug clenches his fist and thinks that just because he hoped to avoid super meddlers like the Sub-Mariner, doesn't mean he is unprepared for such encounters. Energy beams suddenly blast into the water as Golbug speaks over an intercom and tells Namor that it is very expensive to interfere with his plans – and the fine is death by lasers! Namor dodges the blasts with ease and tells Goldbug that he is no frightened fish or slow-moving submarine, and declares that he moves too quickly for his weapons to touch him. Namor announces that he will board Goldbug's vessel and bring him to justice. 'Not likely, my friend! Because while you're busy ducking the lasers – my titanium grapplers will seize you!' Goldbug boasts as tentacles reach out from the submarine towards Namor, who suddenly feels like he is being torn apart as the tentacles wrap around him – even his great strength cannot pull the tentacles off him.
Namor realizes that he might not need to escape the tentacles, for although they hold him, they also connect him to the submarine, which is bound to nothing but water. Then, using his incredible strength, Namor brings to spin the submarine around and around, the vessel eventually losing its hold of Namor, as inside the submarine, Goldbug is knocked about, surprised that Namor is so much more powerful than Spider-Man, whom he usually fights. Goldbug decides that he has wasted too much time, and the feds could be back any minute – he knows he can't fight them and Namor. So, with the gold not going anywhere, he supposes he will come back for it another day – but today – he has to get away from here. Namor watches the submarine move away, but it moves slowly. Namor supposes he must have damaged it, and knows that it will be child's play for hin to catch and restrain the vessel now – but before he can begin to give chase, a depth charge explodes in front of him 'There must be more fight left in Goldbug than I imagined!' Namor thinks to himself.
But another voice informs Namor that was just a warning, and suggests he surrender. 'Never, villain! Prince Namor will not allow your vile scheme to -' Namor begins, before the voice exclaims 'Fish-man – have you gone totally nuts? Come on board now!' and Namor's vision clears, he sees Anderson's submarine before him, and realizes that it wasn't Goldbug who fired the depth charge. Namor boards the submarine, and after explanations, Anderson exclaims 'Let me get this straight, Avenger. You're telling me that this Goldbug character was trying to steal the gold – and you stopped him?' Anderson asks why they didn't see Goldbug, and Namor assumes that he had electronic cloaking devices to fool their sensors, and since Anderson was away getting repairs, Goldbug was able to avoid detection by the naked eye. 'That's right. We were having repairs done – to equipment you damaged!' Anderson shouts.
Anderson suggests that Namor was in cahoots with Goldbug, but this angers Namor, 'Nothing I say will satisfy you!' Namor declares, and tells Anderson to do what he will, as the only ones who will truly sugger will be he and the rest of the ungrateful surface world. 'But whatever folly you commit – I will not stay around to witness it!' Namor then swims from the submarine, while Anderson rubs his chin and thinks that it is his job to be a hardnose about this, but perhaps they should move the gold some place else!


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1st Story: When you Wish upon a Star!   - 2nd Story: Will You Won't You Will You Won't You -?
1st story:
The Palos Verdes Compound, home of the West Coast Avengers, where Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye, leader of the team is shirtless in the archery range. He readies his bow and fires the arrow towards the target. He never misses – never? The arrow is blown away from the target before it strikes.
'What the? Wind blew my arrow from its mark!' Clint exclaims. He doesn't remember the Good Morning America newsman predicting a hurricane for the Southern California region. 'No hurricane, Bowman – a twister!' a voice calls out, as Hawkeye looks up and sees a man in a mostly blue costume with a white cowboy hat spinning with a funnel of wind. 'A Texas Twister!' the man exclaims, introducing himself.
Texas Twister drops to the ground and Hawkeye goes over to him. They shake hands and Hawkeye remarks that he hasn't seen him since the rest of the Rangers fought the West Coast Avengers under a mystical spell, and asks him what brings him back to the West Coast. Texas Twister explains that he is still looking for Shooting Star. He reminds Hawkeye how Firebird broke that spell the Rangers were under and showed that Star had been replaced by some sort of demon, and explains that he hasn't been able to get much shut eye since that day, just thinking about his Star in the hands of some filthy demons. Twister declares that he swore he would figure out how to get her back – even if he had to march right up to the gates of Hades to do it. Hawkeye thinks to himself that he doesn't remember Twister reacting that way when they uncovered the demon, and that seems strange considering how close he and Shooting Star were. Twister adds that he has been searching all over, trying to figure out how to get her back, and he finally realized he had to see that demon face to face.
Twister asks Hawkeye where that demon is being kept, as he needs to get this over with straight away. Hawkeye frowns and asks Twister why he wants to see the demon after so long, to which Twister replies that he can't rightly say. Hawkeye turns and starts to walk towards one of the buildings, pointing out that Twister looks tired, he supposes he had a hard couple of months, and suggests that maybe it would be best if he got some rest instead of seeing the demon. Clint offers to put Twister up in one of the bungalows. 'Ah said Ah want ta see that demon – NOW!' Twister shouts as he suddenly begins spinning in another funnel of wind, knocking Hawkeye to the ground. 'He's out of control' Clint thinks to himself as he looks up at Twister, who tells Hawkeye that if he doesn't take him to the demon, he will find it on his own – 'And y'all can bet thar won't be more'n a pile of rubble left of this here mansion when Ah'm done blowing through it!' Twister adds.
Clint decides that Twister is completely over the edge, and he can't stop him – he doesn't even have any trick arrows with him, only the razor sharp ones that he uses for target practice – he wouldn't be able to stop Twister without killing him – and Clint would never do that to a friend or an enemy. Twister warns Hawkeye and his “fancy pants West Coast Avengers” that they will not be able to stop him. Clint wishes the rest of the team was around, but he is the only one holding down the fort today, so he will have to deal with Twister himself. Hawkeye gets to his feet and assures Twister that he will take him to see the demon, but he needs to calm down. 'That's more like it' Twister replies as he stops his twister and drops back to the ground. They walk past the swimming pool and Hawkeye tells Twister that he will take him to see the demon, but that he has to promise to get some rest afterwards. Twister tells Hawkeye not to worry, for after he is through with the demon, he will finally be able to rest! Hawkeye finds that comment odd, and wonders what Twister means by that.
Fifteen minutes later, in sub-basement level one, beneath the main building of the mansion, Hawkeye thanks Twister for waiting while he put on the rest of his costume, adding that he feels naked without it. Twister tells Hawkeye that it “ain't nothing” so long as they get to seeing that demon pronto. Hawkeye informs Twister that the demon is up ahead, and that the Avengers have been hold it down here since they captured it. He adds that he doesn't know why they haven't turned it over to Daimon Hellstrom yet, as demons are his speciality, and he could have sent it back to where it came from or something. Twister remarks that he has heard of Hellstrom, and that he is a right good man. Entering another part of the basement, they walk towards a globe-shaped cage, where the green demon, wearing the remains of the Shooting Star costume, growls at them and demands to be released. 'I'll strip the flesh from your puny bones and suck the marrow out!' the demon snarls. 'It's a mean one, ain't it?' Twister remarks, but Hawkeye tells him that the demon is all talk, and explains that this cage was carefully designed by Hank Pym to monitor the demon's every move.
Hawkeye continues, informing Twister that the bars are made of iron, which, they tell him, is the bane all demons – the demon won't even touch them. Hawkeye points out that since Twister has seen old ugly, how about he gets some rest now. 'Ah said Ah had ta see it face ta face – that means Ah'm aiming ta be inside the cage!' Twister exclaims. Hawkeye is surprised, and asks Twister if he wants him to let him inside the cage with that thing. 'I can't allow -' Hawkeye begins, to which Twister interrupts him and declares that he won't be stopped – that he is going in that cage with his help or without it. Hawkeye narrows his eyes and realizes that Twister means it, that he isn't thinking straight. He supposes he will have to let Twister in and control the situation as best as he can from out here. Hawkeye tells Twister that they will do it his way, but that he isn't leaving him alone with that thing for a second. Hawkeye hands Twister a key to the cage and tells him to go in while he has a chat with their smelly friend.
Hawkeye stands close to the bars of the cage and tells the demon that his friend is coming into the cafe. He pulls out his bow and readies an arrow, aiming it into the cage, while informing the demon that he is going to be standing here with this iron tipped arrow, pointed right at his throat. 'It won't kill you, but you'll be hurting'. Hawkeye warns the demon not to think about messing with him, while Twister tells the demon not to fret and that he just has to talk to him for a spell, and then it will be over. “All over?” Hawkeye wonders, remembering that is the second time Twister said that. He wonders if Twister is thinking about killing the demon, and knows that even if it is a demon, he can't let Twister kill it. 'Twister – stop!' Hawkeye calls out, but suddenly, Twister wraps his arms around the demon and declares that he can't stop now – he has to tell the demon how he feels, how he has always felt – then it will be over. 'Let go! What are you doing to me?' the demon asks. 'What Ah'm trying ta say is that – Ah love you!' Twister declares, as he kisses the demon.
Hawkeye is confused, and thinks that Twister is further gone than he thought, that he must be having hallucinations – he thinks the demon is Shooting Star. 'You know that Ah've always loved you. Ah'm sorry for everything Ah've put you through. Forgive me! Love me!' Twister exclaims, while the demon tells him to stop, and asks what is happening. 'What do you – I love you -?' the demon gasps, before it transforms into Shooting Star! 'Star! You're back!' Twister exclaims as Star collapses in his arms. Twister carries Shooting Star out of the cage, and tells Hawkeye that it worked, just like he read in those fancy books – he got his Star back. 'That's great, Twister, but – what the heck's going on here?' Hawkeye exclaims. Twister tells Hawkeye that he has a right to an answer, and reveals that it all started several months ago while he and Star were working the rodeo circuit.
Flashback:
Twister's powers began to fade, and he was feeling mighty low, like if he didn't have his Twister powers, he and Star would have to break up the act, and without the act, he thought he'd lose the only thing he loved – Star. Just when he thought his powers were gone, this demon showed up and told him he can get Twister's powers back – for a price. Twister didn't think to ask what the price was – he would do anything to keep his powers and his Star. The demon kept his word, and Twister's powers returned, and he and Star had the best week of his life – he thought that week with Star was worth anything – then the demon showed up to collect his price – Twister's soul. Twister doesn't know what came over him, but he pleaded with the demon, begged him – told him to take anyone else except for him. 'Whatever you say, fool! I don't need your soul – when I can have your precious girlfriend!' the demon responded, and right then and there he took Star from Twister, merged his being with hers, right before Twister's eyes.
Present:
Twister explains that the demon put some sort of spell on him so he couldn't tell a soul until this spell was broken, and all the while he was with the Rangers knowing that demon was putting Star under its control, and he couldn't say a thing – he would look at Star and knows it was reallt the demon, it just ate his innards up thinking about it. Twister adds that he spent the last few months searching for someone to help him get his Star back, but he couldn't say anything about the real story, so finally, he read a bunch of books on the occult and he realized his best chance ewas to go face to face with the demon and help Star drive it out of her. Twister adds that he knows now his powers never were fading, that it was all a trick by the demon. He looks at Star and tells her that he hopes she can forgive him for being so weak. Star smiles back at Twister, while Hawkeye announces that he has a question, and asks if Twister helped drive the demon from Star, then where did the demon go?
Suddenly: 'Here I am, foolish mortal! This is the body I should have possessed all along! Not that of the weak woman-thing!' Twister suddenly shouts, now green-skinned like the demon, as he reveals that the plan was to use Star's body as a vessel to get close to the Avenger known as Wonder Man, as possessing him would have made him unstoppable by human and demon alike! The demon admits that it was foolish not to have seen the power the mortal Texas Twister can give him, and starts to create a twister within the sub-basement. Hawkeye tells Star that they need to get out of here quick, as they don't stand a chance against him in close quarters. 'You don't have to tell me twice, Hawkwye!' Star replies as she follows Hawkeye into a locker room, where he hands her her costume and guns and suggests to her that she put them on as soon as she can, as he thinks she is going to need them. 'Much obliged' Star replies as they run out of the locker room.
A few minutes later, Hawkeye and Shooting Star, who has changed into her costume, make it outside, when suddenly, 'You can't get away from me so easily!' the possessed Twister declares as he bursts up through the ground, sending rubble into the air. Hawkeye reaches into his quiver for an arrow, remarking that this time he is prepared. 'Let's see how you deal with a face full of tear gas, ugly! No offense, Twister!' Hawkeye calls out as he fires an arrow towards the raging twister – but the force of the winds simply knocks it back towards Hawkeye, who realizes that he will have to try and snare Texas Twister with a net arrow. But as Hawkeye fires the arrow, he realizes Twister is twisting too high a velocity for his arrows to penetrate, and there is only one chance left, and a proverbial longshot at that.
Hawkeye attaches a bola arrowhead to a shaft of a rocket arrowhead, he hopes the combination should carry the arrows straight through the tornado, unleashing the bola around Twister's legs – and as he fires the combination arrow, his plan works, as the bola wraps around the possessed Twister's legs, and he loses control, the winds stop raging and he falls to the ground. 'You don't think these flimsy bonds can restrain me, mortal!' the demon calls out, 'Sure I do!' Hawkeye calls back as he fires more arrows towards Twister, 'Just long enough for me to do this!' Hawkeye adds as several arrows land around Twister's arms and shoulders, pinning him up against a tree. 'You missed, human! Now I'll -' the demon calls out, before becoming weak.
'I see you noticed that each arrow has an iron head! Sorry for the discomfort!' Hawkeye declares. 'Well, not too sorry' he jokes. The demon reveals his true appearance as Hawkeye warns him that unless he does exactly as he is told, the next arrow will go through his heart. 'Nice try, human – but even if I wasn't possessing the body of your friend, you still wouldn't kill me!' the demon replies, freeing itself from the bolas wrapped around its body. 'This weakness will be your death!' the demon exclaims.
Hawkeye realizes that the demon is right – he won't kill him, when suddenly, someone shoots the demon. Shooting Star walks over to the demon, her gun still smoking and announces that Hawkeye might not kill it, but she would rather see her Twister dead than have him suffer the pain that the demon put her through. The demon asks her what she wants him to do, and Hawkeye motions to a statue of a soldier nearby and instructs the demon to leave Twister's body and move into that statue. 'But if I put myself into an inanimate object, I can't release myself!' the demon protests. 'I know! Now do it!' Hawkeye exclaims. The demon does as instructed, and Hawkeye thinks that he he will have to send that statue to Hellstrom – he never liked it, anyway. Twister is back tro normal, and Hawkeye watches as he and Star embrace. Hawkeye frowns and thinks to himself 'First Mockingbird, now Shooting Star – it's amazing how much more ruthless women can be than men sometimes!'

2nd story:
'I guess you couldn't really call me a yuppie anymore?' Pamela Douglas thinks to herself as she sits in a strange room, she sits on a sofa, floating robots bring her an unusual drink, and odd fruits sit in a bowl nearby. She wears a black spandex one-piece, with a green tunic and white belt. A red crystal hangs around her neck, and her hair has started to grow back – while the spirit of Moondragon watches her. Pamela leaves her room and walks among the citizens of Titan. She thinks how wonderful and scary it is – she is no longer living on the island of Manhattan, but on this moon of Saturn! Pamela has learnt that the Eternals of Titan are that – immortal, and strong enough to snap her in two – but everybody treats her with respect. Pamela plays a game of film trivia with the planet-wide computer called Isaac, and has even beat him a couple of times on some old Ronald Colman movies – she couldn't believe it. Pamela also sees a lot of Mentor, who rules this moon, and they play a weird kind of chess – only Pamela doesn't play, Isaac does – the other one – Isaac Christians a.k.a. Gargoyle, whose spirit resides in the crystal that hangs around her neck.
Pamela thinks that Mentor is a sweet old man, who has a lot of pain in his past. She was told that one of his sons went bad, and the other is traipsing around the galaxy running up credit card bills. Pamela decides that Mentor is awesome in some ways, but in other ways, he is just another empty-nester.
Pamela goes to a lab and watches where an embryo is hosted. She knows that everyone is treating her like a pregnant mother, even though the “baby” is floating in a tank and its mind is going to be that of her cousin, Heather, who she currently shares brain-space with. They spend a lot of time talking, or whatever you want to call. 'No, Soho was never like this' Pamela decides.
Later, Pamela is asleep, but wakes when a hand reaches down and strokes her face. 'Up, up, up, sleepy-head!' a man calls out. 'Today's the big day! Decanting!' the man adds. Pamela looks up at him and smiles at Demeityr. She thinks that he ie gorgeous and as playful as a teddy bear, although more a boy than a man, even if he is 700 years old – he doesn't understand that a woman needs her privacy to get dressed. Pam decides that Heather doesn't, either. 'But at least she agrees with me about Demeityr's... qualities' Pam thinks to herself as she watches Demeityr walk out of the bedroom. Pam tells Demeityr that she will join him in a second, and once she is dressed, she walks into the corridor, where Demeityr smiles at her and announces 'You've just gone into labor!'
Pamela and Demeityr enter the lab, where Mentor stands next to the stasis tank where the infant has been grown, hooked up to the computer Isaac. Several tall, slender males stand in green robes, and one of them shouts 'Let there be quiet in the gestation chamber! The mind-mother has entered!' Mentor instructs Pamela to step forward and tells her that there is no need to feel anything but peace here. Pamela stands in front of the stasis chamber, and the infant comes through the membrane of the chamber, just this red, wet thing – but something in Pamela was hushed, she thought she could hear the universe turning around her, around Heather, around them both. One of the slender men in the robes announces that the transference will begin, after which the infant shall be remanded into the care of the Priests of Shao-Lom, while Pamela will be free to return to Earth. 'Now wait a second!' Pamela – and Heather – shouts.
Heather takes dominance of Pamela's body and declares that she will not be remanded to the priests when she has proved herself a master of all they could teach her already – and Pamela announces that she will not be sent back to Earth wham-bam, thank you, ma'am! One of the priests tells Heather that she may have been an exemplary student, but that she fell far and fast by her ill-advised contact with the Dragon. Another adds that Heather's new body will need to be trained by them, or she will never attain the level of psychic mastery she once held. 'I don't care! I'm Moondragon – and I will not go back to being an inferior!' Heather shouts. Mentor steps forward and reminds Heather that was the pride that brought such disaster to many worlds – from the complete enslavement of a planet to the deaths of those she loved, the Defenders. 'I will not allow you out into the cosmos again “Moondragon” - not if you are going to repeat those mistakes' Mentor exclaims, warning her that she would be ill-advised to use her powers against him. His words send a chill up Pamela's spine, but suddenly, a voice speaks from the crystal hanging around her neck.
The voice is Isaac Christians, who tells Mentor that he thinks Moondragon is right. 'I know her better than you do – looked deeper into her soul and was present at her darkest hours. She has learned – but after being enslaved so long, she deserves some freedom – and respect'. Isaac asks Mentor to remand Moondragon to his care, aas he will vouch for her. 'But, Mentor -' one of the priests begins. Mentor interrupts the priest, deciding that there is wisdom in this, adding that he has come to know Isaac Christians and to trust him. Mentor then tells Heather/Pamela and Isaac that they shall have the same freedoms as any other citizen of Titan – all of them. He tells them to come so the transference can begin before the body begins to develop a mind of its own. 'A mind of its own' Pamela thinks to herself.
Sometime later, 'Pamela, please, at least you stay! I can get a surrogate – someone to care for your cousin!' Demeityr remarked as Pamela prepared to board Moondragon's spaceship. Demeityr frowns and tells Pamela that Titan is a sweet place, a good place and that she belongs here. He adds that he has a terrible feeling she is heading into great danger. 'Demeityr – maybe Heather and I are more similar than I thought. Stubborn' Pamela replies, hanging her head and closing her eyes. Her heart melts when Demeityr looks at her, and she tells him that even though Heather will mature at an accelerated rate, she can't even speak yet – she needs her. 'And maybe I need her' Pamela adds, looking down at the infant in her arms. Demeityr tells Pamela to return to them safely. '
Pamela takes off in the spaceship, and thinks that if Demeityr had said “return to me” she might have collapsed right then and there. Pamela sits in the pilot's chair and looks down at the baby, as Heather's voice speaks to her, telling her that Demeityr is handsome enough, but lacking in the brains department. Pamela remarks that she doesn't care. 'And we've got brains enough for both of us – three of us – four of us' she adds. Isaac Christians thanks Pamela for including him in her perverse little relationship, and suggests that she might want to pay attention to the big object approaching at trans-light speed. 'Huh?' Pamela asks, while Heather instructs her cousin to lift her up so she can see. But when Pamela lifts the infant up, Heather quickly orders her to cloak them. Where? How? Which button?' Pamela asks, confused as she looks at the ship's console. 'Too late! Pamela, you little ditz -' Heather exclaims. 'It's too late for that either, Ms Moondragon. Justy sit tight – we're being pulled in!' Isaac calls out, as the spaceship is drawn in towards a much larger, spherical spaceship.
The spaceship sets down in a large hangar bay, and as the hatch opens, Pamela peers out, realizing that the air is breathable. She wonders if they should go investigate. 'Wow – this is big. I – wow!' Heather thinks to herself, while Heather exclaims that she knows this style. 'It can't be wat I think it is – it can't be – by the great Pama, no! We've been captured by the Dance!' Heather announces. 'The Dance -?' Pamela wonders as a large red-skinned, slender alien wearing a long purple cloak appears before her. Heather reveals that they are the remnants of an ancient race, few in number but unbelievably powerful. She adds that no one can figure out their motives and explains that they will land on a planet and plant a tree, or kill a being or disintegrate a continent or move a stone from there to there, and leave. She adds that the Dance have some sort of biew of a pattern of the universe, and are maintaining it, at least that's the theory. Pamela wonders what the Dance want with them, and as the strange alien raises a hand overhead, Heather tells her cousin that she is afraid they are about to find out.
'Can't you -' Pamela thinks, but Heather reveals that even at the height of her powers, she couldn't do anything to them. 'At least they haven't hurt us – yet!' Pamela supposes as she finds herself following the alien, who has placed her in a glowing pink energy field, and takes her to where more of the Dance aliens are surrounding a strange, towering column. 'What – what is that? Heather? Isaac?' Pamela asks. Isaac replies that he is just an old earthman in a piece of costume jewelry, and Heather adds that she is paralyzed, looking up at the bottom of Pamela's quivering chin. Heather tells Pam that she will have to take over her eyes, but that she would rather not. 'For Pete's sake, do it!' Pamela snaps. Heather does so, and is shocked when she sees the glowing column. Heather informs Pam and Isaac that it is a fusion-level plasma column, and must be what powers their ship.  Heather is shocked as the energy surrounding Pamela, herself and Isaac moves towards the column. 'And you're too young to die again' Heather exclaims. 'We all are, dear Heather' Isaac calls out.
'But why? Why?' Pamela wonders. 'Who knows?' Heather replies, wondering if they will add a random boost to their engines' drivers and take them somewhere different – perhaps their deaths will balance some karma somewhere – but the important thing is that they have got to do something about it. The baby Heather glances sideways, while Pamela thinks that the priests are right – Heather's brain is still an infant, and has no powers, and while Isaac has some powers from the crystal, but not enough. 'And I'm just a poor yuppie from Soho!' Pam exclaims. The projection that Heather appears as over Pamela scowls and tells Pamela to shut up. 'I've lived in your brain for months! There's plenty of stuff there – as much as I had! You've got to tap it!' Heather urges her cousin. 'But how?' Pamela asks, confused. Heather tells her that she doesn't know. 'It took me years to figure out my mind!' Heather explains. The pink energy pulls them even closer to the fusion-level plasma column, and Pamela begins to sweat. 'Oh, Heather, help me! Oh Heather, Isaac, Mentor, Demeityr help me!' she thinks to herself, wide-eyed.
Suddenly, Pamela, Heather and Isaac are thrust into the fusion-level power column. 'Fire light power delight terror wonder desire fulfillment dream awake dream awake dream awake' Heather exclaims, while the Dance aliens watch. Within the energy column, 'By the power of our two minds stop and let us be delivered from this place of danger!' Pamela exclaims. She gasps, as energy from the crystal diverts into the infant. 'I've done it!' Pamela gasps, while, on the deck of the ship, 'Pamela!' Demeityr shouts as he materializes amongst the Dance. 'Pamela! Thank Kronos you're safe!' Demeityr exclaims, while Pamela moves through the fusion energy and declares that she knew Demeityr would come. They embrace as Demeityr asks 'You knew?' and, calling Pamela darling, explains that he followed her in his own ship, then found himself here. 'Say that again – the “darling” part!' Pamela exclaims.
Pamela looks up and sees that the Dance are watching her, but not doing anything. She wonders if this is what they intended all along, but they can't know that for sure. Pamela hands the baby to Demeityr and suggests that maybe the Dancce saw that they have a little dance of their own going on. 'It takes three to tango, you know' she jokes. 'Pamela – you said “we don't know”!' Demeityr points out. Pamela tells Demeityr not to worry, and assures him that she is still here. 'But something pretty impressive happened back there, no?' she remarks, before she, Demeityr, baby Heather and Isaac in the crystal head back towards Moondragon's spaceship, observed by one member of the Dance, as Pamela asks Demietyr whether he thinks the universe is ready for two Moondragons?


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1st Story: Desert Doom    -   2nd Story: The Vanities of Philip Whitehead
1st story:The Mojave Desert:'Put it in park, pal!' Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye calls out from his sky-cycle as he chases someone riding a motorcycle across the sandy terrain. The person he chases wears a red and white costume – and their head appears to be one large eyeball! 'You've had me chase you across half the state of California, but now you can consider yourself officially caught!' Hawkeye declares as he readies his bow and arrow. 'None can catch the Orb!' replies the mysterious being on the motorcycle, informing Hawkeye that they will not be stopped from reaching his destination – not while he has his motorcycle beneath him. 'Gee. I was hoping we could see eye to eye on this – but in case you hadn't noticed, this isn't exactly a motor scooter I'm on, fella!' Hawkeye calls back as he fires his arrow, but misses, as Orb pulls his motorcycle up. 'You still can't outmaneuver me! This is my terrain!' Orb boasts, while Hawkeye thinks to himself that this guy has an ego as large as his head. 'Too bad he doesn't have a brain to match!' Clint thinks.
Hawkeye readies another arrow and decides that enough is enough, he wasn't bargaining for the great race when he answered that bank robbery in progress call back in Los Angeles. 'Time for some fancy shooting' Clint thinks, as he fires several arrows at once, but Orb still dodges them, surprising Hawkeye. 'This refugee from a billiard game called himself the Orb. I vaguely remember seeing him in the Avengers' criminal files' Hawkeye reminds himself, recalling that Orb is strictly small time in the overall scheme of things – no one he should have trouble stopping in the open desert. But they have been off the road for more than half an hour, and he doesn't even know where they are anymore.
Orb rides his motorcycle into the air, and Hawkeye readies another arrow, with a suction cup on the end. 'It's time for you to be put behind the old eight ball – because this chase stops now!' Hawkeye exclaims as he fires the arrow. 'What the -?' the surprised Orb calls out as the arrow's suction cup latches onto his large eyeball face. 'Just your every day suction-tipped arrow' Hawkeye calls back, joking that he started practicing with them when he was just a wee tyke. 'No! What are you doing?' Orb shouts as he is yanked backwards off his motorcycle, as Hawkeye remarks that no self-respecting super archer would be caught without one of these, as they are very handy when attacked to a steel cable. 'UMPH!' Orb groans as he lands on the ground. 'Scratch one cue ball!' Hawkeye tells Orb as he lowers himself down on the sky-cycle.
'You mock me too much, Avenger! Many men have learned to fear the might of the Orb!' Orb calls out to Hawkeye, who sarcastically tells Orb that he will have to wait until he lands so he can see his boots are shaking. Orb responds by firing an energy blast from his large eyeball face, which strikes Hawkeye's sky-cycle. Hawkeye realizes he miscalculated and leaps to the ground. He admits to himself that he didn’t think the eye blasts would pack so much punch. The sky-cycle falls to the ground, out of control, while Hawkeye rolls as he hits the ground, remembering how Captain America taught him this move. 'Orb! Look out!' Hakweye calls over to Orb, who is caught unprepared as the sky-cycle lands near him, and knocks some rocks towards him, one of which strikes his large eye, cracking it open, Orb passes out.
Hawkeye brushes his arms, the sand was harder than it looked. He decides to check on Orb, as he took a nasty blow to the head. Hawkeye knows that he better be careful Orb is not playing possum. As he looks down at Orb, he sees a deformed face beneath the eyeball helmet, and Hawkeye decides that must be the reason he wears the goofy helmet. Hawkeye checks Orb's vital signs, they aren't bad, but he is pretty badly banged up. Hawkeye realizes that if Orb has a concussion he will need medical attention, but looks over to where Orb's motorcycle is lying, busted. Clint is annoyed that both the sky-cycle and the motorcycle are out of commission and wonders what he wil do now.
Fifteen minutes later, Hawkeye has wrapped some bandages around Or'bs head, and tells him that if he can hear him, he wants him to know that he is going to get some help. Hawkeye creates a makeshift stretcher out of some of his special arrows, and announces that he is going to get them out of here. As Hawkeye pulls Orb behind him on the stretcher, under the harsh beating sun. 'Why am I talking to him? He's unconscious, not deaf! I might as well talk to the scorpions' Hawkeye mutters.
An hour later, Hawkeye continues to pull Orb behind him, and gives  him a  word of advice – that next time, if he is having someone chase him into the desert, to do it at night, it is much cooler that way. 'Instead, here we are in the middle of nowhere with the hottest part of the day still to come. Not to mention the lack of water'. Sweat pours down from under Hawkeye's mask, and he sees a cactus, which gives him an idea. He aims an arrow towards the cactus, and tells himself that if he remembers his Ronald Reagan movies correctly, the cactus is the desert water fountain, so a well-placed arrow should do the trick. He fires the arrow, and it hits the cactus with a FWIIIP. Hawkeye goes over to the cactus, but whe he pulls the arrow from it, no water pours from the cactus. 'Mr Reagan couldn't have been lying to us, could he?' Hawkeye asks.
Hawkeye trudges along, carrying Orb on the makeshift stretcher still, he supposes that he should have watched more 'Death Valley Days” or joined the boy scouts for just this eventuality. Hawkeye begins to grow tired, he knows that he can joke all he wants, but if he doesn't find some water or some help soon, then they are in trouble. Hawkeye comes to the edge of a ridge, 'Well, buddy, let's see what's over hill number 343!' he jokes, before, exhausted, he slips over the edge and tumbles down the ravine, dragging Orb with him. They come to a stop in front of a strange dome that protrouds from the desert. 'I know we're not in Oz, because this is no Emerald City' Hawkeye remarks. 'But a giant dome might have to do in a pinch' Hawkeye jokes, as he crawls closer to the dome, wondering if he can find a doorbell or a Munchkin to let him in. He touches the dome, and a panel slides open. 'Guess they don't have to worry about burglars in such a safe neighborhood' Hawkeye jokes.
Hawkeye drags Orb into the dome, telling him that he doesn't know what they are going to find in the overgrown bubble, but it has to be better than dying in the desert. To Hawkeye's surprise, he finds a lush jungle and a flowing river. 'This is either a hallucination, or we've died and gone to Club Med!' Hawkeye exclaims, while Orb, now awake, point to the river. 'Water!' he exclaims. They go over to the river and begin to drink, 'Doesn't taste like a hallucination' Hakweye decides, while wondering what this place is. Orb also drinks from the river, and can feel his strength returning already. He cleanses his wounds and places the bandages over his face, before resting on the river shore to gather his wits.
Orb knows that Hawkeye thinks he is injured worse than he really is, as he was knocked out for a very short time, and received this annoying head wound. Orb doesn't notice strange faces appear in the tree he leans against. Orb reminds himself that he has been through worse and survived, but wishes his helmet laser had not been destroyed. He wraps the bandages around his head again and then pulls a gun from his boot. 'Not that it really matters. Now that he's gotten me to safety, getting rid of him will be as easy as -' Orb vows, when suddenly, he screams as more strange faces appear, like odd fruit, dropping from the tree branch. They make strange SLERP noises, and vines suddenly wrapv around Orb, who can't break loose. What's more, the tree is stinging his wound. He screams again and calls out to Hawkeye for help.
'What? Thought this place was too good to be true' Hawkeye frowns as he spins around and sees Orb held prisoner by the tree. He raises an arrow and tells Orb that he can't let him suffer like this, that he will put him out of his misery. 'No, Hawkeye! No! It doesn't hurt that much!' Orb calls out. 'Don't! Please, no! Don't!' he exclaims, as Hawkeye fires the arrow – which strikes the tree, just above Orb's head. The tree lets out a roar, and releases Orb. Hawkeye pulls Orb away from the tree, 'Thought an acid tipped arrow would make you less appealing – though I don't know how you could be less appealing' Hawkeye remarks, adding that he doesn't think Orb trusted him just then. 'I trusted you enough to put your gun back in your boot. After I removed the bullets' Hawkeye tells Orb, adding that he knows how attached one can get with lethal weapons.
'Now we'd best be -' Hawkeye begins, when suddenly, two green humanoids emerge from the bushes, they grab Hawkeye and Orb. 'Don't both struggling, Hawkeye! You are completely surrounded and at the mercy of the pernicious PLANTMAN!' declares Plantman as he steps towards Hawkeye. A female plant-creature stands behind Plantman, who looks angry, and tells Hawkeye that not only has he disrupted his work, he has injured one of his prize specimens. 'Now you must die! Goodbye!' Plantman exclaims as his plant-creatures drag Hawkeye and Orb towards a thick plant with a large set of teeth, that looms above them. 'Wait a minute! Can't we talk this over? Maybe a little villain-to-hero banter?' Hawkeye asks. 'You tell me how you'll conquer the world, I'll tell you I'll stop you with my very lifeblood. Did I say blood? I mean blood' Hawkeye calls out. 'Do something, archer!' Orb pleads as they near the creature. 'I'm thinking, I'm thinking!' Hawkeye exclaims.
2nd story:Mahkarra, a small island off the African mainland, where a weekend has passed like a dream for the fortunate dignitaries who have attended a party here. This brief idyll has allowed them to relax and laugh away from the pressures of state, while their host, T'Challa, has charmed them with his wit and tales of adventure. How easy  do they forget that it was the financial distress of Wakanda's neighboring country, Zambia, that served as the impetus for this gathering.
Once the weekend comes to an end, a jet streaks away from the island. Among the passengers is Philip Whitehead, who observes the others as he recalls that Zambia is in the grip of a devestating drought and is in need of sympathetic friends to help mounting pay mounting debt to the World Bank. Philip Whitehead thinks that T'Challa can be rest assured, as in two hours they wil land at Wakanda International Airport, and the only complaint among the guests is that the weekend ended too soon. Philip Whitehead makes notes in his journal while watching the important men and women unwind aboard the jet, indulging in their light flirtations and posturings. He thinks that it is a shame Rene couldn't come, as this is her crowd, she is The Duchess. 'And I? Just a struggling writer. If I hadn't become friends with T'Challa at Princeton, I wouldn't be here at all' Philip thinks to himself. 'To think a man such as he, a super hero and king, could have shared with me, such a passion for the poetry of Rikle and Auden and Bly.
T'Challa approaches Philip and tells him that he should not be working, that he should be relaxing instead. Philip tells T'Challa that he is just making an entry in his journal, and reminds T'Challa that socializing is not his strong suit. T'Challa asks Philip to give Rene his best when he gets back to Paris. Philip watches as T'Challa walks away and wonders how their lives could have turned out so differently, as T'Challa has covered so much ground since their college days. 'My achievements seem so...insignificant by comparison' Philip decides. Suddenly, his meditations are brought to an abrupt halt when the wings of the jet explode! The passengers are tossed about aboard the het, 'What the -!' one of them shouts. 'God – we're going to crash!' another gasps. T'Challa tells his guests tro stay calm and to keep their heads close to the floor as he rushes towards the cockpit, thinking that it is strange how he tells his guests to stay calm when he is close to panic himself.
T'Challa addresses the pilot as Stogie and asks him what happened. Stogie informs T'Challa that both engines have exploded, and stability is bad so they are going down like a rock T'Challa asks if the wings are still intact, and points out that they are over water. 'Just keep her nose up, then' T'Challa instructs Stogie, before speaking over the intercom to his guests, informing them that they are forced to make an emergency landing on water. He instructs them to grab onto anything stable, as they will be coming down hard. T'Challa tells Stogie to pull the plane up, as they are dropping at too steep an angle. 'If his Lordship thinks he can do a better job, he's welcome to try...if not, he should strap his big fat lip inta the co-pilot's seat and shut up! It's gonna be rough...' Stogie replies, before the jet lands on the water with a mighty splash. 'Stogie! You beautiful son of a -' T'Challa begins, interrupted when the pilot reminds him that the intercom is still on. 'Ah, of course. Friends...I'm happy to announce that we are alive' T'Challa reports, adding that debarking begins immediately.
Inflatable rafts are boarded and much of the luggage is salvaged before the jet sinks into the lagoon. Fires are kindled on shore and slowly laughter begins to fill the twilight as shock and fear give eway to relief. Around one fire, Stogie announces that the radios have been fixed and reports that they should have copters here by dawn. Another man asks T'Challa where he has been. 'Rather rude of you to disappear like that' he adds as T'Challa emerges from the jungle. T'Challa calls the man Colonel and apologizes. Stogie asks T'Challa what is up, pointing out that he looks as grim as a ghost. T'Challa looks at the sky as he remarks that he couldn't figure out what caused the engines to explode. 'But look at the stars. Their alignment – the time's come. He's among us once more' T'Challa remarks. T'Challa thinks that he has been so long in the white man's world, he has lost touch with the rhythms of nature, and many might pay as a consequence.
T'Challa approaches Philip and asks him why he is by himself again. 'Oh! T'Challa! You're beginning to sound like Rene' Philip replies, adding that he thinks better when he is alone. T'Challa sits at the fire and takes a pot from it as Philip asks him what he has been cooking for him. T'Challa explains that it is herbs and they are lucky they grow in abundance around here. 'We are?' Phillip asks. T'Challa informs Phillip that these are power plants, givers of vision. T'Challa asks Philip to listen as he tells a story.
in story:In the outback of Wakanda, there lives a shaman, one that people come to when their hearts are filled with grieving. He lulls them into a trance and bleeds them of their pain. It is said he traps the pain in an ancient drum, which becomes a receptor of sorts, for all their suffering. Those who perform this ceremony become healed, whole once more – but pain like that can't simply be made to vanish, only transformed. So, every ten years a venomous beast, a supernatural incarnation of all that suffering manifests on the material plane – and it is for the King of Wakanda to best this monster.
Reality:T'Challa informs Philip that traditionally, the king would prepare for the ordeal with days of fasting and purification, but other concerns distracted him, so he is not prepared. 'If there's any way I can help...' Philip offers, but T'Challa tells him that this potion is their best hope. He begins to drink from the pot of herbs and explains that it has a strong psychotropic effect and it will allow him to enter a realm of consciousness otherwise inaccessible to humans – it is in that world that he may find the means necessary to win this fight. There is a terrible scream, and the wide-eyed Philip exclaims that he has never heard such a blood-curdling sound. 'Is...is that your monster, T'Challa?' Philip asks, but gets no response, as T'Challa has vanished.
'He's gone, like the proverbial wind. And I'm left here about as useful as a bump on a...' Philip thinks to himself before glancing at the pot and noticing that T'Challa left half the potion. Philip realizes that this presents him with a dilemma. If he wanted to be of any help to T'Challa, he would take the potion – it is the chance he has been waiting for, to go beyond his narrow limits. He remembers a quote: “I grow old. I grow old. Shall I wear my trousers rolled? I shall part my hair behind. Do I dare? Dare to eat a peach...?” as he holds the pot in his hands.
Deep in the interior of  the jungle, cold mist wraps around the Black Panther's legs and the jungle night welcomes him like an old friend – he is back in his element. T'Challa realizes that his pulse rate is up, the natural amphetamines in the herbs are hitting his blood system. The Black Panther begins to perceive the powerful emanations that surround all living things as a glow, fluctuating strong or full, according to their vitality. It's like having a sixth sense – and T'Challa knows that he will need it tonight. He swings down into a deep, dark part of the jungle, where the fog dampens T'Challa's other senses. When the monster nears, he will feel it like a cold dagger in his soul.
The Black Panther spins around and discovers the jackal-like creature squatting behind him, obscene and leering. The Black Panther catches his breath as those two yellow eyes lock onto his own – they are filled with the kind of hate and animal madness only suffering can instill. T'Challa tells himself that there is an aura of such pure evil about it – he wasn't prepared, but he knows he doesn't have a choice. The Black Panther has never run from an enemy, and isn't going to start now – but as he leaps back from the creature's claws, he's too slow, and the creaturev strikes him with a solid blow to the chest – but he's too slow again as the creature grabs the Black Panther by his wrist, and slams him into a tree. T'Challa is unable to twist around in time. He feels that his ribs are fractured and knows that he will never beat this creature with brute force. He hopes that his eyes can attune themselves to its energy field and find a weak spot – he thinks he has and with that, he has a chance.
A quarter mile northeast, the now shirtless Philip Winchester makes his way through the jungle. He can hardly believe he is doing this – but the herbs – he's never felt so alive, so sure of himself. He wonders how he could have been content all those years sitting behind a desk. Suddenly, he hears a piercing shriek, only this time is sounds like laughter. He swings from a tree on a vine, and recalls that he always wondered how he would handle himself in a life-and-death situation – he supposes he will find out pretty soon. It's easy enough for him to follow the direction of that cry, as if it cut a tunnel through the night. Within minutes, he finds T'Challa up against the creature, whom he thinks looks like something straight out of Lovecraft. Philip notices that T'Challa seems winded, and is waving a broken branch about, wondering how he hopes to defeat the creature with that.
'Futile! Great father! How can I fight something that turns to mist at will?' T'Challa wonders as the creature dodges his attack. He supposes that he will have to catch it off guard, drop back and let it come after him. The creature returns to a solid state, so T'Challa stands his ground as the creature moves forward to attack – he waits until it lunges – and then strikes the creature with the branch – only the branch breaks in two, and the creature moves behind T'Challa, shoving its claws into his shoulder. T'Challa cries out in pain as the talons inject venom into his body. Philip watches in shock as T'Challa stumbles, hurt badly. 'God help me, there's no turning back now' Philip realizes as he suddenly leaps from the tree where he stands onto the creature's back. 'Philip! No!' T'Challa calls out, wondering how he could have done that, but deciding that it doesn't matter now, as Philip has bought him a few precious seconds, and as the creature knocks Philip back, it turns from T'Challa, who grabs the splintered branch, and while the creature looms over Philip, it turns solid. T'Challa's muscles coil with animal certainty as he leaps at the creature and drives the branch into the creature's vitals.
The creature howls, and blood-spackled skin begins to decay, and the spirit that animated the horror departs, leaving behind a pile of bones and ash. Philip gets up and goes over to T'Challa, telling him that he was great. He notices T'Challa does not look well, ad T'Challa reveals that there is no antidote to the poison he has been injected with. T'Challa motions to the claw marks on his shoulder, and Philip announces that when he was in the Scouts they taught him to treat snake bites by sucking the venom out. He holds up a keychain which he can use to make incisions over the bites. 'Naturally, I always carry a key chain for just such an eventuality' Philip tells T'Challa, who  falls backwards and tells Philip not to do it, that he doesn't know what he is doing. 'As usual, T'Challa, you're right. But I can't just sit by and watch you die' Philip replies as he leans over the Black Panther as the jungle night closes in.
Forty-eight hours later, T'Challa is in Paris. He gazes out a window, recalling that there is a stanza from a poem Philip used to love, but he can't remember it. The room is silent, save for the occasional sound of brittle pages being turned in a journal that Rene Whitehead reads. 'It ends rather abruptly, Mr T'Challa. How exactly did Philip...' her voice trails off. T'Challa turns to her and reveals that it was the creature's venom, a far more potent kind than any found in the real world, but Philip couldn't have known that. 'I see...' Rene replies. T'Challa informs her that Philip sucked it from his system and the posion passed directly into his blood through the capillaries in the mucous membranes of his mouth, and his tolerance was not great. He died saving my life...' T'Challa assures her.
'Yes, that sounds like Philip. Perhaps that's the burden of all artists – to suffer the distance between the perfection of their ideals...and the imperfection of their being!' Rene remarks. She rings a small bell and tells T'Challa that Philip was certainly always trying to close the gap, and it made him foolish sometimes. T'Challa remarks that Philip was a brave and noble man, but Rene tells him that Philip was a little boy who wanted to be a super hero. 'Just like you. Now please, goodbye' she declares as she sits down on a sofa, leans into it and covers her face, while the Black Panther remembers that poem:
“Who has turned us around this way so that were always whatever we do in the posture of someone who is leaving? On the final hill that shows him his whole valley one last time who turns and stands there lingering- that's how we live – always saying goodbye”.


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1st Story: Veg Out   -    2nd Story: The Sun and the Moon!
1st story:'Push, Orb! Push!' Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye shouts as a large plant with even larger teeth chomps down on he and his newfound ally, the criminal called Orb. 'Push, or we're going to be a between meals snack for this overgrown asparagus!' Hawkeye exclaims. Orb tries to push back on the creature, but tells Hawkeye that it is too strong. 'He speaks the truth, archer! Your agony would be shortened if you would stop struggling!' the villain known as Plantman calls out from where he stands nearby. Plantman declares that this is Hawkeye's just punishment for trespassing here in his dome of life and daring to damage his most precious plants – his children! 'Come on, Plantman! I'll have FTD deliver some rose bushes and we'll call it even!' Hawkeye calls back, assuring Plantman that he has made his point. 'I'll even tell the gardener to leave the crabgrass alone back at the West Coast Compound!' Hawkeye pleads.
Hawkeye tries to reach out through the plant-creature's teeth, wishing that he could reach his  bow and quiver, then he would have them out of here in no time. Orb suddenly stops pushing back against the teeth, and Hawkeye asks him what he is doing. 'What's the use of this futile struggle? It's over! We might as well give up!' Orb replies. 'No! I won't give up – won't – give – up -' Hawkeye responds, before the creature's mouth chomps down and closes on Hawkeye and Orb. 'It's done! Our project has not been disturbed too much!' Plantman announces, putting his arm around a female plant creature, he states that the mother plant has been furnished with a fresh supply of blood. He tells his humanoid plant creatures that surround him to get back to work, as there is much that needs to be attended to.
Suddenly, smoke begins pouring out the sides of the large plant creature's mouth. 'What is happening here? Smoke pouring from the mother's mouth? Something is dreadfully amiss!' Plantman exclaims, before the mother plant spews up Hawkeye and Orb. 'Come on, Orb! I get the feeling that we didn't agree with old broccoli head's digestive tract!' Hawkeye jokes. 'Or maybe it was that flare arrow head I shoved down its throat!' Hawkeye adds, before rolling across the ground to collect his bow and quiver, 'I'm glad I carry extras in my tunic straps' Clint thinks to himself, as he aims his bow and an arrow at Plantman. 'Okay, Planty, it's just you and me, man to man!' Hawkeye calls out. 'I think not' Plantman replies as he turns, and puts an arm around the female plant creature, he points out that Hawkeye has interfered with his project long enough, and announces that he has neither the time nor the inclination to deal  with him.
Plantman starts to walk further into the jungle, as Hawkeye tells him 'You have no choice but to deal with me, sprouthead!' Plantman sneers at Hawkeye as he glances backwards, 'I said no. My project is far too important for me to dally with the likes of you. Of all the Earth's so-called superheroes, you are the least consequential!' Plantman exclaims, adding that he need not soil his hands on Hawkeye, as his plantmen will crush him like the insect hs is! Hawkeye fires two arrows after Plantman, but a wall of leaves rises up after Plantman vanishes, and two vines drop down and latch onto the arrows, as Plantman's voice can be heard warning Hawkeye that when the plantmen are through with him, he may wish that he allowed him to end his pitiful life quickly. 'Goodbye' Plantman calls out.
Hawkeye turns as several humanoid plant creatures called plantmen walk towards him. He thinks that it seems like everybody leaves just when he wants to talk – first mockingbird, now Plantman. Hawkeye sees Orb skulk off into the jungle, even after he snatched him from the jaws of death. 'A guy could get a serious inferiority complex about this stuff' Hawkeye thinks to himself, before announcing that as he is on his own against these goons, it is time to give them a demo of what he does best. 'Two teargas arrows coming up!' Hawkeye exclaims as he fires two arrows, which strike the ground around the plantmen. A pink cloud of gas rises from the arrows, and Hawkeye jokes that the teargas is guaranteed to make an onion cry. 'That should keep them busy – for a while – oops' Hawkeye remarks as the plantmen walk through the teargas, none the worse for wear.
Hawkeye reaches into his  quiver for another arrow and remarks that he forgot they were just walking plants. 'I really would have better luck making an onion cry' Hawkeye mutters, deciding that it makes this fight a little easier, since these guys are just overgrown carrots, he can pull out all the stops and use his regular arrows. But as he prepares to fire an arrow at close range as the plantmen surround him, before he can fire though, 'Whoa! Vines grabbing my leg!' Hawkeye calls out as a vine wraps itself around his ankle. 'Time to slice – and dice!' Hawkeye declares as he fires the arrow at the vine, splitting it, before he fires another arrow at one of the plantmen, knocking it backwards into another. 'Bingo! That should give them something to think about!' Hawkeye mutters as the other plantmen gather around their fallen fellow – but within moments, the fallen plantman rises, and Hawkeye frowns, supposing that they are not too big on thinking.
Understanding that the plantmen are not human, Hawkeye decides to rely on trick arrows, and shoots a flame-arrow towards them, which creates a wall of fire, keeping the plantmen back from him, but Hawkeye knows that the fire won't hold them for long. He turns to the jungle and supposes that his only way out is through the jungle, and as he rushes into it, wonders what he will find. Twenty minutes later, Hawkeye continues to hack his way through the jungle, but is no closer to being out of this place. He notes that it seems like as fast as he cuts through these vines, ten new ones take their place. He fears that if he stops to rest he will be one dead archer. Slashing away some more trees and bushes, Hawkeye eventually comes to the dome wall – but there isn't a door in sight. Hawkeye also can't leave without Orb, and realizes that until now he had completely forgotten that he is inside an artificial environment in the middle of the desert – and now he has no idea how to find his way out!
Hawkeye combines a suction-tipped arrowhead with  a cable arrowhead, and slaps them on a rocket arrow, which he aims upwards to the top of the dome – which he hopes is up there, somewhere. The suction arrow connects with the top of the inside of the dome. 'Ha! Who says I'm not the greatest archer in the world?For my next trick I'll hit the Broadside of Wisconsin!' Clint jokes to himself.
Five minutes later, Hawkeye has risen nearly to the top of the dome, as the cable connected to the suction arrow reeled him upwards, over the jungle. He clings to it an surveys his surroundings, deciding that it is good he doesn't get nose bleeds easily. He wonders what this place is, and is surprised at just how big it is. He notices a clearing full of machinery, and is willing to bet the rest of his arrowheads that is where the life support system for this place is located – and  where he will find Plantman!
Inside a mechanical compound, Plantman and two female plant creatures stand near a console, while Orb has been shackled, and sits on the ground. Plantman tells Orb that he is about to bear witness to the greatest scientific discoveries of this or any other century on Earth. Plantman announces that from this dome he shall release spores into the air that will transform the barren land around them into a tropical paradise – a paradise built upon seeds of an alien nature, discovered by him many years ago and bio-engineered to adapt to even the harshest conditions. Plantman explains that it is from these seeds that he has been able to grow the simulacra which have served him all these years – and this is just the first of his domes of life – eventually, vast areas of the planet will be covered with the plant life that shall do his bidding.
'I wouldn't count my geraniums before they've germiated, Planty!' Hawkeye calls out as he swings into the control room on his cable. 'Hawkeye!' Plantman shouts. Plantman declares that he has had enough of Hawkeye's infernal interference, and that he will not allow him to halt the crowning-glory of his life's work. 'guess again, Mr Green Jeans! I've got you covered!' Hawkeye replies as he holds his bow and arrow, ready to fire at Plantman, who grins, 'Ha! You threaten me?' he asks, holding the two female plant creatures close, Plantman tells Hawkeye that his arrows mean nothing to him, as he is well protected. But Hawkeye turns his arrow in another direction and tells Plantman that it is not he and his thorny friends that he is interested in – it's the machinery. Hawkeye fires the arrow, which connects with the console, causing an explosion. 'NO!' Plantman shouts.
Hawkeye runs over to Orb and tells him that it looks like they are a team again. 'Did you miss me?' Hawkeye asks. Orb doesn't answer as Hawkeye helps him stand on his feet. 'Never mind I know how you hate it when I get sappy!' Hawkeye jokes. Plantman frowns and asks Hawkeye if he thinks his little explosive arrow can stop his project, and if so then he is wrong – as his plants have smothered the flames, and will do the same to Hawkeye. Indeed, plants have covered the flames, and vines twist their way towards Hawkeye and Orb. 'I think it's time for us to make like a tree and leave!' Hawkeye jokes, before firing an arrow at the dome wall, which he hopes isn't too thick, as this is his last explosive arrow. The arrow thankfully breaks apart a small portion of the dome wall, although a rumbling sound starts to resonate around them.
Hawkeye and Orb rush to the hole in the dome, and Hawkeye wonders what the rumbling noise is, as he doesn't think his arrow could have done that much damage. Once they are safely outside of the dome, Hawkeye explains that he just wanted to screw up the machine and possibly pollute the Epcot Center House of Horrors. 'Better get away from here before it blows – sky high?' Hawkeye remarks, puzzled as he and Orb are knocked to the gorund by the dome as it vertically lifts up from the desert into the air. 'You have been an annoyance today, Hawkeye! But my work will go on!' Plantman calls out from within the dome. Hawkeye thinks to himself that if he ever gets back to civilization, he is going to have to tell the Avengers to keep an eye out for this guy!
2nd story:'Wow, guys, I never thought I'd see you guys ever again! And I never thought I'd get to meet you at all!' exclaims the being known as Cloud, who appears in female form within a small spaceship that moves through the deepest of space. Inside the vessel is Cloud's former Defender teammate, Heather Douglas a.k.a. Moondragon who currently looks like an infant, and sits with her arms folded on the edge of a seat, while Heather's cousin, Pamela Douglas, sits on a sofa next to the handsome Demeityr, an Eternal of Titan. 'But I can't believe it – Michael Keaton? He's so short!' Cloud exclaims, throwing her arms into the air. 'The one I'm worried about is Jack Nicholson - you know, turning it into a Jack Nicholson movie!' Pamela replies.
Cloud folds her arms and tells Heather that she doesn't know how good it feels to hear stuff about Earth. She remarks that she is happy out here, being a nebula and creating stars, but she really misses Earth sometimes. 'I only wish you hadn't told me about the Defenders dying. I'll never forget them' Cloud adds. A red gem hanging around Heather's neck suddenly speaks, it contains the soul of Isaac Christians a.k.a. Gargoyle, and tells Cloud that one can never be too sure – after all, he and Heather survived in unlikely fashions, so maybe the others managed somehow, too, and of course Angel, Beast and Iceman are still around. Cloud bites her lip and announces that she wishes she could go back to see them all again. 'Well, you can't' Heather snaps from where she sits, sternly reminding Cloud that if she tried to detach part of herself the way she did before, she would imperil the rest of her form and the stars being born out of her material. 'Well, excuuuuse me, Heather!' Cloud retorts.
Pamela, whose hair has grown to shoulder length, smiles and tells Cloud not to mind Heather, as it is awful tough to be a brilliantly powerful mind in an infant's body. 'Especially when she's -' Pamela begins, while Demeityr yawns, and Heather drops off the seat, 'What's so funny about that? Do you think I like being in this stupid prepubescent body?' she snaps. Cloud shifts her form to that of a small child as well, and tells her that, after all they have been through, the bodies they happen to inhabit don't count for a lot. 'Please don't be angry or sad – I love you' Cloud adds. 'That's easy to say when you're not trapped' Heather scowls. Demeityr suggests that they should be getting underway, and Pamela agrees.
Heather storms off out of the bridge, and Pamela tells Cloud that she is sorry, explaining that, having borne Heather's mind in her own for a while, she thought seeing her might pull her out of her mood. Cloud tells Pamela that is okay, and Gargoyle suggests that they come back later, when Heather has come to grips with this more. He adds that her body is designed to mature at an accelerated rate, before telling Pamela that he remembers better than her – the memories they shared were not all good ones. Tears fall down Cloud's face as she tells Gargoyle never to forget that among the Defenders, the two of them say that there was a good woman in Moondragon, deep down. 'Take care of her' Cloud remarks, before she shifts to her gaseous form and vanishes.
And so, three ship's days later en route to the planet Kotzwinkle, Pamela is lying on her bed when the door to her room opens. 'Now who could this be?' she asks as Demeityr approaches her. 'Couldn't sleep?' Pamela asks the handsome Eternal, who sits next to Pamela and touches her face, telling her that she should know now that the Eternals of Titan don't sleep. 'It's Heather, isn't it?' Pamela asks. Demeityr tells her that he is worried. 'Well, come closer – and I'll make it all better' Pamela smiles. Demeityr leans in to kiss Pamela, but as their lips touch, they both scream, overcome by a powerful energy, and Pamela falls back onto the bed, unconscious. 'That little – she could have killed Pamela!' Demeityr exclaims. Rubbing his head, he stands up and declares that she has gone too far.
Demeityr finds Heather in another room within the ship. He storms in and asks 'What do you think you're -' Demeityr calls out as he finds Heather sitting on a small chair in the darkened room. Energy crackles around her as she utters 'How can you do it with her? How can you?' She clenches her fists and tears stream down her face as she shouts 'I'm the one! Pamela is nothing – my little yuppie cousin with a little dim brain! She'd never have any powers if not for me! She's weak and stupid and small!' Demeityr tries to call out to Heather, 'Please -' he begins, before Heather stands up, throws her arms into the air and shouts 'I'm the one! The one with the power!' and, suddenly, 'I'm Moondragon!' she declares as she transforms into her adult form, complete with green bathing suit costume and long cape – much to Demeityr's shock.
Moondragon turns to Demeityr and tells him that this is an illusion right now, but a perfect one to every sense and that she will soon grow into it in reality. 'I'm the perfect woman – the ultimate woman! You can't chose her!' Moondragon declares as she kisses Demeityr. 'What's wrong?' Moondragon asks as Demeityr pulls away from her. 'He's scared to death of you. That's what's wrong!' Gargoyle explains as Pamela enters the room. Pamela says nothing as Gargoyle continues to speak from the crystal, revealing that Demeityr is attracted to Pamela because Pamela is a simple, uncomplicated young woman, one who is on no power trip and one who is seeing the wonders of the universe for the first time. Gargoyle adds that Demeityr, for all his Eternal nature and power is a simple soul, too. 'You want him because you can't have him – although you could if you started to control people's minds for them, like you used to – like the evil Mooondragon used to!'
'SHUT UP!' Moondragon screms as she fires a mental blast towards her cousin, 'No – don't!' Demeityr calls out, while Pamela raises her hands and blocks Heather's psychic attack with one of her own. She tells her cousin that she may not be her equal, but reminds her that after sharing a brain with her, facing the Dance, she is not powerless now. 'You're nothing!' Moondragon retorts as she continues to release her psychic power. 'And I'm Moondragon!' she adds, as her attack knocks Pamela backwards. As Pamela falls, Gargoyle tells her to combine forces with him, while Demeityr grabs Moondragon and tells her to stop it. 'Have you gone crazy? We all care for you! I care for you! Stop doing this!' he exclaims. 'Crazy? I'll show you crazy!' Moondragon snaps as she flips herself backwards,
Moondragon turns back to Pamela and Gargoyle: 'You – you bimbo – you prattling old man-under-glass – you betrayed me – laughed at me – humiliated me – and you can all – go to blazes!' Moondragon shouts, as she releases some psychic energy, and Pamela and Demeityr suddnely vanish.
'What – where – can't breathe – feel awful – burning...' Pamela thinks to herelf as she finds herself floating in open space, clutching her throat. 'Pamela! She did it! Blew us out of the ship!' Gargoyle calls out. 'Then we're going to die? I don't want to die' Pamela thinks to herself as she floats above a glowing star. Gargoyle tells Pamela to pull the star towards them with her mind and body, as he senses something. 'Okay – goodbye – Isaac' Pamela thinks to herself as she reaches out, and energy rises from the star, careening towards Pamela, who thinks to herself 'I love you! Don’t – don't want to -' as the energy from the star washes over her in spectacular display.
Back inside the small ship, 'Heather...' a voice calls out. 'Shut up. Shut up' Moondragon replies. The voice tells her to snap out of it, and look at the viewport. 'By the great Pama – a dragon!' Moondragon gasps as she looks out the viewport and sees a large glowing dragon, with three figures standing on its head. 'You almost killed them, Heather – and would have if I hadn't been watching you with a part of me!' the voice exclaims – it's Cloud, who appears over Moondragon and asks her why. 'Why, Cloud?' Moondragon responds, revealing that she wanted to start over, to cleanse the evil out of her – to do good and be good, but then there was Pam right in front of her, loved by Demeityr, Mentor, Isaac, Cloud – and there was no place for her.
'All I strove to be, to accomplish – to become Moondragon – and I had nothing! She took it away from me!' Moondragon exclaims. The three figures from on top of the dragon are transported into the ship by Cloud, who tells Moondragon that Pam is Pam, that she will never be Moondragon, she will never come close to Heather's power. 'But as she learned from you, you could learn things from her' Cloud adds, revealing that she saved Pam by uncorking the last of her inner power. 'And from now on her name will be – Sundragon!' Cloud declares as Pam steps forward, revealing a purple costume and white hair. The next figure to step forward is Gargoyle – who reverts to his human form, as Cloud explains that the crystal that held him vaporized in the star, so with some of the star and some of her own material, she restored his body, and gave him the power to transform himself from Gargoyle to Isaac Christians.
The final figure is Demeityr and he walks over to Moondragon, kissing her cheek, he tells her that they all love her, but that Isaac was right, she is too much a woman for a simple little Titan boy, that she deserves better – and will will get it. 'I – Demeityr – I -' Moondragon utters. Moondragon hangs her head and announces that she is sorry, that even dying and being reborn she seems to be making the same mistakes, that she still has not learned. Sundragon tells Heather that if she hadn't learned, then she doesn't think she would be here talking to her, or she would have taken over their minds, or worse. Sundragon informs Heather that she, Demeityr and Isaac are going to leave. Cloud's form washes over them, and Moondragon tells them that she doesn't want them to go.
Sundragon tells Moondragon that she needs to be her own woman now, to grow into her body, to look into the future. 'I think you'll do better if we dont double-date' Sundragon adds, before bidding Heather goodbye. Cloud tells the others that she wishes she could stick around, and informs Pam that she will be able to animate this form to take her wherever she wants to go. Sundragon re-creates the large dragon, which she, Demeityr and Isaac stand on top of. Cloud bids good luck to Heather and Pam. Pam asks Isaac if he thinks Heather will do all right, to which Isaac tells her that is a definite possibility. And, inside the ship, Moondragon uses her powers to create a new costume, most of which resembles the black and green costume Pamela was wearing, before ordering the ship's navigation computer to take her home – and she even smiles.