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Eyes of the Dragon Part 1
In the middle of the night, Shang-Chi is attacked in his home by ninjas from the order of Hai-Dai, a group which disbanded when his father died. Suddenly he is joined by the mystic hero John Aman, Prince of Orphans and they drive their foes away….
Two days earlier Steve Rogers, head of the Secret Avengers, received a call from John Anan, who had been investigating the Hai Dai who were searching for the Eyes of the Dragon. Beast’s database search revealed that the Eyes of the Dragon are a pair of mystical gems which, when combined with a spell from a hidden scroll, can raise the dead. They could only be raising their dead master Zheng Zu, father of Shang-Chi. Steve dispatched John to find the young man….
Now Steve Rogers, Shang-Chi, and the Black Widow parachute to the roof of the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong. They make their way silently down an elevator shift to reach the Chinese art exhibit where they Eyes can be found. They discover that the Eyes housed there are fakes; suddenly they are attacked by the Hai Dai….
Epilogue: Director Thorndrake of the Shadow Council assures his guest, the half-living Zheng Zu, that they will soon have the last ingredient for bringing him fully back: the blood of his son Shang-Chi….


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Eyes of the Dragon Part 5 of 5
At the sacred temple of Zheng Zu, the Asian villain is planning to sacrifice his son Shang-Chi in a bid to gain immortality. The Shadow Council is assisting Zheng because they will use him to extend their control into China. Just as the undercover Moon Knight signals his teammates, his cover is blown. The Secret Avengers literally dive into action, assaulting the temple from the air. As the battle rages, Zheng tries to complete the ritual but he is interrupted by the Prince of Orphans who destroys the magic circle and cuts down the villain. As the entire temple begins to crumble, Max Fury helps Director Thorndrake to escape while John Steele is overcome by Valkyrie (aided by War Machine) and captured.
Epilogue: Shang-Chi thanks his friends and leaves on a ship for China. Steve Rogers then visits John Steele imprisoned at the Raft, and asks him why he is no longer one of the good guys….


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Two soldiers, Hayes (male) and Stevens (female), are in a
romantic relationship and are late for the briefing from their commander on the
imminent military action against the forces of the Serpent. Steve Rogers has
sent one of the Secret Avengers, Valkyrie, to lead the attack. Invited to address the troops
she says only, “Most of you are going to die today” and walks out. Hayes and
Stevens flirt while preparing for the mission; Stevens thinks Val looks a bit
nervous while Hayes says this isn’t anything she hasn’t seen before…. Val’s
mind goes back to the ancient time when she was the young princess Brunnhilde
who had a crush on her father’s greatest warrior Sigmund who has been teaching
her to fight….
The fight in Philadelphia against Sin’s troops in battle
armor is a bloody one, Hayes and Stevens doing their best—but then an enemy
fires at them and Hayes shields Stevens’ body with his own and is mortally
wounded…. Val remembers the ancient battle where Sigmund died protecting her…. Val
kills the enemy soldier and tells Stevens to leave him and come along. She
refuses…. Val recalls the arrival of Odin the enemy leader and her refusal to leave
Sigmund’s body behind. At first angry, Odin is impressed by her devotion and
tells her of his plan to create a resting place for the heroic dead and he
offers her the position of Valkyrie, carrying their souls to Valhalla to find
peace and serving as a symbol and inspiration to those in battle…. And Val
carries Hayes’ body off the field for Stevens….


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Eyes of the Dragon Part 2 of 5
At the Chinese art exhibit in Hong Kong, Steve Rogers, Black Widow, and Shang-Chi are locked in furious battle with the Hai Dai ninjas. Shang is overpowered and carried off by the villains who escape in a flaying car. As they are about to spill Shang-Chi’s blood, Steve’s back-up plan appears. A tiny Ant Man emerges from Shang-Chi’s hair, grows to giant-size, and clobbers the baddies. In the fight the ship’s controls are destroyed and Ant-Man carries Shang-Chi to safety as the ship crashes in the bay….
Meanwhile, Prince of Orphans (John Aman) and Valkyrie are in a garden in a remote part of China, the rumored burial site of Shang-Chi’s father. They take out a small number of guards before they realize the villains have come and gone, and these ninja were just waiting to see if anyone was following….
Steve interrogates a captured Hai Dai, who responds only with a sinister warning….
At Shadow Council headquarters, an impatient Zheng Zu confronts Director Thorndrake about capturing his son Shang-Chi because there are only two days left to complete "the ritual." Thorndrake dispatches his two best men: Max Fury and John Steele….


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Secret Histories, Part 3 of 4
1865: after the Civil War, Confederate Major Aloysius Thorndrake led a party in pursuit of a traitor to their cause. When the fugitive eerily vanished while crossing an open plane, Thorndrake and his men followed—and entered the Abyss….
Ant-Man, sucked into a vortex on Mars, is falling through the universe—and worrying that this will get him kicked out of the Avengers….
On Mars, the giant armored figure Archon demands to know what Steve Rogers and the Beast have done with the Serpent Crown but no one knows what is going on. The Nova Corps Worldmind in Nova’s helmet offers to explain the situation but they are interrupted by a call for help. Valkyrie is radioing that she is under attack by Nova (controlled by the Serpent Crown) and his minions. Black Widow, and Moon Knight fell quickly and she needs aid urgently. Moments later, the enslaved cosmic hero overcomes his former compatriot and leaves her unconscious in a heap. When he learns that some of his men are suffocating because of damage to their oxygen feeds, Nova uses the power of the Crown to provide an atmosphere for Mars. Steve contacts War Machine and tells him to meet them at Valkyrie’s last coordinates; the armored hero responds with the news that Ant-Man is missing….
Meanwhile, Ant-Man has emerged from the other end of the vortex at the Shadow Council citadel in Texas, but because of his small size, his arrival goes undetected. There, Nick Fury has delivered the Serpent Crown he recovered from the Secret Avengers to the Director, Aloysius Thorndrake, warning him of the device’s unpredictable nature. Thorndrake decides that the situation on Mars has become too unstable and orders the 9th Legion called out for a suicide mission….
Back on Mars, Archon explains that Nova’s mining project will awaken the Darkest Child, who will awaken his brothers, and they will free their Nameless Father from his prison. The Archons were created by the Watchers billions of years ago for this purpose, to guard against the return of the Abyss. A millennium ago, the inhabitants of Mars who had been touched by the Abyss created the three Serpent Crowns to channel the power of the Dark Children. The Archons stopped them from destroying Mars but the planet was rendered desolate and all the Archons save the present one were killed. And now the power of the Serpent Crown has taken hold of Nova. Archon launches itself at Nova—and is hurled through the sky in flames, to crash into ruins. Because of Nova’s powers, Archon cannot defeat him….


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Core Beliefs [The Descendants Part 3]
Captain Britain has teleported into the Core with the other
 Secret Avengers and is attacked by Lady Deathstrike on the way down. They fall
among a band of robots that resemble Vision that swarm him after he tosses Lady
D for a loop. Human Torch arrives and roasts the closest Vision and the rest
bow and worship him as “grandfather” which confuses him and Brian….
Father addresses the leaders of the various tribes of
Descendants (Adaptoids, Doombots, Sentinels, Deathloks, Visions, Machine Men,
Reavers, LMDs), ordering them to destroy the Avengers from within before they
learn about the Descendants’ existence….
The Adaptoids are on the trail of the fugitive Parvez when
they encounter Black Widow and Valkyrie who nab the boy and make off under a
smokescreen….
Hawkeye and Beast are battling Deathlok Wasp and Deathlok
Miss America; Beast is shot and Clint is distracted by D-Wasp until D-Miss-A
overpowers him….
In the Lighthouse, Flash Thompson learns that all
communications from the team are blocked, he decides to take action….
Val and Natasha discover Ant-Man’s tiny gear just as the Urn
and the Swine arrive; there is a battle and the women escape…but not for long
as Urn catches up to Val and starts draining her of her essence….
In a cage in Father’s lab, Hawkeye manages to stop Beast’s
bleeding—and then the Irredeemable Ant-Man (really the guy soon to be known as Black Ant) arrives to rescue them….


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Eyes of the Dragon Part 3 of 5
Shadow Council agents John Steele and Max Fury formulate a plan to kidnap Shang-Chi away from the Secret Avengers….
Aboard the Quincarrier, Beast has discovered that Zheng Zu is the real name of Shang-Chi’s father and that he needs the Eyes of the Dragon to drain his son’s life essence and gain immortality. News then comes that Zheng Zu is on a violent rampage in the streets of Hong Kong. The team heads there and takes on the Hai Dai ninja order. They quickly discover that Zheng is an illusion to distract them from the real target. Meanwhile, Fury and Steele have boarded the Quincarrier and seized Sharon Carter. Steve Rogers regains the ship (with a little help from War Machine) to discover Beast unconscious and a message from John Steele, offering to trade Sharon for Shang-Chi….


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Secret Histories, Part 4 of 4
Sharon Carter has tracked Nick Fury and his party to the Shadow Council citadel in Texas, and she detects Ant-Man’s signal. The tiny hero tries to explain the situation as best he can but the bottom line is that a legion of dangerous foes is on its way through the Vortex to suicide-bomb Mars….
On Mars, the Worldmind believes it can transfer the Nova Force into Steve Rogers enabling him to fight the rogue Nova, but he may not survive, and if he fails the universe ends. ("So, you know…no pressure" says War Machine.) Meanwhile, Nova is urging his workers to greater efforts. Unable to delay any longer, Steve dons the Nova helmet and is overwhelmed by the power. When the light dims, Steve has been transformed into a being of cosmic power. He launches himself at the rogue Nova and the two clash in mighty combat….
In Texas, Shadow Council Director Aloysius Thorndrake leaves with the second Serpent Crown and orders Nick Fury to see to the destruction of their base on Mars. Elsewhere Sharon Carter persuades Ant-Man to return to Mars through the vortex with the Council’s 9th Legion to prevent the deaths of the Secret Avengers….
While the newly powered Steve battles Nova, the other Avengers fight the possessed Shadow Council minions—and the deadly psychic tentacles of the emerging Dark Son. Steve pleads with Richard Rider to fight the Crowns’ control over his mind and the damaged Archon makes a last stand against the Dark Son. In the vortex, Ant-Man causes one of the Legion’s suicide bombers to explode, igniting a chain reaction that kills all of them. Ant-Man manages to emerge from the vanishing point ahead of the massive explosion from the vortex. The collapse of the vanishing point cuts off Nova’s Crown from its link to Earth and he falls to the ground, weakened enough for Steve to remove the Crown from his head. Steve passes the Crown to Archon, who promises to take it where the Dark Son’s followers cannot find it. An examination shows that Nova will recover from his experience—unlike his minions, who all died when he lost his power. As the atmosphere on Mars begins to dissipate, Ant-Man finally catches up with the team but they don’t believe him when he claims to have saved their lives. Nova awakens from his coma and asks for his helmet back….
On the way back to Earth, Nova takes his leave to answer a distress call from the Guardians. Sharon gives Steve some bad news: the satellite footage from the Shadow Council citadel shows that one of the sinister group’s leaders is Nick Fury….


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The Secret Life of Max Fury
Five years ago, Nick Fury was in Paris, on the run from SHIELD though he couldn’t remember what he was accused of. Spotted by his own agents, he managed to escape through the streets and made his way back to his apartment, where he was captured by…Nick Fury…
Today, Nick Fury meets with Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter, who question him about the Shadow Council agent (issues #1-4) who looks exactly like him. Fury is shocked to recognize the villain: it is an LMD created by Fury’s brother who was the supervillain Scorpio—an advanced android which was infused with Fury’s full memories, and believed it really was Nick Fury. When Scorpio fell, the android went insane when it discovered it was not the real Nick Fury, and escaped from SHIELD custody some time ago. The LMD spent its time as Fury would have, busting up terror plots by Hydra and A.I.M. until it was recaptured in Paris five years ago. Fury had the LMD deactivated and destroyed. But here he is…. Steve is angry with Fury, since it was his treatment of the LMD that turned it into an enemy, though Fury tries to justify his actions by appealing to the secrets the android contained.
A flashback five years shows how Shadow Council Agent John Steele infiltrated the SHIELD Helicarrier and reactivated the android, substituting a standard LMD to be destroyed. Steel names the sentient double Max and they escape…. Today, John Steele gives Max Fury the assignment to keep watch over Steve Rogers’ Secret Avengers, and, if necessary, to take them down….


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Captain America Isn’t Dead!
In the wake of the murder of Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Black Widow crashes into the office of a tabloid just as they are preparing a cover proclaiming, “Captain America Death a Hoax!” At gunpoint, Natasha demands they turn over what evidence they have on Bucky’s death; editor Lori calls Nat’s bluff, knowing one of the Avengers wouldn’t shoot anyone. Lori also knows that no one sent Nat, she’s on her own—and that they have no such evidence. Staff writer Josh explains that there is no such evidence: the story of Bucky’s death was made up because stories about the deaths of heroes are big sellers. Nat is offended at how they are exploiting a dead man, especially one who died to protect them—but a staffer named Dana has no sympathy. Death means something different for superheroes when it’s frequently only temporary. Nat argues that temporary or not, death is still traumatic for the heroes and coming back after however long a time and trying to resume their lives is also an ordeal. In such a situation there is frequently no healing. Lori talks to Nat in private, telling her she lost her husband in a plane crash, and that their readers need these stories, and that superheroes like the Black Widow lose their humanity as they suffer to inspire the ordinary people. Nat leaves and Lori deletes the Captain America story….


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Encircle
A mission in Evje, Norway goes
seriously wrong; ambushed by Shadow Council troops inside a tunnel,
Steve Rogers and Sharon Carter are killed. With his dying breath,
War Machine gives Black Widow the “escape hatch” a device from his
wrist. She presses the button and...
...finds herself in an Italian villa
five years in the past. She spends quite a bit of time working out
how the device operates and the villa contains a cache of supplies
and money for her to put the plan she has devised into action....
Natasha travels into the future to have
Henry “Beast” McCoy explain how time travel works, then works out
some details with Doctor Druid. She then goes back 44 years to find mad
scientist Dr Khronus and funds him in his secret lab to create a time
machine—and then keep refining it over the decades until he has a
version that can fit on her wrist. Years later she persuades a
general to include the device in War Machine's armor. Along the way,
she filches one of the weapons used to kill her compatriots and takes
it to weaponer Harry “Death-Ray” Evans, with a warning not to
sell the guns to anyone else. She has him create a device that will
sabotage the guns—and then knowing that he had sold the guns to the
Shadow Council, she detonates a bomb at her villa, killing him.....
With all this prepared, she returns to
the zero point and uses Evans' device to cause the enemy soldiers'
weapons to explode in their hands. With her comrades now safe, she
tosses the time machine into the flames, keeping the big secret to
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Secret Histories, Part One
On a trip to Dubai, Senior Vice-President Bromley of Roxxon attracts a pair of gorgeous female companions and takes them back to his hotel suite. When he tries to get a kiss from the blonde, she explodes furiously, slamming him into a wall. The two lovelies, revealed to be Valkyrie and Black Widow, contact their team leader and prepare for battle. A squadron of Roxxon security guards burst into the room, intent on securing the "package" and killing the women. The heroines are more than a match for the soldiers—then Steve Rogers crashes through the window, takes out the guards removing a large box, and the three make their getaway in a waiting jet with their prize. What they don’t know is that the incident was witnessed by a pair of armored men with Chinese dragon insignia who were on the same mission, and are preparing to follow them….
Aboard the jet, Steve and Beast examine the recovered artifact and discover it is not the Serpent Crown that they expected but a similar device—one that seems to be alive. Steve heads to the cockpit where Sharon Carter compliments him on his easy adaptation to running a shadow ops team. They share a kiss….
At Roxxon corporate headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, a pair of guards are surprised by two more Secret Avengers—Moon Knight and the new Ant-Man—who tap into the company’s databanks and transmit to the jet. Steve and Jim "War Machine" Rhodes watch as Beast examines the company’s secret files and discovers that Roxxon has shut down their mining operation on Mars and erased all details of the employees from the records. Steve decides to have someone check it out (Rhodey: "You have someone on this team who can just check out Mars for us?" "Of course I do…."). Meanwhile the sinister armored men are still following them….
Two nights later, Steve assembles the entire team and explains the need to visit Mars. A Kree warship has been adapted for the trip, to be piloted by Rhodey. The reason? Steve has lost contact with their agent on Mars….
Flashback several hours: Nova is on the recon mission to Mars when he is fired upon by ground forces. His in-helmet computer Worldmind estimates the weapons are millions of years old though the attackers are human. Nova drills into a mountain and Worldmind directs him to an artificial cavern. Breaking though the wall, he discovers some sort of ancient shrine. Unable to help himself, he discards his helmet and mounts the stairs, reaching for the Serpent Crown at the top….
Now, Steve contacts Sharon back on Earth to assure her all is going well. After she signs off, Sharon hears a noise behind her…and is knocked cold by Nick Fury, who has come to claim the Crown for the Shadow Council….


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The Trouble with John Steele Part 1 of 2
The captive John Steele is at Secret Avengers headquarters where he has been hooked up to a machine that can read his memories—to find out how America’s first Super-Soldier ended up a villain. Beast, the machine’s operator, explains to Steve Rogers that the memories may be inaccurate and include gaps; Steve wants to proceed. They see Steele’s memories of the Civil War (US not Marvel), the Old West, World War 1 and 2. One of Beast’s assistants proposed that since Steve (as Captain America) was with Steele on his final mission, he be hooked up to a second console and their memories read together to provide a more accurate picture….
The mission was to assault a Nazi stronghold in a forbidding castle; Captain America takes out two guards with a toss of his shield while John Steele uses his super-strength to rip a heavy iron grating out of the wall to provide an entrance. Entering, they discover a lab where the Nazis are turning local villagers into huge Frankenstinian monstrosities. They are attacked by one such creature and it takes their combined skills (and a machine gun) to kill it. As Steele’s memories of the mission return, he becomes increasingly terrified and guns down Cap…
…which jolts Steve out of the machine. But John Steele is also free and he takes one of Hank’s technicians hostage….


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Subland Empire
The Secret Avengers (Steve Rogers, Black Widow, Beast, Moon Knight) arrive in a massive city a mile beneath the surface of Cincinnati via a hidden elevator. The place was built by the long-gone Secret Empire but now appears deserted; the Avengers located it by detecting traces of Von Doom radiation, hinting at a time machine. The heroes find an atomic-powered Cadillac and use it to travel the ground while Moon Knight does aerial recon amidst the massive skyscrapers. MK is fired upon by Shadow Council guards and he takes them out, warning his comrades of the situation. Steve and company are also pursued by enemies in cars and a helicopter and evade their foes. They discover that four massive pylons have been erected in the city, creating a Von Doom time platform two miles wide; the villains plan to use it to pick up Cincinnati and drop it anywhere as a massive weapon. The Avengers head out to destroy one of the pylons to prevent the time field from forming; Beast turns the Cadillac into a neutron bomb and sets it running at the target. The heroes take a copter to the elevator and escape just in time. Beast worries about how many people he killed; Steve advises him to think of how many he saved.


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The forces of the Serpent invade Washington D.C. with battle
droids devastating the city. The Secret Avengers have been called out and Beast,
War Machine, and Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady) are the first to arrive, doing what they
can to rescue people from the onslaught. Hank is told that an officer wants to
see him immediately so he meets with Major Stephenson; the Major tells him that
a Congress member is barricaded in the Capitol and is asking for Hank. Beast
heads to the House chamber to find his old friend Rep. Leonard Gary and asks
his pal to leave with him. Lenny points out that he finally has the floor as
the place was evacuated without adjourning and so he has the chance to
introduce his bill helping West Virginia coal miners with their health care. They
reminisce about Lenny’s involvement in the civil rights movement and Hank warns
him that the enemy is getting closer. Lenny says that “Washington D.C. can take
care of itself!” Then we see the Lincoln statue at his memorial come to life
and fight the battle droids, then the dinosaurs from the Museum and Natural
History, followed by a tribe of native Americans, and George Washington himself
leading his troops….
Lenny explains that the people need to see that they are not
afraid, that he needs to broadcast a message to the country. Hank realizes that
Lenny is a mutant, hiding it all these years and now animating the statues defending
the city. Beast returns to the Quincarrier where he and Sharon Carter patch
Lenny through to the entire world. Lenny abandons his prepared speech and with
tears in his eyes recites the Gettysburg Address as his mother taught him as a
child…and then the Capitol is destroyed….


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How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird [Part One of Five]
At Barbuda (A.I.M. Island), Mockingbird, amnesiac and
undercover as scientist Harry Bainbridge, has unexpectedly been called to give
a progress report to the A.I.M. High Council (Graviton, Taskmaster, Mentallo,
Superia, Jude the Entropic Man), She presents a lot of doubletalk, explaining
nothing and asking for an extension of two more days. She thinks she has gotten
away with it until the Scientist Supreme (Andrew Forson) reveals that he knows
who she is and has her taken to an interrogation cell….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad, Agent Phil Coulson
brings some surprising news to Director Maria Hill: some high-ranking
A.I.M. personnel want to surrender. A group of A.I.M. scientists arrive,
explaining that their leader (not Andrew Forson) will arrive only when the sees
that SHIELD has let the scientists go. They hand over a list of six A.I.M.
bases developing secret weaponry. They ask to be allowed to join with SHIELD as
Nazi scientists had gone to work for the US government after the War. To show good
faith, Hill is offered the location of Medusa, the underwater base where
Forson’s black guard are trained….
At A.I.M. Island, the High Council are concerned that Forson
knew of Mockingbird’s secret identity and didn’t tell them, which some consider
a reckless move. Meanwhile, Forson interrogates Bobbi who confesses to
remembering nothing. As Taskmaster is polishing TESS-One, he is contacted by
Coulson, telling him it is time to get off the island. On the beach, Jude
senses that Mentallo is uncertain of the company’s goals and his place
therein….
Hawkeye, Black Widow, and Nick Fury Jr. enter A.I.M.’s Medusa
base. Hawkeye is attacked by Shang-Chi (later revealed to be an Adaptoid) and
captured. Elsewhere on the base, Fury and Natasha are captured by a squad of
soldiers led by Yelena Belova, now the Super-Adaptoid….
Aboard the Iliad, the leader of the defecting A.I.M.
agents arrive: MODOK….
Characters: Secret Avengers, A.I.M., Mockingbird, Graviton
(FH), Taskmaster, Mentallo, Superia, Jude the Entropic Man, SHIELD, Maria Hill,
Phil Coulson, Scientist Supreme, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Nick Fury Jr.,
Super-Adaptoid (YB), MODOK


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Mission 002: Bagalia
At the Gate, an A.I.M. secret research facility in the Arctic
Circle, Andrew Forson, Scientist Supreme, oversees the testing of a huge new
machine, using himself as guinea pig. The test is a success and when done,
Forson speaks the code word which causes all of the scientific team to shoot
themselves and sets the place to self-destruct. He moves on to St. Petersburg….
Nick Fury Jr. is in Bagalia, a nation ruled by criminals and
populated by the Masters of Evil. He has cut a deal with Crossfire to let him
see Taskmaster, imprisoned in the city, and offer the man a job….
In St. Petersburgh, the Scientist Supreme kills another
successful colleague for setting his sights too low. He surveys A.I.M.’s new
High Council: Yelena Belova, Mentallo, Superia, Graviton, and
Jude the Entropic Man….
In Bagalia, Crossfire reveals the deal was a ploy to capture
Fury; Fury activates a device in his shoe that clobbers Crossfire. He frees
Taskmaster and they head out but an alarm goes off and soon they are fighting
dozens of supervillains.  Then backup arrives:
Black Widow and Hawkeye riding atop a flying car piloted by Phil Coulson. The
heroes escape but Taskmaster is recaptured. The mob wants to tear him apart but
Shadow Council Director Aloysius Thorndrake claims him and the others back
down. Once indoors, Thorndrake is revealed to be Mockingbird disguised by
SHIELD CamoTech….
Taskmaster meets with Coulson who offers him a job; and then
triggers the memory implant with the word “Reverie.” And the next thing we see
is Taskmaster joining the A.I.M. High Council, with no memory of being
recruited by SHIELD….


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Mission 006: Iliad Pt. 1
SHIELD Agent Phil Coulson recruits James Rhodes for the
Secret Avengers, stressing the need for great personnel sacrifice; Rhodey
accepts as it’s what he was trained to do….
An unsanctioned nuclear facility in Sin-Cong is destroyed by
the fleet of Iron Patriot drones….
Maria Hill is introduced to Charles Dalton, SHIELD’s Interim
Liaison from the United Nations Security Council. She doesn’t care for his glib,
insinuating manner but he hints that he shares her concerns with the agency’s
leadership and addresses her as Acting Director Hill….
On A.I.M. Island (Barbuda), Mockingbird is contacted for a
progress report from Director Daisy Johnson aboard the Iliad. Their mole
inside of A.I.M., Taskmaster, has not arrived for the rendezvous—and then he
shows up with a couple of soldiers and attacks Mockingbird. Daisy goes to the
psy-ops department and their top psychic, Ellis Love, explains that she has been
unable to pierce Taskmaster’s mind with the trigger word. Mockingbird takes
down the two A.I.M. soldiers and she begins a duel with Taskmaster. Finally, Love latches onto the correct part of the bad guy’s brain with the code word
[reverie] and he remembers that he is one of SHIELD’s Secret Avengers….
Coulson explains the problem with the hundreds of sentient
Iron Patriot drones choosing their own targets to Rhodey and SHIELD wants him
to explain the situation to the drones and tell them to stand down….
Taskmaster brings Mockingbird inside the A.I.M. base—some fighting
is required—and they patch the comm system through to Rhodey. As the drones prepare
for battle, Rhodey speaks to them and learns that they consider him the First
Pilot, after the Maker (Tony Stark). So Rhodey speaks to them like a Marine
sergeant, telling them that their performance is unacceptable and he will have
to show them how it is done. He dons the Iron Patriot armor and leads them out….
Having confirmed that Daisy Johnson has ordered agents onto A.I.M.
Island to assassinate the Scientist Supreme, Maria Hill shares the info with
Charles Dalton who tells her she has the backing of the Security Council to
remove Johnson from her position as Director of SHIELD….


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Aboard the Helicarrier, SHIELD acting-Director Maria Hill
finds all communications are down, preventing her from seeing what was
happening to the team of agents in the Brooklyn battle. A tech is able to route
a camera through one of the Iron Patriot drones…
…and they see the SHIELD team (Nick Fury Jr., Phil Coulson,
Iron Patriot, and Inhuman newcomer Sarah Garza) at the mercy of a cadaverous
bald man in a hospital gown surrounded by floating junk accusing them of
bringing the chaos to their neighborhood and assuring them they will pay. They
try to talk sense to him but the man is angry about regular people always being
harmed by the actions of the heroic types. A backup team arrives in a flying
car and the telekinetic hurls the car through a building, killing the agents.
Then the Junkman stops talking and falls from the sky. The SHIELD team seizes
the opportunity to retreat, seeking refuge in a relatively intact house. Fury
contacts Hill who has info on their assailant: Gavrel Achter, city sanitation
worker, also transformed by the Terrigen Bomb. Hill tells them to bring him in
alive but to kill him if they have to. Fury makes plans to draw him out as
Coulson waits upstairs in order to shoot him if the talk goes badly. Sarah and
Rhodey will wait with Coulson….
Fury offers the Junkman help but it is refused, the man
showing contempt for self-appointed heroes. He hurls a cloud of junk at Fury so
Coulson opens fire but the bullets bounce off a mental shield and the Junkman
hurls wreckage at Coulson. A car hits Sarah as the upper floor collapses and
she is suddenly glowing brightly and unharmed. Sarah seizes the Junkman,
telling him she never asked for his protection and suddenly…Nick Fury shoots
the Junkman in the head, killing him. Sarah is shocked and appalled but Fury
tells her they couldn’t take any chances….
Back aboard the Helicarrier, Maria Hill talks to Sarah,
offering her more training and a chance to master her power. But Sarah
declines, she doesn’t want to be a weapon, she knows killing the Junkman was
necessary but she doesn’t want to be the one making the decision. Hill
understands and promises to try to get her back in the tech department but
until then, Sarah will be confined to a cell….


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How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird Part Two of Five
At A.I.M.’s Adaptoid Center, Agent Kowalski is having fun
controlling the Shang-Chi android and using it to beat up the captive Hawkeye. He
invites Mentallo to give it a try but he doesn’t enjoy it as much as Kowalski.
Elsewhere, Taskmaster menaces a nervous guard, enjoying watching the guy
squirm—then the guard asks to become TM’s apprentice and the idea appeals to
Taskmaster….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad, Director Maria Hill
is meeting with MODOK who claims to be defecting to their side, offering a
cache of valuable intel in exchange for amnesty. She sees through the attempts
to manipulate her psychologically and gets him to admit the real reason for his
defection is a hostility towards the current Scientist Supreme, Andrew Forson,
though his connections to the Entropy Cult….
Back on the Island, Taskmaster has TESS-One smashing its way
through the guards and Taskmaster himself taking down several who attack him.
TM notes that his apprentice failed to notify the guards not to attack TM and
for this transgression, TM will refer to him as “Todd….”
At a secret A.I.M. base known as the Chariot in St.
Petersburg, Russia, Iron Patriot and Bruce Banner are evaluating the data they
have found. Before they can begin teleporting the material back to Phil Coulson
on the Iliad, the entire place is destroyed by a massive explosion. It
turns out Rhodey was saved by his armor and Banner by transforming into Hulk,
leaving Rhodey shaken….
The Scientist Supreme is gloating over his success, having
killed two SHIELD Agents in Russia, unmasked a traitor, and Yelena Belova is
bringing in three more captives. Hawkeye, Nick Fury Jr., and Black Widow are in
transit, guarded by the Shang-Chi Adaptoid….
On the beach, Taskmaster unearths a small boat, planning to
escape the island with Mockingbird. Then TESS-One clobbers him, controlled by
“Todd” who is really Anton Trask and was playing TM the entire time….
Aboard the Iliad, Maria Hill is threatening MODOK,
accusing him of luring her agents into a trap. MODOK denies this, claiming the
fault was hers for being too eager to take down Forson. She asks him to turn
over some secret intel to prove he’s not lying. MODOK reveals that A.I.M.
likely has a high-ranking double agent within SHIELD. And he has access to a
powerful mind-wiping drug, that could erase memories by use of a trigger word….
On Barbuda, Forson is interrogating Taskmaster. TM insists
that he and Mockingbird can easily tear through the place. Forson responds,
“Mockingbird is dead…and so are you.” Then Taskmaster is shot in the head…by
Mockingbird….


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Mission 010: Brooklyn
The Terrigen Bomb was detonated. Sarah Garza of Park Slope,
Brooklyn, New York, bursts out of a cocoon and discovers her skin is now dead
white with a reddish mask shape around her eyes. Nausea convulses her and her
body emits a flash of plasma energy which destroys her house and several
surrounding it….
The incident is reported to acting-SHIELD Director
Maria Hill, who, learning that Sarah worked for the Agency as a computer expert, has
her brought in. Hill talks to Sarah who is certain she is in serious trouble
but then catches on that Hill is making her a field agent to help combat
Thanos’ invasion of Earth. Sarah is put in a special Stark-designed suit to
contain and focus her energy bursts and is turned over to Iron Patriot for a
very rushed training session. Rhodey takes her out to the Brooklyn battlefield
where they are to support Nick Fury Jr. and Phil Coulson fighting the invading
monsters. And the fleet of Iron Patriot drones accompanies them. Sarah is
scared on the battlefield but her powers manifest, pouring out of her hands
straight up, incinerating some of the drones. She then points at the enemy and
a huge energy blast destroys a lot of them, along with a great deal of property.
Fury reports to Hill that Sarah did well for a first try and Coulson jokes
about choosing her superhero name—and suggesting “The Invigilator.” Then a
mental attack knocks Rhodey out of the sky, then the drones start dropping.
Sarah unleashes a blast to destroy a drone that is about to fall on her. Then
cables burst up through the ground and entangle her and the men. A cadaverous
bald man in a hospital gown surrounded by floating junk accuses them of
bringing the chaos to their neighborhood and assures them they will pay….


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How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird Part Five of Five
On A.I.M. Island, the Scientist Supreme (Andrew Forson)
surveys the carnage left by the Secret Avengers’ escape. He tries to contact
Yelena Belova but she doesn’t answer (we know she’s dead and her body is in
Avengers’ possession). He orders his people to go after the sub and learns that
the Avengers have destroyed the four pursuit craft. He gives orders to assemble
a kill squad and in return is informed that A.I.M. bases all over the world are
being shut down by SHIELD (based on the information MODOK gave to Maria Hill).
Then in the passageway, Forson is confronted by the injured Mockingbird. He
tries to convince her she is “Barbara” and his ally; she responds that there is
something “Barbara” and “Bobbi” have in common: they hate him. She beats him to
a pulp but while she is crouched over him, he pulls out a knife and stabs her
in the hip. They struggle over the knife and she ends up flipping him off the
walkway. She lies still a moment to gather her strength then she gets up and
walks away….
In the morgue, Taskmaster awakens from his deep coma;
Mentallo has left a note explaining that he doesn’t know how TM is still alive
and rambles about nanobots while encouraging TM to take advantage of this
second chance….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad, Director Maria Hill
and MODOK are negotiating the size of his new lab and staff. She assures
him she will uncover his scheme but he assures her that he knows when he has
lost and finds solace in knowing that he and Hill are similar….
Maria Hill then meets with the Secret Avengers. Because of
what happened to Bobbi, Hawkeye announces he is quitting the team. Rhodey also
wants to quit over the lack of oversight, concerned there was too much they
were not being told. Hill accepts this and tells them the operation will be
modified and she is okay with their leaving. She has just one more word:
“Reverie,” wiping everyone’s minds….
At a chicken restaurant, Mockingbird walks past a bunch of
beaten neo-Nazis and enters to join Daisy Johnson and Winter Soldier. Bobbi is
introduced to the sole staffer, Martha. They leave before the police come,
handing to Martha a cache of Nazi money and Bobbi points out they are free
agents, they can go anywhere….


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Budapest
The word “reverie” is repeated throughout the issue, signaling
someone’s memory is being manipulated. Starting…now….
[Reverie] Hawkeye awakens on a rooftop in Budapest, three
bullets in his abdomen and no idea of where he is or how he got there. He is
captured by soldiers who bring him before their boss, arms dealer Andras
Bertesy who questions him. Torture, truth serum, a psychic, and a nasty
octopus-like creature inserted in his nose—all confirm that Hawkeye does not
know where he is or why. Then Black Widow enters, shooting….
Ten hours earlier, Hawkeye and Black Widow met with SHIELD Agent
Phil Coulson who told them that SHIELD was putting together their own version of
the Secret Avengers and he would like them to join. Clint is reluctant. Coulson
mentions that memory implants would play an important part and Natasha rebels.
Coulson mentions an incentive, a mission the two Avengers would like to deal
with themselves, which they will be permitted to if they join the team. They
are reluctant until they hear about the case (redacted from the readers’ view)
and they agree. Then Coulson reveals they have already been injected with the
memory implant nanotech when they shook his hand. Hawkeye is angry but Coulson
is oh-so-reasonable….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad, Maria Hill
explains to Clint and Natasha that the memory erase program will be activated should
there be any deviation from the plan. Nick Fury Jr. arrives to explain the
mission: arms dealer Andras Bertesy is selling a piece of Darkforce to give a
terrorist group the power to teleport and they are planning a high profile
assassination against an American target….
Hawkeye and Fury are soon on a Budapest rooftop, chasing the
last link in their chain when they capture a terrorist as he jumps through a
portal. Watching from the Iliad, their magic expert Sebastian Druid tells
them the man controls the portal with his hands so Fury breaks some fingers, trapping
him there and forcing him to turn over the coordinates of the target. Fury
shoots the man in the head, eliciting a shocked reaction from Hawkeye; Fury
explains it is a special type of bullet that has a healing factor, reviving the
victim in a few hours. Another enemy shoots Clint three times in the gut and
Fury shoots him down. Fury takes off to save the target while Clint is captured
by the baddies, bringing us back to the beginning. Hawkeye is rescued by Black Widow
and taken to a hospital….
Meanwhile, a terrorist walks through a portal into he Oval
Office but finds Nick Fury in the President’s chair; Fury shoots him….
Later, in the hospital, Hill tells Fury that the unreliable memory
implant systems was being tested on Hawkeye and Black Widow and it was a
success. With the code word “reverie,” Hawkeye will never learn that it was
Nick Fury who shot him, not a terrorist….


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Mission 008: The Cathedral
Mockingbird is trapped in A.I.M. on Barbuda, disguised as
scientist Harold Bainbridge; her own scientific training allows her to bluff her
way through the job but she has no idea what his actual projects are—or his
personality, his friends, his routine, or even his password. It’s been three
days and she can’t hold out much longer….
Outside, Taskmaster is introducing the trainees to TESS-One
a giant fighting robot so they can learn basic fighting techniques. He pulls
two “volunteers” out of the ranks and sets Tessie on them while he plays ping
pong with Mentallo. A headdress flung by indicates the need for another
volunteer….
Yelena Belova gives the Scientist Supreme (Andrew Forson) an
update on Taskmaster’s training; she concludes that all he is creating is
cannon fodder. What A.I.M. needs is an elite fighting force and she knows she
is the one to train and lead them. Forson listens, flirting with her in very
unsubtle ways; when he touches her hair she twists his arm, telling him to read
her detailed report and be at the meeting in an hour….
Graviton’s mystical meditations are interrupted by Superia
who shares his misgivings about the company and they enter into a secret alliance….
At a stone tower called the Cathedral on the island, a seeker
of the truth enters and ascends. He passes doors leading to various options for
living: pleasure, contentment, power, power absolute, power divine. At the top
he reaches for truth. Jude the Entropic Man shows him the lost truth inscribed
on the wall and holds the man’s head in his hands…causing him to disintegrate into
a crystalline form….
Mockingbird considers some other possibilities: that she
really is Harold Bainbridge and Mockingbird is a hallucination—or perhaps she is
a Skrull. “His” supervisor then calls him to an important meeting—she is pushed
inside and discovers she is expected to make a presentation to the A.I.M. High
Council….


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Mission 005: Barbuda
After the mission to Barbuda, Hawkeye and Black Widow talk
it over: Clint is consumed by guilt, questioning why he ever agreed to this job;
Natasha considers the dirty work and memory implants an essential part of the deal
so she doesn’t object. He wants to quit, she points out that the mindwipe effectively
“gets him out of it” every day. He agreed to it and that’s that….
At the SHIELD Helicarrier, Phil Coulson debriefs Hawkeye, Black
Widow, and Nick Fury Jr.….
The first problem that came up was Hawkeye objecting to killing
the Scientist Supreme as murder. Fury insisted it was war and thus allowed but
Natasha pointed out it wasn’t war but a political assassination. Clint and Fury
bicker some more so Natasha tells them to shut up since she’s the one who will
be taking the shot….
Black Widow infiltrated a tall building, taking out a couple
of guards, and set up her sniper rifle with a view to the courtyard where the
target was addressing several of his troops. Fury and Hawkeye were providing
ground and air support. But Natasha was caught by the Super-Adaptoid (Yelena
Belova) who took on the form of a tiger woman and attacked, hurling Nat through
the window. With her compromised, Fury ordered Hawkeye to shoot the bad guy. Instead,
he shot an arrow that enveloped Black Widow in a net that parachuted safely to
the ground. So Fury shot his way through several A.I.M. guys and confronted the
big man, shooting him in the face…
Now Fury wants to know what the secrecy surrounding this
debriefing is all about. Coulson tells him that Daisy Johnson is out as
Director. Senator Ralston’s replacement as the interim Security Council Liaison,
Charles Dalton, has suspended Johnson for approving the assassination of the
Scientist Supreme in reaction to the gun battle at the tech expo and named
Maria Hill Acting SHIELD Director. To smooth over the international
controversy, Barbuda has been given a seat on the UN Security Council, to Hill’s
surprise, and he puts her through to their representative: A.I.M.’s Scientist Supreme,
Andrew Forson….


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Mission 004: Tehran
An army of Iron Patriot drones takes off from China and
spreads a swath of death and destruction through the Middle East….
At the SHIELD Helicarrier, Dr. Mendel reports to
Phil Coulson that there is no progress on reactivating the damaged Jocasta that was
recovered from the Gate….
A helicopter lands atop the craft, discharging several divisions
of SHIELD troops, guarding a single prisoner, Dr. Bruce Banner. He is greeted
by Maria Hill. Director Daisy Johnson is surprised at how well it went,
considering the history of both Bruce Banner and Hulk. At a briefing of
scientific personnel, Johnson reveals that six hours after A.I.M. stole the
Iron Patriot prototype, an army of Iron Patriot drones took of from a factory
in China and raided the Middle East, targeting terrorist training camps,
leaders’ homes, weapons depots, all good targets but many were not verified and
the drones had no concern for civilian casualties. The US will not launch an
attack on Barbuda because it’s better to claim the drone strikes were planned than
admit that a US weapons system was hacked and deployed by an enemy. So she asks
the assembled brains how to stop them. Bruce Banner replies that they don’t: the
drones aren’t drones, they’re sentient. So they have a sense of identity and survival
instinct so they should talk to them, reason with them, as they think what they
are doing is in the best interests of mankind. But it has to be someone who can
understand how machines think….
And so, Phil Coulson meets with Tony Stark remotely, a small
monitor mounted inside a remote-controlled Iron Man armor. Tony has many
reasons why he can’t accommodate them but Coulson has a confession: he’s
actually there to talk to James “Rhodey” Rhodes….
And so, having learned that the Iron Patriots are headed for
Tehran, SHIELD cannot allow an act of war to take place that the USA would be
blamed for, so to buy time, Bruce Banner is dropped from a helicopter. And the
Hulk lands among the drones and smashes all of them into tiny pieces. Hulk
turns back into Banner and he is captured by SHIELD troops. Daisy Johnson makes
a statement for the press that Hulk, controlled by Mentallo, was dispatched
toward Tehran so the US Government allowed SHIELD the use of the drones to stop
him, which they did. The incident is still under investigation so there is no
word on retaliation against A.I.M., known to be Mentallo’s employer….
Meanwhile, Nick Fury Jr. leads an underwater mission of the
Secret Avengers (Black Widow, Hawkeye, Mockingbird) to infiltrate Barbuda.
Mockingbird will work with the on-site asset (Taskmaster) to learn how the
drones are being controlled while the other three are approved to assassinate
the Scientist Supreme….


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Mission 003: Arlington
SHIELD Director Daisy Johnson and Nick Fury Jr. are at AS3, the
USA’s largest defense expo, hoping to make some deals for the Agency. Johnson
reminds him that she approved Maria Hill’s request for the Secret Avengers and
the need to manipulate memories afterward. Fury is still feeling guilty about
what they did to Hawkeye (issue #1). Johnson introduces Fury to Senator Robert Ralston,
“Reb” of the Howling Commandos, and head of the Executive Oversight
Committee. Ralston is a little drunk and keeps making jokes about Johnson’s
youth which annoys her (though she is 19, mind you). And then she spots the
Iron Patriot armor on display and wants to know what it is doing there….
On the Helicarrier, Hawkeye is trying to explain to a skeptical
Black Widow how, even though a divorced couple, he and Mockingbird can still
work together. Then the real Black Widow arrives and Clint discovers the
previous Widow was Bobbi having fun with him by using the new CamoTech. Maria Hill
rebukes them and then calls them inside for a briefing. A.I.M.’s Arctic
Circle facility, the Gate, has self-destructed and the new Scientist Supreme, Andrew
Forson, was seen leaving shortly before. A.I.M. has set up on the island of
Barbuda and gained recognition by the United Nations, giving them diplomatic status.
A.I.M. is also recruiting new leadership: Yelena Belova, Graviton, Superia, and
Mentallo. Hill wants the Secret Avengers to investigate the Gate, warning them
that A.I.M. has their own clean-up team at the site. Agent Phil Coulson will be
their field support….
At the expo, Dr. Mendel explains the Iron Patriot armor. It
was recovered after the fall of H.A.M.M.E.R. and Norman Osborn by the
Department of Defense and donated to SHIELD (which Daisy Johnson hadn’t heard);
they have been modified to run as drones by AI. Johnson is outraged that the
government would steal Tony Stark technology for its own purposes. Then the Scientist
Supreme and his minions, including Yelena Belova the new Super-Adaptoid,
teleport into the room. Though packing weaponry, Forson assures them they are
only there to do business….
At the Gate, the Secret Avengers defeat the A.I.M. personnel
and Mockingbird (Ph.D in biology) recognizes the place as a conduit station,
built to contain and channel some kind of energy source. Black Widow and
Coulson recognize the dead staff as suicide scientists, programmed to kill
themselves once their work was done; they also discover a seriously damaged Jocasta….
At the expo, Johnson interprets Forson’s advance as a threat
so she activates her gauntlets and sends a shock wave through the ground,
toppling A.I.M. minions. Forson fires an energy blast at Nick Fury while Belova
assumes a tiger woman form and attacks Johnson. Ralston shoots Belova who turns
on him and fatally claws him across the chest. Taking the Iron Patriot drone, Forson,
with a parting quip, teleports his team away and Senator Ralston dies in Daisy Johnson’s
arms, saying, “Tell the Old Man I tried….”
Back at Barbuda, Forson grants an interview online,
justifying the murder of Senator Ralston as self-defense and denying the theft
of technology. He signs off and brings in Mentallo. While subtly denigrating
his limited powers, Forson explains that they are giving him a job he would be
perfectly suited for: animating the Iron Patriot drones….


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The A.I.M. High Council (Graviton, Superia,
Jude the Entropic Man) are at the beach on A.I.M. Island when they detect the coming of
entropy….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad, Director Maria Hill
is arguing with MODOK over whether the intel he revealed was enough to
justify granting him immunity; he demands a lab so he can start making science
for SHIELD….
On A.I.M. Island, the Secret Avengers (Black Widow,
Nick Fury Jr., Hawkeye) are now free and fighting their way through an army of
A.I.M. Agents. The Scientist Supreme (Andrew Forson) is notified of these
developments and rushes to the control room, leaving Mockingbird alone in the
lab. Hawkeye finds her and she confesses to killing Taskmaster. Hawkeye
contacts Fury with the news but the plan goes forward. Hawkeye helps the
injured Mockingbird to safety though her memory is so bad that she doesn’t know
who he is. Widow and Fury face the Shang-Chi Adaptoid. It challenges them to a
martial arts duel. They draw their guns and shoot it to pieces. Its remote
controller starts to activate its self-destruct mode but Mentallo hits him over
the head. The Secret Avengers assemble at the A.I.M. sub which is an
experimental model which one person can operate—and Black Widow is that person.
Yelena Belova, the Super-Adaptoid, steps out of the shadows and stops
Mockingbird at gunpoint; Bobbi attacks her and they roll out of sight of Forson
and his gunmen. Hawkeye is shot in the shoulder, Widow and Fury fire on the
A.I.M. soldiers. Forson tells his sniper to shoot Mockingbird when she comes
back into view; she stands and the sniper shoots her down. The sniper turns his
gun on the others and Fury kills him with a shot. The Avengers board the sub
and take off. Clint cradles Bobbi’s body in his arms and then suddenly the
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Mission 009: Lexington
Prelude to the series: As Daisy Johnson awaits confirmation
as SHIELD Director, Maria Hill brings up the Avengers Initiative. Hill’s
concern is the mindwipe problem which she sees as an essential part of the
program. Daisy sees many ways it can go wrong because similar projects have
been attempted. She also raises the issue of consent. Hill points out that if
the chosen Avengers say no to the invitation, they still possess knowledge of
the Secret team; she then suggests planting the tech on them first so that if
they decline the offer, it can be erased from their memories. Daisy can go
along with that. Hill suggests they start with Morse, Barton, and Romanoff and asks
to do a field test—and wonders if they should be using it on themselves….
Now: Daisy Johnson visits the grave of Senator Reb Ralston
(killed by A.I.M. in issue #3) and meets Nick Fury. She blames herself for
Reb’s death but Fury tells her Reb knew what he was risking. He suggests she
can just walk away from SHIELD as she owes them nothing….
Daisy has Manifold teleport her inside Funtime Industries, a
former lab for Tony Stark. She is there to steal the device Stark used to make
a copy of his brain and she plans to do the same in case SHIELD tries to take
her memories from her….
On the Helicarrier Iliad, Acting Director Maria Hill
is summoned by Agent Danny Fricks to see what the Psi-Division has discovered
while monitoring Daisy Johnson’s mind. She gives orders to capture anything
they uncover and dismisses an agent for questioning the legality of the
operation. Manifold is able to download to a disk 62% of Daisy’s mind and she
speculates on the mess it would make if they tried to put it back. So, then she
has Manifold put it back. Her mind of suddenly full of jumbled information,
including a vision of Kobik….
One week later, Maria Hill receives the gift of a small box
of chocolates from Daisy Johnson (referencing a joke between them made earlier
in the issue)….
In Kiev, Daisy locates the Winter Soldier and offers him
something she knows he will be interested in as it concerns someone he cares
about….


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How to MA.I.M. a Mockingbird Part Three of Five
Having just shot Taskmaster, Mockingbird is brought back to
the present by the Scientist Supreme (Andrew Forson) uttering the control word,
“Oneiric.” He uses his hypnotic control to convince her she is really Barbara, an
agent of the Cult of Entropy, and that “Bobbi” is a secondary identity by
taking her back to the time of her recruitment….
Aboard the A.I.M. submarine, the captive Secret Avengers (Hawkeye,
Black Widow, Nick Fury Jr.) are being brought to Barbuda by Yelena Belova who
flirts with Fury. Later, when they are alone, guarded by the Shang-Chi
Adaptoid, they work out a plan of escape with Fury being the one who must break
his thumb to get out of the handcuffs….
Bobbi continues her distorted history with the Cult of
Entropy, with Nick Fury believing she was a SHIELD Agent while Forson was using
her against Victorius, the cult leader. Then she had a premonition of a SHIELD
team infiltrating the island and they were caught. She feels the two identities
fighting in her mind and wants “Bobbi” out….
Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad, Director Maria Hill
is meeting with MODOK and taking down information he is revealing to her;
he wants ice cream, she won’t give it to him….
On A.I.M. Island, an aide takes Taskmaster’s corpse to the
morgue, only to find Mentallo relaxing there. Mentallo picks up mental signals
from the corpse and is dismayed….
Bobbi continues to scroll through her memories, again
showing her commitment to the cult’s goals while having to encourage Forson.
And then she aided in executing the SHIELD agents on the beach. Forson asks if
she would like to execute more people and she agrees….
As they are being brought in, Nick Fury removes his
handcuffs, frees Hawkeye and Black Widow, and they overpower the guards, ready
to take on A.I.M….


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Mission 006: Iliad Pt. 2
Maria Hill and a squad of armed SHIELD Agents invade the Helicarrier
Iliad, blowing open the door and confronting Director Daisy Johnson with a challenge.
Daisy tosses it off with “Already got what I came for….”
On A.I.M. Island a/k/a Barbuda, Nick Fury Jr. has killed the Scientist
Supreme. Hawkeye leaps in firing explosive arrows at the A.I.M. soldiers and
Black Widow providing air cover by shooting her stings from atop a tower….
Hill informs Daisy she is officially relieved of command.
Daisy makes a snide comment about Hill’s eagerness to take over and Hill
punches her, accusing her, not of killing the Scientist Supreme, no one cares
about him, but getting three operatives captured or killed…and Daisy corrects
her, “Four operatives.”
On the island, Taskmaster and Mockingbird finish their job
and head out to rescue the other Secret Avengers, Bobbi using CamoTech (see issues
#2-3) to impersonate an A.I.M. agent. As the heroes fight the A.I.M. troops,
Graviton appears in the sky, bringing down on them a crushing weight of gravity,
pinning them to the ground. Hawkeye tells the villain not to look up. He does
and he is stomped out of the air by the Hulk. And Iron Patriot (Rhodey) arrives
with his army of drones. Hill questions Daisy’s choice to escalate the
conflict, telling her she has forgotten the long game but Daisy says she
thought it was about Kobik. Hill orders her off the ship….
As the heroes face off against the villains, Taskmaster is approached
by Superia, who thinks he is on her side; she needs his help to get the real
Scientist Supreme to safety. Mockingbird, disguised as an A.I.M. soldier, calls the Helicarrier
to report that the Scientist Supreme, Andrew Forson, is still alive and she can
get a shot at him. Hill tells her to stand down. Bobbi goes for it so Hill
orders their psy-ops agent Ellis Love to invoke the [reverie] code word and erase
Bobbi’s mind of all knowledge of the mission. As the Secret Avengers head for safety,
Hawkeye asks where Mockingbird is. On Hill’s orders, Love again sends out [reverie]
which alters the memories of the Avengers into thinking Mockingbird did not
come on that mission but is safe on the Helicarrier. And Bobbi doesn’t know where
she is. Maria Hill, now Acting SHIELD Director knows it had to be done to salvage
the mission….


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Pawns
Geatar wants to know why Thanos saved his life at the end of last issue. The Titanian says it's because he has a job for him. Geatar says Thanos killed him before (Silver Surfer #38) so why should he trust him. The Titan replies that his death served a purpose then (see SS#38). Since then T's father Mentor resurrected G (SS#67), and now he'll be useful alive. Thanos doesn't require trust merely obedience, and if Geatar refuses to obey he'll kill him again. He wants G to head a team to get something for him. Geatar suggests that his former boss/lover Nebula would fit the role better, and she's part of his family. Thanos very angrily impresses on G that Nebula is *not* his grand-daughter, and if he mentions her name again he's dead.Thanos shows Geatar his team of villains held in stasis - Nitro, Rhino, Super-Skrull and Titanium Man. G recognises them (why? except maybe the Skrull) and agrees to lead them if T will promise not to harm Nebula. Thanos actually agrees to these terms! Then Super-Skrull wakes up and angrily attacks his captor with Mr Fantastic's stretching power and Thing's fist. T easily repels him but then he renews the attack as Human Torch. The other 3 awake and see the fight going on. Nitro decides to leave but Geatar stops him with a big gun to his head. He warns them all that they might successfully overpower *him* but then they'd have to face his master, who is currently beating the Torch out of the Skrull. They recognise the wisdom of Geatar's words.Thanos now gives them details of their mission. There's a cult of monks on the planet H'aarg who worship the Oracle Of Ancient Knowledge, an ancient survivor of a long-gone civilisation. Thanos wants that man for his vast knowledge of ancient secrets. Also the Oracle is preparing his cult to wage a holy war across the galaxy and Thanos says for his own reasons he wants such strife averted. The Titan claims that he doesn't want to do the job himself because he doesn't want to increase the reputation for altruism that some of his recent actions (eg in the Infinity War and Infinity Crusade events) have fostered. Rhino just wants to know what's in it for him. Thanos says they can loot the cult's wealth, which is good enough for him and Nitro. Communist Titanium Man cares not for wealth but Thanos tells him that the monks have scientific knowledge that he can download for his country. And he suggests to SS that saving his people from the jihad will restore his honour and status.He sends them all off in a stealth spaceship. (Allegedly the monastery has a protective shield preventing Thanos from teleporting them there.) When they've landed Super-Skrull turns rebellious again, but Geatar threatens him with his big gun. Rhino separates them and persuades them to just get the job done for all their sakes. Rhino smashes through a wall and a monk raises the alarm. The head monk calls on all his red-robed followers to dog pile on the intruders, who fight back but are overwhelmed. Geatar has faith that Thanos will save them, but we see him watching the fight on a screen and laughing.


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Holy war
Last issue Thanos shanghaied 5 villains and sent them to planet H'aarg to kidnap the Oracle Of Ancient Knowledge from his monastery. But the monks are well-armed fanatics who are overwhelming them. Nitro does his blowing up trick to take some of them out. Team leader Geatar tells Rhino, Super-Skrull and Titanium Man to keep fighting individually until they can clear a space to regroup in. The head of the cult rants that they will defend the Oracle to the death from the hands of unbelievers, as will his 'guardian'.The 5 do manage to get together in a cul de sac and Rhino smashes through a wall to a corridor free of cultists. Luckily they are next to a double door which Geatar recognises from Thanos' instructions as the entrance to the inner sanctum. They go in and Rhino and T-Man shut the doors while SS uses Invisible Woman's force field power to hold it shut. Nitro splits off from the others to go look for the Oracle himself but instead runs into the 'guardian' which turns out to be a large powerful robot. It easily bats away Nitro, Super-Skrull (in Human Torch mode) and Titanium Man, and shrugs off Geatar's big gun. Nitro is still groggy but then SS wraps it up in Mr Fantastic's flexible arms while charging Rhino knocks its legs from under it. However it still slams Geatar and Rhino aside. But T-Man blasts it in the back and it falls.Now the team, Nitro included, find the Oracle who ignores their approach. But then he turns and pushes back the hood of his robe to reveal that he is also a robot. But he is a robot that believes himself a god who is necessary for the survival of his worshippers and their planet. Nitro gets zapped again. Rhino charges and grabs him, pulling the robot free from his power connections, which makes him more docile.At that point Thanos arrives in his teleporting chair/throne. Super-Skrull protests that he told them the planet was shielded against teleportation. The Titan says that's no longer true now that they've disconnected the robot from controlling things like the defence system. He condescends to tell them what's really been going on. The Oracle is truly the storehouse of vast knowledge as he said last issue. But Geatar guesses that the galactic holy war the Oracle was going to start and the wealth here for them to steal weren't real. Thanos admits that he overstated things somewhat. And he also tells them that the spaceship they arrived in has self-destructed so they're trapped here. And then he teleports away with the Oracle.Geatar stops them from bickering among themselves and tells them they're going to fight their way out of the monastery and check if their ship is really dead. And if it is then they're going to steal another 1. They exit the Oracle's chambers, Rhino carrying Nitro. But the well-armed cultists are waiting for them.


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The mysterious second Steve Rogers
continues to make his way through dangerous territory on his
forgotten quest. He is joined by two other confused travelers who
resemble Bucky Barnes and Sam Wilson. They join forces for safety and
friendship....
Captain America appears to the Punisher
via hologram and reminds him of his mission to find would-be assassin
Black Widow. Meanwhile, Natasha is torturing a captive young Hydra
agent to learn of an opportunity to kill Captain America. Her charges
object to her grisly methods and insist that wiping his mind will be
better than killing him. They free the young agent—and he leaps at
them with a knife. Natasha shoots him down before the horrified
Champions....
Alaska: Ultron has returned from space
and built a stronghold in the North filled with an army of Ultrons,
waiting for...what? He has in his possession a fragment of the Cosmic
Cube—and now parties led by both the Iron Man AI and Captain
America are there to retrieve it, warning their teams that Ultron may
look like he's part Hank Pym, he is not their old friend. Tony's team
enters Ultron's stronghold, with Ant-Man seeking to invade the
mainframe—and Scott runs into the villainous Black Ant. Mockingbird
finds herself confronting Taskmaster; Sam Wilson is seized by a
virus-infected Vision; Quicksilver meets his sister the
demon-possessed Scarlet Witch; Hercules encounters Thor Odinson. A
massive battle ensues and Cap faces Tony—but Hank/Ultron overwhelms
them all....
They awaken to find themselves
prisoners around a dinner table in a replica of Avengers Mansion.
Hank/Ultron presides over the party wanting them all to get together
as they once did but the two teams keep sniping at each other. So
Ultron reveals the reason he waits in Alaska is that he knew the two
sides would destroy one another. Cap protests that Hydra will make
everything right but Hank is skeptical, seeing as how the Avengers'
efforts to make life better resulted in two Civil Wars, the House of
M, and the Dark Reign. As the bickering continues, Hank finally loses
it and demands to be respected as a founding Avenger—and this is
how Tony knows they are dealing with the real Hank Pym. AI Tony mocks
Hank's inferiority complex and confronts him with the real reason the
Avengers ended the family-style dinners: it was Hank hitting Jan.
Hank flies into a rage, complaining how all the good he did has been
forgotten in the wake of that one act while Tony Stark has made
multiple errors of judgment and outright crimes, yet is still
regarded as a hero. It's Scott Lang, the current Ant-Man who talks
him down, showing that they have both made mistakes they are trying
to live down but they can manage, advising Hank to do what Jan would
do....
Moments later, the Avengers team is
leaving with the Cosmic Cube fragment. Steve Rogers confronts Hank
about this and Hank reveals that he gave them the fragment to even up
the odds in this nation-wide conflict. On the way back, the Avengers
team hears from the media that Captain America has received Prince
Namor of Atlantis as a guest and was presented with a fragment of the
Cosmic Cube. The Avengers determine to keep fighting—unaware that
they have a traitor in their midst....RobFJ with tie-ins to this issue:-CA: Steve Rogers #18Mainly flashback leading up to #4 before Namor hands over his Cube fragment. We see Hydra in other parts of the world eg Wakanda.SE: Underground #1Between #4 and #5 AI Tony Stark's team get another Cube fragment from the Savage Land.


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Hydra now controls the United States of
America. Young Jason McAllister goes to school and learns the “new”
history of the world, where Hydra won WW2 but the allies used a
Cosmic Cube to create the “Great Illusion” that they had won and
now Captain America has put history right again. Meanwhile, his
brother Brian is arrested for being an unregistered Inhuman (he
vomits up a Captain America lunchbox for his brother—the weirdest
moment in the book)....
Captain Marvel, trapped in space with
her allies by the Planetary Defense Shield and vulnerable to the
Chitauri invaders, issues a desperate call to Earth for aid....
In Las Vegas, Rayshaun Lucas is pursued
by the authorities as he tries to link up with the Resistance; once
the heroes are sure he is for real, Hulk (A. Cho) and Spider-Man (M.
Morales) help him flee the Hydra Dreadnoughts and escape via a
borrowed Fantasti-car....
In Denver, a giant monster threatens
the city. Captain America faces it alone and he tells the beast to
leave or face his wrath. The monster laughs so Cap assembles the
Avengers, led by Thor (Odinson) and the Scarlet Witch and they make
short work of the creature. This victory is celebrated over the
airwaves along with accounts of how Hydra is suppressing crime,
boosting the economy, and negotiating lucrative trade deals with
foreign nations. Meanwhile, the Hydra Council is discussing the real
issues, mind control, keeping the Inhumans at bay in their own little
republic, expanding detention facilities—and the viral video of the
Resistance heroes' flight from the Dreadnoughts. Cap is pressured to
make a show of strength to counter rebellion and disloyalty but Cap
doesn't want to be the head of a prison state...
Rayshaun is brought to the Resistance
HQ hidden in the Nevada desert. The leaders, Hawkeye and Black Widow, are suspicious of their new visitor until he mentions that he is
bringing a flash drive full of vital information given to him by Rick
Jones....
Cap goes to dinner with the bitter
Sharon Carter and while he tries to convince her that Hydra has only
the nation's best interests at heart she cannot forgive his betrayal
of her and their friends. She appeals to him to spare Rick Jones. Cap
visits Rick in prison where he appeals to his old friend to come over
to Hydra so he can be rehabilitated instead of executed. Rick
refuses, sardonically reminding Cap that he has always been Rick's
hero....
In Nevada, Rayshaun is brought to the
Tony Stark AI who is so discouraged and distracted by the weight of
all of the Resistance's tech needs and the impossibility of their
mission that he tosses the flash drive into a bin and gets back to
trying to fix the building's air conditioning. Nearby Hawkeye is
equally discouraged and Black Widow builds him up with reassurance
and kisses....
Cap visits Madame Hydra who is working
on keeping Dr. Strange locked in the Dark Dimension with the rest of
New York. Steve himself is a bit discouraged with Arnim Zola and Dr
Faustus plotting against him. She advises him to make a great show of
strength....
Cap goes on the air and addresses the
nation about the challenges facing Hydra—meanwhile, Rick Jones is
executed by firing squad and Nevada sees the arrival of the tentacled
Hydra Helicarriers....

RobFJ - These are tie-ins that belong with this issue:- Occupy Avengers #8Hawkeye has left his team to join the Underground, but they continue without him rallying people to oppose Hydra.Occupy Avengers #9It's the last issue but the team, without Hawkeye, go down fighting against the overwhelming odds of Hydra.Ultimates2 #7The team are trapped outside Earth's defence shield along with many other heroes. The Chitauri can't get through the shield but the heroes have to defend Alpha Flight space station. Captain Marvel fails to find a way to negate the shield. America Chavez finds Galactus but he's too weak to help.Secret Warriors #1Quake recruits Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur and Ms Marvel to rescue Inferno and Karnak from a concentration camp for Inhumans. A flashback shows how Hydra-Cap arranged the death of her previous team, composed of some survivors from the 1st Secret Warriors series.Secret Warriors #2Karnak wants the team to find someone important who he believes is with the X-Men. But along the way Hydra sends the monster Howling Commandos after them.SE: Brave New World #2 (Patriot story)Rayshaun Lucas becomes the new Patriot with help from AI Tony Stark and a Black Widow AI. (Before his role in Champions #11.)Deadpool #32DP is working for Hydra because he trusts Steve Rogers and his daughter gets a good life. He hunts down resistors, in this issue specially Speedball. But when he finds the Resistance base in the Mount he lies to Hydra about it. (The app of Quicksilver suggests this is before Pietro leaves on the Cosmic Cube hunt at the end of SE#2 or after he returns in SE#5 - but Hydra knows about the Mount in that issue.)Deadpool #33DP can't decide to quit Hydra.


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The other Steve Rogers has met Kobik in
the woods; she is sorry for how she has made things go wrong. She
takes Steve to the ruins of Pleasant Hill and tells him to
“remember”....
As the heroes led by Captain America (Sam Wilson) and villains battle in
the streets of Washington D.C. for the fate of the nation:
Supreme Hydra Steve Rogers and his
lifelong friend Baron Zemo are reunited at the White House as Zemo
has brought the captive Black Panther, who promises retribution. A
delegation from New Tian led by Emma Frost arrives and Rogers demands
that the mutants surrender; instead, Emma calls in Magneto to destroy
the Empire's warships and a melee breaks out. Arnim Zola rushes
Rogers away to show him something they have discovered that could
make the fragmented Cosmic Cube work....
At the battle, Thor Odinson's eyes are
opened and he slams his war axe to the ground shouting “No more!”
Hearing this, Taskmaster and Black Ant decide to switch sides. They
free the captive Champions asking them to remember to tell the
Avengers—and then they are netted by young Spider-Man....
Viv Vision comes upon her father the
Vision and drains the virus that makes him bad. Dr Strange confronts
the possessed Scarlet Witch and summons Thor from her captivity and
she strikes Wanda down. Immediately Thor changes back to the dying
Jane Foster and Strange has Sam Cap fly her to the site of Mjolnir as
he performs an exorcism on the Scarlet Witch....
On the way to the Hydra dungeons, Zemo
and Black Panther are intercepted by the Winter Soldier who joins
T'Challa in overcoming the Nazi villain allowing the Panther to
escape....
Dr Faustus has succeeded in bending
Sharon Carter's mind to embrace Hydra—it turns out she is faking so
she can punch Faustus' lights out and sabotage the Hydra warships via
computer....
T'Challa comes upon Tony Stark's lab
where he finds Arnim Zola, having reassembled the Cosmic Cube, using
it to give Steve Rogers the power he needs to win....
At Pleasant Hill, the other Steve
Rogers recalls his life but he knows nothing past the moment when
Kobik changed his life. Now he realizes he is only a memory in
Kobik's mind and he asks if she can make him real again...but she
panics and runs off as the ground starts to shake....
In Washington, the good guys are
defeating the bad guys when a new figure enters the field: Captain
America Steve Rogers—with the power of a god....


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On Alpha Flight Station, Captain Marvel
(Carol Danvers) determines not to abandon her post under the waves of
Chitauri attacks. She stands by the comatose Quasar (Avril Kincaid)
and pours out her heart, blaming herself for their situation, trying
to prove herself that she approved the very shield which has trapped
them, and pleads with Quasar to wake up....
The other Steve Rogers is being
tortured by the Red Skull in the wilderness....
With the death of his mentor Madame
Hydra (last issue) still on his mind, Captain America (a villainous
Steve Rogers) plans to go ahead with his speech at the damaged
Capitol Building in Washington. Black Widow is also on the scene with
her team of young heroes planning to use the opportunity to
assassinate the rogue hero. Natasha is preparing her sniper rifle
while Spider-Man (Miles Morales) reminds her that Ulysses' vision in
CIVIL WAR II indicated that he would be the one to kill Cap. Natasha
locks him up in their truck since he isn't a killer. She contacts the
other members of the team to rescue four members of Congress who are
prisoners on the dais. The old man they rescued in issue #5 is
revealed to be Mosaic; his job will be to take over the Hydra guards
and have them shoot each other, while she pulls the trigger on Cap.
She is interrupted by the arrival of the Punisher, who is working
with Hydra. They fight and she impales his legs with knives. Looking
through her sniper scope, she sees Spidey, having escaped the truck,
is facing Captain America on the Capitol steps. She races out there
to intervene and has her neck broken by Cap's shield, killing her.
This sends Spidey into a rage that leads him to beat Cap bloody and
as he is about to impale him on a sharp rock as in the vision, Wasp (Nadia Pym) appears, pleading with him to realize that everything Natasha did was
to prevent him from becoming a killer like her. He relents and he and
the other Champions are arrested by Hydra guards....
The injured Cap meets with his beloved
Sharon Carter, confiding in her that he is sure everything is going
wrong, too many of his friends are dying. She spins around and holds
a sharpened stake of wood to his throat...but she can't bring herself
to hurt him. Steve has her locked in prison....
The other Steve Rogers is about to be
killed by the Red Skull; glimpsing a glowing young woman, he gains
the courage to fight back, seizing the Red Skull in a charge that
carries both of them over a cliff and into a river....
In the Arizona desert, the survivors of
the Underground are broken and demoralized and wonder if it's all
over. Sam Wilson, wearing the Captain America outfit once more,
raises the shield and tells them it isn't....RobFJ with tie-ins to this issue:-There are 2 tie-ins specifically related to this issue.CA: Sam Wilson #24Sam decides to become Cap again, leading to his app here.CA: Steve Rogers #19Steve tries to convince the Odinson and Sharon Carter (as in this issue) that he is doing the right thing.There are other issues I'm attaching here because they lead to events in SE#8.Deadpool #34After only capturing minor resisters for Hydra, and avoiding the big fish, DP now promises to get Maria Hill. But it seems like he's finally turned against Hydra and has a cunning plan, which also involves Blackout - the villain who created the dome over Manhattan.Mighty Captain Marvel #7The heroes in space continue to fight the Chitauri. CM's cadets unsuccessfully try to breach the Shield with a laser. The GotG return.(Ultimates 2 #8 has the SE banner but was correctly not solicited as a tie-in. Galactus recruits Ego-Prime to join Psi-Hawk, Infinaut and Shaper of Worlds in his Eternity Watch. The recruitment of the other 3 isn't recorded but it is relevant that Psi-Hawk was recruited before US Avengers #8 and probably before USA#7 - maybe between U2#6 and #7.)But strangely #9 and #100 *do* connect even though they don't sport the banner.Ultimates 2 #9America Chavez, Blue Marvel, Captain Marvel and Spectrum are taken from fighting the Chitauri to help Galactus and the Eternity Watch. Meanwhile Black Panther faces the Tiger God, which may or may not be relevant.Ultimates 2 #100The team, including Panther with the power of the Tiger God, help defeat the First Firmament. Includes Galactus reviewing what's been happening including Iron Man fighting Captain America, probably in SE#6.US Avengers #8In captivity Sunspot is being slowly killed by his own power due to the M-Pox. But after a couple of weeks of tinkering Toni Ho rigs up something that gives him back control.US Avengers #9Iron Patriot, Red Hulk and Sunspot take over the Hydra Re-Education Centre. Enigma, Squirrel Girl and the Champions of Europe liberate Paris. I'm putting these 2 issues here so that the revolts don't get squashed by Hydra because they'll be too busy with their scheme falling apart in SE#8-10. (Euroforce gets rescued from imprisonment here. Presumably they got captured after their escapade in CA:SR#18.)SE: Brave New World #1 (Invaders story)(This story takes place after Namor gives Hydra his Cosmic Cube fragment in SE#3. The ending suggests it is just before SE#8. Which means Subby's advisor (Bucky) appeared with him in CA:SR#18 earlier.)Sub-Mariner is keeping Atlantis neutral in the Hydra takeover and facing an uprising because of that. Old Invaders teammates android Human Torch and Inhuman Toro come to him for sanctuary but he arrests them.SE: Brave New World #2 (Invaders story)Jim Hammond and Toro escape from the Atlantean prison and meet the rebel leader Namora, while Namor broods about what's happened to Steve Rogers.SE: Brave New World #3 (Invaders story)Namora, Jim Hammond and Toro attack Atlantis with a sea-monster, but Namor captures them all.SE: Brave New World #4 (Invaders story)Namor is about to execute Namora when the Atlanteans rise up against him.SE: Brave New World #5 (Invaders story)Namor's adviser from last issue turns out to be Bucky Barnes. And Namora only manoeuvred Namor into the position of executing her so he'd come to his senses. Torch and Toro are freed and Bucky has a plan to defeat Hydra. (Namor and Bucky and his plan go on to Captain America #25 and SE#8.)


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Prologue 1945: Captain America Steve
Rogers undertakes a trek to a snow-covered mountain in Japan; there
he is met by Kraken and taken to a mysterious cave where he bathes in
a glowing pool  and is therefore protected from the Allies' use of
the Cosmic Cube to change history, setting him up to be savior of
Hydra someday in the future...
...and that future is now. Captain
America, Director of SHIELD is on duty; Sharon Carter lists for him
the three big problems they are facing: 1) the Chitauri invasion
fleet is coming and the Planetary Defense Shield is out, thanks to a
suicide bomber; Iron Man (AI Tony Stark) and Ironheart are trying to
get it running again while Captain Marvel leads Alpha Flight against
the enemy. 2) Supervillains held prisoner at Pleasant Hill have
descended upon Manhattan with havoc to wreak; the Defenders and the
Avengers Unity Team are at the scene. 3) Sokovia has been captured by
Hydra and they are threatening nuclear strikes if they are
not recognized by the UN. SHIELD Helicarriers are on their way. The
President declares a state of emergency, giving Cap full command of
US military and law enforcement agencies....
In space, the two most powerful heroes
are taken down: Hyperion by concentrated laser fire and Quasar eaten
by a dragon ship....
In Manhattan, Nitro sets himself off;
Jessica Jones' quick reflexes hurl him away but the explosion is
terrific.... Suddenly the bad guys start teleporting away....
The Planetary Defense Shield suddenly
comes up, throwing its protective force around the world, creating a
wall to the heroes' backs....
Then the Helicarrier Crescent, under
Hydra's control, rams the Iliad (the Helicarrier Cap is on) and the
latter's' crew start falling under the power of Dr Faustus' hypnotic
voice. Cap reveals himself as the Hydra leader and orders a shocked
Sharon locked up and kept safe. He informs Captain Marvel that she
and her forces are trapped on the outside of the Shield and there
will be more Chitauri coming for their captured Queen. Objective 1
accomplished: trapping the most powerful heroes in space. Baron Zemo
uses the Darkhold to cast the Darkforce Dimension around New York.
Objective 2 accomplished: many of the New York centered heroes are
now isolated. Iron Man summons all of the Avengers who are still free
to assemble and head for Washington as the Hydra Helicarriers arrive
at the nation's capital to take over the government of the United
States as Objective 3....

RobFJ with a roundup of tie-ins that belong with this issue:-
Deadpool #31Back in #27 Phil Coulson started getting suspicious of Captain America. Now Cap sends DP to kill him. And he appears to succeed. This happens before Cap reveals his Hydra-ness in this issue.Mighty Captain Marvel #5CM welcomes some new recruits to Alpha Flight Station, and then they get attacked by the Chitauri and stranded outside the Planetary Shield by Captain America.US Avengers #6Cannonball returns to Earth space to become a casualty of the Chitauri invasion alongside Hyperion and Quasar. Hydra-Cap has the team's helicarrier ready to 'defend' Washington DC. A Hydra mole in AIM shoots Citizen V/Sunspot. Dr Faustus mind-controls the rest of AIM. Red Hulk's 'upgrade' turns him against the rest of the USAv.SE: Brave New World #3 (Starbrand story)Starbrand sees Hyperion brought in injured. He fails to penetrate the Shield.Amazing Spider-Man #29Superior Octopus leads Hydra troops to take over Parker Industries HQ. Doc Ock wants his company back, and when Peter refuses Ock initiates the Darkforce bubble. Then the Avengers call Spidey to Washington.SE: Brave New World #3 (J Jonah Jameson story)The daily Bugle reports on the super-villain attack on New York and the early hours of the Darkforce blackout.Uncanny Avengers #24-25Most of the team are trapped in New York by the Darkforce bubble. Except Deadpool who went with Captain America last issue, and Quicksilver who's with the Washington forces. Dr Voodoo immediately gets taken over by dark forces, but the team save him from possession.X-Men Gold #7-8As the Darkforce covers Manhattan some X-Men leave the Mansion to fight demons. But the new X-Cutioner chooses this time to start killing their students.Free Comic Book Day 2017: Secret EmpireThis directly follows this issue and describes the battle for Washington DC. Which ends with Hydra-Cap lifting Thor's hammer - because he's worthy! And Jane-Thor disappears somewhere.Avengers #9Female Thor ends up without her hammer on another world under the rule of a tyrant. She sacrifices a chance to get home to defeat the tyrant, and she won't be brought back to Earth until SE#10.US Avengers #7Only Enigma and Squirrel Girl escape the battle of Washington to join the French Resistance.Amazing Spider-Man #30Spidey tells the Washington heroes to form a Resistance and then goes off to protect his worldwide business premises from takeover by Superior Octopus and Hydra.Amazing Spider-Man #31Peter destroys Parker Industries rather than let Doc Ock have it.SE: Brave New World #1 (Gwenpool story)Hydra kidnap Gwenpool and takeover a TV station to broadcast propaganda. Things don't go as planned. This and the next tale probably belong in the early (not so effective) phase of the Hydra's conquest.SE: Brave New World #2 (Hydra Bob story)HB and others try to arrest an Inhuman woman, and he accidentally succeeds.SE: Brave New World #1 (Giant-Man story)This story 12 days in tells how Raz Maholtra hits rock bottom but then joins the Underground with his family (before SE#1)Champions #10Nova is with Captain Marvel in space. Cyclops is sort-of with the X-Men in New Tian. Hulk, Spider-Man (Morales) and Viv Vision hunt for Ms Marvel in an internment camp for Inhumans. This must be before they are part of the Underground in SE#1. They don't find Kamala Khan. We know she'll be with the Secret Warriors, but I don't know where she is now.The above items happen straight after SE#0 or have to occur before SE#1.Clive_Reston on the Marvel Chronology Project Forum has pointed out that in the real world it would take Hydra weeks or months to get the populace following the rules (or understanding what rules they're supposed to follow) in SE#1. Thus he includes other stuff here that supposedly happens in the 1st few weeks after SE#0. But SE#1 doesn't say how long it is after SE#0. I prefer to think that in the unrealistic comic world Hydra *could* get things done a lot faster. But not so fast that the whole of SE only lasts the few days that XM:G#8 suggests.This also shortens the time that Captain Marvel and friends have to survive the Chitauri assault (I'm assuming that Alpha Station has enough supplies to keep them going), and the amount of time Dagger has been providing light for the whole of Manhattan.