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Operation Galactic Storm part 11, Death Adrift
On a lifeless planet in the Shi’ar homeworld solar system which serves as a weapon testing facility, ‘Oh man, that…is big’ Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man gasps. He stands in awe with two teammates from the Avengers West Coast - Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch and Miguel Santos a.k.a. Living Lightning. With them are Eric Masterton a.k.a. the new Thor and the Vision of the Avengers East branch, and inactive Avenger Captain Marvel a.k.a. Monica Rambeau. Lilandra, Empress of the Shi’ar Emprie stands on a platform above them as they look at a large vessel nearby. ‘Ground crews, move to safety! Stand by to de-power magnetic tethers! The nega-portal is prepared for launch’ Lilandra declares, when suddenly, another vessel appears. ‘Starjammers! To your vessel!’ Lilandra exclaims. Captain Marvel remarks to the other Avengers that it took some politicking, but they finally convinced Lilandra to meet with them. ‘Even if it meant leaving the Shi’ar homeworld to do so’ the Scarlet Witch remarks.
‘What’s this?’ the new Thor asks as the alien Starjammers march towards them. ‘Maybe the cavalry arriving’ Wonder Man suggests, while the leader of the Starjammers, Corsair, shouts ‘NO!’ and reminds Lilandra that he is an Earthling, and will not ferry a piece of military machinery of this size, of this unknown nature, through his old solar system. ‘tell me, Corsair…do you truly believe that your sentimentality for your home planet is more important than my people’s total war with the Kree?’ Lilandra enquires. ‘There must be other ways to end this war than to sneak weaponry from stargate to stargate’ Corsair suggests.
Wonder Man tells the Vision that Corsair is right, even if he doesn’t know what kind of portal that thing is. ‘Dropping a weapon like that into Kree space will kill negotiations! And that could mean killing billions!’ Wonder Man exclaims. The Vision points out that Lilandra rules by rationality, that she has no doubt calculated the costs and benefits of such a step, so this is no doubt her most efficient course. Lilandra turns to the rest of the Starjammers - Ch’od, Raza and Hepzibah and asks if Corsair speaks for them all, or if they have their own opinions. Raza replies that they regret letting their friend Corsair down, but they understand Lilandra’s position. ‘The Shi’ar face annihilation, and if only this device and stop the Kree…’ Raza’s voice trails off. Hepzibah points out that, in any case, it isn’t for them to debate politics - a job is a job. Corsair just hangs his head. ‘Well, this is one job you’ll do without me!’ Corsair exclaims as he turns and strides away.
‘Mmm. First we lose Binary…now Corsair…’ Ch’od points out. Lilandra tells the trio that they will simply have to pick up the slack, as the device must be delivered through the Kree stargate. ‘And that, surely, will not prove too difficult even for a diminished force of Starjammers!’ Lilandra exclaims. Lilandra states that since Thor’s battle with Gladiator destroyed their stargate, the Starjammers will need to travel to the Pan/os’yen system and use the gate there. ‘Now - prepare to launch!’ she orders, and shortly, the Starjammers depart, carrying the large Shi’ar object in its tow.
Wonder Man exclaims that Corsair is washing his hands of this, and that they have got to stop Lilandra, but Wanda points out that they don’t know the whole situation and they can’t risk losing the cooperation of the Shi’ar by leaping in and stopping their plan. ‘Wanda - you don’t know weapons! I do, remember? I made them. I sold death for years’ Wonder Man exclaims as they look into each other’s eyes. ‘Weapons like that demand to be used! You bring them out as a threat, but somehow or other events get out of hand and you - NO!’ Simon exclaims as the vessel moves further from sight. Starfox, another inactive Avenger, appears with his comrades as they all look up in shock. ’Oh, Lord…no’ Simon utters, very concerned.
Suddenly, ‘Wonder Man, what do you -’ the Vision exclaims as Wonder Man grabs the android by his cape and tells him to “can it”, as he announces that he is going with them, and he has a feeling he will need somebody who can help him infiltrate. ‘You’re nuts! You can’t!’ the new Thor calls out, while Wanda tells Simon not to go. Holding the Vision by his cape still, Wonder Man leaps out the air lock, and jumps after the Starjammer. ‘Halt!’ a Shi’ar officer calls out. ‘Tell me how to halt in mid-jump, buddy…and I still wouldn’t do it!’ Wonder Man calls back, while the Vision tells his “brother” that he assumes he has a rationale for this. ‘Bring them down!’ a Shi’ar officer orders, and they begin firing at Wonder Man and the Vision.
Wonder Man dodges the explosives, while remarking ‘My “rationale”? Lives, man! Saving lives!’ as ha drags the Vision behind them through space, while quickly approaching the Shi’ar vessel. ‘Then in fact you have no rationale at all. Only a reflexive emotional response’ the Vision points out. ‘Blast you - I have to do this! And if you still had a trace of my mind - my soul - in your lousy programming, you’d see that!’ Wonder Man exclaims as he tears at the hull of the Shi’ar vessel. ‘Then it is best for the efficiency of my performance that I do not’ the Vision points out. ‘Efficiency…I won’t let people die in the name of efficiency!’ Wonder Man exclaims angrily as he tears his way into the vessel, the nega-portal.
Air begins to rush out the hole, and Simon declares that there is higher pressure in here, that this place has an atmosphere. ‘You appear irrationally disturbed by the knowledge that my consciousness is no longer partnered after your own, Wonder Man’ the Vision points out. ‘Shouldn’t I?’ Wonder Man shouts, before wondering why the Vision would ever understand. A door up ahead is closing, and Simon tells the Vision to get through it. Wonder Man races over ,and holds the doors open with his impressive strength, while the Vision floats through the wall. ‘This is a dangerous preoccupation if we intend to function together’ the Vision points out. ‘I know, blast it! But you don’t know what it’s like to die and come back!’ Wonder Man exclaims, before making it through the doors.
Wonder Man tells the Vision that when you are haunted by death, seeing any part of you alive makes you feel immortal. ‘I can’t have kids, you know - I’m just an ionic energy…thing. When your mind was based on mine, you were the closest thing I’d ever get to a son’ Wonder Man exclaims, adding ‘And when she fell in love with your mind…I could feel a little closer to her’. ‘Of what “she” do you speak?’ the Vision asks, matter-of-factly. This angers Wonder Man and he scowls: ‘Your wife, you mechanical clot-head! Wanda!’, before suggesting they try to find their way through this monster, and he leads the way down a corridor of the nega-portal, with the Vision floating behind him, remarking ‘You continue to invest emotion in Wanda’.
‘What do you expect? It used to tear me up, seeing her in love with a computerized version of my personality…but at least - in a way - it made me feel she loved me’ Simon replies, adding that when Wanda started showing an interest in the real him, it was complicated, but it felt good. ‘Made me think I could win her away from my own earlier self. Like I was making progress…as a human being’ Wonder Man explains. The Vision tells Wonder Man that if he is troubled by such self-defeating thoughts, to know that he has no emotional interest in Wanda. ‘That’s supposed to make me feel better’ Simon asks, frowning. ‘I’d just gotten over my crush on her when you had to go all-the-way robotic…and make her suddenly seem available again!’ Simon declares, while pointing out that he now has other women in his life, normal women, well, sort of, - as normal as a starlet and a screenwriter can get.
Wonder Man tells the Vision that he doesn’t know if he wants to be messed up with a super heroine again, as he wants to create a real life for himself. ‘But then I see her still stuck on you - just a plastic shell of a man - and I know that I’ve got the mind, the soul, that she fell in love with when she fell for you…and I have to wonder…’ Simon’s voice trails off. ‘The ability of the human mind to complicate its own processes continues to baffle me’ the Vision states. He adds ‘Surely if you would simply shut down these passionate responses and act in a manner incremental to your conscious -’ he begins, when Simon shoves his hand over the Vision’s mouth, ‘Do my the biggest favour anybody ever did, Vision. Just shut up for once!’ Simon exclaims, before telling him to come on, as he has gotta do something. Simon carries on down the corridor, muttering that one of these passages has to lead to the bomb-works, and announcing that they are going to find it and shut it down.
On the Starjammers’ vessel, Lilandra speaks to them via communicator, that it is confirmed, their sentries have found no sign of Wonder Man or the Vision on the planet, and can only assume that they are riding in the nega-portal. Raza informs the Empress that their remote scopes detect nothing on the exterior. ‘And as I scan the interior…wait. A blip of ionic energy!’ Raza exclaims. ‘That pseudo-human Wonder Man! If he sabotages the portal, the Shi’ar war effort will be devastated!’ Lilandra declares, while Hepzibah remarks that she suspects their contract for this mission will be worthless. ‘Then what are we waiting for? Program the auto-pilot, Hepzibah…and let us stop them!’ Ch’od exclaims, as he, Raza, Hepzibah and the small alien called Cr+eee suddenly teleport away, into the nega-portal, where Wonder Man exclaims ‘Blasted thing just twists forever. Have you seen anything that looks like a control mechanism?’ he calls out to the Vision,.
‘Nothing. Which, I maintain, may be for the best’ the Vision replies. ‘That it is, Avenger!’ Raza exclaims as he and his teammates materialize above the Vision and Wonder Man. ‘Had you found the portal, we’d all be facing an angry Empress Lilandra’ Hepzibah declares, while Ch’od exclaims that only the Avengers will have questions to answer now. Wonder Man punches Raza, knocking him back, and tells the Vision not to let the Starjammers take him. ‘I don’t care whether you agree with me or not -’ Simon begins, but the Vision tells him to say no more, as there is no benefit in being captured now. With that, the Vision becomes intangible when Ch’od tries to punch him, so the alien just falls through, while the Vision releases optic beams at Hepzibah, knocking her backwards.
‘What turning immaterial?’ Ch’od exclaims, while Wonder Man punches Raza against the wall, and tells him to put his sword down and listen - only for Ch’od to slam his fist into Simon’s back. ‘That’s what I like…something solid!’ Ch’od exclaims. Hepzibah fires a gun at the Vision, striking him in the back, before he tells her to beware of firing weapons here. ‘Surrender and I’ll stop firing, Earthling!’ Hepizbah replies. Wonder Man looks at Ch’od and asks him if he knows what he is towing here. ‘Our livelihood, Wonder Man’ Ch’od responds, while Raza adds that if his Empress knows of what she speaks, then also the survival of the Shi’ar race - his race, and he leaps towards the Vision, who is once again firing optic blasts at Hepzibah, who this time dodges them, and the blasts strike the nega-portal’s wall. ‘No! You’ve damaged the circuitry! If you’ve disabled this portal -’ Raza exclaims as he slams a fist into the Vision’s neck.
The vision spins around and punches Raza aside, stating that the “disabling” of this “portal” should be the least of their worries. Raza falls to the floor, while the Vision announces that if their discoveries, while in the company of the Shi’ar are true, then the implications of damage to these mechanisms are far more ominous than - he is interrupted when Ch’od slams his fist into Wonder Man’s face, while Wonder Man shouts ‘Blast it…Vision…just tell them!’, as Raza declares that they hold the Avengers responsible for any damage done to this device, and all the harm they bring thereby to the Shi’ar efforts to end this war. ‘Please…I must ask you to listen!’ the Vision states as he shoves his intangible hand through Raza’s chest, causing the warrior to cry out in agony.
‘Raza! You’ve killed him!’ Ch’od gasps, but Wonder Man explains that the Vision is real good at the half-materialized-hand-in-the-chest bit. ‘Just like I’m real good at this!!’ Wonder Man shouts as he punches Ch’od hard in the face. ‘Now. Before you talk about responsibility - hear me out!’ Wonder Man tells the Starjammers. ‘As you…wish…’ Raza utters as he tries to get to his feet. Hepzibah suggests they make it brief, ‘And don’t think we will change our minds’ she adds. Hepzibah announces that the Starjammers have learned to respect Earth’s heroes, but that they have also learned to expect them to meddle in affairs beyond their province. ‘And beyond your comprehension! Do you have any idea what sort of crisis the Shi’ar are facing against the Kree’ Raza calls out as he and his teammates regroup.
‘Yes! A pretty good idea. But do you have any idea what role you’re playing in that crisis? Do you?’ Wonder Man asks, before adding that the Starjammers don’t, as the high command never tells the flunkies when they’re packing something this big. ‘Did Truman tell the crew of the Enola Gay that they were dropping the first atomic bomb on Japan? Did he tell them what kind of destruction they were bearing? Never. Because no commander wants to risk a conscience fouling up his tactics!’ Wonder Man exclaims. Hepzibah replies that the Avengers are masters of dramatic overstatement. ‘To compare this Negative Zone portal to the deadliest weapon ever used by your species -’ she begins, but Wonder Man cuts her off, asking if she really believes it is just a “portal”.
‘It’s a bomb!’ Wonder Man exclaims, announcing that this entire complex is a “nega-bomb”, turning the power of the Negative Zone into a pure, destructive force - a force that can destroy the Kree galaxy, that can kill billions. ‘Now, tell me about responsibility! Tell me this is just a “job” that you’re just following “orders”!’ Wonder Man exclaims. ‘You can’t, can you? Now that you know…now it’s your decision - to kill - or not to kill!’ he adds. ‘If this is true…then you are right’ Hepzibah tells him. She adds that this is too great a decision for them to shirk, and that to pretend helplessness would be arrogant. Raza points out that if the Shi’ar are in danger, then his race is in jeopardy. ‘Then let the Shi’ar do their dirty work. ‘Why did Lilandra hire us? To keep her hands clean? I won’t have that much blood on my hands’ Ch’od states.
‘It would be…an enormous amount of blood’ Raza admits. The Vision states that these are not rational arguments for the resolution of such a dilemma. ‘No kidding. They’re heart arguments. Gut arguments. Soul arguments. And that’s what I like about them’ Wonder Man replies. He and Raza shake hands, and asks for time to talk it out. He asks the Starjammers to stay out of the stargate until they can make a real decision. ‘Yes. We can give you that much’ Raza replies, before deciding that they should examine the damage here, as it does them no good to discuss the use of this bomb if it is disabled ‘Or about to detonate’ Wonder Man points out. Raza examines his watch and announces that it is 21:24. ‘at our rate of travel, we should now be approaching -’ he begins, until a wide-eyed Hepzibah interrupts: ‘The stargate!’ she exclaims.
‘Raza, we’re not travelling at our original rate! When this emergency struck, I programmed us for top speed!’ Hepzibah reveals. Indeed, the Starjammer, towing the nega-portal, approaches the stargate, energy rippling around it. ‘We must change course immediately!’ Hepzibah exclaims as she, Ch’od and Cr+eee rush away. ‘To the ship, then!’ Ch’od exclaims. ‘By the weapon - the damage! Can you -’ Raza calls out. ‘Yes! We’ll check it out! Just go!’ Wonder Man replies, before the Starjammers teleport back to their ship. The Vision asks Wonder Man if he can indeed repair this device, to which Wonder Man replies ‘Are you kidding? I don’t even know how this thing works!’, but that he didn’t want them delaying, for if they are going to blow, they better to id out here, in the Shi’ar fringe world, than in the heart of the Kree galaxy.
The Starjammers arrive back in their vessel, but Hepzibah exclaims that they are too late, as they are moving too quickly to avoid the stargate. Ch’od tells Raza that he will have to jettison the bomb. ‘But the two Avengers…’ Raza begins, before deciding that, as they themselves must see, it is two lives against billions. The Starjammer releases the nega-portal from it’s pull, and Wonder Man and the Vision are tossed about inside it. ‘Our course has shifted abruptly’ the Vision points out. ’Rather too abruptly to think we are still connected to our host ship’ the Vision adds, before pointing out that Wonder Man has won his argument, that this weapons journey has been interrupted, and they have not “blown”. ‘You must be pleased’ the Vision remarks, while the Starjammer is pulled into the stargate.
‘Oh, yeah, I’m just tickled pink. Except for one little thing…the fact that we’re all alone in a giant bomb, drifting through the Shi’ar galaxy…with no way to get home!’ Wonder Man exclaims, while the nega-portal falls away from the stargate, with nothing but swirling stars, drifting asteroids, and the coldness of space around them….


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Operation Galactic Storm part 18, Big Decisions
On the fringe of the Kree Empire, Simon “Wonder Man” Williams and the android Avenger known as the Vision are inside the Shi’ar nega-bomb, while several Skrull officers approach them stealthy from behind. ‘Then you persist in attempting to deactivate the nega-bomb, Wonder Man?’ the Vision asks. ‘I will deactivate it!’ Simon replies as he examines some wiring, mumbling that he hopes he can figure out this alien technology, as all his years in munitions didn’t prepare him for this. ‘NOW!’ one of the Skrull officers shouts, and fires a weapon towards the Avengers. Simon and the Vision turn to the aliens, while the blast simply passes through the Vision as he becomes intangible, while Simon slams his elbow into the other Skrull’s stomach. Wonder Man points out that if the Skrulls have discovered them, then these two won’t be the only ones they will have to deal with.
Wonder Man takes his opponent out, but the other Skrull raises his weapon to Wonder Man. The Vision sees this, and leaps forward, phasing his hand into the Skrull’s head then solidifying, causing the Skrull pain. Wonder Man remarks that there could be thousands of these uglies crawling towards them right now, and possibly changing shape, too. Simon frowns and tells the Vision that for all they know, the walls around them and the conduits over their heads could be Skrulls in disguise. He turns his attention back to the wiring and declares that there may no time to waste if they are going to stop the bomb. ‘Yes. If’ the Vision replies, before Wonder Man exclaims that he has got it, and that he is getting the hang of this wiring.
There is a loud VZZZZ sound, as a door slides open within the nega-bomb. Wonder Man tells the Vision that he doesn’t know where the portal leads, except deeper into the vessel. ‘And if I were trying to keep a nega-bomb safe inside a metal shell…deeper is where I’d put it. Let’s go!’ Simon tells the Vision. But, as they walk down the corridor, the Vision tells Wonder Man that they have gone far enough. ‘Don’t be stupid. There’s nothing here but power supports, alarm systems, and -’ Wonder Man begins to reply, when the Vision grabs his arm and declares that they have gone far enough - because they will not deactivate the bomb. ‘What? Billions will die if we don’t!’ Simon points out.
The Vision states that billions will die because they must, that war between the Kree and Shi’ar imperils all. He adds that if the Shi’ar can end the war by destroying the Kree galaxy, it is efficient for them to let the Shi’ar use the bomb. ‘Forget it! I’ve told you - I won’t be party to genocide!’ Simon exclaims, brushing the Vision away from himself. The Vision declares that logic must prevail over emotion, and adds ‘As I must prevail over you’ as he punches Simon in the face.
Aboard the Skrull vessel towing the nega-bomb, a Skrull is pleased with himself and remarks to his comrades ‘Ah, the look on Quasar’s face when I placed him un such an untenable position! Earth’s protector -? Fah - the fool sacrificed the Kree Empire for the sake of his own solar system!’ the Skrull remarks, adding that Quasar’s threat to seal their return access through Earth’s stargate is inconsequential, as there are other stargates available to them for their escape. He adds that it is a pity poor Super Skrull was sacrificed for the greater good of the Skrull Empire. One of the other Skrulls turns to their captain and informs him that they have lost contact with the two scouts who were trying to locate the intruders. ‘Have we now?’ the captain asks, before ordering a force to be sent out to find the intruders and obliterate them.
Meantime, somewhere in Imperial Shi’ar space, five Avengers rush towards their Quinjet. ‘Quasar said what?’ asks Starfox. ‘The bomb got through the stargate!’ Eric Masterton a.k.a. the new Thor declares. Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch points out that it could destroy the Kree galaxy any moment now, while Captain Marvel a.k.a. Monica Rambeau reminds everyone that the rest of the Avengers will be trapped in the blast. Miguel Santos a.k.a. the Living Lightning remains silent, while the Shi’ar ruler, Lilandra announces that if the Skrulls have control of the bomb, nothing will stop them from detonating it. ‘Do you wish to die with your comrades?’ she asks the Avengers. Starfox looks back at Lilandra and tells the Avengers that Lilandra does have a point.
‘Will you let them die, Starfox?’ the Scarlet Witch asks, pointing out hat Captain America, Iron Man, Sersi, Hawkeye, the Black Knight, Hercules and Crystal are all trapped there. ‘I didn’t say -’ Starfox begins, while the Scarlet Witch adds that the Vision and Wonder Man are also trapped in the bomb. ‘Will you let them die?’ Wanda asks, while Captain Marvel adds ‘Could you live with yourself if you survived - by abandoning them?’ Starfox quickly replies that hew never said anything about abandoning. He climbs into the Quinjet behind his teammates, and mutters that he just said Lilandra has a point.
Somewhere in Kree space, inside another Quinjet, ‘Something out there’ Tony “Iron Man” Stark reports when he sees a blip appear on a monitor. He decides to check it out, and alters their course. ‘There…dead ahead now’ someone remarks. ‘Deathbird was right. It’s the nega-bomb!’ one of the other Avengers exclaims. Aboard the Quinjet with Iron Man are Clint Barton a.k.a. Hawkeye, currently using his Goliath persona, Crystal, Sersi, Hercules and Dane Whitman the Black Knight. ‘Fine. But now that we’ve found it…’ Sersi begins. ‘…how do we stop it?’ the Black Knight enquires.
Back inside the nega-bomb, the Vision and Wonder Man are locked in a struggle, as the Vision states that the destruction of the Kree is the best solution to the tensions that imperil the universe, particularly their own solar system. ‘Genocide is never the “best solution”!’ Wonder Man retorts, adding that whatever saves the most lives is the best solution. The Vision snarls at Wonder Man and tells him that he sentimentalizes the sacredness of life. He adds that one must examine one’s chosen aims and choose what best serves them. ‘Since the Avengers’ aim is to protect Earth…then whatever removes a possible threat to Earth…must be!’ the Vision declares as he shoves his intangible fist into Wonder Man’s chest. ‘No! NO!’ Wonder Man exclaims, as ionic energy bursts from his eyes, and the Vision tells him ‘One day you will see the rightness of my -’ but the Vision cries out in pain as he solidifies his hand, and Wonder Man is plunged into darkness.
‘Where…? Falling, but…Lord, not here again! Not death again! Been here before - and escaped!’ Simon thinks to himself, as he sees a vision of his dead body with several Avengers standing over him. His form falls towards his dead body, but he decides that he won’t be trapped here, that he wants to live. ‘I WANT TO LIVE!’ he cries out. ‘I WANT TO LIVE!’ he shouts again, and wakes up, alive, and turns to the Vision who is keeled over on the floor of the nega-bomb. The Vision states that the feedback from Wonder Man’s ionic energy seems to have slowed his electro-synapses. ‘You forget, Vision? That’s I’m not human? That I may not even be alive?’ Simon asks. He gets up and goes over to the Vision, grabbing him by the cape Simon declares ‘I never forget! Not death - nor humanity’.
Simon continues, reminding the Vision that he has heard his kind of “logic” too often, that nothing matters except how many guys their side loses. ‘That’s how you get people into wars. Tell ‘em “I won’t kill your boy, Mr Smith” and no matter how many “enemies” die, you can sell it as a victory…’. ‘NO’ the Vision begins, but Simon continues: ‘As long as you can give Mr Smith back his boy. But what about the others? What about all those Kree who’re just trying to survive - dragged into this by their “Supreme Intelligence”? What do you tell them?’ Simon asks. ‘You will not confuse me’ the Vision replies, pushing Simon back against a wall. He adds that empathy is the downfall of reason. They fall through the wall, and Simon exclaims ‘Blast you - if all you understand is destruction - oh jeez’ he interrupts himself, as they fall towards a large globe, contained within pink beams of energy.
Within the globe are strange objects that appear to be plants, asteroids and stars. ‘Keep your footing! Stay out of it!’ Simon tells the Vision, before announcing that it is the Negative Zone. Wonder Man asks the Vision if he wants to unleash that power - if he wants to hurl that at a civilization. ‘I’ve encountered something you never can, Vision. Something you never will. Death’ Simon reminds the Vision, who turns to Simon and replies that death seems to be the defining element of human existence. He adds ‘It might be argued that I can never understand the decisions life poses, if I do not know death’. Wonder Man points out that that is what he has been arguing about. ‘My electronic consciousness may not be suited to making such decisions. I will…let you decide’ the Vision announces. ‘Good boy’ Wonder Man smiles, adding ‘I may be able to reinstall my soul in you yet’.
Wonder Man suggests they try to find a way to turn the nega-bomb around, when suddenly, several Kree soldiers rush into the chamber. ‘FIRE!’ one of them booms, and a weapon is shot at Wonder Man, striking him in the back. ‘No! Not now!’ Simon mutters, and he spins around and leaps towards the Skrulls, while telling the Vision to shut the bomb down. ‘Fire! Fire!’ another Skrull orders. ‘But I do not -’ the Vision begins. ‘Just do it!’ Wonder Man orders as he punches his way through the Skrulls. The Vision begins tearing the chamber apart and remarks ‘Surely the Skrulls do not wish this detonated just yet. If enough damage is done to the containment mechanism, then they will be forced to -’ the Vision is interrupted when a Skrull fires their weapon at him, striking him in the back. The Vision decides that he cannot leave himself vulnerable to attack, and announces that he must contain their attackers He turns to the Skrulls, as Wonder Man continues to tear through the Skrulls.
Suddenly, one of the Skrulls receives a message via a communicator and asks ‘What? Repat that!’, before informing another Skrull that they are needed back at the ship - as the Avengers are attacking! Indeed, an Avengers Quinjet hovers over the nega-bomb, while Hercules, wearing a breathing-apparatus, and Iron Man have engaged Skrulls in battle as they float through space outside the bomb. ‘Now, vermillion-pelted-vermin - feel the fistic frenzy of Hercules!’ Hercules calls out, but Iron Man tells him to save it, as in space, no one can hear him pontificate. ‘Let’s go through these boys and into the Skrull ship’ Iron Man suggests to Hercules via their communicators. Inside the Quinjet, Sersi tells Hawkeye that they are driving the Skrulls back, and suggests that they will have the Skrull ship disabled in minutes. ‘All right, then. Time for our move…right into the heart of the bomb!’
Nearby, another Quinjet approaches, ‘Is that…?’ the new Thor asks as he and the Scarlet Witch stare out the screen, and see Iron Man and Hercules, and assume that their teammates are in the ship. Thor asks Captain Marvel to take them in closer, which she does. ‘Closer to the bomb’ Starfox points out. ‘Just give us time. Just time enough to get them out of there, alive’ the Scarlet Witch declares.
However, inside the Skrull ship, ‘Captain, they’re breaking through! Should we detonate the bomb now?’ a Skrull officer asks. ‘Detonate it? Are you insane? I never volunteered for a suicide mission,. I gave a family to think of!’ the captain replies, adding that the bomb stays damped until they are safely away. Another officer informs the captain that something is wrong, that his readings are showing a strange energy surge from the bomb. The captain, and his crew, look shocked.
Inside the bomb chamber, ‘This is the last of them, now let’s -’ Wonder Man begins as he takes out the last Skrull, when suddenly, there is an explosion and he and the Vision are knocked over. ‘Now what in the - no. Not the detonator’ Wonder Man realizes as energies start to spiral out of control. The other Avengers see this from their current positions. ‘Oh…’ Iron Man utters from outside the ship. The Black Knight shields his eyes from the energy, while Captain Marvel closes her eyes. Living Lightning frowns, while Sersi turns her head away. Hawkeye looks shocked, as Starfox slaps his hand to his forehead, and Crystal’s jaw drops. Hercules narrows his eyes, while the Scarlet Witch looks anguished. The new Thor appears shocked, and the Vision grimaces. ‘…God’ Wonder Man utters as the Negative Zone spills out into space….


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Into Infinity
Four Freedoms Plaza in Manhattan, where an out-of-control super hero brawl in in full swing! ‘Simon - stop! You’re insane!’ the Scarlet Witch calls out to her teammate Simon “Wonder Man” Williams. At the same time, Havok pulls down Captain America, while the Hulk wraps an arm around Colossus’s neck, and Mr Fantastic tangles himself up in the Beast, USAgent and Darkhawk are caught up in the midst, also. Wonder Man pulls back Wolverine, preventing him form skewering Iron Man. ‘No! No one’s insane - but you mutants!’ Wonder Man tells the Scarlet Witch. Wolverine turns on Wonder Man, claws ready, he tells him that this “Iron Man” is an impostor. ‘So you say, Wolverine - maybe it’s true about you muties?’ Wonder Man suggests. ‘Maybe you are out to get us!’ he exclaims.
‘Stop it, Simon! Or have you forgotten - that I’m a “mutie”?’ the Scarlet Witch snaps, slapping Wonder Man in the face, and freeing Wolverine from his grasp. Simon turns to Wanda Maximoff, while Mr Fantastic punches Rogue, and Wolverine searches again for Iron Man. Simon tells Wanda that she knows he is no mutant hater, and explains that something has happened to his powers. He explains that he loses them unless he is in a rage, and the rage can burn out of control. ‘When this brawl broke out between mutants and normals, I -’ Wonder Man begins, until Strong Guy smacks him in the face, ‘Who’re you calling “normal”, huh?’ Strong Guy asks. Wonder Man reminds Strong Guy that the Fantastic Four called them all here to work together. Captain America has broken free from Havok’s hold, while Rogue throws a punch at Mr Fantastic. Multiple Man and a dupe have taken hold of Nova, while Wolverine has found Iron Man, and Puck is caught up in the fray. Suddenly, ‘Hey! Behind you, it’s a -’ Strong Guy begins, as a box opens behind Wonder Man, and an instant later, there is a massive explosion, as the top floors of Four Freedoms Plaza is destroyed.
‘WANDAAAA!’ Wonder Man screams for the Scarlet Witch, however, the Invisible Woman has managed to contain the explosion in a force field. The new Thor asks her if her field can really hold the explosion back, and as the Thing, Colossus, Hulk, Jean Grey, Iceman, the Black Knight and Captain America all look at the contained explosion, the Invisible Woman explains that she can only redirect it, and that it is taking everything she can to do so. Wonder Man asks if Mr Fantastic called them into a trap, while the new Thor swings his hammer and states that he has a cleansing whirlwind to whip up. Wonder Man suddenly sees the Scarlet Witch lying motionless under some rubble, and he pulls her free, asking her if she is okay. ‘Mm?’ Wanda mutters, while Simon tells her that she scared him, and holds her close. ‘You scared me’ he whispers once more.
Suddenly someone gasps, ‘It’s Thanos!’, as a portal opens, and Thanos, and a purple-skinned companion emerge. ‘Look out!’ someone else gasps, while Thanos fires a beam of energy at Colossus, the Beast and Thing, keeping them back. Wolverine, the Scarlet Witch, Gambit and Speedball rush forward, while Wonder Man tells Wanda to be careful - but before they can reach Thanos and his companion, the titan grabs Iron Man and Mr Fantastic and the four vanish. ‘They’ve got  Iron Man…and Reed!’ Wanda exclaims. ‘They got duplicates of ‘em’ Wolverine declares. Wonder Man points out that would explain Reed’s behavior, but not much else, while Wanda remarks that it is odd, as Thanos’s companion looked very much like Adam Warlock. Simon frowns and remembers what he just said - “Wanda, be careful”. He tells himself that Wanda is no damsel in distress, but a super hero, and more experienced than he, for that matter.
Simon tells himself that if he is going to be a hero with powers going insane, what other kind of woman can he be with? He knows he put a lot of people in danger yesterday, and blasted his friends with ionic energy. ‘How can I subject a normal woman to that?’ Simon wonders - especially a woman like Alex, with a twelve year old kid.
At that moment, ‘Oh!’ Jamie Flores gasps as she sits up in bed during the middle of the night. ‘Are you okay?’ Alex asks her daughter as she enters her room. Jamie explains that it was a dream, but that it seemed so real. ‘I dreamed my soul left my body and I flew out the window, over the trees…and I flew back down and scared this little back cat onto the windowsill, and…’ her voice trails off, as Alex sits on her daughter’s bed, ‘The dreams you have!’ she exclaims, adding that she is supposed to be the screenwriter, with the visual imagination. Jamie replies that she likes having dreams, as they are the best part of sleeping, but that this one was too real. Alex points out that they have had a tough couple of days, what with Angkor, and getting zapped by Simon’s ionic whatevers. Jamie lies back down as Alex tells her to get some sleep and dream about something boring - like boys. Jamie tells her mother that she loves her, and Alex replies the same. Jamie falls back to sleep - and outside, a black cat sits on the windowsill.
Back at Four Freedoms Plaza, ‘You’re going to get Dr Druid and Agatha Harkness?’ Wonder Man asks, surprised. ‘What do you want with those mystic screwballs?’ he enquires. The Scarlet Witch points out that Thanos and Warlock left a mystical trail, so if they are to understand what they are plotting, and why they want Earth’s heroes dead, and if they are to find the real Iron Man and Reed, they will need mystics to trace them. ‘All right. But when you come back we’re going to talk. I need to make you understand’ Simon tells Wanda, who replies ‘When we can, Simon. But for now…we must do what we must’ as she turns and walks away.
‘Was that a brush-off, or -’ Wonder Man thinks to himself, when he notices Hank McCoy a.k.a. his good friend the Beast leap towards him. Simon moves aside, so the Beast misses him, and he tells him that it’s funny, but not now. ‘How can this be? The day a New Yorker can’t surprise a Californian…civilization has surely fallen!’ the Beast jokes. Wonder Man tells the Beast that he doesn’t want any jokes, as he needs his help, and reveals Hawkeye never showed for this meeting, and Wolverine acted like he knows something about it, only at the moment, he and Wolverine aren’t the best of friends. ‘Get me?’ Simon remarks.
The Beast bounds towards Wolverine, and exclaims ‘Well, well, well! How tempers do flare, eh, Logan?’ Wolverine just lights a cigar, while the Beast smiles and announces that he never thought he would see mild-mannered Simon Williams fly off the proverbial handle. ‘But when you call an Avenger an impostor, well…heh heh…even the best of men can…can…’ the Beast frowns as Wolverine blows smoke in his face. ‘If Williams has something to say…tell Williams to say it’ Wolverine snarls. Simon strides over and tells Wolverine that he hopes there are no hard feelings, but Wolverine points out that Wonder Man stuck up for one of his own. ‘I’d have done the same’ Wolverine admits, before Wonder Man announces that he is worried about another of “his own” now, and points out that Wolverine knew Spider-Man and Hawkeye wouldn’t be at this meeting, and asks him how.
Wolverine replies that he saw something that gave him a funny feeling they may be delayed. ‘What? Wolverine - what did you see?’ Wonder Man asks. Wolverine smirks and replies that he saw the phony Iron Man blasting them. ‘WHERE?’ Wonder Man demands, grabbing Wolverine and holding him overhead. ‘Down, Williams’ Logan snarls, unsheathing his claws. Wonder Man ignores Wolverine and declares ‘Hawkeye. Spider-Man. Where are they?’ Wolverine leers at Wonder Man, before suddenly smiling, and telling him ‘Not bad, Williams. Never thought you had that much steel in you’. He then suggests Wonder Man try 29th and Park Streets. The Black Knight and Multiple Man gather nearby, while Wolverine tells Wonder Man to keep an eye out for more duplicates, as something tells him it isn’t just Mr Fantastic and Iron Man.
‘Don’t fret your furry little head over me, Logan’ Wonder Man replies, before turning to the Beast and asking him if he is with him. ‘Alas, the anti-mutant sentiments still bristle hereabouts…and I won’t leave my brothers and sisters until they ebb. But you know I wish I could -’ the Beast replies, but Wonder Man frowns and turns away, ‘Forget it. Everybody’s so into their own kind…I’ll get my own kind to help me!’ Wonder Man exclaims.
Shortly, the new Thor flies through the air, ‘Scan the rooftops as I carry us up! If we don’t see -’ he begins, carrying Hercules, who in turn holds onto Wonder Man, as Wonder Man suddenly points to a nearby rooftop, and shouts ‘There! It’s them! And they’re hurt’, as Hawkeye and Spider-Man lie motionless in some rubble, Hawkeye’s damaged sky-cycle crashed nearby. The three powerful men drop down onto the rooftop and Wonder Man tells Thor to check on Spider-Man. Lifting Spider-Man up, Thor reports that he is unconscious, but alive. Wonder Man checks on Hawkeye, and announces the same, suggesting they get them to a hospital. Hercules frowns, wondering what base fiend would leave such noblemen here to perish. A figure emerges from behind a water tank, wearing a strange costume, with thigh-high red boots, a lot of red lining with metal spikes, and one side of his chest bare. ‘Don’t look now, Hercules, but I think we’re about to find out, and Lord save me - I think it’s me!’ Wonder Man gasps as he stares at his doppelganger.
Elsewhere, ‘But Ginger, baby, I can get you work! Wanna be on “Full House”, baby? I know people -’ a drunk man declares as he leans into Ginger Flores, who replies ‘I’ll bet you do. Give their names to my agent!’ she then slams her door in his face. Inside, the young woman slaps her hand to her forehead and wonders why her agent gets ten percent of her money, but not ten percent of her dates. She hears the television going, and enters the darkened living room, where her brother, Spider, is watching television. She asks him what she is doing up at four in the morning, and reminds him that she told the judge she would be responsible for him after their mom disappeared. ‘Sure, sure’ Spider replies.
‘You promised you’d always be in bed by two, and not stay up watching…CNN?’ Ginger exclaims, surprised, as a report about high gamma radiation levels in Manhattan is playing on the television. Spider tells his sister that he wanted news on Wonder Man, as a bomb exploded in New York. ‘They think he was there’ Spider reveals. Ginger replies that a bomb can’t hurt Simon, or so she hopes, before realizing that her brother really cares about Wonder Mann. ‘Not particularly, but being his sidekick is sure a fun gig!’ Spider smiles. ‘Yeah. I guess that’s what I’m worried about, too. Losing the girlfriend gig’ Ginger replies. ‘Oh, suuuure that’s it, Gin!’ Spider exclaims, lowering his shades.
‘Whadda you know, punk? I can’t believe I actually hired a lawyer to keep you!’ Ginger exclaims, throwing a pillow at her brother, who asks ‘“Hired”? Is that what they call it now? Ha!’ Ginger is about to slam the pillow into her brother’s head again, ‘Why you scrofultic little -’ she begins, but Spider grabs her by her wrist, then, they are both knocked backwards by a surge of energy. ‘Ow!’ Ginger exclaims. ‘Yow!’ Spider declares. Laying back on the couch, Spider asks his sister what that was, and what she did to him. Ginger looks at her hand and replies that she doesn’t know, but realizes that it did come from her.
Elsewhere, others are watching a news report, which states that police feel certain that the now vanished Angkor is not connected to yesterday’s fire--bombing of a Beverly Hills mansion. The woman called Lotus lies back in her bath, bubbles covering her, while a man in a green suit sits on the bathtub edge, Lotus sips some tea and exclaims ‘At last Los Angeles should have spent all night working itself into a paranoid lather over that bombing. Instead, thanks to this Angkor, I have to wait until four AM to hear a mention of it’. Her companion points out that at least it is starting and assures her that they will get there, that they need to let the tension build. He gets up and announces that he is going to bed. ‘You never seem to need sleep, but the rest of us mere mortals do’ he declares. Lotus leaps up in the bath and shouts ‘No! We need to move forward!’
‘Surely, Lotus, it can wait until -’ the man begins, but Lotus throws her tea cup against the wall, and it shatters beside him. ‘Now!’ she screams. He turns and sees her standing up in the bath, Lotus orders him to bring her her planners, too wake up the weapons men, to order some dim sum - not from that dump on Wilshire - and get some espresso started. ‘Yes, ma’am’ the man replies, while Lotus boasts ‘Today, fiery death strikes Beverly Hills again!’
At that moment, ‘Your time is finished - Wonder Man!’ exclaims the doppelganger as he punches Wonder Man off the rooftop. ‘What’s wrong with me? Knew about the duplicates…should’ve been ready…but..’ Wonder Man thinks to himself as he falls downwards, and both slam into a parked car on the street below. ‘I can’t stay intense’ Simon realizes, as his doppelganger smiles and punches him in the face. ‘You see - now my time begins!’ the doppelganger boasts, as Wonder Man’s powers cut out. The doppelganger knees Simon in the face, then punches him to the ground. ‘Now - I replace you!’ the doppelganger announces, while Simon lies on the ground and realizes that something is holding him back and making him confused. ‘There’s something…something terrifying about fighting yourself’ Simon realizes, while his doppelganger smiles again.
‘Do you want me to hit you more, Wonder Man?’ the doppelganger asks, while Simon starts to get to his feet, realizing that you look at yourself, and see everything you don’t want to. The doppelganger squats down beside Wonder Man and asks ‘Please - make me prove I am better!’ Simon frowns, ‘Everything you don’t want to know about you. And suddenly…you want to kill it’ he thinks to himself, before his eyes flare up and he shouts ‘You want to rip its flaming head off!’, he punches the doppelganger hard in the face, knocking him back. ‘Think you’re Simon freakin Williams? You ain’t mad enough, boy!’ Wonder Man declares. He tries to punch the double again, but misses, as he tells him that he isn’t crazy enough. ‘Yes - you are crazy - you leave yourself open!’ the doppelganger exclaims as he grabs Wonder Man and flips him over.
Suddenly, Thor’s hammer is flung downwards, and it strikes the doppelganger in the face. ‘Assail a sole Avenger, treacherous impostor - and, verily - though assailest us all!’ Hercules exclaims. ‘Got that?’ Thor asks. The double looks up to the rooftop and replies ‘No - you are not mine’. He smiles, and then tells them that theirs will come, and will take them. ‘Gotta take me first, buddy’ Wonder Man tells his double, and lunges to grab him, but fails, as the double takes flight. Simon watches his doppelganger leave, and thinks to himself ‘That lunge was nothing. One moment of doubt - and my powers drop’. He wonders why he can’t get his head straight about that creature, and whether that is because he can’t keep it straight about himself.
Thor and Hercules drop down beside Wonder Man, and Hercules asks him if he wants to pursue the “base faker”, for if he does, they will stand at his side. Wonder Man tells Hercules to forget it, and suggests he gets Spider-Man and Hawkeye to the hospital, while he goes back and tells the others what is going on. Simon supposes that what he told the others sounds convincing, better than telling them that he can’t trust his powers or his own mind. He wishes that he knew why the duplicate scares him, and hopes he gets one more shot at it. Thor picks up Spider-Man and takes flight, with Hercules, who is carrying Hawkeye, holds onto Thor’s ankle.
‘Have Thor and Hercules return as soon as they finish’ Captain America announces back at Four Freedoms Plaza, as he has a feeling they are going to sorely need their raw power. Wonder Man points out that they are going to need guards, and the Black Cat volunteers herself. Cap tells her that the jobs is hers, while Wonder Man asks ‘What’s up with the brain’s trust?’ as he sees several heroes gathered around a computer console. ‘Will you look at this! Massive energy receptors on each planet and star!’ Dr Hank Pym points out. The Invisible Woman asks him what their purpose are, while the Thing asks Wonder Man what he thinks. Simon tells the Thing that he doesn’t know, but that if a bright boy like Pym is that freaked, then they must be up against something big.
‘A good guy like Warlock teaming with a tyrant-type like Thanos…evil duplicates from another dimension…cosmic energy going nutty…’ the Thing mutters, while Hank announces that they have to find out where the emissions are originating from. The Vision states that he doubts their technology is up to the task, while the Thing tells Wonder Man that “big” is a good word. The Human Torch smiles and exclaims that the cosmic cataclysm hasn’t been born yet that can take them. The Thing turns to the young hero and tells him that Thanos and Warlock on their lonesome have nearly attained godhood once or twice, so if you stick them together, you get enough cosmic hoo-hah to turn reality on its pointy pink head. ‘Oh, wow. Excuse me while I do my “we’re like ants” speech the Human Torch mutters. ‘We’ve got -’ he begins, when someone tells them to shush.
The Human Torch lowers his voice again and points out that they have more power in this room than any wannabe “god” can handle. ‘If Pym and the gang can track Thanos and send us there -’ he begins, to which Wonder Man asks ‘Send us where? To another dimension? It sounds like it, and that kind of challenge is -’ he finds himself interrupted by the Scarlet Witch, who returns with Agatha Harkness and Dr Druid, announcing ‘One I might be able to help you with’. Wonder Man tells her that he hopes she can ship a heavy load, while thinking to himself that he hopes he can keep his head together, because tackling two cosmic bruisers on their home turf means being at his peak, and pulling his weight with others. Several other heroes gather around him - Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops, Storm, Rogue, Colossus, Psylocke, Puck, Windshear, Captain America, Quasar, Nova, the Human Torch, Warpath, the Thing, the Hulk and She-Hulk, and he exclaims ‘With the biggest, baddest bunch of heroes the boy’s ever seen!’


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‘For Earth - for my sanity - I’ve got to stop Adam Warlock!’ exclaims Simon “Wonder Man” Williams on a relay point in the dimensional corridor between time and space, as an all out super-hero brawl is taking place. Energy bursts from Warlock’s gem on his forehead, striking Colossus and knocking him back, while Wonder Man moves towards Adam Warlock. While Wolverine tackles Gamora, her teammate in the Infinity Watch, Drax the Destroyer, approaches him, and Warlock exclaims ‘“Heroes” of Earth! Dozens of you sent to stop me and Thanos and the Infinity Watch! Have you asked why you fight the fight?’ Warlock enquires. ‘Or do you merely plunge into violence as the machinations of the Magus require it?’ he asks as he flips Wonder Man over.
‘No! You won’t confuse me!’ Wonder Man exclaims, kicking Warlock backwards. Warlock frowns and asks ‘“Confuse” you…with the truth?’ Oh, the mad arrogance of you supposed “super humans”…to think that anything that stops your violence must be a lie!’ He then raises his staff, while Wonder Man utters ‘Madness…arrogance…violence…no, Warlock! You won’t…you won’t…’, but Warlock slams his staff into Wonder Man’s face, knocking him back, while the Hulk throws a punch at Drax, nearby. ‘Have it your way, then, Wonder Man’ Warlock calls out, telling him that if power is the only language he understands, then his power will have the last word. Wonder Man squats down, ‘Powers…blasted powers…’ he utters, while Warlock looms over him, when, suddenly, ‘Now, Simon! While I’m distracting him!’ Polaris exclaims as she uses her magnetic powers on Adam Warlock.
Wonder Man uses this opportunity to get to his feet, ‘Now…shut your mind down, just…’ Wonder Man remarks, but Warlock spins around and attacks Polaris with his gem, shunting her backwards. Warlock then quickly turns his attention back to Wonder Man, ‘Yes, shut your mind down…to make yourself a better pawn for evil. An evil great enough to bring me together with Thanos’ Warlock declares, as he knocks Wonder Man with his staff once more. ‘He attacked Colossus and Polaris…I have to stop him…but I want to think - not just punch. I don’t want to just be a bundle of rage - I want to know!’ Simon tells himself. ‘I want to be human’ he decides, as Warlock punches him in the face. ‘I want to be human…’ Wonder Man remarks again, as Warlock slams the end of his staff against Wonder Man, and declares ‘Human…all too human, Wonder Man. And becoming all the more so as I watch your body deflate before my eyes. If I’ve done you damage, I am sorry. But it must be’. Warlock turns from Wonder Man’s fallen body and announces that if he is forced, he will do the same to any others who attack he and his unexpected ally.
Warlock sees Thanos engaged in combat with the new Thor, and flies up to where Storm is hovering nearby, and declares that a universe is at stake. Wonder Man struggles to get to his feet. His body has indeed withered somewhat, and he realizes that his powers have deserted him once more. He has too many questions about who he is and what his past has done to him. ‘Supposed to be a hero? But what kind of hero can only be strong when he’s enraged?’ Simon asks. ‘Who can’t think about what’s right…and then fight for it?’ He decides that he has failed the others, just when they need their strongest at peak. He wonders how he will live with himself if Warlock kills Polaris, or Storm - or Wanda. ‘If anything happens to Wanda, I’ll -’ Simon begins, but he turns and sees the Scarlet Witch, behind a barrier of mystic energy with Shaman, Dr Druid and Agatha Harkness, keeping open the dimensional portal that brought everyone here.
But, just thinking about the Scarlet Witch makes Simon want to kill somebody. That anger increases his ionic arms back to their muscular form, and he decided that at least he knows what matters - maybe not heroism, or “right” or even himself - but Wanda. One of his eyes flash with energy, as Simon decides that decisions about heroism will have to wait, as he is in this now, and even if it is just for Wanda, he will see it through. He flies over the motionless bodies of Wolverine and Gamora, and joins up with a group of heroes - Guardian, Thor, the Thing, Invisible Woman, Hercules, She-Hulk, Strong Guy, Cyclops and the Hulk - who have surrounded Warlock, Drax and Thanos. ‘What does it take to put these three down?’ Guardian asks as she hovers beside Wonder Man. ‘More than any of you cretins possess!’ Thanos boasts. ‘We shall see, titan’ Hercules replies.
Suddenly, a massive ship appears overhead, ‘What?’ someone gasps. ‘The craft of Galactus!’ another exclaims. A beam of energy pours down from the space craft, and the heroes are all pulled from the lunar surface, towards it. Wonder Man  finds himself flung up near Jean Grey, Sasquatch, Moondragon and Nova, while shielding his eyes, he asks ‘That beam! What’s it - what’s it -…’.
Meanwhile, on Earth, Wonder Man’s friend, writer Alex Flores sits at her desk in her home, tapping away at the keyboard, she hears the doorbell ring. ‘Coming’ Alex mumbles. The doorbell rings again. ‘Just  lemme get to the fade out’ she mutters, but the bell rings again, so she gets up and goes to the front door, ‘Okay, okay! Give it a rest will ya? I’m - oh! Angus, is it? No…Argus, right?’ Alex exclaims as she opens the door and sees the man with the Mohawk hairstyle standing before her. Argus tells Ms Flores that he is sorry to bother her, but points out she said she knew some things about Wonder Man. ‘And I just had to ask…you see, I invited him to a film with me, a montage film, like the classic Kropotkin Experiments’ Argus remarks. ‘You must be thinking of Lev Kuleshov, honey. Kropotkin was a philosopher’ Alex corrects him. ‘You mean…I got it wrong?’ Argus asks.
‘All this time - I’ve been going around telling everybody - and I got it wrong?’ he exclaims. ‘“Kropotkin montage”. That’s priceless!’ Alex grins. But, Argus frowns, ‘Priceless?’ he shouts, ‘I’m sick of getting everything wrong. I’m sick of being a fool!’ Alex puts a hand on his shoulder and tells him to take it easy, adding that she knows where he is coming from. Alex reveals that she was always a screw up when she was young, so when she started to assert herself as a writer, she turned into a classic know-it-all. ‘Seemed like I’d always rather say something pretentious and stupid than just keep my mouth shut’ Alex explains.
Alex continues, telling Argus that this world makes it hard to be intelligent, that it makes you feel like a geek if you want to think, if you want to learn. She remarks that sometimes the hardest thing is learning to be comfortable with what you know, and what you don’t. ‘Yes, yes, yes…but I know I’ll be a great filmmaker!’ Argus declares, adding that he doesn’t know how to convince people. ‘I have a vision! Can’t they see that? I have a vision!’ he shouts, his eyes suddenly glowing red. ‘Oh, your eyes!’ Alex gasps. ‘My…my eyes? What’s wrong with my eyes?’ Argus asks. ‘Nothing much. Just shooting fire’ Alex tells him. ‘Fire. Ever since I was blasted by Wonder Man’s energy, I…I’ve been feeling strange tinglings…’ Argus reveals.
Alex is surprised, and tells Argus that her daughter has been saying then same thing. Suddenly, Alex wonders where her daughter is, deciding that she has been working so hard, ‘She’s right there’ Argus remarks, pointing. ‘Where?’ Alex asks him. ‘Can’t you see? She’s right…there!’ Argus declares, but Alex tells him that he is just pointing at the wall. ‘A…wall? But…but…’ his voice trails off, and he looks perplexed, when suddenly, ‘Man! You guys sure talk loud!’ Jamie Flores calls out as she enters the living room. ‘I could hear you right through the wall!’ she declares, surprising Argus and Alex.
Back at the Dimensional Crossroads, ‘Now may we return to the task at hand?’ Galactus booms, as he stands at his controls, the heroes at his feet, amongst them the Thing, the Human Torch, the Vision, Guardian, sasquatch, Havok, Storm, Cyclops, the Hulk, Thor, Colossus, Drax, Hercules, Jean Grey, Captain America, Strong Guy, Wolverine, Nova, Adam Warlock and Thanos, and of course Wonder Man. Galactus states that he has entranced the earthlings in hope that they may have knowledge he needs to thwart the Magus’s bid for cosmic power. He decides that the quickest way to gain that knowledge is though a cerebral scan of all recent memories. ‘Steady yourselves, mortals, this unit is not adequately insulated for the sensitivities of your frail systems. I cannot guess what memories it will stir’ Galactus explains.
Wonder Man suddenly hears a voice: ‘Now I can die -’ the voice calls out. ‘No!’ Wonder Man exclaims. ‘ - knowing that I didn’t live -’ the voice continues. ‘No. not dead’ Wonder Man whispers to himself. ‘I have created a new breed of man - a living engine of destruction’ the voice calls out. ‘It’s not true!’ Wonder Man booms, as memories flood through his mind - of his brother, Eric, telling Simon that he can save him, or make him into a criminal. Of the police, telling Simon that he is under arrest for embezzlement. Of Baron Zemo, transforming Simon into Wonder Man, offering him wealth and power as he transformed him into a new breed, a living engine. Then, of being “dead” at Captain America’s side, with Cap remarking that Wonder Man was a strange mixture of good and evil. Then, of his naked body floating through the ether, and being told that he was dead. But no man dies and comes back mortal - no human. Then, one final memory, of his brother, transformed into the Grim Reaper. ‘Your brother...your ghost…your death’.
Anguished, Simon frowns, and shouts ‘It’s a lie!’ His body starts to shrink and wither, his costume becomes much to big for him as he exclaims ‘I’m not dead! I’m not inhuman! I’m Simon Williams! You want me to think I’m just a memory - a pattern of energy that thinks it’s Williams! But…oh dear Lord. My body…I’m losing…my body…’ he utters. Cyclops and Drax turn and look at him, before red energy flares in Simon’s eyes, ‘I’m ALIVE!’ he shouts, before keeling over, ‘I’m not an illusion…am I? Am I only…a self-deception? Do I live…just because I repress the truth? Because I won’t admit…that Simon Williams died…years ago?’ he wonders, his body shrivelled even further. ‘And if I…if I stop pretending…?’ he asks.
‘No. No. NO!’ Simon booms, his body starts reshaping to his muscular form as he starts to get up, ‘Maybe I’m not Simon Williams…maybe Williams is dead’ he decides. ‘Huh? What?’ Thor utters. ‘Did we -?’ Rogue begins, as everyone else comes out of Galactus’s hold. ‘Hey! What’re we doing here? How long we been conked out? Whadja do to our brains?’ he asks Galactus. ‘Interesting’ the planet devourer remarks. Very interesting’ Thanos comments, while Wonder Man declares ‘Yeah, maybe Williams is dead…but I’m alive!’ Thor leans down and helps Wonder Man up, asking him what happened to his muscles. Wonder Man explains that it was an ionic fluctuation, something a human wouldn’t understand. ‘Yet, Simon, thou art -’ Hercules begins, but Wonder Man interrupts: ‘“Art” what?’ he snaps, before asking if he is even Simon anymore. ‘Or from now…am I just Wonder Man?’ he declares.
Hercules asks Wonder Man what aggrieves him, and points out that it was just yesterday that he was driven to a rage even more dire by meeting with his doppelganger. ‘My doppelganger! That alien thing - taking my shape - taunting me with me inhumanity!’ Wonder Man exclaims. Thor, the Human Torch and the Thing gather around as Wonder Man remarks that he hold himself he was different, real, and wonders if that is the punch line of the joke. Thor tells Wonder Man to take it easy, when the Human Torch apologizes for interrupting, as the Thing tells Thor that the “living appetite” wants him. ‘Galactus? What for?’ the relatively new hero asks. The Thing points out that, for now, it appears Galactus, Warlock and Thanos are on the same side - the good side.
The Thing announces that they are up against that Warlock spin-off, called the Magus, but that they don’t know his power source. ‘Shall we aid such miscreants?’ Hercules enquires. ‘Either that or we watch the Magus obliterate our reality!’ the Human Torch suggests. ‘So get over there’ the Thing tells Thor. Thor does so, and Galactus instructs him to journey back to their reality. Wonder Man ponders as to his own reality, what reality his is - and wonders if Wanda knows. He pushes past the Vision and Colossus to get to the Scarlet Witch, who is standing with the other mystics. He tells Wanda that he has to talk to her, to which Wanda replies ‘Simon? But…but what…?’, to which Wonder Man exclaims ‘Now, Wanda’.
‘Young man, we must -’ Agatha Harkness begins, but Simon ignores her, and declares ‘You know me, Wanda! You can tell me - am I human?’ The other heroes all turn and look at him, while Wonder Man grabs Wanda by her arm and pulls her along. ‘Simon? Is this a joke?’ Wanda asks. ‘Williams! Let her go! If this is more of your mutant-hating -’ Shaman begins, but Wanda tells Shaman that she will talk to him. ‘Come here - where you can talk - where you can level with me’ Simon tells Wanda, pulling her away from the others. He reminds the Scarlet Witch that she was in love with the Vision, a plastic man who wanted to think he was human, and then she started to get interested in him. ‘Why, Wanda?’ he enquires.
But, Wanda replies that she doesn’t understand, to which Simon asks if it is because he is fake, too, because he is a bundle of ionic energy, pretending to be human? ‘Are you turned on by artificial men?’ Wonder Man demands. ‘Simon, you know that’s not -’ Wanda begins, but Simon snaps back at her: ‘What do I know? Nothing! That’s why you’re going to tell me -’ he begins, but Wanda finally pulls away from him, ‘Let go of me!’ she shouts, and tells Simon that he is acting insane. ‘INSANE?’ Simon booms, before covering his face and realizing that he is indeed, acting insane. Dr Strange and Nova stand near the Scarlet Witch, while Simon remarks that he has tried not to think too much about what happened to him, that he has tried to smart-alec his way around the memories, been glib about his uncertainties, without staring them in the face.
Wonder Man hangs his head, and decides ‘I’ve never been me. Never had a consistent personality. Only been what I made myself. I can barely remember the old me…before I was arrested. I even blocked out most of what I knew about technology and munitions’ he realizes. Wanda goes over to him, and asks Simon if he is all right. Simon turns to her and replies that he doesn’t know. ‘I never wanted to be what I am…the ionic man. The super hero. And now I know that I can never be the one thing I did want to be - just human’. He adds that when he tries to be normal, he fails, and when he tries to force himself into other people’s normality, he destroys it.
Back on Earth, Alex suggests to her daughter and Argus that they try to figure out what effect Simon’s energy had on each of them. Argus declares that he thinks they should all see a doctor, but Alex points out that a doctor probably won’t even know what they are talking about. She suggests that they all compare notes, and wishes she knew how to get in contact with Ginger and her repulsive brother. ‘I can take care of that!’ Jamie exclaims, revealing that she has Spider’s phone number in her room. ‘And how did that happen, pray tell?’ Alex asks her daughter. Jamie explains that last night, when they were all together, Spider slipped his number into her shirt. ‘Your shirt?’ Alex frowns. ‘Into the pocket, Mom! Remember? I was wearing that shirt with the big pockets? Jeez!’ Jamie exclaims. Alex folds her arms, and tells her daughter to just get the number, before Argus asks Alex if she has been affected by the blast yet.
‘Nope’ Alex replies, adding that neither has Jamie, except for a strange dream, only that is normal for her. She then asks Argus if he thinks they should call those neighbors of his, but Argus replies that he should do it in person, as Gloria is such an excitable woman, so if he told her this over the phone… his voice trails off. Argus starts towards the front door, and Alex asks him if he is sure he should drive. ‘What if your eyes start acting up on the road?’ she points out. ‘I don’t know. I don’t know…what’s happening to me? Where will it end?’ Argus asks, but as he and Alex step outside, they look up in horror: ‘Please tell me my eyes are doing this to me. Please’ Argus exclaims. ‘I’m sorry Argus…but I’m afraid I see it, too!’ Alex exclaims, as they stare in shock at another planet Earth, and another moon in the sky above!
At the Dimensional Corridor, the heroes all look around at each other, as the Scarlet Witch asks ‘Now what?’ while Professor X points out that Magus having just kidnapped Adam Warlock, Galactus’ mission is suddenly moot. ‘I think we just saw the universe’s last hope fade away’ Cyclops announces. ‘And talking so calmly. Analysing it like a basketball game. Like deep in their hearts - they don’t believe it can happen’ Wonder Man remarks, before turning to Captain America, and telling him that he knows, doesn’t he. ‘Know?’ Cap asks, watching Thanos stride past. ‘Know how reality can desert you. How your universe can vanish on you’ Wonder Man explains. Cap points out that they may all know soon, what with Galactus gone and Warlock abducted. ‘Maybe. Or maybe the bad guys will just get beat, as usual’ Wonder Man suggests.
Wonder Man turns to the Scarlet Witch and exclaims that his universe, his reality, will never be the same. Wanda informs Simon that Thanos is about to tell them all something, and asks him if he is with them. ‘Yeah, Simon’s with you. But which Simon? Man? Corpse? Ion-blip? “Engine of destruction?” I’ll find out’ Simon declares, as Wolverine, Gambit, Psylocke, Hercules, Rogue, Dr Druid, Quasar and several others gather around Thanos, who tells the heroes that they may be interested in learning that the Magus is in the process of taking over the entire Milky Way galaxy. Thanos explains that he has used his vast unknown power to create a duplicate reality, which is now merging with the original. A large panel shows a display of Earth and the moon, slowly merging with the alternate reality.
Thanos states that when that merger is complete, the galaxy will be totally in his thrall, as are the doppelgangers that defeated their lost friends. Simon looks horrified and thinks to himself ‘Dear Lord, yes! Whatever I have to fight next - Magus, “unknown power”, or doppelganger, it’s going to tell me what I am - once and for all!’ Wonder Man decides, while Thanos tells the heroes to consider their home world lost, and that it is better by far to concern themselves with saving the rest of the universe….


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Shadow of the Infinite
‘Violence. Our super hero stock-in-trade. Our curse. Our joy. Our reason-to-be. It’ll kill us. Every one of us. Someday. But along the way the violence tests us. Strengthens us. Twists us. Keeps us going. And sometimes…like for me…right here, right now…the violence tells us who we are’ Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man thinks to himself, as he and several other heroes materialize through a portal, only to find themselves confronted by dark, malicious doppelgangers. ‘This is why they call me Wonder Man. A human body replaced by a furnace of ionic power. Power enough to rip through an army of alien duplicates of the heaviest hitters on Earth’ Simon tells himself, as he, Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Havok, Strong Guy, Sasquatch and Nova face the duplicates. Nova encounters his own doppelganger, while Wonder Man punches the Colossus doppelganger.
Wolverine lashes out at a doppelganger of Captain America, while Wonder Man recalls that, lately, he has been an even bigger wonder, as his ions destabilized, like a magnetic field, they swing from negative to positive, when they’re negative, he is nothing. He is weak, a victim. But when they’re positive, nobody beats him. He is confronted by the Hulk doppelganger, and as Polaris hovers nearby, Wonder Man punches the doppelganger only twice, because, when his powers are high, even a double of the Hulk goes down in two punches. ‘How do I keep them high?’ VIOLENCE!’ Wonder Man tells himself as he returns to the battle, where Iceman, Rogue and Drax are under attack from doppelgangers of the Thing, Sasquatch and Hercules.
‘Giving in to it. Tasting it. Loving it’ Wonder Man tells himself as he attacks a doppelganger of the android Vision. ‘Like the sweet, sour bite of tearing into a phony Vision…ripping into the image of the android “brother” whose life has haunted me, taunted me…that keeps me high’ Simon realizes. Suddenly, ‘Watch your back, Williams!’ Wolverine calls out to Wonder Man as the Hercules doppelganger launches an attach. ‘Watch your own back, Wolverine!’ Simon snaps as he spins around and smacks the doppelganger in the face. ‘I’ll fight my own fights!’ he tells Wolverine, while wondering to himself what fight, as Thanos and the Magus carry on their cosmic chess-game, a game above the heads and beyond the minds of the heroes. The doppelganger of the Human Torch punches Drax, while Wonder Man recalls Thanos’s latest move, tricking the heroes into attacking the Magus, and into battling his army of doppelgangers. ‘And for what? For whose good?’ Simon wonders.
Archangel flies overhead, as Havok kicks the Wolverine doppelganger in the head. Wonder Man punches the Strong Guy doppelganger in the face, while Hercules is attacked by the doppelganger of Guardian. ‘Who cares? Surely no “living engine of destruction” cares. And isn’t that what Baron Zemo made me? Isn’t that all I am?’ Wonder Man asks himself. ‘Destruction?’ he thinks, as he drops down above the Guardian doppelganger and smacks her in the face, rescuing Hercules, who tells his friend that he strikes with a strange, hateful glee. ‘Dost thine rage possess thee again?’ Hercules enquires. Wonder Man assures Hercules that he is in possession of his rage. ‘I possess nothing…but my rage’ he adds, turning once again to the Colossus doppelganger, Simon silently bids Baron Zemo congratulations. ‘You tried to steal my humanity, make me an ionic weapon with no purpose but violence. For years I fought you. Fought to keep my powers stable. Fought to be a hero. To be a man’.
As Wonder Man slams his fist into the Colossus doppelganger’s face, he wonders where that man is now. He kicks back, slamming his foot into the Hercules doppelganger, and wonders if that man is lost in the powers that need violence to survive? ‘Lost in a hate that strikes out at anything…anybody…even a friend?’ Wonder Man is still fighting with the Colossus doppelganger as the Thing appears nearby, fighting a Cyclops doppelganger. The Hulk lifts the Strong Guy doppelganger into the air, as Wonder Man spins around and sees the Thing. ‘What -?’ the Thing begins. ‘Are you -?’ Wonder Man asks, confused, as not all the doubles are obvious - some will make you look twice to tell friend from enemy. Simon Williams the man would hesitate, would ask to know if this was the real Thing. Balanced for an instant between man and weapon, this looks like the real Thing, not the double. But this Wonder Man…? He punches the Thing hard, knocking him backwards.
‘Williams! What in blazes are ya clobbering on me for?’ the Thing shouts as he slams into some nearby rocks. The Thing boasts that it will be a cold day on Yancy Street before Aunt Petunia’s blue-eyed nephew lets some pink-peepered laughing boy from la-la-land lay a mitt on him without - but Wonder Man interrupts him, ‘Drop it, Grimm. I believe it’s you, okay?’ Simon mutters, adding that this is a revolting development. The Thing looks curiously at Simon and asks him what is with him, pointing out that he used to be one of the decent ones in this business. ‘Yeah, Benjy, yeah. I useta be…now fight, man’ Simon replies as doppelgangers of Sasquatch, Thor, Rogue and Nova surround them.
‘Is that all I’ve left myself? Blood. Pain. The sweet music of an enemy’s jaw breaking’ Simon asks himself as he smacks the Sasquatch doppelganger, while the Thing attacks the Thor doppelganger. The Human Torch comes to their assistance and takes on the Rogue doppelganger, while Simon tells himself ‘The thrill of the take-down. Then the let-down. The ions spinning negative. The hunt for another fight, to come back to life. Is that all I’ll be?’ he wonders, deciding ‘No. I won’t just be that. I’ll be a man’. Suddenly, he sees the Scarlet Witch under attack, and races over to her, punching the Drax doppelganger aside, while thinking ‘You won’t beat me, Zemo! I won’t be your “engine of destruction”!’ He then elbows the Captain America doppelganger in the face, deciding that he will be a man and will fight for the life of his - suddenly, ‘Wonder Man…you are mine…’ the Scarlet Witch exclaims as she looks at her rescuer - only it’s not the real Scarlet Witch, but her doppelganger. ‘Oh…Lord’ Simon mutters.
‘But this is the punch line, isn’t it, Zemo? The payoff to the joke of my life. When I search hardest for my humanity…I turn and find more violence. I turn and find…myself’ Wonder Man realizes as he turns away from the Scarlet Witch doppelganger and is confronted by his own doppelganger. ‘You wanted to meet me again, Wonder Man? Now is your change - your chance to kill me - or be replaced’ the doppelganger exclaims. The Living Lightning goes towards the Scarlet Witch doppelganger, while Strong Guy evades blasts from a doppelganger of the Silver Surfer. ‘You couldn’t replace -’ Living Lightning shouts as he turns to the Wonder Man doppelganger, but the real Wonder Man holds Living Lightning back. ‘NO! This one’s mine!’ he snarls.
Rogue stands besides Living Lightning, while the doppelganger exclaims ‘Yes - I am yours - as you are mine. This moment is ours - just us - and when it is done - there will be only one!’ the doppelganger appears calm, but Wonder Man himself clenches his fists and energy flares in his eyes. ‘Only one. The one who can punch the hardest’ Simon tells himself as he lunges forward and smacks his doppelganger in the stomach. ‘The one with the most rage inside. The one who can give himself to violence. Who will that be? Man? Or weapon?’ Simon wonders, as his doppelganger smacks back, then up, slamming his fists into Simon from below. Living Lightning sits down beside who he thinks is the Scarlet Witch and asks her if she is okay, while Simon recovers, and leaps up to face his doppelganger once more. ‘No contest’ Simon decides as he lunges to punch his foe, but the doppelganger smiles and ducks the punch.
‘You are no master of your powers - but I -’ the doppelganger exclaims, only for Simon to kick the doppelganger in the head. ‘Man dies. Weapon kills’ Simon thinks to himself, while the Living Lightning gasps ‘No!’ as the Scarlet Witch doppelganger attacks him. ‘So hate him. He’s everything you hate in yourself. He’s a dark mockery of everything you’ve become. He’s a soulless weapon’ Simon tells himself as he prepares to attack his doppelganger again, however, the doppelganger shoves his hands into the ground, and pulls rocks up, slamming them into Simon, who falls backwards.
‘Hate him - to stop hating it in yourself - hate him - to become him - become that weapon’ Simon thinks, as he evades his doppelganger, who tries to strangle him, he punches the doppelganger once, and then again. However, ‘No! I am the stronger - as Magus designed me to be!’ the doppelganger declares as he throws a punch, but Simon dodges it. ‘Become destruction. And tell yourself you’ll turn human again after it’s over. Tell yourself. Even though you know. You know there is no “after”!’ Simon thinks to himself as he punches the doppelganger in the chest, they struggle, as Simon realizes that there is just oblivion, so he hates his doppelganger, makes him everything he has ever hated. ‘You’re DEAD!’ Wonder Man shouts at his doppelganger, while Hercules falls backwards when struck by the optic blast fired by the Cyclops doppelganger.
Wonder Man starts hallucinating, seeing his doppelganger as people from his life: ‘All of you! You - Zemo - who made me this!’ Wonder Man shouts as he punches his doppelganger. ‘And you - me “Simon Williams” - who wouldn’t accept his own death!’ Wonder Man adds as he slams his fist into his younger self. ‘And you - who used me!’ he exclaims, punching another foe. ‘And you - who taunted me with the lie of my life!’ Simon shouts as he uppercuts his doppelganger now resembling his brother, the Grim Reaper. The doppelganger appears to Simon as Iron Man, who shouts ‘Who tried to make me a hero. When he sees the doppelganger as the Scarlet Witch, he shouts ‘Who made me love what I couldn’t have’, then the doppelganger appears as Alex Flores, Simon’s’ friend, and he punches the doppelganger in the face, ‘Who made me think I could be human!’ he exclaims. Finally, he sees the doppelganger as his self-styled sidekick, Spider, and he grabs his doppelganger’s head, ‘You’re dead. You’re DEAD!’ Simon booms, as he tears his doppelganger’s head off.
The doppelganger’s body falls to the ground. ‘And so you win, and the peace rolls over you and you say “now I can be human again. Now”’ Wonder Man thinks to himself, only he knows that to win, what you loved you have come to hate, and what you hated, you embrace. He crouches down beside the body, the head has rolled slightly away. Take-down turns to let-down, and the ions swing negative, and a whirlpool whips you down into the dark of doubt and memory and oblivion. Teeter for an instant between man and weapon. You were a weapon, and the weapon was alive. ‘The man? He ebbs away, as if he never was. You’ve lost the violence now, but haven’t regained the man. So you reach for it. You want it back. Because you know that as much as you hate the violence…it’s better than nothingness’ Simon thinks to himself.
Doppelgangers of Captain America, Cyclops, Hercules and the Thing gather around. Simon hears them, but he is too weak to get up. He has just enough energy to turn around and gave them. The fight is over. ‘And who wins? Magus? Warlock? Heroes? Doubles?’ Simon wonders. He doesn’t know. He may never know, and may never care. Because the only winner of his fight wasn’t even here. He leans back against his double’s body, as the doppelgangers close in around him, their true alien form growing through their bodies. ‘Congratulations, Zemo’ Simon thinks to himself. He stares up, ‘This is the punch line, isn’t it? Watch me laugh. Watch me sink into the irony. Watch me sink into the powers that own me. Into the violence. Into the dark’. And with that, Simon’s eyes stop glowing, and darkness surrounds him.