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(1st Story) Black Panther + Storm  -  (2nd Story) Hawkeye + Gambit
(1st Story)In Wakanda, a small band of A.I.M. agents attempt to flee after a failed attempt to loot Wakanda. Bickering amongst themselves for assuming that Wakanda would be an easy target since they’re rebuilding, they realize their crucial mistake: they forgot about the Black Panther.
Black Panther single-handedly takes down most of the A.I.M. Agents while the two ringleaders continue to argue over how powerful Black Panther really is. One figures that, although he doesn’t have powers, they shouldn’t have underestimated a guy with a religion named after him. Finally, one A.I.M. Agent shoots the other in the leg and attempts to escape on his own.
Before making it to his ship, the A.I.M. Agent is mysteriously struck by lightning and knocked unconscious. Black Panther examines the agent’s body and looks to the sky.
Another day, Black Panther informs the students of Central Wakanda Elementary School that their annual camping trip will have to be postponed due to the rainy weather. One student even blames mutants for the latest in a series of bad luck for the country of Wakanda.
Suddenly, the sun comes out and the stormy weather is cleared. As the teacher praises the panther god for watching over them, T’Challa replies, “Yes. Someone certainly is.”
Yet another day, a bored and irritated T’Challa is being presented multiple princesses who wish to be his next bride, including Princess Chinaza of Zanzibar, Princess Jayde of Madagascar and Princess Olufunmilayo of Mozambique. T’Challa questions the need to do this as he’s not looking for a new wife yet but his priest claims that news of his annulment has spread quickly and every country in Africa wishes to present him with a bride.
A sudden thunderstorm sends the wannabe brides fleeing and covering their hair and gowns. T’Challa’s priest suggests they retire to the castle but T’Challa looks to the sky and requests his bike.
Black Panther takes to the skies, shouting, “I know you’re here! No more hiding!” Storm appears, admitting that while she understands she’s not welcome in his country, surely he does not own the skies as well.
T’Challa demands that Storm stops her interferences but Storm says that just because he no longer cares for her does not mean she’s stopped caring for the people of her former country. T’Challa denies her claim that he no longer cares and insists that he was left with no choice but to annul their marriage after Namor attacked Wakanda.
Their argument continues as the two easily do away with a few elephant poachers on the savannah. Storm says that all their marriage troubles could not be blamed on Namor, which T’Challa takes as an accusation that he did not fight hard enough for her. Storm admits that they had their fair share of fighting but, for people like them, the real issue is realizing when the fight is lost.
The two settle down to the ground and Storm tells T’Challa to give her apologies to the princesses and promises not to interfere with any further attempts at finding a new wife. T’Challa admits that his last wife, a goddess, will be difficult to top. Storm agrees, as her ex-husband was a king. The two share a moment, lost in each other’s eyes.
Black Panther breaks the silence and asks if Storm is back at the school. She confirms it and says that with his life here, they are both back where they belong. Just before T’Challa is able to profess that his love for Storm will never fade, Storm interrupts him wanting to do “it” one last time, for old times’ sake. Storm wants to give T’Challa one last chance to beat her in a race to Kilimanjaro.
They promise not to cheat and agree that the winner gets to keep the private island in Bora-Bora, a place T’Challa loves. Storm tells him then he’d better have learned to fly as Black Panther starts up the engines on his bike. “I learned from the best my love,” he says as they start the race.
(2nd Story)At The Delacorte Theater in Central park, Gambit watches a performance of The Tempest with his friend, Fence. Thinking that Fence had a score to tell him about, Gambit relents to learn that his thieving ally simply wanted company to enjoy the show with. Looking on the bright side, Gambit admires the beauty of the lead actress.
Suddenly, the ground starts to shake, sending the audience in a panic. A hideous, multi-eyed red beast erupts from the ground and grabs the actress. “THIS is my kinda entertainment!” Gambit says as he takes off to rescue her.
Gambit chases the monster through Central Park, dodging horse-drawn carriages and cabs. Gambit jokes that, if the kidnapped girl wasn’t so beautiful, he would’ve left this job to the professionals.
Gambit picks up an onion from a grocery stand and uses his power to charge it with kinetic energy. Before he tosses it, an arrow comes from behind, flies straight through the onion and caries it into the monster’s back for explosive results!
Hawkeye arrives on the scene, assuring the lady not to worry because a real live Avenger is here to rescue her. Gambit scolds him for almost blowing his hand off with his stunt and tells him to let somebody with actual powers handle this. Hawkeye says that he doesn’t trust Gambit’s accuracy. Insulted, Gambit asks the Avenger how often he gets punched in the face by one of the good guys, to which Hawkeye replies that no one really considers Gambit a “good guy.”
As the two bicker, the actress screams for some “%^#&# help” as the monster takes off again. The two heroes quickly follow, Gambit admiring the actress’ saltiness and Hawkeye questioning why she would get “hot-and-heavy” with an unwashed mutant thief when America’s most handsome and sixth-favorite Avenger gets her first.
Hawkeye uses a grappling hook on the monster but Gambit tosses out multiple charged playing cards at the monster’s back, leading Hawkeyes to fall back, scattering his arrows everywhere.
Hawkeye gathers himself and tells Gambit they need to get the girl free so he could take the monster down with a special arrow. Hawkeye shoots the beast directly in the leg while Gambit grabs the actress from his grasp.
Gambit shares a moment with the actress, claiming he’d go to the theatre more often if it always ended like this. The actress, still in panic, asks Gambit to fly her out of there and is surprised to learn that all superheroes don’t fly.
With the monster charging toward them, Hawkeye tells Gambit to get down and reaches for his special arrow, only to find it missing.
“This what you’re looking for, Hawkeye?” Gambit says as he tosses the arrow into the monster’s mouth, bringing it down for good.
Gambit comforts the actress, who thanks him for finally bringing down the beast, much to the annoyance of Hawkeye, who’s shocked that Gambit is taking credit for HIS arrow. Telling the actress that Gambit is part of a horribly failing rehab program for super-powered degenerates, the actress gives Hawkeye her number so she could thank him privately and rushes back to finish her show.
Gambit and Hawkeye shake hands and Hawkeye admits that it was good to see him helping out and that maybe he’s not the “thieving self-interested guy” everyone thinks he is. Hawkeye excuses himself, gloating that a hot actress is about to have the night of her life, courtesy of Clint Barton.
“I believe she will, mon ami. An’ we appreciate you picking up the tab,” Gambit says, smirking as he holds Hawkeye’s wallet, actress’ number included.


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(1st Story) The Beast + The Amazing Spider-Man in Planet of the Beasts!  -  (2nd Story) Captain America + Quentin Quire in: The New Deal?
(1st Story)While in the midst of fighting, Beast and Spider-Man are transported to a decaying city. Judging by the overgrown vegetation, Beast determines they were somehow sent to the far future. As Spider-Man’s spider-sense goes off and Beast detects a disturbing odor, they find themselves facing an army of zombies.
Before fleeing, they argue over what terminology is appropriate for such beings since Beast believes the term “undead” makes little sense. As they are about to be overrun by the endless horde, an army vaporizes the zombies. Wearing beast-like armor with paw print sigils, they express excitement over their find and the need to alert the queen that the legends are true.
The army takes Beast and Spider-Man to a gated community and refers to Beast as the “Origin Maker,” whom the Queen awaits to see. Beast and Spider-Man quickly realize that the entire community consists of beings that share Beast’s physical traits: blue fur and feline features. Beast is speechless as he stares up at a gold statue of himself while passersby cry out in excitement.
The Queen arrives and refers to Beast as “The McCoy.” Dressed scantily with long crowned white hair, the beautiful queen tells him that he may call her Talia and that they have much to discuss.
While Beast goes off with Talia, Spider-Man is taken away by two guards and thrown in a coliseum. Surrounded by onlookers, an announcer presents Spider-Man as the last of his kind: a man! The announcer recaps the world’s history of the time when man caged “Beast” out of fear until the day man fought amongst themselves, allowing Beast to break free and claim the world for himself. Now that “man” has returned, the crowd wishes to see if he still has the arrogance to think he can leash the beast and they release a huge, panther-type creature known as a “Goliacat” into the arena. Spider-Man tries to get out of the situation with his usual wit but the crowd relentlessly screams, “Kill!” as the Goliacat finishes off his latest victim and moves on to Spider-Man.
Meanwhile, Beast is pampered with new garments and fresh fruit. Talia tells Beast that it was she who sent for him across the barriers of time because he is the origin maker, the first of their kind. Talia claims to have “selected” Beast and begins to make sexual advances towards him, despite him telling her that he is taken.
While the Goliacat pummels Spider-Man, Beast pushes away Talia, who tells Beast to give in to his animal urges. Losing patience, Beast demands to know where Spider-Man is and Talia pulls back a curtain to reveal Spider-Man fighting for his life in what she calls a “great feeding.”
Beast asks Talia to stop this madness and informs her that Spider-Man is his friend. Talia tells him that Beast is friend to no man and that he led a revolution that wiped man from the earth and turned his victims into zombies to further punish them. Assuming that his mutation saved him and his offspring from a pandemic virus, Beast is horrified to learn the truth and rushes into the arena to help Spider-Man.
Using their knowledge of physics, Spider-Man and Beast defeat the Goliacat by swinging Beast around with web and pounding the Goliacat’s head with extreme brute force.
Talia is outraged that Beast would turn away all her offer of love and a kingdom to save the life of a man. With tears in his eyes, Beast informs her that, despite appearances, he is a man himself. Talia banishes him from their timeline and tells him to enjoy his leashes and cages and men!
Later, Spider-Man and Beast sit on a park bench and recount their adventure. Spider-Man questions if Talia could have been Beast’s great-great-great-great-granddaughter but more importantly, wonders what could make Beast snap and lead the destruction of their planet. Before Beast could answer, a small boy points at him and insults his appearance while his mother tells him to leave that “dog” alone, as he could have rabies…
(2nd Story)Captain America breaks into a seemingly normal home in a quiet suburban town with a reluctant Quentin Quire following behind. Captain American explains that the entire town is a front and that below them is an A.I.M. weapons cache. He brought Quentin along to help out with any psychic defenses they may encounter.
Quentin flat out tells the Captain that he’s not interested in teaming up, insulting Captain America’s ironic “Aryan Ubermensch” look and his stupid helmet wings. But most importantly, Quentin loathes Captain America for his attempt to throw him in prison and says that he’ll flash fry his fascist egg of a brain instead of helping him on this mission.
Captain America tells him the only reason he’s giving Quentin a second chance is because Logan believes that Quentin actually cares. He tells Quentin that he’s welcome to try to break into his mind but when Quentin attempts, he is only confronted with a giant-sized version of Captain America’s shield.
Captain America begins to climb down a secret hatch in the home’s kitchen and tells Quentin to follow. Egged on by his own conscience, represented by himself dressed as Professor X and Magneto, Quentin slams the hatch on Captain America with his foot.
(flashback)As Captain America progresses on with the mission, he thinks back to a talk he recently had with Wolverine in a bar. Worried that kids these days resent him, Wolverine tells Steve that while he connects with the students because they’re all mutants, all they see in Steve is a shield and a flag. In order for them to trust Captain America, Wolverine says he has to show them the man beneath the costume.
(present)Captain America is detected while Quentin sits on the living room couch, browsing magazines. He is suddenly pulled into Captain America’s head. He mocks Captain America’s cry for attention until he sees dozens of floating M.O.G.O.D.’s (Microscopic Oddities Generated Only for Destruction) headed his way.
Quentin manifests a psychic machine gun and retro army helmet but is quickly overwhelmed by the tiny terrors. Captain America pulls him out to safety. Quentin is shocked to see Captain America as Steve Rogers in regular army attire before his transformation into a superhero. Steve orders Quentin to pull it together and conjure up another “tool of authoritarian might” before the creatures eat his mind. “Sir. Yes, sir,” Quentin says with a smile as the two defend Captain America’s mind, represented again by a giant version of his shield, from the army of M.O.G.O.D.s.
Once the enemy is defeated, Quentin realizes that the tale of Steve Rogers volunteering to be a government lab rat to gain muscles and fight in a war is true and calls Captain America an idiot. Captain America says that he may be right but when he saw the injustice going on when power was placed in the wrong hands, he had no choice. Speechless, Quentin seems to grow some slight respect for the Captain.
Content that Quentin joined the fight, Captain America tells him that he’s free to have a life of his own again. Quentin is outraged, knowing that his reputation is ruined if others find out that he helped Captain America. Captain America assures him that there’s always another option and drops him off at the Jean Grey School in handcuffs, under the guise that he’s still a prisoner there.


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Iron Fist + Doop / Epic Matryoshka
“Holy *%&^!” Iron Fist shouts as he lights a match, igniting Doop’s burp, setting an orange monster ablaze!
Lets back up a hair.
A Zippy Pie delivery boy rings the bell at Avengers Tower, claiming to have a pizza for Iron Fist. Wolverine answers the intercom and tells the boy that no one ordered a pizza. When asked whether or not he’s going to pay, Wolverine asks him for the time on the receipt. The delivery boy claims that you can’t take Zippy Pies advertising slogan, “Thirty Minutes or It’s Free,” seriously and that traffic and horses with guns held him up. Wolverine tells him to leave the pizza by the door and hangs up. Furious that he didn’t even get a tip, the delivery boy smashes the light above the entrance before leaving.
Let’s back up maybe a little bit more.
Thirty minutes ago, Doop stands in a phone booth, ordering a pizza. While he tries to decide between thin crust or stuffed and the size of the pie, Iron Fist stands outside, eyeing a Zippy Pie restaurant across the street.
Doop hangs up the phone and tells him that arrangements are set and they’re ready to go. Iron Fist is hesitant and questions Doop’s “sources.” Doop assumes that Iron Fist is still upset over a failed operation back in Rangoon. Iron Fist corrects him, saying that it was in Laos, and admits that he hasn’t forgot about how that incident that involved girls pretending to be fraternal quadruplets turned out.
Doop pulls out a giant machine gun from his “purse,” which turns out to be the bag of Shaman of Alpha Flight. Iron Fist is shocked that Doop has borrowed an object of such cultural significance but Doop assures him that it’s all for the arrangement.
The two burst into the empty pizza place and the lone employee tells them the shop is closed. Seeing with whom he’s dealing, the Zippy Pie employee pulls out a shark-adorned gun on them but is quickly subdued by Iron Fist, using a kick known as the “Mary Lou Retton.” Iron Fist grabs some free matches as Doop throws the worker out the window. Despite Iron Fist’s warnings, Doop downs a jar of pickles before the duo head towards the backroom.
Breaking down the door with a “Pilated Woodpecker” kick, Iron Fist discovers a poker game being played by a large guy in a suit, a man dressed as a pirate and a girl with metal legs, also in pirate attire. Iron Fist takes down the armed men with moves such as “The La Paz Handshake” and the “Number 6 Extra Chicken.”
Meanwhile, Doop finds a glowing gold ball that was being included in the stakes of the poker game and greets it as his friend. Before he is able to do anything with it, Doop is attacked from behind and tosses the ball to Iron Fist, where it gets lodged in his throat.
Choking on the ball, Iron Fist finishes off the big-armed guy with a “Grade 9 Physics Club” to the neck. After Iron Fist swallows the ball, the “pirate man” holds a grenade and demands that the “monster ball” be returned to him in two seconds or he sets it off. Iron Fist reaches for the grenade but before he catches it, Doop swallows him whole.
Donning a wig and a dress, Iron Fist lands in the strange recesses of Doop’s infinite body space. He tosses the grenade out of Doop’s body as his outfit changes into a traditional matador’s costume. He is confronted by a monkey in knight’s armor and a bear in Russian garb, who shout at him, telling him about “perfect nonsense.” Dolls fall from the sky and a giant blimp passes by with the words Iron Fist says to Doop, “You’re going to regret this!” plastered on it. His surroundings seem to crumble and Nikolai Gogoli warms him that there is no escape as Iron Fist calls out to Doop for help.
Back at Zippys, the place is destroyed from the grenade blast. Unsure of what to do, Doop hops into Shaman’s bag and slides it into a pizza box. The delivery boy seen earlier, comes into the shop and picks the box up, unphased by the shop’s destruction. He reads the destination, Avengers Tower, checks his watch, and leaves.
Back to when the pizza guy left.
A raccoon curiously inspects the pizza box left at Avengers Tower until Doop pops out of Shaman’s bag and scares him off. Plagued by an upset stomach, he throws up Iron Fist and then pats him on the back, causing Iron Fist to cough up the gold monster ball and send it flying into the trees. With the lights out, Iron Fist whips out matches to help them find the gold ball, just as Doop lets out a huge burp.
Moments later, Iron Fist is holding a big, orange monster back as he tries to attack Doop for setting him on fire. After the monster calms down, Doop embraces his old friend, saying they have not seen each other since they worked for Fury together in Saigon.
Doop is proud of another successful mission but Iron Fist is less than amused and claims he’s hungry. Doop offers him some pickles, to which Iron Fist firmly says no, after seeing what they did to him.


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(1st Story) Captain Marvel + Wolverine   -  (2nd Story) The Thing + Gambit
(1st Story)At Avengers Tower, Hawkeye and Spider-Woman walk away from a tense poker game brewing between Wolverine and Captain Marvel. While Captain Marvel ponders her next move, she brings up the argument of who would win in a fight between cavemen and astronauts, a discussion she heard on the TV series, Angel. Wolverine dismisses the debate as stupid and tells her to hurry up.
They both raise the stakes and Wolverine asks Captain Marvel if the astronauts would be armed, to which she replies no because then the fight would be too easy. Wolverine disagrees and says that fights are mind against mind. Captain Marvel doesn’t see things that way. They both continue to raise the stakes as Wolverine calls her out for being stubborn. Captain Marvel calls Wolverine and jackass and accuses him of trying to annoy her so that she’ll rush into a mistake.
Wolverine brings up the cavemen versus astronaut debate and backs up his view with the fact that while astronauts spend most of their time doing paperwork, cavemen need to spend every hour of every day on survival. Even though astronauts have stronger minds, Wolverine claims that sometimes the fight simply goes to the guy with the muscles. Growing defensive, Captain Marvel asks Wolverine if he doubts that astronauts have muscles. They both rise from their seats as they become the examples in the argument.
Wolverine claims that Captain Marvel would think he’d be easy for her to take out due to her vast array of powers while all he’s got is claws, which he unsheathes. Wolverine says that so many have underestimated him and so many are dead now because of it. He asks her if she’s in or out. “All in. Your call,” Carol says as she pushes all her chips to the center.
Suddenly, the ground rumbles and the two heroes brace themselves for an attack. The wall crumbles and a towering celestial being called The End stands before them.
Captain Marvel poses the astronaut versus cavemen question to the being. After thinking a moment, The End sides with Carol, claiming that they’ve already seen the fight depicted in the first Planet of the Apes movie when Taylor, an astronaut, was able beat numerous primitive humans. Captain Marvel smirks at a disgruntled Wolverine, who then asks The End if he has any money.
Hawkeye and Spider-Woman race back to the room, preparing for the worst only to find the poker game still in progress, with a third player, The End. The being requests bigger cards to which Captain Marvel says she’ll look into for next time. Wolverine, already impatient again, attempts to rush Carol into making her next move.
(2nd Story)The Thing finishes setting up a poker game with the young boys of The Yancy Street Gang. He’s glad they finally agreed to playing and tells them poker is a game of wits and subtlety. He claims that, back in his day, you had to be tough AND smart to be a member of the street gang. The poker game will help him decide if that’s still the case.
He tells them they’re playing stud and, just before they begin, Tony, a member of the Street Gang, gets up to let someone they invited in. Thing is shocked when it turns out to be Gambit, who met one of the kids yesterday and agreed to sit in on the game to even out the odds.
(months ago)In New Orleans, Gambit races out of a building, away from a man screaming that he robbed him. The Thing happens to be there, enjoying the Mardi Gras parade. He grabs Gambit by the collar. Gambit warns him to back off, only to be insulted about his haircut. Gambit responds by charging the beads that The Thing is wearing and the two begin to brawl.
(present)The Thing tells the kids that they have met before and Gambit says that, like superheroes do all the time, they fought over a misunderstanding which has since been cleared up. The Thing disagrees and assures Gambit that he won’t beat him again now that he’s on his turf. Tony is unsure since Gambit literally carries cards in his pocket. The Thing, growing angry, already catches Gambit trying to cheat and tells him the deck is off limits to him now. “I’ve got my eye on you. No Scams,” Thing says as the game begins.
Gambit is impressed that the Thing caught his attempt to switch the decks. The Thing tells him that growing up on Yancy Street meant being raised by card hustlers and thieves. Gambit tells him that that’s interesting since he was actually raised by thieves himself on the streets of New Orleans. The Thing argues that a winter in New York is a lot rougher than the tropical streets of New Orleans as Gambit wins his way through multiple hands, taking Thing’s hat and coat in the process. With nothing left, Gambit suggests The Thing throws in the keys to his sky cycle.
After being beaten out of everything he has, the Thing angrily accuses him of cheating and tells the kids that they shouldn’t have let Gambit in. Tony claims that they needed to even the odds because The Thing’s poker face is literally a rock and claims that the gang won The Thing’s “battle of wits.” After Gambit insults The Thing, saying that they shouldn’t take pride in defeating an unarmed opponent, Ben stands up and tells Gambit that they’re going to take this outside. He tells the kids to stay behind so they don’t get hurt and they agree, citing a time when Thundra destroyed one of their uncle’s deli.
The kids wait inside, saying how dumb The Thing is since he tells them not to settle things with their fists and does the opposite. They wonder who’s winning outside and wonder what went down last time the two met…
(last time)The Thing has the upper hand as the two fight in a New Orleans graveyard. Gambit admits that he was cheating but only because the cards were marked and he was playing a cheater. The Thing gets up and helps Gambit to his feet, interested by the fact that Gambit knows how to run card scams. He asks Gambit if he ever makes it up to New York…
(present)Tony grows suspicious and asks another member where they met Gambit. Turns out Gambit was running a Three-card Monte right in front of the youth center. Tony thinks it’s too much of a coincidence that the two of them knew each other and soon realizes that Gambit took all his winnings with him!
Outside, Gambit and Thing fly in the sky on Thing’s sky cycle. They compliment each other’s card scamming skills. The Thing says that he warned the kids that it was a game of wits. Gambit asks to drive, since he did in fact win the keys to the vehicle but Thing tells him to shut up.


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(1st Story) Iron Man + Beast (2nd Story) Thor + Iceman
(1st Story)A S.H.I.E.L.D. agent thanks Iron Man for coming at such short notice as he arrives at bunker. The agent explains that since S.H.I.E.L.D. took stewardship of Bruce Banner and his alter ego, the Hulk, they have been developing fail-safes in case he ever gets out of hand. Before he’s able to tell Tony about their latest project, he comments on how cool Tony’s armor is. Tony asks if everyone on the project is this easy to impress and is surprised when the agent tells him no. Tony opens the door to the bunker to find Beast working on a tablet, with a Hulk-buster robot behind him.
Tony comments on Beast’s new appearance, asking him if he drank one of his experiments again and calls him out for creating a rip-off of his Hulk-buster armor. Beast says that the Hulk-buster project is a S.H.I.E.L.D. project, while the fail-safe he himself created is a serum that grants agents Hulk-like strengths for short periods of time. Beast admits that there were complications with his creation. Both the agent who tested the serum and Beast agree that they don’t talk about the incident, much to Tony’s disappointment.
Beast also admits that he’s can’t help S.H.I.E.L.D. with their current problem, a virus that has infected the Hulk-buster robot with a hostile code. Tony immediately gets to work, confidently telling Beast that he’ll let him know when the fix is something he can power-chug. Tony disables the fail-safes so he get further into the code. The system corruption rises at an alarming rate until it reaches 100% and the machine powers on. Tony admits to Beast that he just got his ass kicked.
Beast questions Tony’s tactics and asks him if he’s drunk. “Much worse than that,” Tony says as he armors up. “Someone out there is better than me.” Iron Man blasts at the robot with a powerful repulser beam that exhausts his power reserves. The robot easily deflects it and grabs Iron Man by the arms. Beast climbs on the robot’s back while the robot rips open Tony’s helmet at the seams.
Suddenly, the Hulk smashes through the roof, knocking out the robot in a single hit! The Hulk looks around, still out of control. The agent from earlier rushes over to him and shows him soothing psychic imagery, such as puppies, to calm him down. Hulk reverts to Bruce Banner and asks what happened. Beast tells him that he disproved a S.H.I.E.L.D. project’s function and saved their lives. Iron Man asks to take another crack at solving the problem.
Looking at the robot’s damage, Bruce tells them they’ll have to find another way to heal their bruised egos. Bruce thanks them and says it’s good to know that the world’s top minds are keeping an eye on him. Beast and Iron Man walk away and Bruce approaches the robot and pulls out a USB drive with “For Hank & Tony” written on it. He tells the S.H.I.E.L.D. agent that it was a reminder for everyone that Banner is the smartest one there is.
(2nd Story)Thor falls from the sky crashing multiple times on a field of endless snow. Iceman lightly asks him if he’s alright and offers to pick up the hammer he dropped but jokes about not being worthy enough. He asks Thor if a nun or Ryan Gosling ever attempted to lift it. Thor is not amused as the two stand before an army of Frost Giants.
Iceman claims to have met them before but Thor tells him that this is Ymir himself, leading a new Jotun invasion of Midgard. Iceman asks Thor what he plans on doing, suggesting that a direct attack may not be the best idea but Thor doesn’t listen and flies headfirst into the army. Thor is quickly grabbed and thrown again, prompting Iceman to ask him if he has a “Plan B.”
Ymir taunts Thor, telling him that his lightning is nothing and there is nothing he can do to stop the invasion of Midgard. Iceman constructs a hammer of his own and jokes about Thor’s hammer being nice. “You think jokes will win this day?” Thor asks. “I haven’t tried them all yet,” Iceman replies.
Thor compares Iceman to Hawkeye but says that after he makes jokes, Hawkeye actually does something. He tells Iceman to summon the rest of the X-Men or Avengers while he deals with the situation with thunder and lightning. Iceman tells Thor that he should wait, because he believes Ymir is playing with him. Thor refuses to listen and strikes at Ymir with strong strike of lightning.
“Fool!” Ymir cries out. “Now it begins.” The leader of the Frost Giants reveals that he is holding the Casket of Future Winters and it seems that Thor’s lightning just powered it up. Realizing his mistake, Thor tells Iceman that The Casket of Ancient Winters was an artifact created by Ymir that contained the sum of all cold. Thor managed to send the casket outside of Ymir’s reach but Ymir has created another one. Ymir calls upon the casket and the icy winds of oblivion. He holds the casket to the sky and unleashes cold itself.
Iceman jokes that now at least now every Christmas will be a White Christmas. Thor has had enough and calls Iceman a fool for continuing to joke when Ymir could very well end the world. Iceman admits that he jokes to keep the X-Men and Avengers from going insane due to all the grim they face. Iceman tells Thor that he’s right about him not taking the situation seriously and asks Thor if he knows why. “Nay,” says Thor curiously. “Because these idiots just turned the world into ice,” Iceman says as he rises into the sky. “And I’m Iceman.”
Suddenly multiple giant versions of Iceman rise from the Earth, towering over the Frost Giants. They quickly overpower the Frost giants in battle as Iceman and Thor go after Ymir. Iceman tells Ymir that unleashing the cold of the casket has made him more powerful. Iceman grabs the casket as Thor finishes Ymir off with a heaving lightning strike, sending him way, back to Jotunheim, to “lick his wounds.” Before Iceman can finish a joke about Ymir’s tongue getting stuck to himself, he collapses along with his giant replicas.
Thor grabs him. Iceman admits that he used too much power, trying to look good in front of a god. Thor laughs loudly, appreciating Iceman’s joke about Ymir’s tongue freezing to his wounds. “I don’t think you’re taking this seriously…” Iceman says as Thor flies him off to safety.
Sinking below is the Casket of Future Winters, which Iceman dropped when he collapsed…


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(1st story) Spider-Woman + Kitty Pryde (& Lockheed) (2nd story) Hawkeye + Deadpool
(1st story)Standing on a NYC Subway with Spider-Woman and Lockheed, Kitty Pryde complains about being dragged into the city on a school night, especially when Game of Thrones is on. Spider-Woman tells her that she tracked a very special piece of space metal for S.W.O.R.D. When the meteorite containing the metal fell to earth, it fell over the Urals in Russia and now the Russian Mafia intend to sell it to the highest bidder. She called in fellow S.W.O.R.D. agent, Lockheed, because as they learned on a previous mission together he can smell the metal. Spider-Woman refuses to give any other details, irking Kitty further. She hopes a nearby homeless person is Nick Fury in disguise so that both Jessica and Lockheed get busted for loose lips. Lockheed gets the scent and Kitty phases them through the Subway cart, wanting to find the metal quickly so she can go back home and pretend she’s the “Mother of Dragons.”
They arrive at the abandoned City Hall Subway Station to find a three-way brawl has already broke out to acquire the meteorite. Carl Kreel, The Absorbing Man, transformed into steel, swings his ball and chain at dozens of Hydra and A.I.M. agents. The trio immediately join the battle, making quick work of some A.I.M. agents with fire blasts and fists alike. Spider-Woman asks Kitty to keep the Absorbing Man away from the rock because the results would be unpredictable if he used his powers on it.
Admiring the design of the abandoned City Hall Subway station as she goes, Kitty makes her way to the case containing the meteorite, a glowing green rock. She phases the object just in time, causing Creel’s fist to go right through it. Kitty phases the rock into a nearby pillar and leaves it there. She tries to talk to Creel, asking why he wants the rock so badly. As he crushes the pillar with his ball and chain, he tells Kitty that he wants to find a new, more powerful, permanent form. As he’s about to pull the rock from the shattered pillar, Kitty phases his body, causing his fist to slide through the rock yet again.
Surprisingly, Kitty gives in to Creel’s plea and removes her hand, allowing Creed to touch the rock and absorb the meteorite’s properties. As Creel starts glowing green, Kitty tells him that he should really try absorbing a book instead.
Still busy beating up numerous A.I.M. agents, Spider-Woman and Lockheed question Kitty’s motive behind allowing Creel to touch the rock. Kitty assures them that the situation is under control but, when the Absorbing Man starts sending out green energy blasts to Hydra agents, Spider-Woman and Lockheed remain worried.
Phasing through Creel’s attacks, Kitty calmly begins to tell him about how much her powers have developed since learning she was a mutant. She is now able to do things such as talk and breathe while phasing. While claiming that Creel’s brain remains a sensitive piece of meat despite his absorption of the space metal, she phases her fingers gently into Creel’s skull, disrupting the alien metal blood flow to his brain. The Absorbing Man reverts to normal and collapses on the floor.
Spider-Woman applauds as Kitty begins to give orders to both Hydra and A.I.M. agents. Under supervision of the three heroes, the A.I.M. agents remove Creel’s body while the Hydra agents begin to clean up the trashed subway station.
A little while later, cops are escorting the numerous agents away in handcuffs while Spider-Woman places the rock back in its case. She thanks Kitty for her help and asks how she learned the technique she used on Creel. Kitty says it’s classified as she phases the Absorbing Man’s ball and chain into the ground. Sensing the tension between the two, Spider-Woman tells Kitty that she emits a pheromone that makes women uncomfortable around her. “Speaking of uncomfortable,” Kitty says. “Hey dragon! Who you going home with?” Lockheed simply smiles at the two lovingly.
(2nd story)While Hawkeye rambles about the incompetence of arrows against certain villains, Deadpool begins to question if Clint is going the right way. As they speed into Grand Central Station in a sleek car, Hawkeye assures that he’s pretty sure he knows the route as they drive down the steps and onto a NYC subway track. Driving headfirst into an oncoming train, Deadpool asks him again if he’s going the right way, to which Hawkeye replies with a sharp turn into a hidden path.
The car flies onto the scene of a hidden alcove where dozens of pirates are loading a submarine. “Now let’s go get our man!” Hawkeye says and both heroes agree that they’ll go berserk if the pirates laid a finger on the person they’re trying to rescue.
Much to the delight of Hawkeye, Deadpool whips out his own bow and arrow to use in honor of this particular team-up. The two heroes remark on how satisfying archery combat is as they take down countless pirates. Impressing Hawkeye even more, Deadpool uses his own trick arrows: arrows with the head of a Hulk fist that explodes upon impact. As Deadpool’s trick arrows fly, explosions erupt everywhere and the duo make their way into the submarine.
Deadpool quickly unleashes another trick arrow at some attacking pirates. Realizing that such an explosion would threaten them all in the airtight submarine, Hawkeye quickly yanks a nearby door shut, protecting them from the explosion. Deadpool tries to compliment his finesse and tries calling him Legolas, Hunger Games and even the “girl from Brave” but Hawkeye claims to have heard them all. He settles on the “fox version of Robin Hood” as the two finally find Captain Barracuda standing next to a man named Hector Herrera tied up to a chair.
After Deadpool interrupts the Captain while he’s speaking, Captain Barracuda slices his arm off with his glowing red blade. Hawkeye leaps into action and knocks both Captain Barracuda’s sword and gun out from his hands with his bow and arrow. Captain Barracuda pushes him away and reaches for The Horn of Proteus which will call upon the Lovecraftian horrors of the deepest alien oceans. Before he’s able to blow the horn, Deadpool sticks his disembodied arm into the horn and Hawkeye knocks the villain out with a solid punch.
They make their way back into Grand Central Station with Mr. Herrera, who agrees to have them both over for dinner that night. Hawkeye tells Deadpool that, with all the paperwork he’ll need to submit for the damages they caused, it’d be better if Steve and Tony didn’t know Deadpool was there. Deadpool agrees and says, despite not receiving credit, they both did really good work that day. Hawkeye holds one of Deadpool’s Hulk Hand trick arrows and promises to hit Hulk with one next time he gets out of control. Deadpool walks off as Hawkeye begins to talk to the press.
Later, Hawkeye sits across from a date at Hector’s, a Mexican restaurant, owned by Hector Herrera. Hector greets Clint personally and promises to treat him extra special tonight since he saved him from becoming a personal chef to a band of pirates. Clint tells his date that he’s known Hector since his first Taco Truck and he makes the best chimichangas around. “Everyone loves them,” Clint says as he points to Wade at a nearby table, donned in a sombrero and enjoying a plate of them as a waitress serves him even more.


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(1st story) Captain America + Wolverine: Animal Cruelty (2nd story) Doctor Strange + Quentin Quire, Pixie, & Eye-Boy
(1st story)Wolverine and Captain America step through the smoky ruins of a village. Wolverine questions why anyone would want to visit such a place and Captain America tells him that Doctor Strange was trying to rescue his shaman friend before the militia overtook the town. The pair notices that, while the villagers are all dead from gunshot wounds, the dead militia seem to have been killed by something else…
Suddenly, a giant snake dives to attack the two heroes from behind. They fight back but Wolverine complains about Captain America’s shield getting in the way of his close-range attacks. They finally take the beast down with Captain America cracking into the back of its neck with his shield, while Wolverine stabs its jaw.
Before they’re able to process the mystery of where Strange is and why there’s a giant snake loose, a horde of giant ants come racing towards them. As they fight through the giant ants, they hear Doctor Strange in their heads telling them to come to the caves to free him.
The two heroes spot a waterfall and assume the cave is behind it. As they make their way over, Captain America expresses regret about killing so many innocent ants and tells Wolverine that every life, no matter how small, deserves respect. Wolverine tells him that when he sees giant ants, he kills them. Before they’re able to continue the debate, they come across a chimp, normal-sized and holding a staff.
“Begone!” the chimp says as he slams the staff into the ground, sending Wolverine and Captain America back in an eruption of rock and water. Doctor Strange makes contact again, telling them to retrieve the staff and not to harm the chimp. The chimp swings wildly with the magic staff until Captain America separates it from him with his shield. Wolverine picks it up and tosses it while Captain America restrains the chimp. The chimp continues to shout “Begone!” as tears well up in his eyes.
Realizing that without the shaman’s staff, the chimp is a just a chimp, Captain America lets him go. Doctor Strange arrives and explains that after the shaman, who was a close friend to the forest, was killed, the chimp found his staff and used its power to fight off the militia. Wolverine wonders if they should have let the chimp keep the power, seeing as how bad things are around there. Doctor Strange remarks sadly how this incident reminds him that the world is simply too big for even the Avengers and X-Men to stop every evil.
(2nd story)Pixie teleports herself, Quentin Quire, and Eye-Boy to 177A Bleecker Street, the address of Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum. After a night of losing bets to Pixie at poker, basketball and Danger Room scenarios, Quentin Quire is donning a pilgrim-like bonnet. He smugly decides to go ‘double or nothing’ to prevent himself from having to wear the headpiece to all his classes the next day but, if he loses, he’ll have to wear a diaper all week as well. Eye-Boy, retching from teleporting, asks why he was brought along. Quentin says he’s the impartial observer to keep them from cheating.
Pixie teleports them inside Strange’s home and agrees to bet further, promising to wear a bikini and hold Quentin’s hand in front of the school but he’ll now have to wear the diaper for a month if he loses. Quentin links them telepathically and they agree to meet back in the main hallway in ten minutes to see who snagged the best artifact. Pixie tells Eye-Boy, again retching from her teleporting, to keep close eyes on Quentin.
Eye-Boy follows Quentin into Doctor Strange’s library and Quentin begins to pull multiple books down from the shelves telekinetically. He asks Eye-Boy to help him find a hidden passageway since Eye-Boy’s mutant powers enable him to see magic. Eye-Boy refuses since that would be cheating but, after Quentin threatens to force him telepathically and erase his mind after, Eye-Boy quickly tells him to pull a big golden book up top that, to his eyes, is glowing. Once Quentin pulls it, a chute opens beneath him and he falls through it screaming. Eye-Boy calls down to him but receives no answer and can longer hear Quentin in his head.
While wandering through the house shouting for Pixie, Eye-Boy stumbles upon a double door with bright pink tendrils seeping out of it. He sticks his hand in and eyes Doctor Strange, surrounded by photos and alcohol. D’Spayre the demon is behind him chanting a spell and strange pink tentacles squirm and twist before them.
Meanwhile, Pixie uses her souldagger to open a small chest in another room. In it, she finds a bright red orb and thinks it’ll be enough to win the bet. Suddenly, she hears Eye-Boy screaming for help and flies back to the main hallway. Quentin joins them, claiming to have found the most awesome thing in the basement. Pixie and Quentin immediately begin to brag over who has the better find but Eye-Boy shuts them up by screaming, “Doc Strange is up in his room with this really freekin’ scary demon man sucking his soul!”
“Lay off the Doctor or face the wrath of the X-Men!” Pixie cries as she flies into the room, soul dagger in hand. Quentin is close behind her, already arming his psychic rifle. D’Spayre calls them fools and begins to use his fear powers, causing Eye-Boy to think he’s blinded. Quentin blocks D’Spayre’s powers and shoots him with a psychic bullet. D’Spayre falls back and Pixie stabs him with her souldagger. D’Spayre yells in pain but manages to knock her away and regain himself. As he threatens the students, the pink tentacles form up behind him, and engulf him. Doctor Strange rises and the demon vanishes in a burst of pink energy.
Doctor Strange thanks them for distracting D’Spayre long enough for him to finish completing the spell, which would have taken him days otherwise. He blames himself for looking at old photos and wallowing in self pity. “Sure. No problem,” Pixie says, backing away. Eye-Boy stares at Doctor Strange in disbelief. “Well I guess we’d best be going. School day tomorrow…” Quentin says nervously.
“Clearly you have much to learn,” Doctor Strange says as the Eye of Agamatto glows brightly and Pixie and Quentin vanish. Doctor Strange assures Eye-Boy that he didn’t kill them but merely wishes to speak to Trevor alone so he can reward him for his heroism and good intentions.
Back outside, Pixie and Quentin are slumped on the curb as Eye-Boy tells them that Doctor Strange also warned him about the company he keeps. He then shows them the reward he got, a small telescope that enhances natural sight. Combined with his mutant gifts, Eye-Boy can use the device to see even more energy and magic spectrums and, if he tries hard enough, he can even see through things.
Pixie and Quentin are bitter because Strange zapped them outside without the artifacts they stole. Eye-Boy claims to have won despite not being part of the bet, saying he doesn’t need a bet as he focuses one eye through the telescope at Pixie. Realizing what Eye-Boy’s doing, Quentin begins to laugh hysterically as Pixie chases Eye-Boy down the street.


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(1st story) Black Widow + Fantomex; (2nd story) Scarlet Witch + Domino
(1st story)Black Widow is perching on a cliff scoping out Bestuzhev, a Russian town that’s been abandoned for decades. Always keeping tabs on potential Red Room activity, this particular town sent up some red flags, including rumors of a drive that contains the DNA of every Russian superhero. She puts her high-tech binoculars away and rides down the snowy mountain on a sleek motorcycle. As Natasha prepares to break into a building using Tony Stark’s gadgets, she reflects on how the Red Room turned her into a master spy but robbed her of a normal life. She wishes to spare anyone else from suffering a similar fate…
Just as Natasha is about to scale the building, Fantomex comes crashing backwards out a window, guns blazing, shouting “Not on the menu this evening, Yogi!” A giant bear follows him, roaring as he deflects Fantomex’s bullets. As Fantomex runs out of ammo, Black Widow notes that the bear seems to be a smaller version of Ursa Major. Knowing that Fantomex is some kind of thief that runs with the X-Men, Black Widow assumes they’re on the same side and jumps in to defend him. “I thought I smelled defector! It’s nice of you to come out and play, Avenger,” Fantomex says. He agrees that they may be on the same side but assures Black Widow that he can handle this particular situation on his own. The bear suddenly looks confused and runs off. Fantomex explains to Natasha that he used his power of misdirection to convince the bear that a stream full of salmon is nearby. Natasha asks if he can use his power again on the two additional Russian operatives racing towards them.
Black Widow begins speaking in Russian, asking the two female agents to stand down. They call her a traitress and attack as Fantomex runs back into the building. “Russia has no need for you or your Avengers,” the short haired agent says as she begins to transform into a human-tiger hybrid. Black Widow tosses the other blonde agent on her back and assures them that she does not seek trouble but is merely trying to prevent them from following a path that they’ll regret. “Worry about yourself!” the short haired agent says as she lunges toward Nastasha, now fully in her tiger form. Black Widow immediately recognizes her as a female version of Sibercat and continues to try to reason with her as she dodges Sibercat’s attacks. Black Widow swiftly kicks Sibercat in the head and seems to have the upper hand until she’s blasted by a mysterious dark energy.
Black Widow looks up to see the blonde agent has transformed into Darkstar, a version of the superhero that once fought alongside Nastasha in the Champions. As Darkstar and Sibercat approach to finish Black Widow off, Fantomex leaps out of a second-story window, clutching a briefcase. He advises Black Widow to run and takes off into the woods.
Before she can ask what she should be running from, the building explodes. As Fantomex prepares to board EVA, Black Widow slowly rises, covered in snow and tells Fantomex that there’s no way he’s leaving with that case. Fantomex tells her she doesn’t have much of a choice and Natasha turns around to see Crimson Dynamo headed straight for her. She quickly unloads bullets at it but the Russian super agent doesn't slow down. Nastasha braces herself for impact but the Crimson Dynamos passes right through her and disappears. Realizing she fell victim to Fantomex’s misdirection power, she looks up to see Eva taking off.
“Your friend left you all alone,” Darkstar says as she surrounds Natasha with Sibercat and Ursa Major. Five minutes later, Black Widow is the last one standing. “He’s not my friend,” she says to the three agents, lying unconscious around her.
Natasha rides off on her bike but stops short when she sees Fantomex, who compliments her ride. “Give me one good reason I shouldn’t leave skid marks on your face,” Natasha says. Fantomex tosses the briefcase at her feet. Fantomex tells her that a client asked him to retrieve the DNA drive but he has issues with the government tampering with people’s DNA to turn them into weapons. When Natasha asks why he took it to begin with, Fantomex says he wanted to prove he can pull off the impossible theft. “What am I going to do with Russian DNA?” Fantomex asks as he climbs aboard EVA. Black Widow watches as EVA takes off, sincerely hoping it crashes somewhere where they hate the French.
(2nd story)10,000 feet above Yellowstone National Park, Scarlet Witch questions why Domino felt the need to bring backup guns, a large knife, and a taser with her for this mission. “I’ll take my chances, witch,” Domino says. “Makes me feel better about crawling through an alien death trap.” Wanda assures Domino that she’s using her probability powers to boost Domino’s luck powers but Domino isn’t pleased and asks Scarlet Witch to give her a sit rep again since she was too buzzed to read her initial text.
Scarlet Witch tells Domino that she’s standing on top of a Celestial Extermination Drone that expunges failed experiments by causing extinction-level events using probability manipulation fields. Since it’s currently hovering over Yellowstone Park, Wanda theorizes that it plans to probabilistically coax the dormant Yellowstone Supervolcano into erupting. “So you’re saying that humanity is about to be wiped out by the Celestial’s runaway roomba?” Domino asks. “That’s it exactly, Wanda says as she rolls her eyes.
Domino begins to climb into the drone using “gecko armor” that Forge built to attach herself to the ceiling. She questions why Scarlet Witch gets to wait outside, giving her coattails a workout. Claiming that the reasoning was in the initial text Domino failed to read, Wanda says that if she comes into physical contact with the drone, her powers and the drone’s probability field will interact and cause a feedback loop that could unravel reality. “And you would know about that kinda crap, wouldn’t you, witch?” Domino says as she ventures further into the drone.
Just as Domino leaps down to an inner surface, her armor starts malfunctioning and pieces begin to fly off. Scarlet Witch tells her about the probabilistic minefield that the drone generates which causes inorganic matter to undergo structural failure and organisms to suffer spontaneous catastrophic medical issues. Only supernaturally lucky girls can get near the drone without stroking out but, even with Wanda boosting Domino’s powers, she can still drop dead in there before she reaches the drone’s core.
Three minutes later, Domino is using Forge’s “luck saw” to cut a way into the main interior of the drone. The luck saw focuses Domino’s power, allowing her to cause structural damage to targeted areas within a range of five feet. Once breaching the bulkhead, Domino is shocked to find it littered with her corpse. Thanks to Wanda “witchifying” her powers, Domino is able to visualize the routes she shouldn’t take. Realizing that there doesn’t seem to be a path where she can avoid the probabilistic minefield, Domino leaps ahead anyway towards the core.
Five minutes later, Scarlet Witch questions Domino’s status, claiming that she can’t block the drone’s probability field from awakening the volcano much longer. A bloodied and exhausted Domino, suffering from various spontaneous ailments and injuries such as kidney failure, ruptured appendix and muscular fibrosis, replies that she is looking at the core, a blue floating energy orb in the center of the room. Knowing that she must hit it with the luck saw but seeing giant piles of her dead body overflowing the room, Domino realizes the mission is impossible. Just as she gives up, the luck saw spontaneously disintegrates and Domino suffers a ruptured cerebral aneurysm and dies.
Eight minutes earlier, Domino is just about to breach the drone’s hull as Scarlet Witch hovers nearby, telling her about the situation. Domino realizes what she must do and climbs on top of the drone, telling Wanda that her plan is garbage and there’s no conceivable way to get close enough to the core. Wanda begins to shout, calling Domino an idiot, and claiming they have to do something before the volcano erupts.
“Oh, we are gonna do something, witch,” Domino says as she taxes Wanda, causing her to fall from flight and land directly on the drone. As predicted, Wanda’s powers interact with the drone’s probability fields and causes a feedback loop that unravels the very fabric of reality.
When reality re-ravels itself, Wanda and Domino return but the celestial drone has vanished.
As the two heroes free fall to the ground, Wanda yells at Domino for almost erasing the entire universe. “Whatever, witch,” Domino says. “Just thought I’d take my chances."


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(1st Story) Thor + Magik; (2nd Story) The Superior Spider-Man + Cyclops
(1st story)In Asgard, Thor enters the Devon’s armory in search of Volstagg the Enormous, whom he wishes to congratulate on his victory against storm giants. Devon tells Thor that he has not seen Volstagg since he fixed the handle of the Brandrheid Undrsigr. Thor assumes Volstagg is celebrating with his lady wife and begins to glance around the armory and the shelves adorned with swords, shields and axes. Devon tells Thor what an honor it is to have him visit his armory and Thor assures him that the only reason he has not seen him is because he only has need for Mjolnir.
A nearby demon skull catches Thor’s eye and Devon tells him that it’s from Limbo. “You say from Limbo?” Thor says suspiciously as he lifts the skull. Just as Devon begins to shout a warning, Thor vanishes before his eyes!
At the secret headquarters of Cyclops’ X-Men, Cyclops and Magik are coordinating a Danger Room exercise for their students. They supervise as Benjamin Deeds, Goldballs and Christopher Muse dodge lasers and cutting saws. Cyclops suggests that Magik goes easier on the students but Magik thinks they need more hard work, especially with the Avengers on their trail.
Suddenly, Magik cries out in agony. Cyclops asks if she's okay but she teleports away before she gives him a solid answer. Cyclops is left to conduct the exercise on his own as Goldballs is slammed up against the viewing glass by a wrecking ball.
Magik arrives in Limbo to find Thor defending himself against a horde of vicious demons. “Feel my might, foul demon-spawn!” Thor shouts as he stands on the high ground, swinging his hammer against what seems like countless demons. “No wonder I felt a disturbance,” Magik says. “There’s a god in my kingdom.”
Thor immediately blames Magik for his current situation and promises to turn the might of Mjolnir on her when he’s finished with the demons. Magik tells him that not only did she have nothing to do with him coming to Limbo, she’s willing to save him. “The son of Odin does not need the feeble help of some boney mutant,” Thor declares as he continues to smash through demons. He recalls how Magik imprisoned various Avengers in Limbo and doesn’t believe that she’s changed her ways since. As Thor continues to berate her, Illyana slashes behind him with her soulsword, saving Thor from a demon’s axe. “Sure you don’t need my help, Thor?” Magik says with a grin.
Thor admits that he’s tiring and prepares to end things. He begins to swing his hammer violently and then slams it onto the ground, obliterating the surrounding demons and leaving him and Magik standing in a smoking crater. “Now that those demons are dispatched, it’s time to take you to justice,” Thor says as he throws his hammer toward Magik. “Silly god…” Magik says as she teleports out of the way.
Magik appears behind Thor with her sword raised. Both heroes prepare to attack each other when suddenly a giant serpent-like monster erupts from the ground between them. Magik tells Thor that the crater he created has opened the door to even more evil. Demons begin to surround the pair again and Thor manages to save Illyana from one, claiming that they are now even.
As the two fight countless hordes of demons, Magik says they can get them out of there but Thor refuses to admit defeat. Just as Thor is about to attack the giant serpent, Magik teleports them back to Earth. When asked why, Magik claims that he did enough to her dimension today. “I’ll clean up the god-sized mess you made,” Magik says. She warns him to stay out of her realm and teleports away, leaving Thor to admire her spirited attitude and to wonder where exactly she left him.
(2nd Story)As he chases an old woman down into a NYC subway station, Cyclops realizes how strange the situation must look to outsiders. Not only does the public believe he murdered a man in a wheelchair but now it looks like he's targeting old women too. The old woman shouts for help and claims that a mutant is trying to kill her. The woman is possessed by Malice and Cyclops vows to stop her before she can give the world one more reason to hate mutants. Having been forced to do regrettable things while possessed by the Phoenix Force, Cyclops is driven to stop Malice like never before.
Once on the subway platform, Malice, still inside the body of an old woman, clutches her heart and falls to the floor, pretending to have a heart attack. “For once, I wish New Yorker would live up to the stereotype,” Scott thinks as New Yorkers crowd around the woman to help. Cyclops pushes the crowd away, trying to prevent Malice from leaving her current host. “Get back!” he shouts as he unleashes an optic blast but it’s too late as Malice now inhabits the body of a young brunette woman. Malice’s signature choker is seen on her neck as the subway train doors close.
As Cyclops races towards the moving train, he realizes how much easier things would be if he was considered a hero. Off to the side, a group of “spider-bots” are crawling amongst the subway, no doubt relaying the events to Spider-Man.
Cyclops manages to enter the train by jumping onto the back and blasting the door down with his optic blast. The crowd reacts with anger and fear as Cyclops walks amongst them, except for the woman Malice is possessing. “This has to end, Malice,” Cyclops says when he stands before her. “You have to end.” Malice taunts him, saying that he really is a villain now if he's willing to kill the innocent woman she’s inhabiting. Before Cyclops is able to respond, Spider-Man crashes through the train window, knocking Cyclops away. Cyclops tries to explain the situation but Spider-Man doesn’t give him the chance and kicks him down the train car. “Knock him back to mutant world!” someone in the crowd shouts as the train passengers begin to cheer on Spider-Man.
Cyclops tells Spider-Man about Malice but Spider-Man doesn’t believe him and calls him a mutant terrorist. While trying to prove his innocence in Xavier’s death, Cyclops brings up the time a policeman’s death was blamed on Spider-Man when it was in fact the fault of Doctor Octopus. The mention of Doctor Octopus sets Spider-Man off and he viciously puts his arms around Cyclops throat and pushes him to the ground. Cyclops realizes that Spider-Man is acting out of character, because not only is he trying to kill him but he’s also not making his usual jokes. As Spider-Man tightens his hold, Cyclops’ optic blasts begin to unleash wildly, tearing through the train car and into nearby buildings.
Malice approaches the pair and, wanting to kill Cyclops herself, attempts to possess Spider-Man but is shocked to find she’s unable to. “I’m used to pushing away weaker personalities,” Spider-Man says as he bashes her in the head with his skull.
Realizing he was telling the truth, Spider-Man helps Cyclops up and tells him that they must prevent Malice from entering Cyclops’ body. Liking the idea of possessing Cyclops, Malice begins to pass through civilians on the train until she inhabits the one closest to him. She threatens to jump out of the hole of the train and kill herself unless Cyclops stops her. Realizing that the only way to stop Malice is by making contact and giving her a chance to possess him, Cyclops thinks about how easy it would be to do what everyone expects him to do. Spider-Man tells him not to do it but Cyclops grabs the man before Malice jumps. Malice’s choker appears around Cyclops’ neck as Scott feels himself losing control.
Malice, now in Cyclops body, attempts to fight Spider-Man but finds that she cannot control Scott’s optic blasts. Spider-Man easily dodges the wayward blasts and knocks Malice out with a single punch. “Having possession is not the same as having control,” Spider-Man says as the crowd on the train cheer.
Cyclops wakes up in Spider-Man’s lab with Malice no longer in control. Spider-Man claims to have known that Malice wouldn’t be able to control Scott’s blast since he realized Cyclops himself wasn’t in complete control of them while they fought. Cyclops calls him out on making such a dangerous gamble but Spider-Man claims that heroes use deception all the time. Spider-Man tells Scott that it was Otto Octavius that had a means of separating Malice from him and even managed to contain Malice in a vial, which he hands over to Cyclops.
Outside, Cyclops watches as Spider-Man swings away and reflects how glad he is that Spider-Man is one of the good guys because anyone else would have kept the vial containing Malice to use as a weapon…


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(1st story) Wonder Man + Beast: People Change (2nd story) Captain America + Jubilee
(1st story)At Avengers Mansion, Beast has just finished installing a system that will allow the Avengers and X-Men to share data, complete with an impenetrable A.I. firewall. He hands over a lengthy manual to a confused Rogue, who is surprised to find that it’s written in Shi’ar. “Call me if your laptop starts to threaten to exterminate humanity,” Beast says as he walks off and bumps into Wonder Man in the mansion hallway.
“Hank, I… didn’t know you were coming by,” Wonder Man says as the two friends awkwardly stare at each other. Beast assures him that it was a spur of the moment thing, even as Simon claims to be busy and begins to walk away. Now alone, Beast is left standing in front of an old photo of the pair from their Avenger days, Simon dressed in his trademark red jacket and glasses while Hank gives him bunny ears. The picture makes Beast nostalgic and he asks Simon to grab a bite with him to catch up, to which Simon responds with a smile.
Moments later, the two are sitting side by side enjoying sandwich heroes and beer while expressing surprise that the shop they’re in hasn’t been shut down due to health reasons. They share a laugh when they remember the good times they once had here, flashing back to a scene of the pair walking drunk, singing "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter.” The two then grow sullen as they look at each other and simultaneously ask, “What happened to you?”
Beast begins to question Simon about his attack on the Avengers. Wonder Man defends himself, saying he stands by his point but his ionic field was in flux. Simon fires back, asking him what he was thinking when he brought the original X-Men to the present. Beast admits that it seems the two of them have changed and wonders if there’s any way they could salvage their friendship. The look at each other with a smile and call for the bartender.
Hours later, Wonder Man is explaining his belief that the Avengers cause more problems than they solve and his mission is still to change that. He brings up the fact that most of the X-Men’s conflicts are self-inflicted as well but Beast tells him that it’s not fair to compare a superhero team to an entire species. Simon asks again what he was trying to prove by bringing the original X-Men to the present but, before Beast can answer, Simon tells him that he understands, wishing things were the way they used to be and how back in those days, they could get away for a bit to have fun. “Who says we can’t now?” Beast asks with a grin. Wonder Man simply asks that there be no fighting.
Later at a carnival, Wonder Man is on his cell phone, calling the police while Beast prepares to fight off the Circus of Crime. Beast assures him that he can handle it but is outnumbered by the likes of Princes Python, Human Cannonball and the Flying Gambonnos, all ready to attack!
Sometime later, Simon to ready to throw a white towel into the boxing ring where Beast is being crushed by Pink Pearl. Screens around the crowded arena indicate that lasting three rounds against Pink Pearl will win you $1,000, a feat that Beast thinks he can still accomplish.
Later, Beast and Wonder Man creep up behind Wolverine, who fell asleep on a couch watching television. Wonder Man approaches Wolverine’s hair with scissors as Beast looks on with worry. Moments later, Wolverine is chasing them with his claws out and half of his trademark haircut missing. Wonder Man tries to reason with him but Beast is already running and suggests that Simon does the same.
Later, the two heroes try to stop Absorbing Man as he rampages through Times Square. Beast asks Wonder Man to put his pacifism aside as he struggles against the Absorbing Man’s steel skin. Instead, Simon asks the Absorbing Man what he’s upset about. The Absorbing Man stops and stares at Simon in awe.
Back at the bar they started in, Beast and Wonder Man listen as Absorbing Man complains about the lack of gratitude he receives from his wife. Later, the trio try their hand in karaoke and, after a few more drinks, Absorbing Man is calling and professing his love to his wife. Beast tells him to stay strong but Simon tells him to ask her to bring friends.
Later, the bar is crowded with Titania, Letha and Poundcakes. Absorbing Man and Titania are occupied in a heavy make-out session while Simon attempts to impress Lethal by talking about his film career. Beast is reluctantly backed into a corner by Poundcakes, who doesn’t seem to mind when Beast tells her he’s in a relationship.
Later, a frightened Beast exits the bar on top of Simon’s back. Simon tells Poundcakes that just because Beast walks around shirtless doesn’t imply consent. The two make their way down a city street and Simon reflects proudly that the two had a night on the town that ended peacefully. Beast reminds him of the fight with the Circus of Crime but admits that he’s impressed with Simon’s maturity and commitment to passivity. Simon says that he’s just as impressed that Beast is still able to loosen up and show a lack of maturity.
Although they both think the other has changed, they also agree that the world has changed with them and are glad that, for one night, they got to act like it hadn’t. The pair of old friends put their arms around each other and walk down the street singing “Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughter.”
(2nd story)“Bloodsucker to bloodsucker, I don’t think that’s going to work out for you,” Jubilee says as she blows away a mosquito on her arm. Jubilee is sitting on a creaky wooden dock somewhere on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. “Showing solidarity, Jubilee?” Captain America says as he approaches from behind her with oxygen recyclers, which he says they’ll need for their dive. Jubilee says that she’s pretty sure she doesn’t need to breathe. “Be a boring dive if we couldn't talk,” Captain America says as he adjusts his oxygen mask.
As the two make their way below sea level, Captain America asks Jubilee how much she knows about the World War II, particularly if she knows what a U-Boat is. “I’ve seen Das Boot,” Jubilee replies. Captain America tells her that one German submarine got within distance of the United States and that it was carrying a very special payload, known as Project Blackwing. The American military managed to sink it off the coast of Louisiana but the submarine was never recovered until recently by a Gulf clean-up crew. Once S.H.I.E.L.D. received word, Captain America requested to handle it and thought Jubilee would be able to help due to her condition. “You can say the word,” Jubilee says. “Vampire.”
Jubilee tells Captain America that being a vampire is more of a lifestyle than a condition, except that she didn’t get to choose it. Captain America tells her that they don’t often get to choose the circumstances life gives them, like how he spent decades asleep as the world moved on without him. Jubilee asks how he handled the fact that almost everyone he knew lived their lives and died because, eventually, the same thing will happen to her. When she asked Wolverine, he suggested that she try forgetting her past every few years. Wolverine then told her to talk to Steve about it but admits that she’s still not sure why he wanted her for this mission.
Their conversation stops as Steve points out Project Blackwing, a huge Nazi submarine sunk to the ocean floor. As they make their way inside via a hatch, Captain America tells her that he thinks the submarine may still pose a threat and that threat is why she’s here. Jubilee enters the sub and turns around to find none other than Nazi vampires.
The Nazi vampires immediately attack the pair, calling for food and recognizing Captain America as the American Super-Soldier. Jubilee quickly punches one in the face as Captain America blocks one with his shield. Captain America shows some concern for Jubilee but realizes she doesn’t need help as he watches her take down her foe with a swift kick. Captain America presses his boot onto one of the Nazi’s heads and tries to talk to him, asking if he speaks English. “There is nothing I wish to hear from you, American,” the Nazi vampire says with blood dripping from its mouth.
“Honestly, I thought that would be tougher,” Jubilee says but turns around to realize that there are many more Nazi vampires approaching behind her. She retracts her fangs and claws, grabs a stake and leaps towards them, turning them into dust as she impales them. The Nazis realize that Jubilee is one of them and Captain America uses her as an example that vampires don’t have to be monsters to the one he’s holding down with his shield. He tells the Nazi that the war is over but the Nazi refuses to accept it and promises to spread and rule as the Unreich!
“I was afraid you might say that,” Captain America says and he kicks his captive away. He asks the rest of the Nazis if they agree and they respond with “Heil!” and various threats. They promise to never surrender as they continue to attack Jubilee. Captain America, having heard enough, throws his shield and beheads and kills every last one of them in a single throw.
As the vampire corpses explode to dust around them, Jubilee asks why she was brought, as Captain America clearly didn’t need her help. She accuses him of using this mission as an elaborate threat in case she ever goes evil. Captain America assures her that he didn’t bring her along for them to be an example to her; he’d hoped that Jubilee would be an example to them. “So you brought me here because I’m awesome,” Jubilee declares. Captain America agrees and says they were only monsters because they chose to be, not because they were vampires. Jubilee seems to appreciate what she calls a “stealth character lesson.” “One with U-Boats and Nazi vampires,” Captain America says. “Better than an after school special, right?” The two walk off as Jubilee pokes fun at Captain America for not even knowing what an after school special is.


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(1st Story) Captain America + Cyclops; (2nd Story) Black Widow + Emma Frost: Crash & Burn in Black & White!
(1st story)Somewhere in the southwest, a family is driving along a dusty, desert road. A young girl sits in the back, listening to her headphones, complaining about boredom. Suddenly, Captain America drives up to the car on a motorcycle and gives the young girl a salute. The young girl screams with excitement and quickly takes out her phone to get a picture but Captain America inexplicably vanishes before she takes it, leaving just his motorcycle behind…
Somewhere else, a Skrull named K’Thron stands in a dark room and speaks to two captives. He tells the captives that he will allow them to move once he finishes telling them what they need to know. He warns them that a group of Skrulls called Cadre K have returned to Earth. Cadre K consists of an impure segment of the Skrull population and are the equivalents of what mutants are to humans. Like mutants, they are born with strange abilities and K’Thron believes that they have come to Earth seeking revenge for the Skrull’s last defeat. K’Thron failed to convince them that such endeavors would only bring more hardship to the Skrull Empire, which is already scattered.
Since Cadre K once received training from Professor Xavier, K’Thron tried but failed to locate him and so he brought his two captives together to discuss the matter. He also advises them that their mutated physiology might make Cadre K immune to their Skrull detectors. He tells them that the Skrulls could be anyone but he scanned them both so they could trust each other.
Having said all he wanted, K’Thron releases his two captives from their forcefield confinements. Both Cyclops and Captain America fall to the ground. Apparently abducted in the middle of cooking, Cyclops is wearing an apron and holding a frying pan. K’Thron expresses his desire for there to be no violence, expecting that the heroes might desire to attack him.
Catching him by complete surprise, Cyclops and Captain America immediately attack each other! Cyclops tries to hit him with his frying pan but Captain America blocks it with his shield and sends Cyclops over his shoulder. Captain America tells a confused K’Thron that he’ll help with the situation once he subdues this wanted murderer.
Cyclops is thrown against the wall but manages to balance himself and lifts his glasses, sending an optic blast that knocks Steve on his back. Cyclops accuses Captain America of not doing enough for mutants while Captain America defends himself by bringing up the fact that he asked Cyclops’ brother to lead a united team to be shining example to all. K’Thron tries to stop the fighting but his shouting falls on deaf ears.
“Murderer!” Captain America says as he flings his shield. “Hypocrite!” Cyclops shouts as he emits a powerful optic blast. Captain America’s shield hits Cyclops in the back of the head causing his optic blast to stir wildly out of control, damaging the infrastructure of K’Thron’s spaceship. As all three of them begin to float, K’Thron tells them that they’ve destroyed the ship’s artificial gravity system.
The ship begins plummeting towards Earth. Cyclops and Captain America work together to get K’Thron to the controls by kicking and grabbing him. K’Thron begins expressing regret for trying to help humans at all while he takes over the controls and stops the ship from crashing. Back on their feet, Cyclops and Captain America help K’Thron off the floor. Captain America is still adamant about taking Cyclops to jail and tells him that he should let a jury decide if he’s innocent. K’Thron says they have bigger problems and points to his destroyed Skrull scanner.
K’Thron asks if they can at least help him find Charles Xavier so he could help in locating and stopping Cadre K. Captain America tells the Skrull that Cyclops murdered him, shocking K’Thron, who says he’ll never understand humans. “As Cyclops is fond of pointing out, his humanity has always been an issue,” Captain America says as he begins to handcuff Cyclops. Cyclops tries telling him that he’ll need his help in stopping Cadre K but Captain America accuses him of looking out for himself, thinking that Cadre K may want revenge with Cyclops for killing his mentor. “This is a good day. I caught the murderer of a friend, and now I get to stop a terror attack,” Captain America says as he tightens the liquid metal handcuffs around Cyclops’ wrists.
(2nd story)“Took you long enough, Natasha,” Emma Frost says as Black Widow approaches her at a trendy bar in New York City. “That’s mutant for thanks?” Natasha fires back. The two establish that Natasha is more curious as to what Emma wants than empathetic and that the two are far from friends. Emma admits that her telepathy is completely trashed and that she called Natasha in because she’s legendarily discreet. “One bitch to another,” Emma says as she tells Natasha that both of them have found themselves on the wrong side of right throughout their careers. Natasha tells her to get to the point and Emma admits that there’s a sex video of her out there that was made years ago and someone is blackmailing her. Without her powers, she’s at a loss.
Later, in a high-rise penthouse adorned with sexually stimulating superhero art, Natasha throws a young man named Earl against a window. Earl swears to not know anything but, when Emma and Black Widow agree that one more throw could crack the window in the tower that Earl’s father built, he points them to a pair of men in Long Island City, who would have such a video.
In Long Island City, explosives line a room filled with servers as two men on their knees ask Emma and Natasha if they’re out of their minds. “We run around half-dressed making the lives of guys like you a living hell,” Emma responds. “Do you really have to ask?” The two swear that they never saw the video. Black Widow believes them, saying that smut peddlers never lie but, not wanting to waste explosives, decides to blow up the building anyway. As Emma and Natasha casually walk away from the exploding building, Emma tells her that her blackmailer is still out there, threatening her.
Later, on a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, Emma is patched in with Black Widow as Natasha speaks with Maria Hill. Natasha says she was hoping going to S.H.I.E.L.D. wouldn’t be necessary but admits that they’re a useful connection. Maria Hill hands over a S.H.I.E.L.D. device that she says should do the job that Black Widow wants and tells Natasha that she owes her. Black Widow says they’re even, since she’ll be doing some on-the-job field testing with the device.
That night, in an abandoned S.H.I.E.L.D. building, a man named Frank asks the two heroes how they found him. Emma says that Black Widow figured that the only way to get a video off the Hellfire Club database was to use Stark technology. They explain that, since Frank was a washout at S.H.I.E.L.D. and unwanted by both A.I.M. and Hydra, the trail led to him, and to Emma’s horror, the small town of Passaic, New Jersey.
Frank, middle-aged with a beer belly, is tied upside down in a typical White Queen outfit, apologizing to Emma as Black Widow destroys the servers. Black Widow confirms she’s done but agrees when Emma tells her that she isn’t convinced Frank is sorry enough.
Emma concentrates and puts aside all the shame and frustration and uses it to find her telepathic gifts. For one moment, she is the White Queen again. She smiles and tells Natasha to flash Frank. “You’ve clearly got something nasty in mind,” Black Widow says. As Frank sees both Emma and Natasha’s breasts, he vomits uncontrollably. The two heroes laugh and Emma explains that every time Frank sees a pair of bares breasts, he’ll projectile vomit.
The two walk outside to the car and Emma says that she owes Natasha one. Natasha tells her, while she’s working on her powers, to double check her math skills because she figures Emma owes her more than just one. Black Widow suddenly turns around and goes back inside the building. When she comes back out, Emma asks what she forgot. Black Widow smiles and says that some things just never get old as vomit noises are heard.


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(1st story) the Superior Spider-Man + Magneto: Baddies; (2nd story) Captain America + Cyclops
(1st story)In an abandoned section of the boondocks of Nevada, the Superior Spider-Man walks into an empty, old-school saloon. Behind the bar is a secret door and keypad where Spider-Man quickly tries different combinations until the doors opens, leading to a staircase. As he walks down the dark staircase, he stretches, preparing for a fight. Making his way to the bottom of the stairs, the lights come on to reveal Magneto, surrounded by dozens of unconscious A.I.M. grunts. “Ah, insect boy,” Magneto says. “A bit late, aren’t you?
As Magneto walks further into the complex, with Spider-Man trailing behind, he makes a point to bring up the fact that the X-Men received intel before S.H.I.E.L.D. Spider-Man assures him that he already knows everything about the situation but Magneto reviews it out loud anyway, telling him that M.O.D.O.K. and A.I.M. abducted a teen boy from a suburb of Cleveland, murdering the boy’s parents as they kidnapped him.
Spider-Man tells him to stop talking, since he’s more than aware of the situation but is caught by surprise when Magneto tells him something he doesn’t know: the boy is a mutant. “Consider this your actual briefing,” Magneto says as he tells Spider-Man that M.O.D.O.K. wants to brainwash the boy and use him as a human WMD, serving A.I.M.’s agenda. Magneto also claims that the boy is quite powerful with barely any control of his powers. Continuing to boast, Magneto tells Spider-Man to follow his lead, since he already memorized a detail overview of the A.I.M. installation.
On level one, Magneto easily overcomes two A.I.M. agents with chainsaw arms, while Spider-Man fights off a handful of standard A.I.M. agents. While they fight, Magneto asks Spider-Man if he’s had any experience with M.O.D.O.K. Magneto is not surprised when Spider-Man tells him that he has and that he easily bested him because Magneto considers M.O.D.O.K. a standard super villain. “And why does this assure our victory?” Spider-Man asks. Magneto says that super villains are the most weak and pathetic creatures one can encounter who are “just a load of incompetent, garishly dressed monstrosities parading around their deepest insecurities.” Spider-Man says that he shouldn’t make such a broad generalization but Magneto disagrees.
On level two, Magneto’s powers allow the pair to avoid a retractable metal-spike trap and the two fight off dozens of A.I.M. grunts including ones with shark teeth and jetpacks. Magneto continues to insult M.O.D.O.K., calling him “a giant repugnant head scurrying around on mechanical T-Rex arms.” Spider-Man brings up the fact that Magneto himself was considered a terrorist at one point but Magneto claims he was a soldier, extreme or misguided, but he never robbed banks. Magneto says that, even though they will easily defeat M.O.D.O.K., the super villain will persist because he clearly loathes himself as all super villains do.
On level three, the room emits a stench that Spider-Man describes as “marijuana and liverwurst” and there’s a mutated, violent rhino. along with dozens of A.I.M. agents. Spider-Man tells Magneto that he’s being narrow-minded on his view of super villains and Magneto says that a man is defined by how he copes with what life places in his path. This angers Spider-Man, who yells about Magneto not knowing what it’s like to undergo a tragedy so devastating that it haunts your waking life, provoking you to even the scales of fate. “Actually, I was in the Holocaust,” Magneto says casually, as he smashes the rhino with some heavy machinery. Spider-Man, speechless, hangs his head in embarrassment.
On level five, the duo face cybernetic spheres covered with knives, as well dozens more A.I.M. agents, which Spider-Man easily webs up. Magneto takes a moment to admire the spherical drones and calls to mind another common super villain trope: sad gimmicks. He references things such as enhanced gauntlets, wings, and clones. “Don’t you dare say it,” Spider-Man says as he unsheathes his tentacles, ready for attack. “Metal tentacles?” Magneto asks. “What kind of fool would come up with metal tentacles?” He smashes the drone and says they should prepare themselves for the diatribe as doors open and M.O.D.O.K. enters.
M.O.D.O.K. screams furiously, calling Magneto a pathetic old man past his prime and Spider-Man a spandex-clad stand-up comedian. He makes numerous threats and promises to bathe the mutant boy in their blood. Magneto shushes him and uses his magnetic powers to pummel M.O.D.O.K. all over the room until his armor breaks, leaving M.O.D.O.K. naked and begging for mercy. Looking at the pathetic creature, Spider-Man admits that Magneto may have a point about super villains.
They enter a room where the young, dark haired teenage boy is being held on an operating table. Magneto undoes his restraints and tells the boy that he represents the X-Men and that he’d like to take the boy to a place where mutants are safe and accepted. “Mutants?” the boy yells as he pushes Magneto’s hands away. “My parents are dead because of I’m a mutant. I despise mutants.” He swears vengeance on the entire species before taking off, smashing through all the levels above to get outside. “It appears that the boy has some metal tentacles in his future,” Spider-Man says. “You win some, you lose some,” Magneto says as he puts his arm around Spider-Man and walks away.
(2nd story)In Casino 94, just off the main strip of Las Vegas, Captain America walks down aisles of slot machines, looking for Cyclops. Seeing him through the reflection in the slots, Captain America asks him how he escaped. Cyclops, donning a hoodie to pass as a civilian, says that, like Captain America himself, he’s mastered the ricochet and also knows the churning curds position, which Steve mistakes for a yoga position. Captain America says that since he’s light on soldiers, Cyclops is free to help with the mission but is under arrest when it’s over.
“Nick had a hell of a sense of humor,” Captain America says as he leads Cyclops to a hidden S.H.I.E.L.D. facility in the back of the room, which he claims has lasted a particularly long time because no one questions strangers coming and going at odd hours in a casino. They enter a room filled with weaponry, computers and monitoring screens and are greeted by a handsome blond man whose uniform states LMD, marking him as a life model decoy. The LMD greets Captain America and informs him that, since Steve is accompanying a known fugitive, he’ll need certain challenge codes. Captain America and the LMD exchange pass codes and the LMD offers his assistance. “Is it a problem I’m here with Summers?” Captain America asks but the LMD says that at one point even Director Fury himself was a fugitive. Captain America requests access to all Skrull files and the LMD immediately begins retrieving information for him.
“Why do you keep calling me “Summers?” Cyclops asks. “Because you both can’t be Cyclops,” Captain America replies. “The kid is Cyclops. Not you.” Cyclops tells him to cut him some slack, seeing that he didn’t run off when he escaped but came back to help. He also claims that they’re wasting time since, if S.H.I.E.L.D. knew of any Skrulls, they would have deported them already. The LMD offers information on an illegal Skrull corpse trade that S.H.I.E.L.D. noticed after the failed invasion. Scientists from groups such as A.I.M. were trying to unravel the secrets of the Skrull’s shapeshifting physiology. Data recovered from A.I.M. indicates that Latverian scientists may still possess a living Skrull prisoner of war. The LMD gives Captain America a list of Latverian black ops sites, as well as a Skrull detector. He also tells them there’s a plane on standby at McCarron airport waiting for them.
As Captain America packs a duffel bag with food, Cyclops asks the LMD why he announces himself as a robot with his clothing. The LMD tells him that most visits to this safe house are injury-related and patients reported it was disturbing to wonder if their caretaker was a robot or not, particularly Clint Barton. Captain America thanks the LMD for his help and tells Cyclops they have a plane to catch.
Later that evening in Latveria, Captain America and Cyclops land the jet outside the last of the three sites that S.H.I.E.L.D. intel thought could house a Skrull a prisoner. Bundled in jackets, Cyclops and Captain America exit the jet, their breath visible in the cold night as they plan their next move. On the trip over, Cyclops took the time to study Skrull autopsy reports and notes that a few of them were digesting bison when they died, which Steve agrees is odd. “Speaking of beef,” Cyclops says. “Aren’t we committing an act of war here?” “Only if we get caught,” Captain America says as his Skrull detector lights up, pointing them in the direction of Doctor Doom’s castle, just outside of the forest they’re in.
As they climb the castle walls, Cyclops wonders out loud if Doom himself is the Skrull that’s detected. Captain America dismisses the idea, acknowledging that Doom is one of them, a pained but very human soul. Captain America easily takes out the guard on top of the wall and carries him into the building and down a stairwell, using the guard’s eye to open the door to one of Doom’s labs.
As the doors open, the two heroes are greeted by a handful of Doombots guarding a Skrull in a glass-door prison. “Hit them hard, Summers!” Captain America yells and Cyclops lets out a powerful but scattered optic blast that misses all its targets, leaving both the Doombots and Captain America confused. Captain America verbally reprimands Cyclops for walking into a dangerous situation without warning him that his mutant powers weren’t working properly. Captain America jumps into action, slicing a Doombot’s head in with his shield. One of the Doombots refers to Cyclops as “the terrorist murderer of Xavier.” “I didn’t deliberately kill Charles!” Cyclops says as he manages to hit the Doombot with an optic blast. As he destroys another Doombot, Captain America seems to take joy in the fact that Cyclops is even on Latveria’s no-fly list. The two work together to take out the remaining Doombots by pushing them together and free the captive Skrull, who promises not to shape shift since he hasn’t eaten enough calories to do so anyway.
As the Skrull is freed, Doctor Doom himself appears behind them. “Doom sees all!” he says as he blasts the pair from his gauntlets. Captain America protects both himself and Cyclops with his shield and acknowledges that they are fighting the actual Doctor Doom, not another Doombot. Captain America taunts Doom by saying that he’s been in and out of Latveria many times without him noticing. “You’re not helping,” Cyclops says. “Oh, you’d like to help?” Captain American snaps back. “Why don’t you turn on your disco lights again?”
“Silence!” Doom shouts but Captain America interrupts him before he announces their penalty for trespassing, saying that he needs the Skrull. Cyclops warns Doom that if another invasion is underway, he has much to lose as anyone else. Doom ponders for a moment and agrees to let them have the Skrull, saying that he has no further use for it and that another Skrull regrouping would just make the rest of the world even more unpredictable. “What’s the catch, Doom?” Captain America asks. “You may have it-” Doom says as he points a finger towards his former captive. “Dead!” The Skrull cries in pain as he’s shot dead in the chest from one of Doom’s finger blasts.
Captain America is shocked as the Skrull falls lifelessly into his arms. “Murderer!” Cyclops cries but Doom ignores them. “Take your prize and go,” Doom says as he waves his cape and turns his back towards them. “Unless you intend to push your already thin luck."