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On the East Coast of the USA, Attuma, now Nerkkod, Breaker
of Oceans, has assembled his army to conquer the surface world when he is
confronted by the new Defenders (Namor, Doctor Strange, Loa, Lyra the Savage
She-Hulk, Silver Surfer). Namor calls on him to surrender and Attuma responds
by opening gushers on the land and ordering his men to attack. Lyra and Loa do
a fastball special which allows Loa to use her powers to destroy a giant war
machine. (“Eat your heart out, Wolverine!”) But while Attuma wields the hammer
he is unbeatable. Reinforcements arrive: (almost) every past member of any Defenders
team summoned by Dr. Strange. For some added advantage, Strange casts a spell
blacking out the enemies’ glass helmets. Namor, his fears having dissipated,
attacks Attuma with everything he’s got, separating him from his hammer. Loa
burns off the villain’s right hand to keep him from recovering it while the
others thump on him. Attuma throws them off and summons the hammer to him which
restores his missing hand; he then conjures up a waterspout and vanishes….
Namor thanks his allies for their aid but Strange knows that
there is more to be done if the whole world is to be saved….


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In occupied New Atlantis, Nerkkod’s generals, Tyrak and
Tiger Shark, ponder what is happening to Namor and his allies. Aradnea presses
them on to the next step in the plan which involves Tiger Shark….
The new Defenders (Namor, Doctor Strange, Loa, Lyra the Savage She-Hulk,
and the newly arrived Silver Surfer) continue to battle the hordes of sea
monsters/Undying Ones. A weakened Strange casts a spell that banishes the demons,
leaving only unconscious sea monsters. Surfer relates how he saw the hammers
fall from space to Earth; Namor insists he is not afraid of Attuma. Strange
explains how the Fear covering the Earth has weakened the barriers between
dimensions, allowing the Undying Ones through to take on the sea monsters as
hosts. And then a trio of gigantic monsters burst from the ocean and the entire
team must work together to defeat them. Afterwards, they realize they must take
the battle to the enemy—but first they need a plan. And then Lyra is pulled
beneath the waters by Atlanteans possessed by Undying Ones, led by a two-headed
Tiger Shark….


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Chapter Three: Angels and Demons
Prologue: 1945: the Nazi mad scientists of the Thule Society have gained possession of the Golden Apples of Idunn and are planning to exploit their immortality-granting properties for their own twisted ends. Valkyrie arrives to recover them and they set their monstrous minions on her—and stand enraptured by her Teutonic beauty and grace as she dispatches them with extreme violence….
In the forests of Transylvania, Valkyrie and the Secret Avengers are locked in deadly combat with hordes of vicious vampires. The best moment comes when one of the fiends pops Ant-Man into his mouth, and the hero grows to giant-size, bursting the vampire’s head open. In the midst of this dire strait, Sharon Carter and Valkyrie continue to bicker over who deserves to gain possession of the hammer. Rogue vampire Raizo Kodo arrives to join the heroes just as one of the bloodsuckers takes a bite out of Sharon’s neck….
At DOA headquarters in South Carolina, Sin has her allies conjure a magic circle that returns Crossbones from Paris with the Hammer of Mokk. She takes the hammer downstairs to where members of her coven insert it into an elaborate machine—and the backblast of energy kills them. Sin can’t wait to see what the rest of the hammers will do….
Valkyrie gives one of the Golden Apples of Idunn to save Sharon’s life, then takes the broken Hammer of Nul and departs on her winged steed Aragorn. From the depths of the forest her departure was witnessed by members of the DOA (Department of Occult Armaments)—who have planted a spider-like tracking device with the hammer….


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Invaders!
Prologue: the North Sea 1945, members of the Nazi occult Thule Society are destroying their secret documents as the Invaders are outside battling the giant Sleeper. Out of nowhere, Valkyrie arrives and destroys the massive robot and the Invaders enter the enemy stronghold—but Val is stopped by the Enchantress who demands that Val, her minion, return to Asgard. The heroine insists on continuing the fight against the Nazi scourge but Amora absorbs her into a vapor form and departs….
Today, the Thing has confronted Valkyrie in the Baxter Building, as she is there to claim the Hammer of Angrir, wielded by the Thing during the war of the Serpent. To her surprise, Ben is willing for her to take it as he is guilty and ashamed over the terrible things the hammer’s spell forced him to do. Their talk has awakened young Valeria, daughter of Reed and Sue, who easily cracks the combination to the mysterious vault, and Valkyrie takes the hammer. As she departs she leaves Thing with a world of counsel: do not concentrate on guilt over past misdeeds but focus on making them right….
At the Vault, high-security prison for super-villains, Titania has been driven mad by the loss of the Hammer of Skirn and is in lock-down. Sin, Crossbones, and the DOA arrive to claim the hammer and are met by the Thunderbolts: Luke Cage, Mach-V, and Songbird. Cage tries to use the hammer against the enemy but Crossbones takes him down with the magic Gauntlet of Shuma-Gorath. ‘Bones claims the hammer and, as warden John Walker and his troops appear, the portal is opened to permit the villains to escape….
…back to DOA headquarters in South Carolina. Crossbones, presents her with the hammer which is added to the arcane device which, we now learn, is creating a new, more powerful Sleeper….


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The Perfect Storm…
Long ago, Brunnhilde met with the other Valkyries who faced a conundrum. Since they were forbidden by Odin to enter Midgard to gather ths souls of the valorous dead, what was their purpose. Brunnhilde reminded them that the Asgardians, with the warlike ways of the gods like Thor, offer much to keep them busy…..
Having claimed the Hammer of Kuurth, Valkyrie departs from Utopia on her winged steed only to confront Storm, the hammer’s guardian. A lightning strike knocks the weapon from Val’s hand and a sudden typhoon prevents her from using it once she has recovered it. Val, riding Aragorn, draws her foe away over inhabited land and bashes Storm to the ground with a single blow of the hammer, and departs….
At the headquarters of the Department of Occult Armaments, Sin is planning to sue the captured hammers to raise a huge armored monster. Son of Satan discovers something interesting in the society’s occult lore: along with the Hammer of Skadi summoned by the Thule Society during World War II, they also summoned the Valkyries (a big mistake) who have the power of imprisoning the hammers within their very souls, thus banishing them from Earth forever. A panicked Sin demands that Crossbones retrieve the other hammers immediately….
Val returns to her cabin in the woods with the captured Hammer of Kuurth and discovers that the dwarf Tolor has admitted Captain America and Dr. Strange. The mage has discovered that the cabin is part of her soul and asks whether she is ready to die; she responds that she serves Odin, however that may turn out for her. She asks how they found her; Strange replies that it was by using a sliver of her damaged sword to tack her—and she realizes that if the heroes could find her by magical means, so could the villains…. Outside, Crossbones and the DOA seize and bind Aragorn, then the brutal mercenary fires a rocket that blasts the cabin to bits….


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Death Wish
Prologue: In a bunker outside Berlin in 1945, Valkyrie discovers a horrific science lab. She is attacked by vampire samurai Raizo Kodo who mistakes her for one of the Nazi Thule Society. She had wanted to question them, but Raizo slew them for their warped attempts to enslave vampires. Before he leaves, though, he warns Val that the building is wired to explode….
Today in Transylvania, a young woman is attacked by a vampire but Valkyrie suddenly appears and beheads it. Finding her way to an old mill, she again encounters Raizo Kodo who has the next hammer….
In Paris, Crossbones seeks the Hammer of Mokk (Grey Gargoyle) and finds it in the possession of a sad little sect who wants to use it to return to the peace of petrifaction. Crossbones slaughters the group and takes the hammer….
The Hammer of Nul was broken up by the Hulk after he was freed from its spell; Raizo Kodo stole the pieces to keep it out of the hands of Dracula—and that also means protecting it from Valkyrie. Her valor in the battle convinces him that Asgard has more right to the weapon than he does and so he turns over the bag containing the shards. As Valkyrie departs through the forest she is confronted by her old allies from the Secret Avengers, who demand the hammer. As the situation grows tense, a distraction comes—as the group is surrounded by a horde of bloodthirsty vampires….


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Chapter Eight: The Sins of the Father…
Prologue: in the aftermath of the Fear, the captured Sin was being transported by copter to a maximum security prison. One of the guards, however, proved to be a traitor, actually working for the Department of Occult Armaments. He slaughtered his teammates and called down a shadow beast to destroy the escorts. Freeing Sin, he delivered her to his masters….
Now, Valkyrie returns to the cabin in the woods where Tolor the dwarf is guarding the three hammers in her possession. Tolor advises her to rest from her labors but she cannot while the enemy has four of the mystic weapons….
At DOA headquarters, the traitorous Son of Satan marvels at the collection of arcane tomes and magical devices in the group’s possession. As Hellstrom pulls rank and claims his superiority, he is shown the gathered membership of the DOA, a huge assortment of occultic and monstrous villains….
Valkyrie arrives on the island of Utopia, the home and headquarters of the X-Men. She is met by a single guard, Dani Moonstar, a former Valkyrie herself. Dani allows Val to take the Hammer of Kuurth (wielded by Juggernaut), as they have a brief moment of empathy for one another’s position. Emma Frost arrives and intends to capture Val for Captain America. Attempting to enter her mind and discover the location of the hammers already in her possession, Emma finds Val very resistant to mind control (from her years as the Enchantress’ unwilling servant) and Val bashes Frost with the hammer and takes off on her winged steed Aragorn. But Emma Frost has a back-up plane: the skies erupt in thunder and lightning and Storm confronts Valkyrie—who is not at all intimidated by another "goddess"….


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Chapter One: Battle Lines
Prologue: on a snowy battlefield in the Ardennes in 1945, the Valkyrior have been summons to collect the heroic dead. They are aghast to learn they are in Midgard not Asgard. Brunnhilde (the famous Valkyrie) senses that occult magic has brought them here and learns from a dying soldier that it was the world of the occult Thule Society. Suddenly a huge Snow Wyrm bursts from the ground and attacks the heroine; she is determined to slay it before searching for those who summoned the both of them….
In the devastated Washington DC in the wake of the events of FEAR ITSELF, the Avengers are engaged in clean-up and rescue operations. Valkyrie informs Captain America that it is her duty to recover the eight hammers used by the Serpent’s servants, the Worthy, and return them to Asgard for safekeeping. Cap is understandably skeptical of Asgard’s ability to hold on to them and wants Val to join in the world-wide hunt for Sin….
Aboard a yacht where a costume party/shady auction for the elite is under way, a disguised Crossbones meets his contact Belmont. For a price, Belmont turns over the list containing the locations of all of the Serpent’s magic hammers seen in the recent war. As the crooked dealer points out that the villain did not pay enough for exclusive rights to the info, Crossbones takes care of matters in his own way: by blowing up the ship. He turns the list over to Sin, who covets the weapons….
Aboard the Secret Avengers’ Quincarrier, Valkyrie looks at the hammer welded by Skadi (Sin) in its protective case. War Machine comes up behind her to deliver a subtle warning against taking the hammer. She draws her sword and viciously attacks her former ally, knocking him unconscious. When Rhodey awakens, the case is shattered and Skadi’s hammer is gone….


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Last Ride…
The nightmarish battle between the Avengers and the monsters of the Department of Occult Armaments continues at the latter’s headquarters. Suddenly the giant figure of the Serpent’s Destroyer (a/k/a the Final Sleeper), powered by the mind of Sin, crashes into the room, sweeping the heroes before it. Captain America encourages his troops to redouble their efforts against the weirdoes while Valkyrie takes on the Asgardian robot with her sword. But the fiend is armed with a whip, the lashes of which are the eight stolen hammers and she is knocked to the ground. Namor, Wolverine, Songbird, and Red Hulk come to her aid but the monster merely sends them flying with a thunderous blow to the ground. The sky opens and the Sleeper vanishes into the vortex in search of a place to wreak more havoc. While the Avengers fight the DOA they encourage the well-armed Val to pursue the giant marauder….
Elsewhere in the complex, Crossbones, who was shocked at the discovery of Sin’s endgame, gives Dr. Strange the arcane documents which contain the key to the defeat of the Destroyer. As he leaves, he also suggests Strange take vengeance against the traitor Daimon Hellstrom….
In Charleston, South Carolina (the nearest major city to the DOA base), the Serpent’s Destroyer is on a rampage, accompanied by a token force of DOA fiends plus Hellstrom. A small force of Avengers, led by Iron Man, hits them with everything they have but while they can hurt the minions, they can do nothing against the giant monster. Suddenly it exudes a hideous wave of fear, overwhelming all of those present, friend and foe alike. The Valkyrie arrives on Aragorn and speeds to the attack. But the fear wave terrifies her winged steed as well, and she is thrown directly into the clutches of her enemy. The Destroyer seizes her by the head and with a jerk of its hand, snaps her neck, then drops the lifeless Valkyrie to the ground….


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Prologue: Brunnhilde (the later Valkyrie) enjoys an idyllic moment with her lover Sigmund while they are supposed to be training in weapons….
Now Valkyrie delivers the broken pieces of the Hammer of Nul to Tolor the dwarf craftsman to see what he can do. The dwarf is highly concerned that the breaking of the hammer by the Hulk may have released the essence of Nul into the world (which it did—see DEFENDERS (2011) #1). Val feels put upon and used but Tolor assures her she has been given a great responsibility by Odin. He then offers to teach her the tricks she will need to spot secret entrances and breach impregnable fortresses—while DOA’s spidery tracker escapes unseen into the room….
At the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, Sin and Crossbones are diving in search of the Hammer of Nerkkod (wielded by Attuma). DOA’s magic reveals that it had been placed in the stomach of a giant shark by the Atlanteans for safekeeping—so the villains blow the shark apart with high-tech explosives and recover their toy. The destruction, however, attracts the attention of Namor, the Sub-Mariner, who is determined to not let them get away with it. Sin uses ancient sorcery to summon the world-threatening Devourers to distract Namor while they escape….
Elsewhere, Valkyrie suits up for her next mission and flies to the Baxter Building to recover the Hammer of Angrir, once held by the Thing. She enters the building easily—so easily in fact that she suspects a trap and locates the hammer inside an interdimensional vault. And behind her stands Ben Grimm himself—the mighty Thing….


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Meltdown!
Prologue: In Asgard Space at the time of the War of the Serpent, Odin addresses Valkyrie and tells her that her time as one of his shieldmaidens is almost over and she may go back to being simply Brunnhilde. When he alludes to his scheme to stop the Serpent by destroying Midgard, she announces that she will go to Earth to stand alongside the defenders. Odin attempts to convince her that Earth’s cause is lost by showing her the mangled corpse of Captain America (Bucky Barnes), slain by Sin wielding the Hammer of Skadi. She is not deterred…. Now, Sin and Crossbones are reconnoitering the headquarters of Project Pegasus, the location of the next hammer. As they watch, the Avengers’ Quinjet arrives. Her servants in the Department of Occult Armaments have already set up an occult device to occupy the Avengers while she kills Captain America. Again…. Inside, the heroes are greeted by the Project Director Gruenwald, who is still a bit confused by the message sent by Cap. As the lovers Hawkeye and Spider-Woman feel awkward around his ex-wife Mockingbird, Cap and Iron Man fill the Director in on the situation. Since the hammers are of magical origin, they have brought a couple of experts: Doctor Strange and the Son of Satan. Strange gets a warning just seconds ahead of time—then the building is overrun by demons summoned by the DOA….. In Asgard in Oklahoma, Valkyrie arrives at a summons from the All-Mother Freyja. The Queen confirms that Odin has indeed sent Val on a suicide mission, one she can only continue to carry out by gathering and hiding the hammers—but it will cost her life…. At Pegasus, the Avengers battle the marauding demons who are followed by Sin leading the sadistic killers among her minions. While the battle becomes quite heated (and gruesome), Cap squares off against the anarchic Sin…. …while Crossbones makes his way further into the complex. He quickly finds the Hammer of Greithoth (previously wielded by the Absorbing Man) but the mission will not be so easy—it is guarded by Wolverine….


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Chapter Seven: Hellstorm!
Long ago in Asgard, when Brunnhilde was chosen to be a Valkyrie, one of Odin’s shieldmaidens, she was met by the Warriors Three. After some good-natured joshing, they presented her with the Golden Apples of Idunn, known for their healing properties. Recently in New York City at the height of the Fear, she entered a hospital, an, standing by the bed of a critically injured police officer, she gave six of the Golden Apples to a doctor with instructions on how to distribute the slices among the wounded….
At Project Pegasus, the Avengers are locked in a soul-shattering combat with the forces of the Department of Occult Armaments and their demonic support. As Mockingbird guards his inert body, Doctor Strange takes off in his astral form to learn what is happening. He soon discovers the DOA’s device but also knows that it would be heavily guarded by mystical means. Valkyrie arrives and Strange guides her to destroy the infernal machine. Back at the Project, the demons vanish and the Avengers finally have victory in view….
In the room housing the Hammer of Greithoth, the fight between Wolverine and Crossbones is brutal and bloody. As Logan stands triumphant over his disembowled foe, the Son of Satan appears—and immolates Wolverine with his trident. Healing the mortally wounded Crossbones, he claims the hammer and joins Sin. He then fires a blast of Hellfire at his surprised allies, and departs. As he explains to Sin that aiding Sin in her recovery of the hammers supports his own agenda for the moment. Valkyrie and Dr. Strange arrive too late to stop the villains….


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Hope Itself
After the tsunami has devastated, St. John’s, Newfoundland,
Speedball suddenly emerges from the debris and his first instinct is to
despair, believing the city’s population has been wiped out. But then he hears
a call for help and rescues a woman clinging to a pole. From a nearby rooftop,
SB calls Jocasta, asking her to send someone to rescue. There is no one else
but Jocasta can send out an army of drone-Jocastas, programmed for basic search
and rescue maneuvers. As he watches the Jocastas in action, he has an idea: he
sends back to Miriam Sharpe film of the people of St. John’s helping one
another. Miriam then calls for a camcorder to film the people of Stamford
helping one another to send to Salem, Missouri, creating a worldwide network of
people encouraging one another, telling them not to give up hope…
…but the message of hope reaches the Sisters of Sin, who
intend to put a stop to it….
“The Chosen, part 1 of 3” 4/5Writer: Fred Van Lente. Art: Alessandro Vitti. Colors: Java
Tartaglia. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Five youthful heroes find themselves on a vessel
at sea. Amadeus Cho checks his satellites and discovers they are in the middle
of the Pacific Ocean. Thunderstrike immediately picks a fight with him, which
looks like it is about to turn violent. Power Man (Victor Alvarez) steps
between them and, when threatened, clobbers TS with his martial arts moves.
Spider-Girl (Anya Corazon) webs up the three males while she and X-23 try to
figure out how they got there, snatched suddenly out of their separate battles.
TS accuses X-23 of having brought them there and Amadeus takes advantage of his
distraction to knock his hammer to the floor, changing him back into Kevin
Masterson; he hits back with this stick and returns to his Thunderstrike
persona. PM falls seriously ill, trying to draw the life force from the place
but there is none. He heard a message in a language he does not understand. It
is translated by the Shark Men, who attack, intending to make the young heroes
their sacrifice….
“A Moment with…Mr. Fear” 2.5/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Mr. Fear walks down the street, overwhelmed at the
fact that everyone is afraid and…ignoring him. A kid confronted him and called
him Doctor Doom, unafraid….
“Red/White Blues” 4/5Writer: Simon Spurrier. Art: Jason Latour. Colors: Jason
Latour. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The town of Bleachville and the nearby Navajo
reservation are competing for a wind farm contract that would enable either of
the poor communities to survive. Racial threats are on the rise, then the
Bleachville sheriff is murdered and the Navajo are blamed. A pair of mystic
types calling themselves the “Ghosts of America” come to lead the Indians
against the whites. But American Eagle knows from their ignorance about real
Native Americans that they are not Indians but a couple of white men who were
recruited by the Mayor. The town and the reservation try to work together after
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Going Viral
Miriam Sharpe threatens the mob who are planning to kill
Speedball, ordering them to stop. She makes clear that Speedball did not kill
her son, only making the situation worse. She also says that there are times
when they need superheroes and this is one of those times. She tells someone to
look at their laptop and the news comes in of the Serpent’s attacks all over
the world, including eight powerful individuals with hammers. Miriam tells
Speedball to go out and help someone, wherever no superhero is, to give them
hope…
…so he goes through a dimensional door back to Avengers
Academy HQ and tells Jocasta to send him somewhere nobody else is. She sends
him through a door to Salem, Missouri, where…
…Juggernaut, possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone, is on a
rampage. Unable to stop the unstoppable villain, SB uses his kinetic energy to
add to Juggernaut’s leap, sending him far out of town. Juggy looks back and
slams his hammer to the ground and a massive chasm opens up through the town;
Juggy moves on. When the citizens of Salem come out to investigate, SB hands
them his Avengers communicator and puts them in touch with the people of
Stamford so they can help each other. Even though he is wounded, Robbie keeps
moving, he goes back to the HQ then Jocasta sends him through to St. John’s,
Newfoundland…
…where Speedball faces Attuma, possessed by Nerkkod, Breaker
of Oceans….
“The Age of Anxiety Part Three: Funeral Writes” 3/5Writer: Peter Milligan. Art: Elia Bonetti. Colors: John
Rauch. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: In Germany, the Agents of Atlas (Jimmy Woo,
Namora, Gorilla-Man, Uranian, Human Robot, Venus) are exploring the Thule
Society castle where Jimmy Woo and Human Robot have discovered the skeletons of
many Atlanteans. The rest of the team arrives but Jimmy doesn’t want Namora to
see the bones of her countrymen so he angrily orders them all away, confusing
them by his sudden strange attitude. He goes back to examining the writing on
the parchment made of Atlantean skins, trying to discover what the Society did
for the Red Skull. They are attacked by a Nazi robot and the sounds cause the
others to come running. They destroy the robot but when Namora sees the bones,
she is offended that Jimmy wanted to protect her when she sees she must give
the skins and the bones a proper funeral. She and Jimmy break up over his
obsession with knowing the truth while Gorilla-Man suggests that it’s being
with Namora that has changed them….
Jimmy and M-11 sit on the roof, watching as the bones and
the writings are destroyed in a funeral pyre. Then M-11 reveals that he scanned
all of the pages and translated them into English….
“A Moment with…the People of Paris” 4/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Mignonette Gotlieb muses on how she moved from
Brussels to Paris to be part of the magic city, only to be turned to stone by
the Grey Gargoyle, possessed by Mokk, Breaker of Faith….
“Breakdown” 4/5Writer: Ben McCool. Art: Mike Del Mundo. Colors: Mike Del
Mundo. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The city is shattered by rioting and looting.
Cardiac is on the scene to rescue people where he can. He comes upon an overturned
taxi with a man and a boy inside, the man pleading for his son to reach the
hospital to treat his meningitis. Cardiac recognizes the man as the head of a
pharmaceutical firm whose greed delays life-saving medication from reaching the
market—the situation which killed Cardiac’s brother, leading to him becoming a
superhero. He ponders the matter, then hits the man while taking the boy and
rushing him to the hospital. Soon, a nurse comes to tell him he was too late
and the boy has died. Because he hesitated so long, what the hero hoped would
be his redemption is just more bloodshed and fear.
Characters: Cardiac


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Lurker
Speedball is out training two rookie superheroes from
Avengers Academy, Hazmat and Mettle, battling some third-rate baddies and
advising them to stay off the internet because reading the comments about them
can be discouraging. [Throughout the issue we see a sample of the debate over
Speedball himself, blamed for the Stamford Incident.] SB meets up with Tigra
and Jocasta at Infinite Avengers Mansion. Jocasta shows him an online interview
with Miriam Sharpe who lost her son at Stamford and was a guiding force behind
the Superhero Registration Act. Sharpe denounces Speedball while pointing out
that the Civil War resolved nothing, Captain American and Iron Man are the best
of friends again. Robbie shrugs it off but continues to follow the online
debate as he goes to his volunteer job at Damien’s Gift, the charity founded by
Miriam Sharpe in her son’s memory. To his surprise, he is introduced to Mrs.
Sharpe who is grateful for his work for the charity. He puts in a full day at
the job but when he returns to the office, Miriam Sharpe slaps him, having
recognized him in the meantime. He tries to defend his actions but no one
listens. One of the other staffers hits him in the head with a bat which
triggers his transformation into Speedball and hurls him through a window. In seconds
he is surrounded by a hostile mob….
“The Age of Anxiety Part One: Love and Hate” 3/5Writer: Peter Milligan. Art: Elia Bonetti. Colors: John
Rauch. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Jimmy Woo has a romantic meeting with his
paramour/colleague Namora in his refuse in the 1950s; he wants to break up with
her but he is afraid he is falling in love with her. She returns to the Agents of Atlas
in the present, joining Uranian and Gorilla-Man. Jimmy arrives and GM
tells him of a new neo-Nazi group firebombing synagogues and African-American
churches in Florida. Jimmy demands intel on similar groups for the last five
years….
The team, including Human Robot and Venus, heads to Florida,
battles the group (called the Hammer of Thule), capturing a big shot named
Vorster as Venus lures the rest of the gang out with her feminine abilities.
Vorster reveals all and Jimmy tells him to lead the Agents to the group’s
headquarters in Germany. Vorster agrees, telling them they will all die there,
hinting that Thule has even infiltrated the Atlas Foundation. Jimmy wants to
take a break and visit the 1950s again but Gorilla-Man warns him he may not be
able to return….
“A Moment with…J. Jonah Jameson” 2.5/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Mayor J. Jonah Jameson sits in his office, looking
back on the world pre-superhero and deciding that the riot was superhero
inspired….
“There’s No Place Like Homeless” 4/5Writer: Jim McCann. Art: Pepe Larraz. Colors: Chris
Sotomayor. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The inhabitants of Broxton are in severe financial
distress after the Siege of Asgard. Now the city is full of tourists hoping to
see the gods. A bunch of old men sit in Bill’s Diner remembering the better
days; one of them, J.A., now has to work as a waiter there to survive. He tries
to keep tourists from fighting and warns everyone that they have to behave if
they want to stay. Then a report comes that the gods are leaving and the place
empties of tourists in seconds, leaving the residents alone.


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The Sisters of Sin
Reacting to Miriam Sharpe’s message of hope being sent
around the world, the Sisters of Sin burst into the offices of Damien’s Gift
and take Miriam and Leonard prisoner. Their intent is to force Miriam to make a
video showing abject fear…but Speedball, who was shown the film of the takeover
while in Washington, called on Jocasta to send him through to Stamford, where
he takes on the villainesses. The battle goes back and forth, Robbie against
the bad ladies, until Sister Dream casts an image of the dead of Stamford
rising up, including Damien Sharpe, causing SB and Miriam to pass out from
terror. The Sisters plan to execute Speedball, Miriam, and Leonard on a livestream…and
then the people of Stamford burst in, ready to fight back….
“The Chosen, part 2 of 3: The Stars are Right” 4/5Writer: Fred Van Lente. Art: Alessandro Vitti. Colors: Java
Tartaglia. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The five young heroes fight the Shark Men while
Power Man relates their history as an ancient people who allied with the Nazis
during the War and were defeated by the Sub-Mariner, now waiting for the return
of their Dark God. Each uses their own special powers to defeat the enemy. Then
the huge Helicarrier they are stranded on picks up speed soaring through the
air. Amadeus Cho points out that they are the latest manifestations of eternal
archetypes: X-23 (Wolverine), Thunderstrike (Thor), Spider-Girl (Spider-Man),
and Power Man (Iron Fist), destined to be a team. At this the others figure out
that Amadeus is the one who brought them all together against their wills and
threaten him. He reveals that the ship they are on is on a collision course
with Honolulu to finish what it started in World War 2….
“A Moment with…Dust” 4/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: As the Mideast crumbles, Arabic hero Dust joins
Rockslide in rescuing endangered Jews because they all have faith if not the
same god….
“Fear & Self-Loathing in Wisconsin” 4/5Writer: Elliott Kalan. Art: Ty Templeton. Colors: David
Curiel. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The people of Wisconsin rise up against the Great Lakes Avengers
(Big Bertha, Flatman, Mr Immortal, Doorman) for a variety of
silly reasons and besiege their home; after a skirmish, the heroes get fed up
and escape via Doorman. Mr. Immortal suggests they do something heroic to get
back in Milwaukee’s good graces; they encounter an aging Asbestos Man who is
looking for a way to regain his fearsome reputation. The heroes are afraid to
attack him because of the nasty properties of asbestos so the bad guy just
gives up. The good guys sit with him and commiserate. Some people tell the GLA
that the angry mob convinced them that the team is nothing to fear so they go
back to ignoring them. The heroes go for ice cream.


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Fatal Errors
In St. John’s, Newfoundland, Speedball faces Attuma,
possessed by Nerkkod, Breaker of Oceans, who hurls his hammer at the hero.
Speedball uses his kinetic energy powers to redirect the hammer, sending it
back at Attuma who is carried miles away into the ocean. SB hands out Avengers
communicators to everyone, telling them to spread the word around the world
that these guys can be beaten….
But Attuma returns and after a fast and violent battle, the
villain calls up a tsunami that devastates the town, overwhelming Speedball.
This has been seen all over the world while Jocasta calls desperately for
Robbie to respond….
“The Age of Anxiety Part Four: Whiskey Sour” 3.5/5Writer: Peter Milligan. Art: Elia Bonetti. Colors: John
Rauch. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: At the Thule Society castle in Germany, the Agents of Atlas
(Jimmy Woo, Namora, Gorilla-Man, Uranian, Human Robot, Venus) gather
around the funeral pyre Namora has created for her murdered countrymen. Jimmy
Woo informs them the M-11 has discovered the entire castle is booby-trapped and
set to explode. The team flees through the castle, encountering and destroying
one last Nazi robot plus Namora rescuing Jimmy from a big fall. They make it to
Uranian’s ship just as everything explodes. They see on the news about the
chaos all over the world so Jimmy apologizes for his romance with Namora and
heads to his refuge in 1958. Namora and Gorilla-Man ask M-11 what Jimmy
discovered on the manuscripts. M-11 shows them that Jimmy decided the world
would be better off if these notes were destroyed sight-unseen so he told M-11
to delete them without reading them. Namora calls this an utterly heroic act by
Jimmy Woo….
“A Moment with…Kida of Atlantis” 3/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Warrior Kida of Atlantis sees his city destroyed
by Attuma, possessed by Nerkodd, Breaker of Oceans. He can’t decide: is he to
be loyal to Namor…or to Attuma who bears the Imperial Trident…?
“Legacy” 3.5/5Writer: Kevin Grievoux. Pencils: M.C. Wyman. Inks: John
Wycough. Colors: Wil Quintana. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Blue Marvel returns to his underwater sanctuary
Kadesh Base to find it in ruins. He delivers a Chinese sub to a US ship
commanded by a Captain
Degraffenreid who hates Blue Marvel for his reputation as a coward,
accusing him to trying to start an international incident with China. BM warns
them there is loose anti-matter underwater but Degraffenreid refuses to listen.
So BM heads down to move it and encounters a dragon; he clears everything up
and returns to talk to Degraffenreid and they sort things out. BM learns the
other guy is the grandson of a platoon co-member from the Korean War. Degraffenreid
discovers BM is the officer who was captured to enable his men to escape,
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Hope Like Fire
The people of Stamford stand up to the Sisters of Sin but
Sister Pleasure manages to hypnotize the group—but that gives Speedball enough
time to recover and battle the baddies and, with some help from Miriam,
Leonard, and the others, the villains are defeated….
This turns the tide and the people of Earth win the war.
Afterwards, Speedball joins Miriam Sharpe at a memorial but she makes it clear
she will never be able to look at him without being reminded of how her son
died but he is still welcome to return….
“The Chosen, part 3 of 3: Pearl Harbor A.D. 2011” 4/5Writer: Fred Van Lente. Art: Alessandro Vitti. Colors: Java
Tartaglia. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: The five young heroes aboard the Hell-Carrier
watch helplessly as the ship heads toward Waikiki Beach in Hawaii; Amadeus Cho
explains that it is powered by Vril energy, a anti-life force dating back
millennia. Power Man detects the source beneath them. X-23 begins cutting
through the floor with her claws, Power Man strengthening her with his energy
while Thunderstrike, Spider-Girl and Amadeus fight the Shark-Men. X-23 and
Power Man reach the center of the anti-life force and PM unloads his chi into
it, causing a massive explosion, hurling the ship into the distant ocean. PM
uses a pair of force fields to rescue the heroes….
Later, Amadeus brags to the news media about his brilliance
in bringing the team together and asks them if they will follow public opinion
and stay together. X-23 kicks him in the crotch and they all walk away….
“Another Moment with…J. Jonah Jameson” 2.5/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: After the conflict is over, Peter Parker points
out to Mayor J. Jonah Jameson that he was a rock during the crisis but is now
nervous. JJJ then delivers a speech praising the city for its strength…
“The Home Front Lines” 4.5/5Writer: Brian Clevinger. Art: Pablo Rainmondi. Colors: Veronica
Gandini. Letters: Dave Lanphear.
Synopsis: Captain America stands on the outskirts of
Broxton, Oklahoma, ready to defend it against the invaders. The local men who
wanted to stand with them panic and flee. We follow one of them, Rick, as he
returns to town to look for his family but the place is deserted. As he drives
around, he rescues a dog, a little girl, and her ailing grandfather. Rick
learns that everyone has gone to the school basement for refuge. As he hears
the battle begin in the distance, he delivers the people to the school, checks
that his own family is safe, then out of guilt, returns to help Captain
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Scapegoat
In Stamford CT, Speedball is being beaten by an angry mob who
blame him for the city’s notorious disaster; SB is hit at an odd angle which
causes him to bounce out of the mob’s clutches and into the distance. He
changes back to his street clothes and is picked up by his pal Leonard. Leonard
takes Robbie back to the Damien’s Gift offices where Miriam Sharpe surprises
him by hiding him, not for his own safety but for the safety of the fools who
are trying to kill him. The TV announces that several villains have broken out
of the Vault and are now running wild in Stamford: Living Laser, Ember,
Icemaster, Whirlwind, and Aftershock. Speedball dashes out to fight them but
their combined powers overwhelm SB and they leave him lying injured in the
street. He is found by the mob who have devised a way to kill him; they put a
plastic bag over his head…but Miriam Sharpe arrives with a rifle pointed at
them, ordering them to stop….
“The Age of Anxiety Part Two: Skin Deep” 3/4Writer: Peter Milligan. Art: Elia Bonetti. Colors: John
Rauch. Letters: Troy Peretti.
Synopsis: In Germany, the Agents of Atlas (Jimmy Woo,
Namora, Gorilla-Man, Uranian, Human Robot, Venus) invade the castle which was
once the headquarters of the Thule Society. They run into a cadre of robot
guards who open fire on them, killing their Nazi prisoner, Vorster. After
destroying the robots, they find a map of this very castle tattooed on
Vorster’s chest. They follow it and Jimmy and M-11find a secret room where
Atlanteans were slaughtered and their skin used to create occult books. Jimmy
figures they will learn what the Red Skull did there by examining the pages but
he wants the room destroyed before Namora sees what was done to her
countrymen—but it’s too late as she arrives with the rest of the team….
“A Moment with…the Purple Man” 2.5/5Writer: Howard Chaykin. Art: Howard Chaykin. Colors: Edgar
Delgado. Letters: Troy Peretti.
Synopsis: At the Raft, Purple Man discovers his powers
returning when the place is smashed by Juggernaut (possessed by Kuurth, Breaker
of Stone). So Purple Man escapes, deciding to restart his career, under his
real name, Zebediah Killgrave….
“Between Stations” 4/5Writer: Corinna Bechko. Art: Lelio Bonaccorso. Colors: Brian
Reber. Letters: Troy Peretti.
Synopsis: Liz Allan Osborne and her son Normie are on the
train home from Manhattan after a visit to her ex-husband Harry. At the next
stop two men fight their way onto the train; the next station is on fire so the
driver brings the train to a halt. One interloper takes Normie hostage as his
brother was severely injured by Tiger Shark, threatening to hurt the boy unless
the train moves. Liz tells him she is a nurse and persuades him to let Normie
go and she will help his brother. He does and she binds the brother’s wounds,
holding him until he can reach a hospital. They are soon rescued by the Fire
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Then: Buddha wished to teach Sun Wukong, the original Monkey
King, a lesson in modesty so he challenged him to leap out of Buddha’s hand.
The Monkey King leaps and returns but learns he never left Buddha’s hand….
Fifteen years ago: a cocky gangster calling himself the
Monkey King challenges the crime boss called Lion during a poker game and beats
him. As a gift, Lion takes Monkey King to a cave atop a mountain in China,
telling him it is the final resting place of the real Monkey King whose treasure
awaits. Monkey King enters to find the Monkey King’s rod of power and discovers
he has been trapped in the mountain by Lion. Alone, he sees the real Monkey King
who tells him that if he has evil in his heart he will be cast down to the
Eighth City but if his heart is good, he will go free with the rod…and so he
finds himself in the Eighth City. A hammer crashes down from the sky and
Titania and the Absorbing Man come to claim it; Monkey King escapes at that
time as well and comes back to claim his criminal kingdom with his new powers….
Now: Using his new shapeshifting powers, Monkey King breaks
into Lion’s headquarters in the form of a chameleon then easily defeats a band
of female warriors (one wielding a chainsaw) to find Lion. He tells Lion he has
come to clean up his city and turns into a hawk to take Lion back to the
mountain cave in China. On the way he tells him that he has been punished for
his sins in the Eighth City but when Lion threw him into the hole his soul
merged with that of the Monkey King, gaining his powers, his memories, and his
magic rod. He then throws Lion into the hole and goes forth to bring honor to
his country and peace to his city as the Handsome Monkey King!


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Fear Itself: Wolverine Part 2
Aboard the hijacked Helicarrier Prometheus, Wolverine
is engaged in battle with S.T.R.I.K.E. members Brom and Croydon. Logan
challenges the blue-skinned Brom to single combat and the braggart accepts,
throwing his gun away, against Croydon’s advice, and attacks Logan with only
his electrified sword. They clash….
At Avengers Tower, Melita Garner is researching S.T.R.I.K.E.
and contacts Pete Wisdom, British security agent, for more info. She shows him
a picture of Sutton, leader of the S.T.R.I.K.E. team and Wisdom gives as full
an account as possible, even mentioning he was part of Project Blackbox, an
operation designed to create super agents which left some participants mentally
deranged….
As Brom and Logan fight, Croydon, a telepath, looks into
Logan’s brain and he is attacked mentally by Logan, leaving him in shock.
Logan, in a hurry, dashes out of the room, locking the door behind him….
On the bridge, Sutton boasts to teammates Harrow and Bexley
about his dream of a giant hammer, inspiring him. The other two grow concerned
at the implication that Sutton is working on his own and press him to attribute
his actions to his S.T.R.I.K.E. superiors, which he does. Harrow leaves to
check on Brom and Croydon….
Melita Garner walks the streets of New York, witnessing
panic but also people trying to help one another, reporting it all on social
media. She comes upon a gang of looters and uses a neural disruptor given to
her by Logan to halt the madness. She continues in the direction of the Prometheus….

Wolverine reaches the communications room and finds it
destroyed, no chance of calling for help. Then Harrow, Brom, and Croydon
arrives, weapons blazing. Back on the bridge, Bexley discovers that
communications are cut off, meaning Sutton has been lying about receiving
instructions from “superiors” at S.T.R.I.K.E. Logan puts up a good fight but he
is overcome by his enemies and shocked into unconsciousness….
He awakens to find himself chained to a nuclear warhead,
Sutton boasting about Prometheus bringing fire to New York….


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Fear Itself: Wolverine Part 1
The Helicarrier Prometheus, commissioned by Norman
Osborn but never used, is hijacked from its berth by members of S.T.R.I.K.E.,
former British Intelligence unit but now a band of high-tech mercenaries, led
by one Sutton….
New York City is in a panic during the invasion of the
Serpent. Wolverine, trying to maintain order, is fighting Scarecrow, who
considers himself a God of Fear. Logan beats him up then sprays mace into his
mask. During a lull in the madness, Logan meets with his girlfriend, reporter
Melita Garner and they express their concern for one another’s safety. Then Logan has
a call from Steve Rogers, asking him to intercept the Prometheus. Melita
wants to go with him but he refuses, citing her safety. There’s some heated
debate over the function of the news media in a crisis so Logan hands her his
Avengers card, suggesting she head to the Tower to research S.T.R.I.K.E….
Aboard the Prometheus, Sutton informs his teammates
that their employers have an additional task to perform in New York. There’s
some debate over how difficult an operation in the Avengers’ hometown is going
to be and Sutton reassures them that their leaders will compensate them
appropriately….
The Helicarrier hovers over the city and Logan takes the
opportunity to leap aboard the craft from a high building. And we see that
S.T.R.I.K.E. is hanging hostages out to die in the sight of the panicked New
Yorkers. Logan makes his way through the Helicarrier until he is confronted by
psychic S.T.R.I.K.E. member Croydon…who turns out to be there so as to distract
Wolverine from an attack from behind by his teammate Brom, who stabs Logan in
the back with an electrified sword….
At Avengers Tower, Melita researches S.T.R.I.K.E. but it's when
she looks up the Prometheus that she learns why the bad guys want this
ship: it has nuclear warheads….


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Fear Itself: Wolverine Conclusion
Melita Garner witnesses the destruction of Avengers Tower
while pursuing the hijacked Helicarrier….
Aboard the Prometheus, Wolverine is chained to a
nuclear warhead. S.T.R.I.K.E. boss Sutton is preparing to drop the nuke but
Brom balks, since he is a soldier, not a terrorist, but the others in the team
call him a coward. After Sutton leaves, Harrow tells Brom about Bexley’s
suspicion that Sutton is insane. On the bridge, Bexley confronts Sutton and
Sutton fatally stabs him, boasting of the destruction the nuke is going to
make. Croydon walks in and Sutton shoots him after the psychic realizes that
they were never affiliated with S.T.R.I.K.E. but under Sutton’s mad scheme all
along. Soon Sutton is talking to his two dead colleagues as though they are
alive, defending his actions. At this point, Melita Garner’s reports come over
the news, identifying Sutton as a madman, leading him to shoot out the TV while
proclaiming his greatness….
Wolverine, chained to the nuke, tries to persuade Harrow and
Brom that Sutton is a psychopath and they will be branded as terrorists with
him. Sutton then enters and confesses that they had been working for him all
along, while mentioning that he has killed the prisoners. Harrow attacks him
and Brom frees Logan just as Sutton shoots Harrow. Logan tells Brom to get
Harrow to safety and remains to face Sutton. The villain continues to talk like
a villain and goes to press the button, releasing the nuke. Logan slices
Sutton’s hand off but it’s too late the bomb is falling; Logan leaps atop it
and as it plummets to the ground, he neatly defuses it so there is only a loud
crash….
Logan and Melita reunite. She asks him where he learned how
to disarm a nuke and he replies, “Wikipedia.” Sutton is taken away in an
ambulance and a woman from Black Air assures him that his employers will take
care of him. Logan and Melita go off together….


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Youth in Revolt
Ritchie Gilmore, formerly the superhero named Prodigy, has
been employed as a file clerk in the Department of Justice when he receives a
message from Commander Steve Rogers. In view of the Serpent’s invasion, as many
heroes as possible are needed so Rogers asks Ritchie to be the head of a new
Initiative, recruiting as many former heroes as he can. And so….
In Atlanta, the Cavalry get the call, with Thor Girl and
Ultragirl, though the former doesn’t feel right, taking the form of an
Asgardian when the real ones have abandoned Earth….
In Manhattan, Gravity and Firestar consider the offer,
though Gravity is still confused by the moral ambiguity of their actions….
In Illinois, Cloud 9 tells Komodo that she does not want to
rejoin the effort as she does not trust the government….
When the volunteers are assembled in Washington, D.C.,
Prodigy tells them that while the Avengers and others will be busy dealing with
the big picture, they are needed to help people and maintain order, assuring
them they the mistakes of the Initiative will not be repeated. After the
meeting, various heroes get reacquainted, including Hardball mocking Gravity
while hitting on his former girlfriend Komodo. Prodigy offers Gravity a
leadership position which prompts Firestar to suggest they be co-leaders….
And then the young heroes go about, rescuing people from
disasters and putting a stop to thieves and looters. And then news comes from
Washington of an army of Nazi War Machines, led by Sin, devastating the nation’s
capital. Rioting breaks out in Atlanta and Thor Girl, with her Asgardian look
and hammer, is accused by a mob of being one of the bad guys. Police fire on
her and she deflects a bullet which ricochets, killing an officer. She is
surrounded by a SWAT team, demanding she drop her weapon….


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Youth in Revolt Finale
Telemetry holds the force box with Gravity, Firestar, and
Hardball inside to keep the fault matrix stable…and it’s running out of air.
Topside, Thor Girl has clobbered Prodigy and then she starts to go through a
change. Cloud 9 and Komodo ask her to make peace with Prodigy. Her eyes
glowing, she quickly subdues his backup heroes and demands an explanation. He
avers that her imprisonment was just for show, that he had no idea anyone was
intending to torture her. She does not believe him and, tossing away her hammer
and crown, she becomes a frightening glowing being; her friends try to calm her
down, including Ultragirl, and she repels them, doing the same with those who
try to attack her. As she assumes a godlike form—the Designate—she rebukes and
denounces humanity for its fears and other foibles, pronouncing them not yet
worthy. So, she ascends into the sky and to space, bringing the force box out
of the ground as she goes, saving the four heroes within. All the heroes look
to Prodigy for what comes next and he leads them to the rescue, to prove her
wrong….
Several heroes reflect on their experiences, each one having
learned something by what they have undergone. Prodigy meets with Steve Rogers
who has reassumed the mantle of Captain America and is commended for his
achievements. Cap tells him that the two federal agents hold no grudges and
want to see him about a promotion…and then they show him to a bigger warehouse
of files to organize….


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Youth in Revolt Part Three
Hardball and his team, the Heavy Hitters, prepare for the
arrival of Juggernaut, possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone, in Las Vegas. He
arrives in his path of destruction and Nonstop leads him to the trap they have
set, ending with the massive monster falling into a deep pit. But he is out of
the pit in seconds, ready for mayhem….
Prodigy phones Gravity who persists in refusing to go back
into the battle, blaming himself for Geiger’s nearly being killed; he hangs up.
Prodigy then must deal with the mysterious federal agents locked in Thor Girl’s
cell, threatening him with vague repercussions….
Unable to stop Juggernaut, Hardball considers giving him a
boost just to get him out of the city; he delivers a blast but the villain
doesn’t go far enough….
Thor Girl and Cloud 9 arrive in Philadelphia; the Liberteens,
having heard that they are fugitives, try to capture them but the two escape.
The Liberteens, whose attempt to capture them was half-hearted, go back to
fighting the real enemy….
The Heavy Hitters pursue Juggernaut through the city’s storm
drains until they encounter a group of homeless people who won’t leave.
Hardball considers them to have chosen their fate and creates an energy sphere,
detonating it in Juggernaut’s face….
The rest of the world is in shock, watching the TV signal go
out and in Las Vegas, Juggernaut steps out of the rubble and runs off. And half
of the city has been leveled….


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Youth in Revolt Part Five
The battle between Gravity and Hardball has created a
seismic shockwave in Las Vegas. Cloud 9 and Thor Girl, along with others try to
rescue the endangered. They are helping evacuate a hotel when the building collapses
around them, trapping them in the rubble. Thor Girl holds up the upper floors
to keep everyone safe….
Prodigy and Firestar arrive on the scene. Prodigy puts
Telemetry in charge, having her create a force platform to descend into the
Earth to stabilize the fault lines, Gravity and Hardball, partly recovered from
their injuries, board the platform for its descent. Firestar and Telemetry go
under their own power. Reaching the fault matrix, Gravity and Hardball must
hold hands to generate an electro-gravitational field…
Cloud 9 starts to panic from claustrophobia; Thor Girl
wonders if it is her fate to die that day; breaking down, Prodigy heads to a
liquor store and picks up a bottle of whiskey; the heroes underground bend
under the pressure….
Cloud 9 pulls it together and tells Thor Girl she can save
them all if she doesn’t give in to notions of “fate.” TG lifts the upper part
of the building. Prodigy pulls it together and pours the whiskey on the ground
and contacts Telemetry for an update. The quake stops. Komodo and Cloud 9 find
each other safe and head into the building via the tunnel created by Thor Girl
to rescue those trapped inside. Prodigy comes face-to-face with Thor Girl who
denounces him over her legal ordeal; he responds that he is the one holding everything
together while she agonizes over her own problems—so he hits him with her
hammer….


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Youth in Revolt Part Four
Gravity can’t take his inaction anymore and he suits up,
flying to Las Vegas…
…where Hardball pulls himself from the rubble, Komodo
berating him for having killed the homeless family. Hardball calls it necessary.
The heroes argue among themselves as Gravity swoops down to tackle Hardball,
calling him a murderer. They keep fighting until an earth tremor rattles
everything….
Prodigy, shaken by the death of Captain America and the
Paris Massacre, frustrated by having to deal with the federal agents, starts to
crack under the pressure….
Thor Girl and Cloud 9 arrive in Las Vegas to help. The
battle between the two rivals threatens to destroy the already fragile city. Gravity
is finally driven to exteemes by Hardball’s self-righteous lack of humanity and
is about to deliver a final blow; Komodo tries to stop him and Gravity punches
her instead. The sight of his wounded comrade halts him and he rushes over to
her. Hardball stands and creates a massive energy sphere, attacking Gravity and
the entire city shakes….


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Youth in Revolt Part Two
Having inadvertently caused a riot and the death of a police
officer, Thor Girl flies to Washington to meet with Prodigy, Ultragirl in
pursuit. Prodigy has assembled the media and defends Thor Girl as one of the
heroes, voluntarily turning herself in, which comes as a surprise to Thor Girl….
In Illinois, Cloud 9 has been watching this on television with
disgust, seeing it as the same hypocrisy as the Initiative. Then a fight
between two panicked family men erupts outside and Cloud 9 intervenes before
anyone can be hurt….
In New Jersey, Gravity is shaken by reports of the death of
Captain America, and Firestar must push him into action, rushing into a burning
building to rescue people. But then they discover that a dangerous criminal is holed
up inside and an unwitting Gravity is shot down by Crossbones….
Thor Girl is imprisoned in Washington. Prodigy tells
Ultragirl that TG’s trial will be delayed while the nation is in chaos. Then
word comes of Crossbones’ involvement in Jersey and Prodigy dispatches Ultragirl
to the scene. Meanwhile, two shadowy federal agents question Thor Girl in her
cell, insinuating she is one of the Asgardian terrorists. She challenges them
to enter her cell—and she then receives a severe electric shock….
Other heroes battle Crossbones but he is a formidable fighter.
Firestar surrounds him with fire and Gravity shows he is unharmed—so the
villain tosses a grenade at him, which Geiger catches, smothering the explosion
in her hands. Ultragirl arrives to see Geiger being taken away in an ambulance.
Gravity blames himself for the fiasco and quits, flying off into the distance….
Hardball has called Komodo to Las Vegas, which he and the
city’s police have placed under martial law. Then Hardball receives a message
from Prodigy that he and his team will have to protect Vegas from one of the
hammer-wielders, Juggernaut, possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone….
As the mysterious agents try to torture Thor Girl into
cooperating, Cloud 9 seeps into her cell to effect a rescue….


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Aftermath
Iron Man returns to Force Works HQ alone having lost the rest of the team on their 1st outing last issue. He checks if P.L.A.T.O. can find them. The AI says Wonder Man seems to have been destroyed in the explosion of the Kree warship. Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman and U.S. Agent were taken by the Scatter aliens through an unknown kind of space-warp and PLATO can't detect their locator tags anywhere. Avengers' leader Black Widow contacts him from the old West Coast Avengers Compound where all this happened. She says the Kree 'terrorists' are being taken to the Vault. Vision suggests the Rigellian Recorder RE-404 and the alien Century be taken there as well, but as they talk Century teleports from there to behind Iron Man.Century recognised the Scatter last issue but repeats his claim that his memory is confused and he is sure of very little apart from their name and his own. PLATO scans the alien and declares him of an unknown species who has been surgically altered, plus the warp he arrived through last issue was similar to the 1 used by the Scatter. Century *does* know some other stuff - that he is a traveller between dimensions using his staff Parallax. He thinks he met the Scatter a long time ago and that they are evil. Parallax can follow the trail of the Scatter, and Century takes IM with him to find the other 3.We get there 1st and find the missing 3 in an alien place. The Scatter who brought them here just leave them but our heroes follow and meet up with some other aliens who say they are the last of their kind. The Scatter invaded their world and have eaten the rest of the people. When their larder is empty they will move on to another world. They claim that Century leads the Scatter to new worlds.The Scatter return and consume some more of the aliens. It turns out that are only hosts to colonies of carnivorous insects which invade your body and do the actual eating. As the trio try to stop the slaughter Iron Man and Century arrive and join in. Century says he needs the power from the Scatter's transmitter chamber in order to transport them *all* back to Earth. USA doesn't trust him because of what the other aliens said. Century doesn't *remember* guiding the Scatter but admits it *might* be true. However Scarlet Witch decides they *have* to trust him.Meanwhile on Earth PLATO has been fielding calls from Captain America, Nick Fury and Vision wanting to know what's going on. The Recorder suddenly pops in and says he's decided to follow Force Works around and record them.Meanwhile elsewhere Force Works fight their way to the transmitter chamber, Agent on point and IM as rearguard. They all get on to the transmitter platform and Parallax takes them home. But Century tells them he detected the Scatter's next target - Earth, and they'll be here soon.


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There's civil war in the Baltic nation of Slorenia, and it's approaching the capital Tblunka. State troopers are ordered to evacuate peasants from the northern quarter, even if they don't want to go. But when they check upstairs in 1 house they feel suddenly cold and find an armoured form with glowing eyes and deadly claws.Scarlet Witch tries to exorcise her demons, like the death of Wonder Man in #1, by battling holograms in the Vroom Room. But it's no good so she opts to move to the Chaos Chamber to try to use her special connection with the Chaos Computer (see last issue) to see if she can locate any trace of his scattered ionic body, passing the enigmatic robot Recorder RE-404 on the way. But instead she picks up a crisis in Slorenia (notification of which the Recorder suppressed last issue).She tells the AI P.L.A.T.O. to call the other Force Works members to the Chamber. He notifies Spider-Woman who is having breakfast with her daughter Rachel Carpenter and her nanny Consuela. Then he wakes U.S. Agent, and finds the alien Century watching Beavis And Butthead on TV. Tony Stark (with his physiotherapist Veronica Benning) is welcoming 2 new members of staff at The Works:- Amanda Chaney for Public Relations and Fisher Todd as Technical Chief. But he has to leave PLATO to continue the briefing.Soon the team (which includes Century but not the Recorder) is heading in a Hex-Ship to Slorenia. Stark as Iron Man can't understand why the Chaos Computer didn't do its job and predict the crisis long before it became serious. US Agent and Julia Carpenter are flying the ship by thoughts alone using new Liveware helmets.IM brings them up to speed with the situation:- Slorenia used to be part of the Soviet Union but when that broke up they replaced their Communist government with a Capitalist 1 which has been trying to do a deal with Stark Enterprises. Wanda Maximoff remembers the country as bordering Transia where she and brother Pietro (Quicksilver) were born and raised. There has always been racial tension between the ruling Slorenes and the minority Dudaks, which now seems to have erupted into civil war.2 Slorenian jets intercept the hex-ship. Scarlet Witch contacts them in Slorenian and says they are emissaries of SE, which gets them an offer of escort to the airport. But before they can accept an unidentifiable energy from the ground brings all 3 planes down. Our team survive the crash but find themselves surrounded by dead Slorenian soldiers. It goes cold and the being we met at the beginning attacks them.Blasts from his hands send USA and Century flying backwards into a wall which collapses on them. But Century teleports them to safety. Spider-Woman tries to trap the enemy in her psi-webs but his claws shred through them. Scarlet Witch hexes a load of rubble into a defensive barricade which he punches straight through. So Iron Man steps up to the bat with phased plasma streams from his gauntlets. This succeeds at 1st but then the foe counters them with his own energy blasts (which brought the ship down) and the resulting power clash overloads IM's armour.When they all recover the enemy has gone. But a Slorenian turbocopter gunship lands and disgorges a platoon of killer robots. We will learn next issue that they are drones controlled by the armoured man who now confronts them and names himself Black Brigade. And he accuses Force Works of invading the country and destroying the Slorenian planes and troops.There's a 2nd short tale in this issue:-FamiliarisationPencils: Tod Smith, inks: Kevin Yates.This shows PLATO giving the talk to Chaney and Todd where he describes the team members.Scarlet Witch is Wanda Maximoff, and he mentions her father Magneto and Brother Quicksilver. Her mutant hex power alters probabilities, and she has learned some magic (from Agatha Harkness). She is along-time Avenger and is leader of this team (he skips over her brief leadership at the end of the West Coast Avengers).US Agent (Jack Daniels) was a replacement for Captain America before he took his current ID. (He doesn't mention that in that early period he used his real name John Walker. Supposedly the team know about those previous identities now, but it's not totally clear when they found out. In fact it seems a toss-up issue-by-issue what civilian name they call him by.) He threw away the costume and shield he used in the WCA because they were too like Cap's. Now in Force Works he has a new costume and photon shields/weapons on each gauntlet.Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter) has psi-based spider-powers. PLATO mentions her daughter Rachel and her nanny Consuela live on the base.He mentions Iron Man as Avengers and Stark Enterprises employee, but declines to tell them who is inside the armour.He also mentions Wonder Man who was killed in #1.And mysterious alien Century is a hanger-on. Amanda Chaney thinks it's a PR problem that they have an 'illegal' alien who they know nothing about. She's also incensed when she hears that he and the team are now in Slorenia, an international relations nightmare.Her rant is interrupted by little Rachel Carpenter bursting in claiming she's bored. Fisher Todd offers to take her on a tour of the facility which as resident tech-guy he knows all the secrets of (even though he's only just arrived).


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Force Works came to Slorenia undercover to investigate reports of Slorene genocide against the minority Dudaks. Disguised Scarlet Witch and U.S. Agent allowed themselves to be captured among Dudaks by the genetically-modified Targoth. But on the way to their fate the trucks were attacked by the reborn mythic Dudak hero Ember who lays waste to the opposition.Wanda Maximoff and Jack Daniels saw Ember die (#5), but their companion Dudak aid worker Dr Irena Renko tells them the immortal champion can't die. The heroes doff their disguises and leap into the fray to try to talk the berserker down. But he breaks through the fence into the Parliament compound. And our duo follow him as he smashes his way through more troops. The other Dudaks flee but Dr Renko enters the break in the fence, unaware that she is being filmed by a hovering camera.Meanwhile outside the Parliament building Iron Man is fighting Black Brigade and his robot Drones. Wanda reports that they have witnessed the Targoth in action, and Tony Stark now feels justified in not holding back against BB.On board Force Works' hex-ship Pegasus high above the robot Recorder RE-404 is revelling in the sights that the camera drones are sending him. He was built to record stuff, and he has decided to record heroism - in particular that of FW. But before launching the drones last issue he KO'd Century to stop him interfering. And the enigmatic alien is beginning to recover.Spider-Woman is also recovering from being slugged during her reconnaissance of the deep basement below the Parliament. Her attacker introduces himself as Volkvhy, eternal champion of the Slorenes. Julia Carpenter is shackled in a pod, as are many Dudaks. Volkvhy explains that this machine is the Program which will drain their life energy to feed him. It also gives him the power to transform other Dudaks into the Targoth, who are used to attack their own people. It will also give him the power to defeat his opposite number Ember.Volkvhy turns on the juice, and Spider-Woman screams along with the Dudaks. But Ember smashes through the wall, and the 2 mythic heroes clash. ScW and USA follow on to deal with any Targoth and scientists. Wanda frees SpW and then she and Dr Renko free the Dudak prisoners. Renko and USA take SpW and Dudaks to the surface while ScW stays to destroy the Program.On Pegasus Century awakes and asks Recorder why he knocked him out. The robot says it was to prevent him going to help the others. Worse odds = more danger = more heroism. And then he hits him again. But Century shrugs it off this time and warns him to say his orisons/votive offerings/prayers [typical alien Century-speak].Iron Man has Black Brigade down and asks for his surrender. Brigade refuses with bluster/bravado. [Help, I've been infected by Century!] So IM rips the central processor out of BB's armour. However it turns out Brigade's Soviet creators had made him dependent on his armour for life-support, and now he's dying. [We saw a similar thing recently with Cold Warrior in War Machine #7.] So Tony Stark tries desperately to reconnect his system and save his foe.Ember and Volkvhy are offering each other no such quarter. USA and Renko seem to have returned from their mission and are trying to help Wanda figure out the Program's controls. Irena can only recognise the On switch. But Ember now has Volkvhy on the ropes. He grasps his foe's skull and drains all the energy out of his body. But Dr Renko says this kind of thing has happened many times over the centuries of Slorene/Dudak conflict. Last time Volkvhy won and since then the Slorenes have ruled the Dudaks with an iron fist. Now the Dudaks will be the oppressors until Vokvhy wins again.Wanda tries to contact the man Pavel Chenklo inside Ember, who sacrificed himself in #5 to end the champion's rampage. But Ember says there is no-one here but himself, and blasts all 3 (and Spider-Woman who seems to have returned too).Century and Recorder are fighting in the hex-ship. Recorder claims the alien is making him miss all the best bits. Century uses the axe-blade on his staff Parallax to chop the robot's head off. Then he uses Parallax to transport himself to the ground.Ember plans to feed off the energy of his 4 victims. Iron Man smashes in only to become victim #5. But then Century ports in behind him and hurls him into the Program's pod-bank. SpW holds him there with her psi-web. USA directs his shield's photon energy to hit the On button. The Program absorbs all the accumulated energy from Ember, and then blows its top. Our heroes hurriedly escape.News reports claim that an earthquake destroyed the Slorenian Parliament building, and much of the city centre. Force Works is helping with the rescue work. Both sides of the Civil War have laid down their arms. Dr Renko is leading an interim government.Force Works are on their way home in Pegasus. Tony apologises to Wanda for overruling her when she wanted the team to stay in Slorenia last time (#5) because she thought the trouble wasn't over. He says Black Brigade is in hospital and he's going to provide assistance in freeing the guy from his armour. He also hopes to find out why Recorder did what he did. But meanwhile Wanda suggests they put the robot's parts in the Vault.In the Vault prison, in the BEM wing where they incarcerate aliens, we find the Kree Starstealth members Kalum Lo and Stug Bar. Major Lo tells his Bo'sun that he has a plan.Story 2:- Vicious circle part 1: Into the shadowsWriter Dan Abnett. Pencils Fred Haynes. Inks Johnny Greene. Letters Jack Morelli. Colours Ben Sean.Flip cover pencils Fred Haynes. Inks Johnny Greene.War Machine flies under the radar in to San Revilla in Central America, but still runs into some government troops and tanks. Their advanced weaponry suggests that rumoured US backing might be true. He temporarily blinds the men with his uni-beam and destroys the tanks before continuing onwards to a field hospital to locate Rebecca Bergier's brother Luke, a freelance photo-journalist.Luke Bergier relates to James Rhodes how he and his fiancée Cindy were waiting at a government airstrip for a Red Cross flight to take them out of the country when a ghost-like group called the Shadows appeared out of nowhere and attacked everyone. Luke was injured and Cindy is dead. He gives Jim his camera which has photos of the attack. Rhodey takes them to his makeshift base in an abandoned motel and studies the photos. The attackers are only semi-visible as Luke described them, but he thinks he recognises 1 of them.And in California U.S. Agent gets a call from his old bosses the Commission On Superhuman Activities appealing to his patriotic duty to go on a mission.Rhodes monitors radio traffic and hears that the next Shadows attack is happening at a government fuel dump at Vitidos. War Machine gets there to find some standard Shadows troopers plus 2 guys called Striker and Sundance.Meanwhile in the capital Ciudad Revilla the Advisor (see War Machine #1-4) introduces to the assembled Generals costumed Hazzerd and Troubleshooter, freelancers recommended by the US Government. And an extra body US Agent.In Vitidos (super?) tough guy Striker can't stand up to WM's armoured fists. Sundance has a bit more luck with solid light that Rhodey deduces is generated by an apparatus on his chest. Jim also deduces that it is Sundance who provides the Shadows with their partial invisibility. He tries to punch the mechanism but is blocked by a solid light shield. So he just blasts his foe backwards with repulsor rays.Sundance's control fails and the Shadows become visible. And Rhodey gets confirmation of what he feared from the photos - 1 of them is Hawkeye.Continued in the back of WAR MACHINE #15.


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War crimes
An alien spaceship is attacked by a *much* larger spaceship. After being given some information it was after the big ship destroys the little 1.In Force Works HQ Scarlet Witch gets a short sharp headache, for the 3rd time this week, in the middle of talking to Iron Man and U.S. Agent.Wanda Maximoff complains to Jack Daniels about going off on his own business without explanation or warning. He explains that it was connected to stuff he did before joining Force Works. (Ie working for the Commission On Superhuman Activities. I don't know why he's being coy about it. Wanda and the rest of the West Coast Avengers knew about this in their previous incarnation.) He was with Hawkeye and War Machine in San Revilla (see the Brothers In Arms story arc in the flip books FW#12, WM#15 and IM#317). And it reaffirmed his commitment to *this* team.She also rails at Tony Stark for the same reason, but more so. He's *always* running off to do his own thing. (Well he does have his own book plus guest apps to fit in.) She never knows when he'll be available. (Like the time in #11 when she decided while he was in Russia (IM#315-317) to take the team to Slorenia on a mission. Luckily he got back in time to join them.)Young Rachel Carpenter overhears the arguing and runs to tell her mother Julia. Spider-Woman is working with Century to localise an alert the Chaos Computer has flagged up. And it's in the Vault prison in Colorado for superhumans and aliens.Warden Jzemlico's staff tell him they're locked out of the security management system and security itself has failed in the BEM Wing (ie aliens). The Kree prisoners have escaped their cells. And all the Vault's Guardsmen have been trapped in their depowered armour. The Warden sends out a call for the Avengers. The Kree are now armed (presumably with weapons taken from the Guardsmen). They are led by Major Kalum Lo of the Starstealth cadre (from #1), and they confront the Warden and demand to be let out of jail.Century teleports in and lays about him with his staff/axe Parallax, claiming revenge for their murder of Wonder Man (#1 again). Lo holds Jzemlico hostage but Scarlet Witch points her fingers to his head and threatens to blow his brains out. Non-armoured guards round up the Kree, and the Warden thanks the Avengers for their help. Iron Man says "We're *not* the Avengers".Jzemlico explains what's happening. ScW tells Century to teleport to the Vault's computer and check it out. She tells IM to go to the Control Room with the Warden and see what he can do from there. Then, as she gets another headache, she contacts Spider-Woman and US Agent who are fighting more Kree in their cell-block. They drive them off but find that the Kree have killed a helpless Guardsman. So Jack lashes out with his photon shields.Iron Man is in the Control Room. (Cue another not-the Avengers moment.) He contacts Century who says he's found the problem. Recorder RE-404 has reattached its head (after Century lopped it off last issue) and connected itself to the computer. The robot holds the alien off with the security system's force field. But IM overloads the computer system which fries the Recorder.When Scarlet Witch gets down to the BEM Wing she finds that the Guardsmen are now back in action and have helped SpW and USA to recapture the Kree down there. And now that everything's under control Wanda's headache goes away again. Iron Man says Force Works will pay for repairs because they brought the Recorder to the Vault. But nothing can repair the 6 staff who were killed. A Guardsman says they'll know how better to keep the robot secure now. (And IM has to remind him they're not Avengers again.)And then the actual Avengers turn up to answer the request for help. Iron Man greets the other original Avenger Giant-Man. Spider-Woman has a guarded exchange with Crystal and Quicksilver. The team leaders connect, and the Widow asks the Witch how the got here so quickly. (Obviously the FW haven't told the Av about their predictive Chaos Computer). Century looks on. Hercules is his usual hearty self with US Agent, who 'excuses' himself to rub salt in Black Widow's wound about being late for the party. But Natasha Romanoff hits back that they've let 4 of the Kree escape. And Pietro Maximoff can't resist getting a dig in at his sister Wanda.Suddenly a small group of Skrulls teleport in. Their leader Major Hokk Algol is here to take the Starstealth Kree to answer to a Galactic War-Crimes Tribunal. And it becomes obvious that the Avengers have agreed to this extradition. Wanda is incensed, and even more so Jack Daniels. They want the Kree to be tried on Earth for the death of Wonder Man. There are 2 other aliens with the Skrulls who introduce themselves as Quo Modari, skilled diplomats. The renegade Kree are accused of attempted genocide on 16 worlds. And Black Widow says it is politically important for Earth's desire to join the Galactic community. Not-so-diplomatic Major Algol gives Earth 6 hours to hand over the Kree or he will send in his own troops to capture them.Natasha and Wanda step aside and agree to send some of their team members after the escapees while the others go with the Skrulls to 'discuss' their proposal. They detail Crystal, Hercules, Iron Man, Quicksilver and US Agent to the search team. IM and Pietro immediately start arguing over whose transport to use.The 4 Kree have 'hitched' a ride in a truck to nearby Chatwin Falls freight yard. Bo'sun Stug Bar knows that Major Lo left a backup plan here. They uncover 4 individual suits of armour cobbled together from bits of things like giant Kree Sentry robots. (1 of the warsuits is actually a control cabin slung between articulated legs. 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Last issue the Force Works Chaos Computer directed them to a crisis in Slorenia. When they flew there by hex-ship they were shot down along with 2 escorting Slorenian jets. Their armoured foe met them on the ground among dead Slorenian troops and broken tanks. He defeated our heroes and when they awoke he was gone. But another armoured guy named Black Brigade backed by a bunch of robots blamed them for the death and destruction of government forces.The guy doesn't list to reason until Scarlet Witch zaps him with a hex and then speaks to him in Slorenian. She gets him to reign in his drone robots and contact his superiors. Who explain that they are welcome visitors, so they go to the capital Tblunka. (It is unclear whether Force Works travel here in their own hex-ship which crashed last issue. They certainly have a hex-ship, here named Pegasus, when they get there.)They are greeted by a man named Boshlovor on behalf of the ruling council the Tabissara. He explains that they fell foul of civil unrest by the minority Dudaks against the ruling majority Slorenes. And Black Brigade reports that the rebel Ember escaped again. It seems that is who they met last issue. He is supposedly a demon from Dudak folklore who is causing all the trouble. Which is why the Tabissara hired Black Brigade and his drones to to hunt him down. They are glad that Tony Stark's team is now here to help them. That isn't why they are here but Iron Man decides to go along with it until they find out more about what's happening.Scarlet Witch goes to liaise with Black Brigade. Iron Man takes a call from Captain America in their hex-ship to update him with the ongoing situation re War Machine. SHIELD and the UN are unhappy with WM over his actions in Imaya (WM#1-4) and some of their anger is spilling over on to Tony Stark who designed WM's armour. And now Caps' worried about what Force Works is doing in Slorenia. But Stark cuts him off rather curtly.Black Brigade and Boshlovor go into a basement throne room to report to a mysterious Supreme Commander. BB says the Americans haven't found Ember yet so they should be dismissed because they're getting in his way. Boshlovor points out that Black Brigade has failed at the task for months. The Commander shuts them both up and tells them to let Force Works lead them to Ember and then BB can destroy "my ancient enemy".Century and Wanda Maximoff try a new tack. Scarlet Witch adds her magic to the tracking skills of Century's staff Parallax and it leads them to the old fortress palace outside the city, which was abandoned after the previous Slorene dictator was overthrown. On the way Wanda mentions that a Tabissara should have 11 members but so far they've only met 10. Black Brigade doesn't join them but he's watching and waiting with his drones.When they get to the fortress they split up. Century and Spider-Woman go in 1 direction but don't get far before they are attacked by BB and his drones (a bit prematurely I'd think). Our duo fight back and call for backup, and Iron Man joins them. The other 2 start trashing the drones while IM fights the boss, who tells them to go away and leave Ember to him.Meanwhile solo U.S. Agent hears the fighting but is himself assaulted by Ember. USA manages to hold him off for a while because the foe seems weakened. Then Scarlet Witch arrives and downs Ember with a hex blast, and invites him to surrender in Slorenian. Ember removes his helmet/mask to reveal a grey-haired man who admits that his power is drained.Ember says he is Dudak historian Pavel Chenklo and he leads them down some stairs to show them the source of his power. He says he came here after the dictator was overthrown to catalogue the art treasures around them. But he shows them a glowing artefact which he says is a triptych, holy to the Dudaks. When he touched this it transformed him into Ember the mythical Dudak hero. He sensed an impeding disaster to the Dudaks and set out to prevent it. But the resulting persecution of his people has made him realise that *he* may be the disaster, so he has come here to destroy the triptych.However before he can do so the battling Black Brigade and Iron Man smash through a wall, followed by Century and SpW. A blast from BB  opens a hole in the floor to a chasm below, and Ember falls in with the triptych. Agent falls in too but is saved by Spi's psi-web.BB is satisfied with the outcome but Wanda threatens to complain about his actions to the Tabissara. However Iron Man overrules her and says they're leaving. In the hex-ship he explains that as soon as Ember fell into the chasm the Chaos Computer declared the crisis over. Wanda protests that Tony Stark made *her* team leader and she believed the Dudaks needed protection against the Tabissara. Tony replies that it's important that Force Works not undertake personal crusades like War Machine did in Imaya.Back at The Works HQ Recorder RE-404 notes another crisis flagged up by the Chaos Computer building up in China. Again he takes steps to ensure that the team don't learn of it in time to nip it in the bud. This time he is discovered by P.L.A.T.O., but he somehow successfully commands the AI to forget about it.Again there's a 2nd short story this issue, following on from the 1 last issue:-BreakdownPencils: Tod Smith, inks: Kevin Yates (as last issue).Last issue Fisher Todd offered to show little Rachel Carpenter secrets of the base. Now they're in the Vroom Room and Rachel faces a hologram of the Rhino. He switches that off and asks if she'd like to see Thor. But outside Recorder locks the door and activates a program in dangerous mode. The pair are menaced by the alien Scatter (from #1-3).Force Works arrive home from Slorenia in their hex-ship. New PR person Amanda Chaney confronts Iron Man and complains that she hasn't been able to contact Tony Stark so she's bringing her problems to *him* to relay to his boss. She's very concerned about the presence of the alien Century and the Recorder. And their trip to Slorenia has brought protests from the Avengers, SHIELD. NATO and the UN.Meanwhile Julia Carpenter has gone looking for her daughter. PLATO tells her she's in the Vroom Room with Fisher. When Spider-Woman finds the door locked with a top-level simulation running she uses her super-strength to break the door down. As she takes on the aliens menacing Rachel, Fisher sidles with Rachel to a control panel and smashes it with a spanner. This certainly stops the program running.Todd tries to explain that the system must have malfunctioned, but Julia drags her daughter away and tells Fisher to keep away from her.


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Orphan
Force Works are in Australia where they've been fighting monsters literally out of someone's nightmare. Police Deputy Willie Walkaway has used his aboriginal knowledge to lead them to the source of the problem when they were attacked by a giant skeleton.Now he finds himself seemingly millennia in the past. But a voice in his head claims the name Orphan and says that this is Dream-Sight. Willie sees a small spaceship fall from space. Orphan says their Mothership had died, but now this escape vessel crashes and its living occupants die also. But Orphan the ship itself survived, buried in a crater. Long ages later Australian natives sensed his presence and made it a sacred place. And Orphan turned their dreams into reality.But Willie tells Orphan that someone is now abusing his power. Alf Robbins and Shane Mundy slept in the sacred Gowanga Gorge. Alf is just a drunk whose DT's materialised as monsters. Shane is a psychopath whose giant skeleton attacked Force Works in their Works Wagon. Walkaway persuades Orphan to return him to reality so he can make sure they're OK.He finds the wreck of the Wagon, and Alf dead of fright. But no sign of the FW.We see Iron Man alone and unable to contact the others. Suddenly the ground all around him sprouts techno-organic growth which quickly overwhelms him and takes over his armour, entombing him within it all.We see Spider-Woman on a giant spider-web where her daughter Rachel Carpenter is cocooned. And then the Scatter bugs from #1-3 overwhelm *her*.We see Century alone, but then surrounded by negative images of himself (representing the multitude of minds he somehow contains?). *They* then engulf *him*.Scarlet Witch is not alone in *her* barren environment. But the Force Works teammates with her claim that she's delusional when she says everything's changed. And they tell her that her bad decisions will get them all killed.U.S. Agent has reverted to childhood when the Bogey Man that his father denies exists comes out of his closet to get him.But young Jack fights back with his fists, and suddenly he and the rest of the team reappear around Willie Walkaway, freed from their nightmares.Willie tells them about the alien Orphan ship which innocently manifests people's dreams but doesn't understand the consequences. Scarlet Witch has to assert her authority to stop Iron Man going ahead on his own. They all climb the side of the crater and then inside they see Orphan, which seems to have grown and mutated since the crash. (Has *no-one* seen this before?!)They all climb down the inside of the crater. Century's staff Parallax detects rising energy, and Shane Mundy's giant skeleton attacks them again, along with the monsters he's borrowed from the nightmare of now-dead Alf. Battle commences and our side is having a hard time of it. Except US Agent who concludes that his escape from his nightmare has granted him some immunity.Walkaway says they've got to break Shane's link with Orphan. USA decides that *he*s the man for the job, but the Witch sends the Spider after him as backup. They find Mundy glowing with energy but in a coma. Jack tries to wake him but becomes stuck even as the energy racks his body. Spi tries to pull him free with her psi-web, but that just conducts the dream energy to *her* too.But Orphan at last realises from contact with their minds that something bad is happening. The skeleton and monsters fade away, Spi and USA are free and OK, and Shane Mundy is dead. Willie explains that Orphan is like an innocent child who needs teaching about the world. He says he'll become the new Dreamguard to watch over it. (Presumably this means that the old shaman killed last issue was the previous Dreamguard.)The backup tale this issue, called Sense Of Loss, is again by the regular team. It takes place during the memorial service for Wonder Man.Century is standing apart from the ceremony because he feels it inappropriate to intrude since he never knew Simon Williams. Amanda Chaney joins him, possibly for similar reasons. He tells her he also feels responsible for his death (in #1) because the alien Scatter followed him to Earth, and by chance destroyed the Kree starship which led to Wonder Man's self-sacrifice. Amanda says "Can I be frank with you?" (which leads to another misunderstanding because he thinks she wants him to call her by a different name) and tells him to stop feeling sorry for himself. It wasn't his fault, and since then he's helped the team enormously. The best thing he can do is honour Simon Williams' memory by doing his best to fill his shoes.After it's all over Happy Hogan drives the team back to Force Works HQ. Some of them think of their own losses. Wanda Maximoff remembers her 2 children with Vision who turned out to be figments of magic. Julia Carpenter mourns her failed marriage and the death of her ex-husband. Tony Stark misses his latest ex-girlfriend Veronica Benning. It seems none of them know that Jack Daniels/John Walker saw his parents murdered by the Watchdogs.