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40 years later, in space…
“Damn,” says Giant-Man while standing on a giant floating rock in outer space with his other zombie friends. “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.” Spider-Man asks if that’s it. There’s really nothing left to eat now? Hank explains that it’s been weeks, and he can’t think straight, or focus. The pain is unbearable, they’ve been moving through the cosmos as fast as they can. But Hank honestly believes there really is nothing left. “What now?” Luke Cage wonders.
Thanos becomes upset, believing they wouldn’t be in this situation if a certain someone, referring to the Hulk, wouldn’t eat twice as much as the rest of them. Hulk angrily defends that he only eats his fair share. And he warns Thanos to better shut up before he tries out how bad he tastes. Firelord attempts to comment, but lacks a jaw and thus the ability to speak. “Enough!” Iron Man yells to the rivals. Hulk complies… by boxing Thanos’ hears, reducing his head to a pulp. Now lifeless, Thanos floats off of the asteroid and into deep space. Now he can eat for two again, Hulk smiles, by eating all the food Thanos would eat. Problem solved.
Gladiator is starving and wants to feast from Thanos’ corpse. Hank warns Gladiator not to do that, however Gladiator doesn’t listen and tastes from Thanos anyway. Immediately afterwards, however, he spits it out again. Tony doesn’t know how many times he has to say it: they can’t eat from each other. If only they could. Hank states they’re done there. There’s nothing to eat… nothing! They can’t stay here and need to leave. Wolverine agrees, but wonders where to go. They’ve been everywhere already. Hank disagrees. They haven’t been everywhere. He now remembers there was a machine that could bring them to other dimensions. Tony remembers it as well and thinks he also remembers working on it. He wonders if he helped build it… before he was dead. Hank confirms it, and adds that Reed Richards rebuilt it and used it to escape from this dimension. That will be their ticket out of there, and that’s how they’ll get more food. They need to get back to Earth! The zombies set course to their home planet.
Along the way, Luke notices that Spider-Man isn’t saying much, which isn’t like him. He asks what’s wrong with him. Peter replies he is just thinking. It seems like the longer they go without eating, he could be imagining this, but… it seems like the pain and the hunger… Peter thinks it’s starting to fade.
Earth…
New York City lies in ruins, and plants and trees have covered most of the city. A young boy named K’Shamba walks through it. He suddenly stops when he hears someone scream, asking if someone is there. Curious, the boy lifts up some rocks where he thinks the person is lying under. Once done digging, K’Shamba is shocked to discover the infected head of… Hawkeye?!
Hawkeye begs the boy to get him out of there. He literally begs for help. K’Shamba thinks about it because his grandfather told him about Hawkeye’s kind. But, he also notices that Hawkeye is nothing like “Miss Wasp.” He asks if Hawkeye will try to bite him, but Hawkeye promises he won’t. He just needs someone to talk to. K’Shamba picks Hawkeye up and makes him promise it again, which Clint does. K’Shamba tells Hawkeye he’ll take him to his home, where they’ll know what to do with him. Hawkeye noticed that K’Shamba said something about a wasp. He knew a Wasp once… he thinks.
Later, New Wakanda…
K’Shamba arrives in the middle of the village, where a huge golden palace, built in the form of a panther, has been settled. This is where he lives. Hawkeye is impressed.
Inside the palace is the now aged King T’Challa, formerly the Black Panther, sitting in his throne, and his wife, Lisa. Standing before them is Forge, who is now old as well and bulging from his X-Men uniform. Forge pleads with T’Challa, telling the king that there is far too much at stake to be so casual about this. He has to take this situation seriously. If the Acolytes take control of this community, they won’t last for another generation.
Forge tells T’Challa he knows this and asks Forge what he expects him to do. He has been telling him for years that they don’t have a large enough gene pool to reestablish humanity as any kind of a permanent basis. Do they need to banish the Acolytes? Wouldn’t that make matters only worse? Forge isn’t sure anymore. If they’re doomed to perish anyway, maybe they would be better off without the Acolytes.
Lisa can’t say she doesn’t agree with Forge. There was a time she would have given her life for the Acolytes. But now, with these children wearing the uniforms, Lisa feels they’ve lost their way. T’Challa agrees with his queen. He was elected leader… leader of them all… and not just those who agree with him. He won’t turn his back on anyone. To this, Forge makes it clear that the Acolytes are challenging T’Challa’s rule. He calls the Acolytes power-mad children, bent on establishing some stupid cult to Magneto. He calls them crazy.
T’Challa agrees the Acolytes may be crazy, but one of their arguments is that he is too old to lead. Even if that’s not true now, he believes it’s only a matter of time before they need to elect a new leader anyway. After all, he isn’t going to be here forever.
In reply, Wasp enters, announcing that it doesn’t have to be this way. Once merely the infected & decapitated head of Janet Van Dyne, the Wasp’s head now rides upon a robotic body. Accompanying her is man clad in an Acolyte uniform, and K’Shamba, under whose arm the head of Hawkeye is carried.
In reply to the Wasp, Lisa doesn’t want Janet to take what she’s about to say the wrong way, but they’re never going to do so much as consider that and asks Janet not to bring it up again. Janet is aware of Lisa’s feelings on the matter. And she understands everyone’s concerns, but something has come up. Something that proves her recovery from The Hunger is not a fluke… that she’s not an isolated case.
K’Shamba shows Hawkeye’s head to both his grandfathers, Forge and T’Challa. He thinks he’s like Wasp, as Hawkeye hasn’t even tried to bite him once. Hawkeye thinks he remembers knowing Forge and T’Challa, but isn’t sure. Startled at seeing Hawkeye, Forge asks K’Shamba to bring him to him, but warns to be careful. Eyes wide as he regards his old teammate, T’Challa is speechless.
Meanwhile, out in deep space…
The infected are all feasting from Ego, the Living Planet. While doing so, one remarks how they don’t know how they could have missed it the first time through!
Back on Earth…
Hawkeye has been given a robotic body like the Wasp has, and his head is encased in a jar, attached to the body. Reynolds explains to T’Challa that Hawkeye seems harmless, but finds it clearly that with him lying alone under rubble for nearly half a century has left him mentally scarred. At present, Hawkeye seems harmless, but Reynolds hasn’t been able to study him extensively.
T’Challa asks if the body still works. “Of course,” Reynolds answers. He built it to last. The only problem occurred when he tried to remove Hawkeye’s mask. He began screaming as if he were in pain and suddenly terrified. Reynolds thinks Hawkeye may have thought he was trying to skin off his face. Which Reynolds finds understandable. Hawkeye can’t feel pain, so he would have no idea of knowing what Reynolds was doing. And after all this time…
Though T’Challa finds this unsettling, Reynolds continues. It’s like he said: Hawkeye is not all there. After a few weeks, maybe he’ll come around. However, Reynolds recommends not leaving him alone with anyone for a while. There’s no telling of what he is capable of.
Elsewhere in New Wakanda…
The son of Fabian Cortez addresses his gathered Acolytes. He calls his father a great man, a man who had a vision. He says that Fabian would often speak to him of the vast world that lies around them, untouched and unspoiled. He believed in the potential of this society. His father believed they could establish their dominance over this planet. But his son believes they could do much more than that. He believes they can start to live instead of merely trying to survive!
He has lost faith in their “warrior king,” who has never fought in a war! He sees a man who lives in fear… fear of the past, fear of the future. He doesn’t see a king. He sees an old man, slowly rotting away to nothing, and he’s taking them all with him. Fabian’s son calls for a new direction, new ideas and new leadership! All the Acoyltes proudly cheer out: “Cortez!” “Cortez!” “Cortez!”
Later that night…
Aboard Asteroid M, the quarters of the Black Panther and his wife.
While T’Challa and Lisa lie asleep in their royal bed, Reynolds and the Wasp continue their work on Hawkeye’s body. Reynolds now only has a few more wires to add when Janet reads something on a monitor. There’s a breach inside the asteroid and asks Reynolds how often that happens. Reynolds confirms it happens from time to time. But a hatch opening isn’t such a big deal if they’re not in outer space, he jokes. He usually ignores it. But if Janet wants to, he says, she can go check it out if she’s worried. “Hmmm,” Janet replies.
A shadowed assassin wearing a green uniform sneaks towards the sleeping king and queen. Without making a noise, he takes out a knife and plunges it into T’Challa’s stomach! The king awakens with a scream, which in turn awakens Lisa. Acting quickly, T’Challa kicks the assassin backwards, calling this treason. T’Challa takes a moment to clutch his wound, which gives the assassin time to recover and slash at T’Challa once again, telling the “old man” to keep talking.
At this moment, Wasp enters the bedroom and fires an electric shock on the assassin, which knocks him out. Lisa is shocked by the display and tells Janet that T’Challa can’t die. Janet believes he will if they want to or not. There’s only one way to stop it. Though Lisa pleads with her not to do so, Janet bites T’Challa in his neck!
Recoiling, Janet is thrilled at experiencing the taste of “human blood” again. However, she reminds herself she only bit because she had to. But the taste is so good and she wants more. She can’t stop the hunger and lunges toward Lisa, intending to bite her as well. However, a recovered T’Challa grabs Janet by her hair and pushes her against a wall. Now turned into an infected as well, he warns Janet to leave his wife alone. If she has to eat, he tells her, she can eat from his would-be killer. “You’re the boss,” Janet smiles. Both T’Challa and Janet eat from the body. T’Challa warns his wife not to look at him, but she can’t keep her eyes of them.
After the body is gone, T’Challa finds he has recovered his senses and can’t believe what he has just done. Janet tells him to relax as he’ll get over it. After all, their food just tried to kill him. He’s the cause of all this. She thinks this is going to work out. While they have a little self-control, they’ll lock themselves up in the detention level. After a few weeks of detoxification, the hunger will wear off. They’ll be back to normal again and T’Challa can resume his duties as leader. She believes things can only get better from here on out. She honestly thinks the worst is now definitely behind them. She means, what else could possibly happen?!
In space…
The infected continue their trip to Earth. “Are we there yet?” an impatient Spider-Man asks. A displeased Giant-Man tells Spidey to shut up.


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Earth’s Mightiest Zero: part 1
The first day of the end of the world. In the place where it all began: New York City. Where a rip in the fabric of reality appeared in the sky. And a man of another reality emerged… who has the terrible power that would lay waste to an entire planet.
A man, covered in shadows, falls out of the sky. He drops his gun and bag, and drops into a dumpster in an alley below. A woman has seen it happening and can only think of one thing “Fooood!”
The man that just fell down is known as Ashley J. Williams, known simply as “Ash.” He’s a world traveler, and traveler between worlds. He’s also an adventurer. A hero. A retail clerk. The woman walks over to Ash, still thinking of him as food. Ash notices and throws an empty can at the woman’s head, shouting at her to get away from him. He climbs out of the dumpster and tells the woman to leave him alone.
After she departs, Ash realizes he has to figure out exactly where he is. He thinks it’s funny, though, as he thought he was dead. The last thing he remembers is standing in a large, empty place that was filled with a blue color. A voice told Ash to walk into the light ahead of him. Ash saw it, and did as told. He guesses that means he isn’t dead after all, as he’s sure Heaven would have less garbage. The place rather smells like Hell, but he doesn’t see any devil.
Suddenly, Ash hears fighting nearby, and goes to check it out. It’s Daredevil fighting Thunderball. Ash corrects himself that he’s seeing a devil he doesn’t know. Daredevil dodges a punch from Thunderball and tells him to give it up, which Thunderball declines. Taking this in, Ash decides he’d better put a stop between the two combatants before somebody gets hurt. Only he doesn’t know which of the two is the good guy. Is the good guy using a construction tool of mass destruction as an artificial appendage? Or the idiot in the Beezlebub bodysuit? He takes out his chainsaw, and knows which horse he’ll be betting on in this race.
Before Ash can walk over to the two, someone with a dark voice calls out his name. It’s the Necronomicon! Ash thought he was rid of that old fool. Necronomicon smiles that, no matter where Ash travels, and for as long as he lives, he’ll never be rid of him. Necronomicon warns Ash to heed his warning, as they have seen the future. This world will die, and an army of the dead will rise! Ash doesn’t believe him and punches Necronomicon in the face. He activates his chainsaw and wants to kill his old adversary.
Daredevil and Thunderball see it all happening and stop their fighting. Daredevil thinks Ash should be ashamed of himself, trying to kill a defenseless old lady like that. Daredevil throws his billy club into Thunderball’s face, believing Ash is the newest member of the Wrecking Crew, and that he’s more twisted than the rest of them. He quickly jumps at Ash, who defends himself, not even know what the super hero is talking about. Ash tells Daredevil he made a mistake and should have stayed out of his business.
Suddenly, Thunderball gets back up and swings his wrecking ball into Daredevil’s back. Daredevil’s senses tried to warn him, but were too late and he is thrown against a wall. Ash smiles that he’s impressed at Thunderball’s weapon. Thunderball shakes hands with Ash and thanks him for the help, and says he should better be going. Ash smiles that it’s all in a days work, not noticing that Necronomicon is using this time to escape in an alley.
Not much later…
Ash sits in a café and reads in a Daily Bugle newspaper that the Wrecking Crew have escaped from the Riker’s Prison, and that their crime wave continues. He understands the mistake he made before. He keeps reading further headlines, which says: “Spider-Man: Incompetent Hero or Dangerous Menace?”, “Fantastic Four’s Founder’s Interdimensional Breakthrough” and “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Save Eastern Seaboard.”
He thinks it looks like he landed in a dimension full of these costumed clowns. He calls them all a bunch of amateurs. Still, if the Deadite threat is as bad as he thinks it could be, he might need some backup, so he might as well go to the top.
Again later…
Ash arrives in the front gate of Avengers Mansion and someone over the intercom asks Ash to state his name and business. Rather than doing so, Ash just shoots the intercom, which brings the Avengers outside in quick order. Leading the group, Colonel America asks Ash if they can help him. Luke Cage, however, grabs Ash by his cloths and lifts him up, believing if they should instead skip ahead to the part where they pound Ash’s skinny butt into next week. Nearby, Thor uses his great strength to break Ash’s gun in half.
Luke releases Ash, who says they’ve got some serious business to discuss. Dire, end-of-the-world stuff. He’s got information about Deadites. He quotes what Necronomicon said earlier “This world will die, and an army of the dead will rise.” To this, Hawkeye replies he doesn’t even know what Deadites are. Iron Man, however, believes this sounds like a prank and asks Ms. Marvel what she thinks of it. Carol doesn’t know, as she certainly heard crazier. She suggests they listen to what Ash has to say. Colonel America agrees and ask Ash the exact nature of this threat, and how he came by this information.
Ash explains a bag lady told him about it, but that’s not the point. When Colonel America already doesn’t believe Ash anymore upon hearing that, Ash then adds that the woman was possessed by an evil spirit; the evil spirit from the Book of the Dead. Carol jokes to Janet that she’s convinced now they’ve got to upgrade security around there, while Vision and Thor have to do their best not to laugh. Ash says he knows how this sounds, but he’s not some kind of fruit loop. He has fought the Deadites. He even traveled through time to fight them. He even fought them when they locked him away in the loony bin that time. And now he’s here, in this dimension, and they’ll be coming here soon enough. They can mark his words on that.
He hears the Avengers almost laughing and shouts at them this isn’t a joke. Scarlet Witch goes to stand behind Ash, and uses a “Bamf” spell to teleport him away! Jarvis comes out of the mansion, telling the Avengers they chose the perfect time to get rid of Ash. They’ve just received word that something odd is transpiring midtown. Colonel America thanks Jarvis for the tip and says they’ll be heading there to investigate immediately. Hawkeye compliments Wanda on the Bamf spell, as he liked it. He wonders what she did to Ash, though. She smiles it looked like Ash was getting kind of hot under the collar, so she thought he could cool off a little.
Elsewhere…
Ash finds himself dropped in a lake. He splashes some ducks away in frustration and is angry at the Avengers, believing they probably wouldn’t be much help anyway… when it all begins. He looks up and sees lightning with that have a pink color on them. Ash panics, as he remembers now!
Earlier…
Ash is told by a voice to walk into the light, along with many other people besides him. An angel stepped forward and told Ash that chainsaws weren’t allowed in there. Ash felt down and asks what about his boomstick. On that instant, a scream is heard behind them. Ash jokes, on second thought, he’ll hold on to both weapons a little while longer.
Now…
The sky is turning dark, and more lightning bolts appear. Ash shouts that it’s happening here, too! He shouts out to everyone to listen to him: this world is going to end and that they’re all in terrible danger! He shouts at everyone to run back to their homes and get into safety.
Above Ash, the Quinjet already arrived. Carol notices Ash and informs Hawkeye it’s Ash again. Clint is beginning to think Ash is not a nut after all, but a dangerous nut. The craft lands, and the heroes all step out. Ash asks them if they are willing to listen to him now. “Not exactly,” Ms. Marvel responds.
Spider-Man joins the group and asks Colonel America what’s happening and if they need any help from him. Colonel America asks Spidey if he knows anything about the weird lightning, but he doesn’t. Colonel America hears Ash bragging to both the Black Widow and Wanda they couldn’t get enough of him, to which they both sigh. He then proposes to Spider-Man that, if he really wants to help, there might be something he can do.
A short while later, Spider-Man has trapped Ash in lots of webbing and webslings him away. An angry Ash shouts that the newspapers were right and that he really is a menace. Spidey jokes he heard that too, but thinks that picture of him in today’s morning edition is a beaut. Ash warns Spidey he doesn’t get it: the Deadites are coming! They’re going to overrun the entire world. He got the message right after he came here. Spider-Man asks Ash where he came from, exactly. A bit unsure how to respond, Ash says he came from the afterlife. Spidey doesn’t really believe that, but asks what it was like. Ash remembers the blood bath both he and the angel saw in Heaven, saying that it didn’t end well, that’s for sure.
Earlier…
Ash and the angel look at the person responsible for the massacre. Someone dressed in a golden uniform and a blue cape… a zombified Sentry! The Sentry immediately looked at Ash after his killings, and in return, Ash took a shot at him. Unfortunately, the Sentry survived and punched Ash into the light.
Now…
Spidey is not sure what to think of the story, but asks about the description of the attacker again. Ash looks down and panics a bit. He points out to Spider-Man that the Sentry has arrived as well, and defeated the Avengers! Plus he made zombies out of all of them, as well!
Colonel America is in pain when he “turns.” He vomits, but eventually completely gives in to his new form. A formerly killed Black Widow gets up, and screws her head back on her neck. “There… much better,” she says. She asks if anybody knows what’s going on. While Luke attacks an innocent bystander, Hawkeye says he is in no hurry to find out and fires his arrows at some other guy, trapping him against a wall. Hawkeye says he needs food, and by food, he means… flesh! He starts eating the poor guy.
Spider-Man is shocked and asks Ash if these are the Deadites he has been talking about. However, they don’t look like any Deadites Ash has seen. Then again, he has never been in a universe full of spandex-wearing super-chumps, either. He figures Deadites come in a few different flavors. Spider-Man swings back to the battle, but Ash wonders if they shouldn’t be going away from it instead. He’s not sure they’ll stand a chance against Earth’s Mightiest Cannibals.
Spidey says that may be so, but he won’t let any more innocents die when he’s got a chance to do something about it. He swings in front of Colonel America and rescues a girl, and swings her away together with Ash. As he webslings away again, Spidey tells Ash his friends will have a hard enough time dealing with what they’ve done so far when they are turned back to normal. He’s not going to let any more blood get on their hands. Ash doesn’t think they’ll be able to revert the Avengers back to normal, and calls Spidey insane if he believes otherwise.
Later…
Spider-Man lands the girl somewhere and warns her to get into safety. Still trapped in the webs, Ash asks what Spidey’s going to do with him. Spidey explains he’ll keep Ash this way until he gets a few answers. He asks Ash if it’s true when he said there’s nothing that has an effect on these Deadites. Ash thinks that they might have a shot with the Necronomicon. Maybe. He reveals there’s an ancient Sumerian Book of the Dead that seems to have a lot of power over the Deadites. If it even exists on this world.
Spidey wants to assume it does. He suggests they’ll both track down this Book so all this will be over. However, before they can move into action, Colonel America jumps right behind Spider-Man, and bites him in his neck! Spidey drops Ash, who falls down again. He lands in front of the same dumpster he did when he first arrived. Hawkeye, Luke and Ms. Marvel appear before him. Hawkeye jokes and asks his friends if anyone wants to have dibs on Ash’s brains, but nobody wants to.
It was the beginning of the end of the world. The displaced man returned to an Earth not his own. And Ash J. Williams fought Death’s army in both the present and the past… and found himself suddenly and decisively… out of time.


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Marvel Team-Ups
An angry, infected Spider-Man sits on the infected Hawkeye’s back. He warns the other infected to take three steps back, or else he’ll eat the archer’s brains, joking that nobody wants to see Hawkeye dead. Black Widow warns Spidey not to do that. And not because they’re already dead and don’t breathe, Luke mentions. “We taste terrible,” Natasha jokes. Carol makes it clear Natasha knows what she’s talking about. Spider-Man warns the others to let Ash go… and to leave the loudmouth to him!
Luke doesn’t understand it. There’s a whole city out there for the taking. An entire world, even! “Exactly,” Spidey explains, so what’s one more guy? He’s the one who had to lug Ash all over the city and listen to his non-stop nonsense. He wants Ash to be left to him. Ash looks scared. Ms. Marvel doesn’t care and tells Spider-Man he can go eat Hawkeye. It’ll be one less mouth to feed for the rest of them. Plus, they don’t even know if destroying the brain stops… stops whatever it is that happened to them.
While everyone is talking about him, Ash takes the chance to try to escape. Unfortunately, Cage sees it and stops him. He picks up Ash, who shouts at Luke to let him go. He explains he told them already: he’s there to save them. He’s their last, best hope for putting a stop to this Deadite monster plague they’ve got going around. Luke grins Ash’s got it all wrong. He can’t stop them, and they don’t want saving.
Colonel America tells everyone to stop the bickering. They might need Clint later. And they’re still a team, even if their priorities have… changed. He tells Spidey to go for it. Spidey picks Ash up and web-slings away with him. “Bon appetite,” Colonel America wishes him.
A few minutes later, Spidey and Ash land on a rooftop where Spidey thinks they’ll be safe from the others, at least for a little while. He drops Ash and asks where were they… With an angry look on his face, Ash says he believes Spidey was making lunch plans… and hits Spidey in his face! As Spidey falls down, Ash puts on his chainsaw, ready to kill the web-slinger! Spider-Man tries to calm Ash down, promising that eating him is the last thing he wants to do. To prove it, Spidey takes off his mask… and proves that he’s still human!
Ash is surprised and asks how that’s possible. Peter thinks he dislocated his jaw when he took a header. And that sucker punch of Ash didn’t exactly help. He checks the wound on his shoulder, and mentions that his powers are probably working overtime to stave off the bite Colonel America gave him. Peter attaches his head back onto his shoulders, which grosses Ash to no end. If Ash wants gross, he should take a look below. They both have a look into the city, where lots of heroes and villains are eating humans. Among the crowd, the Black Cat turns Iron Fist into one of the infected by biting Fist into his neck. As they view this, neither Spidey nor Ash realize they’re being watched by someone lurking in the shadows behind them.
Ash remarks it looks like no one who sets foot on the streets is safe anymore. Peter realizes Ash is right and fears about the safety of Aunt May and Mary Jane. He pulls his mask back on and apologizes to Ash but he has to go home. Ash gets upset over this, but Peter ignores it and leaves. Ash shouts after Spidey – what happened to helping find him the Necronomicon and stopping this thing? What happened to “no more innocents die on my watch?”
The mysterious person steps out of the shadows, and states that this is New York City… nobody is innocent. The person prepares his gun, walks over to Ash and is revealed to be none other than… the Punisher! The Punisher asks Ash if he’s friends with Spider-Man. Ash jokes that’s a bit of an understatement. He asks the same to Castle, who just answers by saying, “Somethin’ like that.” He notices Ash’s chainsaw-for-an-hand and remarks he likes it. When he asks Ash what he’s doing up there, Ash explains he’s supposed to be saving the world. He tells the Punisher, in case he hasn’t noticed, it’s World War Apocalypse down there, with all those zombified super-creeps killing everybody in sight.
The Punisher leaves, mentioning he is going to get to that next. Punisher walks down some stairs and Ash follows. He reveals to Castle he has dealt with these sorts before… they’re Deadites. He needs to find the Sumerian Book of the Dead – the Necronomicon – and figure out how to reverse whatever it was that started this mess. And he could use some of the firepower the Punisher has as he lost his Boomstick to one of those Avenger guys. The Punisher introduces himself, and Ash does the same. Castle suggests, if Ash helps him first, he’ll help him find the book.
Ash can’t believe hearing that… it’s the end of the world! What could the Punisher be doing that’s more important? They stop in front of a big door and the Punisher jokes he’ll be doing some house cleaning. He warns Ash to cover his ears and tapes a bomb on the door, which a few seconds later explodes! As the dust clears, the Punisher meets up with… Hammerhead, the Kingpin and the Owl!
Hammerhead immediately points his gun towards the Punisher, but the Kingpin tells his associate to put it away. Kingpin admits he never thought he’d say this, but he is glad Castle is there. Punisher reveals he has been watching the Kingpin, and waiting. He knows Fisk has regular meetings with his underbosses, and he needed to find a time when the capes, the cops and Kingpin’s cronies were otherwise occupied. Kingpin looks out of his window and wants Castle to get over himself. He asks Castle if he’s seen what’s happening outside. The rules have changed now. They’re on the same team. The time for playing cops-and-robbers has passed. At the rate this thing is spreading, they’re fighting for the very survival of humanity. They’re in this together now. “Us versus them,” as Kingpin describes it. Human versus zombie.
Punisher doesn’t think so. As far as he’s concerned… the Kingpin never was human. He opens fire and kills Hammerhead, Kingpin and the Owl! Ash is a bit shocked and asks Castle if he’s supposed to be one of the good guys. “Exactly,” Punisher answers. He leaves, wanting to go find that book Ash mentioned…
Outside…
Some infected heroes are feasting on a dead body. Behind them, the Blob is literally running for his life, while lots of infected heroes and villains are chasing him, so they can eat him. The Punisher and Ash observe all this safely behind a window at Fisk Towers, and Kingpin now understands Ash was right. Ash explains it’s a mess out there. And it’s spreading… fast!
The Punisher throws a bag into Ash’s arm, believing he’s going to need more guns for this. He asks Ash to hold onto his bag. He’s got enough firepower to level half of Manhattan. When he gives the word, he wants Ash to toss him two fresh clips. And when he runs out of those, two more. And so on. Ash doesn’t like being given orders. He thinks Castle has the wrong idea about exactly who got cast as leading man and who’s playing second banana. The Punisher holds two guns ready, but Ash asks him to wait… he can’t do this!
Ash again looks outside and sees Thunderball getting surrounded by infected heroes and villains. Ash recognizes him from before. And… Thunderball’s not infected. As a tear comes to Thunderball’s eye, he begs the infected to please get away from him. The Punisher doesn’t care how Ash thinks about Thunderball, as he’s criminal scum. And he’s got it coming, too. The Punisher runs into action and kills some of the infected, but most of them are still standing. When he runs out of bullets, he calls out to Ash, but… he’s gone! The remaining infected quickly outnumber the Punisher… and eat him!
Ash has run outside with the Punisher’s bag and he thinks all of the costumed people are crazy. He passes the infected Cloak and Dagger and says this entire world is nuts. And he thinks this world was probably nuts before infectious Deadite cannibals showed up. He believes he had it right to begin with. Steer clear of the super-losers and get the job done himself. Ash Williams works best with Ash Williams. Last thing he needs is some deadweight wannabe hero dragging him down. He runs into an alley, where he notices something. “Then again,” Ash says with a huge smile, “Hell-o!”
He sees the infected Winter Soldier trying to rape Dazzler, who is still uninfected. Alison shouts at the Soldier to get off of her, but he refuses. She looks so sweet, so luscious and delectable. He just wants a little bite. He wants her to give him some sugar. Ash sneaks up on the Winder Soldier, points his gun to his head and jokes “Sorry, bunky, that’s my line” Ash pulls the trigger… and kills the Winter Soldier! Ash helps Dazzler up, who thanks him for the rescue. He promises he isn’t coming back from that one.
Alison introduces herself, and mentions people call her Dazzler. Ash jokes that “they” are right, as he is impressed by Alison’s beauty. Ash introduces himself, and checks out Dazzler’s body for “zombie bites.” He explains if she turns into one of those flesh-eating monstrosities five minutes from now, that won’t do neither of them good. He can’t be too careful. He has already seen Earth’s so-called “Mightiest Heroes” go down like a bunch of bowling pins, seen a spider drop like a fly, and then what the Punisher did. Dazzler cries for the loss of all her friends.
Ash tries to cheer her up. She thinks it’s really the end of the world. Ash thinks so, too. He remembers what the Necronomicon told him earlier “this world will die and an army of the dead will rise.” When Alison asks what Ash means by “this world,” Ash replies that Alison won’t believe what he’s about to say, as he wouldn’t believe it either if he hadn’t lived through it. All this mess, all the killing and the craziness… it’s all because of a book. A very evil book known as the Necronomicon. Him and the book go way back. It has sent him through time, into the past, the future, to different worlds… and every time he’s got the better of the infernal thing. And he’s certain this time won’t be any different.
He thinks Alison doesn’t believe her. She admits it’s all a little farfetched, but not any less believable than everything else that’s going on. And he did save her, too. So if all Ash needs is to get his hands on that dark magic book, she believes that will be easy enough to accomplish. Ash reminds Alison he has tangled with the Necronomicon a few times before, and it was never easy. “Greenwich Village,” Alison smiles. Ash doesn’t understand. Alison mentions they’re in the right neighborhood. She walks to a house on Bleecker Street and explains it’s Doctor Stephen Strange’s sanctum sanctorum.
Ash doesn’t know what that is. Alison looks to the window on the house’s roof, where the lights are on, and sees someone in a cape. She thinks that means Dr. Strange is home. Ash still doesn’t know who that is. Alison explains Stephen Strange is otherwise known as Dr. Strange. The guy knows more about magic and the occult than pretty much anybody on Earth. If he’s not in possession of that supernatural book Ash is looking for, he’ll at least know where to find it. And if that Necronomicon is behind this like Ash says, than that means they’re one step closer to stopping this zombie plague and saving the entire world.
On that moment, Ash gets grabbed from behind, and then… a “cronch” noise is heard. Alison looks behind her, and hears a very loud burp. She finds Ash lying on the ground, with his brain eaten by… an infected Howard the Duck! “Yummm,” Howard says about the brain, “tastes like chicken.”


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Night of the Living Dead
Ashley Williams always figured he was meant for greater things. Being a hero. Vanquishing the villains. Getting a girl like Dazzler. All in a day’s work. Instead, he was working the dead-end shift at the S-Mart housewares department. All day. Every day. And it was boring. Especially when elderly man come in and ask for “adult diapers” and can’t understand Ash the first time he explains directions. Besides, in this world, there were already enough heroes. Even Ash’s boss gets angry at him when he overdoes his break by five minutes, which Ash doesn’t even care about.
And none of these heroes, not even the sight of the Fantastic Four fighting off some monster, finds Ash particularly impressive. As far as he was concerned, these so-called super heroes were more trouble than they were worth. He even agrees with Jameson, who wants to lock up Spider-Man for good. A philosophy which was confirmed, in spades, that afternoon when the heroes started catching… and spreading… an infection which turned them into insatiable cannibal zombies.
When the events were spread across the news, Ash was only interested in selling a plasma TV to a customer. But, it was later that day Ash decided to step up, and become the hero he was always meant to be. He stole a shotgun and chainsaw from the store, and his boss yelled at him to bring it back, but Ash ignored it, telling the boss to “get bitten.” He saw a lot of things that were unspeakable terrible that day, for instance Hawkeye and She-Hulk who had just finished up eating a whole buss of people. There were other things that were unbelievable strange. He fought the infected Multiple Man with his chainsaw, but each time Ash stroke at Madrox, he just duplicated himself into another infected version of himself who wanted more food.
But amidst it all, all the spectacle, weirdness and abject horror, the strangest was not fighting and destroying heroes, such as Hulkling and cutting the robot body of Vision apart, but when Ashley G. Williams came face-to-face with Ashley J. Williams! He saw how Ash J. and Dazzler were only a few feet away from Dr. Strange’s sanctum sanctorum. What went through the head of Ash of this universe was almost indescribable. It was a perplexing sensation of déjà vu… mingled with the bittersweet regret of a lifetime of alternate choices… topped by the shocking realization that he was meeting the absolute personification of a destiny unfulfilled. But mostly, what went through that Ash’s head at that particular moment in time, was the blood-drenched bill of an anthropomorphized, extraterrestrial, infected, cannibal, zombie Howard the Duck eating the brain of Ash J. Williams!
Howard intends to eat Dazzler next, but she defends herself with her powers, blinding him. Though he’s not able to see, Howard can still smell Alison and continues to go after her. However, Ash intercepts and cuts Howard in half with his chainsaw! Alison is shocked to see Ash alive, and he begins bragging about what he just did. However, Howard is still alive and attacks Ash, who won’t listen to Alison’s warnings until it’s almost too late. Luckily for Ash, the Scarlet Witch shows up and casts a magic spell on Howard, which turns him into an ice cube. Now, Howard is both dead… and gone. To make sure, Ash kicks the ice cube, breaking it into a lot of tiny pieces.
Ash is impressed at the beauty of the Scarlet Witch and starts flirting with her, but she isn’t impressed. Dazzler asks how Ash can still be alive, as she thought Howard just killed him. Wanda checks the dead Ash’s driver’s license, which indicates he truly was Ash. She realizes what’s going on: the dead Ash came from another universe, meaning he was telling the truth about the Deadites. Alison asks what Wanda knows about this, as she heard on the news some of the Avengers were infected by this disease and were spreading it. Not “some” Avengers, Wanda cries, “all of them.”
She reveals Colonel America put out an S.O.S. on the Avengers comlink to assemble the entire roster, reserves like She-Hulk, Firestar, Hercules and Starfox included. They ended up infecting almost the entire roster, present and past. When Alison asks how she escaped, Wanda ashamedly admits that she ran away. She figured there was one slim chance she might escape, so she took it and used her magic powers to hold off the infected Avengers.
When Alison asks Wanda what she means by “one chance,. Wanda points to Ash. Ash’s claim that he knows of a book with a power to stop this thing. A slim chance is better than no chance. So she went after Ash, carefully, and convinced him to help out. But now she’s thinking it may be too late and that the end of the world is here. Ash hates to interrupt the Oprah moment, but he thinks the end will come sooner than they think if they don’t get moving on, because he sees the infected Thor flying in the air, looking for a midnight snack.
They run into Dr. Strange’s home, and Alison tells Wanda not to give up. She figured if anyone knows where this Necronomicon book is, it has to be Dr. Strange. Wanda reveals that Dr. Strange is aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, and that most of the surviving heroes have gathered there as a defense plan, to start a resistance force against the infected. Ash kicks the door of the sanctum open, where they are shocked to discover the infected Dr. Druid has killed Wong!
Druid apologizes, as he didn’t mean for this to happen. He got bitten earlier today, fighting against the zombies. He tried to use his mystical powers to keep the infection at bay and came to Dr. Strange’s house hoping he could stop the infection, but he was gone. He didn’t want to hurt Wong, but the hunger was too painful. The more he eats, the hungrier he gets. And he also doesn’t want to eat Ash, Wanda and Alison but he has no more self-control left.
Ash tells Druid that if he can keep his hunger to himself for just a few minutes they’ll be the cavalry, as they know how to stop this virus. Druid is surprised to hear that, which Ash confirms. He mentions that they need to get to the library of this place first, so Druid points it’s upstairs. Ash thanks Druid, promising they’ll make it their top priority to turn him back to normal. He ask Druid if he can restrain himself from eating them a while longer. Druid thinks he can and asks Ash if he’s sure he can revert this. “No,” Ash smiles and he quickly kills Druid with his chainsaw. Ash apologizes but, since Druid is a Deadite, he won’t be coming back. Dead is dead, and Ash doesn’t care what universe Druid lives in.
After entering the library, Ash finds the section of a bookcase devoted to the dark arts, which contains some books like “The Infernus Diabolicon,” “Mortis Paratus” and “The Malagio Extermino.” Dazzler checks some books too but can’t find the Necronomicon book. Ash warns Alison to be careful when she touches those books, because some of them bite.
Ash suggests the ladies watch and learn. He touches one of the dark books and an evil face with large teeth and yellow eyes appears on it. Ash explains to the book that he needs some information on one of their own, a work called the Necronomicon. The book refuses to answer, so Ash throws it into the fire place, burning it. Ash touches another book, a red one, which also turns into a face. Ash threatens the book with his chainsaw and the book quickly agrees to tell Ash what he wants to know.
The book reveals that, since its creation, since it was translated from forbidden texts of an ancient Sumerian death cult, writ in blood on the flesh of the tortured and the damned, the Necronomicon has been sought after, fought over, even routinely killed for, by practitioners of the dark arts. Ambitious occults have pursued that malevolent tome for the mysteries it holds, its corrupted power over the souls of the departed. For decades, the whereabouts of the book were unknown but, recently, it resurfaced in the arcane collection of a diabolical sorcerer.
Ash doesn’t care about the book’s history, he just wants to know where it is. “Latveria,” the book answers. Ash smiles that was simple. Alison and Wanda sigh upon hearing the name of the country, realizing what could be in store for them. Wanda mentions she’s got a Quinjet nearby, ready for launch, and asks Alison if the coast is clear. Alison checks outside and, seeing kids, feels sorry for them. Ash thinks Alison can better get used to that, despite how horrible it may be. “No,” Alison corrects, “these kids are the danger.” Ash looks outside and sees the infected members of Power Pack attacking humans.
Wanda still wants to go outside but Ash thinks they’ll need a distraction first. Surprisingly, Ash gets his wish, as Power Pack is attacked by the uninfected members of… Nextwave! Ash wants to go for it, but Alison thinks they should perhaps help Nextwave first. He doesn’t think there’s a point to it because they need a world to save. Alison and Wanda agree and they depart in the Quinjet, to… Latveria!
Several long hours later…
The whole trip long, Ash keeps flirting with Wanda and Alison, despite their many times asking Ash to stop it. He only does when they arrive at Latveria. When he asks if it’s a nice place or not, Alison sighs that it’s not. However, Wanda thinks it is, but unfortunately the place is ruled by Dr. Doom and she explains to Ash what an evil, diabolical menace of a leader he is.
Ash doesn’t understand how that’s any different from the other heroes now, to which Wanda mentions that Doom isn’t infected. “Not yet, anyway,” Dazzler points out. But she thinks that will only be a matter of time. Wanda fears that, in that case, it means they are the ones who are doomed. Ash looks outside, and the three can see how all of Latveria’s citizens have been killed by the infected, and how Doom’s castle is under attack by the infected Goliath and many more former heroes…


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The Book of Dooms
The truth is, in the early hours of the infection, it could have been contained. While the former heroes, now-turned zombies, continue their massacre upon humanity, aboard the SHIELD’s command Helicarrier, plans were made to do the exact thing. Miles above the carnage on the ground, Nick Fury was conferring with the nation’s top military strategists, determining on maps exactly what losses were acceptable. As it was in a universe similar to this, a dire situation was turned into a world-threatening calamity, and it all could be traced back to one person. A young woman by the name of Wanda Maximoff, aka the Scarlet Witch. In this parallel world, just as in that different, Maximoff’s defense was the same.
An uninfected Wanda is threatened by her infected former friends, Black Cat and Starfox. Luckily, she is rescued by her brother, Quicksilver, who picks her up and runs them both to a safe location. Unfortunately, Wanda wasn’t herself. “Wanda” turned into her true form… that of an uninfected Mystique! And right after that, Mystique bit Pietro in his neck, turning him into a zombie as well.
From there, things deteriorated with astonishing speed. Before SHIELD could make a pre-emptive strike, the contagion spread. Quicksilver’s speeding powers helped with that, as he could use it to kill humans faster than anyone else, and turn other heroes faster than others too. He also spread the disease by speeding over borders, and beyond borders. In no time, the disease had reached Britain, where Captain Britain was responsible for most casualties. In Russia, the same appealed to the Red Guardian. In Japan, the combined forces of the infected Sunfire and Silver Samurai struck its citizens. And in the Savage Land, the infected Ka-Zar and Zabu used their infection to rid themselves of their long-time enemies, the Savage Land Mutates.
While in Latveria…
Dr. Doom holds Ash by his throat. He wants Wanda to remind Ash that he’s in charge of this country and that, if he mocks him again, he’ll rip his head off. He releases Ash and hopes he’ll address him more properly from now on. Ash is fine with it and says “hi to the king,” in a laughing matter. Doom thinks Ash means it and finds it acceptable, and will allow Ash to live. Alison jokingly whispers to Wanda that she already thought Ash was going to say something stupid and that they would have to fight. Wanda already feared he would say something stupider.
Doom reminds the two ladies that they are both always welcome in Latveria, under any circumstances, but that won’t mean they can drag anyone they like along. Wanda corrects Doom that Ash has a way to stop the zombie-plague. Doom thinks, in that case, they came there to beg for his assistance. Ash informs Doom they just need to check out his collection of books on the supernatural and, more specifically, the Necronomicon book. Doom thinks the book has nothing to do what is happening outside the walls of Doomstadt, and corrects that its origin is extraterrestrial and not supernatural.
He leads the trio to his lab, calling the disease a pan-dimensional virus and not a cosmic contagion. He’s confident science and not sorcery will be the key of ending this. Dazzler asks Doom to at least let them look at the book, but he thinks they’d just be wasting his time. And they’ve already wasted enough of it. Doom orders his robots to put Ash below with the others, but he refuses and fights back. Doom warns Ash to stop destroying his machines and is surprised he keeps insulting his wrath. He suggests to give them a little demonstration and asks one of the scientists what the situation outside is.
The scientist explains Goliath is smacking the palace, but that they’ve manage to hold off the other attacking forces. So far, their force field is holding up, but the giant shows no sign of wanting to stop his offensive. Doom thinks that’s good, wanting to use Goliath as the person who’ll serve as an example to those who want to enter Latveria without his welcome. The scientists fire rockets at Goliath, which strike through his chest and then explode, killing him!
Doom is pleased at the performance and now wants Ash out of his sight. The robots smack him down and drag Ash away. Wanda wants Doom to reconsider again, saying Ash is the key but he just doesn’t want to believe it. And he’ll just place Ash with the others below, like he said earlier. He’ll be put with the other uninfected survivors. When the infection first began, Doom rescued as many people as he could and placed them behind his protective walls. He finds it ironic, though, because he has long been called a “super-villain” by everyone and is now seen as perhaps the greatest hero.
Wanda looks on Doom’s monitors which shows Ash being placed with the others and she notices there are no children or elderly people there, and they all look like they have the perfect breeding age. Doom confirms, as he wants humanity survive and whom he rescued he selected carefully. “Some hero,” Dazzler mocks. Doom reminds Alison who spread the disease in the first place. He shows them on monitors that it all began with Reed Richards, the so-called “do-gooder” leader of the Fantastic Four. He infected himself on purpose and first experimented it on his other family members, before they turned him in exchange. It’s something most people don’t know. He doesn’t want to hear about “heroes,” because everything has changed now, and is confident the infected will attack soon enough. But now, he invites Dazzler and Wanda to have dinner with him and shows them a beautiful dining table with lots of food on it.
Hours later…
Ash mopes that he should have installed a lock pick in his robot arm, as that would have helped him out now. Wanda enters the cell, explaining she excused herself during the fifth dinner course with Doom. He’s telling Dazzler stories about his so-called greatness now, and she’s only still at her second course of Shiraz, so Wanda hopes Doom won’t notice how long she has been gone, as Doom isn’t a man to trifle with.
Once outside the cell, a Doom-bot attack and declares an intruder alert. The robot opens fire but Wanda easily destroys it with a single punch. Ash didn’t realize it was a robot and Wanda explains that Doom just uses those machines as his proxies. Wanda wants to go find the book now, but Ash has a better idea. He wants Wanda to go back to Doom while he’ll do something else.
Soon…
Doom passes an army of robots and enters his library, where he orders the guard to go away, because he needs to look something up at “the ol’ book barn.” He finds the Necronomicon book. A face appears on its black cover and it immediately notices something different about Doom. “Doom” takes off his mask and is revealed to be… Ash in disguise! The book recognizes Ash as the Chosen One. Ash tells the book he got his message: “the world will die, and an army of the dead will rise.” Ash wants to know how the book started all this and how to stop it.
The book reveals that within itself is a power almost unfathomable to someone like Ash, and yet he wants to hear it from him using such threats. When the book asks what will happen if it doesn’t comply, Ash takes off a glove of his Doom-suit, and replaces it with his own robotic hand, threatening the book if it doesn’t help it will get a powerful electrical shock.
Necronomicon agrees to help and corrects that it didn’t cause the zombie-plague at all, which surprises Ash. It reveals that the origin of the disease is extraterrestrial, and not supernatural. The infected may be dead but are certainly not undead. The undead is the book’s domain. It could not assist Ash, even if it wanted to. Ash doesn’t believe it and reminds the book about what it said to him. The book confirms it is so. But, he mentions, one thing does not have anything to do with the other. He’s certain this world will die, and that an army of dead will rise. Those particulars are clear, while others are obscure. In that case, Ash wants to know why the book came to him and gave him the message.
The book laughs that it only did it out of spite and because he hates him so much. And after trying to destroy Ash for so long, he finally entered a world where there is absolutely no hope. And the book wanted to make sure Ash knew it. The book tells Ash “Face it tiger, you just crapped out.” Ash is speechless. As the book laughs at him, Ash leaves the room back into the halls, thinking things over.
A voice, believing Ash is Doom, tells him time is running out for him and the rest of the world. Ash doesn’t want to hear about it when he is stunned to find a beautiful woman trapped behind bars, and asks who she is. She first wants to know why someone would want to dress like this if he isn’t really Doom. Ash gets the Caged Heat thing the woman has going on but, since he is standing free, he’ll be asking the questions, and repeats what he just asked her. The woman introduces herself as Amora, though she says most people call her the Enchantress.
Enchantress explains she comes from another world and that Doom sees her as a threat because of what she is capable of doing. Ash tells her Doom tried to do the exact same thing to him, and so Enchantress suggests they join forces.
Soon…
Ash has freed the Enchantress and wants to go back to Wanda and Alison. He thinks this castle could be a nice place for humanity to live out the rest of its days, and maybe to re-populate its ranks once they’re rid of Doom. He thinks that perhaps they should try to convince the other refugees to help out. Enchantress asks if they are uninfected, which he confirms. There are dozens of them but they’ll need firepower to defeat Doom.
When Ash wants to ask Amora what her power is, he is interrupted by Dazzler and Wanda, who are shocked to discover what Ash has done. He starts to flirt and jokes that saving pretty girls is just one of his specialities. He has always been a sucker for a pretty face.
Unfortunately, Ash doesn’t notice that behind him, the Enchantress has turned herself into her infected self and wants to attack him!


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Multifaceted  (3rd story)  -    Blue Moon (4th story)
(3rd story)Yavapai County in Arizona, where a small carnival is taking place. On a small stage, an announcer stands behind several large pumpkins. A small audience sits in front of the stage as the announcer congratulates an elderly woman called Miss Deleon and tells her that her pumpkin is a whopper. 'Yeah, grandma!' a boy calls out from the audience. 'Seriously? She wins every year' another girl mutters as she sits next to a teenage boy. 'She ain't even from here. They're all off the rez. Can't your father do something?' the girl asks the boy. 'Like what? He isn't the county fair king, and they aren't breaking any laws' the boy replies. 'It just ain't right' the girl complains, before remarking that the concert starts in five minutes. 'Ready to go, babe?' she asks the boy. 'Save me a seat. I'll meet up with you' he tells her as he looks over at Miss DeLeon who is putting a cheque into her purse. 'What will you do with five hundred dollars?' her grandson from the audience asks, while another young man pushes the large pumpkin along in a wheelbarrow. 'Truck needs fixing. And you need ice cream' Miss DeLeon responds.
After a short distance, the other young man stops pushing the wheelbarrow, setting it down, he apologizes, and remarks that his arms were going to fall off. Miss DeLeon addresses him as Julian and thanks him for helping with the heavy lifting. 'No, thank you for the gift' Julian replies. 'What are you going to do with her pumpkin? Make a pie for the Hulk?' Miss DeLeon's grandson asks. Julian looks down at the large pumpkin and explains that it will be his greatest creation – a jack-o-lantern glowing with the flames of ten candles. 'Halloween is next month!' Mss DeLeon's grandson exclaims. 'In my heart, it's always -' Julian begins, when suddenly, the teenage boy, who has pulled the bandana around his head down over his mouth, runs past the group, 'Oh, my purse!' Miss DeLeon cries out as the boy grabs it and pushes Julian over. 'Stop!' Miss DeLeon's grandson calls out, grabbing the teenage boy and calling him a thief. 'Don't touch me!' the boy snaps, while Mss DeLeon calls her grandson Lucas and tells him to let go of the other boy.
But, the thief elbows Lucas in the face, drawing blood and knocking him to the ground. 'I told you not to touch me! That's what you get!' the teenage boy snaps. 'Please leave us alone!' Mss DeLeon asks as she tends to her injured grandson. 'Hey!' a voice calls out. 'Don't hurt my family!' Julian exclaims, his arms glowing with dark energy, a strange tentacled creature appears near him, and deformed, winged bats flock around, too, while someone runs nearby and shouts 'He's a mutant!'
Thirty-nine hours later, Dani Moonstar a.k.a. Mirage and Rahne Sinclair a.k.a. Wolfsbane, two longtime friends and members of the New Mutants team have arrived to investigate. 'What's the verdict?' Dani asks, while Wolfsbane examines a stuffed fairground bear that has been torn into shreds. 'Smells like hair gel. But ah can probably track him with this, Dani' Wolfsbane replies. Dani tells her friend that she is brilliant, and remarks that Julian has been gone for two days, which is a long time for a teen to be in the desert. Rahne asks why Kate's Marauders aren't handling this, as mutant rescue is one of their specialities. Dani reveals that it is personal, and explains that Julian's tribal government reached out and tasked her with Julian's protection. 'So we aren't rescuing the lad from human cruelty? What a refreshing change' Rahne comments.
'Yes and no. During the incident, one man got injured' Dani informs Rahne. 'He was the sheriff's son' she adds. 'Och. Say no more' Rahne remarks, while Dani tells her that they need to reach Julian before the police does. As they continue exploring the fairground, they don't notice someone in a black car parked nearby, watching them.
As Dani and Rahne head into the desert, they climb up a ridge and Dani thanks Rahne for the help and company today. 'Someday soon, you and I should visit a fair that hasn't been trashed by monsters. With your aim, you could win all the big teddy bears' Rahne replies, before they hear a strange shrieking noise, and look over to see a strange, horrid creature running towards them. 'That must be one of Julian's monsters! His grandma said they only last a few minutes before vanishing. He must be close' Dani tells Rahne, who switches to her lupine form and announces 'I got 'im!' as she grabs the creature, shoving it into the dirt, she holds it down and asks Dani if she can calm it down. 'I'll try' Dani replies as she touches the creature, while using her power to connect to animals, she tells the creature not to be afraid, and assures it that they won't hurt it'.
Shortly, with the creature calm and under Dani's control, Dani and Rahne ride on its back through the desert. 'This is much nicer than walking' Rahne remarks, before Dani spots a mineshaft ahead, a “danger” sign posted outside of it, Dani supposes that Julian must be sheltering in the abandoned mine. They get off the creature and Dani walks towards the mine, instructing Rahne to keep watch for the sheriff's cronies, while she goes into the mine. 'To state the obvious, there's a lot of shadows in that pit, Dani. Do you remember how tricky it was to control our abilities at Julian's age?' Rahne asks. 'Vividly. That's why he needs us' Dani replies. Standing at the opening to the mine, Dani calls out to Julian, informing him that she is here to help. Suddenly, a deformed bat creature flies out of the mine, then several more, slamming into Dani and knocking her backwards. 'Augh!' Dani calls out. 'Enough! Get! Get!' Dani exclaims, controlling the creatures so that divert around her.
'That's better' Dani remarks as she looks into the cave, holding her phone up to creature a light, she then hears a voice ask 'How did you make them listen? Are you... like me?' Julian enquires as he appears. And soon, Dani and Julian sit on some rocks, with Julian drinking from a bottle as Dani informs him that powers can be multifaceted, and in addition to connecting with animals, she can project somebody's greatest fear – or desire. 'Create illusions inspired by psyches' Dani explains. Julian tells her that is cool, and asks her if she has ever considered opening the world's scariest horror attraction. Dani laughs and tells him that she hasn't, but admits that her powers are cool – now that she can control them, anyway. Dani tells Julian that she wasn't always able to control her powers, and initially, she hurt her family and friends – terribly. 'My powers did worse than a knife to the back. They injured the mind. The soul' Dani explains, before telling Julian that he doesn't have to struggle like she did, as there is a community to support him on the mutant nation of Krakoa.
Julian stands up and tells Dani that he has a community already – his family, his tribe, to which Dani informs him that they are the ones who called her. Julian then apologizes in advance if his next question is personal. 'But I was wondering...' he begins. 'Yes?' Dani encourages him. 'What are you now, Miss Moonstar? Cheyenne or Krakoan?' Julian queries. 'Both' Dani replies, adding that she is sometimes a Valkyrie, a teacher and a connoisseur of black coffee. 'Krakoa isn't about assimilation. I'd raise hell before that happened' Dani declares, assuring Julian that they can be many things – and have many families. Dani sees Rahne approach, and asks her if she is okay. Rahne reports that they were followed, and five people are approaching on foot – they are armed. Dani instructs Julian to take cover in the mine, while she and Rahne handle the sheriff's posse. 'Right' Julian replies, watching as Rahne switches into her lupine form again.
'Easy, ladies. We aren't here for a tussle' the sheriff calls out, flanked by three other men and a woman, all carrying guns. 'Is the furry one a lady or a dog?' one of the others asks. 'Haha. Shh' another of the men tells his companion. The sheriff introduces himself as Sheriff Tenebaum, and asks Mirage where she is taking the kid. Dani readies a psi-arrow and tells him, respectfully, that is not his concern. 'He almost killed my son. Somebody needs to be held accountable' the sheriff points out. Dani reports that she saw the viral videos, and points out that, technically, a twenty-foot-long tentacle from an undirectional extradimensional portal almost killed his son. 'After your son punched a wee boy in the face' Wolfsbane adds. The female member of the posse asks 'Do you think this is a joke -' when one of the bat creatures flies towards her. 'They're attacking!' she exclaims.
Wolfsbane stands at the ready, and the sheriff and his posse raise their weapons. 'You don't want this fight, ladies. It's tasers, mace and guns against teeth and arrows. Please don't make -' the sheriff begins, before Dani fires her psi-arrow, knocking the taser from the sheriff's hand. 'Ah'm a lady!' Wolfsbane snarls as she leaps at the man who queried her earlier, kicking him in the face as he manages to fire one bullet. Dani then punches another of the posse, throwing him over backwards. 'She has super strength!' one of the posse calls out. 'Sadly, no' Dani remarks, disarming the gun, she explains 'That's just called having skills'. 'Mutie freak! You -' the posse member begins, raising his weapon, he drops to the ground when the creature rushes towards him, screeching. 'Great backup, my friend' Dani tells the creature. Julian emerges from the cave after hearing gunshots, and asks Dani if she is okay. 'Just a... misunderstanding. Everything will be all right' Dani tells him, while Rahne announces that they need to make some calls, as she kneels beside the sheriff and his posse, who have all been handcuffed together.
One week later, a celebration is underway, where Dani and Rahne stand among the locals, as Storm and Nightcrawler, who carries a Krakoan flower, stand with tribe dignitaries, one of whom announces that it is her pleasure to celebrate and promote the friendly diplomatic ties between their peoples. Storm smiles and takes her hand, while Lucas can be heard cheering from the gathered crowd. 'Shh!' his grandmother utters, smiling. Dani tells Rahne that it is official – they are standing on mutant-friendly land. She wonders how many other native nations will follow suit, and whether her people will be among them. 'I hope so!' Rahne tells her friend. Dani adds that she knows this celebration isn't technically a fair, but that she has a present for Rahne to make up for it. She holds up a pink stuffed bear from the fairground, and Rahne tells her that he is perfect. 'Let's go home' Dani suggests as she puts her arm around her friend and they walk away from the celebrations.
(4th story)The Northwest Territories, an unnaturally long lifetime ago, where, twenty-two years earlier, the trappers came through, and brought their pestilence to the Siksikaitsitapi (member of the Blackfoot Confederacy). And then came the soldiers, with their Gatling guns and with more disease. On the snow-covered terrain, several soldiers trek, and come across a sled which is packed with furs. The sled appears abandoned – the trappers are dead – their bodies partially submerged in the snowy ground. 'Well, well, well' one of them grins upon seeing the sled of furs. 'Holy – bet the dirty savages caught 'em out here all alone!' one of the other soldiers declares. They start pulling the sled towards their nearby fort. 'Don't mean all these fine furs to go to waste, does it' another of the soldiers suggests.
Shortly, the sky has darkened, and the sled of furs has been left alone inside the fenced area surrounding the fort.  The back of the sled is open, revealing a compartment, which a man and a woman are crawling out of. The woman's name is Silver Fox, and the man is her husband, Trigo – they are not here for a treaty negotiation. Negotiations are over. Silver Fox and Trigo enter the fort, and make their way into some sort of store room or supply room. 'This one' Silver Fox remarks in her native Siksika as she shoves a knife into a bag of flour. The flour spills from the bag and Trigo catches some of it in his hands. He clenches his teeth and groans as he sees some sort of vision – two soldiers in the supply room, one of whom suddenly picks up their axe and buries it into the other soldier's back.
Silver Fox decides that there is no way this fort will survive the winter. She and Trigo make their way into the part of the fort where the soldiers are sleeping, laying in makeshift beds on the floor, bottles of alcohol strewn about them. One soldier suddenly wakes up, 'Wha -' he begins, rubbing his head as he sits up – but Silver Fox sees him and lunges at him, pushing him back to the ground, she holds one hand over his mouth, and brings a knife to his face with her other hand. Silver Fox knows that because the fort will have appeared to have failed due to the weather, the remoteness, the character of the people – there will be no reprisals. 'Did that...?' Silver Fox asks her husband, who touches the blanket one of the soldiers is sleeping under, ands sees a vision of soldiers fighting each other. 'No reinforcements' Trigo smiles at Silver Fox, while blood trickles from his nose.
Silver Fox doesn't want any more white men polluting her home. She looks at her husband, who tells her 'Don't give ‘em that look. We keep going'. They begin taking things from the supply room, including what appears to be a small deer hung upside down, and drop them into a well. 'You don't have to do this, Trigo' Silver Fox utters, as her husband touches the well, and goes wide-eyed in horror, he cries out in pain, as he sees several people – soldiers and locals – hung by their necks from a gallows. Fire roars, while other soldiers fight locals – and each other. 'This is hurting you too much!' Silver Fox exclaims. She starts to tell Trigo that it isn't worth it, but Trigo, blood running down his face, reminds Silver Fox that they agreed – they follow this until the end, until it is done. 'Very well' Silver Fox agrees, before turning to the small shack cabin where she knows the soldiers keep their guns.
They enter the cabin and find it loaded with guns – which Silver Fox begins to start breaking with her bare hands, while Trigo pours oil from a barrel onto the ground. They start a fire and throw blankets onto the fire. 'Good?' Silver Fox asks Trigo, who touches the cabin where the guns were stored and informs Silver Fox that they eat each other in the end – but get no sustenance from it – only more hunger. 'This is how they are. It's never enough. They always have to have more, until they have it all' Silver Fox remarks. Trigo points out that the bankets will catch fire soon, and so they should go.
But, as Silver Fox and Trigo start to leave the fort, an old woman carrying a pail of water sees them. 'Hey! Where are you two -' she calls out, dropping the pail when Silver Fox rushes towards her, telling her to shush. 'We're just leaving – you don't have to -' Silver Fox begins, 'Ah! HELP -' the woman screams, so Silver Fox breaks her neck, and the old woman drops to the snow. 'She was just going for water...' Silver Fox begins, but Trigo tells her to come on. Suddenly, Silver Fox notices a blanket in the snow, and realizes that the woman dropped it. She picks the blanket up,  and discovers a small pup wrapped in the blanket. She asks Trigo to touch the pup, and he does – but what he sees is two soldiers eating the pup after roasting it on a fire. 'No' Silver Fox utters. 'They don't get to hurt you too'.
Looking at the sled of furs, Silver Fox knows this isn't the first time the soldiers have done this. She asks Trigo to hold the pup for a second, and places the pup in her husband's arms, despite him protesting. Trigo then sees that this may be the last time the soldiers try anything, and unwittingly, he sees Silver Fox playing with the pup – now a grown wolf, and man with long claws, who announces that the wolf has hydrophobia, as the wolf backs him and Silver Fox into a corner, knowing he would never hurt them on purpose. And, had the wolf lived long enough, he could have barked when Silver Fox needed it the most – when another man with claws and sharp teeth dropped by.
'No! I don't want to see. I didn't see' Trigo exclaims as he throws the pup back into Silver Fox's arms. 'But -' Silver Fox begins, although Trigo tells her that it is time to go, time to move on. While the fire blazes behind them, Silver Fox and Trigo set out into the night, trudging through the snow. Trigo says nothing, while Silver Fox huddles the pup close. 'Sweet little one. What will I call you? How about... Ootskiwiimi' she suggests.