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Chapter 11: Blood memories
Dr Strange is recovering from the damage his body took in the fight last issue with Conan and Dr Doom against Kulan Gath. Elektra enters his Sanctum Sanctorum with takeaway coffees. It becomes clear that they slept together last night (for the 1st time) and he's granted her run of the place. (This is all news to us, unless you've seen the cover.) Stephen Strange is concerned about Gath and wants Elektra to kill him if the Hyborian sorcerer ever manages to gain control of him.Stephen tells her about KG's supposed 3rd Eye Of Agamotto, which was the means of his temporary defeat last issue. But he now lets us know that Gath's 3rd Eye was obviously a fake because his own Eye Of Agamotto is the 3rd, granting prescience. An Asgardian dragon has the 1st Eye, and the 2nd Eye is lost in time. (This matches the description of the Eyes in #8, but with a different numbering. There he suggested that the Eye Gath had was the 1 lost in time. And I don't see why this couldn't still be true, especially if he brought it with him from the Hyborian Age.)The Sorcerer Supreme plans an astral journey and he wants Elektra to watch over his body. He will be able to tell her what's happening but won't be able to hear any reply. If he tells her he's lost contact with his body and can't find the way back she must inflict pain which will give him an anchor to return to.He has a sample of KG's blood from the battle and he can use this to astral travel to the wizard's past. Strange reaches the foe's boyhood as a personal slave to a Stygian sorcerer. But the boy eventually kills his master and took his home, his books of sorcerous lore and his name, Kulan Gath. Later the young man seeks to become apprentice to that age's Sorcerer Supreme, Mekri Ra. But he is rejected. So he becomes a disciple of the wizard Thoth-Amon.He also learns all he can from other magicians. But some texts he can't decipher, and a mage tells him that such knowledge is not *meant* for those who can't read it. So he kills the mage violently and escapes with the man's blood in his mouth. And watching Stephen realises that Gath has learnt how to absorb knowledge cannibalistically, and sees him devouring other sorcerers.At some point he married the witch Vammatar and they conspired to steal the power of the Elder Demon Shuma-Gorath but they were defeated (in Conan The Barbarian #258-260). At another time (earlier) he fell before the Melnibonean sorceress Terhali (CTB#14-15). Later he is killed by Conan and/or Red Sonja and uses a different magic amulet to be 'reborn' in the future (we see an encounter with Spider-Man either from Marvel Team-Up #79 or Uncanny X-Men #190-191).But before that he defeats Mekri Ra and eats his heart. But on his death-bed the old-time Sorcerer Supreme senses the astral body of Dr Strange and tells him cryptically that KG "has been slain many times ... but perhaps not by the right weapons" and "look to the apex predator that shadows Kulan Gath" (Conan? But *he* has 'killed' Gath before.) DrS understands and thanks him.Back in the present Elektra seems to be playing a game of ball with Strange's Cloak Of Levitation and a mystic orb. (Or I'm totally misreading the panels.) Stephen returns to his body and tells her they must find Conan and assemble all their other allies.


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Chapter 23: House call
Last issue ended with Conan coming to see Dr Strange and finding him with Shuma-Gorath as a 'patient'. Now we have to backtrack to see how DrS got into that situation.The Sorcerer Supreme is continuing the fight against the Hyborian wizard Kulan Gath. Back in #5 Gath infected his assembled enemies with a 'poison' that will eventually make them his servants. Now Stephen Strange has figured out a way to expel that poison, and he sends the Light Of Agamotto to cure Conan, Elektra (now Daredevil), Doctor Voodoo (teaching at the Strange Academy), Venom (probably bonded to Eddie Brock before his son Dylan takes over the role), Wolverine and Punisher.He asks the Orb Of Agamotto to show him where Kulan Gath is, but as usual it can't. Next he retrieves from his fridge the head of 1 of Shuma-Gorath's avatars (KG has been using these avatars while siphoning off SG's power) and cooks it in his microwave while sending a message to Gath. After ordering a new microwave online he mystically teleports to the Florida swamps where he trades a cupcake to Man-Thing in exchange for access to the Nexus Of All Realities. He wants to travel bodily to his destination for fear that Gath would attack his body if he travelled astrally.He finds the Ditkoesque target dimension rotting away. Tracking the rot to its source he locates the suffering Shuma-Gorath. Strange tries to heal him but can't. SG explains that KG has taken nearly all his power but still keeps him alive. DrS considers killing him with a conjured blade but decides he's part of the natural order. The demon says Gath can't be stopped. He has accumulated so much power that he could easily transcend his mortal state but instead chooses to remain a man.At this point Conan comes knocking and the Sorcerer arranges for his door to bring the Cimmerian here. The Barbarian gives Stephen a real knife and urges him to slay the beast. The beast also begs to die. So Strange slashes him with the knife and Shuma-Gorath's single eye rolls up into his head. DrS seals the green blood on the knife with the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak and sheaths it for later use. Then he burns Gorath's corpse with the Flames Of The Faltine.A spell brings Strange and Conan back to the Greenwich Village Sanctum. But the house has been invaded by the walking corpse of the Priest Of Sickles (killed in #15, resurrected by Gath in #20). And outside there are people possessed by Gath. Gath speaks through them to ask the 2 heroes to submit and save the people from suffering. And overhead hovers a  large chunk of ground bearing the City Of Sickles (from the Savage Land in our earliest issues).


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Chapter 3: Crom whispers
In #1 Punisher found his family's bodies stolen from their graves. A small bag was left in their place which when he touched it magically teleported him the castle of Kulan Gath and the Sickle Priest in the Savage Land. He arrived in #2 to be attacked by Hand ninjas, but he was prepared for a trap and killed them with a claymore mine.Now he's killing more ninjas with bullets and a 'borrowed' sword, until 1 of them unmasks as Elektra. (We saw her following a trail here in Free Comic Book Day 2019 Avengers.) When she learns of his quest she joins in the slaughter, but warns him that the foe brought him here because they need the blood of warriors. As they fight they notice Wolverine suspended over a large bowl of blood, and Kulan Gath is ensuring that Logan contributes plentifully.Outside the castle Conan of Cimmeria is leaving with the amulet he came to steal (the 3rd Eye Of Agamotto). But he turns back on hearing Wolvie being tortured (they formed a mutual admiration society in #1). The Klyntar symbiote which Conan freed from Gath's control last issue also decides to intervene.But before they can get there the Sickle Priest appears to bring the Agamotto amulet to his master. We know that's impossible, and Kulan Gath isn't fooled by Doctor Voodoo's disguise. Jericho Drumm stabs him through the chest with a Hand sword, but the wizard just pulls it back out again. Gath claims to have been the Sorcerer Supreme of his era and says he should rate Dr Strange as an adversary, not this 2nd-rate substitute. He also claims that the Hand have the spirit of DrV's brother Daniel Drumm prisoner, and uses that as a threat to demand Jericho serve him.At this point Elektra and Punisher enter, and Frank Castle shoots the sorcerer in the head. Which has as little effect as the sword did. Gath says he has the Castle family's bodies and he will restore them to life for Castle if he retrieves the stolen amulet. Logan tells Frank not to believe a word the villain says. But Conan changes the argument by making himself known and offering to trade the amulet for the lives of Gath's foes. Elektra hurls throwing stars which free Wolverine.Kulan Gath transports in Hand ninjas and warriors of the Egyptian cult that is also involved, and asks for his amulet back. Conan says he and Wolverine will kill him together. Wolvie unsheathes his claws, but then collapses from bloodloss. So the Barbarian swings him as weapon to gut enemy troops with the claws. Gath casts a spell which tears Logan from his grasp and slams the body into Elektra. Then he takes the amulet and thrusts it through Conan's chest, and pulls it back to leave a gaping hole.Dr Voodoo and Punisher are the only heroes left standing. But then the other player makes its move. The symbiote enters Conan's chest and restores him to functioning life. And its tendrils project from his hand in the form of a black blade which is very good at killing ninjas. The wizard uses the amulet to guide a beam of light into the bowl of blood. Voodoo warns everyone that Gath's spell is almost complete, so don't give him any more blood.But telling Conan to stop killing his foes is fruitless, and a headless ninja falls into the pool. And the quaking ground announces the arrival of Jhoatun, the Marrow God.


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Chapter 9: Blood in the sand
Conan the Barbarian has been stuck in the present day since Avengers: No Road Home and he and various other heroes have been fighting his sorcerous old foe Kulan Gath. Conan stole the 3rd Eye Of Agamotto off Gath, and Dr Doom abducted him to get it. Dr Strange arrived to warn them how dangerous it was. Last issue they all went to Egypt to find Gath. Doom grabbed the amulet and put it round his neck. But it cut his head off, and Kulan Gath popped up to gloat.Of course Dr Doom isn't dead, it was only a Doombot (who'd a thunk it!). The real bad Doctor appears to join Conan and the good Doctor. Led by Conan and the black sword DrD gave him last issue they all attack the wizard. Strange wants to know what Gath has done with Dr Voodoo but Doom just wants to kill him. KG crushes 1 of Doom's armoured wrists until Conan cuts *his* hand off. But the hand just grabs the Cimmerian by the throat. Dr Strange's magic fails to affect it so he takes up Conan's dropped sword and impales the throttling hand with surgical precision. Meanwhile Doom uses a magic-assisted punch to send the evil sorcerer through a wall.Stephen Strange calls on the spirit of Dr Voodoo. Jericho Drumm says Gath has killed him and tries to give Strange a warning. (Actually in #7 Gath gave Drumm poison to voluntarily drink so they could see the future where the wizard helps Shuma Gorath invade Earth. Of course KG plans to double cross the demon.) Stephen now leaves his body so his astral form can seek out Jericho.Doom and Conan now find themselves facing an army of Ancient Egyptian zombies. Victor Von Doom commands Conan to protect Strange's body. The Cimmerian of course says he doesn't take orders and doesn't protect wizards. But then of course he declares to the zombies that they'll have to go through *him* to get to said body. Doom just batters them with the Shield Of The Seraphim (looking basically like Invisible Woman's force field weapon).Jericho's astral form tells Stephen that Gath has dumped his body in a sarcophagus, condemning him to wander aimlessly. Strange zips off astrally to find that, and the next thing we know he returns to his body to say he's succeeded. He adds his spells to Conan and Doom's efforts, and all the zombies crumble to dust and bones.But it wasn't Strange that did it. Kulan Gath emerges out of the pile of skeletons to attack the Sorcerer Supreme directly. A magic snake slithers out of his robes and bites DrS with poisoned fangs. Conan drives Gath away with a flung sword as Doom contacts a satellite to release a missile. Stephen is dying but he summons the will to invoke the Flames Of The Faltine which envelop the foe in fire. Victor adds an acid blast to the mix, and Conan pierces KG's skull with the dark sword.But Gath isn't dead. He rises and even with a large sword rammed up through his jaw he continues to speak. A stone 'hand' forms from a wall to grab Conan. KG withdraws the presumably now magic-enhanced sword to smite Doom and then prepares to kill Strange. But the missile has arrowed towards the pyramid beneath which they battle, and now it slams through stone at high speed to hit the wizard squarely.But it doesn't explode. Instead it opens to let out a metal 'robot' which picks up the almost-dead Strange and enfolds him as armour. It injects him with antivenom and restarts his heart. Stephen revives and refuses to be taken to hospital. He also refuses pain relief in order to keep his mind sharp. He orders the armour to concentrate on life-support and defence while he handles offence with magic rather than weaponry. As Gath starts to emerge from the rubble Strange calls his Cloak Of Levitation to him and prepares to fight as what the editor calls the Iron Mage.


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Chapter 15: Defrocked
In #12-13 Dr Strange gathered together most of the heroes who'd fought against Kulan Gath in previous issues of this title. Last issue he sent Conan and Magik to get another Eye Of Agamotto off the Asgardian dragon Sadurang. They recruited Black Knight and Juggernaut to help them.Black Widow, Daimon Hellstrom, Elektra and Wolverine set out to kill as many of Gath's minions as they could. 1st they intended to add another of his enemies, Punisher, to their group. It seems they succeeded.In Ramirez, Veracruz, the last 4 policemen are barricaded in the police station surrounded by people transformed into avatars of Shuma-Gorath. But as 1 of them breaks in he is killed from behind, and our 5 heroes stand on the slaughtered bodies of the rest. The cops relate how a robed death cult has taken over the mansion of the local drug cartel. They've poisoned the drugs which turn the users into the Shuma-Goraths who then flock to the mansion. Elektra tells them to come to the mansion at dawn. By then they will have finished and the cops should burn the house and corpses.Our 5 invade the grounds, killing as they go. They are met in front of the house by a horde of robed acolytes with sickle weapons, ready to die for the Priest Of Sickles and Kulan Gath. Punisher and Wolverine stay to oblige them while the other 3 go inside. They find 2 robed guys forcing semi-naked women in facemasks to package up the drugs. Natasha Romanoff unzips a lot of cleavage as a distraction and says the Master has sent her to them as a reward. But Elektra didn't need the distraction as she stabs them through the heart them with sais from behind. They tell the women to take all the money they can find and flee.An acolyte tells the Priest Of Sickles that the enemy are here, and the Priest kills the messenger and then goes to confront them. Daimon tells him he should have died long ago (for WWII war crimes but Gath gave him power as the Sickle Priest as described in #2). So now he blasts him with Hellfire. But totally aflame he still attacks the 3. They try to make him tell them where Gath is but unsuccessfully, and he stabs Daimon in the chest and throws him out of a window. Widow throws him into position and Elektra pins him to a wall with thrown sais through the wrists. Then they call on Frank Castle and Logan.Punisher enters and fills the Priest with a hail of lead, in revenge for digging up the corpses of Frank's family as bait (#1). He's still not dead, even after Wolverine punches through the wall behind him and stabs him through the chest. Logan drags him outside and gives him 1 last chance to tell them what they want to know. Then he feeds him through a large wood chipper. And Hellstrom burns the remains.The freed women leave with cash and jewelry and a pet leopard. And Logan replaces his shredded costume with clothes from the mansion, and grabs a couple of bottles of tequila too.Before we go we look in on the other team. Black Knight, Conan and Juggernaut are down, and only Magik is left to oppose Sadurang.


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Chapter 5: The triumph of Kulan Gath
Kulan Gath succeeded in summoning Jhoatun Lau, the Marrow God, but it turned out that he *expects* Earth's defenders to defeat the being. It's a test to gauge the planet's defences. Now back in the City Of Sickles in the Savage Land he thanks his minions the Sickle Priest, 1 of the Hand and a representative of the Egyptian cult and bids them return home.In Shanghai the warriors are taking the fight to the 'God'. He has Conan and Venom in each hand but the pair are hacking at him. Doctor Voodoo has anchored a rope line to a fire hydrant and now Elektra fires an arrow attached to the line across the path of Jhoatun Lau, tripping him up. Voodoo magically holds JL's head to the ground while Wolverine tries to cut off his neck. But it keeps healing up.Logan changes tack and tries to push his adamantium claws into the Marrow God's skull. That also proves tough so he calls for help. Conan's black sword is formed by the Klyntar symbiote keeping him alive. It transforms into a large mallet and Conan starts hammering 1 of Wolvie's elbows to force 1 set of claws further in. The currently-independent Klyntar Venom duplicates the action on the other elbow. When his claws are fully sheathed in the skull it explodes.Jericho Drumm prepares a spell to take them back to the Savage Land to deal with Gath next. Conan is still totally opposed to being aided by a wizard. Punisher makes *his* contribution by tossing a parting hand-grenade to blow up the body.When they get back to the City Of Sickles Conan collapses. Venom reminds them that his fellow symbiote is dying, and the fatally-wounded Conan with him. DrV asks Logan to bring 1 of the Hand back alive so he can use him to save the Barbarian. Luckily there are lots of Hand ninjas, as well as Egyptian cultists and Sickle warriors, for Wolverine, Elektra, Punisher and Venom to play with. They take them out ...... and Logan returns with a ninja missing a hand. He explains that the hand was attached to the blade stuck in his back, which he now removes. Jericho uses black magic (and accepts the consequences) to transfer the ninja's life-force into Conan. The hole in his chest is healed. But when the Cimmerian awakes he immediately tries to strangle the 'interfering' sorcerer. Then Conan realises his black sword has gone (and Venom says the symbiote is dead), but he spies the 3rd Eye Of Agomotto amulet that he originally came for and pockets it.The 'team' prepare to enter the doorway they last saw Kulan Gath exit through but they are faced with a large Egyptian guard with an equally-large double-headed axe. Until Conan, Elektra, Venom and Wolverine quadruple-team him. The door is locked so Punisher blows it open with explosives.The wizard foe sends his 3 lieutenants through a magic portal to prepare the next stage in his plan. He turns to face an attack by Conan, who also at last gets round to asking how come Gath is alive and here in the future (after being killed (several times) in the Hyborian Age). KG just responds by binding the Cimmerian in an energy web, and then freezes his other opponents with another spell. He tells them that the Marrow God has infected them all, and eventually they will all serve Gath.Kulan escapes through his portal. Dr Voodoo confirms what he said. Jericho creates them a portal of his own to New York. He asks Elektra to warn Dr Strange what's going on, and then he follows Gath through *his* portal. And then the remaining 5 find themselves out in the snow as the City Of Sickles vanishes away. Punisher is left with the 3 coffins of his family.Elektra, Venom and Wolverine intend to use Voodoo's portal to get home. Conan refuses to use magic again. Punisher elects to *drag* the coffins home, and see whether Conan's god Crom will give him the strength to succeed. The Barbarian elects to help him. Elektra gives Conan a 'token of her affection' which is actually a tracker, and reveals she'd slipped 1 in Jericho's pocket before *he* left. And they all leave in their own ways.


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Chapter 21: Dream warriors
Conan wakes from a dream where Kulan Gath kills him and all his recent allies. He's sharing some furs with 2 females before a blazing fire in the Hellfire Club. A portrait of Sebastian Shaw seems to look down disapprovingly so he throws it in the grate. Emma Frost enters and announces herself as the White Queen of the Club. She tells him that Wolverine asked as a favour that Conan be allowed to live here until the wizard is vanquished. Taking a swig from the remains of a bottle of wine she says she'll agree to him looking after the place for the duration. The Cimmerian doesn't take kindly to her tone but she mentally prevents him from attacking her and leaves.Conan too leaves in a bad mood looking for a distraction. He finds it in a group of people killing themselves or each other under the influence of Gath in their dreams. He wakes up the rest of the building but is attacked by Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze) who can 'smell' the taint of KG on him (well Conan has fought Gath many times, and has been poisoned by him). GR rides up the side of the building on his flaming motorbike with the Barbarian hanging from his chain. Conan yanks him off the bike and they both prevent themselves from falling to the ground, Blaze with his hooked chain and Conan with his tame Klyntar symbiote. Then the bike falls on its master.Conan remembers meeting a Ghost Rider in the Hyborian Age riding a giant spider. The Cimmerian had been hired to assassinate a despotic king, but the GR saved him the job.Now this GR says that KG has invaded *his* waking nightmare and he's seen Conan serving the wizard in his dreams. So they clash again and the Barbarian stabs his foe through the chest with the symbiote as a sword. That can't kill a Spirit Of Vengeance who responds with his Penance Stare which does rock his enemy (who is guilty of many things). Conan's reply is to smash GR's head with a symbiote-mace and then try to gouge his eyes out to stop the Stare. But this just makes it explode with extreme violence ...... and when Conan's eyes recover he's back in his own Age in Aquilonia.


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FBI Agent Steph Rogers (probably no relation to anybody with a similar name) is in El Paso, Texas investigating the death of a trafficked woman who was branded with a sickle image. She learns that a smuggled phone card identified her as coming from Porto Alegre, Brazil. She says she'll send someone there to deal with it.We follow a different woman named Esme who is currently being transported by slavers. She prays not to god but to the devil. In Hell Daimon Hellstrom is getting such prayers passed on to him by his servant Alexander who reads them from a tablet. Daimon finds them boring until he himself detects Esme's request. He grabs his trident and summons his fiery steed Iblis and heads for Brazil.Also in Brazil is Conan, who we last saw in #6 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He is currently demanding his money back in a brothel because the women upstairs weren't there willingly. The men running the place don't take kindly to this so he has to kill them. The women are grateful but the barbarian has lost the urge. Instead they give him money they've saved up if he'll go kill the traffickers who put them here. They'll be holding a slave auction tomorrow. Conan takes the money but says he'd have killed the slavers for free anyway. And he decides to fill in the time with 1 of the girls who has caught his attention.Esme has been brought to the auction site in a van with others. But suddenly Daimon Hellstrom arrives in a blinding light. He and his horse lash out at the slavers and the women apart from Esme run away. Conan has also got there but he sees Daimon as a wizard, in his experience always evil. He kills a guard and takes his shotgun, but he fails to make it fire so he uses it to trip Iblis and send Hellstrom flying. Daimon tries to reason with him, intrigued by this barbarian from elsewhen, but Conan won't listen.Then a slaver grabs Hellstrom's trident to use as a weapon. But at a word from Daimon it bursts into flame, sending the man to Hell. As Conan tries to make a slaver lead him to other trafficked women, another guy prepares to behead him with a machete. But he's stopped by a bullet in the head, and impatient Conan snaps his guy's neck. The bullet came from Black Widow (who was presumably sent by Steph Rogers - unless *she* was Natasha Romanoff in a blonde wig). Conan picks up the machete and compliments the woman on her stealthy arrival. But then they both drop their weapons when a remaining slaver threatens to shoot Esme. However they know the fiery man is behind the bad guy, and Daimon causes him to experience all the pain he's caused in his life - which kills him.Our 3 characters and Esme introduce themselves to each other. Conan says he likes women with red hair (remembering Red Sonja). Daimon assures Esme he's not claiming her soul or anything in return for his help. They examine a sickle brand on the last guy, and Widow says she's heard of this 'sickle' gang. Conan adds that the sorcerer Kulan Gath (in #1-5) led Sickle Priests in the City Of Sickles (in the Savage Land).Esme leads them to a camp where many more women are held. Black Widow suggests they wait until dusk before making a sneak attack. She'll shoot the tower guards and Conan and Daimon can cut through the wire fence. But Conan has slipped away to attack *now* riding Iblis. Men rush to meet him but BW's gun takes some of them out and the rest are soon dead or running from the barbarian on the flaming horse.Esme frees the women while Natasha photographs more sickle brands. Hellstrom cuts off a tattooed hand with his trident and sniffs it, saying the tattoo ink contains 'foul blood'. He says he'll track the source of the infection. But before leaving he offers to send Conan home (to his own time). Conan says he has unfinished business (with Kulan Gath). Daimon promises to come to his aid if he says his name 3 times, but the Cimmerian spurns wizardly help. Instead he offers the women protection on a trek to safety.Black Widow had already left as silently as she arrived to track and capture 1 slaver who had escaped. But she fails to find him as the Sickle Priest spirits him away. But as punishment for his failure the man is 'allowed' to commit suicide as part of the tens of thousands who will be  sacrificed over the next few months. He reports to Kulan Gath that he has gathered a large amount of cocaine which they can infect with the 'venom' (presumably something which will kill these many people, and possibly the same thing that our heroes from the previous issues have been infected with). This is all in preparation for the coming of Shuma-Gorath.


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Deus ex machina
Ultron took over this version of 2099 because an arm that our Deathlok lost in the present day (in #1) was found by Alchemax who developed from it a way of turning humans into Deathloks. Then the Ultron robot got revived and took this process and ran with it.So in #8 Ultron defeated our team and turned them into Deathloks, leaving only our Deathlok (an alternate future version of Miles Morales) and allies Doom 2099 and Punisher 2099 to stop Ultron using Doom's time-gauntlet to go back in time and conquer humanity even earlier. Last issue they fought the Savage-Avenger-Loks and Punisher sacrificed himself to give Miles-Lok the chance to get the SA back in their own bodies.Now our Deathlok is desperately holding off Ultron when the Savage Avengers arrive to help him, and Doom turns up to reclaim his gauntlet. Ulty throws DL at Daredevil (Elektra), and then our team have to fight off loads of *his* DLs. Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson) and Cloak have abandoned their rivalry over Dagger since Tyrone Johnson and Tandy Bowen refound their love last issue. Dagger now uses her new light-armour to deflect a blast aimed at the back of Cloak's head. Weapon H smashes a group of DLs surrounding Black Knight, who then calls on his atomic dragon-steed to blast a lot more.The time-gauntlet has now opened a portal to the past and Ultron sees that it leads to Alchemax and the Deathlok arm. Doom attacks him but is blasted from behind by the robot's latest weapon Punisher-Lok. Meanwhile everyone else is still battling 'ordinary' Deathloks. Army-boy Flash teams up with Marine Clay Cortez - Anti-Venom's symbiote suit heals Weapon H's wounds and WH energises a big gun AV's picked up with gamma radiation. Tandy and Tyrone reaffirm their love which enables them to destroy even more DLs.Meanwhile Elektra has headed for a particular set of holding cells and returns with the freed Avengers 2099. So Ultron responds by unleashing extra Ultron-bodies. But Dane Whitman counters by taking Ultron-Prime into cyberspace where he's cut off from controlling his Ultron-clones and BK's photonic blade can do him damage. Punisher-DL is getting the better of Doom when damaged Miles-DL gets through to Jake Gallows within to remind him how he lives to get revenge on Ultron for his murdered family. Brought to his senses he blasts the time-gauntlet to pieces.But unfortunately the portal to the past is now self-sustaining. Miles-DL tries to reach through it to destroy his lost arm in the past, hoping to thus wipe out Ultron's reign. But it seems Ultron-Prime has got free of cyberspace and prevents him. Meanwhile the Savage Avengers and Avengers 2099 carry on battling Ultron's Deathloks and clones. As U-P has Miles Morales pinned down the ex-Spider-Man uses a web-shooter to pull his old arm through the portal to the future. As the 2 versions of his arm connect there's a blinding flash of light and Kirby dots ...... and the SA find themselves returned to their own time through the portal, but without Miles-DL who had previously been their means of time-travel. We see him alive and in the presence of Uatu the Watcher, who it turns out has been providing a voiceover commentary for this issue. It seems that when this Deathlok had his job of defending the integrity of the timestream he was actually working for Uatu, although he didn't know it. Now his task is over and the Watcher gives him his Miles Morales/Spider-Man body back and returns him to his own reality (where he seems to have a very strong relationship with Ironheart).'Meanwhile' in a 2099 that was never overrun by Ultron and his Deathloks human Punisher obviously remember the previous reality and has hunted down the head of Ultron and buries it in his (Jake Gallows) own grave.And the Savage Avengers wonder whether to go their separate ways. But a sudden attack by Fin Fang Foom gives them at least 1 more battle to fight.


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The devil's gauntlet
1 of Avenger Prime's army of Deathloks came back in time to kill Conan in the present day for 'crimes against the timestream'. However this resulted in both of them plus a ragtag band of other heroes being sent back to Conan's Hyborian Age. Conan and the heroes banded together against the unstoppable Deathlok but only managed to escape him. Elektra (currently in the role of Daredevil) had an idea where they could go to get back to their own time. But meanwhile some Set cultists revived Thulsa Doom, the necromancer from King Kull's Thurian Age, and he agreed to combine his blood with that of Conan to bring their serpent god to Earth.Elektra has brought these 'Savage Avengers' to the Temple Of The Beast. That demon will later be worshipped by the ninjas known as the Hand who have an intimate relationship with Elektra. However the Beast was around billions of years ago and this temple predates even the Thurian Age. Since the Great Cataclysm which sank Atlantis and ended that Age the temple has been deserted. Now it is a place of pilgrimage for Hyborian Age sorcerers, among whom at the moment is Cloak. And now Deathlok has caught up with them and attacks him.But this is all part of Elektra's plan. Cloak was just bait for Deathlok and he now uses his cloak to teleport them both to where the others are waiting. Dagger uses a new modification of her power to fire arrows of light from a bow of light which temporarily damage the cyborg's system. As his nanotech repairs him Conan makes himself known atop a ziggurat. Deathlok races up the steps but he's attacked by Anti-Venom who uses his Spider-Man type agility and webbing to annoy the cyborg until he aims a bio-electric powered fist at him. But it is Black Knight who takes the blow, enabling his armour to analyse the bio-electric energy signature and generate a counter-frequency in his photonic sword, which then disrupts Deathlok's nervous system. DL tries to use the gamma energy he stole from Weapon H (in #1) to recharge himself. But WH is here to take it back, with a vengeance. Now as his system fails it is the turn of Conan. The 2 warriors clash but Conan's blade shatters that of the cyborg. And now Elektra steps in to end it. Deathlok is a reanimated dead man and Elektra, who was resurrected by the Hand, knows how to control the dead - especially in the Temple Of The Beast. She intends to make the time-travelling cyborg take them back home.However an unexpected element disrupts the plan. Thulsa Doom arrives with the Set cultists and blasts them all except Conan. The 2 men from different prehistoric ages clash sword against 2 sorcerous blades. Conan's allies can't help him because Doom has infected their minds with terrible visions. Dagger fights an evil version of Anti-Venom who she is beginning to love, while her partner Cloak battles a demonic version of her - who *he* of course loves. Ant-Venom finds himself back in the grave he returned from. Black Knight faces the nightmare of his cursed Ebony Blade turning him into the Bloodwraith. Elektra thinks she is beset by the Beast himself. And Weapon H sees his family murdered. Meanwhile in reality they are attacking each other (and the occasional cultist who gets in the way). Other cultists help Thulsa Doom overwhelm Conan.But it is Deathlok who ends the fray. Struggling to get Doom (I think) out of his head he emits a mighty blast which knocks everyone out. When the heroes recover they find DL gone. But also Thulsa Doom and his cultists have taken Conan (leaving his sword behind). Elektra senses that Doom's plan for Conan will put the whole world in danger.The injured Deathlok is grappling with the fact that Elektra and Doom between them have reawakened memories of the man he was before he died and got remade into a cyborg. And that man was Miles Morales, Spider-Man.


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Time is the sharpest edge
Last issue Conan in the present day was destroying a cult of Set who were trying to bring their god to Earth when 1 of Avenger Prime's Deathloks from the future came to kill him for being a temporal anomaly. A bunch of superheroes joined in and they were all transported back to Conan's Hyborian Age, but split up. At the end of last issue we saw Conan, Dagger and Anti-Venom appear together.It transpires that they've landed in the middle of a revolt against the Zingarans by Rabiran miners. We now see our trio battling Zingaran troops because Dagger talked them into helping the underdogs. But they are quickly captured.Cloak and Elektra (now subbing for Daredevil) have materialised in a Zingaran gladiator arena. Taking them to be a sorceress and a demon the Zingarans unleash their fiercest opponent. Cloak is unable to teleport them to safety (due to temporal interference) so they have to face Devil Dinosaur. Elektra doesn't want to kill these days so she tangles the beast's legs with a sai on a rope, bringing it down. However it breaks free and Cloak *can* use his other ability to swallow the giant creature in the dark dimension within his cloak. The crowd aren't happy about the lack of bloodshed.Meanwhile the Deathlok has found himself at the bottom of the sea and walked ashore where he's accosted by thieves. He disposes of 2 of them and demands that the 3rd lead him to some weapons. He takes over a blacksmith's forge but isn't interested in a sword. Instead he uses the store of knowledge in his database to create himself a big futuristic gun.Black Knight and Weapon H land in a tavern full of mercenaries, and a brawl ensues. Clayton Cortez still has his adamantium claws but the Deathlok has drained his gamma-ability to Hulk out. So Dane Whitman leads a retreat by jumping out of a window, and they end up falling from the top of a tower. And Weapon H saves them by turning into a Red Hulk with wings and clawed feet. He doesn't how it happened but he just tried changing his gamma frequency. (Maybe he's got more than just Hulk and Wolverine in his genetic mix. Maybe Red Harpy too?)Conan and Dagger are in a dungeon. She provides some light and they see Anti-Venom chained to a wall with the bottom half of his legs missing. Flash Thompson explains he actually lost them years ago in Iraq. But he also says that his Venom symbiote has been messed up by the time-jump. Dagger's daggers drain life-force so she figures that energy must go somewhere. She tries something new and syphons life-force *into* Anti-Venom and the symbiote revives and starts regrowing his legs.Then Cloak manages to teleport himself and Elektra to his partner Dagger's side, but he collapses from the effort. Then the Deathlok smashes through a wall into the cell seeking the Cimmerian. Elektra whirls a dungeon chain at him and gets him in a chokehold while swordless Conan starts punching. and Anti-V joins in with Venom-generated axe-blades. DL blasts them all away and then approaches C&D with a blade-arm. But a thrown shield blocks his aim, announcing the arrival of the Knight and Weapon H. The fight begins anew until Cloak's cloak suddenly releases Devil Dinosaur because Tyrone Johnson couldn't hold it back any longer.In the ensuing chaos and rubble the heroes escape down a manhole and we next see them in a boat rowed by Weapon H (back in his usual Grey Hulk form). Conan has taken time to get his sword back and behind them Devil D is keeping the Zingarans busy. Elektra says she has a plan to get them home.But we switch our attention Set cultists of the Hyborian Age who also have a plan for the rebirth of their deity. A prophecy says that it requires the blood of twice-returned men. Now that they know that Conan is back (from the future a 2nd time) he'll fit the bill. But to seal the deal they resurrect skull-headed Thulsa Doom from Kull's Atlantean Age, who agrees to use his and Conan's blood to usher in the new age of Set.


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Shock to the system
Deathlok (Miles Morales) accidentally took Anti-Venom, Black Knight, Cloak, Dagger, Elektra and Weapon H back to the Hyborian Age with Conan. At the end of #5 they left the Cimmerian there but then wound up in (a) 2099. Last issue they joined Punisher 2099 in fighting an army of Deathloks whose leader Ultron had taken over the world.We begin with a crash course on the history of *this* 2099. In 2067 Alchemax successfully reverse engineered a Deathlok arm (which last issue told us they discovered in 2022). They created the nanotech Formula-D which enabled them to turn human corpses into Deathlok soldiers which they used  in corporate wars. Their rivals Stark-Fujikawa responded by reactivating long-lost AIs including Ultron. Big mistake, and now 75% of humanity are Deathloks.Now Ultron is interrogating a human at the Public Eye global surveillance site as to how the (Savage) Avengers managed to infiltrate the place. We see his explanation as a flashback of the team invading through cyberspace.They were met by Fever protocols. Black Knight on his atomic dragon-steed was carrying a vital data-packet so Dagger and Elektra ran interference for him. Cloak used his teleportation to warp cyberspace to send Anti-Venom (also in dragon form) and Weapon H to attack the foes from behind. And Punisher (Jake Gallows) infected the Fevers with a virus which melted them. And our heroes reached the central node of the network.Ultron rewards his informant by snapping his neck.The Avengers now disconnect from the system where their physical forms are in the city of Valhalla where they've been linked to the Miles Deathlok for their cyber-journey. They've retrieved Ultron's files and Dane Whitman begins to decrypt them, hoping to find a way back to their own time. Elektra Natchios warns Tandy Bowen that she'll have to make her mind up between her 'boyfriends' Flash Thompson and Tyrone Johnson. Dane reports unfortunately that there is no time-travel tech in 2099. But he's also learned that the Deathlok tech is based on a Deathlok arm found in 2022, and Miles realises that it was *his* arm that got cut off in #1. This of course angers Gallows who lost his family in the corporate wars. But Elektra interrupts them to point out an interesting name in the data.This leads the team to try to break into Hellrock prison for dissidents, run by an altered MODOK known as DEATHDOK (Digitally Enhanced Autonomous Telepathic Host Designed Only for Killing). Electrostatic generators prevent Cloak from teleporting them in so he, BK and Elektra walk in the front door pretending to be escorted by our DL with a stolen authentication code while AV, Dagger and WH approach stealthily masked by Dagger's light-bending prowess. But Miles can't contain his anger at how the other DLs treat their human prisoners, and soon all 4 are having to fight the DLs off. DEATHDOK gets alerted to the break-in ...... but the stealth trio are already there and attack him before he can send other DL guards into the fray. However the non-stealth 4 have a bigger problem when they are confronted by Jigsaw 2099. Dagger leaves her 2 partners to deal with DEATHDOK while she heads for their target in the supermax wing. DD's psionic attack just serves to anger them. Jigsaw downs Miles/DL but Elektra borrows BK's photonic sword to disrupt the systems of the DLs. Jigsaw now makes to attack Dane but he's worked a high-voltage electric cable loose and fries his foe with it.More Deathloks pour in but Cloak lets Punisher out of his cloak riding on his flying gun-platform. However DEATHDOK crashes in carrying Anti-Venom and Weapon H in 2 of his multiple arms/legs, and his psionic attack affects everyone. But although Miles has an organic brain his nervous system is synthetic, so he's able to shake the effects off and defeat DEATHDOK with a combination of metal fist and electric blast.He contacts Dagger for a sitrep. She's dodging automatic defences and disabling them with her light-knives. And superheated lasers are easy for her light-bending power to deflect. She reports that she's reached the prisoner. And it's Doctor Doom 2099 who's willing to become an Avenger if it means getting revenge on Ultron.


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Escape from Nueva York
Deathlok's time portal has taken our heroes from the Hyborian Age to 2099 where they were immediately attacked by Punisher 2099 (Jake Gallows).However this issue begins with a flashback to 2022 where 2 Alchemax scientists are studying what looks like 1 of Deathlok's arms found in the wreckage of the Madbomb incident (presumably our #1).But we leave that teaser and rejoin our gang running from Punisher and his heavily-armed flying machine (independently controlled by an AI). Deathlok's temporal circuits currently don't have enough power for another time jump. Gallows is after them because they include a Deathlok.Meanwhile we learn that that our heroes are being observed by someone who recognises Dane Whitman (Black Knight), Daredevil (currently Elektra) and a Hulk, and deduces that they are time-travellers. He orders a team to find and kill these Avengers and bring the Deathlok to him.Cloak has managed to transport them to a temporary hiding place where a holographic AI named Lyla pops up to give them (and us) useful information. Jake Gallows became Punisher after his wife and son were killed during the Lotusland offensive. He took revenge on the Cyber-Nostra for that, and continued on from there.The team make there way to the ruins of Avengers Mansion where believers await the Avengers' return. But they are attacked by a troop of Deathloks serving the Machine Empire of the Prime Deathlok. At that point Punisher catches up with them but decides that any enemy of the Deathloks is a friend of his. He and our DL hold off the robotic foe while the rest of the team enter the Mansion to find weapons.Elektra flies out using Archangel's metal wings. Black Knight finds his Ebony Blade which he's reluctant to pick up again. Cloak has Dr Octopus' metal arms. Anti-Venom drives the Spider-Mobile while his passenger Dagger wields Dr Spectrum's Power Prism. Weapon H has Absorbing Man's wrecking ball. BK rides a dragon-like version of his old atomic steed and has the Blade plus a power-lance. The Deathloks are all defeated and Gallows tells our Deathlok that the Prime Deathlok is Ultron.


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And the dead shall speak
Conan and several Marvel heroes have been sent back in time to the Hyborian Age, chased by a Deathlok who wants to kill Conan for crimes against the time stream. Thulsa Doom has been resurrected by Set cultists who believe they can bring their god to Earth using the blood of Doom and Conan. At the end of last issue Doom captured Conan, and Deathlok remembered that he used to be (a) Miles Morales, Spider-Man. So this issue has 2 stories running in parallel - Deathlok's memories and the heroes' attempt to rescue Conan. I'll separate them out.1st - Deathlok's fragmented memories:-In 1 section he's turned into the cyborg and a mystery person gives him the mission to find(?) Conan "or everything you know dies".But before that Miles was working with Riri Williams (Ironheart) (both members of the Champions but I think no longer the teens they are now). He's taken down Dr Octopus (after what he did to poor dead Peter) but the villain has already launched a drone. And he'd duplicated Reed Richards' dimensional gate (to the Negative Zone) and unleashed the Annihilation Wave on Dallas. A hologram of Riri tells him to wait for backup but Miles suits up as Spider-Man and steps through a portal ...... which takes him to Dallas where the insectoid horde is pouring through the gate from the Neg Zone. Spidey joins in the battle against them but there are just too many of them. Some of the more humanoid members of the Wave drag him before their lord Annihilus. The villain lifts Miles up by the throat to gloat. But Spidey grabs  Annihilus' Cosmic Control Rod off his chest and leaps with it into the Neg Zone gateway. While there he shatters it with a venom blast and the released energy presumably destroys the gate even as it kills *him*.All the while these memories are playing Deathlok's system is trying to reboot the cyborg personality. But DL resists and we sense that it is Miles who ends up in control.2nd - Conan and the heroes:-Thulsa Doom has Conan clamped to a stone X and is preparing to sacrifice him in front of the Set cultists to bring the serpent-god through a mystic portal. Conan wonders if Deathlok's task had been to kill him before he could be used for this end. Then we see the heroes emerging from Cloak's cloak on their rescue mission ...... unfortunately they emerge somewhere different. They've been using Weapon H's Wolverine senses to track the Barbarian but have just wound up in a Cimmerian graveyard. As they regroup Flash Thompson (Anti-Venom) hits on Dagger, but her partner Cloak isn't happy about that. They face off but Dagger transforms into a 2-swords-wielding warrior woman and separates them. Black Knight tells Elektra/Daredevil he has a plan involving a different facet of Weapon H.Thulsa Doom tells Conan that he's waiting for the stars of the Serpent to align. But in the meantime he offers Conan a deal. If Conan allowed himself to be transformed into a snake-man then he could serve Set instead of being killed. Conan's answer is what you would expect. Then the rescuing heroes really do arrive, preceded by a load of zombie Cimmerians. Dane Whitman had persuaded Weapon H to transform into the gamma-green supergenius Leader who was able to devise this scheme. He psychically linked Cloak, Dagger and Elektra and the duo combined their life and death powers with Elektra's resurrection magic (courtesy of the Hand) to raise this barbarian army of the dead. The heroes wade into the cultists but Doom slashes Conan's throat and mingles the blood with some from his own hand. And Set comes through the gate.


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Crash and burn
Several flashbacks are shown through this issue showing Punisher 2099's past. Ultron's Deathloks invaded his community while he was away and Jake Gallows rushed back to see it destroyed and his wife and son dead. But they were turned into DLs
 like all the others and his family came back to attack him. He was
forced to kill them to put them out of their misery. After that he
dedicated his life to destroying Deathloks. But now he's teamed with a
more advanced Deathlok (an ex-Miles Morales), part of a time-travelling army of them who protect the multiverse.This Deathlok had inadvertently brought the Savage Avengers
 to 2099, but last issue they were all killed and their bodies turned
into DLs themselves. Now Jake and Miles plan to avenge their deaths by
making sure Ultron doesn't get to use Doctor Doom 2099's time gauntlet to conquer other time periods. Currently they're wading through a sewer to get into Alchemax Tower where Ultron has his base.Then the SA-Loks
 attack them, their bodies and powers reflecting their previous lives.
Ultron is watching remotely as he finishes calibrating the time
gauntlet, and he urges his troops to kill the duo. Elektra/Daredevil tries to stab Deathlok with her sais. Black Knight
 tells her to hold him still while he slices him open with his energy
blade to see his futuristic tech. But Punisher shoots them both off. Anti-Venom attacks next as the symbiote fires his teeth (!?) at them. Weapon H follows up with a gamma beam from his eyes. Fused together Cloak & Dagger are last as tendrils of his dark cloak ensnare them and she prepares to throw her light-knives.But our heroes are saved by Dr Doom who they thought dead (last issue). He then holds the 'Loks
 off while our 2 heroes race towards the time gauntlet. He throws Weapon
 H at Elektra and blasts Anti-Venom, then smashes Cloak&Dagger. But BK
 triggers a device which causes Doom's armour to electrocute him,
resulting in a grand mal seizure. All the others recover and they all
prepare to kill Doom, but he fights back.But Miles knows that
all the DLs are linked to Ultron's network and he enters that cyberspace
 to find remnants of their minds. He sees Elektra mourning over
Daredevil (Matt Murdoch), Cloak trapped in his own cloak, Flash Thompson and Tandy Bowen together in the 1950s, Weapon H moping over the family he 'abandoned' and Dane Whitman as a scientist trying to calculate a way out.Meanwhile
 Gallows is trying to protect Miles' body. He activates a blast door to
keep a lot of Deathloks out and starts wiping out those on this side of
it. But they break through so he puts Miles into a lift and dives
amongst the DLs with tritonium grenades primed. There's a very big
explosion. Elsewhere the SA-Loks are trying to tear Doom apart.In
 cyberspace Miles Morales/Deathlok tries to rouse the Savage Avengers to
 action. He tells Elektra that she fears that her new less-extreme
approach to heroing as Daredevil will allow evil to flourish but it is
that mercy that has made her the Woman Without Fear. He tells Clay Cortez that being Weapon H isn't the only way to protect his family, they need their father too. Flash Thompson died during the Go Down Swinging/Red Goblin event, but he was resurrected at the end of the King In Black event. Now he latched on to Tandy Bowen to validate his new existence. Tandy was stifled by her partnership with Tyrone Johnson
 but now she's trapped here. Cloak worries that without Dagger he'll be
forgotten, but now he and Tandy reach out to each other again. Dane
fears the unavoidable temptation of his Ebony Blade, but Miles (from the future) assures him that his daughter Jacks (see the BK: Curse Of The Ebony Blade
 miniseries) at least doesn't succumb and she becomes the greatest Black
 Knight ever. Now he gathers all these souls and urges them to fight
together. But then he gets disconnected from the system ......
as Ultron finds him in the real world and starts beating on him and then
 shows him the time gauntlet coming to life. The SA-Loks continue
beating up Dr Doom until Black Knight is poised for the kill. Meanwhile
in cyberspace they fight for themselves and their team ......
and BK lets Doom go and Ultron senses things are going wrong. The Secret
 Avengers take over their cyborg bodies and head for the assembly floor
of Alchemax Tower where they dive into vats of Formula-D which
are used to turn people into Deathloks. But now they control the
nanobots and make them turn their cyborg bodies back into flesh and
blood. Ultron says it won't matter because he's going to rewrite
history. Then the renewed Avengers burst forth.


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The doomsday sonata
Deathlok (Miles Morales) has timejumped the team from the Hyborian Age but wound up in a version of 2099 run by Ultron and a Deathlok army. They teamed up with Punisher 2099 (Jake Gallows), liberated some weapons from the ruins of Avengers Mansion and rescued Doctor Doom 2099 from prison.But we start with a flashback to 2091 where Ultron captured Doom 2099 but he triggered a backup plan - an army of Doombots to continue the fight against the Deathloks. That battle is still waging around Latveria as Punisher flies an Avengers quinjet there. Doom intends to retrieve his time-array gauntlet and use it to go back and stop the rise of Ultron.Daredevil (Elektra) takes time out to warn Gallows that being Punisher was bad for the original. Jake doesn't care - he's already lost everything that matters to him and now he just wants to take as many Deathloks as he can with him before he dies. Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson) admires Deathlok's big gun but then hands over some Spider-Man web shooters to the ex-Spidey.Suddenly 1 of Ultron's Deathloks shoots the quinjet down. Weapon H holds the plane together but the blast has concussed Cloak so he can't teleport them out. Doom makes his own escape before Punisher crashlands them.Black Knight climbs out of the wreckage with Anti-Venom and Dagger supporting Cloak. But they are immediately attacked by Deathloks, including tanks. Tyrone Johnson tries to tell Tandy Bowen that he still loves her but he's interrupted by Doom coming to the rescue.Inside the quinjet Punisher has been pierced by a titanium strut but he pulls it free and joins Deathlok, Elektra and Weapon H in their own escape. But *they* are attacked by 1 of Doom's defence forces, giant Ultimo the Ultimate Doombot. WH slings Elektra at some exposed wiring on the damaged bot which she slashes with her sais. The robot blasts at them all so invisibility-cloaked Miles swings into action on a web-line and Ultimo falls.Doom now joins them with his half of the team and leads them all to the fortress-tomb of his old foe Tiger Wylde, which he reveals is where he stashed the time-gauntlet. He confidently starts to bypass Wylde's security but unexpectedly gets a massive neural feedback shot which takes him out of play.Ultron shows himself with the gauntlet in his possession. Elektra tells Punisher to guard Miles/Deathlok (the only 1 of them who can timejump) as she launches herself at the big bad ... who rips her heart out. Miles and Punisher fire their big guns at him, and he responds by blasting them with his energy spear. Weapon H's adamantium claws have no effect but Ultron causes the nanobots in his blood to go out of control. Anti-Venom attacks but Flash gets flash-fried. Distraught Dagger drops her guard as Ulty's spear heads towards her back ... but Cloak steps in to take it instead. As he dies he finally confesses his love. But without his Darkforce to hold her energy in check she takes AV's Venom symbiote instead and the combination lashes out at Ultron's Deathloks. However the robot calls down a strike from an orbiting satellite which destroys her. Black Knight is left and he now reveals that he secretly took his old Ebony Blade from Avengers Mansion ... which now turns him into the Bloodwraith. But Ultron breaks the sword and kills its bearer. Only Deathlok and Punisher manage to sneak away.Later in Alchemax Tower Ultron's computer bank examines the time-gauntlet and promises to get it working soon. Meanwhile he uses vats of the nanothech Formula-D to turn the bodies of the Savage Avengers into Deathlok cyborgs to serve him.


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We are legend
Conan was brought back from the present to the Hyborian Age by a Deathlok, and a bunch of other superheroes were brought along for the ride. Deathlok was trying to kill Conan for crimes against the timestream and had to also fight all the others. But now DL has recovered his memories of being (a) Miles Morales/Spider-Man, just in time to switch sides to face common enemy Thulsa Doom, who has cut Conan's throat and mingled their blood in order to bring his serpent-god the demon Set to Earth.Elektra/Daredevil now swears vengeance on behalf of her team. The invisible Deathlok makes himself visible and fires into the mouth of Set and deputizes them all into the Deathlok army. They don't know whether to trust him. But he lets the power of his gamma battery course through Weapon H, currently in the form of the super-intelligent but weak Leader, transforming him into an amalgam of gamma-beings including Red Hulk and Harpy (plus his regular adamantium claws). He attacks Set directly while Black Knight, Cloak and Elektra fight the Set cultists.Anti-Venom and Dagger have a moment together before joining the fray and Flash Thompson kisses Tandy Bowen before it's too late. He's inspired to turn his symbiote into a wolf-form as he joins Weapon H in the frontal assault. Cloak sees his chance of rekindling love with his partner Dagger fade and she too takes on cultists.Black Knight's photon-sword loses power, and his mystic Ebony Blade is back in the present. At his request Elektra takes a moment to toss him Thulsa Doom's ceremonial sword with which he'd done the blood sacrifice. As he hoped the magic blade empowers him like his own Blade would, and he uses that power to transform into the Bloodwraith (which he normally strenuously avoids). And in this form he steals the souls of those he kills.Meanwhile Deathlok has been trying *his* blade against 2 other swords wielded by Thulsa Doom, coated in eldritch green flame. And Dagger has broken off combat to try another tactic. She rushes to the side of dying Conan and uses her healing light to bring him back. DL is faring badly when the revivified Cimmerian leaps in to tackle his foe.The Cult Of Set are all down and Elektra talks Dane Whitman down from his bloodlust. She knows how it feels to be a weapon not a person. But Set himself is still undefeated by Anti-Venom and Weapon H. Dagger rejoins her partner Cloak and they combine their powers to form a chain of light with which to tie up the demon.Thulsa Doom holds Conan and Deathlok at bay. He buries 1 ensorcelled blade in the Barbarian's shoulder and then turns his attention to the cyborg. DL's metal blade fails to affect the sorcerer. But then Conan pulls the magic blade out of his own shoulder and chops it into Doom. And the wizard from an even earlier age dissolves into dust.Now only Set remains to be dealt with, and this brings us to an ending which I can't really make hang together. Deathlok plans to use his time-jump capability to send Set outside of time. But when he tries to pass through the portal the demon came from he finds he can't use it because it's magic. Conan realises that the portal was created using his and Thulsa Doom's blood, so only *he* can close it. He uses some handy chains to start to pull the *physical* gate apart as Miles Morales prepares to time-jump with the others. They disappear as the Cimmerian pulls the gate apart. And he's left alone to face his Hyborian future.In an epilogue the team arrive elsewhen. Weapon H discovers that he can't revert to his human form as Clay Cortez. Black Knight thinks that his brief time as Bloodwraith has change him too. And Tandy rushes to the side of Flash rather than her partner Tyrone Johnson. And on top of that Deathlok is attacked by Jake Gallows, Punisher 2099, who's surprised to encounter a sentient DL.


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Streets of rage
This issue opens with 1 of the Deathloks from the Tower at the Edge Of Eternity (see recent issues of Avengers and the new Avengers Forever series) hunting for someone in present day New York.We see that his quarry is Conan, back in the present from his Hyborian Age. He's watching a cult of worshippers of Set. Conan is familiar with such, and with serpent-men, from his own time. The priest of Set declares that they are going to spill the blood of the city tonight so their god can be reborn in this time. But Conan attacks and his sword spills *their* blood.Meanwhile Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson) has discovered an Alchemax lab with its scientists killed by snake venom. He says he was called in to investigate by its CEO Liz Allan who told him that her company, like many others, was working on anti-psychic tech since the rise of the mutant nation Krakoa. The lab is in Hell's Kitchen so Flash roped in the resident hero Daredevil, currently Elektra. And now we learn that the villains stole a Madbonb ...... and we see that the snake-worshippers have got it. And as Conan lays waste to the cultists the leader dashes for the bomb. But then the Deathlok arrives intent on erasing the Cimmerian for 'crimes against the timestream' and blasts him with a plasma cannon.Meanwhile again Clayton Cortez is returning from a supermarket with a bag of food when a knife-wielding mugger demands his wallet and phone. So Cortez lets himself turn into Weapon H. In a bar across the street Dane Whitman is drowning his sorrows (after the Black Knight: Curse Of The Ebony Blade mini-series) when he sees the altercation. He rushes out in armour to deal with the knife-mugger but then finds him self facing the cross between the Grey Hulk and Wolverine.Back in the snake den Conan hurls a serrated metal disc which chops Deathlok's gun-arm off. But nanotech builds him a new arm in seconds and the battle resumes. Conan uses DL's dropped big gun against him but the cyborg's other arm sprouts an adamantium blade to cut the *gun* in 2. Then it's blade against sword.Meanwhile for a 3rd time Cloak and Dagger have just dealt with a drug-dealing gang. Tyrone Johnson is summoning up the courage to confess his love to Tandy Bowen. He mentions their failed past relationships with Vi and Brandon respectively but she misunderstands his point.And then the dying cultist switches on the Madbomb which rips through the minds of the citizens including the 3 pairs of superchars in the meanwhile sections. In the general populace it unleashes their basest desires, but the 6 heroes had already confronted and wrestled with their demons so they head for the epicentre of the blast where Conan and Deathlok are fighting on unaffected.Black Knight and Elektra recognise Conan (from the previous series) and the newcomers attack the cyborg. BK also recognises the Madbomb from the Avengers database and presumably succeeds in shutting it down. Deathlok detects Weapon H's gamma enhancement and turns him back to human. Then he breaks the Knight's sword (not his mystic Ebony Blade). Elektra draws 1st blood by jamming a sai into the cyborg's shoulder. Anti-Venom claims to be an Avenger but he's not in DL's history files so the cyborg electrocutes him. However Cloak and Dagger's Darkforce and Light Knives seem to do better. Then Elektra points out that her sai is preventing their foe's arm from healing. So they all pile on the 'weakened' enemy, including Cortez who still has his adamantium claws. Deathlok throws his opponents off but Conan strikes the vulnerable shoulder with his sword, damaging the cyborg's time-travel circuits.The Deathlok vanishes in a blinding light. But all the heroes are sucked into a time warp. Ant-Venom, Conan and Dagger end up together in what the Barbarian recognises as his home time, the Hyborian Age. But we see that the Deathlok is there too.


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Down to the Crossroads: Part One
Doctor Strange is before a Congressional hearing, testifying
how he sent the increasingly dangerous Hulk into the Crossroads. SHIELD Agent
Bercerra, an expert in the mystic arts, questions Strange’s competence in
making such a major decision, a question echoed by the Committee members.
Suddenly, an insectoid being, the Sorcerer Supreme of his dimension, emerges
into the Chamber and accuses Strange as the one who sent the Hulk to them,
leading to genocide. He accompanies Master Ebbing though the gateway to meet
the Puffball Collective but finds also finds Agent Bercerra has accompanied
them. She refuses to go back to Earth, insisting on seeing for herself what
Strange has done. They enter the other dimension, a planet called Decopodia, to
be greeted by Ebbin’s pupil Korv. Ebbin takes Strange and Bercerra on a flight
over their advanced city surrounded by a huge wall. Strange insists he sent
Hulk where he would not be a threat to any dimension with sentient life. They
watch as a huge armored robot is sent out of the city into the mountains where
Hulk attacks it and smashes it to pieces, while the citizens watch via giant
telescreens. Strange doesn’t know why Hulk hasn’t triggered the fail-safe spell
to return to the Crossroads; Ebbin points out that the Hulk seems to be
enjoying this. He also doesn’t see any evidence of genocide; Ebbin weakens and
dies, his last words being “Beware my success” which Strange can’t interpret.
Strange and Bercerra follow the Hulk into a cave—one strewn with multiple
corpses of the locals and Hulk is hungry….


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The Man Within
The Leader solves the mystery of how a planetoid missed
collision with Earth while Hulk was battling the X-Men: it was the doing of
Professor Charles Xavier. And now his scheme is set….
In the Nevada desert, Hulk is being bombarded by the
Hulkbusters’ most powerful weapons; he overcomes them all and leaps away to
live in peace. Hulk sits and stares at the stars until he returns to his
Bruce Banner form….
Professor X is studying the device created by Bruce Banner to
treat mental exhaustion. Having used it to recover from trauma, he realizes
that Bruce developed it to deal with his own problems with Hulk. It had always
failed for Bruce and Professor X thinks it must require a telepathic component.
The use of the machine has created a psychic link between Xavier and Hulk and
he can’t rest until he has done all he can to free Banner from the Hulk….
The X-Men locate the desert lab they have recently visited
and move in, setting the place up to treat Bruce. Xavier increases Marvel Girl’s
telepathic focus so she can more easily sedate Hulk. Cyclops, Havok,
Angel, Iceman with Jean go off to locate Hulk while the others (Xavier, Beast,
Polaris) stay behind to finalize preparations. But they are watched by a lizard
who is clearly a mechanical spy device….
Bruce is found searching through a dumpster for clothing by a
kindly old fellow named Jeb, who invites him back to his camper for supper.
During the meal, violent military sounds in the background agitate Bruce who
advises Jeb and his wife Dorothy to leave quickly….
The X-Men detect a strong Gamma reading heading toward them,
pursued by the military. They prepare to meet the Hulk but end up facing the
Abomination….


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The Man Within: Part Three
In the X-Men’s attempt to cure Bruce Banner of being the
Hulk, Professor X has inadvertently channeled the Gamma power into Marvel Girl
and she becomes a She-Hulk while the entire cavern goes chaotic. Xavier tries
to calm her down but he is forestalled by the combined might of the others (Cyclops,
Havok, Beast, Angel, Iceman, Polaris). She informs her mentor that she is no
out-of-control savage but a newborn experiencing increased powers for the first
time. And she gives herself a sexy new costume, complete with Polaris’
headdress. She also tells Xavier she resents being tested and treated like his
pawn, which the others also echo. Then the wall comes crashing down and an army
of the Leader’s robot servitors comes in and the X-Men are in a mad melee with
the mechanical monsters. Bruce tries to rush Xavier to safety while X gives the
X-Men a telepathic command to urge them to retreat. But Bruce hears this
too—leading Xavier to realize that this isn’t reality: he is in Bruce Banner’s
mind. Xavier stands up and walks—and finds himself at the site of the original
Gamma bomb that created the Hulk. Bruce comes rushing toward him, trying to
push him into the trench but the bomb detonates, bathing Xavier in radiation
and turning him into a Hulk. Then a multitude of Hulk enemies arrives, all
beating on him at once, last of all Hulk himself knocking him to the ground.
Then Bruce Banner appears to him as a child, suggesting that Xavier might be
doing all of this to himself. Meanwhile, adult Banner is a giant, fighting off
all of the Hulk incarnations. Then all goes white and Xavier finds Bruce who
realizes that, as Hulk gets stronger when challenged, Bruce’s intellect is
similarly increasing. He suggests Xavier get back to the X-Men as he suspects
he is incorporating “external stimuli” into his mindscape. Translation: the
invasion of Leader’s mechanical minions was real. Xavier awakens to find the
X-Men prisoners—and he himself has a bomb affixed to his chest. And Bruce
Banner is now a Gamma battery as the Leader prepares to drain him….


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The Man Within: Part 2 of 4
In the Nevada desert, the X-Men (Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Havok,
Angel, Iceman), searching for the Hulk, suddenly find themselves fighting the
Abomination. The Army had been searching for Hulk and detected the Abomination,
just as they had. As Cyclops and Havok try shooting down the Army’s missiles,
the others do their best but the monster seizes Angel, demanding to have their
Hulk-seeking device….
Bruce Banner, relaxing at dinner with Jeb and Dorothy, a
kindly old couple in a camper, is disturbed by the shelling nearby and tells
them to get away just as he transforms into the Hulk….
Just as it looks like Abomination will destroy Jean, Hulk
arrives and yanks him away by the eyebrows and the battle is on, the two
smashing each other while the X-Men run for cover. Abom demands that the Hulk
acknowledge he is the stronger. Hulk doesn’t like this and makes a massive
crater in the ground with his foe’s head, proving “Hulk is the strongest one of
all!” And he hurls the unconscious bad guy at the approaching army, destroying
a tank. Major Glenn Talbot decides to focus on locking up the Abomination and
coming back for Hulk another day….
The heroes return to the cave lab with Bruce Banner, unaware
that the Leader is spying on them via a mechanical lizard. Professor X explains
to Bruce that he thinks the device for mental exhaustion can cure him of being
Hulk with an added telepathic component. Bruce sits in the chair, the machine
is turned on, and Xavier exerts his influence. Hulk’s power grows stronger and
stronger until it bursts free—and Marvel Girl is transformed into a She-Hulk….


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The Man Within: Conclusion
The X-Men are helpless
as the Leader drains Gamma energy from the comatose Bruce Banner. Professor X
tries to reach Marvel Girl’s mind but it’s closed off; she had transferred her
mental link to Cyclops and forged another one with Angel. Banner starts to
transform into Hulk but the treatment has increased his mental power—Banner’s
newfound telekinesis frees the X-Men and they battle the Leader’s Humanoids.
The highly intelligent Hulk rips Leader’s head apart, revealing him to be a
drone, then he unleashes the Gamma power to feed back to the Leader in his
remote location, wrecking that place. Against Xavier’s pleas, Hulk destroys the
device for mental exhaustion. Hulk tears into the Humanoids while Xavier
reveals that with the device destroyed, Banner is no longer in charge of the
Hulk with the increased telekinetic abilities and they all flee the cave lab.
The place explodes and the X-Men watch as the cave explodes—and then the Hulk,
back to normal, emerges and spies the mutant heroes. He bounds over with anger
and violence in his eyes; Xavier counsels his students to remain calm—then
Hulk, after a few scary seconds, roars in Xavier’s face and leaps off. They
rejoice that Xavier was able to keep Hulk from harming them but the Professor
tells them, it was Banner who saved them, the man inside the monster…. Beast, Havok, Iceman, and Polaris also appear.


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Courtroom Sequence
(Professor) Hulk is in court, defendant in a civil suit
brought by 1,397 people suing over his rampages and misdeeds, demanding one
billion dollars in judgment; the defense’s argument is that Hulk just wants to
be left alone and it is others who instigate the trouble. Judge Leiber has a
bad feeling about this, while Betty Ross  Banner and Rick Jones watch, along with
numerous other Hulk supporters including Peter Parker, Wolverine, and
Howard the Duck….
“Old Friends”Written, penciled, inked, colored, and lettered by Dave
Gibbons.Synopsis: The first witness describes how the Hulk went on a
rampage in his neighborhood and the army was called in. Captain America arrives
along with Rick Jones and they try to calm Hulk, reminding him that they are
his friends—but the situation merely convinces Hulk that Rick and Cap are no
longer his friends and he leaps away with a tear in his eye….
“The Power of Bullies”Writer: William Messner-Loebs. Pencils: Sam Kieth, Dane
McCart. Inks: Sam Kieth, Dane McCart, Bill Reinhold. Colors: John Kalisz,
Electric Crayon. Letters: Richard Starkings, Comicraft.Synopsis: The next witness is a guy named Kenny who remembers
an incident from his childhood: Hulk was fighting Rhino nearby when Kenny was
being bullied. The bullies run from the sight of the unconscious Rhino but
Kenny waits to see Hulk. Kenny is not afraid of Hulk and wishes he could be
like him because he is fearless; Hulk admits he is afraid of only one person:
Banner. Hulk changes back to Bruce Banner and he and Kenny have a long talk
that results eventually in Kenny becoming a Nobel Prize winning scientist….
“The Strongest One There Is”Writer: Scott Lobdell. Pencils: Humberto Ramos. Inks: Bob
Wiacek. Colors: Steve Buccellato, Electric Crayon. Letters: Richard Starkings,
Comicraft.Synopsis: Doc Samson is called as witness and he explains
that Hulk has a great deal of hostility…which segues into the scene of Hulk
brutally beating up his strongest foes including Juggernaut and Abomination
then taking on his strongest friends like Thing and Thor, proving he is the
strongest one there is—and then we learn that Hulk is in a trance created by
Doctor Strange. Strange explains to Valkyrie that he puts Hulk under a spell to
work off his aggression; Val refers to it as his fantasies but Strange assures
her, it’s no fantasy, Hulk is the strongest one there is….
“Brief”Writer: B.J. Estes. Pencils: Pascual Ferry. Inks: Al Milgrom.
Colors: John Kalisz, Electric Crayon. Letters: Richard Starkings, Comicraft.Synopsis: Tony Stark is called to the stand to testify to
Hulk’s strength versus the Iron Man armor. We’re shown a briefing of
high-ranking military officers as to Hulk’s strength. Dr. Sturgeon plays a film
of Hulk in action and describes the monster’s various powers; asked for a plan
of action, Sturgeon can only reply, “There isn’t one.”
“Vision-Quest”Writer: Peter David. Pencils: Mike McKone. Inks: Mark
McKenna. Colors: Electric Crayon. Letters: Richard Starkings, Comicraft.Synopsis: The next witness, Native American Gilbert
Stormflower relates how he was on his vision quest in the desert when Hulk
crashed down nearby, followed by Thor. The two Avengers start fighting and
destroying various geological landmarks. Iron Man arrives to break it up and
tell them the Space Phantom is back. Gilbert decides to abandon his quest and
go out for a beer….
“Dinner”Writer: Jeph Loeb. Pencils: Tim Sale. Inks: Tim Sale. Colors:
Gregory Wright, Electric Crayon. Letters: Richard Starkings, Comicraft.Synopsis: An angry businessman relates how he and his wife
were terrorized when Hulk broke into their grocery store late one night and
took a shot at Hulk with a gun. Peeved, Hulk stomped his foot and brought the
building down. They never learned why Hulk had invaded their store…but the
reader knows: Hulk hungry….
[Courtroom Sequence (concluded)]Synopsis: Finally (Professor) Hulk takes the stand and
defends himself, saying he is only acting in self-defense. The prosecutor
scoffs but then dozens of Hulk’s enemies crash in and madness ensues with Rick
and Betty being transformed into Rick Hulk and Harpy. Hulk demands to be left
alone—and the resultant spat levels the courthouse. The judge dismisses the
charges and sends everyone home.
[Pin-ups]Hulk versus Thing by Michael Golden. Portraits by Frank Teran
and John K. Snyder III both colored by John Kalisz. Hulk and Silver Surfer by
Shawn McManus, Bob Smith, Electric Crayon.


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Eyes of the Dragon Part 4 of 5
Steve Rogers fills the team in on John Steele who is offering to trade the kidnapped Sharon Carter for Shang-Chi. He was an early version of the super-soldier, more powerful than Captain America but not as stable; he was captured by the Germans during World War 2 and is only now resurfacing as a villain in the service of the Shadow Council….
In the bad guys’ custody, Sharon talks to Max Fury who tries to convince her to switch over to their side; Sharon leaves him with a threat that Steve will soon shut him down….
The Avengers receive instructions on the prisoner exchange. They meet on the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings in Hong Kong. As the prisoners each walk toward the other side, John Steele shoots Shang-Chi with a paralyzing blast. Steele engages Steve in battle which the more powerful Steele wins. Steve calls out and the other Avengers appear to fight his henchmen, but Steele has wired explosives to the building. The Avengers are forced to allow the enemy to escape. Shang-Chi then meets with his father who is planning to kill him the next evening. Meanwhile, we learn that Moon Knight has infiltrated the villains disguised as one of the guards….


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The Trouble with John Steele Part 2 of 2
Confronting the angry John Steele who is holding a technician hostage, Steve Rogers convinces him that the techs are all Life Model Decoys. Steve then holds off the former super-soldier until John Aman (Prince of Orphans) materializes and overpowers him. The two men are then returned to the memory reading machine and put back to Steele’s final mission during World War 2….
John Steele and Captain America split up to explore the Nazi castle. Cap is approached by the Prince of Orphans who warns him of danger. A giant centipede-like creature rampages through the castle and Cap, instead of escaping, lures the monster outside to kill it. Meanwhile, Steele reaches the point where his memory grows dim: He discovers the Shadow Council enacting an occult ceremony. Knowing who they are summoning from the dead, Steele rushes in, gun blazing. In his recklessness he is easily overcome by the villain. Director Aloysius Thorndrake reveals that Steele was lured there, having once been a part of their cult. The Council completes their ritual and reality rips open and Steele sees the abyss…. When Cap and the Price of Orphans return, the castle is in ruins, with no one to be found.
Back in the present, John Steele is in his right mind once again. He warns Steve about the Shadow Council which is intent on world domination. Steve asks him to be a part of the team trying to take them down….


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New Life
A suicide bomber stands in a market in Pakistan and detonates
his explosive; a woman with a child standing nearby swallows the flames of the
blast, holds them for a moment then spits them back out, devastating the
marketplace. She is shocked by what she has done. A soldier knocks her out with
a rifle butt….
Around the world, four sinister figures receive the call
that a Descendant has been detected in Pakistan. They head out: The Adaptoids,
composed of The Ideal from Manhattan, The Origin from Egypt, The Urn from
Israel, The Swine from Mexico….
In London, Captain Britain is fighting Riot, an anarchist
who has gathered a large number of people and formed them into a human-shaped
biomass to power himself. With some encouragement from Queen Elizabeth II herself,
the Captain pulls him away from his unwilling servants and hauls him off to
Starlight Citadel in Otherworld. While there, Cap B meets his wife Meggan who
is upset that while Brian is needed there, he has accepted a call from the
Secret Avengers and is teleported to…
…The Lighthouse, the Secret Avengers’ brand-new secret space
station, which is secret because Hank Pym has miniaturized it. He is met by
Captain America who presents him to the others (Beast, Black Widow, Valkyrie,
Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady)) but there is some misunderstanding as Cap B thinks he
is to be the team leader. Hawkeye arrives to disabuse him of that notion and
the two men fall to bickering. They are interrupted by a report of the incident
in Pakistan. The team goes down to rescue the woman, Yalda and her son Parvez,
from their captors. But the opposing team of Adaptoids also arrives for her and
they battle. The Avengers come off much the worse, especially after Origin
gives birth to her Diminutives, miniature versions of the Avengers, to fight
for her. Hawkeye is able to kill the mini Captain Britain as the Adaptoids fly
off with Yalda and her son. And we learn Ant-Man has hitched a ride in Ideal’s
pants leg….
And in the Core, Father and the other Descendants (robots resembling
Doctor Doom, Vision, Jocasta, Sentinels, Deathlok plus Lady Deathstrike,
Max Fury, and Skullbuster) await their arrival….


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The Descendants Part 2: A Victory for the Little Guy
Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady) has hitched a ride on the pants leg
of Ideal of the Adaptoids, stealthily accompanying them into the underground
home of the Descendants known as the Core. The Adaptoids are greeted by Lady Deathstrike
and Skullbuster before they turn the captive Yalda and her son over
to Father who welcomes them home….
At the Secret Avengers’ miniature Lighthouse space station,
Hank Pym and Beast debate their relative superiority over one another as well as
Beast warning Hank not to create another AI for any purpose. Hawkeye is
concerned about not hearing from Ant-Man….
Captain America talks to Jim Hammond, the original
Human Torch, about Hank McCoy’s opinion that the miniature version of Captain Britain
is based on Jim’s design. At a Veteran’s hospital they meet with Flash
Thompson, currently Agent Venom, about joining the mission….
At the Core, Father explains to Nalda that she is a
High-Breed of the Descendants, an advanced race of robots which he plans will
achieve a universal consciousness and invites her to join the group in their
fight against humans. She refuses and Father sees she is beyond reclaiming so
he orders her killed. Ant-Man rises to full height and fights the Adaptoids;
his helmet is smashed and Yalda is killed in the fight before he seizes the boy
Parvez and leaps from a window, able to miniaturize one more time and land
safely in a sewer with the boy….
Cap and Jim accompany Flash to the Lighthouse where Hawkeye
refuses to have the symbiote on his team no matter how much they claim it is
under control. Clint assembles the team and orders Cap and Flash off the
station….
The team (Hawkeye, Black Widow, Captain Britain, Valkyrie, Human
Torch, Beast) traces Ant-Man’s signal to the middle of the desert where they
are teleported to the Core where they are set upon by hostile robots, Hawkeye
and Beast facing Deathlok versions of Wasp and Miss America. The Adaptoids catch
up with Ant-Man who fights to protect the boy and he is killed by his foes, his
last thoughts that he died saving an innocent child….


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Secret Histories, Part Two
Sharon Carter awakens aboard the Secret Avengers roving HQ angry at having been overpowered so easily. She can’t figure out how the interlopers invaded the ship and sees from the security tapes that they were wearing stealth gear. The stolen Serpent Crown, however, left an energy signature that she can follow, so she heads off in pursuit of the enemy….The Secret Avengers led by Steve Rogers arrive at the Roxxon mining base on Mars and explore the domed building in search of the missing Nova. They discover evidence that someone was there very recently. They also find an amazingly large hole and a number of skeletons in an old cave. Armored guards appear and open fire on them. A melee breaks out and the soldiers seem to be moving as though in a trance. The last two standing kill each other. Examination shows their eyes are completely blank, under control from an outside source. Leaving the domed building, the team splits up: War Machine and Ant-Man to fly over the desert, Black Widow, Moon Knight and Valkyrie to head for the mountains, and Steve and Beast will continue to search for Nova….
On Earth, Nick Fury is informed by one of his Shadow Council minions that the third Crown has been activated. He orders an immediate flight to see the Board of Directors….
On Mars, War Machine and Ant-Man discover a deserted base. During a search Ant-Man examines an opening in a machine and is sucked into a vortex and disappears….
Steve and Beast reach the ancient temple and discover Nova’s discarded helmet. A sudden upheaval reveals a massive armored figure who demands to know what they have done with the Crown….
From a high vantage point in the mountains, Black Widow’s team has found Nova. Wearing the Serpent Crown, the Cosmic Avenger is controlling the minds of an army of workers, forcing them to dig for something under the planet’s surface, though he seems to be under another’s power himself. Then Nova spots his former teammates—and zooms in to attack…. Max Fury


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No Zone
On orders from Steve Rogers, Shang-Chi fights his way through a horde of Shadow Council minions in a station that defies all the rules of physics. Steve and Sharon Carter quickly head toward his location….

We learn from the Beast that the Shadow Council is mining “transmatter” in a “bad continuum," a parallel world where the laws of physics are different from those we know. This transmitter would make a very nice doomsday bomb….

The three heroes link up but Shang-Chi resents just being a thug; when he determines which entry tube leads to the place they are looking for by touch, Steve reminds him he is one of the Secret Avengers. They confront the mastermind: Arnim Zola 4.2.3, an update that took on a life of its own. The baddies take off in their craft, Steve leaps aboard at the last second and proceeds to beat up all the henchmen and wreck Zola. The Avengers then deliver the ship to Reed Richards for his collection.


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Final Level
A fire at the Houston headquarters of the Office of National
Emergency causes the building to be evacuated. Turns out, though, the the fire
is an illusion, created so the Secret Avengers can enter unseen to confront the
heads of the Office, Mr. Atkins and Ms. Hood and find out which one is a Shadow Council
agent. Commander Steve Rogers has Black Widow and Moon Knight prepare
torture to identify the bad guy but Ms. Hood confesses. Under questioning, Ms
Hood reveals that the Council was conducting breeding experiments in Paraguay
to create a super-soldier; the resulting monsters are in the basement of that
very building. Hood was planning to revive the monsters so that she could
destroy them—but the Avengers' interference only allowed the monsters to
awaken....
In the basement, Sharon Carter, Valkyrie, and War Machine fight
gruesome creatures that keep growing, drawing energy from another dimension,
making them more and more dangerous—becoming an alien invasion. The team heads
for the roof and Beast uses the weapons on his ship to collapse the building,
destroying the monsters. And rather than be imprisoned, Ms. Hood takes out a
pistol and shoots herself in the head....


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Beast Box
Steve Rogers shows the Secret Avengers film that was smuggled out of Serbia by an MI:13 agent. It shows a massive truck firing electromagnetic levitation fields, pulling people out of their homes and into the truck. None of the major powers want further involvement in the region so it’s up to the Secret Avengers to stop these mass abductions. Steve, Sharon Carter, Valkyrie, and War Machine head to the area in a Quincarrier and discover that not only is the truck shielded from surveillance, its protecting air cover is as well. They are attacked by a fighter plane manned by a pilot with a robot brain. Sharon hits the switch which splits the carrier into three parts, one of which crashes into the enemy jet, destroying it. The other two pieces land and Steve emerges on a motorcycle, Val on Aragorn, and Rhodey by jet. The three engage in an exciting running battle with the truck, ending with Val slicing it in two with her sword and War Machine blasting the cab apart. They trace its signals back to its point of origin and find a former A.I.M. installation with several hundred human brains creating a living computer; nothing can be done for the victims….


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Aniana
In Aniana, the capital city of the Eastern European nation of Symkaria, a disguised Black Widow and Sharon Carter arrive at a luxury hotel to see Voydanoi but they are turned away by a bodyguard as an American named Grant is taken upstairs. A disguised Steve Rogers walks through the snowy street and another guard warns him away from the secret entrance to Voydanoi’s hotel. Steve attacks the man but finds him oddly immune to karate. A brutal fight ensues with Steve eventually victorious and the vanquished thug exhales a brightly colored mist when unconscious. Steve contacts Sharon and Natasha inside to tell them that the drug Voydanoi is planning the sell to the Shadow Council is a super-soldier drug….
Mr. Grant is sent to a room with a prostitute named Agneyta; in the room, Grant jams the buildings comm system, gives the woman money to leave this life behind, and dons his Moon Knight costume….

Steve, Natasha, Sharon, and Moon Knight make their way separately to the penthouse, fighting guards along the way. Knight recognizes that the super-soldier abilities come not from a drug but spirit possession, and poisoning the host drives the spirit out. The agents arrive at the penthouse where they are greeted by Voydanoi. He tells them that he discovered the bones of the Elder Gods in a grave in Transia; smoking the crushed bones releases the spirits into a human who becomes insanely powerful. And now Voydanoi has smoked enough to make him beyond super-human. Working as a team, the Secret Avengers set him afire and Moon Knight kicks him out of the window to a gruesome death far below.