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(S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier)The helicarrier, the floating world headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping task force, is hovering 1000 feet over Langley, West Virginia. Commander Maria Hill strides into the main control room which has numerous staff members monitoring huge screens that adorn each wall. Her subordinate informs her that they have a situation. The Raft had a break-in, fifteen minutes ago. Hill replies that he means break-out. She was just there.
The faces of several super-powered criminals appear on a monitor, including those of Madame Masque, the Wizard and the Wrecking Crew. She looks at the faces and reckons it’s everyone they just picked up for the bank job in New Jersey. Who even knew they were there? The agent replies that they’re looking into it. Hill asks if any agents were hurt during the escape. He replies that there are seventeen dead. Hill says that can’t be allowed. How did they break-in past them? They have anti-cloak sensors. He replies that intel believes the cloaking was mystical in nature, which puts them at a disadvantage. Maria Hill squeezes the bridge of her nose and sighs that the magical stuff is going to be the end of her. She orders him to find them. Look where they’d least expect them to be, and then look where they wouldn’t.
(elsewhere)Tigra is lying on her bed with the Hood pointing a pistol into her face. She is clearly scared, especially with several other super-villains surrounding her, which puts her at a distinct disadvantage. The Hood asks her to tell him where Doctor Strange and those damn New Avengers are or he will kill her mother tonight. He’ll kill her and then find her again, and he’ll cut off one of her furry, tick-ridden legs. “Boy, I’d tell him,” adds Jigsaw. Finally, Tigra replies that they’re at Strange’s house in the village. The Hood says they were there and it’s boarded up. Tigra explains that it’s an illusion. They’re in there. He asks how she knows. She informs him that everyone in the Initiative knows it - they just can’t prove it. It’s magic.
The Wrecker exclaims that he hates magic. The Hood stands up and warns Tigra that he’ll kill her if she is lying. She tells him that the only reason she told him is that when they get there, those guys will mop the @#$^* floor with them. “You and your mommy better hope they do,” replies the Hood. Jigsaw then slaps her hard across the face and they all depart, leaving Tigra sprawled on the floor.
(meanwhile, at Strange’s Sanctum in Greenwich Village)The Night Nurse is telling Jessica a saucy tale when the team arrives back via one of Strange’s teleportations. Maya Lopez is struggling with her arm injury, and the Night Nurse offers to help. Logan is starving, but Wong warns him from entering the kitchen. It has an order to it, and every time Logan enters it all goes to pot. They then notice Doctor Strange struggling. Wong offers assistance, but he barks at his faithful assistant not to touch him. He leaves the group with his head down, clearly in some kind of pain.
Spider-Man wonders if they should do something. Ronin wonders if he got hurt, but Luke didn’t see him even get a cut. Danny wonders if maybe they should skedaddle and let him have the place to himself for once. “And go where?” asks Luke. Spidey pulls on his face mask and says he should go home anyhow. He’s not leaving because two grown men are minutes away from having a knock-down-drag-out over where the spatula goes. He has to go and figure out which one of them is a Skrull, because now he thinks that they’re all Skrulls and he’s on the weirdest reality show ever.
As he departs, Maya asks Clint what he said. He tells her that it’s nothing important and offers to fix her arm. She tells him she can fix her own arm, and brushes his hand away. “Hey!” he replies. “Nice person offering to help. Me.” Maya apologizes for offending him.
(across the street)The Hood and his assembled team of villains are on a rooftop watching Strange’s house. It appears to be a derelict building awaiting a Starbucks restaurant. The Wrecker says that they did something like this once. The Masters of Evil trashed Avengers Mansion, and they almost won, too. “So close,” adds Piledriver. The Hood uses his demonic magic to look at the Sanctum with new eyes. They glow red as he sees what is really there. “The furry @#$ was right,” he exclaims. “They are in there.” He can see through the illusion.
Madame Masque asks if they’re going to meet the demon he stole his powers from. Does he have a name? The Hood turns to her, annoyed at the request. “I’m sorry?” Madame Masque informs him that they all saw it the other day. They appreciate his vision and the fact that he got them out of S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, but he needs to come forward with exactly who he is and what they’re dealing with if this goes past tonight.
As she speaks, the Wizard points and they see Spider-Man on the side of the Sanctum. Parker’s spider-sense tingles and he sees them across the street. The Hood calls for action. He wants no goofing around, no showboating and no speeches. No one gets out.
Spider-Man enters the Sanctum and warns everyone that they’re on their way. No one appears to be interested until Spidey grabs Danielle out of Jessica’s hands and makes a run for it. Immediately, Jessica chases him, and Luke asks Danny to follow him. They’ll cut Spidey off. However, Danny sees smoke come through the window and replies that he thought there was an ancient seal of protection. The window then shatters. Outside, Chemistro is firing a weapon at the window, which has managed to change the chemical construction of the wood that held the seal. As he gloats about succeeding, he is smacked in the face with some nunchakus thrown by Ronin.
Spidey reaches the roof with Jessica in hot pursuit. “Give me back my kid!” she cries. Spidey stops and hands Danielle over to her. He apologizes but says there was no time. The baby comes first. He warns her to get out of there.
Meanwhile, the Wrecker kicks the door in and the villains pour through, the entrance having increased in size by Bulldozer charging through the wall. Danny still thinks that Doctor Strange’s spell will mean the villains can’t see or hear them but, when the villains open fire, the heroes are forced to duck for cover. The Hood goes straight for Strange himself, and enters his room opening fire with both pistols. Strange is shot several times, and both Wong and the Night Nurse are forced to find cover. Wong then attacks the Hood using his martial arts skills. Wolverine comes charging into the main room from the kitchen and the two teams begin a battle royale.
On a nearby rooftop, Jigsaw looks through the sights of a high-powered rifle. He sees Spider-Man returning to the fray and Jessica holding her baby tight. He grins as he aims the gun at Jessica’s head. However, just as he’s about to fire, his sight is webbed up and he looks up just in time to see Spidey’s fist coming at him hard. Parker apologizes, but there are no ugly jokes this time. He’ll just have to remember some of his old ones.
Inside, the battle rages on, with Wolverine taking on Piledriver, Iron Fist laying into the Griffin and Luke sparring with the powerful Wrecker. Spidey returns and webs up the Blood Brother’s face. Spidey then informs Luke that the baby’s okay. Luke says he almost killed him. Spidey repeats that the baby’s okay, and this time Luke thanks him. He then hammers the Wrecker with great force. “You can take care of yourself,” he tells Spidey. “These #$%@£*#$%$£@# came at my baby!”
Watching the events from an anonymous van across the street are a couple of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Agent Queen (passcode delta-niner-six-Gary-Oldman) reports to base that they have a satiation. The helicarrier controller asks him to describe the situation. Before he can respond, Piledriver is hurled through the hole in the window right onto the car parked next to the van. The two agents draw their weapons just in case.
Inside the Sanctum, the place is being torn apart as Crossfire blasts away and the two opposing forces continue their battle. Wolverine plunges his claws into Thunderball’s chest, as Ronin smacks the Wizard upside the head and Maya tightens her grip on Chemistro’s neck. The Hood enters the room after leaving Wong and is about to fire at Iron Fist, when Tigra leaps into the room, clawing his face. He screams with pain, as she unleashes her frustrations on him. Spidey looks over and thinks it’s cool that Tigra showed. Even a Skrull of Tigra would be okay.
As the Hood manages to shoot Tigra on the shoulder, Doctor Strange awakens with his eyes glowing bright. A look of horror is spread across his face. In the main room, Iron Fist tells Luke that this has got to stop. This is a religious place; a mystical place. Luke replies that it’s also the place where they’re getting their heads handed to them.
Meanwhile, Doctor Strange manages to stand. He growls for no one to touch him, but Wong pleads with him to determine what is happening. The Hood, seemingly speaking to no one, reckons this is where they finish it. Wolverine’s torso is sizzled as the Living Laser goes straight through him, and Luke Cage is smashed to the ground by Piledriver, whose ball lands on his back with a foom. Nearby, Razorfist slices Danny’s back, and the Griffin punches Maya hard in the face. Ronin realizes that they’re in real trouble as he is sizzled by an electrical blast.
Spider-Man is pulled to the ground by Vermin, and the Wrecker closes in on him as Tigra struggles against bulldozer’s strength. Out of nowhere, the room turns a shade of magenta and a hulking Doctor Strange appears; his muscles pumped to the max and his eyes glowing brightly. “Fastada Unrunade! Pistadi Rununini!” he cries. He repeats it twice. Every villain in the room is caught in his mystical assault, and they glow in the same way as Strange. A moment later and everyone is lying on the floor dazed. “By the Vishanti…” exclaims Wong. The Night Nurse places her hand on Strange’s cheek and asks what happened.
Before he can answer, she notices Wong crawling over to a book on the floor. She asks what he’s doing, but he tells her to hold on. “What happened to him?” He opens the book and raises his hands to perform a spell. “Kirinati Falanutiti,” he whispers. Wolverine screams and Wong moves onto Luke. He repeats the spell again and again with Spider-Man, Iron Fist, Tigra, Ronin and Echo. They slowly come out of their miasma and Clint asks what the heck that was. Wong explains that he used a reversal spell. It takes back a recent defense spell. It worked, though he wasn’t sure it would. He apologies for it being so painful.
Clint says that he means, what happened? Strange explains that because of their struggles of late, he has called upon darker forces than he would normally use. He thought he could control these forces, but he can’t. It was his arrogance – the same arrogance that led him down the path he is on in the first place. His hands are useless again, and he tried to disguise it. All these years, and he has learned nothing. He sighs. He continues to say that he’s had no time to deal with what he has done. The forces are overpowering him. He wanted to help them so much, and to help Bruce Banner, but he has failed. He has failed at his task as Sorcerer Supreme of this dimension. He doesn’t think he can help them anymore.
He is clearly upset at what has happened. He adds that he needs to atone for what he has done, and relearn all that he has lost. He needs to put back the magics which he had no business in using in the first place. “I can’t help you anymore. You have to leave here. We all do.” he apologizes, but creates a mystical spell which transports him away.
As Spidey wonders what they do now, Ms. Marvel then floats in through the roof with a squad from Operation Lightning Storm. She advises them not to move for starters. He calls in to base and informs them that she is at the house and they should hold on for reports.
She asks Luke where his baby is, to which he replies that he doesn’t know, but they’re okay. Carol wants to find her. “You’re not going to try and arrest us?” asks Spidey and Iron Fist together. Ignoring them, Carol reports to the helicarrier that they need a clean-up crew at Strange’s place. They should call Brother Voodoo back, as there are some magicy magical chemicals that she doesn’t want to touch. The controller asks if the rebel Avengers are there. “They must have taken off,” she replies, wincing at her decision. “Right?” she asks, turning to the members of Operation Lightning Storm. Clint smiles as he pulls his mask off and says that’s the Carol Danvers he used to crush on.
One of the soldiers apologizes, but says he’ll have to report this. Carol reminds him that these people just heroically avenged dead S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. He says no. What she is doing is against the law. Another soldier says that all he sees are bad guys who killed a lot of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents lying all over the place. Luke thanks Carol, and the first soldier tells him he’s under arrest. “Shut up,” warns Carol. She asks Luke how he’s going to get by tomorrow. He replies that he doesn’t know.
(elsewhere)The Hood has escaped but is in a bad way. He stumbles into an alleyway where he rests against a wall to recover. He struggles with his words as he speaks to the unseen silent voice he appeared to be speaking to earlier. He did everything the voice told him. They overpowered them and had the surprise. Why did they lose? The voice replies directly into his mind. “Okay,” replies Robbins. “Okay. You’re right. Now I know how to beat ‘em.”
(Stark Tower, New York City)Near the top of the building, Jessica arrives and is asked for identification by the computer. The events of the past few weeks have finally caught up with her. The baby cries but she manages to inform the computer that her name is Jessica Jones and she’d like to register. She tries to calm the baby and pleads with the computer to let her in.


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The Breakup
Following a huge battle at Doctor Strange’s home in Greenwich Village, the good doctor has gone AWOL. Luke Cage is looking for his wife, and he heads to her office at Alias Investigations. The place is deserted. Luke looks at an old photograph of Jessica in her Jewel costume, surrounded by the Avengers. He calls for her, but there is no response. A brief image flits across his memories of a happier time. Luke then heads outside into the street which is lit by the early morning sun, and the first thing he sees across the city is Avengers Tower. “No,” he sighs.
(Avengers Tower)Jessica Jones looks out onto the city as she eats her breakfast. Her cell phone starts to ring and, apprehensively, she picks it up. “Avengers Tower. Jessica Jones speaking. How may I help you?” On the other end is Luke, standing in a call box. “Are you @#$% kidding me?” he asks. Jessica assures him that the baby’s okay, but Luke repeats his question. Jessica adds that she’s okay too. “What the @#$%?!” Luke replies, angrily. Jessica tells him that she flipped. If he wants to come too, that would be great. By flipped, she means that she signed the Registration Act. She had to protect their baby.
Luke can’t believe it. After everything that they’ve been through, she went and ran to Tony Stark. After the Civil war, after Captain America died? Jessica replies that she knew their baby wasn’t safe in that environment. The bad guys came crashing through the front door! What was she supposed to do? She’s not going to screw up being a mom like she’s screwed up everything else in her life. Luke pauses, allowing her to explain.
Jessica says that this, she’ll do right. She let him make the first call and let him set them up in Strange’s creepy funhouse. She let him ‘live by his damn principles,’ even though no one cares about his damn principles. She agrees that the war is over, but he lost and she still went along with him. He had his shot and it didn’t work. They’re not safe. They never were. The baby needs more than what they’re doing. She admits that she might not be a parental genius, but putting Danielle before your own damn principles has to be a part of it. Luke puts the phone to his forehead and closes his eyes.
After a brief pause, Jessica asks, “Hello?” Luke tells her that it wasn’t her call. Jessica disagrees. Luke asks what she knows about the other things, such as Elektra. Jessica responds by asking why that matters. What matters is now. They have no home! The war’s over and he lost! He should lose like a man and put his kid first. Luke smashes the phone receiver in his anger and the line goes dead. Jessica apologizes to Jarvis for raising her voice. Jarvis asks what Luke is going to do now. “Trash your lobby,” is her semi-flippant reply.
Jessica slips her jacket on and heads down to the lobby. “My kingdom for a cigarette,” she whispers to herself. It’s not long before Luke arrives and Jessica warns him that, if he enters, they’ll arrest him. Luke says they’re trying to arrest him anyway. Now he can’t see his kid? Jessica tells him that, if he signs up, he can see his wife and kid. He gets to be an Avenger again, a membership card and his old apartment back. It’s a helluva package. Luke folds his arms. He can’t believe she’s done this. Jessica says that she can’t believe she didn’t do it before.
Luke believes that Jessica has sold them out and is ending their marriage. It’s a betrayal that can’t be forgotten. Jessica points out that, knowing how much she loves him, what does it say that she has done this? Does it say she doesn’t love him, or does it say that their lives have been turned upside down to the point where what he was doing and how he was doing it was not suitable?
After another brief pause, Luke says that he wants his child. She’s putting his child in danger as this place is the least safe place on the planet. Jessica disagrees. She asks him to try walking into the tower. See what happens when a bunch of super-villains crash through their front door. “You know what I mean,” he replies. Jessica does. She knows the big bad Skrulls are coming to get them. “Tony Stark is one of them!” barks Luke.
The couple argues about how little they actually know about the Skrulls, but Jessica is adamant that if the little green men are coming to get them, then Avengers Tower is the place she’d like to be. Actually, she’d like to open a bookstore in Seattle, but until such time as she can get some money, this is where she will be. Luke closes his eyes. “So we’re done,” he replies. Jessica assures him that she doesn’t want their relationship to be over. She wants him to come inside with her. According to Luke, that isn’t going to happen, but Jessica thinks that they have to decide things in an adult manner. This is what they have to do. Luke asks her why she came back from Canada after Cap died. Jessica says that clearly, she was wrong to. She notes Luke’s expression and apologizes for that.
Inside the tower, Jarvis listens over the intercom as he dries the washing. The Avengers arrive back, and Ms. Marvel notices baby Danielle. She asks if Jessica is there. Jarvis informs her that it’s been a rather dramatic day. While they were gone, Jessica has come seeking asylum. Considering Carol’s relationship with her, he took the liberty of inviting her in. She and her husband are having words outside. Carol knows it’s bad, but figures she’ll have to handle it.
Downstairs, the couple is at somewhat of an impasse. Luke asks if it’s the case that he has to get a lawyer to see his kid. Jessica reminds him that his fugitive status will look great at a child custody hearing. Or, she adds, he could get over himself. Most of the people inside the tower are his friends… were his friends. “Until they sold out,” he replies. Jessica asks him to grow up.
Ms. Marvel descends and tells Luke that he’s got to go. Luke calls her the Queen of sellout. Carol asks him not to take out his crap on her. She’s the only reason he isn’t lying in jail right now, and this is what they do? They take it to her front door? Jessica asks Luke to think about it. She knows that he’s mad, but at the same time, he can’t tell her what she should have done instead. As Jessica departs, Carol asks Luke if he is going to think about it, because if he is thinking of signing, she can let him walk out of there. If not…
Luke asks what the alternative is. Carol asks if he wants to walk away right now, or sit in a cell opposite Marvel Boy. She thinks Luke makes it impossible to do right by him. Wonder Man then appears and asks if everything is all right. The Black Widow, Spider-Woman and Ares join him. “And look who it is,” quips Luke, “Sellouts Assemble!” Natasha tells him that he’s under arrest, but Carol corrects her. She informs them that he’s thinking about changing over. Spider-Woman doesn’t think so. She thinks he’d rather die. Luke warns them that if any of them (calling them Skrull shape-shifting @#$%$) touches Jessica or his baby, he’s going to kill them and everyone they’ve ever met. Carol doesn’t really understand the Skrull reference, and Luke reckons she should talk to her boss, or the Prom Queen standing nearby. Simon asks what that means.
Luke begins to walk away, and Natasha is surprised. Carol says it’s her choice as team leader. She reminds Natasha that she’d be rotting in the Russian Gulag if not for bending the rules a little. Cage’s guys took down an entire gang of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent murderers - high risk bad guys, twice in one night. He’s thinking about flipping, so why doesn’t she crawl out of her nose for two seconds? Jessica returns and apologizes for Luke’s behavior. He hasn’t slept in days. Natasha asks what’s going on, but Spider-Woman says that it’s classified S.H.I.E.L.D. stuff. “And?” replies Natasha. They’re agents. They’re Avengers! Spider-Woman asks her to wait until Tony gets back. She’s not the one to talk to.
(later)Danny Rand enters an empty but spacious room high up in a skyscraper with open arms. Can he pull something out of his %^$ or what? Maya asks whose apartment it is. Danny tells her that it’s theirs. It’s not just an apartment. It’s the entire floor. He explains that the building is in Rand Corporation’s real estate holdings through a sister company. Clint jokes that he’s bored of this answer already. Danny continues to say that the entire floor was rented out to Samuel Sterns under a third party on his side. Clint asks who he is. Danny informs him that he’s the Leader: a gamma-radiated genius what superhuman intelligence and mind-control abilities. The team is still in the dark. “Big green head. Used to fight the Hulk,” adds Danny. They pretend they have a clue who he’s talking about.
Maya asks if he’s coming back. Danny tells them that Sterns is no longer a concern, so his real estate holdings were seized and then turned into receivership. So, for the first year at least, this already-rented floor is not being used. It’s also indirectly owned by him, and it would take a team of lawyers to even figure out he owns it, let alone to look for them there.
Danny asks Maya, Logan and Clint to use the back elevator as no one has access to it but them. Spidey can use the window in the alley which leads directly to his own room. Danny then reminds them that Doctor Strange is now walking the Earth like Caine in Kung Fu, so they have no magic or hocus-pocus. They now have to be covert. This is a one-time deal. If they screw this up before they figure out the Skrull thing, that’s it They’re meeting in a Wendy’s bathroom. ‘At least Wendy’s has food,’ thinks Logan.
He says he’s crashing, and Spidey tells everyone that he’s going to figure out exactly why he was in such a hurry to get out of the House of M world. Clint thinks about the name, Avengers Apartment. It doesn’t have much of a ring to it. Danny adds that there is no Jarvis or Wong around, so if they mess a dish, they can clean a dish.
Maya doesn’t think that this is how she imagined being an Avenger to be. Luke opens the door and leaves without a word. Clint asks Danny if he found Jessica and the baby. He tells him that he did, but that they’re going the other way. “Ouch,” replies Clint. Danny knows all about it.


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Echo removes her hand from her face and looks back at her reflection in the mirror. A handprint adorns her exotic features. She looks around and notices Wolverine, shirtless, rifling through the fridge. She stares at him, and this doesn’t go unnoticed. “I ain’t a Skrull, Maya,” says Logan. Maya says she never said he was. Logan reckons that she is thinking that he has never once mentioned their past; that she is wondering if he knows about their past. Is that why he hasn’t mentioned it? Is it really him?
He removes a meal from the fridge and tells her that he hasn’t mentioned it because he’s a gentleman. That’s all. Maya tells him that she’s not as convinced as he that they’re involved in this conspiracy Skrull thing. She thinks they all want to be, so they don’t have to think about what a disaster their lives have become. Logan refutes that. His life is about the same level of disaster as it’s always been.
Maya replies that Captain America is dead and they are hiding. “Yeah, well,” replies Logan. “Skrulls are still comin’.” He’s pretty sure of this. He’s lived a long time and knows some stuff. She asks if he’s just going to sit there and wait for it to happen. Logan snaps open a beer and says that they can’t smell them, they can’t see them and they can’t trust anyone outside their hideout not to be one. When they come, they should be ready.
Echo tells him that she’s going out but, when she turns to leave, he grabs her arm and tells her, just so she knows, that half the reason he hooked up with these guys after Cap went and got himself popped was that he wasn’t going to let them leave her out in Japan to fend for herself. Maya stares at him. “Don’t hit on me, Logan.” Logan is affronted. He never meant that. He was just being nice to her. He’s not going to hit on her. She’ll hit on him. He smiles and adds that there’s nothing he can do about that. It’s his curse. Maya returns his smile.
(soon)Maya hits the rooftops, leaping through the night air on her way to Matt Murdock’s place. When she arrives, crouching on his roof, she finds Daredevil already standing there. He says hi. She stands and replies that she wasn’t sure he was back in America. He asks where she’s been hiding. “On a road you put me on,” she answers. He asks if she’s still with Luke Cage and the others. She says yes. He seems impressed that she is like this whole rebel super hero person now. She’s an Avenger. Maya tells him that she’s with them, but she isn’t certain that it makes her one of them... yet. He then asks if she was looking for him.
Maya tells Matt that she needed to know something. “Why did you send Captain America to me?” Matt replies that Captain America is dead. Maya says yes, and stutters as she ponders her next sentence. “Oh! Oh! You mean before?” he replies. Again she says yeah. Matt tells her that it was the right thing to do. It worked out, right? he asks. Maya pulls her sword from its sheath. “Right?” he asks again. Maya snarls at him, and asks who he is really.
Daredevil doesn’t respond, but slowly begins to change shape. As she watches, he transforms himself into a doppelganger of herself. Her eyes widen in surprise. It’s a Skrull. “You’re just a human girl. Don’t turn this into a situation,” it says. Maya attacks instinctively, but her doppelganger’s eyes begin to glow crimson. “Well, I did warn you,” it says, before unleashing a powerful optic blast at Maya.
Maya leaps to the side, but is hurt by the blast. She falls from the rooftop and onto a fire escape, hitting the metal hard. Her doppelganger informs her that it’s spent too much time studying her. It doesn't want to hurt her any more than is necessary. She should just let what needs to happen, happen. Maya hurls a plant pot at it, and it hits the Skrull in the face, giving her a moment to recover. She clambers back onto the roof and attacks once again with her sword, managing to connect with her assailant’s torso. The Skrull is hurt, but it warns Maya that this isn’t a fight she’s going to win.
Maya asks what it wants. In response, the Skrull fires another optic blast which misses. Maya comes at it once more, but this time the Skrull’s arm turns to flame and it melts her sword, burning Maya’s hand in the process. The Skrull tells her that it has studied her, and it does respect her. She’s pulled herself together from nothing, and it admires that. It asks her to surrender and let this be done. It stretches its flaming hand out. “I really do admire you.” Maya asks if it really does, because it’ll get a kick out of what’s coming next.
The Skrull looks over its shoulder and sees Wolverine leaping at her; his claws extended. He slashes all the way down the Skrull’s body causing a shriek of agony to come from his opponent. The Skrull falls backwards and Wolverine plunges three of his claws into its chest. It extends its own claws in response as it takes on Logan’s appearance and abilities. It then unleashes an optic blast, which takes Wolverine’s skin off.
Maya rushes at the Skrull, who tells her that she doesn’t even know what they’re fighting for. She burns Maya with a wall of flame and then teleports, Nightcrawler-style. It transforms back into its Daredevil appearance and tells her that they are trained to die.
Wolverine’s healing factor begins to kick in, but he can’t communicate with Maya who is facing away from him. The Skrull teleports again, and Maya looks round to see where it went. It appears right behind her, grabbing her neck and it prepares to blast her again. Before her blast materializes, Echo delivers a solid uppercut and the Skrull’s effort is directed skywards. Echo then kicks the alien in the face, but pauses.
The Skrull catches on fast, and it looks around to see a bloody and injured Wolverine leaping at it once again. “No!” it cries as it teleports. It reappears, seriously injured by now, on a chimney stack. Both Wolverine and Echo begin to charge, going in for the kill, but the Skrull exhibits its fire & flight abilities and flames on. It then takes to the air and doesn’t look back.
Wolverine is furious. The Skrull has Cyclops’ eye-blast and Nightcrawler’s teleporting prowess. It also has the Human Torch’s or Firestar’s powers. Maya says it wanted her. Logan agrees. He watches the flames disappear into the night sky, knowing he can’t track ‘damn ‘porters.’
Logan stumbles and Maya grabs hold of him. He asks if she believes him now. She steadies him and asks if he was following her. He replies that he was, luckily for her. Why? He informs her that if he was a Skrull looking to sink its claws into their little team, she’d be the one he would go after. She is the one with the least amount of ties and history. She’s the one he’d grab. Maya can’t believe it was going to kill her and replace her. Logan replies that they were going to switch her out. He was right and she was wrong. She’s welcome. He takes a breather as his healing factor goes to work on his mangled body.
(later)Maya is recovering from the battle, and Clint Barton brings her a hot drink. He jokes that it’s not every day you get to beat the crap out of yourself. He guesses the Skrulls are good for something. He asks if she’s okay. She replies that she doesn’t know what she’s doing there. Clint knows the feeling. When he first joined the Avengers as Hawkeye, he thought about how odd it looked - he and his little arrows next to the real life God of Thunder. He wondered what his exploding arrows could do, that lightning boy with the hair, couldn’t. But then, something happens. You could be on your own, or part of the team, when all of a sudden you are the exact right person for the exact right moment. You take your shot, and all of a sudden you know you’re an Avenger.
Maya says that they should be honest. This isn’t the Avengers. Where Clint was, that’s the Avengers. Clint takes a sip of his drink and agrees... expect that’s what everyone said about the Avengers when he joined them. The press bashed the @#$% out of them, but then one day everyone’s saying that those were the glory days. He adds that it never feels like it, but then all of a sudden you turn around and its tomorrow, and yesterday was the glory days. He grins, and tells her that he thinks he’ll look back on this conversation rather fondly. She looks him in the eyes. “Oh, you do?” He replies that he does.
Maya looks to the floor. Clint says he’s sorry, and asks if she remembers the other day. Maya looks up and asks if he means when she walked in on him in the shower. This isn’t the moment he meant. He meant after the fight with the Hood when he was patching her arm. He wanted to kiss her. Maya tells him that she knows. He asks if she would have minded. “No,” she replies. He asks why, in that case, she didn’t kiss him. “Hey,” she replies. “If you’re going to chicken out…” Clint interjects and asks what she means. She tells him she was right there. He chickened out. Before another word is said, their lips meet and separate. They look dreamily into each other’s eyes before kissing again, passionately.
(later)Clint lies asleep in their shared bed. Maya sits up and looks at him. She raises her fingers to her face and places them against her flesh.


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(present, the Savage Land)A Tyrannosaurus Rex attacks the assembled groups of Avengers along with the heroes who have emerged from the crash-landed Skrull craft. Its giant foot squashes one of the Spider-Men and, as the other climbs the creature’s neck, the Wolverine from the Skrull ship follows. He stabs his claws into the creature’s body to assist his ascent, but the pain causes it to throws its head back, hurling Spider-Man away into the jungle. He crash lands after hitting several branches of a tree and looks up to see himself surrounded by Ka-Zar, Shanna, Zabu and several of their allies.
Spidey instantly believes them to be Skrulls, but they try to inform him that they are not. Spidey finds it cute that the Skrulls went to all this trouble. He thought one of them posing as himself when he had the costume with the web-pits was inventive… embarrassing, though. It was like looking at himself wearing a leisure suit. But, now they’ve gone and turned themselves into a Ka-Zar and a Sheena. Shanna corrects him, but Spidey says he’s caught her out. It’s Sheena. Shanna repeats her real name. Spidey repeats Sheena. “I know my name,” replies Shanna. “Do you?” replies Spidey. Shanna asks him if he’s having a nervous breakdown.
Ka-Zar steps in and asks if he really thinks that they’re Skrulls. With several spears pointing at him, Spidey jokingly asks who chooses which one of them shape-shifts into what. Who gets to be the kitty? Shanna has had enough and asks her husband to take care of this. Ka-Zar points out that they’re not Skrulls. They are fighting for their lives. They’re under siege. Spidey pauses, before asking, “What’s happened here?”
(months ago)It’s night time and Ka-Zar is sleeping. Shanna arrives back at their home and Ka-Zar asks where she’s been. Hunting, she tells him. “For three days?” he asks. Shanna sits down and asks where he thinks she was. Ka-Zar says he didn’t know. They hear gunfire outside and head out to see what’s going on. They arrive at a clearing and hide in the foliage. In the clearing is a large man-made series of circles, like an amphitheater. Search lights from helicopters sweep the area and temporary lights keep the area bright. The people are wearing S.H.I.E.L.D. uniforms. A pair of helicopters fly past the hiding family and they see a Jeep pursuing three mutates. More gunfire rings out as they are mown down in a hail of bullets.
Zabu wants to attack, but Ka-Zar holds him back, warning him that they have many guns. He tells Shanna that they’re poaching the Vibranium Mines. Shanna is appalled. “S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. Those $*%$€,” she exclaims. Ka-Zar says that Fury would never betray them like this. He owes him. Shanna points out that he has betrayed him. They’re poaching the Vibranium Mines and they’re using their people to do it. That Vibranium is used to make weapons - Tony Stark weapons. Ka-Zar turns away, trying to think around the situation.
Shanna adds that these are world-changing weapons, and they’re taking it, even though world laws have been passed to stop that from ever happening. The only question Shanna has is, what took them so long? When a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent shoots one of the mutates at point blank range, Ka-Zar decides to do something about it. He and Shanna grab a female perimeter guard and Shanna delivers a chop to her throat to keep her quiet. Unfortunately, the chop breaks her neck. Shanna is horrified. She didn’t mean to do that.
When the agent hits the ground she transforms into a Skrull. Neither Ka-Zar nor Shanna recognize it straight away, but Ka-Zar doesn’t believe that it is human. He then says that he thinks it might be a Skrull. “A what?” asks Shanna. He informs her that they’re a shape-shifting alien race. Shanna doesn’t believe him but he asks if she’s heard of the Kree/Skrull War. She replies that she’s never heard of it. Ka-Zar thinks they should get the internet. Shanna has a plan. She begins to remove her clothes and asks him to get the alien’s uniform. She’s going to figure this out.
(soon)Wearing the uniform and carrying the Skrull’s weapon, Shanna stands in her place and when someone contacts her by radio to report on her status, she replies that the left quadrant perimeter is secure. She sees mutates being treated appallingly by the agents and looks around to see who might be in charge of the operation. She spots a male and a female standing over a table and approaches gingerly. One of them is Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, though Shanna wouldn’t recognize her as such.
The Contessa informs her colleague that they need to do this job quickly. The only people that ever come to this part of the Earth are the Avengers and the X-Men. They will only come when they tell them to. Her colleague tells her that there are other humans in the area: savage humans. She asks how many. A total of five, maybe? He replies by asking for confirmation that the Avengers are no more. Valentina informs him that they have agents inside the new Avengers so he needn’t worry about that. “New Avengers?” he asks. She tells him that he has all the weapons and all the numbers he needs. For the heavy lifting, he has these things. She motions towards the mutates who mill around carrying boxes.
He asks her if the Queen knows about this part of the operation. She is about to tell him he doesn’t have to worry himself about that, when they overhear Shanna’s radio. Someone at control is asking if she has left her post. Valentina confronts Shanna and asks who she might be. Several agents also approach her, and Valentina asks what she’s doing all the way out there. Shanna doesn’t reply and, instead, opens fire on everyone. Several people are hit, including Valentina, and Shanna continues firing the weapon as she runs for cover. Watching from his hiding place, Ka-Zar whispers, “She never listens.”
Green blood drips from Valentina’s lips, as she orders her people not to change form. Shanna gets to a Jeep, still firing, and the Skrull agents close in on her. They don’t want her killed. As Shanna fires, her bullets dry up and her gun simply clicks away. They have her cornered, and Valentina changes her mind. “Forget it,” she commands. “Put her down. Now!”
Before a shot can be fired, Zabu attacks and takes down several agents in one fell swoop. A sniper takes aim at Shanna who is busy attacking one of the agents with her fists but, before the sniper can kill her, a spear in the back, courtesy of Ka-Zar, puts him down. He reverts to his Skrull form as Ka-Zar leaps into the Jeep and drives away, leaving the rogue agents to play catch up.
(hours later)The agents discover the Jeep, upside down tangled up in vines between the trees. Ka-Zar believes they’ve managed to get away, so Shanna says they need to formulate a plan. Ka-Zar wants to contact the mainland and tell Nick Fury, but Shanna reminds him that these aliens, or whatever they are, have infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. and have someone inside the Avengers. They need to do this themselves. They will gather the people of the Savage Land and protect their own. They will take the skunk-haired skank and shake her until she tells them who is who, and what is going on.
(later)Shanna and her crew are prepared for war. As they approach the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, they look below their vantage point to see a team of Avengers attacking. They are Iron Man, Wolverine, Spider-Woman, Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Captain America. They have no idea what the Avengers are doing there, and Shanna believes it must be a trick. As they watch, the Avengers look up and both Ka-Zar and Shanna raise their eyes to see a massive helicarrier hovering above the Savage Land. Missiles are fired from it towards the Vibranium Mine, and they strike the ground with incredible force. Iron Man erects a forcefield which saves his team, but everything around them is obliterated.
(present)Spider-Man is still conversing with Ka-Zar, and he tells him that he was there that day. It was a squirrelly day. He didn’t see any Skrulls, though. All he knows, is, the Avengers were there looking for someone when they saw S.H.I.E.L.D agents doing what they were doing. Before they could deal with it, they were attacked by the helicarrier, and if it wasn’t for Iron Man, that would have been that. They never got any answers about that day.
Ka-Zar figures that the aliens succeeded in covering up what they found. Spidey tells him that Captain America, before he died, thought it was a rebellious faction in S.H.I.E.L.D. that was trying to kill them: that there was something rotten going on with S.H.I.E.L.D. Shanna believes they are being too trusting of Spider-Man, but Spidey informs them that Skrulls were mining Vibranium there. They then tried to kill them. He doesn’t know what Ka-Zar and Shanna are doing there, but there are pieces of their story missing. They’re lying. As Ka-Zar swears on the honor of his father that he is telling the truth, Spider-Man’s spider-sense lights up and Zabu growls. They look over to see Captain America heading towards them. “Honor? What do you know about honor?” he asks.


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(months ago, San Francisco, California)Nick Fury is speaking with Jessica Drew, and he asks her to get her powers back. She thinks he’s out of his mind, but he wants to put her to work. He will tell her what to feed Hydra and she will feed him what they tell her. Jessica thinks they will kill her, but Nick reckons they’re gonna kill her anyway. There’s nothing they can do about that. At least this way she will be doing the right thing in the meantime. Jessica looks around, nervously. She thinks they’ll be watching her right now. Nick says that he wants them to. However, they can’t hear them. His high tech doohickey beats their high tech doohickey. “I wanna scream,” replies Jessica. Nick asks her to go ahead. They can’t hear her. “Here’s how it’ll work…”
(later, at an undisclosed Hydra base)Jessica is naked on an operating table, surrounded by Hydra scientists. She has her eyes open wide, and one scientist asks if she can hear him. She doesn’t reply, but the man continues to inform her that over time, the genetic codes which her father altered in her youth have worked to correct themselves. Her body has been fighting to heal itself back to its original state. It’s taken a few months, but they’ve been able to isolate and rejuvenate a sample of her genetic tissue and clone it. It’ll take some time, he adds, but they’re going to get her her powers back. He admits that her father was decades ahead of his time. She is an inspired scientific achievement and she should be proud. “Hail Hydra.” Jessica closes her eyes and falls asleep.
As soon as Jessica is unconscious, the Skrull Queen Veranke appears. An agent asks if they should proceed. “Let’s,” she smiles. The Hydra agents then change into their true forms - Skrulls working for the queen. “For the glory,” one replies.
Soon after, Queen Veranke stands on a raised dais, bathed in green light coming from a flaming ball. A Skrull places a piece of cloth bathed in blood on her head and says something to her in Skrullian. The queen replies before screaming as she begins to change. Images of Jessica Drew’s life flash through her mind as the queen begins to take on her memories. Memories flood in of Madripoor, of Madame Web, of the Avengers and the High Evolutionary, amongst others. Blood soaks into her skin - the blood of a human, the blood of a female, the blood of Jessica Drew, the blood of Spider-Woman, the blood of an agent of Hydra, the blood of an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Veranke becomes all these things and more. She gasps as the ceremony concludes. “For the glory,” she smiles, despite her exhaustion.
(New York City, weeks later)It’s night-time, and Spider-Man is making his rounds. Inside a Fogger Shipping warehouse, a small group of Skrulls has gathered to update each other on how the invasion is proceeding. Amongst them is Queen Veranke, now immersed in her role as Spider-Woman, a Skrull who is acting as Elektra, the Avengers’ butler Jarvis and another who has assumed the role of S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine. They wonder how they can get Jessica Drew back into S.H.I.E.L.D. without arousing suspicion. Valentina tells them what the situation is right now. There are two agents in charge of the white code S.H.I.E.L.D. security databases. That’s it. Just two, and they’ve already switched one of them for a Skrull.
A Skrull raises his hand and says it’s him. Valentina explains that he will be tasked to test Veranke for reassignment, and greenlight her. He will get her in and assign her a job that they will pick. Valentina will personally recommend her. This is just the beginning. She tells Veranke that on her command there will be dozens of agents in Hydra and S.H.I.E.L.D. switched and ready to go. Veranke provides her permission to proceed.
Veranke says that they will stick to the First Wave plans: the Vibranium Mines, the mutant population growth problems and the super-powered community. Vibranium can be used to make weapons that the Skrull Empire cannot fight back against. It’s the only thing on the planet that they can’t combat. They will destroy it, and that means letting their people in S.H.I.E.L.D. do just that in Wakanda and the Savage Land. Veranke tells them that they will create what appears to be a corrupt faction of S.H.I.E.L.D.; disgruntled Fury loyalists out for a payday. Maybe they’ll even let them get caught. They will have everyone pointing their fingers at each other. Nick Fury is out and the new girl, Maria Hill, is in. No one knows or cares about her, so they’ll set her up to take the fall.
Veranke continues to explain that the mutant population is a very serious problem. There are simply too many of them, and now they have their own island and real estate. If they don’t thin them out, this might all be for nothing. A fight against an army of Earth’s mutants is a fight they cannot win. The more mutants there are, the more chance of one of them gaining a power that specifically outs them. The only thing they have working for them is the unbelievable racism that the human race has towards them.
Valentina points out that the humans hate mutants because they know that they make humans almost instantly extinct. Veranke agrees. The hate crimes and the racism… they need to heat that up more and get them to start fighting each other. The more casualties there are, the better for them. That goes double for the super-powered human population. They must start at the top of the list and start taking out the bigger guns one at a time. She’s talking about humans and mutants like Doctor Strange, Doctor Doom, Namor, the Scarlet Witch, Hercules…
Valentina reckons they got lucky with Thor dying, but Veranke thinks that it means the Scarlet Witch is more of a concern. And Reed Richards and the #$%^ Tony Stark. A Skrull tells her that they should kill them now. She can be Sue Storm and kill Richards in his own bed… tonight. Veranke disagrees. She wants Richards and Stark to answer for their crimes, and they will do this in the throne city of Galax. For now, they will enjoy watching them do as much damage to themselves as they can possibly help them do. They will feed their inherent mistrust, paranoia, hatred and racism. Valentina thinks that if Nick Fury was still running the show, this wouldn’t be half as easy. Veranke asks her not to get too cocky. He’s still out there and this will not be easy. Most of them will die before this is over. Valentina asks where Veranke wants Jessica to be stationed. “Where the most madness can be unleashed with the least amount of suspicion,” she replies.
(Ryker’s Island Maximum Security Penitentiary)Veranke, as Jessica Drew, is at the prison and waiting for a helicopter to land. When it does, Luke Cage gets out alongside Matt Murdock. Jessica tells Matt that she is honored to meet him.
(later)Veranke is with a Skrull posing as Hank Pym in his lab. She explains to him that what followed was Max Dillon, Electro, being hired by them to help over fifty super-powered criminals break out of the prison. Dozens of S.H.I.E.L.D. agents died but there are dozens they can easily replace in their hospital beds. The Silver Samurai went off to Japan and Karl Lykos headed to the Savage Land. A potentially corrupt S.H.I.E.L.D. would be blamed. Hank smells a ‘but’ coming. Veranke admits that it appears that they accidentally put the Avengers back together.
They also have another name to add to their ‘big guns’ list - the Sentry. Hank seems perturbed that he wasn’t called to join, but Veranke points out that these he wasn’t there for this. These are the New Avengers. Hank reckons they’ve always treated hank like crap. He asks who hired her. Veranke replies that it was Captain America himself. For the glory, she could have killed him right there. She told him she’d think about joining. Hank reckons she has to do it.
Veranke knows this. She’ll be living in Stark’s house where she can keep an eye on him. It’s probably the only way they will get a chance to crack his technology. Hank asks if Madame Hydra knows. Veranke says she is meeting her in an hour. She is sure that she will find some way to congratulate herself for it.
(an hour later)Veranke, as Jessica Drew, meets up with Viper in a public place. Jessica asks her to promise that she didn’t have anything to do with what happened on the raft, because she almost died three times there. Viper tells her that it wasn’t them. If they wanted to kill her, they could have. Viper finds this new situation very interesting. Jessica says she is going to be an Avenger. Who would have thought? “Same deal as before?” asks Viper. Jessica replies no. This is going to cost her. It’s an entirely different situation.
She wants her to report back to her and on S.H.I.E.L.D? That’s gonna cost her. Viper asks how much. Jessica tells her that it’ll be enough so that when all this is done, if she’s still alive, she can forget all about them… in style. Viper reminds Jessica of her family history with Hydra, and that by this point in their relationship, bribery and threats would be replaced by dedication and devotion. Jessica turns to her and asks her to spare her this. She doesn’t care about them and she doesn’t care about Viper, either. Viper has her where she wants her, and she has Viper where she wants her. “Just pay me,” she snarls.
(sometime later)Queen Veranke, as Jessica, is in her Spider-Woman uniform and back with the Avengers. She joins them for breakfast. Seated around the table, being waited on by Jarvis, are Tony Stark, Wolverine, Captain America, Spider-Man and Luke Cage. The Avengers are chatting and joking amiably, and during the conversation, Jessica asks where Wanda Maximoff is. The room goes quiet, and Jessica apologizes for asking. Tony informs her that Wanda had… a breakdown. Cap adds that when it all went to hell at the mansion - that was her. This is news to Spider-Man, but Wolverine thinks that because Magneto is her father, it doesn’t surprise him too much.
Tony explains that Wanda isn’t a bad person. She’s a sick person. Logan reckons that having a terrorist for a dad sure does a number on a kid. Jessica apologizes again, but Tony says it’s okay. She didn’t know. Jessica asks if she’s okay. Tony hopes so, and informs her that Wanda is with her family now. “She’s with Magneto?” asks Logan. Tony reminds him that it’s her family. Logan quips that he’s sure nothing bad will come of that.
(later, on board a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier floating over Langley, West Virginia)Jessica has been invited to see S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill. Maria asks how it feels being an Avenger. Jessica replies that apart from mysterious people trying to kill you, it’s pretty good. Maria asks when the last time she spoke to Madame Hydra was. Jessica replies that it’s in her file. Maria asks how up-to-date that is. Does it include recently? Maria adds that she gets squirrely having ex-terrorists on board her ship. “You invited me her,” replies Jessica. Maria tells her that she makes her nervous. Her spider-sense is tingling about her. Jessica informs her that her predecessor, Fury, had a great deal of respect for her, and for the journey from having parents who were Hydra to now. Maria says Fury doesn’t work there anymore. “Clearly,” replies Jessica. Maria dismisses her.
Before she departs, Jessica asks if there’s anything she can do to make her less suspicious of her. Maria replies no, but Jessica turns and leans over the table to speak with her. She tells Maria that she bets a lot more people don’t trust her than don’t trust herself. In fact, she’d be a whole lot more worried by the fact that most of the people aboard the helicarrier and most of S.H.I.E.L.D. and most of those renegade agents they found in the Savage Land… hate her guts. “Dismissed,” barks Maria. Jessica thinks that perhaps she should try wearing an eye-patch, and leaves the room.
Once on the deck she calls the Skrull posing as Hank Pym, who is leaving Avengers Tower with the Avengers and X-Men for Genosha. Hank asks why she isn’t there before explaining that they’re going to confront the Wanda Maximoff situation. She’s out of control again. Half of them want to kill her and the other half want to save her. Jessica tells him to kill her. Hank asks if he should, even if it jeopardizes things? Jessica tells him that it won’t. Wanda killed Hank’s friends. He snaps and kills her, then they’ll switch him out.
(Genosha, hours later)Jessica is there as the world turns white and the House of M begins.


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(months ago, the House of M reality)There is a blinding flash of white light, and everything changes. Skrull Queen Veranke, who is posing as Jessica Drew, momentarily blanks out as the new reality kicks in. All around her, her fellow Red Guard agents discuss things, though Veranke is seemingly oblivious. Natasha Romanov is requesting backup in Madripoor, Wade Wilson is calling in and an order is given to send a B-Team to the Savage Land. Veranke eventually wakes from her miasma and makes her way to a window. She looks outside, only to discover that she is aboard a helicarrier. Two massive Sentinels flank the ship and there are dozens of aircraft alongside to help protect it.
Greycrow says hello when he notices her and asks where her squad leader is. Veranke is still a little disorientated, and Mystique replies that he’ll be there. Nightcrawler asks if she is okay, and Veranke again struggles to speak. Greycrow asks her to go find Logan. He has to send them into the field. Veranke walks away and into a corridor. She feels faint and leans against a wall. Sweat drips down her cheeks as she spots some people ahead of her. She bolts through a doorway and into the restroom. Once inside the cubicle, she throw up into the toilet and wonders what on Earth is going on.
(Chicago)At Stark Enterprises, Hank Pym is chatting with Hank McCoy, who hangs upside down as he works. They are talking about their employer, Tony Stark. As McCoy tries to tell Pym that he cannot isolate the mutant gene as the idea is anti-mutant, Pym begins having flashbacks to his former life. He remembers the X-Men having a sweet moment. He remembers Veranke, as Jessica Drew, on a Skrull world. He stops listening to McCoy altogether as he silently recalls lying on the floor, naked, and the naked Veranke undergoing her transformation into Jessica Drew.
He snaps out of it when McCoy places a large hand on this shoulder. McCoy says that he knows what’s going on. No one gets it more than he. When it happened to the dinosaurs, they didn’t see it coming. They didn’t have the intellect or capacity to understand it. Pym does. He’s watching it happen and it stings like a bitch. McCoy adds that, if the roles were reversed, he doesn’t know what he’d do.
He removes his glasses and tells Pym that he’s right to feel the way he does. It’s not fair that he has to sit there with full awareness and watch it slowly happen. He then asks Pym not to be like this and suggests grabbing some lunch. As the enormity of what has happened begins to sink in, Pym walks away, feeling ill. He then dashes from the building and into the street. As he runs, Veranke, dressed in her Red Guard costume, swoops down and picks him up. She assures him that it’s okay and deposits him on a nearby rooftop. Pym is scared, so she tells him to get a hold of himself. She places her hand over his mouth and informs him that she is his queen and he will heed her word.
She tells him that his name is Criti Noll, and orders him to say it. Hank complies. She introduces herself as Veranke. Pym says that he doesn’t understand. Everything is wrong. Veranke reminds him that he called her and said he was going to go with the Avengers and the X-Men to deal with the Scarlet Witch. Does he remember? Hank vaguely recollects this. She adds that he went to the Scarlet Witch, and then the world went white. Did he kill her? Hank remembers now. They never got to her. “We came to Genosha, and… Oh, my God.”
He looks out over the city and asks how Wanda did this. She isn’t this powerful. She isn’t a God. Veranke replies that she is powerful. That’s why she was on their list. They couldn’t possibly take the planet with her on it. She’s one of the reasons they are there… hiding. Hank asks why the world isn’t in chaos over this. Why aren’t they reacting? She tells him that the people do not know. The live happily; satiated. Hank rubs his forehead. He sees just how many mutants populate the city and reckons that the Skrull Armada can’t battle against that. This is the opposite of what they were sent there to do.
Veranke asks him to listen. She’s seen with her own eyes that Logan saw right through the illusion. She has been sent to hunt him. She feels that there must be others like them. She can feel how paper thin the illusion is. It has cracks in it, and they are those cracks. They will get word out that a mutant did this, and a war against the mutants will begin. It will be immediate and fierce. The mutants will be decimated and imprisoned, the Scarlet Witch will be executed and then they will know that it is their time. If this proves anything, she adds, then it’s that as long as they are left to eat, sleep and fornicate, the human race will go along with whatever they are told to do. They will easily buckle to the will of the Skrull Empire.
Hank thinks she’s taking a very optimistic look at this. Veranke replies that she has to. She knows what her job is. She must find Wanda Maximoff and blow her brains out. Pym informs her that she’s in Genosha. It’s not a secret. Veranke says she will go alone. He must remain there in case she doesn’t come back. Someone has to take over the operations. He asks how she will get to Genosha. “I’ll find a ride,” she replies. She’s sure that she’s not the only one ready to take out the Scarlet Witch.
(later)A team of assembled heroes from the helicarrier, including Wolverine, Spider-Man, Toad and She-Hulk, attack Magneto’s royal guards. Veranke shoots a guard in the face before swooping off to locate Wanda. She finds her in the palace and watches her through a window, playing with her twins. She then notices Hawkeye appear from the shadows, ready to kill Wanda.
As he hesitates, the unseen Veranke raises her gun but pauses. Clint has tears in his eyes as he converses with her. Veranke’s trigger finger begins to shake as she listens to their conversation. Wanda then uses her powers to take Clint apart piece by piece. Doctor Strange looks on as the building is torn apart in the same way. Veranke looks right into the eyes of one of the twins as he cuddles his mother, and is then thrown from the side of the building as it is destroyed.
“No more mutants,” says Wanda, and a blinding white light envelopes the world.
(reality, the recent past)In an abandoned warehouse, the rogue Skrulls are gathered to discuss the situation. Only a few mutants now remain, meaning their invasion can begin. Pym finds that this planet is mad. The humans should be thrilled to have them take over. Another event like this and their reality will cease to be. Veranke starts to cry and Elektra is concerned. Pym asks if she is alright. Veranke informs them that she has news. It’s too much to even say.
She tells them about the annihilation of their empire. It was written in their book of worlds that a wave would come. It has come true. Her fellow Skrulls cannot believe it. This is devastating news. A billion Skrulls died to prove the words true, Veranke cries. A billion more died to tell them that they are on Earth with a purpose. It was written that a wave would come, and that a world of blue would be home for all that believed. “We are right,” she concludes. “He loves us.”


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Clint Barton a.k.a. Ronin, and formerly known as Hawkeye, wakes, to find himself naked, sitting on a chair in an empty, sterile-looking room, a large clamp around his hands which are tied behind him. 'Agh! Crap... oh great' Clint mutters to himself. 'Well, Mister Barton... the lesson you've learned today is... be careful who you go out of your way to slam in the media... oh, and... be careful who you go and try and murder in cold blood...' a voice calls out.
Wide-eyed, Clint looks up and sees the Dark Avengers standing before him! Norman Osborn a.k.a. Iron Patriot, Ares, Bullseye a.k.a. Hawkeye, Venom a.k.a. Spider-Man, Moonstone a.k.a. Ms Marvel, Daken a.k.a. Wolverine and the Sentry. The Dark Avengers stand at the ready, as Osborn tells Clint that he never knows who the last people to see him alive will be. 'Hey, Norman. How's the hair?' Clint replies. Norman ignores Clint, and tells him that if he says sorry, they will let him go. 'Okay, that's funny' Clint declares. 'I thought so' Norman responds. Bullseye reaches for one of his arrows and asks 'Where do you want me to start the hurting?' 'No, No, Hawkeye. This is between him and me. You get to watch' Norman tells Bullseye, who starts to protest. 'Just having you here in his old costume is enough torture for now' Norman remarks. 'For you, maybe. I need more tactile -' Bullseye begins, but Norman tells him to settle.
Venom goes up behind Hawkeye, his long tongue flickers at Hawkeye's cheek, as the hero asks Osborn 'What's on your mind?' 'Where are the Avengers hiding?' Norman demands. Hawkeye remains silent, so Venom puts a large clawed hand around his neck. 'You tell me now and I'll spare your ex-wife' Norman smirks. Hawkeye just stares back at Norman and says nothing.
Meanwhile, at the Avengers hideout, Bobbi Morse-Barton a.k.a. Mockingbird wakes, smiling, she turns over to find the other side of the bed empty, save for a note laid against the other pillow. 'Oh no' Bobbi utters, wide-eyed as she reads the note that says “I had to try. Do not come after me. I love you very much” and has a picture of an arrow through a heart. Bobbi leaps out of bed and rushes out of the room. She arrives at a wall where the Avengers' weapons are stored, and finds some of the hooks that hold the weapons empty. Without bothering to get dressed, wearing only her bra and panties, Bobbi rushes out onto the rooftop, dropping to her knees, 'Oh, no... no no no... what did you do?' she utters. Tears stream down her face as she declares 'After all we've been through. All of it. You threw it all away'. Suddenly a voice calls her name, and Mockingbird looks up to see Carol Danvers a.k.a. Ms Marvel and Jessica Drew a.k.a. Spider-Woman hovering before her. 'What's going on?' Carol asks. 'Clint went and did it. He went and did it' Bobbi exclaims. 'Did what?' Jessica asks her teammate. 'Went to kill Norman Osborn' the concerned Mockingbird announces. 'Idiot' Carol declares as she flies swiftly across the city to Avengers Tower, where the HAMMER Helicarrier is hovering beside, along with several helicopters. 'What did you do?' Carol wonders.
Back inside:
 'Where are the Avengers hiding?' Osborn demands. Hawkeye ignores the question and asks where he is. 'Is this a Helicarrier?' he adds. 'He will never tell you' Ares remarks to Osborn, who replies 'We'll see'. Hawkeye calls Osborn “Green Goblin” and tells him that the “God of War” is right. 'You don't mind if I call you by your real name, do you?' Hawkeye asks, announcing that he is not going to be intimated, and is not going to play Osborn's game – on any level. 'So go ahead. Do what you have to do' Hawkeye tells him, as Venom continues to hold him by his neck. Osborn once again asks where the Avengers are hiding, but Hawkeye ignores him and asks 'How do you even get your hair to do that?' Osborn grins, 'Mac. Just a nibble' he tells Venom, who then clams his razor-sharp teeth down into Clint's right shoulder, causing Clint to scream in pain. But suddenly, Clint thrusts backwards, slamming Venom into the wall behind him, and kicking the chair out towards the Dark Avengers. Bullseye readies an arrow, while Venom latches back on to Clint, who moves forward and kicks the bow that Bullseye is aiming up – causing him to fire the arrow at Norman Osborn, who ducks for safety.
Sentry moves forward and slams his fist into Clint's face, causing the marksman to drop to the floor. 'That was cute' Bullseye remarks. Ares stands ready with his sword, while Osborn tells his team that the fun is over, and orders everyone out. 'You want me to stay?' Sentry asks. The team look down at Clint, and Osborn replies that he doesn't, but he instructs Sentry to tell Victoria Hand to bring their special guest in as soon as he arrives. 'Who?' Bullseye enquires. 'She knows' is all Osborn tells his team.
Meanwhile, Mockingbird has changed into her costume and asks Spider-Woman, who is standing on a wall nearby, if there is any word from Captain America or Spidey. 'No' Spider-Woman responds on both accounts. 'They were just here' Mockingbird declares. 'Hey, that's the nature of our deal. Everyone has their own adventures, too' Spider-Woman jokes. Mockingbird tells her that she knows, but that they need them. 'Cellphones don't work with the lifestyle' Spider-Woman remarks. 'I know' Mockingbird replies, before Spider-Woman asks her what she is planning. 'What am I – I'm going after him' Mockingbird declares. 'He told you not to' Spider-Woman reminds Mockingbird, who explains that the magic of their relationship is she never listens to Clint because she knows better than him. 'And he doesn't seem to listen to you' Spider-Woman points out. 'Clearly' Mockingbird mutters. 'Sounds great' Spider-Woman tells her. Mockingbird declares that it works, to which Spider-Woman points out 'Except for this part'. Bobbi tells Spider-Woman that she knows she is trying to take her mind off the situation by being cute, and asks her not to. Jessica apologizes. 'Look, Jessica...I appreciate the -' Bobbi begins, turning around, but Spider-Woman just tells her that she gets it, before asking what the plan is.
'Hey, guys, what's going on? Is Luke okay?' Jessica Jones asks as she approaches Bobbi and Spider-Woman, who tells her that Luke is recuperating fine, but Barton has gone after Norman. 'Holy #$%&' swears Jessica Jones. 'Yeah' Spider-Woman agrees. Jessica asks if Clint has gone by himself, and Spider-Woman confirms that he has. 'Oh my God. What are you going to do?' Jessica asks. 'Nothing!' Ms Marvel exclaims as she drops down beside the others. 'NOTHING?' Mockingbird shouts. Ms Marvel informs the others that Clint is definitely in the helicarrier over the tower, but that it is a mob scene of agents and #$%& Avengers. 'It's a fortress guarded by the God of War and fifty other things better than us'. But Mockingbird declares that she is not going to do nothing. 'I know. But the three of us against that...' Carol begins. 'Hold on...' Jessica begins as she holds up her cellphone. Carol reminds Jessica that Luke has to heal, to which Jessica replies that she knows. 'Yeah, I don't want him to -' Mockingbird begins. 'I got it' Jessica tells the others as she puts the phone to her ear and asks her mother if she can watch the baby. 'I know. No. Everythng's fine. Can you? Good' Jessica tells her mother, before turning to the other heroines and telling them they can make it four.
'No. Really?' Bobbi asks. 'Yeah' Jessica tells her. 'Since when?' Bobbi asks. Jessica announces that it is time, but Bobbi tells her to stay with her baby. 'Hey, you helped save my husband. I'll help you save yours' Jessica replies. 'Bobbi' Carol remarks, removing her mask, she tells Bobbi that she doesn't know how to say this, but that the Dark Avengers don't play by their rules. 'If they caught him, they killed him'. Spider-Woman looks shocked, and Bobbi goes wide-eyed. 'No... they didn't. There's much more they can do' Spider-Woman declares.
Back aboard the Helicarrier, Clint wakes up on the floor of the cell he was in, wearing shorts now. He looks over and sees a bow and set of arrows propped up against the wall, and grabs them before exiting the room and stepping out into the corridor. He fires an explosive arrow into another door up ahead, and it bursts open. 'I know this...' Clint utters as he sees Nick Fury, Captain America, Daredevil and Wonder Man rushing towards a large Kree vessel which has descended, and Kree soldiers running towards them. 'Okay, ya li'l pishers... time to end this!' Hawkeye, in his old costume, calls out as he takes down several Kree at once, with Tigra nearby. 'Come on, Avengers!' Hawkeye shouts as he shouts as he leaps over some Kree weapons. 'Let's end this our way! These blue #$%& came around today? Looking for a fight? Let's send them home with something to talk about!' Hawkeye shouts as he kicks one of the Kree warriors. Suddenly, Hawkeye's satchel of arrows is shot at, and they catch on fire. 'Aw, crap! Need some help here!' Clint calls out. 'Not like this!' he shouts as he smacks down another Kree officer. 'LIKE THIS!' Hawkeye roars as he takes control of a Kree officer's flight pack, and flies towards the Kree ship with his exploding sachet of arrows. 'Hawkeye!' Captain America calls out, as Clint screams, and is torn apart by the ensuing explosion.
'What are you doing? You're wasting my time' a voice calls out. It's Norman Osborn, who stands at a console, while Clint, strapped to a table, continues to scream. 'Just get me the intel, Flumm' Osborn snaps at the bald man who sits near Clint. 'Mentallo' the bald man corrects Osborn. 'Whatever' Osborn mutters, while Moonstone stands at his side. Mentallo informs Osborn that the mind is a complicated, gorgeous landscape, and this man has been trained by Captain America and Nick Fury, he knows how to fight off a mental intrusion. 'You're wasting my time' Osborn scowls. Mentallo announces that he needs to strip away Hawkeye's resolve, needs to weaken him mentally. Clint's psychic form begins to crumble, while Mentallo declares that the best way to do that is to make him relive all the nightmares of his life. 'Every hurt. Every embarrassment. Every missed opportunity. Every failure. The little ones, the big ones. The ones no one knows about...' Mentallo declares, as memories flash through Clint's mind – of becoming Goliath; meeting Mockingbird; the wedding of the Scarlet Witch and Vision; his training under the watch of the Swordsman; his debut as Hawkeye; meeting the Black Widow; battling Daredevil; kissing Moonstone; battling Mephisto and the seeming death of Mockingbird. 'You wanted him to suffer. Don't you worry. He is suffering' Mentallo announces, as anguish spreads across Clint's face.
'Where are the Avengers hiding?' Osborn shouts. 'I'll ask him' Mentallo replies, as he digs deeper into Clint's mind, and sees Clint, as Ronin standing in a kitchen, while Ms Marvel busies herself at the sink, and Spider-Man clings to a kitchen wall. Jessica Jones feeds her daughter, while Spider-Woman, Mockingbird, Bucky, Wolverine and Luke Cage sit around the table. 'Got a pen?' Mentallo asks, and Osborn smiles, while Clint's looks despondent.
Shortly, Iron Patriot flies from the helicarrier, with Moonstone and Sentry at his side. Venom, Ares, Bullseye and Daken travel through the air on hover-pads, before coming to a stop on a rooftop in Brooklyn, where they look down at a rather non-descript three-story brick building. 'What does the armor say, Normy?' Bullseye asks. 'Nothing. It scans clean' Osborn reports. 'There's no one there?' Bullseye enquires as he peers through a scanning device. Iron Patriot reports that the building is cloaked, he can't scan it. 'It mans they are absolutely in there' Moonstone declares. 'Exactly. Old-school Fury stuff' Iron Patriot points out. Ares grabs his huge axe and asks Iron Patriot what he would have them do. 'Well, you guys are always asking for my permission to let loose. On my word. Have at it' Osborn tells his team. 'There's a baby in there. Luke Cage's baby...' Venom points out. 'And I'm not the one that put him in harm's way' Osborn declares, before instructing the Sentry to rip the north side of the building off.
Sentry does as commanded, flying into the air, then dropping down into the building, which causes the north side to fall apart. Iron Patriot leads his team down into the ruined building, 'Avengers assem...ble' he remarks, as they look around the ruined building and discover that no one is there. Daken sniffs the air: 'Diapers and menstruation. They were here an hour ago' he announces. Bullseye looks at the wall where the weapons were stored and tells the others that they cleaned out and ran. 'They knew we were coming'. Ares opens the refridgerator, 'Ah. They were smart enough to know Osborn could get this location out of Barton' he points out, smiling. Iron Patriot hangs his head, his expression obscured by his armor, while Moonstone asks him where he thinks the Avengers went.
The HAMMER Helicarrier, where Spider-Woman, Ms Marvel, Mockingbird and Jewel are taking down HAMMER officers with ease. Kicking and punching their way through them, while Spider-Woman shocks them with her spider-bite power. In the lab, Mentallo continues to stand at Hawkeye's head, 'What else do you have for me in there, Mister Barton?' he asks. 'Tell me the names of your friends...their real names'. 'Where is Clint Barton?' Spider-Woman shouts as she glides down a corridor. 'Ronin!' Ms Marvel calls out as she flies over a HAMMER officer. 'Where is my husband!?' Mockingbird demands, kicking an officer over. 'Tell me their real names...' Mentallo asks Hawkeye, who appears to be in agony once again. Suddenly, 'Son of a – No, I didn't do any -' Mentallo begins as Jewel breaks open the door to the lab, and she and Mockingbird enter. Mockingbird doesn't hesitate as she slams her boot into Mentallo's head, knocking him backwards. 'Baby? Baby?' Mockingbird calls out as she and Jessica stand over the once-again naked Hawkeye. 'Bobbi...' Clint utters. 'You okay, baby?' Mockingbird asks. 'Sorry, baby...last time. Promise' Clint tells Bobbi, who smirks and reminds him that he said that last time. Several HAMMER soldiers rush down a corridor, 'Time to go!' Ms Marvel calls out.
Back in Brooklyn: 'Well, damn' Bullseye mutters as he and the other Dark Avengers walk away from the flaming building abandoned by the Avengers. 'It's almost as if they were smart enough to know you'd figure out where they live...hauled ass out of there in time, and used the open window to break Barton out of -' Bullseye begins but Iron Patriot spins around, points at Bullseye, who stops talking, before Iron Patriot turns back and carries on, 'We got their house' he declares.
'Oh, man... I am an expert on bad and this is bad' Peter Parker a.k.a. Spider-Man remarks as he clings to the side of a building and looks down at the destroyed Avengers hideout, as emergency services including firefighters have gathered. 'I got a hot read all of a sudden!' a HAMMER soldier announces. 'There!' another shouts. 'We have visual. Squadron 6, take to the sky' a third orders as they open fire on Spider-Man. Spider-Man leaps away from the wall he was clinging to and spins a web, swinging through the city, he dodges the attack and declares 'It's my fault for leaving Queens!'
Shortly: 'Okay, what was that!?' Spider-Man exclaims as he emerges from a series of tunnels, entering some sort of hangar bay where several Avengers jets are, along with Hawkeye and Mockingbird, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and their daughter, Spider-Woman, Ms Marvel and Bucky – the current Captain America. 'Spider-Man. Good. You remembered plan B' Bucky remarks. I remember thinking we were safe in your other secret hideout and we wouldn't need another one a block and a half away. And yet...here we are' Spider-Man replies, before Ms Marvel asks 'How bad was it over there?' Spider-Man announces that it wasn't too bad – for Germany 1945. Clint tells the team that he is sorry. 'And...' Bobbi adds. 'And i'll never do it again' Clint declares. 'Because...' Bobbi begins. 'It was selfish, stupid, ill-conceived...' Clint responds. 'And...' Bobbi says, to which Clint exclaims that he gets it, and he won't do it again. Clint acknowledges that Peter was right. 'I'm not used to being pushed this hard. I'm not' Clint tells the others, adding that he can't stand Osborn, he can stand that the world is going to hell and no one seems to care. 'You were right and I was wrong. But listen to me here, please...' Clint asks his teammates.
Clint looks at Luke, Jessica and their baby as he announces that he would never do anything to put any of them, their baby, in harm's way. 'I would never do anything to put you in this position'. Clint then tells them all that he is sorry. Luke looks and Jessica and asks her 'And what's all this?' 'Hey, post-baby and I still squeezed into the damn thing' Jessica replies. 'Is this the way it's going to be?' Luke asks. Jessica tells him that she is thinking about it, to which Luke remarks 'Well, this is a new thing then'. 'I said I'm thinking about it' Jessica declares, but Luke tells Jessica that he knows her and that she has already decided. 'Well, you guys clearly need back-up' Jessica points out, while looking at her daughter. Bucky pulls his mask back and remarks that he can't believe it came to this, and that Steve Rogers is going to kill him. 'Well, I'm not thrilled...' a voice calls out. Bucky, Hakweye and Mockingbird go wide-eyed as they turn in the direction of the voice, who adds 'But for now I'm just happy you're all okay. You're right, Hawkeye, the world has gone to hell'. It's Steve Rogers – Captain America – who points at the Avengers and declares 'Thank God the Avengers are here to do something about it. And we are. You ready?'


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Dr. Strange uses the Gorgerell Transportation spell from the Book of Vishanti to take him to where Daimon Hellstrom is waiting for him. He asks Daimon how he’s been. Daimon, relaxing on a part bench, thanks Strange for meeting him and replies that he’s been better. Strange asks if his problem is physical or mental. Hellstrom informs him that it’s mystical. He explains that this plane of existence has weakened, maybe beyond repair. All the fighting and the battles and the darkness that the world has seen lately have weakened the barriers that keep the mortal plane safe from those who would take it from them. He adds that there have been breaches; an invasion into this world.Dr. Strange believes him and he has to agree. There have been disturbances in the astral plane. He thinks they should get hold of Brother Voodoo and compare notes. He is the Sorcerer Supreme now. They have to figure out who is here and how they got here. Hellstrom replies that he knows how they got here. “Possession!” He quickly grows in size and flames flicker from his skin and eyes.
(Avengers Tower)It’s a beautiful day and all the Avengers are outside enjoying the day. Jarvis serves everyone drinks, Wolverine sits beside a bowl of popcorn and people catch up with each other. Luke is in conversation with Steve Rogers and he isn’t happy with what Steve’s suggesting. Steve wants them to move into Avengers Mansion and become proper Avengers, but Luke believes he just wants them to move in and do whatever he says.
Steve explains that this is a new day on every level. The war is won and the battle is finished. He wants Luke to choose to be there. He’s not making him. No one is. Luke turns to Iron Fist and Spider-Man and asks if he’s nuts or does this seem like they fought for the right to go and do exactly what Tony Stark here wanted them to do. Spidey reckons it’s a bit of both and Danny replies that he can see Luke’s point.Steve Rogers reiterates that this is a choice. Is he not really getting that? Jessica Jones replies that they’re talking about a symbolic gesture. He gets that, right? He was Captain America after all. Tony Stark tells Luke that all this time they’ve called themselves the Avengers. They hid in Dr. Strange’s basement and said they were Avengers. Luke replies that it wasn’t just ‘because.’ It was because Steve Rogers said they were. Tony asks if they still want to be Avengers. Luke casually replies yes and then Tony puts his hand out and asks for a dollar. Luke fumbles through his pockets but says he doesn’t have any cash. Danny pulls out a dollar and hands it over to Tony. Tony in turn hands over a piece of paper. “Congratulations,” he smiles. “You just bought the newly-renovated Avengers Mansion. Now go be Avengers. Save the world.”
Luke looks at the document and can’t believe it. Steve places a hand on his shoulder and tells him that Tony knew he was having problems adjusting. So, this is Plan B. They want to be Avengers, then it should be on their own terms and nothing would make him happier. Luke can’t help but grin as the news sinks in. Steve adds that they will have a team here and he will have a team there. They’ll do their own thing and, knowing how these things work, they’ll team up every now and then. When Luke asks who they get, Steve asks who he wants, but then whispers that he can’t have Thor or Iron Man.
(Brother Voodoo’s sanctum sanctorum, New Orleans)Voodoo’s brother Daniel, a ghostly form, asks Jericho what he’s doing. He replies that he’s meditating. Daniel reckons he should be studying ancient texts, but Jericho asks him to be quiet. Daniel feels that just because he is now the sorcerer supreme, it doesn’t mean he can set aside his heritage. Jericho replies that he’s not setting anything aside, but Daniel is right. He does have to study more. He has to find the ‘off switch’ for the spirit of his dead brother, who just won’t leave him alone. Daniel says that his brother needs him, but he then becomes strangely distracted. Jericho, facing away from Daniel, jokes that he never talked this much when he was alive. Daniel says Jericho’s name, and then again. He finally shouts his name in order to make Jericho listen.Jericho turns around and sees Dr. Strange standing there amidst swirls of mist with Daimon Hellstrom. He asks what they’re doing there. They reply that they need his help. There’s trouble and they need to see the Eye of Agamotto. He needs to give eye to them, now. Brother Voodoo stands and holds his staff out, demanding to know who he’s speaking to now. Who is so bold and powerful that they could take the form of the master Strange. Who is he speaking to, really? Daniel calls for his brother to run!
(Avengers Mansion, later)Luke Cage, Jessica and Danny Rand are pleased that they are not only moving into Avengers Mansion - they own it. As they approach the door, Victoria Hand steps out carrying a very big gun and orders them to stop right there. She provides her name and asks them if they know who she is. Luke warns her to put the gun down and Jessica scowls at her saying she knows full well who she is. She was Norman Osborn’s Saturday night party. “Screw you,” she replies. She informs them that she was Deputy Director of H.A.M.M.E.R. She was a S.H.I.E.L.D. commander and she has a note for them. Luke tells her to put the gun down or he will knock her head off her shoulders. Victoria hands him the note and he takes it, reluctantly.The note is from Steve Rogers. It explains that he needs someone to keep tabs on them; not to interfere but to facilitate their work there. He believes Victoria deserves a second chance. Luke looks at her and asks what’s with the gun. Victoria asks what she’s supposed to do. Walk up to them and blow kisses? She doesn’t have powers. They hate her guts and could kill her. Luke brings his hands together quickly and claps. The resultant shock wave knocks Victoria off her feet and into one of the large terracotta vases nearby.
He asks her what the hell she was doing working for Norman Osborn in the first place. “Trying to help the world,” she replies. Luke and Danny look down at her as she pulls herself together. She tells them not to worry. She’ll leave. This was hardly her idea. Luke asks her, in that case, why she came. She replies that Captain America asked her to. She turns and walks away. Jessica asks Luke what he’s thinking. She then realizes he’s considering it and says no. The woman held a gun to their baby’s head.
(New Orleans)Dr. Strange and Daimon Hellstrom attack Brother Voodoo but he defends himself with the Coloctor’s protective spell. As he lies on the ground, he demands that the daemons reveal their names. Hellstrom tells him to give forward the Eye of Agamotto and his brother’s spirit will be spared true suffering. Again, Jericho asks their names, but Daniel shouts at him to run. As Daniel speaks, two demons emerge from his eyes and they round on Jericho. Daniel cries out that he must run. He cannot win this fight. Brother Voodoo holds his staff out before him and it glows brightly as he casts the Longorian spell for the battle of an astral incursion into the corporeal world. Jericho tells his brother not to let them win, but as he watches, his brother’s spirit disappears in a wisp of smoke and Dr. Strange says that the Eye of Agamotto is needed for the next event to happen.(New York, later)Victoria Hand is relaxing by having a drink at a rooftop café. Her peace is interrupted when Luke Cage and Wolverine appear and Luke tells her that the trouble he has with her is that she had no problem with the world according to Norman Osborn. She asks if he brought Wolverine to stick her, but he replies that it’s not how they do things. She tells them that Osborn was a sick man but he was a genius. She did everything she could to try and help him live up to his potential and to combat his demons. She did so gladly because his ideas for the world were bold and brash. If they really look at what he did… if they could see past his illness and look at how willing he was to get his hands dirty to keep the world turning, they’d find it was hard to argue that he wasn’t successful. “Up until the point he wasn’t,” replies Wolverine.Victoria replies that he’s in jail and, if he wasn’t by now, she would have had to put him down herself. Speaking of jail, she’d rather be there than being sandbagged by them. Luke asks calmly why she wants to work with them, really? Victoria replies that it’s because now, more than ever, they need someone to tell them when they’re right and when they’re wrong. She thinks they need a perspective other than their own. Everyone does. She asks them to imagine where Nick Fury and Tony Stark would be if they had gotten off on their egos and done the same. And, frankly, Steve Rogers obviously thinks so too or he wouldn’t have made them all go through this.
Luke looks at her and asks Logan if she’s lying. Wolverine sniffs the air and replies, “Not even a little.” Luke extends his hand and welcomes Victoria to the Avengers. It’s a second chance, so she shouldn’t mess it up. Victoria shakes his hand but Luke warns her to stay the hell away from his wife. She wants to kill her. Victoria replies that she got that part. Wolverine asks now what. Luke informs him that it’s time to put the band back together; see if they can’t surprise some people.
(later, at the dining table)“You call this the Avengers?” asks an incredulous Ben Grimm. Luke tells him that this is the New Avengers. At the table are Wolverine, Mockingbird, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Spider-Man, Jewel and Ms. Marvel. Luke adds that the New Avengers want him in the team too. He knows Ben has his Fantastic Four thing going on, but they’ve got history. And when ‘he who we’re not allowed to call Captain America’ said he could pick a team, his big head popped into his mind. Ms. Marvel asks Luke to take it easy. Ben’s a busy man. “A man can ask,” replies Luke.Wolverine swigs a beer and reminds them that he’s on two teams. When Mockingbird asks how the hell he does that, Logan replies that multitasking is his mutant power. “Don’t tell anybody,” he whispers. Ben says that he does love his family… Susie, Reed and that other guy, but they are driving him insane lately. Luke extends his hand and says he’s not saying he should quit them. He’s just saying that, when he’s not there, he should be with them.
Out of the blue, due to Caroni’s teleportation spell for endangered material possessions, the Eye of Agamotto appears in Luke’s hand which startles not just him but everyone else in the room. Ben asks what the hell just happened. Luke drops the Eye and says he doesn’t know. Luke then recognizes it as the Eye of Agamotto. Mockingbird asks him to pick it back up, but Luke asks her to pick it up. Ben remembers that the Eye isn’t Dr. Strange’s anymore; it’s Brother Voodoo’s. Iron Fist asks what it’s doing there. “It was looking for me,” comes a voice from behind them. They turn to see Dr. Strange and Daimon Hellstrom standing there and Strange informs them that it can only mean one thing. Doctor Voodoo is dead. This is terrible news, he adds. He asks Luke to hand it over. They will avenge his death.
Luke asks if they knew where Voodoo was when this went down. He then looks at Wolverine, whose facial response confirms Luke’s suspicions. “Who am I speaking to?” asks Luke. Dr. Strange replies that he’s talking to the new rulers of this dimension… with his help. Luke picks up the Eye and is immediately possessed by its occult power. His eyes glow as its power courses through his veins and his colleagues look on, concerned.