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A journey into mystery
On Polemachus the Imperion Arkon is relaxing with his consort Thundra when his Vizier tells him of a huge pair of burning eyes that have appeared in the sky. A voice resonates in everyone's heads demanding to know the truth about the secret. When it gets no answer it destroys the whole universe containing Polemachus.In another universe the Weaponers of Qward are attacked by the Crime Syndicate Of Amerika. But then the eyes appear again, ask the question and then destroy *this* universe.Eternity is seen holding a galaxy in Marvel Earth's universe. The gambling-addicted Elder Of The Universe called Grandmaster is also observing that galaxy to see the outcome of a age-old bet he made with another of the immortal Elders. Then the eyes pop up and the voice blasts En Dwi Gast's mind. But the Elder senses that the mental probe will destroy the universe and halts its progress. The eyes materialise further into a humanoid being who announces himself as Krona seeking the Ultimate Truth.1 month later in the DC Universe The Justice League Of America (Aquaman, Flash (Wally West), Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner), Martian Manhunter, Plastic Man, Superman and Wonder Woman) are fighting a huge robot (that Marvelites would recognise) called Terminus, trying to stop it reaching Metropolis. Batman is keeping out of the battle studying the foe. He suddenly announces that its power is in its staff that emits force blasts. Via a mental link provided by Manhunter he directs most of the team in a concerted attack on the enemy while Lantern strikes at the staff. Terminus believes they are trying to steal the staff, but instead GL creates a Power Ring object which funnels the staff's blast back at its owner who is then blown to bits.Just then Spectre (Hal Jordan) appears briefly and sends Terminus back to the universe it came from. The League are still not used to Hal's new role, but they settle down to rescuing civilians from the debris of the fight.At the same time on Marvel Earth DC's Starro The Conqueror has appeared over Manhattan and the giant starfish drops loads of little Starros which attach themselves to people's faces to take them over. The Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man, Jack Of Hearts, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Thor, Triathlon, Vision, Warbird, Wasp and Yellowjacket) are on the case but She-Hulk, Triathlon and Yellowjacket have already succumbed. Then the Starros get Thor and things look really bad.Wanda Maximoff helps Carol Danvers get the parasite off her brother Pietro's face. Freed Quicksilver tells them all the hosts are mentally connected to each other and Starro, who only wants to gain total control and bring total order. This gives Vision an idea based on Wanda's Chaos Magic. He places Pietro's starfish on his ex-wife's face. As Starro takes her over she channels a mega-amount of Chaos Magic into the foe, who flees screaming into space.All the little Starros fall dead, and everyone is free. Scarlet Witch reports that the Star Conqueror came from another universe, but it doesn't know how it got here. Vision gets a transmission from Quasar in the Deep Space Monitoring Station. It appears that there are lots of other attacks by unknown beings. We see DC's Lobo fighting the Imperial Guard in Shi'ar space, and the Aakon being attacked by Khunds. His Q-Scan reveals that they are all from the same other universe as Starro. Wasp suggests to Iron Man that they need a way of detecting if any more similar visitors appear on Earth.Meanwhile on DC Earth Flash has a piece of Terminus' armour it left behind. He's detected the vibrational frequency of its home universe and is tuning his Super-Speed to it. He encounters great resistance but then breaks through the barrier, and loses mental contact with J'onn J'onzz ....... and finds himself in a pleasant little town which must occupy the place on this Earth where his own Keystone City lies. He starts scanning but is interrupted by an angry mob chasing a boy named Pete Gehringer who has just manifested his obvious mutant appearance. Wally West tries to stop them but they assume he's 1 of Magneto's Evil Mutants come to recruit Pete. Flash tries to use his power to hold the crowd back but finds there's no Speed Force in this universe for him to access. Pete escapes with mighty leaps, and Wally is left at the mercy of the mob.In their Watchtower on the Moon the rest of the JLA have also detected more intruders into *their* universe. We see Thanagarians fighting Skrulls, and Mongul facing a horde of Brood. Then a worse-for-wear Flash contacts them to say that his fading powers meant his vibrational rate reverted to normal and he popped back to Keystone City. His report of the mob attacking a kid suggests this other world isn't a nice place.Then an alarm alerts them to a presence outside. Flash super-speeds to the Moon. We see Uatu hovering outside the Watchtower. Martian Manhunter senses only curiosity, but the giant being won't communicate. Then Superman senses another intruder who walks through their walls. It's Grandmaster who tells them that the Watcher is only here to record a momentous event. Green Lantern fashions a force-cell for the new guy and Superman asks him what he wants. GM admits that he is from the same universe as the invading threats, but he likes things to be fair so he's come to tell them what's going on. J'onn can't read his mind but En Dwi Gast allows Wonder Woman to bind him with the Lasso Of Gaea which compels the truth.He tells them that the barrier between their universes has been weakened by someone. Things will get worse and the end result may be the destruction of both. He claims that the only way to stop the process is to assemble 12 items of power, 6 from each universe. He shows them the 12, and various of them recognise their 6:- The Bell, the Wheel and the Jar (count as 1). The Medusa Mask. The Spear Of Destiny. The Eternity Book. The Orb Of Ra. Green Lantern's Power Battery. (Many Marvelites will recognise the other 6, but we'll come to them later.) He refuses to answer any more questions, but mentally gives them the locations of all 12 and tells them that others will be after them also. And then Grandmaster disappears.The JLA are sceptical. Diana says her lasso convinced her was telling the truth but not all the truth. They agree to go investigate this other Earth that Flash found unpalatable. Flash himself will stay behind because his power doesn't work there. Atom will take his place. But it is Flash who uses his vibrational tuning to send them across the dimensional barrier. And the Watcher continues to watch.In Avengers Mansion Tony Stark has created a scanner for the energy data of the invaders (working from Quasar's data and a scan of Starro by Jack Of Hearts). Captain America has put out a call for non-current team members and Hawkeye turns up. (Janet van Dyne greets Clint Barton with a kiss on the cheek, months before their affair near the end of this series.) Stark's alarm goes off ...... as the JLA arrive in the Marvel Solar System, passing the ancient ruins in the Blue Area Of the Moon - but they have no time to investigate that. They enter the atmosphere and split up. Aquaman and Green Lantern see the populace of Latveria forced at gunpoint by Doombots to cheer Dr Doom. Atom, Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman see the evidence of mutant genocide on Genosha beneath a towering statue of Magneto. Superman sees Hulk gorging himself after fighting the army in Michigan. Batman and Plastic Man see Punisher shooting drug dealers in New York. Bats takes time out to beat Frank Castle up. When they reconvene Superman declares that the heroes of this world have let it go to hell. He doesn't trust them with the items of power so the JLA must find them and take them away.There 1st location is an island in the Sea Of Okhotsk. But it is Monster Island and they are attacked by Fin Fang Foom, Giganto, Tricephalous and Vandoom's Monster among others. While most of the team deal with the monsters, Batman tries to slip between them to get to the target but little Atom gets there 1st. J'onn J'onzz detects that this artefact alone could destroy the universe (we know that it is the Ultimate Nullifier inside a force globe). But then an arrow from Hawkeye knocks it out of Manhunter's hands. And a device in the hands of Iron Man sends the JLA back to their own universe. But at the last instant Wonder Woman grabs the arrow and the Nullifier. The JLA return to the Watchtower determined to rescue the other 5 items from that dangerous world.Captain America, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Thor and Vision are also on Monster Isle. Vision detects someone watching them but when they investigate they are repulsed by a force field. Then Metron of the New Gods reveals himself on his Mobius Chair. He claims to be here only to observe (like Watcher) but he tells them about the Justice League and the 12 items of power. Now it's the turn of our team to recognise their 6 - as well as the Ultimate Nullifier they are the Cosmic Cube, the Evil Eye, the Casket Of Ancient Winters, The Soul/Infinity Gems and the Wand Of Watoomb. He claims that the Avengers must stop the JLA from acquiring them or their universe will die. Atom avoided being sent home and is listening, and he realises this isn't exactly what Grandmaster claimed. Before leaving Metron gives them a Mother Box to get them to JLA's Earth ...... and they arrive through a Boom Tube in Metropolis to interrupt a bank robbery by a gang led by Loophole. After they defeat them they are mobbed by a horde of superhero fans. (A fan asks them if they're members of the JSA because they're too old to be JLA or Titans. I guess this is an in-joke because the Avengers *have* been around longer than the post-Crisis JLA.) Cap drags them away and they see other evidence of superhero worship in news items - not just Superman and Wonder Woman but Booster Gold, Supergirl and the JSA Flash (Jay Garrick) (and Lex Luthor's in the news too). But Cap looks at the futuristic city and jumps to the conclusion that the superheroes built it and now demand adoration from the public (like Dr Doom).Then 8 JLA (including Flash but not Atom) turn up to 'greet' the 7 Avengers. Something has been niggling at the back of Hawkeye's mind and now he realises what it is - these guys are Squadron Supreme knock-offs. (The Squadron of course were originally designed as a version of the Justice League.) And he also figures they're probably being mind-controlled as usual. Captain America and Superman take uncharacteristically belligerent stances. Some of their team-mates try to talk them down but Thor starts the fighting by throwing Mjolnir at Supes.Elsewhere Grandmaster and Metron are observing the events. It appears that GM is playing 1 of his games with Krona as an opponent. Metron points out that if Krona loses he'll probably just do what he wants anyway. En Dwi Gast agrees that both universes may well die in the end. But the game gives him time to implement his true plan.And Atom has hitched a ride on Metron's dimension-spanning Chair and overhears the whole thing.


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The brave and the bold
The story so far:-Krona from the DC Universe is continuing his quest to learn the secret of the creation of universes, but his method of investigation destroys them. Grandmaster stalled him when he came to the Marvel Universe by telling him of a being who came through the Big Bang from the previous universe. Typically he proposed a game which if Krona won GM would tell him who that is (we know it's Galactus). The contest involved pitting Avengers vs JLA to gather 12 items of power, 6 from each of their universes. Metron of DC's New Gods helped organise it.But it was a delaying tactic until dying GM grabbed all 12 artefacts and used them to imprison his opponent between the 2 Earths. But Krona has the artefacts now and has pried the truth from Galactus. He is gradually merging the Earths and the surrounding universes, which will eventually destroy them both. Last issue we saw the superhero teams in a combined universe in which they had always coexisted. But that universe keeps changing. Early versions of the heroes found the GM who explained what was happening and then died. Now they know they have to get the 2 original universes back, even though they have seen the bad things that will happen to their future versions there. It's time for their greatest team-up ever.This issue opens with Krona explaining to Metron what he learned from Galactus.The previous (Marvel) universe was dying and the beings of the planet Taa with it. They sent a spaceship into the Terminal Point (ie the Big Crunch). Only 1 Taa-an survived the Big Bounce by merging with the sentience of that universe and emerging on the other side as Galactus. Krona latches on to the voice which spoke to Galan and links it to the hand which he once saw cradling the birth of the DC universe as evidence of a sentience behind the universes. He now intends to force the DC and Marvel universes together, even though it will mean their destruction, to force their individual sentiences (Kismet and Eternity) to reveal the ultimate secret behind everything.Meanwhile chaos continues on the gradually merging Earths. We see other superheroes like the Defenders and the Teen Titans helping folks while everyone wonders where the Avengers or JLA are. We see them (Captain America, Goliath, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Thor, Vision, Wasp and Aquaman, Batman, Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Superman, Wonder Woman) gathered in the JLA Watchtower having a council of war. Synthezoid Vision doesn't see the logic of believing the dead Grandmaster over their own memories and 'restoring' a reality which will see his and Scarlet Witch's children gone. But Wanda Maximoff says her connection to the superior Chaos Magic in this (DC) reality has shown her that the current reality keeps changing and that other reality is the real 1.They know that Krona has the 12 items of power and Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) reminds them that he can mentally enthral villains (as he did last issue). Flash (Barry Allen) and Iron Man have a plan to get inside Krona's stronghold but they'll need a 'spaceship'. Superman says they need a joint leader and he proposes Captain America (despite their recent arguments). Batman 2nds him and Martian Manhunter mentally checks that the rest of the JLA agree with the choice.Aquaman donates an Atlantean warship. Atom joins them and he and Iron Man create special cabling which Ray Palmer and Wasp help install. This will convert GL's Power Ring scans into data fed into Vision who's acting as a supercomputer. And Flash's treadmill is installed inside.While waiting for the dimensional harmonics to be right Scarlet Witch and Vision, Hank and Jan Pym, and Barry and Hal contemplate what they've seen of their futures in the restored DC and Marvel realities. Captain America and Superman apologise to each other for the harsh things they said about the other's world, and but each admit that there was truth in what was said by the other. Cap is going to be running the show from the ship via Manhunter's mindlink so he gives Supes his shield to wield in the fight. Kal-El promises to honour the gift.Then it's time to go. Thor powers Flash's treadmill with Mjolnir as Flash uses it to break the dimensional barrier. Vision senses a weak point in Krona's shielding and Scarlet Witch disrupts probability with a Chaos Hex. And the warship is through to Krona's base, which they discover is built out of bits of Galactus.Krona is expecting them and sends AIM, Hydra, Kobra Cult, Lava Men, Parademons and the 1000 to stop them. But the combined team wade through them with Superman and Wonder Woman leading the cry "Avengers Assemble". Moloids and (Leader's) Humanoids join the fray as Cap gets Lantern and Thor to force a gap that Atom and Vision can slip through to recce the interior. He sends Flash and Wasp to scout the sides for a vulnerability. Wasp spots a gap that Batman sneaks through.But then there's a reality ripple that swaps Aquaman, Goliath and Scarlet Witch for Green Arrow, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Yellowjacket. Cap sends Pietro Maximoff off to do more scouting while the 2 bowmen stand back-to-back exchanging insults and firing arrows until the Royal Flush Gang take down Oliver Queen.Metron compliments Krona on his defences, especially now he's brought in individual supervillains rather than nameless hordes. Krona has captured Eternity and Kismet and wants fellow knowledge-seeker Metron to help him pry their secrets out of them before they are annihilated with their universes. But the New God queries whether the Maltusian is after truth or power. And he exits via Boom Tube, but says he will be watching with interest.Meanwhile the battle scene has got even more complicated as loads of DC and Marvel villains fight loads of extra Leaguers and Avengers from various times. Someone who I'd guess DC fans will recognise kills Flash and Hawkeye, but Green Lantern kills *him*. However Green Arrow retrieves Clint Barton's quiver and promises to make every shaft count. The reality shifts affect the main teams too. Batman changes from pre-Crisis to post-Crisis versions, Cap gets his Captain uniform, Superman gets long hair and Green Lantern Hal Jordan switches to Kyle Rayner. There are interesting clashes like Jack Of Hearts vs the Jack of the Royal Flush Gang and Black Canary vs Screaming Mimi (Songbird before she became a heroine in Thunderbolts). The original Fawcett Captain Marvel fights side-by-side with the original Marvel CM. And Wasp goes through multiple costume changes (so what else is new?). And then the forces of good lose their coordination as a ripple takes J'onn J'onzz away.Batman has defeated Batroc but is now faced with a Brigade of other villains. Black Panther, Black Widow and Huntress leap in to help him. Captain America is attacked by DC's (1st) Prometheus who has just uploaded Batman's fighting skills. Reality shifts and Superman is transformed into his Superman Blue energy form, and he's without Cap's shield. But Cap now defeats Prometheus with the photonic version of the shield. The disorganised and continually changing heroes continue battling towards Krona's Citadel.As Metron hinted Krona is no longer satisfied with the truth, he wants to punish those who tried to stop him getting it. Scarlet Witch has made her way back here with Chaos Magic just in time to see the villain threatening to kill Eternity and Kismet and drag the secret from their corpses (and the dead universes). Wanda uses the Magic to increase the proportion of heroes over villains as reality keeps stirring the mix. Iron Man has designed a powerful weapon for Green Lantern's Ring to generate. Aquaman uses his control over sea creatures to stop Attuma and his undersea legions, but unfortunately it also affects Sub-Mariner and his wife Marrina. The Citadel starts to fall apart. Wonder Woman prepares to hold off all the the villains as many heroes storm into the Citadel, but she's joined by her mother Hippolyta and She-Hulk.Supes has Cap's shield back, but now it's the original triangular version, and he faces Radioactive Man and Solarr (who Lex Luther has taught to emit Kryptonite and Red Sun radiation respectively). But Vision emits the last of his own energy as yellow solar radiation to reinvigorate the Kryptonian. Wading through his foes, and now with the round shield, Superman reaches Krona's last defensive barrier, but he can't get through its energy. Thor is smothered in villains but he tosses Mjolnir to Supes. Kal-El grabs it and is energised beyond his wildest dreams. He smashes through the wall with 1 blow and leads a gaggle of heroes in.But then a might blast from Krona blows them all back. The villain thinks he now has all the heroes defeated, dead or delayed, and he turns his attention back to Eternity and Kismet. But suddenly Flash (Barry Allen) zooms in surprising Krona who (like us) thought he'd seen him obliterated with Hawkeye. But Flash is only the distraction as Hawkeye fires his last arrow into the collection of artefacts powering the baddie. They explain that Flash had whisked them away from their imminent death and they've laid low since then waiting for the right moment to strike. And Clint casually mentions it was a TNT arrow as the force-globe holding the artefacts blows up. And Krona disappears into a maelstrom of energy.Most of the heroes and villains disappear leaving only the versions that started this series, including Flash (Wally West) and Green Lantern (Kyle Rayner). But in space they see the 2 Earths still partly merged. Until the giant green hands of Spectre (Hal Jordan) force them apart. Next Galactus starts to reform from the Citadel Krona had turned him into. Superman goes to pick up Mjolnir to give him back to Thor but can't do it. The Thunder God explains about Odin's spell, but his father was wise enough to let it relax in times of dire need.Eternity and Kismet disentangle, and the heroes are returned to their own worlds (as we are led to believe are the items of power). Grandmaster has been brought back to life, and he and Metron have a Cosmic Egg which now contains Krona. They speculate that it will 1 day hatch into a new universe, and Krona will then learn the secret he sought.


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To challenge a Champion
Justice is admiring a statuette of Ant-Man riding an ant in the Avengers Mansion trophy room. (We see the Porcupine's armour, 3 Ultron heads, puppets of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, and the Casket Of Ancient Winters (which Thor dropped off for safekeeping in the current Avengers #5). Justice is still amped-up about being an Avenger while Firestar would still prefer if the couple could take time off from the super-hero biz to sort their lives out. So Angelica Jones downplays Henry Pym's status while Vance Astrovik bigs the founding Avenger up.Then Justice realises they're late for a team practice session. Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch and Thor are battling robotic opponents trying to reach a shutoff button within 15 seconds. Guests Magdalene and Swordsman are taking part as well. Cap asks Wanda Maximoff to manifest Wonder Man to help them but she says he only appears in times of genuine need. When the 2 ex-New Warriors turn up Justice disables all the robots telekinetically. But his celebration of victory is cut short when Steve Rogers tells him the exercise was supposed to test agility and reflexes.The currently-hologrammic Vision has been monitoring progress and says he got enough data to analyse the participants' performance. Cap will discuss the results individually later. Vision also suggests that Justice's intervention may have reminded them to always expect the unexpected. Vance's spirits rise again at this 'compliment'.Cap has a word with Magdalene and Swordsman. He tells them and us that Firestar and Justice have been promoted from reservists to active Avengers (to fill the slot left by Warbird in #7). He asks them if they want to become reserve Avengers, but they repeat what they said in #4 that they aren't from this reality and want to find their own place in this world - so they leave.Before the team can continue with the next exercise they receive a psychic message from Moonglow of the Squadron Supreme desperately calling for help. Vision immediately contacts the FAA to arrange a flight plan for a quinjet to Project: PEGASUS where the Squadron are based. Restricted by his hologram status he will remain behind on monitor duty.En route Hawkeye explains to the newbies the Avengers' fraught history with the other hero team from a parallel timeline who have a habit of being mind-controlled into fighting our lot. After a 'crisis' in their universe (SS: Death Of A Universe GN) many of their members got trapped here (on Earth-616). Quasar, in his #17, introduced them to Project: PEGASUS. Firestar and Justice missed out on #5-6 where the Squad were brainwashed *again* by the Corruptor.As they approach the Project the quinjet is grabbed by Dr Spectrum's power beam, and Hyperion tells the Avengers to go away because they've got the situation under control. Tempers flare and a battle is imminent when Moonglow steps between them and says she called the Avengers here. Hyperion immediately backs down, but impulsive Haywire can't resist using his tanglewire to tip Hawkeye's arrows out of his quiver.It turns out that someone tried to mind-control the Squadron again, and it was during this that Moonglow sent her plea. But they threw off the attempted domination and tracked the source to near Sausalito. When the Avengers arrived Hyperion thought *they* might have been possessed. (Who knows why didn't Moonglow didn't tell him about contacting the Avengers?) The teams agree to jointly investigate.The quinjet and a PEGASUS shuttle fly them to Marin County where they land. They can't detect anything suspicious until a very tall bulky armoured figure accosts them. Hawkeye recognises him as the billionaire Imus Champion from original Av#109 where Clint Barton taught him archery until he discovered that Champion was going to trigger the San Andreas Fault to destroy California. (Needless to say the Avengers stopped that.) But in Marvel Comics Presents #125-126 he was dying of a rare disease and supposedly *did* die in an explosion (although we know he survived into #128-130). Champion here says he faked his own death and bought a biotech company to develop a cure. He also reveals what we already know that he was behind the Corruptor and used the Avengers/Squadron clash as a diversion while his men 'liberated' items from a crashed alien spacecraft.But all that is in the past. *Now* he just wants to test his prowess against the mightiest heroes of 2 worlds. To ensure that they fight him he points to a tower in the distance. If he reaches that he will trigger 20 bombs in major US cities that will release nerve gas. All the heroes have to do is stop him. Any attempt to leave or send a warning message out of the electromagnetic dome enclosing the arena will set off the bombs immediately. Then he vanishes because he was only a hologram.Hyperion can't use his heat-vision to detect the foe because the EM-field is causing to much interference. He could zoom in with his atomic vision but only if he knows where to look. Cap suggests they split up into teams to search. As neither side really trusts the other he and Hype agree to pair members from each team. Vance is overjoyed to be taking part in a classic adventure until Angel dampens his mood by reminding him that the nerve gas could kill millions. Then she notices an ant.The 1st pairing to meet Champion is Hawkeye and Haywire. Clint thinks the Squaddie is as brash and full of himself as he himself was when he 1st joined the Avengers. But then when Haywire says his girlfriend Inertia died back in their universe it elicits sympathy from Barton who lost Mockingbird (Avengers West Coast #100). Champion interrupts with an Eternal Brain Mine which he has modified to act remotely. It causes Haywire to uncontrollably emit his tanglewire. Then a press of a hidden button on the ground causes a plastic trap to engulf both heroes, and the tanglewire starts to smother the archer.Next up is Moonglow and Scarlet Witch. Wanda admits that she hasn't learned much magic and instead relies mainly on her mutant hex power, which however seems to be changing lately. Moonglow says she senses great magic power within the other. Again Champion interrupts, this time with the mystical Wand Of Watoomb. Moonglow hurls a magic blast which the Wand absorbs and returns amplified, taking the Squadron's sorceress down. The Witch's danger brings forth Wonder Man. Simon Williams attacks Imus Champion but is defeated by a simple judo throw! And a thrown stone KO's SW.In midair Hyperion and Thor compare the (dis)advantages of secret identities. Hype says he gave up being Mark Milton but now thinks that made him lose touch with humanity. Thor has been without a human identity for some time but now has a new 1 forced on him (Jake Olsen in #2 of his new series) but he hasn't told the Avengers yet. Hyperion spots Champion and dives to the attack, only to be sent back into the sky by a punch from a Wonder Glove which Imus paid Wizard to make for him. It takes the Glove plus a staff 'acquired' from the Egyptian God Seth to put Thor down. Hype returns to fly Thor to safety, but he makes the mistake of trying to lift the God by the hammer Mjolnir. And falls, crushed by its magic weight.The next team are a triplet of Dr Spectrum, Iron Man and Whizzer who fly along with Stanley Stewart supported by a platform generated by Spectrum's Power Prism. Stan is missing the wife and daughter who are (alive) back on their home Earth. Champion emerges from some bushes to yank the 'power line' connecting the platform to the Prism. Whizzer falls off and DrS is thrown sideways. But the speedster recovers fast and whirls a cyclone to take their foe's breath away. However Champion uses another of Wizard's toys, an Anti-Gravity Disc which attaches to Stanley and takes him up towards space. Whizzer manages to detach it but then has to be rescued by Iron Man from falling. Spectrum generates armour and a big sword but Imus counters with a Zodiac Star-Blaster set to produce ultra-violet rays, Joseph Ledger's Achilles heel. Tony Stark returns with an unconscious Whizzer but the enemy sets of an EM pulse which crashes IM's armour's system.Power Princess asked to be paired with Firestar. Princess Zarda sensed that Angelica is unsure of her role in the Avengers. Angel admits that she's only here because her boyfriend Vance wants to be. Zarda suggests she might be happier with someone whose goals aligned more with hers. But then they spot Champion, who agilely dodges microwave blasts and fists. He lures PP into a position where she has to use her shield to save herself from Firestar's blasts. This allows IC to give her a Wonder Glove punch and take the shield for himself, which he uses to chop down a large tree on top of the other female.He now returns to where Hawkeye and Haywire lie unconscious and takes Clint's bow. But then the remaining heroes Cap, Justice, Shape and Skylark find him. Champion leaps up to catch flying Justice and diverts his TK blast to hit Shape. Then he fires an arrow to hit Skylark's throat which causes her sonic power to go wild rendering Justice, Shape and then herself unconscious. Captain America is the last man standing. They spar but then IC reveals that his armour is a modified version of Porcupine's, and like that 1 it can emit a sleep gas. And Cap falls too.Champion then stalks to his tower. He intends to 'obey' his rules and detonate the bombs. But when he pulls the lever nothing happens. And Ant-Man makes himself known and explains that his ants have chewed through the relevant wires. Then Pym expands to Giant-Man while continuing to say that he's tracked all the bombs and alerted the authorities. All the Avengers and Squaddies turn up and reveal that this was the plan all along - they were only playing for time. Firestar had the idea of sending a message out via ants. Champion surrenders and is arrested by arriving cops. But he says he'll be back after his lawyers get him out.As the Squadron prepare to return to Project PEGASUS Iron Man gives them a surprise. Among Champion's collection of artefacts they've found an Nth Projector like the 1 which caused the crisis in their Graphic Novel. They may be able to use it to go home.Days later they are joined by Magdalene and Swordsman. Magdalene's interdimensional portal-creating ability should combine with the Projector to break through the Nth Barrier which seals off the Squadron's universe. The Squad are sent home in their spacecraft so they can safely materialise in space near their Earth. But Haywire elects to stay on Earth-616. Without Inertia there's nothing for him to go back for. However Magdalene generates another portal for her and Swordsman to use to find another world to belong to.


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Three: Nerves
This time Moonstone does the thought narration.Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts are building a device called the Liberator which will absorb all transnormal energies (nuclear, cosmic, gamma, ionic) in the world, making it a safer place (and depowering many super-chars). The Avengers don't trust them and have infiltrated the team with Tony Stark disguised in villain Cobalt Man's armour. They didn't tell Hawkeye about the plan because of his T-Bolt connections. But some of the 'Bolts are also sceptical about Zemo's real intentions.Now the Thunderbolts are invading the Wizard's hideout in Groton, Connecticut because Project: Liberator needs some of his tech. Songbird blocks access to his control helmet with a solid sound forcefield but he still somehow sends lots of his weaponised anti-grav discs against them. Teamwork deals with them, including Blackheath smothering some in rampant mould grown from the bathroom. But meanwhile Wizard gets his helmet and with it summons his armour.Bentley Whitman accuses them of being traitors to villainhood out to arrest him but Helmut Zemo offers him a deal:- Give them the tech they want or he'll tell the world (ie other villains) that he's working with them already. Wizard lets them take some gravity discs, and Cobalt Man spots some not yet released Starksoft 8.1 comms hardware which they grab as well. Fixer and Zemo spend some time with Wizard learning how his stuff works. Something bothers Moonstone about CM.Vision is using the Avengers' Global Activity display to track the T-Bolts' recent activities. Black Knight in Slorenia noted Fixer and Blackheath taking samples of ambient energy and soil respectively. Warbird reports from the Pentagon that Atlas, Songbird and Vantage attacked a North Korean Fusion Reactor. Photon on Upper Atmospheric Patrol noted Fixer and Moonstone studying a low-orbit telecom satellite, and Quasar in the Deep Space Monitoring Station confirms that they've been studying global satellite patterns.Last issue Hawkeye suspected that Iron Man in the Avengers lately is only a remote-controlled armour, when he's there at all. He 'innocently' asks where Shellhead is, and the others look shifty. So he goes to the room where he found the remote-controlled armour and takes his frustration out on it. Scarlet Witch follows him and realises that he's rumbled the scam. Clint Barton says he could call the TBolts on his comm-link and warn them. Wanda Maximoff sympathises because they were both thought of as criminals before they joined the Avengers. But he backs down.Fixer has implemented the plan using Starksoft. Liberator will be linked to an array of satellites which will locate transnormal energies which Liberator will then absorb. He assures Cobalt Man that the system has been set to ignore such energies in the Thunderbolts such as CM's armour and his own Tech-Pack. CM has a worry about Stark's tech but lets it pass.Then Moonstone is back hunting a satellite, this time with Cobalt Man and Songbird. Fixer has sent her to find 1 of the abandoned chain set up for the Magneto Protocols. Once there Songbird releases a load of Wizard's grav-discs which have been programmed to seek out the other satellites in the chain. When they find them they overwrite their programming. Moonstone's thoughtover says she's been doing some checking on CM, and on the way back to ground she tells them she's going to do something in a place near Sea Cliff, Long Island, expecting Cobalt Man to react - but he doesn't. The Avengers have detected the satellite takeovers.Our next scene is Parsons Minimum Security Prison where we saw Abner Jenkins being held in #1. Hawkeye breaks into the place by tricking the security system and stealthily subduing all the guards. (I don't know how he's going to get away with this, leaving tell-tale arrows all around.) Barton asks him if he's still in contact with Melissa Gold (Songbird). Abe confirms that he's been exchanging coded e-mails with her and passing the info on to Captain America, which he expected Hawk to know about.Now we switch to Moonstone in Glen Cove near Sea Cliff. This is where C-Man as Ralph Roberts was a physicist with his own company. He built his CM armour to compete with Iron Man but fought the X-Men instead (XM#31). Later he was affected by radiation which turned him into his current unstable state like a walking atom bomb. He's appeared to die from exploding twice (Hulk #174 and Defenders #43) which is why he's supposed to be dead. His factory is abandoned and for sale so she goes to visit his brother Ted Roberts in a civilian disguise (which she can manifest in the same way she generates her costume) and tells him she thinks the current Cobalt Man is a fake. Ted confirms that they recovered Ralph's body and checked his fingerprints.Meanwhile Cobalt-Stark asks Melissa and Dallas Riordan why they trust Zemo. They say that they don't, but he's been doing good lately and they're letting him run until he starts doing bad again.Hawkeye is back in the Mansion and confronts Cap about using the connection to Melissa to spy on the 'Bolts without telling him. Steve Rogers claims that he didn't want to put Clint in a position of divided loyalties. But now Vision and Yellowjacket announce that they've used the info from Jenkins and Cobalt Man to work out what Project: Liberator will do. Liberator will store all the drained energy. But Stark has detected a hidden switch in the system that will allow someone to control all that power. And the switch is called Protocol X. And Hawkeye and Cap remember the Zemo trademark on things like Adhesive X. Clint's worst fears are realised.Project: Liberator is ready but Zemo wants to do a short full-scale test before going public. But they'll record the test for later display. But then Cobalt Man stops them all with a blast from his gauntlet. Moonstone's suspicions are verified so she orders Atlas to grab him. But CM says the test was going to a fail because the Starksoft 8.1 comms won't work with software earlier than Stark 6.0, and the Magneto Protocol satellites pre-date that. Fixer checks and he's right, but how did *CM* know? Stark quickly invents a shady answer which satisfies them. Karla Sofen is now confused - he may be a ringer but he seems to be on their side.Cobalt Man and Fixer fix the problem and Liberator goes live. The Avengers are nearly there in a quinjet. Pilot Wasp wonders why Tony hasn't called them in before now. Barton thinks it's because he's met the 'Bolts now and he's no longer sure they aren't right. But Protocol X has convinced Clint that Zemo is playing the others for suckers. So he symbolically hands his TBolts communicator to Wanda. Meanwhile the satellite array is turned on. Heroes like Nova find their powers suddenly gone. The Avengers apart from Cap and Hawk are also affected, so Cap takes over the controls of the quinjet. And jubilant Zemo orders the test to continue until the World knows what they've done.


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Two: The final line
This issue's thoughts voiceover is by Tony Stark who lets us know that the Avengers have tried and failed to stop Cobalt Man's rampage through nuclear power plants twice already (1st time last issue). Now they have their 3rd chance in New Ulm, Montana. He reminds us that CM is 'playing the part' of a reluctant villain desperate to use the radiation to keep his plasma self cohesive within his armour. But Tony also cryptically says the Avengers have been playing their part as well in *his* plan. Whatever Tony's plan is it's based on distrust of the Thunderbolts, so I don't think the T-Bolts ex-leader Hawkeye is in on it.Captain America directs the operation. Hawkeye puts fires out with foam arrows. Iron Man and Vision hit the foe, but careful not to crack his armour. Yellowjacket discovers a fluctuation in the aged reactor core (scheduled for decommissioning soon) which Stark confirms from within his armour. Scarlet Witch and Wasp aren't doing anything, and Clint Barton can't understand why the team can't solve this problem. CM knocks IM down and blames the Avengers for interfering.In Thunderbolts HQ Stormfront-1 in the North Sea Moonstone is listening to news reports about the pending disaster while reviewing her Project: Liberator journal. She's noted that Fixer says they need a nuclear engineer. They've spent months winning the world's trust and admiration, but they need to get Liberator working before that trust wanes.Fixer himself is test-running the Liberator on Vantage. It is supposed to absorb transnormal energies like nuclear, cosmic, gamma, and he's seeing what it does to her ionic energy. Whatever, it's painful to Dallas Riordan, and her lover Atlas and friend Songbird come running at her cries. Dallas has reverted to being paralysed, but Baron Zemo assures them it's only temporary, and indeed Vantage is recovering. But giant-size Erik Josten has already nearly crushed Norbert Ebersol.Moonstone joins them and Helmut Zemo stalks off telling Karla Sofen to make the others understand how important this is. Karla says he's right about needing to get things done faster, but she's worried about him cracking under the pressure - she thinks Helmut is already slipping back into his old autocratic ways. She too leaves after urging them to tell her if they see him doing anything suspicious. But the others trust Moonstone less than they do Zemo. The last 'Bolt Blackheath has arrived and agrees. The ex-Plantman is only going along with the plan because draining the dangerous energies from the world will be good for the Green. But he wonders what someone might do with all that energy once they've stolen it.Moonstone goes to Zemo who (probably correctly) accuses her of sowing discontent as part of a power bid. But she ignores that and points out that they need a nuclear engineer and Cobalt Man *is* 1. Recruiting conflicted bad guys is their bag, and showing up the Avengers wouldn't hurt either. Helmut orders the team to scramble ...... and Moonstone teleports (or gravitic shifts) them to Minnesota. Songbird encases the radioactive villain in hard sound. Atlas holds up a weakened ceiling. Cap and Zemo face off. Iron Man just stands around while Fixer relays his plan to Yellowjacket who admits it might work. Cobalt Man begs the Avengers to let the T-Bolts try. Steve Rogers and Helmut Zemo are still trying to outstare each other, so Hawkeye tells his old team to go for it. Fixer uses a device (a portable Liberator?) to absorb CM's energy and Moonstone opens a wormhole to send it somewhere. Now Songbird creates a sound-shell around her team and Cobalt Man. The Avengers try to stop them but Moonstone 'ports them all away. YJ reports that the core is now stable. Tony Stark's thoughtover comments that the T-Bolts worked well as a team, like the Avengers *used* to.In TB HQ Fixer adds a coolant system to CM's armour to prevent his radiation surges, which will do until they can find a permanent solution to his problem. In return he agrees to help them save the world. Tony's thoughtover wonders if the team of ex-villains might actually be on the up-and-up.Back at Avengers Mansion Hawkeye is simultaneously practising agility and archery when Edwin Jarvis brings him some refreshments. Clint asks Jarv if he thinks it was wise for him to have left the T-Bolts to pursue their own path (in their #75). After some reticence Edwin says that he can't forgive or trust any of the Masters Of Evil who nearly killed him (in the Avengers Under Siege arc in #270-277 - *some* of the current T-Bolts were involved there). Hawk asks Hank Pym if he knows where Iron Man is. YJ says no but makes a feeble excuse to fly off. Clint knows he's lying and follows a shifty eye-movement to the mechanical depot where he finds IM's remote-control armour recharging.In TB HQ Cobalt Man is asking Atlas, Songbird and Vantage whether they trust Zemo. They avoid answering but Moonstone pops up and suggests there are no easy answers, such as to the question as to whether CM himself is hero or villain. She suggests that they just consider what they can do for each other (and adds a hint of flirtation to sweeten the deal). Alone in his new quarters the newbie removes his helmet and contacts the Avengers to let them know he's 'in'. He's really Tony Stark and his thoughtover tells us his plan's working but he's no longer sure whether it should continue.


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Six: Blood will tell
Captain America does the thoughtover for this final issue and so it's he who brings us up to date. Baron Zemo's Thunderbolts planned to use their Project: Liberator to drain all transnormal energy from the world to make it a safer place. (This would include neutralising all atomic weapons and eg draining the gamma energy from Hulk.) The Avengers had to stop them. (The T-Bolts did a test run which stored some of that energy in the Liberator device. Not trusting Zemo completely Moonstone had arranged a failsafe to take the energy for herself. The Avengers' attack triggered the failsafe.) Now Moonstone has all that power (as well as her 2 Moonstone gems). Karla Sofen's sanity is questionable. (Liberator has already been run in reverse to take back its energy but) taking away her Moonstone power as well risks leaving her catatonic (or dead). Her ex-lover Hawkeye has notched an arrow, and Cap hopes he's made the right choice.[The bits in brackets are me inserting stuff that Steve Rogers leaves out.]But from Cap's point of view Clint Barton chooses wrong as he blasts the Liberator, stopping it from draining the Moonstones. And they're left with an angry Moonstone.More stuff happened last issue. Helmut Zemo's face is scarred again after he took a Moonstone blast meant for Cap. Karla tore apart Blackheath's plant body. Now he's reintegrated but claims that the Green is abandoning him because of the damage Moonstone's power did to the world. However he can still generate a substance to ease Helmut's pain.Vision does his phasing an arm through the chest trick on Moonstone, but Hawkeye hits him with a bioelectric scrambler arrow. He comments that he's got an arrow specifically designed for everyone on both teams. Karla says she's tired of trying to live up to his expectations, and now she just wants to be left alone. She prepares to gravitational shunt away but Scarlet Witch tries to stop her with a Chaos Magic hex. But the result is a hole in space which threatens to suck them all in. Fixer reports that such holes are appearing all over the world.Songbird tries to plug the hole with solid sound. Atlas, Wasp and Yellowjacket go big to throw debris at it. The hole splits(?) into multiple bubbles and Scarlet Witch can't get Moonstone out of the middle of it all, so Jolt sends her electric self to try to do the job. But Karla no longer trusts anyone, not even her friend, and bats her away. A hole starts to take Blackheath and Zemo away to Moscow but Songbird pulls them back with a sound tentacle. A Chinese building suddenly pops up through another hole. Clint tries to persuade Karla *she* can stop all this.Fixer and Iron Man come up with a pseudoscientific explanation for what's happening. Wanda Maximoff's hex caught Moonstone mid-shunt and now she's everywhere at once. Fixer says he's stopped her before, but that was before she got the 2nd power gem. But he's devised a multi-phase spectrum scrambler which should give them 3 seconds to deal with her permanently. Norbert Ebersol hands it to Tony Stark and then jumps through a hole - anywhere on Earth is safer than *here*. As the Statue Of Liberty's torch suddenly appears and nearly crushes some of them, Cap tells IM and Hawk to get it done. Tony tosses the scrambler towards Moonstone and Clint shoots his anti-Moonstone arrow which disrupts her gravity field long enough for the scrambler to get through.There's an explosion of black blobs and light and Karla Sofen falls towards the ground. Vision dives through her and comes away with the Moonstone gems. But their energy is too much for him and he drops them. And Zemo dives for them and uses them teleport away. And Clint Barton cradles catatonic Karla.We end with some epilogues weeks later.Ex-Blackheath Sam Smithers surrenders himself to Vantage and Warbird at Seagate maximum security penitentiary, from which he had escaped with Hawkeye (TBolts#56). Warbird offers Dallas Riordan a job with Homeland Security.In Avengers Mansion Songbird turns down an offer of Avengers membership (at least for now). Atlas gets Yellowjacket to remove the Pym Particles that give him his current growing power. Jolt is going back to Counter-Earth. She, Songbird and Hawkeye say goodbye over Karla's hospital bed. Hawk, Cap and Wasp hear that Abner Jenkins' help in this series has got him a parole from Parsons minimum security prison, and now Mach-3 hopes to set up a new Thunderbolts. Steve says he thinks ex-TBolt leader Clint's legacy is in good hands.We have a flashback to Zeilniz in 1489 where the heroic 1st Baron Zemo, Harbin, has let power go murderously to his head.And in modern day Zeilniz Helmut Zemo dons his hood again. He's given up trying to persuade people to let him save the world. From now on he'll go back to forcing them to accept him as saviour.


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One: The cause of justice
In 1480 Harbin Zemo single-handedly held a bridge against a small Slavic army to protect his village until Holy Roman Empire troops came to the rescue. For this he was made the 1st Baron Zemo.Now the 13th Baron Helmut Zemo leads the Thunderbolts. He and Moonstone confront the Prime Minister of the Slavic country Carnelia and demand that he stop work on a secret fusion reactor and hand over all details about it. The PM of course refuses and his bodyguards pull their guns. But Moonstone, floating a few inches above the ground, mentally removes the guns. So the TBolts do it the hard way. A news report shows Zemo holding off the Carnelian army with Blackheath, Songbird and Vantage while Moonstone dismantles the reactor with Atlas and Fixer - all with no casualties. President Putin thanks them for defusing a tense international situation. Apparently this is 1 of a series of interventions that have made them international heroes.In Avengers Mansion the TBolts ex-leader Hawkeye is proud of them, but Captain America, Scarlet Witch and Wasp aren't so sure. But there's no time to discuss it as Vision brings news of Cobalt Man (supposedly long-dead) attacking an electronics research lab. Cap scrambles the Avengers, including calling for Iron Man and Yellowjacket. Another news report say that they stopped him but he escaped. And we later see another bit where C-Man pleads for the Avengers to leave him alone to do what he *has* to do.In Aberdeen, Scotland Erik Josten (Atlas), Melissa Gold (Songbird) and Dallas Riordan (Vantage) have just been enjoying some time off in a pub. The 2 females still don't trust their leader but Erik is feeling good. The plant-being Blackheath surprises them by emerging from a hedge, and he doesn't like being reminded he used to be human Sam Smithers. Moonstone (Karla Sofen) pops into existence near them to ask if they've got some monofilament for Norbert Ebersol (Fixer). They admit they haven't got round to it yet, but Blackheath tells them he's acquired some ammonium nitrate by ingesting fertilizer.This issue has a continuous voiceover by Zemo which began with him narrating Harbin's story. Here he comments that Fixer and Moonstone, the most duplicitous of his troop, are the only ones he can rely on to get Project: Liberator working, a project that will save humanity from its petty squabbles. Moonstone tells the 3 that Zemo's not happy with their attitude but they respond that if it weren't for them the Baron would be dead or in jail or stuck on Counter-Earth. They head off to get the monofilament while Moonstone gravitic shifts herself and Blackheath back to base ...... Stormfront-1 in the North Sea where Blackheath delivers the ammonium nitrate to Fixer by puking it at (and over) his feet. Helmut contacts Karla asking for a report but she's having a shower. When she's finished we see her mentally forming her uniform around her (or just making it seem like she's wearing it?). Zemo is getting frustrated with delays to the Project, and Karla says they only have 3 weeks before their popularity wanes and the public won't be convinced of their plan. Norbert doesn't credit such a prediction, but does say they need a nuclear engineer to solve some of the problems.It's interruption time again as the remains of the Carnelian Air Force arrive to attack them. But Moonstone just flies out and surrounds the helicopters with a gravity shell which holds them immobile in midair. Fixer sends video of the encounter to CNN as the other 3 arrive with the monofilament. Zemo gets him to also send another video to Carnelia of the PM sleeping with the wives of his Generals, who aren't happy about it.We now flash back 4 weeks to Parsons Minimum Security Prison in Illinois. Cap and Wasp arrive by quinjet where they've arranged to be met by Homeland Security's Superhuman Liaison the ex-Avenger Warbird. She takes them in to see ex-Thunderbolt Abner Jenkins (Beetle and Mach-1, 2 & 3) who had voluntarily handed himself in to complete his sentence, even after being pardoned. It turns out Songbird has been keeping him updated on what Zemo is up to, but she doesn't know the whole story. Cap and Jan think he may be able to guess what Zemo and Fixer are doing. It turns out he can, and he says 2 things:- If it works then it's not Helmut and Norbert they should be worried about. And that the TBolts are going to use Liberator to save the world, and the Avengers must stop them.


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Four: Betrayal
It's Hawkeye's turn for the thoughtover this issue, so he gives us the sitrep. Last issue the Thunderbolts activated their Liberator Project using old Magneto Protocol satellites reprogrammed to detect transnormal energies and siphon them off, storing the the energy in the Liberator device. They say this will make the world a safer place. The Avengers are flying a quinjet to stop them. Even the Fantastic Four's advanced machines are being drained. Skilled humans Clint Barton and Captain America weren't affected but synthezoid Vision's workings and the Pym Particles in Wasp and Yellowjacket were. It tried to syphon Scarlet Witch's Chaos Magic but she fought it off and is now healing the others.The quinjet is about to crash onto Stormfront-1, the TBolts North Sea HQ, but Songbird slows it in a sonic net and Atlas goes giant to catch it. (The Liberator system is programmed not to affect the 'Bolts.) Cap, Hawk and Vizh exit the craft, and Cap orders the above 2 and Vantage to lead them to Baron Zemo.Inside Zemo, Blackheath, Fixer, Moonstone and Cobalt Man (who we know is Iron Man in different armour) have turned the test run off and are about to broadcast what they're doing to the world. But Cap's thrown shield stops them and he declares that he's arresting Zemo. The 2 start verbally and physically sparring. Clint asks (his ex-lover) Moonstone to separate them but she tells *him* to do it. The other 3 Avengers turn up and it looks like things are going to escalate. So Songbird parts the pair with a solid sound wall.Helmut Zemo still maintains that the people of the world would support his removal of nuclear missiles and Hulks if Captain America would let him ask them. But Vision relays news that panicked rulers of the world have mobilised their armies and conflict is imminent. To prove his motives are pure Zemo offers to give the energy that Liberator gathered in the test run to the Avengers. However Vizh reports that there is *no* energy in Liberator. Cobalt Man says Cap's shield messed things up, and Fixer can't fix it.Hawkeye wonders where the energy has gone. Fixer says he'll try to trace it, but Wasp zaps him to stop him touching the machine. Cobalt Man urges the Avengers to let Norbert Ebersol work, and CA asks CM if he trusts him (remember Steve Rogers knows it's Tony Stark in the armour). Hawkeye (ex-team leader of the T-Bolts) adds his vote of support. But Cap just can't trust a Zemo, and by extension the 'Bolts.Helmut loses it and attacks Cap. Giant Atlas punches giant Yellowjacket. Vision flies up to Moonstone. Hawkeye tells him to back off but also threatens Karla Sofen with arrows. She contemptuously makes the synthezoid super-heavy and then deflects Clint's arrows. Songbird keeps Atlas and YJ (and Wasp) apart. Karla manages to disrupt Wanda Maximoff's Chaos Magic until Clint body-tackles her in midair. Zemo ends the fight by laying down his sword and surrendering to Cap. But there's something wrong with Moonstone.Fixer attaches something to Cobalt Man's armour and they both wind up 'inside' the system's computer program. CM's avatar appears as Tony Stark until he changes it to the armour before Fixer notices. They track down some code Norbert doesn't recognise but CM says is the Protocol X bypass and it's written in Kree.The pair return to reality and Cobalt Man accuses Moonstone of stealing the energy (the 2 Moonstones which empower her are of Kree origin and at 1 time she had memories of a previous Kree owner). It turns out he's right and I think her current problem is trying to keep the energy under control. But now she lashes out with it and claims that she only installed the bypass in case Zemo tried to take it. But Cap's shield caused it to activate and give her the energy. However nobody seems to believe her and they all turn against her (but I think Blackheath sneaks away).Her 1st act is to unmask Cobalt Man, because she found proof last issue that he wasn't the original wearer. But she's as surprised as the rest of the Thunderbolts to find that it's Tony Stark in there. And of course it reopens the rift between the 2 teams. And then Karla Sofen decides to give everyone back the energy she got from Liberator, seemingly destroying the base in the process.


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Five: Truth and consequences
This issue Songbird takes thoughtover duties.Previously Baron Helmut Zemo's Thunderbolts have built Project: Liberator to absorb all transnormal energies from the world. This will free the world of threats from nuclear weapons as well as super-chars like the gamma-powered Hulk (so Zemo says). The Avengers came to stop them but they'd already done a test run and absorbed a lot of energy. Meanwhile Moonstone had inserted a failsafe so she could take the stored energy if Zemo tried to use it wrongly (so she claims). In the ensuing fight last issue the Liberator device was damaged and the failsafe triggered and gave all the energy to her. Faced with suspicion from both teams she released a blast of energy ...... which it turns out *didn't* destroy the T-Bolts North Sea base Stormfront-1, it merely KO'd all the Avengers except Karla Sofen's old lover and the 'Bolts old leader Hawkeye who tries to talk her down. As Songbird and Vantage join him Zemo surreptitiously urges Fixer to find a way to get Moonstone's energy back into the Liberator. Norbert Ebersol points out that would still leave Karla powered by her 2 Moonstones, which would still make her the most powerful person here.In Parson's minimum security prison Abner Jenkins (ex-Thunderbolt Mach-3) hears about the gravimetric storm on the News, realises that Moonstone must be behind it and desperately asks to be put in contact with Warbird (at Homeland Security) to get a message via the Starcore solar lab to the only person who can stop her.The Avengers are starting to wake but Moonstone's gravimetric force field keeps them out. Yellowjacket tries to shrink small enough to slip through but fails. Helmut buys time for Fixer by talking to Karla. He says the plan would never have worked because the Avengers are too jealous of them to let it succeed, but they can still make it work. Moonstone takes that as a hint to shift part of the building into Null Space. Clint Barton objects that the Avengers will still track them down, so Moonstone proposes to take the other team along. Zemo thinks that's a good idea. Then the heroes can meet with a 'tragic accident' and the 'Bolts can return to 'honour their memory'.But something stops Karla taking the building away. It's plant-being Blackheath who has generated huge roots to anchor the place to Earth. He tells her that her powers are threatening the Green. But she counters by ripping him apart. Then Songbird resolves her conflicted loyalties and attacks Sofen with hard sound weapons, including ramming solid sound down her throat. Helmut attacks *her* but Melissa Gold retaliates and makes him drop Captain America's shield that he got hold of last issue. Karla lashes out at Melissa, but Cap throws his shield and shouts "Avengers Assemble".He attacks Moonstone alongside Scarlet Witch, Vision, Wasp and YJ, but she repulses them all. YJ and Tony Stark, still in the Cobalt Man armour he used to infiltrate the Thunderbolts, help Fixer to remove Karla's failsafe from Liberator, but the damaged HQ doesn't provide enough power to get it working again. Wanda Maximoff tries to use her Chaos Magic to cause Blackheath's body to generate more roots and branches to tangle their foe, but MS throws Vision at her. Ionic-powered Vantage leaps to attack Moonstone who replies by snapping her bones. Atlas has been his usual indecisive self but seeing Dallas Riordan hurt finally prompts him into action, and he grows enormous and hits Karla with a fist larger than herself. But Hawkeye, who's also been keeping out of the battle, hits him with an arrow with a Pym Particle payload which shrinks Atlas down to size.Meanwhile Stark has sent a signal to a self-propelled briefcase in the Avengers' quinjet which brings him his Iron Man armour. (Very) quickly changing suits he provides the power to restart Liberator. Moonstone now knows that everyone is against her. She sends an angry blast at Baron Zemo, but Cap stops it with his shield. So now she sends 1 *his* way. But now it's Zemo's turn to play hero and he interposes his body to take the fire.Iron Man isn't providing enough juice for Liberator to function. But then a bolt of lightning lands and materialises as the ex-Thunderbolt teen Jolt arrives. Innocent Hallie Takama had been the only thing that kept Moonstone on the side of good, and now Karla thinks she's come to help her. But instead Hallie pours all her electricity into the Liberator. It bursts into life and sucks all the transnormal energy out of Sofen. But Stark has removed the block which protected the T-Bolts from Liberator, and it also starts to remove the gemstones that power her. However Fixer remarks that this will kill her or at least shut down her mind.Tony asks Cap what he should do. Steve Rogers thinks she's too much of an unstable menace to be left. Hawkeye notches an arrow, but neither he nor anyone else knows exactly what he's going to do with it. Zemo, with a fire-scarred face, also urges him to shut Karla down. Songbird's thoughts tell us she trusts him to make the right decision. And Clint lets fly.And on that cliffhanger this issue ends.


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In the Ultraverse we've followed Loki gaining the 6 Infinity Gems, and Black Knight joining Ultraforce and being reunited with Sersi who seems to have found another Gem. They all collided in the Utraforce/Avengers Prelude.Now we turn our attention to a Marvel-Earth char, the Elder Of The Universe Grandmaster, who used to possess the Mind Gem. En Dwi Gast wants it back but he knows that (in the Rune /Silver Surfer 1-shot) the Infinity Gems all disappeared into another universe. Now he decides to follow them. And he follows the trail of the Mind Gem to the Eternal Sersi who's sitting brooding on an asteroid in the equivalent of the Solar System (after leaving UF at the end of UF/AvP). He senses that she's not got the Gem but that she's conflicted between seeking the Infinity Gems and being with her love BK. Then *she* senses the Elder and challenges the games master to a game. She will tell him the truth and he must perform a dare.It's nothing to do with that game when an Amish community finish a new barn for a newlywed couple and a stranger appears (with the IGs in his hand). He casually replaces the simple barn with a much bigger 1 which he says includes modern automated equipment. They of course reject that so he replaces it with a miniaturised barn, and exits with a maniacal laugh.He was of course was Loki who's getting bored in the citadel of Vahdala floating above the Godwheel now that he's got the 6 Gems. He really needs to move on to bigger villainy like killing his home universe's Avengers. Cue the entrance of the Grandmaster who challenges *him* to a game. The GM wants the Mind Gem as *his* prize. Loki can't resist another maniacal laugh before asking what GM could offer as a similar prize for *him*. GM says he knows where there's a 7th Gem. Loki doesn't believe him and tries to use the Mind Gem to extract the truth. GM says his earlier possession of the MG has made him immune to it. But the Gem *can* confirm that he's telling the truth - and the GM prides himself on never cheating. Loki refuses to play his game and threatens to use torture to make EDG tell him where the 7th Gem is. But his opponent says he can shut off pain and as an EOTG he can't be killed. Disgusted Loki sends him away. But after some brooding he announces that he'll play, and the GM returns.En Dwi Gast makes his usual proposal, a contest of champions. Since Loki wants to destroy the Avengers, Grandmaster will use them as his side. Loki can have Ultraforce. Black Knight will be the pawn/wild card/macguffin. The GM says he plays to win. Loki counters that he plays not to lose. They separately summon their teams. GM brings various Avengers (Black Widow, Captain America, Crystal, Iron Man, Starfox, Thor and Vision) from Earth-616 in stasis and asks them to be his champions. He shows them Dane Whitman who they haven't seen since he went through a dimensional rift with Sersi (in their #375), and tells them that he's insurance that they'll compete. But the carrot is that the enemy is Loki who's got all the Infinity Gems with which Thanos (temporarily) destroyed half the universe. Loki gathers Ultraforce (Contrary, Ghoul, Hardcase, Prime, Prototype, Siren and Topaz), also in stasis, and tells them that BK was an advance scout for an invasion by his team the Avengers. Hardcase doesn't trust him because Loki tricked him into giving him the Time Gem (in his #23). On the other hand Prime says he never trusted BK. But Contrary reminds them they've all witnessed Loki's trickery in UF/AvP. Loki admits his guile but claims that the Avengers are worse. And the games begin ...1st up is Captain America vs Hardcase. HC is teleported to the Washington Monument where he sees Cap attacking some police before disappearing round a corner. But that 'CA' was really Loki and he's led HC to where the real CA is just teleporting in. Superhuman Tom Hawke of course attacks him and Steve Rogers fights back with fists, feet and shield. HC is stronger but falls for Cap's old trick of throwing the shield past him so it ricochets off a wall and hits him from behind. Rogers then tries reason but Hawke asks him to deny he's an invader, 1 of the Avengers allied with the 1 of legendary King Arthur's legendary enemies. Truthful Steve has to admit that he used to be an Invader but now he's an Avenger looking for BK. Luckily Tom notices the nearby Statue Of Liberty and Big Ben and realises this isn't reality, confirmed by the 'cops' turning into aliens/demons. He realises that Loki's behind it but jumps to the conclusion that Cap is working for *him*. He keeps pounding on Cap's defensive shield until his foe rolls out of the way. But then Cap lays down the shield and invites Hardcase to hit him, saying 1 superpunch might kill him. He tries to convince him that they should ally against Loki. Tom Hawke doesn't completely trust him but agrees to go along with the plan.On an asteroid made of mud near the Godwheel Black Widow & Crystal and Siren & Topaz find themselves in a tag-team mud-wrestling match. BW and Siren start off in the ring while Crystal and Topaz are trapped in energy cages outside. Crystal complains that her elemental powers can't free her but Topaz declares that no female warrior should whine like that. Somehow there's also an alien audience and announcer. Siren attacks Widow who sends her reeling to land at the feet of Topaz who fires blasts to keep the foe away and then reaches through her energy bars to help her teammate up. But that counts as a tag and she's free to attack BW herself. The powerful Queen of Gwendor is too much for Natasha Romanoff's human fighting skills. So she fires a webline at Crystal to tag *her*, and the elemental Inhuman is free to attack. She dodges Topaz' blasts until she gets close enough to kick the staff-weapon from her hands. Topaz' punch is still enough to floor the Avenger but she now uses her elemental control over earth to encase both her opponents in mud. The announcer declare her and BW the winners.Elsewhere in the Godwheel system on the ice planet Hathor teen Jimmy Ruiz finds himself nearly naked without his Prototype armour. Loki's there and tells him this is a scavenger hunt for the armours of him and his opponent before they die of cold. He adds "May the best Ultra win" before disappearing. Then of course Tony Stark materialises in a similar state. Businessman Stark tries negotiating but Ruiz has his own power as well as armour so is able to shoot blasts at him, followed by a physical assault. Normally his armour helps Jimmy control his power but he doesn't need control against a defenceless foe. But dodging another blast Tony finds his opponent's armour and quickly puts it on and then the tables are turned. Stark still wants to talk but Ruiz keeps blasting so Tony risks firing the weapons of the unfamiliar armour, and injured Jimmy retreats by his own flight power. Stark follows but is then met by Ruiz in the Iron Man armour. Jimmy mentally commands everything to fire, which is hand repulsor rays, chest uni-beam and his boot jets. The Prototype armour gets somewhat shredded but the IM armour has exhausted its power supply and locks solid.Contrary and Starfox/Eros have met in an idyllic setting. She hits him with a mental pain-pulse which brings him to his knees. But Eros recovers and uses *his* power to stimulate the pleasure centres of her brain. Contrary responds in kind and they draw closer to each other and then kiss. We discretely leave them at this point.Next is Ghoul and Vision who meet in a graveyard. Jonathan Martin quickly  discovers Vizh's ability to go superdense when he hits him and breaks off his arm (don't worry he can re-attach it), and then intangible when he falls through him. Loki pops in to advise Ghoul to use his ability to raise the dead (which didn't work out too well in the UF/Av Prelude). But he tries it again and sends a small army of corpses against his foe. Tireless Vision keeps disabling them so Ghoul calls up some more, but this time he gets his dead Exiles teammates (and these can talk). (This is what went wrong in UF/AvP.) These corpses still have their powers, forcing V to use lethal force against them. However he holds back against the next cadaver, Wonder Man/Simon Williams whose brain patterns were used for V's brain and who he considers his brother, and so allows himself to be beaten. But then the biter gets bit again when Ghoul is faced with his dead Ultraforce teammate/friend Pixx.Loki is especially pleased to see his half-brother battling Prime in Vahdala itself. But only Thor can see/hear his gloating. Prime doesn't believe this is the Thor that Hardcase (met him in Godwheel #3) and Black Knight (knows him from the Avengers) told him about because the kid in a man's body believes heroes don't fight heroes. The battle goes back and forth, and Loki does his maniacal laugh again, until the Thunder God calls down lightning and uses his hammer Mjolnir to direct it at his foe. Prime collapses and his pseudo-body starts to break down. Inside Thor is horrified to find he's possibly killed a child (Kevin Green).Elsewhere in Vahdala both Grandmaster and Loki claim to be the winner. GM can point to Crystal and Thor as wins for his side while only Vision lost and HC/Cap, Proto/IM and Contrary/Eros were stalemates. But Loki points that he defined his goal as not losing, so the 3 draws count for him. Plus in the all-female bout Black Widow lost as well as the 2 Ultras so GM's win wasn't complete there. Even Thor's win involved his brother suffering guilt. Grandmaster concedes and prepares to hand over the 7th Infinity Gem ...... but the whole game was merely a ruse. Sersi enters and congratulates GM on getting her close to the Norse God. She explains that *she* is the 7th Gem (possessing Sersi). Panicked Loki tries to stop her approach but the IGs are powerless against her. So he calls on the Avengers and Ultraforce (including Black Knight) to help him (and they are all restored to full fighting strength). BK rushes towards his love Sersi but the Gem repels him. The other heroes don't know who's the real villain here. Sersi leaps on Loki and tells him it's time to consummate their relationship. Confused Loki gets kissed and there's a large explosion ...... and Dane Whitman discovers that Sersi is herself once more, with the 7th Gem gone. Hardcase grabs Loki assuming he's got it but Thor points to all 7 Gems hovering in the air. A voice tells them that the 6 Infinity Gems existed before the universe but before there were 6 there were 7, and before that there was 1 (being). The 7th got separated (in the Ultraverse) from the 6 (in the Marvelverse) and because of this the 6 lost the gift for independent action. But now they are reunited as 1 who reveals herself and calls herself Nemesis. And she intends to create a new universe from the ashes of both existing ones.Of course the united heroes rise up to oppose her but it's too late. Nemesis erases them along with their universes by the very act of creating her new combined version.We'll see that new universe in the Ultraforce/Avengers 1-shot.


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For the Phoenix so loved the world
A million years ago Laufey, king of the Jotunheim Frost Giants, conspired romantically with Hyve, queen of the Negative Zone insectoids, to invade Earth. The 1MBC Avengers stop them and Hyve winds up dead. Laufey swears vengeance on the gods and inhabitants of Midgard. The Avengers (1MBC) see their 1st casualty since getting together and defeating a mad Celestial (as related in Marvel Legacy, FCBD 2018: Avengers and Avengers (2018) #1). The original Black Panther (who we learn was named Mosi) has died and is borne away by his tribe who want no more to do with them. (They turn inwards and fortify their vibranium mound.) Odin comes on to Phoenix (Firehair) who angrily rebuffs him for not showing due respect to their dead comrade. (We have heard that pair have been a couple before.)Much later Odin calls the team members to Asgard with no explanation. They arrive expecting some enemy to fight but discover that he's invited them to a wedding between himself and Lady Phoenix, which was news to *her*. She slaps his face with a fiery hand and flies off. But this avatar of the Phoenix Force isn't ready to let it leave Earth until the planet is in safe hands.Many years (centuries? millennia?) later Gaea the Earth Mother is giving birth to the god who will be Thor. A much-aged Agamotto, Sorcerer Supreme, arrives to ease the birth. We learn that the Avengers haven't 'assembled' since the wedding fiasco. Ghost Rider has been punishing sinners. Starbrand has been keeping watch for alien threats. Iron Fist has taken on the role of shepherding humans, sometimes recruiting other heroes. But they all come to this birth knowing that the baby is under threat. Odin turns up when the infant is born. But so does Laufey with revenge in mind. He attacks the Avengers until Phoenix joins them to burn his hand off.Now we have a flashback to a recent meeting between Gaea and Lady Phoenix. Gaea has been teaching humans to farm while Phoenix has been looking out for 'misfits' (mutants?). The Phoenix avatar tells the Earth goddess that she can't keep the Phoenix Force here for long for fear of it going 'dark'. She has heard that Odin has proposed to Gaea (and nearly every other goddess), and suggests that Gaea accepts his proposal to provide Midgard with a god that would have reason to care for it. Gaea agrees only to give Odin a chance to prove that he has love beneath the bravado.Now the Avengers try to keep Laufey away from the child. But his sword nicks the baby and turns it to ice. So Phoenix takes the child into the sky and uses her flames to melt the boy back to life. But when she brings Thor back to the ground Odin whisks him off to Asgard and orders her to stay out of their lives. (Relatively) soon the Phoenix Force leaves Earth.


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War
Last issue Mentor, leader of the Eternals of Titan, decided that they had to intervene in Thanos' attack on the Celestial Messiah. Now he gathers his son Eros (Starfox) and the other remaining Eternals and sends them to fight his other son Thanos, even though he may be sending them to their deaths. And when they are gone he heads off on a mission of his own.Meanwhile Thanos' huge starship Sanctuary comes across a spaceship crewed by Plasmagenians, humanoids made of fire. The starship distracts them with a torpedo while Reptyl, who Thanos turned into a god last issue, sneaks in with a cloak of invisibility, defeats the leader called Primo and takes him unconscious back to Thanos. When he wakes the mad Titan offers Primo the chance to become a god too.On the Cotati planet Tamal, Mantis and some Avengers have come to protect her half-Cotati son Quoi, the Celestial Messiah, from Thanos. But he blames her for leaving him for years with the plant-beings, even though he now knows she was discorporated most of the time. The mother now tries to restore the bond with her son, but the teen lashes out. But we can see that he's frightened by the responsibility of being the Messiah to the Universe.Elsewhere on Tamal Scarlet Witch approaches Thor and demands a fight. The Thunder God is worried about harming his old friend, but Wanda Maximoff hits him with hexes. Irritated he throws his hammer Mjolnir to slam into the ground at her feet, knocking her over. As he bends to help her up she magics some dirt to rise up and hit him in the face, and counts it as a win. Along the way she explains that she just wanted to vent her irritation at the relationship between Mantis and her ex-husband Vision, and her anger with herself for feeling that way.Otherelsewhere Silverclaw and the non-Avenger Haywire (the only member of the alternate-universe Squadron Supreme left in *this* universe) are sparring physically and verbally. Lupe is still trying to talk Harold Danforth out of his obsession with his dead girlfriend Edith Freiberg (Inertia of the Squadron). She wants him to move on and someone else (hopefully her), but Harold is determined to find the Goddess of Death and get her to bring Edith back to life.But we leave them all to follow the Eternals to Sanctuary. Eros rallies them by reminding them that his brother nearly destroyed all the Eternals once, and many of those here now may not survive this. (You call that rallying?!) But they're all up for it. And watching them is Death (who *was* on Tamal briefly last issue but Haywire doesn't know it).Back with Mantis and her son, where Quoi's speech has completed a transition to normal speech. It turns out he didn't have his own teenage patois, it's just that he didn't have any non-telepaths to learn spoken language off. He still doesn't really believe he's the perfect humanoid/plant hybrid who will change the Universe. But she says that *she* didn't believe she was the Celestial Madonna either. But the bright star that started this series is the Universe's way of announcing his arrival.Apparently Reptyl brought another Plasmagen called Secco along alive to Sanctuary too, because Thanos uses Secco's lifeforce to upgrade Primo to god-status. And Primo now swears fealty. At this point the Eternals decide to try to breach the starship. Thanos hears his brother's voice and tells Primo and Reptyl to go kill them all except Eros, and also gets his crew to fire Sanctuary's guns. Only 8 Eternals survive. Eros tells the others to scatter, but he himself completes the break-in ...... and attacks his brother. The battle is evenly-matched, Starfox's speed vs Thanos' might, because they have fought each other since children. But Eros' emotion-manipulation is useless against the emotionless Thanos, except he says that his brother's overwhelming lust for power can be used against him. Eros taunts Thanos about killing most of the other Eternals, including their mother, but the mad god owns his sins. Killing is what he does, but he won't kill Eros now. Primo and Reptyl return from killing 4 of the remaining Eternals and maiming the other 3. All 3 'gods' pound Starfox into deep unconsciousness. He won't wake till it's all over. Thanos wants him and Mentor to continue to live with the knowledge that they couldn't stop his murder spree.Last issue Thanos offered godhood to Reptyl's companion Saurian Raptra but she refused. He intends to give her the choice again or death. But the female has slipped away with the cloak of invisibility and stolen a small ship. She intends to beat him to the Celestial Messiah.


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I die unknown
In Bombay a female green 'freak' is made to do her regular dance (and probably strip) for a paying audience. A blazing star appears in the sky above, and she has the confusing thought that it's like the 1 5 years ago - before this life. But then Thanos arrives and kills her.In Willimantic, New Jersey another green woman wakes from a dream of the above. She knows she's Mantis and that her unhuman son Quoi has gone to live with his dad. She changes colour to her 'autumn hues' so as to pass in public. Then a star shines like the 1 in the dream, and the 1 5 years ago that announced her as the Celestial Madonna. Then Thanos arrives here too. She fights back with her martial arts but soon dies.In Melbourne, Australia a prostitute flesh-coloured Mantis is surprised to get images of 2 copies of herself dying. She tries to run away as a 3rd star blooms. She somehow knows that the essence of the 1st victim was transmitted to the 2nd, and then both to her, and that she's not the last on the list. Then she runs into Thanos and dies like the others.The 4th Mantis is a bald Moondragon look-alike meditating in Kew Gardens, London. She receives the knowledge of her 3 sisters and a star of her own. She also works out that their 4 longitudes are equally-spaced around the globe 72° apart, but that leaves room for a 5th copy to become the sum of them all. But before going to face Thanos she mentally sends all this information ...... to the brain of Vision in Avengers Mansion. He rushes to interrupt the only other people in the place, Edwin Jarvis, Scarlet Witch, Silverclaw and Thor playing a holographic video game. He explains what he's just somehow come to know, that they have to fly to Alaska to save Mantis. He'll explain more on the way. Thor and Wanda Maximoff trust the synthezoid's judgement and they board a quinjet. Edwin doesn't want his young ward Lupe to go with them, but she insists she's 1 of the Avengers too (even if only a reserve 1). She tries to recall what she's heard about Mantis, and then understands a certain tension between Vision and Wanda.Back in London Mantis IV engages in a mystic duel with Thanos (possibly on the astral plane). She holds her own but the villain claims to be a god, while she is but the 4th of 5. He has killed the freak, the mother, the prostitute and now he will add the priestess. And with her death the true complete Mantis, the sum of 2 realms, will be reborn and will know that Thanos comes for her. Then the priestess dies.In the quinjet Thor reminisces that Mantis was very striking for a common bar girl. Vision remembers that too, and Wanda recalls how her husband, as he was for some time later, confessed that Mantis had professed love for him (original Av#128). Lupe admits to confusion about the woman, so Thor gives her a potted bio.When they 1st met her (original Av#114) Mantis was the lover of ex-villain and 1-day Avenger (original Av#20) Swordsman who wanted a 2nd chance to be a hero. They both proved themselves, Mantis with her martial arts, but Swordsman died fighting Kang (Giant-Size Av#2). A star (Av#128) announced the imminent Celestial Madonna. The choice boiled down to Mantis and Moondragon both trained by Kree Priests Of Pama, on Titan and Earth respectively. Mantis was chosen and she married a representative of the intelligent plant race the Cotati, taking the likeness of Swordsman (GS Av#4). After that they left for space and nothing was heard about her for a long time. But there have been rumours of her return, living as a mother.As they approach a certain spot in Alaska we jump ahead to find a young man backpacking near there, whose thoughts tell us he is from a parallel Earth. He sees strange lights over Mt Gruenwald (obviously invented in the comic in honour of Mark Gruenwald). He has forsworn getting involved in stuff like this again but he can't resist going for a look. And what he sees is Thanos fighting the 5th Mantis, in the costume she wore in the original Avengers stories, with a star overhead.The man leaps in to help the woman, revealing himself as superhero Haywire firing his tanglewire to enmesh the villain. He and Mantis exchange names but then Thanos breaks free. However that's when the Avengers drop in. Some of them recognise Haywire from the Squadron Supreme (most recently #5-6 of the current Av run and the Av/SS Annual 1998). Vision phases through Thanos' hyper-dense body but he easily ejects the android, and holds off Scarlet Witch's hex and Thor's hammer. Silverclaw doesn't know what she can do to help.But then the 'star' sends down a light to bathe Mantis. She proclaims that her scattered versions are joined, and her power is multiplied not by 5 but by 5 X 5 and "this 1 is once again 1". And her blast of power rocks Thanos.


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What goes around ...
Avengers Scarlet Witch, Silverclaw, Thor and Vision along with ex-Squadron Supreme member Haywire are off on a space mission to find Mantis' son Quoi and protect him from Thanos.This issue opens with the very strong suggestion that Mantis and Vision have just slept together, and his ex-wife Wanda Maximoff is well aware of it. The 2 have an awkward conversation where Wanda protests (possibly too much) that she's happy he's moved on, as he's OK with *her* relationship with his 'brother' Simon Williams (Wonder Man), and she has to stop him telling her details about the 'night'. Silverclaw overhears and teen Lupe is envious of their adult attitudes to sex.As usual human interactions get interrupted by an attack. The quinjet is fired on by 3 pirate spacecraft striking out of the glare of a nova. Current pilot Thor calls on Silverclaw to take over, even though she's inexperienced in quinjet control. Haywire offers to stay and help her while the other 4 take the fight outside in space.The pirates are the saurian Reptyl, Raptra and Kid Syn who we met last issue. Mantis, Thor and the synthezoid Vision can survive in a vacuum, and the Witch dons a spacesuit. Thor's hammer Mjolnir damages Raptra's ship. The other 2 veer away but SW's hex makes them bump into each other. Angry Reptyl aims his ship at her but Mantis draws power from the stars to blast it away. Vision goes immaterial to fly through other blasts and phase into Syn's ship where he materialises inside its power source causing a massive explosion. Syn and his crew flee in escape pods. Raptra refuses to help their Captain Reptyl while she picks the pods up, and then the 2 remaining ships depart.The Avengers return to the ship where Harold Danforth and Lupe are arguing. Haywire claimed his old girlfriend Inertia would have gone after the baddies. Lupe, who has developed a crush on him, pointed out that Inertia died fighting so she couldn't have been all that, which of course didn't go down well. Harold blurts out that he's going to get the Goddess Of Death (who he heard last issue that Thanos is thick with) to bring her back. Lupe consoles him because she hadn't realised he loved his girl *that* much. She watches Mantis and Wanda being 'civil' to each other, but we know Wanda doesn't like it when the other woman calls Vision 'Viz'.The 3 saurian pirates in their 2 ships bicker until the Sanctuary ship of Thanos suddenly appears before them.The Avengers approach the Cotati planet, Tamal. Mantis is apprehensive about meeting the son she hasn't seen for years. Vision breaks the tension by cracking a joke! Silverclaw tells Thor she hopes to be in a relationship as good as theirs sometime. Thor suggests she tell Haywire how she feels, and Lupe denies it all.As they land we get a potted history of the Cotati. They used to be mobile plants who shared a world with the Kree but the Kree tried to exterminate them. The Cotati survived in hiding and evolved greater mental abilities even as they gave up their mobility. A Kree pacifist sect, the Priests Of Pama, smuggled them to other worlds like Tamal (and Earth and the moon Titan) where the combination set up monasteries.The team are greeted by nearby immobile Cotati and then by Mantis' very mobile Cotati mate in the spectral form of her previous and dead lover Swordsman. He explains the above history to Haywire and Silverclaw who don't know it already. Lupe, child of the Amazon, is impressed by the bond between the humanoid and plant life. Harold hears of people who fled their own world because they could no longer bear to live there. Mantis just wants to see her son ...... who is also mobile and arrives full of teen attitude (he's effectively 18 due to fast plant growth) and his own teen language, claiming the name Q now instead of Sequioa or Quoi. He no longer listens to his dad and is angry at his mom for abandoning him for years. He won't listen to her explanation that she has only returned to full life 4 days ago, and dismisses the idea that he needs protecting from Thanos. He's the Celestial Messiah, which he figures outranks Thor, and he can look after himself. So mom can go back where she came from.Meanwhile on Titan Mentor, father of Thanos, has seen the sign heralding the Celestial Messiah coming into his power and knows that he and the Eternals of Titan must act even though it means their doom.In another meanwhile the 3 saurians are all somehow on the same ship when it is boarded by Thanos and his goblins teleporting in. The rest of the crew die immediately leaving the 3 alone to face him. The mad god says he's not here to kill them but to raise them to godhood if they'll serve him in his mission to kill the Celestial Messiah. 2 of them don't trust him but Reptyl is as ever hungry for power. Thanos drags the life-force out of Kid Syn and and transfers it to Reptyl, who bulks up and declares himself Reptyl the God. Thanos offers the life of 1 of his minions to enGoden Raptra but she refuses, so he says he'll keep her around to use in turning someone else into a god.On Tamal Mantis apologises for Swordsman having to bring up Quoi mostly alone. He says that Quoi singly caused enough of a disruption to the communal telepathic plants. Having 2 individuals might have been more than they could bear (and I think he means it). They agree that they had their destined moment in birthing Quoi but they are too dissimilar for their relationship to have lasted. They are sharing a last embrace ...... when Vision interrupts and demands to fight the Cotati for her favours. Mantis persuades him with a kiss that *he*'s the 1 for her. Swordsman leaves them alone. But we see that Lady Death is watching.