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This issue is split into 2 interleaved parts. One is the conclusion to the final battle begun last issue, and the other is a flashback to 3 days before the battle, but after Hope Summers beat off Cyclops in #10. I will separate the 2 strands out. There is also an epilogue.In the flashback Iron Man summarises the situation as he sees it. At the end of House of M the insane Scarlet Witch depowered most mutants, and prevented more from arising. Tony Stark theorises that the Phoenix Force reacted to that by causing Hope to be born. It was believed that she was the Mutant Messiah, who would gain the Phoenix power and re-allow new mutants.Iron Man is addressing an assembly of Avengers (Black Widow, Captain America, Dr Strange, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Red Hulk, Spider-Woman, Thing, Thor and Wolverine) in their refuge in the mystical city of K'un Lun. He reminds them that they have tried deflecting or containing the Phoenix Force before it reached Earth recently (the deep-space team in Avengers and Secret Avengers), but failed. He mentions that they tried to split it up (but strangely not that he himself succeeded in #5 and split it between 5 X-Men). He just says they've failed to kill it or control it.He says that Scarlet Witch and the now K'un Lun-trained Hope are the only ones who have been able to damage the Phoenix Force. Having studied the historical account of K'un Lun's previous encounter with the Phoenix, Tony has come to the conclusion that their only course is to trust that these 2 can prevail together.However Wanda and Hope are far from working together, because Hope blames the Witch for starting Cyclops down the path to ruling the world with the Phoenix Force. Tony and Cap find them fighting each other (with devastating side-effects).After they've calmed down, Cap asks Hope what will happen after they defeat Phoenix-powered X-Men (now reduced to Cyclops and Emma Frost). Will Hope become the Phoenix? And will she be any better than the current holders of the power?3 days later, and Cyclops drained the remaining Phoenix power from Emma Frost last issue, and became Dark Phoenix. He is still facing an array of Avengers (Iron Man, Ms Marvel, Red Hulk, Thor) and X-Men (Havok, Iceman and what looks like Gambit), or both (Storm) or neither (Hulk), but the scene seems to have shifted from Utopia Island to the Himalayas undergoing volcanic eruptions.At the Jean Grey School the Stepford Cuckoos are using Cerebra to monitor what's happening worldwide, and pass the information to Captain America. Cyclops' rage is causing massive destruction all over the world, from volcanoes, tidal waves, fires, earthquakes and meteor strikes. Cap is on the way to the Himalayas in a quinjet with Beast and Iron Fist.We see other heroes helping deal with catastrophes in various places:- Gambit and Hawkeye in Paris; Angel and Spider-Man in Beijing; Giant-Man and Pixie in the Mediterranean; Captain Britain and (probably) Rogue in the Amazon. We see Cyclops blasting Thor into space in the Himalayas. But strangely we also see him punching Hulk in Sydney so hard he lands in Sacramento.Meanwhile Cap's group have joined the fight in the Himalayas. Wolverine's there too. But Dark Phoenix blasts them all, and flies off. Iron Man says it's time for their last shot, and Cap puts out a broadcast call for any Avenger who can bring Cyclops back. Nova responds, and smashes into the flying X-Man, bringing them both down to Earth with a crash.Dark Phoenix of course survives the impact unharmed, although the same can't be said for Nova. But now he has to face Hope Summers and Scarlet Witch, who get him reeling. Beast, Cap, Iron Fist, Iron Man, Storm, Thor and Wolverine arrive by jet and join in.The joint attack starts to break the Phoenix's hold on Scott Summers. He remembers the ideals that he tried to live up to, and temporarily begs the Avengers to kill him. Later a vision of Jean Grey, his dead love and the previous Dark Phoenix, tells him to give up. As Hope and Wanda continue to pummel him, they see the Phoenix Force leave his body. But only to take over its original target Hope.The new Phoenix flies around the world, followed by Iron Man. He sees her calming the forces that Cyclops unleashed, and repairing damage. Then she returns to the Himalayan gathering (rejoined by Hulk and joined by Rachel Summers). She is clad in a white version of the Phoenix costume, and says that as White Phoenix she will lead the world into paradise, as the Cyclops and the rest of the Phoenix 5 tried to do but failed.But Wanda persuades her that this isn't her destiny. She was created not to use the Phoenix Force but to give it up. The 2 women join hands and forces and say "No more Phoenix". The Phoenix Force leaves Hope and spreads over the globe. The Stepford Cuckoos see Cerebra showing new mutants springing up all around the world. Spider-Man is about to rescue a girl from a dangling train when she sprouts wings and rocky(?) skin and saves herself.Later, Cyclops has survived the affair, and is imprisoned in a ruby quartz prison cell. He tells Cap that he accepts responsibility for all he did, including killing Charles Xavier and nearly destroying the world. Apparently the rest of the Phoenix 5 are on the run (and it seems Magneto too).Cap admits that he was also partly at fault. He should have done more to help mutants earlier. He intends to do something to rectify that. And we see Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch probably reviewing possible members of the new Uncanny Avengers team.There is also the unspoken suggestion that if the Avengers hadn't tried to stop Hope becoming the Phoenix at the start of this series, then the rebirth of mutants would have happened without all the fighting.We also see Black Panther and Storm not talking to each other while Wakanda is rebuilt. Iron Fist asks Tony Stark if he'd figured out all along what would be the outcome of letting Hope and Wanda loose. Thor invites Nova to be an Avenger. Wolverine prepares a eulogy for Prof X. And Hope is in the ruins of Utopia, which has been cordoned off by SHIELD.


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We open with the Phoenix Force devastating part of an alien planet.Ms Marvel arrives at the rebuilt Avengers Tower, where Iron Man and Protector are squabbling over techy matters. Suddenly the assembled Avengers see something hurtle down from space and knock the wing off an aeroplane, and then knock the top off the Empire State Building.The team splits up. Thor uses a hammer-whirlwind to guide the plane into the river. Iron Man incinerates the falling wing. Ms Marvel catches most of the falling building, while Spider-Man catches falling debris and people in his webs.Meanwhile Captain America, Black Widow and Hawkeye fly a quinjet after Protector to the site where the space-object landed. And find a barely-conscious member of the Nova Corps who warns them "It's coming".On the X-Men's Utopia island, Magneto and Emma Frost watch Hope Summers training with Cyclops. Suddenly she manifests the Phoenix effect.Cap and Iron Man brief the President and his cabinet. They have found the energy signature of the Phoenix on the Nova uniform, and have deduced that the Phoenix Force is headed our way. they're sending a team (Beast, Captain Britain, Ms Marvel, Protector, Thor, Valkyrie, Vision and War Machine) to intercept the Phoenix in space before it gets here. (This team's adventures will be followed in Secret Avengers from #26.)At this point Iron Man is alerted to the Phoenix effect on Utopia.Cap goes to visit Wolverine at the Jean Grey School in Westchester. Logan tells him the Phoenix is coming for Hope. Cap asks him to help persuade Cyclops to work with the Avengers. Logan predicts Cyclops won't see sense. But Wolverine (re)founded the school to keep young mutants out of fights, so he's reluctant to take sides.The Utopia X-Men, now including Colossus and Sub-Mariner, are discussing Hope and the Phoenix. Cyclops hopes to use the Phoenix as a force for good this time. The others aren't so sure it's possible to control it.Captain America arrives and asks them to hand over Hope. He and Cyclops exchange heated words, and Scott blasts Cap with his eye-beams. The SHIELD heli-carrier de-cloaks, holding a large array of Avengers (Black Panther, Black Widow, Daredevil, Dr Strange, Giant-Man, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Iron Man, Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Red Hulk, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman, Thing, Wolverine).


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Last issue Captain America came to the X-Men's Utopia island to take Hope Summers into custody before the Phoenix Force can claim her. Cyclops refused to hand her over. The SHIELD helicarrier decloaked over the island, with a large contingent of Avengers on board.This issue is basically one long fight.Magneto and Colossus kick things off when Magneto magnetically hurls Colossus through the platform the Avengers are standing on. Red Hulk takes him on. Iron Man, Dr Strange and Spider-Woman take to the air alongside SHIELD jets, but the other Avengers are dumped into the ocean, where Namor battles Thing and Luke Cage.Cyclops sends Storm to deal with the jets, and Emma Frost takes Hope away from the battle. She leaves her with other young X-Men Pixie, Velocidad, Transonic, Loa and Surge, telling them to keep her safe.Cyclops is hit by Cap's flying shield. Hawkeye, Spider-Man, Iron Fist, Daredevil, Giant-Man, Black Panther and Wolverine come ashore to join Cap on the beach. (Black Widow is seen with them later.) And Cyclops leads the rest of the X-Men present (Danger, Domino, Dr Nemesis, Madison Jeffries, Magik, Magma, Psylocke, Sunspot, Warpath and I think Wolfsbane) to fight them.Returning to the beach Emma is attacked by Iron Man. She inhales a load of microscopic telepathic tasers, which shock her every time she tries to think. But she turns into her diamond form and fights back. Until Iron Man is dragged away by Magneto.Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are watching the events on television. Wanda declines to help, but Pietro speeds off to attack his father Magneto. Wanda's diary suggests she has had a vision of the Phoenix destroying the world.The melee continues. Domino asks Wolverine why he's siding against the mutants. And Storm and Black Panther have a marital spat. Cyclops and Cap argue their sides while Cap holds Cyclops' eyeblast off with his shield.Iron Man is breaking through Utopia's electronic defences. Scott tells Magik to open an escape route through Limbo. Dr Strange follows her there and is confronted by her demonic form.Wolverine and Spider-Man sneak in through the sewers and find that Hope has defeated the other youngsters. She is manifesting some of the Phoenix flame, and easily holds off the newcomers. Captain America (with Giant-Man and Iron Fist) and Cyclops (with Emma Frost and Warpath) arrive simultaneously, but find Hope gone, running across the water.Meanwhile out in space the Avengers away team Beast, Ms Marvel, Protector, Thor, Valkyrie, Vision, War Machine (and presumably Captain Britain) confront the Phoenix Force.


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Hope Summers rescues Wolverine from the Antarctic where Captain America stranded him last issue. But Logan is still intent on stopping her becoming the world-destroying Phoenix in the only way he thinks will work - killing her. For her part Hope still believes she can use the Phoenix Force
 to reinvigorate mutantkind. She makes a deal with him. Accompany her as
 she meets her destiny. And if she starts to turn evil he can kill her.The Avengers deep space team (Beast, Captain Britain, Ms Marvel, Protector, Thor, Valkyrie, Vision and War Machine)
 have been bested by the Phoenix Force. Thor throws his hammer into the
flamebird. But the only result is that a fragment of the Force destroys a
 nearby world.Cyclops and Emma Frost are in a Hellfire Club safehouse. She telepathically reaches out to the Jean Grey School's janitor Toad and compels him operate Cerebra so she can see what's happening elsewhere in the world. She scans the 5 places Rachel Summers detected traces of Hope last issue, and sees Avengers fighting X-Men but no sign of Hope.In Wakanda Black Panther fights his wife Storm. And Black Widow, Iron Fist and Quicksilver face Danger, Dr Nemesis, Magma and Rachel Summers.In Tabula Rasa Thing battles Sub-Mariner, while Luke Cage holds off Hepzibah and Sunspot.In Latveria Daredevil, Mockingbird, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman fight Colossus, Dazzler and Domino, while Dr Doom's Doombots kibitz.Near Wundagore Mountain Dr Strange faces Magneto, Red Hulk smashes Iceman's ice warriors, and Hawkeye has to deal with Angel and Psylocke.And in the Savage Land Captain America fights Gambit and Warpath, while Giant-Man tangles with Madison Jeffries and Magik.Emma Frost and Cap
 simultaneously realise that Hope has somehow fooled them all. Emma
makes contact with Cap's mind to keep track of his plans. Cap calls Iron Man back at Avengers Tower,
 where he's devising a Phoenix-killer. In mid-conversation he gets
another call, telling him where Hope is going. But now Emma Frost knows
too.Hope and Wolverine invade AIM WorldWorks, where they steal a rocket to the Blue Area of the Moon.
 But Cap is there already, along with Black Widow, Giant-Man, Hawkeye,
Iron Man and Thing. It was Wolverine who told Cap where they were going,
 while Hope slept. He'd gone along with her plan in order to get her
away from Earth, where she could be disposed of safely.But he's
not going to have it all his own way as Cyclops blasts him with his
eye-beam, announcing the arrival of him and some other members of the
main X-team:- Colossus, Emma Frost, Magik and Sub-Mariner.But
before they can fight, they are interrupted by a crater caused by Thor
falling to the Moon, and announcing the arrival of the Phoenix Force.


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Last issue ended with Hope Summers running from both the Avengers and the X-Men. In the process she used a sliver of the Phoenix Force to consume Wolverine in flames. He's just grown his skin back, and Spider-Man hands him some clothes to wear.Spidey tells him that Cyclops has surrendered the X-Men to Captain America and the Avengers. But Wolverine doesn't believe that is what's really happening. Cap and Iron Man are discussing how to play it. They don't know what to do with the captives, nor whether the status of Utopia island means they have any jurisdiction here. Tony comments that Steve is sounding as dictatorial as Stark did during Civil War.Just then Dr Strange returns from Magik's Limbo realm, with the unconscious girl in his arms. But Wolverine bursts on the scene and exclaims that Dr Strange isn't who he claims to be. 'Strange' is really Magik, and it is Dr Strange who's unconscious.Magik teleports the main X-team (Colossus, Cyclops, Danger, Emma Frost, Magik, Magneto, Storm and Sub-Mariner) ashore to Long Beach, and telepathic Emma Frost stops people from seeing them. They want to use Cerebra to locate Hope. But Cerebra is in the Westchester school, which is now 'enemy' territory. It's the home of Wolverine's branch of the X-Men, and Logan is on the side of the Avengers. They hope to contact someone sympathetic there.Meanwhile in a San Francisco tech-shop Hope herself has used Cable's teaching to cobble together a device to shield her from detection.Back in Avengers Tower Cap and Wolvie contact Rachel Summers at the school. She tells them that Cerebra somehow detects Hope in 5 different places. But Rachel is secretly in telepathic communication with Cyclops, and passes information to him.As overall leader of the Avengers franchise, Captain America splits them into teams. Iron Man will stay in the Tower to work on a defence against the Phoenix Force. Dr Strange, Hawkeye and Red Hulk will take Wundagore Mountain. Luke Cage will lead Black Widow, Daredevil, Mockingbird and Thing to Tabula Rasa. Black Panther will take Iron Fist to his homeland Wakanda. The Spiders (-Man and -Woman) get Latveria. Cap himself will go with Giant-Man, Sharon Carter and Wolverine to the Savage Land.On board the plane to the Savage Land Cap takes Logan aside. He's angry that Wolverine disobeyed orders on Utopia (going after Hope alone), and fears that Wolvie will kill Hope to keep her from the Phoenix Force. They tussle, but the other 2 on the plane are in on Cap's plan. Giant-Man stuns Logan, and Sharon opens a hatch to dump him in a snowy waste (in the Antarctic?).


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This issue begins with a flashforward of Colossus beating up someone who won't give in. It won't be a big spoiler to tell you that the cover suggests correctly who that is.In K'un Lun Spider-Man is continuing the training of Hope Summers as seen in New Avengers #27. (Currently that involves standing on one foot on the pinnacle of a pagoda-like building while balancing 2 buckets of water suspended from a yoke.)Some Avengers return through a portal from one of many missions to Earth, usually looking for teammates who have been captured by the X-Men. This time it's Captain America and Iron Fist plus She-Hulk and Wolverine supporting a wounded Red Hulk (presumably suffering from more than the metal cast holding the broken arm from last issue). And they've lost another member (Thor!) to the combined might of Colossus and Magik.The situation is dire. Since the remaining Phoenix 4 (Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost and Magik) absorbed Sub-Mariner's Phoenix fragment last issue they have become even more powerful. Iron Man is lost in research (and looking like he might be lost in the bottle too) trying to find a solution within the connections between the Phoenix Force, the Iron Fist, Scarlet Witch's hex magic and Hope. And lots of Avengers are injured or captives. And Black Panther stayed behind in Wakanda trying to clear up the mess Namor's attack left last issue.When Red Hulk is taken to the infirmary we see Captain Britain, Daredevil (probably), Giant-Man, Mockingbird and Scarlet Witch on the sick list. This agrees with the list of casualties on the splash page, except that I don't see Vision, and he's certainly not the extra bed-ridden character who looks like Black Widow (but we'll find her in the X-Men's prison later). The splash page also says Beast is injured, but he's certainly playing doctor here.Hope is fed up of training and wants to go into action. Spidey gives her a pep talk, telling her that all this never-ending training will come in useful one day. Many of the other Avengers may seem like powerhouses, but in his experience there's always a time for the least among them to save the day.Meanwhile Storm is watching with Armor, Gambit and Pixie (and with disgust) as Magik disposes of Thor in the Russian volcano that houses the extension of Limbo that she is using as a prison (as seen in X-Men: Legends #270). Many X-Men have abandoned the support of the Phoenix 4 as the Phoenix Force continues to corrupt them. Storm advises her companions to do the same.Cyclops finds Emma Frost in the middle of a desolate desert, to get away from all the minds she can now read. She tells Scott she has found out from Avengers' minds that Hope is in K'un Lun, wherever that is. She also tells him she could end the conflict now by just switching all the Avengers' minds off. And she is afraid that part of her wants to do it.Later she visits a man who she can tell once killed a mutant. No-one knew about it, but now Emma kills him in front of his family.Storm visits her husband Black Panther in Wakanda and offers to help him and the Avengers. She says she wasn't party to the attack on Wakanda. She only sided with her fellow X-Men hoping to keep them under control, but now she knows that's hopeless. But angry Panther tells her to go. As High Priest of the Panther Clan he has annulled their marriage.But T'Challa does take her message to the Avengers, and he, Captain America, Dr Strange, Iron Fist, She-Hulk, Spider-Man and Wolverine meet up with Storm and Prof X in the Limbo prison. Strange's invisibility spell gets them past the demonic guards, and they find the prisoners (Black Widow, Hawkeye, Luke Cage, Ms Marvel, Quicksilver, Spider-Woman, Thing and Thor) hanging from the ceiling in cocoons, as lamprey-like demons feed on their souls. They can't open a portal to K'un Lun from here, and Strange can't use his teleportation spells. So they prepare to carry the victims out.But Magik senses them from the Bering Strait, where she is viewing her brother Colossus's experiment giving legs to whales. And she transports them both to slaughter the Avengers.Spider-Man sees powerful Avengers being no match for the Phoenix 2, and remembers what he said to Hope. He uses his web-lines to hurl his compatriots towards the exit, and then brings the ceiling down to separate them from Colossus and Magik. Then he turns to hold off the Rasputin siblings for as long as he can.Spidey is easily beaten by the powerful duo. But every time they turn their attention to unblocking the exit, he taunts them back into fighting him again. And as the flashforward showed, he just refuses to lie down. Magik chides her brother for holding back and not just killing him outright. They fall to bickering which Spidey encourages, reminding them that if one of them was to be thoroughly defeated like Sub-Mariner last issue the whole Phoenix power would be shared out amongst the remaining 3.Meanwhile the Avengers have fought their way back out through the demons, and transported the captives to K'un Lun. Cap, Panther, Storm and Wolverine return to rescue Spider-Man, and find him battered but the only one still standing. Colossus and Magik have taken each other down and the Phoenix Force has left them.Then the even-more-powerful Cyclops breaks through the dimensional barriers to K'un Lun, coming for Hope.


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A select group of Avengers (Black Widow, Captain America, Hawkeye, Red Hulk and Thing) and X-Men (Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Sub-Mariner) are duking it out in the Blue Area of the Moon over Hope Summers as the Phoenix Force hovers overhead. Hope calls out to them to stop, as Wolverine reaches her. But she also emits her greatest Phoenix blast yet, which downs everybody else.Hope now realises she can't control the Phoenix Force, and asks Logan to kill her as he promised last issue. Still smouldering from the blast, he tries, but Cyclops stops him.This starts a set of 1-on-1 battles:- Colossus vs Red Hulk, diamond-form Emma Frost vs Hawkeye, Magik vs Black Widow, Namor vs Thing, and Cyclops vs Cap and Logan (well 1-on-2). Watched from space by the outer space Avengers team (Beast, Captain Britain, Ms Marvel, Valkyrie, Vision and War Machine).The Phoenix Force is felt by Prof X and Legion in Spain, Lei Kung in K'un Lun, and by Scarlet Witch.Giant-Man and Iron Man are also on the Moon, in the craft that brought the Avengers. They initiate the device that Tony Stark has been working on:- a giant robot for Iron Man to pilot. Tony flies to the Phoenix Force and fires a giant disruptor cannon. The Phoenix Force explodes and disappears.The Avengers see that Hope is unconscious. But the Force has instead occupied the 5 other X-Men (not Wolverine), even though they claim that Hope *had* been the intended recipient. They fly off, taking Hope with them, to do the Phoenix's work until *she* is ready to take over.


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Last issue Scarlet Witch helped the Avengers take Hope Summers from the X-Men (and Hope agreed to go). In retaliation Cyclops declared "No more Avengers".Now the Phoenix Five (Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Sub-Mariner) have taken over Avengers Tower, Avengers Mansion and Avengers Academy. They and the other X-Men are hunting for the Avengers. But it is Scarlet Witch they see as the real threat.Magik, leading Gambit, Havok, Polaris, Warpath and X-Man, finds Scarlet Witch along with Captain America, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Spider-Woman and Vision. Vision is still having problems dealing with the return of Wanda, the ex-wife who killed him, which is distracting her. But she holds her own against Magik until Havok and Polaris take down Vision. After a momentary loss of concentration Wanda blasts Magik to unconsciousness.But then Emma Frost ports in via the Siege Courageous. Cap decides discretion is the better part of valour, and calls on Dr Strange to get them out of here. But not before Emma attacks Wanda with the Phoenix Force, Hawkeye intervenes and is burnt to a crisp for his pains.Strange gets the rest of them away, to a secret base in Wakanda where Tony Stark has been monitoring the fight, compiling data to use in devising a weapon/defence against the 5 Phoenix-enhanced X-Men. Black Panther, Black Widow, Quicksilver and Wolverine are also there.Hawkeye has been taken back to Utopia, and Cyclops intends to heal him. Emma apologises for going too far, but she got mad and the power got out of control. Cyclops wants to win hearts and minds. The people see the good they're doing (last issue), and see the Avengers as terrorists opposing them. He wants them captured not killed (and says they already have several unnamed prisoners). But Namor thinks they're at war, and should show no mercy. And Magik believes that Scarlet Witch is still the evil person who killed several Avengers and decimated the mutant race.Black Panther is helping Tony Stark upgrade the giant robot armour and cannon he used against the Phoenix Force in #5. But the main effect then was to split the Force into 5 and infect the 5 X-Men. This time he hopes (with not much chance of success) to send the Force back to space. But Panther deduces that the effort, successful or not, will kill the pilot. He accuses Stark of egotism rather than heroism. He further suggests that Tony should allow a mixture of magic with his science.Hope, who was *supposed* to be the Phoenix Force's vessel, came with the Avengers because she fears what the Force is doing to her friends. She also tells them that Scarlet Witch is the one they most fear. So Dr Strange proposes giving various Avengers Enchantments of Ikonn to wear. These will allow the wearer to appear to be Wanda. Which should also help if they have to escape from the X-Men's prison.Daredevil, Falcon, Giant-Man, Luke Cage, Mockingbird, Sharon Carter, She-Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor and Valkyrie have joined the throng. Even Beast is there, despite walking out of a strategy meeting last issue. They're going out to gather more data for Stark, and to stall the X-Men while he completes his project.Captain America, Daredevil, Luke Cage, Spider-Man and Sharon Carter (wearing the Ikonns) let themselves be found in New York by Colossus with Danger, Magma, Psylocke and Sunspot. Despite supposedly only using the Wanda-image sparingly as a last resort, Cap tells Sharon to trigger it immediately, and the X-Men retreat.Emma Frost, with Boom-Boom, Domino, Surge, Velocidad and Warpath, sees an unspecified Scarlet Witch (probably Black Widow because she's not in any other group) with Falcon, Quicksilver, Thor and Wolverine in the Ukraine. Another Wanda (Valkyrie) in the Arctic Circle accompanies Beast, Giant-Man, Red Hulk and She-Hulk against Cyclops leading Armor, Dr Nemesis, and Magneto.In the Pacific Ocean the real Scarlet Witch is caught with Dr Strange, Mockingbird and Thing by Namor, Iceman, Polaris and Transonic. Dr Strange ports with Mockingbird and Thing back to Wakanda, accidentally taking Transonic with them. Shuri, the female Black Panther, has Transonic taken prisoner. Wanda stays and sends Sub-Mariner back to Utopia. Which of course makes Namor even angrier.Emma Frost decides to side with Namor. She tells him she can sense where Transonic is, in Wakanda.Back in Wakanda Stark has detected a connection between the Phoenix Force and Wanda's hexes. Just then Iron Fist turns up with Lei Kung. They want to take Hope to K'un Lun to hide her and train her to deal with the Phoenix Force. Tony asks if the rest of the Avengers can hide there too.Hope and Wolverine go through a portal to K'un Lun created by Lei Kung. The Avengers are going to send Tony Stark's equipment through and follow themselves. But then Namor attacks, riding a tidal wave, with an Atlantean army behind him.


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Last issue the Phoenix Force occupied and transformed Colossus, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik and Sub-Mariner (now referred to as the Phoenix Five). They returned from the Moon, bringing Hope Summers with them.10 days later Prof X comes to an equally transformed Utopia. Magneto takes him to meet Cyclops. Xavier tells Scott the world is afraid of their new powers (including telepathy). Cyclops says they are remaking the world for the benefit of mankind. We see Magik in a South Africa made fertile (with Angel and Storm flying in the background), Colossus in Siberia where giant domes are enclosing equally fertile land, Namor getting pure water from the deep oceans, and Emma Frost with a new clean energy source in the Gobi desert.Meanwhile other X-Men, young and older (we see Cannonball, Gambit, Glob Herman, Primal, Psylocke, Sunspot and Velocidad), enjoy themselves in peace on Utopia.2 days later in Avengers Tower Captain America receives a report from Iron Fist. He and Luke Cage and Spider-Woman were investigating an appearance of Zzzax and his Electric Legion when Colossus appeared through the Siege Courageous. Cap wants to know if they spotted any useful weakness when Colossus fought the villains. But he didn't fight, he just persuaded them to become a power source for Eastern Europe. Supposedly the Phoenix Five are doing this kind of thing all the time.Cap joins Beast, Black Panther, Iron Man and Wolverine in discussing what to do about the Phoenix Five. Iron Man doesn't want to use a better version of his Phoenix-killer weapon from last issue, lest it split the Force among more people. Wolverine continues to insist they have to kill the Phoenix-infected. Panther isn't sure they're doing anything bad. And Beast quits this brains trust.Back in Utopia Cyclops asks Hope if she wants the Phoenix Force. Hope says yes, but Cyclops reminds her she rejected it on the Moon. And now that he and the others have it, he knows that they can do so much more with it than she could. Hope warns him that the Force wants even more.Meanwhile we see Magik destroying tanks, Emma Frost destroying Sentinels, Colossus taking away (probably nuclear) missiles, and Namor lifting warships out of the sea. This is probably just after a later flashback where Cyclops (flanked by Emma Frost and Prince Namor) addresses the UN and declares "Pax Utopia - no more war". Black Panther is there as ruler of Wakanda.In K'Un Lun Lei Kung reads about the legend of Fongji the female Iron Fist who repelled the Phoenix force hundreds of years ago, as described in New Avengers #25-27. An aged blind monk tells him tells him to fetch the current Iron Fist (Danny Rand).3 days later Scarlet Witch has a vision of the future(?) where the Phoenix Force kills an impossible version of the Avengers (Cap alongside the really original team from the 1963 #1).Cap, Iron Man and Panther meet with the President to discuss what can be done about the X-Men. T'Challa is uneasy, and takes himself out of the equation later when a plan is formulated to kidnap Hope, who they still think is the key.Black Widow, Hawkeye and Wolverine join in the strategising. They can't risk a direct attack because the Phoenix Five would win the battle. They can't teleport in because Magik has that blocked. They're going to fly in from a 'passing' 747, wearing armour provided by Iron Man.Mockingbird and Vision man the comms base, while Iron Fist, Spider-Woman and Thor join the attack team. They burst in and try to snatch Hope from the company of Primal, Transonic and Velocidad. But Cyclops and Emma Frost frustrate their intent.However, Scarlet Witch pops in and offers to take Hope with her. Hope agrees to go, and Wanda magics her and the Avengers away.Scott realises that the X-Men won't be safe as long as there are Avengers to oppose them. And he finishes the issue with the phrase "No more Avengers".


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In Avengers Mansion Captain America is sent a video of Rick Jones asking for help as he's abducted by a monster. Rick used to be Cap's partner (back in Avengers # 1-16 and CA#110-114) so he's determined to save him. He traces the message as having come from the West Coast Avengers Compound so he contacts them and gets Human Torch (Jim Hammond) who says that the computer he traced it to is a backup that has been switched off for a long time. Cap suggests the android 'interface' with the machine to check and Jim reminds his old Invaders partner that as he well knows he's a very old (WWII) android and isn't compatible like that. But he does do a system check and discovers that the inactive system was indeed used to forward a message to the New York Mansion, and it came from a MidWest amusement park whose address he sends to Cap.But now we see a young boy named Stevie at his computer in his bedroom watching Cap race to the rescue. Things are going to plan and he just manages to get a final message sent before his mother orders him to go to bed. But after she's gone he sneaks out of his window with his lucky red rock. Cap arrives by quinjet at a nearby amusement park, while elsewhere the Great Lakes Avengers get a video call supposedly from him. And in LA Torch discovers that even the amusement park wasn't the original message source, and that the computer detects a familiar alien energy which fries its circuits.Cap negotiates the rides of the deserted funfair, at 1 point landing in front of the laughing mouth of a green-haired bone-white face, while the squabbling GLA arrive at the gate. HT tries to warn Cap it's probably a trap but can't get any response, so he asks Wonder Man to take over monitor duty and flies in flames to the rescue. Cap enters the laughing mouth and follows some large arrows (not noticing the boy with the rock in the background) until he runs into some opposition, while the GLA enter the place via Doorman.As Torch flies along we learn that the alien energy was the power of the Mystic Ruby Of Cyttorak. Jim recalls what he knows of that:- The Ruby was found by Cain Marko and it transformed him into the Juggernaut (original X-Men #12-13). As well as the X-Men Juggy fought many other Marvel heroes, often (since XM#101) with his buddy Black Tom Cassidy. In Marvel Team-Up #150 Marko used the Ruby to turn Tom into another Juggernaut but found that it also halved his own power so he took his full power back and threw the Ruby into space. At this point HT's flying through a thunderstorm and gets struck by lightning.In the Fun House Cap is under attack by a horde of animated manikins. The lights and sounds are becoming unbearable and the walls are closing in. The manikins keep chanting "Get it" but Steve-with-the-rock pushes a button and Steve Rogers hears a scream that sounds like Rick. So he vaults over the manikins to follow the scream leaving them to be squashed by the walls. The boy pushes another button and Cap is expelled by the Fun House into the waters of the Tunnel Of Love. A raging current threatens to smash him into the boats and then takes him over a waterfall(!). He dives out of it to land on dry land on his impact-absorbing shield. Which is immediately grabbed by the monster he saw taking Rick which declaims triumphantly "Got it".Meanwhile Jim Hammond has arrived but his circuits have not fully recovered from the lightning blast. He enters a building and is menaced by several other Torches. He blasts them until he realises they are only mirror reflections. The boy with the glowing red rock wasn't expecting this but he can work it into the fun. The real Torch tries to burn his way out of the room but now the mirrors reflect his flame back at him multifold. Then he's attacked by a monster who can phase into his body (like Vision), followed by ghosts from his past (of dead Toro, Union Jack and Baron Blood but also Sub-Mariner?). But then he sees Rick Jones running out of a door and chases after him.Outside Rick leads him into the Wax Museum while Cap chases the monster in through another door and manages to get his shield back. Inside both heroes are faced with animated wax figures of Marvel chars (mostly heroes) who seem to have weak versions of the originals' powers. The monster now has Rick again. The 2 heroes win free of the mob of fakes and head for Rick. But they each think the other is just 1 of the wax dummies. Cap hurls his shield as Torch fires some flame and the 2 things meet in the middle and rebound. They both shout "Where's Rick Jones?" as HT melts the floor to make Cap's boots stick to it while Cap throws his shield again to ricochet and hit the android in the back. And they both react in horror as they see the monster gouge Rick's eyes out.A wall starts to fall on our heroes as they realise who they each are. HT melts Cap's boots free and Cap throws his shield yet again to deflect falling debris from Torch as they both escape. But then the GLA make the scene and say they've been sent here to retrieve Cap's stolen shield from an imposter. However they now accuse both heroes of being not only imposters but also murderers of Rick. So of course they attack.Torch tries to fly away with Cap but Dinah Soar swoops at them with razor-tipped wings and knocks them back down to the ground. Flatman wraps Cap up in his extensible body while Dinah tries tries to lead HT away but she crashes avoiding his flame. Cap's rebounding shield helps him escape from FM's grip as HT blasts Mr Immortal who's sneaking up on them. But he's horrified to see that he's killed him. However Cap assures him that he's so-named because he'll come back to life. Which he does and steals the shield. However HT now doesn't hold back and incinerates him again. Big Bertha lands on Torch and Cap throws that shield again to make her get off him, but Doorman interposes himself and sends the shield elsewhere. So Cap and HT pick Bertha up and throw her through DM.Cap now determines that as he suspected 'Rick Jones' was just another animated wax figure. HT meets up with the GLA outside and they sort out what's been going on without any clue as to who's behind it except that they were using the Mystic Ruby Of Cyttorak. Cap's shield has gone from where Doorman teleported it, but Cap joins them with another shield and says he noticed how everything was after the shield so he switched it while in the Wax Museum.Next morning we see Stevie at school doing a show-and-tell. He shows the class his red rock and tells them it was somehow sent from space to Earth. (An editorial comment suggests that Nova (Frankie Raye) unknowingly knocked it out of orbit in Excalibur #25.) Stevie picked it up when it landed. The teacher remembers the incident on a geology trip and comments that they couldn't identify it. Stevie then claims that the rock gave him super-powers which enabled him to defeat Juggernaut. (Another editorial comment says that Hulk had much more to do with it but the tale has never been published.) Stevie now claims that he just aided the Avengers against an amusement park run wild, and Captain America gave him his shield as a reward. He now takes the shield out of the case he's carrying it in only to discover that it is a wax model that's melting. The class laugh at him (as usual) and he swears revenge on them and the Avengers.


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Iron Man and U.S. Agent have been asked by the Los Angeles authorities to intervene between an official helicopter spraying malathion and protesters. Shellhead disperses the spray with his repulsors while USA tries to get the crowd to disperse themselves. Unfortunately IM misjudges it a bit and has to stop the chopper from crashing. The pilot says he tried to cease spraying but the equipment malfunctioned.On the ground the Agent discovers some of the people are complaining about something turning their skin metallic in patches. And the helicopter has been secretly spraying at night. *This* 'copter crew say they know nothing about *that*.Iron Man hasn't been around for a little while (2 issues) so he's pleasantly surprised to see Tigra when they get to the Avengers West Coast Compound. She explains that Agatha Harkness found her and fixed her problems of being cat-sized and feral (a much-abbreviated version of Av Spotlight #38). Tigra tells them Hank Pym and ex-wife Jan Van Dyne have returned early from their mini-break (last issue) and, as Dr. Pym and Wasp, have called a meeting. Greer Nelson also takes the time to flirt with USA, which catches him completely by surprise.Now that everyone is present except Human Torch (who last issue went off with Ann Raymond to look for the body of his ex-partner, and her husband, Toro) the couple dump a pair of robotic heads with flesh disguises on the meeting table. They met them on a remote wheat farm and wouldn't have realised they were robots except something about their aircraft Rover made them malfunction.US Agent wonders if it's connected with the metallic rash some of the protesters had. Hawkeye as usual takes the opportunity to snipe at him (and during the ensuing argument USA says he used to be (the replacement) Captain America - I didn't think the AWC were supposed to know that). Quicksilver and his sister Wanda Maximoff (in civilian dress because she's lost her Scarlet Witch super-power) try to calm them down.Henry Pym says they should check other farms and the metal rash outbreak while he does some computer research. But Wonder Man violently objects. He wants them to track down his brother Grim Reaper who's come back from the dead like a zombie and is draining the life out of people. (He and Wanda found him last issue.) But Pym says the police are searching for *him*. This other thing *could* be a major threat.Simon Williams storms out and Wanda follows to stop him. She tries to get him to calmly assess the whole picture. But he just asks her to come with him. She uses the excuse of being powerless, but also tries to remind him of his duty as an Avenger. But he just angrily flies away.Iron Man and Wasp fly around looking for anything relevant. USA seems to do the same thing by jumping across rooftops. Wanda helps Hank with the research on the big computer at UCLA. But Hawkeye seems to have an idea where to look. And Pietro Maximoff and Tigra follow him. He leads them to a closed (due to a fire some months back) section of the Metro. But Clint Barton used the AWC's own computer to verify something he'd heard about reports of nighttime sprayings, and found they were in an area centred here. Tigra guesses that Clint was secretive because he didn't want US Agent to get any of the credit.She uses her strength to pry apart the bars of a grill blocking the entrance to the tunnel. Inside Hawkeye lights a flare arrow, and Tigra's cat-eyes spot a suspiciously regular crack in a wall. Clint blasts their way through to a hi-tech base containing a helicopter - and 4 humanoid robots to guard it. Which they quickly dispose of ...... only to meet their master Ultron-13 (who we saw briefly last issue). He knocks Tigra out. Hawkeye's arrows make no impression, and Clint falls to a ray blast. The robot ignores Quicksilver speeding round him until he sticks out an arm and Pietro joins the others on the floor. During this 1-sided battle he claims to have beaten his rival Ultron-12.When the heroes awake they are shackled inside the ubiquitous containment vessels. The villain admits to being behind the farmer robots, and the midnight spraying that's turning people metal. He also caused the fire to prevent anyone finding this base. Both farmers and sprayers are infecting crops with a crystalline substance which will turn the human race into robots under his control (which he considers a better plan than those of earlier models to just *kill* all humans).And his 3 captives have been sprayed in their capsules - and they are starting to transform.The rest of this issue is separated off as a 2nd story featuring Wonder Man, with its own title "... that shall he also reap".Grim Reaper attacks a homeless ex-Air Traffic Controller and consumes his life energy via his scythe. Wonder Man gets there to late to stop his brother Eric Williams. But Simon asks him if he's anything to do with people being turned into metal robots. Eric responds of course not - he needs people to be flesh and blood so can drain their lives so he himself can live. WM tries to persuade GR to join forces with him and the Avengers to stop their common problem. And the Avengers will find a way to cure him.But Reaper doesn't want to be cured. He knows (from last issue) that he can't steal Wondy's ionic energy with his scythe. But he can blast him into a wall which collapses on him. And he prepares to bring a whole building down on his brother ...... but Mandrill leaps on him, out for revenge on Reaper for killing his sister Nekra (again last issue). But GR's scythe cuts him down, and Eric revels in the mutant's lifeforce.Wonder Man extricates himself from the rubble. Eric says he's decided not to kill Simon yet. He'd rather let his brother feel guilty for all his future victims. Only when he thinks Simon has suffered enough will he grant him the peace of death.GR dives down a manhole before Wonder Man can stop him. And WM can't give chase because he has to explain what happened to the homeless man and Mandrill to the police who have just arrived.


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Simon Williams (Wonder Man) stands over the grave of his brother Eric and reminisces about their past. As a kid Eric was always the risk taker while Simon played it safe. Simon took over the family munitions business when their dad died while Eric turned to gambling and later joined the mob. But it was Simon who led the company to failure and embezzled from it. (He doesn't mention that he let people blame Eric for the latter.) Then (in a desperate bid to repay his debts) he got (let Baron Zemo's Masters Of Evil give him) superpowers as Wonder Man to infiltrate the Avengers. He died (a hero) (and his brain patterns were used for the Vision). Then Eric became Grim Reaper to get revenge on the Avengers (for Simon's death) and Vision for stealing his mind. Eric couldn't accept it when Simon came back to ionic life, but when he finally realised it was true (Vision & Scarlet Witch vol 2 #2) he fell off a cliff and died - which Simon says he suspected was suicide. Later Eric's lover Nekra raised him as a zombie (V&SWv2#12) but now he's at rest.But when Simon leaves by quinjet Eric, dressed as Grim Reaper complete with scythe for a right hand, rises from his grave. It's Nekra's doing again but he's not happy being a zombie again - he says he doesn't want to take orders from a Voodoo priest like Black Talon. She assures him that he won't have to take orders from *anyone*, not even her. When they kissed as he died the 2nd time (V&SWv2#12) she realised how much she loved him, and then she learned from BT how to do Voodoo resurrections herself. But her particular spell means that he has to kill at least 1 human every 24 hours and absorb his life force via his scythe. A groundskeeper spots them and Nekra suggests he should be the 1st victim. But instead he kills *her* to *ensure* that no-one can order him around.In grounds of the West Coast Avengers Compound Hawkeye is using a whirligig to move him randomly while he shoots arrows at targets. He's practising in the evening because last time he did it during the day (#42) he almost shot Scarlet Witch. U.S. Agent interrupts with a thrown shield to break his arrow. Hawkeye expresses his ongoing hostility to the man who the Government replaced him with as leader. Clint Barton punches the Agent in the face but the other guy stops his 2nd blow and throws him into a bush. The Witch and her brother Quicksilver show up to try to calm things down, as does Wonder Man when he steps out of the just-landed quinjet. The 2 rivals agree not to shake hands but leave.Pietro goes inside too but Wanda Maximoff stays to thank Simon for his support while she's been recovering from everything that's happened to her lately (most recently being used as a nexus being by Immortus in #61-62). She's in civvies now because her Scarlet Witch hex power hasn't returned after #62, and she's resigned to starting a new life (without her husband Vision and their 2 unreal babies). Her admirer Simon suggests they nip off somewhere for a meal. She hesitates but then accepts and they head for a Mexican restaurant.Meanwhile Grim Reaper announces himself to a cult in a WWII bunker praying to Satannish. They react badly, especially when he starts killing them with his scythe. He doesn't *need* to kill them all but after the 1st reinvigorates him he finds the act gives him a high. Only 1 female escapes ...... and of course she runs into the very restaurant where Simon and Wanda are eating. Simon has been recognised as a film star (for his part in Arkon 5) but they don't realise he's an Avenger, and Wanda is just his 'date'. The fleeing woman only has chance to mention the bunker and Grim Reaper before she collapses on the floor. 2 cops are also in the place and they take charge as Simon pronounces her DOA. Wonder Man and Scarlet Witch make their identities known to them, and all 4 head to the bunker in their patrol car.WM enters the bunker alone because he's invulnerable. He finds all the bodies dessicated and he's greeted by his brother. As they fight Eric explains that he needs to kill to survive, and Simon says it's his job to stop him. The other 3 enter. The cops' bullets have no effect on the Reaper, and he bats the cops aside to try to kill his brother. Simon lets the scythe touch his chest and as expected it can't hurt him. But it *can* hurt its wielder. GR feels all the stolen life energy drained from him, and Simon is sickened by the foul evil that he's absorbed.Reaper turns to the other 3 to regain energy by killing them. Knowing their guns are useless the cops turn to the Witch for help. Wanda desperately tries to summon a hex but nothing happens. So she knocks over the only lamp still functioning in the place, plunging the cultists' bunker into darkness. Simon has recovered and pleads with Eric to let them help him. GR knows that WM won't let him kill the people here so he runs out into the night to find an easier victim.We'll leave things there for this issue. But we have 1 more scene in this story. Henry Pym and Janet Van Dyne are off on vacation. Jan has persuaded Hank to rent a car (with no jack) and drive like normal folks rather than use his Rover flying vehicle. But now they have a flat tire miles from any service station in the middle of wheat fields. Luckily they're just in front of a farmhouse, but the husband and wife occupants deny having a jack to lend them. So Hank admits to Jan that he brought Rover along miniaturised in his pocket just in case. He applies his Pym-Particle-power to enlarge the vehicle and starts it up.But the farmers start to heat up and then they explode. And the broken bodies turn out to be androids. And the scene is being watched by Ultron-13.Story 2:- Toro, Toro, Toro starring the android Human TorchPencils Rik Levins. Inks Keith Williams. Letters Michael Heisler.Human Torch remembers when he and his young sidekick Toro helped out the D-Day landings by destroying coastal guns. Since then Jim Hammond has spent a lot of the time comatose but human Thomas Raymond grew up and married. Jim has heard that (in Sub-Mariner #14) the Mad Thinker brainwashed adult Toro into thinking he was HT and sent him to fight Namor. But Toro came to his senses and gave his life saving Subby.But Thomas' wife Ann Raymond only knows it was on some volcanic island in the Pacific, so she came to the recently-revived Torch for help. They advertised for information in papers all over the world and got 1 anonymous reply which brought them here to the shore of an island off Santa Barbara.Suddenly the Mad Thinker appeared on a clifftop above them ranting that he sent the letter. He who temporarily resurrected HT (Fantastic Four Annual #4) and caused Toro's death SW of Lisianski Island now intends to kill the other half of the Torch/Toro team. HT flies up to attack him but he turns back when Ann is menaced by the huge whale-like Giganto (which Namor once summoned in FF#4). Jim means to drive it off with flame but it catches fire. Then Thinker and beast both exit the scene.The remaining duo don't understand what all this was about, but at least they now know where to look for Thomas' body so they leaved for Lisianski Island.But we see Thinker emerge from the ocean and comment that it all went to plan. He 'accidentally' told them where to go and then Giganto, which was actually a robot, gave him time to escape. Thinker then removes a facemask to reveal his true identity as Sub-Mariner, who wanted to help his old ally's quest without exposing the fact that he wasn't as dead as the world currently believed him to be.


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The Immortus imperative
The trials and tribulations of Scarlet Witch:- Wanda Maximoff lost her husband Vision when the android lost his human personality. She lost her twin 'children' when they turned out to be merely fragments of Mephisto. She was kidnapped and brainwashed to be 1 of the 7 Brides of Set. After all this she retreated into a coma. Her father Magneto brought her out of the coma (or at least was present when she came out of it) but with a new amoral personality. Last issue when the Avengers West Coast and her brother Quicksilver tried to pry her away from Magneto she fell into a trance-like state. Magneto left but Immortus appeared and claimed responsibility for the trance and much else.The assembled characters are in the AWC Compound. Immortus boasts of being Master of Time as well as ruler of Limbo, and immune to any attack the Avengers can mount. Dr. Pym suggests the team hear him out, and his ex-wife Wasp suggests they listen to *him*. Hotheads U.S. Agent and Hawkeye (current and previous team leaders) aren't inclined to obey. Clint Barton fires off an arrow which bounces harmlessly off Immortus' force field. Iron Man urges caution too, for Wanda's sake. But her speedster brother Pietro ignores his sprained knee (last issue again) and rushes to attack at the same time as US Agent. However Immortus manipulates time to allow him to step out of the way of even super-fast Quicksilver, who then runs into USA.Immortus suggests the others just let him take Scarlet Witch and leave. She is vital to a plan he's been building for a long time - a plan that will benefit many timelines, especially this 1. Iron Man says they can't do that, while Wasp whispers to the Inhuman dog Lockjaw to teleport Wanda away. (She obviously didn't believe Pietro last issue when he said Lockjaw had already tried that and failed.) So Immortus reminds them that even without the force field he has now erected SW was (last issue) within an extra-temporal shield which stopped the dog or anyone else affecting her.The time master gestures and Wanda starts to fade away. This galvanises the team into action, and Wanda returns to solidity as Immortus is forced to deal with them. Leaving Lockjaw behind he transports himself and everyone else to Limbo.But an immaterial image of Immortus remains, observed by someone else.Once in Limbo Immortus summons some enemies to keep the Avengers busy. Iron Man (still pretending to be a replacement - the 3rd incumbent counting James Rhodes as #2) says he recognises them from the original's description - they are the Legion of the Unliving. And this bunch of dead people have been specifically chosen for individual Avengers. Wasp claims they aren't the real thing, just simulations. (The Marvel Chronology Project agrees, but the Marvel Wiki and comicbookdb.com list them as real.)Wonder Man, who remembers being 1 of the 1st Legion even though he was in a coma not dead, has to face his brother Eric Williams - Grim Reaper who died in our #2. (He was resurrected as a zombie by Nekra in Vision & Scarlet Witch v2 #12, and she was still toting his corpse around in Web of Spider-Man #46.) Here in Limbo the Reaper's scythe can cut or electrocute Simon Williams which it couldn't in the real world, so WM has to fight back. The struggle continues until Simon's resistance snaps Eric's neck.Iron Man has his future great nephew Arno Stark - Iron Man 2020, whose armour and weaponry prove superior. But the original man within the current armour won't give in and eventually smashes the cheap copy.Hawkeye meets the Swordsman, the man who nurtured his archery skill. And who started out a villain but died an Avenger. Clint taunts the Swordsman about using the gadgets Mandarin enhanced his sword with, and Swordsman says Barton would be nothing without the hi-tech arrows Tony Stark provided him as an Avenger. Swordsman easily knocks aside Hawkeye's arrows with the blade of his sword, but the last 1 electrocutes him when he hits it.For Dr Pym it's Black Knight (Nathan Garrett) 1 of his earliest foes as Giant-Man (in Tales to Astonish #52). Henry Pym enlarges his shrunken Rover craft from 1 of his pockets. When BK blasts that with his power lance HP leaps out using his jet-pack. He reminds his foe that he repented his evil ways as he died. But this has the effect of panicking the Knight as he remembers falling to his death from his horse (in Tales of Suspense (Iron Man) #73). And causing him to repeat the fall.US Agent's foes are Left-Winger and Right-Winger, erstwhile partners of his who he left in a coma after they killed his parents - like Wonder Man was they're not dead. (USA had been brainwashed to forget about his parents' death. He only recently remembered everything about it in Captain America #320/2-382/2.) They come at him from either side with pointy stalactites (or stalagmites). He trips 1 with his shield, dodges out of the way, and they stab each other to 'death'.Similarly if it's the android Human Torch Jim Hammond that Wasp gets to fight, then he's currently just deactivated back at AWC Compound. But we learn that it is Torch's young partner Toro here now, and it was also him in the 1st Legion. The android HT was never dead, but Thomas 'Toro' Raymond was killed by Mad Thinker in Sub-Mariner #14. (The identification of Toro here is disputed.) Confused Wasp is about to be killed.The last member of the Legion is Oort the Living Comet who claims to have fought Quicksilver in the 50th Century, which Pietro knows nothing about. And he easily blasts his foe by pretending to threaten his inert sister.Meanwhile back in the Compound we learn that the person speaking to the shade of Immortus is Agatha Harkness, Wanda's mentor in witchcraft, and it is her spell which keeps the doppelganger here. She says that she knows as well as he does that Earth's alternate timelines are unravelling, but she's far from sure she trusts him to save them. Miss Harkness invokes the triple-goddess to force the image to tell her Immortus' plan.1st she's treated to a recap of his origin and pre-Immortus career.  The 30th Century on an alternate Earth was boringly peaceful. Proto-Immortus was fascinated by recordings of the age of heroes, especially the Fantastic Four because Reed Richards' father Nathaniel was *his* ancestor too. Nathaniel Richards had gone to this alternate Earth and married a woman named Cassandra (in FF#273).Proto-I learned that NR had built a time machine and hidden it. He found it, redesigned its outer casing to be the Sphinx, and went back to Ancient Egypt to rule as Pharaoh Rama-Tut (details from FF#273 again). The FF defeated him (FF#19), and he fled to the future to become Kang the Conqueror. Kang's time-travelling produced multiple versions of himself in different timelines. But eventually 1 of them became Immortus.Immortus took over the realm of Limbo to study the nature of time. We learned in Thor #282 that he was visited by the 3 beings (here called the Time-Keepers) from the end of time, who appointed him guardian of time between 3000 BC and 4000 AD - the period of Rama-Tut and Kang's activities. He was charged with monitoring time travel in that period, and in particular untangling the mess caused by multiple time-travelling Kangs.The shade tells Agatha how he has been deleting divergent realities (we see ones from earlier issues plus the timeline in Av#101 where Leonard Tippit caused World war III). He also says his interest in Scarlet Witch is because she is a nexus being who belongs to all possible timelines. Through her he can control and safeguard all realities.He reveals that all of his previous actions have been designed to bring Wanda under his control. He 1st tried to break up the original Avengers because SW would be easier to manipulate if she didn't join them. He sent the Space Phantom in Av#2 (we learned that SP was his minion in Thor #282), and tried himself in #10. After Wanda became an Avenger he changed tactics. He convinced the Vision that he was really the WWII android Human Torch during the Celestial Madonna affair, which ended with the now securely confident Vision marrying Wanda. This led to the Witch magically conceiving 2 children. All this was so that she could be devastated later by the loss of husband and children, and the trauma would make her vulnerable to his domination.He goes into more detail:- He it was who influenced Vision to take over the world's computers (for the good of humanity) (Av#241-254), and then prompted the world's security agencies to retaliate by taking the android apart (our #42-45). When he was rebuilt his emotions were lost, including his love for Wanda. Then Immortus claims he made certain she was 1 of those chosen to be a Bride of Set (Atlantis Attacks), to undermine her self-confidence. But he wasn't responsible for her capture by That Which Endures (#47-49), which increased that feeling. But he *was* an influence on Master Pandemonium kidnapping the children (and he presumably knew that Mephisto would come to claim them as parts of himself) (#51-52). And Agatha Harkness explaining how the twins were never real tipped SW over the edge into the hate-filled version of her now. (Magneto's involvement at that point was a minor irrelevance.)(Note that The Marvel Chronology Project follows author John Byrne's own instructions and has Atlantis Attacks after #52.)And the Unliving Legion vanish (before Toro can kill Wasp) as Miss Harkness works out what Immortus' aim really is.


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Baptism of fire
In #42-44 worried world governments authorised the dismantling of the Vision and the wiping of his backup memories. The West Coast Avengers were allowed to rebuild him but he has no emotions, even concerning his wife Scarlet Witch and their 2 little boys.Last issue Wanda Maximoff took Vision to Absolom College who claimed to be able to do something about the problem. But they really wanted the mutant Witch to convert her to 1 of them, parts of a gestalt entity existing from the dawn of life called That Which Endures. The entity predicted baseline humans being supplanted by mutants and wanted to move into these new hosts. But they also destroyed the quinjet that she and Vision flew here, and that destruction was detected in the (East Coast) Avengers Mansion by Captain America and She-Hulk who came to investigate. They met with the new Wanda who hexed them unconscious by dropping a wall on them.As College 'staff' take the 2 limp bodies away, we look in on the Great Lakes Avengers led by Hawkeye and Mockingbird who are also coming to investigate. Rich Ashley Crawford (Big Bertha) is flying them in her private aircraft, but it's much slower than a quinjet which frustrates Clint Barton. Bobbi Barton says they don't know *exactly* where the quinjet went down. Previous GLA leader Mr Immortal can't restrain his sarcasm.Meanwhile some of the other WCA members return to the WCA Compound from what *they* were doing. They were also trying to track where Wanda went but instead wound up talking to Prof Horton in his Seattle hospital bed who told them that Vision was *not* made from his creation the original WWII Human Torch as they thought. Now Henry Pym wants to relook at the 'evidence' they had that he *was*. So he leaves his ex-wife but now seemingly very reconciled Janet Van Dyne (Wasp) to chat with Simon Williams (Wonder Man).Vision's human personality derived from Simon's recorded brain patterns (who at that time was supposedly dead), but when Vizh was recreated he refused to let his brain patterns be used again, which has made Wanda hate him. When he 'woke up' Wanda and Vision were already married but he too fell in love with her. Now that the android no longer loves Wanda, Jan suggests that Simon has at least a chance to win her affections because it was the *him* inside the synthezoid that Wanda loved.Dr Pym's having no luck examining evidence because when Vision was taken the government cabal also used a computer virus to wipe all information on him from all databanks, including those of the Avengers. So he goes out for some air and sees Tigra racing by in a much more feline form than usual. He's informed that she's been chasing mice lately, and now he's worried that her cat side is becoming dominant again. So he follows her into the wooded grounds of the Compound. But she attacks him savagely and he fears for his safety, so he uses his shrinking power to turn her into something he can pick up by the scruff of the neck.Cap and Shulk have been left alone in a cell. But they were apparently only pretending to be knocked out - Cap's shield and their super-bodies had protected them. Now Cap thinks they can sneak out and find out what's going on. But Jennifer Walters attacks him because she's also been assimilated by That Which Endures and she doesn't understand why *he* hasn't. Cap keeps dodging her super-blows but knows it's only a matter of time before 1 connects. But then Absolom head Jeremiah Random enters and shoots him with a mysterious gun.So what's Vision been doing while all this was going on. He's been patiently waiting for many hours to be operated on. But now he thinks that it is inconsistent for Wanda to have left him alone this long so he reasons that something is wrong. He ghosts out of the room and up out of the building to start looking for her. And the passing GLA plane spots him and hails him. He enters it and finds Hawkeye & co. They exchange notes.Back at the College Random's people have discovered that something in Cap's body is blocking the assimilation process. She-Hulk guesses it's the Super-Soldier Serum that gave him his powers. But she still doesn't fully understand what's happened to *her*. Scarlet Witch pops in to explain. As we learnt last issue 4 billion years ago something happened to 1 early cell, and its descendants lived on in all forms of life since. It has been subtly guiding life since then and has moved on from fishes to amphibians to dinosaurs and to mammals. Random adds new details. That the special cells developed a gestalt consciousness that usually stayed behind the scenes. But every 100,000 years it chose some random creatures like them to fully manifest in and survey life on Earth and choose which lifeforms to concentrate in, and the special cells wither in discarded lifeforms. Recently humans have been the choice, but now they feel mutants are the better bet.At this point Vision and the GLA attack outside, mainly trying not to hurt the seeming college students who fight them. Hawkeye fires arrows, Mockingbird high-kicks, Flatman wraps people up, Dinah Soar swoops and Vision does his immaterial fist through the chest thing. Then She-Hulk attacks Ashley who's now in Big Bertha mode. Bertha absorbs the blows then bounces into the air and squashes Shulkie flat. Mr Immortal spots a building that the crowd seems to be defending. Doorman makes himself a doorway into it and MrI dives through him.Random is worried that the assimilator that gives them their telepathic link might be damaged. He arrives to find MrI about to enter its chamber and warns him that the radiation inside is instantly fatal to humans. The hero laughs it off because "Dyin' is what I do best". And he steps inside.She-Hulk finally manages to lift Bertha off her back. But then she suddenly comes to her senses. As do all the students. And Random tells Vision his name is really Charles Edison. Wanda is free also and she tells Hawkeye how Mr Immortal sacrificed himself, and they can see him lying dead inside the chamber on a viewscreen. 'Random' switches the radiation off and Flatman brings MrI's body out. Bertha confirms he's dead but gives it 10 minutes before he's alive again. The Avengers wonder if it's true that the parasitic cells are responsible for all life's advances, and what will happen to humanity when they *do* leave.


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Get smart
A tidal wave hits a small section of San Remo California and laughs as it scatters the guards of an armoured van outside a bank, seeps inside and pressurises its way violently out carrying with it many money bags. The 'wave' sweeps to the ocean where it surrounds the bag, 'dives' in and carries them to a deserted stretch of shore. There it reforms into Hydro Man (Morrie Bench) who dries out the bags of money by absorbing the moisture.Later he's relaxing in a bar with a holdall full of money and a cold beer. He overhears 2 Yuppies commenting on his recent string of bank jobs. 1 says if he had that power he wouldn't waste it on robberies he'd go for real power like Dr Doom. The other comments that Hydro Man isn't smart enough for that. Morrie holds back his anger so's not to blow his cover, but he reflects that what they say is true. But he should be content to be rich however he does dream of more.Then a mysterious stranger intrudes on his thoughts and claims to know exactly what Bench feels. And he says he can help. So saying he lays his hand on Morrie's forehead ... who suddenly sees things so clearly. He knows how he can make his dreams come true. And he runs off without bothering to take his money. The stranger leans back to watch what happens.In the West Coast Avengers Compound Hawkeye and Wonder Man are trying their skills/powers against each other. Simon Williams jets down towards Clint Barton who fires multiple arrows at him. WM catches them in midair but Hawk gets him with another arrow that encases him in a block of ice. However the superstrong hero breaks free and zooms at his comrade again, his invulnerable ionic body shrugging off a blast arrow. Clint rolls aside as Simon swoops through the space he'd been in. But then he shoots 2 more arrows at the retreating figure which clog up his belt-jets with glue. Wondy may have many abilities but flying under his own power isn't 1 of them, and he falls into the Compound's pool.Then they get a call from Dr Pym, the only other WCAer around, who's got an emergency police message saying Hydro Man has taken hostages and threatens to kill them unless the WCA come to face him. WM and Hawk figure he'll be easy to deal with and they fly off to the rescue (Clint on his sky-cycle and Simon with replacement jets).In downtown LA in a corporate HQ skyscraper with a 15-storey atrium Hydro Man has a dozen of the employees suspended from its ceiling in an open-fronted box and he's standing on a walkway at their level. He says he'll let them go once he's established a new rep by killing the Avengers. (And his thoughts tell us that he's got a backup plan in case they actually beat him.) He's disgusted when only 2 opponents appear, telling them it'll take more than they 2 to beat the new him.He drains away as water to avoid WM's flying lunge and so Hawk has to dodge his team-mate again. But unfortunately he accidentally fires off the heat arrow he had nocked for their foe and it narrowly misses the hostages. Simon breaks free of the wall he smashed into but boss Clint sends him to make the hostages safe while he handles the villain. Wondy complies even when Hydro Man 'drowns' his friend in water because he knows Clint will don a Stark air-mask. However Bench then makes the water squeeze the hero with intense pressure and Wondy abandons the hostages to help his friend. He dives through HM's water body knocking the other WCAer out of it but unconscious. Hydro Man tries the same trick on *him* but he doesn't need air and his body is super-strong. So Bench changes tactics and sends all his water down Wondy's throat and exerts pressure from the inside. Now it's the other Avenger's turn to black out.Hydro-Man exits Wonder Man the way he came in. He uses Hawkeye's communicator to contact WCA HQ and demand that the rest of the team face him within 10 minutes. Hank Pym says OK but doesn't let on that *he* is currently the 'rest'. HM ties the unconscious duo to the cable suspending the hostage box in such a way that if WM wakes up and tries to escape it will send the box plummeting down the 15 storeys.The 10 minutes are nearly up and Morrie picks a hostage to kill. But then Pym's mini-plane Rover smashes in through the glass wall. Bench is even more disgusted at facing the WCA's weakest member. Hank's 1st action is to enlarge a shrunken blaster from 1 of his pockets, but he uses it to breaks the suspension cable (below the other 2 heroes). The hostages understandably panic but Rover magnetically latches on to the top of the metal box and flies them down to the ground. Hydro Man attacks Dr Pym but he enlarges a wide-angle heat blaster and evaporates the foe.The police take the hostages to be looked after. Hank frees his partners who have just regained consciousness and they join him in Rover. But then they are surrounded by steam which signals the return of Hydro Man. Wonder Man attacks him before he can fully reintegrate his body while Dr Pym enlarges a containment tank. But Bench spots the move before Pym can finish and he smashes him unconscious with solid water. Hawkeye tries the freezing arrow he used on Simon earlier but HM lets it pass through a tunnel in his water body and then crushes the archer unconscious again. Then he picks up Wondy and smashes him against solid surfaces like a rag doll.Hydro Man prepares to kill the 3 Avengers when the mysterious stranger turns up again. He reveals that he is Loki and he caused all this for fun. But if anyone's going to kill Avengers it will be *him*. And with a snap of his fingers he removes Morrie's increased intelligence. Confused Bench is distracted by a flare arrow while Wonder man KO's him.When he awakens he's in the fully-enlarged containment tube. He may have lost his smarts but he still remembers his backup plan. He tells them he designed a powerful bomb that was activated when he lost consciousness. It will explode in 15 minutes and only he knows where it is and how to stop it. Let him go and he'll fix it. The Avengers don't know whether he's bluffing, or if he'll keep his word if they *do* free him. But they know they have do what he asks. However as Dr Pym is about to open the tube Morrie gloats that the bomb is under the WCA's own pool (and his thoughts tell us that something *made* him say that).The team rush back to the Compound with containered Hydro Man in tow. Pym gets into scuba gear and retrieves the bomb but says it's too complicated for him to figure out in time. Hawkeye asks Bench how to deactivate it but he says that now he's not smart he can't remember. Wonder Man takes it (presumably to fly it out into space). But it's too late and it explodes killing them all.Later there's a funeral for the 3 heroes attended by Wasp, US Agent, Paladin and many others. Another mysterious stranger approaches Janet Van Dyne with condolences and assures her that he will "attempt to prevent a recurrence of such a tragic divergence as this one". Then that reality dissolves away and we see that *this* stranger is Immortus who's been wiping out alternate timelines in previous issues. But he regrets that he probably won't be able to keep his promise.


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This ancient evil
We begin with the earliest history of life on Earth as a proto-cell divides into 2. But then 1 of the pair devours the other and the result is different. And from this cell follows all cells in living things.Then we move to Absolom College in Texas where Scarlet Witch and Vision came by quinjet last issue seeking help from the Robotics Department with improving the synthezoid's rebuilt body, ie returning him to the more human state of the person Wanda Maximoff married. The Dean Jeremiah Random had the android taken for some tests but then revealed that they were really interested in the mutant Witch and they allowed her to be engulfed by a black goo they called the Assimilator.Now she's floating in a containment tube, now matt black all over her body apart from her head. It seems that the 1st paragraph was part of a history of what the staff of the College refer to as 'us' that they are feeding into Wanda's mind. And last issue we learned that they want her as a bridge to allow them to bypass the genetic lockout that keeps them from assimilating mutants.Last issue SW&V's quinjet was secretly destroyed, but that triggered an alarm in Avengers Mansion in New York. And now Captain America and She-Hulk are coming to investigate in another quinjet. They land at Absolom and are greeted by Random who tells them that Vision is still here but Scarlet Witch left in their quinjet.Now we look in on an event that will be relevant for some upcoming issues of the (East Coast) Avengers. Starfox of the Titanian Eternals has been seeking Nebula, who claims to be the granddaughter of his evil brother Thanos. She was supposedly lost in the timestream in Av#297 but there are rumours that she and her pirate starship are active, and Eros has traced them to an ancient ruin on a dead planetoid. And he indeed sees Nebula and her Rigellian henchman Gunthar examining an inscription on some stone tablets. She says that the formula written here will enable her to become more powerful than her dead grandfather.Another interlude sees a woman named Mrs Raymond in a homeless shelter in Denver. Doctors there are worried about her because she just keeps mumbling about getting to some people in Los Angeles. The only clues they have are some newspaper clippings in her wallet. We see that 1 of them is about the Avengers confirming that Vision isn't the WWII Human Torch.In Absolom Cap and Shulk are suspicious, even after Vision comes to confirm that he's OK. But he doesn't knows where Wanda has gone. Random's people are worried and up the rate at which she's being fed memories. We see images of ancient cycads, an early lizard, brontosauri, t-rexes and an early mammal. Meanwhile Random shows the Avengers around the robotics lab until he's called away on something urgent. Our duo concur that Avengers' own stuff is more advanced than this, and the place seems more like a mock-up. They decide to leave and sneak back overnight.Yet another cutaway takes us to the Seattle hospital where the West Coast Avengers saw Prof Phineas Horton, creator of the WWII Torch, last issue. Wonder Man just stands around while Wasp and Dr Pym ask about Horton's claim that he didn't help Ultron turn HT into the Vision (nor did he die in the process). And in fact that the synthezoid Vision is totally different from the android Torch because Vizh is part mechanical. Henry Pym admits that he should have twigged when he saw the evidence in Av#93. But now he wonders why Immortus lied about it when he showed Vision his HT origin in Av#133.But we see Immortus watching all this from his Escher-like palace in Limbo, saying that his lies served a cosmic purpose which involves the Scarlet Witch. And he also watches Wanda being helped out of the containment tube.Random's techs tell him that the (accelerated) assimilation has been successful. Wanda is led away to rest, and Random celebrates the fact that they can soon abandon Homo Sapiens like they did the dinosaurs, and move into Homo Superior. In her quarters Wanda, still completely covered in black apart from her head, remembers with new understanding how her father Magneto always claimed that the Homo Superior mutants should be the masters of Homo Sapiens. But now she understands that Homo Sapiens will instead die out, and only 'that which endures' will remain.That night Cap and She-Hulk creep into the College, Steve Rogers' experience and finely-tuned senses enabling them to avoid tripping alarms. Once inside the central tower they take the stairs to Random's 20th floor office which they find unlocked, and his computer terminal has no password. Cap's suspicious that it's all too easy. They learn that Scarlet Witch is being held in a sub-basement of a smaller building just south of the tower. So Jen Walters jumps across and then plummets through several floors of that building. Cap follows down the hole and uses the shock absorbing quality of his shield to cushion his landing. Then they race down more stairs and find a huge blockhouse structure in the basement with an imposing door which they assume is to keep Wanda and her hex power contained. Shulkie charges the door ...... which gives way easily and the black-clad Witch welcomes them in and says it's time for them to join 'us'. The heroes assume this is the standard hero turned against her comrades scenario. But Wanda says she's just been shown the truth which has 'dwelled within all living things since the dawn of time'. A hex gesture brings a load of masonry down on the pair, and SW promise their unconscious bodies that they'll understand when they've been assimilated.Things are looking black. But in Milwaukee Hawkeye is despairing of successfully training the Great Lakes Avengers. 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The witching hour
The Avengers West Coast plus Quicksilver are in Limbo whose lord Immortus has kidnapped Scarlet Witch. Last issue we saw him hold them off with a Legion of the Unliving composed mainly of dead foes with special meaning for each of them, such as Wonder Man's brother Grim Reaper. Meanwhile back on Earth Agatha Harkness interrogated a fragment of Immortus to discover what he'd been doing and what his plan was. But now the Legion have faded away and Immortus confronts them with the immobile Witch.And now Immortus tells the Avengers some of what we and Miss Harkness learned last issue. He was behind most of Wanda Maximoff's recent troubles. Especially depriving her of her husband Vision (reverted to an emotionless android) and her twin children (revealed as figments of her magic). He also increased her power and hardened her heart. Now he intends to use Wanda, who is a nexus being existing on all possible timelines, to ensure his mastery of the 7 millennia he is custodian of - to protect and control the alternate timelines therein.Wanda's enraged brother Pietro superspeeds towards Immortus but is repelled by his force field. The time lord can't understand why the Avengers continue fighting him. He may have removed SW's paltry free will but in her new role she will live forever. Simon Williams loves Wanda, and now Wonder Man's fists join Quicksilver in beating at the force field. And U.S. Agent leads the rest of the team into the fray.Immortus isn't worried about the Avengers getting through his protection. But he is concerned that they might break the Witch out of the trance he has her in. So he brings in help. A giant white fist grabs Wonder Man's arm, and the hero is suddenly aged to a very old man. The newcomer announces himself as Tempus, guardian of Castle Limbo (previously seen in Giant Size Fantastic Four #2 and Thor #282 where his ageing attack didn't work on the immortal Thunder God).Back in the AWC Compound Agatha Harkness discusses the situation with the Inhuman dog Lockjaw, her witch's familiar Ebony the cat and the shade of Immortus her spell kept here when the villain left last issue. Lockjaw's teleportation can't send Agatha to Limbo. But with Ebony in a pentagram as an anchor, she calls on the triple goddess to enable her to get there *through* the doppelganger.She arrives in astral form to see Dr. Pym urge the rest of the team to attack Tempus to help Wonder Man, although the Government-appointed leader US Agent isn't happy about being usurped. Tempus swings his giant club and then throws emaciated WM at them. USA breaks Simon's fall but they both pass out. Hawkeye comments on the Agent's uncharacteristic selfless act, and Iron Man reminds him that being an Avenger brings out the hero in you (they may be thinking of Swordsman).Quicksilver doesn't see how his speed can help when Hank Pym's gun, Hawkeye's blast arrows and Iron Man's repulsor rays have no effect on the giant. But he is spurred by the sight of his sister Wanda to try anyway. He grabs a chunk of debris from the fighting and hits Tempus with it. Their foe is staggered and IM reasons that reason is that Pietro hit him with a piece of the Limbo Castle.But before they can use this information Tempus uses another power. He causes a timestorm which will make each Avenger face their worst memory. Pietro remembers when he and Wanda as teens were hunted by Balkan peasants who feared their powers. Clint Barton relives seeing Swordsman, his mentor in archery, robbing the carnival that they worked in. Wonder Man experiences the day he 'died' (Av#9). Henry Pym is taken back to when his 1st wife Maria was murdered in Soviet Hungary. Iron Man gets the start of his superhero-origin when an exploding mine fired shrapnel into his heart. Wasp sees her father killed by the Creature from Kosmos in *her* origin in Tales to Astonish (Ant-Man) #44. And US Agent sees the death of *his* parents in a hail of bullets.Agatha Harkness sees the AWC trapped in their memories. She decides to try to use her rapport with her pupil Wanda to influence her mind. She tells her to give up the enhanced power Immortus gave her - without that she will be useless to him. But it seems to have no effect. She tries another tack - sending a mental image of Wanda's husband Vision before he lost his emotions, and of her children. There is a flicker of emotion, but then Wanda rejects the lying picture.Immortus says he's not the villain the Avengers think he is, so he doesn't *want* them dead. But his plan is too important to jeopardise, so he tells Tempus to kill them. Desperately Miss Harkness urges Scarlet Witch to save her brother and teammates. But Immortus at last detects her astral presence and tries to expel her from Limbo. As she begins to fade Agatha again urges SW to reject her extra power for the sake of those she loves ...... and Wanda awakes from her trance, and the enhanced probability power streams from her body. It pushes Tempus away before he can execute the AWC. It concludes the Avengers' tormenting memories in improbable ways, not always happily:- She and Pietro are burned at the stake for 'witchcraft'. Hawkeye shames Swordsman into reforming. Wonder Man's ionic radiation kills all the original Avengers except Thor. The mine shrapnel kills Tony Stark. Janet Van Dyne is killed by the Kosmosian. Maria Pym rises from the dead. All the bullets miss US Agent's parents.Immortus is horrified because these are all new divergent timelines, undoing the pruning he has been carrying out in recent issues. Agatha Harkness has doomed the multiverse! (Actually he says that the events in the preceding paragraph must now be true in all timelines, which doesn't make sense. Especially as for instance this would mean that Wanda and Pietro Maximoff can't be here because they're dead. But I guess the Time-Keepers set things right in the end although that's not clear.)The Avengers don't understand the reference to Miss Harkness. They are just happy that Scarlet Witch and Wonder Man are back to normal. Wanda tries to draw some of the power back in, hoping that will avert the predicted catastrophe. But the swirling energy freezes in place as 3 figures appear. They are the Time Keepers that Agatha learned of last issue.They remind Immortus that they made him custodian of the 7 millennia between 3000 BC and 4000 AD. We now learn more. He was to turn a nexus being into a power source to ensure certain important events occurred in certain timelines, thus making a particular future inevitable. They tell the Avengers that Immortus selected Scarlet Witch but there were other nexi available. And now they have to intervene directly to stop her freed power jeopardising all futures including their own.Wanda is more interested in getting revenge for what Immortus has done to her life. Immortus counters that he was just following orders. The Time Keepers claim that he was trying to gain control over *all* time not just the 7 millennia they gave him. *He* protests he was just aiming for what they promised him - *total* mastery over the 7 millenia. US Agent just wants to arrest Immortus on behalf of the US Government. The TK dismiss his claim out of hand. And also say that they weren't worried about their timeline for selfish reasons but because their absence would be disastrous for the multiverse.USA loses his rag and throws his shield at them, followed closely by an arrow from the other hothead Hawkeye. The Keepers slow the objects by a factor of 100,000. But tell Clint Barton that his arrow would get there 1st if they allowed it. The pair just give up.Immortus pleads his case, and the Keepers agree to let him continue serving them. They surprise him by directing SW's expelled energy into him. Immortus feels the power growing within him to control cosmic probabilities. He will become the true master of time!But then he feels himself becoming immobile. And he suffers the fate he planned for Wanda, to exist motionless forever. The Keepers explain that only a nexus being like Scarlet Witch could generate the power they needed. But once created that power could be placed in a suitably strong vessel. And *they* had secretly made Immortus suitable even as *he* was increasing  SW's power.Wanda expresses pity for their foe. And Hank Pym whispers to Jan that this proves that she's back to her nice self.The Time Keepers transport the Avengers back to the Compound where Agatha Harkness is waiting for them. Quicksilver sends Lockjaw back to the Inhumans, but will stay with his sister and the AWC for a while. Henry Pym thinks to himself that now that Wanda is OK he'd better concentrate on curing Human Torch and Tigra. (And reactivating Torch happens next in Annual #5.)The Marvel Chronology Project has lots of stuff happening between this issue and next, including An#5. As usual Iron Man's chronology forms the backbone. And Quicksilver sits things out until An#5, while Scarlet Witch convalesces with Agatha Harkness until #63.IM starts off with a 1-off tale in his #253 where he saves a friend and his daughter from gangsters. A copy of Obadiah Stane's Iron Monger armour figures. Then he and Thor join the Fantastic Five in a trip into a future time-bubble in a Walt Simonson story in FF#337-341 (picking up a plotline from his Avengers run) involving Nebula, Dr Druid, 3 Kang's, Death's Head, Galactus, the Shi'ar Gladiator and the Dreaming Celestial - heady stuff. Then it's back down to Earth with a bump for a minor tale in Marvel Comics Presents #43/3.Meanwhile Hawkeye and Captain America return the current Black Knight (still a statue) to England in #1 of his new series, which will lead to his restoration to life.The Nebula above will later turn out to actually be Terminatrix (Kang's love Ravonna). But IM features (with cameos from Dr Pym, Wasp and Wonder Man) in Av#314 where the villain is the real Nebula, supposed granddaughter of Thanos. He continues that story in #316-318 where the Avengers are helped against Nebula by the Stranger.Meanwhile it's Wasp's turn to have some minor adventures in MCP#48/3 and Marvel Super-Heroes #3/2 (this 1 guesting Dakota North).IM, Wasp, Hawkeye, Dr Pym and Wonder Man are in Avengers: Death Trap, The Vault GN where that prison suffers yet another attempted breakout. But some of the villains help the Avengers instead.Before we get to the Annual proper USA and WM cameo in Quasar #11 where he drops off the injured Eternal Makkari for them to look after. WM then has a bit in Q#12 as well, but USA moves on to a bunch of real apps. In his backup tale in CA#383 he discovers that Left & Right-Winger (his foes in the Legion of the Unliving last issue) woke from their comas and committed suicide. In his half of Av Spotlight #31-34 he hunts down a guy killing illegal immigrants in his other job working for the Commission on Superhuman Activities. And in Punisher: No Escape GN they send him after Punisher.Meanwhile IM cameos in Amazing Spider-Man #344 as Doc Ock starts to rebuild the Sinister Six, while Dr Pym has a bit part in Scott Lang/Ant-Man's backup tale in ASM An #24 which features the return of the Scarlet Beetle. DrP then joins Hawkeye, Wasp and reservist Firebird in a story within An#5 where Atlantean mutant group Surf try to free whales from Marine World.Hawkeye gets together with IM, USA, WM and strangely Vision in another backup there as Dr Goodwrench attempts to 'free' vehicles from the Monster Truck Show.Then we come to the main story in the Annual. It is part of the crossover The Terminus Factor running through 5 Avengery Annuals:- CA#9, IM#11, Thor#15, AWC#5, Av#19 - IM in all of them. (The previous 2 years all Marvel Annuals were involved in a single massive crossover - Evolutionary War followed by Atlantis Attacks. This year starts a trend where they are broken up into related groups with individual events - the Spider-Man Annuals have Spidey's Totally Tiny Adventure, the FF combine with the X-titles for Days of Future Present, and Punisher/Daredevil/Hulk/Silver Surfer team up to deal with Lifeform.)Afterwards Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Wasp are in a backup in Av An#19 where a kid discovers his dad is boss of the Sons of the Serpent, while IM pops in to Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD #13 (in a story arc involving Madame Hydra and Yellow Claw).Everybody will be on board for #63.