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21st Century Boy
The story opens with Giant Man startling hikers in the mountains as he strides over them; he and Jan are there on a vacation, adjusting to their new position in the Ultimates, when they get a call to return to New York. There, Bruce Banner is examining the newly recovered comatose Captain America. When Cap awakens, he doesn't believe he's been gone for 57 years and goes into action against what he assumes is a Nazi trick. He manages to escape from the building but is stopped by a well placed swat from Giant Man. Later when Steve has calmed down, Nick Fury takes him to visit his old friend Bucky Barnes, now an old man who has been married to Steve's former fiance Gail for many years. The meeting is awkward and Gail refuses to let Steve see her since she has aged so much. Steve eventually realizes that everything he's ever loved is now gone, except one thing-his country. That evening, the Ultimates gather at a major reception where President Bush unveils to the American public the newly returned Captain America.


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Devils in Disguise
Captain America flashes back to an incident during World War II when he defeated a Nazi/Chitauri mission to create a super-weapon and seemingly killed their leader Kleiser. In the present, the Ultimates invade the Chitauri base on Micronesia, but it turns out to be a trap and a nuclear bomb explodes; meanwhile back at the Triskelion, the Chitauri have taken over the complex and Janet is captured by the alien leader, the still-living Herr Kleiser.


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Giant Man vs. the Wasp
As New York recovers from the devastation and carnage of Hulk's rampage, the Ultimates are seen as heroes by the public-once the Hulk's connection to Bruce Banner is hushed-up, of course. Tony Stark invites his teammates to dinner: Steve and Thor arrive but Hank and Jan are involved in an argument about Hank's ego that turns violent and results in Hank savagely beating his wife. Meanwhile, Thor explains his knowledge of his identity as the Norse Messiah and declines a permanent position in the Ultimates, saying that it would condone the actions of the military-industrial complex which he righteously opposes (but says he will come if there is a major life-threatening problem). When asked why he adventures as Iron Man, Tony reveals that he has an inoperable brain tumor and wants to do all the good he can in the time he has left. Tony then presents Steve with a gift: his original Captain America helmet from World War II. They then drink a toast to their absent friends, Hank, Jan and Bruce. Meanwhile, Hank Pym sits alone in his misery, regretting what he's done...


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The Experts
Black Widow and Hawkeye lead a violent assault on a downtown office building, killing everyone inside. At a briefing, Col. Fury explains that the building was a base for the Chitauri, shapeshifting aliens who were the guiding force of the Nazis, bent on world domination. Steve finds Hank at a bar in Chicago and confronts him.


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How I Learned to Love the Hulk
It's Bruce Banner who plunges to the ground but an enraged Hulk who rises to seek revenge against his enemies. When Hulk finds Cap, the super-soldier tells him that Kleiser is Betty's new lover and the jealous Hulk rips Kleiser into little pieces and eats him. Meanwhile, Iron Man, also unable to shut down the super-weapon hauls it outside where Thor uses his magic hammer to transport the bomb to another dimension. The Chitauri vanquished, there's only one loose end: the Hulk. Enter Hawkeye with an Adamantium arrow filled with the Hulk antidote; he makes the shot and the serum takes effectthough not soon enough for everyone's peace of mind. After the battle, Betty is again attracted to the miserable Bruce, Hank Pym tries to reconcile with Janet-who refuses to talk to him, and the heroes relax at a White House reception in their honor.


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Super-Human
1945: In a US transport plane over the North Atlantic, American troops are worrying over their current mission: the seemingly suicidal attack on a base in Iceland where the Nazis are preparing a superweapon. Photographer Bucky Barnes reminds the men they have their own superweapon aboard: Captain America. The troops parachute into action and the fighting is fierce, the casualties high. Captain America crashes a plane into the enemy stronghold, and leads the men in a charge. In the main area of the building they come upon the Nazi superweapon: a rocket with a prototype hydrogen bomb, aimed at the White House. As the rocket is launched Cap makes a mad dash and leaps onto it, holding onto the tail. As the deadly missile finds its course, Cap sabotages the internal guidance system and drops into the icy Atlantic. The rocket explodes and Captain America, it seems, has made the ultimate sacrifice for his country…. 2002: millionaire business executive Tony Stark is on a retreat atop Mount Everest. Bursting with ideas for “The Plan” he calls a board meeting for the following Monday morning.


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Homeland Security
The heroes attend a memorial service for the victims of Hulk's Manhattan rampage, while a critically injured Jan is rushed to the hospital. A his cell in the Triskelion, Bruce Banner receives a visit from his new doctor Eamonn Brankin, who tells him that he will not face criminal charges because the government decided to hush up his connection to the Hulk. Brankin also informs him that the combination of Hulk formula and Super-Soldier Serum which Bruce used has bonded with his DNA and the results could be unpredictable. At the hospital, Fury realizes that Jan's wounds were caused by ants and orders the capture of Hank Pym, and later, Betty Ross reveals to the others that Hank has a history of abusing Jan. Meanwhile, SHIELD Black Ops agents Black Widow and Hawkeye are preparing for a mission. Steve uses SHIELD's GPS computer to locate Hank Pym, in hiding in Chicago and sets out after him.


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Big
Tony Stark has just climbede Mount Everest, and is now going home, but as he summons his men he tells them that there world is going to chance. In New York city, Nick Fury is having lunch with Bruce Banner, who is cured of the Hulk decise, Bruce is very happy to be free of the Hulk. Nick offers Bruce a job, he is given the assigment to make a new Captain America, but there is only one little thing, that stands in his way he can't be chief enymore, because of his alter ego. In a military base, Hank Prym is packing his things as his wife drops by, Hank tells her that he really like the opertunity he have been given by Tony Stark. In Manhatten, the new improved Iron Man flies true the city, back in his headquaters Nick Fury and some of Stark's friends are moniting Tony's heart beat. As Tony lands Jarvis Tony's butler si ready with a drink, as Nick ask if it's not to early, Tony says: "Not in Moskva." Meanwhile Bruce have just landed and is welcomed by Jan Dyne, as Bruce is driven over to the test lab, Jane mentions that the other doctor, is Bruce's ex-girlfriend Betty Ross. Inside the lab, Hank is getting suit up to try his new growing power, suddenly the light goes out and Hank begins screams that something is wrong, Janet and the fellow doctors rush in only to see a giant naked Hank laughing. Some hours later, Nick is on the phone with Bruce, S.H.I.E.L.D have just found the real Captain America.


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Thunder
While on a visit to a space station to celebrate Shannon Elizabeth's birthday, Tony Stark gives an interview to Larry King about the big plans for the Ultimates. Meanwhile, Janet Pym takes Steve Rogers on a shopping trip to get him used to the new century. A publicity event for the Ultimates falls flat when only Giant Man shows up and Betty Ross takes out her frustration on Bruce Banner, mocking him for his failure to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum. Later, Nick Fury and Bruce head to Norway to recruit Thor for the team but Thor refuses to work for the military-industrial complex which he sees as his enemy. An angry Bruce calls him a delusional crackpot who only thinks he's the God of Thunder; Thor responds by ridiculing Bruce's jealousy of the Pyms and creates a thunderstorm to prove his claims. Weeks later, while the team members are speculating on who they would like to play them in a movie, Bruce walks in on his teammates making fun of him and storms out. Later he phones Betty at the restaurant where she is dining with Freddie Prinze Jr. to tell her he has injected himself with the Hulk serum to create a newsworthy menace for the new superteam but primarily because he missed being big. Bruce turns into the Hulk in an ambulance and heads off to kill Freddie, and the Ultimates suit up to face their first big challenge.


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The Art of War
Keliser explains to the captured Wasp the Chitauri plan to infiltrate and absorb all of humanity in their plan to conquer the galaxy. To Kleiser's surprise, the entire Chitauri warfleet suddenly arrives on Earth; they've been defeated elsewhere in the universe and need to escape. Kleiser prepares to destroy the Earth with a massive nuclear device. To Kleiser's even greater surprise, the Ultimates arrive, having survived the nuclear blast by means of Iron Man's force field. As the Ultimates attack, Captain America rallies the US military to rise up against the invaders.


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Start with the impossible
The story begins in deep space aboard the Shano, a 2-person Wakandan exploration craft containing Blue Marvel (Dr Adam Brashear) and Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers). Adam is describing something called Neutronium, a stable combination of matter and antimatter which could only exist outside of reality. When he had previously tried to bring it into normal space it condensed into an unstable structure based on 7 atoms. He theorised that it was was a byproduct of the creation of the multiverse. But lately some of it has been found in real space in a stable pattern of 8 atoms which he calls Isometry-8. He has some and so does SHIELD. He reminds his companion of the event 8 months ago which people are struggling to remember. He posits that the event was a rebuilding of the multiverse. (Readers of the Secret Wars series know he's right.) He further proposes that Neutronium is a cosmic counter. Before the event was the 7th multiverse and now they're in the 8th iteration.Carol brings him back from his musings to say they're nearing their destination. And she reports back to the Triskelion in New York ...... where Black Panther, flanked by Aneka and Ayo of the Dora Milaje, is explaining the setup to the UN Secretary-General. The Triskelion tower has 3 wings radiating from its base. The 1st houses the ground crew for the Alpha Flight project. The 2nd is the new Wakandan Embassy. The 3rd is the Ultimates base from which they will proactively deal with cosmic threats. The UN is happy to see Wakanda rebuilding but worried that the US/Wakanda alliance will upset global stability. But T'Challa assures the SG that the alliance is only to pool knowledge - Wakanda is far ahead of the US militarily. Then he leaves to deal with the message from the Marvels which shows Galactus' homebase dwarfing several nearby planets. He tells the SG that the 1st problem they've chosen to solve is the Devourer. The SG is worried that poking the bear will just bring retribution to Earth, but T'Challa claims such a cosmic being is beyond petty grudges - he'd only kill the Ultimates. The SG leaves them to it.But now BP contacts the other Ultimates members Spectrum (Monica Rambeau) and Ms America (America Chavez) in another part of space, the planet Moroder-9 in the Archeonos system. They've been sent to retrieve something but at the moment they're seeing a giant head with a helmet full of eyes floating in the air. Monica says she's never seen anything like it before but America says *she* has in her travels across realities since a child. It's the Incubator that they're looking for and in 90% of parallel realities it lands on this planet, but who finds it and what they do with it varies a lot. This time a local warlord seems to have used it as a throne to implement a total surveillance state and continue beaming the command "Obey". It spots the duo and spits out a horde of living hunter-killer drones. Spectrum launches a counter-attack in her lightform. Moving at lightspeed means everything around her seems to be standing still. Except Chavez is only slowed down in *her* attack, which to Monica is incredible.Elsewhere BM and CM approach Big G's worldship. Adam has just admitted he's in his 80s and a bit conservative. For example he's not sure he approves of what his son (Max) is doing with Roberto Da Costa (in an Avengers/AIM consolidation in the concurrent New Avengers series). But then he also sometimes questions what the Ultimates are doing. He doesn't want them to be another Illuminati. Carol says she'd be opposing them if they were. But they both agree that Galactus is a problem that needs solving.However Galactus seems to consider *them* a problem and unleashes a load of his Punisher robots to 'solve' them, which quickly break into their spaceship. Luckily they can both survive in space. Blue M blasts at the robots but Captain M asks him to blast *her* instead because she's an energy absorber. She takes in as much as she can, which is enough for her to enter her Binary mode. And then she quickly destroys all the Punishers.Galactus at last deigns to speak to them and invites them in to make their futile attempt to kill him. But they assure him that's not what they're here for. They're the Ultimates and they solve problems. And they're here to solve *his*.


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Lifebringer
Blue Marvel (Adam Bashear) and Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) have confronted Galactus in his worldship Taa II and told him they're here to solve his problem. Meanwhile America Chavez and Spectrum (Monica Rambeau) have gone to the planet Moroder-9 in the Archeonos system looking for an object called the Incubator. They found it occupied by a giant head which used it to control the population of the planet. They destroyed its attack drones.Now Black Panther prepares to use a translocation system to join the Marvel duo. His Dora Milaje (Aneka and Ayo) advise their King against such a risky move, but he says the fate of worlds and thus Wakanda depends on it. And so he goes through Higher Space to reach his target. But there he has a vision of his father (T'Chaka) declaring he was no longer his son, and he replies that he can't be like *him*.He focuses instead on his destination and witnesses a vision of Galactus' deep past. Sciencemaster Galan and his fellow Scienceers of the galactic utopia Taa in their spacecraft are the last surviving beings in the 6th Infinity. They intend to discover what lies outside space & time by entering the Ultraflow and breaking through to Neutra-Space. But they get caught in a mega-cosmic ray storm, and as the sleet of particles kills them Galan hears the voice of the universe telling him life must survive - he must survive.Panther sees that universe die in an explosion that births the next 1. And as the new universe cools the thing inside the science-ship remoulds the wreckage into a giant Incubator. Civilisations have arisen and learned to make war in space. Fearing this strange object they gang up to try and destroy it but their weapons have no effect. Then Galan emerges as Galactus and sates his hunger by consuming their fleets. And then he eats his 1st nearby planet Archeopia.Then the current Galactus notices T'Challa terminating his translocation inside Big G's worldship, and congratulates him on surviving such a trip without total conceptual collapse. But he tells him to go back and take the 2 Marvels with him. He didn't accept their suggestion that he was a problem to be solved. BP says he knows how Galactus emerged from an incubating chamber, but he asks if he knows what happened to the Incubator.On Moroder-9 Spectrum has finished zapping all the drones and America Chavez has attacked the giant head directly. Which turns out to be only an astral projection from a small alien inside the Incubator. Chavez disconnects the warlord from the machine, ending his worldwide surveillance and telepathic commands. The duo agree to come back and help the population later but now they have a delivery to make.On Taa II Galactus is still playing the the arrogant god card, but T'Challa continues to explain how the Incubator drifted away from the wreck of Archeopia and landed on Moroder-9 for whoever found it to misuse its power. However Panther finds it significant that Big G didn't consume it in his great hunger. Galactus has now progressed from impatient to angry. But then a huge 1 of America's star-shaped portals forms and the Incubator comes through. G dismisses it as a relic from the past while another portal frees Blue M and Captain M from imprisonment. All 5 of the Ultimates open fire on Galactus and force him back into the Incubator which snaps shut on him.BP hopes they are right about what will happen. He activates the advanced Kimoyo operating system (as used in the 1998 BP series) which he uses to communicate with the Incubator and learns that it's already started the rebirth of Galactus The Devourer. But they have to stop him from breaking out before it happens. The solution is to make the process much faster, and Adam throws his sample of ISO-8 (mentioned last issue) to Monica and she turns into her light form. Carol feeds her a lot of energy and Spectrum takes the ISO-8 into the Incubator. That source of inconceivable energy enables the Incubator to complete its task in seconds. And something emerges form the Incubator.And then we see the dead planet Archeopia bringing forth new life, courtesy of a new golden Galactus who will be known as the Lifebringer.


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Last issue the Ultimates caused Galactus the Devourer to be reborn as the Lifebringer. And his 1st act was to bring life back to Archeopia, the 1st planet that he drained life from.Now the Shi'ar Imperial Guard have come to investigate in the form of Mentor, Oracle and Smasher. Mentor's scans show flora and fauna that weren't there days ago. Smasher's penta-vision can't detect anyone around to have caused it. So Oracle expands her over-consciousness to unlock total psychoscopic awareness to detect the impressions left by recent events. And she shows them that Galactus, eater of planets, was here and brought forth new life. Mentor says they must alert the Shi-ar Majestor immediately.On the Alpha Flight spacestation in geosynchronous orbit over the Triskelion (HQ of Alpha Flight and the Ultimates) in New York, Captain Marvel looks out into space and at her reflection in the window. She's initially shocked when the reflection asks how her on/off relationship with Jim Rhodes is going. But then she realises correctly it must be Spectrum outside trying out a new trick. Monica Rambeau's light form stops projecting the image and enters the station to resume her physical body. But she tells her friend Carol Danvers that lately she feels when she switches to light form that she's *stopping* doing something, as if light was her natural state and she has to consciously keep her human body going. And she doesn't know what she thinks about that. Then Puck brings Danvers news that Gladiator, the Shi'ar Majestor, is contacting her urgently. He's angry.2 hours later there's an emergency Ultimates meeting in the Triskelion. Blue Marvel (Adam Brashear) is happy that their plan (#1-2) worked to change Galactus to the Lifebringer state he was *supposed* to be. CM says that the Shi'ar are angry that they weren't consulted, Adam thinks they're just upset that they didn't think of it 1st. Carol thinks he might be right but that they shouldn't take any more cosmic actions until things have calmed down. But BM and Black Panther have to 'fess up that there's something else they've already been working on.Adam claims that time is broken. Young versions of the X-Men are now living with their older counterparts. People from the future (like Loki) are often trying to change their pasts. Two-Gun Kid is here from the Wild West and will go back with future knowledge. Thing went back into the past and became the pirate Blackbeard. The Age Of Ultron event nearly shattered time completely. T'Challa blames a lot of this Dr Doom's mystical tech called Doomlock which allows someone to change the past without creating an alternate timeline. BP would like to prevent Doom from having invented it in the 1st place, but to do that he'd have to use a Doomlock. Dimensional traveller Ms America (America Chavez) tells them of timelines she's seen where they tried that. She describes the resulting reality as like "spaghetti that screams". BM says at the moment they can't even assess the scale of the problem from the inside. So he and T'Challa have devised a way to get completely *outside* reality.Cut to the Triskelion's aircraft hanger where they've been building the Exo-craft Abeona, a modified quinjet. CM says she wants to pilot it but she worries if it's strong enough for the trip. Adam says he's hired a specialist to make sure. Enter the latest Giant-Man, Raz Malhotra. He's a multi-disciplinarian like Henry Pym had been, and he's developed a hyperdensity form of Pym particles (that power size changes). T'Challa takes the cannister of the stuff that Raz has brought with him and fits it to the Abeona. The particles spread through its hull to create an 'armour' to withstand the pressures of the Neutral Zone. GM asks if he can come with them, but BM asks if he's ever fought a Cthulhu. This journey's not for someone inexperienced, and besides they need someone to explain what's happened to them if they don't make it back.When they're ready Captain Marvel tells MAC (apparently her nickname for Ms America Chavez) to open 1 of her star-shaped interdimensional portals big enough to take the Abeona. Their destination is still within their reality, a 'forbidden' area of asteroids on the edge of the Andromeda Galaxy where strange alien magic has made the wall of reality thin. Then another large portal takes them into the Superflow, the space between universes where they see the broken machines of the ancient gods (the Builders seen in the build-up to the end of the previous multiverse that happened in Secret Wars). Carol worries about the strain of multiple large portals on MAC but America says they must keep going.The next portal takes them to the Neutral Zone/Exo-Space that surrounds everything. There they are attacked by some of the 'eldritch forms and predatory concepts' that inhabit the place. The Abeona escapes by a combination of dodging and blasting. Adam Brashear claims to have discovered the NZ, which seasoned dimension-hopper Chavez questions. He describes it as a place where matter and anti-matter can coexist (and it's where the Neutronium he used in #1-2 came from). But Captain Marvel has detected a glowing humanoid form amidst all the other inhabitants of the area. Adam recognises him as Conner Sims, the Anti-Man, who murdered his wife. He's supposed to be dead but here he is asking for help.


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Let there be light
Last issue Black Knight popped in from Marvel-Earth and met Ultraforce, and Siren popped up claiming to have been appointed by the United Nations as their new member. before they could really get acquainted they had to face the menace of balls of light called Angels which have escaped from a Metabio lab and are converting humans into beings like them, each of which goes on to contaminate others. And the latest victim of 1 of the original Angels is the Ultraforce member Prime.Siren isn't admitting that she isn't really a UN-based heroine but a mercenary thief who accidentally released the Angels while stealing some DNA data, but her weapons and fighting skills have no effect on the foe. Topaz of extra-dimensional Gwendor tries to kill them with blasts from her battlestaff. Avenger Black Knight protests that heroes don't kill (but she doesn't seem to succeed anyway). Metabio scientist Tagahashi claims that the Angels convert life-energy to light but dead Ghoul hopes he'll be immune to that as he goes to try to save Prime, who's taking a long time to get absorbed/converted. He calls to the Angel who's got his buddy and she drops Prime to concentrate on him. As he hits the ground Prime starts to dissolve into goo. But when the Angel makes contact with Ghoul she shrinks into her original ball of energy which Tagahashi traps in a container.Team-leader Contrary notes that all the people who that Angel converted have become human again (and I think all that they converted, etc). But now they're falling from the sky to their imminent deaths. She uses her craft's grappler beams to catch all she can, and Prototype zooms around catching others. Siren is in her Tri-Fighter trying to keep the remaining Angels corralled. Topaz is protecting civilians and urging them to flee.It's up to Ghoul to take out all of the other original Angels, thereby freeing all the converted humans. (Though no-one says how they know which are the originals.) He leaps on a 2nd 1, giving Contrary and Prototype more falling humans to save. BK, astride 1 of Contrary's collection of vehicles from last issue (which functions like the atomic steed he used in the Avengers), picks him up to take him to the next 1. Ghoul  jumps through it from BK's steed, but then *he* is falling through the air. But meanwhile teen Kevin Green has managed to reintegrate the protoplasm of his Prime body and he catches his teammate. (Despite this not being the 1st time some of the team have seen Prime turn globby they still shrug it off and don't work out what Prime is, and that there's someone inside him.) Anyway it seems that now Tagahashi has all the original Angels in his containment chamber, and all the others are human again (and Ultraforce saved *nearly* all of them).The heroes return to their Miami HQ and congratulate each other on a good job. Contrary offers Dane Whitman a place on the team but he intends to head for New York which is where Sersi would expect to find him. (He and Sersi left the Avengers there together but got separated in their interdimensional travel, but he hopes that she's somewhere on Ultraverse Earth.) But 1st the team have to satisfy the Press outside their building. They introduce Black Knight and Siren as new members.But we know from last issue that Sersi landed in Africa, seemingly consumed by the madness that caused her to leave Earth-616. Now she's watching the Press Conference on a TV screen in a shop window, seeing Black Knight and remembering how her lover Dane came with her to voluntary exile (Avengers #375). But now we learn that she followed a voice in her head, flying from Africa to Chicago where she found a strange Gem (at the end of Eliminator #3). And we further learn that it is related to the 6 Infinity Gems that have also found their way here from Universe-616 (in the Rune/Silver Surfer 1-shot), and it wants to be reunited with them.


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The iceman cometh
Miami-based Ultraforce's core members Contrary, Ghoul, Prototype and Topaz (ie the ones currently without a series of their own) were joined in the previous 2 issues by Black Knight and Siren.But now we see Prototype back in New York fighting a giant icy humanoid monster. Young Jimmy Ruiz is eager to prove he and his armour don't need the rest of Ultraforce to succeed. But the foe urges him to summon his fellow Avengers. As the hero recalls that Avengers is the name of the team Black Knight claims to have belonged to in his own reality he also realises that his armour's gone offline and so his innate power is building up, threatening to roast him alive. So he calls for the team but his communicator goes dead. But he still seems able to blast the enemy. But the foe just smashes him with a giant ice-ball.However the rest of the team have received his transmission in the female leader Contrary's spherical flying craft and Ghoul manages to get a visual of the site of the battle, which Dane Whitman recognises as the site of Avengers Mansion in his world. Apparently they have been kicked out of their hotel HQ in Miami because the public blames *them* for the supervillains they've fought there. As some of the team squabble over who's contributed to the problem Contrary decides to go to Proto's aid and BK lays out a plan. Siren in her Trifighter and Topaz will be the 1st wave of attack. The Queen of Gwendor doesn't take kindly to being given orders by a man. But Contrary agrees with the plan and mollifies Topaz by suggesting that she and fellow woman Siren should easily best the male-seeming ice monster.Meanwhile Loki is watching proceedings from Vahdala light years away. He muses that he's never clashed with the absent Prime who he knows is on the Godwheel planet below (in the Power Of Prime mini-series). He also lets us know that the ice monster is his construct (which is why it resembles an Asgardian Frost Giant, and presumably why it asks for Avengers) which he sent to provoke battle with Ultraheroes so he can judge their prowess. He has gained all the Infinity Gems (Time Gem in Hardcase #23, Mind Gem in Mantra #22, Power Gem in Lord Pumpkin/Necromantra #4, Reality Gem in Night Man #22 and Soul Gem in Curse Of Rune #3) and now he can take on the universe.A crowd is still protesting outside the hotel that Ultraforce used despite being told they're long gone. And the protesters seem to be proved right when Sersi appears looking for her Gann Josin Black Knight. We are privy to a battle going on in her head between her and the Gem she found (in Eliminator #3). She falls unconscious(?) and we see a replay of her recent history:- (In Avengers #375) she had to leave the 616 universe to escape Proctor's curse and her love Dane Whitman chose to accompany her through a dimensional rift. He left his BK helmet and sword behind but they somehow returned to him in the rift. And the duo got separated. (But she wound up on Ultra-Earth like him and found the Gem.) Now we overhear a conversation between Sersi and the Gem:- Sersi says she will use her power as an Eternal to fight the Gem until she can reuinite with her Gann Josin. The Gem for its part wants to reunite with the Infinity Gems. But it compromises and gives her a day to find Dane.Ultraforce arrive at the New York battle scene where Siren and Topaz attack the Frost Giant. We are reminded that Siren wasn't really sent by the UN to be UF's latest member. She's really a thief and plans to quit as soon as possible. But the blasts from her Trifighter and Topaz' battle-staff don't harm the ice-being as he throws Prototype at the alien Queen. Contrary's ship aims a stasis beam at it but that also has no effect. BK is the only 1 to recognise it as an Asgardian Frost Giant. He dives from Contrary's craft to plunge his photonic sword into its head, but the foe vanishes before he can reach it. And Loki's laughing voice tells him this is just the beginning. And Contrary's transporter beam saves him from going splat on the pavement ...... but leaves him there for Proto, Siren and Topaz to group around. Then he says he sees a pub called the Drunken Knight in the front of what in his world is Avengers Mansion (but the others see a Post Office). He enters and Topaz follows to keep the poor deluded man safe. Inside they find a brick-lined cavern with mysterious denizens. A voiceover from the owner says that this is the ancient Dark Shoppe which creates doors wherever it needs to invite in those chosen like Dane Whitman. BK and Topaz are guided to a deeper level where the sorceress owner says her mystic pool foretold his arrival She warns him that the end of the world is very nigh and he and Ultraforce have a part to play. She reveals that ages ago in his universe there was a lonely god whose suicide gave birth to the Infinity Gems of Mind, Power, Reality, Soul, Space and Time. Then during a cosmic battle (Rune/Silver Surfer 1-shot) the Gems were brought to this universe. And now the God of Mischief from Dane's world has gathered the Gems together and threatens the end of *all* realities. To stop him BK must summon help from his world. She allows him to use the mystic pool to make contact and his face appears in a mirror in Avengers Mansion. But the only person who sees him is Luna, the very young daughter of Crystal. And her nanny Marilla ignores her babbling. (This scene was also portrayed in Av#380.)At this end the connection was broken by the arrival of Sersi. Her Gem detects that the sorceress is trying to prevent the union with the other Gems and causes Sersi to blast her, apparently to destruction. Dane is horrified because Sersi wouldn't kill. Topaz attacks the newcomer who responds, calling her a conspirator. Black Knight tries to drag Topaz off his love but she throws him at a wall. The 2 women resume battle but Dane tries to come between them.The issue ends with an epilogue where Loki swears to defeat Ultraforce and then the Avengers.


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Heaven on Earth
In Miami Ultraforce members Prime (Kevin Green) and Prototype (Jimmy Ruiz) are flying on patrol, and arguing over the best way to do it. Prototype favours starting in the centre of their patrol area and progressing in ever-widening circles. But Prime insists it best to start at the edge and circle inwards, and the secretly-young boy inside the overmuscled adult Prime body quotes the Spaceman & Spiffy cartoon as authority. And Prototype concedes the argument.Then they fly to a police emergency at Metabio Research. But the scene is confused by the sudden appearance through a dimensional rift of a helmeted man with a photonic sword calling for someone named Sersi as the rift closes behind him. (Marvel readers and anyone who's looked at the cover know he's the Black Knight (Dane Whitman).) The cops tell him to drop the sword, as does Prototype as he blasts him from above. The cops also urge the Ultras to go away to avoid making the situation worse, and Prime says shouting at the guy just enabled him to dodge the blast.BK slips away but Prime tells screw-up Proto to leave it to him as he gives chase. Dane is desperate to stay free so he can find Sersi (after they 'ported from Avengers Mansion together in Av#375). But he runs into Prime's rock-hard chest. Ignoring the big guys babble about school monitors and detention the Knight ignites his sword again and slashes to stun. But he's stunned to see that he's torn a gash in the chest and green gloop is flowing out.Prototype catches up with them and swoops down to carry BK off, asking him what he did to his buddy. Our guy says he doesn't know what happened, and Avengers don't kill. Ruiz of course doesn't know who the Avengers are. Giving up trying to persuade him he's 1 of the good guys BK frees himself and falls into the Atlantic Ocean. Now it's Prime's time to catch up as Dane wades ashore and tells them he's the Black Knight and he wants to talk. Prime agrees to that, and BK suggests they get away from the beach crowd.At Ultraforce's hotel-like HQ they allow the 'visitor' to have a shower while a speedy dry-cleaning service freshens up his outfit. Prime even gets some boots for him to replace those he had to kick off in order to swim. Proto admires the photon sword while Dane tells them he came from a parallel world where he's a member of the equivalent to Ultraforce called the Avengers. He says the group was started by Thor, Iron Man, Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp but many others have filled the ranks in the years since then. He then gives a slightly biased account of how he got here. A 'madman' Proctor travelled the multiverse killing versions of Sersi. With the help of the alien Watcher the Avengers defeated him but Sersi killed him with his own sword. This deed infected Sersi with a dangerous madness so the Watcher opened a rift for her go to another dimension. Dane loved her so he couldn't let her go alone, and went with her. But somehow they got separated.Prime picks up on the name Thor and recalls that Hardcase has told them about a Thor he met (in Godwheel #3) and that *he* came from another reality. BK picks up on the fact that Thor was here and *found a way home*.But then there's an explosion on the roof, and armoured Prototype fires his jet boots to smash through the ceiling. Prime follows through the hole complaining that he could have used the stairs, leaving Whitman still in his bathrobe. Up above they find a costumed woman with a hi-tech 3-wheeled car/bike who says she's their new recruit Siren who's just come from the big problem at Metabio. Our pair are confused so she goes into more detail.She says she'd just returned from an assignment in Bosnia when the UN asked her to join Ultraforce and gave her this prototype Trifighter (which accompanying visuals show us can covert to a VTOL plane). On the way here she checked out the alarm at Metabio and was told there had been a containment field breakdown but they had it under control. But she was suspicious so she sneaked inside to investigate.But we also see her thoughts which tell us she's really a thief who was hired to steal something from the lab. She had detailed info on the many security measures she had to bypass. But the fingerprint glove she had didn't work so she had to kick the lab door in, setting off the alarm that alerted the police and the Ultras. Inside there were 4 pulsating blobs of energy in a containment tube. She ignored them and started to download the genetic data she was there for. But the blobs went crazy and the download failed, so she got out quick and wound up here.Outside her thoughts she concludes her lies by saying that Metabio's containment field was faulty and she points to multiple lights in the sky over the lab. Black Knight now clothed joins them and they all head for Metabio, Prime carrying BK.When they get there firemen are holding back a Dr Tagahashi who tells them that the Angels are loose and they must evacuate the area. They see that the lights have winged human form, and 1 of them merges with a policeman to become 2 lights.Meanwhile Contrary is flying Ghoul and Topaz in her spherical airship to 1 of her secret bases underground in a desert area. She shows them many vehicles they can use (1 of which may look like that of Siren). Ghoul comments that their dead (#5) young member Pixx would have loved them. Then they get a call for help from Prototype.Proto is carrying as many civilians as he can to safety while Prime is doing the same by the busload. Siren is ushering people to safety on the ground, but many are still being taken. Contrary's ship arrives and she uses her transporter beam for 2 dozen at a time. In the air Topaz uses her staff to blast the lights while Ghoul pilots 1 of the craft Contrary had shown them. Black Knight tries to get Tagahashi to explain what the Angels are. Ghoul contacts Contrary to tell her that he senses something strange about them. But she's more concerned by seeing Prime being taken over by 1 of them.Meanwhile in Africa Sersi emerges from a spacetime rift with a dangerous gleam of madness in her eyes.


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In the Avengers/Ultraforce 1-shot Grandmaster engaged Loki in 1 of his games with superchar pawns. In this he case pitted a selection of Marvel Earth's Avengers against Ultraforce from Malibu's Ultraverse where Loki currently resides. But it didn't matter who won because it was all a ploy for Sersi controlled by the Ultraverse's 7th Infinity Gem to get close to Marvel's 6 Infinity Gems possessed by Loki. The 7 Gems (re)united to (re)create a being who calls herself Nemesis, who replaced the Ultraverse and Marvel's Universe-616 with a universe of her own creation.In this new universe 10 years ago a very different barbaric black-bearded Loki materialises over Nevada's Mojave Desert intending trouble for his half-brother Thor who currently masquerades as a human. He decides to pit him against the nearby Hulk (who in this reality is a Hulked-up version of Ultraverse's Ghoul with Bruce Banner's back-story and maddened by continuous pain).Then in San Fernando Valley teenage Kevin Green reads in the newspaper how Hulk has (seemingly) attacked a passenger train. From what he's read about the Hulk he doesn't believe this so he sends an e-mail to the Fantastic Four asking them to save him from the authorities' response. But Loki stops the FF getting it. We glimpse their bald-headed leader having his pipe lit by a Human Torch while Susan (Storm?) waves her elastic limbs and Mantra does the heavy-lifting in the Thing role (minus the rocky hide).The villain diverts the e-mail to Don Blake's office where the Doctor gives his Nurse an excuse for him to pop out and become Thor. But the Norse trickster is possibly lacking in Internet savvy because the e-mail also goes to 2 other places. In his Aladdin garage Bob Campbell is working on the prototype of his Prototype armour. Giant-Man (Henry Pym) and Wasp (Janet Van Dyne) are already on their way. Hank warns Jan to be very careful because Hulk is dangerous ...... but in the desert it's Hank who gets killed by Loki's magic. Campbell's early Prototype suit is as bulky as Tony Stark's 1st effort. This Thor looks as much a barbarian as Loki. The villain protests that his brother was supposed to die, and these other heroes shouldn't have interfered. Thor throws his hammer at him, causing the bad guy to be sent somewhere. Jan promises Hank that he'll be avenged.Now the Avengers occupy their Stockade in a remote part of Arkansas. Their leader is Alec Swan who regrets leaving his job as British Secret Agent Black Knight for this. He gets a message from Nick Fury (without an eye-patch) of the SHIELD Corporation (with maybe Natasha Romanoff in the background) about a big problem in New York. He alerts Jimmy Ruiz who dons the up-to-date Prototype armour. Topaz steps out of a shower and turns her skin to chrome. Jan has spent the night with Quicksilver but now she gets dressed as (a winged mini-version of) Black Widow. Thor's on hand too.Swan shows them a scene in the middle of New York of a pile of dead bodies with some hanging from lampposts and traffic lights. And they see that the culprit is Loki (with a patch over 1 eye). Swan starts to call for even more backup but BW stops him with her sting. Thor says revenge belongs to *them* alone. So they all, Alec included, head for NY.When they get there Loki is hovering in the air and raving as he kills yet more people. He blames Thor for everything and the heroes opine that he's suffered brain damage. Prototype blasts him out of the sky but Loki shrugs it off when he hits the ground until high-speed Quicksilver runs him over. Swan wants to shoot him but Pietro Maximoff gets in the way by going back for another hit. Jan tries to call him off but Quickie is now pounding the villain. However Loki then gives the hero a mighty blow which sends him careening into Proto. Now it's BW's turn to block Swan's shot as she peppers the villain with sting-blasts. And Thor prepares to unleash the storm. But Loki pinches the mini-heroine between finger and thumb and squeezes. Swan shoots the hand but Jan falls and lies still. Now Thor's hammer hurls lightning accompanied by Swan's shots and Prototype's blasts as Jan urges them all on to destroy him. But when the dust settles it seems that Loki has escaped. However Topaz finds him fleeing in his burning ravaged body and prepares to punch him as he tells her that he knows what this world is ...... and a voiceover says that environment parameters have been breached and initiates closedown. Their reality crumples and they fall through it. They see visions of the previous 1-shot:- Grandmaster and our Loki and their Avengers and Ultraforce pawns, and the Godwheel upon which it happened all also being destroyed. Then reality returns and lets them back in.They are feeling the after effects of what they've just been through. Then they notice still-warm civilian bodies slightly protruding from the surroundings, sometimes impossibly. And we see signs that they are actually on Ultraverse Earth. Alec Swan can't contact Fury or their own Stockade. Jan sees somebody in the shadows and assumes it's Loki so she tries to fly to the attack ... forgetting that 1 of her wings was damaged by Loki. Pietro saves her from falling.But then she and everyone see Giant-Man (wearing his current costume) (and the woman with him we recognise as Contrary of Ultraforce). Jan runs towards him but he tells her he's not *her* Hank. Contrary is even more blunt when she claims that Jan isn't *real*. She explains to them all what I wrote in the 1st paragraph. But she adds that what Nemesis initially created was only a small flat universe (which has the shape of the USA). Swan protests that he came from England, and Contrary says that Nemesis created temporary other places as required for the ongoing 'story' while the original Avengers and Ultraforce watched from stasis.She claims that when Topaz physically made contact with Loki from a different continuum it broke the fragile construct. And also broke the Godwheel where Nemesis and the others were. Nemesis teleported them all to Ultra-Earth which is where they are now. And then Giant-Man appeared from the Avengers' Earth. Swan reckons that the foe will be a massive energy source, and he and Prototype scan the city and find it. Quicksilver leads the charge.Elsewhere in the city Crystal has stumbled upon her once-love Black Knight (Dane Whitman). He warns her to stay away from him because he's got a parallel-world version of his Ebony Blade. He explains that he saw a version of old foe Proctor (who was a parallel-world version of BK himself) pointing a gun at him and responded instinctively. Then he realised that this Proctor was as dead as *his* Proctor because he sticking out of a wall. However the Ebony Blade had still drawn blood and now he was bonded to it (and its curse) as he used to be to his own Blade.At this point a skinless version of Vision walks through the wall and Proctor's body, and through that of Crystal. He apologises and continues on his way. They theorise that Nemesis has damaged the walls between parallel worlds. At which point Crystal sees her ex-husband Quicksilver run past and follows him. BK picks up the Ebony Blade figuring he might need it.We follow the 'unreal' Quicksilver too as he sees the 'real' Thor in the sky heading the same way. He doesn't believe it's him because he hasn't got his Thor's barbarian look. He also sees a priest flying through the air carrying a large wooden crucifix. Alec Swan's still trying to contact anyone and gets Captain America who's been joined by Wasp from Marvel Earth. And other chars fly past above them all. Cap calls them to a gathering that is forming including the rest of Ultraforce (Ghoul, Hardcase, Prime, Prototype (Jimmy Ruiz), Siren and Topaz) and Black Widow, Iron Man, Sersi, Starfox and Vision to complete the roster of Avengers from the previous 1-shot.Nemesis, with the Gems in her crown, has gone mad. The 6 Infinity Gems interfere with the 7th Gem's desire to create a new universe. Now everyone attacks her. The 1st wave is a plethora of Thor's hammers (and the priest's cross). But the attacks are uncoordinated and fail. Crystal sees (the 'unreal') Quicksilver die. Followed by many more.Soon only the 'real' Avengers and Ultraforce are left (quelle surprise). Dane Whitman arrives with the Ebony Blade and ask the others to distract their foe so he can get close to chop the Gem crown from her head. They reluctantly agree to his suicide run. He says goodbye to his 2 loves Crystal and Sersi. Everyone attacks again. Giant-Man, Hardcase and Prime manage to knock Nemesis down. But she repels them all and swears to wipe out the whole universe. But then BK strikes with the Blade to free all the Gems.  But Nemesis explodes destroying everything ...... and it all begins again. The Ultraverse is recreated and evolves much as before. 60,000,000 years ago a damaged spaceship leaves a device on the Moon before crashing to Earth. Eons later its nanites turn a primitive shaman into Rex Mundi. Elsewhere the Godwheel exists. Much later on Earth the device on the Moon causes jumpstart effects to create Ultras. We see Siren and the duplicate Night Men, plus a different Mantra. The Avengers are returned to Marvel Earth, much to the relief of the 'real' Quicksilver (who wasn't involved in any of the Avengers/Ultraforce crossover). We see that 1 of the 2 Night Men has been sent to Marvel Earth too. (And later we'll learn that Siren's here as well.) Meanwhile on the new Ultra-Earth we see that Black Knight is still with Ultraforce. But Contrary's not with them and Prototype has been replaced by the original Bob Campbell.


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In ULtraforce #10 Black Knight was lured into the Drunken Knight pub, a gateway to the Dark Shoppe, and Topaz followed him. There a mystery sorceress warned him that Loki had gathered the 6 Infinity Gems. (All 6 of them had like BK arrived in the Ultraverse from the Marvel Universe in various ways.) She allowed him to contact his old team the Avengers for help, but the contact was cut off by the arrival of his love Sersi who has gained another Gem. However that Gem wanted to unite with the 6 and it took over Sersi and made her kill the sorceress who it saw as an enemy. Topaz attacked Sersi and Dane Whitman tried to intervene.This issue opens with a slightly different portrayal of that last sentence. Then they hear the sound of more conflict approaching. The Knight removes his helmet and the sight of her love's face brings Sersi back to her senses, appalled at what she's done. Dane suggests that it might be the Mahd Wy'ry (a madness that afflicts the Eternal) that has caused her to kill their hostess. But the question becomes moot when the sorceress reappears alive. (Dane calls her Diane although she never gave a name last issue.)Then something punches Prime through a wall, and through the hole they see that the bar of the Drunken Knight is a battle scene. BK's Ultraforce companions (Contrary, Ghoul, Prototype and Siren) along with Hardcase are fighting some demonic-looking figures. Whitman calls to them to stop fighting, to no avail until Prime slams his fist on the floor to cause a shockwave which upskittles all the combatants. Contrary asks Hardcase why he didn't do that earlier. Tom Hawke says he and Prime (after he got back from the Godwheel (in the Power Of Prime mini-series)) only just saw their fight with the Frost Giant on the news (UF#10). They got here just in time to see the team follow Topaz into the pub. And then everything happened so quickly. Diane apologises for the regulars of the Drunken Knight who are her defenders. Dane only cares that he's got Sersi back again after they were separated in the dimensional rift that brought them to the Ultraverse. Diane reminds them all about Loki and the Infinity Gems. But then the other Gem retakes control of Sersi and makes the heroes vanish, and kills Diane again.The next scene takes place within Sersi's soulscape, where she has the heroes (except for Topaz) in glass cases. The voice of her Gem speaks to her from a black mirror congratulating her on taking another step towards godhood. They can have everything with just a few sacrifices. And what seems like the 6 Infinity Gems streak out of the mirror towards the 6 encased heroes. Sersi objects (because of course 1 of them is Dane). Then everything explodes.We see Prime and Prototype together with 2 of the Gems now bigger than them. The duo somehow know that they are the Mind Gem and the Power Gem, and what they can do. Proto approaches the Power Gem and gets bigger and stronger, but simultaneously Prime grows weak and falls towards the ground. His teammate abandons the Gem to save him and they both return to normal. Then Prime has a go but sees Jimmy Ruiz' bootjets fail. So now it's his turn to do the rescue. They realise that either of them could gain immense power but at the cost of the other's life. They can't approach the Power Gem but what about the Mind Gem?Meanwhile Topaz has awakened in her own palace as Queen of Gwendor on the Godwheel (but it seems otherwise deserted). She weeps tears of joy to be home. Then she realises that she has the Space Gem on her brow, and deduces that it enabled her to travel the many light years here. But it was dishonourable to abandon her teammates.In Vahdala hovering above the Godwheel Loki has welcomed Contrary to his throneroom. But we see that he has the actual Infinity Gems embedded in a sword, except the Reality Gem which he holds in his hand. And Siren is chained to a wall. The Asgardian expects the cold and calculating leader of Ultraforce to readily agree to serve him, and she appears to ignore Siren. But it's really a distraction to allow the thief to pick the locks of her chains. He gloats that the rest of her team are trapped on parts of the Godwheel, and the only way any of them will escape is by succumbing to the temptation of the Gems. Siren breaks free ...... but we go to a far edge of the Godwheel where Ghoul and Hardcase are looking for the Soul Gem and the Time Gem. They are in a graveyard where they find headstones for past teammates. The 2 Gems are hovering above them. Then corpses of the Exiles and the Squad rise up to attack them, and the heroes try not to fight back. Hawke tells Jonathan Martin to use his power to talk to the corpses but Ghoul says they are too far gone for that. Instead he leaps up from a tomb and grabs the Time Gem, throwing the Soul Gem down to HC. Then he uses the TG to wind back time until all the corpses have reverted to whole bodies. But HC can't stand to see the Squad again, especially his old love Linda Warren (Starburst). (In his #23 he used the real Time Gem to go back in time to (unsuccessfully) try to prevent their deaths.) But Ghoul is happy to see the Exiles again, especially Tinsel (Melissa Scott). He remembers when she died (Exiles #4) and he had to talk to her corpse to find out who killed her. He says here that she begged him to let her pass on (which isn't what she said in #4). But Tom uses the Soul Gem to determine that there are no souls in these bodies.The scenes we have seen appear in crystalline fragments in Sersi's soulscape. Dane Whitman approaches her and urges her to fight whatever's happening to her. We see Hardcase crush the Soul Gem in his fist and Ghoul stamp on the Time Gem causing the corpses to wither to dust. This destruction also tells them that these weren't the real Infinity Gems. Topaz decides that the honour of her people means that she must leave Gwendor again and go back to help her comrades. She tosses the Space Gem into the air and destroys it with a blast of her staff. The 2 P's jointly hit the giant Mind Gem and drive it into the Power Gem, obliterating them both. The only shard Sersi has left shows Contrary and Loki with the Reality Gem ...... through which he's watching them and gloating that Black Knight doesn't know who/what he's dealing with. He refuses to elaborate further for Contrary. Meanwhile Siren creeps up and makes a grab for the RG. She thinks she's got it but Loki sends both women back to the Dark Shoppe without it, where all the other UF members are also assembled. BK thinks it was Sersi who brought them all back. But now she's gone.


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This issue is split into 3 chapters and an epilogue. The central chapter is a flashback to ancient times.Chapter 1: KindredAt the end of Rune vol 2 #7 the golden Ultrahero form of the Noel Robinson side of Gemini told Los Angeles that he was going to judge the world starting with them. But then the equally-golden Adam Warlock joined him in midair to stop him, and also told him he thought they were 'brothers'.This issue begins with a slightly different version of that ending. Warlock explains that he's a visitor (from the Marvel Universe) to the Ultraverse (1st showing up in Curse Of Rune #4). He doesn't know how he got here but suspects that it was because he and Noel are somehow related. Noel protests that he was created in a lab. Adam says so was he but his senses tell him their DNA is nearly identical. Noel experiments with *his* senses and comes to the same conclusion. But he interprets it as indicating that Warlock is another product of GENIE, the AI that runs Aladdin, and has therefore been sent to capture him.(An editorial note reminds us that the twins Noel Robinson and Erik Johnson were created by GENIE to harness the ancient alien power of Shu-Ji. They have since fused as Gemini (in Rune vol 1).) And we see GENIE monitoring the meeting and concurring that they're correct but that Warlock's DNA is an older form. Which is impossible because the twins' DNA come from a source distant in space and ancient in time. It sees Noel attack Adam who seems to judo-throw him out into space where he hits a comms satellite that GENIE is viewing from and then plunges back to Earth.When Noel regains consciousness he sees Warlock standing over him and is told he's landed elsewhere on Earth where the sun is about to set. So this triggers the emergences of the Rune-like grey-skinned winged vampire form of Erik. But the sight triggers a repressed memory of Rune and the Godwheel.Chapter 2: The summoningAdam Warlock remembers how he got to the Ultraverse. His image here has his old Marvel costume and hairstyle.He'd been searching the universe for the 6 missing Infinity Gems. (As far as he's concerned they were somehow taken from him and the Infinity Watch in their final #42. He doesn't know that Rune was responsible in the Rune/Silver Surfer 1-shot and that the Gems ended up in the Ultraverse. And in fact they returned to the Marvel Universe just as he was emerging from his cocoon in the Ultraverse in Rune infinity.) But he couldn't find them. In particular he couldn't sense where the Soul Gem was, which he had been bonded to almost since he was 'born'. He was disturbed to find that he missed it, despite some of its unpleasant aspects.Suddenly he was sucked into a spatial anomaly and through a portal to what he later learned was the Godwheel in the Ultraverse, where he was greeted as a Messiah. Over weeks he learned the language of the Dilhaabi Warrior Priests. The positions of the stars told him that he was thousands of years in the past, but an instinct told him this was only an analogue of the Marvel Universe. Which was confirmed by the fact that they'd never heard of him. The priests believed they had summoned him to be their champion against the oppressive hordes of a living Dark God.He and the Priests fought against the horde and many Priests died. So Warlock sought for the Dark God, but Rune found *him*. Adam fought the Prince Of Void in the air as even more Priests perished. Until they fell to the ground and Rune picked up a sword. Warlock grabbed a wooden spear and they fought through the night surrounded by the dead. Adam had learned of Rune's vampiric appetite for life force, and recognised in him what he might have become if he'd given in to the Soul Gem's appetite for souls. But he was weakened now by not having the Gem to bolster his strength.Eventually sword broke wooden spear and Rune stabbed Warlock through the heart. He bent to drain Adam's life force but could not. Warlock said he was master of his own soul and Rune would not get it. And he formed his healing cocoon as he died.Now he wakes to see again the Rune-like Erik. He of course thinks it *is* Rune and that he was awakened from his cocoon in Rune infinity in order to destroy him.Chapter 3: Souls in collisionErik is confused by Warlock's claims but isn't going to go quietly. They fight but Warlock soon realises that Erik *isn't* Rune. Erik says he's sort-of Rune's son and Adam admits that Noel seems related to himself. And he enters Gemini's soul to discover more. He learns how the 2 twins were created in an experiment with alien DNA. Later they fused to become Gemini, fighting each other for control of the body. Noel had the spark of nobility but Erik was tainted by Rune's evil. They made a bargain. Noel had control in the daylight and had their shared cosmic power. Erik had the night to slake his bloodlust, but Noel gave him a conscience so he only preyed on the evil. But Noel became a judgemental 'god' while Erik went increasingly insane.Adam sees the 2 separate souls within Gemini and tells them that the cause of their imbalance is that Noel gave Erik a conscience by transferring his *own* thus losing his humanity. Erik gloats and the 2 fight. But Adam separates them and declares that Erik's madness is now beyond help. And so he casts his soul out of the shared body. Warlock exits Gemini's soul to find Noel apparently human-normal without Gemini's superpower.EpilogueAdam and Noel return to Noel's Los Angeles home. They wonder fruitlessly how Warlock's DNA got from ancient Godwheel to Earth and GENIE/Aladdin (long before Aladdin found Adam's cocoon). Warlock announces his intention to return to his own universe and his quest for the Infinity Gems. He leaves and locates the Ultraverse equivalent to the singularity which brought him here. He expects not to suffer the interference of alien mysticism this time. Inside the portal he finds various exits but 1 of them has the pull of familiarity. He passes through it and finds himself once again in the Marvel Universe.But back in LA Noel contemplates the Rune-like head of the BioCon that Erik decapitated (in Rune vol 2 #7). And we now learn that he was only pretending to have lost his power. He uses the head's hardware to contact cyberspace and send a power surge that overloads and destroys the AI GENIE, ending that menace. And it's not a good look on his face when he contemplates what next to do with his power.And elsewhere in the city we see the 2 police detectives Jack Mills and Tony Skinner who have been investigating the Gemini/Rune case (since Rune infinity). Erik's spirit has survived because when he gave Noel back the cosmic power that Aladdin's BioCons stole from him (Rune vol 2 #7) he kept a bit. Now he attacks Mills and possesses him, turning him into Erik's Rune-form. And then he kills Skinner and drinks his blood.


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It is the year 20XX in a flooded Manhattan. The Golden Skull's gang has just stolen a shipment of helium when they are attacked by a female black Captain America. She's Danielle Cage, the daughter of Luke Cage and Jessica Jones, and she's inherited their powers. She also has a version of Cap's uniform and round shield, which seems to attach to her arm by magnetic clasps. Later we will learn that it is a though-controlled anti-gravity shield.However in the middle of taking the gang down she disappears through a glowing square - to everyone's surprise.In present-day Avengers Tower Black Widow and Vision are supposed to be training together. Natasha Romanoff weaves through a web of lasers to hit the android with her Widow's Bite. But he just increases his density and continues drinking his coffee and reading a paper. He claims his diagnostics tell him he's in peak condition so he doesn't need to train. He tries to turn it into a joke, ending with the paraphrase "Even an android can laugh".They get into a discussion of 'programming', comparing his android makeup with the brainwashing and intensive training she endured in the Soviet Red Room program. But then the glowing square claims them, and Vision drops his coffee and paper. The headline has the UN complaining about Dr Doom's temporal experiments.And they find themselves indeed facing Dr Doom. As well as the female Cap there are other time-lost Avengers. The female Thor is beside the male Thor from Walt Simonson's stint on his book. Iron Man is actually James Rhodes. And Hulk is the pre-Avengers version.Doom says he has gathered the 6 of them here with his time squares to prevent mankind's extinction. (It seems Vision is an unintended bonus.) But Hulk doesn't listen and immediately attacks. The other Avengers don't trust Doom, so they join in as well. The power of 2 Mjolnir's is enough to overload his forcefield, letting Iron Man through. But Vision holds Black Widow back - he thinks things aren't what they seem because he recognises Doom (ie as someone else).Iron Man's assault is stopped by a horde of children who declare Dr Doom is their protector - followed by an old man Marek who is supposed to be looking after them.The Avengers use the lull to greet each other. Hulk is surlily unhappy about everything, especially Widow automatically taking charge. Danielle introduces herself to her heroes. It turns out that the female Thor is from a little way ahead in time, and has to be stopped from telling the others things they don't know (she specifically mentions a Qeng Dynasty). The male Thor assumes he has died in the future and is glad there is a worthy successor to carry his hammer. Fem-Thor won't burden him with the knowledge that he isn't dead, just no longer worthy.Dr Doom tells them that Earth has been subjugated by the Ultron Singularity. In 2420 the Ultimate Ultron killed all the superheroes. He has converted most of humanity to mindless bio-slaves. His factories create Ultron-drones to spread out and conquer the universe. And he has built AI's in the shape of Avengers. Natasha says she visited this future in Avengers #31 (as part of the extended time-trip in the Original Sin tie-in issues #29-34).Future-Cap says that Doom has died in her time, so she doesn't know how he got here - and doesn't trust him whatever the circumstances. Vision makes it even more clear that he knows who Doom really is, but Doom still insists he's the one true Dr Doom. Vision won't betray Doom's secret, but assures his fellows that they can trust him. The others agree to grudgingly follow Doom's plan.As usual in jaunts like this the Avengers are split into teams to tackle what Doom claims are Ultron's weak points - caused by the still-human basis of his thought patterns.The robot villain has concentrated control of all his factories in Avengers Tower. Iron Man and Vision are sent to destroy it. (And we get a reminder of very old times as the Golden Avenger travels by built-in roller skates.) They take out some Ultron-drone guards, but are then attacked by the AI versions of Captain America, Hawkeye, Spider-Woman and Vision himself. In particular the evil Vision uses his own phase-an-arm-through-the-chest trick on 'himself'. He claims to actually be the original Vision subverted by Ultron, but doesn't remember this encounter.Black Widow, Captain America and Hulk are sent to another central control system, which broadcasts the instructions to the human bio-slaves. They use stealth to get in (so why has Hulk been sent with them?). They can't just let Hulk trash the place because then a backup system would take over. They have to disable the backup system 1st.Widow also says she doesn't want to risk Hulk getting killed because he is necessary in his own time for the formation of the Avengers. However they are found by the AI Black Widow and a bio-slave army. In the ensuing fight AI-BW grabs Cap's shield and uses it to cut Hulk's head off. So much for protecting history.Meanwhile the 2 Thor's have gone to Ultron's homebase, which turns out to be Asgard and the Rainbow Bridge brought to Earth. They are met by the AI Thor who taunts male Thor by revealing that he loses Mjolnir by being unworthy to wield it. And it was his absence that allowed Ultron to take Asgard and reign as the All-Father. Male Thor attacks enraged, ignoring female Thor's warnings of caution, and AI Thor runs him through with a big sword.


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Ultron Forever: part 2 of 3
Last issue Dr Doom (or someone in his armour) culled 7 Avengers from past, present and future to fight to save a future Earth overrun by Ultron.The female Thor (from a little way in the future) and the armoured Thor from Walt Simonson's run invaded Asgard to find that Ultron has usurped Odin's place and power, and they were opposed by an AI Thor who claimed to be male Thor's future unworthy self. Future Thor stabbed male Thor with a big sword.But now male Thor reminds his future self why he's wearing armour. In his #373 Hela cursed him with brittle bones. But she also made him unable to die to escape his agony. So the sword couldn't kill him.Male Thor calls down lightning on future Thor, which makes him start speaking in binary. Female Thor hits him with her Mjolnir, expecting him to be revealed as 1 of Ultron's machines. But instead he spews up a digital Loki ghost. The freed future Thor says this is what became of the real Loki (which 1, readers of his current title will wonder), and he dispels his brother with the sword.Dr Doom is watching everything that transpires. He chose this particular Thor to avoid paradox because he can't die. He doesn't care if the female Thor dies - he'll just send her Mjolnir back to pick another bearer. (Does this indicate that the slightly-future female Thor hasn't got enough time left to make an impact on the timeline before she maybe gets deleted by Secret Wars?)Meanwhile the James Rhodes Iron Man from the past and the present-day Vision have come up against Ultron's AI versions of Captain America, Hawkeye and Spider-Woman. Unlike future Thor who was a corrupted version of real thing, these are AI replacements. Last issue our guys took out Spider-Woman, but a future Vision sneaked up and did the arm-through-the-chest trick on the current 1. This future Vision is the real deal bent to Ultron's purposes.AI Cap tries to take over the computer system in Iron Man's armour. But Rhodey's armour is so old it doesn't have a wi-fi connection for the AI to get in via. And IM is able to take down both Cap and Hawkeye.Then at a hint from JR our Vision reduces his density to ghost-level. AI Vision matches him. Then the Golden Avenger flies through them both, disrupting their connection, and grabs Vizh's solidified hand pulling him free. Vision is worried that passing through them will have caused Rhodey pain, but Jim says being Iron Man is always painful for him.The watching Doom comments that he chose the JR Iron Man because his primitive armour would be immune to sophisticated attacks. But also he didn't want Tony Stark because the engineer might figure out his secret. (DD never chose Vision but got him by accident alongside Black Widow.)He now turns his attentions to the 3rd arena with the current Black Widow, a future Captain America (Danielle Cage), and Hulk from before he helped form the Avengers. He's horrified to see Hulk decapitated - which will ruin his plan to avoid time-paradox.The Avengers are fighting a horde of mind-controlled humans led by the AI version of Black Widow. Who has just used the future female Cap's shield to chop Hulk's head off. She hopes that the resulting changes in the past will free her from Ultron.But our BW notices that Hulk isn't bleeding. And then Bruce Banner's head is extruded from the flesh of the green chest. AI-BW throws the shield to chop that head off too. But Banner-Hulk catches it and sends it back, slicing her head in 2. And the bio-slaves stop attacking.Hulk manages to put his own head back on, but the Banner head in his chest remains. Bruce explains that the gamma ray machine he's been using to trigger his transformations in his 6-issue original series has unexpected and variable side-effects. In particular in #6 it gave him Hulk's body and Bruce's head. The current state is another of those weird situations.Just then the bio-slaves start attacking on their own. And Doom muses that he always intended for this part of the plan to fail. (Answering the question I asked last time - why include Hulk on a stealth mission.)Now it's back to Asgard where the 3 Thors confront Ultron-Odin. He bats away an attack by 2 hurled hammers and a lightning bolt from the sword. Ultron reveals his Odin power, which he gained by an Uru metal body, the Norn Stones and the assistance of Loki. But the mad god is consumed by the question of what his conquest is all for. Even the Odin-sight can't find a purpose within his own programming.Taking advantage of Ultron's distraction Simonson-Thor throws his Mjolnir to female Thor. With the power of 2 temporal copies of the same hammer she summons the lightning that birthed the universe. And Ultron vanishes, but they can't work out whether he was screaming or laughing.Dr Doom now watches Iron Man and Vision in Avengers Tower fight their way to the control centre of the factories that churn out Ultron's drones. Future Vision catches up with them, but current Vision destroys his future self's brain, vowing never to become that. Then they smash the main control unit of the factories.Doom switches his attention to the 3rd strand of his plot - BW, CA and Hulk in the control centre for bio-slaves. But there is also a backup control centre somewhere, and they were supposed to sneak in and disable the system which would switch to the backup before destroying the primary. This plan has gone to pot, and they see the primary shutting itself down, and transferring control to the backup.DD now brings all the Avengers back to his base. And he's about to send them home with a job well done. But Widow objects. She's deduced (correctly) that this is the backup control centre for the bio-slaves - now under Doom's control. The old man and the kids that Doom was 'protecting' last issue turn out just to be his bio-slaves. Also, what he sent Iron Man to blow up wasn't actually the control for the drone factories but their security system (this is presumably what DD feared Tony Stark would spot), so Doom is now master of those too.Before the Avengers can attack him, Doom activates his time platforms to take them back to where and when he got them. But the 2 Thors use their Mjolnirs to forge their own time portal. Who knows where they'll wind up? We'll find out next issue.


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Ultron Forever: part 3 of 3
Centuries in the future Ultron has taken over the world but now Dr Doom, with the help of some Avengers plucked out of his past, has taken over the take over. He controls spy satellites, the bio-slaves (most of the human population), the Ultron drones (whose heads have now changed from Ultrons to Doom masks) and a fleet of flying fortresses (again with his own mask on the front).He tried to send the Avengers back to their own times at the end of the last part, but the 2 Thors transported them elsewhere. Doom knows they have gone to the current-day Asgard (hovering above the Earth), from where Ultron ruled until his defeat last time.The Avengers are:- Black Widow and Vision from our present. Hulk, Thor and the James Rhodes Iron Man from our past. Female Thor and Danielle Cage/Captain America from our future. In Asgard they meet up with the current Thor who they freed from Ultron's control in the last part.In part 1 Vision persuaded his compatriots to trust Doom. Now he wants to try to solve the problem by talking to him. The other Avengers suspect his android brain may have been taken over. Unable to convince them otherwise Vizh ghosts away.They ask current Thor if the other Asgardians will help them. But he shows them a magic mirror where Loki has imprioned them. And it drains their Asgardian powers so they can't escape. And it is impregnable to Asgardian might or magic from this side too. Before they can try any other ways of breaking the spell a Doomship arrives and starts spewing Doom/Ultron drones. All the heroes rush out to fight the foe except Iron Man who thinks he can smash the mirror.Danielle Cage has grown up to be the future Captain America. Hulk is from the beginnings of the Marvel Age before he joined the Avengers. Currently he is in the unusual state of having Bruce Banner's head sprouting from 1 shoulder. Danielle asks Hulk to use a 'fastball special' to get her into the Doomship. Banner doesn't understand the reference to the technique pioneered later by Colossus and Wolverine in the X-Men, but Hulk gets it immediately. And he hurls Cap through the air and through a window into the control room of the flying craft.Doomtrons try to disrupt the antgravity device in her shield. But she has it switched off and relies on her strength and invulnerabilty (inherited from father Luke), and her skill and the shield's sharp edge, to defeat the 'bots. And she gets help from Vision who ghosts in to stop a Doomtron from setting off lethal radiation. It turns out that there are 2 other Doomships in  the attack, so Cap and Vizh take control of their ship and destroy 1 of the others.Down on the ground the 3 Thors are laying waste to Doomtrons. Female Thor and the Simonson-era armoured Thor use their hammers (the same Mjolnir from 2 different times), while the still-unworthy-to-wield-Mjolnir future Thor uses a sword. They notice that the unwieldy 'friendly' Doomship is caught with its flank exposed to the 3rd battleship. Until 2 hammers and a blast of sword energy take that 1 down.Meanwhile Hulk is doing his own bot-smashing while Banner tries to avoid getting his head damaged. And Black Widow shelters behind 'them' taking out Doomtrons with her wrist blasters.Back in Asgard castle Jim Rhodes has figured out how to communicate with the Asgardians behind the mirror. Their speech comes through in reverse. so he gets his suit computer to 'translate' for him, and transmit his own words in reverse. Beta Ray Bill says his hammer Stormbreaker is solar powered. It is obvious that the mirror lets light through, so Rhodey aims a powerful laser blast at Stormbreaker. And Bill smashes the mirror from inside.As the ground battle continues, other Doomtrons start to break into Cap and Vizh's Doomship. Vision sends Danielle to help with the fight below, while he crashes the ship into a mass of 'bots. But then lots more loaded Doomships turn up. But so do Iron Man and the Asgardians. Cue 2-page battle-spread.Hulk and the Asgardians are tireless, but Widow and Cage are getting exhausted, and Shellhead is running out of power. But then Vision reappears and suggests they try another tack, before Earth is completely devastated. He asks them, especially his contemporary Natasha, to trust him. And the Thors transport them to Dr Doom's HQ.There Vizh addresses 'Dr Doom' as a Doombot. But not just any Doombot, but the Doombot who was a member with Vision of the Avengers AI team. He asks what turned him back from the road of the hero. The Doombot says that when the real Dr Doom died a backup of his mind activated in the 'bot to continue his legacy. Vision asks which legacy he is honouring:- Doom the power-mad conqueror or Doom the protector of his people. The Doombot says he must follow his programming - and Vizh repeats a point from the 1st part, that humans are as programmed as AIs and AIs are as free as humans. Besides, Dr Doom would never slavishly follow orders even from himself.His argument wins out. The Doombot frees the mind-slaved humans and in the future allies with Asgard to develop humanity into a spacefaring society. Meanwhile the Avengers are returned to their home times. Vision says he didn't tell them Dr Doom was a Doombot initially because they would have still treated him as an enemy. Widow says he could have tried trusting them to make the right choice. And Cap gets to finish capturing Golden Skull (from part 1) - and we see her Avengers team.


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Last issue Gwenpool discovered a new tactic - she could push villains out of the pages of the comic and hence out of the Marvel Universe. She decided to use this to get rid of Doctor Doom which she figures will make her a shoo-in as an Avenger (which is where she thinks the money is in superheroing). And she's recruited her associate Vincent Doonan the Doombot to help.Vincent is currently flying along a New York subway tunnel with Gwen Poole sitting on his back. He zags into a rough-hewn side tunnel, through the mouth of a huge carved demonic face (he claims it's a relic of when this was a gateway to hell, among the other uses the place has had) and into an underground castle. He says he found the place deserted and intends to use it as a detention centre for those he considers threats to the public (as he considered GP when they met in #7-9).Being a Doombot Vincent can contact Victor Von Doom. He'll get Doom to come here where Gwenpool can fight him without endangering others. But he does't think it'll come to that because his creator isn't the villain he used to be.In the middle of this we see another Gwenpool working her way back through the page margins, who jumps into a panel behind the duo and hides.Inside the castle is decorated with pictures and sculptures of Doom (and a significant sword embedded in a stone). And also some regular Doombots. Vincent takes his place among them, and they all start transmitting a message to Gwen from Doom. And she falls through a trapdoor.As she falls through the air she's accompanied by a floating head of Doom which tells her that he was automatically alerted when she told Vincent her plan. Doom had then remotely altered Vincent's programming to 'remember' this base as his and bring her here. The place actually belongs to Victor. Gwen just asks why his head's not wearing the right armour.GP is deposited safely in a cell. Doom leaves her and turns his attention to Vincent. He muses that he witnessed how 'Pool made Paste-Pot Pete (who seems to have given up his Trapster alias) disappear. He assumes it was some form of magic. But he's more interested in Vincent's backstory.Gwen figures getting out of a comicbook prison cell will be easy. 1st she tries yelling for Doom to let her out so she can kill him - but isn't surprised when that doesn't work. So she tries her standard trick of stepping out of the panel to move to a future 1 where she *isn't* in the cell. But she finds that all future panels just show her in the cell. She guesses that time-travel comic logic dictates that there can't be a future with her out of the cell until she finds a way to *get* out.But then she looks back to previous panels and has an idea. But just as a check she goes back into the panel and calls out to her future self who she hopes is outside the door. And her future self replies confirming that she went back to an earlier panel (as we saw), and from there found a way to get to her current position outside the cell door. So past Gwen leaves her cell-panel again and dashes back to where we saw the duplicate. She exits too quickly to hear future Gwen warning her to avoid something - but future-G isn't worried because she knows she gets here OK.Doom releases his control of Vincent, but the Doombot is angry so Victor freezes him in place. He asks Vince why he despises his creator. Vince replies that he doesn't believe Victor has reformed and become Iron Man (as we've seen in the International and then Infamous IM series) (that's why he's not wearing the 'right' armour). But Doom says he's *proud* of Vincent's mission to keep his corner of Brooklyn safe. He offers to repair the side of Vincent's humanoid face which has been damaged, exposing his robotic reality. (And we see Victor's face exposed, reminding us that *his* scars have gone since Secret Wars III).But Gwenpool has been listening to this. She hadn't realised Doom had switched sides. She says it must have happened after she came to this reality. Doom seems to ignore her claim that he inhabits a comic book universe - and he's 1 of the main bad guys which is why she came after him. But she *can't* kill him now because he's obviously in the middle of 1 of those temporary changes that will affect the Marvel Universe forever until they're changed back.She's pulled the sword out of the stone and wants him to shout "Richards!" or something and attack her. Doom obliges but GP ducks out of comic reality and reappears behind him. The sword slashes his armour (and body?) open, and comic pages gush out. Followed by an old-style evil Dr Doom.


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Last issue Gwenpool went after Dr Doom figuring defeating him would earn her a place in the Avengers. But she didn't realise that (since she last read him in a comic in the real universe [or something like it] before finding herself in the Marvel Comics Universe) Victor Von Doom has changed from villain to hero as (Infamous) Iron Man. Not fazed she stuck him with a large sword he had lying around in a stone, and out of the gash in his armour stepped the old villainous version (along with a lot of pieces of paper that were probably comics pages).This Doom is pleased to be free to do a villainous rant. He understands why our heroine would prefer to gain kudos by facing *him* rather than the 'lesser' version. But he's not grateful enough to not kill *her*. He fires a blast and GP disappears in the explosion.But she's really nipped out of the comic and re-enters in the next panel behind him. And then drags him out of the comic page with her. And leaves him there (like she did to Paste-Pot Pete [ie Trapster, or was it?] in #21) while she returns to continuity.Her Doombot pal Vincent Doonan doesn't understand or believe what she just did. But he follows her from the underground lair to the Metro system and up to the New York surface. Gwen Poole tries to contact the Avengers to tell them what she's done but can't get past the automatic answering system with its keypad choices. (1 of the button choices is for if you have found yourself in another reality.)Vincent Von Doombot was right to disbelieve how easily Dr Doom was vanquished, because he returns from the strange 'dimension' she banished him to with what he assumes was a simple rift-walking spell. Gwen interprets this in comics logic - she can't defeat the villain in the 1st few pages of the comic, especially not a master villain. Whatever, now she's got him angry.A member of the public has the same trouble with the Avengers line when she tries to call for help against Dr Doom. But her companion says that can't be Doom because he looks like Iron Man now and fights super-villains. Meanwhile we see the (comics) pages being sucked back into the 'real' Doom's grey IM armour.Old Doom easily shrugs off Gwenpool's bullets, and the Doombot's fist. He also shrugs off Vincent's low opinion of him before breaking the 'bot into pieces. GP tries to escape riding on 1 of Vincent's jet-booted legs, but Doom follows her. Quick learner that he is he grabs her and throws *her* out of the comic, and follows to continue the fight.The reality they are in is a white space with comics pages floating in it, particularly a trail of earlier pages in this comic (and series). Gwen points out this is proof that Doom exists in comicbooks, and she is superior to him because she knows it and can manipulate that reality. Doom of course denies her superiority and believes this is just another dimension with a strange way of viewing his own.But then the current Doom, his armour all healed up, joins them and tears old Doom to pieces, who disintegrates into a flutter of pages. *He* interprets this as GP having created old Doom out of 'paper memories'. But he can't detect what sort of magic she used to do it. Victor unmasks before her (showing his current unscarred face).As Gwen breaks down in bitter laughter he commiserates with her over how stressful fighting old him must have been. But he assures her he's not like that anymore. GP says her hollow laughter is because her powers are a mockery. She didn't defeat *him*, and the version she fought was some sort of illusion. If she can't hack it as a heroine she's going to die soon.Gwen too unmasks and tries to explain her situation. This Doom too thinks the comics pages around him are just a different way of viewing reality, but she asks him to humour her and imagine that 'reality' really is made up of comics. They are seeing the pages of her own comic series. The pages in 1 direction are her past, in the other is her future. And there's only about 2 issues worth of pages in that future.Gwen says it's because she refuses to be a supervillain, which current Doom can relate to. An evil future version of GP said she was Gwen's destiny (#19-20). The only way she'd be a successful comics character would be to turn bad. Gwen swore not to do that, and most of her future pages vanished. When she came after Doom it wasn't really to become an Avenger (with money to live on) - it was to see if she could have a viable future as a heroine. But now she *can't* kill Victor.Then she notices they are sitting on a comic panel featuring Trapster (but not anything I recognise from Paste Pot Pete's #21) who is claiming to have just had a weird dream. Gwen looks into the panel and asks Pete how he got back into the comicsverse and why he isn't wearing his original Paste Pot Pete costume. Trapster doesn't recognise her and says the old name and costume were lame. She ducks back out of the comic and figures that her past actions are being wiped out too because in this universe she has no meaning.GP and Doom return to her comic. While Victor reassembles Vincent the Doombot he suggests to her that the best way to have a meaningful life is to be herself. Stop trying to become a villain *or* heroine and become what she wants to be. But as he leaves she reflects that she still *has* to become a villain to survive.