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Veg Out
Trapped
in Plantman’s Dome of Life in the California desert, Hawkeye and the Orb are
eaten by a giant carnivorous plant; the villain assumes they are done for but
Hawkeye uses a flare arrow to burn the monster’s mouth and the two escape.
Plantman ignores Hawkeye’s challenges and sends his Plantmen to take care of
them. Orb flees and the amazing archer discovers that arrows are a poor weapon
to use against vegetables. Setting a fire, he runs off into the forest and
eventually comes to the edge of the glass dome but he sees no door. He fires a
suction cup arrow at the ceiling and climbs a rope to survey the land. From
this vantage point he locates the Dome’s command center where Plantman is
lecturing the captive Orb on his scheme to release alien spores to convert the
world into a paradise of sentient plants under his control. Hawkeye arrives on
the scene and fires an arrow into the giant computer, causing it to explode. He
uses an explosive arrow to blast a hole in the dome so that he and Orb can
escape and then the entire Dome launches into the sky to find another
location….
Story
continues in AVENGERS SPOTLIGHT #21.
“The
Sun and the Moon” 4/5Writer:
Peter Gillis. Pencils: James Brock. Inks: Roy Richardson. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: Rich Parker.Synopsis:
Former New Defender Cloud has joined the ship carrying Pamela Douglas, the now
toddler-sized Moondragon, Isaac “Gargoyle” Christians (still in the amulet),
and Demeityr and is catching up with her old friends. She also learns that
Moondragon is very unhappy being a brilliant mind trapped in a child’s body….
On
the way to planet Kotzwinkle, Pam and Demeityr get romantic and the jealous
Moondragon attacks them psychically; she grows into her adult form in seconds
and tries to seduce Demeityr but Pam and Isaac warn her that her emotions are
out of control. Heather again attacks Pam and Isaac but Pam now has powers of
her own and is able to withstand Heather’s force. Moondragon finally explodes
in wrath and teleports the other outside the ship. Pam is united with a bolt of
energy from a nearby sun and she saves the others, returning to the ship riding
a space dragon. Moondragon repents of her misguided attempts to cleanse herself
of the evil within. By the aid of Cloud, Pam has now become Sundragon and Isaac
has been restored to his body with the ability to assume his Gargoyle form at
will. Sundragon, Isaac, and Demeityr decide to go their way, leaving Moondragon
to find her own way….


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Even an Octopus Needs Arms!
Following
an anonymous tip, Hawkeye shows up at a waterfront warehouse to investigate an
illegal arms deal. On the roof he is accosted by Sandman, who phoned in the tip
and had been sent by Silver Sable to stop the deal; Sandman also believes
Hawkeye is one of Sable’s agents, despite his denials. The disguised buyer
arrives and is met by the seller, Madame Menace, to talk business. Sandman’s
orders are to capture Madame Menace and so wants to wait until the buyer
leaves; Hawkeye doesn’t want someone walking away with a superweapon.  Hawkeye attacks, Sandman joins in, battling
MM and her minions who are armed with some pretty impressive armaments. The
buyer reveals himself to be Doctor Octopus and fights Hawkeye because he
doesn’t want to lose his new acquisitions. There is a lot of chaos in which
both Doc Ock and Madame Menace escape, promising to meet again later. Hawkeye
grabs onto the bottom of Doc Ock’s helicopter and is knocked off, only to be
caught by his sandy ally. The two size up a failed mission and return to
bickering about whether Hawkeye works for Silver Sable….
“Greed”
4/5
Writer:
Danny Fingeroth. Pencils: Dave Cockrum. Inks: Kim DeMulder. Colors: Andy
Yanchus. Letters: Janice Chiang.Synopsis:
Prince Namor the Sub-Mariner is searching the world’s oceans for the missing
brood of his late wife Marrina. Near Puerto Rico he comes upon a family whose
small boat has capsized; Namor swoops down and rescues them and returns them to
shore. Discovering the family is poor, Namor gives them some gold he had been
saving for another purpose, to their surprise and gratitude. The boy gives
Namor a small wooden fish on a cord to wear about his neck. Namor takes his
leave, feeling satisfaction in the transaction….
In
his search, Namor dives into the Great Puerto Rican Trench and discovers what
appears to be a building made of gold. He is challenged by a submarine and
asked to board peacefully. He meets US Government Agent Charles Anderson, who tells
him of the Manhattan building suddenly transformed into gold; it was hidden at
the bottom of the ocean so as to not to destroy the world economy. He threatens
Namor, telling him to forget the gold and never come back. Irritated, Namor
continues his search in the Trench only to discover another sub stealing the
gold. He decides it is none of his business and swims off, surprising the sub’s
owner, Goldbug. But Namor has second thoughts, realizing that, as an Avenger,
he should be protecting the common man from the economic upheaval that would
follow the recovery of the gold. So he returns and tears the net carrying the
gold from Goldbug’s ship; Goldbug fights back with his shipboard weapons but
Namor withstands them all so the villain gives up and sails off, planning to
come back another day. Namor is then caught by Anderson again and his story of a
villain in another ship is not believed. Namor is disgusted and departs.
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In Service of Justice
Hawkeye
bursts into the offices of mid-level crook Speedo, beats up all his hoods, and
demands to know what Speedo knows about the vigilante Blind Justice. Speedo
knows nothing so Hawkeye leaves him with a threat. Angry, Speedo calls his boss
(a woman whose face is in shadow) demanding she have the Avenger killed; Boss
Lady approves but only if they can frame another party for the murder,
suggesting Blind Justice….
At
West Coast Avengers Compound, Hawkeye is going through rigorous training
exercises while being interviewed by reporter Gayle Rogers. Mockingbird takes a
call and hands it to Hawkeye; Speedo is calling to say something big is going
on down at the docks that night and Blind Justice might be there. We know it’s
a trap….
Hawkeye
shows up at the docks at midnight and is surprised that no one seems to be
around. What he doesn’t know is that a mysterious figure is creeping up behind
each of Speedo’s gang and putting them out of action. Then the rest come into
the open and Clint takes action with a bevy of trick arrows and then his secret
ally shows himself: it is the Shroud and he envelops the docks in dark mist;
Hawkeye is at a loss because he can’t see to fight while Shroud clobbers all
the baddies. Hawkeye is annoyed because he was hoping to nab Blind Justice but
Shroud points to the two men on a rooftop across the street. It is Speedo and
his henchman Zipper watching the battle through binoculars. Suddenly, Zipper is
gone and Speedo finds himself facing Blind Justice. Hawkeye fires some arrows
to distract them but the two men shoot at each other simultaneously. Speedo is
electrocuted and Justice falls into the river. Hawkeye and Shroud are certain
the vigilante is dead but as they leave we see a gloved hand rise from the
water….
“Memoirs”
4.5/5Writer:
J.M. DeMatteis. Pencils: June Brigman. Inks: Stan Drake. Colors: Paul Becton.
Letters: Jack Morelli.Synopsis:
Patsy Walker appears on Bill Montague’s talk show to promote her autobiography.
She is ill-at-ease as Montague has a reputation as an aggressive interviewer
and he starts off by questioning the reality of her accounts of her husband
Daimon Hellstrom being the Son of Satan and her support for mutants. While
talking about her first husband Buzz Baxter, Baxter, in the guise of Mad-Dog,
invades the studio, bites Patsy on the neck, drugging her, and carries her
off….
She
awakens dressed in her Hellcat costume in a warehouse. Mad-Dog confesses he
still loves her and insists that she loves him. She denies this claiming their
marriage was a mistake. He blames her desire for independence for their divorce
and says he became Mad-Dog just for her, so that they could become costumed
heroes together. She attacks him and they fight, she insisting that she never
loved him and he claiming she did. She claws at his face and bashes his head
against a crate and he goes out. She then realizes that she did love Buzz once
and her desire to leave her old life behind led her to banish that from her
memories….


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Under My Skin, Part Two
Spider-Man awakens webbed to a wall inside the skyscraper taken over by the Queen, Adriana Soria. As her minions continue to renovate the building into a nest for her, she approaches Spidey and informs him she has chosen him as her mate. When he tries to rebuff her, she slaps him and he sinks back into a coma….
The seemingly romantic kiss between Spidey and the Queen (at the end of last issue) was televised, leading to jokes in the media and confusion on the part of Spidey’s allies. Nick Fury has the building surrounded by the military but his superior suggests they wait to see what Captain America is doing….
…which is hanging upside down in webs in the Queen’s lair. Cap breaks free and hurls his shield, slicing through Spidey’s bonds. The two heroes fight their way through the enslaved citizens, dodging the Queen’s telekinetic attacks and make it outside. Despite Cap’s warning that she controls humans who bear the "insect gene" (which includes Spidey, apparently), Webhead tries to capture her but she holds him back by ordering several of her followers to throw themselves off the roof to heir deaths. The Queen overpowers him but a military jet fires a missile at her, which she is able to deflect but it distracts her long enough for Cap to push her off the ledge. Cap scolds the woozy Spidey for his stubbornness; Spidey reminds him that Cap was once that way too. The heroes part but not for long….


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Changes, Part 4
As the police, military, and superheroes scour New York City for any sign of the Queen, the hours are counting down until she detonates the bomb that will destroy all life in a 600-mile radius, excepting insects—and humans who carry the insect gene….
In her underground lair, the Queen explains her plans to Spider-Man, who has by now completely mutated into a giant spider. She holds prisoner Professor David Jaffe, the scientist responsible for the experiment that made her what she is. Jaffe tries to tell Spider-Man he is in danger: the serum that altered him should not have worked this quickly; Jaffe also has another bombshell: after mating with the Queen, Spidey is pregnant. A short time later, however, the Spider collapses to the floor and dies. The enraged Queen kills Jaffe with a shriek and orders her drones to prepare to detonate the bomb…. After she leaves the room, the spider-carcass splits open and a fully grown Peter Parker emerges, naked and with enhanced spider-senses. He also has the ability to shoot webbing directly out of his wrists. He dons his Spidey mask, found in a nearby locker, and confronts his enemy. She tries to destroy him with another one of her shattering shrieks but he withstands it. Peter then draws upon another new power: he reads the hive mind of her drones and discovers through them how to disarm the bomb. As he does so, the Queen bursts into flames and dies….
Later Spidey finds Captain America outside and reports on his actions (leaving out the embarrassing parts). As he swings off, he revels in his contact with the insect world, while marveling at the irony that spiders aren’t insects. He seeks out an upset Mary Jane and he explains that he has gone through a few changes….


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Changes, Part 3
As Spider-Man further mutates into a literal spider, Captain America continues to brief Nick Fury on the problem of the sinister Queen, Ana Soria. She is in possession of a bomb that will wipe out all human life in a 600-mile radius, leaving property and insects unharmed, developed by the US Military. Why? In the event of a Soviet conquest, the government was planning to wipe out all life on Earth except for those Americans carrying the insect gene….
The Queen finds the mutated Spidey in an alley and reveals the saliva she passed to him through her kiss initiated the transformation into her ideal mate. When he recoils at the prospect, she beats him into unconsciousness with her shrieks and carries him off telekinetically…. Moments later, the Human Torch arrives on the scene but finds nothing but rubble. He reports back to Reed Richards, coordinating the search with General Ross. Elsewhere, various Avengers and X-Men are combing the city for the missing hero.
SHIELD intercepts a message the Queen tried to broadcast to the nation, announcing what time she will detonate the bomb, and giving sufficient time to evacuate the Northeastern USA. Cap orders the message not to be broadcast to avoid a panic but he doesn’t otherwise know what to do about it….
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Changes, Part 1
In the park, Peter Parker is lying on the pavement studying ants, to Mary Jane’s annoyance. There is some friction between them since Peter, as Spidey, was seen kissing the Queen on television (at the end of issue #15) but he assures her that he was an unwilling participant in the act. What he doesn’t tell MJ is that he can’t get the Queen out of his mind….
Later, Captain America briefs several military and intelligence officers on the threat of the Queen. For security reasons he can’t divulge details but impresses them with the urgency of capturing her and Spider-Man within the next five or six days….
In her underground lair, the Queen explains to her minions that she was Adriana Soria, one of the first woman Marines at the end of World War II, drafted into a top secret experiment. Exposed to an eerie storm, she awoke in a hospital where Captain America betrayed her…. Her agent inside the military meeting warns her of Nick Fury’s interesting her but she is not concerned….
Peter has a dream that he is being pursued through cave by the Queen; he awakens and heads for the kitchen to get a snack. Hours later, MJ comes home to find him cowering in a darkened corner: his body is sprouting bristles and his eyes are segmenting….


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Changes, Part 2
After his encounter with the Queen, Peter Parker is mutating into a huge spider; his body is sprouting bristles and his eyes are segmenting. Mary Jane insists he accompany her to their neighbors’ Klingon-themed wedding and she will not accept any excuses….
Captain America visits a Veterans hospital to talk to an old friend, Tommy, about Ana Soria, the Queen. Nick Fury reveals his presence and demands to know what the big secret about her is. Cap explains that the team of Marines at the end of the War was part of an attempt to recreate the Super-Soldier process. The recruits were not told what was happening to them and when no results ever came, the project was abandoned. But Ana Soria had mutated; when they could not determine the extent or nature of her powers, she was locked in an asylum. She escaped years later and is only now resurfacing. Her ability seems to be to control insects—and the one-third of the human population that carries the insect gene….
At the wedding, Peter becomes increasingly uncomfortable and makes a hasty exit. Outside, he switches to his Spider-Man costume and swings off, feeling the Queen calling to him. He collapses on a rooftop and further mutates, growing eight clawlike limbs and a huge fanged mouth….
Cap finishes his account for Fury: the Queen possesses a bomb that will wipe out all human life in a 600-mile radius, leaving property and insects unharmed, and she is planning to detonate it to create her own kingdom. The tragic punchline? The bomb was developed by the US Military….


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Under My Skin, Part One
A sudden loud humming noise brings New York City to a standstill. It signals the arrival by limousine of a beautiful woman in a clinging black gown, who seems to be controlling the minds of many in her vicinity. In their apartment Peter and Mary Jane Parker are chatting about television and what to do with the day when he detects the humming, which causes him to collapse with a nosebleed and sends his spider-sense ballistic. Downtown, the black-clad woman is heading down the streets with her new army of followers. They capture a building and begin transforming it into her hive. Peter, as Spider-Man, has traced the sound to its source and meets Captain America at the building. Cap suggest they go in low to minimize civilian casualties but the headstrong Spidey heads straight to the top for a direct confrontation, despite Cap’s warnings. At the penthouse, Spidey tries to web the woman, who calls herself the Queen but she forces his arm away with a gesture. Cap arrives but is prevented from taking actions by her mind slaves—but he calls her Ana, confusing Spidey. The Queen lets out a shriek that paralyzes Spider-Man and proceeds to peel back his mask to kiss him on the mouth….


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The Infinity Watch part 8
Bailey Briggs (Spider-Boy) and his friend Christina Xu are visiting Coney Island. While looking for snacks they can afford he spots a dog-faced boy picking pockets and thinks he may be 1 of Madame Monstrosity's hybrid experiments like himself. Bailey leaves Christina to use a changing room (for swimmers) to change into Spider-Boy and give chase.Meanwhile Apex (with the Power Stone) and Multitude (with the Soul Stone) have been drawn to Coney Island on the trail of the Mind Stone. Naive Prince Otherone spots a carney show advertised as Mira Moonfire and her Mind Stone and assumes that's their target. Ex-carney worker Ward isn't convinced but he does sense the real Stone nearby. Apex suggests maybe it's in the cotton candy stall, but mainly because he wants to try some (android Ward doesn't eat). But we see the actual Mind Stone bearer Colleen Wing watching them nearby.Spider-Boy isn't having any luck spotting dog-face until he hears someone chasing the thief. He blocks the boy's escape while saying he wants to help him. The pickpocket evades him and the victim accuses SB of being an accomplice. Our hero promises to get his wallet back and runs off to find the thief again, following him into a tent. The 'dog' attacks him while saying "Bark". Spider-Boy throws him off and the assailant says his names Archie, and also explains that he said "Bark" rather than barking because he has human vocal chords. It turns out that Archie is an Inhuman rather than a product of Madame Monstrosity (he's insulted by the suggestion).It also turns out that Archie's thieving is part of an audition to join Ringmaster's Circus Of Crime. Maynard Tidbolt sets his crew on the hero promising a bonus to whoever squashes the spider. Agile Spidey sends the Human Cannonball crashing into a wall and evades the aerialist brothers the Great Gambonnos but is trapped in the coils of Princess Python's snake Precious Jr. RM takes the time to bemoan the slings and arrows that fate keeps throwing at him. His personnel keep changing and weird stuff happens to the Clown. He's plagued by rivals Ringmistress and Madame Ringleader who he suggests are relatives. And recently Spider-Man (Peter Parker) humiliated him during the Gang War event. So he tells Bruto the Strongman (who's been extricating the Cannonball from the smashed wall) to hit the hero with his dumbbells. Python screams at him not to hurt her python. But his backswing damages more wall ...... alerting Apex and Multitude to what's going on. Wade doesn't like bullies and Otherone is annoyed that concrete dust has spoiled his candy floss, so they decide to intervene. Ringmaster tells his minions to attack *them*. Human Cannonball is 1st up but Apex punches him into the sea, and then greets the Strongman as maybe more of a challenge. Multitude sends orange soul constructs of various heroes against the Gambonnos and Princess Python, and various Spider-folk against Ringmaster himself. Spider-Boy finishes him off with a punch to the jaw.Archie the Dog-Faced Boy is making his escape and intending to try to join the Wrecking Crew instead. But Multitude stops him with an apparition of the Werewolf. SB tells him to hand back the stolen wallets. Apex has found Bruto a disappointing opponent. Tidbolt has recovered until Colleen Wing pops in and renders him unconscious with an energy(?) sword through the head. Ward recognises that she has the Mind Stone. She says she's been watching the 2 Stone-bearers and has decided they are on the side of good. The 3 leave Spider-Boy to report the Circus to the police ...... and they walk along the beach where they're confronted by Star leading Overtime and Quantum, the other Stone-bearers.Story 2: The Death Stone Saga chapter 8Script Derek Landy. Artist Sara Pichelli. Colours Mattia Iacono. Letters Travis Lanham. Editor Nick Lowe.Resurrected Phil Coulson has the Death Stone and is now a grey-skinned avatar of Death in a black suit. Nick Fury Jr. is driving him away from Nighthawk's lair and asks how he's doing. He replies that being dead isn't something you easily get over. Nick tells him of a support group for the resurrected (heavily-subscribed in the Marvel Universe) and offers to hook him up.Now they're using NH's scanner to locate the original 6 Infinity Stones which seem to be converging on New York, and his Death Stone agrees. But having been dead makes you hungry so they stop for some food. NF still wants to know if the Death Stone's having any adverse effects, but Phil's busy wolfing down a cheeseburger and then parries the question by asking what they'll do when they find the other Stone bearers. Nick hopes their powers have given them an accompanying sense of responsibility, but if not they might need some muscle. A voice suggests they contact Thor ...... and Fury recognises its owner as Hector Bautista in a new costume, but Hector says he's now called Overtime. Coulson guesses he's got the Time Stone and says his Death Stone just got stronger. Bautista says that happens when Stone Bearers are close to each other. But he also tells them that he's just popped back from tomorrow afternoon where he's fighting Thanos and losing. But he's also starving so he takes Coulson's burger and starts eating it. In between bites he explains that he wants to give the good guys the edge in the fight without changing the past. Thanos trapped Death in the Death Stone which gives him a hold over it and therefore over Coulson. He impresses on Phil that in the coming fight it's vitally important for the fate of the universe that he resists that hold for as long as he can. Then Overtime returns to the future and takes the burger with him.Nick orders another cheeseburger for his friend.


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The Mystery of the Power Crown!
After a lovely day spent touring New York’s museums, Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson stop by 7-Eleven for a snack. Suddenly the ground shakes and Peter quickly excuses himself to change into Spider-Man and check it out. He discovers the Empire State Building being lifted into the sky by a giant anti-gravity disc. The culprit is the Wizard who uncovers an artifact buried beneath the building’s foundation, intending to deliver it to his love, the Enchantress. Spidey snatches the object away from him and guides the giant disc to slowly lower the skyscraper back into place. The Wizard catches him by surprise, grabbing him and pulling him high into the sky where our hero blacks out from lack of oxygen. The baddie then gently deposits Spidey in Central Park and absconds with the artifact, delivering it to his paramour. But the Enchantress, having gotten what she wanted, has no further need of him, and vanishes with her loot.
Outside a 7-Eleven in Washington, Captain America is greeting his fans (one adult, four kids) when he spies the Trapster gliding toward the Washington Monument. Cap races over just as the villain unearths another artifact from the ground at the base of the Monument. Trapster responds with all his weapons—explosives, glue, bolos—but Cap’s agility allows him to evade them easily. Desperate, the baddie fires an explosive toward the city and Cap hurls his shield, detonating the bomb in mid-air but allowing the Trapster to sneak up and clobber him (with a piece of turf, it looks like). Trapster snatches up his prize and delivers it to the Enchantress who has captured his affections as she did the Wizard’s. Then Trapster is knocked cold by her new partner, the stronger and dumber Rhino, and they head to their next destination--San Francisco.
In that city, Jessica Drew is sitting in her office when the waves of an earthquake sweep through. Changing to her Spider-Woman identity, she heads out and rescues people, delivering them to a first aid center set up in the parking lot of a 7-Eleven. She traces the pattern of the shocks to their source on Alcatraz Island and flies out there to discover the Enchantress and the Rhino attempting to break into the former prison. She tries to stop them but realizes she is out of her league. Meanwhile downtown, Bruce Banner is on the edge of panic; the sight of a wall falling toward a group of people triggers his transformation into the Hulk. He smashes the wall into powder and looks for a place where he can be alone. Alcatraz Island seems like the best bet and he heads there, arriving in time to prevent the villains from killing the helpless Spider-Woman. Hulk and Rhino duke it out, fighting to a standstill when the villainess blasts her ally and pretends to the Hulk he rescued her from the brutish bad guy. She has the duped Greenskin pick up the last piece of the artifact and they teleport to her palace where she helpfully fills the reader in on the origin of this artifact. Seems it is the Power Crown, broken into three pieces by Odin and scattered to prevent anyone from gaining the power to rule the mortal world. A spell placed on the pieces ensures that anyone from Asgard touching it will die, hence, Enchantress’ need for human help.
Later, the three betrayed villains compare notes and have a copy of Enchantress’ map which helpfully lists the location of her secret hideout along with those of the crown pieces. At the same time, Captain America meets with the two Spider-Heroes at the Washington 7-Eleven after they pick up his national all-points bulletin. Spidey (the man) reveals he put a Spider-Tracer on the crown piece the Wizard had, so they should be easy to find.
In her throne room, Enchantress commands Hulk to assemble the pieces of the Crown and place it on her head, but the procedure is interrupted by the simultaneous arrival of the trio of heroes and the trio of villains. A massive free-for-all breaks out. By means of clever teamwork, the heroes capture the three baddies. When Hulk resumes the act of crowning the villainess, Spidey pleads with him not to, while the Enchantress tries to persuade him otherwise. This confuses Jade Jaws so much he crushes the Crown to dust. Frustrated, Enchantress vanishes, and the four heroes return to the 7-Eleven to impress some random kids before going their separate ways.


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Dutch Angles
Two
petty crooks, Victor “Dutch” Hollander and Ronnie Schatz, are walking through the
New York subway with an ATM they have stolen, thanks to a pair of power gloves
Ronnie has rented from the Tinkerer. They encounter Spider-Man fighting the
armored Silvermane. The ATM becomes a casualty of some flying shrapnel and the
guys escape, though Ronnie was counting on the cash for the ATM to pay the
Tinkerer….
Vic
is a lifelong criminal whose only other talent is for customizing plastic model
kits. Things are getting bad for petty crooks now that the streets are full of
super-heroes and -villains. While they ponder their next move, they go to a bar
where Vic meets Ronnie’s sister Vivi, a bartender, and there is an attraction.
Soon they are dating and she persuades him to go straight, getting a bartending
job at the same place, to Ronnie’s dismay, and they plan to move away from New
York to seek a better life out west. Deciding that they need more money to
relocate and start over, Vic secretly contacts Ronnie who suggests stealing a
super-suit and going into the bigger rackets for themselves. Vivi catches them
together and is disappointed in Vic. Over her protestations, Vic joins Ronnie
in a heist which turns out to be hijacking a truck carrying Force’s armor, to
sell to the highest bidder. But things don’t turn out that way: soon various
criminals are looking for Ronnie intending to seize the armor by force. Then
Ronnie and Vic are cornered in an alley by Blacklash who demands the suit.
Suddenly, Spider-Man appears to fight the villain and the guys run for their
lives….
So
they guys end up selling the suit for a ridiculously low price to the Tinkerer
and while Ronnie doesn’t learn a lesson, Vic joins Vivi on their trek to
California, not looking back, not even when Falcon is battling Electro in the
street….


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At the Nextin airfield, Machinesmith, in his guise as Myron Smith, is holding an auction among representatives from several terrorist-supporting countries, offering the recreated Super-Soldier Serum to the highest bidder. On his way to stop the sale, Steve Rogers consults Hank (the Beast) McCoy about the best way to defeat this formidable enemy. Hank has a plan and it will involve the android Anita Erskine….
As the auction progresses, Anita arrives at the base and bullies her way past the guard. The suspicious guard calls ahead to warn Smith she is coming. Further inside the compound, she releases Steve from the trunk, assuring him that her sacrifice will not bother her as she isn’t real….
Warned, Machinesmith divests himself of the Myron Smith shell and battles Steve Rogers in his flexible robot form. After Steve decapitates the robot, the villain sends his consciousness into each mechanized weapon on the base in succession, firing at Steve to keep him off balance. For his part, Steve reacts with everything he has to distract his foe from the plan. When Machinesmith suddenly finds himself helpless, Anita steps out of the shadows and reveals she has shut down every electronics system on the base, leaving the villain nowhere to go…. Except Machinesmith can think of one: he enters the Anita robot and seizes control—which was Steve’s plan all along. Trapped in her reconfigured body, he is unable to escape when it self-destructs….
The ext day at Secret Avengers Roaming HQ, Sharon Carter comes upon Steve pondering his wartime romance with Cynthia Glass. She relays news of a problem found by Hank McCoy; Beast explains to Steve that the Super-Soldier Serum he recovered from the auction is a fake, the chemicals are worthless. Puzzled, Steve wonders what the mission was all about…..
In Detroit, Jacob Erskine tells Aloysius Thorndrake, Director of the Shadow Council, that he has perfected the Super-Soldier Serum now that he has obtained a sample of Steve Rogers’ blood; meanwhile, the mission against Machinesmith has convinced Rogers that the threat is over. They continue with their project: checking up on test subjects, duplicates of Steve Rogers, part of a scheme to create an army of super-soldiers for the sinister Shadow Council….


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At the Nextin corporate HQ in Madripoor, Steve Rogers is evading sniper fire while the dying CEO Jacob Erskine begs him to protect his wife from "Smith." Hearing security on its way, Steve leaps from the window, snatches at hanging banners to slow his fall and lands with a splash in a fountain. Locating the sniper’s nest he of course finds the gunman long gone, no evidence left behind. Steve scours the underworld of Madripoor, searching for a line on the killer but comes up blank; it seems the hitman was not a local, suggesting the kill was an inside job. From a safe house, Steve contacts Sharon Carter for info on Myron Smith, Nextel’s Head of Security. He then ponders the mystery of Anita Erskine, the murdered man’s wife, who is the exact double of Steve’s first love, Lieutenant Cynthia Glass, who was secretly a Nazi spy and died saving Cap from the Red Skull during the War. Carrying out Erskine’s last request, Steve watches Anita as Smith takes her to Nextin’s corporate retreat at the shore, hoping also to find who is scheming to sell the recreated Super-Soldier Serum on the black market. Late at night, Steve approaches Anita Erskine on the beach; distraught over her husband’s death, she feels she knows Steve from her dreams. When he gives his name she realizes they were once in love and they kiss, to Steve’s confusion. At this she panics and runs back to the house; as Steve follows, he receives a call from Sharon who informs him there is no such person as Myron Smith, all data on him before a year ago has been a forgery. Steve now knows who he is dealing with…he confronts Smith in the house and the enigmatic security man reveals that Anita is a robot who believes "she" is human, just as Smith is also a machine. Steve challenges his enemy to show himself: Machinesmith, robotics master, appears on a screen. He seals the doors and runs a Vita-Ray current through Steve, deactivating the Super-Soldier Serum within him, causing the former Captain America to revert to his original frail form….


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Prologue: Professor Amtower, seeking to blow the whistle on shady doings at a major corporation, waits in a remote area for a meeting with his contact. Suddenly a voice comes over his car radio informing him his betrayal is known…then his car explodes in flames….
In a diner Steve Rogers meets with British secret agent Pete Wisdom. Wisdom tells Steve that the murdered whistle-blower worked for Nextin Pharmaceuticals, whose CEO is Jacob Erskine, grandson of the creator of the Super-Soldier Serum which gave birth to Captain America. Erskine’s father was Tyler Paxton, Steve's fellow subject from Operation: Rebirth, cheated of his opportunity by the murder of the original Erskine. Now it seems Erskine has recreated his grandfather’s secret and is planning to sell the Serum overseas to the highest bidder. Learning that Nextin is hosting a major gala for its stockholders in Madripoor, Steve heads there. Infiltrating the building, he dons a tuxedo and mingles with the partygoers, planning to dissuade Erskine from this course of action. His world is shaken when he sees Erskine’s wife: she is the exact double of a woman Steve romanced during the War—and who died a long time ago. Erskine is notified of a security breach and leaves the room with his wife. Steve, unable to access the private elevator, takes the stairs to the next floor—and is confronted by three burly guards, who have been enhanced with the Super-Soldier Serum. Steve is able to overcome two of them but the third dies of an aneurism—one of the dangers of the Serum. Steve confronts Erskine in his office and accuses him of seeking revenge for his father’s disappointment. Erskine reveals that Tyler Paxton went on to a heroic career as a code-breaker for Military Intelligence and did not resent Steve. Erskine is surprised when Steve accuses him of planning to sell the Serum to the highest bidder; he claims to have rediscovered the Serum as a possible cure for cancer. When told about the super-strong guards, Erskine is again startled and mentions the Head of Security—before a sniper’s bullet hits him in the back and he dies in Steve’s arms….


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Imprisoned in the Nextin beach lab, the now weak and frail Steve Rogers recalls his childhood days being the target of bullies. Now he is at the mercy of robotics master Machinesmith, who reveals that Jacob Erskine experimented with his grandfather’s Super-Soldier Serum as a possible cure for cancer. He was unaware that Machinesmith, through his robot minion Myron Smith, was also experimenting with the Serum as a way to create an army. The test subjects were unstable so Steve Rogers, the only successful recipient of the Super-Soldier Serum was lured into a trap by the name Erskine and the sight of the robot double for his first love, Cynthia Glass, for his body to be studied and a better serum synthesized. After the tests are complete, Steve is beaten and tossed in a cell where he waits with military discipline. When the villain informs Steve he has the information he needed, he orders two of his hulking thugs take the prisoner out and kill him. Steve turns the tables: he may be a weakling but he is still the best-trained soldier in the world; even with the weight disadvantage he manages to overcome the guards and escape. Finding his way to the lab he reactivates the Anita Erskine robot. Because of her life as Erskine’s wife, the robot knows how to reverse the procedure which robbed Steve of his powers. "She" leads him to the Vita-Ray lab where his abilities are restored. When guards burst in and seize Anita, Steve is able to defeat them easily. Driving away from the beach house, Steve asks Anita where Machinesmith would likely meet with representatives from several terrorist-supporting countries to bid on the Super-Soldier Serum. She directs him to Nextin’s secret base with an airfield, choosing to join Steve in his mission….


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Escape from the Negative Zone, Part Two
Continued from UNCANNY X-MEN ANNUAL #3. As Emma Frost and Pixie arrive in New York to seek help for their compatriots trapped in the Negative Zone, Blastaar broadcasts a message to Earth that he considers Cyclops' and Hope Summers' invasion of his realm to be an act of aggression and he demands that they send Reed Richards to plead for mercy. Super-Soldier Steve Rogers volunteers to mount a rescue mission and he enters the Zone via SHIELD’s portal. Blastaar is not happy to see him and Steve fights his way through the aliens. Eventually he links up with Hope and Scott who have freed themselves. They fight their way back to the portal chamber and battle Blastaar when suddenly the wall comes crashing down and Namor, insane from lack of water, attacks friend and foe alike…. Continued in NAMOR THE FIRST MUTANT ANNUAL #1.


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What? What? What Was Gargantus!
Dan is an ocean explorer nearing retirement. He pilots a bathysphere one last time and discovers his son Billy stowed away to make that last trip with his dad. Thousands of feet under water, the bathysphere shakes: a huge reptilian humanoid monster grabs the cables connecting the submarine vehicle and follows them to the surface, taking Dan and Billy with it. People can’t believe their eyes when the behemoth walks out the sea to explore. He calls himself Gargantus and believes his peers should leave the depths of the ocean to live on the surface. The armed forces try stopping the monster in vain. Gargantus approaches to unleash his might on the helpless humans when, suddenly, he experiences trouble breathing and falls down, unconscious. The thin atmosphere is inappropriate for such beasts. They return the giant monster into the sea as Billy claims to follow in his father’s footsteps, exploring the ocean's depths.--


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Last issue after dealing with a Vridai nest in Java the team took refuge in Dr Doom's house there. But Spectrum (Monica Rambeau) had a seizure which she related to 'the moment of death'.Now their recovered sorcerers Daimon Hellstrom and Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) have teleported them to Blade's base in Detroit. Blade reports in to his Avengers boss Black Panther but only to tell him he still needs the Avengers to keep out of this secret mission. (He can't tell him *anything* about it because even knowledge of the existence of the Vridai from Svartalfheim is dangerous. The team he's recruited all already knew about them.)Monica has another fit (apparently her 5th). She says they feel like dying of heart attack. Asgardian Goddess Angela's touch causes the effect to fade. Spectrum has created a monitoring device to tell her more about what's happening to her. She says she's detecting the energy that leaves a person when they die. But she's feeling that energy returning!She appears to be having another attack but instead the villain named Ghost emerges from her body and compliments her on detecting "our experiment". He thanks her for the data she's collected and leaves with it. Angela, Blade, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes) go after him leaving Hellstrom and Wiccan to look after stricken Spectrum.Blade leads them outside, for the 1st time calling them by the name Strikeforce (which is news to the rest of them). There they are beset by multiple projections of Ghost, but all of them capable of firing electric blasts. Bucky heads to the top of a building from where he can disrupt the projections with sniper fire. But the real Ghost sneaks up behind him.Inside the 2 sorcerers are also looking after the comatose body of Count Ophidian. (The team thought they killed the Vridai leader in #3 but then found he was a fake and discovered the real Count bricked up in a wall where his 'aide' Birgit had been keeping him asleep since his youth.) Billy tells Daimon he knows he's been magically stopping Ophidian from waking up even though Angela wants to interrogate him. Hellstrom denies it but Kaplan can't trust him because he hasn't explained how he came to be helping the Vridai (when they met him in #1). So Daimon tells him the story.He was in his sister Satana's Las Vegas club Second Circle when he was approached by Birgit to perform a ritual for her (rituals are needed only for very large spells). He went along with it to find out what the Vridai wanted, so that he could then help them or stop them if he disapproved of their aim. He learned that their bridge back home to Svartalfheim had been destroyed (during War Of The Realms) and he agreed to help them find a new home. But he wouldn't let them have part of Hell so things got antagonistic. But the Vridai 'forced' him to help.When the Vridai capture someone they can shapechange into their captive. This is what happened to Wiccan, Angela, Spectrum, Spider-Woman and Winter Soldier before #1. They did the same to Daimon (but it *was* the real Hellstrom who was helping the enemy in #1). Billy and the others don't remember being captured and he's astonished that Daimon *does*.But now Wiccan has a suggestion. Wake Ophidian up and find out where other Vridai are based on Earth. Then Billy and Daimon can go to them and offer to *both* act as ritualists for them. Daimon is intrigued by the idea.Meanwhile Ghost electrocutes Winter Soldier but Angela attacks him with the other 2 close behind. Ghost evades her and calls up surveillance footage of some of the team's activities, threatening to let the Avengers know where to find them. He says he needs Spectrum but not the rest of them, so he wants them to tell Monica to come alone to the source of the energy she detected. Angela's response as usual is with a blade but Ghost  vanishes.The 4 have a conference. Blade wants to stop the Avengers learning anything about the Vridai, and also wants to stop what sounds like resurrections. When Monica recovers he'll get Wiccan and Hellstrom to teleport the 5 to wherever she says. They'll leave the sorcerous 2 with the Count again.So the next scene is Lakeside County, Michigan outside the St Isidore Health Centre. It's the middle of the night and Spectrum detects a skeleton staff looking after the sleeping patients. They are all patients on life support. The main power is off and everything's running on a backup generator. The ex-team leader of the Avengers immediately takes charge. She leads Angela and Blade round the back while Bucky and Jessica go in the front door.Monica avoids the alarmed rear exit by ghosting through a wall, but that means she leaves the other 2 outside on watch. Just as she does so the generator goes down, and Spider-Woman and Winter Soldier have to persuade a frightened reception nurse that they're the covert branch of the Avengers and she should evacuate the staff while they take care of the patients. Meanwhile Spectrum is providing power to the life support machines.Unfortunately for our heroes Ghost had spread nanites in Reception and now he has SpW and WS under his control, so much so that he has them floating along behind him through the air and then he dumps them unconscious. He unplugs the machine Spectrum is working on and tells her the patients must die so they can be resurrected in what he calls the AARU Project.  They both see a pink spirit rise from the patient which Monica's energy form can touch, distressing the guy.Meanwhile Angela and Blade have found a way in, and the Goddess senses the restless dead. The new ghost shows up closely followed by Spectrum who stops Angela from sending it to (the Asgardian) Hel. Monica wants to try to put the spirit back in its body. Blade The Vampire Slayer is *not* happy about creating Undead but Spectrum claims this is not a dead ghost, it's consciousness as an energy being. The other 2 can't see the difference. And there are more of them in a ward.The villainous Ghost tells them that the Doctor has finished her dinner break and will explain all about AARU. His partner enters the room and it's Dr Karla Sofen, better known as Moonstone. She starts, in a long-winded way, to persuade Monica to help her. She needs Spectrum's power to maintain the stability of the energy 'ghosts'. But Monica still wants to return the spirits to their bodies and Angela still wants to send them on their way.Spectrum unleashes a mighty EMF blast which succeeds. The patients sit up in their beds. But Moonstone warns her that "Nothing comes back from the dead unchanged".


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The team have promised to help young Count Ophidian and his shape-shifting fungi-beings the Vridai from Svartalfheim find a new home. But his domineering advisor Birgit has kidnapped Ophidian from Deadpool's Monster Island and taken him back to Svartalfheim. The team followed them there but found themselves in the middle of a Civil War.But we open with something completely different - Angela is relaxing with her lover Sera. But then she realises this isn't real, and we see that she's really been captured by some Dark Elves who are using a thoughtfeeder on her (some tentacles emerging from a container held by an Elf). Until Blade arrives on an armoured 6-legged clawed 'horse' and decapitates the holder. Freed from the influence Angela helps him kill her captors.As they escape on the horse pursued by more Dark Elves on armoured wolves, Angela explains to Eric Brooks (and us) what's going on. Since the death of their leader Malekith (War Of The Realms #6) the Dark Elves have fractured into many rival groups battling for power. This group captured her for the status it might bring. They lead the pursuers into a trap laid by the rest of the team. The Elves are then slaughtered by Winter Soldier's automatic rifle, Daimon Hellstrom's magic blasts and Spider-Woman's electroblasts. Wiccan does a bit too but Spectrum seems to keep out of it.They take refuge in an abandoned building where Asgardian Angela explains more details of Svartalfheim politics. The fungal Vridai had a hidden kingdom that the rest of Svartalfheim considered a myth. But the War Of The Realms upset all that. Ophidian wants to find somewhere else they can live in peace, but Angela thinks Birgit may be angling for some real power here. And they can't warn the Dark Elves (if they could get any of them to listen) because knowing the Vridai exist gives them power over you.Spectrum is unable to track Ophidian here on his home turf. Angela reminds them that Birgit is teleporting using shards of the Black Bifrost, the evil version of the Rainbow Bridge between Asgard and Midgard (Earth), that Angela's mother Freyja destroyed in the WOTR. She adds that the then-dormant Vridai had their spores embedded in the Black Bridge, and its destruction scattered them over Earth. And the Vridai awoke and mimicked various humans, including our heroes (in #1).The Asgardian ends by suggesting they go to the site of the Black Bifrost and use some of its shards to follow Birgit. Hellstorm will teleport them there. Blade says he'll stay behind to fend off any more Dark Elves. Daimon says he'll stay with him, and Wiccan can provide any magic the others might need. So off they go ...... and wind up in a camp of Elves loyal to Malekith. Angela tries diplomacy to get safe passage. The Dark Elves agree but only if she'll let a thoughtfeeder verify she's not an enemy. But after her earlier experience she refuses, and Winter Soldier destroys it. The Elves now change their price - Bucky Barnes must stay to work off the cost of the weapon he's just destroyed. Spectrum elects to stay with him, leaving Angela, Spider-Woman and Wiccan to continue alone.They reach the ruined end of the Black Bifrost. Wiccan detects strange magic in an intact wall. But as they near it they are sucked through a magic portal to the Asgardian Hel where they are confronted by its joint Queens Hela and Karnilla (since Thor (2018) #4 in the lead-up to WOTR). Hela is not well disposed towards Angela who once usurped this throne (in the Angela: Queen Of Hel mini-series), but Karnilla is on their side. However she says that they have been asked to 'collect' the souls of any who touch the Bridge. But they don't think the asker would mean *them* harm so they make them an offer. Spider-Woman and Wiccan are to stay here, and if Angela's quest succeeds then she can return to claim them. Angela doesn't want to accept this deal but Wiccan says his magic-user's intuition tells him this is just a mythic test.So Angela moves on to the last stage alone and finds her mother Freyja waiting for her. Freyja was off on a 'long-delayed honeymoon' with Odin (since Thor #18), but the protective system she set up around the Black Bifrost has called her back. Angela tries to convince her that she has a good reason to be here by explaining Ophidian's situation without ever naming him or the Vridai. But her mother tells her she'll have to do it another way, and sends her (and Jessica Drew and Billy Kaplan) back to the Bridge ...... where they find Blade, Hellstorm, Spectrum and Winter Soldier pursued by Dark Elves. They defeat the foe but then Angela detects something else about the wall. It bursts open to reveal Birgit in the form of a giant spider and Ophidian wrapped up in spider-web. She and Angela fight and the Asgardian quickly wins. Wiccan grabs the Count and Hellstrom teleports them home ...... to Monster Island along with several severed tentacles. Deadpool's still cleaning up after their last visit, and isn't happy. But Jessica pulls out Don Buggini's business card (see last issue).


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Last issue the team rescued Wiccan from the Vridai in the jungles  of Java. They also got away with the baddies' comatose leader Count Ophidian who they found hidden in a wall of the Temple Of The Three. Now their 2 sorcerers are too drained to teleport them home so they've found an eerie mansion to recover in.They're caught in a storm of rain and lightning, and a giant hooded skeletal figure looms over the house. Spectrum tries to absorb the energy of the storm to no avail. Daimon Hellstrom claims that the house belongs to Dr Doom and it's all magical special effects to frighten people off. The next stage is real robotic hounds but Monica Rambeau does manage to direct some of the lightning to blast them to pieces.They enter to find a lit fire in the fireplace surrounded by comfy chairs and occasional tables. Billy Kaplan guesses that Doom has it magically set to provide a welcome for him whenever he visits the place. Blade is suspicious of it being a trap but Angela is going to accept warmth from the fire and deal with a trap if and when it's sprung. And Daimon and Billy need rest before they can arrange teleportation out.They turn to Ophidian. Last issue they faced him and his advisor Birgit and a horde of Vridai in the Temple, and they thought they killed the Count. But now they realise that was a fake being controlled by Birgit who they now think walled up the real Ophidian as a boy. Angela brought him with them to get information from him when he wakes up. They may have killed all the Vridai in the Temple but there are more on Midgard (that's Earth to us non-Asgardians). They just have to make sure he doesn't use his shape-shifting ability to trick them into fighting each other.So while they wait they tell each other what appear to be relevant stories from their pasts.Winter Soldier remembers a time during WWII while he was Captain America's sidekick Bucky. They are in Germany's Black Forest mountains escorting a troop of wounded GIs to a train station. (This must have been during the invasion of Germany in early 1945 before Cap and Bucky both went into suspended animation.) But he sees something mysterious in the woods and sneaks off alone to investigate. He's attacked by a monster which knocks him out. He awakens to find himself attached to a tree trunk by 'ropes' of vegetable stuff. Breaking free he returns to camp to see Cap talking to another Bucky. Waiting until Cap leaves, the real Bucky stabs the fake 1 which turns into a Vridai. Bucky drags the body off and leaves it, seemingly never mentioning it to Steve Rogers. Now Bucky Barnes wonders if the Vridai survived and was the 1 that Blade met in Berlin decades later.Daimon Hellstrom now remembers something too, from the time when he was with the Defenders and in a relationship with Hellcat (ie sometime between Def#92 when they met and #122 when they quit the team (and got married in #125 and left New York for San Francisco). It appears they had a temporary break up sometime (which I don't recall) and Daimon is feeling angry about being dumped and takes it out on some Dormammu cultists. Unfortunately his anger makes him sloppy so he's losing the fight when Hellcat joins in to help him. Afterwards they are both fired up and retire to a Defenders safe house for make up sex. In the morning Patsy Walker is gone but Daimon is confused by a phone call from Patsy to complain that the security system says he brought a woman home last night. *Of course* she's only angry that he violated the team's security. Now Hellstrom recalls that he got a similar vibe from 'Patsy' as he now gets from the Vridai.Spider-Woman leaves the gathering. Monica guesses that Jessica Drew is unsettled by shapeshifters ever since she was replaced by a Skrull for a long time in the lead-up to and during Secret Invasion. Many people still can't stop associating her with the things the Skrull Queen did. Angela follows her out and Jess confides that she too had a Vridai encounter.It was very recently, soon after the birth of her son Gerry. She fell asleep with the child in her arms and awoke with the feeling that he *wasn't* her son. She tried to convince herself she was wrong but then the baby attacked her as a dark shape with wings. She drove it off and found her real child. But now she's afraid that not killing the Vridai duplicate makes her responsible for the current infestation.Angela leads he back to the others and tells them their memories of Vridai are all false. The Vridai were confined to Svartalfheim and never invaded Midgard before the War Of The Realms. This is all part of the insidious infection by the Vridai of the minds of any who know of them. (Blade gave that as an excuse in #1 for keeping the other Avengers out of this, and only involving these heroes who had already been touched by the enemy. But if Angela is right then Blade's memory of fighting a Vridai years ago is false too, so how did he know about them?)Bucky says this doesn't change what they have to do. And he fills glasses with wine that Billy found, and they toast their endeavour. But suddenly Monica switches to her energy body and falls to the ground saying something about sensing the 'moment of death'.


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Taking time off from hunting the Vridai, most of the team have been lured by the Ghost to investigate a hospital where Dr Karla Sofen (Moonstone) is murdering patients to experiment with trapping their spirits. Ghost and Moonstone want the power of Spectrum to stabilise the results.We start with a flashback several hours. Karla, using the name Dr Sophien, and Ghost consider patient Mr Schafer who has donated his body to science. Moonstone intends to use him in Project Aaru, named after the Ancient Egyptian heaven, to create a digital heaven for uploaded consciousnesses, which should prove a money-spinner.  He's not dead yet but when a nurse interrupts to inform Dr Sophien that Mr Schafer's family are here she tells her to inform them that he just passed.Ghost went invisible while the nurse was present but now comes back. He asks the Doctor whether Schafer actually donated his remains to Aaru, or just to science in general? And how can the subjects report that it doesn't work, or they wind up with no 'heaven'? Karla's reply is to threaten to destroy a computer chip if he doesn't follow orders. This chip contains the consciousness of his old girlfriend which she found in a lab of the Roxxon Corporation who murdered her. She claims that this chip was what gave her the idea of project Aaru in the 1st place. And Ghost meekly switches Mr Schafer's life support off.At the end of last issue Spectrum tried to return the ghosts Karla Sofen had created back to their bodies. But now we see that the result is more like zombies attacking our heroes. And Monica Rambeau now claims it was actually Moonstone that resurrected the bodies but without their spirits. And she has now left left our gang to deal with the problem.Spectrum was with Angela and Blade but the Asgardian Goddess has left them at some point. Monica tells Blade *not* to cut *these* zombies to pieces as is his wont because she still hopes to get them back to life. Blade reluctantly complies and just breaks bones instead. Spider-Woman and Winter Soldier are elsewhere in the hospital but Spectrum has contacted them and told *them* not to kill anyone either.Blade heads off to find Moonstone and stop the problem at source. Spider-Woman, who's got separated from Bucky Barnes, reports that Moonstone has found *her*, along with Ghost. As superstrong Karla Sofen beats her up Ghost sinks through the floor. Jessica Drew reports that he's heading for the basement and unhappy Moonstone has gone chasing after him.Now we have an interlude with the other 2 members of our cast who were left to guard the Vridai leader Count Ophidian who was supposedly in a coma. Last issue Wiccan got Daimon Hellstrom to admit that *he* was magically keeping the Count asleep. And that he had been working as a ritualist for the Vridai to help them find a home. Then Billy Kaplan suggested to Daimon that they wake Ophidian up and agree to *both* acts as ritualists for the Vridai.Now Hellstrom has removed his spell but the Ophidian is still asleep. Billy tries to wake him but the body crumbles to dust! Wiccan theorises that the fungal Vridai Count created an exoskeleton and at some point escaped from within. Daimon suggests they teleport away before angry Blade returns. But goody Wiccan says he might be able to track Ophidian down by locating an alternate reality where they have found him and see where that was. (This sounds rather like quantum computing - try all possibilities in different universes and locate the 1 with the answer.) But Billy warns that Daimon might see something in that future he doesn't like.Back at the hospital Angela has met up with Winter Soldier and they've found Ghost in the basement. But he tells them he wants to help them defeat Moonstone, and explains what she's doing. He also explains how he was only working with her because she has his girlfriend trapped in a microchip. So they strike a deal whereby he'll get the chip.Back at Blade's place Wiccan has located the Count still in the building. But Hellstrom saw a future where Angela and his sister Satana sat laughing on the throne of Hell while he himself was being tortured. Billy explains that he can do stuff like that because in the future he's going to be the Demiurge, which Daimon knows refers to the 'extraplanar dominus of all reality'.Anyway they head down to *their* basement where they find the cowering child that is the real Ophidian, still afraid of his nanny/advisor Birgit (see previous issues). Hellstrom thinks it's an act but Billy believes him. Wiccan says they'll get the Vridai home (to Svartalfheim), but Ophidian says that the problem is they don't *have* a home anymore. (Which I think Daimon already explained last issue!)Back at the hospital Spectrum has reassembled with Blade and Spider-Woman. She has corralled some of the 'ghosts' and needs Moonstone to produce the appropriate bodies so she can get them back together. Jessica is all for it but Blade continues to insist you can't bring back the dead. (Anybody would think he didn't live in the Marvel universe.) Monica is at least willing to compromise on uploading them to Sofen's digital heaven.Now Moonstone joins them and, in between fighting them, reveals that her machine doesn't work. She really intended to do what she promised, for mercenary reasons of course, but now she's cutting her losses and just wants to get people to invest in the idea (then she'll run off with the money presumably).But Angela arrives with Winter Soldier and Ghost. She uses her mind-controlled ribbons to bind and gag the woman. Spectrum reaches an energy hand into Sofen's neck to temporarily disable the Moonstone that powers her. Ghost retrieves his lover's chip. And the team deliver Karla to the authorities.We next see her incarcerated in the Ravencroft Institute For The Criminally Insane. But a doctor frees her from her restraints and offers the psychiatrist a job treating other patients. But later he tells his aides that humouring such a dangerous villain is the only way of controlling her.Meanwhile Spectrum has freed the spirits Sofen was experimenting on and senses that they have gone to their rest. Blade has arranged for the Avengers to contact their families. Ghost has left. Jessica has heard from Billy and Daimon about the current Ophidian situation, and they're off to deal with that.


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The main plotline in this series is that the Vridai came from Svartalfheim to Midgard during War Of The Realms and have stayed. Last issue the team agreed to help their rightful ruler Count Ophidian find a new home for them. But they've still got to worry about his advisor/nanny Birgit who had imprisoned him for a long time and ruled in his stead through a puppet substitute.We find her in the Slaughter House bar in Monster Island (formerly Staten Island) where she scares the rest of the monsters.Meanwhile we see Deadpool, King of Monster Island, trying to get what looks like a House-Elf to affix his crown to the top of his costume. They are interrupted by a smell and he leaves his throne-shack to discover that a sewer hole is erupting. So he dives into the sewer to investigate and comes across our team and Ophidian using it as a way to sneak in.Wade Wilson greets Blade with a reference to the Blade: Trinity movie (it's all part of him knowing he's a Marvel comics character, and hence about things in our universe). Then he accuses the team of all being monsters:- Blade's a (half-)vampire. Daimon Hellstrom's a devil. Wiccan is a witch. Spectrum's a ghost-buster (so he knows about the last 2 issues). Spider-Woman he connects to Kiss Of The Spider-Woman (especially the musical version?). Winter Soldier he likens to a werewolf because he loses his memory and kills people. And Angela was once Queen Of The Dead.But he doesn't know who the elf is, and Count Ophidian tells him he doesn't *want* to know. This only intrigues Deadpool but Angela assures him he *really* doesn't want to know. (It's a major plot point of this series that knowing about the Vridai puts you in danger.) She and Blade ask permission for them to stay for 3 days. Wade grants it but says they can't stay in the sewer because they're giving the system tummyache. And we see that the sewer system is indeed 1 giant creature. In the middle of all this he casually mentions the scary woman in the Slaughter House.Later they're having a meal in Vito's Pizza. Jessica Drew texts her infant son Gerry who's being looked after by Roger Gocking (the current Porcupine). Wanting to speed things up so she can get back to her kid Spider-Woman rushes over alone to the bar to see if the scary woman is Birgit. She tries to use her pheromone powers to make the patrons friendly, but the monsters all think it's a stink. But the barkeep still tells her where to find the mystery woman.It turns out Blade and Winter Soldier have followed her. They (at least pretend to) suspect she might be a Vridai replacement, but her response lets them know it's really her. They agree to track down Birgit. But they 1st have to face Don Buggini and his gang who accuse them of being monster hunters.Back at the pizza parlour Ophidian has asked Angela for a chat in a ransacked small supermarket next door. She thinks he means a duel, but he's desperate to know how he can help the team keep him safe. She thinks he's motivated by guilt, but at least that means he has a conscience. But why is he guilty, since he was a prisoner when Birgit sent the Vridai to attack and replace them (at the start of this series)? He says he knows why they were chosen. She advises him to keep the knowledge secret until he can use it to bargain for a new home for his people. Ophidian asks why she's helping him? She says it's because *she* needed help when she 1st came to this land.Don Buggini's mob lead our 2 back to the bar where they are told to fight each other while the patrons bet on the winner. Jessica wins with moves and a little pheromone help. Buggini offers her a job on the professional fight circuit. She takes his card but they leave.But outside the ground is covered in Vridai spores (they are a fungus-based lifeform). Birgit appears and enchains them in Vridai-flesh. Blade offers to give her the Count if they'll leave Monster Island.Back at the market the others are surrounded by an infestation of Vridai flesh. Angela thinks Ophidian should be able to control the spores because he's their rightful ruler. Birgit arrives with the other 3 and admits she's correct but Ophidian can't control *her*, and he needs her to advise *him* what to do. She grabs the Count and says she'll take him back to Svartalfheim (despite several previous issues telling us they can't go back there). She creates a portal and they go through ...... but the sorcerers Wiccan and Hellstrom hold it open and the team follow her to Svartalfheim. And find themselves between 2 opposing armies. 1 side hail Angela as saviour of the Queen of Alfheim. The others don't seem so friendly. So 1 side is presumably Light Elves of Alfheim and the other is Dark Elves of Svartalfheim.Next morning Deadpool comes to visit them and finds them gone, and is angry at the mess they left behind.


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Last issue the team rescued Count Ophidian from Birgit in Svartalfheim and then returned to Monster Island. But they still had 2 problems. They still needed to find somewhere for Ophidian's fungus-people the Vridai to live. And Deadpool was angry at the mess they made of his Island in #7. But then Spider-Woman pulled out Don Buggini's business card from that issue when he offered her a job as a professional fighter.Now DP is off to a gaming retreat (maybe), with his 'house-elf' as part of his luggage, and Spider-Woman has got Strikeforce on the fight circuit for Buggini (in matching costumes). She apparently got Wade Wilson to agree to all this by threatening to set a horde of spiders on him (which of course she can't actually do). The team are fighting some monsters in the ring and Jessica Drew assures them she has a plan and it's going to solve Ophidian's problem. Things aren't going too well, except for Wiccan who's up against a snowman (complete with carrot nose). Then SW punches her opponent through a hole in his stomach and her venom blast explodes gas inside, but she gets benched for the rest of the game because the rules only allow external injuries.Blade doesn't like all this, and Jessica won't tell them what her plan is. Angela guesses that's to do with information about the Vridai being dangerously contagious, and she reminds their usual leader that *he* himself persuaded his fellow Avengers not to ask what he was doing for the same reason. And we see hooded Ophidian hiding in the crowd. Then the Ref tells them that they can get Spider-Woman back in the game if they win a 1-on-1 face-off. They huddle and Winter Soldier convinces the others they need Jessica because they don't know what her plan is. Spectrum passes on their decision and the Ref assumes she's their chosen champion.Monica Rambeau has to fight an electrical alien named Shzzzllzzzthzz but called the Blip. She doesn't know if she can beat him but figures she can remove both of them from the contest. In her energy form they crash fists and then disappear. The crowd's mood is ugly so Don Buggini orders a free-for-all. Loads of monsters leap into the ring to attack the Strikeforce team, who take the gloves off to fight back (including Blade slicing and dicing with his swords). Spider-Woman's plan is all going wrong and she begs Buggini to let her back in the game and she promises him a great show. He agrees, and calls a temporary intermission.Jessica sneaks into the team's dugout and assures them that everything will be OK. Blade demands a full explanation but Jess says the place is bugged, and she leaves. Meanwhile in the audience Ophidian is getting worried too and sets out to find Jess.The team are back in the ring but a large cage is lowered over them all, and SW just manages to dive in to join them. And then Buggini announces that they must fight each other to the death until only 1 is left. Blade is seriously considering taking Spider-Woman down when Spectrum and Blip crash through the ceiling and into the cage. Blade tells Wiccan to stop SW gently or he'll do it forcefully. Billy Kaplan tries a Bind Jessica Drew spell but it doesn't work. Spectrum is stunned by the fall and electrical discharges from Blip KO the other team members. SW grabs a chunk of ceiling to knock Wiccan down and declares herself the winner. But then she also morphs into Ophidian.Later Buggini awards the prize to Ophidian, a job on the Island. There's a hooded person by the Vridai's side who uncloaks as Jessica. She tells the team they switched before the last match, and her plan has worked.Later still Ophidian has invited the team to a housewarming party. Deadpool is there too and he's made lasagne. Ophidian reveals that this is now home for the Vridai because he can create others from spores. He releases some which cause the team to experience a shared vision of the past. We see the original 5 team members arriving at the location of the start of #1, each answering a call for help from Avengers. They enter the building and the next thing Angela knows is that she awakes to see their Vridai duplicates. There's lots of Vridai bits scattered about the place, and an Avengers communicator sending out it's call for help alongside the remains of Vridai versions of Captain America and Black Panther.When they return from the vision there are lots of Vridai fungi in the room. Ophidian tells them he thought the team deserved to know what happened to them before #1. Angela is happy because it means they were never mistrusted by the Avengers, they were proactive. Blade gets the Count to promise his family will stay on Monster Island. Then he decides it's time to let the Avengers know what they were doing.They meet with Blade's other team in their Avengers Mountain HQ. Cap and BP are there with Captain Marvel, Ghost Rider, Iron Man, She-Hulk and Thor. Leader T'Challa says they trusted Blade and didn't try to discover what Strikeforce were doing. He's impressed with their solution to the Vridai problem, except for the involvement of a loose cannon like Deadpool. Blade counters that it's in DP's best interests to make it work. Thor asks his sister Angela if she's really happy for a hostile species from Svartalfheim to be living on Midgard. Then Carol Danvers offers them a job as a backup team for the Avengers. But they all decline.Later they also agree that the team is over. Jessica Drew will return to her baby, and Wiccan will return to his man Hulkling. Angela and Blade are off to sort out Svartalfheim. But they'll all keep in touch.


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The War Of The Realms released (it seems plant-based) shape-shifters called Vridai from Svartalfheim to Earth. They can only imitate people they have captured. Last issue some of them captured and replaced Angela of Asgard and several ex-Avengers, framed them for something and then let them go. Blade knew of these creatures and led the framed group to a confrontation with their leader Count Ophidian, who called in their Royal Ritualist Daimon Hellstrom. Thinking he was a replacement Blade killed Daimon, who turned out to be the real thing. And Daimon's sister Satana rang to say her brother was acting strange.The team now enter Satana's Las Vegas club the 2nd Circle. Spectrum, Spider-Woman, Wiccan and Winter Soldier have changed into civvies, but Blade is in his 'work clothes' and Angela wears what seem to be her only clothes. Blade isn't worried about telling Satana they've killed her brother because they have the body (not on them) and Satana can revive it. Satana is ready to party, especially with Angela and especially after she learns that they have *both* ruled a hell, but Blade wants to get down to business.Satana says Daimon came to see her and bit her. She responded by putting him in magic suspension in her office, and she takes them there. Blade wants to keep their cards close to their chests because knowledge of the Vridai is itself dangerous. But forthright Angela mentions the Svartalfheim 'fairies' so he tells Satana to leave. The succubus of course objects to that, unless Blade's bossing her around is meant as flirting. So Angela carries her out and dumps her there.Now they want Wiccan to use his magic to bring the real Daimon's corpse here so they can swap them and destroy the Vridai version. Billy Kaplan also objects to being ordered around - he got dragged into this and it will require a lot of magical energy. He won't have enough left to teleport them out afterwards. While he's building up to it Blade sends Monica Rambeau and Bucky Barnes to search backstage for more Vridai, and he and Spider-Woman will check the dance floor. (Jessica Drew *knew* dressing for a party was the right look for this gig!) Angela will stay with Wiccan in case things go bad.Spectrum finds a waiter tied up (with vegetation and slime) in a storeroom. But she recognises him as 1 they just passed in the corridor. She tries to warn Winter Soldier outside but the faux waiter drops his disguise and attacks Bucky. Monica turns into her blue energy form and pushes the Vridai away, and then Bucky shoots it in the head. Then she has a bright idea. She transmits herself to all the neon signs and lighting so she can scan the whole place for the enemy.Wiccan is doing his 'chant what you want' method of spell-casting, and repeated "Bring me Daimon Hellstrom" results in the body floating in through a portal. He won't tell Angela where he's been hiding it. He's wondering what to do with the fake but Angela says she'll just kill it. But then Satana forces her way in. Wiccan uses his cloak to hide the real Daimon's body. Satana says she has many necromancers who owe her favours to resurrect him (looking at the Vridai 1). But then she turns her attention to Angela again and says she can tell she has a broken heart. Angela blusters but they end up kissing.Jessica Drew has been cruising the dance floor using her Spider-Woman pheromones to arouse attraction in the dancers to check they are human. Blade has been checking the bar. They see a blue energy signal from a neon sign which they deduce is Spectrum and follow it. It leads them to Satana slimed up in a stairwell. They all 3 rush to her office where they find the kissing pair.Angela sees the 2 Satana's and assumes that it was Vridai magic that made her succumb to Satana's charms - Satana says it's because she's a succubus, stupid! Both Satana's claim to be the real 1, obviously. Blade is all for killing both to be safe. 'Kissing' Satana says they need *her* to bring her brother back from the dead. Winter Soldier enters at this point and resolves the question by shooting the 'captive' Satana who promptly reverts to her Vridai form. Blade says it was a lucky guess, but Bucky points out that she wasn't wearing the bandage where Vridai Daimon bit the real Satana.Then the Vridai Daimon breaks up into lots of little flying Vridai (that's a new trick!) bearing a message from Count Ophidian and his Liege Knight Birgit the Accursed (presumably the female with him last issue) saying that they have taken over ..., but we don't hear what they've taken over because 4 of the Strikeforce start killing them. Wiccan is too drained to help. But then Spectrum shows up and zaps them all with multiple electric bolts. However this seems to enable the Daimon Vridai to reform. He says they've stolen the Royal Sorcerer (remember Daimon Hellstrom seemed to be working with the Vridai last issue) so now he'll take a replacement. And he disappears with Wiccan.It turns out Spectrum's outburst has blacked out Las Vegas. But she now restores all the lights. Blade  believes the Vridai won't kill Billy because they obviously need a sorcerer for something, which is the team's next thing to worry about. They leave Satana to set about getting her brother back from death. On the way out Blade hints that the Vridai can duplicate Wiccan now that they have him prisoner. And we see 'Billy Kaplan' turning up on the doorstep to greet his fiancé Teddy Altman/Hulkling.


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The opening page has 5 undisclosed people stealing deadly viruses from the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases lab. (The comic says it's a secret location but Wikipedia reveals it's at Fort Detrick in Maryland.)Later the Avengers are called in and arrive by Wakandan flying craft Bubastis. The invaders and their loot can't be found. The staff and guards and their families are quarantined at the site, and panic is building. Leaving Ghost Rider in charge of the plane Black Panther, Captain Marvel, Iron Man and She-Hulk drop down to the scene. Iron Man relies on his armour but the other 3 wear breathing masks.Inside they find the place and occupants splattered with blood. A leaking vial has affected some guards who turn violent. Angry She-Hulk rips her mask off and gets infected too. She picks up a fridge full of vials and throws it through a wall because she says she can hear friends on the other side. In the next room they see Angela, Spectrum, Spider-Woman, Wiccan and Winter Soldier, most of of whom are ex-Avengers.The Avengers take them in custody to Avengers Mountain HQ claiming innocence and ignorance. Security camera and forensic evidence indicate that these heroes really did commit the crime. Captain America joins BP, CM and IM in trying to figure out why. These aren't Skrull imposters and there's no trace mind-control. But they've also suffered no effects from released viruses as She-Hulk and the guards did, which Tony Stark can't explain. Panther has called in Blade who has said they should leave *him* to deal with the situation.The suspects are sharing a cell and discussing what's going on. They don't remember how they got there, and some of them are strangers to each other. They're hungry but Wiccan says his magic is not to be used for trivial things like conjuring up pizza. There seems to be some missing dialogue about a scientific explanation because Angela dismisses science, and then Blade appears in the room, rips out the surveillance cameras, and says science has nothing to do with it. He says he knows what happened to them but didn't want to explain it to the other Avengers.He tells them about an incident in Berlin many years ago (and he's shown in his costume from the Tomb Of Dracula days) where he ran across 3 vampires attacking a young woman. He killed 2 of the vamps but then the 'victim' tore apart the 3rd. Blade then killed *her* and she shape-shifted into something else. Eric Brooks then found the real girl alive in a nearby dumpster and she was the Chancellor's daughter who didn't remember what had happened to her. But the important part is that he got a feeling that *something* had taken note of him and was whispering in his head. And he got the exact same sensation when he saw the suspects here.He also adds that he took a sample of the thing and got Tony Stark and T'Challa to build him a detector for such things. (Which doesn't really fit with the Tomb Of Dracula timeframe.)Now he teleports them to a temple in the Indonesian rainforest (using the borrowed teleportation device which got him into their cell) because his detector tells him that's where the real villains are. He also explains that he didn't involve the Avengers because he didn't want to risk what was messing with *his* head getting into *theirs*.Wiccan recognises the Temple Of Three as the place where Dr Strange and Dr Doom took part in a contest of sorcerers (Marvel GN #49 Triumph And Torment). And indeed they are faced with a hissing Dr Doom who Blade denounces as a shapeshifter and Angela proves it by cutting him open. And she recognises its entrails as those of a Vridai, the Fae of the Asgardian realm Svartalfheim, who live in dark caves and can shapeshift but only into the form of someone they have captured (which means they must have Doom captive). She remembers a legend about them being woken by a broken bridge. Blade thinks they must have been woken this time by the destruction of the Black Bifrost by Freyja in War Of The Realms. (So how come 1 was active in Berlin years ago?)As Angela and Blade have discussed this they've wandered into the temple without the others, and they get attacked by Vridai (not disguised as anybody). Assuming these are part of the gang that kidnapped and replaced them earlier Angela taunts them by asking how many of them it took to imitate *her*, before she and Blade gut most of them. The other 4 heroes then join in to deal with the rest.Spectrum suggests they sneak further into the temple, but Angela just boldly marches in and calls out to their foes. They come into the presence of the leader Count Ophidian the Serpent Prince and his female aide/scribe(?) with a book (of spells?). After an exchange of insults Blade attacks with his sword but is repulsed by a magic barrier. Wiccan fires magic at the barrier while Spectrum and Bucky blast/shoot at it - all useless.The aide summons the Royal Ritualist who turns out to be Daimon Hellstrom. Daimon is currently helping the Avengers in their own series and Blade assumes he's been captured and this is a shapeshifter. Whatever, Hellstorm counters Wiccan's attempt to alter the reality of the barrier (akin to his 'mother' Scarlet Witch's probability-warping hex power), and Spectrum's attempt to absorb the energy of the shield backfires on her. But the barrier collapses (and Ophidian, aide and throne seem to get disintegrated).Blade takes the opportunity to kill the Ritualist, but he doesn't change into a Vridai. 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The Vridai have captured Wiccan and taken him to their Earthly base, the Temple Of The Three in Indonesia. They say they won't kill him because they need him. Then they bring in another prisoner, bound so he can't attack him. But that doesn't reassure Billy Kaplan. It's Dr Doom who can probably easily escape the bonds. And Billy says Doom was married to his mother and hates him. Wiccan starts casting a spell by his usual method:- chanting the desired outcome "Don't leave me here with Dr Doom" over and over.We next see a tale of the youth of Count Ophidian, the Vridai leader, and his governess Birgit. She terrified him but always caught him and brought him back when he tried to run away. 1 night she crept into his bedroom. Guards heard him scream and investigated, but Birgit said he'd had a bad dream. However they say Obsidian was never the same after that. Then we see that it is Daimon Hellstrom (who's obviously been successfully resurrected since last issue) telling the story to Angela, saying he learned it while he was dead. The Vridai are from Svartalfheim, 1 of the Asgardian 9 realms, but the Asgardian says she's never heard that story before. But then her brother Thor doesn't even know about Vridai at all - she knows things he doesn't because she's the older sibling.Then we see that they are in Hulkling's home, with their host blindfolded and tied up (by Angela's ribbons and her Blade Of Ichor in its whip-form). When the Vridai captured Wiccan this enabled them to send 1 of their number to impersonate him and contact his lover Hulkling. Our team are here to deal with the imposter. Angela tells their captive they can't trust him not to defend his 'boyfriend' against them. And besides setting loose a shapeshifter when they're fighting another such could get confusing. Then Blade is propelled through a wall followed by the Vridai-Wiccan. Blade kills him to stop his screeching. Now they release Teddy Altman who demands to go with them to free Billy. Blade pretends to agree but then electroshocks the ex-Young Avenger into unconsciousness.Hellstorm teleports them with a spell to a train in West Java where they meet up with the rest of the team:- Spectrum, Spider-Woman and Winter Soldier. Then they all leap/fly off the moving train atop a viaduct near their target the Vridai temple ...... where Wiccan and Doom are alone in a room. Billy is within a cage of magical bars and Doom just stands there doing/saying nothing. Wiccan tries to bolster his courage by reminding Doom that *he*'s just a sorcerer while Billy will grow up to be the Demiurge. When Doom continues to be dumb he wonders if it's the result of his attempted spell, but then when the Lord Of Latveria doesn't respond to being hit by a thrown stone Billy realises that it's *not* Dr Doom but a Doombot. And he also realises the Vridai don't know this!Birgit is now Ophidian's right-hand advisor (as seen in the previous issues), and she now comes to let Billy out of the cage. She says that they found the master-sorcerer Dr Doom surprisingly easy to catch and now he's mockingly ignoring them by being asleep. She wants Wiccan to wake him up. (This is presumably what they wanted Hellstrom for but Blade sort-of-accidentally killed him in #1 (and last issue they took the body to his sister Satana to be revived).) Billy says he'll do it but pulls his Demiurge rank to say that Doom will then be *his* servant.Meanwhile Vridai troops are massed to repel the attack by the Strikeforce (if that's what they actually call themselves). They are under orders to leave Angela to a personal duel with Birgit. Our team kill the foes in their various ways, but Winter Soldier warns some of them to be more careful because he's rigged the place with plastic explosives.Then Birgit and Ophidian arrive with Wiccan who has 'Dr Doom' in tow pretending to be on their side. Birgit leaps in to fight Angela while Billy makes the Doombot fire blasts (which 'miss'). Spider-Woman gets up close to Wiccan and tries to use her pheromones to control him. Billy urgently whispers what he's really doing. Ophidian attacks SW with his sword but she easily downs him with a kick. He complains that Doom isn't living up to his reputation. The Doombot responds with standard Doombot response #5 "Who dares insult Doom?!" and starts to strangle the Count. Wiccan continues to control it and causes it to snap Ophidian's head off. Meanwhile Birgit's losing to Angela so she creates a magic escape route. And the 'Count' turns out to have been a fake.Spectrum senses more of the vegetative Vridai 'ripening' in the walls. She also senses something stronger and leads them to a cellar where they find their target bricked into a wall. Daimon recognises it as the boy in his 'dream' (I presume we're supposed to deduce that Birgit hid the boy Ophidian and replaced him with a fake which she's been controlling ever since - but our team don't say anything about that). Angela carries the comatose youth as they exit the building. Daimon sets off Bucky's explosives and the temple is destroyed.Wiccan has temporarily exhausted his magic power animating the Doombot and Hellstrom can't teleport them either so they end up tramping through the rainforest at night until they come across a spooky mansion ... but that's for next issue.


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A World for the Winning!
Magneto arrives in
Latveria during a festival called by Doctor Doom to celebrate his triumph over
the Red Skull; Magneto strikes against the guards trying to force him to be merry,
ending by toppling a gigantic statue of Doom. He bursts into Doom’s throne room
and suggests they team up to conquer the world. Doom disdains his visitor,
revealing he has already subjugated the world: Doom shows Mags that he has
filled the world with Neuro-Gas which has made everyone on Earth an unwitting
subject of Doom. To demonstrate, he is able to force Magneto to his knees and
then command him to kill himself which Mags does by drawing several sharp
weapons toward himself, saved at the last minute by Doom. But the victory came
too easily and Doom is bored so he gives Mags the antidote to the Neuro-Gas and
challenges him to try to take the world from him….
Magneto arrives at
Avengers Mansion and the assembled Avengers (Captain America, Vision, Thor,
Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Beast, Wonder Man, Wasp, Yellowjacket) immediately
attack him. He easily wards off Cap, Thor, and Shellhead and takes down the
rest of the team in seconds. Cap notices that Magneto has not tried to hurt any
of them, suggesting a different purpose for his visit. Magneto explains the
situation and asks their help. But Doom appears via holographic image to
demonstrate his power and the Avengers kneel before him. Doom allows Magneto to
choose one of the Avengers for an ally, freed from Doom’s control. Magneto chooses
the team’s weakest member, Beast, and carries him off….
Beast awakens,
freed from the mind control, in a Quinjet with Magneto; Mags explains the
situation (again) and Beast is the one most likely to convince other heroes of
the danger. But neither the Fantastic Four nor the X-Man are at home so Beast
suggests trying the Champions in Los Angeles, a team that includes his pals
Angel and Iceman. But when they arrive in LA, the Champions (Hercules, Black Widow,
Iceman, Angel, Ghost Rider, Darkstar), having been warned by the
Avengers, are ready to fight the villain and the “traitorous” Beast….
Story continues in
CHAMPIONS #16.