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Black Widow is a prisoner of Hydra and
is being interrogated by Viper. She freely reveals her plan to
assassinate Captain America. She also reveals that she is telling
Viper all of this because the latter is running a drug ring that
Steve Rogers would not approve of, suggesting that Viper should join
their plot with the opportunity to seize control once Rogers is dead.
With Viper's cooperation, Natasha's teen follower rescue a sick old
man from custody....
The other Steve Rogers and his
companions (Sam and Bucky?) have formed a friendship on their
journey. Suddenly they are captured by someone who claims to be their
salvation: the Red Skull....
The Underground team goes to Wakanda,
where Tony Stark AI requests the next Cosmic Cube fragment from Black
Panther. T'Challa refuses, not trusting the heroes' judgment in how
to use it. So Wakanda shall defend its own territory. The team then
heads to the locations of the next fragments and fights enemies only
to come up empty every time. Finally Hercules is seriously injured
fighting Gorgon and they rescue his prisoner Shang-Chi only to find
his shard has already been taken from him (by Emma Frost, but he doesn't say
that). The others, discouraged by their lack of success, insist on
giving up and going home with the two fragments they have; the Stark
AI demurs but goes along....
Captain America meets with Beast,
ambassador of the mutant population in New Tian, at the site of
Thor's fallen hammer. He's chosen the place to darkly threaten New
Tian with godlike retribution should they fail to cooperate with
Hydra. Rogers gets and update from Madame Hydra on their team:
Scarlet Witch still possessed by a demon, the Vision still infected
by a virus, and Thor Odinson—well, Thor joined up because Steve
Rogers was worthy but now he is questioning Rogers' actions and is in
a difficult quandary....
The heroes searching for the Cosmic
Cube fragments return to their Las Vegas base and reveal the failure
of the mission. Giant-Man (Raz Malhotra) shows the Tony AI what he
has been working on: a time capsule that could contact future
Avengers so that they could go back and prevent Hydra's victory. It
is also revealed that Stark's tracking device for the Cube fragments
was a hoax, designed to give them hope when they were just following
the late Rick Jones' leads. And then their base is attacked by
Hydra Helicarriers, tipped off by the traitor (who seems to be) Mockingbird. Aboard the
lead ship, Captain America goes to check on their secret
weapon...Bruce Banner....RobFJ's tie-ins added here because #5 doesn't have any of its own:-SE: Brave New World #4 (Emma Frost story)Emma discovers the existence of the youthful underground resistance to New Tian featured in X-Men Blue #7.X-Men Blue #7-9Magneto sends the young original X-Men to rescue imprisoned rebels in New Tian. But the team are captured and taken to Emma Frost. Some are temporarily captured and EF tries to turn young Cyclops into her dead lover older Cyclops. Her control of King Xorn is slipping, and we learn that she and Havok are in league with Miss Sinister and Bastion.SE: Brave New World #5 (Blade story)Under the Darkforce Dome Blade tracks a vampire to a school where she is the Principal. He's losing the fight when a schoolboy stakes her. He too is a vampire but he survives on blood from blood banks and Blade lets him live.


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The mysterious second Steve Rogers has
rescued a woman from attack by three villains (last issue); she is
seriously injured but does not want help. Instead she asks Steve how
he got there; Steve is unsure but feels there is someplace that needs
him....
Star-Lord (with Rocket and Groot) is
trying to persuade some aliens to come to the aid of the Earth heroes
stranded in space; instead they shoot at him and he reports his
failure to Captain Marvel. The situation outside the shield is
critical and the only person powerful enough to save the day, Quasar,
is in a coma....
Boomerang, a mobster in Newark, New
Jersey, sets up a meeting between Black Widow and Maria Hill. After
some verbal sparring, Hill hands over a copy of Captain America's
social calendar, listing opportunities for an assassination attempt.
Back at her base she is trying to train the young heroes in her Red
Room to be able to make impossible choices in a split second....
In Montana, Sam Wilson refuses to help
Ant-Man and his team to escape over the Canadian border; they
finally convince him that finding the last fragments of the Cosmic
Cube is the only way to save Steve Cap and return the world to what
it was....
In Washington, Cap is attending a Hydra
Science Fair, still trying to persuade Sharon Carter to join Hydra
when he is called away. A team led by Baron Zemo is in an Atlantean
temple, searching for one of the  fragments of the Cosmic Cube.
Finding one they realize it is a fake planted by Namor as a decoy.
Cap orders the temple blown up as a warning to his former ally....
In a mysterious location, a curiously disfigured
Hank Pym awaits the arrival of his “family”....
Steve Rogers puts the injured woman
down beside a stream and with her dying breath she assures Steve that
he will make it home....
In Newark, a bomb explodes in
Boomerang's apartment and he has an unwelcome visitor wanting to know
what passed between Maria Hill and Black Widow—the Hydra
Punisher....

RobFJ with tie-ins related to this issue:-
All-New Guardians Of The Galaxy Annual #1The GotG fail to recruit any help from alien races and with help from Mantis and Yondu Udonta go looking for a cosmic artefact that turns out to be broken.Secret Empire Uprising #1After this issue Black Widow sends Amadeus Cho and Nadia Pym to a try-out for Hydra's youth choir, expecting them to get a chance to assassinate Hydra-Cap. But the Champions' foes the Freelancers will recognise Cho so the rest of the team break in with an image inducer for him. Unfortunately this blows Wasp's cover so she has to flee with them.CA: Sam Wilson #23This issue links SE#3 and #4 by showing how Sam Wilson smuggles the Avengers to Canada and gets them a plane to take them further. But unfortunately they wreck the escape route on the way.


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The other Steve Rogers is the prisoner
of the mysterious Red Skull. When Steve is the only one left, the
Skull tells him he is in hell and the only escape is death....
In New York, trapped by the Darkforce
Dome, Claire Temple must tend to Dagger, who is dying from having to
supply light to the benighted city while Doctor Strange seeks a
permanent solution. Elsewhere, Daredevil stops what he thinks is a
robbery by the Kingpin's men but it turns out to be a food delivery
to the hungry, part of Kingpin's campaign to become the trusted
leader when the crisis is lifted....

In Maryland, the youthful heroes are
tired of Black Widow, her use of torture and murder and now her
alliance with Viper. Spider-Man (M. Morales) goes to talk to Natasha
, telling her of the dissension in the ranks. Nat insists she is
teaching them to survive when things get worse; Miles suggests that
maybe the Underground will find the Cosmic Cube and set everything
right....
In Nevada, the Mount (HQ of the
Underground) is under siege by Hydra forces, including their
tentacled helicarriers. The defenses are good enough to stop Thor
Odinson, the Vision, and the Scarlet Witch so the Tony Stark AI
reveals that one of those present is a traitor. Suspicion bounces
back and forth until someone notices Mockingbird is conveniently
absent; Bobbi, caught, reveals she has been in touch with Maria Hill.
Giant-Man reveals that Tony's Cosmic Cube detector was a total hoax.
As they fight, suddenly Ant-Man confesses that he is the traitor
because Hydra has his daughter Cassie hostage.

Captain America talks to Bruce Banner
(temporarily resurrected) reminding him how badly he has been used by
the Avengers, especially during the two Civil Wars (sent to another
planet/killed), how they are totally corrupt, hating whatever doesn't
bend to their authority; Bruce refuses to cooperate, knowing that
Hydra is even worse. Cap responds “I wasn't talking to you, Bruce.”

Then the Hulk crashes through the
Mount's defenses and chaos breaks out. Pausing briefly to realize
that in a way they deserve what is about to happen, Hawkeye then
leads an evacuation while the new Giant-Man activates a team of
androids Avengers to fight the Hulk, while Thor allows Hawkeye and
the refugees to go free....
Finally, Captain America confronts Tony
Stark AI and they fight, Cap ensuring  that the AI is Tony's actual
consciousness and Tony regretting he is not able to save Cap....
Madame Hydra, detecting an unusual energy signature, races to the
scene and casts a spell sending Cap elsewhere just as the nuclear
weapon explodes....
Black Widow hears the news that the
Underground has been defeated. She has a drink, sheds a tear, and
tell the young heroes “Tomorrow we kill Captain America.”RobFJ with 3 tie-ins for #6, just so it doesn't get lonely:-Secret Warriors #3After a road-trip across America the Inhuman team enter the X-Men's New Tian to a hostile reception because of Inhumans Vs X-Men. They learn that their target Leer has been taken by Hydra so they leave, to be attacked by Hydra forces, including their Avengers, led by Quake's father Mr Hyde.Secret Warriors #4The team are captured and taken to a helicarrier. As they escape, Moon Girl goes looking for DD and finds Leer. But Quake brings the carrier down to a crash with MG, Leer and DD still inside.SE: Brave New World #5 (Domino story)Domino has been hired (by Hydra?) to assassinate Emma Frost. But the telepath knows she's going to be shot at and just uses the incident to get rid of 2 unwanted admirers.


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Hydra Captain America, with the power
of a god and an armored suit created by the Cosmic Cube, faces the
assembled heroes and tries to persuade them to join his empire; they
refuse and there is a massive battle, all against one—and the
super-powered Cap prevails. Using the power of the Cosmic Cube Hydra
Cap rebuilds Washington in Hydra's image. Captain America Sam Wilson
approaches Hydra Cap, kneeling and offering him the last fragment of
the Cosmic Cube. Bad Cap takes it, and his shield too, and places the
fragment inside his breast—and then everything goes wrong and Cap
loses his powers.... Ant-Man then enlarges into sight as Winter
Soldier enters through a dimensional gateway. According to plan,
Ant-Man took Bucky into Bad Cap's body while he was inserting the
last fragment of the Cube. There, Bucky found Kobik and the other
Steve Rogers and helped them escape. Now Kobik steps from the portal
and undoes everything that Bad Cap just transformed. And then the
real Captain America comes through the portal....
The good one faces the bad one and they
fight, a battle seen on television screen around the world. First,
Good Cap takes back his shield, and then beats his foe mercilessly.
Bad Cap tries to pick up Mjolnir but finds he cannot lift it. Good
Cap takes the hammer from him, and with a single blow, shatters his
armor.... Cap tosses Mjolnir back to Jane Thor and Kobik restores the
history that had been corrupted and Earth's Mightiest Heroes are
whole once more....

Epilogue: The country slowly gets back
to normal, rebuilding damaged properties and holding a funeral for
Black Widow. And Brian McAllister is released from a Hydra detention
camp, along with many other Inhumans. Brian is reunited with his
brother Joey and they return home to discover it vandalized. The next
day they are awoken by the sounds of the neighbors and friends making
repairs to their home to atone for their previous attitudes.


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The other Steve Rogers rises from the
river he plunged into last issue....
By means of  Raz Malhotra's time
capsule, the heroes are able to send a message ahead to transmit a
message back in time to reach its intended recipients. And so the
heroes marooned on the Alpha Flight Station by the Planetary Defense
Shield and those trapped in New York City by the Darkforce Dome can
hear Captain America (Sam Wilson, the good one) tell them they are
not forgotten and that with the fragments of the Cosmic Cube they can
still make a difference....
Sam Cap takes the Cube fragment and
flies high into the sky, planning to use the device to obliterate
both the Shield and the Dome. On the space station, Star-Lord, Rocket
Raccoon, and Groot have an idea to drop a Nullifier bomb on the
Shield, while in New York, Dr Strange has found a spell to shut off
the Dome....
But then Sam Cap is shot down by Hydra
jets, Strange's spell fails, and the bomb does not damage the
Shield....
But Quasar (Avril Kincaid) has
recovered from her injuries and cracks open the Shield with her
powers, Cap rises from the ocean, and the Underground breaks into the
prison where Bob Hoffstetter a/k/a Blackout is being held. Maria Hill
confronts the brainwashed villain who does not know he is creating
the Darkforce Dome with his mind—and she executes him with a bullet
to the head. The Shield gone, Captain Marvel flies to Earth to remove
the eggs the Chitauri are seeking, shutting down their attack on
Earth.....
The three teams of heroes assemble and
are met by the Sub-Mariner who introduces Bucky Barnes to them...and
he has a plan....
Epilogue: The other Steve Rogers comes
upon a glowing woman in the woods and recognizes her a “Sharon”
but she fades away from him...leaving him with the little girl/Cosmic
Cube known as Kobik....
RobFJ with tie-ins related to this issue:-
Secret Warriors #5The team invade the New Attilan prison camp to free Moon Girl and find her with Leer. We learn he can boost Inhumans' powers. Then the Underground arrive to free New Attilan in CA#25.Captain America #25Hydra conquers Wakanda and New Tian gaining 1 Cosmic Cube fragment and the promise of another to be surrenedered in SE#8. The Underground free the Inhumans in the New Attilan prison camp and gain the remaining Cube fragment, and they have a plan leading to SE#8. Bucky Barnes is alive and well with Sub-Mariner, who rescued him from the drone that exploded over the ocean in CA:SR#16, and *they* have a plan.Deadpool #35Maria Hill tries to assassinate Steve Rogers but he's actually Deadpool in disguise to lure her to him. They fight while he tries to convince her he's switched sides, and then he tells her where to find Blackout (leading to the destruction of the Darkforce Dome in SE#8).Mighty Captain Marvel #8This expands on the relevant parts of SE#7 where CM refuses to abandon Earth and SE#8 where the Guardians' Nullifier Bomb fails to crack the Planetary Shield but Quasar revives and does it herself. But we also see that the effort kills her.


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In the wake of Hydra's destruction of
Las Vegas in retaliation for the Underground's resistance, Black Widow sees the devastation they caused and decides that
Captain America has to die....
In New York, trapped in the Darkforce Dimension, Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Iron Fist fight their way through hordes of monsters to find needed medical supplies.
Meanwhile, Dagger is the sole source of light for the city and she is
losing strength and energy the longer this goes on. A pair of hoods
trying to hijack a church's medical delivery are confronted by the
Kingpin and his gang who kill the thugs and Kingpin places the church
under his protection, asking to be remembered for this....
At the resistance HQ, Black Widow
gathers the Avengers and asks for volunteers to join her mission to
kill Captain America. The Tony Stark AI plays the message sent them
by the late Rick Jones (last issue, SECEMP-1); in it Rick explains how Captain
America was able to turn bad, describing the use of Kobik by the Red
Skull and all the other stuff we've seen. Rick also reveals that
Kobik was destroyed and the fragments scattered. Hawkeye and Tony AI
want to try to regather the fragments and use the reformed Cosmic
Cube to fix everything. Natasha is skeptical and insists on killing
Cap....

Elsewhere, Cap is having second thoughts
about the destruction of Las Vegas, and dispatches Baron Zemo on a
mission to regather the scattered fragments of the Cosmic Cube....
In the desert, Black Widow kisses
Hawkeye goodbye and sets out on her mission to assassinate Cap.
Hawkeye then joins Tony AI and their team—Hercules, Ant-Man,
Mockingbird, and Quicksilver—on their search for the
fragments....In Colorado, Black Widow is intercepted by
Spider-Man (Miles Morales) who reminds her of Ulysses' prophecy that
he (Miles) would kill Captain America (in CIVIL WAR 2) and Ironheart,
Hulk (Amadeus Cho), Wasp (Nadia Pym), Falcon (J. Torres), and Viv Vision also
join the team....
In Montana, Hawkeye's team meets up
with a contact who can get them into Canada: former Captain America
Sam Wilson...
In an undisclosed location, a woman is
pursued and beaten by a quartet of snake-costumed thugs. A mystery
man appears out of the darkness and easily beats the bad guys. When
the woman asks her rescuer who he is, the reply comes: “My name is
Steve Rogers. I'm just trying to get home.”Also in this story: Claire Temple, Viv Vision, Giant-Man (Raz Malhotra).

RobFJ with tie-ins related to this issue:-
Champions #11A modified version of the team including the new Patriot help survivors of the attack on Las Vegas.Captain America: Sam Wilson #22Shows Sam setting up an underground with Misty Knight and D-Man to smuggle fugitive Inhumans to Canada. He also helps Scott Lang get daughter Cassie to safety. Which all leads up to Scott bringing his Avengers group to him in this issue.SE: Brave New World #4 (Misty Knight story)Misty finds refuge for hunted Inhumans with various under-the-radar communities. Probably before Sam Wilson left with AI Tony Stark's group in SE#3.Captain America: Steve Rogers #17Cap gives a TV interview to Sally Floyd after the attack on Las Vegas last issue justifying Hydra's takeover.Dr Strange #21After 2 weeks trapped in New York depowered Dr Strange tries to dispel the Darkforce Dome while Daredevil, Spider-Woman and Ben Urich break into his Sanctum to confront Baron Mordo, who captures DD and sets a demon on SW/BU/DS. Kingpin saves them (after his other 'altruistic' deeds in SE#2). Dr Strange #22Mordo is working for Hydra. DrS, Ben Urich and Spider-Woman ally with Kingpin who leads them to a horde of black magic items guarded by his (not so) tame witch.Dr Strange #23An evil item gets Kingpin possessed by a smoke demon, but Ben Urich in the Light Knight's armour can keep that in check as an ally. Spider-Woman gets to fly the spirit of Phantom Eagle's biplane. They head off to confront Baron Mordo who has added Luke Cage and Iron Fist to the captive Daredevil and imprisoned Cloak in a book.Dr Strange #24DrS and his allies defeat Baron Mordo, but he still has to figure out how to take the Darkforce Dome down. (I don't know what happens to KP's demon but he doesn't seem to have it later in the Event.)Mighty Captain Marvel #6CM sends the GotG on their mission for help (before SE#3) and her team repair the Alpha Flight Station in time for the next Chitauri assault.SE: Brave New World #3 (Starbrand story)Starbrand wonders how he can protect Earth while being trapped outside it.SE: United #1Arnim Zola and Dr Faustus secretly foment trouble between Hydra and the mutants in New Tian (California) leading to the capture of Sunfire, but X-Men rescue him. Steve Rogers sorts it out with Emma Frost, the secret power behind the throne of King Xian. But he doesn't know she has 1 of the Kobik Cosmic Cube fragments (stolen from Shang-Chi in a fb in SE#5). The previously page says only that this is after the bombing of Las Vegas in #1.Avengers #10Hydra's Avengers including Deadpool go on a mission to protect the Planetary Shield.


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Steve Rogers, the newly returned Captain America visits his counterpart, the Supreme Hydra in prison. They engage in verbal sparring. Hydra Cap points out that he has not committed any crimes: everything he did was in accord with the law giving him emergency powers; he didn't create the situation, merely exploited it with the nation's consent. Hydra Cap still sees his secret empire as a restoration of the world that was, before the allies changed it all. And any problems now arising are the fault of Steve Cap and his allies. Hydra Cap mocks them for allowing criminals like the Red Skull to run free, instead of having the courage to eliminate the threats. So Hydra Cap asks why Steve Cap has come. Steve Cap explains that while rescuing a boy, the kid was afraid of him—so Steve is there to confront the man who destroyed all the trust and respect Cap had built up. Hydra Cap points out that the populace gladly followed him, suggesting that fascism is what they secretly desire, not Cap's ideals and methods. As Cap leaves, he realizes why he came: to remind himself that they won the battle but the war never ends....

While this main plot is going on, there are cutaways to follow other characters:

Hawkeye breaks down during Black Widow's funeral. Winter Soldier follows a trail south to a Latin American nation in time to witness the assassination of their dictator—and he recognizes Natasha's handiwork.

The US military invades New Tian, demolishing the buildings and threatening any mutant who would resist. Emma Frost and Beast review their short-lived homeland for the mutants. Hank thinks history will be kind to them; Emma knows she will not be treated so kindly.

The Punisher hunts down and executes fugitive Hydra agents to make up for his allegiance to the group. Meanwhile, Nick Fury is keeping an eye on him.


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The small Avengers team (Mockingbird, Tony Stark AI, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), Hercules, Quicksilver, Sam Wilson) flies to the Savage Land in search of he next fragment of the shattered Cosmic Cube, in hopes of reassembling the Cube and returning the Hydra-controlled USA to normal. Their ship is attacked by pterodactyls and forced to land; as the Savage Land has a weird effect on electronics, the Tony Stark AI must stay behind in the ship. The party is immediately attacked by Sauron, who assumes they are working with his enemies. They overpower him and learn what has been going on: powered by the Cosmic Cube shard, three of his mutates—Lupa, Vertigo, and Whiteout—turned on him and seized control of his empire. Sauron now offer to help the Avengers recover the shard if they will help him recover his kingdom. After discussion they reluctantly agree....
On the way they come to a village loyal to the New Stewards and Sauron tries to burn the place to the ground; two dinosaur-riding warriors of the new Stewards arrive and try to place Sauron under arrest. A battle ensues and surprisingly the Avengers win. They discover a secret underground route to the Citadel  and soon arrive in the Stewards' throne room.  They offer to trade Sauron for the missing shard but the Stewards refuse as it is what increased their powers to be able to defeat Sauron in the first place. That leads to battle with the Stewards—Lupa who controls wolves, Whiteout who can blind with a touch, and Vertigo who can induce severe dizziness.  In the fight, the shard goes spinning crazily from person to person, ending up in the hands of Quicksilver who races it five miles away before anyone knows he has it. The Stewards become more amicable, seeing as they have lost and Sauron is locked in the dungeon. The Avengers team decides to heal from their wounds before searching for further fragments of the Cosmic Cube....


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New Tian, the mutant homeland in Northern California, granted to the mutants under King Xorn by Steve Rogers, Supreme Hydra: mutants Sunfire, Random, and Frenzy stage a violent attack on a Hydra checkpoint at the border, while loudly denouncing Hydra. Superior Octopus arrives and easily takes out Sunfire, allowing the other two to escape back into their city.... At the chambers of the Hydra High Council, Arnim Zola and Dr Faustus call for violent reprisal against New Tian. Steve Rogers instead orders stronger security and decides to allow Sunfire's public trial to play out, which will meet their objectives. Zola disagrees.... In the throne room of New Tian, Xorn's advisers, Beast, Archangel, and Sebastian Shaw, do not know what to make of Sunfire's rash and pointless attack as Frenzy and Random are still missing. Xorn orders Shaw to assemble a team of expendable mutants and rescue Sunfire from the Hydra prison. Magik, Boom Boom, Marrow, and Strong Guy, turned invisible by Magik enter the Hydra prison—where they are quickly discovered. There is a battle with Scarlet Witch, Vision, Taskmaster, and Deadpool which, surprisingly, the mutants win and escape with Sunfire..... As a response to this new incursion, Rogers, in full Captain America outfit, arranges a face-to-face meeting with Xorn. Once they are alone, we learn that Xorn is only a puppet controlled by Emma Frost. The two had made a deal that Rogers would allow the mutants their reservation if Frost could keep them in line—and now this attack calls that arrangement into question. But she reveals what she discovered from Sunfire's mind—he had been hypnotized by Dr Faustus as part of a scheme to create conflict between Hydra and the mutants. Cap leaves (and we learn that Emma Frost cannot be trusted) and returns to Washington in a blaze of glory for resolving the crisis peaceably. He meets with the High Council and issues a veiled threat against anyone who does not serve Hydra faithfully....


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Welcome to the New Red Room
At a secret location in Nebraska, Black
Widow faces several young heroes: Ironheart (Riri Williams),
Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Hulk (Amadeus Cho), Wasp (Nadia Pym),
Falcon (Joaquin Torres), and Viv Vision. They have come to her
wanting to join the mission. So she tells them that two of them are
going to infiltrate the Hydra Youth Choir. She has them sing to
determine which are the best singers as a likely candidate to becomes
part of the choir: Nadia and Amadeus are chosen. Natasha then takes
them on by one into another room to see if they are psychologically
fit for the mission....
At the auditions for the Hydra Youth
Choir in Chicago, Amadeus and Nadia are among the candidates who are
greeted by the fanatical Choirmaster. They learn (and the others via
a secret communications link) that the lucky choir members will
performing for Captain America himself—which is what Natasha was
hoping for...an opportunity to assassinate the renegade hero....
Trying to blend in with the Hydra youth
weighs heavily on Nadia and Amadeus, having to pretend to be just
like them. On the second day, the Choirmaster introduces the
Freelancers, a band of youthful mercenaries working with Hydra. The
problem is, they have fought the Champions and so would recognize
Amadeus' real face. [When Natasha learns of this she decides to pull
him out but Riri promises to create an image-inducer so as to hide
his appearance.] When Amadeus' turn comes to audition, Nadia
distracts everyone by screaming at the sight of a rat—which she
produces before the kids. And so the panic distracts everyone from a
close look at the awesome singer's face. Leaving the auditorium,
Amadeus sees a bunch of bullies picking on a smaller kid; he wants to
intervene but mustn't stand out; before he can do anything, Might of
the Freelancers chases off the bullies and Amadeus is spared the
dilemma. A brief conference among the Freelancers reveals that most
of them are uncomfortable with the fascist ideals of Hydra but decide
to stay for the money....
Riri completes the device and she and
the others set out to deliver it to Amadeus without the Black Widow's
knowledge as she would consider it too risky. When they arrive at the
building in the dead of night, Viv Vision must stay outside to dampen
the alarm system, while the others go inside. Ironheart stays behind
because her armor is too heavy to sneak in. Falcon overpowers a guard
and must keep him locked up, leaving only Spidey to meet with Nadia
and Amadeus—and they are caught. So Amadeus loudly calls for help,
denouncing Nadia as a traitor and the Champions battle the
Freelancers and get away. And now no one suspects Amadeus of being an
enemy, especially now that he has the image-inducer to disguise his
face....
The next day, the 48 Hydra choir
members (including Amadeus Cho) hear an uplifting patriotic speech
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This issue shows us scattered parts of the ongoing Invasion.The SHIELD helicarrier has been downed in the ocean in the Bermuda Triangle. The Skrull-Jarvis appears on the deck and asks Deputy Director Maria Hill to surrender (presumably for the whole of SHIELD).The Skrull-Captain Marvel is attacking Thunderbolts Mountain. (But he's actually on our side, and is attacking the 'Bolts because by his lights they're really villains.) He defeats them but then Norman Osborn asks him for a chat, guessing that he's not really CM.In Camp Hammond Gauntlet is leading the Initiative trainees to their quarters for safety when Yellowjacket turns up. With the Avengers missing and SHIELD unreachable he needs the trainees to go into action.In Manhattan the Young Avengers are fighting Super-Skrulls. Their Vision can't contact any other groups. Half-Skrull Hulkling tries to communicate with the invaders but it does no good. Then the Initiative trainees arrive to help.In the Savage Land Spider-Woman approaches the ruined Mutate base. She sees Echo and fires a blast at her. Echo shouts that she's not a Skrull. But SW continues attacking and appears to kill Echo. Then she enters the base where Tony Stark is trying do something about his Iron Man armour that has been crippled by the Skrull virus.She starts to praise him for his work on Earth - turning heroes against each other, and rising to a position of high power. She tells him he's a Skrull conditioned to believe he's a human. And she is his Queen.Back in Manhattan the Young Avengers and Initiative are defeated (including Vision getting shot through the head and trainee Proton getting killed). Then Nick Fury makes a last page appearance with his Secret Warriors.


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This is the big battle issue as Earth's super-defenders fight the Skrull invaders in Central Park.Last issue we saw the coming together of Captain America (Bucky) and Thor with the Mighty and New Avengers (alongside Abigail Brand, Ka-Zar and Mr Fantastic), the Thunderbolts, Hood's supervillains and Nick Fury's amalgamation of his Secret Warriors, some of the Young Avengers and some Initiative members. Daredevil joins in here, and we even get a 1-panel cameo of Howard the Duck. (Ms Marvel doesn't appear in this issue but she's shown in Thunderbolts #125 and SI: Front Line #5)Iron Man takes charge even though his armour is crippled by the Skrulls' StarkTech virus. But then he's sent off to fix his suit. He tries and fails to contact SHIELD on the way.Wasp targets the Skrull version of her ex-husband Yellowjacket. He grows to giant-size but is challenged by an even-bigger Stature. Bullseye from hiding shoots him in 1 eye.Reed Richards is assaulted by a Skrull Sue Richards (not Lyja who took Human Torch and Thing into the Negative Zone) who seems to have the power of Multiple Man. The Secret Warriors come to his aid (but Fury still calls them his Commandos).Wolverine makes it to Queen Veranke and stabs her with his claws. But she zaps him with intense versions of Spider-Woman's bioelectric venom blasts.Spider-Man quips that this battle can't be so bad because Uatu the Watcher hasn't shown up. But then he does.Edwin Jarvis and Jessica Jones are watching the fight from Avengers Tower. Jessica decides she has to lend a hand. She leaves baby Danielle in the hands of Jarvis. (And a bit later we are reminded that he's a Skrull imposter). She fights her way to husband Luke Cage's side.Suddenly a fireball lands and out of it steps Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr the Kree) who will fight in the name of the also-Kree Captain Marvel.The assault renews. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) is wounded and taken to safety by Vision (Jonas). Ronin (Clint Barton) picks up her fallen bow that used to be his and fires an arrow through Veranke's jaw. She falls, and Skrull-Henry Pym triggers a secret weapon.(We see a flashback to MAv#8 where he gave ex-wife Jan the ability to grow as well as shrink. In MAv#15 this was revealed as a Skrull plot which we are about to see come to fruition.) Wasp grows to enormous size and starts giving off a toxin which attacks everyone around her, Earthers and Skrulls alike. If the Skrulls can't win then no-one wins.


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In Thunderbolts Mountain Captain Marvel has just defeated the Thunderbolts (#2) but hasn't killed them. Now Norman Osborn psychoanalyses him. Norman has deduced that Marvel is a Skrull fake who was programmed to initially believe his Kree identity. Now his 2 natures are at war - Osborn understands this only too well. CM heads up and away. Osborn gets the team organised for war.In Nick Fury's secret base we find some of the Initiative trainees and Young Avengers after Fury's new Howling Commandos rescued them from Skrulls in Times Square last issue. (Stature has a reunion with her YA pals. Vision seems OK-ish after his blasting in #2.) Daisy Johnson finds that all communications are down world-wide.Until multiple broadcasts by the images of famous people and superbeings tell the humans that they are now part of the Skrull empire. The Skrulls wish us no harm if  we cooperate - they are here to save Earthmen from their own follies. The final message is that the Skrull god loves us.Abigail Brand has broken into a Skrull warship in space, but she's been discovered. Her time in SWORD has taught her alien languages including Skrull. She bluffs her way into getting hold of a gun and then starts shooting her way through the ship until she gets to where Mr Fantastic is being held. She opens all the airlocks and ejects the remaining Skrulls into space.Then she frees Reed Richards. (The Skrulls kept him alive because they needed his brain for something.) He quickly discovers that StarkTech has been hit by a Skrull virus (#1) (causing the worldwide comms failure amongst other things) and the top floors of the Baxter Building are gone (#1 also). Then he hatches a plan.Maria Hill is on a SHIELD helicarrier ditched in the Bermuda Triangle (#2) surounded by SHIELD Agents who turned out to be Skrulls. Skrull-Jarvis has just asked for the surrender of the Earth (#3-4). But 'Maria Hill' explains that she's actually an LMD, on the recommendation of Nick Fury (Mighty Avengers #12). The real Hill starts shooting Skrulls then leaves by jetpack after initiating the helicarrier's self-destruct.Meanwhile the Brand/Richards Skrull ship is under attack from others who have noticed the ejected crew. Until those ships in turn are attacked by Captain Marvel. Reed gets Abigail to fly the ship while he gets on with his plan. He wants her to head to New York to save his family, but she insists on a diversion 1st.In the Savage Land Tony Stark is sick (literally). The Skrull virus not only crippled his armour but it attacked the Extremis in his body. (And Spider-Woman (Skrull Queen Veranke) tried to persuade him he was a Skrull last issue.) Black Widow and Wolverine are with him. They are joined by Ka-Zar, Shanna, Spider-Man and Zabu (from New Avengers #43), and then by several other characters. Everybody suspects everybody else might be a Skrull. Except Ronin (Clint Barton) who is sure that the Mockingbird who came off the Skrull ship (#1) really is his ex-wife Bobbi Morse.White Queen from the Skrull ship arrives and claims her mental powers tell her exactly who's who. And Spider-Man for 1 is a Skrull. The arguing continues until Thor from the ship invokes the power of his hammer Mjolnir. And a 'thunderbolt' strikes the ground in front of him.But it's not a thunderbolt, it's a blast from a weapon wielded by Mr Fantastic. And suddenly all the fakes, including Thor and White Queen, are revealed as Skrulls. (So that's what he was working on.) But they still believe they are human.Bobbi is a Skrull, and Clint grabs a gun and shoots her in anguish. Reed Richards faces his 'wife' Sue. All the Skrulls are killed.Spider-Woman isn't there, but Black Widow says she's a Skrull. It's confirmed by Echo who SW attacked in #3 (but who obviously didn't die).Abigail Brand joins them and wants to fly them to New York. Ka-Zar elects to go with them. Shanna stays to mop up any remaining Skrulls. Distraught Ronin swears vengeance on the whole Skrull race.


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Most of this issue is accompanied by a voiceover as someone explains to the President what happened.Last issue the Skrulls were losing the battle of Central Park so dying Skrull-Yellowjacket triggered a doomsday device which made Wasp grow to great height and started emitting a toxin. It was deadly to Skrulls as well as humans, but it would ensure the humans didn't win.Now Thor saves the day by enveloping Wasp in a vortex to contain the toxin. But it appears to consume the heroine. (No-one appears to get killed by the toxin.)Veranke/Spider-Woman has survived with a displaced jaw. Everyone turns on her. Wolverine is about to slash her. But Norman Osborn gets the kill shot to her head. He then orders his Thunderbolts to deal with the remaining Skrulls. But of course all the other heroes get in the act too.Tony Stark returns in an old Iron Man armour which isn't affected by the StarkTech virus. He leads all those that can fly to attack Skrull warships in the air. Those that can survive in space follow him out there too. But in the middle of the destruction he detects something in 1 of the spaceships. He takes control of it and brings it down to Central Park.When the hatch opens we see the heroes who had been replaced by Skrulls. (Mr Fantastic's device presumably ensures that they really aren't more Skrull imposters.) The Hood picks this moment to lead his supervillain gang away. The President is told that the Skrulls kept their prisoners alive because they needed them to create new doubles (like the multiple Val de Fontaine's).Ms Marvel embraces Spider-Woman, who wonders why everyone's looking at her funny. Everyone welcomes back Hank Pym, but then they have to tell him what just happened to Jan.Tony Stark greets Jarvis, and Jessica Jones suddenly realises what this means.She flies off to Avengers Tower and finds it empty. When Ms Marvel carries Luke Cage up here his distraught wife explains that she left their baby Danielle in the care of butler Jarvis. But he must have been a Skrull, and now they've gone.Various Hydra and SHIELD agents emerge, their hostilities temporarily put aside. Dum Dum Dugan and Val de Fontaine are among them. They look forward to reuniting with Nick Fury, but he turns away and leaves. Mockingbird is also there, and Clint Barton removes his Ronin mask so she can recognise him - and they kiss.Reed and Sue Richards embrace. But then they notice the force field bubble around the top of the Baxter Building. They rush over there to find what has happened to their children. Reed has recognised the look of the Negative Zone portal, so he heads for a backup control to disable it in a basement. He finds Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm there trying to figure out how to work it. And Franklin and Valeria are safe with them. Reed activates it, the bubble dissipates but their home in the top floors is gone (in the Neg Zone).Tony Stark thanks Thor for his help. But the Thunder God is still angry about the Thor clone Ragnarok that Stark used during Civil War. He still doesn't want to be part of Stark's Avengers, and he believes that Tony is to blame for everything that has happened. Thor leaves. And Captain America/Bucky walks away too, from the man who caused the death of Steve Rogers.Marvel Boy helps round up surviving Skrulls. Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) asks half-Skrull Hulkling why the Skrulls wanted Earth so much when they have loads of other planets. 1 of the captives says that they've lost the rest of their empire. (This was to the Annihilation Wave. But the Invasion was planned and begun long before that.)Sometime later the President meets with Norman Osborn who is to take over from Tony Stark as head of SHIELD, the Initiative and the Mighty Avengers. Stark is out because his technology was instrumental in allowing the Skrull Invasion, and because under his watch superheroes spent too much time fighting each other and not enough watching out for danger. Osborn is in because he made sure he and his Thunderbolts showed well in the media during the Invasion.StarkTech will no longer be used by the government, and Osborn will lead an investigation into his activities. Tony is listening to the announcement with Maria Hill. But he seems distracted and defeated.Osborn calls a secret meeting in Avengers Tower with Dr Doom, Emma Frost, Hood, female Loki and Sub-Mariner.


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We see flashes of events:- Mr Fantastic being tortured by Skrulls. The Skrull armada above Earth. Abigail Brand and other SWORD agents floating in space in gel life-preservers near the wreck of the Peak. Sentry returning to Earth from Saturn. Ms Marvel returning to New York from the Savage Land.She lands in the middle of the fight in Times Square where Nick Fury and his new Howling Commandos are taking on a horde of Super-Skrulls after they defeated the Young Avengers and the Initiative trainees last issue. Fury has a very big gun. Daisy Johnson uses her Quake powers. Slingshot/Yo Yo Rodriguez zaps around rescuing downed heroes (we see Annex, Gauntlet, Red 9, Sunstreak and Wiccan). Druid casts his spells, Hellfire uses his fiery chain, Phobos uses fear to make Skrulls fight each other, and Stonewall just hits them.When all the heroes are rescued Fury's team prepare to leave. Despite the fact that he must have seen MsM fighting Skrulls too, he takes no chances and shoots her. Then Druid teleports them away.Carol Danvers is left swamped by a sea of Skrulls. And the last thing she sees is that Yellowjacket is with them.During all this we've been hearing a monologue from Spider-Woman, who revealed herself to Tony Stark last issue as the Skrull Queen. She claims that the Invasion has already succeeded, as promised by their prophecies. They have taken the Earth as humans have taken land from other humans. There may be pockets of resistance but it is futile. Especially as the humans don't know who to trust (this bit over NF shooting MsM).Now we continue that monologue in the Savage Land where 'Spider-Woman' has been talking to Iron Man. But we see that Black Widow is listening in. The Queen continues from last issue to tell Stark that he's really a Skrull under deep conditioning - their best agent.Natasha Romanoff is about to intervene when she's interrupted by the old-style Beast and Phoenix. She shoots them and they revert to Skrulls. We also see the 2 versions of Wonder Man fighting. (So the real WM must have got out of the cave that Beast left him in.)By the time BW does get into the ruined Mutate base where Stark was trying to build an Iron Man armour that wouldn't be affected by the Skrull virus, the Skrull Queen has gone. Tony himself is still weakened by the virus, so Tasha gives him a shot of adrenaline and tries to persuade him he's not a Skrull. Queenie was just playing with him for revenge. In the end she just asks him whether he feels like want to kill Skrulls. When he answers yes she suggests they just go with that.There's another interruption while Widow shoots Wolverine. When he turns out to be the real 1 she apologises but says he'll heal, and sends him after Spider-Woman.BW and TS plan the fight back. Tony says they need the help of Reed Richards.Back in space Abigail Brand has reached a Skrull ship (as seen in her story in SI: Who Do You Trust), and she breaks in. Finding a room with viewscreens she sees various scenes we've already seen, plus the Young Avengers' Vision being killed and the hole to the Negative Zone where the top of the Baxter Building used to be. It turns out this is the ship with Mr Fantastic on board. But she's spotted by 2 Skrulls.Another scene change to the SHIELD helicarrier downed in the Bermuda triangle. The Skrull Jarvis asked Maria Hill last issue to surrender on behalf of the human race. He says they organised her leadership of SHIELD. When she points out that he's surrounded by armed SHIELD Agents, they all turn out to be Skrulls too.In Brooklyn Hood has gathered his gang of supervillains. He says it's time they helped fight the aliens, because letting them take Earth would be bad for business.The final scene is of Super-Skrulls threatening the populace in Central Park. Then a thunderbolt strikes and we see the silhouette of Thor. And the Bucky Captain America is watching too.


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Marvel Boy/Noh-Varr on a sky-sled sees Captain Marvel staggering from a crash site. The Kree Captain tells the other Kree about the Skrull Invasion (which MB already knows about) and orders him to fight them. Then he dies and turns into a Skrull.We see other scenes from around the world (and off it) as the Skrulls restore global communications but continue to explain Earth's new status as part of the Skrull empire. The Skrulls will only harm Earth people where they are attacked.If governments will stand down their armed forces then the Skrulls will usher in a new era of peace and unity. Resistance is useless/futile. We see X-Men fighting a Super-Skrull in San Francisco, Medusa screaming in Attilan on the Moon, Black Panther facing a Super-Skrull in the midst of a pitched battle in Wakanda, Shanna and Zabu hunting Skrulls in the Savage Land, and Sabra attacked by 2 Super-Skrulls in Israel.Skrull Criti Noll as Henry Pym/Yellowjacket has emptied (but not quite) the Initiative training base Camp Hammond and it is now the Skrull HQ. Most things are going well but they've heard about Captain Marvel attacking the fleet (last issue). And they haven't heard from the Savage Land and worry about what might have happened to their Empress there. But then she arrives in her disguise as Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew to tell them that the Avengers are still alive there, and Mr Fantastic has escaped from captivity and is leading them. She confirms that the Wasp is with them, and YJ is relieved that their secret weapon is in place.The Mighty and New Avengers are flying from the SL to New York in a Skrull ship stolen by MrF and Abigail Brand. Ka-Zar is with them (but I don't see him). Iron Man is still suffering from the effects of the StarkTech virus, and his armour still doesn't work. But at least Reed Richards' device last issue proved that he isn't a Skrull. He still feels guilty about letting the Skrull Queen into their ranks as Spider-Woman. And they wonder where the real Jessica Drew is, and who else has been taken.They arrive to see Skrull ships over Manhattan and much devastation, including the Negative Zone sphere where the top of the Baxter Building used to be.In the streets some civilians welcome the Skrulls as aliens who have come to save us. But the Skrulls' response is to attack.Then Nick Fury returns to fight the Super-Skrulls with his Secret Warriors (according to the editorial comment - but he still calls them his Commandos) plus the Young Avengers and some of the Initiative trainees. Hood and his supervillain gang wait on the sidelines. Veranke and YJ are nearby.Some of the civilians still support the Skrulls. But then there's the sound of Thor's lightning striking in Central Park. He meets Bucky/Captain America for the 1st time. Fury's mob go there. And then the Avengers land. The Thunderbolts turn up too. And Hood's gang join them.For those who still don't know who to trust MrF says his weapon will reveal any Skrull imposters. But he doesn't use it because Spider-Woman and Yellowjacket remain human-looking. But the rest of the enemy here is Skrull-form anyway.Veranke confronts them all at the head of her forces. She says this is revenge for everything since MrF turned 3 Skrulls into cows in Fantastic Four #2. And all the weapons they used were invented by MrF too. (I think this refers to clones of Reed Richards the Skrulls tricked into working for them as seen in NAv#44.) But despite everything the Skrulls are here to save humanity from itself, because their god loves all.Then we have a 2 page spread of superhumanity attacking en masse, and another spread of the battle.


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The bulk of this issue is taken up with conflict in the Savage Land between the assembled Mighty and New Avengers and the out-of-time heroes who've escaped from the crashed Skrull spaceship. Both sides suspect the others are Skrulls. Meanwhile Iron Man's armour has failed and is killing him.Ares tries to take command of his side. He believes this is a trap and a diversion. He orders the Avengers to go back to the US to face the Skrulls there. He will deal with the opposition here.But some of the Avenging teams have personal issues to face. Luke Cage sees his old Power Man self with his wife Jessica Jones in her very early Jewel costume. Ronin (Clint Barton) sees his old self Hawkeye with his dead ex-wife Mockingbird. Wonder Man faces his old self with his pal Beast. Ms Marvel, Spider-Man and Wolverine also seemingly face their younger selves (MsM's in her earliest costume). Early Thor is there too. Lone young Invisible Woman suggests that her husband Mr Fantastic would be able to figure out what was happening.Tempers flare and the battle begins. Ms Marvel takes the injured Iron Man to safety while other combatants pair off.Vision fights our Sentry, but his successful technique is to pretend to be Bob Reynolds' evil side the Void and claim that this is all Sentry/Void's twisted plan to get revenge on the heroes who let him be forgotten. Sentry flees in dismay.Ronin grabs Hawkeye's bow and arrows and wounds Beast and White Queen from hiding. He also fires at Captain America but Cap's quick reflexes save him with his shield. Clint begins to wonder if the newcomer really is Steve Rogers brought back to life.Then a dinosaur rampages through the fight scene and scatters the combatants.MsM takes IM to the Mutates' ruined base where they find signs of a massacre. Tony Stark sends her back to the US to warn other heroes - he fears the whole world is in danger. He will use the tech in this base to build a new armour that won't be infected by the virus.Current Luke Cage and Wolverine find early Spider-Man (you can tell by the underarm webbing) dead, crushed by the dinosaur. And he's reverted to a Skrull. They also find Mockingbird cradling dead Hawkeye in her arms, also gone Skrull. She still claims not to be a Skrull - she says she suspected that they might have Skrull spies amongst them - but not Clint. Logan doesn't believe her, but Ronin steps in to defend her.Current Clint reveals his identity to Bobbi Morse. He asks her a question only they would know the answer to - about a secret miscarriage she had early in their marriage. She answers correctly and Clint is sure she's the real deal. Luke Cage is forced to wonder whether he's married to a Skrull Jessica Jones. And Mockingbird insists that it's the real Cap who led their escape from the Skrulls.That's the end of the Savage Land action for this issue.In Manhattan the top floors of the Baxter Building have been replaced by a hole into the Negative Zone. And a band of Super-Skrulls lands.


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Several weeks after the assassination of Captain America there are lots of SHIELD Agents in a bar. 1 of them is mouthing off about how it's all Nick Fury's fault for going into hiding after his Secret War. If he was still around he would have stopped the Superhuman Registration Act. Civil War wouldn't have happened and Cap wouldn't be dead.A fellow Agent tries to quieten him down because Fury's right-hand man Dum-Dum Dugan is getting drunk in the bar. But Dugan ups and leaves. He goes to a shack on the waterfront where he can mourn alone.But he's joined by Contessa Val de Fontaine. She claims she's been in Madripoor looking for Nick. She gets Dum-Dum to confirm that Cap is really dead - it's not a trick to confuse some enemy. Then she asks him if he knows where Nick is. But Dugan was hoping he was with her - that they'd run off together.Unfortunately this means that 'Val' has no more use for him. She extrudes claws like Wolverine and stabs him.Then he sees that she is a Skrull, morphing from the Contessa into a copy of him. The Skrull promises that "He loves you".


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Tony Stark, Director of SHIELD, has got his Deputy Maria Hill to get loads of SHIELD techs to search out information for him and then pass it to a special AI to summarise it and encrypt it so Hill can send it to him without knowing what it is. (This doesn't make sense. The data-miners would have to know what they were looking for, and I'm sure she could make them tell her.) Anyway Tony is now reviewing the data while flying around as Iron Man.The info is a history of human interaction with the Skrulls. He needs it because he's been alerted to the fact that the aliens are here again. Spider-Woman brought him (Mighty Avengers #6-7) a corpse of a Skrull who had been disguised as Elektra. The New Avengers had fought her as leader of the Hand in Japan (NAv#27-31) and had been surprised when she turned Skrull when she was killed. In NAv#32 the team were worried that no tech, magic or hypersenses had been able to tell she was a fake. So anyone could be a Skrull, even 1 of themselves. The outlawed NAv now suspected Stark of being a Skrull because of his enmity in Civil War. However Spider-Woman had defected with the body because she thought Stark and SHIELD were the best chance of uncovering an invasion.This also spread the paranoia as Tony began to wonder if there was a Skrull in his Mighty Avengers (MAv#7-8). So lately he reconvened the Illuminati in NAv:Ill#5 to consider the problem, even though they had broken up over exiling Hulk to space (leading to Planet Hulk and World War Hulk) and the Civil War. But then 1 of their number Black Bolt, king of the Inhumans, turned out to be a Skrull too. Despite the fact that the team included Dr Strange and the telepathic Prof X, and none of their deliberate probes or Iron Man's tech had detected an alien in their midst. Black Bolt was killed, as well as 2 other super-powered Skrulls who came to his aid. But the remaining team broke up, unable to trust even each other.(When the Saga was published only the issues mentioned above were out (and not even MAv#8). The Official Index places NAv:Ill#5 and this issue just before the Secret Invasion series starts, a long time after the NAv and MAv issues (for instance World War Hulk has happened in between). According to the OI Stark should also mention that Skrull imposters have turned up in Captain Marvel (2008) #1-5 and Ms Marvel (2006) #25-27, which weren't published until later.)Now for the history of the Skrulls:-They hail from the Andromeda galaxy, the nearest galaxy that isn't a satellite of our own, where they have established an empire. They are a race of shapeshifters, but they normally are only able to imitate forms not take on their target's abilities. (Previously they have used technological means to create super-powered Skrulls.) And they certainly couldn't fool hypersenses and mind-probes.Their early history was laid out in Avengers #133 where we learned that initially the Skrulls created an empire by trade rather then by conquest. In particular they offered their advanced tech to backward races in return for becoming their overlords. When in the time of Emperor Dorrek I they came to the planet Hala in the Large Magellanic Cloud (a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way) they found the barbarian Kree and the plant-like Cotati. They only wanted to deal with 1 species, and so brought representatives of each to separate moons to take part in a challenge. The Kree were put down on Earth's Moon where the Skrulls created the Blue Area to support them. The Skrulls then deemed the Cotati more worthy, but the Kree bunch took over the Skrulls' spaceship. Learning from Skrull tech the Kree race quickly became a warlike interstellar empire. They attacked the Skrull worlds, and the Skrulls were forced to become militaristic too. Thus began the eons-long Kree/Skrull War.The earliest Skrull appearance on Earth itself in Iron Man's data was in the Old West in Wilcox, Oklahoma where Kid Colt and Arizona Girl discovered the whole town was Skrulls (the recent Marvel Westerns: KC & AG #1). That invasion was easily foiled.A Skrull slave ship from the planet Kral IV abducted some humans in the Prohibition era, among them gangster Machine Gun Martin. (Later in Fantastic Four #90-93 Thing will also be abducted to Kral.)Next on the list is a Cold War episode in Marvel Premiere #35-37 where the 3-D Man was accidentally empowered by some Skrulls and then stopped their attempts to escalate tensions.Finally we get to the 1st published app of the Skrulls in FF#2. 4 Skrulls were sent from an orbiting warship to imitate the FF using tech to mimic their powers. This was to discredit Earth's only superteam before an invasion. But the FF exposed them. Reed Richards then went to the warship and fooled the Skrull commander that Earth was defended by giant monsters, using pages from (Marvel) monster mags. The invaders ran away and Reed forced 3 of the Skrulls on Earth to change into cows, after which he hypnotised them into forgetting that they weren't. (This will have repercussions later.)Realising they'd been duped Emperor Dorrek VII ordered the creation of a Super-Skrull who could simulate the powers of all 4 of the FF plus hypnosis (maybe Dorrek had heard about the cows). But when he attacked (FF#18) Reed figured out that Kl'rt's abilities were powered by a beam from space (all the way from the throneworld Tarnax IV in Andromeda!). Defeat again.The Super-Skrull returned in FF#32 where he forced Franklin Storm, father of Sue and Johnny of the FF, to be a suicide bomber. Kl'rt no longer needed the support of a power beam when he fought Thor (Th#142) and Kree Captain Marvel (CM#2-4).Meanwhile in FF#90-93 Thing got abducted to Kral IV where the Skrulls had remodelled their society around prohibition and gangsters, with added arena combat. (The Kral Skrulls will feature in Avengers Annual #14 later in this history, and the replacement FF with Black Panther and Storm will visit Kral in BP(2005)#32-34.)The Kree/Skrull War came to Earth in Av#89-97. Supposedly Earth is of strategic value because it is midway between the Skrull's Andomeda galaxy and the Kree's Large Magellanic Cloud (which of course is untrue). The 3 cows returned to Skrulls, and the 4th Skrull from FF#2 (who didn't get turned into a cow) fomented public distrust of the Avengers as H Warren Craddock of the Alien Activities Commission, while Super-Skrull kidnapped Captain Marvel and the Kree took Rick Jones. In the midst of a battle between the Avengers and 2 armadas the Kree ex-ruler the Supreme Intelligence played his trump card and triggered Rick's latent power which froze both alien armies, stopping the war and restoring himself to power. (Meanwhile on the Skrull throneworld Captain Marvel met Skrull Princess Anelle with results we'll discover later.)In the aftermath Iron Man created the Illumati (with Black Bolt, Dr Strange, Mr Fantastic, Prof X and Sub-Mariner) to prepare for and deal with such major threats to Earth (in the New Avengers: Illuminati 1-shot). Then in the 1st issue of their mini-series they went to Tarnax IV to warn the Skrulls not to attack Earth again. But they got captured, and their bodies and tech were studied before they managed to escape. Tony Stark is sure that what the Skrulls learned then helped them create the undetectable Skrulls he faces now. He also wonders (incorrectly) if Black Bolt was replaced then.During a different war between Skrulls and Xandarians with their Nova Corps (FF#204-209 and Nova#25) Empress R'klll deposed her husband Dorrek.The Skrulls and Kree each sent an observer to monitor the trial of Phoenix in Uncanny X-Men #137 on the Blue Area of the Moon. These observers started to fight each other, and in FF Annual #18 we learned that Empress and Kree Intelligence decided to let that fight decide the final outcome of their interrupted war. After months it was declared a draw.But then in FF#256-257 Galactus ate the Skrull throneworld Tarnax IV along with Empress R'klll. And the empire fragmented into civil wars between warlords.(Tony's info is missing a relevant episode. In X-Men (1991) #89/Uncanny XM #370/XM#90 the team accidentally went back in time to a moon of Tarnax IV just before Galactus arrived. They found Skrulls who had been permanently transformed to mimic Earth super-beings and their powers, using the moon as a training base. The moon was destroyed by Galactus along with its planet. But the science involved survived on Tarnax X as seen in NAv#40.)At the time of the 1st Secret Wars (FF#265) Thing's girlfriend Alicia Masters was abducted and replaced by a Skrull named Lyja. This didn't require duplicating any superpowers, but whatever imitation method was used it went undetected until FF#357.In Av#259-260 the Avengers allied with 1 Skrull faction led by General Zedrao against the space-pirate Nebula, who claimed to be the granddaughter of the deceased Thanos and was using his spaceship base Sanctuary II to conquer Skrull planets. Afterwards in Av Annual #14 and FF Annual #19 they tried unsuccessfully to to prevent Skrull Zabyk from detonating the Hyperwave Bomb which froze all Skrulls in the universe in the shapes they were in.Skrull S'byll became Empress of a major faction, making her homeworld Satriani the throneworld, and led them into another war with the Kree in the 1987 Silver Surfer series. By #31 she had found a way to restore the Skrulls' shapeshifting, and also ended the war again.Lyja was exposed as a Skrull in FF#357. But she had fallen in love with and married Human Torch, so she helped the FF get Alicia Masters back. She was sent against the FF again as Lyja the Lazerfist, but again she sided with them and stayed as an ally.Then came Operation: Galactic Storm as the Earth got caught up in a war between the Kree and the Shi'ar. But Araki, counsel to Shi'ar Empress Lilandra, was secretly a Skrull. And he arranged for the Shi'ar to detonate a Nega-Bomb in the Kree galaxy, which led to the Shi'ar ruling the Skrulls' ancient enemy.(Stark can't know this at this time but soon after Galactic Storm (in Avengers West Coast #91) Mockingbird was the 1st Earthling hero(ine) to be abducted and replaced by 1 of Veranke's new type of undetectable Skrull imposter. She was chosen because she had no superpowers to duplicate. She was so good a duplicate that she didn't revert to a Skrull when she died, unlike the later Elektra. And she even continued to be Mockingbird later in Hell and Heaven!)(The last known app of S'byll was Silver Surfer (1987) #105. Veranke possibly took over her empire after this.)Then Earth was infiltrated by many Skrulls from indeterminate factions of the still scattered empire. The 1995 Skrull Kill Krew mini-series told of a group infected by Skrull DNA from eating meat from cow-Skrulls. (Supposedly these were the Skrulls turned into cows in FF#2. But they had recovered by the time of the Kree/Skrull War in Avengers. So maybe the meat was from the descendants of those 'cows') They could detect (normal) Skrulls, and hunted them down with the powers their infection gave them.After the Onslaught/Heroes Reborn interlude a lone Skrull posed as the Sensational Hydra to lead a Hydra group against Captain America (CA(1998)#3-7). His plan was to take Cap's place and destabilise the US by claiming that there were loads of Skrulls hiding amongst them. (Maybe he was right and didn't know it.)(Stark's database doesn't say that Wolverine #145 revealed that when the X-Men returned in UXM#371 from their time-trip to the destruction of Tarnax IV by Galactus some Skrulls allied with Apocalypse replaced Logan with 1 of their own who'd undergone the same permanent transformation as the inhabitants of Tarnax' moon had. He too went undetected for a long while, even by telepaths like Prof X.)Stark's data also contains some friendly Skrulls on Earth. John the Skrull (who may have been John Lennon) works with Pete Wisdom and the British MI-13. Super-Skrull's daughter Jazinda is a companion of She-Hulk. (He doesn't know that Crusader, 1 of the Initiative trainees, is a friendly Skrull. Nor yet that the 'returned' original Captain Marvel is actually a Skrull who has been been fashioned to imitate CM rather more accurately than the Skrulls expected.) Then there's the case of Hulkling of the Young Avengers.It turned out that he was the son of the original Kree Captain Marvel and the Skrull Princess Anelle. Remember they met briefly during the Kree/Skrull War. He'd been smuggled to Earth by the woman (Skrull) he thought was his mother to save him from his grandfather Dorrek, before Anelle and his grandmother R'klll were killed by Galactus. In YA#9-12 Skrulls (led by Super-Skrull) and Kree fought over him because both sides believe Teddy Altman is their predestined saviour. But Super-Skrull (who has gradually become a good guy) swapped places with Hulkling and agreed to spend alternating times with both sides.Recently Super-Skrull has again stood with the goodies against the Annihilation Wave in the Annihilation event. He destroyed the Harvester of Sorrows with which Annihilus was ravaging the Andromeda galaxy. And then he helped the Kree Ronan the Accuser retake the Kree homeworld Hala from the Wave.Which brings us to the present day.


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In a dream Emma Frost hears Kitty Pryde berating her for not saving her. She wakes beside Scott Summers in their bed in San Francisco. She answers a knock at the door and a Thunderbolts Agent hands her a message from Norman Osborn.She flies a plane to Avengers Tower in New York which Osborn has appropriated as his HQ. The security system welcomes her and takes her to sub-basement 9. In a room with a meeting table and chairs she finds Dr Doom, who orders her to stop trying to read his mind.Namor enters and greets old ''ally'' Victor. They agree that they are here out of curiosity. Doom pretends he had a choice. Doom introduces Frost. Sub-Mariner says he''s heard of her and tries to ingratiate himself. Emma claims they''ve met before, but Namor is puzzled. Emma insults his smell.Doom senses someone else present, and Hood makes himself visible. Frost reads his mind and tells the others his name is Parker Robbins, but she senses someone else in his head as well. He threatens her with a gun and tells her to stop. She makes him turn the gun on himself.Victor Von Doom now senses the arrival of a god. The female Loki materialises. Stunned Namor comments that she looks better this way than as a man. She responds by flirting with him and he hurriedly backs off.Victor and Emma both sense Norman Osborn approaching. He takes control of the meeting and reminds them that he''s taken over from Tony Stark as head of the Avengers and the Initiative and a replacement for SHIELD (still not named HAMMER). He has a deal for them.His organisations won''t oppose them unless they do something he can''t brush under the carpet. They can pursue their individual agendas as long as they don''t conflict with each other. Ie cooperation like Hood has got a lot of supervillains to work as a team. Norman doesn''t demur when Doom suggests that what he gets in return is public approval for apparently keeping order.That''s the carrot. The stick is revealed as a figure in the shadows who Osborn will unleash on anyone who doesn''t toe the line.Norman then discusses each case individually.Namor has no kingdom because Atlantis was destroyed (in the Sub-Mariner: Revolution limited series) and he has no plan what to do with his sleeper agents hidden amongst humanity. Osborn will allow him to rebuild his civilisation and rule under the waves. As long as he stays there.Dr Doom also currently has no kingdom since he was arrested by the Avengers (Mighty Av #11). Norman will have that arrested declared illegal and will return Victor to Latveria where he can rule to his heart''s content. Again as long as he stays there.Loki wants Asgard, and she also wants it off Earth and back in its own dimension. Osborn heartily agrees with that.Emma Frost will be allowed to do what''s necessary to save the declining mutant race, and he''ll protect them from things like the concentration camps that some people are suggesting. And besides it''s good to have a telepath on his team to keep the others honest.Hood''s gang must all Register and join the Initiative. But then they can continue being criminals without fear of reprisal.He tells them that they''ll find out in a week what he''s doing about the Avengers. (Ie his Dark Avengers team to be revealed in their #1.) He says that Tony Stark signed the team and this Tower over to SHIELD so they would pay for them. But this means they now belong to Norman. And he''s got further moves to make against Stark himself.Norman leaves them to think about it. Hood, Loki and then Emma Frost leave immediately. We learn that Doom and Namor had made a secret agreement beforehand. They expect Osborn''s Green Goblin persona will bring him crashing down eventually, and then they 2 will divide the world between them. And if NO doesn''t fall then they''ll just have to take everything from him by force.Osborn returns to Thunderbolts Mountain to oversee the transfer of everything to Avengers Tower. He''s confronted by Swordsman. Half the Thunderbolts team have left, and Andreas von Strucker knows that Norman has made a deal with the other half. Which just leaves him alone, and he doesn''t trust the boss. He says he''s not going back to prison, and he has dirt on Osborn if he tries that. But NO just grabs his sword and stabs him through the stomach with it, and throws the body out of a window and down the mountain.But then we see Norman trying (and failing?) to fight off the resurgence of the Green Goblin.And Emma wakes screaming from the Kitty dream again.


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The Skrulls have invaded Earth in the Secret Invasion event. In New York Xavin the Skrull Runaway is helping the half-Skrull Young Avenger Hulkling evade some of the Skrulls who are intent on killing him on orders from Commander Chrell. With them are Young Avengers Speed and Wiccan. But Chrell has just captured the rest of the Runaways, including Xavin's girlfriend Karolina Dean.Making it a full 3-in-a-row we again begin with a flashback to Tarnax VII and the training camp for Super-Skrulls like Xavin. Chrell is trying to get him to use his Fantastic Four powers more instinctively in battle, although he also claims that the original Super-Skrull Kl'rt was never able to defeat him. Xavin can't manage to use more than 1 FF power at once. But Chrell advises his pupil to study a superior opponent for his weaknesses and then exploit them. And he uses the standard Skrull sect's mantra to Xavin "He (their God) loves you".Now on a New York rooftop Chrell's female Skrull assassin X'iv spots the 4 targets as they exit from the subway system. Speed zooms off to check on the other YAers they left in Times Square. Xavin says they have to find some way of broadcasting to the Skrull fleet the news that Hulkling is the prophesied half-breed saviour Dorrek, and that the Skrull Gods haven't really promised them the Earth. Teddy Altman suggests they go to the TV Network station on Rockefeller Plaza. But then Tommy Shepherd returns to tell them they're needed in Times Square. Nick Fury is there and something's happened to Vision (both seen at the end of SI#3, and seen on TV by the other Runaways at the end of last issue). Even-more-but they get teleported away by X'iv's magic ...... and wind up in front of Chrell who has Karolina captive and the other Runaways defeated. X'iv holds Speed and Wiccan back leaving the other 2 to face the Commander (who seems to have dismissed the other enhanced Skrulls who were with him last issue). He offers to let Xavin have his Majasdanian girlfriend and leave the Earth if he'll 1st kill Dorrek. Teddy suggests they take Chrell down together, but Xavin says he was never able to beat the man who trained him.But then very young Klara Prast who Chrell has obviously ignored as powerlessly cowering and whimpering uses her control over plant-life to make a large tree shoot up under the Skrull which makes him release the others. Karolina immediately blasts him powered by anger. Robot Victor Mancha dives at X'iv and Chase Stein launches some missiles at her, which makes her free Speed and Wiccan.Chrell tells X'iv to kill them all and she launches energy daggers which Teddy protects Molly Hayes, Nico Minoru and Xavin from by Hulking out in their path. Then she throws a sai which nicks Nico's cheek. But leaking blood allows the Runaways' witch to draw the Staff Of One out of her body. (We'll have to ignore the fact that she had it in plain view last issue.) Xavin is using his Super-Skrull/FF powers to battle his mentor. But Chrell counters with FF powers too. (So maybe Kl'rt wasn't the *1st* Super-Skrull?) Chrell is winning but Xavin says he'll defeat him by exploiting his weakness. Which is that his belief is based on hate while he believes in his friends. On cue Karolina zaps Chrell again.X'iv is lashing out with hand and eye blasts. Speed picks up the youngest Klara and Molly and takes them far away out of danger and then zooms straight back. Just in  time to get blasted by X'iv along with Nico. Hulkling punches X'iv who retaliates with 2 sais. He holds her arms off and reminds her that he is the son of Skrull Princess Annele and Kree Mar-Vell and that it is his prophesied destiny to unite the Skrulls into 1 Empire again. He was chosen by the Skrull God who has told him he doesn't love *her*. Her shocked reaction gives him time to nut her, knocking her out.Karolina and Xavin are still fighting Chrell who suddenly uses his Human Torch power at max to go nova. Xavin surrounds him with an Invisible Woman forcefield to protect his girlfriend. It turns out that his inability to use multiple powers has made each individual power stronger, so his field is able to contain Chrell's nova flame which ends up consuming himself. Xavin says that ironically it was his own weakness which beat Chrell.Karolina is now free to express her anger at her boy/girlfriend telling Nico to take her (and the other Runaways) to safety but leave Xavin behind (#1). Hulkling thanks Xavin for saving him, and Xavin expresses his belief that Teddy *will* some day be the saviour of the Skrulls. (He'll have to wait for the Empyre event for that.) The 3 YAers persuade the Runaways to leave New York while they head back to the battle of Times Square. Their 1st stop should be to pick up Klara and Molly where Speed left them.We see the pair at the foot of Mount Rushmore. Molly is still fuming at being kept out of the fighting. Klara is just enjoying nature.


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The Skrulls have been infiltrating Earth for years and now they have launched a full-scale invasion, centred as usual for Marvel in New York, in the Secret Invasion limited series. The Young Avengers (except Stature who's in the Initiative) witnessed the destruction of the Baxter Building (SI#2). But the Runaways have recently returned from a trip to 1907 (in their own title) and don't realise what's going on.This issue begins with a flashback many months ago in a Skrull military training centre on Tarnax VII. Instructors Chrell and Fremn are arguing about whether a new Super-Skrull trainee is ready for action. They meet with Queen Veranke who is leading a Skrull religious revival which prophesies that they are destined to take the Earth from the humans. Fremn is not a believer so Chrell kills him. Veranke entrusts the training of her army to Chrell, and also tasks him with eliminating the 'blasphemous prince' during the Invasion.When the Runaways (Chase Stein, Karolina Dean, Molly Hayes, Nico Minoru, Victor Mancha and Xavin) came back from the past they brought with them a young girl Klara Prast (who can communicate with and control plants). Now (without their dinosaur Old Lace) they are showing her the sights of NY. Xavin is a shapeshifting Skrull male Super-Skrull warrior currently in the shape of an Earth female teen, who is worried about the fugitive Registration-defying Runaways being openly seen in the home of most of Earth's superhumans, especially Iron Man.Then a load of Skrulls descend on them, and Xavin reacts by slamming his/her companions with a forcefield (as a Super-Skrull having the powers of the Fantastic Four).Meanwhile the Young Avengers (Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Patriot, Speed, Vision (Jonas) and Wiccan) are rushing towards Times Square where the main action is. (Vision has dropped his human disguise, the rest are still in civvies but have their weapons where relevant.) They realise that the enemy are Skrulls and that they appear to have super-powers. Billy Kaplan (who appears now to have magically shifted to his Wiccan costume) asks Teddy Altman if the Skrulls have have come for him again (Hulkling is the half-Skrull son of Princess Anelle, and Super-Skrull tried to enlist him as Skrull Emperor in YA#9-12.) And we see that someone among the Skrulls is searching for him remotely.Most of the Runaways are unconscious and the robot Victor is rebooting. Nico has a spell ready to kill Xavin if necessary. Xavin shifts out of his human guise and talks Skrull to 2 of the aliens who leave them (and the other Skrulls seem to have dispersed too). Xavin checks that her love Karolina is still alive and then forms forcefield platforms to take them all somewhere. But Victor signals that his reboot is finished and witch Nico invents a Pop spell which makes the supporting fields disappear and they all fall to the ground. She and Victor land on their feet and prepare to fight while Xavin forms new forcefields to cushion the fall of the others.Victor attacks with electric bolts and magnetism to wrap the Skrull in metal debris. Xavin tries to explain that he was taking them to their vehicle the Leapfrog. He also tells the conscious duo that these Skrulls are religious fanatics who believe a prophecy that their God has promised them the Earth. If they are invading it means that their infiltration has already given them the Earth, and now they're just here to take possession. Now he advises Nico and Victor to leave him here and take the others and run away. Nico agrees even though Karolina will hate her for it.Meanwhile the YA have reached Times Square and are battling powered Skrulls. Hawkeye, Patriot and Speed are now in costumes too (courtesy of Wiccan's spells?). Kate wonders desperately where the Avengers are. (Readers of SI#1 will know that the Av and New Av have been lured away to the Savage Land.) Teddy runs towards 4 Skrulls to tell them who he is, but they all fire on him. He shapeshifts to Hulkling (including costume).We see that Commander Chrell and a female Skrull named X'iv are watching him remotely. Their computer system isn't yet certain but Chrell believes he has found Dorrek VIII, the half-breed Prince, now a hero of their enemy. Luckily his attackers don't realise who he is because the news would spread doubt in the fleet. X'iv informs him that more heroes have turned up, and we see Stature and other Initiative members led by Gauntlet.Nico and Victor have got the unconscious other 4 Runaways into the cloaked Leapfrog. The cloak dissipates as Victor pilots the craft into the air. They both regret abandoning Xavin but then 2 (giant-size?) Skrulls appear in front of the 'Frog.In Times Square a Skrull punches giant Stature into a building. On the ground Tommy Shepherd helps his 'brother' Billy up, but Billy's only thought is to find his boyfriend Teddy. Xavin uses Human Torch's flames to fly to a rooftop where he follows up with Sue Richards' invisibility. He recognises Chrell arriving with some hand-picked men to kill Dorrek, but he flames on again to burn a hole in the pavement and carry Hulkling to safety in the sewers. But Teddy is only half-conscious, and 3 Skrulls catch up with them.


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The Runaways and Young Avengers have gotten caught up in the Skrull Secret Invasion event. The Runaway Xavin is a Super-Skrull and told Nico Minoru and Victor Mancha to escape with the unconscious other Runaways in the Leapfrog. But the last we saw of them was the craft menaced by 2 other enhanced Skrulls. Meanwhile Skrull Commander Chrell is under orders from Queen Veranke to find and kill the half-Skrull YAer Hulkling who is the son of Skrull royalty and is prophesied to lead them. His appearance could weaken the resolve of the fanatical Skrull army who are operating under a different prophecy that the Earth is destined to be theirs. Xavin saw Chrell capture Hulkling but rescued him, but now 3 Skrulls have tracked them down to a sewer.But we start as last issue with a flashback to the Tarnax VII military training camp. The Skrull homeworld is long-gone (eaten by Galactus in Fantastic Four #257) and the Skrull Empire shattered into factions. A Skrull priest is telling some young trainees of a prophesied half-breed saviour who will unite them all in peace. Xavin is 1 of the audience until he is drawn away by Commander Chrell to continue training to use his Super-Skrull powers. (Xavin is 1 who has been given the original Super-Skrull powers which duplicate those of all the FF. But later enhanced Skrulls will have a variety of powers.) Chrell scoffs at such prophecies but says that Xavin's training will be what will keep him alive to see it if it comes true.Now the young Super-Skrull is standing up to the 3 'super' Skrulls, taking a beating to protect unconscious Hulkling. Luckily YAers Wiccan (Hulkling's boyfriend) and Speed (Wiccan's sort-of brother - it's complicated) drop in (probably via Wiccan's magic). Tommy Shepherd rushes around landing blows while Billy Kaplan does more magic stuff, but a flaming-armed Skrull survives to pin them against a wall until a Thing-fist slams his head into that wall.Wiccan recognises Xavin and then sees Teddy Altman lying in the water. Xavin tells them they have to get Dorrek (as the Skrulls call Hulkling) to safety before 'he' sends more warriors after them. Speed asks where the other Runaways are ...... and we cut an enhanced Skrull breaking in through the windshield of the Leapfrog to attack Nico. Robot Victor zaps him with electricity and calls for Chase Stein or Karolina Dean to wake up. But it is their pet dinosaur Old Lace who responds and takes the Skrull out into the sky. Their flying vehicle crashes to the ground and the 2nd 'super' Skrull menaces them. He grabs Victor and stamps on Nico's arm making her let go of her magic Staff Of One. But he's staggered by a blast from Chase's Fistigon gauntlets. And then the youngest Runaway Molly Hayes (who likes to be called Princess Powerful) punches him into the sky and through a skyscraper.Chase helps Victor up and Molly examines Nico's damaged wrist. Old Lace returns with her mouth dripping Skrull blood. Molly wants them all to go fight the aliens but Nico says they'll get the Leapfrog working and leave. Then Karolina wakes up (with their young guest from the past Klara Prast) and demands to know where her girl/boyfriend Xavin (he's a shapeshifting Skrull) is. We don't stick around for the awkward answer ...... but go to Commander Chrell's ship hovering over Times Square. He's lost contact with the loyal Skrulls he sent after Hulkling and now sends a female Skrull operative with orders to kill Dorrek and whoever's protecting him, and any other Skrull witness. She teleports away (magic I think).Billy is helping Teddy along a subway tunnel as Hulkling comes to his senses and asks what's happening. Xavin catches up with them and explains that Skrull extremists have invaded Earth because they believe their God has promised it to them. And he blames Dorrek for not preventing it, because he didn't accept his responsibilities (YA#12) as the prophesied saviour of the Empire. He could still stop the invasion by revealing his identity, but now the deadliest Skrull of all (I think he means Chrell) is here to kill him. Teddy protests that he *tried* to tell the Skrulls who he is (last issue) but they attacked him. Xavin tells him to try harder. Earth is Teddy's home and it is also the home of Xavin's beloved Karolina, so they should be willing to die to save it.Then superfast Tommy catches up with them as well. And then they all go invisible as Xavin tries to hide them from the teleporting arrival of the female assassin. But she can detect their heartbeats, and maybe see them via infra-red or X-rays or something. She throws a sai (or Skrull equivalent) which Speed stops from piercing Teddy's chest. Xavin tells Speed and Wiccan to attack her but she evades their blows and blasts and gets her own licks in. Xavin stops Dorrek from joining the fight and tries to get him to run away. Then he knocks the Skrulless over with a chunk of forcefield and uses force discs to carry himself and his friends away.The woman named X'iv reports back to Chrell that 1 of Dorrek's protectors is a Skrull and she recognises him by his heartbeat as Prince Xavin. Chrell orders a scan for a particular alien bioenergy signature.Karolina is blazingly angry that Nico left Xavin behind, even though Nico says it was what he wanted. (Noticeably Karolina refers here to Xavin as 'he', even though he takes human form as a female to be Kar's girlfriend.) Chase and Molly support K about returning to the fight/finding X, but Victor says they didn't see how bad it all was and Nico says Xavin's a trained soldier which they aren't.Klara draws their attention to some TV screens in a shop window showing the battle in Times Square. They see a Skrull electrocuting Young Avengers Hawkeye, Patriot and Vision and another Skrull firing a blast through Vision's skull.Then Chrell and X'iv arrive with 4 more 'super' Skrulls. (Presumably he's traced the bioenergy signature of Karolina because she's an alien Majasdanian.)