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Last issue the Young Avengers came to Los Angeles to help the Runaways who had been attacked by SHIELD for disregarding the Superhero Registration Act, seriously damaging the robot Victor Mancha. But when they met Molly Hayes she thought they were also the enemy and attacked *them* until she ran out of energy and fell asleep. When they carried her limp body to the rest of her team the Runaways thought they'd hurt her and all was set for a superhero battle. But then robot Vision approached robot Victor who was shocked awake.But we begin this issue somewhere else. Maria Hill, Director of SHIELD, is visiting the secret Cube prison where the Warden uses extreme measures to 'rehabilitate' supervillains. She wants 1 of his 'special projects' to go bring in the Runaways because SHIELD itself can't afford to be seen to be harassing young teens. The Warden says she needs a 'maggot' to seek out and consume the infected tissue of society. And his suggestion is Noh-Varr, the Kree super-soldier with added insect DNA. We see him hooked up to life-support suspended in 1 of those ubiquitous tubes of fluid.In the Runaways' Hostel beneath the La Brea Tar Pits the Vision's 'attack' on Victor is the tipping point and Xavin turns Super-Skrull to be met by the YA's Skrull Hulkling. Wiccan is confused because the actual Super-Skrull left for space with other Skrulls and Kree at the end of YA#12. Xavin explains he's a trainee SS from the facility on Tarnax VII.Both Victor and Vision are badly affected by their contact. Stature thinks *Vizh* is being attacked and rushes to his aid. Nico Minoru tries to stop her but Hawkeye stops *her* with a judo throw. But the fall draws blood from Nico which in turn triggers her Staff Of One to emerge from her body. And Nico uses it to cast a Get Lost spell on Kate Bishop.Patriot tries to hand Molly over to Chase Stein but he's too angry to listen. Speed interrupts to 'calm' the situation by giving a brief run down of all the powers in the YA and suggesting Chase backs down. Chase pretends to consider the fact that *he* has *no* powers, but then calls in the psychically-linked dinosaur Old Lace who launches at Speed.As Xavin and Hulkling trade blows and insults, Wiccan and Karolina Dean duel in mid-air. Billy Kaplan finds time to comment that Xavin is full of himself. Karolina asks him not to say things like that about her 'betrothed', who's quite sweet when he's a she. (Karolina is an alien Majesdanian and the betrothal is a political move for peace between Majesdan and the Skrulls.) Billy is surprised that she's dating a Skrull, but only because he is too (Hulkling who is a Skrull-Kree hybrid).Cassie Lang has now ripped Vision away from Victor. Vision doesn't know why he was affected by the contact. But Victor is now staggering around like a zombie with blood (or something) leaking from his mouth.Nico had hoped her spell would send Kate away but instead it's blinded her. (Nico can never exactly predict what the Staff will make of any of her spell-phrases.) But she's about to (I think) use it as a physical weapon when Patriot stops her. Eli Bradley finally convinces her that their battle is a mistake, and she uses a Chill Out spell to stop the fighting.The Warden is in a SHIELD plane with Noh-Varr heading for LA. He explains by video-link to Director Hill that the subject crash-landed on Earth with Kree from another timeline linked by a super-computer. He was the only survivor and after he was delivered to the Cube the super-computer was eliminated. The Warden then imitated its voice and now Noh-Varr does whatever he says. Now he primes the boy with Skrull scent so he can home in on the Skrull Runaway. And then he kicks him out of the plane over the city.Meanwhile our teams have come out of the Hostel. Nico's spell stopped the fighting alright but by freezing them all, and now they're trying to warm up. They came out into the open because the Hostel is still ice-cold. She apologises but she can't use the same spell phrase more than once and it's hard thinking up new ones.Molly's still asleep. Eli suggests they all get away quickly before SHIELD turns up. Nico still doesn't trust anyone called Avengers. Kate has to explain that the Avengers are split by the Act. And her team is here because they saw what happened to Victor.Vision chooses that moment to explain some stuff. He seems to have code in common with Victor, which is why he felt pain when Mancha was broken last issue. Although his body is Iron Lad's armour from the 30th Century his programming is from the original Vision created by Ultron last Century. At which point Chase interrupts to say that Victor is Ultron's son, created to kill all superheroes and take over the World. Billy points out another similarity between the teams - their founder Iron Lad was another murderous despot, the future Kang The Conqueror.Molly has woken up to find that the teams are now friends. She sees Tommy Shepherd's white hair and asks if he's 100. Speed tries to dismiss her but she gets him to tell her that he's fast and can make things blow up. And she enthusiastically drags him off for a demonstration. Vision suggests they take Victor to Captain America's Resistance HQ in New York for repairs. But this reignites the Runaways distrust of adults, including Cap who had them put in foster homes (the last issue of their 1st series). They intend to stay out of the Civil War by not picking sides, but Eli points out that being Unregistered automatically makes them targets. Then there's a loud explosion and a cheer from Molly.Meanwhile Noh-Varr has crashlanded in an LA street causing a minor car crash. Despite the Warden's urging voice he stops to rescue a baby from the back of a car and hands it to the mother before going Skrull-hunting.By now Tommy and Molly are fast friends playing childish games while the others continue to figure out what to do. Chase, Karolina and Nico are keeping conspicuously separate from Cassie and Eli. Victor's still incapacitated. But Xavin apologises to Billy and Hulkling (Teddy Altman) for his hasty antagonism. Billy says half-Skrull Teddy is impatient too, and explains how his mother was Skrull royalty and his father was Kree Captain Marvel. Xavin immediately realises this must be Dorrek VIII who is expected to unify the Skrull Empire, and he bows before his sovereign. Teddy says he turned the job down but now Xavin gets angry because his homeworld wouldn't have been destroyed if the Skrulls were united.And then somebody zooms up and breaks Xavin's neck. It's Noh-Varr and he's ready to take them all on.


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Chapter 2 First Contest: Frenzy In the Frozen North! Chapter 3 Second Contest: Ghost Town Showdown!
Synopsis by PedroWith all life on Earth held hostage in suspended animation, the twelve chosen pawns disappear from the orbiting area, and the greatest competition of all-time begins. Daredevil, Darkstar, and Talisman go up against the Invisible Girl, Iron Fist, and Sun Fire in the “Frozen North! Elsewhere the team of Arabian Knight, Iron Man, and Sabra meet the team of Captain Britain, Defensor, and the Savage She-Hulk in “Ghost Town Showdown!Synopsis by Peter SilvestroRound One begins. Six heroes find themselves in the Arctic: Daredevil, Talisman and Darkstar for the Grandmaster and Invisible Girl, Sunfire and Iron Fist for the Unknown. Sunfire and Darkstar battle in the skies, the mystical Talisman battles Invisible Girl by sending her into dream-time, and DD and Iron Fist slug it out in a martial arts battle. As the warriors converge on the quarter of the Golden Globe, Invisible Girl is nearest but Daredevil manages to snag it with a cable from his billy club. Round One goes to the Grandmaster. Round Two takes place in a western ghost town. For the Unknown, Iron Man, Sabra, Arabian Knight; for the Grandmaster: She-Hulk, Captain Britain, Defensor. The teams must deal with internal conflict this time: Sabra and Arabian Knight are divided by their countries’ enmity while She-Hulk is offended by Defensor’s Latin machismo. She-Hulk battles Sabra whose weaponry takes her by surprise; Iron Man is startled by Defensor’s defensive capabilities and Captain Britain mixes it up with Arabian Knight. Soon, only Iron Man and She-Hulk are left standing; the two battle but Iron Man’s repulsor rays prove too much for her. While Shell-Head is tending to her wounds, Arabian Knight claims the prize. Round Two goes to the Unknown.Grandmaster’s Team: Captain America, Talisman, Darkstar, Wolverine, Captain Britain, Sasquatch, She-Hulk, Daredevil, Thing, Defensor, Le Peregrine, Blitzkreig.Unknown’s Team: Iron Man, Shamrock, Iron Fist, Storm, Arabian Knight, Angel, Sabra, Invisible Girl, Sunfire, Black Panther, Collective Man, Vanguard.


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Chapter 4 Third Contest: Siege In the City of the Dead! Chapter 5 Fourth Contest: Struggle in the Jungle! Chapter 6 Winner Takes None!
Synopsis by PedroTwo contests have already been waged. The winners were Daredevil, agent of the Grandmaster… And the Arabian Knight, agent of the Unknown. Two contests remain yet to be played. The Grandmaster needs to win both of them to acquire the Golden Globe to restore life to his immortal brother. As for the heroes, many have the feeling that no matter which omnipotent wins, Earth will lose. Angel, Black Panther and Vanguard meet Le Peregrine, Thing, and Wolverine in “Siege in the City of the Dead!” While Captain America, Blitzkrieg, and Sasquatch tackle the team of Collective Man, Shamrock, and Storm in “Struggle in the Jungle! Thing and Shamrock win, giving victory to the Grandmaster. After the Unknown, revealed as Death revives the Collector, all heroes are sent back to Earth.Synopsis by Peter SilvestroFor Round Three the scene switches to China: the Unknown’s Team, Black Panther, Angel and Vanguard versus the Grandmaster’s Wolverine, Thing, and Peregrine. Wolverine attacks the Black Panther in the city of terra-cotta warriors, startling his foe with the violence of his attacks. Peregrine and Angel engage in an aerial duel while the Thing and Vanguard test their strength against each other. The Thing and Angel come out on top and the Wolverine/Panther fight is a draw. Wolverine’s senses detect the quarter of the Golden Globe and Thing unearths it. Round Three goes to the Grandmaster. Round Four switches to the jungles of South America as Grandmaster’s Captain America, Sasquatch and Blitzkreig face off against the Unknown’s Storm, Shamrock and Collective Man. Blitzkrieg finds his lightning powers no match for Storm who controls the elements. Collective Man surprises the massive Sasquatch with his strength derived from his collective countrymen. The agile Cap and Shamrock play a game of cat-and-mouse among the trees with the Irish heroine claiming the prize. The final round goes to the Grandmaster.The champions are retuned to the arena, the Golden Globe of Life is reassembled and the Grandmaster claims his prize: the resurrection of his brother, the Collector. Talisman enables Invisible Girl by the power of dream-time to unmask the Unknown as Death herself. Death then reveals the detail she neglected to mention: the Collector can be raised only if a being of equal power chooses to die in his place. The Grandmaster agrees to sacrifice his life, and when the reborn Collector realizes what has happened vows to get even with Death; she proposes a game…. The heroes are safely returned to Earth but it will be a long time before they feel like playing games.Grandmaster’s Team: Captain America, Talisman, Darkstar, Wolverine, Captain Britain, Sasquatch, She-Hulk, Daredevil, Thing, Defensor, Le Peregrine, Blitzkreig.Unknown’s Team: Iron Man, Shamrock, Iron Fist, Storm, Arabian Knight, Angel, Sabra, Invisible Girl, Sunfire, Black Panther, Collective Man, Vanguard.


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A gathering of heroes
Synopsis by PedroAll of Marvel’s super heroes have disappeared from Earth only to appear in an athletic stadium orbiting the planet. Their abductors are the galactic gamesman known as the Grandmaster and a mysterious entity called the Unknown! Twenty-four of the mightiest heroes are chosen for a contest—to compete for the four pieces of the Golden Globe of Life, hidden at the far corners of the Earth! If the Grandmaster’s team wins, the unknown will restore his dead brother to life! If he loses, the Gamesman will join his brother in oblivion!Synopsis by Peter SilvestroThe Grandmaster enters into a contest with an unknown opponent, determining to use Earth’s heroes as the pawns. Suddenly, the Avengers vanish from their training session at the mansion; the Soviet Super-Soldiers disappear while in confrontation with the Red Ghost; the Fantastic Four are whisked away from a dinner in their honor. All over the world heroes vanish: from America, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Hulk, Daredevil…other countries’ heroes as well: Captain Britain, Japan’s Sunfire, Defensor from Argentina, the Israeli Sabra and the Arabian Knight, China’s Collective Man…all to find themselves in a giant sport arena. After puzzled attempts to make sense of their situation, the Grandmaster and the Unknown appear before them. The two immortals explain that they are here to play a game: each being will choose a team of twelve champions to compete for the four quarters of the Golden Globe of Life. The prize: if Grandmaster’s team wins, his brother, the Collector, will be restored to life; if not, he joins his brother in death. The immortals choose their teams from among the human heroes assembled, disqualifying gods, immortals, aliens, androids, etc. The Golden Globe of Life is quartered and its pieces hidden around the world. Earth is placed in a time lock for the duration of the contest and should any heroes fail to return, the Earth will remain in suspended animation for all eternity. Let the games begin! Grandmaster’s Team: Captain America, Talisman, Darkstar, Wolverine, Captain Britain, Sasquatch, She-Hulk, Daredevil, Thing, Defensor, Le Peregrine, Blitzkreig.Unknown’s Team: Iron Man, Shamrock, Iron Fist, Storm, Arabian Knight, Angel, Sabra, Invisible Girl, Sunfire, Black Panther, Collective Man, Vanguard.


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This issue begins with a terrific battle between Galactus and Tyrant equalling his size. Entire galaxies are destroyed as Tyrant damages the Big G, but Galactus fights back and has Tyrant at his mercy. We then learn that this is a historical scene being viewed by Thanos in Tyrant's computer files. But he still doesn't know why the duo are such sworn enemies until he gets it to show him the earliest known data on the foe. Then he gets the computer to tell him the whereabouts of the containment device holding the cosmic energy taken from Morg and he goes and steals it.Last issue Thanos led Ganymede and Terrax into Tyrant's space-fortress. Jack Of Hearts and Legacy followed them to rescue Ganymede from Thanos' clutches. At the end of the issue Tyrant confronted them. Now the 4 realise that the Titan has left them to face the foe alone. They combine forces, and cocky young Legacy tries a frontal assault only to get beaten up for his pains. The baddie taunts JOH that he's the only 1 who might possibly harm him but he daren't unleash all his energy because it would kill him. Jack contents himself by just blasting and power-punching, but Tyrant smashes *him* to pulp too. He begs his companion Ganymede for help but she ignores him in favour of her sworn Sisterhood duty kill the bad guy. When Terrax attacks, Tyrant remarks that he like Morg has the smell of the Maker on him before he blasts him into submission too. Now only Ganymede is left standing but she reminds him that her Sisterhood drove him from the Galaxy long ago.Then Thanos rejoins them to say that isn't exactly true. He has learned that it was Galactus who actually drove him away. And it was in the early days of the universe that Galactus *created* Tyrant as his equal for unknown reasons. But where Big G was content to feed off the energy of planets his 'son' wanted to conquer and rule them. Tyrant revolted against his father, but as we saw at the beginning Galactus prevailed and shrank his son in power and size to the more humanoid version we know. Ganymede begs Thanos to share his new knowledge to enable them to kill the enemy but he bats her aside because he wants to face Tyrant alone.He tells Tyrant that he intends to take the container of Morg power unless Tyrant can stop him. This whole exercise was designed to culminate in this single combat so that he could prove the mightier. Tyrant threatens him with death but the Titan says Death has already rejected him. And Tyrant feels the power of his blast and is impressed. But he seems to gain the upper hand until Thanos uses the Morg-power against him.Meanwhile Legacy revives and tries to persuade Terrax to join him in helping Thanos. But the ex-Herald Of Galactus says that Thanos deserted *them* so now they should repay the favour. Legacy agrees but only if they take unconscious Jack and Ganymede with them. They flee to Thanos' spaceship Demeter and fly away.The brutal battle continues unabated. Tyrant explosively destroys a large amount of his fortress, and seemingly Thanos with it. But the Titan emerges from the rubble. However he claims that Tyrant's inability to kill him plus the Morg-power sphere he has taken is enough of a victory for him. And he teleports away to his home 'farm' ...... where he begins to study the pilfered containment unit. Thanos is content.But back at the fortress we see that Tyrant has loads of these containment units, and an even bigger 1.


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Thanos stands on a plain filled with slain alien warriors. Just 1 turns out to be still alive and he struggles to his feet and charges at the Titan with his axe. Thanos batters him down with his fists but not before the axe draws blood on his arm. The Titan responds with a blast of energy from a fist and then continues the beating with now-energised fists until the foe is down. And then he slits his throat with a dagger.He calls for his spaceship Demeter to beam him aboard. The ship is run by robots whose leader asks if the master's trip was satisfactory. Thanos replies that it wasn't. He faced the Ovin Mercenary Army because he'd heard they were the deadliest force in the universe, but killing them turned out to be hardly worth the small effort (but he's still dripping blood). He retires to his chamber to contemplate his life. He used to have a purpose, courting his love Death and even becoming a god for her (in the Infinity Gauntlet event). But she spurned him and he relinquished godhood. Since then he has been adrift, mainly aiding heroes defeat other menaces to the universe (and therefore also to him) (in the Infinity War and Infinity Crusade events). But now he's actively seeking opponents worthy of his attention, which the Ovin Mercenary Army wasn't. He tells his robot crew to take him home ...... which is a farm on an unknown planet. (At the end of Infinity Gauntlet he was depicted as doing the farming himself alone. But now his home is high-tech and he probably gets robots to do the farmwork.) His AI informs him that "all is in readiness" and he descends into a deep cavern below his base and into a secure room where we see a robot that thinks it's a holy man that he acquired from a cult of alien monks (in Secret Defenders #13). It's really a storehouse of information from past millennia but the 'bot swears that Thanos can't make him divulge any of it. However the Mad Titan dons a wired-up helmet which allows him to enter the robot's mind-space ...... where he appears as a vaguely Samurai avatar. He's confronted by a barrier represented by a tall wall. 'Luckily' his avatar's gloves have spikes on the palms so he's able to scale it. But when he reaches the top he's attacked by a very big samurai warrior. They both draw swords and battle until the foe breaks the Titan's weapon. But then Thanos stabs him through the heart with the broken hilt. He uses the enemy's body to smash through 2 doors to gain entrance to the treasure house of the holy robot's information, which appropriately appears as actual treasure. The (consciousness of) the robot is seated within and declares that this knowledge is the sum of all he has recorded over millennia and it is what he *is*. As such it must remain only his. The Titan replies that he takes whatever he wants, and what he wants is knowledge because knowledge is power. And he strangles the avatar of the robot to death and withdraws from the mindscape.Back home he downloads all the data into his computer system, and tells his AI to scan it for pertinent info. Later he consults his boss robot who tells him that there is 1 particular item that might be of interest to his master. The 'bot shows him (and us) a pictorial summary of a powerful being of unknown origin called Tyrant whose robot armies were opposed by woman warriors called the Spinsterhood. He was eventually driven off into uncharted space. The Spinsters claimed the victory but it was really Galactus. He recently returned and this time his opponents were Silver Surfer, Gladiator of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, former Heralds of Galactus Morg and Terrax, Beta Ray Bill, Jack Of Hearts and the last of the Spinsterhood revived for the occasion. Tyrant beat them all but again Galactus intervened to force him to retreat, but taking Morg as a hostage against Big G.Thanos does consider Tyrant a worthwhile opponent. But he wants to learn more about him before committing to conflict. He considers the above list of Tyrant's former opponents as a source of info. He doesn't think Gladiator, Surfer and Beta Ray Bill would want to help him. He doesn't know enough about Jack or the Spinster to trust their insights. Morg is a prisoner of Tyrant himself. That leaves Terrax who the Titan thinks he can manipulate. The top robot urges caution but Thanos blasts it to bits for daring to question his intentions. And the Demeter sets off on the search for Terrax.


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Axe-wielding Terrax is in a gladiatorial arena on an alien planet facing 3 different aliens. He kills 2 of them in short order, 1 with a blow from his axe and the other with a blast from the same weapon, while the fat guy running the show complains about the uninspiring performance. But the big green 3rd opponent gets rid of the axe and beats unarmed Terrax up. However Tyros unleashes his superpower to control soil and chokes the green guy to death with dust from the arena floor. The fat controller is much happier with this display.Terrax then claims his prize as the winner. The boss indicates a scantily-clad young woman in chains at the side of the arena. Tyros says he wants money not a woman. He kills the boss' bodyguard with a blast from his retrieved axe and then chops the boss in half. The woman names herself Vana and begs him to take her away from all this and back home to her family. Terrax says that's none of his business and he raises his axe as if to strike her. But instead he chops through her chains.Later they're in a bar and a cloaked figure is watching them. Vana thinks she's touched Tyros' gentler side but he dismisses that idea. She tells him her story:- A girl from a rich provincial family runs away to the big city lights and falls victim to a bad crowd. But her family will pay him well if he returns her to them. Another patron of the bar tries to get Vana to sit with him and his friend but Terrax tells him to get lost. He tells her *his* story:- Tyros ruled his planet with an iron fist until Galactus took him to be his Herald and gave him the Power Cosmic as Terrax (the Fantastic Four were involved in their #211). He eventually escaped from his master and went his own way. We see him fighting not only the FF but also Nova (of the New Warriors), Silver Surfer and then Galactus' most recent Herald Morg. Now he seeks wealth to hire a mercenary army to conquer his old planet again. Then the intrusive alien returns with his much bigger friend to take the girl from Tyros. But Terrax punches him through a wall and then he and Vana leave.Next we see them them riding a 6-legged beast through a desolate land towards Vana's home where she expects to be greeted by her parents and her 3 brothers. They reach the family compound and enter, but it's a ruin. Tyros feels there's something wrong and tells her to get back on their mount while he investigates. But instead she tells her 3 brothers to come out of hiding and attack him, making him drop the axe. 2 of them hold him while the 3rd aims a big gun at him. However he kicks the gun-holder in the face, punches another's jaw and slams a knee into the 3rd. But Vana has grabbed the big gun and explains that this was their usual tactic to rob men. Her life of crime hit a bump when she was thrown in the arena but Tyros got her out of that. Now they just want to steal his axe to sell. She fires the gun which staggers Terrax. But he survives and comes after her. As she runs for their 'horse' she bumps into the hooded figure from the bar. She begs him to save her from Terrax but he just lets Tyros have her and use his axe to turn her to dust.The other guy then reveals himself to be Thanos who's come to make him an offer of alliance. The Titan reminds him (and us) of how Terrax was recently (Silver Surfer #81-82) the prisoner of Tyrant. He intends to challenge Tyrant and he's come here seeking information about the foe. He promises that when he's won the fight Terrax can have Tyrant's empire to rule. Tyros tells him that Tyrant seeks power which he siphons from his captives. He currently has Morg's Power Cosmic as his battery. He also keeps stolen energy in a containment device. However Terrax tells Thanos that someone knows even more about Tyrant - Ganymede, the last of the Spinsterhood.


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We begin with Jack Of Hearts kissing Ganymede. But she protests that they agreed that their relationship couldn't be physical while he was trapped in his armour (which keeps him from exploding) and she's devoted herself completely to the destruction of Tyrant. But Jack shows her that he can safely remove his armour now until he's completely naked. She joyfully strips off to join him and they start to make passionate love ...... until Ganymede wakes him from his daydream and urges him to concentrate on co-piloting their spacecraft to a safe landing on a moon of Jupiter (Ganymede?). Thanos and Terrax are following them in a cloaked craft because Thanos wants the information that Terrax tells him Ganymede possess about Tyrant. The Titanian wants the info on which to base his strategy of attack on the powerful foe. Ganymede has come here to find out if she's really the last of the Sisterhood, ancient enemies of Tyrant, as a computer told her when it awakened her from suspended animation (Silver Surfer #80). The Sisterhood hollowed out this moon and built a city within where the Sisters received their martial training. (Apparently some of the Titanian Eternals in their similar city within Titan, moon of Saturn, knew about it - but seemingly not Thanos.)Ganymede leads JOH into the moon where their way is blocked by a muscular Sister. Jack leaps in to take her on, ignoring his companions protest. The Sister beats him back until Ganymede switches her off by pushing a button on the back of her neck - it's only a robot. She then uses a doorcode to enter the main area ... which they find in ruins. On the surface Thanos destroys G&J's ship before he and Terrax follow them inside. The Sister fondly remembers her time here as a girl being trained, before she leads Jack to the cryonic chambers which may hold more sleeping Sisters. Meanwhile the robot Sister has rebooted to challenge Thanos and Terrax. Terrax blasts her with his axe, and when that doesn't work he chops the robot in 2. Ganymede opens 1 of the cryonic containers but the Sister within is desiccated. T&T follow a trail of open doors to where G has checked that all the Sisters here are dead.Thanos says he's come for the woman. Jack says over-my-dead-body. Thanos tells Terrax to oblige him. Terrax blasts JOH but it is Thanos who pummels the hero while Ganymede takes on the other in foot-to-face combat. The 2 fights continue with G surviving an axe-blast and JOH blasting back at the Titan. G is doing well against her opponent, disarming him of his axe with her staff. But Thanos defeats *his* opponent and KO's the female from behind with his power-infused fists. The dastardly duo leave with Ganymede, and leave Jack to die.


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Legacy (Genis) and his mother Elysius have returned to her home in the moon Titan after years of hiding. He's reviewing the battle with Nitro (in Captain Marvel #34) which exposed his father Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) to the gas which eventually killed him. It was only recently (Silver Surfer Annual #6) that Genis learned who his father was and was given a copy of his Nega-Bands, thus gaining some of his powers. He has only now learned the details of his death, and was ignorant when he accidentally met Nitro (Secret Defenders #14). Now he swears revenge.Elysius tries to talk him out of it and convince him that his father wouldn't do this and wouldn't want him to. But the young man is pig-headed. His foster-father Eros tries to sway him with his pleasure-stimulating power but his 'son' is wise to that and flies away from Titan. Eros' father Mentor assures him that it was best to let Legacy go to learn by experience, rather like Eros himself did.Now we move from the moon of Saturn to a moon of Jupiter where Jack Of Hearts is recovering from the beating Thanos gave him when he and Terrax abducted Ganymede of the Sisterhood. He now sets out to rescue her and make the villains pay. Said villains are on Thanos' spaceship Demeter hoping to get information from the last of the Sisters about their sworn enemy Tyrant - info which can help them when they attack him. When she awakes Ganymede refuses to help them.Later Genis is recording in an audio-diary as his father did. He says he's travelling by spacecraft because he hasn't yet learned how to navigate space by himself. He's been following Nitro's trail through interstellar low-life and it's brought him to Hala, once throneworld of the Kree Empire but now devastated like the Empire by the Nega-Bomb (powered by CM's own Nega-Bands) (at the end of the Operation Galactic Storm crossover event). He understands that the Kree gave Nitro his exploding power as 1 of their Lunatic Legion (as part of a story that CM#34 is an episode of).Legacy lands on Hala and confronts the villain, who admits his guilt and that he recognised the youth's resemblance to Mar-Vell when they met earlier. He says he never thought much about his fight with CM (liar, he sought him out for revenge) but was faintly pleased to hear that he'd caused his later death from cancer. Angry Genis rushes in and Nitro explodes at him. Legacy fights back but his foe taunts him that like all 'heroes' he won't kill him. Genis strives to prove him wrong and the fight gets more vicious. The holes they blow in walls eventually lead to a military museum which includes weapons that Nitro utilises. But Legacy wades through everything to beat his enemy to a pulp beneath a memorial to Captain Mar-Vell. As Genis is about to power-punch through Nitro's head he sees a plaque with a quote from his father "Defeat your enemy, do not become your enemy." and he realises that Elysius was right.So Genis takes Nitro a prisoner back to Titan. Elysius slaps the face of the murderer of her husband before he's thrown into a special cell. Then Mentor says he wants him, Elysius and Eros to meet a visitor. It's JOH who tells them what happened last issue. He's come to Titan for help because Mentor is Thanos' father. Eros offers to go with Jack to free Ganymede. But Genis says *he*'ll do it. Mentor thinks that wise because Thanos knows his brother Eros well enough to defeat him but Legacy is an unknown. So Genis bids farewell again to his mother and he and Jack fly off into space using their own powers.


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Morg is a shackled prisoner of Tyrant who refuses to submit to him because he is loyal to Galactus who gave him the Power Cosmic. Tyrant scoffs that Big G is nothing compared to *him*. He sends physical probes into Morg's brain which uncover his origin.Morg was a pre-eminent barbarian warrior on his own world who threw in his lot with a rebel army because he thought they would succeed in overthrowing the rulers. But the Imperial troops smashed them, and Morg was 1 of the few survivors brought in chains to the Queen. She promised to free them if they pledged loyalty. The rebel General refused and most of then others followed his example. But mercenary Morg accepted because he was a pragmatist not an idealist. She made him her executioner and he gave the rebels the martyrdom they desired. Then Galactus came to consume his world. Morg opposed him but G killed his world anyway and made Morg his new Herald. Morg truly swore loyalty to the being that gave him such power. Silver Surfer was dismayed at Morg's brutality and assembled other ex-Heralds to oppose him, and he was eventually killed by Terrax (SS#69-75). Galactus resurrected him but he was captured by Tyrant along with SS and others until Galactus intervened and freed all but Morg (SS#77-82).Tyrant takes from all this that Morg respects and gives loyalty to power, so he can't understand why Morg won't transfer his loyalty from Big G to him. Morg says it's because Galactus is more powerful. Tyrant flies into a rage and tries to throttle his victim into admitting that *he* is mightier than G.Thanos is also trying to use threats to get what he wants. In #3 he and Terrax kidnapped Ganymede from the company of Jack Of Hearts for the knowledge she possesses. But the last of the ancient Sisterhood refuses to tell him anything. Until he mentions  that he wants the information in order to oppose Tyrant. Since that's the only goal of the Sisterhood she says she'll tell him whatever he wants to know, and if he undoes her bonds she'll help him. He tells Terrax to release her. Terrax bridles at being bossed around, so Thanos 'asks' his 'partner' to release her and he complies.She tells them she doesn't know his origin because he's way older than the Sisterhood (and she's been in suspended animation for a long time). It took them centuries to drive him out of known space by brute force and persistence, so she doesn't know how to kill him. But she *can* sneak them into his fortress. So Thanos' spacecraft Demeter heads there.Meanwhile Jack has recruited Legacy, son of the original Captain Marvel, to help him find and rescue Ganymede who he's falling in love with. They fly through space tracking Thanos' energy signature.Tyrant tells Morg that he could just siphon off the rest of his Power Cosmic to add to his power batteries but he'd rather have the Herald Of Galactus as his servant/weapon. Morg still refuses to submit. But a drone interrupts his master to draw his attention to the fact that the fortress has been invaded by enemies led by 1 of the Sisterhood. He recognises the Spinster and Terrax but has never seen Thanos before. He watches them laying waste to his armoured drones until the Titan destroys the surveillance camera. So Tyrant gives his prisoner back his full Power Cosmic and tells him he *will* serve as a weapon.Next we see Morg attacking the 3 invaders. There are things dug into his skull which seem to make him a mindless automaton. But he has his strength, his axe and the Power Cosmic. A blast takes Terrax out of the picture. Ganymede's acrobatics and blows from her staff don't stop him from knocking her down. He even initially bests Thanos. Then the Titan picks up Terrax' dropped axe, leading to an axe duel. Ganymede recovers and leaps on Morg's back to pull her energy-emitting staff against his throat. He breaks free but Thanos blasts him. Terrax asks for his axe back and then restarts the duel with Morg that was interrupted by Tyrant's troops in SS#80. Thanos prevents Ganymede from interfering, and a blow from Terrax' axe shatters the machines that control Morg's brain.Morg is now free to do what he wants. He declines to fight Terrax now, preferring to exit and return to his true master Galactus. And off he goes, saying he'll be back to kill Terrax later. Simultaneously JOH and Legacy blast in through a wall of the fortress. Jack immediately assaults Thanos who knocks him back with an armoured and energised fist. Ganymede tells him that she's working *with* the Titan against her sworn foe Tyrant. Jack reminds her that Thanos left him for dead when he kidnapped her, but the woman says that nothing matters more to her than the destruction of Tyrant. JOH refuses to ally himself with the Mad Titan. Legacy keeps quiet until he can figure out what's going on. Thanos tells them they must *all* combine to survive against Tyrant. And the big bad pops up to assure them that they *won't* survive anyway.


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Silver Surfer has been having nightmares about planets he led Galactus to consume and of Death swallowing him. He's desperately come to Adam Warlock for help, and he and Gamora have met Surfer in New York (rather than their Monster Island base because Mole Man doesn't like super visitors, especially SS and the Fantastic Four (as in SS#94)). Norrin Radd allows Warlock to study his memories of the dreams. With that and what he learned when they shared souls (during Infinity Crusade) Adam claims that Norrin has already come to terms with his Galactus-guilt so the nightmares are not because of that. He deduces that Death herself is sending the dreams, but he couldn't say why. Gamora suggests Surfer goes to consult Thanos. The adopted child of the Mad Titan knows better than anyone how obsessed he was with Death. Warlock adds that they have all been allies of Thanos, and he is in his own way a man of honour. So Surfer flies away on his Cosmic Surfboard.On his way through space SS is accosted by a being somewhat resembling a humanoid skeleton with an elephant's head and bird's claws, which says that its mistress Death wants him as her consort. Norrin refuses but the being shoots out a tentacle which ensnares him. He fights back and destroys it.Thanos is tending his crops on his farm on a lonely planet when the shadow of the Surfboard falls across him. Surfer asks for his aid in a cosmic matter but Thanos says he's done with such things ... until Norrin mentions that Death is involved. The Titan exchanges his farmer's clothes for his professional garb and leads SS through his house and down in a hi-tech lift to his subterranean lab. On the way Norrin describes what we have leaned so far. Thanos is angry that Death should choose Surfer after all *he* did to win her love. And SS thwarted him many times.The lab is enormous with robots busy everywhere. Its owner says he has an idea how to solve Surfer's problem - he intends to kill him. They battle mightily but eventually the Titan beats the Skyrider Of The Spaceways almost to the point of death. He dematerialises with the body ...... and arrives in the court of Death, in this instance appearing as a bizarre cathedral. Thanos tells Death he's brought her a gift as the shackled Surfer starts to revive. The Titan says he's on the border of death and she can easily take him or dismiss him as she wishes. The elephant-being speaks for Death and says she accepts the gift, but Thanos wants to converse directly with her. Surfer is awake now and Thanos warns him that the shackles are created from Norrin's own life-force, so if he tries to break them he will kill himself. He turns back to Death but as ever she refuses to speak to him. (However I should point out that she doesn't speak to anybody and always communicates through a servant.) The 'elephant' points out that he brought Surfer as a bargaining chip, and Death doesn't make bargains so he tells him to leave.The Titan's answer is to return Surfer's life-force to him and free him from his bonds. Death gets angry and the 'elephant' orders the inhabitants of the hall to attack the pair. SS is thus forced to fight back-to-back with Thanos against the horde of the dead, not least because the Mad Titan tells him that only *he* knows the way out of Death's realm. Eventually they've 'killed' them all and Surfer urges Thanos the get them out of here, but the Titan can't resist taunting his love with Norrin Radd's rejection of her. The 'elephant' responds by telling him that Death has banished him from realm forever (ie she's made him immortal). Thanos responds back by destroying the spokesthing again, and telling Death that next time she wants to speak to him she must do it in person. And he and SS vanish away.Back on Thanos' planet Norrin comments on the Titan's contradictory, some might almost say Mad, behaviour. His companion says just that he does what he does, and he'd like the Surfer to leave now so he can get back to his farming. SS readily complies.2nd story: EpilogueThanos opens a vault door to a room housing the Reality Gem within a force-field on a pedestal. He reaches in and grasps it and uses it to bring the original Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) back from the dead. He explains how he is now the guardian (as part of the Infinity Watch) of this 1 of what Mar-Vell knew as the 6 Soul Gems (back in Avengers Annual #7 and Marvel Two-In-One #2). CM is more interested in why the Titan has bothered. He was content to be dead, a state Thanos welcomed him into (in the 1st Marvel Graphic Novel). When he persists in demanding an answer the Titan responds with a fist. Mar-Vell starts to fight back but resists the temptation.Instead he speculates as to Thanos' reason. The Titan claims to have wanted just to test the Gem. But Marvel says he knows he's been completely spurned by Death. And he guesses that he intends to use the Gem to alter reality so that Death returns his love. And wants Mar-Vell as his conscience to persuade him that the plan is wrong. Thanos pooh-pooh's that idea but CM points out that he's always orchestrated his own defeat in the past (he means the end of the Cosmic Cube affair in CM#33 and the Soul Gems Annuals mentioned above). He repeats that he's accepted his own death and Thanos should accept that Death isn't meant to love him. Thanos uses the Gem again to send him back whence he came. And he seals the Gem away again.


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Last issue on the island of Mytos Gemini plucked the Soul Gem from his foe Rune's brow. But that was what the vampire wanted because the Gem and Rune had been at odds, each refusing to serve the other, and their body was dying. But now Rune's body restores itself as he gloats over Gemini's fate. And he intends now to find the other 5 Infinity Gems which were stolen from him (by Silver Surfer in their joint 1-shot), and use them to become master of the universe. But 1st he must make Gemini+Soul Gem his slave.We now see Gemini in Soul World within the Soul Gem split into the twins Erik Johnson and Noel Robinson, but Erik still has the Gemini armour. They are confronted by a being who looks like a cross between Rune and Adam Warlock, the usual bearer of the Gem. He says that their minds will be broken, then 1 will die and the other will be his slave.Erik finds himself in the bedroom of his (dead) girlfriend Markie. He's just glad she's alive. But Noel 'kills' her with a blast and tries to persuade his brother she was a fake. But Erik just gets angry.Last issue Shuriken was heading by Aladdin helicopter to Mytos on Gemini and Rune's trail. Now she's here (but seems to have crashed the chopper). The Aladdin AI GENIE is complaining in her ear that she disobeyed orders by leaving behind her armed escort. She discovers a fresh grave (which we know belongs to Markie), and heads off to capture Gemini. GENIE reminds her that success will mean that Aladdin will devote more resources to curing her child (which is the hold they have over her). But she 'accidentally' breaks the comm link.Suddenly she's startled by a white rat and hurls 1 of the throwing stars she's named after which pins it's tail. And she gets the feeling it's been watching her. Then we see the body of Gemini's 'pal' Janus lying on the ground with the rat's-eye view of her in *his* eye. (The rat is Alexander, mystic Janus' familiar.)Elsewhere on the isle Rune is encouraging Gemini to weaken himself by fighting the Soul Gem, making him more vulnerable to Rune's control. But the youth's body emits a blast of energy which damages the vampire.Back in Soul World Erik is pursuing Noel through a scene of corpses and blood. Erik blames him for everything. If they hadn't met (in Rune #1-5) then he wouldn't have become a monster and Markie would still be alive. Noel protests that they are 2 halves of the same soul and they have to work together. The Soul Gem whispers to Erik that his brother is only trying to confuse him. And Erik leaps on Joel and kills him. The Gem now tells him that he must also kill his other enemy, Rune, whose bite (in Rune #5) actually turned him into a monster.Now he returns to his real body and attacks his 'father' Rune. But the vamp easily throws him off and accuses him of clinging to his humanity which makes him unworthy of the power he gave him. But because Erik's his 'son' he'll give him a painless death. However Erik isn't beaten yet and takes Rune into the sky where he starts to tear him apart.Meanwhile Shuriken has found Janus and pinned him to she ground by his sleeves with shuriken(s). He introduces himself and says he knows she's Shuriken and works for Aladdin. She demands to know where Gemini is and he points to the sky. But at that point the 2 combatants crash to the ground nearby causing a crater. They see Gemini vampire-bite Rune, sucking *his* blood and power. But then, over the Soul Gem's protests, he says that dying would be too easy for Rune. And he opens a portal and throws his 'father' through it. Janus curses that he's lost track of Rune again, and magics himself and Alexander away to start his search again.The Soul Gem demands that Erik bring Rune back, but he's exhausted and he relinquishes control of Gemini to Noel. And it seems the Gem has no power over *this* twin, who plucks it from his brow and throws it out to sea. Shuriken says she's here to take him to Aladdin. But Noel says he's not going back to the organisation that has been controlling him and Erik since before they were born. This strikes a chord with Brittany Chien, partly because of her son, she decides to tell Aladdin she couldn't catch him.We see the Soul Gem fall into the depths and then seem to fall through the bottom of the sea and into the hands of Loki. It senses that he has the other Infinity Gems, and considers him a suitable host.


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DAREDEVIL & CAPTAIN AMERICA: DEAD ON ARRIVAL
As Daredevil winds his way across the city, investigating a series of mysterious kidnappings and the murders of the witnesses, Captain America is briefed on a new assignment by Nick Fury. Seems that Daredevil’s old enemy the Death-Stalker, who had the ability to pass between dimensions and wore gloves that gave him the touch of death, may be alive despite having been killed in DD #158 when he materialized into a tombstone. SHIELD scientists have discovered that a hole has been ripped in time; now people are dying by the death touch. Cap’s mission is to locate the temporally displaced Death-Stalker and return him to his own time before there is a disaster in the continuum.
Meanwhile, DD learns from the police, by a woman whose son has been kidnapped by the Death-Stalker, that his old foe is mysteriously alive. The villain, however, having been hurled into the future and learning of his demise, has taken several hostages as bait in a trap for his killer Daredevil. The Man without Fear arrives at the cemetery and is sprayed in the face with a hallucinogenic drug which makes DD "see" everyone as monsters. DD, determined to end this evil once for all, intends to beat his enemy to death but Cap arrives and stops him. But DD, thinking Cap is some sort of fiend, attacks him. The two heroes fight, with Cap trying his best not to hurt his opponent, finally injecting him with a drug intended for Death-Stalker. This cures DD of his madness but the villain has an ultimatum. To prove that Daredevil is no real hero, Death-Stalker demands that he allow the Stalker to touch him or the hostages, starting with the boy Sean, will die. DD calmly walks up to the villain and extends his hand. As Death-Stalker reaches out, Cap slings his shield, DD leaps up and the baddie is flattened. Cap warns DD about the temporal disaster that might happen if Death-Stalker died here. The madman, hearing this, touches himself with his deadly gloves—and vanishes, leaving the universe intact. The heroes release the captives, and the villain finds himself back in his own timestream unable to comprehend why he feels defeated.


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The events in this comic occupy a week between the forming of the Cabal in Secret Invasion: Dark Reign and the unveiling of the new (Dark) Avengers. It begins by laying down the 2 goalposts.

In 690 AD Morgana Le Fay uses magic to scan the future for her betrayer Dr Doom. She sees Norman Osborn forming his Cabal:- Doom, Emma Frost, Hood, female Loki and Sub-Mariner.

Now the public get to see a new Avengers lineup:- Iron Patriot leading Ares, Captain Marvel, Hawkeye, Ms Marvel, Sentry, Spider-Man and Wolverine.

1 week before that Osborn hires ex-SHIELD accountant Victoria Hand as his Deputy Director of SHIELD's replacement HAMMER - on the basis of how critical she has been of the previous administration. He's Director but she's going to have to do all the work. And her remit includes the Initiative and the new Avengers he's going to set up.

He gives her a long list of tasks starting with inventing something for the acronym HAMMER to mean. He wants all supporters of Tony Stark and Captain America to be weeded out. The Initiative's Camp Hammond must go, as must the red&gold helicarrier that Stark built. The Stark-design Capekiller armour and other weapons will be replaced by Osborn tech. Hand agrees to take the job as long as Maria Hill gets the boot.

This was something Osborn was going to do anyway. Next day he meets with Hill in Thunderbolts Mountain. He fires her because SHIELD failed to detect Skrulls in its ranks and because they did such a bad job in the Invasion (mainly because all their Stark tech failed due to a Skrull virus). Maria is glad he ordered her here to be fired personally. It gives her the opportunity to say that she'll be waiting for when he inevitably falls from grace.

Norman's next appointment is with Bullseye. He commends the Thunderbolt on his excellent work during Secret Invasion. His current meds allow him to function very well. Osborn says he has a new job for him in Avengers Tower.

Next day NO summons Ms Marvel to his office in Avengers Tower. He says that SHIELD owns the place since Stark used their money to rebuild it after it was destroyed during World War Hulk. SHIELD has also been paying for the Avengers, and now he owns SHIELD. And he wants her to continue as leader of the team.

Carol Danvers turns him down and resigns from the Avengers. Osborn reminds her that she is a military officer and can be ordered to do the job. She still refuses and says none of the others will work for him either. But he calls in Avengers Ares and Sentry to arrest her. Ares has no compunction about working for the man who ended the Skrull Invasion (by killing Queen Veranke). Sentry says Norman has promised to help him (with his psychological problems).

MsM flees the intolerable situation. NO lets her go, saying he has his own Ms Marvel.

Then its back to Thunderbolts Mountain where Moonstone is meditating. Norman throws her an old Ms Marvel costume (the design based on the original Captain Marvel, rather than the current blue with yellow lightning flash). He offers Karla Sofen a choice:- Continue as criminal Moonstone under guard in the Thunderbolts. Or operate as a free woman as Ms Marvel in the Avengers. She accepts but asks to be team leader (as she was of the Thunderbolts).

Elsewhere in the Mountain a Skrull captive is given to Venom. Venom gets him to imitate his enemy Spider-Man and then eats him. This version of Venom looks like a monster. Norman gives him a potion that transforms him to human shape, retaining the basic look of the black (ie in comics convention dark blue) Spider-Man costume. Mac Gargan is now more presentable to the public.

The next day Osborn, Hand and Ares are in New Orleans to meet Daken Akhiro, the character with retractable claws who beat up Wolverine. They are astonished to learn that Daken is Wolverine's son. But Norman suggests that's even more reason to annoy Logan by joining the Avengers as Wolverine.

The day after that (3 days before the public début of the new Avengers) NO visits Noh-Varr/Marvel Boy in the deserted Cube prison. Norman is fascinated by Noh-Varr's history as a Kree from an alternate universe who declared war on Earth but then defended it against the Skrulls. He offers him the role of Captain Marvel, another Kree defender of Earth.

Now all the members are gathered in the Tower. Miss Hand says she'll recruit a housekeeping and security staff to take the place of Jarvis. Norman still thinks there's something missing. Ares suggests it's the symbolism of leaders like Captain America and Iron Man.

Osborn has already sent for the Ghost to break into Tony Stark's secure lab in the Tower. Norman tells him he has plans for the anti-capitalist (but not in the Avengers). Ghost phases through the vault door and opens it from the inside. Within they find a large array of Iron Man armours.

Our final interlude is on the morning of the big announcement. HAMMER troops are transporting Dr Doom to Latveria and the ruins of his castle. When they land they don't find the friendly welcoming committee they expected. Instead Doom and Morgana Le Fay start a magical battle.

Now we return to the press conference for the new Avengers. The guy in the Hawkeye costume we realise is Bullseye. Daken is wearing a Wolverine outfit. Noh-Varr retains his own look as Captain Marvel. (Well the original's uniform would have been confusing with Karla's Ms Marvel spinoff.) Iron Patriot wears an Iron Man armour painted in Captain America's colours, and takes his helmet off to reveal himself as Norman Osborn.


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The introductory page reminds us that Sentry died in battle (against Morgana Le Fay in #2) and was killed by his wife Lindy Reynolds (#9). Both times he returned to life (#4 and #10 respectively). This issue has flashbacks which throw some light on the matter.But 1st we have a scene set in Biblical times (c 1600 BC) where Moses exhorts the Israelites in Egypt to mark their doors with lamb's blood so they will be spared from the coming divine plague which kills the firstborn sons of everyone else. Filaments of blackness appear in the sky.The next flashback (2 months ago) picks up from the end of the flashback in #3 in Sentry's Watchtower atop Avengers Tower where Norman Osborn befriended Bob Reynolds/Sentry by saying they were alike. Sentry has an evil alter-ego Void which Bob tries to suppress. Norman used to have an evil side Green Goblin but he received treatment which has cured him - and he can teach Reynolds to banish the Void.The current flashback continues from there. Osborn says there's more. His scientists have recreated the serum that turned Bob into Sentry and he gives him a sample. Norman says it only works for Bob - no-one else can become the Sentry. Sentry drinks it and there's a violent reaction. His speech bubbles go dark because he is now the Void in Sentry's body.All the while Lindy Reynolds has been lying on the bed in her current unresponsive condition. But now she reacts in silent horror. And the Watchtower AI CLOC has been monitoring the events too.(Osborn calls him his secret weapon. Judging by later speech bubbles Sentry is usually Bob Reynolds, but presumably Norman can call on the Void by giving Sentry another dose of whatever *this* serum is.)The next flashback is to the same place 3 days ago (#9) where Lindy shot Sentry with an alien gun left behind by Noh-Varr/Captain Marvel. CLOC is recording the event and now Lindy says she wants the World to know the truth about the Sentry's origin. The version the public has been fed where clean-cut teen Robbie Reynolds foolishly drank the secret formula of his pal the Professor is a lie.In reality junkie Reynolds and a pal broke into the lab looking for drugs. He *did* drink the serum without sharing with his friend. Security guards caught them but Robbie's transformation to Sentry destroyed the lab, killing the guards and his friend. But Sentry survived and persuaded the Professor to make more of the serum because he was addicted to the power.Lindy allowed herself to be caught up in the fantasy of being the girlfriend then wife of 'Superman' and didn't question his origin or what his power really was. But when he confessed his true origin to her she realised she was married to a mentally-disturbed monster. Other heroes like Captain America had the moral strength to handle their powers but Bob Reynolds was a weak-willed addict.She also has a theory (with no basis) that Sentry's power has Biblical roots related to Moses and Jesus.Suddenly Sentry come back to life and it's Void in control. He destroys Lindy's gun as she tries to kill herself and starts messing with her mind. He scoffs at her Biblical theory and accuses her of betraying Bob by giving up on their marriage. Bob's love for her is the only thing preventing Void from killing her. But when she begs for death it gives him the 'excuse' to break the deal it seems he made with his other half. The voice now vacillates between Bob and Void. Reynolds desperately trying to save Lindy and Void trying to persuade him to see it's for the best.In the end Bob takes control of Sentry's body and flies into space, past the Moon and Venus and Mercury heading for the Sun. He's willing to die in the flames to destroy the Void. Void calls it the coward's way out, but Lindy was right - he's not really a hero. Void reminds him of all the other times Bob's tried to get rid of him and says this one's not going to work either because Bob isn't really committed to dying. Even as Sentry's flesh melts from his bones Void takes over and repairs the damage. Then he leaves the Sun and flies back to Earth.On the way back he suggests Bob should just give in and let Void take over completely. And he says Lindy was right about something else as well - Sentry's power is something bigger that Void has used in the distant past. We see the dark tendrils from the initial scene menacing New York as Void says "It's God's way".


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2 college girls (named Betty and Veronica) drive their open-top caddy into Dinosaur, Colorado. Ronnie is putting distance between herself and her cheating boyfriend. They pull into a burger joint (surrounded by dinosaur models). Ronnie goes to the bathroom (but only to sneak a phonecall to the boy) while Betty orders some coffees.2 male diners mumble that they should get out of here. Ronnie finds something weird about the restroom mirror, her phone melts and the doors of the cubicles collapse when she stumbles against them. Betty hears her scream. The diners and the waitress turn grey. And outside the car turns to dust.In the Louisiana Bayou Ares slices completely through the middle of Man-Thing with his axe. The other Dark Avengers applaud and H.A.M.M.E.R. troops take the carcass away in a helicopter. Hawkeye (Bullseye) comments that it's just 1 more item on Norman Osborn's list. But Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)) feels sorry for him. Ms Marvel (Moonstone) thinks Gargan's medication needs adjusting.Next morning at breakfast in Avengers Tower Victoria Hand has another task for them. But Bullseye opines that they've been working too hard - they deserve a break. Daken agrees. Moonstone wants to know why the boss Norman Osborn hasn't been seen for days. Bullseye cutely asks if Osborn is next on *her* to-do list. (He was the 1 who saw her seduce Marvel Boy before he quit in #5.) Karla Sofen replies with a smile "No, you are." Bullseye suggests she couldn't handle him. Karla matches his stare and says "Try me." The other Avengers look on in shock.Bullseye blinks 1st and changes the subject to Mac Gargan. He says Mac's meds (that keep his Venom-side under control) are turning him into a wimp. Gargan proves his point by begging him to stop making fun of him. Victoria says she'll see about changing the dose.Daken repeats the question about where Norman Osborn is. Hand tries to bluff (last issue he wouldn't come out of his basement workroom) but Akihiro calls her on it. But just then NO enters as Iron Patriot. Victoria tries to take him aside to assess his state-of-mind but he insists on getting down to business.Hand tells them the 1st thing on the agenda is the 2 girls missing for 2 days in Colorado. 1 of them is the daughter of the Secretary of State, and he wants Norman to investigate as a personal favour. Osborn has to do it because the Secretary runs their funding committee. Bullseye jokes about Norman licking the boss's boots. Osborn hits back that Bullseye used to be Kingpin's errand boy. Bullseye says that was because KP paid him. NO says "Exactly."Ms Hand outlines the situation and says Veronica's last call put them in Dinosaur. The boyfriend was a suspect but he was at the college in Washington DC. HAMMER have also found 44 other recent missing person reports in that area. Satellite surveillance just shows a small quiet town. Iron Patriot sends Sentry to zoom over there and check it out.While Bob Reynolds is en route Victoria gets her quiet moment with her boss. She asks him why he was locked away in his lab for 2 days. He says he was working. Why is he at breakfast in full armour? He's testing new software, but refuses to take his helmet off.Bullseye tells psychiatrist Karla Sofen to stop trying her mind games on him. He doesn't trust her and whatever she did to make Marvel Boy run away (we know it was just that she made him recognise that his teammates were mainly psycho villains). Moonstone says that she didn't like him as Bullseye, but he's impressed her in his new Hawkeye role. And as she walks away she strips her top off.Sentry lands in the town and reports that the streets are empty apart from dinosaur statues. But then a man approaches. And Bob's hand dissolves into raw energy. Followed by the rest of him in a large explosion, which the Avengers witness by satellite.The Dark Avengers and HAMMER head for Colorado in force. IP and Ms Marvel fly under their own power. Ares, Daken, Hawkeye and Spider-Man ride sky-sleds, backed by a HAMMER helicarrier and troops on more sky-sleds. Mac Gargan is worried about whatever took out Sentry. Whoever it is will be powerful enough to kill them all. Victoria Hand has to explain about the problem with Venom's medications, so Osborn benches him and sends him back to the 'carrier.Ares says that Gargan was right. Patriot uncharacteristically says they can't pick their fights. Ms Marvel offers to take point because she can go in intangible. But she can't get an OK out of Norman, who remains incommunicado until they get there.But he does send Moonstone down. Karla lands and says there's no-one about. Then she starts to say something else and her transmission goes dead. Ms Hand suggests retreat. IP agrees but realises he's lost comms ...... and the next thing he knows he's standing naked in front of an enthroned Molecule Man surrounded by Beyonder, Enchantress, Mephisto and Zarathos.


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This issue is a TV interview by Norman Osborn interspersed with 4 flashbacks. The comic times the whole thing as happening within 6 hours, but there's so much else happening in Dark Reign that it must be days if not weeks. Anyway what make sense is that the 1st fb occurs immediately after last issue and the 2nd fb not long after that, while the 3rd and 4th fbs happen just before the interview. I shall describe the contents of the issue in time order with the whole interview at the end.The Dark Avengers are returning by quinjet from Latveria where they helped Dr Doom fight Morgan Le Fay. During the battle Sentry was destroyed, but when they get home to Avengers Tower they find him alive and floating in the air before their craft. Norman Osborn has gone out as Iron Patriot to meet him.Osborn asks Sentry how he survived, but he doesn't seem to know - or even if he *has* survived because this might be the afterlife. Norman desperately wants to make sure Bob Reynolds is in control of Sentry and not the Void. He keeps repeating the mantra "There is no Void" which he taught Reynolds in #3. He finally persuades Bob to go to his wife Lindy Reynolds waiting for him in his Watchtower atop Avengers Tower.Later the Avengers are having a meal and Victoria Hand hands out meds to Bullseye and Venom which keep some of their more violent tendencies under control. Mac Gargan complains that Bullseye threatened to kill him last issue because Venom attacked him (while under Morgan's control). Moonstone chides him, and Ares intercedes and tells them to act like Avengers instead of children. Bullseye replies sarcastically and the God of War backhands him. Bullseye swallows his meds and the insult - for now. Daken and Marvel Boy just eat their food.Much later Ares goes home and finds his son Alexander absent, and several truancy notices hidden in his backpack.Even later Moonstone invites Marvel Boy into her bedroom, observed by Bullseye.Now we come to the interview. The interviewer Shannon Queller is only allowed to cover topics on a prepared list. Like that Osborn has been granted great power, by the elected government, to bring stability after the chaos of Civil War (and World War Hulk and Secret Invasion) and the death of Captain America.Shannon asks about the accusations made by Clint Barton on TV (New Avengers #50) that Osborn used to be the psychopath Green Goblin and was put in a hospital for the criminally insane. And that his team of Avengers (whose secret identities have not been revealed) are also criminals. Norman admits the 1st but says it was due to a chemical imbalance he was born with, but he's all better now. And that it is well known that many of what the public thinks of as his crimes were committed by successors using the Goblin id, some of whom attacked *him*.He also reminds her that Clint Barton himself was the criminal Hawkeye before he joined the Avengers alongside the ex-terrorist mutants Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. They were given a 2nd chance and proved worthy. Now Osborn has been given the same chance. And he sees Barton as someone who has lost his heroes:- Cap dead, Tony Stark's failure during Secret Invasion. And Hawkeye himself died (Avengers Disassembled) and has somehow returned (due to Scarlet Witch at the end of House of M). These traumas have made him hide away and see conspiracies everywhere.When pressed about his Avengers Norman refuses to reveal their identities, for their own protection. (The Superhero Registration Act means that heroes must tell the Government their ids, but the Government doesn't tell the public.)Suddenly the interview is interrupted by news of an Atlantean attack on Los Angeles. Osborn rings Victoria Hand to roust the team.Karla Sofen and Noh-Varr are in bed together and she's just remembered Osborn's scheduled interview. Moonstone tells Marvel Boy she wants to know how Norman spins the fact that his Avengers are psychos and murderers and he's Green Goblin. Somehow this is news to the Kree. Then they learn about the attack.(Barton watches this interview at the end of NAv#54.)


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In his private hell inside his mind controlled by Molecule Man we see Norman Osborn, his business suit shredding to reveal the Green Goblin costume beneath,  being hauled through the sky by a savage Spider-Man and his webbing. As the victim demands to be released because he's *Norman Osborn*, Spidey drops him from an impossible height to the city below ...... and Osborn wakes naked (again) on a hard floor.Molecule Man is outside in Dinosaur, Colorado with his imaginary friends Beyonder, Enchantress, Mephisto and Zarathos. Osborn's Deputy Director of H.A.M.M.E.R. Victoria Hand has just come to surrender on behalf of the USA. Owen Reece seemingly obliterated Iron Patriot (NO) and his Dark Avengers (#10) without any effort so it's no use fighting him.Ms Hand now goes through nearly the same conversation Osborn had last issue. She asks what MM and his friends want - he says to be left alone here. She asks why here - because it's where he was born. She says OK as long as he releases the Avengers and all the others. Owen asks what others - Victoria mentions the 44 people who've gone missing around here recently, plus the original inhabitants of the town.During this conversation Reece has used his power over molecules to dissolve her weapons and body armour, leaving her in her underwear. She asks him to stop there as she's clearly unarmed now. But Owen has stopped anyway as he seems  frozen by the thought of the people she mentioned. Victoria tentatively asks if they're dead - but gets no reply.She restarts the dialogue by repeating that if he does the right thing they'll leave him alone. But Owen thinks they'll try to kill him as usual. Victoria asks if they've ever succeeded and MM has to admit that they haven't. Ms Hand presses her advantage by claiming that if they can't make a deal then HAMMER will nuke the town. Maybe he'll survive but his town won't.Now, as at various earlier times, his 'friends' offer conflicting advice. Some of it involving death or worse for the woman before them.Meanwhile in the High School gym the disincorporated Sentry rebuilds himself molecule by molecule.And Victoria Hand finds herself in Molecule Man's throneroom, decorated with a skulls and serpents motif, alongside Norman Osborn's naked body where we left him at the start of this issue. She's worried why he's not moving. MM explains that he rearranged a few molecules in NO's brain (to give him the hallucinations he suffered through last issue). He's put them back in the right place now, but it's up to Norman to deal with the consequences.Before Reece can counter Ms Hand's angry response he's struck by a bolt of energy. Sentry is back and pissed off. But you don't kill Molecule Man that easy, and he takes the battle into the sky. And tears the hero apart again.Victoria drags Osborn's limp body under the shelter of a mastodon statue. She tries to contact the HAMMER helicarrier to order them to retreat, but can't get through. A fighter jet fires a missile at the M-Man, but he disintegrates it and the plane. Norman chooses this moment to wake up and Victoria tells him what's happening. (Including that the surrender offer was just a stalling tactic.)Luckily Sentry is getting better at controlling molecules himself. He's quickly reintegrated and now has Owen Reece in distorted agony. And his control is now such that Owen can't undo the effects. He persuades Reece to restore everything (the Dark Avengers and the town of Dinosaur) back to what it should be.We see Dinosaur with it's restored population (and presumably the 44 strangers who wandered in). As an example of the Avengers we see Ares restored from statue form in whatever apartment he was in last issue. Then Sentry disintegrates Molecule Man.Communication with the helicarrier is back, and Ms Hand orders them to stand down. Norman Osborn is back in control (but still without his clothes so MM didn't put *everything* back as it was). And the Dark Avengers (Ares, Daken, Hawkeye (Bullseye), Ms Marvel (Moonstone) and Venom (Mac Gargan)) gather together.Sentry descends to Earth and explains that he has realised that his power has always worked by controlling molecules of the world (just like Molecule Man). But now he knows he can do so many more things with it. Also, he can't die.Norman warns him about falling into the solipsistic trap Owen Reece did. Karla Sofen (MsM) offers her psychiatric counselling to deal with his new powers. But for now she just wants to thank Bob Reynolds for saving them all. Sentry just decides to fly home. When he's gone Karla warns Norman that if he's not controlled he could be worse than Scarlet Witch (and what she did in Avengers Disassembled and House of M).Back at Avengers Tower Victoria goes down to Norman's basement lab. At 1st the door refuses her access (like it did in #9). But this time Osborn opens the door (clad in his Iron Patriot armour but at least this time with the helmet off). He wants to be alone but she insists. She's worried about his mental state after Molecule Man fiddled with his brain. After all he does have a history of mental illness. She suggests a psychiatric evaluation. He reluctantly sees she's right, but won't let *Moonstone* do it.Back inside his room he collapses, fighting an inner struggle with part of him that wants to take his face off (to reveal the inner Green Goblin?). And behind him we see Loki.


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A military helicopter brings Norman Osborn to Ryker's Island prison with Iron Man and Thor as escort. Steve Rogers 'greets' him and says he'll have a whole sub-basement level to himself.Yesterday the Siege of Asgard ended with the city in ruins but most of Osborn's army captured. Nick Fury, Thor and some New Avengers (Captain America (Bucky Barnes), Luke Cage, Ms. Marvel and Spider-Woman) are processing the surrender of Victoria Hand, some Dark Avengers (Bullseye, Moonstone and Venom (Mac Gargan)), the U-Foes (Ironclad, Vector, X-Ray and maybe the glowing yellow figure is meant to be Vapor), Chemistro and some H.A.M.M.E.R. troops. Captain America (Steve Rogers) throws Norman Osborn in among them. (His face is painted Green Goblin green, but they clean it off before delivering him to Ryker's.)Moonstone, in the old Ms Marvel costume, uses the diversion to make a break for it. As she flies off Carol Danvers in her current Ms Marvel costume pursues the villain who's been ruining her good name. Bullseye in his Hawkeye costume makes a run for it too. Bucky-Cap throws the CA shield at him but Bullseye catches it. Moonstone fires blasts back at the other MsM. But then Iron Man flies in and knocks Karla Sofen down to the ground and Luke Cage decks Bullseye.Victoria Hand protests that she was serving her government-appointed boss and asks for a lawyer. Steve Rogers says he knows exactly who she is.Meanwhile the other Dark Avenger (apart from the dead ones Ares and Sentry) Daken is avoiding capture in Broxton. US troops are arresting HAMMER forces. Daken kills 1 of the US guys and takes his uniform as a disguise. He tells some other troopers they're needed at the movie theatre and then steals their jeep. He finds a ring of grenades inside and pulls the pin on 1 and throws the whole bunch behind him as a diversion. And makes a successful escape (because he's got his Dark Wolverine series to continue).Later atop Avengers Tower Fury meets with his Secret Warrior Phobos, Alex Aaron young son of Ares, who he had kept out of the battle for Asgard. Thor arrives bearing Ares' helmet and axe which he gives to the son, praising the father's deeds in battle. The Thunder God offers to take Phobos to his kin in New Olympus but Alex declines. After some words of wisdom about dealing with the loss of a father (ie Odin) Thor departs. Nick assures Alex that he couldn't have saved his father - Ares died (in Siege #2) before the Secret Warriors got to Asgard (at the end of that issue). And he promises Alex justice (Ares' killer Sentry is already dead, and Osborn will stand trial).Steve Rogers meets with Victoria Hand in a holding cell. He's been reading the reports she submitted to the government while she was Norman Osborn's right-hand woman. He knows what motivated Osborn and his Dark Avengers but he can't understand why *she* was involved. She says that like many of the population she supported his agenda to make the world a safer place. She knew of his past insanity (as Green Goblin) and she tried to keep him under control. But she failed her country in that.Rogers says that's what he thought. He disagrees with her politics but believes she did what she thought was best. He tells her to go home for the weekend to recover, and then return on Monday because he has a job for her.Now we reach the opening timeframe. Osborn is placed in his cell. He explains himself to someone. How he would have cleansed the world of mutants, terrorists, psychotics, aliens and monsters, ie the superheroes. But now their infighting will continue and eventually they'll destroy the world. He could have stopped it if the object of his diatribe hadn't got in the way. We assume he's talking to Iron Man and Thor but they've already left. We learn that he's addressing the Green Goblin in his head. Norman says he wants to be left alone, but Goblin says they're stuck with each other.


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Victoria Hand goes down to Norman Osborn (Iron Patriot)'s private workshop in the basement of Avengers Tower to tell him the Secretary of Defence wants to talk to him on the phone. She's obviously tried calling down and got no answer - she's stalling the Secretary by blaming poor reception. But the lab door denies her entry, and she tells the Secretary that Osborn's out on a mission. But as she walks away she doesn't hear Norman calling her for help.Ares of the Dark Avengers is at home in his Bronx apartment. He wakes his young son Alexander for school. As they eat breakfast the TV news shows stuff about the DAv fighting the X-Men in the Utopia crossover including our last 2 issues. The reporter is relaying Osborn's spin that they drove the mutants into exile off US territory. Ares also tells his son that the DAv won the fight (which is far from the truth).Alex asks if fighting the mutants was the right thing to do. He says that some people on TV think Norman Osborn is a bad guy - should Ares be working for him? Ares answers yes to both these questions. Alex asks how he knows. Daddy says it's because he's older and wiser - and he leaves to go to work. The TV says 76% of Americans support Osborn's treatment of mutants, and 66% think them a serious threat.A horn sounds - it's Daisy Johnson on a motor scooter to take Alex to 'school'. But we saw in #5 that Ares discovered that his son hadn't been attending his real school, so now he follows them on a motorbike. Daisy tells Alex they're going to another new 'clubhouse'. On the way they discuss what happened in San Francisco with the mutants. Daisy doesn't know if they're going to get involved. Although she keeps an eye on her sidemirrors she never spots the big man with the big axe on the big bike following them.Their destination is Nick Fury's Safehouse #7 in Soho, current home to his Secret Warriors. (As well as Daisy (Quake) and Alex (Phobos) there's Druid (Sebastian Druid), Eden Fesi, Hellfire (J T James) and Stonewall (Jerry Sledge) - Slingshot (Yo-Yo Rodriguez) isn't here because she was severely injured in Secret Warriors #3.) Fury gives them all a thick manual of intel on AIM to study. Stonewall and Hellfire aren't keen.An alarm goes off as Ares smashes his way into the deserted barbershop that fronts this hideout. Nick recognises the man on the security cam as Alex's father Ares. He's pissed that Daisy let him trail her here. Ares detects the signs of recent use and works out that the safehouse is down below (I think). And his axe brings the floor/ceiling down and him with it.Impetuous Hellfire attacks with his flaming chain. Ares knocks him out with 1 blow of his axe handle. Fury tells the rest to stand down. Ares greets Nick and asks him what he's doing with his son. Fury replies that he's training him to be a warrior. And Alex indicates that's what he wants. Then Nick sends the others out of the room, but the boy can't help peeking through a door.Fury tells Ares his son has great potential, and the God of War accepts it. He says he doesn't know how to raise the boy. His own father (Zeus) didn't set a good example. He had to leave Olympus to find his true self. He doesn't want Alex to have to run away to do the same, and he thinks that if he takes his son from Fury that's what will happen. So he agrees to leave Alex with Nick.However he warns Fury that if he lets Alex get killed then Zeus will probably come after him. Nick says if it happens Alex will have died a warrior. But he takes the opportunity to tell Ares to his face that he shouldn't be working for Norman Osborn. Ares replies that Osborn is filling Fury's shoes very well.After Ares leaves, Nick tells the team to pack up - they're all leaving. They can't take the chance of Osborn finding out where they are. Alex says his honourable father won't tell, but Fury says Osborn has telepaths. Hellfire at last wakes up, and Nick suggests he consider this as the day he survived a fight with the God of War. And he tells Quake to be more careful. This meeting *could* have gone very badly.In Avengers Tower Daken, Hawkeye (Bullseye), Ms. Marvel (Moonstone) and Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)) are having breakfast with Victoria Hand. Daken is bragging about cutting off Deadpool's hand. (Maybe Bullseye mentioned seeing Osborn getting involved with 'Pool in DP(2008)#17-18 recently, because the hand incident happened a while ago in Wolverine: Origins #25.) They notice that Sentry (or Captain Crazy) has returned. (Last seen fleeing from his evil alter-ego the Void in Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus (the end of the Utopia crossover) - and we don't get an explanation how that resolved.)Sentry flies into his Watchtower atop Avengers Tower to be greeted by his wife Lindy pointing a gun at him. It's an alien 1 left behind by Marvel Boy. She can't take living with his insanity any more. She shoots him in the head and he appears to die. (He'll be back next issue but we won't find out what happened until a flashback in #13.)And in the basement Norman Osborn's door opens.


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Continued from UNCANNY X-MEN #514.In UXM#514 Dani Moonstar went to the Inferno Club in Las Vegas. Now we learn that the owner she's gone to see is Hela the Norse Queen of Hel. She's asking for a ride and a sword.Back in San Francisco the Dark X-Men have cornered Simon Trask at St Francis Hospital and they arrest him in his new form of (what uncannyxmen.net calls) Human Sentinel Zero. This ends the menace of the Biosentinels.That was Tuesday. Wednesday to Friday see DXM members doing their rounds (except Daken who's doing the town). On Saturday Norman Osborn and Prof Charles Xavier (really Mystique) go on TV to big up the team. Cyclops tells Colossus and Dazzler he's waiting for the X-Club scientists to complete their work. And on Sunday the DXM are all in action together.On Alcatraz Island they watch Dark Beast's Omega Machine drain a mutant's power to boost that of their teammate Weapon Omega. The process is painful for the drainee, and Emma Frost overhears Cloak and Dagger's disquiet. And Iron Patriot (NO) tells his Dark Avengers (minus Daken who's now with the DXM) that they're heading back to New York because the DXM have things well under control.On the seabed in the Bay of Oakland Madison Jeffries and Psylocke do 1 last check of their handiwork and return to the X-Sub to join Dr. Nemesis and Kavita Rao. Then they fire up the 5 engines they have installed on a large lump of rock. Nemesis contacts Graymalkin Industries to inform them all is ready.Back on Alcatraz Dark Beast uses the machine to transfer power from this reality's Beast, who's looking much the worse after repeated 'transfusions'. Weapon Omega takes it but demands more - he's becoming addicted. DB goes to choose another victim but is shocked to find all the prisoners gone.Then he finds X-Force with Magik and Mindee of the Stepford Cuckoos. Mindee had allowed herself to be captured (UXM#514) and nobody suspected she could use her connection to the other Cuckoos to guide the the others here. Magik teleports her away and X-Force menace Dark Beast. (Presumably Magik ported them here and then already sent all the prisoners away.) DB desperately calls for Omega who rushes to his side.NO and the DAv are on the point of boarding their plane when a H.A.M.M.E.R. trooper brings word of trouble in the prison cells. Dark Queen leads her Dark X-Men to deal with it, and Osborn tells his guys to hang back to mop up afterwards.In Graymalkin Industries Yuriko Takiguchi tells Cyclops that the rest of the X-Club scientists have completed their work. Now Scott Summers can trigger the rest of his plan. (The way I understand it even X-Force should have waited to do their prison break-in until this point.) He tells their resident priest Nightcrawler to assemble everyone in the chapel.Watched by Takiguchi, Iceman and Pixie Cyke tells the X-Club to 'rise'. Pixie races off to tell Kurt Wagner in the chapel it's time, and she starts teleporting small groups 'home'. Boom-Boom, Nightcrawler and Northstar go 1st.  Colossus and Magma are next. Pixie says she'll take them all in time, aided by Magik when she returns from her other job (getting the Alcatraz prisoners to safety).On Alcatraz Warpath and Wolverine take Dark Beast while Angel, Domino and X-23 gang up on the powered-up Weapon Omega. They have them both down when the DXM arrive. Daken and his dad Logan hurl threats at each other - but Emma Frost breaks it up by slamming Daken's head on the ground. Her secret ally Sub-Mariner knocks Mimic out. And she knows that Cloak and Dagger will join her even before she asks them. As they all teleport away she says that "Scott has a plan".When the 4 remaining Dark X-Men (including Dark Beast) recover and report to Norman Osborn they find him watching a large asteroid with buildings atop it rising in San Francisco Bay. He knows that Emma Frost, Namor and Scott Summers have outplayed him.Cyclops welcomes Emma, Namor and C&D to the risen rock and announces to the mutants assembled there that they are all on the same side. Nightcrawler bamfs in with a reporter and cameraman, and Cyke gives a speech. He doesn't want any trouble, but the mutant nation has just seceded from the United States.Norman Osborn suits up as Iron Patriot and prepares to lead his forces to *give* them trouble.To be concluded in DARK AVENGERS/UNCANNY X-MEN: EXODUS.


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Last issue ended with Atlanteans attacking Los Angeles. This issue starts with Sub-Mariner called to a Cabal meeting By Norman Osborn (in his Iron Patriot armour), along with Dr Doom, Emma Frost, Hood and the female Loki.Namor claims not to know what's happened so Norman shows video footage. Osborn says he knows that Atlantis has been destroyed and the Atlanteans dispersed around the world so that Namor is no longer in control (see the 2007 Sub-Mariner limited series). This was obviously a terrorist splinter group.Doctor Doom interrupts to asks why *he* was called here for this. It has nothing to do with him. (Although after the destruction of Atlantis the Atlantean army moved to Latveria.) Osborn snarkily replies that if he hadn't invited him Doom would be asking why *not*.Returning to the subject of the meeting Norman wants Subby to publicly denounce the terrorists then lead a team to kill them. All but 1 who will be brought back to show the public. Namor imperiously asks why he should do that. NO loses it and shouts "Because I told you to!" The others look at him guardedly, Loki with a smile because her plan to tip him over the edge is working (see Mighty Avengers #24). Norman calms down and repeats it quietly. But Prince Namor is now in full regal mode. He won't take orders from a human.Osborn tries to talk sense into him. Namor needs help to rebuild his kingdom, and he shouldn't have a problem distancing himself from terrorists. But Namor argues back that the 'terrorists' were striking back against the surface humans who are destroying the planet that they share. And in retaliation for the destruction of Atlantis (a somewhat misleading claim since it was Subby himself who blew up the place). So he repeats his refusal.Osborn gets the last word by suggesting Namor think about what Norman would give him in return. (Actually when they formed the Cabal Osborn only promised to *allow* Subby to rebuild Atlantean civilisation, not to help him do it.) He tells Sub-Mariner to reconsider and then walks out of the meeting.Meanwhile Victoria Hand has got the Dark Avengers (at least Bullseye, Daken, Moonstone and Venom) up for a really early breakfast before heading to LA. But she notices Noh-Varr is missing. Bullseye drops very large obvious hints that Moonstone slept with Marvel Boy last night. Karla Sofen only admits that she knows he left the building.Iron Patriot arrives to be told that Ares is on his way in from his home, and Noh-Varr is AWOL. This isn't improving Norman's mood so he demands to see the Sentry, who arrives in his own spectacular fashion. Patriot announces that he and Sentry will zoom to LA under their own power and the the 2nd wave can follow in a quinjet.Hand insists on having a quiet word with her boss. As his right-hand person 1 of her jobs is to tell him when he's wrong. She believes he's been running himself ragged since he was given the big job, doing too many things himself. She strongly suggests he just send Sentry to do the job. After that they probably won't *need* the 2nd wave. Norman agrees and tells Bob Reynolds to go deal with the Atlanteans.But before Bob leaves Osborn has a quiet word with *him*. He wants the Sentry to kill all the terrorists (except 1, as above). Hero Bob is chary about killing, even to avenge the deaths in LA. So Norman asks him to turn the job over to his less squeamish alter ego the Void, despite having spent earlier issues persuading Bob that the Void doesn't exist.When Sentry flies over the scene of devastation in LA the Atlanteans have already gone. So he flies into the ocean following a trail and finds their undersea base. And it is the Void who destroys everything and everyone there - except 1 that he takes prisoner.The media show Sentry bringing the Atlantean back and handing him over to H.A.M.M.E.R. troops. Osborn gets congratulations from the President and tells him that the prisoner is being interrogated. But we see that he gets thrown into a room with Venom. And we hear the sounds as Venom eats him.Ares finally arrives as Osborn capitalises on the President's good mood by getting him to agree to funding a solution to the 'mutant problem'. Then he turns on Moonstone to try to get her to tell him why Marvel Boy has gone. (Karla *doesn't* tell him Noh-Varr left because last issue she told him the rest of the team were psycho-killers - up to then he thought they were all heroes.)Afterwards Norman goes into a very secure room, the vault containing Iron Man's armours, and allows himself to collapse. He's fighting to stay in control, but his Green Goblin persona is growing in strength and confidence.