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Right here, right now
Imayan rebels led by Cimbuka are beating the forces of dictator Eda Arul, but it is War Machine (still sporting strapped on weapons and bandoleers of bullets) who leads the charge. And the world watches it on the news, including:-Nick Fury who told James Rhodes not to interfere and then sent S.H.I.E.L.D. forces to bring him to heel.Tony Stark who thinks Jim has just outdone him in the big mistake stakes.Tony's new team Force Works (Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman and U.S. Agent). USA cheers him on but the 2 females aren't so happy.Jim's girlfriend Rae LaCoste who reveals to us that she actually knows he is War Machine, which will be a surprise waiting for him when he gets home.Ranald Jeffries and Rebecca Bergier at the offices of Worldwatch who hear that their boss Vincent Cetewayo is in the middle of this. (Arul kidnapped him, WM went to Imaya to rescue him, now they're both with the rebels.) The 2 R's worry that this will discredit the peaceful work of Vincent and their Company.Fury contacts Major Sheva Joseph in charge of the SHIELD troops there and tells them to protect the dictator who has now retreated from his palace to his bunker. She's not happy about that but what can she do? Cimbuka and War Machine lead the rebels against the Imayan troops guarding the bunker and WM blows the doors off. And in the streets of the capital protesters demand democracy.He is the 1st 1 in the central bunker room to confront the president who only now has Major Joseph and Agent Lydon to keep him company. (We don't see what happened to the rest of the SHIELD Agents. We *definitely* don't see Rhodey or any of the rebels shooting any of them.) Lydon pulls a big gun on War Machine, but Joseph pulls a gun on *him* and tells him to stand down.Cimbuka enters and as Acting President demands that Arul stand trial. Sheva Joseph resigns from SHIELD but makes her last official act to hand the old President over to the new President. Now *Arul* pulls a gun and tries to shoot Sheva. But WM machine guns him to death. Cimbuka leaves to talk to the press, and Rhodey remembers they left Vincent Cetewayo back at the rebel camp.*We* left Cetewayo last issue talking to Arul's mysterious Advisor who had helped the revolution succeed. He now claims that his masters don't mind Cimbuka taking over. The Advisor had been originally assigned to help *Arul* to power, but he had in the end proven too unstable. But the real point of the current exercise was to get rid of Cetewayo, whose charismatic pacifist do-goodery were a threat to his masters' plans. Assassinating him would make him a martyr. But his involvement in this bloody conflict has damaged his image, and his death here will just be 1 of the many casualties. And he shoots him.War Machine arrives to find Vincent dead and the Advisor still there. Rhodey blasts at him in anger but only succeeds in shredding the man's clothes. Then the unharmed 'man' teleports away in a sort-of turning to mist'ey way.James Rhodes promises Vincent to continue his work. (Cetewayo had offered him the job of running Worldwatch in #1.) Sheva Joseph joins him in a 'borrowed' SHIELD plane and offers him a ride home. She says she's out of a job and he offers to hire her.


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The Last Emperor
Story continues from FORCE WORKS #7.Force Works (Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman, U.S. Agent) and the rescued Tony Stark have escaped the Mandarin's fortress only to see an army on horseback heading toward them. Then they see War Machine, Century, and Dr Su Yin in the lead. The happy reunion is interrupted by warlord Chu Lo Yan who demands they march on Hong Kong to face the Mandarin. The American heroes (and some of the warlord's own men) want to map out strategy first for taking on such a powerful foe. The two groups fight, which ends with Chu Lo Yan and a small contingent retreating vowing to return. The heroes make their way to Hong Kong on horseback, Tony and Rhodey calling a truce to their feud and Wanda welcoming Century into the “family”....As Mandarin has his Avatars wreak havoc in the city, the heroes arrive and take on his human army, fighting their way to the Stark lab where they rescue Suzi Endo. Tony calls California and they send him a parcel of devices which can dampen the anti-technology field Mandarin has set up. Tony dons the Iron Man armor which was also sent over and leads the heroes as they converge upon the Mandarin's throne. But the Mandarin is facing rebellious citizens, and to frighten them he makes his countenance grow to giant size, filling the sky and demanding they all bow to the power of the Mandarin....Story continues in IRON MAN #312.


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Zietkrieg triumphant
War Machine has been sent by Nick Fury back in time to Berlin in 1943 to rescue Sheva Joseph and stop present-day weaponry from being used to win WWII for the Axis. He teamed up with that era's Sgt Fury & his Howling Commandos and Captain America & Bucky Barnes only to see Nick Fury killed by V3 a bulky armoured figure making use of 'futuristic' exoskeleton tech.James Rhodes had been separated from his WM armour by the time-jump and the current mission had been to retrieve it from the Germans. Rhodey is suited up now but it is taking time for the suit's system to reboot. So he's facing V3 with no weapons or boot jets active and is getting pasted by his Nazi foe ...... but Cap and Bucky leap into the room and draw V3's fire giving JR the breathing space for the reboot to complete. Now superior Stark-armour and weapons make short work of the lumbering giant.But Rhodey has to tell them that Fury is dead. And he has to repeat the news to the Commandos and Sheva. (Jim and Sheva don't tell the others that in their timeline Nick survived until the present, but he promises her he'll restore the proper future. Even though the advanced weapons have already brought the Nazis to the brink of victory.)Last issue we learned that the Zeitkrieg/Time War was the brainchild of Commandant Grinz who had established a Nazi base in Chile to await the invention of time-travel. Now in ZeitWaffen High Command he consults with Raeder from the future who reports that the 1995 Time-Drive has been captured by the enemy, but they already have enough future-weapons to win the War and then that future will be irrelevant. And if they get War Machine's armour as well then victory will be even more assured. So Grinz orders a hunt for WM.Meanwhile the resistance have determined that targeting Grinz is key to reversing the time-changes. They learn that he is on the way to a Luftwaffe test site at Meinz. Rhodey and Cap will go there to capture him, and the Commandos, Bucky and Sheva will seize control of the 1943 Time-Drive base.The duo hop a ride on a freight train. Jim tells Cap that the future he knows is worth fighting for, but sidesteps mentioning that Bucky will die in the War and Cap will be in suspended animation for decades.At Meinz Grinz is demonstrating to Adolph Hitler the 2 new ME-300 jet fighters. Cap and WM are spying on them, and Rhodey wonders whether he should take the opportunity to kill the Führer. But they are seen by guards and have to start fighting their way to Grinz, who sics the jets on them. WM takes to the sky and wrecks them both. Cap notes that Rhodes let the pilots eject, and he is using non-lethal weapons against ground troops. Jim says he doesn't want to kill. His resolve may be tested as they are surrounded by tanks.


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Instant karma's gonna get you
James Rhodes and Sheva Joseph are boarding a private plane for the South American country Corteña to investigate a mass grave for Worldwatch. Rhodey is targeted by assassin Deathtoll who has been hired by shadowy businessman Leviticus to stop the investigation. He has also hired him to kill War Machine, as a general nuisance to his plans, unaware that WM and JR are the same person.Sheva's SHIELD training means she spots the glint of the rifle barrel and knocks Jim aside. Airport Security close in on the gunman who deliberately steps out and threatens to shoot them so they all shoot to kill him. Jim and Sheva come to look at the body and Rhodey is shocked to recognise it, but pretends he's never seen him before. When they've gone the counter on Deathtoll's wrist drops from 11 lives to 10. He gets up alive and on fire (as seen last issue) and kills 2 guys left to guard him. His wrist count goes up to 12.On the plane Sheva is pilot and ex-army pilot Rhodes takes the co-pilot seat beside her. They hear that someone shot the 2 guards and took the body away. Sheva saw War Machine without his helmet on in #4 so she knows he's Jim. And she also knows he's hiding something. Rhodey tells her that the guy tried to kill War Machine at the UN (last issue) and he killed him then. But now he's somehow back and may have survived another 'death'. He also confides that after killing Eda Arul (#4) and this guy he's worried that killing's becoming too easy for him (despite having nightmares about it). Ex-SHIELD Major Joseph tells him you sometimes have to get your hands dirty to do what you believe is right.Jim phones Rebecca Bergier at Worldwatch to update them on what's happened. Ranald Jeffries asks her about media coverage of the shooting and she goes on a rant about media 'jackals'. Jeffries rightly suspects something personal. She admits it but says she'll make sure it doesn't affect Worldwatch. (Last issue a tabloid TV show contacted her about something.)Deathtoll has also hired a plane to follow our lot to Corteña. En route he remembers his origin for us. He was born the son of a pig farmer who beat him because he didn't like the pigs being slaughtered. When he grew up he shot daddy and left the farm to become a mercenary. He was on a job with 2 companions putting down a murderous sect of Kali-worshippers for the Indian Government which all went wrong. However he killed all the Thuggees at the expense of taking his own side down with them. Kali was impressed and offered him a deal - kill for *her* and each death will give him a life (ie the ability to cheat death). So now we see what the counter on his wrist is - his current surplus of lives.Rhodes and co get to Corteña where the Government is strenuously denying the existence of a mass gravesite of people 'disappeared' by the previous Government. State Secretary Antonio Ville-Boas offers to arrange an inspection tour of the guarded site which he claims is a toxic waste dump, but Rhodey thinks they're stalling. Indeed Ville-Boas contacts Leviticus because he's worried about the effect on the tourist trade. Leviticus has his own reasons, and from dialogue last issue it seems he may have been involved in creating the graves in the 1st place. But he assures Antonio that Rhodes will be dealt with.But Jim goes to the site as War Machine, knocks out the guards and detects the buried bodies by ultrasound scan - and even uncovers some of them with repulsor blasts. He's discovered there by Deathtoll who's just as happy to find 1 of his targets there as the other. They fight but this time the assassin is better prepared. He uses special ammo to temporarily blind and deafen his opponent, but WM lashes out and kills him again. His recovering vision sees Deathtoll aflame and coming back to life. Then the bad guy shoots our guy with an adamantium-jacketed shell which pierces the armour and does some body damage.Deathtoll is about to finish the job with a point-blank shot to the facemask when the fallen hero fires his repulsors into the ground. A chasm opens up and the villain falls in amongst the bodies, and the hole caves in and buries him. He tries to claw his way out but runs out of oxygen and dies. And comes back to life and dies again. And so on until his life counter runs out before he can make it back to the surface.War Machine has recorded video of the mass grave. He makes it back to the hotel and Worldwatch release the evidence to the media which causes the Corteñan Government to allow a UN investigation. We see Leviticus as head of an organisation which is worried about the threat to their anonymity. So they intend to put an end to Worldwatch and War Machine.On the flight back with his flesh wound taped up Jim tells Sheva he's still worried about becoming a killer. She asks him if there's any other superhero he can talk to. And he thinks of Hawkeye.


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War Machine and Deathlok have come separately to Imaya in Africa to rescue Vincent Cetewayo who's been captured by dictator Eda Arul. But Cetewayo has vanished and our pair are about to be arrested by a S.H.I.E.L.D. team led by Major Sheva Joseph.As they exit the palace Arul can't help winding them up and Deathlok loses it. In the confusion James Rhodes passes him an escape plan. DL grabs onto WM who jets them into the sky. But Agent Joseph follows them in a SHIELD craft and jams his navigation system. So Rhodey just flies his armour by the seat of his pants to outmanoeuvre a bevy of SHIELD craft until Michael Collins manages to corrupt *their* flight computers. And Sheva isn't exactly unhappy to let the pair go. Angry Arul sends out all his army to find them and Cetewayo.War Machine appears to get a message from Vincent telling them where to find him. The trail leads to a rebel camp in the desert led by a man named Cimbuka, and Cetewayo is indeed there. It turns out that Cable actually rescued VC last issue and dropped him off here before zipping off on his own business. Cetewayo intends to help Cimbuka overthrow the dictator. War Machine is happy to help but Deathlok isn't in favour of civil wars. So he leaves and takes wounded rebels with him (in his Dragonfly plane).The Imayan army attacks the rebel camp. War Machine attacks the army and the rebels follow him. Cetewayo looks for a gun to join the fight but instead finds Arul's mysterious Advisor aiming 1 at him. The man explains that *he* sent the message that brought WM here. The dictator's reign was bound to fall, and it suits the mystery man's purpose to have it end violently. He's about to explain more but ...... we cut back to the war. The government's army is routed but War Machine has run out of ammo. So he bolts on some heavy weapons and loads himself up with bandoleers of bullets. They're going to storm the palace.


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Cold war
This issue starts near the end of the story with War Machine defeated by the Cold Warrior in the Arctic. Ex-Soviet Major Konstantin Cheratny, cryogenics expert Dr Giorgi Grotowski and tech-genius Mack Mendelson watch it from the otherwise-deserted People's Research Station 27. And they also see Hawkeye lying on the frozen ground as Cold Warrior boasts of having woken from a long sleep to see the Soviet Union triumphant over the Western Imperialists.6 hours earlier War Machine arrives near here following Hawkeye's Avengers Communicard signal. And Hawkeye announces his presence with a thermite arrow to warm his friend up. Then Clint Barton takes James Rhodes into his shelter for a bowl of chilli to complete the job. Rhodey tells Clint how he's killed 2 people recently in Imaya (Eda Irul in #4) and Corteña (Deathtoll last issue) and it's eating him up.Then we get a flashback within a flashback to a Worldwatch meeting as Jim explains to Clint about being Director of Worldwatch, most of whom don't know he's War Machine. In the meeting Rebecca Bergier says WM's intervention in their affairs is putting the whole project at risk. Sheva Joseph, who *is* in on the secret ID, points out it was WM who got them the evidence they needed in Corteña, and tried to save their founder and inspiration Vincent Cetewayo in Imaya. Ranald Jeffries doesn't say anything, and neither does Rhodey because he didn't know who was right. He's now contemplating giving up being War Machine and giving the armour back to Tony Stark - it's beginning to fail anyway.Clint relates a story apparently from his early days as an Avenger. He frequented a local cop bar to learn what it was like to face bad guys on a regular basis. 1 cop had killed 3 men in his time, and bragged about it. Another was a rookie who had just killed his 1st. It was judged a lawful kill but he couldn't live with it and committed suicide. His point is that you have to avoid caring too much as well as becoming too callous.Rhodes changes the subject and asks Barton why he's here. Clint says he's looking for his friend Mack Mendelson (who Rhodey met in Hawkeye (1994) #3) who's disappeared. The only clue in his ransacked home was a tracker which he believes Mack left hidden where he would find it, and which has led him here.In PRS27 the kidnapped Mendelson is absorbed in fiddling with cryogenic machinery. Major Cheratny is sure that his intellectual curiosity will prevent him from sabotaging the job. Dr Grotowski isn't sure the process will work after such a long time.Outside Hawkeye is sneaking under the radar of the base which a hacked SHIELD database told him had been abandoned since the Berlin Wall fell. War Machine is flying in cloaked. But inside an alarm goes off because the stealth field is 1 of the parts of his armour that is failing.Mendelson is complaining about the crappy way the cryogenic system was built. Cheratny tells him he'd better fix it *now*. Mendelson says he fixed it ages ago, he was just spending time looking around for his own interest. Dr Grotowski switches it on and the sleeper awakens. Cheratny tells the Cold Warrior he's been asleep for 30 years but now is the time to fight.As our heroes approach the building Cold Warrior smashes his way out to greet them. War Machine's repulsors knock him back but Hawkeye's blast arrow fails to impress. Grotowski explains to Mendelson that the Warrior absorbs kinetic energy from his surroundings, hence the frozen air around him. So the attacks were just powering him up. And WM's thermocouple(?) fails so that the cold starts to get to him as CW grabs him. Hawkeye tries to intervene but is knocked down by the wall of frozen air. WM's armour signals imminent system failure. And that's where we came in.Now Hawkeye fires a thermite arrow at War Machine's back which gives him a power boost (I thought that was what the supposedly-failed thermocouple was for). WM blasts a big hole in the ice and Cold Warrior falls in, clinging to the edge. WM tells him that the Soviet Union is no more, but CW doesn't believe him. Cheratny tells Grotowski to deactivate CW's kinetic conversion weapon and help him out of the hole. But the man dies when they get him inside because switching off the weapon also switched off the life-support system that kept him alive.Rhodey is about to blame himself for another death but Clint stops him. He points out that dictator Irul, psycho-killer Deathtoll and blindly nationalistic Cold Warrior never questioned their actions. Such questioning will keep Jim honest. They'll start worrying when he stops doubting himself.Back in Clint's shelter Mack has a look at the War Machine armour. He's much more impressed by *this*. He says he can fix it but he needs the blueprints, so Jim will have to go ask Tony Stark for them. Rhodes is reluctant because he still hasn't forgiven Stark for letting him think Tony was dead (Iron Man #284-289). Clint says he's got a beef with Stark too (an editorial comment says see Marvel Comics Presents #161, but see my Comments). But then Rhodey says he'll do it.


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Brothers in Arms
This part of the Crossing crossover continues from FORCE WORKS #18.War Machine is hiding out in an abandoned airstrip with Black Widow, Hawkeye and U.S.Agent. He and Black Widow can't believe Hawkeye is a murderer. Iron Man accused Hawkeye in Force Works #17 of murdering Marilla and Rita DeMara in Avengers: The Crossing.But they also can't believe Iron Man framed him. They don't know that Iron Man committed the murders under the control of Mantis.Rhodey shows the Widow his new Warwear armour, and flies off for a scout around.The cyborg Deathunt 9000 and the equally-cyborg 6-man Fireteam Decimal Four arrive via temporal transfer, easily nullifying our guys' defensive sensors. They don't expect to find Black Widow, but are winning the battle against the lightly-powered trio when War Machine returns.The fight ends with the Fireteam all dead (according the the Official Index to the Marvel Universe) and Deathunt using a temporal portal to escape.Hawkeye and Black Widow recognise Deathunt as a follower of Kang. (The editors have Black Widow cut Hawkeye off before he can speak Kang's name because Kang hasn't yet been shown as the villain behind the plot, until Avengers #393.) Hawkeye wants to confront Iron Man with that lead. The others want to wait. Hawkeye takes Black Widow's Quinjet and goes to find Stark.Meanwhile SHIELD time travel expert Kirby Martell sees Sheva Joseph undergo some more timeslips caused by her time travel in #15-17, and wind up as an old woman. (There is no connection to other temporal anomalies in this crossover.)The Crossing continues in IRON MAN #323.


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In the Aqiran capital Mazakan Ares, Glenda Sandoval and others infected by the Ultimo virus are attacking the citizens. US Senator Chambers is there (with guarding troops). He thinks Ares of the Avengers must be fighting terrorists, so orders his troops not to fire. Until Glenda bites him like a zombie and passes on the disease.The Ultimo virus is more like a computer virus than a biological one. Suzi Endo in Hong Kong is devising a counter-program. Parnell Jacobs, Glenda's husband, will bring War Machine's orbiting satellite down into the atmosphere to broadcast it with an e-m pulse. Meanwhile, equally remote in Colorado, Bethany Cabe is concerned about cyborg War Machine's rapidly failing body, and has sent an evac shuttle to pick him up.But James Rhodes has cannibalised most of the shuttle to add to his damaged War Machine armour. And Jake Oh is riding the remaining part like a flying motorbike.There's 9 minutes before Suzi's program will be delivered, which will allow the infected to kill thousands. Rhodey has major organ failure, and Beth gives him 4 minutes before his heart stops, 5 before brain death.But WM attacks Ares and the Ultimo zombies to draw their fire, while Jake crashes his steed to create a firewall between the infected and civilians. Then Jake urges those civilians to flee. Jim gets Suzi to punch holes in the computer firewall of his cybernetics, and allows Glenda to infect him with a kiss.(He remembers the first time he kissed Glenda when they were kids. He saw her bruises, and promised to protect her.)Glenda suddenly finds herself recovered from the infection. As we have seen, Rhodey's cybernetics and armour are designed to absorb any kind of technology and make use of it. He has absorbed the Ultimo virus from her.As well as giving its victims destructive eye-beams and murderous dispositions, the virus also made their bodies superhuman. It now cures all Jim's health problems!He now grows cyber-tentacles which grab all the other infectees, including Senator Chambers, cure them and hurl them out of danger. Ares is the last to be saved. But now WM is having extreme difficulty keeping the virus contained. He's electronically connected to a wide area, and can transmit the virus that way. And he can feel the virus taking him over.Parnell has the satellite plunging towards them, but Suzi's program isn't quite ready. Jim makes Jacobs bail out, and takes over the satellite, transforming it into giant-robot mode. The robot arrives and smashes into WM just as he shouts "I am Ultimo, god of machines, and I will kill you all!" And at the same time Suzi Endo transmits her program to it.Suzi's program works, and the virus is dead. Ares, God of War digs Rhodey out of the wreckage, and declares him his champion, over Jim's protests. Glenda is reunited with Parnell in his escape pod. Ares goes home.Senator Chambers can't remember being infected, and wants WM and friends arrested. But Norman Osborn (by remote connection) congratulates them instead. He claims to have known that Eaglestar was messing with Ultimo technology, but couldn't legally do anything about it. Now Glenda can testify to Congress about it. Cabe, Endo and Jacobs can be pardoned for working illegally with War Machine. (And Jake Oh gets a reward too.) And Rhodey can have the body Tony Stark cloned for him (without admitting that Osborn and HAMMER stole that body in #1).Jim declines the offer. He's going to find out who supplied Eaglestar with the Ultimo tech. The other 5 decide to decline too, and be his support team.


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In Santo Marco War Machine prevents a genocidal attack. The president's mercenary army is using a Sentinel to genetically identify members of rebel tribe. It seems James Rhodes has taken on this as his task during Dark Reign, a vigilante tackling mass murderers. Cue lots of shooting to kill.During the fight Rhodey remembers another warzone a year ago where an explosion left him battered and limbless. Tony Stark gave him a new life as a cyborg, and a new War Machine armour. His body and armour weren't built from Stark Tech, and were made from a titanium/vibranium alloy. Bethany Cabe was involved in his rebuild, and she promised him a more human body eventually.During the fight he also spots someone he knows. Parnell Jacobs saved Rhodey's life when they were in the marines, and married Jim's childhood friend Dr Glenda Sandoval. He later became a gun runner, currently supplying San Marco's dictator. He also found Rhodey's old lost War Machine armour, sold it to Stuart Clarke, and then used it to try to kill Iron Man.War Machine takes Jacobs to his orbital satellite, where robotic surgeons patch him up, while he communicates with Bethany Cabe in Colorado. Beth warns him that repeated surgery isn't good enough, because his cyborg body is dying. She wants him to come down because his replacement body is nearly ready. But Jim intends to get Parnell to modify his War Machine armour to make it less stressful for his body.Jacobs is about to attack Rhodey, but Jim tells him that the satellite is keyed to his body. If Jim dies, the life support will fail for Parnell.Rhodes reveals that his priority at the moment his to rescue Jacobs' wife Glenda. Parnell says she's not missing, she's just gone off in a huff. He lay low a few months ago after being presumed dead. When he returned to Glenda she was angry at his deception. She went overseas to work as a medic for weapons manufacturer Eaglestar International. But Rhodey shows him video of Glenda captive of one side of a civil war in Aqiria.Jacobs uses the captured Sentinel head to upgrade Rhodey's armour, and he heads for Aqiria.Meanwhile Bethany's base is raided by HAMMER, and Norman Osborn takes a personal interest in the body she has prepared for Rhodey.


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War Machine is attacking a passenger jet, with members of his support staff Suzi Endo and Parnell Jacobs in a shuttle plane alongside. His old buddies from West Coast Avengers (Mockingbird, Ronin (Clint Barton, ex-Hawkeye), Tigra and Wonder Man) have arrived in a quinjet to stop him. Clint has faith that James Rhodes knows what he's doing, but the other 3 aren't so sure.Wonder Man knocks War Machine off the plane while Tigra breaks into the shuttle and KO's Suzi and Parnell. War Machine uses his cyborg suit's special power to disassemble the shuttle and quinjet in mid-air (incorporating some tasty bits into his armour as a bonus). He leaves Wonder Man to save the falling bodies, and sets off after the jet. But Ronin hitches a ride with a line arrow.Clint reminds Rhodey they fought side-by-side in San Revilla, and says he might help if Jim tells him what's going on. James explains, while Suzi does the same for Wonder Man and his passengers.They describe how Reginald Gunderson, Assistant Director of the US Agency for Alien Quarantine and Technology decided to exploit the captured alien Ultimo robot for private gain, and distributed various parts to various companies for research. War Machine and gang have already dealt with an Ultimo virus in #1-5, and Ultimo's head last issue. Now they are seeking its neural net, memory banks and emotional core, each in a different place.Inside the passenger plane the CEO of Stark Solutions drinks Ultimo's neural net. And the front of the plane explodes into liquid metal.The assembled cast enter the plane through a hole. The liquid metal is eating the plane from the front backwards. They get the passengers to the back half of the plane, and War Machine and Wonder Man split the back off before the living metal can get to it. Rhodey uses his suit's abilities again to remove the jets from the wings and attach them to the half-fuselage, forming a mini-helicarrier.The man they think is Tony Stark uses the metal he has absorbed to form a proto-Ultimo around him. And Suzi Endo detects him sending out messages to locate the other 2 parts of Ultimo's brain.Last issue Bethany Cabe and Jake Oh donned other War Machine armour to go after these components. Beth as WM 2.0 has just blown up the memory banks in a Roxxon facility. Jake as WM 3.0 destroys the emotional core at Transcore Artificial Intelligence Solutions.Rhodey tries to talk Tony Stark into abandoning his Ultimo, but discovers it's really Tony's cousin Morgan. He wanted Ultimo's computing power, but now Ultimo's programming to kill all living things has taken over. And Morgan claims to have thought of a way for Ultimo to wipe out life from the Earth.War Machine strikes with Ultimo's own eye-blasts (he assimilated one of Ultimo's eyes last issue). Morgan appears to give in, saying that without Ultimo's emotional core he feels no compulsion to continue with his plan.Rhodey tries to help Morgan extricate himself from Ultimo. But when they touch Morgan absorbs an emotional core from Jim. And his Ultimo self-destructs. The scattered liquid metal ignores people, but infects surrounding vegetation.In Avengers Tower Norman Osborn and his assistant Victoria Hand are watching. And Norman suits up as Iron Patriot to go deal with the problem personally.


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James Rhodes remembers how he first met Glenda Sandoval when they were young children, and she was killing ants because they killed a caterpillar. Now that he's War Machine Glenda, along with all the others infected by the Ultimo virus, is trying to kill him. While Glenda's husband Parnell Jacobs watches from Rhodey's orbiting satellite, and Bethany Cabe watches from her Colorado base.Beth explains to Parnell that Ultimo is a giant alien robot designed to kill living beings with its eye-beams. And now Glenda and the other victims of Eaglestar's experiments in Aqiria are using similar eye-beams against War Machine, Ares, Jake Oh and the remaining Eaglestar mercenaries.To the horror of Parnell and Jim, Ares shoots Glenda, and then the rest of the Ultimoids.Jake and the medics try to save Glenda but she appears to die. She seems to have a final lucid moment and tells Jim it's OK to kill the ants. But War Machine attacks the God of War, taking the battle out into the desert. Ares can't understand the problem. WM was just as brutal against the genocidal mercenaries in Santo Marco in #1.Rhodey gets Bethany to contact Suzi Endo in Hong Kong. He needs the technosavant/cybermancer to decode the data Beth's flying spy bugs have extracted from the virus victims, and give him a prognosis. Suzi quit working with WM because he was too ready to kill, and his later exploits like the one in Santo Marco haven't changed her mind. But he knows she won't be able to resist the lure of Ultimo tech (and hopefully saving lives too).Then War Machine turns his attention back to Ares. He patiently explains that Glenda was innocent, while the Santo Marco mercenaries were guilty men. After Secret Invasion Rhodey used the satellite's facilities to compile a database of war criminals. He knows who the guilty are. And he's made it his job to hunt them down.Ares says that he too fought for the right when he was young. But he fought alone against Olympus' enemies, and no-one came to his aid when he was captured. He claims that non-warriors hate and despise the warriors who defend them. And that warriors like he and Rhodes need to fight, and need war to feed and justify that instinct.But his soliloquy is interrupted when they realise that the infected people, including Glenda, have healed and are attacking again. Moreover they have infected the medics and mercenaries, and only Jake Oh survives. War Machine rescues Jake while Ares dives into the deadly mob.Suzi tells Jim that the virus spreads immediately by contact. She says the only option is to burn all the victims in a firestorm before they manage to get to a nearby city. Rhodey says there must be some other way, but Glenda hits him with her eye-beam. And his systems start to fail, threatening to black him out. With his last effort he unleashes a fireball, and Ares glories in the bodies burning around him.While Jim's body is unconscious his cybernetic mind keeps running and communicates with Bethany Cabe, saying that now would be a good time to transfer him to the human body her team has been growing for him. But she is forced to admit that when her base was attacked in #1, the only thing they took was his new body. She recommends that they fly his failing cyborg body to a safehouse in Dubai, where he can be really put to sleep for the year it will take to grow another.But Rhodey declines. He wakes up and asks Jake where Ares is.Cut to the Aqiran capital Makazan, where US Senator Chambers is making a video to show how the civil war in Aqira is under control. When Ares and some of the Ultimo victims, including Glenda, show up. They obviously survived WM's last attack. And now Ares has the glowing red eyes of the infected.


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Daniel Cetawayo has taken War Machine's defence in his war crimes trial. He and Mrs Rhodes are discussing tactics in Rhodey's cell. Cetawayo intends, for instance, to use the WM armour's black box top prove that James was protecting the life of a young boy when he killed some soldiers in Santo Marco. And the boy and other villagers are here to testify to it.But Jim still doesn't want a defence because it would prolong the trial. Daniel leaves Mrs Rhodes to persuade her son. Jim says that Norman Osborn is using the trial as a smokescreen while he smuggles the Bainesville Ten to safety.Most of War Machine's team are flying cyborg Rhodes' rescued cloned human body towards him. Technomath Suzi Endo in the Ultimo satellite is in communication with them, and says she can transfer Jim's consciousness to the clone when they get within 1000 miles.But Osborn breaks into their conversation and lets them know he's onto them. As HAMMER craft attack them. Victoria Hand informs Norman that the last of the Ten are safely out of the country. And Dark Avenger Ares bursts into the cell.But Ares isn't there to kill his champion War Machine, but to save him. Osborn's real plan is to attack Rhodes' prison with HAMMER forces.His men have recovered Jim's cloned body. And Norman goes on air to say that War Machine is a cyborg created by the fugitive traitor Iron Man, while keeping the 'real' James Rhodes in stasis. That Jim Rhodes is now given a full pardon. Because the cyborg is infected by the Ultimo virus, it must be killed at all costs.The real reason Osborn wants War Machine destroyed is to wipe out his database of evidence against the Bainesville Ten.Ares is helping Rhodey escape. Jim is shielding his mother. Suddenly the boy from Santo Marco rushes onto the scene. War Machine dives to protect him from harm. His plastic cyborg body can't stop him from taking damage. And the body dies.Later, after the cyborg body is destroyed, Osborn contacts the Bainesville Ten. Matt Murdock's prosecution has made things too hot for them to return to the US immediately, but Norman is sure he can get them Congressional Immunity. One of the Ten, a Senator, blames Osborn for their problems. But then all 10 get sudden headaches and sickness.And then James Rhodes' clone body steps out of its stasis tube, and punches Osborn in the jaw. Osborn is surprised by this because he made sure he kept the body more than 1000 miles away from the dying War Machine. But it turns out Rhodey's gang deliberately let him hear their conversation, to lure him into taking the body with him. There was no distance limit for the transfer of Jim's mind.Rhodes/Suzi Endo wipe all records of Jim's allies from the HAMMER database. And Rhodes explains to Osborn that Suzi infected each of the Ten with a drop of the liquid metal Ultimo. Now their minds will keep replaying all the pain and suffering that was inflicted on their orders. Rhodey thought of doing the same to Osborn, but figured he was so twisted he might like it.The proto-Ultimo and War Machine's gang come and take Jim away.2 weeks later he visits his mother, who's safely back in the Navajo Nation.


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In the Navajo Nation Jason Strongbow (who as American Eagle has fought toe-to-toe with the likes of Thing, Bullseye and Ka-Zar) pays a visit to James Rhodes' heavily-armed mother. It seems Jim asked Jason to give her the protection of the autonomous tribal lands before he started out on his vigilante spree. Now War Machine is on his way here.Jason tells her that her son is wanted for the murder of Anton Aubuisson, of soldiers in Santo Marco in #1, and of Eaglestar CEO Davis Harmon in #3. For the sake of his people Strongbow will have to turn War Machine in. Mrs Rhodes responds that for the sake of what is right James will probably have to resist, and even possibly kill Jason. She says that even as a child he always stood up for what was right, no matter what the consequences, even going to juvenile detention for defending young Glenda Sandoval.War Machine arrives, and has incorporated parts of Strongbow's motorcycle into his armour. He's accompanied by his allies from the previous arc:- Bethany Cabe security, Parnell Jacobs hardware support, Glenda Sandoval (Mrs Jacobs) and Jake Oh medics, and Suzi Endo responsible for hi-tech stuff like the stealth equipment that got them here without Strongbow detecting them.Jason uses his American Eagle strength and speed to fight the crew, while Mrs Rhodes shows her son the armoury she has stashed away, for him to replenish his weaponry. When Glenda brings Jake in to fix his broken nose, she explains that they have traced the source of the Ultimo virus that Eaglestar was working on in the previous issues to a nearby military base. (And that Norman Osborn has declared their research illegal, but pardoned them. I.e. taken it for his own use.)American Eagle tries to stop War Machine leaving. He can't allow him to attack the army base, and bring HAMMER's retribution down on his tribe. He successfully fights his armoured foe, including using WM's body as a defence against his own missile.But it turns out he's been battling Jake Oh, while Rhodey flies off to the army base in another War Machine suit.


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War Machine has come to Aqiria to rescue an old friend Dr Glenda Sandoval who is held captive inside a trucking container by Eaglestar International.  He is currently trundling (he's had to replace his armoured cyborg legs with tank-treads) after Eaglestar's boss Davis Harmon, because the container is protected by an encrypted codeword and a bomb to prevent breaking in by force.Up in WM's satellite Glenda's husband Parnell Jacobs is understandably anxious about his wife, who is in a critical condition from being beaten and raped. But James Rhodes wants him to find out what it was his sensors felt landing nearby. Meanwhile Glenda has been given some aid (aerosol medication through gaps in the container) by friendly mercenary Jake Oh and some medics. But she begs them to just trigger the bomb and destroy her.Meanwhile (again) Bethany Cabe has penetrated Eaglestar's database from her base in Colorado. She finds that they are involved in medical experimentation. And Harmon supervised the attack on Glenda, and injected her with something. Jim finds Harmon, but Glenda insists he be taken alive to face prosecution and explain what he's been doing.Cocky Harmon freely hands over the code to safely open Glenda's box, and the medics rush her out. WM is about to kill Harmon, and Norman Osborn watching from Avengers Tower tries to call off his Plan B. (Osborn wants Harmon dead too.) But Plan B doesn't want to be called off. It's Ares, God of War.Ares attacks War Machine rather than Harmon. He's heard of Rhodey's death-dealing war against  mass murderers, and sees him as a worthy opponent, a man after his own heart. A bludgeoning battle follows, including Ares ripping off one of WM's cannons and using it against him, and tearing his body from the tank-base and hurling it into the sky.Jim's body destroys an attacking jet, and then magnetically grabs pieces of debris to add new parts to his armour. The modified WM flies back to Ares and buries him in sand and wrecked tanks.Rhodey tracks Harmon again and finds him starting to open a quarantined area. Harmon claims that the status of his company in Aqiria means that he can't be prosecuted. And he believes hero WM won't kill him. So he turns back to the quarantine door.Jake Oh has brought Glenda here, and she heard Harmon's claim of immunity. So she grabs Jake's gun and shoots him (using her status as an Eaglestar employee to make it legal?).Ares now turns up and congratulates Jim because he assumes he was the executioner. Osborn recalls him because the job's done. But Ares isn't content, and he breaks the quarantine (with his axe).A horde of people with glowing red eyes and blast capability burst out. Osborn's computer says something about an Ultimo virus. And Glenda's eyes turn red too.


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Ramblers in the Bainsville National Forest are dismayed to find the vegetation turning to sharp metal, and the voice of Ultimo telling them this is his plan to wipe out all life on Earth. Without plants they will suffocate, if they don't starve first or just get killed by the pointy bits. 2 such citizens see War Machine trying to contain the outbreak with a firewall.Ultimo's plan was almost stillborn last issue because without the emotional core that WM's crew destroyed he didn't have the motivation to carry it through. But then he borrowed motivation from War Machine - all the horrible things James Rhodes has witnessed people do to each other.Norman Osborn is on his way as Iron Patriot. He contacts Suzi Endo to find out what's happening. She and others of Rhodey's crew are helping civilians in the forest. The ex-West Coast Avengers from last issue (Mockingbird, Ronin, Tigra and Wonder Man) are helping War Machine with fire breaks. But Osborn accuses Rhodes of aiding Ultimo. He directs Susi's attention to where strands of the metal vegetation have attached themselves to Jim's armour.Iron Patriot slams into War Machine, separating him from the tentacles. But Rhodes complains that he was trying to talk Ultimo down. WM smashes IP with the shovel from an earthmover, then takes over his armour and opens his visor. Jim prepares to use the optic blast he assimilated from Ultimo in #7 on Osborn's exposed head.But he stops, and Osborn closes his faceplate. Rhodey's database of multiple murderers reveals that all Osborn's kills were either in the service of his country, or when he was insane. So War Machine can't justify executing him. Ronin and Wonder Man are quite willing to kill Osborn, but Jim stops them.They see the liquid metal proto-Ultimo reforming, and Suzi calls to say that it will probably explode again like last time, spreading it's infection beyond the flame barriers. War Machine sends his friends to evacuate a wider area, leaving him with Iron Patriot.Rhodes uses War Machine's technology-scavenging power to link his armour to Osborn's, and attacks Ultimo with the combination, including the stolen eye-blasts. His purpose is to blast a hole to the centre of their foe, and reconnect to its neural net. Once there he bombards the giant alien robot with his good memories, to counteract the bad stuff Ultimo got from him before.We now learn that Morgan Stark is still alive in there. He wasn't killed when Ultimo blew up last time. And Morgan says Ultimo knows from Jim's brain that all his happy moments are connected to unhappy ones.Rhodey then makes a big gamble. He connects Osborn to Ultimo, and tells him to save the day. Osborn protests that Rhodes can't possibly expect his character and memories to sway Ultimo!But Norman thinks hard about holding his newborn son Harry. And Ultimo powers down, releases Morgan, and according to Suzi it wipes it's murderous programming. Norman Osborn has saved the world (again)!But then he blasts the unprepared War Machine, and prepares to take the proto-Ultimo under his charge - a thing with devastating potential he can program to do whatever he wants!


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Norman Osborn as Iron Patriot has just effectively saved the world by showing Ultimo that even he had a good side. Now he has a baby Ultimo to bring up in his own image.War Machine appears to be having a heart attack but Osborn won't let his allies Suzi Endo and Glenda Sandoval help him. Instead he has James Rhodes put in the van with the proto-Ultimo. His scientists will find out how War Machine's technology-assimilation works.But Rhodey was only pretending to be ill. Once in the armoured transport he uses his tech-power to convert it into a giant armour for himself, and a plane for Suzi to take the baby Ultimo away. He also sends Mockingbird, Ronin, Tigra and Wonder Man off on other tasks.Iron Patriot attacks the giant War Machine. But he has figured out how to block Rhodey's method of adding bits to his armour, and starts to whittle away at him. Rhodey himself blocks Glenda and her husband Parnell Jacobs' attempts to call the other crew members Bethany Cabe and Jake Oh for help. As HAMMER forces join Iron Patriot.Bethany and Jake are on other missions in their alternate War Machine suits. Jake is arresting a Louisiana Sherrif William Sampleson for killing hurricane refugees (he got rid of the recorded evidence but War Machine's technology found it). Beth is freeing mistreated immigration detainees in California. Also Mockingbird and Ronin are exposing a crooked insurance company in New Mexico, and Wonder Man is closing down a toxic pig farm in Utah. They put the results online. More follow, like a chemical company dumping mercury, and the sale of salmonella-infected peanut butter.Victoria Hand reports all this to Osborn mid-fight. He taunts Rhodes with extending his losing battle to distract him from his friends' futile antics. But Rhodey says he's been playing for time while he cracked HAMMER's codes. If his intent was to take over the HAMMER troopers' armour, it fails and they and Osborn blast his armour off, leaving only his limbless cyborg torso.2 days later Osborn has been feted a hero. But revelations of official corruption continue to flood out leading to indictments, and the President isn't happy with Norman. So Osborn decides to distract public attention by putting James Rhodes on trial for war crimes.


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The prosecution of the Bainsville Ten (6 Senators, 1 General and 3 ex-Cabinet-members involved in a major corruption scandal) is all over the news. The corruption was exposed by War Machine's allies last issue. But Norman Osborn counters by releasing information about WM's apparent war crimes:- Killing Anton Aubuisson with polar bears in Dark Reign: New Nation. Killing mercenaries in Santo Marco in #1. Allowing Davis Harmon to be murdered in #3. Infecting himself with Ultimo and threatening to destroy the world in #9.We follow all this news with Joe Robertson of Front Line.James Rhodes, with plastic-replaced cyborg parts, is brought before the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He questions the intent of the court, claiming that Osborn is using them to have him executed. So he is taken back to his concrete cell, guarded by HAMMER troops and 2 Dark Avengers:- Sinister Spider-Man (Mac Gargan) and Ms Marvel (Karla Sofen). The plastic and concrete is to ensure that he can't use his cyborg power to make War Machine armour and weapons out of anything metal.Rhodey's crew (Bethany Cabe, Parnell Jacobs, Jake Oh and Glenda Sandoval) are discussing breaking him out. But Beth says he doesn't want them to.Osborn is congratulating himself with his assistant Victoria Hand on getting the media to concentrate on War Machine's trial, and ignore the Bainseville Ten. But he is interrupted by Ares, who made Rhodes his champion in #5. Norman placates his Dark Avenger by sending him to the Hague to ensure justice is done.Jim has used his 1 phone call to ask for Matt Murdock. Matt tells him that they intend to send him after he's found guilty to Santo Marco, who will execute him. But Rhodes doesn't want Murdock to defend him. In particular he doesn't want his trial to drag on, giving Osborn more smokescreen. Instead he wants Matt to prosecute the Bainesville Ten. Daredevil's senses tell him Jim has a plan, and he leaves.Rhodey has constructed a comms circuit from silicon molecules in the concrete walls. He contacts Suzi Endo in space inside the child-like proto-Ultimo she escaped with last issue. He affirms that he doesn't want to be rescued. But he gets Suzi to send a drop of the liquid metal Ultimo to a particular OsbornTech facility.Then he goes before the ICC to get his trial over by confessing. But Ares interrupts proceedings by saying no-one will be allowed to get in the way of true justice, including War Machine. The court refuses to accept his confession without a defence lawyer.Bethany Cabe contacts Osborn to say they're moving against him. Norman thinks she's going to attack the Hague, which will only increase the publicity he's been generating. But instead Team War Machine steal Jim's cloned human body from the Osborn lab that Ultimo infiltrated, the body Osborn stole in #1.


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Glenda Sandoval is being held prisoner in a metal container in Eaglestar International's Regional HQ in Aqiria, by mercenaries working for Eaglestar. One of them, an ex-SHIELD agent Jake Oh is trying to get her medical attention, but her guards won't let anyone see her, on orders from the boss.Bethany Cabe is still operating from the Colorado base that Norman Osborn and HAMMER attacked last issue. She sends a flying bug into the container to let Glenda know help is on the way. It shows that she has been beaten and is in a critical condition. Glenda's husband Parnell Jacobs is in War Machine's secret satellite base, and War Machine himself is on the way.Eaglestar's young boss Davis Harmon is at the base. He sends drone planes against War Machine, but WM sends them crashing back. James Rhodes phones Harmon, who tells him he's now a traitor to the US as Eaglestar is coordinating anti-terrorist activities in the area. Rhodey tells him just to let him have Glenda and he'll leave them alone. But Harmon isn't going to back down. He relocates to an underground control centre and continues the fight.Harmon fires 3 missiles. One of them detonates near WM, but he stops the other 2 and takes them away. Parnell directs him to use them against some unmanned tanks. But Jim spots infantry around the tanks, after he's relaunched the missiles. He doesn't want to harm them because most of them probably think they're on the right side. And some of them may be men who left SHIELD rather than work for Norman Osborn in HAMMER. So WM blocks the missiles path, and takes the explosion on himself.Harmon's troops close in on WM, who has lost both legs. They think he's harmless and dying, because they don't know he's a cyborg. But he gains tank-treads and chases them back to where Glenda is being held.Jake Oh stops WM, and warns him that the container is rigged to explode if anyone tries to break in. Jake's medics have squirted aerosol medication into the box, which should help the prisoner. The guards have run away, but Jacobs has broken into Eaglestar's database and got their names and vicious records. WM is about to send anti-personnel missiles after them all, but Glenda calls from inside the box and demands he capture them for prosecution. So instead he launches a missile that temporarily blinds them, including Harmon who has joined them.The scene now shifts to Avengers Tower, where we find that Norman Osborn wanted Rhodes to kill Harmon. His assistant Victoria Hand initiates Plan B, and Ares of the Dark Avengers dives out of a helicopter.


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This issue has a couple of flashbacks to James Rhodes acting as a consulting pilot to the military in Dubai. A suicide bomber gains access to the base, followed by more terrorists. Rhodey gets his limbs blown off and the rest of him is in bad shape too. This leads in to the flashback in #1 where Tony Stark gave him his present cyborg body.In the present War Machine is invading Mackelroy army base on the trail of the source of the Ultimo virus he fought in #1-5. He's been careful only to hit hardware (specifically disabling all transport) rather than soldiers. He breaks into the R&D facility looking for evidence, and finds the giant head of the Ultimo robot, which attacks him with its eye-beams.In Avengers Tower Norman Osborn and Victoria Hand are watching the events unfurl. HAMMER can't bomb the place because War Machine's crew are doing something to disrupt attempts to target the area. The nearest Initiative team, the Desert Stars, are busy chasing Tyrannus. Jason Strongbow (American Eagle) has followed War Machine out of last issue and out of the Navajo reservation. But Osborn can't rely on him after their last encounter.Osborn wants Strongbow to arrest Rhodes. He tries threats and he tries bribes. But Jason tells him War Machine isn't the problem. The Ultimo head is attacking the base personnel.Jim uses his armour's ability to appropriate and incorporate any chunks of technology to build a large robot that War Machine can sit inside and control. So its big robot vs giant robot head.American Eagle lends a hand by leaping onto the head and stabbing a large piece of metal into the edge of one of its eyes. War Machine uses that to gouge the eye out and attaches it to his own robot. One blast from its own eye-beam clobbers the Ultimo head, and splits it open.War Machine exits his big robot and enters the defeated head. Inside he finds technicians headed by Dr Phillip Prometheus, who developed the Ultimo virus. Prometheus tells him that Ultimo's brain is elsewhere, and he doesn't know where. Suzi Endo of WM's team accesses the base's computers and finds that the alien robot's CPU has been split and stored in 3 separate locations.War Machine heads to 1 target, while Suzi contacts 2 more team members Bethany Cabe and Jake Oh in a plane circling over Kansas. They will put on other War Machine suits to take the other 2 targets. Rhodey's destination is a Stark facility in Plano Texas, where someone who might be Tony Stark recognises Jim and seems to be involved in the Ultimo tech.


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Chapter Four: The Stand at the Black Bridge
In Alfheim the survivors of the War
including the Queen and Sir Ivory Honeyshot see that Black Bifrost
open and a figure emerge: it is Frank Castle, the Punisher, come to
bring them to the battle....
In Asgardia the Dark Elf saboteurs wait
for reinforcements that never come, leaving the All-Mother
Jane Foster, Daredevil, and Heimdall at a loss....
In Svartalfheim, Freyja, armed with and
empowered by the sword known as the Bitterblade, holds the Black
Bifrost while her companions are dispatched to the other realms to
gather allies: She-Hulk to the Dwarves of Nidavellir, Blade to the
Vanir of Vanaheim, Ghost Rider to the giant spiders of Niffleheim....
In Jotunheim, Captain America,
Wolverine, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist return with the
rescued Thor to Avengers Mountain where Black Panther and Thori lead
the defense against the invaders. Shuri, in control of the dead
Celestial, unleashes its power and the results are devastating.
Meanwhile, Odin, learning that Freyja has been left alone in
Svartalfheim, demands to be sent to join her....
All around Midgard, the heroes are
fighting Malekith's forces: in China it's Captain Marvel, Silk, and
Shang-Chi. Roz Solomon leads the Agents of Wakanda against the Frost
Giants destroying New York. But Malekith is at Stonehenge, twisting
Venom to his own wicked purposes....
Malekith goes to Svartalfheim and
spears Freyja though the torso with a distorted Venom; as he crows,
Odin arrives, wearing the armor designed for him by Tony Stark. The
estranged couple reconcile in battle and both give their lives to
destroy the Black Bifrost....
As the new forces assemble, Jane
prepares to send them into battle...and the army's leader steps
forward: the Mighty Thor.....


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Chapter Six: The Storm of Thors
Thor suffers on the burning World Tree
at the heart of the Sun and is forced to give up the last fragment of
Mjolnir but once he does, the answer of how to defeat Malekith comes
to him....
King Thor is summoned from the far
future (as read about in the history books by the Goddesses of Thunder)
to go back and aid Modern Thor (who has sacrificed an eye to
gain his wisdom) and Young Thor in the bid to defeat the villain: if
only Thor can save the day, they can get more Thors. Jane Thor also
arrives bearing the damaged hammer of the War Thor and the four of
them head into battle as a storm of Thors....
In New York a band of heroes is facing
the only one of Malekith's allies still standing: Laufey, king of the
Frost Giants; he bears the Casket of Ancient Winters and swallows it
and is now able to blow his enemies away in a massive blizzard.
Daredevil, the God without Fear, stands to face him....
The Thors arrive at Stonehenge to face
Malekith who is empowered by the Venom symbiote and he bears the
Venom Blade; the quartet of heroes divides up how they are going to
defeat the enemy forces and the final battle is on....
Daredevil hurls Heimdall's sword at
Laufey and the giant swallows it with a sneer. The other heroes see a
third, massive storm coming from the sun....
As Odin and Freyja are freed from their
bonds, Thor (the usual one) takes on Malekith who wields the Black
Hammer of the Accursed and responds with his fists and the God
Tempest and the result is...Mjolnir returns. Thor is once again
worthy and he smashes Malekith into the ground with a single blow.
Jane Thor hurls her broken hammer all the way to Manhattan where it
strikes Laufey in the head. And then Loki uses Heimdall's sword to
cut his way out of his father's gullet, bearing the Casket. Back at
Stonehenge, Young Thor lops off one of Malekith's arms; the villain
summons his Wild Hunt to destroy his enemies but they smell his fear
and the dogs (plus a winged white tiger) tear Malekith to pieces....
The War of the Realms is over, there is
rejoicing, Punisher goes back to his war, Venom lopes off into the
night, the War Hammer returns to Jane Foster and causes a different
change, Young Thor and King Thor go out for some craft beer, with
Laufey dead, Loki is the King of the Frost Giants, the Ten Realms
begin to rebuild, and Odin...Odin kneels before Thor and declares him
All-Father Thor....


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Chapter Three: the Quest for Thor
At Avengers Mountain, Freyja takes on
the task of leading a party to destroy Malekith's Black Bifrost, so
she asks Captain America to lead a team to rescue Thor in
Jotunheim....
In Asgard, Heimdall endows Daredevil
with his own powers and with a new Guardian, the Rainbow Bridge is
active once more. Jane Foster, the New All-Mother, advises them all
to prepare to defend the bridge from enemy attacks....
Captain America leads a team
(Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage, Iron Fist) into Jotunheim in
search of Thor; they are attacked by Frost Giant archers and fight
back....
Freyja's party (Punisher, Blade,
She-Hulk, Ghost Rider) arrive in Svartalfheim, disguised as Dark
Elves (plus a big green troll and a Fire Goblin). Their cover is
quickly blown so they drop their costumes and jump aboard GR's car
and head for the Black Bifrost....
In London, Malekith has defeated the
defenders, including Union Jack, Spitfire, and Black Knight and
claimed the latter's sword, the Ebony Blade, as his prize. But more
heroes arrive: Captain Marvel, Captain Britain, Sif, Venom,
Winter Soldier, Deadpool, and Weapon H....
Malekith's Dark Elves arrive in Asgard
to destroy the real Bifrost. Tony Stark and Shuri are in the bowels
of Avengers Mountain, aiding Screwbeard in building weapons as Black
Panther coordinates the defense of the Arctic base. Roz Solomon leads
the Agents of Wakanda in fighting Roxxon for possession of
Antarctica. Sub-Mariner battles invading fire sharks in Atlantis.
Ulik the troll claims Australia. Enchantress raises an army of the
dead to conquer South America. In Wakanda, the Dora Milaje fight the
Angels. The Fantastic Four are the last defenders of Manhattan....
In Jotunheim, Cap's team hears Thor's
screams and hurries to his aid....
Svartalfheim: Freyja's party sets
She-Hulk to wrecking the enemy's bridge....
London: Malekith kills Venom with the
Ebony Blade....
Asgard: Daredevil, overwhelmed with the
sounds from the entire Ten Realms, is distracted long enough for a
Dark Elf suicide bomber to destroy the Rainbow Bridge....
Freyja learns that Bifrost has been
destroyed and so changes their mission: hold the Black Bifrost or all
of the heroes will be trapped in other realms....
Cap's team comes upon a massive number
of dead giants and, in the center, is Thor, mad with the berserker's
blood lust, lashing out on all sides....


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Chapter Two: The Midgard Massacre
The War of the Realms has come to
Manhattan! Jane Foster oversees refugees flooding into Dr Strange's
Sanctum Sanctorum which can accommodate a couple million people.
Wolverine and the Punisher team up to clear the streets of Dark
Elves. Captain America is evacuating buildings, pausing briefly to
take down Frost Giants. Iron Man and Black Panther want to teleport
people to Avengers Mountain but all networks are down, thanks to
Dario Agger of Roxxon. Doctor Strange is unable to work his magic
because Malekith has the War Witches casting an anti-magic blanket
over the city. Freyja is battling the Queen of Heven while Spider-Man
is annoying Sindr Queen of Muspelheim, with wisecracks. She-Hulk and
Ulik are punching each other as Enchantress faces off with
Ghost Rider—until a Viking ship lands on her and Jane Foster disembarks.
And then the War Horn of Asgard sounds...
…and Odin arrives on horseback,
leading the Valkyries and mowing down the enemy. Jane hitches a ride
with Brunnhilde (the famous Valkyrie) and asks to be taken to
Malekith; here's where Brun learns that Jane was the female Thor. As
Freyja tells Odin that Loki is dead, eaten by his father Laufey, the
Giant King smashes Odin from behind. Jane and Blade kill the War
Witches, lifting the ban on magic so Dr. Strange is able to teleport
the wounded to safety—but his spell is out of control so all of the
heroes are sent to Avengers Mountain. Realizing they have lost the
battle the heroes make alternate plans: Freyja is going to Jotunheim
to rescue Thor. Odin plans to shut down Malekith's Black Bifrost. Sif
and Black Panther want to send the Agents of Wakanda to take on
Roxxon. Captain Marvel intends to fight in the trenches with her own
army including Luke Cage and Iron Fist. Daredevil wants to see to the
blinded Heimdall. Freyja names Jane Foster All-Mother in her absence.
They watch the television screen as reports come in of invasions all
over the world and they see the Valkyries cut down by the enemy with
Brunnhilde, the last one, being stabbed in the back by Malekith and
beheaded....


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Chapter Five: The World Tree is Burning
Daredevil, the God Without Fear, takes
Thor out to the sun where they find the World Tree growing; the
Thunder God is to be nailed to the tree so that he discovers wisdom,
the wisdom he needs to defeat Malekith, as his father Odin once
did....
Earlier:
In Wakanda, Black Panther, Okoye and
the Dora Milaje, backed up by Angela, Sif, Hidegarde, and Punisher
leading the Light Elves who are packing automatic weapons, take on
the Angels of Heven....
Montevideo, Uruguay: Amora the
Enchantress has raised the dead to fight for her but Ghost Rider with
Doctor Strange and Balder the Brave driving Hell Charger and Spider-Man
leading the Spiders of Hel fight back....
In Australia, She-Hulk and Ulik are
trading punches, backed by Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and
Deadpool against the trolls....
In Antarctica, the Vanir, joined by
Ka-Zar, Blade, and Gorilla-Man (with the Agents of Wakanda) invade
Roxxon HQ versus the BERSERKER Squad, as Jane Foster and Roz Solomon
take on Dario Agger, the Minotaur....
Heimdall hears the screams of agony
Thor lets loose on the World Tree....
Shanghai: Captain Marvel versus Sindr
Queen of Ashes as Wolverine joins Hogun and Fandral to complete the
new Warriors Three....
Volvograd has the Light Elves teaming
with the Winter Guard....
In the Sinai Desert, Hercules and Moon
Knight battle the forces of Hel....
In Manhattan, Iron Man leads War
Machine Dwarves against the Frost Giants, as the Fantastic Four takes
on their King Laufey....
In London, Captain Britain is joined by
Captain America and Thori with the Destroyer, powered by Volstagg,
punching out Kurse....
But what of Malekith? He is in a
magically-protected Stonehenge, with Odin and Freyja prisoners...as
Thor suffers on the tree, Jane Foster decides that there is a need
for another Thor...and she picks up War Thor's hammer and
transforms....


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Chapter One: The Last Realm Standing
Odin sits brooding in the ruins of
Asgard when Malekith's assassins arrive; he fights but he is
overwhelmed by their numbers and falls....
Thor stands on the deck of his boat
accompanied by his hell-hound Thori when a critically wounded Loki
lands before him. Malekith's assassins arrive and Thor quickly
hammers his way through them and demands Loki take him to Malekith
(though Thori is suspicious of the wounded man's identity). Arriving
in Jotunheim, “Loki” reveals that he is really Malekith and Thor
is surrounded by an army of Frost Giants. The God of Thunder starts
fighting....
In New York, Spider-Man is swinging
through the night when his Spider-Sense alerts him to danger: he
joins the Lady Freyja fighting off Malekith's assassins and together
they defeats the killers. Sif, Hildegarde, and Jane Foster arrive at
this point and Freyja tells them all that the final battle of the War
of the Realms will be fought on Earth....
Heroes across the city (Doctor Strange,
Daredevil, Wolverine, Punisher) are suddenly aware that something is
about to happen  and then the Black Bifrost disgorges the forces of
evil into the streets of Manhattan:  Dark Elves, Frost Giants, Fire
Goblins, Trolls, Angels and more, wreaking havoc. Punisher and
Daredevil throw themselves into the fray and then Captain Marvel and
Iron Man arrive then Black Panther leading the Avengers:
Captain America, She-Hulk, Blade, Ghost Rider, and Thori (“the dog is new”
says Cap). Spidey and the Asgardian women join in; Cap tells Freyja
they can't find Thor, Freyja knows he is in the clutches of Malekith.
And with that, the Dark Elf Lord arrives with the new Lords of
Midgard: Enchantress, Dario Agger, Ulik, Laufey, and the Queen of
Heven. Cap smashes Malekith in the face with his shield and calls
“Avengers assemble!” Laufey snatches up Freyja  preparing to
crush her when the real Loki appears, slicing off his father's hand
with a huge sword. Loki tells his mother that Thor is trapped in
Jotunheim and when she asks why she should trust Loki, he responds
“Because of this” and stands still as Laufey seizes him—and
eats him. And now the heroes are wondering, “Where is Thor?”
And Thor is in Jotunheim taking on an
endless mob of giants and shouting defiance at Malekith....


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God and the Devil Walk into a Church
Heimdall finds Daredevil brooding over
the power he had as the God without Fear and wanting to hold onto the
sword for just a little longer. Heimdall praises his performance as a
god though DD is skeptical. He wishes he could have retained the
omniscience so as to see how everything turned out after the war.
Heimdall raises the sword and offers to take DD to have a look
together....
“The Job I Have to Do”
Writer: Al Ewing & Jason Aaron.
Art: Cafu. Colors: Jesus Aburtov. Letters: Joe Sabino.
Synopsis: Dr. Jane Foster visits the
morgue where the bodies of the slaughtered Valkyries lie. Her friend
Lisa Halloran looks in on her and Jane shows her the bracelet that
was the War Thor's hammer that shattered and became a part of her.
Thor enters on his mission to bear his people to their rest but there
is no more Valhalla; Jane realizes that Thor is despondent over
having lost his faith as well as his friends. The spirit of
Brunnhilde rises and asks Jane if she would accept the task of taking
their place; Jane agrees and is transformed into a new Valkyrie....

“Born Small”
Writer: Daniel Kibblesmith. Art: Oscar
Bazadula. Colors: David Curiel. Letters: Clayton Cowles.
Synopsis: In  Jotunheim, a band of
Frost Giants grouse about Loki becoming their new king. They chase
the mischievous dwarf Frost Giant Drrf and they encounter Loki. The
God of Mischief befriends the tiny giant, warning him that some
people can't tell fun from mischief. The other giants arrive and
though they recognize Loki as their king they demand to punish Drrf.
Loki casts a spell to protect them but Drrf, a pacifist, interferes
with the result that Drrf is transformed into  the largest of the
Frost Giants. The others depart and Drrf returns to his normal size
and becomes Loki's right-hand man....
“War Orphans”
Writer: Gerry Duggan. Art: Juan
Ferreyra. Colors: Juan Ferreyra. Letters: Cory Petit.
Synopsis: In the ruins of New York,
Punisher comes upon a group of people looting a supermarket; he tells
them to put it all back and uses a flamethrower to roast a dead giant
for them. Moving on he faces a giant hound and calmly blows its head
off. He finds a bunch of Asgardians drinking in a bar and shoots a
glass out of one reveler's hand. Thor arrives and tells the guys that
the time for feasting is not yet, the dead must be buried first. Thor
offers help to Frank but he heads off to a meeting at dawn. In a
cemetery he meets a man named Jones and tells him that the monster
who killed his wife and child got away but he will continue to hunt
it down. Jones introduces him to a band of orphans whose families
were killed by monsters—and Frank is a monster hunter....
Epilogue: Having shown Daredevil the
war's aftermath, Heimdall presents him with a pair of fighting sticks
carved from Yggdrasil to remind him that he was once the God without
Fear. They hear a cry for help from a mugging victim not far away and
they act together for Midgard....


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New York has fallen to Malekith's forces and the Avengers and others have retreated to Avengers Mountain (a dead Celestial's body in the Arctic).Asgardian Freyja is talking to Punisher, on a recommendation from Captain America who said he's a man who can make the hard choices and do what it takes to win. A man who can resist the Dark Elf's corruption. Frank Castle says he'll shoot whoever she tells him to, but Malekith is an Asgardian problem and *she* will have to decide what is necessary. She's recruiting a group to destroy Malekith's Black Bifrost that he uses to transport troops between the 10 Realms, and she wants Frank to recommend some others like him. Castle says he can give her names but *she*'ll have to convince them.He mentions various people for various qualities:- She-Hulk for justice, Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes) for vengeance, and Blade for anger. Freyja asks him if he represents punishment. He says no, truth.Freyja gathers her 4 warriors together. She tells them that they will enter Svartalfheim, the Realm of the Dark Elves to destroy the Black Bifrost. They will have to fight their way through a horde of Dark Elves. They will risk their souls as well as their lives to protect the 10 Realms. Jennifer Walters asks what chance they have of succeeding. Freyja says a warrior's chance. GR asks if the enemy deserve to suffer - she says yes. Blade suggests they're being asked to clean up Freyja's own mess, which she admits. Punisher just wants to know if bullets will kill Dark Elves. Another yes.Shulk asks for a private confab with the other 3. She asks fellow-Avenger Robbie if it hurts being on fire - he says yes but he's dealing with it. She asks the newer Avenger Blade if she can trust him - he says she isn't a vampire so yes. She asks Punisher why he deserves to play hero - he tells her to MYOB. Then they all 4 say they're in.But Freyja says she needs proof that they're up to the job. She wants them to fight *her*. And she strikes 1st by plunging them into their worst nightmares. Jennifer Walters faces her cousin the Hulk who claims she considers herself better than him because she never gave in to her dark side. He attacks her and she fights back as She-Hulk, brutally, but is losing. Ghost Rider meets the Johnny Blaze version possessed by Zarathos who claims he's an imposter. Our GR also fights back, but the contest is equal. Blade finds a future version of himself who has accepted his vampire nature and now rules his kind. They too fight.We don't see Punisher's trial except that he's shot the other 3 dead, and feels bad about it. But now he's waiting for them to realise that their tests aren't real. Which they do, but conquer them anyway. Freyja compliments them on overcoming the fears that the Black Bifrost would have fed off. Then she lets them attack *her*, and they win.Freyja then takes Frank Castle aside for a private conversation. She asks him how he does what he does and not become what he hates. She says she has premonitions of the future and foresees that in order to succeed she will have to allow herself to be changed. (We see her apparently leading Dark Elf warriors.) Frank tells her how he slaughtered his way into a drug lord's house to rescue a captive little girl. But she was frightened of him and he had to carry her struggling out of the place. But that was a price he accepted for being the fearsome warrior he was.Hours later the team has reached Black Bifrost over the dead bodies of Dark Elves. But Freyja has just learned that the Asgardian Bifrost has been destroyed, so the plan has changed. They now need to defend *this* Bifrost so that their *own* troops can use it. She wants the others to go fight elsewhere and she will hold the Bridge alone. 3 of them say they want to stay with her, but Punisher tells them Freyja knows what must be done. As more Dark Elves attack.


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Spider-Man (Peter Parker) is sitting atop Avengers Mountain remembering Malekith's forces invading New York. Now the heroes and surviving inhabitants have been transported here (by Dr Strange's spell in War Of the Realms #2) leaving the Valkyries to die in defence of the city. Captain America follows him up there on a Valkyrie's flying horse. Some of *them* have survived and have come to offer their services. Cap also has Thor's old axe Jarnbjorn. Spidey begs a ride down on the horse just for the thrill of it.Cap adds SM to the team he has assembled:- Iron Fist, Luke Cage and Wolverine. They are going to Jotunheim to rescue Thor from the Frost Giants (Malekith took him there in WOTR#1). He takes them to the Asgardian armoury to choose weapons. Danny Rand picks the Twin Swords Of Sprague feared by all in Jotunheim. Luke takes the Hammer Of Rok which cracks giants like eggs. Logan just sticks with his claws. Cap gives Spidey a shield, and Wolvie gives him what he calls a magic helm.CA calls out to Daredevil in Asgard. Now that he has the powers of Heimdall (bestowed him in WOTR#3) he can hear everything everywhere. And he has control of the rebuilt Rainbow Bridge Bifrost which he uses to send the warriors and their flying steeds to Jotunheim, the Land Of Giants.Cap brought Wolverine along to track Thor but he turns out to be redundant. They just follow a river of blood. Suddenly a giant arrow pierces Cage's horse and he falls off. Spidey's horse rears and throws him but a swift swing on a web line gets him back in the saddle. Logan drives his horse down to the Frost Giant archers but his steed too is killed. But then he, Cap and Luke get revenge with adamantium claws, hurled axe and mighty hammer. Spider-Man defends his horse with his shield and then swings down to smash it into the Giant's nose. The Frost Giants *do* recognise the Asgardian weapons of Iron Fist and Luke Cage, and back off in fear. Peter interrupts Logan's slashing to ask what's magic about his helmet. Wolvie says as far as he knows nothing, he just picked the most ridiculous 1 he could see.Eventually the Giants are all dead, but so are all the horses except Peter's. She lowers her forelegs and bows to her fallen comrades. The humans wonder if they should bow too. Logan tells them they should and they follow his example. Peter asks if they are going to leave the dead horses here, and his horse answers "No". She tells him that all horses can talk but Peter is the only human who can converse with them. She thinks it's his magic helmet. She tells him she is Queen Arctorius. She assures him they entered the battle willingly and died like warriors.Their conversation is interrupted when they all hear Thor screaming in rage. The Queen tells Peter the humans should continue their quest. She will stay to speak the last words for her companions.The 5 find the Thunder God with a broken hammer and his prosthetic metal arm missing. He stands atop a hill of dead Giants demanding more to kill. Wolverine recognises a berserker rage. Thor gets his wish and the team get ready to stand at his side. Arctorius joins them to carry Spider-Man into battle once more. There are lots of little action scenes, including Cage doing the fastball special with Wolverine.But in the end there are no more Frost Giants to kill, and Thor's rage subsides. But Arctorius is dying too. Logan hands Peter the helmet, and the horse Queen asks him to take her home and bury her in the air where she belongs. They do, and they bury her in the snow atop Avengers Mountain with the helmet as a grave marker. And the humans bow to her.


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Deadpool is fighting Fire-Sharks from Muspelheim and doing badly until he escapes by diving off a cliff into the Pacific Ocean. Unfortunately it turns out that these sharks work underwater too and 1 swallows him. Next thing he knows he's been rescued from the belly of the beast by the Sub-Mariner who wants to know what's going on. DP gives him a very potted summary of War Of The Realms, and Namor wants to know why he brought the war into *his* realm. Outside a big window we see his team the Defenders Of the Deep fighting off the sharks.Then Captain Marvel and Sif arrive and help them win the battle. (Sif later says that the cold made the Fire-Sharks weaker.) Afterwards they enter the air-filled room to propose a truce in Prince Namor's war against the surface world, but Subby refuses to help fight Malekith's armies. Deadpool joins CM's team.They return to Avengers Mountain where Carol Danvers says she's in charge of Earth's defences while Captain America and Freyja are leading away teams. Wade Wilson notices Sif moving a piece on a mapboard, but Weapon H looms out of the shadows to say it's just a boardgame to pass the time. They are joined by the Venom symbiote (currently without a host). Captain Marvel explains that their job isn't to defeat the enemy, merely to hold the line until the other teams can make a difference.2 more of the team, Black Widow and Winter Soldier, are infiltrating a Stane International facility in Arizona to 'borrow' some weaponry. They take a warplane and load it up with stuff. But before they're finished a Frost Giant smashes through the roof to get at them. Bucky Barnes throws a grenade which takes off a Giant hand, and then Natasha Romanoff flies them out but into Frostie's other hand.Then CM  and a quinjet piloted by Sif blast the Giant. Venom and Weapon H drop out of the craft onto some other approaching Frost Giants. WH uses his combined Hulk and Wolverine abilities to smash and slash the foe. And the symbiote's malleable form resists injury and can morph into sharp weapons. All our gang get away in their flying craft.Later they fight Dark Elves in Sweden. Black Widow and Deadpool are in robot suits (from Stane?) which don't last very long. Sif's flying cycle gets gutted too by a swamp mammoth's tusk, so she cuts the beast in half. Captain Marvel and Winter Soldier are there too. The 5 of them are about to be overwhelmed by Elves when Carol calls up Captain Britain to provide a portal to get them out.Their refuge is the Braddock Academy in England which Brian Braddock is magically keeping safe from the invasion. He tells them that Black Knight and friends are at this moment fighting Malekith himself in London. CM decides to go there to try to end the war by killing the enemy's leader. CB agrees to go with them. They link up with Venom and Weapon H and the quinjet (but Black Widow seems to stay behind?)BK, Spitfire and Union Jack are battling Dark Elves in a pub. Malekith and Kurse enter on a mammoth. By the time the War Avengers get there the trio are down and Malekith has the Knight's cursed Ebony Blade. Kurse holds Captain Marvel off while the big M dodges Weapon H and Winter Soldier. Everyone has to fight Elves but Venom bulls its way through to Malekith himself. However the Dark Elf is fascinated to learn about the Klyntar symbiote's creator Knull and his Necrosword, the original Klyntar symbiote named All-Black. He stabs Venom with the Ebony Blade, and when the smoke clears only the Blade remains. (But Malekith isn't dead and the result will be seen in WOTR#4.)Captain Britain presumably returns to the Academy while the 5 remaining War Avengers return to the Mountain in dismay. We see more of the ongoing conflict. The Fantastic Four continue to fight Frost Giants in Manhattan. Deadpool teams up with CB again to battle Rock Trolls(?). Black Widow and Sif slay Hel-Spiders. Weapon H and Winter Soldier face Enchantress in South America. The quinjet goes up against Angels from Heven, and everybody gathers to confront Sindr, daughter of Surtur.


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Chapter 3: Overseers of the community
The team are still on a road-trip in Wonder Man (Simon Williams)' RV to keep baby Laussa Odinsdottir out of the clutches of the agents of Sindr, daughter of Surtur. To keep the kid amused Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Sebastian Druid create action figures of themselves (from old Wonder Man figures?) and stage a fight. Meanwhile Miles gets Druid to explain his coat which seems to have infinite pockets from which he can produce a wide variety of magic items. He says that after his Secret Warriors gig he'd been given the task of cataloguing all the magic artefacts SHIELD had accumulated, including a Shadow Cloak which could create a portal to other dimensions. When SHIELD fell apart he appropriated the Cloak and hid all the other items within it. He was also able to turn it into a coat.Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) is still the only 1 who can drive the RV. Death Locket (Becca Ryker) suggests a pit stop because Thori the Asgardian dog looks like he needs a bathroom break. Indignant Thori says he can ask for his own break, but then whispers to Kate that he does need 1. So she pulls over into what turns out to be a disused Western theme town called Six-Gun Territory. Simon and Becca take Laussa for a stroll and to search the town for ghosts. Miles and Thori go for a walk, though there's some confusion over who needs a leash.Meanwhile at their last stop, the Bide-A-Wee RV campground, Ares is 'interrogating' the Skrulls who live there. He was sent after our heroes by Sindr, and wants to know where they went. The Skrulls claim not to know who he's talking about. (This may be an effect Laussa had on them last issue. Either she inspired great loyalty in them, or she made them forget our pals had been there.) Ares also wants to know why there are only 4 Skrulls here when there should be lots more. The last remaining Skrull wants to know how he knows that. Ares enigmatically replies that "She told me you would say that."In Six-Gun Territory Wonder Man and Death Locket are arguing about Western movies. Simon only likes modern ones while Becca dotes on old classics. In #1 we saw that Becca lives with a group of SHIELD LMDs. The Dum Dum Dugan LMD has a collection of old Westerns in his data file which kick-started her obsession. (She implies that this LMD is the 1 that used to *be* Dugan when he was alive in the 40's and 50's.) However they don't notice a 'body' in a coffin being taken over by a spirit.Thori is trying to catch up with the the above 2 and Laussa, with Miles running behind him. Miles asks why Thori refers to Laussa as the 'demon child'. But they are interrupted by a cowboy on a white horse. The man is dressed all in white, including a cape and facemask. (This is actually the spirit that manifested in the 'dead body'.)Kate Bishop finds the Asgardian Balder practising sword strikes in a barn. We are reminded again that he died and was much later resurrected (Thor (2018) #4). He comments now that his resurrection cost the life of his love (Karnilla). Kate wants to know if he minds her acting as leader of the troop he recruited. Balder says he has been a leader in Asgard and in Hel (when he was dead), and he wasn't any good at it. That settled, Kate asks him to teach her some sword moves. But another ghostly figure is watching *them*.Sebastian is practising cowboy-speak in front of a saloon bar mirror when 3 more ghosts come out of the glass and ask him where the demon is.Thori and Miles discover that they can't touch the white ghost but the bullets from his ghost guns seem real enough. Spidey thinks he must be Ghost Rider because he's a ghost on a horse, but Thori thinks that name belongs to somebody else. However Balder proves capable of kicking the foe to effect, and Kate thinks that's because Balder's been dead himself. Then Hawkeye almost gets hit by an arrow. The ghost who was watching her and Balder is a Native American female with a bow.In the saloon Druid threatens his 3 ghosts with a shotgun he claims belonged to Ulysses Bloodstone, which theoretically can kill supernatural beings. But nothing happens when he pulls the trigger.Back outside Kate uses her archery knowledge to keep dodging arrows and saves Miles and Thori too. Then then ghost hurls a throwing axe which phases through Spidey's reaching hand but seems to embed itself in Thori's haunch.Becca and Simon (carrying Laussa) run up, and Becca reveals her knowledge of (Marvel) real Western characters as well as movie ones. She identifies the Indian woman as the Apache Kid and the mounted ghost as Phantom Rider. But suddenly there are more Western ghosts attacking them. The magic bow Druid gave Kate last issue holds off a spectral Samurai sword and Balder can still punch ghosts in the face, but no-one else has any effect on them. But the ghosts keep trying to say something which no-one can understand.Then gunshots ring out and halt the fray. Druid has arrived with *his* 3 ghosts who Becca recognises as Rawhide Kid, Kid Cassidy and Reno Jones. Sebastian says apparently his abilities include understanding ghost-speak, and all these ghosts are here looking for a powerful demon. Thori says that's what he's been trying to tell them - Laussa is related to Sindr as well as being Asgardian. And we now see the baby with horns and a tail and fiery eyes.