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The nanosecond the Earth stood still
This issue begins near the end of the Ultraforce/Avengers 1-shot where Black Knight plunges an Ebony Blade into the cosmic being Nemesis, created from the 6 Infinity Gems plus a 7th, who was planning to replace the Ultraverse and the Marvel Universe with a creation of her own. His blow split her into the 7 Gems again.Now for the 1st time the 7th Gem is given the name Ego Gem, because it provided the consciousness for the combination. But now we learn that the Mind, Power, Soul and Space Gems have taken the Ego Gem's consciousness and split it between them. And we see them take on bodies for nefarious purposes (which we will never know about).Meanwhile the Reality and Time Gems have fled separately to Ultra-Earth for safety.The Reality Gem finds the feral Amber Hunt and bonds with her to restore her mind. It now blames the destruction of Nemesis on it and the Time Gem rebelling against the others. But the release of all the Nemesis energy has created a totally unstable result where realities get created then destroyed to make way for the next 1. As if to prove its point a volcano appears before her where there wasn't 1 before. It explains that it is keeping *her* constant while everything else changes. But they need to find the Time Gem to stop the madness. Amber agrees to work with the Gem until the crisis is over.But we transition to a seemingly stable reality in New Los Angeles, ruled by Warstrike and his paramour Necromantra. (This is a dystopian future that his precog Ultrapower predicted in Godwheel #3, which prompted him to abandon his Warstrike identity.) We see teen Jimmy Ruiz (Prototype in the old Ultraverse reality) brought for execution for being an ally of the rebel Shuriken. But Ruiz unleashes his Ultrapower. However NM protects herself and WS with a mystic forcefield, and the only deaths are Ruiz and his guards. Next Brandon Tark beats up Lord Pumpkin (who appears powerless here) while his friend Nicholas Lone (Solitaire in the old reality) disapproves. Then his daughter Jamie Tark (dead in the old reality) runs in to say that the dangerous flaming woman she dreamed about is almost here.Amber Hunt, back in her costume and flying surrounded by sparkling energy, approaches a dome over LA which the RG says the TG must have created to protect the area from the chaos outside. She passes into the dome but immediately falls to the ground in flames. Mastodon and someone else see this and recognise the prophesied flaming woman. War Eagle turns up to fly her to the castle. He delivers her to Warstrike (where we see Blind Faith and Casino in attendance) in a cage on wheels. Jamie's dream has come true and WS now wonders if she's inherited his precognitive power. But he orders his men to find and destroy the rebels and sends Slayer to find a way to kill the woman.Nicholas leads Dirt Devil, Outrage and others on the search and they run into Sludge who kills DD. Rebels attack. Waver kills kills Outrage, and Ripfire, Choice, Sweetface and Flygirl take care of the others. Shuriken tells them to leave Lone for her, and it turns out he's their spy in Warstrike's court. Nicholas tells them about the flaming woman. Shuriken leads him to others including Arena.Lone returns to the castle where Tark is giving a stirring speech to the masses and showing them the flaming woman now chained on the executioner's block. Meanwhile Generator X, Iron Clad and Pistol are on patrol when they are killed by Arena, Tooth and Yrial. Having lost the element of surprise the 2 sides meet in battle, Warstrike's forces headed by Foxfire and Quixote. Arena and Tugun kill each other. Rebels Boomboy and Cayman kill Planet Class. In the castle the executioner turns out to be Shuriken using Anything as a disguise. Solitaire attacks Warstrike and Anything fights Blind Faith. Shuriken  intends to free the flaming woman but she has to go through Necromantra. Which she does with a shuriken through the eye accompanied by an Aerwan 'destroy magic' spell (spoken by Aera?).Lone and Tark are still fighting with blows and words when Jamie blasts Solitaire to save her father. Shuriken finds him aged and weak because the girl blasted him with her Time Gem. She admits to Brandon that it was the Gem that told her about the flaming woman. Then freed Amber Hunt interrupts and tells them that their world isn't real, and that she must unite the Time Gem with her Reality Gem to save all realities. Amazingly she persuades them and leaves the dome with both Gems.The Gems take her to Nemesis who they have frozen in the nanosecond after the 7 Gems were split. We only see the other 4 Gems which have absorbed the Ego Gem because the Time Gem had already moved itself and the Reality Gem out of that nanosecond to avoid a paradox. Nemesis' body is starting to emit the waves of energy that keep rewriting the universe. Unfortunately they can't stop the 1st wave which was emitted even as the Gems split up, so the changes wrought by that are fixed. But they can stop the rest of the waves.We see images from the 7 infinity issues which start off the 7 titles in the new Ultraverse:- Volume 2's of Mantra (Lauren Sherwood becomes the new Mantra), Night Man (where 1 of the 2 NM copies gets sent to Marvel Earth), Prime (the 1st wave already dumped Prime on Marvel Earth where he fought Hulk in Prime Vs Hulk #0, but here he becomes Spider-Prime and returns to Ultra-Earth), Rune (Adam Warlock is reborn in the Ultraverse) and Ultraforce (the new UF and the 'unreal' UF from the UF/Avengers 1-shot share an adventure). Plus new series All-New Exiles (Amber Hunt teams up with Shuriken and Warstrike plus Marvel mutants Juggernaut, Reaper and Siena Blaze) and Siren (who winds up on Marvel Earth).Then the Reality and Time Gems release Nemesis from the frozen nanosecond and Amber Hunt has to absorb all the energy that would have created the succeeding waves of reality. Then she releases it all as 'harmless' energy ... and finds herself back in her feral state.


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Right to a Life: Part 2
In Alabama, Natasha Romanova, the retired Black Widow, and
her partner, private eye Phil Dexter attend the funeral of the women’s activist
killed at a protest. There is a military man in uniform at the graveside;
Natasha tells Phil to follow him while Nat, pretending to be a friend of the
deceased, talks to another attendee….
Later, they compare notes. Natasha has learned that Stacy
Matheson/Stefanya Melnikova was three months pregnant while Phil has discovered
the military guy is Sgt. William Forester, Special Ops….
That night, Nat and Phil break into Stacy’s apartment and
discover a secret compartment containing a large cache of money (some of which
Phil takes) and a letter from her Soviet handler asking her to return to the
USSR, which she clearly ignored. In her bathroom they find painkillers and a
drug called Medusagen. Nat contacts Sgt. Forester and imitates Stacy’s voice,
asking him to come to her house….
In New Mexico, the North Institute operatives, Max Hunter
and Kestrel are on the trail of Natasha and Phil. They get a call informing
them of the situation in Alabama and give orders to deal with Forester and
anyone else he may have spoken to….
Forster arrives at Stacy’s home and is captured by Natasha
and Phil. He explains he is the father of Stacy’s child and he bought her the
painkillers but doesn’t know what Medusagen is. ATF Agents then open fire on
the house, killing Forester. Nat and Phil escape through the back, fight some agents
in the woods and make it to the getaway car. And then they discover that Nat
has been shot in the abdomen….


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Tony Stark is working on his Iron Man armour when he hears on the News that Black Widow has been disowned by SHIELD. And info has been leaked concerning acts of espionage she did for Russia before she defected to the West. Which includes that she was involved in the abduction of Prof Ho Yinsen, the scientist who died (Tales of Suspense #39) so that Stark could complete the 1st Iron Man suit and escape from terrorists.He immediately armours up and jets out, telling his AI Friday to find Natasha Romanoff.In Paris the fugitive is in a phone box telling someone what's happened in the previous issues. Weeping Lion had the now-leaked secrets and blackmailed her. On his bidding she stole other files from SHIELD and used them to locate the new Red Room - secret training academy for Russian assassins. But SHIELD Agent Elder tracked her down and stole the info from her, and killed himself and destroyed the data to stop it falling into Weeping Lion's hands. So the villain released her secrets to the world. But whoever she's calling won't help her.Now it's flashback time to when young Natasha was a trainee at the earlier Red Room. She is given the task of capturing Yinsen, who will be at a certain cemetery for a funeral. Ivan, who Natasha detests, will accompany her to help deliver the Prof to the people who want him.Tasha attends the funeral. Afterwards she leaps into action announcing that Wong-Chu wants to see Yinsen. She deals with his bodyguards and leaves Yinsen unconscious for Ivan. They drive their captive to a private airport and hand him over to Wong-Chu's men. The Professor begs for his freedom, and Natasha experiences a twinge of compassion.Now Iron Man arrives at the pay-phone where Black Widow is still on the line. He chides her for forgetting her spycraft and using an unencrypted line. But more than that he wants to know that it isn't true about her and Yinsen. But then he notices her bruised and beaten look, and offers to take her to the local Stark International office for a drink, and she can explain everything there.Inside he rearranges the molecules of the Iron Man armour into a tux, so they can chat more amicably. He reminisces about their earliest encounters as enemies (in ToS), where she set the 2nd Crimson Dynamo on him, used an anti-gravity ray to drop a building on him, and seduced Hawkeye into being a villain before he became an Avenger.He's forgiven her for these things, but if the Yinsen thing is true then that's another matter. Yinsen helped him escape from Wong-Chu, but also he was a genius who would have benefitted mankind enormously if he'd lived.Tasha admits that she did what he's heard. Tony controls his anger before his armour-enhanced strength can hurt her. He offers to let her recover from her injuries before he decides what to do about her. He leads her into his inner office. An automatic scan verifies that she's not carrying any concealed weapons (apart obviously from her Widow's Bite wrist weapons in plain view). But Tony notices that the scan also says she has no injuries.So that's when she zaps him with her Bite, saying that the injuries were just makeup and acting. And she meant for him to track her by her phone call, to a random stranger's voice mail.Now that she has access to Stark's private computer terminal BW looks up a certain shipment of Stark International stuff. Apparently when she was a captive of Weeping Lion she noticed a Stark International crate with a serial number. Now she knows the address she was held at.So she goes there and beats up Weeping Lion. Except it turns out he's only a muscle front for the brains behind the operation, his brother Ilija Knezevic. Who it transpires is also a telepath, who threatens to pull even more secrets from Natasha's mind.However, Widow stole a couple of things from Stark's place while she was there. An earpiece to prevent mental invasion. (Now how did she know she'd need that?) And a repulsor ray with which she blasts Ilija. And she tells him that from now on he works for her.


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From Madripoor, notification goes out for the next No
Restraints Play special at midnight. Tech Ed informs his boss Tyger Tiger and
she tells him to log in to a dummy account to discover what’s going on while
she attends the Prince’s party….
At the palace, Madame Masque has just shot Black Widow but
discovers Nat has blocked the shot with her gauntlet and a battle breaks out.
Nat lures Masque into a large storage area where she can entangle her foe in
fishing line, knock her out, and don her outfit. She contacts Tech Ed and
learns of the new NRP show at midnight….
The disguised Nat hits her first obstacle: the doorman is
Taskmaster who can recognize anyone by their movements. TM warns her not to
start trouble with her ex-boyfriend Baron Zemo but she assures him there is no
problem between them, otherwise pulling off the impersonation flawlessly. He
then spots Masque’s bloodstain on her tunic and asks about it; Tyger Tiger
covers for her then flirts with TM. Tech Ed has also identified the man with
the NRP tattoo: he is Vlad Dorchik, the Prince’s right-hand man. The Prince
halts the festivities to address the assembled criminal types, announcing a new
era for Madripoor and transferring a sizable amount of money into the attendees’
bank accounts; he follows it up by tossing stacks of cash into the crowd. Baron
Zemo accosts “Masque” wanting her to come back to Bagalia or at least to kill
the Punisher for him. She refuses and when Zemo gets nasty, Sabretooth intercedes
and chases him off—because he knows “Madame Masque” is really Black Widow by
her smell.  The two speak to the Prince
and Sabretooth declines to participate as his money smells of blood. The Prince
has Vlad escort him outside while he turns his attention to “Madame Masque;”
Nat flirts with him, hoping to get him to reveal something about NRP but she rebuffs
his advances and the Prince orders Vlad to take her outside. In the hallway,
she flirts with Vlad and kisses him—and finds she has fallen for a drugged
kiss, as they were expecting her….
Natasha awakens in a room full of lights, cameras, and
surgical equipment with Vlad in his painted child mask: Nat is the star of this
episode of No Restraints Play….


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Times Square on
New Year's Eve: Black Widow and Captain America are searching for a
gang of terrorists threatening some mayhem. As Cap walks through the
crowd to a hotel, he is jeered and catcalled by various revelers,
mocking him as the Hydra leader; in the elevator, Nat fills Cap in on
a Captain America impersonator who is part of the gang, and some
rumor about a robot army. And she tells Cap that the hostiles in the
crowd don't matter—but Cap knows they do....
As Cap enters the
party to confront the impostor denouncing democracy and learns that
most of the crowd is the robot army as it opens fire on him, Nat
discovers a hidden floor where a giant tentacled robot waits while
guards keep an eye on hostages. Since she is supposed to be dead, the
Widow dons a mask, takes down the guards, and frees the captives. Cap
stops by as she is examining the robot but she knows instantly he is
the faker and clouts him. He triggers the robot and Nat guides it up
through the floor to rescue the real Cap and moments later she stops
the bad guy from detonating a madbomb—and Cap has to stop her from
killing the baddie. He lectures her on how killing isn't their way
but Nat reminds him that killing is her way—and he killed her
(during CIVIL WAR II)....
Still full of
anger over her death and revival by the Red Room (TALES OF SUSPENSE
#100-104) she sets out to find a place to use it and flies to
Madripoor. She wears a white suit and an eyepatch, recalling Patch
(a/k/a Logan/Wolverine) to attract attention. She gets it when she is
attacked by a flashy gang of thugs and she kills all of them. She
connects with Jessan Hoan a/k/a Tyger Tiger, owner of the Princess
Bar and the island's chief good guy. Tyger needs Nat's help and has
her sidekick Tech Ed explain the situation: a site on the dark web
called “No Restraints Play” has the wealthy site members bidding
to direct the torture of small children. Nat is horrified but
realizes that now she can let her inner killer loose on these
monsters. But as they leave the bar, Nat and Tyger are confronted by
the Pirate King, the gangster whose men Nat killed earlier that night
and he wants revenge, calling it “no restraints play”....


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Tyger Tiger is searching for Black Widow when Tech Ed
informs her that Nat is a prisoner—and the next subject for No Restraints Play which has just come online. Ed
tells her via earpiece to stall for time so he can get a list of all the
participants. Nat is waterboarded by Vlad and retreats into her memories of the
much worse she’s had to experience in her life. When her comm link to Ed goes
out, she goes into action: she snaps her bonds and breaks Vlad’s arm, dons his
mask and chops off both of his hands in revenge for the little girl she met earlier.
An army of security agents burst in firing and end up killing only Vlad. Nat
drops from the ceiling and turns into a whirlwind of vengeance, cutting the
guards to pieces in her fury. Tyger has freed the captive children and leads
them to safety. Berserk, Natasha ends up setting the building on fire and has
to be pulled to safety by Tyger….
Back at the Princess Bar, the children are clothed, fed, and
cared for. Then Nat and Tyger ask Ed for the name of the big bad known as “Fun
Dad.” Ed tells them it’s the Prince and he gives them a hard drive which, when
hooked up to the Prince’s personal account will download all of his info….
Nat and Tyger confront the Prince at home and Tyger beats
him for his involvement with No Restraints Play. The Prince claims innocence
and they plug Ed’s device into the Prince’s laptop and see…a mocking message
from Tech Ed, the real Fun Dad, as a missile heads straight for the window and
explodes….


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On a street in Madripoor, Black Widow and Tyger Tiger face a
brutish gangster named Pirate King who is seeking revenge against Natasha for
having killed his men. In a few nightmarish pages, Nat cuts the henchmen to
pieces, luxuriating in being able to kill again, ending by smashing Pirate King’s
head in his own car door. She then ties a handful of the thugs to the wrecked
car and drives it to a major thoroughfare where she stands on the roof and announces
that she will do the same to anyone associated with No
Restraints Play….
Soon a mysterious redhead can be
spotted all over town listening in on conversations and trying to locate those
behind the hideous show and occasionally beating the crap out of any thugs who
are fans of the show. A guy in a poolroom gives her his personal access card
before she shoves a cue down his throat. Tyger’s assistant Tech Ed tries to
track the No Restraints Play site to its source but they are trying to cover
their tracks, leaving Nat to look at videos of earlier “episodes.” An elderly
woman comes to the bar looking for the “red-haired angel” and leads Nat to a
hovel where she finds a wounded little girl with her hands missing, found on a
beach. Nat learns the little girl’s story and the girl describes a distinctive “NRP”
tattoo….
Madripoor’s new prince has invited various villains to hear
his pitch for improving the island nation aboard his yacht. Nat watches via
binoculars as Sabretooth and Baron Zemo arrive to be vetted by the Prince’s
doorman Taskmaster. She spies the tattoo and takes aim with her sniper rifle…only
to be overpowered from behind and shot by Madame Masque….


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Tech Ed, revealed to be the power behind No Restraints Play,
burns all the evidence while assuring his subscribers that a) their identities
are still secret and b) the show will continue at some later time….
The Prince’s suite in the Sovereign Hotel has been destroyed
by Ed’s missile. Black Widow and Tyger Tiger are not seriously injured but the
Prince is dying from his wounds; Tyger promises him that she will continue his
plans for a new Madripoor. Natasha realizes that Tech Ed must also eliminate
the child victims to completely cover his tracks. She steals a scooter and races
to the Princess Bar where she arrives just in time to stop a child from
touching a booby-trapped game on Ed’s laptop. When Tyger arrives, Nat is
finishing removing all of the explosives and she has found evidence of Ed’s
crimes on his hard drive. The next step…
Tech Ed is on his yacht at sea, surrounded by hired guards
who he doesn’t notice are disappearing one by one. Then he sees on his laptop
that all of his funds are gone and he goes on deck to confront the Black Widow.
Holding her at gunpoint he first threatens to throw the hard drive overboard,
then claims to have been abused as a child and that he was doing this to trap
and expose the real bad guys. She’s not buying it so he feints like he is going
to shoot himself but suddenly fires at her. He misses and she fires back with
her sting and doesn’t….
Returning to the bar, Nat hands Ed’s encrypted currency over
to Tyger to spend on the new Madripoor. Downstairs, she finds all of the
rescued children exercising and learning to fight to be like their hero. She
presents the little girl who lost her hands with a set of prostheses from
Stark. Telling Tyger that her work isn’t done, Nat moves on...
…and soon meets with Steve Rogers, advising him not to live
in the past, to forgive himself, and promises she will always be there when she
needs him. The last we see of her, she is screaming on a rooftop, then falls to
her knees and smiles….


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The Source Part 1 of 1
At
the Web, White Widow oversees the training of Spider-Girl and Lucy, mainly
trying to get a clear understanding of the latter’s new powers. Black Widow is
leaving and Yelena is miffed that Nat seems to be keeping secrets from her. Nat
says she’s just going to meet a source….
Natasha
visits Maxi, a clockmaker with a side business. He hands her an envelope
containing a mysterious something she asked for. She also brings up Apogee,
asking for more information. Maxi directs her to the Twins, performers in an
upscale circus. And then she reluctantly brings up another request: whether
Maxi can locate James and Stevie, her husband and son, whom she never wanted to
find, for their own safety….
Nat
returns to the Web and tells Yelena to dress formally; Lucy and Anya are
reminded that the two Widows live a different sort of life than they do….
Natasha
and Yelena arrive at the Cirkusen and locate the Twins, who turn out to be Liv,
an extremely muscular woman, and Lars, a very thin man. Nat briefly mentions
Apogee when the Twins attack them. As Nat grapples with Liv and Yelena has a
knife duel with Lars, Nat discovers that the two share mass: as Liv slims down,
Lars bulks up. When it goes back the other way, Nat tells Yelena to knock out
slim Lars and the two of them fight beefy Liv, who bulks up so far that it
nearly kills Lars. The fight ends with the Twins claiming no animosity just a
desire to try fighting with some of the best. The Twins tell the Widows about
the Golden Gate Gala, an upcoming event which is the cover for illegal
activity. And Apogee is involved but not by choice. After the Widows leave, the
Twins call a mysterious figure and tell him/her/them to expect a visit….


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The Ties That Bind Part 1
Natasha
Romanoff, the Black Widow, enters a building in Manhattan, beats up everyone
she encounters, blows a safe and makes off with an object, steps out of a
window and calls Hawkeye for her exit. An arrow with a line thunks into the
side of the building perilously close to her face and she climbs across to a
neighboring building, to be met by Captain America, Hawkeye having departed to
avoid talking to Nat. She hands over the item and vanishes when Cap isn’t
looking….
Nat
returns to her apartment and realizes someone is inside; she climbs out through
the hall window and walks the ledge to her window. As she is climbing through
she is transfixed by a flashlight beam and shot with three darts, falling out
of the window….
San
Francisco, three months later: Natasha is working as an architect. While
delivering plans to a construction site she scares all of the men by leaning
dangerously over the side of a high floor to retrieve a piece of litter before
skipping off with no concerns. While heading home, she is caught in the
background of a newscast so Hawkeye and Winter Soldier spy her on the news.
They decide to go check on her as she hasn’t been seen for months….
On
impulse Nat buys a motorcycle and heads home to her loving fiancé James,
unaware she is also under surveillance by Arcade, who is awaiting his orders to
kill her….


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Die by the Blade Part 1 of 4

Black Widow is asleep and dreaming of her son Stevie when Winter Soldier tries to
wake her and she reflexively throws him to the floor before she recognizes him.
He wants to talk, warning her against trying to see her hidden husband and
child; she only wants reassurance that Stevie remembers her and Bucky tells her
he does. Nat and Bucky meet with the other members of the team: White Widow,
Spider-Girl, Lucy Nguyen, and Hawkeye. They are going to crash the Golden Gate
Gala openly….
At
the Gala, they arrive in eye-catching costumes and take up positions as Natasha
and Clint dance in the center of the ballroom. Bucky cuts in while Clint plays
his role as the easiest guy in the room to recognize. The androgynous host cuts
in and dances with Natasha, appreciating the presence of superheroes….
Anya
and Lucy crawl through the vents and discover a group of rich people bidding on
rare and exotic animals—and then there’s a screech over the heroes’ comm-links.
Nat and Yelena head downstairs to investigate and encounter a gang of thugs in
animal masks. The Widows beat them all up but then the legendary Living Blade
walks in…and he and Nat recognize each other from that time in Madripoor….


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Die by the Blade Part 4 of 4
At
the Gala, Black Widow continues to duel with the Living Blade, despite having
lost her right arm to him. Hawkeye appears and fires a grenade arrow which
explodes, hurling the Blade across the room. Hawkeye helps Nat to escape….
Elsewhere,
Spider-Girl fights off the animal masked guards while Lucy Nguyen uses her
electrical powers, trying to bring Lars back to life. She succeeds, and the
Twins normalize their powers and escape….
Hawkeye
tries to comfort Nat as she slips into a delirium; Craig arrives with his
friend who has the power to reattach or regrow severed limbs. Nat’s missing arm
is put into place and the young man, nicknamed the Starfish for his abilities,
rejoins it to her body. Nat suggests to Craig that he take the Starfish back to
the Web where they will be safe. Craig has something to show her first….
On
the roof, Winter Soldier has arrived to stop the Host from escaping by
helicopter. He battles her men and once done, Bucky sees that the Twins have
arrived, with vengeance on their minds. They throw the Host off the roof to her
death, then inform Bucky that Black Widow has lost an arm….
Craig
shows Nat and Clint that Voss a/k/a Apogee is a prisoner in the lab, his blood
being experimented with to create super-powered people. Nat now understands
Voss’ greatest fear being that someone would harvest his blood for immoral
purposes. She frees him, with a warning to stop his evil deeds or they will
meet again. Searching the building, Nat and Clint find White Widow fighting the
wounded Living Blade. Seeing Nat’s healed arm, Blade realizes that she has
found the Starfish, whom he wanted. Nat takes him on again and this time she
has no fear, fighting rings around him and introducing her team, outnumbering
him. He departs, reminding her this isn’t over….
The
heroes catch each other up on the story and, realizing the building won’t
self-destruct because the Host died first, they go back inside to feast on the
abandoned food and Nat realizes that while she won’t see James and Stevie
again, the team she has will do for family….


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The Ties That Bind Finale
Black Widow Natasha Romanoff recalls the good times she had with James and son
Stevie; now she looks into the room where they had been which is now in flames
and cries. Hawkeye and Winter Soldier try to get her to come along but
Yelena Belova, the second Black Widow, slaps her to snap her out of her bitter reverie.
Nat comes back to her senses and makes sure everyone is in position for what
happens next….

Weeping Lion is stationed on a roof opposite with a high-powered rifle; Viper and her
Hydra henchmen lead the attack; Arcade cuts the power to Nat’s building, and
Snapdragon and Red Guardian drop through the skylight on ropes—and then Hawkeye
fires an explosive arrow and Nat takes out Snapdragon. Belova clobbers Viper. Clint
fires an arrow through the rifle scope which pierces Weeping Lion’s eye; Red
Guardian takes a bullet for Natasha, claiming he joined the villains to protect
her and didn’t know how far they would go to hurt her. Nat lets him go but
promises that she’ll catch up to him later. The two Widows take down all of the
Hydra goons while Hawkeye picks others off from the rafters. The three escape
then blow up the building. Belova offers Nat her sympathy then leaves them;
Clint expresses disappointment that he wasn’t part of her imaginary “perfect
life” and offers to stay with her but Nat declines….
Later,
Bucky comes to tell her that James and Stevie are safe, the hologram projector
which convinced the villains (and her allies) that they are dead has been
destroyed, and even Nat is not allowed to know where they are. Bucky also wants
to remain part of her life but she assures him of her love while insisting she
must go off alone. Emotionally she falls apart, knowing that her husband and child
ware forever dead to her and in some way feeling that Bucky is responsible for
their loss. He comforts her….
Natasha
returns to the home she shared with James and finds the cat Logan and takes him
away while in the Pacific Northwest, James and Stevie look to their new life
together….
Weeks
later, the two Black Widows meet. Belova updates Nat on how the wounded
villains fared: they all survived but with various injuries. Nat tells her she
has given up on revenge and will be doing something different, something James
and Stevie—and Nat—would be proud of. She invites Belova along for help and
company as she remakes herself in a way she never has before….


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The Ties That Bind Part 2
Hawkeye
and Winter Soldier are in Sausalito, California, spying on Natasha Romanoff,
the Black Widow, who has been missing for three months. They find her living in
a comfortable suburban home under the name Natalie Grey with a man whom she
loves and she looks uncharacteristically happy. As she is in the garage, Clint
approaches her, claiming to be admiring her new motorcycle. They chat and she describes
her life as an architect, with a fiancé James—and a one-year-old son named
Stevie. She does not appear to recognize Clint at all. Clint reports back to
Bucky that everything seems to be what it is: Nat has a happy homelife as a
civilian….
Later,
she and James are going out and leaving Stevie with a sitter named Helen.
Arcade, spying on Nat, discovers Clint and Bucky hiding in the bushes; he
reports this to his superiors who tell him to ignore the two interlopers,
pleased that Clint’s visit was a better test than they could have devised and
go back to concentrating on the sitter. Downtown, Natalie and James have just
parted when she hears a cry for help from an alley. She investigates to find a
gang has captured a woman with rape and worse on their minds. Nat beats the living
hell out of the five creeps, allowing the victim to escape, then calling 911.
She returns home to relieve the sitter, checks on the baby, then goes into the
garage where she builds a bomb out of a smoke detector—and then recoils in
shock, wondering what she has just done….


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During
their invasion of Apogee’s shell company, White Widow Yelena Belova has been
electrocuted by one of the bad guys. The baddies pile on Black Widow and she
responds in a rage, striking out and blasting them with a major sting. Lucy has
followed Nat and Yelena and uses her electrical powers to restart Yelena’s
heart. Nat gives her parachute to Lucy and Yelena to jump to safety while she
goes without one and yet lands and has her car waiting for them….
Back
at the Web, they find Spider-Girl who has a sample of Apogee’s serum. Nat
releases Craig, captive scientist who was working for Apogee, explains the
situation, and has him work on an antidote to the villain’s serum….
The
next day: Nat, Yelena, and Anya are planning to crash Apogee’s mass dosing
event that evening. Craig is still trying to finish up the antidote with Lucy
to help. The latter two are left alone to work on their end of the mission.
Craig reveals that he was recruited by Apogee because he had the power of
usually making the right decisions. Lucy reveals her bitterness over being
given electrical power against her will and seems to be contemplating a suicide
mission against the villain….
That
night, Nat, Yelena, and Anya infiltrate Apogee’s compound; as the ceremony
begins, they leap in and take down several guards. Then Apogee takes a drug and
grows into a giant with flaming hands to face down his enemies….


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The Ties That Bind Part 3
Natalie
Grey, formerly Natasha Romanoff, is living the dream life as an architect with
a loving fiancé, an adorable kid, and a cool motorcycle. Meanwhile, Hawkeye and
Winter Soldier are keeping an eye on her, wondering what to do since she’s
happy but they have no idea who did this to her or why and she could be in
danger. They are approached by Yelena Belova, the second Black Widow, who has
been observing Natasha as the babysitter Helen; Belova also knows that the
child is the natural offspring of Natasha and James, despite being a year old
though Nat has been gone for only three months. She tells the guys to hold back
until she learns more….
Natalie
is being fitted for a wedding gown when Helen (Belova, remember?) stops by to
talk to her. Natalie is crying because she has the perfect life yet somehow it
all seems wrong, like something is missing….
She
is being watched from a control room by a cadre of villains: Viper, Red Guardian,
Arcade, Weeping Lion, and Snapdragon. They have set up this mind trap
for Black Widow to keep her off the board; now Weeping Lion wants to kill her
but Viper says that will jeopardize this plan that is working. But WL reveals
things are already in motion….
Natalie
returns to a darkened home that night but senses something wrong; she enters
warily and is ambushed by a gang which she takes out in a single fluid motion.
When she hears a thug speaking Russian giving the order to kill the hostages,
she goes over the top, crashing through a window to take down the killer with
makeshift weapons, while setting off the bomb. Then the implant in her head
seemingly fries her brain while Viper threatens Weeping Lion….


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Widows Part 1 of 1

Black Widow stands in a courtyard enclosed by the inner walls of a skyscraper,
seeking the crime boss called Apogee. She battles a big dumb giant, breaking
his arms then then stinging him in the back of the neck. Apogee’s voice
promises even better. She sews up her wounds and thinks of her baby Stevie….
Six
days earlier in a San Francisco flower market, Natasha caught a teenage girl
swiping her wallet and chased her through the streets and corners her. Nat
offers to swap her own wallet for all that the girl, who falsely says her name
is “Marigold,” is already carrying. When Yelena Belova shows up, Nat hands the
girl her wallet and she tosses several others back. Nat, who has a tracker in
her wallet, wants to help the girl, while Yelena, calling herself the White
Widow, suggests they could train her for a team she is dreaming of….
Back
to Nat at the skyscraper: confronted by another hulking tough guy, she whips
out her grappling hook and easily ascends nearly to the penthouse. She blows up
a door to prevent anyone from the lower levels from coming up and ties another
big bruiser to a guy with wings, making them both plummet to the ground. She
climbs to the top level, blows open a window, fires off a smoke bomb and beats
up the four henchmen. She grabs the last guy and discovers he is not Apogee.
She gives this guy a warning for Apogee and tosses him off the balcony (he has
a parachute, presumably for just such an emergency). Nat calls Belova to tell
her Apogee was never there and to prepare the guest room, she’s bringing home
the unconscious “Marigold” ….


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Die by the Blade Part 2 of 4
Some
time ago on a rooftop in Madripoor: Black Widow is in a katana duel with the
Living Blade. They clash—and then she discovers she has been slashed across the
left hip. She leaps down to another rooftop but when she looks back, he is
behind her and slashes her back. She stings him and he stabs her in the
shoulder with a knife. She uses the knife and her Widow’s Sting against his
katana while wondering why he is after her on a simple reconnaissance mission.
She cuts down some power lines and flees while he ducks. She swings away, he slashes
her line and she falls though the skylight of a nightclub. They fight, she is
wounded again. She runs, he pursues. She dashes into the men’s room and beats
him up in the crowded quarters. She leaps through a ceiling vent, startling a
guy who is sitting in a stall. She drops into another room and encounters a
pair of rich guys and a bunch of women being trafficked. The men recognize her
and run. Living Blade arrives but by now, Nat has another katana and tells him
he will have neither the women nor her. Living Blade stands still then tells
her “Until next time, Widow” and walks off. Nat realizes she is now marked and
has only bought herself time….


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Downstairs
at the Gala, Black Widow and White Widow come face-to-face with an old enemy of
Nat’s from Madripoor: the Living Blade. Natasha tells Yelena to run as she
takes on the enemy. There is much clashing until Nat sets off a small explosive
and runs, seeking safety in the ventilator system….
Elsewhere
in the building, Spider-Girl and Lucy Nguyen are locked up in very small cages,
with collars that cancel out their powers. The Twins, Liv and Lars, are in a
similar predicament nearby. And then they see the animal-masked villains enter
carrying an unconscious (or dead) Hawkeye. Lucy, knowing the Twins share their
strength, asks what would happen if one of them had all the strength…?
Outside,
Yelena finds Winter Soldier and, fighting the urge to go back and rescue Nat,
they proceed with the plan to find Anya, Lucy, and Clint….
Natasha
crawls through the vents until she locates the Host’s office and finds her
packing to escape via copter. Nat discovers that the “rare animals” she was
auctioning off were powered people as the villainess warns the Living Blade
that the entire place will self-destruct shortly after she’s gone. Nat,
uncertain as to whether their communicators are working, sends a message to
Bucky and Yelena telling them to evacuate the building and try to capture the
Host. They do this, Yelena firing a gun in the air and telling everyone to flee
for their lives, though they don’t see the Host….
Lucy
assures the Twins that if they merge their powers completely into Liv, she can
revive Lars; they do so and the hugely muscled Liv breaks through the cage and
smashes all of the other cages, breaking off the power suppression collars. She
cradles Lars’ shriveled corpse and pleads with Lucy to help him….
As
the fire alarms go off, Natasha discovers Craig locked up; she frees him and
tells him to let everyone else out and also find the master switch for the
power suppression collars. She hurries on and discovers the Living Blade. They
spar…and then the Blade slices Natasha’s right arm off….


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Craig
has completed the antidote for Apogee’s serum, in both gas and injectable form.
Lucy has improvised a hero costume and is planning to deliver the antidote to
Black Widow, knowing the dangers of using her electrical powers but wanting to
help the team….
At
Apogee’s HQ, Black Widow, White Widow, and Spider-Girl are confronting the
villain and his followers, the Olio, and Apogee has just imbibed his serum and
turned into a giant with flaming hands. In the melee, one of the Olio bursts
into flame and Apogee accuses Natasha of doing that. She tries to explain that
it is the effect of the bad guy’s drug but he doesn’t believe her. Apogee flees
and Nat’s back-up arrives: Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) so Nat goes after him. Craig
and Lucy arrive and White Widow and Spider-Girl seal the doors and Craig
releases the gas while Lucy pursues Nat….
Apogee
turns to confront Natasha on a catwalk in a chemical plant. After fighting, he
takes more of his serum and grows even larger. He sizes Nat but Lucy arrives
and shocks him, followed by an injection of the antidote. Nat kicks him off the
catwalk and into a vat of chemicals. But Lucy can’t turn off her powers, her
arms possibly permanently electrified. Nat tries to comfort her and they return
to the main room where the Widows try to explain to the now-depowered Olio that
the serum was toxic and would have killed them eventually. Many don’t believe
her. Lucy makes an impassioned speech that quiets them down and the heroes
leave….
Epilogue:
Apogee rises from the vat….


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I Am the Black Widow Part 2 of 4

Black Widow and White Widow are relaxing at a lakeside café in an upscale
neighborhood, waiting for Spider-Girl to arrive. While watching a mother and
child, Nat’s mind goes back to her Stevie and she grieves. Anya reports
disguised as a panhandler; the three women then go their separate ways….
Back
at The Web, Lucy is fighting her panic by talking to the melted cultist Gumby (last
issue) and wondering if she is in for the same fate. Nat assures her that if
she does, she will not be left alone….
Anya
breaks into a seemingly deserted factory with the mysterious Voss name on it.
Inside she finds a meeting of the Apogee cult. Seeing members of the Olio about
to be given they mystery drug, Anya quickly shoots a web and destroys the
vials; she battles the mutant members and escapes….
Lucy
identifies a photo of the villain Aldrich Lux Voss for Nat and then identifies
a shell company name that is an anagram of the villain’s name. Leaving Lucy
safely behind, Nat goes to that company and discovers Yelena has gotten there
first and is a prisoner. Nat enters and fights the bad guys as Yelena frees
herself and identifies the important guy in the room. Nat launches him through
a window via parachute but Yelena is caught and electrocuted by a bad guy. Nat
cradles her partner in her arms as more bad guys arrive….


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The Ties That Bind Part 4

Black Widow has seemingly died in the arms of her fiancé James and baby Stevie,
thanks to an implant put in her brain by the bad guys. But then she shocks
awake, with her full memories restored. Watching remotely, Weeping Lion is
stunned that she is still alive—and Viper is now angry that they are now all on
Natasha’s hit list. She orders a Hydra hit team to the house to buy time while
they escape but Snapdragon suggests they all band together to kill her….
Nat
asks James to hide in the house with the baby while she takes care of matters,
telling him she will explain everything later. The Hydra goons arrive and Nat
takes them down with some swift and masterful action. Yelena Belova also shows
up to help and they flee to a safe house in the city. Once they are settled in,
Natasha tells everything to James, that she is the Black Widow, captured
outside her apartment by Viper and some Hydra flunkies. She was taken to a lab
where she and James (a stranger) were operated on to install implants with
false memories of perfect lives, the bad guys even creating a baby from their
shared DNA. They were then released in San Francisco to live happily ever after.
Now she’s back to normal but still has no idea, other than Hydra, who is behind
this. She then gets to the hardest part of all: to remain safe, James has to
take Stevie and go far away, never seeing her again. Winter Soldier and Hawkeye
arrive and they help Natasha plan her next moves. But then an unseen sniper
fires a rocket into the apartment that explodes in the room where James and
Stevie were sleeping….


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I Am the Black Widow Part 1 of 4
Back
at Black Widow’s apartment, called “The Web,” Natasha watches as White Widow
spars with their guest Lucy, the young woman rescued from crime boss Apogee.
Nat and Yelena argue over this, Yelena wants to train Lucy to be part of their
organization while Nat just wants Lucy to recover from her trauma and decide
what she wants to do with her life. Moving on, Yelena has discovered that
Apogee owns multiple properties in the area and they need someone on the inside
of the organization. Nat reveals she has already recruited Spider-Girl (Anya
Corazon) to take a job at one of the shell companies to report on developments;
Yelena is upset that she wasn’t consulted on this and Nat apologizes. Anya has
discovered that Apogee’s cult-like followers are called the Olio. Nat talks to
Lucy who has electric powers that manifest when she is disturbed and, once
calm, she volunteers to stay and help fight the villain; she has one piece of
information, the name “Voss.”
In
disguise, Nat and Yelena attend a meeting of the Olio cult where the masked Apogee
commands three followers to drink the contents of suspicious looking vials. Nat
shoots the vials out of his hand and Apogee disappears while his super-powered
worshipers take on the two Widows and lose badly. They capture one of the
hoods, a guy with stretchy powers called Gumby. Back at The Web, they question
Gumby but he has little to tell them—and then his body melts away, leaving a
puddle on the floor. Lucy fears that the same thing will happen to her….


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Driven insane by the Icepick Protocol, Bobbi (Mockingbird) Morse is attempting to kill her husband Clint Barton when the Black Widow burst through a window and disarms her. Natasha explains how she has passed nanites on to everyone she was ever close to and must kiss her as the quickest way to inject her with counter-nanites. She explains to an irritated Clint that Tony Stark is missing and many old friends are dead by violence because they were close to her….
The next stage of the Black Widow’s history is her rocky relationship with Daredevil; her mentor and father figure Ivan Petrovich disapproves hoping that she would have turned to him, not an American superhero, for closure. This brings her to the present, where she passes along the anti-nanites to DD, who takes his leave, still bitter at her leaving him, as Ivan was….
She seeks solace with James Barnes as the former Winter Soldier was rendered immune to the nanites during his Soviet training. Natasha then gets a call from Hercules, who is being swarmed by a murderous mob of his ex-lovers. She recalls the good times she had with him while they were members of the short-lived Champions, as she rushes to save the lives of Herc’s lady friends. To express his gratitude he points the way into the sky as the direction her enemy lies in….
She approaches Nick Fury about gaining the launch codes for a H.A.M.M.E.R. spacecraft And he hands them over as a favor to the woman who saved his life as well as being a former head of the Avengers—even though that was frowned upon by Ivan all those years ago—and she launches herself into space. When she nears her goal she recognizes it for what it is: a Soviet-era dreadnought, and the man in control is a cyborg version of Ivan Petrovich….


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Black Widow (Natalia Romanova aka Natasha Romanoff) breaks into the Russian bunker housing the computer that initiated the Icepick Protocol last issue, which led to the death of her old friend Ivan. She defeats an armoured guard, one of the Federal Dynamos.
Entering the control room, she persuades the technicians to let her access the computer, where she discovers the secret of the Protocol. She had long ago been infested with nanites, which she has passed on to anyone she spent a lot of time with.
The final scene has Clint Barton having breakfast with Bobbi Morse, when the Icepick Protocol activates his nanites and Bobbi attacks him with her cutlery.
Meanwhile we are treated to the next stage of BW's history. Last issue we left Natalia Romanova and Ivan Petrovich returning to work for the Soviets in 1956 after receiving a longevity drug (which also saved Ivan's life).
Now it is 1957, and Natalia meets military test pilot Colonel Alexei Shostakov. When he asks what she does, she gives conflicting answers. In one version she is a single 17 year old ballerina. In another she is 29 and a Black Widow agent trained by the Red Room, and romantically involved. In both scenarios her parents are alive.
6 weeks later Natalia is telling her lover Winter Soldier that she's going to marry Alexei. Ivan comes to see her, and she confesses she doesn't understand her memories.
In the next scene its 1963 and Alexei has supposedly died testing a rocket as part of the moon race. Natalia is now his widow. She's forgotten about her Black Widow training, and thinks she was an ordinary housewife. But now she feels an urge to become a spy to get back at the West which she blames for her husband's death. And she has an inexplicable feeling that she'd be good at it.
Apparently Krushchev had disbanded Stalin's Red Room/Black Widows program, and had tried to give Natalia a normal life. But now he accedes to her request to become a spy, but sends Ivan to watch over her. Then we see that Alexei isn't actually dead. He has been turned into the Soviet super hero Red Guardian.
We now enter Marvel time, a few decades later. Natasha has spent the time wooing wealthy Western technologists, who always seem to die, earning her the nickname Black Widow. Now she's become involved with Tony Stark, but he makes it out alive.
A year later and Natasha is using Hawkeye (Clint Barton) to get at Stark. Ivan and Tony both worry that Natasha is still confused.


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As the Black Widow approaches the dreadnought in her stolen H.A.M.M.E.R. spacecraft, she realizes that her mentor Ivan Petrovich had himself killed so his brain and spinal cord could be transplanted into a cyborg body. Ivan has her craft destroyed and Natasha ejects onto the dreadnought and eludes the guards….
Her mind flashes back to a day in Paris when Ivan confessed his long-simmering passion for her—a passion that was rebuffed. She told him that she could never think of him as a lover and he explained that watching her with all those other men in her life was like an icepick through his heart….
As she makes her way though the ship’s corridors she is captured by Ivan who accuses her of betrayal—triggering a flashback to the superhero Civil War, when Captain America leveled the same charge at her when she took Tony Stark’s side. The deadly Ivan gives her a tour of the massive craft, showing off it nuclear arsenal and invites her to join him at last. As her mind flashes back to earlier incidents when she counseled others to do the right thing, she refuses, accusing him of wanting to twist her into something indecent. She then announces she is going to walk out the door and he will not trigger the nanites that will kill her. He pursues her into the hallway where she confesses that she became a whole person only when he left her. The enraged Ivan begins firing wildly at her direction and she steal up to him and kisses him—then reveals that she has just injected him with anti-nanites and now controls his cyborg body and the dreadnought. She gives him one last chance to apologize but he does not, so she causes his body to explode. She then sets the nuclear warheads to detonate and sets off the evacuation alarm. Minutes later, the crew is evacuating the doomed ship, and in one of the escape pods, the Black Widow drinks a final toast to Ivan….


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Widow’s Sting
Outside
Maggia boss Silvermane’s mansion, Black Widow beats up some guards, then dresses
in a classy outfit to crash a big party thrown by the gangster. A previous
agent disappeared on this mission but Natasha gets in by claiming to have been
sent as proxy for another invitee. At the meeting Silvermane addresses the
assembled gang bosses to announce he is taking over as head of the entire
Maggia and demands 50% of all the others gangs’ take. And he demonstrates how
he can get away with that: he has the magical Wand of Watoomb to back up any
threats. He hands the wand over to his bodyguard Man Mountain Marko to put
away. Nat follows into a secret room; she dodges a trio of deadly traps before
reaching the wand placed on an altar. But when she reaches for it, it turns out
to be a hologram and she is confronted by Marko with the real wand. She beats
up Marko but then Silvermane appears in his cybernetic form; Nat tries to use
the Wand of Watoomb on him but she can’t as it takes a lot of training to wield
the wand properly, training which Silvermane has undergone. But Nat has an
ally: a masked woman who was seen with the Maggia boss at the party turns out
to be SHIELD Agent Astra, captured, disfigured, and held prisoner by
Silvermane. Now Astra distracts the baddie so Nat can fire a Widow’s Sting into
a chink in his armor, short-circuiting him. Nat and Astra leave, the latter
explaining the months of suffering she has endured; Nat assures her that SHIELD
can get her scarred face repaired.


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Darkforce users have been turned into portals for darkness from that dimension to cover the Earth allowing vampires free reign, and they were ready to use it. The Bloodcoven of super-vamps captured Black Panther, Scarlet Witch and Thor, and drove the other Avengers (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Vision) out of their orbiting Impossible City base. Blade the Vampire Slayer met with Dr Strange and Clea and attacked Strange, revealing that he is the new top vamp behind it all.We see that Blade has made the City *his* base. The Thunder God with a spike through his brain is strung up and dripping Asgardian blood into bowls. Wanda Maximoff is confined by runic bindings. And T'Challa has been turned into a vampire and must now serve his new master. Blade sends him to seek an unspecified 'prize' while the Bloodcoven are ordered to find his daughter ...... Brielle Brooks who we see in New York killing vampires to protect a mom and 2 kids. And she's helped by the previous lord of vampires Dracula. (They teamed up in FCBD 2024 Blood Hunt/X-Men, and since then in Dracula: BH #1 he's brought her from Atlanta to NY.) Drac upbraids her for wasting time saving insignificants, which she rebrands as innocents. But then a voice announces that the Bloodcoven have come for them.Elsewhere in town Hunter's Moon and Tigra are also slaughtering the foe, and telling folks to lock and barricade their doors. They decide to go see Dr Strange and are caught by surprise when the other Spider-Man (Miles Morales) drops down to them and asks if they can take him with them because as a newbie hero he doesn't know where the Sorcerer Supreme lives. They get there and Tigra knocks. The door is answered by Strange's astral form projecting through it. They gain entrance anyway and follow his 'ghost' to where Clea is magically restraining his now vampiric body.Dracula greets the Bloodcoven's leader Bloodstorm One who is his clone. Vlad Tepes demands their obedience as Lord of all vampires but the clone declares him a false lord. However aid appears in the form of the 4 free Avengers, out for revenge. BS1 tells Megrim to befuddle their minds but the synthezoid Vision grabs her and takes her into the sky. He claims that while his synthetic brain is human enough to be susceptible to her power he's cycling his brain states too quickly for her to lock on. And when they breach the world-girdling cloud of Darkforce the vampire is burned up by the Sun.On the ground Carol Danvers punches out Bloodstorm while Sam-Cap's shield shatters Smoke Eater's jar of spirit-smoke. Last issue Cruel's razorwire infiltrated Iron Man's armour but this time wildly oscillating magnetic fields keep them out. And when Damascene tries to stab him in the back with the kind of spear that Thor now has in his head, Vision returned full of solar energy uses some of it to shatter the spear and make the vamps cower in fear. Cap Marvel says that they were caught by surprise last time, but now they're prepared. And she sends a force blast into the sky which temporarily floods the area with sunlight. The Coven retreat and turn to mist. (Strangely Dracula seems unaffected.)Brielle asks the team to take her and Drac to Strange's Sanctum and soon all our 'heroes' are gathered there. She greets Spider-Miles as the only person she actually knows (they met in his (2022) #10-12) and asks if he knows where her dad is (Blade was in those issues too). But Spidey responds by ripping his mask off and revealing vampire fangs.


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We see various superfolk being turned into emitters of whirlpools of darkness:- Villain Blackout. Heroine Dusk. Shroud, currently claiming the title Moon Knight and fighting Hunter's Moon. Heroine Darkstar. Nuhuman Nightfall, previously only seen in New Warriors (2014) #7-8. Hero Cloak, in front of his horrified partner Dagger. Villain Dr Dark, witnessed in the FCBD prologue. Mutant vigilante Norio. Heroine Silhouette. Their and others' darkness covers the world and blots out the Sun in Sundeath.At the end of their #13 the Avengers noticed this from their orbiting Impossible City. Now Iron Man and Scarlet Witch are in New York. Wanda Maximoff on the ground reports to Tony Stark in the air that she's with Blackout. IM is receiving similar reports from all over the world. SW recognises the names as Darkforce users and theorises that they've become Portals from the Darkforce Dimension and now that dimensions dark energy is flooding the world. Tony asks her if she can close them with her magic but she sarcastically tells him no.Hunter's Moon and Tigra witnessed Shroud's transformation at the end of Vengeance Of The Moon Knight #5, and they now note that the Moon is also hidden by the dark cloud. And vampires attack them.We see vamp attacks all over the globe. Nothing can withstand them. But some civilians risk crossing a border into Latveria, and the pursuing undead get burned to a crisp when they try to follow. Dr Doom notes that his border defence works, and welcomes new citizens.In Brooklyn Spider-Man (Miles Morales) uses the Venom Saber he can generate from his bio-electricity to kill a vamp. He wonders what Blade would do but the man himself pops up to answer the question. Or rather to tell Spidey he has a plan and he's part of it.All the Avengers except Iron Man are now fighting the undead on Earth. Thor wants to know where they've come from. Captain Marvel hopes Black Panther has an answer but he doesn't. Vision says Dracula is missing (but we've seen him apparently against these vampires in the FCBD issue). Captain America (Sam Wilson) thinks this isn't Drac's vampire nation. Then they get a call from Blade in a truck saying he's on the run but he has some information they need. He asks to be teleported up to the Impossible City. Iron Man's there and gets the City to bring the team home followed by the truck.But when the truck arrives Blade isn't in it. Instead there's a group of super-vampires called the Bloodcoven led by Bloodstorm One (a clone of Dracula previously seen in Nightstalkers #16-18). He tells Megrim to maintain psychic static, sends Damascene after Thor and sics the Cruel and Unusual pair on Scarlet Witch. He keeps Smoke Eater with himself to face an attack by BP and Cap. The minion sniffs ghost smoke and grows multiple eyes, arms and legs in defence.Unusual severely affects the Witch.  Bloodstorm throws Panther at Sam Wilson. Damascene's sharp-bladed fingers cut the Thunder God, and a detached and thrown 1 pierces Vision's chest. Iron Man tries to help but Cruel's tanglewire gets painfully inside his armour. Megrim gives Carol Danvers a severe migraine. Smoke Eater attacks her and explains that Cruel eats pain, Unusual eats magic, Megrim eats thoughts replacing them with agony, while she eats spirits.Bloodstorm has concentrated his attention on Cap who will be prized by their master because when they make *him* a vampire America will be disheartened. Panther interrupts and BS hurls Cap away. Thor is still being slashed by Damascene while Wanda is being trapped in a force globe by Unusual. Megrim and Smoke Eater have defeated CM while Cruel's tanglewire is corrupting IM's AI, and also Vision's body. Damascene sends a spike through Thor's brain, but says it won't kill him.Bloodstorm declares victory but T'Challa calls on the City's AI to dimension shift. However Cruel has compromised that too. But it can still teleport some Avengers away, beginning with CA on BP's order. CA, CM, IM and Vizh get away. Angry BS apparently rips Panther's heart out. Thor is in whatever state he's in, and SW is completely and helplessly englobed.Someone approaches Dr Strange's Bleecker St sanctum. Inside he and Clea are trying to assemble the Montesi Formula (that will kill all vampires) from fragments in various tomes. Their visitor enters and it's Blade who reminds them that the whole thing is in the Darkhold but Wanda has 'eaten' it. (They obviously don't know about that book being reborn as a boy at the end of the Contest Of Chaos event across last year's Annuals.) He tells them about a worldwide vampire cult called the Structure (from Moon Knight (2021) #16-18). MK killed their leader but now a new leader has revitalised them. They used antedeluvian Atlantean magic to detonate the Darkforce users and had vamps ready everywhere to strike. And now they've sent the Bloodcoven, vampires fed on superhuman blood, to take out the Avengers.Stephen Strange says it's even more important they assemble the Formula. Blade reminds him that it will kill all vampires, including friendlies like himself. Strange replies that he'll do that and bear the guilt. Blade says he knew Wanda Maximoff didn't have it in her to do it, but he wasn't sure about Stephen. (He should have been because DrS did it once before in his (1974)#62.) Strange asks if the new leader is Dracula. Blade tells him he's wrong, and lets him know that *he* is the boss vamp as he stabs him through the heart.


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Varnae, the 1st vampire, possessed Blade, the vampire hunter, and arranged for the Sun's rays to be blocked from Earth by Darkforce energy so that his vampire army could take over the world. His Bloodcoven of superpowered vamps took over the Avengers' orbiting Impossible City and captured Black Panther, Scarlet Witch and Thor. Varnae then brought the pre-Atlantean temple where he was created to New York's Central Park. While the free Avengers opposed him, 3 other attacks were initiated. Dracula and newly-vampire Spider-Man (Miles Morales) escorted Blade's daughter Brielle Brooks whose bloodline would make it possible for her to kill her father. Hunter's Moon and Tigra freed the moon-god Khonshu from Asgard, who then unleashed his former Fists, including the dead Moon Knight. And Dr Strange's astral form (his body has been vamped) and Clea sought help from Dr Doom in getting rid of the Darkforce.But Doom claims he can only do it if Strange passes the mantle of Sorcerer Supreme to him. Now Stephen Strange agrees. But he asks if Doom himself has organised the whole thing for this purpose.The Avengers, including newly-rescued BP and Thor, attack the Bloodcoven in the Temple. Vision blasts the magic-eater Unusual which frees the remaining Avenger Scarlet Witch. Captain America (Sam Wilson) saves T'Challa from Bloodstorm, and BP thanks him also for last issue's stirring speech which energised him to fully throw-off his vampire-infection (and free Thor from the magic spike through his head). The Thunder God now seeks a rematch with Varnae (they fought over 1,000 years ago in Marvel Comics Presents #63). He summons Mjolnir but it's still up in the orbiting City, and Varnae/Blade with his 2 swords thinks he can kill him before the hammer gets here. They clash. Iron Man asks Wanda Maximoff to use the Montesi Formula (contained in the Darkhold book which she 'swallowed' along with it's author Chthon (Darkhold Omega 1-shot). SW refuses to commit genocide (against vampires) as she did once before (against mutants at the end of the House Of M event). Bloodstorm accuses her of the weakness of humanity as he rips the synthezoid Vision's arm off and throws him at her.Victor Von Doom ignores the question and claims that the Avengers plus Khonshu's followers won't be enough to turn the tide. Strange asks for his word of honour that  when the world is saved he will return to him what is his. Victor gives his word. Clea protests. Stephen reminds Clea that when he was dead (in the Death Of Dr Strange event obviously) she bonded a fragment of his soul to hers to take on the Supreme power. As he is now 1 of the undead if he gives Doom a part of his soul the same thing should happen. That's what he does and that's what occurs.Meanwhile (after the Dracula: Blood Hunt mini-series) Brielle, Dracula and Spider-vamp approach the Temple. She says she ready to kill her dad with her sword.Thor's losing the fight against Varnae who berates him as a fellow immortal for siding with the mortals. But then Mjolnir joins the Asgardian's hand, followed by a lightning strike. Iron Man asks Captain Marvel to blast through the Darkforce to give them sunlight (as she did in #2), but Carol Danvers tells him that the darkness over the Temple is too thick as she zaps Smoke Eater. Tony Stark himself is menaced by Damascene until Vision's blasts it's head off. But he has little solar power remaining. However Moon Knight then shows up with the army of Khonshu's Fists.Von Doom leads Clea and Stephen to where he has gathered 6 students from the Strange Academy. He reminds them that Varnae's magic that breached the Darkforce Dimension is pre-Atlantean. But over the years he has gathered much old magic knowledge and artefacts which has enabled him to see a way of cancelling Varnae's spell. He will use the different magics of Strange's students from different species and combine them to save the world.Bloodstorm is attacking Vision again when Moon Knight takes him down with his blades. But Cruel attacks both heroes with his razorwires. The other Avengers aren't faring any better. And Varnae continues (from last issue) to draw the power of the Darkforce Dimension into himself. He gloats that he had only 1 weakness, the girl called Bloodline, and she's not here. Of course this is when Brielle Brooks announces herself as Dracula drops her from above and she plunges her sword into Eric Brooks' chest. But Varnae laughs because his takeover of Blade is so complete that it means the body is half his. She may be of Eric's bloodline but not of his. However Miles Morales was made a vampire by Varnae as Blade, so *he* is of Varnae's bloodline. And when he helps Brielle push the blade further through the shared body Varnae starts to spew out the absorbed Darkforce.Doom senses that the vampire lord is weakened and so he strikes with the accumulated magic. All over the world the breaches into the Darkforce Dimension start sucking the Darkforce back, including over Varnae's Temple. Scarlet Witch expels Varnae from Blade's body. Brielle rushes to her father's side as he lies in a pool of blood. He commends her for doing what was necessary. Team leader CM tells SW to enclose Varnae with magic, BP & IM to keep Blade alive and CA & Thor to see what's happened to MK & Vizh. They find that the Bloodcoven have escaped. Carol herself sees that the Darkforce is disappearing and the Sun's coming out.Stephen Strange congratulates Victor Von Doom for a job well done and asks for his Sorcerer Supreme power back. Doom says he promised to return it when he'd saved the world, but he still thinks the world needs more saving. Vampire Spider-Man discovers that as a result of Doom's spell he's no longer affected by sunlight. And Dracula laughs that it will be true of all vamps. And the Avengers see a global broadcast from Dr Doom claiming credit for the defeat of the vampires, and announcing himself as the new Sorcerer Supreme.


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Vampires led by Blade (the Vampire Hunter!) have covered the globe with Darkforce, blocking out the Sun. Blade and his Bloodcoven of super-vampires have taken over the Avengers' orbiting Impossible City. Blade has found the pre-Cataclysmic Atlantean Temple Of The 1st Blasphemy under Wakanda and used the IC's translocation system to drop the huge building on Central Park. Meanwhile Clea and the astral form of Dr Strange (his body has been turned vamp by Blade) have gone to seek help from Dr Doom.Within the Temple we see Blade, the Bloodcoven (carrying the limp forms of Scarlet Witch and Thor) and Black Panther (who Blade has made a vampire and who was instrumental in locating the Temple). Eric Brooks talks about being present when the building was built, and T'Challa realises that he's possessed by someone else. Blade admits that he's Varnae, the 1st vampire - created by a ritual in this Temple in the surface-dweller city that was the original Atlantis.Dr Doom has already worked this out. He knows that Varnae tried to take over half-vampire Blade's body (declared as the perfect host) once before (Blade The Vampire Hunter #5). Doom has an undisclosed (probably magic) way of keeping the vamps out of Latveria, but the Stranges are here to ask for his help in getting rid of the Darkforce. Victor Von Doom says he predicted that problem too. Too may superchars have been using the stuff from the Darkforce Dimension and it was bound to come back and bite them. Clea Strange waves that aside and ask what he can *do* about it. Doom says it will require a great assembly of mages. Stephen Strange offers the use of his contact list but Doom has already brought in some of Stephen's students from the Strange Academy. But he adds 1 more requirement - he must be made Sorcerer Supreme to control the spell.2 more players, Hunter's Moon and Tigra, have gone to Asgard on *their* mission to deal with the worldwide invasion of vampires. They're going to achieve it by stealth in case the Asgardians aren't cooperative (even though their lord Thor has been taken by the enemy). And they've brought along an undisclosed useful ally. They reach a prison cell which contains the Moon God Khonshu (since he tried to take over the Earth in Avengers (2018) #33-38). The duo can't break into the cell but their ally Wrecker's crowbar is imbued with Asgardian magic so he is able to pry the big door open.On the roof of the Temple in Central Park Wanda Maximoff is still trapped in a magic forcefield and Thor is still being drained of Asgardian blood from 'spikes' driven into his body, especially 1 through his brain. Varnae explains to T'Challa how he made the 1st paper copy of Chthon's Darkhold text back in Atlantis. Now he has the Living Darkold (as he calls Wanda who has Chthon imprisoned within her) and the blood of a God, and these will enable him to complete the transformation which only *began* with becoming a vampire. He drinks Thor's blood and calls the Darkforce Dimension to him to make him the Unliving Darkforce, capable of consuming stars!But Panther calls attention to a wrinkle in his plan. The Moon is shining through the Darkforce blanket. And all over the world triangles of light appear in the sky and spew out Khonshu's silver-armoured dead 'Fists', immune to vampirism. And led in New York by the dead Moon Knight. And in the Temple BP pulls the spike from Thor's head and stabs Blade through the heart. Varnae isn't affected but wants to know how T'Challa broke the control of a vampire over 1 he has turned. T'Challa says that Wakanda has face vampires before, and the heart-shaped herb that gives him his powers has been fighting off the infection. However he didn't really expect to kill Varnae. Removing the spike was really to free Thor. And now the Thunder God is eager for revenge. As are the free Avengers (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Captain Marvel, Iron Man and Vision) who now join the fight.


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Blade (Eric Brooks) arranged for Darkforce users to spontaneously emit clouds of Darkforce which covered the skies of the globe, hiding the Sun and allowing his vampire hordes to run unchecked. He sent his super-powered Bloodcoven to take the Avengers' orbiting Impossible City as his base and capture Black Panther, Scarlet Witch and Thor while he himself took down Dr Strange. The other Avengers teamed up with Blade's daughter Bloodline, Dracula, Hunter's Moon, Spider-Man (Miles Morales) and Tigra, and went to seek Stephen Strange's help. But they found him reduced to his astral form, and Spidey turned out to already be a vampire.Blade also turned Panther into a vamp and sent him on a mission last issue, which we now learn was to find something buried beneath Wakanda which dates from the fall of the old surface Atlantis. He's found it and Blade tells the City's AI to spin up its mass-translocation drives and bring the prize to him. We see Thor with a spike through his head still strung up and dripping Asgardian blood into a bowl. Wanda Maximoff is trapped in a mystic forcefield but she notes that the Bloodcoven have returned 1 member short from a mission to capture his daughter. (Last issue Vision flew Megrim into space beyond the Darkforce where she dissolved into nothing in sunlight.)In the Sanctum Sanctorum Miles tries to attack Brielle Brooks but Vision drags him off. Spidey zaps the synthezoid with his bioelectricity and tries again until DrS's wife Clea binds him with the Crimson Bands Of Cyttorak and Stephen uses the Eye Of Agamotto to free him from control (but he's still a vampire). Aghast at what he'd nearly done he apologises to his friend Brielle and says he couldn't fight his master's commands. Strange says he's in the same boat and we see his ravening vampire body kept in check by a spell from Clea.It so happens that nobody's actually used Blade's name, and the girl now asks who's behind all this. Stephen is surprised Dracula didn't tell her but the Vampire Lord says he didn't think she'd accompany him if he did. But now he does explain that her father Blade is the new Lord of the vampires, and only she can kill him as a member of his bloodline. Brielle of course doesn't believe him, and neither does Tigra because he's Voivode of the Vampire Nation. But he claims that Blade's vampires are not his, and his nation will fall along with all others. Hunter's Moon suggests they stop arguing and concentrate on saving the world. Dr Strange agrees, and he and Captain Marvel list the 3 separate problems they must deal with:- the Darkforce, the vampires and Blade. At this point they notice that Bloodline has left, and Dracula and Spider-Man go after her.The others decide to let them go and divvy up the targets. DrS thinks he knows where to get help with the Darkforce. Tigra says that the Midnight Mission that she and Hunter's Moon belong to already have an anti-vampire plan which they can use. HM cryptically adds that they will raise a vampire-proof army, but 1st they need 1 ally. The 4 free Avengers vow to take on Blade and his Bloodcoven, but 1st they must lure him out of their Impossible City. HM gets Clea to send him and Tigra and the '1 ally' somewhere far away. And then she and astral Strange go on their mission.Carol Danvers has a plan to give the world hope and dare Blade to respond. She asks Iron Man to break into all broadcast systems worldwide and Sam Wilson to give an inspiring speech. She may lead the team but as Captain America he's the Icon, which is why Black Panther made sure he escaped from their base (in #1). Tony Stark says he's got autotranslation running so Sam can speak to the world. Sam-Cap reminds everyone how often this world has beaten off menaces such as:- The Cotati (in Empyre). Knull (in King In Black). Hydra (in Secret Empire). Galactus (back in Fantastic Four #48-50 and other places). And they'll beat the vampires.We see people hearing the message all over the world including:- Angry Blade in the Impoosible City. Brielle fleeing through Manhattan. Hunter's Moon, Tigra and someone unrevealed running through the halls of Asgard. Clea and Strange arriving in Latveria before Dr Doom's castle. T'Challa temporarily breaking free of Blade's control in the bowels of Wakanda. Stark asks Danvers if she thinks it'll work. Carol replies that the old Blade wouldn't lose his cool, but whatever he is now isn't so self-controlled.Indeed we see Blade ordering the City to retarget the mass-translocation drives. And a huge building which he calls The Temple Of The First Blasphemy appears over Central Park and crashes down onto it.


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Chapter Two: A Dream Within a Dream
Having learned that Loki was behind his mysterious shooting last issue, Bucky Barnes, the Winter Soldier, who is now "the man on the wall," invades Asgardia in deep space to hunt down the villain. And it is old Evil Loki, not the charming young one, who he is about to confront. The God of Mischief leads him through a Wonderland of madness, set to a fractured rhyme scheme, setting the Frozen Wolves of Niffleheim on him then dragging him out to the wasteland to fight a Frost Giant. Bucky almost falls off the page but he pulls himself back as the giant dissolves into a swarm of bees….
Meanwhile board the ship Archeopterix, Daisy Johnson, running an analysis on the bullet, is visited by a monochrome older Bucky….
Back in Loki’s mindscape, Bucky faces his doppelgangers as they suddenly transform into scarecrows on a bright pink plain. The wolves return but Bucky manages to turn the tables on his foe and stab Loki with a knife. Loki merely introduces a pair of wolf pups as Kyle and Steve, the true guardians of Lower Asgard. Loki then refers him to the planet Mer-Z-Bow and its Princess Ventolin leaves our bewildered hero with "the lost glove is happy"….
Back aboard the Archeopterix, Bucky relates his adventure. The bullet he was shot with last time turns out to have been made of Illum, the only source of which Mer-Z-Bow….


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Chapter One: The Transmigration of Bucky Barnes
On the planet Syro, Bucky Barnes is a prisoner, their ruler pronouncing him guilty of harboring killing thoughts, and sentencing him to transfiguration, having his mind transferred into the Sacred Reznor, a harmless animal resembling an aardvark. Instead SHIELD Agent Daisy Johnson fires a vibranium bullet from the other side of the planet, killing the ruler; Bucky calmly frees himself and leaves the confused natives with the advice to establish a democracy…
In a mysterious darkened room, a mysterious figure mutters mysteriously while working on a mysterious project. No further explanations offered….
Back at Nick Fury’s secret satellite station, Bucky, the new "Man on the Wall," protects Earth from cosmic threats. He is trying to talk Daisy into being his permanent partner but she is reluctant. They head to the Herzog Station to dine on Thai-Skrull fusion cuisine where they continue to kick around his proposal and also Daisy discovers that Bucky has rescued the Sacred Reznor and is concealing it in his coat….
On the planet Mer-z-bow, Princess Ventolin and her counselor Rossz Csillag witness the birth of a new world in a white hole. She wants to abdicate the throne but Rossz is worried about anarchy in the kingdom; she prefers to look at it as keeping the system fluid and adaptable….
Bucky then teams up with Namor the Sub-Mariner to defeat a gang of underwater drug smugglers. Namor seizes the illium, a sedative which can destroy the mind. Bucky questions a captive who claims that Loki is their boss and that if captured to say "The lost glove is happy." Then Bucky is shot by another spacesuit-clad gunman a good distance away….


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Chapter Eight: A Night Flight over Your Heart
On the planet Mer-Z-Bow, Daisy Johnson is chillin’ with her pal Ptero (a pterodactyl). At his suggestion she jumps off a cliff and he catches her and takes her on a thrill ride around the world….

Meanwhile, young Bucky Barnes and old Bucky are hanging out at the palace talking about love and life and then they take another shot of the drug Illum. This opens up their senses to amazing things across the universe and they look in on Queen Ventolin and enter into communion with her full of cosmic wonders—and then the real villain, King Loki, appears….


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Chapter Nine: Whole Planet Takeover
The evil King Loki finds himself trapped in a green transparent field in the court of Queen Ventolin of Mer-Z-Bow. He has been trapped by the machinations of the two versions of Bucky Barnes, the present one and the older one from the future. Suddenly a shot fired from space cracks open the field, releasing Loki, likely fired by Crossbones who is coming to destroy this world. Loki demands full control of the fields of the drug Illum, which the God of Evil plans to distribute among his worshippers to keep them under his power. Ventolin agrees. Loki brags how he manipulated the two Buckies to this planet and sent Daisy Johnson on a mission to stop Crossbones and his gun-planet—with a bomb. Young Bucky punches his lights out and they go to save the world….

Meanwhile, Crossbones knows Daisy is coming for him—with an enormous gun….


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Chapter Five: Future Proof
Arriving at the palace gates in Mer-Z-Bow, future Bucky Barnes is stopped by the guards; he asks the leader Demdike Stare to connect to his mother Ventolin to see if she is safe. As young Bucky and the Queen respond, Crossbones enters the chamber with murder on his mind. As Bucky engages him, the guards head for the Polarity Engine and older Bucky climbs the tower on the outside. Crossbones overcomes his quarry and as he raises his knife to deliver a killing blow, older Bucky blows his hand off with a carefully placed shot. The gravely wounded Daisy Johnson then arrives and blasts the villain to hell with her quake powers but Crossbones had a back-up plan: pressing a button, he triggers an explosion which destroys the entire tower….


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Chapter Ten: Into the Void
Young Bucky and Old Bucky race to find
Daisy Johnson who went after Crossbones, not knowing it was a trap.
To their surprise, they are met by Daisy boasting of having shot and
captured Crossbones. What she doesn't know was that the villain has a
healing factor....King Loki plays telepathic chess with
Queen Ventolin as she allows him control of  Mer-Z-Bow's supply of
Ilium, which he plans to cart away, ruining the planet's society.
They spar verbally before she announces that he has been busted....
Daisy and the Buckies return to the
fortress to discover that Crossbones has recovered from his injuries
enough to take off in a spacecraft. Older Bucky chooses to go after
him and stop him, aware that it will likely cost him his own life.
They fly through a white hole that leads back to their own
universe...and in the vast void, Bucky collides with Crossbones'
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Chapter Seven: Appropriate Response
Crossbones single-handedly wipes out every hero in the universe; the last one is Iron Man who calls his foe insane before he dies. Crossbones notes that “sometimes goin’ insane is the only appropriate response.” He returns home to his robot servitor Mr Lobkins for medical attention. His mind drifts back to his childhood where he missed his daddy—the daddy who taught him that “the universe doesn’t make any sense: it’s just men fighting, organisms fighting, ideas fighting, until death and rebirth. Man hates man and the world is insane.” He recalls living on a paradise world with his loving father, a space soldier he looked up to. Then one day the planet was destroyed by an attack from space; the loss of all he’s known made him what he is. And today he killed all the heroes in the universe just to prove a point to the Winter Soldier: that life is hate and all is war. But underneath Crossbones is still a frightened child who wants his daddy….


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Chapter Eleven: Cuddle Time
Older Bucky Barnes, having crashed his ship
into Crossbones', awakens on a beach on Syro (the planet he
“liberated” at the start of issue #1) to learn that his enemy is
dead—and that the Sacred Reznor had stowed away on his ship and is
now returned to his home planet. Bucky's victory is celebrated with a
parade and party and he is taken to be with Ventolin, who has helped
rebuild this world which had been destroyed.

Meanwhile, young Bucky returns to
Ventolin to learn she has punched out Loki and locked him in prison.
Daisy Johnson arrives with Ptero and she and Demdike Stare plan to go
adventuring around the universe. Bucky and Ventolin stand before the
polarity Paradox Engine and gaze into each other's eyes while knowing
that “the lost glove is happy.”


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Chapter Four: Past the Known Universe
As Bucky Barnes and Ventolin, ruler of Mer-Z-Bow, rest contentedly in each other’s arms, Daisy Johnson meets up with the older Bucky outside the city. Old Bucky explains why he has come into his past….
….Two hundred years in the future when the universe is finally at peace, Bucky lives contentedly in a beautiful alien home, with a devoted robot servant/friend. He plans to look into his past: he activates a huge-multicolored globe and it shows him all the parallel universes in which he and Ventolin have been lovers. There is one jarring exception: when he looks in on Universe 616, he sees his younger self lying in a pool of blood. Bucky gears up and using the power of a black hole turned white by a quantum bounce, he is sent back in time to rescue the young Winter Soldier….
Back on Mer-Z-Bow, as young Bucky is drinking in the experience of the Polarity Paradox Engine (which looks like older Bucky’s multi-colored globe in the future) shown him by Ventolin, Daisy Johnson is rushing to warn him of his impending doom. She rushes through the tunnels of the city and turning a corner he runs into Crossbones, who brutally stabs her….


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Chapter Three: Romancing Space
Having been directed to the planet Mer-Z-Bow by King Loki, Bucky Barnes is being briefed on the planet by Daisy Johnson. Ventolin Xtal is the ruler of the telepathic Pao-Ree and she wants to abolish the monarchy which, according to Nick Fury, would destabilize the region—so she must die. They land on the planet and are greeted by guards ensuring they come in peace. Bucky wants a date with the Queen so they arrange it. Meanwhile, a much older Bucky is watching from 30 miles away….
Bucky is ushered into the presence of Ventolin where they each reveal they have had a dream about the other. Wherein they met and kissed…..
87 miles away, guards investigating a mysterious spaceship are the victims of a perception bomb. Then an invader quickly cuts them all to pieces with a knife. It is Crossbones….
Ventolin takes Bucky on a tour of this world’s flora. They are delighting in one another’s company. Then she mentions that in her dream, after he kissed her, then he killed her. Bucky promises he won’t….