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Continued from UNCANNY X-MEN #513.Beast has been brought back to his cell in the H.A.M.M.E.R. west coast base on Alcatraz Island after being subjected to the Omega Machine. Professor X contacts him telepathically from the next cell and learns that Hank McCoy's fur is falling off and his fingernails are falling out.A strangely solicitous Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) complains to Dark Beast that the machine was only supposed to sap mutants' powers and not otherwise harm them. We then get the usual scene of 2 villainous 'allies' threatening each other.Norman goes away and bitches about it to Sentry. Bob Reynolds is depressed as usual and Osborn tries to cheer him up by claiming that he and Emma Frost know what they're doing.Black Queen herself is leading NO's Dark X-Men against a bunch of mutants protesting Osborn's curfew in San Francisco's Union Square. Emma tackles their leader Hellion. And it's Dagger vs Adam-X, Daken vs Avalanche, Mimic vs Match, Sub-Mariner vs Sunspot and Weapon Omega vs Meld as Cloak's cloak swallows Lorelei. EF has to stop Daken from using his claws on Avalanche, who is almost grateful to disappear into Cloak's darkness.Hellion blasts Black Queen and Daken. Namor headbutts Sunspot. Dagger kicks Adam-X in the face breaking his nose. Cloak takes him, and has probably also already teleported  Match, Meld and Sunspot because Hellion suddenly finds himself alone facing the whole team. This kind of televised confrontation was what he wanted. He believes it will show mutants under the jackboot of oppressors, but Ms Frost says they are a mutant hero team arresting a mob trashing the park.UXM#513 ended with Cyclops deciding it was time to talk with Norman Osborn. So now we see him land on Alcatraz via jetpack, and ask the HAMMER troops to take him to their leader. Victoria Hand won't let him into the base but she asks her boss to come out to meet him. Osborn tries to play nice but seems to be leading up to asking Scott to resign as mutant leader, presumably in favour of *his* candidate Emma Frost.But Cyclops cuts him off and asks Osborn to leave town. The rioting is now under control. Scott will allow Osborn to keep his curfew for 1 more night while he gets things tidied up. He suggests Norman say that they've discussed things and agreed that the city and the mutants can look after themselves now, so it's time to go.Norman is gobsmacked. But he responds that Cyclops has proven himself a failure as mutant leader. And now that Scott's turned down his offer to make things easy, the kid gloves are off. Cyke jets away, telling Osborn to remember that he *tried* to end things peacefully.Hawkeye (Bullseye) of the Dark Avengers isn't happy as he sees the DXM stealing their thunder - and their teammate Daken now running with their rivals. Ms Marvel (Moonstone) is calmer, saying it's safer for mutants to police mutants. Bullseye turns to Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)) for support. Gargan agrees with him but accepts Osborn's orders. Ares just agrees that as warriors they should be out there. Sentry sticks his head in to say the other team is back.Osborn and Dark Beast welcome the DXM back home with Hellion in tow. It turns out this is where Cloak sent the other 6 to, and they are on their knees handcuffed with metal masks covering their heads. Daken kicks Hellion in the stomach to make him assume the same position. Black Queen berates him again and Daken answers back.NO tries to break it up as the DAv arrive (minus Sentry). Frost turns on Osborn and demands that mutants be accorded their civil rights. He replies that the helmets are merely power-dampeners designed by Beast. But Emma adds that she *knows* this isn't the real Beast but his Dark double from another timeline. She demands to see what they're doing with their mutant prisoners, and Norman offers her the grand tour including DB's Omega Machine. (She was about to be given that tour in UXM#513 but it was interrupted when the DXM had to be scrambled.)As EF leaves with NO and DB she tells her team to behave while she's gone. But Bullseye wants to know whether Daken is an Avenger or an X-Man. Daken wants to know why it's his business. And soon the teams are about to clash.Osborn encourages Emma to look through the viewports into any of the cells. She sees Erg looking dejected, but Norman explains that the process initially gives them something like a mild flu, but there are no long term effects and Henry McCoy is working on eliminating even the initial symptoms. The process merely limits a mutant's ability to use his power.But Prof X in his cell detects Emma's presence. But he knows that she's currently in her diamond-flesh battle form - so she can hear him but can't think back. However she manages to keep having a conversation with Osborn while actually replying to Charles Xavier out loud.Charles tells her that Osborn is lying as she expected. They're killing the real Beast. Emma asks Norman what the process does to mutants with permanent physical manifestations, and she asks to see Beast. But Osborn claims he's not here - the police must have him. Prof X tells her McCoy is next door to him. Emma points to those 2 cells and asks who's in them. Dark Beast says they're just storage lockers. Emma looks in 1 and sees a jumble of equipment. Xavier says he sees her looking right at him. DB whispers to NO that the image inducer in the window seems to be working.Finally at St Francis Hospital Simon Trask, now captioned as Human Sentinel Zero, speaks to the people he has infected and now controls. And he sends them out to kill mutants.Continued in UNCANNY X-MEN #514.


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In Latveria 37 years ago Morgana Le Fay appears out of the past to kill young Victor von Doom in his sleep. She's angry because the grown-up Dr Doom came back in time to become her lover and learn extra sorcery from her. But then he left and never returned (because he was imprisoned in Mighty Avengers #11). But she now decides this revenge would not be sweet enough. She must kill him after he's betrayed her, and when he's awake, so he knows why he's dying.

In the present Norman Osborn, supported by his right-hand woman Victoria Hand, addresses his troops selected from agents of Hydra, SHIELD and Thunderbolts (not the supercharacters). He tells them Tony Stark's SHIELD is no more. They are now members of its replacement HAMMER, and their job is to keep the peace in the world.

Meanwhile in Latveria where HAMMER agents brought Dr Doom home at the end of last issue they have found the ruins of Castle Doom overrun with monsters under the control of Morgana. The pair exchange sorcerous blasts, and some of the HAMMER guys get caught in the crossfire. Then Morgana sends her minions into the fray. A HAMMER survivor radios for help.

Back to Norman and Victoria. Osborn is in his Iron Patriot armour and they're in Avengers Tower with the Dark Avengers watching their debut press conference (last issue again) on the news and celebrating. Norman lays down the law:- None of them are to talk to the press. (Ares doesn't take orders but agrees because he doesn't want to talk to the press.) And they're not allowed to fight with each other. Anyone who breaks the rules will be imprisoned in Thunderbolts Mountain. He urges them to get to know one another.

Venom/Mac Gargan/Spider-Man wants to know what they're going to do. Osborn and strategist Ares will prepare a list of targets which they will proactively strike. Moonstone/Karla Sofen/Ms Marvel will be field leader, but only when Iron Patriot himself isn't there. But they will all take orders from Hand in the absence of Osborn. Marvel Boy/Noh-Varr/Captain Marvel wants the team to hunt Skrulls leftover from the Secret Invasion, but Osborn wants to leave that to someone else. Bullseye/Hawkeye suggests going after Tony Stark, but Norman wants him left to the courts. NO wants targets that will win public approval - and he doesn't want Stark to get any underdog sympathy. Ms Marvel wants to know who the Wolverine-wannabe is? (It's Logan's son Daken.)

Meanwhile Doom and Morgana are still at it with head-to-head magic force. But finally Morgana breaks through Doom's defence and he is shattered by her blast - and by 1 of her biggest monsters which pounds him into the ground.

And back at the Tower Victoria Hand tells her boss about the SOS which shows Doom in magical battle. It's a surprise to naive proper Avenger Sentry that Doom is out of jail. But Osborn realises the team now have their 1st mission.

Morgana is about to deliver the coup-de-grace with a (magic?) dagger when the Dark Av arrive in a quinjet, but Iron Patriot, Ms Marvel and Sentry flying under their own power. Ares recognises Morgana. And a much bigger monster flies up and grabs the jet in its jaws - bringing it crashing to the ground. Iron Patriot orders Morgana to cease and desist. When she refuses he sends Sentry zooming in to tear her head off.

The rest of the team are impressed, but childlike Sentry needs reassurance that he didn't do something bad. They are also impressed that Morgana beat Dr Doom. Noh-Varr tells them she time-travelled here to kill Doom from the time of King Arthur. Osborn orders a clean-up team and a spare jet.

But then Sentry screams, there's an explosion and he's gone. In his place stands Morgana with her head still on. She seems to claim that she did die, but she's come back from the past to face them again. Ares invokes his father Zeus's authority to demand that she go back, but Morgana points out that he no longer speaks for Zeus. And she casts a spell which takes control of Venom, makes him grow huge and try to eat Ares. And another spell scatters the rest of the team, followed by the monsters.


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We begin with a flashback to 3 years ago where Victoria Hand is a Business Affairs Operative in S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Washington base. She is sparring in the gym with her lover and fellow-Agent Isabelle. Isabelle is trying to talk Victoria out of sending a note to big boss Nick Fury telling him how much money he's been spending in years fighting Hydra and A.I.M. and never actually defeating them.A week later she does attach the note to the quarterly budget. Fury is not impressed. (We see him in the SHIELD helicarrier HQ with Dum Dum Dugan, probably Val de Fontaine and some say Sharon Carter.) Victoria gets transferred to Portland, Oregon and Isabelle breaks off their relationship.Now Ms Hand is Norman Osborn's right-hand woman in SHIELD's replacement H.A.M.M.E.R. and she's currently commanding *their* helicarrier HQ because Iron Patriot (NO) and the rest of the Dark Avengers have just disappeared over the little town of Dinosaur, Colorado.Sort-of inside the town naked Norman faces a menacing group led by a man who introduces himself as Owen Reece called the Molecule Man. Osborn doesn't know him, but *he*'s been monitoring the goings on in the outside world. Owen explains to the confused man that he controls all the molecules around himself, and so controls local reality. Osborn came here so he's now in Owen's world.Norman is beginning to recover his composure and tries to strike a deal, expecting to come out on top as usual. He asks Owen what he and his friends want. The friends (Beyonder, Enchantress, Mephisto and Zarathos) say Molecule Man created them to be his companions. But Reece insists that everything here is still real, just reality controlled by him.NO now tries to take over the initiative. He insists that Reece let him and his team go, and come out into the real world to discuss terms. Owen says he doesn't mean to threaten anyone, he just wants to be left alone in this piece of the world he claims for himself. Osborn responds that this is part of the USA, and the people he has abducted are US citizens.Molecule Man says he could easily kill Norman but he's not going to. Because if he did then they'd just send more foes against him, and he'd have to kill *them*. And eventually they'd send Reed Richards who would find some way to capture him. Osborn suggests he move somewhere outside the US then he could leave him alone. But Reece says this is where he grew up, so *this* is his home.Osborn again demands to be freed with his team and other captives. Molecule Man says NO should still be afraid of him - there are worse things than death. And Osborn is sent away ...... to reappear dressed as Spider-Man (minus the face mask) apparently on top of a pillar of the George Washington Bridge in New York, facing a pregnant Gwen Stacy. He backs away and falls off the bridge into the river. He hears Owen Reece's voice saying he knows all about Norman. His brain is made of molecules so MM can read all his secrets, and control what he perceives.The scene changes and NO is now Green Goblin facing a horde of heroes who are all out to get him. (We clearly see Thor, Captain America, Iron Man and Wolverine.) The voiceover claims that everyone expects him to fail in his current position of power, even those who supposedly support him. (The characters we see now are Ares, presumably the Mac Gargan/Venom Spider-Man and I guess his own Iron Patriot armour.) Everyone expects his fragile psyche to eventually snap, and MM intends to hurry the process along.In the helicarrier Deputy Director Victoria Hand is trying to stem the rising panic in her subordinates (and in herself). The main suggestion she's hearing is to wipe the town off the map before whatever got the Avengers gets them. But she says she's working on an alternative.Molecule Man meanwhile has turned his attention to the Sentry, who is now in an unstable state in what looks like the High School sports arena. Owen says he can't figure out what Sentry is made of - he doesn't 'taste' like any molecules he's experienced before. Bob Reynolds says he won't attack Reece if he lets him go, but Owen can't believe that because Osborn sent Sentry here to kill him. And he tears Sentry apart again, with regret because they could have been friends.Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)) is running through the town pleading for help (his current medications have made him a wimp) when MM rips the Venom symbiote away from Gargan. And the symbiote turns on its 'master' and consumes him. And then dissolves into a puddle.Next he visits Ms Marvel (Moonstone) in a cave. He tells her it took him a while to work out that this new set of Avengers he saw on the news were really villains pretending to be heroes. He tries to talk to Karla Sofen but she lashes out at him. So he leaves her in pain.Wolverine's son Daken is in the vegetable aisle of a supermarket. He's being consumed from within by vegetation. MM realises that it isn't working because of the healing factor Akihiro inherited from his father. So Owen ups the attack and Daken is burst open by vegetable growth.Then MM visits Ares who is now frozen like a statue in what is probably a simulacrum of his own apartment. But now he has to decide what to do with the 'heroes'. He has to send them back or Richards will come for him. But sending them back as they are now will be just as bad.Enchantress and Zarathos appear and try to convince Owen to run away (as Osborn suggested). If he lets these Avengers go they'll *kill* him because they're not really heroes. Suddenly they're out in the main street, and joined by Beyonder and Mephisto. We discover what MM has done to Hawkeye (Bullseye). He turned him into water, but this is now seething, angry water.The 4 continue to urge Reece to kill the Avengers and run away. Owen doesn't want to do it but they suggest that's because he secretly *wants* to be punished for the people he's killed. MM weakly protests that he was protecting his *home*.Then Victoria Hand walks into town and surrenders to him on behalf of the USA.


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Last issue the Dark Avengers came to Latveria to help Dr Doom fight Morgana Le Fay. Iron Patriot/Norman Osborn thought they'd won when he played his trump card and got Sentry to tear her head off. But she came back from that and now Sentry is apparently disintegrated.

But before we return to the ongoing fight we get a flashback to some days ago. Sentry in his Watchtower perched atop Avengers Tower gets a visit from Osborn who's come to introduce himself as his new neighbour - the new owner of the Tower below. NO's read the file on Bob Reynolds and knows what to expect. And he's got a plan.

Bob/Sentry is very unsure of himself, almost childlike. His wife Lindy is afraid of him because of his evil alternate self the Void, and spends most of her time sleeping.

Norman commiserates and admits that he too has an evil other self the Green Goblin. He too hears a voice in his head telling him to do bad things. But his good side is in control now, and he wants to help Bob to reach the same place.

Reynolds knows that the Void is part of him but still thinks they are 2 separate persons. But he admits that he can't be sure which 1 he is even at this moment. Osborn latches on to that as proof that there is only one person - Sentry/Void.

Bob also admits that there was no Void before the event that made him the Sentry. Norman claims that the Void is another result of the changes that gave him his powers. But that was a physical change in his system, like the chemical imbalance that produced the Goblin. And he Norman is proof that it is possible control your system with a combination of mind and medication.

He persuades Bob to start with the mantra "There is no Void". And as proof he asks the Void to strike him down - with no response. The next step is for Bob to shower, shave, eat and sleep. Reynolds says Sentry doesn't need to do any of those things. But Norman says he should do them because he likes to do them, and because they remind him he is human. He opines that Bob denying his humanity created a void which the Void stepped in to fill.

NO offers to help BR every step of his recovery. And to make that easier he wants Sentry to be a part of his new (Dark) Avengers. And he leaves Bob to clean himself up as he orders in some food for them. But Lindy is still almost-catatonic.

To link the 2 parts of the story together we now see Morgana in 690 AD mystically viewing this bit of the future. She goes on to scan the lives of all the DAv up to the point where Sentry killed her last issue. Now she is prepared to go back to the future and face them again. (She gives a hand-waving explanation why she can't change the future before the point where she's killed.)

And now here she is with her monster/demon horde fighting the rest of the DAv. (Doom is still hors de combat.) Iron Patriot orders Victoria Hand not to send in HAMMER backup troops - if God of War Ares can't defeat these foes then mere humans have no chance. Instead he orders her to send him all the info she can get on Morgana. Meanwhile Ares slugs his way towards the witch, but she turns him to stone with a spell.

Hawkeye/Bullseye is up next and peppers her with arrows. Which appears to kill her - again. The others gather round Victor von Doom who is awake but can't move. And then Morgana returns - again.

IP holds her off with a force field. But she takes over Spider-Man/Venom, like last issue, and this time he goes after Hawkeye. Then Patriot grabs Doom and flies off (despite Victor refusing to accept help), leaving Captain Marvel/Marvel Boy, Ms Marvel/Moonstone and Wolverine/Daken facing the monsters.

Osborn asks Doom how he would defeat Le Fay. Victor says he'd use his armour's abilities to go back in time and stop her before she starts this battle. But he can't do anything because she's mystically frozen his body. Norman then tries to persuade him to (mentally?) drop his cyber-security and let him control the armour under Doom's instructions. Von Doom is dead set against such sacrilege.

Morgana attacks the pair on a flying dragon waving a magic sword. Doom relents and lets Osborn in. They create a time cube with a preset destination, and IP flies them into it as Morgana screams her rage.

Back in 690 AD Morgana is casting the spell she uses to scan time for Dr Doom as we saw in #1. But this 'time' it doesn't show her a future but her own present with Doom and Patriot standing behind her. She turns and sees it's true.


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The Dark Avengers are in Latveria fighting Morgana Le Fay and her demon horde to protect Dr Doom from her. They're not doing very well:- They've killed her twice but she keeps coming back from the past. Sentry has been disintegrated. Ares is turned to stone. Spider-Man/Venom has been taken over and is trying to eat Hawkeye/Bullseye. Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) has fled with Doom.

Now Captain Marvel/Marvel Boy and Wolverine/Daken fight monsters on the ground Ms Marvel/Moonstone takes to the sky to meet Morgana on a flying dragon. Morgana tries to kill her with a mystic sword but Karla Sofen avoids it with her Moonstone intangibility power. And then blasts Le Fay off the beast.

Meanwhile IP and DD have gone back to Morgana's home time of 690 AD. Specifically to just before she launched herself through time to initiate this battle. Morgana tries to make them distrust each other - but they already do! Then she taunts Victor von Doom that he can't afford to kill her because their timelines are too interwoven. His response is to cast a spell in a language Le Fay doesn't recognise. And she is sent into the magic cauldron she uses to see through time.

Doom tells Osborn she was right - he daren't kill her. So he just sent her elsewhen. Norman tries to make sense of it all. Morgana has been stopped from starting the future fight in which she did die - twice. But during which she was able to return to the battle because she was still alive here? Victor just dismisses him as ignorant in such matters.

Morgana finds herself in 1,000,000 BC being chased by a T-Rex and some cavemen. (Impossibility piled on impossibility!)

Doom tells Patriot they must leave the Arthurian age immediately to avoid damaging the timestream more than they had to. And for the same reason they must return to exactly the moment they left - he can't allow Osborn any opportunity to change things nearer the present either. When Norman protests Victor points out that he owes his current position of power to being in the right place at the right time to kill the Skrull Queen and end the Secret Invasion - small changes in time could jeopardise that. NO concedes the point, and Doom summons his time cube.

When they get back the battle is over. Demons lie strewn about but Morgana's not there. Venom is free of his possession and apologises for attacking Bullseye - but Bullseye calmly says he'll kill him later. Ares is still stone until Doom magically restores him. Sentry is still gone. Osborn calls Victoria Hand to send a HAMMER craft to pick them up.

They survey the ruins of Doom's castle. Osborn brought the team to Victor's aid because Doom is part of his Cabal. But his Avengers can't be seen openly helping him so it won't happen again. And Norman will keep this incident secret, including Doom being defeated by Le Fay.

After they've gone Doom creates his time cube again and uses it to bring his castle from its unruined past.

On the way back Moonstone tries her psychological tricks on Marvel Boy by praising his battle skill. And telling him she is Kree like him, or at least the moonstone bonded with her is Kree. Ares smiles as he sees MB admiring her curves as she walks away. Norman gets some news from Victoria about Clint Barton, the real Hawkeye/Ronin, giving a television interview to insult him. NO wants to respond, despite Hand warning him not to.

And Sentry rematerialises in front of their plane. And Osborn doesn't like the look Bob Reynolds gives him.


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The whole of this issue is a flashback to 3 days ago, continuing from the same-dated flashback last issue.The caption suggests that the initial scene takes place in the H.A.M.M.E.R. helicarrier hovering near Avengers Tower but the initial voice balloons come from the Tower itself. I believe the voice balloons are correct.Victoria Hand interrupts Norman Osborn and demands she listen to him or she'll resign as his 2nd-in-command. The prime job he gave her was to warn him if he was losing it, and she strongly believes he's pushing himself too hard and risks reawakening his Green Goblin persona. She wants him to choose a psychiatrist from a list she's prepared. Under pressure he agrees to see a shrink, but trusts her to choose the best 1.Ms Hand is also worried about the Dark Avengers. She shows him Ms Marvel (Moonstone) and Hawkeye (Bullseye) making out in the Avengers Tower Meeting Room. She believes that Moonstone is deliberately flaunting her power over the men in the team to disturb Norman (we see her smiling deliberately at the camera). She's already cost them Noh-Varr (who left after #5, but Osborn still thinks they can win him back). Norman gives her full authority to deal with the situation.Osborn then mentions that Ares is creating a range of plans for an invasion of Asgard, which Victoria thinks unwise but doesn't push it this time.Hand and some HAMMER Agents interrupt the couple and she tells Karla Sofen to go to her room while she talks to Hawkeye. Moonstone refuses so Victoria zaps her with a electrical/neural gun and the Agents take her away. Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)) and Wolverine (Daken) have entered the room as Ms Hand faces down Bullseye. Osborn is watching on a screen. But they are all interrupted by an alarm.Outside Sentry is hovering in the air and jagged tendrils of darkness are descending on New York. And his Watchtower base on top of the Tower is warping. Osborn flies out as Iron Patriot to confront his most powerful Dark Avenger and finds Void in control of the body, who won't let him talk to Robert Reynolds. Meanwhile the dark lightning strikes the streets and Ms Hand sends the 3 male Avengers to save civilians. She calls in the Initiative and anyone else she can get hold of.Patriot asks Void why he's broken their deal. Void says he's tired of fighting himself. He can't kill Bob, and Bob won't let him kill his wife Lindy. So he's going to make the world a place they won't want to live in, and they'll go away. He avoids telling Osborn what Lindy has done to make him so angry (trying to kill him in #9 and a flashback last issue).Norman switches tactics as Spider-Man (Peter Parker) and Spider-Woman of the New Avengers join in the fire-fighting. He says that he can help Void control his life but this isn't the way. This will just draw down the wrath of the super-heroes. And folks like Reed Richards, Tony Stark and Victor Von Doom *will* find a way to destroy him (even if only temporarily like they've done before).Suddenly the darkness retreats and all is quiet. Norman Osborn knows he's got the upper hand now and warns Void if he ever does that again he'll let the super-community deal with him. And says that tonight he'll have a mission for him that will suit his 'vision of the world'. Then he notices Sentry look towards the now-unwarped Watchtower and his shocked wife Lindy.Later Norman goes to see Bullseye and tells him to kill Lindy when he gives the signal.


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Continued from DARK AVENGERS #8.This issue starts with a flashback (supposedly 7 days ago). Beast has walked into the bedroom of Scott Summers and Emma Frost to announce that he's taking the X-Club scientists on a mission. But when he returns he wants to know what secrets they have been keeping from everyone else, or he won't stay to watch the team fall apart. It turns out that the secrets are things the pair have been keeping from each other as well. Cyclops wants to unburden himself to Emma, but she wants them to both keep their secrets secret.(An editor note says this continues in Dark X-Men: The Confession 1-shot, which doesn't have the Utopia banner but like DXM: The Beginning is considered part of the crossover. It continues with Scott sleeping on the couch for a few days, then Emma says she's leaving to kill Norman Osborn. But Scott persuades her to share minds with him. Emma finds out about the dark deeds Scott has had his secret black ops X-Force team doing, and some of the consequences. Scott learns some of Emma's dark past, ending with her joining Osborn's Cabal. They each assure the other that (s)he's not as as bad as (s)he thinks, and they'll back each other's actions even though everyone else will hate them, but they'll have no more secrets from each other. It ends with a flashforward to the battle in this issue. The rest takes place sometime before this crossover.)In Dark Avengers #8 the X-Club scientists raised from the ocean floor off the coast of San Francisco an island with buildings on. The X-Men have teleported all mutants to it, and Cyclops declared it a mutant haven. They now await the response of Norman Osborn who has arrived as Iron Patriot in a flying craft with his Dark Avengers and the remains of his Dark X-Men. He tells Mystique to stay behind in disguise as Prof X to talk to the inevitable reporters (we don't actually see her/him until the end of this issue). Then he drops some of the others onto the island.Cyclops watches with Angel, Armor, Colossus, Emma Frost, Iceman, Sub-Mariner, Wolverine and X-23 (and Dazzler?). He sends Logan and Laura Kinney to take down Weapon Omega (of the DXM) and Daken (of both DXM and DAv), and Angel to deal with Dark Hawkeye (Bullseye) who is firing arrows at Anole, Mercury and Rockslide. Warren Worthington swoops down and carries Bullseye off.Bling, Frenzy and Nekra pile on Dark Ms Marvel (Moonstone) to get revenge for her attack on them at the Castro in DAv/UXM: Utopia, while Colossus, Magma and Match tackle Dark Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)). The 2 fire powered mutants engulf Venom in flames but Colossus just goes in with his armoured fists. He too has a grudge against Venom since that same issue.And now we see X-23 and Dark Wolverine (Daken) slash each other with their claws (as depicted on the cover of DAv#8) while Wolverine closes in on Weapon Omega who his lashing out with all the energy he absorbed from mutant prisoners via Dark Beast's Omega Machine. But Wolvie just stabs him in the stomach in payback for him killing most of Alpha Flight (in New Av #16 when he was the Collective). Angel has taken Bullseye to the woods of Marin County and attacks him in his metal-winged Archangel/Death form - it's arrows vs flechettes.His advanced troops aren't doing too well so Osborn decides to join in as Iron Patriot with his other 2 big guns Ares and Sentry. Namor meets Sentry head-on and their battle in the sky takes them through several San Fran skyscrapers before they land and Subby throws a bus at Bob Reynolds. IP and Cyclops exchange blasts from gauntlets and optic visor. Ares just starts smashing walls. Osborn has Summers' body raised above his head to dash him to the ground when Dani Moonstar arrives as a Valkyrie to challenge Ares on her winged horse Darkwind, flanked by her old New Mutants colleagues Cannonball, Karma, Magik, Magma and Sunspot. (The horse, a magic sword and her returned Valkyrie-ness are obviously what she got from Hela in DAv#8.)Meanwhile Dark Beast of Osborn's Dark X-Men is enjoying slashing Dazzler and Northstar until Psylocke and X-Club scientists Dr Nemesis and Madison Jeffries attack *him* in revenge for his treatment of fellow X-Club'er Beast. Colossus and Venom are still battling it out surrounded by Match's flames. Iceman knocks DXM'er Mimic out of the sky and X-pupils Graymalkin, Loa, Mercury, Onyxx, Rockslide, Surge and maybe others pile on him to keep him down. And Armor and Pixie join X-23 to help her with Daken.The real Professor X was rescued from Alcatraz along with all the other mutant prisoners in DAv#8. But he's now in a hospital bed in a bad way. Emma Frost goes to see him for help with the last component of Scott Summers' plan - they must take the uber-powered Sentry out of the equation. She reminds Charles Xavier how she created a White Room in in Bob Reynolds head (New Av #9-10 except she didn't call it a White Room then, but it *was* white) to bring him back to sanity. She needs Charles' help to get in there again (as we see Sentry pounding Sub-Mariner into the pavement).Next instant we see Emma (changed from her DXM Dark Queen outfit to a White Queen version) in the White Room. But the images of Bob's life that papered the wall are now all blank white, except 1 black square. Peering through this she sees Bob Reynolds in a black version of the room (with 1 white square framing her head). Bob says he's been in there so long he thought everyone had forgotten him and he doesn't know how to get out. Emma pulls him through the white/black hole into the White Room. She reminds him that this is a safe place where he can regain control of his body while she holds his evil alter ego the Void at bay.Bob opens Sentry's eyes and sees the destruction around him, and flies away. (But Subby seems to be standing unharmed.) However in the White Room Ms Frost can't control the Void. She's suddenly back in reality with Xavier as the Void exits Sentry's mind through hers and gives chase to 'his' body. White Queen has reflexively transformed to her diamond form, and Prof X tells her to stay like that because a bit of the Void is trapped within her.Iron Patriot and Cyclops see Void chasing Sentry into the distance, and Scott says that's 1 of Osborn's pieces off the board. Norman says he still has Ares the God of War, but Cyclops knows/hopes he has a successful counter-goddess. And just then they see Moonstar thrust her sword into Ares and declare that she's more than a Valkyrie now - she was made to stop gods. And Ares does appear to be stopped.Elsewhere Wolverine is battling his way through the storm of power Weapon Omega is throwing at him. The 3 X-females strike Daken simultaneously, but he guts X-23 with his claws as she does the same to him. Mimic is wilting under a multiple assault. And Void and Sentry are out in space.Iron Patriot still defeats Cyclops but it's a hollow victory. Moonstone reaches him and shows him the assembled mutants arrayed against him. She says if they kill 1 mutant they'll have to kill them all - and genocide won't play well for the TV news cameras. Scott reminds Norman he gave him a chance to give up and leave San Francisco (DAv#7) before things fell apart. Now IP has to take his troops and flee.Now Cyclops makes a statement to camera. This new island is now the mutant homeland. They won't menace humans. In fact the X-Men will continue to fight super-menaces for them as before. But they will also defend their space.Norman Osborn calls his own press conference with his DAv and DXM including 'Prof X'. He announces that they have driven Scott Summers' mutants off American soil, and they must stay imprisoned on their island. Now that his job here is done the curfew will be lifted and he and his teams will leave San Francisco.Next morning on the island they're calling Utopia the work of making a home begins. Emma reminds Scott the last time they lived on an island things went wrong. But they have hope for the future.


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Utopia part 1
Simon Trask has led a Humanity Now! Coalition march from Sacramento to San Francisco where the X-Men are currently based in support of Proposition X which would restrict the rights of mutants to breed. He cites in evidence the dire results when the 1st new mutant since M-Day was born in Cooperstown Alaska.They pass pro-mutant protesters in Market St until they finally face some actual mutants led by Beast with Anole, Dazzler, Graymalkin and Northstar who want a peaceful confrontation. Trask pretends to keep his followers in line, but when some young mutant hotheads including Glob Herman and Rockslide led by Hellion (with Pixie trying to calm him down) lunge forward Trask gets the fight he really wanted. Anole, Graymalkin and Pixie get hurt, the police arrive to break it up and Beast is tasered. Hellion is arrested kicking Trask when he's down.The events are witnessed on TV at the X-Men's Graymalkin Industries base in the Marin Headlands by many mutants including Adam-X (maybe), Angel, Armor, Cipher, Colossus, Loa, Match, Mercury, Nightcrawler, Onyxx, the Stepford Cuckoos, Trance (possibly) and their leaders Cyclops and Emma Frost/White Queen. That pair go to Frisco City Hall to meet Mayor Sadie Sinclair who wants to know if Scott Summers can keep 'his' mutants under control. Cyclops wants Beast freed. But the negotiations are interrupted by injured Trask holding a press conference outside St Francis Memorial Hospital, and Norman Osborn arriving in San Fran International Airport threatening to take over law enforcement in the city.We see various reactions worldwide and beyond. Storm is by the bedside of her husband T'Challa, no longer Black Panther, as he continues to recover from the near-fatal attack by Doctor Doom (BP(2009)#1-6). Wolverine leaves the New Avengers in New York and heads to SF (but he won't get here until Uncanny X-Men #514). In Latveria Dr Doom and fellow Cabal member Loki (in male form again) toast the increasing chaos. Franklin Richards is off in deep space (or an alternate universe) with his parents (on an otherwise unrecorded journey) but he can still get current Earth TV transmissions - and he asks if people hate *him* because he's a mutant.Back in SF mutants including Bling, Frenzy, Karma, Nekra and Rhapsody clash with anti-mutant protesters and the Castro St Theatre gets fire-bombed. Angel flies Match in to subdue the flames. Ink and Nightcrawler are in action on Nob Hill. Loa, Mercury and Onyxx are under attack on Telegraph Hill. In Hayes Valley Colossus is trying to stop Rockslide's rampage while Surge keeps people away. And on the Embarcadero Toad confronts Cyclops, Emma Frost and the 3 Stepford Cuckoos. The crowd attack Scott but the cops see them off. A cop tells Cyke that things are getting out of control. Summers wonders who can restore law and order ...... as Osborn, with his right-hand woman Victoria Hand, assembles his Dark Avengers in H.A.M.M.E.R.'s west coast HQ on Alcatraz Island. 5 of the team will disperse to various hotspots. NO will keep Sentry and himself as Iron Patriot in reserve.At the Castro Frenzy and Nekra are militant while Armor, Bling and Karma try to calm them. Ms Marvel (Moonstone) flies in and zaps the angry pair, claiming that the Avengers are here to save them.In Hayes Valley Colossus has downed Rockslide and consults Surge and Cipher about what else is happening. Then Spider-Man (Venom (Mac Gargan)) leaps on Colossus and tries to 'arrest' him.Embarcadero - Erg, Lorelei, Adam-X, Meld and  Litterbug lead mutants and protesters into a confrontation with the police. Until Hawkeye (Bullseye) frightens them off. And he complains that nobody 'forced' him to shoot them.Meanwhile Cyclops has gone to Telegraph Hill where he finds Loa, Mercury and Onyxx safe because the riot moved off to City Hall. When asked he is forced to admit that he doesn't know where Emma Frost has got to.And in the besieged City Hall Mayor Sinclair is on the phone to Norman Osborn. NO says he must cut the call short because he has an important meeting to attend to. But he's sent a HAMMER agent to end the situation. Outside Ares is dropped from an aircraft and his threatening presence stops the protesters, including Anole, Northstar, Pixie and maybe Dazzler. Cyclops watches from a hill with Loa, Mercury, Onyxx and Trance wondering how they can stop someone like that.(We don't get to see what the 5th Dark Avenger Daken is up to in this issue.)Osborn (in his Iron Patriot armour) has his meeting, and it's with Emma Frost, who as well as being a co-leader of the X-Men is part of his Cabal. The deal she'd made was that he'd leave mutants alone if Scott Summers kept them in line. But Cyclops obviously isn't up to the job so he offers it to Emma, along with a new costume. As Ms Frost reads the details while changing from her White Queen outfit to a Black version we catch up with more of what's happening.Iron Patriot holds a press conference where he announces martial law. HAMMER is in charge. Mutant ringleaders are being rounded up. 1 of them is Beast who hears a telepathic voice in his cell. Another is Cyclops who manages to avoid capture. Osborn introduces Prof Charles Xavier who disavows the current actions of the X-Men. But we see that the voice in Beast's head is the real Professor X who's also a prisoner. He says that there are many mutants here, and their jailers are taking away their powers including his own.Continued in UNCANNY X-MEN #513.


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The bridge, chapter five
Mr Fantastic has returned from viewing alternate Earth's in his latest invention the Bridge. Human Torch, Invisible Woman and Thing have returned from the crazy realities this accidentally sent them to. And they have discovered Norman Osborn menacing the children Franklin and Valeria Richards with a gun.

Sue Richards takes action to save the kids. Osborn reacts by calling in Venom (Mac Gargan) and the HAMMER troopers from outside. Sue sets up a forcefield to keep them at bay. Norman sends them away to calm the situation down.

Reed Richards wants NO to leave, but NO says the Fantastic Four will have to submit eventually because he's the government now (I think the President would say that's a slight overstatement of the facts). But then he tries to shoot Reed anyway ...

... but it is Norman who gets shot - in the shoulder by Franklin's 'toy' gun. The reactions:- Sue is angry at Franklin. Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm can't understand what happened because it really is only a toy gun (this isn't explained). Osborn shouts threats. Steely-eyed Reed makes him go away. The kids babble about what's been happening while the the team were missing.

The 3 don't tell Reed here what happened to them, but they ask him if the Bridge showed him what he needed to know. He says he now knows how to fix things. But Sue senses something else happened. Reed denies it.

But we now see an extra bit. Just before he switched the Bridge off last issue he has another thought. He asks it to see in how many other realities a Bridge was built. The answer is 141. And Reed sees 6 vague beings who say they can help him fix things. They'll wait for him to contact them again, but make it soon because things could get much worse.

In the present moment Sue tells Reed to destroy the Bridge now that has given him his answers. It was dangerous. She extracts a promise to 'take it apart'. But he takes it apart with care, and rebuilds it in his secret lab. He needs it to fix all the things he believes he's done wrong.

He goes to his secret room with his 100 ideas written on the wall. He's added idea #101 - solve everything.


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The bridge, chapter three
In #1 the team came home to the Baxter Building's top floors, rebuilt after Secret Invasion. But all was not ready because Reed Richards had been spending his time on his latest idea the Bridge. He blames himself for most of what has happened from Civil War on. This will allow him to view alternate realities so he can judge by comparison where he went wrong.

However as he entered the Bridge HAMMER Agents entered the building and cut the main power, trapping the other 3 FF'ers in a lift. The Bridge continued to function because it was its own power source. But a protective forcefield around it was cut off and its influence leaked out. Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and Sue Richards stepped out of the lift into a weird prehistoric world with added aliens (and a Celestial).

Alicia Masters arrived home with the kids Franklin and Valeria Richards while all this was going on.

In #2 Franklin and Valeria confronted the HAMMER Agents and accepted an official notice to give to their parents. Val fixed the power.

At the same time Reed used the Bridge's control system to scan the multiverse for the small number (418) of cases where the Superhero Civil War ended peacefully. He discovered that in these cases for various reasons Henry Pym and Tony Stark didn't interfere with his plans.

Meanwhile Ben, Johnny and Sue were switched into an Elizabethan scenario populated by familiar superhero faces. The comic says that this happens in 'collapsed space-time'. The 3 had their own powers but acted as though this was their world. Sue was the Queen and Ben and Johnny her top supporters. But Tony Stark was an armoured knight preaching the formation of a republic. Battle was joined ...

... but the 3 were switched again to a pirate ship scenario. However they were now 4 because confused Elizabethan courtier Thing was there alongside the new pirate version.

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Reed discovers that only 67 alternate Earths had a peaceful end to the Civil War if the Illuminati existed. He interprets this as that they were a bad influence on the outcome. And in the examples we see of the peaceful solutions the Illuminati's decisions in and after the War were of dubious morality.

In collapsed space-time our 3+1 characters are on board a boat which we now see flies in the sky supported by what look similar to the engines of a SHIELD helicarrier. It is under attack by another flying wooden ship. Human Torch and the new Thing are privateers and their enemies, referred to last issue as colonials, are Skrulls. The other Thing who alone remembers the Elizabethan world joins in the fighting anyway.

Sue Richards here is a serving wench, but when she goes down below to fetch some 'grog' we find that she is a Skrull too, and reports via a hi-tech device to an Illuminati, referred to as the High Council, whose familiar members are also Skrull.

'Our' side defeats the Skrull ship but they are then menaced by a Skrull fleet.

Meanwhile 'outside' in the Baxter Building Franklin and Valeria are camping out in the lower floors of the tower because they are cut off from the FF's home. The document HAMMER left with them says that Norman Osborn is coming tomorrow to discuss the FF's status as superheroes. Frank says that if the others aren't back by then it's up to them to deal with him.

The scene in the collapsed space-time has changed again to the Wild West. Elizabethan Ben and privateer Johnny are drinking with their cowboy counterparts. Outside Marshal Black Susan is facing off with a seemingly powerless Beyonder (in a Western version of his white Beyonder outfit). She outfaces and outdraws him and shoots him dead.

Meanwhile Reed is studying other worlds where the Illuminati messed up earlier. We see 3 involving the Beyonder, supposedly in response to meeting the Illuminati in their #3. And when he looks later the only Illuminati reality he can find with a 'good' conclusion to the Skrull Secret Invasion (apart presumably from Earth-616) is where we surrendered.

He knows that the Illuminati caused the Invasion (by attacking the Skrulls in #1 of their series). Thus they lead nearly everywhere to the downfall of the human race (again presumably except for Earth-616).

In another collapsed reality our 3 heroes are American paratroopers, but accompanied by Black Susan, Elizabethan Thing and privateer Human Torch. Their commanding officer is Willie Lumpkin (the Baxter Building's postman). They are fighting alien spaceships and their plane is going down. The rest jump while ElizaBen flies the plane into 1 of the enemy ships, and then jumps without a chute.

Frank and Val wake up to see Osborn and black-suited Spider-Man (actually the Mac Gargan Venom) approaching with HAMMER troops.


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The bridge, chapter four
Norman Osborn has come to the Baxter Building with Venom (Mac Gargan) and some HAMMER troops to see Reed Richards. He intends to insist that the Fantastic Four submit to his authority. But the FF are missing and so the Richards children Franklin and his little genius sister Valeria will have to see them off. Franklin has a cunning plan.

Val meets them in the foyer and says only Osborn can come in - he'll have to leave the others outside. She points to the notice they'd been given which said that only 1 representative of Norman Osborn would attend the meeting. Venom shows his monster side but NO restrains him with the promise that he can eat the lawyer who wrote the document.

Norman accompanies Valeria but she tells him her parents are too busy to see him. So he'll have to talk to Franklin. Who appears in a cowboy outfit plus a Spider-Man mask.

The FF's top floors of the tower are cut off by a forcefield, where:-

Mr Fantastic is inside his new invention the Bridge, scanning alternate Earths. He's come to the conclusion that the bad events of this Earth (Civil War, World War Hulk and Secret Invasion) were unavoidable.

Invisible Woman is (sort-of) with Human Torch and Thing lost in collapsed space-time. Western Marshall Black Susan, a privateer Human Torch and an Elizabethan Thing are with their 3 WWII paratrooper counterparts. This motley crew gathered together last issue as we stumbled through various realities.

But now the universe has changed again and they are joined by a space-suited Sue Richards and Johnny Storm and a cyborg version of Ben Grimm facing Reed Richards' giant head in a container - this reality's equivalent of the Kree Supreme Intelligence. But he and they are being attacked by Venom symbiote Skrulls.

The Reed-head says that this fate has been brought down upon them because of their own faults. He tries to trigger the base's self-destruct but the Venom-Skrulls eat his brain. The others will fight until death or victory.

In the Bridge Reed has rallied. He's come back to an analysis he'd already made in #2 - that the best results came when he worked alone - without the Illuminati or Henry Pym and Tony Stark. And, as the Venoms overwhelm the males in collapsed space-time and the 3 Sues make their last stand, he switches the Bridge off ...

... and Ben, Johnny and Sue find themselves back in the Baxter Building as themselves. Reed joins them and they go to find the kids.

Franklin's plan to "mess with Osborn's head", especially with the Spidey mask, has failed. They are running away from him as he shoots at them. They hide, but then the FF turn up to deal with him.


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Secret Warriors: Declaration
Nick Fury, disguised by an image generator, listens to Norman Osborn the new Director of National Security announce the closure of the 50-State Initiative and an investigation into those responsible for allowing the Skrull Secret Invasion to nearly succeed.He remembers back to D-Day where Captain America gave an impassioned speech to the Howling Commandos and other US troops before the storming of the Normandy beaches. Cap says that one man with conviction can win a war if he has similar men to follow him.Captain America is now (believed) dead, but Nick is ready to step up to the plate, and he's gathered a group of Secret Warriors to help him fight Osborn's rule.


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The last name
Spider-Man swings through town wondering how on Earth Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, got into power. And as usual he blames himself - he didn't do enough to stop him.He goes to work as Peter Parker at Front Line where he has a conference with Ben Urich, Robbie Robertson and Norah Winters about tackling Osborn. There are angles that Norman has successfully blocked off. He's officially psychologically cured of being the Goblin. His control of law enforcement means that he can hide evidence of most of his criminal activities. He was experimenting with Prometheus X-90 on immigrants but the evidence for that got buried in a collapsed building in Amazing SM #573, the illegal immigrants won't testify and anyway Norman blamed his son Harry. Norah nearly got the dirt on Norman turning son Harry Osborn into the American Son (a dark Captain America to complement his Iron Patriot) but Osborn foiled her. (Actually she got frightened off in ASM#599.)Norah tells them that Osborn has surveillance cameras everywhere - he's probably got videos of all that dodgy stuff. Robbie thinks his ego will make him think he's safe to keep them. Peter suspects the security in Avengers Tower will be even tighter since the recent break-ins. (I guess he's referring to Ronin in Dark Reign: The List - Avengers and Nick Fury in DRL - Secret Warriors.) But Norah managed to smuggle out secret blueprints of OsCorp HQ which show rooms not on the official copies.Later NO (in the Iron Patriot armour) is taking his right-hand woman Victoria Hand to 1 of these secret rooms, which he says contains his latest anti-Spider-Man projects. (Spidey is #8 on his List, saving the best to last.) But when they enter they find SM finishing downloading video of Norman personally injecting a subject with a mixture of the Goblin formula and Cap's super-soldier serum - and performing an autopsy on the resulting corpse. (And probably other stuff too.)Spider-Man exits through a window with the USB stick, and Iron Patriot follows. His repulsor blasts don't care what they hit. But even after Spidey saves some bystanders from falling masonry they still cheer Osborn. IP then fires his chest uni-beam in tracking mode, so it hits its target full-on. SM falls and gets beaten up by an angry mob. Until Osborn steps in to order them off so he can 'arrest' the vigilante.As the fight resumes it's being televised. We see various reactions:- The Front Line staff abandoning journalistic impartiality to cheer Spidey on. People in a cyber-café supporting Patriot. Disowned Harry Osborn, probably in the storeroom of the Coffee Bean where he's working, rooting for SM. Ms Hand wondering how she can hush *this* up.Osborn gloats as he holds up a beaten Spider-Man. He warns him that he's going to fry his brain with a magnetic burst from the uni-beam. But Peter noticed earlier that Iron Patriot's uni-beam isn't as strong as Iron Man's used to be. He noted that Norman has replaced Tony Stark's circle or polygon design with a star-shaped version to fit his patriotic look. Now he aims a kick at the device, cracking it slightly. He figures that the obscuring indents of the star have been causing a heat build-up. And now when IP fires it his armour starts to smoulder internally.Spidey takes the chance to escape. But then Patriot finds he's ditched his costume. And he can't tell who he is in the crowd. He deduces that his foe will want to upload the video as soon as possible, so he enters a nearby cyber-café (which looks like the 1 we saw 2 paragraphs ago). Norman also considers the possibility that SM passed the USB to 1 of his pals - and spots Peter Parker at a terminal.Parker delays IP by pointing him out to all his fans in the room. Who mob him for pictures and autographs. And Peter sends the email to his complete contacts list, and all the terminals in the café.Patriot zaps the screens and then prepares to shoot Parker, claiming that he faked the footage. But Peter points out that he's *not* a costumed vigilante, he's a law-abiding American citizen. If the video was fake then he can take him to a civil court. Or maybe Osborn will shoot him, or send him to the Negative Zone prison. But is he going to do that to all the people here?Norman says he's added Peter Parker to his List. And he leaves, contacting Hand to tell her to suppress that video. And this time the crowd cheer Peter.On the way out Peter gets a call from Robbie to say the Front Line is putting the video up on its website. And in the background there's a scream from Norah who's found that Betty Brant beat them to it at the Daily Bugle.This issue includes a reprint of Pulse #5 where Norman Osborn was exposed as Green Goblin by Spider-Man, Luke Cage and the Daily Bugle.


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Norman Osborn—the Iron Patriot—reveals to Ares, God of War, that now that he is in charge of the nation’s law enforcement team, he is compiling a list of things he must do. It consists primarily of the names of people he would like to see removed—Hulk, Tony Stark, Spider-Man, the Avengers, Nick Fury, etc.—and now he needs a plan…. As word comes over the media that Osborn’s H.A.M.M.E.R. forces have rounded up the X-Men and sent them to a detention center, a hot-headed Clint Barton announces to the assembled Avengers that he is going to kill Norman Osborn. The rest of the team balks at this suggestion, arguing that assassinating a bad guy is wrong, and Spider-Man is mocking Clint most of all. The angry and helpless Clint walks out; his wife Mockingbird follows him, learning that he intends to go off on his own. She offers to accompany him but he refuses to have her put herself in danger. He decides to put off action until the morning and they go home and make love. In the middle of the night, however, Clint rises, dons his Ronin gear and heads out over the rooftops. Ronin uses a grappling hook to enter the highest level of Avengers Tower, and he discovers Mac (Venom) Gargan asleep. Ronin flings the villain through the window to fall hundreds of feet to the ground. An alarm sounds and it is believed that Venom tried to escape. The building goes into lockdown and Clint uses the diversion to take down Bullseye and, after a brief but violent battle, Daken. He comes face-to-face with Karla (Moonstone) Soffen who has no love or loyalty for Osborn and she ponders whether to look the other way—but then she realizes security cameras are watching and tries to blast him with a force bolt. Ronin is protected by the containment force field security has slid into place and he makes his way to Osborn’s office. The Avenger shoots at the master villain but he is protected by a personal force shield. As Ronin prepares to hurl his foe out of a window, Ares appears and overpowers Clint, who is placed under arrest….  Story continues in NEW AVENGERS ANNUAL #3.


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In Daredevil #500 Daredevil (Matt Murdock) agreed to become leader of his old foes the mystical assassin cult the Hand, in order to stop his other old enemy Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) getting the job.Now Murdock is welcomed to the Hand's Manhattan skyscraper HQ. They have provided him with details of all their legitimate businesses, although many are fronts for their illegal activities. They are willing to give their sworn enemy this info because he has promised to lead them. And the punishment for betraying them would be beyond his imagination. Now he will undergo testing.In Brooklyn a female costumed figure watches as cop Alex Kurtz is lured into a trap by 2 dirty cops (working for Norman Osborn's Zero Tolerance initiative) and a crooked judge. They threaten him to get him to stop investigating them. But the ninja figure hacks the 3 villains to pieces and vanishes before Kurtz can stop her.In Avengers Tower Osborn calls in his Dark Avenger Hawkeye (Bullseye) to deal with the situation. He believes that the 3 were killed by the Hand, and informs Bullseye that the group is now led by his old enemy Daredevil. Bullseye doesn't believe DD would condone such actions, but Norman believes *anyone* will turn bad in the right circumstances. Now Daredevil has made Osborn's List, and Bullseye can go and kill him. Lester is a happy man as he changes from the Hawkeye costume to his Bullseye duds.Somewhere underground Matt Murdock in his Daredevil costume has been tortured by the Hand. A hooded man says that DD is on his last legs. If he yields the pain will stop and they'll let him go. Murdock refuses to give in ... and the man says he's passed the Trial of Torments. But now he must face the Trial of Combat. He is faced with a giant warrior with 2 swords, and only 1 of them can live. Matt refuses to kill and the giant prepares to kill him ...... when a flung pair of scissors stabs him in the neck. Bullseye has arrived and reserves to himself the right to kill Daredevil. And he's not alone as a squad of H.A.M.M.E.R. troops blasts their way in. Pitched battle ensues, including the Hand operatives Black Tarantula (Carlos LaMuerto) and White Tiger (Angela del Toro) (who were killed by the Hand and resurrected as their warriors in DD(1998)#112-115).DD and Bullseye fight other opponents but Bullseye taunts DD to come outside and face him alone. He steps onto a ropeladder suspended from a helicopter, and DD latches onto him with his billy-club line. But the chopper takes them to Hell's Kitchen where occupants of a 'condemned' tenement block are refusing to evacuate so it can be knocked down for OsCorp to replace with condos. Bullseye cuts the billy-cord and drops DD on the roof.The occupants think he's come to help them, as he often does in that neighbourhood. But Bullseye tells DD he's going to destroy the place. And all the death's will be DD's fault for not killing him long ago. And he triggers a bomb which brings the whole building down.The mystery female ninja has watched this. She heads to Wilson Fisk's HQ and unmasks as Lady Bullseye. She tells him she saw the building collapse with Daredevil on it. But Kingpin assumes DD survived. However his plan is still on track.Matt Murdock did indeed survive, but 107 people didn't. He's joined by Tarantula and Tiger and some Hand ninjas (all of whom as Hand operatives now work for *him*), and DD declares war on Norman Osborn.


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A good lie
Punisher's current sidekick Henry Russo is zooming through New York on his jet-powered skateboard. He's trying to get in touch with Frank Castle to warn him that Norman Osborn is sending the whole of H.A.M.M.E.R. to kill him. But Frank won't answer (since he learned Henry is the son of his enemy Jigsaw in #10 of the 2009 Punisher series).In the HAMMER helicarrier Osborn (in his Iron Patriot armour) is doing just that, and he's throwing Daken of his Dark Avengers in too. They have a fix on Castle's current position. (Punisher tried to assassinate Osborn in Pu(2009)#1 and since then has been attacking his criminal empire. In retaliation Osborn sicced Hood and his gang on him.)Frank is in his battle van on a pier nursing a wounded arm. He's been waiting for Osborn's attack and his alarm system warns him of HAMMER's approach. On Norman's orders HAMMER planes bomb the pier. But a techie tells Osborn that Castle's life signs indicate he escaped. Norman sends in ground troops, glider troops and Daken.We learn that Punisher used up the last of his store of Pym Particles to shrink and escape. Back at full-size he's located by Henry. But Frank KO's the kid and leaves him in a dumpster - either Russo's working for Osborn or he'll be safer like this if he's not.Next he's found by some glider troops (on gliders based on that used by Osborn as Green Goblin). Because they're the law Castle doesn't kill them. He knocks them of their gliders with a whip strung across the alley. Then he drops into a sewer as more glider troops wing him in the leg. They toss small bombs down after him (again styled on GG weapons, pumpkin bombs - but these look more like Pac-Men). Punisher takes the brunt of the blast on his shield (like most of Castle's current stuff pre-shrunk by Pym Particles?), but breaks a leg.He can still force himself to limp along the sewer. That's when Daken finds him. It's a battle of claws against a high-tech blaster. Daken closes in and sinks his claws into Castle's side. But Punisher makes him disengage by ripping off his lower lip with his teeth. Another blast has Daken down, and Frank says Osborn should have sent the real Wolverine after him.Punisher gets away up to the surface. But he's made the fight personal for Daken now. However as Dark Wolverine follows up the access ladder a bomb goes off that Castle planted on his arm during the fight. That slows him down a bit.Punisher climbs to a rooftop where he faces yet more HAMMER troops. He reaches into a bag and pulls out another miniaturised weapon, which becomes a big gun. But Daken wasn't slowed for long and has caught up with him. Now it's another claws vs blasts battle, until claws slice through the big gun. So Castle pulls out an ordinary handgun and shoots his foe in the face. Daken stops that continuing by stabbing Frank's wrist.Castle gouges an eye and stabs Daken in the neck. Daken replies by slashing Frank's throat open. Then he starts to dismember his enemy 1 limb at a time. 1st the arms, then the legs, then the head. Osborn gets the news from his monitoring techs that Punisher is dead this time. And Daken kicks the pieces off the roof.


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Leviathan
Nick Fury and John Garrett are sitting in a car in New York going over their plan. Nick is going in, and if it all goes wrong John is to shoot him and go to Dum Dum Dugan and tell him to start the endgame. It's then that we discover they're in 1 of those SHIELD flying cars hovering over Avengers Tower.Fury jumps out and glides down using membranes stretched between the arms and legs of his jump suit, which also has a cloaking field. At the right moment he switches on antigrav and attaches himself to the wall of the Tower with suction cups. (The preceding gizmos and the style of the last full-page image are an homage to Jim Steranko's seminal SHIELD issues.)He manoeuvres across to a hatchway which his gloveprint opens. Inside he climbs a ladder in an access tunnel, deals with 2 H.A.M.M.E.R. Agents and takes a security pass which gets him through another door. Where he's confronted by the Dark Avenger Ares ...... who lets him pass. Nick says "In the morning. You know the place." Ares replies "Tomorrow then." (We'll find out what that is all about in Secret Warriors #10.)Now Fury is in Norman Osborn's bedroom, and wakes him up. Nick cuts through Norman's bluster and says he's here because they have a mutual problem of national security. Osborn asks why he should trust Fury, who asks him to consider which 1 of them is actually a patriot. Norman shows Nick a list by his bedside, 1 entry of which says "Kill Nick Fury" (this is basically the List behind this sequence of single-issue titles). Nick heard about that and shows Norman his own list with only 3 entries:- "Save the world", "Punch Norman in the face", "Have a beer". Now that they know where they stand they can get on with the business at hand.(Osborn is after Fury on general principles. Part of Norman's powerbase used to be Nick's, and Fury knows too many secrets. And Fury's Secret Warriors are significantly *not under Norman's control*. Osborn tried to capture Fury in the just-finished crossover of SW#7-9 with Thunderbolts #134-136.)Later in Washington DC 2 HAMMER Agents break into the Treasury Department to arrest Seth Waters. 1st they have to stop him from committing suicide. (Fury sent Garrett to meet with Waters in SW#9 where Waters practically bragged about being a member of some sinister group - and Fury had better back off.)Later still, back in New York NF and NO are watching Waters through a 1-way window with Victoria Hand and the Dark Avenger Bullseye. Hand gives them a rundown of his career but adds that they've discovered a large amount of money in several secret accounts. Also a search of his office turned up a strange data device.Osborn enters the room with Bullseye and starts an interrogation. Waters cockily ignores his questions to take control of the conversation. He reasons that they've found the device but they can't access it or decrypt what's on it. Therefore they have no incriminating evidence so someone must have tipped them off about him. And he turns to greet Fury through the 1-way glass. Osborn assumes that means he works for Hydra, but Waters is insulted - *his* gang are so much *more* than Hydra.Osborn leaves Bullseye to get Waters to tell him *who* he works for. Bullseye produces a pack of 500 toothpicks. To the accompaniment of screams Norman talks to Nick. Fury admits he suspected Waters wasn't Hydra. Osborn wants to know about the data device. Nick asks to examine it. Norman is suspiciously reluctant, but is confidant Fury can't escape with it so hands it over.Bullseye calls them in saying Waters is ready to talk. We see the victim with various toothpicks sticking out of his head. Osborn asks who he works for and Waters says "Leviathan". Fury contacts Garrett and says "Do it now." There's a shot and Waters slumps forward dead. We see Garrett in the flying car with a very long-barrelled rifle. (And the bullet seems to have penetrated walls.)Osborn realises he's been played. Fury punches him in the face and asks John for covering fire. Between them they get Nick to a window which he jumps through to land on the roof of the flying car. (He was presumably in Avengers Tower which seems to be next to the Oscorp Building.)Fury takes over driving to avoid 3 pursuing helicopters while Garrett leans out and shoots at them. 1 hits the side of the OsCorp HQ, another explodes, and the 3rd is taken out by an axe thrown by Ares. Nick says they have what they came for - Waters' affiliation and the data device. And he got to cross 1 thing off his list.The duo go to Fury's secret base #7 in Rome, called Pieta. Nick *does* know how to access and decrypt the device. A screen displays the word Leviathan in the Cyrillic alphabet. And an addendum to the story describes the contents.This is similar to some of the files shown in SW#1 where Fury discovered SHIELD had been part of Hydra all along. We see that Fury logs in as Gemini. There are 2 parts to the data.The 1st is about Leviathan and shows its 9 bases, all in what was the Soviet Union. (Similar maps in SW#1 showed Hydra and SHIELD bases, plus Fury's secret bases like Pieta, some of which we've seen in SW issues.) Crucially we are told that since the Zodiac event Leviathan has been in condition Overwinter, and the top echelon have been in condition December, dormant in base #9 - the Long Winter facility in north-eastern Siberia.The 2nd part describes something called the Great Wheel, a round table with 12 places named after signs of the Zodiac. SHIELD had 3 places occupied by Nick Fury (Gemini), Dum Dum Dugan (Libra) and John Garrett (Aquarius). Hydra had 3 places:- Baron Strucker (Supreme Hydra) (Sagittarius), Shoji Soma (Hand Grandmaster - so the Hand were part of Hydra) (Pisces) and  Kraken (Leo). Leviathan had only 2:- Vasili Dassaiev/Magadan (Capricorn) and Viktor Ulavarov/Orion (Cancer), both now in Overwinter. 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All we want is The World and everything in it
We open with Norman Osborn surveying images connected to the Weapon Plus program:- Weapon I Captain America, Weapon X Wolverine, Weapon XIII Fantomex, Weapon XV Ultimaton and the domed facility called The World where such super-soldiers are created. He wants to know why *he* doesn't own The World.Now we switch to a sushi bar where Marvel Boy has tracked down Wolverine (because it has the finest selection of Japanese ales and rice wines in the city). He's come to tell him that Osborn has sent H.A.M.M.E.R. agents to seize The World. Norman expected Logan to try to stop him, and had a plan to deal with him - Noh-Varr himself before he quit the Dark Avengers (DAv#5). Wolverine agrees they should go deal with it. Marvel Boy hadn't planned on joining in but Logan insists.Landing outside the dome Wolverine finds a way in and they immediately run into trouble in the shape of various mutated/cyborged humans and gas leaking from a cannister labelled Weapon XVI ... which turns Logan into a drooling berserker. Noh-Varr is soon on the run from all of them. He realises they're all mind-controlled, and they keep telling him that Allgod will bring him peace even as they try to kill him. Then he runs into a different set of foes - brain-seeking zombies who tell him to "Stand down". He escapes from those through a door which he slams shut behind him ...... only to be menaced by a gun held by someone we recognise as Fantomex. They start to fight but then the mutants and zombies break in. 1 of the zombies says "We claim your flesh in the name of HAMMER". Jean-Phillipe leaps to the ceiling and grabs hold of a pipe. Noh-Varr similarly escapes using his cockroach-based Spider-Man-like ability to stick to surfaces.Back with Osborn we find him upset with 1 of his scientists. This guy had turned HAMMER troops into zombies and sent them in to the place. But once inside all their comms went dead and now NO can't tell what's happening.Fantomex leads the way through a conveniently high-up opening. Noh-Varr introduces himself and says Wolverine told him Fantomex might be here. Jean-Phillipe has never heard of him, despite the time he wrote a message of destruction in the buildings of New York (see the Marvel Boy limited series) - he just assumed he was another X-Man. Marvel Boy is insulted - he's a Kree.As Fantomex leads them deeper into the complex we learn that all The World's scientists are dead, but now J-P figures the factory itself has become sentient and is continuing to grow 'monsters' like him as its 'immune system'. MB is shocked that no-one is keeping things in check. Fantomex admits maybe *he* should have done something, but he was too busy with his favourite occupation - stealing stuff.Apparently The World released the mind-controlling Weapon XVI gas as another defence. It latches onto the faith of anyone who believes in any higher being and converts that into believe in itself - Allgod. Luckily Fantomex's nanites make him incapable of believing in anything other than himself. And the Kree have mathematically disproved the existence of any god.Finally they reach The World's brain - a surprisingly organic structure. Fantomex says they have to persuade The World to shut down Weapon XVI before it escapes the dome and infects the outer world. Marvel Boy says in his travels through the multiverse he's usually found bullets solve everything. So they both shoot the brain.But the Allgod worshippers aren't cured and aren't happy. Wolverine leads them into battle. Fantomex holds them off and tells Noh-Varr to go kiss the brain. It's newly-born and wants affection. Disgusted Marvel Boy complies ... and the worshippers regain their senses.But the HAMMER zombies now want to take over The World. So the 3 heroes have to fight them. (And Osborn has his comms back, but now isn't happy with what he sees.) 1 of the Agents plucks something out of The World's brain and tells Osborn he's got it. But Logan chops his arm off. The zombies are all dead and the trio leave, not noticing the severed arm with the brain crawling away.Fantomex uses a shrink ray he stole from Dr Doom, and carries the dome away in the palm of his hand. Marvel Boy suggests he could reprogram it to do good things. Fantomex clearly has other ideas as he leaves in his flying craft E.V.A.. Logan lets Noh-Varr have *their* plane and goes to hitch a lift from a passing truck. Which runs over the hand with the brain.Osborn declares the zombie program a waste of time. We see it was called Project Deathlok.This issue also reprints Jason Aaron's 1st published work from Wo#175 as winner of the Wolverine Writing Contest.


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In the Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia event the X-Men took all mutants out of Norman Osborn's jurisdiction by raising Magneto's original Asteroid M from the ocean floor, turning it into an island and declaring it an independent state Utopia. Osborn was particularly unhappy because Emma Frost and Sub-Mariner, members of his Cabal and his Dark X-Men, proved to be traitors.Now Norman shows a pile of files to his right-hand woman Victoria Hand. They contain plans to deal with particular characters, to be used if they become serious threats. He opens the 1 dedicated to Namor, in case of war with Atlantis.It transpires that he has Subby's alien (Plodex) ex-wife Marrina who became a rampaging monster dubbed Leviathan (when she gave birth to her young in Avengers #291-293 and Namor was forced to kill her - but in Alpha Flight #78 she was revealed to be not dead but sleeping). Osborn's scientists have added shark genes, and tweaked her system so she hungers for Atlantean blood - and the more of it she consumes the bigger and hungrier she gets.Victoria protests that Atlantis isn't at war and there's no percentage in unleashing the Leviathan at this time. But Osborn wants revenge against Namor, and releases the beast.Leviathan strikes an Atlantean colony in the South China Sea, destroying their homes with beams from its eyes and killing all the folk. Some of the bodies wash ashore. Sub-Mariner takes a dead female to Utopia and says he knows of 5 attacks in 9 days. He doesn't know how many Atlanteans have died. And because his people are scattered all over the world (since Atlantis was destroyed in his 2007 Revolution mini-series) he can't defend them with the Atlantean army currently based in Latveria (since the same limited series).(Note that more mutants are seen in a crowd scene here including Graymalkin, Erg, Anole and Hepzibah. Some say the female with her back to us is Armor, but the costume doesn't seem right.)Namor is consulting with Cyclops, Doctor Nemesis, Emma Frost and Psylocke. He emphasises that whatever it is kills only Atlanteans, no other sea life. Dr Nemesis suggests that someone has engineered a lifeform to do that. Cyclops studies a display of the 5 attacks and notes that the enemy is heading towards them. He concocts a plan. Namor should gather Atlanteans here to create a large scent pool. Then Magik and Pixie can teleport them away while the beast is lured here to be destroyed.Emma (still trapped in her diamond form since the Utopia event) tells Sub-Mariner they'll help him in repayment for the help he gave *them* then. But King Namor is too proud too accept aid. Until she follows him out to a balcony to talk him round, because he's a mutant and mutants help each other.That night loads of Atlanteans swim to the island's shore and 2 glowing portals created by Pixie and Magik. Which take them half the world away to the coast of Norway. (Despite the Atlantean diaspora it seems Namor has rounded up all the mermen in the Pacific Ocean.)A select group of X-Men wait with Subby as the armoured sea-serpent approaches. And Namor recognises his ex-wife's form. The 3 Stepford Cuckoos read its mind but can only detect hunger, rage and hate. Psylocke mind-melds with Iceman to amplify his power and he freezes the ocean around the beast, but it breaks free. Colossus fastballs Wolverine at the monster while Angel drops Surge onto it. Logan slashes its eyes while Surge gives it jolts of electricity. Then Angel takes Wolvie away while Nightcrawler bamfs in to port Surge to safety after leaving a bomb.The explosion only seems to anger Leviathan further. It lunges at the group on the shore. The X-Men scatter and Sub-Mariner grabs its head and takes it into the sky. Apparently he needed to get her out of the water. He flies her to the Mariana Trench and then dives down. He calms the beast with thoughts of when they were happy together as they sink deeper into the Trench, until presumably the pressure kills her.Norman Osborn is in an Oscorp building in Los Angeles with Sentry, the most powerful of the Dark Avengers he leads as Iron Patriot. A minion rushes in with a warning that something's going to smash into the building - when it does. Sub-Mariner has delivered the corpse of Leviathan. Osborn tells his H.A.M.M.E.R. troops to stand down as Namor threatens Norman, but then presumably leaves.Later the Atlanteans are ported back from Norway. And Cyclops and Emma Frost welcome Namor (and his people) home.


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Young masters part two
Last issue, a team appeared claiming to be the new Young Avengers. Melter leads Big Zero, Coat Of Arms, Egghead, Enchantress and Executioner in overly violent 'good' deeds. Lisa (Coat Of Arms) can manifest multiple arms, and is an artist who is filming their escapades as a project. Amity (Big Zero) is a violent bigot who can grow very large. Sylvie (Enchantress) speaks cod-Shakespearian with a lisp (though sometimes she forgets to) who claims to be Asgardian, and can certainly do magic. Danny (Executioner) is a Punisher wannabe but is financed by his mom. Chris (Melter) and Sylvie are an item, and he suspects his leadership is only due to her. Amity and the robot Egghead are sort-of a couple too - he lets her reprogram him to her way of thinking and in return she activates his pleasure circuits.

Chris isn't happy with his team's methods and grey motives. But while agonising about what to do he accidentally melted an old woman. Then the gang came to the attention of the real YAv (Patriot leading Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Speed, Stature, Vision (Jonas) and Wiccan), who track them down to their base - an Invisible Manor in Central Park.

Coat Of Arms urges her side to fight because it will make good film. Battle is joined but Melter and Patriot are ready to talk. Enchantress too doesn't want to fight Wiccan because she REALLY wants to join the other team. Executioner too thinks Hawkeye should stop firing arrows at him because he's a hero. Coat Of Arms and Speed recognise each other's civilian identities. But Big Zero lays into Stature, and Egghead and Vision clash. Until Sylvie really lets loose and pushes all the combatants apart.

Wiccan is seriously impressed by Enchantress' power. COA and Speed show that they know each other well. Patriot tells Melter they can't use the name Young Avengers. Chris counters that there are so many Avengers teams around now that the name can't be copyright!

We now get a flashback to a few hours earlier when the real YAv in the abandoned Avengers Mansion were watching Norman Osborn's announcement of his new (Dark) Avengers team on TV. The news report also mentions a sighting of the new YAv. They decide to go after their imposters. Wiccan tries a locator spell but it just points to them because he said 'Young Avengers'. Presumably he figured out how to phrase the spell better because they got here.

Patriot asks if the newbies are another team created by Osborn. COA says she founded the team, but NO was involved - sort-of. Cue another flashback.

Lisa was at Cowley Fabrications who did construction for her art installations. They also provide costumes and kit for super-characters. Osborn was there picking up a bow and some special arrows. She gushes all over him because she's a big fan. And HE knows of HER work as an artist. (She's already taken the nom d'art Coat Of Arms and we get the impression she also has her superpower.) But when she reveals that she likes him as Green Goblin - supervillain as artistic statement - he loses his cool.

But the extreme reaction just spurred her on to take her art further. She found Melter, and together they recruited the others.

Patriot's YAv don't know how to react to this. So they ignore it and Eli Bradley says what they came to say. If the new guys want to be Young Avengers then they'll have to try out for the established team. Or they can just pick another name. He leaves them to decide. On the way out Speed tells the others he met COA when they were both in juvenile detention. And they already don't like Big Zero's Nazi-look costume.

Meanwhile BZ, Egghead and Executioner want to ignore Patriot's offer. Until Enchantress mind-controls them to think they can ace the test and take over the other team. Later in their bedroom Chris is unhappy with what Sylvie just did. But not because of the mind-control but because he doesn't want to submit to the YAv's judgement - they might uncover stuff (like him killing the old woman last issue). He suggest they just leave together, but Sylvie so wants to be a real Young Avenger.

Meanwhile Lisa draws her team beating up the Goblin. And Danny contacts his mother for more money. He tells her he's going to be leader of a new team. And it turns out HE knows Kate Bishop and has recognised her as Hawkeye. And we see that his mom is Princess Python.


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Young masters part five
The Young Avengers (Patriot leading Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), Hulkling, Speed, Stature, Vision (Jonas) and Wiccan) have been dealing with a wannabe YAv group (Melter leading Big Zero, Coat Of Arms, Egghead (an android), Enchantress (Sylvie Lushton) and Executioner (Danny DuBois)). They gave them an entrance exam but only accepted COA and Enchantress. However Coat turned them down and they quickly threw Sylvie out for an as yet unrevealed reason.

Chris/Melter asked the YAv to come and explain themselves. But when they arrived they found he'd also called in Iron Patriot (Norman Osborn) who'd brought along 2 of his Dark Avengers Hawkeye (Bullseye) and Wolverine (Daken).

Osborn says that *he* gets to decide who's an Avenger these days. Patriot responds that *some* people will still stand against him - and shouts "Avengers Assemble" to start the fight.

Enchantress zeroes in on Wiccan who she blames most for her expulsion. Billy says it's because of what she is - which she herself doesn't know.

The Hawkeyes, Bishop and Bullseye, face off. Executioner tries to butt in because he has his own grudge against Kate. He gets an arrow through his hand for his trouble. (Whose arrow I'm not sure.)

Daken attacks Hulkling and also tries to use pheromones against him. But Teddy says his Kree/Skrull nature makes him immune.

It's another Vision/Egghead clash in which the villain uses Vizh's own 'phasing an arm through the chest' trick against him. We also learn that the YAv had to eject Enchantress before she could study the magical defences of Avengers Mansion.

It's also another Stature/Big Zero fight. This time it's Cassie who gets the blows in, representing the legacy of Captain America (and Iron Man) against BZ's Nazi ideology.

Melter asks Speed to surrender now that NO's backing makes him a cop. But when Tommy attacks Chris's insecurities make him hold back.

Coat Of Arms sits things out totally unsure what to do.

But the central battle is Patriot vs Iron Patriot. Eli Bradley wants to take back the words Avenger, patriot and hero from the man who is besmirching them. His blow staggers the armoured Osborn, but he thinks he broke his hand. Made better by his sort-of girlfriend Kate's praise.

Chris is disillusioned by what's happening. He assumed that calling NO in would automatically sort everything out to his satisfaction (although I don't think he knows what that is). But Osborn *will* resolve things - as he calls on his big gun the Sentry. Sentry says "Stop" and everyone does.

Wiccan chooses the moment to tell Sylvie what they learned about her (from Egghead's data dump to Vision last issue, which is apparently based on some kind of analysis by Big Zero). He says she was created by Loki as a weapon against Avengers. But Billy also says that the Avengers teams have many members who were originally villains but overcame their past.

Lisa/Coat OF Arms is tired of just watching. She tells Billy and Sylvie that she can pull things out of her Coat's magic pockets, and produces some glowing chains. Enchantress and Wiccan combine their magics to bind Sentry with them. And he is dragged out of this dimension. Iron Patriot says "You can't do that!" and African-American Patriot says "Yes we can!"

The only fight that's still going is Hawkeye vs Hawkeye and Executioner. Bullseye is always saying his body is a weapon, so Kate uses it as a weapon to knock Danny over. Bullseye unsettles her by telling her that Executioner has just killed his own mother, but Danny responds by shooting him in the leg. Bullseye's standard response is to swear to kill him sometime. Kate tries to shake Danny out of his insanity, but he just says losing a parent to crime will increase his vigilante commitment.

Chris/Melter says he thinks he chose the wrong team if the YAv can kill Sentry. Eli/Patriot says they didn't *kill* him. And Chris shouldn't try to join the *strongest* team, he should join the team he *believes* in. Chris chooses to get time to think, and gets Sylvie to magic his team away. COA joins them even though Speed tries to persuade her to stay. (And Enchantress creates a new Invisible Manor for them now the old 1 is compromised.)

Patriot thinks that some of them will turn out OK, but they may have to fight the others again. Meantime they can fight the DAv. But with Bullseye injured and Sentry missing IP decides to call the fight off and go home.


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Young masters part 1
4 young men rob a convenience store but are stopped outside by a group calling themselves the Young Avengers. 2 of them can levitate, a robot and a girl who speaks cod-Shakespearian (or cod-Asgardian which in Marvel is the same thing) but not very well. There's a giant girl. There's a guy with lots of guns and 4-armed girl with a sword. But their leader's costume just seems to be a neckerchief mask and a Spidey t-shirt, However when the thieves start shooting the leader starts melting the bullets and the Asgardian called Enchantress magics them away.The villains run away and the giant-woman squashes 1 of them under her foot (making a Monty Python joke). The leader complains that wasn't a superhero thing to do and he stops the other 3 getting away by melting the pavement in front of them - but too enthusiastically because he sends molten debris unto the subway below the street. (Enchantress tells him she senses the people below are unharmed.) The gun-man calling himself Executioner shoots 1 of them, and Enchantress turns another into a dog. The sword-woman code-named Coat Of Arms pins the survivor to a wall and we see she's filming the encounter. She claims that they are misunderstood teen superheroes, hated and feared by those they protect. Then the robot Egghead puts him in a 30-year coma.Then sirens announce the arrival of the cops so they head for a bar. The Asgardian keeps her 'costume' but the others change into civvies (which for the leader just means ditching the 'mask' and the 4-armed girl somehow loses 2 of them). The not-now-giant girl named Amity thinks the subway incident funny but the filmer complains that they must stay in superheroic character, while of course striving to be original. A new barman questions their age but Sylvie, the Asgardian, casts a glamour which makes him believe they are in their 20s, and also gets them a free round of drinks. The leader Chris, her boyfriend, asks her to drop the Asgardian-speak which makes her sound like she has a lisp. Then some police enter and Chris gets Sylvie to magic the gang to their base in Central Park ...... which is something called the Invisible Manor. Chris calls a 'post-scene' meeting to discuss Amity and Danny (Executioner)'s unwarranted killing. Amity responds by going to bed, but Daniel has a defence lined up. He says 1 of the men they executed was convicted of aggravated murder and the other was a rapist, and he claims he knew this before they died. And since the event he's learned what they did to the store owner. Does Chris want to get real or does he just want to play superheroes? Chris calls it a night.We now see what the chars do in the privacy of their rooms, and also get the rest of their codenames, if not the real names.Coat Of Arms has painted a picture of Captain America killed by a hail of arrows à la St Sebastian. And she adds speech bubbles, starting with "Anything is permitted".Sylvie joins Chris (who we learn uses the name Melter) in bed after watching Egghead do magic tricks. Chris thinks Amity and Egghead are in a relationship. He also knows that without Enchantress the team would be homeless and easily caught, and he suspects he wouldn't be the leader.Amity (Big Zero) and Egghead are indeed on a bed together, but the girl is altering his programming. Apparently they've been together for 2 years, and she's made him 'not respect' minorities. But she still can't get him to call them by non-PC words. However she rewards him by triggering his pleasure circuits.Executioner is hacking into secure databases like the FBI when he gets a call from his mother. She's sent him some more money by the usual secure channel, but he has to dissuade her from coming to see him because he still hasn't got a girlfriend.Next day Chris talks to Coat Of Arms (we still don't have a real name for her) in a café. He moans that the team won't act like heroes. COA wonders what heroism *is*. Chris agrees that Captain America is a hero. But what about Wolverine? Punisher? And therefore their Executioner? The superhuman community supposedly now answers to both the President (Obama in the real world) and Norman Osborn. Heroes should aspire to join the Avengers, but is that the legacy Mighty Avengers, the government's Dark Avengers or the rebel New Avengers? She says she selected these team members and made him their leader to highlight the contradictions for her art.Later Chris is remembering other conversations with other team members. Trying to persuade Executioner that his vigilante approach is only OK if he never hurts the innocent like Punisher. Enchantress persuading him that stealing diamonds from the safe deposit box of a millionaire is like Robin Hood. Going along with Big Zero and Egghead's anti-government stance but telling them to stop the racism. An old lady with her shopping trips (I think) over his extended foot. He starts to pick up her shopping but she screams "Mugging" and maces him in the face. Eyes streaming he automatically lashes out and reduces her to a puddle. Passers-by don't even notice.Distraught he runs back to base and finds COA telling the others that Chris is the leader because he asks questions like what gives them the right to call themselves Young Avengers. And then the real YA are magically teleported in by Wiccan to ask the same question.