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To Be or Not To Be
Aboard the scoutship of the World-Drainer, Galactus, a contingent of Earth heroes has come in hopes of finding a way to vanquish the cosmos-threatening Magus. A weapon has been found that has the power to nullify reality itself, and now all they need is a volunteer to pull the trigger. ‘How steely is your resolve, Quasar?’ a voice calls out, as the young hero Wendell “Quasar” Vaughn stands, flanked by several other heroes - Wolverine, Jean Grey, Northstar, the Invisible Woman, the Thing, Captain America and Storm. ‘Finely tempered’ Quasar replies, as the cosmic being, Thanos, holds the small weapon. ‘We shall see’ Thanos declares, before announcing that the Ultimate Nullifier is Quasar’s. Thanos hands the weapon to Quasar, then strides away, reminding himself that he vowed Quasar would pay for his impertinence, so it appears he shall not have to wait before this vow reaches fruition. Thanos knows of no entity who has ever activated the nullifier and has not been nullified in the act.
‘Never thought I’d willingly accept a gift from Thanos, the Death-Worshipper. But better one of us good guys have this thing than old Stoneface’ Wendell decides. He turns to his former teammates, Captain America and Hercules. Cap tells Quasar not to do it, while Hercules exclaims that it is not a dare worthy of acceptance. ‘But it may well be our only way out’ Quasar tells them. The Thing, Wolverine, Moondragon and Archangel all stare at Quasar, while Captain America points out that they don’t know that, and tells Quasar that he doesn’t have to use the thing, that no one here will thing the lesser of him. She-Hulk stands nearby, while Quasar suddenly uses his Quantum-Bands to erect a dome around himself. ‘The kid probably doesn’t want an audience when he commits suicide’ the Thing points out. Hercules bangs on the quantum-dome and announces that he has decided that he, the Prince of Power should shoulder this burden, not one as inexperienced as Quasar - but he gets no response.
Wonder Man, the Hulk, the Human Torch and Storm stand beside Captain America, who tells Quasar that his prayers are with him. ’If anyone can pull this off, it’s you’ he declares, while the Human Torch adds ’I held the nullifier once. I should’ve volunteered’. But, inside the quantum-dome,  Quasar calls forth Epoch, his cosmic “goddaughter’ and asks her if she has been monitoring this. ‘Indeed I have’ the strange cosmic being replies, so Quasar asks what she can tell him about the nullifier. Epoch points out that it must be powerful indeed if both Galactus and Thanos fear its might. ‘That’s all you can tell me? I guessed that much’ Quasar replies. ‘That’s all I can say with certainty for the time being’ Epoch replies, telling Quasar that if he wished, she could research it further.
Quasar remarks that he is going to want to know something about this thing before he uses it, and asks Epoch if there is a place in the universe that has a whole lot of information gathered together in one place, like a library or museum or something. Epoch confirms that there is a repository of knowledge, both ancient and modern, in the Beta Scorpi System. Quasar asks for the co-ordinates, and realizes that he usually doesn’t quantum-jump within atmospheres because of the environmental effects, but if he quantum-jumps from within the dome, the bad effects will be contained inside it. ‘Why didn’t I ever think of this before?’ the young hero wonders, before quantum-jumping inside the dome.
The heroes on the outside see a bright light, as the Thing, Nova, Invisible Woman, Hercules, Jean Grey, Archangel, the new Thor, Wolverine and Captain America gather together. ‘Hey, it suddenly got bright inside Quasar’s bubble!’ someone points out. The Thing wonders if Quasar just used the Ultimate Nullifier, and remarks that hr hasn’t been pointed in the direction of the enemy. ‘Or the punk snapped under the pressure and aced himself’ Wolverine suggests, while Hercules points out that the weapon may have activated by accident.
Meanwhile, on the distant planet Scadam, an Earth woman named Holly “HD” Steckley is sole witness to an event which would affect Quasar profoundly, were he to learn of it - his girlfriend, Kayla Ballantine, has just died. As black space ships fire beams of energy down onto the planet, HD crouches beside the remains of Kayla Ballantine, and rubs her head, ‘This can’t be happening! This charred skeleton isn’t Kayla Ballantine!’ HD thinks to herself. HD was certain Kayla had the power to blast those alien warships out of the sky, that is why she was kidnapped here in the first place. HD starts to cry, ‘Some “friend” I turned out to be! I was the one who told her to go ahead and try! Such a waste! Why did I ever accompany her here?’ HD asks herself. ‘Now I have no choice but to -’ she begins, before a blast of energy knocks her aside. ‘Blast you! Haven’t you done enough?’ HD screams, before suddenly noticing Kayla’s remains start to suddenly glow.
Elsewhere, there is a burst of quantum energy, as Quasar materializes in space, over a planet, he asks Epoch if this is the place. Epoch confirms that it is the planet Rus, the tri-galaxy area’s academic center. As he descends amongst sprawling buildings, Quasar decides that the planet reminds him of Hala, the seat of the Kree Empire - the whole world is covered in buildings. Epoch explains that each major megalopolis is dedicated to the acquisition and dispensation of a different branch of knowledge. ‘So where might I find the library devoted to “unbelievably powerful weapons”?’ Quasar enquires. Epoch replies that she doesn’t know, and suggests Quasar land at the largest building, so they can ask for directions there.
Quasar does so, landing amongst strange aliens, he introduces himself, and enquires as to whether any happen to major in Earth languages. One of them notices the Ultimate Nullifier and points at it in shock. Some of the aliens begin to run away, while Quasar assures the aliens that he hasn’t come here to use it. ‘Really! I come in peace, as they say’ he announces, adding that he needs information, but he realizes that they are all scared of him. ‘Say, Eppy, I need a little help here!’ Quasar calls out, when suddenly, Epoch materializes before him. Wendell remarks that this is a surprise, as Epoch almost never comes out f her pocket dimension. ‘I thought it might be useful’ Epoch explains as she hovers before him, adding that humanoid appears to be the majority form here.
Epoch then calls out to the fleeing aliens: ‘Gentle beings, do not feel discomfort! Like yourselves, my companion and I simply seek knowledge!’ she exclaims, while Quasar is still in shock at Epoch taking a human form. Epoch realizes that she has done little to allay the aliens’ fears regarding the nullifier, but reports that she was able to scan their minds enough to ascertain that there are information directories inside virtually every major edifice. Quasar takes Epoch by her hand and flies down between the buildings, ‘What a place! I’d love to take a decade or so off and try to cram all the learning in my head I could fit!’ Wendell thinks to himself, while Epoch remarks that she likes the sensation of flying.
Flying into a building, Quasar asks Epoch if she sees anything that looks like a directory. ‘Ahead. Now release my hand. I wish to try this aerial locomotion by myself’ Epoch announces, so Quasar does so, and they both fly, separately, down towards a large enquiries desk, where an alien behind the counter exclaims ‘Excuse me, there is no cutting in line!’ in his native tongue. Quasar asks Epoch to tell the man they don’t have much time for protocol, as the universe is in jeopardy unless he figures out what to do with this weapon. He places the Ultimate Nullifier on the counter. The clerk is surprised, and holds up some forms as he exclaims ‘My goodness. You wish to use our facilities? Please fill out these forms and I will expedite the processing of your privileges’.
‘Just a minute, Sir, you don’t seem to understand! The universe is in danger!’ Quasar exclaims, adding that he doesn’t have time to fill out forms - but Epoch hands the completed forms back to the clerk, who in turn hands over an access-disc. Quasar and Epoch walk on through the building, as Wendell tells Epoch that she was pretty swift, before asking where she supposes they look. ‘The master data directory is this way’ Epoch announces. Shortly, they stand before the master data directory, and Quasar points out that it appears to be some sort of computer. He asks if there is some sort of instruction booklet somewhere, but Epoch reports that she has already deciphered it, and adds that compared to organic intelligences, computer intelligences are easy to comprehend.
‘Okay, then see what we can find on the Ultimate -’ Wendell begins, when suddenly, a large black axe comes crashing down on the data directory. ‘What? Aw, no - Deathurge!’ Quasar gasps. The mysterious being tells Quasar that he is pleased he recognizes him, but Quasar just replies ‘I don’t even want to know what gravestone you crawled out from under’, and tells Deathurge that he doesn’t have any time to horse around with him just now, as the universe, or some fraction thereof, is in jeopardy, and he has got to do his part to save it. ‘I know. Why else would I be here?’ Deathurge replies. ‘You hold the nullifier, a weapon capable of plunging untold expanses of reality into oblivion. I am an agent of oblivion. Consequently, what you do concerns me’ Deathurge points out.
Epoch tells Quasar to fight Deathurge if she wishes, as she will stay and research the nullifier. Quasar decides that he has to lead Deathurge away from Epoch so he doesn’t do any more damage, and starts to fly away, ‘Come and get me, Tar-Face!’ Quasar calls out to Deathurge, who creates a set of skis, and zooms after the cosmic hero, ‘Such is my destiny - such is your doom!’ Deathurge declares.
Meanwhile, in another galaxy, the starship Mourning Star receives two earthly visitors - the cosmic Her and the Eternal called Makkari. One of the aliens, Fath, thanks Makkari for what he and Quasar did to help the dead Kree, but Makkari replies that Quasar did all the hard work, and he and Her were just along for the ride. Her tells Makkari that they have done as Quasar asked, and suggest they quit this space-faring sepulcher. Makkari excuses himself and Her from Fath, as he pulls Her to one side, asking what her hurry is to get out of her. Her explains that she dislikes this ship, and its occupants. Makkari tells her she is entitled, but asks where else they will wait until Quasar returns.
A small alien approaches Fath and reports that he has found the next mourning site. ‘Indeed!’ Fath gasps, while Makkari points out that at least here there is air, food and a floor to run on. ‘Aren’t you even the least bit curious how this mourner cult keeps finding folks to mourn?’ Makkari asks Her. ‘Somewhat’ she replies, while Fath asks the other alien if the mourning site is in this galaxy. The alien replies that it is in the Advinter System, in the Milky Way galaxy. Makkari races over to Fath, who introduces him to the small alien, Kruggar, one of the listeners. Makkari greets Kruggar, before asking Fath if he and Her could hang out with them for a while. ‘Certainly. We would be honoured to have the companions of the Protector of the Universe aboard our humble vessel’ Kruggar exclaims.
Suddenly, Her confronts Fath, asking ‘I don’t see why. Anyone Quasar manages to protect gives you one less person to mourn, no?’ But, Fath replies that they do not enjoy their task, and explains that it is a solemn duty. Her asks how it is they find new races to mourn, to which Kruggar reveals that listeners such as he can hear the psychic screams of the dying. ‘And you hear such screams now?’ Her enquires. ‘Yes’ Kruggar confirms. ‘And you do nothing to help the dying, or at least try to stop whatever it is that is killing them?’ Her asks as she starts to fly away from the aliens. Kruggar points out that they aren’t warriors or protectors, but mourners. ‘Our purpose is to bring honor to those -’ he begins, but Her interrupts, ‘Honor!? Hah! You celebrate death - in the guise of honoring the dead!’
Back on Rus, ‘You’ve encountered me twice before, Quasar - yet you still persist in the belief you can outrun me!’ Deathurge calls out as he pursues Wendell, who replies ‘Well, D’urge, the fact that I survived our previous meetings fills me with confidence I can do so again!’ Wendell replies as he throws a quantum-anchor towards Deathurge, and it the chain latches around Deathurge. ‘This time is different!’ Deathurge exclaims, but Wendell sees that the quantum-anchor hasn’t taken hold of Deathurge, instead, he manages to dodge it, and the anchor slams into the side of a building. Wendell tells himself that he will have to go back and repair the damage later, while Deathurge tells him that the Ultimate Nullifier in Quasar’s possession makes a world of difference.
Two locals are nearby and see Deathurge battling Quasar. ‘You query him as to how’ one of the aliens exclaims. ‘The black one pulls weapons from within his body!’ the second points out as Deathurge indeed pulls a bow and arrow from within his body. ‘I am engaged in self-preservation!’ the first alien declares, as Wendell sees the arrow flung towards him and narrowly dodges it, unable to put up a quantum-shield in such a narrow space of time. However, when Deathurge fires a second arrow, Wendell is able to create a quantum-shield to deflect it. Hovering near each other, Quasar asks Deathurge how the nullifier makes this skirmish any different. ‘Have you not guessed?’ Deathurge asks. ‘Using the Ultimate Nullifier is suicidal. Wielders must be prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice. I am the avatar of self-destruction. Thus you must submit yourself to -’ Deathurge begins as he creates a sword and shield, and Quasar does the same. They battle, until Quasar interrupts Deathurge by shouting ‘Submit this!’ as slices his sword - and cuts off Deathurge’s head!
Quasar drops his sword and throws his hands to his head, ‘Aw, man! Didn’t think that would happen! I…I beheaded him!’ he gasps, unaware that Deathurge’s body suddenly catches his head. Wendell closes his eyes, and realizes that Deathurge wasn’t exactly alive, so he doesn’t think he is a murderer. Suddenly, Deathurge creates a deadly mace with spikes, ‘And it’s not like I had much choice -’ Wendell decides, before Deathurge slams the weapon into his back. ‘You dropped your guard, Quasar! You let me approach you’ Deathurge calls out, as the spiked chain wraps around Quasar’s neck. Deathurge then creates a large spike and tells Quasar that he relinquished his precarious hold on the fragile envelope of his mortality. He shoves the spike into Quasar’s body, explaining that his weapons are made out of the midnight in all mortal souls, that they are useless, ephemeral as shadow - unless you give them power over you. ‘This you have done, Quasar’ Deathurge states.
‘Like heck I have. You’re just playing mind games!’ Wendell exclaims as another spike is shoved against him. Deathurge tells Quasar that he has come to help him on his journey into inner darkness. ‘You claim you are Protector of the Universe, Quasar - but you fail to see that life itself is an aberration. A random mixture of chemicals and electricity with delusions of grandeur!’ Deathurge exclaims, as several more spikes are shoved into Quasar’s body. Quasar tries to use a small weapon against the chain around his neck, but fails, and he drops it. ‘Oblivion is the universe’s preferred state. You are so vain as to think that because you are alive, that is what that universe desires. Fah!’ Deathurge exclaims, still hovering near Quasar on his skis, as he shoves another spike through the young hero. ‘I am Protector of the Universe, too, Quasar - I protect the universe from the chaotic blight of that aberration called life!’ Deathurge declares.
Back in the Milky Way, ‘Starjump to the Advinter System implemented. Cloaking field?’ one of the aliens about the Mourning Star exclaims. ‘Engaged’ someone responds. Another alien asks what the native name for the planet below is, and another crew member reports that it is Scadam. ‘It would appear the destruction of the Scadamites is still going on’ another remarks. A yellow-skinned alien reports that their dispatches call themselves the Black Fleet, and that they appear to be ravagers, plunderers and pirates. ‘How soon before they have finished their cruel work?’ he asks a female alien, who replies ‘Within a rotation, according to a transmission I intercepted’.
Annoyed, Her tells the cult that they could still do something to save lives. ‘But no - you want them to maximize the loss of life so you’ll have more fodder for your precious mourning rituals!’. She asks them how they can stand to live with themselves, and announces that she cannot idly stand by and watch this slaughter. ‘I am going to do something or die in the trying! And if I do die, don’t you leeches dare mourn for me!’ Her snaps as she flies out of the starship  and into the blackness of space, where, she uses her phenomenal cosmic abilities to obliterate one of the Black Fleet ships with a single burst of spectacular energy.
Unknown to Her, on the surface of the planet below, another of Quasar’s acquaintances, HD Steckley, who tells herself that with Kayla incinerated and her formidable power gone, she doesn’t know how much longer she can last. ‘Though I’m…not without some resources myself, the Black Fleet seems intent upon wiping all life off the face of the planet!’ HD thinks to herself as she stands in a cavern, where several of the local Scadmites have gathered. ‘If only Kayla’s boyfriend, Quasar knew what had -’ HD begins when suddenly, one of the Scadamites alerts her to something going on at the entrance to the cavern - a figure has appeared,, ‘Holly…I feel so strange…’ a gunky-like being calls out, and HD gasps ‘KAYLA!’
On the planet Rus, Quasar has fallen to the ground, blackness seeping over his body as the large black stakes poke out of him. ‘I’ve beaten you, as I always knew I would. You’ve always had a refreshing sense of futility about you!’ Deathurge exclaims. ‘Why are you doing this? If you take me now…I won’t be able to use the nullifier’ Quasar points out, adding that he won’t be able to consign a being of far greater power than he, to Deathurge’s master oblivion. Deathurge states that Quasar misunderstands him. ‘I’m not here to kill you. I visit everyone who is seriously contemplating using the nullifier, and make sure they understand what it means to be the bearer of nothingness. To dispense the void, one must accept the void into your heart’ Deathurge explains.
Suddenly, ‘NO!’ screams Quasar as he reaches up, his cloak flows behind him and the spears all shuck out of his body, the blackness follows. ‘I refuse!’ Wendell declares, to which Deathurge tells him that he will fail to activate the nullifier. ‘I think you will succeed. See you on the other side, fellow protector’ Deathurge declares as he vanishes. Quasar decides that Deathurge is wrong about the nullifier, certain that he will find a way to use it without perishing.
Soon, Wendell returns to Epoch, announcing that he sent Deathurge on his merry way, but before Deathurge put him through the ringer. Wendell asks Epoch what the scoop is on the nullifier. Epoch replies that data is scant, and reveals that no one has recorded who built it, only some of its past users are known. She adds that there is no record of how Galactus came to acquire it. Epoch reports that one thing the various sources agree on, is that no one who has used it survived the experience. ‘That’s what Deathurge said’ Quasar exclaims. Epoch then urges Wendell not to use it. ‘I value your continued existence’ she tells him.
Wendell crouches down beside Epoch and thanks her, adding that he values hers, too. He picks her up and tells her that he will be as careful as he knows how to be. He tells Epoch that they had best get back to Galactus’s ship, but Epoch informs Quasar that she wishhes to remain here for the immediate future, as there is much she can learn here. ‘You’re…sure?’ Wendell asks. ‘Yes’ Epoch responds. Quasar agrees, and tells his cosmic goddaughter to stay in touch. ‘Take care, little spudling!’ Quasar calls out as he takes to the stars once more. ‘Boy, does that feel weird…Eppy coming out of her little dimension…taking humanoid form…staying behind in the library world…’ Wendell thinks to himself.
Back aboard Galactus’s ship, ‘Quasar’s locked himself inside that bubble for almost an hour now. What can he be doing?’ someone calls out. The Thing  suggests that Quasar might not even be in there anymore, that he might have found a way to take a powder. Suddenly, there is another flash of light from inside the quantum-dome. ‘Did he activate it…?’ Captain America wonders as he, Storm, Wolverine, Cyclops, Iceman, Colossus, the Hulk, the Thing, She-Hulk and the Vision gather around it. The Vision states that it would not be advantageous if Quasar had, as the enemy they wish to nullify is nowhere in sight. ‘Quasar, I wish you wouldn’t leave us in the dark about this’ Captain America calls out.
Inside the quantum-dome, Quasar holds up the Ultimate Nullifier, he tells himself that he made it back so smoothly, he would doubt many were aware he was even gone. Examining the nullifier, Wendell knows he has to figure out the activation sequence, drop his protective dome, and then ask Thanos where he wants the nullifier aimed….


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Null and Void
Somewhere beyond our cosmos stands the fortress of the greatest foe our reality currently faces. To this foreboding place, but one man has dared to travel - the cosmic Avenger called Quasar a.k.a. Wendell Vaughn. Though he has been designated Protector of the Universe, he now holds in his hands an instrument of annihilation - the Ultimate Nullifier. Sweat drips down his face as the young hero holds the formidable weapon in his hands. He tells himself that he must keep concentrating on his target, clear his mind of all thoughts except for the Magus. He knows he cannot let a single extraneous thought creep in, or the sphere of Ultimate Nullification will grow and mushroom out of control.
‘Steady now - Magus - this is for you!’ Wendell thinks to himself as he aims the weapon at the Magus’s floating fortress in the middle of the cosmos and activates it - only to find that nothing has happened. But he sees the nullifier’s nozzle, a marble-sized sphere of whiteness emerges, and Wendell realizes that he has done it, he has activated it, without perishing in the process like all the weapon’s previous users. He sees the sphere begins to grow quickly, and he tries to keep it focused, keep it heading towards the target, and, when it reaches the target, he must will it to contract. Suddenly though, Wendell’s hand gets caught in the inside of the nullification sphere, he was unable to judge its distance from him. He can’t feel his hand now, as the sphere begins to creep up his arm.
‘It’s nullifying me! I’ve got to get away!’ Wendell thinks to himself, but he knows that the nothingness will grow with no one to stop it. He decides that he has to stay and stop the null-sphere from growing. He thinks that it has already engulfed the Magus’s stronghold, and as his body is consumed by the sphere, he tells himself that he can stop it, that he must. ‘Stop. Stop. St-’ he thinks, before he is completely engulfed by the nullification sphere.
Meanwhile, in this universe, Quasar’s closest companions, the Eternal called Makkari and the cosmic being known simply as Her, concern themselves with the invasion of the distant planet Scadam, are oblivious to Quasar’s plight. ‘There! She’s heading toward another Black Fleet vessel!’ someone from inside the vessel Mourning Star remarks as they watch Her flit about from one ship to another as the Black Fleet lay waste to the planet below. ‘It would seem your companion seeks to rout their invasion all be herself, Makkari’ one of the Mourning Star cult remarks. Watching the monitor, Makkari points out that she is not doing a shabby job of it, either. Makkari wishes that he could help her, but without a surface to run on, his hyper-speed is as useless as gills on a gorilla. ‘I am not certain if I understand your reference’ the cult member called Fath states.
Makkari tells him that it isn’t important, while Fath asks him not to misunderstand, adding that Mourners do not encourage or condone such wide scale devastation as what they witness here. He states that they just accept the face that no matter what anyone does, the universe is full of death and destruction, such as this. ‘It is our task then to acknowledge and honor those who surrender their lives to the universe’s grand cycle of life and death’ he explains. Makkari asks him if seeing all this tragedy never gets to them, and Fath replies that it affects them profoundly. Her flies off monitor range, and Makkari asks the Mourners to find her. They start scanning, while Her is flying to another of the Black Fleet ships.
‘So vast is the Black Fleet - the seven ships I have disabled thus far have not stemmed the tide of devastation they are visiting upon the hapless world below one iota. But, Her is not going to stand by idly, watching with ghoulish fascination like those wretched Mourners. ‘I am going to do something!’ Her tells herself, knowing that as long as she can still muster a single bolt, she shall cut through their world-circling ranks like a scythe. Her decides that even if she fails to save a single life on the world below, she shall fight on, as such unmitigated savagery shall not go unpunished - such annihilation shall not go unavenged. She casts another blast of energy towards the Black Fleet ship, Her is no stranger to interstellar warfare, and decides that it is her kismet to find such cosmic conflagrations, therefore she shall refer to herself by a pronoun no longer. ‘Let Kismet be my name!’ Kismet decides.
Kismet’s cosmic bolts cripple another ebony warship, causing it to plummet into Scadam’s atmosphere where it bursts on fire, only to rain more destruction on the beleagured planet below. There is a massive KATHOOM, and, unknown to Kismet, another native of Earth happens to be on the ravaged world she fights to protect - a fellow acquaintance of Quasar’s who goes by the name Holly “HD” Steckley. HD is kneeling beside the naked body of something - or someone - that is growing out of the remains of the ashes of her companion, Kayla Ballantine.
HD notes the bombardments seem to be getting closer, but she is reluctant to abandon whatever it is she is guarding. ‘What’s happenign to you, Kayla?’ HD wonders. ‘The power that the being who kidnapped us to this horrid place said you had…is it so potent that it can resurrect you from your own ashes?’ HD asks herself. ‘Or have you become something else altogether?’ HD wonders as she pulls back Kayla’s eyelids, and Kayla, with short hair, sits up, ‘Holly…what happened…?’ she asks. ‘You were dead…but you got better!’ HD replies, shocked.
Elsewhere from anywhere, ‘Whoa. Where the heck…?’ Quasar wonders as he finds himself completely engulfed by the nullifier. Countless other beings float aimlessly through the nothingness as well. ‘Excuse me, sir. I just got here. Mind telling me where I am?’ Quasar calls out to one of them, but gets no response. ‘Sir…?’ he asks again, but still gets no response, so he grabs the alien by his face and exclaims ‘Look at me. I’m talking to you’, but Wendell realizes that the aliens, all of them, whoever they are, seem to be in shock. Quasar wonders where he is, ‘The Quantum Zone? Never saw beings like these there before’ he recalls, and raises his Quantum Bands to do an energy scan. He realizes that this is not the Quantum Zone, but he does detect a powerful energy source nearby and decides to check it out.
Quasar flies through the mass of aimless beings, his energy the only form of color in the mysterious reality. ‘What happened to me? Oh, yeah…the Ultimate Nullifier happened to me. If this were you go when you’re nullified - or did some cosmic muckamuck pull my fat out of the fire again?’ Quasar contemplates. Wendell decides that except for the lack of color, this might even by the Dimension of Manifestations. Suddenly, ‘Oh, no! Not him! Oblivion!’ Quasar tells himself as h approaches a large pink and purple cosmic being. Wendell knows that Oblivion is one of the four most powerful abstract entities in the whole universe, and one with no particular use for him. Wendell decides that he should have anticipated this, what with his run-in with Oblivion’s herald, Deathurge.
As more aliens float around Oblivion, and fall from his hands, Quasar flies towards him, ‘Uh, hi. Remember me?’ Wendell calls out. ‘All to well’ Oblivion replies, before Quasar asks him if this is it, if he is dead for good this time. ‘Not dead - worse. Nullified’ Oblivion responds. Quasar asks if he can have a hearing on the subject, but Oblivion tells him that he can’t. ‘Wait a minute - iu learned about guys like you since the last time we met. You’re just a manifestation-body…and for all I know, a garbled one, at that’ Quasar declares, boasting that he is not about to take what Oblivion says as the straight truth. However, Oblivion states that it makes no difference to him. ‘You’re not even going to try to convince me?’ Quasar asks. ‘What would it take to convince you?’ Oblivion enquires. ‘A fight? You against me - winner takes all?’ Quasar suggests.
Oblivion replies that he does not fight as Quasar understands the term. ‘But because you amuse me, I will conjure forth your own death-avatar in order to appease your final request’ Oblivion declares, and from amongst the mass of beings around him, pulls forth a small skeleton with a purple cloak. ‘Hiya, Quaze! Howzit goin?’ the skeleton asks. Quasar is shocked to see ‘KID REAPER!’ he exclaims, recalling that he dreamt up Kid Reaper, a cartoony imp, when his body lay between life and death. Kid Reaper moves towards Quasar, holding a scythe, he calls out ‘So ya wanna fight for yer life, is that it? Then let’s go to it, bunky!’ But Quasar hesitates, ‘No, wait!’ he calls out. ‘Wait shmait!’ Kid Reaper exclaims as he brings his scythe down towards Quasar, who throws up a quantum-shield, but the scythe manages to penetrate it. ‘Try this on for scythe!’ Kid Reaper jokes.
Wendell decides to try and contain Kid Reaper, and casts forth a quantum-bubble, but before it closes around Kid Reaper, the stranger being flies out of it. ‘Missed me!’ Kid Reaper exclaims, while Quasar creates a quantum-armor around himself and tells Kid Reaper that he liked him better as his sidekick. Wendell isn’t sure what good armouring up will do, other than giving himself a psychological boost. Quasar raises a quantum-staff and blocks Kid Reaper once again. ‘Nice move, bunky! Between you and me…let’s draw this little tussle out a bit, okay?’ Kid Reaper suggests, adding that he has a feeling Oblivion is going to bop him back to otherness as soon as he aces Quasar. ‘And I’m in no particular hurry ta go, know what I mean?’ Kid Reaper adds.
‘You got it! Just do me on favor -’ Quasar replies. ‘What’s that?’ Kid Reaper asks. ‘Don’t hold it against me when I bear the tar out of you!’ Quasar declares. ‘Oooo, strong words from a -’ Kid Reaper begins, before he and Quasar fall away from each other, which takes Kid Reaper by surprise as he wasn’t expecting Quasar to twist and redirect his strength against him. Kid Reaper continues to fall backwards into them ass of alien bodies, and he calls out ‘Ya know, if I had any feelin’s in this pint-sized bod o’mine that woulda hurt. An if I had any emotions in this empty chest cavity o’mine, I’d be peeyo’d at you big time’. Kid Reaper warns Quasar that if he had any sense in his hollow head, he could ask Oblivion if he could have Quasar’s body as soon as he made him evacuate it.
Meanwhile, on the starship of the World-Devourer Galacts, where a battalion of Earth’s mightiest heroes have joined forces with Thanos against a still greater threat. Hercules, Captain America, Cyclops, the Vision, Jean Grey, She-Hulk, the Thing, Archangel, the new Thor and Iceman stand before Thanos, as Captain America asks him what happened, how Quasar fared, and whether the Magus has been neutralized. Thanos announces that Quasar has failed and that apparently he has been nullified while using the nullifier, so his target remains intact. The heroes look shocked. ‘Poor kid’ the Thing exclaims. ‘Now we can only hope that Galactus succeeds with -’ Thanos begins, while Captain America asks him if he is sure about Quasar. Thanos points out that their enemy remains, while Quasar does not. Captain America addresses the other heroes and tells them that it would be appropriate to observe a moment’s silence for their fallen comrade.
‘Sentimental nonsense’ Thanos mutters as he leaves the heroes for another chamber within the ship. He stares out at the stars and tells himself that it is only a matter of time before they vanquish the Magus, and decides that he best begin for preparation of that eventuality.
Meantime, in the Eonverse, Marvel Boy leans against his surroundings while eating what appears to be rocks, when suddenly, he hears a voice call out to him: ‘Marvel Boy?’, and Marvel Boy looks up, smiling, ‘Master! At last! I thought you’d forgotten about me, stuck here in the rotting corpse of your old foe, Eon!’ he smiles. The voice tells Marvel Boy to go to Earth, as Quasar is dead and has left no heirs to his power. ‘You shall now take his place as Protector of the Universe. My Protector of the Universe’ the voice tells Marvel Boy. A portal opens within the corpse of Eon and Marvel Boy exclaims excitedly ‘Oh, boy! This is going to be great!’
Way elsewhere, ‘Don’t think you can hide from me, bunky!’ Kid Reaper exclaims as he flies back towards Quasar, thrashing his scythe about, boasting that he can hack his way through these colorless stiffs like a putdown artist at a dullard’s convention. Quasar tells Kid Reaper that he isn’t hiding, but strategically retrenching. Quasar removes his quantum-armor and flies on through the aliens, ‘Think, think, think!’ he tells himself, deciding that his only way out of here is by defeating the diminutive death-bringer, however his only weapon, his quantum-energy, appears to be useless against Kid Reaper’s scythe. ‘Good idea losing the armor - it made you look like a refugee from Spartacus!’ Kid Reaper calls out, while Wendell realizes that he has another weapon - the six pound hunk of gunk situated between his ears.
Quasar flies towards Oblivion and tells himself that there must be some way to outwit the kid and his master both, and as Kid Reaper approaches him, he shouts ‘Wait! Don’t hit me! I need to talk to Oblivion!’, but Kid Reaper just lunges with his scythe - ‘Talk to this!’ he shouts, however Quasar manages to move just in time, so Kid Reaper’s scythe strikes Oblivion in the face. ‘Whups - sorry boss!’ Kid Reaper calls out, while Oblivion announces that this is ceasing to be amusing. ‘Get done with it’ he orders. Quasar darts away, ‘Didn’t think that would hurt Oblivion - but if I can get him peeved at me, maybe he’ll send me on a one-way trip out of here!’ Quasar decides as he hides amongst the mass of floating aliens.
Kid Reaper calls out to him, telling Quasar that he is tired of tag. ’Let’s have a séance - you be the dearly departed!’ Kid Reaper jokes, while Quasar backs up so that he can get a good flying head start, and then pours on all the speed his Quantum Bands can muster, as he darts past Kid Reaper. ’Huh? What got into you?’ Kid Reaper calls out. ’Was it something I said?’ he asks as Quasar flies straight past him. ’With any luck, they won’t know what I’m aiming for - till I’m there!’ Wendell thinks to himself as he swiftly approaches Oblivion.
 Back on the planet Scadam, ‘The dead do not come back to life, Holly! Except in horror mobies! It’s against my faith! There must be a better explanation!’ Kayla exclaims, adding that she doesn’t feel like she was dead, just a little groggy. HD replies that she saw what she saw, and tells Kayla that she was dust, ashes, then began to grow back a body, right from the ashes. ‘It was astounding!’ HD remarks. Kayla touches her short hair and tells HD that it feels icky. HD points out that if Kayla can grow her body back in the space of six hours, then she should have no problem growing her hair back. ‘Face it, Kayla - you’ve got the power the Chief Examiner said you have’ HD declares, before noticing a tattoo in the shape of a star on the back of Kayla’s neck. ‘There is?’ Kayla asks, before supposing that is what has been itching under her scalp the past month. ‘What is it?’ Kayla exclaims, worried.
HD tells Kayla that she thinks it is the source of her power, and reminds Kayla about Angler, who was blown across her bedroom. ‘You did that to him’ HD remarks, suggesting that Kayla may be able to do anything she can think of. ‘Just try something…anything!’ HD exclaims. ‘Like what?’ Kayla asks. HD suggests that Kayla try lifting herself off the ground, and Kayla does just that. ‘Whoa! I’m - I’m -’ she gasps, ‘Yes! You’re flying! That’s great - now we can get somewhere - try to find a way off this crazy planet - a rocket, maybe!’ HD suggests, before telling Kayla to keep practicing, and then, as soon as she is up to it, to try and lift her.
Half an hour later, ‘Easy now…let’s not go too fast!’ HD suggests as Kayla wraps her arms around her and pulls Holly into the air. Kayla announces that she sees something going on over the gill, a whole bunch of those black ships are bombing something. HD suggests they head in the opposite direction, but as they fly higher, they see what appears to be a fifty foot man with a blue and yellow costume in the middle of the swarm of black ships. Kayla points out that he has a helmet on like the Chief Examiner. HD suggests that it must be the synthetic being that the Examiner said he was synthesizing all of the powers of the Earth super-beings into what he wanted to do with Kayla’s power. ‘One person against all of them? It doesn’t seem fair!’ Kayla exclaims as she and HD watch the mysterious being defend himself - or itself - against the swarming fleet.
Elsewhere again, ‘Eeesh!’ Kid Reaper exclaims as he moves away from Oblivion as energy surges from the cosmic being. ‘Pathetic!’ Oblivion then calls out. ‘Ya want I should boil that lance, boss?’ Kid Reaper asks. ‘In a manner of speaking?’ he adds. Quasar looks concerned and tells himself that it seemed like a good idea at the time to put all his quantum power concentrated into a single shaft of energy sent at high speed straight into the heart of Oblivion. Wendell had hoped to be able to break up Oblivion’s manifestation body, only it didn’t work. Wendell hates fighting metaphysical beings, before realizing that maybe there is some way he can fight a manifestation with a manifestation. ‘If I’m where I think I am - a corner of the Dimension of Manifestations - maybe…just maybe…’ he tells himself, before vanishing in a burst of quantum-energy. ‘Boss, Quasar just disappeared! He used his quantum jumping power’ Kid Reaper calls out, and begs Oblivion to let him follow.
Quasar re-appears elsewhere, as he tried to home in on the quantum-marble that he gave to the Contemplator. ‘I think I sensed it - I’ll know as soon as the flash of the quantum-jump effect fades’ Wendell tells himself, before seeing the Contemplator hovering before him. ‘You’ve got to help me!’ Quasar calls out to his associate, explaining that he needs a manifestation-body, as Oblivion is after him, and wants to keep him here in the Dimension of Manifestations permanently. ‘You’ve been here a while. Have you figured out how to go about getting the M-bodies here to assume your form?’ Quasar enquires, but he gets no response, and as he reaches out to touch the Contemplator, his hand passes through him.
‘Oh, no - he must not be able to hear me because I’ve been nullified’ Wendell thinks to himself, when suddenly, Kid Reaper materializes nearby. ‘I’m hurt, bunky. Running out on me like that!’ Kid Reaper exclaims. ‘Listen to me, Kid. You’re my personal death avatar, right?’ Quasar asks. ‘Yeah, so?’ Kid Reaper replies. ‘I dreamed you up. Gave you the form and consciousness you have. So when I’m dead, so are you,. Without me, you’re nothing. You go back to the formless void you came from with nobody to bring you back ever again’ Quasar explains. ‘Think about it before you park your scythe in me, okay?’ Wendell asks Kid Reaper, who replies that Oblivion is going to be mad at him if he fails. ‘What can he do to you? Discorporate you - big deal. I can bring you back together’ Quasar points out.
‘He’s got no use for you once I’m gone. But I do - you’re my personal death-figure. I promise you I’ll bring you back. Just as you are, if you spare me’ Wendell tells Kid Reaper, who pauses, before remarking ‘I know you, Quaze. You’re a man of your word. Okay, if you promise to bring me back to life, as it were, if anything happens to ma - and it will - I’ll spare ya from my reapin!’ Quasar tells Kid Reaper that he is a true pal, the best death-avatar a guy could have. ‘Now maybe you can help me get a manifestation body…like yours and Oblivion’s’ Wendell asks, adding that the way he figures, he might be able to fool Oblivion if he gives him a proxy of himself. But, as Quasar turns his back to Kid Reaper, Kid Reaper then shoves his scythe into Wendell’s back.
Wendell cries out in pain, and turns back to Kid Reaper, ‘…why…?’ he manages to utter. ‘Never trust an avatar of death, bunky - especially not your own’ Kid Reaper replies, adding that they answer to a higher authority. Quasar’s body goes stiff, as Kid Reaper grabs his arms, ‘Now lemme remove your quantum doohickie - the big O wanted me to bring ‘em to him as proof of yer buyin’ the farm!’ Kid Reaper remarks. Contemplator hovers nearby, while Kid Reaper pulls the Quantum Bands from Wendell’s wrists. But, suddenly, ‘What happened to ‘em!?’ Kid Reaper gasps as the Quantum Bands vanish.
Back in the physical universe, there is an embryonic being destined to be born with power on the cosmic scale. This strange being is called Origin. It hovers in space, while the mysterious female called the Caregiver watches over Origin. Before the Infinity War began, Qausar helped this unborn infant escape the depredations of an entity who sought to consume its nascent soul. And now, inside its embryonic sac, between one of its flipper-like limbs, to objects suddenly materialize - Quasar’s Quantum Bands….


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Battleground Earth
Earth, somewhere in North Carolina, Wendell “Quasar” Vaughn looks up, and sees a large black shadowy figure loom over him. ‘That degenerate Quagmire disappears… and suddenly this Antibody creature he seemed to have a symbiotic relationship with grows to the size of a house!’ the young hero thinks to himself. But, Quasar isn’t about to let the Antibody smack him, and he flies upwards, dodging the attack. He doesn’t have his Quantum Bands anymore, but the Starbrand tattoo gives Quasar a few reasonably cool attributes. ‘Run! While we can!’ a civilian down below calls out. ‘Never eat here again!’ another yells as they rush away from the McBurgers restaurant. ‘Blasted New Yorkers! Why can’t they just keep these super-types to themselves?’ another civilian asks.
Quasar swoops back down towards the ground, as he thinks to himself ‘Not only can I fly, but I’m stronger than a mule team’, attempting to use that power to take out the large Antibody, Quasar is surprised when he flies through his opponent, and Antibody splits into two. Quasar is shocked, as he expected Antibody to be solid. Quasar is worried, and wonders how he is supposed to subdue the giant if every poke he takes at him results in a clone - a clone that seems to share the same general hostility of the oversized original. ‘What’s your problem, buddy?’ Quasar calls out to the Antibody as he confronts the smaller clone. ‘If not for me, you’d still be part of your big brother!’ Quasar points out, while the larger Antibody suddenly stands on the McBurger restaurant.
Meantime, in the realm of potential called the Quantum Zone, a lone figure mars the pristine emptiness of non-space. His name is Sergei Krylov, though he refers to himself by the title, the Presence. But whatever name, he is an exceedingly unhappy man. For months now he has been suspended in this featureless void, having been exiled there by Quasar after attacking Quasar’s now-deceased mentor, Eon. The Presence is a Russian mutant who lives on radioactive decay, he is not bothered by the lack of food or water, or air, it is merely boredom that threatens his well-being. He lies in wait, hoping to catch a glimpse of Quasar when he passes through the realm in a space-warping quantum-jump. He has yet to see him. The problem is, Quasar never remains long enough in the zone for the Presence to locate him.
But now at last, the Presence sees something - a speck of color violating the whiteness. As quickly as he knows how, the Presence propels himself toward it, and sees that it is a humanoid hand and that it appears to be severed - no, surrounded by a nimbus of energy. The Presence grabs the hand, deciding that it is not Quasar’s as he does not see Quasar’s distinctive bracelets. As the energy ripples around, the Presence decides that this may be the exit from this contemptible dimension he has been searching for all this time. He starts to pull the hand through the energy - but the hand pulls back, and the Presence strains to keep in charge - and he is pulled through a portal.
‘I am free!’ the diabolical madman shouts, before seeing his peculiar “rescuer”. ‘You are not Quasar! Who are you?’ the Presence demands. The solid warrior announces that he is Neutron, fourth lieutenant in her Majestrix Lilandra’s Imperial Guard of the Shi’ar Imperium. ‘Are you Kree, Earthling or otherwise?’ Neutron asks. The Presence explains that he is of Earth, although his allegiance is to no nation or individual thereupon. The Presence asks Neutron what he knows of Quasar. Neutron reveals that it is Quasar who teleported him here and abandoned him during personal combat. ‘I managed to thrust my arm into the space warp-hole he retreated into. ‘You know of him, too?’ Neutron asks. The Presence explains that Quasar abandoned him in the dimension into which that warp-hole leads. ‘Whatever else you may be, you are an enemy of my enemy, man of Earth’ Neutron points out. Taking the Presence’s hand, he proposes that they pool their resources in order to save themselves from their mutual predicament. ‘Yes, and exact justice upon the one responsible for our dishonorable treatment!’ the Presence agrees.
Back on Earth, police officers have cordoned off the area where Quasar is engaging Antibody. ‘So come on, shortstuff! Tell me what it is you and your giant brother want! Please?’ Quasar calls out as he grabs the regular-sized Antibody from behind. Quasar thinks that these Antibody’s are related to the foot-tall Antibody he saw in that other universe, only he was a nice little imp that helped him out. ‘How did you guys get here? And what’s going to get you to stop running amok?’ Quasar asks. ‘All of you - back! Move it! Behind the line!’ one of the officers shouts, while his colleague asks ‘Who the heck is that blond guy in the cape? Thor?’
Quasar drops the smaller Antibody, ‘You’re not being cooperative’ he remarks, adding that he isn’t a tenth the menace that the giant is. Quasar wraps his arms around the large Antibody’s wrist, ‘Let’s see if I can get you out of harm’s way’ he tells himself, struggling to move the behemoth, Quasar is unsure how strong the Starbrand makes him, and decides that it is time he learned. ‘One… two… three… LIFT!’ Quasar shouts as he pulls the massive Antibody into the air, surprising the police officers down below. ‘I’m doing it! He’s off the ground! Man, what I wouldn’t give to have my Quantum Bands back. I’m not good at using brute force’ Wendell thinks to himself, as he lifts the large Antibody higher. ‘Where’s he taking the thing?’ one of the officers asks.
Straining under the pressure, the Starbrand glowing around his eye, Quasar tells himself that if he can manage, he will tow this thing through the stratosphere and dump it in deep space. But, suddenly, there is a loud BLURRCH as the hand that Quasar was tugging on rips off. ‘Oh, no!’ Wendell gasps. The Antibody starts to fall back down towards the McBurgers restaurant and Quasar fears that people will be crushed. ‘What can I do?’ he asks himself. He reminds himself that he has tapped into the Starbrand as pure force once before, but realizes he has next to no control over it. He decides he has no choice but to use it, and to hope that he doesn’t expel too much. ‘Here goes…’ Wendell thinks to himself as he casts the energy of the Starbrand down towards the falling Antibody - which causes dozens of regular sized Antibody’s to split from the larger one. ‘Oh no! I used the right amount of force all right - the right amount to blast the giant into a hundred flying six-foot clones of itself!’ Wendell thinks to himself, concerned. ‘This Starbrand business is definitely not going well for me’ he adds.
Meanwhile, somewhere on the other side of the Milky Way, there is a spherical starship, its origin yet unidentified. It contains a flying shuttle bus built by people called Scadamites, a race, who in recent weeks, was all but exterminated. Inside the shuttle bus are two denizens of Earth who have had the misfortune of being shanghaied to Scadam in recent weeks. They are Kayla Ballantine, who, like Quasar, possesses a portion of the Starbrand, and her companion Holly “HD” Steckley. ‘Where are we, Holly? What happened? Are we better off than we were trapped on Scadam… or have we jumped from the frying pain into the fire?’ Kayla, wearing only a towel wrapped around herself, asks.
‘Call me nuts, but I’m glad to be anywhere but that godforsaken planet’ HD replies. ‘You’re nuts! We’ve been captured by aliens! Who knows what they want us for? Maybe to eat us?’ Kayla replies. Suddenly, a panel opens, and Kayla and Holly are knocked back by a gust of wind as Holly tells Kayla not to be ridiculous. ‘All this technology just to catch a few morsels of food?’ she asks, before a large red alien with green clothing looms over them. ‘Stay back!’ Kayla shouts.
Meanwhile, a streak of energy soars through the cosmos. It has taken a month to whittle the nine hundred million mile journey down to a mere five million miles, but these two singular figures have pursued their common goal relentlessly, channelling all of the energies at their command into near-warp speed propulsion. At long last, the disc of Earth looms large before them. The Presence lies on his back, across Neutron’s back, as Neutron calls out to him, telling him awaken, as they are inside the orbit of Earth’s moon. The Presence replies that he has been awake since they passed Mars, and explains that he is now within range to begin scanning for their enemy’s brain patterns. ‘If quasar is anywhere within the Earth’s biosphere, I shall pinpoint him’ the Presence announces.
They moves ever closer to Earth, as Neutron tells the Presence that their alliance has proven most satisfactory. ‘When we find him we will attack in unison, in order to safeguard against his dispatching us as he had done before’. The Presence points out that Quasar cannot teleport them unless he touches them, so they must avoid his grasp. ‘When I am through with him, he will lack the strength to grasp a crutch!’ Neutron boasts.
Oblivious to the looming danger above, Quasar hovers in the air, still holding the large hand, as Antibodys swarm around him, he wishes that he had his Quantum-Bands, as he would bubble the Antibodys up and be done with them. ‘Not so close, guys!’ Quasar calls out to them, as the big hand suddenly breaks up into four more. ‘What am I going to do? Think!’ Wendell tells himself, before the Antibodys begin grabbing him. He knows that if he starts blasting them, they might blow apart into still more dark clones, and wonders what he is supposed to do - let them make him the squishy center of their flying monkey pile? He would, if he could lure them all into one place again, but he sees a bunch of them rampaging below who don’t seem to share enthusiasm of the crew attacking him. ‘If there’s any way this situation could be worse - I sure as heck can’t see how!’ Wendell tells himself.
At that moment, ‘Our quarry is directly below, Neutron! Our moment of vengeance is imminent! Let us strike swiftly and savagely!’ the Presence declares. Neutron agrees, but, as they loom over the McBurgers, Neutron announces that he fails to see Quasar. The Presence can’t see him either, but they do notice the Antibodys causing trouble, and Neutron comments that they resemble him more than they do Quasar, before asking the Presence if they are denizens of his world. The Presence replies that he has never seen them before, and casts his energies towards several of them, ‘Back you mindless multitude - I have no patience for anything but vengeance!’ he shouts. Neutron turns to the Presence and points out that he was able to distinguish a single brain pattern from among the untold many that make up this world’s populace. ‘But now that we’re next to it, you can’t determine -’ he begins, but the Presence points upwards, announcing that he has located Quasar in the mass of falling ebony beings.
Dozens of Antibodys start falling back towards the ground, and land in a heap, with Quasar on top of them. ‘Yes, you are right. It’s him!’ Neutron calls out, before asking if Quasar is dead. The Presence reports that brain activity continues, while Quasar moans. The Presence and Neutron stand over him, as Neutron remarks that he hoped Quasar would have put up some sort of struggle, as they meted out their retribution. ‘It does not matter to me. Let us commence!’ the Presence declares.
While, on the other side of the Milky Way, Quasar’s one-time companion, Kismet, leaves orbit. She looks unhappy and tells herself that the unknown power which she sensed on this alien world has vanished aboard an unidentified craft. She is unable to follow it unto warp space, and may never know what repulsed the alien invaders that devastated the planet below. Kismet decides that it is time to quit this frustrating star system and return - but she sees the cathedral ship, the Mourning Star, that brought her here. She tells herself that her companion, Marraki may still be aboard, and flies towards it - but it speeds away. ‘Gone. Lost to me in warp space. This is not funny’ Kismet tells herself matter-of-factly.
Back on Earth, the Antibodys continue to wreck chaos and destruction, while Neutron holds Quasar’s limp body overhead. ‘Any last words before I strike you again?’ he asks. ‘Please…guys. I don’t have time for this right now. I’ve got to stop all these gremlins!’ Quasar replies. ‘You wish for us to wait our turn to battle you, is that it? ‘Neutron enquires. ‘Well, yeah…or you could even help me -’ Quasar suggests, but Neutron responds by breaking Quasar’s shoulder-length hair off, and sending him bouncing along the ground. ‘Owww!’ Quasar calls out when he comes to a stop. ‘All right. That’s it! I’m as proud as the next super hero - but it’s time tro call in reinforcements’ Quasar decides as he pulls out his Avengers ID card, and uses it to contact Peggy Carter. Peggy appears on the small monitor, ‘Hey, Peggy? This is Quasar, I need -’ is all Wendell gets to say, before the Presence destroys the Avengers ID card.
‘We shall have none of that!’ the Presence declares. ‘You - idiot! Now you’re making me mad!’ Quasar replies. ‘What do you know of madness? I was left to die in a featureless void! A lesser mind would have gone mad!’ the Presence calls out, casting energy onto Quasar, he tells the young hero to know his pain. But, Quasar gets to his feet, surprising the Presence. ‘You…still stand?’ the Presence asks. ‘I’m a lot tougher than you remember’ Quasar replies, before informing the Presence that her had not intended to let him die in the Quantum Zone, as he figured that a genius such as he would find a way out. ‘But right now, I’d give my left nostril to stick you back there!’ Quasar declares as he lunges at the Presence, grabs him, and takes flight. ‘Let go of me!’ the Presence calls out, before telling Neutron that he can’t escape, and asks for help.
‘He’s towing me outside the atmosphere so he can quantum-jump once more!’ the Presence exclaims. ‘I only wish’ Quasar thinks to himself, while Neutron takes flight after them - followed by the myriad of Antibodys. ‘Unhand me, Quasar!’ the Presence demands, struggling to break free. ‘Not a chance’ Quasar replies, adding that what is ironic about this is that their animosity is all based upon a misunderstanding. ‘You lie!’ the Presence shouts. Quasar assures the Presence that he isn’t lying, and reminds him that the first time they fought, the Presence believed him to be tool of a cosmic menace, thanks to some misinformation that he was fed, and, for his own part, Quasar admits that his mistook the Presence for a cosmic assassin who gave him that misinformation. ‘So this flight - like our last one - is all one big mistake’ Quasar states.
Wendell tells himself that he has to keep the Presence distracted until he can figure out what to do with him. Suddenly, he has an idea, and as Neutron’s arms are seen as the Shi’ar Guardsman bursts through some cloud, Quasar throws the Presence at him, ‘Looking for your buddy?’ Wendell calls out. But, this causes a massive stream of crimson energy to erupt around them. ‘Whoa - didn’t expect that!’ Wendell thinks to himself, as Neutron punched a hole in the Presence’s armor, causing the violent energy release. The Presence collapses towards Quasar, just as the pile of Antibodys swarms around them. Cosmic energy glows around them all, as they start to hurtle downwards, towards some large power pylons. Quasar looks worried, but they crash land in some sort of farm. Hay bales all around, a crater forms from the impact. After some time, a hand reaches up - it’s Quasar, and he pulls himself from the glowing crater. ‘This…really…stinks!’ he mutters to himself. But, as he looks up, he sees four figures standing over him. ‘Huh? Who the -?’ Wendell asks. Standing over him, are Dr Druid, Shadowoman, the Blazing Skull and the Living Mummy. ‘We are the SHOCK TROOP!’ Dr Druid announces. ‘Good grief’ Quasar mutters….


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Somewhere in North Carolina, in the dead of night, ‘Quasar, I presume?’ Dr Druid asks as he stands over a glowing crater in a field, flanked by his teammates in the group called Shock Troop - Shadowoman, Blazing Skull and the Living Mummy. ‘You presume right’ Wendell “Quasar” Vaughn replies as he climbs out of the crater. Quasar recognizes Dr Druid as an Avenger, from before Quasar joined, who resigned in disgrace. He doesn’t know who the rest of his troop is, but it looks they have come to add to his already considerable troubles. ‘So, uh, what brings you here, Doctor?’ Quasar asks. ‘I take it that is an attempt at a witticism’ Dr Druid replies as he levitates Quasar out of the crater, while pointing out that this region is infested with occult entities, and given that he and his teammates have appointed themselves the policemen of the occult, when he sensed the psychic disturbance, they came running.
As the myriad of the mysterious Antibodies fly around the Shock Troop, the occult investigators stand ready. ‘So what you’re saying is you guys are good guys?’ Quasar asks. ‘We’re no angels, but close enough’ Druid replies, before asking what the situation here is. With the Starbrand marked over his right eye, Quasar explains that the flying gremlins are extra dimensional beings called Antibodies and that they are getting meaner by the minute - not to mention they have the nasty habit of multiplying when you hit them. Quasar adds that also in the area are two old sparring partners of his - a radioactive mutant and a super-strong alien. Wendell isn’t sure if he can trust Dr Druid in light of his Avengers record, but decides that he isn’t about to look a gift posse in the mouth.
Druid tells Quasar that their field is the occult, so they will handle the antibodies, while his other foes are all his. ‘Huh? Oh, okay’ Quasar replies as Druid turns away to join the rest of the Shock Troop in combating the Antibodies. Addressing the Living Mummy as N’Kantu, Druid orders him to subdue one of the Antibodies and bring him over. Quasar, his costume ripped in places, takes flight, grateful that he can still fly, although he is a little unsteady after the crash. He wishes that he had his Quantum-Bands back already, as the Starbrand power he has been running on his still very disorienting and he keeps having a nagging suspicion, that sooner or later he is going to totally use it up.
‘N’Kantu?’ Dr Druid calls out. ‘One minute, Doctor’ the Living Mummy replies as he is attacked by two Antibodies. He manages to grab one of them, and Dr Strange places his fingers to the Antibody’s head, announcing that he will try to unlock this creature’s mind to learn its origins and motivations. Druid concentrates, and sees impressions of two men, both from other earth-like dimensions. One man was good, and it was in his body that the Antibodies were originally formed, but they were separated from him and found refuge in the body of an evil man, and fell under his influence. Druid tells the Antibody to gaze into his eyes and tell him what it is that he and his body-doubles want. ‘Why are you rampaging?’ Druid asks.
Suddenly, ‘Graaama!’ a little girl calls out to her grandmother, as two of the Antibodies approach them. The elderly woman tells her granddaughter to stand very still and maybe the shadowy men will see that they mean no harm. ‘Thinking good thoughts won’t protect you against this lot, ma’ma - but the Shadowoman will!’ declares Jillian Woods as she appears overhead. Shadowoman grabs both Antibodies and takes them upwards, ‘You’re coming with me!’ she tells them, explaining that her body can melt into shadows, ‘And sure enough, I can take you with me’ she smiles as she absorbs the Antibodies into her. Shadowoman tells the old woman that she is safe now, but recommends that she hurry on home. ‘Home? Yes - home!’ the old woman calls out, telling her granddaughter, Gina, to come along. ‘Wow, that was totally cool!’ the girl exclaims.
Nearby, the Blazing Skull has engaged several Antibodies in combat, ‘What’s the matter, bozos? My glowing force field playing hob with your spooky bods?’ he jokes as he knocks them about, adding ‘Between you and me, it ain’t exactly doing my love life any favors, either!’
Meanwhile, across the galaxy, a spherical ship speeds towards an unknown destination. Inside a several hundred members of the alien race known only as the Dance, and two recent guests - HD Steckley and Kayla Ballantine. ‘Whoa, the gravity on this ship is so light, every step I take turns into a leap!’ HD points out as she and Kayla follow one of the strange aliens down a corridor. Kayla replies that she is just thankful they can breathe. HD mutters that she wishes this goody-moving guy would say something, as she has no idea where he is leading them. ‘You’re the one with super-powers, Kayla, you try to get him to respond to you’ HD suggests. ‘Me?’ Kayla, wearing only a sheet wrapped around her body, asks. ‘The star tattoo may let me do some strange things - but speaking alienese isn’t one of them!’ she points out, before the peculiar alien leads them into a large room, where more aliens are moving about in a strange manner. ‘What if these weird movements are their language? Maybe they are trying to talk to us’ Kayla suggests.
Back on Earth, Quasar darts about through the air, supposing that it would be too good if Doc Druid and his crew could figure out how to handle those Antibodies. ‘Neutron and the Presence are more than enough to keep me hopping’ Wendell thinks to himself, while wondering where they are. As if on cue, Neutron torpedos towards Quasar, knocking him side ways. Quasar tells Neutron that the Kree / Shi’ar war is over, that the Shi’ar won, so there is no reason to fight. ‘You say that just to avoid a beating’ Neutron replies. ‘No, it’s true!’ Quasar calls out. Neutron grimaces and tells Quasar that war or no war, he must pay for how he treated him. Neutron flies over to Quasar and grabs his arm, while Wendell asks him what will satisfy him - roughing him up some more, or killing him. ‘I will kill you! Then if I am still not satisfied, I will rough you up some more!’ Neutron boasts, before slamming his fist into Quasar’s face.
Quasar asks Neutron to cool it with the testosterone stuff and he will help him get back to the Shi’ar Imperium - but Neutron ignores him and goes in for another punch. Quasar grabs his fist this time. ‘You really are serious about this beating thing! You know, my estimation of your species’ level of sophistication is dropping by the moment’ Quasar tells Neutron, who replies that a Stygian does not care what any lower life form thinks of him. ‘A Stygian, hmm? Figures’ Wendell mutters.
At that moment, 22,300 miles above the Earth, a spaceship appears. ‘I’m getting a reading! We’ve found him at last!’ someone aboard announces. ‘Prepare to jump!’ someone orders.
Oblivious to the starship above, the Shock Troop continue their battle against the Antibodies. Blazing Skull holds one overhead, while the Living Mummy slams a tree into his opponent. Dr Druid holds one of the Antibodies in a energy field and tells himself that the creatures’ torments stand revealed to him, but it remains to be seen what can be done to alleviate the situation. Suddenly, he has an idea, and tells Shadowoman that he needs her. ‘Yes, Anthony?’ Shadowoman replies as she flies over. Druid informs Shadowoman that these creatures are rampaging because they are dying from lack of contact with a host body. He explains that the Darkforce that contaminates their systems makes it impossible for them to enter a host. Druid tells Jillian that he has a plan to rid them all of their contamination, but that he needs her help. He instructs her to assume her shadow form and to cast it across the Antibody in front of them. Jillian does so, and Druid orders the Living Mummy and Blazing Skull to let the Antibodies come forth. ‘You asked for it!’ Blazing Skull replies.
Nearby, the Presence flies towards Quasar and Neutron, telling himself that he had feared that in the time it took him to repair the breach in armor, his comrade would have finished Quasar, robbing him of his revenge. ‘But I see that accursed American is still in the fray’. Out of the corner of his eye, Wendell sees the Presence approaching. ‘I will break you, American!’ the Presence declares as he wraps an arm around Quasar’s neck. ‘You could waste you time trying, Serge, or you can hightail it back to your native land where there’s a big surprise waiting!’ Quasar replies, informing the Presence that while he was gone, the Soviet Union broke up into a bunch of smaller countries. ‘Russia, Ukraine - uh, Georgia, I think…’ Wendell announces. ‘You lie!’ the Presence replies.
‘I’m a lot of things but a liar isn’t one of them!’ Quasar declares, while the Presence wonders how this could be. ‘The communist Part would never allow -’ he begins, to which Quasar tells the Presence if he doesn’t believe him, to ask anybody, as everyone knows what has happened to the USSR. The Presence warms Quasar that if he is lying, then he will return, before he takes off. Quasar smiles at Neutron and tells him that it is just the two of them again, to which Neutron slams his head against Quasar’s.
A mile away, the Antibodies all converge on the one held in stasis. Dr Druid decides that it seems to be working. He has given the supine Antibody a psychokinetic charge so that any other Antibody passing within six feet or so is sucked into the dimensional interface Jillian’s shadow power has opened. However, it remains to be seen whether Blazing Skull and Living Mummy can keep the onslaught of Antibodies directed this way. The Blazing Skull is grabbed from behind, while the Living Mummy smacks his opponent on the head. ‘If Jillian can maintain the interface. I sense it is taxing her stamina to the limit’ Druid thinks to himself, while Blazing Skull tells the Antibodies around him that they are late for their family reunion.
The Presence arrives in a town nearby. ‘J-Jonathan!’ a woman exclaims as the Presence descends beside them. ‘Courage, Martha’ Jonathan tells her, before saying to the Presence ‘Don’t hurt us! We’ll do whatever you say!’, as the Presence stands before them and announces that he seeks information. ‘Answer me truthfully or suffer the consequence’ he warns the couple. ‘Okay’ Jonathan replies, while the Presence asks what has happened to the Soviet Union. ‘Well, Sir, it broke up ito a bunch of smaller countries. The Communist Party was overthrown. Boris Yeltsin was elected President’ Jonathan reveals, adding that it all he knows, as he doesn’t follow the news that much.
The Presence turns and takes flight, ‘His claim is the same as Quasar’s’ he thinks to himself. ‘Whew’ Jonathan mutters, while Martha asks him who that was. The Presence decides that he must question more people, ‘You! Tell me about the USSR!’ the Presence demands as he drops down beside a woman. Shortly, he takes flight again, after ten random people all told him the same answer. He wonders if they speak the truth - if the government that has branded him a traitor and a menace is indeed no more. The Presence decides that he must return home, for if the political situation is in disarray, it might be incumbent upon a personage as powerful as himself to create a new order. ‘Mother Russia calls. Quasar can wait’.
At the same time, Quasar tells Neutron to wait a minute before he head-butts him again, and announces that he surrenders, concedes defeat. ‘You win’ he declares. Realizing he managed to outwit the Presence, Wendell hopes to do the same thing to Neutron. Quasar informs Neutron that he just figured out, that without his wrist-weapons, he has no way to beat him, so sooner or later, he will win. ‘So what’s the point of continuing?’ Wendell asks. ‘You are trying to trick me, terran! I will have none of it!’ Neutron shouts, as he throws Quasar through the air. Quasar lands hard on the ground, unable to stop the fall as Neutron threw him with such force.
Quasar tells himself that Neutron is one super-tough so-and-so, and knows he is really going to have to think up a plan, when suddenly energy starts to crackle behind him, and a portal opens, with three more of the Imperial Guard - Moondancer, Voyager and Glom - appearing. ‘We are the Imperial Guard!’ Voyager announces. ‘You will surrender the Guardsman you hold hostage - or face our might!’ he warns Quasar, who is unimpressed - as if he didn’t have enough trouble already?
Back aboard the starship of the Dance, the strange aliens move about, around Kayla and HD. ‘You have their attention, Kayla. Give it a try’ HD tells her companion. ‘Uh, okay’ Kayla replies, before introducing herself to the aliens, and explains that she and HD need to get back to the Earth, as they are lost. ‘Can you people help us?’ she asks, but gets no response. ‘It’s no use. They’re dancing around like idiots! Now what?’ Kayla asks HD, when suddenly, bands of orange energy spiral around Kayla, who is shocked, and calls out to HD, ‘What are they doing to me?’ she asks.
On Earth, Druid, Blazing Skull and the Living Mummy are overwhelmed by the remaining two dozen Antibodies who they can’t quite get to join up with Shadowoman’s shadow state.
Nearby, Neutron sees his teammates, ‘You’ve come for me!’ he calls out. Voyager asks Neutron where he has been, while Quasar remarks ‘See, I told you I wasn’t holding him hostage’. Voyager informs Neutron that they have been looking for him since the end of the war. Still angry, Neutron declares that the presumptuous Earth creature teleported him into the vast interstellar void and abandoned him there, and since rescuing himself, he has been attempting to regain his honor through combat. Quasar rubs his wrist and remarks that Neutron is complaining that he warped him out of play, and reminds Voyager that he did the same thing to him in the battle also. ‘Hmh!’ Voyager mutters. Moondancer tells Neutron that they have been in this space sector scanning for him for months. ‘Did you not activate your locater?’ she enquires. ‘I…was negligent’ Neutron admits.
Quasar tells the Imperial Guard that they have found their long-lost comrade and suggests they take him and hurry on back to their empire. ‘You wouldn’t want to create an interstellar incident by hanging around here too long without passports, would you?’ Quasar jokes. Voyager asks Neutron if matters have been resolved to his satisfaction. ‘Well…’ Neutron begins, while the strange alien Glom starts sniffing Quasar. ‘Excuse me, but does your friend have to -’ Quasar calls out, while Glom announces that the terran’s energy smells different than last time. ‘You’re right, I’ve -’ Quasar begins, before crying out in pain as Glom wraps his large mouth around Quasar’s arm, biting him. ‘Glom - what in Lilandra’s name are you doing?’ Moondancer asks. Quasar takes flight, with Glom attacked to him. ‘He’s eating my arm is what he’s doing!’ Quasar points out. ‘Get him off or I won’t be held responsible for what happens!’
Suddenly, a projection of Dr Druid appears before Quasar, instructing the young hero to come quickly, as he needs his help with the Antibodies. Quasar tells Druid that he will be right there, and takes flight, deciding that there is no time to dislodge the living appetite from his arm just now. Upon arrival back at the farm, Quasar sees a massive pile of Antibodies, but no sign of Druid or the rest of the Shock Troop. ‘Unless -’ he tells himself, as he flies towards the pile, where the Living Mummy’s hand can be seen sticking out. ‘First floor - every body off!’ Quasar calls out as he dives into the pile and sends the Antibodies scattering. ‘FOOD!’ Glom shouts as he leaps from Quasar’s arm, and starts chomping down on the Antibodies. ‘What am I looking at?’ Blazing Skull asks as he sees Glom. Druid asks Quasar what it is he brought with him, to which Wendell replies ‘An energy-eating alien. What else?’
Druid announces that they must throw the remaining bodies at the one that is levitating, as Shadowoman can’t hold the gateway open for more than a few moments. ‘What gateway?’ Wendell enquires as he tosses one of the Antibodies towards the glowing one, and as it is sucked in, he mutters ‘Oh, that gateway’. Wendell continues to round up the remaining Antibodies and throws them into the portal. Glom sees the glowing Antibody and declares that he is still hungry. ‘Globs of energy in last dark man!’ he calls out. ‘Wait - don’t!’ Druid exclaims. ‘Stop him! Shadowoman’s still merged with that creature!’ Druid shouts. Blazing Skull lunges at Glom, who has already bitten down on the final Antibody - but Shadowoman appears behind them, telling her teammates not to worry, as she made it out before he took a bite. ‘Besides, he’s not really eating them. Just siphoning off their Darkforce’ she explains.
Neutron, Voyager and Moondancer drop down amongst the Shock Troop and Quasar, as Druid announces that the threat has ended and the essence of the original Antibody has been dispatched. He is about to say where to, before noticing the new arrivals and asking ‘Who are these?’ ‘More aliens’ Quasar explains. Quasar suggests to Voyager that next time they take Glom anywhere, they put him on a leash. ‘Glom full now’ the alien reports. A portal opens as Voyager declares that this world ceases to interest him, so they should go. As Neutron flies through the portal, he suggests to Quasar that he beware their next meeting. Quasar and Dr Druid shake hands, and Quasar remarks that he thinks the Avengers were wrong about Druid. ‘I travel in other circles now’ Druid replies, and tells Quasar that if he ever has another problem with the supernatural, he will know who to call. Quasar just smiles.