Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Various Avengers and associates (She-Hulk, Wasp, Tigra, Shroud, Starfox) come running to the hospital room of Jessica “Spider-Woman” Drew, in response to an alarm. They find the doorway magically sealed. The heroes, however, find they can penetrate the barrier and enter the room. Doctor Strange explains that he made the magic barrier to keep the hospital staff out. Scarlet Witch, Captain Marvel, and Hank Pym bring them up to speed about Spider-Woman’s astral form being paralyzed and Jessica’s body dying. Dr. Strange is exerting massive power to keep the astral form from crumbling. Suddenly, the face of Morgan Le Fay fills the room, coming from the Astral Plane and explaining her desire for revenge against Spider-Woman by destroying her astral form and occupying her physical body. She then hurls a number of nasty little magical things into the hospital room. The heroes battle the things while Wasp and Dr. Strange plan to take the battle to Morgan. The Shroud’s darkness enters the Astral Plane via the portal and with it Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Shroud, and Starfox who attack the evil witch. Back in the hospital room, Captain Marvel and Tigra fight off the magical nasties while Dr. Strange continues to hold Spider-Woman’s astral form together and Wasp joins Hank Pym in monitoring Jessica’s vital signs….
Back at Avengers Mansion, Captain America returns after a long absence to some changes, starting with a hologram Vision running the place. Hawkeye greets Cap and takes him downstairs to meet Mockingbird while Vision concerns himself with the same mysterious monitor readings as last issue….
Morgan Le Fay grows into a giant, forming a body out of the stuff of the realm, and seizes She-Hulk. Magnus awakens from his coma and, seeing Morgan, realizes he has led Jessica into a trap. Back on Earth, Tigra and Cap M are finally making progress in battling the nasties but the portal is shrinking. Dr. Strange is concerned and Hank reports that Jessica is in danger of going into cardiac arrest. By the power of the Eye of Agamotto, Strange forms a link with Jessica’s mind in her paralyzed astral form, trying to draw her back to her body but the mystic winds are holding her back. Magnus approaches Jessica and tells her that he was once Morgan’s servant and lover but he stole the Darkhold from her so she trapped him in his astral form for 14 centuries from which he was occasionally able to enter the real world and he fell in love with Jessica. And now he is willing to sacrifice all he has left to empower Jessica to return to the real world. And so he does, fading into smoke while Jessica is returned to her body. Her hold over Jessica broken, Morgan is now vulnerable to the attacks of the heroes, breaking the giant stone body. Strange arrives and forces her astral form back into the broken stones and helps the heroes escape to the real world before the portal closes. Hank Pym breaks the news to Jessica that she has lost all of her super-powers, rendering her a normal woman. She decides to make the best of it and become a private investigator and everyone is happy.