A massive swarm of
bees is filling the city and directly attacking the Champions in their
skyscraper headquarters, flying in through the broken window and via the air
vents. Hercules smashes them with the computer, Iceman seals the broken window
with a sheet of ice, Darkstar employs the Darkforce to plug the vents. Swarm,
the villain composed of bees, smashes his way through the ice shield, demanding
the INTERPOL agent’s briefcase. The giant mechanical bees stun Darkstar and
Iceman, scoop them up and carry them off. Swarm snatches the briefcase from
Black Widow and heads for the lab, the bees creating a hive wall throughout the
building. While Herc tries to smash the huge honeycomb, Ghost Rider and Angel
head outside to protect the city from the deadly swarms. They contact Bill
Foster and Hank Pym about creating an antidote to bee strings….
Bobby and Laynia
awaken in the villain’s lair; Swarm reveals his origin: he was a Nazi scientist
working with bees. He discovered a swarm whose intelligence had been raised by
exposure to a radioactive meteor; he shot them with a controller but they
fought back, stinging him while his seizing of the queen created a symbiotic
human-bee creature. And then the INTERPOL man stole the queen, encasing her in
amber, and fled, with Swarm in pursuit. And now Swarm, having recovered the
queen must find a way to free her. Darkstar steps in, for the queen’s sake and
uses the Darkforce to crack open the insect’s prison. The barrier is broken,
Her and Nat reunited with Laynia and Bobby, and Swarm present the queen bee,
grown to giant size; she attacks Hercules so Herc rips open the wall and hurls
the queen out to sea. The bees comprising Swarm’s body break apart and fly
after her, leaving only a human skeleton to fall to the floor….
Characters:
Champions, Hercules, Black Widow, Iceman, Angel, Ghost Rider, Darkstar, Swarm.