In the collapse of the ground
surrounding Doctor Doom’s castle in Latveria, several parties fell into Doom’s
dungeons….
Red Hulk is crashing around,
trying to link up with the American troops down there. Those soldiers are in a
lab where the recorded voice of Charles Xavier warns them of a mutant who
should not have been born. Hanging from the ceiling by chains is a limbless
head and torso; a soldier shines a light on it and a light within the body
responds and the body starts to writhe and speak in an unknown language. The
commander cuts it down, despite the protests of the soldiers, and as the thing
lies on the floor the head separates from the body. The thing emits a bright
light and sound that possesses the Sergeant Major, filling his head with
visions of a cloaked figure commanding an army and combatting Professor X and Emma
Frost. The troops resume contact with Red Hulk but the Sergeant Major speaks in
an unknown language and starts killing the other men. Then he levitates into the
air and his body bursts open. Another vision of the cloaked figure. “Oh no.”
Wakandan secret agent Umbra stands
in the eye of a massive Doom statue. He uses echolocation to discover what is
below him in the dark, spouts wings and flies down. He comes to a door, kills
the man guarding it, blows the door open. Inside on a pedestal at the center of
a large room, he finds a skull-shaped plant. A voice says, “The heart-shaped
herb allows you to travel to the ancestral plane. The skull-shaped herb brings
the ancestral plane to our world.” It tells him that his wife can live again
and his controller, the giant bat named Nagiku, has him eat the herb….
A group of Hydra agents has found
a giant hammer called “Sviksemi” but only Valence can pick it up; he uses it to
smash open the locked door. The agents fall to arguing over who should have the
hammer but Valence insists it is his. Valence walks through the open door and
is fired upon from the dark and wounded. Agent Manx tries to lift the hammer
but he cannot. Valens mocks his pretentions so Manx smashes Valence’s head in
with a rock. And now Manx can lift Sviksemi….
To escape a grisly monster, the
Latverian freedom fighters have followed Aleksander as he has dived into a
water-filled tomb at the example of the spirit of his murdered sister. They
make it out through giant faucets into a temple dedicated to Konshu. Borys was
injured in the escape so Aleksander waves Sofia and Fedir on while he, at his
sister’s urging, cuts Borys’ throat. In the next room, Sofia has taken the Eye
of Konshu from a huge idol and it has given her the ability to see the secrets
inside each one. She glances at Fedir and knows what dark things he has done
but she comforts him. Aleksander arrives and Sofia knows he has killed Borys.
His sister’s ghost tells Aleksander to kill the others and he and Fedir draw on
one another, Aleksander against his will. Sofia holds them apart as Borys, now transformed
into a tentacled eye monster, enters the chamber….
Give that special marvelite a timely gift