Dungeons of Doom (2026 series) #3

The American troops are stuck in a tunnel trying to escape from Doom’s dungeon. As the soldiers hear the eerie song, their eyes and mouths glow blue and they sing it too. Major Simmons contacts Red Hulk, trapped elsewhere in the ruins and warns him that the device they found held an organism which they freed. It lives in some kind of melody, kills the host then spreads through sound. As Simmons falls prey to the song, he warns Ross not to come for them. Red Hulk then crashes through the tunnels to find the dead soldiers. He stops up his ears with mud then sees an exit to the outside. In the night, the locals are packing up to flee the area when the infected Simmons appears among them. Rulk snatches up two cars and slams them down on Simmons, killing him and creating a massive sound wave that deafens everyone around. Rulk takes the dangerous device. As the locals complain about their loss of hearing, Rulk just tells them to be grateful that his men died to save them….

The Hydra agents have found a hammer. Manx can now wield it, having taken it from the injured Valence, gloating childishly that he was worthy after all. Latverian freedom fighters open fire on the Hydra men and Manx uses the hammer to blast them all with lightning. Manx reveals the origin of the hammer: a Dwarven smith was forced to create the hammer for Doom but he added his own blood to the mix, creating a curse that the wielder will ever be betrayed, as Sviksemi means “Treachery.” Manx makes to kill the others but the entire floor collapses, dropping the Hydra agents into a water-filled cavern. The hammer lands on Valence’s chest and he laughs, as he was the worthy one after all….

Wakandan secret agent Umbra has ingested the skull-shaped herb at the command of his controller, the giant bat named Nagiku. The herb brings the ancestral plane to him and he walks through the shadowlands to a huge white tree with his late wife Hibo stands. She tries to warn him that this is not where the ancestors are honored but where they were banished. She is pulled back into the tree and Umbra reaches in only to vanish inside. Back in Doom’s dungeon, the giant bat Nagiku laughs and occupies Umbra’s body which was his plan all along….  

In the temple of Konshu, the Latverian freedom fighters, Aleksander, Sofia, and Fedir, are fighting the giant multi-eyed, multi-tentacled monster that was their comrade Borys. Fedir pleads with the monster to not take away his friend Borys and the monster rips him apart. Aleksander and Sofia shoot at the thing while the ghost claiming to be his sister tries to persuade him to kill Sofia and take the Eye of Konshu. He realizes that this nasty bloodthirsty spirit is nothing like his sweet and gentle sister so he calls out to Sofia to take cover and hurls a grenade at the monster. The explosion destroys the monster and hurls the two freedom fighters across the room. The sister’s ghost rebukes Aleksander, turning into Doctor Doom before it becomes Sofia’s father, telling her that with the all-powerful Eye of Konshu, she can becomes the ruler Latveria needs. So she leaves her comrade trapped and heads into a dangerous future….

Epilogue: A boy is playing when a woman with glowing eyes rises from a crater and asks about a group of soldiers she is looking for. The kid is terrified but she gives her name as Alekandra, then she seizes him and drags him into the crater. The kid then emerges with glowing eyes and heads off to her sinister stuff….