Scarlet Witch, Spider-Woman (Julia Carpenter), Moonraker and technician/pilot Fisher Todd have crashed their jet while investigating why Vietnam has disappeared. The country has more than just vanished, as only Moonraker remembers it existed. Now they are here, all contact with the outside world has been cut.
The team explore, including heavily-armed Fisher. This place is different from Moonraker's memories of Vietnam, and they detect temporal energy. But they find the temple of Agaphaur, which belongs in Vietnam.
They are attacked by Apocryphus, and the attack squad from Avengers #391. Fisher gets separated from the rest, and comes across the Vietnamese boy Kim who fell into this place last issue. Kim mutates into a superbeing, and his guard describes him as an 'alpha-level candidate'.
Moonraker reveals himself as Gustav Brandt, saying that Slade Truman/Moonraker was a protective disguise woven by the Priests (of Pama).
Meanwhile Force Works' public relations officer Amanda Chaney is holding the fort with new recruit Cybermancer, and Julia's daughter Rachel. She takes Cybermancer to task for letting U.S.Agent and an unknown armoured helper make off with Hawkeye's unconscious body in War Machine #20. (No-one knows U.S.Agent's ally was War Machine in his new Warwear armour.) She also can't understand why the rest of the team flew to a non-existent country called Vietnam.
Cybermancer contacts Iron Man.
Rachel says Vietnam is real, but then can't find it in her reference books. She tries to convince Amanda that strange things are happening, similar to those we saw happening to her mother in #16. Also that Moonraker only existed since #16, while everyone else acts as though he's been around for months. Amanda realises that she can't really remember him from earlier either. (My timeline means I have to ignore Rachel's comment that Moonraker only appeared 'yesterday'. It was about a week ago.)
While searching the system for other irregularities, Amanda finds temporal radiation, and also the existence of the sub-basement that U.S.Agent and Century discovered in #15. She goes to this basement, and finds that it has its own computer system Virgil, separate from the one Plato that runs the rest of the HQ. Virgil tells her he has chronography manipulation technology from Timely Industries, founded in Wisconsin by Tony Stark in 2009 (which at this point was in the future).
Meanwhile also, Hawkeye, U.S.Agent and War Machine have a meeting with Black Widow, arranged in Iron Man #322, to discuss why Iron Man seemingly framed Hawkeye last issue for the murders of Marilla and Rita DeMara in Avengers: The Crossing.
A man in a technological retreat has located Hawkeye and friends. He gets permission to send Strike Team Decimal Four to kill them, despite this revealing things prematurely.
The Crossing continues in
WAR MACHINE (1994) #21.
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