Last Defenders, The (2008 series) #5

Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan, armored and in a horse-drawn chariot, emerges from a portal to Hell so he can discuss the Defenders with Kyle Richmond, who has been stripped of his identity as Nighthawk. Daimon has learned that Kyle has reformed the Defenders and wants to join. Kyle bitterly tells him that there is no new Defenders, which Kyle saw as his means of redemption, which failed. Daimon, surprised at Kyle’s whining, returns to Hell, disappointed in his old teammate….

Aboard the SHIELD Helicarrier, an angry She-Hulk confronts Tony Stark over his treatment of her as a hero and as a woman. She refuses to listen to his explanations, smashes his desk and departs….

The next day, Kyle is watching a TV soap opera when Yandroth’s recorder (actually just a head) bursts in and fires cellular displacement beams at him, translating him into the presence of the Omegatron where Yandroth who greets him with a bunch of talk about his superiority and his plans. Then the Hulk, Sub-Mariner, and Doctor Strange burst in, and Kyle pegs them as the original Defenders, indicating he has gone back in time. Yandroth explains that he once thought these Defenders were the ones with a destiny but has since learned that the true Defenders centers on Kyle Richmond. Yandroth transports Kyle back to a dark moment in his past when, while he was preparing for his career as Nighthawk, he struck a man with his truck, killing him. Then he sees that the dead man was Yandroth—and then he is returned to the Omegatron. Yandroth continues to bloviate, explaining how all time is one with him and Kyle is his pawn, which provokes Kyle to anger. To demonstrate his point, Yandroth conjures up monstrous versions of Nighthawk’s former teammates, Hyperion, Dr. Spectrum, and the Whizzer, and Kyle fights them; Yandroth is disappointed in Kyle’s performance. And then someone comes crashing through into this world: She-Hulk, Krang, Son of Satan, and a new Nighthawk (Joaquin Pennysworth)—the new Defenders….