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Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #8 Synopsis by
Rob Johnson
The ex-Young Avenger in this issue is America Chavez, still reeling from her discovery (in the AC: Made In The USA mini-series) that the extra-dimensional Utopian Parallel where she thought she was born was a fiction, and simultaneously her powers (that she learned there were due to a rich tech guy's experiment) are starting to fail. She tries to contact her female ex-YA pals. But Kate Bishop is away hunting vampires (last issue) and Cassie Lang is on a date with someone who's late (we'll learn more about that in #10).
But she hasn't got time to brood because a portal disgorges 2 young boys, the light-haired 1 clutching the Parallax Stone that this series has been following. Dark-haired Billy calls the other Tommy and begs him to slow down. They claim not to be anybody anymore since their mom forgot about them. So now they're lost and they found the crystal which seems lost too. But Mister Fisto is after them.
We see Mephisto calling on all the inhabitants of Hell to find the pair. But he now appears before our 3 friends. America stands ready to defend the boys. The demon is amazed that she can see the boys and himself. But as she tries to hit him he easily stops her punch and comments on her loss of power. She's broken and he sends his hordes to finish the job. So she chooses to retreat and fly away with the boys to the top of a tower on the George Washington Bridge.
Billy hopes Mr Fisto won't find them up here. And Tommy wonders if he knows the bad guy who turned baby them into his hands - and he then rambles on about how that guy could have lived with babies for hands. America says the invisible demons aren't hurting anyone, they're just searching the whole of New York for them which will take them a long time. Tommy tells her they were born in Cresskill, New Jersey although Billy doesn't remember that (well he is the younger twin by 1 minute). In Tommy's memory we see the parents are Scarlet Witch and Vision.
America tries to cheer them up by telling them about her (imaginary) origin in the (all female) Utopian Parallel. She says there were lots of mommies and kids there, and it was perfect and safe. Billy suggests to Tommy that *they* could make a world like that, but his brother warns him to keep quiet about such things.
Now Mephisto finds them again. He asks America why she defends them. They belong to him and if she lets him have them he'll restore her power and she will be glorious again. But Tommy gives her the Stone which she throws past the devil. It opens a portal and America pushes the devil through it back to Hell.
All the other demons vanish too. Tommy has the Stone again and opens another portal. Billy says they might find America's Parallel, but Tommy says it wasn't real, just like them. Billy says (to America rather than his brother) that just because something isn't real doesn't mean it can't be true. And they leave her.