Doctor Doom faces the Avengers, telling them he has a cure
for the disease and their only hope for salvation is to acknowledge Doom as
their ruler. Hawkeye secretly contacts Reed Richards who tells them Doom cannot
be trusted. Thor defies Doom and hurls Mjolnir at him but it doesn’t damage
him. He mocks Thor and the Avengers for their weakness, revealing that, thanks
to his Doomstone, a combination of science and alchemy, the pathogen has not
affected the population of Latveria. Led by Thor and Iron Man, the Avengers
attack Doom en masse and he defeats them easily. Then the ground rips open and
Hercules, an infected predator, leads an army of Moloids to conquer the surface
world. Doom stands by and lets the Avengers fight them but Hercules’ forces are
too strong. Hawkeye pleads with Doom to take action, demonstrate that he is one
deserving of their honor. So, Doom wipes out the invaders in seconds and asks
the assembled Avengers for their decision—and they all fall to their knees….