Uatu the Watcher stands on the moon, observing all that takes place on Earth. Now he knows that something is going to happen to him, and he sees his visitor…then his moon base explodes….
At a steak house enjoying a meal are Captain America, Wolverine, Black Widow, and Nick Fury, all in civilian clothes. While Fury relates the tale of the best steak he had ever eaten (at the Battle of Bastogne with Cap and Bucky), they are interrupted by Steve’s phone. It is an urgent call from Thor; Cap and the others invite the retired Nick Fury along with them. They board Fury’s flying car and head to the moon. They are met by Iron Man and Thor who explains that he was flying to Midgard when drops of blood hit his face. He descended to the moon to investigate and he shows them what he found: the Watcher, dead with a bullet hole in the forehead, his eyes missing and his base ransacked. Cap asks Nick Fury to head up the investigation but Fury warns that this could lead to some dark places….
Black Panther is contacted and recruited by a mysterious figure to follow-up in "some places the Avengers wouldn’t dare [to]." His team will be Emma Frost and Ant-Man (Scott Lang) and they will be heading underground in a drill-machine….
In Los Angeles, Dr Strange and the Punisher are interrogating a prisoner and the more merciful wizard knows the man has told them all he can and teleports him to an unpleasant dimension; the Punisher is not thrilled. They will be heading to another dimension….
Winter Soldier and Moon Knight fly into space to pick up Gamora, to continue the investigation off-world….
Cap and Fury are still at the crime scene; Cap has SHIELD and SWORD looking over space surveillance record for clues. Black Widow presents them with the glowing green bullet she extracted from Uatu’s head. They get a call from Earth: a Mindless One is on a rampage in New York with the Thing trying to stop it. Spider-Man shows up to kibitz and suddenly, the Mindless One has a mind—it’s in pain from its new awareness. It mentions having gone to the moon and being changed. The monster draws the Ultimate Nullifier and, worn down by the burden of sin it sees, nullifies itself. Cap, Black Widow, Logan and Fury arrive and the latter declares this a crime scene…..
As the teams head off to their various destinations, we see elsewhere that the mysterious villains cannot control their Mindless Ones because the creatures are evolving too quickly. But the mastermind isn’t worried; he has the eye of the Watcher….