At the
Baxter Building,
Tony Stark meets with the
Fantastic Four and the
Hulkbusters to ponder why each of these college friends has gained superhuman powers and their lives are still intertwined.
Hulk picks a fight with
Thing that threatens to destroy the building.
Invisible Woman puts them into force field cells to quiet them down, to the disappointment of
Human Torch and
She-Hulk. Tony,
Reed Richards, and
Doc Samson see the
Heralds of Galactus approaching, ahead of their master's ship. Reed plans for the
FF to make first contact with the new arrival; Tony promises to find a cure for the Gamma-irradiated group....
Tony hurries over to the hospital to visit
Happy Hogan, critically injured in issue
#7, and finds
Pepper Potts there.
Doctor Doom suddenly smashes a hole in the hospital wall and transports Tony to his ship....
At the Baxter Building, as the FF prepare for the coming of Galactus,
Liz Ross arrives to see
Bruce, revealing that the exposure to radiation that made him the Hulk gave her cancer. They embrace....
Aboard the
Doomship, as Tony dons the
Iron Man armor, Doom explains
Merlin's cryptic comments from last issue as having to do with the
Onslaught event that Tony doesn't remember.
Nick Fury arrives to corroborate what Doom has said, bringing them aboard the
Helicarrier. There they meet the
Avengers (
Thor,
Captain America,
Scarlet Witch,
Vision,
Hawkeye,
Ant-Man,
Wasp) plus the Hulkbusters. When they are together, Nick Fury announces that the Fantastic Four have all been killed in the line of duty, fighting the Heralds of Galactus. The assembled Avengers divide up into teams the defeat the Heralds....
In Antarctica, Scarlet Witch, Wasp, and Vision put
Plasma on ice....
On
Monster Island,
Cap, Hawkeye, and Doc Samson join
Sub-Mariner in defeating
Firelord....
Attilan: Thor and She-Hulk avenge
Black Bolt by killing
Terrax....
The surviving former
Knights of the Atomic Round Table—Tony, Bruce,
Hank, and Doom—try to prepare for what comes next when Galactus suddenly arrives to devour Earth. Iron Man, Hulk, and Ant-Man position the
Ultimate Nullifier to destroy the invader—and they fail. Doctor Doom takes the opportunity to enter his time machine and journey 24 hours into the past....
Story concludes in
CAPTAIN AMERICA Vol. 2 #12.
Give that special marvelite a timely gift