In
his New York City office, Luke Cage is engaged in a fist fight with the High
Priest of Zor, who is determined to recover the Idols of Zor and exact revenge.
He fades out, deciding to battle Cage another day. Cage, knowing Iron Fist is
safe in his townhouse, decides to warn Vision and Scarlet Witch….
At
home in Leonia, New Jersey, Wanda is teaching her pupil Holly LaDonna to control
the snow when the baby moves inside her. She calls Vision who can’t feel it.
Crystal and Quicksilver, with baby Luna, arrive for a visit; while they make
small talk and Pietro mentions his plan to go to a New York Library, Holly
recalls seeing Crystal cheating with another man, Norm Webster. Wanda says
she’s planning a quiet day—and then Luke Cage comes crashing through the
window, having been hit by the High Priest and his demonic minions. The
assembly reacts, Cage mentioning it was supposed to be his day off and Wanda
recognizing it as Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Wanda insists on joining the
fight against the baddies; she suggests retrieving the Idols of Zor from where
she hid them and using them to close the portal to the dimension of Zor and trap
the High Priest on Earth….
The
four heroes (Vision, Scarlet Witch, Luke Cage, Quicksilver) fly to Avengers
Mansion where they surprise Jarvis by parking their ship and heading downtown
on foot. But the High Priest creates illusions that render the path
unrecognizable, a forest of gnarly trees and demons to fight, the Priest
appearing occasionally to taunt them. They enter a castle and find their way
through a magic gateway to the subway, where they ride a huge serpent-like
train to their destination, fighting demons and listening to Pietro complain
about everyone else. Arriving at their destination, the World Trade Center, the
High Priest shuts off the electricity, making it exceedingly difficult to reach
the roof. Vision gathers everyone in an elevator while he grabs the cable at
the top and, increasing his weight, plummets, pulling the elevator up. The High
Priest and his thugs are waiting on the roof; Wanda increases a small snowstorm
into a blizzard, blowing the henchmen over the edge. She performs a magic
spell—and the idols appear in front of Crystal at home and she burns them in a
bonfire. And, her job done, she meets with Norm Webster….
Back
at the WTC, Wanda explains to the others that their slow journey downtown was
to give Crystal the time to devise a fire that could destroy the idols. Pietro
is angry over everything that has happened and Cage says he was able to
celebrate the holiday like he wanted: proving his people are part of society,
working together, equal to anybody else….