Thor visits the armory in Asgard looking for Volstagg who turns
out to not be there. He spies a horned skull from Limbo and picks it up against
the Armorer’s warning and he is teleported away….
Magik is assisting Cyclops with new trainees in the Danger
Room when she feels a disturbance in her dimension. She zaps over and finds
Thor battling demons. Thor vows to take vengeance against her once he is
through with the monstrous minions even though she denies being responsible for
his coming there. She offers to rescue him but, in his pride, the God of
Thunder declines. He lays the beatdown on the enemy, making a crater in the
ground and hurls Mjolnir at Magik who blinks out before it arrives and
reappears behind Thor. A giant serpent rises from the ground via the crater, accompanied
by more demons. The two heroes fight together and when Magik offers to take
them out of there, Thor again refuses; she does so anyway, telling him to stay
out of her realm. He ends up wondering where in Midgard she has left him….
“The Superior Spider-Man + Cyclops”
Writer: Jim Kreuger. Art: Ron Lim. Colors: Chris Sotomayor.
Synopsis: Cyclops pursues an old woman down into the subway
as she calls for help; Scott knows she is really Malice inhabiting a human body
but the crowd goes to defend her. By this time, Malice has moved to the body of
a young woman and boarded a train. Cyclops realizes this, fights off the crowd
and smashes his way aboard. He locates Malice and challenges her—and then
Spider-Man arrives, the Superior Spider-Man, Doctor Octopus in Peter Parker’s
body. “Spidey” attacks Cyclops who tries to explain how he was framed for the
murder of Professor X, reminding Spidey of the time he was framed for the
murder of George Stacy by “that idiot Doctor Octopus.” For some reason, this
enrages Spider-Man and he tries to kill Cyc who doesn’t understand why Spidey doesn’t
recognize him as a former ally and isn’t making his usual wisecracks. Malice tries
to enter Spider-Man’s body to kill Cyc herself but finds she can’t, Doc Ock’s
will is too strong; instead, he uses his head to knock her in the face. She
uses the crowd to pass from one person to another until she reaches and
possesses Cyclops himself but he recognizes this trick and avoids her. So she
threatens to throw her current host to his death from the train. Cyc leaps
forward to prevent this and is possessed by the villain. But Malice can’t
control Cyc’s eye beams so Spider-Man has to knock the X-Man out….
Cyclops wakes up in a lab where Spider-Man lectures him on
deception being a part of the hero business and hands him a vial containing
Malice, as Dr. Octopus had a means of separating Cyclops and the villain.
Cyclops departs, glad the Spider-Man is one of the good guys….