Synopsis
In an odd golden craft supplied by the Lava Men, the Avengers (Captain America, Black Panther, She-Hulk, Thor, Sub-Mariner, Quasar) are rushing to get help for the gravely injured Gilgamesh. He appears to be dead but he is an Eternal and that race is nearly immortal….
Back at Avengers Island, Invisible Woman is slowly lowering the Island which she had been supporting in the air with her force field, until Mr. Fantastic tells her it can be safely dropped into place. The West Coast Avengers (Wasp, Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Tigra, Hank Pym) prepare to depart, saying their farewells to Jarvis who tells them that his injured eye is healing nicely and he may soon get rid of the “diabolical looking” patch over it. The Avengers arrive after all the others have left; their odd craft reveals that it was literally made up of the bodies of the golden Lava Men. They rush Gilgamesh to their medical lab where the instruments tell them he is neither alive nor dead. Cap has an idea where to go for aid….
In Greece, an elderly shepherd is startled to see his sheep vanishing into what appears to be an invisible doorway; he locates it and is yanked through into Olympia, home of the Eternals. The shepherd is terrorized by the prankster Sprite, until he is halted by Ikaris who rebukes Sprite and apologizes to the old man; Makkari rounds up his sheep and they send him back to his own world—but not before Sprite gives one last mocking gesture, frightening the old man away. Ikaris again rebukes Sprite for his unwelcome clowning while the trickster responds by condemning Ikaris’ lack of a sense of humor. Ikaris senses that there is a flavor of death hanging over the city since the majority of their fellow Eternals merged into the Unimind and departed. Thena and Phastos agree, wondering if there is some imminent danger to the Eternals and ponder whether to strengthen the city’s defenses. Sprite overhears and heads to the central machines to adapt them—with humor….
A Quinjet lands on a Manhattan penthouse patio; Cap greets Sersi, Eternal and former Avenger, who is happy to see him—until she spots Gilgamesh. Sersi is shocked as she has never seen an Eternal in this condition before. She tells the Avengers they must take Gil home to Olympia. They fly out to Greece but there is no Olympia there, just a smoking crater in the ground….
Meanwhile in a suburban neighborhood in Cresskill, New Jersy, a house suddenly explodes. Professor Harker emerges from the rubble, saying, “That was almost it….”