Rick Jones is in the Negative Zone facing Annihilus. He also has visions of the far-flung protagonists of the previous issues. In the Andromeda galaxy Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch hold off Skrulls while Captain Marvel tinkers with an Omni-Wave Projector, and Captain America, Iron Man, Thor and Vision battle other Skrulls in an invasion fleet that had been meant for Earth. In the Kree galaxy Ronan watches another invasion fleet head to the same destination, while the imprisoned Intelligence Supreme has manipulated Rick and Mar-vell for reasons of his own. And on Earth itself H. Warren Craddock continues to accuse the Avengers of being alien sympathisers, while the de-powered Goliath tries to stop a Skrull spaceship from unleashing a bomb to destroy the world.
On the Skrull throneworld, Mar-Vell tells Wanda he tried to use the Omni-Wave to contact Rick, and hence the Avengers, but instead plunged him into the Negative Zone. He now destroys the Omni-Wave to stop the Skrulls using it as a weapon.
In the Negative Zone, Annihilus attacks Rick, partly in revenge for Rick helping to keep him away from Earth in #89, and partly because Annihilus attacks everybody. But Rick beats him off with an inexplicable mental blast.
Rick is then pulled towards one of the destructive anti-matter regions of the Zone. But he uses his new-found mental power to transport himself back to the prison cell on the Kree homeworld he shared with the Supreme Intelligence last issue.
Ronan sends guards to investigate the energy surges in the cell. The Supremor urges Rick to call up heroes from old comics he read. Rick conjures up the Timely heroes Angel, Blazing Skull, Captain America, Fin, Human Torch, Patriot, Sub-Mariner and Vision. They hold off Ronan and the Kree, until they suddenly fade away.
But now Rick somehow knows what he must do. He emits a cosmos-spanning beam which freezes all Kree in their tracks. It also reaches Captain Marvel on the Skrull throneworld, from where it freezes all Skrulls in the Andomeda galaxy, including those in the armada fighting the Avengers. The Avengers take the opportunity to fly to the throneworld.
The beam also touches H Warren Craddock on Earth, and exposes him as the Skrull he really is. He is killed by hate-filled crowd he had been inflaming against aliens.
The Supremor explains that now he will be able to take control of the Kree empire back from Ronan. Also the Kree and Skrulls will revert to their state of uneasy truce. He further claims that all humans have the potential mental powers that Rick exhibited. And the human race will one day overtake the Kree and Skrulls, who are stuck in a rut.
Rick collapses from his exertions. Supremor transports Mar-Vell and the Avengers from the Skrull throneworld. Captain Marvel merges with Rick to save his life. Rick awakens without his mental power.
Supremor sends them all back to Earth, where they learn that the real H Warren Craddock had been kidnapped and replaced by the 4th Skrull from Fantastic Four #2, who wasn't turned into a cow back then with his companions. They figure that Supremor had influenced the Skrull to attack the Avengers, to bring them into the fray.
There is just 1 loose end. Goliath wasn't gathered together with the rest of the Avengers by Supremor, and no-one knows what happened to him.