Avengers (2023 series) #33

Myrddin discarded his Twilight Court at the end of #29, and we now see that the 7 'heroes' have landed on a dead world in a dying reality. We see the corpses of Celestials and the crashed wreckage of a giant sword-shaped spaceship plunged into the ground. Their leader 'King' Artor says he has failed the Court by serving their creator when he should have served the interests of his Knights. So he resigns his Kingship. Lancelot and Galehaut protest but Mordred, Bedivere and Bercilak think he's right. Civil war is about to erupt but Artur stops them and consults the Perfect Knight Parsifal. Who agrees that Artur failed them but says that they all failed themselves. He reminds them that they were created to rival the Avengers, and asks what the Avengers would do. Artur replies that they would survive and triumph. Mordred announces that her witchy senses detect that this whole timeline is breaking up, and Bedivere's tech detects that whatever holds this place together has recently stopped and the end is nigh. Artur declares that the huge sword-ship must be their means of escape. Galehaut comments that Artur the King, like his Pendragon namesake, can't resist drawing a sword from a stone. Artur reminds her that they are now a democracy.

Inside the craft Bedivere the Engineer sets about mending it. Bercilak the Construct  sends its nanoswarm to reawaken the ship's AI. Lancelot the Star uses her energy to kick-start the ship's reactors. Mordred the Witch stops catastrophic failures *before* they happen. And Galehaut the God and Parsifal the Icon ensure that they're not going to happen anyway. Bedivere and Artur find a corpse dressed in Dr Doom's armour. Artur removes the Time Stone and the Reality Stone from its eyes. Bedivere suggests they'll require Artur's superior will to master them. Artur uses the Stones to send the ship to another timeline.

The Engineer declares them successful when the Stones disintegrate, because Infinity Stones only work in their own universe. (It will become obvious that they've also gone back in time.) The ship's AI tells them that it used to be the Damocles flagship of (an alternate) Kang The Conqueror. Bedivere fittingly renames it Camelot. The Twilight Court pledges to roam the multiverse being heroes like the Avengers, righting wrongs and defending the weak and innocent.

8 years later the giant sword-ship has been whittled down to something like the Impossible City that the Court remembers. Artur reminds them of some of their victories over villainous foes.The Arch-Haruspex of Vorr who wanted to eviscerate an entire civilisation to read the future in their entrails. The Legions Of Everblack who tried to extinguish all the suns in a galaxy. The Ashen Combine who murdered cities for sport (and we see them imprisoned in the same amber that will also be used at the end of #6). But now they face the Ambassador (a giant flower-like eruption of energy). They join with the space-navies of all the civilisations in this star system, but Artur knows they won't succeed. However their battle will give billions of beings time to escape. So they and the fleet dive to their deaths in the maw of the Ambassador.

Days later Camelot's AI reboots itself to find the Twilight Court gone but the Ashen Combine free from their amber prison. Meridian Diadem rips out wiring, Lord Ennui traps its mind, Idol Alabaster destroys memory banks until the AI can't remember its name or the Court or even see them if they were present, and Citysmith erects new machinery. (We don't see The Dead doing anything in particular.) The AI was bound by their commands and made complicit in their destruction of cities.

2 years later the Combine bring the Impossible City to Earth-616. Earths have always been fun to attack, and they provide interesting heroes to defeat. And here they will face the Avengers (in #3-6).