Synopsis
This is part of a sequence of stories detailing events in the 8 month gap in the Avengers and New Avengers series. As such the previously page shows events from the post-8-month future and the pre-8-month past. In the future in Av#35 Sunspot tells Cannonball he's bought AIM, and Nightmask and Starbrand discover Builders' Aleph robots from other timelines. In the past Sub-Mariner recruits the Cabal in NAv#23 to destroy incursion Earths from other timelines.
Now we see Corvus Glaive and Terrax killing the armoured defenders of Castle Fantastic on 1 such world. Namor has dealt with Reed Richards and now confronts Sue Richards. He intends to give her an easy death, but Proxima Midnight stabs her in the back. They all leave alongside the other Cabal members Black Swan, Maximus and Thanos as that Earth explodes.
Roberto Da Costa turns up at the Company he owns in Rio De Janeiro. Up to now he's been living off his trust fund and spending time as an X-Man and Avenger as Sunspot. But now he wants to use the company to help save the universe.
Nightmask and Starbrand have left South Carolina after the Kolobus affair in Av#34.2. They're in outer space looking for something bad they detected. Nightmask is getting younger and is growing some hair. Starbrand gets a nosebleed as something overwhelms his senses. And on the planet Orisia a Builder spaceship arrives and Alephs start slaughtering the population.
Bobby remembers inspirational advice from his father as he prepares to face the board of directors. He reminds them that Terrax just told the UN about the incursion problem and how the Cabal are solving it for them (as we saw in flashback in Av#37). He tells them that Da Costa International is going to seek an alternative solution.
Roberto announces that he has bought the criminal science organisation AIM. He introduces them to Monica Rappaccini, a former Scientist Supreme of AIM and now his liaison there. He points out that AIM are leaders in the field of interdimensional technology, which will be vital in this situation. He has met AIM workers before (Av#11) and they're just clever scientists whose bosses just happened to be evil.
Monica interrupts him to present an unscheduled video call from the current Scientist Supreme. Andrew Forson objects strongly to the takeover, and Rappaccini shows her allegiance by killing the members of the board. She then teleports to AIM Island.
Sunspot escapes as his Company HQ is destroyed. He has more flashes of memory, including refusing to help Steve Rogers hunt down the Illuminati (after Av#34). And he swears to get control of AIM 1 way or another.
The Cabal return to their base in the ruins of Wakanda's Necropolis. Black Swan takes Namor aside and accuses him of regretting his decision to form the group. She warns him against betraying them.