Flashback: Jason Quantrell, looking for
a hot new product for his Cortex Corporation, hires the nihilist
terrorists W.E.S.P.E. to build a portal to another world. They
succeeded...
...allowing the weird beings from
Beyond to take over Quantrell''s body for the purposes of having some
fun in this new world. The Beyond being then teleports Luke Cage and
Jessica Jones out to orbit the Moon....
Back on Earth, Captain America (Sam
Wilson), She-Hulk, and Kaluu, seeking their missing comrades,
encounter four mutated monsters. Two are the villains Quickfire and
Gideon Mace; after a few moments of fighting the Avengers realize
that the other two are White Tiger and Power Man. During the battle,
She-Hulk is clawed by Quickfire and mutates into a monster. Trying to
save he, Kaluu is bitten by Jen and in turn becomes a monster. Alone
against them, Cap stands ready to fight....
In space, Jessica manages to reach her
Avengers signal and press it. At his underwater base, Blue Marvel
receives the signal and hurries to his space portal where he jumps
through to space and rescues Luke and Jessica. In the medical bay,
Jessica tells them about Beyond. It opens up strange memories in
Spectrum's mind, what she recalls from her grim experiences with
NextWave—experiences she had been told never happened. Now she is
angry and ready to fight....