Continued from DOMINATION FACTOR: AVENGERS #3
Loki has dropped his disguise as Lester
to reveal to Queen Knorda (no longer Nora Queen) that all of his
scheming with the Golden Apple has been to create a world for her to
rule. She asks how he would benefit from this; he answers that in
this world Thor is dead and there are no other superheroes, a
condition he likes very much....
At the junction of realities, the
disembodied Fantastic Four and Avengers meet up and try to figure out
how they can reverse this major change. They theorize that they can
enter the bodies of their counterparts in this reality and split up
to locate “themselves” and meet up later at the site where the
Avengers Mansion was located. Noting that Praxis Corporation has a
very strong presence in this New York, Mr Fantastic heads to their
labs where he finds normal Reed Richards an employee, working under a
normal-looking Victor von Doom. At Doom's urging, Reed unveils the
world's first time machine. Doom thumps Reed on the head and prepares
to use the time machine in a scheme of world conquest....
Human Torch finds this world's Johnny
Storm as a racing car driver in the Indianapolis 500—and sees his
car go into a fiery crash—he merges with the body and escapes the
flames....
Thing locates his Ben Grimm counterpart
running a pizzeria on Yancy Street, married to Alicia whose blindness
has been remedied by Praxis-made glasses and they have a daughter
Petal. And Ben likes this world better than his own....
Invisible Woman runs into the astral
Iron Man and they discover that Sue Storm is married to Praxis VP
Tony Stark and they are bitterly unhappy and planning to divorce.
Tony enters the body of this world's Stark and dons a mask to hide
his secret identity from the others....
Captain America finds his counterpart
in a nursing home, aged former Congressman Steve Rogers who, of
course, never drank the Super-Soldier Serum and was never frozen in
ice for many years. As his pal Bucky Barnes—also having survived
the war as he was never a hero's sidekick—watches, astral Steve
occupies the body of current Steve and he can walk again....
Scarlet Witch discovers her powerless
alter ego to be a phony fortuneteller, which is a real
disappointment. Vision, of course, has no equivalent self....
By concentrating, possessed Reed
discovers he can stretch his limbs and he seizes Doom and knocks him
cold....
Now embodied, the two hero teams meet
again to decide on a course of action. Dr Strange appears among them
and Reed accuses him of being their adversary since this world's
Strange is a Praxis staff doctor. The Strange that enlisted them in
the hunt for the Golden Apple slices reveals himself to be Loki and
he intends to make it so that the Avengers and Fantastic Four never
existed....
Continued in DOMINATION FACTOR: AVENGERS #4.