Story #2Clash Of Furies
Writer: Fred Van Lente. Penciler: Michael Ryan. Inker: Michael Ryan. Colorist: Guru-eFX.
Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Lyra, the daughter of the Hulk from a distant future (coded Earth-8009), is an agent of ARMOR (Alternate Reality Monitoring and Operational Response Agency). She is desperate for news about the
She-Hulk (AKA Jen Walters), who has gone MIA. Lyra cares for Jen; she is Lyra's only true friend in this timeline.
Agent Alexander Erde, who has a crush on Lyra, researches on Jen Walters, finding out that she was last spotted at a Gamma base in Death Valley. Alexander lets Lyra know about this, and both fly out on a carrier ship to check the area out. This is informed to a "General" by a mole in ARMOR, agent Marigold.
While the duo was on their way to Death Valley, Alexander reveals Lyra about his feelings for her, and kisses her on the lips. Her surprise is ever greater when a super villain girl appears in front of the ship, and attacks it with lighting bolts. The ship falls hard to the ground, causing severe wounds in Alexander. Lyra uses her wrist computer Boudicca to ask for help, but an electromagnetic field prevents any sort of communication.
Lyra evacuates the ship and faces three super villain women: Aberration (a female version of the Abomination), Morass (a female version of the Blob), and Axon (female version of Zzzax, the living dynamo), the one who caused the ship to fall.
Lyra tells Alexander to hang in there, and fights Aberration and Morass. This gives Axon a window to approach Alexander and kill him by absorbing his energy. This makes Lyra furious, and vows to kill them.
At that moment, General Ryker from a center of operations in the ORIGINS Corporation, asks the three villains (who he refers to as Gamma Corps: Black) to capture Lyra at once, and bring her back so a genetic harvest can be done on her. Leave no witnesses alive.