Infinity Abyss (2002 series) #6

The anchor of Universe-616 stops it from disappearing into the void. It's currently an alien named Atlez who's dying and his successor, an Earth girl called Atleza Langunn, is currently only 2 years old. Atlez called in Adam Warlock to provide her with an infodump when she was born but it sent him mad and he retreated into a coma in his cocoon for 2 years. Thanos had created Thanosi, clones/androids/mystic doppelgangers of himself, but they proved unreliable and he gave up on them. But Atlez initiated plan B to revive 1 of them and presumably send him to wake Warlock. However it misfired and woke 5 of them, all suffering from Thanos' earlier nihilism and desiring to end the universe (including themselves). And with the implanted conviction that Warlock was the key to their goal. So 4 of the Thanosi ganged up used Moondragon and Pip The Troll to wake Adam, but he exited the cocoon with no memory of how he got there. Warlock eventually found his way to Atlez and had his memory restored.

Meanwhile the 4 Thanosi tried to kill Thanos but he teamed up with Gamora to fight them. They killed the Thanosi Armour. Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) and Dr Strange separately investigated mysterious white cubes of nothingness. Dr Strange's quest led him towards Atlez but Thanosi Mystic and Warrior beat him to it. DrS banished Mystic and AW sucked Warrior's soul into his Soul Gem. Unfortunately that gave him the Thanosi's desire for oblivion. CM's quest led him to the Langunns' farmhouse where he teamed up with Spider-Man to defend them from Thanosi X and his nihilist troops. But Thanos sent Gamora to try to kill X and then telepath Moondragon to trick him into dying. However the 5th Thanosi Omega is still at large.

Now in Atlez' pavilion containing the tombs of all the preceding anchors Dr Strange tries to restrain Adam Warlock who raves about demanding oblivion. Warrior's nihilistic passion interacts with his own suicidal tendency but Adam tries to hold them in check. He leaves Stephen Strange to use his medical and magical knowledge to sustain the anchor's life while he goes to fetch Atleza. DrS doesn't know what's going on but presumably Atlez will enlighten him.

Warlock reenters reality to find Pip still waiting beside the merged Eternity/Infinity. Pip teleports Adam and himself to the Langunn's farmhouse (Thanos presumably told him where it was). The house is floating within 1 of the areas of nothingness, with apparently only the power of 2-year old Atleza keeping it and its inhabitants safe. The influence of Warrior makes Adam roughly demand the Langunn family give him their child. But Atleza is ready for her fate and Warlock uses his Soul Gem to transfer Atlez' infodump into her mind. She thanks him as she now understands her destiny and her expanded powers enable her to levitate and radiate energy. Genis-Vell's cosmic senses detect reality is mending (and Eternity and Infinity de-merge?), and everyone sees the nothingness around them vanish and the house is back where it belongs. And Genis is back in contact with Rick Jones in the Microverse.

But their celebration is short-lived as the real Thanos gates in to tell them that the danger isn't over yet. Gamora gets him to explain to the others that the Thanosi were 'replicants' he himself created, and that the most dangerous of all still remains. And like the others Omega wants to kill Atleza so that the universe will end. Then that villain arrives in his giant spaceship globe He's a Thanosi version of Galactus and the Titan says he's at least twice as powerful as the Planet Devourer. Thanos tells them he managed to get Big G's DNA during the Magus/Infinity War event and merged it with his own to produce Omega purely as a challenging intellectual exercise which was never meant to be activated.

Omega immediately attacks, but Thanos protects them with a forcefield before activating a teleporter to take the house to a planet in the Herculean Galaxy, taking Omega and his ship too. Adam thinks this is to stop Earth being destroyed in the coming battle. Thanos stays inside the house with a device that hides him from Omega's senses. He thinks it best that Omega continues to believe he died in #1. The villain will soon break through the forcefield so he gets Moondragon to link them all up mentally to share info. 1 thing being that the Mad Titan actually brought them away from Earth to avoid all its superheroes blaming him for all this. But they all agree that working with him is their best option. However Spidey notes that Thanos hasn't let them see his final move. The Titan claims it's so they can't reveal it to the enemy. But they all know the rest of the plan.

Adam suggests Atleza be ported to safety but Thanos says Omega would find her anywhere. The girl says goodbye to her confused parents and twin sister, and Pip teleports *them* away. The Titan give CM and SM communicators. MD objects to being sent to Altlez to replace Dr Strange as his carer. She disputes that DrS will be more use in the upcoming conflict, But Pip ports her and Warlock there and brings back Adam and Stephen, mentally briefed by MD. Then they prepare for the conflict.

It is at this point that the opening scene in #1 fits. CM, DrS, Gamora and SM head out to fight the foe as bolts of energy strike. But Adam is paralysed by his desire for the oblivion of the void and can barely restrain himself from blasting his comrades who oppose it.

Thanos from inside the house urges him to resist the influence of Warrior's soul. As the 2 versions of the Titan battle for Adam's mind we see Heather Douglas transferring psychic energy to Atlez to keep him alive while bemoaning the fact that his cosmic mind's secrets are impervious to her telepathy. Pip teleports off somewhere. Eventually Warlock is propelled into the fight and a blast from the Soul Gem separates Omega from his spacecraft (which apparently was why Thanos needed him). He. CM and DrS pile on the giant floating in space. Thanos comments that Omega is sluggish because he has certain deficiencies that the Titan never bothered to correct. Dr Strange tries to send Omega through a portal but the foe emits a wall of force and Thanos urges them to go with the flow rather than trying to resist it.

Spider-Man uses his webbing to turn the only tree on the displaced property into a large slingshot. Pip returns with a package which he throws into O's spaceship which then is obliterated by an explosion. Omega is now limited to his own senses. The coordinator tells Gamora to take Atleza to Spidey. And then Thanos reveals himself to his creation and tells him to desist or be destroyed. Omega is momentarily taken by surprise. Thanos blasts him with little effect. Strange opens another interdimensional portal but this 1 includes giant tentacles which start to pull the giant through. O burns the tentacles off but porting Pip confuses him with a barrage of mini-bombs. AW, CM, DrS and Thanos continue their assaults but Omega belatedly realises that it is the Titan's coordinating role that is the major threat and he sends a mighty blast to the ground which destroys the farmhouse but leaves Thanos bloody but unbroken.

Now Spider-Man makes his move. His slingshot propels him towards Omega who ignores him as beneath concern. Then webbing sprayed on his face temporarily blinds the giant. Pip ports SM to the ground and Thanos creates a portal which allows everyone to return to Earth. Then the Titan explains his masterstroke. The uninhabited Herculean planet consists mainly of unstable, highly fissionable elements. Without his spaceship's sensors and with his own senses concentrating on the fight the Thanosi didn't realise that that world was being surrounded by remote-controlled battleships, all of which are now firing on the planet causing a chain reaction which will destroy it and the foe.

Now Pip teleports Atleza, Gamora and Warlock to Atlez' pavilion where they find Moondragon who tells them the anchor has just died. He then teleports again to bring the Langunn trio to where their house used to be. CM and SM try to get Thanos to apologise for causing the Thanosi menace in the 1st place (although of course the Atlez/Atleza/Warlock problem would still have happened) and ruining the Langunns' lives. But the Titan exits via another portal. However after he leaves the farmhouse and the tree appear back in place, the house in even better condition that it had been. Pip comments that Thanos has class.

The Langunns are left to come to terms with the loss of Atleza. Spidey heads back to the city. Genis returns to the Microverse to allow Rick Jones to reunite with his wife Marlo. Moondragon returns to her contemplations. Pip bigs up his role in various galactic bars. The nothingness boxes disappear, regurgitating their contents - we see Strange trying to explain to his disgruntled fellow Defenders what happened to them (in #2), and a store manager (from #1) oblivious because his staff fear telling him what happened because it might make him test them for drugs (again). Adam and Gamora are camping out in the pavilion where a new sarcophagus contains Atlez. They are staying to look after Atleza in her early days as anchor, and are allowing their love to blossom. Thanos is supervising *his* robots repairing his 'farmhouse' and contemplating renewing his quest for the secret he was looking for in #1. But Warlock's voiceover comments that as usual when he finds it he'll discover that it doesn't satisfy him.