Jack of Hearts carries Marcy Kane far from the mansion, to hide out in the Maine
wilderness…
…while
SHIELD Agent Marins reports to Nick Fury what happened, while answering Smythe,
the Hart Estate trustee’s, questions about Jack predicament. And Fury is
furious to learn that they have no idea where Jack is….
Jack
asks Marcy for her story, as she had mentioned “his mother’s people” though
Marcy did not know his mom. Marcy reveals that she, like his mother, is an
alien from another world. She employs a telecrrystal to show him his secret
heritage: Jack’s mother was born on the planet Contraxia, a paradise governed
by the Sun Priestesses, who announced that their sun, and therefore, their
world, was dying. Commander Varga had a plan to save the Contraxians: to find
another world to move to which could support life. The problem was, the Sun
Priestesses had thought of this but found that all suitable worlds were
inhabited and the Priestesses’ moral code would not allow genocide, even to
save Contraxia, and the people agreed. So the next plan was to send emissaries in
disguise to these worlds to discover whether any had a power source capable of
revitalizing their sun. And here, Jack learns that his mother was one such
Contraxian scientist who discovered his father’s experiments with Zero-Fluid
were a likely source of power. But hey fell in love and bore a son, Jack,
before she perished in an auto accident. Seeing this event before his eyes
causes Jack to emit a power blast, though it could not do anything…
…except
alert both SHIELD and Commander Varga as to his whereabouts…
…while
Marcy concludes the story by explaining that his exposure to Zero-Fluid brought
out his latent alien powers. She also admits his suspicions were true: that she
was his mother’s replacement, assigned to bring back Jack and the Zero-Fluid,
but something happened and she fell in love with him….
Varga
and his saucers plus foot soldiers pursue Jack and Marcy, while revealing that
Smythe was also a Contraxian spy out to get the capture Jack. The saucers
attack Jack and Marcy in Portsmouth, wreaking havoc in that city. Marcy is
beamed aboard Varga’s ship against her will, and Jack is seized by a huge
robot. But then Nick Fury, Dum Dum Dugan and the SHIELD forces arrive to battle
the invaders. Jack marshals all of his power and quickly takes down all of the
alien forces, soldiers, weapons, ships, and…then Jack discovers he has laid
waste the town. In his anger he pursues the retreating ships and shoots them
down over wilderness, likewise devastating it. He pursues the last remaining
ship back to its reunion with the mother ship. Marcy appears to him, asking him
not to be so hard on Varga, whose actions were motivated by concern for
Contraxia. And now she pleads with Jack to choose to use his power to help an
alien world. And out of love for her, he agrees, boarding the mother ship for
its flight across the galaxy….
And
on Earth, Nick Fury wraps up Project Hart and wishes good luck to Jack of
Hearts….