Synopsis
It's the year 20XX and Billy Kaplan is now the megavillain Demiurge, and he's just decapitated Thor Odinson. The rest of Avengers 20XX (Collapsar, Iron Mariner, King Hulk, Marvel Woman, Namorina and Vision) aren't happy about it, but they're kept out by a magical forcefield. Except Vision who can pass through it at his minimum density. Except that Demiurge reduces that density even further causing the hero to dissipate to nothing. This makes Namorina even more unhappy, so Demiurge sends her to join him.
King Hulk (Billy's boyfriend Teddy Altman) tries to get through to the hero he loved. But the villain Moridun who's taken Billy over says he 'laid his eggs' in Billy's soul years ago. He's eaten Billy from the inside, and now he's going to eat the world (as tentacles spew out of his mouth).
The team get a call from Captain America (Danielle Cage) to come home through a portal she's creating for them. Madame Natasha (Director of AVENGERS Initiative) has found a link through the time firewall enclosing their present to Avengers Island in 2016. They get ready to leap back in time as Moridun starts to break their world.
It's the year 2016 and last issue Sunspot's Avengers defeated Moridun, who had been called from a much older universe, the 5th Cosmos, by the Maker, Ultimate Reed Richards who had survived the death of his reality via Secret Wars. Roberto Da Costa's team are part of Avengers Idea Mechanics, formed when he bought the villainous AIM and transformed it. They are based on Avengers (ex-AIM) Island. Unfortunately they don't know that Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) was infected by Moridun before he was banished.
1 of the New Avengers Hawkeye is foiling the theft of some tech stuff in Tokyo by Maker's gang WHISPER. The bad boss is watching from his hideout within(?) the automaton called OMNITRONICUS (Organo-Mechanic Nexus-Iterated Techno-Radical Organizational Networked Intelligent Computer Unity System). Trapped in this reality different from his own, Maker is continuing the exploration of other realities that led to his encounter with Moridun. And we learn his goal is unification.
Maker sees Hulkling (Teddy Altman) deal with 1 of the WHISPER Agents. And we see that Power Man, Songbird and White Tiger are on the case too. Vic Alvarez draws power from his surroundings to smash WHISPER agents on their skycycles. Ava Ayala leaps on 1 of the sleds and her ferocious Tiger God personality makes the bad guy surrender. Melissa Gold doesn't use her sonic powers in battle this time, just keeps Sunspot up-to-date.
The last 2 WHISPERs are chased by Hulkling and Wiccan, who took the name Demiurge at the end of last issue. Billy makes their skycycles disappear. He doesn't care that they'll fall to their deaths, showing that Moridun is already taking him over. So the shape-shifting Hulkling has to save the baddies by doing a Mr Fantastic stretch.
On Avengers Island Roberto is more interested in the time machine his head of engineering Toni Ho is overseeing the building of, with help from POD, Squirrel Girl and her squirrel Tippy-Toe. As he throws the switch for the 1st test Doreen Green belatedly suggests they check Tippy-Toe's wiring because squirrels are colour-blind.
Too late, but the time machine does work. And Avengers 20XX appear.
And in Tokyo young Demiurge advises Hulkling that Avengers Island is under attack. He'll create a spacewarp to take them to its defence. (Moridun doesn't want his plans interfered with.)