The Avengers meet with the Masters
of Evil in their Impossible City headquarters. After some bickering and
exchange of insults, they get down to business: Trying to bring down Doctor
Doom, ruler of Earth. Captain Marvel outlines a plan to fight Doom but Mysterio
points out that they have already failed to overthrow Doom twice, why would
this third attempt work? Because this one is merely a distraction: while the
bulk of the combined team are fighting Doom in Latveria, the three magical
ones, Scarlet Witch, Baron Mordo, and Madelyne Pryor, will be investigating the
world’s leaders, to find out what hold Doom has over them and to free them from
it, thus destroying Doom’s hold over them….
And so the combined team arrives
at the Latverian border and tries to break through the magical shield
surrounding it. Doom arrives atop his Doomified T Rex and the hidden members of
the team are revealed, Arcade shooting a radioactive bullet and Mysterio unveiling
a big metal shredder. And then the combined Avengers and Masters of Evil hit
Doom with everything they’ve got—and it doesn’t move him. Then Wanda contacts the
Avengers to tell them what they have discovered: that Doom was not mind
controlling world leaders or replacing them with Doombots; he merely negotiated
to give them what they most wanted in exchange for their support. Doom’s only
use of magic was to be in multiple places at once to carry out these negotiations
efficiently. Then Doom has some news for them: there is a mass breakout at the
Raft, the prison for supervillains So they have a choice: continue fighting
Doom or do something that actually helps people. He then teleports them all to
the Raft….
The news media reports on how the
combined Avengers and Masters of Evil defeated the mass escape—which would not
have happened had they not been in Europe trying to overthrow Doctor Doom. Doom
makes a statement, thanking the heroes and villains for their service to the
world and to Doom….
Dormammu watches from his realm
and realizes that Doom is not maintaining the spells that bind Dormammu to his
Dark Dimension…so he causes the Avengers to vanish and sets out to claim the
Earth as his….