Black Panther, Emma Frost, and Ant-Man have arrived in Subterranea, following the orders of their mysterious boss. What they discover from the terrified Moloids is that bodies of giant monsters have been deposited in this cavern for as long as they can remember….
Meanwhile, Nick Fury is flying his car over New York when a newly sentient Mindless One, pursued by a team led by Captain America, crashes through the window of a tall building and lands in Fury’s back seat. The creature is panicking because its new knowledge has revealed its sin on the moon and it knows it deserves to die. Fury ejects from the car and blows it up over the East River (which does not harm the Mindless One)….
As the news media reports on this new menace, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner are researching matters; Tony learns that there is only one Ultimate Nullifier so the Mindless One last issue can only have gotten it from the Watcher’s home. Banner devises a method of tracing the energy signature of the Mindless Ones….
In a bizarre other dimension, Dr Strange and the Punisher discover the corpse of another weird monster; Punisher extracts a glowing green bullet from its skull similar to the one that killed the Watcher….
At the villains’ lair on Earth, they are having a great deal of trouble controlling the now-sentient Mindless Ones. The masked leader is attempting to fathom the secrets contained in the Watcher’s eye while dealing with a dying colleague who resembles the Thing. Suddenly the penthouse is surrounded by an army of superheroes, with Iron Man calling on them to surrender. The Exterminatrix arms herself and leaps from a window with guns blazing, followed by several Mindless Ones. The battle reaches the ground, distracting the heroes so the mastermind and the injured one can get to safety. The Exterminatrix is easily taken down and the other two walk into the hands of the hero army. The leader insists they are not the murderers and calls the Watcher’s eye a bomb full of secrets—then he unmasks to reveal…the Orb….