Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Leonid, Forever Man, Night Machine and his bird/woman companion see the armoured Celestial Star Child now giant-size and knocking over tall buildings in the Immortal City of the Brotherhood Of The Shield below Rome. Leonid protects them with a force bubble.
Star Child then causes deliberate damage with eye blasts. It sets its sights on Newton's large Century Machine clock, grabs it and smashes it. Newton's troops fire back at him. Leonardo da Vinci restrains them, but only to unleash his own firebolt which downs the Celestial. However it fires its own hand-blast back at him, and Leonardo has to defend himself and the troops with his own force field device.
The Star Child rises but Nikola Tesla is dropped onto his back from the talons of his giant white bird. On contact Night Machine unleashes a ferocious amount of electricity. And the Celestial falls again (knocking over more buildings).
Tesla regroups with da Vinci, Leonid and the Forever Man (Michelangelo). They rescue Nostradamus from some rubble. The Star Child was sent mad by studying Newton's Quiet Math last issue, and its most important symbol became etched on the brow of his armour (and that's where the eye-beam came from). Now that glowing symbol appears on Nostradamus' brow too.
The Celestial rises again. Its head has reconfigured into an even more potent blaster, and Leonid's force bubble only manages to scatter the blast. Cue more destroyed buildings.
Now Howard Stark and Nathaniel Richards enter the fray with a giant cannon they've just built. This damages the Celestial ... but it self-repairs and fires back at them. But Forever Man seems to deal with that.
FM now starts a mathematical conversation with the Star Child. He multiplies his time bodies. And the chat leads up to the fatal symbol which Newton believed fated Earth to destruction in 2060. And the Star Child creates a very large force bubble around itself ... and vanishes. The force bubble enclosed chunks of some buildings. These chucks disappear along with the Star Child, and *these* buildings fall down too.
Later the array of main characters get together. Leonardo believes the Star Child has followed Newton to 2060. And they will follow it (apparently in the now very large Human Machine from the previous series).