The sorceress Malachi has used the
Moebius Stone to unravel time and the effects are becoming known around the
region: plants growing at accelerated rates, children growing older and the
elderly getting younger in minutes, buildings collapsing after reverting to
unbaked clay and mortar. Malachi has Dr. Druid and Shadowoman magically bound
and is successfully holding off Luke Cage, Deadpool, and the Cadaver, the
revived corpse of a kid named Cody. As they fight demonic creatures, Shadowoman
slips free of her bonds and envelops Malachi in her darkness, allowing the
rapidly aging Druid to rejuvenate himself. But Malachi is able to overcome
Shadowoman’s darkness and hurl her into a void. Druid finds her and she is
amazed that she had survived, realizing that Druid is keeping some secret from
her. Cage attacks Malachi and she causes him to age backwards to before he had
gained superpowers; Deadpool hurls a sword to him as Malachi again takes down
Cadaver. She calls up the petrified body of her love Korahn. But Korahn doesn’t
want to be revived since the afterlife is a beautiful journey to another place.
While she is distracted, Deadpool sneaks up behind her and skewers her with a
sword and the two lovers pass into death together….
Dr. Druid takes the Moebius Stone
and is tempted to use it to alter history as he sees fit. Strange, the
Sorcerer’s Doppelganger, appears and clobbers Druid, demanding the Stone for
his master. Cadaver tries to stop him but Strange merely knocks him down and
takes his magic sword—which rejects him. Strange fights Deadpool and Shadowoman
as Cadaver strikes back. In the chaos, Cage takes the Moebius Stone and throws
it to Druid who, after a bit of thought, commands it to destroy itself. Everything
that has been altered returns to its original state. Strange, knowing the Stone
no longer exists, returns to its master. Druid shouts to Strange a message for
his master, vowing revenge for embroiling him in Dr. Strange’s dirty work. Dr.
Strange hears the message but is unconcerned as the Secret Defenders are now
Druid’s concern….
In South Central Texas, the latest
in a series of bizarre deaths, a man with his lungs full of bees, has occurred.
Covert government agent R.G. Mathieson decides to call in a specialist, Dr.
Anthony Druid….