Synopsis
Secret Invasion #1 synopsis by
Julio M2
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When the Skrulls home world known as Throneworld was destroyed years ago, the Skrull Queen was re-established to power, and based on religious scriptures, dictated what “shall be done.” Today, Tony Stark (Iron Man) reveals to Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic) and Hank Pym (Yellow Jacket) that Skrulls have infiltrated Earth disguised as regular humans, or super heroes, but are totally undetectable (to mutant powers, magic-based power, and technologies). Bringing the dead Skrull posing as Elektra as proof, Tony asks the two geniuses to discover why they’re undetectable, and when the infiltration started (though Tony isn’t sure if he’s speaking to Skrulls impostors or not).
Meanwhile, and during Commander Dum Dum Dugan visit to the Peak (S.W.O.R.D.’s headquarters orbiting Earth), monitors detect a Skrull ship that crash lands in the Savage Land. Iron Man orders Spider Woman to gather the Mighty Avengers, and get the Quinjet ready. But she also informs of the ship landing to Luke Cage, leader of the underground New Avengers, who (defeat the Black Widow and) steal the Quinjet to fly to the Antarctica. Stark’s Mighty Avengers reach it soon after, but it is Cage who opens a gate of the Skrull ship. At that precise moment, Dugan, a covert Skrull agent, detonates destroying the Peak. And Jarvis the butler, another Skrull, infects Avengers computers with a software virus which seriously affects all of Stark Industries facilities, and technology, like the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier (falls from the sky), and the Iron Man armor (shocking Tony because his armor is bounded to his organism). The full systems malfunction also affects the Raft (Ryker’s maximum-maximum security installation) and the Cube (Maximum Security Penitentiary, conducted by Noh-Varr A.K.A. Marvel Boy), allowing super villain prisoners to escape.
Elsewhere, the Skrull Captain Marvel attacks Thunderbolts mountain. A Skrull posing as Sue Storm opens a Negative Zone portal that starts engulfing the Baxter building. In the Savage Land, a large group of super heroes that look from the past and include Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Wolverine, and Spider-Man, come out from the Skrull ship and don’t recognize their present-time counterparts. In space, S.W.O.R.D. agent Brand who survived the blast thanks to a protecting bubble, witnesses the arrival of many Skrull spaceships. And finally, when Mr. Fantastic discovers how the Skrulls made themselves undetectable, Pym, a Skrull, knocks him out with a shot to the head.
As the attacks were perpetrated, Skrulls uttered the phrase “He loves you.”