At the Raft, the Thunderbolts
leaders (Songbird, Fixer, Mach-V) contact Luke Cage in New York to report on
Juggernaut and the hammer. Cage orders them to stop him (!) and signs off. They
receive a call from Dennis, Man-Thing’s caretaker at the Habitat, telling them
that Manny highly agitated. They learn Juggernaut is headed for Chicago.
Songbird has Mach-V assemble the Alpha Team and head to the big city while
Fixer stands by with the B-Team (and he resents being left behind)....
Songbird takes Satana and Moonstone
down to the Habitat. Ghost has tapped into their conversation and reports to
the rest of the B-Team (Boomerang, Troll, Shocker, Centurius, Calvin Zabo) and
they (Boom, Shock and Cent—Zabo is asleep and Troll knows little English)
debate whether this is their chance to escape when Centurius disables the
nanites controlling them. Cent advises them to wait for a better opportunity
when they are out in the field….
At the Habitat, Satana uses magical
powers to calm down Man-Thing, then they (Songbird, Mach-V, Satana, Moonstone,
Ghost) use Manny to teleport to a rural area near Chicago. Then Manny fades out
and Satana explains that he is evolving into his next stage, which ticks off
Songbird who liked keeping Manny as a transportation device. Juggernaut,
possessed by Kuurth, Breaker of Stone, is on his way and they want to persuade
Juggy to break free of his possessor. Songbird flies out to him and creates a
sonic spiral to dizzy him then Moonstone approaches to appeal to him as a friend
but he swings, blowing her away. Satana and Ghost work together to enter
Juggy’s mind and see him doubly possessed, by Kuurth and Cytorrak—then Kuurth
kicks them all out, shattering Mach-V’s armor. Juggy then smacks Moonstone into
the distance. Songbird activates his nanites—and Juggy burns them out of his
brain and then brings down his hammer with a boom that panics the people in
Chicago….