As
the villainous Egghead watches from his space station, the Defenders (Hulk,
Valkyrie, Nighthawk, Luke Cage) stand by helplessly as Cobalt Man melts down,
heading for a nuclear explosion. Hulk wants to smash but Luke can’t hold him
back. Nighthawk remembers his high school science and persuades Hulk to carry
off the volatile villain and drop him in the river, slowing down the reaction. Egghead
pitches a fit and teleports his hostile henchmen Rhino and Solarr to Earth to
find Doctor Strange and force him to reveal the whereabouts of the Star of
Capistan….
Meanwhile,
the threat is over and Red Guardian suddenly joins them, having had to report
to the Russian Embassy. As she is a surgeon, Nighthawk asks if she can help Cobalt
Man break the mental hold someone has over him….
Solarr
and Rhino appear at the hotel Egghead had tracked Strange to but don’t get very
far in their search: they are confronted by the Red Rajah, protector of the
Star of Capistan, who has already dealt with Doctor Strange and now he’s there
to defeat these two. He overloads Solarr’s power, knocking him out, and grows
in size to slam Rhino through the floor….
Up
in the space station, Egghead, who assumes his henchmen have everything under
control, makes plans to destroy the Defenders himself….
Back
at the Sanctum Sanctorum, Clea works a spell that links Tania’s mind with that
of Ralph Roberts the Cobalt Man, seeing his entire life and learning how he
became the Cobalt Man. Meanwhile, Egghead has secretly teleported into the
mansion with his trick eggs. He encounters Hulk first and uses an egg which
tangles Hulk up in voluminous cloths. His next egg electrocutes Val and after
that he binds Nighthawk in wires. But Luke Cage is another matter: the egg
breaks on Cage’s chest and he punches out the villain. As RG brings Cobalt Man
out of the trance he was in, Roberts recognizes Egghead as his captor and
manipulator; seizing the villain he creates an implosion which obliterates them
both.