A
couple of dozen heroes have shown up at the Defenders HQ at the riding academy,
expecting to join the non-team. A handful of them have decided it is their duty
to capture Hulk and are now coming to regret messing with the green giant.
Nighthawk has been quarreling with Falcon and they have ended up in the center
of the Hulk battle. Meanwhile, some of the guys were riding the horses and one
of the steeds bucks Iron Fist into the melee. From the sidelines, Hellcat and
Valkyrie appeal to Hercules to do something. Iron Man arrives to deliver a
letter to Hellcat but also to inform them that hordes of super-villains are
terrorizing Manhattan, claiming to be the Defenders. Herc takes the easiest
method to halt the chaos: he uproots a tree and swings it in a circle, clobbering
everyone else. Herc explains the villain situation and tells them they must
work together. Hulk is fed up with fighting and leaps off into the distance.
They divide into three teams, under Hercules, Valkyrie, and Nighthawk. Captain Marvel
(Mar-Vell), Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers), and Paladin choose to depart.
The three teams then head for the action….
Nighthawk’s
team (Nova, Marvel Man, Tagak, Polaris, Son of Satan) comes upon a man shouting
that his car has been stolen by a Defender. The heroes give chase and fly back
with the car, only to discover the thief is a boy, the son of the car owner. The
dad berates the heroes for scuffing the paint job and when they get cranky, he
flees with his son, threatening to call the cops on them….
The
Presence sweeps through the Soviet Forbidden Zone and discovers his creation, a
giant amoeba, generated by his mistakes with genetic engineering and nuclear
waste disposal. He tries to destroy the amoeba with an energy blast but the
monster thrives on it and swallows Presence whole, possibly rendering it invincible….
Herc’s
team (Black Goliath, Iron Fist, Torpedo, White Tiger, Captain Ultra), driven by
Hellcat in her Hellcatmobile, come upon a band of evil Defenders looting the
Diamond District, led by Sagittarius of Zodiac (Porcupine, Blob, Beetle,
Whirlwind, Batroc, Electro, Looter, Plantman). There is a big brawl in the
street and suddenly they are all surrounded by police. Hercules introduces his
team to the police as the Defenders, saying they have caught the villains during
a robbery. Sagittarius then claims his team is the real Defenders and Herc’s
band are the thieves. The police settle the matter by arresting everyone….