Synopsis / Summary / Plot
The Invaders,
teleported to Vliet to follow up the mysterious return of Arnim Zola’s
bioweapon, find themselves under attack by the new version of the Uberkommandos.
The Human Torch and Toro take down the new Iron Cross while Captain America
defeats Master Man and Spitfire teams with Union Jack to clobber Master Man’s
two burly henchmen. But Namor is struggling against U-Man and Warrior Woman is
putting a beating on Steve Rogers. Vision (Aarkus) detects a magic ritual in
play which explains why the two original villains (Warrior Woman and U-Man) are
unbeatable. Meanwhile, the lake is draining and the wartime village is
rebuilding itself. Spitfire finds the source of the magic in the old church;
Aarkus and Union Jack enter to find the place full of mad monsters. Union Jack
is injured and mutates into one of the monsters. A surviving villager with the
Spear of Destiny reveals himself as the power behind the madness; he was a
young villager, deformed but not destroyed by the virus, who devoted himself to
the study of the occult to see if he could bring back his dead family and
neighbors. He failed but he can take vengeance against the Invaders who killed
them—and now he has the Spear of Destiny and has made a pact with Shuma-Gorath
to recreate the day the village died. And now outside, a complex battle ends
with the Invaders defeating their enemies. Aarkus explains the situation to his
allies and they go to the church where they confront the mad wizard. Steve
Rogers tells the wizard that they surrender. The wizard has mutated the current
villagers to serve his will and now Steve asks for the chance to find a cure
for the villagers. They won’t interfere with the wizard’s spell and they will
trade their lives for the lives of the original victims of the plague….