In the West Virginia base of the
Sons of the Serpent, the two new Defenders, Nighthawk and She-Hulk, with SHIELD
Agent Joaquin Pennysworth are fighting the baddies who are planning to
instigate race wars by detonating the Madbomb….
Meanwhile, the Supreme Serpent is
readying his escape, leaving his ally Cheer Chadwick to supervise. Pennysworth
is growing irritated with the bickering Defenders, who are interfering with his
plan; when they finally shut up and listen to him, Pennysworth reveals that he
wired the whole base with explosives—and he sets them off. Nighthawk grabs his
two allies and flies them out and up to the SHIELD Helicarrier, where the
gravely injured Pennysworth receives medical attention. Shulkie calls the
mission a success but Kyle is still brooding over what happened to the young
agent. She says her farewells and exits the comic….
In Greenwich Village, Doctor
Strange is fighting a herd of monstrous horses sent by Nightmare and having a
rough time of it until Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan, comes to his rescue. They
chat about the revived Defenders which neither wants to rejoin but Strange sees
Hellstrom’s destiny tied up with them….
At the nearly vacated Defenders
Compound, a dejected Kyle discovers he can still log into the SHIELD computers;
he finds a call to investigate so he scans personnel files and recruits three
minor characters, Paladin, Junta, and Atlas (Erik Josten), by offering to pay
them….
At the Defenders HQ on Long
Island, Yandroth shows up with his Recorder sidekick (actually just a head),
indifferent to whether he is there long before or long after the Defenders
occupied the grounds. He is concentrating on Kyle Richmond, the key to his
plans….
On a drilling platform in the
North Atlantic, Brand Corporation is assisted by U-Man in drilling for various
valuable mineral compounds found only in the region of Atlantis. Nighthawk
leads his “hired guns” into action and they fight humans and a pair of
Quintronic Men, giant suits of robotic armor, each one operated by a team of
five men. While the tough guy are occupied upstairs, Nighthawk descends into
the rig to discover that the Brand staff and U-Man are being killed by a
rage-filled Warlord Krang….
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