Synopsis / Summary / Plot
Marvel's Voices Infinity Comic #5 Synopsis by
Rob Johnson
Outside of space and time in Limbo the War Aeternum comes to an end as the Arakkii-Shi'Ar Alliance fight for the League Of Free Realities above Chronopolis against the robot legions of Dr Doom. And atop Castle Tenebrae Doom himself is in 1-to-1 combat with Iron Lad. The villain boasts that Immortus and the Council Of Kangs are dead. Iron Lad reminds us that he is (1 version of) Nathaniel Richards, a descendent of Mr Fantastic's father of the same name, who might become Kang The Conqueror. But it turns out Doom isn't really Victor Von Doom but his adopted son Kristoff Vernard, who IL claims has killed DrD in order to replace him. Kristoff responds that he has conquered Chronopolis to create a never-ending Neo-Latverian Empire, greater than anything his father could have done. Nathaniel reminds him of a female they both loved and suggests that she would not have wanted a future like this. But Kristoff claims he's going to fix the broken universe and make it what it should have always been.
Doom has Iron Lad on the ropes. But this was all designed to give Nate an opportunity to grab a fragment of the M'Kraan Crystal which Kristoff has been using to rewrite realities. And now he orders his suit's AI Jonas to activate Protocol 616 which encases the crystal in a forcefield before sending it elsewhere/when. Unfortunately the action destroys 1 arm of his armour and his helmet. He tells Doom that he's sent the crystal to the only people in the multiverse he trusts and told it to set in motion the downfall of his empire. Kristoff points out that the M'Kraan Crystal is tricky and is as likely to harm his friends as to help them. We see a vision of Hulkling & Wiccan, Kate Bishop/Hawkeye, Speed & Prodigy, America Chavez and Stinger. Doom promises to seek them out. Then he tosses Iron Lad aside to fall through the void. Nate calls on Jonas to activate thrusters but the AI reports total system failure.
But we shift our attention to the present day in the Andromeda Galaxy of Universe 616 where Hulkling rules the Kree/Skrull Alliance with Wiccan as his Court Wizard (and husband). The Prime Accuser Lauri-Ell reports a large incursion by Brood in their living captive spacewhale-ships Acanti. The other Wizard the Kree/Skrull hybrid Mur-G'nn feels the whales' pain and Teddy Altman orders no-one to fire at them. Billy Kaplan detects something else out there, and Lauri-Ell reports a small crystal of unknowm material that is producing a lot of tachyons. Then they are contacted in an old Skrull encryption code which seems to mention in translation Theo-Doros Alt/Man. A ship appears out of a wormhole and improved translation says they are diplomatic refugees carrying the Crown Prince of the Skrull Empire, the son of Captain Mar-Vell. And Teddy recognises his mother's voice.