Secret Avengers (2010 series) #22

A suicide bomber stands in a market in Pakistan and detonates his explosive; a woman with a child standing nearby swallows the flames of the blast, holds them for a moment then spits them back out, devastating the marketplace. She is shocked by what she has done. A soldier knocks her out with a rifle butt….

Around the world, four sinister figures receive the call that a Descendant has been detected in Pakistan. They head out: The Adaptoids, composed of The Ideal from Manhattan, The Origin from Egypt, The Urn from Israel, The Swine from Mexico….

In London, Captain Britain is fighting Riot, an anarchist who has gathered a large number of people and formed them into a human-shaped biomass to power himself. With some encouragement from Queen Elizabeth II herself, the Captain pulls him away from his unwilling servants and hauls him off to Starlight Citadel in Otherworld. While there, Cap B meets his wife Meggan who is upset that while Brian is needed there, he has accepted a call from the Secret Avengers and is teleported to…

…The Lighthouse, the Secret Avengers’ brand-new secret space station, which is secret because Hank Pym has miniaturized it. He is met by Captain America who presents him to the others (Beast, Black Widow, Valkyrie, Ant-Man (Eric O’Grady)) but there is some misunderstanding as Cap B thinks he is to be the team leader. Hawkeye arrives to disabuse him of that notion and the two men fall to bickering. They are interrupted by a report of the incident in Pakistan. The team goes down to rescue the woman, Yalda and her son Parvez, from their captors. But the opposing team of Adaptoids also arrives for her and they battle. The Avengers come off much the worse, especially after Origin gives birth to her Diminutives, miniature versions of the Avengers, to fight for her. Hawkeye is able to kill the mini Captain Britain as the Adaptoids fly off with Yalda and her son. And we learn Ant-Man has hitched a ride in Ideal’s pants leg….

And in the Core, Father and the other Descendants (robots resembling Doctor Doom, Vision, Jocasta, Sentinels, Deathlok plus Lady Deathstrike, Max Fury, and Skullbuster) await their arrival….