Reality
has broken down and the Avengers and the Defenders find their identities
bizarrely scrambled, making them Doc Surf, Major Gamma, The Hulkoid, Scarlet
Strange, Sturm Meister, Reaper, Eiserne Jungfrau, Imperius Hex, Gadget, and
Captain Cosmos. They are fighting for their lives against the Unbelievables, a
band of cartoon-based superheroes introduced last issue. Major Gamma (an
amalgam of Captain America and Hulk) warns against killing their foes—but then
he is overwhelmed by the enemy and transforms into Hulk, at the same time
appearing in the World War 2 cemetery and fighting living statues, as seen in
the opening of issue #1, witnessed by the other Invaders, and returning to
normal back in the present. Stone letters fall from the sky spelling out, “I’m
bored! Too much talking, I want more fighting!”
Then
they are confronted by Black Panther leading a team to prevent the scrambled
heroes from invading Wakanda. Major Gamma insists
they are innocent but Panther merely points him back to show him the scrambled
heroes are coming from a Nazi-controlled USA. Major Gamma is able for a second to pierce the
veil but then the team is attacked by the Unbelievables with a number of
familiar allies. Doc Surf (a hippie version of Doctor Strange) learns that it’s
all in the mixed-up Tarot deck which in in the hands of couple of children.
Then the Nameless One appears to fight them but Doc also sees that he is the distraction;
instead, Doc dispatches Gadget (Winter Soldier and Thor?) to get the cards from
the kids. So, Gadget visits the other reality and trades the kids his tablet
with hologram capabilities for the deck of “old cards.” Once the cards are
pulled through to this reality, everything goes back to normal, the Avengers (Captain
America, Thor, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Vision) and the Defenders (Doctor
Strange, Hulk, Sub-Mariner, Valkyrie, Silver Surfer) are themselves again at
Avengers Mansion; Diablo was pulled through with them but he is nowhere to be
seen….
Epilogue:
In WW2 France, the Invaders (Captain America, Sub-Mariner, Human Torch) come
upon a camp of American soldiers. The GIs report that there has been no action,
save the capture of a Nazi deserter named Okkulte who sounds crazy, muttering
about magic. The heroes join the soldiers for some relaxation: “A day without
fighting is cause for celebration.”