Post by Uatu the Watcher on Feb 12, 2007 18:35:14 GMT -5
Avengers Forever
The Destiny War is ignited when Immortus, the future identity of Kang the Conqueror, sends his servant Tempus to kill an apparently critically ill Rick Jones on the moon, knowing that it is the Destiny Force about to manifest within Rick for the second time (after the first time during the Kree-Skrull War) that is killing him. Kang intervenes, and the Kree Supreme Intelligence, to whom Rick had been brought for examination, triggers Rick to use the Destiny Force to call a team of Avengers to him, plucked from time, causing Immortus' forces to withdraw, having failed to prevent what they had come to do.
The team gathered consists of various members taken from different eras. Captain America has been plucked from just after he discovered that the leader of the Secret Empire was a high ranking government official. Yellowjacket has been taken from the early eras when his alter ego, Hank Pym, was mentally unbalanced. Giant-Man (also Hank Pym, but more adjusted) and the Wasp are both plucked from the present. Hawkeye has been taken, while Songbird and Captain Marvel are taken from an apparently alternative future.
In the course of their investigations, which take them to various points in time and Limbo, the Avengers learn that Immortus is serving beings called the Time Keepers. The Keepers know that mankind will eventually go into space and establish the Terran Empire. This will involve wars and the destruction of many alien peoples, with the Avengers at the forefront of the invasions on the grounds of "pacification". The Keepers have charged Immortus with preventing such a disastrous future or else humanity will have to be destroyed. Since Immortus admires the Avengers he resolves to manipulate them and thus delay mankind's space efforts.
At the conclusion, Rick and the Avengers fight by the side of Libra, Kang and the Supreme Intelligence against Immortus and the Time Keepers. The Time Keepers kill Immortus for his failures, and attempt to accelerate Kang into Immortus; however, Kang perseveres and defeats the Time Keepers. Rick burns himself out stopping their plan, and Kang proceeds to kill the Time Keepers. Immortus then splits off from Kang, meaning Kang would never become Immortus. Rick merges with Genis-Vell, the third Captain Marvel, to save his life, and he and all the Avengers return to their original time periods with varying degrees of memory as to what they had been involved in.
The Destiny War is ignited when Immortus, the future identity of Kang the Conqueror, sends his servant Tempus to kill an apparently critically ill Rick Jones on the moon, knowing that it is the Destiny Force about to manifest within Rick for the second time (after the first time during the Kree-Skrull War) that is killing him. Kang intervenes, and the Kree Supreme Intelligence, to whom Rick had been brought for examination, triggers Rick to use the Destiny Force to call a team of Avengers to him, plucked from time, causing Immortus' forces to withdraw, having failed to prevent what they had come to do.
The team gathered consists of various members taken from different eras. Captain America has been plucked from just after he discovered that the leader of the Secret Empire was a high ranking government official. Yellowjacket has been taken from the early eras when his alter ego, Hank Pym, was mentally unbalanced. Giant-Man (also Hank Pym, but more adjusted) and the Wasp are both plucked from the present. Hawkeye has been taken, while Songbird and Captain Marvel are taken from an apparently alternative future.
In the course of their investigations, which take them to various points in time and Limbo, the Avengers learn that Immortus is serving beings called the Time Keepers. The Keepers know that mankind will eventually go into space and establish the Terran Empire. This will involve wars and the destruction of many alien peoples, with the Avengers at the forefront of the invasions on the grounds of "pacification". The Keepers have charged Immortus with preventing such a disastrous future or else humanity will have to be destroyed. Since Immortus admires the Avengers he resolves to manipulate them and thus delay mankind's space efforts.
At the conclusion, Rick and the Avengers fight by the side of Libra, Kang and the Supreme Intelligence against Immortus and the Time Keepers. The Time Keepers kill Immortus for his failures, and attempt to accelerate Kang into Immortus; however, Kang perseveres and defeats the Time Keepers. Rick burns himself out stopping their plan, and Kang proceeds to kill the Time Keepers. Immortus then splits off from Kang, meaning Kang would never become Immortus. Rick merges with Genis-Vell, the third Captain Marvel, to save his life, and he and all the Avengers return to their original time periods with varying degrees of memory as to what they had been involved in.