House of M changed the world and now a major threat rises from its ruins for New Avengers to face-off.
Before
New Avengers were formed following a massive prison break at Raft, both
The Avengers and
X-Men band together to confront Wanda Maximoff AKA
Scarlet Witch in Genosha. Their face-off resulted millions of mutants losing their power due to her reality-altering abilities except a hundred few and it was kept a secret from all.
From outer space, a beam of energy starts heading towards Earth and landed on North Pole, Alaska, killing many people with a massive explosion. Out of piles of dead bodies and wreckage comes out a glowing man screaming in his loincloths.
S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill calls in Tony Stark after they have gone public with their new team and asks him about "
House of M", which he narrowly avoids answering. Hill is called in for a Red Alert situation that turned out to be recent destruction of Alaska and her initial response to send in some agents have failed pretty miserably.
Unable to get a hold of
Fantastic Four, she contacts
Alpha Flight when that energy crossed Canadian border but they all ended up being decimated within moments. Hill then calls for U.S. President, who suggests that she puts her arrogance away for a moment and call
New Avengers for help now that the alien being is headed to America.
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Unable to come up with any other solution, Maria Hill reaches to
Avengers and updates them on the situation. As they talk, it already reached Cleveland and
Captain America asks for
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Daisy Johnson. For additional backup, he talked to Bob Reynolds and calling for
The Sentry but he was having a nervous breakdown.
Iron Man reaches out to
Ms. Marvel for support and went to talk to this being who spelled out his name as Michael but before he could talk further, Carol Danvers attacked him from behind only to get struck down. She tried to approach him as she could absorb all energy and realizes that her cosmic Binary powers have been reactivated.
Spider-Man is sent to
S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier with a task to lead "Team Two" and Tony reaches out for
Vision of
Young Avengers. Michael strips down
Iron Man of his armor but Carol came in to save Tony from him. She then tried to hurt it back again only for
The Sentry came swooping in at last minute and took him straight to space.
Ms. Marvel explains to Cap how it is like being kicked by fifty different super powers at once. In space, both Michael and
Sentry were besting each other for some time before Bob is pushed far away and it headed back to Earth. Spidey and
Vision helped
S.H.I.E.L.D. figure out who this being could be before they are taken out for more info.
They found match to Michael's power with all depowered mutants in M-Day and
Iron Man theorizes that "The Collective" energy of those powers had nowhere to go and then it found him, who was just an energy-absorbing mutant. After some debate, they decide to let the being pursue its course and see where it wants to go.
Michael then arrived straight to Genosha, former home of million mutants that has become a barren wasteland. There, he starts expelling all of that energy, causing massive power surge and it attacks a depowered Erik Magnus AKA
Magneto. Things seem to quickly get out of hand but then Steve Rogers pulled on his secret weapon.
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To tie-in loose ends of
House of M event, writer
Brian Michael Bendis (
New Avengers – Breakout,
New Avengers – Sentry) have collaborated with artists
Mike Deodato Jr. (
Amazing Spider-Man – Sins Past,
Amazing Spider-Man – Skin Deep) and
Steve McNiven (
Civil War,
Death of Wolverine) for
Marvel Comics in latest
New Avengers story.
Titled "
The Collective", it is comprised of issues #16-20 from first monthly ongoing titular comic-book series and came out in 2007. Bendis only wrapped up one part of a large puzzle that was about the collective power that
Scarlet Witch took months ago from majority of mutant population on Earth by altering reality and left them depowered.
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S.H.I.E.L.D. was aware that both
The Avengers and
X-Men knew something about this oddity but refused to share details with them. Therefore, its current Director Maria Hill seemed to act a bit antagonistic towards Stark and his
New Avengers.
Nearing the end of their previous adventure "
Secrets & Lies",
Ms. Marvel came by for a visit and given a slight hint of
M-Day when she met
Captain America. A new trouble arises in horizon because of newly issued Superhuman Registration Act that will create a major rift within superhero community, causing a "
Civil War" to set them apart.
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