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What if Volume two, number thirty six. What if the
Cosmic Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy had been
defeated by Korvac Written by Roy Thomas, penciled by Dave Hoover,
inked by Ian Aiken, lettered by Jennis Shang, and colored
by Renee Witerstadter. At the end of Time, within the
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citadel that stands amid a collapsing cosmos Suau, the Watcher
confronts the enigmatic time Keepers. He questions their sudden interference
in alternate realities, something forbidden to his kind. The Timekeepers
respond with grim purpose. Their existence is threatened by unstable
points in time, nexus's whose mere presence could unravel entire timelines,
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and so they must act to preserve their timeline. The
Timekeepers reveal a bargain made with a Mortis, the Lord
of Limbo, in exchange for dominion over time. Between three
thousand BC and four thousand a d and Mortis was
tasked with neutralizing dangerous nexuses, and Mortis chose a mutant
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to bear the combined Nexus energy, but her companions, the
Avengers West Coast, freed her. Undeterred, The Timekeepers transferred the
Nexus power into immortis himself, imprisoning him in limbo. Yet
even he failed to extinguish every threat. Among the missed
targets is the son of Reed Richards from an alternate
Earth where Spider Man joined the Fantastic Four, forming the
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Fantastic Five. The Timekeepers had enlisted Doctor Doom, an nihilist,
to eliminate the child before birth, but failed. Franklin Richards survived.
Now Uatu stands before the Timekeepers with a warning one
of the nexuses, Franklin has survived their assaseens and worse,
some mysterious robed being known as the Whisperer has begun
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acting in opposition to them. The Timekeepers remain unmoved by
Uatu's plea. They turn their attention to a new nexus
in the distance future, ruled by the Android Vision, where
the Earth's governance has become tyrannical. These heroes, commander America,
Iron Droid Gen, the Gamazon, and the Tachyon Torch carry
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on Earth's legacy in space, but now they too may
be marked for elimination. The Timekeepers reveal their next target
for erasure, the Vision, and this reality Vision is not
only significant, but destined to become one of the most
powerful beings in the universe. Duatu protests their interference, but
the Timekeepers deflect his concerns, revealing that they plan to
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use another pawn to accomplish their goals. Korvak. Corvak wants
a lowly but dune scientists from the thirty first century
had been turned into a cyborg computer Modula's punishment. Eventually,
he was conscripted by the Grand Master into cosmic games
involving the Guardians of the Galaxy, the Avengers, and other heroes,
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through which he gained a mastery of time travel, and
ultimately he stole some of Galactus's power, becoming a godlike threat.
In this altered timeline, the Timekeepers have intercepted Korvac during
his journey through the timestream. Instead of reaching Galactus's base
in the twentieth century, they divert him to an alternate
version of Earth in the year twenty three to ninety,
a world ruled by the ultra computerized Ultravision. Korvac is
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intrigued by this world, especially by a massive statue commemorating Vision,
whom he's never seen before. Unbeknownst to him, he has
become part of the new cosmic design. Meanwhile, aboard a starship,
the Cosmic Avengers, Commander America, gend the Gamazon, Irondroid, Tachyon, Torch,
and Vision discussed an attack by Scroll rate. Vision and
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his allies repel the assault with ease, though interpersonal tensions flare.
Droid accuses Torch of arrogance, and Vision coldly asserts their
superiority as post human defenders of peace. As the ship
docks with the scroll Craft, the team prepares to board
and investigate. Jen reminds them of their recent victory over
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both the Cree and the Scrolls, while Iron Droid remained
suspicious of the ease with which the scroll Ship was
taken down. They begin their sweep suspecting a trap. Their
instincts prove right. As the Avengers fan out across the
scroll vessel, they're ambushed. One by one. They're taken down,
Tachyon torches frozen mid flight, Gen is sucker punched, Iron
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Droid is short circuited by psionic waves, and Commander America
is snared by an electrified metal coil. The trap has
been sprung, and the mighty Cosmic Avengers are caught completely
off guard. Korvak reveals himself to the captured Cosmic Avengers
aboard his ship, explaining that the beings they must look
for scrolls are in fact the guardians of the galaxy.
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He rose from his own timeline, who now stand reanimated
under his control. Vance Astro, Martin X, Charlie twenty seven,
and Yondu are all named, though they stand vacant, stripped
of will. Quorvak explains that he was given a second
chance at life by the gods of time and return
to his own millennium to rally reinforcements. Krvak declares his
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goal to conquer the galaxy by seizing control of the
cyber being known as the Vision Commander. America fiercely resists
the idea, vowing Korvac will never subvert Ultravision, the powerful
AI entity now governing their future, but Korvak smugly reminds
him of his cybernetic eyes hypnotic power and uses it
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on the Cosmic Avengers to carry out his will. The
Cosmic Avengers ship nears Damo, a moon of Mars now
hollowed out and converted into a subterranean base housing Ultravision
as Commander America communicates the correct access codes, the team
is granted passage through layers of automated defenses. The security
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is strong, but the narration warns not strong enough to
stop the real threat, Corvak. The Avengers land within the
mechanized heart of Damos. They are met by United Earth
Guards and enter the base under the pretense of being
relief reinforcements, but before long, chaos erupts. The brainwashed Guardians
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and Cosmic Avengers attack the security, quickly overwhelming them. As
Korvak laughs in triumph, he declares that with the Vision
in his grasp, soon the entire universe will be as well.
Corvak strides into Ultravision's inner sanctum, where a towering digital
projection of the Vision warns him that brute strength and
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minions won't be enough to defeat what Vision has become.
But Quarterback is undeterred. This final phase is personal. He
will enter the Vision system directly and interface with a
mind to mind. The battle for ultimate supremacy begins not
with armies, but in the depths of the Vision's synthetic soul.
Inside the surreal digital background of cyberspace, Vision stands defying
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against corpac who appears with this control module. Although Korvak
believes this artificial arena gives him the edge, Vision quickly
analyzes Korvak's tech and realizes that it's not as advanced
as it may seem. Undeterred, Qarvak launches his energy, being
convinced he can overpower Vision in a metaphorical endgame. Back
on Earth, the effects of Korak's attack ripple outward. Mechanical
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systems fail, and cities fall into darkness. Vision, projecting himself
across space, informs humanity's leaders a Quarterback's growing threat. A
call to arms is sounded, and John Fury Junior, a
descendant of Nick Fury, prepares the Star Corps Commandos for war,
proud to defend Earth from this looming menace. Meanwhile, on Demos,
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the Cosmic Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy prepare to
face Fury's forces. Together, Triggered by an alarm, they charge
into battle. The situation quickly escalates into chaos, and Captain
John Fury Jr. Leads the counter offensive, even though the
mesmeric control of Quarterback is nearly irresistible, but a mysterious
force intervenes Captain Fury Junior's astral form is pulled from
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his body by the Enigmatic Whisperer, who reveals the catastrophic stakes.
If Quarterback conquers Vision, Earth will fall into tyranny, transformed
into a world of subjugated slaves, the galaxy itself would
be doomed to endless war. Upon returning to his body,
Fury unleashes an ultra sound attack that breaks Korvak's mental
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grip on the Cosmic Avengers. Unfortunately, the spell remains strong
over the Guardians. Now free, the Avengers find themselves facing
off against their still enslaved allies. As the battle begins.
Anew inside cyberspace, Vision and Quarterback engage in a surreal
digital battle. Though Vision is brave, Quorvack mocks him as obsolete,
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an outdated relic of the twenty second century. Korvak's advanced
abilities make him confident he will dominate, promising Vision's extinction
as he charges up his deadly energy beam. The Cosmic
Avengers then regroup, charging into battle with renewed determination. Commander
America leads the charge, rallying the team to push back
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against the mind control Guardians of the Galaxy. The heroes
clash in a chaotic melee filled with taunts and nostalgia
and raw power, each side wielding strength owned through centuries.
Jen takes down one vote with brute force, while Irondroid
and Torch trade blasts with their counterparts. Meanwhile, Yondu, now
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partially free from Korvak's control, begins to resist the mind control,
but just as he readies his shot, he leaps in
front of a blast, wounded but alive. As the dust settles,
Commander America and Iron Droid realize that Guardians have shaken
off their hypnosis. They prepare to storm the central complex,
but when they reach it, they are stunned by what
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they find. Krvak, now fully integrated with Ultravision, has absorbed
vision and become one with the systems that govern the planet. Toid,
he's not just powerful, he is the computer network. Now
the Cosmic Avengers attacks are useless. Corvak has converted the
very infrastructure of Demos into his own body and transformed
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every connected system into an extension of himself, including deadly
robotic murder mechs that surround our heroes. As the battle
against the murder mechs intensifies, Iron Droid Gen and the
others valiantly fight back, but Korvak, watching smugly from his console,
reminds them that there are thousands of robots on demos
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and worse their self repairing. Commander America rallies the team,
determined to fight until the end, even if it means dying.
One guardian grimly cracks that they didn't time hop nine
hundred years just for that kind of peptog. Suddenly, Yondu
senses something critical. A piece of Korvack's essence still resides
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in the cyber module plugged into the ultravision computer. He
urges Irondroid to act fast without hesitation. Iron Droid races
toward the module, intent on duplicating and broadcasting Coreback's essence
back into the system, essentially neutralizing him with a feedback
loop of equal and opposite waves. Though Murder mechs Swarm
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to stop him, he succeeds. Quarterback's image vanishes from every screen,
an Ultravision Earth's guiding intelligence for over a century goes dead. Elsewhere.
The Watcher and the Timekeepers reflect yes, the Timekeeper's plan succeeded.
Quorvack is gone, and the Vision's future in this timeline
is extinguished, but at what cost? Without the vision guiding
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this version of Earth, can its utopian society survive? The
Watcher observes the Guardians preparing to leave in a new ship,
their time displaced mission complete. He wonders if, despite the
Timekeeper's cold logic, this reality might have learned to take
responsibility for its future, and that perhaps will endure even
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without its guiding hand. As the mysterious Whisperer appears once more,
plucking iron froid and then vanishing without a word. Thanks
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for being here for this part of time, Quait. Make
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