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Battle of the Five Cities Part 1: The Evolution Engine 1) When the Baxter Building’s global monitoring system detects higher than usual radiation levels coming from Wundegore Mountain, the FF field team scrambles to investigate. 2) Almost immediately, they come into battle with the Knights of Wundergore. After a brief struggle, one of the Knights recognizes them and sues for peace. 3) The Knights, of whom many have fallen at this point, are locked in a desperate war with the Man-Beast (escaped after his conflict with the GotG) and his Black Knights. The High Evolutionary has vanished, and they are losing ground every day. Worse, the Man-Beast has ignited the Evolutionary’s experimental Evolution Engine, seeking to turn himself and his followers into gods. Much Worse, even getting near the city of Wundegore is problematic now, for the Engine affects anything that draws near in strange and unpredictable ways. Much much worse, the Evolution Engine will devastate much of the Earth if allowed to reach full function. 4) Pooling their scientific expertise, the FF devise a form of shielding and with the Knights, storm Wundegore and the Evolutionary’s citadel. They battle with the Black Knights, but they are already quite powerful and worse, their shielding is failing, subjecting them to the Evolution Engine and sliding up and down the evolutionary ladder. 5) Andrea, meanwhile, is the only member not affected by the Evolution Engine. Slipping away, she breaks into the citadel, shutting down the Engine by engaging her self-destruct sequence. 6) The FF and the Knights easily route and defeat the remaining Black Knights, as everyone begins returning to normal. But the Man-Beast, it seems, has escaped… 7) And Andrea, is, of course, safe and sound, having transmitted herself to a back-up copy at the Baxter building. Part 2: MADNESS! 1) On what would otherwise be a normal Manhattan day, an Inhuman ship crashes into the heart of the city, disgorging a handful of Inhumans who immediately begin attacking randomly and crazily. The FF soon arrive to stop them and take custody of them. 2) Attempts to contact Atilan prove futile, leaving the FF no choice but to head to the Moon themselves. Their reception is, shall we say, chilly, as they are nearly shot down, but manage to make it to the Blue Area of the Moon and into the city itself. 3) Inside, it seems that every Inhuman has gone mad, battling with each other and otherwise being incoherent. 4) The FF work their way to the Royal Palace, where it is discovered Maximus sits on the throne, deadly sane. It seems he’s used a Kree device left behind in Atilan to turn project his madness outward, removing it from himself and amplifying itself in others. Anyone who has been exposed to Terrigen Mists is affected 5) Maximus unleashes a horde of Alpha Primatives on the FF and they are beaten and taken prisoner. The sole other prisoner in the cells is Karnak, the only member of the Royal Family who had never been exposed to the Terrigen Mists. He reveals that the other Royals yet live, imprisoned deep within Attilan. Working together to overcome their bonds and cells, Karnak and the FF escape, with half-looking for Black Bolt and the others, and half battling Maximus and his forces. 6) The half looking for Black Bolt finds him, sane, forced to watch as his insane family scrapes and fights with each other, powerless to help or stop them. So great is the will of Black Bolt that he alone could resist the madness. With the FF’s help, they subdue the others. 7) In the meantime, the other half is doing not-so-well against Maximus, nearing defeat… 8) Until the other half arrives with Black Bolt and they kick ass and take names. They destroy the device, and the madness returns to Maximus thousands of times over. He collapses, gibbering… 9) The Inhumans are returned to normal and the FF return home. But unbeknownst to anyone, Maximus vanishes from his cell… Part 3: Deeper than Deep 1) It should be a normal day at the Future Foundation, when their relatively easy day is interrupted by Namor, the Sub-Marriner, crashing through their window, looking like he’s gone ten rounds with the Hulk and lost. 2) When he regains consciousness, Namor explains that not long ago, Atuma came to him, desperate for his help. The Barbarian’s outlands had been invaded, he claimed, by creatures claiming to be true Atlanteans, creatures like fish, crabs, and eels. Though he would rather have fought and died, a ruler is nothing without those to rule, and Atuma beseeched Namor for help. 3) Though he suspected a trick, Namor did not have his suspicions long, before these “Atalnteans”, claiming true ownership of the seas, began incursions into Namor’s Atlantis. Battles mankind knew nothing about were waged, until the champion of these Atlanteans entered the fray against Namor, soundly beating him. Desperate and unwilling to endanger his daughters, Namor turned to the only people he knew could help him. 4) The FF rush to Atlantis, finding it partially in ruins and completely empty. But they’re able to track faint signals to Old Atlantis, the site where these other Atlaneans had supposedly come from. There, they find a great, glittering city, where the people of Namor’s Atlantis have been made slaves. And on the throne sits Atuma. Here, he reveals that he had discovered this Atlantis, sitting atop a great battleship. He had defeated their champion and become their ruler, using them in a ruse against Namor to gain control of his people. Now, he plans to raise this Old Atlantis and become ruler of the surface world as well. 5) Worse, the city has already begun to rise. The FF battle with the Atlanteans and Atuma to try and prevent it, with Namor battling Atuma in the heart of the city. Namor finally throws Atuma into the levitation beam raising the city, disrupting the machine and causing Old Atlantis to crash deep into the bottom of the sea. 6) The FF and Namor are able to evacuate most of the city’s inhabitants, including some of the Old Atlanteans, who swear loyalty to Namor. 7) And Attuma, well, he is not quite lost… Part 4: The Subterranean Wars 1) When Lava Men appear on the surface, the Future Foundation field team arrives to deal with them, but after a hasty battle, they reveal that they are escaping a conflict beneath the surface of the Earth. The Future Foundation agrees to offer them temporary sanctuary, while not yet being willing to get involved in the conflict themselves. 2) A few days go by, and New York City is rocked by an earthquake, and more and more Subterranean creatures (Moleoids and the Tyranoid variants used by Tyranus, as well as more Lava Men) are finding their way to the surface, seeking sanctuary with the Future Foundation. With few options, the FF decides to travel to the Mole Man’s kingdom and see just what the heck is going on. 3) Arriving in the Mole Man’s kingdom of Subterrania, the FF discovers a great number of Moleoids that have been slaughtered and no signs of any living ones, until they discover a handful of them in hiding, tending to a badly injured Mole Man. 4) From the Mole Man, they learn that Grotesk has gained control over the Technotroid (http://www.comicvine.com/inorganic-technotroid/29-74343/) and used it to make war on the other subterranean kingdoms, supposedly having killed Tyranus and made strong incursions into Queen Kala’s realm. 5) Which is when the Technotroid and Grotesk’s army of Lava Men invades, as other Moleoids come out of hiding to defend the Mole Man. Half the FF tries to fight them off, while the others go deeper, in search of the Monsters who had been “parents” to the Technotroid. 6) The battle goes poorly, until the members who had gone off searching arrive. The presence of its “parents” causes the Technotroid to revert to its less aggressive state, and the battle begins to turn. Grostek falls into a deep chasm in the fighting. 7) The FF helps to repair the city as best they can, before leaving. Grostesk, meanwhile, has been found by someone… Part 5: DOOM 1) Desperate word reaches the FF from Latveria, a message from the ever faithful if now rather elderly Boris. Latveria has fallen to the Faceless One (http://www.comicvine.com/faceless-one/29-34294/) and Doom is nowhere to be found. 2) The FF travel to Latveria and battle against a legion of robots and Doombots, now under the control of the Faceless One. Several of them are defeated and captured, while the others are able to make their escape with the help of locals loyal to Doom. 3) With Kristoff among those still free, the remaining members are able to take advantage of his knowledge of Castle Doom and enter through one of the many secret passages. There, they find Doom imprisoned within the castle within a temporal bubble. Held just forever out of sync with the rest of the universe. With the various science members of the team and Kristoff working together, they’re able to free him. 4) With Doom, the FF storms the rest of the castle and frees their friends. The Faceless One unleashes a Doomsman (http://www.comicvine.com/doomsman/29-37900/) on them, but together, they are able to prevail. The Faceless One escapes, and Doom thanks them for their assistance… and promptly demands that they leave. 5) When the FF have left, Doom comes under attack… by the Man-Beast, Maximus, Atuma, Grotesk, the Faceless One, and… Doom himself? 6) Doom falls and the other Doom exiles him to another dimension. His plans have only just begun…
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Unfortunately, recruiting a group of super-villains is not anywhere near as easy as a certain Zemo-spawn makes it look. Lacking the resources to properly scour the globe for the most terrible and criminal beings she could find, Daphne instead put a want-ad in the Daily Bugel, promising power, money, opportunity, and a chance at greatness. Four people responded. Three of those were thinking it was a telemarketig job. The other one thought it was a pyrmadid scheme. Muttering to herself about how you can't get decent help these days, she selected the best three... and had the other one executed.
