Invincible # 7

Mark Grayson is just like most everyone else his age. He's a senior at a normal American high School. He has a crappy part time job after school and on weekends. He likes girls quite a bit... but doesn't quite understand them. He enjoys hanging out with his friends, and sleeping late on Saturdays... at least until the good cartoons come on. The only difference between Mark and everyone else is that his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet, and as of late, he seems to be inheriting his father's powers. Which sounds okay at first, but how do you follow in your father's footsteps when you know you will never live up to his standards? Finally after numerous mentions in the book and countless off-screen deeds, the Guardians of the Globe make their triumphant first appearance! Watch as the most powerful super-team around steps in to handle a crisis of immeasurable proportions. But, how will Mark feel about this when the spotlight is stolen from him just as he's starting to get noticed? Also in this issue, an event that will change the status quo forever... we're not kidding, folks, do NOT miss this issue! This stand-alone story is a perfect jumping on point for new readers, a great opportunity to find out what all the buzz is about!

SPOILERS

In Midnight City some thieves wait on a rooftop, about to rob the place. They converse about how the City has such easy pickings because of the fact that it has been cast into an eternal night and that it has been left mostly abandoned, it's only real threat being Darkwing. They are comforted with the belief that Darkwing can't be everywhere...he jumps down, taking them out in an instant. He then receives a Guardians of the Globe Priority Alert and leaves them tied up, letting his butler know to have them arrested and swiftly departs.

Kursk, a super villain, is blowing up cars in Moscow, while a woman is being mugged somewhere else while a girl tries to get a cat from a tree in yet another location. A red blur then passes all these places, stopping Kursk, the muggers and rescuing the cat...a woman is at a park having a picnic with a superhero costume wearing man. In surprise she begins to berate him for doing his superhero work while she's talking and tells him that he should hope no one saw him in his Red Rush costume. He apologizes only to receive a Guardians of the Globe Priority Alert, apologizing again he leaves with her saying it's okay, she knows he's needed elsewhere.

In Boston a woman in bed wakes up to kiss her new girlfriend and says she'll be staying over more often. They are interrupted when a rock-man bursts in demanding that the woman come with him to speak with her mother. She then transforms into War Woman and fights him off by pounding him into mere rubble. She then receives a Guardians of the Globe Priority Alert and so apologizing to her lover for the damage she leaves.

On his throne in Atlantis, the fish-headed Aquarus sleeps...awakened by a Guardians of the Globe Priority Alert he heads for the base.

Deep in space, a Martian and a green man fight what appears to be a giant robotic worm. The martian then tells the green man to become intangible so that he can destroy the worm's circuits and so the man does so and the two return to Earth. The green man apologizes to the Martian for not going intangible earlier on in their fight but is told their is no need for an apology. The Martian believed the green man was learning quite quickly, as he was the Green Ghost, the successor of the Martian's friend the Green Ghost. Before anything else can be said they both receive a Guardians of the Globe Priority Alert and fly to the base.

In the skies above Denver, the villaious Bi-Plane tells The Immortal how he plans to irradiate the city of Denver. The seemingly indifferent Immortal hears him out and then proceeds to nonchalantly hurl him into space. The Immortal then receives the Guardians of the Globe Priority Alert and heads for the base, in Utah.

Arriving at the Guardians of the Globe base in Utah, the Immortal finds the rest of the team is already present. He questions them to see if they know why they have been called and learns that they too are completely in the dark and believed he had the answer.

Then in an instant they found themselves under attack and unable to resist and so soon all the Guardians, except for The Immortal had been brutally slaughtered.

The Immortal then looks around shouting for the killer to show himself. When he found the murderer he merely had enough time to say, "YOU! I never liked you!", before he is decapitated.

The killer is revealed to be Omni-Man who leaves, telling the headless corpse, "the feeling was mutual."