Operation: Galactic Storm Part 1

The Shi'ar capture Rick Jones to force him to aid them in developing a super-weapon to be used against the Kree. Captain America saves him and discovers that a galaxy-wide conflict has started.

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The Kree/Shi'ar war erupts. Quasar is able to send envoys to both sides in an attempt to have them end the war, while Quasar himself protected Earth’s solar system from reprisals.

He received as distress call on the Avenger’s frequency from Starfox that alarms at Mar-Vell’s tomb had been tripped. Quasar quantum-jumped to Titan, leaving Kismet at the stargate. He met up with Starfox and they discovered Dr. Minerva and Captain Atlas attempting to plunder the Nega-Bands from Mar-Vell’s body.

No sooner had they found the Kree agents did the entire Imperial Guard attack. Realizing that Minerva and Atlas would be brutally cut down if he didn’t protect them, Quasar created shields for Starfox and Dr. Minerva, but Captain Atlas had vanished. Quasar created a pair if nunchakus and charged the biggest Guardsmen which turned out to be Titan and Gladiator. Quasar was however shocked when he simply phased right through them as though they weren’t there at all. As he was distracted he was blinded by Manta. Out of instnct he armored up and interfaced mentally with the Quantum-bands he found that the bands could not detect the vast majority of the Guardsmen, they were simply false images created the Guardsman Magic who was quickly disposed of by Dr. Minerva. Quasar found himself under attack by Impulse, but Quasar accidentally breached his armor and Impulse discorporated. Manta fell victim to Starfox’s charms.

Quasar followed Captain Atlas’ bio-signature deep within mar-Vell’s tomb but was too late to stop him from donnin the Nega-Bands and clanging them together. Quasar suddenly found himself face-to-face with an suffocating Rick Jones. Rick had switched places with Captain Atlas, but eventually Atlas was defeated by Wonderman.

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SPOILERS!

2ND STORY: Falcon & U.S.Agent "Out In The Cold"

Arctic Circle.

A group of Inuit eskimoes are ice-fishing, when a plane buzzes them, creating a sonic boom. The group is frieghtened except a large man with light skin and red hair. The sound of the plane triggers a flashback for the the large man. The man walks off in the direction of the plane. After three days of walking the man comes upon a building, unlike any igloo he has seen in the past year. The man kicks in the door, suddenly he is surrounded by ULTIMATUM agents and their leader the Flag-Smasher. The agents frisk him and find a costume underneath his heavy coat. The Flag-Smasher recognizes him as Captain America's ally D-Man. D-Man, apparently suffering from amnesia, has a vague recollection of them.

Project: PEGASUS

The Avengers that have remained on Earth during "Operation: Galactic Storm" are using Project: PEGASUS as their base of operations. Peggy Carter, the Avengers communications officer, appears on a screen with a message for Captain America. The Flag-Smasher want to meet with Captain America, but does not know he is off-planet, U.S.Agent says he'll go. Falcon, who is a friend of D-Man insists on going also. U.S.Agent protests, but Wasp pulls rank and tells him he is not going alone.

In the Quinjet en route, Falcon disagrees on the best course of action and leaves the plane.

ULTIMATUM BASE

U.S.Agent lands and is frisked. The Flag-Smashed noticed right away that this is not the same Captain America and is furious. After yelling at U.S.Agent abiut being an imposter he orders he to be taken outside and shot.

Meanwhile...

Falcon searches for D-Man.

Back outside...

U.S.Agent acts like he tripped and pulls a small container of Pym Particles form his belt and breaks it open, revealing his shield growing to full size. The Ultimatum agents are quickly defeated and U.S.Agent continues his search.

Elsewhere in the base...

The Flag-Smasher finds where Falcon broke in, but before an alarm can be raised, U.S.Agent arrives. The two trade blows, then the Flag-Smasher flees. U.S.Agent follows, but blow end up hanging from an icey precipice. The pair fall off, but U.S.Agent is caught by Falcon, who has made good his escape with D-Man.

End.

3RD STORY: Diamondback "Crossing Back"

AN ABANDONDED SUBWAY STATION

Diamondback is standing over Crossbones, who is sleeping, with a large cinder block. Crossbones has held her captive for 25 hours now, and she is going to kill him. Diamondback thinks to herself that he deserves it for all that he has done to her.

Flashback to years ago...

Operation: Galactic Storm, Part 17

Back at the Sol system star gate, Her is standing guard as the immense Nega-Bomb comes through the gate from the Shi’ar end. Thinking fast she creates a chaotic latticework covering the star gate, hoping it’ll give the captain of the Skrull starship leading the Nega-Bomb through some pause.

[[Super-Skrull:char:21332]] emerges from the starship and attacks her, she disperses his attack but as she distracted he punches her with Thing’s strength through the star gate. It is just then that Quasar jumps back to Earth’s system. Super-Skrull tries to surprise him as he did Her, but Quasar detects Kl’rts attack and encapsulates him. Noting that the Skrull starship about to depart, Quasar moves to shear off its payload, but is interrupted by a hologram of the ship’s captain.

He tells Quasar that if he does not allow the Nega-Bomb to leave Earth’s solar system undisturbed the captain will detonate the bomb right there. Quasar seems nonplussed by the threat, but when he notes the Sun get dimmer because of all the sunspot activity caused by the gates in close orbit. He allows to the bomb to go, and deal with the more immediate problem of the Sun. He vows to jump to the Kree empire as soon as he’s dealt with the sun-spot activity.

He contacts Epoch for assistance, who physically materializes and samples a solar flare that erupted from a sun-spot and detects anti-matter. Epoch considers her next move and Quasar detects someone at the star gate and q-jumps there and finds Her fighting with Binary. He breaks up their fight. Binary, apparently under orders to stop the Nega-Bomb admonishes Quasar for not stopping the Nega-Bomb, but Quasar explains that the sun is in its death-throes. Binary seems shocked. Quasar takes Her and quantum-jumps back to Epoch. Binary is forced to choose between saving the Kree Empire and Earth.

As they return Epoch explains that the anti-matter must be removed and/or contained away from the sun. Quasar realizes that the only way they have to do that is to open up an aperture to the Quantum-Zone within the sun’s corona to suck in all the sun-spots. Epoch explains that it might work, but it would take days if not weeks and that Quasar would probably not survive to finish the task.

Quasar requests Epoch to contact other cosmic entities to save the sun, and that Her go back to Earth to contact Dr. Strange to see if he can help. Then, heedless of the dangers to himself, Quasar flies deep within the corona. Her begins to ask Epoch of the likelihood that Quasar might succeed or survive; Epoch interrupts saying: “Not good.”

Binary suddenly appears and asks Epoch where Quasar went and Epoch tells her and she disappears into the corona as well. She finds Quasar’s energy vortex and creates one of her own far more powerful than Quasar’s. Quasar detects this and assumes it’s a cosmic entity that Epoch was able to contact.

Finally, with all the anti-matter and sun-spots gone, Quasar moves to leave, but then realizes that the entity is still there and making no attempt to escape. He moves to it and recognizes the energy signature of Binary. Too weak to escape she is consigned to burn up within the sun. Quasar wraps her within his cape and flies out of the corona as fast as he can. He immediately q-jumps back to earth and brings her to the hospital at Avengers headquarters. There he finds out that Binary was once known as Ms. Marvel and was an Avenger.

Quasar then sets out to the Kree Empire to stop the Nega-Bomb, but he would be too late.

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