—Willow-WispThat's... that's how it all happened, isn't it? No one was quite guilty. No one quite culpable. As it all ended.
Appearing in "Tomorrow's Dust"
Featured Characters:
- Willow-Wisp (Ignacio Fuentes) (First appearance)
- Avengers Academy
- Moon Girl (Lunella Lafayette)
- Red Goblin (Normie Osborn) (Bonded with Rascal)
Supporting Characters:
- Doctor Nautilus (Calvin Cuttle) (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Oscorp (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Norman Osborn (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Hexus
- Red Goblin (Normie Osborn) (First appearance) (Apparent death) (Main story and flashback)
- Nyarla-Gorath (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Lucy Fuentes (Death) (Only in flashback)
- Lucy's and Ignacio's mother (Mentioned) (Dead)
- Blackheart (Photo) (Dead)
- Moon Girl (Lunella Lafayette) (Photo) (Dead)
- Kid Juggernaut (Justin Jin) (Photo)
- Brielle Brooks (Photo)
- Escapade (Shela Sexton) (Photo)
- Alchemax (Mentioned)
- Shuri (Only in flashback)
- Squid Kid (Calvin Cuttle) (Mentioned)
- God (Jahweh) (Mentioned)
- Claire (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Unnamed future
- Avengers Academy Campus, Earth-616
Items:
- Vita-Ray Chamber
- Anti-M'kraanic Interface
- M'kraan Crystal (Mentioned)
- Violet Raptor (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
Vehicles:
Events and Eras:
- Emplate Pandemic (Mentioned)
- Astro Magazine (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Tomorrow's Dust"
Ignacio remembers his little sister Lucy, killed by illegal Alchemax experiments in her youth, and his acts against the corporate elite as Willow-Wisp. In a future timeline where Hexus owns all, he glides over a gray and disheveled New York and hears the cries of children being attacked by an Emplate-infected vampire and jumps to the rescue. He discovers the children are Moon Girl and Normie Osborn. Ignacio attacks Normie, blaming him for the state of the world, before Moon Girl stops him by saying she knows how to fix things, citing her recognition of the Anti-M’Kraanic interface atop the Hexus building. She explains to them the Shi’ar history of the M’Kraan, and the chaos that meddling could invite. Realizing that someone has used Moon Girl’s recently published paper on the subject, Ignacio blames them both for ruining the planet but agrees to help them set it right. The glider crashes into Hexus tower and the trio encounter Doctor Nautilus, formerly known as Squid Kid. He tells them to leave before they encounter the Normie Osborn of his time, now the CEO of Hexus who walks into the room with Claire. Enraged, Ignacio leaps into action using a close quarters bomb to disintegrate the older Normie, but is left battered and unconscious himself.