Appearing in "A World Apart, Part One of Three"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Reed Richards (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Heralds of Galactus (First appearance)
- Terrax the Tamer (Tyros) (First appearance)
- Galactus (Galan) (First appearance)
- Various Skrulls
- Spider-Demon (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Marrow (Sarah) (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Ben Grimm (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Peter Rasputin (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Carosella (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Sam Wilson (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Avalanche (Dominikos Petrakis) (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Valkyrie (Brunnhilde) (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Karl Lykos (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Alexander Summers (Earth-5692) (First appearance)
- Anthony Stark (Earth-20318) (First appearance)
- Evil Babies (Mojoverse)
- Antelope Men (First appearance)
- Dark Phoenix (Jean Grey-Summers) (Mentioned in narration)
- She-Hulk (Jen Walters) (Mentioned)
- Banshee (Sean Cassidy) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-Savage World (First appearance)
- Earth-President Stark (First appearance)
- Earth-Gamma Planet (First appearance)
- Earth-Spider-Demon (First appearance)
- Earth-X-Babies (First appearance)
- Earth-Antelope Men (First appearance)
- Earth-Vacation (First appearance)
- Earth-Skrull (First appearance)
Items:
Vehicles:
Events:
- Kree-Skrull War (Mentioned in narration)
Synopsis for "A World Apart, Part One of Three"
The Invasion
Flashback[]
The team has been visiting many alternate realities trying to correct some things that went wrong and ultimately to get home. Somewhere along the way they have adopted Exiles as their team name. They found a reality where the Savage Land spans two continents, another where Tony Stark was president of the United States before he was assassinated, a world where Gamma Radiation mutated the entire population, yet another reality inhabited by Antelope Men. In other occasions they had to encounter a demon version of Spider-Man and they also met the X-Babies. Sometimes the Tallus gave them some time off, like once when they only had to thwart a bank robbery, they spent a week on a tropic island afterward. Over time the team got closer, and Calvin and Clarice are now fully in love with each other.
The Present[]
Nocturne is fighting in an arena, her opponent is Marrow. She easily defeats her, and a crowd of Skrulls' cheers, We learn that Nocturne has been fighting in this arena for over a month. At first she tried to go easy on her competitors, but there was no way to avoid harming them ín order to survive, and the weeks of battle have hardened Talia. As she is led back to the cell block, she passes the cell of the Mimic, who like her too is a prisoner and also has won all his matches in the arena so far.
The earth that the Exiles have visited has been conquered by the Skrulls a century ago. Originally it was used as an outpost during a war with the Kree, but when the war was over the Skrulls had come to like earth‘s climate and so the oppressors stayed. Humanity adapted, developing a culture without technology, and living as the unseen underclass. The only interaction with the Skrulls being servants, red light districts and, with the coming of more and more mutants, the games. Colossus and the Thing are seen fighting each other. Inside the prison, Nocturne, Mimic, Sunfire and Thunderbird all sit and wait for their next matches, hoping that they will get rescued soon.
Outside, a Skrull soldier is leading a prisoner towards the building – it’s Blink. Other soldiers ask, who the captive is and how she could have avoided detection for many years, as she is fully grown and must have manifested her powers years ago. The Skrulls use their sensor to run a scan and find nothing special about her, yet there is a second mutant signature : Morph. He has been posing as a Skrull and together they tried to gain entrance to the prison. Now exposed they fight the two guards and then Blink teleports them away into a forest. Clarice is very angry, they needed two weeks to even figure out how to get past the city’s boundary sensors, and they are back where they started. Their friends are counting on them, but how can they free their teammates. Unaware the two Exiles are being watched.
In the arena, Thunderbird is forced to battle Strong Guy, but John doesn’t want to fight. From his cell Mimic encourages him to hit his opponent back, or else Thunderbird will receive no food rations. Finally Proudstar gives in and ends the fight with one single blow that knocks Strong Guy into a wall. As the Mimic is led to his next match he passes Sunfire’s cell. Mariko tells him that she met Nocturne in the cleanup, and she fears that Talia will not stand their situation for much longer.
In the woods, Blink and Morph are approached by Sam Wilson who offers to help them. The couple are amazed, as they have been begging for help since they arrived, but everybody was too afraid of the Skrulls. Wilson says he has the proper connections and asks the two Exiles to follow him.
From aboard a scout vessel in outer space, two Skrulls watch the arena games on screen. They see Sunfire defeating Avalanche and eagerly anticipate to see her pitted against the Storm-Torch. Suddenly the ship is attacked by a meteor shower, that didn’t register on their sensors. As they recognize their assailant, it’s already too late to radio a warning, as the craft is destroyed. Galactus and his herald Terrax are approaching earth.
Wilson leads Blink and Morph into a secret underground cavern, while telling them that the man they are about to meet is an inventor. Years ago, he and his partners stole a Skrull ship and tried to escape but they ran into trouble. The ship crashed,one of the crew died, the others were changed by the incident. The others were captured and have to battle in the arena, however the inventor managed to escape and set up a secret lab – it’s Reed Richards.
Notes
- This story is reprinted in Exiles Ultimate Collection Vol. 1.