As the Avengers prepare to celebrate Christmas, the animated stone statue of Dane Whitman, the Black Knight, attacks them, swiftly overpowering all the Avengers present in the mansion, then recalls bitterly how both the Avengers and Defenders abandoned attempts to restore it to life. In town in their civilian guises Scarlet Witch and Wonder Man halt a runaway bus, then evade a crowd of overly enthusiastic fans, but upon arriving back at the mansion a disheveled Jarvis emerges from hiding in the bushes and tries to warn them not to enter. Before they can heed his words, the Black Knight statue stuns the Scarlet Witch and after a brief battle, knocks out Wonder Man as well. As she loses consciousness, the Witch uses her powers to alert her husband, the Vision. When he arrives, his insubstantiality allows him to ignore the Knight’s attacks, and he rebuts the statue’s claim to be a petrified Dane Whitman, reminding it that Dane Whitman’s spirit left the statue shortly thereafter and now resides within his 12th century ancestor. Angry insisting he is Whitman, the statue blindly attacks Vision, but the android has turned his body diamond hard; the statue’s hand shatters, but it continues to attack until it has reduced itself to rubble.