After capturing three jewel thieves, Hawkeye hears of Kang’s attack on the Avengers and heads to Avengers Mansion to help, finding only the team’s butler Jarvis, who tells him that Kang abducted Mantis, Agatha Harkness and most of the Avengers as part of his mad quest for the Celestial Madonna. Jarvis also notes Kang deemed the Swordsman too insignificant to capture, which has made the depressed Swordsman’s already precarious mental state even worse. The Swordsman himself returns moments later with new ally Rama-Tut. Hawkeye is wary, knowing that Rama-Tut is an alternate version of Kang, but decides to play along, partly to keep the desperate Swordsman’s spirits up. Meanwhile, Kang has encased Iron Man, Thor and Vision inside three Macrobots to serve as power sources for these killer robots, while Harkness, Mantis and Scarlet Witch are held inside Kang’s prison tubes until he can determine which of them is the predestined Celestial Madonna. Kang sends the Vision Macrobot to the UN to kill the US Secretary of State, but Hawkeye, Swordsman and Rama oppose it until Hawkeye deactivates it by using an inkjet arrow to cut off the Vision’s solar power supply. When Kang sends the Iron Man Macrobot after China’s leadership in Peking, his three foes intervene again, now joined by Vision. The latter’s presence sparks an argument between Mantis and Scarlet Witch over their competing romantic interest in the Vision, who frees Iron Man by solidifying his cape inside the robot, blowing it up. A furious Kang sends the Thor Macrobot against his foes, and the Vision frees Wanda, Mantis and Harkness. Together, the Avengers and Mantis battle the Macrobot until Scarlet Witch fells it with a redirected meteor and Rama-Tut frees Thor. Kang attacks Rama-Tut, baffled by facing another version of himself, and their clash triggers temporal shifts during which Kang realizes that Mantis, to everyone’s surprise, is the Celestial Madonna. Rama-Tut tries to convince Kang to give up his futile and destructive quest, but Kang threatens to kill Mantis if he cannot have her. Swordsman lunges in front of her, intercepting Kang’s lethal lightning blast himself, while Rama-Tut tackles Kang a second too late. The enraged Rama-Tut’s struggle with Kang triggers the Time Sphere, causing Kang and Rama-Tut to vanish. Mantis tries to comfort the dying Swordsman, realizing too late that she still loves him and regretting how badly she treated him. The Swordsman dies calling himself an insignificant failure, though his fellow Avengers solemnly disagree.