On Mount Olympus, Typhon, an exiled Titan, confronts Hercules, revealing that he has struck down the Promethean Flame and cast the Olympians into the Land of Shades. Meanwhile, Magneto has taken Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch to his island base, where he again prevails upon the two siblings to join his cause. When they continue to refuse, he states he wishes to turn his island into a mutant refuge, and takes them to the UN, where he claims to speak on behalf of all mutants. Spotting their teammates with Magneto on television, the Avengers race to the UN. Magneto speaks in front of the assembled nations, demanding that they grant him the right to form a sovereign nation of mutants, but the delegates refuse. The Avengers arrive, sparing a diplomat from Magneto’s wrath. In the ensuing commotion, Magneto covertly causes a security guard’s gun to fire, grazing the Scarlet Witch’s temple. Enraged and blaming the humans, Quicksilver lashes out at his former Avengers teammates, then takes his sister and leaves with Magneto. Back on Olympus, Hercules battles Typhon and his beast, Tartaro, but Typhon finally casts him into the Land of Shades.