As Thor carts away rubble from the Avengers HQ rebuilding, a massive inversion hits, causing him to drop it over a playground full of children, but tragedy is averted by Spider-Man’s timely assistance. They rush to Avengers HQ, along with Captain America and his newest recruit, Sersi, to ascertain what happened. Meanwhile, Nebula lords over the scientists of Poly Dyne who created the device that caused the inversion, demanding the power it will bring. Gunthar tells her that the universe blinked out of existence momentarily. Starfox, stowed on Nebula’s ship, knocks out Gunthar and tries to call the Avengers, but is overpowered mid-message by one of Nebula’s crew. Shortly after Iron Man and Vision take off tracing his signal, more inversions hit in rapid succession. Sersi uses her molecular manipulation power to protect them; resulting in the communications room being spared as all existence is blinked out around them.