| Synopsis | - Continued from last issue....
The Thing, Starhawk/Aleta, Alicia Masters, Moondragon, Her, and the High Evolutionary are tracking down Counter-Earth, the Evolutionary's artificially created world that has recently been stolen by being unknown. They have finally tracked down the captors who are currently transporting the world in a special world moving ship. When selecting a party to confront these world-captors, Ben refuses to let Alicia out of his sight, let alone have her face danger with him and stays aboard the High Evolutionary's ship while Starhawk, Her and Moondragon are teleported aboard the alien vessel.
There they are confronted by members of the gigantic Tarkus alien race and find that in spite of the aliens superior size, the heroes are easily able to defeat them. They are however, unaware that Sphinxor, captain of the vessel, has a special surprise lined up for the invaders. He catches Ben, Alicia and the Evolutionary by surprise when he teleports them aboard his ship and confronts them. The High Evolutionary then grows to gigantic proportions so that he may communicate with Sphinxor better.
Sphinxor explains that there is a big misunderstanding and the High Evolutionary calls off the battle in order to hear the explanation that Sphinxor has for them. Sphinxor explains that his people were contracted by the mysterious Beyonders to observe Counter-Earth and subtly manipulated Warlock which led to the events where Warlock seemingly killed the High Evolutionary. Believing the High Evolutionary to be dead, Sphinxor and his crew decided to take Counter-Earth to their masters. With his explanation completed, Sphinxor explains that now that the High Evolutionary is clearly alive again, that he should take the matter up with the Beyonders as to what they are planning on doing with Counter-Earth.
Intrigued at the proposition of meeting the Beyonders and figuring that perhaps they can solve the problems that plague Counter-Earth, the High Evolutionary agrees to accompany Sphinxor and his crew back to their employers, much to the Things chagrin. However, Sphinxor allows the heroes to try and resurrect Adam Warlock and transport Her, Moondragon, Starhawk, Ben and Alicia to Counter-Earth's surface. There, they try to resurrect Adam Warlock from his grave, however while Her's power is sufficient enough to rise Warlock's body from the grave, because his soul is trapped in the Soul Gem, the body is nothing but a soulless shell.
Heartbroken, Her returns the body of Adam Warlock to its grave, and shrugs off Ben's attempt to console her before flying off into space for points unknown, leaving the remaining heroes to ponder Her's plight before returning back to Earth.
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