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Chapter 186 - Battleworld 5

While Galactus is distracted by the battle at his feet, Dr. Doom takes advantage of Galactus' brief attention on the heroes, and flies inside Galactus's spaceship, where he tries to find a way to kill both Galactus and Beyonder.

"I Victor Von Doom, shall find an answer here! No! I shall find a way for the virus to become strong… To overwhelm this mighty pulsing worldship and then Galactus himself… And then the Beyonder, all will kneel down in front of me," Doom said as he was walking inside the worldship.

He labors at an alien console, "This control activates this apparatus, which senses the intent of its user and accomplishes what he desires! Already, it has gathered up the strange vibratory energy which my armor's built-in sensors detected traveling, as if alive through these vessel walls!" He manipulates some controls of the console.

"Now, it is about to reveal the true nature of this phenomenon, by reconstituting the energy into something," Doom said, then he was shocked by seeing something, "Hold! What's this?"

Doom then noticed one person was also there, "What? Klaw! Klaw, the self styled master of sound?"

He found it was Klaw, "What are doing here in the home of Galactus?" He asked, but Klaw didn't say anything, he stood in the style of a statue, then he moved.

"Answer me, fool! Speak! So commands Doctor Doom!" Dhoom again shouted at the Klaw.

"Doom? Doom, Doom, Doom.. " Klaw pointed at Doom, he was confused and shocked, didn't know what happened to him? Where was he?

"So I have managed to find a raving lunatic!" Doom said to himself.

"Oh, I'm alive again? Oh good! You know, I was killed by Dazzler!" Klaw said as he understands the situation.

"Dazzler? The mutants who absorb sound and transform into light?" Doom asked.

Klaw then revealed, when he attacked the Dazzler, and since his full body was made of the sound, Dazzler was able to destroy him, by absorbing his sound, then Galactus came to Earth and took her as his herald. Which Dazzler denied, and even tried to fight Galactus.

And that's when she let out, as a big, energy burst, all that was left was a tiny vibration of Klaw, which was absorbed in the Galactus's ship, and now that's all.

"Enough, Klaw! Begone! You are of no use to me!" Dr. Doom dismissed the Klaw, and he again started making preparations to wait for the opportunity to conquer Galactus and then Beyonder.

"But Galactus will soon know you're here! If you stay here for long, he'll notice and then…" Klaw tried to warn him.

"Galactus is still preoccupied making preparations to devour the planet below. I am aware of my danger," Dhoom again denied his warning.

"He'll soon finish constructing his world draining device. As soon as he's done, he'll notice you being in his home! He will be well!" Klaw again warned Doom.

Meanwhile, on the hero's side, Zsaji, the white haired girl, heals Colossus, and Colossus also begins to fall in love with her, just like the Human Torch.

Galactus still continues to construct his world devouring machine, unhindered.

Wasp begins making her way back to the Captain America faction. But her ship crashes and she finds Lizard in a swamp. They become friends.

Doom wants to delay Galactus' work so that he has more time to examine Taa II. He sends Klaw down to give orders to the other villains, who are somewhat in disarray. With new orders from Doom, Klaw returns to the villains.

Xavier takes a moment to rest his legs while the X-Men survey the damage done to their base by Galactus' psychic attack.

Professor Xavier, who is conflicted about his new role as field commander of the X-Men, uses his mental powers to look at Doom's plan in the minds of the villains, ascertaining their new plan

"By Fanfir's teeth! Who dares to pry into my thoughts? Some… Mortals fool! You puny mortal! Thou hear this, the mind of goddess is too subtle for your clumsy probing ! And to the mightiest sorcerers of all. Your power is a joke," Enchantress senses his telepathic presence and blocks him.

But still some of the information Xavier has found says, "Attention! I have learned that Doom is dispatching a task force to a volcanic plain on the other side of the planet! Cyclops! You will lead Rogue and Wolverine to observe them. And stop them if you deem it necessary!" He commanded his X-Men through telepathy.

"Yes sir!" Cyclops agreed. But Storm gets angry at Xavier because, unhappy with Xavier's new direct leadership role, confronts him.

"You wish to speak to me, Storm?" Xavier asked her.

"I am the leader of the X-Men, not Cyclops, and not you!" She pointed on the Xavier

"Control yourself, your anger is disrupting weather patterns for miles around. Which may make it difficult for Cyclops's sky craft to take off," Xavier tried to calm her down.

"Let him wait! I did not order him to take off!" Storm shouted in anger

"So you are the field general and I am what? The aged training officer, fit, perhaps, to hone your battle skills, but not to lead! Is that what you believe?" Xavier questions her.

"You are an excellent tutor! Leave the war to the warriors!" Storm replied

Xavier replied back, "Notwithstanding your doubts, I have made the decision which is mine to make, I will give the orders! Understood?"

"Give your orders then, and see who follows them! I will go my own way!" Storm said.

"No, you will not! You, and the rest of my X-Men, will obey without hesitation! As loath as I am, but I will even willing to tamper with your or the other X-Men mind if that is what it takes to get her to submit to his leadership," Xavier gives her answer.

"I see! The stakes here are unimaginably high… The odds are already heavily against us, and yet, you are willing to beat your own troops into submission to ensure that your honor is leading them into catastrophe!" Storm replied as she turned back and went on her way.

Meanwhile, in the tiny alien village where the forces under Captain America's command have taken refuge. Colossus, who is in the alien village, is having trouble remembering Kitty Pryde, and can now only dream of Zsaji but she is whisked away by the Human Torch.

Which makes Colossus jealous of her relationship with Johnny Storm. The rest of the heroes try to heal and prepare for battle

Meanwhile, fulfilling Doom's command as relayed via Klaw, the Molecule Man, Titania, Dr. Octopus, and the Absorbing Man are out to destabilize some of Battleworld's volcanoes, in an attempt to divert Galactus.

The sortie of three X-Men attack, and during the fight Wolverine slashes Molecule Man, almost killing him.

Since the Molecule Man was necessary to their plans of destabilizing the volcanoes, the villains pick him up and retreat.

The X-Men don't know what the villains were trying to do with the volcanoes, but guess it has something to do with Galactus. Cyclops decides to activate them on his own, using his optic blast, which causes them to erupt in a chain reaction.

The Wrecking Crew, which is driving an enormous tank-like vehicle, happens upon Wasp and Lizard in the swamp.

They shoot Wasp, seemingly killing her, and enraging the Lizard, who feels that she is one of the only people to care about him.

They freeze both the Wasp and the Lizard in a stasis ray and carry them back in their vehicle back to Doombase.

Meanwhile the heroes were still watching over the Galactus, they didn't understand what was really his plan. She-Hulk even offered to fight with Galactus, but the Captain stopped her. But unknown to them, A dark figure lurks in the shadows in the heroes' camp.

"Hey! Who are you?" Human Torch asked, looking at the dark figure, and it shows she is wearing the dress of Spider Man but in black color, while white color of spider was printed on her dress.

"Hello everybody! I'm Spider Woman, Julia Carpenter!" She replied.

"You speak English! You're from Earth! But you're a different lady than the Spider Woman we knew," Captain said.

"The Beyonder used fragments of many planets to build this world. I assume you were on one of them!" Reed explained.

"A whole suburb of Denver! We just suddenly found ourselves here! Who… or what is the Beyonder?" Spider Woman explained and asked.

"He's the dude who brought us here, and some heavy duty bad guys to fight! I guess he was bored one day…" Iron Man answered her.

"I saw evidence of the fighting! I want to help you," Julia replied.

"What makes you think you can help us?" Hawkeye asked her.

Julia picked up a big rock, "Well, I'm strong."

"Hmm… That you are, but…" Captain said.

"But you're worried that I'm a spy, right? One of the bad guys, here to stab you in the back!" Julia guessed as she threw the rock.

"No, I don't think Doom would bother with treachery! He's got too much raw power at his beck and call," Captain denied her suspicion.

'She tossed that boulder as easily as I could have… At least! I wonder if she sticks to walls, too,' Spider-Man thought seeing Julia action, he continued his thoughts, 'And I wonder if I can sue her for infringing on my shticks! I should have a gotten a patent or trademark or something.'

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