Title: Secret Wars II
Issue Number: 9
Release Date: March 1986
Highlights
- Death of Beyonder
- Resurrection of the New Mutants; Magma, Wolfsbane, Cypher, Karma, Cannonball, Magik, Mirage, and Warlock
- Beyonder decides he will wipe out everything
- Reference is made to Avengers 265, Uncanny X-Men 202, Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars 3, and New Mutants 37
- Volcana phones the Avenger's headquarters, and reaching the Fantastic Four there, warns them the Beyonder is coming to destroy everything
- Reed Richards says that he wishes they had a pogo plane because they have to get to Colorado, but as he says it, suddenly he, and several other heroes are instantly transported there by Rachel Summers; the Avengers, the West Coast Avengers, Fantastic Four, Volcana, Alpha Flight, Hulk, Spider-Man, Vision, Scarlet Witch, Cloak, Dagger, Power Man, Iron Fist, and the X-Men
- After reading Volcana's mind to get the information they need, Rachel returns her to her home
- Beyonder makes a new base eight miles below the surface of the Earth
- Beyonder decides to speak to a camera, a video diary of sorts, and tells it that now that he's learned desire from humans, he has desires that can't be quenched
- Beyonder decides to take the ultimate risk, and make himself mortal - Deciding that perhaps he needs to understand why life is so important by not being immortal anymore to truly find meaning
- Beyonder tests his rebirth machine by first using it to resurrect the New Mutants, however, they are reborn without their memories intact - like zombies
- Beyonder makes tweaks to his machine to ensure he'll have all his memories, and also creates a containment unit for his powers so that he can return to his God form when he choses to
- After becoming human, Beyonder immediately panics, and returns to his God form
- Volcana and Molecule Man reconcile
- Molecule Man steps up to the plate, and says he has to go stop Beyonder
- Beyonder once again turns mortal, and starts to experience limitations in strength, being out of breath from running, and fear when Mephisto ambushes him with a horde of demons
- As Mephisto mentally tortures Beyonder, he makes it to his power pod, reclaiming his God form - Mephisto and his demons instantly retreat
- As the heroes stand on the Earth above Beyonder's new headquarters, pondering how to get eight miles below the surface, Molecule Man and Volcana arrive, with Molecule Man telling them he can get them inside
- Seeing the heroes on the surface above, Beyonder buys time to tweak his machine by recreating the New Mutant bio-mechanical alien, Warlock, and controlling the other New Mutants minds to distract the heroes
- The heroes defeat the New Mutants, and Rachel breaks Beyonder's control of their minds, though she doesn't yet restore their memories as she's focused on going after the God
- Molecule Man rips open Beyonder's home, and brings all the heroes to him
- Beyonder tells them he doesn't have any interest in fighting or destroying anything, but rather to become human, while also retaining his powers
- Beyonder easily fells all the heroes, except Molecule Man, and the two battle directly, shaking the very foundation of the multiverse as they do
- As the heroes recover and rejoin the fight, they almost defeat Beyonder, but Molecule Man isn't able to hold him, and the Beyonder sends out a blast that breaks the Earth's gravity
- As the heroes once again are down, they're shielded by Molecule Man, who also removes all living beings out of the pat of Beyonder's blast
- Beyonder fulfills his desire, becoming a human with all his God powers too
- The heroes once again enter the fight, but in doing so come face to face with Beyonder as a baby - Some of the heroes are intent on killing the child, while others say they'll have no parts of it
- Molecule Man refuses to listen, and blasts the machine, unleashing the Beyonder's power, which starts to destroy everything it touches
- The world ends, but then suddenly blinks back into existence, as if nothing happened, all because Molecule Man sent the energy into the nothingness where Beyonder used to exist
- The child is dead
- In distant space, there is an explosion from the Beyonder's energy, a big bang, which creates a new galaxy, one where life begins, evolves, and man begins anew, finally giving the Beyonder a purpose by creating life through his death
- That was an unexpected deep ending from a story that seemed to otherwise drone on aimlessly
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Oddities
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Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)
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