The Time Keepers decide that humanity is a menace and that they should destroy most of the timelines, leaving the bare minimum needed to guarantee their own existence.

Immortus then captures the Avengers and sends them to a trial. Immortus spent years manipulating human development to keep humanity confined to planet Earth, to keep the Time Keepers from destroying it, but Rick Jones' death was non-negotiable. They then learn Immortus' motives: with the 'Destiny Force', humanity would become a ruthless intergalactic empire. Then, they visit Limbo, Immortus' stronghold, and take a Space Phantom captive.

Not knowing what Immortus is up to, or why he wants to kill Jones, the Avengers explore 3 points of time, to no avail.

The Avengers use Kang's time machine to escape into the timestream, where Immortus would not locate Rick. The fight moves to Chronopolis, Kang's stronghold: Immortus destroyed it and turned it into the 'Forever Crystal', which allows him to change timelines or destroy them at will. Rick Jones, with the help of Libra, uses the 'Destiny Force' once more, an all-powerful force he once wielded during The Kree/Skrull War, summons several Avengers from many points of time: Henry Pym and The Wasp (from the present), Yellowjacket (Henry Pym when he had a mental disorder yes, he summoned the same man from 2 time periods), Captain America (right after the Secret Empire storyline, demoralized by it and on the verge of giving up the superhero thing), Hawkeye (right after the Kree-Skrull War) & Songbird and Captain Marvel (Genis-Vell) (from two separate future times). Immortus tries to kill Rick Jones, but Kang intervenes on his behalf. Rick Jones suffers a strange paralysis, and the Avengers send him to the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree (who's held 'captive' at the Blue Area of the Moon), to see if he could heal him. It has a massively complex plot, with a battle between Kang the Conqueror (a Conqueror from the Future) and Immortus (a Guardian of the Multiverse) actually, Immortus is the future self of Kang. The series was written by Kurt Busiek and Roger Stern and drawn by Carlos Pacheco and Jesus Merino. I have learned this, and you will, too, in time.Īvengers Forever is a twelve-issue comic book limited series of The Avengers published from December 1998 to November 1999 by Marvel Comics. And the scholars see the patterns, the truth. Immortus: Conquerors are swept up in destiny's tides as surely as anyone else, Kang.

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