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Mephisto replaces a female SHIELD agent with Shalla Bal, so that she can be on the premises when the Surfer shows up to attack SHIELD. The Surfer decides to follow the letter of Mephisto's demand: he will destroy the SHIELD base, but not take any human life, thus fulfilling his pledge. Fury monitors the action, realizing he's only attacking empty buildings. Fury deploys the high-tech Z-Guns to use against the marauding Surfer, the fumes of which knock him out. Watching from afar, Mephisto is furious that the Surfer has lost and taunts him with visions of Shalla Bal while he is imprisoned inside SHIELD's seemingly impenetrable Grani-Cell. The Surfer crashes through the prison walls and fights back against Mephisto, who immediately makes Shalla Bal disappear. He, too, disappears, leaving the Surfer to face a double dose of SHIELD's Z-Gun. Groggy from being hit by the guns again, he floats up in the sky and passes out, eventually drifting into the Inhuman's Great Refuge.