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7 moons after the death of his grandfather Silent Fox, the not-yet 30 year-old Wyatt Wingfoot is due to become chief of his tribe. He is riding a 3-wheeler in the Western Desert when a red beam falls from the sky. It carves a chasm half a mile wide and a thousand feet deep & continues on its way. Wyatt alerts his old allies the FF. It is 10 days since Reed & Sue lost the baby. She-Hulk is with Reed in the 4th floor astrophysics lab lifting an adamantium core. Reed then successfully crushes a tennis ball in his machine: it averaged, through subspace the relative velocities of the ball & the sun, causing implosion. It may turn out to be a method of travel, not, as Sue points out, a novel way to crush tennis balls. Wyatt's call comes through at the same time the beam crosses New Jersey, the Palisades & the Hudson river, just missing Manhattan. President Regan calls in from the White House, demanding Dr. Richards explain this Death Ray! She-Hulk pilots Reed out into the desert in his pogo plane, where they narrowly miss a crashing spacecraft. They meet Wyatt; he has read about She-Hulk joining the FF in Newsweek, & she read about his adventures with them. They shake hands. The satellite photos of the beams' chasm show it scribbled in another language across the entire U.S. The Universal Translator renders the message as I CLAIM THIS WORLD-TERMINUS. The Big T himself, rises from the crater & calls them slave.