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While the Valkyrie wonders the streets thinking about herself, about the Defenders, and about the girl who she used to be, Barbara Denton, she's attacked by green hooded men. Valkyrie handles them well, but Doc Strange comes to help her beat them for good. Strange takes her to his mansion, the Sanctum Sanctorum, where Valkyrie explains her distrust towards men. Strange gives her ruby crystals to look for the Sub-Mariner and the Hulk. She first finds the Sub-Mariner who is with Namorita. Namor treats her rudely, and suddenly vanishes. Valkyrie and Namorita ride Aragorn, and go looking for the Hulk, to ask for help. The green giant wants to be left alone, and suddenly, also vanishes! Using the ruby crystals, they find a light house protected by a force field. Valkyrie is able to slice a door in the mystic wall, since her blade is mystical. Inside, she finds Omegatron, a machine created by Yandroth, the first enemy of the Defenders. Omegatron can destroy the entire world by shouting out its creator's name. Omegatron was placed under a spell by Doctor Strange to stop its countdown. But the spell weakened after Strange cast other spells, and the machine was a few minutes from accomplishing the deadly task! Hulk, Namor, and fake duplicates of them under Omegatron's control, attack the Valkyrie. Aragorn helps her to identify the real ones, and smashes their heads to free them from Omegratron. Realizing who the real enemy was, Sub-Mariner creates a tide wave to stop the machine, and Hulk smashes the ground. But that's not enough, until the Valkyrie uses her mystic blade to cut Omegatron's head off right before the machine could say the complete word "Yandroth". After their victory, Hulk leaps away, unwilling to be a part of the Defenders. But Namor does not take that approach, and invites Valkyrie to go to the Doctor Strange's mansion.