"While You Were Out...!"
Crazy little things happen when you let your guard drop. Especially when there's a whole caboodle of cooties plotting to disrupt everything. Read; the Headmen and A.I.M.
Strolling through Greenwich Village, Patsy gets mobbed by autograph hunters. Val is approached by a young man who seems on familiar terms with her. A name uttered, and memories start to surface. Could it be that the vacant Valkyrie is starting to remember her origins?
Among the celeb-hunters lurks an agent of A.I.M., who calls hordes of yellow boiler-suited boffins as back-up to curtail the Defenders. One vortex-beam ride later, M.O.D.O.K., de-facto leader of A.I.M. is confirming alliance with Nagan, Ruby and co.
Those hedonistic Headmen have their field day creating chaos, via the reanimated Orrgo. Despite its play-doh body with big saucer eyes, Orrgo is a concerted threat that not even the massed heroes of NYC can handle.
Doctor Strange ethereally looks upon this twisted tapestry in time to witness the (real) end of the world.